GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
ARC Is a Vision Problem!
Authors: Keya Hu; Ali Cy; Linlu Qiu; Xiaoman Delores Ding; Runqian Wang; Yeyin Eva Zhu; Jacob Andreas; Kaiming He
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) is designed to promote research on abstract reasoning, a fundamental aspect of human intelligence. Common approaches to ARC treat it as a language-oriented problem, addressed by large language models (LLMs) or recurrent reasoning models. However, although the puzzle-like tasks in ARC are inherently visual, existing research has rarely approached the problem from a vision-centric perspective. In this work, we formulate ARC within a vision paradigm, framing it as an image-to-image translation problem. To incorporate visual priors, we represent the inputs on a "canvas" that can be processed like natural images. It is then straightforward for us to apply standard vision architectures, such as a vanilla Vision Transformer (ViT), to perform image-to-image mapping. Our model is trained from scratch solely on ARC data and generalizes to unseen tasks through test-time training. Our framework, termed Vision ARC (VARC), achieves 60.4% accuracy on the ARC-1 benchmark, substantially outperforming existing methods that are also trained from scratch. Our results are competitive with those of leading LLMs and close the gap to average human performance.
Reinforce to Learn, Elect to Reason: A Dual Paradigm for Video Reasoning
Authors: Songyuan Yang; Weijiang Yu; Jilin Ma; Ziyu Liu; Guijian Tang; Wenjing Yang; Huibin Tan; Nong Xiao
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Video reasoning has advanced with large multimodal models (LMMs), yet their inference is often a single pass that returns an answer without verifying whether the reasoning is evidence-aligned. We introduce **Reinforce to Learn, Elect to Reason (RLER)**, a dual paradigm that decouples learning to produce evidence from obtaining a reliable answer. In **RLER-Training**, we optimize the policy with group-relative reinforcement learning (RL) and 3 novel task-driven rewards: Frame-sensitive reward grounds reasoning on explicit key frames, Think-transparency reward shapes readable and parsable reasoning traces, and Anti-repetition reward boosts information density. These signals teach the model to emit structured, machine-checkable evidence and potentiate reasoning capabilities. In **RLER-Inference**, we apply a train-free orchestrator that generates a small set of diverse candidates, parses their answers and cited frames, scores them by evidence consistency, confidence, transparency, and non-redundancy, and then performs a robust evidence-weighted election. This closes the loop between producing and using evidence, improving reliability and interpretability without enlarging the model. We comprehensively evaluate RLER against various open-source and RL-based LMMs on 8 representative benchmarks. RLER achieves state of the art across all benchmarks and delivers an average improvement of 6.3 % over base models, while using on average 3.1 candidates per question, indicating a favorable balance between compute and quality. The results support a simple thesis: making evidence explicit during learning and electing by evidence during inference is a robust path to trustworthy video reasoning.
CineBrain: A Large-Scale Multi-Modal Audiovisual Brain Dataset for Brain-Conditioned Video Generation
Authors: Jianxiong Gao; Yichang Liu; Baofeng Yang; Jianfeng Feng; Yanwei Fu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Most research decoding brain signals into images, often using them as priors for generative models, has focused only on visual content. This overlooks the brain's natural ability to integrate auditory and visual information, for instance, sound strongly influences how we perceive visual scenes. To investigate this, we propose a new task of reconstructing continuous video stimuli from multimodal brain signals recorded during audiovisual stimulation. To enable this, we introduce CineBrain, the first large-scale dataset that synchronizes fMRI and EEG during audiovisual viewing, featuring six hours of The Big Bang Theory episodes for cross-modal alignment. We also conduct the first systematic exploration of combining fMRI and EEG for video reconstruction and present CineSync, a framework for reconstructing dynamic video using a Multi-Modal Fusion Encoder and a Neural Latent Decoder. CineSync achieves state-of-the-art performance in dynamic reconstruction, leveraging the complementary strengths of fMRI and EEG to improve visual fidelity. Our analysis shows that auditory cortical activations enhance decoding accuracy, highlighting the role of auditory input in visual perception. Project Page: https://jianxgao.github.io/CineBrain.
VIRST: Video-Instructed Reasoning Assistant for SpatioTemporal Segmentation
Authors: Jihwan Hong; Jaeyoung Do
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment target objects in videos based on natural language descriptions. However, fixed keyframe-based approaches that couple a vision language model with a separate propagation module often fail to capture rapidly changing spatiotemporal dynamics and to handle queries requiring multi-step reasoning, leading to sharp performance drops on motion-intensive and reasoning-oriented videos beyond static RVOS benchmarks. To address these limitations, we propose VIRST (Video-Instructed Reasoning Assistant for Spatio-Temporal Segmentation), an end-to-end framework that unifies global video reasoning and pixel-level mask prediction within a single model. VIRST bridges semantic and segmentation representations through the Spatio-Temporal Fusion (STF), which fuses segmentation-aware video features into the vision-language backbone, and employs the Temporal Dynamic Anchor Updater to maintain temporally adjacent anchor frames that provide stable temporal cues under large motion, occlusion, and reappearance. This unified design achieves state-of-the-art results across diverse RVOS benchmarks under realistic and challenging conditions, demonstrating strong generalization to both referring and reasoning oriented settings.
Beyond Prompt Degradation: Prototype-guided Dual-pool Prompting for Incremental Object Detection
Authors: Yaoteng Zhang; Qing Zhou; Junyu Gao; Qi Wang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Incremental Object Detection (IOD) aims to continuously learn new object categories without forgetting previously learned ones. Recently, prompt-based methods have gained popularity for their replay-free design and parameter efficiency. However, due to prompt coupling and prompt drift, these methods often suffer from prompt degradation during continual adaptation. To address these issues, we propose a novel prompt-decoupled framework called PDP. PDP innovatively designs a dual-pool prompt decoupling paradigm, which consists of a shared pool used to capture task-general knowledge for forward transfer, and a private pool used to learn task-specific discriminative features. This paradigm explicitly separates task-general and task-specific prompts, preventing interference between prompts and mitigating prompt coupling. In addition, to counteract prompt drift resulting from inconsistent supervision where old foreground objects are treated as background in subsequent tasks, PDP introduces a Prototypical Pseudo-Label Generation (PPG) module. PPG can dynamically update the class prototype space during training and use the class prototypes to further filter valuable pseudo-labels, maintaining supervisory signal consistency throughout the incremental process. PDP achieves state-of-the-art performance on MS-COCO (with a 9.2% AP improvement) and PASCAL VOC (with a 3.3% AP improvement) benchmarks, highlighting its potential in balancing stability and plasticity. The code and dataset are released at: https://github.com/zyt95579/PDP_IOD.
MergeVLA: Cross-Skill Model Merging Toward a Generalist Vision-Language-Action Agent
Authors: Yuxia Fu; Zhizhen Zhang; Yuqi Zhang; Zijian Wang; Zi Huang; Yadan Luo
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models reformulate vision-language models by tuning them with millions of robotic demonstrations. While they perform well when fine-tuned for a single embodiment or task family, extending them to multi-skill settings remains challenging: directly merging VLA experts trained on different tasks results in near-zero success rates. This raises a fundamental question: what prevents VLAs from mastering multiple skills within one model? With an empirical decomposition of learnable parameters during VLA fine-tuning, we identify two key sources of non-mergeability:(1) Finetuning drives LoRA adapters in the VLM backbone toward divergent, task-specific directions beyond the capacity of existing merging methods to unify.(2) Action experts develop inter-block dependencies through self-attention feedback, causing task information to spread across layers and preventing modular recombination.To address these challenges, we present MergeVLA, a merging-oriented VLA architecture that preserves mergeability by design.MergeVLA introduces sparsely activated LoRA adapters via task masks to retain consistent parameters and reduce irreconcilable conflicts in the VLM.Its action expert replaces self-attention with cross-attention-only blocks to keep specialization localized and composable.When the task is unknown, it uses a test-time task router to adaptively select the appropriate task mask and expert head from the initial observation, enabling unsupervised task inference.Across LIBERO, LIBERO-Plus, RoboTwin, and multi-task experiments on the real SO101 robotic arm, MergeVLA achieves performance comparable to or even exceeding individually finetuned experts, demonstrating robust generalization across tasks, embodiments, and environments. Project page: https://mergevla.github.io/
HieraMamba: Video Temporal Grounding via Hierarchical Anchor-Mamba Pooling
Authors: Joungbin An; Kristen Grauman
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Video temporal grounding, the task of localizing the start and end times of a natural language query in untrimmed video, requires capturing both global context and fine-grained temporal detail. This challenge is particularly pronounced in long videos, where existing methods often compromise temporal fidelity by over-downsampling or using fixed windows. We present HieraMamba, a hierarchical architecture that preserves temporal structure and semantic richness across scales. At its core are Anchor-MambaPooling (AMP) blocks, which utilize Mamba's selective scanning to produce compact anchor tokens summarizing video content across scales. We further introduce anchor-conditioned and segment-pooled contrastive losses-two complementary objectives that encourage anchors to retain local detail while remaining globally discriminative. HieraMamba sets a new state-of-the-art on Ego4D-NLQ, MAD, and TACoS, demonstrating precise, temporally faithful localization in long, untrimmed videos.
WeDetect: Fast Open-Vocabulary Object Detection as Retrieval
Authors: Shenghao Fu; Yukun Su; Fengyun Rao; Jing LYU; Xiaohua Xie; Wei-Shi Zheng
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Open-vocabulary object detection aims to detect arbitrary classes via text prompts. Methods without cross-modal fusion layers (non-fusion) offer faster inference by treating recognition as a retrieval problem, i.e., matching regions to text queries in a shared embedding space. In this work, we fully explore this retrieval philosophy and demonstrate its unique advantages in efficiency and versatility through a model family named WeDetect: (1) State-of-the-art performance. WeDetect is a real-time detector with a dual-tower architecture. We show that, with well-curated data and full training, the non-fusion WeDetect surpasses other fusion models and establishes a strong open-vocabulary foundation. (2) Fast backtrack of historical data. WeDetect-Uni is a universal proposal generator based on WeDetect. We freeze the entire detector and only finetune an objectness prompt to retrieve generic object proposals across categories. Importantly, the proposal embeddings are class-specific and enable a new application, object retrieval, supporting retrieval objects in historical data. (3) Integration with LMMs for referring expression comprehension (REC). We further propose WeDetect-Ref, an LMM-based object classifier to handle complex referring expressions, which retrieves target objects from the proposal list extracted by WeDetect-Uni. It discards next-token prediction and classifies objects in a single forward pass. Together, the WeDetect family unifies detection, proposal generation, object retrieval, and REC under a coherent retrieval framework, achieving state-of-the-art performance across 15 benchmarks with high inference efficiency. We will open-source all models.
Latent Implicit Visual Reasoning
Authors: Kelvin Li; Chuyi Shang; Leonid Karlinsky; Rogerio Feris; Trevor Darrell; Roei Herzig
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: While Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have made significant progress, they remain largely text-centric, relying on language as their core reasoning modality. As a result, they are limited in their ability to handle reasoning tasks that are predominantly visual. Recent approaches have sought to address this by supervising intermediate visual steps with helper images, depth maps, or image crops. However, these strategies impose restrictive priors on what "useful" visual abstractions look like, add heavy annotation costs, and struggle to generalize across tasks. To address this critical limitation, we propose a task-agnostic mechanism that trains LMMs to discover and use visual reasoning tokens without explicit supervision. These tokens attend globally and re-encode the image in a task-adaptive way, enabling the model to extract relevant visual information without hand-crafted supervision. Our approach outperforms direct fine-tuning and achieves state-of-the-art results on a diverse range of vision-centric tasks -- including those where intermediate abstractions are hard to specify -- while also generalizing to multi-task instruction tuning.
Guardians of the Hair: Rescuing Soft Boundaries in Depth, Stereo, and Novel Views
Authors: Xiang Zhang; Studios blank; Yang Zhang; Studios blank; Lukas Mehl; Studios blank; Markus Gross; Studios blank; Christopher Schroers; Studios blank
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Soft boundaries, like thin hairs, are commonly observed in natural and computer-generated imagery, but they remain challenging for 3D vision due to the ambiguous mixing of foreground and background cues. This paper introduces Guardians of the Hair (HairGuard), a framework designed to recover fine-grained soft boundary details in 3D vision tasks. Specifically, we first propose a novel data curation pipeline that leverages image matting datasets for training and design a depth fixer network to automatically identify soft boundary regions. With a gated residual module, the depth fixer refines depth precisely around soft boundaries while maintaining global depth quality, allowing plug-and-play integration with state-of-the-art depth models. For view synthesis, we perform depth-based forward warping to retain high-fidelity textures, followed by a generative scene painter that fills disoccluded regions and eliminates redundant background artifacts within soft boundaries. Finally, a color fuser adaptively combines warped and inpainted results to produce novel views with consistent geometry and fine-grained details. Extensive experiments demonstrate that HairGuard achieves state-of-the-art performance across monocular depth estimation, stereo image/video conversion, and novel view synthesis, with significant improvements in soft boundary regions.
Real-Time Dynamic Scene Rendering with Controlled Compressibility and Contact Awareness
Authors: Boya Shi; Naiyang Guan; Xiaodong Yi
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Existing dynamic scene rendering methods often adopt rigid-body or direction-limited assumptions, yet real-world motion and contact routinely violate these, producing artifacts near occlusion boundaries. To address this, we introduce a unified, source-aware framework for dynamic rendering that enforces the consistency of Gaussian primitives under explicit manifold constraints. We project predicted velocities onto physically grounded priors via efficient, parallel inner solves: (i) a Helmholtz parameterization that separates divergence-free and potential-flow motion components; (ii) an anisotropic, compressible directional prior; and (iii) an affine family that disentangles rotation from isotropic scaling. Experiments on extensive benchmarks show consistent improvements over state-of-the-art methods in reconstruction fidelity and temporal coherence. Our approach ensures physically realistic rendering, especially near contacts, and substantially reduces motion-boundary artifacts.
Complementary Prototype Mapping for Efficient Multimodal Anomaly Detection
Authors: Yuan Zhao; Xiaoqin Zhang; Huchuan Lu; Lihe Zhang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Multimodal unsupervised anomaly detection has garnered increasing attention for robust defect localization.Recent approaches rely on establishing cross-modal matching relationships under normal conditions without explicit guidance.However, in practice, a single modality may have multiple distinct representations corresponding to another modality, and such unconditional mappings struggle to adaptively capture these variations, resulting in mapping ambiguity and the misclassification of diverse yet normal variations as anomalies.Moreover, existing methods suffer from slow inference speed and high memory overhead, hindering their deployment in real-world production lines.To address these issues, we propose an efficient and effective Complementary Prototype Mapping (CPMAD) framework, which dynamically extracts consensus and supplementary prototypes to serve as complementary priors, thereby guiding and disambiguating cross-modal mappings.The framework comprises three key components:(1) Consensus Extraction Module (CEM) learns a dynamic anchor, transforming multimodal features into anomaly-free consensus prototypes to improve cross-modal consistency and suppress latent anomalies;(2) Supplementary Query Module (SQM) employs a Complementary Residual Attention mechanism to capture the discrepancy between the consensus and modality-specific spaces, thereby exploring the most representative and discriminative cues as supplementary prototypes; and(3) Complementary Mapping Module adaptively integrates both prototypes to perform feature mapping.Extensive experiments demonstrate that CPMAD not only achieves superior performance in both full-data and few-shot settings across diverse industrial and medical scenarios but also maintains faster inference speeds and lower memory consumption compared to existing methods. Code: https://github.com/yuanzhao-CVLAB/CPMAD.
Content-Adaptive Hierarchical Hyperprior for Neural Video Coding
Authors: Junqi Liao; Yaojun Wu; Chaoyi Lin; Zhipin Deng; Li Li; Dong Liu; Xiaoyan Sun
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: While neural video codecs (NVCs) have recently demonstrated superior performance over traditional codecs through end-to-end learning, existing approaches primarily focus on architectural enhancements and coding module design, with limited exploration into optimizing hierarchical structures--specifically, quality and reference configurations. Current hierarchical structure optimization methods face two major limitations: (1) insufficient content-adaptive optimization, and (2) disjointed handling of quality and reference structures. To overcome these challenges, we propose a novel NVC framework that introduces content-adaptive hierarchical structure optimization through a hierarchical hyperprior derived from the current frame. Our NVC integrates two key components: (1) a hierarchical hyperprior extracted from the original frame to enable content-aware adaptation of the hierarchical structure; and (2) an adaptor within the hierarchical hyperprior codec combined with a dual-reference scheme, guided by the hyperprior, to jointly optimize quality and reference structures. By leveraging this content-adaptive hierarchical structure, our NVC achieves state-of-the-art rate-distortion performance, outperforming the previous leading NVC method DCVC-FM with BD-rate reductions of 15.51% and 12.20% relative to VTM-23.4 low-delay B (LDB) under intra-period settings of -1 and 32, respectively.
Rethinking Prompt Design for Inference-time Scaling in Text-to-Visual Generation
Authors: Subin Kim; Sangwoo Mo; Mamshad Nayeem Rizve; Yiran Xu; Difan Liu; Jinwoo Shin; Tobias Hinz
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Achieving precise alignment between user intent and generated visuals remains a central challenge in text-to-visual generation, as a single attempt often fails to produce the desired output. To handle this, prior approaches mainly scale the visual generation process (e.g., increasing sampling steps or seeds), but this quickly leads to a quality plateau. This limitation arises because prompt adaptation does not scale along with the increasing population of generated samples. To address this, we propose Prompt Redesign for Inference-time Scaling, coined PRIS, a framework that adaptively revises the prompt during inference in response to the scaled visual generations. The core idea of PRIS is to review the generated visuals, identify recurring failure patterns across visuals, and redesign the prompt accordingly before regenerating the visuals with the revised prompt. To provide precise alignment feedback for prompt revision, we introduce a new verifier, element-level factual correction, which evaluates the alignment between prompt attributes and generated visuals at a fine-grained level, achieving more accurate and interpretable assessments than holistic measures. Extensive experiments on both text-to-image and text-to-video benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, including a 15% gain on VBench 2.0. These results highlight that jointly scaling prompts and visuals is key to fully leveraging scaling laws at inference-time.
Fractal Camouflage: A Bio-Inspired Approach for Multi-Scale Adversarial Attacks in the Infrared Domain
Authors: Chengyin Hu; Xin Wang; Rui Qiu; Zhe Jia; Yingying Zhao; Kai Wang; Xu Kang; Yiwei Wei
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Infrared pedestrian detection is crucial in safety-critical systems but remains vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Existing physical attacks often rely on fixed, static patterns. However, they often lack robustness across scales, as their hand-crafted or uniformly generated structures are fundamentally limited by a fixed receptive field and fail to adapt to varying distances and scene contexts. In light of this, we propose AdvFractal, a black-box attack that exploits the innate self-similarity and structural richness of fractal geometry to naturally generate multi-scale, physically realizable adversarial perturbations. By modeling perturbations with H-type fractals and optimizing parameters via Particle Swarm Optimization, AdvFractal seamlessly coordinates attacks across scales, progressively disrupting detector features from local textures to global shapes. Experiments show AdvFractal achieves an attack success rate (ASR) of 97.54% in the physical domain and 99.16% cross-dataset, significantly outperforming state-of-the-art methods. The perturbations are highly effective in the infrared spectrum while remaining stealthy in visible light, offering a novel approach for evaluating and understanding the security of infrared detection systems.