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Zheng Liu

Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, China

50 papers at tracked venues · 42 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

ACL ×20EMNLP ×6NeurIPS ×5WWW ×5CVPR ×4AAAI ×3ICLR ×2SIGIR ×2IJCAI ×1SIGKDD ×1WSDM ×1

Frequent coauthors

Shitao Xiao
×19
Defu Lian
×17
Zhicheng Dou
×17
Hongjin Qian
×13
Peitian Zhang
×12
Chaofan Li
×8
Chaozhuo Li
×7
Junjie Zhou
×7
Zhao Cao
×6
Jianlyu Chen
×6
Kun Luo
×6
Bo Zhao
×6

Papers

  1. AWARE: Agentic Knowledge Warehousing for Contextual Intelligence
    ACL 2026 ·
    Hongjin Qian
    ,
    Siqi Bao
    ,
    Zhao Cao
    , Zheng Liu
  2. AgentFactory: A Self-Evolving Framework Through Executable Subagent Accumulation and Reuse
    ACL 2026 ·
    Zhang Zhang
    ,
    Shuqi Lu
    ,
    Hongjin Qian
    ,
    Di He
    , Zheng Liu
  3. Let Retrievers Think Before Action: Thought-Augmented Embedding for Dense Retrieval
    ACL 2026 ·
    Ruiran Yan
    ,
    Wen Xiong
    ,
    Ze Liu
    ,
    Chaozhuo Li
    ,
    Hao Liao
    ,
    Defu Lian
    , Zheng Liu
  4. MemoBrain: Executive Memory as an Agentic Brain for Reasoning
    ACL 2026 ·
    Hongjin Qian
    ,
    Zhao Cao
    , Zheng Liu
  5. PaperScope: A Multi-Modal Multi-Document Benchmark for Agentic Deep Research Across Massive Scientific Papers
    ACL 2026 ·
    Lei Xiong
    ,
    Huaying Yuan
    , Zheng Liu,
    Zhao Cao
    ,
    Zhicheng Dou
  6. ReasonEmbed: Enhanced Text Embeddings for Reasoning-Intensive Document Retrieval
    ACL 2026 ·
    Jianlyu Chen
    ,
    Junwei Lan
    ,
    Chaofan Li
    ,
    Defu Lian
    , Zheng Liu
  7. Reinforcing Agentic Search Via Reward Density Optimization
    ACL 2026 ·
    Kun Luo
    ,
    Hongjin Qian
    , Zheng Liu,
    Ziyi Xia
    ,
    Shitao Xiao
    ,
    Zhao Cao
    ,
    Siqi Bao
    ,
    Jun Zhao
    ,
    Kang Liu
  8. RetroLM: Retrieval-Augmented KVs for Long-Context Processing
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Kun Luo
    , Zheng Liu,
    Shitao Xiao
    ,
    Jiabei Chen
    ,
    Hongjin Qian
    ,
    Peitian Zhang
    ,
    Shanshan Jiang
    ,
    Bin Dong
    ,
    Jun Zhao
    ,
    Kang Liu
  9. Towards Effective Code-Integrated Reasoning
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Fei Bai
    ,
    Yingqian Min
    ,
    Beichen Zhang
    ,
    Zhipeng Chen
    ,
    Xin Zhao
    ,
    Lei Fang
    , Zheng Liu,
    Zhongyuan Wang
    ,
    Hongteng Xu
  10. AIR-Bench: Automated Heterogeneous Information Retrieval Benchmark
    ACL 2025 ·
    Jianlyu Chen
    ,
    Nan Wang
    ,
    Chaofan Li
    ,
    Bo Wang
    ,
    Shitao Xiao
    ,
    Han Xiao
    ,
    Hao Liao
    ,
    Defu Lian
    , Zheng Liu
  11. Any Information Is Just Worth One Single Screenshot: Unifying Search With Visualized Information Retrieval
    ACL 2025 · Zheng Liu,
    Ze Liu
    ,
    Zhengyang Liang
    ,
    Junjie Zhou
    ,
    Shitao Xiao
    ,
    Chao Gao
    ,
    Chen Jason Zhang
    ,
    Defu Lian
  12. Boosting Long-Context Information Seeking via Query-Guided Activation Refilling
    ACL 2025 ·
    Hongjin Qian
    , Zheng Liu,
    Peitian Zhang
    ,
    Zhicheng Dou
    ,
    Defu Lian
  13. Feint and Attack: Jailbreaking and Protecting LLMs via Attention Distribution Modeling
    IJCAI 2025 ·
    Rui Pu
    ,
    Chaozhuo Li
    ,
    Rui Ha
    ,
    Zejian Chen
    ,
    Litian Zhang
    , Zheng Liu,
    Lirong Qiu
    ,
    Zaisheng Ye
  14. Fitting Into Any Shape: A Flexible LLM-Based Re-Ranker With Configurable Depth and Width
    WWW 2025 · Zheng Liu,
    Chaofan Li
    ,
    Shitao Xiao
    ,
    Chaozhuo Li
    ,
    Chen Jason Zhang
    ,
    Hao Liao
    ,
    Defu Lian
    ,
    Yingxia Shao
  15. HawkBench: Investigating Resilience of RAG Methods on Stratified Information-Seeking Tasks
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Hongjin Qian
    , Zheng Liu,
    Chao Gao
    ,
    Yankai Wang
    ,
    Defu Lian
    ,
    Zhicheng Dou
  16. Lighter And Better: Towards Flexible Context Adaptation For Retrieval Augmented Generation
    WSDM 2025 ·
    Chenyuan Wu
    ,
    Ninglu Shao
    , Zheng Liu,
    Shitao Xiao
    ,
    Chaozhuo Li
    ,
    Chen Zhang
    ,
    Senzhang Wang
    ,
    Defu Lian
  17. Long Context Compression with Activation Beacon
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Peitian Zhang
    , Zheng Liu,
    Shitao Xiao
    ,
    Ninglu Shao
    ,
    Qiwei Ye
    ,
    Zhicheng Dou
  18. MLVU: Benchmarking Multi-task Long Video Understanding
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Junjie Zhou
    ,
    Yan Shu
    ,
    Bo Zhao
    ,
    Boya Wu
    ,
    Zhengyang Liang
    ,
    Shitao Xiao
    ,
    Minghao Qin
    ,
    Xi Yang
    ,
    Yongping Xiong
    ,
    Bo Zhang
    ,
    Tiejun Huang
    , Zheng Liu
  19. MRR-FV: Unlocking Complex Fact Verification with Multi-Hop Retrieval and Reasoning
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Liwen Zheng
    ,
    Chaozhuo Li
    ,
    Litian Zhang
    ,
    Haoran Jia
    ,
    Senzhang Wang
    , Zheng Liu,
    Xi Zhang
  20. Making Text Embedders Few-Shot Learners
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Chaofan Li
    ,
    Minghao Qin
    ,
    Shitao Xiao
    ,
    Jianlyu Chen
    ,
    Kun Luo
    ,
    Defu Lian
    ,
    Yingxia Shao
    , Zheng Liu
  21. MegaPairs: Massive Data Synthesis for Universal Multimodal Retrieval
    ACL 2025 ·
    Junjie Zhou
    ,
    Yongping Xiong
    , Zheng Liu,
    Ze Liu
    ,
    Shitao Xiao
    ,
    Yueze Wang
    ,
    Bo Zhao
    ,
    Chen Jason Zhang
    ,
    Defu Lian
  22. MemoRAG: Boosting Long Context Processing with Global Memory-Enhanced Retrieval Augmentation
    WWW 2025 ·
    Hongjin Qian
    , Zheng Liu,
    Peitian Zhang
    ,
    Kelong Mao
    ,
    Defu Lian
    ,
    Zhicheng Dou
    ,
    Tiejun Huang
  23. MomentSeeker: A Task-Oriented Benchmark For Long-Video Moment Retrieval
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Huaying Yuan
    ,
    Jian Ni
    , Zheng Liu,
    Yueze Wang
    ,
    Junjie Zhou
    ,
    Zhengyang Liang
    ,
    Bo Zhao
    ,
    Zhao Cao
    ,
    Ji-Rong Wen
    ,
    Zhicheng Dou
  24. OmniGen: Unified Image Generation
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Shitao Xiao
    ,
    Yueze Wang
    ,
    Junjie Zhou
    ,
    Huaying Yuan
    ,
    Xingrun Xing
    ,
    Ruiran Yan
    ,
    Chaofan Li
    ,
    Shuting Wang
    ,
    Tiejun Huang
    , Zheng Liu
  25. Reinforced IR: A Self-Boosting Framework For Domain-Adapted Information Retrieval
    ACL 2025 ·
    Chaofan Li
    ,
    Jianlyu Chen
    ,
    Yingxia Shao
    ,
    Chaozhuo Li
    ,
    Quanqing Xu
    ,
    Defu Lian
    , Zheng Liu
  26. Scent of Knowledge: Optimizing Search-Enhanced Reasoning with Information Foraging
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Hongjin Qian
    , Zheng Liu
  27. SimpleDeepSearcher: Deep Information Seeking via Web-Powered Reasoning Trajectory Synthesis
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Shuang Sun
    ,
    Huatong Song
    ,
    Yuhao Wang
    ,
    Ruiyang Ren
    ,
    Jinhao Jiang
    ,
    Junjie Zhang
    ,
    Fei Bai
    ,
    Jia Deng
    ,
    Xin Zhao
    , Zheng Liu,
    Lei Fang
    ,
    Zhongyuan Wang
    ,
    Ji-Rong Wen
  28. 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
  29. Tackling the Length Barrier: Dynamic Context Browsing for Knowledge-Intensive Task
    SIGKDD 2025 ·
    Hongjin Qian
    , Zheng Liu,
    Peitian Zhang
    ,
    Kelong Mao
    ,
    Yujia Zhou
    ,
    Xu Chen
    ,
    Zhicheng Dou
  30. Towards A Generalist Code Embedding Model Based On Massive Data Synthesis
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Chaofan Li
    ,
    Jianlyu Chen
    ,
    Yingxia Shao
    ,
    Defu Lian
    , Zheng Liu
  31. Unveiling the Ignorance of MLLMs: Seeing Clearly, Answering Incorrectly
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Yexin Liu
    ,
    Zhengyang Liang
    ,
    Yueze Wang
    ,
    Xianfeng Wu
    ,
    Feilong Tang
    ,
    Muyang He
    ,
    Jian Li
    , Zheng Liu,
    Harry Yang
    ,
    Sernam Lim
    ,
    Bo Zhao
  32. Video-XL: Extra-Long Vision Language Model for Hour-Scale Video Understanding
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Yan Shu
    , Zheng Liu,
    Peitian Zhang
    ,
    Minghao Qin
    ,
    Junjie Zhou
    ,
    Zhengyang Liang
    ,
    Tiejun Huang
    ,
    Bo Zhao
  33. A Multi-Task Embedder For Retrieval Augmented LLMs
    ACL 2024 ·
    Peitian Zhang
    , Zheng Liu,
    Shitao Xiao
    ,
    Zhicheng Dou
    ,
    Jian-Yun Nie
  34. Boosting the Potential of Large Language Models with an Intelligent Information Assistant
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Yujia Zhou
    , Zheng Liu,
    Zhicheng Dou
  35. C-Pack: Packed Resources For General Chinese Embeddings
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Shitao Xiao
    , Zheng Liu,
    Peitian Zhang
    ,
    Niklas Muennighoff
    ,
    Defu Lian
    ,
    Jian-Yun Nie
  36. ChatRetriever: Adapting Large Language Models for Generalized and Robust Conversational Dense Retrieval
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Kelong Mao
    ,
    Chenlong Deng
    ,
    Haonan Chen
    ,
    Fengran Mo
    , Zheng Liu,
    Tetsuya Sakai
    ,
    Zhicheng Dou
  37. Generative Retrieval via Term Set Generation
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Peitian Zhang
    , Zheng Liu,
    Yujia Zhou
    ,
    Zhicheng Dou
    ,
    Fangchao Liu
    ,
    Zhao Cao
  38. Grounding Language Model with Chunking-Free In-Context Retrieval
    ACL 2024 ·
    Hongjin Qian
    , Zheng Liu,
    Kelong Mao
    ,
    Yujia Zhou
    ,
    Zhicheng Dou
  39. 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
  40. 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
  41. LM-Cocktail: Resilient Tuning of Language Models via Model Merging
    ACL 2024 ·
    Shitao Xiao
    , Zheng Liu,
    Peitian Zhang
    ,
    Xingrun Xing
  42. Landmark Embedding: A Chunking-Free Embedding Method For Retrieval Augmented Long-Context Large Language Models
    ACL 2024 ·
    Kun Luo
    , Zheng Liu,
    Shitao Xiao
    ,
    Tong Zhou
    ,
    Yubo Chen
    ,
    Jun Zhao
    ,
    Kang Liu
  43. Large Language Models as Foundations for Next-Gen Dense Retrieval: A Comprehensive Empirical Assessment
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Kun Luo
    ,
    Minghao Qin
    , Zheng Liu,
    Shitao Xiao
    ,
    Jun Zhao
    ,
    Kang Liu
  44. Llama2Vec: Unsupervised Adaptation of Large Language Models for Dense Retrieval
    ACL 2024 ·
    Chaofan Li
    , Zheng Liu,
    Shitao Xiao
    ,
    Yingxia Shao
    ,
    Defu Lian
  45. M3-Embedding: Multi-Linguality, Multi-Functionality, Multi-Granularity Text Embeddings Through Self-Knowledge Distillation
    ACL 2024 ·
    Jianlyu Chen
    ,
    Shitao Xiao
    ,
    Peitian Zhang
    ,
    Kun Luo
    ,
    Defu Lian
    , Zheng Liu
  46. MS MARCO Web Search: A Large-scale Information-rich Web Dataset with Millions of Real Click Labels
    WWW 2024 ·
    Qi Chen
    ,
    Xiubo Geng
    ,
    Corby Rosset
    ,
    Carolyn Buractaon
    ,
    Jingwen Lu
    ,
    Tao Shen
    ,
    Kun Zhou
    ,
    Chenyan Xiong
    ,
    Yeyun Gong
    ,
    Paul N. Bennett
    ,
    Nick Craswell
    ,
    Xing Xie
    ,
    Fan Yang
    ,
    Bryan Tower
    ,
    Nikhil Rao
    ,
    Anlei Dong
    ,
    Wenqi Jiang
    , Zheng Liu,
    Mingqin Li
    ,
    Chuanjie Liu
    ,
    Zengzhong Li
    ,
    Rangan Majumder
    ,
    Jennifer Neville
    ,
    Andy Oakley
    ,
    Knut Magne Risvik
    ,
    Harsha Vardhan Simhadri
    ,
    Manik Varma
    ,
    Yujing Wang
    ,
    Linjun Yang
    ,
    Mao Yang
    ,
    Ce Zhang
  47. Metacognitive Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models
    WWW 2024 ·
    Yujia Zhou
    , Zheng Liu,
    Jiajie Jin
    ,
    Jian-Yun Nie
    ,
    Zhicheng Dou
  48. Negating Negatives: Alignment with Human Negative Samples via Distributional Dispreference Optimization
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Shitong Duan
    ,
    Xiaoyuan Yi
    ,
    Peng Zhang
    ,
    Yan Liu
    , Zheng Liu,
    Tun Lu
    ,
    Xing Xie
    ,
    Ning Gu
  49. RAG-Studio: Towards In-Domain Adaptation of Retrieval Augmented Generation Through Self-Alignment
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Kelong Mao
    , Zheng Liu,
    Hongjin Qian
    ,
    Fengran Mo
    ,
    Chenlong Deng
    ,
    Zhicheng Dou
  50. VISTA: Visualized Text Embedding For Universal Multi-Modal Retrieval
    ACL 2024 ·
    Junjie Zhou
    , Zheng Liu,
    Shitao Xiao
    ,
    Bo Zhao
    ,
    Yongping Xiong