Zilin Xiao
AI RESEARCH SCIENTIST | MENLO PARK, UNITED STATES
Zilin Xiao is an AI Research Scientist at Meta Superintelligence Labs and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Rice University. His research centers on vision-centric search, post-training for agentic search and visual-language reasoning, with publications at top-tier conferences at ICLR, EMNLP, ECCV, CVPR, etc.
Research Areas
Zilin's Publications
October 20, 2026
REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
NLP
Learning to Program Retrievals: Composing Search Primitives via Reinforcement Learning
Kyuyoung Kim, Zilin Xiao, Zhiyuan Wang, Avinash Atreya, Ke Yang, Jinwoo Shin, Kecheng Hao
October 20, 2026
July 17, 2026
CONVERSATIONAL AI
REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
Learning to Reason by Analogy via Retrieval-Augmented Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
Zilin Xiao, Qi Ma, Jason Chen, Xintao Chen, Avinash Atreya, Hanjie Chen, Vicente Ordonez
July 17, 2026
September 23, 2025
RESEARCH
NLP
MetaEmbed: Scaling Multimodal Retrieval at Test-Time with Flexible Late Interactions
Zilin Xiao, Qi Ma, Mengting Gu, Jason Chen, Xintao Chen, Vicente Ordonez, Vijai Mohan
September 23, 2025
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