Mengkang Hu 胡梦康

I am a 1st-year Ph.D. student at The University of Hong Kong guided by Prof. Ping Luo (main) and Prof. Wenping Wang.

My research interest lies at the intersection of Embodied AI and Natural Language Processing (Large Language Models). Here are some interesting problem I am thinking about:   1) How to build lifelong evolving agent (LLM agent and RL agent);   2) Are Large Language Models good enough to model the world;   3) How to solve real-world problems with agent;

I am open to research discussions and collaborations, feel free to get in touch at [mkhu at connect dot hku dot hk]!

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Selected Publications

KET-QA: A Dataset for Knowledge Enhanced Table Question Answering
Mengkang Hu, Haoyu Dong, Ping Luo, Shi Han, Dongmei Zhang
COLING 2024
pdf | site
Tree-Planner: Efficient Close-loop Task Planning with Large Language Models
Mengkang Hu, Yao Mu, Xinmiao Yu, Mingyu Ding, Shiguang Wu, Wenqi Shao, Qiguang Chen, Bin Wang, Yu Qiao, Ping Luo
ICLR 2024
pdf | site
EmbodiedGPT: Vision-Language Pre-Training via Embodied Chain of Thought
Yao Mu, Qinglong Zhang, Mengkang Hu, Wenhai Wang, Mingyu Ding, Jun Jin, Bin Wang, Jifeng Dai, Yu Qiao, Ping Luo
NeurIPS 2023 (Spotlight)
pdf | code | site
TaCube: Pre-computing Data Cubes for Answering Numerical-Reasoning Questions over Tabular Data
Fan Zhou, Mengkang Hu, Haoyu Dong, Zhoujun Cheng, Shi Han, Dongmei Zhang
EMNLP 2022 (Oral)
pdf | code

Experience

Research Intern at Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
February 2023 - Present  |  Shanghai, China

Mainly focus on better use of LLMs in Embodied AI (efficiency, world modeling) under the supervision by Dr. Wenqi Shao.

Research Intern at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab
September 2022 - January 2023  |  Beijing, China

Mainly focus on empowering robotic systems with LLMs under the supervison of Dr. Bin Wang, Dr. Shiguang Wu and Prof. Jianye Hao.

Research Intern at Microsoft Research Lab – Asia
February 2022 - September 2022  |  Beijing, China

Mainly focus on intersection of TableQA and Knowledge Graph under the supervision of SR. Haoyu Dong and SR. Research Manager Shi Han.


Awards&Service

  • Reviewer of ICLR AGI Workshop 2024
  • National Scholarship (top 2%), 2021
  • First-Class Scholarship, 2019-2022
  • MSRA Stars of Tomorrow (Award of Excellent Intern), 2022
  • National First Prize in Mathematical Contest in Modeling (top 1%), 2020
  • Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Meritorious Winner, 2020,2021
  • National Third Prize in The 14th International Contest of innovAtioN, 2020
  • Invited Talks

  • 2024.04.16 Sharing Tree-Planner at RLChina. slides


  • Last update on February 2024.

    Design and source code from Jon Barron's website