Fu-Yun Wang (IPA: [fu˧˥ yn˧˥ wɑŋ]) is a final year Ph.D. candidate at MMLab@CUHK. He works on post-training. Currently vibing with world model and agentic stuff.
Job market 2027 · always happy to chat about interesting research projects.
Recent Work New
mni: Context Unrolling in mni ModelsLatest Posts
Distributional Distillation I: From a Marginal KL to Two Scores
A complete derivation from density perturbations to the two-score and f-divergence gradients.
Distributional Distillation II: What the Methods Actually Estimate
Why SDS, VSD, DMD, DMD2, and Phased DMD do not optimize the same object.
Distributional Distillation III: From Scores to Particle Flows
The exact connection among KL-WGF, W-Flow, and Drifting Models—and where it ends.
Theoretical Analysis of ConsistencySolver
PF-ODEs, linear multistep methods, and the learnable solver update rule.
Theoretical Analysis of Rectified Diffusion
Why general diffusion rectification yields non-increasing optimal transport costs.
On the Equivalence of Consistency Models and MeanFlow
A continuous-time view connecting consistency objectives and MeanFlow.
Research Summary
Interactive tree diagram of my research. Click nodes to expand/collapse; click paper titles to visit links.
Research Directions
Internship Experience
ByteDance Seed Current
Research Intern · 2025.10 - Present
Video Generation, Multimodal Models
Mentor: Haoqi Fan
Reve Inc
Research Intern · 2025.6 - 2025.11
Multimodal LMs, Diffusion Models, RL
Supervised by: Dr. Han Zhang
Google DeepMind
Research Intern · 2025.2 - 2025.5
Diffusion Distillation, RL
Supervised by: Dr. Long Zhao, Dr. Ting Liu, Dr. Hao Zhou, Dr. LiangZhe Yuan
Collaborated with Prof. Bohyung Han, Prof. Boqing Gong
Avolution AI Acquired by MiniMax
Research Collaboration · 2023.10 - 2024.10
Video Diffusion, Distillation
Collaborated with: Dr. Zhaoyang Huang, Dr. Xiaoyu Shi, Weikang Bian
Tencent AI Lab
Research Intern · 2022.6 - 2022.12
Continual Learning
Supervised by: Dr. Liu Liu, Prof. Yatao Bian
Education
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ph.D. in Engineering · 2023 - Present
Supervisor: Prof. Hongsheng Li & Prof. Xiaogang Wang
Nanjing University
B.Eng. in AI (Rank 2/88) · 2019 - 2023
Supervisor: Prof. Han-Jia Ye & Prof. Da-Wei Zhou
Selected Publications
Categorized by theme. Full list on Google Scholar.
Diffusion Post-Training: Acceleration & Reinforcement Learning
Generative Vision Applications
Continual Learning
More
Talks
- TechBeat · Oct 2024
- Kuaishou Kling · Dec 2024
- Nanjing University · Jan 2025
- Talk video · Chinese
Awards
- 2026 JQ Investments ICML Travel Award · PromptRL
- 2026 Tencent Qingyun Travel Grant · ConsistencySolver
- 2025 CVPR Outstanding Reviewer
- 2023 HKPFS
Earlier awards
- 2023 Outstanding Graduate of NJU
- 2023 Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis of NJU
- 2022 Sensetime Scholarship
- 2022 Huawei Scholarship
- 2021 National Scholarship
Academic Services
Reviewer for TPAMI, TCSVT, PRL, CVPR, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, ECCV, ICCV, BMVC, and SIGGRAPH Asia.
Reviewing years
| CVPR / NeurIPS | 2023–2025 |
| ICLR / ICML | 2024–2025 |
| ECCV / ICCV | 2024 / 2025 |
| BMVC / SIGGRAPH Asia | 2024 / 2025 |
