GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
OralGPT-Plus: Learning to Use Visual Tools via Reinforcement Learning for Panoramic X-ray Analysis
Authors: Yuxuan Fan; Jing Hao; Hong Chen; Jiahao Bao; Yihua Shao; Yuci Liang; Kuo Feng Hung; Hao Tang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Panoramic dental radiographs require fine-grained spatial reasoning, bilateral symmetry understanding, and multi-step diagnostic verification, yet existing vision-language models operate under a static single-pass paradigm that limits their clinical reliability. In this paper, we introduce OralGPT-Plus, an agentic vision-language model designed to perform iterative and symmetry-aware diagnostic reasoning for panoramic dental radiograph analysis. To support this paradigm, we construct DentalProbe, a five-thousand-image dataset with expert-curated diagnostic trajectories that provide structured supervision for localized inspection and contralateral comparison. We further develop a Reinspection-driven reinforcement learning framework that encourages clinically meaningful re-examination and stabilizes long-horizon reasoning with rubric-based reward and conditioned diagnostic-driven reward. In parallel, we present MMOral-X, the first benchmark for holistic panoramic diagnosis, containing 300 open-ended questions and region-level annotations across multiple difficulty levels. OralGPT-Plus demonstrates consistent and reliable improvements over strong baselines on MMOral-X and established panoramic benchmarks, indicating the effectiveness of interactive and symmetry-informed reasoning. Our work highlights the value of agentic modeling for dental imaging and provides a foundation for future research in clinically aligned panoramic radiograph analysis.
LS-ViT: Least-Squares Hessian Based Block Reconstruction for Low-Bit Post-Training Quantization of Vision Transformers
Authors: Hyunha Hwang; Xuan Truong Nguyen; Hyuk-Jae Lee
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved state-of-the-art results across various vision tasks. To enable a practical deployment of ViTs on modern hardware systems, post-training quantization (PTQ) has been actively studied in recent years. In particular, Hessian-based block reconstruction approaches have demonstrated promising results in quantizing ViT models to ultra-low bitwidths (e.g., 4-bit). However, finding a representative approximate Hessian, a fundamental step in recent approaches such as APHQ-ViT and FIMA-Q, remains underexplored in terms of the quantization-induced error and estimation cost. To address these shortcomings, we first reveal that the sample independence assumption used in recent works, which ignores the covariance term, can lead to a significant approximation error, especially for sub-four-bits. Inspired by least-squares regression, we propose LS-ViT, a block reconstruction framework that effectively estimates a representative Hessian by explicitly minimizing this approximation error across all samples. Extensive experiments with various ViT models across different vision tasks demonstrate that LS-ViT achieves new state-of-the-art performance. In addition, LS-ViT reduces quantization time compared to prior work, enabling a practical, plug-and-play, quantization-aware deployment for ViTs. The source code is available.
CURE: Curriculum-guided Multi-task Training for Reliable Anatomy Grounded Report Generation
Authors: Pablo Messina; Andrés Villa; Juan Leon Alcazar; Karen Sanchez; Carlos Hinojosa; Denis Parra; Alvaro Soto; Bernard Ghanem
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Medical vision-language models can automate the generation of radiology reports but struggle with accurate visual grounding and factual consistency. Existing models often misalign textual findings with visual evidence, leading to unreliable or weakly grounded predictions. We present "CURE", an error-aware curriculum learning framework that improves grounding and report quality without any additional data. CURE tunes a multimodal instructional model on phrase grounding, grounded report generation, and anatomy-grounded report generation using public datasets. The method dynamically adjusts sampling based on model performance emphasizing on harder samples to improve spatial and textual alignment. CURE improves grounding accuracy by +0.35 IoU, boosts report quality by +0.192 CXRFEScore, and reduces hallucinations by 18.6%. CURE is a data-efficient framework that enhances both grounding accuracy and report reliability.
Text-Phase Synergy Network with Dual Priors for Unsupervised Cross-Domain Image Retrieval
Authors: Jing Yang; Hui Xue; Shipeng Zhu; Pengfei Fang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: This paper studies unsupervised cross-domain image retrieval (UCDIR), which aims to retrieve images of the same category across different domains without relying on labeled data. Existing methods typically utilize pseudo-labels, derived from clustering algorithms, as supervisory signals for intra-domain representation learning and cross-domain feature alignment. However, these discrete pseudo-labels often fail to provide accurate and comprehensive semantic guidance. Moreover, the alignment process frequently overlooks the entanglement between domain-specific and semantic information, leading to semantic degradation in the learned representations and ultimately impairing retrieval performance. This paper addresses the limitations by proposing a Text-Phase Synergy Network with Dual Priors (TPSNet). Specifically, we first employ CLIP to generate a set of class-specific prompts per domain, termed as domain prompt, serving as a text prior that offers more precise semantic supervision. In parallel, we further introduce a phase prior, represented by domain-invariant phase features, which is integrated into the original image representations to bridge the domain distribution gaps while preserving semantic integrity. Leveraging the synergy of these dual priors, TPSNet significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on UCDIR benchmarks.
DrivePI: Spatial-aware 4D MLLM for Unified Autonomous Driving Understanding, Perception, Prediction and Planning
Authors: Zhe Liu; Runhui Huang; Rui Yang; Siming Yan; Zining Wang; Lu Hou; Di Lin; Xiang Bai; Hengshuang Zhao
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Although multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong capabilities across diverse domains, their application in generating fine-grained 3D perception and prediction outputs in autonomous driving remains underexplored. In this paper, we propose DrivePI, a novel spatial-aware 4D MLLM that serves as a unified Vision-Language-Action (VLA) framework that is also compatible with vision-action (VA) models. Our method jointly performs spatial understanding, 3D perception (i.e., 3D occupancy), prediction (i.e., occupancy flow), and planning (i.e., action outputs) in parallel through end-to-end optimization. To obtain both precise geometric information and rich visual appearance, our approach integrates point clouds, multi-view images, and language instructions within a unified MLLM architecture. We further develop a data engine to generate text-occupancy and text-flow QA pairs for 4D spatial understanding. Remarkably, with only a 0.5B Qwen2.5 model as MLLM backbone, DrivePI as a single unified model matches or exceeds both existing VLA models and specialized VA models. Specifically, compared to VLA models, DrivePI outperforms OpenDriveVLA-7B  by 2.5% mean accuracy on nuScenes-QA and reduces collision rate by 70% over ORION (from 0.37% to 0.11%) on nuScenes. Against specialized VA models, DrivePI surpasses FB-OCC by 10.3 RayIoU for 3D occupancy on OpenOcc, reduces the mAVE from 0.591 to 0.509 for occupancy flow on OpenOcc, and achieves 32% lower L2 error than VAD (from 0.72m to 0.49m) for planning on nuScenes. Code will be available at https://github.com/happinesslz/DrivePI.
Learning complete and explainable visual representations from itemized text supervision
Authors: Yiwei Lyu; Chenhui Zhao; Soumyanil Banerjee; Shixuan Liu; Akshay Rao; Akhil Kondepudi; Honglak Lee; Todd C. Hollon
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Training vision models with language supervision enables general and transferable representations. However, many visual domains, especially non-object-centric domains such as medical imaging and remote sensing, contain itemized text annotations: multiple text items describing distinct and semantically independent findings within a single image. Such supervision differs from standard multi-caption supervision, where captions are redundant or highly overlapping. Here, we introduce ItemizedCLIP, a framework for learning complete and explainable visual representations from itemized text supervision. ItemizedCLIP employs a cross-attention module to produce text item-conditioned visual embeddings and a set of tailored objectives that jointly enforce item independence (distinct regions for distinct items) and representation completeness (coverage of all items). Across four domains with naturally itemized text supervision (brain MRI, head CT, chest CT, remote sensing) and one additional synthetically itemized dataset, ItemizedCLIP achieves substantial improvements in zero-shot performance and fine-grained interpretability over baselines. The resulting ItemizedCLIP representations are semantically grounded, item-differentiable, complete, and visually interpretable.
Charge: A Comprehensive Novel View Synthesis Benchmark and Dataset to Bind Them All
Authors: Michal Nazarczuk; Thomas Tanay; Arthur Moreau; Zhensong Zhang; Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: This paper presents a new dataset for Novel View Synthesis, generated from a high-quality, animated film with stunning realism and intricate detail. Our dataset captures a variety of dynamic scenes, complete with detailed textures, lighting, and motion, making it ideal for training and evaluating cutting-edge 4D scene reconstruction and novel view generation models. In addition to high-fidelity RGB images, we provide multiple complementary modalities, including depth, surface normals, object segmentation and optical flow, enabling a deeper understanding of scene geometry and motion. The dataset is organised into three distinct benchmarking scenarios: a dense multi-view camera setup, a sparse camera arrangement, and monocular video sequences, enabling a wide range of experimentation and comparison across varying levels of data sparsity. With its combination of visual richness, high-quality annotations, and diverse experimental setups, this dataset offers a unique resource for pushing the boundaries of view synthesis and 3D vision.
Your Latent Mask is Wrong: Pixel-Equivalent Latent Compositing for Diffusion Models
Authors: Rowan Bradbury; Dazhi Zhong
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Latent inpainting in diffusion models still relies almost universally on linearly interpolating VAE latents under a downsampled mask. We propose a key principle for compositing image latents: Pixel-Equivalent Latent Compositing (PELC). An equivalent latent compositor should be the same as compositing in pixel space. This principle enables full-resolution mask control and true soft-edge alpha compositing, even though VAEs compress images 8x spatially. Modern VAEs capture global context beyond patch-aligned local structure, so linear latent blending cannot be pixel-equivalent: it produces large artifacts at mask seams and global degradation and color shifts. We introduce DecFormer, a 7.7M-parameter transformer that predicts per-channel blend weights and an off-manifold residual correction to realize mask-consistent latent fusion. DecFormer is trained so that decoding after fusion matches pixel-space alpha compositing, is plug-compatible with existing diffusion pipelines, requires no backbone finetuning and adds only 0.07% of FLUX.1-Dev's parameters and 3.5% FLOP overhead. On the FLUX.1 family, DecFormer restores global color consistency, soft-mask support, sharp boundaries, and high-fidelity masking, reducing error metrics around edges by up to 53% over standard mask interpolation. Used as an inpainting prior, a lightweight LoRA on FLUX.1-Dev with DecFormer achieves fidelity comparable to FLUX.1-Fill, a fully finetuned inpainting model. While we focus on inpainting, PELC is a general recipe for pixel-equivalent latent editing, as we demonstrate on a complex color-correction task.
NAF: Zero-Shot Feature Upsampling via Neighborhood Attention Filtering
Authors: Loïck Chambon; Paul Couairon; Éloi Zablocki; Alexandre Boulch; Nicolas Thome; Matthieu Cord
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) extract spatially downsampled representations, posing challenges for pixel-level tasks. Existing upsampling approaches face a fundamental trade-off: classical filters are fast and broadly applicable but rely on fixed forms, while modern upsamplers achieve superior accuracy through learnable, VFM-specific forms at the cost of retraining for each VFM. We introduce Neighborhood Attention Filtering (NAF), which bridges this gap by learning adaptive spatial-and-content weights through Cross-Scale Neighborhood Attention and Rotary Position Embeddings (RoPE), guided solely by the high-resolution input image. NAF operates zero-shot: it upsamples features from any VFM without retraining, making it the first VFM-agnostic architecture to outperform VFM-specific upsamplers and achieve state-of-the-art performance across multiple downstream tasks. It maintains high efficiency, scaling to 2K feature maps and reconstructing intermediate-resolution maps at 18 FPS. Beyond feature upsampling, NAF demonstrates strong performance on image restoration, highlighting its versatility. Code and checkpoints are available at https://github.com/valeoai/NAF.
WOD-E2E: Waymo Open Dataset for End-to-End Driving in Challenging Long-tail Scenarios
Authors: Runsheng Xu; Hubert Lin; Wonseok Jeon; Hao Feng; Yuliang Zou; Liting Sun; John Gorman; Kate Tolstaya; Sarah Tang; Brandyn White; Ben Sapp; Mingxing Tan; Jyh-Jing Hwang; Dragomir Anguelov
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Vision-based end-to-end (E2E) driving has garnered interest in the research community due to its scalability and synergy with multimodal large language models (MLLMs). However, current E2E driving benchmarks primarily feature nominal scenarios paired with existing open-loop evaluation metrics that fall short in capturing the multimodal nature of driving or effectively evaluating performance in long-tail scenarios. To address these gaps, we introduce the Waymo Open Dataset for End-to-End Driving (WOD-E2E). WOD-E2E contains 4,021 driving segments (approximately 12 hours), specifically curated for challenging long-tail scenarios that are rare in daily life with an occurring frequency of less than 0.03%. Each segment in WOD-E2E includes the high-level routing information, ego states, and 360-degree camera views from 8 surrounding cameras. To evaluate E2E driving performance on these long-tail situations, we propose a novel open-loop evaluation metric: Rater Feedback Score (RFS). Unlike conventional distance-based metrics, RFS measures how closely a predicted trajectory matches rater-annotated trajectory preference labels. WOD-E2E includes rater preference labels for validation, and a separate held out test set is used for the 2025 WOD-E2E Challenge benchmark leaderboard.
NoRD: A Data-Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model that Drives without Reasoning
Authors: Ishaan Rawal; Shubh Gupta; Yihan Hu; Wei Zhan
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are advancing autonomous driving by replacing modular pipelines with unified end-to-end architectures. Current VLAs face two challenges: (1) they require extensive datasets annotated with reasoning traces, and (2) these traces greatly increase token counts, inflating training and inference costs. We propose NoRD (No Reasoning for Driving), a data- and inference-efficient VLA that addresses both. Compared to existing VLAs, NoRD achieves competitive performance while being fine-tuned on atleast <60% of the data and no reasoning annotations, resulting in 3x fewer tokens. Our approach applies Reinforcement Learning (RL) to fine-tune a Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) policy trained on a small, reasoning-free dataset. However, we observe that the standard RL algorithm, Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), fails to yield significant improvements over this data-efficient SFT policy. We find that this limitation stems from difficulty bias, which disproportionately penalizes reward signals from scenarios that produce high-variance rollouts within GRPO. NoRD overcomes this limitation by incorporating Dr.GRPO, a recent algorithm designed to mitigate difficulty bias in LLMs. As a result, NoRD achieves competitive performance on Waymo and NAVSIM without large datasets, reasoning or additional inputs, enabling scalable, data-efficient training, and fast inference.
Personalized Longitudinal Medical Report Generation via Temporally-Aware Federated Adaptation
Authors: He Zhu; Ren Togo; Takahiro Ogawa; Kenji Hirata; Minghui Tang; Takaaki Yoshimura; Hiroyuki Sugimori; Noriko Nishioka; Yukie Shimizu; Kohsuke Kudo; Miki Haseyama
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Automatic medical report generation from multimodal longitudinal imaging is crucial for clinical diagnosis but remains challenging due to privacy constraints and evolving disease dynamics. While federated learning (FL) enables decentralized model training without data sharing, its extension to longitudinal medical modeling remains underexplored. Existing FL approaches overlook temporal non-stationarity across visits and patient-specific heterogeneity, causing unstable optimization and degraded report quality.We introduce Federated Temporal Adaptation (FTA), a new FL setting for longitudinal medical report generation, and propose FedTAR, a framework combining parameter-efficient personalization and meta-learned temporal aggregation. FedTAR employs a metadata-conditioned LoRA module that generates patient-specific adapters from Gaussian-mixture embeddings and a residual temporal aggregation scheme that adaptively weights client updates via first-order MAML, ensuring stable and efficient optimization under temporal heterogeneity.Experiments on J-MID (1M exams) and MIMIC-CXR demonstrate consistent improvements in linguistic accuracy, temporal coherence, and cross-site generalization, establishing FedTAR as a robust, privacy-preserving paradigm for federated multimodal longitudinal modeling.
AR2-4FV: Anchored Referring and Re-identification for Long-Term Grounding in Fixed-View Videos
Authors: Teng Yan; Yihan Liu; Jiongxu Chen; Teng Wang; Jiaqi Li; Bingzhuo Zhong
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Long-term language-guided referring in fixed-view videos is challenging: the referent may be occluded or leave the scene for long intervals and later re-enter, while framewise referring pipelines drift as re-identification (ReID) becomes unreliable. AR2-4FV leverages background stability for long-term referring. An offline Anchor Bank is distilled from static background structures; at inference, the text query is aligned with this bank to produce an Anchor Map that serves as persistent semantic memory when the referent is absent. An anchor-based re-entry prior accelerates re-capture upon return, and a lightweight ReID-Gating mechanism maintains identity continuity using displacement cues in the anchor frame. The system predicts per-frame bounding boxes without assuming the target is visible in the first frame or explicitly modeling appearance variations. AR2-4FV achieves +10.3% Re-Capture Rate (RCR) improvement and -24.2% Re-Capture Latency (RCL) reduction over the best baseline, and ablation studies further confirm the benefits of the Anchor Map, re-entry prior, and ReID-Gating.
Sparse-View Localization via Online Neural 3D Regression
Authors: Ludvig Dillén; Magnus Oskarsson; Viktor Larsson
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: We present ON3R, an online-trained neural regressor addressing sparse-view structureless localization, where database images have limited visual overlap and no prebuilt 3D map. Given any sparse matches between a query and a K-tuple of posed database views, ON3R predicts 3D coordinates for matched query keypoints, supervised by database reprojection residuals and a monocular depth prior. Afterwards, the absolute pose of the query is estimated via P3P-RANSAC and refined with lightweight bundle adjustment. Across MegaDepth, Cambridge Landmarks, and a sparsified version of Aachen Day-Night, ON3R outperforms existing methods. ON3R is particularly effective when the data is extremely sparse -- we focus on K\!\leq\!10 database images. The code is available at https://github.com/ludvigdillen/ON3R.
Free-Grained Hierarchical Visual Recognition
Authors: Seulki Park; Zilin Wang; Stella X. Yu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Hierarchical image recognition aims to predict labels across a semantic taxonomy, typically assuming fine-grained annotations for every image. However, real-world supervision may appear at any level: a distant bird may only be labeled as "Bird", while a clear image allows "Bald eagle". To reflect this reality, we introduce free-grained hierarchical recognition, where training labels can appear at any level of a taxonomy, requiring consistent predictions under partial and mixed supervision. We construct benchmark datasets with varying label granularity and show that existing hierarchical methods degrade significantly in this setting. To address this, we propose simple yet effective approaches that leverage 1) semantic guidance from vision-language models and 2) visual structure through semi-supervised learning. Finally, we study free-grained inference, where the model adaptively selects prediction depth, enabling reliable coarse predictions when fine-grained ones are uncertain. Together, our task, datasets, and methods provide a practical step toward hierarchical recognition in real-world scenarios.
KV-Tracker: Real-Time Pose Tracking with Transformers
Authors: Marwan Taher; Ignacio Alzugaray; Kirill Mazur; Xin Kong; Andrew Davison
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Multi-view 3D geometry networks offer a powerful prior but are prohibitively slow for real-time applications. We propose a novel way to adapt them for online use, enabling real-time 6-DoF pose tracking and online reconstruction of objects and scenes from monocular RGB videos. Our method rapidly selects and manages a set of images as keyframes to map a scene or object via \pi^3 [??] with full bidirectional attention. We then cache the global self-attention block's key-value (KV) pairs and use them as the sole scene representation for online tracking. This allows for up to 15xspeedup during inference without the fear of drift or catastrophic forgetting. Our caching strategy is model-agnostic and can be applied to other off-the-shelf multi-view networks without retraining. We demonstrate KV-Tracker on both scene-level tracking and the more challenging task of on-the-fly object tracking and reconstruction without depth measurements or object priors. Experiments on the TUM RGB-D, 7-Scenes, Arctic and OnePose datasets show the strong performance of our system while maintaining high frame-rates up to  ~ 30 FPS.