Chaoran Xu

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3 Papers

86.8CVMay 20Code
RISE: Reliable Improvement in Self-Evolving Vision-Language Models

Chaoran Xu, Yingmao Miao, Pengfei Zhang et al.

Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved strong multimodal reasoning capabilities, but further improving them still relies heavily on large-scale human-constructed supervision for post-training. Such supervision is costly to obtain, especially for reasoning-intensive multimodal tasks where questions, answers, and feedback signals must be carefully designed. This motivates self-evolving learning, where a model improves itself through a dual-role closed loop: a questioner autonomously poses questions and a solver learns to solve them. However, we observe that current VLM self-evolving methods still face three major challenges: coarse-grained role alternation delays the interaction between question generation and solver adaptation; generated questions can progressively degrade in quality; and question types may collapse toward a narrow distribution. These issues limit the efficiency and reliability of self-evolution. Thus, we propose \textbf{RISE}, a reliable self-evolving framework for vision-language models. RISE is built on three complementary designs: fine-grained role alternation, which shortens the feedback loop between the questioner and the solver to improve efficiency; a quality supervisor, which improves question validity and pseudo-label reliability; and skill-aware dynamic balancing, which mitigates mode collapse and maintains broad skill coverage during evolution. Together, these components enable more reliable and effective self-evolution from unlabeled images. Experiments on two VLM backbones across seven benchmarks show that RISE consistently improves the base models, yielding broad and sustained gains. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/AMAP-ML/RISE.

92.3ROApr 12
OmniUMI: Towards Physically Grounded Robot Learning via Human-Aligned Multimodal Interaction

Shaqi Luo, Yuanyuan Li, Youhao Hu et al.

UMI-style interfaces enable scalable robot learning, but existing systems remain largely visuomotor, relying primarily on RGB observations and trajectory while providing only limited access to physical interaction signals. This becomes a fundamental limitation in contact-rich manipulation, where success depends on contact dynamics such as tactile interaction, internal grasping force, and external interaction wrench that are difficult to infer from vision alone. We present OmniUMI, a unified framework for physically grounded robot learning via human-aligned multimodal interaction. OmniUMI synchronously captures RGB, depth, trajectory, tactile sensing, internal grasping force, and external interaction wrench within a compact handheld system, while maintaining collection--deployment consistency through a shared embodiment design. To support human-aligned demonstration, OmniUMI provides dual-force feedback through bilateral gripper feedback and natural perception of external interaction wrench in the handheld embodiment. Built on this interface, we extend diffusion policy with visual, tactile, and force-related observations, and deploy the learned policy through impedance-based execution for unified regulation of motion and contact behavior. Experiments demonstrate reliable sensing and strong downstream performance on force-sensitive pick-and-place, interactive surface erasing, and tactile-informed selective release. Overall, OmniUMI combines physically grounded multimodal data acquisition with human-aligned interaction, providing a scalable foundation for learning contact-rich manipulation.

CVNov 21, 2025
DeltaDeno: Zero-Shot Anomaly Generation via Delta-Denoising Attribution

Chaoran Xu, Chengkan Lv, Qiyu Chen et al.

Anomaly generation is often framed as few-shot fine-tuning with anomalous samples, which contradicts the scarcity that motivates generation and tends to overfit category priors. We tackle the setting where no real anomaly samples or training are available. We propose Delta-Denoising (DeltaDeno), a training-free zero-shot anomaly generation method that localizes and edits defects by contrasting two diffusion branches driven by a minimal prompt pair under a shared schedule. By accumulating per-step denoising deltas into an image-specific localization map, we obtain a mask to guide the latent inpainting during later diffusion steps and preserve the surrounding context while generating realistic local defects. To improve stability and control, DeltaDeno performs token-level prompt refinement that aligns shared content and strengthens anomaly tokens, and applies a spatial attention bias restricted to anomaly tokens in the predicted region. Experiments on public datasets show that DeltaDeno achieves great generation, realism and consistent gains in downstream detection performance. Code will be made publicly available.