Ziheng Zhang

I am a Research Assistant at Imageomics Institute, advised by Prof. Wei-lun (Harry) Chao and Dr. Jianyang Gu.

I enjoy developing simple yet effective algorithms to solve machine learning problems, with a focus on multimodal, long-tail, and fine-grained settings.

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Selected Publications

BioCAP: Exploiting Synthetic Captions Beyond Labels in Biological Foundation Models

Ziheng Zhang†, Xinyue Ma, Arpita Chowdhury, Elizabeth G. Campolongo, Matthew J. Thompson, Net Zhang, Samuel Stevens, Hilmar Lapp, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Yu Su, Wei-Lun Chao, Jianyang Gu†

ICLR 2026

arXiv Project page Code

Finer-CAM: Spotting the Difference Reveals Finer Details for Visual Explanation

Ziheng Zhang*, Jianyang Gu*, Arpita Chowdhury, Zheda Mai, David Carlyn, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Yu Su, Wei-Lun Chao

CVPR 2025

arXiv Demo Code

Selected Publications

Full Publications

Miscellaneous