38 accepted papers
Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) requires segmenting specific objects in a video guided by a natural language description. The core challenge of RVOS is to anchor abstract linguistic concepts onto a specific set of pixels and continuously segment them through the complex dynamics of a vide…
Recent generative models allow robots to generate future visual outcomes for action guidance, yet most still address imagination and control independently, resulting in visually coherent rollouts but physically inconsistent behaviors. While structural priors enhance spatial grounding, these methods
Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) often faces GPU memory bottlenecks: the backward pass of first-order optimizers like Adam increases memory usage to more than 10 times the inference level (e.g., 633~GB for OPT-30B). Zeroth-order (ZO) optimizers avoid this cost by estimating gradients only fr…
LLMs demonstrate performance comparable to human abilities in complex tasks such as mathematical reasoning, but their robustness in mathematical reasoning under minor input perturbations still lacks systematic investigation. Existing methods generally suffer from limited scalability, weak semantic p…
Bimanual manipulation is essential for advanced robotic systems because it offers higher efficiency and flexibility compared to single-arm configurations. However, existing approaches either lack inter-arm interaction or ignore the need for a dynamic division of labor, treating the arms as functiona…
Membership inference attack (MIA) has become one of the most widely used and effective methods for evaluating the privacy risks of machine learning models. This attack aims to determine whether a specific sample is part of the model
Recent studies have demonstrated that learning a meaningful internal represen- tation can accelerate generative training. However, existing approaches necessi- tate to either introduce an off-the-shelf external representation task or rely on a large-scale, pre-trained external representation encoder…
Denoising-based diffusion transformers, despite their strong generation performance, suffer from inefficient training convergence. Existing methods addressing this issue, such as REPA (relying on external representation encoders) or SRA (requiring dual-model setups), inevitably incur heavy computati
Deep neural networks have been increasingly used in safety-critical applications such as medical diagnosis and autonomous driving. However, many studies suggest that they are prone to being poorly calibrated and have a propensity for overconfidence, which may have disastrous consequences. In this pa…
Video action recognition involves interpreting both global context and specific details to accurately identify actions. While previous models are effective at capturing spatiotemporal features, they often lack a focused representation of key action details. To address this, we introduce \nameo, a fr…
Previous methods often utilize CLIP semantic classifiers with class names for zero-shot object counting. However, they ignore crucial density and depth knowledge for counting tasks. Thus, we propose a density-aware and depth-aware prompt counting model, which captures density information via learnin…
Integrating natural language instructions and visual perception with decision-making is a critical challenge for embodied agents. Existing methods often struggle to balance the conciseness of language commands with the richness of video content. To bridge the gap between modalities, we propose extra…
Current zero-shot human-object interaction detection methods often follow a two-phase pipeline, which uses a pre-trained detector to detect instances and then adopts CLIP to perform interaction prediction. During the second phase, they either obtain pairwise representations by directly performing Ro…
Social media platforms provide an ideal environment to spread misinformation, where social bots can accelerate the spread. This paper explores the interplay between social bots and misinformation on the Sina Weibo platform. We construct a large-scale dataset that includes annotations for both misinf
While recent advances in fake news video detection have shown promising potential, existing approaches typically (1) focus on a specific domain (e.g., politics) and (2) assume the availability of multiple modalities, including video, audio, description texts, and related images. However, these metho…
Text-to-image diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for high-quality image generation and editing. Many existing approaches rely on text prompts as editing guidance. However, these methods are constrained by the need for manual prompt crafting, which can be time-consuming, introduce irrele
Pre-training backbone networks on a general annotated dataset (e.g., ImageNet) that comprises numerous manually collected images with category annotations has proven to be indispensable for enhancing the generalization capacity of downstream visual tasks. However, those manually collected images oft…
Diffusion models have demonstrated significant potential for generating high-quality images, audio, and videos. However, their iterative inference process entails substantial computational costs, limiting practical applications. Recently, researchers have introduced accelerated sampling methods that…
Although learning 3D manipulation policies from monocular RGB images is lightweight and deployment-friendly, the lack of structural information often leads to inaccurate action estimation. While explicit 3D inputs can mitigate this issue, they typically require additional sensors and introduce data…
Evidence-enhanced detectors present remarkable abilities in identifying malicious social text. However, the rise of large language models (LLMs) brings potential risks of evidence pollution to confuse detectors. This paper explores potential manipulation scenarios including basic pollution, and reph…
As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being integrated into various real-world applications, the identification of their vulnerabilities to jailbreaking attacks becomes an essential component of ensuring the safety and reliability of LLMs. Previous studies have developed LLM assistants,…
Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) is necessary for specific downstream tasks, but classic first-order optimizer entails prohibitive GPU memory because of the back propagation. Recent works such as MeZO have turned to zeroth-order optimizers for fine-tuning, which reduce substantial memory by…
Text-to-image diffusion models significantly enhance the efficiency of artistic creation with high-fidelity image generation. However, in typical application scenarios like comic book production, they can neither place each subject into its expected spot nor maintain the consistent appearance of eac…
Text-guided video editing (TGVE) has become a recent hotspot due to its entertainment value and practical applications. To reduce overhead, existing methods primarily extend from text-to-image diffusion models and typically involve reconstruction and editing phases. However, challenges persist, part
Recently, the rise of large-scale vision-language pretrained models like CLIP, coupled with the technology of Parameter-Efficient FineTuning (PEFT), has captured substantial attraction in video action recognition. Nevertheless, prevailing approaches tend to prioritize strong supervised performance a…
This paper focuses on the large-scale optimization which is very popular in the big data era. The gradient sketching is an important technique in the large-scale optimization. Specifically, the random coordinate descent algorithm is a kind of gradient sketching method with the random sampling matrix…
The conjugate gradient method is a crucial first-order optimization method that generally converges faster than the steepest descent method, and its computational cost is much lower than that of second-order methods. However, while various types of conjugate gradient methods have been studied in Euc…
In decentralized optimization, $m$ agents form a network and only communicate with their neighbors, which gives advantages in data ownership, privacy, and scalability. At the same time, decentralized stochastic gradient descent ($\texttt{SGD}$) methods, as popular decentralized algorithms for traini…
Variance reduction techniques are designed to decrease the sampling variance, thereby accelerating convergence rates of first-order (FO) and zeroth-order (ZO) optimization methods. However, in composite optimization problems, ZO methods encounter an additional variance called the coordinate-wise var…
Recent advancements have shown promise in applying traditional Semi-Supervised Learning strategies to the task of Generalized Category Discovery (GCD). Typically, this involves a teacher-student framework in which the teacher imparts knowledge to the student to classify categories, even in the absen…
Collecting well-matched multimedia datasets is crucial for training cross-modal retrieval models. However in real-world scenarios massive multimodal data are harvested from the Internet which inevitably contains Partially Mismatched Pairs (PMPs). Undoubtedly such semantical irrelevant data will rema…
Cross-modal retrieval relies on well-matched large-scale datasets that are laborious in practice. Recently, to alleviate expensive data collection, co-occurring pairs from the Internet are automatically harvested for training. However, it inevitably includes mismatched pairs, i.e., noisy corresponde…
Text-to-image diffusion models benefit artists with high-quality image generation. Yet their stochastic nature hinders artists from creating consistent images of the same subject. Existing methods try to tackle this challenge and generate consistent content in various ways. However, they either depe…
Despite significant progress in Text-to-Image (T2I) generative models, even lengthy and complex text descriptions still struggle to convey detailed controls. In contrast, Layout-to-Image (L2I) generation, aiming to generate realistic and complex scene images from user-specified layouts, has risen to…
Text-guided diffusion models have significantly advanced image editing, enabling high-quality and diverse modifications driven by text prompts. However, effective editing requires inverting the source image into a latent space, a process often hindered by prediction errors inherent in DDIM inversion…
"Diffusion models have marked a significant breakthrough in the synthesis of semantically coherent images. However, their extensive noise estimation networks and the iterative generation process limit their wider application, particularly on resource-constrained platforms like mobile devices. Existi…
Class prototype construction and matching are core aspects of few-shot action recognition. Previous methods mainly focus on designing spatiotemporal relation modeling modules or complex temporal alignment algorithms. Despite the promising results, they ignored the value of class prototype constructi…
The study of sparsity in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has become widespread to compress and accelerate models in environments with limited resources. By constraining N consecutive weights along the output channel to be group-wise non-zero, the recent network with 1$\times$N sparsity has rece…