VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Jinchang Zhu
dblp:403/8219
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2ranked-venue papers
2as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 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 |
Language models and text generation · 61% Representation and self-supervised learning · 30% Reinforcement learning · 9% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Representation and self-supervised learning
associative memory |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | HeLa-Mem: Hebbian Learning and Associative Memory for LLM Agents · ACL (1) 2026 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
LLM agents |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | HeLa-Mem: Hebbian Learning and Associative Memory for LLM Agents · ACL (1) 2026 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › LLM agents
long-term memory |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | HeLa-Mem: Hebbian Learning and Associative Memory for LLM Agents · ACL (1) 2026 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
memory architectures |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | HeLa-Mem: Hebbian Learning and Associative Memory for LLM Agents · ACL (1) 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
knowledge distillation · 1.0hebbian learning · 1.0graph-based memory · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | HeLa-Mem: Hebbian Learning and Associative Memory for LLM AgentsabstractLong-term memory is a critical challenge for Large Language Model agents, as fixed context windows cannot preserve coherence across extended interactions.Existing memory systems encode conversation history as embedding vectors and retrieve information through semantic similarity.This paradigm fails to capture the associative structure of human memory, wherein related experiences progressively strengthen interconnections through repeated co-activation.Inspired by cognitive neuroscience, we identify three mechanisms central to biological memory: association, consolidation, and spreading activation, which remain largely absent in current research.To bridge this gap, we propose HeLa-Mem, a bio-inspired memory architecture that models memory as a dynamic graph with Hebbian learning dynamics.HeLa-Mem employs a dual-level organization: (1) an episodic memory graph that evolves through co-activation patterns, and (2) a semantic memory store populated via Hebbian Distillation, wherein a Reflective Agent identifies densely connected memory hubs and distills them into structured, reusable semantic knowledge.This dual-path design leverages both semantic similarity and learned associations, mirroring the episodic-semantic distinction in human cognition.Experiments on LoCoMo demonstrate superior performance across four question categories while using significantly fewer context tokens.Code is available on GitHub. Jinchang Zhu, Jindong Li 0002, Jiahong Liu 0001, Menglin Yang 0001 |
ACL (1) | 1 |
| 2025 | GaitHF: enhancing appearance-based gait recognition through height fused images
Jinchang Zhu, Dayang Sun, Yaowei Chen |
Vis. Comput. | 1 |