I am Xuan Lu, a second-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and EIT NLP Group of the Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, where I am supervised by Prof. Xiaoyu Shen. I also collaborate closely with Dr. Rui Meng at Google AI Research.
Research
My research focuses on Information Retrieval and Large Language Models. My recent works explore:
- Fine-grained Retrieval: Studying retrieval under multiple, fine-grained constraints, including multi-condition retrieval [EMNLP'25], tool retrieval [ICLR'26], and multimodal retrieval [CVPR'26].
- Efficient Inference: Focusing on reducing inference cost in ranking and retrieval systems, including efficient reranking [ICLR'26], RAG, and in-context retrieval.
- Omni-modality Embeddings: Developing unified embedding models that support text, vision, audio, and structured documents[COLM'26].
📧 I am open to collaborations and discussions. Please feel free to reach out to me if you are interested in my research or any relevant topics.
Internship
- 05/2026 - Present. Research Intern, Taobao & Tmall Group, Alibaba.
🔥 News
- [08/2026]: Got three papers accepted by EMNLP 2026 🎉🎉🎉
- [07/2026]: Our paper MMEB-V3 was accepted to COLM 2026 🎉
- [02/2026]: Got one paper accepted by CVPR 2026 🎉
- [01/2026]: Got two papers accepted by ICLR 2026 🎉🎉
- [11/2025]: Attended EMNLP 2025 for the first time 😃
- [08/2025]: Got one paper accepted by EMNLP 2025 🎉
- [09/2024]: Started my Ph.D. study at SJTU & EIT 🥳
Selected Publications
Services
Reviewer
[COLM 2026], [Neurips 2026], [KDD 2027]