23 papers
Reasoning Quality Matters: Combating Reasoning Collapse in LLM-based Embedding Learning
Zihan Gong, Xiaohan Ye, Jiangchao Yao +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown strong potential for producing context-rich text embeddings for retrieval. Most existing methods either treat embedding learning as…
Structural Process Supervision for Latent Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Yiqi Li, Xu Chen, Chen Ju +6
Latent reasoning approaches enhance token-level efficiency and robustness by replacing verbose, explicit chain-of-thought (CoT) tokens with compact continuous-space embeddings. How…
Ripple-Pivot Search: Active Parallel Decoding for Diffusion Large Language Models
Yushi Ye, Xu Chen, Haoyun Jiang +9
Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) have emerged as a competitive alternative to autoregressive language models, offering the potential for substantially faster inference throu…
Pailitao-MMSearch: Building Native E-Commerce Multimodal Search Foundation
Xiaohan Ye, Xu Chen, Zihan Gong +15
The evolution of e-commerce has fundamentally transformed how users search for products, shifting from simple text-based keyword queries to complex multimodal interactions that sea…
Improving Human Image Animation via Semantic Representation Alignment
Chang Liu, Mengting Chen, Yixuan Huang +5
The field of image-to-video generation has made remarkable progress. However, challenges such as human limb twisting and facial distortion persist, especially when generating long…
What Matters for Diffusion-Friendly Latent Manifold? Prior-Aligned Autoencoders for Latent Diffusion
Zhengrong Yue, Taihang Hu, Mengting Chen +8
Tokenizers are a crucial component of latent diffusion models, as they define the latent space in which diffusion models operate. However, existing tokenizers are primarily designe…
Continuous-Time Distribution Matching for Few-Step Diffusion Distillation
Tao Liu, Hao Yan, Mengting Chen +8
Step distillation has become a leading technique for accelerating diffusion models, among which Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) and Consistency Distillation are two repres…
Pailitao-VL: Unified Embedding and Reranker for Real-Time Multi-Modal Industrial Search
Lei Chen, Chen Ju, Xu Chen +13
In this work, we presented Pailitao-VL, a comprehensive multi-modal retrieval system engineered for high-precision, real-time industrial search. We here address three critical chal…
Enhancing Sequential Recommendation with World Knowledge from Large Language Models
Tianjie Dai, Xu Chen, Yunmeng Shu +4
Sequential Recommendation System~(SRS) has become pivotal in modern society, which predicts subsequent actions based on the user's historical behavior. However, traditional collabo…
Explore More, Learn Better: Parallel MLLM Embeddings under Mutual Information Minimization
Zhicheng Wang, Chen Ju, Xu Chen +5
Embedding models are a cornerstone of modern AI. Driven by Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), they have made great progress in architecture and data curation, while the holi…
Wave-Particle (Continuous-Discrete) Dualistic Visual Tokenization for Unified Understanding and Generation
Yizhu Chen, Chen Ju, Zhicheng Wang +5
The unification of understanding and generation within a single multi-modal large model (MLLM) remains one significant challenge, largely due to the dichotomy between continuous an…
Leveraging Scene Context with Dual Networks for Sequential User Behavior Modeling
Xu Chen, Yunmeng Shu, Yuangang Pan +6
Modeling sequential user behaviors for future behavior prediction is crucial in improving user's information retrieval experience. Recent studies highlight the importance of incorp…
MMKB-RAG: A Multi-Modal Knowledge-Based Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework
Zihan Ling, Zhiyao Guo, Yixuan Huang +5
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) and multi-modal LLMs have been remarkable. However, these models still rely solely on their parametric knowledge, which limits t…
Beyond Static Scenes: Camera-controllable Background Generation for Human Motion
Mingshuai Yao, Mengting Chen, Qinye Zhou +9
In this paper, we investigate the generation of new video backgrounds given a human foreground video, a camera pose, and a reference scene image. This task presents three key chall…
Squeeze Out Tokens from Sample for Finer-Grained Data Governance
Weixiong Lin, Chen Ju, Haicheng Wang +8
Widely observed data scaling laws, in which error falls off as a power of the training size, demonstrate the diminishing returns of unselective data expansion. Hence, data governan…
Advancing Myopia To Holism: Fully Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training
Haicheng Wang, Chen Ju, Weixiong Lin +9
In rapidly evolving field of vision-language models (VLMs), contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) has made significant strides, becoming foundation for various downstream…
Counterfactual Learning-Driven Representation Disentanglement for Search-Enhanced Recommendation
Jiajun Cui, Xu Chen, Shuai Xiao +4
For recommender systems in internet platforms, search activities provide additional insights into user interest through query-click interactions with items, and are thus widely use…
Learning Multi-Branch Cooperation for Enhanced Click-Through Rate Prediction at Taobao
Xu Chen, Zida Cheng, Yuangang Pan +6
Existing click-through rate (CTR) prediction works have studied the role of feature interaction through a variety of techniques. Each interaction technique exhibits its own strengt…
Turbo: Informativity-Driven Acceleration Plug-In for Vision-Language Large Models
Chen Ju, Haicheng Wang, Haozhe Cheng +6
Vision-Language Large Models (VLMs) recently become primary backbone of AI, due to the impressive performance. However, their expensive computation costs, i.e., throughput and dela…
Tunnel Try-on: Excavating Spatial-temporal Tunnels for High-quality Virtual Try-on in Videos
Zhengze Xu, Mengting Chen, Zhao Wang +6
Video try-on is a challenging task and has not been well tackled in previous works. The main obstacle lies in preserving the details of the clothing and modeling the coherent motio…
Cell Variational Information Bottleneck Network
Zhonghua Zhai, Chen Ju, Jinsong Lan +1
In this work, we propose Cell Variational Information Bottleneck Network (cellVIB), a convolutional neural network using information bottleneck mechanism, which can be combined wit…
Wear-Any-Way: Manipulable Virtual Try-on via Sparse Correspondence Alignment
Mengting Chen, Xi Chen, Zhonghua Zhai +4
This paper introduces a novel framework for virtual try-on, termed Wear-Any-Way. Different from previous methods, Wear-Any-Way is a customizable solution. Besides generating high-f…
Enhancing Cross-domain Click-Through Rate Prediction via Explicit Feature Augmentation
Xu Chen, Zida Cheng, Jiangchao Yao +5
Cross-domain CTR (CDCTR) prediction is an important research topic that studies how to leverage meaningful data from a related domain to help CTR prediction in target domain. Most…