{"id":496889,"date":"2018-07-26T04:57:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T11:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&p=496889"},"modified":"2018-11-26T11:05:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T19:05:05","slug":"kdd-2018","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/kdd-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft @ KDD 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Venue:<\/strong> ExCeL London (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\n1 Western Gateway
\nRoyal Victoria Dock
\nLondon, England E16 1XL
\nUnited Kingdom<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> KDD2018 (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft is proud to be a Bronze sponsor of KDD in London, United Kingdom August 19-23. The annual KDD conference is the premier interdisciplinary conference bringing together researchers and practitioners from data science, data mining, knowledge discovery, large-scale data analytics, and big data. Come by our booth (#54) to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research and find out about career opportunities with Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":497096,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr_startdate":"2018-08-19","msr_enddate":"2018-08-23","msr_location":"London, United Kingdom","msr_expirationdate":"","msr_event_recording_link":"","msr_event_link":"https:\/\/www.regonline.com\/registration\/Checkin.aspx?EventID=2266099","msr_event_link_redirect":false,"msr_event_time":"","msr_hide_region":false,"msr_private_event":false,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[13563],"msr-region":[239178],"msr-event-type":[197941],"msr-video-type":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-program-audience":[],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"class_list":["post-496889","msr-event","type-msr-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-research-area-data-platform-analytics","msr-region-europe","msr-event-type-conferences","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_about":"Venue:<\/strong> ExCeL London<\/a>\r\n1 Western Gateway\r\nRoyal Victoria Dock\r\nLondon, England E16 1XL\r\nUnited Kingdom\r\n\r\nWebsite:<\/strong> KDD2018<\/a>","tab-content":[{"id":0,"name":"About","content":"Microsoft is proud to be a Bronze sponsor of KDD in London, United Kingdom August 19, 2018 to August 23, 2018. The annual KDD conference<\/a> is the premier interdisciplinary conference bringing together researchers and practitioners from data science, data mining, knowledge discovery, large-scale data analytics, and big data. Come by our booth (#54) to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research and find out about career opportunities with Microsoft.\r\n

Committee Chairs<\/h2>\r\n

Applied Data Science Invited Talk Chair<\/h3>\r\n

Johannes Gehrke<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Sponsorship Chair<\/h3>\r\n

Yu Zheng<\/p>\r\n\r\n

KDD Cup Chairs<\/h3>\r\n

Hang Zhang\r\nJeong-Yoon Lee<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Startup Award Chair<\/h3>\r\n

Xing Xie<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Workshop Organizing Committee Chair<\/h3>\r\n

BigScholar 2018 - Kuansan Wang<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Program Committee Members<\/h2>\r\n

ADS Track PC Members<\/h3>\r\n

John-Mark Agosta\r\nJiang Bian<\/a>\r\nTimothy J. Hazen<\/a>\r\nDamien Jose\r\nKrishna P. Leela\r\nMilad Shokouhi<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Research Track PC Members<\/h3>\r\n

Aniket Chakrabarti\r\nWei Chen<\/a>\r\nDave Debarr\r\nAlex Deng\r\nYuxiao Dong<\/a>\r\nBin Gao<\/a>\r\nJohannes Gehrke\r\nManish Gupta<\/a>\r\nEmre Kiciman<\/a>\r\nArnd Christian Konig<\/a>\r\nTao Qin<\/a>\r\nYing Shan\r\nJian-Tao Sun\r\nAdith Swaminathan<\/a>\r\nChi Wang<\/a>\r\nWei Wu<\/a>\r\nXing Xie<\/a>\r\nQuanzeng You\r\nNicholas Jing Yuan<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Workshop PC Members<\/h2>\r\n

Interactive Data Exploration and Analytics (IDEA)<\/h3>\r\n

Saleema Amershi<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Data Science, Journalism & Digital Media<\/h3>\r\n

Jake Hofman<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

2018 ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Causal Discovery<\/h3>\r\n

Emre Kiciman<\/a>\r\nAmit Sharma<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

KDD BigMine 18<\/h3>\r\n

Jian-Tao Sun\r\nXian Wu<\/p>"},{"id":1,"name":"Invited Talks","content":"

Applied Data Science Invited Session A14: Novel Applications\r\nThursday, August 23, 2018 | 10:00 AM\u201312:00 PM | ICC Auditorium (Level 0)<\/h3>\r\n

Planet-Scale Land Cover Classification With FPGAs<\/h4>\r\n

Joseph Sirosh<\/strong><\/p>"},{"id":2,"name":"Conventional Tutorials","content":"

T13: Real World Interactive Learning<\/a>\r\nSunday, August 19, 2018 | 1:00 PM\u20135:00 PM | ICC Capital Suite Room 9 (Level 3)<\/h3>\r\n

Alekh Agarwal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

T20: Causal Inference and Counterfactual Reasoning<\/a>\r\nSunday, August 19, 2018 | 1:00 PM\u20135:00 PM | ICC Capital Suite Room 8 (Level 3)<\/h3>\r\n

Emre Kiciman<\/strong><\/a>, Amit Sharma<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

T36: Computational Models for Social Network Analysis\r\nSunday, August 19, 2018 | 8:00 AM\u201312:00 PM | ICC Capital Suite Room 11 (Level 3)<\/h3>\r\n

Yuxiao Dong<\/strong><\/a>, Jie Tang<\/p>\r\n\r\n

T39: Building a Large-scale, Accurate and Fresh Knowledge Graph\r\nSunday, August 19, 2018 | 1:00 PM\u20135:00 PM | ICC Capital Suite Room 10 (Level 3)<\/h3>\r\n

Yuqing Gao, <\/strong>Jisheng Liang, Benjamin Han, Mohamed Yakout, Ahmed Mohamed\r\n<\/strong><\/p>"},{"id":3,"name":"Hands-on Tutorials","content":"

Active learning and transfer learning at scale with R and Python\r\nTuesday, August 21, 2018 | 1:30 PM\u20135:30 PM | ICC Capital Suite Room 2+3+4<\/h3>\r\n

John-Mark Agosta, Olga Liakhovich, Robert Horton, Mario Inchiosa, Justin Ormont, Vanja Pauni\u0107, Siddarth Ramesh, Tomas Singliar, Ali-Kazim Zaidi, Hang Zhang\r\n<\/strong><\/p>"},{"id":4,"name":"Workshops","content":"

KDD BigMine 18\r\nMonday, August 20, 2018 | 8:10 AM\u20139:00 AM<\/h3>\r\n

Invited talk: Manik Varma<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Workshop on Causal Discovery\r\nMonday, August 20, 2018 | 10:00 AM-10:50 AM<\/h3>\r\n

Invited talk: Emre Kiciman<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Common Model Infrastructure\r\nAn Open Platform for Model Discoverability\r\nMonday, August 20, 2018 | 10:55 AM-11:05 AM<\/h3>\r\n

Short talk: Vani Mandava<\/a>, Yasin Hajizadeh, Amit Arora<\/p>\r\n\r\n

2018 ADKDD & TargetAd\r\nMonday, August 20, 2018 | 1:00 PM\u20132:00 PM<\/h3>\r\n

Keynote: Rukmini Iyer<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Organizational Behavior and Talent Analytics\r\nDeep User Modeling based on Large Scale Human Behavioral Data\r\nMonday, August 20, 2018 | 3:00 PM\u20134:00 PM<\/h3>\r\n

Invited talk: Xing Xie<\/p>"},{"id":5,"name":"Oral Presentations","content":"

Research Track Session RT2: Reinforcement Learning\r\nTuesday, August 21, 2018 | 10:00 AM\u201312:00 PM\r\nICC Capital Suite Room 9+10 (Level 3)<\/h3>\r\n

Investor-Imitator: A Framework for Trading Knowledge Extraction<\/h4>\r\n

Yi Ding, Weiqing Liu<\/strong>, Jiang Bian<\/strong><\/a>, Daoqiang Zhang, Tie-Yan Liu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Transcribing Content from Structural Images with Spotlight Mechanism<\/h4>\r\n

Yu Yin, Zhenya Huang, Enhong Chen, Qi Liu, Fuzheng Zhang<\/strong>, Xing Xie<\/strong><\/a>, Guoping Hu<\/p>\r\n \r\n

Research Track Session RT3: Matrices, Kernels and Sketches\r\nTuesday, August 21, 2018 | 10:00 AM\u201312:00 PM\r\nICC Capital Suite Room 6+13 (Level 3)<\/h3>\r\n

High-order Proximity Preserving Information Network Hashing<\/h4>\r\n

Defu Lian, Kai Zheng, Vincent W. Zheng, Yong Ge, Longbing Cao, Ivor W. Tsang, Xing Xie<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n \r\n

Applied Data Science Track Session ADS2: Plannign and Forecasting in Finance and Commerce\r\nTuesday, August 21, 2018 | 1:30 PM\u20133:30 PM\r\nICC Capital Suite Room 9+10 (Level 3)<\/h3>\r\n

Applying the Delta method in metric analytics: A practical guide with novel ideas<\/h4>\r\n

Alex Deng<\/strong>, Ulf Knoblich<\/strong>, Jiannan Lu<\/strong><\/p>\r\n \r\n

Research Track Session RT5: Graph and Social Network 1\r\nTuesday, August 21, 2018 | 1:30 PM\u20133:30 PM\r\nICC Capital Suite Room 6+13 (Level 3)<\/h3>\r\n

Multi-Round Influence Maximization<\/a><\/h4>\r\n

Lichao Sun, Weiran Huang, Philip Yu, Wei Chen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n \r\n

Research Track Session RT6: Deep Learning II\r\nTuesday, August 21, 2018 | 4:00 PM\u20136:00 PM\r\nICC Capital Suite Room 8+11 (Level 3)<\/h3>\r\n

XiaoIce Band: A Melody and Arrangement Generation Framework for Pop Music<\/h4>\r\n

Hongyuan Zhu, Qi Liu, Nicholas Jing Yuan<\/strong>, Chuan Qin, Jiawei Li, Kun Zhang, Guang Zhou<\/strong>, Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a>, Yuanchun Xu<\/strong>, Enhong Chen<\/p>\r\n \r\n

Research Track Session RT10: Recommenders I\r\nWednesday, August 22, 2018 | 10:00 AM\u201312:00 PM\r\nICC Capital Suite Room 9+10 (Level 3)<\/h3>\r\n

Efficient Attribute Recommendation with Probabilistic Guarantee<\/a><\/h4>\r\n

Chi Wang<\/strong><\/a>, Kaushik Chakrabarti<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

<\/h3>\r\n

Research Track Session RT12: Recommenders II\r\nWednesday, August 22, 2018 | 1:30 PM\u20133:30 PM\r\nICC Capital Suite Room 9+10 (Level 3)<\/h3>\r\n

xDeepFM: Combining Explicit and Implicit Feature Interactions for Recommender Systems<\/h4>\r\n

Jianxun Lian, Xiaohuan Zhou, Fuzheng Zhang<\/strong>, Zhongxia Chen, Xing Xie<\/strong><\/a>, Guangzhong Sun<\/p>\r\n \r\n

Research Track Session RT14: Supervised Learning II\r\nWednesday, August 22, 2018 | 4:00 PM\u20136:00 PM\r\nICC Capital Suite Room 8+11 (Level 3)<\/h3>\r\n

Risk Prediction on Electronic Healthcare Records with Prior Medical Knowledge<\/h4>\r\n

Fenglong Ma, Jing Gao, Qiuling Suo, Quanzeng You<\/strong>, Jing Zhou, Aidong Zhang<\/p>\r\n \r\n

Applied Data Science Track Session ADS6: Texts, Images and Videos\r\nThursday, August 23, 2018 | 10:00 AM\u201312:00 PM\r\nICC Capital Suite Room 9+10 (Level 3)<\/h3>\r\n

Rare Query Expansion Through Generative Adversarial Networks in Search Advertising<\/h4>\r\n

Mu-Chu Lee, Bin Gao<\/strong><\/a>, Ruofei Zhang<\/strong><\/p>\r\n \r\n

Research Track Session RT19: Knowledge Discovery\r\nThursday, August 23, 2018 | 1:30 PM\u20133:00 PM\r\nICC Capital Suite Room 9+10 (Level 3)<\/h3>\r\n

R-VQA: Learning Visual Relation Facts with Semantic Attention for Visual Question Answering<\/h4>\r\n

Pan Lu, Lei Ji<\/strong><\/a>, Wei Zhang, Nan Duan<\/strong><\/a>, Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a>, Jianyong Wang<\/p>\r\n \r\n

Research Track Session RT20: Methodology II\r\nThursday, August 23, 2018 | 1:30 PM\u20133:00 PM\r\nICC Capital Suite Room 6+13 (Level 3)<\/h3>\r\n

Data Diff: Interpretable, Executable Summaries of Changes in Distributions for Data Wrangling<\/h4>\r\n

Charles Sutton, Timothy Hobson, James Geddes, Rich Caruana<\/strong><\/a><\/p>"},{"id":6,"name":"Poster Sessions","content":"

Monday, August 20, 2018 | 7:00 PM\u20139:30 PM\r\nPoster Reception Group 1 | ICC Capital Hall (Level 0)<\/h3>\r\n

Investor-Imitator: A Framework for Trading Knowledge Extraction | #7<\/h4>\r\n

Yi Ding, Weiqing Liu<\/strong>, Jiang Bian<\/strong><\/a>, Daoqiang Zhang, Tie-Yan Liu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Transcribing Content from Structural Images with Spotlight Mechanism | #8<\/h4>\r\n

Yu Yin, Zhenya Huang, Enhong Chen, Qi Liu, Fuzheng Zhang, Xing Xie<\/strong><\/a>, Guoping Hu<\/p>\r\n\r\n

High-order Proximity Preserving Information Network Hashing | #16<\/h4>\r\n

Defu Lian, Kai Zheng, Vincent W. Zheng, Yong Ge, Longbing Cao, Ivor W. Tsang, Xing Xie<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Multi-Round Influence Maximization<\/a> | #25<\/h4>\r\n

Lichao Sun, Weiran Huang, Philip Yu, Wei Chen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

XiaoIce Band: A Melody and Arrangement Generation Framework for Pop Music | #27<\/h4>\r\n

Hongyuan Zhu (USTC); Qi Liu (USTC); Nicholas Jing Yuan<\/strong>, Chuan Qin, Jiawei Li, Kun Zhang, Guang Zhou<\/strong>, Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a>, Yuanchun Xu<\/strong>, Enhong Chen<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Efficient Attribute Recommendation with Probabilistic Guarantee<\/a> | #49<\/h4>\r\n

Chi Wang<\/strong><\/a>, Kaushik Chakrabarti<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

xDeepFM: Combining Explicit and Implicit Feature Interactions for Recommender Systems | #63<\/h4>\r\n

Jianxun Lian, Xiaohuan Zhou, Fuzheng Zhang<\/strong>, Zhongxia Chen, Xing Xie<\/strong><\/a>, Guangzhong Sun<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Risk Prediction on Electronic Healthcare Records with Prior Medical Knowledge | #75<\/h4>\r\n

Fenglong Ma, Jing Gao, Qiuling Suo, Quanzeng You<\/strong>, Jing Zhou, Aidong Zhang<\/p>\r\n\r\n

R-VQA: Learning Visual Relation Facts with Semantic Attention for Visual Question Answering | #101<\/h4>\r\n

Pan Lu, Lei Ji<\/strong><\/a>, Wei Zhang, Nan Duan<\/strong><\/a>, Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a>, Jianyong Wang<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Data Diff: Interpretable, Executable Summaries of Changes in Distributions for Data Wrangling | #104<\/h4>\r\n

Charles Sutton, Timothy Hobson, James Geddes, Rich Caruana<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n \r\n

Tuesday, August 21, 2018 | 7:00 PM\u20139:30 PM\r\nPoster Reception Group 2 | ICC Capital Hall (Level 0)<\/h3>\r\n

DeepInf: Social Influence Prediction with Deep Learning | #23<\/h4>\r\n

Jiezhong Qiu, Jian Tang, Hao Ma<\/strong>, Yuxiao Dong<\/strong><\/a>, Kuansan Wang<\/strong><\/a>, Jie Tang<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Recurrent Binary Embedding for GPU-Enabled Exhaustive Retrieval from Billion-Scale Semantic Vectors | #31<\/h4>\r\n

Ying Sha<\/strong>, Jian Jiao<\/strong>, Jie Zhu<\/strong>, JC Mao<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Context-aware Academic Collaborator Recommendation | #37<\/h4>\r\n

Zheng Liu, Xing Xie<\/strong><\/a>, Lei Chen<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Learning-to-Ask: Knowledge Acquisition via 20 Questions | #68<\/h4>\r\n

Yihong Chen, Bei Chen<\/strong><\/a>, Xuguang Duan, Jian-Guang Lou<\/strong>, Yue Wang, Wenwu Zhu, Yong Cao<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Web-Scale Responsive Visual Search at Bing | #131<\/h4>\r\n

Houdong Hu<\/strong>, Yan Wang<\/strong>, Linjun Yang, Pavel Komlev, Li Huang<\/strong>, Xi Stephen Chen<\/strong>, Jiapei Huang<\/strong>, Ye Wu<\/strong>, Meenaz Merchant<\/strong>, Arun Sacheti<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n

RapidScorer: Fast Tree Ensemble Evaluation by Maximizing Compactness in Data Level Parallelization | #134<\/h4>\r\n

Ting Ye<\/strong>, Hucheng Zhou, Will Zou<\/strong>, Bin Gao<\/strong><\/a>, Ruofei Zhang<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n

BigIN4: Instant, Interactive Insight Identification for Multi-Dimensional Big Data<\/a> | #136<\/h4>\r\n

Qingwei Lin<\/strong><\/a>, Weichen Ke, Jian-Guang Lou<\/strong><\/a>, Hongyu Zhang, Kaixin Sui<\/strong>, Yong Xu<\/strong>, Ziyi Zhou<\/strong>, Bo Qiao<\/strong>, Dongmei Zhang<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Applying the Delta method in metric analytics: A practical guide with novel ideas | #156<\/h4>\r\n

Alex Deng<\/strong>, Ulf Knoblich<\/strong>, Jiannan Lu<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Rare Query Expansion Through Generative Adversarial Networks in Search Advertising | #173<\/h4>\r\n

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