• AI Research Scientist

  • E-mail: jianwen at ucla dot edu

About

  • I am a research scientist in artificial intelligence, mainly interested in Generative models, Language Model, AI Generated Contents, AI for science, and embodied AI. I received my Ph.D. in Statistics at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), under the supervision of Prof. Ying Nian Wu and Prof. Song-Chun Zhu.

News

  • [02/2025] I will serve as a Senior Area Chair for NeurIPS 2025
  • [11/2024] I am honored to receive IEEE TNNLS Outstanding Associate Editor Award.
  • [11/2024] I will serve as an Area Chair for ICML 2025

Education

Academic Service

Associate Editor:

  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) (2025 - )
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS) (2024 - )
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) (2024 - )
  • Pattern Recognition (PR) (2024 - )
  • Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) (2025 - )
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) (2025 - )
  • Senior Area Chair:

  • Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) - 2024, 2025
  • Area Chair:

  • Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) - 2022, 2023
  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) - 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) - 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
  • IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) - 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
  • European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) - 2024, 2026
  • Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) - 2026
  • IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) - 2025, 2026
  • ACM Multimedia - 2024, 2025
  • Senior Program Committee:

  • Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) - 2023, 2024, 2025
  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) - 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
  • Tutorials and Workshops

    • 1. Organizer & Speaker -- CVPR 2021 Tutorial on Theory and Application of Energy-Based Generative Models [page]
    • 2. Organizer & Speaker -- ICCV 2021 Tutorial on Theory and Application of Energy-Based Generative Models [page]
    • 3. Organizer & Speaker -- IJCAI 2022 Tutorial on Deep Energy-Based Learning [page]
    • 4. Organizer & Speaker -- ECCV 2022 Tutorial on Deep Energy-Based Learning in Computer Vision [page]
    • 5. Organizer -- CVPR 2025 Workshop on LOVE: Multimodal Video Agent [page]
    • 6. Organizer -- NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Bridging Language, Agent, and World Models for Reasoning and Planning [page]
    • 7. Organizer -- CVPR 2026 Workshop on World Models Meet Active Sensing and Closed-Loop Planning [page]
    • 8. Organizer -- CVPR 2026 Workshop on Rediscovering Intelligence: Can AI Still Learn From Humans? [page]

    Phd Dissertation

    Selected Papers

      In-The-Flow Agentic System Optimization for Effective Planning and Tool Use
    • --Zhuofeng Li, Haoxiang Zhang, Seungju Han, Sheng Liu, Jianwen Xie, Yu Zhang, Yejin Choi, James Zou, Pan Lu
    • --The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026

    • EdiVal-Agent: An Object-Centric Framework for Automated, Fine-Grained Evaluation of Multi-Turn Editing
    • --Tianyu Chen, Yasi Zhang, Zhi Zhang, Peiyu Yu, Shu Wang, Zhendong Wang, Kevin Lin, Xiaofei Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Linjie Li, Chung-Ching Lin, Jianwen Xie, Oscar Leong, Lijuan Wang, Ying Nian Wu, Mingyuan Zhou
    • --The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026

    • Align Your Structures: Generating Trajectories with Structure Pretraining for Molecular Dynamics
    • --Aniketh Iyengar, Jiaqi Han, Pengwei Sun, Mingjian Jiang, Jianwen Xie, Stefano Ermon
    • --The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026

    • Principled RL for Diffusion LLMs Emerges from a Sequence-Level Perspective
    • --Jingyang Ou, Jiaqi Han, Minkai Xu, Shaoxuan Xu, Jianwen Xie, Stefano Ermon, Yi Wu, Chongxuan Li
    • --The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026

    • VideoNSA: Native Sparse Attention Scales Video Understanding
    • --Enxin Song, Wenhao Chai, Shusheng Yang, Ethan J. Armand, Xiaojun Shan, Haiyang Xu, Jianwen Xie, Zhuowen Tu
    • --The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026

    • To Compress or Not? Pushing the Frontier of Lossless GenAI Model Weights Compression with Exponent Concentration
    • --Zeyu Yang, Tianyi Zhang, Jianwen Xie, Chuan Li, Zhaozhuo Xu, Anshumali Shrivastava
    • --The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026

    • Randomized Antipodal Search Done Right for Data Pareto Improvement of LLM Unlearning
    • --Ziwen Liu, Huawei Lin, Yide Ran, Denghui Zhang, Jianwen Xie, Chuan Li, Weijie Zhao, Zhaozhuo Xu
    • --The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026

    • Mitigating Non-IID Drift in Zeroth-Order Federated LLM Fine-Tuning with Transferable Sparsity
    • --Yide Ran, Wentao Guo, Jingwei Sun, Yanzhou Pan, Xiaodong Yu, Hao Wang, Jianwen Xie, Yiran Chen, Denghui Zhang, Zhaozhuo Xu
    • --The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026

    • "Noisier" Noise Contrastive Estimation is (Almost) Maximum Likelihood
    • --Peiyu Yu, Dinghuai Zhang, Hengzhi He, Xiaojian Ma, Sirui Xie, Ruiyao Miao, Yifan Lu, Yasi Zhang, Deqian Kong, Ruiqi Gao, Jianwen Xie, Guang Cheng, Ying Nian Wu
    • --The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026

    • CVP: Central-Peripheral Vision-Inspired Multimodal Model for Spatial Reasoning [PDF]
    • --Zeyuan Chen, Xiang Zhang, Haiyang Xu, Jianwen Xie, Zhuowen Tu
    • --Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2026

    • Augmenting Molecular Graphs with Geometries via Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials [PDF]
    • --Cong Fu, Yuchao Lin, Zachary Krueger, Haiyang Yu, Maho Nakata, Jianwen Xie, Emine Kucukbenli, Xiaofeng Qian, Shuiwang Ji
    • --Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) 2026

    • SpatialReasoner: Towards Explicit and Generalizable 3D Spatial Reasoning [PDF]
    • --Wufei Ma *, Yu-Cheng Chou *, Qihao Liu *, Xingrui Wang, Celso de Melo, Jianwen Xie, Alan Yuille (* equal contributions)
    • --The Thirty-ninth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025

    • Tensor Decomposition Networks for Accelerating Machine Learning Force Field Computations [PDF]
    • --Yuchao Lin *, Cong Fu *, Zachary Krueger, Haiyang Yu, Maho Nakata, Jianwen Xie, Emine Kucukbenli, Xiaofeng Qian, Shuiwang Ji (* equal contributions)
    • --The Thirty-ninth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025

    • OverLayBench: A Benchmark for Layout-to-Image Generation with Dense Overlaps [PDF]
    • --Bingnan Li *, Chen-Yu Wang *, Haiyang Xu *, Xiang Zhang, Ethan Armand, Divyansh Srivastava, Shan Xiaojun, Zeyuan Chen, Jianwen Xie, Zhuowen Tu (* equal contributions)
    • --The Thirty-ninth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS D&B Track) 2025

    • Word Salad Chopper: Reasoning Models Waste A Ton Of Decoding Budget On Useless Repetitions, Self-Knowingly [PDF]
    • --Wenya Xie, Shaochen Zhong, Hoang Anh Duy Le, Zhaozhuo Xu, Jianwen Xie, Zirui Liu
    • --The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2025

    • DEL-ToM: Inference-Time Scaling for Theory-of-Mind Reasoning via Dynamic Epistemic Logic [PDF]
    • --Yuheng Wu, Jianwen Xie, Denghui Zhang, Zhaozhuo Xu
    • --The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2025

    • Latent Adaptive Planner for Dynamic Manipulation [PDF]
    • --Donghun Noh *, Deqian Kong *, Minglu Zhao, Andrew Lizarraga, Jianwen Xie, Ying Nian Wu ♣, Dennis Hong ♣ (* equal contributions, ♣ equal advising)
    • --The Ninth Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2025

    • DepR: Depth Guided Single-view Scene Reconstruction with Instance-level Diffusion [PDF] [project page]
    • --Qingcheng Zhao *, Xiang Zhang *, Haiyang Xu, Zeyuan Chen, Jianwen Xie, Yuan Gao, Zhuowen Tu (* equal contributions)
    • --International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2025

    • Latent Thought Models with Variational Bayes Inference-Time Computation [PDF] [project page]
    • --Deqian Kong *, Minglu Zhao *, Dehong Xu *, Bo Pang, Shu Wang, Edouardo Honig, Zhangzhang Si, Chuan Li, Jianwen Xie ♣, Sirui Xie ♣, Ying Nian Wu ♣ (* equal contributions, ♣ equal advising)
    • --The Forty-Second International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2025

    • Latent Space Energy-based Neural ODEs [PDF]
    • --Sheng Cheng *, Deqian Kong *, Jianwen Xie, Kookjin Lee, Ying Nian Wu, Yezhou Yang
    • --Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) 2025

    • Molecule Design by Latent Prompt Transformer [PDF]
    • --Deqian Kong, Yuhao Huang, Jianwen Xie, Edouardo Honig, Ming Xu, Shuanghong Xue, Pei Lin, Sanping Zhou. Sheng Zhong, Nanning Zheng, Ying Nian Wu
    • --Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024
    • (an expanded version of the NeurIPS-23 workshop paper [PDF] on AI for science)

    • Latent Plan Transformer: Planning as Latent Variable Inference [PDF]
    • --Deqian Kong, Dehong Xu, Minglu Zhao, Bo Pang, Jianwen Xie, Andrew Lizarraga, Yuhao Huang, Sirui Xie, Ying Nian Wu
    • --Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024

    • Learning Energy-Based Models by Cooperative Diffusion Recovery Likelihood [PDF]
    • --Yaxuan Zhu, Jianwen Xie, Ying Nian Wu, Ruiqi Gao
    • --The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2024

    • An Energy-Based Prior for Generative Saliency [PDF]
    • --Jing Zhang, Jianwen Xie, Nick Barnes, Ping Li
    • --IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) 2023
    • (an expanded version of the NeurIPS-21 paper for generative saliency)

    • Likelihood-Based Generative Radiance Field with Latent Space Energy-Based Model for 3D-Aware Disentangled Image Representation [PDF] [code]
    • --Yaxuan Zhu, Jianwen Xie, Ping Li
    • --The Twenty-Sixth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2023

    • A Tale of Two Latent Flows: Learning Latent Space Normalizing Flow with Short-run Langevin Flow for Approximate Inference [PDF] [project page]
    • --Jianwen Xie, Yaxuan Zhu, Yifei Xu, Dingcheng Li, Ping Li
    • --The Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2023

    • CoopInit: Initializing Generative Adversarial Networks via Cooperative Learning [PDF]
    • --Yang Zhao, Jianwen Xie, Ping Li
    • --The Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2023

    • Energy-Based Continuous Inverse Optimal Control [PDF] [project page]
    • --Yifei Xu, Jianwen Xie, Tianyang Zhao, Chris Baker, Yibiao Zhao, Ying Nian Wu
    • --IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS) 2022
    • (an expanded version of the NeurIPS 2020 workshop paper on machine learning for autonomous driving)

    • Blind Image Super-Resolution with Elaborate Degradation Modeling on Noise and Kernel [PDF]
    • --Zongsheng Yue, Qian Zhao, Jianwen Xie, Lei Zhang, Deyu Meng, Kwan-Yee K. Wong
    • --IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2022

    • A Tale of Two Flows: Cooperative Learning of Langevin Flow and Normalizing Flow Toward Energy-Based Model [PDF] [project page]
    • --Jianwen Xie, Yaxuan Zhu, Jun Li, Ping Li
    • --Tenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2022

    • Learning V1 Simple Cells with Vector Representations of Local Contents and Matrix Representations of Local Motions [PDF] [project page]
    • --Ruiqi Gao, Jianwen Xie, Siyuan Huang, Yufan Ren, Song-Chun Zhu, Ying Nian Wu
    • --The Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2022

    • Energy-Based Generative Cooperative Saliency Prediction [PDF]
    • --Jing zhang, Jianwen Xie, Zilong Zheng, Nick Barnes
    • --The Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2022

    • On Path Integration of Grid Cells: Group Representation and Isotropic Scaling [PDF]
    • --Ruiqi Gao, Jianwen Xie, Xue-Xin Wei, Song-Chun Zhu, Ying Nian Wu
    • --Thirty-fifth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2021

    • Learning Generative Vision Transformer with Energy-Based Latent Space for Saliency Prediction [PDF]
    • --Jing Zhang, Jianwen Xie, Nick Barnes, Ping Li
    • --Thirty-fifth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2021

    • Monocular 3D Pose Estimation via Pose Grammar and Data Augmentation [PDF]
    • --Yuanlu Xu, Wenguan Wang, Tengyu Liu, Xiaobai Liu, Jianwen Xie, Song-Chun Zhu
    • --IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) 2021

    • Cooperative Training of Fast Thinking Initializer and Slow Thinking Solver for Conditional Learning [PDF] [project page]
    • --Jianwen Xie *, Zilong Zheng *, Xiaolin Fang, Song-Chun Zhu, Ying Nian Wu (* equal contributions)
    • --IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) 2021

    • Patchwise Generative ConvNet: Training Energy-Based Models from a Single Natural Image for Internal Learning [PDF] [project page]
    • --Zilong Zheng, Jianwen Xie, Ping Li
    • --IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021 (Oral)

    • Learning Deep Latent Variable Models by Short-Run MCMC Inference with Optimal Transport Correction [PDF]
    • --Dongsheng An, Jianwen Xie, Ping Li
    • --IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021

    • Generative PointNet: Deep Energy-Based Learning on Unordered Point Sets for 3D Generation, Reconstruction and Classification [PDF] [project page]
    • --Jianwen Xie *, Yifei Xu *, Zilong Zheng, Song-Chun Zhu, Ying Nian Wu (* equal contributions)
    • --IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021

    • Semi-Supervised Video Deraining with Dynamical Rain Generator [PDF]
    • --Zongsheng Yue, Jianwen Xie, Qian Zhao, Deyu Meng
    • --IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021

    • Learning Energy-Based Generative Models via Coarse-to-Fine Expanding and Sampling [PDF] [code]
    • --Yang Zhao, Jianwen Xie, Ping Li
    • --Ninth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2021

    • Learning Cycle-Consistent Cooperative Networks via Alternating MCMC Teaching for Unsupervised Cross-Domain Translation [PDF] [project page]
    • --Jianwen Xie *, Zilong Zheng *, Xiaolin Fang, Song-Chun Zhu, Ying Nian Wu (* equal contributions)
    • --The Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2021

    • Learning Energy-Based Model with Variational Auto-Encoder as Amortized Sampler [PDF] [project page]
    • --Jianwen Xie, Zilong Zheng, Ping Li
    • --The Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2021

    • Generative VoxelNet: Learning Energy-Based Models for 3D Shape Synthesis and Analysis [PDF] [project page]
    • --Jianwen Xie *, Zilong Zheng *, Ruiqi Gao, Wenguan Wang, Song-Chun Zhu, Ying Nian Wu (* equal contributions)
    • --IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) 2020
    • (an expanded version of the CVPR-18 paper for energy-based 3D descriptor network)

    • Learning Noise-Aware Encoder-Decoder from Noisy Labels by Alternating Back-Propagation for Saliency Detection [PDF]
    • --Jing Zhang, Jianwen Xie, Nick Barnes
    • --European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2020

    • Motion-Based Generator Model: Unsupervised Disentanglement of Appearance, Trackable and Intrackable Motions in Dynamic Patterns [PDF][project page]
    • --Jianwen Xie *, Ruiqi Gao *, Zilong Zheng, Song-Chun Zhu, Ying Nian Wu (* equal contributions)
    • --The Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2020 (Oral)

    • Representation Learning: A Statistical Perspective [PDF][Tex]
    • --Jianwen Xie, Ruiqi Gao, Erik Nijkamp, Song-Chun Zhu, Ying Nian Wu
    • --Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application (ARSIA) 2020
    • (an review article on the subject of Representation Learning to Annual Reviews, whose Impact Factor rankings are among the highest in scholarly publishing)

    • Learning Energy-based Spatial-Temporal Generative ConvNet for Dynamic Patterns [PDF] [project page]
    • --Jianwen Xie, Song-Chun Zhu, Ying Nian Wu
    • --IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) 2019
    • (an expanded version of the CVPR-17 paper for spatial-temporal generative ConvNet)

    • Revisiting Video Saliency Prediction in the Deep Learning Era [PDF]
    • --Wenguan Wang, Jianbing Shen, Jianwen Xie, Ming-Ming Cheng, Haibin Ling, Ali Borji
    • --IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) 2019

    • Semantic-Guided Multi-Attention Localization for Zero-Shot Learning [PDF]
    • --Yizhe Zhu, Jianwen Xie, Zhiqiang Tang, Xi Peng, Ahmed Elgammal
    • --Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2019

    • Learning Feature-to-Feature Translator by Alternating Back-Propagation for Generative Zero-Shot Learning [PDF]
    • --Yizhe Zhu, Jianwen Xie, Bingchen Liu, Ahmed Elgammal
    • --International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2019

    • Learning Grid Cells as Vector Representation of Self-Position Coupled with Matrix Representation of Self-Motion [PDF][project page]
    • --Ruiqi Gao *, Jianwen Xie *, Song-Chun Zhu, Ying Nian Wu (* equal contributions)
    • --Seventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2019

    • Learning Dynamic Generator Model by Alternating Back-Propagation Through Time [PDF][project page]
    • --Jianwen Xie *, Ruiqi Gao *, Zilong Zheng, Song-Chun Zhu, Ying Nian Wu (* equal contributions)
    • --The Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2019 (Spotlight)

    • Segregated Temporal Assembly Recurrent Networks for Weakly Supervised Multiple Action Detection
    • --Yunlu Xu, Chengwei Zhang, Zhanzhan Cheng, Jianwen Xie, Yi Niu, Shiliang Pu, Fei Wu
    • --The Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2019 (Oral)

    • Cooperative Training of Descriptor and Generator Networks [PDF][project page]
    • --Jianwen Xie, Yang Lu, Ruiqi Gao, Song-Chun Zhu, Ying Nian Wu
    • --IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) 2018
    • (an expanded version of the AAAI-18 paper for cooperative learning)

    • Learning Descriptor Networks for 3D Shape Synthesis and Analysis [PDF][project page]
    • --Jianwen Xie *, Zilong Zheng *, Ruiqi Gao, Wenguan Wang, Song-Chun Zhu, Ying Nian Wu (* equal contributions)
    • --IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2018 (Oral)

    • A Causal And-Or Graph Model for Visibility Fluent Reasoning in Tracking Interacting Objects [PDF]
    • --Yuanlu Xu *, Lei Qin *, Xiaobai Liu, Jianwen Xie, Song-Chun Zhu (* equal contributions)
    • --IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2018

    • Weakly and Semi Supervised Human Body Part Parsing via Pose-Guided Knowledge Transfer [PDF]
    • --Hao-Shu Fang, Guansong Lu, Xiaolin Fang, Jianwen Xie, Yu-Wing Tai, Cewu Lu
    • --IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2018 (Spotlight)

    • Cooperative Learning of Energy-Based Model and Latent Variable Model via MCMC Teaching [PDF][project page]
    • --Jianwen Xie, Yang Lu, Ruiqi Gao, Ying Nian Wu
    • --The Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2018 (Oral)

    • Sparse and Deep Generalizations of the FRAME Model [PDF][Tex]
    • --Ying Nian Wu, Jianwen Xie, Yang Lu, Song-Chun Zhu
    • --Annals of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (AMSA) 2018
    • (an invited paper to the AMSA special issue in honor of Professor David Mumford on his 80th birthday)

    • Super-Trajectory for Video Segmentation [PDF]
    • --Wenguan Wang, Jianbing Shen, Jianwen Xie, Fatih Porikli
    • --International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2017

    • Synthesizing Dynamic Pattern by Spatial-Temporal Generative ConvNet [PDF][project page]
    • --Jianwen Xie, Song-Chun Zhu, Ying Nian Wu
    • --IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2017

    • Generative Hierarchical Learning of Sparse FRAME Models [PDF][project page]
    • --Jianwen Xie, Yifei Xu, Erik Nijkamp, Ying Nian Wu, Song-Chun Zhu
    • --IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2017

    • Decoding the Encoding of Functional Brain Networks: an fMRI Classification Comparison of Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF), Independent Component Analysis (ICA), and Sparse Coding Algorithms [PDF]
    • --Jianwen Xie, Pamela K. Douglas, Ying Nian Wu, Arthur L. Brody, Ariana E. Anderson
    • --Journal of Neuroscience Methods 2017

    • A Theory of Generative ConvNet [PDF]
    • --Jianwen Xie *, Yang Lu *, Song-Chun Zhu, Ying Nian Wu (* equal contributions)
    • (an expanded version of the ICML-16 paper written for statisticians.)

    • A Theory of Generative ConvNet [PDF][project page]
    • --Jianwen Xie *, Yang Lu *, Song-Chun Zhu, Ying Nian Wu (* equal contributions)
    • --International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2016 (Oral)

    • Inducing Wavelets into Random Fields via Generative Boosting [PDF][project page]
    • --Jianwen Xie, Yang Lu, Song-Chun Zhu, Ying Nian Wu
    • --Journal of Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis (ACHA) 2015
    • (ACHA is a premier journal in harmonic analysis and applied mathematics)

    • Learning Sparse FRAME Models for Natural Image Patterns [PDF][project page]
    • --Jianwen Xie, Wenze Hu, Song-Chun Zhu, Ying Nian Wu
    • --International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) 2014

    • Learning Inhomogeneous FRAME Models for Object Patterns [PDF][project page]
    • --Jianwen Xie, Wenze Hu, Song-Chun Zhu, Ying Nian Wu
    • --IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2014

    • Non-negative Matrix Factorization of Multimodal MRI, fMRI and Phenotypic Data reveals Differential Changes in Default Mode Subnetworks in ADHD [PDF]
    • --Ariana Anderson, Pamela Douglas, Wesley Kerr, Virginia Haynes, Alan Yuille, Jianwen Xie, Ying Nian Wu, Jesse Brown, Mark Cohen
    • --NeuroImage 2014.