Zhilin Zhang

Senior Algorithm Specialist, Advertising Platform(Alimama ), Alibaba Group

Joined

July 2019

Names

Zhilin Zhang (Preferred)

Emails

****@alibaba-inc.com (Confirmed)

****@taobao.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Senior Algorithm Specialist

Advertising Platform(Alimama ), Alibaba Group (alibaba-inc.com)

2017 – Present

Researcher and developer

Advertising Platform, Baidu (baidu.com)

2013 – 2017

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Xiaotie Deng

2023 – 2025

advisor

Huaizhong Lin

2010 – 2013

Expertise

Decision-making

Reinforcement learning

Auto-Bidding

Ad Auction

Online Advertising

Present

Publications

Iterative Scarcity-Guided Exploration: Bootstrapping Generative Auto-bidding from Narrow Support
Qingmao Yao, Guangzheng Hu, Yusen Huo, Zhilin Zhang, Chuan Yu, Jian Xu, Bo Zheng, Xiaotie Deng
- ICLR 2026 Workshop AIMS
- Readers: Everyone
DecisionLLM: Large Language Models for Long Sequence Decision Exploration
Xiaowei Lv, Zhilin Zhang, Yijun Li, Yusen Huo, Siyuan Ju, Xuyan Li, Hong Chunxiang, Tianyu Wang, Yongcai Wang, Peng Sun, Chuan Yu, Jian Xu, Bo Zheng
- ICLR 2026 Workshop AIMS
- Readers: Everyone
Truthful Auctions for Automated Bidding in Online Advertising
Yidan Xing, Zhilin Zhang, Zhenzhe Zheng, Chuan Yu, Jian Xu, Fan Wu, Guihai Chen
- IJCAI '23: Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- Readers: Everyone
Learning against Non-credible Second-Price Auctions
Qian Wang, Xuanzhi Xia, Zongjun Yang, Xiaotie Deng, Yuqing Kong, Zhilin Zhang, Liang Wang, Chuan Yu, Jian Xu, Bo Zheng
- WWW 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Action Sequence Planner: An Alternative For Offline Reinforcement Learning
Zhengye Han, Yusen Huo, Zhijian Duan, Tianyu Wang, Yeshu Li, Zhilin Zhang, Chuan Yu, Jian Xu, Bo Zheng, Xiaotie Deng
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
AuctionNet: A Novel Benchmark for Decision-Making in Large-Scale Games
Kefan Su, Yusen Huo, Zhilin Zhang, Shuai Dou, Chuan Yu, Jian Xu, Zongqing Lu, Bo Zheng
- NeurIPS 2024 Track Datasets and Benchmarks Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Auto-Bidding in Large-Scale Auctions: Learning Decision-Making in Uncertain and Competitive Games
Jian Xu, Zhilin Zhang, Zongqing Lu, Xiaotie Deng, Michael P. Wellman, Chuan Yu, Shuai Dou, Yusen Huo, Zhiwei Xu, Zhijian Duan, Shaopan Xiong, Chuang Liu, Ningyuan Li, Kefan Su, Wei Gong, Bo Zheng
- NeurIPS 2024 Competition Track
- Readers: Everyone
Ad vs Organic: Revisiting Incentive Compatible Mechanism Design in E-commerce Platforms
Ningyuan Li, Yunxuan Ma, Yang Zhao, Qian Wang, Zhilin Zhang, Chuan Yu, Jian Xu, Bo Zheng, Xiaotie Deng
- TheWebConf24
- Readers: Everyone
Trajectory-wise Iterative Reinforcement Learning Framework for Auto-bidding
Haoming Li, Yusen Huo, Shuai Dou, Zhenzhe Zheng, Zhilin Zhang, Chuan Yu, Jian Xu, Fan Wu
- TheWebConf24 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Learning-Based Ad Auction Design with Externalities: The Framework and A Matching-Based Approach
Ningyuan Li, Yunxuan Ma, Yang Zhao, Zhijian Duan, Yurong Chen, Zhilin Zhang, Jian Xu, Bo Zheng, Xiaotie Deng
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 21 Sept 2023
- KDD 2023
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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