Linan Yue (岳立楠) PhD candidate Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Big Data Analysis and Application University of Science and Technology of China State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence Anhui Province, Hefei City China Email: lnyue@mail.ustc.edu.cn Links: Google Scholar, Code, CV

Biography

I am a Ph.D. student at the School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and a member of the Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Big Data Analysis and Application. My supervisor is Prof Qi Liu. I received my Bachelor degree from HeHai University in July, 2019, and majored in Computer Science and minored in Law.

My research interests include Natural Language Processing, Trustworthy AI and AI for Social Science.

I am on the job market in the above mentioned research area, please contact me if you are interested in me.

Selected Publications (* Corresponding Author)

Trustworthy AI:
• Federated Self-Explaining GNNs with Anti-shortcut Augmentations.
  Linan Yue, Qi Liu*, Weibo Gao, Ye Liu, Kai Zhang, Yichao Du, Li Wang, Fangzhou Yao
  The Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024.
  

• Cooperative Classification and Rationalization for Graph Generalization. [Code]
  Linan Yue, Qi Liu*, Ye Liu, Weibo Gao, Fangzhou Yao, Wenfeng Li
  The Web Conference 2024 (WWW), 2024.
  

• Towards Faithful Explanations: Boosting Rationalization with Shortcuts Discovery. [Code]
  Linan Yue, Qi Liu*, Yichao Du, Li Wang, Weibo Gao, Yanqing An
  The twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024.
  

• Interventional Rationalization. [Code]
  Linan Yue, Qi Liu*, Li Wang, Yanqing An, Yichao Du, Zhenya Huang
  The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2023.
  

• DARE: Disentanglement-Augmented Rationale Extraction. [Code]
  Linan Yue, Qi Liu*, Yichao Du, Yanqing An, Li Wang, Enhong Chen
  The 36th Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS (Spotlight)), 2022.
  

• Learning from Shortcut: A Shortcut-guided Approach for Explainable Graph Learning.[Code]
  Linan Yue, Qi Liu*, Ye Liu, Weibo Gao, Fangzhou Yao
  Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS), 2024.
  

• Diagnosis then Aggregation: An Adaptive Ensemble strategy for Keyphrase Extraction.
  Xin Jin, Qi Liu*, Linan Yue, Ye Liu, Lili Zhao, Weibo Gao, Zheng Gong, Kai Zhang, Haoyang Bi
  The 3rd CAAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CICAI), 2023. Finalist of Best Paper Award (Top-3)
  

• COMI: COrrect and MItigate Shortcut Learning Behavior in Deep Neural Networks.
  Lili Zhao, Qi Liu*, Linan Yue, Wei Chen, Liyi Chen, Ruijun Sun and Chao Song.
  The 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (SIGIR), 2024.
  

• Towards Few-shot Self-explaining Graph Neural Networks.
  Jingyu Peng, Qi Liu*, Linan Yue, Zaixi Zhang, Kai Zhang, and Yunhao Sha.
  European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases 2024. (ECML-PKDD), 2024.
  

Natural Language Processing:
• FedJudge: Federated Legal Large Language Model. [Code]
  Linan Yue, Qi Liu*, Yichao Du, Weibo Gao, Ye Liu, Fangzhou Yao
  The International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications. (DASFAA(Oral)), 2024.
  

• Communication-Efficient Personalized Federated Learning for Speech-to-Text Tasks.
  Yichao Du, Zhirui Zhang, Linan Yue, Xu Huang, Yuqing Zhang, Tong Xu, Linli Xu, Enhong Chen
  2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024.
  

• Empowering Few-Shot Relation Extraction with The Integration of Traditional RE Methods and Large Language Models.
  Ye Liu, Kai Zhang, Ao-ran Gan, Linan Yue, Feng Hu, Qi Liu, Enhong Chen
  The International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications. (DASFAA), 2024.
  

• Keep Skills in Mind: Understanding and Implementing Skills in Commonsense Question Answering.
  Meikai Bao, Qi Liu*, Kai Zhang, Ye Liu, Linan Yue, Longfei li, Jun Zhou
  The 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2023.
  

• RHGH: Relation-gated Heterogeneous Graph Network for Entity Alignment in Knowledge Graphs.
Xukai Liu, Ye Liu, Enhong Chen, Zhenya Huang, Kai Zhang*, Linan Yue, Jiaxian Yan
Findings of the 61st annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Findings), 2023.
AI for Social Science (Law and Education):
• Denoising Programming Knowledge Tracing with a Code Graph-based Tuning Adaptor.
  Weibo Gao, Qi Liu*, Rui Li, Yuze Zhao, Hao Wang, Linan Yue, Fangzhou Yao, Zheng Zhang
  The 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. (KDD), 2025.
  

• Collaborative Cognitive Diagnosis with Disentangled Representation Learning.
  Weibo Gao, Qi Liu*, Linan Yue, Fangzhou Yao, Hao Wang, Yin Gu, Zheng Zhang
  The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. (NeurIPS), 2024.
  

• AdaRD: An Adaptive Response Denoising Framework for Robust Learner Modeling.
  Fangzhou Yao, Qi Liu*, Linan Yue, Weibo Gao, Jiatong Li, Xin Li, Yuanjing He
  The 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. (KDD), 2024.
  

• A Circumstance-aware Neural Framework for Explainable Legal Judgment Prediction.
  Linan Yue, Qi Liu*, Binbin Jin, Han Wu, and Yanqing An
  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. (IEEE TKDE), 2024.
  

• Event Grounded Criminal Court View Generation with Cooperative (Large) Language Models. [Code]
  Linan Yue, Qi Liu*, Lili Zhao, Li Wang, Weibo Gao and Yanqing An
  The 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (SIGIR), 2024.
  

• Post-Facts augmented Legal Judgment Prediction.
  Yanqing An, Linan Yue, Weibo Gao, Kai Zhang, Qi Liu
  The International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications. (DASFAA), 2024.
  

• Domain-level Zero-shot Cognitive Diagnosis via One Batch of Early-bird Students towards Three Diagnostic Objectives.
Weibo Gao, Qi Liu, Hao Wang, Linan Yue, Haoyang Bi, Yin Gu, Fangzhou Yao, Zheng Zhang, Xin Li, Yuanjing He
The 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024.
• Leveraging Transferable Knowledge Concept Graph Embedding for Cold-Start Cognitive Diagnosis.
Weibo Gao, Hao Wang, Qi Liu*, Fei Wang, Xin Lin, Linan Yue, Zheng Zhang, Rui Lv and Shijin Wang
The 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2023.

• CPEE: Civil Case Judgment Prediction centering on the Trial Mode of Essential Elements.[Code]
  
Lili Zhao, Linan Yue, Yanqing An, Yuren Zhang, Jun Yu, Qi Liu*, Enhong Chen,
The 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2022.

• NeurJudge: A Circumstance-aware Neural Framework for Legal Judgment Prediction.[Code]
  
Linan Yue, Qi Liu*, Binbin Jin, Han Wu, Kai Zhang, Yanqing An, Mingyue Cheng, Biao Yin, Dayong Wu
The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2021.

• Circumstances enhanced Criminal Court View Generation.[Code]
  
Linan Yue, Qi Liu*, Han Wu, Yanqing An, Li Wang, Senchao Yuan, Dayong Wu
The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2021.

• LawyerPAN: A Proficiency Assessment Network for Trial Lawyers.[Code]
  
Yanqing An, Qi Liu*, Han Wu, Kai Zhang, Linan Yue, Mingyue Cheng, Hongke Zhao, Enhong Chen
The 27th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2021.

• Legal Judgment Prediction with Multiple Perspectives on Civil Cases.
  
Lili Zhao, Linan Yue, Yanqing An, Ye Liu, Kai Zhang, Weidong He, Yanmin Chen, Qi Liu*
The 1st CAAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CICAI), 2021.

Honors & Awards

Special Prize of President Scholarship for Postgraduate Students, CAS, 2024.

Outstanding Student Award of Baosteel, 2024.

National Scholarship, 2024.

Great Reviews of ARR-Feb/ACL2024, 2024.

Outstanding Graduate of Anhui Province, 2024.

Outstanding Graduate of University of Science and Technology of China, 2024.

CICAI Finalist of Best Paper Award (Top-3), 2023.

NeurIPS Student Travel Award, 2022.

National Scholarship, 2021.

Academic Services

2023: TKDE, NeurIPS, SIGIR, WWW, IJCAI, ACL Rolling Review (ARR-Feb, ARR-Jun), EMNLP
2024: ICLR, ICML, IJCAI, SIGIR, CIKM, NeurIPS, ARR-Jun
2025: AAAI, WWW, ICLR, KDD, AISTATS