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Xiang Wen

Xiang Wen

Tencent Hunyuan · Foundation Model Department

  • World model
  • Video generation
  • Diffusion models
  • Computer graphics
  • 3D vision
  • wenxiang at zju.edu.cn
  • TPAMI / ICMLJournal and conference
  • SIGGRAPH Asia / ACM MMGraphics and multimedia
  • GDC / GTCInvited talks
  • SkyReels-V12.7K stars

About

I am working toward real-time interactive worlds: environments generated as you move through them, that change because of what you did, rather than finished before you arrive.

That problem sits across generative AI, diffusion models, computer graphics, and 3D vision. I have shipped work in all four, and the hard parts tend to fall in the seams between them. Right now that means post-training video generation models at Tencent Hunyuan: generation quality, a unified architecture handling text, image, multi-reference, and editing in one model, and the inference efficiency that real-time interaction ultimately depends on.

Before Tencent I built SkyReels AI, an AI short-drama platform, from scratch as its business lead and CTO, led game AI at ByteDance, and worked on game agents and content generation at NetEase Fuxi AI Lab. Over the same years I finished a PhD in artificial intelligence at Zhejiang University.

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News

  1. 2026.03Received the SEVP Business Application Pioneer Award at Tencent for leading the algorithm work on AniMatrix.Award
  2. 2026.03HY-WU open-sourced at Tencent Hunyuan, a framework that generates instance-conditioned LoRA adapters on the fly for text-guided image editing.Open sourcearXiv
  3. 2025.12Completed my PhD in artificial intelligence at Zhejiang University.
  4. 2025.08VolGen accepted to TPAMI.TPAMI
  5. 2025.07Joined the Tencent Hunyuan foundation model department, working on post-training for video generation.
  1. 2025.02Open-sourced SkyReels-V1, a human-centric video foundation model, releasing both text-to-video and image-to-video weights along with the inference framework.Open source
  2. 2025.02Released SkyReels-A1, expressive portrait animation on video diffusion transformers, with code.arXivOpen source
  3. 2024.12Released Video Diffusion Transformers are In-Context Learners.arXiv
  4. 2024.09Talk at the Apsara Conference on AI workflows for producing drama online, from script generation to storyboarding.Apsara
  5. 2024.08Released SkyScript-100M, a script and shooting-script dataset for short drama.arXiv
  6. 2023.07Joined Kunlun Tech to build SkyReels AI, an AI short-drama platform, from scratch.
  7. 2023.03Talk at the GDC Machine Learning Summit on GPT-3 powered text to lifelike speech and animation for NPCs.GDC
  8. 2020.09Talk at the Beijing International Game Innovation Conference on AI-assisted game content production.BIGC
  9. 2019.12Talk at NVIDIA GTC China on video-guided intelligent choreography, shipped in Justice Online.GTC
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Selected papers

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arXiv 2026First author

AniMatrix: An Anime Video Generation Model that Thinks in Art, Not Physics

X Wen, Tencent HY Team

IEEE TPAMI 2025

VolGen: Volumetric Latent Diffusion Models for 3D Object Generation

J Tang, X Wen, HX Guo, H Jiang, Z Li, J Xu, G Zeng

ICML 2025

Policy Regularization on Globally Accessible States in Cross-Dynamics Reinforcement Learning

Z Xue, L Feng, J Xu, K Kang, X Wen, B An, S Yan

SIGGRAPH Asia 2022

AgileAvatar: Stylized 3D Avatar Creation via Cascaded Domain Bridging

S Sang, T Zhi, G Song, M Liu, C Lai, J Liu, X Wen, J Davis, L Luo

IEEE TMM 2022First author

Multi-source Multi-label Learning for User Profiling in Online Games

X Wen, S Zhao, H Wang, R Wu, M Qu, T Hu, G Chen, J Tao, C Fan

ACM MM 2023

Speech-Driven 3D Face Animation with Composite and Regional Facial Movements

H Wu, S Zhou, J Jia, J Xing, Q Wen, X Wen

arXiv 2025

SkyReels-A1: Expressive Portrait Animation in Video Diffusion Transformers

D Qiu, Z Fei, R Wang, J Bai, C Yu, M Fan, G Chen, X Wen

arXiv 2024

Video Diffusion Transformers are In-Context Learners

X Wen, et al.

FITEE 2025First author

GMCoT: A Graph-Augmented Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Framework for Multi-label Zero-shot Learning

X Wen, H Wang, K Chen, T Hu, G Chen

arXiv 2024

MovieCharacter: A Tuning-Free Framework for Controllable Character Video Synthesis

D Qiu, Z Chen, R Wang, M Fan, C Yu, J Huang, X Wen

arXiv 2024

SkyScript-100M: 1,000,000,000 Pairs of Scripts and Shooting Scripts for Short Drama

J Tang, Q Jia, Y Xie, Z Gong, X Wen, J Zhang, Y Guo, G Chen, J Yang

arXiv 2024

InTeX: Interactive Text-to-Texture Synthesis via Unified Depth-Aware Inpainting

J Tang, R Lu, X Chen, X Wen, G Zeng, Z Liu

Computer Graphics Forum 2025

LucidFusion: Reconstructing 3D Gaussians with Arbitrary Unposed Images

H He, Y Liang, L Wang, Y Cai, X Xu, H Guo, X Wen, Y Chen

IEICE Transactions 2025First author

Semantic Web-Based Latent Alignment and Label Propagation Model for Multi-label Learning with Missing Labels

X Wen, Y Yang, H Wang, K Chen, T Hu, G Chen

arXiv 2024

Unsupervised Cross-Domain Regression for Fine-grained 3D Game Character Reconstruction

Q Wen, X Wen, H Jiang, S Yang, B Han, T Hu, G Chen, S Li

arXiv 2020

Semi-Supervised Learning for In-Game Expert-Level Music-to-Dance Translation

Y Duan, T Shi, Z Zou, J Qin, Y Zhao, Y Yuan, J Hou, X Wen, C Fan

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