Yanjun Zhao

I'm a 2nd-year MS student in Xi’an Jiaotong University under the supervision of Prof. Yi Qian and Prof. Haishan Ye. In 2022, I obtained my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Xi’an Jiaotong University. I have won the China National Scholarship (ranked 2/205).

I am currently a research intern of Decision Intelligence Lab-Alibaba DAMO Academy, where I work with Doc. Liang Sun and Doc. Tian Zhou .

My research focus on Time series, Spatio-temporal data mining and LLM.

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Research

Second-Order Fine-Tuning without Pain for LLMs: A Hessian Informed Zeroth-Order Optimizer
Yanjun Zhao*, Sizhe Dang*, Haishan Ye,
Guang Dai, Yi Qian, Ivor W.Tsang
arXiv , 2024, github

HiZOO, a diagonal Hessian informed zeroth-order optimizer which is the first work to leverage the diagonal Hessian to enhance zeroth-order optimizer for fine-tuning LLMs.

Sparse-VQ Transformer: An FFN-Free Framework with Vector Quantization for Enhanced Time Series Forecasting
Yanjun Zhao*, Tian Zhou*, Chao Chen,
Liang Sun, Qian Yi, Rong Jin
arXiv, 2024, github

Sparse-VQ cooperates with Reverse Instance Normalization (RevIN) to reduce noise impact and capture sufficient statistics for forecasting, serving as an alternative to the Feed-Forward layer (FFN) in the transformer architecture.

A Differentiable Sparse Vector Quantization (SVQ) for Spatio-Temporal Forecasting
Chao Chen*, Tian Zhou*, Yanjun Zhao,
Liang Sun, Qian Yi, Rong Jin
arXiv, 2024, github

SVQ leverages sparse regression for succinct representation, which theoretically and practically favored over classical clusteringbased vector quantization methods.

GCformer: An Efficient Framework for Accurate and Scalable Long-Term Multivariate Time Series Forecasting
Yanjun Zhao*, Ziqing Ma* Tian Zhou*,
Liang Sun Mengni Ye, Qian Yi,
CIKM, 2023, github

GCformer combines a structured global convolutional branch for processing long input sequences with a local Transformer-based branch for capturing short, recent signals.

Honors and Awards

2023, China National Scholarship
2023, First-class Tencent Scholarship
2022, Outstanding Graduate, Xi'an Jiaotong University
2021, School Scholarship
2020, Lushidi Scholarship

2023, The 4th ‘SEED’ Jiangsu Big Data Development and Application Competition (4/473)
New Energy Track--forecast the power demand for the charging stations
2022, The 19th China Post-Graduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (National Third Prize)
2021, The 8th National Mechanical Innovation and Design Competition (National Second Prize)
Designed and manufactured a Household Robot, which utilized navigation, speech recognition, vision algorithms to realize voice calling, fetching functions and so on.
2021, The 19th American Mathematical Contest in Modeling (Finalist, <3%)
2020, The 13th National Social Practice and Science Contest on Energy Saving and Emission Reduction (National Third Prize)
Designed and manufactured an Automatic Garbage Sorting Device, which utilized image classification algorithm to control the mechanical device to realize automatic garbage classification. An utility model patent has been authorized.
2020,China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (First Prize of Shaanxi Province)

Activities and Volunteering

2024, Reviewer of KDD conference 2023
2024, Reviewer of TKDE conference 2023
2022.06-2022.09, GitLink Code Camp, Contributor for Deep Graph Library (DGL)
2019.06-2019.09, Commentator for school history museum

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