Yongliang Wu

About Me

I am an incoming Ph.D. student at UIUC, supervised by Prof. Yaoyao Liu. I received my Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from Southeast University, where I was supervised by Prof. Xu Yang. I also work closely with Prof. Bernt Schiele at Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Prof. Ming-Hsuan Yang at University of California, Merced. I have a wide range of research topics and interests, feel free to contact me if you have any questions or would like to discuss my works.

News

Jul. 2026 🎉 One paper is accepted by CoLM 2026.
Jun. 2026 🥇 Visual Question Answering, SoccerNet @ CVPR 2026.
Jun. 2026 🥇 TimeLogic Challenge, Vid-LLMs Workshop @ CVPR 2026.
Jun. 2026 🥈 VRR-QA Challenge, Vid-LLMs Workshop @ CVPR 2026.
Feb. 2026 🎉 One paper is accepted by CVPR 2026.
Jan. 2026 🎉 Two papers are accepted by ICLR 2026.
Oct. 2025 🥈 Hour-long videoQA, Perception Test Challenge @ ICCV 2025.
Sept. 2025 🎉 One paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2025.
Jul. 2025 🔥 We are organizing NextVid Workshop@NeurIPS 2025.
Jun. 2025 🥇 Multilingual Video Reasoning, Vid-LLMs Workshop @ CVPR 2025.
Jun. 2025 🥈 Complex Video Reasoning, Vid-LLMs Workshop @ CVPR 2025.
Jun. 2025 🥉 Multi-View Foul Recognition, SoccerNet @ CVPR 2025.
May 2025 🎉 One paper is accepted by ACL 2025.
Feb. 2025 🎉 Two papers are accepted by CVPR 2025.
Dec. 2024 🎉 Two papers are accepted by AAAI 2025.
Oct. 2024 🥇 Hour-long videoQA, Perception Test Challenge @ ECCV 2024.
Jun. 2024 🥇 Long-Term videoQA, LOVEU Workshop @ CVPR 2024.
Sept. 2023 🎉 One paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2023.

Publications

CoLM

OpusAnimation: Code-Based Dynamic Chart Generation

Bozheng Li, Miao Yang, Zhenhan Chen, Jiawang Cao, Mushui Liu, Yi Lu, Yongliang Wu, Bin Zhang, Yangguang Ji, Licheng Tang, Jay Wu, Wenbo Zhu

The Third Conference on Language Modeling (CoLM), 2026.

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CVPR

Adapting Point Cloud Analysis via Multimodal Bayesian Distribution Learning

Xingyu Zhu, Liang Yi, Shuo Wang, Wenbo Zhu, Yongliang Wu, Beier Zhu, Hanwang Zhang

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026.

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ICLR

On the Generalization of SFT: A Reinforcement Learning Perspective with Reward Rectification

Yongliang Wu*, Yizhou Zhou*, Zhou Ziheng, Yingzhe Peng, Xinyu Ye, Xinting Hu, Wenbo Zhu, Lu Qi, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Xu Yang

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026.

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ICLR

CoT Vectors: Transferring and Probing the Reasoning Mechanisms of LLMs

Li Li, Ziyi Wang, Yongliang Wu, Jianfei Cai, Xu Yang

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026.

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NeurIPS

KRIS-Bench: Benchmarking Next-Level Intelligent Image Editing Models

Yongliang Wu, Zonghui Li, Xinting Hu, Xinyu Ye, Xianfang Zeng, Gang Yu, Wenbo Zhu, Bernt Schiele, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Xu Yang

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025.

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CVPR

Number it: Temporal Grounding Videos like Flipping Manga

Yongliang Wu*, Xinting Hu*, Yuyang Sun, Yizhou Zhou, Wenbo Zhu, Fengyun Rao, Bernt Schiele, Xu Yang

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025.

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CVPR

VEU-Bench: Towards Comprehensive Understanding of Video Editing

Bozheng Li, Yongliang Wu, Yi Lu, Jiashuo Yu, Licheng Tang, Jiawang Cao, Wenqing Zhu, Yuyang Sun, Jay Wu, Wenbo Zhu

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025.

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ACL

RSVP: Reasoning Segmentation via Visual Prompting and Multi-modal Chain-of-Thought

Yi Lu*, Jiawang Cao*, Yongliang Wu*, Bozheng Li, Licheng Tang, Yangguang Ji, Chong Wu, Jay Wu, Wenbo Zhu

Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025.

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AAAI

Unlearning Concepts in Diffusion Model via Concept Domain Correction and Concept Preserving Gradient

Yongliang Wu*, Shiji Zhou*, Mingzhuo Yang, Lianzhe Wang, Wenbo Zhu, Heng Chang, Xinting Hu, Xiao Zhou, Xu Yang

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025.

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AAAI

Video Repurposing from User Generated Content: A Large-scale Dataset and Benchmark

Yongliang Wu*, Wenbo Zhu*, Jiawang Cao*, Yi Lu, Bozheng Li, Weiheng Chi, Zihan Qiu, Lirian Su, Haolin Zheng, Jay Wu, Xu Yang

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025.

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NeurIPS

Exploring Diverse In-Context Configurations for Image Captioning

Xu Yang, Yongliang Wu, Mingzhuo Yang, Haokun Chen, Xin Geng

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023.

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