GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
From Measurement to Mitigation: Quantifying and Reducing Identity Leakage in Image Representation Encoders with Linear Subspace Removal
Authors: Daniel George; Charles Yeh; Daniel Lee; Yifei Zhang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Frozen visual embeddings (e.g., CLIP, DINOv2/v3, SSCD) power retrieval and integrity systems, yet their use on face-containing data is constrained by unmeasured identity leakage and a lack of deployable mitigations. We take an attacker-aware view and contribute: (i) a benchmark of visual embeddings that reports open-set verification at low false-accept rates, a calibrated diffusion-based template inversion check, and face-context attribution with equal-area perturbations; and (ii) propose a one-shot linear projector that removes an estimated identity subspace while preserving the complementary space needed for utility, which for brevity we denote as the identity sanitization projection ISP. Across CelebA-20 and VGGFace2, we show that these encoders are robust under open-set linear probes, with CLIP exhibiting relatively higher leakage than DINOv2/v3 and SSCD, robust to template inversion, and are context-dominant. In addition, we show that ISP drives linear access to near-chance while retaining high non-biometric utility, and transfers across datasets with minor degradation. Our results establish the first attacker-calibrated facial privacy audit of non-FR encoders and demonstrate that linear subspace removal achieves strong privacy guarantees while preserving utility for visual search and retrieval.
CaricHarmony: Contrastive Diffusion Paths for Identity-Preserving Caricature Synthesis
Authors: Dongyu Wang; Dar-Yen Chen; Yi-Zhe Song
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Sketch-based caricature synthesis suffers from a fundamental failure mode: when identity and shape conditions are combined in diffusion models, they create destructive interference that causes inevitable collapse toward either bland portraits or unrecognizable distortions. We identify the root cause as condition signal contamination -- competing probability distributions in the denoising trajectory that make balanced generation impossible. We present CaricHarmony, the first training-free method that explicitly resolves this contamination through parallel uncontaminated diffusion paths. During inference, we maintain three paths: \mathcal P ^ \mathrm i   (pure identity), \mathcal P ^ \mathrm s   (pure shape), and \mathcal P ^ \mathrm i+s   (harmonized output). Novel energy functions operating on cross-attention features provide gradient guidance that steers \mathcal P ^ \mathrm i+s   toward optimal balance: \mathcal E _ \mathrm shape   ensures sketch fidelity through layout and semantic alignment, while \mathcal E _ \mathrm id   employs token-level correspondence matching robust to extreme distortions. Unlike DemoCaricature requiring 70 seconds per-identity fine-tuning or CaricatureBooth constrained to Bezier curves, CaricHarmony accepts any sketch format and generates in under 16 seconds. Experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art performance: 0.8615 shape CLIP score (vs. 0.8450) under comparable identity consistency score, with 7.81 overall user preference score (vs. 6.06). Our method fundamentally reconceptualizes the ID-shape conflict as conditioning signal contamination for diffusion models, enabling unprecedented creative control while preserving recognition.
PhyCritic: Multimodal Critic Models for Physical AI
Authors: Tianyi Xiong; Shihao Wang; Guilin Liu; Yi Dong; Ming Li; Heng Huang; Jan Kautz; Zhiding Yu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: With the rapid development of large multimodal models, reliable judge and critic models have become essential for open-ended evaluation and preference alignment, providing pairwise preferences, numerical scores, and explanatory justifications for assessing model-generated responses. However, existing critics are primarily trained in general visual domains such as captioning or image question answering, leaving physical AI tasks involving perception, causal reasoning, and planning largely underexplored. We introduce PhyCritic, a multimodal critic model optimized for physical AI through a two-stage RLVR pipeline: a physical skill warmup stage that enhances physically oriented perception and reasoning, followed by self-referential critic finetuning, where the critic generates its own prediction as an internal reference before judging candidate responses, improving judgment stability and physical correctness. Across both physical and general-purpose multimodal judge benchmarks, PhyCritic achieves strong performance gains over open-source baselines and, when applied as a policy model, further improves perception and reasoning in physically grounded tasks.
UI-Lens: Assessing General MLLMs' Potential to Automate UI Display Quality Assurance
Authors: Wei Xiang; Yexinrui Wu; Xinli Chen; Xinran Li; Shi Chen
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: User Interface (UI) display defect detection poses challenges far beyond UI understanding, requiring fine-grained element boundary understanding, missing-content detection, and reasoning about sequential interface semantic consistency. However, the capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) for detecting UI defects in realistic, complex interfaces have not been systematically validated. To fill this gap, we present UI-Lens, the first multi-dimensional UI display detection benchmark for Chinese-language UI scenarios. The dataset comprises 4,759 pages meticulously annotated by design experts, covering six core display defect categories. We conduct a systematic evaluation of 10 mainstream models (8 closed-source, 2 open-source). Results show clear shortcomings in current models: for tasks requiring fine-grained element boundary understanding, performance is near random, with task-average F1 scores of 20.36% and 31.21% on Text Overflow and Container Overlap, respectively; for sequential interface semantic consistency (e.g., Text Inconsistency), the task-average F1 score is only 10.61%, indicating severe underperformance. We release UI-Lens to catalyze research toward more robust UI display defect detection with fine-grained boundary awareness in realistic, complex interfaces.
SegEarth-R2: Towards Comprehensive Language-guided Segmentation for Remote Sensing Images
Authors: Zepeng Xin; Kaiyu Li; Luodi Chen; Wanchen Li; Xiao Yuchen; Hui Qiao; Weizhan Zhang; Deyu Meng; Xiangyong Cao
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Effectively grounding complex language to pixels in remote sensing (RS) images is a critical challenge for applications like disaster response and environmental monitoring. Current models can parse simple, single-target commands but fail when presented with complex geospatial scenarios, e.g., segmenting objects at various granularities, executing multi-target instructions, and interpreting implicit user intent. To drive progress against these failures, we present LaSeRS, the first large-scale dataset built for comprehensive training and evaluation across four critical dimensions of language-guided segmentation: hierarchical granularity, target multiplicity, reasoning requirements, and linguistic variability. By capturing these dimensions, LaSeRS moves beyond simple commands, providing a benchmark for complex geospatial reasoning. This addresses a critical gap: existing datasets oversimplify, leading to sensitivity-prone real-world models. We also propose SegEarth-R2, an MLLM architecture designed for comprehensive language-guided segmentation in RS, which directly confronts these challenges. The model's effectiveness stems from two key improvements: (1) a spatial attention supervision mechanism specifically handles the localization of small objects and their components, and (2) a flexible and efficient segmentation query mechanism that handles both single-target and multi-target scenarios. Experimental results demonstrate that our SegEarth-R2 achieves outstanding performance on LaSeRS and other benchmarks, establishing a powerful baseline for the next generation of geospatial segmentation. All data and code will be released.
Scaling Parallel Sequence Models to Vision Foundation Models
Authors: Yitong Jiang; Collin McCarthy; Hongjun Wang; Hanrong Ye; Qi Dou; Tianfan Xue; Jinwei Gu; Jan Kautz; Hongxu Yin; Pavlo Molchanov; Sifei Liu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Scaling vision foundation models is constrained by the quadratic complexity of self-attention. Although subquadratic attention alternatives like linear attention variants and state-space models successfully reduce the model complexity, they typically serialize images into 1D token sequences, compromising spatial coherence and efficiency. Generalized Spatial Propagation Networks (GSPN) offer a linear-time alternative that propagates context directly on the 2D grid via line-scan propagation and removes positional embeddings, yet the original design hits GPU-scaling limits: growing batch/channels saturate SM concurrency, serializing scans, and spiking latency. We introduce Compact GSPN (C-GSPN), a ViT block that compresses the propagation space to preserve accuracy while cutting propagation latency by nearly 10x. We further improve efficiency with lightweight projections and fused CUDA kernels. To enable large-scale pretraining, we adopta two-stage cross-operator distillation strategy that combines layer-wise supervision with end-to-end alignment. In a representative 1K configuration (batch 32, C=1152), C-GSPN achieves up to 2x speedup, maintains competitive zero-shot accuracy, and improves segmentation by +2.1%. Extensive experiments and ablations show that the proposed compression and two-stage distillation are criticalfor strong transfer while substantially reducing compute, enabling the first extension of a subquadratic operator to foundation-scale (CLIP-style) vision pretraining.
DA-VAE: Plug-in Latent Compression for Diffusion via Detail Alignment
Authors: Xin Cai; Zhiyuan You; Zhoutong Zhang; Tianfan Xue
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Reducing the token count is crucial for efficient training and inference of latent diffusion models, especially at high resolution. A common approach is to build high-compression image tokenizers that store more information by allocating more channels per token. However, when trained solely with reconstruction objectives, high-dimensional latent spaces often fail to maintain meaningful structure, which complicates diffusion training. Existing methods introduce additional objectives, such as semantic alignment or selective dropout, to enforce structure, but typically require costly retraining of the diffusion model. In contrast, pretrained diffusion models already exhibit a structured, lower-dimensional latent space, suggesting a simpler strategy: expand the latent dimensionality while preserving this structure. To this end, we propose Detail-Aligned VAE (DA-VAE), which increases the compression ratio of a pretrained VAE with only lightweight adaptation of the diffusion backbone. DA-VAE imposes an explicit latent layout: the first C channels are inherited from the pretrained VAE at a base resolution, while additional D channels encode high-resolution details. We introduce a simple yet effective detail-alignment mechanism that explicitly regularizes the expanded latent space to preserve the structural properties of the original space defined by the first C channels. Finally, we present a warm-start fine-tuning strategy that enables 1024 x1024 image generation with Stable Diffusion 3.5 using only 32 x32 tokens, 4xfewer than the original model, within a compute budget of 5 H100-days. It further enables 2048 x2048 generation with SD3.5, achieving a 6xspeedup while preserving image quality. We also validate the method and its design choices quantitatively on ImageNet.
AvatarPointillist: AutoRegressive 4D Gaussian Avatarization
Authors: Hongyu Liu; Xuan Wang; Zijian Wu; Yating Wang; Ziyu Wan; Yue Ma; Runtao Liu; Boyao Zhou; Yujun Shen; Qifeng Chen
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: We introduce AvatarPointillist, a novel framework for generating dynamic 4D Gaussian avatars from a single portrait image. At the core of our method is a decoder-only Transformer that autoregressively generates a point cloud for 3D Gaussian Splatting. This sequential approach allows for precise, adaptive construction, dynamically adjusting point density and the total number of points based on the subject's complexity. During point generation, the AR model also jointly predicts per-point binding information, enabling realistic animation. After generation, a dedicated Gaussian decoder converts the points into complete, renderable Gaussian attributes. We demonstrate that conditioning the decoder on the latent features from the AR generator enables effective interaction between stages and markedly improves fidelity. Extensive experiments validate that AvatarPointillist produces high-quality, photorealistic, and controllable avatars. We believe this autoregressive formulation represents a new paradigm for avatar generation, and we will release our code to inspire future research.
IPR-1: Interactive Physical Reasoner
Authors: Mingyu Zhang; Lifeng Zhuo; Tianxi Tan; Guocan Xie; Xian Nie; Yan Li; Renjie Zhao; Zizhu He; Ziyu Wang; Jiting Cai; Yong-Lu Li
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Humans learn by observing, interacting with environments, and internalizing physics and causality. We explore whether agents can similarly acquire human-like reasoning through interaction and experience. To study this, we introduce a Game-to-Unseen (G2U) benchmark of 1,000+ heterogeneous games that exhibit significant visual domain gaps. Existing approaches, including VLMs and world models, struggle with underlying physics and causality due to overfitting on visual details. VLM/VLA agents reason but lack look-ahead in interactive settings, while world models imagine but imitate visual patterns rather than analyze physics and causality. We therefore propose IPR (Interactive Physical Reasoner), using world-model rollouts to score and reinforce a VLM's policy, and introduce PhysCode, a physics-centric action code aligning semantic intent with dynamics to provide a shared action space for prediction and reasoning. Pretrained on 1,000+ games, IPR performs robustly on levels from primitive intuition to goal-driven reasoning, and even surpasses GPT-5 overall. We find that performance improves with more training games and interaction steps, and that the model also zero-shot transfers to unseen games. These results support physics-centric interaction as a path to steadily improving physical reasoning. Further demos and details can be found at https://mybearyzhang.github.io/ipr-1.
Out of Sight, Out of Track: Adversarial Attacks on Propagation-based Multi-Object Trackers via Query State Manipulation
Authors: Halima Bouzidi; Haoyu Liu; Yonatan Achamyeleh; Praneetsai Iddamsetty; Mohammad Al Faruque
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Recent Tracking-by-Query-Propagation (TBP) methods have advanced Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) by enabling end-to-end (E2E) pipelines with long-range temporal modeling. However, this reliance on query propagation introduces unexplored architectural vulnerabilities to adversarial attacks. We present FADE, a novel attack framework designed to exploit these specific vulnerabilities. FADE employs two attack strategies targeting core TBP mechanisms: (i) Temporal Query Flooding: Generates spurious temporally consistent track queries to exhaust the tracker's limited query budget, forcing it to terminate valid tracks. (ii) Temporal Memory Corruption: Directly attacks the query updater's memory by severing temporal links via state de-correlation and erasing the learned feature identity of matched tracks. Furthermore, we introduce a differentiable pipeline to optimize these attacks for physical-world realizability by leveraging simulations of advanced perception sensor spoofing. Experiments on MOT17 and MOT20 benchmarks demonstrate that FADE is highly effective against state-of-the-art TBP trackers, causing significant identity switches and track terminations.
Making Training-Free Diffusion Segmentors Scale with the Generative Power
Authors: Benyuan Meng; Qianqian Xu; Zitai Wang; Xiaochun Cao; Longtao Huang; Qingming Huang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: As powerful generative models, text-to-image diffusion models have recently been explored for discriminative tasks. A line of research focuses on adapting a pre-trained diffusion model to semantic segmentation without any further training, leading to training-free diffusion segmentors. These methods typically rely on cross-attention maps from the model's attention layers, which are assumed to capture semantic relationships between image pixels and text tokens. Ideally, such approaches should benefit from more powerful diffusion models, i.e., stronger generative capability should lead to better segmentation. However, we observe that existing methods often fail to scale accordingly. To understand this issue, we identify two underlying gaps: (i) Cross-attention is computed across multiple heads and layers, but there exists a discrepancy between these individual attention maps and a unified global representation. (ii) Even when a global map is available, it does not directly translate to accurate semantic correlation for segmentation, due to score imbalances among different text tokens. To bridge these gaps, we propose two techniques: auto aggregation and per-pixel rescaling, which together enable training-free segmentation to better leverage generative capability. We evaluate our approach on standard semantic segmentation benchmarks and further integrate it into a generative technique, demonstrating both improved performance and broad applicability. Codes are at https://github.com/Darkbblue/goca.
InternVideo-Next: Towards World-Understanding Video Models
Authors: Chenting Wang; Yuhan Zhu; Yicheng Xu; Jiange Yang; Ziang Yan; Yali Wang; Yi Wang; Limin Wang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Large-scale video-text pretraining achieves strong performance but depends on noisy, synthetic captions with limited semantic coverage, often overlooking implicit world knowledge such as object motion, 3D geometry, and physical cues. In contrast, masked video modeling (MVM) directly exploits spatiotemporal structures but trails text-supervised methods on general tasks.We find this gap arises from overlooked architectural issues: pixel-level reconstruction struggles with convergence and its low-level requirement often conflicts with semantics, while latent prediction often encourages shortcut learning.To address these, we disentangle the traditional encoder-decoder design into an Encoder-Predictor-Decoder (EPD) framework, where the predictor acts as a latent world model, and propose InternVideo-Next, a two-stage pretraining scheme that builds a semantically consistent yet detail-preserving latent space for this world model.First, conventional linear decoder in pixel MVM enforces the predictor's output latent to be linearly projected to, thus separable in pixel space, causing the conflict with semantic abstraction.Our Stage 1 proposes a conditional diffusion decoder and injects clean image-level semantic priors to enhance semantics and convergence, thus bridging pixel-level fidelity with high-level semantic abstraction.Stage 2 further learns world knowledge by predicting frozen Stage 1 targets within this space, mitigating shortcut learning.Trained on public, unlabeled videos, InternVideo-Next achieves state-of-the-art results across benchmarks and provides a scalable path toward general video representation learning.
VMD-FACT: A New Video Dataset and MLLM-based method for Detecting Realistic AI-Generated Video Misinformation
Authors: Yongkang Zhang; Dongyu She; Baiyu Ji; Qichuan Geng; Zhong Zhou; Yan Wang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: The rapid evolution of generative AI, including such models as Sora, has intensified the threat of video misinformation. A critical challenge in detecting these AI-generated video misinformation lies in a fundamental disconnect between existing datasets and practical deception tactics. Current datasets often disrupt cross-modal consistency through editing techniques, resulting in unrealistic and easily detectable artifacts. By contrast, generative video misinformation strives for semantic consistency across modalities to remain realism. To address this gap, we introduce RAVM: the first Realistic AI-Generated Video Misinformation Detection Dataset. Unlike existing Video Misinformation Detection (VMD) datasets that are limited to single-source manipulations, RAVM encompasses multiple manipulation sources--Claim, Video, Audio, and Cross-Modal Manipulation--each incorporating diverse manipulation techniques to generate realistic AI-generated video misinformation. To achieve this, we introduce an agent-driven framework for generating realistic video misinformation. Furthermore, we propose an IEEG model that represents multimodal evidence, fact-checking results, and their dependencies as an evidence graph for interpretable detection of AI-generated video misinformation. Extensive experiments on RAVM reveal the vulnerability of existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in detecting AI-generated video misinformation, while the proposed IEEG achieves state-of-the-art performance on RAVM. The dataset is publicly available at: https://gitee.com/VR_NAVE/ravm
GS-CLIP: Zero-shot 3D Anomaly Detection by Geometry-Aware Prompt and Synergistic View Representation Learning
Authors: Zehao Deng; An Liu; Yan Wang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Zero-shot 3D Anomaly Detection (ZS3DAD) is an emerging task that aims to detect anomalies in a target dataset without any target training data, which is particularly important in scenarios constrained by sample scarcity and data privacy concerns. While current methods adapt CLIP by projecting 3D point clouds into 2D representations, they face challenges. The projection inherently loses some geometric details, and the reliance on a single 2D modality provides an incomplete visual understanding, limiting their ability to detect diverse anomaly types. To address these limitations, we propose the Geometry-Aware Prompt and Synergistic View Representation Learning (GS-CLIP) framework, which enables the model to identify geometric anomalies through a two-stage learning process. In the stage 1, we dynamically generate text prompts embedded with 3D geometric priors. These prompts contain global shape context and local defect information distilled by our Geometric Defect Distillation Module (GDDM). In the stage 2, we introduce Synergistic View Representation Learning architecture that processes rendered and depth images in parallel. A Synergistic Refinement Module (SRM) subsequently fuses the features of both streams, capitalizing on their complementary strengths. Comprehensive experimental results on four large-scale public datasets show that GS-CLIP achieves superior performance in detection and segmentation. Code will be released upon acceptance.