Dannong Xu

Doctoral Student

About me:

I will be starting at INSAIT, under the supervision of Prof. Luc Van Gool and Dr. Danda Paudel. My research interests include Multimodal Learning, Large Language Models, and Computer Vision. Before joining INSAIT, I obtained my Bachelor’s degree from The University of Sydney.

Education:

  • The University of Sydney – Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (Honours) – Aug 2020 to Feb 2025

Publications:

  • “EverMemOS: A Self-Organizing Memory Operating System for Structured Long-Horizon Reasoning”. ACL 2026.
  • “Script: Graph-Structured and Query-Conditioned Semantic Token Pruning for Multimodal Large Language Models”. TMLR 2025.
  • “WikiAutoGen: Towards Multi-Modal Wikipedia-Style Article Generation”. ICCV 2025.
  • “Document Haystacks: Vision-Language Reasoning Over Piles of 1000+ Documents”. CVPR 2025.

Relevant Experience:

  • EverMind – Long-term Memory
  • KAUST – Multimodal Learning and Computer Vision

2026

Dannong Xu, Zhongyu Yang, Jun Chen, Yingfang Yuan, Ming Hu, Lei Sun, Luc Van Gool, Danda Pani Paudel, Chun-Mei Feng

MultiHaystack: Benchmarking Multimodal Retrieval and Reasoning over 40K Images, Videos, and Documents
In: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2026)