I am currently a lead researcher at Huawei Noah's Ark Lab (AI Lab). Before that, I obtained my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2016, supervised by Prof. Michael R. Lyu. I received the B.Eng degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. My recent research focus is on building and applying practical machine learning algorithms (especially ranking, NLP and multimodal learning) for industrial-scale recommender systems, with a goal to help better discover users' interests and serve their needs. Our team has launched many self-designed ML algorithms on Huawei's products like News Feeds, Microvideo Stream, Music App, App Store, PPS Ads, etc.
I am always looking for students and interns who are interested in recommender systems, PLMs, or multimodal pretraining. Please feel free to reach out if you are interested!
Highlights:
My current research focuses mainly on recommender systems and pretrained multimodal models for understanding and generation. I have 50+ publicatoins in total, including papers in NeurIPS, ACL, SIGIR, CVPR, MM, WWW, etc., which have received more than 4000 citations. Please see below for some selected publications grouped by research topics. For the full publications, please visit my Google Scholar.
ReLoop2: Building A Self-Correcting Recommender System via Error Compensation Loop, Jieming Zhu, Guohao Cai, Junjie Huang, Zhenhua Dong, Ruiming Tang, Weinan Zhang. In KDD 2023.
Beyond Two-Tower Matching: Learning Sparse Retrievable Cross-Interactions for Recommendation, Liangcai Su, Fan Yan, Jieming Zhu, Xi Xiao, Haoyi Duan, Zhou Zhao, Zhenhua Dong, Ruiming Tang. In SIGIR 2023.
FINAL: Factorized Interaction Layer for CTR Prediction, Jieming Zhu, Qinglin Jia, Guohao Cai, Quanyu Dai, Jingjie Li, Zhenhua Dong, Ruiming Tang, Rui Zhang. In SIGIR 2023.
FinalMLP: An Enhanced Two-Stream MLP Model for CTR Prediction, Kelong Mao, Jieming Zhu (co-first author), Liangcai Su, Guohao Cai, Yuru Li, Zhenhua Dong. In AAAI 2023.
FANS: Fast Non-Autoregressive Sequence Generation for Item List Continuation, Qijiong Liu, Jieming Zhu, Jiahao Wu, Tiandeng Wu, Zhenhua Dong, Xiao-Ming Wu. In WWW 2023.
ReLoop: A Self-Correction Continual Learning Loop for Recommender Systems, Guohao Cai, Jieming Zhu (co-first author), Quanyu Dai, Zhenhua Dong, Xiuqiang He, Ruiming Tang, Rui Zhang. In SIGIR 2022.
Multi-Level Interaction Reranking with User Behavior History, Yunjia Xi, Weiwen Liu, Jieming Zhu, Xilong Zhao, Xinyi Dai, Ruiming Tang, Weinan Zhang, Rui Zhang, Yong Yu. In SIGIR 2022.
BARS: Towards Open Benchmarking for Recommender Systems, Jieming Zhu, Quanyu Dai, Liangcai Su, Rong Ma, Jinyang Liu, Guohao Cai, Xi Xiao, Rui Zhang. In SIGIR 2022.
PEAR: Personalized Re-ranking with Contextualized Transformer for Recommendation, Yi Li, Jieming Zhu (co-first author), Weiwen Liu, Liangcai Su, Guohao Cai, Qi Zhang, Ruiming Tang. In WWW 2022.
Cross-Batch Negative Sampling for Training Two-Tower Recommenders, Jinpeng Wang, Jieming Zhu, Xiuqiang He. In SIGIR 2021.
Open Benchmarking for Click-Through Rate Prediction, Jieming Zhu, Jinyang Liu, Shuai Yang, Qi Zhang, Xiuqiang He. In CIKM 2021.
UltraGCN: Ultra Simplification of Graph Convolutional Networks for Recommendation, Kelong Mao, Jieming Zhu, Xi Xiao, Biao Lu, Zhaowei Wang, Xiuqiang He. In CIKM 2021.
SimpleX: A Simple and Strong Baseline for Collaborative Filtering, Kelong Mao, Jieming Zhu (co-first author), Jinpeng Wang, Quanyu Dai, Zhenhua Dong, Xi Xiao, Xiuqiang He. In CIKM 2021.
Item Tagging for Information Retrieval: A Tripartite Graph Neural Network based Approach, Kelong Mao, Xi Xiao, Jieming Zhu, Biao Lu, Ruiming Tang, Xiuqiang He. In SIGIR 2020.
Ensembled CTR Prediction via Knowledge Distillation, Jieming Zhu, Jinyang Liu, Weiqi Li, Jincai Lai, Xiuqiang He, Liang Chen, Zibin Zheng. In CIKM 2020.
Boosting Deep CTR Prediction with a Plug-and-Play Pre-trainer for News Recommendation, Qijiong Liu, Jieming Zhu, Quanyu Dai, Xiaoming Wu. In COLING 2022.
MINER: Multi-Interest Matching Network for News Recommendation, Jian Li, Jieming Zhu, Qiwei Bi, Guohao Cai, Lifeng Shang, Zhenhua Dong, Xin Jiang, Qun Liu. In ACL 2022.
UNBERT: User-News Matching BERT for News Recommendation, Qi Zhang, Jingjie Li, Qinglin Jia, Chuyuan Wang, Jieming Zhu, Zhaowei Wang, Xiuqiang He. In IJCAI 2021.
Why Do We Click: Visual Impression-aware News Recommendation, Jiahao Xun, Shengyu Zhang, Zhou Zhao, Jieming Zhu, Qi Zhang, Jingjie Li, Xiuqiang He, Xiaofei He, Tat-Seng Chua, Fei Wu. In MM 2021.
DisCover: Disentangled Music Representation Learning for Cover Song Identification, Jiahao Xun, Shengyu Zhang, Yanting Yang, Jieming Zhu, Liqun Deng, Zhou Zhao, Zhenhua Dong, Ruiqi Li, Lichao Zhang, Fei Wu. In SIGIR 2023.
Contrastive Learning with Positive-Negative Frame Mask for Music Representation, Dong Yao, Zhou Zhao, Shengyu Zhang, Jieming Zhu, Yudong Zhu, Rui Zhang, Xiuqiang He. In WWW 2022.
M4Singer: a Multi-Style, Multi-Singer and Musical Score Provided Mandarin Singing Corpus, Lichao Zhang, Ruiqi Li, Shoutong Wang, Liqun Deng, Jinglin Liu, Yi Ren, Jinzheng He, Rongjie Huang, Jieming Zhu, Xiao Chen, Zhou Zhao. In NeurIPS 2022.
Wnet: Audio-Guided Video Object Segmentation via Wavelet-Based Cross-Modal Denoising Networks, Wenwen Pan, Haonan Shi, Zhou Zhao, Jieming Zhu, Xiuqiang He, Zhigeng Pan, Lianli Gao, Jun Yu, Fei Wu, Qi Tian. In CVPR 2022.
Hierarchical Cross-Modal Graph Consistency Learning for Video-Text Retrieval, Weike Jin, Zhou Zhao, Pengcheng Zhang, Jieming Zhu, Xiuqiang He, Yueting Zhuang. In SIGIR 2021.
Counterfactual Contrastive Learning for Weakly-Supervised Vision-Language Grounding, Zhu Zhang, Zhou Zhao, Zhijie Lin, Jieming Zhu, Xiuqiang He. In NeurIPS 2020.
Regularized Two-Branch Proposal Networks for Weakly-Supervised Moment Retrieval in Videos, Zhu Zhang, Zhijie Lin, Zhou Zhao, Jieming Zhu, Xiuqiang He. In MM 2020.
Tools and Benchmarks for Automated Log Parsing, Jieming Zhu, Shilin He, Jinyang Liu, Pinjia He, Qi Xie, Zibin Zheng, Michael R. Lyu. In ICSE 2019.
Logzip: Extracting Hidden Structures via Iterative Clustering for Log Compression, Jinyang Liu, Jieming Zhu, Shilin He, Pinjia He, Zibin Zheng, Michael R. Lyu. In ASE 2019.
Drain: An Online Log Parsing Approach with Fixed Depth Tree, Pinjia He, Jieming Zhu, Zibin Zheng, Michael R. Lyu. In ICWS 2017.
Experience Report: System Log Analysis for Anomaly Detection, Shilin He, Jieming Zhu, Pinjia He, Michael R. Lyu. In ISSRE 2016.
Learning to Log: Helping Developers Make Informed Logging Decisions, Jieming Zhu, Pinjia He, Qiang Fu, Hongyu Zhang, Michael R. Lyu, Dongmei Zhang. In ICSE 2015.
DataFun Summit 2021 Talk: 预训练模型在信息流推荐中的应用与探索.
Serving as Program Committee & Reviewer for NeurIPS, CVPR, AAAI, KDD, SIGIR conferences.