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Maolin Wang

City University of Hong Kong, Department of Data Science, Hong Kong

36 papers at tracked venues · 30 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

WWW ×8ACL ×7SIGKDD ×7SIGIR ×4CIKM ×3AAAI ×2ICDE ×1IJCAI ×1NeurIPS ×1RecSys ×1SDM ×1

Frequent coauthors

Xiangyu Zhao
×33
Pengyue Jia
×14
Wanyu Wang
×14
Ruocheng Guo
×11
Xuetao Wei
×7
Sheng Zhang
×7
Derong Xu
×6
Yuhao Wang
×6
Wenlin Zhang
×5
Yichao Wang
×5
Yiqi Wang
×5
Yejing Wang
×5

Papers

  1. ARCHER: Shooting Straight in Multimodal E-Commerce Search at Alibaba with Progressive Alignment
    WWW 2026 · Maolin Wang,
    Lang Fu
    ,
    Jun Chu
    ,
    Kai Guo
    ,
    Chenjie Qin
    ,
    Xinxin Wang
    ,
    Siyu Wu
    ,
    Wen Jiang
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
  2. BalanceSFT: Improving LLM Function Calling with Balanced Training Signals and Data Hardness
    ACL 2026 ·
    Bingguang Hao
    ,
    Zengzhuang Xu
    , Maolin Wang,
    Yuntao Wen
    ,
    Yicheng Chen
    ,
    Cunyin Peng
    ,
    Long Chen
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
    ,
    Jinjie Gu
    ,
    Chenyi Zhuang
    ,
    Ji Zhang
  3. Exploring Recommender System Evaluation: A Multi-Modal LLM Agent Framework for A/B Testing
    SIGKDD 2026 ·
    Wenlin Zhang
    ,
    Xiangyang Li
    ,
    Qiyuan Ge
    ,
    Kuicai Dong
    ,
    Pengyue Jia
    ,
    Xiaopeng Li
    ,
    Zijian Zhang
    , Maolin Wang,
    Yichao Wang
    ,
    Huifeng Guo
    ,
    Ruiming Tang
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
  4. GRAND: A Robust Diffusion Framework for Multi-Granularity Graph Anomaly Detection in Web Platforms
    WWW 2026 · Maolin Wang,
    Beining Bao
    ,
    Hongyu Chen
    ,
    Zichun Liu
    ,
    Lang Fu
    ,
    Jun Chu
    ,
    Langzhang Liang
    ,
    Zenglin Xu
  5. Logic Jailbreak: Efficiently Unlocking LLM Safety Restrictions Through Formal Logical Expression
    ACL 2026 ·
    Jingyu Peng
    , Maolin Wang,
    Nan Wang
    ,
    Jiatong Li
    ,
    Yuchen Li
    ,
    Yuyang Ye
    ,
    Wanyu Wang
    ,
    Pengyue Jia
    ,
    Kai Zhang
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
  6. MTA: A Merge-then-Adapt Framework for Personalized Large Language Models
    ACL 2026 ·
    Xiaopeng Li
    ,
    Yuanjin Zheng
    ,
    Wanyu Wang
    ,
    Wenlin Zhang
    ,
    Pengyue Jia
    ,
    Yingyi Zhang
    ,
    Haiying He
    ,
    Mengyang Ma
    ,
    Yiqi Wang
    , Maolin Wang,
    Xuetao Wei
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
  7. MemSearch-o1: Empowering Large Language Models with Reasoning-Aligned Memory Growth in Agentic Search
    ACL 2026 ·
    Sheng Zhang
    ,
    Junyi Li
    ,
    Yingyi Zhang
    ,
    Pengyue Jia
    ,
    Yichao Wang
    ,
    Xiaowei Qian
    ,
    Wenlin Zhang
    , Maolin Wang,
    Yong Liu
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
  8. NEZHA: A Zero-sacrifice and Hyperspeed Decoding Architecture for Generative Recommendations
    WWW 2026 ·
    Yejing Wang
    ,
    Shengyu Zhou
    ,
    Jinyu Lu
    ,
    Ziwei Liu
    ,
    Langming Liu
    , Maolin Wang,
    Wenlin Zhang
    ,
    Feng Li
    ,
    Wenbo Su
    ,
    Pengjie Wang
    ,
    Jian Xu
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
  9. ProEchoMem: Enhancing Long Video Understanding via Multi-Trace Probe-Echo Memory
    SIGIR 2026 ·
    Derong Xu
    ,
    Yanxin Chen
    ,
    Wanyu Wang
    ,
    Pengyue Jia
    ,
    Chao Zhang
    , Maolin Wang,
    Yiqi Wang
    ,
    Jipeng Qiang
    ,
    Xuetao Wei
    ,
    Hongzhi Yin
    ,
    Tong Xu
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
  10. PromptX: A Cognitive Agent Platform with Long-term Memory
    WWW 2026 ·
    Binhao Wang
    ,
    Jianglin Huang
    ,
    Xiao Hu
    ,
    Shan Jiang
    , Maolin Wang,
    Ching-Ho Yang
    ,
    Jian Jiang
    ,
    Junhao Ye
    ,
    Yaozu Cen
    ,
    Rui Zeng
    ,
    Yingtong Zhou
    ,
    Yingjie Luo
    ,
    Guanjie Wu
    ,
    Wangzhong Xu
    ,
    Feiyu Zhou
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
  11. Renormalization Group Guided Tensor Network Structure Search
    AAAI 2026 · Maolin Wang,
    Bowen Yu
    ,
    Sheng Zhang
    ,
    Linjie Mi
    ,
    Wanyu Wang
    ,
    Yiqi Wang
    ,
    Pengyue Jia
    ,
    Xuetao Wei
    ,
    Zenglin Xu
    ,
    Ruocheng Guo
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
  12. Rethinking Semantic-Collaborative Integration: Why Alignment Is Not Enough
    SIGIR 2026 · Maolin Wang,
    Dongze Wu
    ,
    Jianing Zhou
    ,
    Hongyu Chen
    ,
    Beining Bao
    ,
    Yu Jiang
    ,
    Chenbin Zhang
    ,
    Chang Wang
    ,
    Jian Liu
    ,
    Lei Sha
  13. SAGE: Global Semantic Alignment with LLMs for Long-Tail Sequential Recommendation
    WWW 2026 · Maolin Wang,
    Tongshu Bian
    ,
    Ziyan Wang
    ,
    Xiaotong Jiang
    ,
    Binhao Wang
    ,
    Derong Xu
    ,
    Wanyu Wang
    ,
    Ruocheng Guo
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
  14. SEARCH-R: Structured Entity-Aware Retrieval with Chain-of-Reasoning Navigator for Multi-hop Question Answering
    ACL 2026 ·
    Yuqing Fu
    ,
    Yimin Deng
    ,
    Wanyu Wang
    ,
    Yuhao Wang
    ,
    Yejing Wang
    ,
    Hongshi Liu
    ,
    Yiqi Wang
    ,
    Xiao Han
    , Maolin Wang,
    Guoshuai Zhao
    ,
    Yi Chang
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
  15. To Search or Not to Search: Aligning the Decision Boundary of Deep Search Agents via Causal Intervention
    WWW 2026 ·
    Wenlin Zhang
    ,
    Kuicai Dong
    ,
    Junyi Li
    ,
    Yingyi Zhang
    ,
    Xiaopeng Li
    ,
    Pengyue Jia
    ,
    Yi Wen
    ,
    Derong Xu
    , Maolin Wang,
    Yichao Wang
    ,
    Yong Liu
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
  16. Behavior Modeling Space Reconstruction for E-Commerce Search
    WWW 2025 ·
    Yejing Wang
    ,
    Chi Zhang
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
    ,
    Qidong Liu
    , Maolin Wang,
    Xuetao Wei
    ,
    Zitao Liu
    ,
    Xing Shi
    ,
    Xudong Yang
    ,
    Ling Zhong
    ,
    Wei Lin
  17. Bridging Relevance and Reasoning: Rationale Distillation in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
    ACL 2025 ·
    Pengyue Jia
    ,
    Derong Xu
    ,
    Xiaopeng Li
    ,
    Zhaocheng Du
    ,
    Xiangyang Li
    ,
    Yichao Wang
    ,
    Yuhao Wang
    ,
    Qidong Liu
    , Maolin Wang,
    Huifeng Guo
    ,
    Ruiming Tang
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
  18. DANCE: Resource-Efficient Neural Architecture Search with Data-Aware and Continuous Adaptation
    IJCAI 2025 · Maolin Wang,
    Tianshuo Wei
    ,
    Sheng Zhang
    ,
    Ruocheng Guo
    ,
    Wanyu Wang
    ,
    Shanshan Ye
    ,
    Lixin Zou
    ,
    Xuetao Wei
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
  19. Data Efficient Adaptation in Large Language Models via Continuous Low-Rank Fine-Tuning
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Xiao Han
    ,
    Zimo Zhao
    ,
    Wanyu Wang
    , Maolin Wang,
    Zitao Liu
    ,
    Yi Chang
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
  20. Empowering Denoising Sequential Recommendation with Large Language Model Embeddings
    CIKM 2025 ·
    Tongzhou Wu
    ,
    Yuhao Wang
    , Maolin Wang,
    Chi Zhang
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
  21. Empowering Large Language Model for Sequential Recommendation via Multimodal Embeddings and Semantic IDs
    CIKM 2025 ·
    Yuhao Wang
    ,
    Junwei Pan
    ,
    Xinhang Li
    , Maolin Wang,
    Yuan Wang
    ,
    Yue Liu
    ,
    Dapeng Liu
    ,
    Jie Jiang
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
  22. FindRec: Stein-Guided Entropic Flow for Multi-Modal Sequential Recommendation
    SIGKDD 2025 · Maolin Wang,
    Yutian Xiao
    ,
    Binhao Wang
    ,
    Sheng Zhang
    ,
    Shanshan Ye
    ,
    Wanyu Wang
    ,
    Hongzhi Yin
    ,
    Ruocheng Guo
    ,
    Zenglin Xu
  23. GLINT-RU: Gated Lightweight Intelligent Recurrent Units for Sequential Recommender Systems
    SIGKDD 2025 ·
    Sheng Zhang
    , Maolin Wang,
    Wanyu Wang
    ,
    Jingtong Gao
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
    ,
    Yu Yang
    ,
    Xuetao Wei
    ,
    Zitao Liu
    ,
    Tong Xu
  24. LSRP: A Leader-Subordinate Retrieval Framework for Privacy-Preserving Cloud-Device Collaboration
    SIGKDD 2025 ·
    Yingyi Zhang
    ,
    Pengyue Jia
    ,
    Xianneng Li
    ,
    Derong Xu
    , Maolin Wang,
    Yichao Wang
    ,
    Zhaocheng Du
    ,
    Huifeng Guo
    ,
    Yong Liu
    ,
    Ruiming Tang
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
  25. Large Language Model Enhanced Recommender Systems: Methods, Applications and Trends
    SIGKDD 2025 ·
    Qidong Liu
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
    ,
    Yuhao Wang
    ,
    Yejing Wang
    ,
    Zijian Zhang
    ,
    Yuqi Sun
    ,
    Xiang Li
    , Maolin Wang,
    Pengyue Jia
    ,
    Chong Chen
    ,
    Wei Huang
    ,
    Feng Tian
  26. Measure Domain's Gap: A Similar Domain Selection Principle for Multi-Domain Recommendation
    SIGKDD 2025 ·
    Yi Wen
    ,
    Yue Liu
    ,
    Derong Xu
    ,
    Huishi Luo
    ,
    Pengyue Jia
    ,
    Yiqing Wu
    ,
    Siwei Wang
    ,
    Ke Liang
    , Maolin Wang,
    Yiqi Wang
    ,
    Fuzhen Zhuang
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
  27. MetaLoRA: Tensor-Enhanced Adaptive Low-Rank Fine-Tuning
    ICDE 2025 · Maolin Wang,
    Xiangyu Zhao
    ,
    Ruocheng Guo
    ,
    Junhui Wang
  28. Pre-train, Align, and Disentangle: Empowering Sequential Recommendation with Large Language Models
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    Yuhao Wang
    ,
    Junwei Pan
    ,
    Pengyue Jia
    ,
    Wanyu Wang
    , Maolin Wang,
    Zhixiang Feng
    ,
    Xiaotian Li
    ,
    Jie Jiang
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
  29. Put Teacher in Student's Shoes: Cross-Distillation for Ultra-compact Model Compression Framework
    SIGKDD 2025 · Maolin Wang,
    Jun Chu
    ,
    Sicong Xie
    ,
    Xiaoling Zang
    ,
    Yao Zhao
    ,
    Wenliang Zhong
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
  30. SIGMA: Selective Gated Mamba for Sequential Recommendation
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Ziwei Liu
    ,
    Qidong Liu
    ,
    Yejing Wang
    ,
    Wanyu Wang
    ,
    Pengyue Jia
    , Maolin Wang,
    Zitao Liu
    ,
    Yi Chang
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
  31. SPARK: Adaptive Low-Rank Knowledge Graph Modeling in Hybrid Geometric Spaces for Recommendation
    CIKM 2025 ·
    Binhao Wang
    ,
    Yutian Xiao
    , Maolin Wang,
    Zhiqi Li
    ,
    Tianshuo Wei
    ,
    Ruocheng Guo
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
  32. STAR-Rec: Making Peace with Length Variance and Pattern Diversity in Sequential Recommendation
    SIGIR 2025 · Maolin Wang,
    Sheng Zhang
    ,
    Ruocheng Guo
    ,
    Wanyu Wang
    ,
    Xuetao Wei
    ,
    Zitao Liu
    ,
    Hongzhi Yin
    ,
    Yi Chang
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
  33. Stepwise Reasoning Disruption Attack of LLMs
    ACL 2025 ·
    Jingyu Peng
    , Maolin Wang,
    Xiangyu Zhao
    ,
    Kai Zhang
    ,
    Wanyu Wang
    ,
    Pengyue Jia
    ,
    Qidong Liu
    ,
    Ruocheng Guo
    ,
    Qi Liu
  34. DNS-Rec: Data-aware Neural Architecture Search for Recommender Systems
    RecSys 2024 ·
    Sheng Zhang
    , Maolin Wang,
    Xiangyu Zhao
    ,
    Ruocheng Guo
    ,
    Yao Zhao
    ,
    Chenyi Zhuang
    ,
    Jinjie Gu
    ,
    Zijian Zhang
    ,
    Hongzhi Yin
  35. Large Multimodal Model Compression via Iterative Efficient Pruning and Distillation
    WWW 2024 · Maolin Wang,
    Yao Zhao
    ,
    Jiajia Liu
    ,
    Jingdong Chen
    ,
    Chenyi Zhuang
    ,
    Jinjie Gu
    ,
    Ruocheng Guo
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao
  36. Tensorized Hypergraph Neural Networks
    SDM 2024 · Maolin Wang,
    Yaoming Zhen
    ,
    Yu Pan
    ,
    Yao Zhao
    ,
    Chenyi Zhuang
    ,
    Zenglin Xu
    ,
    Ruocheng Guo
    ,
    Xiangyu Zhao