Hengrui Zhang
Scholar

Hengrui Zhang

Google Scholar ID: iwffiD0AAAAJ
University of Illinois Chicago
Machine LearningSelf-Supervised LearningTabular Deep Learning
Citations & Impact
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Citations
1,678
 
H-index
12
 
i10-index
14
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
12
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Publications
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Academic Achievements
  • - TabNAT: A Continous-Discrete Joint Generative Framework for Tabular Data, ICML 2025
  • - TabDiff: a Multi-Modal Diffusion Model for Tabular Data Generation, ICLR 2025
  • - Unleashing the Potential of Diffusion Models for Incomplete Data Imputation, ICLR 2025
  • - Exploitation of a Latent Mechanism in Graph Contrastive Learning: Representation Scattering, NeurIPS 2024
  • - SGFormer: Single-Layer Graph Transformers with Approximation-Free Linear Complexity, arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.09007, 2024
  • - InfoMLP: Unlocking the Potential of MLPs for Semi-Supervised Learning with Structured Data, CIKM 2024
  • - OrthoReg: Improving Graph-regularized MLPs via Orthogonality Regularization, CIKM 2024
  • - Mixed-Type Tabular Data Synthesis with Score-based Diffusion in Latent Space, ICLR 2024
  • - Simplifying and Empowering Transformers for Large-Graph Representations, NeurIPS 2023
  • - Exploiting Intent Evolution in E-commercial Query Recommendation, KDD 2023
  • - ContrastVAE: Contrastive Variational AutoEncoder for Sequential Recommendation, CIKM 2022
  • - M-Mix: Generating Hard Negatives via Multi-sample Mixing for Contrastive Learning, KDD 2022
  • - Align Representations with Base: A New Approach to Self-Supervised Learning, CVPR 2022
Research Experience
  • - Ph.D. student in Computer Science at University of Illinois, Chicago
  • - Involved in multiple research projects, including tabular data generation, incomplete data imputation, and graph contrastive learning
Education
  • - Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Illinois, Chicago
  • - Advisor: Philip S. Yu
  • - Bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)
Background
  • - Research Interests: tabular deep learning, generative tabular data modeling (synthetic tabular data generation and missing data imputation)
  • - Previous Research: graph deep learning, including Graph Neural Networks and self-supervised learning on graph-structured data
Miscellany
  • - Personal interests not provided