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Yixiong Zou

33 accepted papers

2026

Addressing Exacerbated Attention Sink for Source-Free Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning

CVPR 2026

Vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have shown impressive generalization capabilities, yet their potential for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning (CDFSL) remains underexplored, where the model needs to transfer source-domain information to target domains with scarce training data. While the attentio

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2026

Connecting the Dots: Training-Free Visual Grounding via Agentic Reasoning

AAAI 2026technical

Visual grounding, the task of linking textual queries to specific regions within images, plays a pivotal role in vision-language integration. Existing methods typically rely on extensive task-specific annotations and fine-tuning, limiting their ability to generalize effectively to novel or out-of-di

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2026

Decoupling Template Bias in CLIP: Harnessing Empty Prompts for Enhanced Few-Shot Learning

AAAI 2026technical

The Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) model excels in few-shot learning by aligning visual and textual representations. Our study shows that template-sample similarity (TSS), defined as the resemblance between a text template and an image sample, introduces bias. This bias leads the mod

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2026

E-VAds: An E-commerce Short Videos Understanding Benchmark for MLLMs

ICML 2026poster

E-commerce short videos represent a high-revenue segment of the online video industry characterized by a goal-driven format and dense multi-modal signals. Current models often struggle with these videos because existing benchmarks focus primarily on general-purpose tasks and neglect the reasoning of…

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2026

HiDe: Rethinking The Zoom-IN method in High Resolution MLLMs via Hierarchical Decoupling

ICML 2026poster

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made substantial progress on visual understanding tasks, yet they still perform poorly on high-resolution images. Prior work often attributes this limitation to perceptual constraints, arguing that MLLMs fail to recognize small objects and therefore rely…

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2026

Improving CLIP Adaptation by Breaking Tail Alignment for Source-Free Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning

ICML 2026poster

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP demonstrate strong zero-shot generalization, but their performance significantly degrades in cross-domain scenarios with scarce target-domain training data (Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning, CDFSL). In this paper, we focus on the target-domain few-shot finetu…

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2026

Interpretable Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning with Rectified Target-Domain Local Alignment

CVPR 2026

Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning (CDFSL) adapts models trained with large-scale general data (source domain) to downstream target domains with only scarce training data, where the research on vision-language models (e.g., CLIP) is still in the early stages. Typical downstream domains, such as medical

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2026

Is Bin Generation Indispensable? A Bin-Generation-Free Dataset Quantization via Semantic Perspective

CVPR 2026

Dataset quantization has recently emerged as a promising solution for mitigating the computational and memory challenges of large-scale datasets. However, existing approaches rely on a bin generation step that is computationally expensive and inefficient for large-scale datasets. Moreover, a fixed d

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2026

Mind the Discriminability Trap in Source-Free Cross-domain Few-shot Learning

CVPR 2026

Source-Free Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning (SF-CDFSL) focuses on fine-tuning with limited training data from target domains (e.g., medical or satellite images), where Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP and SigLIP have shown promising results. Current works in traditional visual models sugges

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2026

Position Is All You Need: A Free Lunch Token Compression Strategy for MLLM-based Referring Expression Segmentation

ICML 2026poster

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) aims to generate pixel-wise segmentation masks from complex and implicit textual queries. While recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have substantially boosted RES performance, their prohibitive computational overhead remains a critical …

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2026

Reclaiming Lost Text Layers for Source-Free Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning

CVPR 2026

Source-Free Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning (SF-CDFSL) focuses on fine-tuning with limited training data from target domains (e.g., medical or satellite images), where CLIP has recently shown promising results due to its generalizability to downstream tasks. Current works indicate CLIP's text encoder

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2026

Start Small, Think Big: Curriculum-based Relative Policy Optimization for Visual Grounding

AAAI 2026technical

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has recently shown significant promise across various NLP and computer vision tasks by explicitly generating intermediate reasoning steps. However, we find that reinforcement learning (RL)-based fine-tuned CoT reasoning can paradoxically degrade performance in Visual

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2025

Adapter Naturally Serves as Decoupler for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation

ICML 2025spotlight

Cross-domain few-shot segmentation (CD-FSS) is proposed to first pre-train the model on a source-domain dataset with sufficient samples, and then transfer the model to target-domain datasets where only a few training samples are available for efficient finetuning. There are majorly two challenges in…

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2025

Cross-Category Subjectivity Generalization for Style-Adaptive Sketch Re-ID

ICCV 2025poster

Sketch-based person re-identification (re-ID) enables pedestrian retrieval using sketches. While recent methods have improved modality alignment between sketches and RGB images, the challenge of subjective style variation, where sketches exhibit diverse and unpredictable appearances, remains largely…

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2025

FlowCut: Rethinking Redundancy via Information Flow for Efficient Vision-Language Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) excel at multimodal understanding but suffer from high computational costs due to redundant vision tokens. Existing pruning methods typically rely on single-layer attention scores to rank and prune redundant visual tokens to solve this inefficiency. However, as t…

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2025

Quantifying Distributional Invariance in Causal Subgraph for IRM-Free Graph Generalization

NeurIPS 2025poster

Out-of-distribution generalization under distributional shifts remains a critical challenge for graph neural networks. Existing methods generally adopt the Invariant Risk Minimization (IRM) framework, requiring costly environment annotations or heuristically generated synthetic splits. To circumvent…

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2025

Reconstruction Target Matters in Masked Image Modeling for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning

AAAI 2025technical

Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning (CDFSL) requires the model to transfer knowledge from the data-abundant source domain to data-scarce target domains for fast adaptation, where the large domain gap makes CDFSL a challenging problem. Masked Autoencoder (MAE) excels in effectively using unlabeled data an…

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2025

Revisiting Continuity of Image Tokens for Cross-domain Few-shot Learning

ICML 2025spotlight

Vision Transformer (ViT) has achieved remarkable success due to its large-scale pretraining on general domains, but it still faces challenges when applying it to downstream distant domains that have only scarce training data, which gives rise to the Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning (CDFSL) task. Inspi…

2025

Revisiting Pool-based Prompt Learning for Few-shot Class-incremental Learning

ICCV 2025poster

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) faces dual challenges of data scarcity and incremental learning in real-world scenarios. While pool-based prompting methods have demonstrated success in traditional incremental learning, their effectiveness in FSCIL settings remains unexplored. This paper…

2025

Self-Disentanglement and Re-Composition for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation

ICML 2025poster

Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation (CD-FSS) aims to transfer knowledge from a large-scale source-domain dataset to unseen target-domain datasets with limited annotated samples. Current methods typically compare the distance between training and testing samples for mask prediction. However, a problem…

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2025

The Devil is in Low-Level Features for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation

CVPR 2025poster

Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation (CDFSS) is proposed to transfer the pixel-level segmentation capabilities learned from large-scale source-domain datasets to downstream target-domain datasets, with only a few annotated images per class. In this paper, we focus on a well-observed but unresolved phe…

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2024

A Closer Look at the CLS Token for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning

NeurIPS 2024poster

Vision Transformer (ViT) has shown great power in learning from large-scale datasets. However, collecting sufficient data for expert knowledge is always difficult. To handle this problem, Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning (CDFSL) has been proposed to transfer the source-domain knowledge learned from su…

2024

Attention Temperature Matters in ViT-Based Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning

NeurIPS 2024poster

Cross-domain few-shot learning (CDFSL) is proposed to transfer knowledge from large-scale source-domain datasets to downstream target-domain datasets with only a few training samples. However, Vision Transformer (ViT), as a strong backbone network to achieve many top performances, is still under-exp…

2024

Compositional Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning

ICML 2024poster

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) is proposed to continually learn from novel classes with only a few samples after the (pre-)training on base classes with sufficient data. However, this remains a challenge. In contrast, humans can easily recognize novel classes with a few samples. Cogniti…

2024

Decoupling Representation and Knowledge for Few-Shot Intent Classification and Slot Filling

AAAI 2024technical

Few-shot intent classification and slot filling are important but challenging tasks due to the scarcity of finely labeled data. Therefore, current works first train a model on source domains with sufficiently labeled data, and then transfer the model to target domains where only rarely labeled data…

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2024

Delve into Base-Novel Confusion: Redundancy Exploration for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning

IJCAI 2024poster

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to acquire knowledge from novel classes with limited samples while retaining information about base classes. Existing methods address catastrophic forgetting and overfitting by freezing the feature extractor during novel-class learning. However, these…

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2024

Flatten Long-Range Loss Landscapes for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning

CVPR 2024poster

Cross-domain few-shot learning (CDFSL) aims to acquire knowledge from limited training data in the target domain by leveraging prior knowledge transferred from source domains with abundant training samples. CDFSL faces challenges in transferring knowledge across dissimilar domains and fine-tuning mo…

2024

Generate Universal Adversarial Perturbations for Few-Shot Learning

NeurIPS 2024poster

Deep networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples which are deliberately designed to mislead the trained model by introducing imperceptible perturbations to input samples. Compared to traditional perturbations crafted specifically for each data point, Universal Adversarial Perturbatio…

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2024

Lightweight Frequency Masker for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation

NeurIPS 2024poster

Cross-domain few-shot segmentation (CD-FSS) is proposed to first pre-train the model on a large-scale source-domain dataset, and then transfer the model to data-scarce target-domain datasets for pixel-level segmentation. The significant domain gap between the source and target datasets leads to a sh…

2023

CSGCL: Community-Strength-Enhanced Graph Contrastive Learning

IJCAI 2023poster

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) is an effective way to learn generalized graph representations in a self-supervised manner, and has grown rapidly in recent years. However, the underlying community semantics has not been well explored by most previous GCL methods. Research that attempts to leverage…

2022

Margin-Based Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning with Class-Level Overfitting Mitigation

NeurIPS 2022accept

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) is designed to incrementally recognize novel classes with only few training samples after the (pre-)training on base classes with sufficient samples, which focuses on both base-class performance and novel-class generalization. A well known modification to…