Zaiying Zhao / 趙 在瀛

1st-year PhD student at Yamasaki Lab, The University of Tokyo.

My interest lies in computer vision, particularly in fairness of multimodal AI models.

News

Publications

*: Equal Contributions; †: My Advisee

Journal Paper

• Jr. AI Scientist and Its Risk Report: Autonomous Scientific Exploration from a Baseline Paper
  Atsuyuki Miyai*, Mashiro Toyooka*, Takashi Otonari, Zaiying Zhao, Kiyoharu Aizawa
  TMLR 2026

Conference Paper (International)

• WebChoreArena: Evaluating Web Browsing Agents on Realistic Tedious Web Tasks
  Atsuyuki Miyai, Zaiying Zhao, Kazuki Egashira, Atsuki Sato, Tatsumi Sunada, Shota Onohara, Hiromasa Yamanishi, Mashiro Toyooka, Kunato Nishina, Ryoma Maeda, Kiyoharu Aizawa, Toshihiko Yamasaki
  COLM 2026
• Exploring Fairness Across Fine-Grained Attributes in Large Vision-Language Models
  Zaiying Zhao, Toshihiko Yamasaki
  CVPR ReGenAI 2025
• Self-examination Mechanism: Improving Standard Accuracy in Adversarial Purification
  Sora Suegami*, Yutaro Oguri*, Zaiying Zhao*, Yu Kagaya*, Toshihiko Yamasaki
  IVSP 2024

Preprint

• Paper Reconstruction Evaluation: Evaluating Presentation and Hallucination in AI-written Papers
  Atsuyuki Miyai, Mashiro Toyooka*, Zaiying Zhao*, Kenta Watanabe*, Toshihiko Yamasaki, Kiyoharu Aizawa
  arXiv, 2026
• Bias Beyond Demographics: Probing Decision Boundaries in Black-Box LVLMs via Counterfactual VQA
  Zaiying Zhao, Toshihiko Yamasaki
  arXiv, 2025
• Language-guided Detection and Mitigation of Unknown Dataset Bias
  Zaiying Zhao, Soichiro Kumano, Toshihiko Yamasaki
  arXiv, 2024

Conference Paper (Domestic)

• Beyond Demographics: Counterfactual VQA for Auditing Fairness in Black-Box LVLMs
  Zaiying Zhao, Toshihiko Yamasaki
  MIRU 2026, Oral (selected)
• Large Vision-Language Modelの多様な属性に対する公平性の検証
  趙 在瀛, 山崎 俊彦
  MIRU 2025, Oral (selected)
• Vision-Languageモデルを利用した画像分類におけるバイアスの言語的抽出と緩和
  趙 在瀛, 熊野 創一郎, 山崎 俊彦
  MIRU 2024, Oral (selected)

Other Publications

Awards / Scholarship

Education

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  Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology Apr 2026 – Present

  Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan

  Supervisor: Prof. Toshihiko Yamasaki
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  M.S. in Information Science and Technology Apr 2024 – Mar 2026

  Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan

  Supervisor: Prof. Toshihiko Yamasaki
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  B.S. in Engineering Apr 2020 – Mar 2024

  Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan

  Supervisor: Prof. Toshihiko Yamasaki

Work Experience

• 
  The University of Tokyo Apr 2026 – Present

  SPRING GX Program Participant
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  The University of Tokyo Apr 2025 – Present

  WINGS RA (卓越RA)

  Research Assistant in the WINGS-CFS program.
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  DeNA Aug 2024 – Oct 2024

  AI Specialist (Intern)

  Internship focused on AI research and development.
  Internship report: Creating Ball Tracking Data from Basketball Game Videos
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  Nagase Co., Ltd. Aug 2022 – Mar 2025

  Software Engineer
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  Fixstars Corporation Aug 2022 – Sep 2022

  Software Engineer (Intern)

Contact

Email: zhao[at]cvm.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp