About Me

Hi! I’m Sicong Li (李斯骢, E-mail: lisicong@iie.ac.cn). Now I am a PhD. student at Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IIE, CAS), supervised by Prof. Qingming Huang (黄庆明) (IEEE Fellow) and Qianqian Xu (许倩倩) (Professor at ICT, CAS). I have received the B.E. degree in computer science and technology from Beihang University in 2024. My research interests include machine learning and computer vision. I have authored or co-authored several academic papers in top-tier international conferences and journals, including ICML, CVPR, TPAMI, etc. If you are interested in my research, please email me at lisicong@iie.ac.cn.

📝 Publications

ICML 2025
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Focal-SAM: Focal Sharpness-Aware Minimization for Long-Tailed Classification

Sicong Li, Qianqian Xu, Zhiyong Yang, Zitai Wang, Linchao Zhang, Xiaochun Cao, and Qingming Huang. Focal-SAM: Focal Sharpness-Aware Minimization for Long-Tailed Classification. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 36624-36651, 2025. | [Code]

Mind the Way You Select Negative Texts: Pursuing the Distance Consistency in OOD Detection with VLMs

Zhikang Xu, Qianqian Xu, Zitai Wang, Cong Hua, Sicong Li, Zhiyong Yang, and Qingming Huang. Mind the Way You Select Negative Texts: Pursuing the Distance Consistency in OOD Detection with VLMs. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026. (Accepted)

DirMixE: Harnessing Test Agnostic Long-tail Recognition with Hierarchical Label Variations

Zhiyong Yang, Qianqian Xu, Sicong Li, Zitai Wang, Xiaochun Cao, and Qingming Huang. DirMixE: Harnessing Test Agnostic Long-tail Recognition with Hierarchical Label Variations. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2025. (Accepted, DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2025.3647124)

Harnessing Hierarchical Label Distribution Variations in Test Agnostic Long-tail Recognition

Zhiyong Yang, Qianqian Xu, Zitai Wang, Sicong Li, Boyu Han, Shilong Bao, Xiaochun Cao, and Qingming Huang. Harnessing Hierarchical Label Distribution Variations in Test Agnostic Long-tail Recognition. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 56624-56664, 2024. | [Code] | [Video]

🥇 Competitions

3DCoMPaT Grounded CoMPaT Recognition Challenge (Fine track) @ CVPR 2025, 1st Place

Team: Sicong Li, Qianqian Xu, Cong Hua, Yangbangyan Jiang, Qingming Huang

[Website] | [Leaderboard]

EgoVis HoloAssist Challenges @ CVPR 2025, 1st Place

Team: Boyu Han, Qianqian Xu, Shilong Bao, Zhiyong Yang, Sicong Li, Qingming Huang

[Website] | [Leaderboard]

📖 Academic Services

Conference

  • ICML: Reviewer (2025, 2026)
  • NeurIPS: Reviewer (2024, 2025)
  • ICLR: Reviewer (2025, 2026)
  • CVPR: Reviewer (2026)

Journal

  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (IEEE TCSVT): Reviewer

🎓 Educations

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2024.09 - now, Ph.D. Student.

Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院信息工程研究所, IIE, CAS).

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.

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2020.09 - 2024.06, Undergraduate.

Shenyuan Honors College.

Beihang University (北京航空航天大学, BUAA), Beijing.