Publications

A full list of publications can be found on Google Scholar.
(* Equal Contribution, ^† Corresponding author)

• Streaming LLMs/MLLMs (Demo)

1. From Static Inference to Dynamic Interaction: A Survey of Streaming Large Language Models. [PDF] [Repository]
   Junlong Tong, Zilong Wang, YuJie Ren, Peiran Yin, Hao Wu, Wei Zhang, Xiaoyu Shen^†.
   Findings of ACL 2026.
   
2. StreamingThinker: Large Language Models Can Think While Reading. [PDF] [Code] [Project]
   Junlong Tong, Yingqi Fan, Anhao Zhao, Yunpu Ma, Xiaoyu Shen^†.
   ICLR 2026.
   
3. Think-as-You-See: Streaming Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Large Vision-Language Models. [PDF] [Code] [Project]
   Jialiang Zhang*, Junlong Tong*, Junyan Lin, Hao Wu, Yunpu Ma, Xiaoyu Shen^†. (* Equal Contribution)
   CVPR 2026.
   
4. LLM as Effective Streaming Processor: Bridging Streaming-Batch Mismatches with Group Position Encoding. [PDF] [Code]
   Junlong Tong, Jinlan Fu, Zixuan Lin, Yingqi Fan, Anhao Zhao, Hui Su, Xiaoyu Shen^†.
   Findings of ACL 2025.
   
5. ProactiveLLM: Learning Active Interaction for Streaming Large Language Models.
   Junlong Tong, Yao Zhang, Anhao Zhao, Yingqi Fan, Yunpu Ma, Xiaoyu Shen^†.
   Under review
   
6. Speak While Watching: Unleashing TRUE Real-Time Video Understanding Capability of Multimodal Large Language Models. [PDF][Code]
   Junyan Lin*, Junlong Tong*, Hao Wu, Jialiang Zhang, Jinming Liu, Xin Jin, Xiaoyu Shen^†.
   Under review
   

• Efficient LLMs/MLLMs

1. Context Guided Transformer Entropy Modeling for Video Compression. [PDF]
   Junlong Tong, Wei Zhang, Yaohui Jin, Xiaoyu Shen^†.
   ICCV 2025.
   
2. What Do Visual Tokens Really Encode? Uncovering Sparsity and Redundancy in Multimodal Large Language Models. [PDF][Code]
   Yingqi Fan, Junlong Tong, Anhao Zhao, Xiaoyu Shen^†.
   CVPR 2026. (Highlight)
   
3. HiDrop: Hierarchical Vision Token Reduction in MLLMs via Late Injection, Concave Pyramid Pruning, and Early Exit [PDF][Code]
   Hao Wu, Yingqi Fan, Jinyang Dai, Junlong Tong, Yunpu Ma, Xiaoyu Shen^†
   ICLR 2026.
   
4. VisiPruner: Decoding Discontinuous Cross-Modal Dynamics for Efficient Multimodal LLMs. [PDF]
   Yingqi Fan, Anhao Zhao, Jinlan Fu, Junlong Tong, Hui Su, Yijie Pan, Wei Zhang, Xiaoyu Shen^†.
   EMNLP 2025.
   
5. SkipGPT: Each Token is One of a Kind. [PDF] [Code]
   Anhao Zhao, Fanghua Ye, Yingqi Fan, Junlong Tong, Jing Xiong, Zhiwei Fei, Hui Su, Xiaoyu Shen^†.
   ICML 2025.
   
6. From Data to Model: A Survey of the Compression Lifecycle in MLLMs. [PDF] [Repository]
   Hao Wu*, Junlong Tong*, Xudong Wang, Yang Tan, Changyu Zeng, Anastasia Antsiferova, Xiaoyu Shen^†.
   Under review
   

• LLM for Sequence Modeling

1. Rethinking the Role of LLMs in Time Series Forecasting. [PDF] [Code]
   Xin Qiu*, Junlong Tong*, Yirong Sun, Yunpu Ma, Wei Zhang, Xiaoyu Shen^†.
   Under review
   
2. The Few Govern the Many: Unveiling Few-Layer Dominance for Time Series Models. [PDF] [Code]
   Xin Qiu*, Junlong Tong*, Yirong Sun, Yunpu Ma, Xiaoyu Shen^†.
   Under review
   
3. Probabilistic Decomposition Transformer for Time Series Forecasting. [PDF] [Code]
   Junlong Tong, Liping Xie, Kanjian Zhang.
   SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2023).
   
4. Enhancing Time Series Forecasting: A Hierarchical Transformer with Probabilistic Decomposition Representation. [PDF]
   Junlong Tong, Liping Xie, Wankou Yang, Kanjian Zhang, Junsheng Zhao.
   Information Sciences 2023.
   
5. Hourly Solar Irradiance Forecasting Based on Encoder–decoder Model Using Series Decomposition and Dynamic Error Compensation. [PDF]
   Junlong Tong, Liping Xie, Shixiong Fang, Wankou Yang, Kanjian Zhang.
   Energy Conversion and Management 2022.