Yuan Zhang Ph.D. Candidate Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies, Peking University Email: zhangyuan [at] alumni.pku.edu.cn

Biography

His major research interests lie within efficient machine learning algorithms, like

• Efficient AI (KD, Pruning, Quantization, Data Selection, Self-Play)
• Multimodal Large Language Model

Publications

• J1SparseVLM+: Visual Token Sparsification with Improved Text-Visual Attention Pattern
  Yuan Zhang, Junpeng Ma, Qizhe Zhang, Chun-Kai Fan, Wenzhao Zheng, Kuan Cheng, Jiwen Lu, Shanghang Zhang
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI), 2026.

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• J2FreeKD+: A Frequency Knowledge Distillation Framework for Dense Prediction
  Yuan Zhang, Tao Huang, Gaole Dai, Jiaming Liu, Wenzhao Zheng, Jiwen Lu, Shanghang Zhang
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI), 2026.

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• C1ZoomV: Temporal Zoom-in for Efficient Long Video Understanding
  Yuan Zhang, Junwen Pan, Rui Zhang, Xin Wan, Qizhe Zhang, Ming Lu, Qi She, Shanghang Zhang
  ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2026.

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• C2AutoV: Loss-Oriented Ranking for Visual Prompt Retrieval in LVLMs
  Yuan Zhang, Chun-Kai Fan, Sicheng Yu, Junwen Pan, Tao Huang, Ming Lu, Kuan Cheng, Qi She, Shanghang Zhang
  European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026.

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• C3SparseVLM: Visual Token Sparsification for Efficient Vision-Language Model Inference
  Yuan Zhang, ChunKai Fan, Junpeng Ma, and 7 more authors, Shanghang Zhang
  International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.

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• C4Unveiling the Tapestry of Consistency in Large Vision-Language Models
  Yuan Zhang, Fei Xiao, Tao Huang, and 6 more authors, Haoyuan Guo
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.

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• C5FreeKD: Knowledge Distillation via Semantic Frequency Prompt
  Yuan Zhang, Tao Huang, Jiaming Liu, Tao Jiang, Kuan Cheng, Shanghang Zhang
  Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024.

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• C6Avatar Knowledge Distillation: Self-ensemble Teacher Paradigm with Uncertainty
  Yuan Zhang, Weihua Chen, Yichen Lu, Tao Huang, Xiuyu Sun, Jian Cao
  ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023.

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• C7Masked Distillation with Receptive Tokens
  Tao Huang*, Yuan Zhang*, Shan You, Fei Wang, Chen Qian, Jian Cao, Chang Xu
  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023.

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• C8Distilling Cross-Modal Knowledge via Feature Disentanglement
  Junhong Liu, Yuan Zhang, Tao Huang, Wenchao Xu, Renyu Yang
  AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025.

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• C9MoVE-KD: Knowledge Distillation for VLMs with Mixture of Visual Encoders
  Jiajun Cao, Yuan Zhang, Tao Huang, Ming Lu, Qizhe Zhang, Ruichuan An, Ningning Ma, Shanghang Zhang
  Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025.

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• C10Knowledge Diffusion for Distillation
  Tao Huang, Yuan Zhang, Mingkai Zheng, Shan You, Fei Wang, Chen Qian, Chang Xu
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023.

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Manuscripts

• arXivDAMO-YOLO: A Report on Real-Time Object Detection Design
  Xianzhe Xu*, Yiqi Jiang*, Weihua Chen*, Yilun Huang*, Yuan Zhang*, Xiuyu Sun
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.15444 (2022).

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Research Experience

Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR), California, USA Remote Research Intern (Advisor: Wenzhao Zheng). Sep. 2024 – Dec. 2024 Topic: efficiency of LVLMs

ByteDance Seed Foundation Model, Beijing, China Research Intern (Advisor: Xun Zhou). Jul. 2023 – Jul. 2024, Jan. 2025 – Now Topic: consistency of LVLMs

Alibaba DAMO Academy, Beijing, China Research Intern (Advisor: Xiuyu Sun). Jun. 2022 – Feb. 2023 Topic: knowledge distillation

Academic Services

• (2024) CVPR, ECCV, ACM MM, NeurIPS
• (2025) ICLR, AISTATS, CVPR, ICML, ICCV, NeurIPS
• (2026) WACV, AAAI, AISTATS, ICLR, CVPR, ICML, ECCV, NeurIPS
• (2027) WACV, AAAI

• T-PAMI | IJCV | T-IP | T-MLR | T-MM | T-CSVT | T-NNLS | T-oN

Awards and Honor

• Hunyuan Fellowship, Tencent / 混元学者, 中国电子学会-腾讯博士生科研激励计划
  
  Ph.D. period (¥ 100,000).

  July 2026
• Tencent Scholarship, Tencent / 腾讯奖学金
  
  Ph.D. period (¥ 20,000).

  Sep. 2025
• National Scholarship of China / 国家奖学金
  
  Master period (¥ 20,000).

  Nov. 2021
• National Scholarship of China / 国家奖学金
  
  Undergraduate period (¥ 8,000).

  Nov. 2018