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most citedA Survey of Deep Reinforcement Learning in Recommender Systems: A Systematic Review and Future Directions

20 citations · 38 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.LG2026

From Statistical Fidelity to Clinical Consistency: Scalable Generation and Auditing of Synthetic Patient Trajectories

Guanglin Zhou, Armin Catic, Motahare Shabestari +4

Access to electronic health records (EHRs) for digital health research is often limited by privacy regulations and institutional barriers. Synthetic EHRs have been proposed as a wa…

cs.CR2025

Retrieval-Augmented Review Generation for Poisoning Recommender Systems

Shiyi Yang, Xinshu Li, Guanglin Zhou +4

Recent studies have shown that recommender systems (RSs) are highly vulnerable to data poisoning attacks, where malicious actors inject fake user profiles, including a group of wel…

cs.LG2025★ 3 cited

Generating Clinically Realistic EHR Data via a Hierarchy- and Semantics-Guided Transformer

Guanglin Zhou, Sebastiano Barbieri

Generating realistic synthetic electronic health records (EHRs) holds tremendous promise for accelerating healthcare research, facilitating AI model development and enhancing patie…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Adapting Large Multimodal Models to Distribution Shifts: The Role of In-Context Learning

Guanglin Zhou, Zhongyi Han, Shiming Chen +5

Recent studies indicate that large multimodal models (LMMs) potentially act as general-purpose assistants and are highly robust against different distributions. Despite this, domai…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

HCVP: Leveraging Hierarchical Contrastive Visual Prompt for Domain Generalization

Guanglin Zhou, Zhongyi Han, Shiming Chen +5

Domain Generalization (DG) endeavors to create machine learning models that excel in unseen scenarios by learning invariant features. In DG, the prevalent practice of constraining…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

How Well Does GPT-4V(ision) Adapt to Distribution Shifts? A Preliminary Investigation

Zhongyi Han, Guanglin Zhou, Rundong He +7

In machine learning, generalization against distribution shifts -- where deployment conditions diverge from the training scenarios -- is crucial, particularly in fields like climat…

cs.LG2023★ 7 cited

Emerging Synergies in Causality and Deep Generative Models: A Survey

Guanglin Zhou, Shaoan Xie, Guang-Yuan Hao +7

In the field of artificial intelligence (AI), the quest to understand and model data-generating processes (DGPs) is of paramount importance. Deep generative models (DGMs) have prov…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Learning to Infer Counterfactuals: Meta-Learning for Estimating Multiple Imbalanced Treatment Effects

Guanglin Zhou, Lina Yao, Xiwei Xu +2

We regularly consider answering counterfactual questions in practice, such as "Would people with diabetes take a turn for the better had they choose another medication?". Observati…

cs.IR2022

Contrastive Counterfactual Learning for Causality-aware Interpretable Recommender Systems

Guanglin Zhou, Chengkai Huang, Xiaocong Chen +4

The field of generating recommendations within the framework of causal inference has seen a recent surge, with recommendations being likened to treatments. This approach enhances i…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Cycle-Balanced Representation Learning For Counterfactual Inference

Guanglin Zhou, Lina Yao, Xiwei Xu +2

With the widespread accumulation of observational data, researchers obtain a new direction to learn counterfactual effects in many domains (e.g., health care and computational adve…

cs.IR2021★ 20 cited

A Survey of Deep Reinforcement Learning in Recommender Systems: A Systematic Review and Future Directions

Xiaocong Chen, Lina Yao, Julian McAuley +2

In light of the emergence of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) in recommender systems research and several fruitful results in recent years, this survey aims to provide a timely an…