arXiv Machine Learning

Zebra3D: Efficient Hybrid Foundation Models For Scalable 3D Reconstruction

Zebra3D introduces a layerwise sparse‑linear hybrid attention framework that enhances the efficiency of pretrained 3D foundation models without requiring training from scratch. By assigning linear‑centered attention to tolerant early stages and tile‑sparse attention to sensitive middle‑to‑late stages, it preserves context through landmark summaries and enables training‑free conversion via closed‑form affine fitting. Across multiple backbones, Zebra3D achieves strong reconstruction and camera‑pose accuracy with high attention sparsity, delivering up to 7.1× speedups at 1,024 views and maintaining performance close to dense counterparts after optional post‑conversion training.

arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 8

Hardware-aware Calibrated Clustered Attention for Efficient Visual Geometric Transformers

The paper introduces Hardware‑aware Calibrated Clustered Attention (BC attention) to speed up the global attention layers of the Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT) used for 3D scene reconstruction. By clustering queries within hardware‑friendly neighborhood blocks and adding hashing hyperplane calibration plus threshold‑based error compensation, BC attention reduces computation and memory traffic, enabling it to handle long sequences with practical latency gains on GPUs. Experiments show that calibrated BC attention accelerates global attention by 2.10–2.63× and the entire backbone by 1.77–2.35×, with only a 1% loss in accuracy, and achieves up to 2.87× latency improvement with less than 5% performance drop.

By Weitian Wang, Shubham Rai, Cecilia De La Parra, Akash Kumar
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 1

FAST: Flow Any Scene Transformer

arXiv:2609.39748v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling has become a primary driver of progress in language and vision foundation models, yet its role in precise correspondence matching remains under...

By Yongjian Zhang, Longguang Wang, Zhuo Song, Zhiheng Fu, Liang Lin, Yulan Guo