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Yunhai Tong

37 accepted papers

2026

Beyond Text-to-Image: Liberating Generation with a Unified Discrete Diffusion Model

ICLR 2026poster

Autoregressive unified models suffer from slow inference due to sequential decoding, and non-autoregressive unified models suffer from weak generalization due to limited pretrained backbones. We introduce Muddit, a unified discrete diffusion transformer that enables fast and parallel generation acro…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Grasp Any Region: Prompting MLLM to Understand the Dense World

ICLR 2026poster

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at holistic understanding, they struggle with the dense world, i.e., complex scenes requiring fine-grained analysis of intricate details and object inter-relationships. Region-level MLLMs have been a promising step. However, previous attempts are…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Open-o3-Video: Grounded Video Reasoning with Explicit Spatio-Temporal Evidence

ICML 2026poster

Most video reasoning models only generate textual reasoning traces without indicating when and where key evidence appears. Recent models such as OpenAI-o3 have sparked wide interest in evidence-centered reasoning for images, yet extending this ability to videos is more challenging due to the need fo…

Cited by 43SourceScholar
2026

Parallel Multimodal Diffusion Language Models for Thinking-Aware Editing and Generation

ICLR 2026poster

While thinking-aware generation aims to improve performance on complex tasks, we identify a critical failure mode where existing sequential, autoregressive approaches can paradoxically degrade performance due to error propagation. To systematically analyze this issue, we propose ParaBench, a new be…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

RecTok: Reconstruction Distillation along Rectified Flow

CVPR 2026

Visual tokenizers play a crucial role in diffusion models. The dimensionality of latent space governs both reconstruction fidelity and the semantic expressiveness of the latent feature. However, a fundamental trade-off is inherent between dimensionality and generation quality, constraining existing

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

VMoBA: Mixture-of-Block Attention for Video Diffusion Models

ICLR 2026poster

The quadratic complexity of full attention mechanisms poses a significant bottleneck for Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) aiming to generate long-duration, high-resolution videos. While various sparse attention methods have been proposed, many are designed as training-free inference accelerators or do…

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2025

Are They the Same? Exploring Visual Correspondence Shortcomings of Multimodal LLMs

ICCV 2025poster

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLM) have shown a strong ability in visual perception, reasoning abilities, and vision-language understanding. However, the visual matching ability of MLLMs is rarely studied, despite finding the visual correspondence of objects is essential…

2025

Conditional Panoramic Image Generation via Masked Autoregressive Modeling

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent progress in panoramic image generation has underscored two critical limitations in existing approaches. First, most methods are built upon diffusion models, which are inherently ill-suited for equirectangular projection (ERP) panoramas due to the violation of the identically and independently…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Decouple and Track: Benchmarking and Improving Video Diffusion Transformers For Motion Transfer

ICCV 2025poster

The motion transfer task aims to transfer motion from a source video to newly generated videos, requiring the model to decouple motion from appearance. Previous diffusion-based methods primarily rely on separate spatial and temporal attention mechanisms within the 3D U-Net. In contrast, state-of-the…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

DiffSensei: Bridging Multi-Modal LLMs and Diffusion Models for Customized Manga Generation

CVPR 2025poster

Story visualization, the task of creating visual narratives from textual descriptions, has seen progress with text-to-image generation models. However, these models often lack effective control over character appearances and interactions, particularly in multi-character scenes. To address these limi…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2025

DreamRelation: Bridging Customization and Relation Generation

CVPR 2025poster

Customized image generation is essential for delivering personalized content based on user-provided prompts, enabling large-scale text-to-image diffusion models to better align with individual needs. However, existing models often neglect the relationships between customized objects in generated ima…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2025

Explore In-Context Segmentation via Latent Diffusion Models

AAAI 2025technical

In-context segmentation has drawn increasing attention with the advent of vision foundation models. Its goal is to segment objects using given reference images. Most existing approaches adopt metric learning or masked image modeling to build the correlation between visual prompts and input image que…

Cited by 10SourcePDFScholar
2025

MMaDA: Multimodal Large Diffusion Language Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

We introduce MMaDA, a novel class of multimodal diffusion foundation models designed to achieve superior performance across diverse domains such as textual reasoning, multimodal understanding, and text-to-image generation. The approach is distinguished by three key innovations: (i) MMaDA adopts a un…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

MTL-LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation for Multi-Task Learning

AAAI 2025technical

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) has been widely employed for domain adaptation, with LoRA being one of the most prominent methods due to its simplicity and effectiveness. However, in multi-task learning (MTL) scenarios, LoRA tends to obscure the distinction between tasks by projecting sparse…

2025

RMP-SAM: Towards Real-Time Multi-Purpose Segment Anything

ICLR 2025oral

Recent segmentation methods, which adopt large-scale data training and transformer architecture, aim to create one foundation model that can perform multiple tasks. However, most of these methods rely on heavy encoder and decoder frameworks, hindering their performance in real-time scenarios.…

2025

Towards Scalable and Deep Graph Neural Networks via Noise Masking

AAAI 2025technical

In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success in many graph mining tasks. However, scaling them to large graphs is challenging due to the high computational and storage costs of repeated feature propagation and non-linear transformation during training. One commonly…

2024

MotionBooth: Motion-Aware Customized Text-to-Video Generation

NeurIPS 2024spotlight

In this work, we present MotionBooth, an innovative framework designed for animating customized subjects with precise control over both object and camera movements. By leveraging a few images of a specific object, we efficiently fine-tune a text-to-video model to capture the object's shape and attri…

Cited by 34SourcePDFScholar
2024

SemFlow: Binding Semantic Segmentation and Image Synthesis via Rectified Flow

NeurIPS 2024poster

Semantic segmentation and semantic image synthesis are two representative tasks in visual perception and generation. While existing methods consider them as two distinct tasks, we propose a unified framework (SemFlow) and model them as a pair of reverse problems. Specifically, motivated by rectified…

2024

Towards Language-Driven Video Inpainting via Multimodal Large Language Models

CVPR 2024poster

We introduce a new task -- language-driven video inpainting which uses natural language instructions to guide the inpainting process. This approach overcomes the limitations of traditional video inpainting methods that depend on manually labeled binary masks a process often tedious and labor-intensi…

2024

VG4D: Vision-Language Model Goes 4D Video Recognition

ICRA 2024poster

Understanding the real world through point cloud video is a crucial aspect of robotics and autonomous driving systems. However, prevailing methods for 4D point cloud recognition have limitations due to sensor resolution, which leads to a lack of detailed information. Recent advances have shown that…

Cited by 9SourcecodeScholar
2023

Betrayed by Captions: Joint Caption Grounding and Generation for Open Vocabulary Instance Segmentation

ICCV 2023poster

In this work, we focus on open vocabulary instance segmentation to expand a segmentation model to classify and segment instance-level novel categories. Previous approaches have relied on massive caption datasets and complex pipelines to establish one-to-one mappings between image regions and words i…

Cited by 36PDFcodeScholar
2022

"Fashionformer: A Simple, Effective and Unified Baseline for Human Fashion Segmentation and Recognition"

ECCV 2022poster

"Human fashion understanding is one important computer vision task since it has the comprehensive information for real-world applications. In this work, we focus on joint human fashion segmentation and attribute recognition. Contrary to the previous works that separately model each task as a multi-h…

2022

Enhancing Self-Attention with Knowledge-Assisted Attention Maps

NAACL 2022long

Large-scale pre-trained language models have attracted extensive attentions in the research community and shown promising results on various tasks of natural language processing. However, the attention maps, which record the attention scores between tokens in self-attention mechanism, are sometimes…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar
2022

Panoptic-PartFormer: Learning a Unified Model for Panoptic Part Segmentation

ECCV 2022poster

"Panoptic Part Segmentation (PPS) aims to unify panoptic segmentation and part segmentation into one task. Previous work mainly utilizes separated approaches to handle thing, stuff, and part predictions individually without performing any shared computation and task association. In this work, we aim…

2022

PolyphonicFormer: Unified Query Learning for Depth-Aware Video Panoptic Segmentation

ECCV 2022poster

"The Depth-aware Video Panoptic Segmentation (DVPS) is a new challenging vision problem that aims to predict panoptic segmentation and depth in a video simultaneously. The previous work solves this task by extending the existing panoptic segmentation method with an extra dense depth prediction and i…

2022

TS2Vec: Towards Universal Representation of Time Series

AAAI 2022technical

This paper presents TS2Vec, a universal framework for learning representations of time series in an arbitrary semantic level. Unlike existing methods, TS2Vec performs contrastive learning in a hierarchical way over augmented context views, which enables a robust contextual representation for each ti…

2022

Video K-Net: A Simple, Strong, and Unified Baseline for Video Segmentation

CVPR 2022oral

This paper presents Video K-Net, a simple, strong, and unified framework for fully end-to-end video panoptic segmentation. The method is built upon K-Net, a method that unifies image segmentation via a group of learnable kernels. We observe that these learnable kernels from K-Net, which encode objec…

Cited by 107PDFcodeScholar
2021

Competence-based Curriculum Learning for Multilingual Machine Translation

EMNLP 2021finding

Currently, multilingual machine translation is receiving more and more attention since it brings better performance for low resource languages (LRLs) and saves more space. However, existing multilingual machine translation models face a severe challenge: imbalance. As a result, the translation perfo…

2021

Enhanced Boundary Learning for Glass-Like Object Segmentation

ICCV 2021poster

Glass-like objects such as windows, bottles, and mirrors exist widely in the real world. Sensing these objects has many applications, including robot navigation and grasping. However, this task is very challenging due to the arbitrary scenes behind glass-like objects. This paper aims to solve the gl…

Cited by 106PDFcodeScholar
2021

Evolving Attention with Residual Convolutions

ICML 2021spotlight

Transformer is a ubiquitous model for natural language processing and has attracted wide attentions in computer vision. The attention maps are indispensable for a transformer model to encode the dependencies among input tokens. However, they are learned independently in each layer and sometimes fail…

2021

PointFlow: Flowing Semantics Through Points for Aerial Image Segmentation

CVPR 2021poster

Aerial Image Segmentation is a particular semantic segmentation problem and has several challenging characteristics that general semantic segmentation does not have. There are two critical issues: The one is an extremely foreground-background imbalanced distribution and the other is multiple small o…

Cited by 133PDFcodeScholar
2020

Boundary Content Graph Neural Network for Temporal Action Proposal Generation

ECCV 2020poster

Temporal action proposal generation plays an important role in video action understanding, which requires localizing high-quality action content precisely. However, generating temporal proposals with both precise boundaries and high-quality action content is extremely challenging. To address this is…

Cited by 213SourcePDFScholar
2020

Improving Semantic Segmentation via Decoupled Body and Edge Supervision

ECCV 2020poster

the global context, or refine objects detail along their boundaries by multi-scale feature fusion. In this paper, a new paradigm for semantic segmentation is proposed. Our insight is that appealing performance of semantic segmentation requires extit{explicitly} modeling the object extit{body} and ex…

2020

LadaBERT: Lightweight Adaptation of BERT through Hybrid Model Compression

COLING 2020main

BERT is a cutting-edge language representation model pre-trained by a large corpus, which achieves superior performances on various natural language understanding tasks. However, a major blocking issue of applying BERT to online services is that it is memory-intensive and leads to unsatisfactory lat…

2020

Semantic Flow for Fast and Accurate Scene Parsing

ECCV 2020poster

In this paper, we focus on designing effective method for fast and accurate scene parsing. A common practice to improve the performance is to attain high resolution feature maps with strong semantic representation. Two strategies are widely used---atrous convolutions and feature pyramid fusion, are…

2020

Spectral Temporal Graph Neural Network for Multivariate Time-series Forecasting

NeurIPS 2020spotlight

Multivariate time-series forecasting plays a crucial role in many real-world applications. It is a challenging problem as one needs to consider both intra-series temporal correlations and inter-series correlations simultaneously. Recently, there have been multiple works trying to capture both correl…