PolypSteer: Counterfactual Endoscopic Synthesis via Training-Free Activation Steering
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arXiv:2603.07066v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative diffusion models are increasingly used for medical imaging data augmentation, but text prompting cannot produce causal training data. Re-prompting rerolls the entire generation trajectory, altering anatomy, texture, and background. Inversion-based editing methods introduce reconstruction error that causes structural drift. We propose PolypSteer, a training-free activation-steering framework for endoscopic synthesis. PolypSteer identifies a pathology vector for each contrastive prompt pair in the cross-attention layers of a di
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- arXiv:2603.07066v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative diffusion models are increasingly used for medical imaging data augmentation, but text prompting cannot produce causal training data.
- Re-prompting rerolls the entire generation trajectory, altering anatomy, texture, and background.
- Inversion-based editing methods introduce reconstruction error that causes structural drift.
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The importance of “PolypSteer: Counterfactual Endoscopic Synthesis via Training-Free Activation Steering” will be measured by what changes in practice. User behavior, access conditions, verifiable performance and responsible-use outcomes are the signals worth following.
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