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cs.CV2025

Diffusion Transformers with Representation Autoencoders

Boyang Zheng, Nanye Ma, Shengbang Tong +1

Latent generative modeling, where a pretrained autoencoder maps pixels into a latent space for the diffusion process, has become the standard strategy for Diffusion Transformers (D…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Seeing from Another Perspective: Evaluating Multi-View Understanding in MLLMs

Chun-Hsiao Yeh, Chenyu Wang, Shengbang Tong +7

Multi-view understanding, the ability to reconcile visual information across diverse viewpoints for effective navigation, manipulation, and 3D scene comprehension, is a fundamental…

cs.CV2025

Scaling Language-Free Visual Representation Learning

David Fan, Shengbang Tong, Jiachen Zhu +8

Visual Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) currently underperforms Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) in multimodal settings such as Visual Question Answering (VQA). This mul…

cs.CV2024

MetaMorph: Multimodal Understanding and Generation via Instruction Tuning

Shengbang Tong, David Fan, Jiachen Zhu +7

In this work, we propose Visual-Predictive Instruction Tuning (VPiT) - a simple and effective extension to visual instruction tuning that enables a pretrained LLM to quickly morph…

cs.CV2024★ 13 cited

Cambrian-1: A Fully Open, Vision-Centric Exploration of Multimodal LLMs

Shengbang Tong, Ellis Brown, Penghao Wu +11

We introduce Cambrian-1, a family of multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) designed with a vision-centric approach. While stronger language models can enhance multimodal capabilities, the design…

cs.CV2024

Ctrl123: Consistent Novel View Synthesis via Closed-Loop Transcription

Hongxiang Zhao, Xili Dai, Jianan Wang +5

Large image diffusion models have demonstrated zero-shot capability in novel view synthesis (NVS). However, existing diffusion-based NVS methods struggle to generate novel views th…

cs.CV2024★ 7 cited

Eyes Wide Shut? Exploring the Visual Shortcomings of Multimodal LLMs

Shengbang Tong, Zhuang Liu, Yuexiang Zhai +3

Is vision good enough for language? Recent advancements in multimodal models primarily stem from the powerful reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). However, the visu…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

Emergence of Segmentation with Minimalistic White-Box Transformers

Yaodong Yu, Tianzhe Chu, Shengbang Tong +4

Transformer-like models for vision tasks have recently proven effective for a wide range of downstream applications such as segmentation and detection. Previous works have shown th…

cs.CV2023

Image Clustering via the Principle of Rate Reduction in the Age of Pretrained Models

Tianzhe Chu, Shengbang Tong, Tianjiao Ding +4

The advent of large pre-trained models has brought about a paradigm shift in both visual representation learning and natural language processing. However, clustering unlabeled imag…

cs.CV2023★ 11 cited

EMP-SSL: Towards Self-Supervised Learning in One Training Epoch

Shengbang Tong, Yubei Chen, Yi Ma +1

Recently, self-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved tremendous success in learning image representation. Despite the empirical success, most self-supervised learning methods are…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Closed-Loop Transcription via Convolutional Sparse Coding

Xili Dai, Ke Chen, Shengbang Tong +9

Autoencoding has achieved great empirical success as a framework for learning generative models for natural images. Autoencoders often use generic deep networks as the encoder or d…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

Unsupervised Learning of Structured Representations via Closed-Loop Transcription

Shengbang Tong, Xili Dai, Yubei Chen +5

This paper proposes an unsupervised method for learning a unified representation that serves both discriminative and generative purposes. While most existing unsupervised learning…

cs.CV2022★ 21 cited

Revisiting Sparse Convolutional Model for Visual Recognition

Xili Dai, Mingyang Li, Pengyuan Zhai +6

Despite strong empirical performance for image classification, deep neural networks are often regarded as ``black boxes'' and they are difficult to interpret. On the other hand, sp…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

Incremental Learning of Structured Memory via Closed-Loop Transcription

Shengbang Tong, Xili Dai, Ziyang Wu +3

This work proposes a minimal computational model for learning structured memories of multiple object classes in an incremental setting. Our approach is based on establishing a clos…

cs.CV2021★ 18 cited

Closed-Loop Data Transcription to an LDR via Minimaxing Rate Reduction

Xili Dai, Shengbang Tong, Mingyang Li +8

This work proposes a new computational framework for learning a structured generative model for real-world datasets. In particular, we propose to learn a closed-loop transcription…