Search Results for author: Zhenguo Li

Found 199 papers, 79 papers with code

Efficient Multi-modal Large Language Models via Visual Token Grouping

no code implementations26 Nov 2024 Minbin Huang, Runhui Huang, Han Shi, Yimeng Chen, Chuanyang Zheng, Xiangguo Sun, Xin Jiang, Zhenguo Li, Hong Cheng

The development of Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) enhances Large Language Models (LLMs) with the ability to perceive data formats beyond text, significantly advancing a range of downstream applications, such as visual question answering and image captioning.

Image Captioning Question Answering +2

MagicDriveDiT: High-Resolution Long Video Generation for Autonomous Driving with Adaptive Control

no code implementations21 Nov 2024 Ruiyuan Gao, Kai Chen, Bo Xiao, Lanqing Hong, Zhenguo Li, Qiang Xu

The rapid advancement of diffusion models has greatly improved video synthesis, especially in controllable video generation, which is essential for applications like autonomous driving.

Autonomous Driving Video Generation

Forewarned is Forearmed: Leveraging LLMs for Data Synthesis through Failure-Inducing Exploration

no code implementations22 Oct 2024 Qintong Li, Jiahui Gao, Sheng Wang, Renjie Pi, Xueliang Zhao, Chuan Wu, Xin Jiang, Zhenguo Li, Lingpeng Kong

In this paper, we present a novel approach, ReverseGen, designed to automatically generate effective training samples that expose the weaknesses of LLMs.

Math

Beyond Autoregression: Discrete Diffusion for Complex Reasoning and Planning

1 code implementation18 Oct 2024 Jiacheng Ye, Jiahui Gao, Shansan Gong, Lin Zheng, Xin Jiang, Zhenguo Li, Lingpeng Kong

Our work highlights the potential of diffusion-based approaches in advancing AI capabilities for sophisticated language understanding and problem-solving tasks.

How Numerical Precision Affects Mathematical Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs

no code implementations17 Oct 2024 Guhao Feng, Kai Yang, Yuntian Gu, Xinyue Ai, Shengjie Luo, Jiacheng Sun, Di He, Zhenguo Li, LiWei Wang

Despite the remarkable success of Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) across various domains, understanding and enhancing their mathematical capabilities remains a significant challenge.

Mathematical Reasoning

DAPE V2: Process Attention Score as Feature Map for Length Extrapolation

2 code implementations7 Oct 2024 Chuanyang Zheng, Yihang Gao, Han Shi, Jing Xiong, Jiankai Sun, Jingyao Li, Minbin Huang, Xiaozhe Ren, Michael Ng, Xin Jiang, Zhenguo Li, Yu Li

The attention mechanism is a fundamental component of the Transformer model, contributing to interactions among distinct tokens, in contrast to earlier feed-forward neural networks.

Accelerating Auto-regressive Text-to-Image Generation with Training-free Speculative Jacobi Decoding

1 code implementation2 Oct 2024 Yao Teng, Han Shi, Xian Liu, Xuefei Ning, Guohao Dai, Yu Wang, Zhenguo Li, Xihui Liu

In this paper, we propose a training-free probabilistic parallel decoding algorithm, Speculative Jacobi Decoding (SJD), to accelerate auto-regressive text-to-image generation.

Text-to-Image Generation

CoCA: Regaining Safety-awareness of Multimodal Large Language Models with Constitutional Calibration

no code implementations17 Sep 2024 Jiahui Gao, Renjie Pi, Tianyang Han, Han Wu, Lanqing Hong, Lingpeng Kong, Xin Jiang, Zhenguo Li

The deployment of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has demonstrated remarkable success in engaging in conversations involving visual inputs, thanks to the superior power of large language models (LLMs).

GenArtist: Multimodal LLM as an Agent for Unified Image Generation and Editing

no code implementations8 Jul 2024 Zhenyu Wang, Aoxue Li, Zhenguo Li, Xihui Liu

For a complex problem, the MLLM agent decomposes it into simpler sub-problems and constructs a tree structure to systematically plan the procedure of generation, editing, and self-correction with step-by-step verification.

Image Generation Language Modelling +3

Jailbreaking as a Reward Misspecification Problem

1 code implementation20 Jun 2024 Zhihui Xie, Jiahui Gao, Lei LI, Zhenguo Li, Qi Liu, Lingpeng Kong

In this paper, we propose a novel perspective that attributes this vulnerability to reward misspecification during the alignment process.

QuickLLaMA: Query-aware Inference Acceleration for Large Language Models

1 code implementation11 Jun 2024 Jingyao Li, Han Shi, Xin Jiang, Zhenguo Li, Hong Xu, Jiaya Jia

On widely recognized benchmarks, Q-LLM improved by 7. 17% compared to the current state-of-the-art on LLaMA3, and by 3. 26% on Mistral on the $\infty$-bench.

Your Absorbing Discrete Diffusion Secretly Models the Conditional Distributions of Clean Data

1 code implementation6 Jun 2024 Jingyang Ou, Shen Nie, Kaiwen Xue, Fengqi Zhu, Jiacheng Sun, Zhenguo Li, Chongxuan Li

In this paper, we reveal that the concrete score in absorbing diffusion can be expressed as conditional probabilities of clean data, multiplied by a time-dependent scalar in an analytic form.

Denoising Language Modelling

Towards Understanding the Working Mechanism of Text-to-Image Diffusion Model

no code implementations24 May 2024 Mingyang Yi, Aoxue Li, Yi Xin, Zhenguo Li

We conclude that in the earlier generation stage, the image is mostly decided by the special token [\texttt{EOS}] in the text prompt, and the information in the text prompt is already conveyed in this stage.

Denoising

Enhancing Text-to-Image Editing via Hybrid Mask-Informed Fusion

no code implementations24 May 2024 Aoxue Li, Mingyang Yi, Zhenguo Li

Then following a fusion process that carefully integrates the source intermediate (hidden) states (obtained by inversion) with the ones of the target image.

text-guided-image-editing

Proving Theorems Recursively

1 code implementation23 May 2024 Haiming Wang, Huajian Xin, Zhengying Liu, Wenda Li, Yinya Huang, Jianqiao Lu, Zhicheng Yang, Jing Tang, Jian Yin, Zhenguo Li, Xiaodan Liang

This approach allows the theorem to be tackled incrementally by outlining the overall theorem at the first level and then solving the intermediate conjectures at deeper levels.

Automated Theorem Proving

MagicDrive3D: Controllable 3D Generation for Any-View Rendering in Street Scenes

no code implementations23 May 2024 Ruiyuan Gao, Kai Chen, Zhihao LI, Lanqing Hong, Zhenguo Li, Qiang Xu

While controllable generative models for images and videos have achieved remarkable success, high-quality models for 3D scenes, particularly in unbounded scenarios like autonomous driving, remain underdeveloped due to high data acquisition costs.

3D Generation Autonomous Driving +2

DAPE: Data-Adaptive Positional Encoding for Length Extrapolation

2 code implementations23 May 2024 Chuanyang Zheng, Yihang Gao, Han Shi, Minbin Huang, Jingyao Li, Jing Xiong, Xiaozhe Ren, Michael Ng, Xin Jiang, Zhenguo Li, Yu Li

Positional encoding plays a crucial role in transformers, significantly impacting model performance and length generalization.

DiM: Diffusion Mamba for Efficient High-Resolution Image Synthesis

1 code implementation23 May 2024 Yao Teng, Yue Wu, Han Shi, Xuefei Ning, Guohao Dai, Yu Wang, Zhenguo Li, Xihui Liu

In addition, to further improve training efficiency for high-resolution image generation with DiM, we investigate "weak-to-strong" training strategy that pretrains DiM on low-resolution images ($256\times 256$) and then finetune it on high-resolution images ($512 \times 512$).

Image Generation Mamba +1

ATG: Benchmarking Automated Theorem Generation for Generative Language Models

no code implementations5 May 2024 Xiaohan Lin, Qingxing Cao, Yinya Huang, Zhicheng Yang, Zhengying Liu, Zhenguo Li, Xiaodan Liang

We conduct extensive experiments to investigate whether current LMs can generate theorems in the library and benefit the problem theorems proving.

Automated Theorem Proving Benchmarking

Mixture of insighTful Experts (MoTE): The Synergy of Thought Chains and Expert Mixtures in Self-Alignment

no code implementations1 May 2024 Zhili Liu, Yunhao Gou, Kai Chen, Lanqing Hong, Jiahui Gao, Fei Mi, Yu Zhang, Zhenguo Li, Xin Jiang, Qun Liu, James T. Kwok

As the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have expanded dramatically, aligning these models with human values presents a significant challenge.

DriveCoT: Integrating Chain-of-Thought Reasoning with End-to-End Driving

no code implementations25 Mar 2024 Tianqi Wang, Enze Xie, Ruihang Chu, Zhenguo Li, Ping Luo

We utilize the challenging driving scenarios from the CARLA leaderboard 2. 0, which involve high-speed driving and lane-changing, and propose a rule-based expert policy to control the vehicle and generate ground truth labels for its reasoning process across different driving aspects and the final decisions.

CARLA Leaderboard 2.0

CVT-xRF: Contrastive In-Voxel Transformer for 3D Consistent Radiance Fields from Sparse Inputs

no code implementations CVPR 2024 Yingji Zhong, Lanqing Hong, Zhenguo Li, Dan Xu

While existing works mainly consider ray-level consistency to construct 2D learning regularization based on rendered color, depth, or semantics on image planes, in this paper we propose a novel approach that models 3D spatial field consistency to improve NeRF's performance with sparse inputs.

Novel View Synthesis

Editing Massive Concepts in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

1 code implementation20 Mar 2024 Tianwei Xiong, Enze Xie, Yue Wu, Zhenguo Li, Xihui Liu

We further propose a comprehensive benchmark, named ImageNet Concept Editing Benchmark (ICEB), for evaluating massive concept editing for T2I models with two subtasks, free-form prompts, massive concept categories, and extensive evaluation metrics.

Model Editing

Efficient Transferability Assessment for Selection of Pre-trained Detectors

no code implementations14 Mar 2024 Zhao Wang, Aoxue Li, Zhenguo Li, Qi Dou

Given this zoo, we adopt 7 target datasets from 5 diverse domains as the downstream target tasks for evaluation.

Open-Vocabulary Object Detection with Meta Prompt Representation and Instance Contrastive Optimization

no code implementations14 Mar 2024 Zhao Wang, Aoxue Li, Fengwei Zhou, Zhenguo Li, Qi Dou

Without using knowledge distillation, ensemble model or extra training data during detector training, our proposed MIC outperforms previous SOTA methods trained with these complex techniques on LVIS.

Contrastive Learning Knowledge Distillation +2

Eyes Closed, Safety On: Protecting Multimodal LLMs via Image-to-Text Transformation

no code implementations14 Mar 2024 Yunhao Gou, Kai Chen, Zhili Liu, Lanqing Hong, Hang Xu, Zhenguo Li, Dit-yan Yeung, James T. Kwok, Yu Zhang

To construct robust MLLMs, we propose ECSO (Eyes Closed, Safety On), a novel training-free protecting approach that exploits the inherent safety awareness of MLLMs, and generates safer responses via adaptively transforming unsafe images into texts to activate the intrinsic safety mechanism of pre-aligned LLMs in MLLMs.

Image to text Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

PixArt-Σ: Weak-to-Strong Training of Diffusion Transformer for 4K Text-to-Image Generation

2 code implementations7 Mar 2024 Junsong Chen, Chongjian Ge, Enze Xie, Yue Wu, Lewei Yao, Xiaozhe Ren, Zhongdao Wang, Ping Luo, Huchuan Lu, Zhenguo Li

In this paper, we introduce PixArt-\Sigma, a Diffusion Transformer model~(DiT) capable of directly generating images at 4K resolution.

4k Image Captioning +1

Accelerating Diffusion Sampling with Optimized Time Steps

1 code implementation CVPR 2024 Shuchen Xue, Zhaoqiang Liu, Fei Chen, Shifeng Zhang, Tianyang Hu, Enze Xie, Zhenguo Li

While this is a significant development, most sampling methods still employ uniform time steps, which is not optimal when using a small number of steps.

Image Generation

The Surprising Effectiveness of Skip-Tuning in Diffusion Sampling

no code implementations23 Feb 2024 Jiajun Ma, Shuchen Xue, Tianyang Hu, Wenjia Wang, Zhaoqiang Liu, Zhenguo Li, Zhi-Ming Ma, Kenji Kawaguchi

Surprisingly, the improvement persists when we increase the number of sampling steps and can even surpass the best result from EDM-2 (1. 58) with only 39 NFEs (1. 57).

Decoder Image Generation

On the Expressive Power of a Variant of the Looped Transformer

no code implementations21 Feb 2024 Yihang Gao, Chuanyang Zheng, Enze Xie, Han Shi, Tianyang Hu, Yu Li, Michael K. Ng, Zhenguo Li, Zhaoqiang Liu

Previous works try to explain this from the expressive power and capability perspectives that standard transformers are capable of performing some algorithms.

MUSTARD: Mastering Uniform Synthesis of Theorem and Proof Data

1 code implementation14 Feb 2024 Yinya Huang, Xiaohan Lin, Zhengying Liu, Qingxing Cao, Huajian Xin, Haiming Wang, Zhenguo Li, Linqi Song, Xiaodan Liang

Recent large language models (LLMs) have witnessed significant advancement in various tasks, including mathematical reasoning and theorem proving.

Automated Theorem Proving Language Modelling +3

Diffusion of Thoughts: Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Diffusion Language Models

1 code implementation12 Feb 2024 Jiacheng Ye, Shansan Gong, Liheng Chen, Lin Zheng, Jiahui Gao, Han Shi, Chuan Wu, Xin Jiang, Zhenguo Li, Wei Bi, Lingpeng Kong

Recently, diffusion models have garnered significant interest in the field of text processing due to their many potential advantages compared to conventional autoregressive models.

Language Modelling Math

Divide and Conquer: Language Models can Plan and Self-Correct for Compositional Text-to-Image Generation

no code implementations28 Jan 2024 Zhenyu Wang, Enze Xie, Aoxue Li, Zhongdao Wang, Xihui Liu, Zhenguo Li

Given a complex text prompt containing multiple concepts including objects, attributes, and relationships, the LLM agent initially decomposes it, which entails the extraction of individual objects, their associated attributes, and the prediction of a coherent scene layout.

Attribute Language Modelling +3

CustomVideo: Customizing Text-to-Video Generation with Multiple Subjects

no code implementations18 Jan 2024 Zhao Wang, Aoxue Li, Lingting Zhu, Yong Guo, Qi Dou, Zhenguo Li

Customized text-to-video generation aims to generate high-quality videos guided by text prompts and subject references.

Object Text-to-Video Generation +1

PIXART-δ: Fast and Controllable Image Generation with Latent Consistency Models

1 code implementation10 Jan 2024 Junsong Chen, Yue Wu, Simian Luo, Enze Xie, Sayak Paul, Ping Luo, Hang Zhao, Zhenguo Li

As a state-of-the-art, open-source image generation model, PIXART-{\delta} offers a promising alternative to the Stable Diffusion family of models, contributing significantly to text-to-image synthesis.

Image Generation

Enhancing the Power of OOD Detection via Sample-Aware Model Selection

no code implementations CVPR 2024 Feng Xue, Zi He, Yuan Zhang, Chuanlong Xie, Zhenguo Li, Falong Tan

In this work we present a novel perspective on detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) samples and propose an algorithm for sample-aware model selection to enhance the effectiveness of OOD detection.

Model Selection

SERF: Fine-Grained Interactive 3D Segmentation and Editing with Radiance Fields

no code implementations26 Dec 2023 Kaichen Zhou, Lanqing Hong, Enze Xie, Yongxin Yang, Zhenguo Li, Wei zhang

Although significant progress has been made in the field of 2D-based interactive editing, fine-grained 3D-based interactive editing remains relatively unexplored.

Interactive Segmentation Segmentation

G-LLaVA: Solving Geometric Problem with Multi-Modal Large Language Model

1 code implementation18 Dec 2023 Jiahui Gao, Renjie Pi, Jipeng Zhang, Jiacheng Ye, Wanjun Zhong, YuFei Wang, Lanqing Hong, Jianhua Han, Hang Xu, Zhenguo Li, Lingpeng Kong

We first analyze the limitations of current Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in this area: they struggle to accurately comprehending basic geometric elements and their relationships.

Language Modelling Large Language Model +1

Fast Training of Diffusion Transformer with Extreme Masking for 3D Point Clouds Generation

no code implementations12 Dec 2023 Shentong Mo, Enze Xie, Yue Wu, Junsong Chen, Matthias Nießner, Zhenguo Li

Motivated by the inherent redundancy of 3D compared to 2D, we propose FastDiT-3D, a novel masked diffusion transformer tailored for efficient 3D point cloud generation, which greatly reduces training costs.

3D Generation Denoising +1

Drag-A-Video: Non-rigid Video Editing with Point-based Interaction

no code implementations5 Dec 2023 Yao Teng, Enze Xie, Yue Wu, Haoyu Han, Zhenguo Li, Xihui Liu

In this paper, we propose a new diffusion-based method for interactive point-based video manipulation, called Drag-A-Video.

Denoising Point Tracking +1

Animate124: Animating One Image to 4D Dynamic Scene

no code implementations24 Nov 2023 Yuyang Zhao, Zhiwen Yan, Enze Xie, Lanqing Hong, Zhenguo Li, Gim Hee Lee

We introduce Animate124 (Animate-one-image-to-4D), the first work to animate a single in-the-wild image into 3D video through textual motion descriptions, an underexplored problem with significant applications.

Gaining Wisdom from Setbacks: Aligning Large Language Models via Mistake Analysis

no code implementations16 Oct 2023 Kai Chen, Chunwei Wang, Kuo Yang, Jianhua Han, Lanqing Hong, Fei Mi, Hang Xu, Zhengying Liu, Wenyong Huang, Zhenguo Li, Dit-yan Yeung, Lifeng Shang, Xin Jiang, Qun Liu

The rapid development of large language models (LLMs) has not only provided numerous opportunities but also presented significant challenges.

Instruction Following

Robustness May be More Brittle than We Think under Different Degrees of Distribution Shifts

no code implementations10 Oct 2023 Kaican Li, Yifan Zhang, Lanqing Hong, Zhenguo Li, Nevin L. Zhang

This indicates that while pre-trained representations may help improve downstream in-distribution performance, they could have minimal or even adverse effects on generalization in certain OOD scenarios of the downstream task if not used properly.

Implicit Concept Removal of Diffusion Models

no code implementations9 Oct 2023 Zhili Liu, Kai Chen, Yifan Zhang, Jianhua Han, Lanqing Hong, Hang Xu, Zhenguo Li, Dit-yan Yeung, James Kwok

Subsequently, the model is optimized to identify and disentangle this information, which is then adopted as negative prompts during generation.

BYOM: Building Your Own Multi-Task Model For Free

no code implementations3 Oct 2023 Weisen Jiang, Baijiong Lin, Han Shi, Yu Zhang, Zhenguo Li, James T. Kwok

Recently, various merging methods have been proposed to build a multi-task model from task-specific finetuned models without retraining.

DriveGPT4: Interpretable End-to-end Autonomous Driving via Large Language Model

no code implementations2 Oct 2023 Zhenhua Xu, Yujia Zhang, Enze Xie, Zhen Zhao, Yong Guo, Kwan-Yee. K. Wong, Zhenguo Li, Hengshuang Zhao

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have emerged as a prominent area of interest within the research community, given their proficiency in handling and reasoning with non-textual data, including images and videos.

Autonomous Driving Language Modelling +2

LEGO-Prover: Neural Theorem Proving with Growing Libraries

1 code implementation1 Oct 2023 Haiming Wang, Huajian Xin, Chuanyang Zheng, Lin Li, Zhengying Liu, Qingxing Cao, Yinya Huang, Jing Xiong, Han Shi, Enze Xie, Jian Yin, Zhenguo Li, Heng Liao, Xiaodan Liang

Our ablation study indicates that these newly added skills are indeed helpful for proving theorems, resulting in an improvement from a success rate of 47. 1% to 50. 4%.

 Ranked #1 on Automated Theorem Proving on miniF2F-test (Pass@100 metric)

Automated Theorem Proving

PixArt-$α$: Fast Training of Diffusion Transformer for Photorealistic Text-to-Image Synthesis

3 code implementations30 Sep 2023 Junsong Chen, Jincheng Yu, Chongjian Ge, Lewei Yao, Enze Xie, Yue Wu, Zhongdao Wang, James Kwok, Ping Luo, Huchuan Lu, Zhenguo Li

We hope PIXART-$\alpha$ will provide new insights to the AIGC community and startups to accelerate building their own high-quality yet low-cost generative models from scratch.

Image Generation Language Modelling

Lyra: Orchestrating Dual Correction in Automated Theorem Proving

1 code implementation27 Sep 2023 Chuanyang Zheng, Haiming Wang, Enze Xie, Zhengying Liu, Jiankai Sun, Huajian Xin, Jianhao Shen, Zhenguo Li, Yu Li

In addition, we introduce Conjecture Correction, an error feedback mechanism designed to interact with prover to refine formal proof conjectures with prover error messages.

 Ranked #1 on Automated Theorem Proving on miniF2F-test (Pass@100 metric)

Automated Theorem Proving Hallucination

MetaMath: Bootstrap Your Own Mathematical Questions for Large Language Models

1 code implementation21 Sep 2023 Longhui Yu, Weisen Jiang, Han Shi, Jincheng Yu, Zhengying Liu, Yu Zhang, James T. Kwok, Zhenguo Li, Adrian Weller, Weiyang Liu

Our MetaMath-7B model achieves 66. 4% on GSM8K and 19. 4% on MATH, exceeding the state-of-the-art models of the same size by 11. 5% and 8. 7%.

Ranked #57 on Arithmetic Reasoning on GSM8K (using extra training data)

Arithmetic Reasoning GSM8K +4

SA-Solver: Stochastic Adams Solver for Fast Sampling of Diffusion Models

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2023 Shuchen Xue, Mingyang Yi, Weijian Luo, Shifeng Zhang, Jiacheng Sun, Zhenguo Li, Zhi-Ming Ma

Based on our analysis, we propose SA-Solver, which is an improved efficient stochastic Adams method for solving diffusion SDE to generate data with high quality.

Image Generation

Forward-Backward Reasoning in Large Language Models for Mathematical Verification

no code implementations15 Aug 2023 Weisen Jiang, Han Shi, Longhui Yu, Zhengying Liu, Yu Zhang, Zhenguo Li, James T. Kwok

Instead of using forward or backward reasoning alone, we propose FOBAR to combine FOrward and BAckward Reasoning for verification.

Mathematical Reasoning

A Causal Framework to Unify Common Domain Generalization Approaches

no code implementations13 Jul 2023 Nevin L. Zhang, Kaican Li, Han Gao, Weiyan Xie, Zhi Lin, Zhenguo Li, Luning Wang, Yongxiang Huang

Domain generalization (DG) is about learning models that generalize well to new domains that are related to, but different from, the training domain(s).

Domain Generalization

T2I-CompBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Open-world Compositional Text-to-image Generation

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2023 Kaiyi Huang, Kaiyue Sun, Enze Xie, Zhenguo Li, Xihui Liu

Despite the stunning ability to generate high-quality images by recent text-to-image models, current approaches often struggle to effectively compose objects with different attributes and relationships into a complex and coherent scene.

Attribute Text-to-Image Generation

DiffFlow: A Unified SDE Framework for Score-Based Diffusion Models and Generative Adversarial Networks

no code implementations5 Jul 2023 Jingwei Zhang, Han Shi, Jincheng Yu, Enze Xie, Zhenguo Li

Generative models can be categorized into two types: explicit generative models that define explicit density forms and allow exact likelihood inference, such as score-based diffusion models (SDMs) and normalizing flows; implicit generative models that directly learn a transformation from the prior to the data distribution, such as generative adversarial nets (GANs).

Denoising

Training Energy-Based Models with Diffusion Contrastive Divergences

no code implementations4 Jul 2023 Weijian Luo, Hao Jiang, Tianyang Hu, Jiacheng Sun, Zhenguo Li, Zhihua Zhang

In image generation experiments, the proposed DCD is capable of training an energy-based model for generating the Celab-A $32\times 32$ dataset, which is comparable to existing EBMs.

Image Denoising Image Generation

GeoDiffusion: Text-Prompted Geometric Control for Object Detection Data Generation

no code implementations7 Jun 2023 Kai Chen, Enze Xie, Zhe Chen, Yibo Wang, Lanqing Hong, Zhenguo Li, Dit-yan Yeung

Diffusion models have attracted significant attention due to the remarkable ability to create content and generate data for tasks like image classification.

Image Classification Layout-to-Image Generation +2

Explore and Exploit the Diverse Knowledge in Model Zoo for Domain Generalization

no code implementations5 Jun 2023 Yimeng Chen, Tianyang Hu, Fengwei Zhou, Zhenguo Li, ZhiMing Ma

The proliferation of pretrained models, as a result of advancements in pretraining techniques, has led to the emergence of a vast zoo of publicly available models.

Diversity Domain Generalization +1

Diff-Instruct: A Universal Approach for Transferring Knowledge From Pre-trained Diffusion Models

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2023 Weijian Luo, Tianyang Hu, Shifeng Zhang, Jiacheng Sun, Zhenguo Li, Zhihua Zhang

To demonstrate the effectiveness and universality of Diff-Instruct, we consider two scenarios: distilling pre-trained diffusion models and refining existing GAN models.

On the Generalization of Diffusion Model

no code implementations24 May 2023 Mingyang Yi, Jiacheng Sun, Zhenguo Li

To understand this contradiction, we empirically verify the difference between the sufficiently trained diffusion model and the empirical optima.

ConsistentNeRF: Enhancing Neural Radiance Fields with 3D Consistency for Sparse View Synthesis

1 code implementation18 May 2023 Shoukang Hu, Kaichen Zhou, Kaiyu Li, Longhui Yu, Lanqing Hong, Tianyang Hu, Zhenguo Li, Gim Hee Lee, Ziwei Liu

In this paper, we propose ConsistentNeRF, a method that leverages depth information to regularize both multi-view and single-view 3D consistency among pixels.

3D Reconstruction SSIM

Make-A-Protagonist: Generic Video Editing with An Ensemble of Experts

no code implementations15 May 2023 Yuyang Zhao, Enze Xie, Lanqing Hong, Zhenguo Li, Gim Hee Lee

The text-driven image and video diffusion models have achieved unprecedented success in generating realistic and diverse content.

Denoising Video Editing +1

Boosting Visual-Language Models by Exploiting Hard Samples

1 code implementation9 May 2023 Haonan Wang, Minbin Huang, Runhui Huang, Lanqing Hong, Hang Xu, Tianyang Hu, Xiaodan Liang, Zhenguo Li, Hong Cheng, Kenji Kawaguchi

In this work, we present HELIP, a cost-effective strategy tailored to enhance the performance of existing CLIP models without the need for training a model from scratch or collecting additional data.

Retrieval Zero-Shot Learning

MetaBEV: Solving Sensor Failures for BEV Detection and Map Segmentation

1 code implementation19 Apr 2023 Chongjian Ge, Junsong Chen, Enze Xie, Zhongdao Wang, Lanqing Hong, Huchuan Lu, Zhenguo Li, Ping Luo

These queries are then processed iteratively by a BEV-Evolving decoder, which selectively aggregates deep features from either LiDAR, cameras, or both modalities.

3D Object Detection Autonomous Driving +3

Progressive-Hint Prompting Improves Reasoning in Large Language Models

1 code implementation19 Apr 2023 Chuanyang Zheng, Zhengying Liu, Enze Xie, Zhenguo Li, Yu Li

The performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) in reasoning tasks depends heavily on prompt design, with Chain-of-Thought (CoT) and self-consistency being critical methods that enhance this ability.

Arithmetic Reasoning GSM8K +2

DetCLIPv2: Scalable Open-Vocabulary Object Detection Pre-training via Word-Region Alignment

no code implementations CVPR 2023 Lewei Yao, Jianhua Han, Xiaodan Liang, Dan Xu, Wei zhang, Zhenguo Li, Hang Xu

This paper presents DetCLIPv2, an efficient and scalable training framework that incorporates large-scale image-text pairs to achieve open-vocabulary object detection (OVD).

Language Modelling object-detection +1

DeepAccident: A Motion and Accident Prediction Benchmark for V2X Autonomous Driving

no code implementations3 Apr 2023 Tianqi Wang, Sukmin Kim, Wenxuan Ji, Enze Xie, Chongjian Ge, Junsong Chen, Zhenguo Li, Ping Luo

In addition, we propose a new task, end-to-end motion and accident prediction, which can be used to directly evaluate the accident prediction ability for different autonomous driving algorithms.

3D Object Detection Autonomous Driving +1

Fair-CDA: Continuous and Directional Augmentation for Group Fairness

no code implementations1 Apr 2023 Rui Sun, Fengwei Zhou, Zhenhua Dong, Chuanlong Xie, Lanqing Hong, Jiawei Li, Rui Zhang, Zhen Li, Zhenguo Li

By adjusting the perturbation strength in the direction of the paths, our proposed augmentation is controllable and auditable.

Data Augmentation Disentanglement +1

Mixed Autoencoder for Self-supervised Visual Representation Learning

1 code implementation CVPR 2023 Kai Chen, Zhili Liu, Lanqing Hong, Hang Xu, Zhenguo Li, Dit-yan Yeung

Specifically, our MixedAE outperforms MAE by +0. 3% accuracy, +1. 7 mIoU and +0. 9 AP on ImageNet-1K, ADE20K and COCO respectively with a standard ViT-Base.

Contrastive Learning Data Augmentation +1

ContraNeRF: Generalizable Neural Radiance Fields for Synthetic-to-real Novel View Synthesis via Contrastive Learning

no code implementations CVPR 2023 Hao Yang, Lanqing Hong, Aoxue Li, Tianyang Hu, Zhenguo Li, Gim Hee Lee, LiWei Wang

In this work, we first investigate the effects of synthetic data in synthetic-to-real novel view synthesis and surprisingly observe that models trained with synthetic data tend to produce sharper but less accurate volume densities.

Contrastive Learning Generalizable Novel View Synthesis +2

Entity-Level Text-Guided Image Manipulation

1 code implementation22 Feb 2023 Yikai Wang, Jianan Wang, Guansong Lu, Hang Xu, Zhenguo Li, Wei zhang, Yanwei Fu

In the image manipulation phase, SeMani adopts a generative model to synthesize new images conditioned on the entity-irrelevant regions and target text descriptions.

Denoising Image Manipulation

MetaBEV: Solving Sensor Failures for 3D Detection and Map Segmentation

no code implementations ICCV 2023 Chongjian Ge, Junsong Chen, Enze Xie, Zhongdao Wang, Lanqing Hong, Huchuan Lu, Zhenguo Li, Ping Luo

These queries are then processed iteratively by a BEV-Evolving decoder, which selectively aggregates deep features from either LiDAR, cameras, or both modalities.

3D Object Detection Autonomous Driving +3

Boosting Out-of-Distribution Detection with Multiple Pre-trained Models

1 code implementation24 Dec 2022 Feng Xue, Zi He, Chuanlong Xie, Falong Tan, Zhenguo Li

This advance raises a natural question: Can we leverage the diversity of multiple pre-trained models to improve the performance of post hoc detection methods?

Diversity Out-of-Distribution Detection +1

Dual-Curriculum Teacher for Domain-Inconsistent Object Detection in Autonomous Driving

no code implementations17 Oct 2022 Longhui Yu, Yifan Zhang, Lanqing Hong, Fei Chen, Zhenguo Li

Specifically, DucTeacher consists of two curriculums, i. e., (1) domain evolving curriculum seeks to learn from the data progressively to handle data distribution discrepancy by estimating the similarity between domains, and (2) distribution matching curriculum seeks to estimate the class distribution for each unlabeled domain to handle class distribution shifts.

Autonomous Driving object-detection +2

ZooD: Exploiting Model Zoo for Out-of-Distribution Generalization

no code implementations17 Oct 2022 Qishi Dong, Awais Muhammad, Fengwei Zhou, Chuanlong Xie, Tianyang Hu, Yongxin Yang, Sung-Ho Bae, Zhenguo Li

We evaluate our paradigm on a diverse model zoo consisting of 35 models for various OoD tasks and demonstrate: (i) model ranking is better correlated with fine-tuning ranking than previous methods and up to 9859x faster than brute-force fine-tuning; (ii) OoD generalization after model ensemble with feature selection outperforms the state-of-the-art methods and the accuracy on most challenging task DomainNet is improved from 46. 5\% to 50. 6\%.

feature selection Out-of-Distribution Generalization

DetCLIP: Dictionary-Enriched Visual-Concept Paralleled Pre-training for Open-world Detection

no code implementations20 Sep 2022 Lewei Yao, Jianhua Han, Youpeng Wen, Xiaodan Liang, Dan Xu, Wei zhang, Zhenguo Li, Chunjing Xu, Hang Xu

We further design a concept dictionary~(with descriptions) from various online sources and detection datasets to provide prior knowledge for each concept.

object-detection Open World Object Detection

DevNet: Self-supervised Monocular Depth Learning via Density Volume Construction

1 code implementation14 Sep 2022 Kaichen Zhou, Lanqing Hong, Changhao Chen, Hang Xu, Chaoqiang Ye, Qingyong Hu, Zhenguo Li

Self-supervised depth learning from monocular images normally relies on the 2D pixel-wise photometric relation between temporally adjacent image frames.

Depth Estimation

Learning to Prove Trigonometric Identities

no code implementations14 Jul 2022 Zhou Liu, YuJun Li, Zhengying Liu, Lin Li, Zhenguo Li

We define the normalized form of trigonometric identities, design a set of rules for the proof and put forward a method which can generate theoretically infinite trigonometric identities.

Automated Theorem Proving Imitation Learning

Breaking Correlation Shift via Conditional Invariant Regularizer

no code implementations14 Jul 2022 Mingyang Yi, Ruoyu Wang, Jiachen Sun, Zhenguo Li, Zhi-Ming Ma

The correlation shift is caused by the spurious attributes that correlate to the class label, as the correlation between them may vary in training and test data.

PILC: Practical Image Lossless Compression with an End-to-end GPU Oriented Neural Framework

no code implementations CVPR 2022 Ning Kang, Shanzhao Qiu, Shifeng Zhang, Zhenguo Li, Shutao Xia

Generative model based image lossless compression algorithms have seen a great success in improving compression ratio.

CO^3: Cooperative Unsupervised 3D Representation Learning for Autonomous Driving

1 code implementation8 Jun 2022 Runjian Chen, Yao Mu, Runsen Xu, Wenqi Shao, Chenhan Jiang, Hang Xu, Zhenguo Li, Ping Luo

In this paper, we propose CO^3, namely Cooperative Contrastive Learning and Contextual Shape Prediction, to learn 3D representation for outdoor-scene point clouds in an unsupervised manner.

Autonomous Driving Contrastive Learning +1

Task-Customized Self-Supervised Pre-training with Scalable Dynamic Routing

no code implementations26 May 2022 Zhili Liu, Jianhua Han, Lanqing Hong, Hang Xu, Kai Chen, Chunjing Xu, Zhenguo Li

On the other hand, for existing SSL methods, it is burdensome and infeasible to use different downstream-task-customized datasets in pre-training for different tasks.

Self-Supervised Learning

Self-Guided Noise-Free Data Generation for Efficient Zero-Shot Learning

2 code implementations25 May 2022 Jiahui Gao, Renjie Pi, Yong Lin, Hang Xu, Jiacheng Ye, Zhiyong Wu, Weizhong Zhang, Xiaodan Liang, Zhenguo Li, Lingpeng Kong

In this paradigm, the synthesized data from the PLM acts as the carrier of knowledge, which is used to train a task-specific model with orders of magnitude fewer parameters than the PLM, achieving both higher performance and efficiency than prompt-based zero-shot learning methods on PLMs.

text-classification Text Classification +1

ManiTrans: Entity-Level Text-Guided Image Manipulation via Token-wise Semantic Alignment and Generation

1 code implementation CVPR 2022 Jianan Wang, Guansong Lu, Hang Xu, Zhenguo Li, Chunjing Xu, Yanwei Fu

Existing text-guided image manipulation methods aim to modify the appearance of the image or to edit a few objects in a virtual or simple scenario, which is far from practical application.

Image Manipulation

Generalizing Few-Shot NAS with Gradient Matching

1 code implementation ICLR 2022 Shoukang Hu, Ruochen Wang, Lanqing Hong, Zhenguo Li, Cho-Jui Hsieh, Jiashi Feng

Efficient performance estimation of architectures drawn from large search spaces is essential to Neural Architecture Search.

Neural Architecture Search

CODA: A Real-World Road Corner Case Dataset for Object Detection in Autonomous Driving

no code implementations15 Mar 2022 Kaican Li, Kai Chen, Haoyu Wang, Lanqing Hong, Chaoqiang Ye, Jianhua Han, Yukuai Chen, Wei zhang, Chunjing Xu, Dit-yan Yeung, Xiaodan Liang, Zhenguo Li, Hang Xu

One main reason that impedes the development of truly reliably self-driving systems is the lack of public datasets for evaluating the performance of object detectors on corner cases.

Autonomous Driving Object +2

Memory Replay with Data Compression for Continual Learning

1 code implementation ICLR 2022 Liyuan Wang, Xingxing Zhang, Kuo Yang, Longhui Yu, Chongxuan Li, Lanqing Hong, Shifeng Zhang, Zhenguo Li, Yi Zhong, Jun Zhu

In this work, we propose memory replay with data compression (MRDC) to reduce the storage cost of old training samples and thus increase their amount that can be stored in the memory buffer.

Autonomous Driving class-incremental learning +6

Semi-Supervised Object Detection via Multi-Instance Alignment With Global Class Prototypes

no code implementations CVPR 2022 Aoxue Li, Peng Yuan, Zhenguo Li

Semi-Supervised object detection (SSOD) aims to improve the generalization ability of object detectors with large-scale unlabeled images.

object-detection Object Detection +1

Long-tail Recognition via Compositional Knowledge Transfer

no code implementations CVPR 2022 Sarah Parisot, Pedro M. Esperanca, Steven McDonagh, Tamas J. Madarasz, Yongxin Yang, Zhenguo Li

In this work, we introduce a novel strategy for long-tail recognition that addresses the tail classes' few-shot problem via training-free knowledge transfer.

Transfer Learning

Layer-Parallel Training of Residual Networks with Auxiliary-Variable Networks

no code implementations10 Dec 2021 Qi Sun, Hexin Dong, Zewei Chen, Jiacheng Sun, Zhenguo Li, Bin Dong

Gradient-based methods for the distributed training of residual networks (ResNets) typically require a forward pass of the input data, followed by back-propagating the error gradient to update model parameters, which becomes time-consuming as the network goes deeper.

Data Augmentation

Understanding Square Loss in Training Overparametrized Neural Network Classifiers

no code implementations7 Dec 2021 Tianyang Hu, Jun Wang, Wenjia Wang, Zhenguo Li

Comparing to cross-entropy, square loss has comparable generalization error but noticeable advantages in robustness and model calibration.

MixACM: Mixup-Based Robustness Transfer via Distillation of Activated Channel Maps

no code implementations NeurIPS 2021 Muhammad Awais, Fengwei Zhou, Chuanlong Xie, Jiawei Li, Sung-Ho Bae, Zhenguo Li

First, we theoretically show the transferability of robustness from an adversarially trained teacher model to a student model with the help of mixup augmentation.

Transfer Learning

FILIP: Fine-grained Interactive Language-Image Pre-Training

1 code implementation ICLR 2022 Lewei Yao, Runhui Huang, Lu Hou, Guansong Lu, Minzhe Niu, Hang Xu, Xiaodan Liang, Zhenguo Li, Xin Jiang, Chunjing Xu

In this paper, we introduce a large-scale Fine-grained Interactive Language-Image Pre-training (FILIP) to achieve finer-level alignment through a cross-modal late interaction mechanism, which uses a token-wise maximum similarity between visual and textual tokens to guide the contrastive objective.

Image Classification Image-text Retrieval +2

AIM: Automatic Interaction Machine for Click-Through Rate Prediction

1 code implementation5 Nov 2021 Chenxu Zhu, Bo Chen, Weinan Zhang, Jincai Lai, Ruiming Tang, Xiuqiang He, Zhenguo Li, Yong Yu

To address these three issues mentioned above, we propose Automatic Interaction Machine (AIM) with three core components, namely, Feature Interaction Search (FIS), Interaction Function Search (IFS) and Embedding Dimension Search (EDS), to select significant feature interactions, appropriate interaction functions and necessary embedding dimensions automatically in a unified framework.

Click-Through Rate Prediction

OSOA: One-Shot Online Adaptation of Deep Generative Models for Lossless Compression

no code implementations NeurIPS 2021 Chen Zhang, Shifeng Zhang, Fabio Maria Carlucci, Zhenguo Li

To eliminate the requirement of saving separate models for different target datasets, we propose a novel setting that starts from a pretrained deep generative model and compresses the data batches while adapting the model with a dynamical system for only one epoch.

Density Estimation

iFlow: Numerically Invertible Flows for Efficient Lossless Compression via a Uniform Coder

no code implementations NeurIPS 2021 Shifeng Zhang, Ning Kang, Tom Ryder, Zhenguo Li

In this paper, we discuss lossless compression using normalizing flows which have demonstrated a great capacity for achieving high compression ratios.

Image Compression

Rethinking Adversarial Transferability from a Data Distribution Perspective

no code implementations ICLR 2022 Yao Zhu, Jiacheng Sun, Zhenguo Li

Adversarial transferability enables attackers to generate adversarial examples from the source model to attack the target model, which has raised security concerns about the deployment of DNNs in practice.

Adversarial Attack

Nonlinear ICA Using Volume-Preserving Transformations

no code implementations ICLR 2022 Xiaojiang Yang, Yi Wang, Jiacheng Sun, Xing Zhang, Shifeng Zhang, Zhenguo Li, Junchi Yan

Nonlinear ICA is a fundamental problem in machine learning, aiming to identify the underlying independent components (sources) from data which is assumed to be a nonlinear function (mixing function) of these sources.

How Well Does Self-Supervised Pre-Training Perform with Streaming ImageNet?

no code implementations NeurIPS Workshop ImageNet_PPF 2021 Dapeng Hu, Shipeng Yan, Qizhengqiu Lu, Lanqing Hong, Hailin Hu, Yifan Zhang, Zhenguo Li, Xinchao Wang, Jiashi Feng

Prior works on self-supervised pre-training focus on the joint training scenario, where massive unlabeled data are assumed to be given as input all at once, and only then is a learner trained.

Self-Supervised Learning

Layer-Parallel Training of Residual Networks with Auxiliary Variables

no code implementations NeurIPS Workshop DLDE 2021 Qi Sun, Hexin Dong, Zewei Chen, Weizhen Dian, Jiacheng Sun, Yitong Sun, Zhenguo Li, Bin Dong

Backpropagation algorithm is indispensable for training modern residual networks (ResNets) and usually tends to be time-consuming due to its inherent algorithmic lockings.

Data Augmentation

NAS-OoD: Neural Architecture Search for Out-of-Distribution Generalization

1 code implementation ICCV 2021 Haoyue Bai, Fengwei Zhou, Lanqing Hong, Nanyang Ye, S. -H. Gary Chan, Zhenguo Li

In this work, we propose robust Neural Architecture Search for OoD generalization (NAS-OoD), which optimizes the architecture with respect to its performance on generated OoD data by gradient descent.

Domain Generalization Neural Architecture Search +1

Adversarial Robustness for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

no code implementations ICCV 2021 Muhammad Awais, Fengwei Zhou, Hang Xu, Lanqing Hong, Ping Luo, Sung-Ho Bae, Zhenguo Li

Extensive Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) studies have shown great success in practice by learning transferable representations across a labeled source domain and an unlabeled target domain with deep models.

Adversarial Robustness Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

MultiSiam: Self-supervised Multi-instance Siamese Representation Learning for Autonomous Driving

1 code implementation ICCV 2021 Kai Chen, Lanqing Hong, Hang Xu, Zhenguo Li, Dit-yan Yeung

By pre-training on SODA10M, a large-scale autonomous driving dataset, MultiSiam exceeds the ImageNet pre-trained MoCo-v2, demonstrating the potential of domain-specific pre-training.

Autonomous Driving Image Clustering +2

Towards Understanding the Generative Capability of Adversarially Robust Classifiers

no code implementations ICCV 2021 Yao Zhu, Jiacheng Ma, Jiacheng Sun, Zewei Chen, Rongxin Jiang, Zhenguo Li

We find that adversarial training contributes to obtaining an energy function that is flat and has low energy around the real data, which is the key for generative capability.

Image Generation

G-DetKD: Towards General Distillation Framework for Object Detectors via Contrastive and Semantic-guided Feature Imitation

no code implementations ICCV 2021 Lewei Yao, Renjie Pi, Hang Xu, Wei zhang, Zhenguo Li, Tong Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the knowledge distillation (KD) strategy for object detection and propose an effective framework applicable to both homogeneous and heterogeneous student-teacher pairs.

Knowledge Distillation object-detection +1

AutoBERT-Zero: Evolving BERT Backbone from Scratch

no code implementations15 Jul 2021 Jiahui Gao, Hang Xu, Han Shi, Xiaozhe Ren, Philip L. H. Yu, Xiaodan Liang, Xin Jiang, Zhenguo Li

Transformer-based pre-trained language models like BERT and its variants have recently achieved promising performance in various natural language processing (NLP) tasks.

Inductive Bias Language Modelling +3

One Million Scenes for Autonomous Driving: ONCE Dataset

1 code implementation21 Jun 2021 Jiageng Mao, Minzhe Niu, Chenhan Jiang, Hanxue Liang, Jingheng Chen, Xiaodan Liang, Yamin Li, Chaoqiang Ye, Wei zhang, Zhenguo Li, Jie Yu, Hang Xu, Chunjing Xu

To facilitate future research on exploiting unlabeled data for 3D detection, we additionally provide a benchmark in which we reproduce and evaluate a variety of self-supervised and semi-supervised methods on the ONCE dataset.

3D Object Detection Autonomous Driving +1

SODA10M: A Large-Scale 2D Self/Semi-Supervised Object Detection Dataset for Autonomous Driving

no code implementations21 Jun 2021 Jianhua Han, Xiwen Liang, Hang Xu, Kai Chen, Lanqing Hong, Jiageng Mao, Chaoqiang Ye, Wei zhang, Zhenguo Li, Xiaodan Liang, Chunjing Xu

Experiments show that SODA10M can serve as a promising pre-training dataset for different self-supervised learning methods, which gives superior performance when fine-tuning with different downstream tasks (i. e., detection, semantic/instance segmentation) in autonomous driving domain.

Autonomous Driving Instance Segmentation +5

Adversarial Invariant Learning

1 code implementation CVPR 2021 Nanyang Ye, Jingxuan Tang, Huayu Deng, Xiao-Yun Zhou, Qianxiao Li, Zhenguo Li, Guang-Zhong Yang, Zhanxing Zhu

To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the first to adopt differentiable environment splitting method to enable stable predictions across environments without environment index information, which achieves the state-of-the-art performance on datasets with strong spurious correlation, such as Colored MNIST.

Domain Generalization Out-of-Distribution Generalization

Transformation Invariant Few-Shot Object Detection

no code implementations CVPR 2021 Aoxue Li, Zhenguo Li

To this end, we propose a simple yet effective Transformation Invariant Principle (TIP) that can be flexibly applied to various meta-learning models for boosting the detection performance on novel class objects.

Few-Shot Object Detection Meta-Learning +2

Contextualizing Meta-Learning via Learning to Decompose

1 code implementation15 Jun 2021 Han-Jia Ye, Da-Wei Zhou, Lanqing Hong, Zhenguo Li, Xiu-Shen Wei, De-Chuan Zhan

To this end, we propose Learning to Decompose Network (LeadNet) to contextualize the meta-learned ``support-to-target'' strategy, leveraging the context of instances with one or mixed latent attributes in a support set.

Attribute Few-Shot Image Classification +1

Towards a Theoretical Framework of Out-of-Distribution Generalization

no code implementations NeurIPS 2021 Haotian Ye, Chuanlong Xie, Tianle Cai, Ruichen Li, Zhenguo Li, LiWei Wang

We also introduce a new concept of expansion function, which characterizes to what extent the variance is amplified in the test domains over the training domains, and therefore give a quantitative meaning of invariant features.

Domain Generalization Model Selection +1

Joint-DetNAS: Upgrade Your Detector with NAS, Pruning and Dynamic Distillation

no code implementations CVPR 2021 Lewei Yao, Renjie Pi, Hang Xu, Wei zhang, Zhenguo Li, Tong Zhang

For student morphism, weight inheritance strategy is adopted, allowing the student to flexibly update its architecture while fully utilize the predecessor's weights, which considerably accelerates the search; To facilitate dynamic distillation, an elastic teacher pool is trained via integrated progressive shrinking strategy, from which teacher detectors can be sampled without additional cost in subsequent searches.

Knowledge Distillation Neural Architecture Search +2

TransNAS-Bench-101: Improving Transferability and Generalizability of Cross-Task Neural Architecture Search

2 code implementations CVPR 2021 Yawen Duan, Xin Chen, Hang Xu, Zewei Chen, Xiaodan Liang, Tong Zhang, Zhenguo Li

While existing NAS methods mostly design architectures on a single task, algorithms that look beyond single-task search are surging to pursue a more efficient and universal solution across various tasks.

Neural Architecture Search Transfer Learning

BWCP: Probabilistic Learning-to-Prune Channels for ConvNets via Batch Whitening

no code implementations13 May 2021 Wenqi Shao, Hang Yu, Zhaoyang Zhang, Hang Xu, Zhenguo Li, Ping Luo

To address this problem, we develop a probability-based pruning algorithm, called batch whitening channel pruning (BWCP), which can stochastically discard unimportant channels by modeling the probability of a channel being activated.

How Well Does Self-Supervised Pre-Training Perform with Streaming Data?

no code implementations ICLR 2022 Dapeng Hu, Shipeng Yan, Qizhengqiu Lu, Lanqing Hong, Hailin Hu, Yifan Zhang, Zhenguo Li, Xinchao Wang, Jiashi Feng

Prior works on self-supervised pre-training focus on the joint training scenario, where massive unlabeled data are assumed to be given as input all at once, and only then is a learner trained.

Representation Learning Self-Supervised Learning

SparseBERT: Rethinking the Importance Analysis in Self-attention

1 code implementation25 Feb 2021 Han Shi, Jiahui Gao, Xiaozhe Ren, Hang Xu, Xiaodan Liang, Zhenguo Li, James T. Kwok

A surprising result is that diagonal elements in the attention map are the least important compared with other attention positions.

Loss Function Discovery for Object Detection via Convergence-Simulation Driven Search

1 code implementation ICLR 2021 Peidong Liu, Gengwei Zhang, Bochao Wang, Hang Xu, Xiaodan Liang, Yong Jiang, Zhenguo Li

For object detection, the well-established classification and regression loss functions have been carefully designed by considering diverse learning challenges.

Model Optimization object-detection +1

DetCo: Unsupervised Contrastive Learning for Object Detection

2 code implementations ICCV 2021 Enze Xie, Jian Ding, Wenhai Wang, Xiaohang Zhan, Hang Xu, Peize Sun, Zhenguo Li, Ping Luo

Unlike most recent methods that focused on improving accuracy of image classification, we present a novel contrastive learning approach, named DetCo, which fully explores the contrasts between global image and local image patches to learn discriminative representations for object detection.

Contrastive Learning Image Classification +2