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Zhiwei Yang

25 accepted papers

2026

Image Content Matters: An Image Content Aware State Space Model for Accelerated MRI Reconstruction

AAAI 2026technical

The challenge of accelerated MRI reconstruction lies in recovering high-quality images from undersampled k-space. Recently, the selective state space model (Mamba) has shown promising results in various tasks with balanced global receptive field and computational efficiency, shedding new light on MR

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

SRJudge: Empowering Large Language Models with Selective Reasoning for Fine-Grained Knowledge Concept Tagging

IJCAI 2026

Knowledge concept tagging aims to assign specific concept or topic labels to educational content, which is essential for both educators and learners in traditional and online teaching practices. Recent work has explored large language models (LLMs) for this task, achieving promising performance. How

Cited by 0Scholar
2026

Scene Graph Thinking: Reinforcing Structured Visual Reasoning for Multimodal Large Language Models

ICML 2026poster

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong perception and reasoning capabilities. However, most existing models focus on isolated objects and neglect structured relationships for efficient target navigation, limiting their performance on visually intensive tasks. To address th…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Structural Entropy Guided Incremental Learning for Open-World Multimodal Social Event Detection

AAAI 2026technical

With the explosive growth of multimodal data streams on social media, the timely detection of emerging social events has become increasingly important. As a result, Multimodal Social Event Detection in open-world settings is receiving growing attention. However, most existing methods face two major

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2025

Boosting ViT-based MRI Reconstruction from the Perspectives of Frequency Modulation, Spatial Purification, and Scale Diversification

AAAI 2025technical

The accelerated MRI reconstruction process presents a challenging ill-posed inverse problem due to the extensive under-sampling in k-space. Recently, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become the mainstream for this task, demonstrating substantial performance improvements. However, there are still thre…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Exploring CLIP's Dense Knowledge for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation

CVPR 2025poster

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels aims to achieve pixel-level predictions using Class Activation Maps (CAMs). Recently, Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has been introduced in WSSS. However, recent methods primarily focus on image-text alignment for…

2025

MoRe: Class Patch Attention Needs Regularization for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation

AAAI 2025technical

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels typically uses Class Activation Maps (CAM) to achieve dense predictions. Recently, Vision Transformer (ViT) has provided an alternative to generate localization maps from class-patch attention. However, due to insufficient constr…

2025

PANDA: Towards Generalist Video Anomaly Detection via Agentic AI Engineer

NeurIPS 2025poster

Video anomaly detection (VAD) is a critical yet challenging task due to the complex and diverse nature of real-world scenarios. Previous methods typically rely on domain-specific training data and manual adjustments when applying to new scenarios and unseen anomaly types, suffering from high labor c…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Seeing Far and Clearly: Mitigating Hallucinations in MLLMs with Attention Causal Decoding

CVPR 2025poster

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have significantly improved performance in visual question answering. However, they often suffer from hallucinations. In this work, hallucinations are categorized into two main types: initial hallucinations and snowball hallucinations.…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Sim-to-Real Transfer of Automatic Extinguishing Strategy for Firefighting Robots

RA-L 2025

The automatic extinguishing strategy (AES) is the core of the decision-making system for intelligent firefighting robots. Inspired by the fire extinguishing action of firefighters, designing a vision-based end-to-end AES aligns with human intuition. However, the cost of training agents to learn AES

Cited by 3SourceScholar
2025

Towards Effective, Efficient and Unsupervised Social Event Detection in the Hyperbolic Space

AAAI 2025technical

The vast, complex, and dynamic nature of social message data has posed challenges to social event detection (SED). Despite considerable effort, these challenges persist, often resulting in inadequately expressive message representations (ineffective) and prolonged learning durations (inefficient). I…

2024

Separate and Conquer: Decoupling Co-occurrence via Decomposition and Representation for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation

CVPR 2024poster

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels aims to achieve segmentation tasks without dense annotations. However attributed to the frequent coupling of co-occurring objects and the limited supervision from image-level labels the challenging co-occurrence problem is widely…

2024

Text Prompt with Normality Guidance for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection

CVPR 2024poster

Weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WSVAD) is a challenging task. Generating fine-grained pseudo-labels based on weak-label and then self-training a classifier is currently a promising solution. However since the existing methods use only RGB visual modality and the utilization of category te…

Cited by 35SourcePDFScholar
2023

Boosting Whole Slide Image Classification from the Perspectives of Distribution, Correlation and Magnification

ICCV 2023poster

Bag-based multiple instance learning (MIL) methods have become the mainstream for Whole Slide Image (WSI) classification. However, there are still three important issues that have not been fully addressed: (1) positive bags with a low positive instance ratio are prone to the influence of a large num…

Cited by 14PDFcodeScholar
2023

The Sufficiency of Off-Policyness and Soft Clipping: PPO Is Still Insufficient according to an Off-Policy Measure

AAAI 2023technical

The popular Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm approximates the solution in a clipped policy space. Does there exist better policies outside of this space? By using a novel surrogate objective that employs the sigmoid function (which provides an interesting way of exploration), we found th…

2023

Video Event Restoration Based on Keyframes for Video Anomaly Detection

CVPR 2023poster

Video anomaly detection (VAD) is a significant computer vision problem. Existing deep neural network (DNN) based VAD methods mostly follow the route of frame reconstruction or frame prediction. However, the lack of mining and learning of higher-level visual features and temporal context relationship…

Cited by 112SourcePDFScholar
2023

WSDMS: Debunk Fake News via Weakly Supervised Detection of Misinforming Sentences with Contextualized Social Wisdom

EMNLP 2023long main

Fake news debunking primarily focuses on determining the truthfulness of news articles, which oversimplifies the issue as fake news often combines elements of both truth and falsehood. Thus, it becomes crucial to identify specific instances of misinformation within the articles. In this research, we…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2022

A Coarse-to-fine Cascaded Evidence-Distillation Neural Network for Explainable Fake News Detection

COLING 2022main

Existing fake news detection methods aim to classify a piece of news as true or false and provide veracity explanations, achieving remarkable performances. However, they often tailor automated solutions on manual fact-checked reports, suffering from limited news coverage and debunking delays. When a…

2022

DecBERT: Enhancing the Language Understanding of BERT with Causal Attention Masks

NAACL 2022findings

Since 2017, the Transformer-based models play critical roles in various downstream Natural Language Processing tasks. However, a common limitation of the attention mechanism utilized in Transformer Encoder is that it cannot automatically capture the information of word order, so explicit position em…

Cited by 7SourcePDFScholar
2022

Detect Rumors in Microblog Posts for Low-Resource Domains via Adversarial Contrastive Learning

NAACL 2022findings

Massive false rumors emerging along with breaking news or trending topics severely hinder the truth. Existing rumor detection approaches achieve promising performance on the yesterday’s news, since there is enough corpus collected from the same domain for model training. However, they are poor at de…

2022

Dynamic Local Aggregation Network with Adaptive Clusterer for Anomaly Detection

ECCV 2022poster

"Existing methods for anomaly detection based on memory-augmented autoencoder (AE) have the following drawbacks: (1) Establishing a memory bank requires additional memory space. (2) The fixed number of prototypes from subjective assumptions ignores the data feature differences and diversity. To over…

2021

HiTRANS: A Hierarchical Transformer Network for Nested Named Entity Recognition

EMNLP 2021finding

Nested Named Entity Recognition (NNER) has been extensively studied, aiming to identify all nested entities from potential spans (i.e., one or more continuous tokens). However, recent studies for NNER either focus on tedious tagging schemas or utilize complex structures, which fail to learn effectiv…

Cited by 14SourcePDFScholar
2021

Rumor Detection on Twitter with Claim-Guided Hierarchical Graph Attention Networks

EMNLP 2021main

Rumors are rampant in the era of social media. Conversation structures provide valuable clues to differentiate between real and fake claims. However, existing rumor detection methods are either limited to the strict relation of user responses or oversimplify the conversation structure. In this study…

2020

Attention-based Multi-level Feature Fusion for Named Entity Recognition

IJCAI 2020poster

Named entity recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in the natural language processing (NLP) area. Recently, representation learning methods (e.g., character embedding and word embedding) have achieved promising recognition results. However, existing models only consider partial features derived fr…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2020

Not only Look, but also Listen: Learning Multimodal Violence Detection under Weak Supervision

ECCV 2020poster

but also Listen: Learning Multimodal Violence Detection under Weak Supervision","Violence detection has been studied in computer vision for years. However, previous work are either superficial, e.g., classification of short-clips, and the single scenario, or undersupplied, e.g., the single modality,…