Yao Zhu

PhD student, Zhejiang University

Joined

September 2020

Names

Yao Zhu (Preferred)

Emails

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

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

Zhejiang University (zju.edu.cn)

2018 – Present

Undergrad student

Zhejiang University (zju.edu.cn)

2014 – 2018

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Xiangyang Ji

2023 – Present

PhD Advisor

Yaowu Chen

2018 – Present

Expertise

AI interpretability

2022 – Present

Robust machine learning

2021 – Present

Out-of- Distribution Generalization

2021 – Present

Publications

OmniDiagram: Unified Diagram Synthesis via VIVA — Visual Interrogation Verifies All
Haoyue Yang, Xuanle Zhao, Xuexin Liu, Feibing Jiang, Yao Zhu
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Beyond Scaling: Assessing Strategic Reasoning and Rapid Decision-Making Capability of LLMs in Zero-sum Environments
Yang Li, Xing Chen, Yutao Liu, Gege Qi, Yanxian BI, Zizhe Wang, Yunjian Zhang, Yao Zhu
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Survey on Knowledge Distillation for Large Language Models: Methods, Evaluation, and Application
Chuanpeng Yang, Yao Zhu, Wang Lu, Yidong Wang, Qian Chen, Chenlong Gao, Bingjie Yan, Yiqiang Chen
- ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol. 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Bridging the Gap Between Ideal and Real-world Evaluation: Benchmarking AI-Generated Image Detection in Challenging Scenarios
Chunxiao Li, Xiaoxiao Wang, Meiling Li, Boming Miao, Peng Sun, Yunjian Zhang, Xiangyang Ji, Yao Zhu
- ICCV2025
- Readers: Everyone
Kelp: A Streaming Safeguard for Large Models via Latent Dynamics-Guided Risk Detection
Xiaodan Li, Mengjie Wu, Yao Zhu, Yunna Lv, YueFeng Chen, Cen Chen, Jianmei Guo, Hui Xue
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Enhancing Reasoning in Large Language Models via Entropy-Aware Self-Evolution
Lai Chen, Yao Zhu, Xin Ye, Peng Lin, Xiangyang Ji, Xiang Tian
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Boosting Domain Generalization in Object Detection through the Lens of Phase Invariance
Chenyang Zhang, Anqi Dong, Cong Hua, Yao Zhu, Lin Mei, Qing Cheng, Guangming Zhu, zhang liang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Generation then Reconstruction: Accelerating Masked Autoregressive Models via Two-Stage Sampling
Feihong Yan, Yao Zhu, Peiru Wang, Pang Kaiyu, Qingyan Wei, Huiqi Li, Linfeng Zhang
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
FlattenGPT: Depth Compression for Transformer with Layer Flattening
Ruihan Xu, Qingpei Guo, Yao Zhu, Xiangyang Ji, Ming Yang, Shiliang Zhang
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Pruning as a Cooperative Game: Surrogate-Assisted Layer Contribution Estimation for Large Language Models
Xuan Ding, Pengyu Tong, Ranjie Duan, Yunjian Zhang, Rui Sun, Yao Zhu
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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