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Kaipeng Zhang

53 accepted papers

2026

A High Quality Dataset and Reliable Evaluation for Interleaved Image-Text Generation

ICLR 2026poster

Recent advancements in Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have significantly improved multimodal understanding and generation. However, these models still struggle to generate tightly interleaved image-text outputs, primarily due to the limited scale, quality and instructional richness of current traini…

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2026

ArenaRL: Scaling RL for Open-Ended Agents via Tournament-based Relative Ranking

ICML 2026poster

Reinforcement learning (RL) has advanced LLM agents on verifiable tasks but remains challenging for open-ended tasks with vast solution spaces (e.g., complex travel planning). Lacking objective ground truth, current RL algorithms rely on reward models assigning scalar scores to individual responses.…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Closing the Expression Gap in LLM Instructions via Socratic Questioning

ICML 2026poster

A fundamental bottleneck in human-AI collaboration is the "intention expression gap", the difficulty for humans to effectively convey complex, high-dimensional thoughts to AI. This challenge often traps users in inefficient trial-and-error loops and is exacerbated by the diverse expertise levels of …

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

InternSpatial: A Comprehensive Dataset for Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Recent benchmarks and datasets have been proposed to improve spatial reasoning in vision-language models (VLMs), yet existing open resources remain limited in scale, visual diversity, and instruction expressiveness. In this work, we introduce InternSpatial, the largest open-source dataset for spatia…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

MDK12-Bench: A Multi-Discipline Benchmark for Evaluating Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models

AAAI 2026technical

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs), which integrate language and visual cues for problem-solving, are crucial for advancing artificial general intelligence (AGI). However, current benchmarks for measuring the intelligence of MLLMs suffer from limited scale, narrow coverage, and unstructured kn

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2026

MatchMask: Mask-Centric Generative Data Augmentation for Label-Scarce Semantic Segmentation

CVPR 2026

Current semantic segmentation models are very data-hungry and require massive costly pixel-wise human annotations. Generative data augmentation, which scales the train set using generative models, provides a potential remedy. In this paper, we propose MatchMask, a novel mask-centric generative data

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2026

OmniWorld: A Multi-Domain and Multi-Modal Dataset for 4D World Modeling

ICLR 2026poster

The field of 4D world modeling—aiming to jointly capture spatial geometry and temporal dynamics—has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, driven by advances in large-scale generative models and multimodal learning. However, the development of truly general 4D world models remains fundamen…

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2026

ProSoftArena: Benchmarking Hierarchical Capabilities of Multi-modal Agents in Professional Software Environments

CVPR 2026

Multi-modal agents are making rapid progress on general computer-use tasks. However, existing benchmarks remain largely confined to web browsers and rudimentary applications, failing to capture the professional software workflows that dominate real-world scientific and industrial practices. To bridg

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

PyVision-RL: Forging Open Agentic Vision Models via RL

ICML 2026poster

Reinforcement learning for agentic multimodal models often suffers from interaction collapse, where models learn to reduce tool usage and multi-turn reasoning, limiting the benefits of agentic behavior. We introduce PyVision-RL, a reinforcement learning framework for open-weight multimodal models th…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

SVBench: Evaluation of Video Generation Models on Social Reasoning

CVPR 2026

Recent text-to-video generation models have made remarkable progress in visual realism, motion fidelity, and text-video alignment, yet they still struggle to produce socially coherent behavior. Unlike humans, who readily infer intentions, beliefs, emotions, and social norms from brief visual cues, c

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2026

Yume1.5: A Text-Controlled Interactive World Generation Model

CVPR 2026

Recent approaches have demonstrated the promise of using diffusion models to generate interactive and explorable worlds. However, most of these methods face critical challenges such as excessively large parameter sizes, reliance on lengthy inference steps, and rapidly growing historical context, whi

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Dynamic Multimodal Evaluation with Flexible Complexity by Vision-Language Bootstrapping

ICLR 2025oral

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across multimodal tasks such as visual perception and reasoning, leading to good performance on various multimodal evaluation benchmarks. However, these benchmarks keep a static nature and overlap with the pre-training da…

2025

EfficientQAT: Efficient Quantization-Aware Training for Large Language Models

ACL 2025long

Large language models (LLMs) are crucial in modern natural language processing and artificial intelligence. However, they face challenges in managing their significant memory requirements. Although quantization-aware training (QAT) offers a solution by reducing memory consumption through low-bit rep…

2025

InMind: Evaluating LLMs in Capturing and Applying Individual Human Reasoning Styles

EMNLP 2025

LLMs have shown strong performance on human-centric reasoning tasks. While previous evaluations have explored whether LLMs can infer intentions or detect deception, they often overlook the individualized reasoning styles that influence how people interpret and act in social contexts. Social deductio

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2025

LiT: Delving into a Simple Linear Diffusion Transformer for Image Generation

ICCV 2025poster

In this paper, we investigate how to convert a pre-trained Diffusion Transformer (DiT) into a linear DiT, as its simplicity, parallelism, and efficiency for image generation. Through detailed exploration, we offer a suite of ready-to-use solutions, ranging from linear attention design to optimizatio…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

MMIU: Multimodal Multi-image Understanding for Evaluating Large Vision-Language Models

ICLR 2025poster

The capability to process multiple images is crucial for Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) to develop a more thorough and nuanced understanding of a scene. Recent multi-image LVLMs have begun to address this need. However, their evaluation has not kept pace with their development. To fill this ga…

2025

MPBench: A Comprehensive Multimodal Reasoning Benchmark for Process Errors Identification

ACL 2025finding

Reasoning is an essential capacity for large language models (LLMs) to address complex tasks, whereas the identification of process errors is vital for improving this ability. Recently, process-level reward models (PRMs) were proposed to provide step-wise rewards that facilitate reinforcement learni…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

OpenING: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Judging Open-ended Interleaved Image-Text Generation

CVPR 2025poster

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made significant strides in visual understanding and generation tasks. However, generating interleaved image-text content remains a challenge, which requires integrated multimodal understanding and generation abilities. While the progress in unified mode…

2025

ProJudge: A Multi-Modal Multi-Discipline Benchmark and Instruction-Tuning Dataset for MLLM-based Process Judges

ICCV 2025poster

As multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) frequently exhibit errors when solving scientific problems, evaluating the validity of their reasoning processes is critical for ensuring reliability and uncovering fine-grained model weaknesses. Since human evaluation is laborious and costly, prompting M…

2025

REPA Works Until It Doesn’t: Early-Stopped, Holistic Alignment Supercharges Diffusion Training

NeurIPS 2025poster

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) deliver state-of-the-art image quality, yet their training remains notoriously slow. A recent remedy---representation alignment (REPA) that matches DiT hidden features to those of a non-generative teacher (e.g., DINO)---dramatically accelerates the early epochs but plat…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

SAMRefiner: Taming Segment Anything Model for Universal Mask Refinement

ICLR 2025poster

In this paper, we explore a principal way to enhance the quality of widely pre-existing coarse masks, enabling them to serve as reliable training data for segmentation models to reduce the annotation cost. In contrast to prior refinement techniques that are tailored to specific models or tasks in a…

2025

Sekai: A Video Dataset towards World Exploration

NeurIPS 2025poster

Video generation techniques have made remarkable progress, promising to be the foundation of interactive world exploration. However, existing video generation datasets are not well-suited for world exploration training as they suffer from some limitations: limited locations, short duration, static s…

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2025

TP-Eval: Tap Multimodal LLMs' Potential in Evaluation by Customizing Prompts

IJCAI 2025

Recently, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have received much attention for their impressive capabilities. The evaluation of MLLMs is becoming critical to analyzing attributes of MLLMs and providing valuable insights. However, current benchmarks overlook the problem of prompt sensitivity - m

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2025

To Think or Not To Think: A Study of Thinking in Rule-Based Visual Reinforcement Fine-Tuning

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

This paper investigates the role of explicit thinking process in rule-based reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) for multi-modal large language models (MLLMs). We first extend \textit{Thinking-RFT} to image classification task, using verifiable rewards for fine-tuning~(FT). Experiments show {Thinking-RFT…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Towards World Simulator: Crafting Physical Commonsense-Based Benchmark for Video Generation

ICML 2025poster

Text-to-video (T2V) models like Sora have made significant strides in visualizing complex prompts, which is increasingly viewed as a promising path towards constructing the universal world simulator. Cognitive psychologists believe that the foundation for achieving this goal is the ability to unders…

2025

ZipAR: Parallel Autoregressive Image Generation through Spatial Locality

ICML 2025poster

In this paper, we propose ZipAR, a training-free, plug-and-play parallel decoding framework for accelerating autoregressive (AR) visual generation. The motivation stems from the observation that images exhibit local structures, and spatially distant regions tend to have minimal interdependence. Give…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

ZipVL: Accelerating Vision-Language Models through Dynamic Token Sparsity

ICCV 2025poster

The efficiency of large vision-language models (LVLMs) is constrained by the computational bottleneck of the attention mechanism during the prefill phase and the memory bottleneck of fetching the key-value (KV) cache in the decoding phase, particularly in scenarios involving high-resolution images o…

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2024

Align, Adapt and Inject: Audio-Guided Image Generation, Editing and Stylization

ICASSP 2024accepted

Diffusion models have significantly advanced various image generative tasks, including image generation, editing, and stylization. While text prompts are commonly used as guidance in most generative models, audio presents a valuable alternative, as it inherently accompanies corresponding scenes and…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

BESA: Pruning Large Language Models with Blockwise Parameter-Efficient Sparsity Allocation

ICLR 2024poster

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated outstanding performance in various tasks, such as text summarization, text question-answering, and etc. While their performance is impressive, the computational footprint due to their vast number of parameters can be prohibitive. Existing solutions such…

2024

ChartAssistant: A Universal Chart Multimodal Language Model via Chart-to-Table Pre-training and Multitask Instruction Tuning

ACL 2024findings

Charts play a vital role in data visualization, understanding data patterns, and informed decision-making. However, their unique combination of graphical elements (e.g., bars, lines) and textual components (e.g., labels, legends) poses challenges for general-purpose multimodal models. While vision-l…

2024

ConvBench: A Multi-Turn Conversation Evaluation Benchmark with Hierarchical Ablation Capability for Large Vision-Language Models

NeurIPS 2024spotlight

Multi-turn visual conversation is an important ability of real-world AI assistants. However, the related evaluation benchmark is missed. This paper presents ConvBench, a multi-turn conversation benchmark with hierarchical capabilities ablation evaluation for Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs). Co…

2024

Data Adaptive Traceback for Vision-Language Foundation Models in Image Classification

AAAI 2024technical

Vision-language foundation models have been incredibly successful in a wide range of downstream computer vision tasks using adaptation methods. However, due to the high cost of obtaining pre-training datasets, pairs with weak image-text correlation in the data exist in large numbers. We call them we…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

DiffAgent: Fast and Accurate Text-to-Image API Selection with Large Language Model

CVPR 2024poster

Text-to-image (T2I) generative models have attracted significant attention and found extensive applications within and beyond academic research. For example the Civitai community a platform for T2I innovation currently hosts an impressive array of 74492 distinct models. However this diversity presen…

2024

Lumina-Next : Making Lumina-T2X Stronger and Faster with Next-DiT

NeurIPS 2024poster

Lumina-T2X is a nascent family of Flow-based Large Diffusion Transformers (Flag-DiT) that establishes a unified framework for transforming noise into various modalities, such as images and videos, conditioned on text instructions. Despite its promising capabilities, Lumina-T2X still encounters chall…

2024

MMT-Bench: A Comprehensive Multimodal Benchmark for Evaluating Large Vision-Language Models Towards Multitask AGI

ICML 2024poster

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) show significant strides in general-propose multimodal applications such as visual dialogue and embodied navigation. However, existing multimodal evaluation benchmarks cover a limited number of multimodal tasks testing rudimentary capabilities, falling short in t…

Cited by 84SourcePDFScholar
2024

Needle In A Multimodal Haystack

NeurIPS 2024poster

With the rapid advancement of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), their evaluation has become increasingly comprehensive. However, understanding long multimodal content, as a foundational ability for real-world applications, remains underexplored. In this work, we present Needle In A Multimoda…

2024

OmniQuant: Omnidirectionally Calibrated Quantization for Large Language Models

ICLR 2024spotlight

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing tasks. However, their practical deployment is hindered by their immense memory and computation requirements. Although recent post-training quantization (PTQ) methods are effective in reducing memory footprint and improving…

2024

OneLLM: One Framework to Align All Modalities with Language

CVPR 2024poster

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have gained significant attention due to their strong multimodal understanding capability. However existing works rely heavily on modality-specific encoders which usually differ in architecture and are limited to common modalities. In this paper we present On…

2024

Position: Towards Implicit Prompt For Text-To-Image Models

ICML 2024poster

Recent text-to-image (T2I) models have had great success, and many benchmarks have been proposed to evaluate their performance and safety. However, they only consider explicit prompts while neglecting implicit prompts (hint at a target without explicitly mentioning it). These prompts may get rid of…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2024

Rethinking Human Evaluation Protocol for Text-to-Video Models: Enhancing Reliability, Reproducibility, and Practicality

NeurIPS 2024poster

Recent text-to-video (T2V) technology advancements, as demonstrated by models such as Gen2, Pika, and Sora, have significantly broadened its applicability and popularity. Despite these strides, evaluating these models poses substantial challenges. Primarily, due to the limitations inherent in auto…

2024

SPHINX-X: Scaling Data and Parameters for a Family of Multi-modal Large Language Models

ICML 2024poster

We propose SPHINX-X, an extensive Multi-modality Large Language Model (MLLM) series developed upon SPHINX. To improve the architecture and training efficiency, we modify the SPHINX framework by removing redundant visual encoders, bypassing fully-padded sub-images with skip tokens, and simplifying mu…

2024

SearchLVLMs: A Plug-and-Play Framework for Augmenting Large Vision-Language Models by Searching Up-to-Date Internet Knowledge

NeurIPS 2024poster

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) are ignorant of the up-to-date knowledge, such as LLaVA series, because they cannot be updated frequently due to the large amount of resources required, and therefore fail in many cases. For example, if a LVLM was released on January 2024, and it wouldn't know th…

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2024

TagCLIP: A Local-to-Global Framework to Enhance Open-Vocabulary Multi-Label Classification of CLIP without Training

AAAI 2024technical

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has demonstrated impressive capabilities in open-vocabulary classification. The class token in the image encoder is trained to capture the global features to distinguish different text descriptions supervised by contrastive loss, making it highly effect…

2024

Towards Lossless Dataset Distillation via Difficulty-Aligned Trajectory Matching

ICLR 2024poster

The ultimate goal of Dataset Distillation is to synthesize a small synthetic dataset such that a model trained on this synthetic set will perform equally well as a model trained on the full, real dataset. Until now, no method of Dataset Distillation has reached this completely lossless goal, in part…

2023

DiffRate : Differentiable Compression Rate for Efficient Vision Transformers

ICCV 2023poster

Token compression aims to speed up large-scale vision transformers (e.g. ViTs) by pruning (dropping) or merging tokens. It is an important but challenging task. Although recent advanced approaches achieved great success, they need to carefully handcraft a compression rate (i.e. number of tokens to r…

Cited by 56PDFcodeScholar
2023

Foundation Model is Efficient Multimodal Multitask Model Selector

NeurIPS 2023poster

This paper investigates an under-explored but important problem: given a collection of pre-trained neural networks, predicting their performance on each multi-modal task without fine-tuning them, such as image recognition, referring, captioning, visual question answering, and text question answering…

2020

FarSee-Net: Real-Time Semantic Segmentation by Efficient Multi-scale Context Aggregation and Feature Space Super-resolution

ICRA 2020poster

Real-time semantic segmentation is desirable in many robotic applications with limited computation resources. One challenge of semantic segmentation is to deal with the object scale variations and leverage the context. How to perform multi-scale context aggregation within limited computation budget…

Cited by 34SourceScholar
2018

Super-Identity Convolutional Neural Network for Face Hallucination

ECCV 2018poster

Face hallucination is a generative task to super-resolve the facial image with low resolution while human perception of face heavily relies on identity information. However, previous face hallucination approaches largely ignore facial identity recovery. This paper proposes Super-Identity Convolution…

Cited by 162SourcePDFScholar
2017

Detecting Faces Using Inside Cascaded Contextual CNN

ICCV 2017poster

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) achieve substantial improvements in face detection in the wild. Classical CNN-based face detection methods simply stack successive layers of filters where an input sample should pass through all layers before reaching a face/non-face decision. Inspired by th…

Cited by 105PDFScholar