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MoE3D: A Mixture-of-Experts Module for 3D Reconstruction

arXiv 2601.05208 ↗First posted 8 Jan 2026cs.CVcited by 4

On the map: Mixture-of-experts → Vision mixture-of-experts

Abstract (arXiv)

We propose a simple yet effective approach to enhance the performance of feed-forward 3D reconstruction models. Existing methods often struggle near depth discontinuities, where standard regression losses encourage spatial averaging and thus blur sharp boundaries. To address this issue, we introduce a mixture-of-experts formulation that handles uncertainty at depth boundaries by combining multiple smooth depth predictions. A softmax weighting head dynamically selects among these hypotheses on a per-pixel basis. By integrating our mixture model into a pre-trained state-of-the-art 3D model, we achieve a substantial reduction of boundary artifacts and gains in overall reconstruction accuracy. Notably, our approach is highly compute efficient, delivering generalizable improvements even when fine-tuned on a small subset of training data while incurring only negligible additional inference computation, suggesting a promising direction for lightweight and accurate 3D reconstruction.

Key facts. Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Vision mixture-of-experts, one of 12 directions in Mixture-of-experts. Builds on 32 of its 61 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 8 Jan 2026.

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  1. 2021Scaling Vision with Sparse Mixture of Experts10 Jun

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  1. 2025MoRE: 3D Visual Geometry Reconstruction Meets Mixture-of-Experts
  2. 2025MoE3D: Mixture of Experts meets Multi-Modal 3D Understanding
  3. 2025GeoMoE: Divide-and-Conquer Motion Field Modeling with Mixture-of-Experts for Two-View Geometry
  4. 2024Part123: Part-aware 3D Reconstruction from a Single-view Image
  5. 2026On the Design of Mixture-of-Experts for Dynamic Gaussian Splatting
  6. 2025Uni3D-MoE: Scalable Multimodal 3D Scene Understanding via Mixture of Experts
  7. 2025MoE-GS: Mixture of Experts for Dynamic Gaussian Splatting
  8. 2025Point-MoE: Large-Scale Multi-Dataset Training with Mixture-of-Experts for 3D Semantic Segmentation