Meng Gao

I am a master's student at IIGroup in Tsinghua University, 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, working on proactive learning. Previously, I interned at Microsoft Research Asia, where I worked on efficient multimodal retrieval and inference acceleration.

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.

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Publications

(* denotes equal contribution.)

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Skim and Skip: Hierarchical Adaptive Inference for Efficient Multimodal Retrieval
Meng Gao*, Yizhen Zhang*, Yang Ding*, Ziqi Dai, Shuoshuo Zhang, Junjie Wang, Taiqiang Wu, Chufan Shi, Lei Ji, Jian Jiao, Linfeng Zhang, Yeyun Gong, Yujiu Yang
EMNLP 2026 (Main Conference)
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AnyCap: Omni-Modal Captioning with Instruction Alignment
Yiming Ren*, Zhiqiang Lin*, Yu Li*, Meng Gao*, Junjie Wang, Zicheng Lin, Jifeng Dai, Yujiu Yang, Wenhai Wang, Ruihang Chu
EMNLP 2026 (Main Conference)

Manuscripts

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AudioSpan: Spanning the Duration and Depth of Audio Comprehension
Wen Huang*, Yunfei Chu*, Meng Gao, Haolin He, Jin Xu
Manuscript
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MLP: Modality-Aware Layer Pruning for Efficient Multimodal Retrieval
Minji Seo, Meng Gao, Zhiwei Yu, Fanhong Li, Jaesik Park, Yujiu Yang, Lei Ji
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