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Lefei Zhang

51 accepted papers

2026

Anchor-Guided Discriminative Subspace Alignment and Clustering for Cross-Scene Hyperspectral Imagery

AAAI 2026technical

Cross-scene hyperspectral image (HSI) recognition aims to assign a unique label to each pixel in the target scene by transferring knowledge from the source scene. Existing methods primarily rely on fully labeled source data and either partially labeled or unlabeled target data. No prior work has add

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2026

Any2RSI: Controllable Remote Sensing Text-to-Image Generation via Any Control and Enriched Description

AAAI 2026technical

Recent advances in controllable text-to-image (T2I) generation have achieved impressive results in natural images, but remote sensing (RS) T2I remains challenging due to the unique nature of geospatial data. Existing methods struggle to integrate diverse spatial controls and model complex spatial re

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2026

ClearAIR: A Human-Visual-Perception-Inspired All-in-One Image Restoration

AAAI 2026technical

Recently, All-in-One image restoration (AiOIR) has advanced significantly, offering promising solutions for complex real-world degradations. However, most existing approaches heavily rely on degradation-specific representation learning, which can lead to oversmoothing and artifacts in the restored i

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2026

OFL-SAM2: Prompt SAM2 with Online Few-shot Learner for Efficient Medical Image Segmentation

AAAI 2026technical

The Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) has demonstrated remarkable promptable visual segmentation capabilities in video data, showing potential for extension to medical image segmentation (MIS) tasks involving 3D volumes and temporally correlated 2D image sequences. However, adapting SAM2 to MIS presen

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2026

Orthogonal Spatial-Aware Multi-View Anchor Graph Clustering for Incomplete Remote Sensing Data

CVPR 2026

Multi-view clustering for remote sensing data has received increasing attention by leveraging diverse data representations to enhance Earth observation. Existing methods are primarily developed under the assumption that each pixel is fully observed across all views. No prior work has investigated th

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

RS2-SAM2: Customized SAM2 for Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation

AAAI 2026technical

Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (RRSIS) aims to segment target objects in remote sensing (RS) images based on textual descriptions. Although Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) has shown remarkable performance in various segmentation tasks, its application to RRSIS presents several challenge

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2026

Refining Few-Step Text-to-Multiview Diffusion via Reinforcement Learning

CVPR 2026

Text-to-multiview (T2MV) diffusion models have shown great promise in generating multiple views of a scene from a single text prompt. While few-step backbones enable real-time T2MV generation, they often compromise key aspects of generation quality, such as per-view fidelity and cross-view consisten

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2026

ResAD: Normalized Residual Trajectory Modeling for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

CVPR 2026

End-to-end autonomous driving (E2EAD) systems, which learn to predict future trajectories directly from sensor data, are fundamentally challenged by the inherent spatio-temporal imbalance of trajectory data. This imbalance creates a significant optimization burden, causing models to learn spurious c

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Scaling LLM Speculative Decoding: Non-Autoregressive Forecasting in Large-Batch Scenarios

AAAI 2026technical

Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference by utilizing otherwise idle computational resources during memory-to-chip data transfer. Current speculative decoding methods typically assume a considerable amount of available computing power, then generate a complex and massive draft tree using a sma

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2025

CoViPAL: Layer-wise Contextualized Visual Token Pruning for Large Vision-Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) process multimodal inputs consisting of text tokens and vision tokens extracted from images or videos. Due to the rich visual information, a single image can generate thousands of vision tokens, leading to high computational costs during the prefilling stage and

2025

HSRMamba: Contextual Spatial-Spectral State Space Model for Single Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution

IJCAI 2025

Mamba has demonstrated exceptional performance in visual tasks due to its powerful global modeling capabilities and linear computational complexity, offering considerable potential in hyperspectral image super-resolution (HSISR). However, in HSISR, Mamba faces challenges as transforming images into

2025

Imitate Before Detect: Aligning Machine Stylistic Preference for Machine-Revised Text Detection

AAAI 2025technical

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized text generation, making detecting machine-generated text increasingly challenging. Although past methods have achieved good performance on detecting pure machine-generated text, those detectors have poor performance on distinguishing machine-revised t…

2025

Intention Analysis Makes LLMs A Good Jailbreak Defender

COLING 2025main

Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values, particularly when facing complex and stealthy jailbreak attacks, presents a formidable challenge. Unfortunately, existing methods often overlook this intrinsic nature of jailbreaks, which limits their effectiveness in such complex scenarios. I…

2025

KV-Latent: Dimensional-level KV Cache Reduction with Frequency-aware Rotary Positional Embedding

ACL 2025long

Large language models (LLMs) based on Transformer Decoders have become the preferred choice for conversational generative AI. Despite the overall superiority of the Decoder architecture, the gradually increasing Key-Value (KV) cache during inference has emerged as a primary efficiency bottleneck, bo…

2025

Label Drop for Multi-Aspect Relation Modeling in Universal Information Extraction

NAACL 2025long

Universal Information Extraction (UIE) has garnered significant attention due to its ability to address model explosion problems effectively. Extractive UIE can achieve strong performance using a relatively small model, making it widely adopted. Extractive UIEs generally rely on task instructions fo…

2025

MPG-SAM 2: Adapting SAM 2 with Mask Priors and Global Context for Referring Video Object Segmentation

ICCV 2025poster

Referring video object segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment objects in a video according to textual descriptions, which requires the integration of multimodal information and temporal dynamics perception. The Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) has shown great effectiveness across various video segmenta…

2025

Merging on the Fly Without Retraining: A Sequential Approach to Scalable Continual Model Merging

NeurIPS 2025poster

Deep model merging represents an emerging research direction that combines multiple fine-tuned models to harness their specialized capabilities across different tasks and domains. Current model merging techniques focus on merging all available models simultaneously, with weight interpolation-based m…

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2025

NOTA: Multimodal Music Notation Understanding for Visual Large Language Model

NAACL 2025findings

Symbolic music is represented in two distinct forms: two-dimensional, visually intuitive score images, and one-dimensional, standardized text annotation sequences. While large language models have shown extraordinary potential in music, current research has primarily focused on unimodal symbol seque…

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2025

ScaleMatch: Multi-scale Consistency Enhancement for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation

AAAI 2025technical

Semi-supervised learning improves semantic segmentation performance by leveraging unlabeled data, thereby significantly reducing labeling costs. Previous semi-supervised semantic segmentation (S4) methods explored perturbations at the image level but neglected to adequately utilize multi-scale infor…

2025

Segment First or Comprehend First? Explore the Limit of Unsupervised Word Segmentation with Large Language Models

ACL 2025long

Word segmentation stands as a cornerstone of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Based on the concept of “comprehend first, segment later”, we propose a new framework to explore the limit of unsupervised word segmentation with Large Language Models (LLMs) and evaluate the semantic understanding capab…

2025

SongSong: A Time Phonograph for Chinese SongCi Music from Thousand of Years Away

AAAI 2025technical

Recently, there have been significant advancements in music generation. However, existing models primarily focus on creating modern pop songs, making it challenging to produce ancient music with distinct rhythms and styles, such as ancient Chinese SongCi. In this paper, we introduce SongSong, the fi…

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2025

Spatial-Spectral Similarity-Guided Fusion Network for Pansharpening

IJCAI 2025

Pansharpening fuses lower-resolution multispectral (LRMS) images with high-resolution panchromatic (PAN) images to generate high-resolution multispectral (HRMS) images that preserves both spatial and spectral information. Most deep pansharpening methods face challenges in cross-modal feature extract

2025

SpindleKV: A Novel KV Cache Reduction Method Balancing Both Shallow and Deep Layers

ACL 2025long

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved impressive accomplishments in recent years. However, the increasing memory consumption of KV cache has possessed a significant challenge to the inference system. Eviction methods have revealed the inherent redundancy within the KV cache, demonstrating its p…

2025

The Energy Loss Phenomenon in RLHF: A New Perspective on Mitigating Reward Hacking

ICML 2025poster

This work identifies the *Energy Loss Phenomenon* in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and its connection to reward hacking. Specifically, energy loss in the final layer of a Large Language Model (LLM) gradually increases during the RL process, with an *excessive* increase in energy…

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2025

ToM: Leveraging Tree-oriented MapReduce for Long-Context Reasoning in Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs), constrained by limited context windows, often face significant performance degradation when reasoning over long contexts. To address this, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) retrieves and reasons over chunks but frequently sacrifices logical coherence due to its relia

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2025

What Limits Bidirectional Model's Generative Capabilities? A Uni-Bi-Directional Mixture-of-Expert Method For Bidirectional Fine-tuning

ICML 2025poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in generation tasks, yet their causal attention mechanisms limit performance in embedding tasks. While bidirectional modeling may enhance embeddings, naively fine-tuning unidirectional models bidirectionally severely degrades generative performance. To investigate…

2024

A Novel Energy Based Model Mechanism for Multi-Modal Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

AAAI 2024technical

Multi-modal aspect-based sentiment analysis (MABSA) has recently attracted increasing attention. The span-based extraction methods, such as FSUIE, demonstrate strong performance in sentiment analysis due to their joint modeling of input sequences and target labels. However, previous methods still ha…

2024

Eliminating the Cross-Domain Misalignment in Text-guided Image Inpainting

IJCAI 2024poster

Text-guided image inpainting has rapidly garnered prominence as a task in user-directed image synthesis, aiming to complete the occluded image regions following the textual prompt provided. However, current methods usually grapple with issues arising from the disparity between low-level pixel data a…

2024

InfoRM: Mitigating Reward Hacking in RLHF via Information-Theoretic Reward Modeling

NeurIPS 2024poster

Despite the success of reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) in aligning language models with human values, reward hacking, also termed reward overoptimization, remains a critical challenge. This issue primarily arises from reward misgeneralization, where reward models (RMs) compute rew…

2024

MMSite: A Multi-modal Framework for the Identification of Active Sites in Proteins

NeurIPS 2024poster

The accurate identification of active sites in proteins is essential for the advancement of life sciences and pharmaceutical development, as these sites are of critical importance for enzyme activity and drug design. Recent advancements in protein language models (PLMs), trained on extensive dataset…

2024

Merging Multi-Task Models via Weight-Ensembling Mixture of Experts

ICML 2024poster

Merging various task-specific Transformer-based vision models trained on different tasks into a single unified model can execute all the tasks concurrently. Previous methods, exemplified by task arithmetic, have been proven to be both effective and scalable. Existing methods have primarily focused o…

2024

Reference Trustable Decoding: A Training-Free Augmentation Paradigm for Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly advanced and demonstrated impressive capabilities. In-Context Learning (ICL) and Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) are currently two mainstream methods for augmenting LLMs to downstream tasks. ICL typically constructs a few-shot learning scenario, eithe…

2024

Sparse is Enough in Fine-tuning Pre-trained Large Language Models

ICML 2024spotlight

With the prevalence of pre-training-fine-tuning paradigm, how to efficiently adapt the pre-trained model to the downstream tasks has been an intriguing issue. $\textbf{P}$arameter-$\textbf{E}$fficient $\textbf{F}$ine-$\textbf{T}$uning(PEFT) methods have been proposed for low-cost adaptation. Althou…

2024

VHASR: A Multimodal Speech Recognition System With Vision Hotwords

EMNLP 2024main

The image-based multimodal automatic speech recognition (ASR) model enhances speech recognition performance by incorporating audio-related image. However, some works suggest that introducing image information to model does not help improving ASR performance. In this paper, we propose a novel approac…

2023

Bidirectional Looking with A Novel Double Exponential Moving Average to Adaptive and Non-adaptive Momentum Optimizers

ICML 2023poster

Optimizer is an essential component for the success of deep learning, which guides the neural network to update the parameters according to the loss on the training set. SGD and Adam are two classical and effective optimizers on which researchers have proposed many variants, such as SGDM and RAdam.…

2023

Cross-Domain Facial Expression Recognition via Disentangling Identity Representation

IJCAI 2023poster

Most existing cross-domain facial expression recognition (FER) works require target domain data to assist the model in analyzing distribution shifts to overcome negative effects. However, it is often hard to obtain expression images of the target domain in practical applications. Moreover, existing…

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2023

DDS2M: Self-Supervised Denoising Diffusion Spatio-Spectral Model for Hyperspectral Image Restoration

ICCV 2023poster

Diffusion models have recently received a surge of interest due to their impressive performance for image restoration, especially in terms of noise robustness. However, existing diffusion-based methods are trained on a large amount of training data and perform very well in-distribution, but can be q…

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2023

DeMT: Deformable Mixer Transformer for Multi-Task Learning of Dense Prediction

AAAI 2023technical

Convolution neural networks (CNNs) and Transformers have their own advantages and both have been widely used for dense prediction in multi-task learning (MTL). Most of the current studies on MTL solely rely on CNN or Transformer. In this work, we present a novel MTL model by combining both merits of…

2023

FSUIE: A Novel Fuzzy Span Mechanism for Universal Information Extraction

ACL 2023long

Universal Information Extraction (UIE) has been introduced as a unified framework for various Information Extraction (IE) tasks and has achieved widespread success. Despite this, UIE models have limitations. For example, they rely heavily on span boundaries in the data during training, which does no…

2023

iRe2f: Rethinking Effective Refinement in Language Structure Prediction via Efficient Iterative Retrospecting and Reasoning

IJCAI 2023poster

Refinement plays a critical role in language structure prediction, a process that deals with complex situations such as structural edge interdependencies. Since language structure prediction usually modeled as graph parsing, typical refinement methods involve taking an initial parsing graph as input…

2022

PolyphonicFormer: Unified Query Learning for Depth-Aware Video Panoptic Segmentation

ECCV 2022poster

"The Depth-aware Video Panoptic Segmentation (DVPS) is a new challenging vision problem that aims to predict panoptic segmentation and depth in a video simultaneously. The previous work solves this task by extending the existing panoptic segmentation method with an extra dense depth prediction and i…

2022

Siamese Network with Interactive Transformer for Video Object Segmentation

AAAI 2022technical

Semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) refers to segmenting the target object in remaining frames given its annotation in the first frame, which has been actively studied in recent years. The key challenge lies in finding effective ways to exploit the spatio-temporal context of past frames…

2021

Addressing Domain Gap via Content Invariant Representation for Semantic Segmentation

AAAI 2021technical

The problem of unsupervised domain adaptation in semantic segmentation is a major challenge for numerous computer vision tasks because acquiring pixel-level labels is time-consuming with expensive human labor. A large gap exists among data distributions in different domains, which will cause severe…

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2020

E3SN: Efficient End-to-End Siamese Network for Video Object Segmentation

IJCAI 2020poster

In the semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) field, SiamMask has achieved competitive accuracy and the fastest running speed. However, the two-stage training procedure requires additional manual intervention, and using only single-level features does not maximize the rich hierarchical feat…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2019

Fast Spatio-Temporal Residual Network for Video Super-Resolution

CVPR 2019poster

Recently, deep learning based video super-resolution (SR) methods have achieved promising performance. To simultaneously exploit the spatial and temporal information of videos, employing 3-dimensional (3D) convolutions is a natural approach. However, straight utilizing 3D convolutions may lead to an…

Cited by 169PDFScholar
2019

Progressive Reconstruction of Visual Structure for Image Inpainting

ICCV 2019poster

Inpainting methods aim to restore missing parts of corrupted images and play a critical role in many computer vision applications, such as object removal and image restoration. Although existing methods perform well on images with small holes, restoring large holes remains elusive. To address this i…

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