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Jinghui Zhang

Hello! I am Jinghui Zhang (张景辉), currently a first-year Ph.D student in NLP department at MBZUAI, fortunately advised by Prof. Xiuying Chen and co-advised by Prof. Kentaro Inui. I received my Bachelor's degree from Shandong University in 2025, advised by Prof. Pengwei Wang.

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Contact: jinghui.zhang (at) mbzuai (dot) ac (dot) ae

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Education


MBZUAI Ph.D Student in Natural Language Processing
NLP Department, MBZUAI		 Aug. 2025 - Present
Abu Dhabi, UAE
SDU B.Eng., EECS
School of Information Science & Technology, Shandong University		 Sept. 2021 - June 2025
Qingdao, China

Experience


NLP Department, MBZUAI
Research Intern, Supervisor: Prof. Xiuying Chen		 Sept. 2024 - July 2025
AITechLab, Shandong University
Research Assistant, Supervisor: Prof. Pengwei Wang		 Dec. 2023 - June 2025

Research

I am interested in Personalization and Interpretability, and I'd be happy to discuss various topics not limited to these areas!

Selected Publications

From Individuals to Crowds: Dual-Level Public Response Prediction in Social Media

Paper preview for From Individuals to Crowds

Jinghui Zhang, Kaiyang Wan, Longwei Xu, Ao Li, Zongfang Liu, Xiuying Chen

ACM MM 2025

Proposed a personalized response prediction framework with PAC-LoRA, enabling user-specific comment generation while modeling crowd-level sentiment trends.

The Cylindrical Representation Hypothesis for Language Model Steering

Lang Gao*, Jinghui Zhang*, Wei Liu, Fengxian Ji, Chenxi Wang, Zirui Song, Akash Ghosh, Youssef Mohamed, Preslav Nakov, Xiuying Chen

ICML 2026

Introduced CRH, a cylindrical geometric model to explain instability in activation steering, and empirically verified its sample-specific structure across models, concepts, and steering methods.

TransPrune: Token Transition Pruning for Efficient Large Vision-Language Model

Paper preview for TransPrune

Ao Li, Yuxiang Duan, Jinghui Zhang, Congbo Ma, Yutong Xie, Gustavo Carneiro, Mohammad Yaqub, Hu Wang

CVPR 2026

TransPrune is a training-free token pruning method that combines Token Transition Variation with instruction-guided attention to reduce LVLM inference cost by over 50% with comparable performance.

Modeling Variants of Prompts for Vision-Language Models

Ao Li, Zongfang Liu, Xinhua Li, Jinghui Zhang, Pengwei Wang, Hu Wang

ICASSP 2026

EmoVerse: Exploring Multimodal Large Language Models for Sentiment and Emotion Understanding

Ao Li, Longwei Xu, Chen Ling, Jinghui Zhang, Pengwei Wang

Neurocomputing

Preprints

M3MAD-Bench: Are Multi-Agent Debates Really Effective Across Domains and Modalities?

Paper preview for M3MAD-Bench

Ao Li*, Jinghui Zhang*, Luyu Li, Yuxiang Duan, Lang Gao, Mingcai Chen, Weijun Qin, Shaopeng Li, Fengxian Ji, Ning Liu, Lizhen Cui, Xiuying Chen, Yuntao Du

M3MAD-Bench is a standardized multimodal benchmark for assessing multi-agent debate methods across domains, modalities, and performance-cost trade-offs.

Honors & Awards


ACM Student Travel Grant, ACM MM 2025
Sept. 2025
Distinguished Undergraduate Thesis, Shandong University
June 2025
Second Prize, Shandong Province College Student Mathematics Competition
Dec. 2022
First Prize, MathorCup Mathematical Modeling Challenge Competition
Apr. 2024
Academic Scholarship, Shandong University
Sept. 2022 & 2023 & 2024

Miscellanea
Here are some pics of places I love: my gallery. I probably won't update it often cuz I just post new stuff on a whim when I'm free...
As a cat person I can't help but share my feline friends :D
Night view in Qingdao

Hi 2025
Night at Qingdao, where the city lights embraced the ocean breeze

Two cats together

Two Brothers
Captured a sweet moment of inseparable companions

Welcome to my website :)



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