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Publications (36)

cs.LG2025

Employee Turnover Prediction: A Cross-component Attention Transformer with Consideration of Competitor Influence and Contagious Effect

Hao Liu, Yong Ge

Employee turnover refers to an individual's termination of employment from the current organization. It is one of the most persistent challenges for firms, especially those ones in…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Spinful topological phases in acoustic crystals with projective PT symmetry

Yan Meng, Shuxin Lin, Bin-jie Shi +14

For the classification of topological phases of matter, an important consideration is whether a system is spinless or spinful, as these two classes have distinct symmetry algebra t…

physics.app-ph2021

Observation of roton-like dispersion relations in acoustic metamaterials

Zhenxiao Zhu, Zhen Gao, Gui-Geng Liu +8

Roton dispersion relations, displaying a pronounced "roton" minimum at finite momentum, were firstly predicted by Landau and have been extensively explored in correlated quantum sy…

physics.app-ph2021

Acoustic non-Hermitian skin effect from twisted winding topology

Li Zhang, Yihao Yang, Yong Ge +11

The recently discovered non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) manifests the breakdown of current classification of topological phases in energy-nonconservative systems, and necessitates…

physics.optics2024

Flatbands from Bound States in the Continuum for Orbital Angular Momentum Localization

Weiwei Zhu, Hongyu Zou, Yong Ge +7

A flatband material is a system characterized by energy bands with zero dispersion, allowing for the compact localization of wavefunctions in real space. This compact localization…

cs.IR2024

TTT4Rec: A Test-Time Training Approach for Rapid Adaption in Sequential Recommendation

Zhaoqi Yang, Yanan Wang, Yong Ge

Sequential recommendation tasks, which aim to predict the next item a user will interact with, typically rely on models trained solely on historical data. However, in real-world sc…

physics.app-ph2023

Observation of vortex-string chiral modes in metamaterials

Jingwen Ma, Ding Jia, Li Zhang +7

As a hypothetical topological defect in the geometry of spacetime, vortex strings play a crucial role in shaping the clusters of galaxies that exist today, and their distinct featu…

cs.LG2020

Explainable Recommender Systems via Resolving Learning Representations

Ninghao Liu, Yong Ge, Li Li +3

Recommender systems play a fundamental role in web applications in filtering massive information and matching user interests. While many efforts have been devoted to developing mor…

cs.LG2020

Offline Meta-level Model-based Reinforcement Learning Approach for Cold-Start Recommendation

Yanan Wang, Yong Ge, Li Li +2

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown great promise in optimizing long-term user interest in recommender systems. However, existing RL-based recommendation methods need a large num…

cs.LG2020

Interactive Reinforcement Learning for Feature Selection with Decision Tree in the Loop

Wei Fan, Kunpeng Liu, Hao Liu +3

We study the problem of balancing effectiveness and efficiency in automated feature selection. After exploring many feature selection methods, we observe a computational dilemma: 1…

cs.LG2014

Heterogeneous Metric Learning with Content-based Regularization for Software Artifact Retrieval

Liang Wu, Hui Xiong, Liang Du +6

The problem of software artifact retrieval has the goal to effectively locate software artifacts, such as a piece of source code, in a large code repository. This problem has been…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Observation of Embedded Topology in a Trivial Bulk via Projective Crystal Symmetry

Hau Tian Teo, Yang Long, Hong-yu Zou +6

Bulk-boundary correspondence is the foundational principle of topological physics, first established in the quantum Hall effect, where a -dimensional topologically nontrivial bu…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Observation of Dirac hierarchy in three-dimensional acoustic topological insulators

Linyun Yang, Yin Wang, Yan Meng +12

Dirac cones (DCs) play a pivotal role in various unique phenomena ranging from massless electrons in graphene to robust surface states in topological insulators (TIs). Recent studi…

physics.app-ph2021

Demonstration of negative refraction induced by synthetic gauge fields

Yihao Yang, Yong Ge, Rujiang Li +7

The phenomenon of negative refraction generally requires negative refractive indices or phase discontinuities, which can be realized using metamaterials or metasurfaces. Recent the…

cs.IR2019

Binarized Collaborative Filtering with Distilling Graph Convolutional Networks

Haoyu Wang, Defu Lian, Yong Ge

The efficiency of top-K item recommendation based on implicit feedback are vital to recommender systems in real world, but it is very challenging due to the lack of negative sample…

cs.CL2017

A Context-aware Attention Network for Interactive Question Answering

Huayu Li, Martin Renqiang Min, Yong Ge +1

Neural network based sequence-to-sequence models in an encoder-decoder framework have been successfully applied to solve Question Answering (QA) problems, predicting answers from s…

cs.LG2026

Interpretable Probability Estimation with LLMs via Shapley Reconstruction

Yang Nan, Qihao Wen, Jiahao Wang +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate potential to estimate the probability of uncertain events, by leveraging their extensive knowledge and reasoning capabilities. This ability…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Observation of dislocation-induced topological modes in a three-dimensional acoustic topological insulator

Haoran Xue, Ding Jia, Yong Ge +6

The interplay between real-space topological lattice defects and the reciprocal-space topology of energy bands can give rise to novel phenomena, such as one-dimensional topological…

physics.class-ph2025

Observation of disorder-induced boundary localization

Bing-bing Wang, Zheyu Cheng, Hong-yu Zou +7

Bloch wavefunctions in crystals experience localization within the bulk when disorder is introduced, a phenomenon commonly known as Anderson localization. This effect is considered…

cs.SI2015

Information Coverage Maximization in Social Networks

Zhefeng Wang, Enhong Chen, Qi Liu +3

Social networks, due to their popularity, have been studied extensively these years. A rich body of these studies is related to influence maximization, which aims to select a set o…

cs.IR2026

Fairness Attacks on Recommender Systems

Yanan Wang, Yong Ge

The unfairness of recommender systems has become a topic of concern due to its significant social and ethical implications. Although existing works have shown the effectiveness of…

cs.LG2018

A Semi-Supervised and Inductive Embedding Model for Churn Prediction of Large-Scale Mobile Games

Xi Liu, Muhe Xie, Xidao Wen +4

Mobile gaming has emerged as a promising market with billion-dollar revenues. A variety of mobile game platforms and services have been developed around the world. One critical cha…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Observation of an acoustic octupole topological insulator

Haoran Xue, Yong Ge, Hong-Xiang Sun +6

The Berry phase associated with energy bands in crystals can lead to quantized quantities, such as the quantization of electric dipole polarization in an insulator, known as a one-…

cs.LG2020

AutoFS: Automated Feature Selection via Diversity-aware Interactive Reinforcement Learning

Wei Fan, Kunpeng Liu, Hao Liu +3

In this paper, we study the problem of balancing effectiveness and efficiency in automated feature selection. Feature selection is a fundamental intelligence for machine learning a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Three-dimensional flat Landau levels in an inhomogeneous acoustic crystal

Zheyu Cheng, Yi-jun Guan, Haoran Xue +7

When electrons moving in two-dimensions (2D) are subjected to a strong uniform magnetic field, they form flat bands called Landau levels, which are the basis for the quantum Hall e…

cs.LG2019

Micro- and Macro-Level Churn Analysis of Large-Scale Mobile Games

Xi Liu, Muhe Xie, Xidao Wen +4

As mobile devices become more and more popular, mobile gaming has emerged as a promising market with billion-dollar revenues. A variety of mobile game platforms and services have b…

cs.SI2021

DiffNet++: A Neural Influence and Interest Diffusion Network for Social Recommendation

Le Wu, Junwei Li, Peijie Sun +3

Social recommendation has emerged to leverage social connections among users for predicting users' unknown preferences, which could alleviate the data sparsity issue in collaborati…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Vortex states in an acoustic Weyl crystal with a topological lattice defect

Qiang Wang, Yong Ge, Hong-xiang Sun +6

We design and implement a three dimensional acoustic Weyl metamaterial hosting robust modes bound to a one-dimensional topological lattice defect. The modes are related to topologi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Three-dimensional valley-contrasting sound

Haoran Xue, Yong Ge, Zheyu Cheng +8

Spin and valley are two fundamental properties of electrons in crystals. The similarity between them is well understood in valley-contrasting physics established decades ago in two…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Non-Hermitian edge burst of sound

Hong-Yu Zou, Bing-Bing Wang, Yong Ge +6

Non-Hermitian band topology can give rise to phenomena with no counterparts in Hermitian systems. A well-known example is the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE), where Bloch eigensta…

cs.AI2026

Align Generative Artificial Intelligence with Human Preferences: A Novel Large Language Model Fine-Tuning Method for Online Review Management

Yanan Wang, Yong Ge

Online reviews have played a pivotal role in consumers' decision-making processes. Existing research has highlighted the significant impact of managerial review responses on custom…

cs.IR2020

Personalized Multimedia Item and Key Frame Recommendation

Le Wu, Lei Chen, Yonghui Yang +4

When recommending or advertising items to users, an emerging trend is to present each multimedia item with a key frame image (e.g., the poster of a movie). As each multimedia item…

cs.LG2025

Fairness in Survival Analysis: A Novel Conditional Mutual Information Augmentation Approach

Tianyang Xie, Yong Ge

Survival analysis, a vital tool for predicting the time to event, has been used in many domains such as healthcare, criminal justice, and finance. Like classification tasks, surviv…

cond-mat.other2018

Topological triply-degenerate point with double Fermi arcs

Yihao Yang, Hong-xiang Sun, Jian-ping Xia +6

Unconventional chiral particles have recently been predicted to appear in certain three dimensional (3D) crystal structures containing three- or more-fold linear band degeneracy po…

cs.IR2022

Boosting Factorization Machines via Saliency-Guided Mixup

Chenwang Wu, Defu Lian, Yong Ge +3

Factorization machines (FMs) are widely used in recommender systems due to their adaptability and ability to learn from sparse data. However, for the ubiquitous non-interactive fea…

cs.LG2020

Developing Multi-Task Recommendations with Long-Term Rewards via Policy Distilled Reinforcement Learning

Xi Liu, Li Li, Ping-Chun Hsieh +3

With the explosive growth of online products and content, recommendation techniques have been considered as an effective tool to overcome information overload, improve user experie…