← Search

Golnaz Ghiasi

13 accepted papers

2025

Towards Robust Mathematical Reasoning

EMNLP 2025

Finding the right north-star metrics is highly critical for advancing mathematical reasoning capabilities of foundation models, especially given that existing evaluations are either too easy or only focusing on getting correct short answers. To address these issues, we present IMO-Bench, a suite of

2024

HaloQuest: A Visual Hallucination Dataset for Advancing Multimodal Reasoning

ECCV 2024poster

"Hallucination has been a major problem for large language models and remains a critical challenge when it comes to multimodality in which vision-language models (VLMs) have to deal with not just textual but also visual inputs. Despite rapid progress in VLMs, resources for evaluating and addressing…

2023

DaTaSeg: Taming a Universal Multi-Dataset Multi-Task Segmentation Model

NeurIPS 2023poster

Observing the close relationship among panoptic, semantic and instance segmentation tasks, we propose to train a universal multi-dataset multi-task segmentation model: DaTaSeg. We use a shared representation (mask proposals with class predictions) for all tasks. To tackle task discrepancy, we adopt…

2022

Scaling Open-Vocabulary Image Segmentation with Image-Level Labels

ECCV 2022poster

"We design an open-vocabulary image segmentation model to organize an image into meaningful regions indicated by arbitrary texts. Recent works (CLIP and ALIGN), despite attaining impressive open-vocabulary classification accuracy with image-level caption labels, are unable to segment visual concepts…

2021

Multi-Task Self-Training for Learning General Representations

ICCV 2021poster

Despite the fast progress in training specialized models for various tasks, learning a single general model that works well for many tasks is still challenging for computer vision. Here we introduce multi-task self-training (MuST), which harnesses the knowledge in independent specialized teacher mod…

Cited by 121PDFcodeScholar
2021

Simple Copy-Paste Is a Strong Data Augmentation Method for Instance Segmentation

CVPR 2021poster

Building instance segmentation models that are data-efficient and can handle rare object categories is an important challenge in computer vision. Leveraging data augmentations is a promising direction towards addressing this challenge. Here, we perform a systematic study of the Copy-Paste augmentati…

Cited by 1267PDFcodeScholar
2020

Learning Data Augmentation Strategies for Object Detection

ECCV 2020poster

Much research on object detection focuses on building better model architectures and detection algorithms. Changing the model architecture, however, comes at the cost of adding more complexity to inference, making models slower. Data augmentation, on the other hand, doesn't add any inference complex…

2020

MnasFPN: Learning Latency-Aware Pyramid Architecture for Object Detection on Mobile Devices

CVPR 2020poster

Despite the blooming success of architecture search for vision tasks in resource-constrained environments, the design of on-device object detection architectures have mostly been manual. The few automated search efforts are either centered around non-mobile-friendly search spaces or not guided by on…

Cited by 72PDFcodeScholar
2020

Rethinking Pre-training and Self-training

NeurIPS 2020oral

Pre-training is a dominant paradigm in computer vision. For example, supervised ImageNet pre-training is commonly used to initialize the backbones of object detection and segmentation models. He et al., however, show a striking result that ImageNet pre-training has limited impact on COCO object dete…

2020

SpineNet: Learning Scale-Permuted Backbone for Recognition and Localization

CVPR 2020poster

Convolutional neural networks typically encode an input image into a series of intermediate features with decreasing resolutions. While this structure is suited to classification tasks, it does not perform well for tasks requiring simultaneous recognition and localization (e.g., object detection). T…

Cited by 259PDFcodeScholar
2018

DropBlock: A regularization method for convolutional networks

NeurIPS 2018poster

Deep neural networks often work well when they are over-parameterized and trained with a massive amount of noise and regularization, such as weight decay and dropout. Although dropout is widely used as a regularization technique for fully connected layers, it is often less effective for convolutiona…