Daiqing Qi

About

I am currently a PhD student at the University of Virginia, advised by Dr. Sheng Li. I work on post-training for Multimodal Large Language Models and Vision-Language Models.

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.

Conference Proceedings / Journal Articles

• NeurIPS

  2025
  
  Improve Temporal Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models via Video Contrastive Decoding

  Daiqing Qi, Dongliang Guo, Hanzhang Yuan, Handong Zhao, Mengxuan Hu, Lehan Yang, Sheng Li
  In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 2025
  Paper | Code
• CVPR

  2025
  
  The Photographer's Eye: Teaching Multimodal Large Language Models to See and Critique like Photographers

  Daiqing Qi, Handong Zhao, Jing Shi, Simon Jenni, Yifei Fan, Franck Dernoncourt, Scott Cohen, Sheng Li
  In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025
  Paper | Code
• NeurIPS

  2024
  
  Easy Contrastive Learning of Expressive Fashion Representations

  Daiqing Qi, Handong Zhao, Sheng Li
  In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 2024
  Paper | Code
• ECCV

  2024
  
  Generalizing (CLIP) to Unseen Domains with Text-guided Augmentation

  Daiqing Qi, Handong Zhao, Aidong Zhang, Sheng Li
  In European Conference on Computer Vision 2024
  Paper | Code
• EMNLP
  Main Track

  2024
  
  Tag-grounded Visual Instruction Tuning with Retrieval Augmentation

  Daiqing Qi, Handong Zhao, Zijun Wei, Sheng Li
  In Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2024 (Main Track)
  Paper | Code
• TMLR

  2024
  
  Revealing an Overlooked Challenge in Class-Incremental Graph Learning

  Daiqing Qi, Handong Zhao, Xiaowei Jia, Sheng Li
  In Transactions on Machine Learning Research 2024
  Paper
• ICLR

  2023
  
  Better Generative Replay for Continual Federated Learning

  Daiqing Qi, Handong Zhao, Sheng Li
  In International Conference on Learning Representations 2023
  Paper | Code

Organization of Workshops

• WACV

  2026
  
  The First Workshop on Generative AI for Photography

  I-Sheng Fang, Daiqing Qi, Yu Yuan, Kuan-Chuan Peng, Jun-Cheng Chen
  At Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision 2025
  Website
• NeurIPS

  2024
  
  The First Workshop on Large Foundation Models for Educational Assessment

  Sheng Li, Dongliang Guo, Daiqing Qi, Zhongmin Cui, Jiasen Lu, Deborah Harris, Shumin Jing
  At Neural Information Processing Systems 2024
  Website

Surveys and Tutorials

• Preprint

  2025
  Video-LMM Post-Training: A Deep Dive into Video Reasoning with Large Multimodal Models

  Yunlong Tang, Jing Bi, ..., Daiqing Qi, ..., Chenliang Xu
  Preprint 2025
  Paper | Github
• Preprint

  2025
  The Clever Hans Mirage: A Comprehensive Survey on Spurious Correlations in Machine Learning

  Wenqian Ye, Luyang Jiang, ..., Daiqing Qi, ..., Aidong Zhang
  Submitted to Transactions on Machine Learning Research 2025 (Under Review)
  Paper
• TKDD

  2024
  A Survey of Trustworthy Representation Learning across Domains

  Ronghang Zhu, Dongliang Guo, Daiqing Qi, Zhixuan Chu, Xiang Yu, Sheng Li
  In ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data 2024
  Paper

Service

Recipient

Teaching

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.