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Uniform Graph Pre-training and Prompting for Transferable Recommendation
Qing Yu, Lixin Zou*, Xiangyang Luo*, Xiangyu Zhao, Chenliang Li (*Corresponding Author)
ACM Transactions on Information Systems.(CCF-A), 2025
Mitigating Language Confusion through Inference-time Intervention
Yunfan Xie, Lixin Zou*, Dan Luo, Min Tang, Chenliang Li, Liming Dong, Xiangyang Luo* (*Corresponding Author)
The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics.(CCF-B), 2025
META-LORA:Memory-Efficient Sample Reweighting for Fine-Tuning Large Language Models
Weicheng Li, Lixin Zou*, Min Tang, Qing Yu, Wanli Li, Chenliang Li (*Corresponding Author)
The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics.(CCF-B), 2025
CHIFRAUD:A Long-term Web Text Benchmark for Chinese Fraud Detection
Min Tang, Lixin Zou*, Shiuan-ni Liang, Zhe Jin, Weiqing Wang, Shujie Cui (*Corresponding Author)
The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics.(CCF-B, Best Social Impact Paper), 2025
Sequential Recommendation by Reprogramming Pretrained Transformer
Min Tang, Shujie Cui, Zhe Jin, Shiuan-ni Liang, Chenliang Li, Lixin Zou* (*Corresponding Author)
Information Processing & Management 62 (1), 103938. (SCI-1, CCF-B), 2025
Spectral and Geometric Spaces Representation Regularization for Multi-Modal Sequential Recommendation
Zihao Li, Xuekong Xu, Zuoli Tang, Lixin Zou, Qian Wang, Chenliang Li (*Corresponding Author)
The 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. (CCF-B), 2024
TEXT CAN BE FAIR:Mitigating Popularity Bias with PLMs by Learning Relative Preference
Zuoli Tang, Zhaoxin Huan, Zihao Li, Shirui Hu, Xiaolu Zhang, Jun Zhou, Lixin Zou*, Chenliang Li* (*Corresponding Author)
The 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. (CCF-B), 2024
Unbiased Recommendation Through Invariant Representation Learning
Min Tang, Lixin Zou*, Shujie Cui, Shiuan-ni Liang, Zhe Jin (*Corresponding Author)
Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. (CCF-B), 2024
Efficient Sparse Attention needs Adaptive Token Release
Chaoran Zhang, Lixin Zou*, Dan Luo, Xiangyang Luo, Zihao Li, Min Tang, Chenliang Li (*Corresponding Author)
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024. (CCF-A), 2024
Unbiased Learning-to-Rank Needs Unconfounded Propensity Estimation
Dan Luo, Lixin Zou*, Qingyao Ai, Zhiyu Chen, Chenliang Li, Dawei Yin, Brian D. Davison (*Corresponding Author)
The 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (CCF-A), 2024
Toward Bias-Agnostic Recommender Systems:A Universal Generative Framework
Zhidan Wang, Lixin Zou*, Chenliang Li, Shuaiqiang Wang, Xu Chen, Dawei Yin, Weidong Liu (*Corresponding Author)
ACM Transactions on Information Systems 2024. (CCF-A), 2024
Whole Page Unbiased Learning to Rank
Haitao Mao, Lixin Zou*, Yujia Zheng, Jiliang Tang, Xiaokai Chu, Jiashu Zhao, Dawei Yin
The ACM on Web Conference 2024. (CCF-A), 2024
LT^2R:Learning to Online Learning to Rank for Web Search
Xiaokai Chu, Jiashu Zhao, Changying Hao, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin, Lixin Zou*, Chenliang Li (*Corresponding Author)
2024 IEEE 40th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE). (CCF-A), 2024
Model-based Unbiased Learning to Rank
Dan Luo, Lixin Zou*, Qingyao Ai, Zhiyu Chen, Dawei Yin, Brian D Davison
The 16th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining. (CCF-B), 2023
Tutorial:Data Denoising Metrics in Recommender Systems
Pengfei Wang, Chenliang Li, Lixin Zou*, Zhichao Feng, Kaiyuan Li, Xiaochen Li, Xialong Liu, Shangguang Wang
The 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management., 2023
STRec:Sparse Transformer for Sequential Recommendations
Chengxi Li, Yejing Wang, Qidong Liu, Xiangyu Zhao, Wanyu Wang, Yiqi Wang, Lixin Zou*, Wenqi Fan, Qing Li
The 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. (CCF-B), 2023
Towards Flexible and Adaptive Neural Process for Cold-Start Recommendation
Xixun Lin, Chuan Zhou, Jia Wu, Lixin Zou*, Shirui Pan, Yanan Cao, Bin Wang, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. (CCF-A), 2023
Sample Efficient Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning
Siyuan Guo, Lixin Zou*, Hechang Chen, Bohao Qu, Haotian Chi, S Yu Philip, Yi Chang
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. (CCF-A), 2023
Towards Multi-Interest Pre-training with Sparse Capsule Network
Zuoli Tang, Lin Wang, Lixin Zou*, Xiaolu Zhang, Jun Zhou, Chenliang Li* (*Corresponding Author)
The 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.(CCF-A), 2023
A Survey on Reinforcement Learning for Recommender Systems
Yuanguo Lin, Yong Liu, Fan Lin*, Lixin Zou*, Pengcheng Wu, Wenhua Zeng, Huanhuan Chen, Chunyan Miao (*Corresponding Author)
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.(SCI-1, CCF-B), 2023
Adversarial Multi-Teacher Distillation for Semi-Supervised Relation Extraction
Wanli Li, Tieyun Qian*, Xuhui Li, Lixin Zou*
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.(SCI-1, CCF-B), 2023
User Retention-oriented Recommendation with Decision Transformer
Kesen Zhao, Lixin Zou**, Xiangyu Zhao*, Maolin Wang, Dawei Yin (*Corresponding Author)
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023. (CCF-A), 2023
A Large Scale Search Dataset for Unbiased Learning to Rank
Lixin Zou*, Haitao Mao, Xiaokai Chu, Jiliang Tang, Wenwen Ye, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin
The 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. (CCF-A), 2022
Pre-trained Language Model based Retrieval and Ranking for Web Search
Lixin Zou*, Weixue Lu*, Yiding Liu*, Hengyi Cai*, Xiaokai Chu, Dehong Ma, Dating Shi, Zhicong Cheng, Simiu Gu, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin (*Equal Contribution)
ACM Transactions on the Web 17 (1), 1-36.(CCF-B), 2022
Approximated Doubly Robust Search Relevance Estimation
Lixin Zou*, Changying Hao, Hengyi Cai, Suqi Cheng, Shuaiqiang Wang, Wenwen Ye, Zhicong Cheng, Simu Gu, Dawei Yin
The 31st International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.(CCF-B), 2022
A Hierarchical Multi-Granularity Pre-Trained Language Model for Web Search
Xiaokai Chu, Jiashu Zhao, Lixin Zou*, Dawei Yin
The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.(CCF-A), 2022
Contrastive Disentangled Graph Convolutional Network for Weakly-supervised Node Classification
Xiaokai Chu, Jiashu Zhao, Xinxin Fan, Di Yao, Zhihua Zhu, Dawei Yin, Lixin Zou*, Jingping Bi
The 27th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications. (CCF-B), 2022
Generative Session-based Recommendation
Zhidan Wang, Wenwen Ye, Xu Chen, Wenqiang Zhang, Zhenlei Wang, Lixin Zou*, and Weidong Liu
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022.(CCF-A), 2022
Fast Semantic Matching via Flexible Contextualized Interaction
Wenwen Ye, Yiding Liu, Lixin Zou*, Hengyi Cai, Suqi Cheng, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin
The 15th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining.(CCF-B), 2022
Pre-trained Language Model based Ranking in Baidu Search
Lixin Zou*, Shengqiang Zhang, Hengyi Cai, Dehong Ma, Suqi Cheng, Daiting Shi, Shuaiqiang Wang, Zhichong Cheng, Dawei Yin
The 27th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.(CCF-A), 2021
Enhanced Doubly Robust Learning for Debiasing Post-Click Conversion Rate Estimation
Siyuan Guo, Lixin Zou*, Yiding Liu, Wenwen Ye, Suqi Cheng, Shuaiqiang Wang, Hechang Chen, Dawei Yin, Yi Chang (*Corresponding author)
The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.(CCF-A), 2021
Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Malaria Control
Lixin Zou*, Long Xia, Linfang Hou, Xiangyu Zhao, Dawei Yin
The 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.(CCF-A), 2021
UserSim:User Simulation via Supervised Generative Adversarial Network
Xiangyu Zhao, Long Xia, Lixin Zou*, Dawei Yin, Jiliang Tang
Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021.(CCF-A), 2021
Whole-Chain Recommendations
Xiangyu Zhao, Long Xia, Lixin Zou*, Hui Liu, Dawei Yin, Jiliang Tang
The 29th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.(CCF-B), 2020
Deep Multifaceted Transformers for Multi-objective Ranking in Large-Scale E-commerce Recommender Systems
Yulong Gu, Zhuoye Ding, Shuaiqiang Wang, Lixin Zou*, Yiding Liu, Dawei Yin
The 29th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.(CCF-B), 2020
Meta-Learning for Neural Relation Classification with Distant Supervision
Zhenzhen Li, Jian-Yun Nie, Benyou Wang, Pan Du, Yuhan Zhang, Lixin Zou*, Dongsheng Li
The 29th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.(CCF-B), 2020
Task-based Focal Loss for Adversarially Robust Meta-Learning
Yufang Hou, Lixin Zou*, Weidong Liu
The 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition.(CCF-C), 2020
Neural Interactive Collaborative Filtering
Lixin Zou*, Long Xia, Yulong Gu, Xiangyu Zhao, Weidong Liu, Jimmy Xiangji Huang, Dawei Yin
The 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.(CCF-A), 2020
Pseudo Dyna-Q:A reinforcement learning framework for interactive recommendation
Lixin Zou*, Long Xia, Pan Du, Zhuo Zhang, Ting Bai, Weidong Liu, Jian-Yun Nie, Dawei Yin
The 13th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining.(CCF-B), 2020
Reinforcement Learning to Diversify Top-N Recommendation
Lixin Zou*, Long Xia, Zhuoye Ding, Dawei Yin, Jiaxing Song, Weidong Liu
The 24th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications.(CCF-B), 2019
Reinforcement learning to optimize long-term user engagement in recommender systems
Lixin Zou*, Long Xia, Zhuoye Ding, Jiaxing Song, Weidong Liu, Dawei Yin
The 25th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.(CCF-A), 2019
Ctrec:A long-short demands evolution model for continuous-time recommendation
Ting Bai, Lixin Zou*, Wayne Xin Zhao, Pan Du, Weidong Liu, Jian-Yun Nie, Ji-Rong Wen (*Co-first author)
The 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.(CCF-A), 2019
HLGPS:a home location global positioning system in location-based social networks
Yulong Gu, Jiaxing Song, Weidong Liu, Lixin Zou*
The 16th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining.(CCF-B), 2016