VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Zichun Liao
dblp:367/1523
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 2 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 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
1 paper |
Generative modeling · 93% Language models and text generation · 7% | |
| Computer graphics and multimedia
1 paper |
Audio and music processing · 100% |
Topics — the 6 heaviest of 6, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Generative modeling › multimodal generation
any-to-any generation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | OmniFlow: Any-to-Any Generation with Multi-Modal Rectified Flows · CVPR 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling
diffusion model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | OmniFlow: Any-to-Any Generation with Multi-Modal Rectified Flows · CVPR 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › multimodal generation
multimodal generative model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | OmniFlow: Any-to-Any Generation with Multi-Modal Rectified Flows · CVPR 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model
rectified flow |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | OmniFlow: Any-to-Any Generation with Multi-Modal Rectified Flows · CVPR 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
text generation |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | OmniFlow: Any-to-Any Generation with Multi-Modal Rectified Flows · CVPR 2025 |
Audio and music processing
sound synthesis |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | OmniFlow: Any-to-Any Generation with Multi-Modal Rectified Flows · CVPR 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
multimodal transformer · 1.7classifier-free guidance · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | OmniFlow: Any-to-Any Generation with Multi-Modal Rectified FlowsabstractWe introduce OmniFlow, a novel generative model designed for any-to-any generation tasks such as text-to-image, text-to-audio, and audio-to-image synthesis. OmniFlow advances the rectified flow (RF) framework used in text-to-image models to handle the joint distribution of multiple modalities. It outperforms previous any-to-any models on a wide range of tasks, such as text-to-image and text-to-audio synthesis. Our work offers three key contributions: First, we extend RF to a multi-modal setting and introduce a novel guidance mechanism, enabling users to flexibly control the alignment between different modalities in the generated outputs. Second, we propose a novel architecture that extends the text-to-image MMDiT architecture of Stable Diffusion 3 and enables audio and text generation. The extended modules can be efficiently pretrained individually and merged with the vanilla text-to-image MMDiT for fine-tuning. Lastly, we conduct a comprehensive study of the design choices of rectified flow transformers for large-scale audio and text generation, providing valuable insights into optimizing performance across various modalities. Code is available at https://github.com/jacklishufan/OmniFlows. Konstantinos Kallidromitis, Akash Gokul, Zichun Liao, Yusuke Kato, Kazuki Kozuka, Aditya Grover |
CVPR | 4 |
| 2023 | Intentional Youth Development Activities and Peer Effects in a Gang Prevention ProgramabstractWe analyze the impact of group activities targeting Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) and peer effects on the risk and protective factors associated with gang involvement among youth participating in the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office of Gang Reduction and Youth Development (GRYD) Prevention program. We compare the impact of targeted and non-targeted activities in decreasing Internal Risk, External Risk, and Family Norms Risk, as measured by a standardized questionnaire. We show that targeted activities are effective in decreasing Internal Risk and that activities focusing on Emotional Management are the most beneficial. Since targeted activities involve group interactions, we investigate the impact of peer network effects on outcomes using both a linear-in-means model and dynamic mode decomposition with control (DMDc). Our analysis suggests that peer network effects contribute to beneficial changes in risk and protective factors above and beyond the skill-building content of the activities. Xiaoxian Shen, Zichun Liao, Andrea L. Bertozzi, P. Jeffrey Brantingham, Jona Lelmi |
IEEE Big Data | 6 |