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Kesen Zhao

10 accepted papers

2026

DragNeXt: Rethinking Drag-Based Image Editing

AAAI 2026technical

Drag-Based Image Editing (DBIE), which allows users to manipulate images by directly dragging objects within them, has recently attracted much attention from the community. However, it faces two key challenges: (i) point-based drag is often highly ambiguous and difficult to align with user intention

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

Hierarchical Semantic Alignment for Image Clustering

AAAI 2026technical

Image clustering is a classic problem in computer vision, which categorizes images into different groups. Recent studies utilize nouns as external semantic knowledge to improve clustering performance. However, these methods often overlook the inherent ambiguity of nouns, which can distort semantic r

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2026

Look Carefully: Adaptive Visual Reinforcements in Multimodal Large Language Models for Hallucination Mitigation

ICLR 2026poster

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in vision–language reasoning, yet they remain vulnerable to hallucination, where generated content deviates from the visual evidence. Existing mitigation strategies either demand costly supervision during training or introduc…

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2026

Principled Steering via Null-space Projection for Jailbreak Defense in Vision-Language Models

CVPR 2026

As vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed in open-world scenarios, they can be easily induced by visual jailbreak attacks to generate harmful content, posing serious risks to model safety and trustworthy usage.Recent activation steering methods inject directional vectors into model

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2026

Real-Time Motion-Controllable Autoregressive Video Diffusion

ICLR 2026poster

Real-time motion-controllable video generation remains challenging due to the inherent latency of bidirectional diffusion models and the lack of effective autoregressive (AR) approaches. Existing AR video diffusion models are limited to simple control signals or text-to-video generation, and often s…

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2026

Reducing Class-Wise Performance Disparity via Margin Regularization

ICLR 2026poster

Deep neural networks often exhibit substantial disparities in class-wise accuracy, even when trained on class-balanced data—posing concerns for reliable deployment. While prior efforts have explored empirical remedies, a theoretical understanding of such performance disparities in classification rem…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Streaming Drag-Oriented Interactive Video Manipulation: Drag Anything, Anytime!

ICLR 2026poster

Achieving streaming, fine-grained control over the outputs of autoregressive video diffusion models remains challenging, making it difficult to ensure that they consistently align with user expectations. To bridge this gap, we propose \textbf{stReaming drag-oriEnted interactiVe vidEo manipuLation (R…

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2025

Enhancing CLIP Robustness via Cross-Modality Alignment

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP demonstrate strong generalization in zero-shot classification but remain highly vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. Existing methods primarily focus on adversarial fine-tuning or prompt optimization, they often overlook the gaps in CLIP’s encoded featu…

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2025

Unsupervised Visual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning via Preference Optimization

ICCV 2025poster

Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning greatly improves the interpretability and problem-solving abilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). However, existing approaches are focused on text CoT, limiting their ability to leverage visual cues. Visual CoT remains underexplored, and the only work…