Publications in 2024

TFWT: Tabular Feature Weighting with Transformer

In Proceedings of the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'24), Jeju, South Korea, 2024


Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Point of Interest Recommendation

In Proceedings of the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'24), Jeju, South Korea, 2024


M2Mol: Multi-View Multi-Granularity Molecular Representation Learning for Property Prediction

In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA’24), Gifu, Japan, 2024


Double-Layer Hybrid-Label Identificationtion Feature Selection for Multi-View Multi-Label Learning

In Proceedings of the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’24), Vancouver, Canada, 2024


Feature Interaction Aware Automated Data Representation Transformation

In Proceedings of 2024 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM’24), Houston, Texas, USA, 2024


Traceable Group-Wise Self-Optimizing Feature Transformation Learning: A Dual Optimization Perspective

ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data


Deep Adaptive Graph Clustering via von Mises-Fisher Distributions

ACM Transactions on the Web

Publications in 2023

Online POI Recommendation: Learning Dynamic Geo-Human Interactions in Streams

IEEE Transactions on Big Data


Interactive Reinforced Feature Selection with Traverse Strategy

Knowledge and Information Systems


Reinforced Explainable Knowledge Concept Recommendation in MOOCs

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology


Reinforced Imitative Graph Learning for Mobile User Profiling

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering


Automated Feature Selection: A Reinforcement Learning Perspective

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering


Interactive Reinforcement Learning for Feature Selection with Decision Tree in the Loop

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering


Automated Urban Planning for Reimagining City Configuration via Adversarial Learning: Quantification, Generation, and Evaluation

ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems


RDKG: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Disease Diagnosis on Knowledge Graph

In Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’23), Shanghai, China, 2023


Self-optimizing Feature Generation via Categorical Hashing Representation and Hierarchical Reinforcement Crossing

In Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’23), Shanghai, China, 2023


T-SaS: Toward Shift- aware Dynamic Adaptation for Streaming Data

In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’23), Birmingham, UK, 2023


A Counterfactual Collaborative Session-based Recommender System

In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023 (TheWebConf’23), Austin, Texas, USA, 2023.


Hierarchical Reinforced Urban Planning: Jointly Steering Region and Block Configurations

In Proceedings of 2023 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM’23), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 2023


Traceable Automatic Feature Transformation via Cascading Actor-Critic Agents

In Proceedings of 2023 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM’23), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 2023

Publications in 2022

Group-wise Reinforcement Feature Generation for Optimal and Explainable Representation Space Reconstruction

In Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD’22), Washington DC, USA, 2022


Mitigating Popularity Bias in Recommendation with Unbalanced Interactions: A Gradient Perspective

In Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’22), Orlando, USA, 2022


Feature and Instance Joint Selection: A Reinforcement Learning Perspective

In Proceedings of the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’22), Messe Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2022


Multi-level Recommendation Reasoning over Knowledge Graphs with Reinforcement Learning

In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022 (TheWebConf’22), Lyon, France, 2022


Unifying Human Mobility Forecasting and Trajectory Semantics Augmentation via Hawkes Process Based LSTM

In Proceedings of 2022 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM’22), Alexandria, Virginia, USA, 2022


Automated Urban Planning Aware Spatial Hierarchies and Human Instructions

Knowledge and Information Systems


A Simpler Machine Learning Model for Acute Kidney Injury Risk

Journal of Clinical Medicine

Publications in 2021

Efficient Reinforced Feature Selection via Early Stopping Traverse Strategy

In Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’21), Auckland, New Zealand, 2021.


Fair Graph Auto-Encoder for Unbiased Graph Representations with Wasserstein Distance

In Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’21), Auckland, New Zealand, 2021


Multi-Armed Bandit Guided Feature Subspace Exploration

In Proceedings of 2021 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM’21), Virginia, USA, 2021


AutoGFS: Automated Group-based Feature Selection via Interactive Reinforcement Learning

In Proceedings of 2021 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM’21), Virginia, USA, 2021.


EduHawkes: A Neural Hawkes Process Approach for Online Study Behavior Modeling

In Proceedings of 2021 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM’21), Virginia, USA, 2021


Automated Feature-Topic Pairing: Aligning Semantic and Embedding Spaces in Spatial Representation Learning

In Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGSPATIAL, Beijing, China, 2021


Measuring Urban Vibrancy of Residential Communities Using Big Crowdsourced Geotagged Data 

Frontiers in Big Data


Towards Semantically-rich Spatial Network Representation Learning via Automated Feature Topic Pairing

Frontiers in Big Data


Fair and Effective Policing for Neighborhood Safety: Understanding and Overcoming Selection Biases 

Frontiers in Big Data

Publications in 2020

Reinforced Imitative Graph Representation Learning for Mobile User Profiling: An Adversarial Training Perspective

In Proceedings of the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’21), Vancouver, Canada, 2021


Ambulance Dispatch via Deep Reinforcement Learning

In Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGSPATIAL, Seattle, USA, 2020


Incremental Mobile User Profiling: Reinforcement Learning with Spatial Knowledge Graph for Modeling Event Streams

In Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD’20), San Diego, USA, 2020


Exploiting Mutual Information for Substructure-aware Graph Representation Learning

In Proceedings of the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’20), Pacifico Yokohama, Japan, 2020


Simplifying Reinforced Feature Selection via Restructured Choice Strategy of Single Agent

In Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’20), Sorrento, Italy, 2020


AutoFS: Automated Feature Selection via Diversity-aware Interactive Reinforcement Learning

In Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’20), Sorrento, Italy, 2020


Modeling the Effects of Individual and Group Heterogeneity on Multi-Aspect Rating Behavior

Frontiers of Data and Computing


Healthcare Utilization and Costs after Receiving a Positive BRCA1/2 Result from a Genomic Screening Program

Journal of Personalized Medicine

Publications in 2019

Automating Feature Subspace Exploration via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

In Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD’19), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 2019

Publications in 2018

Privacy-Preserving Multi-Task Learning

In Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’18), Sentosa Island, Singapore, 2018


Modeling the Interaction Coupling of Multi-View Spatiotemporal Contexts for Destination Prediction

In Proceedings of 2018 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM'18), San Diego, California, USA, 2018