Jierun CHEN (陈捷润)

I am currently a researcher at Huawei Noah's Ark Lab (Hong Kong). I obtained my Ph.D. degree from CSE Department, HKUST, advised by Prof. Shueng-Han Gary Chan. I interned at Snap Research working on efficient text-to-image models, with Jian Ren and Anil Kag. I also interned at MSRA, working with Fangyun Wei on multimodal large language models (MLLM). I received my B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from Edison Experimental Class, Zhejiang University.

My research topics include Efficient Foundation Models and Multi-modal Modeling.

Email: jierunchen@gmail.com  /  Google Scholar  /  LinkedIn  /  Github

Publications
SnapGen: Taming High-Resolution Text-to-Image Models for Mobile Devices with Efficient Architectures and Training
Jierun Chen*, Dongting Hu*, Xijie Huang*, Huseyin Coskun, Arpit Sahni, Aarush Gupta, Anujraaj Goyal, Dishani Lahiri, Rajesh Singh, Yerlan Idelbayev, Junli Cao, Yanyu Li, Kwang-Ting Cheng, S.-H. Gary Chan, Mingming Gong, Sergey Tulyakov, Anil Kag, Yanwu Xu, Jian Ren
CVPR, 2025
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We propose SnapGen, the first text-to-image model (379M) that can synthesize high-resolution images (1024x1024) on mobile devices in 1.4s, and achieve 0.66 on GenEval metric.

AsCAN: Asymmetric Convolution-Attention Networks for Efficient Recognition and Generation
Anil Kag, Huseyin Coskun, Jierun Chen, Junli Cao, Willi Menapace, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Sergey Tulyakov, Jian Ren
NeurIPs, 2024
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We introduce AsCAN, a hybrid neural network with asymmetric convolutional and transformer blocks, offering superior performance and efficiency across image recognition and generation tasks.

Revisiting Referring Expression Comprehension Evaluation in the Era of Large Multimodal Models
Jierun Chen*, Fangyun Wei*, Jinjing Zhao, Sizhe Song, Bohuai Wu, Zhuoxuan Peng, S.-H. Gary Chan, Hongyang Zhang
Preprint, 2024
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We clean the widely-adopted RefCOCO,+,g benchmarks and introduce Ref-L4, a New REC benchmark in the LMM Era.

StableKD: Breaking Inter-block Optimization Entanglement for Stable Knowledge Distillation
Shiu-hong Kao*, Jierun Chen*, S.-H. Gary Chan
Preprint, 2023
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We propose StableKD, a simple and efficient Knowledge Distillation framework that attains higher accuracy using fewer training epochs and less data.

Run, Don't Walk: Chasing Higher FLOPS for Faster Neural Networks
Jierun Chen, Shiu-hong Kao, Hao He, Weipeng Zhuo, Song Wen, Chul-Ho Lee, S.-H. Gary Chan
CVPR, 2023
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We propose a simple yet fast and effective partial convolution (PConv), as well as a latency-efficient family of architectures called FasterNet.

TVConv: Efficient Translation Variant Convolution for Layout-Aware Visual Processing
Jierun Chen, Tianlang He, Weipeng Zhuo, Li Ma, Sangtae Ha, S.-H. Gary Chan
CVPR, 2022
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TVConv works more computation-efficient than regular convolution when dealing with layout-specific tasks, e.g., face recognition.

Joint Demosaicking and Denoising in the Wild: The Case of Training Under Ground Truth Uncertainty
Jierun Chen, Song Wen, S.-H. Gary Chan
AAAI, 2021
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We consider the ground truth uncertainty for joint demosaicking and denoising in the wild, which provides better restoration result and interpretability.

Target-agnostic Source-free Domain Adaptation for Regression Tasks
Tianlang He, Zhiqiu Xia, Jierun Chen, Haoliang Li, S.-H. Gary Chan
ICDE, 2024
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We propose TASFAR, a novel target-agnostic source-free domain adaptation method for regression tasks.

CP-NeRF: Conditionally Parameterized Neural Radiance Fields for Cross-scene Novel View Synthesis
Hao He, Yixun Liang, Shishi Xiao, Jierun Chen, Yingcong Chen
Pacific Graphics, 2023
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We propose CP-NeRF to enable training a one-for-all NeRF across diverse scenes.

FIS-ONE: Floor Identification System with One Label for Crowdsourced RF Signals
Weipeng Zhuo, Ka Ho Chiu, Jierun Chen, Ziqi Zhao, S.-H. Gary Chan, Sangtae Ha, Chul-Ho Lee
ICDCS, 2023
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We design a floor identification system for crowdsourced RF signals in a building using only one labeled data sample from the bottom floor.

Semi-supervised Learning with Network Embedding on Ambient RF Signals for Geofencing Services
Weipeng Zhuo, Ka Ho Chiu, Jierun Chen, Jiajie Tan, Edmund Sumpena, Sangtae Ha, S.-H. Gary Chan, Chul-Ho Lee
ICDE, 2023
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We develop a practical geofencing system, solely based on ambient radio frequency (RF) signals, to enable applications like elderly care, dementia antiwandering, pandemic control, etc.

Misc

Selected Awards

  • RedBird Academic Excellence Award, HKUST, 2022
  • Postgraduate Scholarship, HKUST, 2019-2023
  • Outstanding Graduate, ZJU, 2018
  • Scholarship for Excellence in Research and Innovation, ZJU, 2017
  • 1st prize in Nanjiang Lebo Cup Provincial Robot Competition (ranked 1/62), 2017
  • 1st prize in National Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest (ranked 3/109 in Zhejiang Division), 2017
  • Scholarship for Outstanding Merits, ZJU, 2015, 2017
  • Excellent Student Awards, ZJU, 2015, 2017

Teaching Assistant

  • COMP 2012H Honors Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures, Fall 2022
  • COMP 4911/6613D/ENTR4911 IT Entrepreneurship, Fall 2021
  • COMP 4021 Internet Computing, Fall 2020
  • COMP 4611 Design and Analysis of Computer Architectures, Spring 2020

Reviewer

  • Conference: ICLR, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, UbiComp, INFOCOM, BMVC, ACCV
  • Journal: IJCV, TIM