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Ling Yang 0006
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48ranked-venue papers
15as first author
47since 2021 · last 2026
0000-0003-1905-8053ORCID · conflict
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 34 · 12 first-author · 33 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 11 · 3 first-author · 10 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 8 · 2 first-author · 8 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 2 · 2 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
39 papers |
Generative modeling · 45% Graph learning · 16% Language models and text generation · 11% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
5 papers |
Bioinformatics and computational biology · 100% | |
| Computer graphics and multimedia
4 papers |
Visual content generation and editing · 65% Image and video processing · 35% |
Topics — the 30 heaviest of 106, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Generative modeling
diffusion model |
16.2 | 21 | 2026 | Diffusion Distillation with Direct Preference Optimization for Efficient 3D LiDAR Scene Completion · AAAI 2026 MMaDA: Multimodal Large Diffusion Language Models · NeurIPS 2025 Inversion-DPO: Precise and Efficient Post-Training for Diffusion Models · ACM Multimedia 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model
text-to-image generation |
4.0 | 5 | 2025 | Inversion-DPO: Precise and Efficient Post-Training for Diffusion Models · ACM Multimedia 2025 IterComp: Iterative Composition-Aware Feedback Learning from Model Gallery for Text-to-Image Generation · ICLR 2025 RealCompo: Balancing Realism and Compositionality Improves Text-to-Image Diffusion Models · NeurIPS 2024 |
Machine learning › Graph learning
graph neural network |
3.8 | 5 | 2025 | GlycanML: A Multi-Task and Multi-Structure Benchmark for Glycan Machine Learning · ICLR 2025 Towards Scalable and Deep Graph Neural Networks via Noise Masking · AAAI 2025 Individual and Structural Graph Information Bottlenecks for Out-of-Distribution Generalization · IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 2024 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology › drug discovery › drug design
structure-based drug design |
3.3 | 4 | 2026 | Disentangled diffusion model for 3D molecular generation with protein-ligand interaction priors · Bioinform. 2026 Interaction-based Retrieval-augmented Diffusion Models for Protein-specific 3D Molecule Generation · ICML 2024 Protein-Ligand Interaction Prior for Binding-aware 3D Molecule Diffusion Models · ICLR 2024 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model
diffusion distillation |
2.7 | 3 | 2026 | Diffusion Distillation with Direct Preference Optimization for Efficient 3D LiDAR Scene Completion · AAAI 2026 Distribution Backtracking Builds A Faster Convergence Trajectory for Diffusion Distillation · ICLR 2025 Distilling Diffusion Models to Efficient 3D LiDAR Scene Completion · ICCV 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model › controllable generation
compositional generation |
2.4 | 3 | 2025 | IterComp: Iterative Composition-Aware Feedback Learning from Model Gallery for Text-to-Image Generation · ICLR 2025 RealCompo: Balancing Realism and Compositionality Improves Text-to-Image Diffusion Models · NeurIPS 2024 VideoTetris: Towards Compositional Text-to-Video Generation · NeurIPS 2024 |
Computer vision › Vision and language › vision-language model
multimodal large language model |
2.0 | 3 | 2025 | HermesFlow: Seamlessly Closing the Gap in Multimodal Understanding and Generation · NeurIPS 2025 MMaDA: Multimodal Large Diffusion Language Models · NeurIPS 2025 Mastering Text-to-Image Diffusion: Recaptioning, Planning, and Generating with Multimodal LLMs · ICML 2024 |
Computer vision › 3D vision › 3d scene understanding
3d scene completion |
1.9 | 2 | 2026 | Diffusion Distillation with Direct Preference Optimization for Efficient 3D LiDAR Scene Completion · AAAI 2026 Distilling Diffusion Models to Efficient 3D LiDAR Scene Completion · ICCV 2025 |
Computer vision › 3D vision › 3d scene understanding › 3d scene completion
LiDAR scene completion |
1.9 | 2 | 2026 | Diffusion Distillation with Direct Preference Optimization for Efficient 3D LiDAR Scene Completion · AAAI 2026 Distilling Diffusion Models to Efficient 3D LiDAR Scene Completion · ICCV 2025 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology › drug discovery
drug design |
1.8 | 2 | 2026 | Disentangled diffusion model for 3D molecular generation with protein-ligand interaction priors · Bioinform. 2026 Binding-Adaptive Diffusion Models for Structure-Based Drug Design · AAAI 2024 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › preference optimization
direct preference optimization |
1.7 | 2 | 2025 | HermesFlow: Seamlessly Closing the Gap in Multimodal Understanding and Generation · NeurIPS 2025 SuperCorrect: Advancing Small LLM Reasoning with Thought Template Distillation and Self-Correction · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning › model compression
knowledge distillation |
1.6 | 2 | 2025 | Acceleration Algorithms in GNNs: A Survey · IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 2025 VQGraph: Rethinking Graph Representation Space for Bridging GNNs and MLPs · 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 › molecular generation
3d molecule generation |
1.5 | 2 | 2024 | Protein-Ligand Interaction Prior for Binding-aware 3D Molecule Diffusion Models · ICLR 2024 Binding-Adaptive Diffusion Models for Structure-Based Drug Design · AAAI 2024 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology › molecular informatics › cheminformatics › molecule generation
3d molecule generation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Disentangled diffusion model for 3D molecular generation with protein-ligand interaction priors · Bioinform. 2026 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology › molecular property prediction
binding affinity prediction |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Disentangled diffusion model for 3D molecular generation with protein-ligand interaction priors · Bioinform. 2026 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology › protein analysis
protein-ligand interaction |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Disentangled diffusion model for 3D molecular generation with protein-ligand interaction priors · Bioinform. 2026 |
Computer vision › 3D vision
3d shape reconstruction |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | IPDreamer: Appearance-Controllable 3D Object Generation with Complex Image Prompts · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model › controllable generation › controllable image generation
compositional image generation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Inversion-DPO: Precise and Efficient Post-Training for Diffusion Models · ACM Multimedia 2025 |
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning
data-efficient learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Efficient Pretraining Data Selection for Language Models via Multi-Actor Collaboration · ACL (1) 2025 |
Machine learning › Representation and self-supervised learning › pre-training › data-centric pre-training
data selection for pre-training |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Efficient Pretraining Data Selection for Language Models via Multi-Actor Collaboration · ACL (1) 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model
diffusion model acceleration |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Distribution Backtracking Builds A Faster Convergence Trajectory for Diffusion Distillation · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model › diffusion model adaptation
diffusion model alignment |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Inversion-DPO: Precise and Efficient Post-Training for Diffusion Models · ACM Multimedia 2025 |
Machine learning › Transfer learning and domain adaptation
fine-tuning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Transformer Copilot: Learning from The Mistake Log in LLM Fine-tuning · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Graph learning › graph neural network › efficient graph neural network
graph neural network acceleration |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Acceleration Algorithms in GNNs: A Survey · IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 2025 |
Machine learning › Graph learning
graph sampling |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Acceleration Algorithms in GNNs: A Survey · IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 2025 |
Computer vision › 3D vision › 3d generation
image-to-3d generation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | IPDreamer: Appearance-Controllable 3D Object Generation with Complex Image Prompts · ICLR 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › large language model training
language model pretraining |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Efficient Pretraining Data Selection for Language Models via Multi-Actor Collaboration · ACL (1) 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
large language model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Transformer Copilot: Learning from The Mistake Log in LLM Fine-tuning · NeurIPS 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 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
diffusion model · 9.3direct preference optimization · 3.6retrieval augmentation · 3.0knowledge distillation · 2.5graph neural network · 2.5score distillation · 1.9curriculum learning · 1.6attention mechanism · 1.3interaction prior network · 1.0disentangled denoising · 1.0safety assessment · 0.9reward modeling · 0.9reinforcement learning · 0.9post-edit strategy · 0.9noise masking · 0.9node and edge condensation · 0.9multi-task learning · 0.9model simplification · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Diffusion Distillation with Direct Preference Optimization for Efficient 3D LiDAR Scene CompletionabstractThe slow sampling speed of diffusion models hinders their application in 3D LiDAR scene completion. To address this, we propose Distillation-DPO, a novel framework that accelerates sampling through score distillation while simultaneously enhancing generation quality via preference alignment. Distillation-DPO follows a three-step procedure. First, the student model generates paired completion scenes with different initial noises. Second, using LiDAR scene evaluation metrics as preference, we construct winning and losing sample pairs. Third, as our core innovation, Distillation-DPO optimizes the student model by exploiting the difference in score functions between the teacher and student models on the paired completion scenes. This operation performs variational score distillation of the student model but simultaneously encourages the distilled student to prefer the winning samples over the losing ones. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Distillation-DPO achieves higher-quality scene completion than state-of-the-art diffusion models, while accelerating sampling by over 5-fold. To our knowledge, our work is the first to integrate the preference learning principle of DPO into the distillation of diffusion models, offering a new framework of preference-aligned distillation. Shengyuan Zhang, Zejian Li, Ling Yang 0006, Pei Chen 0005, Anyang Wei, Perry Pengyun Gu, Lingyun Sun |
AAAI | 4 |
| 2026 | Disentangled diffusion model for 3D molecular generation with protein-ligand interaction priorsabstractMOTIVATION: Structure-based drug design (SBDD) aims to generate ligand molecules that tightly bind to specific protein targets, a critical step in drug discovery. Diffusion models have shown promise for this task, yet existing methods struggle to effectively incorporate protein-ligand interaction priors during generation. Most approaches rely on protein-specific structural priors that remain fixed throughout generation, limiting molecular diversity and failing to capture the dynamic interplay between protein pockets and ligand atoms, which is essential for achieving high binding affinity. RESULTS: We propose DPDiff, a disentangled prior-conditioned diffusion model for protein-specific 3D molecular generation. DPDiff introduces two complementary interaction prior networks that capture geometry-based spatial interactions and sequence-based interactions robust to structural noise. During generation, the model dynamically extracts interaction priors using intermediate diffusion predictions and adaptively fuses them via a time-dependent adapter. A disentangled denoising network balances prior guidance with generative flexibility. Experiments on the CrossDocked2020 dataset demonstrate that DPDiff generates molecules with more realistic 3D structures and state-of-the-art binding affinities, achieving an average Vina Dock score of -8.58 and a high affinity ratio of 69.4%, outperforming existing methods while maintaining favorable drug-likeness and synthetic accessibility. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The source code of DPDiff is available at https://github.com/ZerinHwang03/DPDiff. Zhilin Huang, Ling Yang 0006, Chujun Qin, Yifei Xing 0001, Xiangxin Zhou, Yu Wang 0027, Xin Gao 0001, Wenming Yang |
Bioinform. | 2 |
| 2026 | Retrieval-Augmented Generation for AI-Generated Content: A SurveyabstractAdvancements in model algorithms, the growth of foundational models, and access to high-quality datasets have propelled the evolution of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC). Despite its notable successes, AIGC still faces hurdles such as updating knowledge, handling long-tail data, mitigating data leakage, and managing high training and inference costs. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has recently emerged as a paradigm to address such challenges. In particular, RAG introduces the information retrieval process, which enhances the generation process by retrieving relevant objects from available data stores, leading to higher accuracy and better robustness. In this paper, we comprehensively review existing efforts that integrate RAG techniques into AIGC scenarios. We first classify RAG foundations according to how the retriever augments the generator, distilling the fundamental abstractions of the augmentation methodologies for various retrievers and generators. This unified perspective encompasses all RAG scenarios, illuminating advancements and pivotal technologies that help with potential future progress. We also summarize additional enhancement methods for RAG, facilitating effective engineering and implementation of RAG systems. Then from another view, we survey practical applications of RAG across different modalities and tasks, offering valuable references for researchers and practitioners. Furthermore, we introduce the benchmarks for RAG, discuss the limitations of current RAG systems, and suggest potential directions for future research. Penghao Zhao, Hailin Zhang 0004, Qinhan Yu, Zhengren Wang, Yunteng Geng, Fangcheng Fu, Ling Yang 0006, Wentao Zhang 0001, Jie Jiang 0015, Bin Cui 0001 |
Data Sci. Eng. | 7 |
| 2025 | Towards Scalable and Deep Graph Neural Networks via Noise MaskingabstractIn recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success in many graph mining tasks. However, scaling them to large graphs is challenging due to the high computational and storage costs of repeated feature propagation and non-linear transformation during training. One commonly employed approach to address this challenge is model-simplification, which only executes the Propagation (P) once in the pre-processing, and Combine (C) these receptive fields in different ways and then feed them into a simple model for better performance. Despite their high predictive performance and scalability, these methods still face two limitations. First, existing approaches mainly focus on exploring different C methods from the model perspective, neglecting the crucial problem of performance degradation with increasing P depth from the data-centric perspective, known as the over-smoothing problem. Second, pre-processing overhead takes up most of the end-to-end processing time, especially for large-scale graphs. To address these limitations, we present random walk with noise masking (RMask), a plug-and-play module compatible with the existing model-simplification works. This module enables the exploration of deeper GNNs while preserving their scalability. Unlike the previous model-simplification works, we focus on continuous P and found that the noise existing inside each P is the cause of the over-smoothing issue, and use the efficient masking mechanism to eliminate them. Experimental results on six real-world datasets demonstrate that model-simplification works equipped with RMask yield superior performance compared to their original version and can make a good trade-off between accuracy and efficiency. Yuxuan Liang 0002, Wentao Zhang 0001, Zeang Sheng, Ling Yang 0006, Quanqing Xu, Jiawei Jiang 0001, Yunhai Tong, Bin Cui 0001 |
AAAI | 4 |
| 2025 | Efficient Pretraining Data Selection for Language Models via Multi-Actor CollaborationabstractEfficient data selection is crucial to accelerate the pretraining of language model (LMs). While various methods have been proposed to enhance data efficiency, limited research has addressed the inherent conflicts between these approaches to achieve optimal data selection for LM pretraining. To tackle this problem, we propose a multi-actor collaborative data selection mechanism: each data selection method independently prioritizes data based on its criterion and updates its prioritization rules using the current state of the model, functioning as an independent actor for data selection; and a console is designed to adjust the impacts of different actors at various stages and dynamically integrate information from all actors throughout the LM pretraining process. We conduct extensive empirical studies to evaluate our multi-actor framework. The experimental results demonstrate that our approach significantly improves data efficiency, accelerates convergence in LM pretraining, and achieves an average relative performance gain up to 10.5% across multiple language model benchmarks compared to the state-of-the-art methods. Code and checkpoints are publicly released at https://github.com/Relaxed-System-Lab/multi-actor-data-selection. Tianyi Bai, Ling Yang 0006, Zhen Hao Wong, Fupeng Sun, Xinlin Zhuang, Jiahui Peng, Lijun Wu 0003, Jiantao Qiu, Wentao Zhang 0001, Binhang Yuan, Conghui He |
ACL (1) | 2 |
| 2025 | EmoAgent: Assessing and Safeguarding Human-AI Interaction for Mental Health SafetyabstractJiahao Qiu, Yinghui He, Xinzhe Juan, Yimin Wang, Yuhan Liu, Zixin Yao, Yue Wu, Xun Jiang, Ling Yang, Mengdi Wang. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2025. Jiahao Qiu, Yinghui He, Xinzhe Juan, Zixin Yao, Ling Yang 0006, Mengdi Wang 0001 |
EMNLP | 9 |
| 2025 | Preacher: Paper-to-Video Agentic System
Ling Yang 0006, Hao Luo 0004, Fan Wang 0019, Hongyan Li 0002, Mengdi Wang 0001 |
ICCV | 2 |
| 2025 | Distilling Diffusion Models to Efficient 3D LiDAR Scene CompletionabstractDiffusion models have been applied to 3D LiDAR scene completion due to their strong training stability and high completion quality. However, the slow sampling speed limits the practical application of diffusion-based scene completion models since autonomous vehicles require an efficient perception of surrounding environments. This paper proposes a novel distillation method tailored for 3D Li- DAR scene completion models, dubbed ScoreLiDAR, which achieves efficient yet high-quality scene completion. Score- LiDAR enables the distilled model to sample in significantly fewer steps after distillation. To improve completion quality, we also introduce a novel Structural Loss, which encourages the distilled model to capture the geometric structure of the 3D LiDAR scene. The loss contains a scene-wise term constraining the holistic structure and a point-wise term constraining the key landmark points and their relative configuration. Extensive experiments demonstrate that ScoreLiDAR significantly accelerates the completion time from 30.55 to 5.37 seconds per frame (>5x) on SemanticKITTI and achieves superior performance compared to state-of-the-art 3D LiDAR scene completion models. Our model and code are publicly available on https://github.com/happyw1nd/ScoreLiDAR. Shengyuan Zhang, Ling Yang 0006, Zejian Li, Chenye Meng, Tianrun Chen, Anyang Wei, Perry Pengyun Gu, Lingyun Sun |
ICCV | 3 |
| 2025 | Training-Free Heterogeneous Graph Condensation via Data SelectionabstractEfficient training of large-scale heterogeneous graphs is of paramount importance in real-world applications. However, existing approaches typically explore simplified models to mitigate resource and time overhead, neglecting the crucial aspect of simplifying large-scale heterogeneous graphs from the data-centric perspective. Addressing this gap, HGCond introduces graph condensation (GC) in heterogeneous graphs and generates a small condensed graph for efficient model training. Despite its efficacy in graph generation, HGCond encounters two significant limitations. The first is low effectiveness, HGCond excessively relies on the simplest relay model for the condensation procedure, which restricts the ability to exert powerful Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks (HGNNs) with flexible condensation ratio and limits the generalization ability. The second is low efficiency, HGCond follows the existing GC methods designed for homogeneous graphs and leverages the sophisticated optimization paradigm, resulting in a time-consuming condensing procedure. In light of these challenges, we present the first Training Free Heterogeneous Graph Condensation method, termed FreeHGC, facilitating both efficient and high-quality generation of heterogeneous condensed graphs. Specifically, we reformulate the heterogeneous graph condensation problem as a data selection issue, offering a new perspective for assessing and condensing representative nodes and edges in the heterogeneous graphs. By leveraging rich meta-paths, we introduce a new, highquality heterogeneous data selection criterion to select target-type nodes. Furthermore, two training-free condensation strategies for heterogeneous graphs are designed to condense and synthesize other-types nodes effectively. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed method. Besides, FreeHGC exhibits excellent generalization ability across various heterogeneous graph neural networks. Our codes are available at https://github.com/PKU-DAIR/FreeHGC. Yuxuan Liang 0002, Wentao Zhang 0001, Xinyi Gao 0001, Ling Yang 0006, Chong Chen 0001, Hongzhi Yin, Yunhai Tong, Bin Cui 0001 |
ICDE | 4 |
| 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 | 1 |
| 2025 | Rectified Diffusion: Straightness Is Not Your Need in Rectified FlowabstractDiffusion models have greatly improved visual generation but are hindered by slow generation speed due to the computationally intensive nature of solving generative ODEs. Rectified flow, a widely recognized solution, improves generation speed by straightening the ODE path. Its
key components include: 1) using the linear interpolating diffusion form of flow-matching, 2) employing $\boldsymbol v$-prediction, and 3) performing rectification (a.k.a. reflow). In this paper, we argue that the success of rectification primarily lies in using a pretrained diffusion model to obtain matched pairs of noise and samples, followed by retraining with these matched noise-sample pairs. Based on this, components 1) and 2) are unnecessary. Furthermore, we highlight that straightness is not an essential training target for rectification; rather, it is a specific case of flow-matching models. The more critical training target is to achieve a first-order approximate ODE path, which is inherently curved for models like DDPM and Sub-VP. Building on this insight, we propose Rectified Diffusion, which generalizes the design space and application scope of rectification to encompass the broader category of diffusion models, rather than being restricted to flow-matching models. We validate our method on Stable Diffusion v1-5 and Stable Diffusion XL. Our method not only greatly simplifies the training procedure of rectified flow-based previous works (e.g., InstaFlow) but also achieves superior performance with even lower training cost.
Our code is available at https://github.com/G-U-N/Rectified-Diffusion. Fu-Yun Wang, Ling Yang 0006, Mengdi Wang 0001, Hongsheng Li 0001 |
ICLR | 2 |
| 2025 | GlycanML: A Multi-Task and Multi-Structure Benchmark for Glycan Machine LearningabstractGlycans are basic biomolecules and perform essential functions within living organisms. The rapid increase of functional glycan data provides a good opportunity for machine learning solutions to glycan understanding. However, there still lacks a standard machine learning benchmark for glycan property and function prediction. In this work, we fill this blank by building a comprehensive benchmark for Glycan Machine Learning (GlycanML). The GlycanML benchmark consists of diverse types of tasks including glycan taxonomy prediction, glycan immunogenicity prediction, glycosylation type prediction, and protein-glycan interaction prediction. Glycans can be represented by both sequences and graphs in GlycanML, which enables us to extensively evaluate sequence-based models and graph neural networks (GNNs) on benchmark tasks. Furthermore, by concurrently performing eight glycan taxonomy prediction tasks, we introduce the GlycanML-MTL testbed for multi-task learning (MTL) algorithms. Also, we evaluate how taxonomy prediction can boost other three function prediction tasks by MTL. Experimental results show the superiority of modeling glycans with multi-relational GNNs, and suitable MTL methods can further boost model performance. We provide all datasets and source codes at https://github.com/GlycanML/GlycanML and maintain a leaderboard at https://GlycanML.github.io/project Yunteng Geng, Ling Yang 0006, Jian Tang 0005, Wentao Zhang 0001 |
ICLR | 4 |
| 2025 | IPDreamer: Appearance-Controllable 3D Object Generation with Complex Image PromptsabstractRecent advances in 3D generation have been remarkable, with methods such as DreamFusion leveraging large-scale text-to-image diffusion-based models to guide 3D object generation. These methods enable the synthesis of detailed and photorealistic textured objects. However, the appearance of 3D objects produced by such text-to-3D models is often unpredictable, and it is hard for single-image-to-3D methods to deal with images lacking a clear subject, complicating the generation of appearance-controllable 3D objects from complex images. To address these challenges, we present IPDreamer, a novel method that captures intricate appearance features from complex **I**mage **P**rompts and aligns the synthesized 3D object with these extracted features, enabling high-fidelity, appearance-controllable 3D object generation. Our experiments demonstrate that IPDreamer consistently generates high-quality 3D objects that align with both the textual and complex image prompts, highlighting its promising capability in appearance-controlled, complex 3D object generation. Bohan Zeng, Shanglin Li, Yutang Feng, Ling Yang 0006, Hong Li 0016, Conghui He, Wentao Zhang 0001, Jianzhuang Liu, Baochang Zhang 0001, Shuicheng Yan |
ICLR | 4 |
| 2025 | IterComp: Iterative Composition-Aware Feedback Learning from Model Gallery for Text-to-Image GenerationabstractAdvanced diffusion models like Stable Diffusion 3, Omost, and FLUX have made notable strides in compositional text-to-image generation. However, these methods typically exhibit distinct strengths for compositional generation, with some excelling in handling attribute binding and others in spatial relationships. This disparity highlights the need for an approach that can leverage the complementary strengths of various models to comprehensively improve the composition capability. To this end, we introduce IterComp, a novel framework that aggregates composition-aware model preferences from multiple models and employs an iterative feedback learning approach to enhance compositional generation. Specifically, we curate a gallery of six powerful open-source diffusion models and evaluate their three key compositional metrics: attribute binding, spatial relationships, and non-spatial relationships. Based on these metrics, we develop a composition-aware model preference dataset comprising numerous image-rank pairs to train composition-aware reward models. Then, we propose an iterative feedback learning method to enhance compositionality in a closed-loop manner, enabling the progressive self-refinement of both the base diffusion model and reward models over multiple iterations. Detailed theoretical proof demonstrates the effectiveness of this method. Extensive experiments demonstrate our significant superiority over previous methods, particularly in multi-category object composition and complex semantic alignment. IterComp opens new research avenues in reward feedback learning for diffusion models and compositional generation. Code: https://github.com/YangLing0818/IterComp Ling Yang 0006, Guohao Li 0001, Yaqi Cai, Jiake Xie, Yujiu Yang 0001, Mengdi Wang 0001, Bin Cui 0001 |
ICLR | 2 |
| 2025 | Distribution Backtracking Builds A Faster Convergence Trajectory for Diffusion DistillationabstractAccelerating the sampling speed of diffusion models remains a significant challenge. Recent score distillation methods distill a heavy teacher model into a student generator to achieve one-step generation, which is optimized by calculating the difference between two score functions on the samples generated by the student model.
However, there is a score mismatch issue in the early stage of the score distillation process, since existing methods mainly focus on using the endpoint of pre-trained diffusion models as teacher models, overlooking the importance of the convergence trajectory between the student generator and the teacher model.
To address this issue, we extend the score distillation process by introducing the entire convergence trajectory of the teacher model and propose $\textbf{Dis}$tribution $\textbf{Back}$tracking Distillation ($\textbf{DisBack}$). DisBask is composed of two stages: $\textit{Degradation Recording}$ and $\textit{Distribution Backtracking}$.
$\textit{Degradation Recording}$ is designed to obtain the convergence trajectory by recording the degradation path from the pre-trained teacher model to the untrained student generator.
The degradation path implicitly represents the intermediate distributions between the teacher and the student, and its reverse can be viewed as the convergence trajectory from the student generator to the teacher model.
Then $\textit{Distribution Backtracking}$ trains the student generator to backtrack the intermediate distributions along the path to approximate the convergence trajectory of the teacher model.
Extensive experiments show that DisBack achieves faster and better convergence than the existing distillation method and achieves comparable or better generation performance, with an FID score of 1.38 on the ImageNet 64$\times$64 dataset.
DisBack is easy to implement and can be generalized to existing distillation methods to boost performance. Shengyuan Zhang, Ling Yang 0006, Zejian Li, Chenye Meng, Chang-yuan Yang, Guang Yang 0022, Lingyun Sun |
ICLR | 2 |
| 2025 | Inversion-DPO: Precise and Efficient Post-Training for Diffusion ModelsabstractRecent advancements in diffusion models (DMs) have been propelled by alignment methods that post-train models to better conform to human preferences. However, these approaches typically require computation-intensive training of a base model and a reward model, which not only incurs substantial computational overhead but may also compromise model accuracy and training efficiency. To address these limitations, we propose Inversion-DPO, a novel alignment framework that circumvents reward modeling by reformulating Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) with DDIM inversion for DMs. Our method conducts intractable posterior sampling in Diffusion-DPO with the deterministic inversion from winning and losing samples to noise and thus derive a new post-training paradigm. This paradigm eliminates the need for auxiliary reward models or inaccurate appromixation, significantly enhancing both precision and efficiency of training. We apply Inversion-DPO to a basic task of text-to-image generation and a challenging task of compositional image generation. Extensive experiments show substantial performance improvements achieved by Inversion-DPO compared to existing post-training methods and highlight the ability of the trained generative models to generate high-fidelity compositionally coherent images. For the post-training of compostitional image geneation, we curate a paired dataset consisting of 11,140 images with complex structural annotations and comprehensive scores, designed to enhance the compositional capabilities of generative models. Inversion-DPO explores a new avenue for efficient, high-precision alignment in diffusion models, advancing their applicability to complex realistic generation tasks. Our code is available at https://github.com/MIGHTYEZ/Inversion-DPO Zejian Li, Yize Li 0001, Chenye Meng, Zhongni Liu, Ling Yang 0006, Shengyuan Zhang, Guang Yang 0022, Chang-yuan Yang, Lingyun Sun |
ACM Multimedia | 5 |
| 2025 | EditWorld: Simulating World Dynamics for Instruction-Following Image EditingabstractDiffusion models have significantly improved the performance of image editing. Existing methods realize various approaches to achieve high-quality image editing, including but not limited to text control, dragging operation, and mask-and-inpainting. Among these, instruction-based editing stands out for its convenience and effectiveness in following human instructions across diverse scenarios. However, it still focuses on simple editing operations like adding, replacing, or deleting, and falls short of understanding aspects of world dynamics that convey the realistic dynamic nature in the physical world. Therefore, this work EditWorld introduces a new editing task, namely world-instructed image editing, which defines and categorizes the instructions grounded by various world scenarios. We curate a new image editing dataset with world instructions using a set of large pretrained models (e.g., GPT, Video-LLava and SDXL). To enable sufficient simulation of world dynamics for image editing, our EditWorld trains model in the curated dataset, and improves instruction-following ability with designed post-edit strategy. Extensive experiments demonstrate our method significantly outperforms existing editing methods in this new task. https://github.com/YangLing0818/EditWorld Bohan Zeng, Ling Yang 0006, Yuanxing Zhang, Pengfei Wan 0001, Wentao Zhang 0001, Shuicheng Yan |
ACM Multimedia | 2 |
| 2025 | Co-Evolving LLM Coder and Unit Tester via Reinforcement LearningabstractMathematical reasoning in large language models has been successfully incentivized through reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards, leading to improved one-shot precision. In this work, we turn our focus to the coding domain. Beyond one-shot precision, we highlight unit test generation as another key factor for enhancing coding ability, since accurate unit tests are essential for enabling self-checking and self-correction during inference.
Traditional approaches for fine-tuning LLMs on unit test generation rely heavily on ground-truth code solutions in the training data. We propose CURE, a novel reinforcement learning framework with a dedicated reward design that co-evolves coding and unit test generation capabilities based on their interaction outcomes—without any ground-truth code as supervision. This approach enables flexible and scalable training and allows the unit tester to learn directly from the coder’s mistakes.
Through extensive evaluations, we demonstrate that our CURE models, derived from base models of varying sizes, excel in both code generation and unit test generation. They naturally extend to downstream tasks such as test-time scaling—achieving a 6.2\% improvement over the base model—and agentic unit test generation, with a 25.1\% improvement. Our 4B model consistently outperforms Qwen3-4B while achieving 64.8\% inference efficiency in unit test generation. Notably, we also find that the CURE model can serve as an effective reward model for reinforcement learning on base models, even in the absence of any labeled supervision. Yinjie Wang, Ling Yang 0006, Mengdi Wang 0001 |
NeurIPS | 2 |
| 2025 | MMaDA: Multimodal Large Diffusion Language ModelsabstractWe introduce MMaDA, a novel class of multimodal diffusion foundation models designed to achieve superior performance across diverse domains such as textual reasoning, multimodal understanding, and text-to-image generation. The approach is distinguished by three key innovations: (i) MMaDA adopts a unified diffusion architecture with a shared probabilistic formulation and a modality-agnostic design, eliminating the need for modality-specific components. This architecture ensures seamless integration and processing across different data types. (ii) We implement a mixed long chain-of-thought (CoT) fine-tuning strategy that curates a unified CoT format across modalities. By aligning reasoning processes between textual and visual domains, this strategy facilitates cold-start training for the final reinforcement learning (RL) stage, thereby enhancing the model's ability to handle complex tasks from the outset. (iii) We propose UniGRPO, a unified policy-gradient-based RL algorithm specifically tailored for diffusion foundation models. Utilizing diversified reward modeling, UniGRPO unifies post-training across both reasoning and generation tasks, ensuring consistent performance improvements. Experimental results demonstrate that MMaDA-8B exhibits strong generalization capabilities as a unified multimodal foundation model. It surpasses powerful models like LLaMA-3-7B and Qwen2-7B in textual reasoning, outperforms Show-o and SEED-X in multimodal understanding, and excels over SDXL and Janus in text-to-image generation. These achievements highlight MMaDA's effectiveness in bridging the gap between pretraining and post-training within unified diffusion architectures, providing a comprehensive framework for future research and development. We open-source our code and trained models at: https://github.com/Gen-Verse/MMaDA Ling Yang 0006, Yunhai Tong, Mengdi Wang 0001 |
NeurIPS | 1 |
| 2025 | HermesFlow: Seamlessly Closing the Gap in Multimodal Understanding and GenerationabstractThe remarkable success of the autoregressive paradigm has made significant advancement in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), with powerful models like Show-o, Transfusion and Emu3 made notable strides in unified image understanding and generation. For the first time, we uncover a common phenomenon: the understanding capability of MLLMs is usually stronger than their generative capability, with a significant gap between them. Building on this insight, we propose HermesFlow, a simple and general framework designed to seamlessly bridge the gap between understanding and generation in MLLMs. Specifically, we take the homologous data as input to curate homologous preference data of both understanding and generation. Through Pair-DPO and self-play iterative optimization, HermesFlow effectively aligns multimodal understanding and generation using homologous preference data. Extensive experiments demonstrate the significant superiority of our approach over prior methods, particularly in narrowing the gap between multimodal understanding and generation. These findings highlight the potential of HermesFlow as a general alignment framework for next-generation multimodal foundation models. Ling Yang 0006, Chenming Shang, Wentao Zhang 0001, Bin Cui 0001 |
NeurIPS | 1 |
| 2025 | Transformer Copilot: Learning from The Mistake Log in LLM Fine-tuningabstractLarge language models are typically adapted to downstream tasks through supervised fine-tuning on domain-specific data. While standard fine-tuning focuses on minimizing generation loss to optimize model parameters, we take a deeper step by retaining and leveraging the model’s own learning signals, analogous to how human learners reflect on past mistakes to improve future performance. We first introduce the concept of Mistake Log to systematically track the model’s learning behavior and recurring errors throughout fine-tuning. Treating the original transformer-based model as the Pilot, we correspondingly design a Copilot model to refine the Pilot’s inference performance via logits rectification. We name the overall Pilot-Copilot framework the Transformer Copilot, which introduces (i) a novel Copilot model design, (ii) a joint training paradigm where the Copilot continuously learns from the evolving Mistake Log alongside the Pilot, and (iii) a fused inference paradigm where the Copilot rectifies the Pilot’s logits for enhanced generation. We provide both theoretical and empirical analyses on our new learning framework. Experiments on 12 benchmarks spanning commonsense, arithmetic, and recommendation tasks demonstrate that Transformer Copilot consistently improves performance by up to 34.5%, while introducing marginal computational overhead to Pilot models and exhibiting strong scalability and transferability. Our code is released at https://github.com/jiaruzouu/TransformerCopilot. Jiaru Zou, Yikun Ban, Zihao Li 0006, Yunzhe Qi, Ruizhong Qiu, Ling Yang 0006, Jingrui He |
NeurIPS | 6 |
| 2025 | ReasonFlux-PRM: Trajectory-Aware PRMs for Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMsabstractProcess Reward Models (PRMs) have recently emerged as a powerful framework for supervising intermediate reasoning steps in large language models (LLMs). Previous PRMs are primarily trained on model final output responses and struggle to evaluate intermediate thinking trajectories robustly, especially in the emerging setting of trajectory–response outputs generated by frontier reasoning models like Deepseek-R1. In this work, we introduce ReasonFlux-PRM, a novel trajectory-aware PRM explicitly designed to evaluate the trajectory-response type of reasoning traces. ReasonFlux-PRM incorporates both step-level and trajectory-level supervision, enabling fine-grained reward assignment aligned with structured chain-of-thought data. We adapt ReasonFlux-PRM to support reward supervision under both offline and online settings, including (i) selecting high-quality model distillation data for downstream supervised fine-tuning of smaller models, (ii) providing dense process-level rewards for policy optimization during reinforcement learning, and (iii) enabling reward-guided Best-of-N test-time scaling. Empirical results on challenging downstream benchmarks such as AIME, MATH500, and GPQA-Diamond demonstrate that ReasonFlux-PRM-7B selects higher quality data than strong PRMs (e.g., Qwen2.5-Math-PRM-72B) and human-curated baselines. Furthermore, ReasonFlux-PRM-7B yields consistent performance improvements, achieving average gains of 12.1\% in supervised fine-tuning, 4.5\% in reinforcement learning, and 6.3\% in test-time scaling. We also release an efficient ReasonFlux-PRM-1.5B for resource-constrained applications and edge deployment. Our code and models are released at https://github.com/Gen-Verse/ReasonFlux. Jiaru Zou, Ling Yang 0006, Jingwen Gu, Jiahao Qiu, Jingrui He, Mengdi Wang 0001 |
NeurIPS | 2 |
| 2025 | TSdetector: Temporal-Spatial self-correction collaborative learning for colonoscopy video detection
Kai-Ni Wang, Guangquan Zhou, Ling Yang 0006, Yang Chen 0008, Shuo Li 0001 |
Medical Image Anal. | 5 |
| 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. | 1 |
| 2025 | Acceleration Algorithms in GNNs: A SurveyabstractGraph Neural Networks have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in various graph-based tasks, but their inefficiency in training and inference poses significant challenges for scaling to real-world, large-scale applications. To address these challenges, a plethora of algorithms have been developed to accelerate GNN training and inference, garnering substantial interest from the research community. This paper presents a systematic review of these acceleration algorithms, categorizing them into three main topics: training acceleration, inference acceleration, and execution acceleration. For training acceleration, we discuss techniques like graph sampling and GNN simplification. In inference acceleration, we focus on knowledge distillation, GNN quantization, and GNN pruning. For execution acceleration, we explore GNN binarization and graph condensation. Additionally, we review several libraries related to GNN acceleration, including our Scalable Graph Learning library, and propose future research directions. Zeang Sheng, Xunkai Li, Xinyi Gao 0001, Zhezheng Hao, Ling Yang 0006, Xiaonan Nie, Jiawei Jiang 0001, Wentao Zhang 0001, Bin Cui 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. | 6 |
| 2024 | Binding-Adaptive Diffusion Models for Structure-Based Drug DesignabstractStructure-based drug design (SBDD) aims to generate 3D ligand molecules that bind to specific protein targets. Existing 3D deep generative models including diffusion models have shown great promise for SBDD. However, it is complex to capture the essential protein-ligand interactions exactly in 3D space for molecular generation. To address this problem, we propose a novel framework, namely Binding-Adaptive Diffusion Models (BindDM). In BindDM, we adaptively extract subcomplex, the essential part of binding sites responsible for protein-ligand interactions. Then the selected protein-ligand subcomplex is processed with SE(3)-equivariant neural networks, and transmitted back to each atom of the complex for augmenting the target-aware 3D molecule diffusion generation with binding interaction information. We iterate this hierarchical complex-subcomplex process with cross-hierarchy interaction node for adequately fusing global binding context between the complex and its corresponding subcomplex. Empirical studies on the CrossDocked2020 dataset show BindDM can generate molecules with more realistic 3D structures and higher binding affinities towards the protein targets, with up to -5.92 Avg. Vina Score, while maintaining proper molecular properties. Our code is available at https://github.com/YangLing0818/BindDM Zhilin Huang, Ling Yang 0006, Zaixi Zhang, Xiangxin Zhou, Xiawu Zheng, Yu Wang 0008, Wenming Yang |
AAAI | 2 |
| 2024 | Structure-Guided Adversarial Training of Diffusion ModelsabstractDiffusion modeLs have demonstrated exceptional efficacy in various generative applications. While existing models focus on minimizing a weighted sum of denoising score matching losses for data distribution modeling, their training primarily emphasizes instance-level optimization, over-looking valuable structural information within each mini-batch, indicative of pair-wise relationships among samples. To address this limitation, we introduce Structure-guided Adversarial training of Diffusion Models (SADM). In this pioneering approach, we compel the model to learn manifold structures between samples in each training batch. To ensure the model captures authentic manifold structures in the data distribution, we advocate adversarial training of the diffusion generator against a novel structure discriminator in a minimax game, distinguishing real manifold structures from the generated ones. SADM substantially outperforms existing methods in image generation and cross-domain fine-tuning tasks across 12 datasets, establishing a new state-of-the-art FID of 1.58 and 2.11 on ImageNet for class-conditional image generation at resolutions of$256\times 256$and$512\times 512$, respectively. Ling Yang 0006, Haotian Qian, Bin Cui 0001 |
CVPR | 1 |
| 2024 | HGAMLP: Heterogeneous Graph Attention MLP with De-Redundancy MechanismabstractHeterogeneous graphs contain rich semantic information that can be exploited by heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs). However, scaling HGNNs to large graphs is challenging due to the high computational cost. Existing non-parametric HGNNs use general subgraphs construction method and mean aggregator before training to reduce the complexity. Despite their success, they ignore two key characteristics of heterogeneous graphs, leading to low predictive performance. First, they adopt fixed local and global knowledge extractor for the feature aggregation and the semantic fusion. Besides, they bury the graph structure information of the higher-order meta-paths and fail to explore deeper graph structure information. In this paper, we address these two limitations and propose a new non-parametric HGNN framework called Heterogeneous Graph Attention Multi-Layer Perceptron (HGAMLP). Our framework employs the local multi-knowledge extractor to enhance the node representation, and leverages the de-redundancy mechanism to extract the pure graph structure information from higher-order meta-paths. Besides, it adopts a node-adaptive weight adjustment mechanism as an efficiency training model to fuse global knowledge and local knowledge. We evaluate our framework on ten commonly used heterogeneous graph datasets and show that it outperforms the state-of-the-art baselines in both accuracy and speed. Notably, our framework achieves the best performance on the large public heterogeneous graph dataset (i.e., Ogbn-mag) of Open Graph Benchmark11https://ogb.stanford.edu/docs/leader_nodeprop. Yuxuan Liang 0002, Wentao Zhang 0001, Zeang Sheng, Ling Yang 0006, Jiawei Jiang 0001, Yunhai Tong, Bin Cui 0001 |
ICDE | 4 |
| 2024 | Multi- View Teacher with Curriculum Data Fusion for Robust Unsupervised Domain AdaptationabstractGraph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as an effective tool for graph classification, yet their reliance on extensive labeled data poses a significant challenge, especially when such labels are scarce. To address this challenge, this paper presents a novel framework, denoted as Multi-View Teacher with Curriculum Data Fusion (MTDF). MTDF achieves robust unsupervised domain adaptation in both the model and data perspectives. On the one hand, MTDF utilizes a multi-teacher framework with diverse update strategies for robust adaptation. Moreover, it employs a complementary perspective consistency model from local implicit representation and global explicit graph structure. On the other hand, MTDF generates source-mimicry data at the target domain to serve as a bridge to overcome the challenge of domain shift. MTDF achieves stable unsupervised domain adaptation through bi-directional processes from the perspective of both the model and the data. We have conducted comprehensive experimental evaluations across multiple real-world datasets with a range of baseline methods to demonstrate the superior performance of our proposed method. Yuhao Tang, Junyu Luo 0002, Ling Yang 0006, Xiao Luo 0001, Wentao Zhang 0001, Bin Cui 0001 |
ICDE | 3 |
| 2024 | BIM: Improving Graph Neural Networks with Balanced Influence MaximizationabstractThe imbalanced data classification problem has aroused lots of concerns from both academia and industry since data imbalance is a widespread phenomenon in many real-world scenarios. Although this problem has been well researched from the view of imbalanced class samples, we further argue that graph neural networks (GNNs) expose a unique source of imbalance from the influenced nodes of different classes of labeled nodes, i.e., labeled nodes are imbalanced in terms of the number of nodes they influenced during the influence propagation in GNNs. To tackle this previously unexplored influence-imbalance issue, we connect social influence maximization with the imbalanced node classification problem and propose balanced influence maximization (BIM). Specifically, BIM greedily assigns the pseudo label to the node which can maximize the number of influenced nodes in GNN training while making the influence of each class more balance. Experimental results on five public datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in relieving the influence-imbalance issue. For example, when training a GCN with an imbalance ratio of 0.1, BIM significantly outperforms the most competitive baseline by 0.6% -9.8% in five public datasets in terms of the F1 score. Wentao Zhang 0001, Xinyi Gao 0001, Ling Yang 0006, Jiulong Shan, Hongzhi Yin, Bin Cui 0001 |
ICDE | 3 |
| 2024 | VQGraph: Rethinking Graph Representation Space for Bridging GNNs and MLPsabstractGNN-to-MLP distillation aims to utilize knowledge distillation (KD) to learn computationally-efficient multi-layer perceptron (student MLP) on graph data by mimicking the output representations of teacher GNN. Existing methods mainly make the MLP to mimic the GNN predictions over a few class labels. However, the class space may not be expressive enough for covering numerous diverse local graph structures, thus limiting the performance of knowledge transfer from GNN to MLP. To address this issue, we propose to learn a new powerful graph representation space by directly labeling nodes' diverse local structures for GNN-to-MLP distillation. Specifically, we propose a variant of VQ-VAE to learn a structure-aware tokenizer on graph data that can encode each node's local substructure as a discrete code. The discrete codes constitute a codebook as a new graph representation space that is able to identify different local graph structures of nodes with the corresponding code indices. Then, based on the learned codebook, we propose a new distillation target, namely soft code assignments, to directly transfer the structural knowledge of each node from GNN to MLP. The resulting framework VQGraph achieves new state-of-the-art performance on GNN-to-MLP distillation in both transductive and inductive settings across seven graph datasets. We show that VQGraph with better performance infers faster than GNNs by 828×, and also achieves accuracy improvement over GNNs and stand-alone MLPs by 3.90% and 28.05% on average, respectively. Our code is available at https://github.com/YangLing0818/VQGraph Ling Yang 0006, Minkai Xu, Zhongyi Liu 0001, Shenda Hong, Wentao Zhang 0001, Bin Cui 0001, Muhan Zhang, Jure Leskovec |
ICLR | 1 |
| 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 | 1 |
| 2024 | Protein-Ligand Interaction Prior for Binding-aware 3D Molecule Diffusion ModelsabstractGenerating 3D ligand molecules that bind to specific protein targets via diffusion models has shown great promise for structure-based drug design. The key idea is to disrupt molecules into noise through a fixed forward process and learn its reverse process to generate molecules from noise in a denoising way. However, existing diffusion models primarily focus on incorporating protein-ligand interaction information solely in the reverse process, and neglect the interactions in the forward process. The inconsistency between forward and reverse processes may impair the binding affinity of generated molecules towards target protein. In this paper, we propose a novel Interaction Prior-guided Diffusion model (IPDiff) for the protein-specific 3D molecular generation by introducing geometric protein-ligand interactions into both diffusion and sampling process. Specifically, we begin by pretraining a protein-ligand interaction prior network (IPNet) by utilizing the binding affinity signals as supervision. Subsequently, we leverage the pretrained prior network to (1) integrate interactions between the target protein and the molecular ligand into the forward process for adapting the molecule diffusion trajectories (prior-shifting), and (2) enhance the binding-aware molecule sampling process (prior-conditioning). Empirical studies on CrossDocked2020 dataset show IPDiff can generate molecules with more realistic 3D structures and state-of-the-art binding affinities towards the protein targets, with up to -6.42 Avg. Vina Score, while maintaining proper molecular properties. https://github.com/YangLing0818/IPDiff Zhilin Huang, Ling Yang 0006, Xiangxin Zhou, Wentao Zhang 0001, Xiawu Zheng, Jie Chen 0001, Yu Wang 0008, Bin Cui 0001, Wenming Yang |
ICLR | 2 |
| 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 | 1 |
| 2024 | Interaction-based Retrieval-augmented Diffusion Models for Protein-specific 3D Molecule GenerationabstractGenerating ligand molecules that bind to specific protein targets via generative models holds substantial promise for advancing structure-based drug design. Existing methods generate molecules from scratch without reference or template ligands, which poses challenges in model optimization and may yield suboptimal outcomes. To address this problem, we propose an innovative interaction-based retrieval-augmented diffusion model named IRDiff to facilitate target-aware molecule generation. IRDiff leverages a curated set of ligand references, i.e., those with desired properties such as high binding affinity, to steer the diffusion model towards synthesizing ligands that satisfy design criteria. Specifically, we utilize a protein-molecule interaction network (PMINet), which is pretrained with binding affinity signals to: (i) retrieve target-aware ligand molecules with high binding affinity to serve as references, and (ii) incorporate essential protein-ligand binding structures for steering molecular diffusion generation with two effective augmentation mechanisms, i.e., retrieval augmentation and self augmentation. Empirical studies on CrossDocked2020 dataset show IRDiff can generate molecules with more realistic 3D structures and achieve state-of-the-art binding affinities towards the protein targets, while maintaining proper molecular properties. The codes and models are available at https://github.com/YangLing0818/IRDiff Zhilin Huang, Ling Yang 0006, Xiangxin Zhou, Chujun Qin, Yijie Yu 0001, Xiawu Zheng, Zikun Zhou, Wentao Zhang 0001, Yu Wang 0008, Wenming Yang |
ICML | 2 |
| 2024 | Motion-aware Latent Diffusion Models for Video Frame InterpolationabstractWith the advancement of AIGC, video frame interpolation (VFI) has become a crucial component in existing video generation frameworks, attracting widespread research interest. For the VFI task, the motion estimation between neighboring frames plays a crucial role in avoiding motion ambiguity. However, existing VFI methods always struggle to accurately predict the motion information between consecutive frames, and this imprecise estimation leads to blurred and visually incoherent interpolated frames. In this paper, we propose a novel diffusion framework, Motion-Aware latent Diffusion models (MADiff), which is specifically designed for the VFI task. By incorporating motion priors between the conditional neighboring frames with the target interpolated frame predicted throughout the diffusion sampling procedure, MADiff progressively refines the intermediate outcomes, culminating in generating both visually smooth and realistic results. Extensive experiments conducted on benchmark datasets demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance significantly outperforming existing approaches, especially under challenging scenarios involving dynamic textures with complex motion. Zhilin Huang, Yijie Yu 0001, Ling Yang 0006, Chujun Qin, Xiawu Zheng, Zikun Zhou, Yaowei Wang 0001, Wenming Yang |
ACM Multimedia | 3 |
| 2024 | Retrieval-Augmented Diffusion Models for Time Series ForecastingabstractWhile time series diffusion models have received considerable focus from many recent works, the performance of existing models remains highly unstable. Factors limiting time series diffusion models include insufficient time series datasets and the absence of guidance. To address these limitations, we propose a Retrieval-Augmented Time series Diffusion model (RATD). The framework of RATD consists of two parts: an embedding-based retrieval process and a reference-guided diffusion model. In the first part, RATD retrieves the time series that are most relevant to historical time series from the database as references. The references are utilized to guide the denoising process in the second part. Our approach allows leveraging meaningful samples within the database to aid in sampling, thus maximizing the utilization of datasets. Meanwhile, this reference-guided mechanism also compensates for the deficiencies of existing time series diffusion models in terms of guidance. Experiments and visualizations on multiple datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, particularly in complicated prediction tasks. Our code is available at https://github.com/stanliu96/RATD Ling Yang 0006, Hongyan Li 0002, Shenda Hong |
NeurIPS | 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 | 2 |
| 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 | 1 |
| 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 | 2 |
| 2024 | Distribution-Aware Data Expansion with Diffusion ModelsabstractThe scale and quality of a dataset significantly impact the performance of deep models. However, acquiring large-scale annotated datasets is both a costly and time-consuming endeavor. To address this challenge, dataset expansion technologies aim to automatically augment datasets, unlocking the full potential of deep models. Current data expansion techniques include image transformation and image synthesis methods. Transformation-based methods introduce only local variations, leading to limited diversity. In contrast, synthesis-based methods generate entirely new content, greatly enhancing informativeness. However, existing synthesis methods carry the risk of distribution deviations, potentially degrading model performance with out-of-distribution samples. In this paper, we propose DistDiff, a training-free data expansion framework based on the distribution-aware diffusion model. DistDiff constructs hierarchical prototypes to approximate the real data distribution, optimizing latent data points within diffusion models with hierarchical energy guidance. We demonstrate its capability to generate distribution-consistent samples, significantly improving data expansion tasks. DistDiff consistently enhances accuracy across a diverse range of datasets compared to models trained solely on original data. Furthermore, our approach consistently outperforms existing synthesis-based techniques and demonstrates compatibility with widely adopted transformation-based augmentation methods. Additionally, the expanded dataset exhibits robustness across various architectural frameworks. Haowei Zhu, Ling Yang 0006, Jun-Hai Yong, Hongzhi Yin, Jiawei Jiang 0001, Wentao Zhang 0001, Bin Wang 0065 |
NeurIPS | 2 |
| 2024 | Graphusion: Latent Diffusion for Graph GenerationabstractGraph generation is a fundamental task in machine learning with broad impacts on numerous real-world applications such as biomedical discovery and social science. Most recently, generative models, especially diffusion models (DMs), have shown great promise in synthesizing realistic graphs. However, existing DMs methods typically conduct diffusion processes directly in complex graph space (i.e., node feature, adjacency matrix, or both), resulting in high modeling complexity and poor multimodal distribution coverage. In this paper, we propose Graphusion, a novel and unified latent-based graph generative framework to address the problems. Specifically, Graphusion is composed of a variational graph autoencoder mapping raw graphs with high-dimensional discrete space to low-dimensional topology-injected latent space, and latent DMs running there, producing a smoother, faster, and more expressive graph generation procedure. Thanks to the latest space modeling, we further develop principled latent self-guidance to sufficiently cover the whole semantical distribution of the unlabeled graph set. Experiments show that our Graphusion framework can consistently outperform previous graph generation baselines on both generic and molecular graph datasets, demonstrating the generality and extensibility along with further analytical justifications. Ling Yang 0006, Zhilin Huang, Zhongyi Liu 0001, Shenda Hong, Wentao Zhang 0001, Wenming Yang, Bin Cui 0001, Luxia Zhang |
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. | 1 |
| 2024 | Individual and Structural Graph Information Bottlenecks for Out-of-Distribution GeneralizationabstractOut-of-distribution (OOD) graph generalization are critical for many real-world applications. Existing methods neglect to discard spurious or noisy features of inputs, which are irrelevant to the label. Besides, they mainly conduct instance-level class-invariant graph learning and fail to utilize the structural class relationships between graph instances. In this work, we endeavor to address these issues in a unified framework, dubbedIndividual andStructuralGraphInformationBottlenecks (IS-GIB). To remove class spurious feature caused by distribution shifts, we propose Individual Graph Information Bottleneck (I-GIB) which discards irrelevant information by minimizing the mutual information between the input graph and its embeddings. To leverage the structural intra- and inter-domain correlations, we propose Structural Graph Information Bottleneck (S-GIB). Specifically for a batch of graphs with multiple domains, S-GIB first computes the pair-wise input-input, embedding-embedding, and label-label correlations. Then it minimizes the mutual information between input graph and embedding pairs while maximizing the mutual information between embedding and label pairs. The critical insight of S-GIB is to simultaneously discard spurious features and learn invariant features from a high-order perspective by maintaining class relationships under multiple distributional shifts. Notably, we unify the proposed I-GIB and S-GIB to form our complementary framework IS-GIB. Extensive experiments conducted on both node- and graph-level tasks consistently demonstrate the superior generalization ability of IS-GIB. The code is available athttps://github.com/YangLing0818/GraphOOD. Ling Yang 0006, Heyuan Wang 0001, Zhongyi Liu 0001, Zhilin Huang, Shenda Hong, Wentao Zhang 0001, Bin Cui 0001 |
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. | 1 |
| 2024 | Self-Supervised Time Series Representation Learning via Cross Reconstruction TransformerabstractSince labeled samples are typically scarce in real-world scenarios, self-supervised representation learning in time series is critical. Existing approaches mainly employ the contrastive learning framework, which automatically learns to understand similar and dissimilar data pairs. However, they are constrained by the request for cumbersome sampling policies and prior knowledge of constructing pairs. Also, few works have focused on effectively modeling temporal-spectral correlations to improve the capacity of representations. In this article, we propose the cross reconstruction transformer (CRT) to solve the aforementioned issues. CRT achieves time series representation learning through a cross-domain dropping-reconstruction task. Specifically, we obtain the frequency domain of the time series via the fast Fourier transform (FFT) and randomly drop certain patches in both time and frequency domains. Dropping is employed to maximally preserve the global context while masking leads to the distribution shift. Then a Transformer architecture is utilized to adequately discover the cross-domain correlations between temporal and spectral information through reconstructing data in both domains, which is called Dropped Temporal-Spectral Modeling. To discriminate the representations in global latent space, we propose instance discrimination constraint (IDC) to reduce the mutual information between different time series samples and sharpen the decision boundaries. Additionally, a specified curriculum learning (CL) strategy is employed to improve the robustness during the pretraining phase, which progressively increases the dropping ratio in the training process. We conduct extensive experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method on multiple real-world datasets. Results show that CRT consistently achieves the best performance over existing methods by 2%-9%. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/BobZwr/Cross-Reconstruction-Transformer. Ling Yang 0006, Shijia Geng, Shenda Hong |
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst. | 2 |
| 2023 | Improving Diffusion-Based Image Synthesis with Context PredictionabstractDiffusion models are a new class of generative models, and have dramatically promoted image generation with unprecedented quality and diversity. Existing diffusion models mainly try to reconstruct input image from a corrupted one with a pixel-wise or feature-wise constraint along spatial axes. However, such point-based reconstruction may fail to make each predicted pixel/feature fully preserve its neighborhood context, impairing diffusion-based image synthesis. As a powerful source of automatic supervisory signal, context has been well studied for learning representations. Inspired by this, we for the first time propose ConPreDiff to improve diffusion-based image synthesis with context prediction. We explicitly reinforce each point to predict its neighborhood context (i.e., multi-stride pixels/features) with a context decoder at the end of diffusion denoising blocks in training stage, and remove the decoder for inference. In this way, each point can better reconstruct itself by preserving its semantic connections with neighborhood context. This new paradigm of ConPreDiff can generalize to arbitrary discrete and continuous diffusion backbones without introducing extra parameters in sampling procedure. Extensive experiments are conducted on unconditional image generation, text-to-image generation and image inpainting tasks. Our ConPreDiff consistently outperforms previous methods and achieves new SOTA text-to-image generation results on MS-COCO, with a zero-shot FID score of 6.21. Ling Yang 0006, Shenda Hong, Zhilin Huang, Zheming Cai, Wentao Zhang 0001, Bin Cui 0001 |
NeurIPS | 1 |
| 2022 | Omni-Granular Ego-Semantic Propagation for Self-Supervised Graph Representation LearningabstractUnsupervised/self-supervised graph representation learning is critical for downstream node- and graph-level classification tasks. Global structure of graphs helps discriminating representations and existing methods mainly utilize the global structure by imposing additional supervisions. However, their global semantics are usually invariant for all nodes/graphs and they fail to explicitly embed the global semantics to enrich the representations. In this paper, we propose Omni-Granular Ego-Semantic Propagation for Self-Supervised Graph Representation Learning (OEPG). Specifically, we introduce instance-adaptive global-aware ego-semantic descriptors, leveraging the first- and second-order feature differences between each node/graph and hierarchical global clusters of the entire graph dataset. The descriptors can be explicitly integrated into local graph convolution as new neighbor nodes. Besides, we design an omni-granular normalization on the whole scales and hierarchies of the ego-semantic to assign attentional weight to each descriptor from an omni-granular perspective. Specialized pretext tasks and cross-iteration momentum update are further developed for local-global mutual adaptation. In downstream tasks, OEPG consistently achieves the best performance with a 2%~6% accuracy gain on multiple datasets cross scales and domains. Notably, OEPG also generalizes to quantity- and topology-imbalance scenarios. Ling Yang 0006, Shenda Hong |
ICML | 1 |
| 2022 | Unsupervised Time-Series Representation Learning with Iterative Bilinear Temporal-Spectral FusionabstractUnsupervised/self-supervised time series representation learning is a challenging problem because of its complex dynamics and sparse annotations. Existing works mainly adopt the framework of contrastive learning with the time-based augmentation techniques to sample positives and negatives for contrastive training. Nevertheless, they mostly use segment-level augmentation derived from time slicing, which may bring about sampling bias and incorrect optimization with false negatives due to the loss of global context. Besides, they all pay no attention to incorporate the spectral information in feature representation. In this paper, we propose a unified framework, namely Bilinear Temporal-Spectral Fusion (BTSF). Specifically, we firstly utilize the instance-level augmentation with a simple dropout on the entire time series for maximally capturing long-term dependencies. We devise a novel iterative bilinear temporal-spectral fusion to explicitly encode the affinities of abundant time-frequency pairs, and iteratively refines representations in a fusion-and-squeeze manner with Spectrum-to-Time (S2T) and Time-to-Spectrum (T2S) Aggregation modules. We firstly conducts downstream evaluations on three major tasks for time series including classification, forecasting and anomaly detection. Experimental results shows that our BTSF consistently significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods. Ling Yang 0006, Shenda Hong |
ICML | 1 |
| 2020 | DPGN: Distribution Propagation Graph Network for Few-Shot LearningabstractMost graph-network-based meta-learning approaches model instance-level relation of examples. We extend this idea further to explicitly model the distribution-level relation of one example to all other examples in a 1-vs-N manner. We propose a novel approach named distribution propagation graph network (DPGN) for few-shot learning. It conveys both the distribution-level relations and instance-level relations in each few-shot learning task. To combine the distribution-level relations and instance-level relations for all examples, we construct a dual complete graph network which consists of a point graph and a distribution graph with each node standing for an example. Equipped with dual graph architecture, DPGN propagates label information from labeled examples to unlabeled examples within several update generations. In extensive experiments on few-shot learning benchmarks, DPGN outperforms state-of-the-art results by a large margin in 5%~12% under supervised setting and 7%~13% under semi-supervised setting. Code will be released. Ling Yang 0006, Zilun Zhang, Erjin Zhou |
CVPR | 1 |