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Zhan Fa, Yue Duan, Jian Zhang, Lei Qi, Yinghuan Shi

Current training-free methods tackle MLLM hallucination with separate strategies: either enhancing visual signals or suppressing text inertia. However, these separate methods are insufficient due to critical trade-offs: simply enhancing vision often fails against strong language prior, while suppressing language can introduce extra image-irrelevant noise. Moreover, we find their naive combination is also ineffective, necessitating a unified framework. We propose such a framework by focusing on the core asset: the vision token. Our design leverages two key insights: (1) augmented images offer complementary visual semantics, and (2) removing vision tokens (information-gap) isolates hallucination tendencies more precisely than distorting images (modality-gap). Based on these, our framework uses vision tokens in two distinct ways, both operating on latent representations: our Synergistic Visual Calibration (SVC) module incorporates augmented tokens to strengthen visual representations, while our Causal Representation Calibration (CRC) module uses pruned tokens to create latent-space negative samples for correcting internal model biases. By harmonizing these two roles, our framework effectively restores the vision-language balance, significantly reducing object hallucinations, improving POPE accuracy by an average of 2% absolute on LLaVA-1.5 across multiple benchmarks with only a 1.06x inference latency overhead.

Viktoria Ehm, Dongliang Cao, Riccardo Marin, Daniel Scholz, Weikang Wang, Florian Bernard, Daniel Cremers

Partial shape matching is a crucial yet underexplored problem in 3D vision, with significant relevance to real-world scenarios where shapes are often only partially observed. Existing feature descriptors face difficulties in this setting, as traditional representations either struggle with the boundaries of partial shapes or heavily depend on the shape's spatial position. While existing approaches have employed DINO features for partial shape matching, these features are not inherently suited for handling partial observations. In this work, we propose a method to refine DINO features using LoRA-based self-supervised learning, enabling the generation of feature descriptors that are robust to partiality. Our features substantially improve performance on partial shape matching compared to traditional or vision foundation features. Additionally, when integrated into existing partial shape matching pipelines, we achieve state-of-the-art results on partial shape matching and left-right prediction benchmarks.

Rui Zhao, Mike Zheng Shou

Recent advancements in video generation models have significantly improved their ability to follow text prompts. However, the customization of dynamic visual effects, defined as temporally evolving and appearance-driven visual phenomena like object crushing or explosion, remains underexplored. Prior works on motion customization or control mainly focus on low-level motions of the subject or camera, which can be guided using explicit control signals such as motion trajectories. In contrast, dynamic visual effects involve higher-level semantics that are more naturally suited for control via text prompts. However, it is hard and time-consuming for humans to craft a single prompt that accurately specifies these effects, as they require complex temporal reasoning and iterative refinement over time. To address this challenge, we propose P-Flow, a novel training-free framework for customizing dynamic visual effects in video generation without modifying the underlying model. By leveraging the semantic and temporal reasoning capabilities of vision-language models, P-Flow performs test-time prompt optimization, refining prompts based on the discrepancy between the visual effects of the reference video and the generated output. Through iterative refinement, the prompts evolve to better induce the desired dynamic effect in novel scenes. Experiments demonstrate that P-Flow achieves high-fidelity and diverse visual effect customization and outperforms other models on both text-to-video and image-to-video generation tasks. Code is available at https://github.com/showlab/P-Flow.

Haoyu He, Yue Zhuo, Yu Zheng, Qi R. Wang

Vision-language models (VLMs) achieve strong multimodal performance, yet how computation is organized across populations of neurons remains poorly understood. In this work, we study VLMs through the lens of neural topology, representing each layer as a within-layer correlation graph derived from neuron-neuron co-activations. This view allows us to ask whether population-level structure is behaviorally meaningful, how it changes across modalities and depth, and whether it identifies causally influential internal components under intervention. We show that correlation topology carries recoverable behavioral signal; moreover, cross-modal structure progressively consolidates with depth around a compact set of recurrent hub neurons, whose targeted perturbation materially alters model output. Neural topology thus emerges as a meaningful intermediate scale for VLM interpretability: richer than local attribution, more tractable than full circuit recovery, and empirically tied to multimodal behavior. Code is publicly available at https://github.com/he-h/vlm-graph-probing.

Hanyu Chen, Ruojin Cai, Steve Marschner, Noah Snavely

Symmetry detection is a fundamental problem in computer vision, and symmetries serve as powerful priors for downstream tasks. However, existing learning-based methods for detecting 3D symmetries from single images have been almost exclusively trained and evaluated on object-centric or synthetic datasets, and thus fail to generalize to real-world scenes. Furthermore, due to the inherent scale ambiguity of monocular inputs, which makes localizing the 3D plane an ill-posed problem, many existing works only predict the plane's orientation. In this paper, we address these limitations by presenting the first framework for detecting *3D-grounded reflectional symmetries* from single, in-the-wild RGB images, focusing on architectural landmarks. We introduce two key innovations: (1) a scalable data annotation pipeline to automatically curate a large-scale dataset of architectural symmetries, ArchSym, from SfM reconstructions by leveraging cross-view image matching; and building on the dataset, (2) a single-view symmetry detector that accurately localizes symmetries in 3D by parameterizing them as signed distance maps defined relative to predicted scene geometry. We validate our symmetry annotation pipeline against geometry-based alternatives and demonstrate that our symmetry detector significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on our new benchmark.

Muye Huang, Lingling Zhang, Yifei Li, Yaqiang Wu, Jun Liu

Charts are high-density visual carriers of complex data and medium for information extraction and analysis. Due to the need for precise and complex visual reasoning, automated chart understanding poses a significant challenge to existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Many MLLMs trained with reinforcement learning (RL) face the challenge of credit assignment. Their advantage estimation, typically performed at the trajectory level, cannot distinguish between correct and incorrect reasoning steps within a single generated response. To address this limitation, we introduce SketchVL, a novel MLLM that optimized with FinePO, a new RL algorithm designed for fine-grained credit assignment within each trajectory. SketchVL's methodology involves drawing its intermediate reasoning steps as markers on the image and feeding the annotated image back to itself, creating a robust, multi-step reasoning process. During training, the FinePO algorithm leverages a Fine-grained Process Reward Model (FinePRM) to score each drawing action within a trajectory, thereby precisely assigning credit for each step. This mechanism allows FinePO to more strongly reward correct tokens when a trajectory is globally successful, and more heavily penalize incorrect tokens when the trajectory is globally suboptimal, thus achieving fine-grained reinforcement signals. Experiments show that SketchVL learns to align its step-level behavior with the FinePRM, achieving an average performance gain of 7.23% over its base model across chart datasets, natural image datasets, and mathematics, providing a promising new direction for training powerful reasoning models.

Zheng Gu, Min Lu, Zhida Sun, Dani Lischinski, Daniel Cohen-Or, Hui Huang

Disentangling visual layers in real-world images is a persistent challenge in vision and graphics, as such layers often involve non-linear and globally coupled interactions, including shading, reflection, and perspective distortion. In this work, we present an in-context image decomposition framework that leverages large diffusion foundation models for layered separation. We focus on the challenging case of logo-object decomposition, where the goal is to disentangle a logo from the surface on which it appears while faithfully preserving both layers. Our method fine-tunes a pretrained diffusion model via lightweight LoRA adaptation and introduces a cycle-consistent tuning strategy that jointly trains decomposition and composition models, enforcing reconstruction consistency between decomposed and recomposed images. This bidirectional supervision substantially enhances robustness in cases where the layers exhibit complex interactions. Furthermore, we introduce a progressive self-improving process, which iteratively augments the training set with high-quality model-generated examples to refine performance. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach achieves accurate and coherent decompositions and also generalizes effectively across other decomposition types, suggesting its potential as a unified framework for layered image decomposition.

Boyu Chen, Zikang Wang, Zhengrong Yue, Kainan Yan, Chenyun Yu, Yi Huang, Zijun Liu, Yafei Wen, Xiaoxin Chen, Yang Liu 等

Most of the multi-agent video understanding frameworks adopt static and non-learnable tool invocation mechanisms, which limit the discovery of diverse clues essential for robust perception and reasoning regarding temporally or spatially complex videos. To address this challenge, we propose a novel Multi-agent system for video understanding, namely VideoChat-M1. Instead of using a single or fixed policy, we adopt a distinct Collaborative Policy Planning (CPP) paradigm with multiple policy agents, which comprises three key processes. (1)Policy Generation: Each agent generates its unique tool invocation policy tailored to the user's query. (2) Policy Execution: Each agent sequentially invokes relevant tools to execute its policy and explore the video content. (3) Policy Communication: During the intermediate stages of policy execution, agents interact with one another to update their respective policies. Through this collaborative framework, all agents work in tandem, dynamically refining their preferred policies based on contextual insights from peers. Moreover, we equip our CPP paradigm with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). Consequently, policy agents can be jointly optimized to enhance the performance, guided by both the final answer reward and intermediate collaborative process feedback. Extensive experiments demonstrate that VideoChat-M1 achieves SOTA performance across eight benchmarks on four tasks. Notably, on LongVideoBench, our method outperforms Gemini 2.5 pro by 3.6% and GPT-4o by 15.6%.

Mohammad Mahdi Kazemi Esfeh, Qi Yan, Yongxing Zhang, Zahra Gholami, Renjie Liao, Purang Abolmaesumi

Modern vision systems are deployed in settings where occasional catastrophic failures matter more than average accuracy--for example in medical imaging, autonomous driving, and safety monitoring. While conformal prediction gives distribution-free uncertainty guarantees, most existing methods only control mean error and are hard to tune toward rare but high-cost mistakes. We propose Bayesian-Quadrature Spectral Risk Control (BQ-SRC), a general framework for controlling tail-focused risks (such as conditional value at risk (CVaR)-style objectives) in a distribution-free way. BQ-SRC views conformal prediction through a Bayesian-quadrature lens and replaces mean-risk control with a flexible family of risk-averse criteria, while keeping the same black-box access to a trained model. A binomial testing scheme reduces the Monte Carlo conservatism of prior approaches, leading to tighter sets without sacrificing guarantees. We evaluate BQ-SRC across diverse vision tasks, including synthetic regression, closed-set and zero-shot image classification, multilabel classification, and semantic segmentation. Across these settings, BQ-SRC consistently maintains finite-sample risk guarantees and often yields smaller or otherwise more informative prediction sets than existing conformal and risk-controlling baselines, sometimes trading a modest amount of efficiency for stronger tail-risk control. The code will be publicly available at https://github.com/MohammadMahdiKazemi/BQ_SRC.

Yuan Gui, Hongchen Luo, Jiao Wang, Liqi Qu

Current research in autonomous driving heavily relies on large-scale driving datasets for model fitting or trial-and-error learning strategies in simulation environments. However, these approaches suffer from limited behavioral diversity and fail to cover complex edge-case interactions. To address these limitations, we model the driving environment as an Active Markov Game (AMG) and introduce a multi-agent co-evolutionary training framework for more realistic interactive learning. The AMG formulation extends traditional Markov games by explicitly making state transitions and rewards dependent on the evolving strategies of the agents, thus capturing the interactive dynamics and strategic coupling between the ego vehicle and surrounding agents. Building on this, our multi-agent co-evolutionary training mechanism jointly optimizes the ego vehicle's policy and a diverse pool of opponent strategies, allowing all agents to adapt to each other's behaviors during training. This game-theoretic approach produces a robust ego agent capable of handling diverse, non-stationary driving strategies, overcoming the "non-responsive opponent" limitation found in prior methods. In CARLA simulations of unsignalized intersections and long-tail scenarios, our method performs exceptionally well, achieving near-perfect success rates (98%), and significantly outperforming state-of-the-art baselines such as PPO, DDPG, and IPPO in terms of generalization, safety margins, and control smoothness. These results demonstrate that our approach substantially enhances the robustness, safety, and strategic adaptability of autonomous driving in complex multi-agent environments.

Tiantian Dang, Chao Bi, Shufan Shen, Jinzhe Liu, Qingming Huang, Shuhui Wang

Despite the significant advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), their tendency to generate hallucinations undermines reliability and restricts broader practical deployment. Among the hallucination mitigation methods, feature steering emerges as a promising approach that reduces erroneous outputs in LVLMs without increasing inference costs. However, current methods apply uniform feature steering across all layers. This heuristic strategy ignores inter-layer differences, potentially disrupting layers unrelated to hallucinations and ultimately leading to performance degradation on general tasks. In this paper, we propose Locate-Then-Sparsify for Feature Steering (LTS-FS), a plug-and-play framework which controls the steering intensity according to the hallucination relevance of each layer. We first construct a dataset comprising token-level and sentence-level hallucination cases. Based on this dataset, we introduce an attribution method based on causal interventions to quantify the hallucination relevance of each layer. With the attribution scores across layers, we propose a layerwise strategy that converts these scores into feature steering intensities for individual layers, enabling more precise adjustments specifically on hallucination-relevant layers. Extensive experiments across multiple LVLMs and benchmarks demonstrate that LTS-FS effectively mitigates hallucination while preserving strong performance. Codes are available at https://github.com/huttersadan/LTS-FS.

Anh-Quan Cao, Ivan Lopes, Raoul de Charette

Multi-task learning for dense prediction is limited by the need for extensive annotation for every task, although recent works have explored training with partial task labels. Leveraging the generalization power of diffusion models, we extend the partial learning setup to a zero-shot setting, training a multi-task model on multiple synthetic datasets, each labeled for only a subset of tasks. Our method, StableMTL, repurposes an image generator for latent regression. Adapting a denoising framework with task encoding, task conditioning and a tailored training scheme. Instead of per-task losses requiring careful balancing, a unified latent loss is adopted, enabling seamless scaling to more tasks. To encourage inter-task synergy, we introduce a multi-stream model with a task-attention mechanism that converts N-to-N task interactions into efficient N-to-one attention, promoting effective cross-task sharing. StableMTL outperforms baselines on 7 tasks across 8 benchmarks.

Dingchuan Yu, Jiatong Li, Jingwen Zhou, Zhengyue Zhuge, Yueting Chen, Qi Li

Object motion blur in static scenes is spatially heterogeneous, differing from conventional deblurring problems yet frequently occurring in real handheld capture scenarios. Existing datasets either rely on costly beam-splitting capture with residual misalignment or employ synthetic blur that fails to model the continuous photon-integration process during exposure. To overcome these limitations, we introduce OMoBlur, a physically grounded dataset that emulates realistic exposure integration via programmable sensor control, ensuring close alignment between synthetic and real blur distributions. OMoBlur provides 20,000 blur-sharp-mask pairs covering diverse object motion types. Leveraging this dataset, we further propose OMDNet, an object-motion-aware deblurring network that integrates a Motion-Appearance Extract Block, a Flow-Guided Gate Predictor, and an Adaptive Gated Fusion mechanism. This design enables the network to selectively restore blurred regions while preserving static backgrounds, without requiring pixel-accurate mask annotations. Extensive experiments demonstrate that OMoBlur's physically faithful data collection and large-scale diversity significantly enhance the network's generalization to real-world motion blur, establishing OMoBlur and OMDNet as a robust benchmark and practical solution for local motion deblurring. The dataset and code is publicly released at https://yudingchuan.github.io/OMoBlur_homepage/.

Francesco Gentile, Nicola Dall'Asen, Francesco Tonini, Massimiliano Mancini, Lorenzo Vaquero, Elisa Ricci

As vision-language models are deployed at scale, understanding their internal mechanisms becomes increasingly critical. Existing interpretability methods predominantly rely on activations, making them dataset-dependent, vulnerable to data bias, and often restricted to coarse head-level explanations. We introduce SITH (Semantic Inspection of Transformer Heads), a fully data-free, training-free framework that directly analyzes CLIP's vision transformer in weight space. For each attention head, we decompose its value-output matrix into singular vectors and interpret each one via COMP (Coherent Orthogonal Matching Pursuit), a new algorithm that explains them as sparse, semantically coherent combinations of human-interpretable concepts. We show that SITH yields coherent, faithful intra-head explanations, validated through reconstruction fidelity and interpretability experiments. This allows us to use SITH for precise, interpretable weight-space model edits that amplify or suppress specific concepts, improving downstream performance without retraining. Furthermore, we use SITH to study model adaptation, showing how fine-tuning primarily reweights a stable semantic basis rather than learning entirely new features.

Hailin Luo, Yifan Yang, Jiazhi Shu, Zixiong Huang, Qi Chen, Qing Du, Mingkui Tan

Reconstructing high-fidelity, animatable human avatars from monocular videos remains a critical challenge. Existing 3DGS-based human animation methods constrain Gaussian parameters but exclude scale, which we argue is crucial for adapting human poses to challenging out-of-distribution poses. To achieve robust animation under unseen poses, we propose Tavatar, which derives key parameters such as scale, rotation, and other geometric attributes directly from the local mesh geometry, instead of learning them through unconstrained optimization. This paradigm shift enforces topological consistency by design, as each Gaussian is analytically anchored to the local mesh geometry, inheriting its spatial structure and deformation behavior. Specifically, we bind Gaussians to mesh faces and vertices, deriving their scales and orientations from triangle properties and local edge lengths to ensure coherent surface coverage. To ensure the stability of this analytical mapping, we introduce a crucial equilateral regularization term that preserves mesh integrity. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Tavatar achieves superior animation robustness on challenging out-of-distribution poses, reducing normal error by 13.8% on X-Avatar and 17.9% on PeopleSnapshot against the best baseline, while maintaining competitive rendering quality.

Zhaochong An, Menglin Jia, Haonan Qiu, Zijian Zhou, Xiaoke Huang, Zhiheng Liu, Weiming Ren, Kumara Kahatapitiya, Ding Liu, Sen He 等

Storytelling in real-world videos often unfolds through multiple shots--discontinuous yet semantically connected clips that together convey a coherent narrative. However, existing multi-shot video generation (MSV) methods struggle to effectively model long-range cross-shot context, as they rely on limited temporal windows or single keyframe conditioning, leading to degraded performance under complex narratives. In this work, we propose OneStory, achieving global yet compact cross-shot context modeling for consistent and scalable narrative generation. OneStory reformulates MSV as a next-shot generation task, enabling shot-by-shot autoregressive synthesis while leveraging pretrained image-to-video (I2V) models for strong visual conditioning. We introduce two key modules: a Frame Selection module that constructs a semantically-relevant global memory based on informative frames from prior shots, and an Adaptive Conditioner that performs importance-guided patchification to generate compact context for direct conditioning. We further curate a high-quality multi-shot dataset with referential captions to mirror real-world storytelling patterns, and design effective training strategies under the next-shot paradigm. Finetuned from a pretrained I2V model on our curated 60K dataset, OneStory achieves state-of-the-art narrative coherence across diverse and complex scenes in both text- and image-conditioned settings, enabling controllable and immersive long-form video storytelling. See our Project Page for more details.

Jiaxu Wan, Xu Wang, Mengwei Xie, Hang Zhang, Mu Xu, Yang Han, Ding Yuan, Hong Zhang, Yifan Yang

Video-based spatial reasoning -- such as estimating distances, judging directions, or understanding layouts from multiple views -- requires selecting informative frames and, when needed, actively seeking additional viewpoints during inference. Existing multimodal large language models (MLLMs) consume a fixed set of uniformly sampled frames and cannot request new views once reasoning begins, often missing the geometric cues necessary for reliable spatial judgments. We present EagleVision, a dual-stage framework that combines geometry-aware frame selection with active, Bird's-Eye-View (BEV)-grounded reasoning. In the first stage (macro perception), a semantics-perspective-fusion determinantal point process (SPF-DPP) selects a compact set of keyframes that jointly maximize semantic relevance and viewpoint diversity under a fixed token budget. In the second stage (micro verification), the model performs iterative spatial Chain-of-Thought: at each step it can either reason in text or predict a pose on the BEV plane to retrieve the nearest real frame, forming a closed-loop hypothesize-look-verify cycle. The querying policy is trained purely via reinforcement learning with a spatial grounding reward, requiring no human-annotated reasoning traces. On VSI-Bench and SQA3D, EagleVision achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source vision-language models.

Xinkui Zhao, Yifan Zhang, Sai Liu, Naibo Wang, Guanjie Cheng, Yueshen Xu, Chang Liu, Shuiguang Deng, Jianwei Yin

Embodied Multi-Agent Systems have proven highly effective in addressing complex tasks through coordinated collaboration among heterogeneous agents. However, real-world environments and task specifications are inherently dynamic, exhibiting frequent changes, uncertainty, and variability. Despite these characteristics, most existing frameworks employ static architectures with fixed agent capabilities and rigid task allocation strategies, which substantially constrain their adaptability to evolving conditions. This inflexibility presents significant challenges to maintaining robust and efficient multi-agent cooperation in dynamic and unpredictable settings.To address these limitations, we propose DRAMA, short for Dynamic Orchestration for Resilient Multi-Agent Ecosystems, tailored for rapidly changing environments. DRAMA adopts a multilayer architecture that incorporates three principal mechanisms: adaptive scheduling through an affinity-driven mechanism, fault-tolerant continuity via hierarchical trust-chain task takeover, and collective spatial intelligence that consolidates distributed observations for predictive reasoning. Together, these components enable event-triggered rescheduling and decentralized fault recovery, ensuring uninterrupted task execution amid agent arrivals, dropouts, or recoveries. Extensive experiments in the embodied VirtualHome-Social environment demonstrate that DRAMA achieves a 7% improvement in runtime efficiency and a 10% increase in throughput compared with state-of-the-art baselines, while maintaining superior stability and robustness under dynamic agent populations.

Jialun Pei, Diandian Guo, Donghui Yang, Zhixi Li, Yuxin Feng, Long Ma, Bo Du, Pheng-Ann Heng

In endoscopic surgery, a clear and high-quality visual field is critical for surgeons to make accurate intraoperative decisions. However, persistent visual degradation, including smoke generated by energy devices, lens fogging from thermal gradients, and lens contamination due to blood or tissue fluid splashes during surgical procedures, severely impairs visual clarity. These degenerations can seriously hinder surgical workflow and pose risks to patient safety. To systematically investigate and address various forms of surgical scene degradation, we introduce a real-world open-source surgical image restoration dataset covering laparoscopic environments, called SurgClean, which involves multi-type image restoration tasks from two medical sites, i.e., desmoking, defogging, and desplashing. SurgClean comprises 3,113 images with diverse degradation types and corresponding paired reference labels. Based on SurgClean, we establish a standardized evaluation benchmark and provide performance for 22 representative generic task-specific image restoration approaches, including 12 generic and 10 task-specific image restoration approaches. Experimental results reveal substantial performance gaps relative to clinical requirements, highlighting a critical opportunity for algorithm advancements in intelligent surgical restoration. Furthermore, we explore the degradation discrepancies between surgical and natural scenes from structural perception and semantic understanding perspectives, providing fundamental insights for domain-specific image restoration research. Our work aims to empower restoration algorithms and improve the efficiency of clinical procedures. Sources can be available at: https://github.com/PJLallen/Surgical-Image-Restoration.

Nan An, Long Ma, Tengyu Ma, Zhu Liu, Yingchi Liu, Risheng Liu

The emergence of large generative models has substantially advanced learning-based scene recovery in the synthetic domain. However, these models generalize poorly to real scenarios stemming from the significant distribution gap, alongside poor adaptation to complex and unforeseen degradations. Consequently, it is imperative to develop a real scene adaptation strategy that yields faithful restorations with reliable generalizability. To this end, we propose Bilevel Prompt LoRA, a novel learning paradigm designed to effectively adapt pre-trained generative models for real scene recovery. First, we introduce a self-supervised distribution-fidelity learning scheme to calibrate the autoencoding pathway under task-irrelevant real distributions to improve texture fidelity. Subsequently, a bilevel joint modeling via hyperparameter optimization is further established, empowering robust synthetic-to-real adaptation for both seen and unseen scenes by exploiting the complementary advantages between LoRA and Prompts to foster mutual promotion. Extensive evaluations on diverse real adverse scenarios demonstrate our superiority, with comprehensive algorithm analyses proving our effectiveness.