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Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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VladVA: Discriminative Fine-tuning of LVLMs

Yassine Ouali, Adrian Bulat, Alexandros Xenos, Anestis Zaganidis, Ioannis Maniadis Metaxas, Brais Martinez, Georgios Tzimiropoulos

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Contrastively-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP have become the de facto approach for discriminative vision-language representation learning. However, these models have limited language understanding, often exhibiting a "bag of words" behavior. At the same time, Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), which combine vision encoders with LLMs, have been shown to be capable of detailed vision-language reasoning, yet their autoregressive nature renders them less suitable for discriminative tasks. In this work, we propose to combine "the best of both worlds": a new training approach for discriminative fine-tuning of LVLMs that results in strong discriminative and compositional capabilities. Essentially, our approach converts a generative LVLM into a discriminative one, unlocking its capability for powerful image-text discrimination combined with enhanced language understanding. Our contributions include (1) A carefully designed training/optimization framework that utilizes image-text pairs of variable length and granularity for training the model with both contrastive and next-token prediction losses. This is accompanied by ablation studies that justify the necessity of our framework's components. (2) A parameter-efficient adaptation method using a combination of soft prompting and LoRA adapters. (3) Significant improvements over state-of-the-art CLIP-like models of similar size, including standard image-text retrieval benchmarks and notable gains in compositionality.

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Universal Domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation

Seun-An Choe, Keon-Hee Park, Jinwoo Choi, Gyeong-Moon Park

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Unsupervised domain adaptation for semantic segmentation (UDA-SS) aims to transfer knowledge from labeled synthetic data (source) to unlabeled real-world data (target). Traditional UDA-SS methods work on the assumption that the category settings between the source and target domains are known in advance. However, in real-world scenarios, the category settings of the source and target are unknown due to the lack of labels in the target, resulting in the existence of target-private or source-private classes. Traditional UDA-SS methods struggle with this change, leading to negative transfer and performance degradation. To address these issues, we propose Universal Domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation (UniDA-SS) for the first time to achieve good performance even when the category settings of source and target are unknown. We defined the problem in the UniDA-SS scenario as that the confidence score of common Unsupervised domain adaptation for semantic segmentation (UDA-SS) aims to transfer knowledge from labeled source data to unlabeled target data. However, traditional UDA-SS methods assume that category settings between source and target domains are known, which is unrealistic in real-world scenarios. This leads to performance degradation if private private classes exist. To address this limitation, we propose Universal Domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation (UniDA-SS), achieving robust adaptation even without prior knowledge of category settings. We define the problem in the UniDA-SS scenario as low confidence scores of common classes in the target domain, which leads to confusion with private classes. To solve this problem, we propose UniMAP: UniDA-SS with Image Ma tching and Prototype-based Distinction, a novel framework composed of two key components. First, Domain-Specific Prototype-based Distinction (DSPD) divides each class into two domain-specific prototypes, enabling finer separation of domain-specific features and enhancing the identification of common classes across domains. Second, Target-based Image Matching (TIM) selects a source image containing the most common-class pixels based on the target pseudo-label and pairs it in a batch to promote effective learning of common classes. We also introduce a new UniDA-SS benchmark and demonstrate through various experiments that UniMAP significantly outperforms baselines. The code is available at https://github.com/KU-VGI/UniDA-SS.

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UniSTD: Towards Unified Spatio-Temporal Learning across Diverse Disciplines

Chen Tang, Xinzhu Ma, Encheng Su, Xiufeng Song, Xiaohong Liu, Wei-Hong Li, Lei Bai, Wanli Ouyang, Xiangyu Yue

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Traditional spatiotemporal models generally rely on task-specific architectures, which limit their generalizability and scalability across diverse tasks due to domain-specific design requirements. In this paper, we introduce UniSTD, a unified Transformer-based framework for spatiotemporal modeling, which is inspired by advances in recent foundation models with the two-stage pretraining-then-adaption paradigm. Specifically, our work demonstrates that task-agnostic pretraining on 2D vision and vision-text datasets can build a generalizable model foundation for spatiotemporal learning, followed by specialized joint training on spatiotemporal datasets to enhance task-specific adaptability. To improve the learning capabilities across domains, our framework employs a rank-adaptive mixture-of-expert adaptation by using fractional interpolation to relax the discrete variables so that can be optimized in the continuous space. Additionally, we introduce a temporal module to incorporate temporal dynamics explicitly. We evaluate our approach on a large-scale dataset covering 10 tasks across 4 disciplines, demonstrating that a unified spatiotemporal model can achieve scalable, cross-task learning and support up to 10 tasks simultaneously within one model while reducing training costs in multi-domain applications. Code will be available at https://github.com/1hunters/UniSTD.

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Tuning the Frequencies: Robust Training for Sinusoidal Neural Networks

Tiago Novello, Diana Aldana, Andre Araujo, Luiz Velho

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Sinusoidal neural networks have been shown effective as implicit neural representations (INRs) of low-dimensional signals, due to their smoothness and high representation capacity. However, initializing and training them remain empirical tasks which lack on deeper understanding to guide the learning process. To fill this gap, our work introduces a theoretical framework that explains the capacity property of sinusoidal networks and offers robust control mechanisms for initialization and training. Our analysis is based on a novel amplitude-phase expansion of the sinusoidal multilayer perceptron, showing how its layer compositions produce a large number of new frequencies expressed as integer combinations of the input frequencies. This relationship can be directly used to initialize the input neurons, as a form of spectral sampling, and to bound the network's spectrum while training. Our method, referred to as TUNER (TUNing sinusoidal nEtwoRks), greatly improves the stability and convergence of sinusoidal INR training, leading to detailed reconstructions, while preventing overfitting.

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Towards Stable and Storage-efficient Dataset Distillation: Matching Convexified Trajectory

Wenliang Zhong, Haoyu Tang, Qinghai Zheng, Mingzhu Xu, Yupeng Hu, Weili Guan

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The rapid evolution of deep learning and large language models has led to an exponential growth in the demand for training data, prompting the development of Dataset Distillation methods to address the challenges of managing large datasets. Among these, Matching Training Trajectories (MTT) has been a prominent approach, which replicates the training trajectory of an expert network on real data with a synthetic dataset. However, our investigation found that this method suffers from three significant limitations: 1. Instability of expert trajectory generated by Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD); 2. Low convergence speed of the distillation process; 3. High storage consumption of the expert trajectory. To address these issues, we offer a new perspective on understanding the essence of Dataset Distillation and MTT through a simple transformation of the objective function, and introduce a novel method called Matching Convexified Trajectory (MCT), which aims to provide better guidance for the student trajectory. MCT creates convex combinations of expert trajectories by selecting a few expert models, guiding student networks to converge quickly and stably. This trajectory is not only easier to store, but also enables continuous sampling strategies during the distillation process, ensuring thorough learning and fitting of the entire expert trajectory. The comprehensive experiment of three public datasets verified that MCT is superior to the traditional MTT method.

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Towards More General Video-based Deepfake Detection through Facial Component Guided Adaptation for Foundation Model

Yue-Hua Han, Tai-Ming Huang, Kai-Lung Hua, Jun-cheng Chen

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The current deep generative models have enabled the creation of synthetic facial images with remarkable photorealism, raising significant societal concerns over their potential misuse. Despite rapid advancements in the field of deepfake detection, developing an efficient and effective approach for the generalized deepfake detection of unseen forgery samples remains challenging. To address this challenge, we leverage the rich semantic priors of foundation models and propose a novel side-network-based decoder that extracts spatial and temporal cues using the CLIP image encoder for generalized video-based Deepfake detection. Additionally, we introduce Facial Component Guidance (FCG) to enhance spatial learning generalizability by encouraging the model to focus on key facial regions. By leveraging the generic features of a vision-language foundation model, our approach demonstrates promising generalizability on challenging Deepfake datasets while also exhibiting superiority in training data efficiency, parameter efficiency, and model robustness. The source code is available at: https://github.com/aiiu-lab/DFD-FCG.

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TopV: Compatible Token Pruning with Inference Time Optimization for Fast and Low-Memory Multimodal Vision Language Model

Cheng Yang, Yang Sui, Jinqi Xiao, Lingyi Huang, Yu Gong, Chendi Li, Jinghua Yan, Yu Bai, Ponnuswamy Sadayappan, Xia Hu, Bo Yuan

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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demand substantial computational resources during inference, largely due to the extensive visual input tokens for representing visual information. Previous studies have noted that visual tokens tend to receive less attention than text tokens, suggesting their lower importance during inference and potential for pruning. However, their methods encounter several chal- lenges: reliance on greedy heuristic criteria for token im- portance and incompatibility with FlashAttention and KV cache. To address these issues, we introduce TopV, a com- patible TOken Pruning with inference Time Optimization for fast and low-memory VLM, achieving efficient pruning without additional training or fine-tuning. Instead of re- lying on attention scores, we formulate token pruning as an optimization problem, accurately identifying important visual tokens while remaining compatible with FlashAtten- tion. Additionally, since we only perform this pruning once during the prefilling stage, it effectively reduces KV cache size. Our optimization framework incorporates a visual- aware cost function considering factors such as Feature Similarity, Relative Spatial Distance, and Absolute Central Distance, to measure the importance of each source visual token, enabling effective pruning of low-importance tokens. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method outperforms previous token pruning methods, validating the effectiveness and efficiency of our approach.

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Test-Time Fine-Tuning of Image Compression Models for Multi-Task Adaptability

Unki Park, Seongmoon Jeong, Youngchan Jang, Gyeong-Moon Park, Jong Hwan Ko

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The field of computer vision was initially inspired by the human visual system and has progressively expanded to include a broader range of machine vision applications. Consequently, image compressors should be designed to effectively accommodate not only human visual perception but also machine vision tasks, including closed-set scenarios that enable pre-training and open-set scenarios that involve previously unseen tasks at test time. Many recent studies effectively address both human visual perception and closed-set machine vision tasks simultaneously but struggle to handle open-set machine vision tasks. To address this issue, this paper proposes a fully instance-specific test time fine-tuning (TTFT) for adapting learned image compression (LIC) to both closed-set and open-set machine vision tasks effectively. With our method, a large-scale LIC model, originally trained for human perception, is adapted to the target task through TTFT using Singular Value Decomposition based Low Rank Adaptation (SVD-LoRA). During TTFT, the decoder adopts a modified learning scheme that focuses exclusively on training the singular values, which helps prevent excessive bitstream overhead. This enables fully instance-specific optimization for the target task, even for open-set tasks. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method effectively adapts the backbone compressor to diverse machine vision tasks, outperforming competing methods.

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Task Singular Vectors: Reducing Task Interference in Model Merging

Antonio Andrea Gargiulo, Donato Crisostomi, Maria Sofia Bucarelli, Simone Scardapane, Fabrizio Silvestri, Emanuele Rodolà

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Task Arithmetic has emerged as a simple yet effective method to merge models without additional training. However, by treating entire networks as flat parameter vectors, it overlooks key structural information and is susceptible to task interference. In this paper, we study task vectors at the layer level, focusing on task layer matrices and their singular value decomposition. In particular, we concentrate on the resulting singular vectors, which we refer to as Task Singular Vectors (TSV). Recognizing that layer task matrices are often low-rank, we propose TSV-Compress, a simple procedure that compresses them to 10% of their original size while retaining 99% of accuracy. We further leverage this low-rank space to define a new measure of task interference based on the interaction of singular vectors from different tasks. Building on these findings, we introduce TSV-Merge, a novel model merging approach that combines compression with interference reduction, significantly outperforming existing methods.

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SuperLightNet: Lightweight Parameter Aggregation Network for Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation

Feng Yu, Jiacheng Cao, Li Liu, Minghua Jiang

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Multimodal 3D segmentation involves a significant number of 3D convolution operations, which requires substantial computational resources and high-performance computing devices in MRI multimodal brain tumor segmentation. The key challenge in multimodal 3D segmentation is how to minimize network computational load while maintaining high accuracy. To address the issue, a novel lightweight parameter aggregation network (SuperLightNet) is proposed to realize the efficient encoder and decoder for the high accurate and low computation. A random multiview drop encoder is designed to learn the spatial structure of multimodal images through a random multi-view approach for solving the high computational time complexity that has arisen in recent years with methods relying on transformers and Mamba. A learnable residual skip decoder is designed to incorporate learnable residual and group skip weights for addressing the reduced computational efficiency caused by the use of overly heavy convolution and deconvolution decoders. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves a leading reduction in parameter count by 95.59%, the 96.78% improvement in computational efficiency, the 96.86% enhancement in memory access performance, and the average performance gain of 0.21% on the BraTS2019 and BraTS2021 datasets in comparison with the state-of-the-art methods. Code is available at https://github.com/WTU1020-Medical-Segmentation/SuperLightNet.

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Star with Bilinear Mapping

Zelin Peng, Yu Huang, Zhengqin Xu, Feilong Tang, Ming Hu, Xiaokang Yang, Wei Shen

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Contextual modeling is crucial for robust visual representation learning, especially in computer vision. Although Transformers have become a leading architecture for vision tasks due to their attention mechanism, the quadratic complexity of full attention operations presents substantial computational challenges. To address this, we introduce Star with Bilinear Mapping (SBM), a Transformer-like architecture that achieves global contextual modeling with linear complexity. SBM employs a bilinear mapping module (BM) with low-rank decomposition strategy and star operations (element-wise multiplication) to efficiently capture global contextual information. Our model demonstrates competitive performance on image classification and semantic segmentation tasks, delivering significant computational efficiency gains compared to traditional attention-based models.

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Split Adaptation for Pre-trained Vision Transformers

Lixu Wang, Bingqi Shang, Yi Li, Payal Mohapatra, Wei Dong, Xiao Wang, Qi Zhu

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Vision Transformers (ViTs), extensively pre-trained on large-scale datasets, have become fundamental to foundation models, enabling adaptation to diverse downstream tasks. Existing adaptation methods typically require direct data access, rendering them infeasible in privacy-sensitive domains where clients are often reluctant to share their data. A straightforward solution may be sending the pre-trained ViT to clients for local adaptation, which poses issues of model intellectual property and incurs heavy client computation overhead. To address these issues, we propose a novel split adaptation (SA) method that enables effective downstream adaptation while protecting data and models. SA, inspired by split learning (SL), segments the pre-trained ViT into a frontend and a backend, with only the frontend shared with the client for data representation extraction. But unlike regular SL, SA replaces frontend parameters with low-bit quantized values, preventing direct exposure of the model. SA allows the client to add bi-level noise to the frontend and the extracted data representations, ensuring data protection. Accordingly, SA incorporates data-level and model-level out-of-distribution enhancements to mitigate noise injection's impact. Our SA focuses on the challenging few-shot adaptation and adopts patch retrieval augmentation for overfitting alleviation. Extensive experiments on multiple datasets validate SA's superiority over state-of-the-art methods and demonstrate its defense against advanced data reconstruction attacks while preventing model leakage with minimal computation cost on the client side. The source codes can be found at https://github.com/conditionWang/Split_Adaptation.

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SoMA: Singular Value Decomposed Minor Components Adaptation for Domain Generalizable Representation Learning

Seokju Yun, Seunghye Chae, Dongheon Lee, Youngmin Ro

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Domain generalization (DG) aims to adapt a model using one or multiple source domains to ensure robust performance in unseen target domains. Recently, Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) of foundation models has shown promising results in the context of DG problem. Nevertheless, existing PEFT methods still struggle to strike a balance between preserving generalizable components of the pre-trained model and learning task-specific features. To gain insights into the distribution of generalizable components, we begin by analyzing the pre-trained weights through the lens of singular value decomposition. Building on these insights, we introduce Singular Value Decomposed Minor Components Adaptation (SoMA), an approach that selectively tunes minor singular components while keeping the residual parts frozen. SoMA effectively retains the generalization ability of the pre-trained model while efficiently acquiring task-specific skills. Moreover, we freeze domain-generalizable blocks and employ an annealing weight decay strategy, thereby achieving an optimal balance in the delicate trade-off between generalizability and discriminability. SoMA attains state-of-the-art results on multiple benchmarks that span both domain generalized semantic segmentation to domain generalized object detection. In addition, our methods introduce no additional inference overhead or regularization loss, maintain compatibility with any backbone or head, and are designed to be versatile, allowing easy integration into a wide range of tasks.

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Skip Tuning: Pre-trained Vision-Language Models are Effective and Efficient Adapters Themselves

Shihan Wu, Ji Zhang, Pengpeng Zeng, Lianli Gao, Jingkuan Song, Heng Tao Shen

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Prompt tuning (PT) has long been recognized as an effective and efficient paradigm for transferring large pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) to downstream tasks by learning a tiny set of context vectors. Nevertheless, in this work, we reveal that freezing the parameters of VLMs during learning the context vectors neither facilitates the transferability of pre-trained knowledge nor improves the memory and time efficiency significantly. Upon further investigation, we find that reducing both the length and width of the feature-gradient propagation flows of the full fine-tuning (FT) baseline is key to achieving effective and efficient knowledge transfer. Motivated by this, we propose Skip Tuning, a novel paradigm for adapting VLMs to downstream tasks. Unlike existing PT or adapter-based methods, Skip Tuning applies Layer-wise Skipping (LSkip) and Class-wise Skipping (CSkip) upon the FT baseline without introducing extra context vectors or adapter modules. Extensive experiments across a wide spectrum of benchmarks demonstrate the superior effectiveness and efficiency of our Skip Tuning over both PT and adapter-based methods. Code: https://github.com/anonymity-007/SkipT.

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Sensitivity-Aware Efficient Fine-Tuning via Compact Dynamic-Rank Adaptation

Tianran Chen, Jiarui Chen, Baoquan Zhang, Zhehao Yu, Shidong Chen, Rui Ye, Xutao Li, Yunming Ye

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Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) is a fundamental research problem in computer vision, which aims to tune a few of parameters for efficient storage and adaptation of pre-trained vision models. Recently, sensitivity-aware parameter efficient fine-tuning method (SPT) addresses this problem by identifying sensitive parameters and then leveraging its sparse characteristic to combine unstructured and structured tuning for PEFT. However, existing methods only focus on sparse characteristic of sensitive parameters but overlook its distribution characteristic, which results in additional storage burden and limited performance improvement. In this paper, we find that the distribution of sensitive parameters is not chaotic, but concentrates in a small number of rows or columns in each parameter matrix. Inspired by this fact, we propose a Compact Dynamic-Rank Adaptation-based tuning method for Sensitivity-aware Parameter efficient fine-Tuning, called CDRA-SPT. Specifically, we first identify the sensitive parameters that require tuning for each downstream task. Then, we reorganize the sensitive parameters by following its row and column into a compact sub-parameter matrix. Finally, a dynamic-rank adaptation is designed and applied at sub-parameter matrix level for PEFT. Its advantage is that the dynamic-rank characteristic of sub-parameter matrix can be fully exploited for PEFT. Extensive experiments show that our method achieves superior performance over previous state-of-the-art methods.

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Semantic Library Adaptation: LoRA Retrieval and Fusion for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

Reza Qorbani, Gianluca Villani, Theodoros Panagiotakopoulos, Marc Botet Colomer, Linus Härenstam-Nielsen, Mattia Segu, Pier Luigi Dovesi, Jussi Karlgren, Daniel Cremers, Federico Tombari, Matteo Poggi

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Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation models associate vision and text to label pixels from an undefined set of classes using textual queries, providing versatile performance on novel datasets. However, large shifts between training and test domains degrade their performance, requiring fine-tuning for effective real-world applications. We introduce Semantic Library Adaptation (SemLA), a novel framework for training-free, test-time domain adaptation. SemLA leverages a library of LoRA-based adapters indexed with CLIP embeddings, dynamically merging the most relevant adapters based on proximity to the target domain in the embedding space. This approach constructs an ad-hoc model tailored to each specific input without additional training. Our method scales efficiently, enhances explainability by tracking adapter contributions, and inherently protects data privacy, making it ideal for sensitive applications. Comprehensive experiments on a 20-domain benchmark built over 10 standard datasets demonstrate SemLA's superior adaptability and performance across diverse settings, establishing a new standard in domain adaptation for open-vocabulary semantic segmentation.

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Sea-ing in Low-light

Nisha Varghese, A. N. Rajagopalan

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Underwater (UW) robotics applications require depth and restored images simultaneously in real-time, irrespective of whether the UW images are captured in good lighting conditions or not. Most of the UW image restoration and depth estimation methods have been devised for images under normal lighting. Consequently, they struggle to perform on poorly lit images. Even though artificial illumination can be used when there is insufficient ambient light, it can introduce non-uniform lighting artifacts in the restored images. Hence, the recovery of depth and restored images directly from Low-Light UW (LLUW) images is a critical requirement in marine applications. While a few works have attempted LLUW image restoration, there are no reported works on joint recovery of depth and clean image from LLUW images. We propose a Self-supervised Low-light Underwater Image and Depth recovery network (SelfLUID-Net) for joint estimation of depth and restored image in real-time from a single LLUW image. We have collected an Underwater Low-light Stereo Video (ULVStereo) dataset which is the first-ever UW dataset with stereo pairs of low-light and normally-lit UW images. For the dual tasks of image and depth recovery from a LLUW image, we effectively utilize the stereo data from ULVStereo that provides cues for both depth and illumination-independent clean image. We harness a combination of the UW image formation process, the Retinex model, and constraints enforced by the scene geometry for our self-supervised training. To handle occlusions, we additionally utilize monocular frames from our video dataset and propose a masking scheme to prevent dynamic transients, that do not respect the underlying scene geometry, from misguiding the learning process. Evaluations on five LLUW datasets demonstrate the superiority and generalization ability of our proposed SelfLUID-Net over existing state-of-the-art methods. The dataset ULVStereo is available at https://github.com/nishavarghese15/ULVStereo.

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Scale Efficient Training for Large Datasets

Qing Zhou, Junyu Gao, Qi Wang

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The rapid growth of dataset scales has been a key driver in advancing deep learning research. However, as dataset scale increases, the training process becomes increasingly inefficient due to the presence of low-value samples, including excessive redundant samples, overly challenging samples, and inefficient easy samples that contribute little to model improvement. To address this challenge, we propose Scale Efficient Training (SeTa) for large datasets, a dynamic sample pruning approach that losslessly reduces training time. To remove low-value samples, SeTa first performs random pruning to eliminate redundant samples, then clusters the remaining samples according to their learning difficulty measured by loss. Building upon this clustering, a sliding window strategy is employed to progressively remove both overly challenging and inefficient easy clusters following an easy-to-hard curriculum. We conduct extensive experiments on large-scale synthetic datasets, including ToCa, SS1M, and ST+MJ, each containing over 3 million samples. SeTa reduces training costs by up to 50% while maintaining or improving performance, with minimal degradation even at 70% cost reduction. Furthermore, experiments on various scale real datasets across various backbones (including CNNs, Transformers, and Mambas) and diverse tasks (instruction tuning, multi-view stereo, geo-localization, composed image retrieval, referring image segmentation) demonstrate the powerful effectiveness and universality of our approach. Code is available at https://github.com/mrazhou/SeTa.

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Sample- and Parameter-Efficient Auto-Regressive Image Models

Elad Amrani, Leonid Karlinsky, Alex Bronstein

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We introduce XTRA, a vision model pre-trained with a novel auto-regressive objective that significantly enhances both sample and parameter efficiency compared to previous auto-regressive image models. Unlike contrastive or masked image modeling methods, which have not been demonstrated as having consistent scaling behavior on unbalanced internet data,auto-regressive vision models exhibit scalable and promising performance as model and dataset size increase. In contrast to standard auto-regressive models, XTRA employs a Block Causal Mask, where each Block represents k x k tokens rather than relying on a standard causal mask. By reconstructing pixel values block by block, XTRA captures higher-level structural patterns over larger image regions. Predicting on blocks allows the model to learn relationships across broader areas of pixels, enabling more abstract and semantically meaningful representations than traditional next-token prediction.This simple modification yields two key results. First, XTRA is sample-efficient. Despite being trained on 152x fewer samples (13.1M vs. 2B), XTRA ViT-H/14 surpasses the top-1 average accuracy of the previous state-of-the-art auto-regressive model across 15 diverse image recognition benchmarks. Second, XTRA is parameter-efficient. Compared to auto-regressive models trained on ImageNet-1k, XTRA ViT-B/16 outperforms in linear and attentive probing tasks, using 7-16x fewer parameters (85M vs. 1.36B/0.63B).

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