I received my Ph.D. degree from the School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China in June 2024. My supervisors are Prof. Yingfei Sun and Prof. Jungang Xu. I received my B.S. degree from the College of Information Engineering at Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi, China in June 2018.

My research interests include computer vision and multimodal learning, specifically for image captioning. I have published some papers with .

📖 Educations

• 2018.09 - 2024.06, Ph.D. degree, School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing China.
• 2014.09 - 2018.06, B.S. degree, School of Information Engineering, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Shaanxi China.

🔥 News

• 2024.06.30:   🎓🎓 I officially graduated from UCAS.
• 2024.05.10:  ✅✅ I have passed my graduation defense.
• 2024.04:  🎉🎉 My doctoral thesis has passed the blind review.
• 2024.03:  📖📖 I have completed my doctoral thesis, and graduation is imminent.

📝 Publications

🎉 Main Contributions

• ArXiv ComfyUI-R1: Exploring Reasoning Models for Workflow Generation. Zhenran Xu, Yiyu Wang, Xue Yang, Longyue Wang, Weihua Luo, Kaifu Zhang, Baotian Hu, Min Zhang. arXiv preprint: abs/2506.09790, 2025

• ACL demo ComfyUI-Copilot: An Intelligent Assistant for Automated Workflow Development. Zhenran Xu, Xue Yang, Yiyu Wang, Qingli Hu, Zijiao Wu, Baotian Hu, Longyue Wang, Weihua Luo, Kaifu Zhang. Proceedings of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations (ACL-Demo), 2025  

• IJCNN CLIP-Driven Low-Cost Image Captioning. Yiyu Wang, Jungang Xu, Yingfei Sun. Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2024

• KSEM Improving Image Captioning with Image Concepts of Words. Yiyu Wang, Xunzhi Xiang (Co-first author), Kun Jing, Jungang Xu, Yingfei Sun. Proceedings of International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM), 2024

• ArXiv Text Data-Centric Image Captioning with Interactive Prompts. Yiyu Wang, Hao Luo, Jungang Xu, Yingfei Sun, Fan Wang. arXiv preprint: abs/2403.19193, 2024

• AAAI End-to-End Transformer Based Model for Image Captioning. Yiyu Wang, Jungang Xu, Yingfei Sun. Proceeding of AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022  

• Neurocomputing A Visual Persistence Model for Image Captioning. Yiyu Wang, Jungang Xu, Yingfei Sun. Neurocomputing, 2022

• ArXiv Image Captioning based on Deep Learning Methods: A Survey. Yiyu Wang, Jungang Xu, Yingfei Sun, Ben He. arXiv preprint: abs/1905.08110, 2019

🤝 Co-authored Works

• ACL main A Unified Agentic Framework for Evaluating Conditional Image Generation. Jifang Wang, Xue Yang, Longyue Wang, Zhenran Xu, Yiyu Wang, Yaowei Wang, Weihua Luo, Kaifu Zhang, Baotian Hu, Min Zhang. Proceedings of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025

• ArXiv FilmAgent: A Multi-Agent Framework for End-to-End Film Automation in Virtual 3D Spaces. Zhenran Xu, Longyue Wang, Jifang Wang, Zhouyi Li, Senbao Shi, Xue Yang, Yiyu Wang, Baotian Hu, Jun Yu, Min Zhang. arXiv preprint: abs/2504.07046, 2025  

• ICANN A Novel Image Captioning Method Based on Generative Adversarial Networks. Yang Fan, Jungang Xu, Yingfei Sun, Yiyu Wang. Proceeding of International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), 2019

💻 Work Experiences

• 2024.07 - Present, Algorithm Engineer, Alibaba International Digital Commerce Group, Hangzhou China.
• 2022.08 - 2023.08, Research Intern, Alibaba DAMO Academy, Beijing China.

🎖 Honors and Awards

• First Prize (Shaanxi Division) of CUMCM-2015 (Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling)
• “Top-100 Excellent Graduation Papers (Designs)” of the 2018 Batch of Undergraduates at Northwest A&F University
• Outstanding Graduates of Beijing’s Higher Education Institutions, 2024

💬 Others

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