Hanshu YAN (严 汉书)   (Pronouns: he/him/his)          school Google Scholar     
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Senior Research Scientist @ Salesforce Research

Ph.D in Machine Learning @ NUS

[email protected]

His current work focuses on multimodal agents and reasoning, also with applications in temporal analysis. He has experience in leading or co-leading multimodal generation projects, including MagicEdit and MagicAvatar for video generation/editing, PeRFlow for generation acceleration, and AdjointDPM for controllable generation. He was also involved in several large-scale multimodal projects, including Aria MLLM, MagicVideo, and Allegro. He will be dedicated to developing advanced AI for workflow automation and task planning.

He did PhD with Prof. Vincent Y. F. Tan and Dr. Jiashi Feng in NUS, with a research focus on robust deep vision models and optimizers. He also has been working closely with Dr. Junnan Li and Dr. Jun Hao Liew.

Academic Service: reviewer for ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, ACM Multimedia, etc.

Experiences

    Senior Research Scientist Salesforce Research, Singapore 01/2025 - Present
    Senior Research Scientist Rhymes.AI, Singapore 07/2024 - 12/2024
    Research Scientist ByteDance, Singapore 07/2022 - 07/2024

Education

    Ph.D,  ML NUS 2022
    M.Sc,  EE NUS 2017
    B.Eng, EE & Math BUAA 2015

Selected Papers

AIGC


Image    ^ ClassDiffusion: More Aligned Personalization Tuning with Explicit Class Guidance.
Jiannan Huang, Jun Hao Liew, Hanshu Yan, Yuyang Yin, Yao Zhao, Humphrey Shi, Yunchao Wei
ICLR 2025  



Image    ^ PeRFlow; Piecewise Rectified Flow as Universal Plug-and-Play Accelerator.
Hanshu Yan, Xingchao Liu, Jiachun Pan, Jun Hao Liew, Qiang Liu, Jiashi Feng
NeurIPS 2024  



Image    ^ DragDiffusion: Harnessing Diffusion Models for Interactive Point-based Image Editing.
Yujun Shi, Chuhui Xue, Jun Hao Liew, Jiachun Pan, Hanshu Yan, Wenqing Zhang, Vincent Y. F. Tan, Song Bai
CVPR 2024  


^ LightningDrag: Lightning Fast and Accurate Drag-based Image Editing Emerging from Videos.
Yujun Shi, Jun Hao Liew, Hanshu Yan, Vincent Y. F. Tan, Jiashi Feng
ICML 2025


Image    ^ MagicVideo-V2: Multi-Stage High-Aesthetic Video Generation.
Weimin Wang, Jiawei Liu, Zhijie Lin, Jiangqiao Yan, Shuo Chen, Chetwin Low, Tuyen Hoang, Jie Wu, Jun Hao Liew, Hanshu Yan, Daquan Zhou, Jiashi Feng
arXiv 2024  
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^ MagicVideo: Efficient Video Generation With Latent Diffusion Models.
Daquan Zhou, Weimin Wang, Hanshu Yan, Weiwei Lv, Yizhe Zhu, Jiashi Feng
arXiv 2023  


Image    ^ MagicEdit: High-Fidelity and Temporally Coherent Video Editing.
Jun Hao Liew*, Hanshu Yan*, Jianfeng Zhang, Zhongcong Xu, Jiashi Feng
arXiv 2023  


^ MagicAvatar: Multimodal Avatar Generation and Animation.
Jianfeng Zhang*, Hanshu Yan*, Zhongcong Xu*, Jiashi Feng, Jun Hao Liew*
arXiv 2023  
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^ MagicAnimate: Temporally Consistent Human Image Animation using Diffusion Model.
Zhongcong Xu, Jianfeng Zhang, Jun Hao Liew, Hanshu Yan, Jia-Wei Liu, Chenxu Zhang, Jiashi Feng, Mike Zheng Shou
CVPR 2024  



Image    ^ MagicProp: Diffusion-based Video Editing via Motion-aware Appearance Propagation.
Hanshu Yan*, Jun Hao Liew*, Long Mai, Shanchuan Lin, Jiashi Feng
arXiv 2023


Image    ^ AdjointDPM: Adjoint Sensitivity Method for Gradient Backpropagation of Diffusion Probabilistic Models.
Jiachun Pan*, Jun Hao Liew, Vincent Y. F. Tan, Jiashi Feng, Hanshu Yan*
ICLR 2024  
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^ SAG: Towards Accurate Guided Diffusion Sampling through Symplectic Adjoint Method.
Jiachun Pan*, Hanshu Yan*, Jun Hao Liew, Jiashi Feng, Vincent Y. F. Tan
arXiv 2023


Image    ^ MagicMix: Semantic Mixing with Diffusion Models.
Jun Hao Liew*, Hanshu Yan*, Daquan Zhou, Jiashi Feng
arXiv 2022


ML Robustness


Image    ^ Towards Adversarially Robust Deep Image Denoising.
Hanshu Yan, Jingfeng Zhang, Jiashi Feng, Masashi Sugiyama, Vincent Y. F. Tan
IJCAI 2022


Image    ^ CIFS: Improving Adversarial Robustness of CNNs via Channel-wise Importance-based Feature Selection.
Hanshu Yan, Jingfeng Zhang, Gang Niu, Jiashi Feng, Vincent Y. F. Tan, Masashi Sugiyama
ICML 2021


Image    ^ On Robustness of Neural Ordinary Differential Equations.
Hanshu Yan, Jiawei Du, Vincent Y. F. Tan, Jiashi Feng
ICLR 2020 Spotlight


Learning algorithms


Image    ^ Efficient Sharpness-aware Minimization for Improved Training of Neural Networks .
Jiawei Du, Hanshu Yan, Jiashi Feng, Joey Tianyi Zhou, Liangli Zhen, Rick Siow Mong Goh, Vincent Y. F. Tan
ICLR 2022


Image    ^ Towards Understanding Why Lookahead Generalizes Better Than SGD and Beyond.
Pan Zhou, Hanshu Yan, Xiaotong Yuan, Jiashi Feng, Shuicheng Yan
NeurIPS 2021