Weixin Chen

Email: me@weixinchen.com

Since September 2025, I have been a Visiting Ph.D. Student at Rutgers University, working with Prof. Yongfeng Zhang. I am pursuing my Ph.D. at Hong Kong Baptist University under the supervision of Prof. Li Chen. Before that, I earned my B.Eng. degree from Shenzhen University in 2020, advised by Prof. Weike Pan.

My current research focuses on agentic and trustworthy recommender systems.

Weixin Chen

Recent News

[2026.01]
Paper on controllable fairness got accepted by WWW 2026 HCRS Workshop as an Oral presentation.
[2026.01]
New preprint on collaborative memory-augmented agentic recommendation is available on arXiv.
[2026.01]
Paper on fairness-aware cross-domain recommendation got accepted by WWW 2026 as co-first author. Congrats to Yuhan!
[2025.09]
Attend RecSys 2025 and present our research work @ Prague. Check our presentation: [Paper] and [Video].
[2025.09]
Happy to join in Rutgers WISE Lab as a visiting student researcher!
[2025.07]
Paper on fairness-aware cross-domain recommendation got accepted by RecSys 2025, as a Spotlight Oral presentation.
[2025.06]
Paper on fairness-aware multimodal recommendation got accepted by TOIS 2025.
[2025.03]
Paper on investigating fairness over different attributes got accepted by TORS 2025.
[2022.09]
Present our research work @ RecSys 2022 remotely. Check our presentation: [Paper] and [Video].
[2022.09]
Start my PhD journey @ HKBU CS.
[2022.06]
Paper on multi-bevhaior sequential recommendation got accepted by RecSys 2022, as an Oral presentation.

Selected Publications

(* indicates equal contributions)

All topics
Total citations: --
MemRec Model
2026
MemRec: Collaborative Memory-Augmented Agentic Recommender System
W. Chen, Y. Zhao, J. Huang, Z. Ye, C. M. Ju, T. Zhao, N. Shah, L. Chen, Y. Zhang.
arXiv 2026 PDF Code Demo BibTeX
@article{chen2026memrec,
  title   = {MemRec: Collaborative Memory-Augmented Agentic Recommender System},
  author  = {Chen, Weixin and Zhao, Yuhan and Huang, Jingyuan and Ye, Zihe and Ju, Clark Mingxuan and Zhao, Tong and Shah, Neil and Chen, Li and Zhang, Yongfeng},
  year    = 2026,
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.08816},
  url     = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08816}
}
CDFA Model
WWW
2026
The Double-Edged Sword of Knowledge Transfer: Diagnosing and Curing Fairness Pathologies in Cross-Domain Recommendation
Y. Zhao*, W. Chen*, L. Chen, W. Pan.
WWW 2026 PDF Code BibTeX
@inproceedings{zhao2026double,
  title     = {The Double-Edged Sword of Knowledge Transfer: Diagnosing and Curing Fairness Pathologies in Cross-Domain Recommendation},
  author    = {Zhao, Yuhan and Chen, Weixin and Chen, Li and Pan, Weike},
  year      = 2026,
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026 (WWW '26)}
}
Cofair Model
HCRS@WWW
2026
Post-Training Fairness Control: A Single-Train Framework for Dynamic Fairness in Recommendation
W. Chen, L. Chen, Y. Zhao.
WWW 2026 HCRS Workshop Oral PDF Code BibTeX
@inproceedings{chen2026posttraining,
  title     = {Post-Training Fairness Control: A Single-Train Framework for Dynamic Fairness in Recommendation},
  author    = {Chen, Weixin and Chen, Li and Zhao, Yuhan},
  year      = 2026,
  booktitle = {Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference}
}
VUG Model
RecSys
2025
Leave No One Behind: Fairness-Aware Cross-Domain Recommender Systems for Non-Overlapping Users
W. Chen*, Y. Zhao*, L. Chen, W. Pan.
RecSys 2025 Spotlight Oral PDF Code Slides Poster Video BibTeX
@inproceedings{chen2025leave,
  title     = {Leave No One Behind: Fairness-Aware Cross-Domain Recommender Systems for Non-Overlapping Users},
  author    = {Chen, Weixin and Zhao, Yuhan and Chen, Li and Pan, Weike},
  year      = 2025,
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys'25)},
  pages     = {226--236}
}
FMMRec Model
TOIS
2025
Causality-Inspired Fair Representation Learning for Multimodal Recommendation
W. Chen, L. Chen, Y. Ni, Y. Zhao.
TOIS 2025 PDF Code BibTeX
@article{chen2025causality,
  title     = {Causality-Inspired Fair Representation Learning for Multimodal Recommendation},
  author    = {Chen, Weixin and Chen, Li and Ni, Yongxin and Zhao, Yuhan},
  year      = 2025,
  journal   = {ACM Transactions on Information Systems},
  volume    = {43},
  number    = {6},
  articleno = {153},
  numpages  = {29}
}
OtPr Fairness Model
TORS
2025
Investigating User-Side Fairness in Outcome and Process for Multi-Type Sensitive Attributes in Recommendations
W. Chen, Y. Zhao, L. Chen.
TORS 2025 PDF Code BibTeX
@article{chen2025investigating,
  title     = {Investigating User-side fairness in outcome and process for multi-type sensitive attributes in recommendations},
  author    = {Chen, Weixin and Chen, Li and Zhao, Yuhan},
  year      = 2025,
  journal   = {ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems},
  volume    = {4},
  number    = {2},
  articleno = {25},
  numpages  = {29}
}
GPG4HSR Model
RecSys
2022
Global and Personalized Graphs for Heterogeneous Sequential Recommendation by Learning Behavior Transitions and User Intentions
W. Chen, M. He, Y. Ni, W. Pan, Z. Ming, L. Chen.
RecSys 2022 Oral PDF Code Video BibTeX
@inproceedings{chen2022global,
  title     = {Global and personalized graphs for heterogeneous sequential recommendation by learning behavior transitions and user intentions},
  author    = {Chen, Weixin and He, Mingkai and Ni, Yongxin and Pan, Weike and Chen, Li and Ming, Zhong},
  year      = 2022,
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys'22)},
  pages     = {268--277}
}
MRL Model
TIST
2026
Matryoshka Representation Learning for Recommendation with Layer- and Hardness-Adaptive Negative Sampling
R. Lai, L. Chen, W. Chen, R. Chen.
TIST 2026 PDF Code BibTeX
@article{lai2026matryoshka,
  title   = {Matryoshka Representation Learning for Recommendation with Layer- and Hardness-Adaptive Negative Sampling},
  author  = {Lai, Riwei and Chen, Li and Chen, Weixin and Chen, Rui},
  year    = 2026,
  journal = {ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology},
}

Research Experience

Education

Honors & Awards

Scholarships & Academic Honors

Teaching

(Teaching Assistant)

Academic Service

Contact Me

Feel free to leave me a message! All messages are private and confidential — only I can see them. 🔒

0 / 1000 characters