News


26 Sep 2024
One full paper is accepted by NeurIPS'24 on alignment.

20 Sep 2024
One full paper is accepted by EMNLP'24 on agent.

02 Feb 2024
One full paper is accepted by WWW'24 on recommendation.

30 Nov 2023
Two full papers are accepted by ICDE'24 on recommendation and Graph.

22 Sep 2023
One full paper is accepted by NeurIPS'23 on Contrastive Learning.

20 April 2023
One full paper is accepted by IJCAI'23 on invariant learning for unbiased recsys.

26 Jan 2023
Two full papers are accepted by WWW'23 on recsys.

08 Aug 2021
One full paper is accepted by CIKM'21 on knowledge graph.

Junkang Wu 

PhD student

Lab of Data Science
University of Science and Technology of China

443 Huangshan Road, Hefei, China 230027

Advisor: Prof. Xiang Wang
Email: jkwu0909 AT mail.ustc.edu.cn
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I am currently in the 4th year of my PhD program at USTC Lab for Data Science, supervised by Prof. Xiang Wang and Prof. Xiangnan He. My research interests includes llm alignment and robust optimization, particularly in direct preference optimization (DPO).

Education

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
PhD Candidate in Cyberspace Security                   2021.09 - 2026.06 (Expected)
Advisor: Prof. Xiang Wang and Prof. Xiangnan He
Zhejiang University of Technology (ZJUT)
Bachelor in School of Computer Sciences      2017.09 - 2021.06
Advisor: Prof. Jianping Mei

Preprints



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$\alpha$-DPO: Adaptive Reward Margin is What Direct Preference Optimization Needs
Junkang Wu, Xue Wang, Zhengyi Yang, Jiancan Wu, Jinyang Gao, Bolin Ding, Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He
arxiv 2024       [PDF] [Codes]

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Towards Robust Alignment of Language Models: Distributionally Robustifying Direct Preference Optimization
Junkang Wu, Yuexiang Xie, Zhengyi Yang, Jiancan Wu, Jiawei Chen, Jinyang Gao, Bolin Ding, Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He
arxiv 2024       [PDF] [Codes]

Publications



In the Year of 2024:


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$\beta$-DPO: Direct Preference Optimization with Dynamic $\beta$
Junkang Wu, Yuexiang Xie, Zhengyi Yang, Jiancan Wu, Jinyang Gao, Bolin Ding, Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He
NeurIPS 2024       [PDF] [Codes]

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Direct Multi-Turn Preference Optimization for Language Agents
Wentao Shi, Mengqi Yuan, Junkang Wu, Qifan Wang, Fuli Feng
EMNLP 2024       [PDF]

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Lower-Left Partial AUC: An Effective and Efficient Optimization Metric for Recommendation
Wentao Shi, Wang Chenxu, Fuli Feng, Yang Zhang, Wenjie Wang, Junkang Wu, Xiangnan He
WWW 2024    (Full, Accept rate: 20.2%)    [PDF] [Codes]

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BSL: Understanding and Improving Softmax Loss for Recommendation
Junkang Wu, Jiawei Chen, Jiancan Wu, Wentao Shi, Jizhi Zhang, Xiang Wang
ICDE 2024    (Full)    [PDF] [Codes]

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Masked Graph Modeling with Multi-View Contrast
Yanchen Luo, Sihang Li, Yongduo Sui, Junkang Wu, Jiancan Wu, Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He
ICDE 2024    (Full)   

In the Year of 2023:


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Understanding Contrastive Learning via Distributionally Robust Optimization
Junkang Wu, Jiawei Chen, Jiancan Wu, Wentao Shi, Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He
NeurIPS 2023    (Full, Accept rate: 26.1%)    [PDF] [Codes] [Slides] [知乎]

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Adap-$\tau$: Adaptively Modulating Embedding Magnitude for Recommendation
Jiawei Chen*, Junkang Wu*, Jiancan Wu, Sheng Zhou, Xuezhi Cao, Xiangnan He
WWW 2023    (Full, Accept rate: 19.2%)    [PDF] [Codes] [Slides] [知乎]   * Co-first author

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On the Theories Behind Hard Negative Sampling for Recommendation
Wentao Shi, Jiawei Chen, Fuli Feng, Jizhi Zhang, Junkang Wu, Chongming Gao, Xiangnan He
WWW 2023    (Full, Accept rate: 19.2%)    [PDF] [Codes] [Slides]

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Discriminative-Invariant Representation Learning for Unbiased Recommendation
Hang Pan, Jiawei Chen, Fuli Feng, Wentao Shi, Junkang Wu, Xiangnan He
IJCAI 2023    (Full, Accept Rate: 15.0%)    [PDF] [Codes]

In the Year of 2021:


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DisenKGAT: Knowledge Graph Embedding with Disentangled Graph Attention Network
Junkang Wu, Wentao Shi, Xuezhi Cao, Jiawei Chen, Wenqiang Lei, Fuzheng Zhang, Wei Wu, Xiangnan He
CIKM 2021    (Full, Accept rate: 21.3%)    [PDF] [Codes] [Slides] [知乎]

Experiences

Research Intern, Alibaba DAMO Academy, Hangzhou, Oct 2023 - Now
Mentor: Yuexiang Xie
Research Intern, Meituan NLP Group, Beijing, Aug 2020 - Aug 2021
Mentor: Xuezhi Cao

Honors

National Scholarship, 2021.12
- University of Science and Technology of China
Outstanding graduates, 2021.06
- Zhejiang Province
National Scholarship, 2019.12
- Zhejiang University of Technology

Webpage template borrows from Xiangnan He.