GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
COPO: Causal-Oriented Policy Optimization for Hallucinations of MLLMs
Authors: Peizheng Guo; Jingyao Wang; Wenwen Qiang; Jiahuan Zhou; Changwen Zheng; Gang Hua
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Despite Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) having shown impressive capabilities, they may suffer from hallucinations. Empirically, we find that MLLMs attend disproportionately to task-irrelevant background regions compared with text-only LLMs, implying spurious background-answer correlations. We claim and analyze that (i) outcome-based rewards can be an important factor leading to spurious correlations, and (ii) spurious correlations can be an important factor leading to hallucinations. Based on these results, we propose Causal-Oriented Policy Optimization (COPO) to mitigate these spurious correlations, thus addressing the issue of hallucinations. It imposes token-level sufficiency and necessity constraints to measure each inference token's causal contribution, thus ensuring correct and evidence-grounded output. Specifically, we first evaluate each token's causal contribution via a newly proposed causal completeness reward. This reward is then used to construct a causally informed advantage function within the GRPO optimization framework, encouraging the model to focus on tokens that are causally sufficient and necessary for accurate generation. Experimental results across various benchmarks demonstrate the advantages of COPO.
Task-Aware Image Signal Processor for Advanced Visual Perception
Authors: Kai Chen; Jin Xiao; Leheng Zhang; Kexuan Shi; Shuhang Gu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: In recent years, there has been a growing trend in computer vision towards exploiting RAW sensor data, which preserves richer information compared to conventional low-bit RGB images. Early studies mainly focused on enhancing visual quality, while more recent efforts aim to leverage the abundant information in RAW data to improve the performance of visual perception tasks such as object detection and segmentation. However, existing approaches still face two key limitations: large-scale ISP networks impose heavy computational overhead, while methods based on tuning traditional ISP pipelines are restricted by limited representational capacity.To address these issues, we propose Task-Aware Image Signal Processor (TA-ISP), a compact RAW-to-RGB framework that produces task-oriented representations for pretrained vision models. Instead of heavy dense convolutional pipelines, TA-ISP predicts a small set of lightweight, multi-scale modulation operators that act at global, regional, and pixel scales to reshape image statistics across different spatial extents. This factorized control significantly expands the range of spatially varying transforms that can be represented while keeping memory usage, computation, and latency tightly constrained. Evaluated on several RAW-domain detection and segmentation benchmarks under both daytime and nighttime conditions, TA-ISP consistently improves downstream accuracy while markedly reducing parameter count and inference time, making it well suited for deployment on resource-constrained devices.
AutoTraces: Autoregressive Trajectory Forecasting via Multimodal Large Language Models
Authors: Teng Wang; Yanting Lu; Ruize Wang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: We present AutoTraces, an autoregressive vision-language-trajectory model for robot trajectory forecasting in humam-populated environments, which harnesses the inherent reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) to model complex human behaviors. In contrast to prior works that rely solely on textual representations, our key innovation lies in a novel trajectory tokenization scheme, which represents physical waypoints as discrete tokens, seamlessly integrated into the LLM's space through a lightweight encoder-decoder architecture. This design preserves the LLM's native autoregressive generation mechanism while extending it to physical coordinate spaces, facilitates modeling of long-term interactions in trajectory data. We further introduce an automated chain-of-thought (CoT) generation mechanism that leverages a multimodal LLM to infer spatio-temporal relationships from visual observations and trajectory data, eliminating reliance on manual annotation. Through a two-stage training strategy, our AutoTraces achieves SOTA forecasting accuracy, particularly in long-horizon prediction, while exhibiting strong cross-scene generalization and supporting flexible-length forecasting.
Think Visually, Reason Textually: Vision-Language Synergy in Abstract Reasoning
Authors: Beichen Zhang; Yuhang Zang; Xiaoyi Dong; Yuhang Cao; Haodong Duan; Dahua Lin; Jiaqi Wang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Abstract reasoning from minimal examples remains a core unsolved problem for frontier foundation models such as GPT-5. These models still fail to infer structured transformation rules from a handful of examples, which is a key hallmark of human intelligence. The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus for Artificial General Intelligence (ARC-AGI) provides a rigorous testbed for this capability, demanding conceptual rule induction and transfer to novel tasks. Most existing methods treat ARC-AGI as a purely textual reasoning task, overlooking the fact that humans rely heavily on visual abstraction when solving such puzzles. However, our experiments reveal a paradox: naively rendering ARC-AGI grids as images degrades performance due to imprecise rule execution. This leads to our central hypothesis that vision and language possess complementary strengths across distinct reasoning stages: vision supports global pattern abstraction and verification, whereas language specializes in symbolic rule formulation and precise execution. Building on this insight, we introduce two synergistic strategies: (1) Vision-Language Synergy Reasoning (VLSR), which decomposes ARC-AGI into modality-aligned subtasks; and (2) Modality-Switch Self-Correction (MSSC), which leverages vision to verify text-based reasoning for intrinsic error correction. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach yields up to a 4.33% improvement over text-only baselines across diverse flagship models and multiple ARC-AGI tasks. Our findings suggest that unifying visual abstraction with linguistic reasoning is a crucial step toward achieving generalizable, human-like intelligence.
UniLight: A Unified Representation for Lighting
Authors: Zitian Zhang; Iliyan Georgiev; Michael Fischer; Yannick Hold-Geoffroy; Jean-Francois Lalonde; Valentin Deschaintre
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Lighting has a strong influence on visual appearance, yet understanding and representing lighting in images remains notoriously difficult. Various lighting representations exist, such as environment maps, irradiance, spherical harmonics, or text, but they are incompatible, which limits cross-modal transfer. We thus propose UniLight, a joint latent space as lighting representation, that unifies multiple modalities within a shared embedding. Modality-specific encoders for text, images, irradiance, and environment maps are trained contrastively to align their representations, with an auxiliary spherical-harmonics prediction task reinforcing directional understanding. Our multi-modal data pipeline enables large-scale training and evaluation across three tasks: lighting-based retrieval, environment-map generation, and lighting control in diffusion-based image synthesis. Experiments show that our representation captures consistent and transferable lighting features, enabling flexible manipulation across modalities.
Lyapunov Probes for Hallucination Detection in Large Foundation Models
Authors: Bozhi Luan; Gen Li; Yalan Qin; Jifeng Guo; Yun Zhou; Faguo Wu; Hongwei Zheng; Wenjun Wu; Zhaoxin Fan
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: We address hallucination detection in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) by framing the problem through the lens of dynamical systems stability theory. Rather than treating hallucination as a straightforward classification task, we conceptualize (M)LLMs as dynamical systems, where factual knowledge is represented by stable equilibrium points within the representation space. Our main insight is that hallucinations tend to arise at the boundaries of knowledge--transition regions separating stable and unstable zones. To capture this phenomenon, we propose Lyapunov Probes: lightweight networks trained with derivative-based stability constraints that enforce a monotonic decay in confidence under input perturbations. By performing systematic perturbation analysis and applying a two-stage training process, these probes reliably distinguish between stable factual regions and unstable, hallucination-prone areas. Experiments on diverse datasets and models demonstrate consistent improvements over existing baselines.
Do VLMs Perceive or Recall? Probing Visual Perception vs. Memory with Classic Visual Illusions
Authors: Xiaoxiao Sun; Mingyang Li; Kun Yuan; Min Woo Sun; Mark Endo; Shengguang Wu; Changlin Li; Yuhui Zhang; Zeyu Wang; Serena Yeung-Levy
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) often answer classic visual illusions "correctly" on original images, yet persist with the same responses when illusion factors are inverted, even though the visual change is obvious to humans. This raises a fundamental question: do VLMs perceive visual changes or merely recall memorized patterns? While several studies have noted this phenomenon, the underlying causes remain unclear. To move from observations to systematic understanding, this paper introduces VI-Probe, a controllable visual-illusion framework with graded perturbations and matched visual controls (without illusion inducer) that disentangles visually grounded perception from language-driven recall. Unlike prior work that focuses on averaged accuracy, we measure stability and sensitivity using Polarity-Flip Consistency, Template Fixation Index, and an illusion multiplier normalized against matched controls. Experiments across different families reveal that response persistence arises from heterogeneous causes rather than a single mechanism. For instance, GPT-5 exhibits memory override, Claude-Opus-4.1 shows perception-memory competition, while Qwen variants suggest visual-processing limits. Our findings challenge single-cause views and motivate probing-based evaluation that measures both knowledge and sensitivity to controlled visual change. Data and code are available at https://sites.google.com/view/vi-probe/.
Bidirectional Cross-Modal Prompting for Event-Frame Asymmetric Stereo
Authors: Ninghui Xu; Fabio Tosi; Lihui Wang; Jiawei Han; Luca Bartolomei; Zhiting Yao; Matteo Poggi; Stefano Mattoccia
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Conventional frame-based cameras capture rich contextual information but suffer from limited temporal resolution and motion blur in dynamic scenes. Event cameras offer an alternative visual representation with higher dynamic range free from such limitations. The complementary characteristics of the two modalities make event-frame asymmetric stereo promising for reliable 3D perception under fast motion and challenging illumination. However, the modality gap often leads to marginalization of domain-specific cues essential for cross-modal stereo matching. In this paper, we introduce Bi-CMPStereo, a novel bidirectional cross-modal prompting framework that fully exploits semantic and structural features from both domains for robust matching. Our approach learns finely aligned stereo representations within a target canonical space and integrates complementary representations by projecting each modality into both event and frame domains. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in accuracy and generalization.
MaskDexGrasp: Generative Masked Modeling for Part-Aware Dexterous Grasp Synthesis
Authors: Binghui Zuo; Lin Zhou; Haoxuan Xu; Jianan Yan; Zhipeng Yu; Zekai Liu; Yangang Wang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Dexterous grasp generation is a predominant task that enables robots to perform human-level manipulation. However, a dexterous hand always maintains high-dimensional DoF and actuation space, making existing approaches that rely on holistic latent representations difficult to produce high-quality and semantically aligned grasps. In this paper, we propose MaskDexGrasp to address these challenges. We first present a part-aware grasp tokenizer that decomposes dexterous grasps into discrete tokens, facilitating compositional modeling of anatomical dependencies. Building upon this representation, a bidirectional masked grasp transformer is then developed to predict grasp tokens conditioned on object geometry and task description, ensuring coherent grasp generation while allowing fine-grained part-level editing. To facilitate evaluation, we construct a dexterous grasp dataset that comprises 65K grasping instances and 260K richly annotated descriptions covering 11 tasks. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves the state-of-the-art performance. Project page is available at https://binghui-z.github.io/MaskDexGrasp/.
Disco-GS: Gaussian Splatting in Dynamic Color Lighting
Authors: Ashish Kumar; A. N. Rajagopalan
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Recent advances in Gaussian Splatting (GS) have significantly improved 3D scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis. However, most existing methods typically assume that training inputs are captured under stable and achromatic lighting conditions . In contrast, scenes recorded under temporally varying color light, as in "disco lights" commonly seen in events, performances, and decorative settings, introduce severe ambiguities in both scene photometry and geometry. We propose Disco-GS, a framework that leverages GS for reconstructing the 3D scene while simultaneously recovering the underlying canonical appearance from videos captured under dynamic lighting conditions. Disco-GS estimates the effective per-pixel transient light, which, when applied to the canonical image, results in the observed color image of the scene, thereby enabling self-supervised learning. Disco-GS is an end-to-end framework that does not rely on any prior knowledge, such as color values, ambient lighting conditions, or scene properties. It effectively handles both global and spatially localized transient color variations. It also enables controllable brightness manipulation of the canonical scene, facilitating applications such as simulating low-light and well-lit scene conditions. To the best of our knowledge, Disco-GS is the first method to simultaneously perform 3D scene reconstruction and canonical appearance recovery from inputs captured under artificially varying, disco-style colored light. To enable quantitative and qualitative evaluations, we also introduce the Disco dataset, a collection of 25 videos of real-world scenes exhibiting diverse and random color variations. Extensive experiments demonstrate the robustness and fidelity of Disco-GS. The dataset is available at: https://github.com/akumar005/Disco-GS.
Infinity-RoPE: Action-Controllable Infinite Video Generation Emerges From Autoregressive Self-Rollout
Authors: Hidir Yesiltepe; Tuna Meral; Adil Kaan Akan; Kaan Oktay; Pinar Yanardag
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Current autoregressive video diffusion models are constrained by three core bottlenecks: (i) the finite temporal horizon imposed by the base model's 3D Rotary Positional Embedding (3D-RoPE), (ii) slow prompt responsiveness in maintaining fine-grained action control during long-form rollouts, and (iii) the inability to realize discontinuous cinematic transitions within a single generation stream. We introduce Infinity-RoPE, a unified inference-time framework that addresses all three limitations through three interconnected components: Block-Relativistic RoPE, KV Flush, and RoPE Cut. Block-Relativistic RoPE reformulates temporal encoding as a moving local reference frame, where each newly generated latent block is rotated relative to the base model's maximum frame horizon while earlier blocks are rotated backward to preserve relative temporal geometry. This relativistic formulation eliminates fixed temporal positions, enabling continuous video generation far beyond the base positional limits. To obtain fine-grained action control without re-encoding, KV Flush renews the KV cache by retaining only two anchor tokens, the global sink and the last generated latent frame, thereby ensuring immediate prompt responsiveness. Finally, RoPE Cut introduces controlled discontinuities in temporal RoPE coordinates, enabling multi-cut scene transitions within a single continuous rollout. Together, these components establish Infinity-RoPE as a training-free foundation for infinite-horizon, controllable, and cinematic video diffusion. Comprehensive experiments show that Infinity-RoPE consistently surpasses previous autoregressive models in overall VBench scores while requiring only a fraction of their KV cache budget.
Learning Latent Transmission and Glare Maps for Lens Veiling Glare Removal
Authors: Xiaolong Qian; Qi Jiang; Lei Sun; Zongxi Yu; Kailun Yang; Peixuan Wu; Jiacheng Zhou; Yao Gao; Yaoguang Ma; Ming-Hsuan Yang; Kaiwei Wang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Beyond the commonly recognized optical aberrations, the imaging performance of simplified optical systems--including single-lens and metalens designs--is often further degraded by veiling glare caused by stray-light scattering from non-ideal optical surfaces and coatings, particularly in complex real-world environments.This compound degradation undermines traditional lens aberration correction yet remains underexplored. A major challenge is that conventional scattering models (e.g., for dehazing) fail to fit veiling glare due to its spatial-varying and depth-independent nature.Consequently, paired high-quality data are difficult to prepare via simulation, hindering application of data-driven veiling glare removal models.To this end, we propose VeilGen, a generative model that learns to simulate veiling glare by estimating its underlying optical transmission and glare maps in an unsupervised manner from target images, regularized by Stable Diffusion (SD)-based priors.VeilGen enables paired dataset generation with realistic compound degradation of optical aberrations and veiling glare, while also providing the estimated latent optical transmission and glare maps to guide the veiling glare removal process.We further introduce DeVeiler, a restoration network trained with a reversibility constraint, which utilizes the predicted latent maps to guide an inverse process of the learned scattering model.Extensive experiments on challenging compact optical systems demonstrate that our approach delivers superior restoration quality and physical fidelity compared with existing methods.These suggest that VeilGen reliably synthesizes realistic veiling glare, and its learned latent maps effectively guide the restoration process in DeVeiler. All code and datasets will be publicly released.
PureCC: Pure Learning for Text-to-Image Concept Customization
Authors: Zhichao Liao; Xiaole Xian; Qingyu Li; Wenyu Qin; Meng Wang; Weicheng Xie; Siyang Song; Pingfa Feng; Long Zeng; Liang Pan
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Existing concept customization methods have achieved remarkable outcomes in high-fidelity and multi-concept customization. However, they often neglect the influence on the original model's behavior and capabilities when learning new personalized concepts. To address this issue, we propose PureCC. PureCC introduces a novel decoupled learning objective for concept customization, which combines the implicit guidance of the target concept with the original conditional prediction. This separated form enables PureCC to substantially focus on the original model during training. Moreover, based on this objective, PureCC designs a dual-branch training pipeline that includes a frozen extractor providing purified target concept representations as implicit guidance and a trainable flow model producing the original conditional prediction, jointly achieving pure learning for personalized concepts. Furthermore, PureCC introduces a novel adaptive guidance scale l* to dynamically adjust the guidance strength of the target concept, balancing customization fidelity and model preservation. Extensive experiments show that PureCC achieves state-of-the-art performance in preserving the original behavior and capabilities while enabling high-fidelity concept customization.
UnicEdit-10M: A Dataset and Benchmark Breaking the Scale-Quality Barrier via Unified Verification for Reasoning-Enriched Edits
Authors: Keming Ye; Zhipeng Huang; Canmiao Fu; Qingyang Liu; Jiani Cai; Zheqi Lv; Chen Li; Jing LYU; Zhou Zhao; Shengyu Zhang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: With the rapid advances of powerful multimodal models such as GPT-4o, Nano Banana, and Seedream 4.0 in Image Editing, the performance gap between closed-source and open-source models is widening, primarily due to the scarcity of large-scale, high-quality training data and comprehensive benchmarks capable of diagnosing model weaknesses across diverse editing behaviors. Existing data construction methods face a scale-quality trade-off: human annotations are high-quality but not scalable, while automated pipelines suffer from error propagation and noise. To address this, we introduce a lightweight data pipeline that replaces multi-toolchains with an end-to-end model and a unified post-verification stage. For scalable quality control, we train a 7B dual-task expert model, Qwen-Verify, for efficient failure detection and instruction recaptioning. This pipeline yields UnicEdit-10M, a 10M-scale dataset spanning diverse basic and complex editing tasks. We also propose UnicBench, a general benchmark that extends beyond basic edits to explicitly assess spatial and knowledge-driven reasoning. To enable fine-grained diagnosis, we introduce novel metrics, including Non-edit Consistency and Reasoning Accuracy. Our analysis of mainstream models on UnicBench reveals their limitations and provides clear directions for future research. The dataset, benchmark, and code will be released.
R$^2$TUA: Reconstruction-residual Based Targeted and Untargeted Attack Against Text-Image Person Re-Identification
Authors: Yubo Wang; Yan Lu; Bin Liu; Xulin Li; Jixiang Niu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Text-Image Person Re-Identification (TI-ReID) is widely deployed in intelligent surveillance. Built on deep neural networks and vision-language models, TI-ReID models inherit vulnerabilities to adversarial attacks, posing security risks. Yet its security remains less explored than retrieval accuracy, and its robustness to adversarial attacks is largely unexplored. To fill this gap, we propose  Reconstruction-residual based Targeted and Untargeted Attack (R^2TUA), which generates perturbations from an image and adversarial prompt that mislead TI-ReID into matching the perturbed image with the adversarial identity. To precisely inject identity attributes into perturbations and achieve fine-grained targeted attack, R^2TUA proposes Transformer-based Gradual Multimodal Fusion (TGMF) that fuses image and adversarial prompt progressively across layers with tunable cross-modal weight. In addition, we propose a fully differentiable Soft Clamp Function (SCF), ensuring perturbations remain inconspicuous while avoiding local gradient vanishing effects that would trap training into suboptimal local minima. To further align perturbed images with the adversarial text descriptions while leading them to mismatch their original descriptions, R^2TUA employs (PPLs) and matching losses during training. Extensive evaluations across multiple datasets and models demonstrate the superior untargeted attack and targeted attack performance of R^2TUA. It also exhibits strong adaptability and transferability against black-box models, outperforming all related attacks across multiple tasks.