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Zhen Ye

18 accepted papers

2026

EARL: Towards a Unified Analysis-Guided Reinforcement Learning Framework for Egocentric Interaction Reasoning and Pixel Grounding

ICML 2026poster

A precise and comprehensive understanding of human-environment interactions in egocentric vision is essential for next-generation intelligent agents, such as assistive robotics. While existing multimodal large language models (MLLMs) support unified reasoning from scene-level analysis to instance-sp…

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2026

Inference-time Scaling for Diffusion-based Audio Super-resolution

AAAI 2026technical

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable success in generative tasks, including audio super-resolution (SR). In many applications like movie post-production and album mastering, substantial computational budgets are available for achieving superior audio quality. However, while existing diffusi

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2026

SpaceVista: All-Scale Visual Spatial Reasoning from mm to km

ICML 2026poster

With the current surge in spatial reasoning, researchers have made significant progress in understanding indoor scenes, but still struggle with more diverse applications. This paper aims to advance all-scale spatial reasoning by tackling two key challenges: 1) the heavy reliance on indoor 3D scans a…

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2026

SportR: A Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Model Reasoning in Sports

ICLR 2026poster

Artificial Intelligence brings powerful new tools to sports, from automated officiating to tactical analysis, but these applications all depend on a core reasoning capability. Deeply understanding sports requires an intricate blend of fine-grained visual perception and rule-based reasoning—a challe…

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2026

YuE: Scaling Open Foundation Models for Long-Form Music Generation

ICLR 2026poster

We tackle the task of long-form music generation, particularly the challenging \textbf{lyrics-to-song} problem, by introducing \textbf{YuE (乐)}, a family of open-source music generation foundation models. Specifically, YuE scales to trillions of tokens and generates up to five minutes of music while…

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2025

AdamMeme: Adaptively Probe the Reasoning Capacity of Multimodal Large Language Models on Harmfulness

ACL 2025long

The proliferation of multimodal memes in the social media era demands that multimodal Large Language Models (mLLMs) effectively understand meme harmfulness. Existing benchmarks for assessing mLLMs on harmful meme understanding rely on accuracy-based, model-agnostic evaluations using static datasets.…

2025

Boosting Policy and Process Reward Models with Monte Carlo Tree Search in Open-Domain QA

ACL 2025finding

The recent introduction of OpenAI’s O1/O3 model represents a significant milestone in developing strong reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs). By introducing more computational budget during test-time, LLMs have the potential to explore more accurate and higher-quality solutions. Ho…

2025

Both Ears Wide Open: Towards Language-Driven Spatial Audio Generation

ICLR 2025spotlight

Recently, diffusion models have achieved great success in mono-channel audio generation. However, when it comes to stereo audio generation, the soundscapes often have a complex scene of multiple objects and directions. Controlling stereo audio with spatial contexts remains challenging due to high da…

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2025

Codec Does Matter: Exploring the Semantic Shortcoming of Codec for Audio Language Model

AAAI 2025technical

Recent advancements in audio generation have been significantly propelled by the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). The existing research on audio LLM has primarily focused on enhancing the architecture and scale of audio language models, as well as leveraging larger datasets, and general…

2025

LLaSE-G1: Incentivizing Generalization Capability for LLaMA-based Speech Enhancement

ACL 2025long

Recent advancements in language models (LMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in semantic understanding and contextual modeling, which have flourished in generative speech enhancement (SE). However, many LM-based SE approaches primarily focus on semantic information, often neglecting the critic…

2025

ScratchEval: Are GPT-4o Smarter than My Child? Evaluating Large Multimodal Models with Visual Programming Challenges

NAACL 2025short

Recent advancements in large multimodal models (LMMs) have showcased impressive code generation capabilities, primarily evaluated through image-to-code benchmarks. However, these benchmarks are limited to specific visual programming scenarios where the logic reasoning and the multimodal understandin…

2025

UnifiedVisual: A Framework for Constructing Unified Vision-Language Datasets

EMNLP 2025

Unified vision large language models (VLLMs) have recently achieved impressive advancements in both multimodal understanding and generation, powering applications such as visual question answering and text-guided image synthesis. However, progress in unified VLLMs remains constrained by the lack of

2024

FastSAG: Towards Fast Non-Autoregressive Singing Accompaniment Generation

IJCAI 2024poster

Singing Accompaniment Generation (SAG), which generates instrumental music to accompany input vocals, is crucial to developing human-AI symbiotic art creation systems. The state-of-the-art method, SingSong, utilizes a multi-stage autoregressive (AR) model for SAG, however, this method is extremely s…

2024

PyramidCodec: Hierarchical Codec for Long-form Music Generation in Audio Domain

EMNLP 2024finding

Generating well-structured long music compositions, spanning several minutes, remains a challenge due to inefficient representation and the lack of structured representation. In this paper, we propose PyramidCodec, a hierarchical discrete representation of audio, for long audio-domain music generati…

2023

NAS-FM: Neural Architecture Search for Tunable and Interpretable Sound Synthesis Based on Frequency Modulation

IJCAI 2023poster

Developing digital sound synthesizers is crucial to the music industry as it provides a low-cost way to produce high-quality sounds with rich timbres. Existing traditional synthesizers often require substantial expertise to determine the overall framework of a synthesizer and the parameters of submo…

2019

BLVD: Building A Large-scale 5D Semantics Benchmark for Autonomous Driving

ICRA 2019poster

In autonomous driving community, numerous benchmarks have been established to assist the tasks of 3D/2D object detection, stereo vision, semantic/instance segmentation. However, the more meaningful dynamic evolution of the surrounding objects of ego-vehicle is rarely exploited, and lacks a large-sca…

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