GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
Momentum Memory for Knowledge Distillation in Computational Pathology
Authors: Yongxin Guo; Hao Lu; Onur C. Koyun; Zhengjie Zhu; Muhammet F. Demir; Metin N. Gurcan
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Multimodal learning that integrates genomics and histopathology has shown strong potential in cancer diagnosis, yet its clinical translation is hindered by the limited availability of paired histology-genomics data. Knowledge distillation (KD) offers a practical solution by transferring genomic supervision into histopathology models, enabling accurate inference using histology alone. However, existing KD methods rely on batch-local alignment, which introduces instability due to limited within-batch comparisons and ultimately degrades performance.To address these limitations, we propose Momentum Memory Knowledge Distillation (MoMKD), a cross-modal distillation framework driven by a momentum-updated memory. This memory aggregates genomic and histopathology information across batches, effectively enlarging the supervisory context available to each mini-batch. Furthermore, we decouple the gradients of the genomics and histology branches, preventing genomic signals from dominating histology feature learning during training and eliminating the modality-gap issue at inference time.Extensive experiments on the TCGA-BRCA benchmark (HER2, PR, and ODX classification tasks) and an independent in-house testing dataset demonstrate that MoMKD consistently outperforms state-of-the-art MIL and multimodal KD baselines, delivering strong performance and generalization under histology-only inference. Overall, MoMKD establishes a robust and generalizable knowledge distillation paradigm for computational pathology.
Revisiting Token Compression for Accelerating ViT-based Sparse Multi-View 3D Object Detectors
Authors: Mingqian Ji; Shanshan Zhang; Jian Yang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Vision Transformer (ViT)-based sparse multi-view 3D object detectors have achieved remarkable accuracy but still suffer from high inference latency due to heavy token processing. To accelerate these models, token compression has been widely explored. However, our revisit of existing strategies, such as token pruning, merging, and patch size enlargement, reveals that they often discard informative background cues, disrupt contextual consistency, and lose fine-grained semantics, negatively affecting 3D detection. To overcome these limitations, we propose SEPatch3D, a novel framework that dynamically adjusts patch sizes while preserving critical semantic information within coarse patches. Specifically, we design Spatiotemporal-aware Patch Size Selection (SPSS) that assigns small patches to scenes containing nearby objects to preserve fine details and large patches to background-dominated scenes to reduce computation cost. To further mitigate potential detail loss, Informative Patch Selection (IPS) selects the informative patches for feature refinement, and Cross-Granularity Feature Enhancement (CGFE) injects fine-grained details into selected coarse patches, enriching semantic features. Experiments on the nuScenes and Argoverse 2 validation sets show that SEPatch3D achieves up to 57% faster inference than the StreamPETR baseline and 20% higher efficiency than the state-of-the-art ToC3D-faster, while preserving comparable detection accuracy.
Efficiently Reconstructing Dynamic Scenes One D4RT at a Time
Authors: Chuhan Zhang; Guillaume Le Moing; Skanda Koppula; Ignacio Rocco; Liliane Momeni; Junyu Xie; Shuyang Sun; Rahul Sukthankar; Joëlle K. Barral; Raia Hadsell; Zoubin Ghahramani; Andrew Zisserman; Junlin Zhang; Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Understanding and reconstructing the complex geometry and motion of dynamic 4D scenes from video remains a formidable challenge in computer vision. This paper introduces D4RT, a simple yet powerful feedforward network designed to efficiently solve this task. D4RT utilizes a unified transformer architecture to jointly infer depth, spatio-temporal correspondence, and full camera parameters from a single video. Its core innovation is a novel mechanism that sidesteps the heavy computation of dense, per-frame decoding and the complexity of managing multiple, task-specific decoders. Our unified decoding interface allows the model to independently and efficiently probe the 3D position of any point in space and time. The result is a lightweight and highly scalable method that enables remarkably efficient training and inference. We demonstrate that our approach sets a new state-of-the-art, outperforming previous methods across a wide spectrum of 4D reconstruction tasks.
CD-Buffer: Complementary Dual-Buffer Framework for Test-Time Adaptation in Adverse Weather Object Detection
Authors: Youngjun Song; Hyeongyu Kim; Dosik Hwang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) enables real-time adaptation to domain shifts without offline retraining. Recent TTA methods have predominantly explored additive approaches that introduce lightweight modules for feature refinement. Recently, a subtractive approach that removes domain-sensitive channels has emerged as an alternative direction. We observe that these paradigms exhibit complementary effectiveness patterns: subtractive methods excel under severe shifts by removing corrupted features, while additive methods are effective under moderate shifts requiring refinement. However, each paradigm operates effectively only within limited shift severity ranges, failing to generalize across diverse corruption levels. This leads to the following question: can we adaptively balance both strategies based on measured feature-level domain shift? We propose CD-Buffer, a novel complementary dual-buffer framework where subtractive and additive mechanisms operate in opposite yet coordinated directions, driven by a unified discrepancy metric. Our key innovation lies in discrepancy-driven coupling, which unifies removal and refinement through a shared metric and automatically balances both strategies based on feature-level shift severity. This establishes channel-wise adaptive balancing that enables differentiated treatment for heterogeneous shift magnitudes without manual tuning. Extensive experiments on KITTI, Cityscapes, and ACDC datasets demonstrate state-of-the-art performance, consistently achieving superior results across diverse weather conditions and severity levels.
Ref4D-VideoBench: Four-Dimensional Reference-Based Evaluation of Text-to-Video Generative Models
Authors: Jiajia Wei; Yujia He; Yuhan Hou; Hang Qi; Sihua Wang; Jincheng Shi; Kwok Fung Li; Zibin Zheng; Weibin Wu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Most existing evaluations of generated videos adopt a no-reference paradigm. Although recent benchmarks cover multiple dimensions and show moderate correlation with human preferences, relying solely on textual prompts weakens real-world constraints and makes it difficult to produce accountable and interpretable judgments on instance-level issues such as target behavior deviation, temporal inconsistency, and commonsense violations. In scenarios with explicit expectations, such as controlled generation, reference videos naturally provide rich, unambiguous spatio-temporal evidence, enabling stricter and more trustworthy assessment. Motivated by this, we propose Ref4D-VideoBench, a reference-based, fine-grained, multi-dimensional benchmark for generated video evaluation. Ref4D-VideoBench contains 600 high-quality reference videos with tightly evidence-bounded prompts, and introduces a 12-metric structured evaluation suite along four key dimensions: basic semantic alignment, motion consistency, event temporal consistency, and world knowledge consistency. Experiments on eight text-to-video models show that our method achieves stronger agreement with human judgments than representative no-reference frameworks. Our code is available at https://github.com/TAILab-W/Ref4D-VideoBench.
ChArtist: Generating Pictorial Charts with Unified Spatial and Subject Control
Authors: Shishi Xiao; Tongyu Zhou; David H. Laidlaw; Gromit Yeuk-Yin Chan
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: A pictorial chart is an effective medium for visual storytelling, seamlessly integrating visual elements with data charts. However, creating such images is challenging because the flexibility of visual elements often conflicts with the rigidity of chart structures. This process thus requires a creative deformation that maintains both data faithfulness and visual aesthetics. Current methods that extract dense structural cues from natural images (e.g., edge or depth maps) are ill-suited as conditioning signals for pictorial chart generation. We present ChArtist, a domain-specific method for generating pictorial charts automatically, offering two distinct types of control: 1) spatial control that aligns well with the chart structure, and 2) subject-driven control that respects the visual characteristics of a reference image. To achieve this, we introduce a skeleton-based spatial control representation. This representation encodes only the data-encoding information of the chart, allowing for the easy incorporation of reference visuals without a rigid outline constraint. We implement our method based on the Diffusion Transformer (DiT) and leverage an adaptive position encoding mechanism to manage these two controls. We further introduce Spatially Gated Attention to modulate the interaction between spatial control and subject control. To support the fine-tuning of pre-trained models for this task, we created a large-scale dataset of 30,000 triplets (skeleton, reference image, pictorial chart). We also propose a unified data accuracy metric to evaluate the data faithfulness of the generated charts. We believe this work demonstrates that current generative models can achieve data-driven visual storytelling by moving beyond general-purpose conditions to task-specific representations. The code and dataset will be released. Project page: https://chartist-ai.github.io/.
TeHOR: Text-Guided 3D Human and Object Reconstruction with Textures
Authors: Hyeongjin Nam; Daniel Sungho Jung; Kyoung Mu Lee
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Joint reconstruction of 3D human and object from a single image is an active research area, with pivotal applications in robotics and digital content creation. Despite recent advances, existing approaches suffer from two fundamental limitations. First, their reconstructions rely heavily on physical contact information, which inherently cannot capture non-contact human-object interactions, such as gazing at or pointing toward an object. Second, the reconstruction process is primarily driven by local geometric proximity, neglecting the human and object appearances that provide global context crucial for understanding holistic interactions. To address these issues, we introduce TeHOR, a framework built upon two core designs. First, beyond contact information, our framework leverages text descriptions of human-object interactions to enforce semantic alignment between the 3D reconstruction and its textual cues, enabling reasoning over a wider spectrum of interactions, including non-contact cases. Second, we incorporate appearance cues of the 3D human and object into the alignment process to capture holistic contextual information, thereby ensuring visually plausible reconstructions. As a result, our framework produces accurate and semantically coherent reconstructions, achieving state-of-the-art performance.
Adaptive Video Distillation: Mitigating Oversaturation and Temporal Collapse in Few-Step Generation
Authors: Yuyang You; Yongzhi Li; Jiahui Li; Yadong Mu; Quan Chen; Peng Jiang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Video generation has recently emerged as a central task in the field of generative AI. However, the substantial computational cost inherent in video synthesis makes model distillation a critical technique for efficient deployment. Despite its significance, there is a scarcity of methods specifically designed for video diffusion models. Prevailing approaches often directly adapt image distillation techniques, which frequently lead to artifacts such as oversaturation, temporal inconsistency, and mode collapse. To address these challenges, we propose a novel distillation framework tailored specifically for video diffusion models. Its core innovations include: (1) an adaptive regression loss that dynamically adjusts spatial supervision weights to prevent artifacts arising from excessive distribution shifts; (2) a temporal regularization loss to counteract temporal collapse, promoting smooth and physically plausible sampling trajectories; and (3) an inference-time frame interpolation strategy that reduces sampling overhead while preserving perceptual quality. Extensive experiments and ablation studies on the VBench and VBench2 benchmarks demonstrate that our method achieves stable few-step video synthesis, significantly enhancing perceptual fidelity and motion realism. It consistently outperforms existing distillation baselines across multiple metrics.
Boosting Document Parsing Efficiency and Performance with Coarse-to-Fine Visual Processing
Authors: Cheng Cui; Ting Sun; Suyin Liang; Tingquan Gao; Zelun Zhang; Jiaxuan Liu; Xueqing Wang; Changda Zhou; Hongen Liu; Manhui Lin; Yue Zhang; Yubo Zhang; Jing Zhang; Jun Zhang; Xing Wei; Yi Liu; Dianhai Yu; Yanjun Ma
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Document parsing is a fine-grained task where image resolution significantly impacts performance. While advanced research leveraging vision-language models benefits from high-resolution input to boost model performance, this often leads to a quadratic increase in the number of vision tokens and significantly raises computational costs. We attribute this inefficiency to substantial visual regions redundancy in document images, like background. To tackle this, we propose PaddleOCR-VL, a novel coarse-to-fine architecture that focuses on semantically relevant regions while suppressing redundant ones, thereby improving both efficiency and performance. Specifically, we introduce a lightweight Valid Region Focus Module (VRFM) which leverages localization and contextual relationship prediction capabilities to identify valid vision tokens. Subsequently, we design and train a compact yet powerful 0.9B vision-language model (PaddleOCR-VL-0.9B) to perform detailed recognition, guided by VRFM outputs to avoid direct processing of the entire large image. Extensive experiments demonstrate that PaddleOCR-VL achieves state-of-the-art performance in both page-level parsing and element-level recognition. It significantly outperforms existing solutions, exhibits strong competitiveness against top-tier VLMs, and delivers fast inference while utilizing substantially fewer vision tokens and parameters, highlighting the effectiveness of targeted coarse-to-fine parsing for accurate and efficient document understanding. The source code and models are publicly available at https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR.
Divide, Conquer, and Aggregate: Asymmetric Experts for Class-Imbalanced Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
Authors: Yajun Liu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Semi-supervised medical image segmentation (SSMIS) aims to alleviate annotation scarcity, but general methods, often developed on few-class datasets, suffer performance degradation in class-imbalanced multi-organ scenarios. Existing class-imbalanced SSMIS methods also struggle, as their single-decoder architecture is forced to handle vastly different scales with shared parameters. This process is easily dominated by majority classes, fundamentally limiting tail-class segmentation capability. To address this, we propose a "Divide, Conquer, and Aggregate" (DCA) framework, featuring a unified encoder, three expert decoders, and an aggregation decoder. First, we Divide by applying a Logarithmic Gap Analysis to statically partition foreground classes into stable Head, Medium, and Tail sets, which aligns with anatomical priors. Then, we Conquer by training the three architecturally asymmetric experts independently using a label-split strategy. This fundamentally alleviates the burden on a single decoder. The experts' predictions on unlabeled data are fused via logit stitching to generate high-quality pseudo-labels. Finally, we Aggregate using an aggregation decoder with a Dynamic Feature Aggregation Module (DFAM), which dynamically fuses priors from all three experts to achieve unbiased predictions and fully leverage unlabeled data. Experiments demonstrate that our DCA framework significantly outperforms state-of-the-art general and class-imbalanced SSMIS methods.
FlashPortrait: 6x Faster Infinite Portrait Animation with Adaptive Latent Prediction
Authors: Shuyuan Tu; Yueming Pan; Yinming Huang; Xintong Han; Zhen Xing; Qi Dai; Kai Qiu; Chong Luo; Zuxuan Wu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Current diffusion-based acceleration methods for long-portrait animation struggle to ensure identity (ID) consistency. This paper presents FlashPortrait, an end-to-end video diffusion transformer capable of synthesizing ID-preserving, infinite-length videos while achieving up to 6xacceleration in inference speed. In particular, FlashPortrait begins by computing the identity-agnostic facial expression features with an off-the-shelf extractor. It then introduces a Normalized Facial Expression Block to align facial features with diffusion latents by normalizing them with their respective means and variances, thereby improving identity stability in facial modeling. During inference, FlashPortrait adopts a dynamic sliding-window scheme with weighted blending in overlapping areas, ensuring smooth transitions and ID consistency in long animations. In each context window, based on the latent variation rate at particular timesteps and the derivative magnitude ratio among diffusion layers, FlashPortrait utilizes higher-order latent derivatives at the current timestep to directly predict latents at future timesteps, thereby skipping several denoising steps and achieving 6xspeed acceleration. Experiments on benchmarks show the effectiveness of FlashPortrait both qualitatively and quantitatively.
Dynamic Logits Adjustment and Exploration for Test-Time Adaptation in Vision Language Models
Authors: Haoyan Wu; Yahao Liu; Yinjie Lei; Lixin Duan; Wen Li
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Existing Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) methods for Vision-Language Models (VLMs), focusing on designing efficient adaptation parameters (eg. prompts or residual prototypes), predominantly rely on high-confidence samples obtained via entropy-based filtering. However, this prevailing paradigm implicitly inherits the VLM's class-wise prediction biases and leads to insufficient coverage of the test distribution, rendering the adaptation process biased and insufficiently exploratory.To overcome these limitations, we propose Dynamic Logits Adjustment and Exploration (DLAE), a novel framework that integrates Dynamic Logit Adjustment (DLA) with a Consistency-Guided Exploratory Cache (CGEC). DLA dynamically recalibrates model logits based on test prediction statistics, thereby mitigating class-wise prediction inconsistencies. Different from traditional cache mechanisms, our CGEC actively identifies additional samples near decision boundaries whose predicted labels are sensitive to the logit adjustment, thereby exploring beyond only high-confidence samples. By enforcing semantic and temporal consistency, the cache preserves the reliability of selected samples while enabling cautious yet effective exploration of low-confidence regions, ultimately yielding stable and reliable adaptation.Extensive experiments across multiple vision-language benchmarks demonstrate that our approach consistently surpasses state-of-the-art TTA methods, showing superior stability, adaptability, and generalization.
Interpretable Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning with Rectified Target-Domain Local Alignment
Authors: Yaze Zhao; Yixiong Zou; Yuhua Li; Ruixuan Li
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning (CDFSL) adapts models trained with large-scale general data (source domain) to downstream target domains with only scarce training data, where the research on vision-language models (e.g., CLIP) is still in the early stages. Typical downstream domains, such as medical diagnosis, require fine-grained visual cues for interpretable recognition, but we find that current fine-tuned CLIP models can hardly focus on these cues, albeit they can roughly focus on important regions in source domains. Although current works have demonstrated CLIP's shortcomings in capturing local subtle patterns, in this paper, we find that **the domain gap and scarce training data further exacerbate such shortcomings, much more than that of holistic patterns**, which we call the local misalignment problem in CLIP-based CDFSL. To address this problem, due to the lack of supervision in aligning local visual features and text semantics, we turn to self-supervision information. Inspired by the translation task, we propose the CC-CDFSL method with cycle consistency, which translates local visual features into text features and then translates them back into visual features (and vice versa), and constrains the original features close to the translated back features.To reduce the noise imported by richer information in the visual modality, we further propose a Semantic Anchor mechanism, which first augments visual features to provide a larger corpus for the text-to-image mapping, and then shrinks the image features to filter out irrelevant image-to-text mapping. Extensive experiments on various benchmarks, backbones, and fine-tuning methods show we can (1) effectively improve the local vision-language alignment, (2) enhance the interpretability of learned patterns and model decisions by visualizing patches, and (3) achieve state-of-the-art performance. Our codes will be released.
Structural Action Transformer for 3D Dexterous Manipulation
Authors: Xiaohan Lei; Min Wang; Bohong Weng; Wengang Zhou; Houqiang Li
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Achieving human-level dexterity in robots via imitation learning from heterogeneous datasets is hindered by the challenge of cross-embodiment skill transfer, particularly for high-DoF robotic hands. Existing methods, often relying on 2D observations and temporal-centric action representation, struggle to capture 3D spatial relations and fail to handle embodiment heterogeneity. This paper proposes the Structural Action Transformer (SAT), a new 3D dexterous manipulation policy that challenges this paradigm by introducing a structural-centric perspective. We reframe each action chunk not as a temporal sequence, but as a variable-length, unordered sequence of joint-wise trajectories. This structural formulation allows a Transformer to natively handle heterogeneous embodiments, treating the joint count as a variable sequence length. To encode structural priors and resolve ambiguity, we introduce an Embodied Joint Codebook that embeds each joint's functional role and kinematic properties. Our model learns to generate these trajectories from 3D point clouds via a continuous-time flow matching objective. We validate our approach by pre-training on large-scale heterogeneous datasets and fine-tuning on simulation and real-world dexterous manipulation tasks. Our method consistently outperforms all baselines, demonstrating superior sample efficiency and effective cross-embodiment skill transfer. This structural-centric representation offers a new path toward scaling policies for high-DoF, heterogeneous manipulators.