About me

Greetings, I am Le Zhang, a Ph.D student at the Mila - Quebec AI Institute. Currently, I’m working with Prof. Aishwarya Agrawal in the domain of vision-language learning. Perviously, I obtained Bachelor degree from Fudan University.

Reaserach Interests

My research primarily centers around the domains of computer vision and multimodal learning. I am currently exploring representation learning from generative modeling and building unified generation&understanding MLLMs.

News and Updates 🎉

[May 2025] Honored to be selected as Outstanding Reviewer for CVPR 2025

[Mar 2025] One paper SAIL got accepted at CVPR 2025 Highlight [project]

[Sep 2024] Two papers accepted at NeurIPS 2024

[Sep 2024] One paper on Information Retrieval with Large Language Models accepted to EMNLP 2024 Findings

[May 2024] One paper on Graph Convolution and Contrastive Learning accepted to KDD 2024

[Feb 2024] One paper on vision-language compositional understanding accepted to CVPR 2024

[Dec 2023] One paper on zero-shot multimodal question answering accepted to EMNLP 2023 Findings

[Sep 2023] Started graduate study at Mila!

[Feb-Sep 2022] Research Intern at Shanghai AI Lab

[May 2022] Two papers accepted at NAACL 2022

Publications

Assessing and Learning Alignment of Unimodal Vision and Language Models (SAIL)
Le Zhang, Qian Yang, Aishwarya Agrawal
CVPR 2025 Highlight
Enhancing the Protein Tertiary Structure Prediction by Multiple Sequence Alignment Generation
Le Zhang, Jiayang Chen, Tao Shen, Yu Li, Siqi Sun.
NeurIPS 2024
VisMin: Visual Minimal-Change Understanding
Rabiul Awal*, Saba Ahmadi*, Le Zhang*, Aishwarya Agrawal
NeurIPS 2024
Exploring the Best Practices of Query Expansion with Large Language Models

Le Zhang, Qian Yang, Yihong Wu.
EMNLP 2024 findings
Unifying Graph Convolution and Contrastive Learning in Collaborative Filtering
Yihong Wu, Le Zhang, Fengran Mo, Tianyu Zhu, Weizhi Ma, Jian-Yun Nie
KDD 2024
Contrasting Intra-Modal and Ranking Cross-Modal Hard Negatives to Enhance Visio-Linguistic Compositional Understanding
Le Zhang, Rabiul Awal, Aishwarya Agrawal
CVPR 2024
MoqaGPT: Zero-Shot Multi-modal Open-domain Question Answering with Large Language Model
Le Zhang, Yihong Wu, Fengran Mo, Jian-Yun Nie, Aishwarya Agrawal.
EMNLP 2023 Findings
Investigating Prompting Techniques for Zero- and Few-Shot Visual Question Answering
Rabiul Awal, Le Zhang, Aishwarya Agrawal.
CVPR2024W Oral
SUBS: Subtree Substitution for Compositional Semantic Parsing
Jingfeng Yang*, Le Zhang*, Diyi Yang.
NAACL 2022
TreeMix: Compositional Constituency-based Data Augmentation for Natural Language Understanding
Le Zhang, Zichao Yang, Diyi Yang.
NAACL 2022

Services

Conference Reviewer: ACL 2023, EMNLP 2023, CVPR 2024, ARR 2024 Feb, Apr, June, ECCV 2024, Neurips 2024, CVPR 2025 (Outstanding Reviewer), ARR 2025, ICML 2025, Neurips 2025
Teaching Assistant: IFT 6765 - Links between Computer Vision and Language