I’m Qiushi Xiong (熊秋实), a second-year M.S. student in Artificial Intelligence at Northeastern University. I am fortunate to be advised by Associate Professor Zhenghao Liu. Currently, I am doing a research internship at Alibaba Group under the guidance of Zulong Chen. My research interests focus on information retrieval and retrieval-augmented generation.
💻 Internships
- 2024.04 - Present, Enterprise Intelligence (EI), Alibaba Group, Hangzhou, China.
🔥 News
- 2025.04: 🎉 Our work “Enhancing the Patent Matching Capability of Large Language Models via the Memory Graph” has been accepted by SIGIR 2025!
📝 Publications
Enhancing the Patent Matching Capability of Large Language Models via the Memory Graph
Qiushi Xiong, Zhipeng Xu, Zhenghao Liu, Mengjia Wang, Zulong Chen, Yue Sun, Yu Gu, Xiaohua Li, Ge Yu
Accepted by SIGIR 2025
✦ Oral Presentation
CCF-A
ConsRec: Denoising Sequential Recommendation through User-Consistent Preference Modeling
Haidong Xin, Qiushi Xiong, Zhenghao Liu, Sen Mei, Yukun Yan, Shi Yu, Shuo Wang, Yu Gu, Ge Yu, Chenyan Xiong
Preprint
HIPPO: Enhancing the Table Understanding Capability of Large Language Models through Hybrid-Modal Preference Optimization
Zhenghao Liu, Haolan Wang, Xinze Li, Qiushi Xiong, Xiaocui Yang, Yu Gu, Yukun Yan, Qi Shi, Fangfang Li, Ge Yu, Maosong Sun
Preprint
ClueAnchor: Clue-Anchored Knowledge Reasoning Exploration and Optimization for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Hao Chen, Yukun Yan, Sen Mei, Wanxiang Che, Zhenghao Liu, Qi Shi, Xinze Li, Yuchun Fan, Pengcheng Huang, Qiushi Xiong, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun
Preprint
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2023.09: First-Class Graduate Scholarship, Northeastern University
- 2021.10: National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China
