My name is Yuxia Wu, a research scientist at Singapore Management University (SMU), working with Assistant Prof. Yuan Fang. I also closely collaborate with Assistant Prof. Lizi Liao. Previously, I obtained my Ph.D. degree in the area of Computer Science at SMILES lab, Xi’an Jiaotong University, advised by Prof. Xueming Qian. I also hold Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Biomedical Engineering.
- Recommendation System: Sequential recommendation; Conversational recommendation; Explainable recommendation
- Conversational AI: Task-oriented dialog system; Conversational understanding
- Graph data mining: Dynamic graph modeling; LLM for graphs
- Spatial-Temporal: Human mobility; Smart cities; Temporal event forecasting
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.” – “Speak, Memory” by Vladimir Nabokov.
🔥 News
- [09/2024]: We have two papers accepted by EMNLP’24. Congrats to Yimin (one paper about new intent discovery, accepted as Findings) and Jinggui (the first survey paper about ontology expansion for conversational understanding)!
- [07/2024]: I was awarded Best Poster Presentation at Singapore ACM SIGKDD Symposium 2024! Thanks for everyone!
- [05/2024]: Check out our Tutorials “Towards Graph Foundation Models” (Part I, Part II & Part III) at WWW’24.
- [03/2024]: Our paper about new slot discovery is accepted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP).
- [02/2024]: Our paper about simple Transformer for dynamic graph modeling is accepted by WWW’24.
- [11/2023]: Our paper about reason generation for POI recommendation is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM).
- [05/2023]: I started the Research Scientist (Postdoc) position at Singapore Management University.
📝 Research
Selected Papers
Please see my Google Scholar for the full publication list. (* Equal Contribution)
Preprints:
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Retrieval Augmented Generation for Dynamic Graph Modeling Yuxia Wu, Yuan Fang, Lizi Liao
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Exploring the Potential of Large Language Models for Heterophilic Graphs Yuxia Wu*, Shujie Li*,Yuan Fang, Chuan Shi
Published:
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“Pseudo-Label Enhanced Prototypical Contrastive Learning for Uniformed Intent Discovery”
Yimin Deng*, Yuxia Wu*, Li Zhu, Guoshuai Zhao, Xueming Qian. Findings of EMNLP 2024
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“A Survey of Ontology Expansion for Conversational Understanding”
Jinggui Liang, Yuxia Wu, Yuan Fang, Hao Fei, Lizi Liao. EMNLP 2024
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“Active Discovering New Slots for Task-oriented Conversation”
Yuxia Wu*, Tianhao Dai*, Zhedong Zheng, Lizi Liao. TASLP 2024
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“On the Feasibility of Simple Transformer for Dynamic Graph Modeling”
Yuxia Wu, Yuan Fang, Lizi Liao. WWW 2024
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“Reason Generation for Point of Interest Recommendation via a Hierarchical Attention-based Transformer Model”
Yuxia Wu, Guoshuai Zhao, Mingdi Li, Zhuocheng Zhang, Xueming Qian. TMM 2023
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“Semi-supervised New Slot Discovery with Incremental Clustering”
Yuxia Wu, Lizi Liao, Xueming Qian, Tat-Seng Chua. Findings of EMNLP 2022
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“State Graph Reasoning for Multimodal Conversational Recommendation”
Yuxia Wu, Lizi Liao, Gangyi Zhang, Wenqiang Lei, Guoshuai Zhao, Xueming Qian, Tat-Seng Chua. TMM 2022
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“Personalized Long- and Short-term Preference Learning for Next POI Recommendation” (ESI Highly Cited Paper, Citations: 160+)
Yuxia Wu, Ke Li, Guoshuai Zhao, Xueming Qian. TKDE 2020
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“LAST: Location-Appearance-Semantic-Temporal Clustering based POI Summarization”
Xueming Qian, Yuxia Wu, Mingdi Li, Yayun Ren, Shuhui Liang, Zhetao Li. TMM 2020
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“Long- and Short-term Preference Learning for Next POI Recommendation”
Yuxia Wu, Ke Li, Guoshuai Zhao, Xueming Qian. CIKM 2019
🙌 Students Co-supervision/Collaboration
- Jianyuan Bo: PhD at SMU with Assistant Prof. Yuan Fang
- Sethupathy PARAMESWARAN: Research Engineer at SMU with Assistant Prof. Yuan Fang
- Shujie Li: Master at BUPT with Prof. Chuan Shi
- Yuquan Yang: Master at USTC with Prof. Xinming Zhang
- HOANG Thi Linh: Research Engineer at SMU with Assistant Prof. Yuan Fang
- Yimin Deng: PhD at XJTU with Prof. Xueming Qian
- Tianhao Dai: Former Research Engineer at SMU with Assistant Prof. Lizi Liao
- Qiang Chen: Graduated master at XJTU with Associate Prof. Guoshuai Zhao
🌟 Teaching
- ISSS609 Text Analytics and Application (Undergraduate), Singapore Management University, Guest Lecturer, 2024
- COMP 815 Nature Inspired Computing (Postgraduate), Auckland University of Technology, Guest Lecturer, 2024
- ISSS606 Social Analytics and Applications (Postgraduate), Singapore Management University, Guest Lecturer, 2024
- COMP 701 Nature Inspired Computing (Undergraduate), Auckland University of Technology, Guest Lecturer, 2024
- Top-conference Paper Analysis, Beijing, Lecturer, 2022
- Deep Learning Algorithm, Beijing, Teaching Assistant, 2018 - 2020
- Video Processing and Communications (Postgraduate), Xi’an Jiaotong University, Teaching Assistant, 2018
🎓 Education
- 2017.09 - 2023.03, Ph.D. in Information and Communication Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.
- 2014.09 - 2017.07, Master of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering, Air Force Medical University, China.
- 2010.09 - 2014.07, Bachelor of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, China
🍀 Experience
- 2023.05 - now, Research Scientist, Singapore Management University. Supervisor: Assistant Prof. Yuan Fang
- 2021.03 - 2022.10, Research Intern, NExT Research Center, National University of Singapore. Supervisors: Prof. Tat-Seng Chua and Assistant Prof. Lizi Liao
- 2020.10 - 2021.03, Research Intern, Meituan, Beijing, China. Mentors: Yafeng Zhang, Xuchu Hou, Jinpeng Wang
- 2020.03 - 2020.10, Project leader collaborated with industry partner Aidigger, Hangzhou, China. Mentors: Xiao Wei
👍 Service
- Guest Editor: MDPI Electronics, Special Issue: “AI for Science: Advanced Techniques and Interdisciplinary Applications”
- Area Chair: AJCAI 2024
- Reviewer/PC Member: WWW, MM, ACL ARR, ACL, CIKM, EMNLP, NLPCC, TPAMI, TKDE, TOIS, TBD, TIST, TAI, TMC, Knowledge-Based Systems, Neurocomputing, The Journal of Supercomputing
“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.” – “When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi