Publications

2024

  1. arXiv
    REBEL: Reinforcement Learning via Regressing Relative Rewards
    Gao, Zhaolin, Chang, Jonathan D., Zhan, Wenhao, Oertell, Owen, Swamy, Gokul, Brantley, Kianté, Joachims, Thorsten, Bagnell, J. Andrew, Lee, Jason D., and Sun, Wen
    In 2024
  2. arXiv
    Reviewer2: Optimizing Review Generation Through Prompt Generation
    Gao, Zhaolin, Brantley, Kianté, and Joachims, Thorsten
    In 2024

2022

  1. RecSys
    Session-based Recommendation With Transformers
    Lu, Yichao,  Gao, Zhaolin*, Cheng, Zhaoyue*, Sun, Jianing*, Brown, Bradley, Yu, Guangwei, Wong, Anson, Perez, Felipe, and Volkovs, Maksims
    In Proceedings of the Recommender Systems Challenge 2022
  2. SIGIR
    Mitigating the Filter Bubble while Maintaining Relevance: Targeted Diversification with VAE-based Recommender Systems
    Gao, Zhaolin, Shen, Tianshu, Mai, Zheda, Bouadjenek, Mohamed Reda, Waller, Isaac, Anderson, Ashton, Bodkin, Ron, and Sanner, Scott
    In Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference 2022
  3. WWW
    MCL: Mixed-Centric Loss for Collaborative Filtering
    Gao, Zhaolin*, Cheng, Zhaoyue*, Perez, Felipe, Sun, Jianing, and Volkovs, Maksims
    In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022

2020

  1. CVPR
    Shoestring: Graph-Based Semi-Supervised Classification With Severely Limited Labeled Data
    Lin, Wanyu,  Gao, Zhaolin, and Li, Baochun
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2020
  2. INFOCOM
    Guardian: Evaluating Trust in Online Social Networks with Graph Convolutional Networks
    Lin, Wanyu,  Gao, Zhaolin, and Li, Baochun
    In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2020