VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Xufang Zhou
dblp:409/9783
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0008-7222-1466ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 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 · 50% Information retrieval · 50% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Computing education · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Recommender systems › domain-specific recommendation
exercise recommendation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | NR4DER: Neural Re-ranking for Diversified Exercise Recommendation · SIGIR 2025 |
Information retrieval › reranking
neural re-ranking |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | NR4DER: Neural Re-ranking for Diversified Exercise Recommendation · SIGIR 2025 |
Computing education › educational technology
online learning platforms |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | NR4DER: Neural Re-ranking for Diversified Exercise Recommendation · SIGIR 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
sequence enhancement · 1.7neural re-ranking · 1.7mLSTM · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | NR4DER: Neural Re-ranking for Diversified Exercise RecommendationabstractWith the widespread adoption of online education platforms, an increasing number of students are gaining new knowledge through Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Exercise recommendation have made strides toward improving student learning outcomes. However, existing methods not only struggle with high dropout rates but also fail to match the diverse learning pace of students. They frequently face difficulties in adjusting to inactive students' learning patterns and in accommodating individualized learning paces, resulting in limited accuracy and diversity in recommendations. To tackle these challenges, we propose Neural Re-ranking for Diversified Exercise Recommendation (in short, NR4DER). NR4DER first leverages the mLSTM model to improve the effectiveness of the exercise filter module. It then employs a sequence enhancement method to enhance the representation of inactive students, accurately matches students with exercises of appropriate difficulty. Finally, it utilizes neural re-ranking to generate diverse recommendation lists based on individual students' learning histories. Extensive experimental results indicate that NR4DER significantly outperforms existing methods across multiple real-world datasets and effectively caters to the diverse learning pace of students. Xinghe Cheng, Xufang Zhou, Liangda Fang, Chaobo He, Yuyu Zhou, Weiqi Luo 0002, Zhiguo Gong, Quanlong Guan |
SIGIR | 2 |