About Me
I’m a third-year Ph.D. candidate at Inria’s Thoth team,
working under the supervision of Dr. Karteek Alahari. Since May 2024, we have started a collaboration with Dr. Rahaf Aljundi from Toyota Motor Europe to explore Continual learning with Vision Language Models.
Prior to joining the Ph.D. program, I had the opportunity to work as a Research Engineer with Inria and Meta Reality Labs where I applied my skills to audio-visual speech processing. The project was under the mentorship of Dr. Radu Horaud (Inria), Dr. Mostafa Sadeghi (Inria) and Dr. Jacob Donley (Meta) and Dr. Anurag Kumar (Meta).
I completed my master’s degree in Machine Learning and Optimization of Complex Systems from Université de Technologie de Compiègne (Sorbonne). I obtained my engineer’s degree in Decision Data Mining from Université de Technologie de Troyes.
Research Interests
- Continual Learning: Lifelong knowledge acquisition in realistic scenarios such as limited labeled data (ICCV 2023), imbalanced data (IJCAI 2024), online learning with stochastic data stream (ICLR 2025), and domain generalization or post-training (ongoing work).
- Vision-Language Learning and Reasoning: Enhancing vision-language models’ performance via in-context learning, test-time scaling, and model-based annotation (ongoing work).
- Audio-visual Speech Processing: Enhancing audio-visual processing with face frontalization (IJCV 2023 and ICASSP 2022).
News
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[2025.01] One paper about general continual learning based on prompt initialization and output layer masking is accepted by ICLR 2025. Huge thanks to all my co-authors! More details to come soon.
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[2024.04] I will be attending ICVSS 2024 summer school in Sicily. The topic of this year is Computer Vision in the Age of Large Language Models. Looking forward to it!
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[2024.04] One paper about task-imbalanced continual learning based on dynamic prompt learning is accepted by IJCAI 2024. Congrats to my collaborators! More details to come soon.
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[2023.08] One paper about semi-supervised continual learning is accepted by ICCV 2023 and is selected as an oral presentation (selection rate 1.8%)!
Publications
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ICLR
Zhiqi Kang, Liyuan Wang, Xingxing Zhang, Karteek Alahari
International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2025.
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IJCAI
Chenxing Hong, Yan Jin, Zhiqi Kang, Yizhou Chen, Mengke Li, Yang Lu, Hanzi Wang
International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2024.
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ICCV Oral
Zhiqi Kang*, Enrico Fini*, Moin Nabi, Elisa Ricci, Karteek Alahari
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2023, Oral presentation.
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IJCV
Zhiqi Kang, Mostafa Sadeghi, Radu Horaud, Xavier Alameda-Pineda
International Journal of Computer Vision, IJCV 2023.
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ICASSP
Zhiqi Kang, Mostafa Sadeghi, Radu Horaud, Xavier Alameda-Pineda, Jacob Donley, Anurag Kumar
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2022, Oral presentation.
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ICCVW
Zhiqi Kang, Radu Horaud, Mostafa Sadeghi
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, ICCVW 2021.
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ECCVW
Zhiqi Kang, Christina Indudhara, Kaushik Mahorker, Erik P Bucy, Jungseock Joo
European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, ECCVW 2020.
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