Publications

2026

1. 

   MILR: Improving Multimodal Image Generation via Test-Time Latent Reasoning

   Yapeng Mi , Hengli Li , Yanpeng Zhao^✉ , Chenxi Li , Huimin Wu , Xiaojian Ma , Song-Chun Zhu , Ying Nian Wu , and Qing Li^✉

   International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026

   arXiv Bib Website

   @article{2026milr,
     title = {MILR: Improving Multimodal Image Generation via Test-Time Latent Reasoning },
     author = {Mi, Yapeng and Li, Hengli and Zhao, Yanpeng and Li, Chenxi and Wu, Huimin and Ma, Xiaojian and Zhu, Song-Chun and Wu, Ying Nian and Li, Qing},
     journal = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
     year = {2026},
     correspondence = {Zhao, Yanpeng and Li, Qing},
   }

2025

1. 

   Iterative Tool Usage Exploration for Multimodal Agents via Step-wise Preference Tuning

   Pengxiang Li* , Zhi Gao* , Bofei Zhang , Yapeng Mi , Xiaojian Ma , Chenrui Shi , Tao Yuan , Yuwei Wu^✉ , Yunde Jia , Song-Chun Zhu , and Qing Li^✉

   Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025

   arXiv Bib Website

   @article{2025iterative,
     title = {Iterative Tool Usage Exploration for Multimodal Agents via Step-wise Preference Tuning },
     author = {Li, Pengxiang and Gao, Zhi and Zhang, Bofei and Mi, Yapeng and Ma, Xiaojian and Shi, Chenrui and Yuan, Tao and Wu, Yuwei and Jia, Yunde and Zhu, Song-Chun and Li, Qing},
     equalauthor = { Li, Pengxiang and Gao, Zhi},
     journal = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
     year = {2025},
     correspondence = {Wu, Yuwei and Li, Qing},
   }

2. 

   Building LLM Agents by Incorporating Insights from Computer Systems

   Yapeng Mi , Zhi Gao , Xiaojian Ma , and Qing Li^✉

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.04485, 2025

   arXiv Bib

   @article{mi2025building,
     title = {Building LLM Agents by Incorporating Insights from Computer Systems },
     author = {Mi, Yapeng and Gao, Zhi and Ma, Xiaojian and Li, Qing},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.04485},
     year = {2025},
     correspondence = {Li, Qing},
   }