Bingchen Zhao  

I am a Ph.D student at the University of Edinburgh, supervised by Dr Oisin Mac Aodha.
I am interested in Concept/Category Discovery, Self-Supervised Learning, and Interpretable AI.
Please feel free to drop me an email if you are interested in what I do and looking for possible collaborations.


Contact: zhaobc.gm@gmail.com

News
02/2024 One paper accepted by CVPR 2024, my first CVPR paper!
01/2024 One paper accepted by ICLR 2024 as Spotlight!, see you in Vienna!
03/2023 Our 2nd OOD-CV workshop is accepted at ICCV, stay tuned for more details, see you in Paris!
10/2022 Recognised as a Top Reviewer for NeurIPS 2022!.
07/2022 Two papers accepted by ECCV 2022 with one selected as Oral!.
04/2022 We are organizing a workshop at ECCV 2022, check it out here.
09/2021 One paper accepted into NeurIPS 2021!
07/2021 One paper accepted into ICCV 2021 as Oral!
09/2019 - 05/2022 I am working as a teaching assistant for Prof. Yin Wang's Deep Learning Course at Tongji University.
Publications
Preprints / Recent Papers
What If the TV Was Off? Examining Counterfactual Reasoning Abilities of Multi-modal Language Models
Letian Zhang, Xiaotong Zhai, Zhongkai Zhao, Yongshuo Zong, Xin Wen, Bingchen Zhao
arXiv / Code / Page
CVPR 2024
TL;DR: Vision-Language Models cannot handle counterfactual questions very well.
Tuning LayerNorm in Attention: Towards Efficient Multi-Modal LLM Finetuning
Bingchen Zhao*, Haoqin Tu*, Chen Wei, Jieru Mei, Cihang Xie
arXiv
ICLR 2024 Spotlight
TL;DR: We explored a parameter efficient fine-tuning method that reduces the parameters by 10x than the LoRA fine-tuning while achieving similar performance.
How Many Unicorns Are in This Image? A Safety Evaluation Benchmark for Vision LLMs
Haoqin Tu*, Chenhang Cui*, Zijun Wang*, Yiyang Zhou, Bingchen Zhao, Junlin Han, Wangchunshu Zhou, Huaxiu Yao, Cihang Xie
arXiv / Code
Preprint
TL;DR: We provide the first comprehensive safety benchmark for VLLMs, including OOD scenarios and Redteaming attacks.
Vision Learners Meet Web Image-Text Pairs
Bingchen Zhao, Quan Cui, Hao Wu, Osamu Yoshie, Cheng Yang, Oisin Mac Aodha
arXiv / Website
Preprint
TL;DR: We present a visual representation pre-training method for scalable web image-text data and it achieves state-of-the-art performance on various tasks with promising scaling behavior.
Sight Beyond Text: Multi-Modal Training Enhances LLMs in Truthfulness and Ethics
Haoqin Tu*, Bingchen Zhao*, Chen Wei, Cihang Xie
arXiv / Code
Preprint
TL;DR: We present a surprising finding that multi-modal tuning improves LLMs in truthfulness and ethical behaviors.
Fool Your (Vision and) Language Model With Embarrassingly Simple Permutations
Yongshuo Zong, Tingyang Yu, Bingchen Zhao, Ruchika Chavhan, Timothy Hospedales
arXiv / Code
Preprint
TL;DR: We observed that a surprisingly simple answer permutation degrades performance of LLMs.
Conference Papers
Incremental Generalized Category Discovery
Bingchen Zhao, Oisin Mac Aodha
arXiv Code / Page
ICCV 2023
TL;DR: We propose a new setting named incremental generalized category discovery that requires the model to learn to discover novel categories at each new incremental stages, a simple baseline model is also proposed based on non-parametric classifiers.
Learning Semi-supervised Gaussian Mixture Models for Generalized Category Discovery
Bingchen Zhao, Xin Wen, Kai Han
arXiv / Code
ICCV 2023
TL;DR: We tackle GCD without knowing the class number, propose a semi-supervised variant of GMM with stochastic splitting and merging to dynamically determine prototypes, and leverage PCL for representation learning on partially labelled data.
Parametric Classification for Generalized Category Discovery: A Baseline Study
Xin Wen*, Bingchen Zhao*, Xiaojuan Qi
arXiv / Code
ICCV 2023
TL;DR: We revisit the reason that makes previous parametric classifiers fail to recognise new classes for GCD, identify the prediction biases between and within seen and novel classes as the key issue, and propose a simple yet strong framework that addresses these limitations and achieves state-of-the-art performance in this field.
XCon: Learning with Experts for Fine-grained Category Discovery
Yixin Fei, Zhongkai Zhao, Siwei Yang, Bingchen Zhao
arXiv / Slides / Code
BMVC 2022 Oral (34/770=4.4%)
TL;DR: Learning to do category discovery within a fine-grained dataset is challenging, we present a method that learn to do that by partition the dataset into k sub-groups, and show improved performance on several fine-grained datasets.
Self-Supervised Visual Representation Learning with Semantic Grouping
Xin Wen, Bingchen Zhao, Anlin Zheng, Xiangyu Zhang, Xiaojuan Qi
arXiv / Website / Code
NeurIPS 2022
TL;DR: Our model can do scene decomposition and representation learning at the same time and shows strong generalization ability pretrained on scene-centric data.
OOD-CV: A Benchmark for Robustness to Out-of-Distribution Shifts of Individual Nuisances in Natural Images
Bingchen Zhao, Shaozuo Yu, Wufei Ma, Mingxin Yu, Shenxiao Mei, Angtian Wang, Ju He, Alan Yuille, Adam Kortylewski.
arXiv / Website / Download / Slides
ECCV 2022 Oral (158/5803=2.7%)
TL;DR: We collected a dataset where we have the control over the individual OOD attribute in the test examples.
Discriminability-Transferability Trade-Off: An Information-Theoretic Perspective
Quan Cui*, Bingchen Zhao*, Zhao-Min Chen, Borui Zhao, Renjie Song, Jiajun Liang, Boyan Zhou, Osamu Yoshie.
arXiv / Code / Slides
ECCV 2022
TL;DR: We study the transferability and the discriminability of deep representations and found a trade-off between these two properties.
Novel Visual Category Discovery with Dual Ranking Statistics and Mutual Knowledge Distillation
Bingchen Zhao, Kai Han.
arXiv / Code / Slides
NeurIPS 2021
TL;DR: We extend novel category discovery to discover fine-grained classes by leverging information from image parts.
Improving Contrastive Learning by Visualizing Feature Transformation
Rui Zhu*, Bingchen Zhao*, Jingen Liu, Zhenglong Sun, Chang Wen Chen.
arXiv / Code / Slides
ICCV 2021 Oral (210/6236=3.4%)
TL;DR: We explore the training dynamics of self-supervised contrastive learning, and proposed two simple method for improving the performance of the model.
Temporal Context Aggregation for Video Retrieval with Contrastive Learning
Jie Shao*, Xin Wen*, Bingchen Zhao, Xiangyang Xue.
arXiv / Code / Slides
WACV 2021
TL;DR: Video retrieval methods can be improved by modeling long-range temporal information with transformer and contrastive learning.
Workshop Papers
One Venue, Two Conferences: The Separation of Chinese and American Citation Networks
Bingchen Zhao*, Yuling Gu*, Jessica Zosa Forde, Naomi Saphra
arXiv
NeurIPS 2022 AI Cultures Workshop
TL;DR: At NeurIPS, American and Chinese institutions cite papers from each other's regions substantially less than they cite endogamously. We build a citation graph to quantify this divide, compare it to European connectivity, and discuss the causes and consequences of the separation.
Distilling Visual Priors from Self-Supervised Learning
Bingchen Zhao, Xin Wen
arXiv / Code / Slides
ECCV 2020 VIPriors Workshop
TL;DR: Learning a model self-supervisedly and then do self-distillation helps in the data-deficient domain.
Awards
2022 Top-Reviewer for NeurIPS 2022.
2020 First-place in the FGVC7 workshop iWildcam challenge track.
2020 Second-place in the ECCV 2020 VIPrior workshop image classification challenge track.
2020 Best Undergraduate Prize in the NeurIPS 2020 SpaceNet 7 challenge.
2016 Bronze medal in the Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad.
2015 First Prize in the National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces.
Professional Services
  I have been a reviewer for ICLR, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, WACV, FGVC, and SIGSPATIAL.