GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
Stabilizing Feature Geometry in Noisy Pretrained Models for Robust Downstream Tasks
Authors: Quanyu Zhang; Zhongyi Han; Hao Sun; Yongshun Gong; Xiaoyan Wang; Yilong Yin; Shuo Li
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Pretraining on large-scale data followed by fine-tuning has become a standard paradigm for visual models. However, noise in the pretraining data can be absorbed by the model and carried into downstream tasks, causing catastrophic inheritance. Prior studies mainly link this issue to changes in the feature spectrum, arguing that noise reduces the strength of key feature components. Following this view, they aim to improve transferability by amplifying these components. However, these approaches focus only on spectral energy and implicitly assume that the feature directions remain fixed, which does not hold in practice. In this work, we revisit this view and reveal an overlooked effect: even mild pretraining noise can cause a clear rotation of the dominant feature subspace, despite negligible spectral energy degradation. To quantitatively characterize this phenomenon, we propose using the Principal Directional Angle (PDA) to measure the directional shift between the clean and noisy models. Building on this observation, we introduce the Feature Geometry Stabilization (FGS) framework, which aims to counteract the subspace rotation revealed by PDA by enhancing the geometric stability of the feature space through the synergistic interaction of perturbation consistency, variance-activation regularization, and feature consistency distillation. Experiments across multiple visual benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of FGS and verify the importance of stabilizing feature geometry to mitigate catastrophic inheritance.
Fast Spatial Tracking with Visual Geometry Transformer
Authors: Chengjie Huang; Guile Wu; Dongfeng Bai; Bingbing Liu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Existing 3D point tracking methods mostly rely on heuristic designs or scene reconstruction, which incurs significant computational overhead and makes it difficult to meet the demands of real-time applications. To address this problem, in this work, we present a novel spatial tracker that leverages a feed-forward visual geometry transformer to predict the trajectories of arbitrary query points from monocular videos in real time. Specifically, we employ a query initialization mechanism to maintain and update a global feature vector and a set of frame-level feature vectors for each query point. Then, we propose a new spatial tracking framework, which consists of a visual geometry transformer backbone, a global embedding branch, a frame-level embedding branch, and a tracking head. The key innovation lies in the dual-branch embedding design, where the global embedding branch integrates geometry-grounded features of the entire video into global query features to optimize track information across the entire sequence and the frame-level branch combines geometry-grounded features of each respective frame into frame-level query features to refine fine-grained track coordinate predictions. Furthermore, to facilitate collaboration between the global branch and the frame-level branch, we introduce an interaction module which enables unidirectional or bidirectional information exchange between the global query features and frame-level query features. Extensive experiments on various point tracking benchmark datasets show that our approach achieves significantly fast spatial tracking speed compared with state-of-the-art methods, while maintaining comparable tracking accuracy.
RankOOD - Class Ranking-based Out-of-Distribution Detection
Authors: Dishanika Denipitiyage; Naveen Karunanayake; Suranga Seneviratne; Sanjay Chawla
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: We propose RankOOD, a rank-based Out-of-Distribution (OOD) detection approach based on training a model with the Placket-Luce loss, which is now extensively used for preference alignment tasks in foundational models. Our approach is based on the insight that with a deep learning model trained using the Cross Entropy Loss, in-distribution (ID) class prediction induces a ranking pattern for each ID class prediction. The RankOOD framework formalizes the insight by first extracting a rank list for each class using an initial classifier and then uses another round of training with the Plackett-Luce loss, where the class rank, a fixed permutation for each class, is the predicted variable. An OOD example may get assigned with high probability to an ID example, but the probability of it respecting the ranking classification is likely to be small. RankOOD, achieves SOTA performance on the near-ODD TinyImageNet evaluation benchmark, reducing FPR95 by 4.3%.
SASNet: Spatially-Adaptive Sinusoidal Networks for INRs
Authors: Haoan Feng; Diana Aldana; Tiago Novello; Leila De Floriani
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Sinusoidal neural networks (SIRENs) are powerful implicit neural representations (INRs) for low-dimensional signals in vision and graphics. By encoding input coordinates with sinusoidal functions, they enable high-frequency image and surface reconstruction. However, training SIRENs is often unstable and highly sensitive to frequency initialization: small frequencies produce overly smooth reconstructions in detailed regions, whereas large ones introduce spurious high-frequency components that manifest as noise in smooth areas such as image backgrounds. To address these challenges, we propose SASNet, a Spatially-Adaptive Sinusoidal Network that couples a frozen frequency embedding layer, which explicitly fixes the network's frequency support, with jointly learned spatial masks that localize neuron influence across the domain. This pairing stabilizes optimization, sharpens edges, and suppresses noise in smooth areas. Experiments on 2D image and 3D volumetric data fitting as well as signed distance field (SDF) reconstruction benchmarks demonstrate that SASNet achieves faster convergence, superior reconstruction quality, and robust frequency localization--assigning low- and high-frequency neurons to smooth and detailed regions respectively--while maintaining parameter efficiency.
Imagine Before Concentration: Diffusion-Guided Registers Enhance Partially Relevant Video Retrieval
Authors: Jun Li; Xuhang Lou; Jinpeng Wang; Yuting Wang; Yaowei Wang; Shu-Tao Xia; Bin Chen
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Partially Relevant Video Retrieval (PRVR) aims to retrieve untrimmed videos based on text queries that describe only partial events. Existing methods suffer from incomplete global contextual perception, struggling with  query ambiguity and local noise induced by spurious responses. To address these issues, we propose DreamPRVR, which adopts a coarse-to-fine representation learning paradigm. The model first generates global contextual semantic registers as coarse-grained highlights spanning the entire video and then concentrates on  fine-grained similarity optimization for precise cross-modal matching. Concretely, these registers are generated by  initializing from the video-centric distribution produced by a probabilistic variational sampler and then iteratively refined via a text-supervised truncated diffusion model. During this process, textual semantic structure learning constructs a well-formed textual latent space, enhancing the reliability of global perception. The registers are then adaptively fused  with video tokens through register-augmented Gaussian attention blocks, enabling context-aware feature learning. Extensive experiments show that DreamPRVR outperforms state-of-the-art methods. Code is released at  https://github.com/lijun2005/CVPR26-DreamPRVR.
YOLO-Master: MOE-Accelerated with Specialized Transformers for Enhanced Real-time Detection
Authors: Xu Lin; Jinlong Peng; Zhenye Gan; Jiawen Zhu; Jun Liu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Existing Real-Time Object Detection (RTOD) methods commonly adopt YOLO-like architectures for their favorable trade-off between accuracy and speed. However, these models rely on static dense computation that applies uniform processing to all inputs, misallocating representational capacity and computational resources such as over-allocating on trivial scenes while under-serving complex ones. This mismatch results in both computational redundancy and suboptimal detection performance.To overcome this limitation, we propose YOLO-Master, a novel YOLO-like framework that introduces image-level adaptive computation for RTOD. This is achieved through an Efficient Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (ES-MoE) block that dynamically allocates computational resources to each input according to its scene complexity. At its core, a lightweight dynamic routing network guides expert specialization during training through a diversity enhancing objective, encouraging complementary expertise among experts. Additionally, the routing network adaptively learns to activate only the most relevant experts, thereby improving detection performance while minimizing computational overhead during inference.Comprehensive experiments on five large-scale benchmarks demonstrate the superiority of YOLO-Master. On MS COCO, our model achieves 42.4% AP with 1.62ms latency, outperforming YOLOv13-N by +0.8% mAP and 17.8% faster inference. Notably, the gains are most pronounced on challenging dense scenes, while the model preserves efficiency on typical inputs and maintains real-time inference speed. Github: https://github.com/Tencent/YOLO-Master/
IncreFA: Breaking the Static Wall of Generative Model Attribution
Authors: Haotian Qin; Dongliang Chang; Yueying Gao; Yuexuan Tan; Lei Chen; Zhanyu Ma
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: As AI generative models evolve at unprecedented speed, image attribution has become a moving target. New diffusion, adversarial and autoregressive generators appear almost monthly, making existing watermark, classifier and inversion methods obsolete upon release. The core problem lies not in model recognition, but in the inability to adapt attribution itself.We introduce IncreFA, a framework that redefines attribution as a structured incremental learning problem, allowing the system to learn continuously as new generative models emerge. IncreFA departs from conventional incremental learning by exploiting the hierarchical relationships among generative architectures and coupling them with continual adaptation. It integrates two mutually reinforcing mechanisms: (1) Hierarchical Constraints, which encode architectural hierarchies through learnable orthogonal priors to disentangle family-level invariants from model-specific idiosyncrasies; and (2) a Latent Memory Bank, which replays compact latent exemplars and mixes them to generate pseudo-unseen samples, stabilising representation drift and enhancing open-set awareness.On the newly constructed Incremental Attribution Benchmark (IABench) covering 28 generative models released between 2022 and 2025, IncreFA achieves state-of-the-art attribution accuracy and 98.9% unseen detection under a temporally ordered open-set protocol.
Rethinking Camera Choice: An Empirical Study on Fisheye Camera Properties in Robotic Manipulation
Authors: Han Xue; Nan Min; Xiaotong Liu; Wendi Chen; Yuan Fang; Jun Lv; Cewu Lu; Chuan Wen
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: The adoption of fisheye cameras in robotic manipulation, driven by their exceptionally wide Field of View (FoV), is rapidly outpacing a systematic understanding of their downstream effects on policy learning. This paper presents the first comprehensive empirical study to bridge this gap, rigorously analyzing the properties of wrist-mounted fisheye cameras for imitation learning. Through extensive experiments in both simulation and the real world, we investigate three critical research questions: spatial localization, scene generalization, and hardware generalization. Our investigation reveals that: (1) The wide FoV significantly enhances spatial localization, but this benefit is critically contingent on the visual complexity of the environment. (2) Fisheye-trained policies, while prone to overfitting in simple scenes, unlock superior scene generalization when trained with sufficient environmental diversity. (3) While naive cross-camera transfer leads to failures, we identify the root cause as scale overfitting and demonstrate that hardware generalization performance can be improved with a simple Random Scale Augmentation (RSA) strategy. Collectively, our findings provide concrete, actionable guidance for the large-scale collection and effective use of fisheye datasets in robotic learning.
VideoSeek: Long-Horizon Video Agent with Tool-Guided Seeking
Authors: Jingyang Lin; Jialian Wu; Jiang Liu; Ximeng Sun; Ze Wang; Xiaodong Yu; Jiebo Luo; Zicheng Liu; Emad Barsoum
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Video agentic models have advanced challenging video-language tasks. However, most agentic approaches still heavily rely on greedy parsing over densely sampled video frames, resulting in high computational cost. We present VideoSeek, a long-horizon video agent that leverages video logic flow to actively seek answer-critical evidence instead of exhaustively parsing the full video. This insight allows the model to use far fewer frames while maintaining, or even improving, its video understanding capability. VideoSeek operates in a think-act-observe loop with a well-designed toolkit for collecting multi-granular video observations. This design enables query-aware exploration over accumulated observations and supports practical video understanding and reasoning. Experiments on four challenging video understanding and reasoning benchmarks demonstrate that VideoSeek achieves strong accuracy while using far fewer frames than prior video agents and standalone LMMs. Notably, VideoSeek achieves a 10.2 absolute points improvement on LVBench over its base model, GPT-5, while using 93% fewer frames. Further analysis highlights the significance of leveraging video logic flow, strong reasoning capability, and the complementary roles of toolkit design.
BAMI: Training-Free Bias Mitigation in GUI Grounding
Authors: Borui Zhang; Bo Zhang; Bo Wang; Wenzhao Zheng; Yuhao Cheng; Liang Tang; Yiqiang Yan; Jie Zhou; Jiwen Lu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: GUI grounding is a critical capability for enabling GUI agents to execute tasks such as clicking and dragging. However, in complex scenarios like the ScreenSpot-Pro benchmark, existing models often suffer from suboptimal performance. Utilizing the proposed Masked Prediction Distribution (MPD) attribution method, we identify that the primary sources of errors are twofold: high image resolution (leading to precision bias) and intricate interface elements (resulting in ambiguity bias). To address these challenges, we introduce Bias-Aware Manipulation Inference (BAMI), which incorporates two key manipulations, coarse-to-fine focus and candidate selection, to effectively mitigate these biases. Our extensive experimental results demonstrate that BAMI significantly enhances the accuracy of various GUI grounding models in a training-free setting. For instance, applying our method to the TianXi-Action-7B model boosts its accuracy on the ScreenSpot-Pro benchmark from 51.9% to 57.8%. Furthermore, ablation studies confirm the robustness of the BAMI approach across diverse parameter configurations, highlighting its stability and effectiveness.
Cinematic Audio Source Separation Using Visual Cues
Authors: Kang Zhang; Suyeon Lee; Arda Senocak; Joon Son Chung
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Cinematic Audio Source Separation (CASS) aims to decompose mixed film audio into speech, music, and sound effects, enabling applications like dubbing and remastering. Existing CASS approaches are audio-only, overlooking the inherent audio-visual nature of films, where sounds often align with visual cues. We present the first framework for audio-visual CASS (AV-CASS), leveraging visual context to enhance separation quality. Our method formulates CASS as a conditional generative modeling problem using conditional flow matching, enabling multimodal audio source separation. To address the lack of cinematic datasets with isolated sound tracks, we introduce a training data synthesis pipeline that pairs in-the-wild audio and video streams (e.g., facial videos for speech, scene videos for effects) and design a dedicated visual encoder for this dual-stream setup. Trained entirely on synthetic data, our model generalizes effectively to real-world cinematic content and achieves strong performance on synthetic, real-world, and audio-only CASS benchmarks. Code and demo are available at https://cass-flowmatching.github.io.
GrOCE : Graph-Guided Online Concept Erasure for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Authors: Ning Han; Zhenyu Ge; Feng Han; Yuhua Sun; Chengqing Li; Jingjing Chen
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Concept erasure aims to remove harmful, inappropriate, or copyrighted content from text-to-image diffusion models while preserving non-target semantics. However, existing methods either rely on costly fine-tuning or apply coarse semantic separation, often degrading unrelated concepts and lacking adaptability to evolving concept sets. In this paper, we propose Graph-Guided Online Concept Erasure (GrOCE), a training-free framework that performs precise and context-aware online removal of target concepts. GrOCE constructs dynamic semantic graphs to identify clusters of target concepts and selectively suppress their influence within text prompts. It consists of three synergistic components: (1) dynamic semantic graph construction  (Construct) incrementally builds a weighted graph over vocabulary concepts to capture semantic affinities; (2) adaptive cluster identification (Identify) extracts a target concept cluster through multi-hop traversal and diffusion-based scoring to quantify semantic influence; and (3) selective severing (Sever) removes semantic components associated with the target cluster from the text prompt while retaining non-target semantics and the global sentence structure. Extensive experiments demonstrate that GrOCE achieves state-of-the-art performance on the Concept Similarity (CS) and Frechet Inception Distance (FID) metrics, offering efficient, accurate, and stable concept erasure.
PointAlign: Feature-Level Alignment Regularization for 3D Vision-Language Models
Authors: Yuanhao Su; Shaofeng Zhang; Xiaosong Jia; Qi Fan
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: The development of 3D Vision-Language Models (VLMs), crucial for applications in robotics, autonomous driving, and augmented reality, is severely constrained by the scarcity of paired 3D-text data. Existing methods rely solely on next-token prediction loss, using only language tokens for supervision. This results in inefficient utilization of limited 3D data and leads to a significant degradation and loss of valuable geometric information in intermediate representations.To address these limitations, we propose  \mname , a novel feature-level alignment regularization method.  \mname  explicitly supervises intermediate point cloud representations to preserve fine-grained 3D geometric-semantic information throughout the language modeling process. Specifically, we constrain the intermediate point cloud tokens within the LLM to align with visual input tokens via a consistency loss. By training only a lightweight alignment projector and LoRA adapters,  \mname  achieves explicit feature-level supervision with minimal computational overhead, effectively preventing geometric degradation.Extensive experiments on ModelNet40 and Objaverse datasets demonstrate that our method achieves 2.08 pp improvement on average for classification tasks, with a substantial 7.50 pp gain on the challenging open-vocabulary Objaverse classification task and 4.88 pp improvement on 3D object captioning evaluated by Qwen2-72B-Instruct, validating the effectiveness of  \mname .
NeAR: Coupled Neural Asset-Renderer Stack
Authors: Hong Li; Chongjie Ye; Houyuan Chen; Weiqing Xiao; Ziyang Yan; Lixing Xiao; Zhaoxi Chen; Jianfeng Xiang; Shaocong Xu; Xuhui Liu; Yikai Wang; Baochang Zhang; Xiaoguang Han; Jiaolong Yang; Hao Zhao
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Neural asset authoring and neural rendering have traditionally evolved as disjoint paradigms: one generates digital assets for fixed graphics pipelines, while the other maps conventional assets to images. However, treating them as independent entities limits the potential for end-to-end optimization in fidelity and consistency. In this paper, we bridge this gap with NeAR, a Coupled Neural Asset--Renderer Stack. We argue that co-designing the asset representation and the renderer creates a robust "contract" for superior generation. On the asset side, we introduce the Lighting-Homogenized SLAT (LH-SLAT). Leveraging a rectified-flow model, NeAR lifts casually lit single images into a canonical, illumination-invariant latent space, effectively suppressing baked-in shadows and highlights. On the renderer side, we design a lighting-aware neural decoder tailored to interpret these homogenized latents. Conditioned on HDR environment maps and camera views, it synthesizes relightable 3D Gaussian splats in real-time without per-object optimization. We validate NeAR on four tasks: (1) G-buffer-based forward rendering, (2) random-lit reconstruction, (3) unknown-lit relighting, and (4) novel-view relighting. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our coupled stack outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in both quantitative metrics and perceptual quality. We hope this coupled asset-renderer perspective inspires future graphics stacks that view neural assets and renderers as co-designed components instead of independent entities.
MOON2.0: Dynamic Modality-balanced Multimodal Representation Learning for E-commerce Product Understanding
Authors: Zhanheng Nie; Chenghan Fu; Daoze Zhang; Junxian Wu; Wanxian Guan; Pengjie Wang; Jian Xu; Bo Zheng
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly advanced e-commerce product understanding. However, they still face three challenges: (i) the modality imbalance induced by modality mixed training; (ii) underutilization of the intrinsic alignment relationships among visual and textual information within a product; and (iii) limited handling of noise in e-commerce multimodal data. To address these, we propose MOON2.0, a dynamic modality-balanced MultimOdal representation learning framework for e-commerce prOduct uNderstanding. It comprises: (1) a Modality-driven Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) that adaptively processes input samples by their modality composition, enabling Multimodal Joint Learning to mitigate the modality imbalance; (2) a Dual-level Alignment method to better leverage semantic alignment properties inside individual products; and (3) an MLLM-based Image-text Co-augmentation strategy that integrates textual enrichment with visual expansion, coupled with Dynamic Sample Filtering to improve training data quality. We further release MBE2.0, a co-augmented Multimodal representation Benchmark for E-commerce representation learning and evaluation at https://huggingface.co/datasets/ZHNie/MBE2.0. Experiments show that MOON2.0 delivers state-of-the-art zero-shot performance on MBE2.0 and multiple public datasets. Furthermore, attention-based heatmap visualization provides qualitative evidence of improved multimodal alignment of MOON2.0.