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20202026
most citedMultimodal Federated Learning via Contrastive Representation Ensemble

36 citations · 49 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.CV2026

PAWA: Panoramic Action-conditioned World Modeling for Multiple Agents

Siqi Yang, Yimu Wang, Ziqi Cai +6

A multiplayer world model must predict how the independent actions of several players change a shared environment, including changes outside a player's current field of view. A poi…

cs.CL2026

LitTraceQA: A Benchmark for Multi-Stage Grounding and Verification in Scientific Question Answering

Xuye Liu, Yimu Wang, Peng Shi +7

Scientific literature is increasingly used as a knowledge source for language models, retrieval-augmented generation systems, and research assistants, but answering research questi…

cs.CL2026

Where Does the Answer Come From? Benchmarking View-Level Visual Evidence Identification in Multi-View MLLMs for Autonomous Driving

Yimu Wang, Yee Man Choi, Barry Zhang +3

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve strong results on visual reasoning benchmarks, but answer accuracy alone does not indicate whether a model relied on the correct vi…

cs.CV2026

VISTAQA: Benchmarking Joint Visual Question Answering and Pixel-Level Evidence

Mozhgan Nasr Azadani, Yimu Wang, Yongpeng Zhu +5

Establishing a clear link between model predictions and the visual evidence that supports them is critical for transparency and reliability in multimodal reasoning, yet current mul…

cs.CV2025

UNIFORM: Unifying Knowledge from Large-scale and Diverse Pre-trained Models

Yimu Wang, Weiming Zhuang, Chen Chen +3

In the era of deep learning, the increasing number of pre-trained models available online presents a wealth of knowledge. These models, developed with diverse architectures and tra…

cs.CV2025

HAWAII: Hierarchical Visual Knowledge Transfer for Efficient Vision-Language Models

Yimu Wang, Mozhgan Nasr Azadani, Sean Sedwards +1

Improving the visual understanding ability of vision-language models (VLMs) is crucial for enhancing their performance across various tasks. While using multiple pretrained visual…

cs.CV2025

Survey of Video Diffusion Models: Foundations, Implementations, and Applications

Yimu Wang, Xuye Liu, Wei Pang +4

Recent advances in diffusion models have revolutionized video generation, offering superior temporal consistency and visual quality compared to traditional generative adversarial n…

cs.CV2025

LEO-MINI: An Efficient Multimodal Large Language Model using Conditional Token Reduction and Mixture of Multi-Modal Experts

Yimu Wang, Mozhgan Nasr Azadani, Sean Sedwards +1

Redundancy of visual tokens in multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) significantly reduces their computational efficiency. Recent approaches, such as resamplers and summarizers…

cs.CV2025

OV-SCAN: Semantically Consistent Alignment for Novel Object Discovery in Open-Vocabulary 3D Object Detection

Adrian Chow, Evelien Riddell, Yimu Wang +2

Open-vocabulary 3D object detection for autonomous driving aims to detect novel objects beyond the predefined training label sets in point cloud scenes. Existing approaches achieve…

cs.CV2025

Mitigating the Modality Gap: Few-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection with Multi-modal Prototypes and Image Bias Estimation

Yimu Wang, Evelien Riddell, Adrian Chow +2

Existing vision-language model (VLM)-based methods for out-of-distribution (OOD) detection typically rely on similarity scores between input images and in-distribution (ID) text pr…

cs.LG2024

Rethinking Spectral Augmentation for Contrast-based Graph Self-Supervised Learning

Xiangru Jian, Xinjian Zhao, Wei Pang +4

The recent surge in contrast-based graph self-supervised learning has prominently featured an intensified exploration of spectral cues. Spectral augmentation, which involves modify…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

DREAM: Improving Video-Text Retrieval Through Relevance-Based Augmentation Using Large Foundation Models

Yimu Wang, Shuai Yuan, Bo Xue +4

Recent progress in video-text retrieval has been driven largely by advancements in model architectures and training strategies. However, the representation learning capabilities of…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Efficient Algorithms for Generalized Linear Bandits with Heavy-tailed Rewards

Bo Xue, Yimu Wang, Yuanyu Wan +2

This paper investigates the problem of generalized linear bandits with heavy-tailed rewards, whose -th moment is bounded for some . Although there exist methods…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

InvGC: Robust Cross-Modal Retrieval by Inverse Graph Convolution

Xiangru Jian, Yimu Wang

Over recent decades, significant advancements in cross-modal retrieval are mainly driven by breakthroughs in visual and linguistic modeling. However, a recent study shows that mult…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Balance Act: Mitigating Hubness in Cross-Modal Retrieval with Query and Gallery Banks

Yimu Wang, Xiangru Jian, Bo Xue

In this work, we present a post-processing solution to address the hubness problem in cross-modal retrieval, a phenomenon where a small number of gallery data points are frequently…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

NICE: CVPR 2023 Challenge on Zero-shot Image Captioning

Taehoon Kim, Pyunghwan Ahn, Sangyun Kim +39

In this report, we introduce NICE (New frontiers for zero-shot Image Captioning Evaluation) project and share the results and outcomes of 2023 challenge. This project is designed t…

cs.AI2023

Cooperation or Competition: Avoiding Player Domination for Multi-Target Robustness via Adaptive Budgets

Yimu Wang, Dinghuai Zhang, Yihan Wu +2

Despite incredible advances, deep learning has been shown to be susceptible to adversarial attacks. Numerous approaches have been proposed to train robust networks both empirically…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

Video-Text Retrieval by Supervised Sparse Multi-Grained Learning

Yimu Wang, Peng Shi

While recent progress in video-text retrieval has been advanced by the exploration of better representation learning, in this paper, we present a novel multi-grained sparse learnin…

cs.LG2023★ 36 cited

Multimodal Federated Learning via Contrastive Representation Ensemble

Qiying Yu, Yang Liu, Yimu Wang +2

With the increasing amount of multimedia data on modern mobile systems and IoT infrastructures, harnessing these rich multimodal data without breaching user privacy becomes a criti…

eess.SP2022★ 1 cited

Multi-View Fusion Transformer for Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition

Yimu Wang, Kun Yu, Yan Wang +1

As a fundamental problem in ubiquitous computing and machine learning, sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) has drawn extensive attention and made great progress in recent…

cs.LG2020★ 3 cited

Nearly Optimal Regret for Stochastic Linear Bandits with Heavy-Tailed Payoffs

Bo Xue, Guanghui Wang, Yimu Wang +1

In this paper, we study the problem of stochastic linear bandits with finite action sets. Most of existing work assume the payoffs are bounded or sub-Gaussian, which may be violate…