Kaiqi Liu

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liukq04@163.com

I am a first-year Ph.D. student at Peking University, advised by Prof. Boxin Shi in the Camera Intelligence Lab (CI Lab). Prior to this, I received my B.E. in Software Engineering from Nanjing University with honors, with GPA ranked 1/216 (top 0.5%).

Research Interests

  • Generative AI (AIGC): Controllable Video Generation, Multi-Shot Video Generation, Audio-Visual Generation, and Multimodal Evaluation.
  • World Models (WM): Interactive World Models, Autoregressive Long Video Generation, Memory-Augmented Modeling.
  • Unified Understanding and Generation Models (UMM): Unified Image and Video Understanding and Generation, New Unified Video Generation Architectures.

Feel free to reach out! I’m always open to research collaborations and discussions! ✨

News

Jun 2026 One paper was accepted to ACM MM 2026.
May 2026 Two papers were accepted to ECCV 2026, with MAVIN selected as an Oral presentation.
Jan 2026 One paper was accepted to CVPR 2026.
May 2025 One paper was accepted to ICCV 2025.
Apr 2025 One paper was accepted to ICML 2025.

Selected Publications

  1. MILD: Multi-Layer Diffusion Strategy for Complex and Precise Multi-IP Aware Human Erasing
    Jinghan Yu, Junhao Xiao, Zhiyuan Ma, Yue Ma, Kaiqi Liu, Yuhan Wang, Daizong Liu, Xianghao Meng, and Jianjun Li
    Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2026
  2. MAVIN: Multi-Shot Audio-Visual Generation with Customized Narrative Control
    Kaiqi Liu, Yunyao Mao, Ziqi Cai, Zheng Geng, Jing Wang, Qiulin Wang, Xintao Wang, Pengfei Wan, Kun Gai, Shuchen Weng, and Boxin Shi
    Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026
    ECCV 2026 Oral Presentation
  3. Video Generation Models Are Inherent Lighting Estimators
    Ziqi Cai, Shuchen Weng, Kaiqi Liu, Zifeng Wang, Zhiquan Zhang, Minggui Teng, Han Jiang, and Boxin Shi
    Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026
  4. STAGE: Storyboard-Anchored Generation for Cinematic Multi-shot Narrative
    Peixuan Zhang, Zijian Jia, Kaiqi Liu, Shuchen Weng, Si Li, and Boxin Shi
    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
  5. Adapting In-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation to New Domains without Source Domain Retraining
    Qi Fan, Kaiqi Liu, Nian Liu, Hisham Cholakkal, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Wenbin Li, and Yang Gao
    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
  6. Improving LLMs for Recommendation with Out-Of-Vocabulary Tokens
    Ting-Ji Huang, Jia-Qi Yang, Chunxu Shen, Kaiqi Liu, De-Chuan Zhan, and Han-Jia Ye
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025

Education

Peking University
2026.09 - Present
Ph.D. Student
Nanjing University
2022.09 - 2026.06
B.E. in Software Engineering
GPA: 4.79 / 5.0
Comprehensive GPA Ranking: 1 / 216
Outstanding Graduate

Experience

2024.12 - Present
Kling Video Model Team, Kuaishou Technology
Research Intern
Research: Audio-Visual Generation, Controllable Video Generation, Unified Video Generation Models
Advised by Yunyao Mao and Xintao Wang.

Honors & Awards

2022
Yang Yongman Scholarship (8,000 ¥)
2023
National Scholarship (Top 0.2% nationwide, the highest honor for undergraduates in China, 8,000 ¥)
2024
Best Project Award, Nanjing University NLP Summer School
2024
Guo Xie Birong Scholarship Special Award (top 1 in major, 10,000 ¥)
2024, 2026
Outstanding Student
2025
Outstanding Student Model
2025
BYD Scholarship (top 1 in major, 10,000 ¥)
2026
Outstanding Graduate

Contest

2021
Olympiad National Silver Medal 🥈, 35th Chinese Chemistry Olympiad
2022
Swift iOS App Development Certification
2023
Second Prize, 26th Nanjing University Basic Disciplines Forum
2024
Finalist Award (Top 2% Worldwide), 2024 COMAP Mathematical Contest in Modeling / Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (MCM/ICM), USA