Research Scientist
Meta AI Research (FAIR)
liuzhuangthu at gmail.com
380 W 33rd St, New York, NY 10001
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Zhuang Liu
I'm a Research Scientist at Meta AI Research (New York). I received my PhD in Computer Science from the EECS Department at UC Berkeley, advised by Prof. Trevor Darrell. I was also fortunate to have worked as a visiting researcher / intern at Cornell, Intel Labs, Adobe Research and FAIR. I earned my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Yao Class at Tsinghua University.
My primary research areas are deep learning and computer vision. My research focuses on scaling deep learning both up and down, to build capable models and understand their behaviors in different compute and data environments. I place an emphasis on exploring simple and baseline approaches to gain insights into the workings of deep learning. My research is often characterized by challenging existing beliefs in the field.
I led the development of DenseNet (which won a CVPR Best Paper Award) and ConvNeXt. Both are among the most widely used neural architectures in deep learning and computer vision.
News
[12/2023] Preprints and code on model initialization, model behaviors, and SVRG optimizer released. Congrats to David, Kirill, Oscar, and Yanjie!
[11/2023] Happy to speak and join the panel at the CMU PhD Career Workshop at Pittsburgh
Recent and selected publications (* equal contribution)
Deconstructing Denoising Diffusion Models for Self-Supervised Learning
Xinlei Chen, Zhuang Liu, Saining Xie, Kaiming He
arXiv 2024
Rethinking the Value of Network Pruning
Zhuang Liu*, Mingjie Sun*, Tinghui Zhou, Gao Huang, Trevor Darrell
ICLR 2019
NeurIPS'18 Compact Neural Networks Workshop Best Paper Award
Learning Efficient Convolutional Networks through Network Slimming
Zhuang Liu, Jianguo Li, Zhiqiang Shen, Gao Huang, Shoumeng Yan, Changshui Zhang
ICCV 2017
Previous Publications (* equal contribution)
Anytime Dense Prediction with Confidence Adaptivity
Zhuang Liu, Hung-Ju Wang, Zhiqiu Xu, Trevor Darrell, Evan Shelhamer
ICLR 2022
Regularization Matters in Policy Optimization - An Empirical Study on Continuous Control
Zhuang Liu*, Xuanlin Li*, Bingyi Kang, Trevor Darrell
ICLR 2021
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