Yongqi Li

About

I am a final-year Master student at NLPGM Lab @ Wuhan University, supervised by Prof. Tieyun Qian. I obtained my B.Eng. with honors from Wuhan University in 2023. My research focuses on understanding and improving the generalization of AI models during the post-training/alignment phase.

Experience

Research Intern · Tongyi Lab, Alibaba

Generalization & Reinforcement Learning

May 2025 – Jan. 2026

Selected Publications · ^* corresponding · ^† equal contribution

Full list

Controlling Multimodal Conversational Agents with Coverage-Enhanced Latent Actions

Yongqi Li^†, Hao Lang^†, Tieyun Qian^*, Yongbin Li^*

Understanding Generalization in Role-Playing Models via Information Theory

Yongqi Li^†, Hao Lang^†, Fei Huang, Tieyun Qian^*, Yongbin Li^*

Aligning VLM Assistants with Personalized Situated Cognition

Yongqi Li, Shen Zhou, Xiaohu Li, Xin Miao, Jintao Wen, Mayi Xu, Jianhao Chen, Birong Pan, Hankun Kang, Yuanyuan Zhu^*, Ming Zhong, Tieyun Qian^*

Strong Empowered and Aligned Weak Mastered Annotation for Weak-to-Strong Generalization

Yongqi Li, Xin Miao, Mayi Xu, Tieyun Qian^*

Enhancing Relation Extraction via Supervised Rationale Verification and Feedback

Yongqi Li, Xin Miao, Shen Zhou, Mayi Xu, Yuyang Ren, Tieyun Qian^*

Awards & Honors

National Scholarship

Ministry of Education

2025

Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis (top 5%)

Wuhan University

2023

Honor Graduate

Hongyi Honor College, Wuhan University