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  • Steven C. H. Hoi

    Possible advisor · last author on 3 of their early first-author papers, 2020

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  • Prototypical Contrastive Learning of Unsupervised Representations

    Junnan Li, Pan Zhou, Caiming Xiong, Steven C. H. Hoi

    arXiv · 2020

    468
  • CodeT5+: Open Code Large Language Models for Code Understanding and Generation

    Yue Wang, Hung Lê, Akhilesh Deepak Gotmare, Nghi Bui, Junnan Li, Steven C. H. Hoi

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2023

    417
  • CoMatch: Semi-supervised Learning with Contrastive Graph Regularization

    Junnan Li, Caiming Xiong, Steven C. H. Hoi

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2021

    CoMatch is a new semi-supervised learning method that unifies dominant approaches and addresses their limitations, and achieves substantial accuracy improvements on the label-scarce CIFAR-10 and STL-10.

    374
  • The Devil Is in Classification: A Simple Framework for Long-Tail Instance Segmentation

    Tao Wang, Li Zhi Yu, Bingyi Kang, Junnan Li, Junhao Liew, Sheng Tang, Steven C. H. Hoi, Jiashi Feng

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2020

    This work systematically investigates performance drop of the state-of-the-art two-stage instance segmentation model Mask R-CNN on the recent long-tail LVIS dataset, and unveils that a major cause is the inaccurate classification of object proposals.

    219
  • A Minimalist Approach to LLM Reasoning: from Rejection Sampling to Reinforce

    Xiong, Wei, Jiarui Yao, Yuhui Xu, Bo Pang, Wang, Lei, Doyen Sahoo, Junnan Li, Nan Jiang, +3 more

    arXiv · 2025

    This work revisits GRPO from a reinforce-like algorithm perspective and proposes Reinforce-Rej, a minimal extension of policy gradient that filters both entirely incorrect and entirely correct samples, serving as a lightweight yet effective alternative to more complex RL algorithms.

    146
  • Tackling Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning with Class Prototypes

    Yutong Dai, Zeyuan Chen, Junnan Li, Shelby Heinecke, Lichao Sun, Ran Xu

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2023

    127
  • Reward-Guided Speculative Decoding for Efficient LLM Reasoning

    Baohao Liao, Yuhui Xu, Hanze Dong, Junnan Li, Christof Monz, Silvio Savarese, Doyen Sahoo, Caiming Xiong

    arXiv · 2025

    Reward-Guided Speculative Decoding is introduced, a novel framework aimed at improving the efficiency of inference in large language models (LLMs) by incorporating a controlled bias to prioritize high-reward outputs in contrast to existing speculative decoding methods that enforce strict unbiasedness.

    120
  • MCP-Universe: Benchmarking Large Language Models with Real-World Model Context Protocol Servers

    Luo, Ziyang, Zhiqi Shen, Wenzhuo Yang, Zirui Zhao, Prathyusha Jwalapuram, Amrita Saha, Doyen Sahoo, Silvio Savarese, +2 more

    arXiv · 2025

    MCP-Universe is introduced, the first comprehensive benchmark specifically designed to evaluate LLMs in realistic and hard tasks through interaction with real-world MCP servers, and implements execution-based evaluators, including format evaluators for agent format compliance, static evaluators for time-invariant content matching, and dynamic evaluators that automatically retrieve real-time ground truth for temporally sensitive tasks.

    107
  • Unsupervised Learning of View-invariant Action Representations

    Junnan Li, Yongkang Wong, Qi Zhao, Mohan Kankanhalli

    arXiv · 2018

    90
  • Moirai 2.0: When Less Is More for Time Series Forecasting

    Chenghao Liu, Taha Aksu, Juncheng Liu, Xu Liu, Hanshu Yan, Quang Pham, Silvio Savarese, Doyen Sahoo, +2 more

    arXiv · 2025

    79
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  • Attention Transfer from Web Images for Video Recognition

    Junnan Li, Yongkang Wong, Qi Zhao, Mohan Kankanhalli

    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) · 2017

    This work proposes a novel approach to transfer knowledge from image domain to video domain, and designs a novel Siamese EnergyNet structure to learn energy functions on the attention maps by jointly optimizing two loss functions, such that the attention map corresponding to a ground truth concept would have higher energy.

    48
  • Deep Reinforcement Learning in Soft Viscoelastic Actuator of Dielectric Elastomer

    Li Lu, Junnan Li, Lei Qin, Jiawei Cao, Mohan Kankanhalli, Jian Zhu

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2019

    This letter proposes a model-free method for control of DEAs, based on deep reinforcement learning that is robust to achieve accurate control for the DEAs of different configurations, different prestretches, and at different times.

    44
  • Scalable Chain of Thoughts via Elastic Reasoning

    Yuhui Xu, Hanze Dong, Lei Wang, Doyen Sahoo, Junnan Li, Caiming Xiong

    arXiv · 2025

    This work proposes Elastic Reasoning, a novel framework for scalable chain of thoughts that explicitly separates reasoning into two phases--thinking and solution--with independently allocated budgets, and demonstrates that it performs robustly under strict budget constraints, while incurring significantly lower training cost than baseline methods.

    42
  • Removal behavior and key drivers of antibiotic resistance genes in two full-scale leachate treatment plants

    Jun R. Yang, Jinyi Xiang, Yu Xie, Kaifeng Yu, Junnan Li, Haoyan Wang, Peng Li, Karina Yew‐Hoong Gin, +1 more

    Water Research · 2022

    This study provides new insights into the mechanisms of ARGs removal and dissemination behavior in industrial-scale LTPs and indicated that bacterial composition, MGEs and basic water properties were the key drivers shaping ARGs dynamics in the raw leachate, biological system and filtration system, respectively.

    42
  • Visual Social Relationship Recognition

    Junnan Li, Yongkang Wong, Qi Zhao, Mohan Kankanhalli

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2020

    A dual-glance model for social relationship recognition, where the first glance fixates at the person of interest and the second glance deploys attention mechanism to exploit contextual cues, is proposed.

    32
  • Improving out-of-distribution generalization via multi-task self-supervised pretraining

    Isabela Albuquerque, Nikhil Naik, Junnan Li, Nitish Shirish Keskar, Richard Socher

    arXiv · 2020

    26
  • Empowering Time Series Analysis with Synthetic Data: A Survey and Outlook in the Era of Foundation Models

    Liu, Xu, Taha Aksu, Juncheng Liu, Qingsong Wen, Yuxuan Liang, Caiming Xiong, Silvio Savarese, Doyen Sahoo, +2 more

    arXiv · 2025

    This survey provides a comprehensive review of synthetic data for TSFMs and TSLLMs, analyzing data generation strategies, their role in model pretraining, fine-tuning, and evaluation, and identifying future research directions.

    21
  • Improving Tail-Class Representation with Centroid Contrastive Learning

    Anthony Meng Huat Tiong, Junnan Li, Guosheng Lin, Boyang Li, Caiming Xiong, Steven C. H. Hoi

    Pattern Recognition Letters · 2023

    Interpolative centroid contrastive learning (ICCL) is proposed to improve long-tailed representation learning and shows a significant accuracy gain of 2.8% on the iNaturalist 2018 dataset with a real-world long-tails distribution.

    20
  • Weakly-Supervised Multi-Person Action Recognition in 360° Videos

    Junnan Li, Jianquan Liu, Yongkang Wang, Shoji Nishimura, Mohan Kankanhalli

    IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision · 2020

    This work proposes a weakly-supervised method based on multiinstance multi-label learning, which trains the model to recognize and localize multiple actions in a video using only video-level action labels as supervision.

    20
  • VideoAutoArena: An Automated Arena for Evaluating Large Multimodal Models in Video Analysis through User Simulation

    Ziyang Luo, Haoning Wu, Dongxu Li, Jing Ma, Mohan Kankanhalli, Junnan Li

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2025

    VideoAutoArena is introduced, an arena-style benchmark inspired by LMSYS Chatbot Arena’s framework, designed to automatically assess LMMs’ video analysis abilities, and introduces a fault-driven evolution strategy, progressively increasing question complexity to push models toward handling more challenging video analysis scenarios.

    19
  • Masked Unsupervised Self-training for Label-free Image Classification

    Junnan Li, Silvio Savarese, Steven C. H. Hoi

    arXiv · 2022

    This paper proposes Masked Unsupervised Self-Training (MUST), a new approach which leverages two different and complimentary sources of supervision: pseudo-labels and raw images, and achieves a zero-shot top-1 accuracy of 77.7% on ImageNet using ViT-B, +9.4% higher than CLIP.

    18
  • A review of fiber-optic corrosion sensor in civil engineering

    Dong Mei Luo, Junnan Li, Yuanyuan Li

    AIP conference proceedings · 2018

    The mechanism of metal corrosion is introduced, and several common methods for detecting optical fiber corrosion sensors are presented, and the latest progress of optical Fiber corrosion sensors in recent years is described.

    18
  • ARVMEC: Adaptive Recommendation of Virtual Machines for IoT in Edge–Cloud Environment

    Yajing Xu, Junnan Li, Zhihui Lu, Jie Wu, Patrick C. K. Hung, Abdulhameed A. Alelaiwi

    Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing · 2020

    This article proposes ARVMEC, Adaptive Recommendation of Virtual Machines for IoT in Edge-Cloud Environment, which can always provide users with the best VM recommendation according to their own budget or deadline constraints.

    16
  • Towards Noise-resistant Object Detection with Noisy Annotations

    Junnan Li, Caiming Xiong, Socher, Richard, Hoi, Steven

    arXiv · 2020

    15

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