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Junyang Lin

71 accepted papers

2026

A$^2$Search: Ambiguity-Aware Question Answering with Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2026poster

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) have led to strong performance in open-domain question answering (QA). However, existing models still struggle with questions that admit multiple valid answers. Standard QA benchmarks, which typically assume a single gol…

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2026

Bringing Code ALIVE: Optimizing Interactive Frontend Mini-Games via Automated Play and Reinforcement Learning at Scale

ICML 2026poster

The rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) has empowered even non-programmers to create visually appealing frontend mini-games with a single instruction. However, open-source models significantly lag behind proprietary counterparts in this domain. The core bottleneck is the lack of an evalu…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

CodePercept: Code-Grounded Visual STEM Perception for MLLMs

CVPR 2026

When MLLMs fail at Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) visual reasoning, a fundamental question arises: is it due to perceptual deficiencies or reasoning limitations? Through systematic scaling analysis that independently scales perception and reasoning components, we uncover a

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

From Narrow to Panoramic Vision: Attention-Guided Cold-Start Reshapes Multimodal Reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

The cold-start initialization stage plays a pivotal role in training Multimodal Large Reasoning Models (MLRMs), yet its mechanisms remain insufficiently understood. To analyze this stage, we introduce the Visual Attention Score (VAS), an attention-based metric that quantifies how much a model attend…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

GenMask: Adapting DiT for Segmentation via Direct Mask Generation

CVPR 2026

Recent approaches for segmentation have leveraged pretrained generative models as feature extractors, treating segmentation as a downstream adaptation task via indirect feature retrieval. This implicit use suffers from a fundamental misalignment in representation.It also depends heavily on indirect

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Language Confusion Gate: Language-Aware Decoding Through Model Self-Distillation

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) often experience language confusion, which is the unintended mixing of languages during text generation. Current solutions to this problem either necessitate model retraining or cannot differentiate between harmful confusion and acceptable code-switching. This paper intr…

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2026

Learning Transferable Temporal Primitives for Video Reasoning via Synthetic Videos

CVPR 2026

The transition from image to video understanding requires vision-language models (VLMs) to shift from recognizing static patterns to reasoning over temporal dynamics such as motion trajectories, speed changes, and state transitions. Yet current post-training methods fall short due to two critical li

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2026

Native Active Perception as Reasoning for Omni-Modal Understanding

ICML 2026poster

Passive models for long video understanding typically rely on a ``watch-it-all'' paradigm, processing data uniformly regardless of query difficulty, causing input complexity to scale linearly with video duration. Although interactive frameworks have emerged, they often rely on global pre-scanning, f…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Omni-Captioner: Data Pipeline, Models, and Benchmark for Omni Detailed Perception

ICLR 2026poster

Fine-grained perception of multimodal information is critical for advancing human–AI interaction. With recent progress in audio–visual technologies, Omni Language Models (OLMs), capable of processing audio and video signals in parallel, have emerged as a promising paradigm for achieving richer unde…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Overcoming Joint Intractability with Lossless Hierarchical Speculative Decoding

ICLR 2026oral

Verification is a key bottleneck in improving inference speed while maintaining distribution fidelity in Speculative Decoding. Recent work has shown that sequence-level verification leads to a higher number of accepted tokens compared to token-wise verification. However, existing solutions often rel…

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2026

PlotCraft: Pushing the Limits of LLMs for Complex and Interactive Data Visualization

ICML 2026poster

Recent Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in code generation. However, their ability to create complex visualizations for scaled and structured data remains largely unevaluated and underdeveloped. To address this gap, we introduce **PlotCraft**, a new benchmark fea…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Qwen-Image-Layered: Towards Inherent Editability via Layer Decomposition

CVPR 2026

Recent visual generative models often struggle with consistency during image editing due to the entangled nature of raster images, where all visual content is fused into a single canvas. In contrast, professional design tools employ layered representations, allowing isolated edits while preserving c

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Revealing Behavioral Plasticity in Large Language Models: A Token-Conditional Perspective

ICML 2026poster

In this work, we reveal that Large Language Models (LLMs) possess intrinsic behavioral plasticity—akin to chameleons adapting their coloration to environmental cues—that can be *exposed* through token-conditional generation and *stabilized* via reinforcement learning. Specifically, by conditioning g…

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2026

Revisiting Multimodal Positional Encoding in Vision–Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Multimodal position encoding is essential for vision-language models, yet there has been little systematic investigation into multimodal position encoding. We conduct a comprehensive analysis of multimodal Rotary Positional Embedding (RoPE) by examining its two core components: position design and f…

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2026

SWE-RM: Execution-free Feedback for Software Engineering Agents

ICLR 2026poster

Execution-based feedback like unit testing is widely used in the development of coding agents through test-time scaling (TTS) and reinforcement learning (RL). This paradigm requires scalable and reliable collection of unit test cases to provide accurate feedback, and the resulting feedback is often…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Scaling Agentic Verifier for Competitive Coding

ICML 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong coding capabilities but still struggle to solve competitive programming problems correctly in a single attempt. Execution-based re-ranking offers a promising test-time scaling strategy, yet existing methods are constrained by either difficult tes…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Towards Better Correctness and Efficiency in Code Generation

AAAI 2026technical

While code large language models have demonstrated remarkable progress in code generation, the generated code often exhibits poor runtime efficiency, limiting its practical application in performance-sensitive scenarios. To address this limitation, we propose an efficiency-oriented reinforcement lea

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2026

Unified Multimodal Autoregressive Modeling with Shared Context—Visual Tokenizer is Key to Unification

ICML 2026poster

Unified Multimodal Modeling aims to integrate visual understanding and generation within a single system. However, existing approaches typically rely on two disparate visual tokenizers, which splits the representation space and hinder truly unified modeling. We propose UniAR, a unified autoregressiv…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

VideoAgentTrek: Computer-Use Pretraining from Unlabeled Videos

ICLR 2026poster

Training computer-use agents requires massive amounts of GUI interaction data, but manually annotating action trajectories at scale is prohibitively expensive. We present VideoAgentTrek, a scalable pipeline that automatically mines training data from publicly available screen-recorded videos, elimin…

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2026

WebWorld: A Large-Scale World Model for Web Agent Training

ICML 2026poster

Web agents require massive trajectories to generalize, yet real-world training is constrained by network latency, rate limits, and safety risks. We introduce \textbf{WebWorld} series, the first open-web simulator trained at scale. While existing simulators are restricted to closed environments with …

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

A Probabilistic Inference Scaling Theory for LLM Self-Correction

EMNLP 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated the capability to refine their generated answers through self-correction, enabling continuous performance improvement over multiple rounds. However, the mechanisms underlying how and why accuracy evolves during this iterative process remain unexplored.

2025

A Spark of Vision-Language Intelligence: 2-Dimensional Autoregressive Transformer for Efficient Finegrained Image Generation

ICLR 2025poster

This work tackles the information loss bottleneck of vector-quantization (VQ) autoregressive image generation by introducing a novel model architecture called the 2-Dimensional Autoregression (DnD) Transformer. The DnD-Transformer predicts more codes for an image by introducing a new direction, **mo…

2025

Analyzing and Mitigating Inconsistency in Discrete Speech Tokens for Neural Codec Language Models

ACL 2025long

Building upon advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), the field of audio processing has seen increased interest in training speech generation tasks with discrete speech token sequences. However, directly discretizing speech by neural audio codecs often results in sequences that fundamentally d…

2025

Beyond the 80/20 Rule: High-Entropy Minority Tokens Drive Effective Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful approach to enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet its underlying mechanisms remain insufficiently understood. In this work, we undertake a pioneering exploration of RLVR through the no…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

CARE: Decoding-Time Safety Alignment via Rollback and Introspection Intervention

NeurIPS 2025poster

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world applications, ensuring the safety of their outputs during decoding has become a critical challenge. However, existing decoding-time interventions, such as Contrastive Decoding, often force a severe trade-off between safety and r…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

CC-OCR: A Comprehensive and Challenging OCR Benchmark for Evaluating Large Multimodal Models in Literacy

ICCV 2025poster

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in recognizing document images with natural language instructions. However, it remains unclear to what extent capabilities in literacy with rich structure and fine-grained visual challenges. The current landscape lacks a compreh…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

CateKV: On Sequential Consistency for Long-Context LLM Inference Acceleration

ICML 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in handling long-context tasks, but processing such long contexts remains challenging due to the substantial memory requirements and inference latency. In this work, we discover that certain attention heads exhibit sequential consist…

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2025

Chain of Execution Supervision Promotes General Reasoning in Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Building robust and general reasoning ability is a central goal in the development of large language models (LLMs). Recent efforts increasingly turn to code as a rich training source, given its inherent logical structure and diverse reasoning paradigms—such as divide-and-conquer, topological orderin…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

CodeArena: Evaluating and Aligning CodeLLMs on Human Preference

EMNLP 2025

We present CodeArena to emulate the complexity/diversity of real-world coding tasks, spanning 40 categories and 44 PLs. A 20B diverse synthetic instruction corpus is created by scaling instructions to help Qwen2.5-SynCoder achieve SOTA performance. Abstract: Code large language models (codeLLMs) hav

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Confidence v.s. Critique: A Decomposition of Self-Correction Capability for LLMs

ACL 2025long

Large Language Models (LLMs) can correct their self-generated responses, but a decline in accuracy after self-correction is also witnessed. To have a deeper understanding of self-correction, we endeavor to decompose, evaluate, and analyze the self-correction behaviors of LLMs. By enumerating and ana…

2025

DataMan: Data Manager for Pre-training Large Language Models

ICLR 2025poster

The performance emergence of large language models (LLMs) driven by data scaling laws makes the selection of pre-training data increasingly important. However, existing methods rely on limited heuristics and human intuition, lacking comprehensive and clear guidelines. To address this, we are inspir…

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2025

Demons in the Detail: On Implementing Load Balancing Loss for Training Specialized Mixture-of-Expert Models

ACL 2025long

This paper revisits the implementation of Load-Balancing-Loss (LBL) when training Mixture-of-Experts (MoEs) models. Specifically, LBL for MoEs is defined as NE ∑i=1NE fipi, where NE is the total number of experts, fi represents the frequency of expert i being selected, and pi denotes the average gat…

2025

Disentangling Reasoning Tokens and Boilerplate Tokens For Language Model Fine-tuning

ACL 2025finding

When using agent-task datasets to enhance agent capabilities for Large Language Models (LLMs), current methodologies often treat all tokens within a sample equally. However, we argue that tokens serving different roles—specifically, reasoning tokens versus boilerplate tokens (e.g., those governing o…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Efficient Long Context Fine-tuning with Chunk Flow

ICML 2025poster

Long context fine-tuning of large language models(LLMs) involves training on datasets that are predominantly composed of short sequences and a small proportion of longer sequences. However, existing approaches overlook this long-tail distribution and employ training strategies designed specifically…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

FPE2M2: Approaching Lossless and Efficient Quantization with Native Floating Point

ACL 2025finding

Auto-regressive decoding is a memory-bound job, meaning decoding inference performance is limited by the bandwidth rather than the computational capabilities of the GPU. Weight-only quantization is a promising method to address the memory-bound limitations. Previous studies have followed one of two…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Fine-Tuning Language Models with Collaborative and Semantic Experts

AAAI 2025technical

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have broadened their application scope but revealed challenges in balancing capabilities across general knowledge, coding, and mathematics. To address this, we introduce a Collaborative and Semantic Experts (CoE) approach for supervised fine-tuning…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Gated Attention for Large Language Models: Non-linearity, Sparsity, and Attention-Sink-Free

NeurIPS 2025oral

Gating mechanisms have been widely utilized, from early models like LSTMs and Highway Networks to recent state space models, linear attention, and also softmax attention. Yet, existing literature rarely examines the specific effects of gating. In this work, we conduct comprehensive experiments to sy…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

HellaSwag-Pro: A Large-Scale Bilingual Benchmark for Evaluating the Robustness of LLMs in Commonsense Reasoning

ACL 2025finding

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in commonsense reasoning; however, some variations in questions can trigger incorrect responses. Do these models truly understand commonsense knowledge, or just memorize expression patterns? To investigate this question, we present the…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

InSerter: Speech Instruction Following with Unsupervised Interleaved Pre-training

ACL 2025long

Recent advancements in speech large language models (SpeechLLMs) have attracted considerable attention. Nonetheless, current methods exhibit suboptimal performance in adhering to speech instructions. Notably, the intelligence of models significantly diminishes when processing speech-form input as co…

2025

LongWeave: A Long-Form Generation Benchmark Bridging Real-World Relevance and Verifiability

EMNLP 2025

Generating long, informative, and factual outputs remains a major challenge for Large Language Models (LLMs). Existing benchmarks for long-form generation typically assess real-world queries with hard-to-verify metrics or use synthetic setups that ease evaluation but overlook real-world intricacies.

2025

MARGE: Improving Math Reasoning with Guided Exploration

ICML 2025poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit strong potential in mathematical reasoning, yet their effectiveness is often limited by a shortage of high-quality queries. This limitation necessitates scaling up computational responses through self-generated data, yet current methods struggle due to spurious c…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

NOVA-63: Native Omni-lingual Versatile Assessments of 63 Disciplines

EMNLP 2025

The multilingual capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have attracted considerable attention over the past decade. Assessing the accuracy with which LLMs provide answers in multilingual contexts is essential for determining their level of multilingual proficiency. Nevertheless, existing multi

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

OpenHands: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents

ICLR 2025poster

Software is one of the most powerful tools that we humans have at our disposal; it allows a skilled programmer to interact with the world in complex and profound ways. At the same time, thanks to improvements in large language models (LLMs), there has also been a rapid development in AI agents that…

Cited by 32SourcePDFScholar
2025

P-MMEval: A Parallel Multilingual Multitask Benchmark for Consistent Evaluation of LLMs

EMNLP 2025

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) showcase varied multilingual capabilities across tasks like translation, code generation, and reasoning. Previous assessments often limited their scope to fundamental natural language processing (NLP) or isolated capability-specific tasks. To allev

2025

Parallel Scaling Law for Language Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

It is commonly believed that scaling language models should commit a significant space or time cost, by increasing the parameters (parameter scaling) or output tokens (inference-time scaling). We introduce another and more inference-efficient scaling paradigm: increasing the model's parallel computa…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

PolyMath: Evaluating Mathematical Reasoning in Multilingual Contexts

NeurIPS 2025poster

In this paper, we introduce **PolyMath**, a multilingual mathematical reasoning benchmark covering 18 languages and 4 easy-to-hard difficulty levels. Our benchmark ensures difficulty comprehensiveness, language diversity, and high-quality translation, making it a highly discriminative multilingual m…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

ProcessBench: Identifying Process Errors in Mathematical Reasoning

ACL 2025long

As language models regularly make mistakes when solving math problems, automated identification of errors in the reasoning process becomes increasingly significant for their scalable oversight. In this paper, we introduce ProcessBench for measuring the ability to identify erroneous steps in mathemat…

2025

Qwen2.5-xCoder: Multi-Agent Collaboration for Multilingual Code Instruction Tuning

ACL 2025long

Recent advancement in code understanding and generation demonstrates that code LLMs fine-tuned on a high-quality instruction dataset can gain powerful capabilities to address wide-ranging code-related tasks. However, most previous existing methods mainly view each programming language in isolation a…

2025

RMTBench: Benchmarking LLMs Through Multi-Turn User-Centric Role-Playing

EMNLP 2025

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown outstanding potential for role-playing applications. Evaluating these capabilities is becoming crucial yet remains challenging. Existing benchmarks mostly adopt a character-centric approach, simplify user-character interactions to isolat

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Rationales Are Not Silver Bullets: Measuring the Impact of Rationales on Model Performance and Reliability

ACL 2025finding

Training language models with rationales augmentation has been shown to be beneficial in many existing works. In this paper, we identify that such a prevailing view does not hold consistently. We conduct comprehensive investigations to thoroughly inspect the impact of rationales on model performance…

2025

Rethinking Data Selection at Scale: Random Selection is Almost All You Need

EMNLP 2025

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is crucial for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human instructions. The primary goal during SFT is to select a small yet representative subset of training data from the larger pool, such that fine-tuning with this subset achieves results comparable to or even e

2025

Rotated Runtime Smooth: Training-Free Activation Smoother for accurate INT4 inference

ICLR 2025poster

Large language models have demonstrated promising capabilities upon scaling up parameters. However, serving large language models incurs substantial computation and memory movement costs due to their large scale. Quantization methods have been employed to reduce service costs and latency. Neverthele…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

START: Self-taught Reasoner with Tools

EMNLP 2025

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in complex reasoning through long chain-of-thought, yet they struggle with precise computations and algorithmic operations. Integrating computational tools with LRMs remains challenging, particularly in activating and enhancing

2025

Self-Steering Optimization: Autonomous Preference Optimization for Large Language Models

ACL 2025finding

The key to effective alignment lies in high-quality preference data. Recent research has focused on automated alignment, which involves developing alignment systems with minimal human intervention. However, prior research has predominantly focused on developing data generation methods, while insuffi…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Synthesizing Software Engineering Data in a Test-Driven Manner

ICML 2025poster

We introduce **SWE-Flow**, a novel data synthesis framework grounded in Test-Driven Development (TDD). Unlike existing software engineering data that rely on human-submitted issues, **SWE-Flow** automatically infers incremental development steps directly from unit tests, which inherently encapsulate…

2025

Teaching Language Models to Reason with Tools

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large reasoning models (LRMs) like OpenAI-o1 have shown impressive capabilities in natural language reasoning. However, these models frequently demonstrate inefficiencies or inaccuracies when tackling complex mathematical operations. While integrating computational tools such as Code Interpreters (C…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

The Lessons of Developing Process Reward Models in Mathematical Reasoning

ACL 2025finding

Process Reward Models (PRMs) aim to identify and mitigate intermediate errors in the reasoning processes in mathematical reasoning of Large Language Models (LLMs).However, the development of effective PRMs faces significant challenges, particularly in data annotation and evaluation methodologies.In…

2025

Turning the Tide: Repository-based Code Reflection

EMNLP 2025

Code large language models (LLMs) enhance programming by understanding and generating code across languages, offering intelligent feedback, bug detection, and code updates through reflection, improving development efficiency and accessibility. While benchmarks (e.g. HumanEval/LiveCodeBench) evaluate

2024

#InsTag: Instruction Tagging for Analyzing Supervised Fine-tuning of Large Language Models

ICLR 2024poster

Pre-trained large language models (LLMs) can understand and align with human instructions by supervised fine-tuning (SFT). It is commonly believed that diverse and complex SFT data are of the essence to enable good instruction-following abilities. However, such diversity and complexity are obscure a…

2024

An Image is Worth 1/2 Tokens After Layer 2: Plug-and-Play Inference Acceleration for Large Vision-Language Models

ECCV 2024oral

"In this study, we identify the inefficient attention phenomena in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), notably within prominent models like LLaVA-1.5, QwenVL-Chat, and Video-LLaVA. We find that the attention computation over visual tokens is extremely inefficient in the deep layers of popular LVLM…

2024

Can Large Language Models Always Solve Easy Problems if They Can Solve Harder Ones?

EMNLP 2024main

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities, but still suffer from inconsistency issues (e.g. LLMs can react differently to disturbances like rephrasing or inconsequential order change). In addition to these inconsistencies, we also observe that LLMs, while capable of solv…

2024

Routing to the Expert: Efficient Reward-guided Ensemble of Large Language Models

NAACL 2024long

The complementary potential of Large Language Models (LLM) assumes off-the-shelf LLMs have heterogeneous expertise in a wide range of domains and tasks so that an ensemble of LLMs can achieve consistently better performance. Existing ensemble methods for LLMs mainly focus on reward model ranking of…

Cited by 83SourcePDFScholar
2024

Synthesizing Text-to-SQL Data from Weak and Strong LLMs

ACL 2024long

The capability gap between open-source and closed-source large language models (LLMs) remains a challenge in text-to-SQL tasks. In this paper, we introduce a synthetic data approach that combines data produced by larger, more powerful models (strong models) with error information data generated by s…

2023

Prompt Tuning for Unified Multimodal Pretrained Models

ACL 2023findings

Prompt tuning has become a new paradigm for model tuning and it has demonstrated success in natural language pretraining and even vision pretraining. The parameter-efficient prompt tuning methods that optimize soft embeddings while keeping the pretrained model frozen demonstrate advantages in low co…

2023

Transferring General Multimodal Pretrained Models to Text Recognition

ACL 2023findings

This paper proposes a new method, OFA-OCR, to transfer multimodal pretrained models to text recognition. Specifically, we recast text recognition as image captioning and directly transfer a unified vision-language pretrained model to the end task. Without pretraining on large-scale annotated or synt…

2022

Modality Competition: What Makes Joint Training of Multi-modal Network Fail in Deep Learning? (Provably)

ICML 2022spotlight

Despite the remarkable success of deep multi-modal learning in practice, it has not been well-explained in theory. Recently, it has been observed that the best uni-modal network outperforms the jointly trained multi-modal network across different combinations of modalities on various tasks, which is…

Cited by 123SourcePDFScholar
2022

OFA: Unifying Architectures, Tasks, and Modalities Through a Simple Sequence-to-Sequence Learning Framework

ICML 2022spotlight

In this work, we pursue a unified paradigm for multimodal pretraining to break the shackles of complex task/modality-specific customization. We propose OFA, a Task-Agnostic and Modality-Agnostic framework that supports Task Comprehensiveness. OFA unifies a diverse set of cross-modal and unimodal tas…

2021

CogView: Mastering Text-to-Image Generation via Transformers

NeurIPS 2021poster

Text-to-Image generation in the general domain has long been an open problem, which requires both a powerful generative model and cross-modal understanding. We propose CogView, a 4-billion-parameter Transformer with VQ-VAE tokenizer to advance this problem. We also demonstrate the finetuning strateg…

2021

KNAS: Green Neural Architecture Search

ICML 2021spotlight

Many existing neural architecture search (NAS) solutions rely on downstream training for architecture evaluation, which takes enormous computations. Considering that these computations bring a large carbon footprint, this paper aims to explore a green (namely environmental-friendly) NAS solution tha…

2021

Learning Relation Alignment for Calibrated Cross-modal Retrieval

ACL 2021long

Despite the achievements of large-scale multimodal pre-training approaches, cross-modal retrieval, e.g., image-text retrieval, remains a challenging task. To bridge the semantic gap between the two modalities, previous studies mainly focus on word-region alignment at the object level, lacking the ma…

2019

Understanding and Improving Layer Normalization

NeurIPS 2019poster

Layer normalization (LayerNorm) is a technique to normalize the distributions of intermediate layers. It enables smoother gradients, faster training, and better generalization accuracy. However, it is still unclear where the effectiveness stems from. In this paper, our main contribution is to take a…