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Zewei Shi
dblp:358/9079
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2ranked-venue papers
1as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0002-5290-7678ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Security and privacy · 1 · 1 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 first-author · 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.
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Web and mobile security · 50% Usable security · 50% | |
| Artificial intelligence
2 papers |
Trustworthy machine learning · 77% Vision and language · 23% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
machine unlearning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Reinforcement Unlearning · NDSS 2025 |
Usable security › deception
dark patterns |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | 50 Shades of Deceptive Patterns: A Unified Taxonomy, Multimodal Detection, and Security Implications · WWW 2025 |
Computer vision › Vision and language › vision-language model
multimodal large language model |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | 50 Shades of Deceptive Patterns: A Unified Taxonomy, Multimodal Detection, and Security Implications · WWW 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
multimodal large language model · 1.7reinforcement learning · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Reinforcement Unlearning
Dayong Ye, Tianqing Zhu, Congcong Zhu, Derui Wang, Kun Gao 0006, Zewei Shi, Sheng Shen 0005, Wanlei Zhou 0001, Minhui Xue 0001 |
NDSS | 6 |
| 2025 | 50 Shades of Deceptive Patterns: A Unified Taxonomy, Multimodal Detection, and Security ImplicationsabstractDeceptive patterns (DPs) are user interface designs deliberately crafted to manipulate users into unintended decisions, often by exploiting cognitive biases for the benefit of companies or services. While numerous studies have explored ways to identify these deceptive patterns, many existing solutions require significant human intervention and struggle to keep pace with the evolving nature of deceptive designs. To address these challenges, we expanded the deceptive pattern taxonomy from security and privacy perspectives, refining its categories and scope. We created a comprehensive dataset of deceptive patterns by integrating existing small-scale datasets with new samples, resulting in 6,725 images and 10,421 DP instances from mobile apps and websites. We then developed DPGuard, a novel automatic tool leveraging commercial multimodal large language models (MLLMs) for deceptive pattern detection. Experimental results show that DPGuard outperforms state-of-the-art methods. An extensive empirical evaluation on 2,000 popular mobile apps and websites reveals that 25.7% of mobile apps and 49.0% websites feature at least one deceptive pattern instance. Through 4 unexplored case studies that inform security implications, we highlight the critical importance of the unified taxonomy in addressing the growing challenges of Internet deception. Zewei Shi, Ruoxi Sun 0001, Jieshan Chen, Jiamou Sun, Minhui Xue 0001, Yansong Gao 0001, Feng Liu 0003, Xingliang Yuan |
WWW | 1 |