Ying Sun 0006

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Information Retrieval & Web Search · 16 (2 first)Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery · 9 (2 first)Database Systems & Data Management · 2 (1 first)Knowledge Engineering, Semantic Web & Information Systems · 1
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 TDHGNN: A Temporal Directed Hypergraph Neural Network for Bitcoin Fraud Detection
Zheng Gong 0001, Shuheng Shen, Changhua Meng, Ying Sun 0006
SIGIR4
2026 Discrete Preference Learning for Personalized Multimodal Generation
abstract
The emergence of generative models enables the creation of texts and images tailored to users' preferences. Existing personalized generative models have two critical limitations: lacking a dedicated paradigm for accurate preference modeling, and generating unimodal content despite real-world multimodal-driven user interactions. Therefore, we propose personalized multimodal generation, which captures modal-specific preferences via a dedicated preference model from multimodal interactions, and then feeds them into downstream generators for personalized multimodal content. However, this task presents two challenges: (1) Gap between continuous preferences from dedicated modeling and discrete token inputs intrinsic to generator architectures; (2) Potential inconsistency between generated images and texts. To tackle these, we present a two-stage framework called Discrete Preference learning for Personalized Multimodal Generation (DPPMG). In the first stage, to accurately learn discrete modal-specific preferences, we introduce a modal-specific graph neural network (a dedicated preference model) to learn users' modal-specific preferences, which preferences are then quantized into discrete preference tokens. In the second stage, the discrete modal-specific preference tokens are injected into downstream text and image generators. To further enhance cross-modal consistency while preserving personalization, we design a cross-modal consistent and personalized reward to fine-tune token-associated parameters. Extensive experiments on two real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our model in generating personalized and consistent multimodal content.
Yuting Zhang 0010, Ying Sun 0006, Dazhong Shen, Ziwei Xie, Feng Liu 0047, Changwang Zhang, Jun Wang 0020, Hui Xiong 0001
SIGIR2
2026 BitHeteroNet: A Heterogeneous Network Benchmark for Enhanced Anomaly Detection in Bitcoin Transactions
Zheng Gong 0001, Shuheng Shen, Changhua Meng, Ying Sun 0006
WWW4
2026 ARADD: An Automatic Real-World API Discovery and Deployment Framework for AI Guide Service in Baidu Map
abstract
The rapid development of large language models (LLMs) has significantly enhanced the capabilities of AI-native applications, offering substantial improvements in user experience across various sectors. In particular, the integration of LLMs with external APIs has become critical for services such as Baidu Maps, which leverages ERNIE Bot to provide real-time, intelligent responses through its AI Guide service. However, as user queries diversify, the ability to dynamically discover, design, and integrate new APIs has become increasingly essential. This paper addresses the challenges of automating the real-world API discovery, design, and integration process, focusing on mitigating human labor costs and biases while ensuring the creation of high-quality training data. To this end, we propose an Automatic Real-world API Discovery and Deployment (ARADD) framework to efficiently discover new real-world APIs suitable for query solving and automatically master them with minimal labor cost. Specifically, we firstly propose a Multi-Stage LLM-empowered Iterative Intent Extraction method, which integrates a closed-source LLM with our lightweight agent to capture each new intent accurately and efficiently. Secondly, we propose a Contextual-Aware API Design and Self-Instruct Data Generation module to discover APIs suitable for the captured new intent and generate training data pairs of this intent. Finally, a Two-Stage Data Filtering module is introduced to distill the most influential data point for fine-tuning the agent model. Extensive experiments on a real-world log dataset and the online service side validate the effectiveness of our proposed framework.
Fuling Wang, Le Zhang 0010, Jingbo Zhou 0003, Jindong Han, Ying Sun 0006, Chuan Qin 0002, Hengshu Zhu, Hui Xiong 0001
WWW5
2026 MCLMR: A Model-Agnostic Causal Learning Framework for Multi-Behavior Recommendation
Ranxu Zhang, Junjie Meng, Ying Sun 0006, Ziqi Xu 0001, Yanyong Zhang, Chao Wang 0086
WWW3
2026 Graph-based Prompt Learning with Mixture of Experts for Multi-task Corporate Profiling
abstract
Corporate profiling serves as a critical analytical tool for modern enterprises, enabling data-driven decision-making in investment strategies, risk assessment, and strategic planning. It requires integrating quantitative metrics, qualitative insights, and network relationships to capture a company’s role in the business ecosystem. However, traditional methods struggle to synthesize heterogeneous data and model complex interdependencies among corporations, news, and market dynamics, often addressing these aspects in isolation. To address these challenges, this article introduces Financial Graph-based Mixture of Experts Prompt Learning (FGMPL), an innovative framework that unifies graph prompt learning with a multi-task paradigm for corporate profile modeling. The proposed framework reformulates node- and edge-level tasks into a coherent graph-level representation and employs multi-view contrastive learning to effectively integrate textual details with relational structures. Moreover, a novel Financial Multi-Experts Prompting mechanism—with learnable tokens coupled with a Mixture of Experts (MoE) design—is presented to enhance the processing of heterogeneous graph data and bridge the gap between pre-training and downstream tasks. To further improve adaptability, a meta-learning-based prompt tuning strategy is incorporated, enabling rapid transition to various downstream applications. Extensive experiments on real-world financial graphs show that FGMPL consistently outperforms strong pre-training and graph-prompting baselines across corporate performance prediction, relationship prediction, and news classification in both full-data and few-shot settings. In addition, cross-market transfer on a NASDAQ dataset and interpretability/efficiency analyses further demonstrate its robustness and practical applicability.
Yunchu Bai, Chao Wang 0086, Ying Sun 0006, Chuan Qin 0002, Wei Wu 0045, Hui Xiong 0001
ACM Trans. Knowl. Discov. Data3
2026 How Business Agglomeration Affects Individual Points-of-Interest: A Causal Effect Estimation Perspective
abstract
In modern cities, there is an increasing trend for the development of business agglomeration, which can foster the prosperity of individual businesses by clustering stores and industries. Recently, the advent of Point-of-Interest (POI) data enables a new paradigm for studying the causal effect of business agglomeration in a data-driven way. To this end, we aim to quantify the contribution of the agglomeration effect to the check-in volume at POIs. This is a non-trivial causal effect estimation task due to the higher-order spatial interference typically exhibited by the agglomeration distribution. Moreover, the confounding bias can be exacerbated due to the complex spatial and functional properties inherent to confounders. Therefore, we propose a Causal effect estimation framework for AgglomeRation Effect (CARE) measurement, which includes a Spatial Interference Diffusion Network (SIDN) and a Disentangled Propensity Estimator (DPE) . SIDN captures spatial interference by spreading the treatment effect among POIs through a dedicated spatial agglomeration hypergraph. Then, DPE models a POI’s propensity of receiving the treatment and further unravels the spatial and inherent aspects of propensity by disentangled learning objectives. In addition, we incorporate SIDN and DPE into a unified causal effect estimation architecture using neural Robinson decomposition. Finally, extensive experiments on three real-world datasets validate the effectiveness and universality of CARE for measuring the agglomeration effect.
Haoran Xin 0001, Xinjiang Lu, Ying Sun 0006, Nengjun Zhu, Tong Xu 0001, Jingbo Zhou 0003, Hui Xiong 0001
ACM Trans. Knowl. Discov. Data3
2025 Exploring Hypergraph Condensation via Variational Hyperedge Generation and Multi-Aspectual Amelioration
abstract
Hypergraph neural networks (HyperGNNs) show promise in modeling online networks with high-order correlations. Despite notable progress, training these models on large-scale raw hypergraphs entails substantial computational and storage costs, thereby increasing the need of hypergraph size reduction. However, existing size reduction methods primarily capture pairwise association pattern within conventional graphs, making them challenging to adapt to hypergraphs with high-order correlations. To fill this gap, we introduce a novel hypergraph condensation framework, HG-Cond, designed to distill large-scale hypergraphs into compact, synthetic versions while maintaining comparable HyperGNN performance. Within this framework, we develop a Neural Hyperedge Linker to capture the high-order connectivity pattern through variational inference, achieving linear complexity with respect to the number of nodes. Moreover, We propose a multi-aspectual amelioration strategy including a Gradient-Parameter Synergistic Matching objective to holistically refine synthetic hypergraphs by coordinating improvements in node attributes, high-order connectivity, and label distributions. Extensive experiments demonstrate the efficacy of HG-Cond in hypergraph condensation, notably outperforming the original test accuracy on the 20News dataset while concurrently reducing the hypergraph size to a mere 5% of its initial scale. Furthermore, the condensed hypergraphs demonstrate robust cross-architectural generalizability and potential for expediting neural architecture search.
Zheng Gong 0001, Shuheng Shen, Changhua Meng, Ying Sun 0006
WWW4
2025 Market-aware Long-term Job Skill Recommendation with Explainable Deep Reinforcement Learning
abstract
Continuously learning new skills is essential for talents to gain a competitive advantage in the labor market. Despite extensive efforts on relevance- or preference-based skill recommendations, little attention has been given to the practical effects of job skills in the market. To bridge this gap, we propose an explainable personalized skill learning recommendation system that considers the long-term learning benefits and costs. Specifically, we model skill learning utilities based on salary and learning cost associated with job positions and propose a multi-objective deep reinforcement learning framework to model and maximize long-term utilities. Furthermore, we propose a Self-explaining Skill Recommendation Deep Q-network (SeSRDQN) that captures and prototypes prevalent skill sets in the market into representative exemplars for decision-making. SeSRDQN quantitatively decomposes the talent’s long-term learning utility into contributions from each exemplar, offering a comprehensive and multi-factorial explanation across various skill learning options. To tackle the combinatorial complexity of the skill space, we develop an MCTS-based optimization-decoding iterative training procedure for explanation fidelity and human understandability. In this way, talents will receive a tailored roadmap of essential skills, complemented by exemplar-based explanations, to effectively plan their careers. Extensive experiments on a real-world dataset validate the effectiveness and explainability of our approach.
Ying Sun 0006, Yang Ji 0004, Hengshu Zhu, Fuzhen Zhuang, Qing He 0003, Hui Xiong 0001
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst.1
2025 LLMCDSR: Enhancing Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation with Large Language Models
abstract
Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) aims to predict users’ preferences based on historical sequential interactions across multiple domains. Existing works focus on the overlapped users who interact in multiple domains to capture the cross-domain correlations. These methods often underperform in practical scenarios featuring both overlapped and non-overlapped users due to the limited cross-domain interactions and knowledge transfer misalignment for non-overlapped users. To address this, we leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to facilitate CDSR by fully exploiting single-domain interactions. However, LLMs exhibit inherent limitations in handling extensive item repositories and sequential collaborative signals. Moreover, the generation reliability is compromised by the hallucination problem, potentially causing noisy and unstable outputs. To this end, we propose a novel LLMCDSR framework, which employs LLMs to predict unobserved cross-domain interactions, termed pseudo items, within single-domain interactions. Specifically, we first prompt LLMs to execute the Candidate-Free Cross-Domain Interaction Generation task. Then, we devise a Collaborative-Textual Contrastive Pre-Training strategy, learning to infuse collaborative information into textual features. Afterwards, we present a novel Relevance-Aware Meta Recall Network (RMRN) to selectively identify and retrieve high-quality pseudo items from the dataset, where the parameters are optimized in a meta-learning manner. Finally, extensive experiments on two public datasets validate the effectiveness of LLMCDSR in enhancing CDSR. The code and data are available at https://github.com/xhran2010/LLMCDSR .
Haoran Xin 0001, Ying Sun 0006, Chao Wang 0086, Hui Xiong 0001
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst.2
2024 SeqSHAP: Subsequence Level Shapley Value Explanations for Sequential Predictions
Guanyu Jiang, Fuzhen Zhuang, Yongchun Zhu, Ying Sun 0006, Weiqiang Wang 0002, Deqing Wang 0001
DASFAA (4)5
2024 An Energy-centric Framework for Category-free Out-of-distribution Node Detection in Graphs
abstract
Graph neural networks have garnered notable attention for effectively processing graph-structured data. Prevalent models prioritize improving in-distribution (IND) data performance, frequently overlooking the risks from potential out-of-distribution (OOD) nodes during training and inference. In real-world graphs, the automated network construction can introduce noisy nodes from unknown distributions. Previous research into OOD node detection, typically referred to as entropy-based methods, calculates OOD measurements from the prediction entropy alongside category classification training. However, the nodes in the graph might not be pre-labeled with specific categories, rendering entropy-based OOD detectors inapplicable in such category-free situations. To tackle this issue, we propose an energy-centric density estimation framework for OOD node detection, referred to as EnergyDef. Within this framework, we introduce an energy-based GNN to compute node energies that act as indicators of node density and reveal the OOD uncertainty of nodes. Importantly, EnergyDef can efficiently identify OOD nodes with low-resource OOD node annotations, achieved by sampling hallucinated nodes via Langevin Dynamics and structure estimation, along with training through Contrastive Divergence. Our comprehensive experiments on real-world datasets substantiate that our framework markedly surpasses state-of-the-art methods in terms of detection quality, even under conditions of scarce or entirely absent OOD node annotations.
Zheng Gong 0001, Ying Sun 0006
KDD2
2024 Unified Dual-Intent Translation for Joint Modeling of Search and Recommendation
abstract
Recommendation systems, which assist users in discovering their preferred items among numerous options, have served billions of users across various online platforms. Intuitively, users' interactions with items are highly driven by their unchanging inherent intents (e.g., always preferring high-quality items) and changing demand intents (e.g., wanting a T-shirt in summer but a down jacket in winter). However, both types of intents are implicitly expressed in recommendation scenario, posing challenges in leveraging them for accurate intent-aware recommendations. Fortunately, in search scenario, often found alongside recommendation on the same online platform, users express their demand intents explicitly through their query words. Intuitively, in both scenarios, a user shares the same inherent intent and the interactions may be influenced by the same demand intent. It is therefore feasible to utilize the interaction data from both scenarios to reinforce the dual intents for joint intent-aware modeling. But the joint modeling should deal with two problems: 1) accurately modeling users' implicit demand intents in recommendation; 2) modeling the relation between the dual intents and the interactive items. To address these problems, we propose a novel model named Unified Dual-Intents Translation for joint modeling of Search and Recommendation (UDITSR). To accurately simulate users' demand intents in recommendation, we utilize real queries from search data as supervision information to guide its generation. To explicitly model the relation among the triplet , we propose a dual-intent translation propagation mechanism to learn the triplet in the same semantic space via embedding translations. Extensive experiments demonstrate that UDITSR outperforms SOTA baselines both in search and recommendation tasks.
Yuting Zhang 0010, Yiqing Wu, Ruidong Han, Ying Sun 0006, Yongchun Zhu, Xiang Li 0067, Wei Lin 0022, Fuzhen Zhuang, Zhulin An, Yongjun Xu 0001
KDD4
2024 Graph Reasoning Enhanced Language Models for Text-to-SQL
abstract
Text-to-SQL parsing has attracted substantial attention recently due to its potential to remove barriers for non-expert end users interacting with databases. A key challenge in Text-to-SQL parsing is developing effective encoding mechanisms to capture the complex relationships between question words, database schemas, and their associated connections within the heterogeneous graph structure. Existing approaches typically introduce some useful multi-hop structures manually and then incorporate them into graph neural networks (GNNs) by stacking multiple layers, which (1) ignore the difficult-to-identify but meaningful semantics embedded in the multi-hop reasoning path, and (2) are limited by the expressive capability of GNN to capture long-range dependencies among the heterogeneous graph. To address these shortcomings, we introduce GRL-SQL, a graph reasoning enhanced language model, which innovatively applies structure encoding to capture the dependencies between node pairs, encompassing one-hop, multi-hop and distance information, subsequently enriched through self-attention for enhanced representational power over GNNs. Furthermore, GRL-SQL incorporates an interaction module that enables joint reasoning and fusion over the question-schema representations for enhancing global context modeling. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of our proposed GRL-SQL.
Zheng Gong 0001, Ying Sun 0006
SIGIR2
2024 Collaboration-Aware Hybrid Learning for Knowledge Development Prediction
abstract
In recent years, the rise of online Knowledge Management Systems (KMSs) has significantly improved work efficiency in enterprises. Knowledge development prediction, as a critical application within these online platforms, enables organizations to proactively address knowledge gaps and align their learning initiatives with evolving job requirements. However, it still confronts challenges in exploring the influence of collaborative networks on knowledge development and adapting to ecological situations in working environment. To this end, in this paper, we propose a Collaboration-Aware Hybrid Learning approach (CAHL) for predicting the future knowledge acquisition of employees and quantifying the impact of various knowledge learning patterns. Specifically, to fully harness the inherent rules of knowledge development, we first learn the knowledge co-occurrence and prerequisite relationships with an association prompt attention mechanism to generate effective knowledge representations through a specially-designed Job Knowledge Embedding module. Then, we aggregate the features of mastering knowledge and work collaborators for employee representations in another Employee Embedding module. Moreover, we propose to model the process of employee knowledge development via a Hybrid Learning Simulation module that integrates both collaborative learning and self learning to predict future-acquired job knowledge of employees. Finally, extensive experiments conducted on a real-world dataset clearly validate the effectiveness of CAHL.
Liyi Chen 0001, Chuan Qin 0002, Ying Sun 0006, Tong Xu 0001, Hengshu Zhu, Hui Xiong 0001
WWW3
2024 Automatic Skill-Oriented Question Generation and Recommendation for Intelligent Job Interviews
abstract
Job interviews are the most widely accepted method for companies to select suitable candidates, and a critical challenge is finding the right questions to ask job candidates. Moreover, there is a lack of integrated tools for automatically generating interview questions and recommending the right questions to interviewers. To this end, in this paper, we propose an intelligent system for assisting job interviews, namely, DuerQues. To build this system, we first investigate how to automatically generate skill-oriented interview questions in a scalable way by learning external knowledge from online knowledge-sharing communities. Along this line, we develop a novel distantly supervised skill entity recognition method to identify skill entities from large-scale search queries and web page titles with less need for human annotation. Additionally, we propose a neural generative model for generating skill-oriented interview questions. In particular, we introduce a data-driven solution to create high-quality training instances and design a learning algorithm to improve the performance of question generation. Furthermore, we exploit click-through data from query logs and design a recommender system for recommending suitable questions to interviewers. Specifically, we introduce a graph-enhanced algorithm to efficiently recommend suitable questions given a set of queried skills. Finally, extensive experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our DuerQues system in terms of the quality of generated skill-oriented questions and the performance of question recommendation.
Chuan Qin 0002, Hengshu Zhu, Dazhong Shen, Ying Sun 0006, Kaichun Yao, Peng Wang 0173, Hui Xiong 0001
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst.4
2024 Towards Unified Representation Learning for Career Mobility Analysis with Trajectory Hypergraph
abstract
Career mobility analysis aims at understanding the occupational movement patterns of talents across distinct labor market entities, which enables a wide range of talent-centered applications, such as job recommendation, labor demand forecasting, and company competitive analysis. Existing studies in this field mainly focus on a single fixed scale, investigating either individual trajectories at the micro-level or crowd flows among market entities at the macro-level. Consequently, the intrinsic cross-scale interactions between talents and the labor market are largely overlooked. To bridge this gap, we propose UniTRep , a novel unified representation learning framework for cross-scale career mobility analysis. Specifically, we first introduce a trajectory hypergraph structure to organize the career mobility patterns in a low-information-loss manner, where market entities and talent trajectories are represented as nodes and hyperedges, respectively. Then, for learning the market-aware talent representations , we attentively propagate the node information to the hyperedges and incorporate the market contextual features into the process of individual trajectory modeling. For learning the trajectory-enhanced market representations , we aggregate the message from hyperedges associated with a specific node to integrate the fine-grained semantics of trajectories into labor market modeling. Moreover, we design two auxiliary tasks to optimize both intra-scale and cross-scale learning with a self-supervised strategy. Extensive experiments on a real-world dataset clearly validate that UniTRep can significantly outperform state-of-the-art baselines for various tasks.
Rui Zha, Ying Sun 0006, Chuan Qin 0002, Le Zhang 0010, Tong Xu 0001, Hengshu Zhu, Enhong Chen
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst.2
2024 Triple Dual Learning for Opinion-based Explainable Recommendation
abstract
Recently, with the aim of enhancing the trustworthiness of recommender systems, explainable recommendation has attracted much attention from the research community. Intuitively, users’ opinions toward different aspects of an item determine their ratings (i.e., users’ preferences) for the item. Therefore, rating prediction from the perspective of opinions can realize personalized explanations at the level of item aspects and user preferences. However, there are several challenges in developing an opinion-based explainable recommendation: (1) The complicated relationship between users’ opinions and ratings. (2) The difficulty of predicting the potential (i.e., unseen) user-item opinions because of the sparsity of opinion information. To tackle these challenges, we propose an overall preference-aware opinion-based explainable rating prediction model by jointly modeling the multiple observations of user-item interaction (i.e., review, opinion, rating). To alleviate the sparsity problem and raise the effectiveness of opinion prediction, we further propose a triple dual learning-based framework with a novelly designed triple dual constraint . Finally, experiments on three popular datasets show the effectiveness and great explanation performance of our framework.
Yuting Zhang 0010, Ying Sun 0006, Fuzhen Zhuang, Yongchun Zhu, Zhulin An, Yongjun Xu 0001
ACM Trans. Inf. Syst.2
2023 Generative Learning Plan Recommendation for Employees: A Performance-aware Reinforcement Learning Approach
abstract
With the rapid development of enterprise Learning Management Systems (LMS), more and more companies are trying to build enterprise training and course learning platforms for promoting the career development of employees. Indeed, through course learning, many employees have the opportunity to improve their knowledge and skills. For these systems, a major issue is how to recommend learning plans, i.e., a set of courses arranged in the order they should be learned, that can help employees improve their work performance. Existing studies mainly focus on recommending courses that users are most likely to click on by capturing their learning preferences. However, the learning preference of employees may not be the right fit for their career development, and thus it may not necessarily mean their work performance can be improved accordingly. Furthermore, how to capture the mutual correlation and sequential effects between courses, and ensure the rationality of the generated results, is also a major challenge. To this end, in this paper, we propose the Generative Learning plAn recommenDation (GLAD) framework, which can generate personalized learning plans for employees to help them improve their work performance. Specifically, we first design a performance predictor and a rationality discriminator, which have the same transformer-based model architecture, but with totally different parameters and functionalities. In particular, the performance predictor is trained for predicting the work performance of employees based on their work profiles and historical learning records, while the rationality discriminator aims to evaluate the rationality of the generated results. Then, we design a learning plan generator based on the gated transformer and the cross-attention mechanism for learning plan generation. We calculate the weighted sum of the output from the performance predictor and the rationality discriminator as the reward, and we use Self-Critical Sequence Training (SCST) based policy gradient methods to train the generator following the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) paradigm. Finally, extensive experiments on real-world data clearly validate the effectiveness of our GLAD framework compared with state-of-the-art baseline methods and reveal some interesting findings for talent management.
Zhi Zheng 0008, Ying Sun 0006, Hengshu Zhu, Hui Xiong 0001
RecSys2
2023 Modeling the Impact of Person-Organization Fit on Talent Management With Structure-Aware Attentive Neural Networks
abstract
Person-Organization fit (P-O fit) refers to the compatibility between employees and their organizations. The study of P-O fit is important for enhancing proactive talent management. While considerable efforts have been made in this direction, it still lacks a quantitative and holistic way for measuring P-O fit and its impact on talent management. To this end, in this paper, we propose a novel data-driven neural network approach for dynamically modeling the compatibility in P-O fit and its meaningful relationships with two critical issues in talent management, namely talent turnover and job performance. Specifically, inspired by the practical management scenarios, we creatively propose a novel neural-network-based P-O fit model. We first designed three kinds of organization-aware compatibility features extraction layers for measuring P-O fit. Then, to capture the dynamic nature of P-O fit and its consequent impact, we further exploit an adapted Recurrent Neural Network with attention mechanism to model the temporal information of P-O fit. Finally, we compare our approach with a number of state-of-the-art baseline methods on real-world talent data. Experimental results clearly demonstrate the effectiveness in terms of turnover and job performance prediction. Moreover, we show some interesting indicators of talent management through the visualizing some network layers.
Ying Sun 0006, Fuzhen Zhuang, Hengshu Zhu, Qing He 0003, Hui Xiong 0001
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng.1
2022 Adaptively sharing multi-levels of distributed representations in multi-task learning
Tianxin Wang, Fuzhen Zhuang, Ying Sun 0006, Xiangliang Zhang 0001, Leyu Lin, Feng Xia 0006, Qing He 0003
Inf. Sci.3
2022 Exploring the Risky Travel Area and Behavior of Car-hailing Service
abstract
Recent years have witnessed the rapid development of car-hailing services, which provide a convenient approach for connecting passengers and local drivers using their personal vehicles. At the same time, the concern on passenger safety has gradually emerged and attracted more and more attention. While car-hailing service providers have made considerable efforts on developing real-time trajectory tracking systems and alarm mechanisms, most of them only focus on providing rescue-supporting information rather than preventing potential crimes. Recently, the newly available large-scale car-hailing order data have provided an unparalleled chance for researchers to explore the risky travel area and behavior of car-hailing services, which can be used for building an intelligent crime early warning system. To this end, in this article, we propose a Risky Area and Risky Behavior Evaluation System (RARBEs) based on the real-world car-hailing order data. In RARBEs, we first mine massive multi-source urban data and train an effective area risk prediction model, which estimates area risk at the urban block level. Then, we propose a transverse and longitudinal double detection method, which estimates behavior risk based on two aspects, including fraud trajectory recognition and fraud patterns mining. In particular, we creatively propose a bipartite graph-based algorithm to model the implicit relationship between areas and behaviors, which collaboratively adjusts area risk and behavior risk estimation based on random walk regularization. Finally, extensive experiments on multi-source real-world urban data clearly validate the effectiveness and efficiency of our system.
Hongting Niu, Hengshu Zhu, Ying Sun 0006, Xinjiang Lu, Hui Xiong 0001, Bo Lang
ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol.3
2021 Talent Demand Forecasting with Attentive Neural Sequential Model
abstract
To cope with the fast-evolving business trend, it becomes critical for companies to continuously review their talent recruitment strategies by the timely forecast of talent demand in recruitment market. While many efforts have been made on recruitment market analysis, due to the sparsity of fine-grained talent demand time series and the complex temporal correlation of the recruitment market, there is still no effective approach for fine-grained talent demand forecast, which can quantitatively model the dynamics of the recruitment market. To this end, in this paper, we propose a data-driven neural sequential approach, namely Talent Demand Attention Network (TDAN), for forecasting fine-grained talent demand in the recruitment market. Specifically, we first propose to augment the univariate time series of talent demand at multiple grained levels and extract intrinsic attributes of both companies and job positions with matrix factorization techniques. Then, we design a Mixed Input Attention module to capture company trends and industry trends to alleviate the sparsity of fine-grained talent demand. Meanwhile, we design a Relation Temporal Attention module for modeling the complex temporal correlation that changes with the company and position. Finally, extensive experiments on a real-world recruitment dataset clearly validate the effectiveness of our approach for fine-grained talent demand forecast, as well as its interpretability for modeling recruitment trends. In particular, TDAN has been deployed as an important functional component of intelligent recruitment system of cooperative partner.
Qi Zhang 0053, Hengshu Zhu, Ying Sun 0006, Hao Liu 0026, Fuzhen Zhuang, Hui Xiong 0001
KDD3
2021 Learning to Warm Up Cold Item Embeddings for Cold-start Recommendation with Meta Scaling and Shifting Networks
abstract
Recently, embedding techniques have achieved impressive success in recommender systems. However, the embedding techniques are data demanding and suffer from the cold-start problem. Especially, for the cold-start item which only has limited interactions, it is hard to train a reasonable item ID embedding, called cold ID embedding, which is a major challenge for the embedding techniques. The cold item ID embedding has two main problems: (1) A gap is existing between the cold ID embedding and the deep model. (2) Cold ID embedding would be seriously affected by noisy interaction. However, most existing methods do not consider both two issues in the cold-start problem, simultaneously. To address these problems, we adopt two key ideas: (1) Speed up the model fitting for the cold item ID embedding (fast adaptation). (2) Alleviate the influence of noise. Along this line, we propose Meta Scaling and Shifting Networks to generate scaling and shifting functions for each item, respectively. The scaling function can directly transform cold item ID embeddings into warm feature space which can fit the model better, and the shifting function is able to produce stable embeddings from the noisy embeddings. With the two meta networks, we propose Meta Warm Up Framework (MWUF) which learns to warm up cold ID embeddings. Moreover, MWUF is a general framework that can be applied upon various existing deep recommendation models. The proposed model is evaluated on three popular benchmarks, including both recommendation and advertising datasets. The evaluation results demonstrate its superior performance and compatibility.
Yongchun Zhu, Ruobing Xie, Fuzhen Zhuang, Kaikai Ge, Ying Sun 0006, Xu Zhang 0028, Leyu Lin, Juan Cao 0001
SIGIR5
2021 Cost-Effective and Interpretable Job Skill Recommendation with Deep Reinforcement Learning
abstract
Nowadays, as organizations operate in very fast-paced and competitive environments, workforce has to be agile and adaptable to regularly learning new job skills. However, it is nontrivial for talents to know which skills to develop at each working stage. To this end, in this paper, we aim to develop a cost-effective recommendation system based on deep reinforcement learning, which can provide personalized and interpretable job skill recommendation for each talent. Specifically, we first design an environment to estimate the utilities of skill learning by mining the massive job advertisement data, which includes a skill-matching-based salary estimator and a frequent itemset-based learning difficulty estimator. Based on the environment, we design a Skill Recommendation Deep Q-Network (SRDQN) with multi-task structure to estimate the long-term skill learning utilities. In particular, SRDQN recommends job skills in a personalized and cost-effective manner; that is, the talents will only learn the recommended necessary skills for achieving their career goals. Finally, extensive experiments on a real-world dataset clearly validate the effectiveness and interpretability of our approach.
Ying Sun 0006, Fuzhen Zhuang, Hengshu Zhu, Qing He 0003, Hui Xiong 0001
WWW1
2020 Meta-path Hierarchical Heterogeneous Graph Convolution Network for High Potential Scholar Recognition
abstract
Recognizing high potential scholars has become an important problem in recent years. However, conventional scholar evaluating methods based on hand-crafted metrics can not profile the scholars in a dynamic and comprehensive way. With the development of online academic databases, large-scale academic activity data become available, which implies detailed information on the scholars' achievements and academic activities. Inspired by the recent success of deep graph neural networks (GNNs), we propose a novel solution to recognize high potential scholars on the dynamic heterogeneous academic network. Specifically, we propose a novel Mate-path Hierarchical Heterogeneous Graph Convolution Network (MHHGCN) to effectively model the heterogeneous graph information. MHHGCN hierarchically aggregates entity and relational information on a set of metapaths, and can alleviate the information loss problem in the previous heterogenous GNN models. Then to capture the dynamic scholar feature, we combine MHHGCN with Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) network with attention mechanism to model the temporal information and predict the potential scholar. Extensive experimental results on real-world high potential scholar data demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. Moreover, the model shows high interpretability by visualization of the attention layers.
Yiqing Wu, Ying Sun 0006, Fuzhen Zhuang, Deqing Wang 0001, Xiangliang Zhang 0001, Qing He 0003
ICDM2
2019 The Impact of Person-Organization Fit on Talent Management: A Structure-Aware Convolutional Neural Network Approach
abstract
Person-Organization fit (P-O fit) refers to the compatibility between employees and their organizations. The study of P-O fit is important for enhancing proactive talent management. While considerable efforts have been made in this direction, it still lacks a quantitative and holistic way for measuring P-O fit and its impact on talent management. To this end, in this paper, we propose a novel data-driven neural network approach for dynamically modeling the compatibility in P-O fit and its meaningful relationships with two critical issues in talent management, namely talent turnover and job performance. Specifically, inspired by the practical management scenarios, we first creatively design an Organizational Structure-aware Convolutional Neural Network (OSCN) for hierarchically extracting organization-aware compatibility features for measuring P-O fit. Then, to capture the dynamic nature of P-O fit and its consequent impact, we further exploit an adapted Recurrent Neural Network with attention mechanism to model the temporal information of P-O fit. Finally, we compare our approach with a number of state-of-the-art baseline methods on real-world talent data. Experimental results clearly demonstrate the effectiveness in terms of turnover prediction and job performance prediction. Moreover, we also show some interesting indicators of talent management through the visualization of network layers.
Ying Sun 0006, Fuzhen Zhuang, Hengshu Zhu, Qing He 0003, Hui Xiong 0001
KDD1
2018 Exploring the Urban Region-of-Interest through the Analysis of Online Map Search Queries
abstract
Urban Region-of-Interest (ROI) refers to the integrated urban areas with specific functionalities that attract people's attentions and activities, such as the recreational business districts, transportation hubs, and city landmarks. Indeed, at the macro level, ROI is one of the representatives for agglomeration economies, and plays an important role in urban business planning. At the micro level, ROI provides a useful venue for understanding the urban lives, demands and mobilities of people. However, due to the vague and diversified nature of ROI, it still lacks of quantitative ways to investigate ROIs in a holistic manner. To this end, in this paper we propose a systematic study on ROI analysis through mining the large-scale online map query logs, which provides a new data-driven research paradigm for ROI detection and profiling. Specifically, we first divide the urban area into small region grids, and calculate their PageRank value as visiting popularity based on the transition information extracted from map queries. Then, we propose a density-based clustering method for merging neighboring region grids with high popularity into integrated ROIs. After that, to further explore the profiles of different ROIs, we develop a spatial-temporal latent factor model URPTM (Urban Roi Profiling Topic Model) to identify the latent travel patterns and Point-of-Interest (POI) demands of ROI visitors. Finally, we implement extensive experiments to empirically evaluate our approaches based on the large-scale real-world data collected from Beijing. Indeed, by visualizing the results obtained from URPTM, we can successfully obtain many meaningful travel patterns and interesting discoveries on urban lives.
Ying Sun 0006, Hengshu Zhu, Fuzhen Zhuang, Jingjing Gu, Qing He 0003
KDD1