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most citedBeyond Backprop: Online Alternating Minimization with Auxiliary Variables

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cs.CV2025

Detection and Simulation of Urban Heat Islands Using a Fine-Tuned Geospatial Foundation Model for Microclimate Impact Prediction

Jannis Fleckenstein, David Kreismann, Tamara Rosemary Govindasamy +3

As urbanization and climate change progress, urban heat island effects are becoming more frequent and severe. To formulate effective mitigation plans, cities require detailed air t…

cs.CL2025

Eliciting Reasoning in Language Models with Cognitive Tools

Brown Ebouky, Andrea Bartezzaghi, Mattia Rigotti

The recent advent of reasoning models like OpenAI's o1 was met with excited speculation by the AI community about the mechanisms underlying these capabilities in closed models, fol…

cs.CV2025

Q-SAM2: Accurate Quantization for Segment Anything Model 2

Nicola Farronato, Florian Scheidegger, Mattia Rigotti +3

The Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) is a powerful foundation model for promptable segmentation. However, its high computational and memory costs are a major barrier to deployment o…

cs.LG2025

Revisiting Group Relative Policy Optimization: Insights into On-Policy and Off-Policy Training

Youssef Mroueh, Nicolas Dupuis, Brian Belgodere +6

We revisit Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) in both on-policy and off-policy optimization regimes. Our motivation comes from recent work on off-policy Proximal Policy Opti…

cs.CV2025

VP Lab: a PEFT-Enabled Visual Prompting Laboratory for Semantic Segmentation

Niccolo Avogaro, Thomas Frick, Yagmur G. Cinar +12

Large-scale pretrained vision backbones have transformed computer vision by providing powerful feature extractors that enable various downstream tasks, including training-free appr…

cs.CV2025

Show or Tell? Effectively prompting Vision-Language Models for semantic segmentation

Niccolo Avogaro, Thomas Frick, Mattia Rigotti +5

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly being regarded as foundation models that can be instructed to solve diverse tasks by prompting, without task-specific training.…