Zhendong Chu

Affiliations University of Virginia

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800 Bellevue Way NE

Bellevue, WA 98004

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news

Jan 15, 2016 A simple inline announcement with Markdown emoji! :sparkles: :smile:
Nov 07, 2015 A long announcement with details
Oct 22, 2015 A simple inline announcement.

latest posts

Mar 26, 2025 a post with plotly.js
Dec 04, 2024 a post with image galleries
May 14, 2024 Google Gemini updates: Flash 1.5, Gemma 2 and Project Astra

selected publications

  1. Learning from crowds by modeling common confusions
    Zhendong Chu, Jing Ma, and Hongning Wang
    In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021
  2. Meta-reinforcement learning via exploratory task clustering
    Zhendong Chu, Renqin Cai, and Hongning Wang
    In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024
  3. Multi-objective intrinsic reward learning for conversational recommender systems
    Zhendong Chu, Nan Wang, and Hongning Wang
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023
  4. Meta policy learning for cold-start conversational recommendation
    Zhendong Chu, Hongning Wang, Yun Xiao, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2023