AI 速览：AdaLoop 提出一种按问题条件进行视觉循环计算的框架，让冻结的预训练视觉编码器在多次迭代中复用其变换，以适配不同问题所需的视觉处理深度。
Most vision-language models (VLMs) treat the vision encoder as a static feature extractor: it encodes an image once, independently of the question, and leaves subsequent reasoning to the language model. Yet different questions may require different visual operations and processing depths. We present AdaLoop, a framework for question-conditioned visual recurrence in VLMs. AdaLoop adapts visual computation to the question and reuses the encoder's transformations across multiple iterations, with the pretrained vision weights frozen. We also introduce VisRO, a procedural dataset and generation pipeline for training and evaluating vision-centric reasoning. On six VisRO tasks, AdaLoop outperforms standard fine-tuning and question-conditioned single-pass baselines with matched training data and optimizer updates. These gains hold across three VLM families on both in-distribution and out-of-distribution examples. Our findings suggest that pretrained vision encoders can contribute to reasoning through task-directed, iterative visual computation.
Andrey Ignatov, Georgy Perevozchikov, Radu Timofte, Dong Zhang, Zhao Ran, Yang Zhang, Xiaochen Li, Shichang Ju 等 24 位作者
On-device RGB photo enhancement is a popular task that is needed for quality improvement of photos captured with mobile devices as well as for retouching of images acquired through other sources. This creates a need for efficient deep learning models for this problem that are not only performant but can also be deployed on constrained mobile hardware. In this Mobile AI challenge, we address this problem and propose participants to design fast solutions that can perform comprehensive enhancement of RGB photos while running on popular smartphone GPUs from Qualcomm and Arm. For this, the participants were provided with a large-scale DPED dataset consisting of RGB image pairs captured with an old iPhone 3GS smartphone and a professional Canon 70D DSLR camera. The runtime of all models was evaluated on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and Dimensity 9500 chipsets with the Adreno and Mali GPUs, respectively. Top solutions proposed in this challenge are able to enhance Full HD resolution RGB images on both platforms under 300 milliseconds. A comprehensive description of the models developed in the challenge is provided in this paper.
Shihao Hou, Chikai Shang, Jiacheng Yang, Xinyi Shang, Shreyank N. Gowda, Yan Yan, Yang Lu
Effectively addressing the joint effects of non-IID data and long-tailed distribution remains a key challenge in federated learning. While fine-tuning vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP has shown promise in tackling non-IID scenarios, it often degrades tail-class performance when both heterogeneity and long-tailed distributions are present, even leading to overall performance falling below the zero-shot baseline. To overcome this, we propose Class-Aware Prompt Tuning (CAPT), a novel framework leveraging pre-trained VLMs to effectively learn from non-IID and long-tailed data. Specifically, CAPT introduces a dual-prompt mechanism that synergizes class-aware and general prompts, enabling the model to preserve class-specific information while capturing global trends. Furthermore, to guide the prompts in learning targeted knowledge, we propose a heterogeneity-aware clustering strategy with two key components: similarity-based clusters aggregate class-aware prompts to reinforce tail-specific knowledge, while heterogeneity-based clusters aggregate general prompts to balance diverse representations and promote robust generalization. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CAPT significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods, e.g., by improving overall accuracy by 6.1% on ImageNet-LT and 8.8% on Places-LT over baselines, while also substantially enhancing tail-class performance across other benchmarks.
Estimating scene illumination from images is challenging as lighting is inherently spatially varying, depending on geometry, occlusion, and light sources. Existing methods incorporate geometric cues by deriving local environment maps or probe-based representations, but largely rely on regression or parametric models, resulting in over-smoothed lighting and limited realism. We revisit spatially-varying illumination estimation from a generative perspective and introduce LUMEN, a geometry-conditioned diffusion framework for synthesizing high-dynamic-range (HDR) environment maps at arbitrary spatial locations from single or multi-view images. Specifically, we reconstruct a coarse 3D scene from input images and render partial environment maps at arbitrary locations to encode visibility and spatial structure. These signals are fused with multi-view image features and fed into a diffusion transformer to generate full HDR environment maps. To train the model, we build a synthetic dataset of 700 indoor scenes with dense spatial supervision, including multi-view RGB images, depth, and HDR illumination at multiple sampled locations. This dataset enables the model to learn spatially consistent lighting distributions across diverse scenes. Extensive experiments demonstrate that LUMEN significantly improves visual fidelity and spatial coherence compared to prior approaches.