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  1. Article

    Which noise affects algorithm robustness for learning to rank

    When applying learning to rank algorithms in real search applications, noise in human labeled training data becomes an inevitable problem which will affect the performance of the algorithms. Previous work main...

    Shuzi Niu, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, Shengxian Wan in Information Retrieval Journal (2015)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Bridging Semantic Gap Between App Names: Collective Matrix Factorization for Similar Mobile App Recommendation

    With the increase of mobile apps, i.e. applications, it is more and more difficult for users to discover their desired apps. Similar app recommendation, which plays a critical role in the app discovering proce...

    Ning Bu, Shuzi Niu, Lei Yu, Wen**g Ma in Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE… (2016)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Wake-Sleep Variational Autoencoders for Language Modeling

    Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are known to easily suffer from the KL-vanishing problem when combining with powerful autoregressive models like recurrent neural networks (RNNs), which prohibits their wide app...

    **aoyu Shen, Hui Su, Shuzi Niu, Dietrich Klakow in Neural Information Processing (2017)

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    Modeling Temporal Dynamics of Users’ Purchase Behaviors for Next Basket Prediction

    Next basket prediction attempts to provide sequential recommendations to users based on a sequence of the user’s previous purchases. Ideally, a good prediction model should be able to explore the personalized ...

    Pengfei Wang, Yongfeng Zhang, Shuzi Niu in Journal of Computer Science and Technology (2019)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Robust Sequence Embedding for Recommendation

    Sequential recommendation is a significant task that predicts the next items given user historical transaction sequences. It is often reduced to a multi-classification task with the historical sequence as the ...

    Rongzhi Zhang, Shuzi Niu, Yucheng Li in Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (2020)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Learning the Satisfiability of Pseudo-Boolean Problem with Graph Neural Networks

    Graph Neural Network (GNN) has shown great power on many practical tasks in the past few years. It is also considered to be a potential technique in bridging the gap between machine learning and symbolic reaso...

    Minghao Liu, Fan Zhang, Pei Huang, Shuzi Niu in Principles and Practice of Constraint Prog… (2020)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Topological Interpretable Multi-scale Sequential Recommendation

    Sequential recommendation attempts to predict next items based on user historical sequences. However, items to be predicted next depend on user’s long, short or mid-term interest. The multi-scale modeling of u...

    Tao Yuan, Shuzi Niu, Huiyuan Li in Database Systems for Advanced Applications (2021)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Latent Graph Recurrent Network for Document Ranking

    BERT based ranking models are emerging for its superior natural language understanding ability. The attention matrix learned through BERT captures all the word relations in the input text. However, neural rank...

    Qian Dong, Shuzi Niu in Database Systems for Advanced Applications (2021)

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    Disentangled Graph Recurrent Network for Document Ranking

    BERT-based ranking models are emerging for its superior natural language understanding ability. All word relations and representations in the concatenation of query and document are modeled in the self-attenti...

    Qian Dong, Shuzi Niu, Tao Yuan, Yucheng Li in Data Science and Engineering (2022)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Unify the Usage of Lexicon in Chinese Named Entity Recognition

    Lexicon plays a critical role in Chinese Named Entity Recognition (CNER). The major reason lies in that words in the lexicon, lexicon words for short, are highly related to entity mention boundaries. Most lexi...

    Wenjia Wu, Changyou Zhang, Shuzi Niu, Lin Shi in Database Systems for Advanced Applications (2023)

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    Incorporating Social-Aware User Preference for Video Recommendation

    Modeling user interest accurately is crucial to recommendation systems. Existing works capture user interest from historical behaviors. Due to the sparsity and noise in user behavior data, behavior based model...

    Xuanji **ao, Huaqiang Dai, Qian Dong in Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE… (2023)