Zhimin Li

[1] See or Recall: A Sanity Check for the Role of Vision in Solving Visualization Understanding Tasks with Multimodal LLMs
Zhimin Li, Haichao Miao, Xinyuan Yan, Valerio Pascucci, Matthew Berger, Shusen Liu
(Under Submission)
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[2] Quantifying the Impact of Lossy Compression on Neural Generative Surrogate Modeling
Zhimin Li, Harshitha Menon, Charles Fredrick Jekel, Valerio Pascucci, Peter Lindstrom
The 40th IEEE International Parallel Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2026

[3] Seeing the Many: Exploring Parameter Distributions Conditioned on Features in Surrogates
Xiaohan Wang, Zhimin Li, Joshua A. Levine, Matthew Berger
IEEE Workshop on Uncertainty Visualization: Unraveling Relationships of Uncertainty, AI, and Decision-Making (2025)
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[4] An Evaluation-Centric Paradigm for Scientific Visualization Agents
Kuangshi Ai, Haichao Miao, Zhimin Li, Chaoli Wang, Shusen Liu
1st Workshop on GenAI, Agents, and the Future of VIS (IEEE VIS 2025)
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[5] Visualization Literacy of Multimodal Large Language Models: A Comparative Study
Zhimin Li, Haichao Miao, Valerio Pascucci, Shusen Liu
(arXiv 2024)
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[6] Understanding Robustness Lottery: A Geometric Visual Comparative Analysis of Neural Network Pruning Approaches
Zhimin Li, Shusen Liu, Xin Yu, Kailkhura Bhavya, Jie Cao, James Daniel Diffenderfer, Peer-Timo Bremer, Valerio Pascucci
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG 2024)
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[7] AVA: Towards Autonomous Visualization Agents through Visual Perception-Driven Decision-Making
Shusen Liu, Haichao Miao, Zhimin Li, Matthew Olson, Valerio Pascucci, Peer-Timo Bremer
Computer Graphics Forum (2024)
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[8] Instance-wise Linearization of Neural Network for Model Interpretation
Zhimin Li, Shusen Liu, Kailkhura Bhavya, Peer-Timo Bremer, Valerio Pascucci
(arXiv 2023)
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[9] A Visual Comparison of Silent Error Propagation
Zhimin Li, Harshitha Menon, Kathryn Mohror, Shusen Liu, Luanzheng Guo, Peer-Timo Bremer, Valerio Pascucci
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG 2022)
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[10] Understanding a Program's Resiliency through Error Propagation
Zhimin Li, Harshitha Menon, Kathryn Mohror, Peer-Timo Bremer, Yarden Livant, Valerio Pascucci
Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPOPP 2021)
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[11] SpotSDC: Revealing the Silent Data Corruption Propagation in High-Performance Computing Systems
Zhimin Li, Harshitha Menon, Dan Maljovec, Yarden Livant, Shusen Liu, Kathryn Mohror, Peer-Timo Bremer, Valerio Pascucci
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG 2021)
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[12] NLIZE: A Perturbation-Driven Visual Interrogation Tool for Analyzing and Interpreting Natural Language Inference Models
Shusen Liu, Zhimin Li, Tao Li, Srikumar Vivek, Valerio Pascucci, Peer-Timo Bremer
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG 2019)
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[13] Visual Interrogation of Attention-Based Models for Natural Language Inference and Machine Comprehension
Shusen Liu, Tao Li, Zhimin Li, Vivek Srikumar, Valerio Pascucci, Peer-Timo Bremer
2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Demo Track)
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[14] Grand-Map: A High-Dimensional Grand Tour Map
Zhimin Li
Utah UROP (2016)
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[15] An Information Visualization System to Analyze Silent Data Corruption
Zhimin Li, Harshitha Menon, Yarden Livant, Kathryn Mohror, Valerio Pascucci
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC 2018) Poster

[16] Why and when do students change majors?
Zhimin Li, Alexander Lex
IEEE Vis(2016) Selected Demo