CVPR 2026 Papers

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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4,042papers

Counted from the official paper list; may differ slightly from the number the conference announced.

  • Oral
    1383.4%
  • Poster
    3,90496.6%

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When CLIP Sees More, It Fights Back Harder: Multi-View Guided Adaptive Counterattacks for Test-Time Adversarial Robustness

Sunoh Kim, Daeho Um

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Vision-language models such as CLIP have achieved remarkable zero-shot recognition capabilities, yet their robustness against adversarial perturbations remains limited. Test-time counterattack (TTC) was recently proposed to improve CLIP's robustness by perturbing an input image to steer it away from a corrupted state during inference. However, TTC remains fragile under strong attacks because its counterattack relies on a directly corrupted original view and employs a noise-driven hard-gating scheme that cannot adapt to varying corruption severity. To address these limitations, we introduce Multi-view guided Adaptive Counterattack (MAC), which performs counterattacks for multi-view with corruption-aware soft weighting. Specifically, MAC first constructs augmented views of an input image to obtain diverse embeddings. It then performs counterattacks to refine corrupted embeddings of views. Next, MAC adaptively scales the counterattack intensity for each view based on its estimated corruption degree. Finally, the adaptively counterattacked views are aggregated to yield a robust final prediction. Extensive experiments across 20 datasets and diverse attack scenarios demonstrate that MAC substantially improves robustness while preserving high inference speed and memory efficiency with its tuning-free design. Our code is available at https://github.com/sunoh-kim/MAC.

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MV-Fashion: Towards Enabling Virtual Try-On and Size Estimation with Multi-View Paired Data

Hunor Laczkó, Libang Jia, Loc-Phat Truong, Diego Hernández, Sergio Escalera, Jordi Gonzalez, Meysam Madadi

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Existing 4D human datasets fall short for fashion-specific research, lacking either realistic garment dynamics or task-specific annotations. Synthetic datasets suffer from a realism gap, whereas real-world captures lack the detailed annotations and paired data required for virtual try-on (VTON) and size estimation tasks. To bridge this gap, we introduce MV-Fashion, a large-scale, multi-view video dataset engineered for domain-specific fashion analysis. MV-Fashion features 3,273 sequences (72.5 million frames) from 80 diverse subjects wearing 3-10 outfits each. It is designed to capture complex, real-world garment dynamics, including multiple layers and varied styling (e.g. rolled sleeves, tucked shirt). A core contribution is a rich data representation that includes pixel-level semantic annotations, ground-truth material properties like elasticity, and 3D point clouds. Crucially for VTON applications, MV-Fashion provides paired data: multi-view synchronized captures of worn garments alongside their corresponding flat, catalogue images. We leverage this dataset to establish baselines for fashion-centric tasks, including virtual try-on, clothing size estimation, and novel view synthesis. The dataset is available at https://hunorlaczko.github.io/MV-Fashion.

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GMT: Effective Global Framework for Multi-Camera Multi-Target Tracking

Yihao Zhen, Mingyue Xu, Qiang Wang, Baojie Fan, Jiahua Dong, Tinghui Zhao, Huijie Fan

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Existing Multi-Camera Multi-Target (MCMT) tracking models typically adopt a two-stage framework, involving single-camera tracking followed by inter-camera tracking. However, in this paradigm, the use of multiple views is confined to recovering missed matches in the first stage, providing a limited contribution to overall tracking. To address this issue, we propose a novel global MCMT tracking framework termed GMT, which effectively leverages the advantage of multi-view by performing global-level trajectory-target matching. Specifically, instead of assigning trajectories independently for each view, we propose a Cross-View Feature Consistency Enhancement(CFCE) module to reduce the feature discrepancies across different views, and encode the same historical targets across different views as global trajectories. The Global Trajectory Associate (GTA) module is then introduced to associate new targets to global trajectories, allowing the model to jointly exploit both intra-view and inter-view cues during tracking. Compared with the two-stage framework, the GMT achieves significant improvements on existing datasets, with gains of up to 13.1% in CVMA in and 19.2% in CVIDF1. Moreover, we present VisionTrack, a high-quality, large-scale MCMT dataset encompassing diverse scenes with varying illumination and target distributions, providing significantly greater diversity than existing datasets. Our code and dataset will be released at https://github.com/FoxCanned/GMT.

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Universal Guideline-Driven Image Clustering via a Hybrid LLM Agent

Wenliang Zhong, Rob Barton, Lucas Goncalves, Kushal Kumar, Feng Jiang, Hehuan Ma, Yuzhi Guo, Vidit Bansal, Karim Bouyarmane, Junzhou Huang

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Unifying image clustering across different clustering scenarios remains challenging due to fundamental gaps among tasks. We introduce a Guideline-Driven Image Clustering Agent, the first universal framework that bridges these gaps through textual guidelines. To incorporate complex guidelines without task-specific training, we propose Generative Concept Proxy Modeling, which generates guideline-aware embeddings via concept proxy extraction. For scenarios requiring automatic cluster discovery, we introduce LLM Traversal based on Minimum Spanning Tree that selectively applies LLM reasoning for complex semantic judgments. Our method generalizes across diverse clustering scenarios spanning from general to fine-grained categorization, from global to local criteria, and from balanced to long-tail distributions. Our framework consistently outperforms specialized methods across diverse clustering tasks.

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MANSION: Multi-floor lANguage-to-3D Scene generatIOn for loNg-horizon tasks

Lirong Che, Shuo Wen, Shan Huang, Chuang Wang, Yuzhe Yang, Gregory Dudek, Xueqian Wang, Jian Su

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Real-world robotic tasks are long-horizon and often span multiple floors, demanding rich spatial reasoning. However, existing embodied benchmarks are largely confined to single-floor in-house environments, failing to reflect the complexity of real-world tasks. We introduce MANSION, the first language-driven framework for generating building-scale, multi-floor 3D environments. Being aware of vertical structural constraints, MANSION generates realistic, navigable whole-building structures with diverse, human-friendly scenes, enabling the development and evaluation of cross-floor long-horizon tasks. Building on this framework, we release MansionWorld, a dataset of over 1,000 diverse buildings ranging from hospitals to offices, alongside a Task-Semantic Scene Editing Agent that customizes these environments using open-vocabulary commands to meet specific user needs. Benchmarking reveals that state-of-the-art agents degrade sharply in our settings, establishing MANSION as a critical testbed for the next generation of spatial reasoning and planning.

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Ego2Web: A Web Agent Benchmark Grounded in Egocentric Videos

Shoubin Yu, Lei Shu, Antoine Yang, Yao Fu, Srinivas Sunkara, Maria Wang, Jindong Chen, Mohit Bansal, Boqing Gong

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Multimodal AI agents are increasingly automating complex real-world workflows that involve online web execution. However, current web-agent benchmarks suffer from a critical limitation: they focus entirely on web-based interaction and perception, lacking grounding in the user's real-world physical surroundings. This limitation prevents evaluation in crucial scenarios, such as when an agent must use egocentric visual perception (e.g., via AR glasses) to recognize an object in the user's surroundings and then complete a related task online (e.g., making a purchase related to that object). To address this gap, we introduce Ego2Web, the first benchmark designed to bridge egocentric video perception and web agent execution. Ego2Web pairs real-world first-person video recordings with web tasks that require visual understanding, web task planning, and interaction in an online environment for successful completion. We utilize an automatic data-generation pipeline combined with human verification and refinement to curate well- constructed, high-quality video-task pairs across diverse task types, including e-commerce, media retrieval, knowledge lookup, etc. To facilitate accurate and scalable evaluation for our benchmark, we also develop a novel LLM-as-a-Judge automatic evaluation method, Ego2WebJudge, which achieves approximately 84% agreement with human judgment, substantially higher than existing evaluation methods. Experiments with diverse SoTA agents on our Ego2Web benchmark show that their performance is still weak, with substantial headroom across all task categories. We also conduct a comprehensive ablation study on task design, highlighting the necessity of accurate video understanding in Ego2Web and the limitations of current agents. We hope Ego2Web can be a critical new resource for developing capable AI assistants that can seamlessly see, understand, and act across the physical and digital worlds.

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Tackling Model Bias via Game-theoretic Multi-agent Collaboration Framework for Hateful Meme Classification

Yiwei Wei, Zhengliang Guo, Shaozu Yuan, Chengyin Hu, Zhiyang Jia, Jiujiang Guo, Meng Chen, Peiying Wang, Longbiao Wang

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Hateful meme classification aims to identify memes containing hateful content and has become increasingly important in the era of social media dominance. Large multimodal models (LMMs) have significantly enhanced the understanding of multimodal content, advancing this field. However, cognitive biases in LMMs can impede effective collaboration among models. To address this issue, we introduce GECO, a Game-theoretic multi-agEnt Collaboration framewOrk that organizes multiple LMMs into interacting agents and employs game-theoretic principles to guide them toward an optimal cooperative equilibrium. GECO integrates a mixed bonus scheme, incorporating both individual accuracy and cross-model agreement to promote convergence toward a consistent cooperative solution. In addition, we implement efficient policy learning and introduce a penalty coefficient to optimize the framework effectively and ensure training stability. Extensive experiments on five publicly available benchmarks demonstrate that our framework achieves new state-of-the-art performance.

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AREA3D: Active Reconstruction Agent with Unified Feed-Forward 3D Perception and Vision-Language Guidance

Tianling Xu, Shengzhe Gan, Leslie Gu, Yuelei Li, Fangneng Zhan, Hanspeter Pfister

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Active 3D reconstruction enables an agent to autonomously select viewpoints to build accurate and complete scene geometry efficiently, rather than passively reconstructing scenes from pre-collected images. Existing active reconstruction methods often rely on geometric heuristics, which may result in redundant observations without improving reconstruction quality. To address this, we propose AREA3D, an active reconstruction agent for 3D reconstruction by leveraging feed-forward 3D models and vision-language guidance. The framework decouples view uncertainty modeling from feed-forward reconstruction, enabling precise uncertainty estimation without online optimization. Moreover, the integrated Vision-Language Model provides high-level semantic guidance that guides exploration beyond purely geometric cues. Extensive experiments on both scene-level and object-level benchmarks (Replica and OmniObject3D) demonstrate that AREA3D achieves state-of-the-art reconstruction accuracy, especially in sparse views.

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InterAgent: Physics-based Multi-agent Command Execution via Diffusion on Interaction Graphs

Bin Li, Ruichi Zhang, Han Liang, Jingyan Zhang, Juze Zhang, Xin Chen, Lan Xu, Jingyi Yu, Jingya Wang

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Humanoid agents are expected to emulate the complex coordination inherent in human social behaviors. However, existing methods are largely confined to single-agent scenarios, overlooking the physically plausible interplay essential for multi-agent interactions. To bridge this gap, we propose InterAgent, the first end-to-end framework for text-driven physics-based multi-agent humanoid control. At its core, we introduce an autoregressive diffusion transformer equipped with multi-stream blocks, which decouples proprioception, exteroception, and action to mitigate cross-modal interference while enabling synergistic coordination. We further propose a novel interaction graph exteroception representation that explicitly captures fine-grained joint-to-joint spatial dependencies to facilitate network learning. Additionally, within it we devise a sparse edge-based attention mechanism that dynamically prunes redundant connections and emphasizes critical inter-agent spatial relations, thereby enhancing the robustness of interaction modeling. Extensive experiments demonstrate that InterAgent consistently outperforms multiple strong baselines, achieving state-of-the-art performance. It enables producing coherent, physically plausible, and semantically faithful multi-agent behaviors from only text prompts. Project page: \tt \small \href https://binlee26.github.io/InterAgent-Page https://binlee26.github.io/InterAgent-Page .

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HFR and HDR Video from Multi-Attenuated Spikes Using a Rapidly Rotating SpokeND Filter

Yakun Chang, Zhaojun Huang, Siqi Yang, Yeliduosi Xiaokaiti, Shikui Wei, Yao Zhao, Tiejun Huang, Boxin Shi

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Capturing scenes with both high dynamic range (HDR) and high-speed motion remains challenging for conventional cameras. Existing alternating-exposure approaches exacerbate temporal resolution loss, making them unsuitable for high-speed scenes. Consequently, current solutions typically compromise either spatial resolution through fixed spatial-varying attenuation levels or employ multi-sensor configurations to maintain temporal resolution. In this paper, we leverage an ultra-high speed spike camera to enable spatial and temporal attenuation of incident light, thereby reconstructing high frame rate (HFR) and HDR video with a single sensor. We achieve this by placing a rapidly rotating spoke-pattern neutral density (SpokeND) filter in front of the spike camera, enabling each pixel to periodically capture multi-attenuated spikes while maintaining full spatial resolution. Building on these multi-attenuated spikes, we propose ReST-Net, which comprises the ReGain and ReFine modules. The ReGain module reconstructs spatially consistent frames by learning to recover relative gain from the multi-attenuated spikes, and the ReFine module removes temporal fluctuations to produce temporally consistent HDR videos. Extensive experiments on synthetic and real-world data demonstrate that our method can reconstruct HDR video at up to 2000 FPS.

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MER-Tracker: Towards High-Speed 3D Point Tracking via Multi-View Event-RGB Hybrid Cameras

Yiqian Chang, Qinghong Ye, Haoran Xu, Jianing Li, Dongyang Ma, Xuan Wang, Wei Zhang, Yonghong Tian, Peixi Peng

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This paper proposes the first task for high-speed 3D point tracking using multi-view Event-RGB hybrid cameras. We design a cuboid observation device comprising 4 RGB cameras (30fps) and 2 Event cameras to synchronously capture high-speed motions, and propose MER-Tracker, a high-frame-rate 3D point-tracking network that fuses the complementary strengths of dual modalities. We first respectively extract 2D motion-change features from the RGB and Event modalities, then apply linear interpolation and anchor sampling to fuse the discrete RGB 3D features and continuous Event 3D features after 3D lifting, and finally employ a LoRA-tuned Transformer based on temporal correlationship to predict the high-frame-rate 3D point trajectories over fast motions, accomplishing high-speed 3D point tracking. To verify the effectiveness of our method, we construct both real-world and simulated high-speed motion datasets. Experiments on these datasets show that our method achieves accurate high-speed 3D point tracking at high-frame-rate (150fps), outperforming state-of-the-art methods.

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GaussianMatch: Semi-Supervised Regression with Pseudo-Label Filtering via Multi-View Gaussian Consistency

Yin Wang, Hao Lu, Zixuan Wang, Zhen Qin, Li Kuang, Mengchu Zhou, Shuiguang Deng

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Semi-Supervised Regression (SSR) is essential in domains like sentiment analysis and healthcare where labeled data is limited but unlabeled data is plentiful. Despite its practical importance, SSR remains underexplored due to the lack of effective pseudo-labeling strategies for continuous outputs. Unlike classification, regression lacks inherent confidence measures, making it harder to filter and trust pseudo-labels. This limitation permits low-quality pseudo-labels to propagate during training without proper validation, significantly amplifying prediction errors in SSR frameworks. In this work, we propose GaussianMatch, a novel SSR framework enabling high-quality pseudo-label filtering, which selects reliable pseudo-labels through multi-view prediction consistency under feature-space smoothness assumptions. It has introduces two key innovations: 1) Gaussian Consistency Filter (GCF) that quantifies prediction consistency across weakly augmented views through Gaussian similarity scoring, retaining pseudo-labels only when all predictions fall within a confidence interval; 2) Adaptive Gaussian Standard Deviation Smoothing (AGDS) that enhances GCF's robustness through a Bayesian-regularized curriculum that phases confidence intervals from warm-up conservative bounds to progressively tightened thresholds. The use of AGDS ensures stable and reliable pseudo-label filtering throughout training. Extensive experiments demonstrate that GaussianMatch performs strongly across varying data conditions, showing notable robustness under extreme label scarcity. For instance, it outperforms the state of the art on UTKFace (30 labels), reducing error by 15.36% and improving the Coefficient of Determination by 50.21%. Our code is available at https://github.com/pywin/GaussianMatch.

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TaskForce: Cooperative Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Multi-task Optimization

Wonhyeok Choi, Kyumin Hwang, Jihun Park, Kyoungmin Lee, Seunghun Lee, Jaeyeul Kim, Minwoo Choi, Sunghoon Im

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Multi-task learning (MTL) involves the simultaneous optimization of multiple task-specific losses, often leading to gradient conflicts and scale imbalances that result in negative transfer. While existing multi-task optimization methods attempt to mitigate these challenges, they either lack the stochasticity needed to escape poor local minima or fail to explicitly address conflicts at the gradient level. In this work, we propose TaskForce, a novel multi-task optimization framework incorporating cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), where agents learn to find an effective joint optimization strategy based on their respective task gradients and losses. To keep the optimization process compact yet informative, agents observe a summary of the training dynamics that consists of the gradient Gram matrix---capturing both gradient magnitudes and pairwise alignments---and task loss values. Each agent then predicts the balancing parameters that determine the weight of their contribution to the final gradient update. Crucially, we design a hybrid reward function that incorporates both gradient-based signals and loss improvement dynamics, enabling agents to effectively resolve gradient conflicts and avoid poor convergence by considering both direct gradient information and the resulting impact on loss reduction. TaskForce achieves consistent improvements over state-of-the-art MTL baselines on NYU-v2, Cityscapes, and QM9, demonstrating the promise of cooperative MARL in complex multi-task scenarios.

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SkySense-VITA: Towards Universal In-context Segmentation of Multi-modal Remote Sensing Imagery

Kang Wu, Lei Yu, Junwei Luo, Bo Dang, Junjian Zhang, Xiangyuan Cai, Hongwei Hu, JingDong Chen, Yansheng Li

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While recent foundation models for remote sensing segmentation have shown notable progress, they still fall short in processing diverse multi-modal inputs, synergizing complementary prompt types, and leveraging semantic hierarchies. To address these limitations, we introduce SkySense-VITA, a unified in-context segmentation model, which synergistically processes both optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery using VIsual, TextuAl, or fused prompts. Based on a novel prompt-and-prediction decoupling strategy, we propose the VITA-Former and VITA-Decoder to decouple multi-modal prompt fusion and prediction process, allowing the model to flexibly support visual-only, textual-only, and fused prompt modes. We train SkySense-VITA with a progressive two-stage strategy: a first stage of Image-Level Alignment Pretraining featuring optical-SAR alignment, and a second stage of Pixel-Level In-context Pretraining using Semantic Granularity Annealing (SGA), a coarse-to-fine curriculum that enables robust hierarchical learning. To support this training, we introduce our new large-scale, multi-modal Sky-VT-300k dataset. Extensive experiments show SkySense-VITA establishes a new state-of-the-art (SOTA) on 18 datasets, with an average performance lead of over 10% mean Intersection over Union (mIoU).

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Unsupervised Multi-agent and Single-agent Perception from Cooperative Views

Haochen Yang, Baolu Li, Lei Li, Delin Ren, Jiacheng Guo, Minghai Qin, Tianyun Zhang, Hongkai Yu

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The LiDAR-based multi-agent and single-agent perception has shown promising performance in environmental understanding for robots and automated vehicles. However, there is no existing method that simultaneously solves both multi-agent and single-agent perception in an unsupervised way. By sharing sensor data between multiple agents via communication, this paper discovers two key insights: 1) Improved point cloud density after the data sharing from cooperative views could benefit unsupervised object classification, 2) Cooperative view of multiple agents can be used as unsupervised guidance for the 3D object detection in the single view. Based on these two discovered insights, we propose an Unsupervised Multi-agent and Single-agent (UMS) perception framework that leverages multi-agent cooperation without human annotations to simultaneously solve multi-agent and single-agent perception. UMS combines a learning-based Proposal Purifying Filter to better classify the candidate proposals after multi-agent point cloud density cooperation, followed by a Progressive Proposal Stabilizing module to yield reliable pseudo labels by the easy-to-hard curriculum learning. Furthermore, we design a Cross-View Consensus Learning to use multi-agent cooperative view to guide detection in single-agent view. Experimental results on two public datasets V2V4Real and OPV2V show that our UMS method achieved significantly higher 3D detection performance than the state-of-the-art methods on both multi-agent and single-agent perception tasks in an unsupervised setting.

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OmniZip: Learning a Unified and Lightweight Lossless Compressor for Multi-Modal Data

Yan Zhao, Zhengxue Cheng, Junxuan Zhang, Dajiang Zhou, Qunshan Gu, Qi Wang, Li Song

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Lossless compression is essential for efficient data storage and transmission. Although learning-based lossless compressors achieve strong results, most of them are designed for a single modality, leading to redundant compressor deployments in multi-modal settings. Designing a unified multi-modal compressor is critical yet challenging, as different data types vary largely in format, dimension, and statistics. Multi-modal large language models offer a promising resolution but remain too complex for practical use. Thus, we propose OmniZip, a unified and lightweight lossless compressor for multi-modal data (like image, text, speech, tactile, database, and gene sequence). Built on a lightweight backbone, OmniZip incorporates three key components to enable efficient multi-modal lossless compression: a modality-unified tokenizer that reversibly transforms diverse data into tokens, a modality-routing context learning mechanism that enables flexible multi-modal context modeling, and a modality-routing feedforward design that further enhances the model's nonlinear representation flexibility. A reparameterization training strategy is used to enhance model capacity. It outperforms or matches other state-of-the-art compressors on multiple modalities, achieving 42%, 57%, 62% and 42%, 53% higher compression efficiency than gzip on CLIC-M, TouchandGo, enwik9, LibriSpeech, and WikiSQL datasets, respectively. It also supports near real-time inference on resource-constrained edge devices, reaching up to 1MB/s on MacBook CPUs and iPhone NPUs. Our code will be released upon acceptance.

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Reliev3R: Relieving Feed-forward 3D Reconstruction from Multi-View Geometric Annotations

Youyu Chen, Junjun Jiang, Yueru Luo, Kui Jiang, Xianming Liu, Xu Yan, Dave Zhenyu Chen

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With recent advances, Feed-forward Reconstruction Models (FFRMs) have demonstrated great potential in reconstruction quality and adaptiveness to multiple downstream tasks. However, the excessive reliance on multi-view geometric annotations, e.g. 3D point maps and camera poses, makes the fully-supervised training scheme of FFRMs difficult to scale up.In this paper, we propose Reliev3R, a weakly-supervised paradigm for training FFRMs from scratch without cost-prohibitive multi-view geometric annotations. Relieving the reliance on geometric sensory data and compute-exhaustive structure-from-motion preprocessing, our method draws 3D knowledge directly from monocular relative depths and image sparse correspondences given by zero-shot predictions of pretrained models.At the core of Reliev3R, we design an ambiguity-aware relative depth loss and a trigonometry-based reprojection loss to facilitate supervision for multi-view geometric consistency.Training from scratch with the less data, Reliev3R catches up with its fully-supervised sibling models, taking a step towards low-cost 3D reconstruction supervisions and scalable FFRMs.

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Revisiting F-measure Optimization in Multi-Label Classification: A Sampling-based Approach

Zixun Wang

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The F-measure is a widely used metric in multi-label classification, where multiple labels are predicted simultaneously for a single instance. The optimal prediction rule for F-measure requires estimating q^2+1 probabilities, where q is the number of labels. Existing approaches train q multinomial estimators (multi-class classifiers) to directly estimate these probabilities, followed by a matrix multiplication for making predictions. However, this method has two major drawbacks. First, the matrix multiplication incurs a time complexity of \mathcal O (q^3), which becomes computationally expensive for large q. Second, training multinomial estimators is challenging due to the sparsity of the underlying distributions, which results from the inherent imbalance in multi-label datasets and is further exacerbated by the label transformation required by the method itself. In this paper, we first demonstrate that matrix multiplication can be reformulated as a series of convolutions by exploiting a special structure in the matrix. These convolutions can then be efficiently computed using the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), reducing the time complexity to \mathcal O (q^2\log q). To avoid multinomial label transformation, we propose an indirect sampling-then-estimation approach to estimate the required probabilities. This method trains only q binary estimators instead of multinomial ones, thereby alleviating the sparsity issue, simplifying the training process, and improving performance. We provide theoretical guarantees for the consistency of the proposed sampling-based method and demonstrate its effectiveness through extensive experiments on diverse datasets. The code is available in: https://github.com/ZixunWang/MLC-F1-Sampling.

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FedHarmony: Harmonizing Heterogeneous Label Correlations in Federated Multi-Label Learning

Zhiqiang Kou, Junxiang Wu, Wenke Huang, Wenwen He, Ming-Kun Xie, Changwei Wang, Yuheng Jia, Di Jiang, Yang Liu, Xin Geng, Qiang Yang

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Federated Multi-Label Learning is a distributed paradigm where multiple clients possess heterogeneous multi-label data and perform collaborative learning under privacy constraints without sharing raw data. However, modeling label correlations under heterogeneous distributions remains challenging. Due to client-specific label spaces and varying co-occurrence patterns, correlations learned by individual clients inevitably deviate from the global structure, a phenomenon we term label correlation drift. To address this, we propose FedHarmony, a framework that harmonizes heterogeneous label correlations across clients. It introduces consensus correlation, capturing agreement among clients and serving as a global teacher to correct biased local estimates. During aggregation, FedHarmony evaluates each client by both data size and correlation quality, assigning weights accordingly. Moreover, we develop an accelerated optimization algorithm and theoretically establish faster convergence without sacrificing accuracy. Experiments on real-world federated multi-label datasets show that FedHarmony consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods.

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Adaptive Data Augmentation with Multi-armed Bandit: Sample-Efficient Embedding Calibration for Implicit Pattern Recognition

Minxue Tang, Yangyang Yu, Aolin Ding, Maziyar Baran Pouyan, Taha Belkhouja, Yujia Bao

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Recognizing visual and textual patterns is essential in many real-world applications of modern AI. However, tackling long-tail pattern recognition tasks remains challenging for current pre-trained foundation models such as LLMs and VLMs. While finetuning pre-trained models can improve accuracy in recognizing such implicit patterns, it is usually infeasible due to a lack of training data and high computational overhead. In this paper, we propose ADAMAB, an efficient embedding calibration framework for few-shot pattern recognition. To maximally reduce the computational costs, ADAMAB trains embedder-agnostic light-weight calibrators on top of fixed embedding models without accessing their parameters. To mitigate the need for large-scale training data, we introduce an adaptive data augmentation strategy based on the Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) mechanism. With a modified upper confidence bound algorithm, ADAMAB diminishes the gradient shifting and offers theoretically guaranteed convergence in few-shot training. Our multi-modal experiments justify the superior performance of ADAMAB, with up to 40% accuracy improvement when training with less than 5 initial data samples of each class.

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