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David T. Hoffmann

6 accepted papers

2026

No Hard Negatives Required: Concept Centric Learning Leads to Compositionality without Degrading Zero-shot Capabilities of Contrastive Models

CVPR 2026

Contrastive vision-language (V&L) models remain a popular choice for various applications. However, several limitations have emerged, most notably the limited ability of V&L models to learn compositional representations. Prior methods often addressed this limitation by generating custom training dat

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2025

Floxels: Fast Unsupervised Voxel Based Scene Flow Estimation

CVPR 2025poster

Scene flow estimation is a foundational task for many robotic applications, including robust dynamic object detection, automatic labeling, and sensor synchronization. Two types of approaches to the problem have evolved: 1) Supervised and 2) optimization-based methods. Supervised methods are fast dur…

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2025

Two Effects, One Trigger: On the Modality Gap, Object Bias, and Information Imbalance in Contrastive Vision-Language Models

ICLR 2025oral

Contrastive vision-language models (VLMs), like CLIP, have gained popularity for their versatile applicability to various downstream tasks. Despite their successes in some tasks, like zero-shot object recognition, they perform surprisingly poor on other tasks, like attribute recognition. Previous wo…

2024

Eureka-Moments in Transformers: Multi-Step Tasks Reveal Softmax Induced Optimization Problems

ICML 2024poster

In this work, we study rapid improvements of the training loss in transformers when being confronted with multi-step decision tasks. We found that transformers struggle to learn the intermediate task and both training and validation loss saturate for hundreds of epochs. When transformers finally lea…

2022

Ranking Info Noise Contrastive Estimation: Boosting Contrastive Learning via Ranked Positives

AAAI 2022technical

This paper introduces Ranking Info Noise Contrastive Estimation (RINCE), a new member in the family of InfoNCE losses that preserves a ranked ordering of positive samples. In contrast to the standard InfoNCE loss, which requires a strict binary separation of the training pairs into similar and dissi…

2021

AGORA: Avatars in Geography Optimized for Regression Analysis

CVPR 2021poster

While the accuracy of 3D human pose estimation from images has steadily improved on benchmark datasets, the best methods still fail in many real-world scenarios. This suggests that there is a domain gap between current datasets and common scenes containing people. To obtain ground-truth 3D pose, cur…

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