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Navigating Ideation Space: Decomposed Conceptual Representations for Positioning Scientific Ideas
Yuexi Shen, Minqian Liu, Dawei Zhou +1
Scientific discovery is a cumulative process and requires new ideas to be situated within an ever-expanding landscape of existing knowledge. An emerging and critical challenge is h…
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…
BLIP3o-NEXT: Next Frontier of Native Image Generation
Jiuhai Chen, Le Xue, Zhiyang Xu +12
We present BLIP3o-NEXT, a fully open-source foundation model in the BLIP3 series that advances the next frontier of native image generation. BLIP3o-NEXT unifies text-to-image gener…
Pisces: An Auto-regressive Foundation Model for Image Understanding and Generation
Zhiyang Xu, Jiuhai Chen, Zhaojiang Lin +10
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled multimodal foundation models to tackle both image understanding and generation within a unified framework. Despite thes…
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…
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…
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…
BLIP3-o: A Family of Fully Open Unified Multimodal Models-Architecture, Training and Dataset
Jiuhai Chen, Zhiyang Xu, Xichen Pan +10
Unifying image understanding and generation has gained growing attention in recent research on multimodal models. Although design choices for image understanding have been extensiv…
LLM Braces: Straightening Out LLM Predictions with Relevant Sub-Updates
Ying Shen, Lifu Huang
Recent findings reveal that much of the knowledge in a Transformer-based Large Language Model (LLM) is encoded in its feed-forward (FFN) layers, where each FNN layer can be interpr…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Many-to-many Image Generation with Auto-regressive Diffusion Models
Ying Shen, Yizhe Zhang, Shuangfei Zhai +3
Recent advancements in image generation have made significant progress, yet existing models present limitations in perceiving and generating an arbitrary number of interrelated ima…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Teamwork Is Not Always Good: An Empirical Study of Classifier Drift in Class-incremental Information Extraction
Minqian Liu, Lifu Huang
Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to develop a learning system that can continually learn new classes from a data stream without forgetting previously learned classes. When lea…
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…
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…
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…