RESEARCHER · JD FUTURE ACADEMY

I work on efficient large language models, diffusion-based generative systems, and unified multimodal intelligence — from the optimization underneath training to the architectures that shape images, video, and reasoning.

Previously, I received my M.S. from Peking University under the supervision of Prof. Zaiwen Wen, and my B.S. from Jiangnan University.

01Large Language Models02Diffusion Models03Multimodal Systems
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CURRENT FOCUS

Making generative models more efficient, scalable, and controllable.

LLM × DIFFUSION × MULTIMODAL
01 — PUBLICATIONS

Selected publications

Research on efficient optimization, language-model reasoning, and continuous generative modeling.

PEER-REVIEWED & SELECTED WORK
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ICML 2026

SetPO: Set-Level Policy Optimization for Diversity-Preserving LLM Reasoning

Chenyi Li*, Yuan Zhang*, Bo Wang, Guoqing Ma, Wei Tang, Haoyang Huang, Nan Duan

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IEEE TPAMI

Retraction-Free Optimization over the Stiefel Manifold for the LoRA Fine-Tuning

Yuan Zhang, Jiang Hu, Zhijian Lai, Lin Lin, Zaiwen Wen

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NeurIPS 2025

Generative Pre-trained Autoregressive Diffusion Transformer

Yuan Zhang*, Jiacheng Jiang*, Guoqing Ma*, Zhiying Lu, Haoyang Huang, Jianlong Yuan, Nan Duan

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ICML 2025

A Memory Efficient Randomized Subspace Optimization Method for Training Large Language Models

Yiming Chen*, Yuan Zhang*, Yin Liu, Kun Yuan, Zaiwen Wen

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ICLR 2025

Enhancing Zeroth-order Fine-tuning for Language Models with Low-rank Structures

Yiming Chen*, Yuan Zhang*, Liyuan Cao, Kun Yuan, Zaiwen Wen

TECHNICAL REPORTCORE CONTRIBUTOR
TECH REPORT

JoyAI-Image: Awaking Spatial Intelligence in Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation

Lin Song, Wenbo Li, Guoqing Ma, Wei Tang, Bo Wang, Yuan Zhang, Yijun Yang, Yicheng Xiao, Jianhui Liu, Yanbing Zhang, Guohui Zhang, Wenhu Zhang, Hang Xu, Nan Jiang, Xin Han, Haoze Sun, Maoquan Zhang, Haoyang Huang, Nan Duan

* Equal contribution

02 — BLOG

Notes & ideas

A space for research notes, technical walkthroughs, and ideas that are still taking shape.

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Writing in progress.

The first post will appear here.

03 — JOURNEY

Education & experience

JD Future Academy

Researcher · Generative AI
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