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Kun Ding

15 accepted papers

2026

Beyond Counting: Evaluating Abstract and Emotional Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

AAAI 2026technical

Despite the rapid progress of Vision Language Models (VLMs), existing benchmarks still concentrate on coarse-grained object recognition or simple relational reasoning, leaving the fine-grained and higher-order reasoning abilities of these systems largely unexamined. To bridge this critical evaluati

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2026

Beyond Next-Token Alignment: Distilling Multimodal Large Language Models via Token Interactions

ICML 2026poster

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate impressive cross-modal capabilities, yet their substantial size poses significant deployment challenges. Knowledge distillation (KD) is a promising solution for compressing these models, but existing methods primarily rely on static next-token ali…

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2026

CC-VQA: Conflict- and Correlation-Aware Method for Mitigating Knowledge Conflict in Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering

CVPR 2026

Knowledge-based visual question answering (KB-VQA) demonstrates significant potential for handling knowledge-intensive tasks. However, conflicts arise between static parametric knowledge in vision language models (VLMs) and dynamically retrieved information due to the static model knowledge from pre

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2026

IF-Bench: Benchmarking and Enhancing MLLMs for Infrared Images with Generative Visual Prompting

CVPR 2026

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have led to impressive progress across various benchmarks. However, their capability in understanding infrared images remains unexplored. To address this gap, we introduce **IF-Bench**, the first high-quality benchmark designed for evaluati

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2026

LookFlow: Training-Free and Efficient High-Resolution Image Synthesis via Dynamic Lookahead Guidance Flow

AAAI 2026technical

Rectification flow Transformers (RFTs) have shown promising performance in diffusion-based image synthesis but are typically confined to lower-resolution scenarios, limiting their ability to generate high-resolution images. Existing resolution extrapolation approaches often suffer from excessive co

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2025

Agent Reviewers: Domain-specific Multimodal Agents with Shared Memory for Paper Review

ICML 2025poster

Feedback from peer review is essential to improve the quality of scientific articles. However, at present, many manuscripts do not receive sufficient external feedback for refinement before or during submission. Therefore, a system capable of providing detailed and professional feedback is crucial f…

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2025

Diffusion Model as a Noise-Aware Latent Reward Model for Step-Level Preference Optimization

NeurIPS 2025poster

Preference optimization for diffusion models aims to align them with human preferences for images. Previous methods typically use Vision-Language Models (VLMs) as pixel-level reward models to approximate human preferences. However, when used for step-level preference optimization, these models face…

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2025

Knowledge-based Visual Question Answer with Multimodal Processing, Retrieval and Filtering

NeurIPS 2025poster

The task of Knowlegde-Based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA) requires the model to understand visual features and retrieve external knowledge. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) have been employed to address this problem through knowledge base querying. However, existing work demonstrate two lim…

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2025

Re-ranking Reasoning Context with Tree Search Makes Large Vision-Language Models Stronger

ICML 2025spotlight

Recent advancements in Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have significantly improved performance in Visual Question Answering (VQA) tasks through multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). However, existing methods still face challenges, such as the scarcity of knowledge with reasoning exam…

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2025

UNIP: Rethinking Pre-trained Attention Patterns for Infrared Semantic Segmentation

ICLR 2025poster

Pre-training techniques significantly enhance the performance of semantic segmentation tasks with limited training data. However, the efficacy under a large domain gap between pre-training (e.g. RGB) and fine-tuning (e.g. infrared) remains underexplored. In this study, we first benchmark the infrare…

2024

Weak Distribution Detectors Lead to Stronger Generalizability of Vision-Language Prompt Tuning

AAAI 2024technical

We propose a generalized method for boosting the generalization ability of pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) while fine-tuning on downstream few-shot tasks. The idea is realized by exploiting out-of-distribution (OOD) detection to predict whether a sample belongs to a base distribution or a…

2024

Zero-shot Generalizable Incremental Learning for Vision-Language Object Detection

NeurIPS 2024poster

This paper presents Incremental Vision-Language Object Detection (IVLOD), a novel learning task designed to incrementally adapt pre-trained Vision-Language Object Detection Models (VLODMs) to various specialized domains, while simultaneously preserving their zero-shot generalization capabilities for…

2020

PackDet: Packed Long-Head Object Detector

ECCV 2020poster

State-of-the-art object detectors exploit multi-branch structure and predict objects at several different scales, although substantially boosted accuracy is acquired, low efficiency is inevitable as fragmented structure is hardware unfriendly. To solve this issue, we propose a packing operator (Pack…