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Zongyang Ma

12 accepted papers

2026

Beyond Semantic Search: Towards Referential Anchoring in Composed Image Retrieval

CVPR 2026

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) has demonstrated significant potential by enabling flexible, multimodal queries that combine a reference image and modification text. However, CIR inherently prioritizes semantic matching, struggling to reliably retrieve a user-specified instance across contexts. In pr

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2026

MMhops-R1: Multimodal Multi-hop Reasoning

AAAI 2026technical

The ability to perform multi-modal multi-hop reasoning by iteratively integrating information across various modalities and external knowledge is critical for addressing complex real-world challenges. However, existing Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are predominantly limited to single-ste

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2026

STAR-R1: Multi-View Spatial TrAnsformation Reasoning by Reinforcing Multimodal LLMs

CVPR 2026

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) remain far from human-level performance in multi-view spatial reasoning, where models must establish object correspondences across view and infer coherent scene semantics. We analyze this limitation through the Transformation-Driven Visual Reasoning (TVR) tas

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2025

Are Large Language Models Chronically Online Surfers? A Dataset for Chinese Internet Meme Explanation

EMNLP 2025

Large language models (LLMs) are trained on vast amounts of text from the Internet, but do they truly understand the viral content that rapidly spreads online—commonly known as memes? In this paper, we introduce CHIME, a dataset for CHinese Internet Meme Explanation. The dataset comprises popular ph

2025

UniPixel: Unified Object Referring and Segmentation for Pixel-Level Visual Reasoning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent advances in Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs) have demonstrated their remarkable success as general-purpose multi-modal assistants, with particular focuses on holistic image- and video-language understanding. Conversely, less attention has been given to scaling fine-grained pixel-level understa…

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2025

VisionMath: Vision-Form Mathematical Problem-Solving

ICCV 2025poster

Mathematical problems in real-world scenarios are often presented in a purely vision-form, where textual problem statement and accompanying math figures, e.g., geometry figures and functional graphs, are integrated into a single image. This vision-form problem-solving task requires precise comprehen…

2025

iMOVE : Instance-Motion-Aware Video Understanding

ACL 2025finding

Enhancing the fine-grained instance spatiotemporal motion perception capabilities of Video Large Language Models is crucial for improving their temporal and general video understanding. However, current models struggle to perceive detailed and complex instance motions. To address these challenges, w…

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2024

E.T. Bench: Towards Open-Ended Event-Level Video-Language Understanding

NeurIPS 2024poster

Recent advances in Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have demonstrated their great potential in general-purpose video understanding. To verify the significance of these models, a number of benchmarks have been proposed to diagnose their capabilities in different scenarios. However, existing b…

2024

How to Make Cross Encoder a Good Teacher for Efficient Image-Text Retrieval?

CVPR 2024poster

Dominant dual-encoder models enable efficient image-text retrieval but suffer from limited accuracy while the cross-encoder models offer higher accuracy at the expense of efficiency. Distilling cross-modality matching knowledge from cross-encoder to dual-encoder provides a natural approach to harnes…

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2023

Order-Prompted Tag Sequence Generation for Video Tagging

ICCV 2023poster

Video Tagging intends to infer multiple tags spanning relevant content for a given video. Typically, video tags are freely defined and uploaded by a variety of users, so they have two characteristics: abundant in quantity and disordered intra-video. It is difficult for the existing multi-label class…

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2023

ViLEM: Visual-Language Error Modeling for Image-Text Retrieval

CVPR 2023poster

Dominant pre-training works for image-text retrieval adopt "dual-encoder" architecture to enable high efficiency, where two encoders are used to extract image and text representations and contrastive learning is employed for global alignment. However, coarse-grained global alignment ignores detailed…

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2022

Open-Vocabulary One-Stage Detection With Hierarchical Visual-Language Knowledge Distillation

CVPR 2022poster

Open-vocabulary object detection aims to detect novel object categories beyond the training set. The advanced open-vocabulary two-stage detectors employ instance-level visual-to-visual knowledge distillation to align the visual space of the detector with the semantic space of the Pre-trained Visual-…

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