Xing Tang

Senior Researcher, Tencent
xing.tang [at] hotmail.com, shawntang [at] tencent.com
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Dr. Xing Tang is currently a Senior Researcher at Tencent. He obtained his Ph.D. from Computer Science, Xidian University in 2016, under the supervision of Prof. Qiguang Miao. After graduation, He joined Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, and worked with Dr.Xiuqiang He and Dr.Ruiming Tang. He also worked in Tencent ARC Lab with Dr.Ying Shan for a while. Now he works for FiT, Tencent and focus on recommendation and advertisement of financial scenario. His research interests mainly focus on building industrial-scale recommender systems, online advertising for financial products, and online marketing for industrial products.

Research interest: Recommendation, Online Advertisement, Online Marketing, AutoML, Large Model Compression, Industrial-scale Model Training.

Announcement: Interested in internship or collaboration. You can contact me if you are interested!

News

Mar 26, 2024 One paper about multi-behavior learning for recommendation is accepted by SIGIR 2024.
Mar 23, 2024 I will serve as PC member for Recsys 2024.
Mar 15, 2024 One paper about multi-valued uplift is accepted by DASFAA 2024.
Mar 11, 2024 I will serve as PC member for CIKM 2024 and IEEE BigData’24.
Feb 20, 2024 I will serve as PC member for ECML-PKDD 2024.

Publications( * represents co-first author, # represents corresponding author. )

Journal & Conference
  1. AutoDCS: Automated Decision Chain Selection in Deep Recommender Systems
    Dugang Liu, Shenxian Xian, Yuhao Wu, Chaohua Yang, Xing Tang , Xiuqiang He, and Zhong Ming
    Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2024 | [ ]
  2. Towards Effective and Efficient Multi-valued Treatment Uplift Modeling in Online Marketing
    Zexun Sun, Dugang Liu, Xing Tang , Yunpeng Weng, and Xiuqiang He
    Database Systems for Advanced Applications - 29th International Conference, DASFAA 2024 | [ ]
  3. RecDCL: Dual Contrastive Learning for Recommendation
    Dan Zhang, Yangliao Geng, Wenwen Gong, Zhongang Qi, Zhiyu Chen, Xing Tang , Ying Shan, Yuxiao Dong, and Jie Tang
    Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024,WebConf 2024 | [ Code ]
  4. Treatment-Aware Hyperbolic Representation Learning for Causal Effect Estimation with Social Networks
    Ziqiang Cui, Xing Tang , Yang Qiao, Bowei He, Liang Chen, Xiuqiang He, and Chen Ma
    Proceedings of the 2024 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining,SDM 2024 | [ HTML PDF ]
  5. Embedding Compression in Recommender Systems:A Survey
    Shiwei Li, Huifeng Guo, Xing Tang , Ruiming Tang, Lu Hou, Ruixuan Li, and Rui Zhang
    ACM Computing Surveys | [ HTML ]
  6. MultiFS: Automated Multi-Scenario Feature Selection in Deep Recommender Systems
    Dugang Liu*, Chaohua Yang*, Xing Tang* , Yejing Wang, Fuyuan Lyu, Weihong Luo, Xiuqiang He, Zhong Ming, and Xiangyu Zhao
    Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2024 | [ HTML PDF ]
  7. Towards Hybrid-grained Feature Interaction Selection for Deep Sparse Network
    Fuyuan Lyu, Xing Tang# , Dugang Liu, Chen Ma, Weihong Luo, Liang Chen, Xiuqiang He, and Xue Liu
    37th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2023 | [ HTML PDF Code ]
  8. Prior-guided Accuracy-bias Tradeoff Learning for CTR Prediction in Multimedia Recommendation
    Dugang Liu, Yang Qiao, Xing Tang , Liang Chen, Xiuqiang He, and Zhong Ming
    Proceedings of The 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2023 | [ HTML PDF ]
  9. OptMSM: Optimizing Multi-Scenario Modeling for Click-Through Rate Prediction
    Xing Tang* , Yang Qiao*, Yuwen Fu*, Fuyuan Lyu, Dugang Liu, and Xiuqiang He
    European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML-PKDD 2023 | [ HTML PDF ]
  10. Expected Transaction Value Optimization for Precise Marketing in FinTech Platforms
    Yunpeng Weng, Xing Tang , Liang Chen, Dugang Liu, and Xiuqiang He
    International Workshop on Deep Learning Practice for High-Dimensional Sparse Data, DLP@Recsys | [ HTML ]
  11. AutoOpt: Automatic Hyperparameter Scheduling and Optimization for Deep Click-through Rate Prediction
    Yujun Li*, Xing Tang* , Bo Chen*, Yimin Huang, Ruiming Tang, and Zhenguo Li
    Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2023 | [ HTML PDF ]
  12. Explicit Feature Interaction-aware Uplift Network for Online Marketing
    Dugang Liu, Xing Tang# , Gao Han, Fuyuan Lyu, and Xiuqiang He#
    Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2023 | [ HTML PDF Code ]
  13. Curriculum Modeling the Dependence among Targets with Multi-task Learning for Financial Marketing
    Yunpeng Weng*, Xing Tang* , Liang Chen, and Xiuqiang He
    Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2023 | [ HTML PDF ]
  14. Adaptive Low-Precision Training for Embeddings in Click-Through Rate Prediction
    Shiwei Li, Huifeng Guo, Lu Hou, Wei Zhang, Xing Tang , Ruiming Tang, Rui Zhang, and Ruixuan Li
    Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2023 | [ HTML PDF ]
  15. DIWIFT: Discovering Instance-wise Influential Features for Tabular Data
    Dugang Liu*, Pengxiang Cheng*, Hong Zhu*, Xing Tang* , Yanyu Chen, Xiaoting Wang, Weike Pan, Zhong Ming, and Xiuqiang He
    Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, WebConf 2023 | [ HTML PDF Code ]
  16. Optimizing Feature Set for Click-Through Rate Prediction
    Fuyuan Lyu*, Xing Tang* , Dugang Liu, Liang Chen, Xiuqiang He, and Xue Liu
    Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, WebConf 2023 | [ HTML PDF Code ]
  17. Self-Sampling Training and Evaluation for the Accuracy-Bias Tradeoff in Recommendation
    Dugang Liu, Qiao Yang, Xing Tang , Liang Chen, Xiuqiang He, Weike Pan, and Zhong Ming
    Database Systems for Advanced Applications - 28th International Conference, DASFAA 2023 | [ HTML PDF ]
  18. OptEmbed: Learning Optimal Embedding Table for Click-through Rate Prediction
    Fuyuan Lyu*, Xing Tang* , Hong Zhu, Huifeng Guo, Yingxue Zhang, Ruiming Tang, and Xue Liu
    Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, CIKM 2022 | [ HTML PDF Code ]
  19. Memorize, Factorize, or be Naive: Learning Optimal Feature Interaction Methods for CTR Prediction
    Fuyuan Lyu*, Xing Tang* , Huifeng Guo, Ruiming Tang, Xiuqiang He, Rui Zhang, and Xue Liu
    38th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2022 | [ HTML PDF Code ]
  20. Mobile App Cross-Domain Recommendation with Multi-Graph Neural Network
    Yi Ouyang*, Bin Guo, Xing Tang* , Xiuqiang He, Jian Xiong, and Zhiwen Yu
    ACM Transaction on Knowledge Discovery from Data 2021 | [ HTML PDF ]
  21. AutoConjunction: Adaptive Model-based Feature Conjunction for CTR Prediction
    Chih-Yao Chang*, Xing Tang* , Bo-Wen Yuan, Jui-Yang Hsia, Zhirong Liu, Zhenhua Dong, Xiuqiang He, and Chih-Jen Lin
    21st IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM 2020 | [ HTML ]
  22. A Data-Based Approach to Discovering Multi-Topic Influential Leaders
    Xing Tang , Qiguang Miao, Shangshang Yu, and Yining Quan
    PLOS ONE 2016 | [ HTML ]
  23. Predicting individual retweet behavior by user similarity: A multi-task learning approach
    Xing Tang , Qiguang Miao, Yi-Ning Quan, Jie Tang, and Kai Deng
    Knowledge-Based System 2015 | [ HTML ]
  24. A Novel Email Virus Propagation Model with Local Group
    Qiguang Miao, Xing Tang , and Yi-Ning Quan
    IEEE 11th Intl Conf on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, UIC 2014 | [ HTML ]
Preprint
  1. Robust Long-Tailed Learning via Label-Aware Bounded CVaR
    Hong Zhu, Runpeng Yu, Xing Tang , Yifei Wang, Yuan Fang, and Yisen Wang
    arXiv preprint arXiv.2308.15405 2023 | [ arXiv PDF ]
  2. Feature Representation Learning for Click-through Rate Prediction:A Review and New Perspectives
    Fuyuan Lyu, Xing Tang , Dugang Liu, Haolun Wu, Chen Ma, Xiuqiang He, and Xue Liu
    arXiv preprint arXiv.2302.02241 2023 | [ arXiv ]
  3. Towards Automated Negative Sampling in Implicit Recommendation
    Fuyuan Lyu, Yaochen Hu, Xing Tang , Yingxue Zhang, Ruiming Tang, and Xue Liu
    arXiv preprint arXiv.2311.03526 2023 | [ arXiv ]
  4. Touch the Core: Exploring Task Dependence Among Hybrid Targets for Recommendation
    Xing Tang , Yang Qiao, Fuyuan Lyu, Dugang Liu, and Xiuqiang He
    arXiv preprint arXiv.2403.17442 2024 | [ arXiv ]

Services

Academic service
  • Conference PC member
    • AI area: AAAI(2024); IJCAI(2024); ICML(2024); ECML-PKDD(2024)
    • DM area: KDD(2022-2024); WebConf(2024); WSDM(2024); CIKM(2023,2024); Recsys(2024); IEEE BigData(2024)
  • Journal reviewer
    • TKDE, Knowledge-Based Systems, Neurocomputing
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