Qingyao Ai
Associate Professor
Works on information retrieval, retrieval-augmented generation, prompt optimization, and large language models for search, recommendation, and legal intelligence.
Qingyao Ai's lab at Tsinghua works on large language models, knowledge, QA & retrieval and recommendation, search & web. 77 papers since 2023, 34 at top venues, mostly SIGIR and CIKM. 31 PhD students and 5 master's students. 41 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 20/ year
- at T1 venues
- 44%
- PhD students
- 31
- MS students
- 5
- alumni listed
- 41
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 0 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 26 papers2025 · T1 12
- 30 papers2024 · T1 11
- 21 papers2023 · T1 11
T1 venuesOtherVenues: SIGIR, CIKM, AAAI, Findings of ACL, WSDM
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Knowledge, QA & retrieval35 papers
- Large language models21 papers
- legal20 papers
- Recommendation, search & web18 papers
- prompt2 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202526 papers
- AAAI-25, Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, February 25 - March 4, , Philadelphia, PA, USABLADE: Enhancing Black-box Large Language Models with Small Domain-Specific Models (opens in a new tab)
- SIGIR (T1)Brain Image Reconstruction with Retrieval-Augmented Diffusion (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), ACL , Vienna, Austria, July 27 - August 1CalibraEval: Calibrating Prediction Distribution to Mitigate Selection Bias in LLMs-as-Judges (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference , WWW , Sydney, NSW, Australia, 28 April - 2 MayDecoupling Knowledge and Context: An Efficient and Effective Retrieval Augmented Generation Framework via Cross Attention (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLDecoupling Reasoning and Knowledge Injection for In-Context Knowledge Editing (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI-25, Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, February 25 - March 4, , Philadelphia, PA, USADELTA: Pre-train a Discriminative Encoder for Legal Case Retrieval via Structural Word Alignment (opens in a new tab)
- SIGIR (T1)Dynamic and Parametric Retrieval-Augmented Generation (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Trans. Inf. Syst.Generating Clarifying Questions for Conversational Legal Case Retrieval without External Knowledge (opens in a new tab)
- SIGIR (T1)Investigating the Robustness of Counterfactual Learning to Rank Models: A Reproducibility Study (opens in a new tab)
- SIGIR (T1)JuDGE: Benchmarking Judgment Document Generation for Chinese Legal System (opens in a new tab)
- CIKM (T1)JustEva: A Toolkit to Evaluate LLM Fairness in Legal Knowledge Inference (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Learning LLM-as-a-Judge for Preference Alignment (opens in a new tab)
202430 papers
- ACM Trans. Inf. Syst.A Reusable Model-agnostic Framework for Faithfully Explainable Recommendation and System Scrutability (opens in a new tab)
- Database Systems for Advanced Applications - International Conference, DASFAA , Gifu, Japan, July 2-5, , Proceedings, Part IIIA Situation-aware Enhancer for Personalized Recommendation (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference , WWW , Singapore, May 13-17An In-depth Investigation of User Response Simulation for Conversational Search (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Trans. Inf. Syst.An Intent Taxonomy of Legal Case Retrieval (opens in a new tab)
- CIKM (T1)Automatic Large Language Model Evaluation via Peer Review (opens in a new tab)
- SIGIR (T1)Capability-aware Prompt Reformulation Learning for Text-to-Image Generation (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR , Washington, DC, USA, 13 JulyCFE2: Counterfactual Editing for Search Result Explanation (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)Combining Multiple Supervision for Robust Zero-Shot Dense Retrieval (opens in a new tab)
- Database Systems for Advanced Applications - International Conference, DASFAA , Gifu, Japan, July 2-5, , Proceedings, Part VCommon Sense Enhanced Knowledge-based Recommendation with Large Language Model (opens in a new tab)
- J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.Comparing point-wise and pair-wise relevance judgment with brain signals (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), ACL , Bangkok, Thailand, August 11-16DRAGIN: Dynamic Retrieval Augmented Generation based on the Real-time Information Needs of Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- SIGIR (T1)EEG-SVRec: An EEG Dataset with User Multidimensional Affective Engagement Labels in Short Video Recommendation (opens in a new tab)
202321 papers
- SIGIR (T1)Behavior Modeling for Point of Interest Search (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)CaseEncoder: A Knowledge-enhanced Pre-trained Model for Legal Case Encoding (opens in a new tab)
- Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region, SIGIR-AP , Beijing, China, November 26-28Chuweb21D: A Deduped English Document Collection for Web Search Tasks (opens in a new tab)
- SIGIR (T1)Constructing Tree-based Index for Efficient and Effective Dense Retrieval (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access, EVIA , a Satellite Workshop of the NTCIR-17 Conference, Tokyo, Japan, December 12EVIA 2023 Preface (opens in a new tab)
- CIKM (T1)FARA: Future-aware Ranking Algorithm for Fairness Optimization (opens in a new tab)
- CIKM (T1)I3 Retriever: Incorporating Implicit Interaction in Pre-trained Language Models for Passage Retrieval (opens in a new tab)
- AI OpenInformation Retrieval Meets Large Language Models: A Strategic Report from Chinese IR Community (opens in a new tab)
- Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region, SIGIR-AP , Beijing, China, November 26-28Investigating the Influence of Legal Case Retrieval Systems on Users' Decision Process (opens in a new tab)
- CIKM (T1)Leveraging Event Schema to Ask Clarifying Questions for Conversational Legal Case Retrieval (opens in a new tab)
- WSDM (T1)Marginal-Certainty-Aware Fair Ranking Algorithm (opens in a new tab)
- SIGIR (T1)Metric-agnostic Ranking Optimization (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went41 listed
Apply to TsinghuaFall 2027
Computer Science PhD (international applicants)
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- Opens
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- RMB 800
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