
Ran Xu
author title Director, AI ResearchRan Xu received his Ph.D. in computer science from University at Buffalo from 2015. Currently, he leads a group of exceptional computer vision and multimodal AI researchers at Salesforce to push the boundary of research and productive AI for CRM.
Ran Xu's interest is in mutlimodal content understanding and generation, agentic systems.


We are excited to open-source 🍃MINT-1T, the first trillion token multimodal interleaved dataset and a valuable resource for the community to study and build large multimodal models.

HIVE is accepted to CVPR 2024. Other authors include: Chia-Chih Chen, Ning Yu, Zeyuan Chen, Huan Wang, Silvio Savarese, Stefano Ermon, Caiming Xiong We have seen the success of ChatGPT, which incorporates human…

UniControl is accepted to NeurIPS’23. Other authors include Yingbo Zhou, Huan Wang, Juan Carlos Niebles, Caiming Xiong, Silvio Savarese, Stefano Ermon, and Yun Fu. Is it possible for a single model to master…

Background Graphic layout designs serve as the foundation of communication between media designers and their target audience. They play a pivotal role in organizing various visual elements, including rendered text, logos, product images,…

Other authors include: Can Qin, Stefano Ermon, Yun Fu GlueGen was accepted by ICCV. In the rapidly advancing field of text-to-image synthesis, the remarkable progress in generating lifelike images from textual prompts has…

TL;DR: Imagine a world where machines comprehend 3D objects just as humans do. The ULIP (CVPR2023) and ULIP-2 projects, backed by Salesforce AI, are making this a reality by revolutionizing 3D understanding. ULIP…

AUTHORS: Zeyuan Chen, Ran Xu, Luyu Yang, Donald Rose TL;DR: Many methods designed to preserve online privacy propose complex security measures to protect sensitive data. We believe that not storing any sensitive data…