Publications

Theory of Space: Can Foundation Models Construct Spatial Beliefs Through Active Perception? [Website][PDF][Data][Code]
Pingyue Zhang*, Zihan Huang*, Yue Wang *, Jieyu Zhang*, Letian Xue, Zihan Wang, Qineng Wang, Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran, Yejin Choi, Ranjay Krishna, Ruohan Zhang, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Manling Li
ICLR 2026

ENACT: Evaluating Embodied Cognition with World Modeling of Egocentric Interaction [Website][PDF][Code][Data] [td;lr]
Qineng Wang*, Wenlong Huang*, Yu Zhou, Hang Yin, Tianwei Bao, Jianwen Lyu, Weiyu Liu, Ruohan Zhang, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Manling Li
ICLR 2026

Spatial Mental Modeling from Limited Views [Website][PDF][Data][Code][td;lr]
Qineng Wang*, Baiqiao Yin*, Pingyue Zhang, Jianshu Zhang, Kangrui Wang, Zihan Wang, Jieyu Zhang, Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran, Han Liu, Ranjay Krishna, Saining Xie, Jiajun Wu+, Li Fei-Fei+, Manling Li+
ICLR 2026
Best Paper Award at ICCV 2025 Workshop on Structural Priors for Vision
Best Paper Honorable Mention at NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Language Agents and World Models (LAW)
The Best of ICCV 2025, featured by Voxel 51

ROSETTA: Constructing Code-Based Reward from Unconstrained Language Preference [Website][PDF][Data][Code][td;lr]
Sanjana Srivastava*, Kangrui Wang*, Yung-Chieh Chan*, Tianyuan Dai, Manling Li, Ruohan Zhang, Mengdi Xu, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei
ICLR 2026
Best Paper Award at RSS 2025 on Continual Robot Learning from Humans

Activation Steering for LLM Alignment via a Unified ODE-Based Framework [PDF][Website]
Hongjue Zhao*, Haosen Sun*, Jiangtao Kong, Xiaochang Li, Qineng Wang, Liwei Jiang, Qi Zhu, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Yejin Choi, Manling Li+, Huajie Shao+ (equal advising)
ICLR 2026

Your Language Model Secretly Contains Personality Subnetworks [PDF][Code]
Ruimeng Ye, Zihan Wang, Zinan Ling, Yang Xiao, Manling Li, Xiaolong Ma, Bo Hui
ICLR 2026

Weak-to-Strong Generalization with Failure Trajectories [PDF]
Ruimeng Ye, Zihan Wang, Yang Xiao, Zinan Ling, Manling Li, Bo Hui
ICLR 2026

WorldAgen: Unified State-Action Prediction with Test-Time World Model Training [PDF]
Chi Wan*, Kangrui Wang*, Yuan Si, Pingyue Zhang, Manling Li
AAAI 2026

Federated Agent Reinforcement Learning [PDF]
Canyu Chen, Kangyu Zhu, Zhaorun Chen, Zhanhui Zhou, Shizhe Diao, Yiping Lu, Tian Li, Manling Li, Dawn Song
Best Paper Award at AAAI 2026 Workshop on Trustworthy Agentic Systems
Oustanding Paper Award at AAAI 2026 Workshop on Personalization in the Era of Large Foundation Models