Wenlin Zhang
Introduction
I am now a third-year PhD candidate at AML Lab CityU, supervised by Prof.Xiangyu Zhao. Before that, I got M.S. and BS degree from Northwestern Polytechnical university in 2023 and 2020.
My research interests include Large Language Models, Recommender System, Information Retrieval.
For more information, please feel free to contact me. Email: wl.z@my.cityu.edu.hk.
Selected Publications
Conference & Journal Papers
- Process vs. Outcome Reward: Which is Better for Agentic RAG Reinforcement Learning
- Wenlin Zhang, Xiangyang Li, Kuicai Dong, Yichao Wang, Pengyue Jia, Xiaopeng Li, Yingyi Zhang, Derong Xu, Zhaocheng Du, Huifeng Guo, Ruiming Tang, Xiangyu Zhao
- NeurIPS’25, Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
- LLMTreeRec: A Tree-based Large Language Model Framework for Cold-start Recommendation
- Wenlin Zhang, Chuhan Wu, Xiangyang Li, Yuhao Wang, Kuicai Dong, Yichao Wang, Xinyi Dai, Xiangyu Zhao, Huifeng Guo, Ruiming Tang
- COLING’25, Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Work Experience
Research Intern - Huawei, Noah’s Ark Lab
Teaching Experience
2025~2026 Semester A - SDSC5002 Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization, TA
2024~2025 Semester B - GE2343_SDSC2004 Data Visualization, TA
2024~2025 Semester A - SDSC5002 Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization, TA\
Conference Volunteer:
COLING’2025
News
[2025.9] Our paper ReasonRAG is accepted to NeurIPS’25! [2025.8] I’m honored to receive the Outstanding Academic Performance Award (OAPA) granted by CityU HK. [2025.8] I’m honored to receive the Research Tuition Scholarship (RTS) granted by CityU HK. [2024.12] Serve as the Volunteer in COLING’2025. [2024.12] Our paper LLMTreeRec is accepted to COLING’2025. [2024.8] I’m honored to receive the Research Tuition Scholarship (RTS) granted by CityU HK. [2023.9] Start my Ph.D. at CityU HK.