About
Hi there! I’m Xijia Tao (Ciel, or 陶熙佳).
I am currently a year 2 PhD student at HKUNLP lab. My recent research interests are multimodal deep research and diffusion large language models.
Publications
[ICLR 2026] MMSearch-Plus: A Simple Yet Challenging Benchmark for Multimodal Browsing Agents (2025)
Xijia Tao, Yihua Teng, Xinxing Su, Xinyu Fu, Jihao Wu, Chaofan Tao, Ziru Liu, Haoli Bai, Rui Liu, Lingpeng Kong
arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.21475 Project page | Paper
[arXiv] OmniPlay: Benchmarking Omni-Modal Models on Omni-Modal Game Playing (2025)
Fuqing Bie, Shiyu Huang, Xijia Tao, Zhiqin Fang, Leyi Pan, Junzhe Chen, Min Ren, Liuyu Xiang, Zhaofeng He
arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.04361 Paper
[NAACL 2025] ImgTrojan: Jailbreaking Vision-Language Models with ONE Image (2025)
Xijia Tao, Shuai Zhong, Lei Li, Qi Liu, Lingpeng Kong
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL 2025)
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[arXiv] Language Versatilists vs. Specialists: An Empirical Revisiting on Multilingual Transfer Ability (2023)
Jiacheng Ye, Xijia Tao, Lingpeng Kong
arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.06688 Paper