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
Research Intern, Amap-Alibaba Group, Beijing, China (2025.03 - 2025.09)
Research Intern, Metabrain AGI, Beijing, China (2023.06 - 2025.02)
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