Kai WU

Researcher at ByteDance

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I am a researcher at ByteDance, where my work centers on LLM coding agents — building models and systems that can read, reason about, and write code autonomously.

I received my M.S. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Leyuan Shi and Prof. Xin Wang. 🚀 I am also a Kaggle Master, ranked in the global top 0.2%.

Feel free to reach out — I am always happy to connect.

news

Aug 26, 2026 We released AI4AI Awesome-AI4AI — Weekly-updated papers, news, and resources for AI-for-AI research
Feb 15, 2026 We released the Seed 2.0 Model Card — Towards Intelligence Frontier for Real-World Complexity
Feb 13, 2026 We published the MedXIAOHE Tech Report - A Comprehensive Recipe for Building Medical MLLMs
Jan 15, 2026 Two papers accepted by ICLR 2026!
Dec 18, 2025 We released the Seed1.8 Model Card — Towards Generalized Real-World Agency

Selected Publications

  1. Seed
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    Seed 2.0 Model Card
    ByteDance Seed
    ByteDance Seed Technical Report, 2026
    Link
  2. arXiv
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    Seed1.8 Model Card: Towards Generalized Real-World Agency
    ByteDance Seed
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.20633, 2025
    Link
  3. arXiv
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    MedXIAOHE: A Comprehensive Recipe for Building Medical MLLMs
    Baorong Shi, Bo Cui, Boyuan Jiang, Deli Yu, Fang Qian, Haihua Yang, and 14 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.12705, 2025
    Link
  4. NeurIPS
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    BaseReward: A Strong Baseline for Multimodal Reward Model
    Yi-Fan Zhang, Haihua Yang, Huanyu Zhang, Yang Shi, Zezhou Chen, Haochen Tian, and 8 more authors
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025
    Link
  5. CVPR
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    CustAny: Customizing Anything from A Single Example
    Lingjie Kong, Kai Wu, Chengming Xu, Xiaobin Hu, Wenhui Han, Jinlong Peng, and 5 more authors
    In CVPR, 2025
    Oral Link
  6. VI
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    Efficient Multimodal Large Language Models: A Survey
    Yizhang Jin, Jian Li, Tianyun Gu, Yexin Liu, Bo Zhao, Jinyuan Lai, and 6 more authors
    Visual Intelligence, 2025
    Link
  7. CVPR
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    VTON-HandFit: Virtual Try-on for Arbitrary Hand Pose Guided by Hand Priors Embedding
    Yujie Liang, Xiaobin Hu, Boyuan Jiang, Donghao Luo, Xiang Peng, Kai Wu, and 5 more authors
    In CVPR, 2025
    Link
  8. ECCV
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    Tuning-Free Image Customization with Image and Text Guidance
    Pengzhi Li, Qiang Nie, Ying Chen, Xi Jiang, Kai Wu, Yuhuan Lin, and 4 more authors
    In European Conference on Computer Vision, 2024
    Link
  9. arXiv
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    NoiseBoost: Alleviating Hallucination with Noise Perturbation for Multimodal Large Language Models
    Kai Wu, Boyuan Jiang, Zhengkai Jiang, Qingdong He, Donghao Luo, Shengzhi Wang, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.20081, 2024
    Link
  10. AAAI
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    Unsupervised Continual Anomaly Detection with Contrastively-learned Prompt
    Jiaqi Liu, Kai Wu, Qiang Nie, Ying Chen, Bin-Bin Gao, Yong Liu, and 3 more authors
    In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024
    Link
  11. NeurIPS
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    SoftPatch: Unsupervised Anomaly Detection with Noisy Data
    Xi Jiang, Jiaqi Liu, Jinbao Wang, Qiang Nie, Kai Wu, Yong Liu, and 2 more authors
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022
    Link
  12. CVPR
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    Class-Aware Contrastive Semi-Supervised Learning
    Fan Yang, Kai Wu, Shuyi Zhang, Guannan Jiang, Yong Liu, Feng Zheng, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2022
    Link