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arxiv: 2511.11232 · v2 · submitted 2025-11-14 · 💻 cs.CV

DoReMi: Bridging 3D Domains via Topology-Aware Domain-Representation Mixture of Experts

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keywords 3D scene understandingMixture of Expertsdomain adaptationtopology-aware routingsemantic segmentationself-supervised pre-trainingcross-domain generalizationpoint cloud processing
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The pith

DoReMi combines self-supervised structural pre-training with dynamic topology-guided expert routing to build a single model that handles 3D data from different sensors.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper tries to establish that Mixture-of-Experts networks for 3D scene understanding can overcome routing bias when data shares semantics but differs in topology due to sensor variations. It introduces a self-supervised pre-training branch that learns from topological and texture changes to fix cross-domain structural priors in place. A second branch then uses spatial context to guide routing and entropy measures to decide how many experts activate at each step. Together these allow one set of weights to extract general features while adapting locally to topology shifts. The result is reported gains on indoor segmentation benchmarks that previously required separate models per domain.

Core claim

Through the synergy of these dual branches, DoReMi achieves a deep integration of universal feature extraction and highly adaptive expert allocation. It achieves 80.1% mIoU on the ScanNet validation set and 77.2% mIoU on S3DIS, comprehensively outperforming existing state-of-the-art methods.

What carries the argument

Dual-branch architecture: a self-supervised multi-attribute pre-training branch that anchors topological and texture priors, paired with a domain-aware expert branch using Domain Spatial-Guided Routing to sense local topology and Entropy-controlled Dynamic Allocation to adjust active experts by routing uncertainty.

If this is right

  • A single set of weights can now process both indoor and outdoor 3D scenes without separate domain-specific fine-tuning.
  • Expert routing decisions become sensitive to local spatial structure rather than semantics alone, reducing misallocation on heterogeneous inputs.
  • Dynamic control of expert activation via routing entropy keeps training stable while still allowing adaptation to varying topology.
  • The same dual-branch pattern yields measurable lifts on semantic segmentation across multiple public 3D benchmarks.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same structural-prior anchoring could be tested on 3D tasks beyond segmentation, such as detection or reconstruction, where topology also varies by sensor.
  • MoE designs in other fields that face heterogeneous inputs might reduce routing bias by adding an early self-supervised branch focused on domain-specific structure.
  • If the entropy-controlled allocation proves robust, it offers a practical knob for trading compute against accuracy on edge devices that ingest mixed 3D streams.

Load-bearing premise

That self-supervised training on topological and texture variations can anchor cross-domain structural priors strongly enough to override semantics-driven routing bias in existing 3D MoE networks.

What would settle it

Train the model on a fresh collection of 3D scenes that keep semantic labels consistent but introduce new topological shifts from unseen sensor setups, then measure whether ablating the pre-training branch or the spatial-routing and entropy mechanisms eliminates the reported gains over standard MoE baselines.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2511.11232 by Mingwei Xing, Xinliang Wang, Yifeng Shi.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Performance of DoReMi. DoReMi advances multiple state-of-the-art benchmarks on 3D scene understanding datasets. verse 3D datasets [2, 8, 55], 3D deep learning has achieved remarkable progress in tasks such as semantic segmen￾tation, object detection, and other 3D understanding ap￾plications [6, 23, 48]. However, compared with 2D vi￾sion tasks, the 3D vision field still faces the dual chal￾lenges of limited… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: The architecture of DoReMi. It combines two branches: a domain-aware branch (Do) and a unified-representation branch (Re). DoReMi starts with a pretrained model generated through self-supervised learning on multi-attribute data. Re freezes this pretrained knowledge to extract cross-domain geometric and structural patterns. Meanwhile, Do uses Domain-Guided Spatial Routing (DSR) and Entropy-Controlled Dynami… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Qualitative analysis. Visualization of different methods on ScanNet [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Expert utilization rates across different datasets. Taking Encoder Stage 2 as an example, y-axis values represent dataset-specific normalized utilization. More distribution results can be found in the supplementary materials. mentary material. In S3DIS, Experts 0 and 4 are activated more frequently, suggesting they specialize to the dataset’s spatial and semantic patterns. In Structured3D, activations are … view at source ↗
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Constructing a unified 3D scene understanding model has long been hindered by the significant topological discrepancies across different sensor modalities. While applying the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture is an effective approach to achieving universal understanding, we observe that existing 3D MoE networks often suffer from semantics-driven routing bias. This makes it challenging to address cross-domain data characterized by "semantic consistency yet topological heterogeneity." To overcome this challenge, we propose DoReMi (Topology-Aware Domain-Representation Mixture of Experts). Specifically, we introduce a self-supervised pre-training branch based on multi attributes, such as topological and texture variations, to anchor cross-domain structural priors. Building upon this, we design a domain-aware expert branch comprising two core mechanisms: Domain Spatial-Guided Routing (DSR), which achieves an acute perception of local topological variations by extracting spatial contexts, and Entropy-controlled Dynamic Allocation (EDA), which dynamically adjusts the number of activated experts by quantifying routing uncertainty to ensure training stability. Through the synergy of these dual branches, DoReMi achieves a deep integration of universal feature extraction and highly adaptive expert allocation. Extensive experiments across various tasks, encompassing both indoor and outdoor scenes, validate the superiority of DoReMi. It achieves 80.1% mIoU on the ScanNet validation set and 77.2% mIoU on S3DIS, comprehensively outperforming existing state-of-the-art methods. The code will be released soon.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces DoReMi, a topology-aware Mixture-of-Experts architecture for unified 3D scene understanding across sensor modalities with semantic consistency but topological heterogeneity. It proposes a dual-branch design consisting of a self-supervised multi-attribute pre-training branch to anchor cross-domain structural priors and a domain-aware expert branch that incorporates Domain Spatial-Guided Routing (DSR) for local topological perception via spatial contexts and Entropy-controlled Dynamic Allocation (EDA) for uncertainty-aware expert activation. The authors report state-of-the-art results of 80.1% mIoU on the ScanNet validation set and 77.2% mIoU on S3DIS, with code release planned.

Significance. If the reported gains hold under rigorous validation, the work offers a practical advance toward universal 3D models by explicitly targeting semantics-driven routing bias in MoE networks. The integration of self-supervised structural priors with adaptive routing mechanisms is a coherent response to cross-domain topological discrepancies, and the explicit plan to release code is a clear strength for reproducibility and follow-on research.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4.1 and Table 2] §4.1 and Table 2: the central claim of comprehensive outperformance relies on the dual-branch synergy, yet the ablation study does not isolate the contribution of the self-supervised pre-training branch versus the DSR/EDA components with statistical significance testing or multiple random seeds; this weakens the attribution of the 80.1% and 77.2% mIoU figures to the proposed mechanisms rather than standard MoE scaling.
  2. [§3.2] §3.2, description of EDA: the entropy-controlled dynamic allocation is presented as ensuring training stability by quantifying routing uncertainty, but the manuscript does not specify the exact threshold or functional form used to adjust the number of activated experts (e.g., whether it is a fixed entropy cutoff or a learned schedule), leaving the mechanism under-specified for reproduction.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Figure 3] Figure 3: the visualization of expert activation patterns would be clearer with an additional panel showing routing entropy values across domains to directly illustrate the EDA mechanism.
  2. [§2] §2: the motivation section would benefit from a brief quantitative comparison (e.g., routing bias statistics) on a small cross-domain subset to ground the claim that existing 3D MoE networks suffer primarily from semantics-driven bias.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback and the recommendation for minor revision. We address each major comment point by point below.

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  1. Referee: [§4.1 and Table 2] §4.1 and Table 2: the central claim of comprehensive outperformance relies on the dual-branch synergy, yet the ablation study does not isolate the contribution of the self-supervised pre-training branch versus the DSR/EDA components with statistical significance testing or multiple random seeds; this weakens the attribution of the 80.1% and 77.2% mIoU figures to the proposed mechanisms rather than standard MoE scaling.

    Authors: We thank the referee for this observation. Our ablation studies in §4.1 and Table 2 progressively incorporate the self-supervised pre-training branch followed by the DSR and EDA components to demonstrate their individual and combined contributions. However, we agree that the absence of multiple random seeds and statistical significance testing limits the strength of attribution. In the revised manuscript we will report mean and standard deviation over at least three independent runs with different seeds and include paired statistical tests (e.g., t-tests) against the baseline MoE variants to better isolate the effect of the proposed mechanisms. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2, description of EDA: the entropy-controlled dynamic allocation is presented as ensuring training stability by quantifying routing uncertainty, but the manuscript does not specify the exact threshold or functional form used to adjust the number of activated experts (e.g., whether it is a fixed entropy cutoff or a learned schedule), leaving the mechanism under-specified for reproduction.

    Authors: We agree that the current description of EDA in §3.2 lacks the precise implementation details required for reproduction. We will revise this section to explicitly state the functional form, including the entropy threshold, the rule for increasing the number of activated experts, and whether the schedule is fixed or adaptive, together with the corresponding pseudocode or equations. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; novel components on standard MoE base

full rationale

The derivation introduces a self-supervised multi-attribute pre-training branch to anchor structural priors and a domain-aware expert branch with DSR (spatial-guided routing) and EDA (entropy-controlled allocation). These are presented as new mechanisms addressing observed semantics-driven routing bias in existing 3D MoE networks. Performance numbers (80.1% mIoU ScanNet, 77.2% S3DIS) are empirical outcomes, not reductions by construction. No equations or self-citations in the provided text reduce the central claims to fitted inputs, self-definitions, or prior author uniqueness theorems. Minor self-citation risk at most, but central argument remains independent.

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  • Domain Spatial-Guided Routing (DSR) no independent evidence
    purpose: Achieves acute perception of local topological variations by extracting spatial contexts
    Core mechanism introduced in the domain-aware expert branch
  • Entropy-controlled Dynamic Allocation (EDA) no independent evidence
    purpose: Dynamically adjusts the number of activated experts by quantifying routing uncertainty to ensure training stability
    Core mechanism introduced in the domain-aware expert branch

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