About Me
I am a third-year PhD student at the University of Central Florida, with Prof. Chen Chen as my advisor. I am currently interning at ByteDance-Seed with Jie Wu and Rui Wang to explore visual and multimodal RL.
Technical Reports
[ByteDance Seed Technical Report] Seedance 1.5 pro: A Native Audio-Visual Joint Generation Foundation Model
ByteDance Seed Team
[ByteDance Seed Technical Report] RewardDance: Reward Scaling in Visual Generation
Jie Wu, Yu Gao, Zilyu Ye, Ming Li, Liang Li, Hanzhong Guo, Jie Liu, Zeyue Xue, Xiaoxia Hou, Wei Liu, Yan Zeng, Weilin Huang
Selected Publications
[ICLR'26] ViPO: Visual Preference Optimization at Scale
Ming Li, Jie Wu, Justin Cui, Xiaojie Li, Rui Wang, Chen Chen
[ICLR'26] Self-Forcing++: Towards Minute-Scale High-Quality Video Generation
Justin Cui, Jie Wu, Ming Li, Tao Yang, Xiaojie Li, Rui Wang, Andrew Bai, Yuanhao Ban, Cho-Jui Hsieh
Xinxin Liu, Ming Li, Zonglin Lyu, Yuzhang Shang, Chen Chen
[Preprint] Can World Simulators Reason? Gen-ViRe: A Generative Visual Reasoning Benchmark
Xinxin Liu, Zhaopan Xu, Ming Li, Kai Wang, Yong Jae Lee, Yuzhang Shang
[NeurIPS'25] CPO: Condition Preference Optimization for Controllable Image Generation
Zonglin Lyu, Ming Li, Xinxin Liu, Chen Chen
[ICCV'25] SuperEdit: Rectifying and Facilitating Supervision for Instruction-Based Image Editing
Ming Li, Xin Gu, Fan Chen, Xiaoying Xing, Longyin Wen, Chen Chen, Sijie Zhu
[ECCV'24] ControlNet++: Improving Conditional Controls with Efficient Consistency Feedback.
Ming Li, Taojiannan Yang, Huafeng Kuang, Jie Wu, Zhaoning Wang, Xuefeng Xiao, Chen Chen
[ICCV'23] AlignDet: Aligning Pre-training and Fine-tuning in Object Detection.
Ming Li*, Jie Wu*, Xionghui Wang, Chen Chen, Jie Qin, Xuefeng Xiao, Rui Wang, Min Zheng, Xin Pan
[CVPR'23] FreeSeg: Unified, Universal and Open-Vocabulary Image Segmentation.
Jie Qin*, Jie Wu*, Pengxiang Yan, Ming Li, Ren Yuxi, Xuefeng Xiao, Yitong Wang, Rui Wang, Shilei Wen, Xin Pan, Xingang Wang
Internships
- 2025.01 - Now, ByteDance Seed, USA.
- 2024.05 - 2024.12, TikTok, ByteDance, USA.
- 2022.01 - 2023.07, ByteDance, Shenzhen, China.
Honors
- NeurIPS 2024 Top Reviewers.
- 🏆 Champion of CVPR 2023 Long-form Video Understanding and Generation Challenge (Track 3: Question-driven Video Understanding).
- 🏆 Champion of CVPR 2022 AVA Accessibility Vision and Autonomy Challenge (Image Segmentation).
- ORCGS Doctoral Fellowship, the University of Central Florida. 2023.