Yijun Tian
I am a Professor in the
School of Software Engineering at
Xi'an Jiaotong University. Before that, I was
an AI Researcher at Amazon AWS AI Lab. I
received my Ph.D. from the
University of Notre Dame, working with
Nitesh V. Chawla (ACM/IEEE/AAAS/AAAI
Fellow). I obtained my M.S. from New York University and my B.E. from Shandong
University.
My research centers on algorithmic innovations that make models more capable,
efficient, and controllable. In particular, I work on LLMs, Post-training, Agents,
AI Safety, and Data Mining.
田一君,博士,国家级青年人才,西安交通大学软件学院教授,博士生导师,智能网络与网络安全教育部重点实验室成员。依托管晓宏院士、王伟院长团队开展大模型研究,主要方向包括后训练、智能体、AI
安全与数据挖掘。发表相关领域 CCF-A 类会议和期刊等论文 60 余篇。
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News
- [Jun 2026] One paper was accepted to TMLR: OPQE.
- [May 2026] One paper was accepted to TMLR: VERITAS.
- [Apr 2026] Three papers were accepted to ACL 2026: ALDEN (Oral), SAGE (Oral) and ANN.
- [Apr 2026] One paper was accepted to ICML 2026: G-Substrate.
- [Apr 2026] One paper was accepted to SIGIR 2026: LACONIC.
- [Jan 2026] One paper was accepted to ICLR 2026: RMT.
- [Nov 2025] Two papers were accepted to AAAI 2026: HGKD (Oral) and ACE-GSL.
- [Mar 2025] Two papers were accepted to ACM Computing Surveys: KD on Graphs and CILG.
- [Oct 2024] One paper was accepted to WSDM 2025: TinyLLM (Oral).
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- [Sep 2024] One paper was accepted to NeurIPS 2024: G-Retriever.
- [Sep 2024] One paper was accepted to EMNLP 2024: OPPU.
- [May 2024] Two papers were accepted to ICML 2024: S3GCL and Prompt-DDG.
- [May 2024] One paper was accepted to ACL 2024: SKU.
- [May 2024] One paper was accepted to KDD 2024: LIME.
- [Apr 2024] Organizer of the SDM 2024 Tutorial: Data Quality-Aware Graph Machine
Learning.
- [Mar 2024] Two papers were accepted to WWW 2024: GraphPrompter and Podcast2Vec.
- [Feb 2024] One paper was accepted to WWW 2024: ConMU.
- [Feb 2024] Organizer of the AAAI 2024 Tutorial: Knowledge-enhanced Graph Learning.
- [Jan 2024] Two papers were accepted to ICLR 2024: MAPE-PPI (Spotlight) and DRAGON.
- [Dec 2023] One paper was accepted to AAAI 2024: GNP.
- [Apr 2023] Two papers were accepted to IJCAI 2023: MRL Survey and CharGrad.
- [Apr 2023] One paper was accepted to ICML 2023: DataDec.
- [Jan 2023] Two papers were accepted to ICLR 2023: NOSMOG (Spotlight) and GAME.
- [Jan 2023] One paper was accepted to WWW 2023: G-Fame.
- [Nov 2022] Two papers were accepted to AAAI 2023: HGMAE (Oral) and BGNN.
- [Apr 2022] Two papers were accepted to IJCAI 2022: RecipeRec and Recipe2Vec.
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ALDEN: Reinforcement Learning for Active Navigation and Evidence Gathering in Long Documents
Tianyu Yang, Terry Ruas, Yijun Tian, Jan Philip Wahle, Daniel Kurzawe, Bela Gipp
ACL 2026 (Oral)
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Reinforcement Learning for Self-Improving Agent with Skill Library
Jiongxiao Wang, Qiaojing Yan, Yawei Wang, Yijun Tian, Soumya Smruti Mishra, Zhichao Xu, Megha Gandhi, Panpan Xu, Lin Lee Cheong
ACL 2026 (Oral)
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Graph is a Substrate Across Data Modalities
Ziming Li, Xiaoming Wu, Zehong Wang, Jiazheng Li, Yijun Tian, Jinhe Bi, Yunpu Ma, Yanfang Ye, Chuxu Zhang
ICML 2026
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Rethinking On-policy Optimization for Query Augmentation
Zhichao Xu, Shengyao Zhuang, Xueguang Ma, Bingsen Chen, Yijun Tian, Fengran Mo, Tao Li, Jie Cao, Vivek Srikumar
TMLR 2026
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Reinforcement Mid-Training
Yijun Tian, Shaoyu Chen, Zhichao Xu, Yawei Wang, Jinhe Bi, Peng Han, Wei Wang
ICLR 2026
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Knowledge Distillation on Graphs: A Survey
Yijun Tian, Shichao Pei, Xiangliang Zhang, Chuxu Zhang, Nitesh V. Chawla
ACM Computing Surveys
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Beyond Answers: Transferring Reasoning Capabilities to Smaller LLMs Using Multi-Teacher Knowledge Distillation
Yijun Tian, Yikun Han, Xiusi Chen, Wei Wang, Nitesh V. Chawla
WSDM 2025 (Oral)
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G-Retriever: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Textual Graph Understanding and Question Answering
Xiaoxin He, Yijun Tian, Yifei Sun, Nitesh V. Chawla, Thomas Laurent, Yann LeCun, Xavier Bresson, Bryan Hooi
NeurIPS 2024
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Democratizing Large Language Models via Personalized Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning
Zhaoxuan Tan, Qingkai Zeng, Yijun Tian, Zheyuan Liu, Bing Yin, Meng Jiang
EMNLP 2024
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Towards Safer Large Language Models through Machine Unlearning
Zheyuan Liu, Guangyao Dou, Zhaoxuan Tan, Yijun Tian, Meng Jiang
ACL 2024
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S3GCL: Spectral, Swift, Spatial Graph Contrastive Learning
Guancheng Wan, Yijun Tian, Wenke Huang, Nitesh V. Chawla, Mang Ye
ICML 2024
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Learning to Predict Mutational Effects of Protein-Protein Interactions by Microenvironment-aware Hierarchical Prompt Learning
Lirong Wu, Yijun Tian, Haitao Lin, Yufei Huang, Siyuan Li, Nitesh V. Chawla, Stan Z. Li
ICML 2024
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MAPE-PPI: Towards Effective and Efficient Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction via Microenvironment-Aware Protein Embedding
Lirong Wu, Yijun Tian, Yufei Huang, Siyuan Li, Haitao Lin, Nitesh V. Chawla, Stan Z. Li
ICLR 2024 (Spotlight)
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Mitigating Emergent Robustness Degradation while Scaling Graph Learning
Xiangchi Yuan, Chunhui Zhang, Yijun Tian, Yanfang Ye, Chuxu Zhang
ICLR 2024
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Graph Neural Prompting with Large Language Models
Yijun Tian, Huan Song, Zichen Wang, Haozhu Wang, Ziqing Hu, Fang Wang, Nitesh V. Chawla, Panpan Xu
AAAI 2024
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Chasing All-Round Graph Representation Robustness: Model, Training, and Optimization
Chunhui Zhang, Yijun Tian, Mingxuan Ju, Zheyuan Liu, Yanfang Ye, Nitesh V. Chawla, Chuxu Zhang
ICLR 2023
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Learning MLPs on Graphs: A Unified View of Effectiveness, Robustness, and Efficiency
Yijun Tian, Chuxu Zhang, Zhichun Guo, Xiangliang Zhang, Nitesh V. Chawla
ICLR 2023 (Spotlight)
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Heterogeneous Graph Masked Autoencoders
Yijun Tian, Kaiwen Dong, Chunhui Zhang, Chuxu Zhang, Nitesh V. Chawla
AAAI 2023 (Oral)
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