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Our paper ‘GLINT-RU: Gated Lightweight Intelligent Recurrent Units for Sequential Recommender Systems’ got accepted by KDD’25. Congratulations!

Our paper ‘DimCL: Dimension-Aware Augmentation in Contrastive Learning for Recomendation’ got accepted by KDD’25. Congratulations!

Our paper ‘NoteLLM-2: Multimodal Large Representation Models for Recommendation’ got accepted by KDD’25. Congratulations!

Our team is honored to receive the Outstanding Project (6/26) in CCF-Tencent Open Fund 2023 (CCF-腾讯犀牛鸟基金)

Siqi won the silver medal in women’s high jump at the City University of Hong Kong Sports Day. Congratulations!

Pengyue Jia receives NeurIPS student travel award. Congratulations!

Sheng Zhang and Jiawei Liu have received outstanding performance awards (TOP 2 student in DS department). Congratulations!

Our paper ‘Does Egalitarian Fairness Lead to Instability? The Fairness Bounds in Stable Federated Learning Under Altruistic Behaviors’ got accepted by NeurIPS’24. Congratulations!

Our paper ‘G3: An Effective and Adaptive Framework for Worldwide Geolocalization Using Large Multi-Modality Models’ got accepted by NeurIPS’24. Congratulations!

Our paper ‘Association of Objects May Engender Stereotypes: Mitigating Association-Engendered Stereotypes in Text-to-Image Generation’ got accepted by NeurIPS’24. Congratulations!

Our paper ‘Seeing is NOT Always Believing! Unveiling the True Symmetric Moral Consistency of Large Language Models’ got accepted by NeurIPS’24. Congratulations!

Our paper ‘LLM-ESR: Large Language Models Enhancement for Long-tailed Sequential Recommendation’ got accepted by NeurIPS’24. Congratulations!

Our paper ‘A Unified Framework for Multi-Domain CTR Prediction via Large Language Models’ got accepted by TOIS. Congratulations!

Our paper ‘Large Language Models for Generative Information Extraction: A Survey’ got accepted by FCS’24. Congratulations!

Our paper ‘Mitigating Hallucinations of Large Language Models in Medical Domain via Contrastive Decoding’ got accepted by EMNLP’24. Congratulations!

Langming Liu and Ziru Liu have passed Oral Examination. Congratulations to Dr. Langming Liu and Dr. Ziru Liu!

3 of our PhD students receive the Research Tuition Scholarship (RTS-CityU) and 6 members also receive the Outstanding Academic Performance Award (OAPA-CityU). Congratulations!

Dayan Pan was honored BEST REVIEWERS by KDD’24 Research track. Congratulations!

Our paper ‘Multimodal Recommender Systems: A Survey’ got accept by CSUR. Congratulations!

Our paper ‘DNS-Rec: Data-aware Neural Architecture Search for Recommender Systems’ got accept by RecSys’24. Congratulations!

Our team got third place in three tracks and second place in two tracks at the KDD CUP 2024 Multi-Task Online Shopping Challenge for LLMs hosted by Amazon. Congratulations!

7 of our papers (5 full research & 1 Resource & 1 PhD Symposium track) got accept by CIKM’24. Congratulations!

2 MS students (Sheng Zhang and Yinliang Kang) graduate with distinction. Congratulations!

Pengyue Jia and Yuanshao Zhu receive KDD student travel award. Congratulations!

Jialin Liu will join a university in China as an assistant professor. Congratulations!

4 of our papers (2 Research & 2 ADS track) got accept by KDD’24. Congratulations!

Our paper ‘Automatic Data Repair: Are We Ready to Deploy?’ got accept by VLDB’24. Congratulations!

Our paper ‘Graph Neural Stochastic Diffusion for Estimating Uncertainty in Node Classification’ got accept by ICML’24. Congratulations!

2 of our papers got accept by IJCAI’24. Congratulations!

5 of our papers (4 full & 1 resource) got accept by SIGIR’24. Congratulations!

Our paper ‘MILL: Mutual Verification with Large Language Models for Zero-Shot Query Expansion’ got accepted by NAACL 2024. Congratulations!

Our paper ‘Multi-perspective Improvement of Knowledge Graph Completion with Large Language Models’ got accepted by LREC-COLING 2024. Congratulations!

Our paper ‘Large Multimodal Model Compression via Efficient Pruning and Distillation’ got accepted by WWW 2024 (industry track). Congratulations!

Our paper ‘When Federated Recommendation Meets Cold-Start Problem: Separating Item Attributes and User Interactions’ got accepted by WWW 2024. Congratulations!

Our paper ‘Tensorized Hypergraph Neural Networks’ got accepted by SDM 2024. Congratulations!

Our paper ‘D3: A Methodological Exploration of Domain Division, Modeling, and Balance in Multi-Domain Recommendations’ got accepted by AAAI 2024. Congratulations!

Our paper ‘SSDRec: Self-Augmented Sequence Denoising for Sequential Recommendation’ got accepted by ICDE 2024. Congratulations!

Yu Li has been appointed as an assistant professor at Jilin University. Congratulations!

Our paper ‘SMLP4Rec: An Efficient all-MLP Architecture for Sequential Recommendations’ got accepted by TOIS. Congratulations!

Our paper Dynamically Engineered Multi-modal Feature Learning for Predictions of Office Building Cooling Loads got accepted by Applied Energy. Congratulations!

Our team is honored to receive the CCF-BaiChuan-Ebtech Foundation Model Fund (CCF-百川-英博大模型基金).

Our survey On the Opportunities of Green Computing: A Survey is online.

Our survey Embedding in Recommender Systems: A Survey is online.

2 of our papers got accept by WSDM’24. Congratulations!

Our paper ‘A Comprehensive Survey on Automated Machine learning for Recommendations’ got accepted by TORS. Congratulations!

1 MS student (Jie Wang) receives Outstanding Dissertation Award (summer 2023), 4 MS students (Kecheng, Jiangping, Bo Li, and Jiaocong) receive Outstanding Research Project Award (summer 2023) and 1 undergraduate student (Yi Wong) graduates with first class honours. Congratulations!

5 of our papers (2 main & 3 Datasets and Benchmarks) got accept by NeurIPS’23. Congratulations!

7 PhD students (Wenlin, Zichuan, Dayan, Yusheng, Jiawei, Siqi and Derong) are welcome to join the AML Lab!

Our paper FedTensor got accepted by ICDM. Congratulations!

1 paper got accepted by TKDE. Congratulations!

Four of our members receive the Research Tuition Scholarship (RTS-CityU) and two of them also receive the Outstanding Academic Performance Award (OAPA-CityU). Congratulations!

Our paper FGCL got accept by Information Sciences. Congratulations!

9 of our papers (7 full & 2 short) got accept by CIKM’23. Congratulations!

Our team is honored to receive the CCF-Tencent Rhino-Bird Fund (CCF-腾讯犀牛鸟基金)

Our paper AutoAssign+ got accept by Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS). Congratulations!

Our paper STRec got accept by Recsys’23. Congratulations!

Three of our members receive travel grants from IJCAI’23.

Three of our members are selected as volunteers for IJCAI’23.

2 of our papers got accept by KDD’23. Congratulations!

Our new tutorial (Trustworthy RS) got accepted by KDD’23. Congratulations!

Congratulations to our team for winning the Silver Medal at the International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva

We will provide 2 tutorials about Joint Modeling in Recommendations and Trustworthy Recommender Systems @ IJCAI’23

Our paper ‘Adversarial Attacks for Black-box Recommender Systems via Copying Transferable Cross-domain User Profiles’ is accepted by TKDE. Congratulations!

7 of our papers (5 full & 2 short) got accept by SIGIR’23. Congratulations!

Our new survey Multi-Task Deep Recommender Systems: A Survey is online

Our new survey Multimodal Recommender Systems: A Survey is online

2 PhD students (Pengyue and Xiaopeng) are welcome to join the AML Lab!

9 of our papers got accept by WWW’23. Congratulations!

We will co-organize the DLP workshop @ KDD’23

Our team is honored to receive the CCF-Ant Research Fund (CCF-蚂蚁科研基金)

We will provide a tutorial of AutoML for Deep Recommender Systems @ WSDM’23

We will provide a tutorial of Trustworthy Recommender Systems @ WWW’23

Our team won the Outstanding Project (8/34) in CCF-Tencent Open Fund, congratulations to team members Yejing and Qidong!

Our ICDM’22 paper AutoAssign was selected as one of the best-ranked papers

Zijian and Chunxu’s paper AutoSTL got accepted by AAAI23. Congratulations!

1 paper got accepted by WSDM’23

Welcome ！ — our lab website is officially starting!

1 paper got accepted by ICDM’22, congratulations to Fengyi

Welcome to our latest survey of trustworthy recommender systems in collaboration with the PolyU, MSU, and UST teams.

11 PhD students (Zijian, Yejing, Yuhao, Jingtong, Maolin, Yuanshao, Ziru, Langming, Xiao Han, Qidong, Wei Ni) are welcome to join the AML Lab!

Our team won the Gold Medal and Top 10 best innovation award in the 7th International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada (iCAN 2022), co-supervised with Dr. Liang Dong

A keynote talk at DLP workshop @ KDD’22

Four of our CIKM2022 submissions have been included. Congratulations to pengfei, haochen, kesen, muyang, zijian, chi and xinhang! (Link: [1], [2], [3], [4])

Welcome to our 3rd Workshop on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Information Retrieval.

3 of our members’ KDD submissions have been accepted. Congratulations to weilin, yejing and zhengzhi! (Link: [1], [2], [3])

Our team won the Gold Award with Grand Prize (US$13,000) and the Microsoft Outstanding AI Influencer Award in the Global AI Challenge for Building E&M Facilities, co-supervised with Prof. S Joe QIN

Our team ranked the 3rd place in Carbon Neutral Competition track of the 3rd Shandong Data Competition, co-supervised with Prof. S Joe QIN

We provide tutorial Automated Machine Learning for Recommendations @ WWW’22

1 paper got accepted by IJCAI’22, congratulations to Muyang and Chuan

1 paper got accepted by SIGIR’22

1 workshop proposal got accepted by SIGIR’22

3 papers got accepted by WWW’22, especial congratulations to Yejing for his first paper with AML@CityU

1 paper got accepted by ICLR

1 paper got accepted by TOIS

1 tutorial got accepted by WWW’22

Our ICDM paper was selected as one of the best-ranked papers

1 paper got accepted by AAAI’22

Prof. Xiangyu Zhao joined the School of Data Science at CityU as a tenure-track assistant professor!