VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Fengyu Yan
dblp:200/9721
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4ranked-venue papers
2as first author
4since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0003-2848-5994ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 3 · 2 first-author · 3 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 3 · 2 first-author · 3 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
3 papers |
Graph learning · 90% Language models and text generation · 8% Transfer learning and domain adaptation · 2% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Data mining · 70% Graph data management · 30% |
Topics — the 14 heaviest of 14, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Graph learning
graph neural network |
2.9 | 3 | 2026 | Cross-Type Semantic Alignment for Multi-Type Anomaly Detection in Heterogeneous Graphs · WWW 2026 Structure-Enhanced Adapter for Self-Supervised Heterogeneous Graph Learning · AAAI 2026 HeterGP: Bridging Heterogeneity in Graph Neural Networks with Multi-View Prompting · AAAI 2025 |
Machine learning › Graph learning
graph anomaly detection |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Cross-Type Semantic Alignment for Multi-Type Anomaly Detection in Heterogeneous Graphs · WWW 2026 |
Machine learning › Graph learning
graph self-supervised learning |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Structure-Enhanced Adapter for Self-Supervised Heterogeneous Graph Learning · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Graph learning
graph structure learning |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Structure-Enhanced Adapter for Self-Supervised Heterogeneous Graph Learning · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Graph learning
heterogeneous graph learning |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Structure-Enhanced Adapter for Self-Supervised Heterogeneous Graph Learning · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Graph learning › graph neural network
heterogeneous graph neural network |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Structure-Enhanced Adapter for Self-Supervised Heterogeneous Graph Learning · AAAI 2026 |
Data mining › structured data mining
graph mining |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Mitigating Noise and Imbalance in Social Governance Graphs for Multi-Type Risk Assessment · AAAI 2026 |
Graph data management › heterogeneous graph
heterogeneous graph learning |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Mitigating Noise and Imbalance in Social Governance Graphs for Multi-Type Risk Assessment · AAAI 2026 |
Data mining
risk analysis |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Mitigating Noise and Imbalance in Social Governance Graphs for Multi-Type Risk Assessment · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Graph learning
graph classification |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | HeterGP: Bridging Heterogeneity in Graph Neural Networks with Multi-View Prompting · AAAI 2025 |
Machine learning › Graph learning › graph neural network
node classification |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | HeterGP: Bridging Heterogeneity in Graph Neural Networks with Multi-View Prompting · AAAI 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
prompt tuning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | HeterGP: Bridging Heterogeneity in Graph Neural Networks with Multi-View Prompting · AAAI 2025 |
Data mining
anomaly detection |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | Mitigating Noise and Imbalance in Social Governance Graphs for Multi-Type Risk Assessment · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Transfer learning and domain adaptation
few-shot learning |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | HeterGP: Bridging Heterogeneity in Graph Neural Networks with Multi-View Prompting · AAAI 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
graph neural network · 2.0self-supervised learning · 1.0relation-aware message calibration · 1.0multi-task learning · 1.0gradient harmonization · 1.0adaptive aggregation · 1.0adapter · 1.0prompt tuning · 0.9dual-view prompting · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Mitigating Noise and Imbalance in Social Governance Graphs for Multi-Type Risk AssessmentabstractHeterogeneous graphs are widely used to model real-world systems with diverse entity types and relational structures, and existing methods have shown promising performance in various applications. However, most current models assume balanced and semantically aligned features across nodes, which rarely holds in practice. In scenarios such as social risk governance, node types often exhibit severe feature imbalance, making it difficult for standard aggregation mechanisms to extract meaningful signals. This imbalance leads to three key challenges: inaccurate neighbor weighting, noise propagation, and biased representations skewed toward text-rich nodes. To address these issues, we propose HeCoGNN, a collaborative and adaptive aggregation framework that jointly performs neighbor filtering and relation-aware message calibration, enabling robust representation learning under semantic disparity. Experiments on real-world social governance graphs show that HeCoGNN consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, particularly in handling underrepresented and noisy node types. Di Jin 0001, Xiaobao Wang, Fengyu Yan, Dongxiao He |
AAAI | 4 |
| 2026 | Structure-Enhanced Adapter for Self-Supervised Heterogeneous Graph LearningabstractReal-world heterogeneous data is commonly modeled as heterogeneous information networks (HINs). Building upon advancements in graph neural networks (GNNs), existing research has significantly progressed in semi-supervised and self-supervised paradigms for heterogeneous GNNs (HGNNs). However, these methods overlook inherent structural deficiencies in raw heterogeneous graphs. We identifies unique structural noise in HINs: missing potential critical edges and multi-relational semantically redundant edges, which force existing HGNNs to learn suboptimal representations on fixed topologies. Crucially, prior limited studies address only partial noise while remaining architecturally entrenched and tightly coupled with specific models. To break this bottleneck, we propose a plug-and-play Heterogeneous graph Structure ADaPter (HSADP) that simultaneously resolves task/model decoupling challenges while accounting for HIN-specific structural properties with with two core components: a dynamic homogeneous subgraph enhancer recovering latent topology across semantic views and a learnable heterogeneous edge discriminator dynamically suppressing redundant edges while collaboratively optimizing semantic graphs. Extensive experiments across multi-domain datasets demonstrate our method’s effectiveness and compatibility. The adapter significantly boosts node classification accuracy for multiple SOTA approaches and surpasses specially designed heterogeneous graph structure learning models. Fengyu Yan, Di Jin 0001, Xiaobao Wang, Qianhua Tang, Dongxiao He |
AAAI | 1 |
| 2026 | Cross-Type Semantic Alignment for Multi-Type Anomaly Detection in Heterogeneous GraphsabstractGraph Anomaly Detection (GAD) is critical in applications such as fraud prevention, cybersecurity, and social governance. While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success in detecting anomalies on homogeneous graphs, they face fundamental challenges in real-world heterogeneous settings involving diverse node types and imbalanced semantic richness. In heterogeneous graphs, nodes often vary significantly in semantic richness, with anomalies potentially spanning multiple types and emerging implicitly through cross-type dependencies. We identify two core limitations of existing methods: (i) the ineffective propagation of discriminative anomaly cues from informative to sparse nodes due to semantic imbalance, and (ii) conflicting optimization objectives arising from joint detection across multiple node types. To address these issues, we propose CSA-MTHGAD, a novel framework that integrates smoothness-guided cross-type semantic alignment with dynamic multi-task learning. It selectively propagates anomaly-sensitive features across types and harmonizes task-specific gradients through adaptive projection and weighting.To facilitate research, we employ two real-world heterogeneous benchmarks in the domain of social governance. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CSA-MTHGAD achieves superior performance over state-of-the-art baselines in accuracy, robustness, and generalization for multi-type anomaly detection. Di Jin 0001, Xiaobao Wang, Fengyu Yan, Luzhi Wang, Hongxiang Liang |
WWW | 4 |
| 2025 | HeterGP: Bridging Heterogeneity in Graph Neural Networks with Multi-View PromptingabstractThe challenges tied to unstructured graph data are manifold, primarily falling into node, edge, and graph-level problem categories. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) serve as effective tools to tackle these issues. However, individual tasks often demand distinct model architectures, and training these models typically requires abundant labeled data, a luxury often unavailable in practical settings. Recently, various "prompt tuning" methodologies have emerged to empower GNNs to adapt to multi-task learning with limited labels. The crux of these methods lies in bridging the gap between pre-training tasks and downstream objectives. Nonetheless, a prevalent oversight in existing studies is the homophily-centric nature of prompt tuning frameworks, disregarding scenarios characterized by high heterogeneity. To remedy this oversight, we introduce a novel prompting strategy named HeterGP tailored for highly heterophilic scenarios. Specifically, we present a dual-view approach to capture both homophilic and heterophilic information, along with a prompt graph design that encompasses token initialization and insertion patterns. Through extensive experiments conducted in a few-shot context encompassing node and graph classification tasks, our method showcases superior performance in highly heterophilic environments compared to state-of-the-art prompt tuning techniques. Fengyu Yan, Xiaobao Wang, Dongxiao He, Longbiao Wang, Jianwu Dang 0001, Di Jin 0001 |
AAAI | 1 |