Fantuan

Zhichun Guo

Senior Research Scientist at TikTok

Zhichun Guo

I am a Senior Research Scientist at TikTok, working on LLM for recommendation (LLM4Rec) — including generative recommendation and LLM-driven interest discovery for retrieval. Before TikTok, I worked on AI for science, where I had the fortune to work with Nobel laureate David Baker as a postdoc at the University of Washington's Institute for Protein Design. Earlier, I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, advised by Prof. Nitesh V. Chawla and supported by the Snap Research Fellowship, after completing my undergraduate studies in Computer Science at Fudan University.

Selected Publications

Full list on Google Scholar.

  1. ICLR ’26

    LeSTD: LLM Compression via Learning-based Sparse Tensor Decomposition

    Yi Li, Zhichun Guo, Miao Yin, Bingzhe Li

    International Conference on Learning Representations, 2026

  2. NeurIPS ’25

    You Only Spectralize Once: Taking a Spectral Detour to Accelerate Graph Neural Network

    Yi Li, Zhichun Guo, Guanpeng Li, Bingzhe Li

    Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025

  3. TMLR ’25

    Node Duplication Improves Cold-start Link Prediction

    Zhichun Guo, Tong Zhao, Yozen Liu, Kaiwen Dong, William Shiao, Neil Shah, Nitesh V. Chawla

    Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2025

  4. NeurIPS ’24

    Pure Message Passing Can Estimate Common Neighbor for Link Prediction

    Kaiwen Dong, Zhichun Guo, Nitesh V. Chawla

    Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024

  5. NeurIPS ’24

    Can LLMs Solve Molecule Puzzles? A Multimodal Benchmark for Molecular Structure Elucidation

    Kehan Guo, Bozhao Nan, Yujun Zhou, Taicheng Guo, Zhichun Guo, et al.

    NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks Track, 2024

  6. NeurIPS ’23

    What Indeed Can GPT Models Do in Chemistry? A Comprehensive Benchmark on Eight Tasks

    Taicheng Guo, Kehan Guo, Bozhao Nan, Zhenwen Liang, Zhichun Guo, et al.

    NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks Track, 2023

  7. ICML ’23

    Linkless Link Prediction via Relational Distillation

    Zhichun Guo, William Shiao, Shichang Zhang, Yozen Liu, Nitesh V. Chawla, Neil Shah, Tong Zhao

    International Conference on Machine Learning, 2023

  8. AAAI ’23

    Boosting Graph Neural Networks via Adaptive Knowledge Distillation

    Zhichun Guo, Chunhui Zhang, Yujie Fan, Yijun Tian, Chuxu Zhang, Nitesh V. Chawla

    AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023

  9. TVCG ’22

    SD²: Slicing and Dicing Scholarly Data for Interactive Evaluation of Academic Performance

    Zhichun Guo, Jun Tao, Siming Chen, Nitesh V. Chawla, Chaoli Wang

    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2022

  10. WWW ’21

    Few-Shot Graph Learning for Molecular Property Prediction

    Zhichun Guo, Chuxu Zhang, Wenhao Yu, John Herr, Olaf Wiest, Meng Jiang, Nitesh V. Chawla

    The Web Conference, 2021

  11. CIKM ’20

    GraSeq: Graph and Sequence Fusion Learning for Molecular Property Prediction

    Zhichun Guo, Wenhao Yu, Chuxu Zhang, Meng Jiang, Nitesh V. Chawla

    ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2020