Ming-Liang Zhang (张明亮)

PhD Student

State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems (MAIS),
Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA)

About me

I am a AI PhD student at CASIA. My supervisor is Professor Cheng-Lin Liu.
My research interests include Mathmatical Question Answering, Multimodal Reasoning, Scene Parsing etc.

News

[02/2024] One co-author paper is submitted to Preprint

[11/2023] One first-author paper is submitted to Preprint

[06/2023] Glad and honored to join Baidu as a research intern

[04/2023] One first-author paper accepted by IJCAI-23

[11/2022] One first-author paper accepted to the 2nd MATH-AI Workshop at NeurIPS 2022

[09/2022] One first-author paper accepted by Journal of Pattern Recognition

[07/2022] One co-author paper accepted by ICPR-22

[04/2022] One first-author paper accepted by IJCAI-22

[12/2021] Pleased to join SenseTime as a research intern

Education

Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) Sep. 2018 - Jan. 2024

PhD in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems
China, Beijing

Hefei University of Technology (HFUT) Sep. 2014 - Jul. 2018

B.E. in Information and Computing Science
China, Hefei

Selected Publications

GeoEval: Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs and Multi-Modal Models on Geometry Problem-Solving
Jiaxin Zhang, Zhong-Zhi Li, Ming-Liang Zhang, Fei Yin, Cheng-Lin Liu, Yashar Moshfeghi
Submitted to Preprint. [Paper]
LANS: A Layout-Aware Neural Solver for Plane Geometry Problem
Ming-Liang Zhang, Zhong-Zhi Li, Fei Yin and Cheng-Lin Liu
Submitted to Preprint. [Paper]
A Multi-Modal Neural Geometric Solver with Textual Clauses Parsed from Diagram
Ming-Liang Zhang, Fei Yin and Cheng-Lin Liu
Accepted by the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-23). [Paper][Code][Dataset]
Learning to Understand Plane Geometry Diagram
Ming-Liang Zhang, Fei Yin, Yi-Han Hao and Cheng-Lin Liu
Accepted by the 2nd MATH-AI Workshop at NeurIPS 2022. [Paper][Video]
Towards prior gap and representation gap for long-tailed recognition
Ming-Liang Zhang, Xu-Yao Zhang, Chuang Wang, Cheng-Lin Liu
Accepted by the Journal of Pattern Recognition. [Paper]
PGDP5K: A Diagram Parsing Dataset for Plane Geometry Problems
Yihan Hao, Ming-Liang Zhang, Fei Yin and Lin-Lin Huang
Accepted by the 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR-22). [Paper]
Plane Geometry Diagram Parsing
Ming-Liang Zhang, Fei Yin, Yi-Han Hao and Cheng-Lin Liu
Accepted by the 31nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-22). [Paper][Code][Dataset][Video]

Selected Competition

CVPR 2020 workshop: AliProducts Challenge: Large-scale Product Recognition
Ming-Liang Zhang, Baole Wei and Yirong Yang
Team Name: UCASTAR
Ranking: 5 / 688 [Report][Code]
CCF 2019 Big Data & Computing Intelligence Contest: ID Card Elements Extraction based on OCR
Ming-Liang Zhang, Baole Wei, Chen Du and Jingzhong Jiang
Team Name: 民间 baseline
Ranking: 5 / 1727 [Report]
2017 America Mathematical Contest In Modeling (MCM)
Yujie Sun, Mingliang Zhang and Teng Sun
Faculty Advisor: Xianfa Jiao
Ranking: Meritorious Winner (for top 5% teams)

Experience

Internship | Baidu Search Strategy Lab

Advisor: Lingyong Yan
Jun. 2023 - Sep. 2023, Beijing, China

Teaching Assistant | UCAS, School of Artificial Intelligence
Advisor: Prof. Cheng-Lin Liu
Pattern recognition 22-23 Autumn, 081100M01001H
Sep. 2022 - Jan. 2023, Beijing, China

Internship | SenseTime AI Lab
Advisor: Yichao Wu
Dec. 2021 - Feb. 2022, Beijing, China

Visiting Student | CASIA
Advisor: Prof. Chunheng Wang
The State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems
Feb. 2018 - Jun. 2018, Beijing, China

Academic Service

Reviewer, IEEE Trans. Image Processing

Reviewer, PRCV 2022/2023

Reviewer, International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR)

Selected Honors

Ruwei Dai Scholarship, 2023

Outstanding Undergraduate, Anhui, 2018

National Scholarship (for top 1% students), 2016

National Scholarship (for top 1% students), 2015