66 accepted papers
Graphic design plays a vital role in visual communication across advertising, marketing, and multimedia entertainment. Prior work has explored automated graphic design generation using diffusion models, aiming to streamline creative workflows and democratize design capabilities. However, complex gra…
Image tokenization has significantly advanced visual generation and multimodal modeling, particularly when paired with autoregressive models. However, current methods face challenges in balancing efficiency and quality: high-resolution image generation either requires an excessive number of tokens o
Graph Domain Adaptation (GDA) transfers knowledge from labeled source graphs to unlabeled target graphs but is challenged by complex, multi-faceted distributional shifts. Existing methods attempt to reduce distributional shifts by aligning manually selected graph elements (e.g., node attributes or s…
Graph Domain Adaptation (GDA) aims to bridge distribution shifts between domains by transferring knowledge from well-labeled source graphs to given unlabeled target graphs. One promising recent approach addresses graph transfer by discretizing the adaptation process, typically through the construct…
Layered image generation and editing is a fundamental capability that enables layer-wise reuse, editing, and composition of generated visual content, analogous to word-level editing in natural language. Despite its importance, this remains an underexplored area at scale. To address this gap, we pres
Generative Recommendation (GR) has emerged as a new paradigm in recommender systems. This approach relies on quantized representations to discretize item features, modeling users’ historical interactions as sequences of discrete tokens. Based on these tokenized sequences, GR predicts the next item b
Density-based anomaly detection methods often provide accurate and interpretable predictions but their performance can be severely degraded by the inherent noise of data, such as changes arising from environmental conditions during data collection or background noise. To deal with such noise, we pre…
Generative Recommendation (GR) has emerged as a promising paradigm by formulating item recommendation as a sequence-to-sequence generation task over item identifiers. Recent studies have incorporated multimodal signals to provide richer token-level evidence for generation. However, existing approach…
Current open-source training pipelines for Chinese medical language models predominantly emphasize optimizing training methodologies to enhance the performance of large language models (LLMs), yet lack comprehensive exploration into training data processing. To address this gap, we propose DPF-CM, a
Accurate semantic segmentation of both tactile paving and the obstacle is crucial for the safe mobility of visually impaired individuals. However, existing methods face two major challenges: (i) discontinuous segmentation fragments; (ii) Inaccurate obstacle recognition. To address challenge (i), we
We propose Layer Decomposition of Graphic Designs (LDGD), a novel vision task that converts composite graphic design (e.g., posters) into structured representations comprising ordered RGB-A layers and metadata. By transforming visual content into structured data, LDGD facilitates precise image editi…
In the field of 3D medical imaging, accurately extracting and representing the blood vessels with curvilinear structures holds paramount importance for clinical diagnosis. Previous methods have commonly relied on discrete representation like mask, often resulting in local fractures or scattered frag…
In this paper, we address the task of targeted sentiment analysis , which involves two sub-tasks, i.e., identifying specific aspects from reviews and determining their corresponding senti-ments. Aspect extraction forms the foundation for sentiment prediction, highlighting the critical dependency bet
Existing face forgery detection methods achieve promising performance when training and testing forgery data are from identical manipulation types, while they fail to generalize well to unseen samples. In this paper, we experimentally investigate and find that the poor generalization of the methods…
The garment structure serves as a crucial medium for expressing the designer's creative vision and showcasing the distinctive character of clothing items. Effective editing of garment structure in fashion images allows for an advanced preview of the design, accelerating the process of garment custom…
Grammar serves as a cornerstone in programming languages and software engineering, providing frameworks to define the syntactic space and program structure. Existing research demonstrates the effectiveness of grammar-based code representations in small-scale models, showing their ability to reduce s…
In the field of graphic design, automating the integration of design elements into a cohesive multi-layered artwork not only boosts productivity but also paves the way for the democratization of graphic design. One existing practice is Graphic Layout Generation (GLG), which aims to layout sequential…
This paper tackles the challenge of stereoscopic image rain removal by focusing on enhancing texture integrity and disparity consistency. Existing stereoscopic rain removal techniques often fall short due to 1) disruptions in texture coherence caused by complex rain streaks, and 2) inaccuracies in d…
Conversational multi-doc question answering aims to answer specific questions based on the retrieved documents as well as the contextual conversations. In this paper, we introduce our winning approach for the “Conversational Multi-Doc QA” challenge in WSDM Cup 2024, which exploits the superior natur…
Stance detection is a pivotal task in Natural Language Processing (NLP), identifying textual attitudes toward various targets. Despite advances in using Large Language Models (LLMs), challenges persist due to hallucination-models generating plausible yet inaccurate content. Addressing these challeng…
Multi-modal Knowledge Graph Completion (KGC), which aims to enrich knowledge graph embeddings by incorporating images and text as supplementary information alongside triplets, is an significant task in learning KGs. Existing multi-modal KGC methods mainly focus on modalitylevel fusion, neglecting th…
Generative Retrieval (GR) introduces a new information retrieval paradigm that directly generates unique document identifiers (DocIDs). The key challenge of GR lies in creating effective yet discrete DocIDs that preserve semantic relevance for similar documents while differentiating dissimilar ones.…
Out-of-distribution (OOD) problems commonly occur when models process data with a distribution significantly deviates from the in-distribution (InD) training data. In this paper, we hypothesize that a $\textit{field}$ or $\textit{potential}$ more essential than features exists, and features are not…
We propose SLoPe, a Double-Pruned **S**parse Plus **L**azy L**o**w-rank Adapter **P**r**e**training method for LLMs that improves the accuracy of sparse LLMs while accelerating their pretraining and inference and reducing their memory footprint. Sparse pretraining of LLMs reduces the accuracy of the…
Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have enhanced document understanding by integrating textual and visual information. However, existing models exhibit incompleteness within their paradigm in real-world scenarios, particularly under visual degradation (e.g., blur, occlus…
Knowledge Graph Embedding (KGE) aims to project entities and relations into a low-dimensional space, so as to enable Knowledge Graphs (KGs) to be effectively used by downstream AI tasks. Most existing KGs (e.g. Wikidata) suffer from the data imbalance issue, i.e., the occurrence frequencies vary sig…
Unsupervised Graph Domain Adaptation (UGDA) seeks to bridge distribution shifts between domains by transferring knowledge from labeled source graphs to given unlabeled target graphs. Existing UGDA methods primarily focus on aligning features in the latent space learned by graph neural networks (GNNs…
The widespread dissemination of toxic content on social media poses a serious threat to both online environments and public discourse, highlighting the urgent need for detoxification methods that effectively remove toxicity while preserving the original semantics.However, existing approaches often s
Dynamic quantization has attracted rising attention in image super-resolution (SR) as it expands the potential of heavy SR models onto mobile devices while preserving competitive performance. Most current methods explore layer-to-bit configuration upon varying local regions, adaptively allocating th…
This work presents a novel method called dense projection for unsupervised anomaly detection (DPAD). The main idea is maximizing the local density of (normal) training data and then determining whether a test data is anomalous or not by evaluating its density. Specifically, DPAD uses a deep neural n…
Accurately restoring topology is both challenging and crucial in tubular structure extraction tasks, such as blood vessel segmentation and road network extraction. Diverging from traditional approaches based on pixel-level classification, our proposed method, named GraphMorph, focuses on branch-leve…
Stance detection aims at inferring an author’s attitude towards a specific target in a text. Prior methods mainly consider target-related background information for a better understanding of targets while neglecting the accompanying input texts. In this study, we propose to prompt Large Language Mod…
The ability to learn from context with novel concepts and deliver appropriate responses are essential in human conversations. Despite current Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) being trained on mega-scale datasets recognizing unseen images or understanding nove…
Video summarization involves creating a succinct overview by merging the valuable parts of a video. Existing video summarization methods approach this task as a problem of selecting keyframes by frame- and shot-level techniques with unimodal or bimodal information. Besides underestimated inter-relat…
State-of-the-art video-text retrieval (VTR) methods typically involve fully fine-tuning a pre-trained model (e.g. CLIP) on specific datasets. However this can result in significant storage costs in practical applications as a separate model per task must be stored. To address this issue we present o…
Aspect prediction (AP) and sentiment prediction (SP) are representative applications in fine-grained sentiment anal- ysis. They can be considered as sequential tasks, where AP identifies mentioned aspects in a sentence, and SP infers fine-grained sentiments for these aspects. Recent models perform t…
Neural networks have shown promising performance in collaborative filtering and matrix completion but the theoretical analysis is limited and there is still room for improvement in terms of the accuracy of recovering missing values. This paper presents a neuron-enhanced autoencoder matrix completion…
Mainstream image captioning models are usually two-stage captioners, i.e., encoding the region features by a pre-trained detector and then feeding them into a language model to generate the captions. However, such a two-stage procedure will lead to a task-based information gap that decreases the per…
Temporal Knowledge Graph Question Answering (TKGQA) aims to answer questions with temporal intent over Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGs). The core challenge of this task lies in understanding the complex semantic information regarding multiple types of time constraints (e.g., before, first) in questi…
With the rapid development of 3D movie and light-field displays, there is a growing demand for stereo videos. However, generating high-quality stereo videos from planar videos remains a challenging task. Traditional depth-image-based rendering techniques struggle to effectively handle the problem of…
Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) is a widely explored multi-modal task, which endeavors to segment the pre-existing object within a single image with a given linguistic expression. However, in broader real-world scenarios, it is not always possible to determine if the described object exists…
Deep learning based virtual try-on system has achieved some encouraging progress recently, but there still remain several big challenges that need to be solved, such as trying on arbitrary clothes of all types, trying on the clothes from one category to another and generating image-realistic results…
Detecting objects based on language information is a popular task that includes Open-Vocabulary object Detection (OVD) and Referring Expression Comprehension (REC). In this paper, we advance them to a more practical setting called *Described Object Detection* (DOD) by expanding category names to fle…
Graph convolutional networks (GCN) with one or two hidden layers have been widely used in handling graph data that are prevalent in various disciplines. Many studies showed that the gain of making GCNs deeper is tiny or even negative. This implies that the complexity of graph data is often limited a…
This work proposes a Momentum-Enabled Kronecker-Factor-Based Optimizer Using Rank-1 updates, called MKOR, that improves the training time and convergence properties of deep neural networks (DNNs). Second-order techniques, while enjoying higher convergence rates vs first-order counterparts, have cubi…
Active tracking of space noncooperative object that merely relies on vision camera is greatly significant for autonomous rendezvous and debris removal. Considering its Partial Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) property, this letter proposes a novel deep recurrent neural network architecture
Recently, some span-based methods have achieved encouraging performances for joint aspect-sentiment analysis, which first extract aspects (aspect extraction) by detecting aspect boundaries and then classify the span-level sentiments (sentiment classification). However, most existing approaches eithe…
The performance of spectral clustering heavily relies on the quality of affinity matrix. A variety of affinity-matrix-construction (AMC) methods have been proposed but they have hyperparameters to determine beforehand, which requires strong experience and leads to difficulty in real applications, es…
Few-shot knowledge graph completion (FKGC) has become a new research focus in the field of knowledge graphs in recent years, which aims to predict the missing links for relations that only have a few associative triples. Existing models attempt to solve the problem via learning entity and relation r…
Low-light image enhancement focus on refining the illumination and keep naturalness to obtain the normal-light image. Current low-light image enhancement methods can well improve the illumination. However, there is still color difference between the enhanced image and the ground-truth image. To alle…
Recently deep learning methods have shown significant progress in data clustering tasks. Deep clustering methods (including distance-based methods and subspace-based methods) integrate clustering and feature learning into a unified framework, where there is a mutual promotion between clustering and…
Interactive image segmentation is an essential tool in pixel-level annotation and image editing. To obtain a high-precision binary segmentation mask, users tend to add interaction clicks around the object details, such as edges and holes, for efficient refinement. Current methods regard these repair…
Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) aims to rank the documents written in a language different from the user’s query. The intrinsic gap between different languages is an essential challenge for CLIR. In this paper, we introduce the multilingual knowledge graph (KG) to the CLIR task due to the…
"Autonomous highlight detection is crucial for video editing and video browsing on social media platforms. General video highlight detection aims at extracting the most interesting segments from the entire video. However, interest is subjective among different users. A naive solution is to train a m…
"This paper explores the point set representation for tubular structure extraction tasks. Compared with the traditional mask representation, the point set representation enjoys its flexibility and representation ability, which would not be restricted by the fixed grid as the mask. Inspired by this,…
Most real-world knowledge graphs (KG) are far from complete and comprehensive. This problem has motivated efforts in predicting the most plausible missing facts to complete a given KG, i.e., knowledge graph completion (KGC). However, existing KGC methods suffer from two main issues, 1) the false neg…
Incorporating lexical knowledge into deep learning models has been proved to be very effective for sequence labeling tasks. However, previous works commonly have difficulty dealing with large-scale dynamic lexicons which often cause excessive matching noise and problems of frequent updates. In this…
In this paper, we technically propose an enriched prior guided framework, called Dual-constrained Deep Semi-Supervised Coupled Factorization Network (DS2CF-Net), for discovering hierarchical coupled data representation. To extract hidden deep features, DS2CF-Net is formulated as a partial-label and…
In this paper, we propose a novel method, referred to as incomplete multi-view tensor spectral clustering with missing-view inferring (IMVTSC-MVI) to address the challenging multi-view clustering problem with missing views. Different from the existing methods which commonly focus on exploring the ce…
Low-rank representation is powerful for recover-ing and clustering the subspace structures, but it cannot obtain deep hierarchical information due to the single-layer mode. In this paper, we present a new and effective strategy to extend the sin-gle-layer latent low-rank models into multi-ple-layers…
Co-saliency detection (Co-SOD) aims to segment the common salient foreground in a group of relevant images. In this paper, inspired by human behavior, we propose a gradient-induced co-saliency detection (GICD) method. We first abstract a consensus representation for the grouped images in the embeddi…
In the task of interactive image segmentation, users initially click one point to segment the main body of the target object and then provide more points on mislabeled regions iteratively for a precise segmentation. Existing methods treat all interaction points indiscriminately, ignoring the differe…
Vocal tract resonances give rise to core spectral information of speech signals. Linear prediction and cepstral methods are widely used for this purpose. However, both approaches are prone to fail as the fundamental frequency (F0) rises. In this study, a new cepstral method is developed combined wit…
Vehicle re-identification (reID) aims at identifying vehicles across different non-overlapping cameras views. The existing methods heavily relied on well-labeled datasets for ideal performance, which inevitably causes fateful drop due to the severe domain bias between the training domain and the rea…
We investigate the high-dimensional data clustering problem by proposing a novel and unsupervised representation learning model called Robust Flexible Auto-weighted Local-coordinate Concept Factorization (RFA-LCF). RFA-LCF integrates the robust flexible CF, robust sparse local-coordinate coding and…
Low-resolution (LR) face identification is always a challenge in computer vision. In this paper, we propose a new LR face recognition and reconstruction method using deep canonical correlation analysis (DCCA). Unlike linear CCA-based methods, our proposed method can learn flexible nonlinear represen…