Publications

Work on trustworthy AI, personalized generation, and learning on graphs.

23 publications

2026

Personalized Image Generation with Reasoning and Reflection

Bo Ni, Ngoc N. Tran, Qinwen Ge, Franck Dernoncourt, et al.

Bo Ni, Ngoc N. Tran, Qinwen Ge, Franck Dernoncourt, Seunghyun Yoon, Samyadeep Basu, Sungchul Kim, Puneet Mathur, Nedim Lipka, Tong Yu, Yu Wang, Ryan A. Rossi, Tyler Derr

arXiv:2610.007372026

[paper]

Prompt2Skill: Unsupervised Skill Optimization From Natural Language Instructions

Bo Ni, Li Li, Ryan A. Rossi, Franck Dernoncourt, Tyler Derr

arXiv:2609.385932026

[paper] [code]

Joint and Cross-Modal Video-Audio Generation and Editing: A Unified Formulation and Design Taxonomy

Abhinav Sharma, Sai Karthik Navuluru, Wang Wei, Daksh Dangi, …, Bo Ni, et al.

Abhinav Sharma, Sai Karthik Navuluru, Wang Wei, Daksh Dangi, Xiangbo Gao, Li Li, Bo Ni, Vardhan Dongre, Junda Wu, Xiyang Hu, Jiuxiang Gu, Seunghyun Yoon, Tong Yu, Chien Van Nguyen, Mohamed Elmoghany, Nedim Lipka, Hoda Eldardiry, Hongjie Chen, Tyler Derr, Thien Huu Nguyen, Zhengzhong Tu, Nesreen K. Ahmed, Franck Dernoncourt, Ryan A. Rossi

arXiv:2609.343812026

[paper]

Towards Trustworthy Retrieval Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey

Bo Ni, Zheyuan Liu, Yongjia Lei, Leyao Wang, et al.

Bo Ni, Zheyuan Liu, Yongjia Lei, Leyao Wang, Yuying Zhao, Xueqi Cheng, Qingkai Zeng, Xin Dong, Yinglong Xia, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Ryan Rossi, Franck Dernoncourt, Mehrab Tanjim, Nesreen Ahmed, Xiaorui Liu, Wenqi Fan, Erik Blasch, Yu Wang, Meng Jiang, Tyler Derr

ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)2026

[paper] [preprint] [resources]

Personalized Auto-Research: Towards a True AI Co-Scientist

Bo Ni, Franck Dernoncourt, Hongjie Chen, Yu Wang, Nesreen K. Ahmed, Zhengzhong Tu, Tyler Derr, Ryan A. Rossi

ACM AI Leadership Summit 20262026

[paper]

Unifying Graph Neural Networks Through a Common Layer Equation

Sai Karthik Navuluru, Siddhartha Shankar Das, Bo Ni, Hongjie Chen, et al.

Sai Karthik Navuluru, Siddhartha Shankar Das, Bo Ni, Hongjie Chen, Yu Wang, Baris Coskunuzer, Nesreen K. Ahmed, Franck Dernoncourt, Mahantesh Halappanavar, Tyler Derr, Ryan A. Rossi, Lakshman Tamil

arXiv:2608.160972026

[paper]

SaVe-TAG: LLM-based Interpolation for Long-Tailed Text-Attributed Graphs

Leyao Wang, Yu Wang, Bo Ni, Yuying Zhao, Hanyu Wang, Yao Ma, Tyler Derr

KDD 20262026

[paper] [preprint]

Risk-Controlled Event-Driven Cascading Updates for Knowledge Graph Consistency Restoration

Bo Ni, Qinwen Ge, Haowei Fu, Ryan A. Rossi, Xiaorui Liu, Jiejun Xu, Tyler Derr

Findings of ACL 20262026

[paper]

Sparse Personalized Text Generation with Multi-Trajectory Reasoning

Bo Ni, Haowei Fu, Qinwen Ge, Franck Dernoncourt, et al.

Bo Ni, Haowei Fu, Qinwen Ge, Franck Dernoncourt, Samyadeep Basu, Nedim Lipka, Seunghyun Yoon, Yu Wang, Nesreen K. Ahmed, Subhojyoti Mukherjee, Puneet Mathur, Ryan A. Rossi, Tyler Derr

arXiv:2604.249962026

[paper]

A Survey on LLM-based Conversational User Simulation

Bo Ni, Yu Wang, Leyao Wang, Branislav Kveton, et al.

Bo Ni, Yu Wang, Leyao Wang, Branislav Kveton, Franck Dernoncourt, Yu Xia, Hongjie Chen, Reuben Luera, Samyadeep Basu, Subhojyoti Mukherjee, Puneet Mathur, Nesreen K. Ahmed, Junda Wu, Li Li, Huixin Zhang, Ruiyi Zhang, Tong Yu, Sungchul Kim, Jiuxiang Gu, Zhengzhong Tu, Alexa Siu, Zichao Wang, Seunghyun Yoon, Nedim Lipka, Namyong Park, Zihao Lin, Trung Bui, Yue Zhao, Tyler Derr, Ryan A. Rossi

EACL 2026 · Long paper2026

[paper] [resources]

Ensemble Privacy Defense for Knowledge-Intensive LLMs against Membership Inference Attacks

Haowei Fu, Bo Ni, Han Xu, Kunpeng Liu, Dan Lin, Tyler Derr

Findings of EACL 20262026

Haowei Fu and Bo Ni contributed equally.

[paper] [preprint]

Human-Aligned MLLM Judges for Fine-Grained Image Editing Evaluation: A Benchmark, Framework, and Analysis

Runzhou Liu, Hailey Weingord, Sejal Mittal, Prakhar Dungarwal, …, Bo Ni, et al.

Runzhou Liu, Hailey Weingord, Sejal Mittal, Prakhar Dungarwal, Anusha Nandula, Bo Ni, Samyadeep Basu, Hongjie Chen, Nesreen K. Ahmed, Li Li, Jiayi Zhang, Koustava Goswami, Subhojyoti Mukherjee, Branislav Kveton, Puneet Mathur, Franck Dernoncourt, Yue Zhao, Yu Wang, Ryan A. Rossi, Zhengzhong Tu, Hongru Du

arXiv:2602.130282026

[paper]

Reasoning-Based Personalized Generation for Users with Sparse Data

Bo Ni, Branislav Kveton, Samyadeep Basu, Subhojyoti Mukherjee, et al.

Bo Ni, Branislav Kveton, Samyadeep Basu, Subhojyoti Mukherjee, Leyao Wang, Franck Dernoncourt, Sungchul Kim, Seunghyun Yoon, Zichao Wang, Ruiyi Zhang, Puneet Mathur, Jihyung Kil, Jiuxiang Gu, Nedim Lipka, Yu Wang, Ryan A. Rossi, Tyler Derr

arXiv:2602.212192026

[paper]

Figure Captioning with Large Generative Models: A Survey

Chan-Wei Hu, Reuben Luera, Franck Dernoncourt, Huanjiang Liu, …, Bo Ni, et al.

Chan-Wei Hu, Reuben Luera, Franck Dernoncourt, Huanjiang Liu, Seon Gyeom Kim, Ashish Singh, Puneet Mathur, Bo Ni, Samyadeep Basu, Hongjie Chen, Tak Yeon Lee, Edward Hsu, Seunghyun Yoon, Nesreen K. Ahmed, Li Li, Tong Yu, Sungchul Kim, Branislav Kveton, Subhojyoti Mukherjee, Jiuxiang Gu, Jihyung Kil, Zhehao Zhang, Junda Wu, Ashutosh Singh, Zichao Wang, Ruiyi Zhang, Yue Zhao, Nedim Lipka, Thien Huu Nguyen, Tyler Derr, Zhengzhong Tu, Yu Wang, Ting-Hao Kenneth Huang, Ryan A. Rossi

HAL: hal-055552272026

[paper]

2025

Towards Bridging Review Sparsity in Recommendation with Textual Edge Graph Representation

Leyao Wang, Xutao Mao, Xuhui Zhan, Yuying Zhao, Bo Ni, Ryan A. Rossi, Nesreen K. Ahmed, Tyler Derr

arXiv:2508.011282025

[paper]

A Personalized Conversational Benchmark: Towards Simulating Personalized Conversations

Li Li, Peilin Cai, Ryan A. Rossi, Franck Dernoncourt, …, Bo Ni, et al.

Li Li, Peilin Cai, Ryan A. Rossi, Franck Dernoncourt, Branislav Kveton, Junda Wu, Tong Yu, Linxin Song, Tiankai Yang, Yuehan Qin, Nesreen K. Ahmed, Samyadeep Basu, Subhojyoti Mukherjee, Ruiyi Zhang, Zhengmian Hu, Bo Ni, Yuxiao Zhou, Zichao Wang, Yue Huang, Yu Wang, Xiangliang Zhang, Philip S. Yu, Xiyang Hu, Yue Zhao

arXiv:2505.141062025

[paper]