VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Asaf Shul
dblp:372/3784
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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 2021Graphics, 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
2 papers |
Generative modeling · 50% Trustworthy machine learning · 50% | |
| Computer graphics and multimedia
1 paper |
Visual content generation and editing · 100% | |
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Software maintenance and evolution · 100% | |
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Approximation and online algorithms · 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
diffusion model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | ObjectMate: A Recurrence Prior for Object Insertion and Subject-Driven Generation · ICCV 2025 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
model provenance |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Unsupervised Model Tree Heritage Recovery · ICLR 2025 |
Visual content generation and editing › image editing › image compositing
object insertion |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | ObjectMate: A Recurrence Prior for Object Insertion and Subject-Driven Generation · ICCV 2025 |
Visual content generation and editing › image generation › personalized image generation
subject-driven generation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | ObjectMate: A Recurrence Prior for Object Insertion and Subject-Driven Generation · ICCV 2025 |
Software maintenance and evolution
software ecosystems |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Unsupervised Model Tree Heritage Recovery · ICLR 2025 |
Approximation and online algorithms › approximation algorithms › network design
minimum directed spanning tree |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Unsupervised Model Tree Heritage Recovery · ICLR 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
directed minimum spanning tree · 2.6recurrence prior · 1.7diffusion model · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | ObjectMate: A Recurrence Prior for Object Insertion and Subject-Driven GenerationabstractThis paper introduces a tuning-free method for both object insertion and subject-driven generation. The task involves composing an object, given multiple views, into a scene specified by either an image or text. Existing methods struggle to fully meet the task's challenging objectives: (i) seamlessly composing the object into the scene with photorealistic pose and lighting, and (ii) preserving the object's identity. We hypothesize that achieving these goals requires large scale supervision, but manually collecting sufficient data is simply too expensive. The key observation in this paper is that many mass-produced objects recur across multiple images of large unlabeled datasets, in different scenes, poses, and lighting conditions. We use this observation to create massive supervision by retrieving sets of diverse views of the same object. This powerful paired dataset enables us to train a straightforward text-to-image diffusion architecture to map the object and scene descriptions to the composited image. We compare our method, ObjectMate, with state-of-the-art methods for object insertion and subject-driven generation, using a single or multiple references. Empirically, ObjectMate achieves superior identity preservation and more photorealistic composition. Differently from many other multi-reference methods, ObjectMate does not require slow test-time tuning. Daniel Winter, Asaf Shul, Matan Cohen, Dana Berman, Yael Pritch, Alex Rav-Acha, Yedid Hoshen |
ICCV | 2 |
| 2025 | Unsupervised Model Tree Heritage RecoveryabstractThe number of models shared online has recently skyrocketed, with over one million public models available on Hugging Face. Sharing models allows other users to build on existing models, using them as initialization for fine-tuning, improving accuracy, and saving compute and energy. However, it also raises important intellectual property issues, as fine-tuning may violate the license terms of the original model or that of its training data. A Model Tree, i.e., a tree data structure rooted at a foundation model and having directed edges between a parent model and other models directly fine-tuned from it (children), would settle such disputes by making the model heritage explicit. Unfortunately, current models are not well documented, with most model metadata (e.g., "model cards") not providing accurate information about heritage. In this paper, we introduce the task of Unsupervised Model Tree Heritage Recovery (Unsupervised MoTHer Recovery) for collections of neural networks. For each pair of models, this task requires: i) determining if they are directly related, and ii) establishing the direction of the relationship. Our hypothesis is that model weights encode this information, the challenge is to decode the underlying tree structure given the weights. We discover several properties of model weights that allow us to perform this task. By using these properties, we formulate the MoTHer Recovery task as finding a directed minimal spanning tree. In extensive experiments we demonstrate that our method successfully reconstructs complex Model Trees. Eliahu Horwitz, Asaf Shul, Yedid Hoshen |
ICLR | 2 |