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Zicheng Zhang

60 accepted papers

2026

Can VLMs Diagnose and Recover from VLA Manipulation Faults?

ICML 2026poster

Existing VLA models frequently fail in robotic manipulation tasks, with poorly structured fault types that often require expert diagnosis.While VLMs offer strong explanatory capabilities, their effectiveness in assisting VLAs is limited by their unclear role in diagnostics and inadequate collaborati…

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2026

Exposing and Evaluating Hallucinations for GUI Grounding

CVPR 2026

Existing GUI benchmarks primarily focus on evaluating models' comprehensive capabilities but largely overlook hallucination phenomena in grounding tasks, which are crucial to the reliability of GUI understanding. In this work, we expose two major types of hallucinations in GUI grounding: 1) Confusio

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2026

Flash-Mono: Feed-Forward Accelerated Gaussian Splatting Monocular SLAM

ICLR 2026poster

Monocular 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM suffers from critical limitations in time efficiency, geometric accuracy, and multi-view consistency. These issues stem from the time-consuming $\textit{Train-from-Scratch}$ optimization and the lack of inter-frame scale consistency from single-frame geometry pri…

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2026

GeoX-Bench: Benchmarking Cross-View Geo-Localization and Pose Estimation Capabilities of Large Multimodal Models

AAAI 2026technical

Large multimodal models (LMMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a wide range of tasks, however their knowledge and abilities in the cross-view geo-localization and pose estimation domains remain unexplored, despite potential benefits for navigation, autonomous driving, outdoor roboti

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2026

Image Quality Assessment for Embodied AI

ICLR 2026poster

Embodied AI has developed rapidly in recent years, but it is still mainly deployed in laboratories, with various distortions in the Real-world limiting its application. Traditionally, Image Quality Assessment (IQA) methods are applied to predict human preferences for distorted images; however, there…

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2026

Improve MLLM Benchmark Efficiency through Interview

ICASSP 2026poster

The rapid development of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLM) has led to a wide range of MLLM applications, and a number of benchmark datasets have sprung up in order to assess MLLM abilities. However, full-coverage Q&A testing on large-scale data is resource-intensive and time-consuming. To addr…

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2026

LOVE: Benchmarking and Evaluating Text-to-Video Generation and Video-to-Text Interpretation

ICML 2026poster

Recent advancements in large multimodal models (LMMs) have driven substantial progress in both text-to-video (T2V) generation and video-to-text (V2T) interpretation tasks. However, current AI-generated videos (AIGVs) still exhibit limitations in terms of perceptual quality and text-video alignment. …

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2026

MedOmni-45°: A Safety–Performance Benchmark for Reasoning-Oriented LLMs in Medicine

AAAI 2026technical

With the rapid integration of large language models (LLMs) into medical decision-support aids, ensuring reliability in reasoning steps—not just final answers—is increasingly critical. Two key safety dimensions are Chain-of-Thought (CoT) faithfulness, which assesses alignment of the model’s reasoning

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2026

On the Tension Between Optimality and Adversarial Robustness in Policy Optimization

ICLR 2026poster

Achieving optimality and adversarial robustness in deep reinforcement learning has long been regarded as conflicting goals. Nonetheless, recent theoretical insights presented in CAR suggest a potential alignment, raising the important question of how to realize this in practice. This paper first ide…

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2026

Refine-IQA: Multi-Stage Reinforcement Finetuning for Perceptual Image Quality Assessment

AAAI 2026technical

Reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) is a proliferating paradigm for LMM training. Analogous to high-level reasoning tasks, RFT is similarly applicable to low-level vision domains, including image quality assessment (IQA). Existing RFT-based IQA methods typically use rule-based output rewards to verify

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2026

Resolving Endpoint Underfitting in Diffusion Bridges via Noise Alignment

CVPR 2026

Diffusion bridge models offer a powerful framework for connecting two data distributions, such as in image restoration and translation. Many existing methods learn this bridge by mimicking the score-matching formulation of standard diffusion models. In this work, we find that this way leads to an an

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2026

SafeSci: Safety Evaluation of Large Language Models in Science Domains and Beyond

ICML 2026poster

The success of large language models (LLMs) in scientific domains has heightened safety concerns, prompting numerous benchmarks to evaluate their scientific safety. Existing benchmarks often suffer from limited risk coverage and a reliance on subjective evaluation. To address thess problems, we intr…

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2026

Scaling-up Perceptual Video Quality Assessment

AAAI 2026technical

The data scaling law has significantly enhanced large multi-modal models (LMMs) performance across various downstream tasks. However, in the domain of perceptual video quality assessment (VQA), the potential of data scaling remains unprecedented due to the scarcity of labeled resources and the insuf

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2026

SparseSplat: Towards Applicable Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Splatting with Pixel-Unaligned Prediction

CVPR 2026

Recent progress in feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has notably improved rendering quality. However, the spatially uniform and highly redundant 3DGS map generated by previous feed-forward 3DGS methods limits their integration into downstream reconstruction tasks. We propose SparseSplat, the

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2026

VINGS-Mono: Visual-Inertial Gaussian Splatting Monocular SLAM in Large Scenes

ICRA 2026poster

VINGS-Mono is a monocular inertial Gaussian Splatting (GS) SLAM framework designed for large-scale scenes. It integrates four main components: VIO Front End, 2D Gaussian Map, NVS Loop Closure, and Dynamic Eraser. The VIO Front End processes RGB frames with dense bundle adjustment and uncertainty est…

2026

VITAL: Vision-Encoder-centered Pre-training for LMMs in Visual Quality Assessment

CVPR 2026

Developing a robust visual quality assessment (VQualA) large multi-modal model (LMM) requires achieving versatility, powerfulness, and transferability. However, existing VQualA LMMs typically focus on a single task and rely on full-parameter fine-tuning, which makes them prone to overfitting on spec

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

3DGCQA: A Quality Assessment Database for 3D AI-Generated Contents

ICASSP 2025accepted

Although 3D generated content (3DGC) offers advantages in reducing production costs and accelerating design timelines, its quality often falls short when compared to 3D professionally generated content. Common quality issues frequently affect 3DGC, highlighting the importance of timely and effective…

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2025

A-Bench: Are LMMs Masters at Evaluating AI-generated Images?

ICLR 2025poster

How to accurately and efficiently assess AI-generated images (AIGIs) remains a critical challenge for generative models. Given the high costs and extensive time commitments required for user studies, many researchers have turned towards employing large multi-modal models (LMMs) as AIGI evaluators, t…

2025

Beyond Logits: Aligning Feature Dynamics for Effective Knowledge Distillation

ACL 2025long

Knowledge distillation (KD) compresses large language models (LLMs), known as teacher models, into lightweight versions called student models, enabling efficient inference and downstream applications. However, prevailing approaches accomplish this by predominantly focusing on matching the final outp…

2025

CamPoint: Boosting Point Cloud Segmentation with Virtual Camera

CVPR 2025poster

Local features aggregation and global information perception are the fundamental to point cloud segmentation. However, existing works often fall short in effectively identifying semantic relevant neighbors and face challenges in endowing each point with high-level information. Here, we propose CamPo…

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2025

CoSER: Towards Consistent Dense Multiview Text-to-Image Generator for 3D Creation

CVPR 2025highlight

Generating dense multiview images from text prompts is crucial for creating high-fidelity 3D assets. Nevertheless, existing methods struggle with space-view correspondences, resulting in sparse and low-quality outputs. In this paper, we introduce CoSER, a novel consistent dense Multiview Text-to-Ima…

2025

Creation-MMBench: Assessing Context-Aware Creative Intelligence in MLLMs

ICCV 2025poster

Creativity is a fundamental aspect of intelligence, involving the ability to generate novel and appropriate solutions across diverse contexts. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have been extensively evaluated for their creative capabilities, the assessment of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs…

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2025

DreamHA: Towards High-Quality Human Animation with Image-to-Video Diffusion Models

ICASSP 2025accepted

Recent diffusion models have made significant advancements in generating lifelike videos from driving signals, including a reference character and a skeleton sequence. Nevertheless, these models often struggle with maintaining fidelity, as the generated results frequently deviate in character featur…

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2025

Envisioning Beyond the Pixels: Benchmarking Reasoning-Informed Visual Editing

NeurIPS 2025oral

Large Multi-modality Models (LMMs) have made significant progress in visual understanding and generation, but they still face challenges in General Visual Editing, particularly in following complex instructions, preserving appearance consistency, and supporting flexible input formats. To study this…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Explore the Hallucination on Low-level Perception for MLLMs

ICASSP 2025accepted

The rapid development of Multi-modality Large Language Models (MLLMs) has significantly influenced various aspects of industry and daily life, showcasing impressive capabilities in visual perception and understanding. However, these models also exhibit hallucinations, which limit their reliability a…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Feature out! Let Raw Image as Your Condition for Blind Face Restoration

ICML 2025poster

Blind face restoration (BFR), which involves converting low-quality (LQ) images into high-quality (HQ) images, remains challenging due to complex and unknown degradations. While previous diffusion-based methods utilize feature extractors from LQ images as guidance, using raw LQ images directly…

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2025

HazeCLIP: Towards Language Guided Real-World Image Dehazing

ICASSP 2025accepted

Existing methods have achieved remarkable performance in image dehazing, particularly on synthetic datasets. However, they often struggle with real-world hazy images due to domain shift, limiting their practical applicability. This paper introduces HazeCLIP, a language-guided adaptation framework de…

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2025

Image Quality Assessment: From Human to Machine Preference

CVPR 2025highlight

Image Quality Assessment (IQA) based on human subjective preferences has undergone extensive research in the past decades. However, with the development of communication protocols, the visual data consumption volume of machines has gradually surpassed that of humans. For machines, the preference dep…

2025

Information Density Principle for MLLM Benchmarks

ICCV 2025poster

With the emergence of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), hundreds of benchmarks have been developed to ensure the reliability of MLLMs in downstream tasks. However, the evaluation mechanism itself may not be reliable. For developers of MLLMs, questions remain about which benchmark to use and…

2025

Learning Hazing to Dehazing: Towards Realistic Haze Generation for Real-World Image Dehazing

CVPR 2025poster

Existing real-world image dehazing methods primarily attempt to fine-tune pre-trained models or adapt their inference procedures, thus heavily relying on the pre-trained models and associated training data. Moreover, restoring heavily distorted information under dense haze requires generative diffus…

2025

MIRROR: Make Your Object-Level Multi-View Generation More Consistent with Training-Free Rectification

ICML 2025poster

Multi-view Diffusion has greatly advanced the development of 3D content creation by generating multiple images from distinct views, achieving remarkable photorealistic results. However, existing works are still vulnerable to inconsistent 3D geometric structures (commonly known as Janus Problem) and…

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2025

OmniAlign-V: Towards Enhanced Alignment of MLLMs with Human Preference

ACL 2025long

Recent advancements in open-source multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have primarily focused on enhancing foundational capabilities, leaving a significant gap in human preference alignment. This paper introduces OmniAlign-V, a comprehensive dataset of 200K high-quality training samples featur…

2025

Purity Law for Neural Routing Problem Solvers with Enhanced Generalizability

NeurIPS 2025poster

Achieving generalization in neural approaches across different scales and distributions remains a significant challenge for routing problems. A key obstacle is that neural networks often fail to learn robust principles for identifying universal patterns and deriving optimal solutions from diverse in…

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2025

Q-Bench-Video: Benchmark the Video Quality Understanding of LMMs

CVPR 2025poster

With the rising interest in research on Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs) for video understanding, many studies have emphasized general video comprehension capabilities, neglecting the systematic exploration into video quality understanding. To address this oversight, we introduce Q-Bench-Video in thi…

2025

Q-Eval-100K: Evaluating Visual Quality and Alignment Level for Text-to-Vision Content

CVPR 2025poster

Evaluating text-to-vision content hinges on two crucial aspects: **visual quality** and **alignment**. While significant progress has been made in developing objective models to assess these dimensions, the performance of such models heavily relies on the scale and quality of human annotations. Acco…

2025

Redundancy Principles for MLLMs Benchmarks

ACL 2025long

With the rapid iteration of Multi-modality Large Language Models (MLLMs) and the evolving demands of the field, the number of benchmarks produced annually has surged into the hundreds. The rapid growth has inevitably led to significant redundancy among benchmarks. Therefore, it is crucial to take a…

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2025

StyO: Stylize Your Face in Only One-Shot

AAAI 2025technical

This paper focuses on face stylization with a single artistic target. Existing works for this task often fail to retain the source content while achieving geometry variation. Here, we present a novel StyO model, i.e., Stylize the face in only One-shot, to solve the above problem. In particular, StyO…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2025

TANDEM: Bi-Level Data Mixture Optimization with Twin Networks

NeurIPS 2025poster

The capabilities of large language models (LLMs) significantly depend on training data drawn from various domains. Optimizing domain-specific mixture ratios can be modeled as a bi-level optimization problem, which we simplify into a single-level penalized form and solve with twin networks: a proxy m…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

The Primacy of Magnitude in Low-Rank Adaptation

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) offers a parameter-efficient paradigm for tuning large models. While recent spectral initialization methods improve convergence and performance over the naive “Noise \& Zeros” scheme, their extra computational and storage overhead undermines efficiency. In this paper, we e…

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2025

Who is a Better Talker: Subjective and Objective Quality Assessment for AI-Generated Talking Heads

ICCV 2025poster

Speech-driven methods for portraits are figuratively known as "Talkers" because of their capability to synthesize speaking mouth shapes and facial movements. Especially with the rapid development of the Text-to-Image (T2I) models, AI-Generated Talking Heads (AGTHs) have gradually become an emerging…

2024

A Reduced-Reference Quality Assessment Metric for Textured Mesh Digital Humans

ICASSP 2024accepted

In an era where 3D Digital Humans (DHs) are becoming increasingly prevalent in fields like gaming, automotive, and the metaverse, the demand for high DH visual quality is rising. This paper presents the first-ever reduced-reference (RR) quality assessment metric tailored specifically for textured me…

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2024

Adaptive Image Quality Assessment via Teaching Large Multimodal Model to Compare

NeurIPS 2024spotlight

While recent advancements in large multimodal models (LMMs) have significantly improved their abilities in image quality assessment (IQA) relying on absolute quality rating, how to transfer reliable relative quality comparison outputs to continuous perceptual quality scores remains largely unexplore…

2024

AttentionLUT: Attention Fusion-Based Canonical Polyadic LUT for Real-Time Image Enhancement

ICASSP 2024accepted

Recently, many algorithms have employed image-adaptive lookup tables (LUTs) to achieve real-time image enhancement. Nonetheless, a prevailing trend among existing methods has been the employment of linear combinations of basic LUTs to formulate image-adaptive LUTs, which limits the generalization ab…

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2024

BlazeBVD: Make Scale-Time Equalization Great Again for Blind Video Deflickering

ECCV 2024poster

"Developing blind video deflickering (BVD) algorithms to enhance video temporal consistency, is gaining importance amid the flourish of image processing and video generation. However, the intricate nature of video data complicates the training of deep learning methods, leading to high resource consu…

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2024

GAIA: Rethinking Action Quality Assessment for AI-Generated Videos

NeurIPS 2024spotlight

Assessing action quality is both imperative and challenging due to its significant impact on the quality of AI-generated videos, further complicated by the inherently ambiguous nature of actions within AI-generated video (AIGV). Current action quality assessment (AQA) algorithms predominantly focus…

2024

Learning Dynamic Tetrahedra for High-Quality Talking Head Synthesis

CVPR 2024poster

Recent works in implicit representations such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have advanced the generation of realistic and animatable head avatars from video sequences. These implicit methods are still confronted by visual artifacts and jitters since the lack of explicit geometric constraints pose…

2024

Q-Align: Teaching LMMs for Visual Scoring via Discrete Text-Defined Levels

ICML 2024poster

The explosion of visual content available online underscores the requirement for an accurate machine assessor to robustly evaluate scores across diverse types of visual contents. While recent studies have demonstrated the exceptional potentials of large multi-modality models (LMMs) on a wide range o…

2024

Q-Bench: A Benchmark for General-Purpose Foundation Models on Low-level Vision

ICLR 2024spotlight

The rapid evolution of Multi-modality Large Language Models (MLLMs) has catalyzed a shift in computer vision from specialized models to general-purpose foundation models. Nevertheless, there is still an inadequacy in assessing the abilities of MLLMs on **low-level visual perception and understanding…

2024

Q-Instruct: Improving Low-level Visual Abilities for Multi-modality Foundation Models

CVPR 2024poster

Multi-modality large language models (MLLMs) as represented by GPT-4V have introduced a paradigm shift for visual perception and understanding tasks that a variety of abilities can be achieved within one foundation model. While current MLLMs demonstrate primary low-level visual abilities from the id…

2024

Towards Open-ended Visual Quality Comparison

ECCV 2024oral

"Comparative settings (pairwise choice, listwise ranking) have been adopted by a wide range of subjective studies for image quality assessment (IQA), as it inherently standardizes the evaluation criteria across different observers and offer more clear-cut responses. In this work, we extend the edge…

2024

Towards Optimal Adversarial Robust Q-learning with Bellman Infinity-error

ICML 2024oral

Establishing robust policies is essential to counter attacks or disturbances affecting deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agents. Recent studies explore state-adversarial robustness and suggest the potential lack of an optimal robust policy (ORP), posing challenges in setting strict robustness constr…

2023

MD-VQA: Multi-Dimensional Quality Assessment for UGC Live Videos

CVPR 2023poster

User-generated content (UGC) live videos are often bothered by various distortions during capture procedures and thus exhibit diverse visual qualities. Such source videos are further compressed and transcoded by media server providers before being distributed to end-users. Because of the flourishing…

2023

MM-PCQA: Multi-Modal Learning for No-reference Point Cloud Quality Assessment

IJCAI 2023poster

The visual quality of point clouds has been greatly emphasized since the ever-increasing 3D vision applications are expected to provide cost-effective and high-quality experiences for users. Looking back on the development of point cloud quality assessment (PCQA), the visual quality is usually eval…

2023

Perceptual Quality Assessment for Digital Human Heads

ICASSP 2023accepted

Digital humans are attracting more and more research interest during the last decade, the generation, representation, rendering, and animation of which have been put into large amounts of effort. However, the quality assessment of digital humans has fallen behind. Therefore, to tackle the challenge…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

Towards Consistent Video Editing with Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

NeurIPS 2023poster

Existing works have advanced Text-to-Image (TTI) diffusion models for video editing in a one-shot learning manner. Despite their low requirements of data and computation, these methods might produce results of unsatisfied consistency with text prompt as well as temporal sequence, limiting their appl…

Cited by 32SourcePDFScholar
2023

Transforming Radiance Field With Lipschitz Network for Photorealistic 3D Scene Stylization

CVPR 2023highlight

Recent advances in 3D scene representation and novel view synthesis have witnessed the rise of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs). Nevertheless, it is not trivial to exploit NeRF for the photorealistic 3D scene stylization task, which aims to generate visually consistent and photorealistic stylized scen…

2022

CoupAlign: Coupling Word-Pixel with Sentence-Mask Alignments for Referring Image Segmentation

NeurIPS 2022accept

Referring image segmentation aims at localizing all pixels of the visual objects described by a natural language sentence. Previous works learn to straightforwardly align the sentence embedding and pixel-level embedding for highlighting the referred objects, but ignore the semantic consistency of pi…

Cited by 33SourcePDFScholar
2022

Generalized One-shot Domain Adaptation of Generative Adversarial Networks

NeurIPS 2022accept

The adaptation of a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) aims to transfer a pre-trained GAN to a target domain with limited training data. In this paper, we focus on the one-shot case, which is more challenging and rarely explored in previous works. We consider that the adaptation from a source doma…

2022

PetsGAN: Rethinking Priors for Single Image Generation

AAAI 2022technical

Single image generation (SIG), described as generating diverse samples that have the same visual content as the given natural image, is first introduced by SinGAN, which builds a pyramid of GANs to progressively learn the internal patch distribution of the single image. It shows excellent performanc…