Yi Lu | Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

About Me

I am a current Master student (Master of Science in Applied Computing programme) at the University of Toronto. My research interests lies broadly in Multi-Modal Language Model, Reinforcement Learning, Agentic LLMs and Generative AI.

I am currently working as a full-time co-op applied research intern at ModiFace (L’Oréal’s AI Lab) focusing on controllable video generation. I am also working as a part-time research intern in TIGER Lab under the supervision of Prof. Wenhu Chen, working on a project focusing on Agentic-RL based Tool-calling LLMs. Prior to that, I worked as an research intern at Opus AI Research, where I publiched two papers in top conferences.

🎓 I’m currently looking for a PhD position starting from 2026 spring/fall. Feel free to contact me regarding any related opportunities. Here is my resume.

Research Interests

Vision-Language Model
Generative AI
Agentic LLMs

News

[May 2025] 🎉 One paper is accepted by ACL 2025.
[Feb. 2025] 🎉 One paper is accepted by CVPR 2025.
[Dec. 2024] 🎉 One papers is accepted by AAAI 2025.

Publications

ACL

RSVP: Reasoning Segmentation via Visual Prompting and Multi-modal Chain-of-Thought

Yi Lu*, Jiawang Cao*, Yongliang Wu*, Bozheng Li, Licheng Tang, Yangguang Ji, Chong Wu, Jay Wu, Wenbo Zhu

Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025.

CVPR

VEU-Bench: Towards Comprehensive Understanding of Video Editing

Bozheng Li, Yongliang Wu*, Yi Lu*, Jiashuo Yu, Licheng Tang, Jiawang Cao, Wenqing Zhu, Yuyang Sun, Jay Wu, Wenbo Zhu

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025.

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AAAI

Video Repurposing from User Generated Content: A Large-scale Dataset and Benchmark

Yongliang Wu*, Wenbo Zhu*, Jiawang Cao*, Yi Lu, Bozheng Li, Weiheng Chi, Zihan Qiu, Lirian Su, Haolin Zheng, Jay Wu, Xu Yang

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025.

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