Mengping Yang (杨孟平)

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I am currently a Ph.D student (from Sep. 2019 - Jun. 2024 (Expected) ) at Ecust China University of Science and Technology (ECUST). My research interests mainly include multi-model learning/ AIGC, e.g., content generation of 2D images and videos, with Generative Adversarial Networks, Diffusion and auto-regressive models.

Before that, I received my B.S. from the Department of Computer Science and Technology with several honors in ECUST in Jul. 2019.

I admire distinguished researchers/engineers who promote the advancement of the community, their fascinating projects inspire me a lot! Hope that I can also make some impactful and insightful work!

I am actively looking for a long-term intern/collabration/full-time job opportunities (available from Sep. 2023), working on fundamental research and application related problems of generative models. Here is my CV, feel free to email me for any potential opportunities!

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News
  • [03/2024] Three collabrated paper respectively got accepted by CVPR-2024, PR, EAAI, congrats to co-authors.
  • [01/2024] Honored to win the grand prize of president's scholarship (one student per year).
  • [10/2023] One collabrated paper got accepted by KBS, congrats to Zhiling.
  • [09/2023] One paper got accepted by NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks Track. Many thanks to my collabrators!
  • [09/2023] One paper got accepted by EAAI.
  • [08/2023] One survey paper on image synthesis under limited data released to  ArXiv.
  • [07/2023] Two papers got accepted by ACM Multimedia 2023.
  • [04/2023] One paper on evaluating synthesis quality released to  ArXiv.
  • [03/2023] One paper got accepted by Information Sciences.
  • [11/2022] I was honored to present our blessings at   ECUST's 70th anniversary celebration. Happy birthday!
  • [10/2022] One paper got accepted by EAAI.
  • [09/2022] One paper got accepted by NeurIPS 2022.
  • [07/2022] One paper got accepted by ECCV 2022. This is my first top-tier conference paper!
  • [05/2022] One paper got accepted by IJCAI 2022.
Publications
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Attention Calibration for Disentangled Text-to-Image Personalization
Yanbing Zhang, Mengping Yang (Student Project Lead), Qin Zhou, Zhe Wang*
CVPR 2024, (Oral Presentation),
[PDF] [BibTeX]

We propose an attention calibration mechanism to improve the concept-level understanding of the T2I model. Specifically, we first introduce new learnable modifiers bound with classes to capture attributes of multiple concepts. Then, the classes are separated and strengthened following the activation of the cross-attention operation, ensuring comprehensive and self-contained concepts. Additionally, we suppress the attention activation of different classes to mitigate mutual influence among concepts.

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Revisiting the Evaluation of Image Synthesis with GANs
Mengping Yang*, Ceyuan Yang*, Yichi Zhang, Qingyan Bai, Yujun Shen, Bo Dai
NeruIPS Datasets and Benchmarks 2023,
[PDF] [BibTeX]

We make in-depth analyses on how to represent a data point in the feature space, how to calculate a fair distance using selected samples, and how many instances to use from each set. Together with these analysis, we build a comprehensive system for synthesis comparison.

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Image Synthesis under Limited Data: A Survey and Taxonomy
Mengping Yang, Zhe Wang*
ArXiv 2023,
[PDF] [Project] [BibTeX]

We provide a comprehensive survey on image synthesis under limited data, including data-efficient generative modeling, few-shot generative adaptation, few-shot and one-shot image synthesis.

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Improving Few-shot Image Generation by Structural Discrimination and Textural Modulation
Mengping Yang, Zhe Wang*, Wenyi Feng, Qian Zhang, Ting Xiao
ACM MM 2023,
[PDF] [Project] [BibTeX]

We propose textural modulation (TexMod) and strctural discriminator (StructD) for improving the performance of few-shot image generaion.

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Semantic-Aware Generator and Low-level Feature Augmentation for Few-shot Image Generation
Zhe Wang*, Jiaoyan Guan, Mengping Yang (Student Project Lead), Ting Xiao, Ziqiu Chi
ACM MM 2023,
[PDF] [BibTeX]

We propose semantic-aware generator (SAG) and low-level feature augmentation (LFA) for improving the performance of few-shot image generaion.

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ProtoGAN: Towards high diversity and fidelity image synthesis under limited data
Mengping Yang, Zhe Wang, Ziqiiu Chi, Wenli Du
InS 2023,
[PDF] [BibTeX]

we propose ProtoGAN, a GAN that incorporates the metric-learning-based prototype mechanism into adversarial learning by aligning the prototypes and features of synthesized distribution and the real distribution.

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DFSGAN: Introducing editable and representative attributes for few-shot image generation
Mengping Yang, Saisai Niu, Zhe Wang, Dongdong Li, Wenli Du
EAAI 2023,
[PDF] [BibTeX]

we propose DFSGAN for few-shot image generation, which takes dynamic Gaussian mixture (DGM) latent codes as the generator’s input.

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FreGAN: Exploiting Frequency Components for Training GANs under Limited Data
Mengping Yang, Zhe Wang, Ziqiu Chi, Yanbing Zhang
NeurIPS 2022,
[PDF] [Project] [BibTeX]

We propose a frequency-aware model for training GANs under limited data, facilitating high-quality few-shot image syntheisi.

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WaveGAN: Frequency-Aware GAN for High-Fidelity Few-Shot Image Generation
Mengping Yang, Zhe Wang, Ziqiu Chi, Yanbing Zhang
ECCV 2022,
[PDF] [Project] [BibTeX]

We propose a frequency-aware model for few-shot image generation, enabling high-fidelity synthesis for downstream tasks.

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Better Embedding and More Shots for Few-shot Learning
Ziqiu Chi, Zhe Wang, Mengping Yang, Wei Guo, Xinlei Xu
IJCAI 2022,
[PDF]

We develop Better Embedding and More Shots to address the distorted embedding of target data in few-shot learning.

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Gravitation balanced multiple kernel learning for imbalanced classification
Mengping Yang, Zhe Wang, Yanqiong Li, Yangming Zhou, Dongdong Li, Wenli Du
NCAA 2022,
[PDF]

We propose gravitational balanced multiple kernel learning (GBMKL) method for imbalanced classification.

Projects
Experiences
shlab
Research intern
Working on fundamental research problems and potential applications of deep generative models, mainly GANs and Diffusion Models.
Mentor: Dr. Ceyuan Yang and Dr. Bo Dai
2022.07.19 —— 2023.07.19
Selected Honors & Awards
  • Grand prize of president's scholarship (one student per year),
    2023
  • First Class Scholarship of Graduate,
    2019-2024
  • Shanghai Sparkling Youth, [Only one in ECUST!]
    2022
  • Jiangxi Building Material Scholarship,
    2021
  • Suzhou Industrial Park Scholarship,
    2022
  • Chinese University Student of the Year [Only 20 students per year in among all college students],
    2020
  • Outstanding students,
    2016-2024
  • Second Prize of Mathematics Competition of Chinese Graduate Students,
    2020
Professional activities
  • Conference Reviewer for CVPR(2023, 2024), NeurIPS(2023), IJCAI(2022), ACMMM(2023, 2024)
  • Journal Reviewer for TPAMI, TCSVT
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  • I like reading books (mostly Social Sciences and Philosophy), watching movies (mainly Sci-Fi, Martial Arts Chivalry) during free time.
  • I used to playing basketball a lot (once a week at present), Kobe Bryant is my favorite, always GOAT in my heart.

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