The paper introduces PhGS, a post‑hoc pruning and refinement pipeline for single‑view feed‑forward 3D Gaussian Splatting models. It keeps the base network frozen and applies importance‑score‑based pruning followed by a lightweight recurrent refinement module to reduce spatial redundancy while maintaining rendering quality. The method is backbone‑agnostic, integrates seamlessly with existing baselines, and allows flexible inference‑time keep ratios for different application needs.
By Rinto Yagawa, Han Cheng, Dieter Schmalstieg, Hideo Saito, Shohei Mori
ReSplat introduces a recurrent Gaussian splatting model that iteratively refines 3D Gaussians using the rendering error as a feedback signal, avoiding explicit gradient computation. The method starts from a compact reconstruction in a subsampled space, producing far fewer Gaussians than prior per‑pixel models, which reduces computational cost. Experiments on multiple datasets, view counts, and resolutions show state‑of‑the‑art performance with faster rendering speeds.
By Haofei Xu, Daniel Barath, Andreas Geiger, Marc Pollefeys
arXiv:2608.22344v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieves state-of-the-art rendering quality at real-time speeds but suffers from "model bloat" - a large number of redunda...
By Zi-Ming Wang, Kai-Wen Duan, Kowei Huang, Akihiro Sugimoto, Shang-Hong Lai
The paper introduces a structure‑aware merging pipeline that consolidates per‑pixel 3D Gaussian primitives from any feed‑forward reconstruction method into a compact, content‑adaptive Gaussian set. By grouping spatially coherent Gaussians with adaptive superpixel segmentation guided by a saliency map, compressing clusters via a learned encoder, and merging representations across views using geometric overlap and feature similarity, the method reduces the number of Gaussians to about one‑twentieth of the original while preserving visual quality. A level‑of‑detail decoder allows controllable resolution, and the pipeline operates as a backbone‑agnostic post‑processing module, improving robustness and rendering efficiency.
By Tim-Felix Fassch, Jochen Kall, Cyrill Stachniss
F4Splat introduces a feed‑forward predictive densification strategy for 3D Gaussian splatting that allocates Gaussians based on a densification‑score guided by spatial complexity and multi‑view overlap. The method predicts per‑region scores to estimate required Gaussian density, enabling explicit control over the total Gaussian budget without retraining. This adaptive allocation reduces redundancy in simple regions and minimizes duplicate Gaussians across overlapping views, yielding compact yet high‑quality 3D representations and superior novel‑view synthesis performance with fewer Gaussians.
By Injae Kim, Chaehyeon Kim, Minseong Bae, Minseok Joo, Hyunwoo J. Kim
arXiv:2611.06593v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting enables efficient generalizable novel view synthesis, but existing pixel-aligned methods often generate highly redun...
By Yuxi Hu, Jun Zhang, Wei Mao, Yuchen Rao, Friedrich Fraundorfer
arXiv:2610.07958v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) reconstructs a scene in a single forward pass, replacing per-scene optimization with a network trained across...
By Minhyeok Lee, Jungho Lee, Minseok Kang, Heeseung Choi, Ig-Jae Kim, Sangyoun Lee
Spackle is a lightweight residual learning framework designed to improve large-view single-image novel view synthesis (NVS) by mitigating capacity competition in hybrid decoupled systems that combine 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and diffusion models. It operates in three stages: predicting base 3DGS attributes, automatically identifying poorly reconstructed regions, and learning a residual 3DGS focused on those areas. During inference, Spackle merges the baseline and augmented Gaussians to produce high-fidelity novel views, achieving state‑of‑the‑art performance on large-view-deviation cases.
By Xuanzhi Liu, Yuhe Zhou, Xinyi Wu, Zhenyao Wu, Jinghao Chen, Ruize Han, Song Wang
The paper presents a training‑free filtering method for feed‑forward 3D Gaussian Splatting that removes transient distractors from 3D reconstructions. By excluding each input’s per‑view Gaussians and re‑rendering the scene, the method identifies inconsistent content through feature similarity and reconstruction error reduction. The approach improves novel‑view quality across multiple models and benchmarks while preserving clean scenes.
By Kangmin Seo, Jae-Pil Heo
CompactSplat introduces a feedforward scene reconstruction method that adaptively allocates 3D Gaussian primitives based on texture-guided spatial partitioning and hierarchical sampling. By concentrating dense Gaussians in complex regions and using expanded primitives for flat areas, it reduces redundancy and better captures planar geometry. The framework also allows dynamic sparsity control during inference, enabling trade-offs between rendering quality and memory usage without retraining.
By Bing He, Jingnan Gao, Yunuo Chen, Zhengxue Cheng, Rong Xie, Li Song, Wenjun Zhang
ACD-GS introduces an Asymmetric Curvature-aware Densification framework for 3D Gaussian Splatting that uses second-order depth responses to guide cloning and splitting, thereby better capturing geometric discontinuities. It incorporates a multi-view photometric consistency constraint and a capacity-aware adaptive regulation strategy to balance densification and pruning during training. The approach reduces Gaussian count and storage by nearly 60% while maintaining competitive rendering fidelity, outperforming existing methods across multiple datasets.
arXiv:2609.39553v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables real-time novel view synthesis, but existing general-purpose acceleration methods suffer severe rendering quality...
By Changbai Li, Shuo Yang, Yichen Yang, Shuwei Shao, Huobin Tan