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Zilin Cao
dblp:45/8840
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0004-4916-3481ORCID · corroborated
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 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 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 |
Data mining · 100% | |
| Artificial intelligence
2 papers |
Reinforcement learning · 69% Language models and text generation · 31% | |
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Mathematical optimization · 77% Algorithms and data structures · 23% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Data mining › feature engineering
automated feature engineering |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | AFE-Master: Enhancing LLM-Driven Autonomous Feature Engineering with Domain-Specific Language Parsing and Guided Local Search · WWW 2026 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
reinforcement learning for combinatorial optimization |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | SplitNet: A Reinforcement Learning Based Sequence Splitting Method for the MinMax Multiple Travelling Salesman Problem · AAAI 2023 |
Mathematical optimization
combinatorial optimization |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | SplitNet: A Reinforcement Learning Based Sequence Splitting Method for the MinMax Multiple Travelling Salesman Problem · AAAI 2023 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
large language model |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | AFE-Master: Enhancing LLM-Driven Autonomous Feature Engineering with Domain-Specific Language Parsing and Guided Local Search · WWW 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
large language model · 2.0guided local search · 2.0domain-specific language parsing · 2.0reinforcement learning · 1.3decision region for policy · 1.3attention-based sequence model · 1.3
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | AFE-Master: Enhancing LLM-Driven Autonomous Feature Engineering with Domain-Specific Language Parsing and Guided Local SearchabstractAutonomous Feature Engineering (AFE) is critical for improving predictive performance on tabular data by relieving humans from manual feature crafting. However, traditional AFE lacks the semantic guidance needed to fully exploit domain knowledge. Although large language models (LLMs) can, in principle, emulate experts, existing approaches typically operate in an open code space that directly generates and rewrites entire features; without a compositional structural representation and invariant constraints, edits are coarse and non-local, making it hard to distill interpretable features with high information content and rich hierarchical structure. Hebin Liang, Jianye Hao, Jinyi Liu 0002, Yi Ma 0005, Zilin Cao, Kun Shao, Zhaocheng Du, Fei Ni 0001, Yifu Yuan, Yan Zheng 0002 |
WWW | 5 |
| 2023 | SplitNet: A Reinforcement Learning Based Sequence Splitting Method for the MinMax Multiple Travelling Salesman ProblemabstractMinMax Multiple Travelling Salesman Problem (mTSP) is an important class of combinatorial optimization problems with many practical applications, of which the goal is to minimize the longest tour of all vehicles. Due to its high computational complexity, existing methods for solving this problem cannot obtain a solution of satisfactory quality with fast speed, especially when the scale of the problem is large. In this paper, we propose a learning-based method named SplitNet to transform the single TSP solutions into the MinMax mTSP solutions of the same instances. Specifically, we generate single TSP solution sequences and split them into mTSP subsequences using an attention-based model trained by reinforcement learning. We also design a decision region for the splitting policy, which significantly reduces the policy action space on instances of various scales and thus improves the generalization ability of SplitNet. The experimental results show that SplitNet generalizes well and outperforms existing learning-based baselines and Google OR-Tools on widely-used random datasets of different scales and public datasets with fast solving speed. Hebin Liang, Yi Ma 0005, Zilin Cao, Fei Ni 0001, Jianye Hao |
AAAI | 3 |