Ziyu Li

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I’m an incoming CS PhD student at CUHK, advised by Prof. Shengchao Liu.

I study multi-scale generative modeling across hierarchical scales, with interests in efficient inference, multimodal representation learning, controllable generation, and physical-world modeling.

I received my B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2026. During my undergraduate studies, I was fortunate to work with Prof. Huimin Zhao and Prof. Chi Zhang.

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May 01, 2026 šŸŽ‰ Our paper EPD-Solver via RDPO has been accepted to IEEE TPAMI.
Apr 21, 2026 I received the Edmund J James Scholar Certificate from UIUC.
Feb 27, 2026 I received the Distinguished Undergraduate Researcher Certificate from UIUC.
Apr 03, 2025 My team won the 1st place (1/180) in the 2025 Illinois Statistics Datathon šŸ…
Nov 04, 2024 My team won the 2nd place (2/51) in the 2024 Sandia National Lab Data Challenge 🄈

Publications

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    Parallel Diffusion Solver via Residual Dirichlet Policy Optimization
    Ruoyu Wang*, Ziyu Li*, Beier Zhu*, and 5 more authors
    TPAMI 2026

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