Jiachun Jin

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at SJTU, working with Prof. Zhijie Deng. My research lies in multi-modal generative models, with a recent focus on cross-modal alignment and applications in content generation and embodied AI.

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Research interests

Publications

LatentUM: Unleashing the Potential of Interleaved Cross-Modal Reasoning via a Latent-Space Unified Model

Jiachun Jin, Zetong Zhou, Xiao Yang, Hao Zhang, Pengfei Liu, Jun Zhu and Zhijie Deng

arXiv code

ICML

Think-Then-Generate: Reasoning-Aware Text-to-Image Diffusion with LLM Encoders

Siqi Kou*, Jiachun Jin*, Zetong Zhou*, Ye Ma, Yugang Wang, Quan Chen, Peng Jiang, Xiao Yang, Jun Zhu, Kai Yu, and Zhijie Deng

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026.

arXiv code

ICLR

Diffusion LLMs Can Do Faster-Than-AR Inference via Discrete Diffusion Forcing

Xu Wang, Chenkai Xu, Yijie Jin, Jiachun Jin, Hao Zhang, Kai Yu, and Zhijie Deng

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026.

arXiv code

ICML

Orthus: Autoregressive Interleaved Image-Text Generation with Modality-Specific Heads

Siqi Kou, Jiachun Jin, Zhihong Liu, Chang Liu, Ye Ma, Jian Jia, Quan Chen, Peng Jiang, and Zhijie Deng.

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.

arXiv code