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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…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
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 7SourcePDFScholar
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…

Cited by 350SourcePDFScholar
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

DetGPT: Detect What You Need via Reasoning

EMNLP 2023long main

In recent years, the field of computer vision has seen significant advancements thanks to the development of large language models (LLMs). These models have enabled more effective and sophisticated interactions between humans and machines, paving the way for novel techniques that blur the lines betw…

Cited by 151SourceScholar
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 279SourcePDFScholar
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…

Cited by 40PDFcodeScholar
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