Publications (Google Scholar Profile)

VisionDirector: Vision-Language Guided Closed-Loop Refinement for Generative Image Synthesis [project page]
Meng Chu, Senqiao Yang, Haoxuan Che, Suiyun Zhang, Xichen Zhang, Shaozuo Yu, Haokun Gui, Zhefan Rao, Dandan Tu, Rui Liu^*, Jiaya Jia.
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2026).

AEGIS: Exploring the Limit of World Knowledge Capabilities for Unified Mulitmodal Models
Jintao Lin, Bowen Dong, Weikang Shi, Chenyang Lei, Suiyun Zhang, Rui Liu^*, Xihui Liu.
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2026).

DraCo: Draft as CoT for Text-to-Image Preview and Rare Concept Generation [project page]
Dongzhi Jiang, Renrui Zhang, Haodong Li, Zhuofan Zong, Ziyu Guo, Jun He, Claire Guo, Junyan Ye, Rongyao Fang, Weijia Li, Rui Liu^*, Hongsheng Li.
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2026).

Pusa v1.0: Surpassing Wan-I2V with $500 Training Cost by Vectorized Timestep Adaptation [project page] [code]
Yaofang Liu, Yumeng Ren, Aitor Artola, Yuxuan Hu, Xiaodong Cun, Xiaotong Zhao, Alan Zhao, Raymond H. Chan, Suiyun Zhang, Rui Liu^*, Dandan Tu, Jean-Michel Morel.
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026).

Mmsearch-plus: Benchmarking Provenance-aware Search for Multimodal Browsing Agents [project page]
Xijia Tao, Yihua Teng, Xinxing Su, Xinyu Fu, Jihao Wu, Chaofan Tao, Ziru Liu, Haoli Bai, Rui Liu^*, Lingpeng Kong.
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026).

LM-Searcher: Cross-domain Neural Architecture Search with LLMs via Unified Numerical Encoding
Yuxuan Hu, Jihao Liu, Ke Wang, Jinliang Zhen, Weikang Shi, Manyuan Zhang, Qi Dou, Rui Liu^*, Aojun Zhou, Hongsheng Li.
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025).

FuseFormer: Fusing Fine-Grained Information in Transformers for Video Inpainting [code]
Rui Liu, Hanming Deng, Yangyi Huang, Xiaoyu Shi, Lewei Lu, Wenxiu Sun, Xiaogang Wang, Jifeng Dai, Hongsheng Li
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2021).

DivCo: Diverse Conditional Image Synthesis via Contrastive Generative Adversarial Network [code]
Rui Liu, Yixiao Ge, Ching Lam Choi, Xiaogang Wang, Hongsheng Li.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021).

StereoGAN: Bridging Synthetic-to-Real Domain Gap by Joint Optimization of Domain Translation and Stereo Matching [code]
Rui Liu, Chengxi Yang, Wenxiu Sun, Xiaogang Wang, Hongsheng Li.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2020).

Conditional Adversarial Generative Flow for Controllable Image Synthesis
Rui Liu, Yu Liu, Xinyu Gong, Xiaogang Wang, Hongsheng Li.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2019).

HiABP: Hierarchical Initialized ABP for Unsupervised Representation Learning
Jiankai Sun, Rui Liu, Bolei Zhou.
The Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021).

Discrete factorization machines for fast feature-based recommendation
Han Liu, Xiangnan He, Fuli Feng, Liqiang Nie, Rui Liu, Hanwang Zhang.
The 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2018).

Discrete content-aware matrix factorization [poster]
Defu Lian, Rui Liu, Yong Ge, Kai Zheng, Xing Xie, Longbing Cao.
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD 2017).

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