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Lewei Yao

16 accepted papers

2026

InSight-o3: Empowering Multimodal Foundation Models with Generalized Visual Search

ICLR 2026poster

The ability for AI agents to "think with images" requires a sophisticated blend of reasoning and perception. However, current open multimodal agents still largely fall short on the reasoning aspect that are crucial for real-world tasks like analyzing documents with dense charts/diagrams or navigatin…

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2025

LiT: Delving into a Simple Linear Diffusion Transformer for Image Generation

ICCV 2025poster

In this paper, we investigate how to convert a pre-trained Diffusion Transformer (DiT) into a linear DiT, as its simplicity, parallelism, and efficiency for image generation. Through detailed exploration, we offer a suite of ready-to-use solutions, ranging from linear attention design to optimizatio…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

DetCLIPv3: Towards Versatile Generative Open-vocabulary Object Detection

CVPR 2024poster

Existing open-vocabulary object detectors typically require a predefined set of categories from users significantly confining their application scenarios. In this paper we introduce DetCLIPv3 a high-performing detector that excels not only at both open-vocabulary object detection but also generating…

Cited by 12SourcePDFScholar
2024

Ins-DetCLIP: Aligning Detection Model to Follow Human-Language Instruction

ICLR 2024poster

This paper introduces Instruction-oriented Object Detection (IOD), a new task that enhances human-computer interaction by enabling object detectors to understand user instructions and locate relevant objects. Unlike traditional open-vocabulary object detection tasks that rely on users providing a li…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2024

PerceptionGPT: Effectively Fusing Visual Perception into LLM

CVPR 2024highlight

The integration of visual inputs with large language models (LLMs) has led to remarkable advancements in multi-modal capabilities giving rise to vision large language models (VLLMs). However effectively harnessing LLMs for intricate visual perception tasks such as detection and segmentation remains…

Cited by 28SourcePDFScholar
2024

PixArt-$\alpha$: Fast Training of Diffusion Transformer for Photorealistic Text-to-Image Synthesis

ICLR 2024spotlight

The most advanced text-to-image (T2I) models require significant training costs (e.g., millions of GPU hours), seriously hindering the fundamental innovation for the AIGC community while increasing CO2 emissions. This paper introduces PixArt-$\alpha$, a Transformer-based T2I diffusion model whose im…

Cited by 546SourcePDFScholar
2024

PixArt-Sigma: Weak-to-Strong Training of Diffusion Transformer for 4K Text-to-Image Generation

ECCV 2024poster

"In this paper, we introduce , a Diffusion Transformer model (DiT) capable of directly generating images at 4K resolution. represents a significant advancement over its predecessor, , offering images of markedly higher fidelity and improved alignment with text prompts. A key feature of is its traini…

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2023

DetCLIPv2: Scalable Open-Vocabulary Object Detection Pre-Training via Word-Region Alignment

CVPR 2023poster

This paper presents DetCLIPv2, an efficient and scalable training framework that incorporates large-scale image-text pairs to achieve open-vocabulary object detection (OVD). Unlike previous OVD frameworks that typically rely on a pre-trained vision-language model (e.g., CLIP) or exploit image-text p…

2023

DiffFit: Unlocking Transferability of Large Diffusion Models via Simple Parameter-efficient Fine-Tuning

ICCV 2023oral

Diffusion models have proven to be highly effective in generating high-quality images. However, adapting large pre-trained diffusion models to new domains remains an open challenge, which is critical for real-world applications. This paper proposes DiffFit, a parameter-efficient strategy to fine-tun…

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2022

DetCLIP: Dictionary-Enriched Visual-Concept Paralleled Pre-training for Open-world Detection

NeurIPS 2022accept

Open-world object detection, as a more general and challenging goal, aims to recognize and localize objects described by arbitrary category names. The recent work GLIP formulates this problem as a grounding problem by concatenating all category names of detection datasets into sentences, which leads…

Cited by 178SourcePDFScholar
2022

FILIP: Fine-grained Interactive Language-Image Pre-Training

ICLR 2022poster

Unsupervised large-scale vision-language pre-training has shown promising advances on various downstream tasks. Existing methods often model the cross-modal interaction either via the similarity of the global feature of each modality which misses sufficient information, or finer-grained interactions…

Cited by 672SourcePDFScholar
2022

Wukong: A 100 Million Large-scale Chinese Cross-modal Pre-training Benchmark

NeurIPS 2022accept

Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) models have shown remarkable performance on various downstream tasks. Their success heavily relies on the scale of pre-trained cross-modal datasets. However, the lack of large-scale datasets and benchmarks in Chinese hinders the development of Chinese VLP models an…

2021

G-DetKD: Towards General Distillation Framework for Object Detectors via Contrastive and Semantic-Guided Feature Imitation

ICCV 2021poster

In this paper, we investigate the knowledge distillation (KD) strategy for object detection and propose an effective framework applicable to both homogeneous and heterogeneous student-teacher pairs. The conventional feature imitation paradigm introduces imitation masks to focus on informative foregr…

Cited by 31PDFScholar
2021

Joint-DetNAS: Upgrade Your Detector With NAS, Pruning and Dynamic Distillation

CVPR 2021poster

We propose Joint-DetNAS, a unified NAS framework for object detection, which integrates 3 key components: Neural Architecture Search, pruning, and Knowledge Distillation. Instead of naively pipelining these techniques, our Joint-DetNAS optimizes them jointly. The algorithm consists of two core proce…

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2019

Auto-FPN: Automatic Network Architecture Adaptation for Object Detection Beyond Classification

ICCV 2019poster

Abstract Neural architecture search (NAS) has shown great potential in automating the manual process of designing a good CNN architecture for image classification. In this paper, we study NAS for object detection, a core computer vision task that classifies and localizes object instances in an image…

Cited by 259PDFScholar