Jiaqi Li in research environment

Jiaqi Li 李嘉琦

Ph.D. Student at Southeast University

Focused on Multimodal, Machine Unlearning, Privacy and Security

About Me

I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student (enrolled in 2022) in Cyberspace Security at Southeast University, advised by Professor Guilin Qi. My research interests broadly cover multimodal information extraction and knowledge editing & machine unlearning in multimodal large language models (MLLMs).

Currently, my work focuses on machine unlearning in MLLMs, particularly erasing visual concepts to mitigate privacy leakage in multimodal systems. Moving forward, I aim to develop more efficient unlearning methods for MLLMs or text-to-image models to address privacy and safety challenges in multimodal generative AI.

News

  • 2026.1

    My paper "Knowledge Externalization: Reversible Unlearning and Modular Retrieval in Multimodal Large Language Models" has been accepted to ICLR 2026.

  • 2025.11

    Our paper "Forget What Has Seen: Selective Concept Unlearning in Segmentation Foundation Models" has been accepted to AAAI 2026.

  • 2025.5

    My paper "Forget the Token and Pixel: Rethinking Gradient Ascent for Concept Unlearning in Multimodal Generative Models" has been accepted to ACL 2025 Findings.

  • 2025.5

    My paper "Open-World Attribute Mining for E-Commerce Products with Multimodal Self-Correction Instruction Tuning" has been accepted to ACL 2025 Main.

  • 2024.9

    My paper "Single Image Unlearning: Efficient Machine Unlearning in Multimodal Large Language Models" has been accepted to NeurIPS 2024.

  • 2024.5

    My paper "MIKE: A New Benchmark for Fine-grained Multimodal Entity Knowledge Editing" has been accepted to ACL 2024 Findings.

  • 2023.10

    My paper "Three Stream Based Multi-level Event Contrastive Learning for Text-Video Event Extraction" has been accepted to EMNLP 2023 Main.

  • 2023.9

    My paper "Incorporating Domain Knowledge Graph into Multimodal Movie Genre Classification with Self-Supervised Attention and Contrastive Learning" has been accepted to ACM Multimedia 2023.

Publications

Preprints

Knowledge Graphs Meet Multi-Modal Learning: A Comprehensive Survey

Zhuo Chen, Yichi Zhang, Yin Fang, Yuxia Geng, Lingbing Guo, Xiang Chen, Qian Li, Wen Zhang, Jiaoyan Chen, Yushan Zhu, Jiaqi Li, Xiaoze Liu, Jeff Z. Pan, Ningyu Zhang, Huajun Chen

Paper: [2402.05391] Knowledge Graphs Meet Multi-Modal Learning: A Comprehensive Survey

Peer-Reviewed

Incorporating Domain Knowledge Graph into Multimodal Movie Genre Classification with Self-Supervised Attention and Contrastive Learning

ACM Multimedia 2023

Jiaqi Li, Guilin Qi, Chuanyi Zhang, Yongrui Chen, Yiming Tan, Chenlong Xia, Ye Tian

ACM Digital Library

Three Stream Based Multi-level Event Contrastive Learning for Text-Video Event Extraction

EMNLP 2023 Main

Jiaqi Li, Chuanyi Zhang, Miaozeng Du, Dehai Min, Yongrui Chen, Guilin Qi

ACL Anthology

MIKE: A New Benchmark for Fine-grained Multimodal Entity Knowledge Editing

ACL 2024 Findings

Jiaqi Li, Miaozeng Du, Chuanyi Zhang, Yongrui Chen, Nan Hu, Guilin Qi, Haiyun Jiang, Siyuan Cheng, Bozhong Tian

ACL Anthology

Single Image Unlearning: Efficient Machine Unlearning in Multimodal Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2024

Jiaqi Li, Qianshan Wei, Chuanyi Zhang, Guilin Qi, Miaozeng Du, Yongrui Chen, Sheng Bi, Fan Liu

NeurIPS Proceedings

Open-World Attribute Mining for E-Commerce Products with Multimodal Self-Correction Instruction Tuning

ACL 2025 Main

Jiaqi Li, Yanming Li, Xiaoli Shen, Chuanyi Zhang, Guilin Qi, Sheng Bi

ACL Anthology

Forget the Token and Pixel: Rethinking Gradient Ascent for Concept Unlearning in Multimodal Generative Models

ACL 2025 Findings

Jiaqi Li, Chuanyi Zhang, Miaozeng Du, Hui Zhang, Yongrui Chen, Qianshan Wei, Junfeng Fang, Ruipeng Wang, Sheng Bi, Guilin Qi

ACL Anthology

Can Large Language Models Understand DL-Lite Ontologies? An Empirical Study

EMNLP 2024 Findings

Keyu Wang, Guilin Qi, Jiaqi Li, Songlin Zhai

ACL Anthology

Forget What Has Seen: Selective Concept Unlearning in Segmentation Foundation Models

AAAI 2026

Miaozeng Du, Jiaqi Li (co-first author), Sirui Pan, Yi Zhan, Guilin Qi, Yuxin Zhang, Rihui Jin, Yinjia Shu, Qianshan Wei

AAAI Proceedings

Knowledge Externalization: Reversible Unlearning and Modular Retrieval in Multimodal Large Language Models

ICLR 2026

Jiaqi Li, Zihan You, Ruoyan Shen, Shenyu Zhang, Songlin Zhai, Yongrui Chen, Chuanyi Zhang, Jiahui Geng, Fakhri Karray, Sheng Bi, Guilin Qi

ICLR Proceedings

Academic Services

Conference Reviewer: ICCV
Conference Reviewer: CVPR
Conference Reviewer: ICLR
Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS
Conference Reviewer: ARR
Conference Reviewer: AAAI
Conference Reviewer: Multimedia

Awards & Honors

National Scholarship at Southeast University in 2024

Zhishan Scholarship at Southeast University in 2025