About Me 🌲
Hi, I am a third-year Ph.D. student at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), supervised by Dr. Dong Gong, Dr. Alan Blair, and Prof. Lina Yao. Before that, I received my MPhil degree from the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML), the University of Adelaide, supervised by A/Prof. Qi Wu and Dr. Yuankai Qi. I obtained my Bachelor’s degree from Beijing Jiaotong University, where I was advised by Prof. Runmin Cong.
My research interests lie in multimodal learning and continual learning, with a focus on continually improving LLMs/LVLMs to acquire new knowledge while mitigating forgetting. I am particularly interested in dynamic mixture of experts (Dynamic MoE) architectures and parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) for building scalable and adaptive LVLMs. My work also extends to vision-language pretraining, embodied AI, and multimodal reasoning.
Currently, I am exploring unified multimodal models (UMMs) that integrate visual understanding and generation.
News 🔥
May 2026MoRAM is accepted to ICML 2026. Congratulations to Jeff! Thanks to all collaborators!
Continual learning via incremental sparse Mixture of Rank-1 Associative Memory experts.Feb 2026DyMoE is accepted to CVPR 2026. Thanks to all collaborators!
“On Token’s Dilemma” — Continual learning Dynamic MoE for LVLMs w/ token-level filtering.Jun 2025SAME is accepted to ICCV 2025. Congratulations to Gengze! Thanks to all collaborators!
State-adaptive MoE for generic language-guided visual navigation.Dec 2024New preprint! Check CoDyRA on arXiv!
Dynamic rank-selective LoRA for knowledge retention in continual learning VLMs.Dec 2024New preprint! Check MambaCL on arXiv!
Meta-learning selective state space models (Mamba) for efficient continual learning.Dec 2023WebVLN is accepted to AAAI 2024. Thanks to all collaborators!
Vision-and-language navigation on shopping websites.Jul 2023MG-VLN is accepted to ACM MM 2023. Thanks to all collaborators!
Backtracking to passed correct locations via first-person video grounding for navigation.
Research 🌴
CVPRChongyang Zhao, Mingsong Li, Haodong Lu, Dong Gong
CVPR 2026
ICMLHaodong Lu, Chongyang Zhao, Jason Xue, Lina Yao, Kristen Moore, Dong Gong
ICML 2026
PreprintChongyang Zhao, Dong Gong
Preprint
PreprintHaodong Lu, Chongyang Zhao, Jason Xue, Lina Yao, Kristen Moore, Dong Gong
Preprint
ACM MMChongyang Zhao, Yuankai Qi, Qi Wu
ACM MM 2023
AAAIQi Chen*, Dileepa Pitawela*, Chongyang Zhao*, Gengze Zhou, Hsiang-Ting Chen, Qi Wu
AAAI 2024
ICCVGengze Zhou, Yicong Hong, Zun Wang, Chongyang Zhao, Mohit Bansal, Qi Wu
ICCV 2025
