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most citedIMPUS: Image Morphing with Perceptually-Uniform Sampling Using Diffusion Models

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12 papers

cs.CV2026

All Roads Lead to Rome: Incentivizing Divergent Thinking in Vision-Language Models

Xinyu Tian, Shu Zou, Zhaoyuan Yang +3

Recent studies have demonstrated that Reinforcement Learning (RL), notably Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), can intrinsically elicit and enhance the reasoning capabilitie…

cs.CV2025

High-Entropy Tokens as Multimodal Failure Points in Vision-Language Models

Mengqi He, Xinyu Tian, Xin Shen +4

Vision-language models (VLMs) achieve remarkable performance but remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Entropy, as a measure of model uncertainty, is highly correlated with VLM…

cs.CV2025

Unlocking Vision-Language Models for Video Anomaly Detection via Fine-Grained Prompting

Shu Zou, Xinyu Tian, Lukas Wesemann +3

Prompting has emerged as a practical way to adapt frozen vision-language models (VLMs) for video anomaly detection (VAD). Yet, existing prompts are often overly abstract, overlooki…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

More Thought, Less Accuracy? On the Dual Nature of Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

Xinyu Tian, Shu Zou, Zhaoyuan Yang +5

Reasoning has emerged as a pivotal capability in Large Language Models (LLMs). Through Reinforcement Learning (RL), typically Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), these model…

cs.CV2025

Probability Density Geodesics in Image Diffusion Latent Space

Qingtao Yu, Jaskirat Singh, Zhaoyuan Yang +5

Diffusion models indirectly estimate the probability density over a data space, which can be used to study its structure. In this work, we show that geodesics can be computed in di…

cs.CV2025

Identifying and Mitigating Position Bias of Multi-image Vision-Language Models

Xinyu Tian, Shu Zou, Zhaoyuan Yang +1

The evolution of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) has progressed from single to multi-image reasoning. Despite this advancement, our findings indicate that LVLMs struggle to ro…

cs.LG2025

Black Sheep in the Herd: Playing with Spuriously Correlated Attributes for Vision-Language Recognition

Xinyu Tian, Shu Zou, Zhaoyuan Yang +2

Few-shot adaptation for Vision-Language Models (VLMs) presents a dilemma: balancing in-distribution accuracy with out-of-distribution generalization. Recent research has utilized l…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

SimLabel: Consistency-Guided OOD Detection with Pretrained Vision-Language Models

Shu Zou, Xinyu Tian, Qinyu Zhao +2

Detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) data is crucial in real-world machine learning applications, particularly in safety-critical domains. Existing methods often leverage language i…

cs.CV2024

DreamSteerer: Enhancing Source Image Conditioned Editability using Personalized Diffusion Models

Zhengyang Yu, Zhaoyuan Yang, Jing Zhang

Recent text-to-image personalization methods have shown great promise in teaching a diffusion model user-specified concepts given a few images for reusing the acquired concepts in…

cs.CV2023

ArGue: Attribute-Guided Prompt Tuning for Vision-Language Models

Xinyu Tian, Shu Zou, Zhaoyuan Yang +1

Although soft prompt tuning is effective in efficiently adapting Vision-Language (V&L) models for downstream tasks, it shows limitations in dealing with distribution shifts. We add…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

IMPUS: Image Morphing with Perceptually-Uniform Sampling Using Diffusion Models

Zhaoyuan Yang, Zhengyang Yu, Zhiwei Xu +5

We present a diffusion-based image morphing approach with perceptually-uniform sampling (IMPUS) that produces smooth, direct and realistic interpolations given an image pair. The e…

cs.CV2023

Grounded Language Acquisition From Object and Action Imagery

James Robert Kubricht, Zhaoyuan Yang, Jianwei Qiu +1

Deep learning approaches to natural language processing have made great strides in recent years. While these models produce symbols that convey vast amounts of diverse knowledge, i…