<center>Zhi Zhou</center> <center>周植</center>

Zhi Zhou
周植

Nanjing University

🤵🏻 About Me

I am a final year Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Nanjing University, advised by Professor Yu-Feng Li (李宇峰), and a member of LAMDA Group (机器学习与数据挖掘研究所), which is led by Professor Zhi-Hua Zhou (周志华).

Biography

2020.09 - Present Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology, School of Computer Science, Nanjing University
2016.09 - 2020.06 B.Sc. in Computer Science and Technology, Tang Aoqing Honors Program, Jilin University
2012.09 - 2016.06 High School Affiliated To Nanjing Normal University

🎉 Recent News

  • 2025.09: One paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2025 about theoretical analysis of LLM reasoning!
  • 2025.08: One paper is accepted by EMNLP 2025 for oral presentation about test-time scaling of LLM reasoning!
  • 2025.01: I got my first funding: National Science Foundation for PhD Students.

📝 Selected Works (Publication List)

* denotes the co-first authors

🦿 Test-Time Adaptation

ICML 2023
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ODS: Test-Time Adaptation in the Presence of Open-World Data Shift.
 Zhi Zhou, Lan-Zhe Guo, Lin-Han Jia, Ding-Chu Zhang, Yu-Feng Li.
In: Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, Hawaii, 2023.
CCF A, Oral Presentation.
[Paper] [Code] [Poster] [Slide] [Video]

ICML 2024
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DeCoOp: Robust Prompt Tuning with Out-of-Distribution Detection.
 Zhi Zhou, Ming Yang, Jiang-Xin Shi, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yu-Feng Li.
In: Proceedings of the 41th International Conference on Machine Learning, Vienna, 2024.
CCF A.
[Paper] [Code] [Poster]

AAAI 2025
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Fully Test-time Adaptation for Tabular Data.
 Zhi Zhou*, Kun-Yang Yu*, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yu-Feng Li.
In: Proceedings of the 39th AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence, Philadelphia, 2025.
CCF A.
[Paper] [Project] [Poster]

🤖 Test-Time Scaling

NeurIPS 2025
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A Theoretical Study on Bridging Internal Probability and Self-Consistency for LLM Reasoning.
Zhi Zhou, Yuhao Tan, Zenan Li, Yuan Yao, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yu-Feng Li, Xiaoxing Ma.
In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, San Diego, 2025.
CCF A. [Paper] [Project] [Code] [Data] [Demo]

NeurIPS 2024
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Neuro-Symbolic Data Generation for Math Reasoning.
Zenan Li*, Zhi Zhou*, Yuan Yao, Xian Zhang, Yu-Feng Li, Chun Cao, Fan Yang, Xiaoxing Ma.
In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, 2024.
CCF A. [Paper]