GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
VLIC: Vision-Language Models As Perceptual Judges for Human-Aligned Image Compression
Authors: Kyle Sargent; Ruiqi Gao; Philipp Henzler; Charles Herrmann; Aleksander Holynski; Li Fei-Fei; Jiajun Wu; Jason Y. Zhang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Evaluations of image compression performance which include human preferences have generally found that naive distortion functions such as MSE are insufficiently aligned to human perception.In order to align compression models to human perception, prior work has employed differentiable perceptual losses consisting of neural networks calibrated on large-scale datasets of human psycho-visual judgments. We show that, surprisingly, state-of-the-art vision-language models (VLMs) can replicate binary human two-alternative forced choice (2AFC) judgments zero-shot when asked to reason about the differences between pairs of images. Motivated to exploit the powerful zero-shot visual reasoning capabilities of VLMs, we propose Vision Language Models for Image Compression (VLIC), a diffusion-based image compression system designed to be post-trained with binary VLM judgments. VLIC leverages existing techniques for diffusion model post-training with preferences, rather than distilling the VLM judgments into a separate perceptual loss network. We show that calibrating this system on VLM judgments produces competitive or state-of-the-art performance on human-aligned visual compression depending on the dataset, according to perceptual metrics and large-scale user studies. We additionally conduct an extensive analysis of the VLM-based reward design and training procedure and share important insights.
ReMatch: Boosting Representation through Matching for Multimodal Retrieval
Authors: Qianying Liu; Xiao Liang; Zhiqiang Zhang; Yibo Chen; Xu Tang; Zhongfei Qing; Fengfan Zhou; Yao Hu; Paul Henderson
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: We present ReMatch, a framework that leverages the generative strength of MLLMs for multimodal retrieval. Previous approaches treated an MLLM as a simple encoder, ignoring its generative nature, and under-utilising its compositional reasoning and world knowledge. We train the embedding MLLM end-to-end with a chat-style generative matching stage. The matching stage uses the same MLLM to autoregressively decide relevance from multi-view inputs, including both raw data and its own projected embeddings for each query and document. It provides instance-wise discrimination supervision that complements a standard contrastive loss, offering stronger gradients on hard negatives and preserving the compositional strengths of the original MLLM. To obtain semantically richer multimodal embeddings, we use multiple learnable tokens to augment each input, generating fine-grained contextual, mutually orthogonal embeddings with low inference cost. Leveraging our established high-performance baseline, we assemble the ideas mentioned above into a powerful training recipe and achieve a new state-of-the-art on the Massive Multimodal Embedding Benchmark(MMEB). Our experiments show particularly strong zero-shot generalization results on five datasets, highlighting the robustness and transferability of ReMatch.
VGG-T$^3$: Offline Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction at Scale
Authors: Sven Elflein; Ruilong Li; Sérgio Agostinho; Zan Gojcic; Laura Leal-Taixé; Qunjie Zhou; Aljosa Osep
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: We present a scalable 3D reconstruction model that addresses a critical limitation in offline feed-forward methods: their computational and memory requirements grow quadratically w.r.t. the number of input images. Our approach is built on the key insight that this bottleneck stems from the varying-length Key-Value (KV) space representation of scene geometry, which we distill into a fixed-size Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) via test-time training. Our VGG-T^3 (Visual Geometry Grounded Test Time Training) scales linearly w.r.t. the number of input views, similar to online models, and reconstructs a 1k image collection in just 54 seconds, achieving a 11.6xspeed-up over baselines that rely on softmax attention. Since our method retains global scene aggregation capability, our point map reconstruction error outperforming other linear-time methods by large margins. Finally, we demonstrate visual localization capabilities of our model by querying the scene representation with unseen images.
SketchRevive: Fine-Grained Pixel-to-Vector Sketch Completion with Diffusion-Prior-Guided Multimodal LLMs
Authors: Ran Zuo; Haoxiang Hu; Chenxi Pei; Yanxuan Liu; Wenwen Qiang; Fang Liu; Xiaoming Deng; Cuixia Ma; Yong-Jin Liu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Transforming sparse, partial pixel sketches from diverse media into complete, editable vector drawings is essential yet underexplored in digital creation. Prior methods either generate from scratch or inpaint local gaps without predicting global structure, leading to coarse contours and limited detail. To address this, we introduce SketchRevive, a two-stage framework for fine-grained pixel-to-vector sketch completion that couples diffusion-based pixel completion with MLLM-driven refinement and vectorization to produce coherent, detail-faithful SVG results. Specifically, we first construct a practical benchmark by augmenting stroke-annotated sketches from paper and whiteboards. Stage I trains a diffusion model with a line-distribution head to predict per-pixel stroke presence, producing structurally and visually consistent completions. Stage II fine-tunes an MLLM for structure-aware SVG vectorization with iterative refinement, optimized by instance-level stroke attribute similarities. To align key clues, e.g., spatial structure, appearance details across both stages, we introduce a diffusion-prior aggregated encoding module by injecting multi-scale UNet features from Stage I into the MLLM's visual embeddings and using line prediction logits for token compression to prioritize informative tokens. Experiments indicate that SketchRevive completes topology-coherent vector outputs with high fidelity and recognizability while preserving user intent, suitable for interactive creation and artistic design.
Same Attention, Different Truths: Put Logit-Lens over Visual Attention to Detect and Mitigate LVLM Object Hallucination
Authors: Zichuan Wang; Songlin Yang; Bo Peng; Zhenchen Tang; Yang Li; Beibei Dong; Jing Dong
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) often suffer from object hallucination, generating objects that are absent from the image. Prior work largely attributes this to insufficient visual attention. However, in this work, we are surprised to find that both real and hallucinated objects receive equally strong visual attention in the model's mid-to-late layers. This indicates that the key issue may not be how much the model attends, but **what it attends to and why**. To this end, we decode the visual features of high-attention regions using Logit Lens, and observe that high-attention regions corresponding to real objects can be correctly decoded to the target object token, whereas those for hallucinated objects cannot. Building on this, we identify two distinct hallucination mechanisms: **(i) visual uncertainty**, triggered by semantically similar or confusable regions, masking these regions eliminates the hallucination. **(ii) contextual prior**, triggered by strong co-occurrence priors, even when the initially attended region is masked, the hallucination persists and attention drifts to other regions. Based on these findings, we propose a simple yet effective training-free **Detect-Mitigate framework** comprising a Logit-Lens Consistency Check to detect hallucination and targeted remedies: High-Attention Regions Masking (HARM) for visual uncertainty hallucination, and Visual Evidence Enhanced Decoding (VEED) for contextual prior hallucination, which leverages genuine visual evidence to suppress erroneous priors. Our approach achieves state-of-the-art results on multiple hallucination benchmarks.
Emergent Extreme-View Geometry in 3D Foundation Models
Authors: Yiwen Zhang; Joseph Tung; Ruojin Cai; David Fouhey; Hadar Averbuch-Elor
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: 3D foundation models (3DFMs) have recently transformed 3D vision, enabling joint prediction of depths, poses, and point maps directly from images. Yet their ability to reason under extreme, non-overlapping views remains largely unexplored. In this work, we study their internal representations and find that 3DFMs exhibit an emergent understanding of extreme-view geometry, despite never being trained for such conditions. To further enhance these capabilities, we introduce a lightweight alignment scheme that refines their internal 3D representation by tuning only a small subset of backbone bias terms, leaving all decoder heads frozen. This targeted adaptation substantially improves relative pose estimation under extreme viewpoints without degrading per-image depth or point quality. Additionally, we contribute MegaUnScene, a new benchmark of Internet scenes unseen by existing 3DFMs, with dedicated test splits for both relative pose estimation and dense 3D reconstruction.
HiconAgent: History Context-aware Policy Optimization for GUI Agents
Authors: Xurui Zhou; Gongwei Chen; Yuquan Xie; Zaijing Li; Kaiwen Zhou; Shuai Wang; Shuo Yang; Zhuotao Tian; Rui Shao
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents require effective utilization of historical context to perform sequential navigation tasks. While incorporating past actions and observations can significantly improve decision-making, naively using full history leads to excessive computational overhead and potential distraction from irrelevant information. In this work, we introduce ****HiconAgent****, a GUI agent trained with ****History Context-aware Policy Optimization (HCPO)**** for effective and efficient utilization of historical information. HCPO explicitly optimizes history usage in both sampling and policy updates by integrating two complementary components: ****(1) Dynamic Context Sampling (DCS)**** presents the agent with variable-length histories during sampling, enabling adaptive use of the most relevant historical context to improve sequential decision quality; ****(2) Anchor-guided History Compression (AHC)**** refines the policy update phase via a dual-branch optimization strategy, where the compressed branch drops history observations while keeping history actions as information flow anchors. The compressed and uncompressed branches are coupled through a history-enhanced alignment loss to enforce consistent history usage, achieving efficiency with minimal performance degradation. Extensive experiments on mainstream GUI navigation benchmarks demonstrate the strong performance of our model. Despite its smaller size, HiconAgent-3B outperforms GUI-R1-7B by ****+8.46****% grounding and ****+11.32****% step successful rate on GUI-Odyssey, while achieving comparable results on AndroidControl and AITW, with up to ****2.47x computational speedup**** and ****60% FLOPs reduction****.
CLaD: Planning with Grounded Foresight via Cross-Modal Latent Dynamics
Authors: Andrew Jeong; Jaemin Kim; Sebin Lee; Sung-Eui Yoon
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Robotic manipulation involves kinematic and semantic transitions that are inherently coupled via underlying actions. However, existing approaches plan within either semantic or latent space without explicitly aligning these cross-modal transitions. To address this, we propose CLaD, a framework that models how proprioceptive and semantic states jointly evolve under actions through asymmetric cross-attention that allows kinematic transitions to query semantic ones. CLaD predicts grounded latent foresights via self-supervised objectives with EMA target encoders and auxiliary reconstruction losses, preventing representation collapse while anchoring predictions to observable states. Predicted foresights are modulated with observations to condition a diffusion policy for action generation. On LIBERO-LONG benchmark, CLaD achieves 94.7% success rate, competitive with large VLAs with significantly fewer parameters.
Rethinking BCE Loss for Multi-Label Image Recognition with Fine-Tuning
Authors: Ao Zhou; Zhiwei Jiang; Zifeng Cheng; Cong Wang; Yafeng Yin; Shufan Yang; Qing Gu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Fine-tuning vision-language models such as CLIP has become the mainstream paradigm for multi-label image recognition, and prompt tuning is widely adopted due to its lightweight parameter cost and strong transferability. However, we find that when these methods use Binary Cross-entropy as the supervision loss, the model's confidence structure becomes systematically distorted, leading to pronounced miscalibration. Existing calibration techniques, such as temperature scaling or regularization-based methods, largely fail in multi-label settings because they cannot capture inherent semantic dependencies between classes, nor can they correct the global structural shifts introduced during fine-tuning. To address this issue, we propose Class-wise Covariance Regularization, which aligns the predicted covariance structure of class confidences with the semantic correlations encoded in pretrained text embeddings. This alignment preserves the geometric consistency of the class space throughout fine-tuning, resulting in more stable and interpretable confidence distributions across categories. Experiments on multi-label benchmarks show that CCR significantly reduces calibration errors while maintaining or even improving recognition performance.
SE(3)-Equivariance with Geometric and Topological Guidance for Category-Level Object Pose Estimation
Authors: Sheng Yu; Di-Hua Zhai; Yuanqing Xia
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Object pose estimation is a key task for embodied robots, enabling them to interact with objects effectively. Category-level object pose estimation provides a way for robots to estimate the pose of unknown objects. However, estimating object pose from point clouds alone remains challenging. In this paper, we introduce SEGPose, a novel category-level object pose estimation method based on point clouds. Unlike previous methods, SEGPose leverages geometric, topological information, and SE(3)-equivariance, enhancing the network's accuracy in pose prediction. To utilize geometric and topological features, we propose a constraint-based feature extraction and 3D reconstruction method, enabling effective object shape reconstruction. We also design an SE(3)-equivariance feature prediction network to handle pose transformations consistently across viewpoints, improving pose accuracy. Experimental results on benchmark datasets show that SEGPose outperforms all current category-level pose estimation methods based on point clouds. Additionally, we apply the SEGPose to the robotic grasping tasks in real-world scenarios, and the results indicate that SEGPose exhibits excellent generalization capabilities.
Unblur-SLAM: Dense Neural SLAM for Blurry Inputs
Authors: Qi Zhang; Denis Rozumny; Francesco Girlanda; Sezer Karaoglu; Marc Pollefeys; Theo Gevers; Martin R. Oswald
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: We propose Unblur-SLAM, an RGB SLAM pipeline for sharp 3D reconstruction from blurred image inputs. In contrast to previous work, our approach is able to handle different types of blur and demonstrates state-of-the-art performance in the presence of both motion blur and defocus blur. Moreover, we adjust the computation effort with the amount of blur in the input image.As a first stage, our method uses a feed-forward image deblurring model for which we propose a suitable training scheme that can improve both tracking and mapping modules.Frames that are successfully deblurred by the feed-forward network obtain refined poses and depth through local-global multi-view optimization and loop closure. Frames that fail the first stage deblurring are directly modeled through the global 3DGS representation and an additional blur network to model multiple blurred sub-frames and simulate the blur formation process in 3D space, thereby learning sharp details and refined sub-frame poses.Experiments on several real-world datasets demonstrate consistent improvements in both pose estimation and sharp reconstruction results of geometry and texture.
InstructMix2Mix: Consistent Sparse-View Editing Through Multi-View Model Personalization
Authors: Daniel Gilo; Or Litany
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: We address the task of multi-view image editing from sparse input views, where the inputs can be seen as a mix of images capturing the scene from different viewpoints. The goal is to modify the scene according to a textual instruction while preserving consistency across all views. Existing methods, based on per-scene neural fields or temporal attention mechanisms, struggle in this setting, often producing artifacts and incoherent edits. We propose InstructMix2Mix (I-Mix2Mix), a framework that distills the editing capabilities of a 2D diffusion model into a pretrained multi-view diffusion model, leveraging its data-driven 3D prior for cross-view consistency. A key contribution is replacing the conventional neural field consolidator in Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) with a multi-view diffusion student, which requires novel adaptations: incremental student updates across timesteps, a specialized teacher noise scheduler to prevent degeneration, and an attention modification that enhances cross-view coherence without additional cost. Experiments demonstrate that I-Mix2Mix significantly improves multi-view consistency while maintaining high per-frame edit quality.
GDPO-SR: Group Direct Preference Optimization for One-Step Generative Image Super-Resolution
Authors: Qiaosi Yi; Shuai Li; Rongyuan Wu; Lingchen Sun; Zhengqiang Zhang; Lei Zhang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Recently, reinforcement learning (RL) has been employed for improving generative image super-resolution (ISR) performance. However, the current efforts are focused on multi-step generative ISR, while one-step generative ISR remains underexplored due to its limited stochasticity. In addition, RL methods such as Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) require the generation of positive and negative sample pairs offline, leading to a limited number of samples, while Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) only calculates the likelihood of the entire image, ignoring local details that are crucial for ISR. In this paper, we propose Group Direct Preference Optimization (GDPO), a novel approach to integrate RL into one-step generative ISR model training. First, we introduce a noise-aware one-step diffusion model that can generate diverse ISR outputs. To prevent performance degradation caused by noise injection, we introduce an unequal-timestep strategy to decouple the timestep of noise addition from that of diffusion. We then present the GDPO strategy, which integrates the principle of GRPO into DPO, to calculate the group-relative advantage of each online generated sample for model optimization. Meanwhile, an attribute-aware reward function is designed to dynamically evaluate the score of each sample based on its statistics of smooth and texture areas. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of GDPO in enhancing the performance of one-step generative ISR models. Code: https://github.com/Joyies/GDPO.
SEA: Evaluating Sketch Abstraction Efficiency via Element-level Commonsense Visual Question Answering
Authors: Jiho Park; Sieun Choi; Jaeyoon Seo; Minho Sohn; Yeana Kim; Jihie Kim
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: A sketch is a distilled form of visual abstraction that conveys core concepts through simplified yet purposeful strokes while omitting extraneous detail. Despite its expressive power, quantifying the efficiency of semantic abstraction in sketches remains challenging. Existing evaluation methods that rely on reference images, low-level visual features, or recognition accuracy do not capture abstraction, the defining property of sketches.To address these limitations, we introduce SEA (Sketch Evaluation metric for Abstraction efficiency), a reference-free metric that assesses how economically a sketch represents class-defining visual elements while preserving semantic recognizability. These elements are derived per class from commonsense knowledge about features typically depicted in sketches. SEA leverages a visual question answering model to determine the presence of each element and returns a quantitative score that reflects semantic retention under simple visual representations.To support this metric, we present CommonSketch, the first semantically annotated sketch dataset, comprising 23,100 human-drawn sketches across 300 classes, each paired with a caption and element-level annotations. Experiments show that SEA aligns closely with human judgments and reliably discriminates levels of abstraction efficiency, while CommonSketch serves as a benchmark providing systematic evaluation of element-level sketch understanding across various vision-language models.
POCA: Pareto-Optimal Curriculum Alignment for Visual Text Generation
Authors: Yaohou Fan; Qingzhong Wang; Yongsong Huang; Junyi Liu; Tomo Miyazaki; Shinichiro Omachi
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Current visual text generation models struggle with the trade-off between text accuracy and overall image coherence. We find that achieving high text accuracy can reduce aesthetic quality and instruction-following capability. Although reinforcement learning approaches can alleviate the problem through aligning with multiple rewards, they are often unstable for text generation, as existing approaches normally optimize multiple rewards in a weighted-sum way. In addition, it is difficult to balance the weight of each reward. Moreover, reinforcement learning requires a set of training instructions. A large number of prompts require more training time and computing resources, while a small set leads to poor performance. Hence, how to select the prompts for efficient training is an unsolved problem. In this study, we propose Pareto-Optimal Curriculum Alignment (POCA), a framework that addresses this issue as a multi-objective problem by: 1) identifying the Pareto-optimal set to avoid simple scalarization and 2) designing an adaptive curriculum alignment strategy to manage a learning sequence of a multi-reward dataset using automatic difficulty assessment, which is crucial for optimal convergence as RL methods explore in a limited data environment. In synergy, POCA finds the Pareto-optimal set in a unified reward space, which eliminates inconsistent signals to find the best trade-off solution from different rewards under an easy-to-hard optimization landscape. The experimental results show that POCA significantly improves all metrics such as CLIP, HPS scores and sentence accuracy.
SceneScribe-1M: A Large-Scale Video Dataset with Comprehensive Geometric and Semantic Annotations
Authors: Yunnan Wang; Kecheng Zheng; Jianyuan Wang; Minghao Chen; David Novotny; Christian Rupprecht; Yinghao Xu; Xing Zhu; Wenjun Zeng; Xin Jin; Yujun Shen
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: The convergence of 3D geometric perception and video synthesis has created an unprecedented demand for large-scale video data that is rich in both semantic and spatio-temporal information. While existing datasets have advanced either 3D understanding or video generation, a significant gap remains in providing a unified resource that supports both domains at scale. To bridge this chasm, we introduce SceneScribe-1M, a new large-scale, multi-modal video dataset. It comprises one million in-the-wild videos, each meticulously annotated with detailed textual descriptions, precise camera parameters, dense depth maps, and consistent 3D point tracks. We demonstrate the versatility and value of SceneScribe-1M by establishing benchmarks across a wide array of downstream tasks, including monocular depth estimation, scene reconstruction, and dynamic point tracking, as well as generative tasks such as text-to-video synthesis, with or without camera control. By open-sourcing SceneScribe-1M, we aim to provide a comprehensive benchmark and a catalyst for research, fostering the development of models that can both perceive the dynamic 3D world and generate controllable, realistic video content.