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most citedPredicting the Popularity of Micro-videos with Multimodal Variational Encoder-Decoder Framework

44 citations · 101 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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math.OC2026

PI-SONet: A Physics-Informed Symplectic Operator Network for Real-Time Optimal Control of Multi-Agent Systems

Alan John Varghese, Shanqing Liu, Paula Chen +3

Many real-life applications involve controlling high-dimensional multi-agent systems in real-time. Existing optimal control solvers often suffer from the curse-of-dimensionality an…

cs.IR2023★ 10 cited

Path-Specific Counterfactual Fairness for Recommender Systems

Yaochen Zhu, Jing Ma, Liang Wu +3

Recommender systems (RSs) have become an indispensable part of online platforms. With the growing concerns of algorithmic fairness, RSs are not only expected to deliver high-qualit…

cs.IR2023★ 9 cited

Causal Inference in Recommender Systems: A Survey of Strategies for Bias Mitigation, Explanation, and Generalization

Yaochen Zhu, Jing Ma, Jundong Li

In the era of information overload, recommender systems (RSs) have become an indispensable part of online service platforms. Traditional RSs estimate user interests and predict the…

cs.IR2022★ 26 cited

Mutually-Regularized Dual Collaborative Variational Auto-encoder for Recommendation Systems

Yaochen Zhu, Zhenzhong Chen

Recently, user-oriented auto-encoders (UAEs) have been widely used in recommender systems to learn semantic representations of users based on their historical ratings. However, sin…

cs.IR2022

Deep Deconfounded Content-based Tag Recommendation for UGC with Causal Intervention

Yaochen Zhu, Xubin Ren, Jing Yi +1

Traditional content-based tag recommender systems directly learn the association between user-generated content (UGC) and tags based on collected UGC-tag pairs. However, since a UG…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Deep Causal Reasoning for Recommendations

Yaochen Zhu, Jing Yi, Jiayi Xie +1

Traditional recommender systems aim to estimate a user's rating to an item based on observed ratings from the population. As with all observational studies, hidden confounders, whi…

cs.MM2021★ 9 cited

Cross-modal Variational Auto-encoder for Content-based Micro-video Background Music Recommendation

Jing Yi, Yaochen Zhu, Jiayi Xie +1

In this paper, we propose a cross-modal variational auto-encoder (CMVAE) for content-based micro-video background music recommendation. CMVAE is a hierarchical Bayesian generative…

cs.IR2021★ 2 cited

Variational Bandwidth Auto-encoder for Hybrid Recommender Systems

Yaochen Zhu, Zhenzhong Chen

Hybrid recommendations have recently attracted a lot of attention where user features are utilized as auxiliary information to address the sparsity problem caused by insufficient u…

cs.LG2020★ 44 cited

Predicting the Popularity of Micro-videos with Multimodal Variational Encoder-Decoder Framework

Yaochen Zhu, Jiayi Xie, Zhenzhong Chen

As an emerging type of user-generated content, micro-video drastically enriches people's entertainment experiences and social interactions. However, the popularity pattern of an in…