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most cited Improving Knowledge Distillation using Orthogonal Projections

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cs.SD2026

Listen, Reason, and Segment: Aligning LALMs with Editorial Judgment for Media Chapterization

Tony Alex, Wish Suharitdamrong, Sara Atito +5

Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) have made rapid progress on standardized benchmarks, yet their deployment in practical media workflows, curation, archival indexing, and content…

cs.CV2026

Model Guides You How to Draw: Adaptive Visual Gating for Unified Multimodal Reasoning

Wenxi Gao, Guanxi Lu, Didi Zhu +5

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) with interleaved reasoning, which generate both textual and visual steps as part of intermediate reasoning traces, have demonstrated great potentia…

cs.CV2026

EquiSteer: Cross-Attention Steering Towards a Fairer Text-Guided Image Generation

Tatiana Gaintseva, Akshit Achara, Gregory Slabaugh +2

Text-to-image diffusion models power everyday creative tasks, but they still reproduce the demographic biases in their training data. On common prompts such as ``a photo of a nurse…

cs.CV2026

Metis: A Generalizable and Efficient World-Action Model for Autonomous Driving and Urban Navigation

Jingyu Li, Zhe Liu, Dongnan Hu +10

World action models~(WAMs) have shown great promise for autonomous driving and urban navigation. Built upon Vision-Language-Action models or video generation models, existing appro…

cs.CV2026

VisualFLIP: Do Predictions Depend on Task-Critical Visual Evidence in Multimodal Reasoning?

Didi Zhu, Changrui Chen, Stefanos Zafeiriou +1

When a multimodal large language model answers a visual reasoning question correctly, is the prediction actually supported by the task-critical visual evidence? Correct answers can…

cs.LG2026

MidSteer: Optimal Affine Framework for Steering Generative Models

Tatiana Gaintseva, Andrew Stepanov, Ziquan Liu +4

Steering intermediate representations has emerged as a powerful strategy for controlling generative models, particularly in post-deployment alignment and safety settings. However,…

cs.CV2026

RAVEN: Real-time Autoregressive Video Extrapolation with Consistency-model GRPO

Yanzuo Lu, Ronglai Zuo, Jiankang Deng

Causal autoregressive video diffusion models support real-time streaming generation by extrapolating future chunks from previously generated content. Distilling such generators fro…

cs.RO2026

From Imagined Futures to Executable Actions: Mixture of Latent Actions for Robot Manipulation

Yajie Li, Bozhou Zhang, Chun Gu +5

Video generation models offer a promising imagination mechanism for robot manipulation by predicting long-horizon future observations, but effectively exploiting these imagined fut…

cs.CV2026

Do You See What I Am Pointing At? Gesture-Based Egocentric Video Question Answering

Yura Choi, Roy Miles, Rolandos Alexandros Potamias +3

Understanding and answering questions based on a user's pointing gesture is essential for next-generation egocentric AI assistants. However, current Multimodal Large Language Model…

cs.CV2026

DreamCAD: Scaling Multi-modal CAD Generation using Differentiable Parametric Surfaces

Mohammad Sadil Khan, Muhammad Usama, Rolandos Alexandros Potamias +4

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) relies on structured and editable geometric representations, yet existing generative methods are constrained by small annotated datasets with explicit d…

cs.CV2025

SATGround: A Spatially-Aware Approach for Visual Grounding in Remote Sensing

Aysim Toker, Andreea-Maria Oncescu, Roy Miles +2

Vision-language models (VLMs) are emerging as powerful generalist tools for remote sensing, capable of integrating information across diverse tasks and enabling flexible, instructi…

cs.CV2025

RetouchLLM: Training-free Code-based Image Retouching with Vision Language Models

Moon Ye-Bin, Roy Miles, Tae-Hyun Oh +2

Image retouching not only enhances visual quality but also serves as a means of expressing personal preferences and emotions. However, existing learning-based approaches require la…

cs.GR2025

CASteer: Cross-Attention Steering for Controllable Concept Erasure

Tatiana Gaintseva, Andreea-Maria Oncescu, Chengcheng Ma +5

Diffusion models have transformed image generation, yet controlling their outputs to reliably erase undesired concepts remains challenging. Existing approaches usually require task…

cs.CV2025

"Principal Components" Enable A New Language of Images

Xin Wen, Bingchen Zhao, Ismail Elezi +2

We introduce a novel visual tokenization framework that embeds a provable PCA-like structure into the latent token space. While existing visual tokenizers primarily optimize for re…

cs.CL2024

From Attention to Activation: Unravelling the Enigmas of Large Language Models

Prannay Kaul, Chengcheng Ma, Ismail Elezi +1

We study two strange phenomena in auto-regressive Transformers: (1) the dominance of the first token in attention heads; (2) the occurrence of large outlier activations in the hidd…

cs.CV2024

VeLoRA: Memory Efficient Training using Rank-1 Sub-Token Projections

Roy Miles, Pradyumna Reddy, Ismail Elezi +1

Large language models (LLMs) have recently emerged as powerful tools for tackling many language-processing tasks. Despite their success, training and fine-tuning these models is st…

cs.CV2024

G3DR: Generative 3D Reconstruction in ImageNet

Pradyumna Reddy, Ismail Elezi, Jiankang Deng

We introduce a novel 3D generative method, Generative 3D Reconstruction (G3DR) in ImageNet, capable of generating diverse and high-quality 3D objects from single images, addressing…

cs.LG2024

Deep Active Learning: A Reality Check

Edrina Gashi, Jiankang Deng, Ismail Elezi

We conduct a comprehensive evaluation of state-of-the-art deep active learning methods. Surprisingly, under general settings, no single-model method decisively outperforms entropy-…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Improving Knowledge Distillation using Orthogonal Projections

Roy Miles, Ismail Elezi, Jiankang Deng

Knowledge distillation is an effective method for training small and efficient deep learning models. However, the efficacy of a single method can degenerate when transferring to ot…

cs.CV2024

AvatarMMC: 3D Head Avatar Generation and Editing with Multi-Modal Conditioning

Wamiq Reyaz Para, Abdelrahman Eldesokey, Zhenyu Li +3

We introduce an approach for 3D head avatar generation and editing with multi-modal conditioning based on a 3D Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) and a Latent Diffusion Model (LD…

cs.CV2023

Three Heads Are Better Than One: Complementary Experts for Long-Tailed Semi-supervised Learning

Chengcheng Ma, Ismail Elezi, Jiankang Deng +2

We address the challenging problem of Long-Tailed Semi-Supervised Learning (LTSSL) where labeled data exhibit imbalanced class distribution and unlabeled data follow an unknown dis…