GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
Optimized View and Geometry Distillation from Multi-view Diffuser
Authors: Youjia Zhang; Zikai  Song; Junqing Yu; Yawei Luo; Wei Yang
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: Generating multi-view images from a single input view using image-conditioned diffusion models is a recent advancement and has shown considerable potential. However, issues such as the lack of consistency in synthesized views and over-smoothing in extracted geometry persist. Previous methods integrate multi-view consistency modules or impose additional supervisory to enhance view consistency while compromising on the flexibility of camera positioning and limiting the versatility of view synthesis. In this study, we consider the radiance field optimized during geometry extraction as a more rigid consistency prior, compared to volume and ray aggregation used in previous works. We further identify and rectify a critical bias in the traditional radiance field optimization process through score distillation from a multi-view diffuser. We introduce an Unbiased Score Distillation (USD) that utilizes unconditioned noises from a 2D diffusion model, greatly refining the radiance field fidelity. We leverage the rendered views from the optimized radiance field as the basis and develop a two-step specialization process of a 2D diffusion model, which is adept at conducting object-specific denoising and generating high-quality multi-view images. Finally, we recover faithful geometry and texture directly from the refined multi-view images. Empirical evaluations demonstrate that our optimized geometry and view distillation technique generates comparable results to the state-of-the-art models trained on extensive datasets, all while maintaining freedom in camera positioning. Source code of our work is publicly available at: https://youjiazhang.github.io/USD/.
GraphAD: Interaction Scene Graph for End-to-end Autonomous Driving
Authors: Yunpeng Zhang; Deheng Qian; Ding Li; Yifeng Pan; Yong Chen; Zhenbao Liang; Zhiyao Zhang; Yingzong Liu; Jianhui Mei; Maolei Fu; Yun Ye; Zhujin Liang; Yi Shan; Dalong Du
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: Modeling complicated interactions among the ego-vehicle, road agents, and map elements has been a crucial part for safety-critical autonomous driving. Previous work on end-to-end autonomous driving relies on the attention mechanism to handle heterogeneous interactions, which fails to capture geometric priors and is also computationally intensive. In this paper, we propose the Interaction Scene Graph (ISG) as a unified method to model the interactions among the ego-vehicle, road agents, and map elements. With the representation of the ISG, the driving agents aggregate essential information from the most influential elements, including the road agents with potential collisions and the map elements to follow. Since a mass of unnecessary interactions are omitted, the more efficient scene-graph-based framework is able to focus on indispensable connections and leads to better performance. We evaluate the proposed method for end-to-end autonomous driving on the nuScenes dataset. Compared with strong baselines, our method significantly outperforms in full-stack driving tasks.
Efficient Visual Representation Learning with Heat Conduction Equation
Authors: Zhemin Zhang; Xun Gong
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: Foundation models, such as CNNs and ViTs, have powered the development of image representation learning. However, general guidance to model architecture design is still missing. Inspired by the connection between image representation learning and heat conduction, we model images by the heat conduction equation, where the essential idea is to conceptualize image features as temperatures and model their information interaction as the diffusion of thermal energy. Based on this idea, we find that many modern model architectures, such as residual structures, SE block, and feed-forward networks, can be interpreted from the perspective of the heat conduction equation. Therefore, we leverage the heat equation to design new and more interpretable models. As an example, we propose the Heat Conduction Layer and the Refinement Approximation Layer inspired by solving the heat conduction equation using Finite Difference Method and Fourier series, respectively. The main goal of this paper is to integrate the overall architectural design of neural networks into the theoretical framework of heat conduction. Nevertheless, our Heat Conduction Network (HcNet) still shows competitive performance, e.g., HcNet-T achieves 83.0% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet-1K while only requiring 28M parameters and 4.1G MACs. The code is publicly available at: https://github.com/ZheminZhang1/HcNet.
Balancing Invariant and Specific Knowledge for Domain Generalization with Online Knowledge Distillation
Authors: Di Zhao; Jingfeng Zhang; Hongsheng Hu; Philippe Fournier-Viger; Gillian Dobbie; Yun Sing Koh
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: Recent research has demonstrated the effectiveness of knowledge distillation in Domain Generalization. However, existing approaches often overlook domain-specific knowledge and rely on an offline distillation strategy, limiting the effectiveness of knowledge transfer. To address these limitations, we propose Balanced Online knowLedge Distillation (BOLD). BOLD leverages a multi-domain expert teacher model, with each expert specializing in a specific source domain, enabling the student to distill both domain-invariant and domain-specific knowledge. We incorporate the Pareto optimization principle and uncertainty weighting to balance these two types of knowledge, ensuring simultaneous optimization without compromising either. Additionally, BOLD employs an online knowledge distillation strategy, allowing the teacher and student to learn concurrently. This dynamic interaction enables the teacher to adapt based on student feedback, facilitating more effective knowledge transfer. Extensive experiments on seven benchmarks demonstrate that BOLD outperforms state-of-the-art methods. Furthermore, we provide theoretical insights that highlight the importance of domain-specific knowledge and the advantages of uncertainty weighting.
Bi-DiffCD: Bidirectional Diffusion Guided Collaborative Change Detection for Arbitrary-Modal Remote Sensing Images
Authors: Jingyu Zhao; Jiahui Qu; Wenqian Dong
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: Change detection aims to identify land cover changes by analyzing multitemporal images that cover the same area. However, It may be difficult to effectively obtain high-quality multitemporal images with the same modality in real dynamic scenarios. The rapid development of remote sensing technology enables collaborative observation of multimodal images, but it is challenging for uni-modal image-specific methods to overcome modal discrepancy and achieve complementary advantage detection. To this end, we propose a bidirectional diffusion guided collaborative change detection model (Bi-DiffCD) for arbitrary-modal images, which eliminates the modal discrepancy between arbitrary-modal images through the bidirectional diffusion and makes full use of the multilevel complementary advantage features to improve the detection accuracy. Specifically, a conditional diffusion-based bidirectional modal alignment module (CDBMA) is designed to step-wise align the modal attribute bidirectionally while preserving the multimodal complementary features. Furthermore, a multilevel complementary feature collaborative change detection module (MLCCD) is proposed to collaborate the multilevel enhanced complementary change information from transformed images and potential features for change detection. Experiments have been conducted on three widely used and one self-made multimodal datasets to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method with different combinations of modalities. Code is available at https://github.com/Jiahuiqu/Bi-DiffCD.
Enhancing Multimodal Model Robustness Under Missing Modalities via Memory-Driven Prompt Learning
Authors: Yihan Zhao; Wei Xi; Xiao Fu; Jizhong Zhao
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: Existing multimodal models typically assume the availability of all modalities, leading to significant performance degradation when certain modalities are missing. Recent methods have introduced prompt learning to adapt pretrained models to incomplete data, achieving remarkable performance when the missing cases are consistent during training and inference. However, these methods rely heavily on distribution consistency and fail to compensate for missing modalities, limiting their ability to generalize to unseen missing cases. To address this issue, we propose Memory-Driven Prompt Learning, a framework that adaptively compensates for missing modalities through prompt learning. The compensation strategies are achieved by two types of prompts: generative prompts and shared prompts. Generative prompts retrieve semantically similar samples from a predefined prompt memory that stores modality-specific semantic information, while shared prompts leverage available modalities to provide cross-modal compensation. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model, achieving significant improvements across diverse missing-modality scenarios, with average performance increasing from 34.76% to 40.40% on MM-IMDb, 62.71% to 77.06% on Food101, and 60.40% to 62.77% on Hateful Memes. The code is available at https://github.com/zhao-yh20/MemPrompt.
RPMIL: Rethinking Uncertainty-Aware Probabilistic Multiple Instance Learning for Whole Slide Pathology Diagnosis
Authors: Zhikang Zhao; Kaitao Chen; Jing Zhao
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: Whole slide images (WSIs) are gigapixel digital scans of traditional pathology slides, offering substantial support for cancer diagnosis. Current multiple instance learning (MIL) methods for WSIs typically extract instance features and aggregate these into a single bag feature for prediction. We observe that these MIL methods rely on point estimation, where each bag is mapped to a deterministic embedding. Such MIL methods based on point estimation fail to capture the full spectrum of data variability due to the reliance on fixed embedding, especially when the number of trainable bags is limited. In this paper, we rethink probabilistic modeling in MIL and propose RPMIL, an uncertainty-aware probabilistic MIL method for whole slide pathology diagnosis. RPMIL learns a probabilistic aggregator to consolidate instance features into dynamic bag feature distributions instead of a deterministic bag feature. Specifically, we employ a variational autoencoder approach to compress multiple instance features into a low-dimension space with probabilistic representation and obtain the bag feature distribution formulated by the mean and variance. Furthermore, we drive the prediction by jointly leveraging the instance feature distribution and bag feature distribution. We evaluate the WSI classification performance on two public datasets: Camelyon16 and TCGA-NSCLC. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method surpasses point estimation methods in MIL, achieving state-of-the-art levels.
Open-Vocabulary Fine-Grained Hand Action Detection
Authors: Ting Zhe; Mengya Han; Xiaoshuai Hao; Yong Luo; Zheng He; Xiantao Cai; Jing Zhang
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: In this work, we address the new challenge of open-vocabulary fine-grained hand action detection, which aims to recognize hand actions from both known and novel categories using textual descriptions. Traditional hand action detection methods are limited to closed-set detection, making it difficult for them to generalize to new, unseen hand action categories. While current open-vocabulary detection (OVD) methods are effective at detecting novel objects, they face challenges with fine-grained action recognition, particularly when data is limited and heterogeneous. This often leads to poor generalization and performance bias between base and novel categories. To address these issues, we propose a novel approach, Open-FGHA (Open-vocabulary Fine-Grained Hand Action), which learns to distinguish fine-grained features across multiple modalities from limited heterogeneous data. It then identifies optimal matching relationships among these features, enabling accurate open-vocabulary fine-grained hand action detection. Specifically, we introduce three key components: Hierarchical Heterogeneous Low-Rank Adaptation, Bidirectional Selection and Fusion Mechanism, and Cross-Modality Query Generator. These components work in unison to enhance the alignment and fusion of multimodal fine-grained features. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Open-FGHA outperforms existing OVD methods, showing its strong potential for open-vocabulary hand action detection. The source code is available at OV-FGHAD.
CorrDetail: Visual Detail Enhanced Self-Correction for Face Forgery Detection
Authors: Binjia Zhou; Hengrui Lou; Lizhe Chen; Haoyuan Li; Dawei Luo; Shuai Chen; Jie Lei; Zunlei Feng; Yijun Bei
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: With the swift progression of image generation technology, the widespread emergence of facial deepfakes poses significant challenges to the field of security, thus amplifying the urgent need for effective deepfake detection. Existing techniques for face forgery detection can broadly be categorized into two primary groups: visual-based methods and multimodal approaches. The former often lacks clear explanations for forgery details, while the latter, which merges visual and linguistic modalities, is more prone to the issue of hallucinations.To address these shortcomings, we introduce a visual detail enhanced self-correction framework, designated CorrDetail, for interpretable face forgery detection. CorrDetail is meticulously designed to rectify authentic forgery details when provided with error-guided questioning, with the aim of fostering the ability to uncover forgery details rather than yielding hallucinated responses. Additionally, to bolster the reliability of its findings, a visual fine-grained detail enhancement module is incorporated, supplying CorrDetail with more precise visual forgery details. Ultimately, a fusion decision strategy is devised to further augment the model's discriminative capacity in handling extreme samples, through the integration of visual information compensation and model bias reduction. Experimental results demonstrate that CorrDetail not only achieves state-of-the-art performance compared to the latest methodologies but also excels in accurately identifying forged details, all while exhibiting robust generalization capabilities.
Adversarial Attacks on Both Face Recognition and Face Anti-spoofing Models
Authors: Fengfan Zhou; Qianyu Zhou; Heifei Ling; Xuequan Lu
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: Adversarial attacks on Face Recognition (FR) systems have demonstrated significant effectiveness against standalone FR models. However, their practicality diminishes in complete FR systems that incorporate Face Anti-Spoofing (FAS) models, as these models can detect and mitigate a substantial number of adversarial examples. To address this critical yet under-explored challenge, we introduce a novel attack setting that targets both FR and FAS models simultaneously, thereby enhancing the practicability of adversarial attacks on integrated FR systems. Specifically, we propose a new attack method, termed Reference-free Multi-level Alignment (RMA), designed to improve the capacity of black-box attacks on both FR and FAS models. The RMA framework is built upon three key components. Firstly, we propose an Adaptive Gradient Maintenance module to address the imbalances in gradient contributions between FR and FAS models. Secondly, we develop a Reference-free Intermediate Biasing module to improve the transferability of adversarial examples against FAS models. In addition, we introduce a Multi-level Feature Alignment module to reduce feature discrepancies at various levels of representation. Extensive experiments showcase the superiority of our proposed attack method to state-of-the-art adversarial attacks.
Enhancing Table Recognition with Vision LLMs: A Benchmark and Neighbor-Guided Toolchain Reasoner
Authors: Yitong Zhou; Mingyue Cheng; Qingyang Mao; Jiahao Wang; Feiyang Xu; Xin Li
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: Pre-trained foundation models have recently made significant progress in table-related tasks such as table understanding and reasoning. However, recognizing the structure and content of unstructured tables using Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs) remains under-explored. To bridge this gap, we propose a benchmark based on a hierarchical design philosophy to evaluate the recognition capabilities of VLLMs in training-free scenarios. Through in-depth evaluations, we find that low-quality image input is a significant bottleneck in the recognition process. Drawing inspiration from this, we propose the Neighbor-Guided Toolchain Reasoner (NGTR) framework, which is characterized by integrating diverse lightweight tools for visual operations aimed at mitigating issues with low-quality images. Specifically, we transfer a tool selection experience from a similar neighbor to the input and design a reflection module to supervise the tool invocation process. Extensive experiments on public datasets demonstrate that our approach significantly enhances the recognition capabilities of the vanilla VLLMs. We believe that the benchmark and framework could provide an alternative solution to table recognition.
Cause-Effect Driven Optimization for Robust Medical Visual Question Answering with Language Biases
Authors: Huanjia Zhu; Yishu Liu; Xiaozhao Fang; Guangming Lu; Bingzhi Chen
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: Existing Medical Visual Question Answering (Med-VQA) models often suffer from language biases, where spurious correlations between question types and answer categories are inadvertently established. To address these issues, we propose a novel Cause-Effect Driven Optimization framework called CEDO, that incorporates three well-established mechanisms, i.e., Modality-driven Heterogeneous Optimization (MHO), Gradient-guided Modality Synergy (GMS), and Distribution-adapted Loss Rescaling (DLR), for comprehensively mitigating language biases from both causal and effectual perspectives. Specifically, MHO employs adaptive learning rates for specific modalities to achieve heterogeneous optimization, thus enhancing robust reasoning capabilities. Additionally, GMS leverages the Pareto optimization method to foster synergistic interactions between modalities and enforce gradient orthogonality to eliminate bias updates, thereby mitigating language biases from the effect side, i.e., shortcut bias. Furthermore, DLR is designed to assign adaptive weights to individual losses to ensure balanced learning across all answer categories, effectively alleviating language biases from the cause side, i.e., imbalance biases within datasets. Extensive experiments on multiple traditional and bias-sensitive benchmarks consistently demonstrate the robustness of CEDO over state-of-the-art competitors.
Endogenous Recovery via Within-modality Prototypes for Incomplete Multimodal Hashing
Authors: Sa Zhu; Dayan Wu; Chenming Wu; Pengwen Dai; Bo Li
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: Multimodal hashing projects multimodal data into compact binary codes, enabling rapid and storage-efficient retrieval of large-scale multimedia content. In practical scenarios, the issue of missing modality frequently arises when dealing with multimodal data. Existing incomplete multimodal hashing techniques directly recover missing modalities by neural networks, resulting in a disjointed representation space between the recovered and true data. In this paper, we present a novel recovery paradigm, namely Prototype-based Modality Completion Hashing (PMCH). Instead of directly synthesizing it from available modalities, PMCH adaptively aggregates associated within-modality prototypes to recover missing modality data. Specifically, PMCH introduces an within-modality prototype learning module to optimize representative prototypes for each modality. These prototypes act as recovery anchors and reside within the same representation space as their corresponding modality data. Subsequently, PMCH adaptively aggregates the associated within-modality prototypes with coefficients derived from the modality-specific Weight-Net. By utilizing prototypes from the same modality, the semantic disparity between the reconstructed and authentic data can be substantially diminished. Extensive experiments on three widely used benchmark datasets demonstrate that PMCH can effectively recover the missing modality, and attain state-of-the-art performance in both complete and incomplete multimodal retrieval scenarios. Code is available at https://github.com/Sasa77777779/PMCH.git.
RegionMatch: Pixel-Region Collaboration for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation in Remote Sensing Images
Authors: Xiaoqian Zhu; Xiangrong Zhang; Tianyang Zhang; Chaowei Fang; Xu Tang; Licheng Jiao
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: Semi-supervised semantic segmentation (S4) has shown significant promise in reducing the burden of labor-intensive data annotation. However, existing methods mainly rely on pixel-level information, neglecting the strong region consistency inherent in remote sensing images (RSIs), which limits their effectiveness in handling the complex and diverse backgrounds of RSIs. To address this, we propose RegionMatch, a novel approach that leverages unlabeled data from a fresh object-level perspective, which is more tailored to the nature of semantic segmentation. We design the Pixel-Region Synergy Pseudo-Labeling strategy, which explicitly injects object-level contextual information into the S4 pipeline and promotes knowledge collaboration between pixel and region perspectives for generating high-quality pseudo-labels. In addition, we propose the Region Structure-Aware Correlation Consistency, which models object-level relationships by establishing inter-region correlations across images and pixel correlations within regions, providing more effective supervision signals for unlabeled data. Experimental results demonstrate that RegionMatch outperforms state-of-the-art methods on multiple authoritative remote sensing datasets, highlighting its superiority in the RSIs.
CFII-Net: Explicit Class Embeddings and Feature Maps Through Iterative Interaction for Boosting Medical Image Segmentation
Authors: Xinyu Zhu; Xiwen Liu; Lianghua He; Yin Wen
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: Prior knowledge of category structure is essential in medical image segmentation, especially with significant organ structure differences. However, current hybrid architectures primarily focus on enhancing pixel-level representation learning, often neglecting or weakening the key prior knowledge of categorical structures, which poses challenges in capturing category relationships and accurate segmenting. To address this concern, we propose a novel network using Explicit Class Embeddings and Feature Maps through Iterative Interaction (CFII-Net) for boosting medical image segmentation. CFII-Net effectively segments images by exploring the relationship between explicit class embeddings and pixels in images. Specifically, we propose an Explicit Class Embedding Generator (ECEG) to obtain high-quality class semantic embeddings, incorporating category structure priors, which are used to guide high-accuracy segmentation. We then introduce an iterative Interactor, which utilizes transformers to facilitate the interaction between feature maps and class embeddings, thereby exploring pixel-to-class relationships. Furthermore, we propose updating strategies to refine the class embeddings and feature maps during the iteration process for achieving refined image segmentation. Extensive empirical evidence shows that any codec can be easily integrated into CFII-Net and yields improvements over the state-of-the-art methods in four public benchmarks.