About Me
Hi! I am a PhD student at Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, supervised by Prof. Yue Zhao.
Before my PhD study in the USA, I spent wonderful years in Singapore and cooperated with great professors. I served as a research associate at Nanyang Technological University, working with Prof. Aixin Sun. I earned my Master’s degree from National University of Singapore in 2024, where I contributed as a research intern under the guidance of Prof. Tat-Seng Chua and Prof. Roger Zimmermann. Prior to that, I successfully completed my Bachelor’s degree at TongJi University, China in 2022. My research interests are centered around LLM for code, multimodal understanding, and information retrieval.
Work Experiences
Research Assistant, FORTIS, USC.
Prof. Yue Zhao
Research Associate, S-Lab, NTU.
Prof. Aixin Sun
Research Intern, NExT++, NUS.
Prof. Tat-Seng Chua
Publications
please refer to google scholar page to check all my publications. (* Equal Contribution)
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DPU: Dynamic Prototype Updating for Multimodal Out-of-Distribution Detection
Li Li, Huixian Gong, Hao Dong, Tiankai Yang, Zhengzhong Tu, Yue Zhao Preprint |
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TVR-Ranking: A Dataset for Ranked Video Moment Retrieval with Imprecise Queries
Renjie Liang, Li Li, Chongzhi Zhang, Jing Wang, Xizhou Zhu, Aixin Sun Preprint |
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Causal SAR ATR with Limited Data via Dual Invariance
Chenwei Wang, You Qin, Li Li, Siyi Luo, Yulin Huang, Jifang Pei, Yin Zhang, Jianyu Yang Preprint |
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Efficient Temporal Sentence Grounding in Videos with Multi-Teacher Knowledge Distillation
Renjie Liang, Yiming Yang, Hui Lu, Li Li Preprint |
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Backpropagation-Free Multi-modal On-Device Model Adaptation via Cloud-Device Collaboration
Wei Ji*, Li Li*, Zheqi Lv*, Wenqiao Zhang, Mengze Li, Zhen Wan, Wenqiang Lei, Roger Zimmermann ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications |
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Towards Complex-query Referring Image Segmentation: A Novel Benchmark
Wei Ji, Li Li, Hao Fei, Xiangyan Liu, Xun Yang, Juncheng Li, Roger Zimmermann ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications |
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Panoptic Scene Graph Generation with Semantics-prototype Learning
Li Li, Wei Ji, Yiming Wu, Mengze Li, You Qin, Lina Wei, Roger Zimmermann AAAI 2024 |
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Domain-wise Invariant Learning for Panoptic Scene Graph Generation
Li Li, You Qin, Wei Ji, Yuxiao Zhou, Roger Zimmermann ICASSP 2024 |
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Biased-Predicate Annotation Identification via Unbiased Visual Predicate Representation
Li Li*, Chenwei Wang*, You Qin, Wei Ji, Renjie Liang ACM MM 2023 |
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VPGTrans: Transfer Visual Prompt Generator across LLMs
Ao Zhang, Hao Fei, Yuan Yao, Wei Ji, Li Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Tat-Seng Chua NeurIPS 2023 |
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On the Importance of Building High-quality Training Datasets for Neural Code Search
Zhensu Sun, Li Li, Yan Liu, Xiaoning Du, Li Li ICSE 2022, Nominated for ACM SIGSOFT distinguished paper award |
Honors and Awards
ICSE 2022 Distinguished Paper Award Nomination.
AAAI 2024 Student Scholarship.
Services
Program Committee Member of ICLR (2025).
Program Committee Member of ACM MM (2024).
Program Committee Member of ECCV (2024).
Program Committee Member of ACL ARR (2024).
Program Committee Member of ICASSP (2025).
Program Committee Member of ICLR AGI Workshop (2024).
Program Committee Member of ACM MM MMGR Workshop (2023, 2024).
Journal Reviewer for Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering.
Journal Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.
Student Volunteer at ACM Web Conference (2024).
Educations
08/2024 - present
Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science
University of Southern California, USA
2022.08 - 2024.02
Master of Science in Industry 4.0
National University of Singapore, Singapore
2018.08 - 2022.06
Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering
TongJi University, China