VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Dongwen Tang
dblp:384/8704
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 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 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 |
Efficient and distributed learning · 43% Transfer learning and domain adaptation · 19% Generative modeling · 19% |
Topics — the 6 heaviest of 6, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Generative modeling
diffusion model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Scaling Up Parameter Generation: A Recurrent Diffusion Approach · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning
model compression |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Scaling Up Parameter Generation: A Recurrent Diffusion Approach · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Learning theory › neural network theory
neural network parameterization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Scaling Up Parameter Generation: A Recurrent Diffusion Approach · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning
parameter-efficient fine-tuning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Drag-and-Drop LLMs: Zero-Shot Prompt-to-Weights · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Transfer learning and domain adaptation › domain adaptation › low-resource domain adaptation
zero-shot domain adaptation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Drag-and-Drop LLMs: Zero-Shot Prompt-to-Weights · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning › parameter-efficient fine-tuning
low-rank adaptation |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Scaling Up Parameter Generation: A Recurrent Diffusion Approach · NeurIPS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
tokenization of parameters · 0.9text encoder · 0.9recurrent diffusion · 0.9prototype conditioning · 0.9hyper-convolutional decoder · 0.9LoRA · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Drag-and-Drop LLMs: Zero-Shot Prompt-to-WeightsabstractModern Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods such as low-rank adaptation (LoRA) reduce the cost of customizing large language models (LLMs), yet still require a separate optimization run for every downstream dataset. We introduce \textbf{Drag-and-Drop LLMs (\textit{DnD})}, a prompt-conditioned parameter generator that eliminates per-task training by mapping a handful of unlabeled task prompts directly to LoRA weight updates. A lightweight text encoder distills each prompt batch into condition embeddings, which are then transformed by a cascaded hyper-convolutional decoder into the full set of LoRA matrices. Once trained in a diverse collection of
prompt-checkpoint pairs, DnD produces task-specific parameters in seconds, yielding i) up to
\textbf{12,000$\times$} lower overhead than full fine-tuning, ii) average gains up to \textbf{30\%} in performance over the strongest training LoRAs on unseen common-sense reasoning, math, coding, and multimodal benchmarks, and iii) robust cross-domain generalization improving \textbf{40\%} performance without access to the target data or labels. Our results demonstrate that prompt-conditioned parameter generation is a viable alternative to gradient-based adaptation for rapidly specializing LLMs.
We open source \href{https://jerryliang24.github.io/DnD}{our project} in support of future research. Zhiyuan Liang, Dongwen Tang, Yuhao Zhou 0004, Xuanlei Zhao, Mingjia Shi, Wangbo Zhao, Peihao Wang, Konstantin Schürholt, Damian Borth, Michael M. Bronstein, Yang You 0001, Zhangyang Wang, Kai Wang 0036 |
NeurIPS | 2 |
| 2025 | Scaling Up Parameter Generation: A Recurrent Diffusion ApproachabstractParameter generation has long struggled to match the scale of today's large vision and language models, curbing its broader utility. In this paper, we introduce Recurrent Diffusion for Large-Scale Parameter Generation (RPG), a novel framework that generates full neural network parameters—up to hundreds of millions—on a single GPU. Our approach first partitions a network's parameters into non-overlapping 'tokens', each corresponding to a distinct portion of the model. A recurrent mechanism then learns the inter-token relationships, producing 'prototypes' which serve as conditions for a diffusion process that ultimately synthesizes the full parameters. Across a spectrum of architectures and tasks—including ResNets, ConvNeXts and ViTs on ImageNet-1K and COCO, and even LoRA-based LLMs—RPG achieves performance on par with fully trained networks while avoiding excessive memory overhead. Notably, it generalizes beyond its training set to generate valid parameters for previously unseen tasks, highlighting its flexibility in dynamic and open-ended scenarios. By overcoming the longstanding memory and scalability barriers, RPG serves as a critical advance in 'AI generating AI', potentially enabling efficient weight generation at scales previously deemed infeasible. Kai Wang 0036, Dongwen Tang, Wangbo Zhao, Konstantin Schürholt, Zhangyang Wang, Yang You 0001 |
NeurIPS | 2 |