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'm interested in generative models, especially topics such as controllability, video, and robotics.

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Experience

USTC
Research Intern
Jan 2022 - Jun 2023
Advised by: Dr. Xiangnan He
Baidu
Research Intern
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
Advised by: Dr. Jingdong Wang
UC San Diego
Research Intern
Jul 2023 - Nov 2023
Advised by: Dr. Zhuowen Tu
NYU Courant
Research Intern
Jan 2024 - Nov 2024
Advised by: Dr. Saining Xie
Adobe
Research Intern
Jun 2025 - Nov 2025
Advised by: Dr. Zhaowen Wang
Adobe
Research Intern
Jun 2026 - Sep 2026
Advised by: Dr. Mingze Xu

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)

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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Vision Transformer with Attention Map Hallucination and FFN Compaction

arXiv 2023

Haiyang Xu, Zhichao Zhou, Dongliang He, Fu Li, Jingdong Wang

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