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Injecting Frame-Event Complementary Fusion into Diffusion for Optical Flow in Challenging Scenes
Optical flow estimation has achieved promising results in conventional scenes but faces challenges in high-speed and low-light scenes, which suffer from motion blur and insufficient illumination. These conditions lead to weakened texture and amplified noise and deteriorate the appearance saturation and boundary completeness of frame cameras, which are necessary for motion feature matching. In degraded scenes, the frame camera provides dense appearance saturation but sparse boundary completeness due to its long imaging time and low dynamic range. In contrast, the event camera offers sparse appearance saturation, while its short imaging time and high dynamic range gives rise to dense boundary completeness. Traditionally, existing methods utilize feature fusion or domain adaptation to introduce event to improve boundary completeness.
SubTrack Gradient Subspace Tracking for Scalable
Training large language models (LLMs) is highly resource-intensive due to their massive number of parameters and the overhead of optimizer states. While recent work has aimed to reduce memory consumption, such efforts often entail trade-offs among memory efficiency, training time, and model performance. Yet, true democratization of LLMs requires simultaneous progress across all three dimensions. To this end, we propose SubTrack++ that leverages Grassmannian gradient subspace tracking combined with projection-aware optimizers, enabling Adam's internal statistics to adapt to subspace changes. Additionally, employing recovery scaling, a technique that restores information lost through low-rank projections, further enhances model performance. Our method demonstrates SOTA convergence by exploiting Grassmannian geometry, reducing training wall-time by up to 65% compared to the best performing baseline, LDAdam, while preserving the reduced memory footprint.
SAM2Flow: Interactive Optical Flow Estimation with Dual Memory for in vivo Microcirculation Analysis
Analysis of noninvasive microvascular blood flow can improve the diagnosis, prognosis, and management of many medical conditions, including cardiovascular, peripheral vascular, and sickle cell disease. This paper introduces SAM2Flow, an interactive optical flow estimation model to analyze long Oblique Back-illumination Microscopy (OBM) videos of in vivo microvascular flow. Inspired by the Segment Anything Model (SAM2), SAM2Flow enables users to specify regions of interest through user prompts for focused flow estimation. SAM2Flow also incorporates a dual memory attention mechanism, comprising both motion and context memory, to achieve efficient and stable flow estimations over extended video sequences. According to our experiments, SAM2Flow achieves SOTA accuracy in foreground optical flow estimation on both microvascular flow and public datasets, with a fast inference speed of over 20fps on 512 512inputs. Based on the temporally robust flow estimation, SAM2Flow demonstrated superior performance in downstream physiological applications compared to existing models.
Self Iterative Label Refinement via Robust Unlabeled Learning
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have yielded impressive performance on various tasks, yet they often depend on high-quality feedback that can be costly. Self-refinement methods attempt to leverage LLMs' internal evaluation mechanisms with minimal human supervision; however, these approaches frequently suffer from inherent biases and overconfidence, especially in domains where the models lack sufficient internal knowledge, resulting in performance degradation. As an initial step toward enhancing self-refinement for broader applications, we introduce an iterative refinement pipeline that employs the Unlabeled-Unlabeled learning framework to improve LLM-generated pseudo-labels for classification tasks.
Mixture-of-Experts Operator Transformer for Large-Scale PDEPre-Training
Pre-training has proven effective in addressing data scarcity and performance limitations in solving PDE problems with neural operators. However, challenges remain due to the heterogeneity of PDE datasets in equation types, which leads to high errors in mixed training. Additionally, dense pre-training models that scale parameters by increasing network width or depth incur significant inference costs. To tackle these challenges, we propose a novel Mixture-of-Experts Pre-training Operator Transformer (MoE-POT), a sparse-activated architecture that scales parameters efficiently while controlling inference costs. Specifically, our model adopts a layer-wise router-gating network to dynamically select 4 routed experts from 16 expert networks during inference, enabling the model to focus on equationspecific features. Meanwhile, we also integrate 2 shared experts, aiming to capture common properties of PDE and reduce redundancy among routed experts. The final output is computed as the weighted average of the results from all activated experts.
QSCA: Quantization with Self-Compensating Auxiliary for Monocular Depth Estimation
Monocular depth estimation has advanced significantly with foundation models like Depth Anything, leveraging large-scale transformer architectures for the superior generalization. However, the deployment on resource-constrained devices remains challenging due to the high computation and memory requirement. Existing quantization methods, such as post-training quantization (PTQ) and quantization-aware training (QAT), often face trade-offs between efficiency and accuracy, or require extensive labeled data for retraining. To address these limitations, we propose Quantization with Self-Compensating Auxiliary for Monocular Depth Estimation (QSCA), a novel framework for 4-bit post-training quantization of Monocular depth estimation models. Our method integrates a lightweight Self-Compensating Auxiliary (SCA) module into both transformer encoder and decoder blocks, enabling the quantized model to recover from performance degradation without requiring ground truth. This design enables fast adaptation while preserving structural and spatial consistency in predicted depth maps. To our knowledge, this is the first framework to successfully apply 4-bit quantization across all layers of large-scale monocular depth estimation models. Experimental results demonstrate that QSCA significantly improves quantized depth estimation performance. On the NYUv2 dataset, it achieves an 11% improvement in ฮด1 accuracy over existing post-training quantization methods.
Straight-Line Diffusion Model for Efficient 3D Molecular Generation
Diffusion-based models have shown great promise in molecular generation but often require a large number of sampling steps to generate valid samples. In this paper, we introduce a novel Straight-Line Diffusion Model (SLDM) to tackle this problem, by formulating the diffusion process to follow a linear trajectory. The proposed process aligns well with the noise sensitivity characteristic of molecular structures and uniformly distributes reconstruction effort across the generative process, thus enhancing learning efficiency and efficacy. Consequently, SLDM achieves state-of-the-art performance on 3D molecule generation benchmarks, delivering a 100-fold improvement in sampling efficiency.1
SelecMix: Debiased Learning by Contradicting-pair Sampling
Neural networks trained with ERM (empirical risk minimization) sometimes learn unintended decision rules, in particular when their training data is biased, i.e., when training labels are strongly correlated with undesirable features. To prevent a network from learning such features, recent methods augment training data such that examples displaying spurious correlations (i.e., bias-aligned examples) become a minority, whereas the other, bias-conflicting examples become prevalent. However, these approaches are sometimes difficult to train and scale to real-world data because they rely on generative models or disentangled representations. We propose an alternative based on mixup, a popular augmentation that creates convex combinations of training examples. Our method, coined SelecMix, applies mixup to contradicting pairs of examples, defined as showing either (i) the same label but dissimilar biased features, or (ii) different labels but similar biased features. Identifying such pairs requires comparing examples with respect to unknown biased features. For this, we utilize an auxiliary contrastive model with the popular heuristic that biased features are learned preferentially during training. Experiments on standard benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of the method, in particular when label noise complicates the identification of bias-conflicting examples.
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