Publications

(Grouped by year; Taotao Cai is highlighted.)

Publication Profile

30+ peer-reviewed outputs with strong representation in CORE A* and high-impact journals, spanning graph learning, trustworthy AI, and applied intelligent systems.

CORE A* TKDE / ICDE Graph Learning Applied AI

2026

TMLR Journal

From Agent Traces to Trust: A Survey of Evidence Tracing and Execution Provenance in LLM Agents

Yiqi Wang, Jiaqi Zhang, Zhangkai Wu, Taotao Cai, Zirui Liu, Zequn Sun, Mingkai Zheng, Manqing Dong, Yu-Xuan Qiu, Xuefei Yin, Yanming Zhu

Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2026

ECCV'26 Conference CORE A* CCF-B

Accelerating Multimodal Large Language Models with Prior-Corrected Token Reduction

Zengjie Chen, Yuxiang Cai, Jingcai Guo, Taotao Cai, Jianwei Yin, Zhi Chen

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026

PDS Journal

AI-aided De Novo Molecular Design of Phosphamide for Fire-Retardant Polylactide with Enhanced Integrated Properties

Pooya Jafari, Guoping Zhu, Zongmin Zhu, Mark Lynch, Taotao Cai, Siqi Huo, Jianping Ren, Guobo Huang, Pingan Song

Polymer Degradation and Stability, 250:112138, 2026 DOI

TGRS Journal

MPCM-Net: A Multi-Scale Network that Integrates Partial Attention Convolution with Mamba for Ground-Based Cloud Image Segmentation

Penghui Niu, Jiashuai She, Taotao Cai, Yajuan Zhang, Ping Zhang, Junhua Gu, Jianxin Li

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), 2026 · Top-tier journal in Remote Sensing

TSC Journal CORE A* CCF-A

MARS: A Multi-Agent Collaborative Reasoning Framework for Service Recommendation

Mingyi Liu, Zijie Yin, Congcong Tian, Shuang Yu, Taotao Cai, Zhihui Xu, Zhongjie Wang

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), 2026

TCSS Journal

Truth Discovery From Multiple Dependent Sources

Shuang Wang, He Zhang, Xiaoping Li, Taotao Cai, Michael Sheng, Jixiang Lu

IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS), 2026

BSPC Journal

Explainable Pain Level Classification Using a Natural Visibility Graph-Driven Adaptive Dilated Recurrent Unit with Speech Signals

Aditya P. Kamath, Xiaohui Tao, Taotao Cai, Prabal Datta Barua, Sreeni Chadalavada, Abdulkadir Sengur

Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2026

2025

TCSS Journal

Personalized Short-term and Periodic Long-term Preferences Modeling with Contrastive Learning for Next POI Recommendation

Mo Li, Zhaosong Zhao, Mingyang Ma, Linlin Ding, Taotao Cai

IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS), 2025

JSTARS Journal

LG-Umer: A UNet-like Network Integrating Local-Global Features with a Novel Attention Mechanism for Road Extraction from Remote Sensing Images

Penghui Niu, Taotao Cai, Yajuan Zhang, Ping Zhang, Wenjia Xu, Junhua Gu, Jungong Han

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS), 2025

IJCAI'25 Conference CORE A* CCF-A

A Survey on Multi-View Knowledge Graph: Generation, Fusion, Applications and Future Directions

Zihan Yang, Xiaohui Tao, Taotao Cai, Yifu Tang, Haoran Xie, Lin Li, Jianxin Li, Qing Li

International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Survey Track, 2025

WIREs DMKD Journal

Exploring Causal Learning through Graph Neural Networks: An In-depth Review

Simi Job, Xiaohui Tao, Taotao Cai, Haoran Xie, Lin Li, Qing Li, Jianming Yong

WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2025

WWWJ Journal

Causal Integration in Graph Neural Networks toward Enhanced Classification: Benchmarking and Advancements for Robust Performance

Simi Job, Xiaohui Tao, Taotao Cai, Lin Li, Quan Z Sheng, Haoran Xie, Jianming Yong

World Wide Web Journal, 2025

KBS Journal ERA B

HebCGNN: Hebbian-enabled Causal Classification Integrating Dynamic Impact Valuing

Simi Job, Xiaohui Tao, Taotao Cai, Lin Li, Haoran Xie, Cai Xu, Jianming Yong

Knowledge-Based Systems, 2025

IoT-J Journal

Efficient Influential Nodes Tracking via Link Prediction in Evolving Networks

Kexin Zhang, Taotao Cai, Zhaoyu Liu, Shuang Teng, Yi Wang, Yu Chen, Ji Zhang

IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2025

AIR Journal

Deep Learning Model Inversion Attacks and Defenses: A Comprehensive Survey

Wencheng Yang, Song Wang, Di Wu, Taotao Cai, Yanming Zhu, Shicheng Wei, Yiying Zhang, Xu Yang, Yan Li

Artificial Intelligence Review, 2025

KBS Journal ERA B

AI-Generated Content in Cross-Domain Applications: Research Trends, Challenges and Propositions

Jianxin Li, Liang Qu, Taotao Cai, Zhixue Zhao, Nur Al Hasan Haldar, Aneesh Krishna, Xiangjie Kong, Flavio Romero Macau, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Aniket Deroy, Binshan Lin, Karen Blackmore, Nasimul Noman, Jingxian Cheng, Ningning Cui, Jianliang Xu

Knowledge-Based Systems, 2025

2024

TIST Journal CCF-B

Optimal Treatment Strategies for Critical Patients with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Simi Job, Xiaohui Tao, Lin Li, Haoran Xie, Taotao Cai, Jianming Yong, Qing Li

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), 2024

JSTARS Journal

MDCGA-Net: Multi-Scale Direction Context-Aware Network with Global Attention for Building Extraction from Remote Sensing Images

Penghui Niu, Junhua Gu, Yajuan Zhang, Ping Zhang, Taotao Cai, Wenjia Xu, Jungong Han

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS), 2024

TKDE Journal CORE A* CCF-A

FRAMU: Attention-based Machine Unlearning using Federated Reinforcement Learning

Thanveer Shaik, Xiaohui Tao, Lin Li, Haoran Xie, Taotao Cai, Xiaofeng Zhu, Qing Li

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2024

TBD Journal

A Survey on Truth Discovery: Concepts, Methods, Applications, and Opportunities

Shuang Wang, He Zhang, Quan Z Sheng, Xiaoping Li, Zhu Sun, Taotao Cai, Wei Emma Zhang, Jian Yang, Qing Gao

IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2024

2023

TKDE Journal CORE A* CCF-A

Reconnecting the Estranged Relationships: Optimizing the Influence Propagation in Evolving Networks

Taotao Cai, Qi Lei, Quan Z. Sheng, Ningning Cui, Shuiqiao Yang, Jian Yang, Wei Emma Zhang, Adnan Mahamood

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2023

TKDE Journal CORE A* CCF-A

Towards Multi-User, Secure, and Verifiable kNN Query in Cloud Database

Ningning Cui, Kang Qiao, Taotao Cai, Jianxin Li, Xiaochun Yang, Jie Cui, Hong Zhong

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2023

Sensors Journal

Dynamic Correlation Adjacency Matrix Based Graph Neural Network for Traffic Flow Prediction

Junhua Gu, Zhihao Jia, Taotao Cai, Xiangyu Song, Adnan Mahamood

Sensors, 2023

APWeb-WAIM'23 Conference CORE B CCF-C

YOLO-SA: An Efficient Object Detection Model Based on Self-Attention Mechanism

Ang Li, Xiangyu Song, Shijie Sun, Zhaoyang Zhang, Taotao Cai, Huansheng Song

Joint APWeb-WAIM Conference on Web and Big Data, 2023

APWeb-WAIM'23 Conference CORE B CCF-C

ECS-STPM: An Efficient Model for Tunnel Fire Anomaly Detection

Huansheng Song, Ya Wen, Xiangyu Song, Shijie Sun, Taotao Cai, Jianxin Li

Joint APWeb-WAIM Conference on Web and Big Data, 2023

2022

TKDE Journal CORE A* CCF-A

Incremental Graph Computation: Anchored Vertex Tracking in Dynamic Social Networks

Taotao Cai, Shuiqiao Yang, Jianxin Li, Quan Z. Sheng, Jian Yang, Xin Wang, Wei Emma Zhang, Longxiang Gao

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2022

TKDE Journal CORE A* CCF-A

Top-k Socio-Spatial Co-engaged Location Selection for Social Users

Nur Al Hasan Haldar, Jianxin Li, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Taotao Cai, Timos Sellis, Mark Reynolds

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2022

KBS Journal ERA B

A Survey on Deep Learning based Knowledge Tracing

Xiangyu Song, Jianxin Li, Taotao Cai, Shuiqiao Yang, Tingting Yang, Chenfei Liu

Knowledge-Based Systems, 2022

KBS Journal ERA B

Robust Cross-Network Node Classification via Constrained Graph Mutual Information

Shuiqiao Yang, Borui Cai, Taotao Cai, Xiangyu Song, Jiaojiao Jiang, Bing Li, Jianxin Li

Knowledge-Based Systems, 2022

ADMA'22 Conference

Advanced Data Mining and Applications: 18th International Conference, ADMA 2022, Proceedings

Weitong Chen, Lina Yao, Taotao Cai, Shirui Pan, Tao Shen, Xue Li

Brisbane, QLD, Australia, November 28–30, 2022

2020

TKDE Journal ERA A* CCF-A

Target-aware Holistic Influence Maximization in Spatial Social Networks

Taotao Cai, Jianxin Li, Ajmal Mian, Rong-Hua Li, Timos Sellis, Jeffrey Xu Yu

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2020

Inf. Syst. Journal CORE A*

Community-diversity Driven Influence Maximization on Social Networks

Jianxin Li, Taotao Cai, Xinjue Wang, Ke Deng, Timos Sellis, Jeffrey Xu Yu

Information Systems, 2020

Selected as one of the most influential papers of the past decade, featured in the journal’s 50th Anniversary Virtual Special Issue.

ICDE'20 Conference CORE A* CCF-A

Anchored Vertex Exploration for Community Engagement in Social Networks

Taotao Cai, Jianxin Li, Nur Al Hasan Haldar, Ajmal Mian, John Yearwood, Timos Sellis

IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2020

JCIN Journal

Anchor Vertex Selection for Enhanced Reliability of Traffic Offloading Service in Edge-Enabled Mobile P2P Social Networks

Hengda Zhang, Xiaofei Wang, Hao Fan, Taotao Cai, Jianxin Li, Xiuhua Li, Victor C. M. Leung

Journal of Communications and Information Networks, 2020

2019

ADMA'19 Conference CORE B

Correlate Influence News Article Events to Stock Quote Movement

Arun Chaitanya Mandalapu, Saranya Gunabalan, Avinash Sadineni, Taotao Cai, Nur Al Hasan Haldar, Jianxin Li

International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA), 2019

2018

ICDE'18 Conference CORE A* CCF-A

Holistic Influence Maximization for Targeted Advertisements in Spatial Social Networks

Jianxin Li, Taotao Cai, Ajmal Mian, Ronghua Li, Timos Sellis, Jeffrey Xu Yu

IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2018

2017

WWWJ Journal ERA A

Efficient Distance-based Representative Skyline Computation in 2D Space

Rui Mao, Taotao Cai, Ronghua Li, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Jianxin Li

World Wide Web Journal, 20(4): 621–638, 2017

2015

APWeb-WAIM'15 Conference CORE B

Efficient Algorithm for Distance-based Representative Skyline Computation in 2D Space

Taotao Cai, Rong-Hua Li, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Rui Mao, Yadi Cai

Joint APWeb-WAIM Conference on Web and Big Data, 2015

Patents

PCT/CN2015/081145 — REJECT RATE-CONTROLLABLE METROPOLIS-HASTINGS GRAPH SAMPLING ALGORITHM. View
PCT/CN2015/081146 — DISTANCE-BASED ALGORITHM FOR SOLVING REPRESENTATIVE NODE SET IN TWO DIMENSIONAL SPACE. View
PCT/CN2015/079176 — COMMUNITY SEARCH ALGORITHM BASED ON K-KERNEL. View
PCT/CN2016/085242 — METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ESTIMATING USER INFLUENCE IN SOCIAL NETWORK USING GRAPH SIMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUE. View
PCT/CN2015/081147 — GENERALIZED MAXIMUM-DEGREE RANDOM WALK GRAPH SAMPLING ALGORITHM. View