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20242026
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5 papers

cs.CV2026

Open Vocabulary Panoptic Segmentation With Retrieval Augmentation

Nafis Sadeq, Qingfeng Liu, Mostafa El-Khamy

Given an input image and set of class names, panoptic segmentation aims to label each pixel in an image with class labels and instance labels. In comparison, Open Vocabulary Panopt…

cs.LG2025

Reject Only Critical Tokens: Pivot-Aware Speculative Decoding

Amir Ziashahabi, Yavuz Faruk Bakman, Duygu Nur Yaldiz +3

Speculative Decoding (SD) ensures that the output matches the target model's distribution exactly. However, we argue that this distribution matching requirement is too stringent an…

cs.NE2025

Regularizing Differentiable Architecture Search with Smooth Activation

Yanlin Zhou, Mostafa El-Khamy, Kee-Bong Song

Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) is an efficient Neural Architecture Search (NAS) method but suffers from robustness, generalization, and discrepancy issues. Many efforts…

cs.CV2025

Hardware-Friendly Static Quantization Method for Video Diffusion Transformers

Sanghyun Yi, Qingfeng Liu, Mostafa El-Khamy

Diffusion Transformers for video generation have gained significant research interest since the impressive performance of SORA. Efficient deployment of such generative-AI models on…

cs.CV2024

1st Place Winner of the 2024 Pixel-level Video Understanding in the Wild (CVPR'24 PVUW) Challenge in Video Panoptic Segmentation and Best Long Video Consistency of Video Semantic Segmentation

Qingfeng Liu, Mostafa El-Khamy, Kee-Bong Song

The third Pixel-level Video Understanding in the Wild (PVUW CVPR 2024) challenge aims to advance the state of art in video understanding through benchmarking Video Panoptic Segment…