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Tong Wei (魏通)

Associate Professor
School of Computer Science and Engineering
Southeast University

I am in the PALM group.

Email: weit {AT} seu.edu.cn

If you’re interested in doing research with me, please get in touch by email.

Research

I lead a machine learning group, where we want to develop simple and robust machine learning methods that can improve generalization. My current research interests are:

  1. How do we build robust machine learning models from imperfect supervision? What new possibilities do foundation models unlock? [C16,C18,C21,C24]
  2. How do we adapt foundation models to downstream tasks while avoiding catastrophic forgetting? Can we improve multi-task performance by merging single-task models? [C28,C29]
  3. How can we develop reasoning LLMs and agents without relying on large-scale annotations? Can reinforcement learning enables models to solve complex tasks through self-improvement?
I am also interested in diffusion models and unified multimodal understanding and generation models.


Publications

Most of my papers are available for download in this Publications page.

Teaching


Students

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Name Starting Graduated Program First job/Currently
Kai Gan(甘凯) 2024.03/2022.09 in progress Ph.D./Ms.C. -
Bo Ye(叶波)* 2024.09 in progress Ph.D. -
Mao-Lin Luo(罗茂林) 2026.03/2024.09 in progress Ph.D./Ms.C. -
Kai Kang(康凯)* 2021.09 2024.06 Ms.C. Huawei (华为)
Zuo-Zheng Wang(王佐正)* 2021.09 2024.06 Ms.C. State Grid(国家电网)
Hao-Tian Li(李浩天)* 2022.09 2025.06 Ms.C. (上海市公安局)
Zhen Mao(毛振)* 2022.09 2025.06 Ms.C. Huawei(华为)
Bo-Lin Wang(王博林)* 2022.09 2025.06 Ms.C. Huawei(华为)
Li-Peng Zhang(张力鹏) 2022.09 2025.06 Ms.C. Huawei(华为)
Kuang He(何况)* 2022.09 2025.06 Ms.C. Shopee
Chun-Shu Li(李春澍)* 2022.09 2025.06 Ms.C. Meituan(美团)
Han Zeng(曾晗) 2023.09 in progress Ms.C. -
Yi-Hao Cheng(程一浩) 2023.09 in progress Ms.C. -
Si-Yuan Fang(房思源)* 2023.09 in progress Ms.C. -
Zhi-Yuan Xu(许致远) 2023.09 in progress Ms.C. -
Ying Wu(吴颖) 2023.09 in progress Ms.C. -
Zi-Hao Zhou(周子淏)* 2023.09 in progress Ms.C. -
Yi-Lin Zhang(张一琳) 2024.09 in progress Ms.C. -
Jun-Jie Wang(王俊杰) 2024.09 in progress Ms.C. -
Bao-Xian Liu(刘宝贤) 2024.09 in progress Ms.C. -
Cheng Lv(吕成)* 2024.09 in progress Ms.C. -
Xuan-Zheng Lin(林轩正)* 2025.09 in progress Ms.C. -
Qin-Luan Dai(戴沁銮) 2025.09 in progress Ms.C. -
Han-Chen Zhang(张瀚宸) 2025.09 in progress Ms.C. -
Yang-Yang Zu(祖洋洋) 2025.09 in progress Ms.C. -
Han-Rui Li(李涵睿) 2025.09 in progress Ms.C. -
Jing-Lin Pei(裴靖霖) 2025.09 in progress Ms.C. -
* co-advised with Prof. M.-L. Zhang
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Services

Area chair ICML 2025/2026; IJCAI 2025; NeurIPS 2025; ICLR 2026
SPC IJCAI 2021/2026; ACML 2021/2022
PC AAAI 2019/2020/2021/2023/2024/2025/2026; IJCAI 2019/2020/2022; NeurIPS 2020/2021/2022/2023/2024; ICML 2020/2021/2022/2023/2024; ICLR 2020/2021/2022/2023/2024/2025
Journal Reviewer TPAMI, TKDE, TKDD, AIJ, SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences

Education


Awards


Last updated: Jan. 1, 2026