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Conventional, classification-based AI-generated image detection methods cannot explain why an image is considered real or AI-generated in a way a human expert would, which reduces the trustworthiness and persuasiveness of these detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Michael Yang , Shijian Deng , William T. Doan , Kai Wang , Tianyu Yang , Harsh Singh , Yapeng Tian

Despite recent progress in text-to-image (T2I) generation, existing models often struggle to faithfully capture user intentions from short and under-specified prompts. While prior work has attempted to enhance prompts using large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Mingrui Wu , Lu Wang , Pu Zhao , Fangkai Yang , Jianjin Zhang , Jianfeng Liu , Yuefeng Zhan , Weihao Han , Hao Sun , Jiayi Ji , Xiaoshuai Sun , Qingwei Lin , Weiwei Deng , Dongmei Zhang , Feng Sun , Qi Zhang , Rongrong Ji

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has proven highly effective in aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences. Typical RL methods optimize under an overall sequence reward, which can lead to a suboptimal learning process. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Yanshi Li , Shaopan Xiong , Gengru Chen , Xiaoyang Li , Yijia Luo , Xingyuan Bu , Yingshui Tan , Wenbo Su , Bo Zheng

In this paper, we introduce OneReward, a unified reinforcement learning framework that enhances the model's generative capabilities across multiple tasks under different evaluation criteria using only \textit{One Reward} model. By employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yuan Gong , Xionghui Wang , Jie Wu , Shiyin Wang , Yitong Wang , Xinglong Wu

Recent advances in text-to-video (T2V) generation with diffusion models have garnered significant attention. However, they typically perform well in scenes with a single object and motion, struggling in compositional scenarios with multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yuanhang Li , Qi Mao , Lan Chen , Zhen Fang , Lei Tian , Xinyan Xiao , Libiao Jin , Hua Wu

Reward-based fine-tuning steers a pretrained diffusion or flow-based generative model toward higher-reward samples while remaining close to the pretrained model. Although existing methods are derived from different perspectives, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jeongjae Lee , Jinho Chang , Jeongsol Kim , Jong Chul Ye

Can reinforcement learning with hard, verifiable rewards teach a compact language model to reason about physics, or does it primarily learn to pattern-match toward correct answers? We study this question by training a 1.5B-parameter…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Tarjei Paule Hage , Markus J. Buehler

Vision-language generative reward models (VL-GenRMs) play a crucial role in aligning and evaluating multimodal AI systems, yet their own evaluation remains under-explored. Current assessment methods primarily rely on AI-annotated preference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Lei Li , Yuancheng Wei , Zhihui Xie , Xuqing Yang , Yifan Song , Peiyi Wang , Chenxin An , Tianyu Liu , Sujian Li , Bill Yuchen Lin , Lingpeng Kong , Qi Liu

Despite advances in dance generation, most methods are trained in the skeletal domain and ignore mesh-level physical constraints. As a result, motions that look plausible as joint trajectories often exhibit body self-penetration and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Jidong Jia , Youjian Zhang , Huan Fu , Dacheng Tao

Reward models are critical in techniques like Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and Inference Scaling Laws, where they guide language model alignment and select optimal responses. Despite their importance, existing reward…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yantao Liu , Zijun Yao , Rui Min , Yixin Cao , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

Reward design is of great importance for solving complex tasks with reinforcement learning. Recent studies have explored using image-text similarity produced by vision-language models (VLMs) to augment rewards of a task with visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Lirui Luo , Guoxi Zhang , Hongming Xu , Yaodong Yang , Cong Fang , Qing Li

Reinforcement learning (RL) with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has demonstrated the great potential of enhancing the reasoning abilities in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). However, the reliance on language-centric priors and expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Jiahao Xie , Alessio Tonioni , Nathalie Rauschmayr , Federico Tombari , Bernt Schiele

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) with reward models has advanced alignment of generative models to human aesthetic and perceptual preferences. However, jointly optimizing multiple rewards often incurs an alignment tax,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Chieh-Yun Chen , Zhonghao Wang , Qi Chen , Zhifan Ye , Min Shi , Yue Zhao , Yinan Zhao , Hui Qu , Wei-An Lin , Yiru Shen , Ajinkya Kale , Irfan Essa , Humphrey Shi

Leveraging multimodal large models for image segmentation has become a prominent research direction. However, existing approaches typically rely heavily on manually annotated datasets that include explicit reasoning processes, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jiaqi Huang , Zunnan Xu , Jun Zhou , Ting Liu , Yicheng Xiao , Mingwen Ou , Bowen Ji , Xiu Li , Kehong Yuan

The remarkable progress in text-to-video diffusion models enables the generation of photorealistic videos, although the content of these generated videos often includes unnatural movement or deformation, reverse playback, and motionless…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Yuta Oshima , Masahiro Suzuki , Yutaka Matsuo , Hiroki Furuta

Latent visual reasoning involves visual evidence more directly in multimodal reasoning by inserting continuous latent tokens before textual generation. However, the necessity of these latent tokens at inference remains ambiguous. We show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Dongyao Zhu , Zhen Wang , Xi Xiao , Han Jiang , Saeed Vahidian , Wei-Lun Chao , Tanya Berger-Wolf , Yu Su , Raju Vatsavai , Jianyang Gu

Visual generative models have achieved remarkable progress in synthesizing photorealistic images and videos, yet aligning their outputs with human preferences across critical dimensions remains a persistent challenge. Though reinforcement…

We introduce RewardFlow, an inversion-free framework that steers pretrained diffusion and flow-matching models at inference time through multi-reward Langevin dynamics. RewardFlow unifies complementary differentiable rewards for semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Onkar Susladkar , Dong-Hwan Jang , Tushar Prakash , Adheesh Juvekar , Vedant Shah , Ayush Barik , Nabeel Bashir , Muntasir Wahed , Ritish Shrirao , Ismini Lourentzou

Image-text models excel at image-level tasks but struggle with detailed visual understanding. While these models provide strong visual-language alignment, segmentation models like SAM2 offer precise spatial boundaries for objects. To this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yao Xiao , Qiqian Fu , Heyi Tao , Yuqun Wu , Zhen Zhu , Derek Hoiem

Image-to-text tasks, such as open-ended image captioning and controllable image description, have received extensive attention for decades. Here, we further advance this line of work by presenting Visual Spatial Description (VSD), a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Yu Zhao , Jianguo Wei , Zhichao Lin , Yueheng Sun , Meishan Zhang , Min Zhang