CLiFT: Compressive Light-Field Tokens for Compute-Efficient and Adaptive Neural Rendering
Pretrained checkpoints for CLiFT (NeurIPS 2025 spotlight; arXiv, project page, code).
CLiFT represents a scene as compressed light-field tokens (CLiFTs): an encoder tokenizes the input views, latent K-means selects centroid tokens, and a neural condenser aggregates each cluster into its centroid. A single trained model supports compute-adaptive rendering — fewer tokens for lower storage/compute, more tokens for higher quality.
Checkpoints
| File | Description | Place at (in the code repo) |
|---|---|---|
re10k/first_stage.ckpt | RealEstate10K encoder-decoder (LVSM-style, random token-drop) | output/re10k_first_stage/training/last.ckpt |
re10k/second_stage.ckpt | RealEstate10K condenser (full CLiFT model) | output/re10k_second_stage/training/last.ckpt |
dl3dv/first_stage.ckpt | DL3DV encoder-decoder, fine-tuned from the RE10K model | output/dl3dv_first_stage/training/last.ckpt |
dl3dv/second_stage.ckpt | DL3DV condenser (full CLiFT model) | output/dl3dv_second_stage/training/last.ckpt |
The second-stage checkpoints are the full CLiFT models used for the paper's main results. The first-stage checkpoints are used by the random / K-means selection baselines, for K-means annotation, and as the initialization for condenser training.
Precomputed K-means assignments (for condenser training)
| File | Description |
|---|---|
re10k/kmeans_faiss_no_features_merged.zip | Per-scene K-means assignments for RealEstate10K second-stage training (extract to re10k_data/kmeans_faiss_no_features_merged/) |
dl3dv/dl3dv_kmeans_faiss_merged.tar.zst | Per-scene K-means assignments for DL3DV second-stage training (tar --zstd -xf ... -C Dataset/) |
Only needed for training the condenser; evaluation just needs the checkpoints.
Usage
git clone https://github.com/eric-zqwang/CLiFT.git
cd CLiFT
# download the checkpoints to the paths above, prepare data (see docs/), then e.g.
bash script/eval/eval_clift.sh # RE10K
bash script/eval/eval_dl3dv.sh 6 # DL3DV, 6 context views
See the test guide for evaluation and the training guide for the two-stage training pipeline.
Citation
@inproceedings{Wang2025CLiFT,
author = {Wang, Zhengqing and Wu, Yuefan and Chen, Jiacheng and Zhang, Fuyang and Furukawa, Yasutaka},
title = {CLiFT: Compressive Light-Field Tokens for Compute Efficient and Adaptive Neural Rendering},
booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
year = {2025},
}