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20182026
most citedLifelong Sequential Modeling with Personalized Memorization for User Response Prediction

126 citations · 337 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

cs.CL2026

ReMiT: RL-Guided Mid-Training for Iterative LLM Evolution

Junjie Huang, Jiarui Qin, Di Yin +4

Standard training pipelines for large language models (LLMs) are typically unidirectional, progressing from pre-training to post-training. However, the potential for a bidirectiona…

cs.AI2025

APTBench: Benchmarking Agentic Potential of Base LLMs During Pre-Training

Jiarui Qin, Yunjia Xi, Junjie Huang +6

With the rapid development of LLM-based agents, there is a growing trend to incorporate agent-specific data into the pre-training stage of LLMs, aiming to better align LLMs with re…

cs.CL2025

Pangu Light: Weight Re-Initialization for Pruning and Accelerating LLMs

Hanting Chen, Jiarui Qin, Jialong Guo +15

Large Language Models (LLMs) deliver state-of-the-art capabilities across numerous tasks, but their immense size and inference costs pose significant computational challenges for p…

cs.CL2025

Pangu Ultra MoE: How to Train Your Big MoE on Ascend NPUs

Yehui Tang, Yichun Yin, Yaoyuan Wang +71

Sparse large language models (LLMs) with Mixture of Experts (MoE) and close to a trillion parameters are dominating the realm of most capable language models. However, the massive…

cs.CL2025

Position: The Real Barrier to LLM Agent Usability is Agentic ROI

Weiwen Liu, Jiarui Qin, Xu Huang +10

Large Language Model (LLM) agents represent a promising shift in human-AI interaction, moving beyond passive prompt-response systems to autonomous agents capable of reasoning, plan…

cs.CL2025

Pangu Ultra: Pushing the Limits of Dense Large Language Models on Ascend NPUs

Yichun Yin, Wenyong Huang, Kaikai Song +49

We present Pangu Ultra, a Large Language Model (LLM) with 135 billion parameters and dense Transformer modules trained on Ascend Neural Processing Units (NPUs). Although the field…

cs.IR2024

Beyond Graph Convolution: Multimodal Recommendation with Topology-aware MLPs

Junjie Huang, Jiarui Qin, Yong Yu +1

Given the large volume of side information from different modalities, multimodal recommender systems have become increasingly vital, as they exploit richer semantic information bey…

cs.IR2024

Unleashing the Potential of Multi-Channel Fusion in Retrieval for Personalized Recommendations

Junjie Huang, Jiarui Qin, Jianghao Lin +3

Recommender systems (RS) are pivotal in managing information overload in modern digital services. A key challenge in RS is efficiently processing vast item pools to deliver highly…

cs.IR2024

All Roads Lead to Rome: Unveiling the Trajectory of Recommender Systems Across the LLM Era

Bo Chen, Xinyi Dai, Huifeng Guo +9

Recommender systems (RS) are vital for managing information overload and delivering personalized content, responding to users' diverse information needs. The emergence of large lan…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

A Comprehensive Survey on Retrieval Methods in Recommender Systems

Junjie Huang, Jizheng Chen, Jianghao Lin +4

In an era dominated by information overload, effective recommender systems are essential for managing the deluge of data across digital platforms. Multi-stage cascade ranking syste…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

M-scan: A Multi-Scenario Causal-driven Adaptive Network for Recommendation

Jiachen Zhu, Yichao Wang, Jianghao Lin +4

We primarily focus on the field of multi-scenario recommendation, which poses a significant challenge in effectively leveraging data from different scenarios to enhance predictions…

cs.IR2024★ 2 cited

Retrieval-Oriented Knowledge for Click-Through Rate Prediction

Huanshuo Liu, Bo Chen, Menghui Zhu +5

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is crucial for personalized online services. Sample-level retrieval-based models, such as RIM, have demonstrated remarkable performance. However…

cs.IR2024

D2K: Turning Historical Data into Retrievable Knowledge for Recommender Systems

Jiarui Qin, Weiwen Liu, Ruiming Tang +2

A vast amount of user behavior data is constantly accumulating on today's large recommendation platforms, recording users' various interests and tastes. Preserving knowledge from t…

cs.IR2023

A Survey on User Behavior Modeling in Recommender Systems

Zhicheng He, Weiwen Liu, Wei Guo +4

User Behavior Modeling (UBM) plays a critical role in user interest learning, which has been extensively used in recommender systems. Crucial interactive patterns between users and…

cs.IR2022★ 15 cited

Disentangling Past-Future Modeling in Sequential Recommendation via Dual Networks

Hengyu Zhang, Enming Yuan, Wei Guo +6

Sequential recommendation (SR) plays an important role in personalized recommender systems because it captures dynamic and diverse preferences from users' real-time increasing beha…

cs.IR2022★ 1 cited

Neural Re-ranking in Multi-stage Recommender Systems: A Review

Weiwen Liu, Yunjia Xi, Jiarui Qin +5

As the final stage of the multi-stage recommender system (MRS), re-ranking directly affects user experience and satisfaction by rearranging the input ranking lists, and thereby pla…

cs.IR2021★ 2 cited

MISS: Multi-Interest Self-Supervised Learning Framework for Click-Through Rate Prediction

Wei Guo, Can Zhang, Zhicheng He +6

CTR prediction is essential for modern recommender systems. Ranging from early factorization machines to deep learning based models in recent years, existing CTR methods focus on c…

cs.IR2021

Retrieval & Interaction Machine for Tabular Data Prediction

Jiarui Qin, Weinan Zhang, Rong Su +5

Prediction over tabular data is an essential task in many data science applications such as recommender systems, online advertising, medical treatment, etc. Tabular data is structu…

cs.IR2021★ 7 cited

Deep Learning for Click-Through Rate Estimation

Weinan Zhang, Jiarui Qin, Wei Guo +2

Click-through rate (CTR) estimation plays as a core function module in various personalized online services, including online advertising, recommender systems, and web search etc.…

cs.IR2020

GraphHINGE: Learning Interaction Models of Structured Neighborhood on Heterogeneous Information Network

Jiarui Jin, Kounianhua Du, Weinan Zhang +5

Heterogeneous information network (HIN) has been widely used to characterize entities of various types and their complex relations. Recent attempts either rely on explicit path rea…

cs.IR2020★ 3 cited

An Efficient Neighborhood-based Interaction Model for Recommendation on Heterogeneous Graph

Jiarui Jin, Jiarui Qin, Yuchen Fang +5

There is an influx of heterogeneous information network (HIN) based recommender systems in recent years since HIN is capable of characterizing complex graphs and contains rich sema…

cs.IR2020★ 107 cited

User Behavior Retrieval for Click-Through Rate Prediction

Jiarui Qin, Weinan Zhang, Xin Wu +3

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays a key role in modern online personalization services. In practice, it is necessary to capture user's drifting interests by modeling sequen…

cs.IR2019★ 35 cited

Sequential Recommendation with Dual Side Neighbor-based Collaborative Relation Modeling

Jiarui Qin, Kan Ren, Yuchen Fang +2

Sequential recommendation task aims to predict user preference over items in the future given user historical behaviors. The order of user behaviors implies that there are resource…

cs.IR2019★ 36 cited

Deep Landscape Forecasting for Real-time Bidding Advertising

Kan Ren, Jiarui Qin, Lei Zheng +3

The emergence of real-time auction in online advertising has drawn huge attention of modeling the market competition, i.e., bid landscape forecasting. The problem is formulated as…