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.)

ICDE 2025          


Finding Near-Optimal Maximum Set of Disjoint k-Cliques in Real-World Social Networks. [code]
Xin Chen˚, Wenqing Lin, Haoxuan Xie˚, Sibo Wang, Siqiang Luo.

SIGIR 2025          


FROG: Effective Friend Recommendation in Online Games via Modality-aware User Preferences. [code]
Qiwei Wang°, Dandan Lin, Wenqing Lin, Ziming Wu°.

WWW 2024          


Information Diffusion Meets Invitation Mechanism. [code]
Shiqi Zhang˚, Jiachen Sun°, Wenqing Lin, Xiaokui Xiao, Yiqian Huang, Bo Tang.

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.

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°.

SIGKDD 2023          


Constrained Social Community Recommendation.
Xingyi Zhang˚, Shuliang Xu°, Wenqing Lin, Sibo Wang.

SIGKDD 2023          


Capacity Constrained Influence Maximization in Social Networks. [code]
Shiqi Zhang˚, Yiqian Huang, Jiachen Sun°, Wenqing Lin, Xiaokui Xiao, Bo Tang.

PVLDB 2022          


Influence Maximization in Real-World Closed Social Networks. [code]
Shixun Huang˚, Wenqing Lin, Zhifeng Bao, Jiachen Sun°.

CIKM 2022          


Measuring Friendship Closeness: A Perspective of Social Identity Theory.
Shiqi Zhang˚, Jiachen Sun°, Wenqing Lin, Xiaokui Xiao, Bo Tang.

SIGKDD 2021          


Large-Scale Network Embedding in Apache Spark.
Wenqing Lin.

WSDM 2020          


Initialization for Network Embedding: A Graph Partition Approach.
Wenqing Lin, Feng He, Faqiang Zhang, Xu Cheng, Hongyun Cai.

WWW 2019          


Distributed Algorithms for Fully Personalized PageRank on Large Graphs.
Wenqing Lin.

TKDE 2017          


Network Motif Discovery: A GPU Approach. (Special Issue on Best Papers of ICDE 2015)
Wenqing Lin, Xiaokui Xiao, Xing Xie, Xiaoli Li.

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.

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.

ICDE 2015          


Network Motif Discovery: A GPU Approach.
Wenqing Lin, Xiaokui Xiao, Xing Xie, Xiaoli Li.

SIGMOD 2015          


Efficient Route Planning on Public Transportation Networks: A Labelling Approach.
Sibo Wang, Wenqing Lin, Yi Yang, Xiaokui Xiao, Shuigeng Zhou.

ICDE 2014          


Large-Scale Frequent Subgraph Mining in MapReduce.
Wenqing Lin, Xiaokui Xiao, Gabriel Ghinita.

SIGMOD 2014          


Reachability Queries on Large Dynamic Graphs: A Total Order Approach.
Andy Diwen Zhu, Wenqing Lin, Sibo Wang, Xiaokui Xiao.

ICDE 2013          


LSII: An Indexing Structure for Exact Real-Time Search on Microblogs.
Lingkun Wu, Wenqing Lin, Xiaokui Xiao, Yabo Xu.

SIGMOD 2013          


Minimal MapReduce Algorithms.
Yufei Tao, Wenqing Lin, Xiaokui Xiao.

CIKM 2012          


Efficient Algorithms for Generalized Subgraph Query Processing.
Wenqing Lin, Xiaokui Xiao, James Cheng, Sourav S. Bhowmick.

Selected Professional Services

Senior Program Committee
IJCAI: 2023, 2024, 2025.

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