10 papers
SPAE: Spectrally Guided Autoencoder for Pretrained Visual Latents
Yibin Huang, Jixiang Hong, Zongzhao Li +8
Latents from vision foundation models (VFMs) are semantically rich and well suited for visual understanding. Recent representation autoencoder methods such as RAE have shown that t…
AV-SyncBench: Decoupled Benchmarking of Temporal and Semantic Audio-Visual Synchronization
Tianhong Zhou, Mingyang Han, Boyu Li +8
Audio-visual feature extraction is a fundamental component of multimodal understanding and generation tasks. However, existing evaluation protocols for feature extraction models ex…
FreeSonic: Training-Free Temporal-Aware Decoupled Attention for Precise Audio Editing
Yuxuan Jiang, Mingyang Han, Yusheng Dai +12
Text-to-audio (TTA) generation has made significant strides, yet achieving precise and consistent audio editing remains a major challenge. However, existing methods struggle to bal…
Deep Pre-Alignment for VLMs
Tianyu Yu, Kechen Fang, Zihao Wan +5
Most Vision Language Models (VLMs) directly map outputs from ViT encoders to the LLM via a lightweight projector. While effective, recent analysis suggests this architecture suffer…
DDA-Thinker: Decoupled Dual-Atomic Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning-Driven Image Editing
Hanqing Yang, Qiang Zhou, Yongchao Du +6
Recent image editing models have achieved strong visual fidelity but often struggle with tasks requiring complex reasoning. To investigate and enhance the reasoning-grounded planni…
AdaGen: Learning Adaptive Policy for Image Synthesis
Zanlin Ni, Yulin Wang, Yeguo Hua +5
Recent advances in image synthesis have been propelled by powerful generative models, such as Masked Generative Transformers (MaskGIT), autoregressive models, diffusion models, and…
The Flexibility Trap: Rethinking the Value of Arbitrary Order in Diffusion Language Models
Zanlin Ni, Shenzhi Wang, Yang Yue +8
Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) break the rigid left-to-right constraint of traditional LLMs, enabling token generation in arbitrary orders. Intuitively, this flexibility i…
AI Deception: Risks, Dynamics, and Controls
Boyuan Chen, Sitong Fang, Jiaming Ji +56
As intelligence increases, so does its shadow. AI deception, in which systems induce false beliefs to secure self-beneficial outcomes, has evolved from a speculative concern to an…
ViT: Unlocking Test-Time Training in Vision
Dongchen Han, Yining Li, Tianyu Li +6
Test-Time Training (TTT) has recently emerged as a promising direction for efficient sequence modeling. TTT reformulates attention operation as an online learning problem, construc…
Thinking with Drafts: Speculative Temporal Reasoning for Efficient Long Video Understanding
Pengfei Hu, Meng Cao, Yingyao Wang +6
Long video understanding is essential for human-like intelligence, enabling coherent perception and reasoning over extended temporal contexts. While the emerging thinking-with-fram…