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Information-Regularized Constrained Inversion for Stable Avatar Editing from Sparse Supervision

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-04-06 v1

Abstract

Editing animatable human avatars typically relies on sparse supervision, often a few edited keyframes, yet naively fitting a reconstructed avatar to these edits frequently causes identity leakage and pose-dependent temporal flicker. We argue that these failures are best understood as an ill-conditioned inversion: the available edited constraints do not sufficiently determine the latent directions responsible for the intended edit. We propose a conditioning-guided edited reconstruction framework that performs editing as a constrained inversion in a structured avatar latent space, restricting updates to a low-dimensional, part-specific edit subspace to prevent unintended identity changes. Crucially, we design the editing constraints during inversion by optimizing a conditioning objective derived from a local linearization of the full decoding-and-rendering pipeline, yielding an edit-subspace information matrix whose spectrum predicts stability and drives frame reweighting / keyframe activation. The resulting method operates on small subspace matrices and can be implemented efficiently (e.g., via Hessian-vector products), and improves stability under limited edited supervision.

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@article{arxiv.2604.02883,
  title  = {Information-Regularized Constrained Inversion for Stable Avatar Editing from Sparse Supervision},
  author = {Zhenxiao Liang and Qixing Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.02883},
  year   = {2026}
}
R2 v1 2026-07-01T11:52:36.116Z