Publications


Publications by Manling Li, Northwestern University, on agentic reasoning, embodied spatial reasoning, and safe reasoning: browse the selected papers, the complete list, or one topic at a time. Also listed on Google Scholar.

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  • Agentic Reasoning: multi-turn reinforcement learning for LLM and VLM agents, world model reasoning, agent training and evaluation, RAGEN and VAGEN.
  • Embodied Spatial Reasoning: spatial intelligence, spatial mental models (MindCube), active perception and view planning, long-form video understanding.
  • Safe Reasoning: LLM alignment and steering (LM-Steer, ODESteer), hallucination, knowledge editing, and safety evaluation of embodied agents.
  • Tutorials: CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, NAACL and ACL tutorials on foundation models for embodied agents, multimodal safety, and knowledge in LLMs.

Selected publications lists the flagship papers with teasers; all publications lists every paper with keyword tags.