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Duzhen Zhang

20 accepted papers

2026

Bring Your Dreams to Life: Continual Text-to-Video Customization

AAAI 2026technical

Customized text-to-video generation (CTVG) has recently witnessed great progress in generating tailored videos from user-specific text. However, most CTVG methods assume that personalized concepts remain static and do not expand incrementally over time. Additionally, they struggle with forgetting an

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

TinyChemVL: Advancing Chemical Vision-Language Models via Efficient Visual Token Reduction and Complex Reaction Tasks

AAAI 2026technical

While Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in general visual understanding, their application in the chemical domain has been limited, with previous works predominantly focusing on text and thus overlooking critical visual information, such as molecular structures.

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Beyond Profile: From Surface-Level Facts to Deep Persona Simulation in LLMs

ACL 2025finding

Previous approaches to persona simulation large language models (LLMs) have typically relied on learning basic biographical information, or using limited role-play dialogue datasets to capture a character’s responses. However, a holistic representation of an individual goes beyond surface-level fact…

2025

Enhancing Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning with BranchLoRA

ACL 2025long

Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning (MCIT) aims to finetune Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to continually align with human intent across sequential tasks. Existing approaches often rely on the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) LoRA framework to preserve previous instruction alignments. However,…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Progressive LoRA for Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning

ACL 2025finding

Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning (MCIT) empowers Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to adapt to ever-evolving requirements without continuous costly retraining. However, MCIT faces challenges in mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting (CF) and enhancing Knowledge Transfer (KT). Existing work…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

DefFusion: Deformable Multimodal Representation Fusion for 3D Semantic Segmentation

ICRA 2024poster

The complementarity between camera and LiDAR data makes fusion methods a promising approach to improve 3D semantic segmentation performance. Recent transformer-based methods have also demonstrated superiority in segmentation. However, multimodal solutions incorporating transformers are underexplored…

Cited by 8SourceScholar
2024

Flexible Weight Tuning and Weight Fusion Strategies for Continual Named Entity Recognition

ACL 2024findings

Continual Named Entity Recognition (CNER) is dedicated to sequentially learning new entity types while mitigating catastrophic forgetting of old entity types. Traditional CNER approaches commonly employ knowledge distillation to retain old knowledge within the current model. However, because only th…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

How to Continually Adapt Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Flexible Customization?

NeurIPS 2024poster

Custom diffusion models (CDMs) have attracted widespread attention due to their astonishing generative ability for personalized concepts. However, most existing CDMs unreasonably assume that personalized concepts are fixed and cannot change over time. Moreover, they heavily suffer from catastrophic…

2024

MM-LLMs: Recent Advances in MultiModal Large Language Models

ACL 2024findings

In the past year, MultiModal Large Language Models (MM-LLMs) have undergone substantial advancements, augmenting off-the-shelf LLMs to support MM inputs or outputs via cost-effective training strategies. The resulting models not only preserve the inherent reasoning and decision-making capabilities o…

2024

Prompt-guided Precise Audio Editing with Diffusion Models

ICML 2024poster

Audio editing involves the arbitrary manipulation of audio content through precise control. Although text-guided diffusion models have made significant advancements in text-to-audio generation, they still face challenges in finding a flexible and precise way to modify target events within an audio t…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2023

Complex Dynamic Neurons Improved Spiking Transformer Network for Efficient Automatic Speech Recognition

AAAI 2023technical

The spiking neural network (SNN) using leaky-integrated-and-fire (LIF) neurons has been commonly used in automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks. However, the LIF neuron is still relatively simple compared to that in the biological brain. Further research on more types of neurons with different sca…

2023

Continual Named Entity Recognition without Catastrophic Forgetting

EMNLP 2023long main

Continual Named Entity Recognition (CNER) is a burgeoning area, which involves updating an existing model by incorporating new entity types sequentially. Nevertheless, continual learning approaches are often severely afflicted by catastrophic forgetting. This issue is intensified in CNER due to the…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2023

DualGATs: Dual Graph Attention Networks for Emotion Recognition in Conversations

ACL 2023long

Capturing complex contextual dependencies plays a vital role in Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC). Previous studies have predominantly focused on speaker-aware context modeling, overlooking the discourse structure of the conversation. In this paper, we introduce Dual Graph ATtention network…

2023

Federated Incremental Semantic Segmentation

CVPR 2023poster

Federated learning-based semantic segmentation (FSS) has drawn widespread attention via decentralized training on local clients. However, most FSS models assume categories are fxed in advance, thus heavily undergoing forgetting on old categories in practical applications where local clients receive…

2023

ODE-based Recurrent Model-free Reinforcement Learning for POMDPs

NeurIPS 2023poster

Neural ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are widely recognized as the standard for modeling physical mechanisms, which help to perform approximate inference in unknown physical or biological environments. In partially observable (PO) environments, how to infer unseen information from raw observ…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2022

Multi-Sacle Dynamic Coding Improved Spiking Actor Network for Reinforcement Learning

AAAI 2022technical

With the help of deep neural networks (DNNs), deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has achieved great success on many complex tasks, from games to robotic control. Compared to DNNs with partial brain-inspired structures and functions, spiking neural networks (SNNs) consider more biological features, in…

Cited by 44SourcePDFScholar
2022

TSAM: A Two-Stream Attention Model for Causal Emotion Entailment

COLING 2022main

Causal Emotion Entailment (CEE) aims to discover the potential causes behind an emotion in a conversational utterance. Previous works formalize CEE as independent utterance pair classification problems, with emotion and speaker information neglected. From a new perspective, this paper considers CEE…

2020

Knowledge Aware Emotion Recognition in Textual Conversations via Multi-Task Incremental Transformer

COLING 2020main

Emotion recognition in textual conversations (ERTC) plays an important role in a wide range of applications, such as opinion mining, recommender systems, and so on. ERTC, however, is a challenging task. For one thing, speakers often rely on the context and commonsense knowledge to express emotions;…

Cited by 54SourcePDFScholar