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Ruichuan An

12 accepted papers

2026

AD-MIR: Bridging the Gap from Perception to Persuasion in Advertising Video Understanding via Structured Reasoning

ICML 2026poster

Multimodal understanding of advertising videos is essential for interpreting the intricate relationship between visual storytelling and abstract persuasion strategies. However, despite excelling at general search, existing agents often struggle to bridge the cognitive gap between pixel-level percept…

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2026

Can Vision–Language Models Assess Graphic Design Aesthetics? A Benchmark, Evaluation, and Dataset Perspective.

ICLR 2026poster

Assessing the aesthetic quality of graphic design is central to visual communication, yet remains underexplored in vision–language models (VLMs). We investigate whether VLMs can evaluate design aesthetics in ways comparable to humans. Prior work faces three key limitations: benchmarks restricted to…

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2026

CoF-T2I: Video Models as Pure Visual Reasoners for Text-to-Image Generation

ICML 2026poster

Recent video generation models have revealed the emergence of Chain-of-Frame (CoF) reasoning, enabling frame-by-frame visual inference. With this capability, video models have been successfully applied to various visual tasks (*e.g.*, maze solving, visual puzzles). However, their potential to enhanc…

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2026

Seeing Across Views: Benchmarking Spatial Reasoning of Vision-Language Models in Robotic Scenes

ICLR 2026poster

Vision-language models (VLMs) are essential to Embodied AI, enabling robots to perceive, reason, and act in complex environments. They also serve as the foundation for the recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. Yet, most evaluations of VLMs focus on single-view settings, leaving their ability t…

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2026

SpikeGen: Decoupled “Rods and Cones” Visual Representation Processing with Latent Generative Framework

ICLR 2026poster

The process through which humans perceive and learn visual representations in dynamic environments is highly complex. From a structural perspective, the human eye decouples the functions of cone and rod cells: cones are primarily responsible for color perception, while rods are specialized in detect…

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2026

VCU-Bridge: Hierarchical Visual Connotation Understanding via Semantic Bridging

CVPR 2026

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel on benchmarks, their processing paradigm differs from the human ability to integrate visual information. Unlike humans who naturally bridge details and high-level concepts, models tend to treat these elements in isolation. Prevailing evaluation pr

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2025

Adaptive Classifier-Free Guidance via Dynamic Low-Confidence Masking

NeurIPS 2025poster

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) significantly enhances controllability in generative models by interpolating conditional and unconditional predictions. However, standard CFG often employs a static unconditional input, which can be suboptimal for iterative generation processes where model uncertainty…

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2025

Draw-and-Understand: Leveraging Visual Prompts to Enable MLLMs to Comprehend What You Want

ICLR 2025poster

In this paper, we present the Draw-and-Understand framework, exploring how to integrate visual prompting understanding capabilities into Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Visual prompts allow users to interact through multi-modal instructions, enhancing the models' interactivity and fine-gra…

2025

MoVE-KD: Knowledge Distillation for VLMs with Mixture of Visual Encoders

CVPR 2025poster

Visual encoders are fundamental components in vision-language models (VLMs), each showcasing unique strengths derived from various pre-trained visual foundation models. To leverage the various capabilities of these encoders, recent studies incorporate multiple encoders within a single VLM, leading t…

2025

Perceive Anything: Recognize, Explain, Caption, and Segment Anything in Images and Videos

NeurIPS 2025poster

We present Perceive Anything Model (PAM), a conceptually straightforward and efficient framework for comprehensive region-level visual understanding in images and videos. Our approach extends the powerful segmentation model SAM 2 by integrating Large Language Models (LLMs), enabling simultaneous obj…

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2025

UniCTokens: Boosting Personalized Understanding and Generation via Unified Concept Tokens

NeurIPS 2025poster

Personalized models have demonstrated remarkable success in understanding and generating concepts provided by users. However, existing methods use separate concept tokens for understanding and generation, treating these tasks in isolation. This may result in limitations for generating images with co…

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2024

LLM as Dataset Analyst: Subpopulation Structure Discovery with Large Language Model

ECCV 2024poster

"The distribution of subpopulations is an important property hidden within a dataset. Uncovering and analyzing the subpopulation distribution within datasets provides a comprehensive understanding of the datasets, standing as a powerful tool beneficial to various downstream tasks, including Dataset…