Dian Zheng 郑典

Building the Agentic World—Generators Are Just the Rendering Layer.

Ph.D. student, MMLab@CUHK, Prof. Hongsheng Li

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Biography

Novelty is always valuable, but should be balanced with practicality.

I am an PHD student at CUHK, MMLab, advised by Prof. Hongsheng Li. Before that, I obtain my master degree at SYSU in 2025, advised by Prof. Wei-Shi Zheng and B.E. degree at DLUT in 2022.

🛠️ Employment:
[2026/07—present] Research Intern, HunyuanImage Team@Tecent, Leader: Miles Yang.
[2025/07—2026/05] Research Intern, LongCat Team@Meituan, Mentor: Manyuan Zhang.
[2024/12—2025/06] Research Intern, Shanghai AI Laboratory, honored to be advised by Prof. Ziwei Liu.
[2024/05—2024/11] Research Intern, Alibaba.

I have some research collaborations about the topic below. Feel free to contact me.
• Unified Model (interleave gen; solving task conflicts)
• LLM / VLM / Gen Agent (skill; RL)
• Video Diffusion / World Model (long video gen; action tokenizer)
• Latent Reasoning

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Publications (* denotes equal contribution, and † denotes the corresponding author)

Agentic MLLM & Multimodal Reasoning

InterleaveThinker: Reinforcing Agentic Interleaved Generation
Dian Zheng, Harry Lee, Manyuan Zhang, Kaituo Feng, Zoey Guo, Ray Zhang, Hongsheng Li†
Arxiv, 2026 [Paper] [Code] [Project Page] [HF Demo]

OneSearch-VL: Unified Multimodal Deep Research Agent for Image and Video
Hongyu Li, Manyuan Zhang, Kaituo Feng, Shu Chen, Dian Zheng, Hao Li, Hao Yu, Zhangquan Chen, Zoey Guo, Ray Zhang, Shaofei Huang, Tianrui Hui, Linjiang Huang, Si Liu†
Arxiv, 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Gen-Searcher: Reinforcing Agentic Search for Image Generation
Kaituo Feng, Manyuan Zhang, Shuang Chen, Yunlong Lin, Kaixuan Fan, Yilei Jiang, Hongyu Li, Dian Zheng, Chenyang Wang, Xiangyu Yue†
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026
[Paper] [Code] [Project Page]

OneThinker: All-in-one Reasoning Model for Image and Video
Kaituo Feng, Manyuan Zhang, Hongyu Li, Kaixuan Fan, Shuang Chen, Yilei Jiang, Dian Zheng, Peiwen Sun, Yiyuan Zhang, Haoze Sun, Yan Feng, Peng Pei, Xunliang Cai, Xiangyu Yue†
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026 [Paper] [Code] [Social Media [量子位]]

EditThinker: Unlocking Iterative Reasoning for Any Image Editor
Hongyu Li, Manyuan Zhang, Dian Zheng, Ziyu Guo, Yimeng Jia, Kaituo Feng, Hao Yu, Yexin Liu, Yan Feng, Peng Pei, Xunliang Cai, Linjiang Huang, Hongsheng Li, Si Liu†
Arxiv, 2025
[Paper] [Code] [Project Page]

Unified Multimodal Model

Uni-Edit: Intelligent Editing Is A General Task For Unified Model Tuning
Dian Zheng, Manyuan Zhang, Hongyu Li, Hongbo Liu, Kai Zou, Kaituo Feng, Hongsheng Li†
Arxiv, 2026 [Paper] [Code] [Project Page]

LongCat-Next: Lexicalizing Modalities as Discrete Tokens
LongCat Team (Per company policy, interns are acknowledged.)
Tech Report, 2026 [Paper] [Code] [Blog] [Demo] [Social Media [机器之心]]

AIA: Rethinking Architecture Decoupling Strategy In Unified Multimodal Model
Dian Zheng, Manyuan Zhang, Hongyu Li, Kai Zou, Hongbo Liu, Ziyu Guo, Kaituo Feng, Yexin Liu, Ying Luo, Hongsheng Li†
Arxiv, 2025 [Paper] [Code] [Project Page] [Social Media [机器之心]]

Uni-MMMU: A Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Unified Benchmark
Kai Zou*, Ziqi Huang*, Yuhao Dong*, Shulin Tian, Dian Zheng, Hongbo Liu, Jingwen He, Bin Liu†, Yu Qiao†, Ziwei Liu†
ACL Main Conference, 2026 🏆️ Oral presentation
[Paper][Code][Project Page]

EchoGen: Cycle-Consistent Learning for Unified Layout-Image Generation and Understanding
Kai Zou, Hongbo Liu, Dian Zheng, Jianxiong Gao, Zhiwei Zhao, Bin Liu†
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026
[Paper]

Video Generation & World Model

VBench-2.0: Advancing Video Generation Benchmark Suite for Intrinsic Faithfulness
Dian Zheng*, Ziqi Huang*, Hongbo Liu, Kai Zou, Yinan He, Fan Zhang, Yuanhan Zhang, Jingwen He, Wei-Shi Zheng†, Yu Qiao†, Ziwei Liu†
Arxiv, 2025 [Paper] [Code] [Project Page] [Social Media [机器之心]]

HiAR: Efficient Autoregressive Long Video Generation via Hierarchical Denoising
Kai Zou, Dian Zheng, Hongbo Liu, Tiankai Hang, Bin Liu†, Nenghai Yu
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026 [Paper] [Code] [Project Page] [Social Media [量子位]]

SpatialDreamer: Self-supervised Stereo Video Synthesis from Monocular Input
Zhen Lv, Yangqi Long, Congzhentao Huang, Cao Li, Chengfei Lv†, Hao Ren, Dian Zheng
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025 [Paper]

Diffusion & Image Generation

Panorama Generation From NFoV Image Done Right
Dian Zheng, Cheng Zhang, Xiao-Ming Wu, Cao Li†, Chengfei Lv, Jian-Fang Hu, Wei-Shi Zheng†
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025 🏆️ Highlight
[Paper][Code][Project Page]

ProEdit : Inversion-based Editing From Prompts Done Right
Zhi Ouyang*, Dian Zheng*, Xiao-Ming Wu, Jian-Jian Jiang, Kun-Yu Lin, Jingke Meng†, Wei-Shi Zheng†
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026
[Paper] [Code] [Project Page] [Social Media [量子位]]

OpenSubject: Leveraging Video-Derived Identity and Diversity Priors for Subject-driven Image Generation and Manipulation
Yexin Liu, Manyuan Zhang, Yueze Wang, Hongyu Li, Dian Zheng, Weiming Zhang, Changsheng Lu, Yan Feng, Peng Pei, Xunliang Cai, Harry Yang†
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Diffusion Model for Volume based Stereo Matching
Dian Zheng, Xiao-Ming Wu, Zuhao Liu, Jingke Meng, Wei-Shi Zheng†
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2025 [Paper][Code]

Selective Hourglass Mapping for Universal Image Restoration Based on Diffusion Model
Dian Zheng, Xiao-Ming Wu, Shuzhou Yang, Jian Zhang, Jian-Fang Hu, Wei-Shi Zheng†
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
[Paper][Code]

Others

Decoupled Distillation to Erase: A General Unlearning Method for Any Class-centric Tasks
Yu Zhou*, Dian Zheng*, Qijie Mo, Ren-Jie Lu, Kun-Yu Lin†, Wei-Shi Zheng†
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025 🏆️ Highlight
[Paper] [Code]

Academic Service

Conference Reviewer:
CVPR: 2025, 2026
NeurIPS: 2024 (Top Reviewer), 2025, 2026
ICLR: 2025, 2026, 2027
ICML: 2025, 2026 (Gold Reviewer)
ECCV: 2026
AAAI: 2026, 2027
ACM MM: 2025, 2026
ICME: 2025, 2026
Journal Reviewer:
TIP
TCSVT
PR
CMV

Awards

CIE Outstanding Master's Thesis Award (中国电子学会硕士论文激励计划), 2025.
Outstanding Master's Thesis in Sun Yat-sen University (中山大学优秀硕士学位论文), 2025.
Outstanding Graduate in Sun Yat-Sen University (中山大学优秀毕业生), 2025.
Xiaomi Grand Prize Scholarship of Sun Yat-Sen University (中山大学小米特等奖学金), 2024.
NeurIPS2024 Top Reviewer, 2024.
First Prize, Academic Scholarship of Sun Yat-Sen University for Graduate Student (中山大学硕士研究生一等奖助金), 2022, 2023, 2024.
Outstanding Bachelor's Thesis in Dalian University of Technology (大连理工大学大学优秀本科学位论文), 2022.
Outstanding Graduate in Dalian University of Technology (大连理工大学优秀毕业生), 2022.