Publications

Research in generative AI, conversational agents, computational design, and sensing.

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Preprints & manuscripts

  1. 2026 · Technical report

    X-Cache: Cross-Chunk Block Caching for Few-Step Autoregressive World Models Inference

    Yixiao Zeng, Jianlei Zheng, Chaoda Zheng, Shijia Chen, Mingdian Liu, Tongping Liu, Tengwei Luo, Yu Zhang, Boyang Wang, Linkun Xu, Siyuan Lu, Bo Tian, Xianming Liu

    arXiv:2604.20289, 2026

  2. 2024 · Preprint

    T2M-X: Learning Expressive Text-to-Motion Generation from Partially Annotated Data

    Mingdian Liu, Yilin Liu, Gurunandan Krishnan, Karl S Bayer, Bing Zhou

    arXiv:2409.13251, 2024

Journal & conference papers

  1. 2024 · Conference paper

    MindDial: Enhancing Conversational Agents with Theory-of-Mind for Common Ground Alignment and Negotiation

    Shuwen Qiu, Mingdian Liu, Hengli Li, Song-Chun Zhu, Zilong Zheng

    Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), pp. 746–759, 2024

    Earlier preprint: MindDial: Belief Dynamics Tracking with Theory-of-Mind Modeling for Situated Neural Dialogue Generation (2023; revised 2024).

  2. 2024 · Journal article

    Using generative model for intelligent design of dielectric resonator antennas

    Mingdian Liu, Hui Zhang, Jiming Song, Meng Lu

    Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 66(1), e34013, 2024

  3. 2022 · Journal article

    A portable system for isothermal amplification and detection of exosomal microRNAs

    Jingjing Qian, Qinming Zhang, Mingdian Liu, Yixuan Wang, Meng Lu

    Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 196, 113707, 2022

  4. 2021 · Conference paper

    Generative Adversarial Network-based design of dielectric resonator antenna for mmWave 5G applications

    Mingdian Liu, Hui Zhang, Meng Lu, Jiming Song

    2021 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (APS/URSI)

  5. 2020 · Journal article

    An IoT-enabled paper sensor platform for real-time analysis of isothermal nucleic acid amplification tests

    Mingdian Liu, Yuxin Zhao, Hosein Monshat, Zheyuan Tang, Zuowei Wu, Qijing Zhang, Meng Lu

    Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 169, 112651, 2020

  6. 2020 · Conference paper

    Portable instrument for paper-based isothermal nucleic acid amplification tests

    Mingdian Liu, Zheyan Tang, Hosein Monshat, Yuxin Zhao, Meng Lu

    Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), paper JTu2F.13, 2020

  7. 2019 · Conference paper

    Paper-based isothermal DNA amplification and real-time analysis

    Mingdian Liu, Hosein Monshat, Yuxin Zhao, Meng Lu

    2019 IEEE SENSORS, pp. 1–4

  8. 2017 · Journal article

    Titanium mesh based fully flexible highly efficient quantum dots sensitized solar cells

    Zhonglin Du‡, Mingdian Liu‡, Yan Li, Yanxue Chen, Xinhua Zhong

    Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 5(11), pp. 5577–5584, 2017

  9. 2016 · Conference proceedings

    基于钛网的 ZnO/ZnSe/CdSe 纳米片量子点敏化太阳能电池

    刘明典, 吴存存, 陈延学

    第三届新型太阳能电池学术研讨会论文集, 2016

Patents & applications

  1. 2026 · U.S. patent

    Finger swipe-based smart watch user interface (UI) control

    Xiang Li, Mingdian Liu

    US 12,535,887 B2 · January 27, 2026 · Innopeak Technology, Inc.

  2. 2025 · Published U.S. patent application

    Generating text-to-motion animations from partially annotated datasets

    Karl Bayer, Gurunandan Krishnan Gorumkonda, Mingdian Liu, Bing Zhou

    US 2025/0252637 A1 · Application 18/433,000 · August 7, 2025 · Snap Inc.

  3. 2017 · Chinese patent application

    The preparation method of flexible quanta sensitization solar battery based on titanium net

    刘明典, 陈延学, 杜中林, et al.

    Application 201710355831.4 · October 13, 2017 (Google Scholar record)

Last updated September 2026. ‡ Equal contribution.