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Falcon Perception-HD uses RL for high-density visual entity localization

Researchers have developed Falcon Perception-HD, a new model that utilizes reinforcement learning (RL), specifically GRPO, to enhance visual entity localization. This approach directly optimizes perception metrics like precision and recall, overcoming limitations of traditional supervised fine-tuning. Falcon Perception-HD demonstrates state-of-the-art performance in dense scenes with up to 500 objects, fixing common issues such as mask repetitions and reducing the need for post-processing steps like NMS. AI

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Falcon Perception-HD uses RL for high-density visual entity localization

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  1. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Falcon Perception-HD: High Density Perception via Reinforcement Learning

    Autoregressive perception models trained to localize visual entities under the open-vocabulary setting are mostly trained using Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) with maximum likelihood, yet it optimizes a proxy objective (per-token cross-entropy) that is fundamentally misaligned with…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Sofian Chaybouti, Yasser Dahou, Ngoc Dung Huynh, Reda Alami, Hilde Kuehne ·

    Falcon Perception-HD: High Density Perception via Reinforcement Learning

    arXiv:2608.18881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive perception models trained to localize visual entities under the open-vocabulary setting are mostly trained using Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) with maximum likelihood, yet it optimizes a proxy objective (per-token cros…