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Zhongjie Duan

8 accepted papers

2026

AttriCtrl: A Generalizable Framework for Controlling Semantic Attribute Intensity in Diffusion Models

ICLR 2026poster

Diffusion models have recently become the dominant paradigm for image generation, yet existing systems struggle to interpret and follow numeric instructions for adjusting semantic attributes. In real-world creative scenarios, especially when precise control over aesthetic attributes is required, cu…

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2026

Spectral Evolution Search: Efficient Inference-Time Scaling for Reward-Aligned Image Generation

ICML 2026poster

Inference-time scaling offers a versatile paradigm for aligning visual generative models with downstream objectives without parameter updates. However, existing approaches that optimize the high-dimensional initial noise suffer from severe inefficiency, as many search directions exert negligible inf…

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2025

ExVideo: Extending Video Diffusion Models via Parameter-Efficient Post-Tuning

IJCAI 2025

Recently, advancements in video synthesis have attracted significant attention. Video synthesis models have demonstrated the practical applicability of diffusion models in creating dynamic visual content. Despite these advancements, the extension of video lengths remains constrained by computational

2025

FastBlend: Enhancing Video Stylization Consistency via Model-Free Patch Blending

IJCAI 2025

With the emergence of diffusion models and the rapid development of image processing, generating artistic images in style transfer tasks has become effortless. However, these impressive image processing approaches face consistency issues in video processing due to the independent processing of each

2024

Diffutoon: High-Resolution Editable Toon Shading via Diffusion Models

IJCAI 2024poster

Toon shading is a type of non-photorealistic rendering task in animation. Its primary purpose is to render objects with a flat and stylized appearance. As diffusion models have ascended to the forefront of image synthesis, this paper delves into an innovative form of toon shading based on diffusion…

2024

PAI-Diffusion: Constructing and Serving a Family of Open Chinese Diffusion Models for Text-to-image Synthesis on the Cloud

ACL 2024system demonstrations

Text-to-image synthesis for the Chinese language poses unique challenges due to its large vocabulary size, and intricate character relationships. While existing diffusion models have shown promise in generating images from textual descriptions, they often neglect domain-specific contexts and lack ro…

2023

Learning Knowledge-Enhanced Contextual Language Representations for Domain Natural Language Understanding

EMNLP 2023long main

Knowledge-Enhanced Pre-trained Language Models (KEPLMs) improve the performance of various downstream NLP tasks by injecting knowledge facts from large-scale Knowledge Graphs (KGs). However, existing methods for pre-training KEPLMs with relational triples are difficult to be adapted to close domains…

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2023

Rapid Diffusion: Building Domain-Specific Text-to-Image Synthesizers with Fast Inference Speed

ACL 2023industry

Text-to-Image Synthesis (TIS) aims to generate images based on textual inputs. Recently, several large pre-trained diffusion models have been released to create high-quality images with pre-trained text encoders and diffusion-based image synthesizers. However, popular diffusion-based models from the…