Linli Yao

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I'm a PhD student at the Language Computing and Machine Learning Group (Lanco), MOE Key Laboratory of Computational Linguistics, School of Computer Science, Peking University. I am supervised by Prof. Xu Sun.

I received my Master's degree and Bachelor's degree from Renmin University of China (RUC) in 2023 and 2020 respectively, advised by Prof. Qin Jin who directs the AI·M3 Lab.

Research Interests

  • Multi-modal Understanding and Generation
  • Vision and Language
  • Large Language Models


Publications (Full List)


    Edit As You Wish: Video Description Editing with Multi-grained Commands
    Linli Yao, Yuanmeng Zhang, Ziheng Wang, Xinglin Hou, Tiezheng Ge, Yuning Jiang, Qin Jin
    Preprint, arxiv:2305.08389, 2023.
    [Paper]

    TimeChat: A Time-sensitive Multimodal Large Language Model for Long Video Understanding
    Shuhuai Ren*, Linli Yao*, Shicheng Li, Xu Sun, Lu Hou
    (* indicates equal contribution)
    CVPR 2024.
    [Paper , Code]

    LaDiC: Are Diffusion Models Really Inferior to Autoregressive Counterparts for Image-to-text Generation?
    Yuchi Wang, Shuhuai Ren, Rundong Gao, Linli Yao, Qingyan Guo, Kaikai An, Jianhong Bai, Xu Sun
    NAACL 2024.

    Rethinking Benchmarks for Cross-modal Image-text Retrieval
    Weijing Chen, Linli Yao, Qin Jin
    SIGIR 2023, long paper.
    [Paper , Code]

    CapEnrich: Enriching Caption Semantics for Web Images via Cross-modal Pre-trained Knowledge
    Linli Yao, Weijing Chen, Qin Jin
    The Web Conference (WWW) 2023.
    [Paper , Code]

    Image Difference Captioning with Pre-training and Contrastive Learning
    Linli Yao, Weiying Wang, Qin Jin
    AAAI 2022 .
    [Paper , Code]

Education

2023.09 - Present PhD Student School of Computer Science, Peking University
2020.09 - 2023.06 Master School of Information, Renmin University of China
2016.09 - 2020.06 Bachelor School of Information, Renmin University of China

Experience

2022.10 - 2023.07
Research Intern
Alimama CV&NLP Group @ Alibaba, Advised by Tiezheng Ge.

2022.04 - 2022.10
Organizer / Workshop Chair
Person in Context (PIC) Workshop @ ACM MM 2022

The MTVG and MDVC tasks attracted participation from 40 teams worldwide, including prestigious institutions such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, and the University of Hong Kong. It also included industry teams like Tencent, JD.com, Xiaomi, and Bilibili.

2020.04 - 2020.07
Organizer
YouMakeup Video Challenge @ CVPR LVVU Workshop 2020


Awards

2022 National Scholarship Ministry of Education of China
2023 & 2020 Outstanding Graduate Renmin University of China
2022 & 2021 1st Class Grade Scholarship Renmin University of China
2021 & 2018 Merit Student Renmin University of China
2019 1st Prize of China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (Beijing) Beijing
2018 Meritorious Winner of American Mathematical Contest In Modeling U.S.

Academic Service

  • Reviewer/Program committee: AAAI 2023, AAAI 2024, CVPR 2024, Transactions on Image Processing.
  • Teaching assistant: Spoken Language Processing (RUC, 2020), Multimedia Application Technology (RUC, 2020), Academic Criterion and Writing (RUC, 2022), Human Language and Artificial Intelligence (PKU, 2024).