Xianzhi Du

Researcher, Apple

Joined

February 2020

Names

Xianzhi Du (Preferred)

Emails

****@google.com (Confirmed)

****@apple.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Apple (apple.com)

2022 – Present

Research Engineer

Google (google.com)

2019 – 2022

PhD student

University of Maryland, College Park (umd.edu)

2011 – 2018

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Larry Davis

2011 – 2018

Expertise

Neural Architecture Search

2019 – Present

Computer Vision

2011 – Present

Machine Learning

2011 – Present

Publications

On the Efficiency of Structured Pruning in Small Language Model Pretraining
Yixiao Li, Xianzhi Du, AJAY KUMAR JAISWAL, Tao Lei, Tuo Zhao, Chong Wang, Jianyu Wang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
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
Adaptive Thinking: Large Language Models Know When to Think in Latent Space
Pingzhi Li, Bairu Hou, Yun Zhu, Yihao Feng, Ke Ye, Tao Lei, Zhifeng Chen, Tianlong Chen, Xianzhi Du
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Fantastic Experts and How to Find Them: A Multi-Dimensional Study for Experts-Level Sparsification in Mixture-of-Experts
AJAY KUMAR JAISWAL, Jianyu Wang, Yixiao Li, Pingzhi Li, Tianlong Chen, Zhangyang Wang, Chong Wang, Ruoming Pang, Xianzhi Du
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- 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
MOFI: Learning Image Representations from Noisy Entity Annotated Images
Wentao Wu, Aleksei Timofeev, Chen Chen, Bowen Zhang, Kun Duan, Shuangning Liu, Yantao Zheng, Jonathon Shlens, Xianzhi Du, Yinfei Yang
- ICLR 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Compressing LLMs: The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple
AJAY KUMAR JAISWAL, Zhe Gan, Xianzhi Du, Bowen Zhang, Zhangyang Wang, Yinfei Yang
- ICLR 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Ferret: Refer and Ground Anything Anywhere at Any Granularity
Haoxuan You, Haotian Zhang, Zhe Gan, Xianzhi Du, Bowen Zhang, Zirui Wang, Liangliang Cao, Shih-Fu Chang, Yinfei Yang
- ICLR 2024 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
From Scarcity to Efficiency: Improving CLIP Training via Visual-enriched Captions
Zhengfeng Lai, Haotian Zhang, Wentao Wu, Haoping Bai, Aleksei Timofeev, Xianzhi Du, Zhe Gan, Jiulong Shan, Chen-Nee Chuah, Yinfei Yang, Meng Cao
- ICLR 2024 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Guiding Instruction-based Image Editing via Multimodal Large Language Models
Tsu-Jui Fu, Wenze Hu, Xianzhi Du, William Yang Wang, Yinfei Yang, Zhe Gan
- ICLR 2024 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone

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