Zi-Yuan Hu (胡梓渊, Henry)

Email1: henryhuzy AT gmail.com

Email2: zyhu22 AT cse.cuhk.edu.hk

Address: Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK CSE)

Hi, welcome to my personal website! Feel free to contact me:)

I am a Ph.D. student at CUHK CSE, supervised by Prof. Liwei Wang and Prof. Michael R. Lyu. Before that, I received my B.E. degree at Sun Yat-sen University in 2022.

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Research Interests

• Multimodal Learning, especially Vision-and-Language Learning
• Natural Language Processing, especially Parameter-Efficient Tuning

Selected Publications

* indicates equal contribution.

• "Rethinking Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Videos"
  Yiwu Zhong, Zi-Yuan Hu, Yin Li, Liwei Wang
  • (Preprint 2025)
  • [paper][code]

• "NeMo: Needle in a Montage for Video-Language Understanding"
  Zi-Yuan Hu*, Shuo Liang*, Duo Zheng, Yanyang Li, Yeyao Tao, Shijia Huang, Wei Feng, Jia Qin, Jianguang Yu, Jing Huang, Meng Fang, Yin Li, Liwei Wang
  • (Preprint 2025)
  • [paper][project]

• "Fine-grained Spatiotemporal Grounding on Egocentric Videos "
  Shuo Liang, Yiwu Zhong, Zi-Yuan Hu, Yeyao Tao, Liwei Wang
  • (ICCV 2025)
  • [paper][code]

• "Enhancing Temporal Modeling of Video LLMs via Time Gating"
  Zi-Yuan Hu, Yiwu Zhong, Shijia Huang, Michael R. Lyu, Liwei Wang
  • (EMNLP 2024 Findings)
  • [paper][code]

• "Beyond Embeddings: The Promise of Visual Table in Visual Reasoning"
  Yiwu Zhong*, Zi-Yuan Hu*, Michael R. Lyu, Liwei Wang
  • (EMNLP 2024 Main)
  • [paper][code]

• "CLEVA: Chinese Language Models EVAluation Platform"
  Yanyang Li, Jianqiao Zhao, Duo Zheng, Zi-Yuan Hu, Zhi Chen, Xiaohui Su, Yongfeng Huang, Shijia Huang, Dahua Lin, Michael R. Lyu, Liwei Wang
  • (EMNLP 2023 System Demonstration)
  • [paper][code]

• "VL-PET: Vision-and-Language Parameter-Efficient Tuning via Granularity Control"
  Zi-Yuan Hu, Yanyang Li, Michael R. Lyu, Liwei Wang
  • (ICCV 2023)
  • [paper][code][project][poster]

Selected Honors and Awards

• Postgraduate Scholarship, CUHK, 2022 - Present
• 1st place, Language and Intelligence Challenge (LIC), 2022
• Outstanding Graduate Thesis, SYSU, 2022
• National Scholarship (Top 2%), Ministry of Education of China, 2019 & 2020
• The First Prize Scholarship (Top 5%), SYSU, 2019 & 2020

Academic Services

• Reviewer: CVPR, ICCV, ACL, EMNLP, IJCV, etc.

Teaching Assistant

• CSCI 5640 Natural Language Processing, CUHK, 2025
• AIST 1000 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, CUHK, 2023 & 2024
• CSCI 3320 Fundamentals of Machine Learning, CUHK, 2023 & 2024

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