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  "generated_at": "2026-05-17 16:16:40 UTC",
  "total_arxiv_papers": 10,
  "total_hf_papers": 15,
  "total_github_repos": 10,
  "hf_papers": [
    {
      "id": "2605.15193",
      "title": "Aligning Latent Geometry for Spherical Flow Matching in Image Generation",
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.15193",
      "upvotes": 0,
      "summary": "Latent flow matching for image generation usually transports Gaussian noise to variational autoencoder latents along linear paths. Both endpoints, however, concentrate in thin spherical shells, and a Euclidean chord leaves those shells even when preprocessing aligns their radii. By decomposing each latent token into radial and angular components, we show through component-swap probes that decoded perceptual and semantic content is carried predominantly by direction, with radius contributing much less. We therefore project data latents onto a fixed token radius, use the radial projection of Gaussian noise as the spherical prior, finetune the decoder with the encoder frozen, and replace linear interpolation with spherical linear interpolation. The resulting geodesic paths stay on the sphere at every timestep, and their velocity targets are purely angular by construction. Under matched training, the method consistently improves class-conditional ImageNet-256 FID across different image tokenizers, leaves the diffusion architecture unchanged, and requires no auxiliary encoder or representation-alignment objective."
    },
    {
      "id": "2605.01018",
      "title": "WildTableBench: Benchmarking Multimodal Foundation Models on Table Understanding In the Wild",
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.01018",
      "upvotes": 0,
      "summary": "Using multimodal foundation models to analyze table images is a high-value yet challenging application in consumer and enterprise scenarios. Despite its importance, current evaluations rely largely on structured-text tables or clean rendered images, leaving the visual complexity of in-the-wild table images underexplored. Such images feature varied layouts and diverse domains that demand sophisticated structural perception and numerical reasoning. To bridge this gap, we introduce WildTableBench, the first question-answering benchmark for naturally occurring table images from real-world settings. WildTableBench comprises 402 high-information-density table images collected from online forums and websites across diverse domains, together with 928 manually annotated and verified questions spanning 17 subtypes across five categories. We evaluate 21 frontier proprietary and open-source multimodal foundation models on this benchmark. Only one model exceeds 50% accuracy, while all remaining models range from 4.1% to 49.9%. We further conduct diagnostic analyses to characterize model failures and reveal persistent weaknesses in structural perception and reasoning. These results and analyses provide useful insights into current model capabilities and establish WildTableBench as a valuable diagnostic benchmark for table image understanding."
    },
    {
      "id": "2605.06554",
      "title": "Long Context Pre-Training with Lighthouse Attention",
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.06554",
      "upvotes": 0,
      "summary": "Training causal transformers at extreme sequence lengths is bottlenecked by the quadratic time and memory of scaled dot-product attention (SDPA). In this work, we propose Lighthouse Attention, a training-only symmetrical selection-based hierarchical attention algorithm that wraps around ordinary SDPA and can be easily removed towards the end of the training. Our hierarchical selection is also gradient-free, which exempts us from dealing with a complicated and potentially inefficient backward pass kernel. Our contribution is three-fold: (i) A subquadratic hierarchical pre- and post-processing step that does adaptive compression and decompression of the sequence. (ii) A symmetrical compression strategy that pools queries, keys and values at the same time, while preserving left-to-right causality, which greatly improves parallelism. (iii) A two stage training approach which we pre-train for the majority of the time with Lighthouse Attention and recover a full attention model at the end with a short training. We run preliminary small scale LLM pre-training experiments that show the effectiveness of our method compared to full attention training with all other settings matched, where we achieve a faster total training time and lower final loss after the recovery phase. Full code is available at: https://github.com/ighoshsubho/lighthouse-attention"
    },
    {
      "id": "2605.15012",
      "title": "Boosting Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards via Randomly Selected Few-Shot Guidance",
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.15012",
      "upvotes": 0,
      "summary": "Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has achieved great success in developing Large Language Models (LLMs) with chain-of-thought rollouts for many tasks such as math and coding. Nevertheless, RLVR struggles with sample efficiency on difficult problems where correct rollouts are hard to generate. Prior works propose to address this issue via demonstration-guided RLVR, i.e., to conduct Supervised FineTuning (SFT) when RL fails; however, SFT often requires a lot of data, which can be expensive to acquire. In this paper, we propose FEST, a FEw-ShoT demonstration-guided RLVR algorithm. It attains compelling results with only 128 demonstrations randomly selected from an SFT dataset. We find that three components are vital for the success: supervised signal, on-policy signal, and decaying weights on the few-shot SFT dataset to prevent overfitting from multiple-epoch training. On several benchmarks, FEST outperforms baselines with magnitudes less SFT data, even matching their performance with full dataset."
    },
    {
      "id": "2605.12243",
      "title": "PreScam: A Benchmark for Predicting Scam Progression from Early Conversations",
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.12243",
      "upvotes": 0,
      "summary": "Conversational scams, such as romance and investment scams, are emerging as a major form of online fraud. Unlike one-shot scam lures such as fake lottery or unpaid toll messages, they unfold through multi-turn conversations in which scammers gradually manipulate victims using evolving psychological techniques. However, existing research mainly focuses on static scam detection or synthetic scams, leaving open whether language models can understand how real-world scams progress over time. We introduce PreScam, a benchmark for modeling scam progression from early conversations. Built from user-submitted scam reports, PreScam filters and structures 177,989 raw reports into 11,573 conversational scam instances spanning 20 scam categories. Each instance is hierarchically structured according to the scam lifecycle defined by the proposed scam kill chain, and further annotated at the turn level with scammer psychological actions and victim responses. We benchmark models on two tasks: real-time termination prediction, which estimates whether a conversation is approaching the termination stage, and scammer action prediction, which forecasts the scammer's subsequent actions. Results show a clear gap between surface-level fluency and progression modeling: supervised encoders substantially outperform zero-shot LLMs on real-time termination prediction, while next-action prediction remains only moderately successful even for strong LLMs. Taken together, these results show that current models can capture some scam-related cues, yet still struggle to track how risk escalates and how manipulation unfolds across turns."
    },
    {
      "id": "2605.14984",
      "title": "Sat3DGen: Comprehensive Street-Level 3D Scene Generation from Single Satellite Image",
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.14984",
      "upvotes": 0,
      "summary": "Generating a street-level 3D scene from a single satellite image is a crucial yet challenging task. Current methods present a stark trade-off: geometry-colorization models achieve high geometric fidelity but are typically building-focused and lack semantic diversity. In contrast, proxy-based models use feed-forward image-to-3D frameworks to generate holistic scenes by jointly learning geometry and texture, a process that yields rich content but coarse and unstable geometry. We attribute these geometric failures to the extreme viewpoint gap and sparse, inconsistent supervision inherent in satellite-to-street data. We introduce Sat3DGen to address these fundamental challenges, which embodies a geometry-first methodology. This methodology enhances the feed-forward paradigm by integrating novel geometric constraints with a perspective-view training strategy, explicitly countering the primary sources of geometric error. This geometry-centric strategy yields a dramatic leap in both 3D accuracy and photorealism. For validation, we first constructed a new benchmark by pairing the VIGOR-OOD test set with high-resolution DSM data. On this benchmark, our method improves geometric RMSE from 6.76m to 5.20m. Crucially, this geometric leap also boosts photorealism, reducing the Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) from sim40 to 19 against the leading method, Sat2Density++, despite using no extra tailored image-quality modules. We demonstrate the versatility of our high-quality 3D assets through diverse downstream applications, including semantic-map-to-3D synthesis, multi-camera video generation, large-scale meshing, and unsupervised single-image Digital Surface Model (DSM) estimation. The code has been released on https://github.com/qianmingduowan/Sat3DGen."
    },
    {
      "id": "2605.07637",
      "title": "Learning to Communicate Locally for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Pathfinding",
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.07637",
      "upvotes": 0,
      "summary": "Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) is a widely used abstraction for multi-robot trajectory planning problems, where multiple homogeneous agents move simultaneously within a shared environment. Although solving MAPF optimally is NP-hard, scalable and efficient solvers are critical for real-world applications such as logistics and search-and-rescue. To this end, the research community has proposed various decentralized suboptimal MAPF solvers that leverage machine learning. Such methods frame MAPF (from a single agent perspective) as a Dec-POMDP where at each time step an agent has to decide an action based on the local observation and typically solve the problem via reinforcement learning or imitation learning. We follow the same approach but additionally introduce a learnable communication module tailored to enhance cooperation between agents via efficient feature sharing. We present the Local Communication for Multi-agent Pathfinding (LC-MAPF), a generalizable pre-trained model that applies multi-round communication between neighboring agents to exchange information and improve their coordination. Our experiments show that the introduced method outperforms the existing learning-based MAPF solvers, including IL and RL-based approaches, across diverse metrics in a diverse range of (unseen) test scenarios. Remarkably, the introduced communication mechanism does not compromise LC-MAPF's scalability, a common bottleneck for communication-based MAPF solvers."
    },
    {
      "id": "2605.14607",
      "title": "ViMU: Benchmarking Video Metaphorical Understanding",
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.14607",
      "upvotes": 0,
      "summary": "Any new medium, once it emerges, is used for more than the transmission of overt content alone. The information it carries typically operates on two levels: one is the content directly presented, while the other is the subtext beneath it-the implicit ideas and intentions the creator seeks to convey through the medium. Likewise, since video technologies became widely adopted, video has served not only as a powerful tool for recording and communicating visual information, but also as a vehicle for emotions, attitudes, and social meanings that are often difficult to articulate explicitly. Thus, the true meaning of many videos does not reside solely in what is shown on screen; it is often embedded in context, style of expression, and the viewer's social experience. Some forms of such video subtext are humorous, while others carry irony, mockery, or criticism. These implicit meanings can also be interpreted very differently across cultural backgrounds and social groups. However, most existing video understanding models still focus primarily on literal visual comprehension, such as recognizing objects, actions, or temporal relations, and lack a systematic ability to understand the metaphorical, ironic, and social meanings embedded in videos. To bridge this gap, we introduce ViMU, the first benchmark designed to systematically evaluate the subtext understanding capabilities of frontier models in videos. ViMU assesses whether video understanding models can go beyond literal perception to infer implicit meaning while grounding their interpretations in multimodal evidence and answering both open-ended and multiple-choice questions. Importantly, all questions are designed to be hint-free, ensuring that no key evidence is disclosed to models before answering."
    },
    {
      "id": "2605.12034",
      "title": "Boosting Omni-Modal Language Models: Staged Post-Training with Visually Debiased Evaluation",
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.12034",
      "upvotes": 0,
      "summary": "Omni-modal language models are intended to jointly understand audio, visual inputs, and language, but benchmark gains can be inflated when visual evidence alone is enough to answer a query. We study whether current omni-modal benchmarks separate visual shortcuts from genuine audio-visual-language evidence integration, and how post-training behaves under a visually debiased evaluation setting. We audit nine omni-modal benchmarks with visual-only probing, remove visually solvable queries, and retain full subsets when filtering is undefined or would make comparisons unstable. This yields OmniClean, a cleaned evaluation view with 8,551 retained queries from 16,968 audited queries. On OmniClean, we evaluate OmniBoost, a three-stage post-training recipe based on Qwen2.5-Omni-3B: mixed bi-modal SFT, mixed-modality RLVR, and SFT on self-distilled data. Balanced bi-modal SFT gives limited and uneven gains, RLVR provides the first broad improvement, and self-distillation reshapes the benchmark profile. After SFT on self-distilled data, the 3B model reaches performance comparable to, and in aggregate slightly above, Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct without using a stronger omni-modal teacher. These results show that omni-modal progress is easier to interpret when evaluation controls visual leakage, and that small omni-modal models can benefit from staged post-training with self-distilled omni-query supervision. Project page: https://cheliu-computation.github.io/omni/"
    },
    {
      "id": "2605.14438",
      "title": "BEAM: Binary Expert Activation Masking for Dynamic Routing in MoE",
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.14438",
      "upvotes": 0,
      "summary": "Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures enhance the efficiency of large language models by activating only a subset of experts per token. However, standard MoE employs a fixed Top-K routing strategy, leading to redundant computation and suboptimal inference latency. Existing acceleration methods either require costly retraining with architectural changes or suffer from severe performance drop at high sparsity due to train-inference mismatch. To address these limitations, we propose BEAM (Binary Expert Activation Masking), a novel method that learns token-adaptive expert selection via trainable binary masks. With a straight-through estimator and an auxiliary regularization loss, BEAM induces dynamic expert sparsity through end-to-end training while maintaining model capability. We further implement an efficient custom CUDA kernel for BEAM, ensuring seamless integration with the vLLM inference framework. Experiments show that BEAM retains over 98\\% of the original model's performance while reducing MoE layer FLOPs by up to 85\\%, achieving up to 2.5times faster decoding and 1.4times higher throughput, demonstrating its effectiveness as a practical, plug-and-play solution for efficient MoE inference."
    },
    {
      "id": "2605.14454",
      "title": "LiSA: Lifelong Safety Adaptation via Conservative Policy Induction",
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.14454",
      "upvotes": 0,
      "summary": "As AI agents move from chat interfaces to systems that read private data, call tools, and execute multi-step workflows, guardrails become a last line of defense against concrete deployment harms. In these settings, guardrail failures are no longer merely answer-quality errors: they can leak secrets, authorize unsafe actions, or block legitimate work. The hardest failures are often contextual: whether an action is acceptable depends on local privacy norms, organizational policies, and user expectations that resist pre-deployment specification. This creates a practical gap: guardrails must adapt to their own operating environments, yet deployment feedback is typically limited to sparse, noisy user-reported failures, and repeated fine-tuning is often impractical. To address this gap, we propose LiSA (Lifelong Safety Adaptation), a conservative policy induction framework that improves a fixed base guardrail through structured memory. LiSA converts occasional failures into reusable policy abstractions so that sparse reports can generalize beyond individual cases, adds conflict-aware local rules to prevent overgeneralization in mixed-label contexts, and applies evidence-aware confidence gating via a posterior lower bound, so that memory reuse scales with accumulated evidence rather than empirical accuracy alone. Across PrivacyLens+, ConFaide+, and AgentHarm, LiSA consistently outperforms strong memory-based baselines under sparse feedback, remains robust under noisy user feedback even at 20% label-flip rates, and pushes the latency--performance frontier beyond backbone model scaling. Ultimately, LiSA offers a practical path to secure AI agents against the unpredictable long tail of real-world edge risks."
    },
    {
      "id": "2605.13852",
      "title": "Realiz3D: 3D Generation Made Photorealistic via Domain-Aware Learning",
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.13852",
      "upvotes": 0,
      "summary": "We often aim to generate images that are both photorealistic and 3D-consistent, adhering to precise geometry, material, and viewpoint controls. Typically, this is achieved by fine-tuning an image generator, pre-trained on billions of real images, using renders of synthetic 3D assets, where annotations for control signals are available. While this approach can learn the desired controls, it often compromises the realism of the images due to domain gap between photographs and renders. We observe that this issue largely arises from the model learning an unintended association between the presence of control signals and the synthetic appearance of the images. To address this, we introduce Realiz3D, a lightweight framework for training diffusion models, that decouples controls and visual domain. The key idea is to explicitly learn visual domain, real or synthetic, separately from other control signals by introducing a co-variate that, fed into small residual adapters, shifts the domain. Then, the generator can be trained to gain controllability, without fitting to specific visual domain. In this way, the model can be guided to produce realistic images even when controls are applied. We enhance control transferability to the real domain by leveraging insights about roles of different layers and denoising steps in diffusion-based generators, informing new training and inference strategies that further mitigate the gap. We demonstrate the advantages of Realiz3D in tasks as text-to-multiview generation and texturing from 3D inputs, producing outputs that are 3D-consistent and photorealistic."
    },
    {
      "id": "2605.14445",
      "title": "FrontierSmith: Synthesizing Open-Ended Coding Problems at Scale",
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.14445",
      "upvotes": 0,
      "summary": "Many real-world coding challenges are open-ended and admit no known optimal solution. Yet, recent progress in LLM coding has focused on well-defined tasks such as feature implementation, bug fixing, and competitive programming. Open-ended coding remains a weak spot for LLMs, largely because open-ended training problems are scarce and expensive to construct. Our goal is to synthesize open-ended coding problems at scale to train stronger LLM coders. We introduce FrontierSmith, an automated system for iteratively evolving open-ended problems from existing closed-ended coding tasks. Starting from competitive programming problems, FrontierSmith generates candidate open-ended variants by changing the problems'goals, restricting outputs, and generalizing inputs. It then uses a quantitative idea divergence metric to select problems that elicit genuinely diverse approaches from different solvers. Agents then generate test cases and verifiers for the surviving candidates. On two open-ended coding benchmarks, training on our synthesized data yields substantial gains over the base models: Qwen3.5-9B improves by +8.82 score on FrontierCS and +306.36 (Elo-rating-based performance) on ALE-bench; Qwen3.5-27B improves by +12.12 and +309.12, respectively. The synthesized problems also make agents take more turns and use more tokens, similar to human-curated ones, suggesting that closed-ended seeds can be a practical starting point for long-horizon coding data."
    },
    {
      "id": "2605.14068",
      "title": "CurveBench: A Benchmark for Exact Topological Reasoning over Nested Jordan Curves",
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.14068",
      "upvotes": 0,
      "summary": "We introduce CurveBench, a benchmark for hierarchical topological reasoning from visual input. CurveBench consists of 756 images of pairwise non-intersecting Jordan curves across easy, polygonal, topographic-inspired, maze-like, and dense counting configurations. Each image is annotated with a rooted tree encoding the containment relations between planar regions. We formulate the task as structured prediction: given an image, a model must recover the full rooted containment tree induced by the curves. Despite the visual simplicity of the task, the strongest evaluated model, Gemini 3.1 Pro, achieves only 71.1\\% tree-generation accuracy on CurveBench-Easy and 19.1\\% on CurveBench-Hard. We further demonstrate benchmark utility through RLVR-style fine-tuning of open-weight vision-language models. Our trained Qwen3-VL-8B model improves over Qwen-3-VL-8B-Thinking from 2.8\\% to 33.3\\% tree-generation accuracy on CurveBench-Easy, exceeding GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.5 under our evaluation protocol. The remaining gap, especially on CurveBench-Hard, shows that exact topology-aware visual reasoning remains far from solved."
    },
    {
      "id": "2605.11458",
      "title": "Adaptive Teacher Exposure for Self-Distillation in LLM Reasoning",
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.11458",
      "upvotes": 0,
      "summary": "On-policy self-distillation has become a strong recipe for LLM reasoning, where a privileged teacher supervises the student's own rollouts while conditioning on the reference solution. A design choice shared by nearly all such methods, however, has gone unquestioned: the teacher always sees the full reference reasoning. We argue that this default itself is part of the problem and identify a teacher-side exposure mismatch: when the teacher conditions on reasoning far beyond the student's current competence, the resulting token targets become too strong to absorb. A controlled fixed-exposure sweep makes this concrete on two fronts: 1) full exposure is not reliably the best choice, and 2) student-teacher mismatch grows monotonically as the teacher sees more privileged reasoning. This motivates treating teacher exposure not as a fixed hyperparameter but as a learnable training-time control variable. We therefore propose Adaptive Teacher Exposure for Self-Distillation (ATESD). ATESD models the reveal ratio with a lightweight Beta-policy controller conditioned on compact training-state statistics, and uses one sampled exposure for a short hold window of student updates. To make this exposure controller learnable, we optimize it with a discounted learning-progress reward that scores each held decision by its effect on the student's future improvement rather than its immediate loss change, addressing the delayed credit assignment induced by on-policy distillation. Experiments on AIME 24, AIME 25, and HMMT 25 across Qwen3-{1.7B, 4B, 8B} show that ATESD consistently outperforms competitive self-distillation and RL baselines, improving over OPSD by +0.95, +2.05, and +2.33 Average@12 points respectively, and establishing adaptive teacher exposure as an effective new axis for reasoning self-distillation."
    }
  ],
  "arxiv_papers": [
    {
      "id": "2605.15199v1",
      "title": "EntityBench: Towards Entity-Consistent Long-Range Multi-Shot Video Generation",
      "url": "http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15199v1",
      "summary": "Multi-shot video generation extends single-shot generation to coherent visual narratives, yet maintaining consistent characters, objects, and locations across shots remains a challenge over long sequences. Existing evaluations typically use independently generated prompt sets with limited entity coverage and simple consistency metrics, making standardized comparison difficult. We introduce EntityBench, a benchmark of 140 episodes (2,491 shots) derived from real narrative media, with explicit per-shot entity schedules tracking characters, objects, and locations simultaneously across easy / medium / hard tiers of up to 50 shots, 13 cross-shot characters, 8 cross-shot locations, 22 cross-shot objects, and recurrence gaps spanning up to 48 shots. It is paired with a three-pillar evaluation suite that disentangles intra-shot quality, prompt-following alignment, and cross-shot consistency, with a fidelity gate that admits only accurate entity appearances into cross-shot scoring. As a baseline, we propose EntityMem, a memory-augmented generation system that stores verified per-entity visual references in a persistent memory bank before generation begins. Experiments show that cross-shot entity consistency degrades sharply with recurrence distance in existing methods, and that explicit per-entity memory yields the highest character fidelity (Cohen's d = +2.33) and presence among methods evaluated. Code and data are available at https://github.com/Catherine-R-He/EntityBench/.",
      "authors": [
        "Ruozhen He",
        "Meng Wei",
        "Ziyan Yang",
        "Vicente Ordonez"
      ],
      "published": "2026-05-14T17:59:55+00:00"
    },
    {
      "id": "2605.15198v1",
      "title": "ATLAS: Agentic or Latent Visual Reasoning? One Word is Enough for Both",
      "url": "http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15198v1",
      "summary": "Visual reasoning, often interleaved with intermediate visual states, has emerged as a promising direction in the field. A straightforward approach is to directly generate images via unified models during reasoning, but this is computationally expensive and architecturally non-trivial. Recent alternatives include agentic reasoning through code or tool calls, and latent reasoning with learnable hidden embeddings. However, agentic methods incur context-switching latency from external execution, while latent methods lack task generalization and are difficult to train with autoregressive parallelization. To combine their strengths while mitigating their limitations, we propose ATLAS, a framework in which a single discrete 'word', termed as a functional token, serves both as an agentic operation and a latent visual reasoning unit. Each functional token is associated with an internalized visual operation, yet requires no visual supervision and remains a standard token in the tokenizer vocabulary, which can be generated via next-token prediction. This design avoids verbose intermediate visual content generation, while preserving compatibility with the vanilla scalable SFT and RL training, without architectural or methodological modifications. To further address the sparsity of functional tokens during RL, we introduce Latent-Anchored GRPO (LA-GRPO), which stabilizes the training by anchoring functional tokens with a statically weighted auxiliary objective, providing stronger gradient updates. Extensive experiments and analyses demonstrate that ATLAS achieves superior performance on challenging benchmarks while maintaining clear interpretability. We hope ATLAS offers a new paradigm inspiring future visual reasoning research.",
      "authors": [
        "Ziyu Guo",
        "Rain Liu",
        "Xinyan Chen",
        "Pheng-Ann Heng"
      ],
      "published": "2026-05-14T17:59:55+00:00"
    },
    {
      "id": "2605.15196v1",
      "title": "RefDecoder: Enhancing Visual Generation with Conditional Video Decoding",
      "url": "http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15196v1",
      "summary": "Video generation powers a vast array of downstream applications. However, while the de facto standard, i.e., latent diffusion models, typically employ heavily conditioned denoising networks, their decoders often remain unconditional. We observe that this architectural asymmetry leads to significant loss of detail and inconsistency relative to the input image. To address this, we argue that the decoder requires equal conditioning to preserve structural integrity. We introduce RefDecoder, a reference-conditioned video VAE decoder by injecting high-fidelity reference image signal directly into the decoding process via reference attention. Specifically, a lightweight image encoder maps the reference frame into the detail-rich high-dimensional tokens, which are co-processed with the denoised video latent tokens at each decoder up-sampling stage. We demonstrate consistent improvements across several distinct decoder backbones (e.g., Wan 2.1 and VideoVAE+), achieving up to +2.1dB PSNR over the unconditional baselines on the Inter4K, WebVid, and Large Motion reconstruction benchmarks. Notably, RefDecoder can be directly swapped into existing video generation systems without additional fine-tuning, and we report across-the-board improvements in subject consistency, background consistency, and overall quality scores on the VBench I2V benchmark. Beyond I2V, RefDecoder generalizes well to a wide range of visual generation tasks such as style transfer and video editing refinement.",
      "authors": [
        "Xiang Fan",
        "Yuheng Wang",
        "Bohan Fang",
        "Zhongzheng Ren",
        "Ranjay Krishna"
      ],
      "published": "2026-05-14T17:59:52+00:00"
    },
    {
      "id": "2605.15195v1",
      "title": "VGGT-$Ω$",
      "url": "http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15195v1",
      "summary": "Recent feed-forward reconstruction models, such as VGGT, have proven competitive with traditional optimization-based reconstructors while also providing geometry-aware features useful for other tasks. Here, we show that the quality of these models scales predictably with model and data size. We do so by introducing VGGT-$Ω$, which substantially improves reconstruction accuracy, efficiency, and capabilities for both static and dynamic scenes. To enable training this model at an unprecedented scale, we introduce architectural changes that improve training efficiency, a high-quality data annotation pipeline that supports dynamic scenes, and a self-supervised learning protocol. We simplify VGGT's architecture by using a single dense prediction head with multi-task supervision and removing the expensive high-resolution convolutional layers. We also use registers to aggregate scene information into a compact representation and introduce register attention, which restricts inter-frame information exchange to these registers, in part replacing global attention. In this way, during training, VGGT-$Ω$ uses only about 30% of the GPU memory of its predecessor, allowing us to train with 15x more supervised data than prior work and to leverage vast amounts of unlabeled video data. VGGT-$Ω$ achieves strong results for reconstruction of static and dynamic scenes across multiple benchmarks, for example, improving over the previous best camera estimation accuracy on Sintel by 77%. We also show that the learned registers can improve vision-language-action models and support alignment with language, suggesting that reconstruction can be a powerful and scalable proxy task for spatial understanding. Project Page: http://vggt-omega.github.io/",
      "authors": [
        "Jianyuan Wang",
        "Minghao Chen",
        "Shangzhan Zhang",
        "Nikita Karaev",
        "Johannes Schönberger",
        "Patrick Labatut",
        "Piotr Bojanowski",
        "David Novotny",
        "Andrea Vedaldi",
        "Christian Rupprecht"
      ],
      "published": "2026-05-14T17:59:51+00:00"
    },
    {
      "id": "2605.15193v1",
      "title": "Aligning Latent Geometry for Spherical Flow Matching in Image Generation",
      "url": "http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15193v1",
      "summary": "Latent flow matching for image generation usually transports Gaussian noise to variational autoencoder latents along linear paths. Both endpoints, however, concentrate in thin spherical shells, and a Euclidean chord leaves those shells even when preprocessing aligns their radii. By decomposing each latent token into radial and angular components, we show through component-swap probes that decoded perceptual and semantic content is carried predominantly by direction, with radius contributing much less. We therefore project data latents onto a fixed token radius, use the radial projection of Gaussian noise as the spherical prior, finetune the decoder with the encoder frozen, and replace linear interpolation with spherical linear interpolation. The resulting geodesic paths stay on the sphere at every timestep, and their velocity targets are purely angular by construction. Under matched training, the method consistently improves class-conditional ImageNet-256 FID across different image tokenizers, leaves the diffusion architecture unchanged, and requires no auxiliary encoder or representation-alignment objective.",
      "authors": [
        "Tuna Han Salih Meral",
        "Kaan Oktay",
        "Hidir Yesiltepe",
        "Adil Kaan Akan",
        "Pinar Yanardag"
      ],
      "published": "2026-05-14T17:59:37+00:00"
    },
    {
      "id": "2605.15190v1",
      "title": "RAVEN: Real-time Autoregressive Video Extrapolation with Consistency-model GRPO",
      "url": "http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15190v1",
      "summary": "Causal autoregressive video diffusion models support real-time streaming generation by extrapolating future chunks from previously generated content. Distilling such generators from high-fidelity bidirectional teachers yields competitive few-step models, yet a persistent gap between the history distributions encountered during training and those arising at inference constrains generation quality over long horizons. We introduce the Real-time Autoregressive Video Extrapolation Network (RAVEN), a training-time test framework that repacks each self rollout into an interleaved sequence of clean historical endpoints and noisy denoising states. This formulation aligns training attention with inference-time extrapolation and allows downstream chunk losses to supervise the history representations on which future predictions depend. We further propose Consistency-model Group Relative Policy Optimization (CM-GRPO), which reformulates a consistency sampling step as a conditional Gaussian transition and applies online Reinforcement Learning (RL) directly to this kernel, avoiding the Euler-Maruyama auxiliary process adopted in prior flow-model RL formulations. Experiments demonstrate that RAVEN surpasses recent causal video distillation baselines across quality, semantic, and dynamic degree evaluations, and that CM-GRPO provides further gains when combined with RAVEN.",
      "authors": [
        "Yanzuo Lu",
        "Ronglai Zuo",
        "Jiankang Deng"
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      "published": "2026-05-14T17:59:30+00:00"
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      "title": "FutureSim: Replaying World Events to Evaluate Adaptive Agents",
      "url": "http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15188v1",
      "summary": "AI agents are being increasingly deployed in dynamic, open-ended environments that require adapting to new information as it arrives. To efficiently measure this capability for realistic use-cases, we propose building grounded simulations that replay real-world events in the order they occurred. We build FutureSim, where agents forecast world events beyond their knowledge cutoff while interacting with a chronological replay of the world: real news articles arriving and questions resolving over the simulated period. We evaluate frontier agents in their native harness, testing their ability to predict world events over a three-month period from January to March 2026. FutureSim reveals a clear separation in their capabilities, with the best agent's accuracy being 25%, and many having worse Brier skill score than making no prediction at all. Through careful ablations, we show how FutureSim offers a realistic setting to study emerging research directions like long-horizon test-time adaptation, search, memory, and reasoning about uncertainty. Overall, we hope our benchmark design paves the way to measure AI progress on open-ended adaptation spanning long time-horizons in the real world.",
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        "Nikhil Chandak",
        "Arvindh Arun",
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        "Steffen Staab",
        "Moritz Hardt",
        "Maksym Andriushchenko",
        "Jonas Geiping"
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      "title": "Articraft: An Agentic System for Scalable Articulated 3D Asset Generation",
      "url": "http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15187v1",
      "summary": "A bottleneck in learning to understand articulated 3D objects is the lack of large and diverse datasets. In this paper, we propose to leverage large language models (LLMs) to close this gap and generate articulated assets at scale. We reduce the problem of generating an articulated 3D asset to that of writing a program that builds it. We then introduce a new agentic system, Articraft, that writes such programs automatically. We design a programmatic interface and harness to help the LLM do so effectively. The LLM writes code against a domain-specific SDK for defining parts, composing geometry, specifying joints, and writing tests to validate the resulting assets. The harness exposes a restricted workspace and interface to the LLM, validates the resulting assets, and returns structured feedback. In this way, the LLM is not distracted by details such as authoring a URDF file or managing a complex software environment. We show that this produces higher-quality assets than both state-of-the-art articulated-asset generators and general-purpose coding agents. Using Articraft, we build Articraft-10K, a curated dataset of over 10K articulated assets spanning 245 categories, and show its utility both for training models of articulated assets and in downstream applications such as robotics simulation and virtual reality.",
      "authors": [
        "Matt Zhou",
        "Ruining Li",
        "Xiaoyang Lyu",
        "Zhaomou Song",
        "Zhening Huang",
        "Chuanxia Zheng",
        "Christian Rupprecht",
        "Andrea Vedaldi",
        "Shangzhe Wu"
      ],
      "published": "2026-05-14T17:59:18+00:00"
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      "id": "2605.15186v1",
      "title": "VGGT-Edit: Feed-forward Native 3D Scene Editing with Residual Field Prediction",
      "url": "http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15186v1",
      "summary": "High-quality 3D scene reconstruction has recently advanced toward generalizable feed-forward architectures, enabling the generation of complex environments in a single forward pass. However, despite their strong performance in static scene perception, these models remain limited in responding to dynamic human instructions, which restricts their use in interactive applications. Existing editing methods typically rely on a 2D-lifting strategy, where individual views are edited independently and then lifted back into 3D space. This indirect pipeline often leads to blurry textures and inconsistent geometry, as 2D editors lack the spatial awareness required to preserve structure across viewpoints. To address these limitations, we propose VGGT-Edit, a feed-forward framework for text-conditioned native 3D scene editing. VGGT-Edit introduces depth-synchronized text injection to align semantic guidance with the backbone's spatial poses, ensuring stable instruction grounding. This semantic signal is then processed by a residual transformation head, which directly predicts 3D geometric displacements to deform the scene while preserving background stability. To ensure high-fidelity results, we supervise the framework with a multi-term objective function that enforces geometric accuracy and cross-view consistency. We also construct the DeltaScene Dataset, a large-scale dataset generated through an automated pipeline with 3D agreement filtering to ensure ground-truth quality. Experiments show that VGGT-Edit substantially outperforms 2D-lifting baselines, producing sharper object details, stronger multi-view consistency, and near-instant inference speed.",
      "authors": [
        "Kaixin Zhu",
        "Yiwen Tang",
        "Yifan Yang",
        "Renrui Zhang",
        "Bohan Zeng",
        "Ziyu Guo",
        "Ruichuan An",
        "Zhou Liu",
        "Qizhi Chen",
        "Delin Qu",
        "Jaehong Yoon",
        "Wentao Zhang"
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      "published": "2026-05-14T17:59:04+00:00"
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      "title": "Quantitative Video World Model Evaluation for Geometric-Consistency",
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      "summary": "Generative video models are increasingly studied as implicit world models, yet evaluating whether they produce physically plausible 3D structure and motion remains challenging. Most existing video evaluation pipelines rely heavily on human judgment or learned graders, which can be subjective and weakly diagnostic for geometric failures. We introduce PDI-Bench (Perspective Distortion Index), a quantitative framework for auditing geometric coherence in generated videos. Given a generated clip, we obtain object-centric observations via segmentation and point tracking (e.g., SAM 2, MegaSaM, and CoTracker3), lift them to 3D world-space coordinates via monocular reconstruction, and compute a set of projective-geometry residuals capturing three failure dimensions: scale-depth alignment, 3D motion consistency, and 3D structural rigidity. To support systematic evaluation, we build PDI-Dataset, covering diverse scenarios designed to stress these geometric constraints. Across state-of-the-art video generators, PDI reveals consistent geometry-specific failure modes that are not captured by common perceptual metrics, and provides a diagnostic signal for progress toward physically grounded video generation and physical world model. Our code and dataset can be found at https://pdi-bench.github.io/.",
      "authors": [
        "Jiaxin Wu",
        "Yihao Pi",
        "Yinling Zhang",
        "Yuheng Li",
        "Xueyan Zou"
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      "published": "2026-05-14T17:59:04+00:00"
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