Jianbo Shi
· Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Pennsylvania · Computer and Information Science
Active 1994–2026
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About
Jianbo Shi is a professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the application of deep learning in safety-critical systems, aiming to enhance safety and reliability in technologies such as cars, medical devices, and energy grids. His work emphasizes leveraging advanced computational methods to improve the safety standards of essential systems.
Research topics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Science
- Psychology
- Multimedia
- Materials science
- Nanotechnology
- Human–computer interaction
- Chemistry
- Computer vision
Selected publications
Ego-Exo4D: Understanding Skilled Human Activity from First- and Third-Person Perspectives
International Journal of Computer Vision · 2025-11-24 · 1 citations
articleArtifacts and Attention Sinks: Structured Approximations for Efficient Vision Transformers
ArXiv.org · 2025-07-21
preprintOpen accessSenior authorVision transformers have emerged as a powerful tool across a wide range of applications, yet their inner workings remain only partially understood. In this work, we examine the phenomenon of massive tokens - tokens with exceptionally high activation norms that act as attention sinks - and artifact tokens that emerge as a byproduct during inference. Our analysis reveals that these tokens mutually suppress one another through the attention mechanism, playing a critical role in regulating informati…
Recent grants
CAREER: Learning to See - A Unified Segmentation and Recognition Approach
NSF · $400k · 2005–2011
Frequent coauthors
- 1185 shared
Guibin Jiang
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences
- 661 shared
Ligang Hu
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences
- 576 shared
Guangbo Qu
Jianghan University
- 510 shared
Yongguang Yin
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences
- 262 shared
Bin He
Tianjin University of Technology
- 220 shared
Jianjie Fu
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences
- 184 shared
Yong Cai
Florida International University
- 126 shared
Ben Yu
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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