Biography

Hao Zhang (张豪) is a Principal Engineer at Noah’s Ark Lab, Singapore Research Center, Huawei International, working in large language models and its application to RAG. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in Jul 2022, advised by Prof. Aixin SUN. Before, he received Master’s degree from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in June 2016. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree from Dalian University of Technology (2011 - 2015).

His broad research interests include natural language processing, vision-language learning, and machine learning. To be specific, his research topics include Retrieval-augmented Large Language Models, LLM for Recommendation, LLM-based Retrieval, and etc.

Research Community Services:
Reviewer: ACL Rolling Review (2023-), ICLR 2024, WWW 2024, KDD 2024, ACL 2019-2023, IJCAI 2023-2024, EMNLP 2023, MM 2023, COLING 2022-2023, SIGIR 2021-2022, AAAI 2021
Co-organizer: Interactive Recommendation System Workshop, WSDM 2023

Interests
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Large Language Models
  • Large Multimodal Models
  • LLMs for Recommendation & RAG
  • Vision-Language Learning
Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2019-2022

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  • MSc in Communications Engineering, 2015-2016

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  • BEng in Communications Engineering, 2011-2015

    Dalian University of Technology, China

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Principal Engineer
Noah’s Ark Lab, Singapore Research Center (2012 Laboratories), Huawei International
July 2022 – August 2024 Singapore
Working on Pangu LLM SFT, Retrieval-augmented Generation, Agent, LLM for Rec, etc.
 
 
 
 
 
Senior Research Engineer
Agency for Science, Technology and Research
June 2018 – May 2022 Singapore

Senior Research Engineer/Principal Investigator, Centre for Frontier AI Research, Jan 2022 - May 2022

Research Engineer, Institute of High Performance Computing, Jun 2018 - Dec 2021

 
 
 
 
 
Research Associate
Temasek Laboratories, Nanyang Technological University
July 2016 – May 2018 Singapore

Publications

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Sicheng Yu, Yuanchen Xu, Cunxiao Du, Yanying Zhou, Minghui Qiu, Qianru Sun, Hao Zhang, Jiawei Wu (2024). Reverse Modeling in Large Language Models. In ArXiv.

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Sicheng Yu, Chengkai Jin, Huanyu Wang, Zhenghao Chen, Sheng Jin, Zhongrong Zuo, Xioalei Xu, Zhenbang Sun, Bingni Zhang, Jiawei Wu, Hao Zhang, Qianru Sun (2024). Frame-Voyager: Learning to Query Frames for Video Large Language Models. In ArXiv.

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Zhongshen Zeng, Yinhong Liu, Yingjia Wan, Jingyao Li, Pengguang Chen, Jianbo Dai, Yuxuan Yao, Rongwu Xu, Zehan Qi, Wanru Zhao, Linling Shen, Jianqiao Lu, Haochen Tan, Yukang Chen, Hao Zhang, Zhan Shi, Bailin Wang, Zhijiang Guo, Jiaya Jia (2024). MR-BEN: A Comprehensive Meta-Reasoning Benchmark for Large Language Models. In NeurIPS.

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Jing Jin, Houfeng Wang, Hao Zhang, Xiaoguang Li, Zhijiang Guo (2024). DVD: Dynamic Contrastive Decoding for Knowledge Amplification in Multi-Document Question Answering. In EMNLP.

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Zehan Qi, Rongwu Xu, Zhijiang Guo, Cunxiang Wang, Hao Zhang, Wei Xu (2024). LONG2RAG: Evaluating Long-Context & Long-Form Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Key Point Recall. In EMNLP.

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