Hao Xiong
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Assistant Professor
AI3 Institute, Fudan University

iirg2025@163.com
WeChat larosa4810
Room 301, Computer Building,
No.825 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai

I am currently an Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Incubation (AI³) Institute at Fudan University. Prior to this, I received my Ph.D. from ReThinklab at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), under the supervision of Prof. Junchi Yan (严骏驰).

My research interests include

I am actively recruiting self-motivated Master’s and Ph.D. students, as well as research assistants, to join us in exploring the exciting topics mentioned above. Your resume is highly welcome! 招募有自驱力的计算机/物理/数学背景的硕士和博士生以及科研助理,研究方向以上述方向为主,欢迎简历投递!

My google scholar page is here.

rethinklab rethinklab rethinklab

Team Members

Co-authors
Yehui Tang (SJTU)
Xinyu Ye (SJTU)
Mabiao Long (SJTU)
Xiaoqiu Zhong (SJTU, Shanghai Innovation Institute)
Yebin Yang (SJTU)

Ph.D Students
Jianqiao Zeng (2026-, FDU, Shanghai Innovation Institute)
Zhikai Chen (2026-, FDU)

Undergraduates
Meiling Jiang (2025-, FDU)
Fanxi Weng (2025-, FDU)
Haoxiang Wu (2025-, FDU)
Wenhan Qu (2025-, FDU)
Jingyi Cao (2025-, FDU)

Publications

Quantum(-Inspired)/Tensor-Network-Based Machine Learning

[Efficient LLM/Next-Generation NNs] Reinvent the Operation not the Architecture: Quantum-inspired High-order Product for Compatible and Improved LLMs Training. SIGKDD 2025 (CCF-A) Research Track
Hao Xiong*, Yebin Yang*, Huaijin Wu, Xiaoqiu Zhong, Yehui Tang, Zhuo Xia, Xiaoxing Wang, Junchi Yan.
[paper] [slides]

[Tensor Network] Tensor Network: from the Perspective of AI4Science and Science4AI. IJCAI 2025 (CCF-A) Survey Track
Junchi Yan, Yehui Tang, Xinyu Ye, Hao Xiong, Xiaoqiu Zhong, Yuhan Wang, Yuan Qi.
[paper]

[Quantum Neural Networks] On Designing General and Expressive Quantum Graph Neural Networks with Applications to MILP Instance Representation. ICLR 2025 (Tsinghua-A)
Xinyu Ye, Hao Xiong, Jianhao Huang, Ziang Chen, Jia Wang, Junchi Yan.
[paper]

[Quantum Computing] Circuit Design and Efficient Simulation of Quantum Inner Product and Empirical Studies of Its Effect on Near-Term Hybrid Quantum-Classic Machine Learning. CVPR 2024 (CCF-A)
Hao Xiong*, Yehui Tang*, Xinyu Ye*, Junchi Yan.
[code] [paper]

[AI4Quantum] Q-TAPE: A Task-Agnostic Pre-Trained Approach for Quantum Properties Estimation. ICLR 2024 (Tsinghua-A) Spotlight (5%)
Yehui Tang, Hao Xiong, Nianzu Yang, Tailong Xiao, Junchi Yan.
[paper]

[Tensor/Quantum-inspired Network Embedding] Node2ket: Efficient High-Dimensional Network Embedding in Quantum Hilbert Space. ICLR 2024 (Tsinghua-A)
Hao Xiong, Yehui Tang, Yunlin He, Wei Tan, Junchi Yan.
[code & data] [paper]

Network Embedding

[Interpretability] Learning Regularized Noise Contrastive Estimation for Robust Network Embedding. TKDE 2022 (CCF-A)
Hao Xiong, Junchi Yan, Zengfeng Huang.
[code & data] [paper] [a brief intro. (知乎)]

[Multi-Graph Alignment] Contrastive Multi-View Multiplex Network Embedding with Applications to Robust Network Alignment. SIGKDD 2021 (CCF-A)
Hao Xiong, Junchi Yan, Li Pan.
[poster] [slides] [video] [paper] (sorry for missing code, the machine was formatted by accident without being backed up)

[Cross-Graph Alignment] BTWalk: Branching Tree Random Walk for Multi-order Structured Network Embedding. TKDE 2020 (CCF-A)
Hao Xiong, Junchi Yan.
[code & data] [paper]

Neural Combinatorial Optimzation

[DL-Based Neural Solver] UniCO: On Unified Combinatorial Optimization via Problem Reduction to Matrix-Encoded General TSP. ICLR 2025 (Tsinghua-A)
Wenzheng Pan*, Hao Xiong*, Jiale Ma, Wentao Zhao, Yang Li, Junchi Yan.
[paper] [code]

[ML-Enhanced Heuristic] From Graph Embedding to LKH: Bridging Learning and Heuristics for a Streamlined General TSP Solver.
Hao Xiong, Wenzheng Pan, Jianhao Huang, Zhuo Xia, Junchi Yan.
[paper]

Knowledge Graph Embedding & System

[Knowledge Embedding] DGL-KE: Training Knowledge Graph Embeddings at Scale. SIGIR 2020 (CCF-A)
Da Zheng, Xiang Song, Chao Ma, Zeyuan Tan, Zihao Ye, Jin Dong, Hao Xiong, Zheng Zhang, George Karypis.
[code] [paper]

Education

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