Hello everyone, I am Zixu Wang (王子旭), a doctoral student at the State Key Laboratory of AI Safety, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. My supervisor is Researcher Xueqi Cheng and Associate Researcher Bingbing Xu.

My research focuses on cognitive mapping and prediction of social networks, with specific interests in :graph pre-training;graph foundation models; and topology optimization of LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems.

📖 Educations

  • 09/2022 ~ Present: Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
    • Ph.D. Student in Computer Science and Technology
  • 09/2018 ~ 06/2022: College of Software, Nankai University
    • B.Sc. in Software Engineering

📝 Publications

EAAI
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A Survey on LLM-based Agents for Social Simulation: Taxonomy, Evaluation and Applications

Zixu Wang, Bin Xie, Bingbing Xu, Shengmao Zhu, Yige Yuan, Liang Pang, Du Su, Long Yang, Zixuan Li, Huawei Shen, Xueqi Cheng

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Under Review, JCR Q1, IF 8.0)

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SIGIR2025
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InfoNCE is a Free Lunch for Semantically guided Graph Contrastive Learning

Zixu Wang, Bingbing Xu, Yige Yuan, Huawei Shen, Xueqi Cheng

ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, SIGIR’25 (Accepted, CCF-A)

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SIGIR2024
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Negative as Positive: Enhancing Out-of-distribution Generalization for Graph Contrastive Learning

Zixu Wang, Bingbing Xu, Yige Yuan, Huawei Shen, Xueqi Cheng

ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, SIGIR’24 (Accepted, CCF-A)

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🎖 Honors and Awards

  • Outstanding Student of State Key Laboratory of AI Safety, 2024 Annual Award, December 2024
  • First Prize in Academic Studies of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, September 2024
  • “Student with Excellence in Morality, Intelligence, and Physical Fitness” of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, June 2024
  • Nankai University Academic Excellence Scholarship (2020-2021 academic year), university-level scholarship of Nankai University, December 2021
  • Second Prize in Category A (Scientific and Technological Invention and Production) of Nankai University “President’s Cup” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, April 2021
  • Nankai University Academic Excellence Scholarship (2019-2020 academic year), university-level scholarship of Nankai University, December 2020

Skills

  • Programming: C/C++, Matlab, Python, LaTeX
  • Artificial Inteligence: Pytorch, Numpy, SciPy
  • Languages: (Mandarin) Chinese, English