Mengqi Lei (雷孟奇)

I am a PhD student at the School of Software, Tsinghua University, advised by Associate Professor Yue Gao. I joined the doctoral program in 2025 and am a member of iMoon-Lab.

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About Me

My research interests lie in visual intelligence and multimodal learning. I work on vision-language models, vision foundation models, object detection, object counting, high-order representation learning, etc. My objective is to develop a more general, comprehensive, and efficient framework for visual and multimodal representation learning.

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Research Papers

Overview of Count Anything and the cross-domain CLOC dataset

Count Anything

Mengqi Lei, Shuokun Cheng, Wei Bao, Shaoyi Du, Jun-Hai Yong, Siqi Li, and Yue Gao

arXiv, 2026

  • Visual Intelligence
  • Multimodal Learning

A generalist text-guided object-counting model that combines region-level sparse and pixel-level dense point prediction to localize and count targets across diverse visual domains.

Hypergraph as Language framework overview

Hypergraph as Language

Mengqi Lei, Guohuan Xie, Shihui Ying, Shaoyi Du, Jun-Hai Yong, Siqi Li, and Yue Gao

arXiv, 2026

  • Multimodal Learning

A hypergraph-native alignment framework that makes query-centered high-order association structures directly consumable by large language models.

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Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS, ACM MM, AAAI

Journal Reviewer: IJCV, PR, IEEE SPL