Tutorials

Large Language Model Powered Agents in the Web

Schedule: Monday, May 13, 2024, Half-Day (AM)

Presenters: Yang Deng, An Zhang, Yankai Lin, Xu Chen, Ji-Rong Wen and Tat-Seng Chua

Neural Contextual Bandits for Personalized Recommendation

Schedule: Monday, May 13, 2024, Half-Day (AM)

Presenters: Yikun Ban, Yunzhe Qi and Jingrui He

Data Augmentation for Conversational AI

Schedule: Monday, May 13, 2024, Half-Day (AM)

Presenters: Heydar Soudani, Roxana Petcu, Evangelos Kanoulas and Faegheh Hasibi

Social Psychology Meets Social Computing: State of the Art and Future Directions

Schedule: Monday, May 13, 2024, Half-Day (AM)

Presenters: Sourav S Bhowmick, Hui Li, S H Annabel Chen and Yining Zhao

New Frontiers of Knowledge Graph Reasoning: Recent Advances and Future Trends

Schedule: Monday, May 13, 2024, Half-Day (AM)

Presenters: Lihui Liu, Zihao Wang, Jiaxin Bai, Yangqiu Song and Hanghang Tong

Large Language Models for Graphs: Progresses and Directions

Schedule: Monday, May 13, 2024, Half-Day (PM)

Presenters: Chao Huang, Xubin Ren, Jiabin Tang, Dawei Yin and Nitesh Chawla

Multimodal Pre-training and Generation for Recommendation: A Tutorial

Schedule: Monday, May 13, 2024, Half-Day (PM)

Presenters: Jieming Zhu, Xin Zhou, Chuhan Wu, Rui Zhang and Zhenhua Dong

Privacy in Web Advertising: Analytics and Modeling

Schedule: Monday, May 13, 2024, Half-Day (PM)

Presenters: Badih Ghazi, Ravi Kumar and Pasin Manurangsi

Mining Temporal Networks

Schedule: Monday, May 13, 2024, Half-Day (PM)

Presenters: Aristides Gionis, Lutz Oettershagen and Ilie Sarpe

Simulating Human Society with LLM-Driven Agents: City, Social Media, and Economic System

Schedule: Monday, May 13, 2024, Half-Day (PM)

Presenters: Chen Gao, Fengli Xu, Xu Chen, Xiang Wang, Yong Li and Xiangnan He

Large Language Models for Recommendation: Progresses and Future Directions

Schedule: Tuesday, May 14, 2024, Half-Day (AM)

Presenters: Jizhi Zhang, Keqin Bao, Yang Zhang, Wenjie Wang, Fuli Feng and Xiangnan He

Text-Attributed Graph Representation Learning: Methods, Applications, and Challenges

Schedule: Tuesday, May 14, 2024, Half-Day (AM)

Presenters: Delvin Zhang, Menglin Yang, Rex Ying and Hady W. Lauw

Tutorial on User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems on the Web

Schedule: Tuesday, May 14, 2024, Half-Day (AM)

Presenters: Krisztian Balog and Chengxiang Zhai

Lecture-style Tutorial: Towards Graph Foundation Models

Schedule: Tuesday, May 14, 2024, Half-Day (AM)

Presenters: Chuan Shi, Cheng Yang, Yuan Fang, Lichao Sun and Philip Yu

Toward Mitigating Misinformation and Social Media Manipulation in LLM Era

Schedule: Tuesday, May 14, 2024, Half-Day (AM)

Presenters: Yizhou Zhang, Lun Du, Yan Liu and Karishma Sharma

Curriculum Learning: Theories, Approaches, Applications, Tools, and Future Directions in the Era of Large Language Models

Schedule: Tuesday, May 14, 2024, Half-Day (PM)

Presenters: Xin Wang, Yuwei Zhou, Hong Chen and Wenwu Zhu

On-Device Recommender Systems: A Tutorial on The New-Generation Recommendation Paradigm

Schedule: Tuesday, May 14, 2024, Half-Day (PM)

Presenters: Hongzhi Yin, Tong Chen, Liang Qu and Bin Cui

Recent Advances in Generative Information Retrieval

Schedule: Tuesday, May 14, 2024, Half-Day (PM)

Presenters: Yubao Tang, Ruqing Zhang, Weiwei Sun, Jiafeng Guo and Maarten de Rijke

Discrete Choice and Applications

Schedule: Tuesday, May 14, 2024, Half-Day (PM)

Presenters: Flavio Chierichetti, Ravi Kumar and Andrew Tomkins

Understanding (Dark) Humour with Internet Meme Analysis

Schedule: Tuesday, May 14, 2024, Half-Day (PM)

Presenters: Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Ming Shan Hee, Rui Cao and Tanmoy Chakraborty