My name is Yuxiang Lin, pronounced as “You-shee-ahng Lin”. I am an MS student at Georgia Institute of Technology 
. I earned my B.S. degree from Shenzhen Technology University 
under supervision from Prof. Xiaojiang Peng. In 2023, I was a visiting student at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), CAS 
. In 2024, I interned at Baidu Inc 
in the Group of Multimodal Retrieval, gaining experience in representation learning and big data. Additionally, I volunteered as a Teaching Assistant for a Large Language Models/Computer Vision tutorial hosted by the Shanghai AI Laboratory 
.
My research interest mainly includes:
- Foundation model: Representation Learning, Post-Pretraining, Contrastive Learning.
- Multi-modal LLM: LLM Reasoning, LLM Application.
- LLM Agent: Multi-Agent Collabroation.
Currently, I am working on MER-Factory for automatically construction Multimodal Emotion Recognition and Reasoning dataset, feel free to open an issue on the github if you are insterested in some features that are not supported yet!
📢 I’m looking for full-time roles / internships remote or at Xiamen (厦门), joining at ~2025/09 and later. If my background matches your requirements or if you’d like to discuss potential opportunities, feel free to email me.
You can find me at yuxiang.lin@gatech.edu or lin.yuxiang.contact@gmail.com.
🔥 News
- 2025.07: Try MER-Factory for automatic construct multimodal emotion recognition and reasoning dataset.
- 2025.05: Start my internship at Tencent.
- 2024.12: One paper about Multimodal Large Language Model in Emotion Reasoning is accepted by NeurIPS (CCF rank A).
- 2024.07: One co-first author paper about invisible gas detection is accepted by CVIU (JCR Q1, CCF rank B). 🎉
- 2024.03: One paper about Conversational Emotion-Cause Pair Analysis with LLM is accepted by SemEval 2024, NAACL.
- 2024.01: Start my internship at Baidu.
- 2024.01: I was awarded the First Prize of Research and Innovation Award (3000 CNY) and Star of Craftsmanship (3000 CNY).
- 2023.08: My instance segmentation tutorial has been featured in MMYOLO v0.6.0 highlight! Check out the tutorial here to master the essentials of instance segmentation.
- 2023.07: One paper on multimodal emotion recognition is accepted by ACM MM! 🎉
- 2023.07: We are the runner up in the Grand Challenge (MER 2023) of ACM MM! 🥈
👨💻 LLM-Agent Project
MER-Factory 
The first framework for automatically constructing Multimodal Emotion Recognition and Reasoning (MERR) datasets. (To the best of my knowledge)
- Action Unit (AU) Pipeline: Extracts facial Action Units (AUs) and translates them into descriptive natural language.
- Audio Analysis Pipeline: Extracts audio, transcribes speech, and performs detailed tonal analysis.
- Video Analysis Pipeline: Generates comprehensive descriptions of video content and context.
- Image Analysis Pipeline: Provides end-to-end emotion recognition for static images, complete with visual descriptions and emotional synthesis.
- Full MER Pipeline: An end-to-end multimodal pipeline that identifies peak emotional moments, analyzes all modalities (visual, audio, facial), and synthesizes a holistic emotional reasoning summary.
Agent-brainstorm
This system implements a 5-stage brainstorming methodology using multi-AI agents to generate, evaluate, and refine ideas for both project development and research papers. The entire process runs locally with real-time web search integration and ArXiv research capabilities.
📝 Publications
📌 Pinned
Why We Feel: Breaking Boundaries in Emotional Reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Models
Yuxiang Lin, Jingdong Sun, Zhi-Qi Cheng, Jue Wang, Haomin Liang, Zebang Cheng, Yifei Dong, Jun-Yan He, Xiaojiang Peng, Xian-Sheng Hua
Emotion-llama: Multimodal emotion recognition and reasoning with instruction tuning
Zebang Cheng, Zhi-Qi Cheng, Jun-Yan He, Kai Wang, Yuxiang Lin, Zheng Lian, Xiaojiang Peng, Alexander Hauptmann ($2^{nd}$ student author)
NeurIPS (CCF-A) | [Paper] [Code] 
Invisible Gas Detection: An RGB-Thermal Cross Attention Network and A New Benchmark
Jue Wang*, Yuxiang Lin*, Qi Zhao, Dong Luo, Shuaibao Chen, Wei Chen, Xiaojiang Peng (* denotes equal contribution)
Semi-Supervised Multimodal Emotion Recognition with Expression MAE
Zebang Cheng, Yuxiang Lin, Zhaoru Chen, Xiang Li, Shuyi Mao, Fan Zhang, Daijun Ding, Bowen Zhang, Xiaojiang Peng
👨💻 Experience
- 2025.05 - present Summer Intern, Tencent
- 2022.10 - 2024.06 Student Research Fellow, MIPS-Lab
- 2024.01 - 2024.04 Research Intern, Baidu Inc
- 2024.01 - 2024.01 Teaching Assistant, InternLM
- 2023.10 - 2024.01 Research Intern, University of Central Florida (UCF)
- 2023.06 - 2023.07 Teaching Assistant, OpenMMLab
- 2023.02 - 2023.07 Visiting Student, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, CAS
🏅 Selected Awards
- 2020 Second Prize of SZTU Freshman Scholarship (6000 CNY)
- 2022 China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, National Second Prize (top 2%)
- 2023 Dahua Outstanding Scholarship (4000 CNY)
- 2023 OpenMMLab MMSTAR I
- 2024 First Prize of Research and Innovation Award (3000 CNY)
- 2024 Star of Craftsmanship (3000 CNY)