TaiMing Lu

I am a first year PhD student at Princeton University pton, advised by Zhuang Liu.

Previously, I was an undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University GO HOP!, majoring in Computer Science, Applied Math and Stats, and Economics. At Hopkins, I was fortunate to work closely with Jieneng Chen and to be advised by Prof. Daniel Khashabi, Phillip Koehn, and Alan Yuille.

I research Generative Foundation Models (e.g., LLMs, VLMs, Diffusion Models) and explore their possibilities. My interest spans Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision.

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@EMNLP 2024

News
  • Selected Michael J. Muuss Undergraduate Research Award at JHU 🎇.
  • Genex accepted by ICLR 🥳.
  • Selected Finalist for CRA's Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award 🫡.
  • GenEx (Generative World Explorer) is on arXiv! View our demo on project website or YouTube Gnerative an Explorable World !
  • Poster presentation at EMNLP 🥸.

Selected Publications
GenEx: Generating an Explorable World
Taiming Lu, Tianmin Shu, Junfei Xiao, Luoxin Ye, Jiahao Wang, Cheng Peng, Chen Wei, Daniel Khashabi, Rama Chellappa, Alan Yuille, Jieneng Chen
ICLR 2025    Paper | Code | Project | Video | Poster
Insights into LLM Long-Context Failures: When Transformers Know but Don't Tell
Taiming Lu, Muhan Gao, Kuai Yu, Adam Byerly, Daniel Khashabi
EMNLP 2024 (Findings)    Paper | Code | Poster
Learn and Unlearn: Addressing Misinformation in Multilingual LLMs
Taiming Lu, Philipp Koehn
EMNLP 2025    Paper | Code | Data | Poster
It Takes Two: On the Seamlessness between Reward and Policy Model in RLHF
Taiming Lu, Lingfeng Shen, Xinyu Yang, Weiting Tan, Beidi Chen, Huaxiu Yao
ICML 2024 Workshop on Foundation Models in the Wild    Paper | Code
Stronger Normalization-Free Transformers
Mingzhi Chen, Taiming Lu, Jiachen Zhu, Mingjie Sun, Zhuang Liu
Preprint    Paper | Code
EvoWorld: Evolving Panoramic World Generation with Explicit 3D Memory
Jiahao Wang*, Luoxin Ye*, Taiming Lu, Junfei Xiao, Jiahan Zhang, Yuxiang Guo, Xijun Liu, Rama Chellappa, Cheng Peng, Alan Yuille, Jieneng Chen
Preprint    Paper | Code
World-in-World: World Models in a Closed-Loop World
Jiahan Zhang*, Muqing Jiang*, Nanru Dai, Taiming Lu, Arda Uzunoglu, Shunchi Zhang, Yana Wei, Jiahao Wang, Vishal M. Patel, Paul Pu Liang, Daniel Khashabi, Cheng Peng, Rama Chellappa, Tianmin Shu, Alan Yuille, Yilun Du, Jieneng Chen
Preprint    Paper | Code | Project | Demo | Leaderboard

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