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Zhenyu Zhou

8 accepted papers

2026

DICE: Distilling Classifier-Free Guidance into Text Embeddings

AAAI 2026technical

Text-to-image diffusion models are capable of generating high-quality images, but suboptimal pre-trained text representations often result in these images failing to align closely with the given text prompts. Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is a popular and effective technique for improving text-imag

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2025

From End-to-end to Step-by-step: Learning to Abstract via Abductive Reinforcement Learning

IJCAI 2025

Abstraction is a critical technique in general problem-solving, allowing complex tasks to be decomposed into smaller, manageable sub-tasks. While traditional symbolic planning relies on predefined primitive symbols to construct structured abstractions, its reliance on formal representations limits a

2025

NeuroRenderedFake: A Challenging Benchmark to Detect Fake Images Generated by Advanced Neural Rendering Methods

NeurIPS 2025poster

The remarkable progress in neural-network-driven visual data generation, especially with neural rendering techniques like Neural Radiance Fields and 3D Gaussian splatting, offers a powerful alternative to GANs and diffusion models. These methods can generate high-fidelity images and lifelike avatars…

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2025

Towards Explainable and Unprecedented Accuracy in Matching Challenging Finger Crease Patterns

CVPR 2025highlight

The primary obstacle in realizing the full potential of finger crease biometrics is the accurate identification of deformed knuckle patterns, often resulting from completely contactless imaging. Current methods struggle significantly with this task, yet accurate matching is crucial for applications…

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2024

An Investigation of Distribution Alignment in Multi-Genre Speaker Recognition

ICASSP 2024accepted

Multi-genre speaker recognition is becoming increasingly popular due to its ability to better represent the complexities of real-world applications. However, a major challenge is the significant shift in the distribution of speaker vectors across different genres. While distribution alignment is a c…

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2024

Fast ODE-based Sampling for Diffusion Models in Around 5 Steps

CVPR 2024highlight

Sampling from diffusion models can be treated as solving the corresponding ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with the aim of obtaining an accurate solution with as few number of function evaluations (NFE) as possible. Recently various fast samplers utilizing higher-order ODE solvers have emerge…

2024

On the Trajectory Regularity of ODE-based Diffusion Sampling

ICML 2024poster

Diffusion-based generative models use stochastic differential equations (SDEs) and their equivalent ordinary differential equations (ODEs) to establish a smooth connection between a complex data distribution and a tractable prior distribution. In this paper, we identify several intriguing trajectory…

2024

Simple and Fast Distillation of Diffusion Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Diffusion-based generative models have demonstrated their powerful performance across various tasks, but this comes at a cost of the slow sampling speed. To achieve both efficient and high-quality synthesis, various distillation-based accelerated sampling methods have been developed recently. Howeve…