32 publications

  1. Technical report 2026World models

    Cosmos 3: Omnimodal World Models for Physical AI

    NVIDIA Cosmos team, including Haotian Zhang

    A unified world-model family that understands and generates language, images, video, audio, and actions for physical AI.

  2. ICLR 2026Multimodal models

    MANZANO: A Simple and Scalable Unified Multimodal Model with a Hybrid Vision Tokenizer

    Yanghao Li, Rui Qian, …, Haotian Zhang, et al.

    A hybrid vision tokenizer brings visual understanding and image generation into one scalable multimodal model.

  3. arXiv 2025GUI agents

    Ferret-UI Lite: Lessons from Building Small On-Device GUI Agents

    Zhen Yang, Zi-Yi Dou, …, Haotian Zhang, et al.

    A compact 3B GUI agent for mobile, web, and desktop, trained with diverse interaction data, visual tools, and reinforcement learning.

  4. Technical report 2025Multimodal models

    Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models: Tech Report 2025

    Apple foundation models team, including Haotian Zhang

    Technical report on the foundation language models behind Apple Intelligence.

  5. ICLR 2025GUI agents

    Ferret-UI 2: Mastering Universal User Interface Understanding Across Platforms

    Zhangheng Li, Keen You, Haotian Zhang, et al.

    Grounded UI understanding across phones, tablets, webpages, and TV screens through adaptive visual scaling and richer training data.

  6. ACL 2025Multimodal models

    Improve Vision Language Model Chain-of-thought Reasoning

    Ruohong Zhang, Bowen Zhang, …, Haotian Zhang, et al.

    Rationale distillation and preference optimization strengthen reasoning in vision-language models.

  7. ICLR 2025Multimodal models

    MM-Ego: Towards Building Egocentric Multimodal LLMs for Video QA

    Hanrong Ye, Haotian Zhang, et al.

    Data, evaluation, and memory-guided modeling for understanding long egocentric videos.

  8. ICML 2025Grounding

    Contrastive Localized Language-Image Pre-Training

    Hong-You Chen, Zhengfeng Lai, Haotian Zhang, et al.

    Region-text contrastive learning produces visual representations for fine-grained recognition, retrieval, and grounded multimodal understanding.

  9. ICLR 2025Vision-language learning

    Revisit Large-Scale Image-Caption Data in Pre-training Multimodal Foundation Models

    Zhengfeng Lai, Vasileios Saveris, …, Haotian Zhang, et al.

    A study of synthetic captions and original web text for pre-training contrastive, language, and diffusion models.

  10. ICLR 2025Multimodal models

    MM1.5: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Fine-tuning

    Haotian Zhang, Mingfei Gao, et al.

    Data and training recipes for multimodal models with stronger text-rich image understanding, grounding, and multi-image reasoning.

  11. COLM 2024Grounding

    Ferret-v2: An Improved Baseline for Referring and Grounding with Large Language Models

    Haotian Zhang, Haoxuan You, et al.

    High-resolution visual grounding and referring through flexible image resolution, richer visual features, and staged training.

  12. ECCV 2024GUI agents

    Ferret-UI: Grounded Mobile UI Understanding with Multimodal LLMs

    Keen You, Haotian Zhang, et al.

    Referring, grounding, and reasoning capabilities for understanding mobile user interfaces.

  13. ECCV 2024Multimodal models

    MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training

    Brandon McKinzie, Zhe Gan, …, Haotian Zhang, et al.

    A systematic study of architecture and data choices for scaling multimodal language-model pre-training.

  14. NeurIPS Workshop 2024Multimodal models

    How Easy is It to Fool Your Multimodal LLMs? An Empirical Analysis on Deceptive Prompts

    Yusu Qian, Haotian Zhang, Yinfei Yang, Zhe Gan

    An empirical evaluation of multimodal models under misleading visual questions and prompts.

  15. WACV 2024Vision-language learning

    Empowering Unsupervised Domain Adaptation With Large-Scale Pre-Trained Vision-Language Models

    Zhengfeng Lai, Haoping Bai, Haotian Zhang, et al.

    Efficient adaptation and domain-aware pseudo-labeling transfer large vision-language models across visual domains.

  16. ICLR 2024Grounding

    Ferret: Refer and Ground Anything Anywhere at Any Granularity

    Haoxuan You, Haotian Zhang, et al.

    A multimodal language model that connects conversational language with points, boxes, and free-form image regions.

  17. ECCV 2024Vision-language learning

    VeCLIP: Improving CLIP Training via Visual-enriched Captions

    Zhengfeng Lai, Haotian Zhang, et al.

    Visual-enriched caption rewriting improves image–text alignment and the data efficiency of CLIP pre-training.

  18. NeurIPS 2022Grounding

    GLIPv2: Unifying Localization and Vision-Language Understanding

    Haotian Zhang, Pengchuan Zhang, et al.

    One model connects object localization with vision-language tasks, from open-vocabulary detection to visual question answering.

  19. WACV Workshops 20223D perception and tracking

    DIOR: DIstill Observations to Representations for Multi-Object Tracking and Segmentation

    Jiarui Cai, Yizhou Wang, Hung-Min Hsu, Haotian Zhang, Jenq-Neng Hwang

    Spatial and temporal feature distillation supports joint multi-object tracking and segmentation.

  20. CVPR 2022Best Paper FinalistGrounding

    GLIP: Grounded Language-Image Pre-training

    Liunian Harold Li, Pengchuan Zhang, Haotian Zhang, et al.

    Unifying object detection and phrase grounding enables transferable, open-vocabulary visual recognition.

  21. ICCV Workshops 20213D perception and tracking

    Monocular 3D Localization of Vehicles in Road Scenes

    Haotian Zhang, Haorui Ji, Aotian Zheng, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Ren-Hung Hwang

    A monocular framework combines 3D detection, tracking, and temporal optimization to localize vehicles.

  22. ICCV BMTT Workshop 20213D perception and tracking

    U3D-MOLTS: Unified 3D Monocular Object Localization, Tracking and Segmentation

    Haotian Zhang, Yizhou Wang, et al.

    A unified pipeline for monocular 3D object localization, multi-object tracking, and segmentation.

  23. ICCV BMTT Workshop 20213D perception and tracking

    HVPS: A Human Video Panoptic Segmentation Framework

    Yizhou Wang, Haotian Zhang, et al.

    A human tracking and panoptic segmentation pipeline built around appearance features and temporal association.

  24. ACM ICMR 20213D perception and tracking

    ROD2021 Challenge: A Summary for Radar Object Detection Challenge for Autonomous Driving Applications

    Yizhou Wang, Jenq-Neng Hwang, …, Haotian Zhang, et al.

    Benchmark and challenge results for detecting road objects directly from radar observations.

  25. CVPR BMTT Workshop 20203D perception and tracking

    IA-MOT: Instance-Aware Multi-Object Tracking with Motion Consistency

    Jiarui Cai, Yizhou Wang, Haotian Zhang, Hung-Min Hsu, Chengqian Ma, Jenq-Neng Hwang

    Instance-level appearance and motion consistency help track objects across static and moving cameras.

  26. CVPR BMTT Workshop 20203D perception and tracking

    LIFTS: LiDAR and Monocular Image Fusion for Multi-Object Tracking and Segmentation

    Haotian Zhang, Yizhou Wang, Jiarui Cai, Hung-Min Hsu, Haorui Ji, Jenq-Neng Hwang

    Fusing LiDAR and monocular imagery supports object detection, tracking, and segmentation.

  27. IEEE TVT 20203D perception and tracking

    Bundle Adjustment for Monocular Visual Odometry Based on Detections of Traffic Signs

    Yanting Zhang, Haotian Zhang, Gaoang Wang, Jie Yang, Jenq-Neng Hwang

    Detected traffic signs constrain camera poses and map points to reduce monocular odometry drift.

  28. ACM Multimedia 20193D perception and tracking

    Eye in the Sky: Drone-Based Object Tracking and 3D Localization

    Haotian Zhang, Gaoang Wang, Zhichao Lei, Jenq-Neng Hwang

    Object tracking and 3D localization from video captured by a single camera on a drone.

  29. ICCV Workshops 20193D perception and tracking

    VisDrone-MOT2019: The Vision Meets Drone Multiple Object Tracking Challenge Results

    Longyin Wen, Pengfei Zhu, et al.

    Results and analysis from the VisDrone 2019 challenge on multi-object tracking in drone video.

  30. ICIP 20193D perception and tracking

    Bundle Adjustment for Monocular Visual Odometry Based on Detected Traffic Sign Features

    Yanting Zhang, Jie Yang, Haotian Zhang, Jenq-Neng Hwang

    Traffic-sign features provide additional geometric constraints for monocular visual odometry.

  31. ACM Multimedia 20193D perception and tracking

    Exploit the Connectivity: Multi-Object Tracking with TrackletNet

    Gaoang Wang, Yizhou Wang, Haotian Zhang, Renshu Gu, Jenq-Neng Hwang

    Learned connections between short tracklets combine appearance and temporal information for multi-object tracking.

  32. ACES-China 2017Earlier research

    Electro-thermal Simulation of Graphene Nanoribbon Interconnects

    Haotian Zhang, Min Tang, Jun-fa Mao

    Electrothermal modeling of graphene nanoribbon interconnects.