Publications

Research on diffusion models, synthetic data, visual learning, multimodal generation, and agent communication. Underlined authors contributed equally.

See What I See, Know What I Think: Dense Latent Communication Across Heterogeneous Agents

See What I See, Know What I Think: Dense Latent Communication Across Heterogeneous Agents

Siyi Chen, Xiaoyan Zhang, Meng Wu, Jonathan Tremblay, Valts Blukis, Stan Birchfield, Rene Vidal, Alvaro Velasquez, Sijia Liu, Qing Qu

arXiv preprint 2026

Studying dense KV-cache alignment to transfer context and reasoning across different language models.

Generalization of Diffusion Models Arises with a Balanced Representation Space

Generalization of Diffusion Models Arises with a Balanced Representation Space

Zekai Zhang, Xiao Li, Xiang Li, Lianghe Shi, Meng Wu, Molei Tao, Qing Qu

ICLR (Poster) 2026

Connecting balanced and spiky representations to generalization and memorization, with applications to detection and image editing.

A Closer Look at Model Collapse: From a Generalization-to-Memorization Perspective

A Closer Look at Model Collapse: From a Generalization-to-Memorization Perspective

Lianghe Shi, Meng Wu, Huijie Zhang, Zekai Zhang, Molei Tao, Qing Qu

NeurIPS (Spotlight) 2025

Explaining collapse as a transition from generalization to memorization, and studying entropy-based data selection for recursive training.

Coarse-to-Fine Hierarchical Alignment for UAV-based Human Detection using Diffusion Models

Coarse-to-Fine Hierarchical Alignment for UAV-based Human Detection using Diffusion Models

Wenda Li, Meng Wu, Liangzhao Chen, Sungmin Eum, Heesung Kwon, Qing Qu

arXiv preprint 2025

Bridging synthetic and real UAV imagery through global style transfer, local refinement, and hallucination removal.

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VIP: Versatile Image Outpainting Empowered by Multimodal Large Language Model

VIP: Versatile Image Outpainting Empowered by Multimodal Large Language Model

Jinze Yang, Haoran Wang, Zining Zhu, Chenglong Liu, Meng Wu, Mingming Sun

ACCV 2024

Combining multimodal descriptions and diffusion generation to customize the content beyond an image’s boundaries.

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Convolution Meets Transformer: Efficient Hybrid Transformer for Semantic Segmentation with Very High Resolution Imagery

Yuji Wang, Ruojun Zhao, Shicai Wei, Jingchen Ni, Meng Wu, Yang Luo, Chunbo Luo

IEEE IGARSS 2024

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