Kai Zhao

Walmart AI, Bentonville, AR, USA

18 papers at tracked venues · 13 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

DBLP profile ↗ORCID 0000-0003-1040-0211 ↗Google Scholar ↗Homepage ↗

Venues

WWW ×5 SIGKDD ×4 ICML ×2 IJCAI ×2 RecSys ×2 AAAI ×1 CVPR ×1 ECCV ×1

Frequent coauthors

Weiming Huang

×8

Meng Chen

×8

Luyi Ma

×4

Jianpeng Xu

×4

Evren Körpeoglu

×4

Kannan Achan

×4

Yongshun Gong

×4

Tianao Sun

×3

Kaushiki Nag

×3

Sushant Kumar

×3

Zechen Li

×3

Hongwei Jia

×3

Papers

Beyond Routines: Adaptive Mobility Prediction via Sequential-Relational Fusion
SIGKDD 2026 ·
Tianao Sun
,
Ruizhe Liu
,
Wenzhen Jia
, Kai Zhao,
Weiming Huang
,
Meng Chen
Is More Context Always Better? Examining LLM Reasoning Capability for Time Interval Prediction
WWW 2026 ·
Yanan Cao
,
Farnaz Fallahi
,
Murali Mohana Krishna Dandu
,
Lalitesh Morishetti
, Kai Zhao,
Luyi Ma
,
Sinduja Subramaniam
,
Jianpeng Xu
,
Evren Körpeoglu
,
Kaushiki Nag
,
Sushant Kumar
,
Kannan Achan
LLM and Agents for Recommendation Systems (LARS)
WWW 2026 ·
Keerthi Gopalakrishnan
,
Qi Xu
,
Aysenur Inan
,
Zhigang Hua
,
Luyi Ma
,
Prabhat Agarwal
,
Shuang Yang
,
Shradha Sehgal
,
Hao Wang
, Kai Zhao,
Yashar Deldjoo
,
Rong Jin
,
Kamilia Ahmadi
,
Luke Simon
LLMs as Orchestrators: Constraint-Compliant Multi-Agent Optimization for Recommendation Systems
WWW 2026 ·
Guilin Zhang
, Kai Zhao,
Jeffrey Friedman
,
Xu Chu
Multi-View Urban Region Embedding via Commonality-Specificity Disentanglement
SIGKDD 2026 ·
Zechen Li
,
Hongwei Jia
, Kai Zhao,
Weiming Huang
,
Meng Chen
RobustExplain: Evaluating Robustness of LLM-Based Explanation Agents for Recommendation
WWW 2026 ·
Guilin Zhang
, Kai Zhao,
Jeffrey Friedman
,
Xu Chu
Triple Modality Fusion: Aligning Visual, Textual, and Graph Data for LLM-based Multi-Behavior Recommender Systems
WWW 2026 ·
Luyi Ma
,
Xiaohan Li
,
Zezhong Fan
, Kai Zhao,
Jianpeng Xu
,
Jason Cho
,
Praveenkumar Kanumala
,
Kaushiki Nag
,
Evren Körpeoglu
,
Sushant Kumar
,
Kannan Achan
Cross-City Latent Space Alignment for Consistency Region Embedding
ICML 2025 ·
Meng Chen
,
Hongwei Jia
,
Zechen Li
,
Wenzhen Jia
, Kai Zhao,
Hongjun Dai
,
Weiming Huang
GRACE: Generative Recommendation via Journey-Aware Sparse Attention on Chain-of-Thought Tokenization
RecSys 2025 ·
Luyi Ma
,
Wanjia Zhang
, Kai Zhao,
Abhishek Kulkarni
,
Lalitesh Morishetti
,
Anjana Ganesh
,
Ashish Ranjan
,
Aashika Padmanabhan
,
Jianpeng Xu
,
Jason H. D. Cho
,
Praveenkumar Kanumala
,
Kaushiki Nag
,
Sumit Dutta
,
Kamiya Motwani
,
Malay Patel
,
Evren Körpeoglu
,
Sushant Kumar
,
Kannan Achan
SILO: Semantic Integration for Location Prediction with Large Language Models
SIGKDD 2025 ·
Tianao Sun
,
Meng Chen
,
Bowen Zhang
,
Genan Dai
,
Weiming Huang
, Kai Zhao
VL-CLIP: Enhancing Multimodal Recommendations via Visual Grounding and LLM-Augmented CLIP Embeddings
RecSys 2025 ·
Ramin Giahi
,
Kehui Yao
,
Sriram Kollipara
, Kai Zhao,
Vahid Mirjalili
,
Jianpeng Xu
,
Topojoy Biswas
,
Evren Körpeoglu
,
Kannan Achan
Visual Autoregressive Modeling for Image Super-Resolution
ICML 2025 ·
Yunpeng Qu
,
Kun Yuan
,
Jinhua Hao
, Kai Zhao,
Qizhi Xie
,
Ming Sun
,
Chao Zhou
Exploring Urban Semantics: A Multimodal Model for POI Semantic Annotation with Street View Images and Place Names
IJCAI 2024 ·
Dabin Zhang
,
Meng Chen
,
Weiming Huang
,
Yongshun Gong
, Kai Zhao
Going Where, by Whom, and at What Time: Next Location Prediction Considering User Preference and Temporal Regularity
SIGKDD 2024 ·
Tianao Sun
,
Ke Fu
,
Weiming Huang
, Kai Zhao,
Yongshun Gong
,
Meng Chen
Learning Hierarchy-Enhanced POI Category Representations Using Disentangled Mobility Sequences
IJCAI 2024 ·
Hongwei Jia
,
Meng Chen
,
Weiming Huang
, Kai Zhao,
Yongshun Gong
NTIRE 2024 Challenge on Image Super-Resolution (×4): Methods and Results
CVPR 2024 ·
Zheng Chen
,
Zongwei Wu
,
Eduard Zamfir
,
Kai Zhang
,
Yulun Zhang
,
Radu Timofte
,
Xiaokang Yang
,
Hongyuan Yu
,
Cheng Wan
,
Yuxin Hong
,
Zhijuan Huang
,
Yajun Zou
,
Yuan Huang
,
Jiamin Lin
,
Bingnan Han
,
Xianyu Guan
,
Yongsheng Yu
,
Daoan Zhang
,
Xuanwu Yin
,
Kunlong Zuo
,
Jinhua Hao
, Kai Zhao,
Kun Yuan
,
Ming Sun
,
Chao Zhou
,
Hongyu An
,
Xinfeng Zhang
,
Zhiyuan Song
,
Ziyue Dong
,
Qing Zhao
,
Xiaogang Xu
,
Pengxu Wei
,
Zhi-Chao Dou
,
Gui-Ling Wang
,
Chih-Chung Hsu
,
Chia-Ming Lee
,
Yi-Shiuan Chou
,
Cansu Korkmaz
,
A. Murat Tekalp
,
Yubin Wei
,
Xiaole Yan
,
Binren Li
,
Haonan Chen
,
Siqi Zhang
,
Sihan Chen
,
Amogh Joshi
,
Nikhil Akalwadi
,
Sampada Malagi
,
Palani Yashaswini
,
Chaitra Desai
,
Ramesh Ashok Tabib
,
Ujwala Patil
,
Uma Mudenagudi
,
Anjali Sarvaiya
,
Pooja Choksy
,
Jagrit Joshi
,
Shubh Kawa
,
Kishor P. Upla
,
Sushrut Patwardhan
,
Raghavendra Ramachandra
,
Sadat Hossain
,
Geongi Park
,
S. M. Nadim Uddin
,
Hao Xu
,
Yanhui Guo
,
Aman Urumbekov
,
Xingzhuo Yan
,
Wei Hao
,
Minghan Fu
,
Isaac Orais
,
Samuel Smith
,
Ying Liu
,
Wangwang Jia
,
Qisheng Xu
,
Kele Xu
,
Weijun Yuan
,
Zhan Li
,
Wenqing Kuang
,
Ruijin Guan
,
Ruting Deng
,
Zhao Zhang
,
Bo Wang
,
Suiyi Zhao
,
Yan Luo
,
Yanyan Wei
,
Asif Hussain Khan
,
Christian Micheloni
,
Niki Martinel
Urban Region Embedding via Multi-View Contrastive Prediction
AAAI 2024 ·
Zechen Li
,
Weiming Huang
, Kai Zhao,
Min Yang
,
Yongshun Gong
,
Meng Chen
XPSR: Cross-Modal Priors for Diffusion-Based Image Super-Resolution
ECCV 2024 ·
Yunpeng Qu
,
Kun Yuan
, Kai Zhao,
Qizhi Xie
,
Jinhua Hao
,
Ming Sun
,
Chao Zhou