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Kang Zhao

16 accepted papers

2026

D2MDM2: A Brain-Inspired Deep Network Based on DDM Decision-Making Mechanism for Remote Sensing Change Detection

IJCAI 2026

Remote sensing change detection (RSCD) aims to identify changed regions in bitemporal images. However, conventional one-step modeling suffers from performance degradation caused by imaging temporal differences (e.g., illumination disturbances, seasonal variations). To address this issue, we formulat

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2026

PreciseCache: Precise Feature Caching for Efficient and High-fidelity Video Generation

ICLR 2026poster

High computational costs and slow inference hinder the practical application of video generation models. While prior works accelerate the generation process through feature caching, they often suffer from notable quality degradation. In this work, we reveal that this issue arises from their inabilit…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Rethinking Depth Pruning for Vision Transformers: A Heterogeneity-Aware Perspective

ICML 2026poster

While prior studies have successfully compressed vision Transformers (ViTs) through various pruning techniques, most have concentrated on width pruning to achieve significant reductions in model size. Depth pruning, which involves the removal of entire layers from a ViT, is notoriously difficult for…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

EgoVid-5M: A Large-Scale Video-Action Dataset for Egocentric Videos Generation

NeurIPS 2025poster

Video generation has emerged as a promising tool for world simulation, leveraging visual data to replicate real-world environments. Within this context, egocentric video generation, which centers on the human perspective, holds significant potential for enhancing applications in virtual reality, aug…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

FlatQuant: Flatness Matters for LLM Quantization

ICML 2025poster

Recently, quantization has been widely used for the compression and acceleration of large language models (LLMs). Due to the outliers in LLMs, it is crucial to flatten weights and activations to minimize quantization error with equally spaced quantization points. Prior research explores various pre-…

2025

FreeMask: Rethinking the Importance of Attention Masks for Zero-Shot Video Editing

AAAI 2025technical

Text-to-video diffusion models have made remarkable advancements. Driven by their ability to generate temporally coherent videos, research on zero-shot video editing using these fundamental models has expanded rapidly. To enhance editing quality, structural controls are frequently employed in video…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Task-Specific Zero-shot Quantization-Aware Training for Object Detection

ICCV 2025poster

Quantization is a key technique to reduce network size and computational complexity by representing the network parameters with a lower precision. Traditional quantization methods rely on access to original training data, which is often restricted due to privacy concerns or security challenges. Zero…

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2024

AE-NeRF: Audio Enhanced Neural Radiance Field for Few Shot Talking Head Synthesis

AAAI 2024technical

Audio-driven talking head synthesis is a promising topic with wide applications in digital human, film making and virtual reality. Recent NeRF-based approaches have shown superiority in quality and fidelity compared to previous studies. However, when it comes to few-shot talking head generation, a p…

Cited by 10SourcePDFScholar
2024

Accelerating Transformer Pre-training with 2:4 Sparsity

ICML 2024poster

Training large transformers is slow, but recent innovations on GPU architecture give us an advantage. NVIDIA Ampere GPUs can execute a fine-grained 2:4 sparse matrix multiplication twice as fast as its dense equivalent. In the light of this property, we comprehensively investigate the feasibility of…

2024

Jetfire: Efficient and Accurate Transformer Pretraining with INT8 Data Flow and Per-Block Quantization

ICML 2024spotlight

Pretraining transformers are generally time-consuming. Fully quantized training (FQT) is a promising approach to speed up pretraining. However, most FQT methods adopt a quantize-compute-dequantize procedure, which often leads to suboptimal speedup and significant performance degradation when used in…

2023

FaceComposer: A Unified Model for Versatile Facial Content Creation

NeurIPS 2023poster

This work presents FaceComposer, a unified generative model that accomplishes a variety of facial content creation tasks, including text-conditioned face synthesis, text-guided face editing, face animation etc. Based on the latent diffusion framework, FaceComposer follows the paradigm of composition…

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2023

LipFormer: High-Fidelity and Generalizable Talking Face Generation With a Pre-Learned Facial Codebook

CVPR 2023poster

Generating a talking face video from the input audio sequence is a practical yet challenging task. Most existing methods either fail to capture fine facial details or need to train a specific model for each identity. We argue that a codebook pre-learned on high-quality face images can serve as a use…

Cited by 36SourcePDFScholar
2022

Accelerating Sparse Convolution with Column Vector-Wise Sparsity

NeurIPS 2022accept

Weight sparsity is a promising approach to reducing the model size and computation cost of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Nevertheless, non-zero weights often distribute randomly in sparse CNN models, introducing enormous difficulty in obtaining actual speedup on common hardware (e.g., GPU) o…

Cited by 14SourcePDFScholar
2022

Consistent Representation Learning for Continual Relation Extraction

ACL 2022findings

Continual relation extraction (CRE) aims to continuously train a model on data with new relations while avoiding forgetting old ones. Some previous work has proved that storing a few typical samples of old relations and replaying them when learning new relations can effectively avoid forgetting. How…

2021

Communication Efficient SGD via Gradient Sampling With Bayes Prior

CVPR 2021poster

Gradient compression has been widely adopted in data-parallel distributed training of deep neural networks to reduce communication overhead. Some literatures have demonstrated that large gradients are more important than small ones because they contain more information, such as Top-k compressor. Oth…

Cited by 13PDFcodeScholar
2021

Distribution Adaptive INT8 Quantization for Training CNNs

AAAI 2021technical

Researches have demonstrated that low bit-width (e.g., INT8) quantization can be employed to accelerate the inference process. It makes the gradient quantization very promising since the backward propagation requires approximately twice more computation than forward one. Due to the variability and u…

Cited by 72SourcePDFScholar