Kelong Mao
Scholar

Kelong Mao

Google Scholar ID: SXAurKsAAAAJ
JD.com
Information RetrievalLarge Language Models
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,695
 
H-index
21
 
i10-index
29
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
4
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • UniGist: Towards General and Hardware-aligned Sequence-level Long Context Compression. NeurIPS 2025
  • A Silver Bullet or a Compromise for Full Attention? A Comprehensive Study of Gist Token-based Context Compression. ACL 2025
  • UniConv: Unifying Retrieval and Response Generation for Large Language Model in Conversation. ACL 2025
  • Memory Never Fades: Boosting Long Context Processing with Global Memory-Enhanced Retrieval Augmentation. WWW 2025
  • CORAL: Benchmarking Multi-turn Conversational Retrieval-Augmentation Generation. NAACL 2025 Findings
  • Tackling the Length Barrier: Dynamic Context Browsing for Knowledge-intensive Task. KDD 2025
  • ChatRetriever: Adapting Large Language Models for Generalized and Robust Conversational Dense Retrieval. EMNLP 2024
  • RAG-Studio: Towards In-Domain Adaptation Of Retrieval Augmented Generation Through Self Alignment. EMNLP 2024 (Findings)
  • Aligning Query Representation with Rewritten Query and Relevance Judgments in Conversational Search. CIKM 2024
  • YuLan: An Open-source Large Language Model. Technical Report 2024
  • Enabling Discriminative Reasoning in LLMs for Legal Judgment Prediction. EMNLP 2024 (Findings)
  • Learning Interpretable Legal Case Retrieval via Knowledge-Guided Case Reformulation. EMNLP 2024
  • CHIQ: Contextual History Enhancement
Research Experience
  • Amazon Fashion, Applied Scientist Intern, Aug 2024 - Nov 2024, Seattle, USA
  • Waseda University, Visiting Research Fellow, Jan 2024 - June 2024, Tokyo, Japan
  • Amazon Ads, Applied Scientist Intern, Jul 2023 - Oct 2023, Seattle, USA
  • Bytedance, Tiktok Search, Research Engineer Intern, Jan 2021 - Jun 2021, Beijing, China
  • Tencent AI Lab, Research Intern, Jul 2019 - Dec 2019, Shenzhen, China
Background
  • Senior research engineer at JD.com, joined through JD's TGT program. Research interests include AI retail agents (shopping, food delivery, hotel bookings, travel, etc.). Received Ph.D. from Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China, advised by Prof. Zhicheng Dou. M.Eng and B.Eng degrees in Computer Science from Tsinghua University and Nankai University, respectively.