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Chengyu Song
dblp:69/6818
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10ranked-venue papers in the field
5as first author
9since 2021 · last 2026
0000-0001-6617-3068ORCID · conflict
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Information Retrieval & Web Search · 6 (4 first)Other / Interdisciplinary · 2Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery · 1Knowledge Engineering, Semantic Web & Information Systems · 1 (1 first)
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Fusion Is Not A Simple Ensemble! Towards The Evolving Views in Insider Threat DetectionabstractInsider threat detection (ITD) is notoriously difficult: malicious actions are rare, context-dependent, and deliberately hidden within massive volumes of legitimate user behavior. Existing ITD methods rely on single- or fused-view models, which lack extensibility and therefore fail to leverage the supervisory signals from newly introduced complementary views. While ensembling is a natural next step, its direct application to ITD confronts three core obstacles: scalability bottlenecks from independently trained sub - models, semantic misalignment across heterogeneous feature spaces, and view imbalance, where strong views overshadow weaker yet informative ones. In this work, we propose Insight-LLM, the first extensible multi-view fusion framework tailored for ITD. Insight-LLM encodes each view with frozen pre-trained backbones and aligns heterogeneous representations into a unified semantic space via a lightweight ViewAdapter, enabling coherent cross-view reasoning without incurring additional training overhead. A context-adaptive fusion module dynamically re-weights views to emphasize subtle yet semantically consistent threat signals, and the fused representation is integrated with task prompts for lightweight LLM fine-tuning. Experiments on CERT datasets show that Insight-LLM improves F1 by up to 4.8% and reduces false positives by 61%, while decreasing training time per newly added view by up to 83.2% compared with the simple Ensemble method. Chengyu Song, Lin Yang 0031, Jianming Zheng, Jingjing Zhang 0005, Hongyu Kuang, Jinzhi Liao, Mengchun Zhao |
WWW | 1 |
| 2025 | Parse-LLM: A Prior-Free LLM Parser for Unknown System LogsabstractLog parsing extracts structured information from unstructured logs and serves as a fundamental pre-processing step for various log-based analytics and monitoring tasks. Recent advances have leveraged Large Language Models (LLMs) to handle log format complexities and enhance parsing performance. However, these methods heavily rely on labeled data, which is often scarce in rapidly evolving industrial systems, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios. Moreover, the sheer volume of logs results in slow parsing and high computational costs, further hindering the deployment of LLM-based log parsing systems. To address these issues, we propose Parse-LLM, an unsupervised end-to-end log parsing framework based on LLMs Specifically, we first developed a Log Decomposer Agent that leverages Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning and callable tools, enabling the LLM to autonomously separate log headers from content. Next, we introduce the Hybrid Log Partition module, which segments logs by balancing commonalities and differences. Finally, we developed a novel Variation-aware Log Parsing module that allows the LLM to harness additional supervisory signals through comparative analysis of similar logs. Comprehensive experiments conducted on large-scale public datasets show that Parse-LLM outperforms state-of-the-art log parsers in an unsupervised setting, offering an effective and scalable solution for the practical application of unsupervised log parsing. Chengyu Song, Lin Yang 0031, Jianming Zheng, Jinzhi Liao, Linru Ma |
CIKM | 1 |
| 2024 | Insider Threat Defense Strategies: Survey and Knowledge Integration
Chengyu Song, Jingjing Zhang 0005, Linru Ma, Xinxin Hu, Jianming Zheng, Lin Yang 0031 |
KSEM (5) | 1 |
| 2024 | An Investigation of Patch Porting Practices of the Linux Kernel EcosystemabstractOpen-source software is increasingly reused, complicating the process of patching to repair bugs. In the case of Linux, a distinct ecosystem has formed, with Linux mainline serving as the upstream, stable or long-term-support (LTS) systems forked from mainline, and Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu and Android, as downstreams forked from stable or LTS systems for end-user use. Ideally, when a patch is committed in the Linux upstream, it should not introduce new bugs and be ported to all the applicable downstream branches in a timely fashion. However, several concerns have been expressed in prior work about the responsiveness of patch porting in this Linux ecosystem. In this paper, we mine the software repositories to investigate a range of Linux distributions in combination with Linux stable and LTS, and find diverse patch porting strategies and competence levels that help explain the phenomenon. Furthermore, we show concretely using three metrics, i.e., patch delay, patch rate, and bug inheritance ratio, that different porting strategies have different tradeoffs. We find that hinting tags(e.g., Cc stable tags and fixes tags) are significantly important to the prompt patch porting, but it is noteworthy that a substantial portion of patches remain devoid of these indicative tags. Finally, we offer recommendations based on our analysis of the general patch flow, e.g., interactions among various stakeholders in the ecosystem and automatic generation of hinting tags, as well as tailored suggestions for specific porting strategies. Zheng Zhang 0058, Zhiyun Qian, Trent Jaeger, Chengyu Song |
MSR | 5 |
| 2023 | Exploring Internal and External Interactions for Semi-Structured Multivariate Attributes in Job-Resume MatchingabstractJob‐resume matching (JRM) is the core of online recruitment services for predicting the matching degree between a job post and a resume. Most of the existing methods for JRM achieve a promising performance by simplifying this task as a matching between the free‐text attributes in the job post and the resume. However, they neglect the contributions of the semistructured multivariate attributes such as education and salary, which will result in an unsuccessful prediction. To address this issue, we propose a novel approach to comprehensively explore the Internal and EXternal InTeractions for semistructured multivariate attributes in JRM, i.e., InEXIT. In detail, we first encode the key and the value of each attribute as well as its source into the same semantic space. Next, to explore the complex relationships among the multivariate attributes, we propose to hierarchically model the internal interactions among the multivariate attributes inside the job post and the resume, as well as the external interactions between the job post and the resume. In particular, a stepwise fusion mechanism is designed to respectively integrate the key embeddings and the source embeddings into the value embeddings so as to clearly indicate the key and the source of the value. Finally, we employ an aggregation matching layer to predict the matching degree. We quantify the improvements of InEXIT against the competitive baselines on a real‐world dataset, showing a general improvement of 4.28%, 4.10%, and 3.56% over the state‐of‐the‐art baseline in terms of AUC, accuracy, and F1 score, respectively. Taihua Shao, Chengyu Song, Jianming Zheng, Honghui Chen |
Int. J. Intell. Syst. | 2 |
| 2023 | AugPrompt: Knowledgeable augmented-trigger prompt for few-shot event classification
Chengyu Song, Jianming Zheng, Xiang Zhao 0002, Taihua Shao |
Inf. Process. Manag. | 1 |
| 2023 | MsPrompt: Multi-step prompt learning for debiasing few-shot event detection
Siyuan Wang 0014, Jianming Zheng, Chengyu Song, Xueshan Luo |
Inf. Process. Manag. | 4 |
| 2022 | Exploring latent connections in graph neural networks for session-based recommendation
Zhiqiang Pan, Chengyu Song, Xin Zhang 0123 |
Inf. Retr. J. | 3 |
| 2021 | Metric Sentiment Learning for Label Representation
Chengyu Song, Jianming Zheng, Wanyu Chen, Zhiqiang Pan |
CIKM | 1 |
| 2018 | Learning Tensor-Based Representations from Brain-Computer Interface Data for Cybersecurity
Muhammad Lutfor Rahman, Sharmistha Bardhan, Ajaya Neupane, Evangelos E. Papalexakis, Chengyu Song |
ECML/PKDD (3) | 5 |