Shen Yan

Researcher, ByteDance Inc.

Joined

September 2019

Names

Shen Yan (Preferred)

Emails

****@msu.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

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****@bytedance.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

ByteDance Inc. (bytedance.com)

2024 – Present

Research Scientist

Google Research (google.com)

2022 – 2024

PhD student

Michigan State University (msu.edu)

2019 – 2022

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coworker

Xuehan Xiong

Present

Expertise

LLMs/VLMs

Present

Video understanding

Present

Publications

SpatialTree : How Spatial Abilities Branch Out in MLLMs
Yuxi Xiao, Longfei Li, Shen Yan, Xinhang Liu, Sida Peng, Yunchao Wei, Xiaowei Zhou, Bingyi Kang
- ES-Reasoning @ ICLR 2026 BestPaper
- Readers: Everyone
When Visualizing is the First Step to Reasoning: MIRA, a Benchmark for Visual Chain-of-Thought
Yiyang Zhou, Haoqin Tu, Zijun Wang, Zeyu Wang, Niklas Muennighoff, Fan Nie, Chaorui Deng, Shen Yan, Haoqi Fan, Yejin Choi, James Zou, Cihang Xie, Huaxiu Yao, Qinghao Ye
- NeurIPS 2025 ER Workshop Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Slim and Sparse: Towards Efficient Understanding–Generation Models
Shwai He, Chaorui Deng, Ang Li, Shen Yan
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
When Visualizing is the First Step to Reasoning: MIRA, a Benchmark for Visual Chain-of-Thought
Yiyang Zhou, Haoqin Tu, Zijun Wang, Zeyu Wang, Niklas Muennighoff, Fan Nie, Chaorui Deng, Shen Yan, Haoqi Fan, Yejin Choi, James Zou, Cihang Xie, Huaxiu Yao, Qinghao Ye
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
SpatialTree: Branching Out Spatial Intelligence in MLLMs via a Capability Tree
Yuxi Xiao, Longfei Li, Shen Yan, Sida Peng, Yunchao Wei, Xiaowei Zhou, Bingyi Kang
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Visual Spatial Tuning
Rui Yang, Ziyu Zhu, Yanwei Li, Jingjia Huang, Shen Yan, Siyuan Zhou, Zhe Liu, Xiangtai Li, Shuangye Li, Wenqian Wang, Yi Lin, Guang Shi, Hengshuang Zhao
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
SRPO: Enhancing Multimodal LLM Reasoning via Reflection-Aware Reinforcement Learning
Zhongwei Wan, Zhihao Dou, Che Liu, Yu Zhang, Dongfei Cui, Qinjian Zhao, Hui Shen, Jing Xiong, Yi Xin, Yifan Jiang, Chaofan Tao, Yangfan He, Mi Zhang, Shen Yan
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
MME-CoT: Benchmarking Chain-of-Thought in Large Multimodal Models for Reasoning Quality, Robustness, and Efficiency
Dongzhi Jiang, Renrui Zhang, Ziyu Guo, Yanwei Li, Yu Qi, Xinyan Chen, Liuhui Wang, Jianhan Jin, Claire Guo, Shen Yan, Bo Zhang, Chaoyou Fu, Peng Gao, Hongsheng Li
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Autoregressive Models in Vision: A Survey
Jing Xiong, Gongye Liu, Lun Huang, Chengyue Wu, Taiqiang Wu, Yao Mu, Yuan Yao, Hui Shen, Zhongwei Wan, Jinfa Huang, Chaofan Tao, Shen Yan, Huaxiu Yao, Lingpeng Kong, Hongxia Yang, Mi Zhang, Guillermo Sapiro, Jiebo Luo, Ping Luo, Ngai Wong
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Pixel Aligned Language Models
Jiarui Xu, Xingyi Zhou, Shen Yan, Xiuye Gu, Anurag Arnab, Chen Sun, Xiaolong Wang, Cordelia Schmid
- CVPR 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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