29 papers
The Fourth Challenge on Image Super-Resolution (4) at NTIRE 2026: Benchmark Results and Method Overview
Zheng Chen, Kai Liu, Jingkai Wang +150
This paper presents the NTIRE 2026 image super-resolution (4) challenge, one of the associated competitions of the NTIRE 2026 Workshop at CVPR 2026. The challenge aims to r…
Aligning Multimodal Sequential Recommendations via Robust Direct Preference Optimization with Sparse MoE
Hejin Huang, Jusheng Zhang, Kaitong Cai +2
Preference-based alignment objectives have been widely adopted, from RLHF-style pairwise learning in large language models to emerging applications in recommender systems. Yet, exi…
Process-of-Thought Reasoning for Videos
Jusheng Zhang, Kaitong Cai, Jian Wang +3
Video understanding requires not only recognizing visual content but also performing temporally grounded, multi-step reasoning over long and noisy observations. We propose Process-…
Spectral Gating Networks
Jusheng Zhang, Yijia Fan, Kaitong Cai +5
Gating mechanisms are ubiquitous, yet a complementary question in feed-forward networks remains under-explored: how to introduce frequency-rich expressivity without sacrificing sta…
Rational ANOVA Networks
Jusheng Zhang, Ningyuan Liu, Qinhan Lyu +2
Deep neural networks typically treat nonlinearities as fixed primitives (e.g., ReLU), limiting both interpretability and the granularity of control over the induced function class.…
Why Keep Your Doubts to Yourself? Trading Visual Uncertainties in Multi-Agent Bandit Systems
Jusheng Zhang, Yijia Fan, Kaitong Cai +6
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) enable powerful multi-agent systems, but scaling them is economically unsustainable: coordinating heterogeneous agents under information asymmetry oft…