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| author | Zhang, Song Chen, Yanlong Li, Yilin Chen, Yining Yi, Zili Zhang, Xiaowei Li, Yawei |
| author_facet | Zhang, Song Chen, Yanlong Li, Yilin Chen, Yining Yi, Zili Zhang, Xiaowei Li, Yawei |
| contents | Remote sensing vision-language models (RS-VLMs) face a fundamental mismatch with natural-image counterparts: the same geographic object exhibits radically different visual evidence across ground sampling distances (GSDs) spanning multiple orders of magnitude. Yet existing RS-VLMs often discard GSD or inject it as a discrete text token, forcing a single static parameter set to absorb the entire scale spectrum. We introduce ScaleEarth, a parameter-efficient fine-tuning framework built on Qwen3-VL that treats GSD as a continuous conditioning variable governing the model's computation path. At its core, CS-HLoRA (Continuous Scale-Conditioned Hyper-LoRA) modulates the LoRA low-rank subspace through a GSD-driven gate, enabling the model to dynamically route computation by physical scale. To remove reliance on sensor metadata at deployment, we pair CS-HLoRA with SSE-U, a lightweight heteroscedastic sub-head that predicts GSD and its uncertainty from visual features. To provide matching supervision, we construct GeoScale-VQA, a 1.5M-sample scale-layered RS-VQA corpus whose question-answer generation is conditioned on the same physical scalar that drives CS-HLoRA, forming a closed method-data loop. Trained with QLoRA on an 8B backbone, ScaleEarth achieves state-of-the-art results on remote-sensing benchmarks covering diverse Earth-system tasks, including XLRS-Bench and OmniEarth-Bench. |
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| spellingShingle | Beyond GSD-as-Token: Continuous Scale Conditioning for Remote Sensing VLMs Zhang, Song Chen, Yanlong Li, Yilin Chen, Yining Yi, Zili Zhang, Xiaowei Li, Yawei Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Remote sensing vision-language models (RS-VLMs) face a fundamental mismatch with natural-image counterparts: the same geographic object exhibits radically different visual evidence across ground sampling distances (GSDs) spanning multiple orders of magnitude. Yet existing RS-VLMs often discard GSD or inject it as a discrete text token, forcing a single static parameter set to absorb the entire scale spectrum. We introduce ScaleEarth, a parameter-efficient fine-tuning framework built on Qwen3-VL that treats GSD as a continuous conditioning variable governing the model's computation path. At its core, CS-HLoRA (Continuous Scale-Conditioned Hyper-LoRA) modulates the LoRA low-rank subspace through a GSD-driven gate, enabling the model to dynamically route computation by physical scale. To remove reliance on sensor metadata at deployment, we pair CS-HLoRA with SSE-U, a lightweight heteroscedastic sub-head that predicts GSD and its uncertainty from visual features. To provide matching supervision, we construct GeoScale-VQA, a 1.5M-sample scale-layered RS-VQA corpus whose question-answer generation is conditioned on the same physical scalar that drives CS-HLoRA, forming a closed method-data loop. Trained with QLoRA on an 8B backbone, ScaleEarth achieves state-of-the-art results on remote-sensing benchmarks covering diverse Earth-system tasks, including XLRS-Bench and OmniEarth-Bench. |
| title | Beyond GSD-as-Token: Continuous Scale Conditioning for Remote Sensing VLMs |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07562 |