Xiaoyang Kang

I am currently a Research Engineer at a video generation startup. Previously, I spent several productive years at Alibaba Group, where I served as a Research Engineer at Alimama Creative Lab and DAMO Academy Tongyi Lab. My work primarily focused on pushing the boundaries of generative AI and its industrial applications.

I obtained my M.S. and B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Technology from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT). My research interests lie in Generative Models, Video Generation, and Enhancement. I am passionate about building next-generation creative tools powered by foundation models.

Email / Github / Google Scholar

Selected Publications

	Speed by Simplicity: A Single-Stream Architecture for Fast Audio-Video Generative Foundation Model Sand.ai Team Technical Report , 2026 paper / code
	MAGI-1: Autoregressive Video Generation at Scale Sand.ai Team Technical Report , 2025 paper / code
	AtomoVideo: High Fidelity Image-to-Video Generation Litong Gong, Yiran Zhu, Weijie Li, Xiaoyang Kang, Biao Wang, Tiezheng Ge, Bo Zheng * co-first authors Technical Report , 2024 paper / project
	DDColor: Towards Photo-Realistic Image Colorization via Dual Decoders Xiaoyang Kang, Tao Yang, Wenqi Ouyang, Peiran Ren, Lingzhi Li, Xuansong Xie ICCV , 2023 paper / code / demo
	RSFNet: A White-Box Image Retouching Approach using Region-Specific Color Filters Wenqi Ouyang, Yi Dong, Xiaoyang Kang, Peiran Ren, Xin Xu, Xuansong Xie ICCV , 2023 paper / code
	NTIRE 2023 Video Colorization Challenge Xiaoyang Kang, Xianhui Lin, Kai Zhang, Zheng Hui, Wangmeng Xiang, Jun-Yan He, Xiaoming Li, Peiran Ren, Xuansong Xie, Radu Timofte CVPRW , 2023 paper / project

Experience

2025.3 - Present: Research Engineer at Sand.ai.
2022.7 - 2025.2: Research Engineer at Tongyi Lab and Alimama Creative Lab, Alibaba Group, supervised by Dr. Peiran Ren and Dr. Tiezheng Ge.
2021.6 - 2022.6: Algorithm Intern at Alibaba Cloud, Alibaba Group, mentored by Lingzhi Li and supervised by Dr. Li Shen.
2021.3 - 2021.6: Algorithm Intern at Tiktok, ByteDance.
2020.7 - 2020.10: Research Intern at SenseTime AI Lab.

Awards and Honors

Silver Medal (Top 1.3%), Kaggle Cassava Leaf Disease Classification, 2021
Outstanding Graduates of Beijing (Top 5%), 2019
First Prize, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition of BUPT, 2019
Merit Student Award (Top 10%), BUPT, 2017
🏆 Champion, Alibaba Taobao & Tmall Group Beijing Basketball Tournament, 2024

Thanks to Jon Barron for sharing the code of his personal webpage.