Xin Xie
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About Me

Hello! I am a third-year Ph.D. student at University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), supervised by Dr.Dong Gong and Dr.Alan Blair.

Before that, I obtained my Master's degree at Dalian University of Technology (DLUT) in 2024, supervised by Associate Prof. Yi Li and Prof. Yanqing Guo. I obtained my Bachelor's degree from Dalian Maritime University.

My current research interest lies in Reinforcement Learning and Video World Models.

Internships

ByteDance
Jun.2022 ~ Feb.2023
Research Intern in ByteDance Intelligent Creation Lab (Beijing)
Advisors: Miao Hua, Qian He
Topics: Style Transfer and Image-to-Image Translation
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jul.2021 ~ Sep.2021
Research Assistant in National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (Beijing)
Advisors: Associate Prof. Huaibo Huang, Prof. Ran He
Topics: Style Transfer and Image-to-Image Translation

Representative Publications

(* indicates equal contribution; ^ indicates the first author is supervisor)
For full publication list, please refer to my Google Scholar Google Scholar page.
When Distillation Breaks Motion Control: Restoring Generative Trajectories for Fast Video Generators
ECCV, 2026
Jintao Rong*, Xin Xie*, Xinyi Yu, Linlin Ou, Xinyu Zhang, Chunhua Shen, Dong Gong
Website Paper
HyperAlign: Hypernetwork for Efficient Test-Time Alignment of Diffusion Models
Arxiv, 2026
Xin Xie, Jiaxian Guo, Dong Gong
Website Paper
Efficient Hi-Fi Style Transfer via Statistical Attention and Modulation
IJCAI, 2025
Zhirui Fang, Yi Li, Xin Xie, Chengyan Li, Yanqing Guo
Paper
DyMO: Training-Free Diffusion Model Alignment with Dynamic Multi-Objective Scheduling
CVPR, 2025
Xin Xie, Dong Gong
Website Paper Poster
RoNet: Rotation-oriented Continuous Image Translation
Arxiv, 2024
Yi Li, Xin Xie^, Lina Lei, Haiyan Fu, Yanqing Guo, Ming Yao
Paper
A Compact Transformer for Adaptive Style Transfer
ICME, 2023
Yi Li, Xin Xie^, Haiyan Fu, Xiangyang Luo, Yanqing Guo
Paper
Artistic Style Discovery with Independent Components
CVPR, 2022
Xin Xie, Yi Li, Huaibo Huang, Haiyan Fu, Wanwan Wang, Yanqing Guo
Website Paper Poster

Other Collaborations

Parallel Graph Convolutional Network for Multi-modal Recommendation
PAKDD, 2025
Wanru Niu, Yi Li, Jianfei Liu, Xin Xie, Haiyan Fu, Yanqing Guo
Paper
Federating Hashing Networks Adaptively for Privacy-Preserving Retrieval
ICME, 2023
Yi Li, Meihua Yu, Xin Xie^, Haiyan Fu, Hao He, Yanqing Guo
Paper
Enhancing Encoder with Attention Gate for Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation
MICCAI BrainLesion Workshop, 2023
Yi Li, Zhirui Fang, Di Li, Xin Xie^, Yanqing Guo
Paper

Services

I actively serve as a reviewer for CVPR, IJCAI, MICCAI, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS.

Awards

Apr.2026
The Norman Foo Memorial Best Research Paper Prize, University of New South Wales
Nov.2025
Best Poster Presentation Awardee, Sydney AI Meetup
Aug.2024
University International Postgraduate Award, University of New South Wales
Jun.2024
Outstanding Master's Thesis, Dalian University of Technology
Oct.2022
Huawei Scholarship, Dalian University of Technology
Oct.2022
First-class Scholarship, Dalian University of Technology
Oct.2022
Outstanding Postgraduate Students, Dalian University of Technology
Sep.2021
Second-class Scholarship, Dalian University of Technology
Jun.2021
Outstanding Graduate, Dalian Maritime University
Aug.2019
National Second-Class Prize of the 14th NXP Cup National University Students Intelligent Car Race