Haiyang Xu

USTC
B.S.
2020 - 2024
UC San Diego
Ph.D. student
2024 - Present

I am a third-year Ph.D. student at UCSD, advised by Dr. Zhuowen Tu. I have been working on generative models, especially controllability (BDM, Omni-ControlNet, SemLayer), image (Science-T2I, OverLayBench, OverLay++), and video (VideoNSA, LIFT, RECAP-Forcing). I'm now also interested in visual agents (EditAgent & ongoing!) and agentic robotics (ongoing!). For more details, check out my Research Notes.

I was a Research Intern at Adobe in 2026 Summer, working with Dr. Mingze Xu, Dr. Tianyu Wang, Dr. Jiteng Mu, and Dr. Jialu Li; at Adobe in 2025 Summer, working with Dr. Zhaowen Wang and Dr. Li-Yi Wei, Dr. Nanxuan Zhao, and Dr. Cuong Nguyen; and at NYU Courant in 2024 Fall, working with Dr. Saining Xie. During my undergraduate, I was fortunate to work with Dr. Xiangnan He.

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Experience

USTC
Research Intern
Jan 2022 - Jun 2023
NYU Courant
Research Intern
Jan 2024 - Nov 2024
Adobe
Research Intern
Jun 2025 - Nov 2025
Adobe
Research Intern
Jun 2026 - Sep 2026

Latest News

New! Sep 2026 CycleGen and OverLay++ are accepeted to NeurIPS 2026.
Feb 2026 SemLayer is accepted to CVPR 2026.
Jan 2026 VideoNSA is accepted to ICLR 2026.

Selected Publications (* equal contribution, † project leader)

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EditAgent: Rethinking Agentic Image Editing

Preprint 2026

Haiyang Xu, Tianyu Wang, Jialu Li, Jiteng Mu, Yuanjun Xiong, Jianming Zhang, Zhuowen Tu, Mingze Xu

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RECAP-Forcing: REtaining Content APpearances for Long Video Generation

Preprint 2026

Haiyang Xu, Zheng Ding†, Zhuowen Tu

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SemLayer: Semantic Generative Segmentation and Layer Reconstruction for Abstract Icons

CVPR 2026

Haiyang Xu, Ronghuan Wu, Li-Yi Wei, Nanxuan Zhao, Chenxi Liu, Cuong Nguyen, Zhuowen Tu, Zhaowen Wang

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OverLayBench: A Benchmark for Layout-to-Image Generation with Dense Overlaps

NeurIPS 2025

Bingnan Li*, Chen-Yu Wang*, Haiyang Xu*†, Xiang Zhang, Ethan Armand, Divyansh Srivastava, Xiaojun Shan, Zeyuan Chen, Jianwen Xie, Zhuowen Tu

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Bayesian Diffusion Models for 3D Shape Reconstruction

CVPR 2024

Haiyang Xu*, Yu Lei*, Zeyuan Chen, Xiang Zhang, Yue Zhao, Yilin Wang, Zhuowen Tu

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Omni-ControlNet: Dual-stage Integration for Conditional Image Generation

CVPRW 2024

Yilin Wang*, Haiyang Xu*, Xiang Zhang, Zeyuan Chen, Zhizhou Sha, Zirui Wang, Zhuowen Tu

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