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Qizhe Zhang

11 accepted papers

2026

FastDriveVLA: Efficient End-to-End Driving via Plug-and-Play Reconstruction-based Token Pruning

AAAI 2026technical

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated significant potential in complex scene understanding and action reasoning, leading to their increasing adoption in end-to-end autonomous driving systems. However, the long visual tokens of VLA models greatly increase computational costs. Current

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2026

MMG-Vid: Maximizing Marginal Gains at Segment-level and Token-level for Efficient Video LLMs

AAAI 2026technical

Video Large Language Models (VLLMs) excel in video understanding, but their excessive visual tokens pose a significant computational challenge for real-world applications. Current methods aim to enhance inference efficiency by visual token pruning. However, they do not consider the dynamic character

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2026

TimeSearch-R: Adaptive Temporal Search for Long-Form Video Understanding via Self-Verification Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2026poster

Temporal search aims to identify a minimal set of relevant frames from tens of thousands based on a given query, serving as a foundation for accurate long-form video understanding. Many existing works attempt to progressively narrow the search space. However, these approaches typically rely on a han…

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2025

Beyond Attention or Similarity: Maximizing Conditional Diversity for Token Pruning in MLLMs

NeurIPS 2025poster

In multimodal large language models (MLLMs), the length of input visual tokens is often significantly greater than that of their textual counterparts, leading to a high inference cost. Many works aim to address this issue by removing redundant visual tokens. However, current approaches either rely o…

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2025

Beyond Text-Visual Attention: Exploiting Visual Cues for Effective Token Pruning in VLMs

ICCV 2025poster

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) generally contain significantly more visual tokens than their textual counterparts, resulting in a considerable computational burden. Recent efforts have been made to tackle this issue by pruning visual tokens early within the language model. Most existing works u…

2025

MoVE-KD: Knowledge Distillation for VLMs with Mixture of Visual Encoders

CVPR 2025poster

Visual encoders are fundamental components in vision-language models (VLMs), each showcasing unique strengths derived from various pre-trained visual foundation models. To leverage the various capabilities of these encoders, recent studies incorporate multiple encoders within a single VLM, leading t…

2025

SAN: Hypothesizing Long-Term Synaptic Development and Neural Engram Mechanism in Scalable Model's Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

ICML 2025poster

Advances in Parameter-efficient Fine-tuning (PEFT) bridged the performance gap with Full Fine-Tuning (FFT) through sophisticated analysis of pre-trained parameter spaces. Starting from drawing insights from Neural Engrams (NE) in Biological Neural Networks (BNNs), we establish a connection between t…

2024

Continual-MAE: Adaptive Distribution Masked Autoencoders for Continual Test-Time Adaptation

CVPR 2024poster

Continual Test-Time Adaptation (CTTA) is proposed to migrate a source pre-trained model to continually changing target distributions addressing real-world dynamism. Existing CTTA methods mainly rely on entropy minimization or teacher-student pseudo-labeling schemes for knowledge extraction in unlabe…

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2024

Exploring Sparse Visual Prompt for Domain Adaptive Dense Prediction

AAAI 2024technical

The visual prompts have provided an efficient manner in addressing visual cross-domain problems. Previous works introduce domain prompts to tackle the classification Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) problem by placing image-level prompts on the input and fine-tuning prompts for each target domain. However…

2024

Gradient-based Parameter Selection for Efficient Fine-Tuning

CVPR 2024poster

With the growing size of pre-trained models full fine-tuning and storing all the parameters for various downstream tasks is costly and infeasible. In this paper we propose a new parameter-efficient fine-tuning method Gradient-based Parameter Selection (GPS) demonstrating that only tuning a few selec…

2024

Unsupervised Spike Depth Estimation via Cross-modality Cross-domain Knowledge Transfer

ICRA 2024poster

Neuromorphic spike data, an upcoming modality with high temporal resolution, has shown promising potential in autonomous driving by mitigating the challenges posed by high-velocity motion blur. However, training the spike depth estimation network holds significant challenges in two aspects: sparse s…

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