Junyan Li

I am currently a third-year PhD student in computer science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, working with Prof. Chuang Gan. Previously, I was an undergraduate at Zhejiang University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

My research interest lies in foundation models and its efficiency.

🔥 News

📝 Publications

ICLR2024

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CoVLM: Composing Visual Entities and Relationships in Large Language Models Via Communicative Decoding

Junyan Li, Delin Chen, Yining Hong, Zhenfang Chen, Peihao Chen, Yikang Shen, Chuang Gan

  • CoVLM is specifically designed to guide the VLM to explicitly compose visual entities and relationships among the text and dynamically communicate with the vision encoder and detection network to achieve vision-language communicative decoding. It boosts the compositional reasoning ability of VLMs and achieve SoTA performance on various tasks involving compositional analysis.

ICCV2023

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EfficientViT: Lightweight Multi-Scale Attention for On-Device Semantic Segmentation

Han Cai, Junyan Li, Muyan Hu, Chuang Gan, Song Han

  • EfficientViT is a new family of vision models for efficient high-resolution vision, especially segmentation. The core building block of EfficientViT is a new lightweight multi-scale attention module that achieves global receptive field and multi-scale learning with only hardware-efficient operations.

KDD2023

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Constraint-aware and Ranking-distilled Token Pruning for Efficient Transformer Inference

Junyan Li, Li Lyna Zhang, Jiahang Xu, Yujing Wang, Shaoguang Yan, Yunqing Xia, Yuqing Yang, Ting Cao, Hao Sun, Weiwei Deng, Qi Zhang, Mao Yang

  • ToP is a deployment friendly token pruning solution for Transformers.

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2022.11 Zhejiang Provincial Scholarship
  • 2022.11 Zhejiang University Second Scholarship
  • 2020.11 Zhejiang University Second Scholarship

📖 Educations

  • 2023.09 - (now), PhD, computer science, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
  • 2019.09 - 2023.06, Undergraduate, computer engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
  • 2019.09 - 2023.06, Undergraduate, computer engineering, Zhejiang University.

💻 Internships