Yu Li

Yu Li

M.S. student at Peking University.

👨‍💻 About me

I am currently a second-year master’s student at Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University, advised by Prof. Liangcai Gao. Previously, I received my Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering and a dual degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from Beihang University. My research focuses on vision-language models (VLM), long-context LLMs, continual learning, and next-generation AI foundation models.

🔬 Research Interests

  • VLM Reasoning: Vision-Language Models and Multimodal Reasoning
  • Long Context: Long-Context LLMs and Efficient Memory Mechanisms
  • Continue Learning: Dynamic adaptation and integration of evolving knowledge into LLMs

📰 News

  • 2025.10: 🎉 Joined MSRA GenAI Group as a Research Intern.
  • 2025.09: 🎉🎉 Uni-MuMER was accepted by NeurIPS 2025 (CCF-A, Spotlight).
  • 2025.05: 🎉 Released open-source datasets, checkpoints, and code for Uni-MuMER.
  • 2025.01: 🎉🎉 TAMER was accepted by AAAI 2025 (CCF-A).

🎓 Education

💼 Research Experiences

  • 2025.10 - Present | Research Intern, GenAI Group
    Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA)
    Mentor: Zewen Chi, Li Dong
    Long-context modeling with compressed-memory mechanisms for LLMs; build next-generation AI foundation models with enhanced capability, robustness, and broad generalization.

📚 Selected Publications

* for equal contributions (co-first authors), # for corresponding author.

Uni-MuMER: Unified Multi-Task Fine-Tuning of Vision-Language Model for Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition
Yu Li*, Jin Jiang*, Jianhua Zhu, Shuai Peng, Baole Wei, Yuxuan Zhou, Liangcai Gao#
NeurIPS 2025 (CCF-A, Spotlight)
GitHub Repo GitHub stars
TAMER: Tree-Aware Transformer for Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition
Jianhua Zhu, Wenqi Zhao, Yu Li, Xingjian Hu, Liangcai Gao#
AAAI 2025 (CCF-A)
GitHub Repo GitHub stars

🤝 Academic Services

  • Teaching Assistant, Discrete Mathematics (Spring 2021)
  • Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Computing B (Fall 2024, Fall 2025)

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