I am a master’s student at Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), under the supervision of Prof. Shuhan Qi. I am now a visiting student at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, working with Prof. Long Chen.

🤔 Research Interests

Multimodal: Multimodal Large Language Models
Efficient Methods: Efficient Training and Inference, Continual Learning, Model Compression

I am enthusiastic about minimalist, efficient, and practical methods.

🔥 News

Honored to join LONG Group at HKUST as a visiting student, working with Prof. Long Chen.
One paper on continual learning for MLLMs is accepted by EMNLP 2025 main.
One Zhihu blog on Mechanism of MLLMs is forwarded by PaperWeekly.
One paper on compressing diffusion models is out on arXiv.
Excited to be a Research Intern at OPPO AI Center.

📝 Publications

EMNLP 2025 main

Merge then Realign: Simple and Effective Modality-Incremental Continual Learning for Multimodal LLMs

Dingkun Zhang, Shuhan Qi, Xinyu Xiao, Kehai Chen, Xuan Wang

Paper

Extend existing MLLMs to more modalities efficiently.
Minimalist, Anti-Catastrophic Forgetting.

arXiv

LAPTOP-Diff: Layer Pruning and Normalized Distillation for Compressing Diffusion Models

Dingkun Zhang*, Sijia Li*, Chen Chen, Qingsong Xie, Haonan Lu

Paper

Compress diffusion models through layer pruning and knowledge distillation.

📖 Educations

2024.06 - present, Master’s Student, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen).
2020.09 - 2024.06, Undergraduate Student, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen).

💻 Internships

2025.10 - present, Visiting Student, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
2023.09 - 2024.04, Research Intern, OPPO AI Center.