Yiluo Wei

Yiluo Wei

PhD Candidate at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

Preprints

Even More Kawaii than Real-Person-Driven VTubers? Understanding How Viewers Perceive AI-Driven VTubers

  • Yiluo Wei, Yupeng He, Gareth Tyson
  • arXiv Preprint
  • [PDF]

Publications

Understanding the Consequences of VTuber Reincarnation

  • Yiluo Wei, Gareth Tyson
  • WWW '26: The ACM Web Conference 2026 (Web4Good)
  • [PDF]

Benchmarking and Understanding Safety Risks in AI Character Platforms

  • Yiluo Wei, Peixian Zhang, Gareth Tyson
  • NDSS '26: The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium 2026
  • [PDF]

An Empirical Analysis of the Nostr Social Network: Decentralization, Availability, and Replication Overhead

  • Yiluo Wei, Gareth Tyson
  • CoNEXT '25: The 21st International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies
  • [PDF]

Understanding Fanchuan in Livestreaming Platforms: A New Form of Online Antisocial Behavior

  • Yiluo Wei, Jiahui He, Gareth Tyson
  • CSCW '25: The 28th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing
  • [PDF]

Virtual Stars, Real Fans: Understanding the VTuber Ecosystem

  • Yiluo Wei, Gareth Tyson
  • WWW '25: The ACM Web Conference 2025
  • [PDF]

Understanding the Impact of AI Generated Content on Social Media: The Pixiv Case

  • Yiluo Wei, Gareth Tyson
  • MM '24: The 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia
  • [PDF]

Exploring the Use of Abusive Generative AI Models on Civitai

  • Yiluo Wei, Yiming Zhu, Pan Hui, Gareth Tyson
  • MM '24: The 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia
  • [PDF]

The Eternal Tussle: Exploring the Role of Centralization in IPFS

  • Yiluo Wei, Dennis Trautwein, Yiannis Psaras, Ignacio Castro, Will Scott, Aravindh Raman, Gareth Tyson
  • NSDI '24: The 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
  • [PDF]

IPFS in the Fast Lane: Accelerating Record Storage with Optimistic Provide

  • Dennis Trautwein, Yiluo Wei, Yiannis Psaras, Moritz Schubotz, Ignacio Castro, Bela Gipp, Gareth Tyson
  • INFOCOM '24: The 43rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications
  • [PDF]

Guardians of the Galaxy: Content Moderation in the InterPlanetary File System

  • Saidu Sokoto, Leonhard Balduf, Dennis Trautwein, Yiluo Wei, Gareth Tyson, Ignacio Castro, Onur Ascigil, George Pavlou, Maciej Korczynski, Björn Scheuermann, Michał Król
  • USENIX Security '24: The 33rd USENIX Security Symposium
  • [PDF]