Profile

 I am a machine learning researcher specializing in graph mining and recommendation systems, and I currently work closely with Junwei Pan and Menglin Yang. I was previously affiliated with MBZUAI, advised by Xiuying Chen (MBZUAI), Shangsong Liang (Sun Yat-sen University), and Kun Zhang (MBZUAI & CMU). Additionally, I have been fortunate to collaborate with several outstanding researchers, including Dongsheng Luo (Florida International University) and Yifan Chen (Hong Kong Baptist University).

 I earned my bachelor’s degree from the School of Electronic and Information Engineering at South China University of Technology (华南理工大学, SCUT) and had a rewarding research experience at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. My research interests broadly center on Scalability in Machine Learning, Signal Processing and Information Theory, with a particular focus on Geometric & Graph-structured Data. I also explore their implications for applications such as Graph Anomaly Detection and Scene Graph Generation. Recently, I began to pay my attention to LLM for Scientific Discovery.

I am seeking a Ph.D. opportunity. Also, I am open to chat on the intersection of graphs, signal processing, and LLMs. Feel free to drop me a mail :)

Academic Outcome(s)

  • KDD'25  Partition-wise Graph Filtering: A Unified Perspective Through the Lens of Graph Coarsening [paper] [code]
    Guoming Li, Jian Yang, Yifan Chen
    The 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
  • WWW'25  Polynomial Selection in Spectral Graph Neural Networks: An Error-Sum of Function Slices Approach [paper] [code]
    Guoming Li, Jian Yang, Shangsong Liang, Dongsheng Luo
    The ACM Web Conference 2025
  • ICASSP'25  ERGNN: Spectral Graph Neural Network with Explicitly-optimized Rational Graph Filters [paper]
    Guoming Li, Jian Yang, Shangsong Liang
    2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
  • ECCV'24  MLPHand: Real Time Multi-View 3D Hand Mesh Reconstruction via MLP Modeling [paper] [code]
    Jian Yang*, Jiakun Li*, Guoming Li*, Zhen Shen, Huai-Yu Wu, Zhaoxin Fan
    The 18th European Conference on Computer Vision
  • Under Review  On scalable training of heterophilic GNNs.
    Guoming Li, Jian Yang, Xukun Wang, Zixiao Wang, Shangsong Liang, Yifan Chen
  • Under Review  Scaling recommendation models theoretically.
    Guoming Li, Jian Yang, Junwei Pan, Shangyu Zhang, Yi Yang, Chao Zhou, Shudong Huang, Haijie Gu, Yifei Zhang, Menglin Yang
  • Under Review  Revisiting effective rank dynamics in recommenders.
    Guoming Li, Shangyu Zhang, Junwei Pan, Wentao Ning, Jin Chen, Gengsheng Xue, Chao Zhou, Shudong Huang, Haijie Gu, Menglin Yang
  • Under Review  On efficient audio-driven facial animation.
    Jian Yang, Guoming Li, Hairong Shi, Chenyue Liang, Jintao Chen, Chengyu Bai, Jian Liang, Bin Liang, Zhaoxin Fan
  • Under Review  Lipschitz-Driven Noise Robustness in VQ-AE for High-Frequency Texture Repair in ID-Specific Talking Heads
    Jian Yang, Xukun Wang, Guoming Li, Wentao Wang, Qihang Fang, Ruihong Yuan, Tianyang Wang, Xiaomei Zhang, Yeying Jin, Zhaoxin Fan
  • Under Review  On LLM-based translation for academic text.
    Zixiao Wang, Duzhen Zhang, Juntian Zhang, Yuhan Liu, Guoming Li, Haolun Wu, Le Song, Xiuying Chen
  • Preprint  Spectral GNN via Two-dimensional (2-D) Graph Convolution [paper]
    Guoming Li, Jian Yang, Shangsong Liang, Dongsheng Luo
    Arxiv preprint

Experience(s)

  • Research Internship, HKUST-GZ & Tencent, 2025 - present
  • Research Collaboration, SF Technology, 2025 - present
  • Visiting Research Assistant, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2024 - 2025
  • Research Internship, Florida International University, 2022 - 2024
  • Communication System (RF) Engineer, China Telecom Guangzhou Research Institute, 2020 - 2021
  • Undergraduate Research, South China University of Technology, 2018 - 2020

Academic Service(s)

  • Conference Reviewer: ICLR 2026; WWW 2025; ICASSP 2023/2024/2025; KDD 2025; CIKM 2024; ICDM 2024; etc.
  • Journal Reviewer: N/A