publications

* indicates co-first authors

2026

  1. ACM MM
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    Accelerating Masked Image Generation by Learning Latent Controlled Dynamics
    Kaiwen Zhu, Quansheng Zeng, Yuandong Pu, Shuo Cao, Xiaohui Li, Yi Xin, Qi Qin, Jiayang Li, Yu Qiao, Jinjin Gu, and Yihao Liu†
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.23996, 2026
    arXiv Code Website
  2. ECCV
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    OneVAE: Joint Discrete and Continuous Optimization Helps Discrete Video VAE Train Better
    Yupeng Zhou, Zhen Li, Ziheng Ouyang, Yuming Chen, Ruoyi Du, Daquan Zhou, Bin Fu, Yihao Liu, Peng Gao, Ming-Ming Cheng, and  others
    European Conference on Computer Vision, 2026
    arXiv Code
  3. ECCV
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    Lumina-omnilv: A unified multimodal framework for general low-level vision
    Yuandong Pu, Le Zhuo, Kaiwen Zhu, Liangbin Xie, Wenlong Zhang, Xiangyu Chen, Peng Gao, Yu Qiao, Chao Dong, and Yihao Liu†
    European Conference on Computer Vision, 2026
    arXiv Code Website
  4. ICML
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    StableI2I: Spotting Unintended Changes in Image-to-Image Transition
    Jiayang Li, Shuo Cao, Xiaohui Li, Zhizhen Zhang, Kaiwen Zhu, Yule Duan, Yu Qiao, Jian Zhang, and Yihao Liu†
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.04453, 2026
    arXiv Code Website
  5. ICML
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    UniPercept: Towards Unified Perceptual-Level Image Understanding across Aesthetics, Quality, Structure, and Texture
    Shuo Cao, Jiayang Li, Xiaohui Li, Yuandong Pu, Kaiwen Zhu, Yuanting Gao, Siqi Luo, Yi Xin, Qi Qin,  ..., and Yihao Liu†
    International Conference on Machine Learning, 2026
    arXiv Code Website
  6. CVPR
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    dMLLM-TTS: Self-Verified and Efficient Test-Time Scaling for Diffusion Multi-Modal Large Language Models
    Yi Xin, Siqi Luo, Tianxiang Xu, Qi Qin, Haoxing Chen, Kaiwen Zhu, Zhiwei Zhang, Yangfan He, Rongchao Zhang, Jinbin Bai, Shuo Cao, Bin Fu, Junjun He, Yihao Liu, Yuewen Cao, and Xiaohong Liu
    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2026
    arXiv Code Website
  7. CVPR
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    FlashVSR: Towards Real-Time Diffusion-Based Streaming Video Super-Resolution
    Junhao Zhuang, Shi Guo, Xin Cai, Xiaohui Li, Yihao Liu, Chun Yuan, and Tianfan Xue
    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2026
    arXiv Code Website
  8. CVPR
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    Artimuse: Fine-grained image aesthetics assessment with joint scoring and expert-level understanding
    Shuo Cao, Nan Ma, Jiayang Li, Xiaohui Li, Lihao Shao, Kaiwen Zhu, Yu Zhou, Yuandong Pu, Jiarui Wu, Jiaquan Wang, Bo Qu, Wenhai Wang, Yu Qiao, Dajuin Yao, and Yihao Liu†
    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2026
    arXiv Code Website
  9. ICLR
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    Omni-Weather: Unified Multimodal Foundation Model for Weather Generation and Understanding
    Zhiwang Zhou, Yuandong Pu, Xuming He, Yidi Liu,  ..., Yihao Liu†, Wenlong Zhang†, and Lei Bai†
    International Conference on Learning Representations, 2026
    arXiv Code
  10. ICLR
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    PICABench: How Far Are We from Physically Realistic Image Editing?
    Yuandong Pu, Le Zhuo, Songhao Han, Jinbo Xing, Kaiwen Zhu, Shuo Cao, Bin Fu, Si Liu, Hongsheng Li, Yu Qiao, Wenlong Zhang, Xi Chen, and Yihao Liu†
    International Conference on Learning Representations, 2026
    arXiv Code Website
  11. ICLR
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    LinearSR: Unlocking Linear Attention for Stable and Efficient Image Super-Resolution
    Xiaohui Li, Shaobin Zhuang, Shuo Cao, Yang Yang, Yuandong Pu, Qi Qin, Siqi Luo, Bin Fu, and Yihao Liu†
    International Conference on Learning Representations, 2026
    arXiv Code
  12. ICLR
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    Factuality Matters: When Image Generation and Editing Meet Structured Visuals
    Le Zhuo, Songhao Han, Yuandong Pu, Boxiang Qiu, Sayak Paul, Yue Liao, Yihao Liu, Jie Shao, Xi Chen, Si Liu, and Hongsheng Li
    International Conference on Learning Representations, 2026
    arXiv Code Website
  13. arXiv
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    Are Text-to-Image Models Inductivist Turkeys? A Counterfactual Benchmark for Causal Reasoning
    Jiayi Lei, Yuandong Pu, Xingyu Han, Rongpeng Zhu, Jing Xu, Jinyao Wang, Zijian Zhou, Bin Fu, Yuewen Cao†, Yihao Liu†, and Hongsheng Li†
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.24548, 2026
    arXiv Code Website
  14. arXiv
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    Faithful, Enriched, and Precise: Benchmarking Natural-Science Illustration Generation by T2I models
    Yifan Chang, Jiaxin Ai, Jianwen Sun, Yuandong Pu, Siqi Luo, Liangliang Zhao, Yuchen Ren, Minghao Liu, Yunfei Yu, Yu Qiao, Kaipeng Zhang†, and Yihao Liu†
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.05949, 2026
    arXiv
  15. arXiv
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    Sketch Then Paint: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion Multi-Modal Large Language Models
    Siqi Luo, Jianghan Shen, Yi Xin, Huayu Zheng, Haoxing Chen, Yan Tai, Yue Li, Junjun He, Yihao Liu, Guangtao Zhai, Yuewen Cao, and Xiaohong Liu
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.16842, 2026
    arXiv Code
  16. arXiv
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    Toward Generalizable Deblurring: Leveraging Massive Blur Priors with Linear Attention for Real-World Scenarios
    Yuanting Gao, Shuo Cao, Xiaohui Li, Yuandong Pu, Yihao Liu†, and Kai Zhang†
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.06525, 2026
    arXiv Code Website

2025

  1. AAAI
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    SynWeather: Weather Observation Data Synthesis across Multiple Regions and Variables via a General Diffusion Transformer
    Kaiyi Xu, Junchao Gong, Zhiwang Zhou, Zhangrui Li, Yuandong Pu, Yihao Liu, Ben Fei, Fenghua Ling, Wenlong Zhang, and Lei Bai
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.08291, 2025
    arXiv Code Website
  2. ICCV
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    DiffVSR: Revealing an Effective Recipe for Taming Robust Video Super-Resolution Against Complex Degradations
    Xiaohui Li*, Yihao Liu*†, Shuo Cao, Ziyan Chen, Shaobin Zhuang, Xiangyu Chen, Yinan He, Yi Wang, and Yu Qiao
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.10110, 2025
    arXiv Code Website
  3. TIP
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    Learning to see low-light images via feature domain adaptation
    Qirui Yang, Qihua Cheng, Huanjing Yue, Le Zhang, Yihao Liu, and Jingyu Yang
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2025
    arXiv
  4. arXiv
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    Lumina-dimoo: An omni diffusion large language model for multi-modal generation and understanding
    Yi Xin, Qi Qin, Siqi Luo, Kaiwen Zhu, Juncheng Yan, Yan Tai, Jiayi Lei, Yuewen Cao, Keqi Wang, Yibin Wang,  ..., and Yihao Liu†
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.06308, 2025
    arXiv Code Website
  5. arXiv
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    DualX-VSR: Dual Axial Spatial\timesTemporal Transformer for Real-World Video Super-Resolution without Motion Compensation
    Shuo Cao, Yihao Liu, Xiaohui Li, Yuanting Gao, Zhou Yu, and Chao Dong
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.04830, 2025
    arXiv
  6. ICLR
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    WeatherGFM: Learning A Weather Generalist Foundation Model via In-context Learning
    Xiangyu Zhao, Zhiwang Zhou, Wenlong Zhang, Yihao Liu, Xiangyu Chen, Junchao Gong, Hao Chen, Ben Fei, Shiqi Chen, Wanli Ouyang, Xiao-Ming Wu, and Lei Bai
    International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025
    arXiv Code
  7. arXiv
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    Exploring Scalable Unified Modeling for General Low-Level Vision
    Xiangyu Chen, Kaiwen Zhu, Yuandong Pu, Shuo Cao, Xiaohui Li, Wenlong Zhang, Yihao Liu, Yu Qiao, Jiantao Zhou, and Chao Dong
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.14801, 2025
    arXiv Code
  8. arXiv
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    EGVD: Event-Guided Video Diffusion Model for Physically Realistic Large-Motion Frame Interpolation
    Ziran Zhang, Xiaohui Li, Yihao Liu, Yujin Wang, Yueting Chen, Tianfan Xue, and Shi Guo
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.20268, 2025
    arXiv Code Website

2024

  1. ACM MM
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    Learning A Low-Level Vision Generalist via Visual Task Prompt
    Xiangyu Chen, Yihao Liu, Yuandong Pu, Wenlong Zhang, Jiantao Zhou, Yu Qiao, and Chao Dong
    In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2024
    arXiv Code
  2. ECCV
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    GRIDS: Grouped Multiple-Degradation Restoration with Image Degradation Similarity
    Shuo Cao*, Yihao Liu*, Wenlong Zhang, Yu Qiao, and Chao Dong
    In European Conference on Computer Vision, 2024
    arXiv
  3. ECCV
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    A Comparative Study of Image Restoration Networks for General Backbone Network Design
    Xiangyu Chen, Zheyuan Li, Yuandong Pu, Yihao Liu, Jiantao Zhou, Yu Qiao, and Chao Dong
    In European Conference on Computer Vision, 2024
    arXiv Code
  4. ICML
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    Unifying Image Processing as Visual Prompting Question Answering
    Yihao Liu*, Xiangyu Chen*, Xianzheng Ma*, Xintao Wang, Jiantao Zhou, Yu Qiao, and Chao Dong
    In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024
    arXiv Code
  5. CVMJ
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    Temporally Consistent Video Colorization with Deep Feature Propagation and Self-Regularization Learning
    Yihao Liu*, Hengyuan Zhao*, Kelvin CK Chan, Xintao Wang, Chen Change Loy, Yu Qiao, and Chao Dong
    Computational Visual Media, 2024
    arXiv Code
  6. arXiv
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    Learning Differential Pyramid Representation for Tone Mapping
    Qirui Yang, Yinbo Li, Yihao Liu, Peng-Tao Jiang, Fangpu Zhang, Qihua Cheng, Huanjing Yue, and Jingyu Yang
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.01463, 2024
    arXiv Website
  7. arXiv
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    A Preliminary Exploration Towards General Image Restoration
    Xiangtao Kong, Jinjin Gu, Yihao Liu, Wenlong Zhang, Xiangyu Chen, Yu Qiao, and Chao Dong
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.15143, 2024
    arXiv Code
  8. PR
    AdaptBIR: Adaptive Blind Image Restoration with Latent Diffusion Prior for Higher Fidelity
    Yingqi Liu, Jingwen He, Yihao Liu, Xinqi Lin, Fanghua Yu, Jinfan Hu, Yu Qiao, and Chao Dong
    Pattern Recognition, 2024
    Code

2023

  1. TPAMI
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    Evaluating the Generalization Ability of Super-Resolution Networks
    Yihao Liu, Hengyuan Zhao, Jinjin Gu, Yu Qiao, and Chao Dong
    IEEE Transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence, 2023
    arXiv Code
  2. TPAMI
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    CP3: Unifying Point Cloud Completion by Pretrain-Prompt-Predict Paradigm
    Mingye Xu, Yali Wang, Yihao Liu, Tong He, and Yu Qiao
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2023
    arXiv Code
  3. CVPR
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    DegAE: A New Pretraining Paradigm for Low-Level Vision
    Yihao Liu, Jingwen He, Jinjin Gu, Xiangtao Kong, Yu Qiao, and Chao Dong
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2023
    Code
  4. CVPR
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    Masked Image Training for Generalizable Deep Image Denoising
    Haoyu Chen, Jinjin Gu, Yihao Liu, Salma Abdel Magid, Chao Dong, Qiong Wang, Hanspeter Pfister, and Lei Zhu
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2023
    arXiv Code
  5. arXiv
    Learning to See Low-Light Images via Feature Domain Adaptation
    Qirui Yang, Qihua Cheng, Huanjing Yue, Le Zhang, Yihao Liu, and Jingyu Yang
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.06723, 2023
    arXiv
  6. Displays
    Two-Branch Crisscross Network for Realistic and Accurate Image Super-Resolution
    Qirui Yang, Yihao Liu, and Jingyu Yang
    Displays, 2023
  7. arXiv
    Towards Efficient SDRTV-to-HDRTV by Learning from Image Formation
    Xiangyu Chen, Zheyuan Li, Zhengwen Zhang, Jimmy S Ren, Yihao Liu, Jingwen He, Yu Qiao, Jiantao Zhou, and Chao Dong
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.04084, 2023
    arXiv Code
  8. arXiv
    Efficient HDR Reconstruction from Real-World Raw Images
    Qirui Yang*, Yihao Liu*, and Jingyu Yang
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.10311, 2023
    arXiv

2022

  1. TMM
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    Very Lightweight Photo Retouching Network with Conditional Sequential Modulation
    Yihao Liu*, Jingwen He*, Xiangyu Chen, Zhengwen Zhang, Hengyuan Zhao, Chao Dong, and Yu Qiao
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2022
    arXiv Code
  2. TPAMI
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    Blind Image Super-Resolution: A Survey and Beyond
    Anran Liu, Yihao Liu, Jinjin Gu, Yu Qiao, and Chao Dong
    IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence, 2022
    arXiv
  3. CVPRW
    A Closer Look at Blind Super-Resolution: Degradation Models, Baselines, and Performance Upper Bounds
    Wenlong Zhang, Guangyuan Shi, Yihao Liu, Chao Dong, and Xiao-Ming Wu
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2022
    arXiv Code Website

2021

  1. TPAMI
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    RankSRGAN: Super Resolution Generative Adversarial Networks with Learning to Rank
    Wenlong Zhang, Yihao Liu, Chao Dong, and Yu Qiao
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2021
    arXiv Code Website
  2. TPAMI
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    Interactive Multi-Dimension Modulation for Image Restoration
    Jingwen He, Chao Dong, Yihao Liu, and Yu Qiao
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2021
    arXiv Code
  3. ICCV
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    Learn to Match: Automatic Matching Network Design for Visual Tracking
    Zhipeng Zhang, Yihao Liu, Xiao Wang, Bing Li, and Weiming Hu
    In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021
    arXiv Code
  4. arXiv
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    Discovering" Semantics" in Super-Resolution Networks
    Yihao Liu*, Anran Liu*, Jinjin Gu, Zhipeng Zhang, Wenhao Wu, Yu Qiao, and Chao Dong
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.00406, 2021
    arXiv
  5. arXiv
    Color2Embed: Fast Exemplar-Based Image Colorization Using Color Embeddings
    Hengyuan Zhao, Wenhao Wu, Yihao Liu, and Dongliang He
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.08017, 2021
    arXiv Code
  6. CVPRW
    HDRUnet: Single Image HDR Reconstruction with Denoising and Dequantization
    Xiangyu Chen, Yihao Liu, Zhengwen Zhang, Yu Qiao, and Chao Dong
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2021
    arXiv Code
  7. CVPRW
    NTIRE 2021 Challenge on High Dynamic Range Imaging: Dataset, Methods and Results
    Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero, Sibi Catley-Chandar, Ales Leonardis, and Radu Timofte
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2021
    arXiv

2020

  1. ECCV
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    Conditional Sequential Modulation for Efficient Global Image Retouching
    Jingwen He*, Yihao Liu*, Yu Qiao, and Chao Dong
    In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020
    arXiv Code
  2. ECCVW
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    Enhanced Quadratic Video Interpolation
    Yihao Liu*, Liangbin Xie*, Li Siyao, Wenxiu Sun, Yu Qiao, and Chao Dong
    In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Workshops, 2020
    arXiv Code
  3. AAAI
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    FD-GAN: Generative Adversarial Networks with Fusion-Discriminator for Single Image Dehazing
    Yu Dong*, Yihao Liu*, He Zhang, Shifeng Chen, and Yu Qiao
    In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020
    arXiv
  4. ECCVW
    Residual and Dense UNet for Under-Display Camera Restoration
    Qirui Yang*, Yihao Liu*, Jigang Tang, and Tao Ku
    In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Workshops, 2020
  5. ECCVW
    AIM 2020 Challenge on Video Temporal Super-Resolution
    Sanghyun Son, Jaerin Lee, Seungjun Nah, Radu Timofte, Kyoung Mu Lee, Yihao Liu, Liangbin Xie, Li Siyao, Wenxiu Sun, Yu Qiao, and  others
    In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Workshops, 2020
    arXiv
  6. ECCVW
    UDC 2020 Challenge on Image Restoration of Under-Display Camera: Methods and Results
    Yuqian Zhou, Michael Kwan, Kyle Tolentino, Neil Emerton, Sehoon Lim, Tim Large, Lijiang Fu, Zhihong Pan, Baopu Li, Qirui Yang, and  others
    In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Workshops, 2020
    arXiv

2019

  1. ICCV
    RankSRGAN: Generative Adversarial Networks with Ranker for Image Super-Resolution
    Wenlong Zhang, Yihao Liu, Chao Dong, and Yu Qiao
    In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019
    arXiv Code Website

2018

  1. ECCVW
    ESRGAN: Enhanced Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Networks
    Xintao Wang, Ke Yu, Shixiang Wu, Jinjin Gu, Yihao Liu, Chao Dong, Yu Qiao, and Chen Change Loy
    In Proceedings of the European conference on computer vision (ECCV) workshops, 2018
    arXiv Code