Dejia Xu

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I’m a research lead at Luma AI, focusing on Multimodal Agents for controllable image/video generation/editing and Physical AI. I was a core contributor to Uni-1 and co-led Uni-1.1, focusing on multimodal reasoning/generation/editing.

I got my Ph.D. from VITA Group, The University of Texas at Austin, advised by Prof. Atlas Wang.

news

May 5, 2026 Uni-1.1 API shipped! We rank top 3 lab in the Image Arena across Text-to-Image and Image Editing. :tada:
Mar 5, 2026 Uni-1 released! Our first unified understanding and generation model. :tada:
Apr 4, 2024 Feature 3DGS and OpenBias are selected as CVPR 2024 Highlight papers (2.8% of 11532 submissions)! :tada:
Mar 21, 2023 NeuralLift-360 is selected as a CVPR 2023 Highlight paper (2.5% of 9155 submissions)! :tada:
Dec 1, 2022 Received Snap Research Fellowship. Thank you Snap! :heart:

selected work

  1. Uni-1.1 ranks #3 on Image Arena across Text-to-Image and Image Editing. I lead the multimodal reasoning effort for image editing.
  1. Luma AI's first unified multimodal intelligence model. I was a core contributor working full-stack across pre-training, SFT, RL, and evaluation. I was the DRI for image editing and text rendering (posters/slides/infographics).
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    Cavia: Camera-controllable Multi-view Video Diffusion with View-Integrated Attention
    Dejia Xu, Yifan Jiang, Chen Huang, and 5 more authors
    2024
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    CamCo: Camera-Controllable 3D-Consistent Image-to-Video Generation
    Dejia Xu, Weili Nie, Chao Liu, and 4 more authors
    2024
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    Diffusion4D: Fast Spatial-temporal Consistent 4D Generation via Video Diffusion Models
    Hanwen Liang*, Yuyang Yin*, Dejia Xu, and 5 more authors
    In Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024
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    Comp4D: LLM-Guided Compositional 4D Scene Generation
    Dejia Xu*, Hanwen Liang*, Neel P Bhatt, and 4 more authors
    2024
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    DreamScene360: Unconstrained Text-to-3D Scene Generation with Panoramic Gaussian Splatting
    Shijie Zhou*, Zhiwen Fan*, Dejia Xu*, and 5 more authors
    In European Conference on Computer Vision, 2024
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    AGG: Amortized Generative 3D Gaussians for Single Image to 3D
    Dejia Xu, Ye Yuan, Morteza Mardani, and 4 more authors
    In Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2024
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    PAIR-Diffusion: Object-Level Image Editing with Structure-and-Appearance Paired Diffusion Models
    Vidit Goel, Elia Peruzzo, Yifan Jiang, and 5 more authors
    In IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, 2024
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    4DGen: Grounded 4D Content Generation with Spatial-temporal Consistency
    Dejia Xu*, Yuyang Yin*, Zhangyang Wang, and 2 more authors
    2023
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    LightGaussian: Unbounded 3D Gaussian Compression with 15x Reduction and 200+ FPS
    Zhiwen Fan, Kevin Wang, Kairun Wen, and 3 more authors
    In Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024
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    NeuralLift-360: Lifting An In-the-wild 2D Photo to A 3D Object with 360 Views
    Dejia Xu, Yifan Jiang, Peihao Wang, and 3 more authors
    In IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, 2023
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    AligNeRF: High-Fidelity Neural Radiance Fields via Alignment-Aware Training
    Yifan Jiang, Peter Hedman, Ben Mildenhall, and 4 more authors
    In IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, 2023
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    SinNeRF: Training Neural Radiance Fields on Complex Scenes from a Single Image
    Dejia Xu*, Yifan Jiang*, Peihao Wang, and 3 more authors
    In European Conference on Computer Vision, 2022