Scholar
Wentao Shi
Google Scholar ID: fs_Xp6QAAAAJ
University of Science and Technology of China
Citations & Impact
Citations
378
H-index
8
i10-index
8
Publications
19
Co-authors
7
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - K-order Ranking Preference Optimization for Large Language Models, ACL Findings 2025
- - Self-Improvement Towards Pareto Optimality: Mitigating Preference Conflicts in Multi-Objective Alignment, ACL Findings 2025
- - Flow-guided Fine-Tuning for Diverse LLM-based Recommenders, SIGIR 2025
- - Direct Multi-Turn Preference Optimization for Language Agents, EMNLP Main 2024
- - Large Language Models are Learnable Planners for Long-Term Recommendation, SIGIR 2024(Full)
- - Lower-Left Partial AUC: An Effective and Efficient Optimization Metric for Recommendation, WWW 2024 (Full)
- - BSL: Understanding and Improving Softmax Loss for Recommendation, ICDE 2024 (Full)
- - Discriminative-Invariant Representation Learning for Unbiased Recommendation, IJCAI 2023 (Full, Accept Rate: 15.0%)
- - Understanding Contrastive Learning via Distributionally Robust Optimization, NIPS 2023 (Full, Accept Rate: 26.1%)
- - On the Theories Behind Hard Negative Sampling for Recommendation, WWW 2023 (Full, Accept Rate: 19.2%)
- - DisenKGAT: Knowledge graph embedding with disentangled graph attention network, CIKM 2021 (Full, Accept Rate: 21.3%)
Research Experience
- - Visiting Scholar: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, September 2024 - May 2025
- - Advisors: Prof. Chenyan Xiong (CMU), Prof. Xiangnan He (USTC), Prof. Fuli Feng (USTC)
- - Research Intern: Meituan, Beijing, China, September 2020 - September 2021
- - Advisors: Prof. Xiangnan He (USTC), Prof. Jiawei Chen (Zhejiang University), Dr. Xuezhi Cao (Meituan)
- - Summer Research Intern: University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia, July 2019 - September 2019
- - Advisor: Prof. Min Xu (UTS)
Education
- - Degree: Master's in Electronic and Information Engineering
- - Institution: School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China
- - Duration: September 2021 - July 2024 (expected)
- - Supervisors: Prof. Xiangnan He & Prof. Fuli Feng
- - Degree: Bachelor's in Electronic and Information Engineering
- - Duration: September 2017 - July 2021
Background
- - Research Interests: Large Language Model based Agent, Out-of-Distribution Generalization, and Recommendation System
- - Position: PhD Student at School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China
- - Supervisors: Prof. Xiangnan He and Prof. Fuli Feng
- - Other Experiences: Served as an invited reviewer for ACM TOIS and IEEE TKDE, PC member for WSDM and AAAI
