Tutorials

Selected All Agentic Reasoning Embodied Spatial Reasoning Safe Reasoning Tutorials

Conference tutorials by Manling Li (Northwestern University) at CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, NAACL and ACL on foundation models for embodied agents, multimodal safety, and the lifecycle of knowledge in large language models.


Foundation Models Meet Embodied Agents teaser

Foundation Models Meet Embodied Agents [Website/Slides/Videos]
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

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

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

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

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