34 accepted papers
Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) are emerging as a promising alternative to autoregressive models (ARMs) due to their ability to capture bidirectional context and the potential for parallel generation. Despite the advantages, dLLM inference remains computationally expensive as the full input…
Long-horizon reasoning and task execution are crucial for complex mobile manipulation tasks in household environments. Existing benchmarks and methods primarily focus on single-room or single-object mobile manipulation scenarios, limiting the scope of long-horizon planning and scene-level understand
In low-level vision tasks, achieving harmony between visual quality and recognition accuracy is often challenging, as the two do not always align. Many existing approaches focus on optimizing downstream tasks by linking image quality to machine perception, typically incurring additional burdens such…
Advancements in generative models have promoted text- and image-based multi-context image generation. Brain signals, offering a direct representation of user intent, present new opportunities for image customization. However, it faces challenges in brain interpretation, cross-modal context fusion an…
Despite significant advancements in image and text conditional image editing, the exploration of using brain signals, which are more direct and personalized to reflect user intentions, remains limited. An intuitive method is to convert implicit brain signals into explicit representations such as ima…
While spatial reasoning has made progress in object localization relationships, it often overlooks object orientation—a key factor in 6-DoF fine-grained manipulation. Traditional pose representations rely on pre-defined frames or templates, limiting generalization and semantic grounding. In this pap…
Low-level vision plays a crucial role in a wide range of imaging quality and image recognition applications. However, the limited size, quality, and diversity of datasets often pose significant challenges for low-level tasks. Data augmentation is the most effective and practical way of sample expans…
This paper presents DreamLLM, a learning framework that first achieves versatile Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) empowered with frequently overlooked synergy between multimodal comprehension and creation. DreamLLM operates on two fundamental principles. The first focuses on the generative m…
Consumer-grade cameras capture the RAW physical description of a scene and then process the image signals to obtain high-quality RGB images that are faithful to human visual perception. Conventionally, dense prediction scenes require high-precision recognition of objects in RGB images. However, pred…
Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) with high-level language instructions is a crucial task in robotics. Existing VLN benchmarks, such as the REVERIE challenge which has single-goal instructions and limited navigation steps, do not fully encapsulate the complexity of real-world navigation that often re…
To accommodate real-world dynamics artificial intelligence systems need to cope with sequentially arriving content in an online manner. Beyond regular Continual Learning (CL) attempting to address catastrophic forgetting with offline training of each task Online Continual Learning (OCL) is a more ch…
In this work, we introduce Unique3D, a novel image-to-3D framework for efficiently generating high-quality 3D meshes from single-view images, featuring state-of-the-art generation fidelity and strong generalizability. Previous methods based on Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) can produce diversifie…
The success of deep learning heavily relies on large-scale data with comprehensive labels, which is more expensive and time-consuming to fetch in 3D compared to 2D images or natural languages. This promotes the potential of utilizing models pretrained with data more than 3D as teachers for cross-mod…
Mainstream 3D representation learning approaches are built upon contrastive or generative modeling pretext tasks, where great improvements in performance on various downstream tasks have been achieved. However, we find these two paradigms have different characteristics: (i) contrastive models are da…
Rapidly learning from ongoing experiences and remembering past events with a flexible memory system are two core capacities of biological intelligence. While the underlying neural mechanisms are not fully understood, various evidence supports that synaptic plasticity plays a critical role in memory…
Learning descriptive 3D features is crucial for understanding 3D scenes with diverse objects and complex structures. However, it is usually unknown whether important geometric attributes and scene context obtain enough emphasis in an end-to-end trained 3D scene understanding network. To guide 3D fea…
The remarkable breakthroughs in point cloud representation learning have boosted their usage in real-world applications such as self-driving cars and virtual reality. However, these applications usually have an urgent requirement for not only accurate but also efficient 3D object detection. Recently…
Significant advancements have been accomplished with deep neural networks in diverse visual tasks, which have substantially elevated their deployment in edge device software. However, during the update of neural network-based software, users are required to download all the parameters of the neural…
Conditional 3D generation is undergoing a significant advancement, enabling the free creation of 3D content from inputs such as text or 2D images. However, previous approaches have suffered from low inference efficiency, limited generation categories, and restricted downstream applications. In this…
"The success of deep learning is usually accompanied by the growth in neural network depth. However, the traditional training method only supervises the neural network at its last layer and propagates the supervision layer-by-layer, which leads to hardship in optimizing the intermediate layers. Rece…
Quantized neural networks typically require smaller memory footprints and lower computation complexity, which is crucial for efficient deployment. However, quantization inevitably leads to a distribution divergence from the original network, which generally degrades the performance. To tackle this i…
Methods based on deep neural networks with a massive number of layers and skip-connections have made impressive improvements on single image super-resolution (SISR). The skip-connections in these complex models boost the performance at the cost of a large amount of memory. With the increase of camer…
Scene flow prediction is a challenging task that aims at jointly estimating the 3D structure and 3D motion of dynamic scenes. The previous methods concentrate more on point-wise estimation instead of considering the correspondence between objects as well as lacking the sensation of high-level semant…
Remarkable achievements have been attained with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in image-to-image translation. However, due to a tremendous amount of parameters, state-of-the-art GANs usually suffer from low efficiency and bulky memory usage. To tackle this challenge, firstly, this paper inve…
Continual learning aims to learn a sequence of tasks from dynamic data distributions. Without accessing to the old training samples, knowledge transfer from the old tasks to each new task is difficult to determine, which might be either positive or negative. If the old knowledge interferes with the…
Designing an unsupervised image denoising approach in practical applications is a challenging task due to the complicated data acquisition process. In the real-world case, the noise distribution is so complex that the simplified additive white Gaussian (AWGN) assumption rarely holds, which significa…
Knowledge distillation, in which a student model is trained to mimic a teacher model, has been proved as an effective technique for model compression and model accuracy boosting. However, most knowledge distillation methods, designed for image classification, have failed on more challenging tasks, s…
Weight pruning has been widely acknowledged as a straightforward and effective method to eliminate redundancy in Deep Neural Networks (DNN), thereby achieving acceleration on various platforms. However, most of the pruning techniques are essentially trade-offs between model accuracy and regularity w…
Training process is crucial for the deployment of the network in applications which have two strict requirements on both accuracy and robustness. However, most existing approaches are in a dilemma, i.e. model accuracy and robustness form an embarrassing tradeoff - the improvement of one leads to the…
Existing domain adaptation methods aim at learning features that can be generalized among domains. These methods commonly require to update source classifier to adapt to the target domain and do not properly handle the trade-off between the source domain and the target domain. In this work, instead…
Feature distillation, a primary method in knowledge distillation, always leads to significant accuracy improvements. Most existing methods distill features in the teacher network through a manually designed transformation. In this paper, we propose a novel distillation method named task-oriented fea…
It is well known that deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which are implemented by adding crafted perturbations onto benign examples. Min-max robust optimization based adversarial training can provide a notion of security against adversarial attacks. However, adversari…
Convolutional neural networks have been widely deployed in various application scenarios. In order to extend the applications' boundaries to some accuracy-crucial domains, researchers have been investigating approaches to boost accuracy through either deeper or wider network structures, which brings…
Remarkable achievements have been attained by deep neural networks in various applications. However, the increasing depth and width of such models also lead to explosive growth in both storage and computation, which has restricted the deployment of deep neural networks on resource-limited edge devic…