Ph.D. student · Hong Kong

Wenxin Xu

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1st-year Ph.D. student at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, co-advised by Chen Jason Zhang, Xiaoyong Wei, and Qing Li. Previously, I received my Master's and Bachelor's degrees from Xidian University, advised by Xuefeng Liang.
Research interests: LLM reasoning, LLM agents, agentic harnesses, text-to-vis, text-to-SQL, multimodal learning, and affective computing.

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Wenxin Xu
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Active Preprints
arXiv

Latest News

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Sep 2026
VisInteract, on dynamic interactive text-to-visualization, was accepted by NeurIPS 2026 as a Spotlight (292/30709 papers).
May 2026
One paper on robust and interactive text-to-visualization was accepted by The VLDB Journal.
May 2026
New preprint PMVis released, on reliable agentic progressive text-to-visualization.
Oct 2024
MoMKE received a Best Paper Nomination (26/4385 papers) and an Honourable Mention Award (10/4385 papers) at ACM MM 2024.
Aug 2024
ULDA, on imbalanced regression for emotion recognition, was accepted by Pattern Recognition.
Jul 2024
MoMKE, on incomplete multimodal learning, was accepted by ACM MM 2024 as an oral presentation (3.97%).
Aug 2023
PDDS, on imbalanced classification for emotion recognition, was accepted by PRCV 2023.

Research Portfolio

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PREPRINT2026 · arXiv 2605.29692
Towards Reliable Agentic Progressive Text-to-Visualization with Verification Rules
Wenxin Xu, Chen Jason Zhang, Xiaoyong Wei, Haoyang Li, Hwanhee Kim, Yuanfeng Song, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong
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NeurIPS · SpotlightCCF-A2026
VisInteract: Towards Dynamic Interactive Text-to-Visualization under Imperfect Queries
Wenxin Xu*, Jinwei Lu*, Hwanhee Kim, Chen Jason Zhang, Xiao-Yong Wei, Haoyang Li, Yuanfeng Song
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VLDB JournalCCF-A2026
Towards Robust and Interactive Text-to-Visualization Translation: Enhancing Model Robustness and Mitigating Ambiguity in Natural Language Queries
Jinwei Lu*, Wenxin Xu*, Yuanfeng Song, Haodi Zhang, Chen Jason Zhang, Kaishun Wu, Xiaoyong Wei, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong
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ACM MMCCF-A2024Honourable Mention Award · 10/4385Best Paper Nomination · 26/4385
Leveraging Knowledge of Modality Experts for Incomplete Multimodal Learning
Wenxin Xu*, Hexin Jiang*, Xuefeng Liang
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Pattern RecognitionCCF-B2024
Learning Subjective Time-series Data via Utopia Label Distribution Approximation
Xuefeng Liang, Wenxin Xu, Hexin Jiang, Ying Zhou, Yin Zhao, Jie Zhang
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PRCVCCF-C2023
Pairwise-Emotion Data Distribution Smoothing for Emotion Recognition
Hexin Jiang, Xuefeng Liang, Wenxin Xu, Ying Zhou
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Education & Experience

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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Jan 2026 – Present
Ph.D. student, co-advised by Chen Jason Zhang, Xiaoyong Wei, and Qing Li.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Apr 2025 – Dec 2025
Research Assistant.
Xidian University
Sep 2022 – Jun 2025
Master's degree, advised by Xuefeng Liang.
Xidian University
Sep 2018 – Jun 2022
Bachelor's degree.

Honors & Awards

Outstanding Graduates
2025
Xidian University.
Outstanding Student
2024 & 2025
Xidian University.
ACM MM Honourable Mention Award
2024
Honourable Mention Award for MoMKE, 10/4385 papers.
ACM MM Best Paper Nomination
2024
Best Paper Nomination for MoMKE, 26/4385 papers.
National Scholarship
2024
National Scholarship, China.
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