Jianhong Tu

First-year Comp. Sci. PhD student @ UCSC

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I am a first-year PhD student in Computer Science at University of California, Santa Cruz, advised by Dr. Chenguang Wang. Before that, I completed my Bachelor’s degree in Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis. I was also a student researcher at the Hengen Lab, supervised by Dr. Keith Hengen and Dr. James McGregor, when I was an undergrad.

My research interests lie in multimodal large language models, security, large language model agents, and biomedical artificial intelligence. Outside my lab, I enjoy city-pop music and hiking.

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Publications

2025

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    MLAN: Language-Based Instruction Tuning Preserves and Transfers Knowledge in Multimodal Language Models
    Jianhong Tu, Zhuohao Ni, Nicholas Crispino, Zihao Yu, Michael Bendersky, Beliz Gunel, Ruoxi Jia, Xin Liu, Lingjuan Lyu, Dawn Song, and Chenguang Wang
    In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models (KnowFM), Aug 2025
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    Predicting Task Performance with Context-aware Scaling Laws
    Kyle Montgomery, David Park, Jianhong Tu, Michael Bendersky, Beliz Gunel, Dawn Song, and Chenguang Wang
    In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models (KnowFM), Aug 2025
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    A Comprehensive Survey of Evaluating Multimodal Foundation Models: Hierarchical Perspective and Extensive Applications
    Ye Yuan, Junyu Luo, Guancheng Wan, Jinsheng Huang, Chengwu Liu, Junwei Yang, Yifang Qin, Zhiping Xiao, Qingqing Long, Meng Xiao, Yiqiao Jin, Jianhong Tu, Yuqi Chen, Wei Ju, Zhongwei Wan, Yusheng Zhao, Xiao Luo, Yiwei Fu, Yizhou Sun, Wei Wang, Chenguang Wang, and Ming Zhang
    May 2025
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2024

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    ⭐ Failure in a population: Tauopathy disrupts homeostatic set-points in emergent dynamics despite stability in the constituent neurons
    James N. McGregor, Clayton A. Farris, Sahara Ensley, Aidan Schneider, Leandro J. Fosque, Chao Wang, Elizabeth I. Tilden, Yuqi Liu, Jianhong Tu, Halla Elmore, Keenan D. Ronayne, Ralf Wessel, Eva L. Dyer, Kiran Bhaskaran-Nair, David M. Holtzman, and Keith B. Hengen
    Neuron, May 2024
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    Instruction-aware Visual Feature Extraction for Multimodal Large Language Model
    Jianhong Tu, Erdong Chen, and Shuhan Zhang
    Dec 2024
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    Diversity-based Data Subset Selection with Deep Reinforcement Learning
    Jianhong Tu and Anxu Wang
    Dec 2024
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