Jierun Chen

Researcher, Huawei Technologies Ltd.

Joined

July 2022

Names

Jierun Chen (Preferred)

Emails

****@cse.ust.hk (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Huawei Technologies Ltd. (huawei.com)

2025 – Present

PhD student

HKUST (cse.ust.hk)

2019 – 2024

Undergrad student

Zhejiang University (zju.edu.cn)

2014 – 2018

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Shueng-Han Gary Chan

2019 – 2024

Expertise

Agentic AI

2025 – Present

LLM

VLM

2023 – Present

Efficient Models

2020 – Present

Low-level Vision

2019 – 2020

Publications

GRPO-VPS: Enhancing Group Relative Policy Optimization with Verifiable Process Supervision for Effective Reasoning
Jingyi Wang, Lei Zhu, Tengjin Weng, Song-Li Wu, Haochen Tan, Jierun Chen, Chaofan Tao, Haoli Bai, Lu Hou, Lifeng Shang, Xiao-Ping Zhang
- ICLR 2026 Workshop LLM Reasoning
- Readers: Everyone
DualRPO: All-in-one Visual RL with Internal and External Rewards
Sidi Yang, Chaofan Tao, Tiezheng YU, Jierun Chen, Haoli Bai, Lifeng Shang, Ngai Wong
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
ModalMix: Optimizing Multimodal Data Mixtures with Compute-Dependent Regression
Chaofan Tao, Zhuo Li, Xiao-Hui Li, Jierun Chen, Weike Jin, Haoli Bai, Lifeng Shang, Lu Hou
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
From Verifiable Dot to Reward Chain: Harnessing Verifiable Reference-based Rewards for Reinforcement Learning of Open-ended Generation
Yuxin Jiang, Yufei Wang, Qiyuan Zhang, Xingshan Zeng, Liangyou Li, Jierun Chen, Chaofan Tao, Haoli Bai, Lifeng Shang
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
InSight-o3: Empowering Multimodal Foundation Models with Generalized Visual Search
Kaican Li, Lewei Yao, Jiannan Wu, Tiezheng YU, Jierun Chen, Haoli Bai, Lu Hou, Lanqing HONG, Wei Zhang, Nevin L. Zhang
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
The Synergy Dilemma of Long-CoT SFT and RL: Investigating Post-Training Techniques for Reasoning VLMs
Jierun Chen, Tiezheng YU, Haoli Bai, Lewei Yao, Jiannan Wu, Kaican Li, Fei Mi, Chaofan Tao, Lei Zhu, Manyi Zhang, Xiao-Hui Li, Lu Hou, Lifeng Shang, Qun Liu
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Revisiting Referring Expression Comprehension Evaluation in the Era of Large Multimodal Models
Jierun Chen, Fangyun Wei, Jinjing Zhao, Sizhe Song, BOHUAI WU, Zhuoxuan Peng, S.-H. Chan, Hongyang Zhang
- ICLR 2025 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
StableKD: Breaking Inter-block Optimization Entanglement for Stable Knowledge Distillation
Shiu-hong Kao, Jierun Chen, S.-H. Chan
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Revisiting Referring Expression Comprehension Evaluation in the Era of Large Multimodal Models
Jierun Chen, Fangyun Wei, Jinjing Zhao, Sizhe Song, BOHUAI WU, Zhuoxuan Peng, S.-H. Chan, Hongyang Zhang
- Submitted to NeurIPS 2024 Track Datasets and Benchmarks
- Readers: Everyone
AsCAN: Asymmetric Convolution-Attention Networks for Efficient Recognition and Generation
Anil Kag, Huseyin Coskun, Jierun Chen, Junli Cao, Willi Menapace, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Sergey Tulyakov, Jian Ren
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone

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