WEIYANG JIN

PhD Student of IDS (MMLab)
University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR, China

Email: wayneyjin@gmail.com

Biography

I am a Ph.D. student at MMLab, University of Hong Kong, starting from November 2025, supervised by Prof. Xihui Liu. I am also fortunate to be collaborating with Prof. Saining Xie. My research interests lie in machine learning, with a particular focus on how to build visual intelligence via representation and self-evolution.

News

2025/10 Will join HKU-MMLab and start my PhD career.

Selected Projects

(*: Equal Contribution, †: Project Leader)

Foundation Models 1

Next-Embedding Prediction Makes Strong Vision Learners

Sihan Xu, Ziqiao Ma, Wenhao Chai, Xuweiyi Chen, Weiyang Jin, Joyce Chai, Saining Xie, Stella X. Yu

Paper Code 336

Generative Models 3

SRUM: Fine-Grained Self-Rewarding for Unified Multimodal Models

Weiyang Jin*, Yuwei Niu*, Jiaqi Liao, Chengqi Duan, Aoxue Li, Shenghua Gao, Xihui Liu

Paper Code 90

Does Understanding Inform Generation in Unified Multimodal Models? From Analysis to Path Forward

Yuwei Niu*, Weiyang Jin*, Jiaqi Liao, Chaoran Feng, Peng Jin, Bin Lin, Zongjian Li, Bin Zhu, Weihao Yu, Li Yuan

Paper Code 60

WISE: A World Knowledge-Informed Semantic Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation

Yuwei Niu, Munan Ning, Mengren Zheng, Weiyang Jin†, Bin Lin, Peng Jin, Jiaqi Liao, Chaoran Feng, Kunpeng Ning, Bin Zhu, Li Yuan

Paper Code 206

Tech Report 3

JoyAI-Echo: Pushing the Frontier of Long Audio-Visual Generation

Echo Team

Paper Code 1,590

JoyAI-Image: Awaking Spatial Intelligence in Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation

JD Future Team

Paper Code 2,177

InternVLA-M1: A Spatially Guided Vision-Language-Action Framework for Generalist Robot Policy

Intern Robotics Team

Paper Code 416

World Model TBD

Stay tuned — exciting work on world models is on the way.

Experience

Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Intern Robotics Research Intern with Dr. Yilun Chen

May 2025 - Aug 2025
New York University, Vision-X Lab Research Intern with Prof. Saining Xie

Feb 2024 - May 2025
Westlake University, CAIRI Lab Research Intern with Prof. Stan Z. Li, IEEE Fellow

Apr 2023 - Feb 2024
Tsinghua University, AIR Research Intern with Prof. Hao Zhao

May 2022 - Apr 2023

Community Contribution

SOTA-Seminar, Founder An academic exchange community driven by interest, dedicated to communication in different fields and holding academic seminars regularly.
Lumina, Core-Member The largest embodied intelligence open-source community in China, dedicated to a more open and comprehensive embodied intelligence culture.