About Me
Hello! I am currently a Ph.D. student at Thrust of Artificial Intelligence at HKUST-GZ, under the supervision of Prof. Menglin Yang.
My research interests include Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL), with a focus on:
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- LLM Agent, Multi-Agent
- RAG, GraphRAG
- LLM Implicit Reasoning
- LLM Symbolic Reasoning
- others
- Multimodal Learning (MM), Vision-Language model (VLM)
- Electronic Design Automation (EDA) (Seeking Collaborators)
- AI-Generated Content (AIGC)
- Geometric Learning with LLM, Geometric Foundation Model, Geometric Alignment
- Graph Learning (GNNs)
- Anomaly Detection (AD)
- Recommender System (RecSys)
- Domain Generalization (DG) and Domain Adaptation (DA)
- Unsupervised Learning, Few-Shot Learning
- Continual Learning (Incremental Learning)
INFORMATION
- E-mail: jli839@connect.hkust-gz.edu.cn
- WeChat: alwaysbeakindperson (means: always be a kind person)
- Google Scholar:
174
- GitHub:
EDUCATION
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST-GZ)
- Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence
- Supervisor: Assistant Prof. Menglin Yang
National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) 985
- B.E. in Electronic Engineering
- Academic performance: rank 2/115
- B.E. in Commmand
- Academic performance: rank: 3/98
- (I have a valid passport and successfully traveled to Europe in 2023, with no issues obtaining a visa)
TECHNICAL ACCOUNTS
| Kaggle: HomePage | LeetCode1: HomePage | LeetCode2: HomePage | Acwing: HomePage |
|---|---|---|---|
| NowCoder: HomePage | CodeForces: HomePage | CSDN: HomePage |


PAPERS
(*: co-first author, +: corresponding author)
Published





[5] Beyond Retraining: Training-Free Unknown Class Filtering for Source-Free Open Set Domain Adaptation of Vision–Language Models.
Yongguang Li, Jindong Li, Qi Wang+, Qianli Xing, Runliang Niu, Shengsheng Wang, Menglin Yang.
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference (AAAI, CCF-A), 2026.
arXiv
Yongguang Li, Jindong Li, Qi Wang+, Qianli Xing, Runliang Niu, Shengsheng Wang, Menglin Yang.
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference (AAAI, CCF-A), 2026.
arXiv

[6] A Survey on LLM Symbolic Reasoning.
Jindong Li*, Yali Fu*, Yang Yang, Jiahong Liu, Hongce Zhang, Haoxuan Li, Yutao Yue, Mengling Yang+.
AAAI Bridge: Logical and Symbolic Reasoning in Language Models, 2026.
GitHub
Jindong Li*, Yali Fu*, Yang Yang, Jiahong Liu, Hongce Zhang, Haoxuan Li, Yutao Yue, Mengling Yang+.
AAAI Bridge: Logical and Symbolic Reasoning in Language Models, 2026.
GitHub
arXiv Preprint


[2] Implicit Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey
Jindong Li*, Yali Fu*, Li Fan, Jiahong Liu, Yao Shu, Chengwei Qin, Menglin Yang+, Irwin King, Rex Ying.
arXiv Preprint, 2025.
arXiv | GitHub | PaperWeekly |

Jindong Li*, Yali Fu*, Li Fan, Jiahong Liu, Yao Shu, Chengwei Qin, Menglin Yang+, Irwin King, Rex Ying.
arXiv Preprint, 2025.
arXiv | GitHub | PaperWeekly |



[5] HyperbolicRAG: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Hyperbolic Representations
Linxiao Cao, Ruitao Wang, Jindong Li, Zhipeng Zhou, Menglin Yang+.
arXiv Preprint, 2025.
arXiv
Linxiao Cao, Ruitao Wang, Jindong Li, Zhipeng Zhou, Menglin Yang+.
arXiv Preprint, 2025.
arXiv

[6] Cogito, ergo sum: A Neurobiologically-Inspired Cognition-Memory-Growth System for Code Generation
Yanlong Li, Jindong Li, Qi Wang+, Menglin Yang, He Kong, Shengsheng Wang.
arXiv Preprint, 2025.
arXiv | CODE | TechXplore
Yanlong Li, Jindong Li, Qi Wang+, Menglin Yang, He Kong, Shengsheng Wang.
arXiv Preprint, 2025.
arXiv | CODE | TechXplore





Academic Service
- Reviewer, International World Wide Web Conference (WWW)
- Reviewer, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
- Reviewer, Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ)
- Reviewer, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
WORK EXPERIENCE
1. Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Shanghai AI Lab) 2023.09-2023.12
- Research Intern
- Mentor: Bin Wang and Linke Ouyang
- Topic: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), Data Engine
- Responsibilities:
- Evaluation of MLLMs
- Multimodal (OCR mainly) models/approaches
COMPETITION EXPERIENCE
| No | Competition | Award | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NUDT Intelligent Automobile Race | First Prize (1st place) | |
| 2 | Hunan Province Intelligent Automobile Race of College Students | Second Prize | |
| 3 | NUDT Electronic Design Competition Quadcopter Autonomous Aircraft Group | Third Prize (2nd place) | |
| 4 | “LanQiao Cup” Programming Competition Graduate Group | Jilin, First Prize (2nd place) | |
| 5 | “LanQiao Cup” Programming Competition Graduate Group | National Finals, Second Prize (11th place) | 2022 |
| 6 | “LanQiao Cup” Programming Competition Graduate Group | Jilin, Second Prize (5th place) | 2023 |
| 7 | “LanQiao Cup” Programming Competition Graduate Group | Jilin, First Prize (3rd place) | 2024 |
| 8 | “LanQiao Cup” Programming Competition Graduate Group | National Finals, Second Prize (17th place) | 2024 |
| 9 | Kaggle | 1 Silver Medal, 3 Bronze Medals | |
| 10 | LeetCode | Contest Rating top 1% |


HONORS AND AWARDS
| No | Institution | Award |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | NUDT | Outstanding Student at the college level |
| 2 | NUDT | Outstanding Student at the university level |
| 3 | NUDT | Academic scholarship (student can only receive once during college) |
| 4 | NUDT | Outstanding Graduate at the college level |
| 5 | NUDT | Outstanding Graduate at the university level (0.2% in NUDT) |
| 6 | NUDT | Citation of Class Three Merit (三等功) |
| 7 | JLU | Academic scholarship |
| 8 | JLU | Academic scholarship |
SKILLS
- Language: IELTS Overall Band Score 6.5 (Listening: 6.0, Reading: 7.0, Writing: 6.0, Speaking: 6.5) 2023.11
- Programming Languages: Proficient in Python, C++, Java. Also experienced with C, Go, MySQL.
- Deep Learning Tools: PyTorch, TensorFlow
