GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
UniPR: Unified Object-level Real-to-Sim Perception and Reconstruction from a Single Stereo Pair
Authors: Chuanrui Zhang; Yingshuang Zou; ZhengXian Wu; Yonggen Ling; Yuxiao Yang; Ziwei Wang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Perceiving and reconstructing objects from images are critical for real-to-sim transfer tasks, which are widely used in the robotics community.Existing methods rely on multiple submodules such as detection, segmentation, shape reconstruction, and pose estimation to complete the pipeline.However, such modular pipelines suffer from inefficiency and cumulative error, as each stage operates on only partial or locally refined information while discarding global context.To address these limitations, we propose UniPR, the first end-to-end object-level real-to-sim perception and reconstruction framework.Operating directly on a single stereo image pair, UniPR leverages geometric constraints to resolve the scale ambiguity.We introduce Pose-Aware Shape Representation to eliminate the need for per-category canonical definitions and to bridge the gap between reconstruction and pose estimation tasks.Furthermore, we construct a large-vocabulary stereo dataset, LVS6D, comprising over 6,300 objects, to facilitate large-scale research in this area.Extensive experiments demonstrate that UniPR reconstructs all objects in a scene in parallel within a single forward pass, achieving significant efficiency gains and preserves true physical proportions across diverse object types, highlighting its potential for practical robotic applications.
DiffDecompose: Layer-Wise Decomposition of Alpha-Composited Images via Diffusion Transformers
Authors: Zitong Wang; Hang Zhao; Qianyu Zhou; Xuequan Lu; Xiangtai Li; Hao Yang; Bo Yang; Yiren Song
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Diffusion models have recently motivated great success in many generation tasks like object removal. Nevertheless, existing image decomposition methods struggle to disentangle semi-transparent or transparent layer occlusions due to mask prior dependencies, static object assumptions, and the lack of datasets. In this paper, we delve into a novel task: Layer-Wise Decomposition of Alpha-Composited Images, aiming to recover constituent layers from single overlapped images under the condition of semi-transparent/transparent alpha layer non-linear occlusion. To address challenges in layer ambiguity, generalization, and data scarcity, we first introduce AlphaBlend, the first large-scale and high-quality dataset for transparent and semi-transparent layer decomposition, containing six subtasks with different characteristics (e.g., translucent flare removal, semi-transparent cell decomposition, glassware decomposition). Building on this dataset, we present DiffDecompose, a diffusion Transformer-based framework that learns the posterior over possible layer decompositions conditioned on the input image, semantic prompts, and blending type. Rather than regressing alpha mattes directly, DiffDecompose performs In-Context Decomposition, enabling the model to predict one or multiple layers without per-layer supervision, and introduces Layer Position Encoding Cloning to maintain pixel-level correspondence across layers. Extensive experiments on the proposed AlphaBlend dataset and public LOGO dataset verify the effectiveness of DiffDecompose. Code will be publicly available at https://github.com/Wangzt1121/DiffDecompose.
POINTS-Long: Adaptive Dual-Mode Visual Reasoning in MLLMs
Authors: Haicheng Wang; Yuan Liu; Yikun Liu; Zhemeng Yu; Zhongyin Zhao; Yangxiu You; Zilin Yu; Le Tian; Zhou Xiao; Jie Zhou; Weidi Xie; Yanfeng Wang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable capabilities in cross-modal understanding and generation. However, the rapid growth of visual token sequences--especially in long-video and streaming scenarios--poses a major challenge to their scalability and real-world deployment. Thus, we introduce POINTS-Long, a native dual-mode MLLM featuring dynamic visual token scaling inspired by the human visual system. The model supports two complementary perception modes: focus mode and standby mode, enabling users to dynamically trade off efficiency and accuracy during inference. On fine-grained visual tasks, the focus mode retains the optimal performance, while on long-form general visual understanding, the standby mode retains 97.7-99.7% of the original accuracy using only 1/40-1/10th of the visual tokens. Moreover, POINTS-Long natively supports streaming visual understanding via a dynamically detachable KV-cache design, allowing efficient maintenance of ultra-long visual memory. Our work provides new insights into the design of future MLLMs and lays the foundation for adaptive and efficient long-form visual understanding. Model and code are available at https://anakin-skywalker-joseph.github.io/POINTS-Long-Webpage.
VISion On Request: Enhanced VLLM efficiency with sparse, dynamically selected, vision-language interactions
Authors: Adrian Bulat; Alberto Baldrati; Ioannis Maniadis Metaxas; Yassine Ouali; Georgios Tzimiropoulos
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Existing approaches for improving the efficiency of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) are largely based on the concept of visual token reduction. This approach, however, creates an information bottleneck that impairs performance, especially on challenging tasks that require fine-grained understanding and reasoning. In this work, we challenge this paradigm by introducing VISion On Request (VISOR), a method that reduces inference cost without discarding visual information. Instead of compressing the image, VISOR improves efficiency by sparsifying the interaction between image and text tokens. Specifically, the language model attends to the full set of high-resolution visual tokens through a small, strategically placed set of attention layers: general visual context is provided by efficient cross-attention between text-image, while a few well-placed and dynamically selected self-attention layers refine the visual representations themselves, enabling complex, high-resolution reasoning when needed.  Based on this principle, we first train a single universal network on a range of computational budgets by varying the number of self-attention layers, and then introduce a lightweight policy mechanism that dynamically allocates visual computation based on per-sample complexity. Extensive experiments show that VISOR drastically reduces computational cost while matching or exceeding state-of-the-art results across a diverse suite of benchmarks, and excels in challenging tasks that require detailed visual understanding.
HiLoRA: Hierarchical Low-Rank Adaptation for Personalized Federated Learning
Authors: Zihao Peng; Nan Zou; Jiandian Zeng; Guo Li; Ke Chen; Boyuan Li; Tian Wang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Vision Transformers (ViTs) have been widely adopted in vision tasks due to their strong transferability. In Federated Learning (FL), where full fine-tuning is communication-heavy, Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) provides an efficient and communication-friendly way to adapt ViTs. However, existing LoRA-based federated tuning methods overlook latent client structures in real-world settings, limiting shared representation learning and hindering effective adaptation to unseen clients. To address this, we propose HiLoRA, a hierarchical LoRA framework that places adapters at three levels: root, cluster, and leaf, each designed to capture global, subgroup, and client-specific knowledge, respectively. Through cross-tier orthogonality and cascaded optimization, HiLoRA separates update subspaces and aligns each tier with its residual personalized objective. In particular, we develop a LoRA-Subspace Adaptive Clustering mechanism that infers latent client groups via subspace similarity analysis, thereby facilitating knowledge sharing across structurally aligned clients. Theoretically, we establish a tier-wise generalization analysis that supports HiLoRA's design. Experiments on ViT backbones with CIFAR-100 and DomainNet demonstrate consistent improvements in both personalization and generalization.
ERMoE: Eigen-Reparameterized Mixture-of-Experts for Stable Routing and Interpretable Specialization
Authors: Anzhe Cheng; Shukai Duan; Shixuan Li; Chenzhong Yin; Mingxi Cheng; Heng Ping; Tamoghna Chattopadhyay; Sophia I. Thomopoulos; Shahin Nazarian; Paul Thompson; Paul Bogdan
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models expand capacity via sparse expert activation, but routing logits can misalign with expert structure (unstable routing, underutilization) and load imbalance can create stragglers. Auxiliary load-balancing losses reduce disparity but often weaken specialization and downstream accuracy. We propose ERMoE, a sparse MoE transformer that reparameterizes each expert in a learned orthonormal eigenbasis and routes with an Eigenbasis Score (cosine similarity between token features and an expert basis) instead of learned gating logits. By tying assignments to each expert's representation space, ERMoE stabilizes utilization, improves interpretability, and removes explicit balancing losses and their gradient interference. ERMoE reaches state-of-the-art results on ImageNet and image-text retrieval (COCO, Flickr30K) with flatter expert loads. A 3D MRI variant (ERMoE-ba) improves brain age prediction by over 7% and yields anatomically interpretable expert specializations.
EventDrive: Event Cameras for Vision-Language Driving Intelligence
Authors: Dongyue Lu; Rong Li; Ao Liang; Lingdong Kong; Wei Yin; Lai Xing Ng; Benoit R. Cottereau; Camille Simon Chane; Wei Tsang Ooi
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Event cameras sense the world through asynchronous brightness changes with microsecond latency and high dynamic range, offering motion fidelity far beyond frame-based sensors and capturing temporal structure that conventional exposures often miss. These properties make events a powerful complement to RGB in autonomous driving, especially under blur, glare, and rapid motion, where frame-based perception can become unreliable. However, existing event-aware vision-language models remain limited to generic perception and do not reveal how event sensing contributes to reasoning and decision-making across the full driving loop. We present EventDrive, a large-scale benchmark and model suite that unifies event streams, RGB frames, and language supervision across four core dimensions: Perception, Understanding, Prediction, and Planning, covering captions, structured QA, grounding, motion-state recognition, trajectory forecasting, and planning tasks. Building on this foundation, EventDrive-VLM introduces a multi-horizon event pyramid and a modality-routing mixture-of-experts to adaptively encode and fuse asynchronous and frame-based information for downstream reasoning. Comprehensive evaluation across diverse tasks shows that event streams provide substantial gains in temporal precision, motion awareness, and robustness, bringing event sensing into the center of driving intelligence.
Counterfactual VLA: Self-Reflective Vision-Language-Action Model with Adaptive Reasoning
Authors: Zhenghao Peng; Wenhao Ding; Yurong You; Yuxiao Chen; Wenjie Luo; Thomas Tian; Yulong Cao; Apoorva Sharma; Danfei Xu; Boris Ivanovic; Boyi Li; Yan Wang; Marco Pavone
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Recent reasoning-augmented Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have improved the interpretability of end-to-end autonomous driving by generating intermediate reasoning traces. Yet these models primarily describe what they perceive and intend to do, rarely questioning whether their planned actions are safe or appropriate. This work introduces Counterfactual VLA (CF-VLA), a self-reflective VLA framework that enables the model to reason about and revise its planned actions before execution. CF-VLA first generates time-segmented meta-actions that summarize driving intent, and then performs counterfactual reasoning conditioned on both the meta-actions and the visual context. This step simulates potential outcomes, identifies unsafe behaviors, and outputs corrected meta-actions that guide the final trajectory generation. To efficiently obtain such self-reflective capabilities, we propose a rollout-filter-label pipeline that mines high-value scenes from a base (non-counterfactual) VLA's rollouts and labels counterfactual reasoning traces for subsequent training rounds. Experiments on large-scale driving datasets show that CF-VLA improves trajectory accuracy by up to 17.6%, enhances safety metrics by 20.5%, and exhibits adaptive thinking: it only enables counterfactual reasoning in challenging scenarios. By transforming reasoning traces from one-shot descriptions to causal self-correction signals, CF-VLA takes a step toward self-reflective autonomous driving agents that learn to think before they act.
TrafficAlign: Aligning Large Language Models for Traffic Scenario Generation
Authors: Zhi Tu; Liangkun Niu; Tianyi Zhang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Recent research has investigated the use of large language models (LLMs) to generate traffic scenarios for autonomous driving. However, pretrained LLMs often fail to align with real-world traffic distributions. In this work, we present TrafficAlign, an automated framework that synthesizes traffic scenarios based on real-world driving videos, performs data validation, and aligns LLMs with the synthesized scenarios. The evaluation shows that traffic scenarios generated by TrafficAlign are highly effective, revealing up to 10.8% more collisions on average across three autonomous driving models than state-of-the-art methods. Furthermore, fine-tuning these driving models with TrafficAlign-generated scenarios significantly reduced collision rates by 36.1% compared with the original models. A qualitative study using traffic datasets from six geographically diverse regions shows that TrafficAlign-generated scenarios exhibit strong alignment with corresponding traffic distributions in these regions.
Reward Sharpness-Aware Fine-Tuning for Diffusion Models
Authors: Kwanyoung Kim; Byeongsu Sim
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has proven effective in aligning large language models with human preferences, inspiring the development of reward-centric diffusion reinforcement learning (RDRL) to achieve similar alignment and controllability. While diffusion models can generate high-quality outputs, RDRL remains susceptible to reward hacking, where the reward score increases without corresponding improvements in perceptual quality. We demonstrate that this vulnerability arises from the non-robustness of reward model gradients, particularly when the reward landscape with respect to the input image is sharp. To mitigate this issue, we introduce methods that exploit gradients from a robustified reward model, without requiring its retraining. Specifically, we employ gradients from a flattened reward model, obtained through parameter perturbations of the diffusion model and perturbations of its generated samples. Empirically, each method independently alleviates reward hacking and improves robustness, while their joint use amplifies these benefits. Our resulting framework, RSA-FT (Reward Sharpness-Aware Fine-Tuning), is simple, broadly compatible, and consistently enhances the reliability of RDRL.
SGDE: Self-supervised Geometry Degradation Estimation Framework for Coded Aperture Compressive Spectral Imaging
Authors: Yuqiao He; Xiaoyan Liu; Jianxu Mao; Yaonan Wang; Hui Zhang; Lizhu Liu; Yurong Chen; Wenbin He
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Coded Aperture Snapshot Spectral Imaging (CASSI) has emerged as a prominent technique for efficient hyperspectral imaging. However, the tight coupling between physical encoding and computational decoding makes CASSI highly sensitive to slight hardware misalignments, which can significantly degrade reconstruction quality. Existing methods either assume ideal imaging conditions or rely on offline calibration, making them vulnerable to dynamic perturbations, such as thermal expansion and mechanical vibrations, which cause mask shifts. To address these limitations, we propose a Self-supervised Geometry Degradation Estimation (SGDE) framework that explicitly models mask misalignments as an affine transformation and embeds it into the imaging model. SGDE jointly estimates affine parameters and reconstructs the hyperspectral image in a self-supervised manner, eliminating the need for reference targets or device-specific training data. Furthermore, we introduce a multi-kernel estimation strategy to enhance the robustness of degradation estimation under large perturbations. Extensive experiments on both simulated and real-world datasets demonstrate that SGDE achieves superior robustness against mask misalignments. Moreover, the estimated affine parameters can be directly integrated into existing reconstruction algorithms, enabling plug-and-play degradation estimation for practical CASSI systems. The code is available at https://github.com/heyuqiao/SGDE.
Evaluating Generative Models via One-Dimensional Code Distributions
Authors: Zexi Jia; Pengcheng Luo; Yijia Zhong; Jinchao Zhang; Jie Zhou
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Most evaluations of generative models rely on feature-distribution metrics such as FID, which operate on continuous recognition features that are explicitly trained to be invariant to appearance variations, and thus discard cues critical for perceptual quality. We instead evaluate models in the space of discrete visual tokens, where modern 1D image tokenizers compactly encode both semantic and perceptual information and quality manifests as predictable token statistics. We introduce Codebook Histogram Distance(CHD), a training-free distribution metric in token space, and Code Mixture Model Score(CMMS), a no-reference quality metric learned from synthetic degradations of token sequences. To stress-test metrics under broad distribution shifts, we further propose VisForm, a benchmark of 210K images spanning 62 visual forms and 11 generative models with expert annotations. Across AGIQA, HPDv2/3, and VisForm, our token-based metrics achieve state-of-the-art correlation with human judgments, and we will release all code and datasets to facilitate future research.
Dynamic Momentum Recalibration in Online Gradient Learning
Authors: Zhipeng Yao; Rui Yu; Guisong Chang; Ying Li; Yu Zhang; Dazhou Li
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) and its momentum variants form the backbone of deep learning optimization, yet the underlying dynamics of their gradient behavior remain insufficiently understood. In this work, we reinterpret gradient updates through the lens of signal processing and reveal that fixed momentum coefficients inherently distort the balance between bias and variance, leading to skewed or suboptimal parameter updates. To address this, we propose SGDF (SGD with Filter), an optimizer inspired by the principles of Optimal Linear Filtering. SGDF computes an online, time-varying gain to dynamically refine gradient estimation by minimizing the mean-squared error, thereby achieving an optimal trade-off between noise suppression and signal preservation. Furthermore, our approach could extend to other optimizers, showcasing its broad applicability to optimization frameworks. Extensive experiments across diverse architectures and benchmarks demonstrate SGDF surpasses conventional momentum methods and achieves performance on par with or surpassing state-of-the-art optimizers.
AG-VAS: Anchor-Guided Zero-Shot Visual Anomaly Segmentation with Large Multimodal Models
Authors: Zhen Qu; Xian Tao; Xiaoyi Bao; Dingrong Wang; ShiChen Qu; Zhengtao Zhang; Xingang Wang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Large multimodal models (LMMs) exhibit strong task generalization capabilities, offering new opportunities for zero-shot visual anomaly segmentation (ZSAS). However, existing LMM-based segmentation approaches still face fundamental limitations: anomaly concepts are inherently abstract and context-dependent, lacking stable visual prototypes, and the weak alignment between high-level semantic embeddings and pixel-level spatial features hinders precise anomaly localization. To address these challenges, we present AG-VAS (Anchor-Guided Visual Anomaly Segmentation), a new framework that expands the LMM vocabulary with three learnable semantic anchor tokens--[SEG], [NOR], and [ANO], establishing a unified anchor-guided segmentation paradigm. Specifically, [SEG] serves as an absolute semantic anchor that translates abstract anomaly semantics into explicit, spatially grounded visual entities (e.g., holes or scratches), while [NOR] and [ANO] act as relative anchors that model the contextual contrast between normal and abnormal patterns across categories. To further enhance cross-modal alignment, we introduce a Semantic-Pixel Alignment Module (SPAM) that aligns language-level semantic embeddings with high-resolution visual features, along with an Anchor-Guided Mask Decoder (AGMD) that performs anchor-conditioned mask prediction for precise anomaly localization. In addition, we curate Anomaly-Instruct20K, a large-scale instruction dataset that organizes anomaly knowledge into structured descriptions of appearance, shape, and spatial attributes, facilitating effective learning and integration of the proposed semantic anchors. Extensive experiments on six industrial and medical benchmarks demonstrate that AG-VAS achieves consistent state-of-the-art performance in the zero-shot setting.
MindPower: Enabling Theory-of-Mind Reasoning in VLM-based Embodied Agents
Authors: Ruoxuan Zhang; Qiyun Zheng; Zhiyu Zhou; Ziqi Liao; Siyu Wu; Jian-Yu Jiang-Lin; Bin Wen; Hongxia Xie; Jianlong Fu; Wen-Huang Cheng
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Theory of Mind (ToM) refers to the ability to infer others' mental states, such as beliefs, desires, and intentions.  Current vision-language embodied agents lack ToM-based decision-making, and existing benchmarks focus solely on human mental states while ignoring the agent's own perspective, hindering coherent decision and action generation. To address this, we propose MindPower, a Robot-Centric framework integrating Perception, Mental Reasoning, Decision Making and Action. Given multimodal inputs, MindPower first perceives the environment and human states, then performs ToM Reasoning to model both self and others, and finally generates decisions and actions guided by inferred mental states. Furthermore, we introduce Mind-Reward, a novel optimization objective that encourages VLMs to produce consistent ToM Reasoning and behavior. Our model outperforms GPT-4o by 12.77% in decision making and 12.49% in action generation. Project page:  https://zhangdaxia22.github.io/MindPower/.