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Zicheng Liu

Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA

28 papers at tracked venues · 21 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

Venues

Frequent coauthors

Lijuan Wang
×15
Zhengyuan Yang
×12
Ze Wang
×10
Emad Barsoum
×9
Jiang Liu
×8
Jialian Wu
×8
Jianfeng Wang
×8
Ximeng Sun
×7
Xiaodong Yu
×7
Kevin Lin
×7
Linjie Li
×7
Hao Chen
×5

Papers

  1. AdaptEvolve: Improving Efficiency of Evolutionary AI Agents through Adaptive Model Selection
    ACL 2026 ·
    Pretam Ray
    ,
    Pratik Prabhanjan Brahma
    , Zicheng Liu,
    Emad Barsoum
  2. Conditional Text-to-Image Generation with Reference Guidance
    WACV 2026 ·
    Taewook Kim
    ,
    Ze Wang
    ,
    Zhengyuan Yang
    ,
    Jiang Wang
    ,
    Lijuan Wang
    , Zicheng Liu,
    Qiang Qiu
  3. DRIFT: Transferring Reasoning Priors for Efficient MLLM Fine-Tuning
    ACL 2026 ·
    Chao Huang
    ,
    Zeliang Zhang
    ,
    Jiang Liu
    ,
    Ximeng Sun
    ,
    Jialian Wu
    ,
    Xiaodong Yu
    ,
    Ze Wang
    ,
    Chenliang Xu
    ,
    Emad Barsoum
    , Zicheng Liu
  4. Reliable Use of Lemmas via Eligibility Reasoning and Section-Aware Reinforcement Learning
    ACL 2026 ·
    Zhikun Xu
    ,
    Xiaodong Yu
    ,
    Ben Zhou
    ,
    Jiang Liu
    ,
    Jialian Wu
    ,
    Ze Wang
    ,
    Ximeng Sun
    ,
    Hao Chen
    , Zicheng Liu
  5. Stabilizing Efficient Reasoning with Step-Level Advantage Selection
    ACL 2026 ·
    Han Wang
    ,
    Xiaodong Yu
    ,
    Jialian Wu
    ,
    Jiang Liu
    ,
    Ximeng Sun
    ,
    Mohit Bansal
    , Zicheng Liu
  6. Agent Laboratory: Using LLM Agents as Research Assistants
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Samuel Schmidgall
    ,
    Yusheng Su
    ,
    Ze Wang
    ,
    Ximeng Sun
    ,
    Jialian Wu
    ,
    Xiaodong Yu
    ,
    Jiang Liu
    ,
    Michael Moor
    , Zicheng Liu,
    Emad Barsoum
  7. Exploring Invariance in Images through One-way Wave Equations
    ICML 2025 ·
    Yinpeng Chen
    ,
    Dongdong Chen
    ,
    Xiyang Dai
    ,
    Mengchen Liu
    ,
    Yinan Feng
    ,
    Youzuo Lin
    ,
    Lu Yuan
    , Zicheng Liu
  8. Masked Autoencoders Are Effective Tokenizers for Diffusion Models
    ICML 2025 ·
    Hao Chen
    ,
    Yujin Han
    ,
    Fangyi Chen
    ,
    Xiang Li
    ,
    Yidong Wang
    ,
    Jindong Wang
    ,
    Ze Wang
    , Zicheng Liu,
    Difan Zou
    ,
    Bhiksha Raj
  9. Self-Taught Agentic Long Context Understanding
    ACL 2025 ·
    Yufan Zhuang
    ,
    Xiaodong Yu
    ,
    Jialian Wu
    ,
    Ximeng Sun
    ,
    Ze Wang
    ,
    Jiang Liu
    ,
    Yusheng Su
    ,
    Jingbo Shang
    , Zicheng Liu,
    Emad Barsoum
  10. SoftVQ-VAE: Efficient 1-Dimensional Continuous Tokenizer
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Hao Chen
    ,
    Ze Wang
    ,
    Xiang Li
    ,
    Ximeng Sun
    ,
    Fangyi Chen
    ,
    Jiang Liu
    ,
    Jindong Wang
    ,
    Bhiksha Raj
    , Zicheng Liu,
    Emad Barsoum
  11. TTT-Bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Reasoning Ability with Simple and Novel Tic-Tac-Toe-style Games
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Prakamya Mishra
    ,
    Jiang Liu
    ,
    Jialian Wu
    ,
    Xiaodong Yu
    , Zicheng Liu,
    Emad Barsoum
  12. TaDA: Training-free recipe for Decoding with Adaptive KV Cache Compression and Mean-centering
    ACL 2025 ·
    Vinay Joshi
    ,
    Pratik Prabhanjan Brahma
    , Zicheng Liu,
    Emad Barsoum
  13. Tuning Timestep-Distilled Diffusion Model Using Pairwise Sample Optimization
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Zichen Miao
    ,
    Zhengyuan Yang
    ,
    Kevin Lin
    ,
    Ze Wang
    , Zicheng Liu,
    Lijuan Wang
    ,
    Qiang Qiu
  14. Unleashing Hour-Scale Video Training for Long Video-Language Understanding
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Jingyang Lin
    ,
    Jialian Wu
    ,
    Ximeng Sun
    ,
    Ze Wang
    ,
    Jiang Liu
    ,
    Yusheng Su
    ,
    Xiaodong Yu
    ,
    Hao Chen
    ,
    Jiebo Luo
    , Zicheng Liu,
    Emad Barsoum
  15. Bring Metric Functions into Diffusion Models
    IJCAI 2024 ·
    Jie An
    ,
    Zhengyuan Yang
    ,
    Jianfeng Wang
    ,
    Linjie Li
    , Zicheng Liu,
    Lijuan Wang
    ,
    Jiebo Luo
  16. Completing Visual Objects via Bridging Generation and Segmentation
    ICML 2024 ·
    Xiang Li
    ,
    Yinpeng Chen
    ,
    Chung-Ching Lin
    ,
    Hao Chen
    ,
    Kai Hu
    ,
    Rita Singh
    ,
    Bhiksha Raj
    ,
    Lijuan Wang
    , Zicheng Liu
  17. Disco: Disentangled Control for Realistic Human Dance Generation
    CVPR 2024 ·
    Tan Wang
    ,
    Linjie Li
    ,
    Kevin Lin
    ,
    Yuanhao Zhai
    ,
    Chung-Ching Lin
    ,
    Zhengyuan Yang
    ,
    Hanwang Zhang
    , Zicheng Liu,
    Lijuan Wang
  18. GRiT: A Generative Region-to-Text Transformer for Object Understanding
    ECCV 2024 ·
    Jialian Wu
    ,
    Jianfeng Wang
    ,
    Zhengyuan Yang
    ,
    Zhe Gan
    , Zicheng Liu,
    Junsong Yuan
    ,
    Lijuan Wang
  19. IDOL: Unified Dual-Modal Latent Diffusion for Human-Centric Joint Video-Depth Generation
    ECCV 2024 ·
    Yuanhao Zhai
    ,
    Kevin Lin
    ,
    Linjie Li
    ,
    Chung-Ching Lin
    ,
    Jianfeng Wang
    ,
    Zhengyuan Yang
    ,
    David S. Doermann
    ,
    Junsong Yuan
    , Zicheng Liu,
    Lijuan Wang
  20. Idea2Img: Iterative Self-refinement with GPT-4V for Automatic Image Design and Generation
    ECCV 2024 ·
    Zhengyuan Yang
    ,
    Jianfeng Wang
    ,
    Linjie Li
    ,
    Kevin Lin
    ,
    Chung-Ching Lin
    , Zicheng Liu,
    Lijuan Wang
  21. MM-Narrator: Narrating Long-form Videos with Multimodal In-Context Learning
    CVPR 2024 ·
    Chaoyi Zhang
    ,
    Kevin Lin
    ,
    Zhengyuan Yang
    ,
    Jianfeng Wang
    ,
    Linjie Li
    ,
    Chung-Ching Lin
    , Zicheng Liu,
    Lijuan Wang
  22. MM-Vet: Evaluating Large Multimodal Models for Integrated Capabilities
    ICML 2024 ·
    Weihao Yu
    ,
    Zhengyuan Yang
    ,
    Linjie Li
    ,
    Jianfeng Wang
    ,
    Kevin Lin
    , Zicheng Liu,
    Xinchao Wang
    ,
    Lijuan Wang
  23. ORES: Open-Vocabulary Responsible Visual Synthesis
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Minheng Ni
    ,
    Chenfei Wu
    ,
    Xiaodong Wang
    ,
    Shengming Yin
    ,
    Lijuan Wang
    , Zicheng Liu,
    Nan Duan
  24. OpenLEAF: A Novel Benchmark for Open-Domain Interleaved Image-Text Generation
    ACM MM 2024 ·
    Jie An
    ,
    Zhengyuan Yang
    ,
    Linjie Li
    ,
    Jianfeng Wang
    ,
    Kevin Lin
    , Zicheng Liu,
    Lijuan Wang
    ,
    Jiebo Luo
  25. Segment and Caption Anything
    CVPR 2024 ·
    Xiaoke Huang
    ,
    Jianfeng Wang
    ,
    Yansong Tang
    ,
    Zheng Zhang
    ,
    Han Hu
    ,
    Jiwen Lu
    ,
    Lijuan Wang
    , Zicheng Liu
  26. StrokeNUWA - Tokenizing Strokes for Vector Graphic Synthesis
    ICML 2024 ·
    Zecheng Tang
    ,
    Chenfei Wu
    ,
    Zekai Zhang
    ,
    Minheng Ni
    ,
    Shengming Yin
    ,
    Yu Liu
    ,
    Zhengyuan Yang
    ,
    Lijuan Wang
    , Zicheng Liu,
    Juntao Li
    ,
    Nan Duan
  27. Taming Diffusion Prior for Image Super-Resolution with Domain Shift SDEs
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Qinpeng Cui
    ,
    Yixuan Liu
    ,
    Xinyi Zhang
    ,
    Qiqi Bao
    ,
    Qingmin Liao
    ,
    liwang Amd
    ,
    Lu Tian
    , Zicheng Liu,
    Zhongdao Wang
    ,
    Emad Barsoum
  28. Training Diffusion Models Towards Diverse Image Generation with Reinforcement Learning
    CVPR 2024 ·
    Zichen Miao
    ,
    Jiang Wang
    ,
    Ze Wang
    ,
    Zhengyuan Yang
    ,
    Lijuan Wang
    ,
    Qiang Qiu
    , Zicheng Liu