The Inverse Heat Mean Flow is introduced, a general-purpose solver that is compatible with a wide range of model backbones that directly learns an average velocity field through an inverse heat formul ation, thereby simplifying trajectory learning and enabling adaptive topological alignment.
Unified multimodal retrieval aims to build a single system capable of handling diverse modalities, tasks, and domains. While recent approaches leveraging multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown promise, they face a fundamental dilemma between capacity and interference: scaling dense models improves semantic understanding but incurs prohibitive inference costs, while training a single shared parameter space on heterogeneous data leads to severe gradient conflicts and negative transfer. In this work, we propose Retrv-MoE, a unified retrieval architecture built upon sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE). Unlike dense retrievers that activate all parameters for every input, Retrv-MoE employs learnable routers to dynamically select a small subset of experts for each token. We theoretically and empirically demonstrate that this conditional computation mechanism provides a structural remedy to optimization interference by decoupling the learning trajectories of conflicting tasks and domains into specialized expert subspaces. Extensive evaluations on the M-BEIR benchmark reveal that Retrv-MoE achieves a superior trade-off between efficiency and performance. It significantly outperforms efficiency-oriented baselines and matches the retrieval quality of 7B-parameter dense models while utilizing about 3 billion active parameters. Furthermore, our analysis confirms that the router exhibits emergent specialization, effectively mitigating negative transfer and enabling robust zero-shot generalization to unseen datasets and video retrieval tasks.
Tongxu Lin, Jiayin Xiao· Proceedings of the 32nd ACM...· 0 citations
Multi-exposure fusion (MEF) expands the luminance range beyond what a single exposure can capture. Combining images taken at different exposure levels requires handling geometric differences while naturally merging their complementary brightness information. It often demands generative completion where details are missing. Diffusion-based generative methods address these challenges, however, they are computationally expensive and struggle to preserve fine structures in saturated regions. We propose LIIFusion, a coarse-to-fine framework that balances fusion quality and efficiency in generative MEF. The coarse stage performs low resolution generative fusion, enhanced by an adaptive exposure correction that recovers structure lost in saturated over-exposed areas. The fine stage adapts a local implicit image function into a multi-exposure fusion function: conditioned on the HR OE/UE sources and the coarse output, it queries arbitrary target coordinates and fuses source evidence regardless of the HR input resolution. LIIFusion achieves up to 3.5$\times$ speed-up over existing generative methods while maintaining or improving structural fidelity and perceptual quality. We believe this framework provides an effective pathway toward making generative MEF more practical in real-world applications.
Sangmin Han, Jin-Ho Kim, Jinwoo Kim et al.· 0 citations
The future of World Models depends not only on scaling model capability, but also on scaling practicality and inference efficiency. High-frame-rate inference enables responsive perception, planning, and control in real-world autonomous systems. To this end, we present MoWorld, a cost-effective yet high-performance Flash World Model with an end-to-end framework spanning data generation, pre-training, distillation, and efficient inference, enabling up to 50 FPS real-time interaction with cinematic visual quality without the need of high-end GPUs. To enable large-scale real-world deployment, MoWorld jointly optimizes model capability and cost throughout the entire development pipeline. Specifically, unlike existing approaches that primarily rely on large-scale video corpora, MoWorld is built upon a scalable 3D-native data engine accumulated from our large-scale 3D vision and generative modeling pipeline, enabling the efficient construction of geometrically consistent training data across diverse real-world and synthetic environments. Based on this foundation, a curriculum cross-frame pre-training strategy for stable and scalable World Model learning, an efficient denoising-step distillation algorithm to reduce diffusion training cost, and a mixed-precision parallel inference framework for low-cost real-time deployment. MoWorld is the first real-time interactive World Model built on the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) and can achieves up to 50 FPS in such the devices, enabling practical and efficient deployment at scale. Comprehensive evaluations demonstrate that MoWorld achieves leading performance; notably, its average inference cost is only 30\%-50\% of that of existing World Models, providing a practical foundation for large-scale real-world applications of World Models. We also demonstrate diverse applications of MoWorld.
Team Moxin, Deyi Ji, Tianrun Chen et al.· 1 citation
While data curation for Vision Language Models (VLMs) is increasingly active, public practice for constructing pretraining mixtures remains largely heuristic: practitioners stack datasets that pass quality filters, set cross-domain ratios by intuition, and lack a principled, attributable criterion for admitting new data, while frontier recipes remain undisclosed. We formulate data construction as a systematic mixture-optimization problem and turn it into a reproducible engineering discipline by decoupling the mixture into two orthogonal sub-problems: inter-class ratios across capabilities and intra-class ratios within a category. For inter-class allocation, we use a single-variable iterative search; for intra-class composition, we apply a multidimensional, dataset-level assessment scoring Quality and Difficulty, and formulate selection as a constrained convex optimization with a diversity objective. The DecoupleMix framework delivers two critical capabilities: guiding what data to collect next and rendering dataset validation a controlled, attributable experiment. Experiments show our approach consistently surpasses heuristic baselines. Moreover, optimal ratios discovered on small-scale proxies transfer seamlessly to larger scales without retuning. Using 80B additional multimodal continue-pretraining tokens, our VLM is competitive with strong open-source models trained with substantially larger multimodal budgets.
Jiahao Xie, Zhongbin Guo, Qianle Wang et al.· 0 citations
TASSO, a new paradigm that efficiently preserves the latent space geometry while ensuring network plasticity, is introduced with two complementary techniques: subspace learning and geometry-aware knowledge distillation.
Changming Sun, Francesco Barbato, Matteo Caligiuri et al.· 0 citations