Reasoning as Representation: Rethinking Visual Reinforcement Learning in Image Quality Assessment

ICLROral2026

Authors
Shijie Zhao, Xuanyu Zhang, Weiqi Li, Junlin Li, Li zhang, Tianfan Xue, Jian Zhang
Affiliation
ByteDance Inc.
Venue
ICLR 2026
Track
Oral

TL;DR

Reasoning-based image quality assessment (IQA) models trained through reinforcement learning (RL) exhibit exceptional generalization, yet the underlying mechanisms and critical factors driving this capability remain underexplored in current research. Moreover, despite their superior performance, these models incur inference energy usage and late...

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Topics

reinforcement learning generalization reasoning

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