Wenfang Sun 孙文放

I am a first-year Ph.D. student at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in the VIS Lab, supervised by Prof. Dr. Cees Snoek and Dr. Yingjun Du. My research focuses on multimodal foundation models as part of the Horizon Europe ELLIOT project.

I received my M.Sc. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). After graduation, I worked as a research assistant at Westlake University with Prof. Yefeng Zheng. I also received valuable guidance from Dr. Shiwei Liu, Dr. Xiantong Zhen, and Dr. Gaowen Liu.

I welcome all kinds of research collaborations and academic exchanges.

Updates

News

  1. One paper was accepted by ICLR 2026.
  2. One paper was accepted by WACV 2026.
  3. One paper was accepted by NeurIPS 2025.
  4. One paper was accepted by NeurIPS 2024.
  5. One paper was accepted by CVPR 2024 Workshop.
  6. One paper was accepted by ICML 2023.

Selected Publications

Research

LayerNorm Scaling overview
NeurIPS 2025

The Curse of Depth in Large Language Models

Wenfang Sun*, Xinyuan Song*, Pengxiang Li*, Lu Yin, Yefeng Zheng, Shiwei Liu

LayerNorm Scaling mitigates variance explosion in deep Transformer layers, helping large language models benefit more consistently from depth.