Xiang An

Research scientist at MiniMaxMiniMax · 研究科学家

Xiang An 安翔

I work on visual representations and multimodal intelligence, building models that see more and compute less.

研究视觉表征与多模态智能，
让模型看见更多，计算更少。

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Research interests研究方向

Distributed ML分布式学习
Sparse learning at scale.面向大规模分类的稀疏学习。 Partial FC
Vision encoders视觉编码器
OneVision-Encoder · RiceViT · UNICOM / MLCD
Multimodal models多模态大模型
Mage-VL · LLaVA-OneVision-1.5 · LLaVA-OneVision-2.0 · 3DThinker / 4DThinker
Language models大语言模型
MiniMax-M3 · MiniMax-M3.1-Flash · MiniMax-M3-Pro

Selected publications精选论文

All publications全部论文
  1. LLaVA-OneVision-2: Towards Next-Generation Perceptual Intelligence
    Technical Report 2026
    Xiang An, Yin Xie, Feilong Tang, Yunyao Yan, Huajie Tan, Didi Zhu, Changrui Chen, Xiuwei Zhao, Bin Qin, Kaicheng Yang, Yifei Shen, Yuanhan Zhang, Kaichen Zhang, Wenkang Zhang, Zheng Cheng, Nansen Zhang, Chunsheng Wu, Chunjiang Ge, Zimin Ran, Dehua Song, Chunyuan Li, Shikun Feng, Ming Hu, Zhangquan Chen, Junbo Niu, Bo Li, Ziyong Feng, Ziwei Liu, Zongyuan Ge, Jiankang Deng
    [Ask AI] [Homepage] [Paper] [Code] [🤗 Models] [机器之心]
  2. OneVision-Encoder: Codec-Aligned Sparsity as a Foundational Principle for Multimodal Intelligence
    NeurIPS 2026
    Feilong Tang, Xiang An, Yunyao Yan, Yin Xie, Bin Qin, Kaicheng Yang, Yifei Shen, Yuanhan Zhang, Chunyuan Li, Shikun Feng, Changrui Chen, Huajie Tan, Ming Hu, Manyuan Zhang, Bo Li, Ziyong Feng, Ziwei Liu, Zongyuan Ge, Jiankang Deng
    [Ask AI] [Homepage] [Paper] [Code] [我爱计算机视觉] [Bilibili] [YouTube]
  3. LLaVA-OneVision-1.5: Fully Open Framework for Democratized Multimodal Training
    Technical Report, 2025
    Xiang An, Yin Xie, Kaicheng Yang, Wenkang Zhang, Xiuwei Zhao, Zheng Cheng, Yirui Wang, Songcen Xu, Changrui Chen, Didi Zhu, Chunsheng Wu, Huajie Tan, Chunyuan Li, Jing Yang, Jie Yu, Xiyao Wang, Bin Qin, Yumeng Wang, Zizhen Yan, Ziyong Feng, Ziwei Liu, Bo Li, Jiankang Deng
    [Ask AI] [Homepage] [Paper] [Code] [RL Page] [Megatron-NeMo-AutoModel] [搜狐科技] [机器之心] [Twitter] [YouTube]
  4. Mage-VL: An Efficient Codec-Native Streaming Multimodal Foundation Model
    Technical Report 2026
    Senqiao Yang, Kaichen Zhang, Zhaoyang Jia, Jinghao Guo, Yifei Shen, Xinjie Zhang, Xiaoyi Zhang, Haoqing Wang, Xiao Li, Peng Zhang, Xiang An, Yin Xie, Zhening Liu, Xun Guo, Jiahao Li, Shicheng Zheng, Jinglu Wang, Zongyu Guo, Wenxuan Xie, Zihan Zheng, Yuxuan Luo, Bin Li, Yan Lu
    [Ask AI] [Homepage] [Paper] [Code] [🤗 Mage-VL] [🤗 Mage-ViT]
  5. Think with 3D: Geometric Imagination Grounded Spatial Reasoning from Limited Views
    CVPR 2026
    Zhangquan Chen, Manyuan Zhang, Xinlei Yu, Xufang Luo, Mingze Sun, Zihao Pan, Xiang An, Yan Feng, Peng Pei, Xunliang Cai, Ruqi Huang
    [Ask AI] [Homepage] [Paper] [Code]
  6. Region-based Cluster Discrimination for Visual Representation Learning
    ICCV, 2025 (Highlight)
    Yin Xie, Kaicheng Yang, Xiang An (Project Leader), Kun Wu, Yongle Zhao, Weimo Deng, Zimin Ran, Yumeng Wang, Ziyong Feng, Jiankang Deng
    [Ask AI] [Homepage] [Paper] [Code] [知乎专栏]
    Highlight Presentation
  7. Multi-label Cluster Discrimination for Visual Representation Learning
    ECCV, 2024
    Xiang An, Kaicheng Yang, Xiangzi Dai, Ziyong Feng, Jiankang Deng
    [Ask AI] [Homepage] [Paper] [Code] [🤗 Transformers] [MLCD-Seg]
  8. Unicom: Universal and Compact Representation Learning for Image Retrieval
    ICLR, 2023
    Xiang An, Jiankang Deng, Kaicheng Yang, Jiawei Li, Ziyong Feng, Jia Guo, Jing Yang, Tongliang Liu
    [Ask AI] [Homepage] [Paper] [Code]
  9. Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Efficient and Robust Training of Face Recognition CNNs by Partial FC
    CVPR, 2022
    Xiang An, Jiankang Deng, Jia Guo, Ziyong Feng, Xuhan Zhu, Jing Yang, Tongliang Liu
    [Ask AI] [Homepage] [Paper] [Code] [MXNet] [PyTorch] [Glint360K] [知乎]
  10. Partial FC: Training 10 Million Identities on a Single Machine
    ICCVW, 2021
    Xiang An, Xuhan Zhu, Yuan Gao, Yang Xiao, Yongle Zhao, Ziyong Feng, Lan Wu, Bin Qin, Ming Zhang, Debing Zhang, Ying Fu
    [Ask AI] [Homepage] [Paper] [Code] [MXNet] [PyTorch] [Glint360K] [知乎]

Awards & Competitions荣誉与竞赛 §

Open Source开源项目 §

  1. InsightFace
    Open Source Library开源代码库
    #2 contributor to the open-source 2D & 3D deep face analysis library. Author of Glint360K (the largest open-source face recognition training dataset) and Partial FC (enabling training 10 million identities on a single machine). Also organized the ICCV 2021 Workshop on masked face recognition challenge.
    开源2D/3D深度人脸分析库的第二贡献者。Glint360K（最大开源人脸识别训练数据集）和Partial FC（实现单机训练千万级身份）的作者。还组织了ICCV 2021口罩人脸识别挑战赛Workshop。
  2. LLaVA-OneVision-1.5
    Multimodal LLM Framework多模态大模型框架
    Team Leader of this fully open framework designed to democratize multimodal training. Released mid-training and instruct data for community use, and developed offline sampling pack for efficient training. Implemented RiceViT with native resolution support.
    该完全开放框架的团队负责人，旨在推动多模态训练的民主化。向社区发布了中期训练数据和指令数据，并开发了离线采样包以提高训练效率。实现了支持原生分辨率的RiceViT。
  3. OneVision-Encoder
    Vision Encoder视觉编码器
    Project leader of this next-generation vision encoder that introduces codec-aligned sparsity as a foundational principle for multimodal intelligence. Achieves state-of-the-art performance on 16 image, video, and document understanding benchmarks while using substantially fewer visual tokens. Demonstrates 4.1% average improvement over Qwen3-ViT on video understanding tasks.
    下一代视觉编码器的项目负责人，提出编解码器对齐稀疏性作为多模态智能的基础原则。在 16 个图像、视频和文档理解基准上取得最先进性能，同时显著减少视觉 token 数量。在视频理解任务上比 Qwen3-ViT 平均提升 4.1%。
  4. UNICOM
    Image Retrieval Framework图像检索框架
    Lead author and maintainer of Universal and Compact Representation Learning framework for universal image representations. Designed the novel cluster discrimination approach for representation learning. Developed the multi-label and region-based extensions (published at ECCV 2024 and ICCV 2025 (Highlight)).
    通用紧凑表征学习框架的项目负责人和主要作者，用于通用图像表征。设计了新颖的聚类判别方法用于表征学习。开发了多标签和区域级扩展（分别发表于ECCV 2024和ICCV 2025 (Highlight)）。
  5. LLaVA-NeXT
    Large Multimodal Model多模态大模型
    Vision module contributor to the next-generation large multimodal model. Enhanced the OCR capability of the vision module for better text recognition in images. Optimized the visual encoder for processing text-rich and document images.
    下一代大型多模态模型的视觉模块贡献者。增强了视觉模块的OCR能力以改善图像中的文字识别。优化了视觉编码器以处理富文本和文档图像。
  6. Urban Seg
    Educational Project教学项目
    Author and maintainer of this educational project for semantic segmentation on remote sensing and satellite imagery. Designed a simple single-file training approach for accessibility and integrated popular pretrained models. Created comprehensive tutorials and documentation for beginners.
    该教育项目的作者和维护者，用于遥感和卫星图像的语义分割。设计了简洁的单文件训练方法以提高可用性，并集成了流行的预训练模型。为初学者编写了全面的教程和文档。

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