VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Bang Lin
dblp:287/5103
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0008-1817-1875ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 2 · 2 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 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.
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Recommender systems · 100% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Optimization for machine learning · 77% Language models and text generation · 23% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Optimization for machine learning
hyperparameter optimization |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | A Reinforcement Learning Based Hyper-Parameter Generation System Guided by LLM-Powered Virtual Users · WWW 2026 |
Recommender systems
click-through rate prediction |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | GRAIN: Group-Reinforced Adaptive Interaction Network for Cold-Start CTR Prediction in E-commerce Search · SIGIR 2025 |
Recommender systems › click-through rate prediction
cold-start CTR prediction |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | GRAIN: Group-Reinforced Adaptive Interaction Network for Cold-Start CTR Prediction in E-commerce Search · SIGIR 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › LLM agents
LLM-based simulation |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | A Reinforcement Learning Based Hyper-Parameter Generation System Guided by LLM-Powered Virtual Users · WWW 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
reinforcement learning · 1.0large language model · 1.0graph neural network · 0.9contrastive learning · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | A Reinforcement Learning Based Hyper-Parameter Generation System Guided by LLM-Powered Virtual Users
Changlin Qiu, Bang Lin, Tao Zhang 0098, Chengfu Huo |
WWW | 2 |
| 2025 | GRAIN: Group-Reinforced Adaptive Interaction Network for Cold-Start CTR Prediction in E-commerce SearchabstractAccurate prediction of click-through rates (CTR) for cold-start entities (CSEs) within search engine ecosystems presents significant challenges. Notably, CSEs encompass novel users/items and new session search queries, each characterized by their limited interaction data and poor-quality embeddings, which collectively contribute to the complexity of CTR estimation.Existing studies predominantly address cold-start challenges in isolation, such as focusing separately on new users or new items, and lack a comprehensive framework to effectively integrate atomic ID features with group-level representations. To address these limitations, we propose GRAIN (Group Reinforced Adaptive Interaction Network), a novel framework that enhances CTR prediction across all maturity phases, namely Cold-Start, Warm-Up, and Common. GRAIN consists of three key components: 1) a Graph-based Id-to-Cluster (GIC) module that aggregates atomic ID features into cluster-level representations; 2) an ID-Cluster Cross (ICC) module that aligns ID-level and cluster-level features through contrastive learning and cross-grained interaction mechanism; 3) a lightweight auxiliary task that classifies entities into different maturity stages using a data-driven phase partitioning algorithm. Extensive experiments demonstrate GRAIN's effectiveness in improving CTR prediction accuracy across multiple maturity phases. GRAIN has been successfully deployed on the 1688 App, handling billions of daily requests. Hao Chen 0175, Bang Lin, Tao Zhang 0098, Chengfu Huo |
SIGIR | 3 |