About

I'm a fourth-year PhD student at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (expected graduation in June 2027), advised by Prof. Ping Tan.

I was fortunate to intern at Tencent Hunyuan Foundation Model Team, where I contributed to Hy Image Pre-Training, e.g. model architecture designs of Hy Image 3.5. Besides, I also worked on next architecture of Hy Image series.

My research works toward multimodal foundation models and pretraining, including:

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Representative Work

Rosetta
Rosetta: Composable Native Multimodal Pretraining
- open-source native multimodal pretraining without catastrophic forgetting.
Xiangyue Liu, Zijian Zhang, Miles Yang, Zhao Zhong, Liefeng Bo, Ping Tan
[arXiv] [Project] [HF] [Code] GitHub Stars
NeurIPS 2026
Symbiotic-MoE
Symbiotic-MoE: Unlocking the Synergy between Generation and Understanding
- native multimodal MoE pretraining that unlocks cross-modal synergy.
Xiangyue Liu, Zijian Zhang, Miles Yang, Zhao Zhong, Liefeng Bo, Ping Tan
[arXiv]
ECCV 2026
Plan-and-Paint
Plan-and-Paint: Collaborating Semantic and Noise Reasoning for Text-to-Image Generation
- semantic planning (CoT) and RL (GRPO) on the initial noise prior for controllable text-to-image generation.
Xiangyue Liu, Ping Tan
[Preprint]
NoiseAR
NoiseAR: AutoRegressing Initial Noise Prior for Diffusion Models
- plug-and-play module that autoregressively learns a text-controllable initial noise prior for diffusion models.
Zeming Li*, Xiangyue Liu*, Xiangyu Zhang, Ping Tan, Heung-Yeung Shum
[arXiv] [Code] GitHub Stars
GaussianAvatar-Editor: Photorealistic Animatable Gaussian Head Avatar Editor
— text-driven editing of animatable Gaussian head avatars that can be fully controlled in expression, pose, and viewpoint.
Xiangyue Liu, Kunming Luo, Heng Li, Qi Zhang, Yuan Liu, Li Yi, Ping Tan
[Paper] [Project] [Code] GitHub Stars
3DV 2025 (Accept without Rebuttal)
GenN2N: Generative NeRF2NeRF Translation
— a unified NeRF-to-NeRF translation framework for various NeRF translation tasks such as text-driven NeRF editing, colorization, super-resolution, inpainting, etc.
Xiangyue Liu, Han Xue, Kunming Luo, Ping Tan, Li Yi
[Paper] [Project] [Report] [Code] GitHub Stars
CVPR 2024 (Reviews: 5,5,4 — Strong Accept 5)

Education & Visiting

  • Ph.D. Candidate, HKUSTECE · Advisor: Prof. Ping Tan Sep. 2023 – Present
  • RA, Tsinghua UniversityIIIS · Advisors: Prof. Li Yi & Prof. Yang Gao Aug. 2021 – Aug. 2023
  • M.S., Beihang UniversitySoftware Engineering Sep. 2018 – Jun. 2021
  • B.E., Northeast Normal UniversitySoftware Engineering Sep. 2014 – Jun. 2018

Honors & Awards

  • Outstanding Graduate Student of Beijing. 06/2021
  • Top 0.3% in 3D Instance Segmentation Challenge at IJCAI 2020. (Rank 2 out of 559) 08/2020
  • National College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program. 10/2016

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