Xinyu Yang

CS Ph.D. student at Cornell University

About Me

Hi! I am 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, with a current focus on video understanding and generation. I have also worked on data-centric ML and empirical studies of LLMs.

Previously, I got my bachelor's degree (2019-2023) 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.

Experience

Student Researcher

Feb 2026 - Aug 2026 · Los Angeles, CA
- Hosts: Hao Zhou, Liangzhe Yuan, Jiaping Zhao
- Worked on Multi-control video generation.

Publications

* denotes equal contribution

SMG: Semantic Motion Graph for Monocular Dynamic Gaussian Splatting

Haozheng Yu, Xinyu Yang, Rundong Luo, Jennifer J. Sun, Bharath Hariharan

ECCV, 2026

Paper Project
Live Interactive Training for Video Segmentation

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

CVPR, 2026

Paper Project Code
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

Paper Code
Tracking and Understanding Object Transformations

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

NeurIPS, 2025

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

Xinyu Yang*, Weixin Liang*, James Zou

ICLR, 2024

Paper Code
Systematic Analysis of 32,111 AI Model Cards Characterizes Documentation Practice in AI

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

Nature Machine Intelligence , 2024

Paper Code
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)

Paper
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

Paper Website Video Code
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.