Diffusion or Non-Diffusion Adversarial Defenses: Rethinking the Relation between Classifier and Adversarial Purifier

This paper challenges the prevailing reliance on diffusion models for adversarial defense by demonstrating that non-diffusion purifiers can achieve superior robustness, transferability, and cross-dataset generalization, notably outperforming ImageNet-trained diffusion models when applied to ImageNet despite being trained only on CIFAR-10.

Yuan-Chih Chen, Chun-Shien Lu2026-02-27💻 cs

ViT-Linearizer: Distilling Quadratic Knowledge into Linear-Time Vision Models

The paper introduces ViT-Linearizer, a cross-architecture distillation framework that transfers the rich representations of quadratic-complexity Vision Transformers into efficient linear-time recurrent models (such as Mamba) via activation matching and masked prediction, achieving competitive ImageNet accuracy while significantly reducing inference costs for high-resolution tasks.

Guoyizhe Wei, Rama Chellappa2026-02-27🤖 cs.AI

Reflectance Prediction-based Knowledge Distillation for Robust 3D Object Detection in Compressed Point Clouds

This paper proposes a Reflectance Prediction-based Knowledge Distillation (RPKD) framework that enhances 3D object detection robustness in low-bitrate compressed point clouds by discarding reflectance during transmission, reconstructing it via a geometry-based prediction module, and utilizing a cross-source distillation strategy to transfer knowledge from raw to compressed data.

Hao Jing, Anhong Wang, Yifan Zhang + 2 more2026-02-27💻 cs

LinGuinE: Longitudinal Guidance Estimation for Volumetric Tumour Segmentation

LinGuinE is a novel, training-free PyTorch framework that achieves state-of-the-art longitudinal volumetric tumour segmentation and lesion tracking across multiple datasets by combining image registration with guided segmentation from a single radiologist prompt, enabling flexible, direction-agnostic analysis without requiring longitudinal data training.

Nadine Garibli, Mayank Patwari, Bence Csiba + 2 more2026-02-27⚡ eess

Is Exchangeability better than I.I.D to handle Data Distribution Shifts while Pooling Data for Data-scarce Medical image segmentation?

This paper addresses the "Data Addition Dilemma" in medical image segmentation by proposing an exchangeability-based framework that controls foreground-background feature discrepancies across deep network layers, achieving state-of-the-art performance on five datasets including a novel curated ultrasound collection.

Ayush Roy, Samin Enam, Jun Xia + 2 more2026-02-27🤖 cs.LG