Shilei Cao | 曹诗磊

Hi, I'm Shilei Cao, a third-year master's student in the IGCS Lab at Sun Yat-sen University, advised by Prof. Zheng. During my undergraduate studies, I was very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Peng.

My research interests focus on enhancing the robustness and adaptability of machine learning models under complex environments. Specifically, my work spans Domain Adaptation (including Test-Time Adaptation, Federated Learning, and Domain Generalization), as well as Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) for large models, with cross-disciplinary applications in Remote Sensing, Weather Foundation Models, and LLM.

I will be joining the HPGC Research Group at Tsinghua University as a Ph.D. student in 2027, under the supervision of Prof. Fu.

Education

Awards & Honors

2025
First Prize, National Geographic Information Technology Application Competition (￥50,000)
2024
Gold Medal, Kunpeng Application Innovation Competition (￥100,000)
2021,2022,2023
Outstanding Student Scholarship, Sun Yat-sen University

Publications

(* indicates equal contribution, # represents corresponding author)
📊 -- Citations

First / Co-First Author

  • CVPR CrossEarth-Gate thumbnail
    CrossEarth-Gate: Fisher-Guided Adaptive Tuning Engine for Efficient Adaptation of Cross-Domain Remote Sensing Semantic Segmentation
    Shilei Cao*, Ziyang Gong*, Hehai Lin, Yang Liu, Jiashun Cheng, Xiaoxing Hu, Haoyuan Liang, Guowen Li, Chengwei Qin, Hong Cheng, Xue Yang, Juepeng Zheng#, Haohuan Fu
    The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
    CCF-A
    PEFT Earth Science Domain Adaptation
    Link PDF Code
  • ICLR WeatherPEFT thumbnail
    Task-Adaptive Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Weather Foundation Models
    Shilei Cao*, Hehai Lin*, Jiashun Cheng, Yang Liu, Guowen Li, Xuehe Wang, Juepeng Zheng#, Haoyuan Liang, Meng Jin, Chengwei Qin, Hong Cheng, Haohuan Fu
    The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
    CCF-A
    PEFT Earth Science
    Link PDF Code
  • ESWA AMROD thumbnail
    Continual Test-Time Adaptation for Object Detection with Adaptive Monitoring and Randomized Restoration
    Shilei Cao, Juepeng Zheng#, Yan Liu, Baoquan Zhao, Ziqi Yuan, Weijia Li, Runmin Dong, Haohuan Fu
    Expert Systems With Applications (ESWA), 2026
    JCR Q1 IF=9.4 中科院1区Top
    Domain Adaptation
    Link PDF Code
  • ICME AMROD thumbnail
    Navigating the Unknown: Continual Test-Time Adaptation for Unknown-Aware Object Detection
    Shilei Cao*, Yan Liu*, Junyu Liu, Qingmei Li, Juepeng Zheng#
    IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), 2026
    CCF-B
    Domain Adaptation
    PDF
  • ACL Findings Interactive Learning for LLM Reasoning thumbnail
    Interactive Learning for LLM Reasoning
    Hehai Lin*, Shilei Cao*, Sudong Wang, Haotian Wu, Minzhi Li, Linyi Yang, Juepeng Zheng, Chengwei Qin#
    Findings of The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026
    Findings
    LLM
    Link PDF Code
  • NeurIPS SPFL thumbnail
    SPFL: Sequential Updates with Parallel Aggregation for Enhanced Federated Learning Under Category and Domain Shifts
    Haoyuan Liang*, Shilei Cao*, Guowen Li, Zhiyu Ye, Haohuan Fu, Juepeng Zheng#
    The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025
    CCF-A
    Domain Adaptation
    Link PDF
  • JAG LSCD-TTA thumbnail
    Low Saturation Confidence Distribution-based Test-Time Adaptation for Cross-Domain Remote Sensing Image Classification
    Yu Liang*, Shilei Cao*, Juepeng Zheng#, Xiucheng Zhang, Jianxi Huang, Haohuan Fu
    International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (JAG), 2025
    JCR Q1 IF=8.2 中科院1区Top
    Earth Science Domain Adaptation
    Link PDF
  • ICME FedDG thumbnail
    Federated Open-Set Domain Generalization with Adaptive Adjustment Boundary and Weights
    Haoyuan Liang*, Shilei Cao*, Yushan Lai, Juepeng Zheng#
    IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), 2025
    CCF-B Oral
    Domain Adaptation
    Link PDF
  • UIST CriTrainer thumbnail
    CriTrainer: An Adaptive Training Tool for Critical Paper Reading
    Kangyu Yuan*, Hehai Lin*, Shilei Cao*, Zhenhui Peng#, Qingyu Guo, Xiaojuan Ma
    ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2023
    CCF-A Oral
    LLM
    Link PDF

Co-Author

  • TNNLS FedOSDG framework thumbnail
    FedOSDG: Federated Open-Set Domain Generalization with Adaptive Adjustment Boundary and Weights
    Juepeng Zheng*, Haoyuan Liang*, Shilei Cao, Qingmei Li#, Yushan Lai, Guowen Li, Haohuan Fu
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 2026
    CCF-B JCR Q1 IF=9.7 中科院1区Top
    Domain Adaptation
  • ICML UniFLoW thumbnail
    UniFLoW: Universal Multi-Modal Federated LoRA Fine-Tuning Framework with Analytical Aggregation
    Haoyuan Liang, Zhiyu Ye, Jielong Tang, Yang Yang, Shilei Cao, Guowen Li, Fei Hu, Zhiwei Zhang, Haohuan Fu, Juepeng Zheng
    The Forty-third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026
    CCF-A
    PEFT LLM
    PDF
  • TGRS A2-MAE thumbnail
    A²-MAE: A spatial-temporal-spectral unified remote sensing pre-training method based on anchor-aware masked autoencoder
    Lixian Zhang*, Yi Zhao*, Runmin Dong*#, Jinxiao Zhang, Shuai Yuan, Shilei Cao, Mengxuan Chen, Juepeng Zheng#, Weijia Li, Wei Liu, Wayne Zhang, Litong Feng, Haohuan Fu#
    IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), 2026
    JCR Q1 IF=9.4 中科院1区Top
    Earth Science
    Link PDF Code
  • ICLR TianQuan-S2S thumbnail
    TianQuan-S2S: A Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Global Weather Model via Incorporate Climatology State
    Guowen Li, Xintong Liu, Yang Liu, Mengxuan Chen, Shilei Cao, Xuehe Wang, Juepeng Zheng#, Jinxiao Zhang, Haoyuan Liang, Lixian Zhang, Jiuke Wang, Meng Jin, Hong Cheng, Haohuan Fu
    The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
    CCF-A
    Earth Science
    Link PDF Code
  • MM CIDA thumbnail
    Quantifying Samples with Invariance for Source-Free Class Incremental Domain Adaptation
    Zhiyu Ye, Guowen Li, Haoyuan Liang, Zixi Wang, Shilei Cao, Yushan Lai, Juepeng Zheng#
    Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM), 2025
    CCF-A
    Domain Adaptation
    Link PDF
  • AAAI TTA-FedDG thumbnail
    TTA-FedDG: Leveraging Test-Time Adaptation to Address Federated Domain Generalization
    Haoyuan Liang, Xinyu Zhang, Shilei Cao, Guowen Li, Juepeng Zheng#
    AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025
    CCF-A
    Domain Adaptation
    Link PDF Code
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