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Zhuotao Tian

51 accepted papers

2026

AgentSteerTTS: A Multi-Agent Closed-Loop Framework for Composite-Instruction Text-to-Speech

ICML 2026poster

While existing text-to-speech (TTS) models exhibit high expressiveness, fine-grained control over composite instructions remains challenging due to the structural mismatch between discrete textual intents and continuous acoustic realizations. Inspired by human cognitive decoupling, we introduce Agen…

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2026

Benchmarking and Evolving Reason-Reflect-Rectify for Reflective Visual Generation

ICML 2026poster

Text-to-Image (T2I) models and Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) have achieved remarkable progress in visual generation. However, their reliance on a single-pass generation paradigm limits their ability to handle complex prompts requiring iterative refinement. To enable multi-round Reflective Visual …

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Beyond Binary Contrast: Modeling Continuous Skeleton Action Spaces with Transitional Anchors

CVPR 2026

Self-supervised contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm for skeleton-based action recognition by enforcing consistency in the embedding space. However, existing methods rely on binary contrastive objectives that overlook the intrinsic continuity of human motion, resulting in fragment

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Consistency Beyond Contrast: Enhancing Open-Vocabulary Object Detection Robustness via Contextual Consistency Learning

CVPR 2026

Recent advances in open-vocabulary object detection focus primarily on two aspects: scaling up datasets and leveraging contrastive learning to align language and vision modalities. However, these approaches often neglect internal consistency within a single modality, particularly when background or

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

DC-Leap: Training-Free Acceleration of dLLMs via Draft-Guided Contiguous Leaping Decoding

ICML 2026poster

While parallel decoding is central to the efficiency of Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs), current strategies are often hindered by overly conservative confidence thresholds. These thresholds, necessitated by the Joint Probability Dependence Error (JPDE), result in redundant denoising iteratio…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

DyCon: Dynamic Reasoning Control via Evolving Difficulty Modeling

ICML 2026poster

Recent advances in Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) demonstrate remarkable performance improvements by iteratively reflecting, exploring, and executing complex tasks, yet suffer from inefficiencies due to redundant reasoning, known as "overthinking". Existing methods to mitigate this issue either rely …

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Dynamic-dLLM: Dynamic Cache-Budget and Adaptive Parallel Decoding for Training-Free Acceleration of Diffusion LLM

ICLR 2026poster

Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) offer a promising alternative to autoregressive models, excelling in text generation tasks due to their bidirectional attention mechanisms. However, their computational complexity, scaling as $\mathcal{O}(L^3)$ with sequence length $L$, poses significant chall…

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2026

Efficient Reasoning with Balanced Thinking

ICLR 2026poster

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have shown remarkable reasoning capabilities, yet they often suffer from overthinking, expending redundant computational steps on simple problems, or underthinking, failing to explore sufficient reasoning paths despite inherent capabilities. These issues lead to ineffic…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

FlashVID: Efficient Video Large Language Models via Training-free Tree-based Spatiotemporal Token Merging

ICLR 2026oral

Although Video Large Language Models (VLLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in video understanding, they are required to process high volumes of visual tokens, causing significant computational inefficiency. Existing VLLMs acceleration frameworks usually compress spatial and temporal redundancy…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

HiconAgent: History Context-aware Policy Optimization for GUI Agents

CVPR 2026

Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents require effective utilization of historical context to perform sequential navigation tasks. While incorporating past actions and observations can significantly improve decision-making, naively using full history leads to excessive computational overhead and pote

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

LongHorizonUI: A Unified Framework for Robust long-horizon Task Automation of GUI Agent

ICLR 2026poster

Although agents based on multimodal large language models (MLLMs) demonstrate proficiency in general short-term graphical user interface (GUI) tasks, their robustness remains a significant challenge for handling complex long-horizon tasks in dynamic environments . In response, the LongHorizonUI fram…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Multimodal Dataset Distillation via Phased Teacher Models

ICLR 2026poster

Multimodal dataset distillation aims to construct compact synthetic datasets that enable efficient compression and knowledge transfer from large-scale image-text data. However, existing approaches often fail to capture the complex, dynamically evolving knowledge embedded in the later training stages…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Plug-and-Play Fidelity Optimization for Diffusion Transformer Acceleration via Cumulative Error Minimization

ICLR 2026poster

Although Diffusion Transformer (DiT) has emerged as a predominant architecture for image and video generation, its iterative denoising process results in slow inference, which hinders broader applicability and development. Caching-based methods achieve training-free acceleration, while suffering fro…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

PointRePar : SpatioTemporal Point Relation Parsing for Robust Category-Unified 3D Tracking

ICLR 2026poster

3D single object tracking (SOT) remains a highly challenging task due to the inherent crux in learning representations from point clouds to effectively capture both spatial shape features and temporal motion features. Most existing methods employ a category-specific optimization paradigm, training t…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

SMD: Multi-view Safety-Critical Driving Video Generation in the Real-world Domain

ICML 2026poster

Safety-critical scenarios are essential for evaluating autonomous driving (AD) systems, yet they are rare in practice. Existing generators produce trajectories, simulations, or single-view videos—but they don’t meet what modern AD systems actually consume: realistic multi-view video. We present SMD,…

Cited by 4SourcecodeScholar
2026

SODA: Sensitivity-Oriented Dynamic Acceleration for Diffusion Transformer

CVPR 2026

Diffusion Transformers have become a dominant paradigm in visual generation, yet their low inference efficiency remains a key bottleneck hindering further advancement. Among common training-free techniques, caching offers high acceleration efficiency but often compromises fidelity, whereas pruning s

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

SemanticVLA: Semantic-Aligned Sparsification and Enhancement for Efficient Robotic Manipulation

AAAI 2026technical

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have advanced in robotic manipulation, yet practical deployment remains hindered by two key limitations: **1) perceptual redundancy**, where irrelevant visual inputs are processed inefficiently, and **2) superficial instruction-vision alignment**, which hampers se

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

Spatial Matters: Position-Guided 3D Referring Expression Segmentation

CVPR 2026

3D Referring Expression segmentation (3D-RES) is an emerging field that segments 3D objects in point cloud scenes based on given referring expressions. Although existing methods have achieved substantial progress, they primarily focus on semantic cues and often overlook spatial relations, which are

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Uni-DPO: A Unified Paradigm for Dynamic Preference Optimization of LLMs

ICLR 2026poster

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as a cornerstone of reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) due to its simplicity and efficiency. However, existing DPO-based methods typically treat all preference pairs equally, overlooking substantial variations in data quality and learni…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

UniRefiner: Teaching Pre-trained ViTs to Self-Dispose Dross via Contrastive Register

CVPR 2026

Representation learning with Vision Transformers (ViTs) has advanced rapidly, yet the utility of large-scale models in spatially sensitive tasks is hindered by spurious tokens. Prior efforts to mitigate this have been limited, often defining these artifacts narrowly, for example, as simple high-norm

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

VisionLeaf: Entropy-Guided Leaf-First Reasoning for Efficient and Accurate Think-with-Image

CVPR 2026

The "think-with-image" paradigm has recently gained traction for complex visual reasoning tasks. However, existing approaches often struggle with inference inefficiency due to a fixed number of redundant reasoning steps, as well as training instability. This challenge primarily arises from the direc

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

C2AD: Dual Consistency Learning for Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection

ICASSP 2025accepted

Zero-shot anomaly detection (ZSAD) is dedicated to detecting anomalies without having any seen normal or abnormal samples for the target set. Existing approaches utilize the pre-trained CLIP to assess normality/abnormality by exploiting the similarity between images and text with the frozen visual e…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Concerto: Joint 2D-3D Self-Supervised Learning Emerges Spatial Representations

NeurIPS 2025poster

Humans learn abstract concepts through multisensory synergy, and once formed, such representations can often be recalled from a single modality. Inspired by this principle, we introduce Concerto, a minimalist simulation of human concept learning for spatial cognition, combining 3D intra-modal self-d…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Context-Aware Hierarchical Learning: A Two-Step Paradigm towards Safer LLMs

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for diverse applications. However, their uniform token processing paradigm introduces critical vulnerabilities in instruction handling, particularly when exposed to adversarial scenarios. In this work, we identify and propose a novel class…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

DeCLIP: Decoupled Learning for Open-Vocabulary Dense Perception

CVPR 2025poster

Dense visual prediction tasks have been constrained by their reliance on predefined categories, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios where visual concepts are unbounded. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP have shown promise in open-vocabulary tasks, their direct applicatio…

2025

Edit360: 2D Image Edits to 3D Assets from Any Angle

ICCV 2025poster

Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly improved image generation and editing, but extending these capabilities to 3D assets remains challenging, especially for fine-grained edits that require multi-view consistency. Existing methods typically restrict editing to predetermined viewing…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Enhancing Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models through Reasoning-based Segmentation

ICCV 2025poster

Recent advances in point cloud perception have demonstrated remarkable progress in scene understanding through vision-language alignment leveraging large language models (LLMs). However, existing methods may still encounter challenges in handling complex instructions that require accurate spatial re…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Less Is More, but Where? Dynamic Token Compression via LLM-Guided Keyframe Prior

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent advances in Video Large Language Models (VLLMs) have achieved remarkable video understanding capabilities, yet face critical efficiency bottlenecks due to quadratic computational growth with lengthy visual token sequences of long videos. While existing keyframe sampling methods can improve te…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Mitigating Object Hallucinations via Sentence-Level Early Intervention

ICCV 2025poster

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have revolutionized cross-modal understanding but continue to struggle with hallucinations - fabricated content contradicting visual inputs. Existing hallucination mitigation methods either incur prohibitive computational costs or introduce distribution misma…

2025

RefDetector: A Simple Yet Effective Matching-based Method for Referring Expression Comprehension

AAAI 2025technical

Despite the rapid and substantial advancements in object detection, it continues to face limitations imposed by pre-defined category sets. Current methods for visual grounding primarily focus on how to better leverage the visual backbone to generate text-tailored visual features, which may require a…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

VisionZip: Longer is Better but Not Necessary in Vision Language Models

CVPR 2025poster

Recent advancements in vision-language models have enhanced performance by increasing the length of visual tokens, making them much longer than text tokens and significantly raising computational costs.However, we observe that the visual tokens generated by popular vision encoders, such as CLIP and…

2024

Decoupled Kullback-Leibler Divergence Loss

NeurIPS 2024poster

In this paper, we delve deeper into the Kullback–Leibler (KL) Divergence loss and mathematically prove that it is equivalent to the Decoupled Kullback-Leibler (DKL) Divergence loss that consists of 1) a weighted Mean Square Error ($\mathbf{w}$MSE) loss and 2) a Cross-Entropy loss incorporating soft…

2024

GroupContrast: Semantic-aware Self-supervised Representation Learning for 3D Understanding

CVPR 2024poster

Self-supervised 3D representation learning aims to learn effective representations from large-scale unlabeled point clouds. Most existing approaches adopt point discrimination as the pretext task which assigns matched points in two distinct views as positive pairs and unmatched points as negative pa…

2024

LISA: Reasoning Segmentation via Large Language Model

CVPR 2024poster

Although perception systems have made remarkable advancements in recent years they still rely on explicit human instruction or pre-defined categories to identify the target objects before executing visual recognition tasks. Such systems cannot actively reason and comprehend implicit user intention.…

2024

Mind the Interference: Retaining Pre-trained Knowledge in Parameter Efficient Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models

ECCV 2024poster

"This study addresses the Domain-Class Incremental Learning problem, a realistic but challenging continual learning scenario where both the domain distribution and target classes vary across tasks. To handle these diverse tasks, pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are introduced for their stro…

2024

OA-CNNs: Omni-Adaptive Sparse CNNs for 3D Semantic Segmentation

CVPR 2024poster

The booming of 3D recognition in the 2020s began with the introduction of point cloud transformers. They quickly overwhelmed sparse CNNs and became state-of-the-art models especially in 3D semantic segmentation. However sparse CNNs are still valuable networks due to their efficiency treasure and eas…

2024

Referencing Where to Focus: Improving Visual Grounding with Referential Query

NeurIPS 2024poster

Visual Grounding aims to localize the referring object in an image given a natural language expression. Recent advancements in DETR-based visual grounding methods have attracted considerable attention, as they directly predict the coordinates of the target object without relying on additional effort…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

SaCo Loss: Sample-wise Affinity Consistency for Vision-Language Pre-training

CVPR 2024poster

Vision-language pre-training (VLP) aims to learn joint representations of vision and language modalities. The contrastive paradigm is currently dominant in this field. However we observe a notable misalignment phenomenon that is the affinity between samples has an obvious disparity across different…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

Scalable Language Model with Generalized Continual Learning

ICLR 2024poster

Continual learning has gained increasing importance as it facilitates the acquisition and refinement of scalable knowledge and skills in language models. However, existing methods typically encounter strict limitations and challenges in real-world scenarios, such as reliance on experience replay, op…

2024

Towards Large-scale 3D Representation Learning with Multi-dataset Point Prompt Training

CVPR 2024poster

The rapid advancement of deep learning models is often attributed to their ability to leverage massive training data. In contrast such privilege has not yet fully benefited 3D deep learning mainly due to the limited availability of large-scale 3D datasets. Merging multiple available data sources and…

2024

Typicalness-Aware Learning for Failure Detection

NeurIPS 2024poster

Deep neural networks (DNNs) often suffer from the overconfidence issue, where incorrect predictions are made with high confidence scores, hindering the applications in critical systems. In this paper, we propose a novel approach called Typicalness-Aware Learning (TAL) to address this issue and impro…

2023

Hierarchical Dense Correlation Distillation for Few-Shot Segmentation

CVPR 2023highlight

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) aims to form class-agnostic models segmenting unseen classes with only a handful of annotations. Previous methods limited to the semantic feature and prototype representation suffer from coarse segmentation granularity and train-set overfitting. In this work, we…

2023

Learning Context-Aware Classifier for Semantic Segmentation

AAAI 2023technical

Semantic segmentation is still a challenging task for parsing diverse contexts in different scenes, thus the fixed classifier might not be able to well address varying feature distributions during testing. Different from the mainstream literature where the efficacy of strong backbones and effective…

2022

DecoupleNet: Decoupled Network for Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation

ECCV 2022poster

"Unsupervised domain adaptation in semantic segmentation alleviates the reliance on expensive pixel-wise annotation. It uses a labeled source domain dataset as well as unlabeled target domain images to learn a segmentation network. In this paper, we observe two main issues of existing domain-invaria…

2022

Generalized Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation

CVPR 2022poster

Training semantic segmentation models requires a large amount of finely annotated data, making it hard to quickly adapt to novel classes not satisfying this condition. Few-Shot Segmentation (FS-Seg) tackles this problem with many constraints. In this paper, we introduce a new benchmark, called Gener…

Cited by 109PDFcodeScholar
2022

Spatial Pruned Sparse Convolution for Efficient 3D Object Detection

NeurIPS 2022accept

3D scenes are dominated by a large number of background points, which is redundant for the detection task that mainly needs to focus on foreground objects. In this paper, we analyze major components of existing sparse 3D CNNs and find that 3D CNNs ignores the redundancy of data and further amplifies…

Cited by 45SourcePDFScholar
2021

Guided Point Contrastive Learning for Semi-Supervised Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation

ICCV 2021poster

Rapid progress in 3D semantic segmentation is inseparable from the advances of deep network models, which highly rely on large-scale annotated data for training. To address the high cost and challenges of 3D point-level labeling, we present a method for semi-supervised point cloud semantic segmentat…

Cited by 160PDFScholar
2021

Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation With Directional Context-Aware Consistency

CVPR 2021poster

Semantic segmentation has made tremendous progress in recent years. However, satisfying performance highly depends on a large number of pixel-level annotations. Therefore, in this paper, we focus on the semi-supervised segmentation problem where only a small set of labeled data is provided with a mu…

Cited by 277PDFcodeScholar
2019

Homomorphic Latent Space Interpolation for Unpaired Image-To-Image Translation

CVPR 2019oral

Generative adversarial networks have achieved great success in unpaired image-to-image translation. Cycle consistency allows modeling the relationship between two distinct domains without paired data. In this paper, we propose an alternative framework, as an extension of latent space interpolation,…

Cited by 81PDFScholar
2019

Learning Shape-Aware Embedding for Scene Text Detection

CVPR 2019poster

We address the problem of detecting scene text in arbitrary shapes, which is a challenging task due to the high variety and complexity of the scene. Specifically, we treat text detection as instance segmentation and propose a segmentation-based framework, which extracts each text instance as an inde…

Cited by 259PDFScholar