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The CS expert database: 1,777,551 experts · 2,837,695 papers in CCF A–C and ICORE A*–C venues · 10 venue-derived domains · snapshot 2026-09-22.
Experts by research domain — the database's own venue-derived domains; a paper can belong to several; active = at least one paper since 2021
Artificial intelligence and machine learning
419,855 active · 726,626 total · 856,312 papers
NeurIPS · AAAI · ESWA · CVPR · ICML · EAAI
Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games
220,290 active · 419,218 total · 473,177 papers
AAAI · ICASSP · MTA · CVPR · INTERSPEECH · ICCV
Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing
306,612 active · 637,688 total · 436,260 papers
TGARS · IGARSS · TITS · TII · CogSci · Bioinformatics
Systems, architecture and hardware
148,087 active · 345,638 total · 325,499 papers
IROS · ICRA · VTC · ISCAS · TJSC · IECON
Computer networks
105,468 active · 214,616 total · 249,845 papers
IOT · ICC · GLOBECOM · TWC · TCOM · TMC
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval
134,049 active · 269,256 total · 249,104 papers
IEEE BigData · CIKM · SIGKDD · TKDE · AEI · SIGIR
Theory of computation
38,447 active · 105,648 total · 202,645 papers
TIT · TCS · DAM · SODA · STOC · ICALP
Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing
114,847 active · 268,055 total · 198,672 papers
CHI · SMC · TSMC · SIGCSE · PACMHCI · IJHCI
Software engineering, systems software and programming languages
76,605 active · 178,952 total · 173,661 papers
DATE · COMPSAC · CoDIT · PACM PL · TSC · JSS
Security and privacy
57,527 active · 109,981 total · 102,399 papers
TIFS · TDSC · USENIX Security · TrustCom · CCS · JISA
Experts by expertise
The expertise taxonomy: 90,661 topics extracted from 634,694 papers of 537,692 experts, organised under the ten CCF categories and 168 areas. Pick a category, then narrow down to a topic; every level lists its experts by weight.
Artificial intelligence
231,922 experts · 238,182 papers
33 areas · 23,066 topics
Theoretical computer science
84,688 experts · 103,442 papers
15 areas · 12,358 topics
Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
119,266 experts · 88,175 papers
18 areas · 10,819 topics
Computer graphics and multimedia
99,217 experts · 74,150 papers
13 areas · 7,821 topics
Computer networks
79,947 experts · 72,281 papers
18 areas · 9,664 topics
Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
83,822 experts · 68,869 papers
17 areas · 7,059 topics
Network and information security
67,706 experts · 53,290 papers
15 areas · 5,550 topics
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
111,858 experts · 46,353 papers
9 areas · 5,108 topics
Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
77,670 experts · 43,820 papers
16 areas · 4,757 topics
Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
53,122 experts · 40,802 papers
14 areas · 4,459 topics
Artificial intelligence›Machine learning›Representation and self-supervised learning
area
18,791 papers · 36,845 experts
Sub-topics
181 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
representation learning 9,268contrastive learning 2,418multimodal representation learning 543pre-training 373multi-view learning 234prototype learning 129causal representation learning 119tensor decomposition 119matrix factorization 116information bottleneck 115vector quantization 98word representation 87subspace clustering 85associative memory 83mutual information maximization 77text embedding 62representation analysis 53probing 44novel class discovery 43invariant representation 40semantic alignment 40feature transformation 39systematic generalization 33blind source separation 32mutual information 32hebbian learning 31hierarchical representation 29latent representation 29similarity measure 29equivariance 25hashing 23redundancy reduction 21structured representation 21latent space representation 19latent space learning 18cycle consistency 17visual representation 16fisher vector 15latent space 15model stitching 15component analysis 14slow feature analysis 14natural image statistics 13tabular data 13transformation invariance 13embedding space 12information-theoretic representation learning 12transferable representation 12unlabeled data 12spatial representation learning 11symmetry and equivariance 11computational neuroscience 10discrete representation 10feature correlation 10feature diversity 10scattering transform 10self-learning 10semantic clustering 10shared representation 10automated feature generation 9tensor representation 9representation compression 8symmetry learning 8representation regularization 7representation matching 5similarity-based representation learning 5dynamical system representation 4foundation model representation 4
Show 113 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
feature decoupling 9masking strategy 9subspace identification 9embedding methods 8factored representation 8inductive biases 8mutual information minimization 8self-ensembling 8data manifold 7embedding models 7linear representation 7self-supervised denoising 7self-supervised learning theory 7contrastive estimation 6correlation learning 6feature hallucination 6frequency-domain augmentation 6frequency-domain representation 6hubness 6latent feature learning 6low-rank models 6representation change 6topological representation 6transform learning 6user preference modeling 6adaptive representation 5annotation-free learning 5factorized representation learning 5perceptual learning 5representation invariance 5self-expressive representation 5self-supervised fine-tuning 5cognitive alignment 4conformal mapping 4data embedding 4dependency maximization 4distributional hypothesis 4domain-specific representation 4environment inference 4feature inversion 4feature redundancy 4feature space 4frequency decomposition 4functional alignment 4group representations 4hyperspherical energy minimization 4label generation 4multi-representation learning 4overcomplete representation 4part-based feature learning 4perceptual representation learning 4pseudo-label estimation 4scattering network 4siamese representation learning 4similarity matching 4similarity structure learning 4structure induction 4symmetry-aware representation 4systematicity 4temporal consistency learning 4weakly supervised representation learning 4affinity matrix construction 3compatible representations 3continuous representation 3correlation modeling 3data geometry 3data representation learning 3dataset representation 3deep one-class classification 3discriminative feature pooling 3discriminative learning with pairwise constraints 3distance covariance 3embedding space interpolation 3feature distribution modeling 3feature mining 3feature optimization 3geometric constraint learning 3in-weights learning 3internal state inference 3latent causal variable 3lie group 3maximum entropy coding 3memory representation 3metric embedding 3modality-specific experts 3motion prior 3multi-aspect representation learning 3multilinear discriminant analysis 3multiscale analysis 3neighborhood consistency 3neural population activity 3positive sample selection 3product manifold 3random representations 3rank estimation 3representation calibration 3representation learning for causal inference 3second-order statistics 3self-representation 3self-supervised auxiliary learning 3self-supervised image restoration 3semantic feature augmentation 3semantic manifold 3side information 3signal representation 3similarity-based representation 3sufficient representation learning 3topology preservation 3unlabeled data augmentation 3unsupervised auxiliary task 3unsupervised matching 3vector-valued learning 3weakly supervised clustering 3
Experts on Representation and self-supervised learning
36,845 · by weight: papers on the topic counted with recency (1 for a paper about it, 0.3 as context, halved every five years), summed over the area's topics