Biography

I'm a PhD student at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, supervised by Prof. Ying-Cong Chen and Prof. Qifeng Chen.

I am always open to all forms of research collaboration, and we are always looking for self-motivated undergrad/master/mphil students to for research projects in Video/Image Generation, LLM/MLLM Reasoning. Students from both campuses of HKUST are especially welcome (other universities are also welcome). Feel free to ping me via Email or WeChat if you are interested in working with me!

Latest News
11/2025
One paper is accepted to AAAI'26!
09/2025
One paper is accepted to NeurIPS'25!
07/2025
One paper is accepted to MM'25!
05/2025
One paper is accepted to ICML'25!
02/2025
One paper is accepted to CVPR'25!
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02/2025
Served as a reviewer for ICCV'25.
02/2025
Served as a reviewer for Pattern Recognition.
12/2024
Served as a reviewer for ICML'25.
12/2024
One paper is accepted to AAAI'25!
11/2024
Served as a reviewer for CVPR'25.
08/2024
Served as a reviewer for ICLR'25.
07/2024
Two papers are accepted to MM'24!
05/2024
Served as a reviewer for NeurIPS'24.
02/2024
Served as a reviewer for ECCV'24.
01/2024
Served as a reviewer for MM'24.
01/2024
One paper is accepted to WWW'24 as Oral Presentation!
Selected Preprints
TiViBench
Show, Don't Tell: Morphing Latent Reasoning into Image Generation
Harold Haodong Chen*, Xinxiang Yin*, Wen-Jie Shu, Hongfei Zhang, Zixin Zhang, Chenfei Liao, Litao Guo, Qifeng Chen†, Ying-Cong Chen†
Preprint, 2026
[arXiv] [Code]
TiViBench
TiViBench: Benchmarking Think-in-Video Reasoning for Video Generative Models
Harold Haodong Chen*, Disen Lan*, Wen-Jie Shu*, Qingyang Liu, Sirui Chen, Wenkai Cheng, Kanghao Chen, Hongfei Zhang, Zixin Zhang, Rongjin Guo, Yu Cheng†, Ying-Cong Chen†
Benchmark Paper, 2025
[arXiv] [Webpage] [Code & Data]
ScalingAR
Go with Your Gut: Scaling Confidence for Autoregressive Image Generation
Harold Haodong Chen*, Xianfeng Wu*, Wen-Jie Shu, Rongjin Guo, Disen Lan, Harry Yang, Ying-Cong Chen†
Preprint, 2025
[arXiv] [Code]
Selected Publications
SRAM
Adaptive Evidential Learning for Temporal-Semantic Robustness in Moment Retrieval
Haojian Huang*, Kaijing Ma*, Jin Chen*, Haodong Chen, Zhou Wu, Xianghao Zang, Han Fang, Chao Ban, Hao Sun†, Mulin Chen†, Zhongjiang He
AAAI 2026
[Paper] [arXiv] [Code]
PhysHPO
Hierarchical Fine-grained Preference Optimization for Physically Plausible Video Generation
Harold Haodong Chen, Haojian Huang, Qifeng Chen, Harry Yang†, Ser-Nam Lim†
NeurIPS 2025
[Paper] [arXiv] [Webpage]
FineQuest
FineQuest: Adaptive Knowledge-Assisted Sports Video Understanding via Agent-of-Thoughts Reasoning
Haodong Chen, Haojian Huang, Xinxiang Yin, Dian Shao†
MM 2025 Oral Presentation
[Paper] [arXiv]
VistaDPO
VistaDPO: Video Hierarchical Spatial-Temporal Direct Preference Optimization for Large Video Models
Haojian Huang*, Haodong Chen*, Shengqiong Wu, Meng Luo, Jinlan Fu, Xinya Du, Hanwang Zhang, Hao Fei†
ICML 2025
[Paper] [arXiv] [Code] [Dataset]
FinePhys
FinePhys: Fine-grained Human Action Generation by Explicitly Incorporating Physical Laws for Effective Skeletal Guidance
Dian Shao†, Mingfei Shi, Shengda Xu, Haodong Chen, Yongle Huang, Binglu Wang
CVPR 2025
[Paper] [arXiv] [Webpage] [Code]
SeFAR
SeFAR: Semi-supervised Fine-grained Action Recognition with Temporal Perturbation and Learning Stabilization
Yongle Huang*, Haodong Chen*, Zhenbang Xu, Zihan Jia, Haozhou Sun, Dian Shao†
AAAI 2025
[Paper] [arXiv] [Code] [Dataset]
FineCLIPER
FineCLIPER: Multi-modal Fine-grained CLIP for Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition with AdaptERs
Haodong Chen, Haojian Huang, Junhao Dong, Mingzhe Zheng, Dian Shao†
MM 2024
[Paper] [arXiv] [Webpage]
CREST
CREST: Cross-modal Resonance through Evidential Deep Learning for Enhanced Zero-Shot Learning
Haojian Huang, Xiaozhen Qiao, Zhuo Chen, Haodong Chen, Bingyu Li, Zhe Sun, Mulin Chen†, Xuelong Li†
MM 2024
[Paper] [arXiv] [Code]
urbanclip
UrbanCLIP: Learning Text-enhanced Urban Region Profiling with Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining from the Web
Yibo Yan, Haomin Wen, Siru Zhong, Wei Chen, Haodong Chen, Qingsong Wen, Roger Zimmermann, Yuxuan Liang†
WWW 2024 Oral Presentation
[Paper] [arXiv] [Code]
Experience
Visiting Student @ HKUST
11/2024 - 06/2025
Advisor: Prof. Harry Yang
Research Intern @ Everlyn AI
08/2024 - 05/2025
Mentor: Prof. Ser-Nam Lim
Research Intern @ HKGAI
05/2024 - 08/2024
Mentor: Prof. Wenhan Luo
Honors & Awards
2025
Postgraduate Scholarship, HKUST(GZ)
2025
Outstanding Graduate Award, NPU
2025
Postgraduate Scholarship, HKUST
2023-2024
Outstanding University Student, NPU
2023-2024
University Scholarship, NPU
2023
University Student Innovation Fund, Ministry of Education of P.R. China
Invited Talks
01/2026
Think-in-Video Reasoning for Video Generation @TwelveLabs
Services
  • Conference Reviewer: MM (2024), ECCV (2024-2026), NeurIPS (2024-2025), ICCV (2025), ICLR (2025-2026), CVPR (2025-2026), AISTATS (2025-2026), ICML (2025-2026), AAAI (2026)
  • Journal Reviewer: Pattern Recognition, ACM TOMM
  • Teaching: AIAA3201-Introduction to Computer Vision-2026 Spring