I’m Tan Yu (余潭). I am currently an Algorithm Engineer at the Soul AIGC team. I received my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Soochow University, under the supervision of Professor Jingjing Wang. My research interests include generative models and image/video generation.
🔥 News
- 2025.12: 🎉🎉 Check out our new project, SoulX-FlashTalk is the first 14B model to achieve a sub-second start-up latency (0.87s) while sustaining a real-time throughput of 32 FPS. (400+🌟 on GitHub)!
- 2025.6: 🎉🎉 Check out our new project, the first image generation model that marries Autoregressive (AR) Transformer with diffusion models. (140+🌟 on GitHub)!
📝 Publications
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Arxiv 25.12SoulX-FlashTalk: Real-Time Infinite Streaming of Audio-Driven Avatars via Self-Correcting Bidirectional Distillation, Le Shen∗, Qian Qiao∗, Tan Yu∗, Ke Zhou, Tianhang Yu, Yu Zhan, Zhenjie Wang, Dingcheng Zhen, Ming Tao, Shunshun Yin, Siyuan Liu -
ICASSP 2026RAP: Real-time Audio-driven Portrait Animation with Video Diffusion Transformer, Fangyu Du, Taiqing Li, Qian Qiao, Tan Yu, Dingcheng Zhen, Xu Jia, Yang Yang, Shunshun Yin, Siyuan Liu -
Arxiv 25.06Marrying Autoregressive Transformer and Diffusion with Multi-Reference Autoregression, Dingcheng Zhen∗, Qian Qiao∗, Tan Yu∗, Ruixin Zhang, Siyuan Liu, Shunshun Yin, Xu Zheng -
ACM MM 2024Towards Emotion-enriched Text-to-Motion Generation via LLM-guided Limb-level Emotion Manipulating, Tan Yu, Jingjing Wang, Jiawen Wang, Jiamin Luo, Guodong Zhou -
Neurocomputing 2024TACL: A Trusted Action-enhanced Curriculum Learning Approach to Multimodal Affective Computing, Tan Yu, Jingjing Wang, Jiawen Wang, Jiamin Luo, Guodong Zhou
🎖 Honors and Awards
- National Scholarship in China
- Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Soochow University
- First-Class Graduate Scholarship, Soochow University
📖 Educations
- 2022.09 - 2025.07, Master, Natural Language Processing Laboratory, Soochow University, Suzhou.
- 2018.09 - 2022.06, Bachelor, Institute of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou.
💻 Internships
2024.09 - 2024.12, Yuan Jing, Alibaba Group, China.
2024.05 - 2024.08, Netease-Games-AI-Lab-Guangzhou, China.