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
TLDR: Integrate instance-level synthetic captions in multimodal alignment and demonstrate rich understanding of biological semantics.
ICLR 2026
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Finer-CAM: Spotting the Difference Reveals Finer Details for Visual Explanation
TLDR: Compare the target class with similar classes for more fine-grained and discriminative explanation.
CVPR 2025
arXiv Demo Code
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