👤 Biography
I am a first-year master student at Peking University, where I am co-supervised by Wentao Zhang and Weinan E at AAIS. I also closely work with Renrui Zhang. Previously, I had a wonderful time at Bytedance Seed and MSRA, serving as research intern.
My research focus on VLM/ Unified Model/ World Model/ Data, has accumulated 600+ citations. My work has been followed by Deepmind/ Nvidia Research/ Hunyuan and so on. I have received internship invitation and gift funding from Adobe and invited talk sessions from Microsoft because of my work, I believe this is a great recognition of my research.
Many kind people helped me in my journey. If you want to talk more about research or seek advice that I might be able to provide, please no hesitation to reach out. My MBTI type is ENFJ(233), feel free to drop me an Email for any form of communication or collaboration!
📌 We have several academic intern positions at DCML Lab (Peking University). We actively work on Data-Centric AI and Vision-Language Model. If you like what we do, don’t hesitate to contact me. I currently lead a research group of master’s and undergraduate students at Peking University. I am proud to have helped many of them secure top-tier labs and internships. You can find more details in Mentorship.
🫡 Motivation: "Why do I do research?"
- To have the chance collaborating with global talents, I enjoy brainstorming and learning from people with different background.
- For the sheer fun and joy of discovery. The three keywords I'm pursuing are Insight | Innovation | Independence.
- I hope my research could decorate individual's daily life one day. Even if it’s just a ripple, I want to leave a mark on this world.
🔬 AI Researcher
- My research aims to build next-generation Visual Foundation Models driven by Visual Priors. While language explains the world as a compressed interface, visual representations, which capture spatial structures, physical dynamics, and granular details, are essential to truly represent and simulate it.
☎️ Contact Info
- Address: Peking University, Beijing, China
- Email:
arctanxarc[AT]gmail.com - WeChat: arc2002822
- Do not fell embarrassed to contact me.
🎓 Educations
Peking University (2025.09-2027.09) M.S. in Mathematics
Xi’an Jiaotong University (2021.09-2025.06) B.Eng. in Software Engineering
🔥 News
[02.2026] 🎉 One paper VCU-Bridge was accepted by CVPR 2026, I'm the project leader for the first time!
[01.2026] 🎉 Three papers AesBench, SpikeGen and MV-RoboBench were accepted by ICLR 2026, I have one first author paper!
[09.2025] 🎉 Three papers UniCTokens, PAM and A-CFG were accepted by NIPS 2025 (CCF-A), I have two (co-)first author papers!
[09.2025] 🎓 I joined Peking University and pursuing master's degree.
[03.2025] 🏆 I was awarded the Outstanding Graduate by XJTU.
[02.2025] 🎉 One paper MOVE-KD was accepted by CVPR 2025 (CCF-A), congratulations to Jiajun.
[12.2024] 🎉 One paper Draw and Understand was accepted by ICLR 2025, congratulations to Weifeng.
[06.2024] 🎉 One paper SSD-LLM was accepted by ECCV 2024, I am the co-first author, see you in Milano.
[05.2024] 🎉 One paper GDAD was accepted by KDD 2024 (CCF-A), congratulations to Renhong.
📝 Publications
📒 Selected publications/preprints
UniCTokens: Boosting Personalized Understanding and Generation via Unified Concept Tokens
- Ruichuan An, Sihan Yang, Renrui Zhang, Zijun Shen, Ming Lu, Gaole Dai, Hao Liang, Ziyu Guo, Shilin Yan, Yulin Luo, Bocheng Zou, Chaoqun Yang, Wentao Zhang
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025.
- [Paper] [Code, 100+ Stars🌟]
Perceive Anything: Recognize, Explain, Caption, and Segment Anything in Images and Videos
- Weifeng Lin*, Xinyu Wei*, Ruichuan An*, Tianhe Ren, Tingwei Chen, Renrui Zhang, Ziyu Guo, Wentao Zhang, Lei Zhang, Hongsheng Li
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025.
- [Paper] [Code, 300+ Stars🌟]
🥇 Honors and Awards
- (2025): Outstanding Graduate.
- (2024): Rising Star of the Year (5/2233) Highest personal honors in college.
- (2024, 2023, 2022): XJTU Outstanding Student*3
- (2023): Huawei Scholarship 10k CNY, only awarded to 3 undergraduate students in XJTU per year.
💼 Mentorship and Services
Conference reviewer
- ICLR 2025, NIPS 2025, ICCV 2025, ICRA 2025, FM@ICLR 2025
Mentorship
- Sihan Yang, XJTU -> PKU, Internship: Kuaishou, Kling, Tiktok
- Kai Zeng, TJU -> PKU, Internship: XiaoMi, Tiktok
- Ming Zhong, ZJU, Internship: MinMax
