I am looking for a few postdoctoral researchers on Reinforcement Learning, Multiagent Learning and their applications on search and recommendation. If interested, please contact me.
Research Interests
AI and Machine Learning, (Multi-agent) Reinforcement Learning and Control, and Neural Generative Models;
Statistical Modeling of Information Retrieval, and Dynamic Information Retrieval;
Data Mining, Personalization, and Collaborative Filtering (Recommender Systems);
Computational Advertising and Real-time Bidding.
Selected Recent Papers
Explainable AI
Explanation Mining: Post Hoc Interpretability of Latent Factor Models for Recommendation Systems
Georgina Peake and Jun Wang
KDD 2018
Bayesian Learning
Thermostat-assisted continuously-tempered Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for Bayesian learning
Rui Luo and Yaodong Yang and Jianhong Wang and Zhanxing Zhu and Jun Wang arXiv:1711.11511v3, NIPS 2018
Multi-agent AI
Probabilistic Recursive Reasoning for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Ying Wen, Yaodong Yang, Rui Luo, Jun Wang, and Wei Pan ICLR 2019
Mean Field Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Yaodong Yang, Rui Luo, Minne Li, Ming Zhou, Weinan Zhang, and Jun Wang arXiv:1802.05438, ICML 2018
Learning to Design Games: Strategic Environments in Deep Reinforcement Learning
Haifeng Zhang, Jun Wang, Zhiming Zhou, Weinan Zhang, Ying Wen, Yong Yu, Wenxin Li arXiv:1707.01310v3, IJCAI 2018
An Empirical Study of AI Population Dynamics with Million-agent Reinforcement Learning
Lianmin Zheng, Jiacheng Yang, Han Cai, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang, and Yong Yu arXiv:1709.04511v3, AAMAS 18
Text/Discrete GANs
Long Text Generation via Adversarial Training with Leaked Information
Jiaxian Guo, Sidi Lu, Han Cai, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, and Jun Wang arXiv:1709.08624v1, AAAI 2018
IRGAN: A Minimax Game for Unifying Generative and Discriminative Information Retrieval Models
Wang, Jun, Lantao Yu, Weinan Zhang, Yu Gong, Yinghui Xu, Benyou Wang, Peng Zhang, and Dell Zhang
SIGIR (Best Paper Award Honorable Mention), 2017
SeqGAN: Sequence Generative Adversarial Nets with Policy Gradient
Lantao Yu, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang, Yong Yu arXiv:1609.05473v6, AAAI, 2017
Neural Generative Models
Activation Maximization Generative Adversarial Nets
Zhiming Zhou, Han Cai, Shu Rong, Yuxuan Song, Kan Ren, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, and Jun Wang arXiv:1703.02000v7, ICLR 2018
A Neural Stochastic Volatility Model
Rui Luo, Jun Wang, Weinan Zhang and Xiaojun Xu arXiv:1712.00504, AAAI 2018
Reinforcement Learning for Architecture Search by Network Transformation
Han Cai, Tianyao Chen, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, and Jun Wang arXiv:1707.04873v1, AAAI 2018
Explanation Mining: Post Hoc Interpretability of Latent Factor Models for Recommendation Systems
MAgent: A Many-Agent Reinforcement Learning Research Platform for Artificial Collective Intelligence Lianmin Zheng, Jiacheng Yang, Han Cai, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang, and Yong Yu NIPS17 demo arXiv:1712.00600, 2017
Multiagent Bidirectionally-Coordinated Nets: Emergence of Human-level Coordination in Learning to Play StarCraft Combat Games Peng Peng, Ying Wen, Yaodong Yang, Quan Yuan, Zhenkun Tang, Haitao Long, Jun Wang arXiv:1703.10069v4, 2017
City Traffic Simulator/Optimizer Each moving dot is driven by a neural network-based reinforcement learning agent
Collaborative Bots Sorting Parcels
Books
Display Advertising with Real-Time Bidding (RTB) and Behavioural Targeting
Jun Wang, Weinan Zhang and Shuai Yuan (2017) Foundations and TrendsĀ® in Information Retrieval: Vol. 11: No. 4-5, pp 297-435.