Yang Li

Keep going~~~

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About Me

I will join the School of Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in January 2026 as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (长聘教轨助理教授). My research focuses on multi-agent systems, embodied intelligence, and AI applications especially in AI for Science and AI for Fusion. I am broadly interested in developing embodied agents capable of reasoning, collaborating, adapting and acting effectively in complex real-world environments.

I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Manchester, supervised by Dr. Wei Pan and co-supervised by Prof. Angelo Cangelosi. Before that, I received an M.Eng. in Information and Communication Engineering from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, advised by Prof. Jun Wang and Prof. Yang Yang, and a B.Eng. in Digital Media Technology from Dalian University of Technology.

Looking for Prospective Students

I welcome highly motivated students interested in multi-agent/robot systems, embodied intelligence, or AI for Science/Fusion to join my group. If you are interested, please feel free to contact me (yang.li-4@outlook.com)!

PhD/Master positions are available:

  • Ph.D. position in multi-robot system and multi-agent system for
  • A Ph.D. position in AI for Fusion starting in 2026, co-supervised with Prof. Ying Wen.

News

Oct 29, 2025 New paper has been accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL). “VLM-SFD: VLM-Assisted Siamese Flow Diffusion Framework for Dual-Arm Cooperative Manipulation”, by Jiaming Chen, Yiyu Jiang, Aoshen Huang, Yang Li (Corresponding Author), Wei Pan. Early Access Link.
Oct 23, 2025 We (ZsiMan team from The University of Manchester) win the IROS 2025 Quadruped Robot Challenge (QRC)! poster

Selected Publications

  1. NeruIPS
    Aligning Individual and Collective Objectives in Multi-Agent Cooperation
    Yang Li, Wenhao Zhang, Jianhong Wang, and 4 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.12416, 2024
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  2. JAIR
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    Tackling Cooperative Incompatibility for Zero-Shot Human-AI Coordination
    Yang Li, Shao Zhang, Jichen Sun, and 5 more authors
    Journal of Artificial Intelligent Research, 2024
    PDF Code Website
  3. Under Review
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    HOLA-Drone: Hypergraphic Open-ended Learning for Zero-Shot Multi-Drone Cooperative Pursuit
    Yang Li, Dengyu Zhang, Junfan Chen, and 3 more authors
    2024
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  4. ICML
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    Cooperative Open-ended Learning Framework for Zero-shot Coordination
    Yang Li, Shao Zhang, Jichen Sun, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR 202:20470-20484, 2023. , 2023
    PDF Code Website
  5. TMLR
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    JiangJun: Mastering Xiangqi by Tackling Non-Transitivity in Two-Player Zero-Sum Games
    Yang Li, Kun Xiong, Yingping Zhang, and 6 more authors
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2023
    PDF Code Website
  6. IEEE TMC
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    Self-Supervised MAFENN for Classifying Low-labeled Distorted Images over Mobile Fading Channels
    Yang Li, Fanglei Sun, Jingchen Hu, and 8 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2023
    PDF Website
  7. TASLP
    Cross-Utterance Conditioned VAE for Speech Generation
    Yang Li, Cheng Yu, Guangzhi Sun, and 7 more authors
    In , 2024
  8. ACL
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    Cross-Utterance Conditioned VAE for Non-Autoregressive Text-to-Speech
    Yang Li, Cheng Yu, Guangzhi Sun, and 6 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) , 2022
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Selected Co-authored Publications

  1. ICML
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    Open Ad Hoc Teamwork with Cooperative Game Theory
    Jianhong Wang, Yang Li, Yuan Zhang, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.15259, 2024
    PDF Code Website
  2. ICML
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    Adaptive Advantage-Guided Policy Regularization for Offline Reinforcement Learning
    Tenglong Liu, Yang Li, Yixing Lan, and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.19909, 2024
    PDF Website
  3. ICLR
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    Ligs: Learnable intrinsic-reward generation selection for multi-agent learning
    David Henry Mguni, Taher Jafferjee, Jianhong Wang, and 7 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.02618, 2021
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  4. Under Review
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    Controlling Large Language Model-based Agents for Large-Scale Decision-Making: An Actor-Critic Approach
    Bin Zhang, Hangyu Mao, Jingqing Ruan, and 8 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.13884, 2023
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  5. IEEE TWC
    Multi-Agent Feedback Enabled Neural Networks for Intelligent Communications
    Fanglei Sun, Yang Li, Ying Wen, and 4 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2022
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