Bo Ni - Publications

Preprints

1. A Personalized Conversational Benchmark: Towards Simulating Personalized Conversations.
   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.
   

2. Large Language Model-based Augmentation for Imbalanced Node Classification on Text Attributed Graphs.
   Bo Ni, Yu Wang, Leyao Wang, Yuying Zhao, Tyler Derr.
   

3. Augmenting Textual Generation via Topology Aware Retrieval.
   Yu Wang, Nedim Lipka, Ruiyi Zhang, Alexa Siu, Yuying Zhao, Bo Ni, Xin Wang, Ryan Rossi, Tyler Derr.
   

4. Improving Generalizability of Fake News Detection Methods using Propensity Score Matching.
   Bo Ni, ZhiChun Guo, Jianing Li, Meng Jiang.
   

Conferences

1. Ensemble Privacy Defense for Knowledge-Intensive LLMs against Membership Inference Attacks.
   Bo Ni, Haowei Fu, Han Xu, Kunpeng Liu, Dan Lin, Tyler Derr.
   In Findings of The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2026

2. Large Language Models for Conversational User Simulation: A Comprehensive Survey. (code)
   Bo Ni, Leyao Wang, Yu Wang, Branislav Kveton, Franck Dernoncourt, Yu Xia, Hongjie Chen, Reuben Leura, Samyadeep Basu, Subhojyoti Mukherjee, Puneet Mathur, Nesreen Ahmed, Junda Wu, Li Li, Huixin Zhang, Ruiyi Zhang, Tong Yu, Sungchul Kim, Jiuxiang Gu, Zhengzhong Tu, Alexa Siu, Zichao Wang, David Seunghyun Yoon, Nedim Lipka, Namyong Park, Zihao Lin, Trung Bui, Yue Zhao, Tyler Derr, Ryan A Rossi.
   In Proceedings of The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2026

3. Towards Trustworthy Knowledge Graph Reasoning: An Uncertainty Aware Perspective. Bo Ni, Yu Wang, Lu Cheng, Erik Blasch, Tyler Derr. In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2024

4. Topology-aware Retrieval Augmentation for Text Generation. Yu Wang, Nedim Lipka, Ruiyi Zhang, Alexa Siu, Yuying Zhao, Bo Ni, Xin Wang, Ryan Rossi, Tyler Derr. In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2024

5. Action Sequence Augmentation for Early Graph-based Anomaly Detection. Bo Ni, Tong Zhao, Wenhao Yu, Meng Jiang. In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2021

6. Early Fraud Detection With Augmented Graph Learning. Bo Ni, Tong Zhao, Wenhao Yu, Meng Jiang. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Deep Learning on Graphs: Methods and Applications (DLG-KDD’20)

7. Through The Eyes of A Poet: Classical Poetry Recommendation with Visual Input on Social Media. Daniel Yue Zhang, Bo Ni, Qiyu Zhi, Thomas Plummer, Qi Li, Hao Zheng, Qingkai Zeng, Yang Zhang, Dong Wang. In Proceedings of the Advances in Social Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) 2019 as oral presentation.