Researcher ยท Academic Portfolio

Xu YUAN

PhD Candidate @ PolyU

I'm currently a third-year PhD candidate at the Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), advised by Prof. Qing Li and Prof. Wenqi Fan. I received my Master's degree from Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (HITSZ) in March 2024 under the supervision of Prof. Zheng Zhang, and my Bachelor's degree from Harbin Institute of Technology at Weihai in June 2021.


Updates

News

Our paper โ€œmKG-RAGโ€ has been accepted by SIGIR 2026!

Our paper โ€œSUPERGLASSESโ€ has been accepted by CVPR 2026 Findings!

Focus Areas

Research Interests

Multimodal Large Language Models

Retrieval-Augmented Generation Latent Reasoning

Multimedia Learning

Multimodal Retrieval Multimodal Understanding Multimodal Generation

Trustworthy Machine Learning

Adversarial Examples Backdoor Learning
Output

Selected Publications

MAGIC: Marginal-Guided Compression with Optimal Transport for Efficient Visual Document Retrieval

Xu Yuan, Hua Liu, Wenqi Fan, Qing Li

Preprint, 2026

2026

AI Smart Glasses for Wearable Intelligence: From Egocentric Sensing to Agentic Personalization

Xu Yuan*, Yi Wang*, Zhuohang Jiang, Haohao Qu, Yujuan Ding, Shanru Lin, Guoliang Xing, Hongxia Yang, Jiannong Cao, Qing Li, and Wenqi Fan

Preprint, 2026

2026

mKG-RAG: Leveraging Multimodal Knowledge Graphs in Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-intensive VQA

Xu Yuan, Liangbo Ning, Qingqing Ye, Wenqi Fan, and Qing Li

Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2026

2026

SUPERGLASSES: Benchmarking Vision Language Models as Intelligent Agents for AI Smart Glasses

Zhuohang Jiang*, Xu Yuan*, Haohao Qu, Shanru Lin, Kanglong Liu, Wenqi Fan, Qing Li

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Findings, 2026

2026

HiBench: Benchmarking LLMs Capability on Hierarchical Structure Reasoning

Zhuohang Jiang*, Pangjing Wu*, Ziran Liang*, Peter Q. Chen*, Xu Yuan*, Ye Jia*, Tu Jiancheng*, Chen Li, Peter H. F. Ng, Qing Li

Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2025

2025

Instruction-guided Multi-Granularity Segmentation and Captioning with Large Multimodal Model

Xu Yuan*, Li Zhou*, Zenghui Sun, Zikun Zhou, and Jinsong Lan

Proceedings of the 39th Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025

2025

BadCM: Invisible Backdoor against Cross-Modal Learning

Zheng Zhang*, Xu Yuan*, Lei Zhu, Jingkuan Song, and Liqiang Nie

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 33: 2558-2571, 2024

2024

Semantic-Aware Adversarial Training for Reliable Deep Hashing

Xu Yuan, Zheng Zhang, Xunguang Wang, and Lin Wu

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 18: 4681-4694, 2023

2023
Community

Academic Service

Gold Reviewer

ICML 2026

Conference Reviewer

ICML, ICLR, CVPR, AAAI, KDD, SIGIR, and ACM MM

Journal Reviewer

TIP, TIFS, TMM, TKDD, and Information Fusion

Reach out

Get in touch

For collaborations, paper reviews or research inquiries โ€” I'm always happy to talk science.