About
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China. I earned my PhD from University of Montreal, where I was mentored by Prof. Jian-Yun Nie.
I completed my master's (2019) and bachelor's (2016) degrees at Renmin University of China, under the guidance of Prof. Zhicheng Dou and Prof. Ji-Rong Wen, delving into various NLP challenges.
News
We release a new benchmark (GISA) for deep search agent! Please refer to [https://github.com/RUC-NLPIR/GISA] for more details.
Congrats! WebThinker has been accpeted by NeruIPS 2025!
Congrats! Our four papers have been accepted by EMNLP 2025!
Selected Publications
View All →One Token Can Help! Learning Scalable and Pluggable Virtual Tokens for Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models
Yutao Zhu, Zhaoheng Huang, Zhicheng Dou, Ji-Rong Wen
Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2025
FlashRAG: A Modular Toolkit for Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Generation Research
Jiajie Jin, Yutao Zhu†, Zhicheng Dou, Guanting Dong, Xinyu Yang, Chenghao Zhang, Tong Zhao, Zhao Yang, Ji-Rong Wen
Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference, WWW 2025
Large Language Models for Information Retrieval: A Survey
Yutao Zhu, Huaying Yuan, Shuting Wang, Jiongnan Liu, Wenhan Liu, Chenlong Deng, Zhicheng Dou, Ji-Rong Wen
ACM Transactions on Information Systems, TOIS 2025
WebThinker: Empowering Large Reasoning Models with Deep Research Capability
Xiaoxi Li, Jiajie Jin, Guanting Dong, Hongjin Qian, Yongkang Wu, Ji-Rong Wen, Yutao Zhu†, Zhicheng Dou
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 39: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2025
INTERS: Unlocking the Power of Large Language Models in Search with Instruction Tuning
Yutao Zhu, Peitian Zhang, Chenghao Zhang, Yifei Chen, Binyu Xie, Zheng Liu, Ji-Rong Wen, Zhicheng Dou
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2024