Siyue Zhang

Alibaba-NTU PhD Student
College of Computing and Data Science,
Nanyang Technological University
Alibaba-NTU Singapore Joint Research Institute

Email: siyue001@e.ntu.edu.sg

I am a fourth-year PhD student with NTU AI Language Lab at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), supervised by Prof. Anh Tuan Luu. I am also visiting Prof. Chen Zhao's lab at New York University (NYU) Shanghai. Before joining NTU, I obtained my Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from École Polytechnique and Bachelor's degree from Zhejiang University. My research broadly explores natural language processing, with interests in areas such as agentic search, information retrieval, and retrieval-augmented generation.

Papers

MRMR: A Realistic and Expert-Level Multidisciplinary Benchmark for Reasoning-Intensive Multimodal Retrieval
Siyue Zhang*, Yuan Gao*, Xiao Zhou*, Yilun Zhao, Tingyu Song, Arman Cohan, Anh Tuan Luu, Chen Zhao
ICLR 2026

RoATR: A Systematic Study of Audio-Text Retrieval Robustness Against Realistic Perturbations
Honglei Zhang, Pengfei Zhou, Ruohan Wang, Siyue Zhang^#, Yilei Shi^#
ICMR 2026

Rethinking Composed Image Retrieval Evaluation: A Fine-Grained Benchmark from Image Editing
Tingyu Song, Yanzhao Zhang, Mingxin Li, Zhuoning Guo, Dingkun Long, Pengjun Xie, Siyue Zhang, Yilun Zhao, Shu Wu
ACL 2026

Rethinking Evaluation of Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval: Evaluating Retrievers in Agentic Search Systems
Yilun Zhao, Jinbiao Wei, Tingyu Song, Siyue Zhang, Chen Zhao, Arman Cohan
ACL 2026

A Survey of Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval: Progress and Challenges
Yiyang Wei, Tingyu Song, Siyue Zhang, Yilun Zhao
ACL 2026

ReasonAudio: A Benchmark for Evaluating Reasoning Beyond Matching in Text-Audio Retrieval
Honglei Zhang, Yuting Chen, Chenpeng Hu, Siyue Zhang^#, Yilei Shi^#
arXiv 2026

Analyzing Diffusion and Autoregressive Vision Language Models in Multimodal Embedding Space
Zihang Wang*, Siyue Zhang*, Yilun Zhao, Jingyi Yang, Tingyu Song, Anh Tuan Luu, Chen Zhao
arXiv 2026

Search, Do not Guess: Teaching Small Language Models to be Effective Agents
Qi Sun, Yizhou Liu, Yulin Chen, Siyue Zhang, Chen Zhao
arXiv 2026

Diffusion vs. Autoregressive Language Models: A Text Embedding Perspective
Siyue Zhang, Yilun Zhao, Liyuan Geng, Arman Cohan, Anh Tuan Luu, Chen Zhao
EMNLP 2025 (Oral)

MRAG: A Modular Retrieval Framework for Time-Sensitive Question Answering
Siyue Zhang, Yuxiang Xue, Yiming Zhang, Xiaobao Wu, Anh Tuan Luu, Chen Zhao
Findings of EMNLP 2025

SportReason: Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning across Tables and Text for Sports Question Answering
Kaiyue Feng*, Siyue Zhang*, Bingsen Chen, Yilun Zhao, Chen Zhao
EMNLP 2025

RPDR: A Round-trip Prediction-Based Data Augmentation Framework for Long-Tail Question Answering
Yiming Zhang, Siyue Zhang, Junbo Zhao, Chen Zhao
EMNLP 2025

LimRank: Less is More for Reasoning-Intensive Information Reranking
Tingyu Song, Yilun Zhao, Siyue Zhang, Chen Zhao, Arman Cohan
EMNLP 2025

SynTQA: Synergistic Table-based Question Answering via Mixture of Text-to-SQL and E2E TQA
Siyue Zhang, Anh Tuan Luu, Chen Zhao
Findings of EMNLP 2024

Sustainable AIGC Workload Scheduling of Geo-Distributed Data Centers: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach
Siyue Zhang, Minrui Xu, Wei Yang Bryan Lim, Dusit Niyato
GLOBECOM 2023

Toward Green Metaverse Networking: Technologies, Advancements, and Future Directions
Siyue Zhang, Wei Yang Bryan Lim, Wei Chong Ng, Zehui Xiong, Dusit Niyato, Xuemin Sherman Shen, Chunyan Miao
IEEE Network 2023

Benchmarking Reinforcement Learning Algorithms on Island Microgrid Energy Management
Siyue Zhang, Srinivasan Nandakumar, Quanbiao Pan, Ezekiel Yang, Romain Migne, Lalitha Subramanian
ISGT Asia 2021

Experiences

Senior Research Engineer, Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 2021 – 2022
Developed data mining and time series forecasting software to optimize operational efficiency for manufacturing companies.
Research Engineer, Électricité de France (EDF) R&D, 2018 – 2021
Designed and build multi-energy testbed for developing energy management and optimization software.
Research Associate, University of Tokyo, 2015

Awards

Alibaba Talent Programme PhD Scholarship, 2022
European Institute of Innovation and Technology Master Scholarship, 2015
Outstanding Graduate Student of Zhejiang University, 2015
First Prize in National University Student Social Practice and Science Contest on Energy Saving & Emission Reduction, 2014