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Temporal Concentration from Rollout Errors: Implicit Preference Optimization for Text-to-Video Diffusion
2026-07-30 11:36:48Henglin Liu, Fangyuan Kong, Jing Wang, Yizhou Lin, Nisha Huang, Chang Liu, Xintao Wang, Pengfei Wan, Kun Gai, Xiu LiAbstract
Recent advances in preference alignment for diffusion-based video generation, particularly via Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), have significantly improved visual quality. However, temporally sparse artifacts such as motion collapse, object flickering, and color oversaturation remain a major barrier to perceptual realism. Existing methods struggle with these issues due to two key limitations: (1) the preference attribution bottleneck, where offline human annotations are costly and fail to accurately capture learning dynamics, while online reward signals are rollout-aware but often unstable and biased; and (2) temporal credit misallocation, where uniformly applied supervision cannot effectively target the brief segments in which artifacts occur. To address these challenges, we propose concentrated Implicit Preference Optimization (cIPO), a post-training framework for video diffusion models. cIPO derives implicit preference signals directly from the denoising process: given a real video, the model adds forward noise and reconstructs it via iterative denoising, treating the original as the preferred sample and the reconstruction as the dispreferred one. This formulation captures inference-time errors without requiring human annotations or external reward models. Moreover, frame-level discrepancies between original and reconstructed videos reveal when failures occur. cIPO leverages this by computing temporal reconstruction errors and concentrating optimization on high-error segments, enabling more precise correction of failure-prone regions. Extensive experiments demonstrate that cIPO consistently enhances video authenticity and temporal coherence across multiple datasets, highlighting the effectiveness and efficiency of implicit preference with temporally concentrated optimization.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28058
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ARD-REFSM: Enhancing Reflection Symmetry Detection with Asymmetric Denoising and Rotation Equivariance
2026-07-30 09:40:10Dongfu Yin, Rourou Su, Cong Zhao, Fei YuAbstract
Reflection symmetry detection remains challenging due to interference from asymmetric regions and arbitrary orientations of symmetric patterns. Asymmetric regions introduce background clutter that disrupts symmetric pattern matching, whereas conventional convolutional neural networks lack rotation equivariance, leading to inconsistent feature representations under rotational transformations. To address these issues, we propose an Asymmetric Region Denoising (ARD) module and a Rotation Equivariant Feature Similarity Matching (REFSM) module. The ARD module suppresses asymmetric interference to refine symmetric patterns, while the REFSM module enhances rotation equivariance through feature similarity matching between original and rotated images. Specifically, our dual-input REFSM framework leverages rotation loss to maximize consistency between the score maps of original and rotated images, thereby enabling precise prediction of rotation-equivariant symmetry axes. Furthermore, we introduce GMSYM, a new benchmark dataset that categorizes images into diverse scenarios and incorporates various interferences to address the limitations of existing reflection symmetry detection benchmarks. Extensive experiments on four standard datasets (DENDI, NYU, LDRS, SDRW) and our proposed GMSYM dataset demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance in both accuracy and robustness.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27927
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FeatFix: Reuse What You Verify through Local Exact-Feature Correction for Faster Cached Diffusion Inference
2026-07-30 08:23:52Hanshuai Cui, Zhiqing Tang, Zhi Yao, Qianli Ma, Fanshuai Meng, Weijia JiaAbstract
Diffusion models are widely used to generate high-quality images and videos, but their iterative denoising process remains computationally intensive. A growing class of training-free accelerators reduces this cost by reusing cached intermediate features or forecasting future ones. To control draft drift, these methods sometimes compute an exact block feature for verification. Yet the resulting exact feature is typically used only to measure discrepancy or guide a later decision and is then discarded. We find that this previously computed feature can instead be reused for correction. Forwarding it at the verification site resets the local draft residual and reduces downstream feature error. Based on this observation, we introduce FeatFix, a local exact-feature correction method for cached diffusion inference. FeatFix operates at a fixed sparse set of layer--timestep sites. At each selected site, it replaces the complete draft block output with the exact output computed from the same incoming state, avoiding token- or channel-level partial replacement and full-timestep recomputation. Experiments across four image and video backbones show that FeatFix consistently accelerates generation, achieving a speedup of up to $6.70\times$ over Vanilla while maintaining competitive output quality.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27842
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CrowdioSet and PaRIRset: Two Datasets Towards Live Music Source Separation
2026-07-30 08:07:29Enric Gus\'o, Xavier SerraAbstract
Most Music Source Separation (MSS) models do not generalize well to live music recordings because they are trained on studio recordings alone, disregarding the venue acoustics, the speaker system's response and audience noise. We propose to bridge this gap by providing and training a model on two novel datasets. First, we present CrowdioSet: a noise dataset comprising 4800 real ambience tracks from Freesound and synthetic sing-alongs for the vocals in MUSDB18 and MOISESDB datasets, generated from zero-shot singing voice conversions. CrowdioSet enables effective audio denoising for live recordings, resulting in superior separation both in objective and subjective evaluations. Second, we introduce PaRIRset, a stereo impulse response dataset captured across 40 professional concert venues using a microphone array. Our results show that adding PaRIRset RIRs increases the performance of a MSS model compared to using real RIRs from Speech Enhancement tasks alone. We make the examples, code, model weights, PaRIRset, and CrowdioSet freely available to the public.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27828
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SciFigAlign: Scoring Scientific Figures by Fine-tuned Alignment of Visuals with Manuscript Evidence
2026-07-29 15:54:14Chuanzhi Xu, Zihan Deng, Huiqi Liang, Chengkun Yue, Zhanlin Cui, Pengfei Ye, Weidong CaiAbstract
Scientific figure assessment in peer review differs fundamentally from general image quality evaluation: a figure must be visually legible, faithfully support the manuscript's claims, and communicate evidence with a clear visual hierarchy. However, if we apply traditional image assessment methods to scientific figure quality assessment, limitations emerge: classic IQA models capture perceptual quality or aesthetics but cannot judge whether a figure serves the paper's scientific argument; CLIP-based methods assess generic image-text correspondence, yet lack understanding of manuscript context; and zero-shot LLM/VLM judges, when repurposed for figure scoring, often yield overly concentrated scores with limited fusion of visual and textual evidence. We introduce an annotated dataset of 3,857 scientific figures from peer-reviewed conference papers, each rated along four peer-review-oriented dimensions: Clarity, Relevance, Informativeness, and Structure. We propose SciFigAlign, a fine-tuned multimodal scorer that grounds figure quality assessment in manuscript evidence. Given a figure crop, caption, citing paragraphs, and light paper context, SciFigAlign fine-tunes CLIP and SciBERT end-to-end with per-modality cross-attention and CubeMLP fusion, jointly optimizing SmoothL1 regression with a within-paper ranking hinge loss. Under paper-level splits, SciFigAlign achieves a macro MAE of 0.3524 and a within-paper pairwise accuracy of 81.64% on the test set with n = 396, a 59% relative error reduction over the best LLM-as-judge baseline with MAE 0.864. Ablations confirm that manuscript-grounded inputs, citing-context denoising, and ranking supervision are all critical, showing that scientific figure assessment requires learned alignment between visual content and manuscript evidence rather than prompting alone, even with state-of-the-art VLMs.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27066
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Anchoring and Steering Diffusion: Enhancing the Faithfulness of Text-to-Image Generation at Inference Time
2026-07-29 09:08:57Xinyi Wang, Yuyang Huang, Yalin Su, Pengcheng Luan, Tao Zhang, Feiming Wei, Wenxian YuAbstract
While text-to-image diffusion models achieve impressive visual quality, they frequently struggle to maintain precise alignment with complex compositional prompts. An effective strategy is to improve the inference process of diffusion models, thereby better leveraging their pretrained priors to address misalignment. Existing training-free methods can be divided into two categories. The first category focuses on improving the randomly sampled initial noise, either performing costly search over noise pools or manipulating sampled noise without ensuring reliable semantic injection. The second category focuses on improving the denoising trajectory, lacking explicit mechanisms to timely diagnose and correct semantic errors. we propose \textbf{AnchorSteer}, a training-free framework that exerts fine-grained control over \textbf{both initialization} and \textbf{the denoising trajectory}. AnchorSteer consists of two synergistic components: \textbf{Semantic Anchoring} replaces uninformative Gaussian noise with text-aligned initializations via CLIP-based prior extraction and a novel Latent-Prior Score Distillation Sampling (LP-SDS) objective. Specifically, LP-SDS distills CLIP visual priors into the knowledge distribution of diffusion models, mitigating the domain gap between CLIP-based priors and diffusion-based priors. \textbf{Reflective Steering} transforms passive denoising with an active Think--Erase--Retouch loop that enables mid-generation self-correction. It leverages VLM-based diagnosis to detect semantic deviations and performs targeted latent refinement to suppress erroneous content and recover missing attributes. Extensive experiments on GenEval and T2I-CompBench++ demonstrate that AnchorSteer consistently outperforms existing baselines in text--image alignment while preserving high visual quality.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26647
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Genie Sim PanoWorld: An Infinite Indoor 3D World Generation Pipeline via Panoramic Scene Modeling and Simulation
2026-07-29 09:08:16Yongxin Su, Linjie Hou, Feng Wang, Jialin Tang, Zhijun Li, Qian Wang, Maoqing YaoAbstract
We address the problem of reconstructing a high-fidelity, freely navigable 3D scene from a single $360^\circ$ panorama, without per-scene optimization or multi-view capture. Existing methods either lack metric trajectory control, which hinders reliable downstream 3D reconstruction, or struggle with large disocclusions under long-range camera motion while requiring high-end multi-GPU this http URL present Genie Sim PanoWorld, a two-stage feed-forward pipeline that bridges generation and reconstruction via an explicit, trajectory-controllable panoramic video. A NavMesh-planned $\mathrm{SE}(3)$ roaming trajectory is injected into a latent video diffusion model through dense geometry-warped conditioning; long--short trajectory mixed training and a self-consistency objective based on shortcut models together yield high-fidelity video in four CFG-free denoising steps. A feed-forward panoramic reconstructor then lifts the generated video into a high-fidelity 3D Gaussian scene that supports real-time, free-viewpoint roaming and can be directly used as a simulation-ready asset for embodied AI applications. Experiments show that Genie Sim PanoWorld outperforms geometry-conditioned baselines in both panoramic video generation and downstream 3D reconstruction, while generalizing zero-shot to unseen indoor scenes.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26646
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CleanVideo: Adaptive Concept Erasure for Text-to-Video Diffusion Models
2026-07-29 05:24:01Junchi Liao, Hongji Li, Wenrui Zhou, Lijie HuAbstract
Concept erasure aims to selectively eliminate undesired visual semantics from pre-trained generative models without compromising their general utility. Extending concept erasure from images to video is nontrivial. Target concepts emerge gradually and vary across frames and denoising steps. As a result, fixed interventions may miss the target or introduce blurring, jitter, and content distortion. We propose CleanVideo, a selective erasure framework that performs low-dimensional subspace intervention controlled by a tri-modal gating mechanism. By jointly processing spatiotemporal visual features, timestep signals, and textual semantics, CleanVideo determines where, when, and whether to intervene, steering erased content toward natural surrogate concepts when such surrogates can be clearly defined while preserving non-target content. Experiments on three video diffusion models show that CleanVideo effectively erases target concepts while maintaining visual fidelity and temporal coherence, outperforming existing baselines under frame-level and video-level evaluations and under concept-recovery attacks when the protected pipeline remains intact.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20267
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$pimathbf{R}^2$: Reactive Real-time Flow Policies
2026-07-28 17:59:31Sungjae Park, Shubham TulsianiAbstract
Generalist manipulation policies increasingly take the form of action-chunking flow policies built on large pretrained backbones. Such chunks run open-loop, so the policy cannot react to sensory input arriving mid-execution, sacrificing \emph{reactivity}. Replanning more often would restore it, but the perception-to-action pipeline (a large backbone plus multiple denoising steps) is too slow: this \emph{latency} forbids frequent replanning and leaves committed actions stale, making such policies ill-suited for dynamic, closed-loop control. We present $\pi\mathbf{R}^2$, which makes these policies reactive and real-time while retaining large backbones, expressive multi-modal policies, and multi-action prediction. Built on the per-position noise schedule of diffusion forcing, $\pi\mathbf{R}^2$ contributes two ideas. First, it splits conditioning into a fast channel (proprioception, fresh every tick) and an asynchronously updated slow channel (vision-language features), so the policy reacts to proprioception within a chunk while tolerating stale vision. Second, a latency-adaptive flow schedule treats in-flight actions as inpainting conditioning and emits actions in one denoising step per call, letting one trained model adapt to varying hardware latency. Requiring minimal modification to existing architectures, $\pi\mathbf{R}^2$ can be finetuned from a pretrained policy: applied to GR00T-N1.7 on a real xArm6+XHand platform, it replans closed-loop roughly $4\times$ faster than the base policy (~$25$Hz on an A5000 GPU), acting on a fresh observation every $40$ms. Across simulation and real-world manipulation tasks, $\pi\mathbf{R}^2$ improves the success rate by up to $23\%$ in simulation and $30\%$ in the real world over the strongest baseline. Project page: this https URL
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26055
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Parallel Decoding Distillation for Fast Image and Video Generation
2026-07-28 17:20:00Neta Shaul, Chao Liu, Arash Vahdat, Julius BernerAbstract
Generation in video diffusion or flow models is computationally expensive due to the slow and iterative sampling process. Current state-of-the-art (SOTA) acceleration methods heavily rely on variational score distillation (VSD) and adversarial losses to distill diffusion models into few-step generators. Albeit achieving high-quality video generation, these training losses are notoriously hard to optimize and suffer from mode collapse, leading to loss of video diversity and lack of motion. In this paper, we introduce Parallel Decoding Distillation (PDD), a simplified and scalable trajectory-based distillation method for fast inference of diffusion and flow matching models. Our architecture and training procedure are compatible with any pre-trained model and support sampling with a varying number of function evaluations (NFE). PDD accelerates generation by predicting multiple denoising steps per network evaluation. Conceptually, it learns a representation of the mean velocity without regressing its derivative using JVPs or finite-difference approximations. Our method achieves SOTA performance with 4-8 NFE on LTX-2.3 Text-to-Video/Audio, Wan 14B Text-to-Video, and Qwen-Image Text-to-Image. Moreover, PDD presents a significant improvement in generated video diversity.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26004
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TIGA: Trajectory-Injected Generative Attack against Black-box AIGC Detectors
2026-07-28 15:51:39Xia Du, Zhuosen Bao, Zheng Lin, Jizhe Zhou, Jiawei Lian, Chi-man Pun, Jun Luo, Wei Ni, Symeon ChatzinotasAbstract
Recent diffusion models have achieved remarkable realism in facial image synthesis, posing growing challenges to artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) forensic this http URL evasion methods typically perturb pre-generated images or require detector-aware training, which may introduce visible or statistical artifacts and limit applicability when the diffusion model must remain frozen and the target detector is accessible only through black-box queries. We propose Trajectory-Injected Generative Attack (TIGA), a source-image-free and training free framework that generates detector-evasive images within a single diffusion sampling trajectory. TIGA steers the latent Denoising Diffusion Implicit Model (DDIM) trajectory so that adversarial properties emerge during generation rather than being added afterward. TIGA first aggregates gradients from multiple white-box surrogate detectors to form a transferable, sign-aware prior, and then performs anisotropic directional search with symmetric finite-difference queries to estimate the black-box target response. The estimated directions are stabilized by decayed momentum and injected according to the DDIM noise schedule, with frequency-domain reshaping to suppress high frequency artifacts. Experiments on surrogate and unseen specialized forensic detectors show that TIGA achieves strong blackbox attack performance, transferability, and high robustness under common post-processing operations without source images or diffusion-model retraining, while preserving high perceptual quality.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25894
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Explicit Layer Modeling for Video Object Insertion and Layer Decomposition
2026-07-28 14:48:30Kyujin Han, Seungjoo Shin, Sunghyun ChoAbstract
Most video editing systems still lack explicit layered video representations, limiting their ability to perform realistic compositing, object reuse, and consistent manipulation. This limitation is especially pronounced in video object insertion and video layer decomposition, where existing methods rely on implicit inference or per-scene optimization due to the absence of explicit foreground-layer supervision. We introduce TriLayer, a large-scale triplet video dataset containing aligned composite, background, and foreground videos, where the foreground layers include both object appearance and associated visual effects. This explicit supervision enables models to learn layered video representations directly rather than inferring them implicitly. Building on this dataset, we propose DBL-Diffusion, a dual-branch diffusion framework that jointly models RGB composites and RGBA foreground layers through shared denoising and cross-branch interaction. We instantiate the framework in two tasks: DBL-Insert for layered object insertion, which generates explicit RGBA layers for realistic compositing and flexible post-editing, and DBL-Decompose for video layer decomposition, which recovers foreground and background layers using triplet supervision. Experiments demonstrate that explicit layer modeling substantially improves both insertion fidelity and decomposition quality.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25802
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Beyond Facial Consistency: Personalized Person Image Generation with Holistic Identity Preservation
2026-07-28 12:02:13Yuxuan Xiao, Shanshan Zhang, Jian Yang, Shengcai LiaoAbstract
Personalized person image generation requires preserving subject identity across both local facial details and broader appearance cues. Existing methods typically emphasize only one level of identity information, leading to an inherent trade-off between facial fidelity and overall appearance consistency. To address this, we first propose a simple dual-branch baseline that unifies global appearance control and local facial control within a shared generation framework. This simple combination of different branches yields promising results, but suffers from instability in practice due to uncoordinated branch contributions. To this end, we propose Dynamic Balancing Scaling (DBS), a fine-tuning strategy for improving face and appearance identity coordination. DBS consists of two components: adaptive temporal gating, which dynamically modulates branch contributions along the denoising trajectory, and region-aware optimization, which improves the coordination of facial, appearance, and global supervision. Together, these designs alleviate persistent face-branch over-dominance and encourage more effective appearance-aware guidance. We also introduce Pexels-100, a benchmark for evaluating holistic identity consistency in personalized person generation. Experiments show that DBS achieves a better trade-off between facial fidelity and appearance consistency than existing open-source baselines, while providing a controllable basic framework for holistic identity modeling.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25622
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PreDiff-LM: Pretrained Discrete Masked Diffusion Language Modeling with Hybrid Attention
2026-07-28 00:05:43Zhengtao Yao, Runhao Li, Xupeng Chen, Jiayi Cheng, Chenqian Le, Michael Yue, Jesson Wang, Siheng Wang, Guang Yang, Haoyan Xu, Chenhao Wei, Zhengqing Yuan, Youran Shen, Yanfang Ye, Junhao DongAbstract
Discrete masked diffusion language models support bidirectional generation and infilling, but adapting pretrained autoregressive (AR) transformers requires reconciling causal pretraining with bidirectional denoising. We study this problem at the level of attention rather than claiming AR-weight reuse itself as novel. PreDiff-LM preserves causal attention within the observed prompt while allowing full bidirectional attention within the masked target. Under a matched GPT-2 Medium, WikiText-103, 90K-step setup, this hybrid mask improves unconditional perplexity from 34.1 to 28.7 and MAUVE from 0.71 to 0.78 over uniform bidirectional attention with the same AR initialization. Attention adaptation also composes with a DiffuGPT-style objective adaptation, reaching 26.9 perplexity. Pretrained initialization reduces the steps required to reach perplexity below 50 from about 350K to 8K, although a compute-matched fine-tuned AR model remains stronger at equal scale (18.9 versus 28.7). Beyond perplexity, PreDiff-LM improves repetition, distributional quality, four zero-shot downstream tasks, and human preference over prior diffusion baselines. The results position hybrid attention as a complementary mechanism for adapting pretrained causal backbones, while making explicit the remaining quality and inference-efficiency gaps to optimized AR models.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25157
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MorphUNet: Alpha-Controlled Biometric Transport for Diffusion-Based Face Morphing Attacks
2026-07-27 21:30:49Taimoor Rizwan, Sara Atito, Zhenhua Feng, Muhammad Awais, Josef KittlerAbstract
Face morphing attacks create synthetic images verifiable against multiple identities, threatening border control and identity verification systems. We introduce MorphUNet, a diffusion morphing framework formulating two-parent generation as alpha-controlled biometric transport: each parent is decomposed into CLIP appearance and ArcFace identity evidence, aligned into a CLIP-compatible token space, with the two contributors preserved as separate identity-aware token banks. To our knowledge, MorphUNet is the first diffusion-based morphing framework using trainable parent-separated dual cross-attention inside the denoising U-Net: a Biometric Transport Layer carrying parent-specific identity evidence through denoising, attending to each parent separately before combining residuals via the morphing parameter alpha. DDIM-inverted latent interpolation gives a coherent denoising start, while weaker-parent-guided selection favours morphs maximising the lower parent-similarity score, reducing collapse toward one contributor. We evaluate MorphUNet against three state-of-the-art baselines (StableMorph, MIPGAN-II, and MorDIFF) on FEI and FRLL using six recognition systems, and propose CFD-based unseen-identity stress testing across gender and ethnicity pairing, demographic shifts, and parent-similarity extremes. MorphUNet achieves the best Morphing Attack Potential (MAP) when at least three of six systems are fooled by one morph, reaching 0.919 on FEI and 0.886 on FRLL, and obtains the best FID on both datasets (35.19 FEI, 44.86 FRLL). It also gives the highest APCER at 5% BPCER in the same-dataset setting, and remains highly difficult to detect under cross-dataset transfer, with APCER 0.996 on FEI and 0.946 on FRLL. The full evaluation analyses MAP, MAD, per-system vulnerability, identity balance, image quality, top/bottom-similarity stress tests, and CFD unseen-identity robustness.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25092
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Lantern: Conflict-Aware Gradient Blending for Physics-Guided Diffusion Models in Calorimeter Simulation
2026-07-27 20:42:39Farzana Yasmin Ahmad, Vanamala Venkataswamy, Geoffrey FoxAbstract
Monte Carlo simulation of calorimeter showers is a principal bottleneck for the High-Luminosity LHC, and diffusion models have emerged as fast, high-fidelity surrogates. Their denoising objective is purely statistical, however: a model can minimize it while placing the physics wrong. Existing physics-informed generative methods cannot close this gap, because they assume a closed-form law, a governing PDE residual or a hard per-sample constraint, that a shower does not supply: no per-sample PDE governs a stochastic cascade, and energy conservation fixes only one scalar per shower. Standard metrics ignore the correlation structure across calorimeter layers and voxels, comparing showers only in a physics feature space. We address both gaps. We introduce the Correlation Frobenius Distance (CFD), a single normalized score for correlation fidelity at layer-wise and voxel-wise scales. We then encode the soft per-sample structure available in a shower as two physics-aware auxiliary losses: a variance-stabilized voxel residual loss grounded in counting statistics, and a graph Laplacian loss over the detector geometry. We combine both with denoising through GradBlend, which anchors the step magnitude to the denoising gradient while letting the auxiliary steer its direction, yielding Lantern, a physics-guided diffusion surrogate. On CaloChallenge Dataset 2, injecting the physics losses through task-symmetric rules such as PCGrad, GradNorm, IMTL-G, and ConFIG inflates FPD by 2-100x relative to denoising alone, whereas GradBlend admits the same signal without regression and, with the Laplacian loss, Lantern improves both FPD and CFD. Our ablation on the auxiliary loss scheduler shows that the voxel residual loss, whose gradient conflicts with denoising, requires a terminal denoising-only phase to preserve shower fidelity, whereas the non-conflicting Laplacian loss is insensitive to the schedule.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25060
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Towards Operational Conversational Intelligence: A Speech Intelligence Framework
2026-07-27 18:05:20C. Vishnoi, S. Khurana, A. Timmapur, S. Rai, S. MohantyAbstract
Body-worn camera (BWC) audio presents unique challenges including high ambient noise, variable recording conditions, and multiple overlapping speakers that make automated transcription and speaker labeling challenging. We propose a dual-path conversational intelligence framework that preprocesses raw BWC audio, separates the processing pipeline into a diarization branch and an ASR branch, and fuses their outputs. The diarization branch uses a denoising front-end (DeepFilterNet), voice activity detection (VAD), and NVIDIA's Multi-Scale Speaker Diarization Decoder (MSDD) with TitaNet embeddings. The transcription branch uses loudness normalization and WhisperX (Large-v3) with forced alignment and probability-guided speech segmentation. Finally, word-level speaker attribution is performed by assigning each recognized word to the speaker segment with the greatest temporal overlap. We evaluate the proposed framework on a curated body-worn camera dataset constructed from publicly available U.S. and U.K. police body-worn camera recordings. Experimental results demonstrate that task-specific acoustic conditioning and probability-guided speech segmentation improve speaker diarization, transcription, and word-level speaker attribution under challenging body-worn camera recording conditions. The proposed modular architecture provides an extensible foundation for future speaker-aware conversational intelligence systems.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24958
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Spatio-Temporal Conditional Denoising Transformer for Modality-Missing RGBT Tracking
2026-07-27 17:44:00Andong Lu, Ziyi Zha, Jiandong Jin, Shihao Li, Chenglong Li, Jin Tang, Bin LuoAbstract
Missing modalities in RGBT tracking often lead to incomplete and unstable multimodal feature representations that greatly degrade the performance. Existing methods typically attempt to recover missing modalities from available ones, but the quality of data generated in challenging scenarios might be unsatisfactory. In addition, current approaches exhibit limited flexibility in processing both missing and complete data. To overcome these limitations, we propose a Spatio-temporal Conditional Denoising Transformer (SCDT), which integrates the spatial cues and the temporal context to adaptively perform information reconstruction of missing modalities and feature enhancement of weak modalities in a unified framework, for robust modality-missing RGBT tracking. In particular, SCDT leverages the short-term temporal cues from recent historical frames to capture the fine-grained temporal correlations and the long-term temporal cues encoding modality evolution to capture the global context. By jointly exploiting long short-term temporal contexts as the conditions, SCDT progressively guides noisy features of available modalities to learn reliable and temporally consistent multimodal representations. Furthermore, SCDT introduces a noisemodulated adaptation mechanism that dynamically adjusts its behavior according to the modal availability, enabling a single framework to unify feature learning under both modality-missing and complete scenarios without changing the architecture or parameters. Extensive experiments on three public benchmark datasets demonstrate that our method consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods. The code is available here.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24701
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MMOE: Modernizing Diffusion Transformers with Efficient Expert Design
2026-07-27 17:05:04Yanhao Jia, Jiepeng Wang, Haibin Huang, Chi Zhang, Erik Cambria, Xuelong LiAbstract
Modern large language models scale successfully by pairing capacity growth with efficiency, keeping per-token and deployment costs under control as capacity grows. AIGC Foundation Models (AFMs), especially diffusion-transformer backbones, have begun to adopt sparse experts, but recent efforts mostly enlarge total parameter counts and sparsity ratios without importing the efficiency mechanisms that made LLM scaling practical, so generation quality is seldom balanced against training and deployment cost. This raises a natural question: can the architectural principles behind efficient LLM scaling be adapted to AFMs in a more balanced way? We introduce ModernMOE (MMOE), a modernization of SiT-style diffusion transformers that systematically adapts routed experts, shared and lightweight experts, gate-residual routing, and attention-residual information reuse to AIGC generation. Rather than treating MoE as a single plug-in replacement, MMOE studies how different modern expert components affect convergence, efficiency, and generation quality when composed inside a diffusion transformer. Every experiment in this paper is trained on a single eight-GPU H100 node with batch size 256 for 400k steps, an accessible single-machine budget. Under matched training and sampling protocols and at this budget, MMOE reaches lower FID at every recorded checkpoint, that is, it converges faster per training step, than dense and intermediate sparse-expert baselines, and among the sparse variants it attains the best quality-cost balance. Routing analysis further shows stable expert specialization across depth, substantial use of lightweight routes, and modest step-to-step routing changes during denoising. These results suggest that AFMs can follow the balanced scaling path of LLMs by importing proven efficiency designs, rather than by simply increasing total parameters and sparsity ratios.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24665
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Latent Stability Analysis of Malware Representations Under Feature-Space Perturbations
2026-07-27 15:53:28Bamidele Ajayi, Ken McGarryAbstract
Static malware detectors are commonly evaluated using clean-sample metrics such as accuracy, F1, ROC AUC, and PR AUC. However, these metrics provide limited insight into how learned malware representations behave when feature vectors are perturbed, how close samples move toward uncertain decision regions, or whether compressed representations preserve security-relevant structure. This paper presents a latent-stability analysis pipeline for malware perturbation assessment in EMBER feature space. The pipeline compares full EMBER features, PCA-based compression, beta/denoising variational autoencoder representations, Mandelbrot-inspired escape-time descriptors, and a PINN-style latent-flow module. We define Latent Escape Divergence (LED) to measure changes in escape-time profiles under perturbation, and use PINNFlow-derived residual, velocity, risk, and gradient-shift metrics to characterize latent movement. Experiments are conducted on EMBER static PE feature vectors using 180,000 training samples, 180,000 test samples, and 240,000 holdout samples. Full EMBER features achieve the strongest clean classification performance with ROC AUC of 0.9962 and F1 of 0.9713, while PCA-64 is the strongest compressed baseline with ROC AUC of 0.9846 and F1 of 0.9347. The proposed VAE+Mandelbrot+PINNFlow representation does not outperform these baselines for clean classification, but it provides additional diagnostic value under controlled feature-space perturbation probes.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24896
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