Weinan ZHANG 

Professor

Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

307 Yifu Building, 800 Dongchuan Road
Shanghai, 200240, China

Email: wnzhang [AT] sjtu.edu.cn

张伟楠博士现任上海交通大学计算机系教授、博士生导师、副系主任,科研领域包括强化学习和数据科学,相关研究成果在CCF-A类国际会议和期刊上发表100余篇学术论文,谷歌学术引用2万余次,爱思唯尔中国高被引学者,获得5个最佳论文奖项,出版教材《动手学强化学习》和《动手学机器学习》。张伟楠长期担任NeurIPS、ICML、ICLR、KDD等会议的领域主席和TPAMI、FCS等期刊的编委,作为负责人承担国家自然科学基金优秀青年项目和科技部2030新一代人工智能重大项目课题,入选中国科协青年人才托举工程和上海市科委英才扬帆计划,获得吴文俊人工智能优秀青年奖和达摩院青橙奖。张伟楠于2011年获得上海交通大学计算机系ACM班学士学位,于2016年获得伦敦大学学院计算机系博士学位。

Weinan Zhang is now a professor at the department of computer science and engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests include reinforcement learning and data science with various real-world applications of robotic control, game AI, recommender systems, etc. He has published over 200 research papers at prestigious international conferences and journals, accumulating over 20k citations on Google Scholar, been selected as Elsevier China Highly Cited Researcher. He has been serving as an area chair at ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, KDD, etc. and an associate editor at TPAMI and FCS. He was granted the ACM Rising Star Award 2017 and the Alibaba DAMO Young Scholar Award 2018. His research won five best paper awards at international conferences and workshops, including the Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at SIGIR 2017 and the Best System Paper Award at CoRL 2020. Weinan earned his Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department of University College London in 2016 and his B.E. from the ACM Honored Class of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2011.

Prospective Ph.D. students: I am looking for outstanding and highly motivated Ph.D. students to work together on large decision (action) models, AI agents, deep reinforcement learning, robot learning, and various data science topics. Please email me with your CV and transcripts.

Notices:

书籍出版


动手学机器学习
张伟楠、赵寒烨、俞勇
人民邮电出版社,2023
ISBN: 978-7115-61820-7

动手学强化学习
张伟楠、沈键、俞勇
人民邮电出版社,2022
ISBN: 978-7-115-58451-9

Teaching


link
Machine Learning
ACM Class, Zhiyuan College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2017-now

link
Reinforcement Learning
ACM Class, Zhiyuan College (and AI Class, SEIEE until 2022), Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2020-now

link
Big Data Mining
SEIEE, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2018-2020

Tutorials


link
3小时强化学习入门教程
Weinan Zhang
RLChina 2023, Nov. 2023.

link
Muti-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Jun Wang, Weinan Zhang
SJTU 2-day tutorial, Oct. 2018.

link
Generative Adversarial Nets for Information Retrieval: Fundamentals and Advances
Weinan Zhang
SIGIR 3-hour tutorial, Jul. 2018.

link
Learning, Prediction and Optimisation in RTB Display Advertising
Weinan Zhang, Jian Xu
CIKM, Oct. 2016.

pdf
Real-Time Bidding based Display Advertising: Mechanisms and Algorithms
Jun Wang, Shuai Yuan, Weinan Zhang
ECIR, Mar. 2016.

link
Paper Collection of Real-Time Bidding
Weinan Zhang
Github 2015.

Featured Open Source Projects


link
MALib: A Parallel Framework for Population-based Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
Ming Zhou, Ziyu Wan, Hanjing Wang, Muning Wen, Runzhe Wu, Ying Wen, Yaodong Yang, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang
2021.

link
SMARTS: Scalable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Training School for Autonomous Driving
Ming Zhou, Jun Luo, Julian Villela, Yaodong Yang, David Rusu, Jiayu Miao, Weinan Zhang et al.
CoRL 2020.

link
CityFlow: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Environment for Large Scale City Traffic Scenario
Huichu Zhang, Siyuan Feng, Chang Liu, Yaoyao Ding, Yichen Zhu, Zihan Zhou, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Haiming Jin, Zhenhui Li
Demo in WWW 2019.

link
MAgent: A Many-Agent Reinforcement Learning Platform for Artificial Collective Intelligence
Lianmin Zheng, Jiacheng Yang, Han Cai, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang, Yong Yu
Demos in NIPS 2017 & AAAI 2018.  

link
Texygen: A Benchmarking Platform for Text Generation Models
Yaoming Zhu, Sidi Lu, Lei Zheng, Jiaxian Guo, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang, Yong Yu
SIGIR 2018.  

link
SVDFeature: A Toolkit for Feature-based Collaborative Filtering
Tianqi Chen, Weinan Zhang, Qiuxia Lu, Kailong Chen, Zhao Zheng, Yong Yu
JMLR 2013.  

Paper Publications [Google Scholar]


pdf
DiffStitch: Boosting Offline Reinforcement Learning with Diffusion-based Trajectory Stitching
Guanghe Li, Yixiang Shan, Zhengbang Zhu, Ting Long, Weinan Zhang
ICML 2024.

pdf
AlphaZero-Like Tree-Search can Guide Large Language Model Decoding and Training
Ziyu Wan, Xidong Feng, Muning Wen, Stephen Marcus McAleer, Ying Wen, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang
ICML 2024.

pdf
TRAD: Enhancing LLM Agents with Step-Wise Thought Retrieval and Aligned Decision
Ruiwen Zhou, Yingxuan Yang, Muning Wen, Ying Wen, Wenhao Wang, Chunling Xi, Guoqiang Xu, Yong Yu, Weinan Zhang
SIGIR 2024.

pdf
RACon: Retrieval-Augmented Simulated Character Locomotion Control
Yuxuan Mu, Shihao Zou, Kangning Yin, Zheng Tian, Li Cheng, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang
ICME 2024.

pdf
ClickPrompt: CTR Models are Strong Prompt Generators for Adapting Language Models to CTR Prediction
Jianghao Lin, Bo Chen, Hangyu Wang, Yunjia Xi, Yanru Qu, Xinyi Dai, Kangning Zhang, Ruiming Tang, Yong Yu, Weinan Zhang
WWW 2024.

pdf
ReLLa: Retrieval-enhanced Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation
Jianghao Lin, Rong Shan, Chenxu Zhu, Kounianhua Du, Bo Chen, Shigang Quan, Ruiming Tang, Yong Yu, Weinan Zhang
WWW 2024.

pdf
M-scan: A Multi-Scenario Causal-driven Adaptive Network for Recommendation
Jiachen Zhu, Yichao Wang, Jianghao Lin, Jiarui Qin, Ruiming Tang, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
WWW 2024.

pdf
InfoRank: Unbiased Learning-to-Rank via Conditional Mutual Information Minimization
Jiarui Jin, Zexue He, Mengyue Yang, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Jun Wang, Julian McAuley
WWW 2024.

pdf
HiFI: Hierarchical Fairness-aware Integrated Ranking with Constrained Reinforcement Learning
Yifan Liu, Wei Xia, Weiwen Liu, Menghui Zhu, Weinan Zhang, Ruiming Tang, Yong Yu
WWW 2024.

pdf
Multi-sourced Integrated Ranking with Exposure Fairness
Yifan Liu, Weiwen Liu, Wei Xia, Jieming Zhu, Weinan Zhang, Zhenhua Dong, Yang Wang, Ruiming Tang, Rui Zhang, Yong Yu
PAKDD 2024.

pdf
Attacking Click-through Rate Predictors via Generating Realistic Fake Samples
Mingxing Duan, Kenli Li, Weinan Zhang, Jiarui Qin, Bin Xiao
TKDD 2024.

pdf
Vision-Language Foundation Models as Effective Robot Imitators
Xinghang Li, Minghuan Liu, Hanbo Zhang, Cunjun Yu, Jie Xu, Hongtao Wu, Chilam Cheang, Ya Jing, Weinan Zhang, Huaping Liu, Hang Li, Tao Kong
ICLR 2024.

pdf
ODICS: Revealing the Mystery of Distribution Correction Estimation via Orthogonal-gradient Update
Liyuan Mao, Haoran Xu, Weinan Zhang, Xianyuan Zhan
ICLR 2024.

pdf
An Empirical Study on Google Research Football Multi-agent Scenarios
Yan Song, He Jiang, Zheng Tian, Haifeng Zhang, Yingping Zhang, Jiangcheng Zhu, Zonghong Dai, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang
MIR 2024.

pdf
Boosting Studies of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning on Google Research Football Environment: the Past, Present, and Future
Yan Song, Jiang He, Haifeng Zhang, Zheng Tian, Weinan Zhang and Jun Wang
AAMAS 2024.

pdf
Understanding or Manipulation: Rethinking Online Performance Gains of Modern Recommender Systems
Zhengbang Zhu, Rongjun Qin, Junjie Huang, Xinyi Dai, Yang Yu, Yong Yu, Weinan Zhang
TOIS 2024.

pdf
K2: A Foundation Language Model for Geoscience Knowledge Understanding and Utilization
Cheng Deng, Tianhang Zhang, Zhongmou He, Qiyuan Chen, Yuanyuan Shi, Yi Xu, Luoyi Fu, Weinan Zhang, Xinbing Wang, Chenghu Zhou, Zhouhan Lin, Junxian He
WSDM 2024.

pdf
MALib: A Parallel Framework for Population-based Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
Ming Zhou, Ziyu Wan, Hanjng Wang, Muning Wen, Runzhe Wu, Ying Wen, Yaodong Yang, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Jun Wang
JMLR 2023.

pdf
Adaptation Augmented Model-based Policy Optimization
Jian Shen, Hang Lai, Minghuan Liu, Han Zhao, Yong Yu, Weinan Zhang
JMLR 2023.

pdf
Large Decision Models
Weinan Zhang
IJCAI 2023.

pdf
GEAR: A GPU-Centric Experience Replay System for Large Reinforcement Learning Models
Hanjing Wang, Man-Kit Sit, Congjie He, Ying Wen, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang, Yaodong Yang, Luo Mai
ICML 2023.

pdf
Learning to Retrieve User Behaviors for Click-Through Rate Estimation
Jiarui Qin, Weinan Zhang, Rong Su, Zhirong Liu, Weiwen Liu, Guangpeng Zhao, Hao Li, Ruiming Tang, Yong Yu
TOIS 2023.

pdf
Set-to-Sequence Ranking-based Concept-aware Learning Path Recommendation
Xianyu Chen, Jian Shen, Wei Xia, Jiarui Jin, Yakun Song, Weinan Zhang, Weiwen Liu, Menghui Zhu, Ruiming Tang, Kai Dong, Dingyin Xia, Yong Yu
AAAI 2023.

pdf
Learning Decomposed Spatial Relations for Multi-Variate Time-Series Modeling
Yuchen Fang, Kan Ren, Caihua Shan, Yifei Shen, You Li, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Dongsheng Li
AAAI 2023.

pdf
A survey on model-based reinforcement learning
Fan-Ming Luo, Tian Xu, Hang Lai, Xiong-Hui Chen, Weinan Zhang, Yang Yu
SCIS 2023.

pdf
A Feature-Based Coalition Game Framework with Privileged Knowledge Transfer for User-tag Profile Modeling
Xianghui Zhu, Peng Du, Shuo Shao, Chenxu Zhu, Weinan Zhang, Yang Wang, Yang Cao
KDD 2023.

pdf
On-device Integrated Re-ranking with Heterogeneous Behavior Modeling
Yunjia Xi, Weiwen Liu, Yang Wang, Ruiming Tang, Weinan Zhang, Yue Zhu, Rui Zhang, Yong Yu
KDD 2023.

pdf
Deep Landscape Forecasting in Multi-Slot Real-Time Bidding
Weitong Ou, Bo Chen, Yingxuan Yang, Xinyi Dai, Weiwen Liu, Weinan Zhang, Ruiming Tang, Yong Yu
KDD 2023.

pdf
Learning Multi-Agent Intention-Aware Communication for Optimal Multi-Order Execution in Finance
Yuchen Fang, Zhenggang Tang, Kan Ren, Weiqing Liu, Li Zhao, Jiang Bian, Dongsheng Li, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Tie-Yan Liu
KDD 2023.

pdf
Building Self-Adaptive Recommendation Models via Responsive Error Compensation Loop
Jieming Zhu, Guohao Cai, Junjie Huang, Zhenhua Dong, Ruiming Tang, Weinan Zhang
KDD 2023.

pdf
Dense Representation Learning and Retrieval for Tabular Data Prediction
Lei Zheng, Ning Li, Xianyu Chen, Quan Gan, Weinan Zhang
KDD 2023.

pdf
GMOCAT: A Graph-Enhanced Multi-Objective Method for Computerized Adaptive Testing
Hangyu Wang, Ting Long, Liang Yin, Weinan Zhang, Wei Xia, Qichen Hong, Dingyin Xia, Ruiming Tang, Yong Yu
KDD 2023.

pdf
MAP: A Model-agnostic Pretraining Framework for Click-through Rate Prediction
Jianghao Lin, Yanru Qu, Wei Guo, Xinyi Dai, Ruiming Tang, Yong Yu, Weinan Zhang
KDD 2023.

pdf
Specify Robust Causal Representation from Mixed Observations
Mengyue Yang, Xinyu Cai, Furui Liu, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang
KDD 2023.

pdf
Personalized Diversification for Neural Re-ranking in Recommendation
Weiwen Liu, Yunjia Xi, Jiarui Qin, Xinyi Dai, Ruiming Tang, Shuai Li, Weinan Zhang, Rui Zhang
ICDE 2023.

pdf
Order Matters: Agent-by-agent Policy Optimization
Xihuai Wang, Zheng Tian, Ziyu Wan, Ying Wen, Jun Wang, Weinan Zhang
ICLR 2023.

pdf
Visual Imitation Learning with Patch Rewards
Minghuan Liu, Tairan He, Weinan Zhang, Shuicheng YAN, Zhongwen Xu
ICLR 2023.

pdf
PerfectDou: Dominating DouDizhu with Perfect Information Distillation
Guan Yang, Minghuan Liu, Weijun Hong, Weinan Zhang, Fei Fang, Guangjun Zeng, Yue Lin
NeurIPS 2022.

pdf
Bootstrapped Transformer for Offline Reinforcement Learning
Kerong Wang, Hanye Zhao, Xufang Luo, Kan Ren, Weinan Zhang, Dongsheng Li
NeurIPS 2022.

pdf
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning is a Sequence Modeling Problem
Muning Wen, Jakub Grudzien Kuba, Runji Lin, Weinan Zhang, Ying Wen, Jun Wang, Yaodong Yang
NeurIPS 2022.

pdf
Reinforcement Learning with Automated Auxiliary Loss Search
Tairan He, Yuge Zhang, Kan Ren, Che Wang, Minghuan Liu, Weinan Zhang, Dongsheng Li, Yuqing Yang
NeurIPS 2022.

pdf
Learning Enhanced Representation for Tabular Data via Neighborhood Propagation
Kounianhua Du, Weinan Zhang, Ruiwen Zhou, Yangkun Wang, Xilong Zhao, Jiarui Jin, Quan Gan, Zheng Zhang, David Wipf
NeurIPS 2022.

pdf
NeoRL: A Near Real-World Benchmark for Offline Reinforcement Learning
Rong-Jun Qin, Xingyuan Zhang, Songyi Gao, Xiong-Hui Chen, Zewen Li, Weinan Zhang, Yang Yu
NeurIPS 2022. (Datasets and Benchmarks Track)

pdf
Honor of Kings Arena: an Environment for Generalization in Competitive Reinforcement Learning
Hua Wei, Jingxiao Chen, Xiyang Ji, Qin Hongyang, Minwen Deng, Siqin Li, Liang Wang, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Liu Linc, Lanxiao Huang, Deheng Ye, Qiang Fu, Yang Wei
NeurIPS 2022. (Datasets and Benchmarks Track)

pdf
Branch Ranking for Efficient Mixed-Integer Programming via Offline Ranking-based Policy Learning
Zeren Huang, Wenhao Chen, Weinan Zhang, Chuhan Shi, Furui Liu, Hui-Ling Zhen, Mingxuan Yuan, Jianye Hao, Yong Yu, Jun Wang
ECMLPKDD 2022.

pdf
Multi-Scale User Behavior Network for Entire Space Multi-Task Learning
Jiarui Jin, Xianyu Chen, Weinan Zhang, Yuanbo Chen, Zaifan Jiang, Zekun Zhu, Zhewen Su and Yong Yu
CIKM 2022.

pdf
Heterogeneous Graph Representation for Knowledge Tracing
Jisen Chen, Jian Shen, Ting Long, Liping Shen, Weinan Zhang and Yong Yu
ICONIP 2022.

pdf
Aggregating Intra-class and Inter-class information for Multi-label Text Classification
Xianze Wu, Dongyu Ru, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu and Ziming Feng
ICONIP 2022.

pdf
Retrieval-Based Gradient Boosting Decision Trees for Disease Risk Assessment
Handong Ma, Jiahang Cao, Yuchen Fang, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Wenbo Sheng, Shaodian Zhang
KDD 2022.

pdf
Combo-Fashion: Fashion Clothes Matching CTR Prediction with Item History
Chenxu Zhu, Peng Du, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Yang Cao
KDD 2022.

pdf
User-tag Profile Modeling in Recommendation System via Contrast Weighted Tag Masking
Chenxu Zhu, Peng Du, Xianghui Zhu, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Yang Cao
KDD 2022.

pdf
Geometer: Graph Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Prototype Representation
Bin Lu, Xiaoying Gan, Lina Yang, Weinan Zhang, Luoyi Fu, Xinbing Wang
KDD 2022.

pdf
Spatio-Temporal Graph Few-Shot Learning with Cross-City Knowledge Transfer
Bin Lu, Xiaoying Gan, Weinan Zhang, Huaxiu Yao, Luoyi Fu, Xinbing Wang
KDD 2022.

pdf
Plan Your Target and Learn Your Skills: Transferable State-Only Imitation Learning via Decoupled Policy Optimization
Minghuan Liu, Zhengbang Zhu, Yuzheng Zhuang, Weinan Zhang, Jianye Hao, Yong Yu, Jun Wang
ICML 2022.

pdf
Branch Ranking for Efficient Mixed-Integer Programming via Offline Ranking-based Policy Learning
Zeren Huang, Wenhao Chen, Weinan Zhang, Chuhan Shi, Furui Liu, Hui-Ling Zhen, Mingxuan Yuan, Jianye Hao, Yong Yu, Jun Wang
ECMLPKDD 2022.

pdf
Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning: Problems and Solutions
Minghuan Liu, Menghui Zhu, Weinan Zhang
IJCAI 2022 (Survey Track).

pdf
Neural Re-ranking in Multi-stage Recommender Systems: A Review
Weiwen Liu, Yunjia Xi, Jiarui Qin, Fei Sun, Bo Chen, Weinan Zhang, Rui Zhang, Ruiming Tang
IJCAI 2022 (Survey Track).

pdf
RankFlow: Joint Optimization of Multi-Stage Cascade Ranking Systems as Flows
Jiarui Qin, Jiachen Zhu, Bo Chen, Zhirong Liu, Weiwen Liu, Ruiming Tang, Rui Zhang, Yong Yu, Weinan Zhang
SIGIR 2022.

pdf
Multi-Level Interaction Reranking with User Behavior History
Yunjia Xi, Weiwen Liu, Jieming Zhu, Xilong Zhao, Xinyi Dai, Ruiming Tang, Rui Zhang, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
SIGIR 2022.

pdf
Nested Named Entity Recognition with Span-level Graphs
Juncheng Wan, Dongyu Ru, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
ACL 2022.

pdf
Promoting Quality and Diversity in Population-based Reinforcement Learning via Hierarchical Trajectory Space Exploration
Jiayu Miao, Tianze Zhou, Kun Shao, Ming Zhou, Weinan Zhang
ICRA 2022.

pdf
Inductive Relation Prediction Using Analogy Subgraph Embeddings
Jiarui Jin, Yangkun Wang, Kounianhua Du, Weinan Zhang, Zheng Zhang, David Wipf, Yong Yu, Quan Gan
ICLR 2022.

pdf
Why Propagate Alone? Parallel Use of Labels and Features on Graphs
Yangkun Wang, Jiarui Jin, Weinan Zhang, Yang Yongyi, Jiuhai Chen, Quan Gan, Yong Yu, Zheng Zhang, Zengfeng Huang, David Wipf
ICLR 2022.

pdf
Learn from Past, Evolve for Future: Search-based Time-aware Recommendation with Sequential Behavior Data
Jiarui Jin, Xianyu Chen, Weinan Zhang, Junjie Huang, Ziming Feng, Yong Yu
WWW 2022.

pdf
Who to Watch Next: Two-side Interactive Networks for Live Broadcast Recommendation
Jiarui Jin, Xianyu Chen, Yuanbo Chen, Weinan Zhang, Zaifan Jiang, Zhewen Su, Yong Yu
WWW 2022.

pdf
Towards Return Parity in Markov Decision Processes
Jianfeng Chi, Jian Shen, Xinyi Dai, Weinan Zhang, Yuan Tian, Han Zhao
AISTATS 2022.

pdf
Large-scale Interactive Recommendation with Tree-structured Reinforcement Learning
Haokun Chen, Chenxu Zhu, Ruiming Tang, Weinan Zhang, Xiuqiang He, Yong Yu
TKDE 2022.

pdf
AIM: Automatic Interaction Machine for Click-Through Rate Prediction
Chenxu Zhu, Bo Chen, Weinan Zhang, Jincai Lai, Ruiming Tang, Xiuqiang He, Zhenguo Li, Yong Yu
TKDE 2022.

pdf
Spatio-Temporal Meta Learning for Urban Traffic Prediction
Zheyi Pan, Wentao Zhang, Yuxuan Liang, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Junbo Zhang, Yu Zheng
TKDE 2022.

pdf
Learning to Select Cuts for Efficient Mixed-Integer Programming
Zeren Huang, Kerong Wang, Furui Liu, Hui-ling Zhen, Weinan Zhang, Mingxuan Yuan, Jianye Hao, Yong Yu, Jun Wang
Pattern Recognition 2022.

pdf
Improving Knowledge Tracing with Collaborative Information
Ting Long, Jiarui Qin, Jian Shen, Weinan Zhang, Wei Xia, Ruiming Tang, Xiuqiang He, Yong Yu
WSDM 2022.

pdf
MVG: Multi-view Graph Representation Learning for Programming Language Processing
Ting Long, Yutong Xie, Xianyu Chen, Weinan Zhang, Qinxiang Cao, Yong Yu
AAAI 2022.

pdf
Signal Instructed Coordination in Cooperative Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
Liheng Chen, Hongyi Guo, Yali Du, Fei Fang, Haifeng Zhang, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
DAI 2021.

pdf
On Effective Scheduling of Model-based Reinforcement Learning
Hang Lai, Jian Shen, Weinan Zhang, Yimin Huang, Xing Zhang, Ruiming Tang, Yong Yu, Zhenguo Li
NeurIPS 2021.

pdf
Curriculum Offline Imitating Learning
Minghuan Liu, Hanye Zhao, Zhengyu Yang, Jian Shen, Weinan Zhang, Li Zhao, Tie-Yan Liu
NeurIPS 2021.

pdf
Learning Logic Rules for Document-Level Relation Extraction
Dongyu Ru, Changzhi Sun, Jiangtao Feng, Lin Qiu, Hao Zhou, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Lei Li
EMNLP 2021.

pdf
LiteratureQA: A Qestion Answering Corpus with Graph Knowledge on Academic Literature
Haiwen Wang, Le Zhou, Weinan Zhang, Xinbing Wang
CIKM 2021.

pdf
GAKG: A Multimodal GeoScience Academic Knowledge Graph
Cheng Deng, Yuting Jia, Hui Xu, Chong Zhang, Jingyao Tang, Luoyi Fu, Weinan Zhang, Haisong Zhang, Xinbing Wang, Chenghu Zhou
CIKM 2021.

pdf
Bag of Tricks for Node Classification with Graph Neural Networks
Yangkun Wang, Jiarui Jin, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Zheng Zhang, David Wipf
DLG-KDD 2021. (Best Paper Award)

pdf
GraphHINGE: Learning Interaction Models of Structured Neighborhood on Heterogeneous Information Network
Jiarui Jin, Kounianhua Du, Weinan Zhang, Jiarui Qin, Yuchen Fang, Yong Yu, Zheng Zhang, Alexander J. Smola
TOIS 2021.

pdf
Learning to Build High-fidelity and Robust Environment Models
Weinan Zhang, Zhengyu Yang, Jian Shen, Minghuan Liu, Yimin Huang, Xing Zhang, Ruiming Tang and Zhenguo Li
ECMLPKDD 2021.

pdf
Model-based offline Policy Optimization with Distribution Correcting Regularization
Jian Shen, Mingcheng Chen, Zhicheng Zhang, Zhengyu Yang, Weinan Zhang and Yong Yu
ECMLPKDD 2021.

pdf
Which Heroes to Pick? Learning to Draft in MOBA Games with Neural Networks and Tree Search
Sheng Chen, Menghui Zhu, Deheng Ye, Weinan Zhang, Qiang Fu, Wei Yang
IEEE Transactions on Games 2021.

pdf
Retrieval & Interaction Machine for Tabular Data Prediction
Jiarui Qin, Weinan Zhang, Rong Su, Zhirong Liu, Weiwen Liu, Ruiming Tang, Xiuqiang He, Yong Yu
KDD 2021.

pdf
An Embedding Learning Framework for Numerical Features in CTR Prediction
Huifeng Guo, Bo Chen, Ruiming Tang, Weinan Zhang, Zhenguo Li, Xiuqiang He
KDD 2021.

pdf
Task-wise Split Gradient Boosting Trees for Multi-center Diabetes Prediction
Mingcheng Chen, Zhenghui Wang, Zhiyun Zhao, Weinan Zhang, Xiawei Guo, Jian Shen, Yanru Qu, Jieli Lu, Min Xu, Yu Xu, Tiange Wang, Mian Li, Wei-Wei Tu, Yong Yu, Yufang Bi, Weiqing Wang, Guang Ning
KDD 2021.

pdf
Model-based Multi-agent Policy Optimization with Adaptive Opponent-wise Rollouts
Weinan Zhang, Xihuai Wang, Jian Shen, Ming Zhou
IJCAI 2021.

pdf
MapGo: Model-Assisted Policy Optimization for Goal-Oriented Tasks
Menghui Zhu, Minghuan Liu, Jian Shen, Zhicheng Zhang, Sheng Chen, Weinan Zhang, Deheng Ye, Yong Yu, Qiang Fu, Wei Yang
IJCAI 2021.

pdf
Deep Learning for Click-Through Rate Estimation
Weinan Zhang, Jiarui Qin, Wei Guo, Ruiming Tang, Xiuqiang He
IJCAI 2021 (Survey Track).

pdf
Glancing Transformer for Non-Autoregressive Neural Machine Translation
Lihua Qian, Hao Zhou, Yu Bao, Mingxuan Wang, Lin Qiu, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Lei Li
ACL 2021.

pdf
Beyond Relevance Ranking: A General Graph Matching Framework for Utility-oriented Learning to Rank
Xinyi Dai, Yunjia Xi, Weinan Zhang, Qing Liu, Ruiming Tang, Xiuqiang He, Jiawei Hou, Jun Wang, Yong Yu
TOIS 2021.

pdf
Hierarchical Multiagent Reinforcement Learning for Allocating Guaranteed Display Ads
Lu Wang, Lei Han, Xinru Chen, Chengchang Li, Junzhou Huang, Weinan Zhang, Wei Zhang, Xiaofeng He, Dijun Luo
TNNLS 2021.

pdf
Tracing Knowledge State with Individual Cognition and Acquisition Estimation
Ting Long, Yunfei Liu, Jian Shen, Weinan Zhang and Yong Yu
SIGIR 2021.

pdf
A Graph-Enhanced Click Model for Web Search
Jianghao Lin, Weiwen Liu, Xinyi Dai, Weinan Zhang, Shuai Li, Ruiming Tang, Xiuqiang He, Jianye Hao and Yong Yu
SIGIR 2021.

pdf
An Adversarial Imitation Click Model for Information Retrieval
Xinyi Dai, Jianghao Lin, Weinan Zhang, Shuai Li, Weiwen Liu, Ruiming Tang, Xiuqiang He, Jianye Hao, Jun Wang, Yong Yu
WWW 2021.

pdf
MARS: Markov Molecular Sampling for Multi-objective Drug Discovery
Yutong Xie, Chence Shi, Hao Zhou, Yuwei Yang, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Lei Li
ICLR 2021.

pdf
ModularNAS: Towards Modularized and Reusable Neural Architecture Search
Yunfeng Lin, Guilin Li, Xing Zhang, Weinan Zhang, Bo Chen, Ruiming Tang, Zhenguo Li, Jiashi Feng, Yong Yu
MLSys 2021.

pdf
Energy-Based Imitation Learning
Minghuan Liu, Tairan He, Minkai Xu, Weinan Zhang
AAMAS 2021.

pdf
Fork or Fail: Cycle-Consistent Training with Many-to-One Mappings
Qipeng Guo, Zhijing Jin, Ziyu Wang, Xipeng Qiu, Weinan Zhang, Jun Zhu, Zheng Zhang, David Wipf
AISTATS 2021.

pdf
Universal Trading for Order Execution with Oracle Policy Distillation
Yuchen Fang, Kan Ren, Weiqing Liu, Dong Zhou, Weinan Zhang, Jiang Bian, Yong Yu, Tie-Yan Liu
AAAI 2021.

pdf
SMARTS: Scalable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Training School for Autonomous Driving
Ming Zhou, Jun Luo, Julian Villela, Yaodong Yang, David Rusu, Jiayu Miao, Weinan Zhang et al.
CoRL 2020. (Best System Paper Award)

pdf
Model-based Policy Optimization with Unsupervised Model Adaptation
Jian Shen, Han Zhao, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
NeurIPS 2020.

pdf
Efficient Projection-free Algorithms for Saddle Point Problems
Cheng Chen, Luo Luo, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
NeurIPS 2020.

pdf
Bidirectional Model-based Policy Optimization
Hang Lai, Jian Shen, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
ICML 2020.  

pdf
Multi-Agent Determinantal Q-Learning
Yaodong Yang, Ying Wen, Jun Wang, Liheng Chen, Kun Shao, David Mguni, Weinan Zhang
ICML 2020.  

pdf
GeneraLight: Improving Environment Generalization of Traffic Signal Control via Meta Reinforcement Learning
Huichu Zhang, Chang Liu, Weinan Zhang, Guanjie Zheng, Yong Yu
CIKM 2020.  

pdf
U-rank: Utility-oriented Learning to Rank with Implicit Feedback
Xinyi Dai, Jiawei Hou, Qing Liu, Yunjia Xi, Ruiming Tang, Weinan Zhang, Xiuqiang He, Jun Wang, Yong Yu
CIKM 2020.  

pdf
Learning to Infer User Hidden States for Online Sequential Advertising
Zhaoqing Peng, Junqi Jin, Lan Luo, Yaodong Yang, Rui Luo, Jun Wang, Weinan Zhang, Haiyang Xu, Miao Xu, Chuan Yu, Tiejian Luo, Han Li, Jian Xu, Kun Gai
CIKM 2020.  

pdf
An Efficient Neighborhood-based Interaction Model for Recommendation on Heterogeneous Graph
Jiarui Jin, Jiarui Qin, Yuchen Fang, Kounianhua Du, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Zheng Zhang, Alex Smola
KDD 2020.  

pdf
AutoFIS: Automatic Feature Interaction Selection in Factorization Models for Click-Through Rate Prediction
Bin Liu, Chenxu Zhu, Guilin Li, Weinan Zhang, Jincai Lai, Ruiming Tang, Xiuqiang He, Zhenguo Li, Yong Yu
KDD 2020.  

pdf
State Representation Modeling for Deep Reinforcement Learning based Recommendation
Feng Liu, Ruiming Tang, Xutao Li, Weinan Zhang, Yunming Ye, Haokun Chen, Huifeng Guo, Yuzhou Zhang, Xiuqiang He
Knowledge-Based Systems 2020.  

pdf
User Behavior Retrieval for Click-Through Rate Prediction
Jiarui Qin, Weinan Zhang, Xin Wu, Jiarui Jin, Yuchen Fang and Yong Yu
SIGIR 2020.  

pdf
Interactive Recommender System via Knowledge Graph-enhanced Reinforcement Learning
Sijin Zhou, Xinyi Dai, Haokun Chen, Weinan Zhang, Kan Ren, Ruiming Tang, Xiuqiang He and Yong Yu
SIGIR 2020.  

pdf
A Deep Recurrent Survival Model for Unbiased Ranking
Jiarui Jin, Yuchen Fang, Weinan Zhang, Kan Ren, Guorui Zhou, Jian Xu, Yong Yu, Jun Wang, Xiaoqiang Zhu and Kun Gai
SIGIR 2020.  

pdf
DropNAS: Grouped Operation Dropout for Differentiable Architecture Search
Weijun Hong, Guilin Li, Weinan Zhang, Ruiming Tang, Yunhe Wang, Zhenguo Li, Yong Yu
IJCAI 2020.  

pdf
Aggregating Crowd Wisdom with Side Information via a Clustering-based Label-aware Autoencoder
Li'ang Yin, Yunfei Liu, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
IJCAI 2020.  

pdf
Efficient and Robust High-Dimensional Linear Contextual Bandits
Cheng Chen, Luo Luo, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Yijiang Lian
IJCAI 2020.  

pdf
GIKT: A Graph-based Interaction Model for Knowledge Tracing
Yang Yang, Jian Shen, Yanru Qu, Yunfei Liu, Kerong Wang, Yaoming Zhu, Weinan Zhang and Yong Yu
ECMLPKDD 2020.  

pdf
Multi-Agent Interactions Modeling with Correlated Policies
Minghuan Liu, Ming Zhou, Weinan Zhang, Yuzheng Zhuang, Jun Wang, Wulong Liu, Yong Yu
ICLR 2020.  

pdf
GraphAF: a Flow-based Autoregressive Model for Molecular Graph Generation
Chence Shi, Minkai Xu, Zhaocheng Zhu, Weinan Zhang, Ming Zhang, Jian Tang
ICLR 2020.  

pdf
Bi-level Actor-Critic for Multi-agent Coordination
Haifeng Zhang, Weizhe Chen, Zeren Huang, Minne Li, Yaodong Yang, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang
AAAI 2020.  

pdf
Towards Making the Most of BERT in Neural Machine Translation
Jiacheng Yang, Mingxuan Wang, Hao Zhou, Chengqi Zhao, Yong Yu, Weinan Zhang, Lei Li
AAAI 2020.  

pdf
Author Name Disambiguation on Heterogeneous Information Network with Adversarial Representation Learning
Haiwen Wang, Ruijie Wang, Chuan Wen, Shuhao Li, Yuting Jia, Weinan Zhang, Xinbing Wang
AAAI 2020.  

pdf
Learning Graph Representation with Generative Adversarial Nets
Hongwei Wang, Jialin Wang, Jia Wang, Miao Zhao, Weinan Zhang, Fuzheng Zhang, Wenjie Li, Xing Xie, Minyi Guo
TKDE 2020.  

pdf
Improve Unsupervised Domain Adaptation with Variational Information Bottleneck
Yuxuan Song, Lantao Yu, Zhangjie Cao, Zhiming Zhou, Jian Shen, Shuo Shao, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
ECAI 2020.  

pdf
Efficient Spectrum-Revealing CUR Matrix Decomposition
Cheng Chen, Ming Gu, Zhihua Zhang, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
AISTATS 2020.  

pdf
Sequential Recommendation with Dual Side Neighbor-based Collaborative Relation Modeling
Jiarui Qin, Kan Ren, Yuchen Fang, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
WSDM 2020.  

pdf
Exploring Diverse Expressions for Paraphrase Generation
Lihua Qian, Lin Qiu, Weinan Zhang, Xin Jiang, Yong Yu
EMNLP 2019.  

pdf
Generative Adversarial Exploration for Reinforcement Learning
Weijun Hong, Menghui Zhu, Minghuan Liu, Weinan Zhang, Ming Zhou, Yong Yu, Peng Sun
DAI 2019.  

pdf
Factorized Q-learning for Large-scale Multi-agent Systems
Ming Zhou, Yong Chen, Ying Wen, Yaodong Yang, Yufeng Su, Weinan Zhang, Dell Zhang, Jun Wang
DAI 2019.  

pdf
CoLight: Learning Network-level Cooperation for Traffic Signal Control
Hua Wei, Nan Xu, Huichu Zhang, Guanjie Zheng, Xinshi Zang, Chacha Chen, Weinan Zhang, Yanmin Zhu, Kai Xu, Zhenhui Li
CIKM 2019.  

pdf
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Order-dispatching via Order-Vehicle Distribution Matching
Ming Zhou, Jiarui Jin, Weinan Zhang, Zhiwei Qin, Yan Jiao, Chenxi Wang, Guobin Wu, Yong Yu, Jieping Ye
CIKM 2019.  

pdf
CoRide: Joint Order Dispatching and Fleet Management for Multi-Scale Ride-Hailing Platforms
Jiarui Jin, Ming Zhou, Weinan Zhang, Minne Li, Zilong Guo, Zhiwei Qin, Yan Jiao, Xiaocheng Tang, Chenxi Wang, Jun Wang, Guobin Wu, Jieping Ye
CIKM 2019.  

pdf
Learning to Advertise for Organic Traffic Maximization in E-Commerce Product Feeds
Dagui Chen, Junqi Jin, Weinan Zhang, Fei Pan, Lvyin Niu, Chuan Yu, Jun Wang, Han Li, Jian Xu, Kun Gai
CIKM 2019.  

pdf
Learning Adaptive Display Exposure for Real-Time Advertising
Weixun Wang, Junqi Jin, Jianye Hao, Chunjie Chen, Chuan Yu, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang, Xiaotian Hao, Yixi Wang, Han Li, Jian Xu, Kun Gai
CIKM 2019.  

pdf
Dynamically Fused Graph Network for Multi-hop Reasoning
Yunxuan Xiao, Yanru Qu, Lin Qiu, Hao Zhou, Lei Li, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
ACL 2019.  

pdf
CoT: Cooperative Training for Generative Modeling of Discrete Data
Sidi Lu, Lantao Yu, Siyuan Feng, Yaoming Zhu, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
ICML 2019.  

pdf
Lipschitz Generative Adversarial Nets
Zhiming Zhou, Jiadong Liang, Yuxuan Song, Lantao Yu, Hongwei Wang, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Zhihua Zhang
ICML 2019.  

pdf
Hybrid Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning in Parameterized Action Space
Zhou Fan, Rui Su, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
IJCAI 2019.  

pdf
Deep Landscape Forecasting for Real-time Bidding Advertising
Kan Ren, Jiarui Qin, Lei Zheng, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
KDD 2019.  

pdf
TrajGuard: A Comprehensive Trajectory Copyright Protection Scheme
Zheyi Pan, Jie Bao, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu and Yu Zheng
KDD 2019.  

pdf
An End-to-End Neighborhood-based Interaction Model for Knowledge-enhanced Recommendation
Yanru Qu, Ting Bai, Weinan Zhang, Jianyun Nie, Jian Tang
DLP-KDD 2019. (Best Paper Award)

pdf
Lifelong Sequential Modeling with Personalized Memorization for User Response Prediction
Kan Ren, Jiarui Qin, Yuchen Fang, Weinan Zhang, Lei Zheng, Weijie Bian, Guorui Zhou, Jian Xu, Yong Yu, Xiaoqiang Zhu and Kun Gai
SIGIR 2019.  

pdf
Triple-to-Text: Converting RDF Triples into High Quality Natural Languages via Optimizing an Inverse KL Divergence
Yaoming Zhu, Juncheng Wan, Zhiming Zhou, Liheng Chen, Lin Qiu, Weinan Zhang, Xin Jiang and Yong Yu
SIGIR 2019.  

pdf
AdaShift: Decorrelation and Convergence of Adaptive Learning Rate Methods
Zhiming Zhou, Qingru Zhang, Guansong Lu, Hongwei Wang, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
ICLR 2019.  

pdf
CommunityGAN: Community Detection with Generative Adversarial Nets
Yuting Jia, Qinqin Zhang, Weinan Zhang, Xinbing Wang
WWW 2019.  

pdf
Sampled in Pairs and Driven by Text: A New Graph Embedding Framework
Liheng Chen, Yanru Qu, Zhenghui Wang, Lin Qiu, Weinan Zhang, Ken Chen, Shaodian Zhang, Yong Yu
WWW 2019.  

pdf
Large-scale Interactive Recommendation with Tree-structured Policy Gradient
Haokun Chen, Xinyi Dai, Han Cai, Weinan Zhang, Xuejian Wang, Ruiming Tang, Yuzhou Zhang, Yong Yu
AAAI 2019.  

pdf
Deep Recurrent Survival Analysis
Kan Ren, Jiarui Qin, Lei Zheng, Zhengyu Yang, Weinan Zhang, Lin Qiu, Yong Yu
AAAI 2019.  

pdf
Learning Multi-touch Conversion Attribution with Dual-attention Mechanisms for Online Advertising
Kan Ren, Yuchen Fang, Weinan Zhang, Shuhao Liu, Jiajun Li, Ya Zhang, Yong Yu, Jun Wang
CIKM 2018.  

pdf
Real-Time Bidding with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Display Advertising
Junqi Jin, Chengru Song, Han Li, Kun Gai, Jun Wang, Weinan Zhang
CIKM 2018.  

pdf
Mean Field Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Yaodong Yang, Rui Luo, Minne Li, Ming Zhou, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang
ICML 2018.  

pdf
Path-Level Network Transformation for Efficient Architecture Search
Han Cai, Jiacheng Yang, Weinan Zhang, Song Han, Yong Yu
ICML 2018.  

pdf
Product-based Neural Networks for User Response Prediction over Multi-field Categorical Data
Yanru Qu, Bohui Fang, Weinan Zhang, Ruiming Tang, Minzhe Niu, Huifeng Guo, Yong Yu, Xiuqiang He
ACM TOIS 2018.  

pdf
A Bootstrapping Framework With Interactive Information Modeling for Network Alignment
Xuezhi Cao, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
IEEE Access 2018.  

pdf
Pedestrian detection by feature selected self-similarity features
Xinchuan Fu, Rui Yu, Weinan Zhang, Li Feng, Shihai Shao
IEEE Access 2018.  

pdf
Delving deep into multiscale pedestrian detection via single scale feature maps
Xinchuan Fu, Rui Yu, Weinan Zhang, Jie Wu, Shihai Shao
Sensors 2018.  

pdf
Learning to Design Games: Strategic Environments in Deep Reinforcement Learning
Haifeng Zhang, Jun Wang, Zhiming Zhou, Weinan Zhang, Ying Wen, Yong Yu, Wenxin Li
IJCAI 2018.  

pdf
fBGD: Learning Embeddings From Positive Unlabeled Data with BGD
Fajie Yuan, Xin Xin, Xiangnan He, Guibing Guo, Weinan Zhang, Chua Tat-Seng, Joemon M. Jose
UAI 2018.  

pdf
Activation Maximization Generative Adversarial Nets
Zhiming Zhou, Han Cai, Shu Rong, Yuxuan Song, Kan Ren, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Jun Wang
ICLR 2018.  

pdf
A Study of AI Population Dynamics with Million-agent Reinforcement Learning
Yaodong Yang, Lantao Yu, Yiwei Bai, Ying Wen, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang
AAMAS 2018.  

pdf
A Machine Learning Approach To Prevent Malicious Calls Over Telephony Networks
Huichen Li, Xiaojun Xu, Chang Liu, Teng Ren, Kun Wu, Xuezhi Cao, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Dawn Song
S&P (Oakland) 2018.  

pdf
QA4IE: A Question Answering based Framework for Information Extraction
Lin Qiu, Hao Zhou, Yanru Qu, Weinan Zhang, Suoheng Li, Shu Rong, Dongyu Ru, Lihua Qian, Kewei Tu, Yong Yu
ISWC 2018.  

pdf
Label-aware Double Transfer Learning for Cross-Specialty Medical Named Entity Recognition
Zhenghui Wang, Yanru Qu, Liheng Chen, Jian Shen, Weinan Zhang, Shaodian Zhang, Yimei Gao, Gen Gu, Ken Chen, Yong Yu
NAACL HLT 2018.   (Oral presentation 6.73%)

pdf
A Neural Stochastic Volatility Model
Rui Luo, Weinan Zhang, Xiaojun Xu, Jun Wang
AAAI 2018.  

pdf
Long Text Generation via Adversarial Training with Leaked Information
Jiaxian Guo, Sidi Lu, Han Cai, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Jun Wang
AAAI 2018.  

pdf
Efficient Architecture Search by Network Transformation
Han Cai, Tianyao Chen, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Jun Wang
AAAI 2018.  

pdf
GraphGAN: Graph Representation Learning with Generative Adversarial Nets
Hongwei Wang, Jia Wang, Jialin Wang, Miao Zhao, Weinan Zhang, Fuzheng Zhang, Xing Xie, Minyi Guo
AAAI 2018.  

pdf
Neural Link Prediction over Aligned Networks
Xuezhi Cao, Haokun Chen, Xuejian Wang, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
AAAI 2018.  

pdf
Wasserstein Distance Guided Representation Learning for Domain Adaptation
Jian Shen, Yanru Qu, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
AAAI 2018.  

pdf
Bidding Machine: Learning to Bid for Directly Optimizing Profits in Display Advertising
Kan Ren, Weinan Zhang, Ke Chang, Yifei Rong, Yong Yu, Jun Wang
TKDE 2018.  

pdf
Content Recommendation by Noise Contrastive Transfer Learning of Feature Representation
Yiyang Li, Guanyu Tao, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang and Yong Yu
CIKM 2017.  

pdf
Volume Ranking and Sequential Selection in Programmatic Display Advertising
Yuxuan Song, Kan Ren, Han Cai, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
CIKM 2017.  

pdf
Unsupervised Diverse Colorization via Generative Adversarial Networks
Yun Cao, Zhiming Zhou, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
ECML-PKDD 2017.   (Accept rate: 27.1%)

pdf
Dynamic Attention Deep Model for Article Recommendation by Learning Human Editors' Demonstration
Xuejian Wang, Lantao Yu, Kan Ren, Guanyu Tao, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Jun Wang
KDD 2017.   (Accept rate: 21.5%)

pdf
Aggregating Crowd Wisdoms with Label-aware Autoencoders
Li'ang Yin, Jianhua Han, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
IJCAI 2017.   (Accept rate: 26.0%)

pdf
IRGAN: A Minimax Game for Unifying Generative and Discriminative Information Retrieval Models
Jun Wang, Lantao Yu, Weinan Zhang, Yu Gong, Yinghui Xu, Benyou Wang, Peng Zhang, Dell Zhang
SIGIR 2017.   (Accept rate: 21.5%; Best Paper Honorable Mention Award)

pdf
Display Advertising with Real-Time Bidding (RTB) and Behavioural Targeting
Jun Wang, Weinan Zhang, Shuai Yuan
Now Publisher, Volume 11, Issue 4-5. 2017

pdf
"We make choices we think are going to save us": Debate and stance identification for online breast cancer CAM discussions
Shaodian Zhang, Lin Qiu, Frank Chen, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu and Noemie Elhadad
WWW 2017.   (Web Science Track)

pdf
Cataloguing Treatments Discussed and Used in Online Autism Communities
Shaodian Zhang, Tian Kang, Lin Qiu, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu and Noemie Elhadad
WWW 2017.   (Accept rate: 17.0%)

pdf
SeqGAN: Sequence Generative Adversarial Nets with Policy Gradient
Lantao Yu, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang, Yong Yu
AAAI 2017.   (Accept rate: 24.6%)

pdf
BoostFM: Boosted Factorization Machines for top-N Feature-based Recommendation
Fajie Yuan, Guibing Guo, Joemon M. Jose, Long Chen, Haitao Yu, Weinan Zhang
IUI 2017.

pdf
Real-Time Bidding by Reinforcement Learning in Display Advertising
Han Cai, Kan Ren, Weinan Zhang, Kleanthis Malialis, Jun Wang, Yong Yu and Defeng Guo
WSDM 2017.   (Accept rate: 15.8%)

pdf
Managing Risk of Bidding in Display Advertising
Haifeng Zhang, Weinan Zhang, Yifei Rong, Kan Ren, Wenxin Li, Jun Wang
WSDM 2017.   (Accept rate: 15.8%)

pdf
Product-based Neural Networks for User Response Prediction
Yanru Qu, Han Cai, Kan Ren, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Ying Wen, Jun Wang
ICDM 2016.   (Accept rate: 19.6%)

pdf
User Response Learning for Directly Optimizing Campaign Performance in Display Advertising
Kan Ren, Weinan Zhang, Yifei Rong, Haifeng Zhang, Yong Yu, Jun Wang
CIKM 2016.   (Industry track accept rate: 19.8%)

pdf
LambdaFM: Learning Optimal Ranking with Factorization Machines Using Lambda Surrogates
Fajie Yuan, Guibin Guo, Joemon Jose, Long Chen, Haitao Yu, Weinan Zhang
CIKM 2016.   (Research track accept rate: 17.6%)

pdf
Functional Bid Landscape Forecasting for Display Advertising
Yuchen Wang, Kan Ren, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang, Yong Yu
ECML-PKDD 2016.  

pdf
Bid-aware Gradient Descent for Unbiased Learning with Censored Data in Display Advertising
Weinan Zhang, Tianxiong Zhou, Jun Wang, Jian Xu
KDD 2016.   (Accept rate: 16.8%)

pdf
Optimal Real-Time Bidding for Display Advertising
Weinan Zhang
PhD Thesis 2016.   (University College London)

pdf
Learning Text Representation using Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network with Highway Layers
Ying Wen, Weinan Zhang, Rui Luo, Jun Wang
NeuIR 2016.   (SIGIR Workshop)

pdf
Deep Learning over Multi-Field Categorical Data: A Case Study on User Response Prediction
Weinan Zhang, Tianming Du, Jun Wang
ECIR 2016.   (Accept rate: 21%)

pdf
Implicit Look-alike Modelling in Display Ads: Transfer Collaborative Filtering to CTR Estimation
Weinan Zhang, Lingxi Chen, Jun Wang, Thomas Furmston
ECIR 2016.   (Accept rate: 21%)

pdf
Collective Noise Contrastive Estimation for Policy Transfer Learning
Weinan Zhang, Ulrich Paquet, Katja Hofmann
AAAI 2016.   (Accept rate: 25.8%)

pdf
Feedback Control of Real-Time Display Advertising
Weinan Zhang, Yifei Rong, Jun Wang, Tianchi Zhu, Xiaofan Wang
WSDM 2016.   (Accept rate: 18.2%)

pdf
Risk-Hedged Venture Capital Investment Recommendation
Xiaoxue Zhao*, Weinan Zhang*, Jun Wang
RecSys 2015.   (Accept rate: 21.4%)

pdf
Statistical Arbitrage Mining for Display Advertising
Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang
KDD 2015.   (Accept rate: 19.4%)

pdf
Annotating Needles in the Haystack without Looking: Product Information Extraction from Emails
Weinan Zhang, Amr Ahmed, Jie Yang, Vanja Josifovski, Alex J. Smola
KDD 2015.   (I&G track; accept rate: 34.2%)

pdf
Optimal Real-Time Bidding for Display Advertising
Weinan Zhang, Shuai Yuan, Jun Wang
KDD 2014.   (Accept rate: 14.6%)

link
Real-Time Bidding Benchmarking with iPinYou Dataset
Weinan Zhang, Shuai Yuan, Jun Wang, Xuehua Shen
CoRR 2014.    abs/1407.7073

pdf
Bid Keyword Suggestion in Sponsored Search based on Competitiveness and Relevance
Ying Zhang, Weinan Zhang, Bin Gao, Xiaojie Yuan, Tie-Yan Liu
IPM.   2014 Vol. 50, No. 4. DOI=10.1016/j.ipm.2014.02.004

pdf
To Personalize or Not: A Risk Management Perspective
Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang, Bowei Chen, Xiaoxue Zhao
RecSys 2013.   (Accept rate: 23.8%)

pdf
An Empirical Study of Top-N Recommendation for Venture Finance
Thomas Stone, Weinan Zhang, Xiaoxue Zhao
CIKM 2013. (poster)

pdf
Interactive Collaborative Filtering
Xiaoxue Zhao*, Weinan Zhang*, Jun Wang
CIKM 2013.   (Accept rate: 16.9%)

pdf
Optimizing Top-N Collaborative Filtering via Dynamic Negative Item Sampling
Weinan Zhang, Tianqi Chen, Jun Wang, Yong Yu
SIGIR 2013. (short paper)

pdf
MeDetect: A LOD-Based System for Collective Entity Annotation in Biomedicine
Li Tian, Weinan Zhang, Antonis Bikakis, Haofen Wang, Yong Yu, Yuan Ni, Feng Cao
WI 2013.

pdf
SVDFeature: A Toolkit for Feature-based Collaborative Filtering
Tianqi Chen, Weinan Zhang, Qiuxia Lu, Kailong Chen, Zhao Zheng, Yong Yu
JMLR.    13 (2012) 3619-3622

pdf
A Semantic Approach to Recommending Text Advertisements for Images
Weinan Zhang, Li Tian, Xinruo Sun, Haofen Wang, Yong Yu
RecSys 2012.   (Accept rate: 20.2%)

pdf
Joint Optimization of Bid and Budget Allocation in Sponsored Search
Weinan Zhang, Ying Zhang, Bin Gao, Yong Yu, Xiaojie Yuan and Tie-Yan Liu
KDD 2012.  (Accept rate: 17.6%)

pdf
Serendipitous Personalized Ranking for Top-N Recommendation
Qiuxia Lu, Tianqi Chen, Weinan Zhang, Diyi Yang, Yong Yu
WI 2012.    Best paper nominee

pdf
MeDetect: Domain Entity Annotation in Biomedical References Using Linked Open Data
Li Tian, Weinan Zhang, Haofen Wang, Chenyang Wu, Yuan Ni, Feng Cao, Yong Yu
ISWC 2012. (poster)

pdf
Local Implicit Feedback Mining for Music Recommendation
Diyi Yang, Tianqi Chen, Weinan Zhang, Qiuxia Lu, Yong Yu
RecSys 2012.   (Accept rate: 20.2%)

pdf
Collaborative filtering with short term preferences mining
Diyi Yang, Tianqi Chen, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
SIGIR 2012. (poster)

pdf
Advertising Keywords Recommendation for Short-text Web Pages using Wikipedia
Weinan Zhang, Dingquan Wang, Gui-Rong Xue, and Hongyuan Zha
ACM TIST.    Vol. 3, No. 2. DOI=10.1145/2089094.2089112

pdf
Feature Based Informative Model for Discriminating Favorite Items from Unrated Ones
Bing Cheng, Tianqi Chen, Diyi Yang, Weinan Zhang, Yongqiang Wang, Yong Yu
APWeb 2012.

pdf
TuneSensor: A Semantic-Driven Music Recommendation Service For Digital Photo Albums
Jiansong Chao, Haofen Wang, Wenlei Zhou, Weinan Zhang and Yong Yu
ISWC 2011. (poster)

pdf
Informative Household Recommendation with Feature-based Matrix Factorization
Qiuxia Lu, Diyi Yang, Tianqi Chen, Weinan Zhang and Yong Yu
RecSys 2011.    CAMRa Workshop

pdf
Informative Ensemble of Multi-Resolution Dynamic Factorization Models
Tianqi Chen, Zhao Zheng, Qiuxia Lu, Xiao Jiang, Yuqiang Chen, Weinan Zhang, Kailong Chen, Yong Yu, Nathan N. Liu, Bin Cao, Luheng He and Qiang Yang
KDD 2011.    KDD-CUP' 11 Workshop

pdf
Feature-Based Matrix Factorization
Tianqi Chen, Zhao Zheng, Qiuxia Lu, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
CoRR 2011.    abs/1109.2271

pdf
LODDO: Using Linked Open Data Description Overlap to Measure Semantic Relatedness Between Named Entities
Wenlei Zhou, Haofen Wang, Jiansong Chao, Weinan Zhang and Yong Yu
JIST 2011.   

pdf
Deep Classifier for Large Scale Hierarchical Text Classification
Dingquan Wang,Weinan Zhang, Gui-Rong Xue, and Yong Yu
LSHTC 2009. (short paper)

Internships

MediaGamma Limited
Research Intern, Data Science Group, supervised by Jun Wang and Rael Cline.
London, United Kingdom    Jun. 2015 - Aug. 2015
Microsoft Research Cambridge
Research Consultant, Machine Learning and Perception Group, supervised by Ulrich Paquet and Katja Hofmann.
Cambridge, United Kingdom    Feb. 2015 - Jun. 2015
Microsoft Research Cambridge
Research Intern, Machine Learning and Perception Group, supervised by Ulrich Paquet and Thore Graepel.
Cambridge, United Kingdom    Sep. 2014 - Nov. 2014
Google Inc.
Software Engineering Intern, Strategic Technology Group, supervised by Jie Yang and Vanja Josifovski.
Mountain View, United States    Sep. 2013 - Dec. 2013
Digital Enterprise Research Institute
Research Intern, Social Software Unit, supervised by Alexandre Passant.
Galway, Ireland    Jul. 2011 - Sep. 2011
Microsoft Research Asia
Research Intern, Internet Economics & Computational Ads Group, supervised by Bin Gao and Tie-Yan Liu.
Beijing, China    Jul. 2010 - Jan. 2011

Datasets

AceKG Academic Knowledge Graph
Acemap Knowledge Graph (AceKG), supported by Acemap, is now open to everyone for research and non-commercial use. We hope this knowledge graph will benefit the research and development for academic data mining.
Data description and benchmarking paper.
iPinYou RTB Ad Logs
The first public large-scale Real-time bidding advertising log dataset, it is released after iPinYou 2013 RTB competition. We help publish the dataset on the UCL server.
Data analysis and benchmarking paper.
CrunchBase Venture Capital Investments
This dataset is collected in May 2014 based on the CrunchBase offical data API. It contains the investment records of VC firms and individual partners.
RecSys 2015 paper.

Competitions

iPinyou DSP 2013
Real-time bidding strategy optimization for demand side platforms.
CAMERa 2011
Context-aware movie recomendation challenge.
KDD Cup 2011
Yahoo! music recommendation challenge.
Yahoo! Learning to Rank Challenge 2010
Ranking top retrieved Web pages from Yahoo! search engine.
LSHTC 2009
Large-scale deep hierarchy text classification challenge.

News


15 Apr 2023
I am appointed as an associate editor of TPAMI (impact factor 24.314).

2 Apr 2023
I will serve as a PC Co-Chair at DAI 2023 (Singapore).

12 Feb 2023
I will serve as an Area Chair at KDD, SIGIR, ICML, ICDM, and NeurIPS 2023.

10 Apr 2022
I will serve as an Area Chair at NeurIPS 2022.

16 Aug 2021
Our paper wins the best paper award at DLG-KDD 2021.

2 May 2021
I serve as an Area Chair at NeurIPS, IJCAI, ICDM 2021.

2 May 2020
I co-organize 2nd Workshop on Deep Learning Practice for High-Dimensional Sparse Data with KDD 2020.

1 May 2020
I co-organize SIGIR 2020 Workshop on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Information Retrieval.

8 Aug 2019
Our paper wins the best paper award at DLP-KDD 2019.

3 Nov 2018
I will serve as a sponsorship chair at CIKM 2019.

1 Nov 2018
Two full papers and one demo paper accapted at AAAI 2019.

26 Sep 2018
I am honored to be granted Qingcheng Award from Alibaba.

12 May 2018
Two papers on RL and AutoML accepted at ICML 2018.

22 Mar 2018
I will give a tutorial on GANs for IR at SIGIR 2018.

30 Jan 2018
Our AM-GAN paper gets accepted at ICLR 2018.

1 Jan 2018
I will serve as a senior PC member at SIGIR 2018.

3 Dec 2017
Our MAgent platform is presented at NIPS 2017.

18 Nov 2017
Visited NEU, MIT and Harvard and give talks "GANs with Reinforcement Learning".

10 Nov 2017
Papers accepted at AAAI 2018, WSDM 2018 and TKDE 2018.

4 Aug 2017
Two papers accepted at CIKM 2017.

25 May 2017
Papers accepted in SIGIR, IJCAI and KDD 2017.

21 Dec 2016
A paper on medical informatics is accepted at WWW 2017.

12 Nov 2016
A paper on combining GAN and PG is accepted at AAAI 2017.

18 Sep 2016
Two papers on RTB display advertising bidding strategies are accepted at WSDM 2017.

10 Sep 2016
Our paper on DNN for ad click prediction is accepted at ICDM 2016.

9 Aug 2016
Start to work at SJTU. Serveral papers and one tutorial are accepted.