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            <title><![CDATA[Robustly Poly-Skilled]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On 25 June 2024, Lee Ween Jiann successfully defended his dissertation, titled “Incorporating Intrinsic Structures into Entity Matching and Representation Learning”. The work came...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Web Conference 2024 in Singapore]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <author>Hady Lauw</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[ThriftCity: Unleashing Data Science for Smarter Shopping]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With the dream of chasing the best deals, we introduce to you ThriftCity, where data and technology meet your retail therapy needs.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Good Things Come in Threes]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On 27 November 2023, Chia Chong Cher (that’s three C’s) successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Effective and Efficient Semantic Representations and Their Applications”. His...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[RecSys 2023 in Singapore]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In September 2023, Hieu had the pleasure of attending RecSys’23, the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, held in Singapore. The conference venue was...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[KDD 2023 in Long Beach, California]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In August 2023, Hady attended the 2023 ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, also known as KDD 2023. The conference...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Connecting The Dots]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On 12 May 2023, Zhang Ce successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “Document Graph Representation Learning”. The gist of it is to derive more holistic...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Web Conference 2023 in Austin, Texas]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In May 2023, Hady attended The Web Conference 2023 (previously the conference series was known as World Wide Web or WWW). The conference was...]]></description>
            <author>Hady Lauw</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Multi-Modal Recommender Systems: Towards Addressing Sparsity, Comparability, and Explainability]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hoang, Tuan, Aghiles, and Hady will be delivering a tutorial at the ACM Web Conference 2023 conference that will take place in May 2023...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Conferred With Wisdom at WSDM-23]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[WSDM (pronounced “wisdom”) is one of the premier conferences on web-inspired research involving search and data mining. The WSDM-23 conference took place in Singapore...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[EMNLP 2022 in Abu Dhabi]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Jia Peng attended the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, from 7 to...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[NeurIPS 2022 in New Orleans]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Zhang Ce attended the 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS-22), which took place 28 November through 9 December, 2022. After two-year virtual...]]></description>
            <author>Zhang Ce</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[KDD 2022 in Washington, D.C.]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In August 2022, Hady, Zhang Ce, and Thuat travelled to Washington D.C. to attend the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data...]]></description>
            <author>Nhu-Thuat Tran</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[All Good Recommendations Come with an Explanation]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On November 29, 2022, Hoang successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Mining Product Textual Data for Recommendation Explanations”. While we were then coming out of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Preferably Nonsentimental Defense of Sentiments and Preferences]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On 10 February 2022, Tuan Truong successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “Modeling Sentiments and Preferences from Multimodal Data”. In a sign of the times,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Multi-Modal Recommender Systems: Hands-On Exploration]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Tuan, Aghiles, and Hady will be delivering a tutorial at the RecSys-21 conference that will take place in September 2021. The slides and the...]]></description>
            <author>Hady Lauw</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fast and Accurate Personalized Recommendation with Indexing]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In a previous blog post, we introduce the problem of top-K recommendation retrieval using Matrix Factorization (MF). We also highlight the importance of indexing structures as a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Quest for Fast Personalized Recommendation]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Personalized recommender systems attempt to generate a limited number of item options (e.g., products on Amazon, movies on Netflix, or videos on Youtube, etc.)...]]></description>
            <author>Andrew Le</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Zooming in on TechFest 2020]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Join us for TechFest 2020 by Preferred.AI! Our theme this year is Zooming In. Inside an innovative app is a cool AI algorithm. On...]]></description>
            <author>Hady Lauw</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Neural Topic Modeling for Document Networks with Adjacent-Encoder]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Text documents are usually linked to one another. For example, academic papers cite other papers, web pages link to other pages, etc. Most of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Visual Sentiment Analysis: A Need for Context]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Previously, we gave our readers a glance at visual sentiment analysis in an earlier blog post. The goal of the task was seeking the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why maximum likelihood-based training may lead to the generation of unrealistic samples]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Generative models specify procedures allowing us to produce data samples, e.g., images, texts, user preferences, etc. These models are central to unsupervised learning, and...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Call for Interns 2020]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Preferred.AI is calling for internship applications from current students of SMU to work with us during the summer (May to July 2020) on a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Zen of Comparisons]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[During the teaching appointment at Montana State University, Robert M. Pirsig, the author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance“, conducted a following...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gaining Perspective]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On 11 September 2019, Andrew successfully passed the defense of his PhD dissertation, entitled “Preference Learning and Similarity Learning Perspectives on Personalized Recommendation”. He...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[IJCAI 2019 in Macau, China]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In August 2019, Andrew attended the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2019). He shares his learning and experience in this blog post....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[TechFest 2019]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Preferred.AI held a TechFest on Friday 23 August 2019, 3.30pm – 6.30pm to share the recent projects that we’re actively pursuing. Captivating talks based...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Context Matters: Why Aren't You Leveraging Items' Context to Boost Your Recommender Model?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Data sparsity is one of the biggest challenges in recommender systems. A promising solution to alleviate this problem is to rely on auxiliary sources...]]></description>
            <author>Aghiles Salah</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Web Conference 2019 in San Francisco]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In May 2019, Hady traveled to San Francisco for the Web Conference 2019 (previously the conference series was known as World Wide Web or...]]></description>
            <author>Hady Lauw</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Introduction to CSVPL]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Here in Preferred.AI, much of our work involves processing and manipulating data. We regularly find ourselves wanting to explore a given dataset quickly and...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Consequential Associations]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On 22 April 2019, Preferred.AI minted a new PhD. Trong Le passed the defense of his PhD dissertation, entitied “Modeling Sequential and Basket-Oriented Associations...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[KL Diversion]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In an attempt to build bridges, Preferred.AI crossed the bridge and conducted a data science meetup at Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia on 16 March...]]></description>
            <author>Hady Lauw</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Aloha, AAAI-2019]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In January 2019, four members of Preferred.AI travelled to the AAAI-19 conference held in Honolulu, Hawaii to present 2 papers and 1 tutorial. As...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Recent Advances in Scalable Retrieval of Personalized Recommendations]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[In Defense of Comparisons]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Look at That Facial Expression!]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Enrichment Course on Web Data Extraction and Regression Analysis]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Fired with an educational zeal, Preferred.AI conducted a 5-day (Oct 3-8 2018) enrichment course on Web Data Extraction and Regression Analysis, which was organized...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[In early August 2018, Aghiles attended the international conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), which took place in Monterey, California. Hereafter, he shares...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[In July 2018, Hady traveled to Stockholm, Sweden for the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Here, he recounts his experience from the...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Our appreciation to KDD.SG (Singapore Chapter of SIGKDD) and DSSG (DataScience Singapore) for jointly organizing and inviting us to deliver a public tutorial on...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[SDSC – DSSG Data Science Meetup (Videos)]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[We are grateful to SDSC (Singapore Data Science Consortium and DSSG (DataScience Singapore) for organizing the June 7 meetup, and to the hundred attendees...]]></description>
            <author>Hady Lauw</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[KDD.SG Tutorial on Image Classification Using CNN]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Using Data Mining to Enhance Consumers’ Online Shopping Experience]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In collaboration with SMU Office of Research and Tech Transfer, we produce a fun video that showcases Maksim‘s PhD research. Enjoy!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Visual Sentiment Analysis]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[“A picture is worth a thousand words.” So they say. Indeed, some images could capture certain moments so vividly that they become iconic and...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Visiting Russia]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Braving the depths of winter, Hady and Maksim visited Russia in late February to early March, when the temperature stayed below zero throughout. Parks...]]></description>
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