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Wentao Hu

16 accepted papers

2026

Making Every Head Count: Sparse Attention Without the Speed-Performance Trade-off

AAAI 2026technical

The design of Large Language Models (LLMs) has long been hampered by a fundamental conflict within their core attention mechanism: its remarkable expressivity is built upon a computational complexity of O(H·N²) that grows quadratically with the context size (N) and linearly with the number of heads

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2026

Mosaic Pruning: A Hierarchical Framework for Generalizable Pruning of Mixture-of-Experts Models

AAAI 2026technical

Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (SMoE) architectures have enabled a new frontier in scaling Large Language Models (LLMs), offering superior performance by activating only a fraction of their total parameters during inference. However, their practical deployment is severely hampered by substantial static m

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2026

RaGEP: Rank-aware Geometric Expert Pruning for Mixture-of-Experts Language Models

ICML 2026poster

Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures scale model capacity efficiently but suffer from massive static parameter footprints, creating significant deployment burdens on memory-constrained hardware. Existing post-training pruning methods often rely on scalar statistics, ignoring the representat…

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2026

Regret Pre-training: Bridging Prior and Posterior Views for Enhanced Knowledge Grounding

ICML 2026poster

Causal language models factorize sequence probabilities using only preceding context, leaving future information unexploited during training despite its availability in the training data. This paper introduces Regret Pre-training, a self-supervised framework grounded in the Learning Using Privileged…

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2026

VIR-Bench: Evaluating Geospatial and Temporal Understanding of MLLMs via Travel Video Itinerary Reconstruction

AAAI 2026technical

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have significantly enhanced video understanding capabilities, opening new possibilities for practical applications. Yet current video benchmarks focus largely on indoor scenes or short-range outdoor activities, leaving the challenges associ

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2026

WorldEdit: Towards Open-World Image Editing with a Knowledge-Informed Benchmark

ICLR 2026poster

Recent advances in image editing models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in executing explicit instructions, such as attribute manipulation, style transfer, and pose synthesis. However, these models often face challenges when dealing with implicit editing instructions, which describe the…

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2025

GGTalker: Talking Head Systhesis with Generalizable Gaussian Priors and Identity-Specific Adaptation

ICCV 2025poster

Creating high-quality, generalizable speech-driven 3D talking heads remains a persistent challenge. Previous methods achieve satisfactory results for fixed viewpoints and small-scale audio variations, but they struggle with large head rotations and out-of-distribution (OOD) audio. Moreover, they are…

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2025

On Path to Multimodal Generalist: General-Level and General-Bench

ICML 2025oral

The Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) is currently experiencing rapid growth, driven by the advanced capabilities of language-based LLMs. Unlike their specialist predecessors, existing MLLMs are evolving towards a Multimodal Generalist paradigm. Initially limited to understanding multiple mod…

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2025

Removal of Hallucination on Hallucination: Debate-Augmented RAG

ACL 2025long

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances factual accuracy by integrating external knowledge, yet it introduces a critical issue: erroneous or biased retrieval can mislead generation, compounding hallucinations, a phenomenon we term Hallucination on Hallucination. To address this, we propose Deb…

2025

Selftok-Zero: Reinforcement Learning for Visual Generation via Discrete and Autoregressive Visual Tokens

NeurIPS 2025poster

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become an indispensable post-training step for unlocking the full potential of Large Language Models (LLMs). Its core motivation is to incentivize the model’s inference trajectory via a reward model, effectively balancing the exploration–exploitation trade-off in scen…

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2025

Vinci: Deep Thinking in Text-to-Image Generation using Unified Model with Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2025poster

With the continuous development of large language models and reasoning chain technologies, the potential of deep reasoning based on reinforcement learning has shown remarkable promise in multi-task scenarios. However, existing unified models have yet to achieve end-to-end integration in image gener…

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2024

Improve Deep Forest with Learnable Layerwise Augmentation Policy Schedules

ICASSP 2024accepted

As a modern ensemble technique, Deep Forest (DF) employs a cascading structure to construct deep models, providing stronger representational power compared to traditional decision forests. However, its greedy multi-layer learning procedure is prone to overfitting, limiting model effectiveness and ge…

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2024

Neural Embeddings for kNN Search in Biological Sequence

AAAI 2024technical

Biological sequence nearest neighbor search plays a fundamental role in bioinformatics. To alleviate the pain of quadratic complexity for conventional distance computation, neural distance embeddings, which project sequences into geometric space, have been recognized as a promising paradigm. To main…

2024

SyncTalk: The Devil is in the Synchronization for Talking Head Synthesis

CVPR 2024poster

Achieving high synchronization in the synthesis of realistic speech-driven talking head videos presents a significant challenge. Traditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) struggle to maintain consistent facial identity while Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) methods although they can address thi…

2023

PlankAssembly: Robust 3D Reconstruction from Three Orthographic Views with Learnt Shape Programs

ICCV 2023poster

In this paper, we develop a new method to automatically convert 2D line drawings from three orthographic views into 3D CAD models. Existing methods for this problem reconstruct 3D models by back-projecting the 2D observations into 3D space while maintaining explicit correspondence between the input…

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