Publications | Yaowei Hu

2026

TMLR

Causally Fair Node Classification on Non-IID Graph Data

Yucong Dai, Lu Zhang, Yaowei Hu, and 2 more authors

Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2026

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@article{dai2026causally,
  title = {Causally Fair Node Classification on Non-IID Graph Data},
  author = {Dai, Yucong and Zhang, Lu and Hu, Yaowei and Gauch, Susan and Wu, Yongkai},
  journal = {Transactions on Machine Learning Research},
  year = {2026},
}

2025

BigData

A Hybrid Large Vision Model Powered GUI Agent for Walmart Myassistant Application

Qixin Wang, Puneet Girdhar, Yaowei Hu, and 16 more authors

In IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), 2025

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@inproceedings{wang2025hybrid,
  title = {A Hybrid Large Vision Model Powered GUI Agent for Walmart Myassistant Application},
  author = {Wang, Qixin and Girdhar, Puneet and Hu, Yaowei and Wang, Dawei and Wang, Yifan and Devella, Chaitanya and Dwivedi, Ayush and Guo, Wenlai and Liu, Terrence and Dogra, Manmohan and Chen, Kun and Zheng, Yu and Huang, Shangwen and Pandey, Swati and Mirani, Balram and Pokharel, Diwash and Hayworth, Greg and Li, Han and Wu, Xintao},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData)},
  pages = {2669--2672},
  year = {2025},
}

IAAI

AdaptJobRec: Enhancing Conversational Career Recommendation through an LLM-Powered Agentic System

Qixin Wang, Dawei Wang, Kun Chen, and 11 more authors

In Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, 2025

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@inproceedings{wang2025adapt,
  title = {AdaptJobRec: Enhancing Conversational Career Recommendation through an LLM-Powered Agentic System},
  author = {Wang, Qixin and Wang, Dawei and Chen, Kun and Hu, Yaowei and Girdhar, Puneet and Wang, Ruoteng and Gupta, Aadesh and Devella, Chaitanya and Guo, Wenlai and Huang, Shangwen and Aoun, Bachir and Hayworth, Greg and Li, Han and Wu, Xintao},
  booktitle = {Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference},
  volume = {40},
  number = {47},
  pages = {40473--40479},
  year = {2025},
}

2024

IJCNN

Fair Weak-Supervised Learning: A Multiple-Instance Learning Approach

Yucong Dai, Xiangyu Jiang, Yaowei Hu, and 2 more authors

In IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2024

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@inproceedings{dai2024fair,
  title = {Fair Weak-Supervised Learning: A Multiple-Instance Learning Approach},
  author = {Dai, Yucong and Jiang, Xiangyu and Hu, Yaowei and Zhang, Lu and Wu, Yongkai},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks},
  pages = {1--7},
  year = {2024},
}

AAAI

Long-term Fair Decision Making Through Deep Generative Models

Yaowei Hu, Yongkai Wu, and Lu Zhang

In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024

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@inproceedings{hu2024long,
  title = {Long-term Fair Decision Making Through Deep Generative Models},
  author = {Hu, Yaowei and Wu, Yongkai and Zhang, Lu},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  volume = {38},
  number = {20},
  pages = {22114-22122},
  year = {2024},
}

2023

Dissertation

Towards Long-term Fairness in Sequential Decision Making

Yaowei Hu

In University of Arkansas, 2023

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@inproceedings{hu2023towards,
  title = {Towards Long-term Fairness in Sequential Decision Making},
  author = {Hu, Yaowei},
  booktitle = {University of Arkansas},
  year = {2023},
}

Big Data

Striking a Balance in Fairness for Dynamic Systems Through Reinforcement Learning

Yaowei Hu, Jacob Lear, and Lu Zhang

In IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), 2023

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@inproceedings{hu2023striking,
  title = {Striking a Balance in Fairness for Dynamic Systems Through Reinforcement Learning},
  author = {Hu, Yaowei and Lear, Jacob and Zhang, Lu},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData)},
  year = {2023},
  pages = {662--671},
}

2022

AAAIOral

Achieving Long-term Fairness in Sequential Decision Making

Yaowei Hu, and Lu Zhang

In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022

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@inproceedings{hu2022achieving,
  title = {Achieving Long-term Fairness in Sequential Decision Making},
  author = {Hu, Yaowei and Zhang, Lu},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  volume = {36},
  number = {9},
  pages = {9549--9557},
  year = {2022},
}

2021

AAAI

A Generative Adversarial Framework for Bounding Confounded Causal Effects

Yaowei Hu, Yongkai Wu, Lu Zhang, and 1 more author

In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021

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@inproceedings{hu2021generative,
  title = {A Generative Adversarial Framework for Bounding Confounded Causal Effects},
  author = {Hu, Yaowei and Wu, Yongkai and Zhang, Lu and Wu, Xintao},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  volume = {35},
  number = {13},
  pages = {12104--12112},
  year = {2021},
}

2020

NeurIPS

Fair Multiple Decision Making Through Soft Interventions

Yaowei Hu, Yongkai Wu, Lu Zhang, and 1 more author

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2020

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@article{hu2020fair,
  title = {Fair Multiple Decision Making Through Soft Interventions},
  author = {Hu, Yaowei and Wu, Yongkai and Zhang, Lu and Wu, Xintao},
  journal = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  volume = {33},
  pages = {17965--17975},
  year = {2020},
}

2018

Journal

Biological sequence classification algorithm based on density-aware patterns

Yaowei Hu, Lei Duan, Ling Li, and 1 more author

Journal of Computer Applications, 2018

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@article{hu2018biological,
  title = {Biological sequence classification algorithm based on density-aware patterns},
  author = {Hu, Yaowei and Duan, Lei and Li, Ling and Han, Chao},
  journal = {Journal of Computer Applications},
  year = {2018},
  volume = {38},
  number = {2},
  eid = {427},
  pages = {427-432}
}