Difan Zou

2.6k total citations
37 papers, 660 citations indexed

About

Difan Zou is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Difan Zou has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 660 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 9 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 9 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Difan Zou's work include Optical Wireless Communication Technologies (16 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (6 papers) and Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques (6 papers). Difan Zou is often cited by papers focused on Optical Wireless Communication Technologies (16 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (6 papers) and Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques (6 papers). Difan Zou collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Difan Zou's co-authors include Zhengyuan Xu, Quanquan Gu, Chen Gong, Dongruo Zhou, Yuan Cao, James Bailey, Xingjun Ma, Yisen Wang, Jinfeng Yi and Weihao Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

In The Last Decade

Difan Zou

34 papers receiving 628 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Difan Zou China 12 361 290 115 86 78 37 660
Chuying Yu China 14 334 0.9× 105 0.4× 373 3.2× 154 1.8× 27 0.3× 25 769
Zhiyu Qu China 12 199 0.6× 242 0.8× 70 0.6× 56 0.7× 248 3.2× 40 548
Dahai Han China 17 731 2.0× 42 0.1× 69 0.6× 78 0.9× 133 1.7× 102 831
Aiying Yang China 17 835 2.3× 63 0.2× 54 0.5× 96 1.1× 112 1.4× 114 920
Ebrahim E. Elsayed Egypt 19 844 2.3× 70 0.2× 92 0.8× 72 0.8× 246 3.2× 42 1.1k
Abhijit Sinha Canada 13 187 0.5× 488 1.7× 37 0.3× 60 0.7× 281 3.6× 51 702
Faisal Nadeem Khan Hong Kong 20 1.5k 4.2× 447 1.5× 42 0.4× 21 0.2× 42 0.5× 52 1.7k
Meihua Bi China 22 1.4k 3.9× 106 0.4× 108 0.9× 33 0.4× 131 1.7× 204 1.6k
Yan Pan China 18 1.0k 2.9× 198 0.7× 36 0.3× 85 1.0× 23 0.3× 101 1.3k
Xiaopeng Yan China 13 77 0.2× 196 0.7× 84 0.7× 21 0.2× 123 1.6× 61 516

Countries citing papers authored by Difan Zou

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Fields of papers citing papers by Difan Zou

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Difan Zou

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Difan Zou. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Difan Zou based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Difan Zou. Difan Zou is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Cao, Yuan, et al.. (2025). Per-example gradient regularization improves learning signals from noisy data. Machine Learning. 114(3). 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Difei, et al.. (2025). STGAN: Spatial-Temporal Graph Autoregression Network for Pavement Distress Deterioration Prediction. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 26(7). 10764–10779.
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Ren, Shuhuai, Zhijie Lin, Yujin Han, et al.. (2025). Parallelized Autoregressive Visual Generation. 12955–12965. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaona, et al.. (2022). An Efficient Iterative Least Square Method for Indoor Visible Light Positioning Under Shot Noise. IEEE photonics journal. 15(1). 1–10. 6 indexed citations
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Zou, Difan, Jingfeng Wu, Vladimir Braverman, et al.. (2021). The Benefits of Implicit Regularization from SGD in Least Squares Problems. arXiv (Cornell University). 34. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Yisen, Difan Zou, Jinfeng Yi, et al.. (2020). Improving Adversarial Robustness Requires Revisiting Misclassified Examples. International Conference on Learning Representations. 153 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaona, Difan Zou, Nuo Huang, & Sha Zhang. (2020). A Comprehensive Accuracy Analysis of Visible Light Positioning under Shot Noise. 167–172. 9 indexed citations
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Zou, Difan, Pan Xu, & Quanquan Gu. (2019). Stochastic Gradient Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Methods with Recursive Variance Reduction. Neural Information Processing Systems. 32. 3830–3841. 2 indexed citations
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Zou, Difan, Yuan Cao, Dongruo Zhou, & Quanquan Gu. (2019). Gradient descent optimizes over-parameterized deep ReLU networks. Machine Learning. 109(3). 467–492. 121 indexed citations
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Zou, Difan & Quanquan Gu. (2019). An Improved Analysis of Training Over-parameterized Deep Neural Networks. Neural Information Processing Systems. 32. 2053–2062. 11 indexed citations
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Zou, Difan, Pan Xu, & Quanquan Gu. (2018). Subsampled Stochastic Variance-Reduced Gradient Langevin Dynamics.. Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. 508–518. 4 indexed citations
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Zou, Difan, et al.. (2018). Characterization on Practical Photon Counting Receiver in Optical Scattering Communication. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 67(3). 2203–2217. 32 indexed citations
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Zou, Difan, Chen Gong, & Zhengyuan Xu. (2018). Signal Detection Under Short-Interval Sampling of Continuous Waveforms for Optical Wireless Scattering Communication. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 17(5). 3431–3443. 17 indexed citations
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Zou, Difan, Chen Gong, Kun Wang, & Zhengyuan Xu. (2017). Characterization of a Practical Photon Counting Receiver in Optical Scattering Communication. 6 indexed citations
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Gong, Chen, et al.. (2017). Turbulence Channel Modeling and Non-Parametric Estimation for Optical Wireless Scattering Communication. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 35(13). 2746–2756. 23 indexed citations
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Wang, Kun, et al.. (2017). Demonstration of a 400 kbps real-time non-line-of-sight laser-based ultraviolet communication system over 500 m. Chinese Optics Letters. 15(4). 40602–40605. 17 indexed citations
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Zou, Difan & Zhengyuan Xu. (2016). Information Security Risks Outside the Laser Beam in Terrestrial Free-Space Optical Communication. IEEE photonics journal. 8(5). 1–9. 46 indexed citations
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Liu, Weihao, Difan Zou, Zhengyuan Xu, & Jiancheng Yu. (2015). Non-line-of-sight scattering channel modeling for underwater optical wireless communication. 1265–1268. 33 indexed citations

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