11 papers
On-Policy Self-Distillation in Diffusion Models
Wei Zhou, Xiongwei Zhu, Lingdong Kong +14
Reinforcement learning can align diffusion models with human preferences and task-specific objectives, but endpoint rewards do not specify how an intermediate denoising prediction…
A Robust Point Cloud Analysis Framework Inspired By Primary Visual Cortex
Jisheng Dang, Dengyue Pan, Delin Deng +6
Despite significant advancements in point cloud analysis, reducing energy consumption and improving robustness remain understudied, largely due to the inherent limitations of Convo…
AI for Auto-Research: Roadmap & User Guide
Lingdong Kong, Xian Sun, Wei Chow +17
AI-assisted research is crossing a threshold: fully automated systems can now generate research papers for as little as $15, while long-horizon agents can execute experiments, draf…
WorldArena 2.0: Extending Embodied World Model Benchmarking on Modality, Functionality and Platform
Yu Shang, Yinzhou Tang, Yiding Ma +22
World models have emerged as a central paradigm for embodied intelligence, enabling agents to predict action-conditioned future and reason about environmental dynamics. However, ex…
ReCALL: Recalibrating Capability Degradation for MLLM-based Composed Image Retrieval
Tianyu Yang, Chenwei He, Xiangzhao Hao +6
Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve target images based on a hybrid query comprising a reference image and a modification text. Early dual-tower Vision-Language Models…
The Missing Half: Unveiling Training-time Implicit Safety Risks Beyond Deployment
Zhexin Zhang, Yida Lu, Junfeng Fang +8
Safety risks of AI models have been widely studied at deployment time, such as jailbreak attacks that elicit harmful outputs. In contrast, safety risks emerging during training rem…