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Yanpeng Zhao

10 accepted papers

2026

MILR: Improving Multimodal Image Generation via Test-Time Latent Reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

Reasoning-augmented machine learning systems have shown improved performance in various domains, including image generation. However, existing reasoning-based methods for image generation either restrict reasoning to a single modality (image or text) or rely on high-quality reasoning data for fine-t…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

NEP: Autoregressive Image Editing via Next Editing Token Prediction

NeurIPS 2025poster

Text-guided image editing involves modifying a source image based on a language instruction and, typically, requires changes to only small local regions. However, existing approaches generate the entire target image rather than selectively regenerate only the intended editing areas. This results in…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

An Efficient Recipe for Long Context Extension via Middle-Focused Positional Encoding

NeurIPS 2024poster

Recently, many methods have been developed to extend the context length of pre-trained large language models (LLMs), but they often require fine-tuning at the target length ($\gg4K$) and struggle to effectively utilize information from the middle part of the context. To address these issues, we prop…

2024

DynaVol: Unsupervised Learning for Dynamic Scenes through Object-Centric Voxelization

ICLR 2024poster

Unsupervised learning of object-centric representations in dynamic visual scenes is challenging. Unlike most previous approaches that learn to decompose 2D images, we present DynaVol, a 3D scene generative model that unifies geometric structures and object-centric learning in a differentiable volume…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2022

Connecting the Dots between Audio and Text without Parallel Data through Visual Knowledge Transfer

NAACL 2022long

Machines that can represent and describe environmental soundscapes have practical potential, e.g., for audio tagging and captioning. Prevailing learning paradigms of audio-text connections have been relying on parallel audio-text data, which is, however, scarcely available on the web. We propose VIP…

2022

MERLOT Reserve: Neural Script Knowledge Through Vision and Language and Sound

CVPR 2022oral

As humans, we navigate a multimodal world, building a holistic understanding from all our senses. We introduce MERLOT Reserve, a model that represents videos jointly over time -- through a new training objective that learns from audio, subtitles, and video frames. Given a video, we replace snippets…

Cited by 286PDFScholar
2021

PCFGs Can Do Better: Inducing Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars with Many Symbols

NAACL 2021long

Probabilistic context-free grammars (PCFGs) with neural parameterization have been shown to be effective in unsupervised phrase-structure grammar induction. However, due to the cubic computational complexity of PCFG representation and parsing, previous approaches cannot scale up to a relatively larg…