About Me

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

E-mail: hfutqian@gmail.com

GitHub: github.com/hfutqian

Google Scholar Profile: [Google Scholar]

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Research Interests

Knowledge Distillation; Generative AI; Network Quantization; Model Compression; Computer Vision

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Education and Experiences

• 2025.06-present, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

• 2024.06-2025.04, Research Assistant, School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, China.

• 2018.09-2024.06, Ph.D. in Signal and Information Processing, School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, China.

• 2017.09-2018.06, Master in Signal and Information Processing, School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, China.

• 2013.09-2017.06, Bachelor in Electronic Information Engineering, School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, China.

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Recent Publications

• Unpacking the Gap Box Against Data-Free Knowledge Distillation.

  Yang Wang, Biao Qian, Haipeng Liu, Yong Rui, Meng Wang*.
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI). 2024.
  [Paper] [Code] [BibTeX]

  
  
  

• Adaptive Data-Free Quantization.

  Biao Qian, Yang Wang*, Richang Hong, Meng Wang.
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 2023: 7960-7968.
  [Paper] [Code] [BibTeX]

• Rethinking Data-Free Quantization as a Zero-Sum Game.

  Biao Qian, Yang Wang*, Richang Hong, Meng Wang.
  Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023: 9489-9497.
  [Paper] [Code] [BibTeX]

• Switchable Online Knowledge Distillation.

  Biao Qian, Yang Wang*, Hongzhi Yin, Richang Hong, Meng Wang.
  European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV). 2022: 449-466.
  [Paper] [Code] [BibTeX]

• Diversifying Inference Path Selection: Moving-Mobile-Network for Landmark Recognition.

  Biao Qian, Yang Wang*, Richang Hong, Meng Wang, Ling Shao.
  IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP), 2021, 30: 4894-4904.
  [Paper] [Code] [BibTeX]

• Structure Matters: Tackling the Semantic Discrepancy in Diffusion Models for Image Inpainting.

  Haipeng Liu, Yang Wang*, Biao Qian, Meng Wang, Yong Rui.
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 2024.
  [Paper] [Code] [BibTeX]

  
  
  

• Seeking False Hard Negatives for Graph Contrastive Learning.

  Xin Liu, Biao Qian, Haipeng Liu, Yang Wang, Meng Wang.
  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT). 2024.
  [Paper] [BibTeX]

  
  
  

• Fine-grained Cross-modal Fusion based Refinement for Text-to-Image Synthesis.

  Haoran Sun, Yang Wang*, Haipeng Liu, Biao Qian, Meng Wang.
  Chinese Journal of Electronics (2023).
  [Paper] [Code] [BibTeX]

  
  
  

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Invited Talks

• CVPR 2023 Poster Presentation of Accepted Paper (in person, June 2023)

  Title: Adaptive Data-Free Quantization.

  
  

• AAAI 2023 Oral Presentation of Accepted Paper (online, February 2023)

  Machine Learning: Learning on the Edge & Model Compression

  Title: Rethinking Data-Free Quantization as a Zero-Sum Game.

  
  

• AI TIME Youth PhD Talk for Accepted Papers by ECCV 2022 (online, June 2022)

  Title: Switchable Online Knowledge Distillation.

  Video: https://b23.tv/G62WhP6

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Academic Services

Conference Reviewers for

• The Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
• IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
• IEEE Conference on International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
• The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
• ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM)
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
• ACM SIGMM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval
• Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Journal Reviewers for

• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI)
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP)
• ACM Transactions on Information Systems (T-OIS)
• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and learning systems (T-NNLS)
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT)
• Computer Vision and Image Understanding
• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
• Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications

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