About me
I am a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence at Renmin University of China, supervised by Prof. Zhiwu Lu. I am currently a visiting student in the College of Computing and Data Science at Nanyang Technological University, advised by Prof. Luu Anh Tuan and 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 lie in large multimodal models, RL for reasoning, and multi-task learning. Through my research, I aim to develop more powerful and versatile large multimodal models.
Selected Papers
(ICLR 2026) Harder Is Better: Boosting Mathematical Reasoning via Difficulty-Aware GRPO and Multi-Aspect Question Reformulation
Yanqi Dai, Yuxiang Ji, Xiao Zhang, Yong Wang*, Xiangxiang Chu, Zhiwu Lu*
[paper](WWW 2026) Adaptive Task Balancing for Visual Instruction Tuning via Inter-Task Contribution and Intra-Task Difficulty
Yanqi Dai, Yong Wang, Zebin You, Dong Jing, Xiangxiang Chu, Zhiwu Lu*
[paper](ICLR 2025) MMRole: A Comprehensive Framework for Developing and Evaluating Multimodal Role-Playing Agents
Yanqi Dai, Huanran Hu, Lei Wang, Shengjie Jin, Xu Chen*, Zhiwu Lu*
[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](UAI 2023) Improvable Gap Balancing for Multi-Task Learning
Yanqi Dai, Nanyi Fei, Zhiwu Lu*
[paper] [code]
† Equal contribution
* Corresponding author
Experience
Research Intern, Amap-Alibaba Group, Beijing, China (Mar 2025 - Dec 2025)
Research Intern, Metabrain AGI, Beijing, China (Jun 2023 - Feb 2025)
Selected Honors & Awards
- Excellent Scholarship for Postgraduate Study, RUC, 2025
- Excellent Scholarship for Postgraduate Study, RUC, 2023
- Scientific Research Fund, 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