11 papers
What Images Cannot Say: Language-Guided Olfactory Representation Learning
Eleftherios Tsonis, Xi Wang, Vicky Kalogeiton
Images tell us what a scene looks like, but rarely what it would feel like to be there. While recent datasets pair visual scenes with electronic-nose measurements, aligning smell s…
VIGOR: VIdeo Geometry-Oriented Reward for Temporal Generative Alignment
Tengjiao Yin, Jinglei Shi, Heng Guo +1
Video diffusion models lack explicit geometric supervision during training, leading to inconsistency artifacts such as object deformation, spatial drift, and depth violations in ge…
Chain of Evidence: Pixel-Level Visual Attribution for Iterative Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Peiyang Liu, Ziqiang Cui, Xi Wang +2
Iterative Retrieval-Augmented Generation (iRAG) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for answering complex multi-hop questions by progressively retrieving and reasoning over external…
SF20K Competition 2025: Summary and findings
Ridouane Ghermi, Xi Wang, Vicky Kalogeiton +1
This report presents the results and findings of the first edition of the Short-Films 20K (SF20K) Competition, held in conjunction with the SLoMO Workshop at ICCV 2025. The competi…
Beyond Semantic Relevance: Counterfactual Risk Minimization for Robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Peiyang Liu, Qiang Yan, Ziqiang Cui +3
Standard Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems predominantly rely on semantic relevance as a proxy for utility. However, this assumption collapses in realistic decision-maki…
Soft-Di[M]O: Improving One-Step Discrete Image Generation with Soft Embeddings
Yuanzhi Zhu, Xi Wang, Stéphane Lathuilière +1
One-step generators distilled from Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) compress multiple sampling steps into a single forward pass, enabling efficient text and image synthesis. However,…