I am a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA, working on post-training and reasoning.

I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Mila - Quebec AI Institute, University of Montreal, advised by Prof. Jian Tang. Prior to that, I obtained my B.S. with honors in Computer Science from Peking University. See my CV for full details.

I believe that principles are more essential than solutions, and should come first in most cases. I also have a great fondness for elegant and efficient designs. These values motivated most of my works.

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In my spare time, I enjoy photography a lot. Together with hiking, these hobbies drive me to explore the beauty of the land, as well as learn about myself and life.

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Selected Publications

Landscape of Thoughts: Visualizing the Reasoning Process of Large Language Models

Zhanke Zhou*, Zhaocheng Zhu*, Xuan Li*, Mikhail Galkin, Xiao Feng, Sanmi Koyejo, Jian Tang, Bo Han
ICLR 2026 Paper / Code

Fully-inductive Node Classification on Arbitrary Graphs

Jianan Zhao*, Zhaocheng Zhu*, Mikhail Galkin, Hesham Mostafa, Michael Bronstein, Jian Tang
ICLR 2025 Paper / Code

Learning Representations for Reasoning: Generalizing Across Diverse Structures

Zhaocheng Zhu
PhD Thesis 2024 Paper / Slides

Towards Foundation Models for Knowledge Graph Reasoning

Mikhail Galkin, Xinyu Yuan, Hesham Mostafa, Jian Tang, Zhaocheng Zhu
ICLR 2024 Paper / Code

A*Net: A Scalable Path-based Reasoning Approach for Knowledge Graphs

Zhaocheng Zhu*, Xinyu Yuan*, Mikhail Galkin, Sophie Xhonneux, Ming Zhang, Maxime Gazeau, Jian Tang
NeurIPS 2023 Paper / Code

Large Language Models can Learn Rules

Zhaocheng Zhu, Yuan Xue, Xinyun Chen, Denny Zhou, Jian Tang, Dale Schuurmans, Hanjun Dai
arXiv 2023 Paper / Code

Neural-Symbolic Models for Logical Queries on Knowledge Graphs

Zhaocheng Zhu, Mikhail Galkin, Zuobai Zhang, Jian Tang
ICML 2022 Paper / Code

TorchDrug: A Powerful and Flexible Machine Learning Platform for Drug Discovery

Zhaocheng Zhu, Chence Shi, Zuobai Zhang, Shengchao Liu, Minghao Xu, Xinyu Yuan, Yangtian Zhang, Junkun Cheng, Huiyu Cai, Jiarui Lu, Chang Ma, Runcheng Liu, Louis-Pascal Xhonneux, Meng Qu, Jian Tang
arXiv 2022 (77k+ downloads) Paper / Website / Tutorial / Code

Neural Bellman-Ford Networks: A General Graph Neural Network Framework for Link Prediction

Zhaocheng Zhu, Zuobai Zhang, Louis-Pascal Xhonneux, Jian Tang
NeurIPS 2021
Paper / Code (original) / Code (new) / Code (PyG) / OGB-LSC

GraphVite: A High-Performance CPU-GPU Hybrid System for Node Embedding

Zhaocheng Zhu, Shizhen Xu, Meng Qu, Jian Tang
WWW 2019 (102k+ downloads) Paper / Website / Tutorial / Code

Zhaocheng Zhu

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