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Lidar-based object detectors are critical parts of the 3D perception pipeline in autonomous navigation systems such as self-driving cars. However, they are known to be sensitive to adverse weather conditions such as rain, snow and fog due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Velat Kilic , Deepti Hegde , Vishwanath Sindagi , A. Brinton Cooper , Mark A. Foster , Vishal M. Patel

Instability and slowness are two main problems in deep reinforcement learning. Even if proximal policy optimization (PPO) is the state of the art, it still suffers from these two problems. We introduce an improved algorithm based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Zhenyu Zhang , Xiangfeng Luo , Tong Liu , Shaorong Xie , Jianshu Wang , Wei Wang , Yang Li , Yan Peng

Diffusion models have achieved impressive results in generative tasks such as text-to-image synthesis, yet they often struggle to fully align outputs with nuanced user intent and maintain consistent aesthetic quality. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Dohyun Kim , Seungwoo Lyu , Seung Wook Kim , Paul Hongsuck Seo

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as a promising approach for aligning large language models with human preferences. While prior work mainly extends DPO from the aspect of the objective function, we instead improve DPO from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xun Deng , Han Zhong , Rui Ai , Fuli Feng , Zheng Wang , Xiangnan He

Depth enhancement, which converts raw dToF signals into dense depth maps using RGB guidance, is crucial for improving depth perception in high-precision tasks such as 3D reconstruction and SLAM. However, existing methods often assume ideal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Jijun Xiang , Longliang Liu , Xuan Zhu , Xianqi Wang , Min Lin , Xin Yang

Existing LiDAR-Camera fusion methods have achieved strong results in 3D object detection. To address the sparsity of point clouds, previous approaches typically construct spatial pseudo point clouds via depth completion as auxiliary input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Jijun Wang , Yan Wu , Yujian Mo , Junqiao Zhao , Jun Yan , Yinghao Hu

LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) is an indispensable sensor for precise long- and wide-range 3D sensing, which directly benefited the recent rapid deployment of autonomous driving (AD). Meanwhile, such a safety-critical application…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Takami Sato , Yuki Hayakawa , Ryo Suzuki , Yohsuke Shiiki , Kentaro Yoshioka , Qi Alfred Chen

Scaling deep neural network (DNN) training to more devices can reduce time-to-solution. However, it is impractical for users with limited computing resources. FOSI, as a hybrid order optimizer, converges faster than conventional optimizers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Shunxian Gu , Chaoqun You , Bangbang Ren , Lailong Luo , Junxu Xia , Deke Guo

Diffusion policies, widely adopted in decision-making scenarios such as robotics, gaming and autonomous driving, are capable of learning diverse skills from demonstration data due to their high representation power. However, the sub-optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ningyuan Yang , Jiaxuan Gao , Feng Gao , Yi Wu , Chao Yu

Test-time adaptation (TTA) is a task that continually adapts a pre-trained source model to the target domain during inference. One popular approach involves fine-tuning model with cross-entropy loss according to estimated pseudo-labels.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Guowei Wang , Changxing Ding , Wentao Tan , Mingkui Tan

Recent advancements in diffusion models (DMs) have been propelled by alignment methods that post-train models to better conform to human preferences. However, these approaches typically require computation-intensive training of a base model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zejian Li , Yize Li , Chenye Meng , Zhongni Liu , Yang Ling , Shengyuan Zhang , Guang Yang , Changyuan Yang , Zhiyuan Yang , Lingyun Sun

Generative AI can now synthesize strikingly realistic images from text, yet output quality remains highly sensitive to how prompts are phrased. Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) offers a lightweight, off-policy alternative to RL for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Anas Mohamed , Azal Ahmad Khan , Xinran Wang , Ahmad Faraz Khan , Shuwen Ge , Saman Bahzad Khan , Ayaan Ahmad , Ali Anwar

Annotating 3D LiDAR point clouds for perception tasks is fundamental for many applications e.g., autonomous driving, yet it still remains notoriously labor-intensive. Pretraining-finetuning approach can alleviate the labeling burden by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Xiangchao Yan , Runjian Chen , Bo Zhang , Hancheng Ye , Renqiu Xia , Jiakang Yuan , Hongbin Zhou , Xinyu Cai , Botian Shi , Wenqi Shao , Ping Luo , Yu Qiao , Tao Chen , Junchi Yan

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) aligns language models using pairwise preference comparisons, offering a simple and effective alternative to Reinforcement Learning (RL) from human feedback. However, in many practical settings, training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ning Liu , Chuanneng Sun , Kristina Klinkner , Shervin Malmasi

To accommodate rapid changes in the real world, the cognition system of humans is capable of continually learning concepts. On the contrary, conventional deep learning models lack this capability of preserving previously learned knowledge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Can Peng , Kun Zhao , Sam Maksoud , Tianren Wang , Brian C. Lovell

The rapid rise of large language models (LLMs) has unlocked many applications but also underscores the challenge of aligning them with diverse values and preferences. Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) is central to alignment but…

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) guides large language models (LLMs) to generate recommendations aligned with user historical behavior distributions by minimizing preference alignment loss. However, our systematic empirical research and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chu Zhao , Enneng Yang , Jianzhe Zhao , Guibing Guo

The class of direct preference optimization (DPO) algorithms has emerged as a promising approach for solving the alignment problem in foundation models. These algorithms work with very limited feedback in the form of pairwise preferences…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Luca Viano , Ruida Zhou , Yifan Sun , Mahdi Namazifar , Volkan Cevher , Shoham Sabach , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as a popular algorithm for aligning pretrained large language models with human preferences, owing to its simplicity and training stability. However, DPO suffers from the recently identified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Haocheng Luo , Zehang Deng , Thanh-Toan Do , Mehrtash Harandi , Dinh Phung , Trung Le

Many algorithms for aligning LLMs with human preferences assume that human preferences are binary and deterministic. However, human preferences can vary across individuals, and therefore should be represented distributionally. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Hiroki Furuta , Kuang-Huei Lee , Shixiang Shane Gu , Yutaka Matsuo , Aleksandra Faust , Heiga Zen , Izzeddin Gur