arxiv: 2605.11743 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-12 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.LG

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WorldComp2D: Spatio-semantic Representations of Object Identity and Location from Local Views

SeongMin Jin , Doo Seok Jeong

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keywords spatio-semantic representationslatent space geometryproximity-dependent encodinglightweight vision modelsfacial landmark localizationobject identity and locationlocal receptive fieldsrepresentation learning

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WorldComp2D explicitly structures latent space geometry by object identity and spatial proximity for efficient spatio-semantic reasoning.

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The paper presents WorldComp2D as a framework that builds representations capturing both semantic identity and spatial location by explicitly organizing the latent space according to these factors using local receptive fields. This contrasts with implicit methods that rely on dense features or added heads, which can be computationally heavy. By testing on facial landmark localization, it achieves substantial reductions in model size and computation while preserving speed on CPUs. A sympathetic reader would see this as a step toward more efficient general-purpose vision systems that handle both what and where without extra overhead.

Core claim

WorldComp2D is a lightweight framework consisting of a proximity-dependent encoder that maps observations into a spatio-semantic latent space structured by object identity and spatial proximity via multiscale local receptive fields, paired with a localizer that extracts object coordinates from this representation. Demonstrated on facial landmark localization, it reduces parameters by up to 4.0X and FLOPs by 2.2X versus state-of-the-art lightweight models while maintaining real-time CPU performance. The results indicate that explicitly structured latent spaces form an efficient basis for spatio-semantic reasoning tasks.

What carries the argument

The proximity-dependent encoder using multiscale local receptive fields to structure the latent space by identity and proximity.

Load-bearing premise

The assumption that structuring latent space explicitly by identity and proximity will transfer efficiency and accuracy gains to general spatio-semantic tasks beyond facial landmarks.

What would settle it

Demonstrating on a different task such as multi-object detection in natural scenes that the parameter and FLOP reductions are lost or accuracy falls below comparable lightweight baselines.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.11743 by Doo Seok Jeong, SeongMin Jin.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Overview of WorldComp2D. Observations made by an agent are encoded into a spatio-semantic latent space in which object identity is preserved and latent distances reflect real-world spatial proximity. Object locations are then inferred from these representations via the localizer. RF1 and RF2 denote two receptive fields centered at fixation points F1 and F2, respectively. fundamentally different conditions… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Networks in WorldComp2D. (a) Proximity-dependent encoder (PdEnc), which maps fixation-centered observations to a normalized latent vector. (b) Localizer (Loc), which aggregates paired latent vectors and fixation coordinates to predict object locations. (c) Auxiliary localizer (AuxLoc), an optional refinement module that estimates a heatmap from a local patch and class-conditioned embedding [PITH_FULL_IMAG… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Example of sample augmentation for proximity-weighted contrastive learning. The right eye, left eye, nose, left mouth corner, and right mouth corner are denoted by re, le, no, ml, and mr, respectively. loss (PWConLoss) as follows. LPWC = −1 |B| X i∈B 1 Ni X j∈B\{i} wij1{ci∈Pj }lij | {z } between ci and cj (i ̸= j) + 1 N′ i X j∈B′ wij1{ci∈Pj }lij | {z } between ci and random observation o . (2) Ni = X j… view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Fixation points on a given image for NF = 9, 5, and 4. 4.1. Implementation Detail Each image was cropped to include the full head, randomly rescaled (±5%), horizontally flipped (50%), and rotated (60%, ±10◦ ), then resized to 256 × 256. During facial landmark localization, we first computed the mean location for each landmark across the samples in a given dataset, and Loc predicted an offset relative to th… view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Analysis of spatio-semantic latent representation. (a) L2 distances between individual landmark representations and their corresponding class means. (b) L2 distances between the left pupil representation and other landmarks representations within the same image. L2 distances as a function of spatial distance from a given landmark obtained from (c) PdEnc and (d) from an encoder trained using proximity-unwei… view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Localized landmarks (red circles) and ground-truth annotations (green circles) on sample images from COFW, 300W and AFLW [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Normalized localization runtime decomposed into five sub-workloads. second-scale receptive field (o [2]). This leads to a longer processing time than patch extraction for AuxLoc that uses first-scale patches only. As such, AuxLoc serves as an auxiliary module that refines the localization predicted by Loc, but it still accounts for [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_7.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Learning curve for (a) PdEnc, (b) Loc, and (c) AuxLoc [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_1.png] view at source ↗

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Learning latent representations that capture both semantic and spatial information is central to efficient spatio-semantic reasoning. However, many existing approaches rely on implicit latent structures combined with dense feature maps or task-specific heads, limiting computational efficiency and flexibility. We propose WorldComp2D, a novel lightweight representation learning framework that explicitly structures latent space geometry according to object identity and spatial proximity using multiscale local receptive fields. This framework consists of (i) a proximity-dependent encoder that maps a given observation into a spatio-semantic latent space and (ii) a localizer that infers the coordinates of objects in the input from the resulting spatio-semantic representation. Using facial landmark localization as a proof-of-concept, we show that, compared to SoTA lightweight models, WorldComp2D reduces the numbers of parameters and FLOPs by up to 4.0X and 2.2X, respectively, while maintaining real-time performance on CPU. These results demonstrate that explicitly structured latent spaces provide an efficient and general foundation for spatio-semantic reasoning. This framework is open-sourced at https://github.com/JinSeongmin/WorldComp2D.

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WorldComp2D gives a clean new architecture for explicit proximity-based latent structuring in lightweight vision models and backs it with real efficiency numbers on facial landmarks, but the generalization story is still thin.

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The main thing to know is that this paper introduces a proximity-dependent encoder plus a localizer that together force the latent space to organize itself by object identity and spatial closeness, using multiscale local receptive fields. They test it as a proof-of-concept on facial landmark localization and report up to 4x fewer parameters and 2.2x fewer FLOPs than current lightweight SoTA models while staying real-time on CPU. The code is open-sourced, which is useful for anyone who wants to inspect the implementation.

Referee Report

1 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes WorldComp2D, a lightweight representation learning framework that explicitly structures latent space geometry according to object identity and spatial proximity via a proximity-dependent encoder with multiscale local receptive fields, paired with a localizer that infers object coordinates. Using facial landmark localization as a proof-of-concept, it reports up to 4.0X fewer parameters and 2.2X fewer FLOPs than state-of-the-art lightweight models while preserving real-time CPU performance, and claims this demonstrates that explicitly structured latent spaces provide an efficient and general foundation for spatio-semantic reasoning. The code is open-sourced.

Significance. If the explicit structuring mechanism generalizes and the efficiency gains prove robust across tasks, the approach could contribute to more parameter-efficient models for joint semantic-spatial reasoning without relying on dense feature maps. The open-sourcing of the implementation supports reproducibility and is a clear strength.

major comments (1)

[Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that the results demonstrate an 'efficient and general foundation for spatio-semantic reasoning' is not supported by the evidence presented. All quantitative results are restricted to facial landmark localization; no experiments, ablations, or results are provided on other spatio-semantic tasks (e.g., object detection, scene layout) where face-specific geometric priors do not apply. This leaves open whether the reported gains arise from the proposed latent-space mechanism or from task-specific design choices.

minor comments (2)

The experimental section should report error bars, exact data splits, training details, and a broader set of baselines to allow verification of the efficiency numbers.
Notation for the proximity-dependent encoder and multiscale receptive fields could be clarified with a diagram or explicit equations to improve readability.

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on the scope of our claims. We agree that the abstract overstates the generality of the results and will revise the manuscript to address this.

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Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that the results demonstrate an 'efficient and general foundation for spatio-semantic reasoning' is not supported by the evidence presented. All quantitative results are restricted to facial landmark localization; no experiments, ablations, or results are provided on other spatio-semantic tasks (e.g., object detection, scene layout) where face-specific geometric priors do not apply. This leaves open whether the reported gains arise from the proposed latent-space mechanism or from task-specific design choices.

Authors: We acknowledge that all quantitative results and ablations are confined to facial landmark localization, which serves as the proof-of-concept task in the paper. This task was selected because it demands both object identity discrimination (distinguishing specific landmarks) and precise spatial localization, directly exercising the proximity-dependent encoder and localizer. The core mechanisms—multiscale local receptive fields in the encoder and the coordinate-inferring localizer—contain no face-specific priors and operate on local views in a manner that is in principle applicable to other spatio-semantic problems. Nevertheless, we agree that the phrasing 'demonstrate ... general foundation' is not warranted by the presented evidence alone. We will revise the abstract to replace 'demonstrate' with 'provide initial evidence toward' and will expand the discussion section to explicitly note the current scope limitation, discuss why the architecture is task-agnostic, and outline how it could be adapted to tasks such as object detection or scene layout without relying on face geometry. No new experiments will be added in the revision. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; empirical efficiency claims rest on external SoTA comparisons

full rationale

The paper introduces WorldComp2D as a framework with proximity-dependent encoder and localizer, then reports parameter/FLOP reductions versus external state-of-the-art lightweight models on a facial-landmark proof-of-concept. No equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, self-citations, or ansatzes appear in the derivation chain. The central claim is supported by direct benchmarking rather than reducing to quantities defined inside the paper.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Abstract-only review provides no details on free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the framework introduces new encoder and localizer components whose internal assumptions cannot be audited from available text.

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proximity-weighted contrastive learning... wij = 1 + exp(-0.025 d_ij)... latent space where object identity is preserved and latent distances reflect real-world spatial proximity
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