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arxiv: 2606.29374 · v1 · pith:MMFGQRM5new · submitted 2026-06-28 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.GR

L2D2-GS: Learning to Densify for Feedforward Dynamic Gaussian Scene Reconstruction

Zetian Song , Chenming Wu , Junnan Liu , Chitian Sun , Liangliang He , Hangjun Ye , Jiaqi Zhang , Siwei Ma
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keywords 3D Gaussian Splattingfeedforward reconstructiondynamic scene reconstructiondensification policyself-supervised learningurban environmentsautonomous driving simulation
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The pith

Feedforward dynamic scene reconstruction improves by turning Gaussian primitive generation into a self-supervised iterative densification process guided by global reconstruction rewards.

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

The paper claims that generalizable reconstruction of dynamic urban scenes can be reframed as an iterative cycle of optimization and densification rather than a single forward pass. A self-supervised policy supplies explicit local rewards drawn from measured global quality gains to decide where to add primitives. Geometric regularization via reparameterization keeps early decisions from locking the model into bad local optima. If the approach holds, it would let feedforward models match or exceed the fidelity of per-scene optimization while using fewer primitives and generalizing across scenes without retraining.

Core claim

Reformulating feedforward Gaussian reconstruction as robust iterative optimization and densification, with a self-supervised policy that extracts reward signals from global reconstruction gains to steer local primitive addition and geometric regularization that constrains the optimization manifold, produces higher-fidelity results than one-shot regression baselines.

What carries the argument

The self-supervised densification policy that derives explicit reward signals from global reconstruction gains to guide local primitive addition.

If this is right

  • Dynamic urban scenes can be reconstructed at high fidelity without per-scene optimization.
  • Fewer Gaussian primitives suffice to reach the reported quality levels.
  • Zero-shot transfer to unseen sequences becomes stronger than in prior feedforward methods.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The same reward-from-global-gains idea could be tested on static scenes or non-Gaussian representations to check whether the iterative densification pattern generalizes.
  • If early-stage artifacts remain correctable only because of the specific reparameterization, removing that constraint should produce measurable drops on the same datasets.

Load-bearing premise

Global reconstruction gains supply reliable signals for deciding where to add primitives locally, and geometric regularization can always prevent early irreversible artifacts.

What would settle it

An ablation on PandaSet or Waymo in which the densification policy is replaced by uniform or random primitive addition and the resulting reconstruction error exceeds that of the reported baselines.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.29374 by Chenming Wu, Chitian Sun, Hangjun Ye, Jiaqi Zhang, Junnan Liu, Liangliang He, Siwei Ma, Wen Gao, Zetian Song.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Our proposed learning-to-densitfy framework enables generalizable reconstruction of dynamic urban scenes through a combination of feedforward [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of the proposed framework. Our method integrates a Dynamic Scene Reconstruction Module with a Policy-based Densification Module for dynamic outdoor scenes. We employ a Hybrid Neural Representation that decouples the scene into static and dynamic nodes, modeled via voxel-wise neural Gaussians. These Gaussians are recurrently optimized by sparse 3D U-Net. The Densification Module utilizes an attenti… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Visual comparison on Pandaset. Our approach produces sharp results with less artifacts, whereas competitors struggle to handle dynamics, exhibiting issues like distorted foreground objects or significant blurring. GT G3R Ours [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Full sequence reconstruction on Pandaset. While G3R exhibits severe blurring and artifacts due to missing geometry, our method preserves sharp textures and clear geometry, validating the efficiency of our self-supervised densification strategy. without any fine-tuning. We use the NOTR Dynamic32 split provided by Emernerf [44] for evaluation. B. Main Results Full Sequence Reconstruction. Table II reports th… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Zero-shot generalization on Waymo Open Dataset. We directly apply the model trained on PandaSet to Waymo sequences. Despite the domain gap, our method synthesizes high-fidelity novel views with consistent geometry, demonstrating robust cross-dataset generalization capabilities. TABLE II QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON ON FULL SEQUENCE INTERPOLATION. BOLD AND UNDERLINE INDICATE THE BEST AND SECOND-BEST RESULTS AMON… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Visualization of the densification process. Our policy-based strategy effectively localizes under-represented areas within the scene that lack geometric detail. The newly added Gaussian primitives, highlighted as yellow points, are strategically inserted into these regions to refine the reconstruction. TABLE V COMPONENT-WISE ABLATION STUDY. WE EVALUATE THE IMPACT OF DIFFERENT CORE COMPONENTS OF OUR PROPOSE… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Effectiveness of geometric regularization. Without reparameterization, the reconstruction is plagued by degenerate artifacts (highlighted in red boxes). Our method effectively suppresses these irregularities, ensuring robust geometric convergence. Ours GT T+1 T+2 T+3 T+4 T+5 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Scene editing applications. Our disentangled representation enables flexible manipulation of dynamic agents, such as vehicle removal and trajectory modification. This facilitates the synthesis of diverse corner cases for robust autonomous driving simulation. GT Ours (w/o Densify) AnySplat Ours [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Qualitative comparison on the DL3DV dataset. We use a 64-input-view setting to evaluate multiview consistency. AnySplat struggles with dense [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Qualitative Reconstruction Trajectory. Visualizations of the rendered novel views at different timesteps. Our method recovers the coarse scene structure efficiently within the first 4 timesteps, while the subsequent steps progressively refine high-frequency geometric and textural details (e.g., street lamps and textual signs). Scene Initialization. We initialize the positions of the 3D neural Gaussians us… view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Quantitative Reconstruction Trajectory. Evolution of objective metrics across reconstruction timesteps, averaged over the test scenes. The consistent trends demonstrate the stable convergence of our reconstruction module. VII. IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS Neural Gaussian Representation. We formulate the dy￾namic scene using a hybrid neural Gaussian representation. Specifically, each Gaussian primitive is define… view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Upper bound of reachable anisotropy ratio. We plot the maximum anisotropy ratio theoretically reachable under cumulative updates (assuming a constant unit update step per iteration). Our reparameterization (orange) effectively constrains the optimization manifold, enforcing a linear upper bound on shape deformation. In contrast, the standard formulation (blue) allows the boundary to explode exponentially,… view at source ↗
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High-fidelity reconstruction of dynamic urban environments is a cornerstone of autonomous driving simulation and large-scale world modeling. While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has established a new standard for real-time rendering, its reliance on expensive per-scene optimization limits scalability. Conversely, recent feedforward methods that infer Gaussian parameters offer faster speed but face fundamental bottlenecks: they are memory-prohibitive at high resolutions and struggle to fuse dense multi-view observations consistently. This paper presents L2D2-GS, a unified framework that reformulates generalizable reconstruction not as a one-shot regression, but as a robust iterative process of optimization and densification. To resolve the ambiguity of supervision in primitive generation, we propose a self-supervised densification policy that derives explicit reward signals from global reconstruction gains to guide local densification. Furthermore, we mitigate irreversible early-stage artifacts through a geometric regularization mechanism, utilizing reparameterization to constrain the optimization manifold and prevent convergence to poor local optima. Extensive experiments on the PandaSet and Waymo datasets demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art reconstruction fidelity and strong zero-shot generalization, while using fewer primitives than competing baselines.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper presents L2D2-GS, a unified framework for feedforward reconstruction of dynamic urban scenes via 3D Gaussian Splatting. It reformulates the task as an iterative process of optimization and densification, introducing a self-supervised densification policy that derives explicit reward signals from global reconstruction gains to guide local primitive addition, plus a geometric regularization mechanism using reparameterization to constrain the optimization manifold and avoid poor local optima. Experiments on PandaSet and Waymo are claimed to show SOTA reconstruction fidelity, strong zero-shot generalization, and use of fewer primitives than baselines.

Significance. If the central claims hold, the work could advance scalable, generalizable dynamic scene reconstruction for autonomous driving and world modeling by addressing memory and consistency bottlenecks in feedforward Gaussian methods while retaining real-time rendering advantages. The self-supervised policy and regularization are presented as key enablers for robustness without per-scene optimization.

major comments (2)
  1. [Method (self-supervised densification policy and geometric regularization)] The self-supervised densification policy (described in the method) relies on the assumption that global reconstruction gains provide reliable explicit rewards for local primitive addition decisions. This mapping is under-constrained in dynamic urban scenes; the manuscript provides no ablation studies, correlation metrics, or quantitative analysis demonstrating that early erroneous additions are reliably corrected by the geometric reparameterization, especially under zero-shot transfer to unseen scenes. This directly impacts the central claim of robust iterative reconstruction.
  2. [Experiments and Results] Results section claims SOTA fidelity and fewer primitives on PandaSet and Waymo, but the provided abstract and high-level description contain no tables, error bars, per-scene metrics, or baseline comparisons with numerical values. Without these, the quantitative superiority and the claim of using fewer primitives cannot be verified against the experimental setup.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and Experiments] Ensure all claims of SOTA performance reference specific quantitative tables or figures with error bars and ablation details for reproducibility.
  2. [Method] Clarify notation for the reward formulation and reparameterization to make the geometric regularization mechanism fully explicit.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on the self-supervised densification policy and the presentation of experimental results. We address each major comment below.

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  1. Referee: [Method (self-supervised densification policy and geometric regularization)] The self-supervised densification policy (described in the method) relies on the assumption that global reconstruction gains provide reliable explicit rewards for local primitive addition decisions. This mapping is under-constrained in dynamic urban scenes; the manuscript provides no ablation studies, correlation metrics, or quantitative analysis demonstrating that early erroneous additions are reliably corrected by the geometric reparameterization, especially under zero-shot transfer to unseen scenes. This directly impacts the central claim of robust iterative reconstruction.

    Authors: We agree that additional quantitative analysis would strengthen the central claim. The full manuscript describes the policy and regularization but does not include dedicated ablations or correlation metrics. In the revised version we will add (i) correlation plots between global reconstruction gains and local addition decisions, (ii) an ablation measuring the fraction of early erroneous additions corrected by geometric reparameterization, and (iii) zero-shot transfer results on held-out scenes. These additions will directly support the robustness argument. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Experiments and Results] Results section claims SOTA fidelity and fewer primitives on PandaSet and Waymo, but the provided abstract and high-level description contain no tables, error bars, per-scene metrics, or baseline comparisons with numerical values. Without these, the quantitative superiority and the claim of using fewer primitives cannot be verified against the experimental setup.

    Authors: The full manuscript contains a results section with tables, error bars, per-scene metrics, and baseline comparisons. However, the abstract and introductory summary do not present these numerical values. We will revise the manuscript to include a compact summary table of key metrics (PSNR, SSIM, primitive count) in the introduction or abstract, together with error bars, so that the SOTA and efficiency claims are immediately verifiable from the high-level text. revision: yes

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The abstract describes a self-supervised densification policy deriving rewards from global reconstruction gains and a geometric regularization via reparameterization, but provides no equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or self-citations that reduce any load-bearing claim to its own inputs by construction. No uniqueness theorems, ansatzes smuggled via citation, or renamings of known results are present. The central claims rest on experimental results on PandaSet and Waymo rather than definitional equivalence, making this a standard non-circular case.

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