Zhishang Xiang 🎓 M.S. student XMU-DeepLIT, Xiamen University Institute of Artificial Intelligence Supervised by Dr. Jinsong Su, also work closely with 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).

News

• [2026.03] Our paper TTCS was accepted by ICLR 2026 Workshop.
• [2026.02] We release Self-Evolving Survey, a systematic survey of Self-Evolving Agents.
• [2026.02] We release TTCS, a self-evolving framework for complex reasoning.
• [2026.01] Our paper GraphRAG-Bench was accepted by ICLR 2026.
• [2025.08] FaithfulRAG received the ACL’25 SAC Highlight Award (top 0.57%).
• [2025.06] I obtained my bachelor's degree as an Outstanding Graduate.
• [2025.06] We release GraphRAG-Bench, the benchmark for evaluating GraphRAG models.
• [2025.05] Our paper FaithfulRAG was accepted by ACL 2025.
• [2024.10] I received the National Scholarship for Undergraduate Students awarded

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]

Collaborative Projects

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  TTCS: Test-Time Curriculum Synthesis for Self-Evolving.
  Chengyi Yang, Zhishang Xiang, Yunbo Tang, Zongpei Teng, Chengsong Huang, Fei Long, Yuhan Liu, Jinsong Su*.
  The 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026 Workshop).
  [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-);