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Baining Guo

45 accepted papers

2026

Beyond Sunk Costs: Boosting LLM Pre-training Efficiency via Orthogonal Growth of Mixture-of-Experts

ICML 2026poster

As the computational demands for pre-training Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to surge, the need for efficient training paradigms becomes critical. Despite the vast resources already invested in existing pre-trained checkpoints, these assets often remain under-leveraged due to architectural li…

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2026

From Human Videos to Robot Manipulation: A Survey on Action-Relevant Representation Transfer for Scalable Vision-Language-Action Learning

IJCAI 2026

Recent progress in generalizable embodied control has been driven by large-scale pretraining of Vision–Language–Action (VLA) models. However, most existing approaches rely on large collections of robot demonstrations, which are costly to obtain and tightly coupled to specific embodiments. Human vide

Cited by 0Scholar
2026

OmniVLA: Physically-Grounded Multimodal VLA with Unified Multi-Sensor Perception for Robotic Manipulation

ICRA 2026poster

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown strong generalization in robotic manipulation through large-scale vision-language pretraining. However, most existing models rely solely on RGB cameras, limiting their perception and, consequently, manipulation capabilities. We present OmniVLA, an omni-…

2026

RE-TRAC: REcursive TRAjectory Compression for Deep Search Agents

ICML 2026poster

LLM-based deep research agents are largely built on the ReAct framework. This linear design makes it difficult to revisit earlier states, branch into alternative search directions, or maintain global awareness under long contexts, often leading to local optima, redundant exploration, and inefficient…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Real-Time Generation of Streamable Talking Portrait Video with Reference-Guided Deep Compression VAEs

CVPR 2026

Video diffusion models have significantly advanced portrait video generation, yet their high computational demands limit their use in interactive applications. This work presents a framework for streamable talking portrait video generation conditioned on speech audio and reference images. Designed m

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2026

Scalable Vision-Language-Action Model Pretraining for Robotic Dexterous Manipulation with Real-Life Human Activity Videos

ICRA 2026poster

This paper presents an approach for pretraining robotic manipulation Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models using a large corpus of unscripted real-life video recordings of human hand activities. Treating human hand as dexterous robot end-effector, we show that "in-the-wild" egocentric human videos wit…

Cited by 0Scholar
2026

Seeing Across Views: Benchmarking Spatial Reasoning of Vision-Language Models in Robotic Scenes

ICLR 2026poster

Vision-language models (VLMs) are essential to Embodied AI, enabling robots to perceive, reason, and act in complex environments. They also serve as the foundation for the recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. Yet, most evaluations of VLMs focus on single-view settings, leaving their ability t…

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2026

Towards On-Policy SFT: Distribution Discriminant Theory and its Applications in LLM Training

ICML 2026poster

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is computationally efficient but often yields inferior generalization compared to reinforcement learning (RL). This gap is primarily driven by RL’s use of on-policy data. We propose a framework to bridge this chasm by enabling On-Policy SFT. We first present ***Distribut…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

ART: Anonymous Region Transformer for Variable Multi-Layer Transparent Image Generation

CVPR 2025poster

Multi-layer image generation is a fundamental task that enables users to isolate, select, and edit specific image layers, thereby revolutionizing interactions with generative models. In this paper, we introduce the Anonymous Region Transformer (ART), which facilitates the direct generation of variab…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2025

Gaussian Variation Field Diffusion for High-fidelity Video-to-4D Synthesis

ICCV 2025poster

In this paper, we present a novel framework for video-to-4D generation that creates high-quality dynamic 3D content from single video inputs. Direct 4D diffusion modeling is extremely challenging due to costly data construction and the high-dimensional nature of jointly representing 3D shape, appear…

2025

Improved Noise Schedule for Diffusion Training

ICCV 2025poster

Diffusion models have emerged as the de facto choice for generating high-quality visual signals across various domains.However, training a single model to predict noise across various levels poses significant challenges, necessitating numerous iterations and incurring significant computational costs…

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2025

Optimizing Large Language Model Training Using FP4 Quantization

ICML 2025poster

The growing computational demands of training large language models (LLMs) necessitate more efficient methods. Quantized training presents a promising solution by enabling low-bit arithmetic operations to reduce these costs. While FP8 precision has demonstrated feasibility, leveraging FP4 remains a…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar
2025

UniGraspTransformer: Simplified Policy Distillation for Scalable Dexterous Robotic Grasping

CVPR 2025poster

We introduce UniGraspTransformer, a universal Transformer-based network for dexterous robotic grasping that simplifies training while enhancing scalability and performance. Unlike prior methods such as UniDexGrasp++, which require complex, multi-step training pipelines, UniGraspTransformer follows a…

2025

VASA-3D: Lifelike Audio-Driven Gaussian Head Avatars from a Single Image

NeurIPS 2025poster

We propose VASA-3D, an audio-driven, single-shot 3D head avatar generator. This research tackles two major challenges: capturing the subtle expression details present in real human faces, and reconstructing an intricate 3D head avatar from a single portrait image. To accurately model expression deta…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

VideoVLA: Video Generators Can Be Generalizable Robot Manipulators

NeurIPS 2025poster

Generalization in robot manipulation is essential for deploying robots in open-world environments and advancing toward artificial general intelligence. While recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models leverage large pre-trained understanding models for perception and instruction following, their abi…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Aligning Vision Models with Human Aesthetics in Retrieval: Benchmarks and Algorithms

NeurIPS 2024poster

Modern vision models are trained on very large noisy datasets. While these models acquire strong capabilities, they may not follow the user's intent to output the desired results in certain aspects, e.g., visual aesthetic, preferred style, and responsibility. In this paper, we target the realm of vi…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2024

CCEdit: Creative and Controllable Video Editing via Diffusion Models

CVPR 2024poster

In this paper we present CCEdit a versatile generative video editing framework based on diffusion models. Our approach employs a novel trident network structure that separates structure and appearance control ensuring precise and creative editing capabilities. Utilizing the foundational ControlNet a…

Cited by 43SourcePDFScholar
2024

GaussianCube: A Structured and Explicit Radiance Representation for 3D Generative Modeling

NeurIPS 2024poster

We introduce a radiance representation that is both structured and fully explicit and thus greatly facilitates 3D generative modeling. Existing radiance representations either require an implicit feature decoder, which significantly degrades the modeling power of the representation, or are spatially…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2024

IRGen: Generative Modeling for Image Retrieval

ECCV 2024poster

"While generative modeling has become prevalent across numerous research fields, its integration into the realm of image retrieval remains largely unexplored and underjustified. In this paper, we present a novel methodology, reframing image retrieval as a variant of generative modeling and employing…

2024

InstructDiffusion: A Generalist Modeling Interface for Vision Tasks

CVPR 2024poster

We present InstructDiffusion a unified and generic framework for aligning computer vision tasks with human instructions. Unlike existing approaches that integrate prior knowledge and pre-define the output space (e.g. categories and coordinates) for each vision task we cast diverse vision tasks into…

Cited by 109SourcePDFScholar
2024

MicroCinema: A Divide-and-Conquer Approach for Text-to-Video Generation

CVPR 2024highlight

We present MicroCinema a straightforward yet effective framework for high-quality and coherent text-to-video generation. Unlike existing approaches that align text prompts with video directly MicroCinema introduces a Divide-and-Conquer strategy which divides the text-to-video into a two-stage proces…

Cited by 15SourcePDFScholar
2024

RodinHD: High-Fidelity 3D Avatar Generation with Diffusion Models

ECCV 2024poster

"We present RodinHD, which can generate high-fidelity 3D avatars from a portrait image. Existing methods fail to capture intricate details such as hairstyles which we tackle in this paper. We first identify an overlooked problem of catastrophic forgetting that arises when fitting triplanes sequentia…

2024

V-DETR: DETR with Vertex Relative Position Encoding for 3D Object Detection

ICLR 2024poster

We introduce a highly performant 3D object detector for point clouds using the DETR framework. The prior attempts all end up with suboptimal results because they fail to learn accurate inductive biases from the limited scale of training data. In particular, the queries often attend to points that ar…

2024

VASA-1: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces Generated in Real Time

NeurIPS 2024oral

We introduce VASA, a framework for generating lifelike talking faces with appealing visual affective skills (VAS) given a single static image and a speech audio clip. Our premiere model, VASA-1, is capable of not only generating lip movements that are exquisitely synchronized with the audio, but als…

Cited by 92SourcePDFScholar
2023

Adaptive Frequency Filters As Efficient Global Token Mixers

ICCV 2023poster

Recent vision transformers, large-kernel CNNs and MLPs have attained remarkable successes in broad vision tasks thanks to their effective information fusion in the global scope. However, their efficient deployments, especially on mobile devices, still suffer from noteworthy challenges due to the hea…

Cited by 69PDFcodeScholar
2023

Efficient Diffusion Training via Min-SNR Weighting Strategy

ICCV 2023poster

Denoising diffusion models have been a mainstream approach for image generation, however, training these models often suffers from slow convergence. In this paper, we discovered that the slow convergence is partly due to conflicting optimization directions between timesteps. To address this issue, w…

Cited by 149PDFcodeScholar
2023

MM-Diffusion: Learning Multi-Modal Diffusion Models for Joint Audio and Video Generation

CVPR 2023poster

We propose the first joint audio-video generation framework that brings engaging watching and listening experiences simultaneously, towards high-quality realistic videos. To generate joint audio-video pairs, we propose a novel Multi-Modal Diffusion model (i.e., MM-Diffusion), with two-coupled denois…

2023

PeCo: Perceptual Codebook for BERT Pre-training of Vision Transformers

AAAI 2023technical

This paper explores a better prediction target for BERT pre-training of vision transformers. We observe that current prediction targets disagree with human perception judgment. This contradiction motivates us to learn a perceptual prediction target. We argue that perceptually similar images should…

Cited by 273SourcePDFScholar
2023

RODIN: A Generative Model for Sculpting 3D Digital Avatars Using Diffusion

CVPR 2023highlight

This paper presents a 3D diffusion model that automatically generates 3D digital avatars represented as neural radiance fields (NeRFs). A significant challenge for 3D diffusion is that the memory and processing costs are prohibitive for producing high-quality results with rich details. To tackle thi…

Cited by 369SourcePDFScholar
2023

iCLIP: Bridging Image Classification and Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training for Visual Recognition

CVPR 2023poster

This paper presents a method that effectively combines two prevalent visual recognition methods, i.e., image classification and contrastive language-image pre-training, dubbed iCLIP. Instead of naive multi-task learning that use two separate heads for each task, we fuse the two tasks in a deep fashi…

2022

Advancing High-Resolution Video-Language Representation With Large-Scale Video Transcriptions

CVPR 2022poster

We study joint video and language (VL) pre-training to enable cross-modality learning and benefit plentiful downstream VL tasks. Existing works either extract low-quality video features or learn limited text embedding, while neglecting that high-resolution videos and diversified semantics can signif…

Cited by 225PDFcodeScholar
2022

CSWin Transformer: A General Vision Transformer Backbone With Cross-Shaped Windows

CVPR 2022poster

We present CSWin Transformer, an efficient and effective Transformer-based backbone for general-purpose vision tasks. A challenging issue in Transformer design is that global self-attention is very expensive to compute whereas local self-attention often limits the field of interactions of each token…

Cited by 1346PDFcodeScholar
2022

Protecting Celebrities From DeepFake With Identity Consistency Transformer

CVPR 2022poster

In this work we propose Identity Consistency Transformer, a novel face forgery detection method that focuses on high-level semantics, specifically identity information, and detecting a suspect face by finding identity inconsistency in inner and outer face regions. The Identity Consistency Transforme…

Cited by 176PDFcodeScholar
2022

StyleSwin: Transformer-Based GAN for High-Resolution Image Generation

CVPR 2022poster

Despite the tantalizing success in a broad of vision tasks, transformers have not yet demonstrated on-par ability as ConvNets in high-resolution image generative modeling. In this paper, we seek to explore using pure transformers to build a generative adversarial network for high-resolution image sy…

Cited by 318PDFcodeScholar
2022

Swin Transformer V2: Scaling Up Capacity and Resolution

CVPR 2022poster

We present techniques for scaling Swin Transformer [??] up to 3 billion parameters and making it capable of training with images of up to 1,536x1,536 resolution. By scaling up capacity and resolution, Swin Transformer sets new records on four representative vision benchmarks: 84.0% top-1 accuracy on…

Cited by 2410PDFcodeScholar
2022

Vector Quantized Diffusion Model for Text-to-Image Synthesis

CVPR 2022oral

We present the vector quantized diffusion (VQ-Diffusion) model for text-to-image generation. This method is based on a vector quantized variational autoencoder (VQ-VAE) whose latent space is modeled by a conditional variant of the recently developed Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM). We…

Cited by 959PDFcodeScholar
2021

Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer Using Shifted Windows

ICCV 2021poster

This paper presents a new vision Transformer, called Swin Transformer, that capably serves as a general-purpose backbone for computer vision. Challenges in adapting Transformer from language to vision arise from differences between the two domains, such as large variations in the scale of visual ent…

Cited by 29925PDFcodeScholar
2020

Learning Texture Transformer Network for Image Super-Resolution

CVPR 2020poster

We study on image super-resolution (SR), which aims to recover realistic textures from a low-resolution (LR) image. Recent progress has been made by taking high-resolution images as references (Ref), so that relevant textures can be transferred to LR images. However, existing SR approaches neglect t…

Cited by 1107PDFcodeScholar
2019

Learning Pyramid-Context Encoder Network for High-Quality Image Inpainting

CVPR 2019poster

High-quality image inpainting requires filling missing regions in a damaged image with plausible content. Existing works either fill the regions by copying high-resolution patches or generating semantically-coherent patches from region context, while neglecting the fact that both visual and semantic…

Cited by 609PDFcodeScholar
2018

Compressing Neural Networks using the Variational Information Bottleneck

ICML 2018oral

Neural networks can be compressed to reduce memory and computational requirements, or to increase accuracy by facilitating the use of a larger base architecture. In this paper we focus on pruning individual neurons, which can simultaneously trim model size, FLOPs, and run-time memory. To improve upo…

2015

Unsupervised Extraction of Video Highlights Via Robust Recurrent Auto-Encoders

ICCV 2015poster

With the growing popularity of short-form video sharing platforms such as Instagram and Vine, there has been an increasing need for techniques that automatically extract highlights from video. Whereas prior works have approached this problem with heuristic rules or supervised learning, we present an…

Cited by 221PDFScholar