👤 Biography
I am a first-year master student at Peking University, where I am co-supervised by Wentao Zhang and Weinan E at AAIS. I also closely work with Renrui Zhang. Previously, I had a wonderful time at Tiktok and MSRA, serving as research intern. More about my experience can be found in CV.
Many kind people helped me in my journey. If you want to talk more about research or seek advice that I might be able to provide, please no hesitation to reach out. My MBTI type is ENFJ(233), feel free to drop me an Email for any form of communication or collaboration!
📌 We have several academic intern positions at DCML Lab (Peking University). We actively work on Data-Centric AI and Vision-Language Model. If you like what we do, don’t hesitate to contact me. I currently lead a research group of master’s and undergraduate students at Peking University. I am proud to have helped many of them secure top-tier labs and internships. You can find more details in Mentorship.
🫡 Motivation: "Why do I do research?"
- To have the chance collaborating with global talents, I enjoy brainstorming and learning from people with different background.
- For the sheer fun and joy of discovery. The three keywords I'm pursuing are Insight | Innovation | Independence.
- I hope my research could decorate individual's daily life one day. Even if it’s just a ripple, I want to leave a mark on this world.
🔬 AI Researcher
- Current Interests focus on Unified Model and Reasoning
- Unified Model: Build Unified Representation and Make Understanding and Generation truly benefits each other.
- Reasoning: Think with (generated) image/ video, better adaptation to the real world environments.
☎️ Contact Info
- Address: Peking University, Beijing, China
- Email:
arctanxarc[AT]gmail.com - WeChat: arc2002822
- Do not fell embarrassed to contact me.
🎓 Educations
Peking University (2025.09-2027.09) M.S. in Mathematics
Xi’an Jiaotong University (2021.09-2025.06) B.Eng. in Software Engineering
🔥 News
[09.2025] 🎉 Three papers UniCTokens, PAM and A-CFG were accepted by NIPS 2025 (CCF-A), I have two (co-)first author papers!
[09.2025] 🎓 I joined Peking University and pursuing master's degree.
[03.2025] 🏆 I was awarded the Outstanding Graduate by XJTU.
[02.2025] 🎉 One paper MOVE-KD was accepted by CVPR 2025 (CCF-A), congratulations to Jiajun.
[12.2024] 🎉 One paper Draw and Understand was accepted by ICLR 2025, congratulations to Weifeng.
[06.2024] 🎉 One paper SSD-LLM was accepted by ECCV 2024, I am the co-first author, see you in Milano.
[05.2024] 🎉 One paper GDAD was accepted by KDD 2024 (CCF-A), congratulations to Renhong.
📝 Publications
📒 Selected publications/preprints
UniCTokens: Boosting Personalized Understanding and Generation via Unified Concept Tokens
- Ruichuan An, Sihan Yang, Renrui Zhang, Zijun Shen, Ming Lu, Gaole Dai, Hao Liang, Ziyu Guo, Shilin Yan, Yulin Luo, Bocheng Zou, Chaoqun Yang, Wentao Zhang
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025.
- [Paper] [Code, 100+ Stars🌟]
Perceive Anything: Recognize, Explain, Caption, and Segment Anything in Images and Videos
- Weifeng Lin*, Xinyu Wei*, Ruichuan An*, Tianhe Ren, Tingwei Chen, Renrui Zhang, Ziyu Guo, Wentao Zhang, Lei Zhang, Hongsheng Li
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025.
- [Paper] [Code, 300+ Stars🌟]
🥇 Honors and Awards
- (2025): Outstanding Graduate.
- (2024): Rising Star of the Year (5/2233) Highest personal honors in college.
- (2024, 2023, 2022): XJTU Outstanding Student*3
- (2023): Huawei Scholarship 10k CNY, only awarded to 3 undergraduate students in XJTU per year.
💼 Mentorship and Services
Conference reviewer
- ICLR 2025, NIPS 2025, ICCV 2025, ICRA 2025, FM@ICLR 2025
Mentorship
- Sihan Yang, XJTU -> PKU, Internship: Kuaishou, Kling, Tiktok
- Kai Zeng, TJU -> PKU, Internship: XiaoMi, Tiktok