CVPR 2026 论文列表

Cancer survival prediction through multimodal learning that combines histopathology images with genomic data represents a promising research direction. However, current approaches still suffer from two key limitations. First, most methods operate in a Euclidean feature space, which makes it difficult to capture the intrinsic hierarchies in histopathology, where information is organized from patches to whole-slide images to patients, and in genomics, where it progresses from genes to pathways to patients. Second, they typically discretize survival times into coarse risk intervals, neglecting fine-grained ordinal relationships among samples within the same interval and thus failing to capture the continuous ranking characteristics of survival outcomes.To address these issues, we propose \ourmethod, a hyperbolic hierarchical multimodal learning framework for survival prediction. H2-SurvNet first employs a **hyperbolic hierarchical information modeling** (H2IM) module that maps multimodal features into a shared hyperbolic space and explicitly encodes intra-modal and inter-modal hierarchies across patches, WSIs, patients, genes, and pathways. On top of this representation, we design a **Temporal Ordinal Contrastive learning** (TOCL) module that models the temporal progression of survival outcomes by enforcing ordinal risk ordering through contrastive objectives, thereby promoting continuity in the learned risk scores.Extensive experiments on heterogeneous cohorts from TCGA, CPTAC, and NLST demonstrate that H2-SurvNet consistently outperforms state-of-the-art multimodal survival prediction methods and exhibits strong robustness and generalization across diverse data distributions. Source code will be released upon acceptance.

End-to-end autonomous driving methods built on vision language models (VLMs) have undergone rapid development driven by their universal visual understanding and strong reasoning capabilities obtained from the large-scale pretraining. However, we find that current VLMs struggle to understand fine-grained 3D spatial relationships which is a fundamental requirement for systems interacting with the physical world. To address this issue, we propose SpaceDrive, a spatial-aware VLM-based driving framework that treats spatial information as explicit positional encodings (PEs) instead of textual digit tokens, enabling joint reasoning over semantic and spatial representations. SpaceDrive employs a universal positional encoder to all 3D coordinates derived from multi-view depth estimation, historical ego-states, and text prompts. These 3D PEs are first superimposed to augment the corresponding 2D visual tokens. Meanwhile, they serve as a task-agnostic coordinate representation, replacing the digit-wise numerical tokens as both inputs and outputs for the VLM. This mechanism enables the model to better index specific visual semantics in spatial reasoning and directly regress trajectory coordinates rather than generating digit-by-digit, thereby enhancing planning accuracy. Extensive experiments validate that SpaceDrive achieves state-of-the-art open-loop performance on the nuScenes dataset and the second-best Driving Score of 78.02 on the Bench2Drive closed-loop benchmark over existing VLM-based methods. Code is available at: https://github.com/zhenghao2519/SpaceDrive.

Anatomical structures in MRI exhibit strong spatial priors, including well-defined boundaries, low inter-subject variability, and consistent topology. These properties naturally induce clustered patterns in the latent space, which are difficult to capture using conventional continuous generative priors that assume smooth manifold distributions. To address this limitation, we propose DiCoS (Discrete-Continuous Synthesis), a generative reconstruction framework that integrates discrete structural reasoning with continuous refinement. DiCoS models an anatomy-aware discrete distribution and generates diverse reconstructions in one coarse-to-fine pass through a Discrete Prior Network (DPN). A Dual-domain Balanced Scoring (DBS) mechanism adaptively evaluates candidates using both image-domain fidelity and k-space consistency. To further enhance realism, Micro Diffusion Cycles (MDC) perform efficient score-guided refinement to enhance texture realism without disturbing global topology. Experiments on the fastMRI knee and brain datasets demonstrate that DiCoS achieves state-of-the-art reconstruction quality with sharper boundaries and improved anatomical consistency. Beyond pixel metrics, segmentation-based evaluations further confirm superior structural overlap and semantic alignment, highlighting DiCoS's advantages in anatomy-aware reconstruction. The project page is available at https://kincin.github.io/DiCoS/.

Understanding charts requires models to jointly reason over geometric visual patterns, structured numerical data, and natural language -- a capability where current vision-language models (VLMs) remain limited. We introduce ChartNet, a high-quality, million-scale multimodal dataset designed to advance chart interpretation and reasoning. ChartNet leverages a novel code-guided synthesis pipeline to generate 1.5 million diverse chart samples spanning 24 chart types and 6 plotting libraries. Each sample consists of five aligned components: plotting code, rendered chart image, data table, natural language summary, and question-answering with reasoning, providing fine-grained cross-modal alignment. To capture the full spectrum of chart comprehension, ChartNet additionally includes specialized subsets encompassing human annotated data, real-world data, safety, and grounding. Moreover, a rigorous quality-filtering pipeline ensures visual fidelity, semantic accuracy, and diversity across chart representations. Fine-tuning on ChartNet consistently improves results across benchmarks, demonstrating its utility as large-scale supervision for multimodal models. As the largest open-source dataset of its kind, ChartNet aims to support the development of foundation models with robust and generalizable capabilities for data visualization understanding. The dataset is publicly available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/ibm-granite/ChartNet

Digital hematopathology requires cell-level analysis across diverse disease categories, including malignant disorders (e.g., leukemia), infectious conditions (e.g., malaria), and non-malignant red blood cell disorders (e.g., sickle cell disease). Whether single-task, vision-language, WSI- optimized, or single-cell hematology models, these approaches share a key limitation: they cannot provide unified, multi-task, multi-modal reasoning across the complexities of digital hematopathology. To overcome these limitations, we propose Uni-Hema, a multi-task, unified model for digital hematopathology integrating detection, classification, segmentation, morphology prediction, and reasoning across multiple diseases. Uni-Hema leverages 46 publicly available datasets, encompassing over 700K images and 21K question-answer pairs, and is built upon Hema-Former, a multimodal module that bridges visual and linguistic representations at the hierarchy level for the different tasks (detection, classification, segmentation, morphology, mask language modeling, and visual question answering) at different granularities. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Uni-Hema achieves comparable or superior performance compared to training on a single task and single-dataset models, across diverse hematological tasks, while providing interpretable, morphologically relevant insights at the single-cell level. Our framework establishes a new standard for multi-task and multi-modal digital hematopathology. The code is available at https://github.com/intelligentMachines-ITU/Uni-Hema

Adapting Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to few-shot action recognition (FSAR) often trades accuracy for stability: task-specific gains can trigger catastrophic forgetting of domain-general knowledge and reduce inter-class margins. In few-shot episodes, each query is contrasted with only one positive class and a few negatives, so the text encoder sees limited prompt diversity and rarely observes hard counter-examples near decision boundaries. We propose Protect-to-Adapt (P2A), a parameter-efficient fine-tuning method with two complementary modules. Orthogonal Subspace Control (OSC) estimates a principal semantic subspace of the pre-trained backbone and constrains low-rank updates to its orthogonal complement, preserving domain-general semantics while allowing task-specific adaptation. Ranked Negative-prompt Curriculum (RNC) uses a large language model to generate verifier-filtered negative prompts with increasing difficulty. These class-specific hard counter-examples enlarge margins and sharpen decision boundaries under few-shot conditions. With only 2% of backbone parameters trainable, P2A achieves state-of-the-art performance on five FSAR benchmarks and substantially reduces catastrophic forgetting in a cross-dataset continual-learning setting where the model is adapted sequentially to multiple video datasets without replay.

Recent Deepfake Video Detection (DFD) studies have demonstrated that pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP exhibit strong generalization capabilities in detecting artifacts across different identities. However, existing approaches focus on leveraging visual features only, overlooking their most distinctive strength -- the rich vision-language semantics embedded in the latent space. We propose VLAForge, a novel DFD framework that unleashes the potential of such cross-modal semantics to enhance model's discriminability in deepfake detection. This work i) enhances the visual perception of VLM through a ForgePerceiver, which acts as an independent learner to capture diverse, subtle forgery cues both granularly and holistically, while preserving the pretrained Vision-Language Alignment (VLA) knowledge, and ii) provides a complementary discriminative cue -- Identity-Aware VLA score, derived by coupling cross-modal semantics with the forgery cues learned by ForgePerceiver. Notably, the VLA score is augmented by an identity prior-informed text prompting to capture authenticity cues tailored to each identity, thereby enabling more discriminative cross-modal semantics. Comprehensive experiments on video DFD benchmarks, including classical face-swapping forgeries and recent full-face generation forgeries, demonstrate that our VLAForge substantially outperforms state-of-the-art methods at both frame and video levels. Code is available at https://github.com/mala-lab/VLAForge.

We present Consistent-Recurrent Feature Flow Transformer (CRFT), a unified coarse-to-fine framework based on feature flow learning for robust cross-modal image registration. CRFT learns a modality-independent feature flow representation within a transformer-based architecture that jointly performs feature alignment and flow estimation. The coarse stage establishes global correspondences through multi-scale feature correlation, while the fine stage refines local details via hierarchical feature fusion and adaptive spatial reasoning. To enhance geometric adaptability, an iterative discrepancy-guided attention mechanism with a Spatial Geometric Transform (SGT) recurrently refines the flow field, progressively capturing subtle spatial inconsistencies and enforcing feature-level consistency. This design enables accurate alignment under large affine and scale variations while maintaining structural coherence across modalities. Extensive experiments on diverse cross-modal datasets demonstrate that CRFT consistently outperforms state-of-the-art registration methods in both accuracy and robustness. Beyond registration, CRFT provides a generalizable paradigm for multimodal spatial correspondence, offering broad applicability to remote sensing, autonomous navigation, and medical imaging. Code and datasets are publicly available at https://github.com/NEU-Liuxuecong/CRFT.

Embodied intelligence for contact-rich manipulation has predominantly relied on position control, while explicit awareness and regulation of interaction forces remain under-explored, limiting stability, precision, and robustness in real-world tasks. We propose ForceVLA2, an end-to-end vision-language-action framework that equips robots with hybrid force-position control and explicit force awareness. ForceVLA2 introduces force-based prompts into the VLM expert to construct force-aware task concepts across stages, and employs a Cross-Scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) in the action expert to adaptively fuse these concepts with real-time interaction forces for closed-loop hybrid force-position regulation. To support learning and evaluation, we construct ForceVLA2-Dataset, containing 1,000 trajectories over 5 contact-rich tasks, including wiping, pressing, and assembling, with multi-view images, task prompts, proprioceptive state, and force signals. Extensive experiments show that ForceVLA2 substantially improves success rates and reliability in contact-rich manipulation, outperforming pi0 and pi0.5 by 48.0% and 35.0%, respectively, across the 5 tasks, and mitigating common failure modes such as arm overload and unstable contact, thereby actively advancing force-aware interactive physical intelligence in VLAs.

Existing diffusion codecs typically build on text-to-image diffusion foundation models like Stable Diffusion.However, text conditioning is suboptimal from a compression perspective, hindering the potential of downstream diffusion codecs, particularly at ultra-low bitrates.To address it, we introduce CoD, the first Compression-oriented Diffusion foundation model, trained from scratch to enable end-to-end optimization of both compression and generation. CoD is not a fixed codec but a general foundation model designed for various diffusion-based codecs.It offers several advantages: High compression efficiency, replacing Stable Diffusion with CoD in downstream codecs like DiffC achieves SOTA results, especially at ultra-low bitrates (e.g., 0.0039 bpp); Low-cost and reproducible training, 300x faster training than Stable Diffusion ( 20 vs. 6,250 A100 GPU days) on entirely open image-only datasets; Providing new insights, e.g., We find pixel-space diffusion can achieve VTM-level PSNR with high perceptual quality and can outperform GAN-based codecs using fewer parameters.We hope CoD lays the foundation for future diffusion codec research. Codes are released at https://github.com/microsoft/GenCodec/tree/main/CoD.

Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have continued to evolve in recent years, Transformers have become increasingly popular in the field of computer vision. In this work, we introduce a mechanism for CNNs to aggregate information based on content similarity--an ability analogous to the self-attention mechanism. We achieve this by proposing a sorting operation that transforms the feature similarity between tokens into relative positional information: specifically, rearranging tokens such that tokens with higher feature similarity are placed closer together. This approach allows convolution operations to be indirectly transformed into an aggregation mode driven by content similarity. Experiments show that our proposed model, named Ego, achieves promising results across various tasks, underscoring the untapped potential of CNNs. Code and models are publicly available at https://github.com/essenceoftheworld/ego.

As a challenge vision-language task, Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to integrate information from a bi-modal query (image + text) to retrieve target images. While supervised CIR has achieved notable success in domain-specific scenarios, its reliance on manually annotated triplets restricts its scalability and application. Zero-shot CIR alleviates this by leveraging unlabeled data or automatically collected triplets, yet it often suffers from an intractable domain gap. To this end, we shift the focus to developing robust CIR models under limited labeled data and propose Domain-Adaptive In-context Generation (DAIG), which adapts the in-context capability of a pretrained Text-to-Image (T2I) model to the target domain and the CIR task using few-shot samples and then transforms the LLM-generated textual triplets into unbiased CIR triplets as additional training data. After that, we present a two-stage framework applicable to any supervised CIR approach. The first stage, Distributionally Robust Synthetic Pretraining (DRSP), perturbs visual features to expand the distribution of synthetic data and improve training robustness on it. The second stage, Fine-grained Real-world Adaptation (FRA), fine-tunes on manually annotated triplets by imposing an angular margin on matching pairs to facilitate fine-grained learning. Experiments on two benchmarks validate the effectiveness of our method, i.e., under both few-shot and fully supervised CIR settings, DAIG yields substantial performance gains over CLIP4CIR, BLIP4CIR, and SPRC. The code is available at \href https://github.com/JThuge/DAIG \color blue!37https://github.com/JThuge/DAIG .

This paper presents FluxMem, a training-free framework for efficient streaming video understanding. FluxMem adaptively compresses redundant visual memory through a hierarchical, two-stage design: (1) a Temporal Adjacency Selection (TAS) module removes redundant visual tokens across adjacent frames, and (2) a Spatial Domain Consolidation (SDC) module further merges spatially repetitive regions within each frame into compact representations. To adapt effectively to dynamic scenes, we introduce a self-adaptive token compression mechanism in both TAS and SDC, which automatically determines the compression rate based on intrinsic scene statistics rather than manual tuning. Extensive experiments demonstrate that FluxMem achieves new state-of-the-art results on existing online video benchmarks, reaching 76.4 on StreamingBench and 67.2 on OVO-Bench under real-time settings, while reducing latency by 69.9% and peak GPU memory by 34.5% on OVO-Bench. Furthermore, it maintains strong offline performance, achieving 73.1 on MLVU while using 65% fewer visual tokens.

Instruction-based video editing aims to modify an input video according to a natural-language instruction while preserving content fidelity and temporal coherence. However, existing diffusion-based approaches are often trained on paired data of simple editing operations, which fundamentally limits their ability to generalize to diverse and complex, real-world instructions. To address this generalization gap, we propose VIVA, a scalable framework for instruction-based video editing that leverages VLM-guided encoding and reward optimization. First, we introduce a VLM-based instructor that encodes the textual instruction, the first frame of the source video, and an optional reference image into visually-grounded instruction representations, providing fine-grained spatial and semantic context for the diffusion transformer backbone. Second, we propose a post-training stage, Edit-GRPO, which adapts Group Relative Policy Optimization to the domain of video editing, directly optimizing the model for instruction-faithful, content-preserving, and aesthetically pleasing edits using relative rewards. Furthermore, we propose a data construction pipeline designed to synthetically generate diverse, high-fidelity paired video-instruction data of basic editing operations. Extensive experiments show that VIVA achieves superior instruction following, generalization, and editing quality over state-of-the-art methods.

Chart Question Answering (CQA) benchmarks are critical for evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) on visual data reasoning. Existing benchmarks focus mainly on final-answer correctness, ignoring intermediate reasoning steps and the propagation of errors in multi-step processes. To address this, we introduce ChartR, a benchmark designed to assess both the accuracy and robustness of reasoning in chart-understanding tasks. Each question is decomposed into 4-10 sub-questions covering key reasoning types, and each chart includes four visually perturbed variants (blurred, noise-added, watermark-added, annotation-removed) to systematically evaluate robustness. ChartR contains 200 base charts, 800 variants, 1,652 questions, and 8,260 image-question pairs. We further propose a comprehensive evaluation framework with eight metrics that evaluate reasoning-chain accuracy, robustness under visual perturbations, and enable analysis of potential error propagation patterns. Experiments on twelve MLLMs, including general-purpose and chart-specialized models, reveal low reasoning reliability, early-step errors that may propagate, value extraction as the primary bottleneck, and sharp performance drops under perturbations, highlighting reliance on textual cues over true visual understanding.

Change detection (CD) is a fundamental task for monitoring and analysing land cover dynamics. While recent high performance models and high quality datasets have significantly advanced the field, a critical limitation persists. Current models typically acquire limited knowledge from single-type annotated data and cannot concurrently leverage diverse binary change detection (BCD) and semantic change detection (SCD) datasets. This constraint leads to poor generalisation and limited versatility. The recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) introduce new possibilities for a unified CD framework. We leverage the language priors and unification capabilities of MLLMs to develop UniChange, the first MLLM-based unified change detection model. UniChange integrates generative language abilities with specialised CD functionalities. We introduce three special tokens: [T1], [T2], and [CHANGE], utilising their embeddings as the key to query variations. This approach successfully accommodates both BCD and SCD tasks. Furthermore, UniChange utilises text prompts to guide the identification of change categories, eliminating the reliance on predefined classification heads. This design allows UniChange to effectively acquire knowledge from multi-source datasets, even when their class definitions conflict. Experiments on four public benchmarks (WHU-CD, S2Looking, LEVIR-CD+, and SECOND) demonstrate SOTA performance, achieving IoU scores of 90.41, 53.04, 78.87, and 57.62, respectively, surpassing all previous methods. The code is available at https://github.com/NKU-HLT/UniChange.

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. However, existing LVLM reasoning paradigms only begin reasoning after the entire video becomes available, introducing unnecessary latency and diminishing attention to early visual cues in dynamic scenes. Inspired by the human ability to think while watching, we introduce a streaming reasoning paradigm for LVLMs, where reasoning unfolds sequentially with incoming frames and deepens after the full video is observed. We instantiate this paradigm through Think-as-You-See (TaYS), a unified framework that enables LVLMs to reason while watching by integrating streaming CoT generation, stream-constrained training, and stream-parallel inference. Specifically, TaYS employs temporally aligned streaming reasoning units with precise CoT supervision, enforces ordered reasoning via streaming attention masks and positional encodings, and utilizes a parallel KV caches mechanism that decouples input encoding from reasoning generation, ensuring alignment and true concurrency. We evaluate TaYS on the Qwen2.5-VL model family across representative video CoT tasks, including event dynamics analysis, causal reasoning, and thematic understanding. Experimental results show that TaYS achieves superior reasoning performance compared with batch-mode CoT, while reducing pre-reasoning latency to under one second and overall answer delay by more than 50%. These findings demonstrate the effectiveness of the streaming paradigm in enabling real-time, human-like reasoning for LVLMs.

Training Large Multimodality Models (LMMs) relies on descriptive image caption that connects image and language. Existing methods for generating such captions often rely on distilling the captions from pretrained LMMs, constructing them from publicly available internet images, or even generating them through human annotation. However, these strategies can fall short in terms of precision and granularity, particularly when dealing with complex visual reasoning tasks. In this paper, we propose to leverage off-the-shelf visual specialists, which were trained from annotated images initially not for image captioning, for enhancing the image caption. Our approach, named Cap-Workflow, explores object low-level and fine-grained attributes (e.g., depth, emotion and fine-grained categories) and object relations (e.g., relative location and human-object-interaction (HOI)), and combine the attributes into the descriptive caption. By systematically integrating these rich attributes into the generated captions, Cap-Workflow significantly improves the descriptive quality of the captions, providing a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the visual content. Experiments demonstrate that such visual specialists are able to improve the performance for visual understanding tasks as well as reasoning that benefits from more accurate visual understanding. The source code and datasets are available at https://github.com/syp2ysy/Cap-Workflow.

Exploration capacity shapes both inference-time performance and reinforcement learning (RL) training for large (vision-) language models, as stochastic sampling often yields redundant reasoning paths with little high-level diversity. This paper proposes Reasoning Palette, a novel latent-modulation framework that endows the model with a stochastic latent variable for strategic contextualization, guiding its internal planning prior to token generation. This latent context is inferred from the mean-pooled embedding of a question-answer pair via a variational autoencoder (VAE), where each sampled latent potentially encodes a distinct reasoning context. During inference, a sampled latent is decoded into learnable token prefixes and prepended to the input prompt, modulating the model's internal reasoning trajectory. In this way, the model performs internal sampling over reasoning strategies prior to output generation, which shapes the style and structure of the entire response sequence. A brief supervised fine-tuning (SFT) warm-up phase allows the model to adapt to this latent conditioning. Within RL optimization, Reasoning Palette facilitates structured exploration by enabling on-demand injection for diverse reasoning modes, significantly enhancing exploration efficiency and sustained learning capability. Experiments across multiple reasoning benchmarks demonstrate that our method enables interpretable and controllable control over the (vision-) language model's strategic behavior, thereby achieving consistent performance gains over standard RL methods.