The paper introduces Generative Semantic Scene Completion (GSSC), a framework that recasts outdoor LiDAR semantic scene completion as a discrete diffusion process. It comprises three components: (1) paired sparse‑dense scene synthesis (PS³) to generate synthetic training data, (2) semantic‑guided generative scene completion (SGSC) that generates scenes from noise conditioned on sparse scans, and (3) structured source discrete diffusion (S²D²) that refines existing completions in a single flow‑matching step. Using this approach, the authors achieve state‑of‑the‑art performance on the SemanticKITTI benchmark, reaching 38.8% mIoU in a single‑sweep, single‑sample setting and 39.2% with limited augmentation.
By Shi Chen, Weifeng Ge
arXiv:2605.17630v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Frozen segmentation foundation models often fail when the target class appears in a form that is weakly represented during pretraining. To address...
By Abderrahmene Boudiaf, Irfan Hussain, Sajid Javed
ReVisIT is a train‑free framework that turns retrieved image‑label pairs into units of visual thought, combining structured class definitions, multimodal retrieval, and alternating user/assistant injection before joint decoding. On several benchmarks—including Fast Open MiniImageNet, Bongard‑OpenWorld, and the newly released MAAC‑Bench—ReVisIT achieves performance comparable to or surpassing large, trained models while using far fewer parameters. The approach demonstrates that high‑quality retrieval and a simple turns layer can provide a universal performance boost across diverse multimodal tasks.
By Bingchen Huang, Zhiling Wang, Yifu Chen, Yuanchao Du
arXiv:2608. 02830v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many-shot in-context learning (ICL) lets vision-language models (VLMs) adapt from image--label demonstrations without weight updates, and is widely assumed to improve as more demonstrations are supplied.
By Mohammad Rostami
FuseAdapt is a parameter‑efficient framework for multimodal semantic segmentation that performs fusion within the adaptation space of a frozen vision foundation model (VFM). Instead of a separate fusion network, each modality receives a lightweight adaptation branch, and only low‑rank residual activations are routed across modalities inside the frozen backbone. The method also introduces Predictive Modality Modeling (PMM) to handle missing modalities during training, achieving significant mIoU gains on three benchmarks.
By Xin Zhang, Robby T. Tan
VOIM (Voxel‑Grounded Online Instance Manager) is a training‑free system that builds open‑vocabulary 3D instance maps from RGB‑D or monocular RGB input by deferring label and instance decisions until sufficient soft evidence accumulates per voxel across views. Across four perception configurations on ScanNet++, VOIM outperforms the strongest online RGB‑D system, OVO‑SLAM, by 4.8–11.7 mIoU, and achieves 44.07 mIoU under a like‑for‑like protocol, winning all ten scenes. The method also runs unchanged on monocular RGB, matching baseline performance on Replica, and produces exportable occupancy grids that support free‑form instance queries.
By Sangmin Song, Sarath Kodagoda, Marc G. Carmichael, Karthick Thiyagarajan, Amal Gunatilake, Kelly Prentice, Jodi Martin
arXiv:2606.19828v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: 3D multimodal large language models (3D MLLMs) describe a 3D object as a whole but cannot address, name, or reason about its parts. Prior part-awar...
By Jintang Xue, Xinyu Wang, Yixing Wu, Jingwen Chen, C. -C. Jay Kuo
arXiv:2610.08379v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Visual counting is commonly formulated as counting a single specified target, with a model receiving an image-specific exemplar, text query, or target...
By Jinshi Liu, Pan Liu, Lei He, Weichao Luo, Rui Qian
arXiv:2608.28216v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Locating a specific object instance in a cluttered scene using a single reference image and a short description, and reporting when that instance is ab...
By Kishor Datta Gupta, Ahmed Rafi Hasan, Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Md. Sadman Haque, Mohd Ariful Haque
arXiv:2608.21762v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) fail many detail-centric questions for a concrete reason: the answer is visible in the image, yet lost after the image...
By Jinchang Zhu, Rong Fu, Yi Ding, Chenghao Wu, Ying Liu, Menglin Yang
The paper investigates whether language prompts selected by zero‑shot accuracy remain effective after visual adaptation in source‑free cross‑domain few‑shot learning. Using a paired protocol, the authors compare generic class‑name templates with detailed class descriptions before and after Low‑Rank Adaptation (LoRA) on datasets such as EuroSAT, CropDisease, ISIC, and ChestX. They identify two regimes: semantic saturation, where detailed prompts are already useful before adaptation, and semantic emergence, where detailed prompts become more useful only after visual representation updates, driven by changes in prediction patterns.
By Wei Liu, Xing Deng, Haijian Shao
arXiv:2607. 00004v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While advanced foundation models like ModernBERT significantly outperform older architectures in dense retrieval, they surprisingly lag behind the aging BERT-base baseline in learned sparse retrieval (LSR).
By Zhichao Geng, Yang Yang