publications

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2025

  1. Preprint
    Denoising Score Distillation: From Noisy Diffusion Pretraining to One-Step High-Quality Generation
    Tianyu Chen*, Yasi Zhang*, Zhendong Wang, Ying Nian Wu, Oscar Leong**, and Mingyuan Zhou**
    2025
  2. Preprint
    Learning Difference-of-Convex Regularizers for Inverse Problems: A Flexible Framework with Theoretical Guarantees
    Yasi Zhang, and Oscar Leong
    2025
  3. AISTATS
    Statistical Guarantees for Lifelong Reinforcement Learning using PAC-Bayesian Theory
    Zhi Zhang, Chris Chow, Yasi Zhang, Yanchao Sun, Haochen Zhang, Eric Hanchen Jiang, Han Liu, Furong Huang, Yuchen Cui, and Oscar Hernan Madrid Padilla
    In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics 2025

2024

  1. arXiv
    Think Twice Before You Act: Improving Inverse Problem Solving With MCMC
    Yaxuan Zhu, Zehao Dou, Haoxin Zheng, Yasi Zhang, Ying Nian Wu, and Ruiqi Gao
    2024
  2. arXiv
    Latent Energy-Based Odyssey: Black-Box Optimization via Expanded Exploration in the Energy-Based Latent Space
    Peiyu Yu, Dinghuai Zhang, Hengzhi He, Xiaojian Ma, Ruiyao Miao, Yifan Lu, Yasi Zhang, Deqian Kong, Ruiqi Gao, Jianwen Xie, Guang Cheng, and Ying Nian Wu
    2024
  3. NeurIPS
    Flow Priors for Linear Inverse Problems via Iterative Corrupted Trajectory Matching
    Yasi Zhang, Peiyu Yu, Yaxuan Zhu, Yingshan Chang, Feng Gao, Ying Nian Wu, and Oscar Leong
    In Neural Information Processing Systems 2024
  4. ECCV
    Object-Conditioned Energy-Based Attention Map Alignment in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
    Yasi Zhang, Peiyu Yu, and Ying Nian Wu
    In European Conference on Computer Vision 2024
  5. ECCV
    Skews in the Phenomenon Space Hinder Generalization in Text-to-Image Generation
    Yingshan Chang, Yasi Zhang, Zhiyuan Fang, Yingnian Wu, Yonatan Bisk, and Feng Gao
    In European Conference on Computer Vision 2024
  6. SynData4CV
    Object-Conditioned Energy-Based Model for Attention Map Alignment in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
    Yasi Zhang, Peiyu Yu, and Ying Nian Wu
    In Synthetic Data for Computer Vision Workshop @ CVPR 2024

2023

  1. ICASSP
    Transductive Matrix Completion with Calibration for Multi-Task Learning
    Hengfang Wang, Yasi Zhang, Xiaojun Mao, and Zhonglei Wang
    In International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 2023