EDBT 2026 Demo / reviewers in the wild / expert
Yuke Yan
dblp:410/6083
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0001-7183-5887ORCID · reported
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 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 |
Recommender systems · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Recommender systems › large-scale recommendation › multi-stage recommender systems
candidate generation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Synergizing Implicit and Explicit User Interests: A Multi-Embedding Retrieval Framework at Pinterest · KDD (2) 2025 |
Recommender systems
user interest modeling |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Synergizing Implicit and Explicit User Interests: A Multi-Embedding Retrieval Framework at Pinterest · KDD (2) 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
two-tower model · 0.9differentiable clustering · 0.9conditional retrieval · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Synergizing Implicit and Explicit User Interests: A Multi-Embedding Retrieval Framework at PinterestabstractIndustrial recommendation systems are typically composed of multiple stages, including retrieval, ranking, and blending. The retrieval stage plays a critical role in generating a high-recall set of candidate items that covers a wide range of diverse user interests. Effectively covering the diverse and long-tail user interests within this stage poses a significant challenge: traditional two-tower models struggle in this regard due to limited user-item feature interaction and often bias towards top use cases. To address these issues, we propose a novel multi-embedding retrieval framework designed to enhance user interest representation by generating multiple user embeddings conditioned on both implicit and explicit user interests. Implicit interests are captured from user history through a Differentiable Clustering Module (DCM), whereas explicit interests, such as topics that the user has followed, are modeled via Conditional Retrieval (CR). These methodologies represent a form of conditioned user representation learning that involves condition representation construction and associating the target item with the relevant conditions. Synergizing implicit and explicit user interests serves as a complementary approach to achieve more effective and comprehensive candidate retrieval as they benefit on different user segments and extract conditions from different but supplementary sources. Extensive experiments and A/B testing reveal significant improvements in user engagements and feed diversity metrics. Our proposed framework has been successfully deployed on Pinterest home feed. Zhibo Fan, Bowen Deng 0010, Hedi Xia, Yuke Yan, James Li |
KDD (2) | 6 |