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Jianhao Yuan

I am a DPhil (PhD) student of University of Oxford, supervised by Prof. Daniele De Martini, Prof. Paul Newman, and Prof. Philip Torr. I also closely work with Prof. Lars Kunze and Dr. Matt Gadd. Prior to this, I completed my undergraduate studies in Engineering Science also at University of Oxford. Previously, I worked as research intern at Meta FAIR, Amazon, and Oxa. My research interest focus on developing physically plausible video world models.

News

Jun 1, 2026 Excited to start as a Research Scientist Intern again at FAIR Meta!
Feb 22, 2026 WMReward has been accepted to CVPR 2026 as a Highlight!
Jan 28, 2026 LikePhys has been accepted to ICLR 2026!
Nov 1, 2025 Our solution WMReward won first place in the ICCV 2025 Physics-IQ Challenge!
Jun 16, 2025 Excited to start as a Research Scientist Intern at FAIR Meta!

Selected Publications

  1. Inference-time Physics Alignment of Video Generative Models with Latent World Models
    Jianhao Yuan, Xiaofeng Zhang, Felix Friedrich, and 7 more authors
    CVPR, 2026 Highlight
  2. LikePhys: Evaluating Intuitive Physics Understanding in Video Diffusion Models via Likelihood Preference
    Jianhao Yuan, Fabio Pizzati, Francesco Pinto, and 5 more authors
    ICLR, 2026
  3. Not Just Pretty Pictures: Toward Interventional Data Augmentation Using Text-to-Image Generators
    Jianhao Yuan, Francesco Pinto, Adam Davies, and 1 more author
    ICML, 2024
  4. Real-Fake: Effective Training Data Synthesis Through Distribution Matching
    Jianhao Yuan, Jie Zhang, Shuyang Sun, and 2 more authors
    ICLR, 2024
  5. RAG-Driver: Generalisable Driving Explanations with Retrieval-Augmented In-Context Learning in Multi-Modal Large Language Model
    Jianhao Yuan, Shuyang Sun, Daniel Omeiza, and 4 more authors
    RSS, 2024