10 papers
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…
Modernizing Facebook Scoped Search: Keyword and Embedding Hybrid Retrieval with LLM Evaluation
Yongye Su, Zeya Zhang, Jane Kou +5
Beyond general web-scale search, social network search uniquely enables users to retrieve information and discover potential connections within their social context. We introduce a…
Evaluating Multi-Turn Bargain Skills in LLM-Based Seller Agent
Issue Yishu Wang, Kakam Chong, Xiaofeng Wang +7
In online second-hand marketplaces, multi-turn bargaining is a crucial part of seller-buyer interactions. Large Language Models (LLMs) can act as seller agents, negotiating with bu…
Benchmarking Multi-National Value Alignment for Large Language Models
Weijie Shi, Chengyi Ju, Chengzhong Liu +8
Do Large Language Models (LLMs) hold positions that conflict with your country's values? Occasionally they do! However, existing works primarily focus on ethical reviews, failing 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…