Yiyang Fang (方羿阳)

Incoming PhD · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HKUST

I am an incoming Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), advised by Yi R. (May) Fung. I received my master's degree from the School of Computer Science at Wuhan University in 2026, under the supervision of Mang Ye. I received my bachelor's degree from the School of Computer Science and Technology at Shandong University in 2024.

My research mainly focuses on Multimodal Emotion Recognition and Multimodal Large Language Models. If you are interested in collaborating with me, feel free to contact me via email.

News

  • 2026.02 Two papers were accepted to CVPR 2026, both as Highlight.
  • 2025.05 SEPM was accepted to ICML 2025 as a Spotlight paper.
  • 2025.02 EMOE was accepted to CVPR 2025.

Education

  • Wuhan University

    Master Student, School of Computer Science

    2024.09 - 2026.06
  • Shandong University

    Bachelor, School of Computer Science and Technology

    2020.09 - 2024.06

Research Interests

Multimodal Emotion Recognition

Understanding emotional cues across visual, textual, and multimodal signals.

Multimodal Large Language Models

Improving perception, reasoning, and adaptation in multimodal foundation models.

Publications

† equal contribution

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EMO-R3: Reflective Reinforcement Learning for Emotional Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models

CVPR26 Highlight

Yiyang Fang, Wenke Huang, Pei Fu, Yihao Yang, Kehua Su, Zhenbo Luo, Jian Luan, Mang Ye

Paper Project Page
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Catch Your Emotion: Sharpening Emotion Perception in Multimodal Large Language Models

ICML25 Spotlight

Yiyang Fang, Jian Liang, Wenke Huang, He Li, Kehua Su, Mang Ye

Paper Project Page
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EMOE: Modality-Specific Enhanced Dynamic Emotion Experts

CVPR25

Yiyang Fang, Wenke Huang, Guancheng Wan, Kehua Su, Mang Ye

Paper Project Page
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Keeping Yourself is Important in Downstream Tuning Multimodal Large Language Model

Preprint

Wenke Huang, Jian Liang, Xianda Guo, Yiyang Fang†, Guancheng Wan, Xuankun Rong, Chi Wen, Zekun Shi, Qingyun Li, Didi Zhu, Yanbiao Ma, Ke Liang, Bin Yang, He Li, Jiawei Shao, Mang Ye, Bo Du

Preprint