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Matteo Bonotto

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ARC-AGI-2 Technical Report

The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) is designed to assess generalization beyond pattern matching, requiring models to infer symbolic rules from very few examples. In this work, we present a transformer-based system that advances ARC performance by combining neural inference with structure-aware priors and online task adaptation. Our approach is built on four key ideas. First, we reformulate ARC reasoning as a sequence modeling problem using a compact task encoding with only 125 tokens, enabling efficient long-context processing with a modified LongT5 architecture. Second, we introduce a principled augmentation framework based on group symmetries, grid traversals, and automata perturbations, enforcing invariance to representation changes. Third, we apply test-time training (TTT) with lightweight LoRA adaptation, allowing the model to specialize to each unseen task by learning its transformation logic from demonstrations. Fourth, we design a symmetry-aware decoding and scoring pipeline that aggregates likelihoods across augmented task views, effectively performing ``multi-perspective reasoning'' over candidate solutions. We demonstrate that these components work synergistically: augmentations expand hypothesis space, TTT sharpens local reasoning, and symmetry-based scoring improves solution consistency. Our final system achieves a significant improvement over transformer baselines and surpasses prior neural ARC solvers, closing the gap toward human-level generalization.

cs.CL

CombiNeRF: A Combination of Regularization Techniques for Few-Shot Neural Radiance Field View Synthesis

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have shown impressive results for novel view synthesis when a sufficiently large amount of views are available. When dealing with few-shot settings, i.e. with a small set of input views, the training could overfit those views, leading to artifacts and geometric and chromatic inconsistencies in the resulting rendering. Regularization is a valid solution that helps NeRF generalization. On the other hand, each of the most recent NeRF regularization techniques aim to mitigate a specific rendering problem. Starting from this observation, in this paper we propose CombiNeRF, a framework that synergically combines several regularization techniques, some of them novel, in order to unify the benefits of each. In particular, we regularize single and neighboring rays distributions and we add a smoothness term to regularize near geometries. After these geometric approaches, we propose to exploit Lipschitz regularization to both NeRF density and color networks and to use encoding masks for input features regularization. We show that CombiNeRF outperforms the state-of-the-art methods with few-shot settings in several publicly available datasets. We also present an ablation study on the LLFF and NeRF-Synthetic datasets that support the choices made. We release with this paper the open-source implementation of our framework.

cs.CV

Learning to Segment Human Body Parts with Synthetically Trained Deep Convolutional Networks

This paper presents a new framework for human body part segmentation based on Deep Convolutional Neural Networks trained using only synthetic data. The proposed approach achieves cutting-edge results without the need of training the models with real annotated data of human body parts. Our contributions include a data generation pipeline, that exploits a game engine for the creation of the synthetic data used for training the network, and a novel pre-processing module, that combines edge response maps and adaptive histogram equalization to guide the network to learn the shape of the human body parts ensuring robustness to changes in the illumination conditions. For selecting the best candidate architecture, we perform exhaustive tests on manually annotated images of real human body limbs. We further compare our method against several high-end commercial segmentation tools on the body parts segmentation task. The results show that our method outperforms the other models by a significant margin. Finally, we present an ablation study to validate our pre-processing module. With this paper, we release an implementation of the proposed approach along with the acquired datasets.

cs.CV