Hi, I am Zixu Li (李子旭).
I am a Ph.D. student in Artificial Intelligence at Shandong University, under the supervision of Prof. Liqiang Nie and Prof. Yupeng Hu. In 2023, I received my Bachelor’s degree in Data Science and Big Data Technology from Shandong University.
My research interests include multimedia computing, information retrieval, and approximate nearest neighbor search.
I firmly believe in the power of open science. Currently, all the major projects I am involved in are fully open source. Additionally, as a member of the Intelligent Media Research Center (iLearn), all of our lab’s papers and code are open source. Please visit iLearn Lab and feel free to share your valuable feedback.
作为开放科学的坚定拥趸，我致力于将研究成果开源，以促进社区的交流与发展。随时欢迎大家访问与交流探讨！
💻 个人项目： 我主要参与的项目均已全面开源，欢迎访问我们的项目主页，非常期待您的真实反馈（欢迎提出 Issue 或 PR）！
🏫 实验室组织： 我隶属于智能媒体研究中心 (iLearn)，实验室的论文代码与相关项目也已悉数开源，欢迎访问 iLearn Lab 并提供宝贵意见。
Our open source projects
Here’s the link to our repo! Feel free to check it out. Any feedback or support are always welcome. Thanks for taking a look! ✨
 COMBINER (TIP'26) Web | Code |  TEMA (ACL'26 Main) Paper | Web | Code |  ConeSep (CVPR'26) Paper | Web | Code |
 Air-Know (CVPR'26) Paper | Web | Code |  HABIT (AAAI'26) Paper | Web | Code |  ReTrack (AAAI'26) Paper | Web | Code |
 INTENT (AAAI'26) Paper | Web | Code |  HUD (ACM MM'25) Paper | Web | Code |  OFFSET (ACM MM'25) Paper | Web | Code |
 ENCODER (AAAI'25) Paper | Web | Code |
🔥 News
- 2026.05.14: 🎉🎉 Thrilled to share that our team won two 1st places🏅, two 2nd places🥈, and one 3rd place🥉 across multiple CVPR 2026 Challenges (HD-EPIC, EPIC-KITCHENS, and EgoCross)! Congratulations to all members!
- 2026.04.30: 🎉🎉 One paper (COMBINER), was accepted by TIP 2026! Thanks to all co-authors!
- 2026.04.07: 🎉🎉 One paper (TEMA), was accepted by ACL 2026 Main! Thanks to all co-authors!
- 2026.03.17: 🎉🎉 One paper (STABLE), was accepted by TKDE 2026! Congratulations to all co-authors!
- 2026.02.21: 🎉🎉 Two papers (ConeSep, Air-Know), were accepted by CVPR 2026! Thanks and Congratulations to all co-authors!
- 2025.11.08: 🎉🎉 Three papers (ReTrack, INTENT, HABIT), were accepted by AAAI 2026! Thanks and Congratulations to all co-authors!
- 2025.10.18: 🎉🎉 As the project leader, I led our team won the Grand Prize (特等奖) in the CICAS Smart Power Scenario Competition. Congratulations to all team members!
- 2025.07.05: 🎉🎉 Two papers (OFFSET, HUD), were accepted by ACM MM 2025! Congratulations to all co-authors!
- 2024.12.10: 🎉🎉 One paper (ENCODER) was accepted by AAAI 2025! Thanks to all co-authors!
- 2024.09.13: 🎉🎉 I was honored to receive the Huawei Outstanding Student Award (Top 30 globally per year), as well as the Huawei Outstanding Technical Collaboration Award (Top 10 globally per year).
📝 Selected Publications
(“†” denotes project leader, “✉” denotes corresponding author)
COMBINER: Composed Image Retrieval Guided by Attribute-based Neighbor Relations [Paper Coming Soon][Web] [Code]
Zixu Li, Yupeng Hu✉, Zhiwei Chen, Haokun Wen, Xuemeng Song, Liqiang Nie
TEMA: Anchor the Image, Follow the Text for Multi-Modification Composed Image Retrieval [Paper] [Web] [Code]
Zixu Li, Yupeng Hu✉, Zhiheng Fu, Zhiwei Chen, Yongqi Li, Liqiang Nie
ConeSep: Cone-based Robust Noise-Unlearning Compositional Network for Composed Image Retrieval [Paper] [Web] [Code]
Zixu Li, Yupeng Hu✉, Zhiwei Chen, Mingyu Zhang, Zhiheng Fu, Liqiang Nie
Air-Know: Arbiter-Calibrated Knowledge-Internalizing Robust Network for Composed Image Retrieval [Paper] [Web] [Code]
First-authored by undergraduate student
Zhiheng Fu, Yupeng Hu✉, Qianyun Yang, Shiqi Zhang, Zhiwei Chen, Zixu Li†
ReTrack: Evidence-Driven Dual-Stream Directional Anchor Calibration Network for Composed Video Retrieval [Paper] [Web] [Code] [Official Version]
Zixu Li, Yupeng Hu✉, Zhiwei Chen, Qinlei Huang, Guozhi Qiu, Zhiheng Fu, Meng Liu
HABIT: Chrono-Synergia Robust Progressive Learning Framework for Composed Image Retrieval [Paper] [Web] [Code] [Official Version]
Zixu Li, Yupeng Hu✉, Zhiwei Chen, Shiqi Zhang, Qinlei Huang, Zhiheng Fu, Yinwei Wei
ENCODER: Entity Mining and Modification Relation Binding for Composed Image Retrieval [Paper] [Web] [Code] [Official Version]
Zixu Li, Zhiwei Chen, Haokun Wen, Zhiheng Fu, Yupeng Hu✉, Weili Guan
FineCIR: Explicit Parsing of Fine-Grained Modification Semantics for Composed Image Retrieval [Paper] [Web] [Code]
Zixu Li, Zhiheng Fu, Yupeng Hu✉, Zhiwei Chen, Haokun Wen, Liqiang Nie
📝 More Publications
(“†” denotes project leader, “✉” denotes corresponding author)
STABLE: Efficient Hybrid Nearest Neighbor Search via Magnitude-Uniformity and Cardinality-Robustness [Paper]
Qianyun Yang, Zhiwei Chen, Yupeng Hu, Zixu Li, Zhiheng Fu, Liqiang Nie
REFINE: Composed Video Retrieval via Shared and Differential Semantics Enhancement [Paper] [Web] [Code] [Official Version]
Yupeng Hu, Zixu Li, Zhiwei Chen, Qinlei Huang, Zhiheng Fu, Mingzhu Xu✉, Liqiang Nie
INTENT: Invariance and Discrimination-aware Noise Mitigation for Robust Composed Image Retrieval [Paper] [Web] [Code] [Official Version]
Zhiwei Chen, Yupeng Hu✉, Zhiheng Fu, Zixu Li†, Jiale Huang, Qinlei Huang, Yinwei Wei
OFFSET: Segmentation-based Focus Shift Revision for Composed Image Retrieval [Paper] [Web] [Code] [Official Version]
Zhiwei Chen, Yupeng Hu✉, Zixu Li†, Zhiheng Fu, Xuemeng Song, Liqiang Nie
HUD: Hierarchical Uncertainty-Aware Disambiguation Network for Composed Video Retrieval [Paper] [Web] [Code] [Official Version]
Zhiwei Chen, Yupeng Hu✉, Zixu Li†, Zhiheng Fu, Haokun Wen, Weili Guan
🔖 Patent
[国家发明专利授权, 第二发明人] 基于实体挖掘和修改关系绑定的组合图像检索方法及系统 - 授权专利号: ZL202411903224.3
[国家发明专利实审, 第二发明人] 基于属性的邻域关系引导的组合图像检索方法及系统 - 申请号: CN202511944904.4
[国家发明专利实审, 第二发明人] 基于共享和差异语义增强的组合视频检索方法及系统 - 申请号: CN202511944910.X
[国家发明专利实审, 第二发明人] 基于互补性引导解耦的组合图像检索方法及系统 - 申请号: CN202510142418.4
[国家发明专利实审, 第二发明人] 基于自适应中间粒度聚合网络的组合图像检索方法及系统 - 申请号: CN202510274983.6
[国家发明专利实审, 第三发明人] 基于特征相似性和属性一致性协同约束的近似近邻混合检索的用户推荐方法及系统 - 申请号: CN202311201790.5
[国家发明专利实审, 第三发明人] 一种基于分割焦点偏移修正的组合图像检索方法及系统 - 申请号: CN202510143920.7
[国家发明专利实审, 第三发明人] 一种基于层次化不确定性感知消歧的组合视频检索方法及系统 - 申请号: CN202511567477.2
[国家发明专利实审, 第四发明人] 面向开放域视觉语言多任务的自适应指代关系对齐的检索方法及系统 - 申请号: CN202511944907.8
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2025.10 Grand Prize (特等奖) in the CICAS Smart Power Scenario Competition.
- 2024.09 Huawei Outstanding Technical Collaboration Award (Top 10 globally per year).
- 2024.09 Huawei Outstanding Student Award (Top 30 globally per year).
- 2023.06 Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis (Ranked 1st out of 409 candidates).
- 2023.06 Outstanding Graduates of Shandong Province.
- 2023.06 Outstanding Graduates of Shandong University.
🏆 Competition
- 1st place 🏅, CVPR HD-EPIC VQA Challenge, 2026. [Link]
- 1st place 🏅, CVPR EPIC-KITCHENS-100 Multi-Instance Retrieval Challenge, 2026. [Link]
- 2nd place 🥈, CVPR EgoCross (Source-Limited Track): Cross Domain Ego-centric VQA Challenge, 2026. [Link]
- 2nd place 🥈, CVPR EgoCross (Open-Source Track): Cross Domain Ego-centric VQA Challenge, 2026. [Link]
- 3rd place 🥉, CVPR EPIC-KITCHENS-100 Action Detection Challenge, 2026. [Link]
📖 Educations
- 2023.09 - now, integrated Master-Ph.D. program in the School of Software, Shandong University.
- 2019.09 - 2023.06, Bachelor in the School of Software, Shandong University.
📃 Services
- Conference PC Member: CVPR, ECCV, NeurIPS, AAAI, ACM MM, SIGIR, IJCAI, ICME, ICMR, ICASSP
- Journal Reviewer: TIP, TIFS, ToMM