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Chenxin Li | 李宸鑫

Hi! I'm Chenxin Li, a final-year Ph.D. candidate at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Before CUHK, I received my master's and bachelor's degrees from Xiamen University, along with a second bachelor's degree in Economics.

My recent interest lies in scaling LLM/VLM agents for digital automation, especially CLI agents for executable computer-use workflows (Claw-Eval-Live, Auto R&D CLI Agent, ODE, HybridClaw) and visual agents for design artifacts (BlenderAgent, PSAgent, Code-to-chart/web). Across these projects, I build agent harnesses, benchmarks, and feedback loops for agent training, making agent behavior more reliable, verifiable, and useful in real-world workflows.

I have interned at ByteDance Seed, Tencent Hunyuan, Tencent AI Lab, Ant Ling, etc. In my spare time, I explore agent-native workflows through 📝 Blogs and 🛠️ OpenAgentLabs. I anticipate graduating in the summer of 2026 and am interested in industrial positions (Profile). Please feel free to reach out via email (chenxinli@link.cuhk.edu.hk) or WeChat (jasonchenxinli).

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🚀 Selected Work [Google Scholar]
* Equal contribution, † Project Leader, ‡ Corresponding author
Claw-Eval-Live: A Live Agent Benchmark for Evolving Real-World Workflows
Chenxin Li†, Zhengyang Tang, Huangxin Lin, Yunlong Lin, Shijue Huang, Shengyuan Liu, Bowen Ye, Rang Li, Lei Li, Benyou Wang, Yixuan Yuan

[Project] [Paper] [Code]

A live workflow-agent benchmark with refreshable demand signals and verifiable execution traces; 105 tasks across 22 categories, 13 frontier models, top model passes only 66.7%.

Towards On-Policy Data Evolution for Visual-Native Multimodal Deep Search Agents
Shijue Huang, Hangyu Guo, Chenxin Li, Junting Lu, Xinyu Geng, Zhaochen Su, Zhenyu Li, Shuang Chen, Hongru Wang, Yi R Fung

[Project] [Paper] [Code]

An on-policy data-evolution framework for visual-native multimodal deep-search agents, using agent rollouts to evolve training data and improve search behavior.

HybridHarness: A Mixed-Action Orchestration Harness and Benchmark for Phone Agents across CLI, GUI, and MCP Tools

[Project] [Paper] [Code] [Dataset]

A mixed-action phone-agent harness and benchmark that routes across CLI, GUI, and MCP tools with trace-backed verification.

Seed-1.8
Seed-1.8: Towards Generalized Real-World Agency
ByteDance Seed Team

[Project] [Model Card]

Contributed to agent post-training for visual coding and agentic tool-use.

UI-TARS-2
UI-TARS-2: Advancing GUI Agent with Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning
ByteDance Seed Team

[Project] [Report]

Contributed to agent post-training.

Ling
Ling: Open-sourced LLM with MoE Architecture by InclusionAI
Ant Group InclusionAI Team

[Project]

Contributed to agentic memory.

🛠️ Open Agent Labs [Organization]

I build agent tools that help people work smarter by turning repetitive, inefficient workflows into AI-native experiences.

IRBlender-Bench Framework
IRBlenderAgent: Evaluating Vision-Language Model Scene Understanding as Agentic Inverse Rendering
Parker Liu*, Chenxin Li*, Zhengxin Li, Yipeng Wu, Wuyang Li, Zhiqin Yang, Zhenyuan Zhang, Yunlong Lin, Sirui Han, Brandon Y. Feng
NeurIPS 2025

[Project] [Paper] [Code]

An agentic inverse-rendering framework that closes the loop from visual understanding to structured code generation, Blender execution, and environment feedback.

U-KAN Framework
U-KAN Makes Strong Backbone for Visual Understanding and Generation
Chenxin Li*, Xinyu Liu*, Wuyang Li*, Cheng Wang*, Hengyu Liu, Yixuan Yuan
AAAI 2025

[Project] [Paper] [Code] 🏆 2025 PaperDigest Most Influential Paper

Integrating Linear Attention mechanism like KAN into vision backbone

JarvisArt
JarvisArt: Liberating Human Artistic Creativity via an Intelligent Photo Retouching Agent
Yunlong Lin*, Zixu Lin*, Kunjie Lin*, Chenxin Li*, Haoyu Chen, Zhongdao Wang, Xinghao Ding†, Wenbo Li, Shuicheng Yan†
NeurIPS 2025

[Project] [Paper] [Code]

An artistic editing agent system that plans multi-step retouching commands and coordinates expert models for execution-quality image refinement.

EMNLP 2024 VLM fine-tuning
Visual Large Language Model Fine-Tuning via Simple Parameter-Efficient Modification
Mengjiao Li, Zhiyuan Ji, Chenxin Li†, Lianliang Nie, Zhiyang Li, Masashi Sugiyama
EMNLP 2024

[Project] [Paper] [Code]

Simple yet efficient parameter-efficient fine-tuning for VLM alignment.

🧭 Selected Experience [LinkedIn]
LLM Agent
  • ByteDance Seed: Visual coding agent and CLI agent
  • Tencent AI Lab: Tool-use and coding agents for Blender manipulation
  • Ant Ling: Agent memory and context compression
  • AMD: Visual token compression for efficient VLMs
World Model
  • Giga AI: World model for embodied brains
  • Hedra AI: Omnimodal attention for commercial video generation
Quant
  • JoinQuant: Agentic RL for quant alpha-factor mining
ScholaGO

ScholaGO (Co-founder): LLM4Education Startup

Co-founded ScholaGO Education Technology Company Limited (学旅通教育科技有限公司), building LLM-powered education products for immersive, interactive, multimodal learning. Supported by HKSTP, HK Tech 300, and Alibaba Cloud.

🎓 Professional Activities
  • Workshop Organizer: AIM-FM: Advancements In Foundation Models Towards Intelligent Agents (NeurIPS 2024)
  • Talks: "UKAN" at VALSE Summit (Jun 2025) and DAMTP, University of Cambridge (Jul 2024)
  • Conference Reviewer: ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, EMNLP, AAAI, ACM MM
  • Journal Reviewer: Nature Machine Intelligence, PAMI, TIP, DMLR, PR, TNNLS
🌱 Hobbies Beyond Work
  • Vibe-coding Agent Workflows: I enjoy building agent tools through vibe coding, which has shaped how I think in an increasingly AI-native way.
  • Reading: I read history, philosophy, and sociology over the long term. I enjoy reasoning from first principles to anticipate future trends and make my bets accordingly.
  • Stock Investment: I see investing as real-world RL: making decisions, receiving feedback, and refining strategies. As agents dramatically amplify productivity, what matters shifts to where we bet our resources and attention.