About Me 😁

I am a research assistant at Westlake University, supervised by Prof. Huan Wang. I received my M.S. degree in Computer Science from Chongqing Technology and Business University in 2025, under the supervision of Prof. Huafeng Qin. In 2022, I obtained my B.S. degree in Internet of Things Engineering from Pass Collage of Chongqing Technology and Business University.

Currently, my research work centers on Efficient AI, Multi-modal Large Language Models and Large Language Models. Previously, my research focused on Data Augmentation and Biometric Identification.

In my spare time, I am an amateur photographer with a passion for capturing scenery and starry sky shots🌌. I use both digital cameras📷 and film cameras🎞 for my photography projects.

Feel free to contact me for academic and research discussions. Please drop me an email at jinxin86@westlake.edu.cn.

I am actively seeking 26 Fall or 27 Spring PhD opportunities!

News 💬

Experiences 📝

Research Intern | Chongqing Financial Institute Time: July 2023 - Sept 2023. Advisor: Prof. Huafeng Qin.

Research Intern | Westlake University Time: Mar. 2024 -- July 2025. Advisor: Prof. Stan Z. Li.

Research Assistant | Westlake University Time: July. 2025 -- Present. Advisor: Prof. Huan Wang.

Publications 📖

Selected Preprints:

A Survey on Mixup Augmentations and Beyond Xin Jin*, Hongyu Zhu*, Siyuan Li*, Zedong Wang, Zicheng Liu, Juanxi Tian, Chang Yu, Huafeng Qin, and IEEE Fellow Stan. Z. Li† arXiv, 2024 [PDF] [Awesome] [BibTeX]

StarLKNet: Star Mixup with Large Kernel Networks for Palm Vein Identification Xin Jin*, Hongyu Zhu*, Mounim A. El-Yacoubi, Hongchao Liao, Huafeng Qin, and Yun Jiang† arXiv, 2024 [PDF] [BibTeX]

Conferences (*: Equal Contribution. †: Corresponding Author.):

MergeMix: A Unified Augmentation Paradigm for Visual and Multi-Modal Understanding Xin Jin*, Siyuan Li*, Siyong Jian, Kai Yu, Huan Wang† ICLR, 2026 [arXiv] [HF DailyPapers] [BibTeX]

Taming LLMs by Scaling Learning Rates with Gradient Grouping Siyuan Li*, Juanxi Tian*, Zedong Wang*,Xin Jin, Zicheng Liu†, Wentao Zhang, Dan Xu ACL-main, 2025 [arXiv] [HF DailyPapers Top-4] [BibTeX]

SUMix: Mixup with Semantic and Uncertain Information Huafeng Qin*,†, Xin Jin*, Hongyu Zhu*, Hongchao Liao, Mounim A. El-Yacoubi, Xinbo Gao ECCV, 2024 [PDF] [Code] [Poster] [BibTeX]

Adversarial AutoMixup Huafeng Qin*,†, Xin Jin*, Yun Jiang, Mounim A. El-Yacoubi, Xinbo Gao ICLR, 2024 (Spotlight) [PDF] [Code] [Poster] [BibTeX]

Journals (*: Equal Contribution. †: Corresponding Author.):

EM-DARTS: Hierarchical Differentiable Architecture Search for Eye Movement Recognition Huafeng Qin, Hongyu Zhu, Xin Jin, Xin Yu, Mounim A. El-Yacoubi, and Shuqiang Yang IEEE TIM, 2025 [PDF] [BibTeX]

EmMixformer: Mix Transformer for Eye Movement Recognition Huafeng Qin, Hongyu Zhu, Xin Jin, Qun Song, Mounim A. El-Yacoubi, and IEEE Fellow Xinbo Gao IEEE TIM, 2025 [PDF] [Database] [BibTeX]

Services 🧸

• Conference Reviewer:
  ICLR (2025-2026), CVPR (2026), ICML (2026), ECCV (2026)
• Journal Reviewer:
  Pattern Recognition.
• Membership
  2024 - 2025 Student Member of IEEE
  2024 - 2025 Member of China Computer Federation (CCF)

Awards 🏆

• Academic Progress Award, CTBU, 2023
• Challenge Cup of “Qin Chuang Yuan”, National 2nd prize, 2024
• The 14th Challenge Cup, Provincial 2nd prize, 2024
• China International Student Innovation Competition, Provincial 2nd prize, 2024
• The 7th Art Exhibition for College Students in Chongqing, Provincial 1st prize, 2023

Interests 📝

Photography. You could see some photos on 500px website (Long time without update…)