Haowei Zhu | 朱浩崴

I am currently a Ph.D. student in School of Software, Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Junhai Yong and Bin Wang. I am expected to graduate in 2027.

My research interests center on computer vision and generative models, with a particular focus on diffusion models. Within this area, I work on efficient inference (TAP, DiffSparse, DiP-GO, TSS) and data augmentation (ReCon, DistDiff). Additionally, I explore parameter-efficient fine-tuning (SHIP) and fine-grained visual recognition (DCAL).

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News
  • 03/2026: One paper (TAP) accepted to CVPR 2026.
  • 01/2026: Two papers (DiffSparse and Mango-GS) accepted to ICLR 2026.
  • 11/2025: One paper (DiffAgent) accepted to AAAI 2026.
  • 09/2025: One paper (ReCon) accepted to NeurIPS 2025 (Spotlight, top 3%)!
  • 05/2025: One paper (TSS) accepted to IJCAI 2025.
  • 12/2024: One paper (SHIP) accepted to ICASSP 2025.
  • 09/2024: Two papers (DistDiff and DiP-GO) accepted to NeurIPS 2024.
  • 09/2023: Start my Ph.D. journey in Tsinghua University!
  • 06/2022: One paper (DCAL) accepted to CVPR 2022.
Research

Selected Publications |   All Publications

TAP: A Token-Adaptive Predictor Framework for Training-Free Diffusion Acceleration
Haowei Zhu, Tingxuan Huang, Xing Wang, et al.
CVPR, 2026
arXiv

Training-free framework for adaptive token-level prediction in diffusion acceleration.

DiffSparse: Accelerating Diffusion Transformers with Learned Token Sparsity
Haowei Zhu, Ji Liu, Ziqiong Liu, et al.
ICLR, 2026
arXiv

A differentiable sparsity framework to accelerate few-step diffusion transformers.

ReCon: Region-Controllable Data Augmentation with Rectification and Alignment for Object Detection
Haowei Zhu, Tianxiang Pan, Rui Qin, et al.
NeurIPS, 2025 (Spotlight)
arXiv | code

Region-controllable data augmentation with rectification and alignment for object detection.

DiP-GO: A Diffusion Pruner via Few-step Gradient Optimization
Haowei Zhu, Dehua Tang, Ji Liu, et al.
NeurIPS, 2024
arXiv

Differentiable pruning network with few-step gradient optimization for efficient diffusion model acceleration.

Distribution-Aware Data Expansion with Diffusion Models
Haowei Zhu, Ling Yang, Junhai Yong, et al.
NeurIPS, 2024
arXiv | code

Hierarchical prototypes and distribution-aware energy guidance for diffusion sampling.

Dual Cross-Attention Learning for Fine-Grained Visual Categorization and Object Re-Identification
Haowei Zhu, Wenjing Ke, Dong Li, et al.
CVPR, 2022
arXiv

Global-local cross-attention and pairwise attention modules for fine-grained tasks.

Honors and Awards
  • Huawei Scholarship, 2025
  • National Scholarship (Top 1%), 2022
  • First-class Scholarship, 2022, 2023
  • Outstanding Master's Thesis, 2023
  • 2nd Place in MegEngine Paper Reproduction Competition, 2021
  • Published book "DeepSeek高效办公助手"