Presently, Yanhua leads the RankGPT project at Xiaohongshu, powering ads and recommendations via MLLMs. Previously, Yanhua served as the tech lead of Xiaohongshu’s feed ads model team (from Apr 2022 to Mar 2023), senior ML engineer working on the ranking module of Xiaohongshu’s Explore Feed (from Oct 2019 to Mar 2022), and senior computer vision engineer in Baidu MEG (from Dec 2017 to Oct 2019).
Publications
Learning Harmonized Representations for Speculative Sampling
Lefan Zhang, Xiaodan Wang, Yanhua Huang, Ruiwen Xu
arXiv:2408.15766 [Paper]
AlignRec: Aligning and Training in Multimodal Recommendations
Yifan Liu*, Kangning Zhang*, Xiangyuan Ren, Yanhua Huang, Jiarui Jin, Yingjie Qin, Ruilong Su, Ruiwen Xu, Yong Yu, Weinan Zhang
CIKM 2024 [Paper]
Neural Statistics for Click-Through Rate Prediction
Yanhua Huang*, Hangyu Wang*, Yiyun Miao, Ruiwen Xu, Lei Zhang, Weinan Zhang
SIGIR 2022 [Paper]
Efficient Reinforcement Learning Development with RLzoo
Zihan Ding, Tianyang Yu, Hongming Zhang, Yanhua Huang, Guo Li, Quancheng Guo, Luo Mai, Hao Dong
ACM Multimedia 2021 Open Source Competition [Paper]
Sliding Spectrum Decomposition for Diversified Recommendation
Yanhua Huang, Weikun Wang, Lei Zhang, Ruiwen Xu
KDD 2021 [Paper]
Deep Reinforcement Learning: Fundamentals, Research, and Applications
Hao Dong, Zihan Ding, Shanghang Zhang, Hang Yuan, Hongming Zhang, Jingqing Zhang, Yanhua Huang, Tianyang Yu, Huaqing Zhang, Ruitong Huang
Springer Nature 2020 [Homepage]
Posts
- A Puzzle about Random Connection
- Trust Region
- Coding Methods in Text Compression
- Notes on the Theory of Machine Learning
Open Source Contributions
Academic services
PC Member of WWW 2022, Reviewer of WWW 2023, KDD 2025, and ICLR 2025.