Yan Xia

Researcher, MSRA, Research, Microsoft

Joined

May 2023

Names

Yan Xia (Preferred)

Emails

****@microsoft.com (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

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Career & Education History

Researcher

MSRA, Research, Microsoft (research.microsoft.com)

2011 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Frank K. Soong

Present

Expertise

GenAI

2020 – 2024

Publications

VibeVoice: Expressive Podcast Generation with Next-Token Diffusion
Zhiliang Peng, Jianwei Yu, Wenhui Wang, Yaoyao Chang, Yutao Sun, Li Dong, Yi Zhu, Weijiang Xu, Hangbo Bao, Zehua Wang, Shaohan Huang, Yan Xia, Furu Wei
- ICLR 2026 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
BitNet Distillation
Xun Wu, Shaohan Huang, Wenhui Wang, Ting Song, Li Dong, Yan Xia, Furu Wei
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Latent Sketchpad: Sketching Visual Thoughts to Elicit Multimodal Reasoning in MLLMs
Huanyu Zhang, Wenshan Wu, Chengzu Li, Ning Shang, Yan Xia, Yangyu Huang, YiFan Zhang, Li Dong, Zhang Zhang, Liang Wang, Furu Wei
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
11Plus-Bench: Demystifying Multimodal LLM Spatial Reasoning with Cognitive-Inspired Analysis
Chengzu Li, Wenshan Wu, Huanyu Zhang, Qingtao Li, Zeyu Gao, Yan Xia, Jose Hernandez-Orallo, Ivan Vulić, Furu Wei
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Imagine While Reasoning in Space: Multimodal Visualization-of-Thought
Chengzu Li, Wenshan Wu, Huanyu Zhang, Yan Xia, Shaoguang Mao, Li Dong, Ivan Vulić, Furu Wei
- ICML 2025 Conference
- Readers: Everyone
Imagine While Reasoning in Space: Multimodal Visualization-of-Thought
Chengzu Li, Wenshan Wu, Huanyu Zhang, Yan Xia, Shaoguang Mao, Li Dong, Ivan Vulić, Furu Wei
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Mind's Eye of LLMs: Visualization-of-Thought Elicits Spatial Reasoning in Large Language Models
Wenshan Wu, Shaoguang Mao, Yadong Zhang, Yan Xia, Li Dong, Lei Cui, Furu Wei
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
LLM as a Mastermind: A Survey of Strategic Reasoning with Large Language Models
Yadong Zhang, Shaoguang Mao, Tao Ge, Xun Wang, Yan Xia, Wenshan Wu, Ting Song, Man Lan, Furu Wei
- COLM
- Readers: Everyone
Not All Languages Are Created Equal in LLMs: Improving Multilingual Capability by Cross-Lingual-Thought Prompting
Haoyang Huang, Tianyi Tang, Dongdong Zhang, Xin Zhao, Ting Song, Yan Xia, Furu Wei
- EMNLP 2023 Findings
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors

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