Xinyu Yang

About Me

Hi! My name is Xinyu Yang (杨心妤), a CS Ph.D. student at Cornell University , advised by Prof. Jennifer J. Sun. My research interest lies in Machine Learning and Computer Vision.

Previously, I got my bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Technology from Zhejiang University. During my undergraduate, I was fortunate to work with Prof. James Zou at Stanford and Prof. Fei Wu at ZJU.

News

• Feb 2026 One first-author paper accepted to CVPR 2026.
• Feb 2026 Joining Google Deepmind as a student researcher in Los Angeles.
• Dec 2025 One co-first-author paper published in Science.
• Sep 2025 One paper accepted to NeurIPS 2025.

Publications

* denotes equal contribution

• Live Interactive Training for Video Segmentation

  Xinyu Yang, Haozheng Yu, Yihong Sun, Bharath Hariharan, Jennifer J. Sun

  CVPR, 2026

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  Scientific production in the era of large language models

  Keigo Kusumegi*, Xinyu Yang*, Paul Ginsparg, Mathijs de Vaan, Toby Stuart, Yian Yin

  Science, 390(6779): 1240-1243, Dec 2025

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• Tracking and Understanding Object Transformations

  Yihong Sun, Xinyu Yang, Jennifer J. Sun, Bharath Hariharan

  NeurIPS, 2025

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  Navigating Dataset Documentation in AI: A Large-Scale Analysis of Dataset Cards on Hugging Face

  Xinyu Yang*, Weixin Liang*, James Zou

  ICLR, 2024

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  What's documented in AI? Systematic Analysis of 32K AI Model Cards

  Weixin Liang*, Nazneen Rajani*, Xinyu Yang*, Ezinwanne Ozoani, Eric Wu, Yiqun Chen, Daniel Scott Smith, James Zou

  Nature Machine Intelligence , 2024

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  Can large language models provide useful feedback on research papers? A large-scale empirical analysis

  Weixin Liang*, Yuhui Zhang*, Hancheng Cao*, Binglu Wang, Daisy Ding, Xinyu Yang, Kailas Vodrahalli, Siyu He, Daniel Smith, Yian Yin, Daniel A. McFarland, James Zou

  NEJM AI, 2024

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  Reconnecting the Broken Civilization: Patchwork Integration of Fragments from Ancient Manuscripts

  Yuqing Zhang*, Zhou Fang*, Xinyu Yang*, Shengyu Zhang, Baoyi He, Huaiyong Dou, Junchi Yan, Yongquan Zhang, Fei Wu

  ACM MM, 2023 (Oral)

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  Accuracy on the Curve: On the Nonlinear Correlation of ML Performance Between Data Subpopulation

  Weixin Liang*, Yining Mao*, Yongchan Kwon*, Xinyu Yang, James Zou

  ICML, 2023

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  MetaShift: A Dataset of Datasets for Evaluating Contextual Distribution Shifts

  Weixin Liang*, Xinyu Yang*, James Zou

  ICML 2022 Workshop (Contributed Talk)

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Awards & Honors

• 2022-2023Outstanding Graduates of Zhejiang Province
• 2022-2023Outstanding Graduates of Zhejiang University
• 2021-2022First-Class Scholarship for Outstanding Students, Zhejiang University
• 2020-2021Second-Class Scholarship for Outstanding Students, Zhejiang University
• 2019-2020National Scholarship
• 2019-2020First-Class Scholarship for Outstanding Students, Zhejiang University
• 2019-2020Outstanding Student Awards in Yunfeng College (15 out of 800 students)

Service

• ReviewerNeurIPS 2024-2025, NeurIPS D&B 2024, ICLR 2025, ICML 2025, CVPR 2026
• TeachingTeaching Assistant, Networks, Cornell University (Fall 2024)
• TeachingTeaching Assistant, Python Programming, Zhejiang University (Spring 2023)

Misc

• I started learning Chinese Calligraphy (a traditional form of writing characters from the Chinese language through the use of ink and a brush) and sketchy when I was nine. [Gallery]
• I love art and sports. I enjoy painting, photography, table tennis, piano, and classical music.