Zhongming Yao

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8ranked-venue papers
2as first author
8since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0007-6463-9195ORCID · corroborated

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Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 7 · 2 first-author · 7 since 2021Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 3 · 1 first-author · 3 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 since 2021
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 One-for-All Community Search on Unseen Graphs
abstract
Community search is a fundamental graph-based retrieval problem that aims to identify a query-dependent subgraph whose nodes exhibit strong internal connectivity. While recent learning-based methods improve retrieval effectiveness via graph representation learning, they follow a ''one-use-one-train'' paradigm that requires retraining or fine-tuning for each target graph, leading to high data dependency, high training costs, and limited generalization. To handle this, we propose OFA-CS, a ''one-for-all'' community search framework trained once on source datasets and directly deployed to arbitrary unseen graphs without retraining or fine-tuning, while preserving strong performance. Specifically, we introduce a Spectral-Aware Feature Alignment module to unify feature dimensionality and align cross-domain semantics in a community-aware manner. We further develop a Graph Diffusion Tokenized Transformer that constructs hybrid token sequences from local and global structural contexts for Transformer encoding, and applies diffusion-based refinement to mitigate distribution shifts on unseen graphs. With the unified representations, communities are efficiently retrieved via a modularity-driven search procedure. Extensive experiments on diverse real-world graphs demonstrate that OFA-CS achieves strong cross-domain generalization and competitive retrieval effectiveness against state-of-the-art methods, without requiring target-domain supervision.
Mo Li 0004, Zhaosong Zhao, LinLin Ding, Renata Borovica, Zhongming Yao, Jianxin Li 0001
SIGIR5
2026 Replacing Multi-Step Assembly of Data Preparation Pipelines with One-Step LLM Pipeline Generation for Table QA
Fengyu Li, Junhao Zhu 0001, Kaishi Song, Lu Chen 0001, Zhongming Yao, Tianyi Li 0005, Christian S. Jensen
Proc. VLDB Endow.5
2026 Multimodal Knowledge Graph Completion via Relation-Aware Negative Sampling with Diffusion-based Interpolation
Qian Ma 0003, Linfei Dai, Zhongming Yao, Yu Gu 0002, Tianyi Li 0005, Christian S. Jensen, Ge Yu 0001
Proc. VLDB Endow.3
2025 VGQ: Enabling Verifiable Graph Queries on Blockchain Systems
abstract
Blockchain technology has transformed financial services sectors by providing security, transparency, and immutability through decentralized ledger systems. However, while blockchain data can support a range of applications-such as user quality analysis, illegal activity detection, and transaction pattern identification-existing systems are restricted to basic queries on blocks and transactions due to their sequential data storage. To support queries more generally, we propose VGQ, the first verifiable graph query (VGQ) framework that enables efficient graph queries on blockchain systems without altering blockchain storage structures. VGQ integrates a query layer with an external graph database system and represents blockchain data as a directed transaction graph to improve the efficiency of graph query execution. To ensure reliable results, VGQ includes result verification with three key performance enhancing optimizations: (i) computing connected components to exclude irrelevant vertices and edges during verification; (ii) merging information from edges to accelerate completeness verification; and (iii) employing a dual pointer algorithm for efficient soundness verification. Experiments offer evidence that VGQ can improve on the state-of-the-art framework in terms of query efficiency by up to one order of magnitude and in terms of verification efficiency by up to two orders of magnitude.
Zhongming Yao, Tianyi Li 0005, Junchang Xin, Yushuai Li, Chenxu Wang 0001, Zhiqiong Wang, Divesh Srivastava, Christian S. Jensen
ICDE1
2023 A Fine-Grained Verification Method for Blockchain Data Based on Merkle Path Sharding
Liang Wen, Zhiqiong Wang, Tingyu Cui, Caiyun Shi, Baoting Li, Zhongming Yao
ADMA (4)6
2023 Efficient Blockchain Data Trusty Provenance Based on the W3C PROV Model
Zhongming Yao, Zhiqiong Wang, Liang Wen, Kun Hao
ADMA (5)1
2023 Efficient and Secure Data Sharing Scheme on Interoperable Blockchain Database
abstract
Interoperable Blockchain Database (IBD) can enable users to execute transactions for sharing data stored in various blockchains maintained by different organizations or communities in a transparent manner. However, compared to traditional distributed databases, IBD can hardly provide high-level security and scalability, which are caused by many factors, such as system architecture, consensus protocol, and interactive pattern. Among them, the consensus protocol is the most critical factor, since the credibility of consensus nodes inside the corresponding blockchains are difficult to be guaranteed. Additionally, the consensus protocol directly affects the verification efficiency for given transactions in IBD. In this paper, we formally concern the problem of secure data sharing in IBD. We present a scheme namedHybridchainto execute transactions for sharing data securely and efficiently. We first propose a novel concept namedInteroperable Consensus Group(ICG) which organizes a set of basic consensus nodes into a group, each of which is responsible for managing at least one local blockchain. Then, we present an interoperable cross-chains consensus protocol to achieve eventual consistency of blockchain transactions. We conduct extensive experiments, and the evaluation results show that our proposed approach achieves superior performance.
Kun Hao, Junchang Xin, Zhiqiong Wang, Zhongming Yao, Guoren Wang
IEEE Trans. Big Data4
2022 On efficient top-k transaction path query processing in blockchain database
Kun Hao, Junchang Xin, Zhiqiong Wang, Zhongming Yao, Guoren Wang
Data Knowl. Eng.4