Haoyu Huang

Ph.D. Student

HKUST

Email: hhuangcp [at] connect (dot) ust (dot) hk

I am a Ph.D. student of HKUST, advised by Prof. Yangqiu Song. I am also a research intern at Microsoft Research Aisa.

Before that, I got my master degree from CUHK, advised by Prof. James Cheng. I also got my B.E. degree from BJTU, advised by Prof. Huaiyu Wan. I also worked as a research intern in the DCAI group of PKU, advised by Prof. Wentao Zhang. My past research focuses on RAG, Knowledge Graphs, Recommendations.

My current research focuses on Agent Post-Training, LLM Memory.

News

  • One paper accepted to NeurIPS 2026. 2026.9

  • One paper accepted to EMNLP 2026 Findings. 2026.8

  • Two papers accepted to ACL 2026. 2026.4

  • One paper accepted to ICLR 2026. 2026.1

  • Two papers accepted to EMNLP 2025. 2025.8

  • One paper accepted to IEEE TKDE. 2025.2

Open-Source Projects

  • Project Logo DeepRefine. A skill that plugs into agent workflows and use a single command /deeprefine in your agent CLI to refine and evolve your LLM-Wiki at test time.
    DeepWiki GitHub Stars GitHub Forks

  • Project Logo HiRAG. An easy-to-use GraphRAG system that introduces hierarchical indexing and a novel bridging mechanism for effective knowledge integration.
    DeepWiki GitHub Stars GitHub Forks

Selected Preprints and Publications

* indicates equal contributions.

  • Towards In-Parameter Memory Augmentation for Large Language Models

    Haoyu Huang, Zhongwei Xie, Jiaxin Bai, Yisen Gao, Hong Ting Tsang, Wuganjing Song, Huihao JING, LI Yufei, Yangqiu Song#

    In Submission
    LLM Memory [paper] [code] GitHub Stars

  • DeepRefine: Agentic Knowledge Refinement via Reinforcement Learning

    Haoyu Huang, Jiaxin Bai, Shujie Liu, Yang Wei, Huihao Jing, Hong Ting Tsang, Yisen Gao, Zhongwei Xie, Yufei Li, Yangqiu Song#

    In Submission
    Agent RL, Knowledge/Memory Self-Improvement [paper] [code] GitHub Stars

  • AtlasKV: Augmenting LLMs with Billion-Scale Knowledge Graphs in 20GB VRAM

    Haoyu Huang, Hong Ting Tsang, Jiaxin Bai, Xi Peng, Gong Zhang, Yangqiu Song#

    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
    Adapter, LLM Memory [paper] [code] [Project Page] GitHub Stars

  • AutoGraph-R1: End-to-End Reinforcement Learning for Knowledge Graph Construction

    Hong Ting Tsang, Jiaxin Bai, Haoyu Huang, Qiao Xiao, Tianshi Zheng, Baixuan Xu, Shujie Liu, Yangqiu Song#

    In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026, Main Conference
    RL, Knowledge/Memory Management [paper] [code] GitHub Stars

  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Hierarchical Knowledge

    Haoyu Huang*, Yongfeng Huang*, Junjie Yang, Zhenyu Pan, Yongqiang Chen, Kaili Ma, Hongzhi Chen, James Cheng#

    In Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2025, Findings
    GraphRAG [paper] [code] GitHub Stars

  • Can LLMs be Good Graph Judge for Knowledge Graph Construction?

    Haoyu Huang, Chong Chen, Zeang Sheng, Yang Li, Wentao Zhang#

    In Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2025, Main Conference
    Knowledge/Memory Management [paper] [code] GitHub Stars

  • Next-POI Recommendation via Spatial-Temporal Knowledge Graph Contrastive Learning and Trajectory Prompt

    Wei Chen*, Haoyu Huang*, Tianyi Wang, Zhiyu Zhang, Shengnan Guo, Youfang Lin, Huaiyu Wan#

    In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2025
    Recommendation, PLM [paper] [code]

Other Publications

* indicates equal contributions.

  • MOSAIC: An Omni-Modal Benchmark for Long-Term Memory and Cross-Modal Reasoning in Conversational Agents

    Hong Ting Tsang, Boyi Zhang, Haoyu Huang, Jiaxin Bai, Yufei Li, Yisen Gao, Zhongwei Xie, Hongyu Luo, Jeff Z. Pan, Yangqiu Song#

    In Submission [paper]

  • RadixFlow: Filling Execution Bubbles in Prefix-Cached Hybrid LLM Serving

    Huihao Jing, Wenbin Hu, Shaojin Chen, Haochen Shi, Haoyu Huang, Sirui Zhang, Yuxuan Liu, Zhongwei Xie, Haoran Li#

    In Submission [paper]

  • SoFT: Soft Targets for Generalizable Fine-Tuning

    Huihao JING*, Wenbin Hu*, Shaojin Chen, Haochen Shi, Zhongwei Xie, Guijia Zhang, Yuxuan Liu, Haoyu Huang, Haoran Li, Yangqiu Song#

    In Submission [paper]

  • ACE-GraphRAG: Agentic Context Engineering for Hierarchical GraphRAG

    Yongfeng Huang, Yuren Lai, Ruiying Chen, Haoyu Huang, Mingming Zhao, James Cheng#

    In Submission [paper]

  • AutoSchemaKG: Autonomous knowledge graph construction through dynamic schema induction from web-scale corpora

    Jiaxin Bai, Wei Fan, Qi Hu, Qing Zong, Chunyang Li, Hong Ting Tsang, Hongyu Luo, Yauwai Yim, Haoyu Huang, ..., Yangqiu Song#

    In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026, Main Conference [paper] [code]

  • PatchWorld: Gradient-Free Optimization of Executable World Models

    Jiaxin Bai, Yue Guo, Yifei Dong, Jiaxuan Xiong, Tianshi Zheng, Yixia Li, Tianqing Fang, Yufei Li, Yisen Gao, Haoyu Huang,.., Jeff Z. Pan, Yangqiu Song#

    In Submission [paper] [code]

  • KGPFN: Unlocking the Potential of Knowledge Graph Foundation Model via In-Context Learning

    Yisen Gao, Jiaxin Bai, Haoyu Huang, Zhongwei Xie, Yufei Li, Hong Ting Tsang, Sirui Han, Yangqiu Song#

    In Submission [paper] [code]

  • NGDB-Zoo: Towards Efficient and Scalable Neural Graph Databases Training

    Zhongwei Xie, Jiaxin Bai, Shujie Liu, Haoyu Huang, Yufei Li, Yisen Gao, Hong Ting Tsang, Yangqiu Song#

    In Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026 [paper]

  • NGDBench: Towards Neural Graph Data Management

    Yufei Li*, Yisen Gao*, Jiaxuan Xiong, Jiaxin Bai, Shijie Zhong, Haoyu Huang, Zhongwei Xie, Hong Ting Tsang, Yangqiu Song#

    In Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2026, Findings [paper] [code]

  • Building and exploiting spatial–temporal knowledge graph for next POI recommendation

    Wei Chen, Huaiyu Wan, Shengnan Guo, Haoyu Huang, Shaojie Zheng, Jiamu Li, Shuohao Lin, Youfang Lin#

    In Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS), 2022 [paper] [code]

Education

Internships

Selected Awards

  • 🏆 Huawei Spark Award 2024

Academic Service

  • Conference Reviewer or PC member: ARR Feb 2025 (ACL 2025), May 2025 (EMNLP 2025), May 2026 (EMNLP 2026), Aug 2026, Oct 2026 (NAACL 2026), ICML 2026, NeurIPS 2026, CIKM 2026, ICLR 2027.

    Journal Reviewer: IEEE TKDE.

    Conference Volunteer: EMNLP 2025.

Teaching Assistant

  • 2026 Spring:

    Natural Language Processing. CSIT5520

    Big Data Mining and Management / Advanced Data Miningfor Risk Management and Business Intelligence. COMP4332/RMBI4310

    2026 Fall:

    Advanced Machine Learning with Graphs. COMP5222