Recent Publications
Interactive World Models
WorldRover: A Scalable Synthetic Video Data Engine for World Exploration with Rich Annotations
Xiaojie Xu*, Zhengyuan Lin*, Runyi Li, Yihao Liu, Kaipeng Zhang, Yongtao Ge (* equal contribution)
Tech Report 2026
WorldMark: A Unified Benchmark Suite for Interactive Video World Models
Xiaojie Xu, Zhengyuan Lin, Kang He, Yukang Feng, Xiaofeng Mao, Yuanyang Yin, Yongtao Ge, Kaipeng Zhang
Tech Report 2026
Yume-1.5: A Text-Controlled Interactive World Generation Model
Xiaofeng Mao, Zhen Li, Chuanhao Li, Xiaojie Xu, Kaining Ying, Tong He, Jiangmiao Pang, Yu Qiao, Kaipeng Zhang
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
VBench++: Comprehensive and Versatile Benchmark Suite for Video Generative Models
Ziqi Huang*, Fan Zhang*, Xiaojie Xu, Yinan He, Jiashuo Yu, Ziyue Dong, Qianli Ma, Nattapol Chanpaisit, Chenyang Si, Yuming Jiang, Yaohui Wang, Xinyuan Chen, Ying-Cong Chen, Limin Wang, Dahua Lin, Yu Qiao, Ziwei Liu (* equal contribution)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence(T-PAMI)
Multimodal Understanding and Generation
POSTA: A Go-to Framework for Customized Artistic Poster Generation
Haoyu Chen*, Xiaojie Xu*, Wenbo Li, Jingjing Ren, Tian Ye, Songhua Liu, Ying-Cong Chen, Lei Zhu, Xinchao Wang (* equal contribution)
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition(CVPR)
PreGenie: An Agentic Framework for High-quality Visual Presentation Generation
Xiaojie Xu, Xinli Xu, Sirui Chen, Haoyu Chen, Fan Zhang, Ying-Cong Chen
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing(EMNLP), Findings
Long-Video Audio Synthesis with Multi-Agent Collaboration
Yehang Zhang, Xinli Xu, Xiaojie Xu, Doudou Zhang, Li Liu, Ying-Cong Chen
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing(EMNLP), Main
Education
The University of TokyoPh.D. in Information and Communication Engineering · with Prof. Toshihiko Yamasaki.
The Hong Kong University
of Science and TechnologyM.Phil. in AI · with Prof. Ying-Cong Chen
University of Science
and Technology of ChinaB.Eng. in Automation · with Prof. Ligang Liu
Experience
Alaya Lab Tokyowith Dr. Kaipeng Zhang
Nanyang Technological Universitywith Prof. Chenyang Si and Prof. Ziwei Liu
Tencent AI Labwith Dr. Di Kang and Dr. Linchao Bao
Tsinghua Universitywith Prof. Hang Zhao
WeRidewith Dr. Xiang Guo
Awards
- BOOST PhD Fellowship (4 recipients university-wide)The University of Tokyo
- Full Postgraduate Scholarship (PGS)The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Outstanding GraduateUniversity of Science and Technology of China
- Outstanding Undergraduate Student ScholarshipUniversity of Science and Technology of China
- First Prize of Chinese Physics Olympiad (CPhO) in Jiangxi ProvinceChinese Physical Society