I am currently a second-year PhD Student at the School of Data Science and Engineering, East China Normal University, under the supervision of Prof. Weining Qian and Prof. Xiang Li in the PLANING (graPh mining and LANguage processING) lab.
My research interests include:
- Agentic Reinforcement Learning: algorithms and applications in agentic tool use, skill augmentation.
- Large Language Models: applications in graph RAG, toxicity detection.
- Graph Neural Networks: graph prompt tuning, graph active learning, graph self-supervised learning.
β β β Feel free to reach out to me for academic discussions and collaborations!
π Selected Publications 
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AAAI 2026Human Cognition Inspired RAG with Knowledge Graph for Complex Problem Solving,
Yao Cheng, Yibo Zhao, Jiapeng Zhu, Yao Liu, Xing Sun, Xiang Li. -
EMNLP 2025Text Detoxification: Data Efficiency, Semantic Preservation and Model Generalization,
Jing Yu, Yibo Zhao, Jiapeng Zhu, Wenming Shao, Bo Pang, Zhao Zhang, Xiang Li. -
ACL 2025 findingsEnhancing LLM-based Hatred and Toxicity Detection with Meta-Toxic Knowledge Graph,
Yibo Zhao, Jiapeng Zhu, Can Xu, Xiang Li. -
WWW 2025Hierarchical Vector Quantized Graph Autoencoder with Annealing-Based Code Selection,
Long Zeng, Jianxiang Yu, Jiapeng Zhu, Qingsong Zhong, Xiang Li. -
TKDE 2025Adversarial Conservative Alternating Q-Learning for Credit Card Debt Collection,
Wenhui Liu, Jiapeng Zhu, Lyu Ni, Jingyu Bi, Zhijian Wu, Jiajie Long, Mengyao Gao, Dingjiang Huang, Shuigeng Zhou. -
KDD 2025RELIEF: Reinforcement Learning Empowered Graph Feature Prompt Tuning,
Jiapeng Zhu, Zichen Ding, Jianxiang Yu, Jiaqi Tan, Xiang Li. -
CIKM 2024GraphCBAL: Class-Balanced Active Learning for Graph Neural Networks via Reinforcement Learning,
ChengCheng Yu, Jiapeng Zhu, Xiang Li.
π Honors and Awards
- 2022-2026 Graduate Academic Scholarship, East China Normal University
- 2022.06 Outstanding Graduate, East China University of Science and Technology
- 2018-2022 Academic Excellence Scholarship, East China University of Science and Technology
π Educations
- 2022.09 - now, PhD candidate, Data Science and Engineering, East China Normal University (via postgraduate recommendation and successive postgraduate and doctoral program)

- 2018.09 - 2022.06, Undergraduate, School of Information Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology

π» Internships
- 2025.09 - now, Meituan Longcat Team
, Shanghai, China. Contributed to
Longcat-flash-thinking-2601, specializing in environment and task synthesis for agentic tool-use in post-training.