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Sohail Dianat

10 accepted papers

2025

Latent Chain-of-Thought for Visual Reasoning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning is critical for improving the interpretability and reliability of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs). However, existing training algorithms such as SFT, PPO, and GRPO may not generalize well across unseen reasoning tasks and heavily rely on a biased reward model. T…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

MEPT: Mixture of Expert Prompt Tuning as a Manifold Mapper

EMNLP 2025

Considering deep neural networks as manifold mappers, the pretrain-then-fine-tune paradigm can be interpreted as a two-stage process: pretrain establishes a broad knowledge base, and fine-tune adjusts the model parameters to activate specific neural pathways to align with the target manifold. Althou

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Re-Imagining Multimodal Instruction Tuning: A Representation View

ICLR 2025poster

Multimodal instruction tuning has proven to be an effective strategy for achieving zero-shot generalization by fine-tuning pre-trained Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) with instruction-following data. However, as the scale of LMMs continues to grow, fully fine-tuning these models has become highly par…

2025

Structured Policy Optimization: Enhance Large Vision-Language Model via Self-referenced Dialogue

ICCV 2025poster

Preference optimization algorithms typically enhance LLM response quality by leveraging human feedback on multiple answers given a fixed instruction. However, these methods often lack capturing the dynamic nature of conversational exchanges. For large vision-language models (LVLMs), direct preferenc…

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2025

Visual Self-Refinement for Autoregressive Models

EMNLP 2025

Autoregressive models excel in sequential modeling and have proven to be effective for vision-language data. However, the spatial nature of visual signals conflicts with the sequential dependencies of next-token prediction, leading to suboptimal results. This work proposes a plug-and-play refinement

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2025

X-CoT: Explainable Text-to-Video Retrieval via LLM-based Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

EMNLP 2025

Prevalent text-to-video retrieval systems mainly adopt embedding models for feature extraction and compute cosine similarities for ranking. However, this design presents two limitations. Low-quality text-video data pairs could compromise the retrieval, yet are hard to identify and examine. Cosine si

2024

Diffusion-Inspired Truncated Sampler for Text-Video Retrieval

NeurIPS 2024poster

Prevalent text-to-video retrieval methods represent multimodal text-video data in a joint embedding space, aiming at bridging the relevant text-video pairs and pulling away irrelevant ones. One main challenge in state-of-the-art retrieval methods lies in the modality gap, which stems from the substa…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

Image Translation as Diffusion Visual Programmers

ICLR 2024poster

We introduce the novel Diffusion Visual Programmer (DVP), a neuro-symbolic image translation framework. Our proposed DVP seamlessly embeds a condition-flexible diffusion model within the GPT architecture, orchestrating a coherent sequence of visual programs ($i.e.$, computer vision models) for vario…

Cited by 25SourcePDFScholar
2024

Prototypical Transformer As Unified Motion Learners

ICML 2024poster

In this work, we introduce the Prototypical Transformer (ProtoFormer), a general and unified framework that approaches various motion tasks from a prototype perspective. ProtoFormer seamlessly integrates prototype learning with Transformer by thoughtfully considering motion dynamics, introducing two…

Cited by 17SourcePDFScholar
2024

Text Is MASS: Modeling as Stochastic Embedding for Text-Video Retrieval

CVPR 2024highlight

The increasing prevalence of video clips has sparked growing interest in text-video retrieval. Recent advances focus on establishing a joint embedding space for text and video relying on consistent embedding representations to compute similarity. However the text content in existing datasets is gene…

Cited by 40SourcePDFScholar