👋 About Me

I am a Master’s student in the School of Computing at National University of Singapore (NUS), mentored by Dr. Wenjie Wang and Dr. Yongqi Li, under the supervision of Prof. Tat-Seng Chua. I received my Bachelor’s degree in 2023 from the Institute of Artificial Intelligence at Beihang University (BUAA).

My research focuses on Information Retrieval, Personalization, and Languade Agents.

I am actively seeking Ph.D. opportunities starting in 2025.

🔥 News

Apr 2025: Two papers are accepted by SIGIR 2025!

Jan 2025: One paper is accepted by WWW 2025 as an Oral Presentation!

Oct 2023: I joined as a research assistant.

Sep 2023: One paper is accepted by Advanced Intelligent Systems.

Oct 2021: I joined Biomechanics and Soft Robotics Lab as a research assistant.

📝 Publications

In the year of 2025:

SIGIR 2025

Exploring Training and Inference Scaling Laws in Generative Retrieval
Hongru Cai, Yongqi Li, Ruifeng Yuan, Wenjie Wang, Zhen Zhang, Wenjie Li, Tat-Seng Chua.
Paper | Code

WWW 2025 (Oral)

Large Language Models Empowered Personalized Web Agents
Hongru Cai, Yongqi Li, Wenjie Wang, Fengbin Zhu, Xiaoyu Shen, Wenjie Li, Tat-Seng Chua.
Paper | Code | Project

SIGIR 2025

Revolutionizing Text-to-Image Retrieval as Autoregressive Token-to-Voken Generation
Yongqi Li, Hongru Cai, Wenjie Wang, Leigang Qu, Yinwei Wei, Wenjie Li, Liqiang Nie, Tat-Seng Chua.
Paper | Code

🌟 Experiences

Research Assistant
NExT++, National University of Singapore.
Mainly works on Generative Retrieval and LLM-based Agents with Dr. Yongqi Li and Dr. Wenjie Wang.
Advisor: Prof. Tat-Seng Chua.
Oct 2023 - Present

Research Assistant
Biomechanics and Soft Robotics Lab, Beihang University.
Mainly works on 3D Vision for Aerial-Aquatic Hitchhiking Robot with Dr. Lei Li.
Advisor: Prof. Li Wen.
Oct 2021 - Jun 2023

📚 Professional Services

Reviewer of EMNLP 2025, WWW 2025, COLING 2025, SIGIR 2024.

PC Member of WWW 2024 - The 2nd Workshop on Recommendation with Generative Models.

🏅 Honors and Awards

Excellent Conclusion of National College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project, Nov 2022, Beijing.

Top Twelve Universities Joint Mechanical Engineering Academic Forum: Best Popularity Report, May 2022, Beijing.