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Publications (27)

cs.IR2024

Decentralized Collaborative Learning with Adaptive Reference Data for On-Device POI Recommendation

Ruiqi Zheng, Liang Qu, Tong Chen +3

In Location-based Social Networks, Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation helps users discover interesting places. There is a trend to move from the cloud-based model to on-device…

cs.IR2025

M2Rec: Multi-scale Mamba for Efficient Sequential Recommendation

Qianru Zhang, Liang Qu, Honggang Wen +4

Sequential recommendation systems aim to predict users' next preferences based on their interaction histories, but existing approaches face critical limitations in efficiency and m…

cs.IR2024

Automated Similarity Metric Generation for Recommendation

Liang Qu, Yun Lin, Wei Yuan +3

The embedding-based architecture has become the dominant approach in modern recommender systems, mapping users and items into a compact vector space. It then employs predefined sim…

cs.IR2026

Scalable Dynamic Embedding Size Search for Streaming Recommendation

Yunke Qu, Liang Qu, Tong Chen +3

Recommender systems typically represent users and items by learning their embeddings, which are usually set to uniform dimensions and dominate the model parameters. However, real-w…

cs.IR2025

Harnessing Large Language Models for Group POI Recommendations

Jing Long, Liang Qu, Junliang Yu +3

The rapid proliferation of Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) has underscored the importance of Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation systems in enhancing user experiences. Wh…

cs.IR2023

AutoML for Deep Recommender Systems: A Survey

Ruiqi Zheng, Liang Qu, Bin Cui +2

Recommender systems play a significant role in information filtering and have been utilized in different scenarios, such as e-commerce and social media. With the prosperity of deep…

cs.IR2024

Sparser Training for On-Device Recommendation Systems

Yunke Qu, Liang Qu, Tong Chen +3

Recommender systems often rely on large embedding tables that map users and items to dense vectors of uniform size, leading to substantial memory consumption and inefficiencies. Th…

cs.IR2023

Personalized Elastic Embedding Learning for On-Device Recommendation

Ruiqi Zheng, Liang Qu, Tong Chen +3

To address privacy concerns and reduce network latency, there has been a recent trend of compressing cumbersome recommendation models trained on the cloud and deploying compact rec…

cs.LG2023

Semi-decentralized Federated Ego Graph Learning for Recommendation

Liang Qu, Ningzhi Tang, Ruiqi Zheng +4

Collaborative filtering (CF) based recommender systems are typically trained based on personal interaction data (e.g., clicks and purchases) that could be naturally represented as…

cs.IR2024

PDC-FRS: Privacy-preserving Data Contribution for Federated Recommender System

Chaoqun Yang, Wei Yuan, Liang Qu +1

Federated recommender systems (FedRecs) have emerged as a popular research direction for protecting users' privacy in on-device recommendations. In FedRecs, users keep their data l…

cs.IR2026

Federated Learning and Unlearning for Recommendation with Personalized Data Sharing

Liang Qu, Jianxin Li, Wei Yuan +4

Federated recommender systems (FedRS) have emerged as a paradigm for protecting user privacy by keeping interaction data on local devices while coordinating model training through…

cs.IR2025

Efficient Multimodal Streaming Recommendation via Expandable Side Mixture-of-Experts

Yunke Qu, Liang Qu, Tong Chen +2

Streaming recommender systems (SRSs) are widely deployed in real-world applications, where user interests shift and new items arrive over time. As a result, effectively capturing u…

cs.IR2026

Towards On-Device Personalization: Cloud-device Collaborative Data Augmentation for Efficient On-device Language Model

Zhaofeng Zhong, Wei Yuan, Liang Qu +4

With the advancement of large language models (LLMs), significant progress has been achieved in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. However, existing LLMs still face t…

cs.IR2023

HeteFedRec: Federated Recommender Systems with Model Heterogeneity

Wei Yuan, Liang Qu, Lizhen Cui +3

Owing to the nature of privacy protection, federated recommender systems (FedRecs) have garnered increasing interest in the realm of on-device recommender systems. However, most ex…

cs.IR2025

Proxy Model-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Client Selection in Federated Recommendation

Liang Qu, Jianxin Li, Wei Yuan +3

Federated recommender systems have emerged as a promising privacy-preserving paradigm, enabling personalized recommendation services without exposing users' raw data. By keeping da…

cs.IR2025

On-Device Recommender Systems: A Comprehensive Survey

Hongzhi Yin, Liang Qu, Tong Chen +6

Recommender systems have been widely deployed in various real-world applications to help users identify content of interest from massive amounts of information. Traditional recomme…

cs.LG2024

Brain Storm Optimization Based Swarm Learning for Diabetic Retinopathy Image Classification

Liang Qu, Cunze Wang, Yuhui Shi

The application of deep learning techniques to medical problems has garnered widespread research interest in recent years, such as applying convolutional neural networks to medical…

cs.IR2024

Robust Federated Contrastive Recommender System against Model Poisoning Attack

Wei Yuan, Chaoqun Yang, Liang Qu +3

Federated Recommender Systems (FedRecs) have garnered increasing attention recently, thanks to their privacy-preserving benefits. However, the decentralized and open characteristic…

cs.CR2024

Poisoning Decentralized Collaborative Recommender System and Its Countermeasures

Ruiqi Zheng, Liang Qu, Tong Chen +3

To make room for privacy and efficiency, the deployment of many recommender systems is experiencing a shift from central servers to personal devices, where the federated recommende…

cs.IR2024

Towards Personalized Privacy: User-Governed Data Contribution for Federated Recommendation

Liang Qu, Wei Yuan, Ruiqi Zheng +3

Federated recommender systems (FedRecs) have gained significant attention for their potential to protect user's privacy by keeping user privacy data locally and only communicating…

cs.IR2023

On-Device Recommender Systems: A Tutorial on The New-Generation Recommendation Paradigm

Hongzhi Yin, Tong Chen, Liang Qu +1

Given the sheer volume of contemporary e-commerce applications, recommender systems (RSs) have gained significant attention in both academia and industry. However, traditional clou…

cs.IR2022

Single-shot Embedding Dimension Search in Recommender System

Liang Qu, Yonghong Ye, Ningzhi Tang +3

As a crucial component of most modern deep recommender systems, feature embedding maps high-dimensional sparse user/item features into low-dimensional dense embeddings. However, th…

cs.LG2021

ImGAGN:Imbalanced Network Embedding via Generative Adversarial Graph Networks

Liang Qu, Huaisheng Zhu, Ruiqi Zheng +2

Imbalanced classification on graphs is ubiquitous yet challenging in many real-world applications, such as fraudulent node detection. Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have sh…

cs.AI2025

AI-Generated Content in Cross-Domain Applications: Research Trends, Challenges and Propositions

Jianxin Li, Liang Qu, Taotao Cai +13

Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) has rapidly emerged with the capability to generate different forms of content, including text, images, videos, and other modalitie…

cs.IR2024

Hide Your Model: A Parameter Transmission-free Federated Recommender System

Wei Yuan, Chaoqun Yang, Liang Qu +3

With the growing concerns regarding user data privacy, Federated Recommender System (FedRec) has garnered significant attention recently due to its privacy-preserving capabilities.…

cs.IR2024

DecKG: Decentralized Collaborative Learning with Knowledge Graph Enhancement for POI Recommendation

Ruiqi Zheng, Liang Qu, Guanhua Ye +3

Decentralized collaborative learning for Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation has gained research interest due to its advantages in privacy preservation and efficiency, as it kee…

cs.IR2024

PTF-FSR: A Parameter Transmission-Free Federated Sequential Recommender System

Wei Yuan, Chaoqun Yang, Liang Qu +3

Sequential recommender systems have made significant progress. Recently, due to increasing concerns about user data privacy, some researchers have implemented federated learning fo…