Qwen-Image-2.0 Technical Report

Junyang Lin (Justin Lin) is a researcher and open-source maintainer known for the Qwen family of models. His public profiles list interests in LLMs, AI agents, multimodal learning, long-horizon reasoning, world models, and reinforcement learning; multiple March 2026 news reports said he stepped down from the Qwen tech lead role.

Senior algorithm expert at Alibaba Group working on large language models, multimodal large language models, and diffusion models.

Algorithm expert at Alibaba DAMO Academy focused on natural language generation and large language models.

Yichang Zhang is a research scientist in Alibaba's Tongyi Lab and part of the Qwen team. His public profiles describe work on machine reasoning, agent systems, post-training, synthetic data, evaluation, large language models, multimodal learning, and perception.

Yang Fan is a research scientist at Alibaba Group. His homepage says he works on large language model post-training and deployment.

Alibaba senior technology leader and researcher associated with Qwen. Public profiles list him with Alibaba Group, and official Alibaba Cloud coverage identifies him as a chief technology officer leading large-model work.

Alibaba researcher working on large language models and multimodal pretraining; public research profiles connect An Yang to Qwen-related work and earlier study at Peking University.

Research scientist at Qwen focused on dialogue systems, large language models, reinforcement learning, game theory, and decision-making.

Research scientist in Tongyi Lab whose official profile highlights post-training and multimodal large language models.

Research scientist in Tongyi Lab whose official profile highlights post-training, reasoning, and coding large language models.

Chenfei Wu is listed as a coauthor of the Qwen-Image-VAE-2.0 Technical Report, an Alibaba Qwen report on visual autoencoder technology for image generation systems.

Deqing Li is listed as an author on the Qwen-Image-VAE-2.0 Technical Report, an arXiv report on high-compression VAEs for image reconstruction and diffusion workflows.

Hao Meng is listed as a coauthor of the Qwen-Image-VAE-2.0 Technical Report, an Alibaba Qwen report on visual autoencoder technology for image generation systems.

Jiahao Li is listed as an author on the Qwen-Image-VAE-2.0 Technical Report, an arXiv paper describing high-compression VAEs for image reconstruction and diffusion modeling.

Jie Zhang is listed as a coauthor of the Qwen-Image-VAE-2.0 Technical Report, an Alibaba Qwen report on visual autoencoder technology for image generation systems.

Kaiyuan Gao is listed as a co-author of the Qwen-Image-VAE-2.0 Technical Report submitted to arXiv in May 2026.

Kuan Cao is listed as a coauthor of the Qwen-Image-VAE-2.0 Technical Report, an Alibaba Qwen report on visual autoencoder technology for image generation systems.

Kun Yan is listed as an author of the Qwen-Image-VAE-2.0 Technical Report, an arXiv report on high-compression image variational autoencoders.

Liang Peng is listed as a coauthor of the Qwen-Image-VAE-2.0 Technical Report, an Alibaba Qwen report on visual autoencoder technology for image generation systems.

Lihan Jiang is listed as a coauthor of the Qwen-Image-VAE-2.0 Technical Report, an Alibaba Qwen report on visual autoencoder technology for image generation systems.

Lin Qu is listed as a coauthor of the Qwen-Image-VAE-2.0 Technical Report, an Alibaba Qwen report on visual autoencoder technology for image generation systems.

Ningyuan Tang is listed as a contributor and author on the Qwen-Image-VAE-2.0 Technical Report from the Qwen Team.

Shengming Yin is listed as a coauthor of the Qwen-Image-VAE-2.0 Technical Report, an Alibaba Qwen report on visual autoencoder technology for image generation systems.

Tianhe Wu is listed as a coauthor of the Qwen-Image-VAE-2.0 Technical Report, an Alibaba Qwen report on visual autoencoder technology for image generation systems.

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Junyang Lin

Shuai Bai

Dayiheng Liu

Yichang Zhang

Yang Fan

Jingren Zhou

An Yang

Rui Men

Xiaodong Deng

Jianwei Zhang

Chenfei Wu

Deqing Li

Hao Meng

Jiahao Li

Jie Zhang

Kaiyuan Gao

Kuan Cao

Kun Yan

Liang Peng

Lihan Jiang

Lin Qu

Ningyuan Tang

Shengming Yin

Tianhe Wu