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Wei (Will) Feng (冯伟)     

Software Engineer, PyTorch @ Meta

contact: fengwei824 at gmail dot com

Experience [LinkedIn] [Github]

• • 2023 --- now: PyTorch Distributed Training, Data Parallel, Float8, Low-Precision Dtypes, Software Engineer, Meta

  • 2019 --- 2023: Recommender System, Reels/Short Videos, Software Engineer, Meta

  • 2015 --- 2019: Recommender System, Data Science, Lead Researcher, Hulu

  • 2010 --- 2015: PhD, Recommender System, Tsinghua University, Advisor: Jianyong Wang

  • 2013 - 2014: Visiting Scholar, Computer Science, UIUC, Advisor: Jiawei Han

  • 2006 --- 2010: Bachelor, Department of software engineering, Beihang University, China. 

Technical blogs about recommender systems (in Chinese) [Zhihu]

Publications [Google Scholar]

• • X Xu, W Feng, Y Jiang, X Xie, Z Sun, ZH Deng, Dynamically pruned message passing networks for large-scale knowledge graph reasoning, ICLR 2020

  • X Xu, W Feng, Z Sun, ZH Deng, Neural Consciousness Flow, 2019

  • X Xu, S Zu, Y Zhang, H Zhou, W Feng, Backprop-Q: Generalized Backpropagation for Stochastic Computation Graphs, NIPS 2018 Deep Reinforcement Learning Workshop

  • X Xu, S Zu, C Gao, Y Zhang, W Feng, Modeling Attention Flow on Graphs, NIPS 2018 Relational Representation Learning Workshop

  • Wei Feng, Jiawei Han, Jianyong Wang, Charu Aggarwal, Jianbin Huang. StreamCube: Hierarchical Spatio-temporal Hashtag Clustering for Event Exploration over the Twitter Stream. ICDE 2015 (Full Paper)

  • Wei Feng, Jianyong Wang, Wei Zhang. We Can Learn Your #Hashtags: Connecting Tweets to Explicit Topics. ICDE 2014. [PDF] (Full Paper)

  • Wei Zhang, Jianyong Wang, Wei Feng. Combining Latent factor Model with Location Features for Event-based Group Recommendation. KDD 2013 (Full Paper)

  • Wei Zhang, Wei Feng, Jianyong Wang. Integrating Semantic Relatedness and Words’ Intrinsic Features for Keyword Extraction. IJCAI'13 (Full Paper)

• Wei Feng, Jianyong Wang. Learning to Annotate Tweets with Crowd Wisdom, WWW 2013. (Poster Paper)

• Wei Feng, Jianyong Wang. Retweet or not? Personalized Tweet Re-ranking, WSDM 2013. [PDF] (Full Paper).

• Wei Feng, Jianyong Wang. Incorporating Heterogeneous Information for Personalized Tag Recommendation in Social Tagging Systems, KDD 2012. [PDF] (Full Paper)

• Wei Feng, Jianyong Wang. HeterRank: Addressing Information Heterogeneity for Personalized Recommendation in Social Tagging Systems, WWW 2012. [PDF] (Poster Paper)