Zhijian Liu

Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego

Researcher, NVIDIA

Joined

February 2018

Names

Zhijian Liu

Emails

****@mit.edu (Confirmed)

****@zhijianliu.com (Confirmed)

****@nvidia.com (Confirmed)

****@ucsd.edu (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

University of California, San Diego (ucsd.edu)

2026 – Present

Researcher

NVIDIA (nvidia.com)

2024 – 2026

PhD student

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)

2018 – 2024

Undergrad student

Shanghai Jiao Tong University (sjtu.edu.cn)

2014 – 2018

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Song Han

2018 – 2024

Expertise

Machine Learning

2016 – Present

Publications

FlashDrive: Flash Vision-Language-Action Inference for Autonomous Driving
Zekai Li, Yihao Liang, Hongfei Zhang, Jian Chen, Zhijian Liu
- ES-Reasoning @ ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
From Models to Systems: A Comprehensive Survey of Efficient Multimodal Learning
Pan Wang, Siwei Song, Hui Ji, Siqi Cao, Heng Yu, Zhijian Liu, Huanrui Yang, Yingyan Celine Lin, Beidi Chen, Mohit Bansal, Xiaoming Liu, Pengfei Zhou, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Tianlong Chen, Jingtong Hu
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
The First Workshop on Efficient Spatial Reasoning (ES-Reasoning @ ICLR 2026)
Haozheng Luo, Yijiang Li, Zhenyu Pan, Weiyang Liu, Manling Li, Zhijian Liu, Ruiyang Qin, Nuno Vasconcelos
- ICLR 2026 Workshop Proposals
- Readers: Everyone
SparseVILA-R1: Decoupling Visual Sparsity for Efficient VLM Reasoning
Samir Khaki, Junxian Guo, Jiaming Tang, Shang Yang, Yukang Chen, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, Yao Lu, Song Han, Zhijian Liu
- NeurIPS 2025 ER Workshop Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
ArcMemo: Abstract Reasoning Composition with Lifelong LLM Memory
Matthew Ho, Chen Si, Zhaoxiang Feng, Fangxu Yu, Yichi Yang, Zhijian Liu, Zhiting Hu, Lianhui Qin
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
ParoQuant: Pairwise Rotation Quantization for Efficient Reasoning LLM Inference
Yesheng Liang, Haisheng Chen, Song Han, Zhijian Liu
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Fast-dLLM v2: Efficient Block-Diffusion LLM
Chengyue Wu, Hao Zhang, Shuchen Xue, Shizhe Diao, Yonggan Fu, Zhijian Liu, Pavlo Molchanov, Ping Luo, Song Han, Enze Xie
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Fast-dLLM: Training-free Acceleration of Diffusion LLM by Enabling KV Cache and Parallel Decoding
Chengyue Wu, Hao Zhang, Shuchen Xue, Zhijian Liu, Shizhe Diao, Ligeng Zhu, Ping Luo, Song Han, Enze Xie
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
OmniVinci: Enhancing Architecture and Data for Omni-Modal Understanding LLM
Hanrong Ye, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Arushi Goel, Wei Huang, Zhen Wan, Jinchuan Tian, An-Chieh Cheng, Ligeng Zhu, Yuanhang Su, Yuming Lou, Yong-Xiang Lin, Dong Yang, Sreyan Ghosh, Zhijian Liu, Yukang Chen, Ehsan Jahangiri, Ambrish Dantrey, Daguang Xu, Ehsan Hosseini-Asl, Seyed Danial Mohseni Taheri et al. (12 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
3D Aware Region Prompted Vision Language Model
An-Chieh Cheng, Yang Fu, Yukang Chen, Zhijian Liu, Xiaolong Li, Subhashree Radhakrishnan, Song Han, Yao Lu, Jan Kautz, Pavlo Molchanov, Hongxu Yin, Xiaolong Wang, Sifei Liu
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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