Jingyang Ou (欧竞阳)

Jingyang Ou (欧竞阳)

Renmin University of China

I am a first-year Ph.D. student at Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China, advised by Prof. Chongxuan Li.

My research interests lie in deep generative models and reinforcement learning. Recently, I have been focusing on diffusion language models.

🎓 Education

  • 2025.09 - Present, Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China, Ph.D. Student
  • 2021.09 - 2025.6, School of Information, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China, Undergraduate

📝 Papers

  • Principled RL for Diffusion LLMs Emerges from a Sequence-Level Perspective.
    Jingyang Ou, Jiaqi Han, Minkai Xu, Shaoxuan Xu, Jianwen Xie, Stefano Ermon, Yi Wu, Chongxuan Li
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
    [Paper] [Code] [Demo]
  • Your Absorbing Discrete Diffusion Secretly Models the Conditional Distributions of Clean Data.
    Jingyang Ou, Shen Nie, Kaiwen Xue, Fengqi Zhu, Jiacheng Sun, Zhenguo Li, Chongxuan Li
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025
    Proves that masked diffusion models admit a simplified training objective and a time-independent network parameterization,
    both of which have since become standard.
    [Paper] [Code] [Poster]
  • Large Language Diffusion Models.
    Shen Nie, Fengqi Zhu, Zebin You, Xiaolu Zhang, Jingyang Ou, Jun Hu, Jun Zhou, Yankai Lin, Ji-Rong Wen, Chongxuan Li
    Oral, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025.
    Long Paper Best Paper Award, DeLTa@ICLR 2025
    [Paper] [Code] [Demo]
  • Effective and Efficient Masked Image Generation Models.
    Zebin You, Jingyang Ou, Xiaolu Zhang, Jun Hu, Jun Zhou, Chongxuan Li
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025
    [Paper] [Code]

🏅 Awards

  • Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis (1 recipient per department), 2025
  • Finalist, Mathematical Contest in Modeling (top 2%), 2023
  • National First Prize, National College Student Mathematical Modeling Competition (top 0.60%), 2022

💻 Internships

  • 2026.1 - Present, Alibaba, Beijing, China .
  • 2025.3 - 2025.12, Ant Research, Beijing, China .