Events

Intelligent Assistants / Web of things Paper Title Authors CMT-Net: A Mutual Transition Aware Framework for Taxicab Pick-ups and Drop-offs Co-Prediction Yudong Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China); Binwu Wang ( University of Science and Technology of China); ziyang shan (University of Science and Technology of China); Zhengyang Zhou (University of Science and …

Recommendation Paper Title Authors Sequential Modeling with Multiple Attributes for Watchlist Recommendation in E-Commerce Uriel Singer (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology)*; Haggai Roitman (IBM Research Haifa); yotam eshel (eBay); Alexander Nus (eBay); Ido Guy (eBay); Or Levi (eBay); Idan Hasson (eBay ); Eliyahu Kiperwasser (eBay) Show Me the Whole World: Towards Entire Item Space Exploration …

Social network Paper Title Authors Sampling Multiple Nodes in Large Networks: Beyond Random Walks Omri Ben-Eliezer (MIT)*; Talya Eden (MIT); Joel Oren (Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence); Dimitris Fotakis (National Technical University of Athens) ComGA:Community-Aware Attributed Graph Anomaly Detection xuexiong luo (university)*; Jia Wu (Macquarie University); Amin Beheshti (Macquarie University); Jian Yang (Macquarie University); Xiankun …

Web search Paper Title Authors An Adaptive Unified Allocation Framework for Guaranteed Display Advertising Xiao Cheng (Alibaba); Chuanren Liu (University of Tennessee)*; Liang Dai (Alibaba); Peng Zhang (Alibaba); Zhen Fang (Alibaba); Zhonglin Zu (alibaba) Doubly Robust Off-Policy Evaluation for Ranking Policies under the Cascade Behavior Model Haruka Kiyohara (Tokyo Institute of Technology)*; Yuta Saito (Cornell …

Social networks / Privacy Paper Title Authors On Generalizing Static Node Embedding to Dynamic Settings Di Jin (University of Michigan)*; Sungchul Kim (Adobe); Ryan Rossi (Adobe Research); Danai Koutra (U Michigan) On the Connection Between Influence Maximization and A Practical Adversarial Attack on Graph Neural Networks Jiaqi Ma (University of Michigan)*; Junwei Deng (Shanghai Jiao …

Web mining Paper Title Authors An Ensemble Model for Combating Label Noise Yangdi Lu (mcmaster university)*; Yang Bo (McMaster University); Wenbo He (McMaster University) HeteroQA: Learning towards Question-and-Answering through Multiple Information Sources via Heterogeneous Graph Modeling Shen Gao (Peking University)*; Yuchi Zhang (Alibaba Group); Yongliang Wang (Alibaba group); Yang Dong (antgroup); Xiuying Chen (Peking University); …

Knowledge Graph Paper Title Authors Modeling Scale-free Graphs with Hyperbolic Geometry for Knowledge-aware Recommendation Yankai Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)*; Menglin Yang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong); Yingxue Zhang (Huawei Technologies Canada); Mengchen Zhao (Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab); Ziqiao Meng (Chinese University of Hong Kong); Jianye Hao (Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab); Irwin …

Ricardo Baeza-Yates – Northeastern University Title: Ethics Challenges in AI Abstract: In the first part we cover five current AI issues through examples: (1) discrimination (e.g., search, facial recognition, justice, sharing economy, etc.); (2) physiognomy (e.g., personality predictions based in facial biometrics); (3) unfair feedback loops (e.g., exposure and popularity biases); (4) stupidity (e.g., lack …

Yejin Choi – U. Washington Title: Knowledge is Power: Symbolic Knowledge Distillation, Commonsense Morality, and Multimodal Script Knowledge Abstract: Scale appears to be the winning recipe in today’s AI leaderboards. And yet, extreme-scale neural models are still brittle to make errors that are often nonsensical and even counterintuitive. In this talk, I will argue for the importance …

Test-of-Time Award Winner: Hao Ma, Dengyong Zhou, Chao Liu, Michael R. Lyu, and Irwin King.  “Recommender systems with social regularization”, WSDM 2011. Award Committee’s citation:  Recommender systems have proven themselves to be an enduring research topic in academia and industry.  The paper was chosen by the committee for its importance and impact on the community. …