VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Lifan Jiang
dblp:353/4403
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5ranked-venue papers
3as first author
5since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · conflict
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 4 · 3 first-author · 4 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 2 · 1 first-author · 2 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
2 papers |
Graph learning · 63% Generative modeling · 24% Language models and text generation · 14% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Recommender systems · 100% | |
| Computer graphics and multimedia
1 paper |
Visual content generation and editing · 100% | |
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Privacy and data protection · 50% Security and privacy of machine learning · 50% |
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 › graph neural network generalization
graph few-shot learning |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | DAPrompt: Dual Alignment Prompt of Structure and Semantics for Few-shot Graph Learning · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Graph learning
graph prompt learning |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | DAPrompt: Dual Alignment Prompt of Structure and Semantics for Few-shot Graph Learning · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Graph learning
graph structure learning |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | DAPrompt: Dual Alignment Prompt of Structure and Semantics for Few-shot Graph Learning · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Graph learning › graph neural network
heterophily |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | DAPrompt: Dual Alignment Prompt of Structure and Semantics for Few-shot Graph Learning · AAAI 2026 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
prompt tuning |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | DAPrompt: Dual Alignment Prompt of Structure and Semantics for Few-shot Graph Learning · AAAI 2026 |
Recommender systems › trustworthy recommendation
privacy-preserving recommendation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | FeedGuard: Online Critic-Guided Reinforcement Learning with Privacy-Preserving Feedback for Recommendation · WWW 2026 |
Recommender systems
reinforcement-learning-based recommendation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | FeedGuard: Online Critic-Guided Reinforcement Learning with Privacy-Preserving Feedback for Recommendation · WWW 2026 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling
diffusion model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Magicid: Hybrid Preference Optimization for Id-Consistent and Dynamic-Preserved Video Customization · ICCV 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model › diffusion model training
preference optimization for diffusion models |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Magicid: Hybrid Preference Optimization for Id-Consistent and Dynamic-Preserved Video Customization · ICCV 2025 |
Visual content generation and editing › video editing
video customization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Magicid: Hybrid Preference Optimization for Id-Consistent and Dynamic-Preserved Video Customization · ICCV 2025 |
Machine learning › Graph learning
graph classification |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | DAPrompt: Dual Alignment Prompt of Structure and Semantics for Few-shot Graph Learning · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Graph learning › graph neural network
node classification |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | DAPrompt: Dual Alignment Prompt of Structure and Semantics for Few-shot Graph Learning · AAAI 2026 |
Privacy and data protection
differential privacy |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | FeedGuard: Online Critic-Guided Reinforcement Learning with Privacy-Preserving Feedback for Recommendation · WWW 2026 |
Security and privacy of machine learning
federated learning |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | FeedGuard: Online Critic-Guided Reinforcement Learning with Privacy-Preserving Feedback for Recommendation · WWW 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
split federated learning · 2.0reinforcement learning · 2.0differential privacy · 2.0critic-guided learning · 2.0hybrid preference optimization · 1.7diffusion transformer · 1.7prompt tuning · 1.0graph structure learning · 1.0attention · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | DAPrompt: Dual Alignment Prompt of Structure and Semantics for Few-shot Graph LearningabstractFew-shot graph learning remains a fundamental yet challenging problem, especially under heterophilic graph settings where connected nodes are likely to belong to different classes. In such scenarios, two key challenges arise: (1) unreliable or noisy graph structures that hinder effective message passing, and (2) semantic inconsistency: in heterophilic graphs, aggregating messages from neighbors of different classes entangles representations and introduces misleading semantics. These issues are further exacerbated by the limited labeled data inherent to few-shot learning, making it difficult to adaptively repair structure or disentangle semantics. To address these challenges, we propose DAPrompt, a Dual Alignment Prompt framework that jointly calibrates graph structure and semantic representations across the learning pipeline. In the pretraining stage, DAPrompt incorporates a graph structure learning module to denoise and repair the underlying topology, enhancing structural reliability. In the prompt tuning stage, we introduce two coordinated modules: a structure-aware prompt learner, which employs prompt tokens to repair unreliable graph structures and capture structure-level alignment, and a semantics-aligned prompt learner, which enhances the graph using target node semantics to mitigate representation noise caused by class-mismatched propagation. Extensive experiments on both node-level and graph-level few-shot benchmarks validate its effectiveness, achieving state-of-the-art performance and highlighting the value of structure-semantic dual alignment in heterophilic few-shot graph learning. Lifan Jiang, Mengying Zhu, Shenglin Ben |
AAAI | 1 |
| 2026 | FeedGuard: Online Critic-Guided Reinforcement Learning with Privacy-Preserving Feedback for RecommendationabstractReinforcement learning-based recommendation systems (RLRS) are increasingly favored for their ability to leverage online interactive feedback, enabling adaptive and personalized decision-making. In this setting, user feedback serves as both a behavioral signal and an optimization target, making it essential for policy learning. However, collecting such feedback, e.g., clicks, ratings, and engagement traces, raises serious privacy concerns, posing critical challenges for value estimation, online adaptation, and privacy protection. In this paper, we propose FeedGuard, a critic-guided reinforcement learning framework with privacy-preserving feedback. FeedGuard enhances trajectory modeling via critic guidance, enables joint online fine-tuning with effective exploration–exploitation tradeoffs, and enforces end-to-end privacy protection across the feedback lifecycle via split federated learning and differential privacy. We further provide a formal analysis of its differential privacy guarantees. Extensive experiments on four public recommendation datasets and the VirtualTB platform show that FeedGuard performs well in both offline and online settings, while maintaining rigorous privacy guarantees with minimal degradation. Mengying Zhu, Feiyue Chen, Lifan Jiang, Mengyuan Yang 0002, Guanjie Cheng |
WWW | 3 |
| 2026 | Vidsketch: Hand-drawn sketch-driven video generation with diffusion control
Lifan Jiang, Boxi Wu 0001, Deng Cai 0001 |
Neural Networks | 1 |
| 2026 | ConsistencyTrack: A robust multi-object tracker with a generation strategy of consistency model
Lifan Jiang, Zhihui Wang 0003, Siqi Yin, Guangxiao Ma, Peng Zhang 0057, Boxi Wu 0001 |
Pattern Recognit. | 1 |
| 2025 | Magicid: Hybrid Preference Optimization for Id-Consistent and Dynamic-Preserved Video Customization
Hengjia Li, Lifan Jiang, Hongwei Yi, Boxi Wu 0001, Deng Cai 0001 |
ICCV | 2 |