#01Sep 1, 2026
cs.CV
ExBind: A Controlled Diagnostic Benchmark for Visual-to-Executable Correspondence
Ziqian Wang, Yuxiao Cheng, Tingxiong Xiao and 1 more
Multimodal coding and editing systems must map a visible or semantic referent to the exact executable object that can be edited. A wrong reference may select a valid but incorrect DOM node, SVG element, graph endpoint, hierarchy member, or table cell, while final execution success alone does not reveal the source of the failure. ExBind isolates this visual-to-executable correspondence layer as a controlled diagnostic benchmark between semantic localization and action execution. It samples representation-independent latent binding instances and compiles them into SVG, DOM, canvas, tree, graph, and table cases with deterministic mappings to executable references. Models output only a strict reference; the evaluator maps predictions back to latent structure and scores structural constraints without requiring reasoning traces. The release contains a 250-case broad suite, a disjoint 240-case targeted suite, and 50 paired latent groups. Qwen2.5-VL-3B achieves 98.4% candidate validity but 76.4% exact accuracy, while Qwen3-VL-4B achieves 100.0% validity and 98.8% exact accuracy. In the targeted table suite, all Qwen2.5-VL-3B residual errors are valid correct-row/wrong-column selections. Candidate-order perturbations change case-level outcomes while preserving this error pattern. ExBind is designed for controlled diagnosis rather than population-scale ranking or end-to-end editing evaluation. Code and benchmark records are available at https://github.com/Daerwang2020/Exbind and https://huggingface.co/datasets/Ziqianwwww/ExBind.
#02Sep 1, 2026
cs.CV
Reliability Challenges in Diffusion Vision-Language Models
Md. Atabuzzaman, Chris Thomas
Diffusion-based Large Vision-Language Models (dLVLMs) have recently emerged as a compelling alternative to autoregressive (AR) LVLMs, offering advantages in parallel decoding, bidirectional context, and controllable generation. Despite rapid progress, their reliability properties remain largely uncharacterized. We present the first systematic reliability evaluation of hallucination and bias in dLVLMs, benchmarking six diffusion models against competitive AR baselines across four dimensions. Our key findings are: (1) dLVLMs reverse the yes-bias of AR models in binary visual queries; (2) they achieve competitive hallucination rates yet exhibit degraded linguistic quality; (3) they collapse to near-zero accuracy on underrepresented racial groups with opposite-polarity gender bias; and (4) they exhibit accuracy collapse in multiple-choice settings when the correct option is shorter than its distractors, associated with a length prior that emerges at the first denoising step. Tokens committed at late denoising steps with low confidence further correlate with hallucinated content, pointing to a mechanistic signal unique to diffusion generation. These patterns vary across model families, suggesting reliability is shaped by the generative paradigm together with training data.
#03Sep 1, 2026
cs.CV
Semantic-Guided Multimodal Preprocessing for Vision Transformer-Based Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma Grading
Fatemeh Javadian, Zhu Chen, Zahra Aminparast and 1 more
Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (CCRCC) grading is essential for treatment planning, yet existing approaches either analyze patch-level images directly or focus solely on nuclei-level classification, without linking to final tumor grading. We propose a semantic-guided multimodal preprocessing method that integrates nuclei classification maps from existing pre-trained models with RGB histopathology images for Vision Transformer (ViT)-based CCRCC grading. Our approach employs classification map channel concatenation and multiplicative modulation, with optimized overlays to leverage nuclei grading information, while preserving RGB textural features. Evaluation of multiple preprocessing strategies demonstrates that semantic-guided enhancement achieves 0.916 balanced accuracy, outperforming RGB-only baseline (0.707) and max-voting aggregation from prior studies (0.427). Sensitivity analysis reveals that this 21 percentage point improvement over baseline persists even under simulated perturbation at rates matching current state-of-the-art nuclei classification model error thresholds, suggesting both effective semantic utilization and practical robustness. These findings show that preprocessing-based multimodal fusion can leverage the diagnostic potential of existing imperfect nuclei classifiers, effectively bridging previously isolated fine-grained nuclear-level analysis with coarse-grained ViT-based patch classification. Per-class recall was consistent across grades (0.93, 0.91, 0.91), indicating that gains are not concentrated in the majority class. Because the sensitivity analysis perturbs ground-truth maps rather than predictions from an actual nuclei model, this result characterizes robustness under simulated error rather than deployment with a real upstream model, which remains for future work.
#04Sep 1, 2026
cs.CV
DualDiff3D: Dual Structure-Appearance Diffusion Priors for Reliability-Enhanced 3D Gaussian Splatting
Qian Wang, Yu Wang, Weiqi Li and 4 more
While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized 3D reconstruction and novel-view synthesis, scenarios with limited input views often lead to poor reconstruction quality and artifacts in rendered novel views. Recent efforts attempt to utilize powerful diffusion priors, yet they typically process rendered and reference views concatenated along an additional dimension in a single network. These methods overlook an inherent nature that different views should maintain appearance similarity but differ in structure due to view shifts, leading to blur caused by conflicts between the two properties. In this paper, we propose DualDiff, a novel pipeline that leverages dual diffusion priors with a Structure-Appearance Attention (SAA) module to introduce reference guidance for refining low-quality novel views rendered from flawed 3D representations. Specifically, we retain one diffusion branch to focus on extracting structural information from the low-quality novel views, while introducing another branch to ensure appearance consistency with reference views. Furthermore, we present a 3D reconstruction framework named DualDiff3D, which integrates a reliability-enhanced Render-Refine-Optimize (RRO) loop to progressively and robustly incorporate the refined novel views, yielding more accurate 3DGS. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods even in the inference-only setting, with further performance gains achievable through training. Our code and pre-trained weights are available at https://github.com/Akaneqwq/DualDiff3D.
#05Sep 1, 2026
cs.CV
Scale-based Approach for Active Wildfire Segmentation on Satellite Imagery
Matheus F. Kovaleski, Cristiano Premebida, João Ruivo Paulo
Active wildfire mapping from satellite imagery is challenging due to the sparse and highly imbalanced nature of fire pixels, especially in early-stage or low-density fire observations. This work investigates the use of multispectral Landsat-8 imagery for active-fire segmentation under multi-scale wildfire size conditions. We propose a data-driven protocol to characterize fire-region size distributions through connected-component analysis and an interquartile range criterion, enabling the evaluation of model robustness across different local fire-region densities. Three segmentation architectures, U-Net, DeepLabV3+, and SegFormer, are evaluated under different SWIR-based spectral configurations. Results show that U-Net achieves the strongest robustness across the evaluated conditions, SegFormer provides competitive performance, and DeepLabV3+ tends to produce conservative predictions with reduced recall. Across architectures, SWIR2 consistently achieves the strongest or near-best results, highlighting its importance for active-fire segmentation in Landsat-8 imagery. These findings suggest that both spectral band selection and architectural design are critical for robust satellite-based active wildfire mapping trained on low active fire-pixel density images.