Hi there! I am Xiaoran Shang (Chinese: 尚萧然), a fourth-year undergraduate student studying Information Security at Wuhan University (WHU). I will be joining University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) as a Ph.D. student in Fall 2026, jointly trained with Shanghai AI Laboratory, supervised by Dr. Lijun Wu and Prof. Feng Zhao. My research interests primarily lie in Data-Centric AI, MLLMs, and Agentic RL. I am open to any research collaboration. Feel free to contact me via Email or WeChat.

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(† Equal Contribution)

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From Factors to Methods: A Comprehensive Survey on Visual Instruction Tuning Data Selection

Yun Zhu†, Xiaoran Shang†, Qifan Yu, Kaihang Pan, Boci Peng, Xiaotang Wang, Xiaoyang Wang, Yu Li, Honglin Lin, Zheng Liu, Xin Gao, Zhanping Zhong, Lijun Wu, Conghui He

2026

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NeurIPS 2025Spotlight

HYPERION: Fine-Grained Hypersphere Alignment for Robust Federated Graph Learning

Guancheng Wan†, Xiaoran Shang†, Yuxin Wu, Guibin Zhang, Jinhe Bi, Liangtao Zheng, Xin Lin, Yue Liu, Yanbiao Ma, Wenke Huang, Bo Du

2025

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