GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
LangBridge: Interpreting Image as a Combination of Language Embeddings
Authors: Jiaqi Liao; Yuwei Niu; Fanqing Meng; Hao Li; Changyao Tian; Yinuo Du; Yuwen Xiong; Dianqi Li; Xizhou Zhu; Li Yuan; Jifeng Dai; Yu Cheng
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Recent years have witnessed remarkable advances in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), which have achieved human-level performance across various complex vision-language tasks. Following LLaVA's paradigm, mainstream LVLMs typically employ a shallow MLP for visual-language alignment through a two-stage training process: pretraining for cross-modal alignment followed by instruction tuning. While this approach has proven effective, the underlying mechanisms of how MLPs bridge the modality gap remain poorly understood. Although some research has explored how LLMs process transformed visual tokens, few studies have investigated the fundamental alignment mechanism. Furthermore, the MLP adapter requires retraining whenever switching LLM backbones. To address these limitations, we first investigate the working principles of MLP adapters and discover that they learn to project visual embeddings into subspaces spanned by corresponding text embeddings progressively. Based on this insight, we propose LangBridge, a novel adapter that explicitly maps visual tokens to linear combinations of LLM vocabulary embeddings. This innovative design enables pretraining-free adapter transfer across different LLMs while maintaining performance. Our experimental results demonstrate that a LangBridge adapter pre-trained on Qwen2-0.5B can be directly applied to larger models such as LLaMA3-8B or Qwen2.5-14B while maintaining competitive performance. Overall, LangBridge enables interpretable vision-language alignment by grounding visual representations in LLM vocab embedding, while its plug-and-play design ensures efficient reuse across multiple LLMs with nearly no performance degradation. See our project page at https://curryx-001.github.io/LangBridge.github.io/.
Anchor Token Matching: Implicit Structure Locking for Training-free AR Image Editing
Authors: Taihang Hu; Linxuan Li; Kai Wang; Yaxing Wang; Jian Yang; Ming-Ming Cheng
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Text-to-image generation has seen groundbreaking advancements with diffusion models, enabling high-fidelity synthesis and precise image editing through cross-attention manipulation. Recently, autoregressive (AR) models have re-emerged as powerful alternatives, leveraging next-token generation to match diffusion models. However, existing editing techniques designed for diffusion models fail to translate directly to AR models due to fundamental differences in structural control. Specifically, AR models suffer from spatial poverty of attention maps and sequential accumulation of structural errors during image editing, which disrupt object layouts and global consistency. In this work, we introduce Implicit Structure Locking (*ISLock*), the first training-free editing strategy for AR visual models. Rather than relying on explicit attention manipulation or fine-tuning, *ISLock* preserves structural blueprints by dynamically aligning self-attention patterns with reference images through the Anchor Token Matching (*ATM*) protocol. By implicitly enforcing structural consistency in latent space, our method *ISLock* enables structure-aware editing while maintaining generative autonomy. Extensive experiments demonstrate that *ISLock* achieves high-quality, structure-consistent edits without additional training and is superior or comparable to conventional editing techniques. Our findings pioneer the way for efficient and flexible AR-based image editing, further bridging the performance gap between diffusion and autoregressive generative models.
ArgoTweak: Towards Self-Updating HD Maps through Structured Priors
Authors: Lena Wild; Rafael Valencia; Patric Jensfelt
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Reliable integration of prior information is crucial for self-verifying and self-updating HD maps. However, no public dataset includes the required triplet of prior maps, current maps, and sensor data. As a result, existing methods must rely on synthetic priors, which create inconsistencies and lead to a significant sim2real gap. To address this, we introduce ArgoTweak, the first dataset to complete the triplet with realistic map priors. At its core, ArgoTweak employs a bijective mapping framework, breaking down large-scale modifications into fine-grained atomic changes at the map element level, thus ensuring interpretability. This paradigm shift enables accurate change detection and integration while preserving unchanged elements with high fidelity. Experiments show that training models on ArgoTweak significantly reduces the sim2real gap compared to synthetic priors. Extensive ablations further highlight the impact of structured priors and detailed change annotations. By establishing a benchmark for explainable, prior-aided HD mapping, ArgoTweak advances scalable, self-improving mapping solutions. The dataset, baselines, map modification toolbox, and further resources are available at https://KTH-RPL.github.io/ArgoTweak/.
FedMVP: Federated Multimodal Visual Prompt Tuning for Vision-Language Models
Authors: Mainak Singha; Subhankar Roy; Sarthak Mehrotra; Ankit Jha; Moloud Abdar; Biplab Banerjee; Elisa Ricci
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: In federated learning, textual prompt tuning adapts Vision-Language Models (e.g., CLIP) by tuning lightweight input tokens (or prompts) on local client data, while keeping network weights frozen. After training, only the prompts are shared by the clients with the central server for aggregation. However, textual prompt tuning suffers from overfitting to known concepts, limiting its generalizability to unseen concepts. To address this limitation, we propose Multimodal Visual Prompt Tuning (FedMVP) that conditions the prompts on multimodal contextual information - derived from the input image and textual attribute features of a class. At the core of FedMVP is a PromptFormer module that synergistically aligns textual and visual features through a cross-attention mechanism. The dynamically generated multimodal visual prompts are then input to the frozen vision encoder of CLIP, and trained with a combination of CLIP similarity loss and a consistency loss. Extensive evaluation on 20 datasets, spanning three generalization settings, demonstrates that FedMVP not only preserves performance on in-distribution classes and domains, but also displays higher generalizability to unseen classes and domains, surpassing state-of-the-art methods by a notable margin of +1.57% - 2.26%. Code is available at https://github.com/mainaksingha01/FedMVP.
Robust Dataset Condensation using Supervised Contrastive Learning
Authors: Nicole Hee-Yeon Kim; Hwanjun Song
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Dataset condensation aims to compress large dataset into smaller synthetic set while preserving the essential representations needed for effective model training. However, existing methods show severe performance degradation when applied to noisy datasets. To address this, we present robust dataset condensation (RDC), an end-to-end method that mitigates noise to generate a clean and robust synthetic set, without requiring separate noise-reduction preprocessing steps. RDC refines the condensation process by integrating contrastive learning tailored for robust condensation, named golden MixUp contrast. It uses synthetic samples to sharpen class boundaries and to mitigate noisy representations, while its augmentation strategy compensates for the limited size of the synthetic set by identifying clean samples from noisy training data, enriching synthetic images with real-data diversity. We evaluate RDC against existing condensation methods and a conventional approach that first applies noise cleaning algorithms to the dataset before performing condensation. Extensive experiments show that RDC outperforms other approaches on CIFAR-10/100 across different types of noise, including asymmetric, symmetric, and real-world noise. Code is available at https://github.com/DISL-Lab/RDC-ICCV2025.
TIP-I2V: A Million-Scale Real Text and Image Prompt Dataset for Image-to-Video Generation
Authors: Wenhao Wang; Yi Yang
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Video generation models are revolutionizing content creation, with image-to-video models drawing increasing attention due to their enhanced controllability, visual consistency, and practical applications. However, despite their popularity, these models rely on user-provided text and image prompts, and there is currently no dedicated dataset for studying these prompts. In this paper, we introduce TIP-I2V, the first large-scale dataset of over 1.70 million unique user-provided Text and Image Prompts specifically for Image-to-Video generation. Additionally, we provide the corresponding generated videos from five state-of-the-art image-to-video models. We begin by outlining the time-consuming and costly process of curating this large-scale dataset. Next, we compare TIP-I2V to two popular prompt datasets, VidProM (text-to-video) and DiffusionDB (text-to-image), highlighting differences in both basic and semantic information. This dataset enables advancements in image-to-video research. For instance, to develop better models, researchers can use the prompts in TIP-I2V to analyze user preferences and evaluate the multi-dimensional performance of trained models; and to enhance model safety, they may focus on addressing the misinformation issue caused by image-to-video models. The new research inspired by TIP-I2V and the differences with existing datasets emphasize the importance of a specialized image-to-video prompt dataset. The project is available at https://tip-i2v.github.io/.
From Reusing to Forecasting: Accelerating Diffusion Models with TaylorSeers
Authors: Jiacheng Liu; Chang Zou; Yuanhuiyi Lyu; Junjie Chen; Linfeng Zhang
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have revolutionized high-fidelity image and video synthesis, yet their computational demands remain prohibitive for real-time applications.To solve this problem, feature caching has been proposed to accelerate diffusion models by caching the features in the previous timesteps and then reusing them in the following timesteps.However, at timesteps with significant intervals, the feature similarity in diffusion models decreases substantially, leading to a pronounced increase in errors introduced by feature caching, significantly harming the generation quality.To solve this problem, we propose TaylorSeer, which firstly shows that features of diffusion models at future timesteps can be predicted based on their values at previous timesteps.Based on the fact that features change slowly and continuously across timesteps, TaylorSeer employs a differential method to approximate the higher-order derivatives of features and predict features in future timesteps with Taylor series expansion. Extensive experiments demonstrate its significant effectiveness in both image and video synthesis, especially in high acceleration ratios.For instance, it achieves an almost lossless acceleration of 4.99xon FLUX and 5.00xon HunyuanVideo without additional training. On DiT, it achieves 3.41 lower FID compared with previous SOTA at 4.53xacceleration. Our codes have been released in Github: https://github.com/Shenyi-Z/TaylorSeer
VisNumBench: Evaluating Number Sense of Multimodal Large Language Models
Authors: Tengjin Weng; Jingyi Wang; Wenhao Jiang; Zhong Ming
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Can Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) develop an intuitive number sense similar to humans? Targeting this problem, we introduce Visual Number Benchmark (VisNumBench) to evaluate the number sense abilities of MLLMs across a wide range of visual numerical tasks. VisNumBench consists of about 1,900 multiple-choice question-answer pairs derived from both synthetic and real-world visual data, covering seven visual numerical attributes and four types of visual numerical estimation tasks. Our experiments on VisNumBench led to the following key findings:(i) The 17 MLLMs we tested--including open-source models such as Qwen2.5-VL and InternVL2.5, as well as proprietary models like GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Flash--perform significantly below human levels in number sense-related tasks. (ii) Multimodal mathematical models and multimodal chain-of-thought (CoT) models did not exhibit significant improvements in number sense abilities. (iii) Stronger MLLMs with larger parameter sizes and broader general abilities demonstrate modest gains in number sense abilities. We believe VisNumBench will serve as a valuable resource for the research community, encouraging further advancements in enhancing MLLMs' number sense abilities.
Invisible Watermarks, Visible Gains: Steering Machine Unlearning with Bi-Level Watermarking Design
Authors: Yuhao Sun; Yihua Zhang; Gaowen Liu; Hongtao Xie; Sijia Liu
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: With the increasing demand for the right to be forgotten, machine unlearning (MU) has emerged as a vital tool for enhancing trust and regulatory compliance by enabling the removal of sensitive data influences from machine learning (ML) models. However, most MU algorithms primarily rely on in-training methods to adjust model weights, with limited exploration of the benefits that data-level adjustments could bring to the unlearning process. To address this gap, we propose a novel approach that leverages digital watermarking to facilitate MU by strategically modifying data content. By integrating watermarking, we establish a controlled unlearning mechanism that enables precise removal of specified data while maintaining model utility for unrelated tasks. We first examine the impact of watermarked data on MU, finding that MU effectively generalizes to watermarked data. Building on this, we introduce an unlearning-friendly watermarking framework, termed Water4MU, to enhance unlearning effectiveness. The core of Water4MU is a bi-level optimization (BLO) framework: at the upper level, the watermarking network is optimized to minimize unlearning difficulty, while at the lower level, the model itself is trained independently of watermarking. Experimental results demonstrate that Water4MU is effective in MU across both image classification and image generation tasks. Notably, it outperforms existing methods in challenging MU scenarios, known as "challenging forgets".
FICGen: Frequency-Inspired Contextual Disentanglement for Layout-driven Degraded Image Generation
Authors: Wenzhuang Wang; Yifan Zhao; Mingcan Ma; Ming Liu; Zhonglin Jiang; Yong Chen; Jia Li
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Layout-to-image (L2I) generation has exhibited promising results in natural domains, but suffers from limited generative fidelity and weak alignment with user-provided layouts when applied to degraded scenes (i.e., low-light, underwater). We primarily attribute these limitations to the "contextual illusion dilemma" in degraded conditions, where foreground instances are overwhelmed by context-dominant frequency distributions. Motivated by this, our paper proposes a new Frequency-Inspired Contextual Disentanglement Generative (FICGen) paradigm, which seeks to transfer frequency knowledge of degraded images into the latent diffusion space, thereby facilitating the rendering of degraded instances and their surroundings via contextual frequency-aware guidance. To be specific, FICGen consists of two major steps. Firstly, we introduce a learnable dual-query mechanism, each paired with a dedicated frequency resampler, to extract contextual frequency prototypes from pre-collected degraded exemplars in the training set. Secondly, a visual-frequency enhanced attention is employed to inject frequency prototypes into the degraded generation process. To alleviate the contextual illusion and attribute leakage, an instance coherence map is developed to regulate latent-space disentanglement between individual instances and their surroundings, coupled with an adaptive spatial-frequency aggregation module to reconstruct spatial-frequency mixed degraded representations. Extensive experiments on 5 benchmarks involving a variety of degraded scenarios--from severe low-light to mild blur--demonstrate that FICGen consistently surpasses existing L2I methods in terms of generative fidelity, alignment and downstream auxiliary trainability.
Quantifying and Narrowing the Unknown: Interactive Text-to-Video Retrieval via Uncertainty Minimization
Authors: Bingqing Zhang; Zhuo Cao; Heming Du; Yang Li; Xue Li; Jiajun Liu; Sen Wang
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Despite recent advances, Text-to-video retrieval (TVR) is still hindered by multiple inherent uncertainties, such as ambiguous textual queries, indistinct text-video mappings, and low-quality video frames. Although interactive systems have emerged to address these challenges by refining user intent through clarifying questions, current methods typically rely on heuristic or ad-hoc strategies without explicitly quantifying these uncertainties, limiting their effectiveness. Motivated by this gap, we propose UMIVR, an Uncertainty-Minimizing Interactive Text-to-Video Retrieval framework that explicitly quantifies three critical uncertainties-text ambiguity, mapping uncertainty, and frame uncertainty-via principled, training-free metrics: semantic entropy-based Text Ambiguity Score (TAS), Jensen-Shannon divergence-based Mapping Uncertainty Score (MUS), and a Temporal Quality-based Frame Sampler (TQFS). By adaptively generating targeted clarifying questions guided by these uncertainty measures, UMIVR iteratively refines user queries, significantly reducing retrieval ambiguity. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmarks validate UMIVR's effectiveness, achieving notable gains in Recall@1 (69.2% after 10 interactive rounds) on the MSR-VTT-1k dataset, thereby establishing an uncertainty-minimizing foundation for interactive TVR.
ShortV: Efficient Multimodal Large Language Models by Freezing Visual Tokens in Ineffective Layers
Authors: Qianhao Yuan; Qingyu Zhang; Yanjiang Liu; Jiawei Chen; Yaojie Lu; Hongyu Lin; Jia Zheng; Xianpei Han; Le Sun
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) suffer from high computational costs due to their massive size and the large number of visual tokens. In this paper, we investigate layer-wise redundancy in MLLMs by introducing a novel metric, Layer Contribution (LC), which quantifies the impact of a layer's transformations on visual and text tokens, respectively. The calculation of LC involves measuring the divergence in model output that results from removing the layer's transformations on the specified tokens. Our pilot experiment reveals that many layers of MLLMs exhibit minimal contribution during the processing of visual tokens. Motivated by this observation, we propose ShortV, a training-free method that leverages LC to identify ineffective layers, and freezes visual token updates in these layers. Experiments show that ShortV can freeze visual token in approximately 60% of the MLLM layers, thereby dramatically reducing computational costs related to updating visual tokens. For example, it achieves a 50% reduction in FLOPs on LLaVA-NeXT-13B while maintaining superior performance. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/icip-cas/ShortV.
SpikeDiff: Zero-shot High-Quality Video Reconstruction from Chromatic Spike Camera and Sub-millisecond Spike Streams
Authors: Siqi Yang; Jinxiu Liang; Zhaojun Huang; Yeliduosi Xiaokaiti; Yakun Chang; Zhaofei Yu; Boxin Shi
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: High-speed video reconstruction from neuromorphic spike cameras offers a promising alternative to traditional frame-based imaging, providing superior temporal resolution and dynamic range with reduced power consumption. Nevertheless, reconstructing high-quality colored videos from spikes captured in ultra-short time interval remains challenging due to the noisy nature of spikes. While some existing methods extend temporal capture window to improve reconstruction quality, they compromise the temporal resolution advantages of spike cameras. In this paper, we introduce SpikeDiff, the first zero-shot framework that leverages pretrained diffusion models to reconstruct high-quality colored videos from sub-millisecond chromatic spikes. By incorporating physics-based guidance into the diffusion sampling process, SpikeDiff bridges the domain gap between chromatic spikes and conventional images, enabling high-fidelity reconstruction without requiring domain-specific training data. Extensive experiments demonstrate that SpikeDiff achieves impressive reconstruction quality while maintaining ultra-high temporal resolution, outperforming existing methods across diverse challenging scenarios.
Selective Contrastive Learning for Weakly Supervised Affordance Grounding
Authors: WonJun Moon; Hyun Seok Seong; Jae-Pil Heo
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Facilitating an entity's interaction with objects requires accurately identifying parts that afford specific actions. Weakly supervised affordance grounding (WSAG) seeks to imitate human learning from third-person demonstrations, where humans intuitively grasp functional parts without needing pixel-level annotations. To achieve this, grounding is typically learned using a shared classifier across images from different perspectives, along with distillation strategies incorporating part discovery process. However, since affordance-relevant parts are not always easily distinguishable, models primarily rely on classification, often focusing on common but unaffordable features. To address this limitation, we move beyond isolated part-level learning by introducing selective prototypical and pixel contrastive objectives that adaptively learn affordance-relevant cues at both the part and object levels, depending on the granularity of the available information. Initially, we find the action-associated objects in both egocentric (object-focused) and exocentric (third-person example) images by leveraging CLIP. Then, cross-referencing the discovered objects of complementary views, we excavate the precise part-level affordance clues in each perspective. By consistently learning to distinguish affordance-relevant regions from affordance-irrelevant background context, our approach effectively shifts activation from irrelevant areas toward meaningful affordance cues. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.