arXiv · 2609.20623
PhGS: Post-Hoc Pruning and Refinement of Single-View Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Reconstructions
Abstract
Recent single-view feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) generation predicts a fixed number of Gaussians per camera ray, introducing severe spatial redundancy. Most existing compaction strategies target multi-view setups to exploit cross-view consistency and are incompatible with single-image models. Instead of retraining the base feed-forward network to directly output compact representations, our insight is to keep the base models frozen and apply post-hoc pruning and recurrent refinement to the generated Gaussians. Consequently, we propose a backbone-agnostic compaction pipeline for single-view feed-forward 3DGS that couples an importance-score-based pruning mechanism with a trainable, lightweight recurrent refinement module, which iteratively updates the surviving primitives to restore image quality. Our results demonstrate seamless integration with existing baselines while preserving novel-view rendering fidelity and achieving high memory reduction. Furthermore, our method supports flexible inference-time keep ratios for application needs.
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Rinto Yagawa, Han Cheng, Dieter Schmalstieg, Hideo Saito, Shohei Mori. 2026-09-17. PhGS: Post-Hoc Pruning and Refinement of Single-View Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Reconstructions. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20623
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