collaborators

6 papers

cs.LG2026

Language in the Flow of Time: Time-Series-Paired Texts Weaved into a Unified Temporal Narrative

Zihao Li, Xiao Lin, Zhining Liu +8

While many advances in time series models focus exclusively on numerical data, research on multimodal time series, particularly those involving contextual textual information, rema…

cs.CL2026

Mem-Gallery: Benchmarking Multimodal Long-Term Conversational Memory for MLLM Agents

Yuanchen Bei, Tianxin Wei, Xuying Ning +7

Long-term memory is a critical capability for multimodal large language model (MLLM) agents, particularly in conversational settings where information accumulates and evolves over…

cs.LG2025

CLIMB: Class-imbalanced Learning Benchmark on Tabular Data

Zhining Liu, Zihao Li, Ze Yang +6

Class-imbalanced learning (CIL) on tabular data is important in many real-world applications where the minority class holds the critical but rare outcomes. In this paper, we presen…

cs.LG2025

Breaking Silos: Adaptive Model Fusion Unlocks Better Time Series Forecasting

Zhining Liu, Ze Yang, Xiao Lin +6

Time-series forecasting plays a critical role in many real-world applications. Although increasingly powerful models have been developed and achieved superior results on benchmark…

cs.DC2025

Transforming the Hybrid Cloud for Emerging AI Workloads

Deming Chen, Alaa Youssef, Ruchi Pendse +42

This white paper, developed through close collaboration between IBM Research and UIUC researchers within the IIDAI Institute, envisions transforming hybrid cloud systems to meet th…

cs.LG2025

ClimateBench-M: A Multi-Modal Climate Data Benchmark with a Simple Generative Method

Dongqi Fu, Yada Zhu, Zhining Liu +10

Climate science studies the structure and dynamics of Earth's climate system and seeks to understand how climate changes over time, where the data is usually stored in the format o…