cs.CV 2601.16093

SAMTok: Representing Any Mask with Two Words

SAMTok discretizes masks into two tokens, enabling pixel-level understanding without architectural changes.

Yikang Zhou, Tao Zhang, Dengxian Gong et al.

2026-01-23 45
cs.CL 2601.14525

Towards Execution-Grounded Automated AI Research

Proposes execution-guided automated AI research using evolutionary search and RL, achieving 69.4% success rate and reducing pretraining time to 19.7 min.

Chenglei Si, Zitong Yang, Yejin Choi et al.

2026-01-21 53
cs.CV 2601.14246

Soft Tail-dropping for Adaptive Visual Tokenization

Proposes Soft Tail-dropping Adaptive Tokenizer (STAT), dynamically adjusting token count based on image complexity, improving reconstruction and generation quality.

Zeyuan Chen, Kai Zhang, Zhuowen Tu et al.

2026-01-21 47