Ren, Zhaochun

Neural Rating Regression with Abstractive Tips Generation for Recommendation

Li, P., Wang, Z., Ren, Z., Bing, L., & Lam, W. (2017) · Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Recommender Systems and TechniquesInformation Retrieval and Search Behavior

Cited by 313

Is ChatGPT Good at Search? Investigating Large Language Models as Re-Ranking Agents

Sun, W., Yan, L., Ma, X., Wang, S., Ren, P., Chen, Z., Yin, D., & Ren, Z. (2023) · arXiv

Information Retrieval and Search BehaviorTopic Modeling

Cited by 270

Is ChatGPT Good at Search? Investigating Large Language Models as Re-Ranking Agents

Sun, W., Yan, L., Ma, X., Wang, S., Ren, P., Chen, Z., Yin, D., & Ren, Z. (2023) · Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Information Retrieval and Search BehaviorTopic Modeling

Cited by 270

Order-free Medicine Combination Prediction with Graph Convolutional Reinforcement Learning

Wang, S., Ren, P., Chen, Z., Ren, Z., Ma, J., & de Rijke, M. (2019) · Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

Machine Learning in HealthcareComputational Drug Discovery Methods

Cited by 76

Membership Inference Attacks Against Recommender Systems

Zhang, M., Ren, Z., Wang, Z., Ren, P., Chen, Z., Hu, P., & Zhang, Y. (2021) · Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Privacy-Preserving Technologies in DataRecommender Systems and Techniques

Cited by 76

Contrastive Learning Reduces Hallucination in Conversations

Sun, W., Shi, Z., Gao, S., Ren, P., De Rijke, M., & Ren, Z. (2023) · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Speech and dialogue systemsTopic Modeling

Cited by 69

Learning to Tokenize for Generative Retrieval

Sun, W., Yan, L., Chen, Z., Wang, S., Zhu, H., Ren, P., Chen, Z., Yin, D., de Rijke, M., & Ren, Z. (2023) · arXiv

Information Retrieval and Search BehaviorTopic Modeling

Cited by 36

Tool Learning in the Wild: Empowering Language Models as Automatic Tool Agents

Shi, Z., Gao, S., Yan, L., Feng, Y., Chen, X., Chen, Z., Yin, D., Verberne, S., & Ren, Z. (2025) · Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025

Topic ModelingNatural Language Processing Techniques

Cited by 21

Generative Retrieval as Multi-Vector Dense Retrieval

Wu, S., Wei, W., Zhang, M., Chen, Z., Ma, J., Ren, Z., de Rijke, M., & Ren, P. (2024) · Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Advanced Image and Video Retrieval TechniquesInformation Retrieval and Search Behavior

Cited by 15

DeepShop: A Benchmark for Deep Research Shopping Agents

Lyu, Y., Zhang, X., Yan, L., de Rijke, M., Ren, Z., & Chen, X. (2025) · arXiv

Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and IdentificationDigital Marketing and Social Media

Cited by 9

Retrieval Models Aren't Tool-Savvy: Benchmarking Tool Retrieval for Large Language Models

Shi, Z., Wang, Y., Yan, L., Ren, P., Wang, S., Yin, D., & Ren, Z. (2025) · arXiv

Information Retrieval and Search BehaviorTopic Modeling

Cited by 7

A Comprehensive Survey of Self-Evolving AI Agents: A New Paradigm Bridging Foundation Models and Lifelong Agentic Systems

Fang, J., Peng, Y., Zhang, X., Wang, Y., Yi, X., Zhang, G., Xu, Y., Wu, B., Liu, S., Li, Z., et al. (2025) · arXiv

Evolutionary Algorithms and ApplicationsAI-based Problem Solving and Planning

Cited by 6

A Multi-Agent Conversational Recommender System

Fang, J., Gao, S., Ren, P., Chen, X., Verberne, S., & Ren, Z. (2024) · arXiv

Recommender Systems and TechniquesSpeech and dialogue systems

Cited by 5

Recent Advances in Generative Information Retrieval

Tang, Y., Zhang, R., Ren, Z., Guo, J., & de Rijke, M. (2024) · Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Information Retrieval and Search BehaviorTopic Modeling

Cited by 4

EvoScientist: Towards Multi-Agent Evolving AI Scientists for End-to-End Scientific Discovery

Lyu, Y., Zhang, X., Zhao, Y., Papakostas, K., Yi, X., Guo, S., Hu, W., Piotrowski, J., Kaliski, J., Urbani, J., et al. (2026) · arXiv

Artificial Intelligence ApplicationsEvolutionary Algorithms and Applications

Cited by 2

Recent Advances in Generative Information Retrieval

Tang, Y., Zhang, R., Ren, Z., Guo, J., & de Rijke, M. (2024) · Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Information Retrieval and Search BehaviorTopic Modeling

Cited by 2

KnowTuning: Knowledge-aware Fine-tuning for Large Language Models

Lyu, Y., Yan, L., Wang, S., Shi, H., Yin, D., Ren, P., Chen, Z., de Rijke, M., & Ren, Z. (2024) · arXiv

Topic ModelingNatural Language Processing Techniques

Cited by 1