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most citedA Simple Background Augmentation Method for Object Detection with Diffusion Model

3 citations · 8 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.LG2026

Benchmarking Composable Compression Techniques in Mixture-of-Experts LLMs

Afsara Benazir, Chen Chen, Rongxiao Qu +3

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) LLMs scale model capacity efficiently through sparse activation, but their large expert parameter footprint, routing imbalance, and long-context KV-cache g…

cs.CV2026

Argus-Unified: Towards A Compact and Economical Unified Model for Image Understanding and Generation

Weiming Zhuang, Jiabo Huang, Jingtao Li +4

Unifying visual understanding and generation in one model holds immense promise, but remains challenging and expensive due to heavy compute and data demands and conflicts between t…

cs.CV2026

UniCompress: Token Compression for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation

Ziyao Wang, Chen Chen, Jingtao Li +4

Unified models aim to support both understanding and generation by encoding images into discrete tokens and processing them alongside text within a single autoregressive framework.…

cs.CV2025

Seeing Further on the Shoulders of Giants: Knowledge Inheritance for Vision Foundation Models

Jiabo Huang, Chen Chen, Lingjuan Lyu

Vision foundation models (VFMs) are predominantly developed using data-centric methods. These methods require training on vast amounts of data usually with high-quality labels, whi…

cs.LG2025

FEDEXCHANGE: Bridging the Domain Gap in Federated Object Detection for Free

Haolin Yuan, Jingtao Li, Weiming Zhuang +2

Federated Object Detection (FOD) enables clients to collaboratively train a global object detection model without accessing their local data from diverse domains. However, signific…

cs.CV2025

UNIFORM: Unifying Knowledge from Large-scale and Diverse Pre-trained Models

Yimu Wang, Weiming Zhuang, Chen Chen +3

In the era of deep learning, the increasing number of pre-trained models available online presents a wealth of knowledge. These models, developed with diverse architectures and tra…

cs.LG2025

Closer to Reality: Practical Semi-Supervised Federated Learning for Foundation Model Adaptation

Guangyu Sun, Jingtao Li, Weiming Zhuang +2

Foundation models (FMs) exhibit remarkable generalization but require adaptation to downstream tasks, particularly in privacy-sensitive applications. Due to data privacy regulation…

cs.CV2024

Replay-Free Continual Low-Rank Adaptation with Dynamic Memory

Huancheng Chen, Jingtao Li, Weiming Zhuang +2

We revisit continual learning~(CL), which enables pre-trained vision transformers (ViTs) to sequentially fine-tune on new downstream tasks over time. However, as the scale of these…

cs.LG2024

Self-Comparison for Dataset-Level Membership Inference in Large (Vision-)Language Models

Jie Ren, Kangrui Chen, Chen Chen +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have made significant advancements in a wide range of natural language processing and vision-language tasks. Access t…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

A Simple Background Augmentation Method for Object Detection with Diffusion Model

Yuhang Li, Xin Dong, Chen Chen +2

In computer vision, it is well-known that a lack of data diversity will impair model performance. In this study, we address the challenges of enhancing the dataset diversity proble…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Detecting, Explaining, and Mitigating Memorization in Diffusion Models

Yuxin Wen, Yuchen Liu, Chen Chen +1

Recent breakthroughs in diffusion models have exhibited exceptional image-generation capabilities. However, studies show that some outputs are merely replications of training data.…

cs.CV2024

COALA: A Practical and Vision-Centric Federated Learning Platform

Weiming Zhuang, Jian Xu, Chen Chen +2

We present COALA, a vision-centric Federated Learning (FL) platform, and a suite of benchmarks for practical FL scenarios, which we categorize into three levels: task, data, and mo…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Evaluating and Mitigating IP Infringement in Visual Generative AI

Zhenting Wang, Chen Chen, Vikash Sehwag +2

The popularity of visual generative AI models like DALL-E 3, Stable Diffusion XL, Stable Video Diffusion, and Sora has been increasing. Through extensive evaluation, we discovered…

cs.CR2024

EnTruth: Enhancing the Traceability of Unauthorized Dataset Usage in Text-to-image Diffusion Models with Minimal and Robust Alterations

Jie Ren, Yingqian Cui, Chen Chen +3

Generative models, especially text-to-image diffusion models, have significantly advanced in their ability to generate images, benefiting from enhanced architectures, increased com…

cs.CV2024

How to Trace Latent Generative Model Generated Images without Artificial Watermark?

Zhenting Wang, Vikash Sehwag, Chen Chen +3

Latent generative models (e.g., Stable Diffusion) have become more and more popular, but concerns have arisen regarding potential misuse related to images generated by these models…

cs.CV2024

Is Synthetic Image Useful for Transfer Learning? An Investigation into Data Generation, Volume, and Utilization

Yuhang Li, Xin Dong, Chen Chen +4

Synthetic image data generation represents a promising avenue for training deep learning models, particularly in the realm of transfer learning, where obtaining real images within…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

FedMef: Towards Memory-efficient Federated Dynamic Pruning

Hong Huang, Weiming Zhuang, Chen Chen +1

Federated learning (FL) promotes decentralized training while prioritizing data confidentiality. However, its application on resource-constrained devices is challenging due to the…