Zizhao Hu

PhD student at USC/ISI.

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Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL)

941 Bloom Walk

Los Angeles, CA 90089

I am a CS Ph.D. student at USC, affiliated with the USC ISI MINDS group, and a former researcher at USC iLab. I have also worked at Georgia Tech’s Agile Systems Lab and Photonics Research Group.

My research focuses on VLMs, and multimodal learning, with current projects on adapting and aligning test-time foundation models.

My long-term goal is to develop efficient AGI to automate labor for EVERYONE and tackle humanity’s toughest engineering challenges, including quantum hardware design, aging and cancer solutions, and controllable fusion energy.

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Feb 15, 2025 Last Updated

selected publications

  1. Static Key Attention in Vision
    Zizhao Hu, Xiaolin Zhou, and Mohammad Rostami
    2024
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  2. Lateralization MLP: A Simple Brain-inspired Architecture for Diffusion
    Zizhao Hu, and Mohammad Rostami
    2024
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  3. Efficient Multimodal Diffusion Models Using Joint Data Infilling with Partially Shared U-Net
    Zizhao Hu, Shaochong Jia, and Mohammad Rostami
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.16488, 2023
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  4. Class-Incremental Learning Using Generative Experience Replay Based on Time-aware Regularization
    Zizhao Hu, and Mohammad Rostami
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.03898, 2023
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  5. GalilAI: Out-of-Task Distribution Detection using Causal Active Experimentation for Safe Transfer RL
    Sumedh A Sontakke, Stephen Iota, Zizhao Hu, and 3 more authors
    2021
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