Daiqing Qi

PhD Candidate, University of Virginia
Email: daiqing98 [at] gmail.com
Daiqing Qi
I am currently a PhD student at the University of Virginia, advised by Dr. Sheng Li. I work on Multimodal Large Language Models and Vision-Language Models.
News: I'm currently seeking full-time industry opportunities. Feel free to reach out if you're interested.

Experience

Selected Publications

Full publications on Google Scholar
Improve Temporal Reasoning in MLLMs via Video Contrastive Decoding
Daiqing Qi, D Guo, H Yuan, H Zhao, M Hu, L Yang, S Li
NeurIPS 2025
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The Photographer's Eye: Teach MLLMs to See and Critique like Photographers
Daiqing Qi, H Zhao, J Shi, S Jenni, Y Fan, F Dernoncourt, S Cohen, S Li
CVPR 2025
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Easy Contrastive Learning of Expressive Fashion Representations
Daiqing Qi, H Zhao, S Li
NeurIPS 2024
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Generalizing (CLIP) to Unseen Domains via Text-guided Augmentation
Daiqing Qi, H Zhao, A Zhang, S Li
ECCV 2024
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Tag-grounded Visual Instruction Tuning with Retrieval Augmentation
Daiqing Qi, H Zhao, Z Wei, S Li
EMNLP 2024 (Main Track)
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Revealing an Overlooked Challenge in Class-Incremental Graph Learning
Daiqing Qi, H Zhao, X Jia, S Li
TMLR 2024 (Transactions on Machine Learning Research)
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Better Generative Replay for Continual Federated Learning
Daiqing Qi, H Zhao, S Li
ICLR 2023
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VRMDiff: Text-Guided Video Referring Matting Generation of Diffusion
L Yang, J Song, T Wang, Daiqing Qi, W Shi, Y Liu, S Li
arXiv 2025
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No Free Lunch: Retrieval-Augmented Generation Undermines Fairness in LLMs, Even for Vigilant Users
M Hu, H Wu, Z Guan, R Zhu, D Guo, Daiqing Qi, S Li
EMNLP 2025 (Findings Track)
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Organization of Workshops, Surveys and Tutorials

The First Workshop on Generative AI for Photography
I-Sheng Fang, Daiqing Qi, Yu Yuan, Kuan-Chuan Peng, Jun-Cheng Chen
WACV 2026 (Workshop Organization)
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The First Workshop on Large Foundation Models for Educational Assessment
Sheng Li, Dongliang Guo, Daiqing Qi, Zhongmin Cui, Jiasen Lu, Deborah Harris, Shumin Jing
NeurIPS 2024 (Workshop Organization)
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Video-LMM Post-Training: A Deep Dive into Video Reasoning with Large Multimodal Models
Yunlong Tang, Jing Bi, ..., Daiqing Qi, ..., Chenliang Xu
arXiv 2025
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The Clever Hans Mirage: A Comprehensive Survey on Spurious Correlations in Machine Learning
Wenqian Ye, Luyang Jiang, ..., Daiqing Qi, ..., Aidong Zhang
TMLR 2025 (Under Review)
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A Survey of Trustworthy Representation Learning across Domains
Ronghang Zhu, Dongliang Guo, Daiqing Qi, Zhixuan Chu, Xiang Yu, Sheng Li
TKDD 2024
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Service

Organizer / Program Chair:
WACV 2026 Workshop on Generative AI for Photography
NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Large Foundation Models for Educational Assessment
Reviewer / PC Member: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, TMLR, etc.

Recipient

NeurIPS 2025 Scholar Award
ICLR 2025 Notable Reviewer

Teaching

DS 4002: Data Science Project Course (Spring 2023)
CS 5012: Foundations of Computer Science (Fall 2022)

Misc

I am interested in photography. Some of them are available at Instagram. I used to play the Auto Battler game and was among top 100 (ranked #52) best players nationwide. Here is my homepage.
Links:
The Americans - Jack Kerouac
Manifesto of Surrealism - Andre Breton
More is Different - P.W. Anderson
A Journey to the End of the World (of Minecraft)
Mon Amour, Mon Amour..., from Museum by Elyon. Most of the beats are Nujabes and Premier influence