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Sheng Zhang - UMD/MBZUAI
Sheng Zhang
I am a second-year CS Ph.D. student at University of Maryland College Park .
My current research focuses on experiential autonomous agents that can evolve at real time by leveraging past, accumulated experience through dynamically-structured memory systems as the primary substrate, inspired by Suttonâs call for an âera of experienceâ.
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GenFlowRL: Shaping Rewards with Generative Object-Centric Flow in Visual Reinforcement Learning
Kelin Yu* , Sheng Zhang * , Harshit Soora, Furong Huang , Heng Huang , Pratap Tokekar , Ruohan Gao
ICCV 2025, ICRA FMNS Workshop 2025 ( Spotlight, Best Paper Nomination )
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Towards Realistic Zero-Shot Classification via Self Structural Semantic Alignment
Sheng Zhang , Muzammal Naseer, Guangyi Chen, Zhiqiang Shen, Salman Khan, Kun Zhang, Fahad Khan
AAAI 2024 (Oral Presentation )
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arXiv
PromptCAL: Contrastive Affinity Learning via Auxiliary Prompts for Generalized Novel Category Discovery
Sheng Zhang , Salman Khan, Zhiqiang Shen, Muzammal Naseer, Guangyi Chen, Fahad Khan
CVPR 2023
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Reviewer for NIPS 2025
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Reviewer for NIPS 2024 (Registration Awards, Top 8% Reviewer )
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