Huang Yiqian ()

• I am a third-year Ph.D. candidate at the National University of Singapore (NUS), supervised by Prof. Xiaokui Xiao. Before joining SoC, I earned my B.Eng. degree from the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in 2024.
• I received the KDD 2026 Best Student Paper Award. I am currently interested in optimizing compound or agentic systems with large language models (LLMs).

Awards

• KDD 2026 Best Student Paper Award
• NUS SoC Research Achievement Award (2025)
• Misc: click here for details

Publications

• Yiqian Huang, Shiqi Zhang, Tianyuan Jin, Xiaokui Xiao
  SCOPE: Cost-Efficient Model Selection for Compound AI Systems under Quality Constraints
  KDD'26 [slides] [poster] [technical report] [code]
  (Best Student Paper Award)
• Yiqian Huang, Shiqi Zhang, Xiaokui Xiao
  KET-RAG: A Cost-Efficient Multi-Granular Indexing Framework for Graph-RAG
  KDD'25 [slides] [technical report] [code]
• Yiqian Huang, Shiqi Zhang, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Wenqing Lin, Xiaokui Xiao, Bo Tang
  Efficient and Effective Algorithms for A Family of Influence Maximization Problems with A Matroid Constraint
  PVLDB'24 [slides] [technical report] [code]
• Shiqi Zhang, Jiachen Sun, Wenqing Lin, Xiaokui Xiao, Yiqian Huang, Bo Tang
  Information Diffusion Meets Invitation Mechanism
  WWW'24 [blog] [code]
• Shiqi Zhang, Yiqian Huang, Jiachen Sun, Wenqing Lin, Xiaokui Xiao, Bo Tang
  Capacity Constrained Influence Maximization in Social Networks
  KDD'23 [technical report] [code]

Services

• PC member for ICDM 2026, DASFAA 2027