ELViS: Efficient Visual Similarity from Local Descriptors that Generalizes Across Domains

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Source paper: ELViS: Efficient Visual Similarity from Local Descriptors that Generalizes Across Domains

PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.28603v1

Repository: https://github.com/pavelsuma/ELViS/

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Our experiments show that ELViS outperforms competing methods by a large margin in out-of-domain scenarios and on average
Implicationpartial
Directly stated in abstract with supporting results in Table 1 showing ELViS achieving higher mAP scores compared to other methods on out-of-domain datasets.
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while requiring only a fraction of their computational cost.
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Directly stated in abstract and supported by Figure 1 showing performance vs. time comparison where ELViS achieves better performance with lower runtime.
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Unlike conventional approaches, our model operates in similarity space rather than representation space, promoting cross-domain transfer.
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Explicitly stated in abstract and analysis as a core design principle of the method.
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Our evaluation confirms that similarity-based models generalize better than descriptor-based ones, which tend to overfit the training domain and excel only on seen distributions.
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Directly stated in analysis section with explanation of why this occurs, though specific comparative evidence is implied rather than explicitly quantified.
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It leverages local descriptor correspondences, refines their similarities through an optimal transport step with data-dependent gains that suppress uninformative descriptors
Implicationpartial
Detailed description in abstract and Figure 2 shows this as a core technical component of the method.
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and aggregates strong correspondences via a voting process into an image-level similarity.
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Explicitly stated in abstract as part of the method description.
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To assess generalization, we compile a benchmark of eight datasets spanning landmarks, artworks, products, and multi-domain collections
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Explicitly stated in abstract and analysis with specific dataset names listed.
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During training, a modified BCE loss with a learnable function g reshapes the penalty curve
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Detailed description in analysis section and Figure 2 shows this training component, though specific performance impact isn't quantified separately.
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