Max W.F. Ku

I am a first-year PhD student in Computer Science student at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, advised by Prof. Wenhu Chen. I work closely with Sun Sun and Prof. Hongyu Guo from National Research Council Canada.

Previously, I earned MMath in Computer Science from University of Waterloo, advised by Prof. Wenhu Chen. Before that, I earned BSc in Internet and Multimedia Technologies from Hong Kong Polytechnic University with first class honor, being advised by Prof. Wan-Chi Siu and Prof. Bonnie N.F. Law. I was the recipient of Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholarship. I also played in Robotics Team (ABU Robocon) and Game Development Competitions through my undergraduate study.

My research interest covers the following aspects:

Build vision models for controllable generation and manipulation
Understand the robustness of vision models
Develop explainable evaluation metrics for vision tasks
Explore Agentic AI in visual understanding and generation

news

Nov 03, 2024	AnyV2V got accepted to TMLR 2024.
Sep 26, 2024	GenAIArena got accepted to NeurIPS 2024! See you in Vancouver!
May 15, 2024	VIEScore got accepted to ACL 2024 Main! See you in Bangkok!
Jan 15, 2024	ImagenHub got accepted to ICLR 2024! See you in Vienna!

latest posts

Oct 15, 2024	Paper Review - Modality Gap and Alignment in Multi-modal Contrastive Learning
Oct 12, 2024	Notes on Score-Based Generative Models
Aug 26, 2024	Paper Review - PDAE, DisDiff and InfoDiffusion

selected publications

NIPS 2024

GenAI Arena: An Open Evaluation Platform for Generative Models

Dongfu Jiang*, Max Ku*, Tianle Li*, Yuansheng Ni, Shizhuo Sun, and 2 more authors

2024

arXiv Bib Website

@misc{jiang2024genai,
  title = {GenAI Arena: An Open Evaluation Platform for Generative Models},
  author = {Jiang*, Dongfu and Ku*, Max and Li*, Tianle and Ni, Yuansheng and Sun, Shizhuo and Fan, Rongqi and Chen, Wenhu},
  year = {2024},
  booktitle = {Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
  selected = true,
  bibtex_show = false
}

TMLR 2024

AnyV2V: A Tuning-Free Framework For Any Video-to-Video Editing Tasks

Max Ku*, Cong Wei*, Weiming Ren*, Harry Yang, and Wenhu Chen

Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2024

arXiv Bib Code Website

@article{ku2024anyv2v,
  title = {AnyV2V: A Tuning-Free Framework For Any Video-to-Video Editing Tasks},
  author = {Ku*, Max and Wei*, Cong and Ren*, Weiming and Yang, Harry and Chen, Wenhu},
  journal = {Transactions on Machine Learning Research},
  year = {2024},
  selected = true,
  bibtex_show = false
}

ACL 2024

VIEScore: Towards Explainable Metrics for Conditional Image Synthesis Evaluation

Max Ku, Dongfu Jiang, Cong Wei, Xiang Yue, and Wenhu Chen

In The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics , 2024

arXiv Bib Code Website

@inproceedings{Ku2023VIEScoreTE,
  title = {VIEScore: Towards Explainable Metrics for Conditional Image Synthesis Evaluation},
  author = {Ku, Max and Jiang, Dongfu and Wei, Cong and Yue, Xiang and Chen, Wenhu},
  booktitle = {The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year = {2024},
  selected = true,
  bibtex_show = false
}

ICLR 2024

ImagenHub: Standardizing the evaluation of conditional image generation models

Max Ku, Tianle Li, Kai Zhang, Yujie Lu, Xingyu Fu, and 2 more authors

In The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations , 2024

arXiv Bib Code Website

@inproceedings{ku2024imagenhub,
  title = {ImagenHub: Standardizing the evaluation of conditional image generation models},
  author = {Ku, Max and Li, Tianle and Zhang, Kai and Lu, Yujie and Fu, Xingyu and Zhuang, Wenwen and Chen, Wenhu},
  booktitle = {The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations},
  year = {2024},
  twitter = {https://twitter.com/vinesmsuic/status/1717564355212951701},
  selected = true,
  bibtex_show = false
}

TMLR 2023

DreamEdit: Subject-driven Image Editing

Tianle Li, Max Ku*, Cong Wei*, and Wenhu Chen

Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2023

arXiv Bib Code Website

@article{li2023dreamedit,
  title = {DreamEdit: Subject-driven Image Editing},
  author = {Li, Tianle and Ku*, Max and Wei*, Cong and Chen, Wenhu},
  journal = {Transactions on Machine Learning Research},
  year = {2023},
  selected = true,
  bibtex_show = false
}

ICIP 2023

Intelligent Painter: Picture Composition with Resampling Diffusion Model

Max Ku, Wan-Chi Siu, Xi Cheng, and H. Anthony Chan

In International Conference on Image Processing , 2023

arXiv Bib Code

@inproceedings{ku2023ipainter,
  author = {Ku, Max and Siu, Wan-Chi and Cheng, Xi and Chan, H. Anthony},
  year = {2023},
  pages = {2255-2259},
  title = {Intelligent Painter: Picture Composition with Resampling Diffusion Model},
  doi = {10.1109/ICIP49359.2023.10222829},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Image Processing},
  selected = true,
  bibtex_show = false
}