Weize Kong
Scholar

Weize Kong

Google Scholar ID: kDrqlE4AAAAJ
OpenAI
Large Language ModelsInformation Retrieval
Citations & Impact
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Citations
6,349
 
H-index
13
 
i10-index
15
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
6
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Reasoning-Enhanced Self-Training for Long-Form Personalized Text Generation (arXiv preprint, 2025)
  • Bridging the Preference Gap between Retrievers and LLMs (to appear in ACL '24)
  • PRewrite: Prompt Rewriting with Reinforcement Learning (to appear in ACL '24)
  • Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models (in arXiv, 2023)
  • SparseEmbed: Learning Sparse Lexical Representations with Contextual Embeddings for Retrieval (SIGIR 2023, Best Short Paper Award)
  • Multi-Aspect Dense Retrieval (KDD 2022)
  • Natural Language Understanding with Privacy-Preserving BERT (CIKM 2021)
Research Experience
  • Formerly a Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, focusing on knowledge augmentation and personalization for LLMs; now a researcher at OpenAI.
Education
  • Ph.D. student, advised by Prof. James Allan at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR), University of Massachusetts Amherst; previously worked with Prof. Yiqun Liu in the Information Retrieval Group, Tsinghua University.
Background
  • Research interests include knowledge augmentation (retrieval-augmented generation and long-context models) and personalization for LLMs. Currently a researcher at OpenAI, focusing on agents.