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Kuan-Chieh Wang

20 accepted papers

2025

I Think, Therefore I Diffuse: Enabling Multimodal In-Context Reasoning in Diffusion Models

ICML 2025poster

This paper presents ThinkDiff, a novel alignment paradigm that empowers text-to-image diffusion models with multimodal in-context understanding and reasoning capabilities by integrating the strengths of vision-language models (VLMs). Existing multimodal diffusion finetuning methods largely focus on…

2025

Omni-ID: Holistic Identity Representation Designed for Generative Tasks

CVPR 2025poster

We introduce Omni-ID, a novel facial representation designed specifically for generative tasks. Omni-ID encodes holistic information about an individual's appearance across diverse expressions and poses within a fixed-size representation. It consolidates information from a varied number of unstructu…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2025

Preventing Shortcuts in Adapter Training via Providing the Shortcuts

NeurIPS 2025poster

Adapter-based training has emerged as a key mechanism for extending the capabilities of powerful foundation image generators, enabling personalized and stylized text-to-image synthesis. These adapters are typically trained to capture a specific target attribute, such as subject identity, using singl…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Interpreting the Weight Space of Customized Diffusion Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

We investigate the space of weights spanned by a large collection of customized diffusion models. We populate this space by creating a dataset of over 60,000 models, each of which is a base model fine-tuned to insert a different person's visual identity. We model the underlying manifold of these wei…

2024

VIMI: Grounding Video Generation through Multi-modal Instruction

EMNLP 2024main

Existing text-to-video diffusion models rely solely on text-only encoders for their pretraining. This limitation stems from the absence of large-scale multimodal prompt video datasets, resulting in a lack of visual grounding and restricting their versatility and application in multimodal integration…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar
2024

Viewpoint textual inversion: discovering scene representations and 3D view control in 2D diffusion models

ECCV 2024poster

"Text-to-image diffusion models generate impressive and realistic images, but do they learn to represent the 3D world from only 2D supervision? We demonstrate that yes, certain 3D scene representations are encoded in the text embedding space of models like Stable Diffusion. Our approach, Viewpoint N…

2023

Diagnosing and Rectifying Vision Models using Language

ICLR 2023poster

Recent multi-modal contrastive learning models have demonstrated the ability to learn an embedding space suitable for building strong vision classifiers, by leveraging the rich information in large-scale image-caption datasets. Our work highlights a distinct advantage of this multi-modal embedding s…

2023

LOVM: Language-Only Vision Model Selection

NeurIPS 2023poster

Pre-trained multi-modal vision-language models (VLMs) are becoming increasingly popular due to their exceptional performance on downstream vision applications, particularly in the few- and zero-shot settings. However, selecting the best-performing VLM for some downstream applications is non-trivial,…

2023

NeMo: Learning 3D Neural Motion Fields From Multiple Video Instances of the Same Action

CVPR 2023highlight

The task of reconstructing 3D human motion has wide-ranging applications. The gold standard Motion capture (MoCap) systems are accurate but inaccessible to the general public due to their cost, hardware, and space constraints. In contrast, monocular human mesh recovery (HMR) methods are much more ac…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2021

Grad2Task: Improved Few-shot Text Classification Using Gradients for Task Representation

NeurIPS 2021poster

Large pretrained language models (LMs) like BERT have improved performance in many disparate natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, fine tuning such models requires a large number of training examples for each target task. Simultaneously, many realistic NLP problems are "few shot", withou…

2021

Understanding and Mitigating Exploding Inverses in Invertible Neural Networks

AISTATS 2021poster

Invertible neural networks (INNs) have been used to design generative models, implement memory-saving gradient computation, and solve inverse problems. In this work, we show that commonly-used INN architectures suffer from exploding inverses and are thus prone to becoming numerically non-invertible.…

2021

Variational Model Inversion Attacks

NeurIPS 2021poster

Given the ubiquity of deep neural networks, it is important that these models do not reveal information about sensitive data that they have been trained on. In model inversion attacks, a malicious user attempts to recover the private dataset used to train a supervised neural network. A successful mo…

2020

Learning the Stein Discrepancy for Training and Evaluating Energy-Based Models without Sampling

ICML 2020poster

We present a new method for evaluating and training unnormalized density models. Our approach only requires access to the gradient of the unnormalized model’s log-density. We estimate the Stein discrepancy between the data density p(x) and the model density q(x) based on a vector function of the dat…

2020

Your classifier is secretly an energy based model and you should treat it like one

ICLR 2020talk

We propose to reinterpret a standard discriminative classifier of p(y|x) as an energy based model for the joint distribution p(x, y). In this setting, the standard class probabilities can be easily computed as well as unnormalized values of p(x) and p(x|y). Within this framework, standard discrimina…

Cited by 674SourcecodeScholar
2019

Centroid-based Deep Metric Learning for Speaker Recognition

ICASSP 2019accepted

Speaker embedding models that utilize neural networks to map utterances to a space where distances reflect similarity between speakers have driven recent progress in the speaker recognition task. However, there is still a significant performance gap between recognizing speakers in the training set a…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2018

Adversarial Distillation of Bayesian Neural Network Posteriors

ICML 2018accepted

Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) allow us to reason about uncertainty in a principled way. Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics (SGLD) enables efficient BNN learning by drawing samples from the BNN posterior using mini-batches. However, SGLD and its extensions require storage of many copies of the m…

2018

Neural Relational Inference for Interacting Systems

ICML 2018oral

Interacting systems are prevalent in nature, from dynamical systems in physics to complex societal dynamics. The interplay of components can give rise to complex behavior, which can often be explained using a simple model of the system’s constituent parts. In this work, we introduce the neural relat…