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Lingmin Ran

4 accepted papers

2024

EvolveDirector: Approaching Advanced Text-to-Image Generation with Large Vision-Language Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Recent advancements in generation models have showcased remarkable capabilities in generating fantastic content. However, most of them are trained on proprietary high-quality data, and some models withhold their parameters and only provide accessible application programming interfaces (APIs), limiti…

2024

X-Adapter: Adding Universal Compatibility of Plugins for Upgraded Diffusion Model

CVPR 2024poster

We introduce X-Adapter a universal upgrader to enable the pretrained plug-and-play modules (e.g. ControlNet LoRA) to work directly with the upgraded text-to-image diffusion model (e.g. SDXL) without further retraining. We achieve this goal by training an additional network to control the frozen upgr…

2022

AssistSR: Task-oriented Video Segment Retrieval for Personal AI Assistant

EMNLP 2022finding

It is still a pipe dream that personal AI assistants on the phone and AR glasses can assist our daily life in addressing our questions like “how to adjust the date for this watch?” and “how to set its heating duration? (while pointing at an oven)”. The queries used in conventional tasks (i.e. Video…