Manling Li (@ManlingLi

Manling Li

815 posts

Manling Li

@ManlingLi_

Assistant Professor@NWU, Amazon Scholar, Postdoc@Stanford, PhD@UIUC #Language+#Vision/#Robotics, #Reasoning, #Planning, RAGEN, VAGEN, BAGEN, MindCube, ViewAgent

Chicago, IL

Joined November 2017

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Manling Li
@ManlingLi_
Jun 18
Planning with the views: Can VLMs predict how each camera move changes the view, and plan many such moves ahead? We introduce ViewSuite with 6 DoF camera control and ~165K task instances, testing: Path-to-View View-to-Path Interactive View Planning A sharp Planning Gap
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Manling Li
@ManlingLi_
Aug 7, 2025
All week during rebuttals, I have started each day with the same reminder: stay humble, stay kind, don't let this turn me mean. When I was doing PhD, reviewers never felt this mean. There is a bright-eyed student sitting on the other side, and such reviews will destroy
Manling Li
@ManlingLi_
Dec 20, 2024
[Long Tweet Ahead] Faculty Interview Tips & Common Questions: 🧘‍♀️0. Firstly, do not be nervous - Almost everything can be prepared in advance:) - Be grateful for everyone's time. - Think of it as an opportunity to share your research with others -- exciting, right? - Technical
Manling Li
@ManlingLi_
Oct 6, 2024
📢I am committed to be an advisor like her! I have 2-5 PhD positions and 1 postdoc position for Fall 2025 on multimodality (NLP/CV/Robotics), especially on #Reasoning, #Planning, and #Compositionality. 🌟See more at my talk slides: limanling.github.io/uploads/slides…
Manling Li
@ManlingLi_
Oct 6, 2024
🎉I am so thrilled to be back at UIUC, my dear home. I feel incredibly lucky to have my best PhD advisor in the world @hengjinlp! I've been long thinking of what it means to be "a good advisor", I've come to realize a key sign is students' steadily growing confidence. It is
Manling Li
@ManlingLi_
Jul 9, 2023
I am excited to join @northwesterncs as an assistant professor in Fall24 and @StanfordSVL as a postdoc with @jiajunwu_cs. I cannot say how much I appreciate the help from my advisor @elgreco_winter, references @ShihFuChang @kchonyc @JiaweiHan @kathymckeown and many many people.
Manling Li
@ManlingLi_
Oct 20, 2025
VLAs, VLMs, LLMs, and Vision Foundation Models for Embodied Agents! There are just so many new updates in recent months! We have updated our tutorial, come and join us if you would like to discuss the latest advances! Room: 306B Time: 1pm-5pm Slides: …models-meet-embodied-agents.github.io
Manling Li
@ManlingLi_
Apr 26, 2025
We are very excited announcing our MLL lab! We are looking for collaborators on RAGEN, VAGEN, Chain-of-experts, T*, LongVideoHaystack, foundation models for embodied agents, etc mll-lab-nu.github.io
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Manling Li
@ManlingLi_
Oct 17, 2025
World Model Reasoning for VLM Agents (NeurIPS 2025, Score 5544) We release VAGEN to teach VLMs to build internal world models via visual state reasoning: - StateEstimation: what is the current state? - TransitionModeling: what is next? MDP → POMDP shift to handle the partial
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Manling Li
@ManlingLi_
Jun 30, 2025
Can VLMs build Spatial Mental Models like humans? Reasoning from limited views? Reasoning from partial observations? Reasoning about unseen objects behind furniture / beyond current view? Check out MindCube! 🌐mll-lab-nu.github.io/mind-cube/ 📰arxiv.org/pdf/2506.21458
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Manling Li
@ManlingLi_
Nov 6, 2024
[NeurIPS D&B Oral] Embodied Agent Interface: Benchmarking LLMs for Embodied Agents A single line of code to evaluate your model! 🌟Standardize Goal Specifications: LTL 🌟Standardize Modules and Interfaces: 4 modules, 438 tasks, 1475 goals 🌟Standardize Fine-grained Metrics: 18
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Manling Li
@ManlingLi_
Dec 3, 2023
Honored to be on the list! I am looking for PhD/master/postdocs to work on Knowledge Foundation Models, especially for multimodal data (Language + X, where X can be images, videos, robotics, audio, etc). Please find more info at limanling.github.io.
Kai-Wei Chang
@kaiwei_chang
Dec 1, 2023
Replying to @kaiwei_chang
Here's a list of NLP superstars 🌟 who are beginning their journey 🚀 in the 2023/24 academic year. @jieyuzhao11 @GabrielSaadia @acbuller @Lianhuiq @ManlingLi_ @yuntiandeng @rajammanabrolu @YueDongCS @tanyaagoyal @MinaLee__ @yuntiandeng @alsuhr @wellecks @hllo_wrld @Xinya16
Manling Li
@ManlingLi_
Jul 29, 2025
🏆Thrilled to receive @aclmeeting Inaugural Dissertation Award Honorable Mention. “Multimodality” has moved incredibly fast that my PhD research already feels like from a different era. It makes me wonder how challenging and anxious for today’s students to choose thesis
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Manling Li
@ManlingLi_
May 3, 2025
Welcome to join our Tutorial on Foundation Models Meet Embodied Agents, with @YunzhuLiYZ @maojiayuan @wenlong_huang ! Website: …models-meet-embodied-agents.github.io
Manling Li
@ManlingLi_
Jan 28, 2025
🤖Reasoning Agent: A General-Purpose Agent Learning Framework 💫DeepSeek-R1 training approach for agents, no SFT, just RL training 💫<state, action, reward> sequences: can be applied to any domain where you can define states, actions, and rewards 💫 Strong generalization
Zihan "Zenus" Wang ✈️ ICML
@wzenus
Jan 28, 2025
🚀 Introducing RAGEN—the world’s first reproduction of DeepSeek-R1(-Zero) methods for training agentic AI models! We’re betting big on the future of RL + LLM + Agents 🤖✨. This release is a minimally viable leap toward that vision. Code and more intro 🔗: