Yuanshun Yao

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Yuanshun Yao is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuanshun Yao has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 3 papers in Signal Processing and 2 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Yuanshun Yao's work include Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning (4 papers), Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications (3 papers) and Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies (2 papers). Yuanshun Yao is often cited by papers focused on Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning (4 papers), Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications (3 papers) and Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies (2 papers). Yuanshun Yao collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Yuanshun Yao's co-authors include Ben Y. Zhao, Hai-Tao Zheng, Huiying Li, Bimal Viswanath, Bolun Wang, Shawn Shan, Haitao Zheng, Yanzi Zhu, Zhijing Li and Ana Nika and has published in prestigious journals such as USENIX Security Symposium, arXiv (Cornell University) and Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

In The Last Decade

Yuanshun Yao

10 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Neural Cleanse: Identifying and Mitigating Backdoor Attacks in Neural Networks

2019 680 citations Bolun Wang, Yuanshun Yao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yuanshun Yao United States	8	927	317	238	190	126	11	1.1k
Kevin Eykholt United States	6	908 1.0×	316 1.0×	215 0.9×	130 0.7×	102 0.8×	12	1.1k
Yingqi Liu United States	16	1.3k 1.5×	463 1.5×	348 1.5×	228 1.2×	136 1.1×	30	1.6k
Nicholas Carlini United States	15	1.6k 1.7×	566 1.8×	357 1.5×	203 1.1×	190 1.5×	34	1.8k
Yousra Aafer United States	14	919 1.0×	516 1.6×	204 0.9×	263 1.4×	215 1.7×	25	1.2k
Derui Wang Australia	8	539 0.6×	323 1.0×	145 0.6×	239 1.3×	114 0.9×	29	770
Hyunsoo Yoon South Korea	15	404 0.4×	164 0.5×	144 0.6×	239 1.3×	123 1.0×	63	692
Tianyu Gu China	9	570 0.6×	171 0.5×	302 1.3×	97 0.5×	46 0.4×	20	898
Kang Liu China	10	652 0.7×	181 0.6×	198 0.8×	127 0.7×	49 0.4×	34	841
Abbas Acar United States	11	667 0.7×	160 0.5×	161 0.7×	253 1.3×	327 2.6×	26	1.0k
Shengshan Hu China	19	878 0.9×	146 0.5×	305 1.3×	155 0.8×	367 2.9×	61	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Yuanshun Yao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yuanshun Yao

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yuanshun Yao. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yuanshun Yao. The network helps show where Yuanshun Yao may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuanshun Yao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yuanshun Yao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yuanshun Yao based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Yuanshun Yao. Yuanshun Yao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

1.

Yao, Yuanshun, et al.. (2024). Large Language Model Unlearning. 105425–105475.

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Sun, Jiankai, et al.. (2023). DPAUC: Differentially Private AUC Computation in Federated Learning. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 37(12). 15170–15178. 3 indexed citations

3.

Yao, Yuanshun, et al.. (2023). "My face, my rules": Enabling Personalized Protection Against Unacceptable Face Editing. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. 2023(3). 252–267. 2 indexed citations

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Yao, Yuanshun, et al.. (2020). Backdoor Attacks on Facial Recognition in the Physical World. arXiv (Cornell University). 15 indexed citations

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Yao, Yuanshun, Huiying Li, Hai-Tao Zheng, & Ben Y. Zhao. (2019). Latent Backdoor Attacks on Deep Neural Networks. 2041–2055. 195 indexed citations

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Wang, Bolun, Yuanshun Yao, Shawn Shan, et al.. (2019). Neural Cleanse: Identifying and Mitigating Backdoor Attacks in Neural Networks. 707–723. 680 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Bolun, Yuanshun Yao, Bimal Viswanath, Hai-Tao Zheng, & Ben Y. Zhao. (2018). With Great Training Comes Great Vulnerability: Practical Attacks against Transfer Learning. USENIX Security Symposium. 1281–1297. 44 indexed citations

8.

Zhu, Yanzi, Yuanshun Yao, Ben Y. Zhao, & Haitao Zheng. (2017). Object Recognition and Navigation using a Single Networking Device. 265–277. 36 indexed citations

9.

Yao, Yuanshun, et al.. (2017). Automated Crowdturfing Attacks and Defenses in Online Review Systems. 1143–1158. 90 indexed citations

10.

Li, Zhijing, Ana Nika, Xinyi Zhang, et al.. (2017). Identifying Value in Crowdsourced Wireless Signal Measurements. 607–616. 25 indexed citations

11.

Yao, Yuanshun, et al.. (2017). Complexity vs. performance. 384–397. 55 indexed citations

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