Zhengfeng Lai

Researcher, AI/ML, Apple

Joined

May 2021

Names

Zhengfeng Lai (Preferred)

Emails

****@ucdavis.edu (Confirmed)

****@apple.com (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

AI/ML, Apple (apple.com)

2023 – Present

PhD student

University of California, Davis (ucdavis.edu)

2019 – 2023

Undergrad student

Zhejiang University (zju.edu.cn)

2015 – 2019

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Chen-Nee Chuah

2019 – 2023

Expertise

Multimodal LLM

2022 – Present

Semi-supervised learning

2021 – 2023

AI Healthcare

2019 – 2022

Publications

Padclip: Pseudo-labeling with adaptive debiasing in clip for unsupervised domain adaptation
Zhengfeng Lai, Noranart Vesdapunt, Ning Zhou, Jun Wu, Cong Phuoc Huynh, Xuelu Li, Kah Kuen Fu, Chen-Nee Chuah
- ICCV 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Taming Text-to-Sounding Video Generation via Advanced Modality Condition and Interaction
Kaisi Guan, Xihua Wang, Zhengfeng Lai, Xin Cheng, Peng Zhang, Xiaojiang Liu, Ruihua Song, Meng Cao
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Breaking Down Video LLM Benchmarks: Knowledge, Spatial Perception, or True Temporal Understanding?
Bo Feng, Zhengfeng Lai, Shiyu Li, Zizhen Wang, Xiaoming Simon Wang, Ping Huang, Meng Cao
- NeurIPS 2025 LLM Evaluation Workshop Poster
- Readers: Everyone
StreamBridge: Turning Your Offline Video Large Language Model into a Proactive Streaming Assistant
Haibo Wang, Bo Feng, Zhengfeng Lai, Mingze Xu, Shiyu Li, Weifeng Ge, Afshin Dehghan, Meng Cao, Ping Huang
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
SlowFast-LLaVA-1.5: A Family of Token-Efficient Video Large Language Models for Long-Form Video Understanding
Mingze Xu, Mingfei Gao, Shiyu Li, Jiasen Lu, Zhe Gan, Zhengfeng Lai, Meng Cao, Kai Kang, Yinfei Yang, Afshin Dehghan
- COLM 2025
- 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
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

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