2026

Collapse Hunter: Tackling the Dimensional Degeneration in Generative Ranking
Collapse Hunter: Tackling the Dimensional Degeneration in Generative Ranking

Haoran Xin, Junwei Pan, Yongqi Zhou, Tianqu Zhuang, Yilong Sun, Zhixiang Feng, Shoujun Liu, Gong Chen, Shudong Huang, Haijie Gu, Hui Xiong

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2026

Collapse Hunter: Tackling the Dimensional Degeneration in Generative Ranking

Haoran Xin, Junwei Pan, Yongqi Zhou, Tianqu Zhuang, Yilong Sun, Zhixiang Feng, Shoujun Liu, Gong Chen, Shudong Huang, Haijie Gu, Hui Xiong

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2026

Escaping the KL Agreement Trap in On-Policy Distillation
Escaping the KL Agreement Trap in On-Policy Distillation

Haoran Xin, Anhao Zhao, Ying Sun, Jin Li, Xiaoyu Shen, Hui Xiong

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Main Conference 2026 Oral

This paper identifies the low-KL agreement trap in on-policy distillation and proposes a training-adaptive termination rule.

Escaping the KL Agreement Trap in On-Policy Distillation

Haoran Xin, Anhao Zhao, Ying Sun, Jin Li, Xiaoyu Shen, Hui Xiong

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Main Conference 2026 Oral

This paper identifies the low-KL agreement trap in on-policy distillation and proposes a training-adaptive termination rule.

Decoupling KL and Trajectories: A Unified Perspective for SFT, DAgger, Offline RL, and OPD in LLM Distillation

Anhao Zhao, Haoran Xin, Yingqi Fan, Junlong Tong, Wenjie Li, Xiaoyu Shen

arXiv preprint 2026

This paper presents a unified perspective that decouples prefix sources from token-level KL directions in LLM distillation.

Decoupling KL and Trajectories: A Unified Perspective for SFT, DAgger, Offline RL, and OPD in LLM Distillation

Anhao Zhao, Haoran Xin, Yingqi Fan, Junlong Tong, Wenjie Li, Xiaoyu Shen

arXiv preprint 2026

This paper presents a unified perspective that decouples prefix sources from token-level KL directions in LLM distillation.

Tencent Advertising Algorithm Challenge 2025: All-Modality Generative Recommendation

Junwei Pan, Wei Xue, Chao Zhou, Xing Zhou, Lunan Fan, Yanbo Wang, Haoran Xin, Zhiyu Hu, Yaozheng Wang, Fengye Xu, Yurong Yang, Xiaotian Li, Junbang Huo, Wentao Ning, Yuliang Sun, Chengguo Yin, Jun Zhang, Shudong Huang, Lei Xiao, Huan Yu, Irwin King, Haijie Gu, Jie Jiang

arXiv preprint 2026

This paper introduces the Tencent Advertising Algorithm Challenge 2025 and its large-scale all-modality generative recommendation benchmarks.

Tencent Advertising Algorithm Challenge 2025: All-Modality Generative Recommendation

Junwei Pan, Wei Xue, Chao Zhou, Xing Zhou, Lunan Fan, Yanbo Wang, Haoran Xin, Zhiyu Hu, Yaozheng Wang, Fengye Xu, Yurong Yang, Xiaotian Li, Junbang Huo, Wentao Ning, Yuliang Sun, Chengguo Yin, Jun Zhang, Shudong Huang, Lei Xiao, Huan Yu, Irwin King, Haijie Gu, Jie Jiang

arXiv preprint 2026

This paper introduces the Tencent Advertising Algorithm Challenge 2025 and its large-scale all-modality generative recommendation benchmarks.

How Business Agglomeration Affects Individual Points-of-Interest: A Causal Effect Estimation Perspective
How Business Agglomeration Affects Individual Points-of-Interest: A Causal Effect Estimation Perspective

Haoran Xin, Xinjiang Lu, Ying Sun, Nengjun Zhu, Tong Xu, Jingbo Zhou, Hui Xiong

ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD) 2026

This paper applies causal inference techniques to quantify the impact of urban business agglomeration on individual POI performance.

How Business Agglomeration Affects Individual Points-of-Interest: A Causal Effect Estimation Perspective

Haoran Xin, Xinjiang Lu, Ying Sun, Nengjun Zhu, Tong Xu, Jingbo Zhou, Hui Xiong

ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD) 2026

This paper applies causal inference techniques to quantify the impact of urban business agglomeration on individual POI performance.

2025

LLMCDSR: Enhancing Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation with Large Language Models
LLMCDSR: Enhancing Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation with Large Language Models

Haoran Xin, Ying Sun, Chao Wang, Hui Xiong

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2025

This paper presents LLMCDSR, a method that leverages large language models to enhance cross-domain sequential recommendation.

LLMCDSR: Enhancing Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation with Large Language Models

Haoran Xin, Ying Sun, Chao Wang, Hui Xiong

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2025

This paper presents LLMCDSR, a method that leverages large language models to enhance cross-domain sequential recommendation.

LLMs as Better Recommenders with Natural Language Collaborative Signals: A Self-Assessing Retrieval Approach
LLMs as Better Recommenders with Natural Language Collaborative Signals: A Self-Assessing Retrieval Approach

Haoran Xin, Ying Sun, Chao Wang, Weijia Zhang, Hui Xiong

Preprint 2025

This paper proposes a self-assessing retrieval approach that leverages natural language collaborative signals to improve LLM-based recommendation.

LLMs as Better Recommenders with Natural Language Collaborative Signals: A Self-Assessing Retrieval Approach

Haoran Xin, Ying Sun, Chao Wang, Weijia Zhang, Hui Xiong

Preprint 2025

This paper proposes a self-assessing retrieval approach that leverages natural language collaborative signals to improve LLM-based recommendation.

Improving Recommendation Fairness without Sensitive Attributes Using Multi-Persona LLMs
Improving Recommendation Fairness without Sensitive Attributes Using Multi-Persona LLMs

Haoran Xin, Ying Sun, Chao Wang, Yanke Yu, Weijia Zhang, Hui Xiong

Preprint 2025

This paper proposes using multi-persona LLMs to improve recommendation fairness without requiring sensitive user attributes.

Improving Recommendation Fairness without Sensitive Attributes Using Multi-Persona LLMs

Haoran Xin, Ying Sun, Chao Wang, Yanke Yu, Weijia Zhang, Hui Xiong

Preprint 2025

This paper proposes using multi-persona LLMs to improve recommendation fairness without requiring sensitive user attributes.

2023

A Table-to-Text Framework with Heterogeneous Multidominance Attention and Self-Evaluated Multi-Pass Deliberation

Xi Chen, Xinjiang Lu, Haoran Xin, Wenjun Peng, Haoyang Duan, Feihu Jiang, Jingbo Zhou, Hui Xiong

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023

This paper proposes a table-to-text generation framework with heterogeneous multidominance attention and self-evaluated multi-pass deliberation.

A Table-to-Text Framework with Heterogeneous Multidominance Attention and Self-Evaluated Multi-Pass Deliberation

Xi Chen, Xinjiang Lu, Haoran Xin, Wenjun Peng, Haoyang Duan, Feihu Jiang, Jingbo Zhou, Hui Xiong

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023

This paper proposes a table-to-text generation framework with heterogeneous multidominance attention and self-evaluated multi-pass deliberation.

2022

CAPTOR: A Crowd-Aware Pre-Travel Recommender System for Out-of-Town Users
CAPTOR: A Crowd-Aware Pre-Travel Recommender System for Out-of-Town Users

Haoran Xin, Xinjiang Lu, Nengjun Zhu, Tong Xu, Dejing Dou, Hui Xiong

International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) 2022

This paper proposes CAPTOR, a crowd-aware pre-travel recommender system designed for out-of-town users.

CAPTOR: A Crowd-Aware Pre-Travel Recommender System for Out-of-Town Users

Haoran Xin, Xinjiang Lu, Nengjun Zhu, Tong Xu, Dejing Dou, Hui Xiong

International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) 2022

This paper proposes CAPTOR, a crowd-aware pre-travel recommender system designed for out-of-town users.

RLCharge: Imitative Multi-Agent Spatiotemporal Reinforcement Learning for Electric Vehicle Charging Station Recommendation

Weijia Zhang, Hao Liu, Hui Xiong, Tong Xu, Fan Wang, Haoran Xin, Hua Wu

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) 2022

This paper proposes RLCharge, an imitative multi-agent spatiotemporal reinforcement learning approach for EV charging station recommendation.

RLCharge: Imitative Multi-Agent Spatiotemporal Reinforcement Learning for Electric Vehicle Charging Station Recommendation

Weijia Zhang, Hao Liu, Hui Xiong, Tong Xu, Fan Wang, Haoran Xin, Hua Wu

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) 2022

This paper proposes RLCharge, an imitative multi-agent spatiotemporal reinforcement learning approach for EV charging station recommendation.

2021

Intelligent Electric Vehicle Charging Recommendation Based on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Weijia Zhang, Hao Liu, Fan Wang, Tong Xu, Haoran Xin, Dejing Dou, Hui Xiong

The Web Conference (WWW) 2021

This paper proposes an intelligent EV charging recommendation method based on multi-agent reinforcement learning.

Intelligent Electric Vehicle Charging Recommendation Based on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Weijia Zhang, Hao Liu, Fan Wang, Tong Xu, Haoran Xin, Dejing Dou, Hui Xiong

The Web Conference (WWW) 2021

This paper proposes an intelligent EV charging recommendation method based on multi-agent reinforcement learning.

Out-of-Town Recommendation with Travel Intention Modeling
Out-of-Town Recommendation with Travel Intention Modeling

Haoran Xin, Xinjiang Lu, Tong Xu, Hao Liu, Jingjing Gu, Dejing Dou, Hui Xiong

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2021

This paper addresses the challenge of recommending points-of-interest to out-of-town users by modeling travel intentions.

Out-of-Town Recommendation with Travel Intention Modeling

Haoran Xin, Xinjiang Lu, Tong Xu, Hao Liu, Jingjing Gu, Dejing Dou, Hui Xiong

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2021

This paper addresses the challenge of recommending points-of-interest to out-of-town users by modeling travel intentions.

2019

Parallel Temporal Encoder for Sign Language Translation

Peipei Song, Dan Guo, Haoran Xin, Meng Wang

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2019

This paper proposes a parallel temporal encoder for sign language translation.

Parallel Temporal Encoder for Sign Language Translation

Peipei Song, Dan Guo, Haoran Xin, Meng Wang

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2019

This paper proposes a parallel temporal encoder for sign language translation.