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Jihan Yang

14 accepted papers

2026

From Where Things Are to What They Are For: Benchmarking Spatial-Functional Intelligence in Multimodal LLMs

CVPR 2026

Human-level agentic intelligence extends beyond low-level geometric perception, evolving from recognizing where things are to understanding what they are for. While existing benchmarks effectively evaluate the geometric perception capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), they fall s

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2026

Towards Spatial Supersensing in Video

ICLR 2026poster

We frame spatial supersensing in video as an overarching goal for multimodal intelligence and argue that progress requires a shift from long-context brute force to predictive sensing. Using a four-level taxonomy: semantic perception, streaming event cognition, implicit 3D spatial cognition, and pred…

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2025

SFT Memorizes, RL Generalizes: A Comparative Study of Foundation Model Post-training

ICML 2025poster

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL) are widely used post-training techniques for foundation models. However, their roles in enhancing model generalization capabilities remain unclear. This paper studies the difference between SFT and RL on generalization and memorization, fo…

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2025

Thinking in Space: How Multimodal Large Language Models See, Remember, and Recall Spaces

CVPR 2025poster

Humans possess the visual-spatial intelligence to remember spaces from sequential visual observations. However, can Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) trained on million-scale video datasets also "think in space" from videos? We present a novel video-based visual-spatial intelligence benchmark…

2025

UniTok: a Unified Tokenizer for Visual Generation and Understanding

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Visual generative and understanding models typically rely on distinct tokenizers to process images, presenting a key challenge for unifying them within a single framework. Recent studies attempt to address this by connecting the training of VQVAE (for autoregressive generation) and CLIP (for underst…

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2024

Cambrian-1: A Fully Open, Vision-Centric Exploration of Multimodal LLMs

NeurIPS 2024oral

We introduce Cambrian-1, a family of multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) designed with a vision-centric approach. While stronger language models can enhance multimodal capabilities, the design choices for vision components are often insufficiently explored and disconnected from visual representation learning re…

2024

RegionPLC: Regional Point-Language Contrastive Learning for Open-World 3D Scene Understanding

CVPR 2024poster

We propose a lightweight and scalable Regional Point-Language Contrastive learning framework namely RegionPLC for open-world 3D scene understanding aiming to identify and recognize open-set objects and categories. Specifically based on our empirical studies we introduce a 3D-aware SFusion strategy t…

2023

PLA: Language-Driven Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding

CVPR 2023poster

Open-vocabulary scene understanding aims to localize and recognize unseen categories beyond the annotated label space. The recent breakthrough of 2D open-vocabulary perception is largely driven by Internet-scale paired image-text data with rich vocabulary concepts. However, this success cannot be di…

2022

DODA: Data-Oriented Sim-to-Real Domain Adaptation for 3D Semantic Segmentation

ECCV 2022poster

"Deep learning approaches achieve prominent success in 3D semantic segmentation. However, collecting densely annotated real-world 3D datasets is extremely time-consuming and expensive. Training models on synthetic data and generalizing on real-world scenarios becomes an appealing alternative, but un…

2022

Knowledge Distillation As Efficient Pre-Training: Faster Convergence, Higher Data-Efficiency, and Better Transferability

CVPR 2022poster

Large-scale pre-training has been proven to be crucial for various computer vision tasks. However, with the increase of pre-training data amount, model architecture amount, and the private/inaccessible data, it is not very efficient or possible to pre-train all the model architectures on large-scale…

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2022

Towards Efficient 3D Object Detection with Knowledge Distillation

NeurIPS 2022accept

Despite substantial progress in 3D object detection, advanced 3D detectors often suffer from heavy computation overheads. To this end, we explore the potential of knowledge distillation (KD) for developing efficient 3D object detectors, focusing on popular pillar- and voxel-based detectors. In the a…

2021

Re-Distributing Biased Pseudo Labels for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation: A Baseline Investigation

ICCV 2021poster

While self-training has advanced semi-supervised semantic segmentation, it severely suffers from the long-tailed class distribution on real-world semantic segmentation datasets that make the pseudo-labeled data bias toward majority classes. In this paper, we present a simple and yet effective Distri…

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2021

ST3D: Self-Training for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation on 3D Object Detection

CVPR 2021poster

We present a new domain adaptive self-training pipeline, named ST3D, for unsupervised domain adaptation on 3D object detection from point clouds. First, we pre-train the 3D detector on the source domain with our proposed random object scaling strategy for mitigating the negative effects of source do…

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2019

Larger Norm More Transferable: An Adaptive Feature Norm Approach for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

ICCV 2019oral

Domain adaptation enables the learner to safely generalize into novel environments by mitigating domain shifts across distributions. Previous works may not effectively uncover the underlying reasons that would lead to the drastic model degradation on the target task. In this paper, we empirically re…

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