Xiyao Wang

PhD student, University of Maryland, College Park

Joined

April 2021

Names

Xiyao Wang (Preferred)

Emails

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****@umd.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

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Career & Education History

PhD student

University of Maryland, College Park (umd.edu)

2022 – 2027

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Furong Huang

2022 – Present

Expertise

MultiModel Large Language Model

2023 – Present

Reinforcement Learning

2020 – Present

Publications

Agent Learning via Early Experience
Kai Zhang, Xiangchao Chen, Bo Liu, Tianci Xue, Zeyi Liao, Zhihan Liu, Xiyao Wang, Yuting Ning, Zhaorun Chen, Xiaohan Fu, Jian Xie, Yuxuan Sun, Boyu Gou, Qi Qi, Zihang Meng, Jianwei Yang, Ning Zhang, Xian Li, Ashish Shah, Dat Huynh et al. (10 additional authors not shown)
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
MORSE: A Suite of Programmatically Controllable Multimodal Reasoning Environments with Steerable Difficulty
Zikui Cai, Andrew Wang, Anirudh Satheesh, Ankit Nakhawa, Hyunwoo Jae, Keenan Powell, Minghui Liu, Neel Jay, Sungbin Oh, Xiyao Wang, Yongyuan Liang, Tom Goldstein, Furong Huang
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Where do Reasoning Models Make a Difference? Follow the Reasoning Leader for Efficient Decoding
Ming Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Xiyao Wang, Dianqi Li, Linjie Li, Kevin Lin, Tianyi Zhou, Lijuan Wang
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
CaughtCheating: Is Your MLLM a Good Cheating Detective? Exploring the Boundary of Visual Perception and Reasoning
Chenguang Wang, Ming Li, Yijun Liang, Xiyao Wang, Yuhang Zhou, Xiyang Wu, Yuqing Zhang, Ruiyi Zhang, Tianyi Zhou
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
LLaVA-Critic-R1: Your Critic Model is Secretly a Strong Policy Model
Xiyao Wang, Chunyuan Li, Jianwei Yang, Kai Zhang, Bo Liu, Tianyi Xiong, Furong Huang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
ROVER: Benchmarking Reciprocal Cross-Modal Reasoning for Omnimodal Generation
Yongyuan Liang, Wei Chow, Feng Li, Ziqiao Ma, Xiyao Wang, Jiageng Mao, Jiuhai Chen, Jiatao Gu, Yue Wang, Furong Huang
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Lemon: A Unified and Scalable 3D Multimodal Model for Universal Spatial Understanding
Yongyuan Liang, Xiyao Wang, Yuanchen Ju, Jianwei Yang, Furong Huang
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
DISCO Balances the Scales: Adaptive Domain- and Difficulty-Aware Reinforcement Learning on Imbalanced Data
Yuhang Zhou, Jing Zhu, Shengyi Qian, Zhuokai Zhao, Xiyao Wang, Xiaoyu Liu, Ming Li, Paiheng Xu, Wei Ai, Furong Huang
- NeurIPS 2025 ER Workshop
- Readers: Everyone
What makes Reasoning Models Different? Follow the Reasoning Leader for Efficient Decoding
Ming Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Xiyao Wang, Dianqi Li, Linjie Li, Kevin Lin, Tianyi Zhou, Lijuan Wang
- KnowFM @ ACL 2025
- Readers: Everyone
ViCrit: A Verifiable Reinforcement Learning Proxy Task for Visual Perception in VLMs
Xiyao Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Chao Feng, Yuhang Zhou, Xiaoyu Liu, Yongyuan Liang, Ming Li, Ziyi Zang, Linjie Li, Chung-Ching Lin, Kevin Lin, Furong Huang, Lijuan Wang
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone

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