44 accepted papers
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in mitigating hallucinations by incorporating external knowledge. However, the retrieval process inevitably introduces noise, posing significant challenges to RAG robustness. Fundamentally, noise robustness is a
Cell Painting combines multiplexed fluorescent staining, high‑content imaging, and quantitative analysis to generate high-dimensional phenotypic readouts to support diverse downstream tasks such as mechanism-of-action (MoA) inference, toxicity prediction, and construction of drug–disease atlases. Ho…
Advanced agents are increasingly demonstrating the potential to operate as autonomous engineers, creating a growing demand for evaluation benchmarks that capture the complexity of real-world development. Such environments typically involve both complex code and large-scale data (i.e., file system). …
Autonomous data science on the structured data has been a long-standing challenge, and is now becoming feasible with the emergence of powerful large language models (LLMs). Recent workflowbased data agents have shown promising results on specific data tasks but remain fundamentally limited in achiev…
Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA) requires models to answer visual questions by reasoning over external knowledge beyond the given image. Existing approaches suffer from two main limitations. First, candidate knowledge is often retrieved in a single modality, either textual or visua
Machine unlearning (MU) has emerged as a critical tool for removing sensitive or personal information from machine learning models, empowering individuals with the right to be forgotten. While MU has achieved success in classification and generative tasks, whether this technique can be effectively a
Despite recent advancements in neural 3D reconstruction, the dependence on dense multi-view captures restricts their broader applicability. Additionally, 3D scene generation is vital for advancing embodied AI and world models, which depend on diverse, high-quality scenes for learning and evaluation.…
Training-free video understanding methods leverage the strong image comprehension capabilities of pre-trained vision language models (VLMs) by treating videos as a sequences of static frames, thus obviating the need for costly video-specific training. However, this paradigm often suffers from severe
The growing volume of academic papers has made it increasingly difficult for researchers to efficiently extract key information. While large language models (LLMs) based agents are capable of automating question answering (QA) workflows for scientific papers, there still lacks a comprehensive and re…
Training Large Language Models (LLMs) on long contexts is severely constrained by prohibitive GPU memory overhead, not training time. The primary culprits are the activations, whose memory footprints scale linearly with sequence length. We introduce OOMB, a highly memory-efficient training system th…
Test-time adaptation (TTA) has emerged as a promising paradigm for vision–language models (VLMs) to bridge the distribution gap between pre-training and test data. Recent works have focused on backpropagation-free TTA methods that rely on cache-based designs, but these introduce two key limitations.…
Cover songs constitute a vital aspect of musical culture, preserving the core melody of an original composition while reinterpreting it to infuse novel emotional depth and thematic emphasis. Although prior research has explored the reinterpretation of instrumental music through melody-conditioned te…
Unified image generation and editing models suffer from severe task interference in dense diffusion transformers architectures, where a shared parameter space must compromise between conflicting objectives (e.g., local editing v.s. subject-driven generation). While the sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE
With the growing demand for high-quality image generation on resource-constrained devices, efficient diffusion models have received increasing attention. However, such models suffer from approximation errors introduced by efficiency techniques, which significantly degrade generation quality. Once de…
N:M sparsity stands as a progressively important tool for DNN compression, achieving practical speedups by stipulating at most N non-zero components within M sequential weights. Unfortunately, most existing works identify the N:M sparse mask through dense backward propagation to update all weights,…
In this paper, we address the challenge of determining the layer-wise sparsity rates of large language models (LLMs) through a theoretical perspective. Specifically, we identify a critical issue of **"reconstruction error explosion"** in existing LLMs sparsification methods. This refers to the cumul…
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures enable efficient scaling of large language models but face prohibitive memory demands due to massive parameterization. Existing pruning methods rely on heuristic metrics or impractical enumeration of expert subsets, leading to suboptimal performance or scalabil…
Despite the efficacy of network sparsity in alleviating the deployment strain of Large Language Models (LLMs), it endures significant performance degradation. Applying Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) to fine-tune the sparse LLMs offers an intuitive approach to counter this predicament, while it holds sho…
In existing multimodal large language models (MLLMs), image resolution plays a significant role for granular visual recognition. However, directly increasing image resolution leads to expensive computational cost for MLLMs. In this paper, we reveal that a combination of low- and high-resolution…
Recent advances in test-time adaptation (TTA) for Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have garnered increasing attention, particularly through the use of multiple augmented views of a single image to boost zero-shot generalization. Unfortunately, existing methods fail to strike a satisfactory balance betw…
Clustered federated learning (CFL) addresses the performance challenges posed by data heterogeneity in federated learning (FL) by organizing edge devices with similar data distributions into clusters, enabling collaborative model training tailored to each group. However, existing CFL approaches stri…
In this paper, we propose a novel heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) model that addresses two major limitations of existing metapath-based methods: (1) Defining suitable metapaths requires professional knowledge in the special domain. (2) The neighbor nodes of the target node also play cruc…
The increasing number of academic papers poses significant challenges for researchers to efficiently acquire key details. While retrieval augmented generation (RAG) shows great promise in large language model (LLM) based automated question answering, previous works often isolate neural and symbolic…
Large language models (LLMs) have encoded vast amounts of knowledge in their parameters, but the acquired knowledge can sometimes be incorrect or outdated over time, necessitating rectification after pre-training. Traditional localized methods in knowledge-based model editing (KME) typically assume…
Data-free quantization (DFQ) enables model quantization without accessing real data, addressing concerns regarding data security and privacy. With the growing adoption of Vision Transformers (ViTs), DFQ for ViTs has garnered significant attention. However, existing DFQ methods exhibit two limitation…
Reducing the key-value (KV) cache burden in Large Language Models (LLMs) significantly accelerates inference. Dynamically selecting critical KV caches during decoding helps maintain performance. Existing methods use random linear hashing to identify important tokens, but this approach is inefficient…
Taxonomy expansion is a primary method for enriching taxonomies, involving appending a large number of additional nodes (i.e., queries) to an existing taxonomy (i.e., seed), with the crucial step being the identification of the appropriate anchor (parent node) for each query by incorporating the str…
Despite the efficiency of prompt learning in transferring vision-language models (VLMs) to downstream tasks, existing methods mainly learn the prompts in a coarse-grained manner where the learned prompt vectors are shared across all categories. Consequently, the tailored prompts often fail to discer…
While long-context large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable document processing capabilities, their prohibitively high training costs often hinder customized applications. To mitigate this issue, we propose __Sequential Chunk-wise Optimization (SeCO)__, a memory-efficient training paradigm th…
"Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) aims to ground the target object based on a given referring expression, which requires expensive instance-level annotations for training. To address this issue, recent advances explore an efficient one-stage weakly supervised REC model called RefCLIP. Partic…
Despite the exceptional performance of Large Language Models (LLMs), the substantial volume of key-value (KV) pairs cached during inference presents a barrier to their efficient deployment. To ameliorate this, recent works have aimed to selectively eliminate these caches, informed by the attention s…
Text-to-image (T2I) generative models have attracted significant attention and found extensive applications within and beyond academic research. For example the Civitai community a platform for T2I innovation currently hosts an impressive array of 74492 distinct models. However this diversity presen…
The ever-increasing large language models (LLMs), though opening a potential path for the upcoming artificial general intelligence, sadly drops a daunting obstacle on the way towards their on-device deployment. As one of the most well-established pre-LLMs approaches in reducing model complexity, net…
Post-training quantization (PTQ) for vision transformers (ViTs) has garnered significant attention due to its efficiency in compressing models. However, existing methods typically overlook the intricate interdependence between quantized weight and activation, leading to considerable quantization err…
This paper focuses on addressing the issue of image demoiréing. Unlike the large volume of existing studies that rely on learning from paired real data, we attempt to learn a demoiréing model from unpaired real data, i.e., moiré images associated with irrelevant clean images. The proposed method, re…
With the development of diffusion models, text-guided image style transfer has demonstrated great controllable and high-quality results. However, the utilization of text for diverse music style transfer poses significant challenges, primarily due to the limited availability of matched audio-text dat…
We focus on addressing the dense backward propagation issue for training efficiency of N:M fine-grained sparsity that preserves at most N out of M consecutive weights and achieves practical speedups supported by the N:M sparse tensor core. Therefore, we present a novel method of Bi-directional Masks…
The artistic style within a painting is the means of expression, which includes not only the painting material, colors, and brushstrokes, but also the high-level attributes, including semantic elements and object shapes. Previous arbitrary example-guided artistic image generation methods often fail…
Moir$\acute{e}$ patterns appear frequently when taking photos of digital screens, drastically degrading the image quality. Despite the advance of CNNs in image demoir$\acute{e}$ing, existing networks are with heavy design, causing massive computation burden for mobile devices. In this paper, we laun…
CutMix is a vital augmentation strategy that determines the performance and generalization ability of vision transformers (ViTs). However, the inconsistency between the mixed images and the corresponding labels harms its efficacy. Existing CutMix variants tackle this problem by generating more consi…
Classical Chinese poetry has a long history and is a precious cultural heritage of humankind. Displaying the classical Chinese poetry in a visual way, helps to cross cultural barriers in different countries, making it enjoyable for all the people. In this paper, we construct a multi-modal knowledge…
By forcing N out of M consecutive weights to be non-zero, the recent N:M fine-grained network sparsity has received increasing attention with its two attractive advantages over traditional irregular network sparsity methods: 1) Promising performance at a high sparsity. 2) Significant speedups when p…
Channel pruning is among the predominant approaches to compress deep neural networks. To this end, most existing pruning methods focus on selecting channels (filters) by importance/optimization or regularization based on rule-of-thumb designs, which defects in sub-optimal pruning. In this paper, we…