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Xiwei Hu

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Effect of externally applied resonant magnetic perturbations on resistive tearing modes

Static resonant magnetic perturbations (RMPs) generated by saddle coil current have been applied in J-TEXT tokamak experiments in order to study their effects on tearing mode instabilities. With increasing the RMP amplitude in time during the discharge, the mode stabilization is first observed, but a large locked mode follows if the RMP amplitude is increased to a too large value, indicating that the RMP amplitude is important in determining the plasma response and the tearing mode behavior. By careful adjustment of the RMP amplitude, the (partial) stabilization of the m/n =2/1 tearing mode by RMPs of moderate amplitude has been achieved without causing mode locking (m and n are the poloidal and toroidal mode numbers). To compare with experimental results, nonlinear numerical modeling based on reduced MHD equations has been carried out. With experimental parameters as input, both the mode locking and mode stabilization by RMPs are also obtained from numerical modeling. Further calculations have been carried out to study the plasma parameters affecting the mode stabilization by RMPs, including the plasma rotation frequency, viscosity, Alfv\'en velocity, and the RMPs amplitude. It is found that the suppression of the tearing mode by RMPs of moderate amplitude is possible for a sufficiently high ratio of plasma rotation velocity to the Alfv\'en speed. A larger plasma viscosity enhances the mode stabilization.

physics.plasm-ph

NextFlow: Unified Sequential Modeling Activates Multimodal Understanding and Generation

We present NextFlow, a unified decoder-only autoregressive transformer trained on 6 trillion interleaved text-image discrete tokens. By leveraging a unified vision representation within a unified autoregressive architecture, NextFlow natively activates multimodal understanding and generation capabilities, unlocking abilities of image editing, interleaved content and video generation. Motivated by the distinct nature of modalities - where text is strictly sequential and images are inherently hierarchical - we retain next-token prediction for text but adopt next-scale prediction for visual generation. This departs from traditional raster-scan methods, enabling the generation of 1024x1024 images in just 5 seconds - orders of magnitude faster than comparable AR models. We address the instabilities of multi-scale generation through a robust training recipe. Furthermore, we introduce a prefix-tuning strategy for reinforcement learning. Experiments demonstrate that NextFlow achieves state-of-the-art performance among unified models and rivals specialized diffusion baselines in visual quality.

cs.CV

DreamPoster: A Unified Framework for Image-Conditioned Generative Poster Design

We present DreamPoster, a Text-to-Image generation framework that intelligently synthesizes high-quality posters from user-provided images and text prompts while maintaining content fidelity and supporting flexible resolution and layout outputs. Specifically, DreamPoster is built upon our T2I model, Seedream3.0 to uniformly process different poster generating types. For dataset construction, we propose a systematic data annotation pipeline that precisely annotates textual content and typographic hierarchy information within poster images, while employing comprehensive methodologies to construct paired datasets comprising source materials (e.g., raw graphics/text) and their corresponding final poster outputs. Additionally, we implement a progressive training strategy that enables the model to hierarchically acquire multi-task generation capabilities while maintaining high-quality generation. Evaluations on our testing benchmarks demonstrate DreamPoster's superiority over existing methods, achieving a high usability rate of 88.55\%, compared to GPT-4o (47.56\%) and SeedEdit3.0 (25.96\%). DreamPoster will be online in Jimeng and other Bytedance Apps.

cs.CV

ELLA: Equip Diffusion Models with LLM for Enhanced Semantic Alignment

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance in the domain of text-to-image generation. However, most widely used models still employ CLIP as their text encoder, which constrains their ability to comprehend dense prompts, encompassing multiple objects, detailed attributes, complex relationships, long-text alignment, etc. In this paper, we introduce an Efficient Large Language Model Adapter, termed ELLA, which equips text-to-image diffusion models with powerful Large Language Models (LLM) to enhance text alignment without training of either U-Net or LLM. To seamlessly bridge two pre-trained models, we investigate a range of semantic alignment connector designs and propose a novel module, the Timestep-Aware Semantic Connector (TSC), which dynamically extracts timestep-dependent conditions from LLM. Our approach adapts semantic features at different stages of the denoising process, assisting diffusion models in interpreting lengthy and intricate prompts over sampling timesteps. Additionally, ELLA can be readily incorporated with community models and tools to improve their prompt-following capabilities. To assess text-to-image models in dense prompt following, we introduce Dense Prompt Graph Benchmark (DPG-Bench), a challenging benchmark consisting of 1K dense prompts. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of ELLA in dense prompt following compared to state-of-the-art methods, particularly in multiple object compositions involving diverse attributes and relationships.

cs.CV

Image Translation via Fine-grained Knowledge Transfer

Prevailing image-translation frameworks mostly seek to process images via the end-to-end style, which has achieved convincing results. Nonetheless, these methods lack interpretability and are not scalable on different image-translation tasks (e.g., style transfer, HDR, etc.). In this paper, we propose an interpretable knowledge-based image-translation framework, which realizes the image-translation through knowledge retrieval and transfer. In details, the framework constructs a plug-and-play and model-agnostic general purpose knowledge library, remembering task-specific styles, tones, texture patterns, etc. Furthermore, we present a fast ANN searching approach, Bandpass Hierarchical K-Means (BHKM), to cope with the difficulty of searching in the enormous knowledge library. Extensive experiments well demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of our framework in different image-translation tasks. In particular, backtracking experiments verify the interpretability of our method. Our code soon will be available at https://github.com/AceSix/Knowledge_Transfer.

cs.CV