😁Hi there, I’m Xiaofu

👨🏻‍💻I’m a First-Year NLP PhD student at MBZUAI supervised by Prof. Yova Kementchedjhieva. I am also closely working with my friend Yaxin Luo. I am so glad to do research projects under the supervision of Prof. Dimitrios Papadopoulos and Prof.Weizhi Meng.

📔My research interests center on multimodal learning. I am passionate about AI agents, particularly autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, and committed to enhancing their foundational capabilities—specifically in memory, reasoning, and interaction. Additionally, I have a keen interest in visual language perception, especially in the interpretation of images and videos. My work also extends to weakly supervised learning, where I have worked on projects like weakly supervised referring expression comprehension (REC) and segmentation (RES).

Publications:

📄SPECS: Specificity-Enhanced CLIP-Score for Long Image Caption Evaluation(EMNLP 2025 Main)

Xiaofu Chen, Israfel Salazar, Yova Kementchedjhieva

📄DViN: Dynamic Visual Routing Network for Weakly Supervised Referring Expression Comprehension(CVPR 2025)

Xiaofu Chen, Yaxin Luo, Gen Luo, Jiayi Ji, Henghui Ding, Yiyi Zhou

📄Blockchain-Driven Distributed Edge Intelligence for Enhanced Internet-of-Vehicles(IEEE Internet of Things Journal)

Xiaofu Chen, Weizhi Meng, Heyang Huang

📄APL: Anchor-based Prompt Learning for One-stage Weakly Supervised Referring Expression Comprehension(ECCV 2024)

Yaxin Luo, Jiayi Ji, Xiaofu Chen, Yuxin Zhang, Tianhe Ren, Gen Luo