Welcome.

I am Yaowen Ye (Elwin, or 叶耀文), a junior student majoring in Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong, supervised by Dr. Chao Huang. I have been deeply intrigued by machine intelligence and AI alignment research and will devote myself to these fantastic fields in my future career. Currently, I am working with Dr. Yixin Zhu at PKU CoRe Lab at Peking University, focusing on topics in cognitive reasoning and intuitive physics.

Links:  [📮Email]  [📑Curriculum Vitae]  [🌟Give me feedback!]

Research Interests

• 🎈 I’m interested in:
  • 🫂 AI alignment: How to ensure that current and future AI systems follow human values and interests? How can human-AI collaboration augment and scale up human supervision so that future models with even larger scale can be efficiently and effectively aligned?
  • 🧠 Cognitive reasoning: How can human intuition in domains like intuitive physics be better explained with methods in AI? How can theories in cognitive science like abductive reasoning inspire the understanding and design of AI?
  • ❄️ Learning on graphs: How can we better model graph data for pragmatic applications like recommender systems? How can we ensure these models are designed impartially and responsibly for real-world deployment?
• 🧺 Miscellaneous:
  • ✨ I’m a co-founder of HKU AI4Good Association, a student group focused on AI safety, alignment, and undergrad AI research.
  • 🤖️ I’m previously a co-leader of HKU Astar, a team that builds cool robots for the RoboMaster-AI competition.
  • 🎵 I love classical music, film music, harmony theory, and impromptu piano.
  • 📸 I love photography & cinematography.
  • 💬 Ask me anything! If you have the same interests as me, let’s be friends!
  • 🪄 My MBTI: INFJ.

Publications

2023

Graph Masked Autoencoder for Sequential Recommendation.
     The 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'23)
     Yaowen Ye, Chao Huang and Lianghao Xia. [pdf] [GitHub]

Masked Graph Transformer for Recommendation.
     The 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'23)
     Chaoliu Li, Chao Huang, Lianghao Xia, Xubin Ren, Yaowen Ye and Yong Xu. [pdf] [GitHub]

Friends

• Henoru
• Another Henoru
• Yitao Liu (🌊God)
• Xuheng Cai
• Futrime
• Entong He