About

I am a PhD student at HKUST, advised by Professor Long Chen. My research focus is NLP and multimodal reasoning. I received my Master's at Columbia University under the supervision of Dean Shih-Fu Chang. Before that, I obtained my Bachelor's at Syracuse University.

Links

[Google Scholar] [GitHub]

Papers

ElastiFormer: Learned Redundancy Reduction in Transformer via Self-Distillation
[arXiv]
Junzhang Liu*, Tingkai Liu*, Yueyuan Sui, Stephen Xia

Enter: Event based interpretable reasoning for videoqa
[arXiv]
Hammad Ayyubi*, Junzhang Liu*, Ali Asgarov, Zaber Ibn Abdul Hakim, Najibul Haque Sarker, Zhecan Wang, Chia-Wei Tang, Hani Alomari, Md Atabuzzaman, Xudong Lin, Naveen Reddy Dyava, Shih-Fu Chang, Chris Thomas

PuzzleGPT: Emulating Human Puzzle-Solving Ability for Time and Location Prediction
[NAACL 24]
Hammad Ayyubi*, Xuande Feng*, Junzhang Liu*, Xudong Lin, Zhecan Wang, Shih-Fu Chang

Journeybench: A challenging one-stop vision-language understanding benchmark of generated images
[NeurIPS 24]
Zhecan Wang*, Junzhang Liu*, Chia-Wei Tang, Hani Alomari, Anushka Sivakumar, Rui Sun, Wenhao Li, Md Atabuzzaman, Hammad Ayyubi, Haoxuan You, Alvi Md Ishmam, Kai-Wei Chang, Shih-Fu Chang, Christopher Thomas

Detecting Multimodal Situations with Insufficient Context and Abstaining from Baseless Predictions
[ACM MM 24]
Junzhang Liu*, Zhecan Wang*, Hammad Ayyubi*, Haoxuan You, Chris Thomas, Rui Sun, Shih-Fu Chang, Kai-Wei Chang