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# ACM Computing Surveys 2021: all accepted papers

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1. **[A Survey on Bias and Fairness in Machine Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mehrabi-2019-survey-bias-fairness-machine-learning/)**Ninareh Mehrabi, Fred Morstatter, Nripsuta Ani Saxena et al.*5,442 citations · our summary*
2. **[Deep Learning for Anomaly Detection ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3439950)**Guansong Pang, Chunhua Shen, Longbing Cao et al.*2,799 citations*
3. **[Knowledge Graphs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hogan-2020-knowledge-graphs/)**Aidan Hogan, Eva Blomqvist, Michael Cochez et al.*1,904 citations · our summary*
4. **[Deep Learning — based Text Classification ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3439726)**Shervin Minaee, Nal Kalchbrenner, Erik Cambria et al.*1,538 citations*
5. **[A Survey of Deep Active Learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3472291)**Pengzhen Ren, Yun Xiao, Xiaojun Chang et al.*1,124 citations*
6. **[A Review on Outlier/Anomaly Detection in Time Series Data ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3444690)**Ane Blázquez-García, Ángel Conde, Usue Mori et al.*1,085 citations*
7. **[k-Nearest Neighbour Classifiers - A Tutorial ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3459665)**Pádraig Cunningham, Sarah Jane Delany*942 citations*
8. **[The Creation and Detection of Deepfakes ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3425780)**Yisroel Mirsky, Wenke Lee*795 citations*
9. **[A Survey on Blockchain Interoperability: Past, Present, and Future Trends ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3471140)**Rafael Belchior, André Vasconcelos, Sérgio Luís Proença Duarte Guerreiro et al.*757 citations*
10. **[Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3446374)**Divya Saxena, Jiannong Cao*689 citations*
11. **[A Comprehensive Survey of Privacy-preserving Federated Learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3460427)**Xuefei Yin, Yanming Zhu, Jiankun Hu*631 citations*
12. **[Reinforcement Learning in Healthcare: A Survey ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3477600)**Chao Yu, Jiming Liu, Shamim Nemati et al.*628 citations*
13. **[A Comprehensive Survey of Neural Architecture Search ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3447582)**Pengzhen Ren, Yun Xiao, Xiaojun Chang et al.*590 citations*
14. **[A Survey on Session-based Recommender Systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3465401)**Shoujin Wang, Longbing Cao, Yan Wang et al.*570 citations*
15. **[Principal Component Analysis ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3447755)**Felipe Lucas Gewers, Gustavo R. Ferreira, Henrique Ferraz de Arruda et al.*508 citations*
16. **[Deep Learning for Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3447744)**Kaixuan Chen, Dalin Zhang, Lina Yao et al.*491 citations*
17. **[Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3453160)**Shubham Pateria, Budhitama Subagdja, Ah‐Hwee Tan et al.*461 citations*
18. **[When Machine Learning Meets Privacy ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3436755)**Bo Liu, Ming Ding, Sina Shaham et al.*450 citations*
19. **[A Survey on Conversational Recommender Systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3453154)**Dietmar Jannach, Ahtsham Manzoor, Wanling Cai et al.*430 citations*
20. **[Machine Learning at the Network Edge: A Survey ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3469029)**M. G. Sarwar Murshed, Christopher Murphy, Daqing Hou et al.*402 citations*
21. **[Evolutionary Large-Scale Multi-Objective Optimization: A Survey ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3470971)**Ye Tian, Langchun Si, Xingyi Zhang et al.*401 citations*
22. **[Deep Learning for Medical Anomaly Detection – A Survey ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3464423)**Tharindu Fernando, Harshala Gammulle, Simon Denman et al.*399 citations*
23. **[Generative Adversarial Networks ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3459992)**Zhipeng Cai, Zuobin Xiong, Honghui Xu et al.*377 citations*
24. **[A Survey on Generative Adversarial Networks: Variants, Applications, and Training ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3463475)**Abdul Jabbar, Xi Li, Bourahla Omar*360 citations*
25. **[A Survey on Automated Log Analysis for Reliability Engineering ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3460345)**Shilin He, Pinjia He, Zhuangbin Chen et al.*329 citations*
26. **[Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3444689)**Liping Zhao, Waad Alhoshan, Alessio Ferrari et al.*322 citations*
27. **[The Hypervolume Indicator ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3453474)**Andreia P. Guerreiro, Carlos M. Fonseca, Luís Paquete*314 citations*
28. **[Evolution of Semantic Similarity—A Survey ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3440755)**Dhivya Chandrasekaran, Vijay Mago*303 citations*
29. **[AutoML to Date and Beyond: Challenges and Opportunities ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3470918)**Shubhra Kanti Karmaker, Md. Mahadi Hassan, Micah J. Smith et al.*292 citations*
30. **[Adversarial Machine Learning Attacks and Defense Methods in the Cyber Security Domain ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3453158)**Ishai Rosenberg, Asaf Shabtai, Yuval Elovici et al.*291 citations*
31. **[Computing Graph Neural Networks: A Survey from Algorithms to Accelerators ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3477141)**Sergi Abadal, Akshay Jain, Robert Guirado et al.*285 citations*
32. **[A Survey on Encrypted Network Traffic Analysis Applications, Techniques, and Countermeasures ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3457904)**Eva Papadogiannaki, Sotiris Ioannidis*281 citations*
33. **[Survey of Post-OCR Processing Approaches ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3453476)**Thi Tuyet Haï Nguyen, Adam Jatowt, Mickaël Coustaty et al.*280 citations*
34. **[A Survey on Deep Learning for Human Activity Recognition ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3472290)**Fuqiang Gu, Mu-Huan Chung, Mark Chignell et al.*272 citations*
35. **[Topic Modeling Using Latent Dirichlet allocation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3462478)**Uttam Chauhan, Apurva Shah*270 citations*
36. **[Deep Learning-based Anomaly Detection in Cyber-physical Systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3453155)**Yuan Luo, Ya Xiao, Long Cheng et al.*268 citations*
37. **[A Survey on Trajectory Data Management, Analytics, and Learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3440207)**Sheng Wang, Zhifeng Bao, J. Shane Culpepper et al.*267 citations*
38. **[Generative Adversarial Networks in Computer Vision ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3439723)**Zhengwei Wang, Qi She, Tomas Emmanuel Ward*265 citations*
39. **[A Survey of Information Cascade Analysis ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3433000)**Fan Zhou, Xovee Xu, Goce Trajcevski et al.*259 citations*
40. **[Screen Content Quality Assessment: Overview, Benchmark, and Beyond ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3470970)**Xiongkuo Min, Ke Gu, Guangtao Zhai et al.*246 citations*
41. **[Voice in Human–Agent Interaction ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3386867)**Katie Seaborn, Norihisa Miyake, Peter Pennefather et al.*245 citations*
42. **[Assuring the Machine Learning Lifecycle ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3453444)**Rob Ashmore, Radu Călinescu, Colin Paterson*244 citations*
43. **[Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3445965)**Zara Nasar, Syed Waqar Jaffry, Muhammad Kamran Malik*242 citations*
44. **[A Survey of Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Dynamically Varying Environments ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3459991)**Sindhu Padakandla*237 citations*
45. **[A Survey of Smart Contract Formal Specification and Verification ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3464421)**Palina Tolmach, Yi Li, Shang‐Wei Lin et al.*236 citations*
46. **[A Comprehensive Survey on Interoperability for IIoT: Taxonomy, Standards, and Future Directions ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3485130)**Abhishek Hazra, Mainak Adhikari, Tarachand Amgoth et al.*233 citations*
47. **[Cyberattacks and Countermeasures for In-Vehicle Networks ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3431233)**Emad Aliwa, OMER F. RANA, Charith Perera et al.*224 citations*
48. **[A Survey on Deep Learning for Software Engineering ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3505243)**Yanming Yang, Xin Xia, David Lo et al.*219 citations*
49. **[Evolutionary Machine Learning: A Survey ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3467477)**Akbar Telikani, Amirhessam Tahmassebi, Wolfgang Banzhaf et al.*219 citations*
50. **[PLS-SEM for Software Engineering Research ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3447580)**Daniel Russo, Klaas-Jan Stol*219 citations*
51. **[A Survey on Adversarial Recommender Systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3439729)**Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia, Felice Antonio Merra*204 citations*
52. **[Text Recognition in the Wild ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3440756)**Xiaoxue Chen, Lianwen Jin, Yuanzhi Zhu et al.*202 citations*
53. **[A Systematic Literature Review on Federated Machine Learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3450288)**Sin Kit Lo, Qinghua Lu, Chen Wang et al.*199 citations*
54. **[Location Privacy-preserving Mechanisms in Location-based Services ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3423165)**Hongbo Jiang, Jie Li, Ping Zhao et al.*199 citations*
55. **[Artificial Intelligence Security: Threats and Countermeasures ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3487890)**Yupeng Hu, Wenxin Kuang, Zheng Qin et al.*194 citations*
56. **[A Survey on Data-driven Network Intrusion Detection ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3472753)**Dylan Chou, Meng Jiang*189 citations*
57. **[Adversarial Machine Learning in Image Classification: A Survey Toward the Defender’s Perspective ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3485133)**Gabriel Resende Machado, Eugênio Silva, Ronaldo Ribeiro Goldschmidt*180 citations*
58. **[A Survey on Embedding Dynamic Graphs ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3483595)**Claudio D. T. Barros, Matheus R. F. Mendonça, Alex Borges Vieira et al.*174 citations*
59. **[Machine Learning into Metaheuristics ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3459664)**El‐Ghazali Talbi*168 citations*
60. **[A Survey on Aspect-Based Sentiment Classification ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3503044)**Gianni Brauwers, Flavius Frăsincar*160 citations*
61. **[Fashion Meets Computer Vision ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3447239)**Wen-Huang Cheng, Sijie Song, Chieh-Yun Chen et al.*158 citations*
62. **[A Survey of Binary Code Similarity ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3446371)**Irfan Ul Haq, Juan Caballero*154 citations*
63. **[Vehicular Edge Computing: Architecture, Resource Management, Security, and Challenges ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3485129)**Rodolfo I. Meneguette, Robson E. De Grande, Jó Ueyama et al.*154 citations*
64. **[Towards Indistinguishable Augmented Reality ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3453157)**Yuta Itoh, Tobias Langlotz, Jonathan Sutton et al.*152 citations*
65. **[Deep Learning-based Face Super-resolution: A Survey ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3485132)**Junjun Jiang, Chenyang Wang, Xianming Liu et al.*149 citations*
66. **[Human Factors in Phishing Attacks: A Systematic Literature Review ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3469886)**Giuseppe Desolda, Lauren Stacey Ferro, Andrea Marrella et al.*148 citations*
67. **[A Survey on Subgraph Counting ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3433652)**Pedro Ribeiro, Pedro Paredes, Miguel Silva et al.*146 citations*
68. **[Ransomware Mitigation in the Modern Era: A Comprehensive Review, Research Challenges, and Future Directions ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3479393)**Timothy R. McIntosh, A. S. M. Kayes, Yi‐Ping Phoebe Chen et al.*145 citations*
69. **[A Survey of State-of-the-Art on Blockchains ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3441692)**Huawei Huang, Wei Kong, Sicong Zhou et al.*141 citations*
70. **[A Survey on Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Fighting Against COVID-19 ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3465398)**Jianguo Chen, Keqin Li, Zhaolei Zhang et al.*135 citations*
71. **[Benchmarking Quantum Computers and the Impact of Quantum Noise ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3464420)**Salonik Resch, Ulya R. Karpuzcu*131 citations*
72. **[Event Prediction in the Big Data Era ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3450287)**Liang Zhao*130 citations*
73. **[The Programmable Data Plane ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3447868)**Oliver Michel, Roberto Bifulco, Gábor Rétvári et al.*130 citations*
74. **[Object Detection Using Deep Learning Methods in Traffic Scenarios ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3434398)**Azzedine Boukerche, Zhijun Hou*129 citations*
75. **[A Systematic Review of Multimedia Tools for Cybersecurity Awareness and Education ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3427920)**Leah Zhang-Kennedy, Sonia Chiasson*128 citations*
76. **[Machine Learning–based Cyber Attacks Targeting on Controlled Information ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3465171)**Yuantian Miao, Chao Chen, Lei Pan et al.*126 citations*
77. **[Security Vulnerabilities of SGX and Countermeasures ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3456631)**Shufan Fei, Zheng Yan, Wenxiu Ding et al.*121 citations*
78. **[A Survey of Microarchitectural Side-channel Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Defenses in Cryptography ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3456629)**Xiaoxuan Lou, Tianwei Zhang, Jun Jiang et al.*119 citations*
79. **[Self-calibration and Collaborative Localization for UWB Positioning Systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3448303)**Matteo Ridolfi, Abdil Kaya, Rafael Berkvens et al.*119 citations*
80. **[A Survey on Concept Drift in Process Mining ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3472752)**Denise Maria Vecino Sato, Sheila Cristiana de Freitas, Jean Paul Barddal et al.*118 citations*
81. **[Community Detection in Multiplex Networks ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3444688)**Matteo Magnani, Obaida Hanteer, Roberto Interdonato et al.*117 citations*
82. **[Measuring Presence in Virtual Environments: A Survey ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3466817)**Vinícius Costa de Souza, Anderson Maciel, Luciana Nedel et al.*114 citations*
83. **[A Survey on Uncertainty Estimation in Deep Learning Classification Systems from a Bayesian Perspective ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3477140)**José Mena, Oriol Pujol, Jordi M. Vitria*111 citations*
84. **[Coordination of Autonomous Vehicles ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3431231)**Stefano Mariani, Giacomo Cabri, Franco Zambonelli*111 citations*
85. **[A Survey of Unsupervised Generative Models for Exploratory Data Analysis and Representation Learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3450963)**Mohanad Abukmeil, Stefano Ferrari, Angelo Genovese et al.*109 citations*
86. **[Computer Vision for Autonomous UAV Flight Safety: An Overview and a Vision-based Safe Landing Pipeline Example ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3472288)**Efstratios Kakaletsis, Charalampos Symeonidis, Maria Tzelepi et al.*106 citations*
87. **[A Survey of Network-on-Chip Security Attacks and Countermeasures ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3450964)**Subodha Charles, Prabhat Mishra*103 citations*
88. **[A Survey on Document-level Neural Machine Translation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3441691)**Sameen Maruf, Fahimeh Saleh, Gholamreza Haffari*103 citations*
89. **[Affective Automotive User Interfaces–Reviewing the State of Driver Affect Research and Emotion Regulation in the Car ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3460938)**Michael Braun, Florian Weber, Florian Alt*103 citations*
90. **[Decentralised Learning in Federated Deployment Environments ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3429252)**Paolo Bellavista, Luca Foschini, Alessio Mora*99 citations*
91. **[A Survey on Haptic Technologies for Mobile Augmented Reality ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3465396)**Carlos Bermejo, Pan Hui*98 citations*
92. **[A Systematic Review of API Evolution Literature ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3470133)**Maxime Lamothe, Yann‐Gaël Guéhéneuc, Weiyi Shang*98 citations*
93. **[The Application of the Blockchain Technology in Voting Systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3439725)**Jun Huang, Debiao He, Mohammad S. Obaidat et al.*98 citations*
94. **[Security in Brain-Computer Interfaces ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3427376)**Sergio López Bernal, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, Gregorio Martínez Pérez et al.*96 citations*
95. **[A Guideline on Pseudorandom Number Generation (PRNG) in the IoT ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3453159)**Peter Kietzmann, Thomas C. Schmidt, Matthias Wählisch*95 citations*
96. **[Automated Text Simplification ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3442695)**Suha S. Al-Thanyyan, Aqil M. Azmi*93 citations*
97. **[Survey on Blockchain Networking ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3453161)**Maya Dotan, Yvonne-Anne Pignolet, Stefan Schmid et al.*93 citations*
98. **[A Survey on End-User Robot Programming ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3466819)**Gopika Ajaykumar, Maureen Steele, Chien-Ming Huang*91 citations*
99. **[Hardware Information Flow Tracking ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3447867)**Wei Hu, Armaiti Ardeshiricham, Ryan Kastner*90 citations*
100. **[Ultrasound Medical Imaging Techniques ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3447243)**Danilo Avola, Luigi Cinque, Alessio Fagioli et al.*90 citations*

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