I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at NExT++, National University of Singapore (NUS), supversied by Prof. Tat-Seng Chua and mentored by Wenjie Wang. Before that, I obtained my Master’s degree from Shandong University in 2022, supervised by Prof. Liqiang Nie and mentored by Prof. Meng Liu.
My research interests lie in Visual Content Generation, Multimodal Information Retrieval, and Multimodal Large Language Models.
| Feb 2025 | Our work, SILMM (SILMM: Self-Improving Large Multimodal Models for Compositional Text-to-Image Generation), accepted by CVPR’25! |
| Jan 2025 | Our work, TIGeR (TIGeR: Unifying Text-to-Image Generation and Retrieval with Large Multimodal Models), accepted by ICLR’25! |
| Dec 2024 | Announce our new work, SILMM (Self-Improving Large Multimodal Models for Compositional Text-to-Image Generation)! |
| Jun 2024 | Announce our new work, TIGeR (Unifed Text-to-Image Generation and Retrieval)! |
| Feb 2024 | Our work, DPT (Discriminative Probing and Tuning for Text-to-Image Generation), accepted by CVPR’24! |
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SILMM: Self-Improving Large Multimodal Models for Compositional Text-to-Image Generation
Leigang Qu , Haochuan Li , Wenjie Wang , Xiang Liu , Juncheng Li , Liqiang Nie , and Tat-Seng Chua
In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition , 2025
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TIGeR: Unifying Text-to-Image Generation and Retrieval with Large Multimodal Models
Leigang Qu , Haochuan Li , Tan Wang , Wenjie Wang , Yongqi Li , Liqiang Nie , and Tat-Seng Chua
In The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations , 2025
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Discriminative Probing and Tuning for Text-to-Image Generation
Leigang Qu , Wenjie Wang , Yongqi Li , Hanwang Zhang , Liqiang Nie , and Tat-Seng Chua
In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition , 2024
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LayoutLLM-T2I: Eliciting Layout Guidance from LLM for Text-to-Image Generation
Leigang Qu* , Shengqiong Wu* , Hao Fei , Liqiang Nie , and Tat-Seng Chua
In Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia , 2023
(Oral)
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Learnable Pillar-based Re-ranking for Image-Text Retrieval
Leigang Qu , Meng Liu , Wenjie Wang , Zhedong Zheng , Liqiang Nie , and Tat-Seng Chua
In Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2023
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Search-oriented Micro-video Captioning
Liqiang Nie , Leigang Qu , Dai Meng , Min Zhang , Qi Tian , and Alberto Del Bimbo
In Proceedings of the 30th ACM international conference on multimedia , 2022
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Dynamic Modality Interaction Modeling for Image-Text Retrieval
Leigang Qu , Meng Liu , Jianlong Wu , Zan Gao , and Liqiang Nie
In Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 2021
(Best Student Paper Award)
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Context-Aware Multi-View Summarization Network for Image-Text Matching
Leigang Qu , Meng Liu , Da Cao , Liqiang Nie , and Qi Tian
In Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia , 2020
(Oral)
Academic Services
Invited Reviewer for TIP, TMM, TKDE, TOIS, TCSVT, ToMM, IPM, Information Sciences, Multimedia Systems, Neurocomputing
Invited Reviewer of ICML in 2024
Program Committee Member/Reviewer of NeurIPS, ACL, SIGIR, ACMMM, KDD, AAAI in 2024
Program Committee Member/Reviewer of SIGIR, ACMMM, AAAI, KDD, SIGIR-AP in 2023
Honors
• Research Achievement Award, NUS SoC, 2023
• Student Travel Grant, SIGIR, 2023
• Best Paper Award, ACMMM, 2022
• President's Graduate Fellowship, NUS, 2022
• Best Student Paper Award, SIGIR, 2021
