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Existing open-source datasets for arbitrary-instruction image editing remain suboptimal, while a plug-and-play editing module compatible with community-prevalent generative models is notably absent. In this paper, we first introduce the X2Edit Dataset, a comprehensive dataset covering 14 diverse editing tasks, including subject-driven generation. We utilize the industry-leading unified image generation models and expert models to construct the data. Meanwhile, we design reasonable editing instructions with the VLM and implement various scoring mechanisms to filter the data. As a result, we construct 3.7 million high-quality data with balanced categories. Second, to better integrate seamlessly with community image generation models, we design task-aware MoE-LoRA training based on FLUX.1, with only 8% of the parameters of the full model. To further improve the final performance, we utilize the internal representations of the diffusion model and define positive/negative samples based on image editing types to introduce contrastive learning. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the model&#39;s editing performance is competitive among many excellent models. Additionally, the constructed dataset exhibits substantial advantages over existing open-source datasets.

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X2Edit: Revisiting Arbitrary-Instruction Image Editing Through Self-Constructed Data and Task-Aware Representation Learning

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Existing open-source datasets for arbitrary-instruction image editing remain suboptimal, while a plug-and-play editing module compatible with community-prevalent generative models is notably absent. In this paper, we first introduce the X2Edit Dataset, a comprehensive dataset covering 14 diverse editing tasks, including subject-driven generation. We utilize the industry-leading unified image generation models and expert models to construct the data. Meanwhile, we design reasonable editing instructions with the VLM and implement various scoring mechanisms to filter the data. As a result, we construct 3.7 million high-quality data with balanced categories. Second, to better integrate seamlessly with community image generation models, we design task-aware MoE-LoRA training based on FLUX.1, with only 8% of the parameters of the full model. To further improve the final performance, we utilize the internal representations of the diffusion model and define positive/negative samples based on image editing types to introduce contrastive learning. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the model's editing performance is competitive among many excellent models. Additionally, the constructed dataset exhibits substantial advantages over existing open-source datasets.

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Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) has recently seen a surge of interest as a simple yet powerful tool for large language models (LLMs) compression, with a growing number of works demonstrating 20 - 80\% parameter reductions at minimal accuracy loss. Previous SVD-based approaches have focused primarily on reducing the memory footprint of model weights, largely overlooking the additional activation memory overhead incurred during inference when applying truncated factors via standard dense CUDA kernels. Our experiments demonstrate that this activation overhead, scaling with sequence length and hidden dimension, prevents current SVD compression techniques from achieving any reduction in peak inference memory, thereby limiting their viability for real-world, on-device deployments. 

We introduce \textbf{FlashSVD}, a novel, end-to-end rank-aware streaming inference framework specifically designed for SVD-compressed large language models. FlashSVD can be seamlessly integrated with any model that employs SVD-based methods for parameter reduction. By fusing low-rank projection kernels directly into both the self-attention and feed-forward network (FFN) pipelines, FlashSVD avoid materializing full‐size activation buffers. Instead, small tiles of the truncated factors are loaded into on-chip SRAM, multiplied and reduced on the fly, and immediately evicted, preserving high GPU occupancy and adding no extra latency. On standard encoder benchmarks (e.g., BERT-Base), FlashSVD cuts peak activation memory by up to 70.2\% and intermediate transient memory by 75\%, all while incur no accuracy loss with upstreaming compression methods, offering a practical path toward memory-constrained deployment of low-rank LLMs.

FlashSVD: Memory-Efficient Inference with Streaming for Low-Rank Models

Generating sketches with specific patterns as expected, i.e., manipulating sketches in a controllable way, is a popular task. Recent studies control sketch features at stroke-level by editing values of stroke embeddings as conditions. However, in order to provide generator a global view about what a sketch is going to be drawn, all these edited conditions should be collected and fed into generator simultaneously before generation starts, i.e., no further manipulation is allowed during sketch generating process. In order to realize sketch drawing manipulation more flexibly, we propose a hierarchical auto-regressive sketch generating process. Instead of generating an entire sketch at once, each stroke in a sketch is generated in a three-staged hierarchy: 1) predicting a stroke embedding to represent which stroke is going to be drawn, and 2) anchoring the predicted stroke on the canvas, and 3) translating the embedding to a sequence of drawing actions to form the full sketch. Moreover, the stroke prediction, anchoring and translation are proceeded auto-regressively, i.e., both the recently generated strokes and their positions are considered to predict the current one, guiding model to produce an appropriate stroke at a suitable position to benefit the full sketch generation. It is flexible to manipulate stroke-level sketch drawing at any time during generation by adjusting the exposed editable stroke embeddings.

Generating Sketches in a Hierarchical Auto-Regressive Process for Flexible Sketch Drawing Manipulation at Stroke-Level

In this work, we introduce a novel high-fidelity full-head 3D avatar generation method from a single image, regardless of perspective, style, expression, or accessories. Prior works often fail to preserve consistent head geometry and facial details, primarily due to their limited capacity in modeling fine-grained facial textures and maintaining identity information. To address these challenges, we construct a new high-quality dataset containing 227 sequences of digital human portraits captured from 96 different perspectives, totalling 21,792 frames, featuring high-quality facial texture details. To further improve performance, we propose a novel multi-view diffusion named ID-TS diffusion model, which integrate identity and expression information into the two-stage multi-view diffusion process. The low-resolution stage ensures structural consistency of heads across multiple views, while the high-resolution stage preserves facial detail fidelity and coherence. Finally, we propose an enhanced feed-forward Gaussian avatar reconstruction method that optimizes the network on multi-view images of each single subject, significantly improving 3D facial texture details. Extensive experiments show that our method demonstrates robust performance across challenging scenarios, while showcasing broad applicability across numerous downstream tasks.

High-Quality Full-Head 3D Avatar Generation from Any Single Portrait Image

Semi-supervised partial label learning (SSPLL) aims to improve the generalization performance of partial label (PL) classifiers by effectively leveraging unlabeled data. Nevertheless, the inherent ambiguity in supervision, where the ground-truth label of a PL example is hidden within a set of candidate labels, poses significant challenges. The presence of false positive labels potentially misleads model's judgment, resulting in pronounced confirmation bias. To address these issues, we propose a novel approach named CODUAL, which jointly learns a pair of dual representations for each instance: the predictive class distribution and the low-dimensional embedding. The dual representations interact and progress collaboratively during training. On one hand, in the embedding space the class prototypes are derived via solving a tailored empirical distance minimization problem and employed to smooth the pseudo-targets of unlabeled instances. On the other hand, the refined class distributions regularize the embedding space via encouraging instances with similar pseudo-targets to exhibit similar embeddings. Through an in-depth analysis, we provide-to the best of our knowledge-the first theoretical explanation of how collaborative dual representations facilitate more effective use of unlabeled data for disambiguation. Extensive experiments over benchmark datasets validate the superiority of our proposed approach.

Collaborative Dual Representations for Semi-Supervised Partial Label Learning

Continuous learning constitutes a fundamental capability of artificial intelligence systems, enabling them to incrementally assimilate novel information without succumbing to catastrophic forgetting. Recent research has leveraged Pre-Trained Models (PTMs) to enhance continual learning efficacy. Nevertheless, prevailing methodologies typically depend on a singular pre-trained backbone and freeze all pre-trained parameters to mitigate network forgetting, thereby constraining adaptability to emerging tasks. In this study, we introduce an innovative PTM-based framework featuring a Dual-Representation Backbone Architecture (DRBA), which integrates both invariant and evolved representation networks to concurrently capture static and dynamic features. Building upon DRBA, we propose an Adaptive and Expandable Mixture Model (AEMM) that incrementally incorporates new expert modules with minimal parameter overhead to accommodate the learning of each novel task. To further augment adaptability, we develop a Dynamic Adaptive Representation Fusion Mechanism (DARFM) that processes outputs from both representation networks and autonomously generates data-driven adaptive weights, optimizing the contribution of each representation. This mechanism yields an adaptive, semantically enriched composite representation, thereby maximizing positive knowledge transfer. Additionally, we propose a Dynamic Knowledge Calibration Mechanism (DKCM), comprising prediction and representation calibration processes, to ensure consistency in both predictions and feature representations. This approach achieves a balance between stability and plasticity, even when learning complex datasets. Empirical evaluations substantiate that the proposed approach attains state-of-the-art performance.

Learning Adaptive and Expandable Mixture Model for Continual Learning

3D human avatar animation aims at transforming a human avatar from an arbitrary initial pose to a specified target pose using deformation algorithms. Existing approaches typically divide this task into two stages: canonical template construction and target pose deformation. However, current template construction methods demand extensive skeletal rigging and often produce artifacts in contact regions. Moreover, target pose deformation suffers from structural distortions caused by Linear Blend Skinning (LBS), which significantly undermines animation realism. To address these problems, we propose a unified learning-based framework to address both challenges in two phases. For the former phase, to overcome the inefficiencies and artifacts during template construction, we leverage a U-Net architecture that decouples texture and pose information in a feed-forward process, enabling fast generation of a human template. For the latter phase, we propose a data-driven refinement technique that enhances structural integrity. Extensive experiments show that our model delivers consistent performance across diverse poses with an optimal balance between efficiency and quality, surpassing state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods.

FastAnimate: Towards Learnable Template Construction and Pose Deformation for Fast 3D Human Avatar Animation

Gait recognition is an emerging biometric technology that enables non-intrusive and hard-to-spoof human identification. However, most existing methods are confined to short-range, unimodal settings and fail to generalize to long-range and cross-distance scenarios under real-world conditions. To address this gap, we present LRGait, the first LiDAR-Camera multimodal benchmark designed for robust long-range gait recognition across diverse outdoor distances and environments. We further propose EMGaitNet, an end-to-end framework tailored for long-range multimodal gait recognition. To bridge the modality gap between RGB images and point clouds, we introduce a semantic-guided fusion pipeline. A CLIP-based Semantic Mining (SeMi) module first extracts human body-part-aware semantic cues, which are then employed to align 2D and 3D features via a Semantic-Guided Alignment (SGA) module within a unified embedding space. A Symmetric Cross-Attention Fusion (SCAF) module hierarchically integrates visual contours and 3D geometric features, and a Spatio-Temporal (ST) module captures global gait dynamics. Extensive experiments on various gait datasets validate the effectiveness of our method.

Walking Further: Semantic-Aware Multimodal Gait Recognition Under Long-Range Conditions

Personalizing 3D scenes from a single reference image enables intuitive user-guided editing, which requires achieving both multi-view consistency across perspectives and referential consistency with the input image. However, these goals are particularly challenging due to the viewpoint bias caused by the limited perspective provided in a single image. Lacking the mechanisms to effectively expand reference information beyond the original view, existing methods of image-conditioned 3DGS personalization often suffer from this viewpoint bias and struggle to produce consistent results. Therefore, in this paper, we present Consistent Personalization for 3D Gaussian Splatting (CP-GS), a framework that progressively propagates the single-view reference appearance to novel perspectives. In particular, CP-GS integrates pre-trained image-to-3D generation and iterative LoRA fine-tuning to extract and extend the reference appearance, and finally produces faithful multi-view guidance images and the personalized 3DGS outputs through a view-consistent generation process guided by geometric cues. Extensive experiments on real-world scenes show that our CP-GS effectively mitigates the viewpoint bias, achieving high-quality personalization that significantly outperforms existing methods.

Personalize Your Gaussian: Consistent 3D Scene Personalization from a Single Image

Saliency maps have become a cornerstone of visual explanation in deep learning, yet there remains no consensus on their intended purpose and their alignment with specific user queries. This fundamental ambiguity undermines both the evaluation and practical utility of explanation methods. In this paper, we introduce the Reference-Frame x Granularity (RFxG) taxonomy—a principled framework that addresses this ambiguity by conceptualizing saliency explanations along two essential axes: the reference-frame axis (distinguishing between pointwise "Why Husky?" and contrastive "Why Husky and not Shih-tzu?" explanations) and the granularity axis (ranging from fine-grained class-level to coarse-grained group-level interpretations, e.g., “Why Husky?” vs. “Why Dog?”). Through this lens, we identify critical limitations in existing evaluation metrics, which predominantly focus on pointwise faithfulness while neglecting contrastive reasoning and semantic granularity. To address these gaps, we propose four novel faithfulness metrics that systematically assess explanation quality across both RFxG dimensions. Our comprehensive evaluation framework spans ten state-of-the-art methods, four model architectures, three datasets, and targeted user studies. By suggesting a shift from model-centric to user-intent-driven evaluation, our work provides both the conceptual foundation and practical tools necessary for developing explanations that are not only faithful to model behavior but also meaningfully aligned with human understanding.

Rethinking Saliency Maps: A Cognitive Human Aligned Taxonomy and Evaluation Framework for Explanations

Balancing exploration and exploitation is a central goal in reinforcement learning (RL). Despite recent advances in enhancing language model (LM) reasoning, most methods lean toward exploitation, and increasingly encounter performance plateaus. In this work, we revisit entropy -- a signal of exploration in RL -- and examine its relationship to exploratory reasoning in LMs. Through empirical analysis, we uncover positive correlations between high-entropy regions and three types of exploratory reasoning actions: (1) pivotal tokens that determine or connect logical steps, (2) reflective actions such as self-verification and correction, and (3) rare behaviors under-explored by the base LMs. Motivated by this, we introduce a minimal modification to standard RL with only one line of code: augmenting the advantage function with an entropy-based term. Unlike traditional maximum-entropy methods which encourage exploration by promoting uncertainty, we encourage exploration by promoting deeper and longer reasoning chains. Notably, our method achieves significant gains on the Pass@K metric -- an upper-bound estimator of LM reasoning capabilities -- even when evaluated with extremely large K values, pushing the boundaries of LM reasoning.

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