🧑‍🎓 About Me

My name is Rui Li. I am currently a second-year PhD candidate in Renmin University of China, supervised by Prof. Xu Chen. Before embarking on my PhD journey, I received my BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Science at Dalian University of Technology, under the guidance of Prof. Yanming Shen. My current research mainly focuses on Self-Evolving LLM Agents and Retrieval-Augmented Generation. I also maintain a strong interest in GNNs and Knowledge Graphs, particularly their interactions with LLM systems.

🧑‍💻 Internship Experiences

• Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab (Aug. 2024 – Feb. 2025)
  Worked on LLM agentic memory and self-bootstrapping retrieval-augmented generation.

• Microsoft Research Asia (Oct. 2021 – Feb. 2023)
  Worked on knowledge representation learning and joint training of GNNs & LMs.

💡I am currently seeking internship opportunities related to Self-Evolving LLM Agent Systems. Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in my research or background.

📚 Selected Publications

• KnowTrace: Bootstrapping Iterative Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Structured Knowledge Tracing
  Rui Li, Quanyu Dai, Zeyu Zhang, Xu Chen, Zhenhua Dong, Ji-Rong Wen
  KDD 2025
  📄 Paper · 💻 Code

• Generalizing Knowledge Graph Embedding with Universal Orthogonal Parameterization
  Rui Li, Chaozhuo Li, Yanming Shen, Zeyu Zhang, Xu Chen
  ICML 2024
  📄 Paper · 💻 Code

• To Copy Rather Than Memorize: A Vertical Learning Paradigm for Knowledge Graph Completion
  Rui Li, Xu Chen, Chaozhuo Li, Yanming Shen, Jianan Zhao, Yujing Wang, Weihao Han, Hao Sun, Weiwei Deng, Qi Zhang, Xing Xie
  ACL 2023 Main Conference
  📄 Paper · 💻 Code

• HousE: Knowledge Graph Embedding with Householder Parameterization
  Rui Li, Jianan Zhao, Chaozhuo Li, Di He, Yiqi Wang, Yuming Liu, Hao Sun, Senzhang Wang, Weiwei Deng, Yanming Shen, Xing Xie, Qi Zhang
  ICML 2022
  📄 Paper · 💻 Code

• A New Perspective on the Effects of Spectrum in Graph Neural Networks
  Mingqi Yang, Yanming Shen, Rui Li, Heng Qi, Qiang Zhang, Baocai Yin
  ICML 2022
  📄 Paper · 💻 Code

🏆 Awards

• Outstanding Innovative Talents Cultivation Programs, Renmin University of China, 2024
• Outstanding Master’s Thesis in Liaoning Province, 2023.
• National Scholarship for Postgraduate Students, 2022.
• Outstanding Graduate Student, Dalian University of Technology, 2022.
• Outstanding Undergraduate Graduate, Dalian University of Technology, 2020.
• First-class Academic Scholarship, Dalian University of Technology, 2017-2019.