Yuanze Lin

I am a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at the University of Oxford, where I work with Prof. Ronald Clark. My research focuses on diffusion and vision-language models.

Before going to Oxford, I had a great time at Microsoft Redmond, MSR Asia, CCVL @ Johns Hopkins University, Alibaba, etc. I appreciate collaborating with distinguished professors and researchers from these institutions.

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

 •   Multimodal large language models (MLLMs)

 •   Image/Video generation and editing based on diffusion models

 •   The applicability of large language models (LLMs)

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  News


[07/2026] Started a research internship at Microsoft Research Cambridge.

[09/2025] IllumiCraft accepted to NeurIPS 2025.

[06/2025] We introduced IllumiCraft for high-fidelity video relighting.

[04/2025] Olympus was selected as a Highlight at CVPR 2025!

[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.

IllumiCraft: Unified Geometry and Illumination Diffusion for Controllable Video Generation
Yuanze Lin, Yi-Wen Chen, Yi-Hsuan Tsai, Ronald Clark, Ming-Hsuan Yang
NeurIPS, 2025 
ArXiv / Project Page / Video / Code / BibTeX

We present IllumiCraft, a unified framework that unifies geometry and illumination diffusion for controllable video generation.

Olympus: A Universal Task Router for Computer Vision Tasks
Yuanze Lin, Yunsheng Li, Dongdong Chen, Weijian Xu, Ronald Clark, Philip Torr
CVPR, 2025  ★ Highlight
ArXiv / Project Page / Video / Poster / 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 / Poster / 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 REVIVE, a knowledge-based VQA method that exploits explicit object-region information in both the knowledge-retrieval and answering stages, achieving state-of-the-art performance on the 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 via a differentiable interpolation-based patch selection and an improved training scheme, with extensive experiments on six benchmarks demonstrating its effectiveness.

Self-supervised video representation learning with meta-contrastive network
Yuanze Lin, Xun Guo, Yan Lu
ICCV, 2021
ArXiv / Poster / BibTeX

Propose the Meta-Contrastive Network (MCN), combining contrastive learning and meta-learning for pre-training; it outperforms state-of-the-art methods on UCF101 and HMDB51 for video action recognition and retrieval.

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


Industrial
Researcher Intern, Jul 2026 - Present
hosted by Dr. Marek Kowalski, working on spatial reasoning in multimodal large language models (MLLMs).
Researcher Intern, Feb 2024 - Nov 2024
hosted by Dr. Dongdong Chen, working on multimodal large language models (MLLMs).
Senior Algorithm Engineer, Feb 2023 - Aug 2023
Working on vision-language pre-training, fine-tuning, and the applicability of large language models (LLMs).
Researcher Intern, Feb 2022 - June 2022
with Dr. Yujia Xie, Dr. Dongdong Chen and Dr. Yichong Xu, working on knowledge-based VQA with regional visual representations.
Researcher Intern, Dec 2020 - Sep 2021
with Dr. Xun Guo and Dr. Yan Lu, working on self-supervised learning and transformers for video tasks.
Researcher Intern, Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
with Dr. Haozhi Huang, working on text-driven editing of videos based on meta learning.
Academic
Visiting Student, May 2022 - Nov 2023
hosted by Prof. Ming-Hsuan Yang, working on text-driven image editing.
Research Assistant, May 2022 - Feb 2023
with Prof. Cihang Xie and Prof. Alan Yuille, working on vision-language pre-training based on MAE.
Research Assistant, Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
with Prof. Gao Huang, working on video recognition and visual grounding.

  Professional Services


Program Comittee: AAAI 2025, AAAI 2026

Journal Reviewer: IJCV 2025

Conference Reviewer: ICLR 2026, AISTATS 2026, CVPR 2026, ECCV 2026

Conference Reviewer: ICLR 2025, AISTATS 2025, CVPR 2025, ICML 2025, ICCV 2025, NeurIPS 2025

Conference Reviewer: ICRA 2024, CVPR 2024, ECCV 2024, NeurIPS 2024

Conference Reviewer: ICLR 2023, CVPR 2023, ICCV 2023, NeurIPS 2023

Conference Reviewer: CVPR 2022


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