GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
InterPrior: Scaling Generative Control for Physics-Based Human-Object Interactions
Authors: Sirui Xu; Samuel Schulter; Morteza Ziyadi; Xialin He; Xiaohan Fei; Yu-Xiong Wang; Liang-Yan Gui
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Humans rarely plan whole-body interactions with objects at the level of explicit whole-body movements. High-level intentions, such as affordance, define the goal, while coordinated balance, contact, and manipulation can emerge naturally from underlying physical and motor priors. Scaling such priors is key to enabling humanoids to compose and generalize loco-manipulation skills across diverse contexts while maintaining physically coherent whole-body coordination. To this end, we introduce InterPrior, a scalable framework that learns a unified generative controller through large-scale imitation pretraining and post-training by reinforcement learning. InterPrior first distills a full-reference imitation expert into a versatile, goal-conditioned variational policy that reconstructs motion from multimodal observations and high-level intent. While the distilled policy reconstructs training behaviors, it does not generalize reliably due to the vast configuration space of large-scale human-object interactions. To address this, we apply data augmentation with physical perturbations, and then perform reinforcement learning finetuning to improve competence on unseen goals and initializations. Together, these steps consolidate the reconstructed latent skills into a valid manifold, yielding a motion prior that generalizes beyond the training data, e.g., it can incorporate new behaviors such as interactions with unseen objects. We further demonstrate its effectiveness for user-interactive control and its potential for real robot deployment.
FastGaMer: Efficient GainMap Learning for Practical Inverse Tone Mapping
Authors: Yuanshen Guan; Ruikang Xu; Chang Chen; Yinuo Liao; Dehua Song; Fenglong Song; Zhiwei Xiong
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Inverse tone mapping (ITM) becomes significantly harder when the SDR input is produced by local tone mapping, which jointly applies global radiometric compression and spatially varying adaptations that distort dynamic range, contrast, and channel-wise color ratios. Existing ITM methods ignore this degradation structure and either regress HDR values directly or rely on a single-channel gain map, which scale luminance only and cannot restore the compressed dynamic range and wide color gamut.We introduce FastGaMer, a structured and resolution-agnostic ITM framework that explicitly mirrors this degradation process. Instead of regressing HDR values, we reconstruct a color gain map, which preserves per-channel amplification, simplifies learning, and enables proper gamut extension. Local and global degradations are inverted separately using dynamic bilateral grids and learnable 3D LUTs, followed by a lightweight neural modulator for global refinement and coherence. All high-resolution operations are network-free, yielding exceptional efficiency.To support color-GM supervision under realistic local TMO degradations, we create a dataset of over 8,000 4K SDR-GM pairs with an additional real-captured test set. FastGaMer outperforms prior lightweight ITM methods by +1.4 dB PQ-PSNR, reduces runtime by 70%, and processes 4K images in only 6.2 ms, achieving both high accuracy and real-time performance.
Chain-of-Frames: Advancing Video Understanding in Multimodal LLMs via Frame-Aware Reasoning
Authors: Sara Ghazanfari; Francesco Croce; Nicolas Flammarion; Prashanth Krishnamurthy; Farshad Khorrami; Siddharth Garg
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Recent work has shown that eliciting Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate reasoning traces in natural language before answering the user's request can significantly improve their performance across tasks. This approach has been extended to multimodal LLMs, where the models can produce chains-of-thoughts (CoT) about the content of input images and videos. For video inputs, prior works use complex multi-step pipelines that extract and include relevant frames from videos in the CoT, or produce simpler single-stage reasoning traces at the expense of poor temporal grounding. Here, we propose the first video LLMs with single-stage reasoning that includes explicit references to relevant frames, thereby reducing temporal inconsistencies in the reasoning process. Our approach is simple, unified, and self-contained, employing a single-stage inference to handle complex video understanding tasks without relying on auxiliary modules for frame selection or caption generation. For this, we first create CoF-Data, a large dataset of diverse questions, answers, and corresponding frame-grounded reasoning traces from both natural and synthetic videos, spanning various topics and tasks. Our models, obtained by fine-tuning video LLMs on this chain-of-frames (CoF) data, generate reasoning traces that accurately identify key frames to answer given questions. In turn, this consistently improves performance across multiple video understanding benchmarks. Surprisingly, we find that synthetic data alone, despite being out-of-distribution with respect to these real-world benchmarks, provides a significant boost in model accuracy.
Linguistic Priors for Visual Decoupling: Towards Symmetric Vision-Brain Alignment
Authors: Dongjun Liu; Weichen Dai; Jingsheng Qian; Honggang Liu; Hangjie Yi; Wanzeng Kong
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Brain visual decoding aims to recognize and reconstruct perceptual visual content from brain activity, providing a promising potential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and brain-inspired intelligence. However, this task faces a fundamental challenge of information asymmetry: while natural images contain complex visual scenes with objects and backgrounds, the corresponding brain signals reflect focused attention on central objects while being contaminated by various neural noise. Previous methods that directly align visual and brain representations often overlook this inherent asymmetry, resulting in suboptimal decoding performance. To address this, we propose linguistic-prior-guided visual decoupling method, which introduces object-oriented textual descriptions as semantic guidance to explicitly decouple foreground objects from complex backgrounds in natural images. This design enables the model to automatically focus on task-relevant visual concepts while effectively filtering out irrelevant neural noise in brain signals, achieving a transition from asymmetric vision-brain alignment to semantic symmetric alignment. Extensive experiments on the THINGS-EEG and THINGS-MEG datasets demonstrate that our method achieves new state-of-the-art performance in the zero-shot brain-to-image retrieval task. The source code is available at https://github.com/TKQXX/BVSA.
Looking Beyond the Window: Global-Local Aligned CLIP for Training-free Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
Authors: ByeongCheol Lee; Hyun Seok Seong; Sangeek Hyun; Gilhan Park; WonJun Moon; Jae-Pil Heo
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: A sliding-window inference strategy is commonly adopted in recent training-free open-vocabulary semantic segmentation methods to overcome limitation of the CLIP in processing high-resolution images. However, this approach introduces a new challenge: each window is processed independently, leading to semantic discrepancy across windows. To address this issue, we propose Global-Local Aligned CLIP (GLA-CLIP), a framework that facilitates comprehensive information exchange across windows. Rather than limiting attention to tokens within individual windows, GLA-CLIP extends key-value tokens to incorporate contextual cues from all windows. Nevertheless, we observe a window bias: outer-window tokens are less likely to be attended, since query features are produced through interactions within the inner window patches, thereby lacking semantic grounding beyond their local context. To mitigate this, we introduce a proxy anchor, constructed by aggregating tokens highly similar to the given query from all windows, which provides a unified semantic reference for measuring similarity across both inner- and outer-window patches. Furthermore, we propose a dynamic normalization scheme that adjusts attention strength according to object scale by dynamically scaling and thresholding the attention map to cope with small-object scenarios. Moreover, GLA-CLIP can be equipped on existing methods and broad their receptive field. Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of GLA-CLIP in enhancing training-free open-vocabulary semantic segmentation performance. Codes are available at github.com/2btlFe/GLA-CLIP
ReBaPL: Repulsive Bayesian Prompt Learning
Authors: Yassir Bendou; Omar Ezzahir; Eduardo Montesuma; Gabriel Mahuas; Victoria Shevchenko; Mike Gartrell
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Prompt learning has emerged as an effective technique for fine-tuning large-scale foundation models for downstream tasks. However, conventional prompt learning methods are prone to overfitting and can struggle with out-of-distribution generalization. To address these limitations, Bayesian prompt learning has been proposed, which frames prompt optimization as a Bayesian inference problem to enhance robustness. This paper introduces Repulsive Bayesian Prompt Learning (ReBaPL), a novel method for Bayesian prompt learning, designed to efficiently explore the complex and often multimodal posterior landscape of prompts. Our method integrates a cyclical step-size schedule with a stochastic gradient Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (SGHMC) algorithm, enabling alternating phases of exploration to discover new modes, and exploitation to refine existing modes. Furthermore, we introduce a repulsive force derived from a potential function over probability metrics (including Maximum Mean Discrepancy and Wasserstein distance) computed on the distributions of representations produced by different prompts. This representation-space repulsion diversifies exploration and prevents premature collapse to a single mode. Our approach allows for a more comprehensive characterization of the prompt posterior distribution, leading to improved generalization. In contrast to prior Bayesian prompt learning methods, our method provides a modular plug-and-play Bayesian extension of any existing prompt learning method based on maximum likelihood estimation. We demonstrate the efficacy of ReBaPL on several benchmark datasets, showing superior performance over state-of-the-art prompt learning methods.
What Matters in Practical Learned Image Compression
Authors: Kedar Tatwawadi; Parisa Rahimzadeh; Zhanghao Sun; Zhiqi Chen; Ziyun Yang; Sanjay Nair; Divija Hasteer; Oren Rippel
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: One of the major differentiators unlocked by learned codecs relative to their hard-coded traditional counterparts is their ability to be optimized directly to appeal to the human visual system. Despite this potential, a perceptual yet practical image codec is yet to be proposed.In this work, we aim to close this gap. We conduct a comprehensive study of the key modeling choices that govern the design of a practical learned image codec, jointly optimized for perceptual quality and runtime -- including within the ablations several novel techniques. We then perform performance-aware neural architecture search over millions of backbone configurations to identify models that achieve the target on-device runtime while maximizing compression performance as captured by perceptual metrics. We combine the various optimizations to construct a new codec that achieves a significantly improved tradeoff between speed and perceptual quality. Based on rigorous subjective user studies, it provides 2.3-3x bitrate savings against AV1, AV2, VVC, ECM and JPEG-AI, and 20-40% bitrate savings against the best learned codec alternatives. At the same time, on an iPhone 17 Pro Max, it encodes 12MP images as fast as 230ms, and decodes them in 150ms -- faster than most top ML-based codecs run on a V100 GPU.
Model Merging in the Essential Subspace
Authors: Longhua Li; Lei Qi; Qi Tian; Xin Geng
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Model merging aims to integrate multiple task-specific fine-tuned models derived from a shared pre-trained checkpoint into a single multi-task model without additional training. Despite extensive research, task interference remains a major obstacle that often undermines the performance of merged models. In this paper, we propose ESM (Essential Subspace Merging) , a robust framework for effective model merging. We begin by performing Principal Component Analysis (PCA) on feature shifts induced by parameter updates. The resulting principal directions span an essential subspace that dominantly influences feature representations. Each task's parameter update matrix is projected onto its respective essential subspace for low-rank decomposition before merging. This methodology mitigates inter-task interference while preserving core task-specific functionality. Furthermore, we introduce a multi-level polarized scaling strategy that amplifies parameters containing critical knowledge and suppresses redundant ones, preventing essential knowledge from being overwhelmed during fusion. Extensive experiments across multiple task sets and model scales demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance in multi-task model merging.
Expert-Teacher-Student Collaborative Learning for Domain Adaptive Object Detection
Authors: Yiming Cui; Liang Li; Haibing Yin; Yuhan Gao; Xichun Sheng; Chenggang Yan
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Domain adaptive object detection (DAOD) aims to generalize an object detector trained on a source domain to a target domain, where the domain gap degrades the adaptability. Recently, large-scale vision foundation models (VFMs), pretrained on web-scale datasets, exhibit such powerful generalization capabilities that many approaches leverage them to bridge the domain gap. However, their generalized knowledge is not tailored to the specific domain, which makes it difficult to offer precise guidance in the target domain. In this paper, we propose an Expert-Teacher-Student collaborative learning (ETS) framework to synergize the generalized knowledge from VFMs with the domain-specific knowledge from the teacher model. Concretely, we first design an Expert-Teacher Collaborative Teaching (ETCT) module, which leverages the complementary knowledge of expert and teacher models to collaboratively generate high-quality pseudo labels for supervising student model learning. Second, we devise an Expert-Teacher Joint Consolidating (ETJC) module, which introduces class-wise prototype alignment among expert, teacher, and student models, to jointly consolidate generalized and domain-specific knowledge within the student model. ETS leverages VFMs as the expert model in a free lunch manner, thus avoiding significant additional training costs. Extensive experiments exhibit that our method outperforms the existing SOTA methods on three benchmarks.Our code is available in the supplementary materials.
DeepAlign: Mitigating Modality Conflict through Modality-Specific Alignment
Authors: Shuo Li; Bingchen Miao; Wendong Bu; Juncheng Li; Hanwang Zhang; Fei Wu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated promising advancements in augmenting the capabilities of LLMs to comprehend visual input. However, modality misalignment between vision and text remains a key challenge in MLLM, which can be attributed to two aspects: misalignment of modality-specific representations and depletion of modality-specific details. To address the issue of modality misalignment, we propose DeepAlign, a novel multimodal alignment framework to mitigate modality conflict, which employs representation intervention and structure-induced knowledge distillation to prevent the misalignment and depletion of modality-specific information. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DeepAlign significantly mitigates modality conflicts, leading to substantial performance improvements compared to backbone models across multiple vision-language tasks. It also stimulates some emergent abilities in MLLMs, such as multimodal in-context learning on interleaved text-image sequences.
SG-LoRA: Semantic-guided LoRA Parameters Generation
Authors: Miaoge Li; Yang Chen; Zhijie Rao; Can Jiang; Kang Wei; Jingcai Guo
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Generating new Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) weights from pre-trained LoRAs has demonstrated strong generalization capabilities across various tasks, enabling the efficient transfer of AI models, particularly on resource-constrained edges. However, previous studies either merge base LoRAs via weighting coefficients or train a generative model under the closed-world assumption, limiting their efficiency and flexibility in complex edge user cases. This challenge may further increase when there are significant domain shifts between training and deployment. To this end, we propose Semantic-Guided LoRA Parameter Generation (SG-LoRA), a tuning-free generative framework to efficiently produce task-specific parameters for unseen tasks in a semantic-to-LoRA pipeline. Concretely, SG-LoRA uses task descriptions as the semantic bridge, measuring their proximity to a set of known expert tasks in a shared embedding space. Based on this semantic guidance, it models the target task's LoRA parameter distribution to generate high-performing parameters for novel tasks. SG-LoRA enables the real-time construction of LoRA models aligned with individual intents by distilling knowledge from prominent LoRA experts, while also offering a privacy-preserving solution for personalized model adaptation in a novel zero-shot open-world setting proposed in this work. Extensive experiments on multiple challenging tasks confirm the superior performance and remarkable adaptability of SG-LoRA. The code is attached in the supplementary material.
G$^2$VLM: Geometry Grounded Vision Language Model with Unified 3D Reconstruction and Spatial Reasoning
Authors: Wenbo Hu; Jingli Lin; Yilin Long; Yunlong Ran; Lihan Jiang; Yifan Wang; Chenming Zhu; Runsen Xu; Tai Wang; Jiangmiao Pang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) still lack robustness in spatial intelligence, demonstrating poor performance on spatial understanding and reasoning tasks. We attribute this gap to the absence of a visual geometry learning process capable of reconstructing 3D space from 2D images. We present G^2VLM, a geometry grounded vision-language model that bridges two fundamental aspects of spatial intelligence: spatial 3D reconstruction and spatial understanding. G^2VLM natively leverages learned 3D visual geometry features to directly predict 3D attributes and enhance spatial reasoning tasks via in-context learning and interleaved reasoning. Our unified design is highly scalable for spatial understanding: it trains on abundant multi-view image and video data, while simultaneously leveraging the benefits of 3D visual priors that are typically only derived from hard-to-collect annotations.Experimental results demonstrate G^2VLM is proficient in both tasks, achieving comparable results to state-of-the-art feed-forward 3D reconstruction models and achieving better or competitive results across spatial understanding and reasoning tasks.By unifying a semantically strong VLM with low-level 3D vision tasks, we hope G^2VLM can serve as a strong baseline for the community and unlock more future applications, such as 3D scene editing.
RecTok: Reconstruction Distillation along Rectified Flow
Authors: Qingyu Shi; Size Wu; Jinbin Bai; Kaidong Yu; Yujing Wang; Yunhai Tong; Xiangtai Li; Xuelong Li
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Visual tokenizers play a crucial role in diffusion models. The dimensionality of latent space governs both reconstruction fidelity and the semantic expressiveness of the latent feature. However, a fundamental trade-off is inherent between dimensionality and generation quality, constraining existing methods to low-dimensional latent spaces. Although recent works have leveraged vision foundation models (VFMs) to enrich the semantics of visual tokenizers and accelerate convergence, high-dimensional tokenizers still underperform their low-dimensional counterparts. In this work, we propose RecTok, which overcomes the limitations of high-dimensional visual tokenizers through two key innovations: flow semantic distillation and reconstruction-alignment distillation. Our key insight is to make the forward flow in flow matching semantically rich, which serves as the training space of diffusion transformers, rather than focusing on the latent space as in previous works. Specifically, our method distill the semantic information in VFMs into the forward flow trajectories in flow matching. And we further enhance the semantics by introducing a masked feature reconstruction loss. Our RecTok achieves superior image reconstruction, generation quality, and discriminative performance. It achieves state-of-the-art results on the gFID-50K under both with and without classifier-free guidance settings, while maintaining a semantically rich latent space structure. Furthermore, as the latent dimensionality increases, we observe consistent improvements. Code and model will be publicly available.
FunFact: Building Probabilistic Functional 3D Scene Graphs via Factor-Graph Reasoning
Authors: Zhengyu Fu; René Zurbrügg; Kaixian Qu; Marc Pollefeys; Marco Hutter; Hermann Blum; Zuria Bauer
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Recent work in 3D scene understanding is moving beyond purely spatial analysis toward functional scene understanding. However, existing methods often consider functional relationships between object pairs in isolation, failing to capture the scene-wide interdependence that humans use to resolve ambiguity. We introduce FunFact, a framework for constructing probabilistic open-vocabulary functional 3D scene graphs from posed RGB-D images. FunFact first builds an object- and part-centric 3D map and uses foundation models to propose semantically plausible functional relations. These candidates are converted into factor graph variables and constrained by both LLM-derived common-sense priors and geometric priors. This formulation enables joint probabilistic inference over all functional edges and their marginals, yielding substantially better calibrated confidence scores. To benchmark this setting, we introduce FunThor, a synthetic dataset based on AI2-THOR with part-level geometry and rule-based functional annotations. Experiments on SceneFun3D, FunGraph3D, and FunThor show that FunFact improves node and relation discovery recall and significantly reduces calibration error for ambiguous relations, highlighting the benefits of holistic probabilistic modeling for functional scene understanding. See our project page at https://funfact-scenegraph.github.io/.