Hong Zhang is a Professor of Physics at Zhejiang University with seven years of cross-disciplinary experience bridging academic research and machine learning engineering. Though rooted in physics, he has become a prolific contributor to large-scale open-source ML tooling, notably expanding model support and training/inference workflows in the widely used modelscope/ms-swift project for hundreds of LLMs and multimodal models. He excels at integrating new architectures (e.g., Molmo, Emu3), improving dataset handling and sampling, and building practical scripts that move models from experimentation to deployment. Based in China, he combines rigorous scientific thinking with hands-on software development, enabling reproducible ML experiments at scale. Colleagues value him for translating complex theoretical problems into robust engineering solutions that support diverse model families.
Use PEFT or Full-parameter to finetune 500+ LLMs (Qwen2.5, InternLM3, GLM4, Llama3.3, Mistral, Yi1.5, Baichuan2, DeepSeek-R1, ...) and 200+ MLLMs (Qwen2.5-VL, Qwen2-Audio, Llama3.2-Vision, Llava, InternVL2.5, MiniCPM-V-2.6, GLM4v, Xcomposer2.5, Yi-VL, DeepSeek-VL2, Phi3.5-Vision, GOT-OCR2, ...).
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:7 reviews, 30 PRs, 12 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Hong's commits primarily focused on expanding the supported models and functionalities within the `ms-swift` project, specifically related to large language models (LLMs) and multi-modal models. Their contributions involved adding support for new model types, including Molmo and Emu3, by integrating relevant templates and configurations. Furthermore, the user implemented scripts for training and inference, demonstrating a strong grasp of model integration and deployment within the swift framework. The commits also included improvements to dataset support and sampling techniques.
Contributions:14 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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Hong Zhang - Professor Of Physics at Zhejiang University