Shilong Xiang

I am a Research Assistant at Rutgers University, fortunate to be advised by Prof. Chengzhi Mao 😊. I am broadly interested in Generative AI and Large (Vision) Language Models. I received my B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota in 2026, where I was advised by Prof. Yao-Yi Chiang.

News

Nov 2025 Received the UMN Undergraduate Research Opportunities (UROP) Grant Award.
Feb 2025 Received the UMN MURAJ In-Action Grant Award.

Publications

SSD: Spatially Speculative Decoding Accelerates Autoregressive Image Generation

Shilong Xiang, Zirui Zhang, Lijun Yu, Chengzhi Mao

arXiv 2026

arXiv Project Page

S²COPE: Self-Supervised Concept Discovery via Preference Learning

Shilong Xiang, Zirui Zhang, Chengzhi Mao

arXiv 2026

arXiv Project Page