Kun KUANG   Associate Professor Lab of Artificial Intelligence College of Computer Science and Technology Zhejiang University Zhejiang, China. 310000. Office: Room 108, Zetong Building, Yuquan Campus Email: kunkuang αt zju dοt edu dοt cn

Biography

I'm an Associate Professor of the College of Computer Science and Technology at Zhejiang University. I got my Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University in 2019, coadvised by Prof. Shiqiang Yang and Prof. Peng Cui. From Sep. 2017 to Sep. 2018, I visited Prof. Susan Athey's group at Stanford University as a visiting student. I am also lucky to work with Prof. Bo Li and Prof. Wenwu Zhu at Tsinghua University.

Research Interests

My research interests include causal inference, machine learning, and data mining. In particular, I am interested in promoting the convergence of causal inference and machine learning, including improving the effectiveness of causal inference with machine learning technologies, and bringing stability and interpretability of machine learning with causal inference technologies.

We are always actively recruiting highly motivated Postdocs, Ph.D. students and Interns! If interested, please contact me with your detailed CV!

News

• We published a research paper on Unified Fair Federated Learning in Cell Patterns.
• We published a survey paper on Instrumental Variables here, and develop a toolkit of IVs methods.
• [2024.09] Three papers on LLMs were accepted by EMNLP 2024.
• [2024.05] Three papers were accepted by KDD 2024.
• [2024.05] Three papers were accepted by ACL 2024.
• [2024.05] Six papers were accepted by ICML 2024.
• [2024.03] One paper was accepted by NAACL 2024.
• [2024.03] Three papers were accepted by COLING 2024.
• [2024.02] One paper was accepted by CVPR 2024.
• [2024.02] One paper was accepted by TOIS 2024.
• [2024.02] One paper was accepted by The WebConf 2024.
• [2024.02] Two papers were accepted by ICLR 2024.
• [2023.12] One paper was accepted by Cell Patterns on Unified Fair Federated Learning.
• [2023.12] One paper was accepted by ICDE 2024 on Stable HTE Estimation.
• [2023.12] Five papers were accepted by AAAI 2024.
• [2023.12] One paper was accepted by ICASSP 2024 on OOD Generalization.
• [2023.10] Three papers were accepted by EMNLP 2023.
• [2023.09] Two papers were accepted by NeurIPS 2023.

Tutorials and Invited Talk

• [2023.09] I gave a invited talk on Causal Inference in Complex Environments in PCIC 2023.
• [2022.09] I gave a invited talk on Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables in PCIC 2022.
• [2021.07] I gave a invited talk on Causal Inference in Observational Studies in MLMI 2021.
• [2019.07] I gave a tutorial on Causal Inference and Stable Learning in ICME 2019, together with Peng Cui and Bo Li.
• [2019.04] I gave a tutorial on Causally Regularized Machine Learning in PAKDD 2019, together with Peng Cui and Bo Li.

Selected Publications

Working papers

• Yingrong Wang, Haoxuan Li, Minqin Zhu, Anpeng Wu, Ruoxuan Xiong, Fei Wu, Kun Kuang*. Causal Inference with Complex Treatments: A Survey, arxiv, 2024.
• Anpeng Wu, Kun Kuang*, Ruoxuan Xiong, Fei Wu. Instrumental Variables in Causal Inference and Machine Learning: A Survey, arxiv, 2022.

2024

• Chengyuan Liu, Shihang Wang, Yangyang Kang, Lizhi Qing, Fubang Zhao, Chao Wu, Changlong Sun, Kun Kuang*, Fei Wu. More Than Catastrophic Forgetting: Integrating General Capabilities For Domain-Specific LLMs, EMNLP, 2024.
• Chengyuan Liu, Shihang Wang, Lizhi Qing, Kun Kuang*, Yangyang Kang, Changlong Sun, Fei Wu. Gold Panning in Vocabulary: An Adaptive Method for Vocabulary Expansion of Domain-Specific LLMs, EMNLP, 2024.
• Jiahui Li, Hanlin Zhang, Fengda Zhang, Tai-Wei Chang, Kun Kuang*, Long Chen, JUN ZHOU. Optimizing Language Models with Fair and Stable Reward Composition in Reinforcement Learning, EMNLP, 2024.
• Tao Wu, Mengze Li, Jingyuan Chen, Wei Ji, Wang Lin, Jinyang Gao, Kun Kuang, Zhou Zhao, Fei Wu. Semantic Alignment for Multimodal Large Language Models, MM, 2024.
• Ziyu Zhao, Yuqi Bai, Ruoxuan Xiong, Qingyu Cao, Chao Ma, Ning Jiang, Fei Wu, Kun Kuang*. Learning Individual Treatment Effects under Heterogeneous Interference in Networks, TKDD, 2024.
• Ziyu Zhao, Leilei Gana, Tao Shen, Kun Kuang*, Fei Wu. Deconfounded Hierarchical Multi-Granularity Classification, Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 2024.
• Jiannan Guo, Yangyang Kang, Xiaolin Li, Wenqiao Zhang, Kun Kuang, Changlong Sun, Siliang Tang, Fei Wu. Unleash the Power of Inconsistency-Based Semi-Supervised Active Learning by Dynamic Programming of Curriculum Learning, TKDE, 2024.
• Zhengqing Fang, Zhouhang Yuan, Ziyu Li, Jingyuan Chen, Kun Kuang, Yu-feng Yao, Fei Wu. Cross-modality Image Interpretation via Concept Decomposition Vector of Visual-language Models, TCSVT, 2024.
• Shuting Shi, Baohong Li, Laifu Zhang, Kun Kuang, Sensen Wu, Tian Feng, Yiming Yan, Zhenhong Du. Causality-guided Step-wise Intervention and Reweighting for Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), 2024.
• Yiquan Wu, Bo Tang, Chenyang Xi, Yu Yu, Pengyu Wang, Yifei Liu, Kun Kuang*, Haiying Deng, Zhiyu li, Feiyu Xiong, Jie Hu, Cheng Peng, Zhonghao Wang, WangYi, Yi Luo, mingchuan yang. Xinyu: An Efficient LLM-based System for Commentary Generation, KDD, 2024.
• Wenjing Yang, Haotian Wang, Haoxuan Li, Hao Zou, Ruochun Jin, Kun Kuang*, Peng Cui. Your Neighbor Matters: Towards Fair Decisions Under Networked Interference, KDD, 2024.
• Didi Zhu, Zexi Li, Min Zhang, Junkun Yuan, Jiashuo Liu, Kun Kuang*, Chao Wu. Neural Collapse Anchored Prompt Tuning for Generalizable Vision-Language Models, KDD, 2024.
• Ziyu Zhao, Leilei Gan, Guoyin Wang, Wangchunshu Zhou, Hongxia Yang, Kun Kuang*, Fei Wu. LoraRetriever: Input-Aware LoRA Retrieval and Composition for Mixed Tasks in the Wild, Findings of ACL, 2024.
• Yiquan Wu, Anlai Zhou, Yuhang Liu, Yifei Liu, Adam Jatowt, Weiming Lu, Jun Xiao, Kun Kuang*. Chain-of-Quizzes: Pedagogy-inspired Example Selection in In-Context-Learning, Findings of ACL, 2024.
• Anlai Zhou, Sunshine Jiang, Yifei Liu, Yiquan Wu, Kun Kuang*, Jun Xiao. Latent Learningscape Guided In-context Learning, Findings of ACL, 2024.
• Baohong Li, Anpeng Wu, Ruoxuan Xiong, Kun Kuang*. Two-Stage Shadow Inclusion Estimation: An IV Approach for Causal Inference under Latent Confounding and Collider Bias, ICML, 2024.
• Baohong Li, Haoxuan Li, Ruoxuan Xiong, Anpeng Wu, Fei Wu, Kun Kuang*. Learning Shadow Variable Representation for Treatment Effect Estimation under Collider Bias, ICML, 2024.
• Baohong Li, Haoxuan Li, Anpeng Wu, Minqin Zhu, shiyuan Peng, Qingyu Cao, Kun Kuang*. A Generative Approach for Treatment Effect Estimation under Collider Bias: From an Out-of-Distribution Perspective, ICML, 2024.
• Anpeng Wu, Haoxuan Li, Kun Kuang*, Zhang Keli, Fei Wu. Learning Causal Relations from Subsampled Time Series with Two Time-Slices, ICML, 2024. (spotlight, 3.5% acceptance rate)
• Xueyu Hu, Ziyu Zhao, Shuang Wei, Ziwei Chai, Qianli Ma, Guoyin Wang, Xuwu Wang, Jing Su, Jingjing Xu, Ming Zhu, Yao Cheng, Jianbo Yuan, Jiwei Li, Kun Kuang*, Yang Yang, Hongxia Yang, Fei Wu. InfiAgent-DABench: Evaluating Agents on Data Analysis Tasks, ICML, 2024.
• Didi Zhu, Zhongyisun Sun, Zexi Li, Tao Shen, Ke Yan, Shouhong Ding, Kun Kuang*, Chao Wu. Model Tailor: Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Multi-modal Large Language Models, ICML, 2024.
• Fengda Zhang, Zitao Shuai, Kun Kuang*, Fei Wu, Yueting Zhuang, Jun Xiao. Unified Fair Federated Learning for Digital Healthcare, Cell Patterns, 2024.
• Fengda Zhang, Qianpei He, Kun Kuang*, Jiashuo Liu, Long Chen, Chao Wu, Jun Xiao, Hanwang Zhang. Distributionally Generative Augmentation for Fair Facial Attribute Classification, CVPR, 2024.
• Yifei Liu, Yiquan Wu, Ang Li, Yating Zhang, Changlong Sun, Weiming Lu, Fei Wu, Kun Kuang*. Unleashing the Power of LLMs in Court View Generation by Stimulating Internal Knowledge and Incorporating External Knowledge, NAACL, 2024.
• Ang Li, Yiquan Wu, Yifei Liu, Fei Wu, Ming Cai, Kun Kuang*. Enhancing Court View Generation with Knowledge Injection and Guidance, COLING, 2024.
• Ang Li, Qiangchao Chen, Yiquan Wu, Ming Cai, Xiang Zhou, Fei Wu, Kun Kuang. From Graph to Word Bag: Introducing Domain Knowledge to Confusing Charge Prediction, COLING, 2024.
• Chengyuan Liu, Yangyang Kang, Fubang Zhao, Kun Kuang*, Zhuoren Jiang, Changlong Sun, Fei Wu. Evolving Knowledge Distillation with Large Language Models and Active Learning, COLING, 2024.
• Shengyu Zhang, Qiaowei Miao, Ping Nie, Mengze Li, Zhengyu Chen, Fuli Feng, Kun Kuang*, Fei Wu. Transferring Causal Mechanism over Meta-representations for Target-unknown Cross-domain Recommendation, TOIS, 2024.
• Zheqi Lv, Wenqiao Zhang, Zhengyu Chen, Shengyu Zhang, Kun Kuang*. Intelligent Model Update Strategy for Sequential Recommendation, The WebConf, 2024.
• Min Zhang, Haoxuan Li, Fei Wu, Kun Kuang*. MetaCoCo: A New Few-Shot Classification Benchmark with Spurious Correlation, ICLR, 2024.
• Zihao Tang, Zheqi Lv, Shengyu Zhang, Yifan Zhou, Xinyu Duan, Fei Wu, Kun Kuang*. AuG-KD: Anchor-Based Mixup Generation for Out-of-Domain Knowledge Distillation, ICLR, 2024.
• Minqin Zhu, Anpeng Wu, Haoxuan Li, Ruoxuan Xiong, Bo Li, Xiaoqing Yang, Xuan Qin, Peng Zhen, Jiecheng Guo, Fei Wu, Kun Kuang*. Contrastive Balancing Representation Learning for Heterogeneous Dose-Response Curves Estimation, AAAI, 2024.
• Zhengyu Chen, Teng Xiao, Kun Kuang*, Zheqi Lv, Min Zhang, Jinluan Yang, Chengqiang Lu, Hongxia Yang, Fei Wu. Learning to Reweight for Generalizable Graph Neural Network, AAAI, 2024.
• Yiquan Wu, Yifei Liu, Ziyu Zhao, Weiming Lu, Yating Zhang, Changlong Sun, Fei Wu, Kun Kuang*. De-biased Attention Supervision for Text Classification with Causality, AAAI, 2024.
• Junao Shen, Kun Kuang, Jiaheng Wang, Xinyu Wang, Tian Feng, Wei Zhang. CGMGM: A Cross Gaussian Mixture Generative Model for Few-shot Semantic Segmentation, AAAI, 2024.
• Kexin Li, Chengjiang Long, Shengyu Zhang, Xudong Tang, Zhichao Zhai, Kun Kuang, Jun Xiao. CoreRec: A Counterfactual Correlation Inference for Next Set Recommendation, AAAI, 2024.
• Qiaowei Miao, Junkun Yuan, Shengyu Zhang, Fei Wu, Kun Kuang*. DomainDiff: Boost Out-of-Distribution Generalization with Synthetic Data, ICASSP, 2024.
• Yuling Zhang, Anpeng Wu, Kun Kuang*, Liang Du, Zixun Sun, Zhi Wang. Stable Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation across Out-of-Distribution Populations, ICDE, 2024.

2023

• Yiquan Wu, Siying Zhou, Yifei Liu, Weiming Lu, Xiaozhong Liu, Yating Zhang, Changlong Sun, Fei Wu, Kun Kuang*. Precedent-Enhanced Legal Judgment Prediction with LLM and Domain-Model Collaboration, EMNLP, 2023.
• Chengyuan Liu, Fubang Zhao, Yangyang Kang, Jingyuan Zhang, Xiang Zhou, Changlong Sun, Kun Kuang*, Fei Wu. RexUIE: A Recursive Method with Explicit Schema Instructor for Universal Information Extraction, Findings of EMNLP, 2023.
• Leilei Gan, Baokui Li, Kun Kuang*, Yating Zhang, Lei Wang, Anh Tuan Luu, Yi Yang, Fei Wu. Exploiting Contrastive Learning and Numerical Evidence for Confusing Legal Judgment Prediction, Findings of EMNLP, 2023.
• Tianqi Zhao, Ming Kong, Tian liang, Qiang Zhu, Kun Kuang, Fei Wu. CLAP: Contrastive Language-Audio Pre-training Model for Multi-modal Sentiment Analysis, ICMR, 2024.
• Junkun Yuan, Xinyu Zhang, Hao Zhou, Jian Wang, Zhongwei Qiu, Zhiyin Shao, Shaofeng Zhang, Sifan Long, Kun Kuang*, Kun Yao, Junyu Han, Errui Ding, Lanfen Lin, Fei Wu, Jingdong Wang. HAP: Structure-Aware Masked Image Modeling for Human-Centric Perception, NeurIPS, 2023.
• Jiahui Li, Kun Kuang*, Baoxiang Wang, Xingchen Li, Long Chen, Fei Wu, Jun Xiao. Two Heads are Better Than One: A Simple Exploration Framework for Efficient Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning, NeurIPS, 2023.
• Haotian Wang, Kun Kuang*, Long Lan, Wanrong Huang, Fei Wu, Wenjing Yang. Out-of-distribution Generalization with Causal Feature Separation, TKDE, 2023.
• Didi Zhu, Yinchuan Li, Yunfeng Shao, Jianye Hao, Fei Wu, Kun Kuang, Jun Xiao, Chao Wu. Generalized Universal Domain Adaptation with Generative Flow Networks, ACM MM, 2023.
• Min Zhang, Junkun Yuan, Yue He, Weibin Li, Zhengyu Chen, Kun Kuang*. MAP: Towards Balanced Generalization of IID and OOD through Model-Agnostic Adapters, ICCV, 2023.
• Didi Zhu, Yinchuan Li, Junkun Yuan, Zexi Li, Kun Kuang*, Chao Wu. Universal Domain Adaptation via Compressive Attention Matching, ICCV, 2023.
• Shengyu Zhang, Tan Jiang, Kun Kuang*, Fuli Feng, Jin Yu, Jianxin Ma, Zhou Zhao, Jianke Zhu, Hongxia Yang, Tat-sen Chua, Fei Wu. SLED: Structure Learning based Denoising for Recommendation, TOIS, 2023.
• Shengyu Zhang, Ziqi Jiang, Jiangchao Yao, Fuli Feng, Kun Kuang*, Zhou Zhao, Shuo Li, Hongxia Yang, Tat-seng Chua, Fei Wu. Causal Distillation for Alleviating Performance Heterogeneity in Recommender Systems, TKDE, 2023.
• Shengyu Zhang, Kun Kuang*, Fuli Feng, Jiezhong Qiu, Jin Yu, Zhou Zhao, Hongxia Yang, Zhongfei Zhang, Fei Wu. Stable Prediction on Graphs with Agnostic Distribution Shifts, CDPD, The KDD'23 Workshop on Causal Discovery, Prediction and Decision, 2023.
• Yunze Tong, Junkun Yuan, Min Zhang, Didi Zhu, Keli Zhang, Fei Wu, Kun Kuang*. Quantitatively Measuring and Contrastively Exploring Heterogeneity for Domain Generalization, KDD, 2023.
• Haotian Wang, Kun Kuang*, Haoang Chi, Longqi Yang, Mingyang Geng, Wanrong Huang, Wenjing Yang. Treatment Effect Estimation with Adjustment Feature Selection, KDD, 2023.
• Haoxuan Li, Chunyuan Zheng, Peng Wu, Kun Kuang, Yue Liu, Peng Cui. Who should be Given Incentives? Counterfactual Optimal Treatment Regimes Learning for Recommendation, KDD, 2023.
• Jimin Xu, Nuanxin Hong, Zhening Xu, Zhou Zhao, Chao Wu, Kun Kuang, Jiaping Wang, Mingjie Zhu, Jingren Zhou, Kui Ren, Xiaohu Yang, Cewu Lu, Jian Pei, Harry Shum. Data-Driven Learning for Data Rights, Data Pricing, and Privacy Computing, Engineering, 2023.
• Xiang Zhou, Qi Liu, Yiquan Wu, Qiangchao Chen, Kun Kuang*. LK-IB: A Hybrid Framework with Legal Knowledge Injection for Compulsory Measure Prediction, AI and Law, 2023.
• Yiquan Wu, Weiming Lu, Yating Zhang, Adam Jatowt, Jun Feng, Changlong Sun, Fei Wu, Kun Kuang*. Focus-aware Response Generation in Inquiry Conversation, Findings of ACL, 2023.
• Anpeng Wu, Kun Kuang*, Ruoxuan Xiong, Bo Li, Fei Wu. Stable Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effect, ICML, 2023.
• Chenxi Liu, Kun Kuang*. Causal Structure Learning for Latent Intervened Non-stationary Data, ICML, 2023.
• Junkun Yuan, Xu Ma, Ruoxuan Xiong, Mingming Gong, Fei Wu, Lanfen Lin, Kun Kuang*. Instrumental Variable-Driven Domain Generalization with Unobserved Confounders, TKDD, 2023.
• Junkun Yuan, Xu Ma, Defang Chen, Fei Wu, Lanfen Lin, Kun Kuang*. Collaborative Semantic Aggregation and Calibration for Federated Domain Generalization, TKDE, 2023.
• Tao Shen, Jie Zhang, Xinkang Jia, Fengda Zhang, Zheqi Lv, Kun Kuang, Chao Wu, Fei Wu. Federated Mutual Learning: A Collaborative Machine Learning Method for Heterogeneous Data,Models, and Objectives, FITEE, 2023.
• Yifei Liu, Yiquan Wu, Yating Zhang, Changlong Sun, Weiming Lu, Fei Wu, Kun Kuang*. ML-LJP: Multi-Law Aware Legal Judgment Prediction, SIGIR, 2023.
• Shengyu Zhang, Fuli Feng, Kun Kuang*, Wenqiao Zhang, Zhou Zhao, Hongxia Yang, Tat-Seng Chua, Fei Wu. Personalized Latent Structure Learning for Recommendation, TPAMI, 2023.
• Zheqi Lv, Wenqiao Zhang, Shengyu Zhang, Kun Kuang*, Feng Wang, Yongwei Wang, Zhengyu Chen, Tao Shen, Hongxia Yang, Beng Chin Ooi and Fei Wu. DUET: A Tuning-Free Device-Cloud Collaborative Parameters Generation Framework for Efficient Device Model Generalization, The WebConf, 2023.
• Dingyuan Zhu, Daixin Wang, Zhiqiang Zhang, Kun Kuang, Yan Zhang, Yulin Kang and Jun Zhou. Graph Neural Network with Two Uplift Estimators for Label-Scarcity Individual Uplift Modeling, The WebConf, 2023.
• Fengda Zhang, Kun Kuang*, Long Chen, Yuxuan Liu, Chao Wu, Jun Xiao. Fairness-aware Contrastive Learning with Partially Annotated Sensitive Attributes, ICLR, 2023.
• Anpeng Wu, Kun Kuang*, Ruoxuan Xiong, Minqin Zhu, Yuxuan Liu, Bo Li, Furui Liu, Zhihua Wang, Fei Wu. Learning Instrumental Variable from Data Fusion for Treatment Effect Estimation, AAAI, 2023.
• Qi Tian, Kun Kuang*, Furui Liu, Baoxiang Wang. Learning From Good Trajectories in Offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning, AAAI, 2023.
• Yingjie Jiang, Ying Wei, Fei Wu, Zhengxing Huang, Kun Kuang, Zhihua Wang. Learning Chemical Rules of Retrosynthesis with Pre-training, AAAI, 2023.

2022

• Junkun Yuan, Xu Ma, Defang Chen, Kun Kuang*, Fei Wu, Lanfen Lin. Domain-Specific Bias Filtering for Single Labeled Domian Generalization, IJCV, 2022.
• Jiashuo Liu, Zheyan Shen, Peng Cui, Linjun Zhou, Kun Kuang and Bo Li. Distributionally Robust Learning with Stable Adversarial Training, TKDE, 2022.
• Fengda Zhang, Kun Kuang*, Long Chen, Zhaoyang You, Tao Shen, Jun Xiao, Yin Zhang, Chao Wu, Fei Wu, Yueting Zhuang, Xiaolin Li. Federated unsupervised representation learning, FITEE, 2022.
• Yiquan Wu, Yifei Liu, Weiming Lu, Yating Zhang, Jun Feng, Changlong Sun, Fei Wu, Kun Kuang*. Towards Interactivity and Interpretability: A Rationale-based Legal Judgment Prediction Framework, EMNLP, 2022.
• Chengyuan Liu, Leilei Gan, Kun Kuang*, Fei Wu. Investigating the Robustness of Natural Language Generation from Logical Forms via Counterfactual Samples, EMNLP, 2022.
• Qi Tian, Kelu Jiang, Kun Kuang*, Furui Liu, Zhihua Wang, Fei Wu. ConfounderGAN: Protecting Image Data Privacy with Causal Confounder, NeurIPS, 2022.
• Yemin Yu, Ying Wei, Kun Kuang, Zhengxing Huang, Huaxiu Yao, Fei Wu. GRASP: Navigating Retrosynthetic Planning with Goal-driven Policy, NeurIPS, 2022.
• Junkun Yuan, Xu Ma, Defang Chen, Kun Kuang*, Fei Wu, Lanfen Lin. Label-Efficient Domain Generalization via Collaborative Exploration and Generalization, ACM MM, 2022.
• Jiangchao Yao, Shengyu Zhang, Yang Yao, Feng Wang, Jianxin Ma, Jianwei Zhang, Yunfei Chu, Luo Ji, Kunyang Jia, Tao Shen, Anpeng Wu, Fengda Zhang, Ziqi Tan, Kun Kuang, Chao Wu, Fei Wu, Jingren Zhou, Hongxia Yang. Edge-Cloud Polarization and Collaboration: A Comprehensive Survey for AI, TKDE 2022.
• Fengda Zhang, Kun Kuang*, Yuxuan Liu, Long Chen, Jiaxun Lu, yunfeng shao, Fei Wu, Chao Wu, Jun Xiao. Towards Multi-level Fairness and Robustness on Federated Learning, ICML 2022 workshop.
• Yuxuan Si, Zhengqing Fang, Kun Kuang*, Zhengxing Huang, Yu-Feng Yao, Fei Wu. Disentangled Sequential Autoencoder with Local Consistency for Infectious Keratitis Diagnosis, ICIP, 2022.
• Haotian Wang, Wenjing Yang, Longqi Yang, Anpeng Wu, Liyang Xu, Jing Ren, Fei Wu, Kun Kuang*. Estimating Individualized Causal Effect with Confounded Instruments, KDD, 2022.
• Shuang Luo, Yinchuan Li, Jiahui Li, Kun Kuang*, Furui Liu, Yunfeng Shao, Chao Wu. S2RL: Do We Really Need to Perceive All States in Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning?, KDD, 2022.
• Jiannan Guo, Yangyang kang, Yu Duan, Xiaozhong Liu, Siliang Tang, Wenqiao Zhang, Kun Kuang, Changlong Sun, Fei Wu. Collborative Intelligence Orchestration: Inconsistency-Based Fusion of Semi-Supervised Learning and Active Learning, KDD, 2022.
• Anpeng Wu, Kun Kuang*, Bo Li, Fei Wu. Instrumental Variable Regression with Confounder Balancing, ICML, 2022.
• Jiahui Li, Kun Kuang*, Baoxiang Wang, Furui Liu, Long Chen, Changjie Fan, Fei Wu, Jun Xiao. Deconfounded Value Decomposition for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning, ICML, 2022.
• Yinjie Jiang, Zhengyu Chen, Luotian Yuan, Kun Kuang*, Xinhai Ye, Zhihua Wang, Fei Wu, Ying Wei. The Role of Deconfounding in Meta-learning, ICML, 2022.
• Kun Kuang, Haotian Wang, Yue Liu, Ruoxuan Xiong, Weiming Lu, Bo Li, Runze Wu, Yueting Zhuang, Fei Wu, Peng Cui. Stable Prediction with Leveraging Seed Variable, IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) , 2022 (to appear).
• Ziyu Zhao, Kun Kuang*, Bo Li, Peng Cui, Runze Wu, Jun Xiao, Fei Wu. Differentiated Matching for Individual and Average Treatment Effect Estimation, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD) , 2022 (to appear).
• Anpeng Wu, Junkun Yuan, Kun Kuang*, Bo Li, Runze Wu, Qiang Zhu, Yueting Zhuang, Fei Wu. Learning Decomposed Representations for Treatment Effect Estimation, IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2022 (to appear).
• Ming Kong, Zhengxing Huang, Kun Kuang, Qiang Zhu, Fei Wu. TranSQ: Transformer-based Semantic Query for Medical Report Generation, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI), 2022 (to appear).
• Leilei Gan, Yuxian Meng, Kun Kuang, Xiaofei Sun, Chun Fan, Fei Wu, Jiwei Li. Dependency Parsing as MRC-based Span-Span Prediction, ACL , 2022.
• Zhengyu Cheng, Teng Xiao, Kun Kuang*. BA-GNN: On Learning Bias-Aware Graph Neural Network, ICDE, 2022.
• Ziqi Tan, Shengyu Zhang, Nuanxin Hong, Kun Kuang*, Yifan Yu, Zhou Zhao, Jin Yu, Hongxia Yang, Shiyuan Pan, Jingren Zhou, Fei Wu. Uncovering Causal Effects of Online Short Videos on Consumer Behaviors, WSDM, 2022.

2021

• Junkun Yuan, Anpeng Wu, Kun Kuang*, Bo Li, Runze Wu, Fei Wu, and Lanfen Lin. Auto IV: Counterfactual Prediction via Automatic Instrumental Variable Decomposition, Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD) , 2021.
• Kun Kuang, Yunzhe Li, Bo Li, Peng Cui, Jianrong Tao, Hongxia Yang, and Fei Wu. Continuous Treatment Effect Estimation via Generative Adversarial De-confounding, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD) , 2021.
• Kun Kuang, Hengtao Zhang, Runze Wu, Fei Wu, Yueting Zhuang and Aijun Zhang*. Balance-Subsampled Stable Prediction across Unknown Test Data, Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD) , 2021.
• Jiannan Guo, Haochen Shi, Yangyang Kang, Kun Kuang, Siliang Tang, Zhuoren Jiang, Changlong Sun, Fei Wu, Yueting Zhuang. Semi-supervised Active Learning for Semi-supervised Models: Exploit Adversarial Examples with Graph-based Virtual Labels, ICCV, 2021.
• Jiahui Li, Kun Kuang*, Lin Li, Long Chen, Songyang Zhang, Jian Shao, Jun Xiao. Instance-wise or Class-wise? A Tale of Neighbor Shapley for Concept-based Explanation, ACM MM, 2021.
• Tiankai Gu, Kun Kuang, Hong Zhu, Jingjie Li, Zhenhua Dong, Wenjie Hu, Zhenguo Li, Xiuqiang He, Yue Liu. Estimating True Post-Click Conversion via Group-stratified Counterfactual Inference, KDD 2021 Workshop.
• Qi Tian, Kun Kuang*, Kelu Jiang, Fei Wu, and Yisen Wang*. Analysis and Applications of Class-wise Robustness in Adversarial Training, KDD, 2021.
• Jiahui Li, Kun Kuang*, Baoxiang Wang, Furui Liu, Long Chen, Fei Wu, and Jun Xiao. Shapley Counterfactual Credits for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning, KDD, 2021.
• Xin Wang, Shuyi Fan, Kun Kuang, and Wenwu Zhu. Towards Explainable Automated Graph Representation Learning with Hyperparameter Importance Explanation, ICML, 2021.
• Yuxiao Lin, Yuxian Meng, Xiaofei Sun, Qinghong Han, Kun Kuang, Jiwei Li, Fei Wu. BertGCN: Transductive Text Classification by Combining GCN and BERT, ACL, 2021.
• Leilei Gan, Kun Kuang*, Yi Yang, and Fei Wu*. Judgment Prediction via Injecting Legal Knowledge into Neural Networks, AAAI, 2021.
• Jiashuo Liu, Zheyan Shen, Peng Cui, Linjun Zhou, Kun Kuang, Bo Li and Yishi Lin. Invariant Adversarial Learning for Distributional Robustness, AAAI, 2021.

2020

• Kun Kuang, Peng Cui, Hao Zou, Bo Li, Jianrong Tao, Fei Wu, and Shiqiang Yang. Data-Driven Variable Decomposition for Treatment Effect Estimation, IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) , 2020 (to appear).
• Kun Kuang, Lian Li, Zhi Geng, Lei Xu, Kun Zhang, Beishui Liao, Huaxin Huang, Peng Ding, Wang Miao, and Zhichao Jiang. Causal Inference, In Engineering, 2020 (IF=6.4). [In Chinese]
• Fashen Li, Lian Li, Jianping Yin, Yong Zhang, Qingguo Zhou, and Kun Kuang. How to Interpret Machine Knowledge, In Engineering, 2020 (IF=6.4). [In Chinese]
• Mengze Li, Kun Kuang*, Qiang Zhu, Xiaohong Chen, Qing Guo, and Fei Wu. IB-M: A Flexible Framework to Align an Interpretable Model and a Black-box Model, BIBM, 2020.
• Yunzhe Li, Kun Kuang, Bo Li, Peng Cui, Jianrong Tao, Hongxia Yang, and Fei Wu. Continuous Treatment Effect Estimation via Generative Adversarial De-confounding, The KDD'20 Workshop on Causal Discovery.
• Yiquan Wu, Kun Kuang, and Fei Wu. Automatic Text Revision with Application to Legal Documents, The SIGIR'20 Workshop on Legal Intelligence.
• Yiquan Wu, Kun Kuang*, Yating Zhang, Xiaozhong Liu, Changlong Sun, Jun Xiao, Yueting Zhuang, Luo Si and Fei Wu. De-biased Court’s View Generation with Causality, EMNLP, 2020.
• Zhengqing Fang, Kun Kuang*, Yuxiao Lin, Fei Wu, and Yufeng Yao. Concept-based Explanation for Fine-grained Images and Its Application in Infectious Keratitis Classification, ACM MM, 2020.
• Shengyu Zhang, Tan Jiang, Tan Wang, Kun Kuang*, Zhou Zhao, Jianke Zhu, Jin Yu, Hongxia Yang, and Fei Wu. DeVLBert: Learning Deconfounded Visio-Linguistic Representations, ACM MM, 2020.
• Shengyu Zhang, Ziqi Tan, Jin Yu, Zhou Zhao, Kun Kuang*, Jie Liu, Jingren Zhou, Hongxia Yang, and Fei Wu.Poet: Product-oriented Video Captioner for E-commerce, ACM MM, 2020.
• Yufei Feng, Fuyu Lv, Binbin Hu, Fei Sun, Kun Kuang, Yang Liu, Qingwen Liu and Wenwu Ou.MTBRN: Multiplex Target-Behavior Relation Enhanced Network for Click-Through Rate Prediction, CIKM, 2020.
• Shengyu Zhang, Ziqi Tan, Jin Yu, Zhou Zhao, Kun Kuang, Tan Jiang, Jingren Zhou, Hongxia Yang, and Fei Wu. Comprehensive Information Integration Modeling Framework for Video Titling, KDD, 2020.
• Renzhe Xu, Peng Cui, Kun Kuang, Bo Li, Linjun Zhou, Zheyan Shen and Wei Cui. Algorithmic Decision Making with Conditional Fairness, KDD, 2020.
• Xiao Wang, Shaohua Fan, Kun Kuang, Chuan Shi, Jiawei Liu, and Bai Wang. Decorrelated Clustering with Data Selection Bias, In IJCAI, 2020.
• Kun Kuang, Ruoxuan Xiong, Peng Cui, Susan Athey, and Bo Li. Stable Prediction with Model Misspecification and Agnostic Distribution Shift, AAAI, 2020. [Code], [poster]
• Zheyan Shen, Peng Cui, Tong Zhang and Kun Kuang. Stable Learning of Linear Models via Sample Reweighting, AAAI, 2020.

2019 and prior

• Kun Kuang, Peng Cui, Bo Li, Meng Jiang, Fei Wu, and Shiqiang Yang. Treatment Effect Estimation via Differentiated Confounder Balancing and Regression, Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD) , 2019.
• Kun Kuang, Meng Jiang, Peng Cui, Hengliang Luo and Shiqiang Yang. Effective promotional strategies selection in social media: A data-driven approach, IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD) , 2017.
• Hao Zou, Kun Kuang*, Boqi Chen, Peng Cui and Peixuan Chen. Focused Context Balancing for Robust Offline Policy Evaluation, KDD, 2019.
• Zhixiu Liu, Chengxi Zang, Kun Kuang, Hao Zou, Hu Zheng, Peng Cui. Causation-Driven Visualizations for Insurance Recommendation, ICME 2019 workshop.
• Jianxin Ma, Peng Cui, Kun Kuang, Xin Wang and Wenwu Zhu. Disentangled Graph Convolutional Networks. ICML, 2019. [code], [poster]
• Zheyan Shen, Peng Cui, Kun Kuang* and Bo Li. Causally Regularized Learning on Data with Agnostic Bias. ACM MM, 2018.
• Kun Kuang, Peng Cui, Susan Athey, Ruoxuan Xiong and Bo Li. Stable Prediction across Unknown Environments. KDD, 2018. [code], [slides]
• Kun Kuang, Peng Cui, Bo Li, Meng Jiang and Shiqiang Yang. Estimating Treatment Effect in the Wild via Differentiated Confounder Balancing. KDD, 2017. [code]
• Kun Kuang, Peng Cui, Bo Li, Meng Jiang, Shiqiang Yang and Fei Wang. Treatment Effect Estimation with Data-Driven Variable Decomposition. AAAI, 2017.
• Kun Kuang, Meng Jiang, Peng Cui and Shiqiang Yang. Steering Social Media Promotions with Effective Strategies. ICDM, 2016.

Selected Honors and Awards

ACM SIGAI China Rising Star Award, 2022

Young Talent Program of China Association for Science and Technology, 2021

CAAI Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Nomination Award (TOP 14), 2020

National Scholarship for PhD Student, China, 2017

Excellent Undergraduate Student of Beijing City, China, 2014

National Scholarship for Undergraduate Student, China, 2012 & 2013

Academic Service

Journal Reviewer: PLOS ONE, Scientific Reports, TPAMI, TKDE, TNNLS, TMM, TIST, Neurocomputing, etc.

Conference PC: ICML (2020-2024), NeurIPS (2020-2025), ICLR (2020-2024), AAAI (2019-2021), CVPR (2022-2024), ICCV (2023-2024), etc.

Conference SPC: AAAI (2022-2025), KDD (2024).

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