I am currently a second-year PhD student in Computer Science at Lancaster University, advised by Prof. Jun Liu and Prof. Hossein Rahmani. Prior to joining Lancaster, I received my Bachelor's degree in 2021 and my Master's degree in 2024 from Central South University, where I was supervised by Prof. Yong Wang. I also collaborate closely with Adobe and NVIDIA.

My current research interests lie in LLM agents, AI security, and generative AI. Earlier in my research journey, I worked primarily on vision-language models and few-shot learning.

I am always open to research discussions and potential collaborations. Please feel free to contact me if you are interested.

Portrait of Zhuoling Li
Lancaster University · United Kingdom

News

  • 2026.07Two papers accepted by ECCV 2026!
  • 2026.04Outstanding Master's Thesis Award, Chinese Association of Automation.
  • 2026.03Gave a talk on "Agentic AI" at Celebration of Science, Lancaster University.
  • 2026.03Nominated for Dean's Award, Lancaster University.
  • 2026.02Our paper titled "DiffGraph: An Automated Agent-driven Model Merging Framework for In-the-Wild Text-to-Image Generation" was accepted by CVPR 2026!
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  • 2025.06Our paper titled "DiffIP: Representation Fingerprints for Robust IP Protection of Diffusion Models" was accepted by ICCV 2025!
  • 2025.06Our paper titled "SceneLLM: Implicit Language Reasoning in LLM for Dynamic Scene Graph Generation" was accepted by Pattern Recognition!
  • 2025.02Our paper titled "LongDiff: Training-free Long Video Generation in One Go" was accepted by CVPR 2025!
  • 2024.10Started PhD at Lancaster University.
  • 2024.09Our paper titled "DisC-GS: Discontinuity-aware Gaussian Splatting" was accepted by NeurIPS 2024!

Selected Publications

* indicates equal contribution; † indicates corresponding author.

FigAgent framework overview

Automatic Method Illustration Generation for AI Scientific Papers via Drawing Middleware Creation, Evolution, and Orchestration

Zhuoling Li, Jiarui Zhang, Ping Hu, Jason Kuen, Jiuxiang Gu, Hossein Rahmani, Jun Liu

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2026)

  • FigAgent uses reusable drawing middlewares and an Explore-and-Select strategy to generate high-fidelity, editable SVG method illustrations for AI papers.
HRDiT ECCV 2026 title card

HRDiT: Training-Free High-Resolution Image Generation with Off-the-Shelf Diffusion Transformer Models

Yu Xue, Haoxuan Qu, Zhuoling Li, Hongbin Xu, Jianxiong Yin, Simon See, Hossein Rahmani, Jun Liu

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2026)

  • HRDiT enables training-free high-resolution image generation with off-the-shelf Diffusion Transformer models, without additional model training.
DiffGraph teaser

DiffGraph: An Automated Agent-driven Model Merging Framework for In-the-Wild Text-to-Image Generation

Zhuoling Li, Hossein Rahmani, Jiarui Zhang, Yu Xue, Majid Mirmehdi, Jason Kuen, Jiuxiang Gu, Jun Liu

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2026)

  • DiffGraph uses agents to automatically select and merge specialized text-to-image diffusion models for diverse, in-the-wild generation.
DiffIP teaser

DiffIP: Representation Fingerprints for Robust IP Protection of Diffusion Models

Zhuoling Li, Haoxuan Qu, Jason Kuen, Jiuxiang Gu, Qiuhong Ke, Jun Liu, Hossein Rahmani

IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2025)

  • DiffIP protects diffusion-model IP by comparing robust representation fingerprints between victim and suspect models.
LongDiff teaser

LongDiff: Training-free Long Video Generation in One Go

Zhuoling Li, Hossein Rahmani, Qiuhong Ke, Jun Liu

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025)

  • LongDiff enables off-the-shelf short-video diffusion models to generate high-quality long videos in one pass, without training.
SceneLLM teaser

SceneLLM: Implicit Language Reasoning in LLM for Dynamic Scene Graph Generation

Hang Zhang, Zhuoling Li†, Jun Liu

Pattern Recognition (2025)

  • SceneLLM maps video into implicit linguistic signals, enabling LLM-based reasoning for dynamic scene graph generation.
DisC-GS teaser

DisC-GS: Discontinuity-aware Gaussian Splatting

Haoxuan Qu*, Zhuoling Li*, Hossein Rahmani, Yujun Cai, Jun Liu

Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024)

  • DisC-GS models sharp boundaries with a discontinuity-aware rendering strategy, improving Gaussian Splatting near object edges.
FewVS teaser

FewVS: A Vision-Semantics Integration Framework for Few-shot Image Classification

Zhuoling Li, Yong Wang, Kaitong Li

ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2024)

  • FewVS combines fine-grained LLM semantics with visual features and adaptively integrates both modalities for few-shot image classification.
ACM MM 2023 paper teaser

Better Integrating Vision and Semantics for Improving Few-shot Classification

Zhuoling Li, Yong Wang

ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2023)

  • BMI aligns semantic and visual latent spaces and uses prompt-based augmentation to improve few-shot image classification.

Selected Honors and Awards

  • 2026 Outstanding Master's Thesis Award, Chinese Association of Automation
  • 2026 Nomination for Dean's Award, Lancaster University
  • 2023 First Prize Scholarship, Central South University
  • 2021 Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, Central South University
  • 2021 Outstanding Student, Central South University
  • 2018 Weiqiao Aluminum & Electricity Enterprise Scholarship, Central South University

Education

Central South University

2021.09 – 2024.06

Master of Control Science and Engineering. GPA: 3.60/4.0. Supervisor: Prof. Yong Wang

Central South University

2017.09 – 2021.06

Bachelor of Automation. GPA: 88.08/100.0. Supervisor: Prof. Yong Wang

Service

Conference Chair

  • Technical Program Chair, BMVC 2026
  • Area Chair, BMVC 2026

Conference Reviewer

  • CVPR 2025, 2026  |  ICCV 2025  |  ECCV 2026  |  NeurIPS 2024, 2025, 2026  |  ICML 2025, 2026  |  ICLR 2025, 2026  |  AAAI 2026

Journal Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
  • ACM Computing Surveys (ACM CSUR)

Teaching

Teaching Associate, Lancaster University  |  2026

  • SCC222: Artificial Intelligence Concepts
  • SCC455: Computer Vision

Teaching Associate, Lancaster University  |  2025

  • SCC366: Media Coding and Processing
  • SCC461: Python