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7 published item(s)

preprint2026arXiv

Query-Conditioned Test-Time Self-Training for Large Language Models

Large language models (LLMs) are typically deployed with fixed parameters, and their performance is often improved by allocating more computation at inference time. While such test-time scaling can be effective, it cannot correct model misconceptions or adapt the model to the specific structure of an individual query. Test-time optimization addresses this limitation by enabling parameter updates during inference, but existing approaches either rely on external data or optimize generic self-supervised objectives that lack query-specific alignment. In this work, we propose Query-Conditioned Test-Time Self-Training (QueST), a framework that adapts model parameters during inference using supervision derived directly from the input query. Our key insight is that the input query itself encodes latent signals sufficient for constructing structurally related problem--solution pairs. Based on this, QueST generates such query-conditioned pairs and uses them as supervision for parameter-efficient fine-tuning at test time. The adapted model is then used to produce the final answer, enabling query-specific adaptation without any external data. Across seven mathematical reasoning benchmarks and the GPQA-Diamond scientific reasoning benchmark, QueST consistently outperforms strong test-time optimization baselines. These results demonstrate that query-conditioned self-training is an effective and practical paradigm for test-time adaptation in LLMs. Code is available at https://chssong.github.io/Query-Conditioned-TTST/.

preprint2026arXiv

Rethinking Electro-Optical Vision Foundation Models for Remote Sensing Retrieval: A Controlled Comparison with Generalist VFM

Vision foundation models have attracted significant attention for their ability to leverage large-scale unlabeled visual data. This advantage is particularly important in remote sensing, where data acquisition is costly and annotation often requires expert knowledge. Recent electro-optical vision foundation models aim to learn domain-specific representations from remote sensing imagery, but it remains unclear whether they are more effective than strong generalist vision foundation models under retrieval-based evaluation. In this study, we conduct a controlled comparison between representative EO-specific and generalist vision foundation models for remote sensing image retrieval. Using the same datasets, retrieval protocol, and evaluation metric, we evaluate both in-domain performance and cross-scene generalization. Our results show that strong generalist vision foundation models are competitive with, and in some cases outperform, existing EO-specific models. Moreover, EO-specific models often suffer from substantial degradation under cross-scene evaluation, while generalist models show more stable transfer. These findings suggest that EO pretraining alone does not guarantee stronger retrieval-oriented remote sensing representations. We discuss the limitations of current EO-specific pretraining strategies and highlight the need for future EO vision foundation models to better exploit the physical, spatial, spectral, and geographic characteristics of remote sensing imagery.

preprint2022arXiv

Bag of Tricks for Domain Adaptive Multi-Object Tracking

In this paper, SIA_Track is presented which is developed by a research team from SI Analytics. The proposed method was built from pre-existing detector and tracker under the tracking-by-detection paradigm. The tracker we used is an online tracker that merely links newly received detections with existing tracks. The core part of our method is training procedure of the object detector where synthetic and unlabeled real data were only used for training. To maximize the performance on real data, we first propose to use pseudo-labeling that generates imperfect labels for real data using a model trained with synthetic dataset. After that model soups scheme was applied to aggregate weights produced during iterative pseudo-labeling. Besides, cross-domain mixed sampling also helped to increase detection performance on real data. Our method, SIA_Track, takes the first place on MOTSynth2MOT17 track at BMTT 2022 challenge. The code is available on https://github.com/SIAnalytics/BMTT2022_SIA_track.

preprint2022arXiv

PT4AL: Using Self-Supervised Pretext Tasks for Active Learning

Labeling a large set of data is expensive. Active learning aims to tackle this problem by asking to annotate only the most informative data from the unlabeled set. We propose a novel active learning approach that utilizes self-supervised pretext tasks and a unique data sampler to select data that are both difficult and representative. We discover that the loss of a simple self-supervised pretext task, such as rotation prediction, is closely correlated to the downstream task loss. Before the active learning iterations, the pretext task learner is trained on the unlabeled set, and the unlabeled data are sorted and split into batches by their pretext task losses. In each active learning iteration, the main task model is used to sample the most uncertain data in a batch to be annotated. We evaluate our method on various image classification and segmentation benchmarks and achieve compelling performances on CIFAR10, Caltech-101, ImageNet, and Cityscapes. We further show that our method performs well on imbalanced datasets, and can be an effective solution to the cold-start problem where active learning performance is affected by the randomly sampled initial labeled set.

preprint2022arXiv

Unsupervised Change Detection Based on Image Reconstruction Loss

To train the change detector, bi-temporal images taken at different times in the same area are used. However, collecting labeled bi-temporal images is expensive and time consuming. To solve this problem, various unsupervised change detection methods have been proposed, but they still require unlabeled bi-temporal images. In this paper, we propose unsupervised change detection based on image reconstruction loss using only unlabeled single temporal single image. The image reconstruction model is trained to reconstruct the original source image by receiving the source image and the photometrically transformed source image as a pair. During inference, the model receives bi-temporal images as the input, and tries to reconstruct one of the inputs. The changed region between bi-temporal images shows high reconstruction loss. Our change detector showed significant performance in various change detection benchmark datasets even though only a single temporal single source image was used. The code and trained models will be publicly available for reproducibility.

preprint2021arXiv

Exploiting Features with Split-and-Share Module

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown state-of-the-art performances in various computer vision tasks. Advances on CNN architectures have focused mainly on designing convolutional blocks of the feature extractors, but less on the classifiers that exploit extracted features. In this work, we propose Split-and-Share Module (SSM),a classifier that splits a given feature into parts, which are partially shared by multiple sub-classifiers. Our intuition is that the more the features are shared, the more common they will become, and SSM can encourage such structural characteristics in the split features. SSM can be easily integrated into any architecture without bells and whistles. We have extensively validated the efficacy of SSM on ImageNet-1K classification task, andSSM has shown consistent and significant improvements over baseline architectures. In addition, we analyze the effect of SSM using the Grad-CAM visualization.

preprint2020arXiv

Sequential Feature Filtering Classifier

We propose Sequential Feature Filtering Classifier (FFC), a simple but effective classifier for convolutional neural networks (CNNs). With sequential LayerNorm and ReLU, FFC zeroes out low-activation units and preserves high-activation units. The sequential feature filtering process generates multiple features, which are fed into a shared classifier for multiple outputs. FFC can be applied to any CNNs with a classifier, and significantly improves performances with negligible overhead. We extensively validate the efficacy of FFC on various tasks: ImageNet-1K classification, MS COCO detection, Cityscapes segmentation, and HMDB51 action recognition. Moreover, we empirically show that FFC can further improve performances upon other techniques, including attention modules and augmentation techniques. The code and models will be publicly available.