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Manyuan Zhang

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Staff Researcher at Meituan-M17, Hong Kong
Ph.D. from Multimedia Laboratory
Department of Electornic Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Email: zhangmanyuan@link.cuhk.edu.hk
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About me

Now, I am a Staff Researcher at Meituan-M17, Hong Kong. I received my Ph.D. from Multimedia Lab (MMLab), the Chinese University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof.Hongsheng Li and Prof.Xiaogang Wang. And I received my bachelor's degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2019. Previously, I was a Researcher at SenseTime Research.

During my six years at SenseTime Research, I was involved in many projects from scratch. We built the most reliable face recognition system in the world at that time (the champion of FRVT, ICCV MFR), the best video recognition model (the champion of ActivityNet Challenge Kinetics700), reimplemented the AI of StarCraft2 (DI-star) from scratch, developed an autonomous driving algorithm based on reinforcement learning (DI-drive), and most recently, the text-to-image AIGC product SenseMirage (DAU exceeded one million within a week for the first time in SenseTime’s history, earning a special commendation from the CEO). If you are interested in my work or career, please feel free to contact me. Now Hiring Self-motivated Interns! Providing >1000 H-series GPUs!

News

  • [2025-08] One paper accepted to EMNLP 2025.

  • [2025-06] One paper accepted to ICCV 2025.

  • [2025-05] I successfully defended my PhD thesis and officially became Dr. Zhang!

  • [2025-03] One paper accepted to CVPR 2025.

  • [2024-07] Two papers accepted to ECCV2024.

  • [2024-03] One paper accepted to SIGGRAPH2024.

  • [2023-07] Two paper accepted to ICCV2023.

  • [2023-07] I pass the PhD candidate test.

  • [2023-05] I am invited to be a reviewer for NIPS2023 and ICLR2023.

  • [2023-02] One paper accepted to CVPR 2023.

  • [2022-12] I am invited to be a reviewer for CVPR2023 and ICCV2023.

  • [2022-07] One paper accepted to ECCV 2022.

  • [2022-04] I am invited to be a reviewer for ECCV2022 and NIPS2022.

  • [2022-04] I am invited to ’智东西’ to give a talk about imitation learning in automatic driving.

  • [2021-10] We win three championships of ICCV 2021 Masked Face Recognition Challenge on glink360k track, unconstrained track and Webface260M track. Code and solutions will be released very soon.

  • [2021-07] We release DI-drive, the decision intelligence platform for autonomous driving simulation. I am responsible for the imitation learning part.

  • [2021-07] One paper accepted to ICCV 2021.

  • [2021-05] We win the championship of NIST FRVT 1:1.

  • [2020-12] We win the championship of NIST FRVT 1:N.

  • [2020-06] We win 2 championships of ActivityNet on the Spatio-temporal Action Localization (AVA) track and the Trimmed Activity Recognition (Kinetics 700) track.

  • [2020-06] One paper accepted to ECCV 2020.

  • [2020-04] We release the X-Temporal for easily implement SOTA video understanding methods with PyTorch on multiple machines and GPUs.

  • [2019-10] One paper accepted to ICCV 2019 LFR workshop.

  • [2019-10] We win the championship of ICCV19 Multi-Moments in Time (MIT) Challenge.

  • [2019-10] We win the championship of ICCV19 Lightweight Face Recognition Challenge.

Challenge Awards

Technical Report

Recent Publications

*equal contribition

  • LM-Searcher: Cross-domain Neural Architecture Search with LLMs via Unified Numerical Encoding
    Yuxuan Hu, Jihao Liu, Ke Wang, Jinliang Zheng, Weikang Shi, Manyuan Zhang, Qi Dou, Rui Liu, Aojun Zhou, Hongsheng Li
    2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

  • Lumina-image 2.0: A unified and efficient image generative framework
    Qi Qin, Le Zhuo, Yi Xin, Ruoyi Du, Zhen Li, Bin Fu, Yiting Lu, Jiakang Yuan, Xinyue Li, Dongyang Liu, Xiangyang Zhu, Manyuan Zhang, Will Beddow, Erwann Millon, Victor Perez, Wenhai Wang, Conghui He, Bo Zhang, Xiaohong Liu, Hongsheng Li, Yu Qiao, Chang Xu, Peng Gao
    2025 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

  • Let's Verify and Reinforce Image Generation Step by Step
    Renrui Zhang, Chengzhuo Tong, Zhizheng Zhao, Ziyu Guo, Haoquan Zhang, Manyuan Zhang, Jiaming Liu, Peng Gao, Hongsheng Li
    2025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

  • Three Things We Need to Know About Transferring Stable Diffusion to Visual Dense Prediciton Tasks
    Manyuan Zhang, Guanglu Song, Yu Liu, Hongsheng Li
    2024 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)

Selected Projects

  • X-Xemporal
    Easily implement SOTA video understanding methods with PyTorch on multiple machines and GPU.

  • DI-drive
    Decision Intelligence Platform for Autonomous Driving simulation.

Working Experience