Yiwei Ma

Yiwei Ma   马祎炜

Algorithm Researcher @ dots, Xiaohongshu算法研究员 @ 小红书 dots

Research focus:研究方向: Multimodal Large Language Models多模态大语言模型Agentic Text-to-Image Model智能体文生图模型

27 Papers论文 1.6k+ Citations引用 12.2k+ GitHub Stars
 国家奖学金National Scholarship  顶尖人才计划 OfferTop-Talent Offers  国自然青基NSFC Youth (青基)  中国科协青托CAST Young Elite (青托)
✉ mayiwei1998@163.com  |  mayiwei1998.xmu@gmail.com

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Biography个人简介   [back top][返回顶部]

I am an Algorithm Researcher at the dots team of Xiaohongshu (RED), specializing in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and Agentic Text-to-Image Models. I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Artificial Intelligence, School of Informatics, Xiamen University, advised by Prof. Rongrong Ji and Prof. Xiaoshuai Sun. I have published 27 papers in top-tier CCF-A/B conferences and journals (17 as first/co-first author, 3 Orals), with 1.6k+ Google Scholar citations. I serve as an Area Chair for ACM MM 2025 Workshop and as a reviewer for CVPR, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICCV, IEEE TPAMI and other venues. Feel free to reach out to me via email. I am also the core developer of the open-source External-Attention-pytorch project (12.2k+ GitHub stars). In 2026, I received offers for the flagship top-talent programs of several leading tech companies:

我是小红书(RED)dots 团队的算法研究员,研究方向为多模态大语言模型(MLLMs)智能体文生图模型。我于厦门大学信息学院人工智能系获得博士学位,师从纪荣嵘教授孙晓帅教授。已在 CCF-A/B 类顶级会议与期刊发表论文 27 篇(其中一作/共一 17 篇,3 篇 Oral),谷歌学术引用 1.6k+ 次。担任 ACM MM 2025 Workshop 领域主席,以及 CVPR、NeurIPS、ICLR、ICCV、IEEE TPAMI 等多个会议与期刊的审稿人。欢迎通过邮箱与我联系。同时是开源项目 External-Attention-pytorch 的核心开发者(GitHub 12.2k+ stars)。于 2026 年获得多家头部科技公司顶尖人才计划录用 offer:

Xiaohongshu小红书Xiaohongshu Red Star Tencent Hunyuan腾讯Tencent 青云Qingyun Alibaba阿里Alibaba 通义阿里星Tongyi Star ByteDance字节跳动ByteDance 筋斗云Jindouyun Ant Group蚂蚁Ant 蚂蚁星Star Huawei华为Huawei 天才少年Genius Youth Meituan美团Meituan 北斗Beidou Xiaomi小米Xiaomi 顶尖人才Top Talent 京东 TGT

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dots3-note-prev (Xiaohongshu · dots)
Preview multimodal MoE model from the dots3 family, released on Hugging Face.
[Hugging Face] [GitHub] [Project Page]
dots.vlm1.inst (Xiaohongshu · dots)
Instruction-tuned multimodal large language model from the dots series, released on Hugging Face.
[Hugging Face] [GitHub]
dots.mocr (Xiaohongshu · dots)
Multilingual document layout parsing and OCR model from the dots series, released on Hugging Face.
[Hugging Face] [GitHub] [arXiv]

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2026
2025

Publications论文成果   [back top][返回顶部]

Journal期刊

Yiwei Ma, Ke Ye, Weihuang Lin, Jiayi Ji, Xiaoshuai Sun, Tat-Seng Chua, Rongrong Ji
An Extensive Benchmark for Single-Round and Multi-Round Instruction-Based Image Editing
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2026
[PDF] [Code]
Yiwei Ma, Jiayi Ji, Zhipeng Qian, Xiaoshuai Sun, Rongrong Ji
CoP: Chain of Perception for Referring 3D Instance Segmentation
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2026
[PDF] [Code]
Yiwei Ma, Weihuang Lin, Zhibin Wang, Jiayi Ji, Xiaoshuai Sun, Chia-Wen Lin, Rongrong Ji
Boosting Multi-Modal Large Language Model with Enhanced Visual Features
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2026
[PDF] [Code]
Yiwei Ma, Jiayi Ji, Xiaoshuai Sun, Yiyi Zhou, Xiaopeng Hong, Yongjian Wu, Rongrong Ji
Image Captioning via Dynamic Path Customization
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning System (TNNLS), 2024
[PDF] [ArXiv] [Code]
Yiwei Ma, Yijun Fan, Jiayi Ji, Haowei Wang, Xiaoshuai Sun, Guannan Jiang, Annan Shu, Rongrong Ji
X-Dreamer: Creating High-quality 3D Content by Bridging the Domain Gap Between Text-to-2D and Text-to-3D Generation
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (ToMM), 2024
[PDF] [arXiv] [Code] [Project Page]
Yiwei Ma, Jiayi Ji, Xiaoshuai Sun, Yiyi Zhou, Rongrong Ji
Towards Local Visual Modeling for Image Captioning
Pattern Recognition (PR), 2023 (ESI Highly Cited Paper)(ESI 高被引论文)
[PDF] [ArXiv] [Code]
Yiwei Ma, Jiayi Ji, Xiaoshuai Sun, Yiyi Zhou, Yongjian Wu, Feiyue Huang, Rongrong Ji
Knowing what it is: Semantic-enhanced Dual Attention Transformer
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), 2022
[PDF] [Code]
Jiayi Ji, Yiwei Ma (co-frist author), Xiaoshuai Sun, Yiyi Zhou, Yongjian Wu, Rongrong Ji
Knowing What to Learn: A Metric-oriented Focal Mechanism for Image Captioning
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2022
[PDF] [Code]

Conference会议

Yiwei Ma, Jiayi Ji, Ke Ye, Weihuang Lin, Zhibin Wang, Yonghan Zheng, Qiang Zhou, Xiaoshuai Sun, Rongrong Ji
I2EBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Instruction-based Image Editing
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
[arXiv] [Code]
Yiwei Ma, Zhekai Lin, Jiayi Ji, Yijun Fan, Xiaoshuai Sun, Rongrong Ji
X-Oscar: A Progressive Framework for High-quality Text-guided 3D Animatable Avatar Generation
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024
[arXiv] [Code] [Project Page]
Yiwei Ma, Xiaoqing Zhang, Xiaoshuai Sun, Jiayi Ji, Haowei Wang, Guannan Jiang, Weilin Zhuang, Rongrong Ji
X-Mesh:Towards Fast and Accurate Text-driven 3D Stylization via Dynamic Textual Guidance
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
[PDF] [arXiv] [Code] [Project Page]
Yiwei Ma, Guohai Xu, Xiaoshuai Sun, Ming Yan, Ji Zhang, Rongrong Ji
X-CLIP: End-to-End Multi-grained Contrastive Learning for Video-Text Retrieval
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2022 (Cite: 500+)
[PDF] [arXiv] [Code] [Project Page]
Yiwei Ma, Xiaoshuai Sun, Jiayi Ji, Guannan Jiang, Weilin Zhuang, Rongrong Ji
Beat: Bi-directional One-to-Many Embedding Alignment for Text-based Person Retrieval
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2023
[PDF] [Code] [Project Page]
Weihuang Lin, Yiwei Ma (co-frist author), Xiaoshuai Sun, Shuting He, Jiayi Ji, Liujuan Cao, Rongrong Ji
HRSeg: High-Resolution Visual Perception and Enhancement for Reasoning Segmentation
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2025
[arXiv] [Code]
Zhipeng Qian, Yiwei Ma (co-frist author), Zhekai Lin, Jiayi Ji, Xiawu Zheng, Xiaoshuai Sun, Rongrong Ji
Multi-branch Collaborative Learning Network for 3D Visual Grounding
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
[arXiv] [Code]
Sihan Liu, Yiwei Ma (co-frist author), Xiaoqing Zhang, Haowei Wang, Jiayi Ji, Xiaoshuai Sun, Rongrong Ji
Rotated Multi-Scale Interaction Network for Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2024
[arXiv] [Code]
Changli Wu, Yiwei Ma (co-frist author), Qi Chen, Haowei Wang, Gen Luo, Jiayi Ji, Xiaoshuai Sun
3D-STMN: Dependency-Driven Superpoint-Text Matching Network for End-to-End 3D Referring Expression Segmentation
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024
[arXiv] [Code] [PDF]
Zhipeng Qian, Yiwei Ma (co-frist author), Jiayi Ji, Xiaoshuai Sun
X-RefSeg3D: Enhancing Referring 3D Instance Segmentation via Structured Cross-Modal Graph Neural Networks
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024
[Code] [PDF]

Preprint预印本

Yiwei Ma, Guohai Xu, Xiaoshuai Sun, Jiayi Ji, Jie Lou, Debing Zhang, Rongrong Ji
MLLM-Selector: Necessity and Diversity-driven High-value Data Selection for Enhanced Visual Instruction Tuning
arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.20502, 2025
[arXiv]
Yiwei Ma, Zhibin Wang, Xiaoshuai Sun, Weihuang Lin, Qiang Zhou, Jiayi Ji, Rongrong Ji
INF-LLaVA: Dual-perspective Perception for High-Resolution Multimodal Large Language Model
arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.16198, 2024
[arXiv] [Code]
Weihuang Lin, Yiwei Ma (co-frist author), Jiayi Ji, Xiaoshuai Sun, Rongrong Ji
CIR-CoT: Towards Interpretable Composed Image Retrieval via End-to-End Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.08003, 2025
[arXiv]
Yijun Fan, Yiwei Ma (co-frist author), Jiayi Ji, Xiaoshuai Sun, Rongrong Ji
Any-to-3D Generation via Hybrid Diffusion Supervision
arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.14715, 2024
[arXiv]

Projects代表项目   [back top][返回顶部]


External-Attention-pytorch
Pytorch implementation of various Attention Mechanisms, MLP, Re-parameter, Convolution, which is helpful to further understand papers.
[github ] (12,000+ stars)

Patent发明专利   [back top][返回顶部]

已授权 一种基于文本信息的指向性3D实例分割方法 — 公开号: CN117634486A  [详情]
已授权 一种基于链式感知的指向性3D实例分割方法 — 公开号: CN117593527A  [详情]
已授权 利用文本到图像扩散模型实现短语级定位的方法 — 公开号: CN118247799A  [详情]
已授权 一种面向指向性目标分割的半监督学习方法 — 公开号: CN117975241A  [详情]
已授权 面向局部视觉建模的图像描述生成方法 — 公开号: CN115964530A  [详情]
已授权 基于文本的人物检索的双向一对多嵌入对齐方法 — 公开号: CN116304145A  [详情]
已授权 基于空间感知网络的三维指向性目标分割方法 — 公开号: CN118365659A  [详情]
已授权 通过混合扩散监督生成多模态到三维物体的方法 — 授权公告号: CN119625216B  [详情]
已授权 基于多模态大语言模型的对话生成方法及装置 — 授权公告号: CN119938874B  [详情]

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