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most citedComposed Multi-modal Retrieval: A Survey of Approaches and Applications

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cs.LG2026

Uncertainty-Aware Exploratory Direct Preference Optimization for Multimodal Large Language Models

Huatian Zhang, Zhendong Mao, Lei Zhang +1

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has proven to be an effective solution for mitigating hallucination in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) by learning from preference pai…

cs.CV2026

CreatiParser: Generative Image Parsing of Raster Graphic Designs into Editable Layers

Weidong Chen, Dexiang Hong, Zhendong Mao +4

Graphic design images consist of multiple editable layers, such as text, background, and decorative elements, while most generative models produce rasterized outputs without explic…

cs.CV2026

FACE-net: Factual Calibration and Emotion Augmentation for Retrieval-enhanced Emotional Video Captioning

Weidong Chen, Cheng Ye, Zhendong Mao +5

Emotional Video Captioning (EVC) is an emerging task, which aims to describe factual content with the intrinsic emotions expressed in videos. Existing works perceive global emotion…

cs.CV2025

SVLTA: Benchmarking Vision-Language Temporal Alignment via Synthetic Video Situation

Hao Du, Bo Wu, Yan Lu +1

Vision-language temporal alignment is a crucial capability for human dynamic recognition and cognition in real-world scenarios. While existing research focuses on capturing vision-…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

Composed Multi-modal Retrieval: A Survey of Approaches and Applications

Kun Zhang, Jingyu Li, Zhe Li +10

The burgeoning volume of multi-modal data necessitates advanced retrieval paradigms beyond unimodal and cross-modal approaches. Composed Multi-modal Retrieval (CMR) emerges as a pi…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

On-the-fly Preference Alignment via Principle-Guided Decoding

Mingye Zhu, Yi Liu, Lei Zhang +2

With the rapidly expanding landscape of large language models, aligning model generations with human values and preferences is becoming increasingly important. Popular alignment me…

cs.CV2024

CustomContrast: A Multilevel Contrastive Perspective For Subject-Driven Text-to-Image Customization

Nan Chen, Mengqi Huang, Zhuowei Chen +3

Subject-driven text-to-image (T2I) customization has drawn significant interest in academia and industry. This task enables pre-trained models to generate novel images based on uni…

cs.CV2024

RealCustom++: Representing Images as Real Textual Word for Real-Time Customization

Zhendong Mao, Mengqi Huang, Fei Ding +3

Given a text and an image of a specific subject, text-to-image customization aims to generate new images that align with both the text and the subject's appearance. Existing works…

cs.CL2024

LIRE: listwise reward enhancement for preference alignment

Mingye Zhu, Yi Liu, Lei Zhang +2

Recently, tremendous strides have been made to align the generation of Large Language Models (LLMs) with human values to mitigate toxic or unhelpful content. Leveraging Reinforceme…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

RealCustom: Narrowing Real Text Word for Real-Time Open-Domain Text-to-Image Customization

Mengqi Huang, Zhendong Mao, Mingcong Liu +2

Text-to-image customization, which aims to synthesize text-driven images for the given subjects, has recently revolutionized content creation. Existing works follow the pseudo-word…

cs.CV2024

Gradual Residuals Alignment: A Dual-Stream Framework for GAN Inversion and Image Attribute Editing

Hao Li, Mengqi Huang, Lei Zhang +3

GAN-based image attribute editing firstly leverages GAN Inversion to project real images into the latent space of GAN and then manipulates corresponding latent codes. Recent invers…