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Yunlong Zhang

13 accepted papers

2026

CyPortQA: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Cyclone Preparedness in Port Operation

AAAI 2026technical

As tropical cyclones intensify and track forecasts become increasingly uncertain, U.S. ports face heightened supply-chain risk under extreme weather conditions. Port operators need to rapidly synthesize diverse multimodal forecast products, such as probabilistic wind maps, track cones, and official

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2026

MIRA: Evaluating Multimodal AI on Complex Clinical Reasoning in Interventional Radiology

AAAI 2026technical

We present MIRA (Multimodal Interventional RAdiology evaluation), a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating large multimodal models in expert-level interventional radiology tasks requiring specialized domain knowledge and advanced visual reasoning capabilities. Unlike existing medical benchmarks that

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2026

Towards Effective and Efficient Context-aware Nucleus Detection in Histopathology Whole Slide Images

AAAI 2026technical

Nucleus detection in histopathology whole slide images (WSIs) is crucial for a broad spectrum of clinical applications. The gigapixel size of WSIs necessitates the use of sliding window methodology for nucleus detection. However, mainstream methods process each sliding window independently, which ov

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2025

Multilingual Parameter-Sharing Adapters: A Method for Optimizing Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

ICASSP 2025accepted

Adapter-based Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (MNMT) has become a significant approach in low-resource language translation by mitigating data imbalances between high-resource and low-resource language pairs and reducing training costs. However, existing adapter-based methods lack generaliza…

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2025

PathGen-1.6M: 1.6 Million Pathology Image-text Pairs Generation through Multi-agent Collaboration

ICLR 2025oral

Vision Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP have attracted substantial attention in pathology, serving as backbones for applications such as zero-shot image classification and Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis. Additionally, they can function as vision encoders when combined with large language models (L…

2025

PathVQ: Reforming Computational Pathology Foundation Model for Whole Slide Image Analysis via Vector Quantization

NeurIPS 2025poster

Pathology whole slide image (WSI) analysis is vital for disease diagnosis and understanding. While foundation models (FMs) have driven recent advances, their scalability in pathology remains a key challenge. In particular, vision-language (VL) pathology FMs align visual features with language annota…

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2025

Stable Test-Time Training for Semantic Segmentation with Output Contrastive Loss

ICASSP 2025accepted

Deep learning-based models have achieved impressive performance on public segmentation benchmarks, yet generalizing to unseen environments remains challenging. Test-time training (TTT) addresses this by adapting source-pretrained models during evaluation. While existing TTT methods have shown promis…

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2024

PathAsst: A Generative Foundation AI Assistant towards Artificial General Intelligence of Pathology

AAAI 2024technical

As advances in large language models (LLMs) and multimodal techniques continue to mature, the development of general-purpose multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has surged, offering significant applications in interpreting natural images. However, the field of pathology has largely remained unt…

2024

PathMMU: A Massive Multimodal Expert-Level Benchmark for Understanding and Reasoning in Pathology

ECCV 2024oral

"The emergence of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) has unlocked remarkable potential in AI, particularly in pathology. However, the lack of specialized, high-quality benchmark impeded their development and precise evaluation. To address this, we introduce PathMMU, the largest and highest-quality exper…

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2024

Rethinking Transformer for Long Contextual Histopathology Whole Slide Image Analysis

NeurIPS 2024poster

Histopathology Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis serves as the gold standard for clinical cancer diagnosis in the daily routines of doctors. To develop computer-aided diagnosis model for histopathology WSIs, previous methods typically employ Multi-Instance Learning to enable slide-level prediction gi…

2024

Unleashing the Power of Prompt-driven Nucleus Instance Segmentation

ECCV 2024poster

"Nucleus instance segmentation in histology images is crucial for a broad spectrum of clinical applications. Current dominant algorithms rely on regression of nuclear proxy maps. Distinguishing nucleus instances from the estimated maps requires carefully curated post-processing, which is error-prone…

2023

Assessing the Robustness of Deep Learning-Assisted Pathological Image Analysis Under Practical Variables of Imaging System

ICASSP 2023accepted

With the advancement of deep learning, computer-assisted clinical diagnosis, such as liquid-based cervical cytology, has attracted more attention. However, the fragile robustness of deep learning models has a non-negligible impact on their classification accuracy and reliability. To be more specific…

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2023

Task-Specific Fine-Tuning via Variational Information Bottleneck for Weakly-Supervised Pathology Whole Slide Image Classification

CVPR 2023poster

While Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) has shown promising results in digital Pathology Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis, such a paradigm still faces performance and generalization problems due to high computational costs and limited supervision of Gigapixel WSIs. To deal with the computation proble…