Zijian Huang

Hi! I am an undergraduate student majoring in Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

At Umich, I am fourtunate to be advised by Prof. Raed Al Kontar and Prof. Qing Qu.

I am broadly interested in the intersection of Machine Learning, Statistics and Optimization. My current interest is in Bayesian Optimization and Diffusion Models.

[Updated in 7/2025]

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Zijian Huang
News

[03/2025] Received the Accenture IOE Scholarship at UMich.

[11/2024] Awarded National Scholarship at SJTU.
Publication
Understanding Generalization in Diffusion Models via Probability Flow Distance
Huijie Zhang, Zijian Huang, Siyi Chen, Jinfan Zhou, Zekai Zhang, Peng Wang, Qing Qu
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We propose Probability Flow Distance (PFD), a theoretically grounded and computationally efficient metric to quantify distributional generalization in diffusion models. Using a teacher-student evaluation protocol, we empirically uncover several novel generalization behaviors.



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