Manling Li

Assistant Professor, Northwestern University

2 papers at NeurIPS 2025

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Poster Session 1

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 · 11:00 AM → 2:00 PM

VAGEN: Reinforcing World Model Reasoning for Multi-Turn VLM Agents

#5502 · Kangrui Wang, Pingyue Zhang, Zihan Wang, Yaning Gao, Linjie Li, Qineng Wang, Hanyang Chen, Yiping Lu, Zhengyuan Yang, Lijuan Wang, Ranjay Krishna, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Yejin Choi, Manling Li

Poster Session 4

1 paper

Thursday, December 4, 2025 · 4:30 PM → 7:30 PM

Exhibit Hall C,D,E

Exploring Diffusion Transformer Designs via Grafting

#3601 · Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran, Michael Poli, Daniel Y Fu, Dongjun Kim, Lea M. Hadzic, Manling Li, Agrim Gupta, Stefano Massaroli, Azalia Mirhoseini, Juan Carlos Niebles, Stefano Ermon, Li Fei-Fei

We propose grafting, a simple approach to materialize new architectures by editing pretrained diffusion transformers. It enables architectural exploration under small compute budgets.