Graduate Student in Computer Science · Georgia Tech

Jialuo Li 李佳烙

I am a first-year graduate student in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where I am advised by Prof. Humphrey Shi. I received my undergraduate degree from the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS), Tsinghua University (also known as the Yao Class, directed by Turing Award laureate Andrew Chi-Chih Yao). Previously, I interned at New York University, where I was advised by Prof. Saining Xie.

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Research

Humans exhibit an extraordinary capacity to integrate information from multiple sensory modalities, such as vision, auditory, and tactile inputs, to navigate and interpret their environments with remarkable efficiency. This multimodal integration leverages the complementary strengths of each sensory channel, facilitating a coherent and comprehensive understanding of complex surroundings. Inspired by this cognitive prowess, my long-term objective is to develop AI systems that emulate human-like multimodal synthesis, thereby enhancing robustness and adaptability in both generative and understanding tasks.

Specifically, I focus on multimodal generative models, ranging from text-to-image synthesis to Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and unified models.

  • Text-to-image synthesis
  • MLLMs
  • Unified models

News

  • I joined Adobe as a research intern.

  • Our papers DuoGen, DIG, SAGE, and PAI-Bench were accepted by CVPR 2026.

  • I joined Georgia Tech as a graduate student in Computer Science.

  • I graduated from Tsinghua University.

  • Our paper Science-T2I was accepted by CVPR 2025.

  • I joined MSRA for an internship with Dr. Bin Li.

  • Our paper CHOPS was accepted by COLM 2024.

  • I started an internship at NYU Courant in New York, advised by Prof. Saining Xie.

Currently

Publications

(* for equal contribution)

arXiv 2026

WorldBagel: Uncovering the Power of Unified Multimodal Models for Vision-Language-Action-World Modeling

Zelin Zhao, Min Shi, Bo Yuan, Haotian Xue, Jialuo Li, Lama Moukheiber, Humphrey Shi, Yongxin Chen

WorldBagel is a unified Vision-Language-Action-World (VLAW) framework built on BAGEL that systematically investigates the role of unification in world modeling. On LIBERO, Language Table, and Franka, it consistently outperforms task-specific alternatives and learns action representations that are more structured and semantically aligned with visual and linguistic context.

CVPR 2026 Highlight

DuoGen: Towards General Purpose Interleaved Multimodal Generation

Min Shi, Xiaohui Zeng, Jiannan Huang, Yin Cui, Francesco Ferroni, Jialuo Li, Shubham Pachori, Zhaoshuo Li, Yogesh Balaji, Haoxiang Wang, Tsung-Yi Lin, Xiao Fu, Yue Zhao, Chieh-Yun Chen, Ming-Yu Liu, Humphrey Shi

DuoGen enables general-purpose interleaved multimodal generation by fusing a pretrained MLLM with a video-pretrained DiT. Leveraging a curated 298k-sample dataset, DuoGen significantly outperforms open-source baselines in visual fidelity and consistency and achieves performance comparable to Nano-banana.

CVPR 2026

SAGE: Training Smart Any-Horizon Agents for Long Video Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning

Jitesh Jain, Jialuo Li, Zixian Ma, Jieyu Zhang, Chris Dongjoo Kim, Sangho Lee, Rohun Tripathi, Tanmay Gupta, Christopher Clark, Humphrey Shi

SAGE introduces a human-inspired agentic framework that replaces resource-heavy frame processing with iterative reasoning and a diverse toolkit for efficient long video understanding by leveraging a novel synthetic data pipeline and a specialized RL strategy.

Experience

  1. Adobe Research

    2026.05 - Present

    Research Intern

    Research Advisor: Yan Kang

  2. Graduate Student

    Research Advisor: Prof. Humphrey Shi

  3. Microsoft Research Lab - Asia

    2024.09 - 2025.06

    Research Intern

    Research Advisor: Dr. Bin Li

  4. New York University

    2024.02 - 2025.02

    Research Intern

    Research Advisor: Prof. Saining Xie

  5. Tsinghua University

    2021.09 - 2025.06

    Undergraduate Student

    Research Advisor: Prof. Li Yi.

Honors and Awards

  • Outstanding Scholarship in Social Work from Tsinghua University.

  • Mr. and Mrs. Wong Yi-Chung Award, Friends of Tsinghua University.

  • Outstanding Scholarship in Social Work from Tsinghua University.

  • Member of the Chinese team of the 21st Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO).

  • Gold Medalist in the 37th Chinese Physics Olympiad (CPhO), ranking tenth nationwide.