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Julian McAuley

Associate Professor

Room 4102 Computer Science Department @ UCSD

New: Amazon 2018 dataset

We've put together a new version of our Amazon data, including more reviews and additional metadata

New: Advice to Prospective Students

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New: Advice to Students Requesting Reference Letters

New: Repository of Recommender Systems Datasets

A collection of datasets for recommender systems research is now available on our lab's dataset webpage

News

9/2020: Paper with Chunshu, Canwen, Tao, Ke, and Furu accepted to Neurips 2020

9/2020: I will be program co-chair (with Joe Konstan) of RecSys 2021

9/2020: Papers with Bodhi, Harsh, Taylor, Shuyang, Jianmo, Chun-Nan, and Amilcare accepted to EMNLP 2020

7/2020: Article about recipes w/ Shuyang published in Harvard Data Science Review (pdf)

7/2020: Paper w/ Henry, Shuyang, and Gary accepted to Interspeech 2020

7/2020: Selected for funding by Facebook Research

7/2020: Paper with Herman, Ke, and Taylor accepted to ISMIR 2020

6/2020: Paper with Adrian, Beth, and Leo accepted to ICER 2020

4/2020: Paper with Noveen accepted to SIGIR 2020

4/2020: Some media about our recipe generation paper: Science Node

1/2020: Paper with Mehrab, Congzhe, Ethan, Diane, and Liangjie accepted to WWW 2020

12/2019: I will run the SoCal Machine Learning Symposium with Jingbo and Hao

12/2019: Paper w/ Hengrui accepted to SDM 2020

12/2019: Some media about our recipe generation paper: UCSD News

10/2019: Two papers w/ Mengting, Jianmo, Rishabh, Jiacheng, and Yujie accepted to WSDM 2020

Acknowledgements

My lab is currently supported by an NSF CAREER Award (#1750063). My lab is also supported by generous gifts from Facebook, Qualcomm, Intuit, Adobe, Samsung, Flipkart, Amazon, Symantec, and Nvidia.

Publications

2020

BERT loses patience: Fast and robust inference with early exit
Wangchunshu Zhou, Canwen Xu, Tao Ge, Julian McAuley, Ke Xu, Furu Wei
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
reviews | bibtex

Like hiking? You probably enjoy nature: Persona-grounded dialog with commonsense expansions
Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Harsh Jhamtani, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Julian McAuley
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
reviews | bibtex

Interview: Large-scale modeling of media dialog with discourse patterns and knowledge grounding
Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Shuyang Li, Jianmo Ni, Julian McAuley
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
reviews | bibtex

Learning visual-semantic embeddings for reporting abnormal findings on chest X-rays
Jianmo Ni, Chun-Nan Hsu, Amilcare Gentili, Julian McAuley
Findings of EMNLP
reviews | bibtex

Speech recognition and multi-speaker diarization of long conversations
Henry Mao, Shuyang Li, Julian McAuley, Garrison Cottrell
Interspeech
pdf | reviews | bibtex

MusPy: A toolkit for symbolic music generation
Hao-Wen Dong, Ke Chen, Julian McAuley, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick
International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (Python)

A longitudinal evaluation of a best-practices CS1
Adrian Salguero, Julian McAuley, Beth Simon and Leo Porter
International Computing Education Research Conference (ICER)
pdf | reviews | bibtex

How useful are reviews for recommendation? A critical review and potential improvements
Noveen Sachdeva, Julian McAuley
SIGIR
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (Python)

Attentive sequential models of latent intent for next item recommendation
Mehrab Tanjim, Congzhe Su, Ethan Benjamin, Diane Hu, Liangjie Hong, Julian McAuley
World Wide Web (WWW)
pdf | reviews | bibtex

Addressing marketing bias in product recommendations
Mengting Wan, Jianmo Ni, Rishabh Misra, Julian McAuley
Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (Python)

Time interval aware self-attention for sequential recommendation
Jiacheng Li, Yujie Wang, Julian McAuley
Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (Python)

Stacked mixed-order graph convolutional networks for collaborative filtering
Hengrui Zhang, Julian McAuley
SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM)
pdf | reviews | bibtex

The performance of an artificial neural network model in predicting the early distribution kinetics of propofol in morbidly obese and lean subjects
Jerry Ingrande, Rodney Gabriel, Julian McAuley, Karolina Krasinska, Allis Chien, Hendrikus Lemmens
Anesthesia and Analgesia
pdf | reviews | bibtex

2019

Justifying recommendations using distantly-labeled reviews and fined-grained aspects
Jianmo Ni, Jiacheng Li, Julian McAuley
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (PyTorch)

Scalable and accurate dialogue state tracking via hierarchical sequence generation
Liliang Ren, Jianmo Ni, Julian McAuley
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (Python)

Generating personalized recipes from historical user preferences
Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Shuyang Li, Jianmo Ni, Julian McAuley
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (Python)

Improving neural story generation by targeted common sense grounding
Henry Mao, Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Julian McAuley, Garrison Cottrell
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (Python)

Candidate generation with binary codes for large-scale Top-N recommendation
Wang-Cheng Kang, Julian McAuley
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (Python)

2D Convolutional neural networks for sequential recommendation
An Yan, Shuo Cheng, Wang-Cheng Kang, Mengting Wan, Julian McAuley
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (Python)

Expediting TTS synthesis with adversarial vocoding
Paarth Neekhara, Chris Donahue, Miller Puckette, Shlomo Dubnov, Julian McAuley
Interspeech
pdf | reviews | bibtex

Universal adversarial perturbations for speech recognition systems
Paarth Neekhara, Shehzeen Hussain, Prakhar Pandey, Shlomo Dubnov, Julian McAuley, Farinaz Koushanfar
Interspeech
pdf | reviews | bibtex

Embryo staging with weakly-supervised region selection and dynamically-decoded predictions
Tingfung Lau, Nathan Ng, Julian Gingold, Nina Desai, Julian McAuley, Zachary Lipton
Machine Learning for Health Care (MLHC)
pdf | reviews | bibtex

Improving multi-instrumental music generation with cross-domain pre-training
Chris Donahue, Henry Mao, Yiting Li, Garrison Cottrell, Julian McAuley
International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)
pdf | reviews | bibtex

Fine-grained spoiler detection from large-scale review corpora
Mengting Wan, Rishabh Misra, Ndapa Nakashole, Julian McAuley
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | data

Complete the Look: Scene-based complementary product recommendation
Wang-Cheng Kang, Eric Kim, Jure Leskovec, Charles Rosenberg, Julian McAuley
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | data

Learning to attend on essential terms: An enhanced retriever-reader model for open-domain question answering
Jianmo Ni, Chenguang Zhu, Weizhu Chen and Julian McAuley
Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (Python)

Modeling heart rate and activity data for personalized fitness recommendation
Jianmo Ni, Larry Muhlstein, Julian McAuley
World Wide Web (WWW)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (Python) | data

Adversarial audio synthesis
Chris Donahue, Julian McAuley, Miller Puckette
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
pdf | reviews | bibtex

Generating visually-aware item recommendations using a personalized preference ranking network
Chen Fang, Zhaowen Wang, Wang-Cheng Kang, Julian McAuley
U.S. Patent Application 15/897,822
pdf

Generating user-customized items using a visually-aware image generation network
Chen Fang, Zhaowen Wang, Wang-Cheng Kang, Julian McAuley
U.S. Patent Application 15/897,856
pdf

2018

Does mitigating ML's impact disparity require treatment disparity?
Zachary Lipton, Alexandra Chouldechova, Julian McAuley
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code

Self-attentive sequential recommendation
Wang-Cheng Kang, Julian McAuley
International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (Python)

Representing and recommending shopping baskets with complementarity, compatibility, and loyalty
Mengting Wan, Di Wang, Jie Liu, Paul Bennett, Julian McAuley
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
pdf | reviews | bibtex

Recommendation through mixtures of heterogeneous item relationships
Wang-Cheng Kang, Mengting Wan, Julian McAuley
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (Python)

Translation-based factorization machines for sequential recommendation
Rajiv Pasricha, Julian McAuley
RecSys
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (Python)

Item recommendation on monotonic behavior chains
Mengting Wan, Julian McAuley
RecSys
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (Python) | data

Learning consumer and producer embeddings for user-generated content recommendation
Wang-Cheng Kang, Julian McAuley
RecSys
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (Python)

Learning within-session budgets from browsing trajectories
Diane Hu, Raphael Louca, Liangjie Hong, Julian McAuley
RecSys
pdf | reviews | bibtex

Decomposing fit semantics for product size recommendation in metric spaces
Rishabh Misra, Mengting Wan, Julian McAuley
RecSys
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (Python) | data

The NES Music Database: A symbolic music dataset with expressive performance attributes
Chris Donahue, Henry Mao, Julian McAuley
International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (Python) | data

Translation-based recommendation: A scalable method for modeling sequential behavior
Ruining He, Wang-Cheng Kang, Julian McAuley
IJCAI Sister Conference (Best Paper Track)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++) | data

Personalized review generation by expanding phrases and attending on aspect-aware representations
Jianmo Ni, Julian McAuley
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
pdf | reviews | bibtex

Semantically decomposing the latent spaces of Generative Adversarial Networks
Chris Donahue, Zachary Lipton, Akshay Balsubramani, Julian McAuley
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (Python) | data

One-class recommendation with asymmetric textual feedback
Mengting Wan, Julian McAuley
SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM)
pdf | reviews | bibtex

Transferrable semi-automated semantic metadata normalization using an intermediate representation
Jason Koh, Bharathan Balaji, Dhiman Sengupta, Julian McAuley, Rajesh Gupta, Yuvraj Agarwal
BuildSys
pdf | reviews | bibtex

Identifying and characterizing highly similar notes in big clinical note datasets
Rodney Gabriel, Tsung-Ting Kuo, Julian McAuley, Chun-Nan Hsu
Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI)
pdf | reviews | bibtex

2017

Predicting surgery duration with neural heteroscedastic regression
Nathan Ng, Rodney Gabriel, Julian McAuley, Charles Elkan, Zachary Lipton
Machine Learning for Health Care (MLHC)
pdf | reviews | bibtex

Visually-aware fashion recommendation and design with generative image models
Wang-Cheng Kang, Chen Fang, Zhaowen Wang, Julian McAuley
International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (Python) | data

Estimating reactions and recommending products with generative models of reviews
Jianmo Ni, Zachary Lipton, Sharad Vikram, Julian McAuley
International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)
pdf | reviews | bibtex

Dance Dance Convolution
Chris Donahue, Zachary Lipton, Julian McAuley
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (Python) | data

SPMC: Socially-aware personalized Markov chains for sparse sequential recommendation
Chenwei Cai, Ruining He, Julian McAuley
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++)

Dynamic programming bipartite belief propagation for hyper graph matching
Zhen Zhang, Julian McAuley, Yong Li, Wei Wei, Yanning Zhang, Javen Shi
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
pdf | reviews | bibtex

Improving recommendation accuracy using networks of substitutable and complementary products
Tong Zhao, Julian McAuley, Mengya Li, Irwin King
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
pdf | reviews | bibtex

Generating and personalizing bundle recommendations on Steam
Apurva Pathak, Kshitiz Gupta, Julian McAuley
SIGIR
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (Python) | data

Modeling consumer preferences and price sensitivities from large-scale grocery shopping transaction logs
Mengting Wan, Di Wang, Matt Goldman, Matt Taddy, Justin Rao, Jie Liu, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Julian McAuley
World Wide Web (WWW)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (Python)

Bartering books to beers: A recommender system for exchange platforms
Jérémie Rappaz, Maria-Luiza Vladarean, Julian McAuley, Michele Catasta
Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (Matlab) | data

Solving constrained combinatorial optimization problems via MAP inference without high-order penalties
Zhen Zhang, Javen Shi, Julian McAuley, Wei Wei, Yanning Zhang, Rui Yao, Anton van den Hengel
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
pdf | reviews | bibtex

2016

Modeling ambiguity, subjectivity, and diverging viewpoints in opinion question answering systems
Mengting Wan, Julian McAuley
International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | data

Learning compatibility across categories for heterogeneous item recommendation
Ruining He, Charles Packer, Julian McAuley
International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++) | data

Fusing similarity models with Markov chains for sparse sequential recommendation
Ruining He, Julian McAuley
International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++)

Vista: A visually, socially, and temporally-aware model for artistic recommendation
Ruining He, Chen Fang, Zhaowen Wang, Julian McAuley
RecSys
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++) | data

Addressing complex and subjective product-related queries with customer reviews
Julian McAuley, Alex Yang
World Wide Web (WWW)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++) | data

Ups and downs: Modeling the visual evolution of fashion trends with one-class collaborative filtering
Ruining He, Julian McAuley
World Wide Web (WWW)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++) | data

VBPR: Visual bayesian personalized ranking from implicit feedback
Ruining He, Julian McAuley
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++) | data

Pairwise matching through max-weight bipartite belief propagation
Zhen Zhang, Javen Shi, Julian McAuley, Wei Wei, Yanning Zhang, Anton van den Hengel
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (Matlab)

Sparse hierarchical embeddings for visually-aware one-class collaborative filtering
Ruining He, Chunbin Lin, Jianguo Wang, Julian McAuley
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++) | data

2015

Learning visual clothing style with heterogeneous dyadic co-occurrences
Andreas Veit, Balazs Kovacs, Sean Bell, Julian McAuley, Kavita Bala, Serge Belongie
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
pdf | reviews | bibtex

Top-N recommendation with missing implicit feedback
Daryl Lim, Julian McAuley, Gert Lanckriet
RecSys
pdf | reviews | bibtex | poster

Improving latent factor models via personalized feature projection for one-class recommendation
Tong Zhao, Julian McAuley, Irwin King
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
pdf | reviews | bibtex

2014

Leveraging social connections to improve personalized ranking for collaborative filtering
Tong Zhao, Julian McAuley, Irwin King
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
pdf | reviews | bibtex

Finding progression stages in time-evolving event sequences
Jaewon Yang, Julian McAuley, Jure Leskovec, Paea LePendu, Nigam Shah
World Wide Web (WWW)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++) | data

Detecting cohesive and 2-mode communities in directed and undirected networks
Jaewon Yang, Julian McAuley, Jure Leskovec
Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++) | data

2013

Understanding the interplay between titles, content, and communities in social media
Himabindu Lakkaraju, Julian McAuley, Jure Leskovec
International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | data | slides

Community detection in networks with node attributes
Jaewon Yang, Julian McAuley, Jure Leskovec
International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++) | data

2012

Optimization of robust loss functions for weakly-labeled image taxonomies
Julian McAuley, Arnau Ramisa, Tiberio Caetano
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++) | questions

Fast matching of large point sets under occlusions
Julian McAuley, Tiberio Caetano
Pattern Recognition
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++) | data

2011

Optimization of robust loss functions for weakly-labeled image taxonomies: An ImageNet case study
Julian McAuley, Arnau Ramisa, Tiberio Caetano
Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++) | slides

Faster algorithms for max-product message-passing
Julian McAuley, Tiberio Caetano
Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++)

Fast inference with min-sum matrix product
Pedro Felzenszwalb, Julian McAuley
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++)

Unified graph matching in Euclidean spaces and applications to image comparison and retrieval
Julian McAuley, Teofilo de Campos
U.S. Patent 8,407,029
link

Consistent hierarchical labeling of images and image regions
Julian McAuley, Teofilo de Campos, Gabriela Csurka, Florent Perronnin
U.S. Patent 9,355,337
link

2010

Exploiting data-independence for fast belief-propagation
Julian McAuley, Tiberio Caetano
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++) | poster

Exploiting within-clique factorizations in junction-tree algorithms
Julian McAuley, Tiberio Caetano
Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++) | poster

Graphical models
Julian McAuley, Tiberio Caetano, Wray Buntine
Book chapter in Encyclopedia of Machine Learning (C. Sammut and G. Webb, editors)
link

2009

Exponential family graph matching and ranking
James Petterson, Tiberio Caetano, Julian McAuley, Jin Yu
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++) | poster

Hierarchical image-region labeling via structured learning
Julian McAuley, Teofilo de Campos, Gabriela Csurka, Florent Perronnin
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++) | poster

Shape classification through structured learning of matching measures
Longbin Chen, Julian McAuley, Rogerio Feris, Tiberio Caetano, Matthew Turk
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++) | poster

Learning graph matching
Tiberio Caetano, Julian McAuley, Li Cheng, Quoc Le, Alex Smola
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++) | data

Faster graphical models for point-pattern matching
Tiberio Caetano, Julian McAuley
Spatial Vision (by invitation)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++) | data

2008

Graph rigidity, cyclic belief propagation and point pattern matching
Julian McAuley, Tiberio Caetano, Marconi Barbosa
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++) | data

2007

The rich-club phenomenon across complex network hierarchies
Julian McAuley, Tiberio Caetano, Luciano da Fontoura Costa
Applied Physics Letters
pdf | reviews | bibtex | code (C++)

2006

CSE 258 fa19	(evaluations)
CSE 158 fa19	(evaluations)
MGT 495 fa19	(evaluations)
CSE 258 fa18	(evaluations)
CSE 158 fa18	(evaluations)
MGT 495 fa18	(evaluations)
CSE 258 fa17	(evaluations)
CSE 158 fa17	(evaluations)
CSE 291 fa17	(evaluations)
CSE 258 wi17	(evaluations)
CSE 158 wi17	(evaluations)
CSE 190 fa15	(evaluations)
CSE 255 fa15	(evaluations)
CSE 190 sp15	(evaluations)
CSE 255 wi15	(evaluations)

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Events

KDD 2020 Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs

UCSD, 2020 SoCal Machine Learning Symposium

KDD 2019 Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs

AAAI 2019 Workshop on Recommender Systems Meets NLP

KDD 2018 Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs

KDD 2018 Workshop on Machine Learning meets Fashion

ACM Hypertext 2018 Workshop on Opinion Mining, Summarization, and Diversification

KDD 2017 Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs

KDD 2017 Workshop on Machine Learning meets Fashion

IJCNLP 2017 Shared Task on Review Opinion Diversification

KDD 2016 Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs

Caltech, 2016 SoCal Machine Learning Symposium

UCSD, 2016 Workshop on Big Graphs: Theory and Practice

KDD 2013 Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs

CVPR 2011 Workshop on Inference in Graphical Models with Structured Potentials

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