| 2026 | ACL | Learning to Select: Query-Aware Adaptive Dimension Selection for Dense Retrieval. | Zhanyu Wu, Richong Zhang, Zhijie Nie |
| 2026 | SIGIR | Constructing Hard-Positive Query-Document Pairs for Dense Retrieval via Phrase Representativeness. | Zhanyu Wu, Richong Zhang, Zhijie Nie |
| 2025 | AAAI | Momentum Pseudo-Labeling for Weakly Supervised Phrase Grounding. | Dongdong Kuang, Richong Zhang, Zhijie Nie, Junfan Chen, Jaein Kim |
| 2025 | ACL | A Text is Worth Several Tokens: Text Embedding from LLMs Secretly Aligns Well with The Key Tokens. | Zhijie Nie, Richong Zhang, Zhanyu Wu |
| 2025 | ACL | Dynamic Task Vector Grouping for Efficient Multi-Task Prompt Tuning. | Peiyi Zhang, Richong Zhang, Zhijie Nie, Ziqiao Wang |
| 2025 | KDD | ToolSQL: A Tool-Assisted Agent for SQL Verification and Refinement. | Zhongyuan Wang, Richong Zhang, Zhijie Nie, Jaein Kim |
| 2024 | AAAI | Cross-Modal and Uni-Modal Soft-Label Alignment for Image-Text Retrieval. | Hailang Huang, Zhijie Nie, Ziqiao Wang, Ziyu Shang |
| 2024 | AAAI | Narrowing the Gap between Supervised and Unsupervised Sentence Representation Learning with Large Language Model. | Mingxin Li, Richong Zhang, Zhijie Nie, Yongyi Mao |
| 2024 | AAAI | Code-Style In-Context Learning for Knowledge-Based Question Answering. | Zhijie Nie, Richong Zhang, Zhongyuan Wang, Xudong Liu |
| 2024 | ACL | Towards Better Understanding of Contrastive Sentence Representation Learning: A Unified Paradigm for Gradient. | Mingxin Li, Richong Zhang, Zhijie Nie |
| 2024 | KDD | Improving the Consistency in Cross-Lingual Cross-Modal Retrieval with 1-to-K Contrastive Learning. | Zhijie Nie, Richong Zhang, Zhangchi Feng, Hailang Huang, Xudong Liu |
| 2023 | ICLR | On The Inadequacy of Optimizing Alignment and Uniformity in Contrastive Learning of Sentence Representations. | Zhijie Nie, Richong Zhang, Yongyi Mao |