About me


I am a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence at Renmin University of China, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Zhiwu Lu. I am currently a visiting student at the College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, under the supervision of Prof. Hanwang Zhang. Before my doctoral studies, I received my B.E. from the School of Software at Dalian University of Technology.

My research interests focus on large multimodal models, role-playing agents, RL reasoning, and multi-task learning.

Selected Papers


  • MMRole: A Comprehensive Framework for Developing and Evaluating Multimodal Role-Playing Agents
    Yanqi Dai, Huanran Hu, Lei Wang, Shengjie Jin, Xu Chen*, Zhiwu Lu*
    ICLR 2025 [paper] [code] [data]

  • Awaker2.5-VL: Stably Scaling MLLMs with Parameter-Efficient Mixture of Experts
    Jinqiang Long†, Yanqi Dai†, Guoxing Yang, Hongpeng Lin, Nanyi Fei, Yizhao Gao, Zhiwu Lu
    ArXiv, 2024 [paper]

  • CoTBal: Comprehensive Task Balancing for Multi-Task Visual Instruction Tuning
    Yanqi Dai, Zebin You, Dong Jing, Yutian Luo, Nanyi Fei, Guoxing Yang, Zhiwu Lu*
    ArXiv, 2024 [paper]

  • Improvable Gap Balancing for Multi-Task Learning
    Yanqi Dai, Nanyi Fei, Zhiwu Lu*
    UAI 2023 [paper] [code]

* Corresponding author
† Equal contribution

Experience


Selected Honors & Awards


  • Scientific Research Fund, RUC, 2023
  • Excellent Scholarship for Postgraduate Study, RUC, 2023
  • First-Class Academic Scholarship for Postgraduate Study, RUC, 2023
  • Outstanding Graduate of Liaoning Province, 2022
  • Toly Bread Alumni Scholarship, DUT (awarded to 30 students per year), 2020
  • Toly Bread Alumni Scholarship, DUT (awarded to 30 students per year), 2019
  • First Prize in National Mathematics Competition for College Students, 2019