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Cai Shang

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3ranked-venue papers
0as first author
3since 2021 · last 2026
0000-0002-1483-2372ORCID · corroborated

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Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 2 · 2 since 2021Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 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
2 papers
Recommender systems · 46% Information retrieval · 46% Machine learning and data management · 7%
Artificial intelligence
2 papers
Reinforcement learning · 80% Trustworthy machine learning · 20%
Computer graphics and multimedia
1 paper
Multimedia analysis and retrieval · 100%
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper
Computational finance and economics · 100%

Topics — the 8 heaviest of 9, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Recommender systems
generative recommendation
2.022026
A Generative Contextual Comprehension Paradigm for Takeout Ranking Model · WWW 2026
AIPO: Adaptive Anchored Intent-aware Policy Optimization for Generative Recommendation · SIGIR 2026
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
policy optimization
1.012026
AIPO: Adaptive Anchored Intent-aware Policy Optimization for Generative Recommendation · SIGIR 2026
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › reward design
reward hacking mitigation
1.012026
AIPO: Adaptive Anchored Intent-aware Policy Optimization for Generative Recommendation · SIGIR 2026
Information retrieval › ranking
context-aware ranking
1.012026
A Generative Contextual Comprehension Paradigm for Takeout Ranking Model · WWW 2026
Information retrieval › ranking
ranking model
1.012026
A Generative Contextual Comprehension Paradigm for Takeout Ranking Model · WWW 2026
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › robustness › adversarial robustness
adversarial training
0.512021
Self-Generated Defocus Blur Detection via Dual Adversarial Discriminators · CVPR 2021
Multimedia analysis and retrieval › image analysis
defocus blur detection
0.512021
Self-Generated Defocus Blur Detection via Dual Adversarial Discriminators · CVPR 2021
Machine learning and data management
distribution shift
0.312026
AIPO: Adaptive Anchored Intent-aware Policy Optimization for Generative Recommendation · SIGIR 2026

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

prior anchoring · 2.0low-rank adaptation · 2.0intent-aware resampling · 2.0generative model · 2.0barrier mapping · 2.0self-generated supervision · 1.0bilateral triplet-excavating constraint · 1.0
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 AIPO: Adaptive Anchored Intent-aware Policy Optimization for Generative Recommendation
abstract
Generative Recommendation (GenRec) has emerged as a significant evolutionary direction in the field of recommendation systems in recent years. However, during the reinforcement learning (RL) alignment stage of end-to-end GenRec, a core challenge is that the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of feedback signals triggers reward hacking, which in turn leads to severe distributional drift. Massive click noise and sparse rewards result in highly unstable policy gradients, making it difficult to balance reward optimization and generative stability. To address this, we propose AIPO (Adaptive Anchored Intent-aware Policy Optimization) framework. AIPO synergistically enhances both optimization stability and performance from both data and prior anchoring perspectives. First, it introduces an intent-aware asymmetric resampling mechanism to purify high-confidence conversion intent data, thereby amplifying the gradient contribution of high-value paths. Second, it introduces a prior anchoring mechanism, which dynamically regulates its intensity through a barrier mapping based on the degree of policy distributional drift, mitigating distributional drift and reward hacking caused by low-SNR data. Offline experiments on both public benchmarks and JD's industrial datasets validated the superior performance of AIPO.
Ziheng Ni, Cai Shang, Changping Peng, Ching Law
SIGIR4
2026 A Generative Contextual Comprehension Paradigm for Takeout Ranking Model
abstract
The ranking stage serves as the central optimization and allocation hub in advertising systems, governing economic value distribution through eCPM and orchestrating the user-centric blending of organic and advertising content. Prevailing ranking models often rely on fragmented modules and hand-crafted features, limiting their ability to interpret complex user intent. This challenge is further amplified in location-based services such as food delivery, where user decisions are shaped by dynamic spatial, temporal, and individual contexts. To address these limitations, we propose a novel generative framework that reframes ranking as a context comprehension task, modeling heterogeneous signals in a unified architecture. Our architecture consists of two core components: the Generative Contextual Encoder (GCE) and the Generative Contextual Fusion (GCF). The GCE comprises three specialized modules: a Personalized Context Enhancer (PCE) for user-specific modeling, a Collective Context Enhancer (CCE) for group-level patterns, and a Dynamic Context Enhancer (DCE) for real-time situational adaptation. The GCF module then seamlessly integrates these contextual representations through low-rank adaptation. Extensive experiments confirm that our method achieves significant gains in critical business metrics, including click-through rate and platform revenue. We have successfully deployed our method on a large-scale food delivery advertising platform, demonstrating its substantial practical impact. This work pioneers a new perspective on generative recommendation and highlights its practical potential in industrial advertising systems.
Ziheng Ni, Cai Shang, Zhiwei Fang, Guangpeng Chen, Li Jian, Zehua Zhang 0005, Changping Peng, Zhangang Lin, Ching Law, Jingping Shao
WWW3
2021 Self-Generated Defocus Blur Detection via Dual Adversarial Discriminators
abstract
Although existing fully-supervised defocus blur detection (DBD) models significantly improve performance, training such deep models requires abundant pixel-level manual annotation, which is highly time-consuming and error-prone. Addressing this issue, this paper makes an effort to train a deep DBD model without using any pixel-level annotation. The core insight is that a defocus blur region/focused clear area can be arbitrarily pasted to a given realistic full blurred image/full clear image without affecting the judgment of the full blurred image/full clear image. Specifically, we train a generator G in an adversarial manner against dual discriminators Dcand Db. G learns to produce a DBD mask that generates a composite clear image and a composite blurred image through copying the focused area and unfocused region from corresponding source image to another full clear image and full blurred image. Then, Dcand Dbcan not distinguish them from realistic full clear image and full blurred image simultaneously, achieving a self-generated DBD by an implicit manner to define what a defocus blur area is. Besides, we propose a bilateral triplet-excavating constraint to avoid the degenerate problem caused by the case one discriminator defeats the other one. Comprehensive experiments on two widely-used DBD datasets demonstrate the superiority of the proposed approach. Source codes are available at: https://github.com/shangcai1/SG.
Wenda Zhao 0003, Cai Shang, Huchuan Lu
CVPR2