Shanshan Zhong

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Hello there! I am a CS Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University starting 2025 Fall, advised by Prof. Chenyan Xiong.
Prior to this, I earned both my master's and bachelor's degrees from Sun Yat-sen University, where I was advised by IEEE Fellow Prof. Liang Lin and Prof. Wushao Wen.
Over the past years, I have also had the pleasure of collaborating with Prof. Alan Yuille and Jieneng Chen at CCVL, as well as Prof. Pan Zhou and Shanghua Gao at Sea AI Lab. I also had a great experience contributing to OneFlow.

Academic Service
Invited Journal Reviewer: IEEE TKDE, IEEE TMM
Invited Conference Reviewer: ICLR, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, ACL, EMNLP, WWW, ECCV, AAAI



News

Aug, 2025 Two Papers (RouterEval and AssoCiAm) are accepted by EMNLP 2025!
Aug, 2025 I just began my PhD at CMU and am excited for the journey ahead!
Jul, 2025 MiniLongbench won the Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2025!
Feb, 2025 LoTbench accepted by IEEE TPAMI and DVIB accepted to WWW’25!
Jul, 2024 One paper “ASR” accepted by ECCV’24
May, 2024 One paper “AttNS” accepted by ICML’24
Feb, 2024 One paper “CLoT” accepted by CVPR’24
Jan, 2024 One paper “Mirror Gradient” accepted by WWW’24
Aug, 2023 One paper “StepNet” accepted by ICCV’23
Jul, 2023 One paper “SUR-adapter” accepted by ACM MM’23 (Oral)
Oct, 2022 One paper “CEM” accepted by EMNLP’22

Selected Publications (click here for all)

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    ACL’25
    MiniLongBench: The Low-cost Long Context Understanding Benchmark for Large Language Models
    Zhongzhan Huang, Guoming Ling, Shanshan Zhong, Hefeng Wu, and Liang Lin
    In Proceedings of the 63nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Outstanding Paper), 2025
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    WWW’25
    DVIB: Towards Robust Multimodal Recommender Systems via Variational Information Bottleneck Distillation
    Wenkuan Zhao*, Shanshan Zhong*, Yifan Liu, Wushao Wen, Jinghui Qin, Mingfu Liang, and Zhongzhan Huang
    In Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025 (WWW), 2025
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    TPAMI
    A causality-aware paradigm for evaluating creativity of multimodal large language models
    Zhongzhan Huang*, Shanshan Zhong*, Pan Zhou, Shanghua Gao, Marinka Zitnik, and Liang Lin
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2025
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    ECCV’24
    Stripe Observation Guided Inference Cost-free Attention Mechanism
    Zhongzhan Huang*, Shanshan Zhong*, Wushao Wen, Jinghui Qin, and Liang Lin
    In The International Conference on Machine Learning (ECCV), 2024
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    CVPR’24
    Let’s Think Outside the Box: Exploring Leap-of-Thought in Large Language Models with Creative Humor Generation
    Shanshan Zhong, Zhongzhan Huang, Shanghua Gao, Wushao Wen, Liang Lin, Marinka Zitnik, and Pan Zhou
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
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    WWW’24
    Mirror Gradient: Towards Robust Multimodal Recommender Systems via Exploring Flat Local Minima
    Shanshan Zhong, Zhongzhan Huang, Daifeng Li, Weushao Wen, Jinghui Qin, and Liang Lin
    In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024 (WWW), 2024
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    ACM MM’23
    SUR-adapter: Enhancing text-to-image pre-trained diffusion models with large language models
    Shanshan Zhong, Zhongzhan Huang, Wushao Wen, Jinghui Qin, and Liang Lin
    In 31th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM Oral), 2023
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    EMNLP’22
    CEM: Machine-Human Chatting Handoff via Causal-Enhance Module
    Shanshan Zhong, Jinghui Qin, Zhongzhan Huang, and Daifeng Li
    In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2022