17 accepted papers
Irregular time series (IRTS) are prevalent in real-world applications, where uneven sampling and missing data pose fundamental challenges to deep learning-based feature modeling. Although existing methods attempt to retain timestamp information, they often overlook the structured patterns embedded w
Activation steering has emerged as a cost-effective paradigm for modifying large language model (LLM) behaviors. Existing methods typically intervene at the block level, steering the bundled activations of selected attention heads, feedforward networks, or residual streams. However, we reveal that b…
Large language models (LLMs) empowered by chain-of-thought reasoning have achieved impressive accuracy on complex tasks but suffer from excessive inference costs and latency when applied uniformly to all problems. We propose SABER (Switchable and Balanced Training for Efficient LLM Reasoning), a rei
Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has proven effective in enhancing Large Language Models (LLMs) on complex tasks by decomposing problems into step-wise solutions. However, extending CoT to multi-modal settings remains challenging, as it requires modeling transitions of visual states alongside textua…
Video Question-Answering (VideoQA) remains challenging in achieving advanced cognitive reasoning due to the uncontrollable and opaque reasoning processes in existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). To address this issue, we propose a novel Language-centric Tree Reasoning (LTR) framework th…
Depth completion, the task of reconstructing dense depth maps from sparse depth and RGB images, plays a critical role in 3D scene understanding. However, existing methods often struggle to recover high-frequency details, such as regions with fine structures or weak signals, since depth sensors may f…
Large language models (LLMs) possess strong multilingual capabilities, and combining Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) with translation tasks has shown great potential. However, we observe that this paradigm performs unexpectedly poorly when applied to colloquial subtitle translation
Pruning is a widely used technique to reduce the size and inference cost of large language models (LLMs), but it often causes performance degradation. To mitigate this, existing restoration methods typically employ parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT), such as LoRA, to recover the pruned model's p…
In the field of long-tailed recognition, the Decoupled Training paradigm has shown exceptional promise by dividing training into two stages: representation learning and classifier re-training. While previous work has tried to improve both stages simultaneously, this complicates isolating the effect…
Action detection aims to localize the starting and ending points of action instances in untrimmed videos and predict the classes of those instances. In this paper we make the observation that the outputs of the action detection task can be formulated as images. Thus from a novel perspective we tackl…
Learning with large-scale unlabeled data has become a powerful tool for pre-training Visual Transformers (VTs). However, prior works tend to overlook that, in real-world scenarios, the input data may be corrupted and unreliable. Pre-training VTs on such corrupted data can be challenging, especially…
We propose a Unified Pose Sequence Modeling approach to unify heterogeneous human behavior understanding tasks based on pose data, e.g., action recognition, 3D pose estimation and 3D early action prediction. A major obstacle is that different pose-based tasks require different output data formats. S…
"The goal of fine-grained action recognition is to successfully discriminate between action categories with subtle differences. To tackle this, we derive inspiration from the human visual system which contains specialized regions in the brain that are dedicated towards handling specific tasks. We de…
"Early action prediction aims to successfully predict the class label of an action before it is completely performed. This is a challenging task because the beginning stages of different actions can be very similar, with only minor subtle differences for discrimination. In this paper, we propose a n…
We address continual action recognition from skeleton sequence, which aims to learn a recognition model over time from a continuous stream of skeleton data. This task is very important in changing environment. Due to catastrophic forgetting problems of deep neural networks and large discrepancies be…
Human behavior understanding with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is of great significance for a wide range of applications, which simultaneously brings an urgent demand of large, challenging, and comprehensive benchmarks for the development and evaluation of UAV-based models. However, existing benc…
Predicting the class label from the partially observed activity sequence is a very hard task, as the observed early segments of different activities can be very similar. In this paper, we propose a novel Hardness-AwaRe Discrimination Network (HARD-Net) to specifically investigate the relationships b…