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Yuzhong Zhao

11 accepted papers

2026

Balancing Understanding and Generation in Discrete Diffusion Models

ICML 2026spotlight

In discrete generative modeling, two dominant paradigms demonstrate divergent capabilities: Masked Diffusion Language Models (MDLM) excel at semantic understanding and zero-shot generalization, whereas Uniform-noise Diffusion Language Models (UDLM) achieve strong few-step generation quality, yet nei…

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2025

DynRefer: Delving into Region-level Multimodal Tasks via Dynamic Resolution

CVPR 2025poster

One important task of multimodal models is to translate referred image regions to human preferred language descriptions. Existing methods, however, ignore the resolution adaptability needs of different tasks, which hinders them to find out precise language descriptions. In this study, we propose a D…

2025

Timestep Embedding Tells: It's Time to Cache for Video Diffusion Model

CVPR 2025highlight

As a fundamental backbone for video generation, diffusion models are challenged by low inference speed due to the sequential nature of denoising.Previous methods speed up the models by caching and reusing model outputs at uniformly selected timesteps.However, such a strategy neglects the fact that d…

2024

ControlCap: Controllable Region-level Captioning

ECCV 2024poster

"Region-level captioning is challenged by the caption degeneration issue, which refers to that pre-trained multimodal models tend to predict the most frequent captions but miss the less frequent ones. In this study, we propose a controllable region-level captioning (ControlCap) approach, which intro…

2024

Evaluation of Text-to-Video Generation Models: A Dynamics Perspective

NeurIPS 2024poster

Comprehensive and constructive evaluation protocols play an important role when developing sophisticated text-to-video (T2V) generation models. Existing evaluation protocols primarily focus on temporal consistency and content continuity, yet largely ignore dynamics of video content. Such dynamics is…

2024

VMamba: Visual State Space Model

NeurIPS 2024spotlight

Designing computationally efficient network architectures remains an ongoing necessity in computer vision. In this paper, we adapt Mamba, a state-space language model, into VMamba, a vision backbone with linear time complexity. At the core of VMamba is a stack of Visual State-Space (VSS) blocks with…

2023

AE-FLOW: Autoencoders with Normalizing Flows for Medical Images Anomaly Detection

ICLR 2023poster

Anomaly detection from medical images is an important task for clinical screening and diagnosis. In general, a large dataset of normal images are available while only few abnormal images can be collected in clinical practice. By mimicking the diagnosis process of radiologists, we attempt to tackle t…

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2023

DatasetDM: Synthesizing Data with Perception Annotations Using Diffusion Models

NeurIPS 2023poster

Current deep networks are very data-hungry and benefit from training on large-scale datasets, which are often time-consuming to collect and annotate. By contrast, synthetic data can be generated infinitely using generative models such as DALL-E and diffusion models, with minimal effort and cost. In…

2023

DiffuMask: Synthesizing Images with Pixel-level Annotations for Semantic Segmentation Using Diffusion Models

ICCV 2023poster

Collecting and annotating images with pixel-wise labels is time-consuming and laborious. In contrast, synthetic data can be freely available using a generative model (e.g., DALL-E, Stable Diffusion). In this paper, we show that it is possible to automatically obtain accurate semantic masks of synthe…

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2023

Generative Prompt Model for Weakly Supervised Object Localization

ICCV 2023poster

Weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) remains challenging when learning object localization models from image category labels. Conventional methods that discriminatively train activation models ignore representative yet less discriminative object parts. In this study, we propose a generative…

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