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Zhiyu Zhao

6 accepted papers

2025

Curious Causality-Seeking Agents Learn Meta Causal World

NeurIPS 2025poster

When building a world model, a common assumption is that the environment has a single, unchanging underlying causal rule, like applying Newton's laws to every situation. However, in truly open-ended environments, the apparent causal mechanism may drift over time because the agent continually encount…

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2025

MF-LLM: Simulating Population Decision Dynamics via a Mean-Field Large Language Model Framework

NeurIPS 2025poster

Simulating collective decision-making involves more than aggregating individual behaviors; it emerges from dynamic interactions among individuals. While large language models (LLMs) offer strong potential for social simulation, achieving quantitative alignment with real-world data remains a key chal…

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2024

AWT: Transferring Vision-Language Models via Augmentation, Weighting, and Transportation

NeurIPS 2024poster

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) have shown impressive results in various visual classification tasks. However, we often fail to fully unleash their potential when adapting them for new concept understanding due to limited information on new classes. To address this limitation, we introduce…

2024

Asymmetric Masked Distillation for Pre-Training Small Foundation Models

CVPR 2024poster

Self-supervised foundation models have shown great potential in computer vision thanks to the pre-training paradigm of masked autoencoding. Scale is a primary factor influencing the performance of these foundation models. However these large foundation models often result in high computational cost.…

2023

MGMAE: Motion Guided Masking for Video Masked Autoencoding

ICCV 2023poster

Masked autoencoding has shown excellent performance on self-supervised video representation learning. Temporal redundancy has led to a high masking ratio and customized masking strategy in VideoMAE. In this paper, we aim to further improve the performance of video masked autoencoding by introducing…

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2023

VideoMAE V2: Scaling Video Masked Autoencoders With Dual Masking

CVPR 2023poster

Scale is the primary factor for building a powerful foundation model that could well generalize to a variety of downstream tasks. However, it is still challenging to train video foundation models with billions of parameters. This paper shows that video masked autoencoder (VideoMAE) is a scalable and…