VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Zhihao Li 0004
dblp:40/2903-4
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3ranked-venue papers
2as first author
3since 2021 · last 2026
0000-0003-4752-6811ORCID · conflict
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 3 · 2 first-author · 3 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 3 · 2 first-author · 3 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.
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
2 papers |
Computational science and engineering · 100% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Recommender systems · 100% | |
| Artificial intelligence
2 papers |
Graph learning · 84% Representation and self-supervised learning · 16% |
Topics — the 7 heaviest of 9, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Computational science and engineering
partial differential equation solver |
1.9 | 2 | 2026 | M2NO: An Efficient Multi-Resolution Operator Framework for Dynamic Multi-Scale PDE Solvers · KDD (1) 2026 Harnessing Scale and Physics: A Multi-Graph Neural Operator Framework for PDEs on Arbitrary Geometries · KDD (1) 2025 |
Machine learning › Graph learning
graph neural network |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Harnessing Scale and Physics: A Multi-Graph Neural Operator Framework for PDEs on Arbitrary Geometries · KDD (1) 2025 |
Computational science and engineering › scientific machine learning
neural operator |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Harnessing Scale and Physics: A Multi-Graph Neural Operator Framework for PDEs on Arbitrary Geometries · KDD (1) 2025 |
Recommender systems
collaborative filtering |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | HICF: Hyperbolic Informative Collaborative Filtering · KDD 2022 |
Recommender systems › collaborative filtering › embedding-based collaborative filtering
hyperbolic collaborative filtering |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | HICF: Hyperbolic Informative Collaborative Filtering · KDD 2022 |
Recommender systems › beyond-accuracy recommendation
long-tail recommendation |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | HICF: Hyperbolic Informative Collaborative Filtering · KDD 2022 |
Machine learning › Representation and self-supervised learning › representation learning › dimensionality reduction › manifold learning › geometric representation learning
hyperbolic representation learning |
0.2 | 1 | 2022 | HICF: Hyperbolic Informative Collaborative Filtering · KDD 2022 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
physics graph · 1.7graphformer · 1.7dynamic attention · 1.7hyperbolic margin ranking learning · 1.1neural operator · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | M2NO: An Efficient Multi-Resolution Operator Framework for Dynamic Multi-Scale PDE Solvers
Zhihao Li 0004, Zhilu Lai, Wei Wang 0011 |
KDD (1) | 1 |
| 2025 | Harnessing Scale and Physics: A Multi-Graph Neural Operator Framework for PDEs on Arbitrary GeometriesabstractPartial Differential Equations (PDEs) underpin many scientific phenomena, yet traditional computational approaches often struggle with complex, nonlinear systems and irregular geometries. This paper introduces the AMG method, a Multi-Graph neural operator approach designed for efficiently solving PDEs on Arbitrary geometries. AMG leverages advanced graph-based techniques and dynamic attention mechanisms within a novel GraphFormer architecture, enabling precise management of diverse spatial domains and complex data interdependencies. By constructing multi-scale graphs to handle variable feature frequencies and a physics graph to encapsulate inherent physical properties, AMG significantly outperforms previous methods, which are typically limited to uniform grids. We present a comprehensive evaluation of AMG across six benchmarks, demonstrating its consistent superiority over existing state-of-the-art models. Our findings highlight the transformative potential of tailored graph neural operators in surmounting the challenges faced by conventional PDE solvers. Our code and datasets are available on https://github.com/lizhihao2022/AMG. Zhihao Li 0004, Haoze Song, Zhilu Lai, Wei Wang 0011 |
KDD (1) | 1 |
| 2022 | HICF: Hyperbolic Informative Collaborative FilteringabstractConsidering the prevalence of the power-law distribution in user-item networks, hyperbolic space has attracted considerable attention and achieved impressive performance in the recommender system recently. The advantage of hyperbolic recommendation lies in that its exponentially increasing capacity is well-suited to describe the power-law distributed user-item network whereas the Euclidean equivalent is deficient. Nonetheless, it remains unclear which kinds of items can be effectively recommended by the hyperbolic model and which cannot. To address the above concerns, we take the most basic recommendation technique, collaborative filtering, as a medium, to investigate the behaviors of hyperbolic and Euclidean recommendation models. The results reveal that (1) tail items get more emphasis in hyperbolic space than that in Euclidean space, but there is still ample room for improvement; (2) head items receive modest attention in hyperbolic space, which could be considerably improved; (3) and nonetheless, the hyperbolic models show more competitive performance than Euclidean models. Driven by the above observations, we design a novel learning method, named hyperbolic informative collaborative learning (HICF), aiming to compensate for the recommendation effectiveness of the head item while at the same time improving the performance of the tail item. The main idea is to adapt the hyperbolic margin ranking learning, making its pull and push procedure geometric-aware, and providing informative guidance for the learning of both head and tail items. Extensive experiments back up the analytic findings and also show the effectiveness of the proposed method. The work is valuable for personalized recommendations since it reveals that the hyperbolic space facilitates modeling the tail item, which often represents user-customized preferences or new products. Menglin Yang 0001, Zhihao Li 0004, Min Zhou 0006, Jiahong Liu 0001, Irwin King |
KDD | 2 |