(Photo Credit: Songwei Ge)
Sheng-Yu Wang

Postdoc
Northeastern & MIT

shengyuw at mit.edu
[GitHub] [Google Scholar]


I am a postdoctoral researcher working with David Bau at Northeastern and Antonio Torralba at MIT. I was fortunated to be advised by Jun-Yan Zhu at CMU during PhD, Alexei (Alyosha) Efros at UC Berkeley during undergrad, and have close collaborations with Richard Zhang. These days, I am interested in how a neural network gain generalized capabilties from its training data. In the past, I have worked on content creation tools, image forensics, and condensed matter physics. My PhD research was supported by Google PhD Fellowship, Snap Research Fellowship, and Uber Presidential Fellowship.


Publications

The Many Senses of Visual Similarity: A Text-Prompted Image Perceptual Metric
Sheng-Yu Wang, Yotam Nitzan, Aaron Hertzmann, Jun-Yan Zhu, Eli Shechtman, Alexei A. Efros, Richard Zhang.
In NeurIPS, 2026.
[Paper] [Webpage] [Code] [Bibtex]
NP-Edit: Learning an Image Editing Model without Image Editing Pairs
Nupur Kumari, Sheng-Yu Wang, Nanxuan Zhao, Yotam Nitzan, Yuheng Li, Krishna Kumar Singh, Richard Zhang, Eli Shechtman, Jun-Yan Zhu, Xun Huang.
In ICLR, 2026.
[Paper] [Webpage] [Bibtex]
Fast Data Attribution for Text-to-Image Models
Sheng-Yu Wang, Aaron Hertzmann, Alexei A. Efros, Richard Zhang, Jun-Yan Zhu.
In NeurIPS, 2025.
[Paper] [Webpage] [GitHub] [Bibtex]
Identifying Prompted Artist Names from Generated Images
Grace Su, Sheng-Yu Wang, Aaron Hertzmann, Eli Shechtman, Jun-Yan Zhu, Richard Zhang.
Tech Report, 2025.
[Paper] [Webpage] [Dataset] [GitHub] [Bibtex]
Data Attribution for Text-to-Image Models by Unlearning Synthesized Images
Sheng-Yu Wang, Aaron Hertzmann, Alexei A. Efros, Jun-Yan Zhu, Richard Zhang.
In NeurIPS, 2024.
[Paper] [Webpage] [GitHub] [Bibtex]
Customizing Text-to-Image Models with a Single Image Pair
Maxwell Jones, Sheng-Yu Wang, Nupur Kumari, David Bau, Jun-Yan Zhu.
In SIGGRAPH Asia, 2024.
[Paper] [Webpage] [GitHub] [Bibtex]
Evaluating Data Attribution for Text-to-Image Models
Sheng-Yu Wang, Alexei A. Efros, Jun-Yan Zhu, Richard Zhang.
In ICCV, 2023.
[Paper] [Webpage] [GitHub] [Bibtex]
Ablating Concepts in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Nupur Kumari, Bingliang Zhang, Sheng-Yu Wang, Eli Shechtman, Richard Zhang, Jun-Yan Zhu.
In ICCV, 2023.
[Paper] [Webpage] [GitHub] [Bibtex]
Content-Based Search for Deep Generative Models
Daohan Lu*, Sheng-Yu Wang*, Nupur Kumari*, Rohan Agarwal*, Mia Tang, David Bau, Jun-Yan Zhu.
In SIGGRAPH Asia, 2023.
[Modelverse] [Webpage] [Github] [Paper] [Video] [BibTex]
Rewriting Geometric Rules of a GAN
Sheng-Yu Wang, David Bau, Jun-Yan Zhu.
In SIGGRAPH, 2022.
[Paper] [Webpage] [GitHub] [Bibtex]
Sketch Your Own GAN
Sheng-Yu Wang, David Bau, Jun-Yan Zhu.
In ICCV, 2021.
[Paper] [Webpage] [GitHub] [Bibtex]
CNN-generated images are surprisingly easy to spot...for now
Sheng-Yu Wang, Oliver Wang, Richard Zhang, Andrew Owens, Alexei A. Efros.
In CVPR, 2020 (oral presentation).
[Paper] [Webpage] [GitHub] [Bibtex]
Detecting Photoshopped Faces by Scripting Photoshop
Sheng-Yu Wang, Oliver Wang, Andrew Owens, Richard Zhang, Alexei A. Efros.
In ICCV, 2019.
[Paper] [Webpage] [GitHub] [Poster] [Adobe Max] [Bibtex]
Reversible writing of high mobility and high carrier density doping patterns in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures
Wu Shi, Salman Khan, Lili Jiang, Sheng-Yu Wang, Hsin-Zon Tsai, Dillon Wong, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Fen Wang, Michael Crommie, Alex Zettl.
Nature Electronics.
[Paper]
Many thanks to Richard Zhang for sharing his website template!