2024 - Present
The University of Hong Kong
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Advisors: Prof. Chao Huang and Prof. Benjamin C.M. Kao
About
I am currently a first-year Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science in The University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Chao Huang and Prof. Benjamin C.M. Kao. My research focuses on LLMs, agents and RAG.
Education
2020 - 2024
Open-Source Projects
Auto-Deep-Research
An open-source and cost-efficient alternative to OpenAI's Deep Research, based on our AutoAgent framework. It ranks first among open-source methods and delivers performance comparable to OpenAI's Deep Research.
AI-Trader
A benchmark for autonomous agents in real-time financial markets, accompanying the AI-Trader paper.
Publications
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DeepInnovator: Triggering the Innovative Capabilities of LLMs
Tianyu Fan, Fengji Zhang, Yuxiang Zheng, Bei Chen, Xinyao Niu, Chengen Huang, Junyang Lin, Chao Huang
ArXiv: 2602.18920
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AI-Trader: Benchmarking Autonomous Agents in Real-Time Financial Markets
Tianyu Fan, Yuhao Yang, Yangqin Jiang, Yifei Zhang, Yuxuan Chen, Chao Huang
ArXiv: 2512.10971
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Understanding DeepResearch Via Reports
Tianyu Fan, Xinyao Niu, Yuxiang Zheng, Fengji Zhang, Chengen Huang, Bei Chen, Junyang Lin, Chao Huang
ArXiv: 2510.07861
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AutoAgent: Fully-Automated & Zero-Code LLM Agent Framework
Jiabin Tang, Tianyu Fan, Chao Huang
ArXiv: 2502.05957
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MiniRAG: Towards Extremely Simple Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Tianyu Fan, Jingyuan Wang, Xubin Ren, Chao Huang
ArXiv: 2501.06713
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Decoupling Weighing and Selecting for Integrating Multiple Graph Pre-training Tasks
Tianyu Fan, Lirong Wu, Yufei Huang, Haitao Lin, Cheng Tan, Zhangyang Gao, Stan Z. Li
ICLR 2024
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Fine-tuning Graph Neural Networks by Preserving Graph Generative Patterns
Yifei Sun, Qi Zhu, Yang Yang, Chunping Wang, Tianyu Fan, Jiajun Zhu, Lei Chen
AAAI 2024
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Extracting Low-/High-Frequency Knowledge from Graph Neural Networks and Injecting it into MLPs: An Effective GNN-to-MLP Distillation Framework
Lirong Wu, Haitao Lin, Yufei Huang, Tianyu Fan, Stan Z. Li
AAAI 2023 (Oral)
Experiences
Mar. 2025 - Present
Research Intern, Qwen Team, Alibaba Group
Advisor: Dr. Bei Chen
Building Qwen-DeepResearch system.
Dec. 2023 - Feb. 2024
Research Intern, MSRA, Microsoft
Mentors: Dr. Xiao Yang and Dr. Weiqing Liu
Dec. 2022 - Mar. 2023
Research Intern, AI-Net, Zhejiang University
Advisor: Prof. Yang Yang
Jun. 2022 - Nov. 2022
Research Intern, AI Lab, Westlake University
Advisor: Prof. Stan Z. Li
Honors & Awards
Service
Program Committee Member: ICML 2026; ICLR 2025, 2024; AAAI 2025; CIKM 2023