VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Xinbei Cai
dblp:421/2223
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · unresolved
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Databases, 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 · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Recommender systems › sequential recommendation
cross-domain sequential recommendation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Contrastive Text-enhanced Transformer for Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation · KDD (2) 2025 |
Recommender systems
sequential recommendation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Contrastive Text-enhanced Transformer for Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation · KDD (2) 2025 |
Recommender systems › multimodal recommendation
text-enhanced recommendation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Contrastive Text-enhanced Transformer for Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation · KDD (2) 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
transformer · 0.9cross-attention · 0.9contrastive learning · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Contrastive Text-enhanced Transformer for Cross-Domain Sequential RecommendationabstractCross-domain sequential recommendation (CDSR) aims to enhance recommendation performance in a target domain by leveraging user sequential preferences from a source domain. As most advanced methods employ various neural networks to model item-ID sequences, they often struggle with a sparse data. Recent text-based CDSR approaches utilize rich text information to facilitate knowledge transfer across domains but still encounter three main challenges: (i) how to capture domain-shared semantic relationships; (ii) how to effectively integrate semantic intents and behavior intents; and (iii) how to design sufficient supervision signals for model training. In this paper, we propose a novel text-enhanced CDSR solution, i.e., contrastive text-enhanced Transformer (CTT), which jointly learns user preferences from semantic and behavioral information. Specifically, our CTT is a dual-view structure, including an inter-domain preference view and an intra-domain preference view. In the former, we design a domain-shared cross-attention mechanism to encode semantic correlations across different domains by an attention map, which is then utilized for cross-domain semantic intent learning. In the latter, we extract fine-grained behavior intents from item-ID sequences and coarse-grained semantic intents from item-text sequences, thereby capturing high-quality intra-domain preferences. Our CTT integrates these two types of preferences to predict the next item for each user. Moreover, we propose a semantic-behavior contrastive learning approach to enhance cross-domain preference learning and knowledge transfer. Extensive experiments on three real-world datasets demonstrate that our CTT outperforms the state-of-the-art models by an average of 5.86% on HR@5. The scripts for data preprocessing and conducting experiments, the parameter configurations, and the source codes of our CTT and all baselines are available at https://github.com/XinbeiCai/CTT. Donglin Zhou, Xinbei Cai, Weike Pan |
KDD (2) | 2 |