Liang Chen (陈亮)

I am a third-year PhD student at the Institute of Computational Linguistics, Peking University advised by Baobao Chang.

Currently, I am interested in developing Multimodal Foundation Models, Agents and Web3-for-AI. Feel free to contact (leo.liang.chen at outlook.com).

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Education
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Peking University
School of Computer Science
2022.09 ~ 2027.06 (expected): PhD student
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Jilin University
School of Software, Honours degree
2018.09 ~ 2022.06: Software Engineering, Pilot Class
Experience

I have been fortunately interning and collaborating with:

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Microsoft Research Asia
Natural Language Computing Group, 2022.01-2022.12
Collaborating with Shuming Ma, Dongdong Zhang
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Tencent
NLP Research Group, 2023.03-2023.08
Collaborating with Tianyu Liu
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Alibaba
Qwen Group, 2023.10-2025.01
Collaborating with Junyang Lin, Shuai Bai, Tianyu Liu, Sinan Tan
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Moonshot AI
Multimodal Group, 2025.3-Current
Collaborating with Yuxin Wu and Xinyu Zhou
News

[2025.01.24] Two Papers are accepted to ICLR 2025 and NAACL 2025!

[2024.09.27] I got the National Scholarship for Graduate Students!

[2024.07.01] One Paper is accepted to ECCV 2024!

[2024.04.15] Two Papers are accepted to ACL 2024!

[2024.04.29] Got my national registered ski coach licence!

[2024.03.01] One paper is accepted by ICLR 2024!

Publication

(*indicates equal contribution)

Kimi-VL Technical Report
Kimi-VL Team
arXiv 2025
[code]

Multimodal Representation Alignment for Image Generation: Text-Image Interleaved Control Is Easier Than You Think
Liang Chen, Shuai Bai, Wenhao Chai, Weichu Xie, Haozhe Zhao, Leon Vinci, Junyang Lin, Baobao Chang
arXiv 2025
[code]

RLVR in Vision Language Models: Findings, Questions and Directions
Liang Chen, Lei Li, Haozhe Zhao, Yifan Song, Leon Vinci, Zihao Yue, Lingpeng Kong, Qi Liu, Baobao Chang
Notion Blog 2025
[code] 3k Stars!

Next Token Prediction Towards Multimodal Intelligence: A Comprehensive Survey
Liang Chen, Zekun Wang, Shuhuai Ren, Lei Li, Haozhe Zhao, Yunshui Li, ...
Survey 2025
[code]

A Spark of Vision-Language Intelligence: 2-Dimensional Autoregressive Transformer for Efficient Finegrained Image Generation
Liang Chen, Sinan Tan, Zefan Cai, Weichu Xie, Haozhe Zhao, Yichi Zhang, Junyang Lin, Jinze Bai, Tianyu Liu, Baobao Chang
ICLR 2025
[code]

MMEvalPro: Calibrating Multimodal Benchmarks Towards Trustworthy and Efficient Evaluation
Jinsheng Huang*, Liang Chen*, Taian Guo, Fu Zeng, Yusheng Zhao, Bohan Wu, Ye Yuan, Haozhe Zhao, Zhihui Guo, Yichi Zhang, Jingyang Yuan, Wei Ju, Luchen Liu, Tianyu Liu, Baobao Chang, Ming Zhang
NAACL 2025
[Homepage] [Dataset]

An Image is Worth 1/2 Tokens After Layer 2: Plug-and-Play Inference Acceleration for Large Vision-Language Models
Liang Chen, Haozhe Zhao, Tianyu Liu, Shuai Bai, Junyang Lin, Chang Zhou, Baobao Chang
ECCV 2024 (Oral, 2%)
[Code]

PCA-Bench: Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models in Perception-Cognition-Action Chain
Liang Chen, Yichi Zhang, Shuhuai Ren, Haozhe Zhao, Zefan Cai, Yuchi Wang, Peiyi Wang, Xiangdi Meng, Tianyu Liu, Baobao Chang
ACL-2024-Findings
[Code] [Leaderboard]

Large language models are not fair evaluators
Peiyi Wang, Lei Li, Liang Chen, Dawei Zhu, Binghuai Lin, Yunbo Cao, Qi Liu, Tianyu Liu, Zhifang Sui
ACL 2024
[Code]

MMICL: Empowering Vision-language Model with Multi-Modal In-Context Learning
Haozhe Zhao, Zefan Cai, Shuzheng Si, Xiaojian Ma, Kaikai An, Liang Chen, Zixuan Liu, Sheng Wang, Wenjuan Han, Baobao Chang
ICLR 2024
[Code]

Towards End-to-End Embodied Decision Making via Multi-modal Large Language Model: Explorations with GPT4-Vision and Beyond
Liang Chen, Yichi Zhang, Shuhuai Ren, Haozhe Zhao, Zefan Cai, Yuchi Wang, Tianyu Liu, Baobao Chang
Foundation Model for Decision Making Workshop @NeurIPS2023
[Code]

Guiding AMR Parsing with Reverse Graph Linearization
Bofei Gao*, Liang Chen*, Peiyi Wang, Zhifang Sui, Baobao Chang
EMNLP-2023-Findings
[Code]

On the Pareto Front of Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
Liang Chen*, Shuming Ma*, Dongdong Zhang, Furu Wei, Baobao Chang
NeurIPS 2023
[Code]

On the Off-Target Problem of Zero-Shot Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
Liang Chen, Shuming Ma, Dongdong Zhang, Baobao Chang, Furu Wei
ACL-2023-Findings
[Code]

基于概念预测和关系预测的AMR解析与对齐方法
陈亮,高博飞,张亦驰,常宝宝
《中文信息学报》
[Code]

A Two-Stage Method for Chinese AMR Parsing
Liang Chen, Bofei Gao, Baobao Chang
CCL-2022 Workshop
[Code] [Slides-ZH]

ATP: AMRize Then Parse! Enhancing AMR Parsing with PseudoAMRs
Liang Chen*, Peiyi Wang*, Runxin Xu, Tianyu Liu, Zhifang Sui, Baobao Chang
NAACL-2022-Findings
[Code] [Slides-ZH]

Focus on the Target's Vocabulary: Masked Label Smoothing for Machine Translation
Liang Chen, Runxin Xu, Baobao Chang
ACL 2022
[Code] [Slides-ZH] [Slides-EN]

Hierarchical Curriculum Learning for AMR Parsing
Peiyi Wang*, Liang Chen*, Tianyu Liu, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui
ACL 2022
[Code]

DialogSum: A Real-Life Scenario Dialogue Summarization Dataset
Yulong Chen, Yang Liu, Liang Chen, Yue Zhang
ACL-2021-Findings
[Code] [Homepage]

Crossed-Time Delay Neural Network for Speaker Recognition
Liang Chen, Yanchun Liang, Xiaohu Shi, You Zhou, Chunguo Wu
MMM 2021
[Code]

Academic Service

Reviewer: NeurIPS 2024, ICLR 2025, ACL Rolling Review 2022,2023,2024,2025

Honors & Awards
  • National Scholarship, 2024
  • Huawei Scholarship, 2023
  • Win the 2nd Place in Chinese-AMR-Parsing-2022 Evaluation at CCL, 2022
  • Honours Degrees in Software Engineering & Outstanding Student Award, Jilin University, 2022
  • CCF Elite Collegiate Award, 2021
Miscellaneous

Also on my way to become a ski coach.