CVPR 2026 Papers

Color transfer aims to match the color distribution of a content image (source) to that of a style image (target) while preserving structure and perceptual realism. Yet modulation-based flow models such as ModFlows often produce trajectory misalignment and artifacts because they rely on strictly linear transport paths. We propose NCT, a nonlinear color transfer framework that replaces linear paths with Bezier trajectories, enabling smooth, nonlinear, and perceptually coherent color transfer. This parameterization lets the transport bend toward plausible intermediate color regimes, improving content-style alignment and reducing chromatic distortion. We further incorporate a Mixture of Experts (MoE) module in the encoder to select trajectory experts for different chromatic regimes, improving generalization to heterogeneous data with complex illumination and materials. Experiments show that NCT reduces artifacts and achieves more stable color transfer than prior flow-based methods, especially on 3D-rendered or highly textured images. The code is provided in supplementary materials.

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) excel at vision-language tasks, but they suffer from high computational inefficiency. To reduce inference overhead, expert skipping methods have been proposed to deactivate redundant experts based on the current input tokens. However, we find that applying these methods--originally designed for unimodal large language models (LLMs)--to MLLMs results in considerable performance degradation. This is primarily because such methods fail to account for the heterogeneous contributions of experts across MoE layers and modality-specific behaviors of tokens within these layers. Motivated by these findings, we propose MoDES, the first training-free framework that adaptively skips experts to enable efficient and accurate MoE MLLM inference. It incorporates a globally-modulated local gating (GMLG) mechanism that integrates global layer-wise importance into local routing probabilities to accurately estimate per-token expert importance. A dual-modality thresholding (DMT) method is then applied, which processes tokens from each modality separately, to derive the skipping schedule. To set the optimal thresholds, we introduce a frontier search algorithm that exploits monotonicity properties, cutting convergence time from several days to a few hours. Extensive experiments for 3 model series across 13 benchmarks demonstrate that MoDES far outperforms previous approaches. For instance, when skipping 88% experts for Qwen3-VL-MoE-30B-A3B-Instruct, the performance boost is up to **10.67%** (97.33% vs. 86.66%). Furthermore, MoDES significantly enhances inference speed, improving the prefilling time by **2.16x** and the decoding time by **1.26x**.

Existing anomaly detection methods often treat the modality and class as independent factors. Although this paradigm has enriched the development of AD research branches and produced many specialized models, it has also led to fragmented solutions and excessive memory overhead. Moreover, reconstruction-based multi-class approaches typically rely on shared decoding paths, which struggle to handle large variations across domains, resulting in distorted normality boundaries, domain interference, and high false alarm rates.To address these limitations, we propose UniMMAD, a unified framework for multi-modal and multi-class anomaly detection. At the core of UniMMAD is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)-driven feature decompression mechanism, which enables adaptive and disentangled reconstruction tailored to specific domains.This process is guided by a "general - specific" paradigm. In the encoding stage, multi-modal inputs of varying combinations are compressed into compact, general-purpose features. The encoder incorporates a feature compression module to suppress latent anomalies, encourage cross-modal interaction, and avoid shortcut learning.In the decoding stage, the general features are decompressed into modality-specific and class-specific forms via a sparsely-gated cross MoE, which dynamically selects expert pathways based on input modality and class. To further improve efficiency, we design a grouped dynamic filtering mechanism and an MoE-in-MoE structure, reducing MoE parameter usage by approximately 75% while maintaining sparse activation and fast inference. UniMMAD achieves state-of-the-art performance on 9 anomaly detection datasets, spanning 3 fields, 12 modalities, and 66 classes. Code is publicly available at https://github.com/yuanzhao-CVLAB/UniMMAD.

Adapting production-level computer vision tools to bespoke scientific datasets is a critical "last mile" bottleneck. Current solutions are impractical: fine-tuning requires large annotated datasets scientists often lack, while manual code adaptation costs scientists weeks to months of effort. We consider using AI agents to automate this manual coding, and focus on the open question of optimal agent design for this targeted task. We introduce a systematic evaluation framework for agentic code optimization and use it to study three production-level biomedical imaging pipelines. We demonstrate that a simple agent framework consistently generates adaptation code that outperforms human-expert solutions. Our analysis reveals that common, complex agent architectures are not universally beneficial, leading to a practical roadmap for agent design. We open source our framework and validate our approach by deploying agent-generated functions into a production pipeline, demonstrating a clear pathway for real-world impact.

Sparse Upcycling provides an efficient way to initialize a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from pretrained dense weights instead of training from scratch. However, since all experts start from identical weights and the router is randomly initialized, the model suffers from expert symmetry and limited early specialization. We propose Cluster- aware Upcycling, a strategy that incorporates semantic structure into MoE initialization. Our method first partitions the dense model's input activations into semantic clusters. Each expert is then initialized using the subspace representations of its corresponding cluster via truncated SVD, while setting the router's initial weights to the cluster centroids. This cluster-aware initialization breaks expert symmetry and encourages early specialization aligned with the data distribution. Furthermore, we introduce an expert-ensemble self-distillation loss that stabilizes training by providing reliable routing guidance using an ensemble teacher. When evaluated on CLIP ViT-B/32 and ViT-B/16, Cluster-aware Upcycling consistently outperforms existing methods across both zero-shot and few-shot benchmarks. The proposed method also produces more diverse and dis- entangled expert representations, reduces inter-expert similarity, and leads to more confident routing behavior.

Unified diffusion editors often rely on a fixed, shared backbone for diverse tasks, suffering from task interference and poor adaptation to heterogeneous demands (e.g., local vs global, semantic vs photometric). In particular, prevalent ControlNet and OmniControl variants combine multiple conditioning signals (e.g., text, mask, reference) via static concatenation or additive adapters which cannot dynamically prioritize or suppress conflicting modalities, thus resulting in artifacts like color bleeding across mask boundaries, identity or style drift, and unpredictable behavior under multi-condition inputs. To address this, we propose Condition-Aware Routing of Experts (CARE-Edit) that aligns model computation with specific editing competencies. At its core, a lightweight latent-attention router assigns encoded diffusion tokens to four specialized experts--Text, Mask, Reference, and Base--based on multi-modal conditions and diffusion timesteps: (i) a Mask Repaint module first refines coarse user-defined masks for precise spatial guidance; (ii) the router applies sparse top-K selection to dynamically allocate computation to the most relevant experts; (iii) a Latent Mixture module subsequently fuses expert outputs, coherently integrating semantic, spatial, and stylistic information to the base images. Experiments validate CARE-Edit's strong performance on contextual editing tasks, including erasure, replacement, text-driven edits, and style transfer. Empirical analysis further reveals task-specific behavior of specialized experts, showcasing the importance of dynamic, condition-aware processing to mitigate multi-condition conflicts. The source code, models, and dataset will be publicly available.

While Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning using Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) is a promising solution for continual learning (CL), it suffers from two critical failure modes: structural interference, where expert updates interfere, and compositional forgetting, where the model's routing policy drifts. To address these issues, we introduce Spectral MoE, a novel framework built for CL from three core components. First, Spectral Experts are parameterized using unique, disjoint spectral masks to confine their learnable parameters to distinct frequency subspaces, ensuring a priori orthogonal updates that prevent structural interference. Second, a Dual-Router mechanism decouples online routing that learns new tasks from an offline memory that archives historical expert importance. Finally, this offline memory enables a Dynamic Consistency Projection, a geometric constraint that suppresses router drift and adaptively shields experts based on their past contributions, mitigating compositional forgetting. Validated on a strict cross-domain CL benchmark, our framework significantly outperforms existing methods, demonstrating superior knowledge retention and plasticity for new tasks. Code is available at: https://github.com/ouycc/Spectral_MoE.

Test-Time Adaptive Segmentation (TTA-Seg) aims to adapt a trained segmentation model to test data under distribution shift in an unsupervised manner. Existing approaches typically utilize class-wise prototypes to capture and transfer the source distribution, but inevitably neglect the diversity within source samples. In this paper, we propose a new test-time adaptation paradigm based on the mixture-of-experts (MoE), where domain experts are designed to 1) better capture the source distribution, and 2) dynamically adjust their contribution in test case prediction. Specifically, during source training, prototypes are derived as the class-wise average for source pixel features. We then generate multiple experts through clustering these prototypes, providing each class with several experts with enhanced representativeness. At test time, each instance prediction is drawn from all experts' knowledge in an adaptive manner, i.e., a gating network assigns weights according to instance-expert correlations. To optimize the system, we devise a min-max entropy optimization scheme for the gating network but keeping the rest frozen, minimizing the entropy of model prediction but maximizing the entropy in expert selection. Consequently, the model is urged to derive confident predictions with effective utilization of domain experts, hence promoting the adaptation.Experiments on two scenarios, Test-time Adaptation (TTA) and the more challenging continual TTA, demonstrate that our approach achieves the new state-of-the-art performance.

Diffusion-based stylization has advanced significantly, yet existing methods are limited to color-driven transformations, neglecting complex semantics and material details. We introduce StyleExpert, a semantic-aware framework based on Mixture of Experts (MoE).Our framework employs a unified style encoder, trained on our large-scale dataset of content-style-stylized triplets, to embed diverse styles into a consistent latent space. This embedding is then used to condition a similarity-aware gating mechanism, which dynamically routes styles to specialized experts within the MoE architecture. Leveraging this MoE architecture, our method adeptly handles diverse styles spanning multiple semantic levels, from shallow textures to deep semantics. Extensive experiments show that StyleExpert outperforms existing approaches in preserving semantics and material details, while generalizing to unseen styles.

Multi-modal learning approaches that integrate pathological images with genomic profiles have significantly enhanced the accuracy of survival prediction tasks. However, previous methods often struggle to effectively process long-range gigapixel whole slide images (WSIs) and sparse genomic profiles due to the limitations of conventional scanning strategies to serialize data and the complex and heterogeneous nature of the modalities. Inspired by recent advancements in Mamba and mixture of experts (MoE), we propose a novel multi-directional composite scanning strategy with mixture of attention and Mamba experts (MDCS-MoAME) for cancer survival prediction. Specifically, we introduce a multi-directional composite scanning (MDCS) strategy to both WSIs and genomic profiles, and use the Mamba encoder to process intra-modal representations at the region, patch, and gene level, ensuring sufficient utilization of the intrinsic information within each modality. To further capture heterogeneous inter-modal representations, we introduce mixture of attention and Mamba experts (MoAME), which dynamically selects tailored experts to model complex inter-modal correlations, flexibly focusing on the interactions between modalities. Finally, we introduce alignment constraints to recalibrate inter-modal interactions and reduce intra- and inter-modal representation redundancy, enhancing its discriminative power for comprehensive survival analysis. Experimental results on five publicly available datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms existing approaches, achieving state-of-the-art performance.

Unified image generation and editing models suffer from severe task interference in dense diffusion transformers architectures, where a shared parameter space must compromise between conflicting objectives (e.g., local editing v.s. subject-driven generation). While the sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) paradigm is a promising solution, its gating networks remain task-agnostic, operating based on local features, unaware of global task intent. This task-agnostic nature prevents meaningful specialization and fails to resolve the underlying task interference.In this paper, we propose a novel framework to inject semantic intent into MoE routing. We introduce a Hierarchical Task Semantic Annotation scheme to create structured task descriptors (e.g., scope, type, preservation). We then design Predictive Alignment Regularization to align internal routing decisions with the task's high-level semantics. This regularization evolves the gating network from a task-agnostic executor to a dispatch center. Our model effectively mitigates task interference, outperforming dense baselines in fidelity and quality, and our analysis shows that experts naturally develop clear and semantically correlated specializations.

Transformer architecture search (TAS) discovers optimal vision transformer (ViT) architectures automatically, reducing human effort to manually design ViTs. However, existing TAS methods suffer from the feature collapse problem, where subnets within a supernet fail to learn subnet-specific features, mainly due to the shared weights in a supernet, limiting the performance of individual subnets. To address this, we propose TAS-LoRA, a novel method that introduces parameter-efficient low-rank adaptation (LoRA) to enable subnet-specific feature learning, while maintaining computational efficiency. TAS-LoRA incorporates a Mixture-of-LoRA-Experts (MoLE) strategy, where a lightweight router dynamically assigns LoRA experts based on subnet architectures, and introduces a group-wise router initialization technique to encourage diverse feature learning across experts early in training. Extensive experiments on ImageNet and several transfer learning benchmarks, including CIFAR-10/100, Flowers, CARS, and INAT-19, demonstrate that TAS-LoRA mitigates feature collapse effectively, improving performance over state-of-the-art TAS methods significantly.

High-quality segmentations are critical in vision tasks where boundary accuracy is important (e.g., medical diagnostics, quality control, etc.). Recently, promptable vision models have emerged as effective backbones for segmentation refinement frameworks. However, their performance not only hinges on prompt quality, they also must overcome noisy input masks and semantically ambiguous outputs from promptable models. Existing prompt-based refiners rely on fixed prompt rules, making them brittle to changing failure modes and new tasks or domains. We propose PromptMoE, a model-agnostic MoE-driven prompting refiner effective in segmentation refinement across tasks and domains. PromptMoE features three collaborative modules to refine an initial mask: our MoE-based Image-Informed Prompting framework (IIP) takes an image and coarse mask and produces a set of expert score maps to guide prompt generation, the Dynamic Expert Selector (DES) activates only the most relevant experts and fuses their maps to avoid dense evaluation and signal dilution, and the Prompt-Placement Explorer (PPE) explores the fused guidance map to place high-confidence spatially diverse point prompts. Across five benchmark datasets (BIG, VOC, DAVIS585, ECSSD, MSRA-B), PromptMoE achieves statistically significant gains over SOTA methods CascadePSP, SegRefiner, and SAMRefiner on semantic, instance, and salient tasks, with mean improvements of +6.24 IoU / +8.99 BIoU.

With the rapid development of pre-training technologies, adapting large-scale Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for video understanding i.e. image-to-video transfer learning has become a dominant paradigm. To achieve superior performance, it raises as an effective strategy among recent advances to employ Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) to enhance VLMs' temporal modeling capabilities. However, conventional MoE designs suffer from expert homogenization, where all experts act as identical generalists, inefficiently learning spatio-temporal features from undifferentiated video streams.To overcome this problem, we propose VidPrism, a novel heterogeneous temporal Mixture-of-Experts framework. VidPrism pioneers a division of labor by deploying functionally specialized experts, each assuming a role ranging from spatial understanding to temporal modeling.To feed these specialists appropriately, we introduce a content-aware, multi-rate sampling module that dynamically generates streams ranging from semantically rich to motion-focused representations, providing specialized inputs for experts.Furthermore, a dynamic, bidirectional fusion mechanism enables synergistic information exchange between these pathways, leading to a comprehensive video representation. Extensive experiments on various video recognition benchmarks demonstrate that VidPrism achieves state-of-the-art performance and effectively fosters expert specialization.

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) has become a prevalent backbone for large vision-language models (VLMs), yet how modality-specific signals should guide expert routing remains under-explored. Existing routing strategies are either hand-crafted or modality-agnostic, relying on idealized priors that ignore the layer-dependent modality fusion patterns in MoE-VLMs and provide little guidance for expert specialization. We propose Soft Modality-guided Expert Specialization (SMoES), which consists of dynamic soft modality scores that capture layer-dependent fusion patterns, an expert binning mechanism aligned with expert-parallel deployment, and an inter-bin mutual information regularization that encourages coherent modality specialization. Our method leverages attention-based or Gaussian-statistics modality scores to optimize mutual information regularization. Experiments across four MoE-based VLMs and 16 benchmarks demonstrate improvement on both effectiveness and efficiency: 0.9% and 4.2% average gain on multimodal and language-only tasks, 56.1% reduction in EP communication overhead, and 12.3% throughput improvement under realistic deployment. These results validate that aligning routing with modality-aware expert specialization unlocks MoE-VLM capacity and efficiency.

Visual in-context learning (VICL) enables visual foundation models to handle multiple tasks by steering them with demonstrative prompts. The choice of such prompts largely influences VICL performance, standing out as a key challenge. Prior work has made substantial progress on prompt retrieval and reranking strategies, but mainly focuses on prompt images while overlooking labels. We reveal these approaches sometimes get visually similar but label-inconsistent prompts, which potentially degrade VICL performance. On the other hand, higher label consistency between query and prompts preferably indicates stronger VICL results. Motivated by these findings, we develop a framework named LaPR (Label-aware Prompt Retrieval), which highlights the role of labels in prompt selection. Our framework first designs an image-label joint representation for prompts to incorporate label cues explicitly. Besides, to handle unavailable query labels at test time, we introduce a mixture-of-expert mechanism to the dual encoders with query-adaptive routing. Each expert is expected to capture a specific label mode, while the router infers query-adaptive mixture weights and helps to learn label-aware representation. We carefully design alternative optimization for experts and router, with a VICL performance-guided contrastive loss and a label-guided contrastive loss, respectively. Extensive experiments show promising and consistent improvement of LaPR on in-context segmentation, detection, and colorization tasks. Moreover, LaPR generalizes well across feature extractors and cross-fold scenarios, suggesting the importance of label utilization in prompt retrieval for VICL. Code is available at https://github.com/luotc-why/CVPR26-LaPR.

Medical image segmentation is vital for clinical diagnosis and quantitative analysis, yet remains challenging due to the heterogeneity of imaging modalities and the high cost of pixel-level annotations. Although general interactive segmentation models like SAM have achieved remarkable progress, their transfer to medical imaging still faces two key bottlenecks: (i) the lack of adaptive mechanisms for modality- and anatomy-specific tasks, which limits generalization in out-of-distribution medical scenarios; and (ii) current medical adaptation methods fine-tune on large, heterogeneous datasets without selection, leading to noisy supervision, higher cost, and negative transfer. To address these issues, we propose SegMoTE, an efficient and adaptive framework for medical image segmentation. SegMoTE preserves SAM's original prompt interface, efficient inference, and zero-shot generalization while introducing only a small number of learnable parameters to dynamically adapt across modalities and tasks. In addition, we design a progressive prompt tokenization mechanism that enables fully automatic segmentation, significantly reducing annotation dependence. Trained on MedSeg-HQ, a curated dataset less than 1% of existing large-scale datasets, SegMoTE achieves SOTA performance across diverse imaging modalities and anatomical tasks. It represents the first efficient, robust, and scalable adaptation of general segmentation models to the medical domain under extremely low annotation cost, advancing the practical deployment of foundation vision models in clinical applications.

Sketch editing requires jointly handling high-level semantic changes and precise local redrawing, a combination that is particularly challenging for sparse, style-sensitive line art. Unlike natural images, sketches rely on minimal visual cues, making it difficult for existing methods to reconcile global semantic modifications with fine-grained structural control while preserving overall coherence. We present SketchAssist, an interactive sketch assistant that unifies instruction-guided editing with line-guided region redrawing, enabling efficient and controllable sketch manipulation while preserving overall composition. To support this task, we introduce a controllable data generation pipeline that constructs structured edit sequences with precise attribute variations and maintains structural alignment across multi-step modifications, while expanding stylistic diversity via style-preserving transformations. Building on this data, SketchAssist adopts a unified framework based on DiT, using a multi-channel input representation to encode sketches, masks, and guidance signals within a single interface. To further handle different editing modes, we integrate a Task-guided Mixture-of-Experts (T-MoE) into LoRA layers, enabling adaptive control over semantic and structural guidance. Extensive experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on both tasks, achieving strong instruction adherence and improved structural and style consistency compared to recent methods. Together, our method provide a practical and controllable solution for sketch editing.

Domain Generalization Semantic Segmentation (DGSS) in spectral remote sensing is severely challenged by spectral shifts across diverse acquisition conditions, which cause significant performance degradation for models deployed in unseen domains. While fine-tuning foundation models is a promising direction, existing methods employ global, homogeneous adjustments. This "one-size-fits-all" tuning struggles with the spatial heterogeneity of land cover, causing semantic confusion. We argue that the key to robust DGSS lies not in a single global adaptation, but in performing fine-grained, spatially-adaptive refinement of a foundation model's features. To achieve this, we propose SpectralMoE, a novel fine-tuning framework for DGSS. It operationalizes this principle by utilizing a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture to perform local precise refinement on the foundation model's features, incorporating depth features estimated from selected RGB bands of the spectral remote sensing imagery to guide the fine-tuning process. Specifically, SpectralMoE employs a dual-gated MoE architecture that independently routes visual and depth features to top-k selected experts for specialized refinement, enabling modality-specific adjustments. A subsequent cross-attention mechanism then judiciously fuses the refined structural cues into the visual stream, mitigating semantic ambiguities caused by spectral variations. Extensive experiments show that SpectralMoE sets a new state-of-the-art on multiple DGSS benchmarks across hyperspectral, multispectral, and RGB remote sensing imagery.