Zhen Ye

I'm an incoming PhD student in Computer Science at University of Central Florida (UCF), advised by Qian Lou. I received my M.S. in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from Johns Hopkins University (JHU), and my B.S. in Statistics from Xiamen University.

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Research

I'm interested in LLM and agent. Currently, I'm focusing on test-time scaling for agent.

Paper

Towards Sparse Video Understanding and Reasoning
Chenwei Xu, Zhen Ye, Shang Wu, Weijian Li, Zihan Wang, Zhuofan Xia, Lie Lu, Pranav Maneriker, Fan Du, Manling Li, Han Liu
CVPR, 2026
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SportR: A Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Model Reasoning in Sports
Haotian Xia, Haonan Ge, Junbo Zou, Hyun Woo Choi, Xuebin Zhang, Danny Suradja, Botao Rui, Ethan Tran, Wendy Jin, Zhen Ye, Xiyang Lin, Christopher Lai, Shengjie Zhang, Junwen Miao, Shichao Chen, Rhys Tracy, Vicente Ordonez, Weining Shen, Hanjie Chen
ICLR, 2026
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Miscellanea

I love R&B music. My favorite singer is David Tao (陶喆). My favorite song is "Airport at 10:30" (飞机场的十点半).
My favorite football team is Real Madrid — Hala Madrid!