Qiao Zhao | Boston University

About Me

I am a M.S. in AI student at Boston University. Prior to joining BU, I received my Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science at Xiamen University, where I was privileged to be advised by Prof. Chen Lin, and worked with Yang Li. Currently I am working on evaluation of LLMs and robust multimodal learning.

Research Interests

Machine Learning: Natural Language Processing, Multimodal Learning, Representation Learning
Data Mining: Information Retrieval, Recommender Systems

News

[Sep. 2024] Starting my Master’s study at Boston University.
[Jun. 2024] Received my Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science at Xiamen University.🎉🎉🎉
[May 2024] Defended my thesis: Hypergraph Enhanced Contrastive Learning in Recommender Systems.🎉🎉🎉

Publications

Who To Align With: Feedback-Oriented Multi-Modal Alignment in Recommendation Systems

Yang Li, Qi’ao Zhao, Chen Lin*, Jinsong Su, Zhilin Zhang.

International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2024.

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GENET: Unleashing the Power of Side Information for Recommendation via Hypergraph Pre-training

Yang Li, Qiao Zhao, Chen Lin*, Zhenjie Zhang, Xiaomin Zhu, Jinsong Su

International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 2024.

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