José Lezama · Research Scientist
Senior Research Scientist at Google Research. Working on generative models.
Education
- MsC, PhD, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, France (ex ENS Cachan). Advisors: Jean-Michel Morel, Gregory Randall
- BSc, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Recent publications
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MaskSketch: Unpaired Structure-guided Masked Image Generation
Bashkirova, D., Lezama, J., Sohn, K., Saenko, K. and Essa, I.,
CVPR 2023 (Project Page)
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MAGVIT: Masked Generative Video Transformer
Yu, L., Cheng, Y., Sohn, K., Lezama, J., Zhang, H., Chang, H., Hauptmann, A.G., Yang, M.H., Hao, Y., Essa, I. and Jiang, L.,
CVPR 2023 (Article)
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Visual Prompt Tuning for Generative Transfer Learning
Sohn, K., Hao, Y., Lezama, J., Polania, L., Chang, H., Zhang, H., Essa, I. and Jiang, L.,
CVPR 2023 (Article)
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MUSE: Text-To-Image Generation via Masked Generative Transformers
Chang, H., Zhang, H., Barber, J., Maschinot, A.J., Lezama, J., Jiang, L., Yang, M.H., Murphy, K., Freeman, W.T., Rubinstein, M. and Li, Y.
Arxiv 2023 (Article)
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Discrete Predictor-Corrector Diffusion Models for Image Synthesis
José Lezama, Tim Salimans, Lu Jiang, Huiwen Chang, Jonathan Ho, Irfan Essa
ICLR 2023 (Article)
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Improved Masked Image Generation with Token-Critic
José Lezama, Huiwen Chang, Lu Jiang, Irfan Essa
ECCV 2022 (Article)
- Full list of publications in Google Scholar
- Old academic website
Other community engagements
- I received outstanding reviewer mentions at CVPR 2019, ECCV 2020, NeurIPS 2020, ICLR 2021, NeurIPS 2022.
- I help with the organization of the Latin American Meeting in AI, Khipu.ai.
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