I am a second-year PhD student at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering. I am fortunate to be advised by Junxian He. I am generally interested in large language models and vision language models, with experiences in model merging, long context modeling and multiturn reasoning.
📝 Publications
Most recent publications on Google Scholar.
* denotes co-first authors, $^\dagger$ denotes corresponding author/main advisor

Bring Reason to Vision: Understanding Perception and Reasoning through Model Merging
Shiqi Chen*, Jinghan Zhang*, Tongyao Zhu, Wei Liu, Siyang Gao, Miao Xiong, Manling Li, Junxian He$^\dagger$
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- Abstract: We enhance VLM reasoning via model merging and understand perception and reasoning ability inside model.

Why Is Spatial Reasoning Hard for VLMs? An Attention Mechanism Perspective on Focus Areas
Shiqi Chen, Tongyao Zhu, Ruochen Zhou, Jinghan Zhang, Siyang Gao, Juan Carlos Niebles, Mor Geva, Junxian He, Jiajun Wu, Manling Li$^\dagger$
- Abstract: A training-free decoding method called AdaptVis boosts VLM’s spatial reasoning by dynamically sharpening or broadening attention based on confidence, yielding up to 50-point accuracy gains on benchmarks.

Compression Represents Intelligence Linearly
Yuzhen Huang*, Jinghan Zhang*, Zifei Shan, Junxian He$^\dagger$
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- Abstract: In this paper, we study the relationship between compression rate and intelligence of LLMs.

Composing Parameter-Efficient Modules with Arithmetic Operations
Jinghan Zhang, Shiqi Chen, Junteng Liu, Junxian He$^\dagger$
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- Abstract: In this paper, we study model merging on parameter-efficient modules like LoRA and (IA)^3.


🌟 Service
Reviewer: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, COLM, ACL Demo, NLPCC
🎖 Awards
- 2024.9 COLM 2024 DEI Scholarship
- 2023.10 NeurIPS 2023 Scholar Award
- 2023.06 Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis in SEU (top 3%)
- 2021.12 National Scholarship
📖 Education
- 2024.02 - now PhD student, Department of CSE, HKUST, Hong Kong SAR, China.
- 2023.11 - 2024.01 Research Assistant, Department of CSE, HKUST, Hong Kong SAR, China.
- 2019.09 - 2023.06 Undergraduate, Artificial Intelligence, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.