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Updates from the group

Brief updates on MILab publications, student recognitions, talks, and workshops.

2026

  1. Fengyi Wu receives UW GSFEI Top Scholar Award

    Fengyi Wu received the 2026 UW GSFEI Top Scholar Award. Fengyi works on multimodal reasoning and embodied AI, with current projects on language-guided perception and navigation.

  2. Two papers accepted to ACL 2026

    A survey on sign-language datasets was accepted to ACL Main, and GoVIG was accepted to ACL Findings. These papers connect the lab's interests in multimodal resources, language, and embodied navigation.

  3. ICLR 2026 oral paper

    Lossless Hierarchical Speculative Decoding was accepted as an ICLR 2026 oral paper. The method accelerates large-model generation while preserving the target output distribution.

2025

  1. NeurIPS 2025 oral paper

    MaxSup, with former visiting student Yuxuan Zhou, was accepted as an oral presentation at NeurIPS 2025.

  2. Carwein-Andrews Ph.D. Fellowship

    Yifei Dong received the Carwein-Andrews Fellowship. Yifei works on world models, human-aware navigation, and embodied AI, including evaluation settings with dynamic human activity.

  3. CVPR 2025 Anti-UAV Workshop

    Prof. Cheng gave a keynote at the CVPR 2025 Anti-UAV Workshop. Securing the Skies received the workshop's Best Paper Award, reflecting the lab's interest in perception systems for safety-focused settings.

  4. AAAI and NAACL oral papers

    VDAct and ProMQA were presented as oral papers at AAAI 2025 and NAACL 2025. Both papers are part of the group's work on grounded video understanding and evaluation.

  5. Yifei Dong receives UW GSFEI Top Scholar Award

    Yifei Dong received the 2025 UW GSFEI Top Scholar Award, a Graduate School award for incoming doctoral students. His early work in the group focuses on embodied AI, world modeling, and human-aware navigation.

  6. CVPR 2025 papers

    StableAnimator, on identity-preserving image animation, and Emphasizing Discriminative Features, on dataset distillation in complex scenarios, were CVPR 2025 papers. Securing the Skies and Why We Feel appeared in CVPR workshops.

  7. ICLR 2025 acceptance

    MetaDesigner was accepted to ICLR 2025. The project studies controllable, user-centered multilingual WordArt synthesis, reflecting the group's interest in human-facing generative tools.