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About me
I am currently a second-year Ph.D. student doing research at Information Retrievel Laboratory, Dalian University of Technology.
Research Interests
My research interests include:
  • Recommender Systems: sequential recommendation, user behavior modeling
  • Large Language Models: user/item content representation learning
  • Cognitive Science: understand LLMs and user behavior patterns from cognitive perspectives
Updates
> [2025-10-03] Our work was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing.
> [2025-09-25] My paper was nominated for the 'best paper award' at RecSys 2025! [all best paper candidates]
> [2025-07-04] My paper was accepted by RecSys 2025! I was also invited to give a spotlight oral presentation at the conference!
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Publications
> RecSys 2025IP2: Entity-Guided Interest Probing for Personalized News Recommendation. Youlin Wu, Yuanyuan Sun, Xiaokun Zhang, Haoxi Zhan, Bo Xu, Liang Yang, Hongfei Lin. Best paper candidate. [source code] [pdf] [details]
> CogSci 2025Clicking, Fast and Slow: Towards Intuitive and Analytical Behaviors Modeling for Recommender Systems. Youlin Wu, Haoxi Zhan, Yuanyuan Sun, Haohao Zhu, Bo Xu, Liang Yang, Hongfei Lin. [pdf] [details]
> ICCBR 2025Case-Based Reasoning in Generative Agents: Review and Prospect. Haoxi Zhan, Youlin Wu, Jian Ding, Bo Xu, Liang Yang, Hongfei Lin. [details]
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Awards
> Outstanding Ph.D. Student Scholarship, Dalian University of Technology, 2025.
> Weichai Power Scholarship, Weichai Power Co., Ltd. 2024.
> 2nd prize in "The First Social Group Intelligence Algorithm Competition" Track 2, 2023. [link]
> National Scholarship for graduate students, Ministry of Education, 2023.
> National Scholarship for undergraduate students, Ministry of Education, 2021.
Contact
You can contact me via Email: .
External links
My complete publication records are available on Google Scholar or Semantic Scholar. Follow me on ResearchGate!