Class Visualizations and Activation Atlases for Enhancing Interpretability in Deep Learning-Based Computational Pathology

This paper introduces a framework to evaluate class visualizations and activation atlases for transformer-based pathology models, revealing that while these feature visualization methods effectively capture coarse tissue-level concepts, their ability to represent fine-grained cancer subclasses is limited by intrinsic pathological complexity and reduced inter-observer agreement.

Marco Gustav, Fabian Wolf, Christina Glasner, Nic G. Reitsam, Stefan Schulz, Kira Aschenbroich, Bruno Märkl, Sebastian Foersch, Jakob Nikolas Kather2026-03-10💻 cs

VINO: Video-driven Invariance for Non-contextual Objects via Structural Prior Guided De-contextualization

VINO is a self-supervised learning framework that overcomes the "co-occurrence trap" in dense video by using a teacher-student distillation approach with structural priors to force representations to focus on foreground objects rather than background context, achieving state-of-the-art unsupervised object discovery performance.

Seul-Ki Yeom, Marcel Simon, Eunbin Lee, Tae-Ho Kim2026-03-10💻 cs

LEPA: Learning Geometric Equivariance in Satellite Remote Sensing Data with a Predictive Architecture

This paper introduces LEPA, a learned architecture that conditions on geometric augmentations to accurately predict transformed satellite image embeddings, effectively overcoming the limitations of standard interpolation in non-convex geospatial foundation model manifolds and significantly improving geometric adjustment performance.

Erik Scheurer, Rocco Sedona, Stefan Kesselheim, Gabriele Cavallaro2026-03-10💻 cs

Variational Flow Maps: Make Some Noise for One-Step Conditional Generation

This paper introduces Variational Flow Maps (VFMs), a framework that enables high-quality, single-step conditional generation and inverse problem solving by learning a noise adapter to align the initial noise distribution with observations, thereby bypassing the need for iterative sampling trajectories required by traditional diffusion models.

Abbas Mammadov, So Takao, Bohan Chen, Ricardo Baptista, Morteza Mardani, Yee Whye Teh, Julius Berner2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

MAviS: A Multimodal Conversational Assistant For Avian Species

This paper introduces MAviS, a domain-adaptive multimodal conversational assistant for avian species that leverages the newly created MAviS-Dataset and is evaluated on the MAviS-Bench to achieve state-of-the-art performance in fine-grained bird species understanding and multimodal question answering.

Yevheniia Kryklyvets, Mohammed Irfan Kurpath, Sahal Shaji Mullappilly, Jinxing Zhou, Fahad Shabzan Khan, Rao Anwer, Salman Khan, Hisham Cholakkal2026-03-10💻 cs

StructSAM: Structure- and Spectrum-Preserving Token Merging for Segment Anything Models

This paper introduces StructSAM, a novel token merging framework that preserves structural boundaries and spectral properties in Segment Anything Models (SAM) by using gradient-based energy scores and grid-based screening to achieve significant computational savings with minimal accuracy loss across natural and medical imaging benchmarks.

Duy M. H. Nguyen, Tuan A. Tran, Duong Nguyen, Siwei Xie, Trung Q. Nguyen, Mai T. N. Truong, Daniel Palenicek, An T. Le, Michael Barz, TrungTin Nguyen, Tuan Dam, Ngan Le, Minh Vu, Khoa Doan, Vien Ngo, Pengtao Xie, James Zou, Daniel Sonntag, Jan Peters, Mathias Niepert2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Faster-HEAL: An Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Perception Framework for Heterogeneous Autonomous Vehicles

Faster-HEAL is a lightweight, privacy-preserving collaborative perception framework that addresses the challenges of heterogeneous autonomous vehicles by using low-rank visual prompt fine-tuning and pyramid fusion to align diverse features into a unified space, achieving superior detection performance with significantly reduced computational overhead compared to state-of-the-art methods.

Armin Maleki, Hayder Radha2026-03-10💻 cs