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LocateAnything: Parallel Decoding for Vision

LocateAnything revolutionizes vision-language models with Parallel Box Decoding, boosting speed and accuracy in visual grounding and detection.

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Diagram illustrating the Parallel Box Decoding process in LocateAnything compared to sequential token decoding.
The LocateAnything framework leverages Parallel Box Decoding for enhanced visual grounding and detection.

The prevailing paradigm in vision-language models (VLMs) for visual grounding and detection treats bounding box coordinates as a sequence of 1D tokens. This approach, while functional, introduces a practical inference bottleneck by decoding these tokens largely independently and sequentially, neglecting the inherent geometric coherence within a bounding box. Researchers have introduced LocateAnything, a unified framework designed to overcome this limitation.

Visual TL;DR. Sequential Box Decoding leads to Inference Bottleneck. Inference Bottleneck problem LocateAnything Framework. LocateAnything Framework introduces Parallel Box Decoding. Parallel Box Decoding leads to Preserves Geometric Structure. Parallel Box Decoding enables Boosts Speed & Accuracy. Boosts Speed & Accuracy leads to Revolutionizes VLMs.

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  1. Sequential Box Decoding: treats bounding box coordinates as 1D tokens decoded largely independently
  2. Inference Bottleneck: neglects inherent geometric coherence within a bounding box
  3. LocateAnything Framework: unified framework designed to overcome current limitations
  4. Parallel Box Decoding: treats geometric elements as atomic units decoded in a single step
  5. Preserves Geometric Structure: inherently preserves the coupled geometric structure of boxes
  6. Boosts Speed & Accuracy: substantial improvements in both decoding throughput and localization accuracy
  7. Revolutionizes VLMs: revolutionizes vision-language models with parallel decoding
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Parallel Box Decoding: Unlocking Geometric Coherence

LocateAnything fundamentally rethinks the decoding process by introducing Parallel Box Decoding (PBD). Instead of serializing box coordinates, PBD treats geometric elements like bounding boxes and points as atomic units decoded in a single step. This parallel approach inherently preserves the coupled geometric structure of boxes, leading to substantial improvements in both decoding throughput and localization accuracy. This marks a significant departure from prior methods that created an inference bottleneck through strictly sequential generation.

Scalable Data Engine for High-Precision Localization

Complementing the architectural innovation, the LocateAnything framework is supported by a scalable data engine that has curated LocateAnything-Data. This new dataset comprises over 138 million training samples, dramatically increasing data diversity specifically for high-precision localization tasks. The combination of Parallel Box Decoding and this extensive dataset allows LocateAnything to advance the speed-accuracy frontier, demonstrating superior decoding throughput and enhanced high-IoU localization quality across diverse benchmarks.

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