Hi! I’m Yuchen Huang (黄宇晨), a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where I am a member of MMSense Lab and supervised by Prof. Yi R. (May) Fung. I am currently a research intern at ByteDance’s Dreamina Team, working with Wangchunshu Zhou. Previously, I was a research intern at Tongyi Lab, Alibaba, collaborating with Daoyuan Chen and Yaliang Li. Prior to my Ph.D., I received my B.S. degree in Electronic Science and Technology from Zhejiang University (ZJU) in 2023, graduating with the Outstanding Graduate honor.
My research interests broadly lie in AI/NLP, with a particular focus on Agentic RL for MLLMs, Coding Agents, and Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI). Feel free to reach out for academic collaboration or casual discussions.
🔥 News
- 2026.08 🎉 SPARE is accepted by NeurIPS 2026 Workshop! See you in Sydney!
- 2026.06 🎉 GEAR and CDR-Bench are released on arXiv!
- 2026.03 🎉 H-EPM has been accepted by ICML 2026! See you in Seoul!
- 2025.11 🎉 A survey for Environment Scaling has been released and accepted by NeurIPS 2025 Workshop!
- 2025.09 💪 Joined Tongyi Lab, Alibaba as a research intern!
- 2025.07 🎉 CultureCLIP has been accepted by COLM 2025! See you in Montreal!
- 2025.05 🎉 MMBoundary has been accepted by ACL 2025 (Main)!
- 2024.10 💪 Joined MMSense Lab, HKUST!
- 2023.06 🎓 Obtained B.E. degree from Zhejiang University and selected as Outstanding Undergraduate!
📝 Publications
Multi-Modal Exploration
- NeurIPS 2026 Workshop Buried in Textual Debt: Context Pruning with Visual Evidence Preservation for MLLM Agents , Yuchen Huang, Sijia Li, Jun Zhang, Yi R. (May) Fung
- COLM 2025 CultureCLIP: Empowering CLIP with Cultural Awareness through Synthetic Images and Contextualized Captions, Yuchen Huang, Zhiyuan Fan, Zhitao He, Sandeep Polisetty, Wenyan Li, Yi R. (May) Fung
Agents and Tool Use
- arXiv 2026 GEAR: Granularity-Adaptive Advantage Reweighting for LLM Agents via Self-Distillation, Sijia Li, Yuchen Huang, Zifan Liu, Yanping Li, Jingjing fu, Li Zhao, Jiang Bian, Ling Zhang,Jun Zhang, Rui Wang
- ICML 2026 Experience-Evolving Multi-Turn Tool-Use Agent with Hybrid Episodic-Procedural Memory, Sijia Li, Yuchen Huang, Zifan Liu, Yanping Li, Zijian Li, Jingjing fu, Lei Song, Jiang Bian, Jun Zhang, Rui Wang
- NeurIPS 2025 Workshop Environment Scaling for Interactive Agentic Experience Collection: A Survey, Yuchen Huang, Sijia Li, Minghao Liu, Wei Liu, Shijue Huang, Zhiyuan Fan, Hou Pong Chan, Yi R. (May) Fung
LLM Reasoning
- arXiv 2026 CDR-Bench: Evaluating Faithful Execution of Compositional, Order-Sensitive Data Refinement Recipes, Yuchen Huang, Xiang Li, Zhenqing Ling, Sijia Li, Qianli Shen, Daoyuan Chen, Yi R. Fung, Yaliang Li
- ACL 2025 (Main) MMBoundary: Advancing MLLM Knowledge Boundary Awareness through Reasoning Step Confidence Calibration, Zhitao He, Sandeep Polisetty, Zhiyuan Fan, Yuchen Huang, Shujin Wu, Yi R. (May) Fung
- EMNLP 2025 (Main) MAC-Tuning: LLM Multi-Compositional Problem Reasoning with Enhanced Knowledge Boundary Awareness, Junsheng Huang, Zhitao He, Yuchen Huang, Sandeep Polisetty, Qingyun Wang, Yi R. (May) Fung
🎖️ Honors and Awards
- RedBird PhD Award (HKUST, 2023)
- Outstanding Graduate (Zhejiang Province, 2023)
- National Scholarship (Ministry of Education, China, 2019-20 & 2020-21)
- The First-Class Scholarship (Zhejiang University, 2019-20 & 2020-21 & 2021-22)
📖 Educations
- 🎓 Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering. HKUST. Sep. 2023 - Present.
- 🎓 B.S. in Electronic Science and Technology. Zhejiang University. Sep. 2019 - July 2023.
💻 Internships
- 🧐 Dreamina, Bytedance, Shenzhen, China. Oct. 2026 - Present.
- 🧐 Tongyi Lab, Alibaba, Hangzhou, China. Sep. 2025 - Sep. 2026.
- 🧐 Institute for AI Industry Research, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Jul. 2023 - Aug. 2023.
📑 Academic Service
- Reviewer: ICLR, NeurIPS, EMNLP, …
- Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Computer Science. HKUST, 2024-25 & 2026-27 Fall.
- Teaching Assistant: COMP2011 Programming with C++. HKUST, 2023-24 Spring.
✨ Miscellaneous
Apart from academic pursuits, I have a deep passion for 🎒travel, 🃏board game, and 📷 photography. I am also an avid sports enthusiast, with 🎾 tennis, 🏊 swimming, 🏀 basketball, ⛰️ hiking, and 🏃running being part of my daily fitness routine. I thrive on taking on challenges and firmly believe that the sky is the limit. I am a dedicated fan of the Golden State Warriors💙💛, and my 🐐 GOAT is 🧑🍳 chef 30 —— Stephen Curry!