About Me

I am currently a joint PhD student at USTC and CityU, supervised by Prof.Enhong Chen and Prof.Tong Xu at BDAA Lab, and Prof.Xiangyu Zhao at AML lab. Prior to starting my doctoral studies, I received my Bachelor degree in Intelligent Science and Technology from XDU in 2021.

Links: Google Scholar, GitHub.

My research interests focus on Large Language Models, Knowledge Graph, and Multimodal Learning.

📝 Selected Publications

• Bridging Relevance and Reasoning: Rationale Distillation in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  • Pengyue Jia*, Derong Xu*, Xiaopeng Li*, Zhaocheng Du, Xiangyang Li, Xiangyu Zhao, Yichao Wang, Yuhao Wang, Huifeng Guo, Ruiming Tang (ACL’2025 Findings) [Paper|Code]
• MLLM-I2W: Harnessing Multimodal Large Language Model for Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
  • Tong Bao, Che Liu, Derong Xu, Zhi Zheng, Tong Xu (COLING’2025, Outstanding Paper Award, 5/1922)
• Harnessing Large Language Models for Knowledge Graph Question Answering via Adaptive Multi-Aspect Retrieval-Augmentation
  • Derong Xu, Xinhang Li, Ziheng Zhang, Zhenxi Lin, Zhihong Zhu, Zhi Zheng, Xian Wu, Xiangyu Zhao, Tong Xu, Enhong Chen (AAAI’2025) [Paper|Code]
• Mitigating Hallucinations of Large Language Models in Medical Information Extraction via Contrastive Decoding
  • Derong Xu, Ziheng Zhang, Zhihong Zhu, Zhenxi Lin, Qidong Liu, Xian Wu, Tong Xu, Xiangyu Zhao, Yefeng Zheng, Enhong Chen (EMNLP’2024 Findings) [Paper|Code]
• Editing Factual Knowledge and Explanatory Ability of Medical Large Language Models
  • Derong Xu, Ziheng Zhang, Zhihong Zhu, Zhenxi Lin, Qidong Liu, Xian Wu, Tong Xu, Wanyu Wang, Yuyang Ye, Xiangyu Zhao, Enhong Chen, Yefeng Zheng (CIKM’24) [Paper|Code]
• Large Language Models for Generative Information Extraction: A Survey
  • Derong Xu, Wei Chen, Wenjun Peng, Chao Zhang, Tong Xu, Xiangyu Zhao, Xian Wu, Yefeng Zheng, Enhong Chen (FCS’24) [Paper|Code]
• Multi-perspective Improvement of Knowledge Graph Completion with Large Language Models
  • Derong Xu, Ziheng Zhang, Zhenxi Lin, Xian Wu, Zhihong Zhu, Tong Xu*, Xiangyu Zhao, Yefeng Zheng and Enhong Chen (COLING’24) [Paper|Code]
• Multimodal Biological Knowledge Graph Completion via Triple Co-attention Mechanism
  • Derong Xu, Jingbo Zhou, Tong Xu*, Yuan Xia, Ji Liu, Enhong Chen, Dejing Dou (ICDE’23) [Paper|Code]
• Relation-enhanced Negative Sampling for Multimodal Knowledge Graph Completion
  • Derong Xu, Tong Xu*, Shiwei Wu, Jingbo Zhou, Enhong Chen (ACM MM’22) [Paper|Code]

💻 Internships

• 2021/02-2021/10 Baidu Research Intern
• 2022/10-2023/02 Microsoft Research Intern
• 2023/09-2024/09 Tencent Research Intern

Services

• Reviewer:KDD’25, SIGIR’25, ACMMM’25, ARR Feb’25, ARR Dec’24, ACMMM’24,