Zongmeng Zhang Ph.D. Candidate University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) zhangzm@mail.ustc.edu.cn Google Scholar / GitHub

Biography

I am currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), with an expected graduation in the summer of 2026. My supervisors are Prof. Houqiang Li and Prof. Wengang Zhou. I received the B.E. degree from Shandong University (SDU) in 2021, where I was advised by Prof. Liqiang Nie and Prof. Xuemeng Song.

My research interests include large language models and reinforcement learning. I am presently working on large reasoning models for code generation.

I am currently working as a Research Intern at Qwen Team, Alibaba.

I am actively seeking job opportunities, and if you are interested in me, feel free to reach out to me via email or WeChat: leviohsa.

Publications

• Robust Multimodal Large Language Models Against Modality Conflict
      Zongmeng Zhang, Wengang Zhou, Jie Zhao, Houqiang Li
      International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025
      [paper] [code]

• Mitigating Hallucination in VideoLLMs via Temporal-Aware Activation Engineering
      Jianfeng Cai, Wengang Zhou, Zongmeng Zhang, Jiale Hong, Nianji Zhan, Houqiang Li
      Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025

      [paper] [code will be released soon]

• Controllable Style Arithmetic with Language Models
      Weiqi Wang, Wengang Zhou, Zongmeng Zhang, Jie Zhao, Houqiang Li
      Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025
      [paper] [code]

• Single-Source Dual-Stream Representation Learning for DNA Sequence Classification
      Jiarui Zhou, Zongmeng Zhang, Min Wang, Wengang Zhou, Houqiang Li
      ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), 2025

      [paper] [code]

• Trustworthy Alignment of Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models via Reinforcement Learning
      Zongmeng Zhang, Yufeng Shi, Jinhua Zhu, Wengang Zhou, Xiang Qi, Peng Zhang, Houqiang Li
      International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024
      [paper] [code]

• BoolQuestions: Does Dense Retrieval Understand Boolean Logic in Language?
      Zongmeng Zhang, Jinhua Zhu, Wengang Zhou, Xiang Qi, Peng Zhang, Houqiang Li
      Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024
      [paper] [code]

• Hybrid and Collaborative Passage Reranking
      Zongmeng Zhang, Wengang Zhou, Jiaxin Shi, Houqiang Li
      Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
      [paper] [code]

• Multi-Modal Interaction Graph Convolutional Network for Temporal Language Localization in Videos
      Zongmeng Zhang, Xianjing Han, Xuemeng Song, Yan Yan, Liqiang Nie
      IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2021
      [paper] [code]

Working Experiences

Feb., 2025 - present    Intern, Qwen Team, Alibaba

Academic Services

Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025, Reviewer

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2024, Reviewer

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), Reviewer

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), Reviewer

ACM Multimedia (ACMMM) 2022, Reviewer

Awards

2023    National Scholarship for Graduate Student

2022    Huawei Scholarship

2021    Honours Degree in Shandong University

2021    Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertation Award in Shandong University

2021    Outstanding Graduate of Shandong University

2020    National Scholarship for Undergraduate Student

2019    First Prize of China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM)