60 accepted papers
Modern generative models can propose striking 3D vehicle shapes from text and images, but turning these sketches into aerodynamically efficient, regulation compliant designs still requires weeks of high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and manual iteration. As a result, fast 3D generation
Rainy datasets play a critical role to train the neural networks for autonomous driving, and yet they are scarce when compared with datasets captured in the clean weather. Simulation works consisting of generating the rainy scenarios completely on engine and inserting raindrops into the real sunny s
Graph contrastive learning (GCL) aims to learn representations by bringing semantically similar graphs closer and pushing dissimilar ones farther apart without label supervision. Hard negatives, which refer to graphs that have different labels but similar embeddings to the target graph, play a key r
Transformer-based models have achieved remarkable success in multivariate time series forecasting (MTSF) by capturing long-range dependencies. However, their widespread adoption is hindered by the quadratic computational complexity of self-attention, which limits scalability on high-dimensional sequ…
The missing of graph attributes poses a significant challenge in graph representation learning. Some existing graph attribute completion methods adopt the shared-space hypothesis or employ end-to-end frameworks to perform single-attribute imputation. However, these models can only generate one singl
Existing LiDAR point cloud (LPC) data coding methods primarily focus on balancing compression efficiency and reconstruction quality according to the human vision system (HVS). However, these methods rarely consider the requirements of downstream scene understanding tasks from the perspective of the
Software issue localization, the task of identifying the precise code locations (files, classes, or functions) relevant to a natural language issue description (e.g., bug report, feature request), is a critical yet time-consuming aspect of software development. While recent LLM-based agentic approac…
Just recognizable distortion (JRD) has been introduced for image compression for machines, aiming to quantify the maximum coding distortion that can be tolerated by a specific perception model, thereby defining the upper bound of machine vision redundancy (MVR). However, existing JRD-based redundanc
High-fidelity vehicle aerodynamics analysis is bottlenecked by costly CFD simulations. Neural surrogates accelerate prediction but lack inverse design capabilities, while existing generative optimization methods suffer from unstable convergence and frequent engineering constraint violations. We pres…
Videos, with their unique temporal dimension, demand precise grounded understanding, where answers are directly linked to visual, interpretable evidence. Despite significant breakthroughs in text-based reasoning with large language models, multi-modal reasoning - especially for videos - remains limi…
The scarcity of high-quality large-scale labeled datasets poses a huge challenge for employing deep learning models in video deception detection. To address this issue, inspired by the psychological theory on the relation between deception and expressions, we propose a novel method called AFFAKT in…
Inconsistency of distributions in human actions and camera viewpoints can lead to significant deviations when the pre-trained 3D pose estimators are tested on cross-datasets. In practical applications, the estimators usually follow the standard full fine-tuning paradigm on the target dataset, which…
Contrastive learning (CL) is a prevalent technique for training embedding models, which pulls semantically similar examples (positives) closer in the representation space while pushing dissimilar ones (negatives) further apart. A key source of negatives are "in-batch" examples, i.e., positives from…
Shape part segmentation is a critical task in computer graphics and robotics. However, traditional supervised methods rely heavily on large amounts of labeled data, which poses significant challenges in many real-world scenarios where such data is often scarce or difficult to obtain. To address this…
Automotive drag coefficient ($C_d$) is pivotal to energy efficiency, fuel consumption, and aerodynamic performance. However, costly computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations and wind tunnel tests struggle to meet the rapid-iteration demands of automotive design. We present DragSolver, a Transfo…
Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at natural language processing tasks, but their massive size leads to high computational and storage demands. Recent works have sought to reduce their model size through layer-wise structured pruning. However, they tend to ignore retaining the capabilities in the p…
Drug Target Interaction (DTI) focuses on exploring the interactions between specific drug molecules and their biological targets to assess the efficacy and safety of drugs. Significant advancements have been made in integrating computational techniques compared to traditional approaches, including m…
Multimodal representation learning is critical for a wide range of applications, such as multimodal sentiment analysis. Current multimodal representation learning methods mainly focus on the multimodal alignment or fusion strategies, such that the complementary and consistent information among heter…
Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) presents a significant challenge in machine learning, requiring models to integrate new classes from limited examples while preserving performance on previously learned classes. Recently, prompt-based CIL approaches leverage ample data to train prompts, ef…
Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance on plain text tasks but underperform on structured data like tables and databases. Potential challenges arise from their underexposure during pre-training and rigid text-to-structure transfer mechanisms. Unlike humans who seamlessly apply learn…
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…
Mathematical problems in real-world scenarios are often presented in a purely vision-form, where textual problem statement and accompanying math figures, e.g., geometry figures and functional graphs, are integrated into a single image. This vision-form problem-solving task requires precise comprehen…
The increasing number of presentation attacks on reliable face matching has raised concerns and garnered attention towards face anti-spoofing (FAS). However, existing methods for FAS modeling commonly fuse multiple visual modalities (e.g., RGB, Depth, and Infrared) in a straightforward manner, disre…
Naively assuming English as a source language may hinder cross-lingual transfer for many languages by failing to consider the importance of language contact. Some languages are more well-connected than others, and target languages can benefit from transferring from closely related languages; for man…
Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited impressive generation capabilities, but they suffer from hallucinations when solely relying on their internal knowledge, especially when answering questions that require less commonly known information. Retrievalaugmented LLMs have emerged as a potential s…
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…
Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance on a variety of natural language understanding tasks. However, existing benchmarks are inadequate in measuring the complex logical reasoning capabilities of a model. We present FOLIO, a human-annotated, logically complex and diverse d…
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in graph classification tasks. However, ensuring the explainability of their predictions remains a challenge. To address this, graph rationalization methods have been introduced to generate concise subsets of the original graph, k…
Long-tailed visual recognition has received increasing attention recently. Despite fine-tuning techniques represented by visual prompt tuning (VPT) achieving substantial performance improvement by leveraging pre-trained knowledge, models still exhibit unsatisfactory generalization performance on tai…
The rapid increase in multimedia data has spurred advancements in Multimodal Summarization with Multimodal Output (MSMO), which aims to produce a multimodal summary that integrates both text and relevant images. The inherent heterogeneity of content within multimodal inputs and outputs presents a si…
The ability to compare objects, scenes, or situations is crucial for effective decision-making and problem-solving in everyday life. For instance, comparing the freshness of apples enables better choices during grocery shopping, while comparing sofa designs helps optimize the aesthetics of our livin…
Entity Linking (EL) is the process of associating ambiguous textual mentions to specific entities in a knowledge base.Traditional EL methods heavily rely on large datasets to enhance their performance, a dependency that becomes problematic in the context of few-shot entity linking, where only a limi…
Existing methods on understanding the capabilities of LLMs in logical reasoning rely on binary entailment classification or synthetically derived rationales, which are not sufficient for properly assessing model’s capabilities. We present P-FOLIO, a human-annotated dataset consisting of diverse and…
"Video temporal grounding (VTG) is a fine-grained video understanding problem that aims to ground relevant clips in untrimmed videos given natural language queries. Most existing VTG models are built upon frame-wise final-layer CLIP features, aided by additional temporal backbones (, SlowFast) with…
Phrases are fundamental linguistic units through which humans convey semantics. This study critically examines the capacity of API-based large language models (LLMs) to comprehend phrase semantics, utilizing three human-annotated datasets. We assess the performance of LLMs in executing phrase semant…
Task-Oriented Parsing (TOP) enables conversational assistants to interpret user commands expressed in natural language, transforming them into structured outputs that combine elements of both natural language and intent/slot tags. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved impressive perfo…
While Chain-of-Thought prompting is popular in reasoning tasks, its application to Large Language Models (LLMs) in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is under-explored. Motivated by multi-step reasoning of LLMs, we propose Coarse-to-Fine Chain-of-Thought (CoF-CoT) approach that breaks down NLU tas…
Deep hashing is an appealing approach for large-scale image retrieval. Most existing supervised deep hashing methods learn hash functions using pairwise or triple image similarities in randomly sampled mini-batches. They suffer from low training efficiency, insufficient coverage of data distribution…
Classical adversarial attacks for Face Recognition (FR) models typically generate discrete examples for target identity with a single state image. However, such paradigm of point-wise attack exhibits poor generalization against numerous unknown states of identity and can be easily defended. In this…
Hierarchical Text Classification (HTC) is an essential and challenging subtask of multi-label text classification with a taxonomic hierarchy. Recent advances in deep learning and pre-trained language models have led to significant breakthroughs in the HTC problem. However, despite their effectivenes…
The dominant paradigm of textual question answering systems is based on end-to-end neural networks, which excels at answering natural language questions but falls short on complex ones. This stands in contrast to the broad adaptation of semantic parsing approaches over structured data sources (e.g.,…
Just noticeable difference (JND) refers to the maximum visual change that human eyes cannot perceive, and it has a wide range of applications in multimedia systems. However, most existing JND approaches only focus on a single modality, and rarely consider the complementary effects of multimodal info…
Commonsense Question Answering (CQA) aims to answer questions that require human commonsense. Closed-book CQA, as one of the subtasks, requires the model to answer questions without retrieving external knowledge, which emphasizes the importance of the model's problem-solving ability. Most previous m…
Extending from unimodal to multimodal is a critical challenge for unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA). Two major problems emerge in unsupervised multimodal domain adaptation: domain adaptation and modality alignment. An intuitive way to handle these two problems is to fulfill these tasks in two sep…
Entity Alignment, which aims to identify equivalent entities from various Knowledge Graphs (KGs), is a fundamental and crucial task in knowledge graph fusion. Existing methods typically use triple or neighbor information to represent entities, and then align those entities using similarity matching.…
In the scenario of unsupervised extractive summarization, learning high-quality sentence representations is essential to select salient sentences from the input document. Previous studies focus more on employing statistical approaches or pre-trained language models (PLMs) to extract sentence embeddi…
Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been proposed to remove adverse weather conditions in single images using a single set of pre-trained weights, they fail to restore weather videos due to the absence of temporal information. Furthermore, existing methods for removing adverse weather…
Multimodal headline utilizes both video frames and transcripts to generate the natural language title of the videos. Due to a lack of large-scale, manually annotated data, the task of annotating grounded headlines for video is labor intensive and impractical. Previous researches on pre-trained langu…
Defense models against adversarial attacks have grown significantly, but the lack of practical evaluation methods has hindered progress. Evaluation can be defined as looking for defense models' lower bound of robustness given a budget number of iterations and a test dataset. A practical evaluation m…
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…
Parsing natural language questions into executable logical forms is a useful and interpretable way to perform question answering on structured data such as knowledge bases (KB) or databases (DB). However, existing approaches on semantic parsing cannot adapt to both modalities, as they suffer from th…
Few-shot table-to-text generation is a task of composing fluent and faithful sentences to convey table content using limited data. Despite many efforts having been made towards generating impressive fluent sentences by fine-tuning powerful pre-trained language models, the faithfulness of generated c…
Dense neural text retrieval has achieved promising results on open-domain Question Answering (QA), where latent representations of questions and passages are exploited for maximum inner product search in the retrieval process. However, current dense retrievers require splitting documents into short…
Concept extraction aims to find words or phrases describing a concept from massive texts. Recently, researchers propose many neural network-based methods to automatically extract concepts. Although these methods for this task show promising results, they ignore structured information in the raw text…
To capture the semantic graph structure from raw text, most existing summarization approaches are built on GNNs with a pre-trained model. However, these methods suffer from cumbersome procedures and inefficient computations for long-text documents. To mitigate these issues, this paper proposes HetFo…
Generative commonsense reasoning which aims to empower machines to generate sentences with the capacity of reasoning over a set of concepts is a critical bottleneck for text generation. Even the state-of-the-art pre-trained language generation models struggle at this task and often produce implausib…
We propose a novel approach that integrates under-parameterized RANSAC (UPRANSAC) with Hough Transform to detect vanishing points (VPs) from un-calibrated monocular images. In our algorithm, the UPRANSAC chooses one hypothetical inlier in a sample set to find a portion of the VP's degrees of freedom…
Studies show that motor imagery based Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) systems can be utilized therapeutically in stroke rehabilitation. Efficient decoding of subjects' motor intentions is essential in BCI-based rehabilitation systems to manipulate a neural prosthesis or other devices for motor relear…
This paper proposes a reliable 3D fish tracking method using a novel master-slave camera setup. Instead of conventional dynamic models that rely on prior knowledge about target kinematics, the proposed method learns the kinematic model with a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network. On this basis, the…
Similarity-preserving hashing is a widely-used method for nearest neighbour search in large-scale image retrieval tasks. For most existing hashing methods, an image is first encoded as a vector of hand-engineering visual features, followed by another separate projection or quantization step that gen…