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Yanbang Wang

6 accepted papers

2026

Negative Sampling From the Ground Up: A Redesign for Graph-based Recommendations

ICML 2026poster

Negative sampling is an important yet challenging component in self-supervised graph representation learning, particularly for recommendation systems where user-item interactions are modeled as bipartite graphs. Existing methods often rely on heuristics or human-specified principles to design negati…

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2024

Microstructures and Accuracy of Graph Recall by Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Graphs data is crucial for many applications, and much of it exists in the relations described in textual format. As a result, being able to accurately recall and encode a graph described in earlier text is a basic yet pivotal ability that LLMs need to demonstrate if they are to perform reasoning ta…

2023

On the Relationship Between Relevance and Conflict in Online Social Link Recommendations

NeurIPS 2023poster

In an online social network, link recommendations are a way for users to discover relevant links to people they may know, thereby potentially increasing their engagement on the platform. However, the addition of links to a social network can also have an effect on the level of conflict in the networ…

2021

Inductive Representation Learning in Temporal Networks via Causal Anonymous Walks

ICLR 2021poster

Temporal networks serve as abstractions of many real-world dynamic systems. These networks typically evolve according to certain laws, such as the law of triadic closure, which is universal in social networks. Inductive representation learning of temporal networks should be able to capture such laws…

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2020

Distance Encoding: Design Provably More Powerful Neural Networks for Graph Representation Learning

NeurIPS 2020poster

Learning representations of sets of nodes in a graph is crucial for applications ranging from node-role discovery to link prediction and molecule classification. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in graph representation learning. However, expressive power of GNNs is limited by…