Xiaoxiao Ma

Xiaoxiao Ma

University of Science and Technology of China



šŸ‘€ About Me

Hi,

šŸŒ± Iā€™m Xiaoxiao Ma, a third-year graduate student at USTC. I am currently a research intern at Meituan, will join USTC-BIVLab supervised by Prof. Feng Zhao in 2025!

šŸ“– My research interest includes:

  • Generative models & image synthesis, autoregressive models, vision-language models
  • Image restoration, image enhancement

šŸ“« Looking forward to any collaborations or internship positions, feel free to contact me via email



šŸ”„ News

  • 2024.09: Ā  Delighted to announce that MPI was accepted by NeurIPS 2024!
  • 2024.09: Ā  I was invited to give a talk at ByteDance as the author of STAR! See slides here
  • 2024.06: Ā  STAR was released on Arxiv.



šŸ“ Publications

Arxiv 2024
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STAR: Scale-wise Text-to-image generation via Auto-Regressive representations

Xiaoxiao Ma, Mohan Zhou, Tao Liang, Yalong Bai, Tiejun Zhao, Huaian Chen, Yi Jin

Project

  • STAR is a novel scale-wise text-to-image model that is effective and efficient in performance
  • Notably, STAR shows efficiency by requiring 2.95s to generate 512Ɨ512 images (compared to 6.48s for PixArt-Ī±)
NeurIPS 2024
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Masked Pre-trained Model Enables Universal Zero-shot Denoiser

Xiaoxiao Ma, Zhixiang Wei, Yi Jin, Pengyang Ling, Tianle Liu, Ben Wang, Junkang Dai, Huaian Chen, Enhong Chen

Project

  • MPI is a zero-shot denoising pipeline designed for many types of noise degradations
  • Only around 10s takes for a MPI to denoise on single noisy image
CVPR 2024
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Stronger, Fewer, \& Superior: Harnessing Vision Foundation Models for Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation

Zhixiang Wei, Lin Chen, Yi Jin*, Xiaoxiao Ma, Tianle Liu, Pengyang Ling, Ben Wang, Huaian Chen, Jinjin Zheng

Project

  • Rein is a PEFT framework based on vision foundation models for domain generalized semantic segmentation (DGSS) with merely 1% trainable parameters



šŸ’» Experiences

  • 2025.04 - Persent, Meituan, Beijing.
  • 2024.12 - 2025.03, Shanghai AI Laboratory, Shanghai.
  • 2024.04 - 2024.12, Duxiaoman, Beijing.



šŸ“ Academic Service (Reviewer)

  • NeurIPS 2025
  • IEEE TPAMI



šŸŽ– Honors and Awards

  • 2022~2024 The First Prize Scholarship of USTC for three continusous years
  • 2024 National Scholarship for Undergraduate Students



šŸ“– Educations

  • 2022.09 - now, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, Master candidate in Computer Vision
  • 2018.09 - 2022.06, China Agricultural University, Beijing. B. Eng in Computer Science