publications

2026

• Reinforcement Learning Based Entanglement Scheduling in Satellite Quantum Networks
  Omid Mersa, Yanfu Zhang, Qun Li
  MILCOM 2026

• GeoMotionGPT: Geometry-Aligned Motion Understanding with Large Language Models
  Zhankai Ye, Bofan Li, Yukai Jin, Shuoqiu Li, Wei Wang, Yanfu Zhang, Shangqian Gao, Xin Liu
  EMNLP 2026

• Usage-Modulated Sentiment Representations in Large Language Models
  Hongfei Du, Jiacheng Shi, Yanfu Zhang, Gang Zhou, Ashley Gao
  EMNLP 2026

• Tracing a Sparse Emotion-Control Circuit in LLM-Based Text-to-Speech
  Hongfei Du, Jiacheng Shi, Yanfu Zhang, Ashley Gao
  EMNLP 2026

• Enabling Confidence-Aware Control of Effective Memorization in Large Language Models
  Chenjie Ni, Omid Mersa, Zhepeng Wang, Runxue Bao, Qun Li, Shangqian Gao, Yanfu Zhang
  EMNLP 2026

• Towards Reliable, Generalizable, and Specific In-Context Knowledge Editing via Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning
  Xuzhong Wang, Maiqi Jiang, Tejal Nair, Girija Bhusal, Yanfu Zhang, Haipeng Chen
  EMNLP findings 2026

• LitGene: An Interpretable Transformer Model Integrating Text and Ontology for Gene Representation Learning
  Oladimeji Macaulay, Ala Jararweh, David Arredondo, Luis Tafoya, Shrey Poshiya, Yue Hu, Olufunmilola Oyebamiji, Yanfu Zhang, Christopher I. Amos, Kushal Virupakshappa, Avinash Sahu
  Nature Communications

• Emo-BPO: Emotion Bidirectional Preference Optimization for Diffusion-based Emotional TTS
  Jiacheng Shi, Hongfei Du, Xinyuan Song, Y. Alicia Hong, Yanfu Zhang, Ashley Gao
  Interspeech 2026

• Training-Free Inference for High-Resolution Sinogram Completion
  Jiaze E, Srutarshi Banerjee, Tekin Bicer, Guannan Wang, Yanfu Zhang, Bin Ren
  IJCAI 2026

• Confidence-Aware Ranker Ensembles for Robust In-Context Knowledge Editing
  Tejal Nair, Mahmud Wasif Nafee, Maiqi Jiang, Ye Gao, Haipeng Chen, Yanfu Zhang
  ACL findings 2026

• AffectCodec: Emotion-Preserving Neural Speech Codec for Expressive Speech Modeling
  Jiacheng Shi, Hongfei Du, Xinyuan Song, Y. Alicia Hong, Yanfu Zhang, Ye Gao
  ACL findings 2026

• IMUVIE: Generalizable Pickup Measurement via Motion Movies
  John Clapham, Matthew Chen, Omid Mersa, Kenneth Koltermann, Yanfu Zhang, Yuming Sun, Evie N. Burnet, Gang Zhou
  CHASE 2026

• Pairs, not Labels: Predicting Protein-Phenotpe Association via Link Prediction
  Maiqi Jiang, Yanshuo Chen, Guodong Liu, Avinash Sahu, Ye Gao, Yanfu Zhang
  ICASSP 2026

• Hierarchical Convolution Multibranch Transformer for EEG Signals
  Omid Mersa, Maiqi Jiang, Ye Gao, Qun Li, Yanfu Zhang
  ICASSP 2026

• Integrating Neural Differential Forecasting with Safe Reinforcement Learning for Blood Glucose Regulation
  Yushen Liu, Yanfu Zhang, Xugui Zhou
  ISBI 2026

2025

• Dynamic Retriever for In-Context Knowledge Editing via Policy Optimization
  Maiqi Jiang, Mahmud Wasif Nafee, Haipeng Chen, Yanfu Zhang
  EMNLP 2025

• Controllable Memorization in LLMs via Weight Pruning
  Chenjie Ni, Zhepeng Wang, Runxue Bao, Shangqian Gao, Yanfu Zhang
  EMNLP 2025

• HCNQA: Enhancing 3D VQA with Hierarchical Concentration Narrowing Supervision
  Shengli Zhou, Jianuo Zhu, Qilin Huang, Fangjing Wang, Yanfu Zhang, Feng Zheng
  ICANN

• CLEP-DG: Contrastive Learning for Speech Emotion Domain Generalization via Soft Prompt Tuning
  Jiacheng Shi, Yanfu Zhang, Ye Gao
  Interspeech 2025

• Safe Screening Rules for Group OWL Models
  Runxue Bao, Quanchao Lu, Yanfu Zhang
  IJCNN

• Safe Screening Rules for Group SLOPE
  Runxue Bao, Quanchao Lu, Yanfu Zhang
  ECML

• UniAV: Unified Audio-Visual Perception for Multi-Task Video Event Localization
  Tiantian Geng, Teng Wang, Jinming Duan, Yanfu Zhang, Weili Guan, Feng Zheng, Ling Shao
  IEEE TPAMI

2024

• Unlocking Memorization in Large Language Models with Dynamic Soft Prompting
  Zhepeng Wang, Runxue Bao, Yawen Wu, Jackson Taylor, Cao Xiao, Feng Zheng, Weiwen Jiang, Shangqian Gao, Yanfu Zhang
  EMNLP 2024

• BilevelPruning: Unified Dynamic and Static Channel Pruning for Convolutional Neural Networks
  Shangqian Gao, Yanfu Zhang, Feihu Huang, Heng Huang
  CVPR 2024

• Device-Wise Federated Network Pruning
  Shangqian Gao, Junyi Li, Yanfu Zhang, Weidong Cai, Heng Huang
  CVPR 2024

• Auto-Train-Once: Controller Network Guided Automatic Network Pruning from Scratch
  Xidong Wu, Shangqian Gao, Zeyu Zhang, Zhenzhen Li, Runxue Bao, Yanfu Zhang, Xiaoqian Wang, Heng Huang
  CVPR 2024

• Depth-Aware Concealed Crop Detection in Dense Agricultural Scenes
  Liqiong Wang, Jinyu Yang, Yanfu Zhang, Fangyi Wang, Feng Zheng
  CVPR 2024

• Brain Image Synthesis Using Incomplete Multimodal Data
  Yanfu Zhang, Runxue Bao, Guodong Liu, Liang Zhan, Paul M. Thompson, Heng Huang
  ISBI 2024

• Neurodegenerative Disease Prediction via Transferable Deep Networks
  Yanfu Zhang, Runxue Bao, Guodong Liu, Liang Zhan, Paul M. Thompson, Heng Huang
  ISBI 2024

• Edge-Aware Dual Branch Network for Nucleus Instance Segmentation
  Junzhou Chen, Yanfu Zhang, Sidi Lu
  SEC / Smart Moving

2023

• Interindividual Variability in Self-Monitoring of Blood Pressure Using Consumer-Purchased Wireless Devices
  Yaguang Zheng, Yanfu Zhang, Heng Huang, Geoffrey H Tison, Lora E Burke, Saul Blecker, Victoria Vaughan Dickson, Jeffrey E Olgin, Gregory M Marcus, Mark J Pletcher
  Nursing Research

• Structural Alignment for Network Pruning through Partial Regularization
  Shangqian Gao, Zeyu Zhang, Yanfu Zhang, Feihu Huang, Heng Huang
  ICCV 2023

• Investigating the effect of neuropsychiatric symptoms on Alzheimer’s diagnosis using multi-modal brain networks
  Lei Guo, Yanfu Zhang, Haoteng Tang, Scott R Mackin, Paul M Thompson, Heng Huang, Liang Zhan
  Alzheimer’s & Dementia

• A Comprehensive Survey of Complex Brain Network Representation
  Haoteng Tang, Guixiang Ma, Yanfu Zhang, Kai Ye, Lei Guo, Guodong Liu, Qi Huang, Yalin Wang, Olusola Ajilore, Alex D Leow, et al.
  Meta-Radiology

2022

• Robust Self-Supervised Structural Graph Neural Network for Social Network Prediction
  Yanfu Zhang, Hongchang Gao, Jian Pei, Heng Huang
  WWW 2022

• Improving social network embedding via new second-order continuous graph neural networks
  Yanfu Zhang, Shangqian Gao, Jian Pei, Heng Huang
  KDD 2022

• SECANT: a biology-guided semi-supervised method for clustering, classification, and annotation of single-cell multi-omics
  Xinjun Wang, Zhongli Xu, Haoran Hu, Xueping Zhou, Yanfu Zhang, Robert Lafyatis, Kong Chen, Heng Huang, Ying Ding, Richard H Duerr, et al.
  PNAS Nexus

• Recover fair deep classification models via altering pre-trained structure
  Yanfu Zhang, Shangqian Gao, Heng Huang
  ECCV 2022

• Disentangled differentiable network pruning
  Shangqian Gao, Feihu Huang, Yanfu Zhang, Heng Huang
  ECCV 2022

• Toward Unified Data and Algorithm Fairness via Adversarial Data Augmentation and Adaptive Model Fine-tuning
  Yanfu Zhang, Runxue Bao, Jian Pei, Heng Huang
  ICDM 2022

2021

• Disentangled and proportional representation learning for multi-view brain connectomes
  Yanfu Zhang, Liang Zhan, Shandong Wu, Paul Thompson, Heng Huang
  MICCAI 2021

• Learning better visual data similarities via new grouplet non-euclidean embedding
  Yanfu Zhang, Lei Luo, Wenhan Xian, Heng Huang
  ICCV 2021

• Exploration and estimation for model compression
  Yanfu Zhang, Shangqian Gao, Heng Huang
  ICCV 2021

• Unified fairness from data to learning algorithm
  Yanfu Zhang, Lei Luo, Heng Huang
  ICDM 2021

• A faster decentralized algorithm for nonconvex minimax problems
  Wenhan Xian, Feihu Huang, Yanfu Zhang, Heng Huang
  NeurIPS 2021

2020

• BREM-SC: a bayesian random effects mixture model for joint clustering single cell multi-omics data
  Xinjun Wang, Zhe Sun, Yanfu Zhang, Zhongli Xu, Hongyi Xin, Heng Huang, Richard H Duerr, Kong Chen, Ying Ding, Wei Chen
  Nucleic Acids Research

• Adversarial nonnegative matrix factorization
  Lei Luo, Yanfu Zhang, Heng Huang
  ICML 2020

• One-year Patterns of Home Blood Pressure Monitoring Using Consumer-purchased Wireless Devices in the Health Eheart Study
  Yaguang Zheng, Yanfu Zhang, Heng Huang, Geoffrey H Tison, Lora E Burke, Jeffrey Olgin, Gregory M Marcus, Mark J Pletcher
  Circulation

2019

• New graph-blind convolutional network for brain connectome data analysis
  Yanfu Zhang, Heng Huang
  IPMI 2019

• Local-linear-fitting-based matting for joint hole filling and depth upsampling of RGB-D images
  Yanfu Zhang, Li Ding, Gaurav Sharma
  Journal of Electronic Imaging

• Integrating heterogeneous brain networks for predicting brain disease conditions
  Yanfu Zhang, Liang Zhan, Weidong Cai, Paul Thompson, Heng Huang
  MICCAI 2019

• Biological knowledge guided deep neural network for brain genotype-phenotype association study
  Yanfu Zhang, Liang Zhan, Paul M Thompson, Heng Huang
  MBIA Workshop

• Brain dynamics through the lens of statistical mechanics by unifying structure and function
  Igor Fortel, Mitchell Butler, Laura E Korthauer, Liang Zhan, Olusola Ajilore, Ira Driscoll, Anastasios Sidiropoulos, Yanfu Zhang, Lei Guo, Heng Huang, et al.
  MICCAI 2019

2017

• Hazerd: an outdoor scene dataset and benchmark for single image dehazing
  Yanfu Zhang, Li Ding, Gaurav Sharma
  ICIP 2017

2016

• A local-linear-fitting-based matting approach for accurate depth upsampling
  Yanfu Zhang, Li Ding, Gaurav Sharma
  WNYISPW 2016

2014

• Multi-focus image fusion based on spatial frequency in discrete cosine transform domain
  Liu Cao, Longxu Jin, Hongjiang Tao, Guoning Li, Zhuang Zhuang, Yanfu Zhang
  IEEE Signal Processing Letters