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Embodied First Exam teaser

Embodied First Exam [Website][Blog][Code][Video][tl;dr]
Kangrui Wang*, Qineng Wang*, Changhe Chen*, Pingyue Zhang*, Chi Gui*, Feishi Wang, Canyu Chen, Wenli Xiao, Xiaoyu Huang, Tonghe Zhang, Linjie Li, Zihan Wang, Minyeong Kim, Yiyou Sun, Mingkai Deng, Jinyu Hou, Eric P. Xing, Han Liu, Qi Zhu, Huaxiu Yao, Zhiwen Fan, Yuejiang Liu, Dawn Song, Pieter Abbeel, Li Fei-Fei, Jiajun Wu, Yuke Zhu, Guanya Shi+, Ruohan Zhang+, Manling Li+

Code AgentsEmbodied AI BenchmarkRobot ManipulationHumanoid Robots

Are Vision-Language Agents Latency Aware? teaser

LAGEN: Are Vision-Language Agents Latency Aware? [Website][PDF][Code][Models][Data]
Talha Chafekar*, Zihan Wang*, Zeju Li*, Xinyuan Li*, Qineng Wang, Jiajun Wu, Yuke Zhu, Yi Dong, Zhiding Yu, Ruohan Zhang, Manling Li

Latency-Aware AgentsVision-Language-Action ModelsReal-Time DeploymentAgent Training

Failure Modes in Agentic AI: From Reproducible Triggers and Diagnostics to Reliable Fixes teaser

Failure Modes in Agentic AI: From Reproducible Triggers and Diagnostics to Reliable Fixes [Website/Slides][PDF]
Zoey Sha Li, Zihan Wang, Hejie Cui, Cheng Qian, Manling Li
EMNLP 2026: Tutorial

TutorialAgent Failure ModesAgent EvaluationRed TeamingAgentic Reinforcement Learning

BEHAVIOR-Spatial Benchmark: Evaluating Spatial Understanding for Robotics teaser

BEHAVIOR-Spatial Benchmark: Evaluating Spatial Understanding for Robotics [Website][PDF]
Sirui Chen*, Huang Huang*, Qineng Wang, Wenlong Huang, Manling Li, Ruohan Zhang, Li Fei-Fei, Jiajun Wu

Spatial UnderstandingRobot ManipulationVision-Language-Action ModelsSpatial GroundingEmbodied Benchmark

SteerAct: Unlocking Action Models through Few-Shot Temporal Steering teaser

SteerAct: Unlocking Action Models through Few-Shot Temporal Steering [Website][PDF][tl;dr]
Kaichen Zhou*, Zhiyan Li*, Chongkai Gao, Yuhan Wang, Wenlong Huang, Maggie Wang, Fangneng Zhan, Manling Li, Qianqian Wang, Mac Schwager, Zhuang Liu, Li Fei-Fei, Mengyu Wang+, Paul Pu Liang+

Activation SteeringRobot Action ModelsSparse AutoencodersTest-Time AdaptationRobot Manipulation

Same Space or Not: Benchmarking Spatial Intelligence Through Cross-View Contradictions teaser

Same Space or Not: Benchmarking Spatial Intelligence Through Cross-View Contradictions [Website][PDF][Code]
Huizi Cao, Guanyu Xu, Zhixuan Liang, Ming Yin, Jiuxiang Gu, Manling Li, Mengdi Wang, Shilong Liu

Spatial IntelligenceCross-View ConsistencyVision-Language ModelsMulti-View Reasoning3D Scene Understanding

Realtime-Bench: Can Frontier Models Solve Real-time Interactive Problems? teaser

Realtime-Bench: Can Frontier Models Solve Real-time Interactive Problems? [Website][PDF][Code]
Jingyu Tang*, Xu Yang*, Zhehao Zhang*, Zheng Wang, Qi Cheng, Haozhe Zhao, Manling Li, Wenxuan Li, Xide Xia, Jiaxin Pei

Real-Time AgentsInteractive BenchmarkLatency-Aware EvaluationMultimodal ModelsTemporal Awareness

WOVEN: Weaving Visual World Modeling into Multimodal LLMs teaser

WOVEN: Weaving Visual World Modeling into Multimodal LLMs [Website][PDF][Code]
Zheyu Fan, Yue Zhang, Mingkai Deng, Kangrui Wang, Qineng Wang, Canyu Chen, Jie Hao, Xing Fan, Chenlei Guo, Eric P. Xing, Mohit Bansal, Manling Li

Visual World ModelingVisual Transition ReasoningMultimodal LLMsBenchmark and Training DataTraining Recipe

TouchScale: 500 Hours of Human Vision and Touch for Visual-Tactile Learning teaser

TouchScale: 500 Hours of Human Vision and Touch for Visual-Tactile Learning [Website][PDF]
Dayou Li*, Hao Wang*, Qianqian Yang*, Zihao Zhu*, Haoquan Fang, Ziyao Zeng, Yan Han, Zihan Wang, Yan Wang, Baoru Huang, Dilin Wang, Kenji Shimada, Yiyue Luo, Manling Li, Teresa Lv, Mustafa Mukadam, Rakesh Ranjan, Ruohan Zhang, Qi He, Changliu Liu, Xu Chen, Marco Pavone, Bangya Liu, Jiachen Li, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Zhiwen Fan

Visual-Tactile LearningEgocentric DatasetHuman Touch DataRobotic ManipulationData Scaling

MindTopo: Can Foundation Models Reason in Topological Space? teaser

MindTopo: Can Foundation Models Reason in Topological Space? [Website][PDF][Blog][Code]
Yunfei Ge*, Anbang Liu*, Qineng Wang*, Johnalbert Garnica*, Jianwen Lyu, Zihan Wang, Reuben Tan, Jianfeng Gao, Ruohan Zhang, Yining Hong, Jiajun Wu, Manling Li

Topological ReasoningSpatial IntelligenceMLLM BenchmarkEmbodied PlanningVideo Generation Models

Decoupled Physical Modeling and Execution for Physics Reasoning teaser

Decoupled Physical Modeling and Execution for Physics Reasoning [PDF]
Ye Zhang, Xuehang Guo, Rui Pan, Pengfei Yu, Denghui Zhang, Manling Li, Qingyun Wang

Physics ReasoningExplicit Physical ModelingReinforcement LearningRubric-Based RewardsVision-Language Models

MANIGUARD: A Benchmark and Data Suite for Specification-Grounded Safety Evaluation and Improvement of Robotic Manipulation teaser

MANIGUARD: A Benchmark and Data Suite for Specification-Grounded Safety Evaluation and Improvement of Robotic Manipulation [Website][PDF][Code][tl;dr]
Yiyan Peng*, Philip Wang*, Simon Sinong Zhan*, Yiqi Lyu, Zhenyang Ni, Jixin Yan, Fiorelli Wong, Ruochen Jiao, Hang Yin, Xinyu Cao, Huajie Shao, Manling Li, Ruohan Zhang, Qi Zhu

Robotic Manipulation SafetySafety BenchmarkLTLf Runtime MonitoringVision-Language-Action ModelsSafety-Aware Fine-Tuning

Consistency-Driven Co-Evolution for Self-Supervised Cross-Representation Learning teaser

Consistency-Driven Co-Evolution for Self-Supervised Cross-Representation Learning [PDF]
Xuehang Guo, Pengyuan Li, Tom Hope, Tirthankar Ghosal, Manling Li, Qingyun Wang

Cross-Representation ConsistencyChart-Table-Code UnderstandingSelf-Supervised Co-EvolutionTest-Time OptimizationReinforcement Learning

CURV: Enhancing Chart Understanding Through Curriculum Visual Grounded Reasoning teaser

CURV: Enhancing Chart Understanding Through Curriculum Visual Grounded Reasoning [Website][PDF]
Xuehang Guo, Pingyue Zhang, Ruiyi Zhang, Zhenhailong Wang, Hanrui Lyu, Heng Ji, Tong Sun, Qingyun Wang, Manling Li

Chart Question AnsweringVisual Grounded ReasoningCurriculum LearningMultimodal LLMsSynthetic Data Generation

Agentic Commerce World: An Auditable and Verifiable Environment for Vibe Commerce teaser

Agentic Commerce World: An Auditable and Verifiable Environment for Vibe Commerce [PDF][Code]
Shicheng Fan, Mingdai Yang, Duohao Wang, Canyu Chen, Yongfeng Zhang, Hua Wei, Manling Li, Julian McAuley, Kun Zhang, Philip S. Yu, Kejing Yu, Zhiwei Liu

Agentic CommerceMulti-Agent EnvironmentBuyer-Merchant NegotiationAgent BenchmarkAuditable Evaluation

Long-Horizon Embodied Decision-Making via Multimodal Memory Compression teaser

Long-Horizon Embodied Decision-Making via Multimodal Memory Compression [PDF]
Bingxuan Li, Rui Yang, Cheng Qian, Jiateng Liu, Jeonghwan Kim, Zhenhailong Wang, Manling Li, Tong Zhang, Heng Ji

Embodied Decision-MakingLong-Horizon MemoryMultimodal Memory CompressionPreference AlignmentEmbodied Benchmark

HumanCLAW: Can Vision-Language Models Act Through a Body? teaser

HumanCLAW: Can Vision-Language Models Act Through a Body? [Website][PDF]
Li Siyao*, Jiawei Gu*, Shuai Liu*, Kairui Hu*, Zekun Li, Linjie Li, Chengcheng Tang, Po-Chen Wu, Ivan Shugurov, Lingni Ma, Michael Zollhoefer, Sizhe An, Abhay Mittal+, Amy Zhao+, Ranjay Krishna+, Manling Li+, Ziwei Liu+, Chuan Guo+

Embodied VLM EvaluationHumanoid Action IntelligenceEmbodied Self-AwarenessEgocentric NavigationFull-Body Motion

Behavior Uncloning: Distilling Mode Redirection into Policy Weights without Inference-Time Steering teaser

Behavior Uncloning: Distilling Mode Redirection into Policy Weights without Inference-Time Steering [Website][PDF][Code]
Hao Wang, Jiuzhou Lei, Dayou Li, Bangya Liu, Minghui Zheng, Manling Li, Ruohan Zhang, Zhiwen Fan

Behavior UncloningMode RedirectionUnsafe Behavior SuppressionRobot Policy EditingDiffusion Policy

SENTINEL: Failure-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Training Tool-Using Language Model Agents teaser

SENTINEL: Failure-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Training Tool-Using Language Model Agents [PDF]
Ziyi Wang, Yuxuan Lu, Yimeng Zhang, Qun Liu, Chen Luo, Jiri Gesi, Hanqing Lu, Yisi Sang, Manling Li, Jing Huang, Dakuo Wang

Failure-Driven Reinforcement LearningTool-Using AgentsTargeted Task GenerationMulti-Turn Tool UseAgent Training

Brick-Composer: Using MLLMs for Assembly with Diverse Bricks teaser

Brick-Composer: Using MLLMs for Assembly with Diverse Bricks [PDF][Code]
Jiateng Liu, Bingxuan Li, Zhenhailong Wang, Rushi Wang, Kaiwen Hong, Cheng Qian, Jiayu Liu, Denghui Zhang, Katherine Driggs-Campbell, Manling Li, Heng Ji

Brick AssemblyMultimodal LLMsPose EstimationSpatial ReasoningBenchmark

Planning with the Views teaser

Planning with the Views [Website][PDF][Blog][Code][Data][Models][tl;dr]
Kangrui Wang, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Shiqi Chen, Zihan Wang, Li Fei-Fei, Jiajun Wu, Leonidas Guibas, Lijuan Wang, Manling Li

View PlanningSpatial ReasoningActive PerceptionEmbodied Agents

CLORE: Content-Level Optimization for Reasoning Efficiency teaser

CLORE: Content-Level Optimization for Reasoning Efficiency [PDF]
Yuyang Wu*, Qiyao Xue*, Guanxing Lu*, Weichen Liu, Zihan Wang, Manling Li+, Olexandr Isayev+

Efficient ReasoningReinforcement LearningReasoning Trace EditingDPOMathematical Reasoning

ESI-Bench: Towards Embodied Spatial Intelligence that Closes the Perception-Action Loop teaser

ESI-Bench: Towards Embodied Spatial Intelligence that Closes the Perception-Action Loop [Website][PDF][tl;dr]
Yining Hong*, Jiageng Liu*, Han Yin, Manling Li, Leonidas Guibas, Li Fei-Fei, Jiajun Wu, Yejin Choi

Embodied Spatial IntelligenceActive PerceptionBenchmarkMultimodal LLMsOmniGibson

Interactive Evaluation Requires a Design Science teaser

Interactive Evaluation Requires a Design Science [PDF][Code]
Keyang Xuan*, Peiyang Song*, Pan Lu, Pengrui Han, Wenkai Li, Zhenyu Zhang, Zexue He, Wenyue Hua, Manling Li, Jiaxuan You, Adrian Weller, Yizhong Wang+, Jiaxin Pei+

Interactive EvaluationAgent BenchmarksTrajectory-Level AssessmentEvaluation TaxonomyPosition Paper

DreamAvoid: Critical-Phase Test-Time Dreaming to Avoid Failures in VLA Policies teaser

DreamAvoid: Critical-Phase Test-Time Dreaming to Avoid Failures in VLA Policies [PDF][Code]
Xianzhe Fan, Yuxiang Lu, Shenyuan Gao, Xiaoyang Wu, Ruihua Han, Manling Li, Hengshuang Zhao

Vision-Language-Action ModelsTest-Time DreamingFailure AvoidanceWorld Model EvaluationRobot Manipulation

Using large language models for embodied planning introduces systematic safety risks teaser

Using large language models for embodied planning introduces systematic safety risks [Website][PDF][Code]
Tao Zhang, Kaixian Qu, Zhibin Li, Jiajun Wu, Marco Hutter, Manling Li, Fan Shi

Embodied Planning SafetyLLM PlannersSafety BenchmarkRobotic Task PlanningScaling Analysis

EgoTL: Egocentric Think-Aloud Chains for Long-Horizon Tasks teaser

EgoTL: Egocentric Think-Aloud Chains for Long-Horizon Tasks [Website][PDF]
Lulin Liu*, Dayou Li*, Yiqing Liang, Sicong Jiang, Hitesh Vijay, Hezhen Hu, Xuhai Xu, Zirui Liu, Srinivas Shakkottai, Manling Li, Zhiwen Fan

Egocentric VideoThink-Aloud Chain-of-ThoughtLong-Horizon PlanningSpatial GroundingWorld Model Benchmark

Think in Strokes, Not Pixels: Process-Driven Image Generation via Interleaved Reasoning teaser

Think in Strokes, Not Pixels: Process-Driven Image Generation via Interleaved Reasoning [PDF]
Lei Zhang, Junjiao Tian, Zhipeng Fan, Kunpeng Li, Jialiang Wang, Weifeng Chen, Markos Georgopoulos, Felix Juefei-Xu, Yuxiang Bao, Julian McAuley+, Manling Li+, Zecheng He+

Process-Driven Image GenerationInterleaved Text-Image ReasoningUnified Multimodal ModelsStep-Wise SupervisionVisual Self-Reflection

PhyPrompt: RL-based Prompt Refinement for Physically Plausible Text-to-Video Generation teaser

PhyPrompt: RL-based Prompt Refinement for Physically Plausible Text-to-Video Generation [PDF]
Shang Wu, Chenwei Xu, Zhuofan Xia, Weijian Li, Lie Lu, Pranav Maneriker, Fan Du, Manling Li, Han Liu

Physically Plausible Video GenerationPrompt RefinementReinforcement LearningReward CurriculumPhysical CommonsenseText-to-Video Generation

Learning from Trials and Errors: Reflective Test-Time Planning for Embodied LLMs teaser

Learning from Trials and Errors: Reflective Test-Time Planning for Embodied LLMs [Website][PDF][Code][tl;dr]
Yining Hong, Huang Huang, Manling Li, Li Fei-Fei, Leonidas Guibas, Jiajun Wu, Yejin Choi
NeurIPS 2026
Best Paper Award at CVPR 2026 Workshop on Test-Time Scaling for Computer Vision (ViSCALE)

Test-Time PlanningSelf-ReflectionLearning from FailureEmbodied Planning

SkillCraft: Can LLM Agents Learn to Use Tools Skillfully? teaser

SkillCraft: Can LLM Agents Learn to Use Tools Skillfully? [Website][PDF][Code][tl;dr]
Shiqi Chen, Jingze Gai, Ruochen Zhou, Jinghan Zhang, Tongyao Zhu, Junlong Li, Kangrui Wang, Zihan Wang, Zhengyu Chen, Klara Kaleb, Ning Miao, Siyang Gao, Cong Lu, Manling Li, Junxian He, Yee Whye Teh

Tool UseSkill LearningLLM AgentsAgent Training

BAGEN: Are LLM Agents Budget-Aware? teaser

BAGEN: Are LLM Agents Budget-Aware? [Website][PDF][Code][Data][tl;dr]
Yuxiang Lin, Zihan Wang, Mengyang Liu, Yuxuan Shan, Longju Bai, Junyao Zhang, Xing Jin, Boshan Chen, Jinyan Su, Xingyao Wang, Jiaxin Pei, Manling Li

Budget-Aware AgentsLLM AgentsAgentic Reinforcement LearningTest-Time Compute

Towards Sparse Video Understanding and Reasoning teaser

Towards Sparse Video Understanding and Reasoning [Website][PDF]
Chenwei Xu, Zhen Ye, Shang Wu, Weijian Li, Zihan Wang, Zhuofan Xia, Lie Lu, Pranav Maneriker, Fan Du, Manling Li, Han Liu
CVPR 2026

Sparse Video ReasoningVideo Question AnsweringMulti-Round Video AgentReinforcement LearningAnnotation-Free RewardFrame Selection

Theory of Space: Can Foundation Models Construct Spatial Beliefs through Active Exploration? teaser

Theory of Space: Can Foundation Models Construct Spatial Beliefs through Active Exploration? [Website][PDF][Data][Code][tl;dr]
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
Featured by MIT Tech Review China, Stanford AI Blog

Spatial IntelligenceActive PerceptionActive ExplorationSpatial BeliefsWorld ModelsFoundation Models

Trajectory2Task: Training Robust Tool-Calling Agents with Synthesized Yet Verifiable Data for Complex User Intents teaser

Trajectory2Task: Training Robust Tool-Calling Agents with Synthesized Yet Verifiable Data for Complex User Intents [PDF]
Ziyi Wang, Yuxuan Lu, Yimeng Zhang, Pei Chen, Ziwei Dong, Jing Huang, Jiri Gesi, Xianfeng Tang, Chen Luo, Qun Liu, Yisi Sang, Hanqing Lu, Manling Li, Jin Lai, Dakuo Wang

Tool-Calling AgentsVerifiable Data SynthesisComplex User IntentsMulti-Turn Tool UseAgent Fine-Tuning

Artificial Entanglement in the Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models teaser

Artificial Entanglement in the Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models [PDF]
Min Chen, Zihan Wang, Canyu Chen, Zeguan Wu, Manling Li, Junyu Liu

Parameter-Efficient Fine-TuningLoRA AnalysisEntanglement EntropyMatrix Product StatesRandom Matrix Theory

Adaptation of Agentic AI: A Survey of Post-Training, Memory, and Skills teaser

Adaptation of Agentic AI: A Survey of Post-Training, Memory, and Skills [PDF][Code]
Pengcheng Jiang*, Jiacheng Lin*, Zhiyi Shi*, Zifeng Wang, Luxi He, Yichen Wu, Ming Zhong, Peiyang Song, Qizheng Zhang, Heng Wang, Xueqiang Xu, Hanwen Xu, Pengrui Han, Dylan Zhang, Jiashuo Sun, Chaoqi Yang, Kun Qian, Tian Wang, Changran Hu, Manling Li, Quanzheng Li, Hao Peng, Sheng Wang, Jingbo Shang, Chao Zhang, Jiaxuan You, Liyuan Liu, Pan Lu, Yu Zhang, Heng Ji, Yejin Choi, Dawn Song, Jimeng Sun, Jiawei Han

Agent AdaptationTool AdaptationAgent MemoryAgent SkillsPost-Training Survey

CaptionQA: Is Your Caption as Useful as the Image Itself? teaser

CaptionQA: Is Your Caption as Useful as the Image Itself? [Website][PDF][Code][tl;dr]
Shijia Yang*, Yunong Liu*, Bohan Zhai*, Ximeng Sun, Zicheng Liu, Emad Barsoum, Manling Li, Chenfeng Xu

Caption EvaluationMultimodal BenchmarkCaption UtilityVision-Language ModelsEmbodied AI

ENACT: Evaluating Embodied Cognition with World Modeling of Egocentric Interaction teaser

ENACT: Evaluating Embodied Cognition with World Modeling of Egocentric Interaction [Website][PDF][Code][Data][tl;dr]
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
Outstanding Paper Award at ICLR 2026 Workshop on World Models
Outstanding Paper Award at ICLR 2026 Workshop on Lifelong Agents

Embodied CognitionWorld ModelingEgocentric InteractionEmbodied AI Benchmark

AdvEvo-MARL: Shaping Internalized Safety through Adversarial Co-Evolution in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning teaser

AdvEvo-MARL: Shaping Internalized Safety through Adversarial Co-Evolution in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning [PDF]
Zhenyu Pan, Yiting Zhang, Zhuo Liu, Yolo Yunlong Tang, Zeliang Zhang, Haozheng Luo, Yuwei Han, Jianshu Zhang, Dennis Wu, Hong-Yu Chen, Haoran Lu, Haoyang Fang, Manling Li, Chenliang Xu, Philip S. Yu, Han Liu

Multi-Agent SafetyAdversarial Co-EvolutionMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningJailbreak DefenseInternalized Safety

MindCube: Spatial Mental Modeling from Limited Views teaser

MindCube: Spatial Mental Modeling from Limited Views [Website][PDF][Data][Code][tl;dr]
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

Spatial ReasoningSpatial Mental ModelsCognitive MapsVision-Language ModelsSpatial Intelligence

ROSETTA: Constructing Code-Based Reward from Unconstrained Language Preference teaser

ROSETTA: Constructing Code-Based Reward from Unconstrained Language Preference [Website][PDF][Data][Code][tl;dr]
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

Reward ModelingCode-Based RewardsLanguage PreferencesAgentic Reinforcement Learning

RAGEN-2: Reasoning Collapse in Agentic Reinforcement Learning teaser

RAGEN-2: Reasoning Collapse in Agentic Reinforcement Learning [Website][PDF][Blog][Code][Experimental Logs][tl;dr]
Zenus Wang*, Chi Gui*, Xing Jin*, Qineng Wang*, Licheng Liu*, Kangrui Wang, Shiqi Chen, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Pingyue Zhang, Yiping Lu, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Lijuan Wang, Yejin Choi, Manling Li
ICML 2026 (Oral, Top 0.7%)
Best Paper Award at CVPR 2026 Workshop on Multimodal Reasoning for Agentic Intelligence (MMRAgI)
20 Papers That Matter at ICML 2026, selected by Nebius Science
Best Poster Award at MMLS 2025 (Midwest Machine Learning Symposium)
2.7k+ Github Stars, Featured by MIT Tech Review, Lambda Partner Spotlight, VentureBeat, Medium, AI News, MarkTechPost, Business Leaders Review, etc.

Agentic Reinforcement LearningMulti-Turn Reinforcement LearningLLM AgentsReasoning CollapseReinforcement Learning Training Stability

VAGEN: Reinforcing World Model Reasoning for Multi-Turn VLM Agents teaser

VAGEN: Reinforcing World Model Reasoning for Multi-Turn VLM Agents [Website][PDF][Blog][Code][tl;dr]
Kangrui Wang*, Pingyue Zhang*, Zihan Wang*, Yaning Gao*, Linjie Li*, Qineng Wang, Chi Wan, Hanyang Chen, Yiping Lu, Zhengyuan Yang, Lijuan Wang, Ranjay Krishna, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Yejin Choi, Manling Li
NeurIPS 2025
Featured by MIT Tech Review, Stanford AI Blog

World Model ReasoningWorld Model Reinforcement LearningMulti-Turn Reinforcement LearningRL for VisionVLM AgentsAgentic Reinforcement Learning

ODESteer: A Unified ODE-Based Steering Framework for LLM Alignment teaser

ODESteer: A Unified ODE-Based Steering Framework for LLM Alignment [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+
ICLR 2026

LLM AlignmentActivation SteeringFlow MatchingControl TheoryAI Safety

Federated Agent Reinforcement Learning teaser

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

Federated LearningAgentic Reinforcement LearningLLM AgentsPrivacy-Preserving Training

ActionEQA: Action Interface for Embodied Question Answering teaser

ActionEQA: Action Interface for Embodied Question Answering [PDF]
Tianwei Bao, Qineng Wang, Kangrui Wang, Mingkai Deng, Guangyi Liu, Jiayuan Mao, Lawrence Birnbaum, Zhiting Hu, Eric P. Xing, Zhaoran Wang, Manling Li
TMLR 2026

Embodied Question AnsweringAction InterfaceEmbodied AgentsSpatial Reasoning

Fairness Failure Modes of Multimodal LLMs teaser

Fairness Failure Modes of Multimodal LLMs [PDF]
Canyu Chen*, Anglin Cai*, Joan Nwatu, Yale Li, Han Liu, Jessica Hullman, Rada Mihalcea, Kathleen McKeown, Manling Li
NeurIPS 2026
Preprint, 2026
Best Paper Award at ACL 2026 Workshop on Trustworthy Natural Language Processing (TrustNLP)

FairnessMultimodal LLMsBias EvaluationTrustworthy AI

Weak-to-Strong Generalization with Failure Trajectories: A Tree-based Approach to Elicit Optimal Policy in Strong Models teaser

Weak-to-Strong Generalization with Failure Trajectories: A Tree-based Approach to Elicit Optimal Policy in Strong Models [PDF]
Ruimeng Ye, Zihan Wang, Yang Xiao, Zinan Ling, Manling Li, Bo Hui
ICLR 2026

Weak-to-Strong GeneralizationScalable OversightAlignmentFailure Trajectories

Your Language Model Secretly Contains Personality Subnetworks teaser

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

InterpretabilityPersonality SubnetworksModel EditingLLM Alignment

WorldAgen: Unified State-Action Prediction with Test-Time World Model Training teaser

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

World ModelsTest-Time TrainingState-Action PredictionEmbodied Agents

Exploring Diffusion Transformer Designs via Grafting teaser

Exploring Diffusion Transformer Designs via Grafting [Website][PDF][Blog][Code][tl;dr]
Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran*, Michael Poli*, Daniel Y. Fu, Dongjun Kim, Lea M. Hadzic, Manling Li, Agrim Gupta, Stefano Massaroli, Azalia Mirhoseini, Juan Carlos Niebles, Stefano Ermon, Li Fei-Fei
NeurIPS 2025 (Oral, Top 0.36%)

Diffusion TransformersModel GraftingArchitecture DesignGenerative Models

EmbodiedBench: Comprehensive Benchmarking Multi-modal Large Language Models for Vision-Driven Embodied Agents teaser

EmbodiedBench: Comprehensive Benchmarking Multi-modal Large Language Models for Vision-Driven Embodied Agents [Website][PDF][Code][tl;dr]
Rui Yang, Hanyang Chen, Junyu Zhang, Mark Zhao, Cheng Qian, Kangrui Wang, Qineng Wang, Teja Venkat Koripella, Marziyeh Movahedi, Manling Li, Heng Ji, Huan Zhang, Tong Zhang
ICML 2025 (Oral, Top 1%)

Embodied AgentsMultimodal LLMsEmbodied AI BenchmarkVision-Driven Agents

Why Is Spatial Reasoning Hard for VLMs? An Attention Mechanism Perspective on Focus Areas teaser

Why Is Spatial Reasoning Hard for VLMs? An Attention Mechanism Perspective on Focus Areas [PDF][Code][Data][tl;dr]
Shiqi Chen, Tongyao Zhu, Ruochen Zhou, Jinghan Zhang, Siyang Gao, Juan Carlos Niebles, Mor Geva, Junxian He, Jiajun Wu, Manling Li
ICML 2025

Spatial ReasoningAttention MechanismsVLM InterpretabilityAdaptive Decoding

Bring Reason to Vision: Understanding Perception and Reasoning through Model Merging teaser

Bring Reason to Vision: Understanding Perception and Reasoning through Model Merging [PDF][Code]
Shiqi Chen, Jinghan Zhang, Tongyao Zhu, Wei Liu, Siyang Gao, Miao Xiong, Manling Li, Junxian He
ICML 2025

Model MergingPerception and ReasoningVision-Language Models

SyncMind: Measuring Agent Out-of-Sync Recovery in Collaborative Software Engineering teaser

SyncMind: Measuring Agent Out-of-Sync Recovery in Collaborative Software Engineering [Website][PDF][Code][Data]
Xuehang Guo, Xingyao Wang, Yangyi Chen, Sha Li, Chi Han, Manling Li, Heng Ji
ICML 2025

Software Engineering AgentsAgent CollaborationLLM AgentsBenchmark

Why Do LLM Agents Fail in Exploring New Environments? A World-Modeling Perspective teaser

Why Do LLM Agents Fail in Exploring New Environments? A World-Modeling Perspective [PDF][Code]
Shiqi Chen, Tongyao Zhu, Zian Wang, Jinghan Zhang, Kangrui Wang, Ruochen Zhou, Siyang Gao, Teng Xiao, Yee Whye Teh, Junxian He, Manling Li
EMNLP 2026 Findings

World ModelsExploration CollapseAgentic Reinforcement LearningLLM Agents

ERA: Transforming VLMs into Embodied Agents via Embodied Prior Learning and Online Reinforcement Learning teaser

ERA: Transforming VLMs into Embodied Agents via Embodied Prior Learning and Online Reinforcement Learning [Website][PDF][Code][Data]
Hanyang Chen, Mark Zhao, Rui Yang, Qinwei Ma, Ke Yang, Jiarui Yao, Kangrui Wang, Hao Bai, Zhenhailong Wang, Rui Pan, Mengchao Zhang, Jose Barreiros, Aykut Onol, ChengXiang Zhai, Heng Ji, Manling Li, Huan Zhang, Tong Zhang
2025

Embodied ReasoningReinforcement LearningRL for VisionEmbodied AgentsVLM Agents

SENTINEL: A Multi-Level Formal Framework for Safety Evaluation of Foundation Model-based Embodied Agents teaser

SENTINEL: A Multi-Level Formal Framework for Safety Evaluation of Foundation Model-based Embodied Agents [PDF]
Simon Sinong Zhan, Yao Liu, Philip Wang, Zinan Wang, Qineng Wang, Zhian Ruan, Xiangyu Shi, Xinyu Cao, Frank Yang, Kangrui Wang, Huajie Shao, Manling Li, Qi Zhu
2025

Safety EvaluationFormal MethodsEmbodied Agent SafetyTemporal Logic

T*: Re-thinking Temporal Search for Long-Form Video Understanding teaser

T*: Re-thinking Temporal Search for Long-Form Video Understanding [Website][PDF][Data][Code][tl;dr]
Jinhui Ye*, Zihan Wang*, Haosen Sun, Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran, Zane Durante, Cristobal Eyzaguirre, Yonatan Bisk, Juan Carlos Niebles, Ehsan Adeli, Li Fei-Fei, Jiajun Wu, Manling Li
CVPR 2025, Oral at ICCV 2025 Workshop on Long Multi-Scene Video Foundations

Long-Form Video UnderstandingTemporal SearchVideo-Language ModelsKeyframe Selection

LayoutVLM: Differentiable Optimization of 3D Layout via Vision-Language Models teaser

LayoutVLM: Differentiable Optimization of 3D Layout via Vision-Language Models [Website][PDF][Code]
Fan-Yun Sun, Weiyu Liu, Siyi Gu, Dylan Lim, Goutam Bhat, Federico Tombari, Manling Li, Nick Haber, Jiajun Wu
CVPR 2025

3D Scene LayoutSpatial ReasoningDifferentiable OptimizationVision-Language Models

Chain-of-Action: Faithful and Multimodal Question Answering through Large Language Models teaser

Chain-of-Action: Faithful and Multimodal Question Answering through Large Language Models [PDF]
Zhenyu Pan, Haozheng Luo, Manling Li, Han Liu
ICLR 2025

Multimodal Question AnsweringFaithful ReasoningLLM AgentsRetrieval-Augmented Generation

Visually Descriptive Language Model for Vector Graphics Reasoning teaser

Visually Descriptive Language Model for Vector Graphics Reasoning [PDF][Website][Code][tl;dr]
Zhenhailong Wang, Joy Hsu, Xingyao Wang, Kuan-Hao Huang, Manling Li, Jiajun Wu, Heng Ji
TMLR

Vector Graphics ReasoningVisual ReasoningSymbolic Representations

The Law of Knowledge Overshadowing: Towards Understanding, Predicting, and Preventing LLM Hallucination teaser

The Law of Knowledge Overshadowing: Towards Understanding, Predicting, and Preventing LLM Hallucination [PDF][tl;dr]
Yuji Zhang, Sha Li, Cheng Qian, Jiateng Liu, Pengfei Yu, Chi Han, Yi Fung, Kathleen McKeown, ChengXiang Zhai, Manling Li, Heng Ji
ACL 2025 Findings

HallucinationKnowledge OvershadowingLLM TruthfulnessHallucination Prediction

LEMONADE: A Large Multilingual Expert-Annotated Abstractive Event Dataset for the Real World teaser

LEMONADE: A Large Multilingual Expert-Annotated Abstractive Event Dataset for the Real World [PDF]
Sina Semnani, Pingyue Zhang, Wanyue Zhai, Haozhuo Li, Ryan Beauchamp, Trey Billing, Katayoun Kishi, Manling Li, Monica Lam
ACL 2025 Findings

Event ExtractionMultilingual DatasetConflict AnalysisInformation Extraction

Chain-of-Experts: Unlocking the Communication Power of Mixture-of-Experts Models teaser

Chain-of-Experts: Unlocking the Communication Power of Mixture-of-Experts Models [PDF][Blog][Code][tl;dr]
Zihan Wang, Rui Pan, Jiarui Yao, Róbert Csordás, Linjie Li, Lu Yin, Jiajun Wu, Tong Zhang, Manling Li, Shiwei Liu

Mixture-of-ExpertsSparse ArchitecturesExpert CommunicationLLM Efficiency

Foundation Models Meet Embodied Agents teaser

Foundation Models Meet Embodied Agents [Website/Slides/Videos][tl;dr]
Manling Li, Yunzhu Li, Jiayuan Mao, Wenlong Huang
AAAI 2025: Tutorial
NAACL 2025: Tutorial
ICCV 2025: Tutorial

TutorialFoundation ModelsEmbodied AgentsReasoning and Planning

Towards Safe Multi-Modal Learning: Unique Challenges and Future Directions teaser

Towards Safe Multi-Modal Learning: Unique Challenges and Future Directions [Website/Slides/Videos]
Xi Li, Manling Li, Muchao Ye
ICCV 2025: Tutorial
CVPR 2026: Tutorial

TutorialMultimodal SafetyTrustworthy AI

The Lifecycle of Knowledge in Large Language Models: Memorization, Editing, and Beyond teaser

The Lifecycle of Knowledge in Large Language Models: Memorization, Editing, and Beyond [Website/Slides/Videos]
Manling Li, Sha Li, Yuji Zhang, Chi Han, Heng Ji
AAAI 2025: Tutorial

TutorialKnowledge EditingLLM MemorizationKnowledge Lifecycle

Embodied Agent Interface: Benchmarking LLMs for Embodied Decision Making teaser

Embodied Agent Interface: Benchmarking LLMs for Embodied Decision Making [Website][PDF][Code][Data][Docker][PyPi][Doc][tl;dr]
Manling Li*, Shiyu Zhao*, Qineng Wang*, Kangrui Wang*, Yu Zhou*, Sanjana Srivastava, Cem Gokmen, Tony Lee, Li Erran Li, Ruohan Zhang, Weiyu Liu, Percy Liang, Li Fei-Fei, Jiayuan Mao, Jiajun Wu
NeurIPS 2024 Datasets and Benchmarks Track (Oral, Top 0.6%)
Best Paper Award at SoCal NLP 2024, Top 0.4%

Embodied Decision MakingLLM AgentsEmbodied AI BenchmarkReasoning and Planning

HourVideo: 1-Hour Video-Language Understanding teaser

HourVideo: 1-Hour Video-Language Understanding [Website][PDF][Data][Code][tl;dr]
Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran, Agrim Gupta, Taran Kota, Lea M. Hadzic, Jimming He, Cristobal Eyzaguirre, Zane Durante, Manling Li, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei
NeurIPS 2024 Datasets and Benchmarks Track

Long-Form Video UnderstandingVideo-Language BenchmarkEgocentric Video

IKEA Manuals at Work: 4D Grounding of Assembly Instructions on Internet Videos teaser

IKEA Manuals at Work: 4D Grounding of Assembly Instructions on Internet Videos [Website][PDF][Data][Code][tl;dr]
Yunong Liu, Weiyu Liu, Shubh Khanna, Cristobal Eyzaguirre, Manling Li, Juan Carlos Niebles, Vineeth Ravi, Saumitra Mishra, Jiajun Wu
NeurIPS 2024 Datasets and Benchmarks Track

4D GroundingAssembly InstructionsProcedural Video Understanding

LM-Steer: Word Embeddings Are Steers for Language Models teaser

LM-Steer: Word Embeddings Are Steers for Language Models [Website][PDF][Code][Live Demo][Slides][Poster][tl;dr]
Chi Han, Jialiang Xu, Manling Li, Yi Fung, Chenkai Sun, Nan Jiang, Tarek Abdelzaher, Heng Ji
ACL 2024
(Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2024)

LLM SteeringControllable GenerationWord EmbeddingsAlignmentInterpretability

Knowledge Overshadowing Causes Amalgamated Hallucination in Large Language Models teaser

Knowledge Overshadowing Causes Amalgamated Hallucination in Large Language Models [PDF][tl;dr]
Yuji Zhang, Sha Li, Jiateng Liu, Pengfei Yu, Yi R. Fung, Jing Li, Manling Li, Heng Ji
EMNLP 2024

HallucinationKnowledge OvershadowingLLM Truthfulness

Why Does New Knowledge Create Messy Ripple Effects in LLMs? teaser

Why Does New Knowledge Create Messy Ripple Effects in LLMs? [PDF]
Jiaxin Qin, Zixuan Zhang, Chi Han, Pengfei Yu, Manling Li, Heng Ji
EMNLP 2024

Knowledge EditingRipple EffectsLLM Knowledge

Deep Concept Injection for Zero-shot Multimodal Reasoning teaser

Deep Concept Injection for Zero-shot Multimodal Reasoning [PDF]
Xudong Lin, Manling Li, Richard Zemel, Heng Ji, Shih-Fu Chang
EMNLP 2024

Zero-Shot Multimodal ReasoningConcept InjectionVideo Question Answering

MentalArena: Self-play Training of Language Models for Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Health Disorders teaser

MentalArena: Self-play Training of Language Models for Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Health Disorders [PDF]
Cheng Li, May Fung, Qingyun Wang, Chi Han, Manling Li, Jindong Wang, Heng Ji
2024

Self-Play TrainingMental Health AILLM Applications

Can LLMs Produce Faithful Explanations For Fact-checking? Towards Faithful Explainable Fact-Checking via Multi-Agent Debate teaser

Can LLMs Produce Faithful Explanations For Fact-checking? Towards Faithful Explainable Fact-Checking via Multi-Agent Debate [PDF]
Kyungha Kim*, Sangyun Lee*, Kung-Hsiang Huang*, Hou Pong Chan, Manling Li, Heng Ji
2024

Fact-CheckingFaithful ExplanationsMulti-Agent Debate

InfoPattern: Unveiling Information Propagation Patterns in Social Media teaser

InfoPattern: Unveiling Information Propagation Patterns in Social Media [PDF]
Chi Han*, Jialiang Xu*, Manling Li* , Hanning Zhang*, Tarek Abdelzaher, Heng Ji
2023

Information PropagationSocial Media AnalysisComputational Social Science

SmartBook: AI-Assisted Situation Report Generation for Intelligence Analysts teaser

SmartBook: AI-Assisted Situation Report Generation for Intelligence Analysts [PDF]
Revanth Gangi Reddy, Yi Fung, Qi Zeng, Manling Li, Zihan Wang, Paul Sullivan, Heng Ji
2023

Situation Report GenerationAI-Assisted WritingEvent Understanding

HallE-Control: Controlling Object Hallucination in Large Multimodal Models teaser

HallE-Control: Controlling Object Hallucination in Large Multimodal Models [PDF]
Bohan Zhai, Shijia Yang, Chenfeng Xu, Sheng Shen, Kurt Keutzer, Chunyuan Li, Manling Li
2023

Object HallucinationHallucination MitigationVision-Language Models

Event-centric Multimodal Knowledge Acquisition teaser

Event-centric Multimodal Knowledge Acquisition [PDF]
Manling Li
Thesis Committee: Heng Ji, Jiawei Han, Chengxiang Zhai, Shih-Fu Chang, Kyunghyun Cho
PhD Thesis, 2023 (ACL Inaugural Best Dissertation Award Honorable Mention)

Multimodal Knowledge AcquisitionEvent-Centric NLPInformation Extraction

ViStruct: Visual Structural Knowledge Extraction via Curriculum Guided Code-Vision Representation teaser

ViStruct: Visual Structural Knowledge Extraction via Curriculum Guided Code-Vision Representation [PDF]
Yangyi Chen, Xingyao Wang, Manling Li, Derek Hoiem, Heng Ji
EMNLP 2023

Visual Knowledge ExtractionCurriculum LearningCode-Vision Representation

Defining a New NLP Playground teaser

Defining a New NLP Playground [PDF]
Sha Li, Chi Han, Pengfei Yu, Carl Edwards, Manling Li, Xingyao Wang, Yi Fung, Charles Yu, Joel R. Tetreault, Eduard H Hovy, Heng Ji
EMNLP 2023 Findings

NLP Research AgendaLarge Language ModelsPosition Paper

Knowledge-Driven Vision-Language Encoding teaser

Knowledge-Driven Vision-Language Encoding [Website/Slides/Videos]
Manling Li, Xudong Lin, Jie Lei, Mohit Bansal, Carl Vondrick, Shih-Fu Chang, Heng Ji
CVPR 2023: Tutorial

TutorialVision-Language PretrainingKnowledge-Driven Learning

Towards Fast Adaptation of Pretrained Contrastive Models for Multi-channel Video-Language Retrieval teaser

Towards Fast Adaptation of Pretrained Contrastive Models for Multi-channel Video-Language Retrieval [PDF][Code]
Xudong Lin, Simran Tiwari, Shiyuan Huang, Manling Li, Mike Zheng Shou, Heng Ji, Shih-Fu Chang
CVPR 2023

Video-Language RetrievalContrastive LearningEfficient Adaptation

Open Visual Knowledge Extraction via Relation-Oriented Multimodality Model Prompting teaser

Open Visual Knowledge Extraction via Relation-Oriented Multimodality Model Prompting [PDF]
Hejie Cui, Xinyu Fang, Zihan Zhang, Ran Xu, Xuan Kan, Xin Liu, Manling Li, Yangqiu Song, Carl Yang
NeurIPS 2023

Visual Knowledge ExtractionMultimodal PromptingRelation Extraction

Non-Sequential Graph Script Induction via Multimedia Grounding teaser

Non-Sequential Graph Script Induction via Multimedia Grounding [PDF]
Yu Zhou†, Sha Li, Manling Li, Xudong Lin, Shih-Fu Chang, Mohit Bansal and Heng Ji
ACL 2023 († denotes supervised undergraduate)

Graph Script InductionProcedural KnowledgeMultimedia Grounding

A Language First Approach to Procedure Planning teaser

A Language First Approach to Procedure Planning [PDF]
Jiateng Liu†, Sha Li, Zhenhailong Wang, Manling Li, Heng Ji
ACL 2023 Findings († denotes supervised undergraduate)

Procedure PlanningTask PlanningLanguage Priors

Open-Domain Hierarchical Event Schema Induction by Incremental Prompting and Verification teaser

Open-Domain Hierarchical Event Schema Induction by Incremental Prompting and Verification [PDF]
Sha Li, Ruining Zhao†, Manling Li, Heng Ji, Chris Callison-Burch and Jiawei Han
ACL 2023 († denotes supervised undergraduate)

Event Schema InductionHierarchical SchemasLLM Prompting

Multimedia Generative Script Learning for Task Planning teaser

Multimedia Generative Script Learning for Task Planning [PDF]
Qingyun Wang, Manling Li, Hou Pong Chan, Lifu Huang, Julia Hockenmaier, Girish Chowdhary and Heng Ji
ACL 2023 Findings

Script LearningTask PlanningProcedural Knowledge

Learning to Decompose Visual Features with Latent Textual Prompts teaser

Learning to Decompose Visual Features with Latent Textual Prompts [PDF][Code]
Feng Wang†, Manling Li, Xudong Lin, Hairong Lv, Alexander Schwing, Heng Ji
ICLR 2023 († denotes supervised undergraduate)

Visual Feature DecompositionPrompt LearningCLIP

Knowledge-Driven Vision-Language Pretraining teaser

Knowledge-Driven Vision-Language Pretraining [Website/Slides/Videos]
Manling Li, Xudong Lin, Jie Lei, Mohit Bansal, Shih-Fu Chang, Heng Ji
AAAI 2023: Tutorial

TutorialVision-Language PretrainingKnowledge Integration

Video Event Extraction via Tracking Visual States of Arguments teaser

Video Event Extraction via Tracking Visual States of Arguments [PDF][Code]
Guang Yang†, Manling Li, Jiajie Zhang, Xudong Lin, Shih-Fu Chang, Heng Ji
AAAI 2023 († denotes supervised undergraduate)

Video Event ExtractionVisual State TrackingMultimodal Information Extraction

ADEPT: A DEbiasing PrompT Framework teaser

ADEPT: A DEbiasing PrompT Framework [PDF][Code]
Ke Yang†, Charles Yu, Yi Fung, Manling Li, Heng Ji
AAAI 2023 († denotes supervised undergraduate)

DebiasingPrompt TuningFairness in NLP

Language Models with Image Descriptors are Strong Few-Shot Video-Language Learners teaser

Language Models with Image Descriptors are Strong Few-Shot Video-Language Learners [PDF][Code]
Zhenhailong Wang†*,Manling Li*, Ruochen Xu, Luowei Zhou, Jie Lei, Xudong Lin, Shuohang Wang, Ziyi Yang, Chenguang Zhu, Derek Hoiem, Shih-Fu Chang, Mohit Bansal, Heng Ji
NeurIPS'22 (equal contribution)

Few-Shot Video-Language LearningImage DescriptorsLLM Prompting

CLIP-Event: Connecting Text and Images with Event Structures teaser

CLIP-Event: Connecting Text and Images with Event Structures [PDF][Data][Code]
Manling Li, Ruochen Xu, Shuohang Wang, Xudong Lin, Chenguang Zhu, Xuedong Huang, Heng Ji, Shih-Fu Chang
CVPR'22 (Oral, Top 4.1%)

Event StructuresVision-Language PretrainingZero-Shot TransferContrastive Learning

COVID-19 Claim Radar: A Structured Claim Extraction and Tracking System teaser

COVID-19 Claim Radar: A Structured Claim Extraction and Tracking System [PDF][Code]
Manling Li, Revanth Gangi Reddy, Ziqi Wang, Yi-Shyuan Chiang, Tuan M. Lai, Pengfei Yu, Zixuan Zhang,Heng Ji
ACL'22 Demo

Claim ExtractionMisinformation TrackingNLP System

Event Schema Induction with Double Graph Autoencoders teaser

Event Schema Induction with Double Graph Autoencoders [PDF][Code]
Xiaomeng Jin†, Manling Li and Heng Ji
NAACL'22

Event Schema InductionGraph AutoencodersEvent Graphs

New Frontiers of Information Extraction teaser

New Frontiers of Information Extraction [Website/Slides/Videos]
Muhao Chen, Lifu Huang, Manling Li, Ben Zhou, Heng Ji
NAACL'22: Tutorial

TutorialInformation ExtractionEvent Extraction

MuMuQA: Multimedia Multi-Hop News Question Answering via Cross-Media Knowledge Extraction and Grounding teaser

MuMuQA: Multimedia Multi-Hop News Question Answering via Cross-Media Knowledge Extraction and Grounding [PDF][Data]
Revanth Gangi Reddy†, Xilin Rui†, Manling Li, Xudong Lin, Haoyang Wen, Jaemin Cho, Lifu Huang, Mohit Bansal, Avi Sil, Shih-Fu Chang, Alexander Schwing, Heng Ji
AAAI'22

Multimedia Question AnsweringMulti-Hop ReasoningCross-Media Grounding

The Future is not One-dimensional: Complex Event Schema Induction by Graph Modeling for Event Prediction teaser

The Future is not One-dimensional: Complex Event Schema Induction by Graph Modeling for Event Prediction [PDF][Data]
Manling Li, Sha Li, Zhenhailong Wang, Lifu Huang, Kyunghyun Cho, Heng Ji, Jiawei Han and Clare Voss
EMNLP'21

Complex Event SchemasTemporal GraphsEvent Prediction

Timeline Summarization based on Event Graph Compression via Time-Aware Optimal Transport teaser

Timeline Summarization based on Event Graph Compression via Time-Aware Optimal Transport [PDF][Data]
Manling Li, Tengfei Ma, Mo Yu, Lingfei Wu, Tian Gao, Heng Ji and Kathleen McKeown
EMNLP'21

Timeline SummarizationEvent GraphsOptimal Transport

Joint Multimedia Event Extraction from Video and Article teaser

Joint Multimedia Event Extraction from Video and Article [PDF][Data]
Brian Chen, Xudong Lin, Christopher Thomas, Manling Li, Shoya Yoshida, Lovish Chum, Heng Ji and Shih-Fu Chang
EMNLP'21 Findings

Multimedia Event ExtractionVideo-Text UnderstandingInformation Extraction

Event-centric Natural Language Processing teaser

Event-centric Natural Language Processing [Website/Slides/Videos]
Muhao Chen, Hongming Zhang, Qiang Ning, Manling Li, Heng Ji, Kathleen McKeown and Dan Roth
ACL'21, AAAI'21: Tutorial.

TutorialEvent-Centric NLPEvent Extraction

COVID-19 Literature Knowledge Graph Construction and Drug Repurposing Report Generation teaser

COVID-19 Literature Knowledge Graph Construction and Drug Repurposing Report Generation [PDF][Code/Data]
Qingyun Wang, Manling Li, Xuan Wang, Nikolaus Parulian, Guangxing Han, Jiawei Ma, Jingxuan Tu, Ying Lin, Haoran Zhang, Weili Liu, Aabhas Chauhan, Yingjun Guan, Bangzheng Li, Ruisong Li, Xiangchen Song, Heng Ji, Jiawei Han, Shih-Fu Chang, James Pustejovsky, David Liem, Ahmed Elsayed, Martha Palmer, Jasmine Rah, Clare Voss, Cynthia Schneider, Boyan Onyshkevych
NAACL'21: System Demonstrations
(Best Demo Paper Award at NAACL2021)

Knowledge Graph ConstructionDrug RepurposingScientific NLP

RESIN: A Dockerized Schema-Guided Cross-document Cross-lingual Cross-media Information Extraction and Event Tracking System teaser

RESIN: A Dockerized Schema-Guided Cross-document Cross-lingual Cross-media Information Extraction and Event Tracking System [PDF][Code]
Haoyang Wen, Ying Lin, Tuan M. Lai, Xiaoman Pan, Sha Li, Xudong Lin, Ben Zhou, Manling Li, Haoyu Wang, Hongming Zhang, Xiaodong Yu, Alexander Dong, Zhenhailong Wang, Yi R. Fung, Piyush Mishra, Qing Lyu, Dídac Surís, Brian Chen, Susan W. Brown, Martha Palmer, Chris Callison-Burch, Carl Vondrick, Jiawei Han, Dan Roth, Shih-Fu Chang and Heng Ji
NAACL'21: System Demonstrations

Schema-Guided ExtractionCross-LingualCross-MediaInformation Extraction System

Connecting the Dots: Event Graph Schema Induction with Path Language Modeling teaser

Connecting the Dots: Event Graph Schema Induction with Path Language Modeling [PDF][Code/Data]
Manling Li, Qi Zeng, Ying Lin, Kyunghyun Cho, Heng Ji, Jonathan May, Nathanael Chambers and Clare Voss
EMNLP'20: Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.

Event Schema InductionPath Language ModelingEvent Graphs

GAIA: A Fine-grained Multimedia Knowledge Extraction System teaser

GAIA: A Fine-grained Multimedia Knowledge Extraction System [PDF][Code][Video]
Manling Li*, Alireza Zareian*, Ying Lin, Xiaoman Pan, Spencer Whitehead, Brian Chen, Bo Wu, Heng Ji, Shih-Fu Chang, Clare R. Voss, Dan Napierski, Marjorie Freedman
ACL'20: Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations. pp. 77–86
(Best Demo Paper Award at ACL2020)

Multimedia Knowledge ExtractionKnowledge GraphsFine-Grained Entities

Cross-media Structured Common Space for Multimedia Event Extraction teaser

Cross-media Structured Common Space for Multimedia Event Extraction [PDF][Code][Slides]
Manling Li*, Alireza Zareian*, Qi Zeng, Spencer Whitehead, Di Lu, Heng Ji, Shih-Fu Chang
ACL'20: Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp.2557–2568

Multimedia Event ExtractionCross-Media Common SpaceWeakly Supervised Learning

GAIA at SM-KBP 2020 - A Dockerized Multi-media Multi-lingual Knowledge Extraction, Clustering, Temporal Tracking and Hypothesis Generation System teaser

GAIA at SM-KBP 2020 - A Dockerized Multi-media Multi-lingual Knowledge Extraction, Clustering, Temporal Tracking and Hypothesis Generation System [PDF][Project]
Manling Li, Ying Lin, Tuan Manh Lai, Xiaoman Pan, Haoyang Wen, Sha Li, Zhenhailong Wang, Pengfei Yu, Lifu Huang, Di Lu, Qingyun Wang, Haoran Zhang, Qi Zeng, Chi Han, Zixuan Zhang, Yujia Qin, Xiaodan Hu, Nikolaus Parulian, Daniel Campos, Heng Ji, Brian Chen, Xudong Lin, Alireza Zareian, Amith Ananthram, Emily Allaway, Shih-Fu Chang, Kathleen McKeown, Yixiang Yao, Michael Spector, Mitchell DeHaven, Daniel Napierski, Marjorie Freedman, Pedro Szekely, Haidong Zhu, Ram Nevatia, Yang Bai, Yifan Wang, Ali Sadeghian, Haodi Ma, Daisy Zhe Wang
TAC-KBP: Text Analysis Conference Knowledge Base Population Workshop 2020 (Rank 1st in the leaderboard.)

Multimedia Knowledge ExtractionMultilingual Information ExtractionKnowledge Base Population

Keep Meeting Summaries on Topic: Abstractive Multi-Modal Meeting Summarization teaser

Keep Meeting Summaries on Topic: Abstractive Multi-Modal Meeting Summarization
[PDF]
Manling Li, Lingyu Zhang, Heng Ji, Rich Radke
ACL'19: Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp.2190–2196

Meeting SummarizationMultimodal SummarizationAbstractive Summarization

Multilingual Entity, Relation, Event and Human Value Extraction teaser

Multilingual Entity, Relation, Event and Human Value Extraction [PDF][Code][Video]
Manling Li, Ying Lin, Joe Hoover, Spencer Whitehead, Clare Voss, Morteza Dehghani, Heng Ji
NAACL'19: Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Demonstrations), pp.110–115

Multilingual Information ExtractionEvent ExtractionHuman Values

GAIA at SM-KBP 2019 - A Multi-media Multi-lingual Knowledge Extraction and Hypothesis Generation System teaser

GAIA at SM-KBP 2019 - A Multi-media Multi-lingual Knowledge Extraction and Hypothesis Generation System [PDF][Project]
Manling Li, Ying Lin, Ananya Subburathinam, Spencer Whitehead, Xiaoman Pan, Di Lu, Qingyun Wang, Tongtao Zhang, Lifu Huang, Heng Ji, Alireza Zareian, Hassan Akbari, Brian Chen, Bo Wu, Emily Allaway, Shih-Fu Chang, Kathleen McKeown, Yixiang Yao, Jennifer Chen, Eric Berquist, Kexuan Sun, Xujun Peng, Ryan Gabbard Marjorie Freedman, Pedro Szekely, T.K. Satish Kumar, Arka Sadhu, Ram Nevatia, Miguel Rodriguez, Yifan Wang, Yang Bai, Ali Sadeghian, Daisy Zhe Wang
TAC-KBP: Text Analysis Conference Knowledge Base Population Workshop 2019 (Rank 1st, with more than 10% higher than the second team.)

Multimedia Knowledge ExtractionMultilingual Information ExtractionKnowledge Base Population