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20202026
most citedDARTS-: Robustly Stepping out of Performance Collapse Without Indicators

30 citations · 44 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CV2026

EvoTok: A Unified Image Tokenizer via Residual Latent Evolution for Visual Understanding and Generation

Yan Li, Ning Liao, Xiangyu Zhao +5

The development of unified multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is fundamentally challenged by the granularity gap between visual understanding and generation: understanding re…

cs.CV2026

CrossEarth-SAR: A SAR-Centric and Billion-Scale Geospatial Foundation Model for Domain Generalizable Semantic Segmentation

Ziqi Ye, Ziyang Gong, Ning Liao +10

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) enables global, all-weather earth observation. However, owing to diverse imaging mechanisms, domain shifts across sensors and regions severely hinder…

cs.CV2026

FineRMoE: Dimension Expansion for Finer-Grained Expert with Its Upcycling Approach

Ning Liao, Xiaoxing Wang, Xiaohan Qin +1

As revealed by the scaling law of fine-grained MoE, model performance ceases to be improved once the granularity of the intermediate dimension exceeds the optimal threshold, limiti…

cs.CV2025

Repulsor: Accelerating Generative Modeling with a Contrastive Memory Bank

Shaofeng Zhang, Xuanqi Chen, Ning Liao +7

The dominance of denoising generative models (e.g., diffusion, flow-matching) in visual synthesis is tempered by their substantial training costs and inefficiencies in representati…

cs.CV2025

Co-Training Vision Language Models for Remote Sensing Multi-task Learning

Qingyun Li, Shuran Ma, Junwei Luo +8

With Transformers achieving outstanding performance on individual remote sensing (RS) tasks, we are now approaching the realization of a unified model that excels across multiple t…

cs.LG2025

NTKMTL: Mitigating Task Imbalance in Multi-Task Learning from Neural Tangent Kernel Perspective

Xiaohan Qin, Xiaoxing Wang, Ning Liao +1

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) enables a single model to learn multiple tasks simultaneously, leveraging knowledge transfer among tasks for enhanced generalization, and has been widely…

cs.AI2025

ssToken: Self-modulated and Semantic-aware Token Selection for LLM Fine-tuning

Xiaohan Qin, Xiaoxing Wang, Ning Liao +5

Data quality plays a critical role in enhancing supervised fine-tuning (SFT) for large language models (LLMs), and token-level data selection has emerged as a promising direction f…

cs.LG2025

Innovator: Scientific Continued Pretraining with Fine-grained MoE Upcycling

Ning Liao, Xiaoxing Wang, Zehao Lin +18

A large language model (LLM) with knowledge in both scientific and general tasks is the foundation of science general intelligence. However, directly continued pretraining an LLM u…

cs.LG2025

Modeling All Response Surfaces in One for Conditional Search Spaces

Jiaxing Li, Wei Liu, Chao Xue +4

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a sample-efficient black-box optimizer commonly used in search spaces where hyperparameters are independent. However, in many practical AutoML scenari…

cs.CV2024

Boosting Order-Preserving and Transferability for Neural Architecture Search: a Joint Architecture Refined Search and Fine-tuning Approach

Beichen Zhang, Xiaoxing Wang, Xiaohan Qin +1

Supernet is a core component in many recent Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods. It not only helps embody the search space but also provides a (relative) estimation of the fin…

cs.LG2024

Poisson Process for Bayesian Optimization

Xiaoxing Wang, Jiaxing Li, Chao Xue +5

BayesianOptimization(BO) is a sample-efficient black-box optimizer, and extensive methods have been proposed to build the absolute function response of the black-box function throu…

cs.CV2022★ 4 cited

EAutoDet: Efficient Architecture Search for Object Detection

Xiaoxing Wang, Jiale Lin, Junchi Yan +2

Training CNN for detection is time-consuming due to the large dataset and complex network modules, making it hard to search architectures on detection datasets directly, which usua…

cs.CV2021★ 5 cited

ZARTS: On Zero-order Optimization for Neural Architecture Search

Xiaoxing Wang, Wenxuan Guo, Junchi Yan +2

Differentiable architecture search (DARTS) has been a popular one-shot paradigm for NAS due to its high efficiency. It introduces trainable architecture parameters to represent the…

cs.LG2021★ 4 cited

DAAS: Differentiable Architecture and Augmentation Policy Search

Xiaoxing Wang, Xiangxiang Chu, Junchi Yan +1

Neural architecture search (NAS) has been an active direction of automatic machine learning (Auto-ML), aiming to explore efficient network structures. The searched architecture is…

cs.LG2020★ 1 cited

ROME: Robustifying Memory-Efficient NAS via Topology Disentanglement and Gradient Accumulation

Xiaoxing Wang, Xiangxiang Chu, Yuda Fan +4

Albeit being a prevalent architecture searching approach, differentiable architecture search (DARTS) is largely hindered by its substantial memory cost since the entire supernet re…

cs.LG2020★ 30 cited

DARTS-: Robustly Stepping out of Performance Collapse Without Indicators

Xiangxiang Chu, Xiaoxing Wang, Bo Zhang +3

Despite the fast development of differentiable architecture search (DARTS), it suffers from long-standing performance instability, which extremely limits its application. Existing…