Qian Dong

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Qian Dong

I am a final-year Ph.D. student at THUIR, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. I am fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Shaoping Ma, Prof. Yiqun Liu and Prof. Qingyao Ai.

My research interest lies in algo & infra co-designed model architectures for scalable parameters, context, and especially intelligence.

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"Do not go gentle into that good night."

β€” Dylan Thomas

News

Feb 2026πŸš€ GLM-5 Technical Report is released! I am one of the core contributors for model architecture.
Dec 2025πŸš€ GLM-4.7 is released! Check our Blog for details.
Nov 2025πŸ“„ SelfRACG accepted to EMNLP 2025 β€” Letting LLMs self-express retrieval queries for better code generation in one model arch.
Sep 2025πŸš€ GLM-4.6 is released! Check our Blog for details.
Aug 2025πŸš€ GLM-4.5 Technical Report is released! I am one of the contributors for exploring sparse attention adaptation in the post-training stage.
Jul 2025πŸ“„ Qilin accepted to SIGIR 2025 β€” A multimodal IR dataset capturing real APP-level user sessions.
Apr 2025πŸ“„ DecoupledRAG accepted to WWW 2025 β€” Decoupling context and knowledge via cross-attention for efficient RAG.
Jul 2024πŸ“„ RLCF accepted to SIGIR 2024 β€” Aligning LLMs for IR through unsupervised contrastive feedback.
Oct 2023πŸ“„ IΒ³Retriever accepted to CIKM 2023 β€” Incorporating implicit query-document interaction into retrievers via a generative module.
Jul 2023πŸ“„ TΒ²Ranking accepted to SIGIR 2023 β€” A large-scale Chinese passage ranking benchmark.
Jul 2022πŸ“„ KERM accepted to SIGIR 2022 β€” Incorporating explicit knowledge into PLMs for passage re-ranking.
Feb 2022πŸ“„ DGRe published in Data Science and Engineering β€” Disentangled Causal Intervention for BERT-based Ad Hoc Document Ranking.
Jul 2021πŸ“„ R-FORMER accepted to SIGIR 2021 β€” Modeling Global Consistency Graphs for Entangled Multi-Task Legal Judgment Prediction.
Apr 2021πŸ“„ LGRe accepted to DASFAA 2021 β€” Refining BERT-based Document Ranking via Latent Graph Recurrent Networks.

Selected Publications

Full Paper List on Google Scholar

As the Primary Author

  • SelfRACG: Enabling LLMs to Self-Express and Retrieve for Code Generation
    Qian Dong, Jia Chen, Qingyao Ai, Hongning Wang, Haitao Li, Yi Wu, Yao Hu, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma
    EMNLP 2025
    TH-CPL-ACCF-B
    Paper
  • Qilin: A Multimodal Information Retrieval Dataset with APP-level User Sessions
    Jia Chen*, Qian Dong*, Haitao Li, Xiaohui He, Yan Gao, Shaosheng Cao, Yi Wu, Ping Yang, Chen Xu, Yao Hu, Qingyao Ai, Yiqun Liu (* Equal Contribution)
    SIGIR 2025
    TH-CPL-ACCF-A
  • DecoupledRAG: An Efficient and Effective Retrieval Augmented Generation Framework via Cross Attention
    Qian Dong, Qingyao Ai, Hongning Wang, Yiding Liu, Haitao Li, Weihang Su, Yiqun Liu, Tat-Seng Chua, Shaoping Ma
    WWW 2025
    TH-CPL-ACCF-A
  • Unsupervised Large Language Model Alignment for Information Retrieval via Contrastive Feedback
    Qian Dong, Yiding Liu, Qingyao Ai, Zhijing Wu, Haitao Li, Yiqun Liu, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin, Shaoping Ma
    SIGIR 2024
    TH-CPL-ACCF-A
    Paper
  • T2Ranking: A Large-scale Chinese Benchmark for Passage Ranking
    Xiaohui Xie, Qian Dong* (Student First Author), Bingning Wang, Feiyang Lv, Ting Yao, Weinan Gan, Zhijing Wu, Xiangsheng Li, Haitao Li, Yiqun Liu, Jin Ma
    SIGIR 2023
    TH-CPL-ACCF-A
    Paper
  • I3Retriever: Incorporating Implicit Interaction in Pre-trained Language Models for Passage Retrieval
    Qian Dong, Yiding Liu, Qingyao Ai, Haitao Li, Shuaiqiang Wang, Yiqun Liu, Dawei Yin, Shaoping Ma
    CIKM 2023
    TH-CPL-BCCF-B
    Paper
  • Incorporating Explicit Knowledge in Pre-trained Language Models for Passage Re-ranking
    Qian Dong, Yiding Liu, Suqi Cheng, Shuaiqiang Wang, Zhicong Cheng, Shuzi Niu, Dawei Yin
    SIGIR 2022
    TH-CPL-ACCF-A
    Paper
  • Disentangled Graph Recurrent Network for Document Ranking
    Qian Dong, Shuzi Niu, Tao Yuan, Yucheng Li
    Data Science and Engineering β€” DASFAA 2021 Special Issue (JCR-Q1, IF: 7.2)
    JCR-Q1
    Paper
  • Legal Judgment Prediction via Relational Learning
    Qian Dong, Shuzi Niu
    SIGIR 2021
    TH-CPL-ACCF-A
    Paper
  • Latent Graph Recurrent Network for Document Ranking
    Qian Dong, Shuzi Niu
    DASFAA 2021
    TH-CPL-BCCF-B
    Paper

As a Co-author

  • CalibraEval: Calibrating Prediction Distribution to Mitigate Selection Bias in LLMs-as-Judges
    Haitao Li, Junjie Chen, Qingyao Ai, Zhumin Chu, Yujia Zhou, Qian Dong, Yiqun Liu
    ACL 2025
    CCF-A
  • LLMs-as-Judges: A Comprehensive Survey on LLM-based Evaluation Methods
    Haitao Li, Qian Dong, Junjie Chen, Huixue Su, Yujia Zhou, Qingyao Ai, Ziyi Ye, Yiqun Liu
    Under Review
  • DELTA: Pre-train a Discriminative Encoder for Legal Case Retrieval via Structural Word Alignment
    Haitao Li, Qingyao Ai, Xinyan Han, Jia Chen, Qian Dong, Yiqun Liu, Chong Chen, Qi Tian
    AAAI 2025
    CCF-A
  • BLADE: Enhancing Black-box Large Language Models with Small Domain-Specific Models
    Haitao Li, Qingyao Ai, Jia Chen, Qian Dong, Zhijing Wu, Yiqun Liu, Chong Chen, Qi Tian
    AAAI 2025
    CCF-A
  • SAILER: Structure-aware Pre-trained Language Model for Legal Case Retrieval
    Haitao Li, Qingyao Ai, Jia Chen, Qian Dong, Yueyue Wu, Yiqun Liu, Chong Chen, Qi Tian
    SIGIR 2023
    CCF-A
    Paper
  • Layout-aware Webpage Quality Assessment
    Anfeng Cheng, Yiding Liu, Weibin Li, Qian Dong, Shuaiqiang Wang, Zhengjie Huang, Shikun Feng, Zhicong Cheng, Dawei Yin
    arXiv 2023
    Paper
  • Incorporating Social-Aware User Preference for Video Recommendation
    Xuanji Xiao, Huaqiang Dai, Qian Dong, Shuzi Niu, Yuzhen Liu, Pei Liu
    WISE 2023
    CCF-C
    Paper
  • Emotion Recognition Based on Multi-View Body Gestures
    Zhijuan Shen, Jun Cheng, Xiping Hu, Qian Dong
    ICIP 2019
    CCF-C
    Paper

Education

2022 –Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University
2019 – 2022M.Eng., Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2015 – 2019B.Eng., School of Software Engineering, South China University of Technology

Honors & Awards

2021National Scholarship (Top 1%)

More About Me

I'm an enthusiast of a diverse array of craft beers, ranging from crisp wheat beers to robust IPAs and everything in between. I'm always on the lookout for exceptional brews from various corners of the globe. Whether it's the refreshing notes of a Belgian Witbier, the hop-forward complexity of an IPA, or the subtle elegance of a Saison, I relish the opportunity to savor and discover the craftsmanship behind each unique flavor profile! 🍻