About me

I’m a third-year master’s student in Artificial Intelligence at Tianjin University (TJU), supervised by Prof. Xiaowang Zhang. I completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), majoring in Intelligence Science and Technology.

My research interests include Data Mining, Information Retrieval, and Recommender Systems.

You can find more details in my CV.

Education

M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence
Tianjin University | Sept. 2021 – Present

B.Eng. in Intelligence Science and Technology
University of Science and Technology Beijing | Aug. 2017 – Jun. 2021

Publications

[1] Yaokun Liu, Xiaowang Zhang, Minghui Zou, and Zhiyong Feng. Attribute Simulation for Item Embedding Enhancement in Multi-interest Recommendation. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2024). (to appear)

[2] Yaokun Liu, Xiaowang Zhang, Minghui Zou, and Zhiyong Feng. Co-occurrence Embedding Enhancement for Long-tail Problem in Multi-Interest Recommendation. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2023).

[3] Shuang Li, Yaokun Liu, Xiaowang Zhang, Yuexian Hou, and Zhiyong Feng. Multi-interest Recommendation on Shopping for Others. In Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023 (WWW 2023).

[4] Zizhong Zhu, Shuang Li, Yaokun Liu, Xiaowang Zhang, and Zhiyong Feng. High-level Preferences as Positive Examples in Contrastive Learning for Multi-interest Sequence Recommendation. Submitted to the ACM Web Conference 2024 (WWW 2024). (under review)

Teaching

Teaching Assistant for Undergraduate Course - Knowledge Engineering, Tianjin University.

Service

Conference Review:

• Sub reviewer - International Joint Conference on Knowledge Graphs (IJCKG), 2022.

Journal Review:

• Sub reviewer - Wide Web Journal (WWWJ), 2023.
• Sub reviewer - Journal of Frontiers of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), 2023.