Jinyu Xiang 向劲宇
Researcher at Xiaomi Mimo-Core
I work on foundation model training and agent systems at Xiaomi MiMo. My work spans mid-training and post-training, agent learning, workflow optimization, and open-source development.
MiMo-V2.6
Core contributor
Contributed to post-training for design and research agents, and independently completed music mid-training and post-training.
News
- Released MiMo-V2.6 with the Xiaomi MiMo team.
- Released MiMo-Code with the Xiaomi MiMo team — a coding agent CLI where models and agents co-evolve.
- Joined Xiaomi Mimo-Core as a Researcher.
News archive
- Released Open Research, an AI-powered research assistant that goes from idea to full paper.
- Co-founded Karis, working on general agents and marketing applications.
- Participated in the Foundation Agent Survey V1, exploring cross-environment agents.
- Proposed and built OpenManus with the team.
- Self-Supervised Prompt Optimization was accepted at EMNLP 2025.
- AFlow was accepted for an oral presentation at ICLR 2025 (Top 1.8%).
Selected Publications
AFlow: Automating Agentic Workflow Generation
Co-first author · Automated search over agentic workflows.
AFlow introduces an automated framework that reformulates workflow optimization as a search problem over code-represented workflows, using Monte Carlo Tree Search to efficiently explore and refine workflows through code modification and execution feedback.
Self-Supervised Prompt Optimization
Co-first author · Self-supervised prompt optimization.
We propose a self-supervised framework for prompt optimization that enables language models to automatically refine prompts through iterative feedback and learning.
Open-source Projects
Blog
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End-of-2025 Reflections: Thoughts on Agents
An end-of-year reflection centered on Agent Learning/Evolving, methodologies for AI products, industry competition and long-term moats, and how people rewire “rewards” amid uncertainty.
Experience
- Researcher, Xiaomi Mimo-Core.
- Co-founder, Karis.
- Researcher, DeepWisdom.
Talks
- Weibo AI Deep Talk #27: Is AI Entrepreneurship a Traffic Password?
- INCLUSION·Conference on the Bund Roundtable: Industry Observations from a Gen-Z Agent Application Entrepreneur
- Tencent: The Second Half of AI - Defining Problems is More Important Than Solving Them
- Tencent: The Explosive Rise of Agents - Unlimited Application Space?
Music & art
Outside research, I make instrumental, Gufeng, and electronic music as an independent musician on Tencent Music.
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