Ai Li (李爱)

Research Intern @ NUS NExT++ · Incoming Graduate Student @ ICT, CAS

Hi! I am Ai Li, currently a research intern at the NExT++ Research Center, National University of Singapore, where I am fortunate to be advised by Yunshan Ma. I am pursuing my B.E. in Advertising (Double Bachelor Degree in Computational Advertising) at the Communication University of China, advised by Zhulin Tao.

I will soon begin my graduate study at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICT, CAS), advised by Liang Pang.

My research currently focuses on Latent Reasoning and Recommendation Systems. I am broadly interested in how models can reason in continuous latent spaces and how such reasoning can power more effective information access.

I'm always happy to chat and collaborate — feel free to reach out!

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Publications

ICLR 2026

Discrete Diffusion for Bundle Construction

Teng Tu^†, Ai Li^†, Yunshan Ma^*, Shuo Xu, Xiaohao Liu, Haokai Ma, Liang Pang, Tat-Seng Chua

The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026

Education

Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Incoming

Graduate study · advised by Liang Pang

Communication University of China Sept 2022 – Jul 2026

B.E. in Advertising (Double Bachelor Degree in Computational Advertising) · advised by Zhulin Tao

Honors & Awards

National Scholarship (Top 0.2%) 2024

Communication University of China — the highest scholarship honor for college students.

National Encouragement Scholarship 2025

Communication University of China.