Jixiang Hong (ζ΄ͺ吉η₯₯) is currently a first year Ph.D. student at Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence (GSAI) in Renmin University of China (RUC), supervised by Prof. Rui Yan. He got the B.S. degree from School of Computer Science and Technology and Taishan College, Shandong University (SDU) in 2023.

His research interests focus on LLMs and multi-modal LLMs (e.g., vision-language models and unified MLLMs).

πŸ“ Publications

ACL 2024 findings
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CycleAlign: Iterative Distillation from Black-box LLM to White-box Models for Better Human Alignment

Jixiang Hong*, Quan Tu*, Changyu Chen, Xing Gao, Ji Zhang, Rui Yan

Arxiv
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Reinforcing Multimodal Understanding and Generation with Dual Self-rewards

Jixiang Hong, Yiran Zhang, Guanzhong Wang, Yi Liu, Ji-Rong Wen, Rui Yan

πŸŽ– Honors and Awards

  • 2021, Merit Student of Shandong University, SDU
  • 2021, The First Prize Academic Scholarship, SDU
  • 2021, The Second Prize Specialty Scholarship (Research Innovation), SDU
  • 2020, The Second Prize Academic Scholarship, Shandong University, SDU

πŸ“– Educations

  • 2023.09 - Now, Ph.D. student in the Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China.
  • 2019.09 - 2023.06, undergraduate student in the School of Computer Science and Technology and Taishan College, Shandong University.

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