Zhishang Xiang 🎓 M.S. student XMU-DeepLIT, Xiamen University Institute of Artificial Intelligence Supervised by Dr. Jinsong Su, also work closely with Dr. Qinggang Zhang xzs.xiang@hotmail.com Google Scholar GitHub

Biography

I am now a first-year M.S. student at Xiamen University, Institute of Artificial Intelligence. My research interests include Natural Language Processing (NLP), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Agentic Systems.

News

• [2026.06] Our paper MemGraphRAG was accepted by KDD 2026.
• [2026.05] Our paper ZeroUnlearn was accepted by ICML 2026.
• [2026.04] Our paper LegalGraphRAG was accepted by ACL 2026.
• [2026.04] Our paper HEALing Entropy Collapse was accepted by ACL 2026.
• [2026.03] Our paper TTCS was accepted by ICLR 2026 Workshop.
• [2026.02] We release Graph-based Agent Memory, a taxonomy of graph-structured memory for agent systems.
• [2026.02] We release Self-Evolving Survey, a systematic survey of Self-Evolving Agents.
• [2026.01] Our paper GraphRAG-Bench was accepted by ICLR 2026.
• [2026.01] Our paper Augmenting Intra-Modal Understanding in MLLMs for Robust Multimodal Keyphrase Generation was accepted by AAAI 2026.
• [2025.08] FaithfulRAG received the ACL’25 SAC Highlight Award (top 0.57%).
• [2025.05] Our paper FaithfulRAG was accepted by ACL 2025.

Lead Projects

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  FaithfulRAG: Fact-Level Conflict Modeling for Context-Faithful Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
  Qinggang Zhang†, Zhishang Xiang†, Yilin Xiao, Le Wang, Junhui Li, Xinrun Wang, Jinsong Su*.
  The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025 SAC-highlight).
  [Paper] [Code]
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  When to use Graphs in RAG: A Comprehensive Analysis for Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
  Zhishang Xiang†, Chuanjie Wu†, Qinggang Zhang*, Shengyuan Chen, Zijin Hong, Xiao Huang, Jinsong Su*.
  The 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026).
  [Paper] [Code]
  

  A Systematic Survey of Self-Evolving Agents: From Model-Centric to Environment-Driven Co-Evolution.
  Zhishang Xiang†, Chengyi Yang†, Zerui Chen, Zhimin Wei, Yunbo Tang, Zongpei Teng, Zexi Peng, Zongxia Li, Chengsong Huang, Yicheng He, Chang Yang, Xinrun Wang, Xiao Huang, Qinggang Zhang*, Jinsong Su*.
  Preprints (techrxiv.177203250.05832634).
  [Paper] [Resources]
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  MemGraphRAG: Memory-based Multi-Agent System for Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
  Chuanjie Wu†, Zhishang Xiang†, Yunbo Tang, Zerui Chen, Qinggang Zhang*, Jinsong Su*.
  The 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2026).
  [Paper] [Code]

Publications

• MemGraphRAG: Memory-based Multi-Agent System for Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
  Chuanjie Wu†, Zhishang Xiang†, Yunbo Tang, Zerui Chen, Qinggang Zhang*, Jinsong Su*.
  KDD 2026. [Paper] [Code]
• ZeroUnlearn: Few-Shot Knowledge Unlearning in Large Language Models.
  Yujie Lin†, Chengyi Yang†, Zhishang Xiang, Yiping Song, Jinsong Su*.
  ICML 2026. [Paper] [Code]
• LegalGraphRAG: Multi-Agent Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Reliable Legal Reasoning.
  Zerui Chen, Qinggang Zhang*, Zhishang Xiang, Zhimin Wei, Linfeng Gao, Xiao Huang, Zhihong Zhang*, Jinsong Su*.
  ACL 2026. [Paper] [Code]
• HEALing Entropy Collapse: Enhancing Exploration in Few-Shot RLVR via Hybrid-Domain Entropy Dynamics Alignment.
  Zhanyu Liu, Qingguo Hu, Ante Wang, Chenqing Liu, Zhishang Xiang, Hui Li, Delai Qiu, Jinsong Su*.
  ACL 2026. [Paper]
• Augmenting Intra-Modal Understanding in MLLMs for Robust Multimodal Keyphrase Generation.
  Jiajun Cao, Qinggang Zhang, Yunbo Tang, Zhishang Xiang, Chang Yang, Jinsong Su*.
  AAAI 2026. [Paper]
• TTCS: Test-Time Curriculum Synthesis for Self-Evolving.
  Chengyi Yang, Zhishang Xiang, Yunbo Tang, Zongpei Teng, Chengsong Huang, Fei Long, Yuhan Liu, Jinsong Su*.
  ICLR 2026 Workshop. [Paper] [Code]
• A Systematic Survey of Self-Evolving Agents: From Model-Centric to Environment-Driven Co-Evolution.
  Zhishang Xiang†, Chengyi Yang†, Zerui Chen, Zhimin Wei, Yunbo Tang, Zongpei Teng, Zexi Peng, Zongxia Li, Chengsong Huang, Yicheng He, Chang Yang, Xinrun Wang, Xiao Huang, Qinggang Zhang*, Jinsong Su*.
  Preprint. [Paper] [Resources]
• Graph-based Agent Memory: Taxonomy, Techniques, and Applications.
  Chang Yang, Chuang Zhou, Yilin Xiao, Su Dong, Luyao Zhuang, Yujing Zhang, Zhu Wang, Zijin Hong, Zheng Yuan, Zhishang Xiang, Shengyuan Chen, Huachi Zhou, Qinggang Zhang*, Ninghao Liu, Jinsong Su*, Xinrun Wang, Yi Chang, Xiao Huang.
  Preprint. [Paper]
• When to use Graphs in RAG: A Comprehensive Analysis for Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
  Zhishang Xiang†, Chuanjie Wu†, Qinggang Zhang*, Shengyuan Chen, Zijin Hong, Xiao Huang, Jinsong Su*.
  ICLR 2026. [Paper] [Code]
• FaithfulRAG: Fact-Level Conflict Modeling for Context-Faithful Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
  Qinggang Zhang†, Zhishang Xiang†, Yilin Xiao, Le Wang, Junhui Li, Xinrun Wang, Jinsong Su*.
  ACL 2025 SAC-highlight. [Paper] [Code]

Awards and Honors

• ACL'25 SAC-highlight award
• Outstanding graduate award
• National scholarships in 2024
• The Second Class Prize in ASC student supercomputer challenge 2024

Academic Service

• Invited Reviewer: ACL (2026-), ICLR-Workshop (2026-);