arXiv AI

Selective Coupling of Decoupled Informative Regions: Masked Attention Alignment for Data-Free Quantization of Vision Transformers

arXiv:2606. 04373v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data-Free Quantization (DFQ) addresses data security concerns by synthesizing samples, without accessing real data.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

Spectral Query-Key Product Weight Steering for Training-Free VLM Hallucination Mitigation

The paper introduces QK Product Steering, a data‑free, training‑free method that edits the query‑key product in vision‑language models to reduce object hallucination. By suppressing a few dominant singular modes in selected middle layers and mapping the edited product back to query weights, the approach lowers hallucination rates without affecting inference cost. Experiments on three GQA‑based VLMs show a 4.0% average reduction in CHAIR$_s$, with the effect localized to symmetric mutual‑attention channels.

By Karn Tiwari, Varnith Chordia, Prathosh A P
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 31

DARTS: Decoder-Aware Representation Tuning via Surgery for Model Merging

The paper introduces DARTS, a method for tuning decoder representations during model merging. It addresses representation bias in autoregressive decoders by using an entropy‑weighted L1 loss and a per‑position additive bias to correct errors that accumulate across token positions. Experiments on code generation, mathematical reasoning, and instruction following with Llama‑2‑7B show that DARTS improves performance over standard surgery while adding only 0.1% extra parameters.

By Aaryan Ajay Sharma, Sai Nishanth Padala, Seganrasan Subramanian
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

VQ-Transplant: Efficient VQ-Module Integration for Pre-trained Visual Tokenizers

VQ-Transplant is a framework that allows new vector‑quantization (VQ) modules to be inserted into frozen, pre‑trained visual tokenizers without retraining the entire model. By preserving all encoder‑decoder parameters and adding a lightweight decoder adaptation trained for only five epochs on ImageNet‑1k, the method mitigates decoder‑quantization mismatch. Experiments show that VQ-Transplant achieves near state‑of‑the‑art reconstruction fidelity for industry‑level models such as VAR while cutting training costs by 95%.

By Xianghong Fang, Yuan Yuan, Dehan Kong, Tim G. J. Rudner
arXiv AI
Jun 24

When Language Overwrites Vision: Over-Alignment and Geometric Debiasing in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2605. 08245v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) increasingly power high-stakes applications, from medical imaging to autonomous systems, yet they routinely hallucinate, confidently describing content not present in the input.

By Harshvardhan Saini, Samyak Jha, Yiming Tang, Dianbo Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 2

Mixture of Distributions Matters: Dynamic Sparse Attention for Efficient Video Diffusion Transformers

arXiv:2601. 11641v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have achieved notable progress in video generation, this long-sequence generation task remains constrained by the quadratic complexity inherent to self-attention mechanisms, creating significant barriers to practical deployment.

By Yuxi Liu, Yipeng Hu, Zekun Zhang, Kunze Jiang, Kun Yuan