arXiv Computer Vision
Nov 2

Scout-Refine-Correct: Teaching Flow Models to Refine Their Own Samples

Scout-Refine-Correct (SRC) is a training recipe that equips flow-matching image generation models with an inference-time refinement capability. During sampling, the model performs a scout rollout to predict a full sample, uses this prediction as a self-conditioning signal, and then takes the actual step; this process can be repeated for multiple refinement rounds. On ImageNet-256, SRC improves LightningDiT-B’s FID from ~14.5 to ~7.26 with 550 normalised flow evaluations, matching a best-of‑N baseline that relies on an oracle verifier, and further reduces FID to 3.81 when combined with best-of‑N.

By Sergey Karpukhin, Aibek Alanov
arXiv AI
Sep 24

Learning Spectral Allocation: A Fractional Diffusion Framework for Adaptive Volumetric Segmentation

The paper introduces FHEAT, a fractional diffusion operator derived from the discrete cosine transform, to learn how much spectral mixing each stage of a 3D medical segmentation network should perform. By reparameterizing the operator with a semigroup time, the authors enable the optimizer to decide whether global mixing is needed, resulting in a lightweight U‑shaped architecture (Light‑UNETR) paired with a Kolmogorov‑Arnold mixer (KAN3D). In semi‑supervised experiments, FHEAT‑Seg achieves state‑of‑the‑art Dice scores while dramatically reducing FLOPs through learned spectral sparsification.

By Yi-Hui Shen, Tie-Qiang Li
arXiv AI
Oct 2

Useful to Whom? Sample Value Is Defined Only Relative to the Learner

The paper investigates how the usefulness of training samples, as determined by coreset selection, depends on the learner rather than just the data. Experiments on ImageNet-100 and ImageNet-1k show that changing model width, input grid, stride, and architecture (e.g., ResNet vs. ViT) shifts the crossover point where different selection criteria (easy-first vs. geometric coverage) become optimal. These findings demonstrate that the relative value of a fixed subset of samples varies with the target learner’s capacity and structure, and that selection strategies must be tuned to the specific model they will train.

By Yangze Liu, Xiao-Long Yin, Zhongyi Han
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 30

The Decision Value of Perception Compute

arXiv:2609.35910v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adaptive perception spends extra computation on inputs where perception is expected to improve. When perception feeds a downstream decision system, a b...

By Hoang Pham Cong, Ho Viet Duc Luong