arXiv Computer Vision

VASC: Value-Aware Sparse Attention with Cross-Layer Memory for Efficient 3D Reconstruction

arXiv AI
Sep 21

Think Locally, Refine Globally for Memory-Efficient 3D Reconstruction

LoG-VGGT is a memory‑efficient framework for long‑sequence 3D reconstruction that balances local temporal modeling with global camera consistency. It uses cross‑window attention in a small subset of transformer blocks to propagate information across adjacent temporal windows while keeping memory usage bounded. A global camera consistency refinement module further improves long‑horizon pose stability by enforcing scene‑level constraints through cross‑attention between camera and compact register tokens, leading to better depth accuracy and robust camera pose estimation on multiple benchmarks.

By Jingke Zhou, Chenhang Ma, Zhizhou Zhong, Mingkai Liu, Zhuang Zhou, Yicheng ji, Binghua Su, Bo Cai, Xianliang Huang
arXiv AI
Aug 20

Partition the Support, Reconstruct the Residual: Training-Free Sparse Attention for Video Generation and World Models

The paper introduces SparsePR, a training‑free block‑sparse attention method for video transformers that partitions query‑key responses and reconstructs the residual via probe‑fitted affine corrections. By pairing sampled‑query key responses into K/V groups and using centroids to guide shared routing, SparsePR reduces attention‑reconstruction error across diverse video generation and world‑model tasks. Experiments show consistent error reductions, with probe fitting contributing most of the improvement, while maintaining generation quality at 22.0–26.0% executed‑pair density and delivering 1.48×–2.61× speedups.

By Pardis Taghavi, Reza Langari, Gaurav Pandey
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 25

Do Value Vectors in Deep Layers Need Context from the Residual Stream?

The paper investigates whether deep transformer layers require context from the residual stream to compute value vectors. It finds that allowing deeper layers to use a context‑free value vector—preserving original token information—significantly improves performance, and adding context afterward yields little extra benefit. The authors introduce Bank of Values (BoV), a lookup table of token‑specific value vectors for the last third of layers, which reduces compute and memory while matching or surpassing prior methods on large models.

By Muyu He, Yuchen Liu, Qingya Huang, Li Zhang
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

LayerRecall: A State-Conditioned Memory Router for Long-Horizon Consistency in Video Generation

LayerRecall is a memory router for autoregressive video diffusion that selectively retrieves and injects historical key/value states into specific layers of the model, based on the current context. It addresses the problem that existing memory mechanisms expose nonlocal history but do not guarantee effective use, by recognizing that different layers prefer current, recent, or distant context. The method, combined with Cross‑Horizon Prediction Matching, achieves state‑of‑the‑art long‑range consistency on MemoBench and MovieBench while maintaining local continuity and incurring negligible inference overhead.

By Yixuan Ding, Jiahao Kong, Wei Huang, Ruijie Quan, Yi Yang