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Publications (63)

cs.CV2023

Token Boosting for Robust Self-Supervised Visual Transformer Pre-training

Tianjiao Li, Lin Geng Foo, Ping Hu +4

Learning with large-scale unlabeled data has become a powerful tool for pre-training Visual Transformers (VTs). However, prior works tend to overlook that, in real-world scenarios,…

q-fin.CP2024

Deep Generative Modeling for Financial Time Series with Application in VaR: A Comparative Review

Lars Ericson, Xuejun Zhu, Xusi Han +4

In the financial services industry, forecasting the risk factor distribution conditional on the history and the current market environment is the key to market risk modeling in gen…

cs.CV2022

Splatting-based Synthesis for Video Frame Interpolation

Simon Niklaus, Ping Hu, Jiawen Chen

Frame interpolation is an essential video processing technique that adjusts the temporal resolution of an image sequence. While deep learning has brought great improvements to the…

math.CO2020

Tilings in graphons

Jan Hladky, Ping Hu, Diana Piguet

We introduce a counterpart to the notion of vertex disjoint tilings by copy of a fixed graph F to the setting of graphons. The case F=K_2 gives the notion of matchings in graphons.…

math.CO2026

On the Turán number of double stars

Ping Hu, Ting Lan

The Turán number of a graph , , is the maximum number of edges in a graph on vertices which does not contain as a subgraph. Let denote a double star…

cs.LG2024

Non-Asymptotic Performance of Social Machine Learning Under Limited Data

Ping Hu, Virginia Bordignon, Mert Kayaalp +1

This paper studies the probability of error associated with the social machine learning framework, which involves an independent training phase followed by a cooperative decision-m…

cs.CV2023

Diffusion-based Image Translation with Label Guidance for Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation

Duo Peng, Ping Hu, Qiuhong Ke +1

Translating images from a source domain to a target domain for learning target models is one of the most common strategies in domain adaptive semantic segmentation (DASS). However,…

math.CO2018

Minimum number of edges that occur in odd cycles

Andrzej Grzesik, Ping Hu, Jan Volec

If a graph has vertices and more than edges, then it contains a copy of . In 1992, Erdős, Faudree and Rousseau showed even more, that the number of edge…

cs.CV2024

2023 Low-Power Computer Vision Challenge (LPCVC) Summary

Leo Chen, Benjamin Boardley, Ping Hu +27

This article describes the 2023 IEEE Low-Power Computer Vision Challenge (LPCVC). Since 2015, LPCVC has been an international competition devoted to tackling the challenge of compu…

cs.CV2026

Graph Smoothing for Enhanced Local Geometry Learning in Point Cloud Analysis

Shangbo Yuan, Jie Xu, Ping Hu +2

Graph-based methods have proven to be effective in capturing relationships among points for 3D point cloud analysis. However, these methods often suffer from suboptimal graph struc…

cs.AI2025

RADAR: A Risk-Aware Dynamic Multi-Agent Framework for LLM Safety Evaluation via Role-Specialized Collaboration

Xiuyuan Chen, Jian Zhao, Yuchen Yuan +8

Existing safety evaluation methods for large language models (LLMs) suffer from inherent limitations, including evaluator bias and detection failures arising from model homogeneity…

cs.CV2022

ZeroWaste Dataset: Towards Deformable Object Segmentation in Cluttered Scenes

Dina Bashkirova, Mohamed Abdelfattah, Ziliang Zhu +7

Less than 35% of recyclable waste is being actually recycled in the US, which leads to increased soil and sea pollution and is one of the major concerns of environmental researcher…

cs.CV2019

Weakly-supervised Compositional FeatureAggregation for Few-shot Recognition

Ping Hu, Ximeng Sun, Kate Saenko +1

Learning from a few examples is a challenging task for machine learning. While recent progress has been made for this problem, most of the existing methods ignore the compositional…

math.CO2013

On the Chromatic Thresholds of Hypergraphs

József Balogh, Jane Butterfield, Ping Hu +2

Let F be a family of r-uniform hypergraphs. The chromatic threshold of F is the infimum of all non-negative reals c such that the subfamily of F comprising hypergraphs H with minim…

math.CO2014

Maximum density of an induced 5-cycle is achieved by an iterated blow-up of a 5-cycle

József Balogh, Ping Hu, Bernard Lidický +1

Let denote the maximum number of induced copies of 5-cycles in graphs on vertices. For large enough, we show that $C(n)=a\cdot b\cdot c \cdot d \cdot e + C(a)+C(b)+C…

cs.CV2026

On Efficient Variants of Segment Anything Model: A Survey

Xiaorui Sun, Jun Liu, Heng Tao Shen +2

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a foundational model for image segmentation tasks, known for its strong generalization across diverse applications. However, its impressive perf…

math.NA2018

Skew-symmetric Nitsche's formulation in isogeometric analysis: Dirichlet and symmetry conditions, patch coupling and frictionless contact

Qingyuan Hu, Franz Chouly, Ping Hu +2

A simple skew-symmetric Nitsche's formulation is introduced into the framework of isogeometric analysis (IGA) to deal with various problems in small strain elasticity: essential bo…

cs.LG2023

Adaptive Multi-Modality Prompt Learning

Zongqian Wu, Yujing Liu, Mengmeng Zhan +3

Although current prompt learning methods have successfully been designed to effectively reuse the large pre-trained models without fine-tuning their large number of parameters, the…

math.CO2020

The inducibility of oriented stars

Ping Hu, Jie Ma, Sergey Norin +1

We consider the problem of maximizing the number of induced copies of an oriented star in digraphs of given size, where the center of the star has out-degree and i…

math.CO2018

Komlós's tiling theorem via graphon covers

Jan Hladký, Ping Hu, Diana Piguet

Komlos [Komlos: Tiling Turan Theorems, Combinatorica, 2000] determined the asymptotically optimal minimum-degree condition for covering a given proportion of vertices of a host gra…

cs.CE2018

Isogeometric analysis of thin Reissner-Mindlin plates and shells: locking phenomena and B-bar method

Qingyuan Hu, Yang Xia, Sundararajan Natarajan +3

We propose a local type of B-bar formulation, addressing locking in degenerated Reissner-Mindlin plate and shell formulations in the context of isogeometric analysis. Parasitic str…

cs.CV2026

DisasterBench: A Multimodal Benchmark for UAV-Based Disaster Response in Complex Environments

Tan Zhang, Quanyou Li, Lu Zhang +3

When a disaster unfolds, responders must answer not only what is happening, but also why it is happening, what will happen next, and what to do now, often from noisy low-altitude U…

cs.HC2023

Deepsea: A Meta-ocean Prototype for Undersea Exploration

Jinyu Li, Ping Hu, Weicheng Cui +2

Metaverse has attracted great attention from industry and academia in recent years. Metaverse for the ocean (Meta-ocean) is the implementation of the Metaverse technologies in virt…

math.CO2014

Rainbow triangles in three-colored graphs

Jozsef Balogh, Ping Hu, Bernard Lidicky +3

Erdos and Sos proposed a problem of determining the maximum number F(n) of rainbow triangles in 3-edge-colored complete graphs on n vertices. They conjectured that F(n) = F(a)+ F(b…

cs.CV2022

DualCoOp: Fast Adaptation to Multi-Label Recognition with Limited Annotations

Ximeng Sun, Ping Hu, Kate Saenko

Solving multi-label recognition (MLR) for images in the low-label regime is a challenging task with many real-world applications. Recent work learns an alignment between textual an…

cs.GR2026

Automatic Method Illustration Generation for AI Scientific Papers via Drawing Middleware Creation, Evolution, and Orchestration

Zhuoling Li, Jiarui Zhang, Ping Hu +4

Method illustrations (MIs) play a crucial role in conveying the core ideas of scientific papers, yet their generation remains a labor-intensive process. Here, we take inspiration f…

cs.LG2024

Noisy Node Classification by Bi-level Optimization based Multi-teacher Distillation

Yujing Liu, Zongqian Wu, Zhengyu Lu +4

Previous graph neural networks (GNNs) usually assume that the graph data is with clean labels for representation learning, but it is not true in real applications. In this paper, w…

cs.CV2024

Boosting Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models via Mixture-of-Experts Adapters

Jiazuo Yu, Yunzhi Zhuge, Lu Zhang +4

Continual learning can empower vision-language models to continuously acquire new knowledge, without the need for access to the entire historical dataset. However, mitigating the p…

cs.HC2025

Submerse: Visualizing Storm Surge Flooding Simulations in Immersive Display Ecologies

Saeed Boorboor, Yoonsang Kim, Ping Hu +3

We present Submerse, an end-to-end framework for visualizing flooding scenarios on large and immersive display ecologies. Specifically, we reconstruct a surface mesh from input flo…

cs.CV2020

Real-time Semantic Segmentation with Fast Attention

Ping Hu, Federico Perazzi, Fabian Caba Heilbron +4

In deep CNN based models for semantic segmentation, high accuracy relies on rich spatial context (large receptive fields) and fine spatial details (high resolution), both of which…

cs.CV2025

FineRS: Fine-grained Reasoning and Segmentation of Small Objects with Reinforcement Learning

Lu Zhang, Jiazuo Yu, Haomiao Xiong +4

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across a wide range of vision-language tasks. However, due to the restricted input resolutions, MLLMs f…

cs.CV2025

Unified Prompt Attack Against Text-to-Image Generation Models

Duo Peng, Qiuhong Ke, Mark He Huang +2

Text-to-Image (T2I) models have advanced significantly, but their growing popularity raises security concerns due to their potential to generate harmful images. To address these is…

math.CO2012

Upper bounds on the size of 4- and 6-cycle-free subgraphs of the hypercube

József Balogh, Ping Hu, Bernard Lidický +1

In this paper we modify slightly Razborov's flag algebra machinery to be suitable for the hypercube. We use this modified method to show that the maximum number of edges of a 4-cyc…

cs.CV2025

Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning via Multi-View Collaborative Optimization with Vision-Language Models

Dexia Chen, Wentao Zhang, Qianjie Zhu +4

Vision-language models (VLMs) pre-trained on natural image and language data, such as CLIP, have exhibited significant potential in few-shot image recognition tasks, leading to dev…

cs.CV2025

Towards Generalized Range-View LiDAR Segmentation in Adverse Weather

Longyu Yang, Lu Zhang, Jun Liu +4

LiDAR segmentation has emerged as an important task to enrich scene perception and understanding. Range-view-based methods have gained popularity due to their high computational ef…

cs.CV2026

Enhancing Few-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection via the Refinement of Foreground and Background

Tianyu Li, Zongqian Wu, Songyue Cai +2

CLIP-based foreground-background (FG-BG) decomposition methods have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in improving few-shot out-of-distribution (OOD) detection performance. How…

cs.CV2025

Background Prompt for Few-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection

Songyue Cai, Zongqian Wu, Yujie Mo +4

Existing foreground-background (FG-BG) decomposition methods for the few-shot out-of-distribution (FS-OOD) detection often suffer from low robustness due to over-reliance on the lo…

cs.CV2025

TSTMotion: Training-free Scene-aware Text-to-motion Generation

Ziyan Guo, Haoxuan Qu, Hossein Rahmani +4

Text-to-motion generation has recently garnered significant research interest, primarily focusing on generating human motion sequences in blank backgrounds. However, human motions…

math.CO2015

Phase transitions in the Ramsey-Turán theory

József Balogh, Ping Hu, Miklós Simonovits

Let be a function and be a graph. Denote by the maximum number of edges of an -free graph on vertices with independence number less than . Er…

cs.IT2016

Broadcast Repair for Wireless Distributed Storage Systems

Ping Hu, Chi Wan Sung, Terence H. Chan

In wireless distributed storage systems, storage nodes are connected by wireless channels, which are broadcast in nature. This paper exploits this unique feature to design an effic…

cs.AI2025

LLM-based Agentic Reasoning Frameworks: A Survey from Methods to Scenarios

Bingxi Zhao, Lin Geng Foo, Ping Hu +3

Recent advances in the intrinsic reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have given rise to LLM-based agent systems that exhibit near-human performance on a variety…

cs.CV2025

Conterfactual Generative Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation

Feihong Shen, Jun Liu, Ping Hu

zero-shot learning is an essential part of computer vision. As a classical downstream task, zero-shot semantic segmentation has been studied because of its applicant value. One of…

cs.CV2023

DualCoOp++: Fast and Effective Adaptation to Multi-Label Recognition with Limited Annotations

Ping Hu, Ximeng Sun, Stan Sclaroff +1

Multi-label image recognition in the low-label regime is a task of great challenge and practical significance. Previous works have focused on learning the alignment between textual…

eess.SP2023

Optimal Aggregation Strategies for Social Learning over Graphs

Ping Hu, Virginia Bordignon, Stefan Vlaski +1

Adaptive social learning is a useful tool for studying distributed decision-making problems over graphs. This paper investigates the effect of combination policies on the performan…

cs.SD2025

AsynFusion: Towards Asynchronous Latent Consistency Models for Decoupled Whole-Body Audio-Driven Avatars

Tianbao Zhang, Jian Zhao, Yuer Li +5

Whole-body audio-driven avatar pose and expression generation is a critical task for creating lifelike digital humans and enhancing the capabilities of interactive virtual agents,…

cs.CV2024

Koala: Key frame-conditioned long video-LLM

Reuben Tan, Ximeng Sun, Ping Hu +5

Long video question answering is a challenging task that involves recognizing short-term activities and reasoning about their fine-grained relationships. State-of-the-art video Lar…

math.CO2014

Minimum number of monotone subsequences of length 4 in permutations

József Balogh, Ping Hu, Bernard Lidický +3

We show that for every sufficiently large , the number of monotone subsequences of length four in a permutation on points is at least $\binom{\lfloor n/3 \rfloor}{4} + \bino…

cs.CV2025

DreamMix: Decoupling Object Attributes for Enhanced Editability in Customized Image Inpainting

Yicheng Yang, Pengxiang Li, Lu Zhang +6

Subject-driven image inpainting has recently gained prominence in image editing with the rapid advancement of diffusion models. Beyond image guidance, recent studies have explored…

cs.CV2022

Learning to Detect Every Thing in an Open World

Kuniaki Saito, Ping Hu, Trevor Darrell +1

Many open-world applications require the detection of novel objects, yet state-of-the-art object detection and instance segmentation networks do not excel at this task. The key iss…

cs.IT2017

Capacity of Wireless Distributed Storage Systems with Broadcast Repair

Ping Hu, Chi Wan Sung, Terence H. Chan

In wireless distributed storage systems, storage nodes are connected by wireless channels, which are broadcast in nature. This paper exploits this unique feature to design an effic…

cs.CV2026

Modality-Aware Feature Matching in Visual and Vision-Language Applications: A Comprehensive Survey

Weide Liu, Wei Zhou, Jun Liu +4

Feature matching is a cornerstone task in computer vision, essential for applications such as image retrieval, stereo matching, 3D reconstruction, and SLAM. This survey comprehensi…

math.CO2025

The List Linear Arboricity of Digraphs

Yueping Shi, Ping Hu

A (directed) linear forest is a (di)graph whose components are (directed) paths. The linear arboricity of a (di)graph is the minimum number of (directed) linear forests…

math.CO2015

Mantel's Theorem for Random Hypergraphs

József Balogh, Jane Butterfield, Ping Hu +1

A classical result in extremal graph theory is Mantel's Theorem, which states that every maximum triangle-free subgraph of is bipartite. A sparse version of Mantel's Theorem…

cs.CV2025

Towards Explicit Geometry-Reflectance Collaboration for Generalized LiDAR Segmentation in Adverse Weather

Longyu Yang, Ping Hu, Shangbo Yuan +4

Existing LiDAR semantic segmentation models often suffer from decreased accuracy when exposed to adverse weather conditions. Recent methods addressing this issue focus on enhancing…

cs.CV2023

Video Frame Interpolation with Many-to-many Splatting and Spatial Selective Refinement

Ping Hu, Simon Niklaus, Lu Zhang +2

In this work, we first propose a fully differentiable Many-to-Many (M2M) splatting framework to interpolate frames efficiently. Given a frame pair, we estimate multiple bidirection…

cs.CV2026

E-VAds: An E-commerce Short Videos Understanding Benchmark for MLLMs

Xianjie Liu, Yiman Hu, Liang Wu +4

E-commerce short videos represent a high-revenue segment of the online video industry characterized by a goal-driven format and dense multi-modal signals. Current models often stru…

cs.GR2022

Geometry-Aware Planar Embedding of Treelike Structures

Ping Hu, Saeed Boorboor, Joseph Marino +1

The growing complexity of spatial and structural information in 3D data makes data inspection and visualization a challenging task. We describe a method to create a planar embeddin…

cs.CV2025

Bootstraping Clustering of Gaussians for View-consistent 3D Scene Understanding

Wenbo Zhang, Lu Zhang, Ping Hu +3

Injecting semantics into 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently garnered significant attention. While current approaches typically distill 3D semantic features from 2D foundatio…

cs.CV2022

Many-to-many Splatting for Efficient Video Frame Interpolation

Ping Hu, Simon Niklaus, Stan Sclaroff +1

Motion-based video frame interpolation commonly relies on optical flow to warp pixels from the inputs to the desired interpolation instant. Yet due to the inherent challenges of mo…

cs.CV2020

Temporally Distributed Networks for Fast Video Semantic Segmentation

Ping Hu, Fabian Caba Heilbron, Oliver Wang +3

We present TDNet, a temporally distributed network designed for fast and accurate video semantic segmentation. We observe that features extracted from a certain high-level layer of…

math.CO2023

Clique-factors in graphs with sublinear -independence number

Jie Han, Ping Hu, Guanghui Wang +1

Given a graph and an integer , we denote by the maximum size of a -free subset of vertices in . A recent question of Nenadov and Pehov…

cs.LG2025

The Final Layer Holds the Key: A Unified and Efficient GNN Calibration Framework

Jincheng Huang, Jie Xu, Xiaoshuang Shi +3

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness on graph-based tasks. However, their predictive confidence is often miscalibrated, typically exhibiting unde…

math.CO2017

Densities of 3-vertex graphs

Roman Glebov, Andrzej Grzesik, Ping Hu +3

Let d_i(G) be the density of the 3-vertex i-edge graph in a graph G, i.e., the probability that three random vertices induce a subgraph with i edges. Let S be the set of all quadru…