Shape Generation via Weight Space Learning

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Main Authors: Plattner, Maximilian, Berzins, Arturs, Brandstetter, Johannes
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Published: 2025
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author Plattner, Maximilian
Berzins, Arturs
Brandstetter, Johannes
author_facet Plattner, Maximilian
Berzins, Arturs
Brandstetter, Johannes
contents Foundation models for 3D shape generation have recently shown a remarkable capacity to encode rich geometric priors across both global and local dimensions. However, leveraging these priors for downstream tasks can be challenging as real-world data are often scarce or noisy, and traditional fine-tuning can lead to catastrophic forgetting. In this work, we treat the weight space of a large 3D shape-generative model as a data modality that can be explored directly. We hypothesize that submanifolds within this high-dimensional weight space can modulate topological properties or fine-grained part features separately, demonstrating early-stage evidence via two experiments. First, we observe a sharp phase transition in global connectivity when interpolating in conditioning space, suggesting that small changes in weight space can drastically alter topology. Second, we show that low-dimensional reparameterizations yield controlled local geometry changes even with very limited data. These results highlight the potential of weight space learning to unlock new approaches for 3D shape generation and specialized fine-tuning.
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Plattner, Maximilian
Berzins, Arturs
Brandstetter, Johannes
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Foundation models for 3D shape generation have recently shown a remarkable capacity to encode rich geometric priors across both global and local dimensions. However, leveraging these priors for downstream tasks can be challenging as real-world data are often scarce or noisy, and traditional fine-tuning can lead to catastrophic forgetting. In this work, we treat the weight space of a large 3D shape-generative model as a data modality that can be explored directly. We hypothesize that submanifolds within this high-dimensional weight space can modulate topological properties or fine-grained part features separately, demonstrating early-stage evidence via two experiments. First, we observe a sharp phase transition in global connectivity when interpolating in conditioning space, suggesting that small changes in weight space can drastically alter topology. Second, we show that low-dimensional reparameterizations yield controlled local geometry changes even with very limited data. These results highlight the potential of weight space learning to unlock new approaches for 3D shape generation and specialized fine-tuning.
title Shape Generation via Weight Space Learning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21830