I am currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University. Before that, I received both the BS degree (Aug 2013 - Jul 2017, advised by Prof. Yi Zhong) and PhD degree (Aug 2019 - Jul 2023, co-advised by Prof. Yi Zhong and Prof. Jun Zhu) from Tsinghua University, where I also conducted my postdoc research (Jul 2023 - Jul 2025, working with Prof. Jun Zhu). I have an interdisciplinary background in neuroscience and machine learning. My primary research interest lies in the development of bio-inspired machine learning methodologies and generic computational models for neuroscience. The current focus includes continual / incremental / lifelong learning and transfer learning, by exploring “natural algorithms” in biological learning and memory. I’m also exploring AI algorithms that serve other scientific domains. Welcome discussion and collaboration if you are interested in my research.

My email address is changed to wly19@tsinghua.org.cn (and also ly_wang94@126.com).

Recent News

• 2025/07 I was awarded the WAIC Youth Outstanding Paper Award.
• 2025/06 I was awarded the CAAI Rising Scientist.
• 2025/05 We are organizing the 6th CLVision Workshop in ICCV 2025.
• 2025/05 One paper is accepted to ICML 2025.
• 2025/04 One paper is accepted to IEEE TPAMI.
• 2025/04 I will serve as an Area Chair at NeurIPS 2025.
• 2025/01 One paper is accepted to ICLR 2025.
• 2025/01 One paper is accepted to IEEE VR-TVCG 2025.
• 2024/09 I received the Excellent Conference Poster Award in CNS 2024.
• 2024/07 One paper is accepted to ECCV 2024 (as an oral).
• 2024/06 I was awarded the WAIC Rising Star.
• 2024/04 One paper is accepted to IJCAI 2024.
• 2024/02 One paper is accepted to CVPR 2024.
• 2024/02 Our continual learning survey is accepted to IEEE TPAMI.
• 2023/12 Our paper is featured as the cover article of NMI.
• 2023/11 One paper is published in Nature Machine Intelligence.
• 2023/10 One paper is accepted to the IMOL workshop in NeurIPS 2023.
• 2023/09 Two papers are accepted to NeurIPS 2023 (with one spotlight).
• 2023/07 I was awarded the Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar.
• 2023/07 I received the Outstanding Poster Award in CCCN 2023.
• 2023/07 One paper is accepted to ICCV 2023.
• 2023/06 I received my PhD degree after four years of hard work.
• 2023/02 Our continual learning survey is online in arXiv.

Recent Publications

• Zehua Chen, Yuyang Miao, Liyuan Wang$^{\dagger}$, Luyun Fan, Danilo P. Mandic, Jun Zhu$^{\dagger}$. Versatile Cardiovascular Signal Generation with a Unified Diffusion Transformer. arXiv:2505.22306, Under Review, 2025

• Liyuan Wang, Jingyi Xie, Xingxing Zhang, Hang Su, Jun Zhu. HiDe-PET: Continual Learning via Hierarchical Decomposition of Parameter-Efficient Tuning. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2025.

• Guanglong Sun, Hongwei Yan, Liyuan Wang$^{\dagger}$, Qian Li, Bo Lei, Yi Zhong. Right Time to Learn: Promoting Generalization via Bio-inspired Spacing Effect in Knowledge Distillation. In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.

• Zhiqi Kang, Liyuan Wang$^{\dagger}$, Xingxing Zhang, Karteek Alahari$^{\dagger}$. Advancing Prompt-based Methods for Replay-Independent General Continual Learning. In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025.

• Kanglei Zhou, Zikai Hao, Liyuan Wang, Xiaohui Liang. Adaptive Score Alignment Learning for Continual Perceptual Quality Assessment of 360-Degree Videos in Virtual Reality. IEEE Visual Reality - Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VR-TVCG), 2025.

• Ziqi Yuan$^{\ast}$, Liyuan Wang$^{\ast}$, Wenbo Ding, Xingxing Zhang, Jiachen Zhong, Jianyong Ai, Jianmin Li, Jun Zhu. DualTeacher: Bridging Coexistence of Unlabelled Classes for Semi-supervised Incremental Object Detection. Science China Information Sciences (SCIS), 2025.

• Kanglei Zhou, Ruizhi Cai, Liyuan Wang, Hubert P. H. Shum, Xiaohui Liang. A Comprehensive Survey of Action Quality Assessment: Method and Benchmark. arXiv:2412.11149, Under Review, 2025.

• Gengwei Zhang$^{\ast}$, Liyuan Wang$^{\ast}$, Guoliang Kang, Ling Chen, Yunchao Wei. SLCA++: Unleash the Power of Sequential Fine-tuning for Continual Learning with Pre-training. arXiv:2408.08295, Under Review, 2024.

• Liyuan Wang, Xingxing Zhang, Hang Su, Jun Zhu. A Comprehensive Survey of Continual Learning: Theory, Method and Application. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), TPAMI Top-10 Popular Documents, ESI Highly Cited Paper, 2024.

• Kanglei Zhou, Liyuan Wang, Xingxing Zhang, Hubert Shum, Frederick Li, Jianguo Li, Xiaohui Liang. MAGR: Manifold-Aligned Graph Regularization for Continual Action Quality Assessment. In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Oral, 2024.

• Kanglei Zhou, Junlin Li, Ruizhi Cai, Liyuan Wang, Xingxing Zhang, Xiaohui Liang. CoFInAl: Enhancing Action Quality Assessment with Coarse-to-Fine Instruction Alignment. In International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024.

• Hongwei Yan, Liyuan Wang$^{\dagger}$, Kaisheng Ma$^{\dagger}$, Yi Zhong$^{\dagger}$. Orchestrate Latent Expertise: Advancing Online Continual Learning with Multi-Level Supervision and Reverse Self-Distillation. In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024.

• Liyuan Wang$^{\ast}$, Xingxing Zhang$^{\ast}$, Qian Li, Mingtian Zhang, Hang Su, Jun Zhu, Yi Zhong. Incorporating Neuro-Inspired Adaptability for Continual Learning in Artificial Intelligence. Nature Machine Intelligence, Cover Paper, 2023.

• Liyuan Wang, Jingyi Xie, Xingxing Zhang, Mingyi Huang, Hang Su, Jun Zhu. Hierarchical Decomposition of Prompt-Based Continual Learning: Rethinking Obscured Sub-optimality. In Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Spotlight, 2023.

• Yilin Lyu$^{\ast}$, Liyuan Wang$^{\ast}$, Xingxing Zhang, Zicheng Sun, Hang Su, Jun Zhu, Liping Jing. Overcoming Recency Bias of Normalization Statistics in Continual Learning: Balance and Adaptation. In Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023.

• Liyuan Wang, Jingyi Xie, Xingxing Zhang, Hang Su, Jun Zhu. Towards a General Framework for Continual Learning with Pre-training. In NeurIPS Intrinsically Motivated Open-ended Learning (IMOL) Workshop (NeurIPSW), 2023.

• Gengwei Zhang$^{\ast}$, Liyuan Wang$^{\ast}$, Guoliang Kang, Ling Chen, Yunchao Wei. SLCA: Slow Learner with Classifier Alignment for Continual Learning on a Pre-trained Model. In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023.

• Jianjian Zhao, Xuchen Zhang, Bohan Zhao, Liyuan Wang, Wantong Hu, Yi Zhong, Qian Li. Genetic Dissection of Mutual Interference between Two Consecutively Learned Tasks in Drosophila. eLife, 2023, 12:e83516.

• Liyuan Wang$^{\ast}$, Xingxing Zhang$^{\ast}$, Qian Li, Jun Zhu, Yi Zhong. CoSCL: Cooperation of Small Continual Learners is Stronger than a Big One. In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022.

• Xingxing Zhang, Zhizhe Liu, Weikai Yang, Liyuan Wang, Jun Zhu. The More, The Better? Active Silencing of Non-Positive Transfer for Efficient Multi-Domain Few-Shot Classification. In ACM Multimedia (MM), 2022.

• Liyuan Wang$^{\ast}$, Xingxing Zhang$^{\ast}$, Kuo Yang, Longhui Yu, Chongxuan Li, Lanqing Hong, Shifeng Zhang, Zhenguo Li, Yi Zhong, Jun Zhu. Memory Replay with Data Compression for Continual Learning. In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2022.

• Liyuan Wang, Mingtian Zhang, Zhongfan Jia, Qian Li, Chenglong Bao, Kaisheng Ma, Jun Zhu, Yi Zhong. AFEC: Active Forgetting of Negative Transfer in Continual Learning. In Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021.

• Liyuan Wang, Kuo Yang, Chongxuan Li, Lanqing Hong, Zhenguo Li, Jun Zhu. ORDisCo: Effective and Efficient Usage of Incremental Unlabeled Data for Semi-supervised Continual Learning. In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021.

• Liyuan Wang, Bo Lei, Qian Li, Hang Su, Jun Zhu, Yi Zhong. Triple-Memory Networks: A Brain-Inspired Method for Continual Learning. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 2021, 33(5):1925-34.

• Liyuan Wang, Qian Li, Yi Zhong, Jun Zhu. Few-shot Continual Learning: a Brain-inspired Approach. arXiv:2104.09034, 2021.

Academic Services

• Organizer: ICCV 6th CLVision Workshop (2025), ISNN Continual Learning Forum (2024)
• Conference Area Chair: NeurIPS (2025)
• Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024), ICML (2024, 2025), ICLR (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025), CVPR (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025), ICCV (2023, 2025), ECCV (2022, 2024), AAAI (2025), IJCAI (2024), ACM MM (2022, 2023), CogSci (2024, 2025), CoLLAs (2023, 2024, 2025)
• Journal Reviewer: PNAS, TPAMI, IJCV, TAFFC, TIP, TNNLS, TCSVT, TETCI, TAI, ACM Computing Surveys, Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, Neurocomputing, IET Computer Vision, Applied Energy

Honors and Awards

• World AI Conference (WAIC) Youth Outstanding Paper Award, 2025.
• Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) Rising Scientist, 2025.
• CNS-RWD Award for Excellent Conference Poster, 2024.
• World AI Conference (WAIC) Rising Star, 2024.
• Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar for Postdoc Researcher, 2023.
• National Scholarship for Graduate Student, 2022.
• Beijing Outstanding Graduate Award, 2017.
• Tsinghua Outstanding Graduate Award, 2017.
• National Scholarship for Undergraduate Student, 2014, 2015, 2016.