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Zihan Zhou 0024
dblp:00/6525-24
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3ranked-venue papers
2as first author
3since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 3 · 2 first-author · 3 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
3 papers |
Generative modeling · 47% Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning · 41% Deep learning architectures and training · 12% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Bioinformatics and computational biology · 100% |
Topics — the 9 heaviest of 9, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Generative modeling
autoregressive model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | TEMPO: Temporal Multi-scale Autoregressive Generation of Protein Conformational Ensembles · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling
diffusion model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Generating Physical Dynamics under Priors · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model
physics-informed diffusion model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Generating Physical Dynamics under Priors · ICLR 2025 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology
protein dynamics |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | TEMPO: Temporal Multi-scale Autoregressive Generation of Protein Conformational Ensembles · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning
continuous-time model |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Learning to Decouple Complex Systems · ICML 2023 |
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning
dynamical system |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Learning to Decouple Complex Systems · ICML 2023 |
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › structured models
latent variable model |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Learning to Decouple Complex Systems · ICML 2023 |
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training
sequence modeling |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Learning to Decouple Complex Systems · ICML 2023 |
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning
hierarchical modeling |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | TEMPO: Temporal Multi-scale Autoregressive Generation of Protein Conformational Ensembles · NeurIPS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
markov process · 1.7hierarchical autoregressive modeling · 1.7energy conservation · 0.9diffusion model · 0.9PDE constraints · 0.9projected differential equations · 0.7bregman divergence · 0.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Generating Physical Dynamics under PriorsabstractGenerating physically feasible dynamics in a data-driven context is challenging, especially when adhering to physical priors expressed in specific equations or formulas. Existing methodologies often overlook the integration of ''physical priors'', resulting in violation of basic physical laws and suboptimal performance. In this paper, we introduce a novel framework that seamlessly incorporates physical priors into diffusion-based generative models to address this limitation. Our approach leverages two categories of priors: 1) distributional priors, such as roto-translational invariance, and 2) physical feasibility priors, including energy and momentum conservation laws and PDE constraints. By embedding these priors into the generative process, our method can efficiently generate physically realistic dynamics, encompassing trajectories and flows. Empirical evaluations demonstrate that our method produces high-quality dynamics across a diverse array of physical phenomena with remarkable robustness, underscoring its potential to advance data-driven studies in AI4Physics. Our contributions signify a substantial advancement in the field of generative modeling, offering a robust solution to generate accurate and physically consistent dynamics. Zihan Zhou 0024, Tianshu Yu 0001 |
ICLR | 1 |
| 2025 | TEMPO: Temporal Multi-scale Autoregressive Generation of Protein Conformational EnsemblesabstractUnderstanding the dynamic behavior of proteins is critical to elucidating their functional mechanisms, yet generating realistic, temporally coherent trajectories of protein ensembles remains a significant challenge. In this work, we introduce a novel hierarchical autoregressive framework for modeling protein dynamics that leverages the intrinsic multi-scale organization of molecular motions. Unlike existing methods that focus on generating static conformational ensembles or treat dynamic sampling as an independent process, our approach characterizes protein dynamics as a Markovian process. The framework employs a two-scale architecture: a low-resolution model captures slow, collective motions driving major conformational transitions, while a high-resolution model generates detailed local fluctuations conditioned on these large-scale movements. This hierarchical design ensures that the causal dependencies inherent in protein dynamics are preserved, enabling the generation of temporally coherent and physically realistic trajectories. By bridging high-level biophysical principles with state-of-the-art generative modeling, our approach provides an efficient framework for simulating protein dynamics that balances computational efficiency with physical accuracy. Yaoyao Xu, Zihan Zhou 0024, Tianshu Yu 0001, Mingchen Chen |
NeurIPS | 3 |
| 2023 | Learning to Decouple Complex SystemsabstractA complex system with cluttered observations may be a coupled mixture of multiple simple sub-systems corresponding to latent entities. Such sub-systems may hold distinct dynamics in the continuous-time domain; therein, complicated interactions between sub-systems also evolve over time. This setting is fairly common in the real world but has been less considered. In this paper, we propose a sequential learning approach under this setting by decoupling a complex system for handling irregularly sampled and cluttered sequential observations. Such decoupling brings about not only subsystems describing the dynamics of each latent entity but also a meta-system capturing the interaction between entities over time. Specifically, we argue that the meta-system evolving within a simplex is governed by projected differential equations (ProjDEs). We further analyze and provide neural-friendly projection operators in the context of Bregman divergence. Experimental results on synthetic and real-world datasets show the advantages of our approach when facing complex and cluttered sequential data compared to the state-of-the-art. Zihan Zhou 0024, Tianshu Yu 0001 |
ICML | 1 |