Songyang Zhang
Young Scientist at Shanghai AI Laboratory, Shanghai, China.
I am a Young Scientist of Shanghai AI Laboratory, Large Model Center, collaborate with Dr. Kai Chen. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher, supervised by Prof. Dahua Lin. Currently, I lead a team working on foundation model, includes the research and open-source platform. My team to initiate the OpenCompass project, an evaluation and analysi platform for foundation model.
My team also contributes to the InternLM and InternVL, working on the research and open-source of large language model/vision-language model. We also developed OpenMMLab projects MMPreTrain.
I obtained Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Chinese Academy of Science(UCAS), in the joint program at PLUS Lab, ShanghaiTech Univeristy in 2022. I got my B.Sc. degree in 2017 from Beihang University.
Open positions include full-time researchers/engineers and interns, feel free to contact me through the email. Research directions include: Post-training and Alignment of LLMs/VLMs, Evaluation and Analysis of Foundation Model, Data-centric AI, etc.
News
| Sep 24, 2025 | I was honored to be inivited to serve as the area chair(AC) for ICLR 2026. Looking forward to an exciting conference! |
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| Aug 24, 2025 | 1 paper on long-context capability(NeedleBench) has been accepted by Transactions on Machine Learning Research(TMLR). |
| Aug 20, 2025 | CompassVerifier has been accepted by EMNLP 2025. |
| Aug 2, 2025 | Our paper “Capability Salience Vector: Fine-grained Alignment of Loss and Capabilities for Downstream Task Scaling Law” has been selected as Outstanding Paper Award of ACL 2025. |
| Jul 20, 2025 | 1 paper on RL for LLM(OREAL) has been accepted by COLM 2025. |
| Jun 29, 2025 | 1 paper on diffusion model for image generation accepted to ICCV 2025. |
| May 21, 2025 | 4 papers (2 main + 2 findings) have been accepted to ACL 2025. One of the papers has been selected as an oral presentation. |
| Dec 28, 2024 | I am honored to serve as the Area Chair (AC) for the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) in December 2024. |
| Dec 9, 2024 | We are excited to announce that one of our papers has been accepted for presentation at AAAI 2025! |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Three papers(2 conference papers and 1 DB track paper) are accepted by NeurIPS 2024! |
Selected Publications(Full List)
- ACLCapability Salience Vector: Fine-grained Alignment of Loss and Capabilities for Downstream Task Scaling LawIn Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025
- ACLAre Your LLMs Capable of Stable Reasoning?In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025
- ACLCondor: Enhance LLM Alignment with Knowledge-Driven Data Synthesis and RefinementIn Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025
- NeurIPSInternLM-XComposer2-4KHD: A Pioneering Large Vision-Language Model Handling Resolutions from 336 Pixels to 4K HDIn Proceeding of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
- EMNLPProSA: Assessing and Understanding the Prompt Sensitivity of LLMsIn Findings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2024
- ACLMathBench: Evaluating the Theory and Application Proficiency of LLMs with a Hierarchical Mathematics BenchmarkIn Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2024
- CVPRFrom Pixels to Graphs: Open-Vocabulary Scene Graph Generation with Vision-Language ModelsIn Proceeding of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
- T-PAMISGTR+: End-to-end Scene Graph Generation with TransformerIn IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2024
Awards
| ACL Outstanding Paper Award, 2025 |
| WAIC Yunfan Award Rising Star(15 AI researchers in total), 2024 |
| Webly-supervised Fine-grained Image Classification, Champion, ACCV 2022. [Code-P1][Code-P2][Certificate] |
| System Design Contest(SDC) ,Champion, DAC 2021 |
| LVIS Challenge, 2nd Place, ICCV 2021 |
| Workshop on Autonomous Driving(WAD) streaming detection challenge,Champion, CVPR 2021 |