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most citedMultiInstruct: Improving Multi-Modal Zero-Shot Learning via Instruction Tuning

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cs.MA2026

GLANCE: A Global-Local Coordination Multi-Agent Framework for Music-Grounded Non-Linear Video Editing

Zihao Lin, Haibo Wang, Zhiyang Xu +7

Music-grounded mashup video creation is a challenging form of video non-linear editing, where a system must compose a coherent timeline from large collections of source videos whil…

cs.CV2026

Think, Act, Build: An Agentic Framework with Vision Language Models for Zero-Shot 3D Visual Grounding

Haibo Wang, Zihao Lin, Zhiyang Xu +1

3D Visual Grounding (3D-VG) aims to localize objects in 3D scenes via natural language descriptions. While recent advancements leveraging Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have explore…

cs.CV2025

SuperFlow: Training Flow Matching Models with RL on the Fly

Kaijie Chen, Zhiyang Xu, Ying Shen +3

Recent progress in flow-based generative models and reinforcement learning (RL) has improved text-image alignment and visual quality. However, current RL training for flow models s…

cs.CV2025

AR-RAG: Autoregressive Retrieval Augmentation for Image Generation

Jingyuan Qi, Zhiyang Xu, Qifan Wang +1

We introduce Autoregressive Retrieval Augmentation (AR-RAG), a novel paradigm that enhances image generation by autoregressively incorporating knearest neighbor retrievals at the p…

cs.CV2025

LaTtE-Flow: Layerwise Timestep-Expert Flow-based Transformer

Ying Shen, Zhiyang Xu, Jiuhai Chen +6

Recent advances in multimodal foundation models unifying image understanding and generation have opened exciting avenues for tackling a wide range of vision-language tasks within a…

cs.CV2025

R2I-Bench: Benchmarking Reasoning-Driven Text-to-Image Generation

Kaijie Chen, Zihao Lin, Zhiyang Xu +5

Reasoning is a fundamental capability often required in real-world text-to-image (T2I) generation, e.g., generating ``a bitten apple that has been left in the air for more than a w…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

LLM Can be a Dangerous Persuader: Empirical Study of Persuasion Safety in Large Language Models

Minqian Liu, Zhiyang Xu, Xinyi Zhang +8

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled them to approach human-level persuasion capabilities. However, such potential also raises concerns about the safety…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

A Survey on Mechanistic Interpretability for Multi-Modal Foundation Models

Zihao Lin, Samyadeep Basu, Mohammad Beigi +18

The rise of foundation models has transformed machine learning research, prompting efforts to uncover their inner workings and develop more efficient and reliable applications for…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

RoRA-VLM: Robust Retrieval-Augmented Vision Language Models

Jingyuan Qi, Zhiyang Xu, Rulin Shao +5

Current vision-language models (VLMs) still exhibit inferior performance on knowledge-intensive tasks, primarily due to the challenge of accurately encoding all the associations be…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

UniHGKR: Unified Instruction-aware Heterogeneous Knowledge Retrievers

Dehai Min, Zhiyang Xu, Guilin Qi +2

Existing information retrieval (IR) models often assume a homogeneous structure for knowledge sources and user queries, limiting their applicability in real-world settings where re…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

SPARTUN3D: Situated Spatial Understanding of 3D World in Large Language Models

Yue Zhang, Zhiyang Xu, Ying Shen +2

Integrating the 3D world into large language models (3D-based LLMs) has been a promising research direction for 3D scene understanding. However, current 3D-based LLMs fall short in…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Grounded-VideoLLM: Sharpening Fine-grained Temporal Grounding in Video Large Language Models

Haibo Wang, Zhiyang Xu, Yu Cheng +6

Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in coarse-grained video understanding, however, they struggle with fine-grained temporal groundin…

cs.CL2024

Modality-Specialized Synergizers for Interleaved Vision-Language Generalists

Zhiyang Xu, Minqian Liu, Ying Shen +5

Recent advancements in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have led to the emergence of Vision-Language Generalists (VLGs) capable of understanding and generating both text and images. H…

cs.CV2024

Holistic Evaluation for Interleaved Text-and-Image Generation

Minqian Liu, Zhiyang Xu, Zihao Lin +4

Interleaved text-and-image generation has been an intriguing research direction, where the models are required to generate both images and text pieces in an arbitrary order. Despit…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Vision-Flan: Scaling Human-Labeled Tasks in Visual Instruction Tuning

Zhiyang Xu, Chao Feng, Rulin Shao +6

Despite vision-language models' (VLMs) remarkable capabilities as versatile visual assistants, two substantial challenges persist within the existing VLM frameworks: (1) lacking ta…

cs.CV2024

Multimodal Instruction Tuning with Conditional Mixture of LoRA

Ying Shen, Zhiyang Xu, Qifan Wang +3

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in diverse tasks across different domains, with an increasing focus on improving their zero-shot g…

cs.CL2023

X-Eval: Generalizable Multi-aspect Text Evaluation via Augmented Instruction Tuning with Auxiliary Evaluation Aspects

Minqian Liu, Ying Shen, Zhiyang Xu +5

Natural Language Generation (NLG) typically involves evaluating the generated text in various aspects (e.g., consistency and naturalness) to obtain a comprehensive assessment. Howe…

cs.CL2023

MULTISCRIPT: Multimodal Script Learning for Supporting Open Domain Everyday Tasks

Jingyuan Qi, Minqian Liu, Ying Shen +2

Automatically generating scripts (i.e. sequences of key steps described in text) from video demonstrations and reasoning about the subsequent steps are crucial to the modern AI vir…

cs.CL2023

Iteratively Improving Biomedical Entity Linking and Event Extraction via Hard Expectation-Maximization

Xiaochu Li, Minqian Liu, Zhiyang Xu +1

Biomedical entity linking and event extraction are two crucial tasks to support text understanding and retrieval in the biomedical domain. These two tasks intrinsically benefit eac…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

The Art of SOCRATIC QUESTIONING: Recursive Thinking with Large Language Models

Jingyuan Qi, Zhiyang Xu, Ying Shen +4

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting enables large language models to solve complex reasoning problems by generating intermediate steps. However, confined by its inherent single-pass a…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

AMELI: Enhancing Multimodal Entity Linking with Fine-Grained Attributes

Barry Menglong Yao, Sijia Wang, Yu Chen +5

We propose attribute-aware multimodal entity linking, where the input consists of a mention described with a text paragraph and images, and the goal is to predict the corresponding…

cs.CL2022★ 4 cited

MultiInstruct: Improving Multi-Modal Zero-Shot Learning via Instruction Tuning

Zhiyang Xu, Ying Shen, Lifu Huang

Instruction tuning, a new learning paradigm that fine-tunes pre-trained language models on tasks specified through instructions, has shown promising zero-shot performance on variou…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

Improve Event Extraction via Self-Training with Gradient Guidance

Zhiyang Xu, Jay-Yoon Lee, Lifu Huang

Data scarcity has been the main factor that hinders the progress of event extraction. To overcome this issue, we propose a Self-Training with Feedback (STF) framework that leverage…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Identifying and Measuring Token-Level Sentiment Bias in Pre-trained Language Models with Prompts

Apoorv Garg, Deval Srivastava, Zhiyang Xu +1

Due to the superior performance, large-scale pre-trained language models (PLMs) have been widely adopted in many aspects of human society. However, we still lack effective tools to…