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Whose View of Safety DIVE for Pluralistic Alignment of Text to Image Models

Neural Information Processing Systems

Current text-to-image (T2I) models often fail to account for diverse human experiences, leading to misaligned systems. We advocate for pluralism in AI alignment, where an AI understands and is steerable towards diverse, and often conflicting, human values. Our work provides three core contributions to achieve this in T2I models. First, we introduce a novel dataset for Diverse Intersectional Visual Evaluation (DIVE) - the first multimodal dataset for pluralistic alignment. It enables deep alignment to diverse safety perspectives through a large pool of demographically intersectional human raters who provided extensive feedback across 1000 prompts, with high replication, capturing nuanced safety perceptions. Second, we empirically confirm demographics as a crucial proxy for diverse viewpoints in this domain, revealing significant, context-dependent differences in harm perception that diverge from conventional evaluations. Finally, we discuss implications for building aligned T2I models, including efficient data collection strategies, LLM judgment capabilities, and model steerability towards diverse perspectives. This research offers foundational tools for more equitable and aligned T2I systems. Content Warning: The paper includes sensitive content that may be harmful.


Ultrametric Cluster Hierarchies: IWant'em All!

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Hierarchical clustering is a powerful tool for exploratory data analysis, organizing data into a tree of clusterings from which a partition can be chosen. This paper generalizes these ideas by proving that, for any reasonable hierarchy, one can optimally solve any center-based clustering objective over it (such as k-means). Moreover, these solutions can be found exceedingly quickly and are themselves necessarily hierarchical. Thus, given a cluster tree, we show that one can quickly access a plethora of new, equally meaningful hierarchies. Just as in standard hierarchical clustering, one can then choose any desired partition from these new hierarchies. We conclude by verifying the utility of our proposed techniques across datasets, hierarchies, and partitioning schemes.


ArchCAD-400k: ALarge-Scale CADdrawings Dataset and New Baseline for Panoptic Symbol Spotting

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Recognizing symbols in architectural CAD drawings is critical for various advanced engineering applications. In this paper, we propose a novel CAD data annotation engine that leverages intrinsic attributes from systematically archived CAD drawings to automatically generate high-quality annotations, thus significantly reducing manual labeling efforts. Utilizing this engine, we construct ArchCAD-400k, a large-scale CAD dataset consisting of 413,062 chunks from 5538 standardized drawings, making it over 26 times larger than the largest existing CAD dataset. ArchCAD-400k boasts an extended drawing diversity and broader categories, offering line-grained annotations. Furthermore, we present a new baseline model for panoptic symbol spotting, termed Dual-Pathway Symbol Spotter (DPSS). It incorporates an adaptive fusion module to enhance primitive features with complementary image features, achieving state-of-the-art performance and enhanced robustness. Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of DPSS, demonstrating the value of ArchCAD-400k and its potential to drive innovation in architectural design and construction.


18093dfe68516361d5b6239d33e045b1-Paper-Datasets_and_Benchmarks_Track.pdf

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We introduce ITTO, a challenging new benchmark suite for evaluating and diagnosing the capabilities and limitations of point tracking methods. Our videos are sourced from existing datasets and egocentric real-world recordings, with highquality human annotations collected through a multi-stage pipeline. ITTO captures the motion complexity, occlusion patterns, and object diversity characteristic of real-world scenes - factors that are largely absent in current benchmarks. We conduct a rigorous analysis of state-of-the-art tracking methods on ITTO, breaking down performance along key axes of motion complexity. Our findings reveal that existing trackers struggle with these challenges, particularly in re-identifying points after occlusion, highlighting critical failure modes. These results point to the need for new modeling approaches tailored to real-world dynamics. We envision ITTO as a foundation testbed for advancing point tracking and guiding the development of more robust tracking algorithms.


fc8ee7c7ab5b5f6b1615045dfb617ed6-Paper-Conference.pdf

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Indoor environments are the primary setting where humans spend most of their daily lives. Yet, computationally creating digital twins of these 3D spaces from captured images remains challenging. Factors such as the difficulty of accurate camera pose estimation from indoor images [28, 11, 1] and structural distortions in the resulting 3D reconstructions [22, 12, 21] hinder the development of robust, accurate, and user-friendly solutions for replicating indoor scenes in the digital world. As indoor scenes are typically rich in planar structures such as floors, ceilings, and walls, as well as planar furniture like tables and cabinets, planar primitives are well-suited representations for the accurate 3D reconstruction of indoor scenes. As a result, there has been significant interest among the research community in planar 3D reconstruction in recent years. Planar reconstruction approaches include feedforward solutions in monocular [40, 16, 27, 24, 18, 42] and two-view [11, 1, 28] settings, and per-scene optimization approaches [29, 38, 3, 9] that leverage posed multi-view inputs with the assistance of the feedforward models were studied. However, these approaches face two key limitations: Annotation dependence for feedforward methods: Learning feedforward models [36, 24, 28] typically requires accurate plane masks and 3D plane annotations from monocular or binocular inputs.


Gaze-VLM: Bridging Gaze and VLMs via Attention Regularization for Egocentric Understanding

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Eye gaze offers valuable cues about attention, short-term intent, and future actions, making it a powerful signal for modeling egocentric behavior. In this work, we propose a gaze-regularized framework that enhances VLMs for two key egocentric understanding tasks: fine-grained future event prediction and current activity understanding. Unlike prior approaches that rely solely on visual inputs or use gaze as an auxiliary input signal, our method uses gaze only during training. We introduce a gaze-regularized attention mechanism that aligns model focus with human visual gaze. This design is flexible and modular, allowing it to generalize across multiple VLM architectures that utilize attention. Experimental results show that our approach improves semantic prediction scores by up to 11% for future event prediction and around 7% for current activity understanding, compared to the corresponding baseline models trained without gaze regularization.


AMulti-Task Benchmark for Abusive Language Detection in Low-Resource Settings

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Content moderation research has recently made significant advances, but remains limited in serving the majority of the world's languages due to the lack of resources, leaving millions of vulnerable users to online hostility. This work presents a large-scale human-annotated multi-task benchmark dataset for abusive language detection in Tigrinya social media with joint annotations for three tasks: abusiveness, sentiment, and topic classification. The dataset comprises 13,717 YouTube comments annotated by nine native speakers, collected from 7,373 videos with a total of over 1.2 billion views across 51 channels. We developed an iterative term clustering approach for effective data selection. Recognizing that around 64% of Tigrinya social media content uses Romanized transliterations rather than native Ge'ez script, our dataset accommodates both writing systems to reflect actual language use. We establish strong baselines across the tasks in the benchmark, while leaving significant challenges for future contributions. Our experiments demonstrate that small fine-tuned models outperform prompted frontier large language models (LLMs) in the low-resource setting, achieving 86.67% F1 in abusiveness detection (7+ points over best LLM), and maintain stronger performance in all other tasks. The benchmark is made public to promote research on online safety.1


Overall Counting Anomaly Detection and Interpretation

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Ultra-high-resolution (UHR) remote sensing (RS) imagery offers valuable data for Earth observation but pose challenges for existing multimodal foundation models due to two key bottlenecks: (1) limited availability of UHR training data, and (2) token explosion caused by the large image size. To address data scarcity, we introduce SuperRS-VQA (avg.