Publications [DBLP][Google Scholar]

         Book

1. 

   Community Search over Big Graphs
   Xin Huang, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Jianliang Xu
   Synthesis Lectures on Data Management
   Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2019

         2025

1. 
   

   PVLDB’25

   
   

   Interactive Graph Search for Multiple Targets on DAGs
   Zheng Wu, Xuliang Zhu, Yixiang Fang, Jianliang Xu, Xin Huang
   Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

   
   
2. 
   

   DATE’25

   
   

   Maximum Fanout-Free Window Enumeration: Towards Multi-Output Sub-structure Synthesis
   Ruofei Tang, Xuliang Zhu, Xing Li, Lei Chen, Xin Huang, Mingxuan Yuan, Jianliang Xu
   ACM/IEEE International Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe

   
   
3. 
   

   TCSS

   
   

   Boosting Performance of Graph Convolutional Networks via Generating Pseudo-labels and Feature Interaction
   Qiqi Zhang, Zhongying Zhao, Chao Li, Xin Huang
   IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems

   
   

         2024

1. 
   

   PVLDB’24

   
   

   Efficient Maximal Motif-Clique Enumeration over Large Heterogeneous Information Networks
   Yingli Zhou, Yixiang Fang, Chenhao Ma, Tianci Hou, Xin Huang
   Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

   
   
2. 
   

   PVLDB’24

   
   

   Truss-based Community Search over Streaming Directed Graphs
   Xuankun Liao, Qing Liu, Xin Huang, Jianliang Xu
   Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

   
   
3. 
   

   ICDE’24

   
   

   Efficient Cross-layer Community Search in Large Multilayer Graphs
   Longxu Sun, Xin Huang, Zheng Wu, Jianliang Xu
   IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering

   
   
4. 
   

   ICDE’24

   
   

   Adaptive Truss Maximization on Large Graphs: A Minimum Cut Approach
   Zitan Sun, Xin Huang, Chengzhi Piao, Cheng Long, Jianliang Xu
   IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering

   
   
5. 
   

   ICDE’24

   
   

   Differentially Private Graph Neural Networks for Link Prediction
   Xun Ran, Qingqing Ye, Haibo Hu, Xin Huang, Jianliang Xu, Jie Fu
   IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering

   
   
6. 
   

   ICDE’24

   
   

   Fast Multilayer Core Decomposition and Indexing
   Dandan Liu, Run-An Wang, Zhaonian Zou, Xin Huang
   IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering

   
   
7. 
   

   IJCAI’24

   
   

   Joint Domain Adaptive Graph Convolutional Network
   Niya Yang, Ye Wang, Zhizhi Yu, Dongxiao He, Xin Huang, Di Jin
   International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

   
   
8. 
   

   TKDE

   
   

   DKWS: A Distributed System for Keyword Search on Massive Graphs
   Jiaxin Jiang, Byron Choi, Xin Huang, Jianliang Xu, Sourav S. Bhowmick
   IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

   
   
9. 
   

   TNNLS

   
   

   Community Detection via Multihop Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
   Jiewen Guan, Bilian Chen, Xin Huang
   IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

   
   
10. 
    

    TMC

    
    

    Fairness-Guaranteed Task Assignment for Crowdsourced Mobility Services
    Yafei Li, Huiling Li, Baolong Mei, Xin Huang, Jianliang Xu, Mingliang Xu
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

    
    

         2023

1. 
   

   SIGMOD’23

   
   

   Efficient Star-based Truss Maintenance on Dynamic Graphs
   Zitan Sun, Xin Huang, Qing Liu, Jianliang Xu
   ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data

   
   
2. 
   

   DAC’23

   
   

   A Database Dependent Framework for K-Input Maximum Fanout-Free Window Rewriting
   Xuliang Zhu, Ruofei Tang, Lei Chen, Xing Li, Xin Huang, Mingxuan Yuan, Weihua Sheng, Jianliang Xu
   The 60th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Design Automation Conference

   
   
3. 
   

   ICDE’23

   
   

   Distributed (α, β)-Core Decomposition over Bipartite Graphs
   Qing Liu, Xuankun Liao, Xin Huang, Jianliang Xu, Yunjun Gao
   IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering

   
   
4. 
   

   ICDE’23

   
   

   Keyword-based Socially Tenuous Group Queries
   Huaijie Zhu, Wei Liu, Jian Yin, Ningning Cui, Jianliang Xu, Xin Huang, Wang-Chien Lee
   IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering

   
   
5. 
   

   TKDD

   
   

   Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Based on Node Centrality for Community Detection
   Sixing Su, Jiewen Guan, Bilian Chen, Xin Huang
   ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data

   
   
6. 
   

   TKDE

   
   

   Continuous Geo-Social Group Monitoring in Dynamic LBSNs
   Huaijie Zhu, Wei Liu, Jian Yin, Libin Zheng, Xin Huang, Jianliang Xu, Wang-Chien Lee
   IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

   
   
7. 
   

   TMC

   
   

   Utility-Aware Dynamic Ridesharing in Spatial Crowdsourcing
   Yafei Li, Huiling Li, Xin Huang, Jianliang Xu, Yu Han, Mingliang Xu
   IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

   
   
8. 
   

   TNNLS

   
   

   Community Detection via Autoencoder-Like Nonnegative Tensor Decomposition
   Jiewen Guan, Bilian Chen, Xin Huang
   IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

   
   

         2022

1. 
   

   PVLDB’22

   
   

   Distributed D-core Decomposition over Large Directed Graphs
   Xuankun Liao, Qing Liu, Jiaxin Jiang, Xin Huang, Jianliang Xu, Byron Choi
   Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

   
   
2. 
   

   PVLDB’22

   
   

   Fast Algorithms for Core Maximization on Large Graphs
   Xin Sun, Xin Huang, Di Jin
   Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

   
   
3. 
   

   PVLDB’22

   
   

   Query Driven-Graph Neural Networks for Community Search: From Non-Attributed, Attributed, to Interactive Attributed
   Yuli Jiang, Yu Rong, Hong Cheng, Xin Huang, Kangfei Zhao, Junzhou Huang
   Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

   
   
4. 
   

   ICDE’22

   
   

   Continuous Geo-Social Group Monitoring over Moving Users
   Huaijie Zhu, Wei Liu, Jian Yin, Mengxiang Wang, Jianliang Xu, Xin Huang, Wang-Chien Lee
   IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering

   
   
5. 
   

   TKDD

   
   

   A Novel Graph Indexing Approach for Uncovering Potential COVID-19 Transmission Clusters
   Xuliang Zhu, Xin Huang, Longxu Sun, Jiming Liu
   ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data

   
   
6. 
   

   TKDE

   
   

   Efficient Adaptive Matching for Real-Time City Express Delivery
   Yafei Li, Qingshun Wu, Xin Huang, Jianliang Xu, Wanru Gao, Mingliang Xu
   IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

   
   
7. 
   

   TKDE

   
   

   Community-aware Social Recommendation: A Unified SCSVD Framework
   Jiewen Guan, Xin Huang, Bilian Chen
   IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

   
   
8. 
   

   TKDE

   
   

   Efficient and Optimal Algorithms for Tree Summarization with Weighted Terminologies
   Xuliang Zhu, Xin Huang, Byron Choi, Jianliang Xu, William Cheung, Yanchun Zhang, Jiming Liu
   IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

   
   

         2021

1. 
   

   PVLDB’21

   
   

   Butterfly-Core Community Search over Labeled Graphs
   Zheng Dong, Xin Huang, Guorui Yuan, Hengshu Zhu, Hui Xiong
   Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

   
   
2. 
   

   PVLDB’21

   
   

   Local Algorithms for Distance-generalized Core Decomposition over Large Dynamic Graphs
   Qing Liu, Xuliang Zhu, Xin Huang, Jianliang Xu
   Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

   
   
3. 
   

   PVLDB’21

   
   

   Budget Constrained Interactive Search for Multiple Targets
   Xuliang Zhu, Xin Huang, Byron Choi, Jiaxin Jiang, Zhaonian Zou, Jianliang Xu
   Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

   
   
4. 
   

   WWW’21

   
   

   Efficient Probabilistic Truss Indexing on Uncertain Graphs
   Zitan Sun, Xin Huang, Jianliang Xu, Francesco Bonchi
   The Web Conference

   
   
5. 
   

   CIKM’21

   
   

   Budget-Constrained Truss Maximization over Large Graphs: A Component-based Approach
   Xin Sun, Xin Huang, Zitan Sun, Di Jin
   ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

   
   
6. 
   

   TKDE

   
   

   Truss-based Structural Diversity Search in Large Graphs
   Jinbin Huang, Xin Huang, Jianliang Xu
   IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

   
   
7. 
   

   TKDE

   
   

   Index-based Intimate-Core Community Search in Large Weighted Graphs
   Longxu Sun, Xin Huang, Rong-Hua Li, Byron Choi, Jianliang Xu
   IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

   
   
8. 
   

   VLDBJ

   
   

   I/O Efficient K-Truss Community Search in Massive Graphs
   Yuli Jiang, Xin Huang, Hong Cheng
   The VLDB Journal

   
   

         2020

1. 
   

   SIGMOD’20

   
   

   Truss-based Community Search over Large Directed Graphs
   Qing Liu, Minjun Zhao, Xin Huang, Jianliang Xu, Yunjun Gao
   ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data

   
   
2. 
   

   PVLDB’20

   
   

   HDAG-Explorer: A System for Hierarchical DAG Summarization and Exploration
   Xuliang Zhu, Xin Huang, Jinbin Huang, Byron Choi, Jianliang Xu
   Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Demo Track

   
   
3. 
   

   ICDE’20

   
   

   PPKWS: An Efficient Framework for Keyword Search on Public-Private Networks
   Jiaxin Jiang, Xin Huang, Byron Choi, Jianliang Xu, Sourav S Bhowmick, Lyu Xu
   IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering

   
   
4. 
   

   ICDE’20

   
   

   VAC: Vertex-Centric Attributed Community Search
   Qing Liu, Yifan Zhu, Minjun Zhao, Xin Huang, Jianliang Xu, Yunjun Gao
   IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering

   
   
5. 
   

   CIKM’20

   
   

   Top-k Graph Summarization on Large Hierarchical DAGs
   Xuliang Zhu, Xin Huang, Byron Choi, Jianliang Xu
   ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

   
   
6. 
   

   CIKM’20

   
   

   When Structure Meets Keywords: Cohesive Attributed Community Search
   Yuanyuan Zhu, Jian He, Junhao Ye, Lu Qin, Xin Huang, Jeffrey Xu Yu
   ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

   
   
7. 
   

   New Media & Society

   
   

   Curbing profanity online: A network-based diffusion analysis of profane speech on Chinese social media
   Yunya Song, K. Hazel Kwon, Jianliang Xu, Xin Huang, Shiying Li
   New Media & Society

   
   

         2019

1. 
   

   IJCAI’19

   
   

   Fast Algorithm for K-Truss Discovery on Public-Private Graphs
   Soroush Ebadian, Xin Huang
   International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

   
   
2. 
   

   ICDE’19

   
   

   Keyword Centric Community Search
   Zhiwei Zhang, Xin Huang, Jianliang Xu, Byron Choi, Zechao Shang
   IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering

   
   
3. 
   

   ICDM’19

   
   

   Oasis: Online Analytic System for Incivility Detection and Sentiment Classification
   Leyu Liu, Xin Huang, Jianliang Xu, Yunya Song
   IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Demo Track

   
   
4. 
   

   WISE’19

   
   

   Parameter-Free Structural Diversity Search
   Jinbin Huang, Xin Huang, Yuanyuan Zhu, Jianliang Xu
   International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering

   
   
5. 
   

   WISE’19

   
   

   Fast Algorithms for Intimate-Core Group Search in Weighted Graphs
   Longxu Sun, Xin Huang, Rong-Hua Li, Jianliang Xu
   International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering

   
   
6. 
   

   VLDBJ

   
   

   A Survey of Community Search Over Big Graphs
   Yixiang Fang, Xin Huang, Lu Qin, Ying Zhang, Wenjie Zhang, Reynold Cheng, Xuemin Lin
   The VLDB Journal

   
   
7. 
   

   TKDE

   
   

   Detecting Communities with Multiplex Semantics by Distinguishing Background, General and Specialized Topics
   Di Jin, Kunzeng Wang, Ge Zhang, Pengfei Jiao, Dongxiao He, F. Fogelman-Soulié, Xin Huang
   IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

   
   

         2018

1. 
   

   AAAI’18

   
   

   Community Detection in Attributed Graphs: An Embedding Approach
   Ye Li, Chaofeng Sha, Xin Huang, Yanchun Zhang
   AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

   
   
2. 
   

   IJCAI’18

   
   

   Finding Communities with Hierarchical Semantics by Distinguishing General and Specialized Topics
   Ge Zhang, Di Jin, Jian Gao, Pengfei Jiao, F. Fogelman-Soulié, Xin Huang
   International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

   
   
3. 
   

   ICDE’18

   
   

   VizCS: Online Searching and Visualizing Communities in Dynamic Graphs
   Yuli Jiang, Xin Huang, Hong Cheng, Jeffrey Xu Yu
   IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Demo Track
   

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4. 
   

   ICDMW’18

   
   

   PP-DBLP: Modeling and Generating Attributed Public-Private Networks with DBLP
   Xin Huang, Jiaxin Jiang, Byron Choi, Jianliang Xu, Zhiwei Zhang, Yunya Song
   IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshop on Graph Analytics

   
   
5. 
   

   BMC Genomics

   
   

   AmpuBase: a transcriptome database for eight species of apple snails (Gastropoda: Ampullariidae)
   J. C. H. Ip, H. Mu, Q. Chen, J. Sun, S. Ituarte, H. Heras, B. V. Bocxlaer, M. Ganmanee, X. Huang, J. Qiu
   BMC Genomics

   
   

         2017

1. 
   

   PVLDB’17

   
   

   Attribute-driven community search
   Xin Huang, Laks VS Lakshmanan
   Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

   
   
2. 
   

   ICDE’17

   
   

   Community search over big graphs: Models, algorithms, and opportunities (tutorial)
   Xin Huang, Laks VS Lakshmanan, Jianliang Xu
   IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering
   

   [ Slides ]

   
   
3. 
   

   CIKM’17

   
   

   Ontology-based Graph Visualization for Summarized View
   Xin Huang, Byron Choi, Jianliang Xu, William K Cheung, Yanchun Zhang, Jiming Liu
   ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

   
   
4. 
   

   ICSC’17

   
   

   Querying intimate-core groups in weighted graphs
   Dong Zheng, Jianquan Liu, Rong-Hua Li, Cigdem Aslay, Yi-Cheng Chen, Xin Huang
   IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing

   
   
5. 
   

   VLDBJ

   
   

   I/O-efficient algorithms for top-k nearest keyword search in massive graphs
   Qiankun Zhu, Hong Cheng, Xin Huang
   The VLDB Journal

   
   

         2016 and Before

1. 
   

   SIGMOD’16

   
   

   Truss decomposition of probabilistic graphs: Semantics and algorithms
   Xin Huang, Wei Lu, Laks VS Lakshmanan
   ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data

   
   

1. 
   

   PVLDB’15

   
   

   Approximate closest community search in networks
   Xin Huang, Laks VS Lakshmanan, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Hong Cheng
   Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

   
   

1. 
   

   ICDE’14

   
   

   Random-walk domination in large graphs
   Rong-Hua Li, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Xin Huang, Hong Cheng
   IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering

   
   
2. 
   

   SIGMOD’14

   
   

   Querying k-truss community in large and dynamic graphs
   Xin Huang, Hong Cheng, Lu Qin, Wentao Tian, Jeffrey Xu Yu
   ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data

   
   

1. 
   

   PVLDB’13

   
   

   Top-K structural diversity search in large networks
   Xin Huang, Hong Cheng, Rong-Hua Li, Lu Qin, Jeffrey Xu Yu
   Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

   
   

1. 
   

   CIKM’12

   
   

   Measuring robustness of complex networks under MVC attack
   Rong-Hua Li, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Xin Huang, Hong Cheng, Zechao Shang
   ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

   
   
2. 
   

   SDM’12

   
   

   Robust reputation-based ranking on bipartite rating networks
   Rong-Hua Li, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Xin Huang, Hong Cheng
   SIAM International Conference on Data Mining

   
   
3. 
   

   DASFAA’12

   
   

   Semi-supervised clustering of graph objects: a subgraph mining approach
   Xin Huang, Hong Cheng, Jiong Yang, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Hongliang Fei, Jun Huan
   International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications

   
   

1. 
   

   Data Eng. Bull.

   
   

   Attributed Community Analysis: Global and Ego-centric Views
   Xin Huang, Hong Cheng, Jeffrey Xu Yu
   IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin

   
   
2. 
   

   VLDBJ

   
   

   Top-k structural diversity search in large networks
   Xin Huang, Hong Cheng, Rong-Hua Li, Lu Qin, Jeffrey Xu Yu
   The VLDB Journal

   
   
3. 
   

   Inf. Sci.

   
   

   Dense community detection in multi-valued attributed networks
   Xin Huang, Hong Cheng, Jeffrey Xu Yu
   Information Sciences

   
   
4. 
   

   Inf. Sci.

   
   

   Measuring the impact of MVC attack in large complex networks
   Rong-Hua Li, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Xin Huang, Hong Cheng, Zechao Shang
   Information Sciences

   
   
5. 
   

   DMKD

   
   

   Clustering large attributed information networks: an efficient incremental computing approach
   Hong Cheng, Yang Zhou, Xin Huang, Jeffrey Xu Yu
   Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

   
   

My research projects are generously supported by UGC, RGC, NSFC, and HKBU.