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Zongyu Lin

14 accepted papers

2025

Contradiction Retrieval via Contrastive Learning with Sparsity

ICML 2025poster

Contradiction retrieval refers to identifying and extracting documents that explicitly disagree with or refute the content of a query, which is important to many downstream applications like fact checking and data cleaning. To retrieve contradiction argument to the query from large document corpora,…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

DreamGen: Unlocking Generalization in Robot Learning through Video World Models

CoRL 2025poster

In this work, we unlock new capabilities in robot learning from neural trajectories, synthetic robot data generated from video world models. Our proposed recipe is simple, but powerful: we take the most recent state-of-the-art video generative models (world models), adapt them to the target robot em…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

FLARE: Robot Learning with Implicit World Modeling

CoRL 2025poster

We introduce **F**uture **LA**tent **R**presentation Alignm**E**nt (**FLARE**), a novel framework that integrates predictive world modeling into robot policy learning. By aligning features from a diffusion transformer with latent embeddings of future observations, **FLARE** enables a diffusion trans…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Learning Diffusion Models with Flexible Representation Guidance

NeurIPS 2025poster

Diffusion models can be improved with additional guidance towards more effective representations of input. Indeed, prior empirical work has already shown that aligning internal representations of the diffusion model with those of pre-trained models improves generation quality. In this paper, we pres…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

MMEgo: Towards Building Egocentric Multimodal LLMs for Video QA

ICLR 2025poster

This research aims to comprehensively explore building a multimodal foundation model for egocentric video understanding. To achieve this goal, we work on three fronts. First, as there is a lack of QA data for egocentric video understanding, we automatically generate 7M high-quality QA samples for e…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

QLASS: Boosting Language Agent Inference via Q-Guided Stepwise Search

ICML 2025poster

Language agents have become a promising solution to complex interactive tasks. One of the key ingredients to the success of language agents is the reward model on the trajectory of the agentic workflow, which provides valuable guidance during training or inference. However, due to the lack of annota…

2025

STIV: Scalable Text and Image Conditioned Video Generation

ICCV 2025poster

We present a simple and scalable text and image conditioned video generation method. Our approach, named STIV, integrates a variable number of image conditions into a Diffusion Transformer (DiT) through frame replacement. This design enables STIV to perform both text-to-video (T2V) and text-image-to…

2025

V-ALPHASOCIAL: Benchmark and Self-Reflective Chain-of-Thought Generation for Visual Social Commonsense Reasoning

ACL 2025finding

Social commonsense reasoning naturally involves both the verbal and non-verbal cues of a social interaction. It is important for Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to leverage both textual and visual information in performing tasks like social understanding and reasoning. However, while current LLM…

2025

VideoPhy: Evaluating Physical Commonsense for Video Generation

ICLR 2025poster

Recent advances in internet-scale video data pretraining have led to the development of text-to-video generative models that can create high-quality videos across a broad range of visual concepts, synthesize realistic motions and render complex objects. Hence, these generative models have the potent…

2024

VDebugger: Harnessing Execution Feedback for Debugging Visual Programs

EMNLP 2024finding

Visual programs are executable code generated by large language models to address visual reasoning problems. They decompose complex questions into multiple reasoning steps and invoke specialized models for each step to solve the problems. However, these programs are prone to logic errors, with our p…

2023

A Universal Discriminator for Zero-Shot Generalization

ACL 2023long

Generative modeling has been the dominant approach for large-scale pretraining and zero-shot generalization. In this work, we challenge this convention by showing that discriminative approaches perform substantially better than generative ones on a large number of NLP tasks. Technically, we train a…

2023

Not All Tasks Are Born Equal: Understanding Zero-Shot Generalization

ICLR 2023top-25%

Recent work has achieved remarkable zero-shot performance with multi-task prompted pretraining, but little has been understood. For the first time, we show that training on a small number of key tasks beats using all the training tasks, while removing these key tasks substantially hurts performance.…

Cited by 14SourcePDFScholar
2022

HAGEN: Homophily-Aware Graph Convolutional Recurrent Network for Crime Forecasting

AAAI 2022technical

The goal of the crime forecasting problem is to predict different types of crimes for each geographical region (like a neighborhood or censor tract) in the near future. Since nearby regions usually have similar socioeconomic characteristics which indicate similar crime patterns, recent state-of-the-…

2022

Learning to Detect Noisy Labels Using Model-Based Features

EMNLP 2022finding

Label noise is ubiquitous in various machine learning scenarios such as self-labeling with model predictions and erroneous data annotation. Many existing approaches are based on heuristics such as sample losses, which might not be flexible enough to achieve optimal solutions. Meta learning based met…