GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
Fusion in Your Way: Aligning Image Fusion with Heterogeneous Demands via Direct Preference Optimization
Authors: Weijian Su; Songqian Zhang; Yuqi Han; Jian Zhuang; Yongdong Huang; Qiang Zhang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: As a key technique in multi-modal processing, infrared and visible image fusion (IVIF) plays a crucial role in integrating complementary spectral information for visual enhancement and downstream vision tasks. Despite remarkable progress, existing methods struggle to flexibly accommodate heterogeneous demands. Achieving adaptive fusion that aligns with various preferences from both human and machine vision remains an open and challenging problem. To address this challenge, we propose DPOFusion, a direct preference optimization (DPO) framework integrating the property-aligned latent diffusion model (PALDM) and the preference-controllable latent diffusion model (PCLDM), enabling task-guided, preference-adaptive IVIF for both human and machine vision. The PALDM leverages a latent fusion prior and a joint conditional loss to generate diverse candidate fusion results with various properties. PCLDM is subsequently fine-tuned via instance direct preference optimization (IDPO), enabling direct control of the final fusion results with heterogeneous preference signals.Experimental results demonstrate that our framework not only attains precise preference alignment among humans, vision-language models, and task-driven networks, but also sets a new benchmark for adaptive fusion quality and task-oriented transferability. Our code will be available at https://github.com/suweijian1996/DPOFusion
A Training-Free Style-Personalization via SVD-Based Feature Decomposition
Authors: Kyoungmin Lee; Jihun Park; Jongmin Gim; Wonhyeok Choi; Kyumin Hwang; Jaeyeul Kim; Sunghoon Im
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: We present a training-free framework for style-personalized image generation that operates during inference using a scale-wise autoregressive model. Our method generates a stylized image guided by a single reference style while preserving semantic consistency and mitigating content leakage. Through a detailed step-wise analysis of the generation process, we identify a pivotal step where the dominant singular values of the internal feature encode style-related components. Building upon this insight, we introduce two lightweight control modules: Principal Feature Blending, which enables precise modulation of style through SVD-based feature reconstruction, and Structural Attention Correction, which stabilizes structural consistency by leveraging content-guided attention correction across fine stages. Without any additional training, extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves competitive style fidelity and prompt fidelity compared to fine-tuned baselines, while offering faster inference and greater deployment flexibility.
Beyond the Ground Truth: Enhanced Supervision for Image Restoration
Authors: Donghun Ryou; Inju Ha; Sanghyeok Chu; Bohyung Han
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Deep learning-based image restoration has achieved significant success. However, when addressing real-world degradations, model performance is limited by the quality of ground-truth images in datasets due to practical constraints in data acquisition. To address this limitation, we propose a novel framework that enhances existing ground truth images to provide higher-quality supervision for real-world restoration. Our framework generates perceptually enhanced ground truth images using super-resolution by incorporating adaptive frequency masks, which are learned by a conditional frequency mask generator. These masks guide the optimal fusion of frequency components from the original ground truth and its super-resolved variants, yielding enhanced ground truth images. This frequency-domain mixup preserves the semantic consistency of the original content while selectively enriching perceptual details, preventing hallucinated artifacts that could compromise fidelity. The enhanced ground truth images are used to train a lightweight output refinement network that can be seamlessly integrated with existing restoration models. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach improves the quality of restored images. We further validate the effectiveness of both supervision enhancement and output refinement through user studies.
SineProject: Machine Unlearning for Stable Vision-Language Alignment
Authors: Arpit Garg; Hemanth Saratchandran; Simon Lucey
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) increasingly need to forget specific knowledge, such as unsafe or private information, without full retraining. However, existing unlearning methods often disrupt vision-language alignment, causing models to reject both harmful and benign queries simultaneously. We trace this failure to the projector network: during unlearning, its Jacobian becomes severely ill-conditioned, leading to unstable optimization and drift in cross-modal embeddings. We introduce SineProject, a simple approach that augments the frozen projector with sinusoidally modulated trainable parameters that improve the Jacobian's spectral conditioning and stabilize alignment throughout unlearning. Evaluated across standard safety and privacy unlearning benchmarks using LLaVA-v1.5-7B and 13B, SineProject reduces benign-query refusals while achieving complete forgetting of targeted information, delivering state-of-the-art forget-retain trade-offs with negligible computational overhead
Unlocking Token Rewards via Training-Free Reward Attribution
Authors: Sitong Wu; Haoru Tan; Bin Xia; Xichen Zhang; Jingyao Li; Shaofeng Zhang; Xiaojuan Qi; Bei Yu; Jiaya Jia
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: In this paper, we propose an extremely efficient, training-free method to extract token-level reward signals directly from an existing deep reward model. Our core idea is to attribute the overall process reward to individual tokens by estimating each token's influence. This influence is defined as the change in the final macroscopic reward (e.g., the process reward) when a token is replaced with a semantically null token. Naively calculating this influence is computationally infeasible, requiring N forward passes through the PRM for an N-token sequence. We overcome this bottleneck by proposing a highly efficient gradient-based estimator. Specifically, we use a first-order Taylor approximation, which simplifies the influence calculation to the inner product of the difference between the token embedding and the null token embedding, and the gradient of the reward with respect to the token embedding. This requires only a single forward and backward pass. The resulting token-level rewards enable standard RL algorithms to perform precise credit assignment without requiring additional reward model training. Experiments on challenging reasoning benchmarks demonstrate that our method substantially improves policy optimization efficiency and enhances the generalization of LLM reasoning capabilities. Our P2T outperforms the outcome reward by +4.9% on MathVista for Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct, and +11.5% on AIME24 for Qwen2.5-Math-7B. The code is available at: https://github.com/JIA-Lab-research/P2T.
Delving Aleatoric Uncertainty in Medical Image Segmentation via Vision Foundation Models
Authors: Ruiyang Li; Fang Liu; Licheng Jiao; Xinglin Xie; Jiayao Hao; Shuo Li; Xu Liu; Jingyi Yang; Lingling Li; Puhua Chen; Wenping Ma
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Medical image segmentation supports clinical workflows by precisely delineating anatomical structures and lesions. However, medical image datasets medical image datasets suffer from acquisition noise and annotation ambiguity, causing pervasive data uncertainty that substantially undermines model robustness. Existing research focuses primarily on model architectural improvements and predictive reliability estimation, while systematic exploration of the intrinsic data uncertainty remains insufficient. To address this gap, this work proposes leveraging the universal representation capabilities of visual foundation models to estimate inherent data uncertainty. Specifically, we analyze the feature diversity of the model's decoded representations and quantify their singular value energy to define the semantic perception scale for each class, thereby measuring sample difficulty and aleatoric uncertainty. Based on this foundation, we design two uncertainty-driven application strategies: (1) the aleatoric uncertainty-aware data filtering mechanism to eliminate potentially noisy samples and enhance model learning quality; (2) the dynamic uncertainty-aware optimization strategy that adaptively adjusts class-specific loss weights during training based on the semantic perception scale, combined with a label denoising mechanism to improve training stability. Experimental results on five public datasets encompassing CT and MRI modalities and involving multi-organ and tumor segmentation tasks demonstrate that our method achieves significant and robust performance improvements across various mainstream network architectures, revealing the broad application potential of aleatoric uncertainty in medical image understanding and segmentation tasks. The code is available.
Language Models Can Explain Visual Features via Steering
Authors: Javier Ferrando; Enrique Lopez-Cuena; Pablo Agustin Martin-Torres; Daniel Hinjos; Anna Arias-Duart; Dario Garcia-Gasulla
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Sparse Autoencoders uncover thousands of features in vision models, yet explaining these features without requiring human intervention remains an open challenge. While previous work has proposed generating correlation-based explanations based on top activating input examples, we present a fundamentally different alternative based on causal interventions. We leverage the structure of Vision-Language Models and steer individual SAE features in the vision encoder after providing an empty image. Then, we prompt the language model to explain what it "sees", effectively eliciting the visual concept represented by each feature. Results show that Steering offers an scalable alternative that complements traditional approaches based on input examples, serving as a new axis for automated interpretability in vision models. Moreover, the quality of explanations improves consistently with the scale of the language model, highlighting our method as a promising direction for future research. Finally, we propose Steering-informed Top-k, a hybrid approach that combines the strengths of causal interventions and input-based approaches to achieve state-of-the-art explanation quality without additional computational cost.
PhyOceanCast: Global Ocean Forecasting with Physics-Informed Diffusion
Authors: Qixiu Li; Xiang Zhu; Xiaoyong Li; Xiaolong Xu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Ocean dynamics drive global climate patterns and extreme weather events, making accurate spatiotemporal forecasting essential for climate monitoring and marine operations. Traditional Global Ocean Forecasting Systems (GOFSs) offer high accuracy predictions, yet remain computationally expensive and fail to fully leverage growing historical data. Recent deep learning models have achieved notable success, but still face three fundamental challenges: (1) they homogenize ocean variables despite strong physical coupling via equation-of-state relationships; (2) they neglect spherical geometry, resulting in severe distortions at high latitudes; and (3) they struggle to model multi-scale temporal dynamics. We introduce PhyOceanCast, a physics-informed diffusion model that overcomes these limitations through two key innovations. First, the Spherical Graph Attention Network for Multi-scale Ocean Coupling (SGAN-MOC) preserves spherical topology while enabling cross-variable interactions via heterogeneous encoding and k-hop-constrained attention. Second, the Physics-Informed Wavelet Temporal Coherence (PWTC) module that decomposes ocean dynamics across multiple scales with advection-diffusion constraints. PhyOceanCast forecasts 145 ocean variables, including temperature, salinity, and velocity fields, across 36 depth levels plus sea surface height. Extensive experiments demonstrate superior performance over diffusion, transformer, and hybrid baselines, promising a new paradigm for global ocean canonical variable forecasting.
PanDA: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Multimodal 3D Panoptic Segmentation in Autonomous Driving
Authors: Yining Pan; Shijie Li; Yuchen Wu; Xulei Yang; Na Zhao
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: This paper presents the first study on Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) for multimodal 3D panoptic segmentation (mm-3DPS), aiming to improve generalization under domain shifts commonly encountered in real-world autonomous driving. A straightforward solution is to employ a pseudo-labeling strategy, which is widely used in UDA to generate supervision for unlabeled target data, combined with an mm-3DPS backbone. However, existing supervised mm-3DPS methods rely heavily on strong cross-modal complementarity between LiDAR and RGB inputs, making them fragile under domain shifts where one modality degrades (e.g., poor lighting or adverse weather). Moreover, conventional pseudo-labeling typically retains only high-confidence regions, leading to fragmented masks and incomplete object supervision, which are issues particularly detrimental to panoptic segmentation. To address these challenges, we propose PanDA, the first UDA framework specifically designed for multimodal 3D panoptic segmentation. To improve robustness against single-sensor degradation, we introduce an asymmetric multimodal augmentation that selectively drops regions to simulate domain shifts and improve robust representation learning. To enhance pseudo-label completeness and reliability, we further develop a dual-expert pseudo-label refinement module that extracts domain-invariant priors from both 2D and 3D modalities. Extensive experiments across diverse domain shifts, spanning time, weather, location, and sensor variations, significantly surpass state-of-the-art UDA baselines for 3D semantic segmentation.
FreeArtGS: Articulated Gaussian Splatting Under Free-moving Scenario
Authors: Hang Dai; Hongwei Fan; Han Zhang; Duojin Wu; Jiyao Zhang; Hao Dong
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: The increasing demand for augmented reality and robotics is driving the need for articulated object reconstruction with high scalability. However, existing settings for reconstructing from discrete articulation states or casual monocular videos require non-trivial axis alignment or suffer from insufficient coverage, limiting their applicability. In this paper, we introduce FreeArtGS, a novel method for reconstructing articulated objects under free-moving scenario, a new setting with a simple setup and high scalability. FreeArtGS combines free-moving part segmentation with joint estimation and end-to-end optimization, taking only a monocular RGB-D video as input. By optimizing with the priors from off-the-shelf point-tracking and feature models, the free-moving part segmentation module identifies rigid parts from relative motion under unconstrained capture. The joint estimation module calibrates the unified object-to-camera poses and recovers joint type and axis robustly from part segmentation. Finally, 3DGS-based end-to-end optimization is implemented to jointly reconstruct visual textures, geometry, and joint angles of the articulated object. We conduct experiments on two benchmarks and real-world free-moving articulated objects. Experimental results demonstrate that FreeArtGS consistently excels in reconstructing free-moving articulated objects and remains highly competitive in previous reconstruction settings, proving itself a practical and effective solution for realistic asset generation. The project page is available at: https://freeartgs.github.io/.
ReCoFuse: Ultra-Robust Image Fusion via Restorative Multi-Modal Diffusion Reciprocal Coupling
Authors: Hao Zhang; Shuhan Yang; Linfeng Tang; Xunpeng Yi; Jiayi Ma
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Existing methods following the integrated hard-regression or decoupling optimization paradigms exhibit limited fusion performance under complex degradations. To address these paradigm-level shortcomings, we propose ReCoFuse, an ultra-robust image fusion framework based on restorative multi-modal diffusion reciprocal coupling. ReCoFuse redefines the relationship between information restoration and integration, deriving a novel reciprocal coupling optimization paradigm through their mutual reinforcement. It first constructs two restoration branches using diffusion modules (DiM) to capture modality-specific restoration priors. Then, time-aware cross-modal integration modules (TIM) are introduced as a bridge to couple restoration and integration, embedded at each DiM sampling timestep to aggregate multi-modal information. The aggregated variable not only feeds back to each restoration branch to enhance degradation removal via cross-modal complementarity, but also generates high-quality fused images that comprehensively represent the scene. Moreover, an alternating regularization mechanism is designed to iteratively optimize DiM and TIM along the gradient path, ensuring effective collaboration between restoration and integration. Extensive experiments show that ReCoFuse achieves state-of-the-art performance under challenging degradations such as low light, haze, noise, low contrast, and stripes. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/HaoZhang1018/ReCoFuse.
GraPHFormer: A Multimodal Graph Persistent Homology Transformer for the Analysis of Neuroscience Morphologies
Authors: Uzair Shah; Marco Agus; Mahmoud Gamal; Mahmood Alzubaidi; Corrado Cali; Pierre J. Magistretti; Abdesselam Bouzerdoum; Mowafa Househ
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Neuronal morphology encodes critical information about circuit function, development, and disease, yet current methods analyze topology or graph structure in isolation. We introduce GraPHFormer, a multimodal architecture that unifies these complementary views through CLIP-style contrastive learning. Our vision branch processes a novel three-channel persistence image encoding unweighted, persistence-weighted, and radius-weighted topological densities via DINOv2-ViT-S. In parallel, a TreeLSTM encoder captures geometric and radial attributes from skeleton graphs. Both project to a shared embedding space trained with symmetric InfoNCE loss, augmented by persistence-space transformations that preserve topological semantics. Evaluated on six benchmarks (BIL-6, ACT-4, JML-4, N7, M1-Cell, M1-REG) spanning self-supervised and supervised settings, GraPHFormer achieves state-of-the-art performance on five benchmarks, significantly outperforming topology-only, graph-only, and morphometrics baselines. We demonstrate practical utility by discriminating glial morphologies across cortical regions and species, and detecting signatures of developmental and degenerative processes. Code: https://github.com/Uzshah/GraPHFormer
The Drift Kernel: Why Diffusion Models Change Even When Told Not To
Authors: Gokul Srinath Seetha Ram; Rashmi Elavazhagan
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Even when told to "do nothing," modern diffusion models subtly alter their output relative to the input they are supposed to preserve. We call this effect No-Op Drift. We introduce the Drift Kernel K_M(sigma), defined as the expected perceptual deviation induced when running a diffusion model at noise strength sigma under a null instruction. Using 120,000 baseline samples (30,000 per model across SD15, SD21, SDXL, and InstructPix2Pix) and 9,600 ablation samples (four strengths, null versus strict copy prompts), we show that variance-driven diffusion models follow a quadratic form K_M(sigma) approximately equal to k_M sigma^2 plus c_M, with aggregate R^2 equal to 0.97. We derive this scaling from first principles via a Taylor expansion of the decoder, yielding k_M equal to Tr(J_D J_D^T), which depends only on the decoder Jacobian and not on prompts. To validate mechanistic structure, we construct synthetic decoders that reproduce the two regimes seen in practice: quadratic variance-driven drift and flat, high-variance edit-driven drift. We show that prompt wording has negligible effect (less than 17 percent coefficient difference), proving that drift is structural and not prompt-induced. We release NoOp-Bench, a benchmark with 10,000 inputs and full code for reproducible kernel estimation. Additional proofs, ablations, LPIPS and CLIP metrics, and extended visualizations appear in the Supplementary Material.
Accelerating Autoregressive Video Diffusion via History-Guided Cache and Residual Correction
Authors: Kepan Nan; Wangbo Zhao; Penghao Zhou; Jun Li; Zhenheng Yang; Jian Yang; Ying Tai
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Caching-based acceleration methods have recently driven significant progress in efficient video generation with diffusion models. However, we identify a critical limitation when directly applying these acceleration techniques to auto-regressive video diffusion models, which generate long videos by sequentially synthesizing segments conditioned on historical context. In such settings, any approximation errors introduced by acceleration tend to propagate and accumulate over time, resulting in severe error accumulation and progressive degradation of video quality. To address this challenge, we propose ARCache, the first training-free caching-based acceleration framework specifically designed for auto-regressive video diffusion models. ARCache improves both the timing and quality of caching through two key components. First, History-Guided Cache (HGC) leverages historical information to adaptively schedule caching for each segment, enabling more accurate and efficient cache utilization. Second, Enhanced Residual Correction (ERC) adaptively refines the residual trajectory for subsequent segments, effectively mitigating error accumulation while introducing minimal computational overhead. Extensive experiments on FramePack-F1, SkyReels-V2, and auto-regressive world model Matrix-Game demonstrate that ARCache achieves state-of-the-art acceleration and visual fidelity.
HyperNAS: Enhancing Architecture Representation for NAS Predictor via Hypernetwork
Authors: Jindi Lv; Yuhao Zhou; Yuxin Tian; Qing Ye; Wentao Feng; Jiancheng Lv
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Time-intensive performance evaluations significantly impede progress in Neural Architecture Search (NAS). To address this, neural predictors leverage surrogate models trained on proxy datasets, allowing for direct performance predictions for new architectures.However, these predictors often exhibit poor generalization due to their limited ability to capture intricate relationships among various architectures. In this paper, we propose HyperNAS, a novel neural predictor paradigm for enhancing architecture representation learning. HyperNAS consists of two primary components: a global encoding scheme and a shared hypernetwork. The global encoding scheme is devised to capture the comprehensive macro-structure information, while the shared hypernetwork serves as an auxiliary task to enhance the investigation of inter-architecture patterns. To ensure training stability, we further develop a dynamic adaptive multi-task loss to facilitate personalized exploration on the Pareto front. Extensive experiments across five representative search spaces, including ViTs, demonstrate the advantages of HyperNAS, particularly in few-shot scenarios. For instance, HyperNAS strikes new state-of-the-art results, with 97.60% top-1 accuracy on CIFAR-10 and 82.4% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet, using at least 5.0xfewer samples.