VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Maosen Sheng
dblp:440/7462
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0000-8910-3388ORCID · 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 |
Information retrieval · 61% Web and social media mining · 30% Recommender systems · 9% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Information retrieval
e-commerce search |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | MMRM: A Multiplex Multimodal Representation Model for Product Ranking in E-commerce Search · SIGIR 2026 |
Information retrieval
ranking |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | MMRM: A Multiplex Multimodal Representation Model for Product Ranking in E-commerce Search · SIGIR 2026 |
Web and social media mining › user behavior analysis
user behavior modeling |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | MMRM: A Multiplex Multimodal Representation Model for Product Ranking in E-commerce Search · SIGIR 2026 |
Recommender systems
multimodal recommendation |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | MMRM: A Multiplex Multimodal Representation Model for Product Ranking in E-commerce Search · SIGIR 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
multimodal large language model · 1.0collaborative signal fine-tuning · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | MMRM: A Multiplex Multimodal Representation Model for Product Ranking in E-commerce SearchabstractMultimodal information is pivotal for e-commerce search ranking. Existing works leverage multimodal data typically by fine-tuning general Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) via collaborative signals, subsequently integrating the derived representations into ranking models as item features. Despite their efficacy, these methods face two primary limitations: (1) they rely on a single collaborative signal for MLLM fine-tuning, failing to exploit the heterogeneous signals essential for multitask ranking; and (2) they treat multimodal representations as regular item features in ranking models, underutilizing their latent potential for user behavior modeling. To address these challenges, we propose the Multiplex Multimodal Representation Model (MMRM), a unified framework that aligns MLLMs with diverse collaborative signals. By employing a shared backbone with task-specific tokens and projection layers, MMRM simultaneously learns from multiple signals and generates comprehensive multiplex item representations in a single inference pass. Furthermore, we introduce a multiplex user representation strategy in ranking models, which derives task-specific user representations via search-based behavior sequence modeling leveraging multiplex item representations. Extensive experiments demonstrate MMRM's superior efficiency and effectiveness. Notably, MMRM has been successfully deployed in the JD e-commerce search engine, yielding significant performance gains for millions of daily users. Zhen-Lin Chen, Maosen Sheng, Jianmin Chen, Zhuojian Xiao, Dongyue Wang, Xiwei Zhao |
SIGIR | 2 |