Ph.D. student at HKUST

Mingzhi Chen

Current research interests Diffusion LMs and MLLMs

About me

I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST, advised by Prof. Long Chen.

Before beginning my Ph.D., I had the opportunity to collaborate with Prof. Zhuang Liu at Princeton University, Prof. Chun Yuan at Tsinghua University, and Prof. Ming Tang at SUSTech.

Publications

* Equal contribution · † Equal advising

Comparison of normalization-free Transformer performance

CVPR 2026

Stronger Normalization-Free Transformers

Mingzhi Chen, Taiming Lu, Jiachen Zhu, Mingjie Sun, Zhuang Liu

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Visual place recognition with and without a privacy cloak

ICCV 2025

A First Look at Privacy Cloak Against Visual Place Recognition

Shuting Dong*, Mingzhi Chen*, Feng Lu, Hao Yu, Guanghao Li, Ming Tang†, Chun Yuan†

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Diagram of the MIGA method for semantic manipulation

arXiv

MIGA: Mutual Information-Guided Attack on Denoising Models for Semantic Manipulation

Guanghao Li*, Mingzhi Chen*, Hao Yu, Shuting Dong, Wenhao Jiang, Ming Tang†, Chun Yuan†

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