[1] LLMs + Persona-Plug = Personalized LLMs, Jiongnan Liu, Yutao Zhu*, Shuting Wang, Xiaochi Wei, Erxue Min, Yu Lu, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin, and Zhicheng Dou. Proceedings of the 63rd annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025.

[2] Hierarchical Document Refinement for Long-context Retrieval-augmented Generation, Jiajie Jin, Xiaoxi Li, Guanting Dong, Yuyao Zhang, Yutao Zhu*, Yongkang Wu, Zhonghua Li, Ye Qi, and Zhicheng Dou. Proceedings of the 63rd annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025.

[3] One Token Can Help! Learning Scalable and Pluggable Virtual Tokens for Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models, Yutao Zhu, Zhaoheng Huang, Zhicheng Dou, and Ji-Rong Wen. Proceedings of the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025.

[4] FlashRAG: A Modular Toolkit for Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Generation Research, Jiajie Jin, Yutao Zhu*, Guanting Dong, Yuyao Zhang, Xinyu Yang, Chenghao Zhang, Tong Zhao, Zhao Yang, Zhicheng Dou, and Ji-Rong Wen. Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2025.

[5] CAGS: Context-Aware Document Ranking with Contrastive Graph Sampling, Zhaoheng Huang, Yutao Zhu*, Zhicheng Dou, and Ji-Rong Wen. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2025.

[6] INTERS: Unlocking the Power of Large Language Models in Search with Instruction Tuning, Yutao Zhu, Peitian Zhang, Chenghao Zhang, Yifei Chen, Binyu Xie, Zheng Liu, Ji-Rong Wen, and Zhicheng Dou. Proceedings of the 62nd annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2024.

[7] From Easy to Hard: A Dual Curriculum Learning Framework for Context-Aware Document Ranking, Yutao Zhu, Jian-Yun Nie, Yixuan Su, Haonan Chen, Xinyu Zhang, and Zhicheng Dou. Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2022.

[8] Leveraging Narrative to Generate Movie Script, Yutao Zhu, Ruihua Song, Jian-Yun Nie, Pan Du, Zhicheng Dou, and Jin Zhou. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 2022.

[9] Contrastive Learning of User Behavior Sequence for Context-Aware Document Ranking, Yutao Zhu, Jian-Yun Nie, Zhicheng Dou, Zhengyi Ma, Xinyu Zhang, Pan Du, Xiaochen Zuo, and Hao Jiang. Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2021.

[10] Neural Sentence Ordering Based on Constraint Graphs, Yutao Zhu, Kun Zhou, Jian-Yun Nie, Shengchao Liu, and Zhicheng Dou. Proceedings of the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2021.

[11] ScriptWriter: Narrative-Guided Script Generation, Yutao Zhu, Ruihua Song, Zhicheng Dou, Jian-Yun Nie, and Jin Zhou. Proceedings of the 58th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020.

[12] Content Selection Network for Document-grounded Retrieval-based Chatbots, Yutao Zhu, Jian-Yun Nie, Kun Zhou, Pan Du, Zhicheng Dou. The 43rd European Conference on Information Retreval (ECIR), 2021. 

[13] Proactive Retrieval-based Chatbots based on Relevant Knowledge and Goals, Yutao Zhu, Jian-Yun Nie, Kun Zhou, Pan Du, Hao Jiang, Zhicheng Dou. The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2021.