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Zilin Cao

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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

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Data mining › feature engineering
automated feature engineering
1.012026
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
0.712023
SplitNet: A Reinforcement Learning Based Sequence Splitting Method for the MinMax Multiple Travelling Salesman Problem · AAAI 2023
Mathematical optimization
combinatorial optimization
0.712023
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
0.312026
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
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 AFE-Master: Enhancing LLM-Driven Autonomous Feature Engineering with Domain-Specific Language Parsing and Guided Local Search
abstract
Autonomous 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
WWW5
2023 SplitNet: A Reinforcement Learning Based Sequence Splitting Method for the MinMax Multiple Travelling Salesman Problem
abstract
MinMax 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
AAAI3