Zhiyang Xu

PhD student, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Joined

December 2019

Names

Zhiyang Xu (Preferred)

Emails

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Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (vt.edu)

2021 – 2026

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Lifu huang

2021 – 2026

Expertise

multimodal generative model

2018 – Present

Publications

R2I-Bench: Benchmarking Reasoning-Driven Text-to-Image Generation
Kaijie Chen, Zihao Lin, Zhiyang Xu, Ying Shen, Yuguang Yao, Joy Rimchala, Jiaxin Zhang, Lifu Huang
- EMNLP 2025
- Readers: Everyone
BLIP3-o: A Family of Fully Open Unified Multimodal Models—Architecture, Training and Dataset
Jiuhai Chen, Zhiyang Xu, Xichen Pan, Yushi Hu, Can Qin, Tom Goldstein, Lifu Huang, Tianyi Zhou, Saining Xie, silvio savarese, Le Xue, Caiming Xiong, Ran Xu
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
LaTtE-Flow: Layerwise Timestep-Expert Flow-based Transformer
Ying Shen, Zhiyang Xu, Jiuhai Chen, Shizhe Diao, Jiaxin Zhang, Yuguang Yao, Joy Rimchala, Ismini Lourentzou, Lifu Huang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
COMPASS: A Multi-Turn Benchmark for Tool-Mediated Planning & Preference Optimization
Tian Qin, Haoping Bai, Ting-Yao Hu, Raviteja Vemulapalli, Hema Swetha Koppula, Bowen Jin, Zhiyang Xu, Mert Cemri, Jiarui Lu, Zirui Wang, Meng Cao
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Transfer between Modalities with MetaQueries
Xichen Pan, Satya Narayan Shukla, Aashu Singh, Zhuokai Zhao, Shlok Kumar Mishra, Jialiang Wang, Zhiyang Xu, Jiuhai Chen, Kunpeng Li, Felix Juefei-Xu, Ji Hou, Saining Xie
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
AR-RAG: Autoregressive Retrieval Augmentation for Image Generation
Jingyuan Qi, Zhiyang Xu, Qifan Wang, Lifu Huang
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
LLM Can be a Dangerous Persuader: Empirical Study of Persuasion Safety in Large Language Models
Minqian Liu, Zhiyang Xu, Xinyi Zhang, Heajun An, Sarvech Qadir, Qi Zhang, Pamela J. Wisniewski, Jin-Hee Cho, Sang Won Lee, Ruoxi Jia, Lifu Huang
- COLM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Modality-Specialized Synergizers for Interleaved Vision-Language Generalists
Zhiyang Xu, Minqian Liu, Ying Shen, Joy Rimchala, Jiaxin Zhang, Qifan Wang, Yu Cheng, Lifu Huang
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
RoRA-VLM: Robust Retrieval-Augmented Vision Language Models
Jingyuan Qi, Zhiyang Xu, Rulin Shao, Zihao Lin, Yang Chen, Di Jin, Yu Cheng, Qifan Wang, Lifu Huang
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
SPARTUN3D: Situated Spatial Understanding of 3D World in Large Language Model
Yue Zhang, Zhiyang Xu, Ying Shen, Parisa Kordjamshidi, Lifu Huang
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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