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:2605.06140v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Generative modeling of physical systems, such as molecules, requires learning distributions that are invariant under global symmetries, such...
By Samir Darouich, Vinh Tong, Llu\'is Pastor-P\'erez, Tanja Bien, Loay Mualem, Mathias Niepert
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:2606.23489v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Meshes are among the most common 3D scene representations, but directly generating meshes is challenging because the representation contains...
By Qi Sun, Kiyohiro Nakayama, Jing Nathan Yan, Qixing Huang, Alexander Rush, Leonidas Guibas, Gordon Wetzstein, Jing Liao, Guandao Yang
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:2605.12957v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Recent developments in generative models and large-scale datasets have substantially advanced 3D world generation, facilitating a broad range of do...
By Hanxin Zhu, Cong Wang, Peiyan Tu, Jiayi Luo, Tianyu He, Xin Jin, Zhibo Chen
The paper introduces the Geometry‑Native Autoencoder (GAE), a compact latent space that can be decoded into appearance, depth, camera parameters, and point maps, enabling 3D‑consistent world generation. By reparameterizing a geometry foundation model’s features, GAE replaces traditional appearance‑centric latents and improves visual quality and 3D coherence, achieving significant reductions in FVD and camera‑trajectory error on benchmark datasets. The work demonstrates that a geometry‑native latent space can serve as a shared interface between perception and generation models.
By Jiahao Lu, Minghao Yin, Wenbo Hu, Hengyu Liu, Wang Zhao, Sai-Kit Yeung, Ying Shan, Yuan Liu