My name is Xiaoke Huang, and I am a Ph.D. student at the UC Santa Cruz, advised by Prof. Yuyin Zhou and Prof. Cihang Xie. My research focuses on multi-modal reasoning, agentic models, and AI for healthcare; previously, I received my Master’s degree from Tsinghua University (worked on vision–language learning and 3D reconstruction) and Bachelor’s degree from Beijing Normal University. I have interned at Microsoft Research and Meta.
News
- 2026-01 MedVLSynther, MethylProphet, and Story-Iter are accepted by ICLR’26.
- 2025-12 MedVLThinker and m1 are accepted by ML4H’25.
- 2025-10 A preprint about multimodal verifiable QA synthesis for RLVR.
- 2025-08 A preprint about multi-modal medical reasoning.
- 2025-06 Start an internship at Meta.
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- 2025-03 A preprint about test-time scaling for medical reasoning LLMs.
- 2025-01 A preprint on human DNA methylation prediction.
- 2024-10 A preprint on text-to-image long story visualization.
- 2024-09 Start my PhD journey at UCSC.
- 2024-06 (Accepted by CVPR’25) A preprint on visual compression with LLM, featured in Hugging Face 🤗 Daily Papers!
- 2024-06 A preprint on unified in-context medical vision models.
- 2023-12 (Accepted by CVPR’24) Excited to share a new preprint enhancing SAM with regional captioning capabilities (featured in Hugging Face 🤗 Daily Papers)! Had amazing days at Microsoft!
- 2023-05 Start an internship at Microsoft Research Lab - Asia (MSRA)
- 2023-03 A preprint on efficient human digitization
- 2022-09 A paper on language-guided ordinal regression accepted by NeurIPS’22
- 2021-03 A paper on uncertainty-aware ordinal regression accepted by CVPR’21
Publications and Preprints
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* indicates equal contribution.
Vision-Language Learning
Segment and Caption Anything
Xiaoke Huang, Jianfeng Wang, Yansong Tang, Zheng Zhang, Han Hu, Jiwen Lu, Lijuan Wang, Zicheng Liu
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
[project page] [paper] [code]
OrdinalCLIP: Learning Rank Prompts for Language-Guided Ordinal Regression
Wanhua Li*, Xiaoke Huang*, Zheng Zhu, Yansong Tang, Xiu Li, Jiwen Lu, Jie Zhou
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022
[project page] [paper] [code] [中文解读]
Human Digitization
EMA: Efficient Meshy Neural Fields for Animatable Human Avatars
Xiaoke Huang, Yiji Cheng, Yansong Tang, Xiu Li, Jiwen Lu, Jie Zhou
Preprint, 2023
[project page] [paper] [code] [demo video]
Internship
Research Intern, Meta (MGenAI), London, UK. June-Nov., 2025.
Project: Unified Vector Glyph Generation with Language Models
Work with Brandon Han, Bhavul Gauri, Tony Ng, Kam Woh Ng, Frost Xu, and Tao Xiang.
Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Asia, Beijing, China. April-September, 2023.
Project: Generative Regional Understanding with Vision and Language
Work with Jianfeng Wang, Zheng Zhang, Han Hu, Lijuan Wang, and Zicheng Liu.
Misc
I enjoy reading non-fiction.
Some recent and highly recommended selections (Dec. 2025):
- Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding,
- The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health and Disease,
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets,
- The Black Swan,
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder,
- Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life,
- and The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications.