Zihuan Qiu (邱子欢)

I am currently a third-year Ph.D. student at the School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), supervised by Prof. Fanman Meng. I received my M.S. from UESTC in 2023.

My research centers on continual learning, broadly understood as enabling models to continuously learn, adapt, and accumulate knowledge over time. Around this goal, (1) continual learning for neural networks, where I focus on reducing catastrophic forgetting and balancing the acquisition of new knowledge with the preservation of old knowledge; (2) model parameter merging, which studies how to efficiently combine multiple task-specific models into a unified model so that knowledge learned from different tasks can be reused without costly retraining; and (3) agent self-evolution, where I explore how LLM and VLM agents can develop reusable skills, maintain long-term memory, and adapt to open-ended environments through tool use and recursive learning.

Email: zihuanqiu AT qq DOT com

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Selected Publications

Zihuan Qiu, Lei Wang, Yang Cao, Runtong Zhang, Bing Su, Yi Xu, Fanman Meng, Linfeng Xu, Qingbo Wu, Hongliang Li
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
Zihuan Qiu, Yi Xu, Chiyuan He, Fanman Meng, Linfeng Xu, Qingbo Wu, Hongliang Li
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025
Zihuan Qiu, Yi Xu, Fanman Meng, Hongliang Li, Linfeng Xu, Qingbo Wu
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
Zihuan Qiu, Linfeng Xu, Zhichuan Wang, Qingbo Wu, Fanman Meng, Hongliang Li
Neurocomputing, 2023

Preprints

Zihuan Qiu, Yi Xu, Fanman Meng, Runtong Zhang, Linfeng Xu, Qingbo Wu, Hongliang Li
arXiv preprint, 2025

Other Publications

DesCLIP: Robust Continual Adaptation via General Attribute Descriptions for Pretrained Vision-Language Models
Chiyuan He, Zihuan Qiu, Fanman Meng, Linfeng Xu, Qingbo Wu, Hongliang Li
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2025.
DPM-CLIP: Zero-Shot Multimodal Egocentric Activity Recognition based on Dual-Prediction Mechanism
Yukun Chen, Liang Wan, Zihuan Qiu, Mingzhou He, Fanman Meng, Linfeng Xu, Qingbo Wu, Hongliang Li
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2025.
Distribution-Level Memory Recall for Continual Learning: Preserving Knowledge and Avoiding Confusion
Shaoxu Cheng, Kanglei Geng, Chiyuan He, Zihuan Qiu, Linfeng Xu, Heqian Qiu, Lanxiao Wang, Qingbo Wu, Fanman Meng, Hongliang Li
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2025.
Leveraging Pre-Trained Models for Multimodal Class-Incremental Learning under Adaptive Fusion
Yukun Chen, Zihuan Qiu, Fanman Meng, Hongliang Li, Linfeng Xu, Qingbo Wu
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2025.
Continual Egocentric Activity Recognition with Foreseeable-Generalized Visual-IMU Representations
Chiyuan He, Shaoxu Cheng, Zihuan Qiu, Linfeng Xu, Fanman Meng, Qingbo Wu, Hongliang Li
IEEE Sensors Journal, 2024.
GFR: Generic feature representations for class incremental learning
Zhichuan Wang, Linfeng Xu, Zihuan Qiu, Qingbo Wu, Fanman Meng, Hongliang Li
Neurocomputing, 2023.
MFAT: A multi-level feature aggregated transformer for person re-identification
Bowen Tan, Linfeng Xu, Zihuan Qiu, Qingbo Wu, Fanman Meng
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023.
Eldnet: Establishment and refinement of edge likelihood distributions for camouflaged object detection
Chiyuan He, Linfeng Xu, Zihuan Qiu
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2022.
Zihuan Qiu, Zhichuan Wang, Miaomiao Zhang, Ziyong Xu, Jie Fan, Linfeng Xu
SPIE Medical Imaging, 2022.

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