Tong Zhao

2026

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Semantic IDs for Recommender Systems at Snapchat: Use Cases, Technical Challenges, and Design Choices.
Wenfeng Zhuo|David A. Hull|Karthik Iyer|Casper Hansen|Peicheng Yu|Clark Mingxuan Ju|Jia Chen|Francis Jack Smith|Gregory Grefenstette|Zihao Fan|Christian Hansen|Neil Shah|Tong Zhao|Zhe Xu|Honglei Zhuang|Lili Zhang|Leonardo Neves|Yi Wu|Yao Hu|Liam Collins|Manish Malik|Xuanhui Wang|Bhuvesh Kumar|Jiwen Ren|Honglei Zhuang|Lili Zhang|Francis Jack Smith|Wenfeng Zhuo|Wen Zhang|Clark Mingxuan Ju|Jia Chen|Xiao Bai|Tong Zhao|Zhe Xu|Leonardo Neves|Yi Wu|Jinchao Li|Liam Collins|Yao Hu|David A. Hull|Karthik Iyer|Gregory Grefenstette|Zihao Fan|Yilun Xu|Yiwen Chen|Casper Hansen|Peicheng Yu|Manish Malik|Xuanhui Wang|Christian Hansen|Neil Shah
Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026
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Beyond Unimodal Perspectives: Generative Retrieval with Multimodal Semantics.
Jing Zhu|Liu Yu|Yozen Liu|Mingxuan Ju|Shubham Vij|Yuzhou Mao|Liu Yu|Yozen Liu|Fan Zhou|Danai Koutra|Shubham Vij|Yuzhou Mao|Fan Zhou|Danai Koutra|Neil Shah|Tong Zhao
Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026
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Sequential Data Augmentation for Generative Recommendation.
Geon Lee|Bhuvesh Kumar|Mingxuan Ju|Tong Zhao|Kijung Shin|Neil Shah|Liam Collins
Proceedings of the Nineteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2026, Boise, ID, USA, February 22-26, 2026

2025

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Generative Recommendation with Semantic IDs: A Practitioner's Handbook.
Clark Mingxuan Ju|Liam Collins|Leonardo Neves|Bhuvesh Kumar|Louis Yufeng Wang|Tong Zhao|Neil Shah
Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2025, Seoul, Republic of Korea, November 10-14, 2025
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MI4Rec: Pretrained Language Model based Cold-Start Recommendation with Meta-Item Embeddings.
Yaochen Zhu|Diego Ceccarelli|Zaiyi Zheng|Yaochen Zhu|Diego Ceccarelli|Salvatore Orlando|Haochen Liu|Mingxuan Ju|Raffaele Perego|Salvatore Trani|Tong Zhao|Neil Shah|Jundong Li
Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2025, Seoul, Republic of Korea, November 10-14, 2025
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Learning Universal User Representations Leveraging Cross-domain User Intent at Snapchat.
Manish Malik|Mehmet Deniz Türkmen|Clark Mingxuan Ju|Neil Shah|Suchana Datta|Leonardo Neves|Minhan Huang|Leonardo Neves|Minhan Huang|Bhuvesh Kumar|Chuang Zhao|Bhuvesh Kumar|Lianbo Ma|Liam Collins|Chuang Zhao|Tong Zhao|Xingwei Wang|Lianbo Ma|Liam Collins|Yuwei Qiu|Zhu Sun|Tong Zhao|Xingwei Wang|Qing Dou|Yuwei Qiu|Zhu Sun|Yang Zhou|Sohail Nizam|Rengim Aykan Ozturk|Yvette Liu|Sen Yang|Manish Malik|Mehmet Deniz Türkmen|Neil Shah|Suchana Datta
Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025
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Understanding and Scaling Collaborative Filtering Optimization from the Perspective of Matrix Rank.
Donald Loveland|Xinyi Wu|Tong Zhao|Danai Koutra|Neil Shah|Mingxuan Ju
Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025, WWW 2025, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 28 April 2025- 2 May 2025
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GraphHash: Graph Clustering Enables Parameter Efficiency in Recommender Systems.
Xinyi Wu|Donald Loveland|Runjin Chen|Yozen Liu|Xin Chen|Leonardo Neves|Ali Jadbabaie|Mingxuan Ju|Neil Shah|Tong Zhao
Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025, WWW 2025, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 28 April 2025- 2 May 2025
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Improving Out-of-Vocabulary Hashing in Recommendation Systems.
William Shiao|Mingxuan Ju|Zhichun Guo|Xin Chen|Evangelos E. Papalexakis|Tong Zhao|Neil Shah|Yozen Liu
Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025, WWW 2025, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 28 April 2025 - 2 May 2025

2024

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Improving Embedding-Based Retrieval in Friend Recommendation with ANN Query Expansion.
Pau Perng-Hwa Kung|Zihao Fan|Tong Zhao|Yozen Liu|Zhixin Lai|Jiahui Shi|Yan Wu|Jun Yu|Neil Shah|Ganesh Venkataraman
Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2024, Washington DC, USA, July 14-18, 2024
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The 5th International Workshop on Machine Learning on Graphs (MLoG).
Tyler Derr|Yao Ma|Kaize Ding|Tong Zhao|Nesreen K. Ahmed
Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2024, Merida, Mexico, March 4-8, 2024

2022

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Federated Dynamic Graph Neural Networks with Secure Aggregation for Video-based Distributed Surveillance.
Meng Jiang|Taeho Jung|Ryan Karl|Tong Zhao
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) 2022 Volume 13 Issue 4

2021

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A Unified View on Graph Neural Networks as Graph Signal Denoising.
Yao Ma|Xiaorui Liu|Tong Zhao|Yozen Liu|Jiliang Tang|Neil Shah
CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Queensland, Australia, November 1 - 5, 2021
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Action Sequence Augmentation for Early Graph-based Anomaly Detection.
Tong Zhao|Bo Ni|Wenhao Yu|Zhichun Guo|Neil Shah|Meng Jiang
CIKM '21: The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Queensland, Australia, November 1 - 5, 2021

2020

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Error-Bounded Graph Anomaly Loss for GNNs.
Tong Zhao|Chuchen Deng|Kaifeng Yu|Tianwen Jiang|Daheng Wang|Meng Jiang
CIKM '20: The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Virtual Event, Ireland, October 19-23, 2020
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Identifying Referential Intention with Heterogeneous Contexts.
Wenhao Yu|Mengxia Yu|Tong Zhao|Meng Jiang
WWW '20: The Web Conference 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, April 20-24, 2020