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Ziyu Zhao

21 accepted papers

2026

Benchmarking the Scientific Mind: Toward Evaluation of Complex-Reasoning Biomedical VQA

ICML 2026poster

Despite progress of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in biomedical visual question answering (VQA), existing benchmarks provide limited assessment of their scientific reasoning capabilities. Most datasets adopt single-image question construction and outcome-oriented evaluation, where correct…

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2026

CompTrack: Information Bottleneck-Guided Low-Rank Dynamic Token Compression for Point Cloud Tracking

AAAI 2026technical

3D single object tracking (SOT) in LiDAR point clouds is a critical task in computer vision and autonomous driving. Despite great success having been achieved, the inherent sparsity of point clouds introduces a dual-redundancy challenge that limits existing trackers: (1) vast spatial redundancy from

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

ExpertWeaver: Unlocking the Inherent MoE in Dense LLMs with GLU Activation Patterns

ICML 2026poster

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) effectively scales model capacity while preserving computational efficiency through sparse expert activation. However, training high-quality MoEs from scratch is prohibitively expensive. A promising alternative is to convert pretrained dense models into sparse MoEs. Existing…

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2026

LogicXGNN: Grounded Logical Rules for Explaining Graph Neural Networks

ICLR 2026poster

Existing rule-based explanations for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) provide global interpretability but often optimize and assess fidelity in an intermediate, uninterpretable concept space, overlooking the grounding quality of the final subgraph explanations for end users. This gap yields explanations…

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2025

CAT: Causal Attention Tuning For Injecting Fine-grained Causal Knowledge into Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across various domains. However, a fundamental question remains: Can LLMs effectively utilize causal knowledge for prediction and generation? Through empirical studies, we find that LLMs trained directly on large-scale data often capture

2025

DPSeg: Dual-Prompt Cost Volume Learning for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

CVPR 2025poster

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims to segment images into distinct semantic regions for both seen and unseen categories at the pixel level. Current methods utilize text embeddings from pre-trained vision-language models like CLIP but struggle with the inherent domain gap between image and te…

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2025

Dropping Experts, Recombining Neurons: Retraining-Free Pruning for Sparse Mixture-of-Experts LLMs

EMNLP 2025

Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (SMoE) architectures are widely used in large language models (LLMs) due to their computational efficiency. However, though only a few experts are activated for each token, SMoE still requires loading all expert parameters, leading to high memory usage and challenges in dep

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2025

Merging LoRAs like Playing LEGO: Pushing the Modularity of LoRA to Extremes Through Rank-Wise Clustering

ICLR 2025poster

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has emerged as a popular technique for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) to various domains due to its modular design and widespread availability on platforms like Huggingface. This modularity has sparked interest in combining multiple LoRAs to significantly enhance…

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2025

Mix Data or Merge Models? Balancing the Helpfulness, Honesty, and Harmlessness of Large Language Model via Model Merging

NeurIPS 2025poster

Achieving balanced alignment of large language models (LLMs) in terms of Helpfulness, Honesty, and Harmlessness (3H optimization) constitutes a cornerstone of responsible AI. Existing methods like data mixture strategies face limitations, including heavy reliance on expert knowledge and conflicting…

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2025

OS Agents: A Survey on MLLM-based Agents for Computer, Phone and Browser Use

ACL 2025long

The dream to create AI assistants as capable and versatile as the fictional J.A.R.V.I.S from Iron Man has long captivated imaginations. With the evolution of multi-modal large language models ((M)LLMs), this dream is closer to reality, as (M)LLM-based Agents using computers, mobile phones and web br…

2025

PillarHist: A Quantization-aware Pillar Feature Encoder based on Height-aware Histogram

CVPR 2025poster

Real-time and high-performance 3D object detection plays a critical role in autonomous driving and robotics. Recent pillar-based 3D object detectors have gained significant attention due to their compact representation and low computational overhead, making them suitable for onboard deployment and q…

2025

REMEDY: Recipe Merging Dynamics in Large Vision-Language Models

ICLR 2025poster

Model merging has emerged as a powerful technique for combining task-specific vision models into a unified and multi-functional model. Previous methods represented by task arithmetic, have demonstrated effectiveness and scalability in this domain. When large vision-language models (LVLMs) arise with…

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2025

SocioBench: Modeling Human Behavior in Sociological Surveys with Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Large language models (LLMs) show strong potential for simulating human social behaviors and interactions, yet lack large-scale, systematically constructed benchmarks for evaluating their alignment with real-world social attitudes. To bridge this gap, we introduce SocioBench—a comprehensive benchmar

2025

TRACE: Grounding Time Series in Context for Multimodal Embedding and Retrieval

NeurIPS 2025poster

The ubiquity of dynamic data in domains such as weather, healthcare, and energy underscores a growing need for effective interpretation and retrieval of time-series data. These data are inherently tied to domain-specific contexts, such as clinical notes or weather narratives, making cross-modal retr…

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2024

De-biased Attention Supervision for Text Classification with Causality

AAAI 2024technical

In text classification models, while the unsupervised attention mechanism can enhance performance, it often produces attention distributions that are puzzling to humans, such as assigning high weight to seemingly insignificant conjunctions. Recently, numerous studies have explored Attention Supervis…

2024

InfiAgent-DABench: Evaluating Agents on Data Analysis Tasks

ICML 2024poster

In this paper, we introduce InfiAgent-DABench, the first benchmark specifically designed to evaluate LLM-based agents on data analysis tasks. Agents need to solve these tasks end-to-end by interacting with an execution environment. This benchmark contains DAEval, a dataset consisting of 603 data ana…

2024

LiDAR-PTQ: Post-Training Quantization for Point Cloud 3D Object Detection

ICLR 2024poster

Due to highly constrained computing power and memory, deploying 3D lidar-based detectors on edge devices equipped in autonomous vehicles and robots poses a crucial challenge. Being a convenient and straightforward model compression approach, Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) has been widely adopted i…

2024

LogoStyleFool: Vitiating Video Recognition Systems via Logo Style Transfer

AAAI 2024technical

Video recognition systems are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Recent studies show that style transfer-based and patch-based unrestricted perturbations can effectively improve attack efficiency. These attacks, however, face two main challenges: 1) Adding large stylized perturbations to all pixels…

2024

LoraRetriever: Input-Aware LoRA Retrieval and Composition for Mixed Tasks in the Wild

ACL 2024findings

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) provides an effective yet efficient solution for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs). The modular and plug-and-play nature of LoRA enables the integration of diverse domain-specific LoRAs to enhance the capabilities of LLMs. Previous research on exploiting multiple Lo…

2023

Few-Shot 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation via Stratified Class-Specific Attention Based Transformer Network

AAAI 2023technical

3D point cloud semantic segmentation aims to group all points into different semantic categories, which benefits important applications such as point cloud scene reconstruction and understanding. Existing supervised point cloud semantic segmentation methods usually require large-scale annotated poin…