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most citedMaxMatch: Semi-Supervised Learning with Worst-Case Consistency

34 citations · 130 across the 53 of their papers we have counts for

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57 papers

cs.CV2026

Semantic Mismapping in Generalized Category Discovery: Evaluation and Mitigation

Zitai Wang, Qianqian Xu, Cong Hua +4

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to perform old-category recognition and novel-category discovery in the same unlabeled set. Early methods address both objectives through…

cs.LG2026

Pairwise AUC Optimization Needs Corrective Power: A Unified View

Jia Chen, Zhiyong Yang, Shilong Bao +2

Direct pairwise AUC-surrogate training is attractive because it trains toward the ranking metric used at test time, especially under class imbalance. This creates a direct alignmen…

cs.AI2026

Compare to Correct: Pairwise-Guided Logit Adjustment for LLM Test-Time Scaling

Cong Hua, Qianqian Xu, Zitai Wang +4

Sampling-based test-time scaling enhances LLM reasoning by aggregating multiple reasoning paths for the same query. Existing methods use answer frequencies or path confidence to co…

cs.CR2026

GoodDiffusion: Proactive Copyright Protection for Diffusion Bridge Models via Learnable Sample-specific Signatures

Shixi Qin, Zhiyong Yang, Shilong Bao +3

This paper tackles the challenging problem of developing a proactive copyright protection mechanism that cuts off unauthorized use of diffusion bridge models. Existing studies larg…

cs.CV2026

Understanding-Enhanced Model Collaboration for Long-Tailed Egocentric Mistake Detection

Boyu Han, Qianqian Xu, Shilong Bao +3

In this report, we address the problem of determining whether a user performs an action incorrectly from egocentric video data. To this end, we propose an Understanding-Enhanced Mo…

cs.LG2026

The Bridge-Garden Dilemma in LLM Distillation: Why Mixing Hard and Soft Labels Works

Guanghui Wang, Kaiwen Lv Kacuila, Zhiyong Yang +5

Knowledge distillation (KD) transfers knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student. In language modeling, the student is trained either on tokens sampled from the teac…

cs.LG2026

The Devil is in the Condition Numbers: Why is GLU Better than non-GLU Structure?

Xingyu Lyu, Qianqian Xu, Zhiyong Yang +2

Gated Linear Units (GLU) and their variants are widely adopted in modern open-source large language model architectures and consistently outperform their non-gated counterparts, ye…

cs.CV2026

Mind the Way You Select Negative Texts: Pursuing the Distance Consistency in OOD Detection with VLMs

Zhikang Xu, Qianqian Xu, Zitai Wang +4

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection seeks to identify samples from unknown classes, a critical capability for deploying machine learning models in open-world scenarios. Recent rese…

cs.CV2026

Guiding Diffusion-based Reconstruction with Contrastive Signals for Balanced Visual Representation

Boyu Han, Qianqian Xu, Shilong Bao +4

The limited understanding capacity of the visual encoder in Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has become a key bottleneck for downstream performance. This capacity inc…

cs.CV2026

BlackMirror: Black-Box Backdoor Detection for Text-to-Image Models via Instruction-Response Deviation

Feiran Li, Qianqian Xu, Shilong Bao +4

This paper investigates the challenging task of detecting backdoored text-to-image models under black-box settings and introduces a novel detection framework BlackMirror. Existing…

cs.CV2025

Closing the Approximation Gap of Partial AUC Optimization: A Tale of Two Formulations

Yangbangyan Jiang, Qianqian Xu, Huiyang Shao +4

As a variant of the Area Under the ROC Curve (AUC), the partial AUC (PAUC) focuses on a specific range of false positive rate (FPR) and/or true positive rate (TPR) in the ROC curve…

cs.SI2025

Quantifying the Potential to Escape Filter Bubbles: A Behavior-Aware Measure via Contrastive Simulation

Difu Feng, Qianqian Xu, Zitai Wang +3

Nowadays, recommendation systems have become crucial to online platforms, shaping user exposure by accurate preference modeling. However, such an exposure strategy can also reinfor…

cs.LG2025

TuckA: Hierarchical Compact Tensor Experts for Efficient Fine-Tuning

Qifeng Lei, Zhiyong Yang, Qianqian Xu +3

Efficiently fine-tuning pre-trained models for downstream tasks is a key challenge in the era of foundation models. Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) presents a promising solu…

cs.CV2025

Towards Size-invariant Salient Object Detection: A Generic Evaluation and Optimization Approach

Shilong Bao, Qianqian Xu, Feiran Li +4

This paper investigates a fundamental yet underexplored issue in Salient Object Detection (SOD): the size-invariant property for evaluation protocols, particularly in scenarios whe…

cs.CV2025

Dual-Stage Reweighted MoE for Long-Tailed Egocentric Mistake Detection

Boyu Han, Qianqian Xu, Shilong Bao +3

In this report, we address the problem of determining whether a user performs an action incorrectly from egocentric video data. To handle the challenges posed by subtle and infrequ…

cs.CV2025

LightFair: Towards an Efficient Alternative for Fair T2I Diffusion via Debiasing Pre-trained Text Encoders

Boyu Han, Qianqian Xu, Shilong Bao +3

This paper explores a novel lightweight approach LightFair to achieve fair text-to-image diffusion models (T2I DMs) by addressing the adverse effects of the text encoder. Most exis…

cs.CV2025

Hybrid Generative Fusion for Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Face Recognition Dataset Generation

Feiran Li, Qianqian Xu, Shilong Bao +3

In this paper, we present our approach to the DataCV ICCV Challenge, which centers on building a high-quality face dataset to train a face recognition model. The constructed datase…

cs.LG2025

ABKD: Pursuing a Proper Allocation of the Probability Mass in Knowledge Distillation via --Divergence

Guanghui Wang, Zhiyong Yang, Zitai Wang +3

Knowledge Distillation (KD) transfers knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model by minimizing the divergence between their output distributions, typically usi…

cs.LG2025

Focal-SAM: Focal Sharpness-Aware Minimization for Long-Tailed Classification

Sicong Li, Qianqian Xu, Zhiyong Yang +4

Real-world datasets often follow a long-tailed distribution, making generalization to tail classes difficult. Recent methods resorted to long-tail variants of Sharpness-Aware Minim…

cs.CV2025

One Image is Worth a Thousand Words: A Usability Preservable Text-Image Collaborative Erasing Framework

Feiran Li, Qianqian Xu, Shilong Bao +3

Concept erasing has recently emerged as an effective paradigm to prevent text-to-image diffusion models from generating visually undesirable or even harmful content. However, curre…

cs.CR2025

MixBridge: Heterogeneous Image-to-Image Backdoor Attack through Mixture of Schrödinger Bridges

Shixi Qin, Zhiyong Yang, Shilong Bao +3

This paper focuses on implanting multiple heterogeneous backdoor triggers in bridge-based diffusion models designed for complex and arbitrary input distributions. Existing backdoor…

cs.LG2025

OpenworldAUC: Towards Unified Evaluation and Optimization for Open-world Prompt Tuning

Cong Hua, Qianqian Xu, Zhiyong Yang +3

Prompt tuning adapts Vision-Language Models like CLIP to open-world tasks with minimal training costs. In this direction, one typical paradigm evaluates model performance separatel…

cs.CV2024

EDGE: Unknown-aware Multi-label Learning by Energy Distribution Gap Expansion

Yuchen Sun, Qianqian Xu, Zitai Wang +2

Multi-label Out-Of-Distribution (OOD) detection aims to discriminate the OOD samples from the multi-label In-Distribution (ID) ones. Compared with its multiclass counterpart, it is…

cs.LG2024

SSE-SAM: Balancing Head and Tail Classes Gradually through Stage-Wise SAM

Xingyu Lyu, Qianqian Xu, Zhiyong Yang +2

Real-world datasets often exhibit a long-tailed distribution, where vast majority of classes known as tail classes have only few samples. Traditional methods tend to overfit on the…