# Bias for Action: Video Implicit Neural Representations with Bias Modulation

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09277 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.09277/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 37 of its 50 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 16 Jan 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 37)

- [DeepSDF: Learning Continuous Signed Distance Functions for Shape Representation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1901.05103/) (2019)
- [Implicit Neural Representations with Periodic Activation Functions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.09661/) (2020)
- [Mip-NeRF: A Multiscale Representation for Anti-Aliasing Neural Radiance Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.13415/) (2021)
- [On the Spectral Bias of Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1806.08734/) (2018)
- [NeRF in the Wild: Neural Radiance Fields for Unconstrained Photo Collections](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2008.02268/) (2020)
- [KiloNeRF: Speeding up Neural Radiance Fields with Thousands of Tiny MLPs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.13744/) (2021)
- [Zip-NeRF: Anti-Aliased Grid-Based Neural Radiance Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.06706/) (2023)
- [NeRV: Neural Reflectance and Visibility Fields for Relighting and View Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.03927/) (2020)
- [NeRV: Neural Representations for Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.13903/) (2021)
- [WIRE: Wavelet Implicit Neural Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.05187/) (2023)
- [Texture Fields: Learning Texture Representations in Function Space](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.07259/) (2019)
- [Implicit Neural Representations for Image Compression](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.04267/) (2021)
- [Modulated Periodic Activations for Generalizable Local Functional Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.03960/) (2021)
- [Beyond Periodicity: Towards a Unifying Framework for Activations in Coordinate-MLPs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.15135/) (2021)
- [A Structured Dictionary Perspective on Implicit Neural Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.01917/) (2021)
- [HNeRV: A Hybrid Neural Representation for Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.02633/) (2023)
- [E-NeRV: Expedite Neural Video Representation with Disentangled Spatial-Temporal Context](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.08132/) (2022)
- [Dynamic CT Reconstruction from Limited Views with Implicit Neural Representations and Parametric Motion Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.11745/) (2021)
- [HiNeRV: Video Compression with Hierarchical Encoding-based Neural Representation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.09818/) (2023)
- [C3: High-performance and low-complexity neural compression from a single image or video](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.02753/) (2023)
- [Learning a Neural 3D Texture Space from 2D Exemplars](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.04158/) (2019)
- [NIRVANA: Neural Implicit Representations of Videos with Adaptive Networks and Autoregressive Patch-wise Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.14593/) (2022)
- [FFNeRV: Flow-Guided Frame-Wise Neural Representations for Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.12294/) (2022)
- [Learning Deep Implicit Functions for 3D Shapes with Dynamic Code Clouds](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.14048/) (2022)
- [DNeRV: Modeling Inherent Dynamics via Difference Neural Representation for Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.06544/) (2023)
- [Towards Scalable Neural Representation for Diverse Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.14124/) (2023)
- [CoIL: Coordinate-based Internal Learning for Imaging Inverse Problems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.05181/) (2021)
- [INCODE: Implicit Neural Conditioning with Prior Knowledge Embeddings](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.18846/) (2023)
- [Boosting Neural Representations for Videos with a Conditional Decoder](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.18152/) (2024)
- [ResFields: Residual Neural Fields for Spatiotemporal Signals](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.03160/) (2023)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Structure-Preserving Patch Decoding for Efficient Neural Video Representation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.12896/) (2025)
- [Is Class Signal Clustered or Routed in Task-Induced Implicit Neural Representation Weight Spaces?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.08281/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We propose a new continuous video modeling framework based on implicit neural representations (INRs) called ActINR. At the core of our approach is the observation that INRs can be considered as a learnable dictionary, with the shapes of the basis functions governed by the weights of the INR, and their locations governed by the biases. Given compact non-linear activation functions, we hypothesize that an INR's biases are suitable to capture motion across images, and facilitate compact representations for video sequences. Using these observations, we design ActINR to share INR weights across frames of a video sequence, while using unique biases for each frame. We further model the biases as the output of a separate INR conditioned on time index to promote smoothness. By training the video INR and this bias INR together, we demonstrate unique capabilities, including 10× video slow motion, 4x spatial super resolution along with 2x slow motion, denoising, and video inpainting. ActINR performs remarkably well across numerous video processing tasks (often achieving more than 6dB improvement), setting a new standard for continuous modeling of videos.