Me
Qiyong Zhong
Master's Student
@ Zhejiang University

Short Biography

Hi, my name is Qiyong Zhong. I am now a final-year Master's student at Zhejiang University (2023–2026).
I am now a summer research intern at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Julian McAuley. Previously, I was a research assistant at National University of Singapore (NUS) @NExT++ Lab led by Prof. Tat-Seng Chua.

Research Interests

My current research interests mainly focus on Recommender Systems (Generative Recommendation, LLM-based Recommendation), Large Language Models (LLMs), Multimodality . My goal is to research and develop AI systems that can better understand and interact with humans.

Research Experiences

  • May 2025 -- Now, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA
         Summer Research Intern, Work on Generative Recommendation
         Mentor: Yupeng Hou, Supervisor: Prof. Julian McAuley
  • Nov. 2024 -- Apr. 2025, NUS, NExT++ Lab, Singapore, 6 months
         Research Assistant, Work on Multimodal Large Language Models & Recommendation
         Mentor: Jiajie Su, Supervisor: Prof. Yunshan Ma, Project Advisor: Prof. Tat-Seng Chua

    • News

    •    One paper (with UCSD) on Generative Recommendation is now available on arXiv.
    •    One paper (with NUS) on MLLM4Rec is now available on arXiv.
    •    One paper (with NUS) on MLLM4Rec is now available on arXiv.
    •    One paper is accepted to AAAI 2025.

    Selected Publications and Manuscripts, (Full List: here)

    Pctx: Tokenizing Personalized Context for Generative Recommendation
    Qiyong Zhong, Jiajie Su, Yunshan Ma, Julian McAuley, Yupeng Hou
    [ Paper ] [ WWW ] [ Code ]
    Preprint 2025 (under review)
    A Remarkably Efficient Paradigm to Multimodal Large Language Models for Sequential Recommendation
    Qiyong Zhong, Jiajie Su, Ming Yang, Yunshan Ma, Xiaolin Zheng, Chaochao Chen
    [ Paper ] [ WWW ]
    Preprint 2025 (under review)

    Distilling Transitional Pattern to Large Language Models for Multimodal Session-based Recommendation
    Jiajie Su, Qiyong Zhong, Yunshan Ma, Weiming Liu, Chaochao Chen, Xiaolin Zheng, Jianwei Yin, Tat-seng Chua
    [ Paper ] [ WWW ] [ Code ]
    Preprint 2025 (under review)

    Selected Honors & Awards

    Miscellaneous

    Traveling around the world ✈️🧳🏖️
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