Autoregressive (AR) visual generators model images as sequences of discrete tokens and are trained with next token likelihood. This strict causality supervision optimizes each step only by its immediate next token, which diminishes global coherence and slows convergence. We ask whether foresight, training signals that originate from later tokens, can help AR visual generation. We conduct a series of controlled diagnostics along the injection level, foresight layout, and foresight source axes, unveiling a key insight: aligning foresight to AR models' internal representation on the 2D image grids improves causality modeling.We formulate this insight with Mirai (meaning "future" in Japanese), a general framework that injects future information into AR training with no architecture change and no extra inference overhead: Mirai-E uses explicit foresight from multiple future positions of unidirectional representations, whereas Mirai-I leverages implicit foresight from matched bidirectional representations.Extensive experiments show that Mirai significantly accelerates convergence and improves generation quality. For instance, Mirai can speed up LlamaGen-B's convergence by up to 10xand reduce the generation FID from 5.34 to 4.34 on the ImageNet class-condition image generation benchmark.Our study highlights that visual autoregressive models need foresight.
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We introduce Omni-MMSI, a new task that requires comprehensive social interaction understanding from raw audio, vision, and speech input. The task involves perceiving identity-attributed social cues (e.g., who is speaking what) and reasoning about the social interaction (e.g., whom the speaker refers to). This task is essential for developing AI assistants that can perceive and respond to human interactions. Unlike prior studies that operate on oracle-preprocessed social cues, Omni-MMSI reflects realistic scenarios where AI assistants must perceive and reason from raw data. However, existing pipelines and multi-modal LLMs perform poorly on Omni-MMSI because they lack reliable identity attribution capabilities, which leads to inaccurate social interaction understanding. To address this challenge, we propose Omni-MMSI-R, a reference-guided pipeline that produces identity-attributed social cues with tools and conducts chain-of-thought social reasoning. To facilitate this pipeline, we construct participant-level reference pairs and curate reasoning annotations on top of the existing datasets. Experiments demonstrate that Omni-MMSI-R outperforms advanced LLMs and counterparts on Omni-MMSI. Project page: https://sampson-lee.github.io/omni-mmsi-project-page.
H^2A^2: Homogeneity-Aware and Heterogeneity-Aware Feature Perception for Unified Indoor 3D Object Detection
PDF ↗In this work, we observe that for indoor 3D object detection, fundamental geometric cues induce homogeneous spatial responses across scenes, whereas scene-specific structure yields heterogeneous signatures. However, existing detectors lack effective mechanisms to jointly extract and exploit such dual properties, which imposes inherent limitations on detection performance. Guided by this insight, we propose H^2A^2, a homogeneity-aware and heterogeneity-aware feature perception network for unified indoor 3D object detection under cross-scene training paradigms.Technically, we introduce a structural-feature-aware kernel selection (SF-KS) method, which encompasses three core components:(i) task-aware linear modulation, a channel-wise affine transformation that strengthens scene-structural feature representation; (ii) kernel weight selection strategy that integrates an offset validity prior to suppress non-informative cross-scene transfer while utilizing a structural consistency posterior to capture scene-homogeneous cues. and (iii) task-aware channel gating that suppresses scene-irrelevant feature responses. Overall, SF-KS enables the precise optimization of homogeneous features while specializing in scene-specific heterogeneous ones. In addition, to stabilize cross-scene optimization, we further introduce norm-based gradient homogenization (NGH) algorithm, which normalizes and dynamically reweights per-task gradient norms to mitigate conflicts and promote consistent updates. Extensive experiments on diverse indoor benchmarks show that H^2A^2 delivers consistent gains over strong baselines and improves cross-scene generalization.
Deep learning models remain highly vulnerable to evolving adversarial attacks. While existing continual adversarial training approaches often assume abundant adversarial data at each stage, real-world scenarios frequently involve limited data availability. This paper addresses the setting of Few-shot Continual Adversarial Training, where only a small number of adversarial examples are available per stage, presenting major challenges in achieving robust generalization and mitigating catastrophic forgetting. To tackle these challenges, we propose a novel continual adversarial training framework that incorporates three key components: (i) an Adversarial Margin loss that explicitly pushes clean samples away from decision boundaries to enhance feature discrimination; (ii) a Gaussian mixture model Prototype Replay strategy that synthesizes representative pseudo-features to preserve knowledge of past adversarial domains; and (iii) a Multi-Domain Balanced loss that guides updates to stabilize learning across diverse attack distributions. Extensive experiments on ImageNet-1K and CIFAR-100 demonstrate that our approach consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods in both clean and robust accuracy across a variety of adversarial settings. The code will be released.
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have been increasingly applied in real-world scenarios due to their outstanding understanding and reasoning capabilities. Although VLMs have already demonstrated impressive capabilities in common visual question answering and logical reasoning, they still lack the ability to make reasonable decisions in complex real-world environments. We define this ability as spatial logical reasoning, which not only requires understanding the spatial relationships among objects in complex scenes, but also the logical dependencies between steps in multi-step tasks. To bridge this gap, we introduce Spatial Logical Question Answering (SpatiaLQA), a benchmark designed to evaluate the spatial logical reasoning capabilities of VLMs. SpatiaLQA consists of 9,605 question answer pairs derived from 241 real-world indoor scenes. We conduct extensive experiments on 41 mainstream VLMs, and the results show that even the most advanced models still struggle with spatial logical reasoning. To address this issue, we propose a method called recursive scene graph assisted reasoning, which leverages visual foundation models to progressively decompose complex scenes into task-relevant scene graphs, thereby enhancing the spatial logical reasoning ability of VLMs, outperforming all previous methods. We will release our code and dataset soon.
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models built on pretrained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show strong potential but are limited in practicality due to their large parameter counts. To mitigate this issue, using a lightweight VLM has been explored, but it compromises spatiotemporal reasoning. Although some methods suggest that incorporating additional 3D inputs can help, they usually rely on large VLMs to fuse 3D and 2D inputs and still lack temporal understanding. Therefore, we propose SwiftVLA, an architecture that enhances a compact model with 4D understanding while preserving design efficiency. Specifically, our approach features a pretrained 4D visual geometry transformer with a temporal cache that incrementally extracts 4D features from 2D images. Then, to enhance the VLM's ability to exploit both 2D images and 4D features, we introduce Fusion Tokens, a set of learnable tokens trained with a future prediction objective to generate unified representations for action generation. Finally, we introduce a mask-and-reconstruct strategy that randomly masks 4D inputs to the VLM and trains the VLA to reconstruct the masked features. This self-reconstruction objective helps learn effective 4D representations, allowing the 4D branch to be dropped at inference with minimal performance loss. Extensive experiments in real and simulated environments show that SwiftVLA outperforms lightweight baselines and rivals VLAs up to 7xlarger. On edge devices, SwiftVLA achieves comparable performance while being 18xfaster than the \pi_0 and reducing the memory footprint by 12x.
Spatial registration across different visual modalities is a critical but formidable step in multi-modality image fusion for real-world perception. Although several methods are proposed to address this issue, the existing registration-based fusion methods typically require extensive pre-registration operations, limiting their efficiency. To overcome these limitations, a general cross-modality registration method guided by visual priors is proposed for infrared and visible image fusion task, termed FusionRegister. Firstly, FusionRegister achieves robustness by learning cross-modality misregistration representations rather than forcing alignment of all differences, ensuring stable outputs even under challenging input conditions. Moreover, FusionRegister demonstrates strong generality by operating directly on fused results, where misregistration is explicitly represented and effectively handled, enabling seamless integration with diverse fusion methods while preserving their intrinsic properties. In addition, its efficiency is further enhanced by serving the backbone fusion method as a natural visual prior provider, which guides the registration process to focus only on mismatch regions, thereby avoiding redundant operations. Extensive experiments on three datasets demonstrate that FusionRegister not only inherits the fusion quality of state-of-the-art methods, but also delivers superior detail alignment and robustness, making it highly suitable for infrared and visible image fusion method. The code will be available at https://github.com/bociic/FusionRegister.
Generating realistic and expressive audio-driven talking avatars remains a central challenge in digital human synthesis. Existing methods often depend on intermediate representations such as pose estimations for natural body motion, which restricts flexibility and adds visual distortions. Moreover, most audio-driven approaches rely on discrete emotion classifiers or text labels to regulate facial expression, reducing complex affective dynamics to coarse categories such as happy, sad, or angry. Such categorical supervision fails to capture the continuous and fine-grained speech dynamics (rhythm, energy, intensity) resulting in limited synchronization and emotionally shallow motion. To overcome these limitations, we present SyncDreamer, a unified Diffusion Transformer framework that generates identity-preserving and emotionally expressive talking avatars from only a single image, speech audio, and text prompt.We propose a visual adapter with Attention Localization Loss to maintain identity fidelity, further incorporating an audio dynamics encoder for rhythm- and emotion-aware motion, and an RL-based Cross-Modal Prompt Enhancer grounding textual cues in visual context for fine-grained motion control. Extensive experiments on portrait and full-body benchmarks demonstrate state-of-the-art performance in realism, synchronization accuracy, and semantic controllability, establishing a scalable foundation for expressive digital avatars in interactive and creative applications.
JarvisEvo: Towards a Self-Evolving Photo Editing Agent with Synergistic Editor-Evaluator Optimization
PDF ↗Agent-based editing models have substantially advanced interactive experiences, processing quality, and creative flexibility. However, two critical challenges persist: (1) instruction hallucination--text-only chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning cannot fully prevent factual errors due to inherent information bottlenecks; (2) reward hacking--dynamic policy optimization against static reward models allows agents to exploit flaws in reward functions. To address these issues, we propose JarvisEvo, a unified image editing agent that emulates an expert human designer by iteratively editing, selecting appropriate tools, evaluating results, and reflecting on its own decisions to refine outcomes. JarvisEvo offers three key advantages: (1) an interleaved multimodal chain-of-thought (iMCoT) reasoning mechanism that enhances instruction following and editing quality; (2) a synergistic editor-evaluator policy optimization (SEPO) framework that enables self-improvement without external rewards, effectively mitigating reward hacking; and (3) support for both preservative and generative editing through seamless integration of Adobe Lightroom and Qwen-Image-Edit tools. On ArtEdit-Bench, JarvisEvo outperforms Nano-Banana by an average of 18.95% on preservative editing metrics, including a substantial 44.96% improvement in pixel-level content fidelity, while maintaining competitive performance in generative editing tasks.
Robust cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) remains challenging despite the surge in recent progress. Existing methods still rely on field-of-view (FoV)-specific training paradigms, where models are optimized under a fixed FoV but collapse when tested on unseen FoVs and unknown orientations. This limitation necessitates deploying multiple models to cover diverse variations. Although studies have explored dynamic FoV training by simply randomizing FoVs, they failed to achieve robustness across diverse conditions---implicitly assuming all FoVs are equally difficult. To address this gap, we present SinGeo, a simple yet powerful framework that enables a single model to realize robust cross-view geo-localization without additional modules or explicit transformations. SinGeo employs a dual discriminative learning architecture that enhances intra-view discriminability within both ground and satellite branches, and is the first to introduce a curriculum learning strategy to achieve robust CVGL. Extensive evaluations on four benchmark datasets reveal that SinGeo sets state-of-the-art (SOTA) results under diverse conditions, and notably outperforms methods specifically trained for extreme FoVs. Beyond superior performance, SinGeo also exhibits cross-architecture transferability. Furthermore, we propose a consistency evaluation method to objectively assess model stability under varying views, providing an objective perspective for understanding and advancing robustness in future CVGL research. Codes are available at: https://github.com/Yangchen-nudt/SinGeo.
Thinking Beyond Labels: Vocabulary-Free Fine-Grained Recognition using Reasoning-Augmented LMMs
PDF ↗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.
LiDAR relocalization has attracted increasing attention as it can deliver accurate 6-DoF pose estimation in complex 3D environments. Recent learning-based regression methods offer efficient solutions by directly predicting global poses without the need for explicit map storage. However, these methods often struggle in challenging scenes due to their equal treatment of all predicted points, which is vulnerable to noise and outliers. In this paper, we propose LEADER, a robust LiDAR-based relocalization framework enhanced by a simple, yet effective geometric encoder. Specifically, a Robust Projection-based Geometric Encoder architecture which captures multi-scale geometric features is first presented to enhance descriptiveness in geometric representation. A Truncated Relative Reliability loss is then formulated to model point-wise ambiguity and mitigate the influence of unreliable predictions. Extensive experiments on the Oxford RobotCar and NCLT datasets demonstrate that LEADER outperforms state-of-the-art methods, achieving 24.1% and 73.9% relative reductions in position error over existing techniques, respectively. The source code is released on https://github.com/JiansW/LEADER.
Test-Time Training for LiDAR Semantic Segmentation under Corruption via Geometric Inlier Discrimination
PDF ↗LiDAR semantic segmentation must remain robust under various sensor and environmental corruptions to be reliable in safety-critical applications. Existing test-time adaptation methods, including approaches based on pseudo-labels and normalization statistics, have shown promising results but can still struggle under severe distribution shifts. To complement these approaches, we propose a geometry-aware test-time training framework that leverages an auxiliary self-supervised objective. Our method is based on geometric inlier discrimination (GeoID), which injects synthetic off-manifold points into the input and trains the model to distinguish geometry-consistent inliers from synthetically displaced outliers, enabling adaptation on unlabeled test data. To further stabilize this process under real corruptions, we introduce bidirectional unreliable point filtering (BiUPF), which uses inlier scores from the source-trained model to filter out unreliable regions on both original and synthetic points, focusing updates on high-confidence samples. Experiments on two large-scale corruption benchmarks, SemanticKITTI-C and nuScenes-C, show that our method consistently outperforms strong test-time adaptation baselines and improves robustness across diverse LiDAR corruptions. Our code is available at https://github.com/hskim617/GeoID.
Masked Discrete Diffusion Models (MDMs) have achieved strong performance across a wide range of multimodal tasks, including image understanding, generation, and editing. However, their inference speed remains suboptimal due to the need to repeatedly process redundant masked tokens at every sampling step. In this work, we propose Sparse-LaViDa, a novel modeling framework that dynamically truncates unnecessary masked tokens at each inference step to accelerate MDM sampling. To preserve generation quality, we introduce specialized register tokens that serve as sparse representations for the truncated tokens. Furthermore, to ensure consistency between training and inference, we design a specialized attention mask that faithfully matches the truncated sampling procedure during training. Built upon the state-of-the-art unified MDM LaViDa-O, Sparse-LaViDa achieves up to a 2xspeedup across diverse tasks including text-to-image generation, image editing, and mathematical reasoning, while maintaining generation quality.
VQRAE: Representation Quantization Autoencoders for Multimodal Understanding, Generation and Reconstruction
PDF ↗Unifying multimodal understanding, generation and reconstruction representation in a single tokenizer remains a key challenge in building unified models. Previous research predominantly attempts to address this in a dual encoder paradigm, e.g., utilizing the separate encoders for understanding and generation respectively or balancing semantic representations and low-level features with contrastive loss. In this paper, we propose VQRAE, a Vector Quantization version of Representation AutoEncoders, which pioneers the first exploration in unified representation to produce Continuous semantic features for image understanding and Discrete tokens for visual generation within a unified tokenizer. Specifically, we build upon pretrained vision foundation models with a symmetric ViT decoder and adopt a two-stage training strategy: first, it freezes the encoder and learns a high-dimensional semantic VQ codebook with pixel reconstruction objective; then jointly optimizes the encoder with self-distillation constraints. This design enables negligible semantic information for maintaining the ability of multimodal understanding, discrete tokens that are compatible for generation and fine-grained reconstruction. Besides, we identify the intriguing property in quantizing semantic encoders that rely on high-dimensional codebook in contrast to the previous common practice of low-dimensional codebook in image reconstruction. The semantic VQ codebook can achieve a 100% utilization ratio at a dimension of 1536. VQRAE presents competitive performance on several benchmarks of visual understanding, generation and reconstruction with promising scaling property in the autoregressive paradigm for its discrete merits.
We introduce the problem of material-aware part grouping in untextured meshes.Many real-world shapes, such as scales of pinecones or windows of buildings, contain repeated structures that share the same material but exhibit geometric variations.When assigning materials to such meshes, these repeated parts often require piece-by-piece manual identification and selection, which is tedious and time-consuming.To address this, we propose Material Magic Wand, a tool that allows artists to select part groups based on their estimated material properties -- when one part is selected, our algorithm automatically retrieves all other parts likely to share the same material. The key component of our approach is a part encoder that generates a material-aware embedding for each 3D part, accounting for both local geometry and global context.We train our model with a supervised contrastive loss that brings embeddings of material-consistent parts closer while separating those of different materials;therefore, part grouping can be achieved by retrieving embeddings that are close to the embedding of the selected part.To benchmark this task, we introduce a curated dataset of 100 shapes with 241 part-level queries.We verify the effectiveness of our method through extensive experiments and demonstrate its practical value in an interactive material assignment application.
MU-GeNeRF: Multi-view Uncertainty-guided Generalizable Neural Radiance Fields for Distractor-aware Scene
PDF ↗Generalizable Neural Radiance Fields (GeNeRF) enable high-quality scene reconstruction from a limited number of views and can generalize to unseen scenes. However, in real-world environments, transient distractors disrupt structural consistency across views, leading to deviated supervision signals and degraded reconstruction quality. Existing distractor-free NeRF methods rely on per-scene optimization and they estimate uncertainty from per-view reconstruction errors to remove distractors, but this is unreliable to GeNeRF, because it may misjudge inconsistent static structures from source views as distractors. To address this issue, we propose MUGeNeRF: a multi-view uncertainty-guided distractor-aware GeNeRF method, aim to effectively alleviate GeNeRF's robust modeling challenges in dynamic scenes with transient distractions. We explicitly decompose distractor awareness into two complementary uncertainty modeling tasks: Source-view uncertainty, serving as a transferable prior during the feed-forward process, captures structural inconsistencies across source views caused by viewpoint changes or dynamic factors; Target-view uncertainty focuses on observation anomalies caused by transient changes to infer distractor spatial distribution. These two uncertainties are integrated into a heteroscedastic reconstruction loss that guides adaptive supervision weighting, boosting the model's capability to detect and suppress distractors, and enabling more robust geometric modeling. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method not only outperforms existing GeNeRF approaches but also rivals the performance of scene-specific distractor-free NeRFs.
DA-Mamba: Learning Domain-Aware State Space Model for Global-Local Alignment in Domain Adaptive Object Detection
PDF ↗Domain Adaptive Object Detection (DAOD) aims to transfer detectors from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain.Existing DAOD methods employ multi-granularity feature alignment to learn domain-invariant representations.However, the local connectivity of their CNN-based backbone and detection head restricts alignment to local regions, failing to extract global domain-invariant features.Although transformer-based DAOD methods capture global dependencies via attention mechanisms, their quadratic computational cost hinders practical deployment. To solve this, we propose DA-Mamba, a hybrid CNN-State Space Models (SSMs) architecture that combines the efficiency of CNNs with the linear-time long-range modeling capability of State Space Models (SSMs) to capture both global and local domain-invariant features.Specifically, we introduce two novel modules: Image-Aware SSM (IA-SSM) and Object-Aware SSM (OA-SSM).IA-SSM is integrated into the backbone to enhance global domain awareness, enabling image-level global and local alignment.OA-SSM is inserted into the detection head to model spatial and semantic dependencies among objects, enhancing instance-level alignment.Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed method can efficiently improve the cross-domain performance of the object detector.
EfficientVPR: Toward Efficient Visual Place Recognition via Scene-Aware Prompt Tuning and Adaptive Feature Enhancement
PDF ↗Visual place recognition (VPR) faces critical challenges in handling extreme environmental variations while meeting the computational constraints of practical applications. Current methods predominantly address these challenges by either scaling up model capacity or employing computationally intensive reranking stages, creating a significant efficiency bottleneck. To overcome this limitation, we propose EfficientVPR, a lightweight one-stage framework that achieves speed-accuracy trade-offs through two key innovations: i) a scene-aware visual prompt tuning method which adapts pretrained features with less parameters while dynamically adjusting to sample-specific characteristics, and ii) an instance-dependent key local feature enhancement module that further reinforces discriminative regions. Comprehensive evaluations on Pitts250k, MSLS, Eynsham, AmsterTime and SVOX demonstrate that our method establishes a new SOTA for DINOv2-small models by outperforming all same-scale competitors, and delivers a 73x speedup with 60% lower-dimensional features while maintaining competitive (within 2.5% average R@1 gap) against the SOTA DINOv2-large-based two-stage method. Our code will be available at https://github.com/WiniTang/EfficientVPR.
Conformal prediction (CP) is a powerful framework for uncertainty quantification, generating prediction sets with coverage guarantees. Split conformal prediction relies on labeled data in the calibration procedure. However, the labeled data is often limited in real-world scenarios, leading to unstable coverage performance in different runs. To address this issue, we extend CP to the semi-supervised setting and propose SemiCP, a new paradigm that leverages both labeled and unlabeled data for calibration. To achieve this, we introduce an unlabeled nonconformity score, Nearest Neighbor Matching (NNM) score. Specifically, NNM estimates the nonconformity scores of unlabeled samples using their most similar pseudo-labeled counterparts during calibration, while maintaining the original scores for labeled data. Theoretically, we demonstrate that the average coverage gap (i.e., the absolute difference between the empirical marginal coverage and the target coverage) of SemiCP can decrease significantly at a rate O(N-1t2) and converge to an error term, where N is the number of unlabeled data. Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of SemiCP under limited labeled data, reducing the average coverage gap by up to 77% on common benchmarks with 4000 unlabeled examples, when there are only 20 labeled examples. Code is available at https://github.com/Shinning-Zhou/SemiCP.