Hello, my name is Zheyu Chen. Currently, I am a PhD student at Beijing Institute of Technology, and my the supervisor is Prof. Kaiyu Feng. I recently completed my Master’s degree in Electronic and Information Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
My primary research interests lie in Data Mining and AI4DB.
📝 Publications

Hypercomplex Prompt-aware Multimodal Recommendation
Zheyu Chen, Jinfeng Xu, Hewei Wang, Shuo Yang, Zitong Wan, Haibo Hu,
- We propose HPMRec, a novel Hypercomplex Prompt-aware Multimodal Recommendation framework, which utilizes hypercomplex embeddings in the form of multi-components to enhance the representation diversity of multimodal features.

Enhancing Graph Collaborative Filtering with FourierKAN Feature Transformation
Jinfeng Xu, Zheyu Chen, Jinze Li, Shuo Yang, Wei Wang, Xiping Hu, Edith C-H Ngai,
- Graph Collaborative Filtering (GCF) has achieved state-of-the-art performance for recommendation tasks.

The Best is Yet to Come: Graph Convolution in the Testing Phase for Multimodal Recommendation
Jinfeng Xu, Zheyu Chen, Shuo Yang, Jinze Li, Edith C. H. Ngai

Jinfeng Xu, Zheyu Chen, Shuo Yang, Jinze Li, Hewei Wang, Wei Wang, Xiping Hu, Edith CH Ngai

MDVT: Enhancing Multimodal Recommendation with Model-Agnostic Multimodal-Driven Virtual Triplets
Jinfeng Xu, Zheyu Chen, Jinze Li, Shuo Yang, Hewei Wang, Yijie Li, Mengran Li, Puzhen Wu, Edith CH Ngai
- Spec-LLaVA: Accelerating Vision-Language Models with Dynamic Tree-Based Speculative Decoding, Mingxiao Huo, Jiayi Zhang, Hewei Wang, Jinfeng Xu, Zheyu Chen, Huilin Tai, Ian Yijun Chen, TTODLer-FM @ ICML 2025

Squeeze and Excitation: A Weighted Graph Contrastive Learning for Collaborative Filtering
Zheyu Chen, Jinfeng Xu, Yutong Wei, Ziyue Peng,
- A critical problem in existing GCL-based models is the irrational allocation of feature attention. This problem limits the model’s ability to effectively leverage crucial features, resulting in suboptimal performance. To address this, we propose a Weighted Graph Contrastive Learning framework (WeightedGCL).

COHESION: Composite Graph Convolutional Network with Dual-Stage Fusion for Multimodal Recommendation
Jinfeng Xu, Zheyu Chen, Wei Wang, Xiping Hu, Sang-Wook Kim, Edith Ngai,
- Modality fusion and representation learning were considered as two independent processes in previous work. In this paper, we reveal that these two processes are complementary and can support each other. Specifically, powerful representation learning enhances modality fusion, while effective fusion improves representation quality. Stemming from these two processes, we introduce a COmposite grapH convolutional nEtwork with dual-stage fuSION for the multimodal recommendation, named COHESION.

Zheyu Chen, Jinfeng Xu, Haibo Hu,
- To address the over-smoothing problem, we propose a novel model that retains the personalized information of ego nodes during feature aggregation by Reducing Node-neighbor Discrepancy (RedN^nD). [Code]

MENTOR: Multi-level Self-supervised Learning for Multimodal Recommendation Jinfeng Xu, Zheyu Chen, Shuo Yang, Jinze Li, Hewei Wang, Edith C-H Ngai,
- To this end, we propose a Multi-level sElf-supervised learNing for mulTimOdal Recommendation (MENTOR) method to address the label sparsity problem and the modality alignment problem. [Code]

AlignGroup: Learning and Aligning Group Consensus with Member Preferences for Group Recommendation Jinfeng Xu, Zheyu Chen, Jinze Li, Shuo Yang, Hewei Wang, Edith C. H. Ngai,
- Group activities are important behaviors in human society, providing personalized recommendations for groups is referred to as the group recommendation task. [Code]

Improving Consumer Experience With Pre-Purify Temporal-Decay Memory-Based Collaborative Filtering Recommendation for Graduate School Application Jinfeng Xu, Zheyu Chen, Zixiao Ma, Jiyi Liu, Edith C. H. Ngai,
- The Internet is booming with information, and it has become especially difficult for consumers to sift through the information. Recommendation systems can effectively enhance the consumer experience.
- A Review of Gray-scale Image Recoloring Methods With Neural Network Based Model, Yuyang Wang, Tianli Ren, Zhuoyi Zhang, Zheyu Chen, Jinfeng Xu, Zixiao Ma, Pai Zhu, Mingjia Zhang, ICIVC 22
📝 Preprint

Shuo Yang, Xinran Zheng, Jinfeng Xu, Jinze Li, Danyang Song, Zheyu Chen, Edith C.H. Ngai
- We introduce a three-layer framework comprising the Technology Layer, Capability Layer, and Application Layer to systematically analyze the role of VAEs, GANs, LLMs, and GDMs in securing next-generation wireless ecosystems.
📑 Academic Services
- 2026 Neural Networks Reviewer
- 2026 AAAI Program Committee (AAAI 2026)
- 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2025)
- 2025 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2025)
🎓 Educations
- 2025.09 - Present, Beijing Institute of Technology. PhD student at Computer Science
- 2025.04 - 2025.08, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Research Assistant at ASTAPLE Lab
- 2023.09 - 2025.03, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Master of Science Major in Electronic and Information Engineering
- 2019.09 - 2023.07, Beijing University of Technology & University College Dublin. Bachelor of Science Major in Software Engineering