VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Chengqi Zang
dblp:380/2669
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3ranked-venue papers
0as 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 · 2 · 2 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 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
2 papers |
Generative modeling · 67% Language models and text generation · 26% Trustworthy machine learning · 8% | |
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design · 100% | |
| Computer graphics and multimedia
1 paper |
Image and video processing · 100% |
Topics — the 6 heaviest of 7, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › decoding
decoding strategy |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | From Self-Check to Consensus: Bayesian Strategic Decoding in Large Language Models · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling
diffusion model |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Stability and Generalizability in SDE Diffusion Models with Measure-Preserving Dynamics · NeurIPS 2024 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model
inverse problem solving |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Stability and Generalizability in SDE Diffusion Models with Measure-Preserving Dynamics · NeurIPS 2024 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model › score-based generative model
stochastic differential equation diffusion model |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Stability and Generalizability in SDE Diffusion Models with Measure-Preserving Dynamics · NeurIPS 2024 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › verification
self-verification |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | From Self-Check to Consensus: Bayesian Strategic Decoding in Large Language Models · NeurIPS 2025 |
Image and video processing
image restoration |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | Stability and Generalizability in SDE Diffusion Models with Measure-Preserving Dynamics · NeurIPS 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
game theory · 1.7bayesian decoding · 1.7score-based diffusion · 1.5random dynamical systems · 1.5measure-preserving dynamics · 1.5
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Multi-agent Reasoning for Cardiovascular Imaging Phenotype Analysis
Mengyun Qiao, Chengqi Zang, Steven A. Niederer, Paul M. Matthews, Wenjia Bai, Bernhard Kainz |
MICCAI (1) | 3 |
| 2025 | From Self-Check to Consensus: Bayesian Strategic Decoding in Large Language ModelsabstractLarge Language Models exhibit logical inconsistency across multi-turn inference processes, undermining correctness in complex inferential tasks. Challenges arise from ensuring that outputs align with both factual correctness and human intent. Approaches like single-agent reflection and multi-agent debate frequently prioritize consistency, but at the expense of accuracy.
To address this problem, we propose a novel game-theoretic consensus mechanism that enables LLMs to self-check their outputs during the decoding stage of output generation. Our method models the decoding process as a multistage Bayesian Decoding Game, where strategic interactions dynamically converge to a consensus on the most reliable outputs without human feedback or additional training. Remarkably, our game design allows smaller models to outperform much larger models through game mechanisms (e.g., 78.1 LLaMA13B vs. 76.6 PaLM540B). As a model-agnostic method, our approach consistently improves even the latest models, enhancing DeepSeek-7B's performance on MMLU by 12.4%. Our framework effectively balances correctness and consistency, demonstrating that properly designed game-theoretic mechanisms can significantly enhance the self-verification capabilities of language models across various tasks and model architectures. Chengqi Zang, Bernhard Kainz |
NeurIPS | 2 |
| 2024 | Stability and Generalizability in SDE Diffusion Models with Measure-Preserving DynamicsabstractInverse problems describe the process of estimating the causal factors from a set of measurements or data.
Mapping of often incomplete or degraded data to parameters is ill-posed, thus data-driven iterative solutions are required, for example when reconstructing clean images from poor signals.
Diffusion models have shown promise as potent generative tools for solving inverse problems due to their superior reconstruction quality and their compatibility with iterative solvers. However, most existing approaches are limited to linear inverse problems represented as Stochastic Differential Equations (SDEs). This simplification falls short of addressing the challenging nature of real-world problems, leading to amplified cumulative errors and biases.
We provide an explanation for this gap through the lens of measure-preserving dynamics of Random Dynamical Systems (RDS) with which we analyse Temporal Distribution Discrepancy and thus introduce a theoretical framework based on RDS for SDE diffusion models. We uncover several strategies that inherently enhance the stability and generalizability of diffusion models for inverse problems and introduce a novel score-based diffusion framework, the Dynamics-aware SDE Diffusion Generative Model (D^3GM). The Measure-preserving property can return the degraded measurement to the original state despite complex degradation with the RDS concept of stability.
Our extensive experimental results corroborate the effectiveness of D^3GM across multiple benchmarks including a prominent application for inverse problems, magnetic resonance imaging. Chengqi Zang, Liu Li 0001, Sarah Cechnicka, Cheng Ouyang, Bernhard Kainz |
NeurIPS | 2 |