Bowen Zhang

Research Scientist, Apple

Joined

November 2019

Names

Bowen Zhang (Preferred)

Emails

****@usc.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@tongji.edu.cn (Confirmed)

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****@apple.com (Confirmed)

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Personal Links

Career & Education History

Research Scientist

Apple (apple.com)

2022 – Present

Intern

Google (google.com)

2020 – 2022

PhD student

University of Southern California (usc.edu)

2017 – 2022

Intern

Amazon (amazon.com)

2019 – 2019

Intern

Tencent AI Lab (tencent.com)

2018 – 2018

Visiting Student

Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (siat.ac.cn)

2015 – 2017

MS student

Tongji University (tongji.edu.cn)

2014 – 2017

Undergrad student

Tongji University (tongji.edu.cn)

2010 – 2014

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Fei Sha

2017 – 2022

Coauthor

Yu Qiao

2015 – 2017

Master and Undergrad Advisor

Hanli Wang

2010 – 2017

Expertise

Video Retrieval

2017 – Present

Multimodal

2017 – Present

Action Recognition

2015 – Present

Video Understanding

2015 – Present

Publications

MANZANO: A Simple and Scalable Unified Multimodal Model with a Hybrid Vision Tokenizer
Yanghao Li, Rui Qian, Bowen Pan, Haotian Zhang, Haoshuo Huang, Bowen Zhang, Jialing Tong, Haoxuan You, Xianzhi Du, Zhe Gan, Hyunjik Kim, Chao Jia, Zhenbang Wang, Yinfei Yang, Mingfei Gao, Zi-Yi Dou, Wenze Hu, Chang Gao, Dongxu Li, Philipp Dufter et al. (7 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
STIV: SCALABLE TEXT AND IMAGE CONDITIONED VIDEO GENERATION
Zongyu Lin, Wei Liu, Chen Chen, Jiasen Lu, Wenze Hu, Tsu-Jui Fu, Jesse Allardice, Zhengfeng Lai, Liangchen Song, Bowen Zhang, cha chen, Yiran Fei, Yifan Jiang, Lezhi Li, Yizhou Sun, Kai-Wei Chang, Yinfei Yang
- SCOPE - ICLR 2025 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Contrastive Localized Language-Image Pre-Training
Hong-You Chen, Zhengfeng Lai, Haotian Zhang, Xinze Wang, Marcin Eichner, Keen You, Meng Cao, Bowen Zhang, Yinfei Yang, Zhe Gan
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
STIV: Scalable Text and Image Conditioned Video Generation
Zongyu Lin, Wei Liu, Chen Chen, Jiasen Lu, Wenze Hu, Tsu-Jui Fu, Jesse Allardice, Zhengfeng Lai, Liangchen Song, Bowen Zhang, cha chen, Yiran Fei, Yifan Jiang, Lezhi Li, Yizhou Sun, Kai-Wei Chang, Yinfei Yang
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Improve Vision Language Model Chain-of-thought Reasoning
Ruohong Zhang, Bowen Zhang, Yanghao Li, Haotian Zhang, Zhiqing Sun, Zhe Gan, Yinfei Yang, Ruoming Pang, Yiming Yang
- ICLR 2025 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
MM1.5: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Fine-tuning
Haotian Zhang, Mingfei Gao, Zhe Gan, Philipp Dufter, Nina Wenzel, Forrest Huang, Dhruti Shah, Xianzhi Du, Bowen Zhang, Yanghao Li, Sam Dodge, Keen You, Zhen Yang, Aleksei Timofeev, Mingze Xu, Hong-You Chen, Jean-Philippe Fauconnier, Zhengfeng Lai, Haoxuan You, Zirui Wang et al. (3 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Contrastive Localized Language-Image Pre-Training
Hong-You Chen, Zhengfeng Lai, Haotian Zhang, Xinze Wang, Marcin Eichner, Keen You, Meng Cao, Bowen Zhang, Yinfei Yang, Zhe Gan
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Revisit Large-Scale Image-Caption Data in Pre-training Multimodal Foundation Models
Zhengfeng Lai, Vasileios Saveris, Chen Chen, Hong-You Chen, Haotian Zhang, Bowen Zhang, Wenze Hu, Juan Lao Tebar, Zhe Gan, Peter Grasch, Meng Cao, Yinfei Yang
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
EC-DIT: Scaling Diffusion Transformers with Adaptive Expert-Choice Routing
Haotian Sun, Tao Lei, Bowen Zhang, Yanghao Li, Haoshuo Huang, Ruoming Pang, Bo Dai, Nan Du
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
MMEgo: Towards Building Egocentric Multimodal LLMs for Video QA
Hanrong Ye, Haotian Zhang, Erik Daxberger, Lin Chen, Zongyu Lin, Yanghao Li, Bowen Zhang, Haoxuan You, Dan Xu, Zhe Gan, Jiasen Lu, Yinfei Yang
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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