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VersaVogue: Visual Expert Orchestration and Preference Alignment for Unified Fashion Synthesis; Jian Yu, Fei Shen, Cong Wang, Yi Xin, Si Shen, Xiaoyu Du, Jinhui Tang.
TraceRouter: Robust Safety for Large Foundation Models via Path-Level Intervention; Chuancheng Shi, Shangze Li, Wenjun Lu, Wenhua Wu, Cong Wang, Zifeng Cheng, Fei Shen, Tat-Seng Chua.
Who Transfers Safety? Identifying and Targeting Cross-Lingual Shared Safety Neurons; Xianhui Zhang, Chengyu Xie, Linxia Zhu, Yonghui Yang, Weixiang Zhao, Zifeng Cheng, Cong Wang, Fei Shen, Tat-Seng Chua.
A Debiased Nearest Neighbors Framework for Multi-Label Text Classification; Zifeng Cheng, Zhiwei Jiang, Yafeng Yin, Zhaoling Chen, Cong Wang, Shiping Ge, Qiguo Huang, Qing Gu.
V-Express: Conditional Dropout for Progressive Training of Portrait Video Generation; Cong Wang, Kuan Tian, Jun Zhang, Yonghang Guan, Feng Luo, Fei Shen, Zhiwei Jiang, Qing Gu, Xiao Han, Wei Yang.

Focusing Condition: Inference-Time Self-Contrastive Steering Elicits Better Conditional Text Embeddings in LLMs; Zifeng Cheng, Lingyun Qian, Zhiwei Jiang, Cong Wang, Yafeng Yin, Fei Shen, Ao Zhou, Qing Gu; ACL.
AEA: Adaptive Expert Allocation Improves Sentence Embeddings from Mixture-of-Experts LLM; Shufan Yang, Zifeng Cheng, Zhiwei Jiang, Qingfeng Qi, Yafeng Yin, Cong Wang, Ao Zhou, Qing Gu; ACL.
IMAGGarment: Fine-Grained Garment Generation for Controllable Fashion Design; Fei Shen, Jian Yu, Cong Wang, Xin Jiang, Xiaoyu Du, Jinhui Tang; TVCG.
Where Culture Fades: Revealing the Cultural Gap in Text-to-Image Generation; Chuancheng Shi, Shangze Li, Shiming Guo, Simiao Xie, Wenhua Wu, Jingtong Dou, Chao Wu, Canran Xiao, Cong Wang, Zifeng Cheng, Fei Shen, Tat-Seng Chua; CVPR.
Rethinking BCE Loss for Multi-Label Image Recognition with Fine-Tuning; Ao Zhou, Zhiwei Jiang, Zifeng Cheng, Cong Wang, Yafeng Yin, Shufan Yang, Qing Gu; CVPR.
IMAGGarment+: Efficient Attribute-Wise Diffusion for Garment Generation; Jian Yu, Xiaoyu Du, Cong Wang, Yanpeng Sun, Hao Tang, Qing Guo, Fei Shen; AAAI.
RegionMarker: A Region-Triggered Semantic Watermarking Framework for Embedding-as-a-Service Copyright Protection; Sunfan Yang, Zifeng Cheng, Zhiwei Jiang, Yafeng Yin, Cong Wang, Shiping Ge, Yuchen Fu, Qing Gu; AAAI.

Advanced Sign Language Video Generation with Compressed and Quantized Multi-Condition Tokenization; Cong Wang, Zexuan Deng, Zhiwei Jiang, Yafeng Yin, Fei Shen, Zifeng Cheng, Shiping Ge, Shiwei Gan, Qing Gu; NeurIPS.
Steering When Necessary: Flexible Steering Large Language Models with Backtracking; Zifeng Cheng, Jinwei Gan, Zhiwei Jiang, Cong Wang, Yafeng Yin, Xiang Luo, Yuchen Fu, Qing Gu; NeurIPS.
Contrastive Prompting Enhances Sentence Embeddings in LLMs through Inference-Time Steering; Zifeng Cheng, Zhonghui Wang, Yuchen Fu, Zhiwei Jiang, Yafeng Yin, Cong Wang, Qing Gu; ACL.
Long-Term TalkingFace Generation via Motion-Prior Conditional Diffusion Model; Fei Shen, Cong Wang, Junyao Gao, Qin Guo, Jisheng Dang, Jinhui Tang, Tat-Seng Chua; ICML.
Fine-Grained Alignment Network for Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval; Shiping Ge, Zhiwei Jiang, Yafeng Yin, Cong Wang, Zifeng Cheng, Qing Gu; TOMM.
Ensembling Diffusion Models via Adaptive Feature Aggregation; Cong Wang, Kuan Tian, Yonghang Guan, Fei Shen, Zhiwei Jiang, Qing Gu, Jun Zhang; ICLR.
IMAGDressing-v1: Customizable Virtual Dressing; Fei Shen, Xin Jiang, Xin He, Hu Ye, Cong Wang, Xiaoyu Du, Zechao Li, Jinhui Tang; AAAI.
Boosting Consistency in Story Visualization with Rich-Contextual Conditional Diffusion Models; Fei Shen, Hu Ye, Sibo Liu, Jun Zhang, Cong Wang, Xiao Han, Wei Yang; AAAI.

AP-Adapter: Improving Generalization of Automatic Prompts on Unseen Text-to-Image Diffusion Models; Yuchen Fu, Zhiwei Jiang, Yuliang Liu, Cong Wang, Zexuan Deng, Zhaoling Chen, Qing Gu; NeurIPS.
Advancing Pose-Guided Image Synthesis with Progressive Conditional Diffusion Models; Fei Shen, Hu Ye, Jun Zhang, Cong Wang, Xiao Han, Wei Yang; ICLR.

Learning Event-Specific Localization Preferences for Audio-Visual Event Localization; Shiping Ge, Zhiwei Jiang, Yafeng Yin, Cong Wang, Zifeng Cheng, Qing Gu; MM.
Aggregating Multiple Heuristic Signals as Supervision for Unsupervised Automated Essay Scoring; Cong Wang, Zhiwei Jiang, Yafeng Yin, Zifeng Cheng, Shiping Ge, Qing Gu; ACL.
Unsupervised Readability Assessment via Learning from Weak Readability Signals; Yuliang Liu, Zhiwei Jiang, Yafeng Yin, Cong Wang, Shen Chen, Zhaoling Chen, Qing Gu; SIGIR.
Learning Robust Multi-Modal Representation for Multi-Label Emotion Recognition via Adversarial Masking and Perturbation; Shiping Ge, Zhiwei Jiang, Zifeng Cheng, Cong Wang, Yafeng Yin, Qing Gu; WWW.
Controlling Class Layout for Deep Ordinal Classification via Constrained Proxies Learning; Cong Wang, Zhiwei Jiang, Yafeng Yin, Zifeng Cheng, Shiping Ge, Qing Gu; AAAI.

A Consistent Dual-MRC Framework for Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction; Zifeng Cheng, Zhiwei Jiang, Yafeng Yin, Cong Wang, Shiping Ge, Qing Gu; TOIS.
Learning to Classify Open Intent via Soft Labeling and Manifold Mixup; Zifeng Cheng, Zhiwei Jiang, Yafeng Yin, Cong Wang, Qing Gu; TASLP.