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Zhongzhan Huang

13 accepted papers

2026

BridgeDrive: Diffusion Bridge Policy for Closed-Loop Trajectory Planning in Autonomous Driving

ICLR 2026poster

Diffusion-based planners have shown great promise for autonomous driving due to their ability to capture multi-modal driving behaviors. However, guiding these models effectively in reactive, closed-loop environments remains a significant challenge. Simple conditioning often fails to provide sufficie…

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2025

Anima2: Cross-Species Animal Animation through Image-to-Video Synthesis with Subject Alignment

ICASSP 2025accepted

Recent video editing advancements rely on accurate pose sequences to animate human actors. However, these efforts are not suitable for cross-species animation due to pose misalignment between species (for example, the poses of a cat differ greatly from that of a pig due to their distinct body struct…

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2025

AssoCiAm: A Benchmark for Evaluating Association Thinking while Circumventing Ambiguity

EMNLP 2025

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have garnered significant attention, offering a promising pathway toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). Among the essential capabilities required for AGI, creativity has emerged as a critical trait for MLLMs, with association se

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2025

MiniLongBench: The Low-cost Long Context Understanding Benchmark for Large Language Models

ACL 2025long

Long Context Understanding (LCU) is a critical area for exploration in current large language models (LLMs). However, due to the inherently lengthy nature of long-text data, existing LCU benchmarks for LLMs often result in prohibitively high evaluation costs, like testing time and inference expenses…

2025

RouterEval: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Routing LLMs to Explore Model-level Scaling Up in LLMs

EMNLP 2025

Routing large language models (LLMs) is a new paradigm that uses a router to recommend the best LLM from a pool of candidates for a given input. In this paper, our comprehensive analysis with more than 8,500 LLMs reveals a novel model-level scaling up phenomenon in Routing LLMs, i.e., a capable rout

2024

AttNS: Attention-Inspired Numerical Solving For Limited Data Scenarios

ICML 2024poster

We propose the attention-inspired numerical solver (AttNS), a concise method that helps the generalization and robustness issues faced by the AI-Hybrid numerical solver in solving differential equations due to limited data. AttNS is inspired by the effectiveness of attention modules in Residual Neur…

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2024

Let's Think Outside the Box: Exploring Leap-of-Thought in Large Language Models with Creative Humor Generation

CVPR 2024poster

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) guides large language models (LLMs) to reason step-by-step and can motivate their logical reasoning ability. While effective for logical tasks CoT is not conducive to creative problem-solving which often requires out-of-box thoughts and is crucial for innovation advancements.…

2023

ScaleLong: Towards More Stable Training of Diffusion Model via Scaling Network Long Skip Connection

NeurIPS 2023poster

In diffusion models, UNet is the most popular network backbone, since its long skip connects (LSCs) to connect distant network blocks can aggregate long-distant information and alleviate vanishing gradient. Unfortunately, UNet often suffers from unstable training in diffusion models which can be all…

2023

Understanding Self-attention Mechanism via Dynamical System Perspective

ICCV 2023poster

The self-attention mechanism (SAM) is widely used in various fields of artificial intelligence and has successfully boosted the performance of different models. However, current explanations of this mechanism are mainly based on intuitions and experiences, while there still lacks direct modeling for…

Cited by 24PDFScholar
2022

CEM: Machine-Human Chatting Handoff via Causal-Enhance Module

EMNLP 2022main

Aiming to ensure chatbot quality by predicting chatbot failure and enabling human-agent collaboration, Machine-Human Chatting Handoff (MHCH) has attracted lots of attention from both industry and academia in recent years. However, most existing methods mainly focus on the dialogue context or assist…

2021

Continuous Transition: Improving Sample Efficiency for Continuous Control Problems via MixUp

ICRA 2021poster

Although deep reinforcement learning (RL) has been successfully applied to a variety of robotic control tasks, it’s still challenging to apply it to real-world tasks, due to the poor sample efficiency. Attempting to overcome this shortcoming, several works focus on reusing the collected trajectory d…

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2021

Rethinking the Pruning Criteria for Convolutional Neural Network

NeurIPS 2021poster

Channel pruning is a popular technique for compressing convolutional neural networks (CNNs), where various pruning criteria have been proposed to remove the redundant filters. From our comprehensive experiments, we found two blind spots of pruning criteria: (1) Similarity: There are some strong simi…

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