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LocateAnything: Fast and High-Quality Vision-Language Grounding with Parallel Box Decoding

2026/05/26 by Shihao Wang, Shilong Liu, Yuanguo Kuang +10 · 1 voice · 2 citations
Computer Science · #Advanced Neural Network Applications #Bottleneck #Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) #Decoding methods #Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning #Inference #Multimodal Machine Learning Applications #Scalability #Sequential decoding #Throughput #cs.AI #cs.CV #cs.LG #cs.RO

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.27365

openalex publication_date 2026/05/26 · arxiv published 2026/05/26 · arxiv updated 2026/05/27 · openalex created_date 2026/05/28 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Vision-language models (VLMs) commonly formulate visual grounding and detection as a coordinate-token generation problem, serializing each 2D box into multiple 1D tokens that are learned and decoded largely independently. This token-by-token decoding mismatches the coupled structure of box geometry and creates a practical inference bottleneck due to strictly sequential generation. We introduce LocateAnything, a unified generative grounding and detection framework based on Parallel Box Decoding (PBD). By decoding geometric elements such as bounding boxes and points as atomic units in a single step, LocateAnything preserves intra-box geometric coherence and unlocks substantial parallelism. We show that PBD improves both decoding throughput and localization accuracy. We further develop a scalable data engine and curate LocateAnything-Data, a large-scale dataset with more than 138 million training samples, substantially increasing data diversity for high-precision localization. Extensive evaluations show that LocateAnything advances the speed-accuracy frontier, achieving significantly higher decoding throughput while improving high-IoU localization quality across diverse benchmarks. The results highlight the complementary benefits of Parallel Box Decoding and large-scale training data in enabling efficient and precise unified visual grounding and detection.

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