Ruobing Xie

Bio

Ruobing Xie is a senior researcher of Tencent Hy. He received his BEng degree in 2014 and his master degree in 2017 from the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. His research interests include Large Language Model, Pre-training, and Recommender System. He has published 100+ papers in top-tier conferences and journals including ACL, ICML, NeurIPS, KDD, AAAI, with 17000+ citations according to Google Scholar. He has received the first prize of the Natural Science Award (Science and Technology) of the Ministry of Education, RecSys 2024 Best Full Paper, RecSys 2023 Best Short Paper, the Paper Award Nominations of TheWebConf 2023 (spotlight), EMNLP 2025 SAC highlight, and CCIR 2024 best paper candidate. He is supported by Scholar of Young Talent Promoting Project of CAST, and is the World's Top 2 % Scientists. He is a member of Chinese Information Processing Society of China, Youth Working Committee & Social Media Processing Committee & Information Retrieval Committee. He serves as AC of ACL, AAAI, WWW, EMNLP, NAACL, etc.

谢若冰,腾讯混元高级研究员,2017年毕业于清华大学自然语言处理与社会人文计算实验室,人工智能高级工程师,主要研究方向为大语言模型、预训练、推荐系统等。他于ACL、ICML、NeurIPS、KDD、AAAI等顶会期刊共发表相关论文100余篇,Google Scholar统计引用超过17000次,h index超过50。他曾获教育部自然科学一等奖,世界互联网领先科技成果奖,RecSys 2024最佳论文,RecSys 2023最佳短文,WWW 2023亮点论文(最佳论文提名),EMNLP 2025 SAC highlight,CCIR 2024最佳论文提名等。他入选了中国科协青年人才托举工程,全球前2%顶尖科学家,西贝尔学者,担任中国中文信息学会青年工作委员会委员、社会媒体处理专委会委员、信息检索专委会通讯委员、ACL/AAAI/WWW/EMNLP/NAACL领域主席等。

News

  • Got one paper accepted at NeurIPS about LLM quantization.

  • Release Hunyuan research blog -- From LR to ELR: A Better Heuristic for Pretraining Dynamics Link.

  • Got five papers accepted at EMNLP about MoE scaling law, high-dimensional RoPE, quantization, sparse SFT, and RL4RAG.

  • Attended ICML 2026 at Seoul, South Korea.

  • Got two papers accepted at TOIS and TKDE about LLM4Rec.

  • Got four papers accepted at ACL and ICML about MoE routing strategy, multi-teacher distillation, joint SFT&OPD training, and mechanistic interpretability of LLM.

  • Got four papers accepted at ICLR about more generalized SFT, dynamic data mixing, and RL self-rewarding of LLM.

  • Got three papers accepted at AAAI and TOIS about hybrid LLM and negative sampling in recommendation.

  • Received EMNLP 2025 SAC highlight award!

  • Attended EMNLP 2025 at Suzhou, China.

  • Got one paper accepted at AAAI about Full/Linear attention hybrid model.

Recent work

Hybrid Gated Attention

Zekun Zhou, Ruobing Xie, Lanrui Wang, Weixuan Sun

This paper proposes Hybrid Gated Attention (HyGA), which combines three complementary multi-source gating strategies with low-rank decomposition and a learnable attention sink. HyGA reports consistent improvements over standard gated attention in training loss and downstream performance across backbones and compute budgets, reaching the Pareto frontier of effectiveness and efficiency. arXiv

Redesign Mixture-of-Experts Routers with Manifold Power Iteration

Songhao Wu, Ang Lv, Ruobing Xie, Yankai Lin

This paper proposes Manifold Power Iteration (MPI), which uses a "Power-then-Retract" update to align each MoE router row with the principal singular direction of its expert, building direct connections between router weights and their corresponding experts' capabilities. MPI provides convergence guarantees and shows gains in pretraining MoE models from 1B to 11B parameters. arXiv

Selected Publications

* equal contribution  ·  † corresponding author

Pre-training

Towards a Comprehensive Scaling Law of Mixture-of-Experts

Guoliang Zhao, Yuhan Fu, Shuaipeng Li, Xingwu Sun, Ruobing Xie†, An Wang, Weidong Han, Zhen Yang, Weixuan Sun, Yudong Zhang, Cheng-zhong Xu, Di Wang, Jie Jiang

EMNLP'26

Higher-Dimensional Rotary Position Embedding

Yixing Li, Ruobing Xie†, Yudong Zhang, Yushi Bai, Xingwu Sun, Yu Cheng

EMNLP'26

TransMamba: A Sequence-Level Hybrid Transformer-Mamba Language Model

Yixing Li, Ruobing Xie†, Zhen Yang, Xingwu Sun, Shuaipeng Li, Weidong Han, Zhanhui Kang, Di Wang, Yu Cheng†.

AAAI'26

HMoE: Heterogeneous Mixture of Experts for Language Modeling

An Wang, Xingwu Sun, Ruobing Xie†, Shuaipeng Li, Jiaqi Zhu, Zhen Yang, Pinxue Zhao, Weidong Han, Zhanhui Kang, Di Wang, Naoaki Okazaki, Cheng-zhong Xu.

EMNLP'25EMNLP 2025 SAC highlight

Autonomy-of-Experts Models

Ang Lv, Ruobing Xie†, Yining Qian, Songhao Wu, Xingwu Sun, Zhanhui Kang, Di Wang, Rui Yan†.

ICML'25

Post-training

Find Your Optimal Teacher: Personalized Data Synthesis via Router-Guided Multi-Teacher Distillation

Hengyuan Zhang, Shiping Yang, Xiao Liang, Chenming Shang, Yuxuan Jiang, Chaofan Tao, Jing Xiong, Hayden Kwok-Hay So, Ruobing Xie, Angel X Chang, Ngai Wong

ACL'26ACL 2026 Award Nomination

Proximal Supervised Fine-Tuning

Wenhong Zhu, Ruobing Xie†, Rui Wang, Xingwu Sun, Di Wang, Pengfei Liu.

ICLR'26

Advancing LLM Reasoning Generalists with Preference Trees

Lifan Yuan, Ganqu Cui, Hanbin Wang, Ning Ding, Xingyao Wang, Boji Shan, Zeyuan Liu, Jia Deng, Huimin Chen, Ruobing Xie, Yankai Lin, Zhenghao Liu, Bowen Zhou, Hao Peng, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun.

ICLR'25

ULTRAFEEDBACK: Boosting Language Models with Scaled AI Feedback

Ganqu Cui, Lifan Yuan, Ning Ding, Guanming Yao, Bingxiang He, Wei Zhu, Yuan Ni, Guotong Xie, Ruobing Xie, Yankai Lin, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun.

ICML'24

Agent and Tool Learning

Internet of Agents: Weaving a Web of Heterogeneous Agents for Collaborative Intelligence

Weize Chen, Ziming You, Ran Li, yitong guan, Chen Qian, Chenyang Zhao, Cheng Yang, Ruobing Xie, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun.

ICLR'25Spotlight

AgentCF: Collaborative Learning with Autonomous Language Agents for Recommender Systems

Junjie Zhang, Yupeng Hou, Ruobing Xie, Wenqi Sun, Julian McAuley, Xin Zhao, Leyu Lin, Ji-Rong Wen.

WWW'24

ToolLLM: Facilitating Large Language Models to Master 16000+ Real-world APIs

Yujia Qin, Shihao Liang, Yining Ye, Kunlun Zhu, Lan Yan, Yaxi Lu, Yankai Lin, Xin Cong, Xiangru Tang, Bill Qian, Sihan Zhao, Lauren Hong, Runchu Tian, Ruobing Xie, Jie Zhou, Mark Gerstein, dahai li, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun.

ICLR'24Spotlight

AgentVerse: Facilitating Multi-Agent Collaboration and Exploring Emergent Behaviors in Agents

Weize Chen, Yusheng Su, Jingwei Zuo, Cheng Yang, Chenfei Yuan, Chi-Min Chan, Heyang Yu, Yaxi Lu, Yi-Hsin Hung, Chen Qian, Yujia Qin, Xin Cong, Ruobing Xie, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun, Jie Zhou.

ICLR'24

LLM for Recommendation

Recommendation as Instruction Following: A Large Language Model Empowered Recommendation Approach

Junjie Zhang, Ruobing Xie, Yupeng Hou, Wayne Xin Zhao, Leyu Lin, Ji-Rong Wen.

TOIS'26

Towards Empathetic Conversational Recommender Systems

Xiaoyu Zhang, Ruobing Xie, Yougang Lyu, Xin Xin, Pengjie Ren, Mingfei Liang, Bo Zhang, Zhanhui Kang, Maarten de Rijke and Zhaochun Ren.

RecSys'24RecSys 2024 Best Full Paper

Personalized Prompts for Sequential Recommendation

Yiqing Wu*, Ruobing Xie*, Yongchun Zhu, Fuzhen Zhuang, Xu Zhang, Leyu Lin, Qing He.

TKDE'24

Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Rankers for Recommender Systems

Yupeng Hou, Junjie Zhang, Zihan Lin, Hongyu Lu, Ruobing Xie, Julian McAuley, Wayne Xin Zhao.

ECIR'24

Tech Report and Survey

A Survey of Linear Attention: Algorithm, Theory, Application, and Infrastructure

Yudong Zhang, Weixuan Sun, Wei Ding, Xingwu Sun, Ruiqi Xie, Hongyi Wang, Junjie Chen, Jiacheng Liu, Shaobo Wang, Yuwei Zhang, Yiqing Huang, Jiaming Wang, Tianchen Zhao, Weidong Han, Yanfeng Chen, Kai Zhang, Shuaipeng Li, Ruobing Xie†, Di Wang, Jiansheng Chen, Linfeng Zhang†, Chengzhong Xu, Yu Wang†

TMLR'26

Hunyuan-TurboS: Advancing Large Language Models through Mamba-Transformer Synergy and Adaptive Chain-of-Thought

Tencent Hunyuan Team.

Tech report

Hunyuan-Large: An Open-Source MoE Model with 52 Billion Activated Parameters by Tencent

Xingwu Sun, Yanfeng Chen, Huang, and Ruobing Xie, Jiaqi Zhu, Kai Zhang, Shuaipeng Li, Zhen Yang and others.

Tech report

A Survey on Causal Inference for Recommendation

Huishi Luo, Fuzhen Zhuang, Ruobing Xie, Hengshu Zhu, Deqing Wang, Zhulin An, Yongjun Xu.

The innovation

Recommendation

Plug-in Diffusion Model for Sequential Recommendation

Haokai Ma*, Ruobing Xie*, Lei Meng, Xin Chen, Xu Zhang, Leyu Lin and Zhanhui Kang.

AAAI'24

Interpretable User Retention Modeling in Recommendation

Rui Ding, Ruobing Xie†, Xiaobo Hao, Xiaochun Yang†, Kaikai Ge, Xu Zhang, Jie Zhou and Leyu Lin.

RecSys'23RecSys 2023 Best Short Paper

Cross-domain Recommendation with Behavioral Importance Perception

Hong Chen, Xin Wang, Ruobing Xie, Yuwei Zhou and Wenwu Zhu.

WWW'23Paper Award Nominations of TheWebConf 2023 (spotlight)

Contrastive Cross-domain Recommendation in Matching

Ruobing Xie*, Qi Liu*, Liangdong Wang, Shukai Liu, Bo Zhang and Leyu Lin.

KDD'22

Deep Feedback Network for Recommendation

Ruobing Xie*, Cheng Ling*, Yalong Wang, Rui Wang, Feng Xia, Leyu Lin.

IJCAI'20

Knowledge Graph

Does William Shakespeare REALLY Write Hamlet? Knowledge Representation Learning with Confidence

Ruobing Xie, Zhiyuan Liu, Fen Lin, Leyu Lin.

AAAI'18

Image-embodied Knowledge Representation Learning

Ruobing Xie, Zhiyuan Liu, Huanbo Luan, Maosong Sun.

IJCAI'17

Iterative Entity Alignment via Joint Knowledge Embeddings

Hao Zhu*, Ruobing Xie*, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun.

IJCAI'17

Representation Learning of Knowledge Graphs with Hierarchical Types

Ruobing Xie, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun.

IJCAI'16

Representation Learning of Knowledge Graphs with Entity Descriptions

Ruobing Xie, Zhiyuan Liu, Jia Jia, Huanbo Luan, Maosong Sun.

AAAI'16

Education

  • Senior Researcher, Tencent, Beijing.
  • M.S. candidate, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
  • B.S., Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Awards

  • World's Top 2 % Scientists.
  • EMNLP 2025 SAC highlight.
  • RecSys 2024 Best Full Paper Award.
  • CCIR 2024 Best Paper Candidate.
  • RecSys 2023 Best Short Paper Award.
  • Paper Award Nominations of TheWebConf 2023 (spotlight).
  • The first prize of the Natural Science Award (Science and Technology) of the Ministry of Education.
  • Siebel Scholars. Link

Academic Service

  • Scholar of Young Talent Promoting Project of CAST.
  • Member of Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPS), Youth Working Committee.
  • Member of CIPS, Social Media Processing Committee & Information Retrieval Committee.
  • Area Chair: ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, IJCAI, AAAI, WWW.