VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Santosh Rajagopalan
dblp:305/4258
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0001-7890-7783ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 first-author · 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.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Vision and language · 50% Graph learning · 50% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Computational finance and economics · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Graph learning › graph neural network
fraud detection |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | ALF: Advertiser Large Foundation Model for Multi-Modal Advertiser Understanding · KDD (1) 2026 |
Computer vision › Vision and language › vision-language model
multimodal large language model |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | ALF: Advertiser Large Foundation Model for Multi-Modal Advertiser Understanding · KDD (1) 2026 |
Computational finance and economics
online advertising |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | ALF: Advertiser Large Foundation Model for Multi-Modal Advertiser Understanding · KDD (1) 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
transformer · 2.0multi-task optimization · 2.0contrastive learning · 2.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | ALF: Advertiser Large Foundation Model for Multi-Modal Advertiser UnderstandingabstractWe present ALF (Advertiser Large Foundation model), a multi-modal transformer architecture for understanding advertiser behavior and intent across text, image, video, and structured data modalities. Through contrastive learning and multi-task optimization, ALF creates unified advertiser representations that capture both content and behavioral patterns. Our model achieves state-of-the-art performance on critical tasks including fraud detection, policy violation identification, and advertiser similarity matching. In production deployment, ALF demonstrates significant real-world impact by delivering simultaneous gains in both precision and recall, for instance boosting recall by over 40 percentage points on one critical policy and increasing precision to 99.8% on another. The architecture's effectiveness stems from its novel combination of multi-modal transformations, inter-sample attention mechanism, spectrally normalized projections, and calibrated probabilistic outputs. Santosh Rajagopalan, Jonathan Vronsky, Songbai Yan, S. Alireza Golestaneh, Shubhra Chandra |
KDD (1) | 1 |