GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
VCP-Attack: Visual-Contrastive Projection for Transferable Black-Box Targeted Attacks on Large Vision-Language Models
Authors: Jiawei Zhao; Minjie Du; Zihan Qin; Zhuoran Wang; Lizhe Xie; Yining Hu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have achieved impressive performance across a variety of multimodal tasks, yet remain vulnerable to targeted adversarial attacks, particularly in black-box settings. In this paper, we propose VCP-Attack, a transferable targeted attack framework that combines structured contrastive supervision with subspace-guided perturbation optimization. Specifically, we employ a dynamic PCA-based projection to constrain perturbations within semantically meaningful low-dimensional subspaces, and design a multi-sample contrastive loss to align adversarial features with target semantics while pushing them away from the source semantics. Extensive experiments on seven open-source and three proprietary LVLMs--including GPT-4o, Claude, and Gemini--show that VCP-Attack achieves state-of-the-art performance in black-box targeted attacks. Under a fixed perturbation budget (epsilon = 16/255), our method achieves an average attack success rate (ASR) of 94.2% on open-source models and 83.1% on proprietary models, surpassing the strongest baselines by 23.3% and 16.8%, respectively. Notably, VCP-Attack achieves a 95.6% ASR on GPT-4o. Comprehensive ablation studies and visualizations further validate the effectiveness of the dynamic subspace projection and semantic contrastive supervision. While evaluated on image captioning, our approach is model-agnostic and exhibits strong potential for broader applications to black-box adversarial settings in vision-language tasks.
iSHIFT: Lightweight Slow-Fast GUI Agent with Adaptive Perception
Authors: Sarthak Mehrotra; Sairam VC Rebbapragada; Mani Bonthu; Vineeth N. Balasubramanian
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) show strong potential for interpreting and interacting with complex, pixel-rich Graphical User Interface (GUI) environments. However, building agents that are both efficient for high-level tasks and precise for fine-grained interactions remains challenging. GUI agents must perform routine actions efficiently while also handling tasks that demand exact visual grounding, yet existing approaches struggle when accuracy depends on identifying specific interface elements. These MLLMs also remain large and cannot adapt their reasoning depth to the task at hand. In this work, we introduce iSHIFT: Implicit Slow-fast Hybrid Inference with Flexible Tokens, a lightweight agent that integrates latent thinking (implicit chain-of-thought) with a perception control module. iSHIFT enables an MLLM to switch between a slow mode, which leverages detailed visual grounding for high precision and a fast mode that uses global cues for efficiency. Special perception tokens guide attention to relevant screen regions, allowing the model to decide both how to reason and where to focus. Despite its compact 2.5B size, iSHIFT matches state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmark datasets.
Guiding Diffusion Models with Fine-Grained Conditions and Semantics-Preserving Sampling for One-Shot Federated Learning
Authors: Xiaojun Deng; Tianchi Liao; Zhiyuan Liu; Chuan Chen; Zibin Zheng
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: One-shot Federated Learning (OSFL) has emerged as a promising paradigm to mitigate the high communication overhead of traditional federated learning. However, its effectiveness is often hindered by data heterogeneity across clients. While recent methods leverage pre-trained diffusion models to generate data for OSFL, they often struggle with some practical limitations, including a lack of semantic fidelity in capturing the fine-grained characteristics of local data, and insufficient diversity in the generated data, which collectively degrade the performance of the global model. To address these challenges, we propose Espresso, a novel framework that enhances both the fidelity and diversity of synthetic data in OSFL. Espresso consists of two main components: (1) Fine-Grained Condition Learning, which learns fine-grained conditional embeddings to improve semantic fidelity and diversity by modeling intra-category patterns, and (2) Semantics-Preserving Sampling, which diversifies the generated data by modeling the distribution of latent noises and applying a self-reflection sampling strategy. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that Espresso can improve the semantic fidelity and diversity of the synthetic data, leading to an enhancement in the performance of the global model compared to state-of-the-art OSFL methods under data heterogeneity.
MemFlow: A Lightweight Forward Memorizing Framework for Quick Domain Adaptive Feature Mapping
Authors: Jianming Lv; Chengjun Wang; Depin Liang; Qianli Ma; Wei Chen; Xueqi Cheng
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Deploying pretrained visual models in real-world environments often suffers from significant performance degradation due to the diversity of testing scenarios. Continuous adaptation of learning models on edge devices via unlabeled data collected from the target domain is highly effective for boosting generalization capability. However, gradient-backpropagation-based optimization of the massive parameters in deep neural networks is vastly more time-consuming than forward inference, rendering online learning infeasible on low-power edge devices. To address this critical challenge, we propose a lightweight gradient-free forward-memorizing framework, namely MemFlow, which leverages a frozen backbone and enables efficient fine-tuning of the mapping between features and predictions. Specifically, MemFlow employs randomly connected neurons to memorize feature-label associations; within the network, spiking signals are propagated, and predictions are generated by associating neuron-stored memories according to their confidence levels. More notably, MemFlow supports reinforced memorization of feature mappings using unlabeled data, thereby enabling rapid adaptation to new domains. Extensive experiments on four real-world cross-domain datasets demonstrate that MemFlow achieves performance improvements of up to 10% while consuming less than 1% of the computational time required by traditional domain adaptation methods.
NTK-Guided Implicit Neural Teaching
Authors: Chen Zhang; Wei Zuo; Bingyang Cheng; Yikun Wang; Wei-Bin Kou; Yik-Chung Wu; Ngai Wong
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) parameterize continuous signals via multilayer perceptrons (MLPs), enabling compact, resolution-independent modeling for tasks like image, audio, and 3D reconstruction. However, fitting high-resolution signals demands optimizing over millions of coordinates, incurring prohibitive computational costs. To address it, we propose NTK-Guided Implicit Neural Teaching (NINT), which accelerates training by dynamically selecting coordinates that maximize global functional updates. Leveraging the Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK), NINT scores examples by the norm of their NTK-augmented loss gradients, capturing both fitting errors and heterogeneous leverage (self-influence and cross-coordinate coupling). This dual consideration enables faster convergence compared to existing methods. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that NINT significantly reduces training time by nearly half while maintaining or improving representation quality, establishing state-of-the-art acceleration among recent sampling-based strategies.
See What We Cannot See: A Geo-guided Reasoning Benchmark for Object Counting under Adverse Earth Observation Conditions
Authors: Jiayi Wang; Zhihong Tan; Hongchen Wei; Daiqin Yang; Zhenzhong Chen
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Object counting in remote sensing imagery becomes challenging when visual cues are obscured by clouds, fog, shadows, or low-light conditions. Yet earth observation inherently provides complementary geo-modalities, including land use and map, which offer stable structural and contextual priors that remain available when appearance cues fail. In this paper, we introduce GROC, the first large-scale dataset Geo-guided Reasoning in Object Counting under adverse earth observation conditions. GROC contains 1.2 million point annotations over 14K images, each aligned with 3 modalities that preserve original geospatial information. We also provide a data engine to collect a large-scale object counting dataset with multiple geo-modalities, realistic degradations, and reliable annotations. We further present an counting agent that adaptively leverages geo-modalities to produce reliable estimates. Extensive experiments show that existing models struggle to "see" through adverse conditions, whereas geo-modalities improve robustness. GROC establishes the first benchmark that explicitly challenges models to see what they cannot see, charting a new direction for geo-guided amodal reasoning in earth observation.
AdaRadar: Rate Adaptive Spectral Compression for Radar-based Perception
Authors: Jinho Park; Se Young Chun; Mingoo Seok
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Radar is a critical perception modality in autonomous driving systems due to its all-weather characteristics and ability to measure range and Doppler velocity. However, the sheer volume of high-dimensional raw radar data saturates the communication link to the computing engine (e.g., an NPU), which is often a low-bandwidth interface with data rate provisioned only for a few low-resolution range-Doppler frames. A generalized codec for utilizing high-dimensional radar data is notably absent, while existing image-domain approaches are unsuitable, as they typically operate at fixed compression ratios and fail to adapt to varying or adversarial conditions. In light of this, we propose radar data compression with adaptive feedback. It dynamically adjusts the compression ratio by performing gradient descent from the proxy gradient of detection confidence with respect to the compression rate. We employ a zeroth-order gradient approximation as it enables gradient computation even with non-differentiable core operations--pruning and quantization. This also avoids transmitting the gradient tensors over the band-limited link, which, if estimated, would be as large as the original radar data. In addition, we have found that radar feature maps are heavily concentrated on a few frequency components. Thus, we apply the discrete cosine transform to the radar data cubes and selectively prune out the coefficients effectively. We preserve the dynamic range of each radar patch through scaled quantization. Combining those techniques, our proposed online adaptive compression scheme achieves over 100x feature size reduction at minimal performance drop ( 1%p). We validate our results on the RADIal, CARRADA, and Radatron datasets.
Lighting-grounded Video Generation with Renderer-based Agent Reasoning
Authors: Ziqi Cai; Taoyu Yang; Zheng Chang; Si Li; Han Jiang; Shuchen Weng; Boxin Shi
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in video generation, but their controllability remains a major limitation. Key scene factors such as layout, lighting, and camera trajectory are often entangled or only weakly modeled, restricting their applicability in domains like filmmaking and virtual production where explicit scene control is essential. We present LiVER, a diffusion-based framework for scene-controllable video generation. To achieve this, we introduce a novel framework that conditions video synthesis on explicit 3D scene properties, supported by a new large-scale dataset with dense annotations of object layout, lighting, and camera parameters. Our method disentangles these properties by rendering control signals from a unified 3D representation. We propose a lightweight conditioning module and a progressive training strategy to integrate these signals into a foundational video diffusion model, ensuring stable convergence and high fidelity. Our framework enables a wide range of applications, including image-to-video and video-to-video synthesis where the underlying 3D scene is fully editable. To further enhance usability, we develop a scene agent that automatically translates high-level user instructions into the required 3D control signals. Experiments show that LiVER achieves state-of-the-art photorealism and temporal consistency while enabling precise, disentangled control over scene factors, setting a new standard for controllable video generation.
RefAV: Towards Planning-Centric Scenario Mining
Authors: Cainan Davidson; Deva Ramanan; Neehar Peri
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) collect and pseudo-label terabytes of multi-modal data localized to HD maps during normal fleet testing. However, identifying interesting and safety-critical scenarios from uncurated driving logs remains a significant challenge. Traditional scenario mining techniques are error-prone and prohibitively time-consuming, often relying on hand-crafted structured queries. In this work, we revisit spatio-temporal scenario mining through the lens of recent vision-language models (VLMs) to detect whether a described scenario occurs in a driving log and, if so, precisely localize it in both time and space. To address this problem, we introduce RefAV, a large-scale dataset of 10,000 diverse natural language queries that describe complex multi-agent interactions relevant to motion planning derived from 1000 driving logs in the Argoverse 2 Sensor dataset. We evaluate several referential multi-object trackers and present an empirical analysis of our baselines. Notably, we find that naively repurposing off-the-shelf VLMs yields poor performance, suggesting that scenario mining presents unique challenges. Lastly, we discuss our recently held competition and share insights from the community. Our code and dataset are available on GitHub and Argoverse.
GeoCoT: Towards Reliable Remote Sensing Reasoning with Manifold Perspective
Authors: Daixun Li; Zirui Li; Sibo He; Jiayun Tian; Mingxiang Cao; Weiying Xie; Yunke Wang; Xin Zhang; Yusi Zhang; Yunsong Li; Chang Xu; Leyuan Fang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown strong potential in remote sensing (RS) through multi-task reasoning and cross-modal generalization.However, existing RS-MLLMs mainly rely on a single shared expert for all tasks, making it hard to produce reliable results. Meanwhile, the intrinsic redundancy and homogeneity of RS images bring substantial difficulties for both training and inference. These challenges directly conflict with the demands of remote sensing, which values task precision and trustworthy reasoning.To address these limitations, we propose GeoCoT, a manifold-driven mixture-of-experts (MoE) system with Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. GeoCoT introduces Mani-MoE, a sparse expert architecture grounded in local manifold mapping. It projects high-dimensional tokens onto low-rank subspaces adaptively to eliminate redundancy and uncover intrinsic structure, and then routes them through a sparse expert pathway, where gating decisions are guided by the manifold structure of the input.To optimize this architecture, we adopt a CoT-driven multi-stage training strategy. It leverages a cold-start phase for domain adaptation, followed by our RS Vision Group Relative Policy Optimization (RSV-GRPO) to systematically strengthen structured reasoning from global to objectives. Furthermore, we innovatively build *RS-CoT-20k* dataset for task-specific supervision.Extensive experiments on multi-task datasets demonstrate that GeoCoT outperforms prior approaches, achieving 5.27 \% higher average accuracy than the state-of-the-art method. Our code will be available.
WildPose: A Unified Framework for Robust Pose Estimation in the Wild
Authors: Jianhao Zheng; Liyuan Zhu; Zihan Zhu; Iro Armeni
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Estimating camera pose in dynamic environments is a critical challenge, as most visual SLAM and SfM methods assume inputs from static environments. While recent dynamic-aware methods exist, they are often not unified: semantic-based approaches are brittle, per-sequence optimization methods fail on short sequences, and other learned models sometimes perform badly on static-only scenes. We present Wildpose, a unified monocular pose estimation framework that is robust in dynamic environments while maintaining state-of-the-art performance on static and low-ego-motion datasets. Our key insight is to connect the two powerful paradigms in modern 3D vision: the rich perceptual frontend of feed-forward models and the end-to-end optimization of differentiable bundle adjustment (BA). We achieve this by enhancing the differentiable BA pipeline in two ways. First, we introduce a new 3D-aware update operator by integrating a frozen, pre-trained MASt3R feature backbone and training the operator's subsequent layers on a diverse curriculum of static and dynamic data. Second, we propose a high-capacity motion mask detector that leverages rich, multi-level 3D-aware features from the same frozen backbone. Extensive experiments show Wildpose consistently outperforms prior methods across a wide variety of benchmarks, including dynamic (Wild-SLAM, Bonn), static (TUM, 7-Scenes), and low-ego-motion (Sintel) datasets.
IMS3: Breaking Distributional Aggregation in Diffusion-Based Dataset Distillation
Authors: Chenru Wang; Yunyi Chen; Zijun Yang; Joey Tianyi Zhou; Chi Zhang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Dataset Distillation aims to synthesize compact datasets that can approximate the training efficacy of large-scale real datasets, offering an efficient solution to the increasing computational demands of modern deep learning. Recently, diffusion-based dataset distillation methods have shown great promise by leveraging the strong generative capacity of diffusion models to produce diverse and structurally consistent samples. However, a fundamental goal misalignment persists: diffusion models are optimized for generative likelihood rather than discriminative utility, resulting in over-concentration in high-density regions and inadequate coverage of boundary samples crucial for classification. To address this issue, we propose two complementary strategies. Inversion-Matching (IM) introduces an inversion-guided fine-tuning process that aligns denoising trajectories with their inversion counterparts, broadening distributional coverage and enhancing diversity. Selective Subgroup Sampling( S^3 ) is a training-free sampling mechanism that improves inter-class separability by selecting synthetic subsets that are both representative and distinctive. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach significantly enhances the discriminative quality and generalization of distilled datasets, achieving state-of-the-art performance among diffusion-based methods.
PhenoYieldNet: Learning Crop-Aware Phenological Responses for Multi-Crop Yield Prediction
Authors: Yu Luo; Xiaogang Zhu; Shan Zeng; Wei Xiang; Thomas Francis Bishop; Zhiyong Wang; Kun Hu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Accurate crop yield prediction is crucial for sustainable agriculture and global food security. While existing methods are predominantly developed for single-crop prediction, they often struggle to generalize across diverse crop types, without addressing the unique crop phenological responses that are dynamically modulated by complex weather patterns. In this paper, we propose PhenoYieldNet, a multi-crop yield prediction framework that learns crop-specific phenology by explicitly modeling their responses with temporal drivers. Specifically, we develop a crop-aware temporal decoder consisting of a Crop Phenology Bank (CPB) and a Crop Phenology Attention (CPA) module. The CPB integrates a set of learnable embeddings, which leverage a query to guide the CPA module to learn the most relevant phenology patterns for the specific crop. And the CPA module explicitly captures multi-scale trend and variation components to construct temporal contexts, enabling the model to dynamically adjust the attention across different phenological stages. To learn robust and generalizable features for multi-crop prediction, the encoder is initialized with a pre-trained foundation model, and further adapted via a self-supervised Temporal Contrastive Adaptation strategy to align with agricultural temporal dynamics. Extensive experiments conducted on multi-crop datasets indicate that our proposed method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods, exhibiting strong generalization capabilities across different regions and crops.
PG-VTON: Single-Pass Training-Free Virtual Try-On via Patch-Guided Reference Alignment
Authors: Guohao Zhao; Yuxin Peng
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Virtual try-on (VTON) aims to render a target garment onto a person while preserving pose, identity, and fine-grained appearance. Most existing methods rely on supervised paired data, limiting cross-domain generalization, while recent training-free approaches, though more robust, require multiple diffusion calls and complex compositing, making deployment impractical. We propose PG-VTON, a single-pass, training-free framework based on Patch-Guided Reference Alignment. Our key insight is that modern inpainting diffusion models already possess strong in-context completion: given a masked person and a small garment patch, they can synthesize plausible, pose-consistent clothing without task-specific training. PG-VTON exploits this capability with two lightweight components: Patch-Anchored Identity Priming (PIP) injects a localized garment patch only in early denoising steps to anchor garment identity, and Reference-Aware Attention (RAA) strengthens attention from masked-region tokens to garment tokens to enhance detail transfer, all without modifying model weights. With a single diffusion pass, PG-VTON achieves state-of-the-art performance among training-free methods on DressCode and VITON-HD and generalizes effectively to subject insertion. Code is available at \href https://github.com/PKU-ICST-MIPL/PG-VTON_CVPR2026  https://github.com/PKU-ICST-MIPL/PG-VTON_CVPR2026 .
ParTY: Part-Guidance for Expressive Text-to-Motion Synthesis
Authors: KunHo Heo; SuYeon Kim; Yonghyun Gwon; Youngbin Kim; MyeongAh Cho
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Text-to-motion synthesis aims to generate natural and expressive human motions from textual descriptions. While existing approaches primarily focus on generating holistic motions from text descriptions, they struggle to accurately reflect actions involving specific body parts. Recent part-wise motion generation methods attempt to resolve this but face two critical limitations: (i) they lack explicit mechanisms for aligning textual semantics with individual body parts, and (ii) they often generate incoherent full-body motions due to integrating independently generated part motions. To overcome these issues and resolve the fundamental trade-off in existing methods, we propose ParTY, a novel framework that enhances part expressiveness while generating coherent full-body motions. ParTY comprises: (1) Part-Guided Network, which first generates part motions to obtain part guidance, then uses it to generate holistic motions; (2) Part-aware Text Grounding, which diversely transforms text embeddings and appropriately aligns them with each body part; and (3) Holistic-Part Fusion, which adaptively fuses holistic motions and part motions. Extensive experiments, including part-level and coherence-level evaluations, demonstrate that ParTY achieves substantial improvements over previous methods.