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Yapeng Mi

miyapeng78@gmail.com

I am a phd student of University of Science and Technology of China(USTC) ,advised by Qing Li and Jie Wang. Previously, I receive my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Technology from Harbin Institute of Technology(HIT) in 2025.

Currently, I am focusing on research in Multimodal and LLM Agents. Feel free to reach out if you are interested in my work! 🤝


News

Jan 15, 2026 One paper is accepted by ICLR 2026! 👉 MILR
Sep 19, 2025 One paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2025! 👉 SPORT
Apr 10, 2025 New position paper on system-level principles for building LLM agents: See paper for details.

Publications

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    MILR: Improving Multimodal Image Generation via Test-Time Latent Reasoning
    Yapeng MiHengli Li , Yanpeng Zhao , Chenxi Li , Huimin Wu , Xiaojian MaSong-Chun ZhuYing Nian Wu , and Qing Li
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
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    Iterative Tool Usage Exploration for Multimodal Agents via Step-wise Preference Tuning
    Pengxiang Li* , Zhi Gao* , Bofei ZhangYapeng MiXiaojian Ma , Chenrui Shi , Tao Yuan , Yuwei WuYunde JiaSong-Chun Zhu , and Qing Li
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025
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    Building LLM Agents by Incorporating Insights from Computer Systems
    Yapeng MiZhi GaoXiaojian Ma , and Qing Li
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.04485, 2025