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Yifeng Zhang

15 accepted papers

2026

DeLightMono: Enhancing Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation in Endoscopy by Decoupling Uneven Illumination

AAAI 2026technical

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation serves as a key task in the development of endoscopic navigation systems. However, performance degradation persists due to uneven illumination inherent in endoscopic images, particularly in low-intensity regions. Existing low-light enhancement techniques fa

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2025

Beyond Logits: Aligning Feature Dynamics for Effective Knowledge Distillation

ACL 2025long

Knowledge distillation (KD) compresses large language models (LLMs), known as teacher models, into lightweight versions called student models, enabling efficient inference and downstream applications. However, prevailing approaches accomplish this by predominantly focusing on matching the final outp…

2025

DiscoVLA: Discrepancy Reduction in Vision, Language, and Alignment for Parameter-Efficient Video-Text Retrieval

CVPR 2025poster

The parameter-efficient adaptation of the image-text pretraining model CLIP for video-text retrieval is a prominent area of research. While CLIP is focused on image-level vision-language matching, video-text retrieval demands comprehensive understanding at the video level. Three key discrepancies em…

2025

FastVID: Dynamic Density Pruning for Fast Video Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Video Large Language Models have demonstrated strong video understanding capabilities, yet their practical deployment is hindered by substantial inference costs caused by redundant video tokens. Existing pruning techniques fail to effectively exploit the spatiotemporal redundancy present in video d…

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2025

Preference-Driven Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization with Conditional Computation

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent deep reinforcement learning methods have achieved remarkable success in solving multi-objective combinatorial optimization problems (MOCOPs) by decomposing them into multiple subproblems, each associated with a specific weight vector. However, these methods typically treat all subproblems equ…

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2025

TempMe: Video Temporal Token Merging for Efficient Text-Video Retrieval

ICLR 2025poster

Most text-video retrieval methods utilize the text-image pre-trained models like CLIP as a backbone. These methods process each sampled frame independently by the image encoder, resulting in high computational overhead and limiting practical deployment. Addressing this, we focus on efficient text-vi…

2025

The Primacy of Magnitude in Low-Rank Adaptation

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) offers a parameter-efficient paradigm for tuning large models. While recent spectral initialization methods improve convergence and performance over the naive “Noise \& Zeros” scheme, their extra computational and storage overhead undermines efficiency. In this paper, we e…

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2024

GRACE: Graph-Based Contextual Debiasing for Fair Visual Question Answering

ECCV 2024poster

"Large language models (LLMs) exhibit exceptional reasoning capabilities and have played significant roles in knowledge-based visual question-answering (VQA) systems. By conditioning on in-context examples and task-specific prompts, they comprehensively understand input questions and provide answers…

2024

HeteroLight: A General and Efficient Learning Approach for Heterogeneous Traffic Signal Control

IROS 2024poster

Efficient and scalable adaptive traffic signal control is crucial in reducing congestion, maximizing through-put, and improving mobility experience in ever-expanding cities. Recent advances in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) with parameter sharing have significantly improved the adaptive o…

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2024

Learning Chain of Counterfactual Thought for Bias-Robust Vision-Language Reasoning

ECCV 2024poster

"Despite the remarkable success of large vision-language models (LVLMs) on various tasks, their susceptibility to knowledge bias inherited from training data hinders their ability to generalize to new scenarios and limits their real-world applicability. To address this challenge, we propose the Coun…

2023

Toward Multi-Granularity Decision-Making: Explicit Visual Reasoning with Hierarchical Knowledge

ICCV 2023poster

Answering visual questions requires the ability to parse visual observations and correlate them with a variety of knowledge. Existing visual question answering (VQA) models either pay little attention to the role of knowledge or do not take into account the granularity of knowledge, e.g., attaching…

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