Jiuyi Xu, Xiao Hu, Meida Chen, Song Wang, Yang Ye, Yangming Shi
Post-training quantization (PTQ) reduces the memory footprint of vision-language-action (VLA) models, but lowering bit widths while maintaining task performance remains challenging. Existing work has used sensitivity estimates from calibration data to assign bit widths to different model components. However, using task success directly to guide mixed-precision allocation is underexplored because closed-loop evaluations are costly and the effect of quantizing one component depends on the precision of other components. To this end, we propose \textbf{QbD-VLA}, a task-guided mixed-precision quantization method that uses task success from short closed-loop evaluations to assign weight and activation bit widths while accounting for interactions between model components. Experiments covering four VLA models and all four LIBERO suites show strong task performance at average precisions of approximately 4 bits for weights and fewer than 6 bits for activations. On SIMPLER, the gain over uniform quantization is small. On a Franka Research 3 robot arm, simulation-selected allocations show no detected success-rate loss on X-VLA but fail on $π_{0.5}$. These findings support using task success to guide mixed-precision VLA quantization, while highlighting the need for real-world evaluation before deployment. Code is available at \href{https://github.com/jiuyixu25/QbD-VLA}{\texttt{github.com/jiuyixu25/QbD-VLA}}.
Yuquan Bi, Baosheng Yu, Yingke Lei, Jianwei Yang, Hongsong Wang, Jie Gui, Yuan Yan Tang, James Tin-Yau Kwok
High-capacity watermarking is necessary for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) assets to embed rich information (\eg, ownership, provenance, and authentication codes), enabling reliable identification and provenance tracking in large-scale 3D asset pipelines. Existing bit-to-token watermarking methods based on a pre-trained text encoder are limited to 77-bit messages due to CLIP's fixed 77-token context length, as tokens beyond this limit are unsupported by learned positional embeddings. To address this limitation, we introduce BitC-3DGS, a bit-compression framework that encodes multiple message bits per token. It employs a bit-compressed tokenization scheme that encodes multiple bits within the same chunk into a single semantic token. To enable recovery of the compressed information, it further introduces a dual-branch architecture for joint chunk decompression and bit decoding, along with a hard-message sampling strategy to improve combinatorial coverage during decoder training. Extensive experiments on the Blender and LLFF datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of BitC-3DGS for high-capacity watermarking, achieving high message recovery accuracy and rendering fidelity. For example, it supports 128-bit message capacity with recovery accuracy comparable to that of 64-bit messages in recent state-of-the-art methods.
Praveenbalaji Rajendran, Mojtaba Safari, Wenfeng He, Mingzhe Hu, Shansong Wang, Jun Zhou, Xiaofeng Yang
Recent advancements in foundation models (FMs) have catalyzed a paradigm shift in medical image analysis. Unlike traditional task-specific artificial intelligence (AI) models, FMs leverage large-scale datasets to learn generalized representations that can be adapted to downstream clinical applications. Despite the rapid proliferation of FM research in medical imaging, there is a lack of unified synthesis that systematically maps the evolution of architectures, training paradigms, and clinical applications across modalities. To address this gap, this review provides a comprehensive and structured synthesis of FMs in medical image analysis by systematically organizing studies into two primary categories: vision-only foundation models (VFMs) and vision-language foundation models (VLFMs), based on their architectural foundations, training strategies, and downstream clinical tasks. A quantitative analysis was conducted on both VFMs and VLFMs to characterize temporal trends in dataset utilization and application domains, along with pooled performance and subgroup analyses. We also critically discuss persistent challenges, including cross-domain generalization, computational scalability, FM evaluation, fairness, and deployment. Finally, we identify key future research directions aimed at enhancing the robustness, interpretability, and clinical integration of FMs, thereby accelerating their translation into real-world medical practice.
Conditional memory layers, such as DeepSeek's Engram, attach large hashed n-gram tables to a language model, and removing them from DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash costs 36.8 PopQA points. Low-bit quantization loses long-tail facts first, and the standard remedy, giving more bits to frequently accessed rows, backfires: refining lookups by access frequency is worse than refining them at random. We trace this to the gate that scales each retrieved row. A lookup's quantization error is weighted by its gate, which is small for frequent n-grams, large for the rare n-grams of long-tail entities, and computable from a 1-bit code. GateRQ therefore stores each row as a ladder of 1-bit residual codes, keeps level 1 in GPU memory to compute the gate, and reads deeper levels only for the lookups the gate ranks highest. Without retraining, GateRQ cuts GPU table memory by 7.8x on DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, which raises vLLM throughput by 11%-31% over FP8 tables, while losing about 1 PopQA point at 1.50 bits read per lookup and 0.2 points at 2.10 bits across two models.
Ye Li, Haoran Ding, Huanan Liu, Yuan Meng, Yutian Shen, Yuansong Wang, Kangye Ji, Hanyun Cui 等 13 位作者
GUI agents built on vision-language models interact with continuously evolving interfaces, yet conventional inference repeatedly recomputes representations of largely overlapping observations and histories. This mismatch makes multi-step interaction costly, while changes in context, interface content, and action arguments prevent straightforward cache reuse. We introduce GUIFlow, a framework for full-pipeline incremental inference in multi-image GUI interaction. Our central insight is that advancing a decision need not require rebuilding all supporting representations: each interaction step can instead selectively update computational states maintained across the trajectory. To support new decisions as the context evolves, GUIFlow adapts how past computation is reused: historical KV states are position-aligned and injected into the current context; change signals guide selective updates of current-observation states in the vision encoder and language model; and earlier action responses serve as speculative drafts verified by the target model. Together, these mechanisms enable cross-step reuse throughout visual encoding, prefill, and decoding without additional training, a separate draft model, or changes to the model-visible inputs and action interface. Experiments demonstrate up to 3.39x geometric-mean speedup across offline multi-image benchmarks and up to 3.49x in online, closed-loop interaction on OSWorld, while maintaining task performance broadly comparable to the dense baseline.
Fengchong Yao, Jianbing Li, Qing Liu, Qikun Liu, Kefeng Song, Haitao Li, Song Wang
Radio frequency fingerprint identification (RFFI) exploits transmitter-specific hardware imperfections as physicallayer identity cues for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, but deep models often degrade across acquisition environments. In multi-antenna reception, antenna topology and frequencyoffset dynamics structure receiver observations, while capturedependent variation distorts target embeddings and misaligns source-trained decision boundaries. This article proposes physicsinformed structure anchoring with capture-aware prototype calibration (PISA-CAPC) to address both representation and decision mismatches. The two stages separate source representation construction from target decision correction. During source training, PISA organizes antenna tokens through a topology-guided graph, conditions propagation on CFO-derived acquisition dynamics, and applies bounded contextual residual suppression to preserve identity evidence. At deployment, unlabeled capture-aware prototype calibration (U-CAPC) estimates capture-local prototypes and recalibrates target decision scores while keeping the representation and source classifier fixed. Thus, calibration uses neither target labels nor target-domain backbone updates. On a measured WiFi benchmark with four receive antennas and ten transmitters, PISA-CAPC achieves a mean target-domain Macro-F1 of 0.9257 under a balanced transductive setting. Component ablations support complementary roles for topology-guided anchoring, CFO-conditioned modulation, reliability-aware token aggregation, contextual suppression, and capture-aware calibration. These results indicate that physically motivated representation learning can be combined with labelfree decision calibration to improve cross-environment RFFI under the evaluated protocol without changing the deployed backbone.
Modern image editors excel at semantic manipulation and visual synthesis, yet remain limited in precise spatial control, motivating the development of drag-based editing. However, existing drag-based methods often struggle to balance drag accuracy with natural, plausible, and intent-aligned generation. We propose MoRe-Drag, a motion-grounded drag-based editing method. Our key insight is to treat pixel-space warping as coarse motion evidence, and to inject this evidence into the generative sampling trajectory. Specifically, MoRe-Drag performs region-aware latent recomposition over refinement, inpainting, and preservation regions, coupled with stage-adaptive conditioning that progressively shifts from motion-grounded structure formation to semantic refinement. We further support a no-manual-instruction interface by adapting the MLLM-based text encoder for drag-aware instruction inference. Experiments on DragBench-SR and DragBench-DR show that MoRe-Drag substantially improves drag precision over strong base editors and achieves superior drag accuracy among SOTA drag-based methods, while delivering strong semantic consistency and visually realistic results. Project page: https://xinyu-pu.github.io/projects/more-drag/.
Mojtaba Safari, Mingzhe Hu, Shansong Wang, Suyang Xi, Joshua Lorenz, Sean Pitroda, Aytekin Oto, Ralph R. Weichselbaum 等 9 位作者
Objective. Deformable image registration remains challenging because corresponding anatomy may exhibit different intensity relationships. Hand-crafted modality-robust descriptors such as Modality-Independent Neighborhood Descriptor with Self-Similarity Context (MIND-SSC) and features from pretrained vision encoders provide distinct representations for correspondence estimation, but how they should be combined remains unclear. We investigate whether tighter integration improves registration over a sequential, scale-separated design. Approach. We introduce FlexiMIND, a training-free and label-free two-stage framework in which frozen FlexiCT-2D encoder features establish contextual correspondence and MIND-SSC refines the deformation within ConvexAdam. Five alternative feature-coupling strategies were evaluated under a protocol across CT-CT (DIR-Lab 4DCT 4DCT, 10 cases), MR-MR (ACDC, 50 patients), and MR-CT (Learn2Reg Abdomen MR-CT, 8 pairs) registration. Performance was assessed using target registration error (TRE), Dice similarity coefficient (Dice), SDlogJ, and local folding. Main results. FlexiMIND achieved a TRE of 1.27 mm on DIR-Lab 4DCT, a DSC of 0.807 on ACDC, and an organ-averaged DSC of 0.825 on Abdomen MR-CT. Across 15 coupling-strategy dataset comparisons, only four outperformed the reference method, with a maximum absolute improvement of 0.0043 in Dice, whereas degradation reached 20.6 % in TRE and 37.9 % in Dice. Changes in registration accuracy were closely associated with changes in deformation-field regularity, and strategies that better preserved regularity generally remained closest to the reference performance. Landmark-level analysis showed that the pretrained encoder stage primarily reduced large correspondence errors rather than uniformly improving local precision. Code is available upon acceptance at https://github.com/mosaf/FlexiMIND.
Ailiang Lin, Zhuoyun Li, Yusong Wang Institute of Science Tokyo, Kotaro Funakoshi Institute of Science Tokyo, Manabu Okumura
Decoder-only large language models (LLMs) have been increasingly adopted to build embedding models for diverse tasks. To overcome the inherent limitations of causal attention in representation learning, many existing methods modify the attention mechanism to be bidirectional, potentially undermining LLMs’ ability to extract semantic information acquired during pre-training. Meanwhile, leading unidirectional approaches often rely on extra input text to generate contextualized embeddings, inevitably increasing computational costs. In this work, we propose Causal2Vec, a general-purpose embedding model tailored to enhance the performance of decoder-only LLMs without altering their original architectures or introducing significant computational overhead. Specifically, we first employ a lightweight BERT-style model to pre-encode the input text into a single Contextual token, which is then prepended to the LLM’s input sequence, allowing each token to capture contextualized information even without attending to future tokens. Furthermore, to mitigate the recency bias introduced by last-token pooling, we concatenate the last hidden states of Contextual and EOS tokens as the final text embedding. In practice, Causal2Vec achieves a new state-of-the-art performance on the MTEB benchmark among models trained solely on publicly available retrieval datasets.
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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表
Recent efforts to accelerate inference in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have largely focused on visual token compression. The effectiveness of these methods is commonly evaluated by measuring the accuracy drop on existing MLLM benchmarks before and after compression. However, these benchmarks are originally designed to assess general perception and reasoning abilities, rather than the specific challenges posed by visual token compression, leading to a fundamental task mismatch. In this work, we uncover a counterintuitive yet consistent phenomenon: simple image downsampling outperforms many advanced visual token compression methods across multiple widely used benchmarks. Through a comprehensive empirical study spanning eight popular benchmarks and multiple state-of-the-art compression techniques, we show that (i) current benchmarks contain substantial noise (task-irrelevant samples) for evaluating visual token compression, and (ii) downsampling can act as an effective data filter that distinguishes between simple and difficult samples with respect to compression sensitivity. Motivated by these findings, we propose VTC-Bench, an evaluation framework that explicitly leverages downsampling as a discriminator to denoise existing benchmarks, enabling a fairer and more meaningful additional assessment of visual token compression methods.
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cs.CL · cs.CV
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表