My name is Tianyu Zong(宗天禹). I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), majoring in Computer Application Technology with research interest in Natural Language Processing and Multimodal Content Understanding, my mentor is Prof. Jungang Xu, and I will graduate in 2027. I received my Master’s Degree in Electronic Information from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2023 and my Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic Information Engineering from North China University of Technology in 2020.
🔥 News
- 2026.04: 🎉🎉 My paper has been accepted by ACL26 Main Conference.
- 2026.04: 🎉🎉 A co-authored paper has been accepted by ACL26 Main Conference.
- 2026.04: 🎉🎉 A co-authored paper has been accepted by ACL26 Findings.
- 2025.11: 🎉🎉 A co-authored paper has been accepted by AAAI26.
- 2025.10: I started a six-month internship at Alibaba AMaps (阿里巴巴-高德地图).
- 2025.07: I started a three-month internship at Qiwu Technology (启物科技).
- 2025.01: 🎉🎉 I am invited by AAAI25 to give an Oral presentation in Philadelphia!
- 2024.12: 🎉🎉 My paper has been accepted by AAAI25.
- 2022.11: 🎉🎉 My paper has been accepted by AAAI23.
📝 Publications
Multimodal Representation Learning
L2Dir: Integrating -Norm and Directional Alignment for Unsupervised Contrastive Representation Learning in Multimodal Retrieval
Tianyu Zong, Rui Dai, Hongzhu Yi, Yuanxiang Wang, Zhenghao Zhang, Zhenyu Guan, Yujia Yang, Bingkang Shi, Yueyang Ding, Xiangxiang Chu, Kaikui Liu, Jungang Xu
Benckmark
FAIRGAMER: Evaluating Social Biases in LLM-Based Video Game NPCs
Bingkang Shi, Jen-tse Huang, Luo Long, Tianyu Zong, Hongzhu Yi, Yuanxiang Wang, Songlin Hu, Xiaodan Zhang, Zhongjiang Yao
Time Series
LLaTiSA: Towards Difficulty-Stratified Time Series Reasoning from Visual Perception to Semantics
Yueyang Ding, HaoPeng Zhang, Rui Dai, Yi Wang, Tianyu Zong, Kaikui Liu, Xiangxiang Chu
Graph Representative
Dynamic Deep Graph Learning for Incomplete Multi-View Clustering with Masked Graph Reconstruction Loss., Code
Zhenghao Zhang, Jun Xie, Xingchen Chen, Tao Yu, Hongzhu Yi, Kaixin Xu, Yuanxiang Wang, Tianyu Zong, Xinming Wang, Jiahuan Chen, Guoqing Chao, Feng Chen, Zhepeng Wang, Jungang Xu
Unsupervised Sentence Embedding
JTCSE: Joint Tensor Modulus Constraints and Cross Attention for Unsupervised Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embeddings, Code and Model
Tianyu Zong, Hongzhu Yi, Bingkang Shi, Yuanxiang Wang, Jungang Xu
TNCSE: Tensor’s Norm Constraints for Unsupervised Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embeddings, Oral Paper, Top 4.63% of submissions! Code and Model
Tianyu Zong, Bingkang Shi, Hongzhu Yi, Jungang Xu
An Ensemble Distillation Framework for Sentence Embeddings with Multilingual Round-Rrip Translation
Tianyu Zong, Likun Zhang
📖 Educations
- 2023.09 - Now, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Computer Application Technology, Ph.D in progress
- 2020.09 - 2023.06, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Electronic Information, M.S.
- 2016.09 - 2020.06, North China University of Technology, Electronic Information Engineering, B.S.
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2025.09 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Second Level Academic Scholarship
- 2024.09 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Second Level Academic Scholarship
- 2023.09 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Second Level Academic Scholarship
- 2022.09 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Second Level Academic Scholarship
- 2021.09 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Second Level Academic Scholarship
- 2020.11 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Freshman Scholarship
- 2020.09 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Second Level Academic Scholarship
- 2019.08 Third Prize of Electronic Design Competition for Beijing College Students
- 2018.11 First Prize of the Tenth Chinese Mathematics Competition (non-mathematics group)
- 2018.09 Second Prize of the Beijing Mathematical Competition of Modeling for College Students
- 2017.11 Second Prize of the Ninth Chinese Mathematics Competition (Non-Mathematics Group)
🗣 Activities
Reviewer
- AAAI25
- Neurocomputing
- Information Processing & Management
- Neural Networks
Presentations
- 2023.03, AAAI23 Washington, D.C.
Teaching
- Spring 2025, Deep Learning, Assistant Teacher, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Spring 2025, Deep Learning, Lijiang College of Culture and Tourism
- Fall 2024, PRML Assistant Teacher, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Fall 2024, Signal Processing, Lijiang College of Culture and Tourism
- Spring 2024, Deep Learning, Assistant Teacher, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
💬 Invited Talks
- 2025.02, AAAI25 Conference
💻 Internships
- 2025.10-now, Alibaba AMaps (阿里巴巴-高德地图)
- 2025.07-2025.09, Qiwu Technology (启物科技)