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Zhong Li

24 accepted papers

2026

Constructing Industrial-Scale Optimization Modeling Benchmark

ICML 2026poster

Optimization modeling underpins decision-making in logistics, manufacturing, energy, and finance, yet translating natural-language requirements into correct optimization formulations and solver-executable code remains labor-intensive. Although large language models (LLMs) have been explored for this…

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2026

D$^3$: Dynamic Directional Graph-Constrained Data Scheduling for LLM Training

ICML 2026poster

Training data plays a central role in large language model (LLM) optimization, motivating extensive research on data scheduling strategies. Most prior work focuses on data selection and implicitly assumes that, once the training subset is fixed, the order in which data are presented is interchangeab…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Learning Subgroups with Maximum Treatment Effects Without Causal Heuristics

AAAI 2026technical

Discovering subgroups with the maximum average treatment effect is crucial for targeted decision making in domains such as precision medicine, public policy, and education. While most prior work is formulated in the potential‑outcome framework, the corresponding structural causal model (SCM) for thi

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2026

Towards Automated Self-Supervised Learning for Truly Unsupervised Graph Anomaly Detection (Abstract Reprint)

AAAI 2026technical

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is an emerging paradigm that exploits supervisory signals generated from the data itself, and many recent studies have leveraged SSL to conduct graph anomaly detection. However, we empirically found that three important factors can substantially impact detection perfor

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2026

Towards Efficient LLMs Annealing with Principled Sample Selection

ICML 2026spotlight

The annealing stage of Large Language Model (LLM) training is a critical phase where model loss drops sharply and downstream capabilities solidify. Despite its importance, current practices rely on empirical heuristics like quality filtering or context extension, lacking a principled understanding o…

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2025

Data Whisperer: Efficient Data Selection for Task-Specific LLM Fine-Tuning via Few-Shot In-Context Learning

ACL 2025long

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) on task-specific data is essential for their effective deployment. As dataset sizes grow, efficiently selecting optimal subsets for training becomes crucial to balancing performance and computational costs. Traditional data selection methods often require fin…

2025

Scalable, Explainable and Provably Robust Anomaly Detection with One-Step Flow Matching

NeurIPS 2025poster

We introduce Time-Conditioned Contraction Matching (TCCM), a novel method for semi-supervised anomaly detection in tabular data. TCCM is inspired by flow matching, a recent generative modeling framework that learns velocity fields between probability distributions and has shown strong performance co…

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2024

Inverse Approximation Theory for Nonlinear Recurrent Neural Networks

ICLR 2024spotlight

We prove an inverse approximation theorem for the approximation of nonlinear sequence-to-sequence relationships using recurrent neural networks (RNNs). This is a so-called Bernstein-type result in approximation theory, which deduces properties of a target function under the assumption that it can be…

2024

Spacetime Gaussian Feature Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic View Synthesis

CVPR 2024poster

Novel view synthesis of dynamic scenes has been an intriguing yet challenging problem. Despite recent advancements simultaneously achieving high-resolution photorealistic results real-time rendering and compact storage remains a formidable task. To address these challenges we propose Spacetime Gauss…

2024

Spectrum AUC Difference (SAUCD): Human-aligned 3D Shape Evaluation

CVPR 2024poster

Existing 3D mesh shape evaluation metrics mainly focus on the overall shape but are usually less sensitive to local details. This makes them inconsistent with human evaluation as human perception cares about both overall and detailed shape. In this paper we propose an analytic metric named Spectrum…

Cited by 7SourcePDFScholar
2023

3D-Aware Facial Landmark Detection via Multi-View Consistent Training on Synthetic Data

CVPR 2023poster

Accurate facial landmark detection on wild images plays an essential role in human-computer interaction, entertainment, and medical applications. Existing approaches have limitations in enforcing 3D consistency while detecting 3D/2D facial landmarks due to the lack of multi-view in-the-wild training…

2023

High Fidelity 3D Hand Shape Reconstruction via Scalable Graph Frequency Decomposition

CVPR 2023poster

Despite the impressive performance obtained by recent single-image hand modeling techniques, they lack the capability to capture sufficient details of the 3D hand mesh. This deficiency greatly limits their applications when high fidelity hand modeling is required, e.g., personalized hand modeling. T…

2023

NeuRBF: A Neural Fields Representation with Adaptive Radial Basis Functions

ICCV 2023oral

We present a novel type of neural fields that uses general radial bases for signal representation. State-of-the-art neural fields typically rely on grid-based representations for storing local neural features and N-dimensional linear kernels for interpolating features at continuous query points. The…

Cited by 82PDFcodeScholar
2023

OpenIllumination: A Multi-Illumination Dataset for Inverse Rendering Evaluation on Real Objects

NeurIPS 2023poster

We introduce OpenIllumination, a real-world dataset containing over 108K images of 64 objects with diverse materials, captured under 72 camera views and a large number of different illuminations. For each image in the dataset, we provide accurate camera parameters, illumination ground truth, and for…

2023

Uncertainty-aware State Space Transformer for Egocentric 3D Hand Trajectory Forecasting

ICCV 2023poster

Hand trajectory forecasting from egocentric views is crucial for enabling a prompt understanding of human intentions when interacting with AR/VR systems. However, existing methods handle this problem in a 2D image space which is inadequate for 3D real-world applications. In this paper, we set up an…

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2022

On the approximation properties of recurrent encoder-decoder architectures

ICLR 2022spotlight

Encoder-decoder architectures have recently gained popularity in sequence to sequence modelling, featuring in state-of-the-art models such as transformers. However, a mathematical understanding of their working principles still remains limited. In this paper, we study the approximation properties of…

Cited by 7SourcePDFScholar
2021

Approximation Theory of Convolutional Architectures for Time Series Modelling

ICML 2021spotlight

We study the approximation properties of convolutional architectures applied to time series modelling, which can be formulated mathematically as a functional approximation problem. In the recurrent setting, recent results reveal an intricate connection between approximation efficiency and memory str…

Cited by 13SourcePDFScholar
2021

On the Curse of Memory in Recurrent Neural Networks: Approximation and Optimization Analysis

ICLR 2021poster

We study the approximation properties and optimization dynamics of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) when applied to learn input-output relationships in temporal data. We consider the simple but representative setting of using continuous-time linear RNNs to learn from data generated by linear relatio…

Cited by 43SourcePDFScholar
2021

Testing DNN-based Autonomous Driving Systems under Critical Environmental Conditions

ICML 2021spotlight

Due to the increasing usage of Deep Neural Network (DNN) based autonomous driving systems (ADS) where erroneous or unexpected behaviours can lead to catastrophic accidents, testing such systems is of growing importance. Existing approaches often just focus on finding erroneous behaviours and have no…

2020

Talking-head Generation with Rhythmic Head Motion

ECCV 2020poster

When people deliver a speech, they naturally move heads, and this rhythmic head motion conveys linguistic information. However, generating a lip-synced video while moving head naturally is challenging. While remarkably successful, existing works either generate still talking-face videos or rely on l…