Visual AutoRegressive modeling (VAR) based on next-scale prediction has revitalized autoregressive visual generation. Although its full-context dependency, i.e., modeling all previous scales for next-scale prediction, facilitates more stable and comprehensive representation learning by leveraging complete information flow, the resulting computational inefficiency and substantial overhead severely hinder VAR's practicality and scalability. This motivates us to develop a new VAR model with better performance and efficiency without full-context dependency. To address this, we reformulate VAR as a non-full-context Markov process, proposing Markov-VAR. It is achieved via Markovian Scale Prediction: we treat each scale as a Markov state and introduce a sliding window that compresses certain previous scales into a compact history vector to compensate for historical information loss owing to non-full-context dependency. Integrating the history vector with the Markov state yields a representative dynamic state that evolves under a Markov process. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Markov-VAR is extremely simple yet highly effective: Compared to VAR on ImageNet, Markov-VAR reduces FID by 10.5% (256x256) and decreases peak memory consumption by 83.8% (1024x1024). We believe Markov-VAR can serve as a foundation for future research on visual autoregressive generation and other downstream tasks. Project Page.
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Recent advancements in computer vision have accelerated the development of autonomous driving. Despite these advancements, training machines to drive in a way that aligns with human expectations remains a significant challenge. Human factors are still essential, as humans possess a sophisticated cognitive system capable of rapidly interpreting scene information and making accurate decisions. Aligning machine with human intent has been explored with Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF). Conventional RLHF methods rely on collecting human preference data by manually ranking AI-generated outputs, which is time-consuming and indirect. In this work, we propose an electroencephalography (EEG)-guided decision-making framework to incorporate human cognitive insights into reinforcement learning (RL) for autonomous driving. We collected EEG signals from 20 participants in a realistic driving simulator and analyzed event-related potentials (ERP) in response to sudden environmental changes. Our proposed framework employs a neural network to predict the strength of ERP based on the cognitive information from visual scene information. Moreover, we explore the integration of such cognitive information into the reward signal of the RL algorithm. Experimental results show that our framework can improve the collision avoidance ability of the RL algorithm, highlighting the potential of neuro-cognitive feedback in enhancing autonomous driving systems.
Reward models (RMs) are inherently non-neutral value functions designed and trained to encode specific objectives, such as human preferences or text-image alignment. RMs have become crucial components of text-to-image (T2I) generation systems where they are used at various stages for dataset filtering, as evaluation metrics, as a supervisory signal during optimization of parameters, and for post-generation safety and quality filtering of T2I outputs. While specific problems with the integration of RMs into the T2I pipeline have been studied (e.g. reward hacking or mode collapse), their robustness and fairness as scoring functions remains largely unknown. We conduct a large scale audit of RM robustness with respect to demographic biases during T2I model training and generation. We provide quantitative and qualitative evidence that while originally developed as quality measures, RMs encode demographic biases, which cause reward-guided optimization to disproportionately sexualize female image subjects, reinforce gender/racial stereotypes, and collapse demographic diversity. These findings highlight shortcomings in current reward models, challenge their reliability as quality metrics, and underscore the need for improved data collection and training procedures to enable more robust scoring.
Recent research in long-form video generation has shifted from bidirectional to autoregressive models, yet these methods commonly suffer from error accumulation and a loss of long-term coherence. While attention sink frames have been introduced to mitigate this performance decay, they often induce a critical failure mode we term sink-collapse: the generated content repeatedly reverts to the sink frame, resulting in abrupt scene resets and cyclic motion patterns. Our analysis reveals that sink-collapse originates from an inherent conflict between the periodic structure of Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE) and the multi-head attention mechanisms prevalent in current generative models. To address it, we propose a lightweight, training-free approach that effectively suppresses this behavior by introducing multi-head RoPE jitter that breaks inter-head attention homogenization and mitigates long-horizon collapse. Extensive experiments show that our method successfully alleviates sink-collapse while preserving generation quality. To the best of our knowledge, this work achieves the first demonstration of real-time, streaming, and infinite-length video generation with little quality decay. As an illustration of this robustness, we generate continuous videos up to 12 hours in length, which, to our knowledge, is among the longest publicly demonstrated results in streaming video generation.
Deep neural networks have achieved strong performance in fundus image classification, yet their flattened feature representations are often highly redundant. Such redundancy can lead to poor generalization across imaging devices, reduced interpretability, and inefficient use of model capacity. To address this issue, this study proposes a post-training feature pruning framework, termed greedy feature pruning (GFP) , which removes weak or redundant dimensions from the flattened features of trained backbones. GFP employs a greedy build-up process guided by performance metrics on the training set, constrained by a minimum feature keeping ratio, to identify compact yet discriminative subsets of features. Experiments are conducted on five public fundus datasets covering multiple tasks, including diabetic retinopathy detection (DDR, Messidor-2), glaucoma detection (PAPILA), multi-label classification (ODIR) and multi-class retinal disease classification (RETINA), using EfficientNetV2, ViT, and CoAtNet as backbones. Results show that GFP consistently improves AUROC and AUPRC across datasets while reducing the number of flattened features by up to 96%. Feature visualizations and quantitative analyses confirm that GFP enhances the compactness and separability of latent features. Moreover, cross-dataset evaluation demonstrates that GFP improves transferability between datasets, indicating better domain robustness. Overall, the proposed GFP framework provides a simple yet effective approach for compressing feature representations and improving both discriminability and generalization in fundus image classification.
Image watermarking supports authenticity and provenance, yet many schemes are still easy to bypass with various distortions and powerful generative edits. Deep learning-based watermarking has improved robustness to diffusion-based image editing, but a gap remains when a watermarked image is converted to video by image-to-video (I2V), in which per-frame watermark detection weakens. I2V has quickly advanced from short, jittery clips to multi-second, temporally coherent scenes, and it now serves not only content creation but also world-modeling and simulation workflows, making cross-modal watermark recovery crucial. We present WaTeRFlow, a framework tailored for robustness under I2V. It consists of (i) FUSE (Flow-guided Unified Synthesis Engine), which exposes the encoder-decoder to realistic distortions via instruction-driven edits and a fast video diffusion proxy during training, (ii) optical-flow warping with a Temporal Consistency Loss (TCL) that stabilizes per-frame predictions, and (iii) a semantic preservation loss that maintains the conditioning signal. Experiments across representative I2V models show accurate watermark recovery from frames, with higher first-frame and per-frame bit accuracy and resilience when various distortions are applied before or after video generation.
Percept-WAM: Perception-Enhanced World-Awareness-Action Model for Robust End-to-End Autonomous Driving
PDF ↗Autonomous driving heavily relies on accurate and robust spatial perception. Many failures arise from inaccuracies and instability, especially in long-tail scenarios and complex interactions. However, current vision-language models are weak at spatial grounding and understanding, and VLA systems built on them therefore show limited perception and localization ability.To address these challenges, we introduce Percept-WAM, a perception-enhanced World-Awareness-Action Model that is the first to implicitly integrate 2D/3D scene understanding abilities within a single vision-language model (VLM).Instead of relying on QA-style spatial reasoning, Percept-WAM unifies 2D/3D perception tasks into World-PV and World-BEV tokens, which encode both spatial coordinates and confidence.We propose a grid-conditioned prediction mechanism for dense object perception, incorporating IoU-aware scoring and parallel autoregressive decoding, improving stability in long-tail, far-range, and small-object scenarios. Additionally, Percept-WAM leverages pretrained VLM parameters to retain general intelligence (e.g., logical reasoning) and can output perception results and trajectory control outputs directly. Experiments show that Percept-WAM matches or surpasses classical detectors and segmenters on downstream perception benchmarks, achieving 51.7/58.9 mAP on COCO 2D detection and nuScenes BEV 3D detection. When integrated with trajectory decoders, it further improves planning performance on nuScenes and NAVSIM, e.g., surpassing DiffusionDrive by 2.1 in PMDS on NAVSIM.Qualitative results further highlight its strong open-vocabulary and long-tail generalization.
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has significantly advanced 3D reconstruction with its impressive performance. However, its reliance on sharp images and precise camera pose priors limits its effectiveness in high-speed scenarios. Recent advances have integrated spike cameras, a bio-inspired sensor with high temporal resolution, to enhance 3DGS in such conditions. Although spike-based methods reduce the need for sharp images, they still face challenges in achieving precise camera pose estimation due to unstable observations and visual texture deficiency. To address these challenges, we propose Nope-SGS, the first framework that reconstructs high-speed 3D scenes from unposed captures of bio-inspired high-temporal-resolution spike cameras. To achieve robust 3D reconstruction and pose estimation, we first reformulate the spike model from a probabilistic perspective and extend its application to keyframing, effectively alleviating the instability caused by spike streams. Building upon this foundation, we devise a progressive optimization framework to facilitate swift 3D reconstruction. The experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves up to 7.4 dB higher PSNR and 40% lower Absolute Trajectory Error (ATE) compared to state-of-the-art methods under challenging high-speed scenarios while maintaining the fastest reconstruction speed among spike-based methods.
Recent advances in image restoration have enabled high-fidelity recovery of faces from degraded inputs using reference-based face restoration models (Ref-FR). However, such methods focus solely on facial regions, neglecting degradation across the full scene, including body and background, which limits practical usability. Meanwhile, full-scene restorers often ignore degradation cues entirely, leading to underdetermined predictions and visual artifacts. In this work, we propose **Face2Scene**, a two-stage restoration framework that leverages the face as a perceptual oracle to estimate degradation and guide the restoration of the entire image. Given a degraded image and one or more identity references, we first apply a Ref-FR model to reconstruct high-quality facial details. From the restored-degraded face pair, we extract a face-derived degradation code that captures degradation attributes (e.g., noise, blur, compression), which is then transformed into multi-scale degradation-aware tokens. These tokens condition a diffusion model to restore the full scene in a single step, including the body and background. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superior effectiveness of the proposed method compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Spatial-SAM: Spatially Consistent 3D Electron Microscopy Segmentation with SDF Memory and Semi-Supervised Learning
PDF ↗Segment Anything Model (SAM)-based approaches have shown strong potential for biomedical image segmentation. However, these methods often struggle to preserve spatial consistency in 3D electron microscopy (3D-EM) data and still require extensive manual annotation. We propose Spatial-SAM, a spatially consistent and annotation-efficient framework for high-precision 3D-EM segmentation. It introduces a 3D Signed Distance Field (SDF) memory mechanism that replaces SAM2's memory with SDF representations precomputed by a 3D U-Net, providing richer geometric information and improving spatial consistency. It also combines SAM2's few-shot capability with a dual-track pseudo-label iterative optimization strategy to learn large-scale 3D-EM segmentation from minimal annotations. Experiments show Spatial-SAM significantly outperforms existing semi-supervised methods and performs comparably to state-of-the-art fully supervised approaches on multiple 3D-EM benchmarks, reducing annotation costs while preserving spatial consistency. Code is available at https://github.com/Giluir/Spatial-SAM.
Current feed-forward 3D/4D reconstruction systems rely on dense geometry and pose supervision - expensive to obtain at scale and particularly scarce for dynamic real-world scenes. We present Flow3r, a framework that augments visual geometry learning with dense 2D correspondences ('flow') as supervision, enabling scalable training from unlabeled monocular videos. Our key insight is that the flow prediction module should be factored: predicting flow between two images using geometry latents from one and pose latents from the other. This factorization directly guides the learning of both scene geometry and camera motion, and naturally extends to dynamic scenes. In controlled experiments, we show that factored flow prediction outperforms alternative designs and that performance scales consistently with unlabeled data. Integrating factored flow into existing visual geometry architectures and training with 800K unlabeled videos, Flow3r achieves state-of-the-art results across eight benchmarks spanning static and dynamic scenes, with its largest gains on in-the-wild dynamic videos where labeled data is most scarce.
Embedding invisible and temporally consistent watermarks into dynamic 4D Gaussian Splatting (4DGS) models poses unique challenges due to continuous spatio-temporal deformation of Gaussians and diverse motion dynamics. Existing 3DGS watermarking methods, which directly fine-tune parameters within Gaussian splats, fail to preserve geometric fidelity and temporal coherence when extended to 4D settings. In this regime, we propose Mark4D, a temporally consistent watermarking technique that achieves robust, imperceptible, and motion-aware watermark embedding for 4DGS. Mark4D comprises 1) a decoder for watermark recovery in the latent video-text space for robustness against pixel-level distortions, 2) trajectory-aligned offsets that embed watermark signals along Gaussian motion paths to preserve geometry, and 3) a motion-adaptive loss weighting strategy that balances supervision across frames with varying motion intensities. Extensive experiments on synthetic and real-world dynamic scene datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, establishing a foundation for secure and reliable protection of dynamic 4D scene assets.
LoD-Loc v3: Generalized Aerial Localization in Dense Cities using Instance Silhouette Alignment
PDF ↗We present LoD-Loc v3, a novel method for generalized aerial visual localization in dense urban environments. While prior work LoD-Loc v2 achieves localization through semantic building silhouette alignment with low-detail city models, it suffers from two key limitations: poor cross-scene generalization and frequent failure in dense building scenes. Our method addresses these challenges through two key innovations. First, we develop a new synthetic data generation pipeline that produces InsLoD-Loc - the largest instance segmentation dataset for aerial imagery to date, comprising 100k images with precise instance building annotations. This enables trained models to exhibit remarkable zero-shot generalization capability. Second, we reformulate the localization paradigm by shifting from semantic to instance silhouette alignment, which significantly reduces pose estimation ambiguity in dense scenes. Extensive experiments demonstrate that LoD-Loc v3 outperforms existing state-of-the-art (SOTA) baselines, achieving superior performance in both cross-scene and dense urban scenarios with a large margin. The project is available at https://nudt-sawlab.github.io/LoD-Locv3/.
Let it Snow! Animating 3D Gaussian Scenes with Dynamic Weather Effects via Physics-Guided Score Distillation
PDF ↗3D Gaussian Splatting has recently enabled fast and photorealistic reconstruction of static 3D scenes. However, dynamic editing of such scenes remains a significant challenge. We introduce a novel framework, Physics-Guided Score Distillation, to address a fundamental conflict: physics simulation provides a strong motion prior that is insufficient for photorealism , while video-based Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) alone cannot generate coherent motion for complex, multi-particle scenarios. We resolve this through a unified optimization framework where physics simulation guides Score Distillation to jointly refine the motion prior for photorealism while simultaneously optimizing appearance. Specifically, we learn a neural dynamics model that predicts particle motion and appearance, optimized end-to-end via a combined loss integrating Video-SDS for photorealism with our physics-guidance prior. This allows for photorealistic refinements while ensuring the dynamics remain plausible. Our framework enables scene-wide dynamic weather effects, including snowfall, rainfall, fog, and sandstorms, with physically plausible motion. Experiments demonstrate our physics-guided approach significantly outperforms baselines, with ablations confirming this joint refinement is essential for generating coherent, high-fidelity dynamics.
High-quality and carefully curated data is a cornerstone of training medical large language models, as it directly impacts both generalization and robustness to unseen clinical tasks. We investigate strategies for training and data curation to develop a robust multimodal reasoning model in the medical domain. Our work focuses on supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and explores data recipes that leverage structured reasoning traces. Using our proposed data recipe, we scale experiments to a dataset of over 8 million examples and 6.8 billion response tokens, achieving state-of-the-art performance among open-source models across diverse out-of-distribution medical benchmark tasks. Our results further indicate that curating a high-quality, diverse training dataset with varying structured reasoning trace lengths enables the fine-tuned model to self-calibrate its reasoning trajectory lengths based on the downstream task, without explicit supervision. We present key insights, describe the data curation strategy, and outline next steps toward developing robust medical vision-language reasoning systems.
Frequent and precise land surface monitoring is critical for numerous applications, yet existing satellites struggle to achieve both simultaneously. Spatiotemporal fusion (STF) tackles this challenge by integrating multiple satellite images to generate data with improved temporal and spatial resolution, enabling more frequent and precise land surface observations. However, current methods often fail to recover dynamic landscape changes due to significant scale discrepancies among multi-source images. To address these challenges, we propose a semantic-adaptive diffusion framework for dynamic spatiotemporal fusion (SA-STF), which constrains the solution space using low-resolution and high-frequency features decoupled via a Taylor-inspired decoder. By incorporating temporal feature alignment and semantic-adaptive fusion modules, SA-STF projects multimodal images with temporal dynamics into a unified latent space, and adaptively enhances spatial details while maintaining the spectral consistency of the reconstructed images. Experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that SA-STF outperforms existing methods in both quantitative and qualitative evaluations, particularly in complex and dynamic scenes.
MR-RAG: Multimodal Relevance-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Medical Visual Question Answering
PDF ↗Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) are emerging as a main paradigm for processing vision-language medical tasks due to their promising achievements. However, existing approaches exhibit two significant limitations in both retrieval and generation stage: First, during the retrieval stage, most methods typically rely on a single similarity signal to estimate document relevance, ignoring the rich information available in multimodal data, which may fail to accurately retrieve matching content. Second, in the generation stage, retrieved documents are integrated directly and uniformly into the input for LVLMs, without taking into account their varying relevance to the question, which may result in the dilution of crucial information and exacerbate the negative impact of irrelevant content. To address these limitations, we propose MR-RAG, a dual-stage RAG enhancement framework by considering multimodal relevance in both retrieval and generation phases. Specifically, a Multimodal Cooperative Retrieval (MCR) module leverages intra- and cross-modal signals for precise document alignment. Subsequently, an Importance-Aware Information Flow Augmentation (IFA) mechanism adjusts attention paths based on fused relevance to refine answer generation. By bridging retrieval and generation via multimodal signals, MR-RAG significantly improves factual accuracy. Experiments on three medical datasets show our method outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, achieving up to a 6.4% accuracy gain.
High-quality benchmarks are crucial for driving progress in machine learning research. However, despite the growing interest in video generation, there is no comprehensive dataset to evaluate human synthesis. Humans can perform a wide variety of actions and interactions, but existing datasets, like TikTok, TED-Talks, and HumanVid, lack the diversity and complexity to fully capture the capabilities of video generation models. We close this gap by introducing 'What Are You Doing?' (WYD): a new benchmark for fine-grained evaluation of controllable image-to-video generation of humans. WYD consists of 1,544 captioned videos that have been meticulously collected and annotated with fine-grained categories. These allow us to systematically measure performance across 9 aspects of human generation, including actions, interactions and motion. We also propose an evaluation framework, where we adapt existing metrics for better human- and video-level assessment, as shown by human preference. Equipped with our dataset and metrics, we perform in-depth analyses of state-of-the-art open-source models in controllable image-to-video generation, showing how WYD provides novel insights about their capabilities. We release data and code to drive progress in human video generation.
Dynamic Stream Network for Combinatorial Explosion Problem in Deformable Medical Image Registration
PDF ↗Combinatorial explosion problem caused by dual inputs presents a critical challenge in Deformable Medical Image Registration (DMIR). Since DMIR processes two images simultaneously as input, the combination relationships between features grow exponentially, ultimately the model considers more irrelevant features during the feature modeling process. Introducing dynamics in the receptive fields and weights of the network enables the model to eliminate the irrelevant features combination and model the potential feature combination relationships. In this paper, we propose the Dynamic Stream Network (DySNet), which enables the receptive fields and weights to be dynamically adjusted. This ultimately enables the model to ignore irrelevant feature combinations and model the potential feature relationships. With two key innovations: 1) Adaptive Stream Basin (AdSB) module dynamically adjusts the shape of the receptive field, thereby enabling the model to focus on the highly correlated feature relationships. 2) Dynamic Stream Attention (DySA) mechanism generates dynamic weights to search for more valuable feature relationships. Extensive experiments have shown that DySNet consistently outperforms the most advanced DMIR methods, highlighting its outstanding generalization ability. Our code is released on the website: https://github.com/ShaochenBi/DySNet.
Text-to-motion generation aims to generate 3D human motions that are tightly aligned with the input text while remaining physically plausible and rich in fine-grained detail. Although recent approaches can produce complex and natural movements, they usually operate at only one temporal scale, which limits both semantic alignment and temporal coherence. Inspired by the fact that complex motions are conceptualized hierarchically rather than at a single temporal scale in the human cognitive system, we propose MotionHiFlow, a hierarchical flow matching framework to generate motion progressively by constructing flow path from low to high temporal scales. The flows at lower scales capture high-level semantics and coarse motion structures, while flows at higher scales refine temporal details. To link the flows across scales, we introduce a novel cross-scale transition process, ensuring continuity and preserving noise consistency. Furthermore, by integrating a Text-Motion Diffusion Transformer and a topology-aware Motion VAE, MotionHiFlow explicitly models structural dependencies among joints via joint-aware positional encoding and skeletal topology, enabling precise semantic alignment alongside fine-grained motion details. Extensive experiments on HumanML3D and KIT-ML benchmarks demonstrate state-of-the-art performance, with ablation studies confirming the effectiveness of the hierarchical design and key components.