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Arxiv paper - Hunyuan3D 2.0: Scaling Diffusion Models for High Resolution Textured 3D Assets Generation
In this episode, we discuss Hunyuan3D 2.0: Scaling Diffusion Models for High Resolution Textured 3D Assets Generation by The authors of the paper are the **Hunyuan3D Team**. Specific contributor names are indicated to be listed at the end of the full report.. Hunyuan3D 2.0 is a large-scale 3D synthesis system featuring Hunyuan3D-DiT for generating detailed geometry and Hunyuan3D-Paint for producing high-resolution textures. It includes Hunyuan3D-Studio, a user-friendly platform that allows both professionals and amateurs to efficiently create and manipulate 3D assets. The system outperforms previous models in geometry detail, texture quality, and condition alignment, and it is publicly released to support the open-source 3D community.
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Arxiv paper - MatAnyone: Stable Video Matting with Consistent Memory Propagation
In this episode, we discuss MatAnyone: Stable Video Matting with Consistent Memory Propagation by Peiqing Yang, Shangchen Zhou, Jixin Zhao, Qingyi Tao, Chen Change Loy. The paper introduces **MatAnyone**, a robust framework for target-assigned video matting that overcomes challenges posed by complex or ambiguous backgrounds without relying on auxiliary inputs. It employs a memory-based approach with a consistent memory propagation module and region-adaptive memory fusion to maintain semantic stability and preserve detailed object boundaries across frames. Additionally, the authors present a large, high-quality dataset and a novel training strategy leveraging extensive segmentation data to enhance matting stability and performance.
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Arxiv paper - Critique Fine-Tuning: Learning to Critique is More Effective than Learning to Imitate
In this episode, we discuss Critique Fine-Tuning: Learning to Critique is More Effective than Learning to Imitate by Yubo Wang, Xiang Yue, Wenhu Chen. The paper introduces Critique Fine-Tuning (CFT), a novel approach where language models are trained to critique noisy responses instead of simply imitating correct ones, inspired by human critical thinking. Using a 50K-sample dataset generated by GPT-4o, CFT demonstrated consistent improvements of 4–10% over traditional supervised fine-tuning across various math benchmarks and datasets. The results show that CFT is both efficient and competitive, matching or outperforming models trained with much larger datasets and more compute, thereby effectively enhancing the reasoning capabilities of language models.
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Arxiv paper - Thoughts Are All Over the Place: On the Underthinking of o1-Like LLMs
In this episode, we discuss Thoughts Are All Over the Place: On the Underthinking of o1-Like LLMs by Yue Wang, Qiuzhi Liu, Jiahao Xu, Tian Liang, Xingyu Chen, Zhiwei He, Linfeng Song, Dian Yu, Juntao Li, Zhuosheng Zhang, Rui Wang, Zhaopeng Tu, Haitao Mi, Dong Yu. The paper identifies "underthinking" in large language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4, where models frequently switch reasoning paths without fully exploring promising solutions, leading to errors on complex tasks such as challenging mathematical problems. Through experiments on multiple test sets and models, the authors demonstrate that frequent thought switching is linked to incorrect responses and introduce a metric to measure this underthinking based on token efficiency. To address the issue, they propose a thought switching penalty (TIP) decoding strategy that encourages deeper exploration of each reasoning path, resulting in improved accuracy without requiring model fine-tuning.
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Arxiv paper - MetaMorph: Multimodal Understanding and Generation via Instruction Tuning
In this episode, we discuss MetaMorph: Multimodal Understanding and Generation via Instruction Tuning by Shengbang Tong, David Fan, Jiachen Zhu, Yunyang Xiong, Xinlei Chen, Koustuv Sinha, Michael Rabbat, Yann LeCun, Saining Xie, Zhuang Liu. The paper introduces Visual-Predictive Instruction Tuning (VPiT), which enhances pretrained large language models to generate both text and visual tokens by training on mixed image and text data. The study finds that visual generation naturally arises from improved visual understanding and that understanding data is more effective than generation data for enhancing both capabilities. Using VPiT, the authors develop the MetaMorph model, which achieves strong performance in visual understanding and generation by leveraging the inherent vision capabilities of language models through simple instruction tuning.
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