Fan Zhang - 张帆

Biography

I am currently a Researcher at Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), where I mainly focus on multimodal foundation models and AIGC. I earned my master’s degree at Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the guidance of Prof. Feifei Ma and Prof. Jian Zhang.

News

• [01/2026] 🎉🎉🎉 Emu3 has been accepted by Nature!
• [01/2026] Our paper URSA has been accepted by ICLR 2026!
• [10/2025] We are thrilled to release Emu3.5!
• [09/2025] Our paper ETT has been accepted by NeurIPS 2025!

Selected Publications

Emu3.5: Native Multimodal Models are World Learners

Yufeng Cui*, Honghao Chen*, Haoge Deng*, Xu Huang*, Xinghang Li*, Jirong Liu*, Yang Liu*, Zhuoyan Luo*, Jinsheng Wang*, Wenxuan Wang*, Yueze Wang*, Chengyuan Wang*, Fan Zhang*, Yingli Zhao*, Ting Pan, Xianduo Li, Zecheng Hao, Wenxuan Ma, Zhuo Chen, Yulong Ao, Tiejun Huang, Zhongyuan Wang, Xinlong Wang

[paper] [project page] [github]

Uniform Discrete Diffusion with Metric Path for Video Generation

Haoge Deng*, Ting Pan*, Fan Zhang*, Yang Liu*, Zhuoyan Luo, Yufeng Cui, Wenxuan Wang, Chunhua Shen, Shiguang Shan, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Xinlong Wang

[paper] [github]

End-to-End Vision Tokenizer Tuning

Wenxuan Wang*, Fan Zhang*, Yufeng Cui*, Haiwen Diao*, Zhuoyan Luo, Huchuan Lu, Jing Liu, Xinlong Wang

NeurIPS 2025 [paper]

Emu3: Next-token prediction is all you need

Xinlong Wang*, Xiaosong Zhang*, Zhengxiong Luo*, Quan Sun*, Yufeng Cui*, Jinsheng Wang*, Fan Zhang*, Yueze Wang*, Zhen Li*, Qiying Yu, Yingli Zhao, Yulong Ao, Xuebin Min, Tao Li, Boya Wu, Bo Zhao, Bowen Zhang, Liangdong Wang, Guang Liu, Zheqi He, Xi Yang, Jingjing Liu, Yonghua Lin, Tiejun Huang, Zhongyuan Wang

[paper] [project page] [github]

Diffusion feedback helps clip see better

Wenxuan Wang*, Quan Sun*, Fan Zhang, Yepeng Tang, Jing Liu, Xinlong Wang

ICLR 2025 [paper] [project page] [github]

Densefusion-1m: Merging vision experts for comprehensive multimodal perception

Xiaotong Li*, Fan Zhang*, Haiwen Diao*, Yueze Wang, Xinlong Wang, Ling-Yu Duan

NeurIPS D&B 2024 [paper] [dataset] [github]

Eva-clip-18b: Scaling clip to 18 billion parameters

Quan Sun*, Jinsheng Wang*, Qiying Yu*, Yufeng Cui, Fan Zhang, Xiaosong Zhang, Xinlong Wang

[paper] [github]

Generative multimodal models are in-context learners

Quan Sun*, Yufeng Cui*, Xiaosong Zhang*, Fan Zhang*, Qiying Yu*, Yueze Wang*, Yongming Rao, Jingjing Liu, Tiejun Huang, Xinlong Wang

CVPR 2024 [paper] [project page] [github]

Capsfusion: Rethinking image-text data at scale

Qiying Yu*, Quan Sun*, Xiaosong Zhang, Yufeng Cui, Fan Zhang, Yue Cao, Xinlong Wang, Jingjing Liu

CVPR 2024 [paper] [github]

Emu: Generative pretraining in multimodality

Quan Sun*, Qiying Yu*, Yufeng Cui*, Fan Zhang*, Xiaosong Zhang*, Yueze Wang, Hongcheng Gao, Jingjing Liu, Tiejun Huang, Xinlong Wang

ICLR 2024 [paper] [github]

Acfnet: Attentional class feature network for semantic segmentation

Fan Zhang, Yanqin Chen, Zhihang Li, Zhibin Hong, Jingtuo Liu, Feifei Ma, Junyu Han, Errui Ding

ICCV 2019 [paper]

Honors & Awards

• CVPR WAD Video Segmentation Challenge 4/145, 2018
• “Star of Tomorrow” Internship Award of Excellence, MSRA, 2017
• Chinese Collegiate Programming Contest (CCPC) Hefei Site, Bronze Medal, 2016

Service

• Conference Reviewer: ICLR, NeurIPS, AAAI, SIGGRAPH Asia