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Yuhan Chen

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arXiv2026

From Sparse and Imperfect 2D Anchors to Consistent 3D Gaussian Street Scenes: Support-Aware Appearance

Image priors can synthesize target conditions for 3D Gaussian street scenes, but independently edited views do not define a coherent 3D target. Direct fitting can propagate view-specific noise, while existing pipelines do not jointly handle imperfect sparse anchors and standard-rasterizer deployment. To address this gap, teacher-relative appearance residual distillation is introduced for appearance baking. A structured space for frequency decomposition, confidence estimation, and primitive-level lifting is formed by residuals between teacher anchors and original renders. The direct optimization signal is supplied by renderer-space matching, while primitive assignment is regularized by support-aware Gaussian-space aggregation. Supported detail is admitted and unsupported noise is suppressed through confidence-gated coarse-to-fine optimization, after which all residuals are baked into fixed-geometry spherical-harmonic coefficients. The teacher and auxiliary training modules are discarded at inference. Evaluation across Waymo street assets, Tanks and Temples scenes, and multiple target conditions shows a favorable overall balance of target alignment, content preservation, artifact suppression, and cross-view consistency over editing-based baselines. Ablations confirm the effectiveness of the main components. Code will be released at https://github.com/Cagares/Baking-for-3D-Gaussian.

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arXiv2026

Gaussian Light Field Splatting: A Physical Prior-Driven Vision Transformer for Unsupervised Low-Light Image Enhancement

Existing unsupervised low-light image enhancement methods often encounter local exposure imbalance and color distortion under complex non-uniform illumination. In addition, most Vision Transformers lack an explicit mechanism for modeling the physical priors of illumination degradation. To address these limitations, we propose GLFS, a Gaussian light field splatting-based Vision Transformer that integrates continuous physical illumination modeling from Gaussian splatting into the Transformer architecture. In GLFS, scene illumination is represented by a superposition of anisotropic Gaussian basis functions. Physics-guided biases are introduced into self-attention to adaptively infer a spatial gain field, enabling accurate and uniform restoration under complex illumination. To reduce color bias and structural degradation during enhancement, a color-vector angular loss and a luminance-edge loss are further developed. These losses enforce hue consistency and improve the structural fidelity of local details. Extensive ablation studies and quantitative evaluations show that GLFS provides clear advantages in illumination correction and detail preservation. It achieves state-of-the-art performance and offers a new representation paradigm for low-light image enhancement.

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arXiv2026

AIGS-Net: Compact Illumination Field Modeling via 2D Gaussian Splatting for Fast Low-Light Image Enhancement

Existing low-light image enhancement methods often face a bottleneck between the representation capacity of illumination-field modeling and computational complexity. To address this issue, this paper proposes an Adaptive Illumination Gaussian Splatting Network (AIGS-Net), an ultra-lightweight architecture for fast low-light enhancement. Unlike conventional static priors, AIGS-Net constructs an input-adaptive 2D Gaussian Splatting illumination field. The opacity of Gaussian basis functions is dynamically modulated by relative luminance statistics of the input image, and spatially varying illumination compensation is rendered through ordered alpha compositing. To guide adaptive illumination compensation efficiently, a zero-parameter nonlinear multiscale contextual encoding module is introduced to extract low-frequency structures and local contrast cues without additional convolutional weights. To suppress noise amplification and sensor-induced color bias, AIGS-Net integrates noise-mask estimation, locked single-channel Gamma mapping, cross-channel consistency regularization, and target color-alignment constraints. Experiments on LOL and LSRW benchmarks show that AIGS-Net improves detail recovery and color fidelity while requiring only approximately 40 learnable parameters, achieving an effective trade-off between enhancement quality and extreme inference efficiency.

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arXiv2026

Continuous Splatting meets Retinex: Continuous Gaussian Splatting and Implicit Reflectance Modeling for Low-Light Image Enhancement

Low-light image enhancement aims to recover clear images from low-illumination observations and is crucial for high-level downstream vision tasks. However, existing methods frequently encounter color distortion and structural artifacts when balancing global smooth illumination adjustment and local high-frequency detail recovery. To address these issues, we propose CGS-Retinex as the first low-light image enhancement framework based on explicit-implicit joint modeling. Our framework deeply integrates continuous Gaussian splatting with Retinex theory. Specifically, we represent the image grid as a continuous parameter field and propose a continuous Gaussian renderer to estimate the spatially continuous global illumination distribution. This approach fundamentally eliminates grid artifacts caused by discrete Gaussian sampling. Furthermore, we introduce an implicit neural representation to model reflectance independently. We leverage shallow high-frequency features to guide the network in accurately reconstructing degraded texture details. Within the Retinex framework, we incorporate physics-inspired brightness consistency constraints and illumination smoothness regularization to enable explicit illumination and implicit reflectance to maintain proper exposure and achieve high-fidelity recovery of high-frequency structures and colors. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CGS-Retinex significantly suppresses dark-region noise and overexposure while achieving exceptional high-frequency structural fidelity and color restoration by precisely decoupling illumination and texture. This work establishes a novel continuous physical representation paradigm for low-light image enhancement.

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arXiv2026

Dehaze-GaussianImage: Zero-Shot Dehazing via Efficient 2D Gaussian Splatting Representation

Existing single image dehazing methods are often constrained by computational redundancy in pixel-level optimization and the lack of physical interpretability in implicit neural networks. These limitations hinder the balance between representation efficiency and reconstruction fidelity. To address these issues, we propose Dehaze-GaussianImage, the first zero-shot framework that introduces 2D Gaussian Splatting (2DGS) into the image dehazing domain to break the traditional pixel-grid processing paradigm. Distinct from static convolutional neural networks (CNNs) or Transformers, our approach models hazy images as continuous and dynamically evolvable anisotropic Gaussian fields. Specifically, we propose a novel reconstruction-decoupling zero-shot learning strategy that embeds the atmospheric scattering model into the Gaussian parameter space. This strategy drives Gaussian primitives to adaptively split, clone, and prune during optimization, achieving geometric-level decoupling of the transmission medium and clear textures. Furthermore, explicit structure-preserving constraints are introduced to suppress artifacts commonly caused by traditional physical priors. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance in a fully unsupervised manner with minimal parameters, highlighting the potential of explicit Gaussian representation for low-level vision tasks.

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arXiv2026

Fi-Gaussian: Frequency-Aware Implicit Gaussian Splatting for Single Image Dehazing

Single image dehazing continues to be hindered by the loss of high-frequency details and the difficulty of accurate physical scattering modeling. To address these issues, we propose Fi-Gaussian, a frequency-aware implicit Gaussian splatting network for single image dehazing. Unlike explicit rendering methods that rely on 3D point clouds, our method employs implicit Gaussian splatting to adaptively model the underlying distribution of clear images as a continuous representation in 2D feature space. The core of the network is a frequency-aware implicit Gaussian splatting module, which decouples low-frequency structural information and high-frequency texture information in the frequency domain and then performs adaptive Gaussian aggregation with complex-valued weights to recover fine details. In addition, a physics-driven scattering renormalization mechanism is introduced to estimate the transmission map and atmospheric light under the guidance of implicit Gaussian priors. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmark datasets demonstrate that Fi-Gaussian achieves state-of-the-art quantitative performance and produces visually superior dehazed results, validating the effectiveness of implicit Gaussian splatting for low-level vision tasks.

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arXiv2026

CFRNet: Cycle-Consistent Fixed-Point Training for Real-Time Blind Face Restoration on Consumer Embedded NPUs

Blind face restoration on consumer devices has to balance image quality against speed and memory. Strong methods such as GFPGAN and CodeFormer give good perceptual quality, but they rely on large pretrained generative priors and on operators such as attention, codebook lookup, and style modulation that are hard to compile and quantize on the small neural processing units (NPUs) used in consumer hardware. Small convolutional restorers run fast enough, but they tend to over-smooth and to leave artifacts around the eyes, nose, and mouth. We present CFRNet, a 2.0,M-parameter ResNet-style restorer for on-device use at $256\times256$, the common face-crop size on consumer NPUs. The main idea is Cycle-Consistent Fixed-Point Training (CCFP). Instead of training the network for one pass and then running it several times by hand, we train it to act as a fixed-point operator, so that applying it again to a restored face does not change the face. CCFP uses three training losses, namely progressive multi-cycle supervision, an idempotence loss, and a re-degradation cycle loss, and it adds no cost at inference. To compare fairly under our deployment limits, we retrain all baselines from scratch at the same $256\times256$ resolution. On a 300-image test set, CFRNet reaches the best perceptual score (LPIPS 0.250 at three cycles, which is 31% lower than one cycle) and also the best PSNR and SSIM at two cycles. It runs in about 23,ms per cycle in INT8 on a HiSilicon Hi3402 NPU, while the same baselines cannot be compiled to that chip. The cycle count $k$ acts as a simple quality knob that needs no retraining: PSNR is best at $k\!=\!2$ and LPIPS keeps improving up to $k\!=\!3$. We further show that the same idea works with a plain CNN that is even easier to deploy, and we run the model in real time on an in-car driver-monitoring board.

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arXiv2026

Towards Brain MRI Foundation Models for the Clinic: Findings from the FOMO25 Challenge

Clinical deployment of automated brain MRI analysis faces a fundamental challenge: clinical data is heterogeneous and noisy, and high-quality labels are prohibitively costly to obtain. Self-supervised learning (SSL) can address this by leveraging the vast amounts of unlabeled data produced in clinical workflows to train robust \textit{foundation models} that adapt out-of-domain with minimal supervision. However, the development of foundation models for brain MRI has been limited by small pretraining datasets and in-domain benchmarking focused on high-quality, research-grade data. To address this gap, we organized the FOMO25 challenge as a satellite event at MICCAI 2025. FOMO25 provided participants with a large pretraining dataset, FOMO60K, and evaluated models on data sourced directly from clinical workflows in few-shot and out-of-domain settings. Tasks covered infarct classification, meningioma segmentation, and brain age regression, and considered both models trained on FOMO60K (method track) and any data (open track). Nineteen foundation models from sixteen teams were evaluated using a standardized containerized pipeline. Results show that (a) self-supervised pretraining improves generalization on clinical data under domain shift, with the strongest models trained \textit{out-of-domain} surpassing supervised baselines trained \textit{in-domain}. (b) No single pretraining objective benefits all tasks: MAE favors segmentation, hybrid reconstruction-contrastive objectives favor classification, and (c) strong performance was achieved by small pretrained models, and improvements from scaling model size and training duration did not yield reliable benefits.

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arXiv2026

How Mobile World Model Guides GUI Agents?

Recent advances in vision-language models have enabled mobile GUI agents to perceive visual interfaces and execute user instructions, but reliable prediction of action consequences remains critical for long-horizon and high-risk interactions. Existing mobile world models provide either text-based or image-based future states, yet it remains unclear which representation is useful, whether generated rollouts can replace real environments, and how test-time guidance helps agents of different strengths. To answer the above questions, we filter and annotate mobile world-model data, then train world models across four modalities: delta text, full text, diffusion-based images, and renderable code. These models achieve SoTA performance on both MobileWorldBench and Code2WorldBench. Furthermore, by evaluating their downstream utility on AITZ, AndroidControl, and AndroidWorld, we obtain three findings. First, renderable code reconstruction achieves high in-distribution fidelity and provides effective multimodal supervision for data construction, while text-based feedback is more robust for online out-of-distribution (OOD) execution. Second, world-model-generated trajectories can provide transferable interaction experience in the training process and improve agents' end-to-end task performance, although these data do not preserve the original distribution. Last, for overconfident mobile agents with low action entropy, posterior self-reflection provides limited gains, suggesting that world models are more effective as prior perception or training supervision than as universal post-hoc verifiers.

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arXiv2026

Experiment-as-Code Labs: A Declarative Stack for AI-Driven Scientific Discovery

To unleash the full potential of AI for Science, we must untether the agents from a purely digital environment. The agent's ability to control and explore in real-world labs is essential because the physical lab remains foundational to scientific discovery. While some tasks can be performed on a computer (e.g., data analysis, running simulated experiments), Eureka moments could occur at any time while operating lab instruments (e.g., when a scientist notices unexpected clues, intuition may prompt a real-time course change). Although autonomous labs are on the rise, which expose programmable APIs to control scientific instruments via software, bridging the gap between increasingly powerful AI agents and automated lab equipment requires innovation that draws insights from computer systems. We propose a new paradigm called ``Experiment-as-Code (EaC) Labs,'' where a core concept is to encode experiments as declarative configurations that can be compiled down to device-level APIs. AI agents come up with hypotheses and experiments, written as an ensemble of declarative configurations. The systems layer performs program analysis, safety checks, resource assignment, and job orchestration. Finally, programmatic experimentation occurs via actuating the device APIs. This is a general stack that is science-, lab-, and instrument-independent, representing a novel synthesis across the physical, systems, and intelligence layers to unleash the next breakthrough in AI for Science.

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arXiv2026

Rethinking Expert Trajectory Utilization in LLM Post-training for Mathematical Reasoning

Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) dominate the post-training landscape for mathematical reasoning, yet differ fundamentally in their reliance on expert trajectories. To understand the optimal way to harness these trajectories for maximizing performance, we propose the Plasticity-Ceiling Framework. This framework empirically grounds the post-training landscape by decomposing the final performance ceiling into the foundational SFT performance and the subsequent RL plasticity (i.e., the maximum improvement via RL). Through extensive benchmarking, we establish the Sequential SFT-then-RL pipeline as the superior standard, overcoming the stability and premature convergence deficits inherent in synchronized approaches. Furthermore, we derive precise scaling guidelines: (1) Transitioning to RL at the Stable or Mild Overfitting Regime of SFT maximizes the final ceiling by securing a robust SFT foundation with substantial RL plasticity; (2) Refuting the ``Less is More'' hypothesis in SFT-then-RL scaling, we demonstrate that Data Scale determines the primary post-training potential, while Trajectory Difficulty acts as a performance multiplier; and (3) The Minimum Validation Loss of SFT serves as a reliable indicator for selecting the expert trajectories that maximize the ultimate performance ceiling. Our findings provide actionable guidelines for extracting maximum value from expert trajectories.

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arXiv2026

Rethinking Low-Light Image Enhancement: A Log-Domain Intensity--Chromaticity Decoupling Perspective

Explicit reconstruction constraints derived from the decoupled representation are further imposed to suppress abnormal channel amplification and chromatic noise. Experiments on LOLv2-Real, MIT-Adobe FiveK, and LSRW show that the proposed method achieves competitive or superior quantitative and visual performance, reaching 29.71 dB PSNR and 0.89 SSIM on LOLv2-Real. DarkFace experiments further indicate improved downstream face detection under low-light conditions. Code and pretrained models are available at: https://github.com/mubaisam/ICD.

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arXiv2026

Foundation Models for Discovery and Exploration in Chemical Space

Accurate prediction of atomistic, thermodynamic, and kinetic properties from molecular structures underpins materials innovation. Existing computational and experimental approaches lack the scalability required to navigate chemical space efficiently. Scientific foundation models trained on large unlabelled datasets offer a path towards navigating chemical space across application domains. Here, we develop MIST, a family of molecular foundation models with up to an order of magnitude more parameters and data than prior works. Trained using a novel tokenizer, Smirk, which comprehensively captures nuclear, electronic, and geometric information, MIST learns a diverse range of molecules. MIST models have been fine-tuned to predict more than 400 structure-property relationships and have been shown to match or exceed state-of-the-art performance across diverse benchmarks, from physiology to electrochemistry. We demonstrate the ability of these models to solve real-world problems across chemical space from multiobjective electrolyte solvent screening to stereochemical reasoning for organometallics and mixture property prediction. The clearest demonstration of a foundation model is its ability to solve problems that were neither explicit targets of training nor central to the intentions of its developers. We identify olfactory perception mapping as such a problem, and show that MIST accurately predicted scent profiles and learned a hierarchical representation of olfactory space consistent with hyperbolic geometry. We formulated hyperparameter aware Bayesian neural scaling laws which eliminate the need for hyperparameter sweeps at every scale, making training large compute-optimal models feasible on a limited compute budget. The methods and findings presented here represent a significant step towards accelerating materials discovery, design, and optimization using foundation models.

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arXiv2026

EagleNet: Energy-Aware Fine-Grained Relationship Learning Network for Text-Video Retrieval

Text-video retrieval tasks have seen significant improvements due to the recent development of large-scale vision-language pre-trained models. Traditional methods primarily focus on video representations or cross-modal alignment, while recent works shift toward enriching text expressiveness to better match the rich semantics in videos. However, these methods use only interactions between text and frames/video, and ignore rich interactions among the internal frames within a video, so the final expanded text cannot capture frame contextual information, leading to disparities between text and video. In response, we introduce Energy-Aware Fine-Grained Relationship Learning Network (EagleNet) to generate accurate and context-aware enriched text embeddings. Specifically, the proposed Fine-Grained Relationship Learning mechanism (FRL) first constructs a text-frame graph by the generated text candidates and frames, then learns relationships among texts and frames, which are finally used to aggregate text candidates into an enriched text embedding that incorporates frame contextual information. To further improve fine-grained relationship learning in FRL, we design Energy-Aware Matching (EAM) to model the energy of text-frame interactions and thus accurately capture the distribution of real text-video pairs. Moreover, for more effective cross-modal alignment and stable training, we replace the conventional softmax-based contrastive loss with the sigmoid loss. Extensive experiments have demonstrated the superiority of EagleNet across MSRVTT, DiDeMo, MSVD, and VATEX. Codes are available at https://github.com/draym28/EagleNet.

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arXiv2026

Leader-following Consensus over Jointly Connected Switching Networks is Achievable for Exponentially Unstable Linear Systems

The leader-following consensus problem for general linear multi-agent systems over jointly connected switching networks has been a challenging problem and the solvability of the problem has been limited to the class of linear multi-agent systems whose system matrix is marginally stable. This condition is restrictive since it even excludes the most commonly used double-integrator system. This paper presents a breakthrough by demonstrating that leader-following exponential consensus is achievable for general linear multi-agent systems over jointly connected switching networks, even when the system matrix is exponentially unstable. The degree of instability can be explicitly characterized by two key quantities that arise from the jointly connected condition on a switching graph. By exploiting duality, we further show that the output-based distributed observer design problem for a general leader system is solvable over jointly connected switching networks, even when the system matrix is exponentially unstable. This is also in sharp contrast to the existing distributed observers, which rely on the assumption that the leader system is marginally stable.

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DST-Net: A Dual-Stream Transformer with Illumination-Independent Feature Guidance and Multi-Scale Spatial Convolution for Low-Light Image Enhancement

Low-light image enhancement aims to restore the visibility of images captured by visual sensors in dim environments by addressing their inherent signal degradations, such as luminance attenuation and structural corruption. Although numerous algorithms attempt to improve image quality, existing methods often cause a severe loss of intrinsic signal priors. To overcome these challenges, we propose a Dual-Stream Transformer Network (DST-Net) based on illumination-agnostic signal prior guidance and multi-scale spatial convolutions. First, to address the loss of critical signal features under low-light conditions, we design a feature extraction module. This module integrates Difference of Gaussians (DoG), LAB color space transformations, and VGG-16 for texture extraction, utilizing decoupled illumination-agnostic features as signal priors to continuously guide the enhancement process. Second, we construct a dual-stream interaction architecture. By employing a cross-modal attention mechanism, the network leverages the extracted priors to dynamically rectify the deteriorated signal representation of the enhanced image, ultimately achieving iterative enhancement through differentiable curve estimation. Furthermore, to overcome the inability of existing methods to preserve fine structures and textures, we propose a Multi-Scale Spatial Fusion Block (MSFB) featuring pseudo-3D and 3D gradient operator convolutions. This module integrates explicit gradient operators to recover high-frequency edges while capturing inter-channel spatial correlations via multi-scale spatial convolutions. Extensive evaluations and ablation studies demonstrate that DST-Net achieves superior performance in subjective visual quality and objective metrics. Specifically, our method achieves a PSNR of 25.64 dB on the LOL dataset. Subsequent validation on the LSRW dataset further confirms its robust cross-scene generalization.

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arXiv2026

Diagnosing and Repairing Citation Failures in Generative Engine Optimization

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) aims to improve content visibility in AI-generated responses. However, existing methods measure contribution-how much a document influences a response-rather than citation, the mechanism that actually drives traffic back to creators. Also, these methods apply generic rewriting rules uniformly, failing to diagnose why individual document are not cited. This paper introduces a diagnostic approach to GEO that asks why a document fails to be cited and intervenes accordingly. We develop a unified framework comprising: (1) the first taxonomy of citation failure modes spanning different stages of a citation pipeline; (2) AgentGEO, an agentic system that diagnoses failures using this taxonomy, selects targeted repairs from a corresponding tool library, and iterates until citation is achieved; and (3) a document-centric benchmark evaluating whether optimizations generalize across held-out queries. AgentGEO achieves over 40% relative improvement in citation rates while modifying only 5% of content, compared to 25% for baselines. Our analysis reveals that generic optimization can harm long-tail content and some documents face challenges that optimization alone cannot fully address-findings with implications for equitable visibility in AI-mediated information access.

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arXiv2026

A GPU-Accelerated Transient Detection Pipeline for DECam Time-Domain Surveys

We present a GPU-accelerated transient detection pipeline developed for time-domain surveys with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam). It enables real-time-capable image processing, incorporating science-driven candidate filtering to support rapid transient identification in time-critical observing programs. The pipeline serves as the core transient discovery engine for multiple long-term DECam programs, including the GW-MMADS gravitational-wave follow-up campaign and the DESIRT survey for intermediate-redshift transients with DESI synergy. The pipeline ingests calibrated imaging products from the DECam Community Pipeline and performs image differencing using the SFFT algorithm, coupled with CNN-based real-bogus classification, to produce science-ready transient alerts and light curves that are delivered to community brokers. We validate the pipeline using archival DECam data from the DESIRT survey. The real-bogus classifier achieves a completeness of $\sim$ 99\% of real transients while rejecting $\sim$ 96\% of subtraction artifacts, and the workflow typically reduces the candidate load to a manageable level for survey operations. With GPU acceleration, the typical processing time per DECam exposure is $\sim$ 50 s from calibrated image processing to alert generation using a modest allocation of computing resources.

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