publications

Below is a list of my journal and conference publications and preprints in reverse chronological order. You can also check out my Google Scholar profile.

2025

  1. CVPR’25
    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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  2. ICLR’25
    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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2024

  1. CVPR’24
    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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  2. ICML’24
    NExT-GPT: Any-to-Any Multimodal LLM
    Shengqiong Wu ,  Hao Fei ,  Leigang Qu ,  Wei Ji ,  and  Tat-Seng Chua
    In The International Conference on Machine Learning , 2024
    (Oral)
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  3. ICLR’24
    Composed image retrieval with text feedback via multi-grained uncertainty regularization
    Yiyang Chen ,  Zhedong Zheng ,  Wei Ji ,  Leigang Qu ,  and  Tat-Seng Chua
    In The International Conference on Learning Representations , 2024
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  4. ACL’24
    Generative cross-modal retrieval: Memorizing images in multimodal language models for retrieval and beyond
    Yongqi Li ,  Wenjie Wang ,  Leigang Qu ,  Liqiang Nie ,  Wenjie Li ,  and  Tat-Seng Chua
    In Proceedings of the 62st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics , 2024
  5. ACL (findings)’24
    Video-Language Understanding: A Survey from Model Architecture, Model Training, and Data Perspectives
    Thong Nguyen ,  Yi Bin ,  Junbin Xiao ,  Leigang Qu ,  Yicong Li ,  Jay Zhangjie Wu ,  Cong-Duy Nguyen , and 2 more authors
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 , 2024

2023

  1. ACM MM’23
    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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  2. SIGIR’23
    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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  3. CIKM’23
    Popularity-aware Distributionally Robust Optimization for Recommendation System
    Jujia Zhao ,  Wenjie Wang ,  Xinyu Lin ,  Leigang Qu ,  Jizhi Zhang ,  and  Tat-Seng Chua
    In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management , 2023

2022

  1. ACM MM’22
    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

    (Best Paper Award)

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  2. TMM’22
    Self-Supervised Correlation Learning for Cross-modal Retrieval
    Yaxin Liu ,  Jianlong Wu ,  Leigang Qu ,  Tian Gan ,  Jianhua Yin ,  and  Liqiang Nie
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2022

2021

  1. SIGIR’21
    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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2020

  1. ACM MM’20
    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)
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  2. TIP’20
    Iterative Local-Global Collaboration Learning Towards One-Shot Video Person Re-Identification
    Meng Liu ,  Leigang Qu ,  Liqiang Nie ,  Maofu Liu ,  Lingyu Duan ,  and  Baoquan Chen
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2020
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