Fan Zhang (章帆)

News

• 2026.05: Two papers are accepted by ICML 2026. Congrats to all.
• 2026.01: Two papers are accepted by ICLR 2026. Congrats to all.
• 2025.11: Two papers are accepted by AAAI 2026. Congrats to all.
• 2025.09: One paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track.
• 2025.08: I join CUHK CSE Department as a PhD student, under the supervision of Prof. Pheng-Ann Heng.
• 2025.04: I start my internship at Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group.
• 2024.08: I start my internship at Tencent YouTu Lab.

Selected Publications

For full publications, please refer to my Google Scholar.

• ICLR
  2026
  MME-Emotion: A Holistic Evaluation Benchmark for Emotional Intelligence in Multimodal Large Language Models

  Fan Zhang, Zebang Cheng, Chong Deng, Haoxuan Li, Zheng Lian, Qian Chen, Huadai Liu, Wen Wang, YiFan Zhang, Renrui Zhang, Ziyu Guo, Zhihong Zhu, Hao Wu, Haixin Wang, Yefeng Zheng, Xiaojiang Peng, Xian Wu, Kun Wang, Xiangang Li, Jieping Ye, Pheng-Ann Heng

  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026

  CCF Rank A

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• NeurIPS
  2025
  CellVerse: Do Large Language Models Really Understand Cell Biology?

  Fan Zhang, Tianyu Liu, Zhihong Zhu, Hao Wu, Haixin Wang, Donghao Zhou, Yefeng Zheng, Kun Wang, Xian Wu, Pheng-Ann Heng

  Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Datasets and Benchmarks Track, 2025

  CCF Rank A

  project
• ACL
  2025
  A Survey on Foundation Language Models for Single-cell Biology

  Fan Zhang, Hao Chen, Zhihong Zhu, Ziheng Zhang, Zhenxi Lin, Ziyue Qiao, Yefeng Zheng, Xian Wu

  Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025

  CCF Rank A
• AAAI
  2025
  DREAM: Decoupled Discriminative Learning with Bigraph-aware Alignment for Semi-supervised 2D-3D Cross-modal Retrieval

  Fan Zhang, Changhu Wang, Zebang Cheng, Xiaojiang Peng, Dongjie Wang, Yijia Xiao, Chong Chen, Xian-Sheng Hua, Xiao Luo

  Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025

  CCF Rank A
• NeurIPS
  2024
  Semi-supervised Knowledge Transfer Across Multi-omic Single-cell Data

  Fan Zhang, Tianyu Liu, Zihao Chen, Xiaojiang Peng, Chong Chen, Xian-Sheng Hua, Xiao Luo, Hongyu Zhao

  Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024

  CCF Rank A
• TPAMI
  2024
  HOPE: A Hierarchical Perspective for Semi-supervised 2D-3D Cross-Modal Retrieval

  Fan Zhang, Hang Zhou, Xian-Sheng Hua, Chong Chen, Xiao Luo

  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2024

  CCF Rank A, JCR Q1, IF=23.6
• TIP
  2024
  FATE: Learning Effective Binary Descriptors with Group Fairness

  Fan Zhang, Chong Chen, Xian-Sheng Hua, Xiao Luo

  IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2024

  CCF Rank A, JCR Q1, IF=10.6
• NAACL
  2024
  DEMO: A Statistical Perspective for Efficient Image-Text Matching

  Fan Zhang, Xian-Sheng Hua, Chong Chen, Xiao Luo

  North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2024

  CCF Rank B
• CVPR
  2024
  Fine-grained Prototypical Voting with Heterogeneous Mixup for Semi-supervised 2D-3D Cross-modal Retrieval

  Fan Zhang, Xian-Sheng Hua, Chong Chen, Xiao Luo

  IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024

  CCF Rank A

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