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William Yijiang Li

@williamium3000.bsky.social

Ph.D. student @ucsandiego.bsky.social‬‬‬, M.S. in CS @jhu.edu‬

William Yijiang Li @williamium3000.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Kudos to our amazing co-organizers @williamium3000.bsky.social @Zhijian Liu @manlingli.bsky.social @Haozheng Luo @Zhengyu Pan @Weiyang Liu @Ruiyang Qin @Nuno Vasconcelos 6/N

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William Yijiang Li @williamium3000.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Formatting: All submissions must be PDFs in the ICLR format. We accept Regular (9 pages) and Tiny (4 pages) papers, with unlimited pages for references and supplementary materials. Code may be included as a supplementary zip or via an anonymized repository link. 5/N

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William Yijiang Li @williamium3000.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

5. Safety, fairness, and ethical considerations when compressing or pruning spatial reasoning processes. 4/N

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William Yijiang Li @williamium3000.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

3. Benchmarking and evaluation methods that jointly assess accuracy, efficiency, interpretability, and robustness in spatial reasoning tasks. 4. Applications of efficient spatial reasoning in domains such as robotics, AR/VR, scientific discovery, urban planning, and simulation. 3/N

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William Yijiang Li @williamium3000.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

1. Novel architectures for efficient spatial reasoning, including sparse, modular, and geometry-aware designs. 2. Training and optimization techniques such as distillation, token-budgeting, curriculum learning, and reinforcement learning for concise reasoning. 2/N

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William Yijiang Li @williamium3000.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

We invite researchers from machine learning and related fields to submit their latest work on theory and applications of efficient spatial reasoning to the workshop. We encourage submissions related (but not limited) to the following topics: 1/N

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William Yijiang Li @williamium3000.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

🚨Announcing our #ICLR26 Workshop, The First Workshop on Efficient Spatial Reasoning (ES-Reasoning) @iclr-conf.bsky.social 🚀 Call for Papers!!! 📅 Deadline: 2026/02/09, 11:59PM AOE 📣 AC notification: 2026/03/01 🌐Learn more at our Website: sites.google.com/ucsd.edu/eff...

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Workshop

Making Spatial Reasoning Systems More Adaptive, Robust, and Efficient for Real-World Deployment.

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Hokin @hokin.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

#CoreCognition #LLM #multimodal #GrowAI We spent 3 years to curate 1503 classic experiments spanning 12 core concepts in human cognitive development and evaluated on 230 MLLMs with 11 different prompts for 5 times to get over 3.8 millions inference data points. A thread (1/n) - #ICML2025 ✅

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Hokin @hokin.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

#ICML landed 🛬🛬

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Hokin @hokin.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Finally finish making our website 💐 growing-ai-like-a-child.github.io 🤩 with @carrot0817.bsky.social @marstin.bsky.social @tonyfeng.bsky.social @zoryzhang.bsky.social and many others @growai.bsky.social🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️🚶

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GrowAI

Growing AI like a Child, at Scale Humans never "learn" intelligence. Humans develop intelligence. Biological lives on this planet take heavy advantage of intelligent primitives embedded in their genes...

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