Wang-Cheng Kang

Software Engineer, Google

Joined

April 2020

Names

Wang-Cheng Kang (Preferred)

Emails

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Career & Education History

Software Engineer

Google (google.com)

2020 – Present

PhD student

University of California, San Diego (ucsd.edu)

2016 – 2020

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

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Expertise

Recommender System

2016 – 2020

Deep Learning

2016 – 2020

Embedding

2016 – 2020

Publications

PACEvolve: Enabling Long-Horizon Progress-Aware Consistent Evolution
Minghao Yan, Bo Peng, Benjamin Coleman, Ziqi Chen, Zhouhang Xie, Shuo Chen, Zhankui He, Noveen Sachdeva, Isabella Ye, Weili Wang, Chi Wang, Ed H. Chi, Fernando Pereira, Wang-Cheng Kang, Derek Zhiyuan Cheng, Beidou Wang
- LLA 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
How to train data-efficient LLMs
Noveen Sachdeva, Benjamin Coleman, Wang-Cheng Kang, Jianmo Ni, Lichan Hong, Ed H. Chi, James Caverlee, Julian McAuley, Derek Zhiyuan Cheng
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
ActionPiece: Contextually Tokenizing Action Sequences for Generative Recommendation
Yupeng Hou, Jianmo Ni, Zhankui He, Noveen Sachdeva, Wang-Cheng Kang, Ed H. Chi, Julian McAuley, Derek Zhiyuan Cheng
- ICML 2025 spotlightposter
- Readers: Everyone
Farzi Data: Autoregressive Data Distillation
Noveen Sachdeva, Zexue He, Wang-Cheng Kang, Jianmo Ni, Derek Zhiyuan Cheng, Julian McAuley
- Submitted to ICLR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Unified Embedding: Battle-Tested Feature Representations for Web-Scale ML Systems
Benjamin Coleman, Wang-Cheng Kang, Matthew Fahrbach, Ruoxi Wang, Lichan Hong, Ed H. Chi, Derek Zhiyuan Cheng
- NeurIPS 2023 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Self-Attentive Sequential Recocommendation
Wang-Cheng Kang
- 16 Feb 2023
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Learning to Embed Categorical Features without Embedding Tables for Recommendation
Wang-Cheng Kang, Derek Zhiyuan Cheng, Tiansheng Yao, Xinyang Yi, Ting Chen, Lichan Hong, Ed H. Chi
- 2021 (modified: 12 Sept 2021)
- KDD 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Deep Hash Embedding for Large-Vocab Categorical Feature Representations
Wang-Cheng Kang, Derek Zhiyuan Cheng, Tiansheng Yao, Xinyang Yi, Ting Chen, Lichan Hong, Ed H. Chi
- 2020 (modified: 12 Sept 2021)
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Learning Multi-granular Quantized Embeddings for Large-Vocab Categorical Features in Recommender Systems
Wang-Cheng Kang, Derek Zhiyuan Cheng, Ting Chen, Xinyang Yi, Dong Lin, Lichan Hong, Ed H. Chi
- 2020 (modified: 12 Sept 2021)
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Learning Multi-granular Quantized Embeddings for Large-Vocab Categorical Features in Recommender Systems
Wang-Cheng Kang, Derek Zhiyuan Cheng, Ting Chen, Xinyang Yi, Dong Lin, Lichan Hong, Ed H. Chi
- 2020 (modified: 12 Sept 2021)
- WWW (Companion Volume) 2020
- Readers: Everyone

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