Qihao Wang

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7ranked-venue papers in the field
2as first author
7since 2021 · last 2026
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Database Systems & Data Management · 4 (2 first)Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery · 1Information Retrieval & Web Search · 1Other / Interdisciplinary · 1
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 On Graph Rewiring with Motifs: A Find-and-Replace Approach
Qihao Wang, Hongtai Cao, Xiaodong Li 0009, Matin Najafi, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Reynold Cheng
ICDE1
2026 S2tory: Story Spine Distillation for Movie Script Summarization
Mingzhe Lu, Qihao Wang, Jiayue Wu, Yangyan Xu
PAKDD (1)3
2026 Unlocking the Multilingual Long-Tail Web: A Fused Macro-Micro Framework for Scalable Content Analysis
abstract
Large Language Models (LLMs) enable Web-scale multilingual content analysis but face critical challenges in scaling to long-tail languages and ensuring robustness. Current research is split between two isolated trajectories: a Macro-Paradigm (system-level engineering) and a Micro-Paradigm (internal model intervention). We argue that a true Web-scale solution requires their systematic fusion, balancing large-scale data processing with fine-grained model control. We introduce the Control-Tower Framework (CTF), a novel methodology designed to systematically enhance powerful, pre-trained base models. Inspired by control-theoretic ideas, CTF transforms a base model into a controllable analysis engine via three synergistic stages: (1) Micro-enhanced pre-training that injects linguistic priors (e.g., syntax) to build a robust semantic foundation; (2) a control-inspired fine-tuning stage where a heuristic dynamic feedback loop, driven by micro-level error signals (e.g., knowledge editing loss), actively adjusts the macro-scale learning curriculum; and (3) Macro-optimized inference using Minimum Bayes Risk (MBR) decoding to enhance robustness on noisy user-generated content (UGC). Extensive experiments show that CTF surpasses the leading open-weights model, Tower+ 9B FT, by a substantial margin of +2.18 XCOMET-XXL on low-resource languages (WMT24++). Crucially, CTF unlocks large-scale cross-lingual Web mining by converting unstructured Web text into machine-analyzable assets. We evidence this with substantial gains across both document-level (on MARC) and aspect-based (on SemEval-2016) sentiment analysis tasks. Our work offers a practical pathway toward building more reliable, scalable, and controllable global information ecosystems.
Jiarui Zhang 0003, Qihao Wang
WWW3
2026 Tandem CCV-VLM: Visual construction safety inspection based on Collaborative Cross-Verification VLM
Futian Guo, Qihao Wang, Jiajing Liu
Adv. Eng. Informatics3
2025 MuSha: Subgraph Matching by Multilevel Sharing
abstract
Subgraph matching (SM) is a fundamental problem in graph data analysis. Real-world patterns used in graph analysis are often symmetric and contain isomorphic substructures, but existing SM algorithms fail to explore such properties. To fill this gap, we propose MuSha, a multi-objective optimization framework for SM, leveraging multilevel sharing of isomorphic substructure results to speed up SM and symmetry breaking to avoid directly computing symmetric results. To efficiently compute and cache intermediate results for sharing, MuSha applies worst-case optimal joins (WCOJs) and utilizes trie data structures to compress and index results. To enable multilevel sharing, MuSha solves a multi-objective optimization problem involving pattern decomposition, symmetry breaking, WCOJ orders, and trie structural orders. Experimental results demonstrate that MuSha outperforms the state of the art by up to two orders of magnitude on graphs of millions of vertices.
Hongtai Cao, Qihao Wang, Xiaodong Li 0009, Matin Najafi, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Reynold Cheng
ICDE2
2024 Large Subgraph Matching: A Comprehensive and Efficient Approach for Heterogeneous Graphs
abstract
The subgraph matching problem is crucial in graph analysis, involving identifying all instances of a given pattern$P$within a graph$G$. Advances in this field aim to uncover larger patterns across diverse graph types and subgraph matching tasks. However, existing methods often prove inefficient for such tasks. To address this gap, we propose CSCE, which generates efficient plans for various problem settings. CSCE utilizes clustered compressed sparse rows for heterogeneous graphs and sequential candidate equivalence to reduce redundant computations. Moreover, our approach seamlessly supports different subgraph matching variants, such as edge-induced, vertex-induced, and homomorphic scenarios. Experiments show that our work is up to two orders of magnitude faster than the state of the art on graphs of millions scale.
Hongtai Cao, Qihao Wang, Xiaodong Li 0009, Matin Najafi, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Reynold Cheng
ICDE2
2024 From Motif to Path: Connectivity and Homophily
abstract
While motif has been widely employed in graph analytics, a fundamental question remains open: How should overlapping motif edges connect into a path? Existing works address this question with simple but inconsistent generalizations from standard graphs. This paper studies this issue by proposing the concept of connectivity degree (CD), i.e. the number of overlapping nodes needed for motif edges to be adjacent, as the requirement for path connection. We further study three research questions. First, is CD significant? We study how CD impacts motif analytics, more specifically, three motif-based methods. Second, how to estimate the right CD? We develop a minimax estimator based on minimizing the worst-case risk. Finally, how to detect the connected components with connectivity degree, an important task by itself and necessary for our estimator. As the traditional BFS or DFS approaches are not valid anymore, we develop a disjoint set algorithm instead. Our experiments validate that our CD can improve the performance of motif analytics. Also, our estimator is effective and our connected component detection algorithm is efficient.
Qihao Wang, Hongtai Cao, Xiaodong Li 0009, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Reynold Cheng
ICDE1