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 Sutton’s call for an “era of experience”.
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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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arXiv
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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Academic Services
Reviewer for NIPS 2025
Reviewer for TMLR
Reviewer for ICML 2025
Reviewer for ICLR 2025
Reviewer for NIPS 2024 (Registration Awards, Top 8% Reviewer )
Volunteer at AAAI 2024
Reviewer for CVPR 2024
Reviewer for ACM Computing Surveys 2023
Reviewer for AISTATS 2024
Reviewer for ICCV-Workshop 2023
Volunteer at EMNLP 2023