Geometric foundation models, such as the Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT), provide strong 3D priors from unposed images. However, such models operate purely in a feed-forward, deterministic regime, \ie~they cannot generate plausible geometry beyond what the input views directly support.
arXiv:2312. 08230v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Detecting partial extrinsic symmetry in 3D geometry is a fundamental yet persistent challenge in computer vision and graphics, critical for tasks ranging from shape completion to procedural generation.
By Gregor Kobsik, Isaak Lim, Leif Kobbelt
arXiv:2510. 03511v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While widespread, Transformers lack inductive biases for geometric symmetries common in science and computer vision.
By Mohammad Mohaiminul Islam, Rishabh Anand, David R. Wessels, Friso de Kruiff, Thijs P. Kuipers, Rex Ying, Clara I. S\'anchez, Sharvaree Vadgama, Georg B\"okman, Erik J. Bekkers
arXiv:2605. 30705v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Geometry-aware generative models and novel view synthesis approaches have shown strong potential in visual fidelity and consistency.
By Sunghyun Kim, Jaehoon Hahm, Jeongwoo Shin, Joonseok Lee
arXiv:2512. 20043v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Symmetry is fundamental to understanding physical systems and can improve performance and sample efficiency in machine learning.
By Yuxuan Chen, Jung Yeon Park, Floor Eijkelboom, Jianke Yang, Jan-Willem van de Meent, Lawson L. S. Wong, Robin Walters
arXiv:2505. 15441v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Natural images exhibit strong geometric regularities: local structures, such as edges, corners, and textures, appear in many orientations and mirror configurations.
By David Nordstr\"om, Johan Edstedt, Fredrik Kahl, Georg B\"okman
arXiv:2608. 12010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Equivariant Neural Networks (ENNs) have empowered numerous applications in scientific fields.
By Ning Lin, Jiacheng Cen, Anyi Li, Wenbing Huang, Hao Sun
Equivariant Neural Networks (ENNs) have empowered numerous applications in scientific fields. Despite their remarkable capacity for representing geometric structures, ENNs suffer from degraded expressivity when processing symmetric inputs: the output representations are invariant to transformations that extend beyond the input's symmetries.
arXiv:2604. 04050v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Flow-matching methods for 3D shape assembly learn point-wise velocity fields that transport parts toward assembled configurations, yet they receive no explicit guidance about which cross-part interactions should drive the motion.
By Nahyuk Lee, Zhiang Chen, Marc Pollefeys, Sunghwan Hong
arXiv:2607. 15536v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) captures scenes by coupling explicit geometry (position, covariance) with view-dependent photometry (Spherical Harmonics).
By Chankyo Kim, Maani Ghaffari
Rectified-flow-based diffusion transformers, particularly FLUX, have demonstrated outstanding performance in high-quality image generation. However, achieving fast and accurate inversion--transforming images back to latent noise for faithful reconstruction and editing--remains a challenging bottleneck due to the discretization errors of linear solvers.
arXiv:2606. 24874v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse voxel representation has emerged as a scalable foundation for image-to-3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) generation, yet current methods struggle to preserve high-frequency visual details of input images due to two structural bottlenecks.
By Haorui Ji, Weizhe Liu, Hongdong Li, Hengkai Guo