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 for deep search agent! Please refer to 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 →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
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
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
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
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
Recent Publications
View All →GISA: A Benchmark for General Information Seeking Assistant
Yutao Zhu, Xingshuo Zhang, Maosen Zhang, Jiajie Jin, Liancheng Zhang, Xiaoshuai Song, Kangzhi Zhao, Wencong Zeng, Ruiming Tang, Han Li, Ji-Rong Wen, Zhicheng Dou
CoRR 2026
Memory Matters More: Event-Centric Memory as a Logic Map for Agent Searching and Reasoning
Yuyang Hu, Jiongnan Liu, Jiejun Tan, Yutao Zhu, Zhicheng Dou
CoRR 2026
EnvScaler: Scaling Tool-Interactive Environments for LLM Agent via Programmatic Synthesis
Xiaoshuai Song, Haofei Chang, Guanting Dong, Yutao Zhu, Zhicheng Dou, Ji-Rong Wen
CoRR 2026
Agentic-R: Learning to Retrieve for Agentic Search
Wenhan Liu, Xinyu Ma, Yutao Zhu, Yuchen Li, Daiting Shi, Dawei Yin, Zhicheng Dou
CoRR 2026
Memory in the Age of AI Agents
Yuyang Hu, Shichun Liu, Yanwei Yue, Guibin Zhang, Boyang Liu, Fangyi Zhu, Jiahang Lin, Honglin Guo, Shihan Dou, Zhiheng Xi, Senjie Jin, Jiejun Tan, Yanbin Yin, Jiongnan Liu, Zeyu Zhang, Zhongxiang Sun, Yutao Zhu, Hao Sun, Boci Peng, Zhenrong Cheng, Xuanbo Fan, Jiaxin Guo, Xinlei Yu, Zhenhong Zhou, Zewen Hu, Jiahao Huo, Junhao Wang, Yuwei Niu, Yu Wang, Zhenfei Yin, Xiaobin Hu, Yue Liao, Qiankun Li, Kun Wang, Wangchunshu Zhou, Yixin Liu, Dawei Cheng, Qi Zhang, Tao Gui, Shirui Pan, Yan Zhang, Philip Torr, Zhicheng Dou, Ji-Rong Wen, Xuanjing Huang, Yu-Gang Jiang, Shuicheng Yan
CoRR 2025