Xu Sun
Associate Professor with Tenure
Leads the LANCO group, researching natural language generation, multimodal NLP and machine learning for language.
Xu Sun's lab at Peking works on dialogue, generation & summarization, multimodal & grounded language and vision-language & multimodal. 8 papers since 2023, 5 at top venues, mostly CVPR and ACL. 8 PhD students. 26 alumni, most often to Alibaba and Xiaomi. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 2/ year
- at T1 venues
- 63%
- PhD students
- 8
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 26
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 2 papers2026 · T1 2 · collecting
- 2 papers2025 · T1 0
- 2 papers2024 · T1 2
- 2 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CVPR, ACL, ACM MM, ICLR, NeurIPS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Multimodal & grounded language3 papers
- Vision-language & multimodal3 papers
- Dialogue, generation & summarization0 papers
- language generation0 papers
- researching0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20262 papers
- CVPR (T1)Conan: Progressive Learning to Reason Like a Detective over Multi-Scale Visual Evidence
- ACL (T1)Investigating Cross-Modal Skill Injection: Scenarios, Methods, and Hyperparameters
20252 papers
- Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)RICO: Improving Accuracy and Completeness in Image Recaptioning via Visual Reconstruction
- ACM MMTimeChat-Online: 80% Visual Tokens are Naturally Redundant in Streaming Videos
20242 papers
- CVPR (T1)TimeChat: A Time-sensitive Multimodal Large Language Model for Long Video Understanding
- ICLR (T1)Towards Codable Text Watermarking for Large Language Models
20232 papers
- NeurIPS (T1)Fed-FA: Theoretically Modeling Client Data Divergence for Federated Language Backdoor Defense
- Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Label Words are Anchors: An Information Flow Perspective for Understanding In-Context Learning
Where alumni went26 listed, 70% to industry
Industry 16Academia 7
Most often to
- Alibaba
- Xiaomi
- Baidu
Also to
- Beijing Language and Culture University
- China Telecom Research Institute
- CUHK
Apply to PekingFall 2027
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