Honghui Bao

About Me

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago, advised by Philip S. Yu.

Prior to joining UIC, I completed my MComp at NExT++, National University of Singapore, under the supervision of Prof. Wenjie Wang and Prof. Tat-Seng Chua. I received my B.Eng. degree from the College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, in 2023.

Updates

• [Jun. 2026] We released OneReason Technical Report.
• [Apr. 2026] Our paper OneRec-Think, on explicit reasoning in generative recommendation, was accepted to ACL 2026.
• [Jan. 2026] We released OpenOneRec Technical Report.
• [Aug. 2025] We released OneRec-V2 Technical Report.
• [Aug. 2025] I joined Kuaishou OneRec as a research intern.
• [Jul. 2025] Our paper HUM, on LLM-based heterogeneous recommendation, was accepted to RecSys 2025 as an Oral Presentation.
• [Jul. 2024] Our paper LETTER, on LLM-based generative recommendation, was accepted to CIKM 2024.
• [Aug. 2023] I joined NExT++ as a research intern.

Selected Publications

For a more up-to-date list of publications, please visit my Google Scholar page.