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[08/2025] Invited talk at Runway AI

[08/2025] Invited talk at Harvard Vision AI Seminar

[08/2025] Invited talk at Boston University

[07/2025] Invited talk at Stanford Vision and Learning Lab

[07/2025] Congratulations to Jiachen Zhu for graduating from NYU and joining Skild AI!

[07/2025] Congratulations to Mingjie Sun for graduating from CMU and joining Thinking Machines Lab!

[05/2025] Invited talk at NVIDIA Research

[04/2025] Invited talk at ICLR 2025 Workshop on Scalable Optimization for Efficient and Adaptive Foundation Models (SCOPE)

[04/2025] Guest Lecture at Princeton COS 484: Natural Language Processing

[04/2025] Invited talk at Columbia University Frontier in AI Seminar

[04/2025] Invited talk at Adobe GenTech Seminar



Recent and selected publications (* equal contribution, for full list please see Google Scholar)

MetaMorph: Multimodal Understanding and Generation via Instruction Tuning

Shengbang Tong, David Fan, Jiachen Zhu, Yunyang Xiong, Xinlei Chen, Koustuv Sinha, Michael Rabbat,
Yann LeCun, Saining Xie, Zhuang Liu

ICCV 2025

[Paper] [Project Page]

Transformers without Normalization

Jiachen Zhu, Xinlei Chen, Kaiming He, Yann LeCun, Zhuang Liu

CVPR 2025

[Paper] [Code] [Project Page]

Idiosyncrasies in Large Language Models

Mingjie Sun*, Yida Yin*, Zhiqiu Xu, J. Zico Kolter, Zhuang Liu

ICML 2025

[Paper] [Code] [Project Page] [Press]

A Decade's Battle on Dataset Bias: Are We There Yet?

Zhuang Liu, Kaiming He

ICLR 2025

[Paper] [Code]

Oral Presentation

Deconstructing Denoising Diffusion Models for Self-Supervised Learning

Xinlei Chen, Zhuang Liu, Saining Xie, Kaiming He

ICLR 2025

[Paper]

Understanding Bias in Large-Scale Visual Datasets

Boya Zeng*, Yida Yin*, Zhuang Liu

NeurIPS 2024

[Paper] [Video] [Code] [Project Page]

Massive Activations in Large Language Models

Mingjie Sun, Xinlei Chen, J. Zico Kolter, Zhuang Liu

COLM 2024

[Paper] [Code]

Eyes Wide Shut? Exploring the Visual Shortcomings of Multimodal LLMs

Shengbang Tong, Zhuang Liu, Yuexiang Zhai, Yi Ma, Yann LeCun, Saining Xie

CVPR 2024

[Paper] [Code]

A Simple and Effective Pruning Approach for Large Language Models

Mingjie Sun*, Zhuang Liu*, Anna Bair, Zico Kolter

ICLR 2024

[Paper] [Code]

ImageBind: One Embedding Space To Bind Them All

Rohit Girdhar*, Alaaeldin El-Nouby*, Zhuang Liu, Mannat Singh, Kalyan Vasudev Alwala, Armand Joulin, Ishan Misra*

CVPR 2023

[Paper] [Code] [Blog] [Demo]

Highlighted Paper

A ConvNet for the 2020s

Zhuang Liu, Hanzi Mao, Chao-Yuan Wu, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Trevor Darrell, Saining Xie

CVPR 2022

[Paper] [Video] [Code]

Test-Time Training for Out-of-Distribution Generalization

Yu Sun, Xiaolong Wang, Zhuang Liu, John Miller, Alexei A. Efros, Moritz Hardt

ICML 2020

[Paper] [Code] [Video]

Rethinking the Value of Network Pruning

Zhuang Liu*, Mingjie Sun*, Tinghui Zhou, Gao Huang, Trevor Darrell

ICLR 2019

[Paper] [OpenReview] [Code]

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

[Paper] [Code1] [Code2] [Code3 (3rd-party)]

Densely Connected Convolutional Networks

Zhuang Liu*, Gao Huang*, Laurens van der Maaten, Kilian Weinberger

CVPR 2017

[Paper] [Code]

CVPR Best Paper Award

Deep Networks with Stochastic Depth

Gao Huang*, Yu Sun*, Zhuang Liu, Daniel Sedra, Kilian Weinberger

ECCV 2016

[Paper] [Code]

Spotlight Presentation



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I served or will be serving as an Area Chair for NeurIPS (23, 24, D&B track 22, 24), ICLR (25), ICML (25), CVPR (25), ICCV (23, 25).

I also regularly served as a Reviewer for CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, and other conferences and journals.


Fun facts: I served as a NeurIPS Area Chair before publishing my first NeurIPS paper. I also scored the highest in China's National College Entrance Exam in Sciences among 300,000 students.