Bo Ni

News

2026

  1. New preprints: Personalized Image Generation with Reasoning and Reflection, Prompt2Skill: Unsupervised Skill Optimization From Natural Language Instructions (code), Joint and Cross-Modal Video-Audio Generation and Editing: A Unified Formulation and Design Taxonomy.
  2. Our survey Towards Trustworthy Retrieval Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey is now published online in ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)! Explore the companion resources.
  3. Personalized Auto-Research: Towards a True AI Co-Scientist appears at the ACM AI Leadership Summit 2026.
  4. New preprint: Unifying Graph Neural Networks Through a Common Layer Equation.
  5. SaVe-TAG: LLM-based Interpolation for Long-Tailed Text-Attributed Graphs is published at KDD 2026.
  6. I attended ACL 2026 in San Diego in July! Our paper Risk-Controlled Event-Driven Cascading Updates for Knowledge Graph Consistency Restoration is published in Findings of ACL 2026.
  7. Our survey Towards Trustworthy Retrieval Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey was accepted by ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)!
  8. New preprint: Sparse Personalized Text Generation with Multi-Trajectory Reasoning.
  9. Our paper Risk-Controlled Event-Driven Cascading Updates for Knowledge Graph Consistency Restoration was accepted to Findings of ACL 2026!
  10. Our papers A Survey on LLM-based Conversational User Simulation and Ensemble Privacy Defense for Knowledge-Intensive LLMs against Membership Inference Attacks are published at EACL 2026 (main conference and Findings, respectively).
  11. New preprints: Human-Aligned MLLM Judges for Fine-Grained Image Editing Evaluation: A Benchmark, Framework, and Analysis and Reasoning-Based Personalized Generation for Users with Sparse Data.
  12. New survey preprint: Figure Captioning with Large Generative Models: A Survey.

2025

  1. Our paper SaVe-TAG was accepted to KDD 2026!
  2. New preprints: Towards Bridging Review Sparsity in Recommendation with Textual Edge Graph Representation and our survey on conversational user simulation.
  3. Preprint A Personalized Conversational Benchmark: Towards Simulating Personalized Conversations is available on arxiv!
  4. I joined Adobe in San Jose as a Research Scientist Intern working on LLM reasoning and personalization!
  5. Presented our paper Towards Trustworthy Knowledge Graph Reasoning: An Uncertainty Aware Perspective at the AAAI 2025!
  6. Our latest survey Towards Trustworthy Retrieval Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey is available on arxiv! Don't forget to check out the GitHub repository for additional resource!

2024

  1. Our paper Towards Trustworthy Knowledge Graph Reasoning: An Uncertainty Aware Perspective is accepted by the AAAI 2025 (acceptance 23.4%)!
  2. We presented our tutorial on Data Quality-Aware Graph Machine Learning at CIKM2024.
  3. Preprint Large Language Model-based Augmentation for Imbalanced Node Classification on Text-Attributed Graphs is available on arxiv!
  4. Preprint Towards Trustworthy Knowledge Graph Reasoning: An Uncertainty Aware Perspective available.
  5. Our paper Reliable Knowledge Graph Reasoning with Uncertainty Quantification is accepted by the Ph.D symposium at CIKM 2024 (acceptance rate 25%)! See you in Boise!
  6. Our paper Augmenting Textual Generation via Topology Aware Retrieval is accepted by CIKM 2024 full research paper (acceptance rate 23%)!
  7. Our paper Augmenting Textual Generation via Topology Aware Retrieval is available on arxiv. Preprint.

2022

  1. Athena's Parameterized Query API support is GA! Learn more about the project here

2021

  1. I joined Amazon Web Services as a Software Development Engineer!
  2. One paper was accepted by the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’21)!

2020

  1. I am selected for honorable mention for the Computing Research Association's (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award for 2021!
  2. One paper was accepted by the Second International Workshop on Deep Learning on Graphs: Methods and Applications (DLG-KDD’20)!