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Tianhui Song
dblp:181/8738
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5ranked-venue papers
0as first author
4since 2021 · last 2025
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Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 4 · 4 since 2021Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
4 papers |
Generative modeling · 51% Efficient and distributed learning · 28% Video understanding and tracking · 16% | |
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Automated reasoning and model checking · 50% Mathematical optimization · 50% | |
| Computer graphics and multimedia
1 paper |
Visual content generation and editing · 100% |
Topics — the 11 heaviest of 12, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Generative modeling
diffusion model |
2.4 | 3 | 2025 | Differentiable Solver Search for Fast Diffusion Sampling · ICML 2025 Exploring DCN-like architecture for fast image generation with arbitrary resolution · NeurIPS 2024 Accelerating Image Generation with Sub-path Linear Approximation Model · ECCV (53) 2024 |
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning
model compression |
1.5 | 2 | 2025 | Differentiable Solver Search for Fast Diffusion Sampling · ICML 2025 MixFormerV2: Efficient Fully Transformer Tracking · NeurIPS 2023 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model
diffusion sampling |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Differentiable Solver Search for Fast Diffusion Sampling · ICML 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model › diffusion model acceleration
sampling acceleration |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Differentiable Solver Search for Fast Diffusion Sampling · ICML 2025 |
Mathematical optimization › numerical analysis
ODE solvers |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Differentiable Solver Search for Fast Diffusion Sampling · ICML 2025 |
Automated reasoning and model checking › satisfiability › SAT solving
solver design |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Differentiable Solver Search for Fast Diffusion Sampling · ICML 2025 |
Visual content generation and editing
image generation |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Exploring DCN-like architecture for fast image generation with arbitrary resolution · NeurIPS 2024 |
Computer vision › Video understanding and tracking
object tracking |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | MixFormerV2: Efficient Fully Transformer Tracking · NeurIPS 2023 |
Computer vision › Video understanding and tracking › object tracking
transformer-based tracking |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | MixFormerV2: Efficient Fully Transformer Tracking · NeurIPS 2023 |
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training › sequence modeling
token prediction |
0.2 | 1 | 2023 | MixFormerV2: Efficient Fully Transformer Tracking · NeurIPS 2023 |
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training
transformer |
0.2 | 1 | 2023 | MixFormerV2: Efficient Fully Transformer Tracking · NeurIPS 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
multistep methods · 1.7lagrange interpolation · 1.7differentiable search · 1.7group-wise convolution · 1.5deformable convolution · 1.5sub-path linear approximation · 0.8prediction tokens · 0.7dense-to-sparse distillation · 0.7deep-to-shallow distillation · 0.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Differentiable Solver Search for Fast Diffusion SamplingabstractDiffusion models have demonstrated remarkable generation quality but at the cost of numerous function evaluations. Recently, advanced ODE-based solvers have been developed to mitigate the substantial computational demands of reverse-diffusion solving under limited sampling steps. However, these solvers, heavily inspired by Adams-like multistep methods, rely solely on t-related Lagrange interpolation. We show that t-related Lagrange interpolation is suboptimal for diffusion model and reveal a compact search space comprised of time steps and solver coefficients. Building on our analysis, we propose a novel differentiable solver search algorithm to identify more optimal solver. Equipped with the searched solver, rectified-flow models, e.g., SiT-XL/2 and FlowDCN-XL/2, achieve FID scores of 2.40 and 2.35, respectively, on ImageNet-$256\times256$ with only 10 steps. Meanwhile, DDPM model, DiT-XL/2, reaches a FID score of 2.33 with only 10 steps. Notably, our searched solver outperforms traditional solvers by a significant margin. Moreover, our searched solver demonstrates generality across various model architectures, resolutions, and model sizes. Zexian Li, Qipeng Zhang, Tianhui Song, Xubin Li, Tiezheng Ge, Bo Zheng 0007, Limin Wang 0002 |
ICML | 4 |
| 2024 | Accelerating Image Generation with Sub-path Linear Approximation Model
Tianhui Song, Weixin Feng, Xubin Li, Tiezheng Ge, Bo Zheng 0007, Limin Wang 0002 |
ECCV (53) | 2 |
| 2024 | Exploring DCN-like architecture for fast image generation with arbitrary resolutionabstractArbitrary-resolution image generation still remains a challenging task in AIGC, as it requires handling varying resolutions and aspect ratios while maintaining high visual quality. Existing transformer-based diffusion methods suffer from quadratic computation cost and limited resolution extrapolation capabilities, making them less effective for this task. In this paper, we propose FlowDCN, a purely convolution-based generative model with linear time and memory complexity, that can efficiently generate high-quality images at arbitrary resolutions. Equipped with a new design of learnable group-wise deformable convolution block, our FlowDCN yields higher flexibility and capability to handle different resolutions with a single model.
FlowDCN achieves the state-of-the-art 4.30 sFID on $256\times256$ ImageNet Benchmark and comparable resolution extrapolation results, surpassing transformer-based counterparts in terms of convergence speed (only $\frac{1}{5}$ images), visual quality, parameters ($8\%$ reduction) and FLOPs ($20\%$ reduction). We believe FlowDCN offers a promising solution to scalable and flexible image synthesis. Zexian Li, Tianhui Song, Xubin Li, Tiezheng Ge, Bo Zheng 0007, Limin Wang 0002 |
NeurIPS | 3 |
| 2023 | MixFormerV2: Efficient Fully Transformer TrackingabstractTransformer-based trackers have achieved strong accuracy on the standard benchmarks. However, their efficiency remains an obstacle to practical deployment on both GPU and CPU platforms. In this paper, to overcome this issue, we propose a fully transformer tracking framework, coined as \emph{MixFormerV2}, without any dense convolutional operation and complex score prediction module. Our key design is to introduce four special prediction tokens and concatenate them with the tokens from target template and search areas. Then, we apply the unified transformer backbone on these mixed token sequence. These prediction tokens are able to capture the complex correlation between target template and search area via mixed attentions. Based on them, we can easily predict the tracking box and estimate its confidence score through simple MLP heads. To further improve the efficiency of MixFormerV2, we present a new distillation-based model reduction paradigm, including dense-to-sparse distillation and deep-to-shallow distillation. The former one aims to transfer knowledge from the dense-head based MixViT to our fully transformer tracker, while the latter one is used to prune some layers of the backbone. We instantiate two types of MixForemrV2, where the MixFormerV2-B achieves an AUC of 70.6\% on LaSOT and AUC of 56.7\% on TNL2k with a high GPU speed of 165 FPS, and the MixFormerV2-S surpasses FEAR-L by 2.7\% AUC on LaSOT with a real-time CPU speed. Yutao Cui, Tianhui Song, Gangshan Wu, Limin Wang 0002 |
NeurIPS | 2 |
| 2016 | Markov Chain-Like Model for Prediction Service Based on Improved Hierarchical Particle Swarm Optimization Cluster AlgorithmabstractSince web pages visited by users contain a variety of data resources and the clustering algorithms frequently used for web data do not take the heterogeneous nature into account when processing the heterogeneous data, this paper proposes a new algorithm, namely IHPSOC algorithm, to cluster web log data on the basis of web log mining. Based on particle swarm optimization (PSO), IHPSOC algorithm clusters the web log data through particle swarm iteration. Based on clustering results, this paper establishes Markov chain-like models which create a corresponding Markov chain for users in each different category so as to predict the web resources in users’ need. The results of the experiments show that the proposed model gives better predication. Zhifang Liao, Tianhui Song, Li Kuang, Yan Zhang 0047, Zhining Liao |
Int. J. Softw. Eng. Knowl. Eng. | 3 |