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Shi Liu

Incoming Ph.D. Student, HKU Embodied AI & LVLMs

About Me

I am an incoming Ph.D. student at The University of Hong Kong, where I will be supervised by Prof. Hengshuang Zhao. I received my M.S. degree from Zhejiang University, where I was a member of the Visual Analytics and Intelligence Group of ZJU (ZJUVAI) advised by Prof. Wei Chen.

I am currently a research intern at RobbyAnt, working on Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model pre-training under the leadership of Yujun Shen and Kecheng Zheng. Before that, I was a research assistant at Shanghai AI Laboratory, working with OpenGVLab under the leadership of Jifeng Dai. At OpenGVLab, I worked on Vision-Language Model (VLM) pre-training and RL-based post-training, collaborating with Weijie Su and Wenhai Wang.

Research Interests

  • Vision-Language-Action model pre-training
  • Large Vision-Language Model pre-training
  • Reinforcement learning post-training

Experience

  • Research Intern, RobbyAnt, Sep. 2025 - Now
  • Research Assistant, Shanghai AI Laboratory / OpenGVLab, Jun. 2024 - Sep. 2025
  • Software Development Intern, Ant Group, Feb. 2022 - Jun. 2022

Publications

LingBot-VLA preview

A Pragmatic VLA Foundation Model

Wei Wu, Fan Lu, Yunnan Wang, Shuai Yang, Shi Liu, Fangjing Wang, Qian Zhu, He Sun, Yong Wang, Shuailei Ma, Yiyu Ren, Kejia Zhang, Hui Yu, Jingmei Zhao, Shuai Zhou, Zhenqi Qiu, Houlong Xiong, Ziyu Wang, Zechen Wang, Ran Cheng, Yong-Lu Li, Yongtao Huang, Xing Zhu, Yujun Shen, Kecheng Zheng

Technical Report, 2026

ZeroGUI preview

ZeroGUI: Automating Online GUI Learning at Zero Human Cost

Chenyu Yang*, Shiqian Su*, Shi Liu*, Xuan Dong*, Yue Yu*, Weijie Su*, Xuehui Wang, Zhaoyang Liu, Jinguo Zhu, Hao Li, Wenhai Wang, Yu Qiao, Xizhou Zhu, Jifeng Dai

Under Review

CoMemo preview

CoMemo: LVLMs Need Image Context with Image Memory

Shi Liu, Weijie Su, Xizhou Zhu, Wenhai Wang, Jifeng Dai

ICML 2025

PAI preview

Paying More Attention to Image: A Training-Free Method for Alleviating Hallucination in LVLMs

Shi Liu, Kecheng Zheng, Wei Chen

ECCV 2024

Conceptual Augmentation preview

Conceptual Augmentation: Advancing Model Interpretability Through Language-Model Integration and Concept-Wise Explicability

Shi Liu, Lechao Cheng, Wei Chen

Under Review

GPTDetect preview

Towards an Understanding and Explanation for Mixed-Initiative Artificial Scientific Text Detection

Luoxuan Weng, Shi Liu, Hang Zhu, Jiashun Sun, Wong Kam-Kwai, Dongming Han, Minfeng Zhu, Wei Chen

Information Visualization, 2024

XNLI preview

XNLI: Explaining and Diagnosing NLI-Based Visual Data Analysis

Yingchaojie Feng, Xingbo Wang, Bo Pan, Kam Kwai Wong, Yi Ren, Shi Liu, Zihan Yan, Yuxin Ma, Huamin Qu, Wei Chen

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2023

VIEA preview

VIEA: A Visualization System for Industrial Economics Analysis Based on Trade Data

Ziliang Wu, Shi Liu, Yuefan Zhou, Tong Xu, Jiacheng Pan, Zhiguang Zhou, Wei Chen, Fei-Yue Wang

IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2023

Honors and Awards


  • Guoqiang Scholarship (top 3%), 2022
  • Outstanding Academic Scholarship (top 8%), 2023
  • Outstanding Student, 2020\2022\2023
  • Outstanding Student Leader, 2019\2022\2023
  • Outstanding Graduate of Zhejiang University, 2024
  • Outstanding Graduate of Zhejiang Province, 2024
  • Central South University Scholarship, 2017-2021
  • National Post-Graduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, National Second Prize, 2021
  • Competition of Service Outsourcing and Entrepreneurship Innovation, National Second Prize, 2020
  • Competition of Service Outsourcing and Entrepreneurship Innovation, First Prize of Hunan Province, 2020
  • MCM/ICM Meritorious Prize, 2019