Jiayang Sun (孙家扬)

Graduate Student

Soochow University

Email: jysun02[at]stu.suda.edu.cn, sunjiayang200210[at]gmail.com

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About Me

I am a graduate student affiliated with Soochow University, directed by Prof. Min Cao. My current research focuses on Multimodal Learning and Deep Learning, with a particular interest in diffusion models for video generation. I used to focus on image change captioning.

Education

• Soochow University, Suzhou, China
  M.E. in Computer Science and Technology, School of Computer Science and Technology 2025 - Present
• Soochow University, Suzhou, China
  B.E. in Computer Science and Technology, School of Computer Science and Technology 2021 - 2025

News

• [2026/01] 🎉 One paper is accepted by ICLR 2026! Looking forward to presenting our work and visiting Brazil this April!
• [2025/09] Start my graduate studies at Soochow University.
• [2025/08] 🎉 One paper is accepted by EMNLP 2025 findings!

Publications

Imagine How To Change: Explicit Procedure Modeling for Change Captioning

Jiayang Sun*, Zixin Guo*, Min Cao, Guibo Zhu, Jorma Laaksonen

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026

[Paper] [Code (ProCap)] [Project Page]

Learning to Describe Implicit Changes: Noise-Robust Pre-training for Image Difference Captioning

Zixin Guo, Jiayang Sun, Tzu-Jui Julius Wang, Abduljalil Radman, Selen Pehlivan, Min Cao, Jorma Laaksonen

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025

[Paper] [Code]