EDUCATION

Ph. D. in Computer Science, College of Information Science and Technology, Nankai University Tianjin, China, 2001 - 2006

B. S. in Computer Science, College of Information Science and Technology, Nankai University Tianjin, China, 1997 - 2001

WORK EXPERIENCE

Professor, School of Information, Renmin University of China Beijing, China, 2018 -

Researcher & Professor, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China, 2014 - 2018

Researcher and Senior Researcher, Noah's Ark Lab, Huawei Technologies Hong Kong SAR, China, 2012 - 2014

Associate Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) Beijing, China, 2006 – 2012

RESEARCH INTERESTS

His research interests span the areas of intelligent information retrieval, recommender systems, and big data analysis. He has specific interests in reinforcement learning to rank, deep learning for semantic matching and relevance ranking, and casual inference in IR.

TEACHING

Artificial Intelligence with Python Programming Langauge

Introduction to big data analysis

Intelligent Information Retrieval

PUBLICATIONS

2026

Counteracting the Delayed Conversions in OCPC with Survival Analysis

Leping Zhang, Chenxuan He, Xiao Zhang, Yichao Wang, Tengxiang Zhang, Zhenhua Dong and Jun Xu

The 19th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2026)


2025

PrLM: Learning Explicit Reasoning for Personalized RAG via Contrastive Reward Optimization

Kepu Zhang, Teng Shi, Weijie Yu and Jun Xu

ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2025, short paper)

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BordaRAG: Resolving Knowledge Conflict in Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Borda Voting Process

Yuxin Li, Chen Xu, Jun Xu and Ji-Rong Wen

ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2025)

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SyLeR: A Framework for Explicit Syllogistic Legal Reasoning in Large Language Models

Kepu Zhang, Weijie Yu, Zhongxiang Sun and Jun Xu

ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2025)

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Benefit from Rich: Tackling Search Interaction Sparsity in Search Enhanced Recommendation

Teng Shi, Weijie Yu, Xiao Zhang, Ming He, Jianping Fan and Jun Xu

ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2025)

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Q-PRM: Adaptive Query Rewriting for Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Step-level Process Supervision

Xiaopeng Ye, Chen Xu, Chaoliang Zhang, Zhaocheng Du, Jun Xu, Gang Wang, Zhenhua Dong

EMNLP Findings 2025

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Uplift-RAG: Uplift-Driven Knowledge Preference Alignment for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Changle Qu, Sunhao Dai, Hengyi Cai, Yiyang Cheng, Jun Xu, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin

EMNLP Findings 2025

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Beyond Guilt: Legal Judgment Prediction with Trichotomous Reasoning

Kepu Zhang, Haoyue Yang, Xu Tang, Weijie Yu, Jun Xu

EMNLP Findings 2025

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Legal Mathematical Reasoning with LLMs: Procedural Alignment through Two-Stage Reinforcement Learning

Kepu Zhang, Guofu Xie, Weijie Yu, Mingyue Xu, Xu Tang, Yaxin Li, Jun Xu

EMNLP Findings 2025

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Similarity = Value? Consultation Value-Assessment and Alignment for Personalized Search

Weicong Qin, Yi Xu, Weijie Yu, Teng Shi, Chenglei Shen, Ming He, Jianping Fan, Xiao Zhang, Jun Xu

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025)

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Media Source Matters More Than Content: Unveiling Political Bias in LLM-Generated Citations

Sunhao Dai, Zhanshuo Cao, Wenjie Wang, Liang Pang, Jun Xu, See-Kiong Ng, Tat-Seng Chua

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025)

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A Survey of Controllable Learning: Methods and Applications in Information Retrieval

Chenglei Shen, Xiao Zhang, Teng Shi, Changshuo Zhang, Guofu Xie, Jun Xu, Ming He, Jianping Fan

Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS)


Test-Time Alignment with State Space Model for Tracking User Interest Shifts in Sequential Recommendation

Changshuo Zhang, Xiao Zhang, Teng Shi, Jun Xu and Ji-Rong Wen

The ACM Conference Series on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2025)

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GenSAR: Unifying Balanced Search and Recommendation with Generative Retrieval

Teng Shi, Jun Xu, Xiao Zhang, Xiaoxue Zang, Kai Zheng, Yang Song, Enyun Yu

The ACM Conference Series on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2025)

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MoRE: A Mixture of Reflectors Framework for Large Language Model-Based Sequential Recommendation

Weicong Qin, Yi Xu, Weijie Yu, Chenglei Shen, Xiao Zhang, Ming He, Jianping Fan, and Jun Xu

The ACM Conference Series on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2025)

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CitaLaw: Enhancing LLM with Citations in Legal Domain

Kepu Zhang, Weijie Yu, Sunhao Dai, Jun Xu

ACL Findings (2025)

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Length-Induced Embedding Collapse in PLM-based Models

Yuqi Zhou, Sunhao Dai, Zhanshuo Cao, Xiao Zhang, Jun Xu

Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025)

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Towards Effective and Efficient Continual Pre-training of Large Language Models

Jie Chen, Zhipeng Chen, Jiapeng Wang, Kun Zhou, Yutao Zhu, Jinhao Jiang, Yingqian Min, Xin Zhao, Zhicheng Dou, Jiaxin Mao, Yankai Lin, Ruihua Song, Jun Xu, Xu Chen, Rui Yan, Zhewei Wei, Di Hu, Wenbing Huang, Ji-Rong Wen

Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025)

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MAPS: Motivation-Aware Personalized Search via LLM-Driven Consultation Alignment

Weicong Qin, Yi Xu, Weijie Yu, Chenglei Shen, Ming He, Jianping Fan, Xiao Zhang, Jun Xu

Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025)

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ReARTeR: Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning with Trustworthy Process Rewarding

Zhongxiang Sun, Qipeng Wang, Weijie Yu, Xiaoxue Zang, Kai Zheng, Jun Xu, Xiao Zhang, Yang Song and Han Li

Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025)

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Exploring the Escalation of Source Bias in User, Data, and Recommender System Feedback Loop

Yuqi Zhou, Sunhao Dai, Liang Pang, Gang Wang, Zhenhua Dong, Jun Xu and Ji-Rong Wen

Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025)

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Understanding Accuracy-Fairness Trade-offs in Re-ranking through Elasticity in Economics

Chen Xu, Jujia Zhao, Wenjie Wang, Liang Pang, Jun Xu, Tat-Seng Chua and Maarten de Rijke

Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025)

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Mitigating Source Bias with LLM Alignment

Sunhao Dai, Yuqi Zhou, Liang Pang, Zhuoyang Li, Zhaocheng Du, Gang Wang and Jun Xu

Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025)

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Retrieval Augmented Generation with Collaborative Filtering for Personalized Text Generation

Teng Shi, Jun Xu, Xiao Zhang, Xiaoxue Zang, Kai Zheng, Yang Song and Han Li

Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025)

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LLM-Empowered Creator Simulation for Long-Term Evaluation of Recommender Systems Under Information Asymmetry

Xiaopeng Ye, Chen Xu, Zhongxiang Sun, Jun Xu, Gang Wang, Zhenhua Dong and Ji-Rong Wen

Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025)

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Bridging Short Videos and Streamers with Multi-Graph Contrastive Learning for Live Streaming Recommendation

Changle Qu, Liqin Zhao, Yanan Niu, Xiao Zhang and Jun Xu

Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025)

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FairDiverse: A Comprehensive Toolkit for Fairness- and Diversity-aware Information Retrieval

Chen Xu, Zhirui Deng, Clara Rus, Xiaopeng Ye, Yuanna Liu, Jun Xu, Zhicheng Dou, Ji-Rong Wen and Maarten de Rijke

Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025, resources)

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NExT-Search: Rebuilding User Feedback Ecosystem for Generative AI Search

Sunhao Dai, Wenjie Wang, Liang Pang, Jun Xu, See-Kiong Ng, Ji-Rong Wen and Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2025, perspectives)

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From Exploration to Mastery: Enabling LLMs to Master Tools via Self-Driven Interactions

Changle Qu, Sunhao Dai, Xiaochi Wei, Hengyi Cai, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin, Jun Xu, Ji-Rong Wen

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025, Oral 1.8%)

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Bridging Jensen Gap for Max-Min Group Fairness Optimization in Recommendation

Chen Xu, Yuxin Li, Wenjie Wang, Liang Pang, Jun Xu, Tat-Seng Chua

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025)

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ReDeEP: Detecting Hallucination in Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Mechanistic Interpretability

Zhongxiang Sun, Xiaoxue Zang, Kai Zheng, Jun Xu, Xiao Zhang, Weijie Yu, Yang Song, Han Li

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025, Spotlight 5.1%)

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Perplexity Trap: PLM-Based Retrievers Overrate Low Perplexity Documents

Haoyu Wang, Sunhao Dai, Haiyuan Zhao, Liang Pang, Xiao Zhang, Gang Wang, Zhenhua Dong, Jun Xu, Ji-Rong Wen

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025)

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LargePiG for Hallucination-Free Query Generation: Your Large Language Model is Secretly a Pointer Generator

Zhongxiang Sun, Zihua Si, Xiaoxue Zang, Kai Zheng, Yang Song, Xiao Zhang,Jun Xu

The ACM Web Conference 2025 (WWW 2025), Sydney, NSW, Australia, pp. 4766–4779.

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AdaO2B: Adaptive Online to Batch Conversion for Out-of-Distribution Generalization

Xiao Zhang, Sunhao Dai, Jun Xu, Yong Liu, Zhenhua Dong

The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025), 39(21), pp. 22596-22604.

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Trigger$^3$: Refining Query Correction via Adaptive Model Selector

Kepu Zhang, ZhongXiang Sun, Xiao Zhang, Xiaoxue Zang, Kai Zheng, Yang Song, Jun Xu

The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025), 39(12), pp. 13260-13268.

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Adapting Constrained Markov Decision Process for OCPC Bidding with Delayed Conversions

Leping Zhang, Xiao Zhang, Yichao Wang, Xuan Li, Zhenhua Dong, and Jun Xu

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Vol. 43, No. 2, Article 47

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Tool Learning with Large Language Models: A Survey

Changle Qu, Sunhao Dai, Xiaochi Wei, Hengyi Cai, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin, Jun Xu, Ji-rong Wen

Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS), 2025, 19(8): 198343

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2024

Generative Retrieval with Semantic Tree-Structured Identifiers and Contrastive Learning

Zihua Si, Zhongxiang Sun, Jiale Chen, Guozhang Chen, Xiaoxue Zang, Kai Zheng, Yang Song, Xiao Zhang, Jun Xu, Kun Gai

Proceedings of the 2024 Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region (SIGIR-AP 2024, Best Paper Award)

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A Study of Implicit Ranking Unfairness in Large Language Models

Chen Xu, Wenjie Wang, Yuxin Li, Liang Pang, Jun Xu, Tat-Seng Chua

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, pages 7957–7970, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.

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LTP-MMF: Towards Long-term Provider Max-min Fairness Under Recommendation Feedback Loops

Chen Xu, Xiaopeng Ye, Jun Xu, Xiao Zhang, Weiran Shen, and Ji-Rong Wen

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Vol. 43, No. 1, Article 11, 29 pages.

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Do Not Wait: Learning Re-Ranking Model Without User Feedback At Serving Time in E-Commerce

Yuan Wang, Zhiyu Li, Changshuo Zhang, Sirui Chen, Xiao Zhang, Jun Xu and Quan Lin

The 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2024)

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SAQRec: Aligning Recommender Systems to User Satisfaction via Questionnaire Feedback

Kepu Zhang, Teng Shi, Sunhao Dai, Xiao Zhang, Yinfeng Li, Jing Lu, Xiaoxue Zang, Yang Song and Jun Xu

Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2024)

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Large Language Models Enhanced Collaborative Filtering

Zhongxiang Sun, Zihua Si, Xiaoxue Zang, Kai Zheng, Yang Song, Xiao Zhang and Jun Xu

Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2024)

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Towards Completeness-Oriented Tool Retrieval for Large Language Models

Changle Qu, Sunhao Dai, Xiaochi Wei, Hengyi Cai, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin, Jun Xu and Ji-Rong Wen

Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2024)

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Guaranteeing Accuracy and Fairness under Fluctuating User Traffic: A Bankruptcy-Inspired Re-ranking Approach

Xiaopeng Ye, Chen Xu, Jun Xu, Xuyang Xie, Gang Wang and Zhenhua Dong

Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2024)

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Model-Agnostic Causal Embedding Learning for Counterfactually Group-Fair Recommendation

Xiao Zhang, Teng Shi, Jun Xu, Zhenhua Dong, Ji-Rong Wen

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), VOL. 36, NO. 12, DECEMBER 2024

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Bias and Unfairness in Information Retrieval Systems: New Challenges in the LLM Era

Sunhao Dai, Chen Xu, Shicheng Xu, Liang Pang, Zhenhua Dong, Jun Xu

The 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2024 Tutorial)

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Neural Retrievers are Biased Towards LLM-Generated Content

Sunhao Dai, Yuqi Zhou, Liang Pang, Weihao Liu, Xiaolin Hu, Yong Liu, Xiao Zhang, Gang Wang, Jun Xu

The 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2024)

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Counteracting Duration Bias in Video Recommendation via Counterfactual Watch Time

Haiyuan Zhao, Guohao Cai, Jieming Zhu, Zhenhua Dong, Jun Xu, Ji-Rong Wen

The 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2024)

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Revisiting Reciprocal Recommender Systems: Metrics, Formulation, and Method

Chen Yang, Sunhao Dai, Yupeng Hou, Xin Zhao, Jun Xu, SONG Yang, Hengshu Zhu

The 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2024)

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Towards Robust Recommendation via Decision Boundary-aware Graph Contrastive Learning

Jiakai Tang, Sunhao Dai, Zexu Sun, Xu Chen, Jun Xu, Wenhui Yu, Lantao Hu, Peng Jiang, Han Li

The 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2024)

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Cocktail: A Comprehensive Information Retrieval Benchmark with LLM-Generated Documents Integration

Sunhao Dai, Weihao Liu, Yuqi Zhou, Liang Pang, Rongju Ruan, Gang Wang, Zhenhua Dong, Jun Xu, Ji-Rong Wen

ACL Findings (2024)

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Effective In-Context Example Selection through Data Compression

ZhongXiang Sun, Kepu Zhang, Haoyu Wang, Xiao Zhang, Jun Xu

ACL Findings (2024)

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UniSAR: Modeling User Transition Behaviors between Search and Recommendation

Teng Shi, Zihua Si, Jun Xu, Xiao Zhang, Xiaoxue Zang, Kai Zheng, Dewei Leng, Yanan Niu and Yang Song

Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024)

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A Taxation Perspective for Fair Re-ranking

Chen Xu, Xiaopeng Ye, Wenjie Wang, Liang Pang, Jun Xu and Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024, Best Paper Honorable Mention)

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ReCODE: Modeling Repeat Consumption with Neural ODE

Sunhao Dai, Changle Qu, Sirui Chen, Xiao Zhang and Jun Xu

Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024, Best Short Paper nominees)

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Invisible Relevance Bias: Text-Image Retrieval Models Prefer AI-Generated Images

Shicheng Xu, Danyang Hou, Liang Pang, Jingcheng Deng, Jun Xu, Huawei Shen and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024)

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To Search or to Recommend: Predicting Open-App Motivation with Neural Hawkes Process

Zhongxiang Sun, Zihua Si, Xiao Zhang, Xiaoxue Zang, Yang Song, Hongteng Xu and Jun Xu

Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024)

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Explicitly Integrating Judgment Prediction with Legal Document Retrieval: A Law-Guided Generative Approach

Weicong Qin, Zelin Cao, Weijie Yu, Zihua Si, Sirui Chen and Jun Xu

Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024)

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Reinforcing Long-Term Performance in Recommender Systems with User-Oriented Exploration Policy

Changshuo Zhang, Sirui Chen, Xiao Zhang, Sunhao Dai, Weijie Yu, Jun Xu

Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024)

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Smooth Start: A Unified Approach for gradual transition from cold to old in Recommender Systems

Jianwen Yang, Xiao Zhang, Jun Xu

The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2024)


Logic Rules as Explanations for Legal Case Retrieval

ZhongXiang Sun, Kepu Zhang, Weijie Yu, Haoyu Wang and Jun Xu

In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pp. 10747–10759, Torino, Italia.

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List-aware Reranking-Truncation Joint Model for Search and Retrieval-augmented Generation

Shicheng Xu, Liang Pang, Jun Xu, Huawei Shen, Xueqi Cheng

The ACM Web Conference 2024

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FairSync: Ensuring Amortized Group Exposure in Distributed Recommendation Retrieval

Chen Xu, Jun Xu, Yiming Ding, Xiao Zhang, Qi Qi

The ACM Web Conference 2024

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Modeling User Attention in Music Recommendation

Sunhao Dai, Ninglu Shao, Jieming Zhu, Xiao Zhang, Zhenhua Dong, Jun Xu, Quanyu Dai, Ji-Rong Wen

IEEE 40th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2024), Utrecht, Netherlands, 2024, pp. 761-774

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Explainable Legal Case Matching via Graph Optimal Transport

Zhongxiang Sun, Weijie Yu, Zihua Si, Jun Xu, Zhenhua Dong, Xu Chen, Hongteng Xu, Ji-Rong Wen

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 2461-2475

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2023

Reward Imputation with Sketching for Contextual Batched Bandits

Xiao Zhang, Ninglu Shao, Zihua Si, Jun Xu, Wenhan Wang, Hanjing Su, Ji-Rong Wen

the 37th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023)

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App搜索场景下的意图推荐方法研究

周雨琦,戴孙浩,张朝亮,王刚,户保田,徐君

第二十九届全国信息检索学术会议 (CCIR2023)


Reinforcement Re-ranking with 2D Grid-based Recommendation Panels

Sirui Chen, Xiao Zhang, Xu Chen, Zhiyu Li, Yuan Wang, Quan Lin, and Jun Xu

Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region (SIGIR-AP ’23)

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Unbiased Top-$k$ Learning to Rank with Causal Likelihood Decomposition

Haiyuan Zhao, Jun Xu, Xiao Zhang, Guohao Cai, Zhenhua Dong, Ji-Rong Wen

In Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region (SIGIR-AP ’23, Best Paper Award)

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HyperBandit: Contextual Bandit with Hypernewtork for Time-Varying User Preferences in Streaming Recommendation

Chenglei Shen, Xiao Zhang, Wei Wei, Jun Xu

Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2023)

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KuaiSAR: A Unified Search And Recommendation Dataset

Zhongxiang Sun, Zihua Si, Xiaoxue Zang, Dewei Leng, Yanan Niu, Yang Song, Xiao Zhang, Jun Xu

CIKM 2023 Resource Paper

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Dually Enhanced Delayed Feedback Modeling for Streaming Conversion Rate Prediction

Sunhao Dai, Yuqi Zhou, Jun Xu, Ji-Rong Wen

Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2023)

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Uncovering ChatGPT's Capabilities in Recommender Systems

Sunhao Dai, Ninglu Shao, Haiyuan Zhao, Weijie Yu, Zihua Si, Chen Xu, Zhongxiang Sun, Xiao Zhang and Jun Xu

RecSys 2023 Late Breaking Results (LBR) track

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Syntactic-Informed Graph Networks for Sentence Matching

Chen Xu, Jun Xu, Zhenhua Dong, Ji-Rong, Wen

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Vol. 42, No. 2, Article 38

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Uncovering User Interest from Biased and Noised Watch Time in Video Recommendation

Haiyuan Zhao, Lei Zhang, Jun Xu, Guohao Cai, Zhenhua Dong and Ji-Rong Wen

Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2023)

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Controllable Multi-Objective Re-ranking with Policy Hypernetworks

Sirui Chen, Yuan Wang, Zijing Wen, Zhiyu Li, ChangShuo Zhang, Xiao Zhang, Lin Quan, Cheng Zhu, Jun Xu

KDD 2023 Applied Data Science (ADS) track

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Conditional Counterfactual Causal Effect for Individual Attribution

Ruiqi Zhao, Lei Zhang, Shengyu Zhu, Zitong Lu, Zhenhua Dong, Chaoliang Zhang, Jun Xu, Zhi Geng, Yangbo He

Proceedings of the 39th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2023, Poster Spotlight)

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ACRank: 在神经排序模型中引入检索公理知识

薄琳,庞亮,张朝亮,王钊伟,董振华,徐君,文继荣

计算机学报

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When Search Meets Recommendation: Learning Disentangled Search Representation for Recommendation

Zihua Si, Zhongxiang Sun, Xiao Zhang, Jun Xu, Xiaoxue Zang, Yang Song, Kun Gai and Ji-Rong Wen

Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2023)

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Law Article-Enhanced Legal Case Matching: a Causal Learning Approach

Zhongxiang Sun, Jun Xu, Xiao Zhang, Zhenhua Dong, Ji-Rong Wen

Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2023)

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U-SetRank:基于注意力机制修正的SetRank纠偏

张乐凭,徐君,庞亮,董振华,文继荣

计算机研究与发展


Enhancing Recommendation with Search Data in a Causal Learning Manner

Zihua Si, Zhongxiang Sun, Xiao Zhang, Jun Xu, Yang Song, Xiaoxue Zang, Ji-Rong Wen

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS),Vol. 41, No. 4, Article 111

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P-MMF: Provider Max-min Fairness Re-ranking in Recommender System

Chen Xu, Sirui Chen, Jun Xu, Weiran Shen, Xiao Zhang, Gang Wang, Zhenhua Dong

International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2023, Spotlight / Best Paper Award Nomination)

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Separating Examination and Trust Bias from Click Predictions for Unbiased Relevance Ranking

Haiyuan Zhao, Jun Xu, Xiao Zhang, Guohao Cai, Zhenhua Dong, Ji-Rong Wen

Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2023)

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基于多任务学习的倾向性得分预测算法

曹泽麟,徐君,董振华,文继荣

计算机研究与发展, 2023, 60(1): 85-94

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2022

Variance reduction for deep Q-Learning using stochastic recursive gradient

Haonan Jia, Xiao Zhang, Jun Xu, Wei Zeng, Hao Jiang, Xiaohui Yan

Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2022)

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Optimal Partial Transport Based Sentence Selection for Long-form Document Matching

Weijie Yu, Liang Pang, Jun Xu, Bing Su, Zhenhua Dong and Ji-Rong Wen

The 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING ‘22)

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Semantic Sentence Matching via Interacting Syntax Graphs

Chen Xu, Jun Xu, Zhenhua Dong and Ji-Rong Wen

The 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING ‘22)

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Dually Enhanced Propensity Score Estimation in Sequential Recommendation

Chen Xu, Jun Xu, Xu Chen, Zhenghua Dong, Ji-RongWen

Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’22)

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A Tag-Based Post-Hoc Framework for Explainable Conversational Recommendation

Kerui Xu, Jun Xu, Sheng Gao, Si Li, Jun Guo, and Ji-Rong Wen

Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR ’22)

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Explainable Legal Case Matching via Inverse Optimal Transport-based Rationale Extraction

Weijie Yu, Zhongxiang Sun, Jun Xu, Zhenhua Dong, Xu Chen, Hongteng Xu, and Ji-RongWen

Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’22)

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Counteracting User Attention Bias in Music Streaming Recommendation via Reward Modification

Xiao Zhang, Sunhao Dai, Jun Xu, Zhenhua Dong, Quanyu Dai, Ji-Rong Wen

Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD ’22)

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A Model-Agnostic Causal Learning Framework for Recommendation using Search Data

Zihua Si, Xueran Han, Xiao Zhang, Jun Xu, Yue Yin, Yang Song, Ji-Rong Wen

Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022 (WWW ’22)

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Distribution Distance Regularized Sequence Representation for Text Matching in Asymmetrical Domains

Weijie Yu , Chen Xu, Jun Xu , Liang Pang, and Ji-Rong Wen

IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO, SPEECH, AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING (TASLP), VOL. 30

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2021

Adapting User Preference to Online Feedback in Multi-round Conversational Recommendation

Kerui Xu, Jingxuan Yang, Jun Xu, Sheng Gao, Jun Guo, Ji-Rong Wen

Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, pages 364–372

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Counterfactual Reward Modification for Streaming Recommendation with Delayed Feedback

Xiao Zhang, Haonan Jia, Hanjing Su, Wenhan Wang, Jun Xu, Ji-Rong Wen

In Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’21), July 11–15, 2021, Virtual Event, Canada.

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RLPS: A Reinforcement Learning–Based Framework for Personalized Search

Jing Yao, Zhicheng Dou, Jun Xu, Ji-Rong Wen

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 39 (3), 1-29

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Regret Bounds for Online Kernel Selection in Continuous Kernel Space

Xiao Zhang, Shizhong Liao, Jun Xu, Ji-Rong Wen

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 35 (12)

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A Joint Model for Dropped Pronoun Recovery and Conversational Discourse Parsing in Chinese Conversational Speech

Jingxuan Yang, Kerui Xu, Jun Xu, Si Li, Sheng Gao, Jun Guo, Nianwen Xue, Ji-Rong Wen

Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2021

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2020

RLPer: A Reinforcement Learning Model for Personalized Search

Yao, Jing; Dou, Zhicheng; Xu, Jun; Wen, Ji-Rong

29th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, 2020-4-20 - 2020-4-24

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Transformer-GCRF: Recovering Chinese Dropped Pronouns with General Conditional Random Fields

Jingxuan Yang; Kerui Xu; Jun Xu; Si Li; Sheng GAO; Jun Guo; Ji-Rong Wen; Nianwen Xue

Findings of ACL: EMNLP 2020, Online, 2020-11-16

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Wasserstein Distance Regularized Sequence Representation for Text Matching in Asymmetrical Domains

Yu, Weijie; Xu, Chen; Xu, Jun; Pang, Liang; Gao, Xiaopeng; Wang, Xiaozhao; Wen, Ji-Rong

Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Online, 2020-11-16

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SetRank: Learning a Permutation-Invariant Ranking Model for Information Retrieval

Pang, Liang; Xu, Jun; Ai, Qingyao; Lan, Yanyan; Cheng, Xueqi; Wen, Jirong

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2020, Virtual, Online, China, 2020-7-25-2020-7-30

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模仿排序学习模型

曾玮; 俞蔚捷; 徐君; 兰艳艳; 程学旗

中文信息学报, 2020, 34(01): 97-105

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Deep Learning for Matching in Search and Recommendation

Xu, Jun; He, Xiangnan; Li, Hang

Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, 2020, 14(2-3): 102-288

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Reinforcement Learning to Rank with Pairwise Policy Gradient

Xu, Jun; Wei, Zeng; Xia, Long; Lan, Yanyan; Yin, Dawei; Cheng, Xueqi; Wen, Ji-Rong

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2020, Virtual, Online, China

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2019

Differentiated Distribution Recovery for Neural Text Generation

Li, Jianing ; Lan, Yanyan ; Guo, Jiafeng; Xu, Jun; Cheng, Xueqi

33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019.1.27-2019.2.1

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HAS-QA: Hierarchical Answer Spans Model for Open-Domain Question Answering

Pang, Liang ; Lan, Yanyan ; Guo, Jiafeng; Xu, Jun; Su, Lixin; Cheng, Xueqi

33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019.1.27-2019.2.1

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PSGAN: A Minimax Game for Personalized Search with Limited and Noisy Click Data

Shuqi Lu ; Zhicheng Dou; Jun Xu; Jian-Yun Nie; Ji-Rong Wen

The 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2019.7.21-2019.7.25

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Teaching Machines to Extract Main Content for Machine Reading Comprehension

Li, Zhaohui ; Feng, Yue; Xu, Jun; Guo, Jiafeng; Lan, Yanyan; Cheng, Xueqi

33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019.1.27-2019.2.1

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Name Entity Recognition with Policy-Value Networks

Yadi Lao ; Jun Xu ; Sheng Gao; Jun Guo; Ji-Rong Wen

42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019), 2019.7.21-2019.7.25

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Modeling the Parameter Interactions in Ranking SVM with Low-Rank Approximation

Jun Xu, Wei Zeng, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, and Xueqi Cheng (2019)

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Vol. 31: No. 6, pp 1181-1193.

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2018

Neighborhood Voting: A Novel Search Scheme for Hashing

Yan Xiao; Jiafeng Guo; Yanyan Lan; Jun Xu; Xueqi Cheng

The 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2018), 2018

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Question Headline Generation for News Articles

Ruqing Zhang ; Jiafeng Guo; Yixing Fan; Yanyan Lan; Jun Xu; Huanhuan Cao; Xueqi Cheng

The 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2018)

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Multivariate Time Series Imputation with Generative Adversarial Networks

Luo, Yonghong ; Cai, Xiangrui; ZHANG, Ying ; Xu, Jun; Yuan, Xiaojie

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31 (NIPS 2018), 2018.12.2-2018.12.8

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Spherical Paragraph Model

Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, Xueqi Cheng

Advances in Information Retrieval, ECIR. . ECIR 2018, LNCS 10772, pp. 289–302, 2018


Aggregating Neural Word Embeddings for Document Representation

Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, Xueqi Cheng

Advances in Information Retrieval, ECIR. . ECIR 2018, LNCS 10772, pp. 303–315, 2018


Modeling the correlations of relations for knowledge graph embedding

Jizhao Zhu, Yantao Jia, Jun Xu, Qiao Jianzhong, and Xueqi Cheng

Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Volume 33, Issue 2, pp. 323–334, Mar. 2018.


Reinforcing Coherence for Sequence to Sequence Model in Dialogue Generation

Hainan Zhang, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, Jun Xu, and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '18), Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 4567-4573, 2018.


Multi Page Search with Reinforcement Learning to Rank

Wei Zeng, Jun Xu, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGIR Informational Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR '18). (accepted, pdf). .


MQGrad: Reinforcement Learning of Gradient Quantization in Parameter Server

Guoxin Cui, Jun Xu, Wei Zeng, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGIR Informational Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR '18). (accepted, pdf). .


Tailored Sequence to Sequence Models for Different Conversation Scenarios

Hainan Zhang, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, Jun Xu, and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL '18), Melbourne, Australia, pp. 1479-1488, 2018.


Learning to Control the Specificity in Neural Response Generation

Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Melbourne, Australia (ACL '18), Melbourne, Australia, pp. 1108-1117, 2018.


Modeling Diverse Relevance Patterns in Ad-hoc Retrieval

Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, Chengxiang Zhai, and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 41st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR '18), Ann Arbor, MI, USA, pp. 375-384, 2018.


Variance Reduction of Policy Gradient Bandit Problem via Antithetic Variates

Sihao Yu, Jun Xu, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 41st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR '18), Ann Arbor, MI, USA, pp. 885-888, 2018.


From Greedy Selection to Exploratory Decision-Making: Diverse Ranking with Policy-Value Networks

Yue Feng, Jun Xu, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, Wei Zeng, and Xueqi Cheng

In Proceedings of the 41st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR 2018), Ann Arbor, MI, USA, pp. 125-134, 2018.


2017

Locally Smoothed Neural Networks

Liang Pang, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, Jiafeng Guo, and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 9th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML ’17), Seoul, Korea, pp. 177-191, 2017.


Directly Optimize Diversity Evaluation Measures: a New Approach to Search Result Diversification

Jun Xu, Long Xia, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, and Xueqi Cheng

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), Volume 8, Issue 3, Article 41, pp. 41:1-41:26, Jan. 2017.

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DeepRank: a New Deep Architecture for Relevance Ranking in Information Retrieval

Liang Pang, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, Jun Xu, and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '17), Singapore, pp. 257-266, 2017.


Learning Visual Features from Snapshots for Web Search

Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '17), Singapore, pp. 247-256, 2017. (CIKM 2017 Best Full Paper Runner-up, pdf).


Reinforcement Learning to Rank with Markov Decision Process

Wei Zeng, Jun Xu, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 40th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR '17), Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 945-948, 2017. Short paper.


Adapting Markov Decision Process for Search Result Diversification

Long Xia, Jun Xu, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, Wei Zeng, and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 40th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR '17), Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 535-544, 2017.


Directly Optimize Diversity Evaluation Measures: a New Approach to Search Result Diversification

Jun Xu, Long Xia, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, and Xueqi Cheng

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), Vol. 8: No. 3, Article 41, pp 41:1-41:26.

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2016

Factorizing Sequential and Historical Purchase Data for Basket Recommendation

Pengfei Wang, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 12th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2016), Beijing, China, pp. 237-248, 2016.


Incorporating Semantic Knowledge into Latent Matching Model in Search

Shuxin Wang, Xin Jiang, Hang Li, Jun Xu, Bin Wang

Proceedings of the 12th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2016), Beijing, China, pp. 29-41, 2016.


Multi-task Representation Learning for Demographic Prediction

Pengfei Wang, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR '16), Padua, Italy, pp. 88-99, 2016.


Your Cart tells You: Inferring Demographic Attributes from Purchase Data

Pengfei Wang, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM '16), San Francisco, USA, pp. 173-182, 2016.


SPAN: Understanding a Question with its Support Answers

Liang Pang, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, Jun Xu, and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '16), Phoenix, Arizona USA, pp. 4250-4251, 2016. poster.


Inside Out: Two Jointly Predictive Models for Word Representations and Phrase Representations

Fei Sun, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '16), Phoenix, Arizona USA, pp. 2821-2827, 2016.


A Deep Architecture for Semantic Matching with Multiple Positional Sentence Representations

Shengxian Wan, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, Jun Xu, and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '16), Phoenix, Arizona USA, pp. 2835-2841, 2016.


Text Matching as Image Recognition

Liang Pang, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, Jun Xu, and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '16), Phoenix, Arizona USA, pp. 2793-2799, 2016.


Sparse Word Embeddings Using l1 Regularized Online Learning

Fei Sun, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (IJCAI '16), New York, USA, pp. 2915-2921, 2016.


Match-SRNN: Modeling the Recursive Matching Structure with Spatial RNN

Shengxian Wan, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, Jiafeng Guo, Liang Pang, Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence . (IJCAI '16), New York, USA, pp. 2922-2928, 2016.


A Study of MatchPyramid Models on Ad-hoc Retrieval

Liang Pang, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, Jun Xu, Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the SIGIR 2016 Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval (Neu-IR), Pisa, Italy, 2016.


Modeling Document Novelty with Neural Tensor Network for Search Result Diversification

Long Xia, Jun Xu, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 39th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR '16), Pisa, Italy, pp. 395-404, 2016. (pdf, source code).


Ease the Process of Machine Learning with Dataflow

Tianyou Guo, Jun Xu, Xiaohui Yan, Jianpeng Hou, Ping Li, Zhaohui Li, Jiafeng Guo, and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '16), Indianapolis, USA, pp. 2437-2440, 2016. Demo paper. (pdf, demo)


2015

A Probabilistic Model for Bursty Topic Discovery in Microblogs

Xiaohui Yan, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '15), Austin Texas, USA, pp. 353-359, 2015.


Learning Word Representations by Jointly Modeling Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Relations

Fei Sun, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP '15), Beijing, China, pp. 136-145, 2015.


Learning Hierarchical Representation Model for Next Basket Recommendation

Pengfei Wang, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu, Shengxian Wan, and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 38th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR '15), Santiago, Chile, pp. 403-412, 2015. (pdf, source code and data).


Learning Maximal Marginal Relevance Model via Directly Optimizing Diversity Evaluation Measures

Long Xia, Jun Xu, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 38th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR '15), Santiago, Chile, pp. 113-122, 2015. (pdf, source code).


Modeling Parameter Interactions in Ranking SVM

Yaogong Zhang, Jun Xu, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, Maoqiang Xie, Yalou Huang, and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '15), Melbourne, Australia pp. 1799-1802, 2015. short paper. (pdf, poster)


Next Basket Recommendation with Neural Networks

Shengxian Wan, Yanyan Lan, Pengfei Wang, Jiafeng Guo, Jun Xu, and Xueqi Cheng

Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys '15), Vienna, Austria, 2015. poster.. .


2014

User Message Model: A New Approach to Scalable User Modeling on Microblog

Quan Wang, Jun Xu, and Hang Li

Proceedings of the Tenth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS '14), Kuching, Malaysia, pp. 209-220, 2014.


Ranking Optimization with Constraints

Fangzhao Wu, Jun Xu, Hang Li, and Xin Jiang

Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '14), Shanghai, China, pp. 1049-1058, 2014.


Semantic Matching in Search

Hang Li and Jun Xu (2014)

Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval: Vol. 7: No. 5, pp 343-469.

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2013

Learning query and document similarities from click-through bipartite graph with metadata

Wei Wu, Hang Li, and Jun Xu

Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining (WSDM '13), Rome, Italy, pp. 687-696, 2013.


Regularized Latent Semantic Indexing: A New Approach to Large Scale Topic Modeling

Quan Wang, Jun Xu, Hang Li, and Nick Craswell (2013)

ACM Transactions on Information System (TOIS), Vol. 31: No. 1, Article 5, pp 5:1-5:44.

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2012

Group Matrix Factorization for Scalable Topic Modeling

Quan Wang, Zheng Cao, Jun Xu, and Hang Li

In Proceedings of the 35th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR 2012), Portland, Oregon, USA, pp. 375-384, 2012.


2011

Regularized Latent Semantic Indexing

Quan Wang, Jun Xu, Hang Li, and Nick Craswell

Proceedings of the 34th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR '11), Beijing China, pp. 685-694, 2011. (pdf, source code).


A Kernel Approach to Addressing Term Mismatch

Jun Xu, Wei Wu, Hang Li, and Gu Xu

In Proceedings of the 20th international conference companion on World Wide Web (WWW 2011), Hyderabad India, pp. 153-154, 2011. (poster)


Regularized Latent Semantic Indexing

Quan Wang, Jun Xu, Hang Li, and Nick Craswell

In Proceedings of the 34th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR 2011), Beijing China, pp. 685-694, 2011.


Learning Robust Relevance Model for Search using Kernel Method

Wei Wu, Jun Xu, Hang Li, and Satoshi Oyama (2011)

Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), Vol. 12: pp 1429-1458.


2010

LETOR: A Benchmark Collection for Research on Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval

Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Jun Xu, and Hang Li

Information Retrieval Journal, 2010.


Relevance Ranking using Kernels

Jun Xu, Hang Li, and Chaoliang Zhong

Proceedings of the 6th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS '10), Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 1-12, 2010.


2008

Directly Optimizing Evaluation Measures in Learning to Rank

Jun Xu, Tie-Yan Liu, Min Lu, Hang Li, and Wei-Ying Ma

Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR '08), Singapore, pp. 107-114, 2008.

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How to Make LETOR More Uwseful and Reliable

Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Jun Xu, and Hang Li

Proceedings of SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval (LR4IR '08), Singapore, pp. 52-58, 2008.


Group-based Learning: A Boosting Approach

Weijian Ni, Jun Xu, Hang Li, and Yalou Huang

Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '08), Napa Valley, California, pp. 1443-1444, 2008.


Directly Optimizing Evaluation Measures in Learning to Rank

Jun Xu, Tie-Yan Liu, Min Lu, Hang Li, and Wei-Ying Ma

In Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR 2008), Singapore, pp. 107-114, 2008.

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2007

Searching Documents Based on Relevance and Type

Jun Xu, Yunbo Cao, Hang Li, Nick Craswell, and Yalou Huang

Proceedings of the 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR '07), Rome, Italy, pp. 629-636, 2007.


LETOR: Benchmarking Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval

Tie-Yan Liu, Jun Xu, Tao Qin, Wenying Xiong, and Hang Li

Proceedings of SIGIR 2007 Workshop on Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval (LR4IR '07), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 3-10, 2007.


AdaRank: A Boosting Algorithm for Information Retrieval

Jun Xu and Hang Li

Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR '07), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 391-398, 2007.

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2006

Using SVM to Extract Acronyms from Text

Jun Xu and Ya-lou Huang

Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Volume 11, Issue 4, pp. 369-373, 2006.


A Supervised Learning Approach to Search of Definitions

Jun Xu, Yunbo Cao, Hang Li, Min Zhao, and Yalou Huang

Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), Vol. 21(3), pp. 439-449, 2006.


Adapting ranking SVM to document retrieval

Yunbo Cao, Jun Xu, Tie-Yan Liu, Hang Li, Yalou Huang, and Hsiao-Wuen Hon

Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR '06), Seattle, Washington, USA, pp. 186-193, 2006.

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Cost-sensitive Learning of SVM for Ranking

Jun Xu, Yunbo Cao, Hang Li, and Yalou Huang

Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML '06), Berlin, Germany, pp. 833-840, 2006.

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2005

A Machine Learning Approach to Recognizing Acronyms and Their Expansions

Jun Xu and Ya-lou Huang

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC '05), Guangzhou, China, Vol. 4, pp. 2313-2319, 2005.


Ranking Definitions with Supervised Learning Methods

Jun Xu, Yunbo Cao, Hang Li, and Min Zhao

Proceedings of the 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW '05), Industrial and Practical Experience Track, Chiba, Japan, pp. 811-819, 2005.

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A New Approach to Intranet Search Based on Information Extraction

Hang Li, Yunbo Cao, Jun Xu, Yunhua Hu, Shenjie Li, and Dmitriy Meyerzon

Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management (CIKM '05), industry track, Bremen, Germany

HONORS AND AWARDS

SIGIR 2019 Test of Time Awards Honorable Mention

CIKM 2017 Best Full Paper Runner-up

AIRS 2010 Best Paper Awards

SERVICES

Publicity co-chair - CIKM 2020

Associate Editor - ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)

Editorial board member - Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST)

Reviewer (Journals) - TOIS, JMLR, TIST, TKDE, TACL, TALIP, JCST, JOS, Artificial Intelligence, FnTIR, Springer

PC co-chair (Workshops) - SIGIR 2014 workshop on SMIR

Area co-chair (Conferences) - CCL 2018, NLPCC 2019

Best Paper Awards Committee (Conference) - ICTIR 2019

Senior PC (Conferences) - SIGIR, TheWebConf, AAAI, ACML

PC (Conferences) - NeurIPS, IJCAI, ACL, EMNLP, CIKM, WSDM, IEEE BigData, ECIR

CONTACT

Email:junxu@ruc.edu.cn

Website:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=su14mcEAAAAJ