Education

  • 2015-2019，Tianjin University, Ph.D., Computer Application Technology, Advisor: Prof. Shizhong Liao.
  • 2012-2015, Northwestern Polytechnical University, M.S., Computing Mathematics, Advisor: Prof. Quan Lu.
  • 2008-2012，Shanxi University, B.Sc., Information and Computing Sciences.

Work Experience

  • 2022-present, Renmin University of China, Assistant Professor.
  • 2020-2022, Renmin University of China, Postdoctoral Researcher. Supervisor: Prof. Ji-Rong Wen.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Key Words: Online learning; Causal learning; Turstworthy machine learning; Information retrieval; Model selection.

Research Interests: Dr. Xiao Zhang's group focuses on developing accountable, controllable and efficient online machine learning theory and algorithm in sequential prediction/decision scenarios, especially the new paradigm of causal machine learning. They aim to develop useful and robust machine learning algorithms in information retrieval applications.

Teaching

  • Advanced Reinforcement Learning (Fall Semester 2022)
  • Mining the Massive Data (Spring Semester 2022, 2023, with Dr. Yong Liu)

Publications

More Information: https://pinkfloyd1989.github.io/ZHANG-Xiao/index_eng.html

PUBLICATIONS

2022
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 2022), 2504-2514, 2022. (CCF A 类会议)
A model-agnostic causal learning framework for recommendation using search data
Zihua Si, Xueran Han, Xiao Zhang, Jun Xu, Yue Yin, Yang Song and Ji-Rong Wen
Proceedings of the 30th Web Conference (WWW 2022), 224–233, 2022. (CCF A 类会议)
2021
Regret bounds for online kernel selection in continuous kernel space
Xiao Zhang, Shizhong Liao, Jun Xu, Ji-Rong Wen
Proceedings of the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021), 10931–10938, 2021. (CCF A 类会议)
Counterfactual reward modification for streaming recommendation with delayed feedback
Xiao Zhang, Haonan Jia, Hanjing Su, Wenhan Wang, Jun Xu, Ji-Rong Wen
Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2021), accepted, 2021. (CCF A 类会议)

Contact

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Email：zhangx89@ruc.edu.cn

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