publications

2026

  1. Preprint
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    The Flexibility Trap: Rethinking the Value of Arbitrary Order in Diffusion Language Models
    Zanlin Ni, Shenzhi Wang, Yang Yue, and 8 more authors
    2026
    PDF Code Model Website
  2. CVPR
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    Co-GRPO: Co-Optimized Group Relative Policy Optimization for Masked Diffusion Model
    Renping Zhou*, Zanlin Ni*, Tianyi Chen, and 6 more authors
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
    In submission

2025

  1. TPAMI
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    AdaGen: Learning Adaptive Policy for Image Synthesis
    Zanlin Ni*, Yulin Wang, Yeguo Hua, and 5 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2025
  2. ICCV
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    CODA: Repurposing Continuous VAEs for Discrete Tokenization
    Zeyu Liu*, Zanlin Ni*, Yeguo Hua, and 4 more authors
    In IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
    arXiv Code
  3. CVPR
    Everything to the Synthetic: Diffusion-driven Test-time Adaptation via Synthetic-Domain Alignment
    Jiayi Guo, Junhao Zhao, Chaoqun Du, and 6 more authors
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025
    arXiv Code
  4. NMI
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    Emulating Human-like Adaptive Vision for Efficient and Flexible Machine Visual Perception
    Yulin Wang, Yang Yue, Huanqian Wang, and 10 more authors
    Nature Machine Intelligence (NMI), 2025
    arXiv Code
  5. IJCV
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    InfoPro: Locally Supervised Deep Learning by Maximizing Information Propagation
    Yulin Wang*, Zanlin Ni*, Yifan Pu, and 4 more authors
    International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2025
    arXiv Code
  6. PR
    Cross-modal Adapter for Vision-Language Retrieval
    Haojun Jiang, Jianke Zhang, Rui Huang, and 4 more authors
    Pattern Recognition, 2025
    arXiv Code

2024

  1. NeurIPS
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    ENAT: Rethinking Spatial-Temporal Interactions in Token-Based Image Synthesis
    Zanlin Ni*, Yulin Wang, Renping Zhou, and 5 more authors
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
    arXiv Code
  2. ECCV
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    AdaNAT: Exploring Adaptive Policy for Token-Based Image Generation
    Zanlin Ni*, Yulin Wang, Renping Zhou, and 6 more authors
    In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
    arXiv Code
  3. CVPR
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    Revisiting Non-Autoregressive Transformers for Efficient Image Synthesis
    Zanlin Ni*, Yulin Wang, Renping Zhou, and 6 more authors
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
    arXiv Code
  4. CVPR
    Smooth Diffusion: Crafting Smooth Latent Spaces in Diffusion Models
    Jiayi Guo, Xingqian Xu, Yifan Pu, and 6 more authors
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
    arXiv Code
  5. ECCV
    LLaVA-UHD: An LMM Perceiving Any Aspect Ratio and High-Resolution Images
    Ruyi Xu, Yuan Yao, Zonghao Guo, and 7 more authors
    In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
    arXiv Code

2023

  1. ICCV
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    Deep Incubation: Training Large Models by Divide-and-Conquering
    Zanlin Ni*, Yulin Wang, Jiangwei Yu, and 3 more authors
    In IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
    arXiv Code

2021

  1. ICLR
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    Revisiting Locally Supervised Learning: An Alternative to End-to-End Training
    Yulin Wang, Zanlin Ni, Shiji Song, and 2 more authors
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2021
    arXiv Code

2020

  1. CVPR
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    Uncertainty-Aware Score Distribution Learning for Action Quality Assessment
    Yansong Tang*, Zanlin Ni*, Jiangbo Zhou, and 4 more authors
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020
    arXiv Code