VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Jin Li 0069
dblp:48/1097-69
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4ranked-venue papers
2as first author
4since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0001-1544-3459ORCID · conflict
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 2 · 2 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 first-author · 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
2 papers |
Information retrieval · 74% Query processing and optimization · 26% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Information retrieval
e-commerce search |
1.3 | 2 | 2026 | Probe-then-Plan: Environment-Aware Planning for Industrial E-commerce Search · SIGIR 2026 GenFacet: End-to-End Generative Faceted Search via Multi-Task Preference Alignment in E-Commerce · SIGIR 2026 |
Query processing and optimization
query rewriting |
1.3 | 2 | 2026 | GenFacet: End-to-End Generative Faceted Search via Multi-Task Preference Alignment in E-Commerce · SIGIR 2026 Probe-then-Plan: Environment-Aware Planning for Industrial E-commerce Search · SIGIR 2026 |
Information retrieval › search interfaces
faceted search |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | GenFacet: End-to-End Generative Faceted Search via Multi-Task Preference Alignment in E-Commerce · SIGIR 2026 |
Information retrieval › query reformulation
intent-aware query rewriting |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | GenFacet: End-to-End Generative Faceted Search via Multi-Task Preference Alignment in E-Commerce · SIGIR 2026 |
Information retrieval
web search |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | Probe-then-Plan: Environment-Aware Planning for Industrial E-commerce Search · SIGIR 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
large language model · 2.0teacher-student distillation · 1.0supervised fine-tuning · 1.0retrieval probe · 1.0reinforcement learning · 1.0multi-task preference alignment · 1.0GRPO · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Probe-then-Plan: Environment-Aware Planning for Industrial E-commerce SearchabstractModern e-commerce search is evolving from simple keyword matching to resolving complex user intents. While large language models (LLMs) offer powerful reasoning capabilities, existing LLM-based search paradigms suffer from a fundamental blindness-latency dilemma: query rewriting methods are agnostic to retrieval tool capabilities and real-time inventory states, resulting in invalid plans; conversely, deep search agent approaches initially plan without environment awareness, then rely on iterative tool calls and reflection to perceive and correct failures, leading to seconds of latency, incompatible with the sub-second budget for the planning module in industrial e-commerce search. To resolve this conflict, we propose Environment-Aware Search Planning (EASP), a novel paradigm that reformulates search planning as a dynamic reasoning process grounded in environmental reality. EASP introduces a Probe-then-Plan mechanism: a lightweight Retrieval Probe first exposes the retrieval snapshot, enabling the Planner to diagnose execution gaps and generate grounded search plans. Our methodology unfolds in three stages: (1) Offline Data Synthesis: The Teacher Agent synthesizes diverse, execution-validated plans by diagnosing the retrieval environment exposed by the Retrieval Probe. (2) Planner Training and Alignment: The Planner is initialized via supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on the offline dataset to internalize the Teacher's diagnostic capabilities, followed by alignment with business outcomes (conversion rate) through reinforcement learning. (3) Adaptive Online Serving: A complexity-aware routing mechanism selectively activates the planning pipeline only for complex queries, ensuring optimal resource allocation. Extensive offline evaluations and online A/B testing on JD.com demonstrate that EASP significantly improves relevant recall and achieves substantial lifts in UCVR and GMV. EASP has been successfully deployed in JD.com's AI-Search system. Mengxiang Chen, Zhouwei Zhai, Jin Li 0069 |
SIGIR | 3 |
| 2026 | GenFacet: End-to-End Generative Faceted Search via Multi-Task Preference Alignment in E-CommerceabstractFaceted search acts as a critical bridge for navigating massive e-commerce catalogs, yet traditional systems rely on static rule-based extraction or statistical ranking, struggling with emerging vocabulary, semantic gaps, and a disconnect between facet selection and underlying retrieval. In this paper, we introduce GenFacet, an industrial-grade, end-to-end generative framework deployed at JD.com. GenFacet reframes faceted search as two coupled generative tasks within a unified Large Language Model: Context-Aware Facet Generation, which dynamically synthesizes trend-responsive navigation options, and Intent-Driven Query Rewriting, which translates user interactions into precise search queries to close the retrieval loop. To bridge the gap between generative capabilities and search utility, we propose a novel multi-task training pipeline combining teacher-student distillation with GRPO. This aligns the model with complex user preferences by directly optimizing for downstream search satisfaction. Validated on China's largest self-operated e-commerce platform via rigorous offline evaluations and online A/B tests, GenFacet demonstrated substantial improvements. Specifically, online results reveal a relative increase of 42.0% in facet Click-Through Rate (CTR) and 2.0% in User Conversion Rate (UCVR). These outcomes provide strong evidence of the benefits of generative methods for improving query understanding and user engagement in large-scale information retrieval systems. Zhouwei Zhai, Jin Li 0069 |
SIGIR | 3 |
| 2025 | Spatial-Spectral Consistency: A Semi-Supervised Approach for Multispectral Scene ClassificationabstractMultispectral remote sensing images, with their richer spectral information, can achieve better scene classification performance compared to RGB images. However, high annotation costs remain a significant challenge. To reduce these costs, we propose a spatial-spectral consistency (SSC) semi-supervised learning method that fully leverages abundant unlabeled data and effectively exploits spectral information from multispectral images. Our method employs two branches to extract spatial and spectral features, respectively. The predictions from the two branches for the weakly augmented input are first fused to generate pseudo-labels, which are then used to supervise the branches in predicting the strongly augmented input. Additionally, we introduce a spectral attention module into the network to enhance its ability to extract spectral information. We conduct extensive experiments on the EuroSAT and SEN12MS datasets, demonstrating that our method outperforms other semi-supervised approaches, achieving state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance. Jin Li 0069, Huajie Wang, Zhizhuo Jiang, Yu Liu 0005 |
ICIP | 1 |
| 2025 | GCBF: Grouped Cross-Band Fusion Network for Multispectral Scene ClassificationabstractRemote sensing scene classification is a crucial task for remote sensing image interpretation. Existing multispectral scene classification methods have overlooked the interrelationships between different spectral bands, which limits the mining of complementary information within the images. Addressing this issue, we propose a grouped cross-band fusion (GCBF) network for remote sensing multispectral scene classification to take full advantage of complementary information between various spectral bands. Firstly, we separate the various bands of the given multispectral image into different groups to better capture the characteristics of each spectral band. Then, we use the existing UniFormer as a feature extractor to learn the representations of red, green, and blue (RGB) bands. For the spectral bands other than RGB, we propose a new network called multi-stage grouped spectral feature extraction (MGSFE) network to learn discriminative representations. We also draw inspiration from the band combination in the field of remote sensing and introduce a cross-band attention fusion (CBAF) module designed to adaptively merge features from both the RGB bands and other spectral bands. Extensive experiments on three widely used remote sensing multispectral scene classification datasets of BigEarthNet, SEN12MS, and EuroSAT demonstrate the superiority of our proposed method compared with several state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods. Jin Li 0069, Yu Liu 0005, Wenda Zhao 0003, Zhizhuo Jiang, Xueqian Wang 0002, Bolun Zheng |
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens. | 1 |