arXiv Machine Learning

Rethinking Prediction Horizons: Decoupling Model Queries from State Updates in Few-Step MeanFlow

arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 16

Decision-FLIP: Budget-Free Structured Pruning for Gaussian Occupancy Models

Decision‑FLIP is a budget‑free pruning framework for Gaussian occupancy models that scores each persistent Gaussian row by how many voxel decisions change when the row is removed. It uses a guarded Otsu split on the log‑score distribution to select survivors without a target, then compiles the survivors into a smaller checkpoint, reducing bank size and latency. Across multiple model‑dataset settings, the method removes 12–79% of rows, cuts latency by 7–45%, and saves up to 8.0% of whole‑model compute while keeping semantic mIoU within 0.18 points of the original.

By Jingxing Li, Anurag Paul, Subhasis Das, Cindy Xu
arXiv AI
Sep 3

Modeling What Changes: Sparse, Residual World Models for Object-Centric Manipulation

The paper introduces a sparse, residual world model that focuses on predicting only the changes in a scene by using a per-object change gate and a residual delta head. On a MuJoCo tabletop pushing benchmark, this approach outperforms a dense multilayer perceptron, achieving 2.5 to 4.6 times better next‑state pose accuracy with 8.6 to 11.1 times fewer parameters, maintaining high change‑detection F1 scores, and showing strong transfer across object counts. In autoregressive rollout and sampling‑based planning, the sparse model accumulates less error and enables successful planning where dense models fail.

By Param Thakkar, Parsika Paresh Shah, Manisha Sushant Gote