Tao Ouyang

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3ranked-venue papers in the field
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3since 2021 · last 2026
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Big Data, Cloud & Distributed Data Systems · 2Database Systems & Data Management · 1
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2026 GALA: Generative Aligned Learning for Adaptive Multimodal Representation in the Taobao Shangou Recommender System
abstract
Modern recommender systems in food delivery increasingly leverage multimodal signals, including images, text, and user interaction histories, to enhance user experience, yet effective fusion of these heterogeneous modalities remains challenging, hindering both the joint modeling of multimodal signals and adaptation to evolving user intent. In mainstream two-stage approaches, the separation between content-semantic pretraining of image-text encoders and behavior-driven ranking models limits alignment between semantic understanding and user behavior patterns. To address these issues, we present GALA, a three-stage pipeline whose core innovation lies in an intermediate "generative RL alignment" stage that constructs multimodal pretraining data from user behavior and refines it via conversion-based rewards, effectively bridging the pretraining-fine-tuning gap to align with downstream objectives. GALA comprises three stages: first, behavior-aware triplet pretraining on query-image-text pairs from search logs to early capture user intent and content preferences; second, a novel intermediate stage that refines multimodal embeddings through reward-driven optimization (GRPO) to dynamically align them with user behavior and bridge the pretraining-fine-tuning gap; and finally, integration of multimodal and ID embeddings via adaptive gating with a hybrid loss, preserving multimodal contributions under long-term ID-dominant training. GALA has been deployed in the production environment at Taobao Shangou, serving over 200 million daily active users. Compared with state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods, it delivers consistent offline gains of +0.12/+0.20 AUC along with better PCOC metrics. Large-scale online A/B tests further report a 0.55 percent increase in order volume, confirming GALA's effectiveness at industrial scale and its robustness across diverse demand patterns.
Jiping Liu, Zhongmin Zhang, Zisen Sang, Zhijia Fang, Tao Ouyang, Ma Jiang, Shaopeng Liang, Zeyang Hou, Guodong Cao
ICDE5
2024 What's the Story in EBS Glory: Evolutions and Lessons in Building Cloud Block Store
Weidong Zhang 0011, Erci Xu, Qiuping Wang, Yuesheng Gu, Zhenwei Lu, Tao Ouyang, Guanqun Dai, Wenwen Peng, Yilei Peng, Tianyun Wang, Wenyuan Yan, Wenhui Yao, Zhongjie Wu, Lingjun Zhu, Yinhu Wang, Junping Wu, Jiaji Zhu, Jiesheng Wu
FAST7
2022 Separating Data via Block Invalidation Time Inference for Write Amplification Reduction in Log-Structured Storage
Qiuping Wang, Patrick P. C. Lee, Tao Ouyang, Lilong Huang
FAST4