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20202026
most citedAutoMTL: A Programming Framework for Automating Efficient Multi-Task Learning

5 citations · 21 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CV2026

Simple Supervision Is Hard to Beat: A Bitter Lesson from Sparse Target Labels in Domain-Adaptive Object Detection

Lijun Zhang, Ruinian Xu, Mudit Agrawal

Source-free domain adaptive object detection adapts a source-trained detector to an unlabeled target domain, typically through teacher-student self-training with pseudo-labels. We…

cs.CV2026

RPiAE: A Representation-Pivoted Autoencoder Enhancing Both Image Generation and Editing

Yue Gong, Hongyu Li, Shanyuan Liu +8

Diffusion models have become the dominant paradigm for image generation and editing, with latent diffusion models shifting denoising to a compact latent space for efficiency and sc…

cs.LG2025

Reimagining Parameter Space Exploration with Diffusion Models

Lijun Zhang, Xiao Liu, Hui Guan

Adapting neural networks to new tasks typically requires task-specific fine-tuning, which is time-consuming and reliant on labeled data. We explore a generative alternative that pr…

cs.LG2025

ASTRA: Communication-Efficient Acceleration for Multi-Device Transformer Inference

Xiao Liu, Lijun Zhang, Deepak Ganesan +1

Multi-device inference can reduce Transformer latency by parallelizing computation. However, existing methods require high inter-device bandwidth, making them impractical for bandw…

cs.CV2024

Aligned Vector Quantization for Edge-Cloud Collabrative Vision-Language Models

Xiao Liu, Lijun Zhang, Deepak Ganesan +1

Vision Language Models (VLMs) are central to Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems and are typically deployed in the cloud due to their high computational demands. However, this…

cs.LG2024

Thinking Forward: Memory-Efficient Federated Finetuning of Language Models

Kunjal Panchal, Nisarg Parikh, Sunav Choudhary +3

Finetuning large language models (LLMs) in federated learning (FL) settings has become increasingly important as it allows resource-constrained devices to finetune a model using pr…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

Attack-Resilient Image Watermarking Using Stable Diffusion

Lijun Zhang, Xiao Liu, Antoni Viros Martin +3

Watermarking images is critical for tracking image provenance and proving ownership. With the advent of generative models, such as stable diffusion, that can create fake but realis…

cs.LG2023

Attacking All Tasks at Once Using Adversarial Examples in Multi-Task Learning

Lijun Zhang, Xiao Liu, Kaleel Mahmood +2

Visual content understanding frequently relies on multi-task models to extract robust representations of a single visual input for multiple downstream tasks. However, in comparison…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Structured Pruning for Multi-Task Deep Neural Networks

Siddhant Garg, Lijun Zhang, Hui Guan

Although multi-task deep neural network (DNN) models have computation and storage benefits over individual single-task DNN models, they can be further optimized via model compressi…

cs.LG2022

Flow: Per-Instance Personalized Federated Learning Through Dynamic Routing

Kunjal Panchal, Sunav Choudhary, Nisarg Parikh +2

Personalization in Federated Learning (FL) aims to modify a collaboratively trained global model according to each client. Current approaches to personalization in FL are at a coar…

cs.LG2022★ 4 cited

Uplifting Message Passing Neural Network with Graph Original Information

Xiao Liu, Lijun Zhang, Hui Guan

Message passing neural networks (MPNNs) learn the representation of graph-structured data based on graph original information, including node features and graph structures, and hav…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

A Tree-Structured Multi-Task Model Recommender

Lijun Zhang, Xiao Liu, Hui Guan

Tree-structured multi-task architectures have been employed to jointly tackle multiple vision tasks in the context of multi-task learning (MTL). The major challenge is to determine…

cs.CV2021

Toward Compact Parameter Representations for Architecture-Agnostic Neural Network Compression

Yuezhou Sun, Wenlong Zhao, Lijun Zhang +3

This paper investigates deep neural network (DNN) compression from the perspective of compactly representing and storing trained parameters. We explore the previously overlooked op…

cs.LG2021★ 5 cited

AutoMTL: A Programming Framework for Automating Efficient Multi-Task Learning

Lijun Zhang, Xiao Liu, Hui Guan

Multi-task learning (MTL) jointly learns a set of tasks by sharing parameters among tasks. It is a promising approach for reducing storage costs while improving task accuracy for m…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Rethinking Hard-Parameter Sharing in Multi-Domain Learning

Lijun Zhang, Qizheng Yang, Xiao Liu +1

Hard parameter sharing in multi-domain learning (MDL) allows domains to share some of the model parameters to reduce storage cost while improving prediction accuracy. One common sh…

cs.CV2020★ 4 cited

SID-NISM: A Self-supervised Low-light Image Enhancement Framework

Lijun Zhang, Xiao Liu, Erik Learned-Miller +1

When capturing images in low-light conditions, the images often suffer from low visibility, which not only degrades the visual aesthetics of images, but also significantly degenera…