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Yongsheng Yu

Ph.D. Candidate University of Rochester

Third-year Ph.D. student in the VIStA Lab at the University of Rochester, advised by Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor Jiebo Luo. My research focuses on image generation foundation models and visual editing.

6
first-authored papers
at top-tier venues
CVPR ×1 ICCV ×1 NeurIPS ×1 ECCV ×2 AAAI ×1

News

02/2026
PixelDiT is accepted to CVPR 2026 Oral
12/2025
I will serve as an Area Chair for ECCV 2026.
11/2025
RealUHR is accepted to AAAI 2026.
09/2025
PixPerfect is accepted to NeurIPS 2025.
06/2025
OmniPaint is accepted to ICCV 2025.
04/2025
32×-compressed latent SR model ZipIR report is available! (Completed Nov 2024, delayed release due to patent application)
09/2024
PromptFix is accepted to NeurIPS 2024.
01/2024
MaGIC is accepted to ICLR 2024.

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Experience

NVIDIA
May 2025 - Present
Research Intern · Santa Clara, US
Adobe Research
May 2024 - Apr 2025
Research Intern · San Jose, US
Microsoft Research Asia
May 2023 - Aug 2023
Research Intern · Beijing, China

Selected Publications

PixelDiT
CVPR 2026 Oral
PixelDiT: Pixel Diffusion Transformers for Image Generation
Yongsheng Yu, Wei Xiong, Weili Nie, Yichen Sheng, Shiqiu Liu, Jiebo Luo
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026, Oral
Project PDF
RealUHR
AAAI 2026
RealUHR: Harnessing Patch-Cascade Flows for Photorealistic Ultra-High-Resolution Synthesis
Yongsheng Yu, Haitian Zheng, Zhe Lin, Connelly Barnes, Yuqian Zhou, Zhifei Zhang, Jiebo Luo
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026
PDF
OmniPaint
ICCV 2025 GitHub stars
OmniPaint: Mastering Object-Oriented Editing via Disentangled Insertion-Removal Inpainting
Yongsheng Yu*†, Ziyun Zeng*, Haitian Zheng, Jiebo Luo
† Project lead
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
Project PDF Code
MMInvertFill
IJCV 2025
High-Fidelity Image Inpainting with Multimodal Guided GAN Inversion
Libo Zhang*, Yongsheng Yu*, Jiali Yao, Heng Fan
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2025
PDF
GPT-4V Social Media
ACM TIST 2025
GPT-4V(ision) as A Social Media Analysis Engine
Hanjia Lyu*, Jinfa Huang*, Daoan Zhang*, Yongsheng Yu*, Xinyi Mou*, et al.
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), 2025
PDF
ZipIR
arXiv 2504.08591
ZipIR: Latent Pyramid Diffusion Transformer for High-Resolution Image Restoration
Yongsheng Yu, Haitian Zheng, Zhifei Zhang, Jianming Zhang, Yuqian Zhou, Connelly Barnes, Yuchen Liu, Wei Xiong, Zhe Lin, Jiebo Luo
arXiv preprint, 2025
PDF
PromptFix
NeurIPS 2024 GitHub stars
PromptFix: You Prompt and We Fix the Photo
Yongsheng Yu*†, Ziyun Zeng*, Hang Hua, Jianlong Fu, Jiebo Luo
† Project lead
Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
Project PDF Code Dataset
MaGIC
ICLR 2024
MaGIC: Multi-modality Guided Image Completion
Hao Wang*, Yongsheng Yu*†, Tiejian Luo, Heng Fan, Libo Zhang
† Project lead
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024
PDF Project Code
Chain-of-Thought
ICME 2024
Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Demographic Inference with Large Multimodal Models
Yongsheng Yu, Jiebo Luo
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2024, Oral
PDF
DMT
arXiv 2307.08629
Deficiency-Aware Masked Transformer for Video Inpainting
Yongsheng Yu, Heng Fan, Libo Zhang, Jiebo Luo
arXiv preprint, 2023
PDF Code
Unbiased Multi-Modality
ECCV 2022
Unbiased Multi-Modality Guidance for Image Inpainting
Yongsheng Yu, Dawei Du, Libo Zhang, Tiejian Luo
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022
PDF Code
High-Fidelity Inpainting
ECCV 2022
High-Fidelity Image Inpainting with GAN Inversion
Yongsheng Yu, Libo Zhang, Heng Fan, Tiejian Luo
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022
PDF

Services

Area ChairECCV 2026
Conference Reviewer 2026: CVPR, AAAI
2025: CVPR, ICCV, ICLR, NeurIPS, AAAI, MM
2024: CVPR, ECCV, ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICME, MM, WACV
2023: CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, WACV
Journal ReviewerIEEE TIP, IJCV, IEEE TMM