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  • MM-Vet: Evaluating Large Multimodal Models for Integrated Capabilities

    Weihao Yu, Zhengyuan Yang, Linjie Li, Jianfeng Wang, Kevin Lin, Zicheng Liu, Xinchao Wang, Lijuan Wang

    arXiv · 2023

    The proposed MM-Vet is an evaluation benchmark that examines large multimodal models (LMMs) on complicated multimodal tasks, designed based on the insight that the intriguing ability to solve complicated tasks is often achieved by a generalist model being able to integrate different core vision-language (VL) capabilities.

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  • The Dawn of LMMs: Preliminary Explorations with GPT-4V(ision)

    Zhengyuan Yang, Linjie Li, Kevin Lin, Jianfeng Wang, Chung-Ching Lin, Zicheng Liu, Lijuan Wang

    arXiv · 2023

    This paper analyzes the latest model, GPT-4V(ision), to deepen the understanding of large multimodal models, and curate and organize a collection of carefully designed qualitative samples spanning a variety of domains and tasks to inspire future research on the next-generation multi-sensory task formulation.

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  • GIT: A Generative Image-to-text Transformer for Vision and Language

    Jianfeng Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Xiaowei Hu, Linjie Li, Kevin Lin, Zhe Gan, Zicheng Liu, Ce Liu, +1 more

    arXiv · 2022

    This paper design and train a Generative Image-to-text Transformer, GIT, to unify vision-language tasks such as image/video captioning and question answering and establishes new state of the arts on 12 challenging benchmarks with a large margin.

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  • MM-REACT: Prompting ChatGPT for Multimodal Reasoning and Action

    Zhengyuan Yang, Linjie Li, Jianfeng Wang, Kevin Lin, Ehsan Azarnasab, Ahmed, Faisal, Zicheng Liu, Ce Liu, +2 more

    arXiv · 2023

    This paper defines and explores a comprehensive list of advanced vision tasks that are intriguing to solve, but may exceed the capabilities of existing vision and vision-language models and proposes MM-REACT, a system paradigm that integrates ChatGPT with a pool of vision experts to achieve multimodal reasoning and action.

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  • An Empirical Study of GPT-3 for Few-Shot Knowledge-Based VQA

    Zhengyuan Yang, Zhe Gan, Jianfeng Wang, Xiaowei Hu, Yumao Lu, Zicheng Liu, Lijuan Wang

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2022

    This work proposes PICa, a simple yet effective method that Prompts GPT3 via the use of Image Captions, for knowledge-based VQA, and treats GPT-3 as an implicit and unstructured KB that can jointly acquire and process relevant knowledge.

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  • TransVG: End-to-End Visual Grounding with Transformers

    Jiajun Deng, Zhengyuan Yang, Tianlang Chen, Wengang Zhou, Houqiang Li

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

    A neat yet effective transformer-based framework for visual grounding, namely TransVG, to address the task of grounding a language query to the corresponding region onto an image by leveraging transformers and empirically showing that the complex fusion modules can be replaced by a simple stack of transformer encoder layers with higher performance.

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  • A Fast and Accurate One-Stage Approach to Visual Grounding

    Zhengyuan Yang, Boqing Gong, Liwei Wang, Wenbing Huang, Dong Yu, Jiebo Luo

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2019

    A simple, fast, and accurate one-stage approach to visual grounding that enables end-to-end joint optimization and shows great potential in terms of both accuracy and speed for both phrase localization and referring expression comprehension.

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  • Prompting GPT-3 To Be Reliable

    Chenglei Si, Zhe Gan, Zhengyuan Yang, Shuohang Wang, Jianfeng Wang, Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber, Lijuan Wang

    arXiv · 2022

    This systematic empirical study sheds new insights on the reliability of prompting LLMs, but more importantly, its prompting strategies can help practitioners more reliably use LLMs like GPT-3.

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  • RAGEN: Understanding Self-Evolution in LLM Agents via Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning

    Zihan Wang, Kangrui Wang, Qineng Wang, Pingyue Zhang, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Xing Jin, Kai F. Yu, +10 more

    arXiv · 2025

    This work proposes StarPO (State-Thinking-Actions-Reward Policy Optimization), a general framework for trajectory-level agent RL, and introduces RAGEN, a modular system for training and evaluating LLM agents and shows that without fine-grained, reasoning-aware reward signals, agent reasoning hardly emerge through multi-turn RL and they may show shallow strategies or hallucinated thoughts.

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  • Scaling Up Vision-Language Pretraining for Image Captioning

    Xiaowei Hu, Zhe Gan, Jianfeng Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Zicheng Liu, Yumao Lu, Lijuan Wang

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2022

    LEMON O, a LargE-scale iMage captiONer, is presented, and the first empirical study on the scaling behavior of VLP for image captioning is provided, and it is shown LEMON can generate captions with long-tail vi-sual concepts when used in a zero-shot manner.

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  • Improving One-Stage Visual Grounding by Recursive Sub-query Construction

    Zhengyuan Yang, Tianlang Chen, Liwei Wang, Jiebo Luo

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2020

    This work proposes a recursive sub-query construction framework, which reasons between image and query for multiple rounds and reduces the referring ambiguity step by step, and shows superior performances on longer and more complex queries validates the effectiveness of the query modeling.

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  • ShowUI: One Vision-Language-Action Model for GUI Visual Agent

    Kevin Qinghong Lin, Linjie Li, Difei Gao, Zhengyuan Yang, Shiwei Wu, Zechen Bai, Stan Weixian Lei, Lijuan Wang, +1 more

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

    This work develops a vision-language-action model in digital world, namely ShowUI, which features the following innovations: UI-Guided Visual Token Selection to reduce computational costs by formulating screenshots as an UI connected graph, adaptively identifying their redundant relationship and serve as the criteria for token selection during self-attention blocks.

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  • ReCo: Region-Controlled Text-to-Image Generation

    Zhengyuan Yang, Jianfeng Wang, Zhe Gan, Linjie Li, Kevin Lin, Chenfei Wu, Nan Duan, Zicheng Liu, +3 more

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2023

    The proposed model, dubbed as ReCo (Region-Controlled T2I), enables the region control for arbitrary objects described by open-ended regional texts rather than by object labels from a constrained category set, and can better control the object count, spatial relationship, and region attributes such as color/size, with the free-form regional description.

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  • Attentive Relational Networks for Mapping Images to Scene Graphs

    Mengshi Qi, Weijian Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Yunhong Wang, Jiebo Luo

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2019

    A novel Attentive Relational Network that consists of two key modules with an object detection backbone to approach this problem, and accurate scene graphs are produced by the relation inference module to recognize all entities and corresponding relations.

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  • Design2Code: Benchmarking Multimodal Code Generation for Automated Front-End Engineering

    Chenglei Si, Yanzhe Zhang, Ryan Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Ruibo Liu, Diyi Yang

    Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL) · 2025

    This work manually curate 484 diverse real-world webpages as test cases and develops a set of automatic evaluation metrics to assess how well current multimodal LLMs can generate the code implementations that directly render into the given reference webpages, given the screenshots as input.

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  • Disco: Disentangled Control for Realistic Human Dance Generation

    Tan Wang, Linjie Li, Kevin Lin, Yuanhao Zhai, Chung-Ching Lin, Zhengyuan Yang, Hanwang Zhang, Zicheng Liu, +1 more

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2024

    Disco is introduced, which includes a novel model architecture with disentangled control to improve the compositionality of dance synthesis, and an effective human attribute pre-training for better generalizability to unseen humans.

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  • SAT: 2D Semantics Assisted Training for 3D Visual Grounding

    Zhengyuan Yang, Songyang Zhang, Liwei Wang, Jiebo Luo

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

    2D Semantics Ass Training (SAT) is proposed that utilizes 2D image semantics in the training stage to ease point-cloud-language joint representation learning and assist 3D visual grounding.

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  • A Novel Graph-based Multi-modal Fusion Encoder for Neural Machine Translation

    Yongjing Yin, Fandong Meng, Jinsong Su, Chulun Zhou, Zhengyuan Yang, Jie Zhou, Jiebo Luo

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2020

    A novel graph-based multi-modal fusion encoder for NMT that captures various semantic relationships between multi- modal semantic units (words and visual objects) and provides an attention-based context vector for the decoder.

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  • Action Recognition With Spatio–Temporal Visual Attention on Skeleton Image Sequences

    Zhengyuan Yang, Yuncheng Li, Jianchao Yang, Jiebo Luo

    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology · 2018

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  • GPT-4V in Wonderland: Large Multimodal Models for Zero-Shot Smartphone GUI Navigation

    An Yan, Zhengyuan Yang, Wanrong Zhu, Kevin Lin, Linjie Li, Jianfeng Wang, Jianwei Yang, Yiwu Zhong, +4 more

    arXiv · 2023

    The findings demonstrate that large multimodal models, specifically GPT-4V, excel in zero-shot GUI navigation through its advanced screen interpretation, action reasoning, and precise action localization capabilities.

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  • TAP: Text-Aware Pre-training for Text-VQA and Text-Caption

    Zhengyuan Yang, Yijuan Lu, Jianfeng Wang, Xi Peng Yin, Dinei A. F. Florencio, Lijuan Wang, Cha Zhang, Lei Zhang, +1 more

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2021

    This paper proposes Text-Aware Pre-training (TAP) for Text-VQA and Text-Caption tasks, and builds a large-scale scene text-related imagetext dataset based on the Conceptual Caption dataset, named OCR-CC, which contains 1:4 million images with scene text.

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  • Can MLLMs Reason in Multimodality? EMMA: An Enhanced MultiModal ReAsoning Benchmark

    Hao, Yunzhuo, Jiawei Gu, Huichen Will Wang, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Lijuan Wang, Cheng Yu

    arXiv · 2025

    E evaluation of state-of-the-art MLLMs on EMMA reveals significant limitations in handling complex multimodal and multi-step reasoning tasks, even with advanced techniques like Chain-of-Thought prompting and test-time compute scaling underperforming, underscore the need for improved multimodal architectures and training paradigms to close the gap between human and model reasoning in multimodality.

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  • End-to-end Multi-Modal Multi-Task Vehicle Control for Self-Driving Cars with Visual Perceptions

    Zhengyuan Yang, Yixuan Zhang, Jerry Yu, Junjie Cai, Jiebo Luo

    Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition/Proceedings/International Conference on Pattern Recognition · 2018

    This work proposes a multi-modal multi-task network to predict speed values and steering angles by taking previous feedback speeds and visual recordings as inputs and improves the failure data synthesis methods to solve the problem of error accumulation in real road tests.

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  • UniTAB: Unifying Text and Box Outputs for Grounded Vision-Language Modeling

    Zhengyuan Yang, Zhe Gan, Jianfeng Wang, Xiaowei Hu, Faisal Ahmed, Zicheng Liu, Yumao Lu, Lijuan Wang

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2022

    UniTAB’s unified multi-task network and the task-agnostic output sequence design make the model parameter efficient and generalizable to new tasks, and could provide a more comprehensive and interpretable image description.

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  • PromptCap: Prompt-Guided Task-Aware Image Captioning

    Yushi Hu, Hang Hua, Zhengyuan Yang, Weijia Shi, Noah A. Smith, Jiebo Luo

    arXiv · 2022

    PromptCap (Prompt-guided image Captioning), a captioning model designed to serve as a better connector between images and black-box LMs, achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on knowledge-based VQA tasks and generalizes well to unseen domains.

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  • Multimodal Foundation Models: From Specialists to General-Purpose Assistants

    Chunyuan Li, Zhe Gan, Zhengyuan Yang, Jianwei Yang, Linjie Li, Lijuan Wang, Jianfeng Gao

    Foundations and Trends® in Computer Graphics and Vision · 2024

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  • TransVG++: End-to-End Visual Grounding With Language Conditioned Vision Transformer

    Jiajun Deng, Zhengyuan Yang, Daqing Liu, Tianlang Chen, Wengang Zhou, Yanyong Zhang, Houqiang Li, Wanli Ouyang

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2023

    This work proposes TransVG, which establishes multi-modal correspondences by Transformers and localizes referred regions by directly regressing box coordinates, and introduces TransVG++, which upgrades the framework to a purely Transformer-based one by leveraging Vision Transformer (ViT) for vision feature encoding.

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  • PromptCap: Prompt-Guided Image Captioning for VQA with GPT-3

    Yushi Hu, Hang Hua, Zhengyuan Yang, Weijia Shi, Noah A. Smith, Jiebo Luo

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2023

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  • Improving Weakly Supervised Visual Grounding by Contrastive Knowledge Distillation

    Liwei Wang, Jing Li Huang, Yin Li, Kun Xu, Zhengyuan Yang, Dong Yu

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2021

    This work leverage a generic object detector at training time, and proposes a contrastive learning framework that accounts for both region-phrase and image-sentence matching, which achieves state-of-the-art results on visual phrase grounding, surpassing previous methods that require expensive object detectors at test time.

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  • ReFocus: Visual Editing as a Chain of Thought for Structured Image Understanding

    Xingyu Fu, Min‐Qian Liu, Zhengyuan Yang, John Corring, Yijuan Lu, Yang, Jianwei, Dan Roth, Dinei A. F. Florencio, +1 more

    arXiv · 2025

    ReFocus is introduced, a simple yet effective framework that equips multimodal LLMs with the ability to generate visual thoughts by performing visual editing on the input image through code, shifting and refining their visual focuses, thereby enhancing the visual reasoning process.

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  • MM-VID: Advancing Video Understanding with GPT-4V(ision)

    Kevin Lin, Ahmed, Faisal, Linjie Li, Chung-Ching Lin, Ehsan Azarnasab, Zhengyuan Yang, Jianfeng Wang, Liang, Lin, +4 more

    arXiv · 2023

    MM-VID is an integrated system that harnesses the capabilities of GPT-4V, combined with specialized tools in vision, audio, and speech, to facilitate advanced video understanding and demonstrates the effectiveness of MM-VID in handling distinct video genres with various video lengths.

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  • Grounding-Tracking-Integration

    Zhengyuan Yang, Tushar Kumar, Tianlang Chen, Jingsong Su, Jiebo Luo

    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology · 2020

    This paper proposes a framework called GTI that decomposes the problem into three sub-tasks: Grounding, Tracking, and Integration, and proposes an "RT-integration" method that defines and predicts two scores to guide the integration.

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  • Equivariant Similarity for Vision-Language Foundation Models

    Tan Wang, Kevin Lin, Linjie Li, Chung-Ching Lin, Zhengyuan Yang, Hanwang Zhang, Zicheng Liu, Lijuan Wang

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2023

    This study proposes EqSim, a regularization loss that can be efficiently calculated from any two matched training pairs and easily pluggable into existing image-text retrieval fine-tuning and presents a new challenging benchmark EqBen, the first to focus on "visual-minimal change".

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  • Curve fitting and optimal interpolation for CNC machining under confined error using quadratic B-splines

    Zhengyuan Yang, Li‐Yong Shen, Chun-Ming Yuan, Xiao-Shan Gao

    Computer-Aided Design · 2015

    An optimization problem is solved to find a quadratic B-spline curve whose Hausdorff distance to the given polyline tool path is within a given precision, and adopting time parameter for the fitting curve is adopted.

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  • MM-Narrator: Narrating Long-form Videos with Multimodal In-Context Learning

    Chaoyi Zhang, Kevin Lin, Zhengyuan Yang, Jianfeng Wang, Linjie Li, Chung-Ching Lin, Zicheng Liu, Lijuan Wang

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2024

    Experimental results on MAD-eval dataset demonstrate that MM-Narrator consistently outperforms both the existing fine-tuning-based approaches and LLM-based approaches in most scenarios, as measured by standard evaluation metrics.

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  • GPT-4V(ision) as A Social Media Analysis Engine

    Hanjia Lyu, Jinfa Huang, Daoan Zhang, Yongsheng Yu, Xinyi Mou, Jinsheng Pan, Zhengyuan Yang, Zhongyu Wei, +1 more

    ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology · 2024

    GPT-4V shows effectiveness in these tasks, exhibiting capabilities like joint image–text understanding, contextual and cultural awareness, and commonsense knowledge application, however, challenges persist, including struggles with multilingual social multimedia comprehension and difficulty in adapting to the latest social media trends.

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  • NUWA-XL: Diffusion over Diffusion for eXtremely Long Video Generation

    Shengming Yin, Chenfei Wu, Huan Yang, Jianfeng Wang, Xiaodong Wang, Minheng Ni, Zhengyuan Yang, Linjie Li, +8 more

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2023

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  • SGFormer: Semantic Graph Transformer for Point Cloud-Based 3D Scene Graph Generation

    Changsheng Lv, Mengshi Qi, Xia Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Huadóng Ma

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2024

    A novel model called SGFormer, Semantic Graph TransFormer for point cloud-based 3D scene graph generation, which introduces the graph embedding layer to best utilize the global information in graph edges while maintaining comparable computation costs and the semantic injection layer to leverage linguistic knowledge from large-scale language model, to enhance objects' visual features.

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  • End-to-end Multi-Modal Multi-Task Vehicle Control for Self-Driving Cars with Visual Perception

    Zhengyuan Yang, Yixuan Zhang, Jerry Yu, Junjie Cai, Jiebo Luo

    arXiv · 2018

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  • Idea2Img: Iterative Self-Refinement with GPT-4V(ision) for Automatic Image Design and Generation

    Zhengyuan Yang, Jianfeng Wang, Linjie Li, Kevin Lin, Chung-Ching Lin, Zicheng Liu, Lijuan Wang

    arXiv · 2023

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  • List Items One by One: A New Data Source and Learning Paradigm for Multimodal LLMs

    Yan, An, Zhengyuan Yang, Junda Wu, Wanrong Zhu, Jianwei Yang, Linjie Li, Kevin Lin, Jianfeng Wang, +3 more

    arXiv · 2024

    This work proposes a new learning paradigm:"list items one by one," which asks the model to enumerate and describe all visual tags placed on the image following the alphanumerics orders of tags, and finds that this new dataset, even in a relatively small size, significantly enhances visual reasoning capabilities and reduces hallucinations for MLLMs.

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  • Idea2Img: Iterative Self-refinement with GPT-4V for Automatic Image Design and Generation

    Zhengyuan Yang, Jianfeng Wang, Linjie Li, Kevin Lin, Chung-Ching Lin, Zicheng Liu, Lijuan Wang

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2024

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  • SlowFast-VGen: Slow-Fast Learning for Action-Driven Long Video Generation

    Yining Hong, Baiyu Liu, Wu, Maxine, Yuanhao Zhai, Kai-Wei Chang, Linjie Li, Kevin Lin, Chung-Ching Lin, +4 more

    arXiv · 2024

    This work introduces SlowFast-VGen, a novel dual-speed learning system for action-driven long video generation that incorporates a masked conditional video diffusion model for the slow learning of world dynamics, alongside an inference-time fast learning strategy based on a temporal LoRA module.

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  • Human-Centered Emotion Recognition in Animated GIFs

    Zhengyuan Yang, Yixuan Zhang, Jiebo Luo

    IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · 2019

    This study demonstrates the importance of human related information in GIFs and conducts human-centered GIF emotion recognition with a proposed Keypoint Attended Visual Attention Network (KAVAN), and proposes a framework that outperforms the state-of-the-art on the MIT GIFGIF dataset.

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  • Tuning Timestep-Distilled Diffusion Model Using Pairwise Sample Optimization

    Zichen Miao, Zhengyuan Yang, Kevin Lin, Ze Wang, Zicheng Liu, Lijuan Wang, Qiu, Qiang

    arXiv · 2024

    An algorithm named pairwise sample optimization (PSO) is presented, which enables the direct fine-tuning of an arbitrary timestep-distilled diffusion model, and can directly adapt distilled models to human-preferred generation with both offline and online-generated pairwise preference image data.

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  • UFO: A UniFied TransfOrmer for Vision-Language Representation Learning

    Jianfeng Wang, Xiaowei Hu, Zhe Gan, Zhengyuan Yang, Xiyang Dai, Zicheng Liu, Yumao Lu, Lijuan Wang

    arXiv · 2021

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  • Pose-based Body Language Recognition for Emotion and Psychiatric Symptom Interpretation

    Zhengyuan Yang, Amanda Kay, Yuncheng Li, Wendi F. Cross, Jiebo Luo

    Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition/Proceedings/International Conference on Pattern Recognition · 2021

    The accuracy and transferability of the proposed body language recognition method on several public action recognition datasets is validated and the framework outperforms other methods on the URMC dataset.

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  • MMSum: A Dataset for Multimodal Summarization and Thumbnail Generation of Videos

    Jielin Qiu, Jiacheng Zhu, William Han, Aditesh Kumar, Karthik Mittal, Claire Jin, Zhengyuan Yang, Linjie Li, +4 more

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2024

    This work has meticulously curated the MMSum dataset, providing a comprehensive dataset for this new direction of multimodal summarization with multimodal output, and released the MMSum dataset and the data collection tool as fully open-source resources.

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  • TextAtlas5M: A Large-scale Dataset for Dense Text Image Generation

    Wang, Alex Jinpeng, Mao, Dongxing, Jiawei Zhang, Han, Weiming, Zhuobai Dong, Linjie Li, Yiqi Lin, Zhengyuan Yang, +4 more

    arXiv · 2025

    This work introduces TextAtlas5M, a novel dataset specifically designed to evaluate long-text rendering in text-conditioned image generation, consisting of 5 million long-text generated and collected images across diverse data types, enabling comprehensive evaluation of large-scale generative models on long-text image generation.

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  • DEsignBench: Exploring and Benchmarking DALL-E 3 for Imagining Visual Design

    Kevin Lin, Zhengyuan Yang, Linjie Li, Jianfeng Wang, Lijuan Wang

    arXiv · 2023

    DEsignBench, a text-to-image (T2I) generation benchmark tailored for visual design scenarios, is introduced and the first automatic image generation evaluator powered by GPT-4V is introduced, providing ratings that align well with human judgments, while being easily replicable and cost-efficient.

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  • GRiT: A Generative Region-to-Text Transformer for Object Understanding

    Jialian Wu, Jianfeng Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Zhe Gan, Zicheng Liu, Junsong Yuan, Lijuan Wang

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2024

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  • COSMO: COntrastive Streamlined MultimOdal Model with Interleaved Pre-Training

    Alex Jinpeng Wang, Linjie Li, Kevin Qinghong Lin, Jianfeng Wang, Kevin Lin, Zhengyuan Yang, Lijuan Wang, Mike Zheng Shou

    arXiv · 2024

    This work introduces \VideoDatasetName, an inaugural interleaved video-text dataset featuring comprehensive captions, marking a significant step forward in the evolution of Vision-Language Pre-training and enhancing model performance in image-text tasks.

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  • Bring Metric Functions into Diffusion Models

    Jie An, Zhengyuan Yang, Jianfeng Wang, Linjie Li, Zicheng Liu, Lijuan Wang, Jiebo Luo

    arXiv · 2024

    A Cascaded Diffusion Model (Cas-DM) is introduced that improves a Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM) by effectively incorporating additional metric functions in training, and enables the effective use of the LPIPS loss on various established benchmarks.

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  • Action Recognition with Visual Attention on Skeleton Images

    Zhengyuan Yang, Yuncheng Li, Jianchao Yang, Jiebo Luo

    Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition/Proceedings/International Conference on Pattern Recognition · 2018

    This work redesigns skeleton representations with a depth-first tree traversal order, which enhances the semantic meaning of skeleton images and better preserves the structural information, and proposes a two-branch attention architecture that focuses on spatio-temporal key stages and filters out unreliable joint predictions.

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  • OpenLEAF: Open-Domain Interleaved Image-Text Generation and Evaluation

    Jie An, Zhengyuan Yang, Linjie Li, Jianfeng Wang, Kevin Lin, Zicheng Liu, Lijuan Wang, Jiebo Luo

    arXiv · 2023

    A new interleaved generation framework based on prompting large-language models (LLMs) and pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) models, namely OpenLEAF is proposed, which can generate high-quality image-text content for various domains and applications.

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  • Zero-Shot Audio-Visual Editing via Cross-Modal Delta Denoising

    Yan-Bo Lin, Kevin Lin, Zhengyuan Yang, Linjie Li, Jianfeng Wang, Chung-Ching Lin, Xiaofei Wang, Gedas Bertasius, +1 more

    IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) · 2026

    This paper proposes AVED, a zero-shot cross-modal delta denoising framework that leverages audio-video interactions to achieve synchronized and coherent edits, and demonstrates superior results on both AVED-Bench and the recent OAVE dataset to validate its generalization capabilities.

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  • Study on the polymerization shrinkage and mechanical-physical properties of dental resin composite modified by polyurethane dimechacrylate and glass flake fillers

    Dan Feng, Xi He, Shunjun Dong, Zhengyuan Yang, Lina Zhang, Song Zhu

    Journal of Dentistry · 2024

    This new synthesized composite could perform low polymerization shrinkage and better mechanical resistance, which may provide a new idea for improving the lifespan of direct restoration.

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  • Diagnostic Benchmark and Iterative Inpainting for Layout-Guided Image Generation

    Jaemin Cho, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Zhe Gan, Lijuan Wang, Mohit Bansal

    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) · 2024

    LayoutBench is proposed, a diagnostic benchmark for layout-guided image generation that examines four categories of spatial control skills: number, position, size, and shape, and IterInpaint is proposed, a new baseline that generates foreground and background regions step-by-step via inpainting, demonstrating stronger generalizability than existing models on OOD layouts in LayoutBench.

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  • Toward Generalist Autonomous Research via Hypothesis-Tree Refinement

    Jiajie Jin, Yuyang Hu, Kai Qiu, Dai, Qi, Chong Luo, Guanting Dong, Xiaoxi Li, Tong Zhao, +10 more

    arXiv · 2026

    This work introduces Arbor, a general framework for autonomous research that combines a long-lived coordinator, short-lived executors, and Hypothesis Tree Refinement (HTR), a persistent tree that links hypotheses, artifacts, evidence, and distilled insights across time.

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  • A Practical Application for Quantitative Brain Fatigue Evaluation Based on Machine Learning and Ballistocardiogram

    Yanting Xu, Zhengyuan Yang, Gang Li, Jinghong Tian, Yonghua Jiang

    Healthcare · 2021

    The results suggested that the brain fatigue quantification evaluation method based on the optical fiber sensor cushion and machine learning can carry out real-time brain fatigue detection on the human brain without disturbance, reduce the risk of human accidents in human–machine interaction systems, and improve mental health among the office and driving personnel.

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  • Crossing the Format Boundary of Text and Boxes: Towards Unified Vision-Language Modeling

    Zhengyuan Yang, Zhe Gan, Jianfeng Wang, Xiaowei Hu, Faisal Ahmed, Zicheng Liu, Yumao Lu, Lijuan Wang

    arXiv · 2021

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  • Spatial-Frequency U-Net for Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models

    Xin Yuan, Linjie Li, Jianfeng Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Kevin Lin, Zicheng Liu, Lijuan Wang

    arXiv · 2023

    This paper designs a novel architecture SFUNet to effectively capture the correlation for both spatial and frequency domains in wavelet data and finds the model is able to generate images with higher quality on CIFAR-10, FFHQ, LSUN-Bedroom, and LSun-Church datasets, than the pixel-based counterpart.

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  • What makes Reasoning Models Different? Follow the Reasoning Leader for Efficient Decoding

    Ming Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Xiyao Wang, Dianqi Li, Kevin Lin, Tianyi Zhou, Lijuan Wang

    arXiv · 2025

    FoReaL-Decoding is established as a simple, plug-and-play route to controllable cost-quality trade-offs in reasoning-centric tasks, driven by the Local Misalignment Diminish.

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  • InfoAgent: Advancing Autonomous Information-Seeking Agents

    Gongrui Zhang, Zhu, Jialiang, Ruiqi Yang, Kai Qiu, Miaosen Zhang, Zhi-Rong Wu, Dai, Qi, Bei Liu, +10 more

    arXiv · 2025

    7
  • Introduction to the Special Issue on AI-Generated Content for Multimedia

    Shengxi Li, Xuelong Li, Leonardo Chiariglione, Jiebo Luo, Wenwu Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Danilo P. Mandic, Hamido Fujita

    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology · 2024

    7
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  • Cross-modal Contrastive Distillation for Instructional Activity Anticipation

    Zhengyuan Yang, Jingen Liu, Jing Li Huang, Xiaodong He, Tao Mei, Chenliang Xu, Jiebo Luo

    Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition/Proceedings/International Conference on Pattern Recognition · 2022

    A novel cross-modal contrastive distillation (CCD) scheme is devised, which facilitates knowledge distillation between teacher and student in heterogeneous modalities with the proposed cross- modal distillation loss.

    7
  • IDOL: Unified Dual-Modal Latent Diffusion for Human-Centric Joint Video-Depth Generation

    Yuanhao Zhai, Kevin Lin, Linjie Li, Chung-Ching Lin, Jianfeng Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, David Doermann, Junsong Yuan, +2 more

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2024

    5
  • InfoVisDial: An Informative Visual Dialogue Dataset by Bridging Large Multimodal and Language Models

    Wen, Bingbing, Zhengyuan Yang, Jianfeng Wang, Zhe Gan, Bill Howe, Lijuan Wang

    arXiv · 2023

    A visual dialogue dataset, named InfoVisDial, which provides rich informative answers in each round even with external knowledge related to the visual content, and proposes a strong baseline by adapting the GIT model for the visual dialogue task and fine-tune the model on InfoVisDial.

    5
  • Interfacing Foundation Models' Embeddings

    Xueyan Zou, Linjie Li, Jianfeng Wang, Jianwei Yang, Mingyu Ding, Wei, Junyi, Zhengyuan Yang, Feng Li, +5 more

    arXiv · 2023

    FIND, a generalized interface for aligning foundation models' embeddings with unified image and dataset-level understanding spanning modality and granularity, is presented, a generalized interface for aligning foundation models' embeddings with unified image and dataset-level understanding spanning modality and granularity.

    5
  • Weakly Supervised Body Part Parsing with Pose based Part Priors.

    Zhengyuan Yang, Yuncheng Li, Linjie Yang, Ning Zhang, Jiebo Luo

    arXiv · 2019

    This work proposes the first weakly supervised body part parsing framework and shows that the proposed framework can be extended to other keypoint-supervised part parsing tasks such as face parsing.

    5
  • Conditional Text-to-Image Generation with Reference Guidance

    Taewook Kim, Ze Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Jiang Wang, Lijuan Wang, Zicheng Liu, Qiang Qiu

    IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) · 2026

    This paper develops several small-scale expert plugins that efficiently endow a Stable Diffusion model with the capability to take different references, and develops several small-scale expert plugins that efficiently endow a Stable Diffusion model with the capability to take different references.

    4
  • Experimental investigation of fire behaviours and heat transfer in single cypress tree crown fires

    Hanwen Guo, Yunji Gao, Ziqun Ye, Zhengyuan Yang, Yuchun Zhang, Zijian Lei, Ao Sun

    International Journal of Wildland Fire · 2025

    4
  • SoTA with Less: MCTS-Guided Sample Selection for Data-Efficient Visual Reasoning Self-Improvement

    Xiyao Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Chao Feng, Hongjin Lu, Linjie Li, Chung-Ching Lin, Kevin Lin, Furong Huang, +1 more

    neural information processing systems · 2025

    4
  • OpenLEAF: A Novel Benchmark for Open-Domain Interleaved Image-Text Generation

    Jie An, Zhengyuan Yang, Linjie Li, Jianfeng Wang, Kevin Lin, Zicheng Liu, Lijuan Wang, Jiebo Luo

    ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) · 2024

    This work introduces OpenLEAF, a new benchmark designed for the emerging open-domain interleaved image-text generation task, and proposes a novel evaluation pipeline named "detection-summarization-scoring," which breaks down the evaluation into multiple reasoning steps.

    4
  • Entity6K: A Large Open-Domain Evaluation Dataset for Real-World Entity Recognition

    Jielin Qiu, William Han, W. P. Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Linjie Li, Jianfeng Wang, Christos Faloutsos, Lei Li, +1 more

    arXiv · 2024

    This work introduces Entity6K, a comprehensive dataset for real-world entity recognition, featuring 5,700 entities across 26 categories, each supported by 5 human-verified images with annotations, addressing a gap in existing datasets.

    4
  • Learning 3D Photography Videos via Self-supervised Diffusion on Single Images

    Xiaodong Wang, Chenfei Wu, Shengming Yin, Minheng Ni, Jianfeng Wang, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Fan Yang, +4 more

    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2023

    4
  • Spin modulates the electronic and magnetic properties of germanium-doped silicon with vacancies and charge states by first-principles calculation

    Hongxuan He, Zhengyuan Yang, Biao Wang, Nan Gao, Hongdong Li, Dongchao Qiu

    Physica B Condensed Matter · 2023

    4
  • Personalized pose estimation for body language understanding

    Zhengyuan Yang, Jiebo Luo

    Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing · 2017

    4
  • VideoGUI: A Benchmark for GUI Automation from Instructional Videos

    Kevin Lin, Linjie Li, Difei Gao, Qinchen Wu, Mingyi Yan, Zhengyuan Yang, Lijuan Wang, Mike Zheng Shou

    neural information processing systems · 2024

    3
  • V-MAGE: A Game Evaluation Framework for Assessing Vision-Centric Capabilities in Multimodal Large Language Models

    Xiangxi Zheng, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Ping Gang Yu, Alex Jinpeng Wang, Rui Yan, Yuan Yao, Lijuan Wang

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 · 2026

    2
  • Penetration testing of a quantum key distribution system as a black box

    Anqi Huang, Qingquan Peng, Junxuan Liu, Xialong Yuan, Cheng Peng, Zhengyuan Yang, Hansen Wu, Zihao Chen, +3 more

    National Science Review · 2026

    2
  • GLIMPSE: Do Large Vision-Language Models Truly Think With Videos or Just Glimpse at Them?

    Yiyang Zhou, Linjie Li, Shi Qiu, Zhengyuan Yang, Yuyang Zhao, Siwei Han, Yangfan He, Kangqi Li, +5 more

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2025

    2
  • VAGEN: Reinforcing World Model Reasoning for Multi-Turn VLM Agents

    Kangrui Wang, Pingyue Zhang, Zihan Wang, Yaning Gao, Linjie Li, Qineng Wang, Hanyang Chen, Yiping Lu, +7 more

    neural information processing systems · 2025

    2
  • Point-RFT: Improving Multimodal Reasoning with Visually Grounded Reinforcement Finetuning

    Minheng Ni, Zhengyuan Yang, Linjie Li, Chung-Ching Lin, Kevin Lin, Wangmeng Zuo, Lijuan Wang

    neural information processing systems · 2025

    2
  • Elevating Visual Perception in Multimodal LLMs with Visual Embedding Distillation

    Jitesh Jain, Zhengyuan Yang, Humphrey Shi, Gao, Jianfeng, Jianwei Yang

    arXiv · 2024

    2
  • Motion Consistency Model: Accelerating Video Diffusion with Disentangled Motion-Appearance Distillation

    Yuanhao Zhai, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Linjie Li, Jianfeng Wang, Chung-Ching Lin, David Doermann, Junsong Yuan, +1 more

    neural information processing systems · 2024

    2
  • Video-based multimodal personality analysis

    Ziqing Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Jiawen Zhang, Lianggangxu Chen, Gaoqi He

    International Conference on Graphics and Image Processing (ICGIP) · 2022

    2
  • Weakly Supervised Body Part Segmentation with Pose based Part Priors

    Zhengyuan Yang, Yuncheng Li, Linjie Yang, Ning Zhang, Jiebo Luo

    Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition/Proceedings/International Conference on Pattern Recognition · 2021

    2
  • Exploring a Unified Vision-Centric Contrastive Alternatives on Multi-Modal Web Documents

    Yiqi Lin, Alex Jinpeng Wang, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Mike Zheng Shou

    arXiv · 2025

    Vision-Centric Contrastive Learning (VC2L), a unified framework that models text, images, and their combinations using a single vision transformer, is proposed, and empirical results show that VC2L achieves competitive or superior performance compared to CLIP-style models on both the proposed benchmarks and established datasets.

    1
  • Development of innovative light-curing resin composites featuring dual hydrolysis resistance

    Zhengyuan Yang, Huan Chen, Dan Feng, Zhaoying Liu, Zuosen Shi, Song Zhu

    Journal of Dentistry · 2025

    This novel resin composites demonstrate superior hydrolytic resistance compared to the commercial resin Z250XT, potentially offering a new approach to extending the service life of dental restorations.

    1
  • 1
  • Development of multifunctional dental adhesive with 4-formylphenyl acrylate and nano-silver

    Qi Lin, Lingkang Lin, Huan Chen, Zhengyuan Yang, Xi He, Song Zhu

    Clinical Oral Investigations · 2026

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  • Glance: Accelerating Diffusion Models with 1 Sample

    Zhuobai Dong, Rui Zhao, Songjie Wu, Suyang Hou, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Lijuan Wang, Alex Jinpeng Wang

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2026

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  • Study on a novel dental resin matrix with a fluorinated polyurethane dimethacrylate monomer

    Zhaoying Liu, Zhengyuan Yang, Qi Lin, Zuosen Shi, Song Zhu

    Journal of Dentistry · 2026

    The addition of FPUDMA monomer enhanced hydrolytic resistance, degree of conversion, mechanical properties, and biocompatibility, while reducing polymerization shrinkage and initial bacterial adhesion in vitro suggest a potential for enhanced restoration performance.

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  • Gate-Programmable Ozone Adsorption Gradients for Reconfigurable and Low-Power Palladium Diselenide Electronics

    Fei Xie, Wei Luo, Wanqian Wang, Yao Gong, Chayuan Zeng, Zhengyuan Yang, Chuyun Deng, Sen Zhang, +1 more

    ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces · 2025

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  • ViCrit: A Verifiable Reinforcement Learning Proxy Task for Visual Perception in VLMs

    Xiyao Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Chao Feng, Yu Zhou, Xiaoyu Liu, Yongyuan Liang, Ming Li, Ziyi Zang, +5 more

    neural information processing systems · 2025

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  • Multidimensional Chromatic Modulation in SSVEP-Based BCIs: Effects of Hue, Saturation, and Lightness Contrasts on Neural Responses

    Zhengyuan Yang, Zihao Lu, Xucheng Liu, Yi Yang, Shan Huang, Tzyy‐Ping Jung, Feng Wan

    International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering · 2025

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  • TechImage-Bench: Rubric-Based Evaluation for Technical Image Generation

    Ni, Minheng, Zhengyuan Yang, Yaowen Zhang, Li Linjie, Chung-Ching Lin, Kevin Lin, Zhendong Wang, Xiaofei Wang, +4 more

    arXiv · 2025

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  • Scaling Inference-Time Search with Vision Value Model for Improved Visual Comprehension

    Xiyao Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Linjie Li, Lu Hongjin, Xu Yuancheng, Lin, Chung-Ching, Lin, Kevin, Furong Huang, +1 more

    arXiv · 2024

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  • 基于UML和RUP的中小项目的设计和实现

    Jian Wang, 冯伟森, 李旭伟, Wei Huang, Zhengyuan Yang

    DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · 2009

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  • The Standardized Administration of Software Project

    Zhengyuan Yang

    Journal of Chuxiong Normal University · 2008

    The problems in the development of software project are discussed in this article and the accessible condition, main project administration and the results in different stages are analyzed.

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