Haoyu Gu

Hi, I'm Haoyu Gu!

Undergraduate Student in Artificial Intelligence

I'm passionate about Symbolic Music Representation and Generation, Natural Language Processing, and Affective Computing. Let's build something interesting together! 🚀

📞 +86 181-0060-7076 | 📧 ghy20050104@gmail.com

📍 Nanjing, Jiangsu, China | Last Update: January 13, 2026

About Me

Current Status

I'm a junior undergraduate student majoring in Artificial Intelligence at the School of Future Technology, South China University of Technology (SCUT).

Location

Based in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. School located in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province.

Education

Jan. 2024 – Present

South China University of Technology

985 Project University, Excellence 9 (E9) League Member

未来技术学院 - One of China's first 12 Future Technology Schools

Major: Artificial Intelligence

Academic Performance: GPA 3.95+

Core Courses: C++ Programming, Python Programming, Discrete Mathematics, Data Structures, Computer Networks, Computer Organization and Architecture, Database Systems, Circuit Analysis and Analog Circuits, Digital Circuits, Signals and Systems, Digital Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Computer Vision

Sep. 2023 – Dec. 2023

South China University of Technology

吴贤铭智能工程学院

Major: Robotics Engineering

Sep. 2020 – Jun. 2023

Nanjing Ninghai High School

Sep. 2017 – Jul. 2020

The Affiliated High School of Nanjing Normal University, Shuren School

Sep. 2011 – Jul. 2017

Nanjing Langya Road Primary School

Honors & Awards

Jun. 2025

Future Technology Taihu Innovation Award

学业创新一等奖

无锡市政府

May 2025

Lanqiao Cup C++ Programming Contest (Group A)

广东省二等奖

工业和信息化部人才交流中心

Nov. 2024

China Mathematics Competition

广东赛区二等奖

中国数学会

Sep. 2024

SCUT Mathematical Contest

一等奖

华南理工大学数学学院

Sep. 2024

China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling

广东省二等奖

中国工业与应用数学学会

Aug. 2024

Embedded Chip and System Design Competition

南部赛区二等奖

中国电子学会

Nov. 2023

China Mathematics Competition

广东赛区三等奖

中国数学会

Research Interests

Focused on Arts & Humanities Computing — bridging AI with music, language, and emotion.

Symbolic Music Representation and Generation

Exploring how to represent and generate music with machines. Interested in finding better ways to encode musical structure and enable AI to compose coherent, expressive pieces.

Natural Language Processing

Working on language understanding and generation. Curious about how machines can better grasp the nuances of human expression and communication.

Affective Computing

Interested in how AI can recognize and respond to human emotions. Building systems that understand affective signals across different modalities.

Research Outputs

Symbolic Music Generation

Piano Solo

Semantically coherent melodies with clear phrase structure

长期语义连贯

全曲主题发展连贯,乐句结构清晰,旋律走向符合音乐逻辑

双声部协调

钢琴左右手配合默契,旋律对话清晰,声部走向和谐

创造性表达

和声进行富有新意,旋律转折出人意料,节奏型设计巧妙

调性转换

调式转换自然流畅,使用合理的转调和弦,不同调性之间过渡平滑

Multitrack Ensemble

Multiple instruments in coordination

String Quartet

Two violins, viola, and cello

Piano Quartet

Piano, violin, viola, and cello

Piano & Choir

Piano with SATB choir

Clarinet & Piano

Clarinet with piano accompaniment

Publications

Pianoroll-Event ICASSP 2026

Pianoroll-Event: A Novel Score Representation for Symbolic Music

ICASSP 2026 (Under Review)

Proposed a novel Pianoroll-Event representation that converts Pianoroll into event sequences for efficient compression while ensuring lossless information. This method significantly reduces sequence length and improves generation quality. Responsible for core encoding design, main paper writing, and critical code implementation.

EmoMM ACL 2026

EmoMM: Understanding MLLM's Internal Decision-Making in Multimodal Emotion Recognition

ACL 2026 January Rolling Review (Under Review)

Introduced EmoMM, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLM) in emotion recognition under modality conflict and missingness. Uncovered the Video Contribution Collapse (VCC) phenomenon and proposed CHASE (Conflict-aware Head-level Attention Steering), a lightweight mechanism that enhances MLLM reliability in complex affective scenarios without retraining.

ACG ICML 2026

Anchored Cyclic Generation: A Novel Paradigm for Long-Sequence Symbolic Music Generation

ICML 2026 (Expected)

Proposed the Anchored Cyclic Generation (ACG) paradigm that uses anchor features from identified music to guide subsequent generation, effectively mitigating error accumulation in autoregressive models. Introduced the Hierarchical Anchored Cyclic Generation (Hi-ACG) framework with a global-to-local generation strategy and Piano Token representation, achieving superior performance in long-sequence symbolic music generation and demonstrating excellent generalization to music completion tasks.

ICML 2026

BEAT: Rethinking Symbolic Music Encoding with Beat-Anchored Tones Representations

ICML 2026 (Expected)

Symbolic music generation has advanced rapidly with Transformers, yet a fundamental question persists: what constitutes a good representation? The field has split between event-based and piano-roll representations. We identify the information asymmetry in piano-roll as the key obstacle: information is dense along the temporal axis but sparse along the pitch axis. We propose BEAT (Beat-based Encoding with Anchored Tones), which patches along time and tokenizes along pitch, achieving both structural fidelity and sequence efficiency. BEAT enables autoregressive modeling of piano-roll while preserving its structural advantages, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance and unique capabilities including real-time accompaniment generation.

Programming Languages & Tools

Python

Advanced

深度学习

C++

Advanced

数据结构与算法

MATLAB

Intermediate

信号处理

LaTeX

Advanced

论文和报告

Talks & Presentations

Sep. 21, 2025

AI Journey: From Study to Research

🎯 Event AI Association Freshman Seminar
📍 Location SCUT, GZIC, F3-a101

As a member of the AI Association Academic Resources Department, I was invited to share insights on academic studies, competitions, research, and essential computational tools for computer science majors.

Sep. 7, 2025

Academic Planning & Experience Sharing

🎯 Event Jiangsu Students Welcome Meeting
📍 Location SCUT, GZIC, F3-a101

Invited as a student representative to share academic insights and planning strategies with the incoming class of 2025 freshmen.

Sep. 1, 2024

University Life Guide for New Students

🎯 Event Jiangsu Students Welcome Meeting
📍 Location SCUT, GZIC, F3-b101

Invited as a student representative to welcome and guide the class of 2024 freshmen, sharing insights on university academic life and providing practical guidance for their college journey.

Get in Touch!

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Website

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WeChat & Phone

18100607076

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My Friends 😊

Mike Meng

Suzhou, Jiangsu

SCUT

Energy Research

mikemengtr.github.io

Walker Sun

Shanghai

SCUT → SJTU

3D Gaussian

zhenyusun-walker.github.io

Kane Wang

Nanjing, Jiangsu

SCUT → NJU

3D Gaussian

sitongwang-nj.github.io

Yeez Zhang

Shenzhen, Guangdong

SCUT

Reinforcement Learning

enzoyeez.github.io

Lekai Qian

Nanjing, Jiangsu

SCUT

Music Generation

marisa-ovo.github.io