Yayuan Li (李雅元)
Ph.D. Student (since 2025) @ Nanjing University | Model Merging & Efficient Adaptation
Ph.D. Student (enrolled in 2025)
School of Computer Science, Nanjing University
Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Research Profile
Hi, I am Yayuan Li.
I am a Ph.D. student at Nanjing University (admitted in 2025), advised by Prof. Yinghuan Shi. My work focuses on knowledge transfer and training-free adaptation for large models, with a particular interest in model merging and modular capability composition.
Model Merging Knowledge Transfer Training-Free Adaptation Multimodal Learning
I enjoy turning "many small capable models" into "one reliable system".
我希望让模型协作像搭积木一样自然、可控、可复用。
yayuan@nju:~/$ research-status --live
- > focus: model merging + training-free adaptation
- > mode: reproducible, modular, ablation-driven
- > goal: build reliable composition for foundation models
Research Interests
- Efficient reuse and composition of pretrained models.
- Cross-modal transfer between language and vision representations.
- Robust training-free methods for few-shot generalization.
Highlights
- AAAI 2025 publication and poster presentation in Philadelphia.
- Co-first-author paper accepted by Military Medical Research (SCI Q1, IF 22.9) in 2025.
- MAGIC was featured by the "我爱计算机视觉" WeChat account in Dec 2025.
- National Scholarship.
Awards & Honors
2025
Outstanding Graduate Student, Nanjing University
南京大学优秀研究生
2025
Jiangsu Financial Leasing Scholarship
江苏金融租赁奖学金
2025
Outstanding Youth League Cadre, Nanjing University
南京大学优秀共青团干部
2024
Outstanding Graduate Student, Nanjing University
南京大学优秀研究生
2024
Excellence in Master's Assessment, Nanjing University
南京大学硕士考核卓越
2023
Postgraduate Academic Scholarship (First Class)
南京大学研究生学业奖学金一等
2022
National Scholarship
国家奖学金
News
| Dec 26, 2025 |  Our MAGIC work was featured by the “我爱计算机视觉” WeChat account. |
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| Oct 20, 2025 | I received the Jiangsu Financial Leasing Scholarship. |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Our collaborative paper with Gulou Hospital team was accepted by Military Medical Research (SCI Q1, IF 22.9), where I am a co-first author. |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Our paper about CLIP-based FSL is accepted by AAAI25. |
| Jun 01, 2023 | I was honored as an Outstanding Graduate of Beijing. |
Selected Publications
- MMR
