Yinfei Yang

Researcher, AIML, Apple

Joined

September 2018

Names

Yinfei Yang (Preferred)

Emails

****@google.com (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

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Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

AIML, Apple (apple.com)

2021 – Present

Researcher

Research, Google (google.com)

2017 – 2021

MS student

CS, University of Pennsylvania (upenn.edu)

2012 – 2013

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coworker

Zhe Gan

2022 – Present

Coworker

daniel cer

2017 – 2021

PhD Advisor

ani nenkova

2013 – 2015

PhD Advisor

jianbo shi

2012 – 2013

Expertise

Vision-Language Model

2019 – Present

Representation Learning

2018 – Present

Information retrieval

question answering

2017 – Present

Multilinguality

2018 – 2021

Publications

Advancing Egocentric Video Question Answering with Multimodal Large Language Models
Alkesh Patel, Vibhav Chitalia, Yinfei Yang
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
MM-Spatial: Exploring 3D Spatial Understanding in Multimodal LLMs
Erik Daxberger, Nina Wenzel, David Griffiths, Haiming Gang, Justin Lazarow, Gefen Kohavi, Kai Kang, Marcin Eichner, Yinfei Yang, Afshin Dehghan, Peter Grasch
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Where did the Reasoning Go Wrong? A Benchmark of Puzzle-Based Visual Tasks with Error Detection
Yusu Qian, Cheng Wan, Chao Jia, Yinfei Yang, Qingyu Zhao, Zhe Gan
- ResponsibleFM @ NeurIPS 2025
- Readers: Everyone
MANZANO: A Simple and Scalable Unified Multimodal Model with a Hybrid Vision Tokenizer
Yanghao Li, Rui Qian, Bowen Pan, Haotian Zhang, Haoshuo Huang, Bowen Zhang, Jialing Tong, Haoxuan You, Xianzhi Du, Zhe Gan, Hyunjik Kim, Chao Jia, Zhenbang Wang, Yinfei Yang, Mingfei Gao, Zi-Yi Dou, Wenze Hu, Chang Gao, Dongxu Li, Philipp Dufter et al. (7 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Ferret-UI Lite: Lessons from Building Small On-Device GUI Agents
Zhen Yang, Zi-Yi Dou, Di Feng, Forrest Huang, Anh Tuan Nguyen, Keen You, Omar Attia, Yuhao Yang, Michael Feng, Haotian Zhang, Ram Ramrakhya, Chao Jia, Jeffrey Nichols, Alexander T Toshev, Yinfei Yang, Zhe Gan
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Score Distillation of Flow Matching Models
Mingyuan Zhou, Yi Gu, Huangjie Zheng, Liangchen Song, Guande He, Yizhe Zhang, Wenze Hu, Yinfei Yang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
UltraCUA: Scaling Computer Use Agent through GUI and Programmatic Control
Yuhao Yang, Zhen Yang, Zi-Yi Dou, Anh Tuan Nguyen, Omar Attia, Andrew Szot, Keen You, Michael Feng, Ram Ramrakhya, Alexander T Toshev, Chao Huang, Yinfei Yang, Zhe Gan
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Where Did the Reasoning Go Wrong? A Benchmark of Puzzle-Based Visual Tasks with CoT Error Detection
Yusu Qian, Cheng Wan, Chao Jia, Yinfei Yang, Qingyu Zhao, Zhe Gan
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Autoregressive Video Generation beyond Next Frames Prediction
Sucheng Ren, Jiasen Lu, Chen Chen, Zhenbang Wang, Liangchen Song, Xiangxin Zhu, Alan Yuille, Yinfei Yang
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
GIE-Bench: Towards Grounded Evaluation for Text-Guided Image Editing
Yusu Qian, Jiasen Lu, Tsu-Jui Fu, Xinze Wang, Chen Chen, Yinfei Yang, Wenze Hu, Zhe Gan
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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