Wenqing Lin

Principal Researcher and Manager
Tencent
Shenzhen, China

I am managing the Social Algorithm Team at Tencent.

Contact: edwlin@me.com | www.linkedin.com/in/edwlin

Research Interests

Graph Learning, Recommender Systems, Big Data, Graph Mining, Data Management

Selected Publications
Full List: DBLP, Google Scholar, ORCiD. (Marked with ˚ are supervised interns, and ° are managed team members.)

PVLDB 2025          



Efficient and Effective Algorithms for A Family of Influence Maximization Problems with A Matroid Constraint. [code]
Yiqian Huang, Shiqi Zhang, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Wenqing Lin, Xiaokui Xiao, Bo Tang.
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), to appear, 2025.

WWW 2024          



Information Diffusion Meets Invitation Mechanism. [code]
Shiqi Zhang˚, Jiachen Sun°, Wenqing Lin, Xiaokui Xiao, Yiqian Huang, Bo Tang.
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference (WWW), pages 383-392, 2024.

SIGKDD 2024          



Beyond Binary Preference: Leveraging Bayesian Approaches for Joint Optimization of Ranking and Calibration. [code]
Chang Liu˚, Qiwei Wang°, Wenqing Lin, Yue Ding, Hongtao Lu.
Proceedings of ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), pages 5442 - 5453, 2024.

SIGKDD 2024          



DAG: Deep Adaptive and Generative K-Free Community Detection on Attributed Graphs.
Chang Liu˚, Yuwen Yang, Yue Ding, Hongtao Lu, Wenqing Lin, Ziming Wu°, Wendong Bi°.
Proceedings of ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), pages 5454 - 5465, 2024.

PVLDB 2024          



Minimum Strongly Connected Subgraph Collection in Dynamic Graphs. [code]
Xin Chen˚, Jieming Shi, You Peng, Wenqing Lin, Sibo Wang, Wenjie Zhang.
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 17(6): 1324-1336, 2024.

SIGKDD 2023          



Constrained Social Community Recommendation.
Xingyi Zhang˚, Shuliang Xu°, Wenqing Lin, Sibo Wang.
Proceedings of ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), pages 5586-5596, 2023.

SIGKDD 2023          



Capacity Constrained Influence Maximization in Social Networks. [code]
Shiqi Zhang˚, Yiqian Huang, Jiachen Sun°, Wenqing Lin, Xiaokui Xiao, Bo Tang.
Proceedings of ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), pages 3376-3385, 2023.

SIGMOD 2023          



Managing Conflicting Interests of Stakeholders in Influencer Marketing.
Shixun Huang˚, Junhao Gan, Zhifeng Bao, Wenqing Lin.
Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data (PACMMOD), 1(1): 80:1-80:27, 2023.

PVLDB 2022          



Influence Maximization in Real-World Closed Social Networks. [code]
Shixun Huang˚, Wenqing Lin, Zhifeng Bao, Jiachen Sun°.
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 16(2): 180-192, 2022.

CIKM 2022          



Measuring Friendship Closeness: A Perspective of Social Identity Theory.
Shiqi Zhang˚, Jiachen Sun°, Wenqing Lin, Xiaokui Xiao, Bo Tang.
Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pages 3664-3673, 2022.

SIGKDD 2021          



Large-Scale Network Embedding in Apache Spark.
Wenqing Lin.
Proceedings of ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), pages 3271-3279, 2021.

WSDM 2020          



Initialization for Network Embedding: A Graph Partition Approach.
Wenqing Lin, Feng He, Faqiang Zhang, Xu Cheng, Hongyun Cai.
Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), pages 367-374, 2020.

WWW 2019          



Distributed Algorithms for Fully Personalized PageRank on Large Graphs.
Wenqing Lin.
Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference (WWW), pages 1084-1094, 2019.

TKDE 2017          



Network Motif Discovery: A GPU Approach.
Wenqing Lin, Xiaokui Xiao, Xing Xie, Xiaoli Li.
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), special issue on Best Papers of ICDE 2015, 29(3): 513-528, 2017.

ICDE 2016          



Semantic Proximity Search on Graphs with Metagraph-based Learning.
Yuan Fang, Wenqing Lin, Vincent Wenchen Zheng, Min Wu, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Xiaoli Li.
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pages 277-288, 2016.

CIKM 2016          



A Distributed Graph Algorithm for Discovering Unique Behavioral Groups from Large-Scale Telco Data.
Qirong Ho, Wenqing Lin, Eran Shaham, Shonali Krishnaswamy, The Anh Dang, Jingxuan Wang, Isabel Choo Zhongyan, Amy She-Nash.
Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pages 1353-1362, 2016.

ICDE 2015          



Network Motif Discovery: A GPU Approach.
Wenqing Lin, Xiaokui Xiao, Xing Xie, Xiaoli Li.
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pages 831-842, 2015.

SIGMOD 2015          



Efficient Route Planning on Public Transportation Networks: A Labelling Approach.
Sibo Wang, Wenqing Lin, Yi Yang, Xiaokui Xiao, Shuigeng Zhou.
Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), pages 967-982, 2015.

ICDE 2014          



Large-Scale Frequent Subgraph Mining in MapReduce.
Wenqing Lin, Xiaokui Xiao, Gabriel Ghinita.
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pages 844-855, 2014.

SIGMOD 2014          



Reachability Queries on Large Dynamic Graphs: A Total Order Approach.
Andy Diwen Zhu, Wenqing Lin, Sibo Wang, Xiaokui Xiao.
Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), pages 1323-1334, 2014.

ICDE 2013          



LSII: An Indexing Structure for Exact Real-Time Search on Microblogs.
Lingkun Wu, Wenqing Lin, Xiaokui Xiao, Yabo Xu.
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pages 482-493, 2013.

SIGMOD 2013          



Minimal MapReduce Algorithms.
Yufei Tao, Wenqing Lin, Xiaokui Xiao.
Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), pages 529-540, 2013.

CIKM 2012          



Efficient Algorithms for Generalized Subgraph Query Processing.
Wenqing Lin, Xiaokui Xiao, James Cheng, Sourav S. Bhowmick.
Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pages 325-334, 2012.

Selected Professional Services

Senior Program Committee
IJCAI: 2023, 2024.

Program Committee
SIGKDD: 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.
WWW: 2021 (session chair), 2022, 2024.
WSDM: 2023, 2024, 2025.
CIKM: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
IJCAI: 2020, 2021, 2022.

Best Reviewer Award at SIGKDD 2024
Best Reviewer Award at CIKM 2021