About Me

Jian Liang

梁坚 (Jian Liang, Tim)
Associate Professor

NLPR, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
95 Zhongguancun East Road, 100190, Haidian, Beijing

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  liangjian92🌀gmail.com or jian.liang🌀nlpr.ia.ac.cn


Before joining CASIA in June 2021, I was a research fellow at the Vision and Learning Group, National University of Singapore, working with Dr. Jiashi Feng from June 2019 to April 2021. I obtained Ph.D. in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems from CASIA in Jan 2019, under the supervision of Prof. Tieniu Tan and co-supervision of Prof. Ran He and Prof. Zhenan Sun, and received my bachelor degree in Automation from Xi'an Jiaotong University in June 2013.

My current research interests mainly focus on representation learning, knowledge transfer, trustworthy AI (including security, privacy, or robustness in AI), and their applications in various computer vision problems.

I am open to discussion or collaboration. Feel free to drop me an email if you're interested.

News (the past year)

  • [2026/08] I am invited as an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. Image Process.

  • [2026/08] I am invited as an Action Editor for TMLR.

  • [2026/07] I am invited as serve as Senior Program Committee for AAAI 2027.

  • [2026/07] Our survey paper has been accepted to IJCV 2026.

  • [2026/06] Three papers have been accepted to ECCV 2026.

  • [2026/06] I am invited as an Area Chair of WACV 2027.

  • [2026/05] Four papers have been accepted to ICML 2026.

  • [2026/04] One paper has finally been accepted to PR.

  • [2026/04] Two papers have been accepted to ACL 2026 (1 main + 1 findings).

  • [2026/04] One paper has been accepted to IEEE TIP.

  • [2026/03] I am invited as an Area Chair of NeurIPS 2026.

  • [2026/01] Two papers have been accepted to ICLR 2026.

  • [2026/01] One paper has been accepted to IEEE TIP.

  • [2026/01] I am invited as an Area Chair of ICME 2026.

  • [2025/11] I am invited as an Area Chair of ICML 2026.

  • [2025/09] One paper has been accepted to NeurIPS 2025.

  • [2025/09] I am invited as an Area Chair of CVPR 2026.

Recent Work

OpenClaw Research: A Systematic Survey of Large Language Model Agents in Open Deployment

Abstract:

Shuo Lu, Kecheng Yu, Siru Jiang, Yinuo Xu, Bing Zhan, Yanbo Wang, Changxin Ke, Yuan Xu, Xin Xiong, Xinyun Zhou, Zhengbo Wang, Lijun Sheng, Aijing Yu, Haosen Yang, Yunpu Ma, Nicu Sebe, Tat-Seng Chua, Philip Torr, Ran He, Jian Liang©
Technical report, 2026
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Mi-Memory: A Lifecycle Memory Framework for Personal AI

Abstract:

Xule Liu, Hanlin Teng, Chao Li, Yanan Ni, Shuo Lu, Audrey Wang, Yijun Liu, Yunfei Wang, Xiaofeng Li, Xian Yi, Yuanfa Li, Kang Zhao, Jian Liang, Yuxuan Chen, Jinyuan Chen, Heng Qu, Kun Shao©, Jian Luan©
Arxiv technical report, 2026
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HarnessX: A Composable, Adaptive, and Evolvable Agent Harness Foundry

Abstract:

Tingyang Chen, Shuo Lu, Kang Zhao, Weicheng Meng, Hanlin Teng, Tianhao Li, Chao Li, Xule Liu, Jian Liang, Zhizhong Zhang, Yuan Xie, Heng Qu, Kun Shao©, Jian Luan©
Arxiv technical report, 2026
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Supervised Fine-Tuning for Reasoning Large Language Models: A Survey

Abstract:

Yongcan Yu, Kuangpu Guo, Jian Liang©, Lingxiao He, Meng Wang, Ran He
Technical report, 2026
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WorldCoder-Bench: Benchmarking Physically Grounded 3D World Synthesis

Abstract:

Shuo Lu, Yinuo Xu, Kecheng Yu, Siru Jiang, Yongcan Yu, Yubin Wang, Haitao Yang, Yuxiang Zhang, Bin Wang, Ran He, Jian Liang©
Arxiv technical report, 2026
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VeriTrip: A Verifiable Benchmark for Travel Planning Agents over Unstructured Web Corpora

Abstract:

Yuting Xu, Jiayi Tian, Jian Liang, Xin Xiong, Hang Zhang, Mu Xu, Xiao-Yu Zhang©
Arxiv technical report, 2026
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How to Train Your Deep Research Agent? Prompt, Reward, and Policy Optimization in Search-R1

Abstract:

Yinuo Xu, Shuo Lu, Jianjie Cheng, Meng Wang, Qianlong Xie, Xingxing Wang, Ran He, Jian Liang©
Arxiv technical report, 2026
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Do MLLMs Really Understand Space? A Mathematical Reasoning Evaluation

Abstract:

Shuo Lu, Jianjie Cheng, Yinuo Xu, Yongcan Yu, Lijun Sheng, Peijie Wang, Siru Jiang, Yongguan Hu, Run Ling, Yihua Shao, Ao Ma, Wei Feng, Lingxiao He, Meng Wang, Qianlong Xie, Xingxing Wang, Ran He, Jian Liang©
Arxiv technical report, 2026
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DeepResearch-Slice: Bridging the Retrieval-Utilization Gap via Explicit Text Slicing

Abstract:

Shuo Lu, Yinuo Xu, Jianjie Cheng, Meng Wang, Qianlong Xie, Xingxing Wang, Ran He, Jian Liang©
Arxiv technical report, 2026
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