activity
20242026
most citedFORGE: Forming Semantic Identifiers for Generative Retrieval in Industrial Datasets

1 citations · 1 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

12 papers

cs.CV2026

From Visual Widgets to UI Code: Efficient Tool-Grounded Generation

Houston H. Zhang, Tao Zhang, Li Gu +5

Existing screenshot-to-code systems face a trade-off between flexibility and controllability. Direct multimodal generation can hallucinate visible details, whereas structured pipel…

cs.IR2026

ShopX: A Foundation Model for Intent-to-Item Fulfillment in Agentic Shopping

Jiacheng Chen, Tao Zhang, Manxi Lin +26

The wave of AI-native applications is moving shopping beyond page- and feed-based browsing toward intent-driven experiences orchestrated by LLM agents. A common design wraps an LLM…

cs.CV2026

MMAgent-R: Learning to Rerank and Reject for Agentic mRAG

Tao Zhang, Ziqi Zhang, Zongyang Ma +7

Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA) requires models to retrieve visual entities matching the query image from large-scale encyclopedic knowledge bases and answer rel…

cs.CV2025

MMhops-R1: Multimodal Multi-hop Reasoning

Tao Zhang, Ziqi Zhang, Zongyang Ma +7

The ability to perform multi-modal multi-hop reasoning by iteratively integrating information across various modalities and external knowledge is critical for addressing complex re…

cs.IR2025

HHFT: Hierarchical Heterogeneous Feature Transformer for Recommendation Systems

Liren Yu, Wenming Zhang, Silu Zhou +3

We propose HHFT (Hierarchical Heterogeneous Feature Transformer), a Transformer-based architecture tailored for industrial CTR prediction. HHFT addresses the limitations of DNN thr…

cs.CV2025

Widget2Code: From Visual Widgets to UI Code via Multimodal LLMs

Houston H. Zhang, Tao Zhang, Baoze Lin +10

User interface to code (UI2Code) aims to generate executable code that can faithfully reconstruct a given input UI. Prior work focuses largely on web pages and mobile screens, leav…

cs.CV2025

DenseScan: Advancing 3D Scene Understanding with 2D Dense Annotation

Zirui Wang, Tao Zhang

3D understanding is a key capability for real-world AI assistance. High-quality data plays an important role in driving the development of the 3D understanding community. Current 3…

cs.AI2025

No-Human in the Loop: Agentic Evaluation at Scale for Recommendation

Tao Zhang, Kehui Yao, Luyi Ma +7

Evaluating large language models (LLMs) as judges is increasingly critical for building scalable and trustworthy evaluation pipelines. We present ScalingEval, a large-scale benchma…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

FORGE: Forming Semantic Identifiers for Generative Retrieval in Industrial Datasets

Kairui Fu, Tao Zhang, Shuwen Xiao +9

Semantic identifiers (SIDs) have gained increasing attention in generative retrieval (GR) for recommendation due to their meaningful semantic discriminability. However, current stu…

cs.CV2025

Improving the Reasoning of Multi-Image Grounding in MLLMs via Reinforcement Learning

Bob Zhang, Haoran Li, Tao Zhang +5

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) perform well in single-image visual grounding but struggle with real-world tasks that demand cross-image reasoning and multi-modal instruct…

cs.AI2024

mRAG: Multimodal Retrieval-Reflection-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Based VQA

Tao Zhang, Ziqi Zhang, Zongyang Ma +10

Advanced Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) struggle with recent Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (VQA) tasks, such as INFOSEEK and Encyclopedic-VQA, due to their li…

cs.LG2024

Episodic-free Task Selection for Few-shot Learning

Tao Zhang

Episodic training is a mainstream training strategy for few-shot learning. In few-shot scenarios, however, this strategy is often inferior to some non-episodic training strategy, e…