GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
MixFlow Training: Alleviating Exposure Bias with Slowed Interpolation Mixture
Authors: Hui Li; Jiayue Lyu; Fu-Yun Wang; Kaihui Cheng; Siyu Zhu; Jingdong Wang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: This paper studies the training-testing discrepancy (a.k.a. exposure bias) problem for improving the diffusion models. During training, the input of a prediction network at the training timestep is the corresponding ground-truth noisy data that is an interpolation of the noise and the data, and during testing, the input is the generated noisy data. We present a novel training approach, named MixFlow, for improving the training performance. Our approach is motivated by the Slow Flow phenomenon: the ground-truth interpolation that is the nearest to the generated noisy data at a given sampling timestep is observed to correspond to a higher-noise timestep (termed slowed timestep), i.e., the corresponding ground-truth timestep is slower than the sampling timestep. MixFlow leverages the interpolations at the slowed timesteps, named slowed interpolation mixture, for post-training the prediction network at each training timestep. Experiments over class-conditional image generation (including SiT, REPA, and RAE) and text-to-image generation, validate the effectiveness of our approach. Our approach MixFlow over the RAE models achieve strong generation results on ImageNet: 1.43 FID (without guidance) and 1.10 (with guidance) at 256 x256, and 1.55 FID (without guidance) and 1.10 (with guidance) at 512 x512.
RDFace: A Benchmark Dataset for Rare Disease Facial Image Analysis under Extreme Data Scarcity and Phenotype-Aware Synthetic Generation
Authors: Ganlin Feng; Yuxi Long; Hafsa Ali; Erin Lou; Fahad Butt; Qian Liu; Yang Wang; Pingzhao Hu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Rare diseases often manifest with distinctive facial phenotypes in children, offering valuable diagnostic cues for clinicians and AI-assisted screening systems. However, progress in this field is severely limited by the scarcity of curated, ethically sourced facial data and the high similarity among phenotypes across different conditions. To address these challenges, we introduce RDFace, a curated benchmark dataset comprising 456 pediatric facial images spanning 103 rare genetic conditions (average 4.4 samples per condition). Each ethically verified image is paired with standardized metadata. RDFace enables the development and evaluation of data-efficient AI models for rare disease diagnosis under real-world low-data constraints. We benchmark multiple pretrained vision backbones using cross-validation and explore synthetic augmentation with DreamBooth and FastGAN. Generated images are filtered via facial landmark similarity to maintain phenotype fidelity and merged with real data, improving diagnostic accuracy by up to 13.7% in ultra-low-data regimes. To assess semantic validity, phenotype descriptions generated by a vision-language model from real and synthetic images achieve a report similarity score of 0.84. RDFace establishes a transparent, benchmark-ready dataset for equitable rare disease AI research and presents a scalable framework for evaluating both diagnostic performance and the integrity of synthetic medical imagery.
TherA: Thermal-Aware Visual-Language Prompting for Controllable RGB-to-Thermal Infrared Translation
Authors: Dong-Guw Lee; Tai Hyoung Rhee; Hyunsoo Jang; Young-Sik Shin; Ukcheol Shin; Ayoung Kim
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Despite the inherent advantages of thermal infrared(TIR) imaging, large-scale data collection and annotation remain a major bottleneck for TIR-based perception. A practical alternative is to synthesize pseudo TIR data via image translation; however, most RGB-to-TIR approaches heavily rely on RGB-centric priors that overlook thermal physics, yielding implausible heat distributions. In this paper, we introduce TherA, a controllable RGB-to-TIR translation framework that produces diverse and thermally plausible images at both scene and object level. TherA couples TherA-VLM with a latent-diffusion-based translator. Given a single RGB image and a user-prompted condition pair, TherA-VLM yields a thermal-aware embedding that encodes scene, object, material, and heat-emission context reflecting the input scene-condition pair. Conditioning the diffusion model on this embedding enables realistic TIR synthesis and fine-grained control across time of day, weather, and object state. Compared to other baselines, TherA achieves state-of-the-art translation performance, demonstrating improved zero-shot translation performance up to 33% increase averaged across all metrics.
TTP: Test-Time Padding for Adversarial Detection and Robust Adaptation on Vision-Language Models
Authors: Zhiwei Li; Yitian Pang; Weining Wang; Zhenan Sun; Qi Li
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have achieved impressive zero-shot recognition performance but remain highly susceptible to adversarial perturbations, posing significant risks in safety-critical scenarios. Previous training-time defenses rely on adversarial fine-tuning, which requires labeled data and costly retraining, while existing test-time strategies fail to reliably distinguish between clean and adversarial inputs, thereby preventing both adversarial robustness and clean accuracy from reaching their optimum. To address these limitations, we propose Test-Time Padding (TTP), a lightweight defense framework that performs adversarial detection followed by targeted adaptation at inference. TTP identifies adversarial inputs via the cosine similarity shift between CLIP feature embeddings computed before and after spatial padding, yielding a universal threshold for reliable detection across architectures and datasets. For detected adversarial cases, TTP employs trainable padding to restore disrupted attention patterns, coupled with a similarity-aware ensemble strategy for a more robust final prediction. For clean inputs, TTP leaves them unchanged by default or optionally integrates existing test-time adaptation techniques for further accuracy gains. Comprehensive experiments on diverse CLIP backbones and fine-grained benchmarks show that TTP consistently surpasses state-of-the-art test-time defenses, delivering substantial improvements in adversarial robustness without compromising clean accuracy. The code for this paper will be released soon.
DP-FedAdamW: An Efficient Optimizer for Differentially Private Federated Large Models
Authors: Jin Liu; Ning Xi; Yinbin Miao; Junkang Liu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Balancing convergence efficiency and robustness under Differential Privacy (DP) is a central challenge in Federated Learning (FL). Although AdamW accelerates training and fine-tuning in large-scale models, we find that directly applying it to Differentially Private FL (DPFL) suffers from three major issues: (i) data heterogeneity and privacy noise jointly amplify the variance of the second-moment estimator, (ii) DP perturbations bias the second-moment estimator, and (iii) DP amplifies AdamW's sensitivity to local overfitting, worsening client drift. We propose DP-FedAdamW, the first AdamW-based optimizer for DPFL. It restores the effectiveness of AdamW under DP by stabilizing second-moment variance, removing DP-induced bias, and aligning local updates with the global descent direction to curb client drift. Theoretically, we establish an unbiased second-moment estimator and prove a linearly accelerated convergence rate without any heterogeneity assumption, while providing tighter (\varepsilon,\delta)-DP guarantees. Our empirical results demonstrate the strong performance of DP-FedAdamW across language and vision Transformers, as well as ResNet-18. On Tiny-ImageNet (Swin-Base, \varepsilon=1), DP-FedAdamW outperforms the state-of-the-art (SOTA) by 5.83%. The code is available at https://github.com/junkangLiu0/DP-FedAdamW.
AMB3R: Accurate Feed-forward Metric-scale 3D Reconstruction with Backend
Authors: Hengyi Wang; Lourdes Agapito
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: We present AMB3R, a multi-view feed-forward model for metric-scale dense 3D reconstruction that addresses diverse 3D vision tasks. The key idea is to employ a sparse, yet compact, volumetric scene representation as our backend, enabling geometric reasoning with spatial compactness. We further introduce AMB3R-VO and AMB3R-SfM, two training-free, model-agnostic pipelines that extend multi-view networks to uncalibrated visual odometry (online) or structure from motion for any number of images without test-time optimization. Compared to prior 3D foundation models, AMB3R achieves state-of-the-art performance in camera pose, depth, metric-scale estimation, and 3D reconstruction, while AMB3R-VO and AMB3R-SfM even surpass optimization-based SLAM and SfM systems with dense reconstruction priors on common benchmarks.
MLLM-HWSI: A Multimodal Large Language Model for Hierarchical Whole Slide Image Understanding
Authors: Basit Alawode; Arif Mahmood; Muaz Khalifa Al Radi; Shahad Albastaki; Asim Khan; Muhammad Bilal; Moshira Ali Abdalla; Mohammed Bennamoun; Sajid Javed
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Whole Slide Images (WSIs) exhibit hierarchical structure, where diagnostic information emerges from cellular morphology, regional tissue organization, and global context. Existing Computational Pathology (CPath) Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) typically compress an entire WSI into a single embedding, which hinders fine-grained grounding and ignores how pathologists synthesize evidence across different scales. We introduce MLLM-HWSI, a Hierarchical WSI-level MLLM that aligns visual features with pathology language at four distinct scales, cell as word, patch as phrase, region as sentence, and WSI as paragraph to support interpretable evidence-grounded reasoning. MLLM-HWSI decomposes each WSI into multi-scale embeddings with scale-specific projectors and jointly enforces (i) a hierarchical contrastive objective and (ii) a cross-scale consistency loss, preserving semantic coherence from cells to the WSI. We compute diagnostically relevant patches and aggregate segmented cell embeddings into a compact cellular token per-patch using a lightweight Cell-Cell Attention Fusion (CCAF) transformer. The projected multi-scale tokens are fused with text tokens and fed to an instruction-tuned LLM for open-ended reasoning, VQA, report, and caption generation tasks.  Trained in three stages, MLLM-HWSI achieves new SOTA results on 13 WSI-level benchmarks across six CPath tasks.  By aligning language with multi-scale visual evidence, MLLM-HWSI provides accurate, interpretable outputs that mirror diagnostic workflows and advance holistic WSI understanding. Code is available at: \href https://github.com/BasitAlawode/HWSI-MLLM  Github .
PatchScene: Patch-based Voxel Diffusion Model for Large-Scale Scene Completion
Authors: Qingdong Xu; Jiajun Zhu; Shilin Zhu; Xinjing He; Chao Lu; Huanran Wang; Jiyao Zhang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: We propose PatchScene, a novel diffusion-based framework for large-scale LiDAR scene completion. Unlike existing methods that rely on global latent representations or dense voxel grids, PatchScene adopts a patch-based voxel diffusion paradigm that explicitly generates fine-grained geometry within localized 3D regions. To ensure coherent reconstruction at both spatial and temporal scales, we introduce a confidence-guided spatio-temporal fusion mechanism that integrates overlapping patches and adjacent frames in a unified generative process. Furthermore, we design an Annular-Flow diffusion strategy that leverages the radial density pattern of LiDAR scans to progressively propagate high-fidelity information from near-range to far-range regions, enabling spatially unbounded scene completion. Extensive experiments on the SemanticKITTI benchmark demonstrate that PatchScene achieves state-of-the-art performance across all standard metrics, surpassing previous approaches in both geometric accuracy and temporal consistency. Remarkably, the model trained on 20 m LiDAR ranges generalizes effectively to 50 m scenes without retraining, highlighting its strong scalability and generalization capability for real-world autonomous driving applications.
Through the Frequency Lens: Cross-Domain Generalisable Gaze Estimation with Adaptive Modulation
Authors: Yang Xu; Yiwei Bao; Feng Lu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Deep learning-based gaze estimation methods often exhibit significant performance degradation on unseen target domains. Through systematic frequency-domain analysis, we reveal that face images contain frequency components with distinct contributions: some facilitate cross-domain generalization while others introduce domain-specific interference that impedes it, with both components varying across datasets and constituting a key source of domain gap. Based on these observations, we propose the Frequency-Guided Adaptive Learning framework (FGAL), a novel framework enhancing domain generalization without accessing target domain data. The FGAL consists of two complementary modules: the Adaptive Interference Suppression Module (AISM) and the Spectrum Diversification Module (SDM). AISM adaptively suppresses sample-specific interfering frequency components through learnable modulation maps, while SDM diversifies frequency distribution patterns to enhance robustness against cross-domain variations. Experiments demonstrate that FGAL achieves substantial improvements, outperforming baselines by up to 28.2% and state-of-the-art methods by up to 19.5% across multiple cross-domain settings, demonstrating our framework's potential for broader domain generalization tasks.
PosterIQ: A Design Perspective Benchmark for Poster Understanding and Generation
Authors: Yuheng Feng; Wen Zhang; Haodong Duan; Xingxing Zou
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: We present PosterIQ, a design-driven benchmark for poster understanding and generation, annotated across composition structure, typographic hierarchy, and semantic intent. It includes 7,765 image-annotation instances and 822 generation prompts spanning real, professional, and synthetic cases. To bridge visual design cognition and generative modeling, we define tasks for layout parsing, text-image correspondence, typography/readability and font perception, design quality assessment, and controllable, composition-aware generation with metaphor. We evaluate state-of-the-art MLLMs and diffusion-based generators, finding persistent gaps in visual hierarchy, typographic semantics, saliency control, and intention communication; commercial models lead on high-level reasoning but act as insensitive automatic raters, while generators render text well yet struggle with composition-aware synthesis. Extensive analyses show PosterIQ is both a quantitative benchmark and a diagnostic tool for design reasoning, offering reproducible, task-specific metrics. We aim to catalyze models' creativity and integrate human-centred design principles into generative vision-language systems.
Rethinking 2D-3D Registration: A Novel Network for High-Value Zone Selection and Representation Consistency Alignment
Authors: Zhixin Cheng; Bohao Liao; Jiacheng Deng; Xiaotian Yin; Xinjun Li; Yujia Chen; Baoqun Yin; Tianzhu Zhang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Both detection-then-match and detection-free methods have been extensively studied for image-to-point cloud registration, yet they still face significant challenges. The detection-then-match approach emphasizes high-quality correspondences but is limited by the availability of repeatable keypoints, making it susceptible to errors from incorrect matches. In contrast, detection-free methods aim for dense correspondences using a coarse-to-fine strategy to mitigate matching errors. However, non-overlapping regions and low-quality matches still introduce inaccuracies, and the differences between image texture and point cloud structure cause inconsistent region representations, increasing the likelihood of incorrect matches.To address these challenges, we propose two innovative modules: the High-Value Zone Reinforced Selection Module (HZRS) and the Zone Representation Consistency Alignment Module (ZRCA). HZRS employs reinforcement learning to resolve the non-differentiable issue of selecting high-value matching regions, while ZRCA improves region alignment through three stages: understand, coordinate, and accelerate.Extensive experiments and ablation studies on RGB-D Scenes v2 and 7-Scenes demonstrate the superiority of our network, establishing it as the state-of-the-art for image-to-point cloud registration.
Fuel Gauge: Estimating Chain-of-Thought Length Ahead of Time in Large Multimodal Models
Authors: Yuedong Yang; Xiwen Wei; Mustafa Munir; Radu Marculescu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Reasoning Large Multi-modality Models (LMMs) have become the de facto choice for many applications. However, these models rely on a Chain-of-Thought (CoT) process that is lengthy and unpredictable at runtime, often resulting in inefficient use of computational resources (due to memory fragmentation) and sub-optimal accuracy (due to under- and over-thinking). Empirical evidence shows a strong correlation between CoT length and task difficulty. This suggests that the CoT length can be estimated ahead of time based on a hidden parameter representing the amount of "fuel" available to support the reasoning process. Based on this insight, we propose Fuel Gauge, the first method which extracts this hidden signal and predicts CoT length ahead of time. We demonstrate the utility on the Fuel Gauge on two downstream tasks: predictive KV cache allocation, which addresses memory fragmentation in LMM serving systems, and CoT length modulation, which mitigates under-thinking and over-thinking. Extensive experiments on LMMs across text-only, image-text, and video-text question answering benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness, generalizability, and practical value of Fuel Gauge. For example, on the GPQA-Diamond benchmark, our Fuel Gauge achieves less than half the CoT length prediction error compared to the baseline; this translates into a 13.37x reduction in the memory allocation frequency.
FB-CLIP: Fine-Grained Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection with Foreground-Background Disentanglement
Authors: Ming Hu; Yongsheng Huo; Mingyu Dou; Jianfu Yin; Peng Zhao; Yao Wang; Cong Hu; Bingliang Hu; Quan Wang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Fine-grained anomaly detection is crucial in industrial and medical applications, but labeled anomalies are often scarce, making zero-shot detection challenging. While vision-language models like CLIP offer promising solutions, they struggle with foreground-background feature entanglement and coarse textual semantics.  We propose FB-CLIP, a framework that enhances anomaly localization via multi-strategy textual representations and foreground-background separation. In the textual modality, it combines End-of-Text features, global-pooled representations, and attention-weighted token features for richer semantic cues. In the visual modality, multi-view soft separation along identity, semantic, and spatial dimensions, together with background suppression, reduces interference and improves discriminability. Semantic Consistency Regularization (SCR) aligns image features with normal and abnormal textual prototypes, suppressing uncertain matches and enlarging semantic gaps.  Experiments show that FB-CLIP effectively distinguishes anomalies from complex backgrounds, achieving accurate fine-grained anomaly detection and localization under zero-shot settings. Code  : \href https://github.com/Xi-Mu-Yu/FB-CLIP  https://github.com/Xi-Mu-Yu/FB-CLIP .
MM-ReCoder: Advancing Chart-to-Code Generation with Reinforcement Learning and Self-Correction
Authors: Zitian Tang; Xu Zhang; Jianbo Yuan; Yang Zou; Varad Gunjal; Songyao Jiang; Davide Modolo
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have recently demonstrated promising capabilities in multimodal coding tasks such as chart-to-code generation. However, existing methods primarily rely on supervised fine-tuning (SFT), which requires the model to learn code patterns through chart-code pairs but does not expose the model to a code execution environment. Moreover, while self-correction through execution feedback offers a potential route to improve coding quality, even state-of-the-art MLLMs have been shown to struggle with effective self-correction. In this work, we introduce MM-ReCoder, a chart-to-code generation model trained with reinforcement learning (RL) and equipped with self-correction ability. We propose a two-stage multi-turn self-correction RL strategy based on Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO). The first stage enhances the model's self-correction ability via rolling out a shared first turn, while the second stage improves the coding capability with full-trajectory optimization. MM-ReCoder learns to produce more accurate and executable code through the interaction with the environment and by iteratively correcting its own outputs. Our results on three chart-to-code benchmarks demonstrate the state-of-the-art performance of MM-ReCoder.
HATS: Hardness-Aware Trajectory Synthesis for GUI Agents
Authors: Rui Shao; Ruize Gao; Bin Xie; Yixing Li; Kaiwen Zhou; Shuai Wang; Weili Guan; Gongwei Chen
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Graphical user interface (GUI) agents powered by large vision-language models (VLMs) have shown remarkable potential in automating digital tasks, highlighting the need for high-quality trajectory data to support effective agent training. Yet existing trajectory synthesis pipelines often yield agents that fail to generalize beyond simple interactions. We identify this limitation as stemming from the neglect of semantic-ambiguous actions--interactions whose meanings are context-dependent, sequentially dependent, or visually ambiguous. Such actions are crucial for real-world robustness but are under-represented and poorly processed in current datasets, leading to semantic misalignment between task instructions and execution. To address these issues, we propose HATS, a Hardness-Aware Trajectory Synthesis framework designed to mitigate the impact of semantic ambiguity. We define hardness as the degree of semantic ambiguity associated with an action and develop two complementary modules: (1) a hardness-driven exploration that guides data collection toward ambiguous yet informative interactions, and (2) an alignment-guided refinement that iteratively validates and repairs instruction-execution consistency. The two modules operate in a closed-loop manner--exploration supplies refinement with challenging trajectories, while refinement feedback updates the hardness signal to guide future exploration. Extensive experiments show that agents trained with HATS consistently outperform state-of-the-art baselines across benchmark GUI environments.