Guillaume Salha-Galvan
@guillaumesalhagalvan
Associate Professor in AI 🇫🇷 👨🏫 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) SJTU Paris Elite Institute of Technology Founder and PI, Sino-French Data & AI Lab #RecSys #LLM #Agents #GraphML #Music #Tech #Research 🔗 guillaumesalhagalvan.com
Interested in LLMs and recommender systems? The EARL workshop is back for its 3rd edition, this time co-located with #CIKM2026 in Rome, Italy! 🇮🇹 🥳 The call for papers is now available. We welcome your submissions! Website: earl-workshop.github.io #RecSys #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels #CIKM
Just accepted at #RecSys2026! 🎉 A multimodal LLM supporting Explore Feed recommendations for over 300 MILLION USERS on Xiaohongshu (RedNote). Grateful to have contributed to work with such massive impact. More details below! 👇
We will present our position paper, titled "Regulating Algorithms Is Not Enough. A Study on Content Discovery in Online Platforms," next week at #ICML2026 in Seoul, South Korea! 🇰🇷 More details: www.linkedin.com/posts/guilla...
Grateful to have joined such a fantastic panel yesterday for a discussion on "AI and Humans" at Tech for Good 2026, organized by La French Tech Shanghai!
I am pleased to serve as a panelist at the upcoming Tech for Good 2026 event on Al, organized by La French Tech Shanghai and taking place on June 11th.
Happy to share this new LLM paper, just accepted at ECML-PKDD 2026! 🥳 This joint work with my former colleagues from the French music streaming service Deezer presents an LLM-based system automatically describing the “Daily Mix” music playlists recommended to millions of users every day. (1/2)
More good news for ICML 2026! 🎉 Our work with Walid Bendada (Spotify), titled “Size- and Dispersion-Corrected Two-Level Softmax Sampling”, will be presented this July at the ICML 2026 Workshop on Structured Probabilistic Inference & Generative Modeling. More details online soon. See you in Seoul.
Deep Learning course! 👨🏼🏫 SJTU Paris Elite Institute of Technology
Representing my MSc research students who did some cool science in Shanghai!
Wonderful collaboration with Xiaohongshu (known internationally as RedNote), a leading Chinese content-driven platform, on a multimodal LLM now powering Explore Feed recommendations for hundreds of millions of users. Project led by Yubin Zhang, with many collaborators. 📝: arxiv.org/pdf/2603.01590
Thrilled to see the full MusicSem paper finally online! 🎉 51 pages detailing our new semantically rich language-audio dataset of music descriptions to support multimodal music representation learning. Project led by Rebecca Salganik with many collaborators worldwide. 📝 arxiv.org/pdf/2602.17769
Always a pleasure to visit and stroll around the University of Tokyo.
Last week, I was deeply honored to become the first non-Chinese recipient of the Xiaomi Young Scholar Award (小米青年学者奖) at SJTU. Backed by Xiaomi, this award aims to recognize and support outstanding young professors at SJTU who have secured national-level research funding in the past year.
#NeurIPS2025 is just a few days away! Don’t miss Rebecca Salganik’s presentation of MusicSem, our new dataset of musical descriptions on Reddit capturing musical semantics, at the AI4Music workshop: aiformusicworkshop.github.io
Teaching and engaging with students has been the most fulfilling aspect of my return to academia. This month was particularly special, as I had the pleasure of presenting our SJTU Paris Elite Institute of Technology to high school students! 🎓🇨🇳🇫🇷 More details: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
It was a pleasure to speak at our Physical AI seminar, last week at the SJTU Paris Elite Institute of Technology in Shanghai 🇨🇳🇫🇷
Even on Friday afternoon, the last stretch of the #RecSys2025 conference, Hugues Bouchard packed the room with his talk on audiobook retrievability at Spotify… the Best Paper Award at the #EARL2025 workshop! Congratulations! 🎉 @recsys.bsky.social @spotify.com
Wei-Wei Du (Sony) kicks-off the #EARL2025 workshop in room D3! @recsys.bsky.social #RecSys2025
Just made it to beautiful Prague for #RecSys2025! 🇨🇿 I'll be honored to host the #EARL Workshop on Evaluating and Applying Recommender Systems with LLMs. We've put together an exciting program, including two invited talks and no fewer than 18 papers. Take a look: www.linkedin.com/posts/guilla...
9月23日新加坡交流会，欢迎老师们推荐 ！ Join our 2025 Young Scholars Talent Recruitment Seminar in Singapore next week. Looking for: tenure-track assistant professors, tenure-track associate professors, tenured professors. More information: speit.sjtu.edu.cn/en/about/new...
Do not miss our paper "Exploring Large Action Sets with Hyperspherical Embeddings using von Mises-Fisher Sampling" this week at #ICML2025! Paper - arxiv.org/pdf/2507.00518 Code - github.com/deezer/vMF-e... ICML page - icml.cc/virtual/2025... 新闻稿（中文）- mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzA5...
News of the day! 🎸 Our project: "MusicSem: A Dataset of Music Descriptions on Reddit Capturing Musical Semantics" led by Rebecca Salganik with many colleagues from Univ of Rochester, National Univ of Singapore, Singapore Management Univ, will be presented as a demo at #ISMIR2025 in South Korea 🇰🇷