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Observation-Aligned Mask Priors for Learning Physical Fields from Authentic Occlusions

arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 16

Latent Annealed Posterior Sampling with a Variance-Preserving Bridge for Sparsely Observed Random Fields

The paper introduces Latent Annealed Posterior Sampling (LAPS), a method that maps sparsely observed random fields into a lower‑dimensional latent space and performs posterior sampling there. A variance‑preserving bridge controls local covariance inflation, while flow matching learns the latent prior. Experiments on Gaussian benchmarks, a bimodal posterior, and a Navier‑Stokes field show that LAPS accurately approximates posterior distributions, preserves multiple modes, and keeps conditional sampling costs nearly constant as spatial resolution increases.

By Jiankun Lei, Tian Qi
arXiv Statistics ML
Oct 28

OneFlowSBI: One Model, Many Queries for Simulation-Based Inference

OneFlowSBI is a masked flow matching framework that trains a single network on the joint distribution of parameters and observations, using a ternary mask to indicate observed, generated, or absent coordinates. This mask-based approach allows any conditional or marginal inference to be performed by simply changing the mask, avoiding the quadratic attention cost of transformer-based generalists. Experiments on high‑dimensional image denoising and shallow water inference show that OneFlowSBI achieves lower posterior error, faster sampling, and can handle missing data without retraining, while matching or exceeding neural posterior estimation on most SBIBM tasks.

By Mayank Nautiyal, Li Ju, Melker Ernfors, Klara Hagland, Ville Holma, Maximilian Werk\"o S\"oderholm, Andreas Hellander, Prashant Singh
arXiv AI
Jul 22

Incomplete Observations Boost Evolutionary Performance in Ocean Modeling

arXiv:2607. 19147v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data-driven methods have revolutionized ocean modeling, yet current approaches rely heavily on complete reanalysis datasets, imposing computational constraints and limiting model performance to that of the training data.

By Yangyang Kong, Yutong Jiang, Yanhai Gan, Junyu Dong, Feng Gao, Xiaopei Lin
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

TRACE: Retrospective Streaming Generation of Physical Fields under Sparse Structured Sensing

TRACE is a retrospective streaming generative reconstruction framework designed to recover continuous physical fields from sparse, structured sensing streams. It performs approximate Bayesian inference in a continuous-coordinate latent space, fuses sparse off‑grid measurements with a state‑space temporal prior via Kalman‑style filtering, and refines past frames through retrospective smoothing. Experiments on active matter, ocean sound‑speed fields, and supernova simulations demonstrate that TRACE matches or surpasses existing frame‑wise generative reconstructors, offline spatiotemporal methods, and streaming data‑assimilation baselines in reconstruction quality under temporally sparse and spatially localized sensing protocols.

By Xinyu Zhang, Lihao Chen, Panqi Chen, Lei Cheng, Ting Zhang, Jianlong Li, Shikai Fang
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 30

Beyond Missing Rates: Rethinking Incomplete Multi-View Clustering with Protocol Divergence

The paper introduces the concept of protocol divergence, showing that identical nominal missing rates can lead to vastly different learning regimes in incomplete multi‑view clustering. It critiques existing evaluation practices that ignore observation structure and proposes CRAFT, a train‑once framework that fuses observed views with mask‑aware attention, enabling efficient deployment across multiple missing‑view protocols. Experiments on CUB, MultiFashion, and other benchmarks demonstrate CRAFT’s superior performance and significant computational savings through checkpoint reuse.

By Haolu Liu, Xiyue Wang, Xuanting Xie, Liangjian Wen, Zhao Kang
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 1

Matisse: Evidence-Space Reasoning for Active 3D Reconstruction

Matisse is a training‑free framework that combines active 3D reconstruction with keyframe selection by using evidence from a pretrained generative 3D model. It estimates evidential uncertainty via cross‑attention on 3D latent tokens and derives an evidential information gain to guide view acquisition and keyframe selection, reducing redundant observations and supporting multi‑object scenes with occlusion‑aware aggregation. On GSO30, YCB‑V, and Replica, Matisse improves Chamfer distance by 12.7%, 3.8%, and 9.2% respectively, and speeds up end‑to‑end reconstruction by 1.5× compared to the best baseline.

By Xihang Yu, Kaichen Zhou, Lorenzo Shaikewitz, Cl\'ement Jambon, Xiao Zhan, Rajat Talak, Luca Carlone
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 9

Learning Which Correspondences to Trust: Confidence-Weighted Event-Camera Localization in LiDAR Maps

The paper introduces CELL, a confidence-weighted event-camera localization method that learns per-correspondence confidence end-to-end using a differentiable probabilistic PnP. It reweights flow supervision, drives probabilistic correspondence selection at test time, and refines edge matching, while also proposing a partial-completion depth representation. Experiments on M3ED and DSEC show significant reductions in median translation and rotation errors compared to the LEAR baseline.

By Panagiotis Kiousis, Kuangyi Chen, Jun Zhang, Friedrich Fraundorfer
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 25

OceanXL: Large-scale Underwater 3D Gaussian Splatting via Block Partitioning and Adaptive Pruning

OceanXL is a new framework that applies 3D Gaussian Splatting to large-scale underwater scenes by partitioning them into spatially coherent blocks and using adaptive pruning to remove redundant primitives. This divide‑and‑conquer approach improves training efficiency and rendering performance while maintaining global geometric consistency. The authors also release a large underwater dataset and demonstrate that OceanXL achieves favorable scalability, compactness, and efficiency compared to existing baselines, with competitive quality on smaller datasets and smaller model sizes than other underwater methods.

By Haoran Wang, Shaoyu Cai, Adrian Azzarelli, Zhuodong Jiang, Guoxi Huang, Eng Tat Khoo, Brett Seymour, Fan Zhang, David Bull, Nantheera Anantrasirichai