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Ziyan Yang

10 accepted papers

2026

Mixture of Contexts for Long Video Generation

ICLR 2026poster

Long video generation is fundamentally a long context memory problem: models must retain and retrieve salient events across a long range without collapsing or drifting. However, scaling diffusion transformers to generate long-context videos is fundamentally limited by the quadratic cost of self-atte…

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2026

On the Convergence of Adaptive Gradient Methods for Nonconvex Optimization

ICML 2026poster

Adaptive gradient methods are workhorses in deep learning. However, the convergence guarantees of adaptive gradient methods for nonconvex optimization have not been thoroughly studied. In this paper, we provide a fine-grained convergence analysis for a general class of adaptive gradient methods incl…

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2026

VINCIE: Unlocking In-context Image Editing from Video

ICLR 2026poster

In-context image editing aims to modify images based on a contextual sequence comprising text and previously generated images. Existing methods typically depend on task-specific pipelines and expert models (e.g., segmentation and inpainting) to curate training data. In this work, we explore whether…

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2025

Long Context Tuning for Video Generation

ICCV 2025poster

Recent advances in video generation can produce realistic, minute-long single-shot videos with scalable diffusion transformers. However, real-world narrative videos require multi-shot scenes with visual and dynamic consistency across shots. In this work, we introduce Long Context Tuning (LCT), a tra…

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2025

Synthetic Video Enhances Physical Fidelity in Video Synthesis

ICCV 2025poster

We investigate how to enhance the physical fidelity of video generation models by leveraging synthetic videos generated via standard computer graphics techniques. These rendered videos respect real-world physics -- such as maintaining 3D consistency -- thereby serving as a valuable resource that can…

2025

Vision as a Dialect: Unifying Visual Understanding and Generation via Text-Aligned Representations

NeurIPS 2025poster

This paper presents a multimodal framework that attempts to unify visual understanding and generation within a shared discrete semantic representation. At its core is the Text-Aligned Tokenizer (TA-Tok), which converts images into discrete tokens using a text-aligned codebook projected from a large…

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2024

Improved Visual Grounding through Self-Consistent Explanations

CVPR 2024poster

Vision-and-language models trained to match images with text can be combined with visual explanation methods to point to the locations of specific objects in an image. Our work shows that the localization --"grounding'"-- abilities of these models can be further improved by finetuning for self-consi…

Cited by 15SourcePDFScholar
2024

PropTest: Automatic Property Testing for Improved Visual Programming

EMNLP 2024finding

Visual Programming has recently emerged as an alternative to end-to-end black-box visual reasoning models. This type of method leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate the source code for an executable computer program that solves a given problem. This strategy has the advantage of offerin…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2023

Improving Visual Grounding by Encouraging Consistent Gradient-Based Explanations

CVPR 2023poster

We propose a margin-based loss for tuning joint vision-language models so that their gradient-based explanations are consistent with region-level annotations provided by humans for relatively smaller grounding datasets. We refer to this objective as Attention Mask Consistency (AMC) and demonstrate t…

2020

Closing the Generalization Gap of Adaptive Gradient Methods in Training Deep Neural Networks

IJCAI 2020poster

Adaptive gradient methods, which adopt historical gradient information to automatically adjust the learning rate, despite the nice property of fast convergence, have been observed to generalize worse than stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with momentum in training deep neural networks. This leaves h…