About Me

• Hi, my name is Lai Wei (魏来) and I am a second-year PhD student at SJTU, majoring in computer science. Since AI is a subject that interests me greatly, I have been working on it throughout my academic journey. I am committed to staying abreast of new advances in AI and am always looking for novel approaches to innovate and push the boundaries in this field. My recent research focuses on the continual reinforcement learning of (multimodal) large language models.

Educations

• Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  PhD of Computer Science (2024 - present)
  Bachelor of Physics (2020 - 2024)

Honors and Awards

• 2025 Young Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST (中国科协青年科技人才培育工程博士生专项计划)
• 2025 Zhongguancun Academy Scholarship (top 1.5%)
• 2025 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Merit Student
• 2024 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Outstanding Graduates
• 2022 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Huawei Scholarship
• 2022 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Undergraduate B Scholarship
• 2021 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Physics and Astronomy, First Prize Scholarship
• 2021 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Undergraduate B Scholarship
• 2021 China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Model, Shanghai Division, First Prize

Publications

• Zooming without Zooming: Region-to-Image Distillation for Fine-Grained Multimodal Perception
  Lai Wei, Liangbo He, Jun Lan, Lingzhong Dong, Yutong Cai, Siyuan Li, Huijia Zhu, Weiqiang Wang, Linghe Kong, Yue Wang, Zhuosheng Zhang, Weiran Huang
  [code] [AI 科技评论]
  ICML 2026
• Targeted Exploration via Unified Entropy Control for Reinforcement Learning
  Chen Wang, Lai Wei, Yanzhi Zhang, Chenyang Shao, Zedong Dan, Weiran Huang, Ge Lan, Yue Wang
  [code]
  ACL 2026 Findings
• First SFT, Second RL, Third UPT: Continual Improving Multi-Modal LLM Reasoning via Unsupervised Post-Training
  Lai Wei, Yuting Li, Chen Wang, Yue Wang, Linghe Kong, Weiran Huang, Lichao Sun
  [code] [机器之心]
  NeurIPS 2025
• Diff-eRank: A Novel Rank-Based Metric for Evaluating Large Language Models
  Lai Wei, Zhiquan Tan, Chenghai Li, Jindong Wang, Weiran Huang
  [code] [量子位]
  NeurIPS 2024
• InstructionGPT-4: A 200-Instruction Paradigm for Fine-Tuning MiniGPT-4
  Lai Wei, Zihao Jiang, Weiran Huang, Lichao Sun
  [code] [机器之心]
  Artificial Intelligence for Engineering
• Diabetica: Adapting Large Language Model to Enhance Multiple Medical Tasks in Diabetes Care and Management
  Lai Wei, Zhen Ying, Muyang He, Yutong Chen, Qian Yang, Yanzhe Hong, Jiaping Lu, Kaipeng Zheng, Shaoting Zhang, Xiaoying Li, Weiran Huang, Ying Chen
  [code] [model] [ScienceAI]
  SCI-FM @ ICLR 2025

Interests and Hobbies

• Electronic Organ (Grade 8)
• Basketball (Former Captain of College Basketball Team)
• Football (Former Member of College Football Team)
• Badminton (Grade 4+)
• 2K, FIFA, Game for Peace

Services

• AI TIME member
• NICE committee member
• ICLR Reviewer (2025, 2026), NeurIPS Reviewer (2025), ICML Reviewer (2026), CVPR Reviewer (2026)