👋 About me
I am Yifan Liang, a graduate student pursuing M.S. in Intelligent Science and Technology at
School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation (AIA),
Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST).
My study interests lie in out-of-distribution detection (with a CVPR 2025 Highlight paper) and LLM post-training (with industry collaboration).</p>
📖 Educations
- 2021.09 - 2025.06, B.S. in Artificial Intelligence @
AIA,
HUST, Wuhan, China. - 2025.09 - 2028.06 (expected), M.S. in Intelligent Science and Technology @
AIA,
HUST, Wuhan, China.
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2024.11 National First Prize of the 18th “Challenge Cup” National College Student Extracurricular Academic and Technological Works Competition
- 2025.06 Honored Graduate of HUST
- 2025.06 Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis of HUST
🔥 News
- 2025.06: 🎉🎉 I was awarded Honored Graduate and Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis by HUST.
- 2025.03: 🎉🎉 One paper has been selected as a Highlight @ CVPR 2025 (top 2.98%) .
📝 Publications
CVPR 2025

Overcoming Shortcut Problem in VLM for Robust Out-of-Distribution Detection
Zhuo Xu1*, Xiang Xiang1*†, Yifan Liang1
1School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
*Equal contribution
†Corresponding author
Paper | Project | Code | Dataset
- Highlight Paper @ CVPR 2025. This work addresses the shortcut problem in VLMs for robust OOD detection and propose a new OOD dataset ImageNet-Bg.
🚀 Projects
💻 Internships
- Open to internship opportunities in LLM post-training, agent application and so on. Feel free to contact me 😊