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RnG: A Unified Transformer for Complete 3D Modeling from Partial Observations

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-03-03 v1

Abstract

Human perceive the 3D world through 2D observations from limited viewpoints. While recent feed-forward generalizable 3D reconstruction models excel at recovering 3D structures from sparse images, their representations are often confined to observed regions, leaving unseen geometry un-modeled. This raises a key, fundamental challenge: Can we infer a complete 3D structure from partial 2D observations? We present RnG (Reconstruction and Generation), a novel feed-forward Transformer that unifies these two tasks by predicting an implicit, complete 3D representation. At the core of RnG, we propose a reconstruction-guided causal attention mechanism that separates reconstruction and generation at the attention level, and treats the KV-cache as an implicit 3D representation. Then, arbitrary poses can efficiently query this cache to render high-fidelity, novel-view RGBD outputs. As a result, RnG not only accurately reconstructs visible geometry but also generates plausible, coherent unseen geometry and appearance. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance in both generalizable 3D reconstruction and novel view generation, while operating efficiently enough for real-time interactive applications. Project page: https://npucvr.github.io/RnG

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@article{arxiv.2603.01194,
  title  = {RnG: A Unified Transformer for Complete 3D Modeling from Partial Observations},
  author = {Mochu Xiang and Zhelun Shen and Xuesong Li and Jiahui Ren and Jing Zhang and Chen Zhao and Shanshan Liu and Haocheng Feng and Jingdong Wang and Yuchao Dai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.01194},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Accepted to CVPR 2026

R2 v1 2026-07-01T10:58:07.787Z