Hi, I'm Yaoyang Liu

📰 News

• 2026.10 🚀RAR is out on arXiv — one interactive world model, any rollout rate.
• 2026.05 ⚡SwiftI2V is out — 2K image-to-video generation on a single RTX 4090.
• 2026.04 🎉BA-Att is accepted to CVPR 2026 Findings.
• 2026.01 🎉V2P-Bench is accepted to ICLR 2026.
• 2025.09 🎓Started my Ph.D. at HKUST, advised by Prof. Long Chen.
• 2025.06 🎉Magic Mirror is accepted to ICCV 2025.
• 2024.09 ✨ChronoMagic-Bench is accepted to NeurIPS 2024 D&B Track as a Spotlight.

📝 Selected PublicationsAll publications

RAR: Rate-Adaptive Rollout for Time-Consistent Interactive World Models

Yaoyang Liu*, Dongyu Yan*, Yihua Du, Shengju Qian, Zeke Xie, Xin Wang, Ying-Cong Chen, Long Chen

New Preprint 2026

One interactive world model, any rollout rate. Stride-RoPE places frames sampled at different rates on a shared physical-time axis, enabling consistent multi-rate rollout, unseen-rate generalization, and online rate switching without resetting history.

arXiv Project Code

SwiftI2V: Efficient High-Resolution Image-to-Video Generation via Conditional Segment-wise Generation

Yaoyang Liu, Yuechen Zhang, Wenbo Li, Yufei Zhao, Rui Liu, Long Chen

Preprint 2026

We propose SwiftI2V, an efficient framework for high-resolution (2K) I2V generation that decouples motion modeling from detail synthesis via progressive segment-wise generation and bidirectional contextual interaction. SwiftI2V achieves performance comparable to end-to-end baselines while reducing total GPU-time by 202×, enabling practical 2K I2V on a single RTX 4090.

arXiv Project Code

Magic Mirror: ID-Preserved Video Generation in Video Diffusion Transformers

Yuechen Zhang*, Yaoyang Liu*, Bin Xia, Bohao Peng, Zexin Yan, Eric Lo, Jiaya Jia

ICCV 2025

MagicMirror is a video generation framework that preserves identity while producing high-quality, natural motion, achieving state-of-the-art results with minimal added parameters.

arXiv Project Code

🎓 EducationFull CV

• The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) 2025.09 – Present
  Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering Hong Kong, China

  Advised by Prof. Long Chen.

• University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) 2021.09 – 2025.06
  B.Eng. in Artificial Intelligence Hefei, China