Publications

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2026

NeurIPS 2026
VINCIE-NExT: Unlocking Video Editing from Images via In-Context Modeling
Leigang Qu, Feng Cheng, Ziyan Yang, Bangbang Yang, Zhaoyang Huang, Wei Chow, Yicong Li, Wenjie Wang, Tat-Seng Chua, Yan Zeng
OpenReview
NeurIPS 2026
GGQR: Gaussian-Grounded Query Refinement for Feed-Forward 4D Gaussian Splatting
Paper
ECCV 2026
Optimizing Mesh Animation from Video via Shape Flow Guidance
Jingqiao Xiu, Yicong Li*, Angela Yao
Project
ICML 2026
RelaxFlow: Text-Driven Amodal 3D Generation
Jiayin Zhu, Guoji Fu, Xiaolu Liu, Qiyuan He, Yicong Li, Angela Yao
SpotlightPaper
CVPR 2026
VA-π: Variational Policy Alignment for Pixel-Aware Autoregressive Generation
Xinyao Liao, Qiyuan He, Kai Xu, Xiaoye Qu, Yicong Li, Wei Wei, Angela Yao
Paper
ICLR 2026
reAR: Rethinking Visual Autoregressive Models via Generator-Tokenizer Consistency Regularization
Qiyuan He, Yicong Li, Haotian Ye, Jinghao Wang, Xinyao Liao, Pheng-Ann Heng, Stefano Ermon, James Zou, Angela Yao
Paper
ICLR 2026
VINCIE: Unlocking In-context Image Editing from Video
Leigang Qu, Feng Cheng, Ziyan Yang, Qi Zhao, Shanchuan Lin, Yichun Shi, Yicong Li, Wenjie Wang, Tat-Seng Chua, Lu Jiang
Paper Project
ICLR 2026
EgoTwin: Dreaming Body and View in First Person
Jingqiao Xiu, Fangzhou Hong, Yicong Li, Mengze Li, Wentao Wang, Sirui Han, Liang Pan, Ziwei Liu
Paper Project
ICLR 2026
Interp3D: Correspondence-aware Interpolation for Generative Textured 3D Morphing
Xiaolu Liu, Yicong Li*, Qiyuan He, Jiayin Zhu, Wei Ji, Angela Yao, Jianke Zhu*
Paper
AAAI 2026
AnchorDS: Anchoring Dynamic Sources for Semantically Consistent Text-to-3D Generation
Jiayin Zhu, Linlin Yang, Yicong Li*, Angela Yao
Paper DOI

Preprints

Preprint 2026
Rethinking Probability-Based Reinforcement Learning From Posterior Concentration
Shiu-Hong Kao, Yubo Zhao, Zhenyu Tian, Pengzhan Sun, Yicong Li, Angela Yao
Paper
Preprint 2026
VPG: Visual Prefix Guidance for Autoregressive Image and Video Generation
Xinyao Liao, Qiyuan He, Yicong Li, Jiayin Zhu, Xiaoye Qu, Wei Wei, Angela Yao
Paper
Preprint 2026
DynFlowDrive: Flow-Based Dynamic World Modeling for Autonomous Driving
Xiaolu Liu, Yicong Li, Song Wang, Junbo Chen, Angela Yao, Jianke Zhu
Paper

2025

NeurIPS 2025
Safe + Safe = Unsafe? Exploring How Safe Images Can Be Exploited to Jailbreak Large Vision-Language Models
Chenhang Cui, Gelei Deng, An Zhang, Jingnan Zheng, Yicong Li, Lianli Gao, Tianwei Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua
Paper
ICCV 2025
Intermediate Connectors and Geometric Priors for Language-Guided Affordance Segmentation on Unseen Object Categories
Yicong Li, Yiyang Chen, Zhenyuan Ma, Junbin Xiao, Xiang Wang, Angela Yao
DOI
ICCV 2025
Geometric Alignment and Prior Modulation for View-Guided Point Cloud Completion on Unseen Categories
Jingqiao Xiu, Yicong Li*, Na Zhao, Han Fang, Xiang Wang, Angela Yao
DOI
ICCV 2025
Visual Intention Grounding for Egocentric Assistants
Pengzhan Sun, Junbin Xiao, Tze Ho Elden Tse, Yicong Li, Arjun R. Akula, Angela Yao
DOI
ICCV 2025
SynTag: Enhancing the Geometric Robustness of Inversion-Based Generative Image Watermarking
Han Fang, Kejiang Chen, Zehua Ma, Jiajun Deng, Yicong Li, Weiming Zhang, Ee-Chien Chang
DOI
ACM MM 2025
GraphVideoAgent: Enhancing Long-form Video Understanding with Entity Relation Graphs
Meng Chu, Yicong Li, Tat-Seng Chua
Paper DOI
ACM MM 2025
Tutorial
Video Question Answering and Beyond
Yicong Li, Junbin Xiao, Angela Yao, Tat-Seng Chua
DOI
ICLR 2025
Generalized Video Moment Retrieval
You Qin, Qilong Wu, Yicong Li*, Wei Ji*, Shawn Li, Pengcheng Cai, Lina Wei, Roger Zimmermann
OpenReview Code
CVPR 2025
EgoTextVQA: Towards Egocentric Scene-Text Aware Video Question Answering
Sheng Zhou, Junbin Xiao, Qingyun Li, Yicong Li, Xun Yang, Dan Guo, Meng Wang, Tat-Seng Chua, Angela Yao
DOI
IJCV 2025
VideoQA in the Era of LLMs: An Empirical Study
Junbin Xiao, Nanxin Huang, Hangyu Qin, Dongyang Li, Yicong Li, Fengbin Zhu, Zhulin Tao, Jianxing Yu, Liang Lin, Tat-Seng Chua, Angela Yao
DOI

2024

CVPR 2024
LASO: Language-guided Affordance Segmentation on 3D Object
Yicong Li, Na Zhao, Junbin Xiao, Chun Feng, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua
DOI
CVPR 2024
Can I Trust Your Answer? Visually Grounded Video Question Answering
Junbin Xiao, Angela Yao, Yicong Li, Tat-Seng Chua
DOI
ACL 2024
Findings
Video-Language Understanding: A Survey from Model Architecture, Model Training, and Data Perspectives
Thong Nguyen, Yi Bin, Junbin Xiao, Leigang Qu, Yicong Li, Jay Zhangjie Wu, Cong-Duy Nguyen, See-Kiong Ng, Anh Tuan Luu
ACL Anthology

2023

TPAMI 2023
Transformer-Empowered Invariant Grounding for Video Question Answering
Yicong Li, Xiang Wang, Junbin Xiao, Wei Ji, Tat-Seng Chua
Invited paperDOI
TPAMI 2023
Contrastive Video Question Answering via Video Graph Transformer
Junbin Xiao, Pan Zhou, Angela Yao, Yicong Li, Richang Hong, Shuicheng Yan, Tat-Seng Chua
DOI
ICCV 2023
Discovering Spatio-Temporal Rationales for Video Question Answering
Yicong Li, Junbin Xiao, Chun Feng, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua
DOI
ACM MM 2023
Redundancy-aware Transformer for Video Question Answering
Yicong Li, Xun Yang, An Zhang, Chun Feng, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua
DOI

2022

CVPR 2022
Invariant Grounding for Video Question Answering
Yicong Li, Xiang Wang, Junbin Xiao, Wei Ji, Tat-Seng Chua
Oral · Best Paper FinalistDOI
ACM MM 2022
Equivariant and Invariant Grounding for Video Question Answering
Yicong Li, Xiang Wang, Junbin Xiao, Tat-Seng Chua
DOI
EMNLP 2022
Video Question Answering: Datasets, Algorithms and Challenges
Yaoyao Zhong, Wei Ji, Junbin Xiao, Yicong Li, Weihong Deng, Tat-Seng Chua
ACL Anthology
AAAI 2022
Video as Conditional Graph Hierarchy for Multi-Granular Question Answering
Junbin Xiao, Angela Yao, Zhiyuan Liu, Yicong Li, Wei Ji, Tat-Seng Chua
DOI

2021

ACM MM 2021
Interventional Video Relation Detection
Yicong Li, Xun Yang, Xindi Shang, Tat-Seng Chua
DOI
ACM MM 2021
Video Visual Relation Detection via Iterative Inference
Xindi Shang, Yicong Li, Junbin Xiao, Wei Ji, Tat-Seng Chua
DOI
ACM MM 2021
Grand Challenge
VidVRD 2021: The Third Grand Challenge on Video Relation Detection
Wei Ji, Yicong Li, Meng Wei, Xindi Shang, Junbin Xiao, Tongwei Ren, Tat-Seng Chua
DOI

Thesis

Ph.D. Thesis
Causality Model for Semantic Understanding on Videos
Yicong Li · National University of Singapore
Paper