Jingyao Li(李靖瑶)

I am a Ph.D. candidate at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Jiaya Jia. I completed my undergraduate study at Xi'an Jiaotong University in the Special Class for the Gifted Young (少年班) and the Qian Xuesen Honor Class (钱学森班).

I am currently interested in foundation large language models, especially mid-training and agentic reinforcement learning.

Portrait of Jingyao Li

Education

Aug. 2022 - Jul. 2026

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Ph.D. in Computer Science. I am part of the DVLab at CUHK, working with Prof. Jiaya Jia.

Sept. 2018 - Jul. 2022

Xi'an Jiaotong University

B.Eng. in Automation. Special Class for the Gifted Young (少年班) and Qian Xuesen Honor Class (钱学森班).

Experience

Apr. 2024 - Nov. 2024

Huawei Noah's Ark Lab · Research Intern

Worked on query-as-computation for large models and first-authored QuickLLaMA: Query-aware Inference Acceleration for Large Language Models.

Dec. 2024 - Jul. 2025

Alibaba Group's Tongyi Lab · Research Intern

Participated in large-scale model pre-training, led work on a continual pre-training QA construction pipeline, and contributed data and training solutions to Qwen3.

Publications

Rethinking Out-of-Distribution Detection: Masked Image Modeling is All You Need.

CVPR 2023

Jingyao Li, Pengguang Chen, Shaozuo Yu, Zexin He, Shu Liu, Jiaya Jia.

BAL: Balancing Diversity and Novelty for Active Learning.

TPAMI 2023

Jingyao Li, Pengguang Chen, Shaozuo Yu, Shu Liu, Jiaya Jia.

MOODv2: Masked Image Modeling for Out-of-Distribution Detection.

TPAMI 2024

Jingyao Li, Pengguang Chen, Shaozuo Yu, Shu Liu, Jiaya Jia.

TagCLIP: Improving Discrimination Ability of Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation.

TPAMI 2024

Jingyao Li, Pengguang Chen, Shengju Qian, Jiaya Jia.

QuickLLaMA: Query-aware Inference Acceleration for Large Language Models.

COLING 2025

Jingyao Li, Han Shi, Xin Jiang, Zhenguo Li, Hong Xu, Jiaya Jia.

VLPose: Bridging the Domain Gap in Pose Estimation with Language-Vision Tuning.

TPAMI 2025

Jingyao Li, Pengguang Chen, Xuan Ju, Hong Xu, Jiaya Jia.

Logits-Based Finetuning.

EMNLP 2025

Jingyao Li, Senqiao Yang, Sitong Wu, Han Shi, Chuanyang Zheng, Hong Xu, Jiaya Jia.

Other Publications

Teaching & Honors

Teaching

  • (CENG2010) Digital Logic Design Laboratory, 2023 Spring
  • (CSCI3250) Computers and Society, 2022 Fall

Awards

  • National Scholarship, 2020
  • Meritorious Winner, American Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2019
  • First Prize, China Undergraduate Physics Tournament, 2018
  • Second Prize, Xi'an Jiaotong University Challenge Cup, 2019

Leadership

  • Vice President, Youth Volunteers Association, 2019-2020
  • Minister of the Secretariat, Youth Volunteers Association, 2018-2019
  • Administrative Department Member, Youth Volunteers Association, 2017-2018
  • Secretary of the Student Union, Suzhou Middle School, 2016-2017