Xu Ma

Xu Ma (马旭)

Ph.D. Candidate,
SmileLab
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Northeastern University.

Email: ma.xu1[at]northeastern.edu

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Brief Bio

I am a PhD candidate in the College of Engineering, Northeastern University, USA and work with Prof. Yun Raymond Fu in the SMILE Lab. Before that I spent two years in the Department of Computer Sicence & Engineering, University of North Texas, working with Prof. Song Fu. I received my BS and MS degrees in the College of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing Forestry University, China, advised by Prof. Yingan Liu and Prof. Qiaolin Ye.

My research interests including: Model Efficiency, Multimodal LLM, Generative AI.

I did internships at Bell Labs, eBay, Microsoft, Adobe, Meta GenAI.

During my PhD studies, I got some awards, ICME'20 Best Student Paper, SEC'19 Best Paper, NeurIPS'22 Outstanding Reviewer, CVPR'23 Outstanding Reviewer.

I'm open to discussions and collaborations.

Target: papers that can be called research, insightful and impactful, or useful. NO spam papers.

-- 2023

News

[Mar 2025] One paper accepted by NeurIPS'24 and one paper accpeted by ICLR'25.

[Feb 2024] One co-authored paper “Slicing Vision Transformer for Flexibile Inference” has been accepted by NeurIPS'24.

[Mar. 2024] I will join Meta GenAI as a research intern this summer.

[Feb 2024] One paper “Rewrite the Stars” has been accepted by CVPR'24.

[Jan. 2024] I will join Microsoft as a research intern in Spring 2024.

[Jan. 2023] One paper (Efficient Modulation for Vision Networks)accepted by ICLR'24.

[Jul. 2023] Two papers accepted by ICCV'23.

[May. 2023] I will join Adobe Research as a research intern.

[May. 2023] Named as CVPR 2023 Outstanding Reviewer.

[Jan. 2023] We have one paper (Image as Set of Points)accepted by ICLR'23 as Oral.

[Dec. 2022] I will join Microsoft as a research intern in Spring 2023.

[Oct. 2022] Selected as a Top Reviewer for NeurIPS'22.

[Sep. 2022] We have one paper on Parameter-efficient Transformer accepted by NeurIPS'22.

[Aug. 2022] We have one paper on Video Anomaly Detection accepted by ICDM'22.

[Aug. 2022] I have been selected as an Academic Technology Scholar from Northeastern University for Fall 2022.

[Mar. 2022] One paper on Image Vectorization accepted by CVPR'22 as Oral, thanks to my co-authors!

[Feb. 2022] I will join eBay Computer Vision group as a research intern this summer. See you in San Jose.

[Jan. 2022] One paper on Point Cloud Analysis accepted by ICLR'22.

Publications [Google Scholar]

	Rewrite the Stars Xu Ma, Xiyang Dai, Yue Bai, Yizhou Wang, Yun Fu CVPR 2024 [arXiv] [code]
	Efficient Modulation for Vision Networks Xu Ma, Xiyang Dai, Jianwei Yang, Bin Xiao, Yinpeng Chen, Yun Fu, Lu Yuan ICLR 2024 [openreivew] [code]
	Image as Set of Points Xu Ma, Yuqian Zhou, Huan Wang, Can Qin, Bin Sun, Chang Liu, Yun Fu ICLR Oral 2023 [openreivew] [code]
	Towards Layer-wise Image Vectorization Xu Ma, Yuqian Zhou, Xingqian Xu, Bin Sun, Valerii Filev, Nikita Orlov, Yun Fu, Humphrey Shi CVPR Oral 2022 [arXiv] [code] [project homepage] [colab] [huggingface space]
	Rethinking Network Design and Local Geometry in Point Cloud: A Simple Residual MLP Framework Xu Ma, Can Qin, Haoxuan You, Haoxi Ran, Yun Fu ICLR 2022 [pdf] [arXiv] [code]
	A Close Look at Spatial Modeling: From Attention to Convolution Xu Ma, Huan Wang, Can Qin, Kunpeng Li, Xingchen Zhao, Jie Fu, Yun Fu arXiv 2022 [arXiv] [code]
	Parameter-Efficient Masking Networks Yue Bai, Huan Wang, Xu Ma, Yitian Zhang, ZHIQIANG TAO, Yun Fu NeurIPS 2022 [arXiv] [code]
	Making Reconstruction-based Method Great Again for Video Anomaly Detection Yizhou Wang, Can Qin, Yue Bai, Yi Xu, Xu Ma and Yun Fu ICDM 2022 [arXiv] [Code]
	Position-aware recalibration module: Learning from feature semantics and feature position Xu Ma, Song Fu IJCAI 2020 [pdf] [Code]

Services and Reviews

Reviewer of Journals:

Reviewer of Conferences:

Reviewer of Workshops:

Efficient Deep Learning for Computer Vision (ECV) @ CVPR

Transformers for Vision (T4V) @ CVPR

AI and Social Good @ IJCAI

Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG) @ ICCV

Honors & Awards

Best paper of SEC 2019
Best student paper of ICME 2020
Outstanding Reviewer of NeurIPS 2022
Outstanding Reviewer of CVPR 2023
Academic Technology Scholar from Northeastern University 2022 Fall

More about me

I'm a cat person—every cat is just so cute and beautiful! 🐱 I have a kitty named Latte, but we call her "Meow Meow."
I enjoy playing basketball and computer games.
I used to think I had a talent for cooking and would confidently cook without following recipes… but, to be honest, I mess up most of the time. 😆

Reviewer of Journals:

Reviewer of Conferences:

Reviewer of Workshops:

Best paper of SEC 2019

Best student paper of ICME 2020

Outstanding Reviewer of NeurIPS 2022

Outstanding Reviewer of CVPR 2023

Academic Technology Scholar from Northeastern University 2022 Fall