Demo Data from EDBT 2026 / reviewers in the wild / expert
Zhengao Li
dblp:385/4984
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2ranked-venue papers
2as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 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 |
Security and privacy of machine learning · 50% Cryptographic protocols and secure computation · 50% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Language models and text generation · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Cryptographic protocols and secure computation › proof systems
knowledge extraction |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Query-Efficient Domain Knowledge Stealing Against Large Language Models · AAAI 2026 |
Security and privacy of machine learning
model stealing |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Query-Efficient Domain Knowledge Stealing Against Large Language Models · AAAI 2026 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
large language model |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | Query-Efficient Domain Knowledge Stealing Against Large Language Models · AAAI 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
self-directed exploration · 2.0feedback-driven query control · 2.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Query-Efficient Domain Knowledge Stealing Against Large Language ModelsabstractLarge language models (LLMs) concentrate substantial knowledge in specialized domains due to extensive pretraining and instruction tuning, and they are now central to commercial and scientific practice. Yet access is usually limited to costly, rate-limited interfaces, which motivates methods that can extract targeted domain knowledge with minimal querying effort. A further challenge is that the target domain may be unknown in advance, so naive or generic prompts waste queries and fail to expose the underlying concepts and relations that structure the domain. In this work, we introduce a query-efficient approach for domain-specific knowledge stealing from black-box language models. Rather than issuing random questions or generic templates, our framework performs self-directed exploration that lets the model find the direction and mine domain knowledge by itself. Starting from a small and diverse seed, it discovers salient domain entities and induces their relations through structured question families that elicit definitional, functional, and compositional information. A feedback-driven controller analyzes the errors and uncertainty of the extracted surrogate model and uses this signal to refine subsequent queries, all without relying on prior domain knowledge or external resources. We evaluate the method in two expert-centric settings, medicine and finance, and observe consistently better performance while requiring significantly fewer queries. Zhengao Li, Xiaopeng Yuan, Bolin Shen, Kien Le, Haohan Wang, Xugui Zhou, Shangqian Gao, Yushun Dong |
AAAI | 1 |
| 2026 | Diversified Meta-Adaptive Attack for Decision-Based Black-box Adversarial Examples
Zhengao Li, Chanying Huang, Kedong Yan |
ICIC (9) | 1 |