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Daquan Zhou

25 accepted papers

2026

Enhancing Spatial Understanding in Image Generation via Reward Modeling

CVPR 2026

Recent progress in text-to-image generation has greatly advanced visual fidelity and creativity, but it has also imposed higher demands on prompt complexity--particularly in encoding intricate spatial relationships. In such cases, achieving satisfactory results often requires multiple sampling attem

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2026

MHLA: Restoring Expressivity of Linear Attention via Token-Level Multi-Head

ICLR 2026poster

While the Transformer architecture dominates many fields, its quadratic self-attention complexity hinders its use in large-scale applications. **Linear attention** offers an efficient alternative, but its direct application often degrades performance, with existing fixes typically re-introducing com…

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2026

SANA-Video: Efficient Video Generation with Block Linear Diffusion Transformer

ICLR 2026oral

We introduce SANA-Video, a small diffusion model that can efficiently generate videos up to 720×1280 resolution and minute-length duration. SANA-Video synthesizes high-resolution, high-quality and long videos with strong text-video alignment at a remarkably fast speed, deployable on RTX 5090 GPU. Tw…

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2026

TS-Attn: Temporal-wise Separable Attention for Multi-Event Video Generation

ICLR 2026poster

Generating high-quality videos from complex temporal descriptions, which refer to prompts containing multiple sequential actions, remains a significant challenge. Existing methods are constrained by an inherent trade-off: using multiple short prompts fed sequentially into the model improves action f…

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2026

Unified Latent Space for Understanding and Generation via Semantic Auto-encoder

CVPR 2026

Latent generative modeling has emerged as the dominant paradigm for Diffusion Transformers (DiT), where a pretrained autoencoder compresses image pixels into a latent space to facilitate the diffusion process. Recently, the use of semantic encoders within autoencoders (AEs) has gained attention, yet

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2025

AR-1-to-3: Single Image to Consistent 3D Object via Next-View Prediction

ICCV 2025poster

Novel view synthesis (NVS) is a cornerstone for image-to-3d creation. However, existing works still struggle to maintain consistency between the generated views and the input views, especially when there is a significant camera pose difference, leading to poor-quality 3D geometries and textures. We…

2025

SANA 1.5: Efficient Scaling of Training-Time and Inference-Time Compute in Linear Diffusion Transformer

ICML 2025poster

This paper presents SANA-1.5, a linear Diffusion Transformer for efficient scaling in text-to-image generation. Building upon SANA-1.0, we introduce three key innovations: (1) Efficient Training Scaling: A depth-growth paradigm that enables scaling from 1.6B to 4.8B parameters with significantly red…

2024

InfoBatch: Lossless Training Speed Up by Unbiased Dynamic Data Pruning

ICLR 2024oral

Data pruning aims to obtain lossless performances with less overall cost. A common approach is to filter out samples that make less contribution to the training. This could lead to gradient expectation bias compared to the original data. To solve this problem, we propose InfoBatch, a novel framework…

2024

LVD-2M: A Long-take Video Dataset with Temporally Dense Captions

NeurIPS 2024poster

The efficacy of video generation models heavily depends on the quality of their training datasets. Most previous video generation models are trained on short video clips, while recently there has been increasing interest in training long video generation models directly on longer videos. However, th…

2024

MAgIC: Investigation of Large Language Model Powered Multi-Agent in Cognition, Adaptability, Rationality and Collaboration

EMNLP 2024main

Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced natural language processing, demonstrating exceptional reasoning, tool usage, and memory capabilities. As their applications expand into multi-agent environments, there arises a need for a comprehensive evaluation framework that captures LLMs’…

2024

PromptCoT: Align Prompt Distribution via Adapted Chain-of-Thought

CVPR 2024poster

Diffusion-based generative models have exhibited remarkable capability in the production of high-fidelity visual content such as images and videos. However their performance is significantly contingent upon the quality of textual inputs commonly referred to as "prompts". The process of traditional p…

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2024

StoryDiffusion: Consistent Self-Attention for Long-Range Image and Video Generation

NeurIPS 2024spotlight

For recent diffusion-based generative models, maintaining consistent content across a series of generated images, especially those containing subjects and complex details, presents a significant challenge. In this paper, we propose a simple but effective self-attention mechanism, termed Consistent S…

2023

DiffFit: Unlocking Transferability of Large Diffusion Models via Simple Parameter-efficient Fine-Tuning

ICCV 2023oral

Diffusion models have proven to be highly effective in generating high-quality images. However, adapting large pre-trained diffusion models to new domains remains an open challenge, which is critical for real-world applications. This paper proposes DiffFit, a parameter-efficient strategy to fine-tun…

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2023

Expanding Small-Scale Datasets with Guided Imagination

NeurIPS 2023poster

The power of DNNs relies heavily on the quantity and quality of training data. However, collecting and annotating data on a large scale is often expensive and time-consuming. To address this issue, we explore a new task, termed dataset expansion, aimed at expanding a ready-to-use small dataset by au…

2023

PPG Reloaded: An Empirical Study on What Matters in Phasic Policy Gradient

ICML 2023poster

In model-free reinforcement learning, recent methods based on a phasic policy gradient (PPG) framework have shown impressive improvements in sample efficiency and zero-shot generalization on the challenging Procgen benchmark. In PPG, two design choices are believed to be the key contributing factors…

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2022

Shunted Self-Attention via Multi-Scale Token Aggregation

CVPR 2022oral

Recent Vision Transformer (ViT) models have demonstrated encouraging results across various computer vision tasks, thanks to its competence in modeling long-range dependencies of image patches or tokens via self-attention. These models, however, usually designate the similar receptive fields of each…

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2022

Understanding The Robustness in Vision Transformers

ICML 2022spotlight

Recent studies show that Vision Transformers (ViTs) exhibit strong robustness against various corruptions. Although this property is partly attributed to the self-attention mechanism, there is still a lack of an explanatory framework towards a more systematic understanding. In this paper, we examine…

2021

AutoSpace: Neural Architecture Search With Less Human Interference

ICCV 2021poster

Current neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms still require expert knowledge and effort to design a search space for network construction. In this paper, we consider automating the search space design to minimize human interference, which however faces two challenges: the explosive complexity…

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2020

ConvBERT: Improving BERT with Span-based Dynamic Convolution

NeurIPS 2020spotlight

Pre-trained language models like BERT and its variants have recently achieved impressive performance in various natural language understanding tasks. However, BERT heavily relies on the global self-attention block and thus suffers large memory footprint and computation cost. Although all its attenti…

2020

Neural Epitome Search for Architecture-Agnostic Network Compression

ICLR 2020poster

Traditional compression methods including network pruning, quantization, low rank factorization and knowledge distillation all assume that network architectures and parameters should be hardwired. In this work, we propose a new perspective on network compression, i.e., network parameters can be dis…

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2020

Rethinking Bottleneck Structure for Efficient Mobile Network Design

ECCV 2020poster

The inverted residual block is dominating architecture design for mobile networks recently. It changes the classic residual bottleneck by introducing two design rules: learning inverted residuals and using linear bottlenecks. In this paper, we rethink the necessity of such design change and find it…

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2019

PANet: Few-Shot Image Semantic Segmentation With Prototype Alignment

ICCV 2019oral

Despite the great progress made by deep CNNs in image semantic segmentation, they typically require a large number of densely-annotated images for training and are difficult to generalize to unseen object categories. Few-shot segmentation has thus been developed to learn to perform segmentation from…

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