13 papers
Dynamic Distribution-Aware Uncertainty Tracking in Vision-Language Representation Learning
Ao Zhou, Zhiwei Jiang, Zifeng Cheng +4
Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) aims to measure the reliability of model predictions, serving as a critical safeguard for deploying Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in safety-critical…
ScaleErasure: Inference-Time Minimal Intervention for Precise Concept Erasure in Next-Scale Autoregressive Image Generation
Cong Wang, Haiyu Wu, Zhiwei Jiang +4
Concept erasure aims to prevent image generative models from producing unsafe content while preserving their general generative capability. Meanwhile, next-scale autoregressive (AR…
RegionMarker: A Region-Triggered Semantic Watermarking Framework for Embedding-as-a-Service Copyright Protection
Shufan Yang, Zifeng Cheng, Zhiwei Jiang +5
Embedding-as-a-Service (EaaS) is an effective and convenient deployment solution for addressing various NLP tasks. Nevertheless, recent research has shown that EaaS is vulnerable t…
Advanced Sign Language Video Generation with Compressed and Quantized Multi-Condition Tokenization
Cong Wang, Zexuan Deng, Zhiwei Jiang +6
Sign Language Video Generation (SLVG) seeks to generate identity-preserving sign language videos from spoken language texts. Existing methods primarily rely on the single coarse co…
Steering When Necessary: Flexible Steering Large Language Models with Backtracking
Zifeng Cheng, Jinwei Gan, Zhiwei Jiang +5
Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across many generation tasks. Nevertheless, effectively aligning them with desired behaviors remains a significant…
Hierarchical Vision-Language Reasoning for Multimodal Multiple-Choice Question Answering
Ao Zhou, Zebo Gu, Tenghao Sun +6
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable multimodal understanding capabilities in Visual Question Answering (VQA) tasks by integrating visual and textu…