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Yang Wu

59 accepted papers

2026

A Self-Conditioned Representation Guided Diffusion Model for Realistic Text-to-LiDAR Scene Generation

CVPR 2026

Text-to-LiDAR generation can customize 3D data with rich structures and diverse scenes for downstream tasks. However, the scarcity of Text-LiDAR pairs often causes insufficient training priors, generating overly smooth 3D scenes. Moreover, low-quality text descriptions may degrade generation quality

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

FineFocus: Benchmarking and Improving Fine-Grained Text-to-Image Alignment via Paired Reinforcement Learning

ICML 2026poster

While recent autoregressive models have achieved text-to-image generation performance comparable to diffusion models, they significantly struggle with fine-grained semantic alignment. To rigorously evaluate this limitation, we introduce DeltaBench, a benchmark featuring paired prompts with subtle fi…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

GEM: Generating LiDAR World Model via Deformable Mamba

CVPR 2026

World models, which simulate environmental dynamics and generate sensor observations, are gaining increasing attention in autonomous driving. However, progress in LiDAR-based world models has lagged behind those built on camera videos or occupancy data, primarily due to two core challenges: the inhe

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

KAMP: Knowledge-Anchored Multimodal Pretraining Framework for Medical Image Representation

CVPR 2026

Cross-modal biomedical signals such as pathology and genomics can provide richer and more robust semantic guidance for medical image representation learning. However, the availability of such guidance remains limited, as privacy constraints and acquisition costs severely restrict access to medical i

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

RefineEvo: Planning-Guided Heuristic Evolution with Bidirectional Experience

ICML 2026poster

Automatic Heuristic Design (AHD) has emerged as a transformative approach for solving combinatorial optimization problems. While recent Large Language Model (LLM)-based methods have shown promise, they predominantly rely on fixed evolutionary operators and struggle to effectively accumulate and reus…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Veila: Panoramic LiDAR Generation from a Monocular RGB Image

ICRA 2026poster

Realistic and controllable panoramic LiDAR data generation is critical for scalable 3D perception in autonomous driving and robotics. Existing methods either perform unconditional generation with poor controllability or adopt text-guided synthesis, which lacks fine-grained spatial control. Leveragin…

2025

Active Domain Knowledge Acquisition with 100-Dollar Budget: Enhancing LLMs via Cost-Efficient, Expert-Involved Interaction in Sensitive Domains

EMNLP 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated an impressive level of general knowledge. However, they often struggle in highly specialized and sensitive domains such as drug discovery and rare disease research due to the lack of expert knowledge, which is often costly to obtain. In this paper, we p

2025

AnyEdit: Mastering Unified High-Quality Image Editing for Any Idea

CVPR 2025poster

Instruction-based image editing aims to modify specific image elements with natural language instructions. However, current models in this domain often struggle to execute complex user instructions accurately, as they are trained on low-quality data with limited editing types. We present AnyEdit, a…

Cited by 21SourcePDFScholar
2025

Benchmarking Multimodal CoT Reward Model Stepwise by Visual Program

ICCV 2025poster

Recent advancements in reward signal usage for Large Language Models (LLMs) are remarkable. However, significant challenges exist when transitioning reward signal to the multimodal domain, including labor-intensive annotations, over-reliance on one-step rewards, and inadequate evaluation. To address…

2025

Boosting Virtual Agent Learning and Reasoning: A Step-Wise, Multi-Dimensional, and Generalist Reward Model with Benchmark

ICML 2025poster

The development of Generalist Virtual Agents (GVAs) has shown significant promise in autonomous task execution. However, current training paradigms face critical limitations, including reliance on outcome supervision and labor-intensive human annotations. To address these challenges, we propose **Si…

2025

DiGradPatch: Black-Box Patch Attacks via Diffusion-Based Double Gradient and Sensitive Distribution Guidance

ICASSP 2025accepted

Deep neural networks have demonstrated vulnerabilities to black-box adversarial patch attacks in image analysis tasks, raising concerns about their robustness in safety-critical applications. Current methods typically rely on randomized search strategies to determine patch locations and apply unrest…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Elevating Legal LLM Responses: Harnessing Trainable Logical Structures and Semantic Knowledge with Legal Reasoning

NAACL 2025long

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved impressive results across numerous domains, yet they experience notable deficiencies in legal question-answering tasks. LLMs often generate generalized responses that lack the logical specificity required for expert legal advice and are prone to hallucinati…

2025

Janus-Pro-R1: Advancing Collaborative Visual Comprehension and Generation via Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent endeavors in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) aim to unify visual comprehension and generation. However, these two capabilities remain largely independent, as if they are two separate functions encapsulated within the same model. Consequently, visual comprehension does not enhance vis…

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2025

Mastering Collaborative Multi-modal Data Selection: A Focus on Informativeness, Uniqueness, and Representativeness

ICCV 2025poster

Instruction tuning fine-tunes pre-trained Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to handle real-world tasks. However, the rapid expansion of visual instruction datasets introduces data redundancy, leading to excessive computational costs. We propose a collaborative framework, DataTailor, which le…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Mind the Gap: Aligning Vision Foundation Models to Image Feature Matching

ICCV 2025poster

Leveraging the vision foundation models has emerged as a mainstream paradigm that improves the performance of image feature matching. However, previous works have ignored the misalignment when introducing the foundation models into feature matching. The misalignment arises from the discrepancy betwe…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

ROSE: A Reward-Oriented Data Selection Framework for LLM Task-Specific Instruction Tuning

EMNLP 2025

Instruction tuning has underscored the significant potential of large language models (LLMs) in producing more human controllable and effective outputs in various domains. In this work, we focus on the data selection problem for task-specific instruction tuning of LLMs. Prevailing methods primarily

2025

Shortcutting Pre-trained Flow Matching Diffusion Models is Almost Free Lunch

NeurIPS 2025poster

We present an ultra-efficient post-training method for shortcutting large-scale pre-trained flow matching diffusion models into efficient few-step samplers, enabled by novel velocity field self-distillation. While shortcutting in flow matching, originally introduced by shortcut models, offers flexi…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Sign2Vis: Automated Data Visualization from Sign Language

ACL 2025finding

Data visualizations, such as bar charts and histograms, are essential for analyzing and exploring data, enabling the effective communication of insights. While existing methods have been proposed to translate natural language descriptions into visualization queries, they focus solely on spoken langu…

2025

Training LLMs for Optimization Modeling via Iterative Data Synthesis and Structured Validation

EMNLP 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized various domains but encounter substantial challenges in tackling optimization modeling tasks for Operations Research (OR), particularly when dealing with complex problem. In this work, we propose Step-Opt-Instruct, a framework that augments existing d

2025

UniPixel: Unified Object Referring and Segmentation for Pixel-Level Visual Reasoning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent advances in Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs) have demonstrated their remarkable success as general-purpose multi-modal assistants, with particular focuses on holistic image- and video-language understanding. Conversely, less attention has been given to scaling fine-grained pixel-level understa…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Vulnerability of Text-to-Image Models to Prompt Template Stealing: A Differential Evolution Approach

ACL 2025finding

Prompt trading has emerged as a significant intellectual property concern in recent years, where vendors entice users by showcasing sample images before selling prompt templates that can generate similar images. This work investigates a critical security vulnerability: attackers can steal prompt tem…

2025

WeatherGen: A Unified Diverse Weather Generator for LiDAR Point Clouds via Spider Mamba Diffusion

CVPR 2025poster

3D scene perception demands a large amount of adverse-weather LiDAR data, yet the cost of LiDAR data collection presents a significant scaling-up challenge. To this end, a series of LiDAR simulators have been proposed. Yet, they can only simulate a single adverse weather with a single physical model…

2025

What Limits Virtual Agent Application? OmniBench: A Scalable Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Essential Virtual Agent Capabilities

ICML 2025oral

As multimodal large language models (MLLMs) advance, MLLM-based virtual agents have demonstrated remarkable performance. However, existing benchmarks face significant limitations, including uncontrollable task complexity, extensive manual annotation, and a lack of multidimensional evaluation. In res…

2024

DEGAN: Discrimination Enhanced GAN for Perceptual-Oriented Super-Resolution

ICASSP 2024accepted

Recent years, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have gained significant prominence in single image super-resolution (SISR) tasks. This can mainly be attributed to their exceptional ability to generate intricate details. However, the instability and lack of realism in the details generated by GA…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

E.T. Bench: Towards Open-Ended Event-Level Video-Language Understanding

NeurIPS 2024poster

Recent advances in Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have demonstrated their great potential in general-purpose video understanding. To verify the significance of these models, a number of benchmarks have been proposed to diagnose their capabilities in different scenarios. However, existing b…

2024

HGCN2SP: Hierarchical Graph Convolutional Network for Two-Stage Stochastic Programming

ICML 2024poster

Two-stage Stochastic Programming (2SP) is a standard framework for modeling decision-making problems under uncertainty. While numerous methods exist, solving such problems with many scenarios remains challenging. Selecting representative scenarios is a practical method for accelerating solutions. Ho…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

Knowledge-Infused Legal Wisdom: Navigating LLM Consultation through the Lens of Diagnostics and Positive-Unlabeled Reinforcement Learning

ACL 2024findings

The integration of generative Large Language Models (LLMs) into various applications, including the legal domain, has been accelerated by their expansive and versatile nature. However, when facing a legal case, users without a legal background often struggle to formulate professional queries and may…

2024

Learning Pseudo 3D Guidance for View-consistent Texturing with 2D Diffusion

ECCV 2024poster

"Text-driven 3D texturing requires the generation of high-fidelity texture that conforms to given geometry and description. Recently, the high-quality text-to-image generation ability of 2D diffusion model has significantly promoted this task, by converting it into a texture optimization process gui…

2024

Towards Detailed Text-to-Motion Synthesis via Basic-to-Advanced Hierarchical Diffusion Model

AAAI 2024technical

Text-guided motion synthesis aims to generate 3D human motion that not only precisely reflects the textual description but reveals the motion details as much as possible. Pioneering methods explore the diffusion model for text-to-motion synthesis and obtain significant superiority. However, these me…

Cited by 15SourcePDFScholar
2023

Act As You Wish: Fine-Grained Control of Motion Diffusion Model with Hierarchical Semantic Graphs

NeurIPS 2023poster

Most text-driven human motion generation methods employ sequential modeling approaches, e.g., transformer, to extract sentence-level text representations automatically and implicitly for human motion synthesis. However, these compact text representations may overemphasize the action names at the exp…

2023

CL-NeRF: Continual Learning of Neural Radiance Fields for Evolving Scene Representation

NeurIPS 2023poster

Existing methods for adapting Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) to scene changes require extensive data capture and model retraining, which is both time-consuming and labor-intensive. In this paper, we tackle the challenge of efficiently adapting NeRFs to real-world scene changes over time using a few…

Cited by 10SourcePDFScholar
2023

Co-Salient Object Detection With Uncertainty-Aware Group Exchange-Masking

CVPR 2023poster

The traditional definition of co-salient object detection (CoSOD) task is to segment the common salient objects in a group of relevant images. Existing CoSOD models by default adopt the group consensus assumption. This brings about model robustness defect under the condition of irrelevant images in…

Cited by 24SourcePDFScholar
2023

Cross-Domain Autonomous Driving Perception Using Contrastive Appearance Adaptation

IROS 2023poster

Addressing domain shifts for complex perception tasks in autonomous driving has long been a challenging problem. In this paper, we show that existing domain adaptation methods pay little attention to the content mismatch issue between source and target domains, thus weakening the domain adaptation p…

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2023

Decompose More and Aggregate Better: Two Closer Looks at Frequency Representation Learning for Human Motion Prediction

CVPR 2023poster

Encouraged by the effectiveness of encoding temporal dynamics within the frequency domain, recent human motion prediction systems prefer to first convert the motion representation from the original pose space into the frequency space. In this paper, we introduce two closer looks at effective frequen…

Cited by 23SourcePDFScholar
2023

Group-Wise Co-Salient Object Detection with Siamese Transformers Via Brownian Distance Covariance Matching

ICASSP 2023accepted

Co-salient object detection (CoSOD) aims to discover and segment foreground targets in a group of images with the same semantic category. Existing mainstream approaches often employ convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to learn the semantic-invariant features from a group of images. Despite demonstr…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

Speech2Lip: High-fidelity Speech to Lip Generation by Learning from a Short Video

ICCV 2023poster

Synthesizing realistic videos according to a given speech is still an open challenge. Previous works have been plagued by issues such as inaccurate lip shape generation and poor image quality. The key reason is that only motions and appearances on limited facial areas (e.g., lip area) are mainly dri…

Cited by 17PDFcodeScholar
2022

Mitigating the Inconsistency Between Word Saliency and Model Confidence with Pathological Contrastive Training

ACL 2022findings

Neural networks are widely used in various NLP tasks for their remarkable performance. However, the complexity makes them difficult to interpret, i.e., they are not guaranteed right for the right reason. Besides the complexity, we reveal that the model pathology - the inconsistency between word sali…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2022

PARSE: An Efficient Search Method for Black-box Adversarial Text Attacks

COLING 2022main

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples. The adversary can successfully attack a model even without knowing model architecture and parameters, i.e., under a black-box scenario. Previous works on word-level attacks widely use word importance ranking (WIR) methods and complex search met…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2022

Sentiment Word Aware Multimodal Refinement for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with ASR Errors

ACL 2022findings

Multimodal sentiment analysis has attracted increasing attention and lots of models have been proposed. However, the performance of the state-of-the-art models decreases sharply when they are deployed in the real world. We find that the main reason is that real-world applications can only access the…

2022

UMT: Unified Multi-Modal Transformers for Joint Video Moment Retrieval and Highlight Detection

CVPR 2022poster

Finding relevant moments and highlights in videos according to natural language queries is a natural and highly valuable common need in the current video content explosion era. Nevertheless, jointly conducting moment retrieval and highlight detection is an emerging research topic, even though its co…

Cited by 191PDFcodeScholar
2021

Rethinking Counting and Localization in Crowds: A Purely Point-Based Framework

ICCV 2021poster

Localizing individuals in crowds is more in accordance with the practical demands of subsequent high-level crowd analysis tasks than simply counting. However, existing localization based methods relying on intermediate representations (i.e., density maps or pseudo boxes) serving as learning targets…

Cited by 365PDFcodeScholar
2021

SiamRCR: Reciprocal Classification and Regression for Visual Object Tracking

IJCAI 2021poster

Recently, most siamese network based trackers locate targets via object classification and bounding-box regression. Generally, they select the bounding-box with maximum classification confidence as the final prediction. This strategy may miss the right result due to the accuracy misalignment between…

Cited by 52SourcePDFScholar
2021

Uniformity in Heterogeneity: Diving Deep Into Count Interval Partition for Crowd Counting

ICCV 2021poster

Recently, the problem of inaccurate learning targets in crowd counting draws increasing attention. Inspired by a few pioneering work, we solve this problem by trying to predict the indices of pre-defined interval bins of counts instead of the count values themselves. However, an inappropriate interv…

Cited by 49PDFcodeScholar
2020

An Iterative Emotion Interaction Network for Emotion Recognition in Conversations

COLING 2020main

Emotion recognition in conversations (ERC) has received much attention recently in the natural language processing community. Considering that the emotions of the utterances in conversations are interactive, previous works usually implicitly model the emotion interaction between utterances by modeli…

2020

Beyond Intra-modality: A Survey of Heterogeneous Person Re-identification

IJCAI 2020poster

An efficient and effective person re-identification (ReID) system relieves the users from painful and boring video watching and accelerates the process of video analysis. Recently, with the explosive demands of practical applications, a lot of research efforts have been dedicated to heterogeneous pe…

2020

Chained-Tracker: Chaining Paired Attentive Regression Results for End-to-End Joint Multiple-Object Detection and Tracking

ECCV 2020poster

Existing Multiple-Object Tracking (MOT) methods either follow the tracking-by-detection paradigm to conduct object detection, feature extraction and data association separately, or have two of the three subtasks integrated to form a partially end-to-end solution. Going beyond these sub-optimal frame…

2020

Dynamic Face Video Segmentation via Reinforcement Learning

CVPR 2020poster

For real-time semantic video segmentation, most recent works utilised a dynamic framework with a key scheduler to make online key/non-key decisions. Some works used a fixed key scheduling policy, while others proposed adaptive key scheduling methods based on heuristic strategies, both of which may l…

Cited by 31PDFScholar
2020

Magnetically Actuated Pick-and-place Operations of Cellular Micro-rings for High-speed Assembly of Micro-scale Biological Tube

IROS 2020poster

Tissue engineering is trying to use modular tissue micro-rings to construct artificial biological microtubes as substitute of autologous tissue tubes to alleviate the shortage of donor sources. However, because of the lack of effective assembly strategies, it is still challenging to achieve high-spe…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2020

Using Panoramic Videos for Multi-Person Localization and Tracking In A 3D Panoramic Coordinate

ICASSP 2020accepted

3D panoramic multi-person localization and tracking are prominent in many applications, however, conventional methods using LiDAR equipment could be economically expensive and also computationally inefficient due to the processing of point cloud data. In this work, we propose an effective and effici…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2018

Depth-Based 3D Hand Pose Estimation: From Current Achievements to Future Goals

CVPR 2018poster

In this paper, we strive to answer two questions: What is the current state of 3D hand pose estimation from depth images? And, what are the next challenges that need to be tackled? Following the successful Hands In the Million Challenge (HIM2017), we investigate the top 10 state-of-the-art methods o…

Cited by 277SourcePDFScholar
2018

Pose-Normalized Image Generation for Person Re-identification

ECCV 2018poster

Person Re-identification (re-id) faces two major challenges: the lack of cross-view paired training data and learning discriminative identity-sensitive and view-invariant features in the presence of large pose variations. In this work, we address both problems by proposing a novel deep person image…