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Mengde Xu

8 accepted papers

2026

Optimizing Visual Generative Models via Distribution-wise Rewards

ICML 2026poster

Conventional reinforcement learning strategies for visual generation typically employ sample-wise reward functions, yet this practice frequently results in reward hacking that degrades image diversity and introduces visual anomalies. To address these limitations, we present a novel framework that fi…

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2026

Understanding vs. Generation: Navigating Optimization Dilemma in Multimodal Models

ICLR 2026poster

Current research in multimodal models faces a key challenge where enhancing generative capabilities often comes at the expense of understanding, and vice versa. We analyzed this trade-off and identify the primary cause might be the potential conflict between generation and understanding, which creat…

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2023

Side Adapter Network for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

CVPR 2023highlight

This paper presents a new framework for open-vocabulary semantic segmentation with the pre-trained vision-language model, named SAN. Our approach models the semantic segmentation task as a region recognition problem. A side network is attached to a frozen CLIP model with two branches: one for predic…

2022

A Simple Baseline for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation with Pre-trained Vision-Language Model

ECCV 2022poster

"Recently, open-vocabulary image classification by vision language pre-training has demonstrated incredible achievements, that the model can classify arbitrary categories without seeing additional annotated images of that category. However, it is still unclear how to make the open-vocabulary recogni…

2021

Bootstrap Your Object Detector via Mixed Training

NeurIPS 2021spotlight

We introduce MixTraining, a new training paradigm for object detection that can improve the performance of existing detectors for free. MixTraining enhances data augmentation by utilizing augmentations of different strengths while excluding the strong augmentations of certain training samples that m…

2021

End-to-End Semi-Supervised Object Detection With Soft Teacher

ICCV 2021poster

Previous pseudo-label approaches for semi-supervised object detection typically follow a multi-stage schema, with the first stage to train an initial detector on a few labeled data, followed by the pseudo labeling and re-training stage on unlabeled data. These multi-stage methods complicate the trai…

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2019

Asymmetric Non-Local Neural Networks for Semantic Segmentation

ICCV 2019poster

The non-local module works as a particularly useful technique for semantic segmentation while criticized for its prohibitive computation and GPU memory occupation. In this paper, we present Asymmetric Non-local Neural Network to semantic segmentation, which has two prominent components: Asymmetric P…

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