Shunchi Zhang

Hi, I am Shunchi Zhang (张顺驰), a Master's student in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University (JHU).

Previously, I interned at WeChat AI @ Tencent mentored by Mo Yu and Lemao Liu, and Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) mentored by Zhuoyao Zhong and Lei Sun.

I received my Bachelor's degree in Quantitative Economics from Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) in 2024, and had a great time at University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW Madison) as a visiting student in Mathematics during Spring 2022.

The Stochastic Parrot on LLM’s Shoulder: A Summative Assessment of Physical Concept Understanding

Mo Yu^*, Lemao Liu^*, Junjie Wu^*, Tsz Ting Chung^*, Shunchi Zhang^*, Jiangnan Li, Dit-Yan Yeung, Jie Zhou

Under Review, 2024

We propose PhysiCo, a physical concept understanding benchmark to demonstrate the stochastic parrot phenomenon in (M)LLMs: they can describe and recognize physical concepts well in natural language, but fail to classify them in the form of grid representations.

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Character Understanding in Movies as an Assessment to Meta-Learning of Theory-of-Mind

Mo Yu^*, Qiujing Wang^*, Shunchi Zhang^*, Yisi Sang, Kangsheng Pu, Zekai Wei, Han Wang, Liyan Xu, Jing Li, Yue Yu, Jie Zhou

ICML 2024 - International Conference on Machine Learning

We introduce ToM-in-AMC, a few-shot character understanding benchmark to assess machines' meta-learning ability of theory-of-mind (ToM) in a realistic narrative scenario. We propose ToMPro, a ToM-aware prompting method that improves both interpretability and performance.

Paper arXiv Website Code Poster

Dynamic Relation Transformer for Contextual Text Block Detection

Jiawei Wang^*, Shunchi Zhang^*, Kai Hu^*, Chixiang Ma, Zhuoyao Zhong, Lei Sun, Qiang Huo

ICDAR 2024 - International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition

Oral Presentation

We propose DRFormer to detect contextual text blocks in natural scenes by framing the task as a graph generation problem, and jointly addresses text detection (nodes) and relation prediction (edges).

Paper arXiv Website Slides

Call me Spike, if you are not sure about my Chinese name pronunciation (顺 shùn 驰 chí).
I play rock guitar and jazz bass (mainly covers, and used to perform with my bands during my undergraduate years) and watch movies and TV series — check out the links below for more!

Shunchi Zhang

Publications

The Stochastic Parrot on LLM’s Shoulder: A Summative Assessment of Physical Concept Understanding

Character Understanding in Movies as an Assessment to Meta-Learning of Theory-of-Mind

Dynamic Relation Transformer for Contextual Text Block Detection

Miscellaneous