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Mingfu Liang

11 accepted papers

2025

Accelerating Multimodal Large Language Models by Searching Optimal Vision Token Reduction

CVPR 2025poster

Prevailing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) encode the input image(s) as vision tokens and feed them into the language backbone, similar to how Large Language Models (LLMs) process the text tokens. However, the number of vision tokens increases quadratically as the image resolutions, leading…

2025

AssoCiAm: A Benchmark for Evaluating Association Thinking while Circumventing Ambiguity

EMNLP 2025

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have garnered significant attention, offering a promising pathway toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). Among the essential capabilities required for AGI, creativity has emerged as a critical trait for MLLMs, with association se

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

AutoScape: Geometry-Consistent Long-Horizon Scene Generation

ICCV 2025poster

This paper proposes AutoScape, a long-horizon driving scene generation framework. At its core is a novel RGB-D diffusion model that iteratively generates sparse, geometrically consistent keyframes, serving as reliable anchors for the scene's appearance and geometry. To maintain long-range geometric…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

The Efficiency vs. Accuracy Trade-off: Optimizing RAG-Enhanced LLM Recommender Systems Using Multi-Head Early Exit

ACL 2025long

The deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) in recommender systems for Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction requires a careful balance between computational efficiency and predictive accuracy. This paper introduces OptiRAG-Rec, a comprehensive framework that integrates Retrieval-Augmented Generati…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

AIDE: An Automatic Data Engine for Object Detection in Autonomous Driving

CVPR 2024poster

Autonomous vehicle (AV) systems rely on robust perception models as a cornerstone of safety assurance. However objects encountered on the road exhibit a long-tailed distribution with rare or unseen categories posing challenges to a deployed perception model. This necessitates an expensive process of…

Cited by 15SourcePDFScholar
2024

AttNS: Attention-Inspired Numerical Solving For Limited Data Scenarios

ICML 2024poster

We propose the attention-inspired numerical solver (AttNS), a concise method that helps the generalization and robustness issues faced by the AI-Hybrid numerical solver in solving differential equations due to limited data. AttNS is inspired by the effectiveness of attention modules in Residual Neur…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar
2024

Evidential Active Recognition: Intelligent and Prudent Open-World Embodied Perception

CVPR 2024poster

Active recognition enables robots to intelligently explore novel observations thereby acquiring more information while circumventing undesired viewing conditions. Recent approaches favor learning policies from simulated or collected data wherein appropriate actions are more frequently selected when…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2023

Understanding Self-attention Mechanism via Dynamical System Perspective

ICCV 2023poster

The self-attention mechanism (SAM) is widely used in various fields of artificial intelligence and has successfully boosted the performance of different models. However, current explanations of this mechanism are mainly based on intuitions and experiences, while there still lacks direct modeling for…

Cited by 24PDFScholar
2022

Balancing between Forgetting and Acquisition in Incremental Subpopulation Learning

ECCV 2022poster

"The subpopulation shifting challenge, known as some subpopulations of a category that are not seen during training, severely limits the classification performance of the state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks. Thus, to mitigate this practical issue, we explore incremental subpopulation lear…