arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

CrossMambaTuning: Synergistic Spatial and Cross-Layer Adaptation for Machine Vision Compression

CrossMambaTuning is a new framework that adapts pretrained learned image compression models to machine vision tasks with minimal retraining. It combines State Space Models with cross‑layer interaction, featuring a Mamba adapter that uses task‑specific prompts and multi‑scale branching, and a Scale‑Invariant Cross‑Layer Adapter (SICA) that shares parameters across scales to reduce redundancy. Experiments show that this approach achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance while cutting parameter overhead by 72% compared to existing methods.

By Haobo Xiong, Shaobo Liu, Kai Liu, Chongyang Ding
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

SIMPLER: Efficient Foundation Model Adaptation via Similarity-Guided Layer Pruning for Earth Observation

SIMPLER is a pre‑fine‑tuning method that reduces inference and deployment costs for Earth Observation foundation models by pruning redundant layers. It uses layer‑wise representation similarity on unlabeled task data to identify and remove up to 79% of parameters without requiring gradients, magnitude heuristics, or hyperparameter tuning. Experiments on Prithvi‑EO‑2, TerraMind, and ImageNet‑pretrained ViT‑MAE show that SIMPLER retains 94% of baseline performance while achieving 2.1× faster training and 2.6× faster inference.

By V\'ictor Barreiro, Johannes Jakubik, Francisco Arg\"uello, Dora B. Heras