Daiqing Qi

PhD @ University of Virginia
Daiqing Qi

I am broadly interested in multimodal foundation models (MLLMs, VLMs) and LLM agents.

Previously, I received my PhD from UVA, working with Dr. Sheng Li. I also spent time at Adobe Research and Amazon. I co-organized workshops on Generative AI for Photography and Educational Assessment at WACV'26 and NeurIPS'24.

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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
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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
PaperCode
Easy Regional Contrastive Learning of Expressive Fashion Representations
Daiqing Qi, H Zhao, S Li
PaperCode
Generalizing (CLIP) to Unseen Domains via Text-guided Augmentation
Daiqing Qi, H Zhao, A Zhang, S Li
PaperCode
Tag-grounded Visual Instruction Tuning with Retrieval Augmentation
Daiqing Qi, H Zhao, Z Wei, S Li
PaperCode
Revealing an Overlooked Challenge in Class-Incremental Graph Learning
Daiqing Qi, H Zhao, X Jia, S Li
PaperCode
Better Generative Replay for Continual Federated Learning
Daiqing Qi, H Zhao, S Li
PaperCode

Recipient

ICML Gold Reviewer, 2026 NeurIPS Scholar Award, 2025 ICLR Notable Reviewer, 2025

Work Experience

Organized Workshops

GenAI for Photography
The First Workshop on Generative AI for Photography
WACV 2026
Website
Educational Assessment Workshop
The First Workshop on Large Foundation Models for Educational Assessment
NeurIPS 2024
Website

Connect

Feel free to reach me at daiqing98@gmail.com

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
PaperCode
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
PaperCode
Easy Regional Contrastive Learning of Expressive Fashion Representations
Daiqing Qi, H Zhao, S Li
PaperCode
Generalizing (CLIP) to Unseen Domains via Text-guided Augmentation
Daiqing Qi, H Zhao, A Zhang, S Li
PaperCode
Tag-grounded Visual Instruction Tuning with Retrieval Augmentation
Daiqing Qi, H Zhao, Z Wei, S Li
PaperCode
Revealing an Overlooked Challenge in Class-Incremental Graph Learning
Daiqing Qi, H Zhao, X Jia, S Li
Paper
Better Generative Replay for Continual Federated Learning
Daiqing Qi, H Zhao, S Li
PaperCode
VRMDiff: Text-Guided Video Referring Matting Generation of Diffusion
L Yang, J Song, T Wang, Daiqing Qi, W Shi, Y Liu, S Li
Paper
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
Paper

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
Website
The First Workshop on Large Foundation Models for Educational Assessment
Sheng Li, Dongliang Guo, Daiqing Qi, Zhongmin Cui, Jiasen Lu, Deborah Harris, Shumin Jing
Website
Video-LMM Post-Training: A Deep Dive into Video Reasoning with Large Multimodal Models
Yunlong Tang, Jing Bi, ..., Daiqing Qi, ..., Chenliang Xu
PaperGithub
The Clever Hans Mirage: A Comprehensive Survey on Spurious Correlations in Machine Learning
Wenqian Ye, Luyang Jiang, ..., Daiqing Qi, ..., Aidong Zhang
Paper
A Survey of Trustworthy Representation Learning across Domains
Ronghang Zhu, Dongliang Guo, Daiqing Qi, Zhixuan Chu, Xiang Yu, Sheng Li
Paper

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:
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)

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 here. I used to play the Auto Battler game and was among top 100 (ranked #52) best players nationwide.
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