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About Me

Hi! I am Meng Gao, a master's student at Tsinghua University and a member of IIGroup, supervised by Prof. Yujiu Yang. Previously, I received my Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Fudan University's Talent Program.

My research interests include reinforcement learning, efficient inference, and multimodal interaction. I am also interested in the mathematical principles behind learning algorithms.

I am currently a research intern at the Qwen-Omni Team, Alibaba. Previously, I interned at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA).

I expect to graduate in 2027 and plan to apply for PhD programs. Feel free to contact me if you are interested in my work or potential collaboration.

Publications

* Equal contribution

Preprints & Manuscripts

Manuscript ProactiveAudioBench condition-driven responses in audio streams

ProactiveAudioBench: Evaluating Condition-Driven Responses in Audio Streams

Meng Gao, Yunfei Chu, Yifan Yang, Hui Wang, Wenxiang Guo, Qi Chen, Zihan Liu, Ling Wang, Yinsong Yan, Wen Huang, Xize Cheng, Yuxuan Wang, Jin Xu, Yujiu Yang

Manuscript

Preprint coming soon

Manuscript Positional sensitivity in large audio language models

Where You Put It Matters: Characterizing Positional Sensitivity in Large Audio Language Models

Hui Wang*, Meng Gao*, Yunfei Chu*, Jin Xu, Yong Qin

Manuscript

Preprint coming soon

Manuscript Modality-aware layer pruning for multimodal retrieval

MLP: Modality-Aware Layer Pruning for Efficient Multimodal Retrieval

Minji Seo, Meng Gao, Zhiwei Yu, Fanhong Li, Jaesik Park, Yujiu Yang, Lei Ji

Manuscript

Preprint coming soon

Omni Demand Understanding: A Benchmark for Contextual User-Intent Inference in Multimodal Interaction

Qi Chen, Yunfei Chu, Haolin He, Yifan Yang, Zihan Liu, Yuxuan Wang, Ziyang Ma, Ruiyang Xu, Meng Gao, Yinsong Yan, Ling Wang, Hui Wang, Wen Huang, Yiheng Chen, Guanrou Yang, et al.

Manuscript

TickTock: Teaching Video LLMs to Tell Time at Frame-level Precision

Ling Wang, Yinsong Yan, Yuxuan Wang, Yifan Yang, Junming Lin, Ruiyang Xu, Yunfei Chu, Meng Gao, Qi Chen, Minghao Han, Xize Cheng, Schmitt.Z, Qize Yang, Jin Xu, Jibin Wu

Manuscript

LAMAR-Bench: Diagnosing Long-Form and Multi-Audio Understanding and Reasoning

Hui Wang, Yunfei Chu, Xize Cheng, Yu Xi, Meng Gao, Qi Chen, Yifan Yang, Wenxiang Guo, Yong Qin, Jin Xu

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Omni-InteractScope: Benchmarking Proactive and Agentic Interaction in Continuous Omnimodal Streams

Yinsong Yan, Ling Wang, Yuxuan Wang, Yifan Yang, Ruiyang Xu, Junming Lin, Qi Chen, Yunfei Chu, Qize Yang, Meng Gao, Xize Cheng, Minghao Han, Jin Xu, Jibin Wu

Manuscript

Technical Reports

Education

Tsinghua University

Aug. 2024 – Jun. 2027

Master of Engineering in Artificial Intelligence

  • Advisor: Yujiu Yang
  • GPA: 3.9/4.0 (Top 10%)
  • Research interests: reinforcement learning, efficiency, and multimodal interaction

Experience

Qwen-Omni Team, Alibaba

Mar. 2026 – Present

Research Intern

Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA)

Jun. 2025 – Feb. 2026

Research Intern

Awards & Honors

  • Stars of Tomorrow, Microsoft Research Asia Internship Program2026
  • Outstanding Undergraduate Graduate, Fudan University2024
  • Fudan University Merit Scholarship (Second & Third Class) and Academic Excellence Scholarship2021–2023
  • Merit Student & Outstanding Student Leader, Fudan University2020–2022
  • First Prize, Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM)2022
  • Second Prize (2021) & Third Prize (2022), National College Student Mathematics Competition (Class A)2021–2022