60 accepted papers
Unsupervised 3D representation learning reduces the burden of labeling multimodal 3D data for fusion perception tasks. Among different pre-training paradigms, differentiable-rendering-based methods have shown most promise. However, existing works separately conduct pre-training for each modalities d…
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a powerful representation for 3D scenes, widely adopted due to its exceptional efficiency and high-fidelity visual quality. Given the significant value of 3DGS assets, recent works have introduced specialized watermarking schemes to ensure copyright protec
Always-on sensing is essential for next-generation edge/wearable AI systems, yet continuous high-fidelity RGB video capture remains prohibitively expensive for resource-constrained mobile and edge platforms. We present a new paradigm for efficient streaming video understanding: grayscale-always, col
End-to-end autonomous driving systems are increasingly integrating Vision-Language Model (VLM) architectures, incorporating text reasoning or visual reasoning to enhance the robustness and accuracy of driving decisions. However, the reasoning mechanisms employed in most methods are direct adaptation…
Existing dimensionality reduction methods all perform dimensionality reduction by preserving some invariant in the space before and after dimensionality reduction. This paper proposes a new dimensionality reduction invariant: preserving the invariant of the point-distributions similarity. We also de…
Video-based spatial reasoning -- such as estimating distances, judging directions, or understanding layouts from multiple views -- requires selecting informative frames and, when needed, actively seeking additional viewpoints during inference. Existing multimodal large language models (MLLMs) consum
Psychological constructs within individuals are widely believed to be interconnected. We investigated whether and how Large Language Models (LLMs) can model the correlational structure of human psychological traits from minimal quantitative inputs. We prompted various LLMs with Big Five Personality…
The transition from image to video understanding requires vision-language models (VLMs) to shift from recognizing static patterns to reasoning over temporal dynamics such as motion trajectories, speed changes, and state transitions. Yet current post-training methods fall short due to two critical li
Vision-Language Models (VLM) exhibit strong reasoning capabilities, showing promise for end-to-end autonomous driving systems. Chain-of-Thought (CoT), as VLM's widely used reasoning strategy, is facing critical challenges. Existing textual CoT has a large gap between text semantic space and trajecto
Large language model (LLM) generated texts now rival human quality, creating four text categories: purely machine-generated, machine-rewritten, machine-polished, and human-written content. Traditional detection methods face significant challenges in human-machine hybrid scenarios where LLMs perform
In the final “Last-Centimeter” phase of manipulation, visual occlusion and calibration errors often make vision unreliable, causing robots to suffer high failure rates due to local pose uncertainty and deviations between simulated and real-world dynamics. To address these challenges, this paper prop
Safe autonomous driving requires both accurate HD map construction and persistent awareness of traffic rules, even when their associated signs are no longer visible. However, existing methods either focus solely on geometric elements or treat rules as temporary classifications, failing to capture th
The performance of egocentric AI agents is fundamentally limited by multimodal intent ambiguity. This challenge arises from a combination of underspecified language, imperfect visual data, and deictic gestures, which frequently leads to task failure. Existing monolithic Vision-Language Models (VLMs)
The core problem in multi-view anomaly detection is to represent local neighborhoods of normal instances consistently across all views. Recent approaches consider a representation of local neighborhood in each view independently, and then capture the consistent neighbors across all views via a learn
Generating a street-level 3D scene from a single satellite image is a crucial yet challenging task. Current methods present a stark trade-off: geometry-colorization models achieve high geometric fidelity but are typically building-focused and lack semantic diversity. In contrast, proxy-based models…
3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive 3D reconstruction performance with explicit scene representations. Given the widespread application of 3DGS in 3D reconstruction and generation tasks, there is an urgent need to protect the copyright of 3DGS assets. However, existing copyright
Large-scale map construction is foundational for critical applications such as autonomous driving and navigation systems. Traditional large-scale map construction approaches mainly rely on costly and inefficient special data collection vehicles and labor-intensive annotation processes. While existin
Compared to image-text pair data, interleaved corpora enable Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to understand the world more naturally like humans. However, such existing datasets are crawled from webpage, facing challenges like low knowledge density, loose image-text relations, and poor logical coherenc…
Contrastive loss is a powerful approach for representation learning, where larger batch sizes enhance performance by providing more negative samples to better distinguish between similar and dissimilar data. However, the full instantiation of the similarity matrix demands substantial GPU memory, mak…
Graph learning models have been empirically proven to be vulnerable to backdoor threats, wherein adversaries submit trigger-embedded inputs to manipulate the model predictions. Current graph backdoor defenses manifest several limitations: 1) dependence on model-related details, 2) necessitation of a
Recently, human-computer interaction with various modalities has shown promising applications, like GPT-4o and Gemini. Meanwhile, multimodal representation models have emerged as the foundation for these versatile multimodal understanding and generation pipeline. Models like CLIP, CLAP and ImageBind…
With the rise of applications such as embodied intelligence, developing high real-time online video instance segmentation (VIS) has become increasingly important. However, through time profiling of the components in advanced online VIS architecture (i.e., transformer-based architecture), we find tha…
Recent advancements in large multimodal models (LMMs) have significantly enhanced performance across diverse tasks, with ongoing efforts to further integrate additional modalities such as video and audio. However, most existing LMMs remain vulnerable to hallucinations, the discrepancy between the fa…
Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) have recently exhibited remarkable capabilities in general video understanding.However, they mainly focus on holistic comprehension and struggle with capturing fine-grained spatial and temporal details. Besides, the lack of high-quality object-level video ins…
In the domain of Document AI, parsing semi-structured image form is a crucial Key Information Extraction (KIE) task. The advent of pre-trained multimodal models significantly empowers Document AI frameworks to extract key information from form documents in different formats such as PDF, Word, and im…
Long-form numerical reasoning aims to generate a reasoning program to calculate the answer for a given question. Previous work followed a retriever-generator framework, where the retriever selects key facts from a long-form document, and the generator generates a reasoning program based on the retri…
Many natural language processing (NLP) tasks rely on labeled data to train machine learning models with high performance. However, data annotation is time-consuming and expensive, especially when the task involves a large amount of data or requires specialized domains. Recently, GPT-3.5 series model…
Named entity recognition (NER) is a pivotal task reliant on textual data, often impeding the disambiguation of entities due to the absence of context. To tackle this challenge, conventional methods often incorporate images crawled from the internet as auxiliary information. However, the images often…
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable efficacy across knowledge-intensive tasks. Nevertheless, their untapped potential in crop science presents an opportunity for advancement. To narrow this gap, we introduce CROP, which includes a novel instruction tuning dataset specifically d…
In recent years, multilingual pre-trained language models (mPLMs) have achieved significant progress in cross-lingual dense retrieval. However, most mPLMs neglect the importance of knowledge. Knowledge always conveys similar semantic concepts in a language-agnostic manner, while query-passage pairs…
Layout planning spanning from architecture to interior design is a slow iterative exploration of ill-defined problems adopting a "I'll know it when I see it" approach to potential solutions. Recent advances in generative models promise automating layout generation yet often overlook the crucial role…
Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have advanced considerably intertwining visual recognition and language understanding to generate content that is not only coherent but also contextually attuned. Despite their success LVLMs still suffer from the issue of object hallucinations where models genera…
Despite the remarkable achievements of large language models (LLMs) in various tasks, there remains a linguistic bias that favors high-resource languages, such as English, often at the expense of low-resource and regional languages. To address this imbalance, we introduce SeaLLMs, an innovative seri…
Latent-based image generative models, such as Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) and Mask Image Models (MIMs), have achieved notable success in image generation tasks. These models typically leverage reconstructive autoencoders like VQGAN or VAE to encode pixels into a more compact latent space and lear…
Learning to accurately represent environmental uncertainty is crucial for adaptive and optimal behaviors in various cognitive tasks. However, it remains unclear how the human brain, constrained by finite cognitive resources, constructs an internal model from an infinite space of probability distribu…
The dual-encoder has become the de facto architecture for dense retrieval. Typically, it computes the latent representations of the query and document independently, thus failing to fully capture the interactions between the query and document. To alleviate this, recent research has focused on obta…
We consider the unlabeled linear regression reading as $\mathbf{Y} = \mathbf{\Pi}^{*}\mathbf{X}\mathbf{B}^* + \mathbf{W}$, where $\mathbf{\Pi}^{*}, \mathbf{B}^*$ and $\mathbf{W}$ represents missing (or incomplete) correspondence information, signals, and additive noise, respectively. Our goal is to…
This paper studies the generalization capability of the compressed $k$-nearest neighbor (KNN) estimator, where randomly-projected low-dimensional data are put into the KNN estimator rather than the high-dimensional raw data. Considering both regression and classification, we give improved bounds on…
Most dense retrieval models contain an implicit assumption: the training query-document pairs are exactly matched. Since it is expensive to annotate the corpus manually, training pairs in real-world applications are usually collected automatically, which inevitably introduces mismatched-pair noise.…
This paper considers the unlabeled sparse recovery under multiple measurements, i.e., ${\mathbf{Y}} = {\mathbf{\Pi}}^{\natural} {\mathbf{X}} {\mathbf{B}}^{\natural} + {\mathbf{W}}$, where ${\mathbf{Y}} \in \mathbb{R}^{n\times m}, {\mathbf{\Pi}}^{\natural}\in \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}, {\mathbf{X}} \in…
Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims to segment an image into semantic regions according to text descriptions, which may not have been seen during training. Recent two-stage methods first generate class-agnostic mask proposals and then leverage pre-trained vision-language models, e.g., CLIP, t…
Compared to natural images, medical images usually show stronger visual patterns and therefore this adds flexibility and elasticity to resource-limited clinical applications by injecting proper priors into neural networks. In this paper, we propose spatially covariant pixel-aligned classifier (SCP)…
Recent works have identified that existing methods, which construct persistence diagrams in Topological Data Analysis (TDA), are not robust to noise and varied densities in a point cloud. We analyze the necessary properties of an approach that can address these two issues, and propose a new filter f…
Current dense text retrieval models face two typical challenges. First, it adopts a siamese dual-encoder architecture to encode query and document independently for fast indexing and searching, whereas neglecting the finer-grained term-wise interactions. This results in a sub-optimal recall performa…
In this paper, we propose the CodeRetriever model, which learns the function-level code semantic representations through large-scale code-text contrastive pre-training. We adopt two contrastive learning schemes in CodeRetriever: unimodal contrastive learning and bimodal contrastive learning. For uni…
Commonsense generation aims to generate a realistic sentence describing a daily scene under the given concepts, which is very challenging, since it requires models to have relational reasoning and compositional generalization capabilities. Previous work focuses on retrieving prototype sentences for…
Most existing pre-trained language representation models (PLMs) are sub-optimal in sentiment analysis tasks, as they capture the sentiment information from word-level while under-considering sentence-level information. In this paper, we propose SentiWSP, a novel Sentiment-aware pre-trained language…
In human-machine interaction systems, continuous movement estimation methods occupy an important position because they are more natural and intuitive than pattern-recognition methods. Essentially, arm position is decided by the shoulder and elbow joint angles. However, the various deformations of mu
Simultaneous and proportional control (SPC) methods based on surface electromyogram (sEMG) can provide a more intuitive and natural interaction in rehabilitation assistive robots and prostheses. Recently, an increasing number of researchers have utilized deep learning methods to continuously estimat
Recently, 3D medical image reconstruction (MIR) and segmentation (MIS) based on deep neural networks have been developed with promising results, and attention mechanism has been further designed for performance enhancement. However, the large size of 3D volume images poses a great computational chal…
In this paper, we introduce a two-level attention schema, Poolingformer, for long document modeling. Its first level uses a smaller sliding window pattern to aggregate information from neighbors. Its second level employs a larger window to increase receptive fields with pooling attention to reduce b…
Unlabeled linear regression, or “linear regression with an unknown permutation”, has attracted increasing attentions due to its applications in (e.g.,) linkage record and de-anonymization. However, the computation of unlabeled linear regression proves to be cumbersome and existing algorithms typical…
Performance of the reconstruction algorithms in compressed sensing largely depends on the characteristics of measurement matrices. As such, the construction and analysis of the measurement matrix is of paramount interest. In this paper, for the first time, we focus on the class of sparse sensing mat…
Much of the recent progress made in image classification research can be credited to training procedure refinements, such as changes in data augmentations and optimization methods. In the literature, however, most refinements are either briefly mentioned as implementation details or only visible in…
Recent work has achieved great success in utilizing global contextual information for semantic segmentation, including increasing the receptive field and aggregating pyramid feature representations. In this paper, we go beyond global context and explore the fine-grained representation using co-occur…
Recent work has made significant progress in improving spatial resolution for pixelwise labeling with Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) framework by employing Dilated/Atrous convolution, utilizing multi-scale features and refining boundaries. In this paper, we explore the impact of global contextua…
We present a texture network called Deep Encoding Pooling Network (DEP) for the task of ground terrain recognition. Recognition of ground terrain is an important task in establishing robot or vehicular control parameters, as well as for localization within an outdoor environment. The architecture of…
We propose a Deep Texture Encoding Network (TEN) with a novel Encoding Layer integrated on top of convolutional layers, which ports the entire dictionary learning and encoding pipeline into a single model. Current methods build from distinct components, using standard encoders with separate off-the-…
Material recognition for real-world outdoor surfaces has become increasingly important for computer vision to support its operation "in the wild." Computational surface modeling that underlies material recognition has transitioned from reflectance modeling using in-lab controlled radiometric measure…
We introduce a novel method for using reflectance to identify materials. Reflectance offers a unique signature of the material but is challenging to measure and use for recognizing materials due to its high-dimensionality. In this work, one-shot reflectance of a material surface which we refer to…