Education

• Ph.D. at College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University
  Sept 2018 - June 2023       Hangzhou, China
  Supervised by Prof. Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang and Prof. Zhou Zhao.
  Dissertation: "Generalizable Multimodal Video Semantic Understanding"
  Successfully defended at June, 2023
  
  
• Bachelor at College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University
  Sept 2014 - June 2018       Hangzhou, China
  Graduation Thesis: "Deep Learning based Video Semantic Analysis"

Work Experiences

• Research Intern at Taobao Research
  Taobao Lab
  June 2020 - Sep 2020       Hangzhou, China
  
• Research Intern at Kuake Research
  Kuake Lab
  Nov 2019 - Feb 2020       Hangzhou, China

Supervised and Co-supervised Students

• School of Software, Zhejiang University
  Wang Lin (2021, linwanglw@zju.edu.cn, National Scholarship, PHD of ZJU),
  Linjun Li (2021, lilinjun21@zju.edu.cn, National Scholarship, Beidou Plan of Meituan),
  Xize Cheng (2021, chengxize@zju.edu.cn, National Scholarship, PHD of ZJU),
  Ye Wang (2021, yew@zju.edu.cn, National Scholarship, Daka of Tecent&2-1 of Bytedance),
  Zirun Guo (2024),
  Weicai Yan (2024),
  Dongjie Fu (2024),
  

Publications(* denotes equal contributions, & denotes corresponding author)

1. Proact-VL: A Proactive VideoLLM for Real-Time AI Companions
   Weicai Yan, Yuhong Dai, Qi Ran, Haodong Li, Wang Lin, Hao Liao, Xing Xie, Tao Jin, Jianxun Lian,
   Arxiv
   
   
2. Unleashing the Power of Natural Audio Featuring Multiple Sound Sources
   Xize Cheng, Slytherin Wang, Zehan Wang, Rongjie Huang, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
   Arxiv
   
   
3. OmniChat: Enhancing Spoken Dialogue Systems with Scalable Synthetic Data for Diverse Scenarios
   Xize Cheng, Dongjie Fu, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
   Arxiv
   
   
4. Observe-R1: Unlocking Reasoning Abilities of MLLMs with Dynamic Progressive Reinforcement Learning
   Zirun Guo, Minjie Hong, Tao Jin,
   Arxiv
   
   
5. APO: Enhancing Reasoning Ability of MLLMs via Asymmetric Policy Optimization
   Minjie Hong, Zirun Guo, Yan Xia, Zehan Wang, Ziang Zhang, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
   Arxiv
   
   
6. Thinking with Programming Vision: Towards a Unified View for Thinking with Images
   Zirun Guo, Minjie Hong, Feng Zhang, Kai Jia, Tao Jin,
   CVPR, 2026
   
   
7. Decoupling Stability and Plasticity for Multi-Modal Test-Time Adaptation
   Yongbo He, Zirun Guo, Tao Jin,
   CVPR, 2026
   
   
8. SSGaussian: Semantic-Aware and Structure-Preserving 3D Style Transfer
   Jimin Xu, Bosheng Qin, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao, Zhenhui Ye, Jun Yu, Fei Wu,
   ICME, 2026
   
   
9. Emphasizing Domain Differences through Interactive-Augmented Prompts in Continual AVSR
   Dongjie Fu, Xize Cheng, Tao Jin, Zhongfei Zhang,
   TIP, 2026
   
   
10. MARS-Sep: Multimodal-Aligned Reinforced Sound Separation
    Zihan Zhang, Xize Cheng, Zhennan Jiang, Dongjie Fu, Jingyuan Chen, Zhou Zhao, Tao Jin,
    ICLR, 2026
    
    
11. WorldEdit: Towards Open-World Image Editing with a Knowledge-Informed Benchmark
    Wang Lin, Feng Wang, Majun Zhang, Wentao Hu, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao, Fei Wu, Jingyuan Chen, Sucheng Ren, Alan Yuille,
    ICLR, 2026
    
    
12. AlignSep: Temporally-Aligned Video-Queried Sound Separation with Flow Matching
    Xize Cheng, Chenyuhao Wen, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
    ICLR, 2026
    
    
13. HVD: Human Vision-Driven Video Representation Learning for Text-Video Retrieval
    Zequn Xie, Xin Liu, Boyun Zhang, Yuxiao Lin, Sihang Cai, Tao Jin,
    ICASSP, 2026
    
    
14. Scene-Aware Spatiotemporal Generalization: Towards Robust Temporal Action Detection Across Domains
    Fangming Feng, Sihang Cai, Zequn Xie, Yangyang Wu, Tao Jin,
    AAAI, 2026
    
    
15. AHa-Bench: Benchmarking Audio Hallucinations in Large Audio-Language Models
    Xize Cheng, Dongjie Fu, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
    NeurIPS, 2025
    
    
16. Multi-talker Audio-Visual Speech Recognition towards Diverse Scenarios
    Yuxiao Lin, Tao Jin, Xize Cheng, Zhou Zhao, Fei Wu,
    FITEE, 2025
    
    
17. TAG: Triple Alignment with Rationale Generation for Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering
    Sihang Cai, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao, Fei Wu, Jun Yu,
    TBD, 2025
    
    
18. PA-Chat: Persona-Aware Speech Assistant for Multi-party Dialogue
    Dongjie Fu, Xize Cheng, Linjun Li, Tao Jin,
    EMNLP, 2025
    
    
19. Chat-Driven Text Generation and Interaction for Person Retrieval
    Zequn Xie, Chuxin Wang, Sihang Cai, Shulei Wang, Tao Jin,
    EMNLP, 2025
    
    
20. ISDrama: Immersive Spatial Drama Generation through Multimodal Prompting
    Yu Zhang, Wenxiang Guo, Changhao Pan, Zhiyuan Zhu, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
    ACM MM, 2025
    
    
21. Parameter-efficient Task-Aware Prompting for Adverse Weather Removal
    Hanting Wang, Shengpeng Ji, Shulei Wang, Hai Huang, Tao Jin,
    ACM MM, 2025
    
    
22. Open-set Cross Modal Generalization via Multimodal Unified Representation
    Hai Huang, Yan Xia, Shulei Wang, Hanting Wang, Minghui Fang, Shengpeng Ji, Sashuai Zhou, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
    ICCV, 2025
    
    
23. Multimodal Conditional Retrieval with High Controllability
    Xiaoda Yang, Xize Cheng, Zhou Zhao, Tao Jin,
    KDD, 2025
    
    
24. T2A-Feedback: Improving Basic Capabilities of Text-to-Audio Generation via Fine-grained AI Feedback
    Zehan Wang, Ke Lei, Chen Zhu, Jiawei Huang, Xize Cheng, Shengpeng Ji, Zhenhui Ye, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
    ACL(ORAL), 2025
    
    
25. TCSinger 2: Customizable Multilingual Zero-shot Singing Voice Synthesis
    Yu Zhang, Wenxiang Guo, Changhao Pan, Dongyu Yao, Zhiyuan Zhu, Ziyue Jiang, Yuhan Wang, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
    ACL, 2025
    
    
26. IRBridge: Solving Image Restoration Bridge with Pre-trained Generative Diffusion Models
    Hanting Wang, Tao Jin, Wang Lin, Zhou Zhao,
    ICML, 2025
    
    
27. Robust Speech-Driven Body Language Generation
    Xize Cheng, Zehan Wang, Rongjie Huang, Huadai Liu, Tao Jin,
    Interspeech(ORAL), 2025
    
    
28. Vela: Scalable Embeddings with Voice Large Language Models for Multimodal Retrieval
    Ruofan Hu, Yan Xia, Mingjie Hong, Jieming Zhu, Xiaoda Yang, Minghui Fang, Tao Jin,
    Interspeech, 2025
    
    
29. Recognize-and-tell: Generating Video Captions with Textual Cue in Scene
    Tao Jin, Wang Lin, Zhou Zhao, Zhongfei Zhang,
    ESWA, 2025
    
    
30. Concept Preservation and Unbinding in Continual Diffusion Customization
    Zirun Guo, Tao Jin,
    CVPR, 2025
    
    
31. Towards Transformer-Based Aligned Generation with Self-Coherence Guidance
    Shulei Wang, Wang Lin, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
    CVPR, 2025
    
    
32. Non-Natural Image Understanding with Advancing Frequency-based Vision Encoders
    Wang Lin, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao, Jingyuan Chen,
    CVPR, 2025
    
    
33. Efficient Prompting for Continual Adaptation to Missing Modalities
    Zirun Guo, Shulei Wang, Wang Lin, Weicai Yan, Yangyang Wu, Tao Jin,
    NAACL, 2025
    
    
34. Omni-Chart: A Comprehensive Dataset of Chart Types for Chart Understanding
    Shulei Wang, Shuai Yang, Wang Lin, Zirun Guo, Sihang Cai, Hai Huang, Ye Wang, Jingyuan Chen, Tao Jin&,
    NAACL, 2025
    
    
35. Chat-3D: Data-Efficiently Learn Large Language Model for Universal 3D Scene Perception
    Zehan Wang, Haifeng Huang, Yang Zhao, Ziang Zhang, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
    NAACL, 2025
    
    
36. Smoothing the Shift: Towards Stable Test-time Adaptation under Complex Multimodal Noises
    Zirun Guo, Tao Jin&,
    ICLR, 2025
    
    
37. Diff-Prompt: Diffusion-driven Prompt Generator with Mask Supervision
    Weicai Yan, Wang Lin, Tao Jin&,
    ICLR, 2025
    
    
38. OmniSep: Unified Omni-Modality Sound Separation with Query-Mixup
    Xize Cheng, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
    ICLR, 2025
    
    
39. Improving Multi-modal Representations via Binding Space in Scale
    Zehan Wang, Ziang Zhang, Minjie Hong, Tao Jin, Hengshuang Zhao, Zhou Zhao,
    ICLR, 2025
    
    
40. VoxDialogue: Can Spoken Dialogue Systems Understand Information Beyond Words?
    Xize Cheng, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
    ICLR, 2025
    
    
41. Curriculum Learning aided Audio-Visual Speech Recognition with Arbitrary Number of Overlapping Speakers
    Yuxiao Lin, Tao Jin&, Xize Cheng, Zhou Zhao, Fei Wu,
    ICASSP, 2025
    
    
42. Bridging the Gap for Test-time Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
    Zirun Guo, Tao Jin&, Wenlong Xu, Wang Lin, Yangyang Wu,
    AAAI, 2025
    
    
43. Low-rank Sequence Adapter for Efficient Multimodal Transfer Learning
    Zirun Guo, Xize Cheng, Yangyang Wu, Tao Jin&,
    AAAI, 2025
    
    
44. Speech Watermarking with Discrete Intermediate Representations
    Shengpeng Ji, Ziyue Jiang, Jialong Zuo, Minghui Fang, Yifu Chen, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
    AAAI, 2025
    
    
45. Exploring Embodied Emotion Through A Large-Scale Egocentric Video Dataset
    Wang Lin, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao, Chang Yao, Jingyuan Chen,
    NeurIPS, 2024
    
    
46. Action Imitation in Common Action Space for Customized Action Image Synthesis
    Wang Lin, Jingyuan Chen, Zirun Guo, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
    NeurIPS, 2024
    
    
47. Balancing Multimodal Learning with Classifier-guided Gradient Modulation
    Zirun Guo, Tao Jin&,
    NeurIPS, 2024
    
    
48. AudioVSR: Enhancing Video Speech Recognition with Audio Data
    Xiaoda Yang, Xize Cheng, Tao Jin&,
    EMNLP, 2024
    
    
49. Calibrating Prompt from History for Continual Vision-Language Retrieval and Grounding
    Tao Jin, Weicai Yan, Ye Wang, Zhou Zhao,
    ACM MM, 2024
    
    
50. Boosting Speech Recognition Robustness to Modality-Distortion with Contrast-Augmented Prompts
    Dongjie Fu, Xize Cheng, Xiaoda Yang, Tao Jin&, Zhou Zhao,
    ACM MM (ORAL), 2024
    
    
51. SyncTalklip: Highly Synchronized Lip-Readable Speaker Generation with Multi-Task Learning
    Xiaoda Yang, Xize Cheng, Dongjie Fu, Tao Jin&, Zhou Zhao,
    ACM MM, 2024
    
    
52. Low-rank Prompt Interaction for Continual Vision-Language Retrieval
    Weicai Yan, Ye Wang, Tao Jin&, Zhou Zhao,
    ACM MM, 2024
    
    
53. TransFace: Unit-Based Audio-Visual Speech Synthesizer for Talking Head Translation
    Xize Cheng, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
    ACL, 2024
    
    
54. Uni-Dubbing: Zero-Shot Speech Synthesis from Visual Articulation
    Songju Lei, Xize Cheng&, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
    ACL, 2024
    
    
55. Rethinking the Multimodal Correlation of Multimodal Sequential Learning
    Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
    ACL, 2024
    
    
56. Multimodal Prompt Learning with Missing Modalities for Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Recognition
    Zirun Guo, Tao Jin&, Zhou Zhao,
    ACL, 2024
    
    
57. Two-Stream Generative Recommender with Behavior-Semantic Collaboration
    Ye Wang, Jiahao Xun, Minjie Hong, Jieming Zhu, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
    KDD, 2024
    
    
58. Prompt-Singer: Controllable Singing-Voice-Synthesis with Natural Language Prompt
    Yongqi Wang, Ruofan Hu, Rongjie Huang, Zhiqing Hong, Ruiqi Li, Wenrui Liu, Fuming You, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
    NAACL, 2024
    
    
59. Non-confusing Generation of Customized Concepts in Diffusion Models
    Wang Lin, Jingyuan Chen, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
    ICML, 2024
    
    
60. Molecule-Space: Free Lunch in Unified Multimodal Space via Knowledge Fusion
    Zehan Wang, Ziang Zhang, Xize Cheng, Rongjie Huang, Luping Liu, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
    ICML, 2024
    
    
61. MPOD123: One Image to 3D Content Generation Using Mask-enhanced Progressive Optimization
    Jimin Xu*, Tianbao Wang*, Tao Jin&, Zhou Zhao,
    CVPR, 2024
    
    
62. Rethinking Missing Modality Learning from a Decoding Perspective
    Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
    ACM MM, 2023
    
    
63. Exploring Group-Based Video Captioning with Efficient Relational Approximation
    Wang Lin*, Tao Jin*, Ye Wang, Zhou Zhao,
    ICCV, 2023
    
    
64. Cross-Modality Self-Learning with Audio-Visual Stream Mixup for Visual Speech Translation and Recognition
    Xize Cheng*, Tao Jin*, Linjun Li, Zhou Zhao,
    ICCV, 2023
    
    
65. Multi-Granularity Relational Attention Network for Audio-Visual QA
    Linjun Li*, Tao Jin*, Wang Lin, Hao Jiang, Zhou Zhao,
    TCSVT, 2023
    
    
66. OpenSR: Open-Modality Speech Recognition via Maintaining Multi-Modality Alignment
    Xize Cheng*, Tao Jin*, Linjun Li, Wang Lin, Xinyu Duan,
    ACL (ORAL), 2023
    
    
67. TAVT: Towards Transferable Audio-Visual Text Generation
    Wang Lin*, Tao Jin*, Ye Wang, Wenwen Pan, Xize Cheng, Linjun Li, Zhou Zhao
    ACL, 2023
    
    
68. Semantic-Conditioned Dual Adaptation for Query-based Visual Segmentation
    Ye Wang*, Tao Jin*, Wang Lin, Xize Cheng, Linjun Li, Zhou Zhao
    ACL, 2023
    
    
69. Weakly-Supervised Spoken Video Grounding via Semantic Interaction Learning
    Ye Wang, Wang Lin, Shengyu Zhang, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao
    ACL (ORAL), 2023
    
    
70. Contrastive Token-Wise Meta-Learning for Unseen Temporal-Aligned Translation
    Linjun Li*, Tao Jin*, Xize Cheng, Ye Wang, Wang Lin, Rongjie Huang, Zhou Zhao,
    ACL, 2023
    
    
71. DATE: Domain Adaptive Product Seeker for E-commerce
    Haoyuan Li, Hao Jiang, Tao Jin, Mengyan Li, Yan Chen, Zhijie Lin, Yang Zhao, Zhou Zhao,
    CVPR, 2023
    
    
72. Gloss Attention for Gloss-free Sign Language Translation
    Aoxiong Yin, Tianyun Zhong, Li Tang, Weike Jin, Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
    CVPR, 2023
    
    
73. Interaction Augmented Transformer with Decoupled Decoding for Video Captioning
    Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao, Peng Wang, Jun Yu, Fei Wu,
    Neurocom., 2022
    
    
74. MC-SLT: Towards Low-Resource Signer-Adaptive Sign Language Translation
    Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao, Meng Zhang, Xingshan Zeng,
    ACM MM, 2022
    
    
75. Prior Knowledge and Memory Enriched Transformer for Sign Language Translation
    Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao, Meng Zhang, Xingshan Zeng,
    ACL, 2022
    
    
76. Generalizable Multi-Linear Attention Network
    Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
    NeurIPS, 2021
    
    
77. Contrastive Disentangled Meta-Learning for Signer-Independent Sign Language Translation
    Tao Jin, Zhou Zhao,
    ACM MM (ORAL), 2021
    
    
78. Dual Low-Rank Multimodal Fusion
    Tao Jin*, Siyu Huang*, Yingming Li, Zhongfei Zhang
    EMNLP, 2020
    
    
79. SBAT: Video Captioning with Sparse Boundary-Aware Transformer
    Tao Jin, Siyu Huang, Ming Chen, Yingming Li, Zhongfei Zhang
    IJCAI, 2020
    
    
80. Low-Rank HOCA: Efficient High-Order Cross-Modal Attention for Video Captioning
    Tao Jin, Siyu Huang, Yingming Li, Zhongfei Zhang,
    EMNLP, 2019
    
    
81. Recurrent Convolutional Video Captioning with Global and Local Attention
    Tao Jin, Yingming Li, Zhongfei Zhang,
    Neurocom., 2019
    
    

Contest

• AI Challenger Global Contest, 2018
  Organizers: Sinovation Ventures, ByteDance, Sogou
  Track: English-Chinese Simultaneous Interpretation Competition
  Ranked: 3rd/675 teams [news] [short slides]
  Team Members：Tao Jin (team leader), Ming Chen, Junwei Lang