VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Zhaochen Guo
dblp:21/7531
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5ranked-venue papers
2as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · conflict
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 3 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 2 · 1 first-authorGraphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 2 · 1 first-author · 2 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
2 papers |
Graph learning · 54% Representation and self-supervised learning · 46% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Data mining · 100% |
Topics — the 7 heaviest of 8, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Representation and self-supervised learning › representation learning › dimensionality reduction
feature selection |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | One Node One Model: Featuring the Missing-Half for Graph Clustering · AAAI 2025 |
Machine learning › Graph learning
graph clustering |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Disentangling Homophily and Heterophily in Multimodal Graph Clustering · ACM Multimedia 2025 |
Machine learning › Graph learning
graph neural network |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | One Node One Model: Featuring the Missing-Half for Graph Clustering · AAAI 2025 |
Machine learning › Representation and self-supervised learning › representation learning › unsupervised representation learning › self-supervised representation learning
self-supervised alignment |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Disentangling Homophily and Heterophily in Multimodal Graph Clustering · ACM Multimedia 2025 |
Data mining
clustering |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | One Node One Model: Featuring the Missing-Half for Graph Clustering · AAAI 2025 |
Data mining › clustering
graph clustering |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | One Node One Model: Featuring the Missing-Half for Graph Clustering · AAAI 2025 |
Machine learning › Graph learning › graph neural network
homophily and heterophily |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Disentangling Homophily and Heterophily in Multimodal Graph Clustering · ACM Multimedia 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
squeeze-and-excitation · 1.7data augmentation · 1.7multimodal dual-frequency fusion · 0.9graph neural network · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | One Node One Model: Featuring the Missing-Half for Graph ClusteringabstractMost existing graph clustering methods primarily focus on exploiting topological structure, often neglecting the "missing-half" node feature information, especially how these features can enhance clustering performance. This issue is further compounded by the challenges associated with high-dimensional features. Feature selection in graph clustering is particularly difficult because it requires simultaneously discovering clusters and identifying the relevant features for these clusters. To address this gap, we introduce a novel paradigm called "one node one model", which builds an exclusive model for each node and defines the node label as a combination of predictions for node groups. Specifically, the proposed "Feature Personalized Graph Clustering (FPGC)" method identifies cluster-relevant features for each node using a squeeze-and-excitation block, integrating these features into each model to form the final representations. Additionally, the concept of feature cross is developed as a data augmentation technique to learn low-order feature interactions. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that FPGC outperforms state-of-the-art clustering methods. Moreover, the plug-and-play nature of our method provides a versatile solution to enhance GNN-based models from the feature perspective. Xuanting Xie, Bingheng Li, Erlin Pan, Zhaochen Guo, Zhao Kang 0001, Wenyu Chen 0001 |
AAAI | 4 |
| 2025 | Disentangling Homophily and Heterophily in Multimodal Graph ClusteringabstractMultimodal graphs, which integrate unstructured heterogeneous data with structured interconnections, offer substantial real-world utility but remain insufficiently explored in unsupervised learning. In this work, we initiate the study of multimodal graph clustering, aiming to bridge this critical gap. Through empirical analysis, we observe that real-world multimodal graphs often exhibit hybrid neighborhood patterns, combining both homophilic and heterophilic relationships. To address this challenge, we propose a novel framework---Disentangled Multimodal Graph Clustering (DMGC) ---which decomposes the original hybrid graph into two complementary views: (1) a homophily-enhanced graph that captures cross-modal class consistency, and (2) heterophily-aware graphs that preserve modality-specific inter-class distinctions. We introduce a Multimodal Dual-frequency Fusion mechanism that jointly filters these disentangled graphs through a dual-pass strategy, enabling effective multimodal integration while mitigating category confusion. Our self-supervised alignment objectives further guide the learning process without requiring labels. Extensive experiments on both multimodal and multi-relational graph datasets demonstrate that DMGC achieves state-of-the-art performance, highlighting its effectiveness and generalizability across diverse settings. Our code is available at https://github.com/Uncnbb/DMGC. Zhaochen Guo, Zhixiang Shen, Xuanting Xie, Liangjian Wen, Zhao Kang 0001 |
ACM Multimedia | 1 |
| 2014 | Robust Entity Linking via Random WalksabstractEntity Linking is the task of assigning entities from a Knowledge Base to textual mentions of such entities in a document. State-of-the-art approaches rely on lexical and statistical features which are abundant for popular entities but sparse for unpopular ones, resulting in a clear bias towards popular entities and poor accuracy for less popular ones. In this work, we present a novel approach that is guided by a natural notion of semantic similarity which is less amenable to such bias. We adopt a unified semantic representation for entities and documents - the probability distribution obtained from a random walk on a subgraph of the knowledge base - which can overcome the feature sparsity issue that affects previous work. Our algorithm continuously updates the semantic signature of the document as mentions are disambiguated, thus focusing the search based on context. Our experimental evaluation uses well-known benchmarks and different samples of a Wikipedia-based benchmark with varying entity popularity; the results illustrate well the bias of previous methods and the superiority of our approach, especially for the less popular entities. Zhaochen Guo, Denilson Barbosa 0001 |
CIKM | 1 |
| 2010 | Exploring and visualizing academic social networksabstractWe demonstrate the ReaSoN portal, consisting of interactive web-based tools for visualizing, exploring, querying, and integrating academic social networks. We describe how these networks are automatically extracted from bibliographic and citation databases, discuss notions of visibility in such networks which enable a rich set of social network analysis, and demonstrate our novel tools for the visualization and exploration of social networks. Veselin Ganev, Zhaochen Guo, Diego Serrano, Denilson Barbosa 0001, Eleni Stroulia |
CIKM | 2 |
| 2009 | An environment for building, exploring and querying academic social networksabstractSocial network analysis aims at uncovering and understanding the structures and patterns resulting from social interactions among individuals and organizations engaged in a common activity. Since the early days of the field, networks are modeled as graphs modeling social actors and the relations between them. The field has become very active with the maturity of computational machinery to handle large-scale graphs, and, more recently, the automated gathering of social data. We introduce ReaSoN: a comprehensive set of tools for visualizing and exploring social networks resulting from academic research. In doing so, ReaSoN contributes to the understanding as well as fostering of the social networks underlying academic research. We describe the infrastructure, visualizations and analysis provided in our system, as well as the process of extracting the social networks which are latent in bibliographic and citation databases. Veselin Ganev, Zhaochen Guo, Diego Serrano, Brendan Tansey, Denilson Barbosa 0001, Eleni Stroulia |
MEDES | 2 |