Runhao Li|
I am a master's student in Computer Science (AI) at the University of Southern California , graduating in May 2027.
I build and evaluate LLMs and agents. My interests include reliable agent systems, model alignment, diffusion language models, and physical reasoning.
Previously, I worked on machine learning at TikTok , General Motors , and Shanghai AI Laboratory , with research experience at Princeton and UC Berkeley.
Seeking 2027 opportunities in software engineering (AI/ML) and machine learning engineering.
research I am interested in how models learn, reason, and act reliably — from better training signals to agents that understand the world around them.
Runhao Li , Zhengtao Yao, Yan Wen, Guang Yang, Siheng Wang, Chenhao Wei, Rongchao Zhang, Guoqing Ma, Haoyan Xu, Junhao Dong
NeurIPS , 2026 · Poster
Predicts physical-state scene graphs from an image and a goal, combining latent graph reasoning with counterfactual supervision to support physical reasoning.
Hongyang Du, Junjie Ye, Xiaoyan Cong, Runhao Li , et al.
ICML , 2026
Uses geometry-derived preference signals to improve the 3D consistency of video diffusion models without human preference annotations.
Runhao Li , Zhengtao Yao, Xupeng Chen, et al.
Preprint, 2026
Studies hybrid attention as a way to adapt causal language models to bidirectional denoising, with controlled comparisons of generation quality and training efficiency.
Zhengtao Yao, Runhao Li , Xupeng Chen, et al.
Preprint, 2026
DMAPO selects 1,871 training examples from 54,236 candidates using multi-evaluator agreement and critique, examining data quality in preference optimization.
Junjie Ye, Rong Xue, Basile Van Hoorick, Runhao Li , et al.
Preprint, 2026
Composes robot motion, scene priors, and object priors to synthesize demonstrations in new environments and support data-efficient robot learning.
Hongyang Du, Zongxia Li, Dawei Liu, Runhao Li , et al.
CVPR OpenSUN3D Workshop , 2026
A data-centric map of 3D representations, datasets, learning paradigms, and applications spanning reconstruction, generation, and world modeling.
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experience
Jun – Sep 2026 TikTok · ML Engineer Intern Post-training, multimodal moderation, and agent tooling for case replay and hard-example collection.
May – Sep 2026 Princeton University · Research Assistant Causal evaluation and credit assignment for preventive actions in LLM agents.
Jan – Apr 2026 General Motors · ML Engineer Intern Hybrid attention and confidence-aware decoding for pretrained diffusion language models.
Sep – Dec 2025 UC Berkeley · Research Assistant Data-centric alignment through multi-evaluator agreement and preference optimization.
Jun – Sep 2025 Shanghai AI Laboratory · ML Engineer Intern Agent orchestration, retrieval, and efficient vision-language model serving.
open-source projects
ACM-ICL Calibrated multi-agent reasoning and vLLM multi-LoRA serving.
latent-agent-team Learned latent channels for budgeted communication between agents.
paper_read Research workflows and citation-verification tools.
More projects
RAMTL Shared-backbone, multi-role tool use.
updr-reasoning Uncertainty-guided debate and self-repair.
DEAMS Alignment across heterogeneous vision-language agents.
PAGC Grounded communication in cooperative multi-agent learning.
KTM-WM Kernel-based world models for agent planning.
education University of Southern California M.S. Computer Science · AI Track · 2025–2027
Hong Kong Baptist University B.S. Computer Science (Honors) · 2021–2025