Publications

You can find all my papers on my Google Scholar

(*: corresponding author)

Large Language Models, Reasoning, and Adaptation

• Mental-R1: Aligning LLM Reasoning for Mental Health Assessment.
  Xin Wang, Boyan Gao, Yibo Yang, David A Clifton
  Preprint
  [pdf]

• Optimization-Inspired Few-Shot Adaptation for Large Language Models.
  Boyan Gao, Xin Wang, Yibo Yang, David A Clifton
  The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS2025, Spotlight)
  [pdf]

AI for Mental Health and Social Computing

• MISE: Meta-knowledge Inheritance for Social Media-Based Stressor Estimation.
  Xin Wang, Ling Feng, Huijun Zhang, Lei Cao, Kaisheng Zeng, Qi Li, Yang Ding, Yi Dai, David A Clifton
  Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2025 (WWW2025, Oral Presentation)
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• Contrastive Learning of Stress-specific Word Embedding for Social Media based Stress Detection.
  Xin Wang, Huijun Zhang, Lei Cao, Ling Feng, Qi Li, Ningyun Li, Ling Feng.
  Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2023)
  [pdf][code][data]

• A Meta-learning based Stress Category Detection Framework on Social Media.
  Xin Wang, Lei Cao, Huijun Zhang, Ling Feng, Yang Ding, Ningyun Li.
  Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022 (WWW2022)
  [pdf][data]

Multimodal AI

• Integrating Content-Semantics-World Knowledge to Detect Stress from Videos.
  Yang Ding, Yi Dai, Xin Wang*, Ling Feng*, Lei Cao, Huijun Zhang.
  Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM2024)
  [pdf]

• Fine-Grained Question-Level Deception Detection via Graph-Based Learning and Cross-Modal Fusion.
  Huijun Zhang, Yang Ding, Lei Cao, Xin Wang, Ling Feng.
  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS2022)
  [pdf][code]

• Leverage Social Media for Personalized Stress Detection.
  Xin Wang, Huijun Zhang, Lei Cao, Ling Feng.
  Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM2020)
  [pdf]

Biomedical AI and Knowledge Graphs

• MuRL-DTI: A Multimodal Feature Fusion Reinforcement Learning Approach for Cold Start in Drug-Target Interactions.
  Yao Liu, Xin Wang, Ye Liu, Dandan Dou.
  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2025)
  [pdf]

• SAGS-DynamicBio: Integrating Semantic-Aware and Graph Structure-Aware Embedding for Dynamic Biological Data with Knowledge Graphs.
  Yao Liu, Yongfei Zhang, Xin Wang.
  European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD2024)
  [pdf]

• Heuristic-Driven, Type-Specific Embedding in Parallel Spaces for Enhancing Knowledge Graph Reasoning.
  Yao Liu, Yongfei Zhang, Xin Wang, Shan Yang.
  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2024)
  [pdf]