Sifan Li
I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. I am also an assistant researcher in AI4Science at Shanghai AI Lab and a research intern at the University of California, Merced, working under the supervision of Dr. Yiwei Wang.
My research interests include NLP, multimodal LLMs, vision-language models, AI interpretability, agentic systems, reinforcement learning, AI4Science, efficient training, and computer vision.
news
| May 31, 2026 | The preprint GeoSVG-RL: Geometry-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Layout-Constrained Text-to-SVG Diagram Generation is available on arXiv. |
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| Apr 01, 2026 | I started as an assistant researcher in AI4Science at Shanghai AI Lab. |
| Jan 22, 2026 | The preprint OptiSQL: Executable SQL Generation from Optical Tokens is available on arXiv. |
| Nov 07, 2025 | SemVink: Advancing VLMs’ Semantic Understanding of Optical Illusions via Visual Global Thinking was presented as an oral paper at the EMNLP 2025 Main Conference in Suzhou. |
| Oct 14, 2025 | The preprint Vision Language Models Map Logos to Text via Semantic Entanglement in the Visual Projector is available on arXiv. |
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GeoSVG-RL: Geometry-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Layout-Constrained Text-to-SVG Diagram Generation2026 -
