Alibaba Group - Tmall Campus
Mar 1, 2026
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Overview
Algorithm Intern Mar. 2026 – Apr. 2026
Portrait-to-Anime Generation System
- Developed portrait stylization models based on StyleGAN2 and diffusion architectures for high-quality anime-style image generation.
- Constructed end-to-end training workflows including dataset preprocessing, data augmentation, model training, inference, and quantitative evaluation.
- Built scalable pipelines supporting rapid experimentation across multiple generative model architectures.
Model Optimization and Training Stability
- Improved training stability and convergence performance using PyTorch and TensorFlow through optimizer tuning, learning-rate scheduling, and architecture refinement.
- Conducted systematic hyperparameter exploration to improve image fidelity, visual quality, and generation consistency.
- Evaluated generation performance using both objective metrics and human perceptual assessments.
Representation Enhancement
- Explored attention-based feature enhancement and LoRA-based parameter-efficient adaptation techniques for controllable style transfer.
- Improved preservation of facial identity features while maintaining target anime-style characteristics.
- Enhanced style consistency and fine-grained visual details across generated outputs.
Experimental Platform Development
- Designed reproducible experiment management pipelines covering data processing, training, inference, and result analysis.
- Automated model evaluation and visualization workflows to support efficient iteration and comparison of generative model variants.

Authors
YiFan Cai
(he/him)
Graduate student
I am a graduate student in Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, with a B.S. in Computer Science from ShanghaiTech University.
I have research experience in diffusion models, computer vision, robotic manipulation, and molecular drug design. My current interests focus on world models, computer vision, and artificial intelligence.