Yifan Liu
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Yifan Liu 刘一帆

yifan40 [at] illinois [dot] edu
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Hi! I'm a third-year PhD student in Information Sciences supervised by Prof. Dong Wang at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Prior to that, I graduated with an M.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and a BSc in Computer Science (Hons) from University College London. My research interest lies in multimodal learning, information retrieval and trustworthy AI.

Updates

  • Paper on unauthorized individual image generation protection accepted to ICCV 2025! 🎉
  • Paper on face component fairness accepted to ACM FAccT 2025! 🎉
  • Paper on multimodal interactive MoE for fake news detection accepted to ACM theWebConf 2025! See you in Sydney! 🎉
  • Released a new dataset for multidimensional media bias.
  • A paper on retrieval augmented fact verification is accepted to ACL Findings 2024!
  • Released a new dataset for multidimensional media bias.

Preprints

Structural Tokenization for Generative Recommendation
Yaokun Liu*, Yifan Liu*, Zhenrui Yue, Gyuseok Lee, Zelin Li, Ruichen Yao, Dong Wang (* equal contribution)
Preprint under review · 2025
Learning Decomposed Token Representations for Generative Recommendation
Yifan Liu, Yaokun Liu, Zelin Li, Ruichen Yao, Yang Zhang, Dong Wang
Preprint under review · 2025
Session-based Recommendation with Validated and Enriched LLM Intents
Gyuseok Lee, Yaokun Liu, Yifan Liu, Susik Yoon, Dong Wang, SeongKu Kang
Preprint under review · 2024
[Paper]

Selected Publications (See all on Google Scholar)

Component-Based Fairness in Face Attribute Classification with Bayesian Network-informed Meta Learning

Component-Based Fairness in Face Attribute Classification with Bayesian Network-informed Meta Learning

Yifan Liu, Ruichen Yao, Yaokun Liu, Zelin Li, Dong Wang
The ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) · 2025
[Paper] [Code]
Modality Interactive Mixture-of-Experts for Fake News Detection

Modality Interactive Mixture-of-Experts for Fake News Detection

Yifan Liu, Yaokun Liu, Zelin Li, Ruichen Yao, Yang Zhang, Dong Wang
The ACM Web Conference (WWW) · 2025
[Paper] [Code]
Intertwined Biases Across Social Media Spheres: Unpacking Correlations in Media Bias Dimensions

Intertwined Biases Across Social Media Spheres: Unpacking Correlations in Media Bias Dimensions

Yifan Liu, Yike Li, Dong Wang
International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) · 2024
[Paper]
Anti-Tamper Protection for Unauthorized Individual Image Generation

Anti-Tamper Protection for Unauthorized Individual Image Generation

Zelin Li, Ruohan Zong, Yifan Liu, Ruichen Yao, Yaokun Liu, Yang Zhang, Dong Wang
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2025
[Paper] [Code]

Education

  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Ph.D. in Information Sciences
    Sep. 2023 – Present
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
    M.S. in Computer Science
    Sep. 2021 – May 2023
  • University College London
    BSc in Computer Science
    Sep. 2017 – May 2019

Service

  • Reviewer: The Web Conference (WWW), AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), IEEE Transactions on Big Data

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