45 accepted papers
Meta Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO) has emerged as a promising paradigm by employing meta learning to automatically optimize the configurations of low-level black-box optimizers. Despite its potential, the generalization of MetaBBO remains significantly constrained when facing unseen, complex obje…
In goal-oriented dialogue tasks, the main challenge is to steer the interaction towards a given goal within a limited number of turns. Existing approaches either rely on elaborate prompt engineering, whose effectiveness is heavily dependent on human experience, or integrate policy networks and pre-t
We provide an algorithm for adaptive legged locomotion via online learning and model predictive control. The algorithm is composed of two interacting modules: model predictive control (MPC) and online learning of residual dynamics. The residual dynamics can represent modeling errors and external dis…
We provide an algorithm for adaptive legged locomotion via online learning and model predictive control. The algorithm is composed of two interacting modules: model predictive control (MPC) and online learning of residual dynamics. The residual dynamics can represent modeling errors and external dis
As Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) continue to gain traction in deep learning, Winograd convolution has emerged as a key algorithm to enhance computational efficiency. Although ARM-based CPUs are increasingly prevalent in mobile devices, embedded systems and HPC servers, existing 2D Winograd co
Stage lighting is a vital component in live music performances, shaping an engaging experience for both musicians and audiences. In recent years, Automatic Stage Lighting Control (ASLC) has attracted growing interest due to the high costs of hiring or training professional lighting engineers. Howeve…
Lane-level maps are increasingly preferred over Standard-Definition (SD) and High-Definition (HD) maps, offering a better trade-off among detail richness, coverage breadth, and data freshness. However, constructing city-scale lane-level maps remains time-consuming and labor-intensive. To address the
Code Large Language Models (CodeLLMs) have been widely adopted for Natural Language to Programming Language code generation, powering applications with large user bases. Their performance, however, varies sharply across programming languages (PLs) and is particularly suboptimal for low-resource PLs …
Flow matching (FM) based on Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) has achieved significant success in generative tasks. However, it faces several inherent limitations, including an inability to model trajectory intersections, capture delay dynamics, and handle transfer between heterogeneous distrib…
High-quality 4D reconstruction enables photorealistic and immersive rendering of the dynamic real world. However, unlike static scenes that can be fully captured with a single camera, high-quality dynamic scenes typically require dense arrays of tens or even hundreds of synchronized cameras. Depende
Adversarial perturbations (APs) have become a great concern in image classification tasks. The most challenging branch, universal adversarial perturbations (UAPs), are exploited to fool most of the unseen samples. Such one-to-all perturbations have the merit of transferability, which has strong prac
The core challenge of high-dimensional and expensive black-box optimization (BBO) is how to obtain better performance faster with little function evaluation cost. The essence of the problem is how to design an efficient optimization strategy tailored to the target task. This paper designs a powerful…
The rapid development of diffusion models has significantly advanced AI-generated content (AIGC), particularly in Text-to-Image (T2I) and Text-to-Video (T2V) generation. Text-based video editing, leveraging these generative capabilities, has emerged as a promising field, enabling precise modificatio…
Zero-shot optimization aims to achieve both generalization and performance gains on solving previously unseen black-box optimization problems over SOTA methods without task-specific tuning. Pre-trained optimization models (POMs) address this challenge by learning a general mapping from task features…
Existing micro aerial vehicle (MAV) detection methods mainly rely on the target's appearance features in RGB images, whose diversity makes it difficult to achieve generalized MAV detection. We notice that different types of MAVs share the same distinctive features in event streams due to their high-
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive performance in novel view synthesis and real-time rendering. However, it heavily relies on high-quality initial sparse points from Structure-from-Motion (SfM) which often struggles in textureless regions, degrading the geometry and visual qual…
Humans perceive and comprehend their surroundings through information spanning multiple frequencies. In immersive scenes, people naturally scan their environment to grasp its overall structure while examining fine details of objects that capture their attention. However, current NeRF frameworks prim…
Panoramic Image Generation (PIG) aims to create coherent images of arbitrary lengths. Most existing methods fall in the joint diffusion paradigm, but their complex and heuristic crop connection designs often limit their ability to achieve multilevel coherence. By deconstructing this challenge into i…
Vision-Language Retrieval-Augmented Generation (VLRAG) systems have been widely applied to Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) to enhance their generation ability. However, the reliance on external multimodal knowledge databases renders VLRAG systems vulnerable to malicious poisoning attacks. In th…
Task-specific fine-tuning is essential for the deployment of large language models (LLMs), but it requires significant computational resources and time. Existing solutions have proposed coreset selection methods to improve data efficiency and reduce model training overhead, but they still have limit…
Foundation models for time series analysis (TSA) have attracted significant attention. However, challenges such as training data scarcity and imbalance continue to hinder their development. Inspired by complex dynamic system theories, we design a series-symbol data generation mechanism, enabling the…
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as the new recommendation engines, surpassing traditional methods in both capability and scope, particularly in code generation. In this paper, we reveal a novel **provider bias** in LLMs: without explicit directives, these models show systematic preferences…
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has drawn significant attention for its advantages in rendering speed and quality. Most existing methods still rely on the image-wise loss and training paradigm because of its intuitive nature in the Splatting algorithm. However, image-wise loss lacks multi-view constrai…
Deepfake technology, driven by deep learning, produces highly convincing synthetic media, raising concerns about misuse. While DeepFake detection models have achieved impressive accuracy, but due to the difficulty of distinguishing fake from real, interpretability remains challenging that humans can…
For an extensive period, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have been deemed unsuitable for attaining robust performance on small-scale datasets, with WideResNet models maintaining dominance in this domain. While WideResNet models have persistently set the state-of-the-art (SOTA) benchmarks for robust accur…
Class-imbalanced node classification tasks are prevalent in real-world scenarios. Due to the uneven distribution of nodes across different classes, learning high-quality node representations remains a challenging endeavor. The engineering of loss functions has shown promising potential in addressing…
A common failure mode for policies trained with imitation is compounding execution errors at test time. When the learned policy encounters states that are not present in the expert demonstrations, the policy fails, leading to degenerate behavior. The Dataset Aggregation, or DAgger approach to this p…
"In autonomous driving, there is growing interest in end-to-end online vectorized map perception in bird’s-eye-view (BEV) space, with an expectation that it could replace traditional high-cost offline high-definition (HD) maps. However, the accuracy and robustness of these methods can be easily comp…
Using questions in written text is an effective strategy to enhance readability. However, what makes an active reading question good, what the linguistic role of these questions is, and what is their impact on human reading remains understudied. We introduce GuidingQ, a dataset of 10K in-text questi…
"In autonomous driving, the high-definition (HD) map plays a crucial role in localization and planning. Recently, several methods have facilitated end-to-end online map construction in DETR-like frameworks. However, little attention has been paid to the potential capabilities of exploring the query…
Zero-shot optimization involves optimizing a target task that was not seen during training, aiming to provide the optimal solution without or with minimal adjustments to the optimizer. It is crucial to ensure reliable and robust performance in various applications. Current optimizers often struggle…
In the realm of daily services, the deployment of deep neural networks underscores the paramount importance of their reliability. However, the vulnerability of these networks to adversarial attacks, primarily evasion-based, poses a concerning threat to their functionality. Common methods for enhanci…
Machine unlearning can fortify the privacy and security of machine learning applications. Unfortunately, the exact unlearning approaches are inefficient, and the approximate unlearning approaches are unsuitable for complicated CNNs. Moreover, the approximate approaches have serious security flaws be…
Localization in a pre-built map is a basic technique for robot autonomous navigation. Existing mapping and localization methods commonly work well in small-scale environments. As a map grows larger, however, more memory is required and localization becomes inefficient. To solve these problems, map s…
Adversarial training (AT) is the most commonly used mechanism to improve the robustness of deep neural networks. Recently, a novel adversarial attack against intermediate layers exploits the extra fragility of adversarially trained networks to output incorrect predictions. The result implies the ins…
Machine unlearning is an emerging task of removing the influence of selected training datapoints from a trained model upon data deletion requests, which echoes the widely enforced data regulations mandating the Right to be Forgotten. Many unlearning methods have been proposed recently, achieving sig…
Autonomous agriculture applications (e.g., inspection, phenotyping, plucking fruits) require manipulating the plant foliage to look behind the leaves and the branches. Partial visibility, extreme clutter, thin structures, and unknown geometry and dynamics for plants make such manipulation challengi…
Camera-based physiological measurement is a fast growing field of computer vision. Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) utilizes imaging devices (e.g., cameras) to measure the peripheral blood volume pulse (BVP) via photoplethysmography, and enables cardiac measurement via webcams and smartphones. How…
The restoration of hybrid distorted images in real-world scenarios is still a difficult problem due to the fact that the degrading types and degrees are always unknown. Previous studies typically utilize multiple recovery tools to restore images. However, each tool adopted inevitably introduces addi…
Previous reinforcement learning (RL) based image restoration studies typically train RL agents to search for recovery tools from a constructed toolset and iteratively recover images. However, we argue that these agents rely on pre-trained RL models with fixed-length paths for restoration, which perf…
This letter studies the problem of target localization in aerial manipulation tasks. When an aerial robot flies close to a target to manipulate, the target would be occluded by the onboard robotic manipulator occasionally or for a long period of time. It is, however, necessary to continuously locali
Object SLAM introduces the concept of objects into Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) and helps understand indoor scenes for mobile robots and object-level interactive applications. The state-of-art object SLAM systems face challenges such as partial observations, occlusions, unobservable
Camouflaged objects, similar to the background, show indefinable boundaries and deceptive textures, which increases the difficulty of detection task and makes the model rely on features with more information. Herein, we design a texture label to facilitate our network for accurate camouflaged object…
Plane features can be used to reduce drift errors in SLAM systems, especially in indoor environments. It is easy and efficient to extract planes from a dense point cloud, which is commonly generated from a RGB-D camera or a 3D lidar. But when using a stereo camera, it is hard to compute dense point…
This paper introduces a novel task-space decomposed motion planning framework for multi-robot simultaneous locomotion and manipulation. When several manipulators hold an object, closed-chain kinematic constraints are formed, and it will make the motion planning problems challenging by inducing lower…