Linchao Zhu
Assistant Professor
Builds AI agents that act in physical, digital and scientific environments and improve from verifiable feedback, with work on large language models and AI for simulation.
Linchao Zhu's lab at Zhejiang works on large language models, physics-based simulation & animation and physics, climate & scientific computing. 33 papers since 2023, 27 at top venues, mostly NeurIPS and ACL. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 9/ year
- at T1 venues
- 82%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 8 papers2026 · T1 6 · collecting
- 14 papers2025 · T1 14
- 8 papers2024 · T1 4
- 3 papers2023 · T1 3
T1 venuesOtherVenues: NeurIPS, ACL, Findings of ACL, ICCV, ICLR
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Large language models9 papers
- Physics-based simulation & animation4 papers
- Physics, climate & scientific computing2 papers
- improve1 paper
- act0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20268 papers
- ACL (T1)Attention as Selector: Unlocking VLM Attention for Long Document Page Retrieval
- IJCAI (T1)GPD: Guided Progressive Distillation for Fast and High-Quality Video Generation
- ACL (T1)How to Improve LLMs' Performance on Specific Languages: A Perspective on LLM-Derived Language Similarity
- ICML (T1)Mitigating Conversational Inertia in Multi-Turn Agents
- CVPR (T1)MVP: Multiple View Prediction Improves GUI Grounding
- Findings of ACLN-GRPO: Embedding-Level Neighbor Mixing for Enhanced Policy Optimization
- CVPR (T1)Unified Generation and Self-Verification for Vision-Language Models via Advantage Decoupled Preference Optimization
- Findings of ACLVerifier-Free RL for LLMs via Intrinsic Gradient-Norm Reward
202514 papers
- NeurIPS (T1)3DID: Direct 3D Inverse Design with Physics-Aware Optimization
- IJCV (T1)Audio-Guided Video Scene Editing
- NeurIPS (T1)Code Graph Model (CGM): A Graph-Integrated Large Language Model for Repository-Level Software Engineering Tasks
- NeurIPS (T1)DeltaPhi: Physical States Residual Learning for Neural Operators in Data-Limited PDE Solving
- AAAI (T1)Detecting and mitigating hallucination in large vision language models via fine-grained ai feedback
- NeurIPS (T1)FlexSelect: Flexible Token Selection for Efficient Long Video Understanding
- ICCV (T1)From Trial to Triumph: Advancing Long Video Understanding via Visual Context Sample Scaling and Self-reward Alignment
- ICCV (T1)H3R: Hybrid Multi-view Correspondence for Generalizable 3D Reconstruction
- ICCV (T1)High-Fidelity Facial Albedo Estimation via Texture Quantization
- ICML (T1)Holistic Physics Solver: Learning PDEs in a Unified Spectral-Physical Space
- ICLR (T1)Long-horizon Visual Instruction Generation with Logic and Attribute Self-reflection
- ICCV (T1)Mc-bench: A benchmark for multi-context visual grounding in the era of mllms
20248 papers
- CVPR (T1)CapHuman: Capture Your Moments in Parallel Universes
- AAAI (T1)DGL: Dynamic Global-Local Prompt Tuning for Text-Video Retrieval
- Findings of ACLFragRel: Exploiting Fragment-level Relations in the External Memory of Large Language Models
- NeurIPS (T1)FreeLong: Training-Free Long Video Generation with SpectralBlend Temporal Attention
- ACM MMGG-Editor: Locally Editing 3D Avatars with Multimodal Large Language Model Guidance
- ACM MMMoS: Mixture of Scale and Shift Experts for Text-Only Video Captioning
- ICLR (T1)Test-Time Adaptation with CLIP Reward for Zero-Shot Generalization in Vision-Language Models
- Findings of ACLVillagerAgent: A Graph-Based Multi-Agent Framework for Coordinating Complex Task Dependencies in Minecraft
20233 papers
- ICLR (T1)DeCap: Decoding CLIP Latents for Zero-Shot Captioning via Text-Only Training
- ACL (T1)Gloss-Free End-to-End Sign Language Translation
- ACL (T1)WhitenedCSE: Whitening-based Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embeddings
Where alumni went
Alumni are not listed on the lab homepage.
Apply to ZhejiangFall 2027
Computer Science PhD (international applicants)
- Round
- Self-funded
- Opens
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- GRE
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- English
- Per ZJU language requirements
- Fee
- RMB 800
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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