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cs.CV2026

How Can Driving World Models Do Counterfactual Prediction?

Jiaru Zhang, Can Cui, Yi Xu +3

Driving world models are often interpreted as counterfactual simulators for observed driving episodes: given a factual driving log, they are asked what would have happened under an…

cs.LG2026

Test Time Training for Supervised Causal Learning

Zizhen Deng, Jiaru Zhang, Rui Ding +5

Supervised Causal Learning (SCL) has shown promise in causal discovery by framing it as a supervised learning problem. However, it suffers from significant out-of-distribution gene…

cs.LG2026

Analytical Correction for Subsampling Bias in Drifting Models

Jiaru Zhang, Zeyun Deng, Juanwu Lu +2

Drifting models are capable one-step generative models trained to follow a drifting field. The field combines attractive and repulsive softmax-weighted centroids over the data and…

cs.LG2026

FedMomentum: Preserving LoRA Training Momentum in Federated Fine-Tuning

Peishen Yan, Yang Hua, Hao Wang +4

Federated fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) with low-rank adaptation (LoRA) offers a communication-efficient and privacy-preserving solution for task-specific adaptation.…

cs.CV2026

Efficient and Explainable End-to-End Autonomous Driving via Masked Vision-Language-Action Diffusion

Jiaru Zhang, Manav Gagvani, Can Cui +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as promising candidates for end-to-end autonomous driving. However, these models typically face challeng…

cs.LG2026

PILD: Physics-Informed Learning via Diffusion

Tianyi Zeng, Tianyi Wang, Jiaru Zhang +7

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative tools for modeling complex data distributions, yet their purely data-driven nature limits applicability in engineering and scie…

stat.ML2025

One-Step Diffusion Samplers via Self-Distillation and Deterministic Flow

Pascal Jutras-Dube, Jiaru Zhang, Ziran Wang +1

Sampling from unnormalized target distributions is a fundamental yet challenging task in machine learning and statistics. Existing sampling algorithms typically require many iterat…

cs.RO2025

A Diffusion-Refined Planner with Reinforcement Learning Priors for Confined-Space Parking

Mingyang Jiang, Yueyuan Li, Jiaru Zhang +2

The growing demand for parking has increased the need for automated parking planning methods that can operate reliably in confined spaces. In restricted and complex environments, h…

cs.CV2025

ViLaD: A Large Vision Language Diffusion Framework for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Can Cui, Yupeng Zhou, Juntong Peng +6

End-to-end autonomous driving systems built on Vision Language Models (VLMs) have shown significant promise, yet their reliance on autoregressive architectures introduces some limi…

cs.LG2025

Accelerating Inference of Discrete Autoregressive Normalizing Flows by Selective Jacobi Decoding

Jiaru Zhang, Juanwu Lu, Xiaoyu Wu +2

Discrete normalizing flows are promising generative models with advantages such as analytical log-likelihood computation and end-to-end training. However, the architectural constra…

cs.LG2025

Learning Identifiable Structures Helps Avoid Bias in DNN-based Supervised Causal Learning

Jiaru Zhang, Rui Ding, Qiang Fu +6

Causal discovery is a structured prediction task that aims to predict causal relations among variables based on their data samples. Supervised Causal Learning (SCL) is an emerging…

cs.LG2025

THOR: A Generic Energy Estimation Approach for On-Device Training

Jiaru Zhang, Zesong Wang, Hao Wang +8

Battery-powered mobile devices (e.g., smartphones, AR/VR glasses, and various IoT devices) are increasingly being used for AI training due to their growing computational power and…

cs.MM2024

M3TR: Temporal Retrieval Enhanced Multi-Modal Micro-video Popularity Prediction

Jiacheng Lu, Weijian Wang, Mingyuan Xiao +5

Accurately predicting the popularity of micro-videos is a critical but challenging task, characterized by volatile, `rollercoaster-like' engagement dynamics. Existing methods often…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

LLM4AD: Large Language Models for Autonomous Driving -- Concept, Review, Benchmark, Experiments, and Future Trends

Can Cui, Yunsheng Ma, Sung-Yeon Park +14

With the broader adoption and highly successful development of Large Language Models (LLMs), there has been growing interest and demand for applying LLMs to autonomous driving tech…

cs.CV2024

Leveraging Model Guidance to Extract Training Data from Personalized Diffusion Models

Xiaoyu Wu, Jiaru Zhang, Zhiwei Steven Wu

Diffusion Models (DMs) have become powerful image generation tools, especially for few-shot fine-tuning where a pretrained DM is fine-tuned on a small image set to capture specific…

cs.LG2024

Scalable Differentiable Causal Discovery in the Presence of Latent Confounders with Skeleton Posterior (Extended Version)

Pingchuan Ma, Rui Ding, Qiang Fu +4

Differentiable causal discovery has made significant advancements in the learning of directed acyclic graphs. However, its application to real-world datasets remains restricted due…

cs.CV2024

Exploring Diffusion Models' Corruption Stage in Few-Shot Fine-tuning and Mitigating with Bayesian Neural Networks

Xiaoyu Wu, Jiaru Zhang, Yang Hua +4

Few-shot fine-tuning of Diffusion Models (DMs) is a key advancement, significantly reducing training costs and enabling personalized AI applications. However, we explore the traini…

cs.CV2024

CGI-DM: Digital Copyright Authentication for Diffusion Models via Contrasting Gradient Inversion

Xiaoyu Wu, Yang Hua, Chumeng Liang +4

Diffusion Models (DMs) have evolved into advanced image generation tools, especially for few-shot generation where a pretrained model is fine-tuned on a small set of images to capt…

cs.CV2023★ 19 cited

Adversarial Example Does Good: Preventing Painting Imitation from Diffusion Models via Adversarial Examples

Chumeng Liang, Xiaoyu Wu, Yang Hua +6

Recently, Diffusion Models (DMs) boost a wave in AI for Art yet raise new copyright concerns, where infringers benefit from using unauthorized paintings to train DMs to generate no…