arXiv:2609.05730v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) is a building block of many machine learning applications. Scaling laws have guided resource allocation...
The paper revisits the use of contrastive loss for post‑training CLIP models, showing that the reported catastrophic forgetting is mainly due to an overly large temperature parameter in the InfoNCE objective. By setting a smaller temperature, contrastive post‑training can actually improve CLIP. The authors introduce ComCLIP, a lightweight single‑epoch recipe that freezes the text encoder, trains the vision encoder with a properly tempered contrastive loss, an MSE anchoring loss, and a relational distillation loss, achieving comparable zero‑shot classification to CLIP‑Refine while significantly enhancing visual feature transferability and maintaining downstream compatibility with LLaVA.
arXiv:2509.22650v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Most existing approaches to referring segmentation achieve strong performance only through fine-tuning or by composing multiple pre-trained models,...
DAGS introduces a lightweight, attention‑free conditioning scheme that disentangles appearance and geometry for a frozen image diffusion transformer (DiT), enabling high‑fidelity, temporally stable renders with independent control. Two small convolutional encoders generate per‑frame conditioning features, which are injected as learned residuals into the image tokens, avoiding the quadratic cost of attention. Coupled with a recurrent lighting stabilizer and a training‑free temporal guidance term, DAGS transforms a per‑frame image model into a streaming renderer that outperforms real‑time denoisers and diffusion renderers in PSNR and temporal stability while requiring far less compute than path tracing.
LeVJEPA is a video encoder that eliminates the need for architectural asymmetries, exponential-moving-average target encoders, stop-gradients, and capacity-limited predictors used in prior self‑supervised methods. It trains a single encoder with an invariance loss over global and local views, regularized by SIGReg to prevent collapse, and achieves strong performance with far less pretraining compute. The approach also allows block‑causal attention, making temporal ordering a property of the encoder itself, and matches or surpasses state‑of‑the‑art baselines on both appearance‑centric and motion‑centric benchmarks.
arXiv:2507.00754v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The integration of Large Language Model (LLMs) blocks with Vision Transformers (ViTs) holds immense promise for vision-only tasks by leveraging the...
arXiv:2605.12491v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision Transformers (ViTs) learn rich visual-semantic representations through all-to-all self-attention among patch tokens. However, this design im...
PACE introduces a training‑free Condense‑and‑Extract framework that speeds up Vision‑Language Model inference by first adaptively downsampling visual inputs before encoding and then selectively retaining essential tokens during decoding. The Adaptive Pixel Compressor (APC) reduces encoder workload while preserving global context, and the Dynamic Dual‑Attention Extractor (DDAE) keeps task‑critical details by fusing visual and language signals. Applied to Qwen2.5‑VL‑7B, PACE maintains 93.8% of performance using only 10% of visual tokens, achieving a 3.1× speedup in time to first token.
arXiv:2606. 01503v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unified vision-language models (VLMs) integrate visual understanding and visual generation within a single autoregressive backbone, but their joint training is computationally expensive and largely overlooked from an efficiency perspective.
arXiv:2606. 14757v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Though Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become the dominant backbone in many computer vision tasks, due to permutation equivariance, their attention mechanism lacks explicit spatial inductive biases.
arXiv:2601. 22108v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continued pretraining is optimized with fixed self-supervised tasks but selected by downstream performance, creating a coarse feedback loop in which practitioners evaluate checkpoints, change data mixtures or objectives, and restart runs, while individual updates remain blind to target capabilities.
arXiv:2608.22368v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While linear attention is a compelling mechanism for high-resolution object detection due to its reduced cost for global token mixing, converting the S...