publications

2026

1. PR (under review)

   Information Density Imbalance in Visual Object Detection

   Ziwei Zhao, Yanxi Lu, Yuwei Hu, and 8 more authors

   Under review at Pattern Recognition, 2026

   Abs arXiv

   We define categorized information density as a per-class difficulty signal beyond instance frequency. Its Pearson correlation with AP reaches about -0.72 on Pascal VOC, roughly four times stronger than the instance-count baseline, exposing a long-overlooked bias in long-tailed detector training. A local-to-global covariance merging scheme keeps global information density exact during training and reduces per-class AP variance by up to 45.89% over EFL on LVIS v1.0.

2. EMNLP 2026

   ScopeBench: Evaluating Cultural Norm Scope Awareness in LLMs

   Haojun Liang, Ziwei Zhao, Chenyu Li, and 8 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Main Conference, 2026

   Abs PDF

   A cultural-scope safety benchmark that treats norm scope as a first-class safety dimension. We build a dual-anchored annotation protocol across 49 countries and 9 cultural clusters (3,323 norms), define three scope error types (Inflation, Deflation, Displacement), and evaluate 21 frontier LLMs across 7 model families.

3. ACL 2026

   MessToClean: Evidence-Grounded Structure-Preserving Reconstruction for Real-World Degraded Exam Paper Images

   Jiayi Tuo, Cheng Tang, Zihan Wang, and 8 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Main Conference, 2026

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   An evidence-grounded reconstruction pipeline for degraded exam-paper images. Contributions include benchmark construction and OCR-robustness ablations.

4. KDD-W 2026

   Skill-as-API: Confidential Multi-Agent Coordination for Agentic Software Engineering

   Ziwei Zhao, Yu Gu, Haojun Liang, and 2 more authors

   In KDD 2026 Workshop, 2026

   Abs arXiv Code

   A coordination layer for agentic software engineering where a skill’s public view is limited to name, typed schemas, and trust tier, while the body (code and system prompt) is closure-captured and never crosses the wire. Released as an open-source Python SDK over XMTP; featured in awesome-agentic-patterns as the Black-Box Skill Invocation pattern.

5. Drones

   Uncertainty-Calibrated UAV Trajectory Prediction for Beam Management in UAV-Assisted ISAC Scenarios

   Qing Cheng, Wenwen Wu, and Ziwei Zhao

   Drones, 2026

   Abs HTML

   A multimodal trajectory-prediction framework fusing visual context (ResNet-18) and motion history (LSTM) via cross-attention and gated fusion to output calibrated probabilistic forecasts. Split conformal calibration converts raw Gaussian uncertainty into statistically reliable risk bounds, improving Coverage@95 by 7 percentage points.

2025

1. arXiv

   Geometric Prior-Guided Federated Prompt Calibration

   Fei Luo, Ziwei Zhao, Mingxuan Wang, and 5 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.07208, 2025

   Abs arXiv

   GGTPC addresses local training bias in federated prompt learning: the server reconstructs global geometric priors from per-class statistics without exchanging raw features. As a plug-and-play module across 7 mainstream FL algorithms, it yields +9.17 pp over FedAvg on CIFAR-100 at beta=0.01 where baselines collapse.