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Zhaochen Yu
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7ranked-venue papers
0as first author
7since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0009-6720-3666ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 6 · 6 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
6 papers |
Generative modeling · 62% Language models and text generation · 29% Vision and language · 6% | |
| Computer graphics and multimedia
1 paper |
Visual content generation and editing · 100% |
Topics — the 16 heaviest of 18, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Generative modeling
diffusion model |
3.0 | 4 | 2024 | RealCompo: Balancing Realism and Compositionality Improves Text-to-Image Diffusion Models · NeurIPS 2024 VideoTetris: Towards Compositional Text-to-Video Generation · NeurIPS 2024 Mastering Text-to-Image Diffusion: Recaptioning, Planning, and Generating with Multimodal LLMs · ICML 2024 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model
text-to-image generation |
2.3 | 3 | 2024 | RealCompo: Balancing Realism and Compositionality Improves Text-to-Image Diffusion Models · NeurIPS 2024 Mastering Text-to-Image Diffusion: Recaptioning, Planning, and Generating with Multimodal LLMs · ICML 2024 Cross-Modal Contextualized Diffusion Models for Text-Guided Visual Generation and Editing · ICLR 2024 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
large language model reasoning |
1.6 | 2 | 2025 | SuperCorrect: Advancing Small LLM Reasoning with Thought Template Distillation and Self-Correction · ICLR 2025 Buffer of Thoughts: Thought-Augmented Reasoning with Large Language Models · NeurIPS 2024 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model › controllable generation
compositional generation |
1.5 | 2 | 2024 | RealCompo: Balancing Realism and Compositionality Improves Text-to-Image Diffusion Models · NeurIPS 2024 VideoTetris: Towards Compositional Text-to-Video Generation · NeurIPS 2024 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › preference optimization
direct preference optimization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | SuperCorrect: Advancing Small LLM Reasoning with Thought Template Distillation and Self-Correction · ICLR 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
mathematical reasoning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | SuperCorrect: Advancing Small LLM Reasoning with Thought Template Distillation and Self-Correction · ICLR 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › large language model reasoning
self-correction |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | SuperCorrect: Advancing Small LLM Reasoning with Thought Template Distillation and Self-Correction · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › video generation
autoregressive video generation |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | VideoTetris: Towards Compositional Text-to-Video Generation · NeurIPS 2024 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model › text-to-image generation
compositional text-to-image generation |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Mastering Text-to-Image Diffusion: Recaptioning, Planning, and Generating with Multimodal LLMs · ICML 2024 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model
conditional diffusion model |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Cross-Modal Contextualized Diffusion Models for Text-Guided Visual Generation and Editing · ICLR 2024 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model
controllable generation |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | RealCompo: Balancing Realism and Compositionality Improves Text-to-Image Diffusion Models · NeurIPS 2024 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › video generation
text-to-video generation |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | VideoTetris: Towards Compositional Text-to-Video Generation · NeurIPS 2024 |
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning › model compression › lightweight neural network
small language models |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | SuperCorrect: Advancing Small LLM Reasoning with Thought Template Distillation and Self-Correction · ICLR 2025 |
Computer vision › Vision and language › vision-language model
multimodal large language model |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | Mastering Text-to-Image Diffusion: Recaptioning, Planning, and Generating with Multimodal LLMs · ICML 2024 |
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Multi-agent systems › multimodal agent
multimodal planning |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | Mastering Text-to-Image Diffusion: Recaptioning, Planning, and Generating with Multimodal LLMs · ICML 2024 |
Visual content generation and editing
image editing |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | RealCompo: Balancing Realism and Compositionality Improves Text-to-Image Diffusion Models · NeurIPS 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
self-reflection · 0.9knowledge distillation · 0.9direct preference optimization · 0.9spatial-aware diffusion · 0.8regional diffusion · 0.8multimodal LLM · 0.8cross-modal context · 0.8classifier-free guidance · 0.8chain-of-thought reasoning · 0.8balancer · 0.8attention map manipulation · 0.8DDPM · 0.8DDIM · 0.8
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | SuperCorrect: Advancing Small LLM Reasoning with Thought Template Distillation and Self-CorrectionabstractLarge language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, DeepSeek-R1, and ReasonFlux have shown significant improvements in various reasoning tasks. However, smaller LLMs still struggle with complex mathematical reasoning because they fail to effectively identify and correct reasoning errors. Recent reflection-based methods aim to address these issues by enabling self-reflection and self-correction, but they still face challenges in independently detecting errors in their reasoning steps. To overcome these limitations, we propose SuperCorrect, a novel two-stage framework that uses a large teacher model to supervise and correct both the reasoning and reflection processes of a smaller student model. In the first stage, we extract hierarchical high-level and detailed thought templates from the teacher model to guide the student model in eliciting more fine-grained reasoning thoughts. In the second stage, we introduce cross-model collaborative direct preference optimization (DPO) to enhance the self-correction abilities of the student model by following the teacher's correction traces during training. This cross-model DPO approach teaches the student model to effectively locate and resolve erroneous thoughts with error-driven insights from the teacher model, breaking the bottleneck of its thoughts and acquiring new skills and knowledge to tackle challenging problems. Extensive experiments consistently demonstrate our superiority over previous methods. Notably, our SuperCorrect-7B model significantly surpasses powerful DeepSeekMath-7B by 7.8\%/5.3\% and Qwen2.5-Math-7B by 15.1\%/6.3\% on MATH/GSM8K benchmarks, achieving new SOTA performance among all 7B models. Code is available at: https://github.com/YangLing0818/SuperCorrect-llm Ling Yang 0006, Zhaochen Yu, Tianjun Zhang, Minkai Xu, Joseph Gonzalez 0001, Bin Cui 0001, Shuicheng Yan |
ICLR | 2 |
| 2025 | Spatio-Temporal Energy-Guided Diffusion Model for Zero-Shot Video Synthesis and EditingabstractDiffusion-based generative models have exhibited considerable success in conditional video synthesis and editing. Nevertheless, prevailing video diffusion models primarily rely on conditioning with specific input modalities, predominantly text, restricting their adaptability to alternative modalities without necessitating retraining of modality-specific components. In this work, we present EnergyViD, a universal spatio-temporal Energy-guided Video Diffusion model designed for zero-shot video synthesis and editing across diverse conditions. Specifically, we leverage off-the-shelf pre-trained networks to construct generic energy functions, guiding the generation process under specific conditions without the need for retraining. To precisely capture temporal dynamics related to motion conditions (e.g., pose sequences), we introduce a novel kernel Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD)-based energy function, which minimizes the global distribution discrepancy between the conditioning input and the generated video. Our extensive qualitative and quantitative experiments demonstrate that our algorithm consistently produces high-quality results across a wide range of motion and non-motion conditions, including text, face ID, style, poses, depths, sketches, canny edges, and segmentation maps, in the context of zero-shot video synthesis and editing. We will release source code upon acceptance of the paper. Ling Yang 0006, Yikai Zhao 0001, Zhaochen Yu, Bohan Zeng, Minkai Xu, Shenda Hong, Bin Cui 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol. | 3 |
| 2024 | Cross-Modal Contextualized Diffusion Models for Text-Guided Visual Generation and EditingabstractConditional diffusion models have exhibited superior performance in high-fidelity text-guided visual generation and editing. Nevertheless, prevailing text-guided visual diffusion models primarily focus on incorporating text-visual relationships exclusively into the reverse process, often disregarding their relevance in the forward process. This inconsistency between forward and reverse processes may
limit the precise conveyance of textual semantics in visual synthesis results. To address this issue, we propose a novel and general contextualized diffusion model (ContextDiff) by incorporating the cross-modal context encompassing interactions and alignments between text condition and visual sample into forward and reverse processes. We propagate this context to all timesteps in the two processes to adapt their trajectories, thereby facilitating cross-modal conditional modeling. We generalize our contextualized diffusion to both DDPMs and DDIMs with theoretical derivations, and demonstrate the effectiveness of our model in evaluations with two challenging tasks: text-to-image generation, and text-to-video editing. In each task, our ContextDiff achieves new state-of-the-art performance, significantly enhancing the semantic alignment between text condition and generated samples, as evidenced by quantitative and qualitative evaluations. Our code is available at https://github.com/YangLing0818/ContextDiff Ling Yang 0006, Zhaochen Yu, Minkai Xu, Stefano Ermon, Bin Cui 0001 |
ICLR | 3 |
| 2024 | Mastering Text-to-Image Diffusion: Recaptioning, Planning, and Generating with Multimodal LLMsabstractDiffusion models have exhibit exceptional performance in text-to-image generation and editing. However, existing methods often face challenges when handling complex text prompts that involve multiple objects with multiple attributes and relationships. In this paper, we propose a brand new training-free text-to-image generation/editing framework, namely Recaption, Plan and Generate (RPG), harnessing the powerful chain-of-thought reasoning ability of multimodal LLMs to enhance the compositionality of text-to-image diffusion models. Our approach employs the MLLM as a global planner to decompose the process of generating complex images into multiple simpler generation tasks within subregions. We propose complementary regional diffusion to enable region-wise compositional generation. Furthermore, we integrate text-guided image generation and editing within the proposed RPG in a closed-loop fashion, thereby enhancing generalization ability. Extensive experiments demonstrate our RPG outperforms state-of-the-art text-to-image models, including DALL-E 3 and SDXL, particularly in multi-category object composition and text-image semantic alignment. Notably, our RPG framework exhibits wide compatibility with various MLLM architectures and diffusion backbones. Our code is available at https://github.com/YangLing0818/RPG-DiffusionMaster Ling Yang 0006, Zhaochen Yu, Chenlin Meng, Minkai Xu, Stefano Ermon, Bin Cui 0001 |
ICML | 2 |
| 2024 | VideoTetris: Towards Compositional Text-to-Video GenerationabstractDiffusion models have demonstrated great success in text-to-video (T2V) generation. However, existing methods may face challenges when handling complex (long) video generation scenarios that involve multiple objects or dynamic changes in object numbers. To address these limitations, we propose VideoTetris, a novel framework that enables compositional T2V generation. Specifically, we propose spatio-temporal compositional diffusion to precisely follow complex textual semantics by manipulating and composing the attention maps of denoising networks spatially and temporally. Moreover, we propose a new dynamic-aware data processing pipeline and a consistency regularization method to enhance the consistency of auto-regressive video generation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our VideoTetris achieves impressive qualitative and quantitative results in compositional T2V generation. Code is available at: https://github.com/YangLing0818/VideoTetris Ling Yang 0006, Yuan Gao 0015, Yufan Deng, Xintao Wang 0002, Zhaochen Yu, Xin Tao 0001, Pengfei Wan 0001, Di Zhang 0026, Bin Cui 0001 |
NeurIPS | 7 |
| 2024 | Buffer of Thoughts: Thought-Augmented Reasoning with Large Language ModelsabstractWe introduce Buffer of Thoughts (BoT), a novel and versatile thought-augmented reasoning approach for enhancing accuracy, efficiency and robustness of large language models (LLMs). Specifically, we propose meta-buffer to store a series of informative high-level thoughts, namely thought-template, distilled from the problem-solving processes across various tasks. Then for each problem, we retrieve a relevant thought-template and adaptively instantiate it with specific reasoning structures to conduct efficient reasoning. To guarantee the scalability and stability, we further propose buffer-manager to dynamically update the meta-buffer, thus enhancing the capacity of meta-buffer as more tasks are solved. We conduct extensive experiments on 10 challenging reasoning-intensive tasks, and achieve significant performance improvements over previous SOTA methods: 11\% on Game of 24, 20\% on Geometric Shapes and 51\% on Checkmate-in-One. Further analysis demonstrate the superior generalization ability and model robustness of our BoT, while requiring only 12\% of the cost of multi-query prompting methods (e.g., tree/graph of thoughts) on average. Code is available at: https://github.com/YangLing0818/buffer-of-thought-llm Ling Yang 0006, Zhaochen Yu, Tianjun Zhang, Shiyi Cao, Minkai Xu, Wentao Zhang 0001, Joseph Gonzalez 0001, Bin Cui 0001 |
NeurIPS | 2 |
| 2024 | RealCompo: Balancing Realism and Compositionality Improves Text-to-Image Diffusion ModelsabstractDiffusion models have achieved remarkable advancements in text-to-image generation. However, existing models still have many difficulties when faced with multiple-object compositional generation. In this paper, we propose ***RealCompo***, a new *training-free* and *transferred-friendly* text-to-image generation framework, which aims to leverage the respective advantages of text-to-image models and spatial-aware image diffusion models (e.g., layout, keypoints and segmentation maps) to enhance both realism and compositionality of the generated images. An intuitive and novel *balancer* is proposed to dynamically balance the strengths of the two models in denoising process, allowing plug-and-play use of any model without extra training. Extensive experiments show that our RealCompo consistently outperforms state-of-the-art text-to-image models and spatial-aware image diffusion models in multiple-object compositional generation while keeping satisfactory realism and compositionality of the generated images. Notably, our RealCompo can be seamlessly extended with a wide range of spatial-aware image diffusion models and stylized diffusion models. Code is available at: https://github.com/YangLing0818/RealCompo Ling Yang 0006, Yaqi Cai, Zhaochen Yu, Kai-Ni Wang, Jiake Xie, Minkai Xu, Yujiu Yang 0001, Bin Cui 0001 |
NeurIPS | 4 |