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Songyang Zhang

51 accepted papers

2026

A Theoretical Analysis of Mamba’s Training Dynamics: Filtering Relevant Features for Generalization in State Space Models

ICLR 2026poster

The recent empirical success of Mamba and other selective state space models (SSMs) has renewed interest in non-attention architectures for sequence modeling, yet their theoretical foundations remain underexplored. We present a first-step analysis of generalization and learning dynamics for a simpli…

Cited by 3SourceScholar
2026

Reasoning or Memorization? Unreliable Results of Reinforcement Learning Due to Data Contamination

AAAI 2026technical

Reasoning in large language models has long been a central research focus, and recent studies employing reinforcement learning (RL) have introduced diverse methods that yield substantial performance gains with minimal or even no external supervision. Surprisingly, some studies even suggest that rand

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

Theoretical Analysis of Contrastive Learning under Imbalanced Data: From Training Dynamics to a Pruning Solution

ICLR 2026poster

Contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful framework for learning generalizable representations, yet its theoretical understanding remains limited, particularly under imbalanced data distributions that are prevalent in real-world applications. Such an imbalance can degrade representation quality…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Are Your LLMs Capable of Stable Reasoning?

ACL 2025finding

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has shown remarkable progress in complex reasoning tasks. However, a significant disparity exists between benchmark performances and real-world applications. We attribute this gap primarily to current evaluation protocols and metrics, which inade…

2025

Capability Salience Vector: Fine-grained Alignment of Loss and Capabilities for Downstream Task Scaling Law

ACL 2025long

Scaling law builds the relationship between training computation and validation loss, enabling researchers to effectively predict the loss trending of models across different levels of computation. However, a gap still remains between validation loss and the model’s downstream capabilities, making i…

2025

CompassVerifier: A Unified and Robust Verifier for LLMs Evaluation and Outcome Reward

EMNLP 2025

Answer verification is crucial not only for evaluating large language models (LLMs) by matching their unstructured outputs against standard answers, but also serves as the reward model to guide LLM optimization. Most evaluation frameworks rely on regularized matching or employ general LLMs for answe

2025

Condor: Enhance LLM Alignment with Knowledge-Driven Data Synthesis and Refinement

ACL 2025long

The quality of Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) data plays a critical role in enhancing the conversational capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the availability of high-quality human-annotated SFT data has become a significant bottleneck for LLMs, necessitating a greater reliance on sy…

2025

DualGFL: Federated Learning with a Dual-Level Coalition-Auction Game

AAAI 2025technical

Despite some promising results in federated learning using game-theoretical methods, most existing studies mainly employ a one-level game in either a cooperative or competitive environment, failing to capture the complex dynamics among participants in practice. To address this issue, we propose Dua…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

InternLM-Law: An Open-Sourced Chinese Legal Large Language Model

COLING 2025main

We introduce InternLM-Law, a large language model (LLM) tailored for addressing diverse legal tasks related to Chinese laws. These tasks range from responding to standard legal questions (e.g., legal exercises in textbooks) to analyzing complex real-world legal situations. Our work contributes to Ch…

2025

LiT: Delving into a Simple Linear Diffusion Transformer for Image Generation

ICCV 2025poster

In this paper, we investigate how to convert a pre-trained Diffusion Transformer (DiT) into a linear DiT, as its simplicity, parallelism, and efficiency for image generation. Through detailed exploration, we offer a suite of ready-to-use solutions, ranging from linear attention design to optimizatio…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

OpenHuEval: Evaluating Large Language Model on Hungarian Specifics

ACL 2025finding

We introduce OpenHuEval, the first benchmark for LLMs focusing on the Hungarian language and specifics. OpenHuEval is constructed from a vast collection of Hungarian-specific materials sourced from multiple origins. In the construction, we incorporated the latest design principles for evaluating LLM…

2025

Rethinking Verification for LLM Code Generation: From Generation to Testing

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) have recently achieved notable success in code‑generation benchmarks such as HumanEval and LiveCodeBench. However, a detailed examination reveals that these evaluation suites often comprise only a limited number of homogeneous test cases, resulting in subtle faults going…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

UrBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Large Multimodal Models in Multi-View Urban Scenarios

AAAI 2025technical

Recent evaluations of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have explored their capabilities in various domains, with only few benchmarks specifically focusing on urban environments. Moreover, existing urban benchmarks have been limited to evaluating LMMs with basic region-level urban tasks under singular…

2024

Ada-LEval: Evaluating long-context LLMs with length-adaptable benchmarks

NAACL 2024long

Recently, the large language model (LLM) community has shown increasing interest in enhancing LLMs’ capability to handle extremely long documents. As various long-text techniques and model architectures emerge, the precise and detailed evaluation of models’ long-text capabilities has become increasi…

2024

Benchmarking Chinese Commonsense Reasoning of LLMs: From Chinese-Specifics to Reasoning-Memorization Correlations

ACL 2024long

We introduce CHARM, the first benchmark for comprehensively and in-depth evaluating the commonsense reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) in Chinese, which covers both globally known and Chinese-specific commonsense. We evaluated 7 English and 12 Chinese-oriented LLMs on CHARM, employing…

2024

BotChat: Evaluating LLMs’ Capabilities of Having Multi-Turn Dialogues

NAACL 2024findings

In the realm of modern Large Language Models (LLMs), facilitating high-quality, multi-turn dialogues with humans represents a cornerstone feature. However, human-based evaluation of such a capability involves substantial manual effort. This study offers a formative assessment of current LLMs’ profic…

2024

Fake Alignment: Are LLMs Really Aligned Well?

NAACL 2024long

The growing awareness of safety concerns in large language models (LLMs) has sparked considerable interest in the evaluation of safety. This study investigates an under-explored issue about the evaluation of LLMs, namely the substantial discrepancy in performance between multiple-choice questions an…

2024

FedSC: Provable Federated Self-supervised Learning with Spectral Contrastive Objective over Non-i.i.d. Data

ICML 2024poster

Recent efforts have been made to integrate self-supervised learning (SSL) with the framework of federated learning (FL). One unique challenge of federated self-supervised learning (FedSSL) is that the global objective of FedSSL usually does not equal the weighted sum of local SSL objectives. Consequ…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2024

From Pixels to Graphs: Open-Vocabulary Scene Graph Generation with Vision-Language Models

CVPR 2024poster

Scene graph generation (SGG) aims to parse a visual scene into an intermediate graph representation for downstream reasoning tasks. Despite recent advancements existing methods struggle to generate scene graphs with novel visual relation concepts. To address this challenge we introduce a new open-vo…

2024

GTA: A Benchmark for General Tool Agents

NeurIPS 2024poster

In developing general-purpose agents, significant focus has been placed on integrating large language models (LLMs) with various tools. This poses a challenge to the tool-use capabilities of LLMs. However, there are evident gaps between existing tool evaluations and real-world scenarios. Current eva…

2024

InternLM-XComposer2-4KHD: A Pioneering Large Vision-Language Model Handling Resolutions from 336 Pixels to 4K HD

NeurIPS 2024poster

The Large Vision-Language Model (LVLM) field has seen significant advancements, yet its progression has been hindered by challenges in comprehending fine-grained visual content due to limited resolution. Recent efforts have aimed to enhance the high-resolution understanding capabilities of LVLMs, ye…

2024

LLaST: Improved End-to-end Speech Translation System Leveraged by Large Language Models

ACL 2024findings

We introduces ***LLaST***, a framework for building high-performance Large Language model based Speech-to-text Translation systems. We address the limitations of end-to-end speech translation (E2E ST) models by exploring model architecture design and optimization techniques tailored for LLMs. Our ap…

2024

LawBench: Benchmarking Legal Knowledge of Large Language Models

EMNLP 2024main

We present LawBench, the first evaluation benchmark composed of 20 tasks aimed to assess the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform Chinese legal-related tasks. LawBench is meticulously crafted to enable precise assessment of LLMs’ legal capabilities from three cognitive levels that corr…

2024

MMBENCH: Is Your Multi-Modal Model an All-around Player?

ECCV 2024oral

"Large vision-language models (VLMs) have recently achieved remarkable progress, exhibiting impressive multimodal perception and reasoning abilities. However, effectively evaluating these large VLMs remains a major challenge, hindering future development in this domain. Traditional benchmarks like V…

2024

MathBench: Evaluating the Theory and Application Proficiency of LLMs with a Hierarchical Mathematics Benchmark

ACL 2024findings

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have showcased significant improvements in mathematics. However, traditional math benchmarks like GSM8k offer a unidimensional perspective, which fall short in providing a holistic assessment of the LLMs’ math capabilities. To address this gap, we…

2024

Prism: A Framework for Decoupling and Assessing the Capabilities of VLMs

NeurIPS 2024poster

Vision Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate remarkable proficiency in addressing a wide array of visual questions, which requires strong perception and reasoning faculties. Assessing these two competencies independently is crucial for model refinement, despite the inherent difficulty due to the intert…

2024

ProSA: Assessing and Understanding the Prompt Sensitivity of LLMs

EMNLP 2024finding

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across various tasks, but their performance is highly sensitive to the prompts utilized. This variability poses challenges for accurate assessment and user satisfaction. Current research frequently overlooks instance-level prompt…

2024

T-Eval: Evaluating the Tool Utilization Capability of Large Language Models Step by Step

ACL 2024long

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance on various NLP tasks and are augmented by tools for broader applications. Yet, how to evaluate and analyze the tool utilization capability of LLMs is still under-explored. In contrast to previous works that evaluate models holisticall…

2023

Improving Pixel-based MIM by Reducing Wasted Modeling Capability

ICCV 2023poster

There has been significant progress in Masked Image Modeling (MIM). Existing MIM methods can be broadly categorized into two groups based on the reconstruction target: pixel-based and tokenizer-based approaches. The former offers a simpler pipeline and lower computational cost, but it is known to be…

Cited by 48PDFcodeScholar
2023

Make-A-Video: Text-to-Video Generation without Text-Video Data

ICLR 2023poster

We propose Make-A-Video -- an approach for directly translating the tremendous recent progress in Text-to-Image (T2I) generation to Text-to-Video (T2V). Our intuition is simple: learn what the world looks like and how it is described from paired text-image data, and learn how the world moves from un…

Cited by 1412SourcePDFScholar
2023

RIFormer: Keep Your Vision Backbone Effective but Removing Token Mixer

CVPR 2023poster

This paper studies how to keep a vision backbone effective while removing token mixers in its basic building blocks. Token mixers, as self-attention for vision transformers (ViTs), are intended to perform information communication between different spatial tokens but suffer from considerable computa…

Cited by 37SourcePDFScholar
2023

TG-VQA: Ternary Game of Video Question Answering

IJCAI 2023poster

Video question answering aims at answering a question about the video content by reasoning the alignment semantics within them. However, since relying heavily on human instructions, i.e., annotations or priors, current contrastive learning-based VideoQA methods remains challenging to perform fine-gr…

Cited by 17SourcePDFScholar
2022

Action Quality Assessment with Temporal Parsing Transformer

ECCV 2022poster

"Action Quality Assessment(AQA) is important for action understanding and resolving the task poses unique challenges due to subtle visual differences. Existing state-of-the-art methods typically rely on the holistic video representations for score regression or ranking, which limits the generalizati…

Cited by 60SourcePDFScholar
2022

Expanding Language-Image Pretrained Models for General Video Recognition

ECCV 2022poster

"Contrastive language-image pretraining has shown great success in learning visual-textual joint representation from web-scale data, demonstrating remarkable “zero-shot” generalization ability for various image tasks. However, how to effectively expand such new language-image pretraining methods to…

2022

Learning Semantic Correspondence with Sparse Annotations

ECCV 2022poster

"Finding dense semantic correspondence is a fundamental problem in computer vision, which remains challenging in complex scenes due to background clutter, extreme intra-class variation, and a severe lack of ground truth. In this paper, we aim to address the challenge of label sparsity in semantic co…

2022

Learning a Grammar Inducer from Massive Uncurated Instructional Videos

EMNLP 2022main

Video-aided grammar induction aims to leverage video information for finding more accurate syntactic grammars for accompanying text. While previous work focuses on building systems for inducing grammars on text that are well-aligned with video content, we investigate the scenario, in which text and…

2022

MUGEN: A Playground for Video-Audio-Text Multimodal Understanding and GENeration

ECCV 2022poster

"Multimodal video-audio-text understanding and generation can benefit from datasets that are narrow but rich. The narrowness allows bite-sized challenges that the research community can make progress on. The richness ensures we are making progress along the core challenges. To this end, we present a…

2022

The Devil Is in the Labels: Noisy Label Correction for Robust Scene Graph Generation

CVPR 2022oral

Unbiased SGG has achieved significant progress over recent years. However, almost all existing SGG models have overlooked the ground-truth annotation qualities of prevailing SGG datasets, i.e., they always assume: 1) all the manually annotated positive samples are equally correct; 2) all the un-anno…

Cited by 119PDFcodeScholar
2021

Bipartite Graph Network With Adaptive Message Passing for Unbiased Scene Graph Generation

CVPR 2021poster

Scene graph generation is an important visual understanding task with a broad range of vision applications. Despite recent tremendous progress, it remains challenging due to the intrinsic long-tailed class distribution and large intra-class variation. To address these issues, we introduce a novel co…

Cited by 281PDFcodeScholar
2021

Boundary Proposal Network for Two-stage Natural Language Video Localization

AAAI 2021technical

We aim to address the problem of Natural Language Video Localization (NLVL) — localizing the video segment corresponding to a natural language description in a long and untrimmed video. State-of-the-art NLVL methods are almost in one-stage fashion, which can be typically grouped into two categories:…

Cited by 187SourcePDFScholar
2021

Distribution Alignment: A Unified Framework for Long-Tail Visual Recognition

CVPR 2021poster

Despite the success of the deep neural networks, it remains challenging to effectively build a system for long-tail visual recognition tasks. To address this problem, we first investigate the performance bottleneck of the two-stage learning framework via ablative study. Motivated by our discovery, w…

Cited by 365PDFcodeScholar
2021

Dynamic Grained Encoder for Vision Transformers

NeurIPS 2021poster

Transformers, the de-facto standard for language modeling, have been recently applied for vision tasks. This paper introduces sparse queries for vision transformers to exploit the intrinsic spatial redundancy of natural images and save computational costs. Specifically, we propose a Dynamic Grained…

2021

Learning Implicit Temporal Alignment for Few-shot Video Classification

IJCAI 2021poster

Few-shot video classification aims to learn new video categories with only a few labeled examples, alleviating the burden of costly annotation in real-world applications. However, it is particularly challenging to learn a class-invariant spatial-temporal representation in such a setting. To address…

2021

Video-aided Unsupervised Grammar Induction

NAACL 2021long

We investigate video-aided grammar induction, which learns a constituency parser from both unlabeled text and its corresponding video. Existing methods of multi-modal grammar induction focus on grammar induction from text-image pairs, with promising results showing that the information from static i…

2020

Part-aware Prototype Network for Few-shot Semantic Segmentation

ECCV 2020poster

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to learn to segment new object classes with only a few annotated examples, which has a wide range of real-world applications. Most existing methods either focus on the restrictive setting of one-way few-shot segmentation or suffer from incomplete coverage of objec…

2019

Dynamic Context Correspondence Network for Semantic Alignment

ICCV 2019poster

Establishing semantic correspondence is a core problem in computer vision and remains challenging due to large intra-class variations and lack of annotated data. In this paper, we aim to incorporate global semantic context in a flexible manner to overcome the limitations of prior work that relies on…

Cited by 107PDFScholar
2019

LatentGNN: Learning Efficient Non-local Relations for Visual Recognition

ICML 2019oral

Capturing long-range dependencies in feature representations is crucial for many visual recognition tasks. Despite recent successes of deep convolutional networks, it remains challenging to model non-local context relations between visual features. A promising strategy is to model the feature contex…