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Lijun Yu

15 accepted papers

2026

Archon: A Unified Multimodal Model for Holistic Digital Human Generation

CVPR 2026

Digital humans are fundamental to immersive interaction, yet creating a unified model for holistic modalities, including text, audio, motion, and visual content, remains an open challenge. In this paper, we present Archon, a fully pretrained, human-centric unified multimodal model for holistic avata

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Cubic Discrete Diffusion: Discrete Visual Generation on High-Dimensional Representation Tokens

CVPR 2026

Visual generation with discrete tokens has gained significant attention as it enables a unified token prediction paradigm shared with language models, promising seamless multimodal architectures. However, current discrete generation methods remain limited to low-dimensional latent tokens (typically

Cited by 1SourcecodeScholar
2026

Rethinking generative image pretraining: How far are we from scaling up next-pixel prediction?

ICML 2026poster

This paper investigates the scaling properties of autoregressive next-pixel prediction, a simple, end-to-end yet under-explored framework for unified vision models. Starting with images at resolutions of 32x32, we train a family of Transformers using IsoFlops profiles across compute budgets up to 7e…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

YuE: Scaling Open Foundation Models for Long-Form Music Generation

ICLR 2026poster

We tackle the task of long-form music generation, particularly the challenging \textbf{lyrics-to-song} problem, by introducing \textbf{YuE (乐)}, a family of open-source music generation foundation models. Specifically, YuE scales to trillions of tokens and generates up to five minutes of music while…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Language-Guided Image Tokenization for Generation

CVPR 2025poster

Image tokenization, the process of transforming raw image pixels into a compact low-dimensional latent representation, has proven crucial for scalable and efficient image generation. However, mainstream image tokenization methods generally have limited compression rates, making high-resolution image…

Cited by 7SourcePDFScholar
2024

A Versatile Diffusion Transformer with Mixture of Noise Levels for Audiovisual Generation

NeurIPS 2024poster

Training diffusion models for audiovisual sequences allows for a range of generation tasks by learning conditional distributions of various input-output combinations of the two modalities. Nevertheless, this strategy often requires training a separate model for each task which is expensive. Here, we…

2024

Audio-Journey: Open Domain Latent Diffusion Based Text-To-Audio Generation

ICASSP 2024accepted

Despite recent progress, machine learning (ML) models for open-domain audio generation need to catch up to generative models for image, text, speech, and music. The lack of massive open-domain audio datasets is the main reason for this performance gap; we overcome this challenge through a novel data…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Efficient LLM Jailbreak via Adaptive Dense-to-sparse Constrained Optimization

NeurIPS 2024poster

Recent research indicates that large language models (LLMs) are susceptible to jailbreaking attacks that can generate harmful content. This paper introduces a novel token-level attack method, Adaptive Dense-to-Sparse Constrained Optimization (ADC), which has been shown to successfully jailbreak mult…

2024

Language Model Beats Diffusion - Tokenizer is key to visual generation

ICLR 2024poster

While Large Language Models (LLMs) are the dominant models for generative tasks in language, they do not perform as well as diffusion models on image and video generation. To effectively use LLMs for visual generation, one crucial component is the visual tokenizer that maps pixel-space inputs to dis…

Cited by 296SourcePDFScholar
2024

Photorealistic Video Generation with Diffusion Models

ECCV 2024poster

"We present , a diffusion transformer for photorealistic video generation from text prompts. Our approach has two key design decisions. First, we use a causal encoder to jointly compress images and videos within a unified latent space, enabling training and generation across modalities. Second, for…

Cited by 188SourcePDFScholar
2024

VideoPoet: A Large Language Model for Zero-Shot Video Generation

ICML 2024oral

We present VideoPoet, a language model capable of synthesizing high-quality video from a large variety of conditioning signals. VideoPoet employs a decoder-only transformer architecture that processes multimodal inputs -- including images, videos, text, and audio. The training protocol follows that…

Cited by 257SourcePDFScholar
2023

MAGVIT: Masked Generative Video Transformer

CVPR 2023highlight

We introduce the MAsked Generative VIdeo Transformer, MAGVIT, to tackle various video synthesis tasks with a single model. We introduce a 3D tokenizer to quantize a video into spatial-temporal visual tokens and propose an embedding method for masked video token modeling to facilitate multi-task lear…

2023

SPAE: Semantic Pyramid AutoEncoder for Multimodal Generation with Frozen LLMs

NeurIPS 2023spotlight

In this work, we introduce Semantic Pyramid AutoEncoder (SPAE) for enabling frozen LLMs to perform both understanding and generation tasks involving non-linguistic modalities such as images or videos. SPAE converts between raw pixels and interpretable lexical tokens (or words) extracted from the LLM…

Cited by 59SourcePDFScholar
2022

Rethinking Zero-Shot Action Recognition: Learning from Latent Atomic Actions

ECCV 2022poster

"To avoid the time-consuming annotating and retraining cycle in applying supervised action recognition models, Zero-Shot Action Recognition (ZSAR) has become a thriving direction. ZSAR requires models to recognize actions that never appear in the training set through bridging visual features and sem…