Yutao Zhu

Université de Montréal, Canada

46 papers at tracked venues · 40 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

ACL ×21 WWW ×6 AAAI ×5 SIGIR ×5 EMNLP ×4 ACM MM ×1 NAACL ×1 NeurIPS ×1 SIGKDD ×1 WSDM ×1

Frequent coauthors

Zhicheng Dou

×42

Ji-Rong Wen

×23

Jiajie Jin

×14

Guanting Dong

×13

Xiaoxi Li

×9

Chenghao Zhang

×5

Wenhan Liu

×5

Dawei Yin

×5

Zhaoheng Huang

×5

Yuyao Zhang

×5

Hongjin Qian

×5

Xinyu Ma

×4

Papers

ATIR: Towards Audio-Text Interleaved Contextual Retrieval
ACL 2026 ·
Tong Zhao
,
Chenghao Zhang
, Yutao Zhu,
Zhicheng Dou
Agentic-R: Learning to Retrieve for Agentic Search
ACL 2026 ·
Wenhan Liu
,
Xinyu Ma
, Yutao Zhu,
Yuchen Li
,
Daiting Shi
,
Dawei Yin
,
Zhicheng Dou
DeepAgent: A General Reasoning Agent with Scalable Toolsets
WWW 2026 ·
Xiaoxi Li
,
Wenxiang Jiao
,
Jiarui Jin
,
Guanting Dong
,
Jiajie Jin
,
Yinuo Wang
,
Hao Wang
, Yutao Zhu,
Ji-Rong Wen
,
Yuan Lu
,
Zhicheng Dou
EnvScaler: Scaling Tool-Interactive Environments for LLM Agent via Programmatic Synthesis
ACL 2026 ·
Xiaoshuai Song
,
Haofei Chang
,
Guanting Dong
, Yutao Zhu,
Ji-Rong Wen
,
Zhicheng Dou
Evaluating the Factuality of Large Language Models Using Multiple Plug-and-Play Fact Sources
AAAI 2026 ·
Zhaoheng Huang
, Yutao Zhu,
Jirong Wen
,
Zhicheng Dou
FinSight: Towards Real-World Financial Deep Research
ACL 2026 ·
Jiajie Jin
,
Yuyao Zhang
,
Yimeng Xu
,
Hongjin Qian
, Yutao Zhu,
Zhicheng Dou
HiRA: Decoupling Planning and Execution with Hierarchical Reasoning in Deep Search
SIGIR 2026 ·
Jiajie Jin
,
Xiaoxi Li
,
Yuyao Zhang
,
Guanting Dong
,
Zhao Yang
, Yutao Zhu,
Zhicheng Dou
Hide and Seek with LLMs: An Adversarial Game for Sneaky Error Generation and Self-Improving Diagnosis
AAAI 2026 ·
Rui Zou
,
Mengqi Wei
, Yutao Zhu,
Jirong Wen
,
Xin Zhao
,
Jing Chen
Internalizing Explicit Reasoning into Latent Space for Dense Retrieval
SIGIR 2026 ·
Jiajie Jin
,
Yanzhao Zhang
,
Mingxin Li
,
Dingkun Long
,
Pengjun Xie
, Yutao Zhu,
Zhicheng Dou
LLM-Generated Text May Harm Your Retrieval! A Robust Detection Strategy for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
ACL 2026 ·
Zhaoheng Huang
, Yutao Zhu,
Ji-Rong Wen
,
Zhicheng Dou
Memory Matters More: Event-Centric Memory as a Logic Map for Agent Searching and Reasoning
ACL 2026 ·
Yuyang Hu
,
Jiongnan Liu
,
Jiejun Tan
, Yutao Zhu,
Zhicheng Dou
RLSeek: Evidence-Grounded Reasoning for RAG Hallucination Detection
ACL 2026 ·
Zhaoheng Huang
,
Dacheng Wen
, Yutao Zhu,
Xiaoying Lian
,
Yushi Liang
,
Kai Hao
,
Nan Li
,
Liangjie Zhang
,
Qi Zhang
,
Ji-Rong Wen
,
Zhicheng Dou
,
Fangzhao Wu
ReasonRank: Empowering Passage Ranking with Strong Reasoning Ability
ACL 2026 ·
Wenhan Liu
,
Xinyu Ma
,
Weiwei Sun
, Yutao Zhu,
Yuchen Li
,
Dawei Yin
,
Zhicheng Dou
R⌃3AG: Retriever Routing for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
ACL 2026 ·
Tong Zhao
, Yutao Zhu,
Yucheng Tian
,
Zhicheng Dou
Tool-Star: Empowering Multi-Tool Collaborative Web Agent via Reinforcement Learning
SIGIR 2026 ·
Guanting Dong
,
Yifei Chen
,
Xiaoxi Li
,
Jiajie Jin
,
Hongjin Qian
, Yutao Zhu,
Hangyu Mao
,
Guorui Zhou
,
Zhicheng Dou
,
Ji-Rong Wen
Toward Generalized Web Agent Training: A Deep Dive into Entropy-Balanced Reinforcement Learning
WWW 2026 ·
Guanting Dong
,
Licheng Bao
,
Zhongyuan Wang
,
Kangzhi Zhao
,
Xiaoxi Li
,
Jiajie Jin
,
Jinghan Yang
,
Hangyu Mao
,
Fuzheng Zhang
,
Kun Gai
,
Guorui Zhou
, Yutao Zhu,
Ji-Rong Wen
,
Zhicheng Dou
Web Sitemap Knowledge Can Enhance Autonomous Browsing
ACL 2026 ·
Yuyao Zhang
,
Hongyu Lu
,
Jiajie Jin
,
Hongjin Qian
,
Shiyu Li
,
Zhao Yang
, Yutao Zhu,
Ji-Rong Wen
,
Zhicheng Dou
CoRanking: Collaborative Ranking with Small and Large Ranking Agents
EMNLP 2025 ·
Wenhan Liu
,
Xinyu Ma
, Yutao Zhu,
Lixin Su
,
Shuaiqiang Wang
,
Dawei Yin
,
Zhicheng Dou
Descriptive and Discriminative Document Identifiers for Generative Retrieval
AAAI 2025 ·
Jiehan Cheng
,
Zhicheng Dou
, Yutao Zhu,
Xiaoxi Li
Embedding Prior Task-specific Knowledge into Language Models for Context-aware Document Ranking
SIGKDD 2025 ·
Shuting Wang
, Yutao Zhu,
Zhicheng Dou
Enhancing LLM Text Detection with Retrieved Contexts and Logits Distribution Consistency
EMNLP 2025 ·
Zhaoheng Huang
, Yutao Zhu,
Ji-Rong Wen
,
Zhicheng Dou
FlashRAG: A Modular Toolkit for Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Generation Research
WWW 2025 ·
Jiajie Jin
, Yutao Zhu,
Zhicheng Dou
,
Guanting Dong
,
Xinyu Yang
,
Chenghao Zhang
,
Tong Zhao
,
Zhao Yang
,
Ji-Rong Wen
From Pixels to Tokens: Revisiting Object Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models
ACM MM 2025 ·
Yuying Shang
,
Xinyi Zeng
, Yutao Zhu,
Xiao Yang
,
Zhengwei Fang
,
Jingyuan Zhang
,
Jiawei Chen
,
Zinan Liu
,
Yu Tian
Hierarchical Document Refinement for Long-context Retrieval-augmented Generation
ACL 2025 ·
Jiajie Jin
,
Xiaoxi Li
,
Guanting Dong
,
Yuyao Zhang
, Yutao Zhu,
Yongkang Wu
,
Zhonghua Li
,
Ye Qi
,
Zhicheng Dou
LLMs + Persona-Plug = Personalized LLMs
ACL 2025 ·
Jiongnan Liu
, Yutao Zhu,
Shuting Wang
,
Xiaochi Wei
,
Erxue Min
,
Yu Lu
,
Shuaiqiang Wang
,
Dawei Yin
,
Zhicheng Dou
Little Giants: Synthesizing High-Quality Embedding Data at Scale
NAACL 2025 ·
Haonan Chen
,
Liang Wang
,
Nan Yang
, Yutao Zhu,
Ziliang Zhao
,
Furu Wei
,
Zhicheng Dou
One Token Can Help! Learning Scalable and Pluggable Virtual Tokens for Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models
AAAI 2025 · Yutao Zhu,
Zhaoheng Huang
,
Zhicheng Dou
,
Ji-Rong Wen
Progressive Multimodal Reasoning via Active Retrieval
ACL 2025 ·
Guanting Dong
,
Chenghao Zhang
,
Mengjie Deng
, Yutao Zhu,
Zhicheng Dou
,
Ji-Rong Wen
RAG-Critic: Leveraging Automated Critic-Guided Agentic Workflow for Retrieval Augmented Generation
ACL 2025 ·
Guanting Dong
,
Jiajie Jin
,
Xiaoxi Li
, Yutao Zhu,
Zhicheng Dou
,
Ji-Rong Wen
Search-o1: Agentic Search-Enhanced Large Reasoning Models
EMNLP 2025 ·
Xiaoxi Li
,
Guanting Dong
,
Jiajie Jin
,
Yuyao Zhang
,
Yujia Zhou
, Yutao Zhu,
Peitian Zhang
,
Zhicheng Dou
Single LLM, Multiple Roles: A Unified Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework Using Role-Specific Token Optimization
EMNLP 2025 · Yutao Zhu,
Jiajie Jin
,
Hongjin Qian
,
Zheng Liu
,
Zhicheng Dou
,
Ji-Rong Wen
Sliding Windows Are Not the End: Exploring Full Ranking with Long-Context Large Language Models
ACL 2025 ·
Wenhan Liu
,
Xinyu Ma
, Yutao Zhu,
Ziliang Zhao
,
Shuaiqiang Wang
,
Dawei Yin
,
Zhicheng Dou
Toward Verifiable Instruction-Following Alignment for Retrieval Augmented Generation
AAAI 2025 ·
Guanting Dong
,
Xiaoshuai Song
, Yutao Zhu,
Runqi Qiao
,
Zhicheng Dou
,
Ji-Rong Wen
Towards Effective and Efficient Continual Pre-training of Large Language Models
ACL 2025 ·
Jie Chen
,
Zhipeng Chen
,
Jiapeng Wang
,
Kun Zhou
, Yutao Zhu,
Jinhao Jiang
,
Yingqian Min
,
Xin Zhao
,
Zhicheng Dou
,
Jiaxin Mao
,
Yankai Lin
,
Ruihua Song
,
Jun Xu
,
Xu Chen
,
Rui Yan
,
Zhewei Wei
,
Di Hu
,
Wenbing Huang
,
Ji-Rong Wen
Understand What LLM Needs: Dual Preference Alignment for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
WWW 2025 ·
Guanting Dong
, Yutao Zhu,
Chenghao Zhang
,
Zechen Wang
,
Ji-Rong Wen
,
Zhicheng Dou
WebThinker: Empowering Large Reasoning Models with Deep Research Capability
NeurIPS 2025 ·
Xiaoxi Li
,
Jiajie Jin
,
Guanting Dong
,
Hongjin Qian
,
Yongkang Wu
,
Ji-Rong Wen
, Yutao Zhu,
Zhicheng Dou
YuLan-Mini: Pushing the Limits of Open Data-efficient Language Model
ACL 2025 ·
Yiwen Hu
,
Huatong Song
,
Jie Chen
,
Jia Deng
,
Jiapeng Wang
,
Kun Zhou
, Yutao Zhu,
Jinhao Jiang
,
Zican Dong
,
Yang Lu
,
Xu Miao
,
Xin Zhao
,
Ji-Rong Wen
mmE5: Improving Multimodal Multilingual Embeddings via High-quality Synthetic Data
ACL 2025 ·
Haonan Chen
,
Liang Wang
,
Nan Yang
, Yutao Zhu,
Ziliang Zhao
,
Furu Wei
,
Zhicheng Dou
An Integrated Data Processing Framework for Pretraining Foundation Models
SIGIR 2024 ·
Yiding Sun
,
Feng Wang
, Yutao Zhu,
Wayne Xin Zhao
,
Jiaxin Mao
BIDER: Bridging Knowledge Inconsistency for Efficient Retrieval-Augmented LLMs via Key Supporting Evidence
ACL 2024 ·
Jiajie Jin
, Yutao Zhu,
Yujia Zhou
,
Zhicheng Dou
CL4DIV: A Contrastive Learning Framework for Search Result Diversification
WSDM 2024 ·
Zhirui Deng
,
Zhicheng Dou
, Yutao Zhu,
Ji-Rong Wen
INTERS: Unlocking the Power of Large Language Models in Search with Instruction Tuning
ACL 2024 · Yutao Zhu,
Peitian Zhang
,
Chenghao Zhang
,
Yifei Chen
,
Binyu Xie
,
Zheng Liu
,
Ji-Rong Wen
,
Zhicheng Dou
Information Retrieval Meets Large Language Models
WWW 2024 ·
Zheng Liu
,
Yujia Zhou
, Yutao Zhu,
Jianxun Lian
,
Chaozhuo Li
,
Zhicheng Dou
,
Defu Lian
,
Jian-Yun Nie
JDivPS: A Diversified Product Search Dataset
SIGIR 2024 ·
Zhirui Deng
,
Zhicheng Dou
, Yutao Zhu,
Xubo Qin
,
Pengchao Cheng
,
Jiangxu Wu
,
Hao Wang
Mining Exploratory Queries for Conversational Search
WWW 2024 ·
Wenhan Liu
,
Ziliang Zhao
, Yutao Zhu,
Zhicheng Dou
Small Models, Big Insights: Leveraging Slim Proxy Models To Decide When and What to Retrieve for LLMs
ACL 2024 ·
Jiejun Tan
,
Zhicheng Dou
, Yutao Zhu,
Peidong Guo
,
Kun Fang
,
Ji-Rong Wen