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Zhao Xu

18 accepted papers

2026

Getting Your LLMs Ready for Reinforcement Learning with Lightweight SFT

ICLR 2026poster

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful post-training paradigm for large language models (LLMs), yet its effectiveness varies significantly across base models. While incorporating a pre-RL supervised fine-tuning (SFT) phase can enhance RL training, key questions remain: how long should…

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2026

Omni-View: Unlocking How Generation Facilitates Understanding in Unified 3D Model based on Multiview images

ICLR 2026poster

This paper presents Omni-View, which extends the unified multimodal understanding and generation to 3D scenes based on multiview images, exploring the principle that ``generation facilitates understanding". Consisting of understanding model, texture module, and geometry module, Omni-View jointly mod…

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2026

OvisOCR: End-to-End Document Parsing via Aligning Specialized Perception with General Reasoning

ICML 2026poster

This paper presents OvisOCR, a lightweight and strictly end-to-end Multimodal Language Model (MLLM) tailored for document parsing. Unlike current methods that rely on complex "Crop-OCR-Merge" cascades to handle high-resolution inputs, OvisOCR directly maps full-page visual signals to structured Mark…

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2025

CHATS: Combining Human-Aligned Optimization and Test-Time Sampling for Text-to-Image Generation

ICML 2025poster

Diffusion models have emerged as a dominant approach for text-to-image generation. Key components such as the human preference alignment and classifier-free guidance play a crucial role in ensuring generation quality. However, their independent application in current text-to-image models continues t…

2025

MDP3: A Training-free Approach for List-wise Frame Selection in Video-LLMs

ICCV 2025poster

Video large language models (Video-LLMs) have made significant progress in understanding videos. However, processing multiple frames leads to lengthy visual token sequences, presenting challenges such as the limited context length cannot accommodate the entire video, and the inclusion of irrelevant…

2025

Parrot: Multilingual Visual Instruction Tuning

ICML 2025poster

The rapid development of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), such as GPT-4, marks a significant step toward artificial general intelligence. Existing methods typically align vision encoders with LLMs via supervised fine-tuning (SFT), but this often deteriorates their ability to handle multiple…

2025

SPACE: Noise Contrastive Estimation Stabilizes Self-Play Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Self-play fine-tuning has demonstrated promising abilities in adapting large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks with limited real-world data. The basic principle is to iteratively refine the model with real samples and synthetic ones generated from itself. However, the existing methods prima…

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2025

TeEFusion: Blending Text Embeddings to Distill Classifier-Free Guidance

ICCV 2025poster

Recent advances in text-to-image synthesis largely benefit from sophisticated sampling strategies and classifier-free guidance (CFG) to ensure high-quality generation. However, CFG's reliance on two forward passes, especially when combined with intricate sampling algorithms, results in prohibitively…

2025

Triplets Better Than Pairs: Towards Stable and Effective Self-Play Fine-Tuning for LLMs

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recently, self-play fine-tuning (SPIN) has been proposed to adapt large language models to downstream applications with scarce expert-annotated data, by iteratively generating synthetic responses from the model itself. However, SPIN is designed to optimize the current reward advantages of annotated…

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2025

UNIC-Adapter: Unified Image-instruction Adapter with Multi-modal Transformer for Image Generation

CVPR 2025poster

Recently, text-to-image generation models have achieved remarkable advancements, particularly with diffusion models facilitating high-quality image synthesis from textual descriptions. However, these models often struggle with achieving precise control over pixel-level layouts, object appearances, a…

2024

Advancing Tool-Augmented Large Language Models: Integrating Insights from Errors in Inference Trees

NeurIPS 2024poster

Tool-augmented large language models (LLMs) leverage tools, often in the form of APIs, to improve their reasoning capabilities on complex tasks. This enables them to act as intelligent agents interacting with the real world. The recently introduced ToolLLaMA model by Qin et al. [2023] utilizes the d…

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2024

Generating and Evaluating Plausible Explanations for Knowledge Graph Completion

ACL 2024long

Explanations for AI should aid human users, yet this ultimate goal remains under-explored. This paper aims to bridge this gap by investigating the specific explanatory needs of human users in the context of Knowledge Graph Completion (KGC) systems. In contrast to the prevailing approaches that prima…

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2024

Wings: Learning Multimodal LLMs without Text-only Forgetting

NeurIPS 2024poster

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs), initiated with a trained LLM, first align images with text and then fine-tune on multimodal mixed inputs. However, during the continued training, the MLLM catastrophically forgets the text-only instructions that the initial LLM masters. In this paper, we pre…

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2023

Efficient and Equivariant Graph Networks for Predicting Quantum Hamiltonian

ICML 2023poster

We consider the prediction of the Hamiltonian matrix, which finds use in quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics. Efficiency and equivariance are two important, but conflicting factors. In this work, we propose a SE(3)-equivariant network, named QHNet, that achieves efficiency and equivarianc…

2023

Robust and Adaptive Calibration of UWB-Aided Vision Navigation System for UAVs

RA-L 2023

This letter proposes an adaptive calibration scheme that integrates Ultra-Wideband (UWB) anchor position estimation and adaptive path planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). A closed-form solution, independent of the initial guess of the UWB anchor positions, is rigorously derived, in the UWB

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2022

Self-Supervised Representation Learning via Latent Graph Prediction

ICML 2022spotlight

Self-supervised learning (SSL) of graph neural networks is emerging as a promising way of leveraging unlabeled data. Currently, most methods are based on contrastive learning adapted from the image domain, which requires view generation and a sufficient number of negative samples. In contrast, exist…

2021

Stochastic Optimization of Areas Under Precision-Recall Curves with Provable Convergence

NeurIPS 2021poster

Areas under ROC (AUROC) and precision-recall curves (AUPRC) are common metrics for evaluating classification performance for imbalanced problems. Compared with AUROC, AUPRC is a more appropriate metric for highly imbalanced datasets. While stochastic optimization of AUROC has been studied extensivel…

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