Research

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Video Understanding & Generation


PreCoG: Preview-Edit for Efficient Video Correction in Generation-Time

PreCoG: Preview-Edit for Efficient Video Correction in Generation-Time

arXiv, 2026

Yilai Liu, Wenqi Pei, Zhifeng Lu, Shiyuan Zhang, Zongxi Liu, and Hongyang Du

Propose PreCoG, an efficient video correction framework combining low-cost preview assessment with training-free editing that accounts for source-condition misalignment during generation.

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TempCloze: Can Video-LLMs Identify the Missing Middle?

TempCloze: Can Video-LLMs Identify the Missing Middle?

EMNLP Finding, 2026

Wenqi Pei*, Henry Hengyuan Zhao*, Yilai Liu*, Jiahao Meng, Han Chen, Ziyu Wang, and Hongyang Du

Introduce TempCloze, a video cloze benchmark for evaluating visual temporal reasoning beyond language shortcuts by identifying the missing middle from beginning and ending clips.

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SlotMem: Character-Addressable Internal Memory for Narrative Long Video Generation

SlotMem: Character-Addressable Internal Memory for Narrative Long Video Generation

arXiv, 2026

Yilai Liu, Xin Zhang, Shiyuan Zhang, and Hongyang Du

Propose SlotMem, a character-addressable internal memory framework for preserving long-range character consistency in narrative long-video generation.

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Mobile Usage Behavior Modeling


MIDiff: Tackling Sparsity and Imbalance in Mobile Usage Generation via Multivariate-Imaging Diffusion

MIDiff: Tackling Sparsity and Imbalance in Mobile Usage Generation via Multivariate-Imaging Diffusion

arXiv, 2026

Yilai Liu, Shiyuan Zhang, and Hongyang Du

Propose MIDiff, a multivariate-imaging diffusion framework for generating realistic and diverse mobile usage traces under sparsity and usage imbalance.

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U-MASK: User-adaptive Spatio-Temporal Masking for Personalized Mobile AI Applications

U-MASK: User-adaptive Spatio-Temporal Masking for Personalized Mobile AI Applications

arXiv, 2026

Shiyuan Zhang, Yilai Liu, Yuwei Du, Ruoxuan Yang, Dong In Kim, and Hongyang Du

Propose U-MASK, a uniform model for multi-tasks generazabiltity through spatio-temporal masks for contexts-retrival under sparse observations.

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Poster: Enhancing Mobile Traffic Data Generation through Spatio-temporal Correlation Imaging

Poster: Enhancing Mobile Traffic Data Generation through Spatio-temporal Correlation Imaging

MobiCom Poster, 2025

Yilai Liu, Shiyuan Zhang, Hongyang Du

Address the challenge of users’ daily mobile usage modeling under usage sparsity by correlation imaging for data augmentation.

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