About

Hi! 👋 I am Yihang Du (杜艺航). I am a PhD student at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen), where I am advised by Prof. Benyou Wang at FreedomAI Lab. I am also affiliated with the Shenzhen Loop Area Institute (SLAI).

I am currently working on world models and accelerating generative models.

I am actively seeking internship and research collaboration opportunities in Multimodal AI. Please feel free to reach out if you are interested in collaborating.

Publications

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Why Vision Fails as a Universal Bridge: Rectifying Modality Asynchrony in Multilingual MLLMs

COLM 2026

Yihang Du, Juhao Liang , Zhengzhao Lai, Siyu Li, Yan Hu.
A Methodological Framework for Measuring Spatial Labeling Similarity

IJCAI 2025

Yihang Du†, Jiaying Hu†, Suyang Hou, Yueyang Ding, Xiaobo Sun.

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CEMUSA: A Graph-based Integrative Metric for Evaluating Clusters in Spatial Transcriptomics

Bioinformatics 2026

Jiaying Hu†, Yihang Du†, Suyang Hou, Yueyang Ding, Jinyan Li, Xiaobo Sun, Hao Wu.

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Causality-Induced Positional Encoding for Transformer-Based Representation Learning of Non-Sequential Features

NeurIPS 2025

Kaichen Xu, Yihang Du, Mianpeng Liu, Zimu Yu, Xiaobo Sun.

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Detecting and Dissecting Anomalous Anatomic Regions in Spatial Transcriptomics with STANDS

Nature Communications 2024

Kaichen Xu, Yan Lu, Suyang Hou, Kainan Liu, Yihang Du, Mengqian Huang, Hao Feng, Hao Wu, Xiaobo Sun.

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