Keyi Kong 孔轲祎

Hi, I am a final-year undergraduate student at Taishan (Honors) College, Shandong University, working under the supervision of Associate Professor Zhaochun Ren. My research interests focus on Trustworthy Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative Information Retrieval (GenIR). Additionally, I am passionate about competitive programming.

I am currently seeking PhD positions for 2026 fall! If my background resonates with your work, I would welcome the opportunity to connect.

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Publications

* Equal contribution
Scaling Instruction-Finetuning for Zero-Shot Generative Retrieval Weiwei Sun*, Keyi Kong*, Xinyu Ma, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin, Maarten de Rijke, Zhaochun Ren, Yiming Yang Under Review
Perplexity-aware Correction for Robust Alignment with Noisy Preferences Keyi Kong*, Xilie Xu*, Di Wang, Jingfeng Zhang, Mohan Kankanhalli Accepted by NeurIPS 2024 Paper / Code
An LLM can Fool Itself: A Prompt-Based Adversarial Attack Xilie Xu*, Keyi Kong*, Ning Liu, Lizhen Cui, Di Wang, Jingfeng Zhang, Mohan Kankanhalli Accepted by ICLR 2024 Paper / Code
Music’s Multimodal Complexity in AVQA: Why We Need More than General Multimodal LLMs Wenhao You, Xingjian Diao, Chunhui Zhang, Keyi Kong, Weiyi Wu, Zhongyu Ouyang, Chiyu Ma, Tingxuan Wu, Noah Wei, Zong Ke, Ming Cheng, Soroush Vosoughi, Jiang Gui Under Review Paper / Code
Towards AI Search Paradigm Baidu Search Technical Report Paper
SoundMind: RL-Incentivized Logic Reasoning for Audio-Language Models Xingjian Diao, Chunhui Zhang, Keyi Kong, Weiyi Wu, Chiyu Ma, Zhongyu Ouyang, Peijun Qing, Soroush Vosoughi, Jiang Gui Accepted by EMNLP 2025 Paper / Code / Dataset
An End-to-End Adaptable Prototypical Framework for Explainable Fine-Grained Visual Question Answering Xingjian Diao*, Weiyi Wu*, Keyi Kong, Peijun Qing, Xinwen Xu, Ming Cheng, Soroush Vosoughi, Jiang Gui Accepted by EMNLP 2025 Paper
Generative Agents for Multimodal Controversy Detection Tianjiao Xu, Jinfei Gao, Keyi Kong, Jianhua Yin, Tian Gao, Liqiang Nie Accepted by IJCAI 2025 Paper
Autonomous Task-Dependency Planning via Uncertainty-aware Bidirectional Reasoning Wentao Deng, Jiahuan Pei, Keyi Kong, Mengqi Zhang, Hongyu Lu, Xin Xin, Zhaochun Ren, Zhumin Chen, Pengjie Ren Under Review
Syllogistic Reasoning for Legal Judgment Analysis Wentao Deng, Jiahuan Pei, Keyi Kong, Zhe Chen, Furu Wei, Yujun Li, Zhaochun Ren, Zhumin Chen, Pengjie Ren Accepted by EMNLP 2023 Paper / Code / Dataset

Experience

  • 2024.11 - 2025.08 : Research Intern, Baidu Search, under Dr. Xinyu Ma
  • 2024.07 - 2024.09 : Research Intern, National University of Singapore, under Prof. Mohan Kankanhalli
  • 2023.09 - 2024.05 : Research Assistant, IR Lab, Shandong University, under Prof. Pengjie Ren

Education

Selected Awards

  • 2023 ICPC Asia Hefei Regional Contest - Gold Medal
  • 2024 Shandong Provincial Programming Contest - Champion (1st Place)
  • 2024 CCPC National Invitational Contest (Shandong) - Third Place

Academic Services

  • Conference Reviewer: AAAI (2026), ACL (2025), AISTATS (2025-2026), EMNLP (2025), ICLR (2025-2026), ICML (2025), NeurIPS (2024-2025)

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