Feng Hong

Feng Hong

PhD Candidate @ SJTU

About Me

I am a PhD candidate at Cooperative Medianet Innovation Center (CMIC), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), supervised by Prof. Jiangchao Yao, Prof. Ya Zhang and Prof. Yanfeng Wang.

I received my bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in June 2021. Prior to my university studies, I graduated from NO.1 Middle School Affiliated to Central China Normal University in June 2017.

My research interests include but are not limited to:

  • (Multi-modal) Large Language Models
  • Efficient Learning
  • Distributionally Robust Learning
  • Self-supervised and Weakly-supervised Learning

Internship Experience

Research Intern @ Microsoft Research Asia

Shanghai | Nov 2024 - May 2025 Mentor: Dr. Yifei Shen

Research Intern @ A*STAR Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR)

Singapore | Oct 2023 – Apr 2024 Advised by Dr. Yueming Lyu and Prof. Ivor W. Tsang

Selected Publications

For a full list of my publications, please see the dedicated publications page.

Learning to Instruct for Visual Instruction Tuning

Zhihan Zhou*, Feng Hong*, Jiaan Luo, Jiangchao Yao, Dongsheng Li, Bo Han, Ya Zhang, Yanfeng Wang Preprint 2025

Diversified Batch Selection for Training Acceleration

Feng Hong, Yueming Lyu, Jiangchao Yao, Ya Zhang, Ivor W Tsang, Yanfeng Wang ICML 2024

On Harmonizing Implicit Subpopulations

Feng Hong, Jiangchao Yao, Yueming Lyu, Zhihan Zhou, Ivor Tsang, Ya Zhang, Yanfeng Wang ICLR 2024

Revive Re-weighting in Imbalanced Learning by Density Ratio Estimation

Jiaan Luo*, Feng Hong*, Jiangchao Yao, Bo Han, Ya Zhang, Yanfeng Wang NeurIPS 2024

Long-Tailed Partial Label Learning via Dynamic Rebalancing

Feng Hong, Jiangchao Yao, Zhihan Zhou, Ya Zhang, Yanfeng Wang ICLR 2023

Combating Representation Learning Disparity with Geometric Harmonization

Zhihan Zhou, Jiangchao Yao, Feng Hong, Ya Zhang, Bo Han, Yanfeng Wang NeurIPS 2023 (Spotlight)

Bag of Tricks for Long-Tailed Multi-Label Classification on Chest X-Rays

Feng Hong*, Tianjie Dai*, Jiangchao Yao, Ya Zhang, Yanfeng Wang ICCVW 2023

Academic Service

I have had the privilege to serve as a reviewer for the following conferences and journals: