Zijing Hu

I am a Ph.D student at College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, advised by A.P. Kun Kuang.

My research interests mainly revolve around Generative Models (particularly image generation), Reinforcement Learning, and Causal Inference.

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News

[Jan. 2026] One paper was accepted by ICLR 2026.

[May 2025] One paper was accepted by ICML 2025.

[Feb. 2025] One paper was accepted by CVPR 2025.

[Jun. 2024] I received my BS degree from Zhejiang University.

Experience

Aug. 2024 - Present, Zhejiang University

Ph.D student, majoring in Computer Science and Technology, advised by A.P. Kun Kuang.

Sep. 2020 - Jun. 2024, Zhejiang University

Undergrad, majoring in Computer Science and Technology, GPA: 4.65/5.0.

Selected Publications


*Equal Contribution. Corresponding Author.

Reinforcement Learning in Generative Multimodal AI: A Survey Zijing Hu*, Junkun Yuan*, Kairong Han, Yunze Tong, Shengyu Zhang, Fei Wu, Kun Kuang Preprint / Survey Paper


Asynchronous Denoising Diffusion Models for Aligning Text-to-Image Generation Zijing Hu, Yunze Tong, Fengda Zhang, Junkun Yuan, Jun Xiao, Kun Kuang ICLR, 2026


D-Fusion: Direct Preference Optimization for Aligning Diffusion Models with Visually Consistent Samples Zijing Hu*, Fengda Zhang*, Kun Kuang ICML, 2025


Towards Better Alignment: Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning Against Sparse Rewards Zijing Hu*, Fengda Zhang*, Long Chen, Kun Kuang, Jiahui Li, Kaifeng Gao, Jun Xiao, Xin Wang, Wenwu Zhu CVPR, 2025


Selected Honors

- Outstanding Graduate of Zhejiang Province, 2024

- Second-class Scholarship of Zhejiang University, 2023

- National Scholarship issued by Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, 2022

- First-class Scholarship of Zhejiang University, 2022


Last Update 2026.03.04. Thanks to Jon Barron and Zijun Wang.