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Zhengfeng Lai

9 accepted papers

2025

Contrastive Localized Language-Image Pre-Training

ICML 2025poster

CLIP has been a celebrated method for training vision encoders to generate image/text representations facilitating various applications. Recently, it has been widely adopted as the vision backbone of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). The success of CLIP relies on aligning web-crawled noisy t…

Cited by 10SourcePDFScholar
2025

ETVA: Evaluation of Text-to-Video Alignment via Fine-grained Question Generation and Answering

ICCV 2025poster

Precisely evaluating semantic alignment between text prompts and generated videos remains a challenge in Text-to-Video (T2V) Generation. Existing text-to-video alignment metrics like CLIPScore only generate coarse-grained scores without fine-grained alignment details, failing to align with human pre…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

MM1.5: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Fine-tuning

ICLR 2025poster

We present MM1.5, a new family of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) designed to enhance capabilities in text-rich image understanding, visual referring and grounding, and multi-image reasoning. Building upon the MM1 architecture, MM1.5 adopts a data-centric approach to model training, systema…

Cited by 29SourcePDFScholar
2025

MMAU: A Holistic Benchmark of Agent Capabilities Across Diverse Domains

NAACL 2025findings

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have increased the demand for comprehensive benchmarks to evaluate their capabilities as human-like agents. Existing benchmarks, while useful, often focus on specific application scenarios, emphasizing task completion but failing to dissect the underly…

2025

Revisit Large-Scale Image-Caption Data in Pre-training Multimodal Foundation Models

ICLR 2025poster

Recent advancements in multimodal models highlight the value of rewritten captions for improving performance, yet key challenges remain. For example, while synthetic captions often provide superior quality and image-text alignment, it is not clear whether they can fully replace AltTexts: the role of…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2025

STIV: Scalable Text and Image Conditioned Video Generation

ICCV 2025poster

We present a simple and scalable text and image conditioned video generation method. Our approach, named STIV, integrates a variable number of image conditions into a Diffusion Transformer (DiT) through frame replacement. This design enables STIV to perform both text-to-video (T2V) and text-image-to…

2025

StreamBridge: Turning Your Offline Video Large Language Model into a Proactive Streaming Assistant

NeurIPS 2025poster

We present StreamBridge, a simple yet effective framework that seamlessly transforms offline Video-LLMs into streaming-capable models. It addresses two fundamental challenges in adapting existing models into online scenarios: (1) limited capability for multi-turn real-time understanding, and (2) lac…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

PADCLIP: Pseudo-labeling with Adaptive Debiasing in CLIP for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

ICCV 2023poster

Traditional Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) leverages the labeled source domain to tackle the learning tasks on the unlabeled target domain. It can be more challenging when a large domain gap exists between the source and the target domain. A more practical setting is to utilize a large-scale p…

Cited by 71PDFScholar
2022

Smoothed Adaptive Weighting for Imbalanced Semi-Supervised Learning: Improve Reliability Against Unknown Distribution Data

ICML 2022spotlight

Despite recent promising results on semi-supervised learning (SSL), data imbalance, particularly in the unlabeled dataset, could significantly impact the training performance of a SSL algorithm if there is a mismatch between the expected and actual class distributions. The efforts on how to construc…