About Me

I am a first-year M.S. student in Computer Science & Technology at Xi'an Jiaotong University. I received my B.S. from Yanshan University, ranked 1st out of 191. My research focuses on large language models and multimodal / omni-modal foundation models. I have interned at ByteDance Seed and TikTok, working on data and training optimization for omni-modal models as well as large-scale multimodal content understanding.

My research interests include:

  • Multimodal & Omni-modal Foundation Models
  • Continued Pre-training, Mid-training & Post-training
  • Data Curation, Training Diagnostics & Efficient Multimodal Reasoning

I am actively seeking research collaborations in LLMs and multimodal / omni-modal intelligence. I am deeply enthusiastic about ambitious, high-impact research—if our interests align, please feel free to reach out.

News

Recent Updates

  • 2026/07Two papers under review: GLaQ and QUMem.
  • 2026/07AERO accepted to COLM 2026.
  • 2026/06Two papers under review: Visual-OPSD and LogicGraph.
  • 2026/05Two papers — AGTAO (first author) and PhysPRMaccepted to ACL 2026.
  • 2026/02Started a research internship at ByteDance Seed, working on data and training optimization for omni-modal foundation models.
  • 2025/09Began my M.S. at Xi'an Jiaotong University.
  • 2025/06Received my B.S. from Yanshan University, ranked 1 / 191.
  • 2025/02Joined TikTok as an intern on multimodal content understanding.
  • 2024/07EMDFNet accepted to ICANN 2024 as an Oral presentation.

Selected Publications

Bold = me. Links open the code / project page where available.

PhysPRM teaser
PhysPRM: A Generative Process Reward Model with Fine-grained Diagnosis for Physics Problem Solving
ACL 2026
Yuxuan Dong, Xinyu Zhang, Lingling Zhang, Han Lai, Pengyu Li, Bifan Wei, Yaqiang Wu, Jun Liu.

Experience

Intern · ByteDance Seed
Seed-Omni · Data & Training Optimization

Worked on data and training optimization for Seed-Omni, spanning continued pre-training and mid-training across speech, text, and vision. Built a three-stage data-governance pipeline combining rule-based filtering, LLM-assisted review, and modality validation, together with sample- and token-level diagnostics for tracing loss spikes, data conflicts, and capability regressions. Developed reusable production and synthesis pipelines for dialect speech, VS2T, audio captioning and QA, SpeechQA, and long-form interleaved data, improving key workflows by up to 50×. Took end-to-end ownership of a 12B/128K, 463B-token mid-training run—from data recipe and training configuration through monitoring, checkpoint selection, evaluation, and regression attribution—and distilled the findings into reusable team practices.

Intern · TikTok, ByteDance
EcoMLLM · Multimodal Content Understanding

Led EcoMLLM, a unified multimodal-LLM framework for large-scale short-video content understanding that replaced a stack of task-specific models. Designed a two-stage cascade—a multi-view VLM producing structured descriptions plus a compact LLM for fast downstream inference—and built Juggle Pipeline, a Ray + Merlin data system with 30+ operators for constructing large-scale instruction data. Combined training-free token pruning, FP8 quantization, and visual-token compression to increase QPS from 5.65 to 17.1 (>3×) without measurable downstream degradation. The system achieved 59.58% video-VQA accuracy and around 90% precision and recall on core tasks; RL (GRPO) with CoT cold-start and composite rewards improved US recall by 35% and instruction following to 100%.

Education

M.S. in Computer Technology · Xi'an Jiaotong University
School of Computer Science and Technology
B.S. in Computer Science and Technology · Yanshan University
School of Information Science and Engineering

Rank 1 / 191 · GPA 4.13 / 4.50 · CET-4 632, CET-6 551

Honors & Awards

  • First-class Scholarship — six consecutive semesters
  • Siyuan Scholarship
  • Provincial Merit Student (Hebei)
  • CCPC (China Collegiate Programming Contest), Hebei — Silver Medal
  • "Challenge Cup" National Business-Plan Competition — National Bronze
  • National Energy-Saving & Emission-Reduction Competition — National 3rd Prize
  • RAICOM Robot Developer Contest — National 3rd Prize
  • National English Competition (NECCS) — National 2nd Prize
  • National College Student Innovation & Entrepreneurship Training Program — National-level Project Lead
  • 26th China Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Competition — Provincial 1st Prize
  • 50+ national / provincial / university awards in total