Zhijie Nie (聂志捷)

Zhijie Nie (聂志捷)

Ph.D. Candidate

Zhijie Nie (聂志捷)

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Shenyuan Honors Collage, Beihang University, supervised by Professors Richong Zhang and Yongyi Mao (uOttawa). I finished my undergraduate studies at Beihang University and transitioned into the Ph.D. program in 2021.

I am visiting MBZUAI in UAE, supervised by Prof. Qiang Sun (Uoft).

I have a broad interest in natural language processing, especially for text representation learning.

Publication

Text Representation Learning

  1. Zhijie Nie, Richong Zhang, Yongyi Mao. On The Inadequacy of Optimizing Alignment and Uniformity in Contrastive Learning of Sentence Representations. ICLR 2023
  2. Minxin Li, Richong Zhang, Zhijie Nie. Towards Better Understanding of Contrastive Sentence Representation Learning: A Unified Paradigm for Gradient. ACL 2024
  3. Minxin Li, Richong Zhang, Zhijie Nie. Narrowing the Gap between Supervised and Unsupervised Sentence Representation Learning with Large Language Model. AAAI 2024
  4. Zhijie Nie, Richong Zhang, Zhanyu Wu. A Text is Worth Several Tokens: Text Embedding from LLMs Secretly Aligns Well with The Key Tokens. Preprint
  5. Zhijie Nie, Zhangchi Feng, Mingxin Li, Cunwang Zhang, Yanzhao Zhang, Dingkun Long, Richong Zhang. When Text Embedding Meets Large Language Model: A Comprehensive Survey. Preprint (Survey)

Multi-Modal Retrieval

  1. Zhijie Nie, Richong Zhang, Zhangchi Feng, Hailang Huang, Xudong Liu. Improving the Consistency in Cross-Lingual Cross-Modal Retrieval with 1-to-K Contrastive Learning. KDD 2024
  2. Dongdong Kuang, Richong Zhang, Zhijie Nie. Momentum Pseudo-Labeling for Weakly Supervised Phrase Grounding. AAAI 2025
  3. Zhangchi Feng, Richong Zhang, Zhijie Nie. Improving Composed Image Retrieval via Contrastive Learning with Scaling Positives and Negatives. ACM MM 2024
  4. Hailang Huang, Zhijie Nie, Ziqiao Wang, Ziyu Shang. Cross-Modal and Uni-Modal Soft-Label Alignment for Image-Text Retrieval. AAAI 2024

Complex Reasoning on Structured Data

  1. Zhijie Nie, Richong Zhang, Zhongyuan Wang. Code-Style In-Context Learning for Knowledge-Based Question Answering. AAAI 2024
  2. Zhongyuan Wang, Richong Zhang, Zhijie Nie. Tool-Assisted Agent on SQL Inspection and Refinement in Real-World Scenarios. Preprint

Honors

  • [2025.02] China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) Young Talent Support Scholarship
  • [2024.12] Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) Scholarship
  • [2024.10] Beihang University First Prize Scholarship
  • [2024.06] China Scholarship Council (CSC) Scholarship
  • [2023.04] Beihang University Research Excellence Grant: Research on Embodied Intelligent Task Planning Methods for Natural Language Instructions