Peng Houwen
Houwen Peng is an AI researcher specializing in multimodal generative AI systems. He led Tencent's Hunyuan multimodal teams, where models built under his oversight served hundreds of millions of daily user queries across Tencent applications including Yuanbao. Prior to Tencent, he was a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia from 2018 to 2024, and is best known for his work on EfficientViT, X-CLIP, TinyViT, and MS-AMP, the latter of which was incorporated as an official training technique in PyTorch.
“Peng Houwen also joined in late 2024, also from Microsoft Research Asia, also the multimodal direction... Recently there's been news on social media that he has left.”
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