Yangyi Huang 黄洋逸

I am a Ph.D. student at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, working with Weiyang Liu at Sphere Lab.

My research focuses on training and adapting foundation models, especially post-training, parameter-efficient adaptation, and model geometry. I study how models acquire new capabilities while retaining existing ones.

Previously, I worked on 3D vision and generative modeling, including research at NVIDIA. I received my master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Zhejiang University, where I worked with Deng Cai.

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Research

* Equal contribution

Earlier work in vision & graphics

More publications (5)

Background

Education

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Ph.D. student, Computer Science and Engineering · Advisor: Weiyang Liu

Zhejiang University

M.Eng., Software Engineering · Advisor: Deng Cai

Zhejiang University

B.Eng., Computer Science · Chu Kochen Honors College

Research experience

Westlake University

Research assistant · Yandong Wen

NVIDIA Research

Research intern · Ye Yuan and Umar Iqbal

Xiaohongshu

Research intern, Creative AI · Hongwei Yi

Earlier research internship at SenseTime Research.

Service

Outstanding Reviewer, CVPR 2025.

Reviewer for CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, BMVC, KDD, TVCG, SIGGRAPH, and ACM Multimedia.

Curriculum vitae

Curriculum vitae · September 2026

Yangyi Huang 黄洋逸

Ph.D. student · Computer Science and Engineering · The Chinese University of Hong Kong

yyhuang@link.cuhk.edu.hk · Homepage · Google Scholar · GitHub

Research interests

Foundation-model training, post-training, parameter-efficient adaptation, and model geometry.

Education

Aug. 2025 — Present

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Ph.D. student, Computer Science and Engineering

Advisor: Weiyang Liu

Sep. 2021 — Jun. 2024

Zhejiang University

M.Eng., Software Engineering

Advisor: Deng Cai · State Key Lab of CAD&CG

Sep. 2017 — Jun. 2021

Zhejiang University

B.Eng., Computer Science

Chu Kochen Honors College

Research experience

Aug. 2025 — Present

Sphere Lab, CUHK

Ph.D. researcher

Working with Weiyang Liu

Jan. 2025 — Jul. 2025

Westlake University

Research assistant

Working with Yandong Wen

Nov. 2023 — Aug. 2024

NVIDIA Research

Research intern

Working with Ye Yuan and Umar Iqbal

Sep. 2022 — Aug. 2023

Xiaohongshu

Research intern, Creative AI

Working with Hongwei Yi

2020 — 2022

SenseTime Research

Research intern

Selected publications & research projects

* Equal contribution.

PEFT-Arena: Understanding Parameter-Efficient Finetuning from a Stability-Plasticity Perspective

Yangyi Huang*, Ruotian Peng*, Zeju Qiu, Jiale Kang, Yandong Wen, Bernhard Schölkopf, Weiyang Liu

Findings of EMNLP 2026  ·  Paper Code Project

Compositional Machine Design as Program Synthesis with LLMs

Wenqian Zhang, Yangyi Huang, Weiyang Liu, Zhen Liu

EMNLP 2026 · Main Conference  ·  Paper Code Project

Orbit: Stable and Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Trillion-Parameter LLMs

Zeju Qiu*, Le Chen*, Lixin Liu*, Tim Z. Xiao, Yao Feng, Yangyi Huang, Zhen Liu, Han Shi, Yandong Wen, Zhouliang Yu, Bernhard Schölkopf, Weiyang Liu

Open-source project · 2026  ·  Project & report

Symbolic Graphics Programming with Large Language Models

Yamei Chen*, Haoquan Zhang*, Yangyi Huang, Zeju Qiu, Kaipeng Zhang, Yandong Wen, Weiyang Liu

TMLR · 2026  ·  Paper Code Project

AdaHuman: Animatable Detailed 3D Human Generation with Compositional Multiview Diffusion

Yangyi Huang, Ye Yuan, Xueting Li, Jan Kautz, Umar Iqbal

ICCV · 2025  ·  Paper Project

TeCH: Text-guided Reconstruction of Lifelike Clothed Humans

Yangyi Huang*, Hongwei Yi*, Yuliang Xiu*, Tingting Liao, Jiaxiang Tang, Deng Cai, Justus Thies

3DV · 2024  ·  Paper Code Project

One-shot Implicit Animatable Avatars with Model-based Priors

Yangyi Huang*, Hongwei Yi*, Weiyang Liu, Haofan Wang, Boxi Wu, Wenxiao Wang, Binbin Lin, Debing Zhang, Deng Cai

ICCV · 2023  ·  Paper Code Project

Service & selected honors

Outstanding Reviewer, CVPR 2025.
Reviewer for CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, BMVC, KDD, TVCG, SIGGRAPH, and ACM Multimedia.

Outstanding Graduate, Zhejiang University (master’s, 2024; undergraduate, 2021).
Outstanding Intern of the Year, SenseTime (2021).
Gold Medal, CCPC Jilin Regional, 4th place (2018).
Gold Medal, ACM-ICPC Asia Xi’an Regional (2017).

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