Publications

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Peer-reviewed publications

FairGen: Preference-Aligned Diffusion for Demographically Equitable Medical Image Synthesis Permalink

npj Digital Medicine, 2026

Authors: Zhimin Li, Ruichen Zhang, Zhen Tan, Howard J. Aizenstein, Jingtong Hu, and Tianlong Chen (equal contribution)

Recommended citation: Zhimin Li*, Ruichen Zhang*, Zhen Tan*, Howard J. Aizenstein, Jingtong Hu, and Tianlong Chen (*equal contribution). FairGen: Preference-Aligned Diffusion for Demographically Equitable Medical Image Synthesis. npj Digital Medicine, 2026.
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AyE-Edge: Automated Deployment Space Search Empowering Accuracy yet Efficient Real-Time Object Detection on the Edge Permalink

ICCAD 2024

Authors: Chao Wu, Yifan Gong, Liangkai Liu, Mengquan Li, Yushu Wu, Xuan Shen, Zhimin Li, Geng Yuan, Weisong Shi, and Yanzhi Wang

Recommended citation: Chao Wu, Yifan Gong, Liangkai Liu, Mengquan Li, Yushu Wu, Xuan Shen, Zhimin Li, Geng Yuan, Weisong Shi, and Yanzhi Wang. AyE-Edge: Automated Deployment Space Search Empowering Accuracy yet Efficient Real-Time Object Detection on the Edge. ICCAD 2024.
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Digital Avatars: Framework Development and Their Evaluation Permalink

IJCAI 2024 Demo Track

Authors: Timothy Rupprecht, Sung-En Chang, Yushu Wu, Lei Lu, Enfu Nan, Chih-hsiang Li, Caiyue Lai, Zhimin Li, Zhijun Hu, Yumei He, David Kaeli, and Yanzhi Wang

Recommended citation: Timothy Rupprecht, Sung-En Chang, Yushu Wu, Lei Lu, Enfu Nan, Chih-hsiang Li, Caiyue Lai, Zhimin Li, Zhijun Hu, Yumei He, David Kaeli, and Yanzhi Wang. Digital Avatars: Framework Development and Their Evaluation. IJCAI 2024 Demo Track.
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Scalable Data Management on Hybrid Memory System for Deep Neural Network Applications Permalink

IEEE Big Data 2021

Authors: Wei Rang, Donglin Yang, Zhimin Li, and Dazhao Cheng

Recommended citation: Wei Rang, Donglin Yang, Zhimin Li, and Dazhao Cheng. Scalable Data Management on Hybrid Memory System for Deep Neural Network Applications. IEEE Big Data 2021.
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SAGE: Efficient Protected Vision-Language Inference on Smart Glasses Permalink

arXiv:2610.14089; under review at ICLR 2027

Authors: Zhimin Li, Pan Wang, Jingxian Chen, Yuantao Tang, Qian Lou, and Jingtong Hu

Recommended citation: Zhimin Li, Pan Wang, Jingxian Chen, Yuantao Tang, Qian Lou, and Jingtong Hu. SAGE: Efficient Protected Vision-Language Inference on Smart Glasses. arXiv:2610.14089; under review at ICLR 2027.
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Defending Wearable VLMs Against Private Attribute Inference Permalink

arXiv:2608.28691; under review at ICLR 2027

Authors: Zhimin Li, Pan Wang, Jingxian Chen, Yuantao Tang, Anthony Chen, Qian Lou, and Jingtong Hu

Recommended citation: Zhimin Li, Pan Wang, Jingxian Chen, Yuantao Tang, Anthony Chen, Qian Lou, and Jingtong Hu. Defending Wearable VLMs Against Private Attribute Inference. arXiv:2608.28691; under review at ICLR 2027.
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Safety-Aware Differentiable DNN Search for CPS Perception

Manuscript under review

Authors: Jingxian Chen, Shengjie Xu, Zhimin Li, Pan Wang, Samarjit Chakraborty, and Jingtong Hu

Recommended citation: Jingxian Chen, Shengjie Xu, Zhimin Li, Pan Wang, Samarjit Chakraborty, and Jingtong Hu. Safety-Aware Differentiable DNN Search for CPS Perception. Manuscript under review.

Think Before You Compute: Adaptive Budgeting and Compression for Efficient MoE-Based Multimodal Learning

Manuscript under review

Authors: Pan Wang, Jie Peng, Zhimin Li, Jingxian Chen, Hui Ji, Huanrui Yang, Pengfei Zhou, Tianlong Chen, and Jingtong Hu

Recommended citation: Pan Wang, Jie Peng, Zhimin Li, Jingxian Chen, Hui Ji, Huanrui Yang, Pengfei Zhou, Tianlong Chen, and Jingtong Hu. Think Before You Compute: Adaptive Budgeting and Compression for Efficient MoE-Based Multimodal Learning. Manuscript under review.