Mengqi Huang
University of Science and Technology of China
Email: huangmq [AT] ustc.edu.cn

My research interests include deep generative models, image/video generation, and unified multimodal models. I am the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at ACM Multimedia 2022 as the first author. I have also received funding from the First National Natural Science Foundation of China for Youth Student Fundamental Research (Ph.D. student).

博士期间以第一作者获CCF-A类国际会议ACM Multimedia 2022最佳学生论文奖。获首届国家自然科学基金青年学生基础研究项目(博士研究生)，入选首届中国科协青年人才托举工程博士生专项(中国电子学会托举)。获2025年中国科学院院长特别奖。曾入选阿里星(2025 AliStar Program - P7)、字节跳动头部人才计划等。

Education

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
Ph.D. , September 2020 ~
Supervisor: Prof. Zhendong Mao

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
B.Eng. , August 2016 ~ June 2020

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
Research on Text-Guided Long Video Generation based on Spatiotemporal Native Collaboration
PI.
2024.05 ~ 2026.12

Selected Paper Publications [Google Scholar]

In the Year of 2026
LayerEdit: Disentangled Multi-Object Editing via Conflict-Aware Multi-Layer Learning
Fengyi Fu, Mengqi Huang📧, Lei Zhang, Zhendong Mao
AAAI 2026 Build Build
In the Year of 2025
RealCustom++: Representing Images as Real Textual Word for Real-Time Customization
Zhendong Mao, Mengqi Huang, Fei Ding, Mingcong Liu, Qian He, Yongdong Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Build Build
Pro3D-Editor: A Progressive-Views Perspective for Consistent and Precise 3D Editing
Yang Zheng, Mengqi Huang📧, Nan Chen, Zhendong Mao
NeurIPS 2025 Build Build Build
Less-to-More Generalization: Unlocking More Controllability by In-Context Generation
Shaojin Wu, Mengqi Huang📧, Wenxu Wu, Yufeng Cheng, Fei Ding, Qian He
ICCV 2025 Build Build Build
RealGeneral: Unifying Visual Generation via Temporal In-Context Learning with Video Models
Yijing Lin, Mengqi Huang, Shuhan Zhuang, Zhendong Mao
ICCV 2025 Build Build Build
DualReal: Adaptive Joint Training for Lossless Identity-Motion Fusion in Video Customization
Wenchuan Wang, Mengqi Huang, Yijing Tu, Zhendong Mao
ICCV 2025 Build Build Build
LongAnimation: Long Animation Generation with Dynamic Global-Local Memory
Nan Chen, Mengqi Huang, Yihao Meng, Zhendong Mao
ICCV 2025 Build Build Build
A4A: Adapter for Adapter Transfer via All-for-All Mapping for Cross-Architecture Models
Keyu Tu, Mengqi Huang, Zhuowei Chen, Zhendong Mao
CVPR 2025 Build
D^2iT: Dynamic Diffusion Transformer for Accurate Image Generation
Weinan Jia, Mengqi Huang, Nan Chen, Lei Zhang, Zhendong Mao
CVPR 2025 Build
Dragin3D: Image Editing by Dragging in 3D Space
Weiran Guang, Xiaoguang Gu, Mengqi Huang, Zhendong Mao
CVPR 2025 Build
FeedEdit: Text-Based Image Editing with Dynamic Feedback Regulation
Fengyi Fu, Lei Zhang, Mengqi Huang, Zhendong Mao
CVPR 2025 Build
CustomContrast: A Multilevel Contrastive Perspective For Subject-Driven Text-to-Image Customization
Nan Chen, Mengqi Huang, Zhuowei Chen, Yang Zheng, Lei Zhang, Zhendong Mao
AAAI 2025 Build
In the Year of 2024
RealCustom: Narrowing Real Text Word for Real-Time Open-Domain Text-to-Image Customization
Mengqi Huang, Zhendong Mao, Mingcong Liu, Qian He, Yongdong Zhang
CVPR 2024 Build Build Build
Gradual Residuals Alignment: A Dual-Stream Framework for GAN Inversion and Image Attribute Editing
Hao Li, Mengqi Huang, Lei Zhang, Bo Hu, Yi Liu, Zhendong Mao
AAAI 2024 Build
DreamIdentity: Improved Editability for Efficient Face-identity Preserved Image Generation
Zhuowei Chen, Shancheng Fang, Wei Liu, Qian He, Mengqi Huang, Yongdong Zhang, Zhendong Mao
AAAI 2024 Build Build
In the Year of 2023 & 2022
Towards Accurate Image Coding: Improved Autoregressive Image Generation With Dynamic Vector Quantization (Highlight, 2.5% of submitted papers)
Mengqi Huang, Zhendong Mao, Zhuowei Chen, Yongdong Zhang
CVPR 2023 Build Build
Not All Image Regions Matter: Masked Vector Quantization for Autoregressive Image Generation
Mengqi Huang, Zhendong Mao, Quan Wang, Yongdong Zhang
CVPR 2023 Build Build
DSE-GAN: Dynamic Semantic Evolution Generative Adversarial Network for Text-to-Image Generation (Best Student Paper Award, 1/3009 of submitted papers)
Mengqi Huang, Zhendong Mao, Penghui Wang, Quan Wang, Yongdong Zhang
ACM Multimedia 2022 Build

Awards

中国图象图形学学会自然科学奖, 一等奖 2025
中国科学院院长特别奖 2025
Best Student Paper Award, ACM Multimedia 2022 2022

Internships

ByteDance Inc.
Research Intern, Intelligent Creation Department, July 2023 ~
RealCustom: Narrowing Real Text Word for Real-Time Open-Domain Text-to-Image Customization
CVPR 2024 & IEEE T-PAMI 2025
Mengqi Huang, Zhendong Mao, Mingcong Liu, Qian He, Yongdong Zhang
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We present RealCustom to disentangle subject similarity from text controllability and thereby allows both to be optimized simultaneously without conflicts. The core idea of RealCustom is to represent given subjects as real words that can be seamlessly integrated with given texts, and further leveraging the relevance between real words and image regions to disentangle visual condition from text condition.
Less-to-More Generalization: Unlocking More Controllability by In-Context Generation
ICCV 2025
Shaojin Wu, Mengqi Huang📧, Wenxu Wu, Yufeng Cheng, Fei Ding, Qian He
Build Build Build
We propose a highly-consistent data synthesis pipeline for single-subject and multi-subject driven generation. This pipeline harnesses the intrinsic in-context generation capabilities of diffusion transformers and generates high-consistency multi-subject paired data. Moreover, we introduce UNO, which consists of progressive cross-modal alignment and universal rotary position embedding.

Competitions

第二届粤港澳大湾区国际算法算例大赛-高效可控的文生图方法
Team Leader, Second Prize.
August 2023 - November 2023
首届兴智杯全国人工智能应用创新大赛-多模态技术创新赛-基于文本的图像生成
Team Leader, Second Prize.
August 2022 - November 2022
ACM Multimedia 2020 Social Media Prediction Challenge
Team Leader, Top Performance Award. [Github]
March 2020 - June 2020

Last update: December, 2025.

News

  • November 2025
    1 paper is accepted by AAAI 2026
  • October 2025
    1 paper is accepted by T-PAMI!!
  • September 2025
    1 paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2025!
  • June 2025
    4 papers are accepted by ICCV 2025!
  • February 2025
    4 papers are accepted by CVPR 2025!
  • December 2024
    1 papers is accepted by AAAI 2025!
  • February 2024
    1 papers is accepted by CVPR 2024!
  • December 2023
    2 papers are accepted by AAAI 2024!
  • March 2023
    Our paper "Towards Accurate Image Coding: Improved Autoregressive Image Generation with Dynamic Vector Quantization" is selected as a highlight at CVPR 2023!
  • February 2023
    2 papers are accepted by CVPR 2023!
  • October 2022
    Our paper "DSE-GAN: Dynamic Semantic Evolution Generative Adversarial Network for Text-to-Image Generation" receives the Best Student Paper Award at ACM Multimedia 2022!
  • June 2022
    1 paper is accepted by ACM Multimedia 2022!