PAIQ: Patch-Aligned Semantic Injection via Residual Rotation
Language-aligned and self-supervised visual encoders offer complementary strengths in semantic abstraction and spatial detail. Harnessing this complementarity requires enriching local features while retaining distinctions between semantically related patches. We introduce PAIQ, a patch-aligned semantic injection framework that combines content-based cross-encoder matching with orthogonally constrained residual updates. Using DINOv3 patch features as the spatial base, PAIQ aggregates complementary SigLIP features through joint source allocation and injects the aggregate--base differences through a shared orthogonal transformation Q. This rotation adapts update directions while preserving r...
| Authors | Pinze Ren, Yuwei Zhang, Hao Chen et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 29 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 30 September 2026 |
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