Yaochen Zhu (朱耀晨)
I am a second-year Ph.D. student at UVA, advised by Prof. Jundong Li. Previously, I earned my master's degree at IIP Lab, Wuhan University, advised by Prof. Zhenzhong Chen. Currently, I work on causal inference, probabilistic graphical models, and their combination with DNNs to address key problems in data mining, with the emphasis on debiasing, reducing uncertainty, promoting fairness, and eliminating the influence of unobserved confounders. I also work closely with Dr. Liang Wu from LinkedIn.
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News
01/2024, one paper has been accepted by WWW 2024!
05/2023, one paper has been accepted by KDD 2023!
01/2023, Release a survey on causal inference in recommender system!
07/2022, I joined Prof. Jundong Li's group at UVA as a Ph.D. student!
06/2022, I graduated from Wuhan University with Honor!
04/2022, Honored to receive the distinguished fellowship of Eng. School, UVA!
04/2022, one paper has been accepted by WWW 2022 (accept rate: 17.7%).
Publications
Surveys:
- Knowledge Editing for Large Language Models: A Survey
Song Wang, Yaochen Zhu, Haochen Liu, Zaiyi Zheng, Chen Chen, Jundong Li
ArXiv 2023 | paper
- Causal Inference in Recommender Systems: A Survey of Strategies for Bias Mitigation, Explanation, and Generalization
Yaochen Zhu, Jing Ma, Jundong Li
ArXiv 2023 | Chapter 10, Machine Learning for Causal Inference, Springer | paper
Conference Papers:
- Collaborative Large Language Model for Recommender Systems
Yaochen Zhu, Liang Wu, Qi Guo, Liangjie Hong, Jundong Li
WWW 2024 | paper | codes
- Path-specific Counterfactual Fairness for Recommender Systems
Yaochen Zhu, Jing Ma, Liang Wu, Qi Guo, Liangjie Hong, Jundong Li
KDD 2023 | paper | codes
- Mutually-regularized dual collaborative variational auto-encoder for recommendation systems
Yaochen Zhu and Zhenzhong Chen
WWW 2022 | paper | codes | slides
- A multimodal variational encoder-decoder framework for micro-video popularity prediction
Jiayi Xie*, Yaochen Zhu*, ..., Zhenzhong Chen (Short paper, * for equal contribution)
WWW 2020 | paper | codes
- Multimodal deep denoising framework for affective video content analysis
Yaochen Zhu, Zhenzhong Chen, Feng Wu
ACM MM 2019 | paper | Oral | image1 | image2 | image3 | image4
Journal Papers:
- Deep causal reasoning for recommendations
Yaochen Zhu, Jing Yi, Jiayi Xie, Zhenzhong Chen
ACM TIST (submitted) | paper | codes
- Variational bandwidth auto-encoder for hybrid recommender systems
Yaochen Zhu and Zhenzhong Chen
IEEE TKDE, 2022. | paper | codes
- Cross-modal variational auto-encoder for micro-video background music recommendation
Jing Yi, Yaochen Zhu, Jiayi Xie, Zhenzhong Chen
IEEE TMM, 2021. | paper | codes
- Micro-video popularity prediction via multimodal variational information bottleneck
Jiayi Xie, Yaochen Zhu, Zhenzhong Chen
IEEE TMM, 2021. | paper | codes
- Affective video content analysis via multimodal deep quality embedding network
Yaochen Zhu, Zhenzhong Chen, Feng Wu
IEEE TAFFC, 2020. | paper | codes
Experiences
LinkedIn Inc: Applied Research Intern, May 2023 - Aug 2023
      Reseach Topic: Large Language Model for Recommendations
      Mentor: Liang Wu, Manager: Qi Guo, Director: Liangjie Hong
Service
Program Committee Members: CIKM 2022, CIKM 2023, AISTATS 2024, SDM 2024
Invited Conference Reviewer: SIGKDD 2023, WWW 2024
Invited Journal Reviewer: IEEE TKDE, ACM TOIS, ACM RecSys, IEEE TBD, IEEE TCYB
Teaching Assistantship
2021.09 - 2022.01: Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University. Teaching Assistant
2021.09 - 2022.01: Digital Image Processing, Wuhan University. Teaching Assistant
Awards
2023, KDD 2023, SDM 2023 Student Travel Award
2020, FIRST PRICE in China Maker Innovation & Entrepreneurship Contest. | certificate
2020, SECOND PRICE in China Post-Graduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling. | certificate
2020, FIRST CLASS graduate scholarship of Wuhan University. | certificate
2016, 2017, 2018, FIRST CLASS undergraduate scholarship of Central South University. | certificate
2016, 2018, National Scholarship (Top 0.2% Nationwide) | certificate
About Me
I love old rock bands: Pink Floyd, Lynyrd Skynyrd, CCR, Beyond, etc.
Some of my favorite songs are:
Have You Ever Seen the Rain (CCR, 1971) [try me]
Free Bird (Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jacksonville, FL, 1974) [try me]
Simple Man (Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jacksonville, FL, 1973) [try me]
Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd, 1975) [try me]
It Never Rains in Southern California (Especially after I embarked on my internship at Sunnyvale, CA) [try me]
灰色轨迹 (Beyond, 1991 Live) [try me][solo]
I'm also learning to play electronic guitar solo myself. Here's what I have accomplished (March 2023): [video]
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[Fun Facts] My current roommate & labmate
Binchi is the best piano player I've ever met.
The source codes of this website are borrowed from
Yunhe Wang, who kindly shared it on Zhihu.
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