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Weiran Pan, Wei Wei, Wenfeng Xie

Existing methods for learning with noisy labels (LNL) predominantly rely on the small-loss trick, assuming that low-loss samples are more likely to be correctly labeled. While effective, this strategy suffers from two overlooked confirmation biases: (1) Class-level confirmation bias: samples from easy-to-learn classes tend to have lower losses, leading to over-selection of easy samples while ignore hard ones; (2) Instance-level confirmation bias: mislabeled samples with spuriously low loss are mistakenly treated as clean, forcing the model to memorize wrong labels. Both biases accumulate over training and degrade performance. To mitigate these issues, we propose Marginal Distribution Adjustment (MDA) and Candidate Class Selection (CCS). MDA dynamically reshapes the model's predicted class distribution toward uniformity, ensuring more fair sample selection across classes. CCS leverages training dynamics to identify likely true labels and removes them from the classification task, preventing memorization of incorrect annotations while converting weakly related labels into useful supervision. Both MDA and CCS are plug-and-play modules. Extensive experiments show that integrating MDA and CCS into either existing sample selectors or advanced LNL pipeline consistently enhances performance on both CIFAR-10/100 with synthetic noise and real-world datasets (CIFAR-N, Clothing1M, WebVision), demonstrating their broad applicability in LNL methods. The code is available at https://github.com/Aliinton/DSS.

Ayush Roy, Wei-Yang Alex Lee, Rudrasis Chakraborty, Vishnu Suresh Lokhande

In recent times, large datasets hinder efficient model training while also containing redundant concepts. Dataset distillation aims to synthesize compact datasets that preserve the knowledge of large-scale training sets while drastically reducing storage and computation. Recent advances in diffusion models have enabled training-free distillation by leveraging pre-trained generative priors; however, existing guidance strategies remain limited. Current score-based methods either perform unguided denoising or rely on simple mode-based guidance toward instance prototype centroids (IPC centroids), which often are rudimentary and suboptimal. We propose Manifold-Guided Distillation (ManifoldGD), a training-free diffusion-based framework that integrates manifold consistent guidance at every denoising timestep. Our method employs IPCs computed via a hierarchical, divisive clustering of VAE latent features--yielding a multi-scale coreset of IPCs that captures both coarse semantic modes and fine intra-class variability. Using a local neighborhood of the extracted IPC centroids, we create the latent manifold for each diffusion denoising timestep. At each denoising step, we project the mode-alignment vector onto the local tangent space of the estimated latent manifold, thus constraining the generation trajectory to remain manifold-faithful while preserving semantic consistency. This formulation improves representativeness, diversity, and image fidelity without requiring any model retraining. Empirical results demonstrate consistent gains over existing training-free and training-based baselines in terms of FID, l_2 distance among real and synthetic dataset embeddings, and classification accuracy, establishing ManifoldGD as the first geometry-aware training-free data distillation framework.

Changyu Gu, Linwei Chen, Lin Gu, Ying Fu

In remote sensing rotated object detection, mainstream methods suffer from two bottlenecks, directional incoherence at detector neck and task conflict at detecting head. Ulitising fourier rotation equivariance, we introduce Fourier Angle Alignment, which analyses angle information through frequency spectrum and aligns the main direction to a certain orientation. Then we propose two plug and play modules : FAAFusion and FAA Head. FAAFusion works at the detector neck, aligning the main direction of higher-level features to the lower-level features and then fusing them. FAA Head serves as a new detection head, which pre-aligns RoI features to a canonical angle and adds them to the original features before classification and regression. Experiments on DOTA-v1.0, DOTA-v1.5 and HRSC2016 show that our method can greatly improve previous work. Particularly, our method achieves new state-of-the-art results of 78.72% mAP on DOTA-v1.0 and 72.28% mAP on DOTA-v1.5 datasets with single scale training and testing, validating the efficacy of our approach in remote sensing object detection. The code will be public upon acceptance.

Feiyu Huang, Jia Li, Zhao Chen, Yang Wu, Caleb Chen Cao, Lei Chen

Cross-modal biomedical signals such as pathology and genomics can provide richer and more robust semantic guidance for medical image representation learning. However, the availability of such guidance remains limited, as privacy constraints and acquisition costs severely restrict access to medical images paired with other biomedical data. A further challenge lies in modality discrepancy, which introduces intra-modal statistical bias and cross-modal noise, thereby degrading the quality of medical image representations. To address these challenges, we propose KAMP, a large language model (LLM)-driven multimodal pretraining framework for medical image representation learning. KAMP leverages textual priors as the semantic anchor to enhance medical image representations and align them with multimodal biomedical representations, enabling the learning of rich and robust features even when paired data are scarce. KAMP operates in three stages. First, the LLM generates personalized diagnostic knowledge from patient clinical text and imaging metadata. This knowledge is injected as a prior to enrich medical image representations and serves as a semantic anchor to reduce the representation gap between medical images and other biomedical modalities. Second, the LLM is optimized using Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), with the cross-modal aligner pretrained in the first stage serving as the reward model. Third, the refined knowledge is used to retrain the cross-modal aligner, yielding more robust medical image representations while mitigating bias and noise introduced by other modalities. Comprehensive evaluations on brain, bladder, and liver cancer datasets demonstrate that KAMP outperforms existing methods in most downstream few-shot classification tasks.

Li-Jun Zhao, Zhen-Duo Chen, Xin Luo, Xin-Shun Xu

Few-shot fine-grained image classification (FSFG) aims to recognize novel fine-grained categories from only a few labeled samples. Existing FSFG methods primarily focus on fine-grained feature extraction and modeling query-support interactions within training episodes containing a small number of classes. Relying on the episodic training strategy, these methods typically assume that the capabilities learned on training samples can directly transfer to evaluation episodes with a few novel classes (few-way). However, in more practical and challenging scenarios involving many novel classes (many-way), existing approaches lack a reliable and global characterization of the feature space, making it difficult for episodic adaptation alone to generalize effectively. In this paper, we pioneer a theoretical analysis of novel class behavior in FSFG and derive a class discriminative index bound. Guided by this analysis, we propose a novel SCEG method that incorporates Self and Collaborative feature extraction as well as Episodic and Global feature space optimization. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method consistently and significantly outperforms existing methods under both conventional few-way and the new many-way settings. Codes are available at: https://github.com/Legenddddd/SCEG.

Junjian Li, Hulin Kuang, Jin Liu, Hailin Yue, Mengshen He, Jianxin Wang

Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) has emerged as the dominant paradigm for the analysis of gigapixel-scale Whole Slide Images (WSIs). However, recent methods leveraging guidance from Vision-Language Models often rely on static and universal pathological descriptions. This one-size-fits-all strategy fails to account for the vast morphological heterogeneity within individual WSIs, as its uniform guidance is not tailored to slide-specific visual evidence. To address this, we propose DyKo, a Dynamic Knowledge-guided MIL framework that adapts universal knowledge to slide-specific evidence for few-shot WSI classification. The core of DyKo is the WSI-Adaptive Knowledge Instantiation module (WAKI). WAKI begins by identifying key visual prototypes within a specific WSI's histology. These slide-specific prototypes then serve as queries to retrieve relevant concepts from a pathology knowledge base. This retrieved knowledge is then used to synthesize unique, knowledge-instantiated features for each instance, effectively instantiating tailored guidance at the patch level. To ensure fidelity and prevent semantic drift, we introduce a Structural Consistency loss that enforces alignment between knowledge-instantiated and visual features. Comprehensive experiments on four public real-world cancer datasets demonstrate that DyKo achieves superior performance over state-of-the-art methods in few-shot pathology diagnosis. Code is available at https://github.com/junjianli106/DyKo.

Shanliang Yang, Xiaoxiao Wang

The performance of multimodal learning systems, particularly in high-stakes domains like automated depression recognition, is fundamentally constrained by the challenge of learning robust visual representations from limited and complex clinical data. To overcome this, we introduce Cross-Modal Guided Visual Synthesis (CMG-VS), a novel training framework that internally enhances the learning process by synthesizing new, task-relevant visual features. At its core, CMG-VS leverages the rich context from audio and text modalities to guide a conditional generative model. This model learns the intricate mapping from speech and language to visual expression, generating a diverse manifold of plausible visual behaviors to enrich the training distribution. Crucially, this synthesis is not a separate pre-processing step. Through a task-guided joint optimization scheme, the generative process is dynamically steered by the downstream multimodal recognizer's performance. This closed-loop feedback mechanism ensures the synthesized visual features are optimized to be maximally discriminative for the recognition task, rather than merely realistic. Comprehensive experiments on the widely-used DAIC-WOZ and E-DAIC benchmark datasets demonstrate that CMG-VS significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods across all standard regression and classification metrics. Ablation studies further validate that our task-guided synthesis is the key driver of this performance gain, proving its effectiveness as a new paradigm for robust multimodal representation learning.

Yiming Li, Sisi You, Bing-Kun Bao

In recent years, while Scene Graph Generation has advanced significantly, mainstream methods remain constrained by predefined object and relationship categories, limiting generalization to open real-world scenarios. Inspired by open vocabulary object detection, recent efforts have expanded SGG to the open vocabulary domain. However, these models often rely on off-the-shelf VLMs, lacking discriminative attribute extraction and suffering from limited object-relationship semantic interaction, which leads to misclassification of novel categories. To address these issues, we propose the MoE Feature Decoupling (MoE-FD) framework for Open Vocabulary Scene Graph Generation. MoE-FD adaptively learns feature decoupling for objects and relationships via multiple experts, prioritizing critical features through gating network weights. Moreover, it models semantic interactions between objects and relationships using iterative cross-attention, enhancing relationship triple associations and visual-semantic alignment. The main contributions of MoE-FD are threefold: (1) A MoE-based feature decoupling framework that adaptively enhances discriminative feature representation for objects and relations. (2) Semantic interaction modeling between objects and relations to strengthen relationship triple associations and image-text alignment accuracy. (3) Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of MoE-FD on the Visual Genome dataset.

Logan Lawrence, Oindrila Saha, Rangel Daroya, Mustafa Chasmai, Wuao Liu, Max Hamilton, Aaron Sun, Seoyun Jeong, Fabien Delattre, Subhransu Maji 等

Fine-grained bird species identification in the wild is frequently unanswerable from a single image: key cues may be non-visual (e.g. vocalization), or obscured due to occlusion, camera angle, or low resolution. Yet today's multimodal systems are typically judged on answerable, in-schema cases, encouraging confident guesses rather than principled abstention. We propose the RealBirdID benchmark: given an image of a bird, a system should either answer with a species or abstain with a concrete, evidence-based rationale: "requires vocalization," "low quality image," or "view obstructed". For each genus, the dataset includes a validation split composed of curated unanswerable examples with labeled rationales, paired with a companion set of clearly answerable instances. We find that (1) the species identification on the answerable set is challenging for a variety of open-source and proprietary models (\leq13% accuracy for MLLMs including GPT-5 and Gemini-2.5 Pro), (2) models with greater classification ability are not necessarily more calibrated to abstain from unanswerable examples, and (3) that MLLMs generally fail at providing correct reasons even when they do abstain. RealBirdID establishes a focused target for abstention-aware fine-grained recognition and a recipe for measuring progress.

Junshu Zhang, Sicheng Zhao, Xin Zhao, Fan Yang, Ruike Chen, Jungong Han, Guiguang Ding

Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) detection has become a dominant paradigm for 3D object detection in autonomous driving, due to its strong perception capability. However, most existing methods mainly focus on constructing high-quality BEV feature representations, while neglecting the design of task-specific detection heads. In practice, they directly adopt the center-based head originally developed for 2D detection, without any specific optimization. This leads to three inherent limitations: (i) a geometric mismatch between the Gaussian kernel used for classification and the real BEV object, (ii) degraded end-to-end performance without Non-Maximum Suppression (NMS), and (iii) sparse supervisory signals. To address these issues, we propose Spe-BEVHead, a detection head specifically tailored for BEV 3D object detection. Spe-BEVHead introduces three BEV-specific adaptations: (1) a Rotated Box Kernel that generates geometry-aligned classification weights, (2) a Local Response Refinement Module (LRRM) that suppresses non-peak responses and improves end-to-end performance, and (3) a dual-branch architecture that provides richer supervisory signals to promote more robust learning while inherently preserving the performance for end-to-end inference. Extensive experiments show that Spe-BEVHead can be seamlessly integrated into existing BEV backbones, delivering direct performance gains while retaining competitive performance under the challenging end-to-end setting.

Maijie Deng, Yuhua Li, Yixiong Zou, Yao Wu, Chenru Ma

Dataset quantization has recently emerged as a promising solution for mitigating the computational and memory challenges of large-scale datasets. However, existing approaches rely on a bin generation step that is computationally expensive and inefficient for large-scale datasets. Moreover, a fixed drop ratio in its patch dropping step fails to adapt to the diverse redundancy levels across samples, which degrades the representational quality of the quantized coreset. To address these limitations, we present Bin-Generation-Free Dataset Quantization (BGFDQ), a fully restructured framework that incorporates a simple yet effective KNN-based neighbor identification and neighbor-aware coreset selection strategy. We theoretically demonstrate that the proposed selection strategy achieves superior sampling efficiency compared to bin-generation-based methods. Additionally, we introduce an adaptive patch dropping strategy to further enhance the quality of the quantized dataset. Extensive experiments on four image classification benchmarks show that BGFDQ consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines. In particular, we achieve up to 5% validation accuracy improvement on CIFAR-100. Moreover, our framework successfully scales to datasets containing up to 10^5 same-class samples while existing bin-generation-based approaches fail due to memory constraints. Code is available at https://github.com/MaijieDeng/BGFDQ.

Yanze Ren, Mingyuan Lv, Qinhong Jiang, Yan Jiang, Chen Yan, Xiaoyu Ji, Wenyuan Xu

Physical adversarial examples pose a concrete threat to real-world computer vision systems. Existing works mainly generate physical adversarial examples by affixing patches or projecting light onto targets, which are usually visible and can expose the malicious intention. In this work, we reveal a new attack surface that generates invisible adversarial samples by injecting signals into the camera's power supply. We analyze the mechanism of injecting structural stripe patterns into cameras and demonstrate the feasibility of controllable fine-grained injection with signal modulation. We develop a simulation model to emulate the physically injected perturbation, and propose end-to-end optimization methodologies in both white-box and black-box settings to generate the injection signal parameters. We perform a simulated evaluation across seven classification models and carry out physical signal injection experiments with optimized signals. The results show that physical adversarial examples generated through camera power signal injection can disrupt computer vision performance. Our work introduces a new methodology for physical adversarial examples, emphasizing the need for securing computer vision systems in the physical world.

Meilin Liu, Jiaying Wang, Jing Shan

Federated learning (FL) has become a promising paradigm for collaborative medical image analysis, yet existing frameworks remain tightly coupled to task-specific backbones and are fragile under heterogeneous imaging modalities. Such constraints hinder real-world deployment, where institutions vary widely in modality distributions and must support diverse downstream tasks. To address this limitation, we propose OmniFM,a modality- and task-agnostic FL framework that unifies training across classification,segmentation, super-resolution, visual question answering,and multimodal fusion without re-engineering the optimization pipeline. OmniFM builds on a key frequency-domain insight: low-frequency spectral components exhibit strong cross-modality consistency and encode modality-invariant anatomical structures. Accordingly, OmniFM integrates(i) Global Spectral Knowledge Retrieval to inject global frequency priors, (ii) Embedding-wise Cross-Attention Fusion to align representations, and (iii) Prefix-Suffix Spectral Prompting to jointly condition global and personalized cues, together regularized by a Spectral-Proximal Alignment objective that stabilizes aggregation. Experiments on real-world datasets show that OmniFM consistently surpasses state-of-the-art FL baselines across intra- and cross-modality heterogeneity, achieving superior results under both fine-tuning and training-from-scratch setups.

Ayushi Mehrotra, Dipkamal Bhusal, Michael Clifford, Nidhi Rastogi

Feature attribution methods explain the predictions of deep neural networks by assigning importance scores to individual input features. However, most existing methods focus solely on marginal effects, overlooking feature interactions, where groups of features jointly influence model output. Such interactions are especially important in image classification tasks, where semantic meaning often arises from pixel interdependencies rather than isolated features. Existing interaction-based methods for images are either coarse (e.g., superpixel-only) or, fail to satisfy core interpretability axioms. In this work, we introduce H-Sets, a novel two-stage framework for discovering and attributing higher-order feature interactions in image classifiers. First, we detect locally interacting pairs via input Hessians and recursively merge them into semantically coherent sets; segmentation from Segment Anything (SAM) is used as a spatial grouping prior but can be replaced by other segmentations. Second, we attribute each set with IDG-Vis, a set-level extension of Integrated Directional Gradients that integrates directional gradients along pixel-space paths and aggregates them with Harsanyi dividends. While Hessians introduce additional compute at the detection stage, this targeted cost consistently yields saliency maps that are sparser and more faithful. Evaluations across VGG, ResNet, DenseNet and MobileNet models on ImageNet and CUB datasets show that H-Sets generate more interpretable and faithful saliency maps compared to existing methods.

Yang Chu, Xiaomeng Yang, Keli Deng, Yuntao Qian

Hierarchical classification (HC) on degraded images presents challenges due to feature corruption, unreliable confidence estimation, and fine-grained misclassification. Existing methods often struggle to balance semantic consistency and adaptive decision paths under low-quality visual conditions. To address this, we propose HierUQ, a unified framework that integrates uncertainty quantification with adaptive granularity reconciliation. A Vision Transformer backbone extracts global features, which are fused with semantic embeddings via bilinear and semantic-guided cross-attentions. We develop a principled Hierarchical Uncertainty Quantification (HUQ) strategy based on label smoothing and proper scoring rules. When confidence is insufficient, a Confidence-Aware Path Adjustment (CAPA) mechanism adaptively rolls back predictions to higher-level nodes, mitigating overclassification and error propagation, stabilizing the learning trajectory, overcoming degradation-induced interference, and enhancing fine-grained classification accuracy. To enhance learning, we introduce a self-paced joint optimization (MLJO) over multi-level objectives with dynamic loss weighting. Experiments on degraded remote sensing and natural image benchmarks show that HierUQ achieves state-of-the-art performance with strong robustness and adaptability.

Dmitry Demidov, Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer, Zongyan Han, Omkar Thawakar, Rao Anwer

Vocabulary-free fine-grained image recognition aims to distinguish visually similar categories within a meta-class without a fixed, human-defined label set. Existing solutions for this problem remain limited by either the usage of a large and rigid list of vocabularies or by the dependency on complex pipelines with fragile heuristics where errors propagate across stages. Meanwhile, the ability of recent large multi-modal models (LMMs) equipped with explicit or implicit reasoning to comprehend visual-language data, decompose problems, retrieve latent knowledge, and self-correct suggests a more principled and effective alternative. Building on these capabilities, we propose FiNDR (Fine-grained Name Discovery via Reasoning), the first reasoning-augmented LMM-based framework for vocabulary-free fine-grained recognition. The system oper- ates in three automated steps: (i) a reasoning-enabled LMM generates descriptive candidate labels for each image; (ii) a vision-language model filters and ranks these candidates to form a coherent class set; and (iii) the verified names instantiate a lightweight multi-modal classifier used at inference time. Extensive experiments on popular fine-grained classification benchmarks demonstrate state-of-the-art per- formance under the vocabulary-free setting, with a significant relative margin of up to 18.8% over previous ap- proaches. Remarkably, the proposed method surpasses zero-shot baselines that exploit pre-defined ground-truth names, challenging the assumption that human-curated vo- cabularies define an upper bound. Ablations further confirm that advanced prompting techniques and built-in rea- soning mechanisms significantly enhance naming quality. Additionally, we show that carefully engineered prompts enable open-source LMMs to match proprietary counter- parts. These findings establish reasoning-augmented LMMs as an effective foundation for scalable, fully automated, open-world fine-grained visual recognition. The source code and relevant prompting guidelines will be released.

Jinyu Xu, Tianqi Hu, Xiaonan Hu, Letian Zhou, Songliang Cao, Meng Zhang, Hao Lu

Visually cataloging and quantifying the natural world requires pushing the boundaries of both detailed visual classification and counting at scale. Despite significant progress, particularly in crowd and traffic analysis, the fine-grained, taxonomy-aware plant counting remains underexplored in vision. In contrast to crowds, plants exhibit nonrigid morphologies and physical appearance variations across growth stages and environments. To fill this gap, we present TPC-268, the first plant counting benchmark incorporating plant taxonomy. Our dataset couples instance-level point annotations with Linnaean labels (kingdom -> species) and organ categories, enabling hierarchical reasoning and species-aware evaluation. The dataset features 10,000 images with 678,050 point annotations, includes 268 countable plant categories over 242 plant species in Plantae and Fungi, and spans observation scales from canopy-level remote sensing imagery to tissue-level microscopy. We follow the problem setting of class-agnostic counting (CAC), provide taxonomy-consistent, scale-aware data splits, and benchmark state-of-the-art regression- and detection-based CAC approaches. By capturing the biodiversity, hierarchical structure, and multi-scale nature of botanical and mycological taxa, TPC-268 provides a biologically grounded testbed to advance fine-grained class-agnostic counting. Dataset and code are available at https://github.com/tiny-smart/TPC-268.

Khanh Binh Nguyen, Chae Jung Park

Large-scale pre-trained image-text models exhibit robust multimodal representation, yet applying contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP) to audio-visual localization remains challenging. Replacing the classification token ([CLS]) with an audio-embedded token ([V_A])struggles to capture semantic cues, and the prompt "a photo of a [V_A]" fails to establish meaningful connections between audio embeddings and context tokens. To address these issues, we propose sound-aware prompt learning (SouPLe), which replaces fixed prompts with learnable context tokens. These tokens incorporate visual features to generate conditional context for a mask decoder, effectively bridging semantic correspondence between audio and visual inputs. Experiments on VGGSound, SoundNet, and AVSBench confirm that SouPLe significantly improves localization and segmentation performance.

Wenqi Cai, Yawen Zou, Guang Li, Chunzhi Gu, Chao Zhang

Dataset distillation (DD) aims to synthesize compact training sets that enable models to achieve high accuracy with significantly fewer samples. Recent diffusion-based DD methods commonly introduce semantic guidance through late-stage cross-attention, where textual prompts tend to dominate the generative process. Although this strategy enforces label relevance, it diminishes the contribution of visual latents, resulting in over-corrected samples that mirror prompt patterns rather than reflecting intrinsic visual features. To solve this problem, we introduce an Early Vision-Language Fusion (EVLF) method that aligns textual and visual embeddings at the transition between the encoder and the generative backbone. By incorporating a lightweight cross-attention module at this transition, the early representations simultaneously encode local textures and global semantic directions across the denoising process. Importantly, EVLF is plug-and-play and can be easily integrated into any diffusion-based dataset distillation pipeline with an encoder. It works across different denoiser architectures and sampling schedules without any task-specific modifications. Extensive experiments demonstrate that EVLF generates semantically faithful and visually coherent synthetic data, yielding consistent improvements in downstream classification accuracy across varied settings. Source code is available at https://github.com/wenqi-cai297/earlyfusion-for-dd .

Ouyangzi Ye, Feifei Shao, Kexin Li, Yawei Luo, Zikai Song, Ping Liu, Fengda Zhang, Hongwei Wang, Jun Xiao

Test-time training (TTT) enhances the robustness of pretrained models to out-of-distribution (OOD) data through auxiliary self-supervised tasks, without requiring labeled samples. However, existing TTT methods predominantly rely on decoder-based auxiliary objectives, which suffer from inefficient adaptation and weak coupling with the primary task. To solve these limitations, we revisit the mechanism of test-time training by analyzing masking-based pretrained models to uncover the fundamental source of their OOD robustness. Our investigation reveals that their generalization capability stems from a latent feature-level structural invariance, the consistency of encoded representations under masked perturbations. Building on this insight, we introduce LoTT-PC, a lightweight LoRA-based framework that operationalizes this invariance-preserving principle for 3D point cloud classification. LoTT-PC consists of two main components: (1) low-rank modulation units for parameter-efficient adaptation, and (2) a permutation-invariant alignment mechanism that enforces representation consistency through masked feature alignment. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmarks demonstrate that this unified design enables pretrained point cloud models to self-tune rapidly and reliably across diverse OOD scenarios, outperforming state-of-the-art methods by an average of 2.7% in accuracy under various corruption types.