Shuhuai Ren (任抒怀)

Shuhuai Ren (任抒怀)

Ph.D. Student

School of EECS

Peking University

renshuhuai007[AT]gmail[DOT]com

About Me

I am a PhD student (4th year) at Language Computing and Machine Learning Group, MOE Key Laboratory of Computational Linguistics, School of EECS, Peking University, supervised by Prof. Xu Sun.

Before that, I was an undergraduate student in Software Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology under the guidance of Prof. Kun He.

My research interests lie within (1) Vision-Language Foundation Models, (2) Video Understanding and Generation, and (3) Open-Ended Visual Recognition.

News

[2025/02] Two papers has been accepted by CVPR 2025.
[2024/07] One paper has been accepted by ECCV 2024.
[2024/05] Two papers has been accepted by ACL 2024.
[2024/04] One paper has been accepted by NAACL 2024.
[2024/02] One paper has been accepted by CVPR 2024.
[2023/10] One paper has been accepted by EMNLP 2023.
[2023/09] Two papers have been accepted by NeurIPS 2023.
[2023/05] One paper has been accepted by ACL 2023.
[2021/08] Three papers have been accepted by EMNLP 2021.
[2021/05] One paper has been accepted by ACL 2021 as oral presentation.
[2019/05] One paper has been accepted by ACL 2019 as oral presentation.
[2019/02] I attended the Artificial Intelligence Winter Camp at The University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University.

Selected Publications (Full List)

Video Understanding and Generation

Next Block Prediction: Video Generation via Semi-Autoregressive Modeling

Shuhuai Ren, Shuming Ma, Xu Sun, Furu Wei

Arxiv 2025

Arxiv

Paper Code& Model

Parallelized Autoregressive Visual Generation

Yuqing Wang, Shuhuai Ren, Zhijie Lin, Yujin Han, Haoyuan Guo, Zhenheng Yang, Difan Zou, Jiashi Feng, Xihui Liu

CVPR 2025

Conference

Paper Code& Model

TimeChat: A Time-sensitive Multimodal Large Language Model for Long Video Understanding

Shuhuai Ren*, Linli Yao*, Shicheng Li, Xu Sun, Lu Hou

CVPR 2024

Conference

Paper Code& Model

TESTA: Temporal-Spatial Token Aggregation for Long-form Video-Language Understanding

Shuhuai Ren, Sishuo Chen, Shicheng Li, Xu Sun, Lu Hou

Findings of EMNLP 2023 (Long Paper)

Conference

Paper Code& Model

Video-MME: The First-Ever Comprehensive Evaluation Benchmark of Multi-modal LLMs in Video Analysis

Chaoyou Fu, Yuhan Dai, Yondong Luo, Lei Li, Shuhuai Ren, Renrui Zhang, Zihan Wang, Chenyu Zhou, Yunhang Shen, Mengdan Zhang, Peixian Chen, Yanwei Li, Shaohui Lin, Sirui Zhao, Ke Li, Tong Xu, Xiawu Zheng, Enhong Chen, Rongrong Ji, Xing Sun

CVPR 2025

Conference

Paper Code& Model

FETV: A Benchmark for Fine-Grained Evaluation of Open-Domain Text-to-Video Generation

Yuanxin Liu, Lei Li, Shuhuai Ren, Rundong Gao, Shicheng Li, Sishuo Chen, Xu Sun, Lu Hou

NeurIPS 2023 (Dataset & Benchmark Track)

Conference

Paper Code& Model

Vision-Language Alignment

Prompt Pre-Training with Twenty-Thousand Classes for Open-Vocabulary Visual Recognition

Shuhuai Ren, Aston Zhang, Yi Zhu, Shuai Zhang, Shuai Zheng, Mu Li, Alex Smola, Xu Sun

NeurIPS 2023

Conference

Paper Code& Model

M3IT: A Large-Scale Dataset towards Multi-Modal Multilingual Instruction Tuning

Lei Li, Yuwei Yin, Shicheng Li, Liang Chen, Peiyi Wang, Shuhuai Ren, Mukai Li, Yazheng Yang, Jingjing Xu, Xu Sun, Lingpeng Kong, Qi Liu

Arxiv 2023

Arxiv

Paper Dataset

Delving into the Openness of CLIP

Shuhuai Ren, Lei Li, Xuancheng Ren, Guangxiang Zhao, Xu Sun

Findings of ACL 2023 (Long Paper)

Conference

Paper Code& Model

Learning Relation Alignment for Calibrated Cross-modal Retrieval

Shuhuai Ren, Junyang Lin, Guangxiang Zhao, Rui Men, An Yang, Jingren Zhou, Xu Sun*, Hongxia Yang

ACL 2021 (Long Paper, Oral)

Conference

Paper Code& Model

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China

2020 - 2025 (expected)

B.Eng. in Software Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

GPA: 3.95/4.00; Rank: 4/180

2016 - 2020

Selected Awards and Competitions

Peking University (PKU), Sep. 2020 - Jul. 2025 (Expected)

National Scholarship, 2024

Merit Student Pacesetter, 2024

NeurIPS Scholar Award, 2023

The third Prize of Peking University Scholarship, 2020-21

Award for Scientific Research, 2020-22

Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Sep. 2016 - Jul. 2020

Pacemaker to Merit Student (The highest honor of undergraduate students), 2017-18

National Scholarship of China, 2017-18

Outstanding Graduates of HUST, 2020

Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, 2020

Baosteel Scholarship, 2019

Hainan Airlines Scholarship, 2016-17

American College Students Mathematical Modeling Competition (MCM/ICM), Honorable Mention, 2018

Academic Service

Reviewer/Program committee for conferences: ICLR (2023), NeurIPS (2023), ACL (2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award-23), EMNLP (2021-23), NAACL (2022-23), ARR (2021-23), COLING (2020, 2022)

Reviewer for journals: TPAMI, IJCV

Teaching assistant: Introduction to Natural Language processing (PKU, 2021 Fall), Artificial Intelligence Frontier and Industry Trends (PKU, 2022 Spring)

Work Experience

Research Intern

Microsoft, Research Lab Asia

Advised by Shuming Ma

Beijing, China

Sep. 2023 - Jul. 2024

Applied Scientist Intern

Amazon Web Services, AI Research

Advised by Aston Zhang and Yi Zhu

San Francisco Bay Area, USA (remote)

Aug. 2022 - Aug. 2023

Research Intern

Alibaba, DAMO Academy

Advised by Junyang Lin and Hongxia Yang

Beijing, China

Aug. 2020 - Feb. 2021

Research Intern

Tencent, WeChat AI (WXG-PRC)

Advised by Jinchao Zhang

Beijing, China

Oct. 2019 - Jun. 2020

Research Intern

HUST, John Hopcroft Lab for Data Science

Advised by Kun He

Wuhan, China

Mar. 2018 - Oct. 2019

Patents

数据增广、业务处理方法、装置、计算机设备和存储介质 [link]：任抒怀; 张金超

信息处理方法、装置、计算机可读存储介质和计算机设备 [link]：李磊; 林衍凯; 任抒怀; 李鹏; 周杰; 孙栩

Invited Talks

[2024/06] Microsoft Research Asia. Long Video Understanding Based on Large Language Models, [slides (in Chinese)].

[2023/12] Department of Mathematics, Houston University. Prompt Pre-Training with Twenty-Thousand Classes for Open-Vocabulary Visual Recognition.

[2023/08] Noah's Ark Lab, Huawei. 开眼看世界: 大语言模型的视觉接口设计.

[2023/04] Shanghai AI Lab. Prompt Pre-Training with Twenty-Thousand Classes for Open-Vocabulary Visual Recognition, [slides].

[2022/07] Noah's Ark Lab, Huawei. Delving into the Openness of CLIP, [slides (in Chinese)].

[2022/06] DAMO Academy, Alibaba. Delving into the Openness of CLIP.

[2021/10] Student Forums on Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence (SFFAI). Learning Relation Alignment for Calibrated Cross-modal Retrieval, [video (in Chinese)].