Nan Duan

Principal Researcher, StepFun

Joined

July 2019

Names

Nan Duan

Emails

****@microsoft.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Principal Researcher

StepFun (step.ai)

2024 – Present

Principal Researcher

Microsoft Research Asia (microsoft.com)

2012 – 2024

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Ming Zhou

2008 – 2011

Expertise

Generative AI

Present

Foundation Model

Present

Natural Language Processing

2006 – Present

Publications

Generative Pre-trained Autoregressive Diffusion Transformer
Yuan Zhang, Jiacheng Jiang, Guoqing Ma, Zhiying Lu, Bo Wang, Haoyang Huang, Jianlong Yuan, Nan Duan
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Frame-Level Captions for Long Video Generation with Complex Multi Scenes
Guangcong Zheng, Jianlong Yuan, Bo Wang, Haoyang Huang, Guoqing Ma, Nan Duan
- Submitted to NeurIPS 2025
- Readers: Everyone
LVLM-Intrepret: An Interpretability Tool for Large Vision-Language Models
Gabriela Ben-Melech Stan, Estelle Aflalo, Raanan Yehezkel Rohekar, Anahita Bhiwandiwalla, Shao-Yen Tseng, Matthew Lyle Olson, Yaniv Gurwicz, Chenfei Wu, Nan Duan, Vasudev Lal
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Alchemy: Amplifying Theorem-Proving Capability Through Symbolic Mutation
Shaonan Wu, Shuai Lu, Yeyun Gong, Nan Duan, Ping Wei
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Automated Proof Generation for Rust Code via Self-Evolution
Tianyu Chen, Shuai Lu, Shan Lu, Yeyun Gong, Chenyuan Yang, Xuheng Li, Md Rakib Hossain Misu, Hao Yu, Nan Duan, Peng CHENG, Fan Yang, Shuvendu K Lahiri, Tao Xie, Lidong Zhou
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Voila-A: Aligning Vision-Language Models with User's Gaze Attention
Kun Yan, Zeyu Wang, Lei Ji, Yuntao Wang, Nan Duan, Shuai Ma
- NeurIPS 2024 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Not All Tokens Are What You Need for Pretraining
Zhenghao Lin, Zhibin Gou, Yeyun Gong, Xiao Liu, yelong shen, Ruochen Xu, Chen Lin, Yujiu Yang, Jian Jiao, Nan Duan, Weizhu Chen
- NeurIPS 2024 oral
- Readers: Everyone
Exploring the Mystery of Influential Data for Mathematical Reasoning
Xinzhe Ni, Yeyun Gong, Zhibin Gou, yelong shen, Yujiu Yang, Nan Duan, Weizhu Chen
- COLM
- Readers: Everyone
StrokeNUWA—Tokenizing Strokes for Vector Graphic Synthesis
Zecheng Tang, Chenfei Wu, Zekai Zhang, Minheng Ni, Shengming Yin, Yu Liu, Zhengyuan Yang, Lijuan Wang, Zicheng Liu, Juntao Li, Nan Duan
- ICML 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Using Left and Right Brains Together: Towards Vision and Language Planning
Jun CEN, Chenfei Wu, Xiao Liu, Shengming Yin, Yixuan Pei, Jinglong Yang, Qifeng Chen, Nan Duan, Jianguo Zhang
- ICML 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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