Yuanze Lin

I am a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at the University of Oxford, where I work with Prof. Ronald Clark and Prof. Philip Torr. I also collaborate with Dr. João F. Henriques from the VGG group. My research focuses on diffusion and vision-language models.

Before going to Oxford, I spent great time at Microsoft Redmond, MSR Asia, CCVL @ Johns Hopkins University, Alibaba, etc. It's very fortunate to work with Dr. Xun Guo and Dr. Yan Lu at MSRA, Prof. Gao Huang at Tsinghua University, Dr. Yujia Xie, Dr. Dongdong Chen and Dr. Yichong Xu at Microsoft Redmond, Prof. Cihang Xie and Prof. Alan Yuille at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Yi-Hsuan Tsai and Prof. Ming-Hsuan Yang at UC Merced.

My research interest lies in machine learning and its applications, especially:

• Multimodal large language models (MLLMs)

• Image/3D generation and editing based on diffusion models

• The applicability of large language models (LLMs)

yuanze.lin [at] cs.ox.ac.uk / Google Scholar / Github / LinkedIn

News

[03/2025] Released the code of Olympus (CVPR 2025) for vision tasks.

[02/2025] Olympus accepted to CVPR 2025!

[12/2024] We presented Olympus to solve over 20 different computer vision tasks.

[08/2024] Released the code of Learnable Regions (CVPR2024) for image editing.

[07/2024] Rethinking Visual Prompting for MLLMs with External Knowledge was presented.

[03/2024] Check out DreamPolisher for high-quality text-to-3D generation!

[02/2024] Started a research internship at GenAI @ Microsoft.

[02/2024] Text-Driven Image Editing via Learnable Regions accepted to CVPR 2024.

[10/2023] Started my PhD journey at CS @ University of Oxford.

[07/2023] SMAUG accepted to ICCV 2023.

[09/2022] REVIVE accepted to NeurIPS 2022.

[03/2022] Pseudo-Q and AdaFocus V2 accepted to CVPR 2022.

[07/2021] MCN accepted to ICCV 2021.

[06/2021] EVA-GCN accepted to CVPR 2021 AMFG Workshop and won Best Paper Award!

Selected Publications

Papers are sorted by recency, * denotes equal contribution.

	Olympus: A Universal Task Router for Computer Vision Tasks Yuanze Lin, Yunsheng Li, Dongdong Chen, Weijian Xu, Ronald Clark, Philip H.S. Torr CVPR, 2025 ArXiv / Project Page / Code / BibTeX We introduce Olympus, a new approach that transforms Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) into a unified framework capable of handling a wide array of computer vision tasks.
	Text-Driven Image Editing via Learnable Regions Yuanze Lin, Yi-Wen Chen, Yi-Hsuan Tsai, Lu Jiang, Ming-Hsuan Yang CVPR, 2024 ArXiv / Project Page / Video / Code / BibTeX Introduce a region-based editing network that is trained to generate editing regions utilizing a text-driven editing loss with CLIP guidance, our method can edit the given images based on freely provided language descriptions.
	SMAUG: Sparse Masked Autoencoder for Efficient Video-Language Pre-training Yuanze Lin, Chen Wei, Huiyu Wang, Alan Yuille, Cihang Xie ICCV, 2023 ArXiv / Poster / Slides / BibTeX Propose an efficient video-language pre-training framework, which enjoys both competitive performances on text-to-video retrieval and video question answering tasks, and much less pre-training costs by 1.9X or more.
	REVIVE: Regional Visual Representation Matters in Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering Yuanze Lin, Yujia Xie, Dongdong Chen, Yichong Xu, Chenguang Zhu, Lu Yuan NeurIPS, 2022 ArXiv / Poster / Supplementary Material / OpenReview / Code / BibTeX Propose a new knowledge-based VQA method REVIVE, which utilizes the explicit information of object regions not only in the knowledge retrieval stage but also in the answering model. It achieves a new state-of-the-art performance on OK-VQA dataset.
	Pseudo-Q: Generating Pseudo Language Queries for Visual Grounding Haojun Jiang, Yuanze Lin, Dongchen Han, Shiji Song, Gao Huang CVPR, 2022 ArXiv / Poster / Code / BibTeX Present Pseudo-Q to automatically generate pseudo language queries for supervised training, which achieves superior or comparable performance compared to existing weakly-supervised visual grounding methods on five datasets.
	AdaFocus V2: End-to-End Training of Spatial Dynamic Networks for Video Recognition Yulin Wang, Yang Yue, Yuanze Lin, Haojun Jiang, Zihang Lai, Victor Kulikov, Nikita Orlov, Humphrey Shi, Gao Huang CVPR, 2022 ArXiv / Code / BibTeX Reformulate AdaFocus as a simple one-stage algorithm by introducing a differentiable interpolation-based patch selection operation and further present an improved training scheme. Extensive experiments on six benchmark datasets demonstrate its effectiveness.
	Self-supervised video representation learning with meta-contrastive network Yuanze Lin, Xun Guo, Yan Lu ICCV, 2021 ArXiv / Poster / BibTeX Propose a Meta-Contrastive Network (MCN), which combines contrastive learning and meta learning for pre-training. For video action recognition and video retrieval tasks, MCN outperforms state-of-the-art approaches on UCF101 and HMDB51 datasets.
	EVA-GCN: Head Pose Estimation Based on Graph Convolutional Networks Miao Xin, Shentong Mo, Yuanze Lin CVPR AMFG Workshop, 2021 (Best Paper Award) Paper / Code / BibTeX Construct a landmark-connection graph, and propose to leverage the Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) to model the complex nonlinear mappings between the graph typologies and the head pose angles.

Experiences

	GenAI @ Microsoft Redmond Researcher Intern, Feb 2024 - Nov 2024 hosted by Dr. Dongdong Chen, working on large multimodal models.
	Vision and Learning Lab @ UC Merced Visiting Student, May 2022 - Nov 2023 hosted by Prof. Ming-Hsuan Yang, working on text-driven image editing.
	Alibaba Group Senior Algorithm Engineer, Feb 2023 - Aug 2023 Working on vision-language pre-training, fine-tuning, and the applicability of large language models (LLMs).
	CCVL @ Johns Hopkins University Research Assistant, May 2022 - Feb 2023 with Prof. Cihang Xie and Prof. Alan Yuille, working on vision-language pre-training based on MAE.
	Microsoft Redmond Researcher Intern, Feb 2022 - June 2022 with Dr. Yujia Xie, Dr. Dongdong Chen and Dr. Yichong Xu, working on knowledge-based VQA.
	Microsoft Research Asia Researcher Intern, Dec 2020 - Sep 2021 with Dr. Xun Guo and Dr. Yan Lu, working on self-supervised learning and transformers for video tasks.
	Tencent AI Lab Researcher Intern, Sep 2020 - Dec 2020 with Dr. Haozhi Huang, working on text-driven editing of videos based on meta learning.