叶子逸(Ziyi Ye)

叶子逸(Ziyi Ye)

Ph.D. student at Tsinghua University @THUIR

About me: Ziyi Ye（叶子逸）

I am now a final year Ph.D. student in THUIR, Department of Computer Science and Technology in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. My supervisor is Prof. Yiqun Liu. My major research interests are about Web search, brain machine interface, large language models, and etc.

I served as a reviewer and SPC/PC member for Nature Comm. Bio., ICLR, Neurips, TOIS, SIGIR, WWW, MM, CIKM, TOMM, and KDD. I am the CCIR Student Contact since 2024, please contact me if you have any questions about IR matters.

Education

YearEducation
08.2020-presentPh.D. student, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China.
11.2023-02.2024Guest Ph.D. student, Institute of Informatics, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
07.2023-11.2023Guest Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science (DIKU) and the Pioneer Centre for AI, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
08.2016-07.2020B.S. student, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China.

News

  • 4.2025, thrilled to announce that I have three co-authered paper accepted by SIGIR 2025.
  • 4.2025, I will attend ICLR 2025 in person for our paper titled Learning LLM-as-a-Judge for Preference Alignment.
  • 3.2025, our paper titled Generative Language Reconstruction from Brain Recordings is published in Nature Communications Biology.
  • 9.2024, our paper titled Pre-trained Model for EEG-based Emotion Recognition won the Best Paper Nomination at CCIR 2024.
  • 12.2023, I gave an invited talk in the Institute of Information in University of Amsterdam about Language Generation from Brain Recordings. Slide
  • 07.2023, I gave an invited talk to Lenovo Inc about Context-based Brain Decoding. Slide
  • 09.2023, I gave an invited talk in Machine Learning Section of Copenhagen University about Brain-Computer Interface for Search. Slide

My PhD’s Research

Publications

Learning LLM-as-a-Judge for Preference Alignment
Ziyi Ye, Xiangsheng Li, Qiuchi Li, Qingyao Ai, Yujia Zhou, Wei Shen, Dong Yan, Yiqun Liu
ICLR 2025. [Paper].
Generative Language Reconstruction from Brain Recordings
Ziyi Ye, Qingyao Ai, Yiqun Liu, Maarten de Rijke, Min Zhang, Christina Lioma, and Tuukka Ruotsalo
Nature Commun. Biol. [Paper]. [Code]
Brain-Computer Interface Meets Information Retrieval: Perspective on Next-generation Information System
Ziyi Ye, Qingyao Ai, Yiqun Liu
MM 2024 BCI4MM workshop. [Paper]
Query Augmentation with Brain Signals
Ziyi Ye, Jingtao Zhan, Qingyao Ai, Yiqun Liu, Maarten de Rijke, Christina Lioma, and Tuukka Ruotsalo
MM 2024 full paper, Oral Acceptance Rate: 3.97%, CCF A. [Paper] [Code]
Relevance Feedback with Brain Signals
Ziyi Ye, Xiaohui Xie, Qingyao Ai, Yiqun Liu, Zhihong Wang, Weihang Su, and Min Zhang
TOIS, CCF A. [Paper] [Code]
Why Don’t You Click: Understanding Human Reading Comprehension with Brain Signals
Ziyi Ye, Xiaohui Xie, Yiqun Liu, Zhihong Wang, Xuancheng Li, Jiaji Li, Xuesong Chen, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma
SIGIR 2022 full paper, Acceptance Rate: 20.3%, CCF A. [Paper] [Code & Dataset]
Towards a Better Understanding of Human Reading Comprehension with Brain Signals
Ziyi Ye, Xiaohui Xie, Yiqun Liu, Zhihong Wang, Xuesong Chen, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma
The Web Conf 2022 full paper, Acceptance Rate: 17.7%, CCF A. [Paper] [Code]
Brain Topography Adaptive Satisfaction Modeling for Interactive Information Access
Ziyi Ye, Xiaohui Xie, Yiqun Liu, Zhihong Wang, Xuesong Chen, Min Zhang, and Shaoping Ma
MM 2022 full paper, Acceptance Rate: 27.9%, CCF A. [Paper] [Code]
A Hybrid Framework for Session Context Modeling
Jia Chen, Jiaxin Mao, Yiqun Liu, Ziyi Ye, Weizhi Ma, Chao Wang, Min Zhang and Shaoping Ma
TOIS, CCF A. [Paper]

See my full publication list.

Teaching

  • 2024. Teaching assistant at GenAI summer school, Tsinghua University. (Instructor of “Retrieval-argumented generation”.)
  • 2020-2025. Teaching assistant at “Fundamental Search Engine”, Tsinghua University.

Patents

  • Yiqun Liu, Xuesong Chen, Xiaohui Xie, Ziyi Ye, Zhu Shuqi, Weihang Su, Xiaorong Gao, Yike Sun, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma. Method, apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium for web search. (Chinese Patent & US Patent).

Competitions

  • We won the 1st place in TASK 2 (Relevant Statue Retrieval Task) of AILA 2019 (Artificial Intelligence for Legal Assisstance). Working Notes.
  • We won the 1st place in the NTCIR-15 Micro-activity Retrieval Task. Working Notes.

Datasets

  • Search-Brainwave Dataset. In our SIGIR’22 Full Paper Why Don’t You Click: Understanding Non-Click Results in Web Search with Brain Signals.

  • UERCM Dataset. In our The Web Conf’22 Full Paper Towards a Better Understanding of Human Reading Comprehension with Brain Signals.

  • TianGong-CRL Dataset. In our ASIST’20 Poster Investigating COVID-19-Related Query Logs of Chinese Search Engine Users.

Honors and Awards

  • 2022. China National Scholarship, Chinese Government.
  • 2017, 2018, 2023, 2024. Overall Excellence Scholarship, Tsinghua University.
  • 2019. Academic Excellence Scholarship, Tsinghua University.
  • 2016. Silver medal in Chinese Mathematical Olympiad(CMO), China Mathematical Federation.
  • 2019. Bronze medal in CCF Collegiate Computer Systems & Program contest, China Computer Federation.