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Publications (20)

cs.IR2023

Multi-Task Deep Recommender Systems: A Survey

Yuhao Wang, Ha Tsz Lam, Yi Wong +6

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims at learning related tasks in a unified model to achieve mutual improvement among tasks considering their shared knowledge. It is an important topic i…

cs.IR2024

Sequential Recommendation for Optimizing Both Immediate Feedback and Long-term Retention

Ziru Liu, Shuchang Liu, Zijian Zhang +6

In the landscape of Recommender System (RS) applications, reinforcement learning (RL) has recently emerged as a powerful tool, primarily due to its proficiency in optimizing long-t…

cs.IR2023

AutoAssign+: Automatic Shared Embedding Assignment in Streaming Recommendation

Ziru Liu, Kecheng Chen, Fengyi Song +4

In the domain of streaming recommender systems, conventional methods for addressing new user IDs or item IDs typically involve assigning initial ID embeddings randomly. However, th…

cs.AI2025

Efficient Reasoning via Reward Model

Yuhao Wang, Xiaopeng Li, Cheng Gong +4

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has been shown to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), enabling the development of large reason…

cs.CV2023

Learning Empirical Bregman Divergence for Uncertain Distance Representation

Zhiyuan Li, Ziru Liu, Anna Zou +1

Deep metric learning techniques have been used for visual representation in various supervised and unsupervised learning tasks through learning embeddings of samples with deep netw…

cs.CL2026

Self-Distilled Trajectory-Aware Boltzmann Modeling: Bridging the Training-Inference Discrepancy in Diffusion Language Models

Kecheng Chen, Ziru Liu, Xijia Tao +9

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive language models, offering stronger global awareness and highly parallel generati…