cs.CVFeb 28, 2026

Mesh-Pro: Asynchronous Advantage-guided Ranking Preference Optimization for Artist-style Quadrilateral Mesh Generation

Authors: Zhen Zhou, Jian Liu, Biwen Lei, Jing Xu, Haohan Weng, Yiling Zhu, Zhuo Chen, Junfeng Fan, 

Organizations: Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Tencent Hunyuan · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Abstract

Reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated remarkable success in text and image generation, yet its potential in 3D generation remains largely unexplored. Existing attempts typically rely on offline direct preference optimization (DPO) method, which suffers from low training efficiency and limited generalization. In this work, we aim to enhance both the training efficiency and generation quality of RL in 3D mesh generation. Specifically, (1) we design the first asynchronous online RL framework tailored for 3D mesh generation post-training efficiency improvement, which is 3.75×\times faster than synchronous RL. (2) We propose Advantage-guided Ranking Preference Optimization (ARPO), a novel RL algorithm that achieves a better trade-off between training efficiency and generalization than current RL algorithms designed for 3D mesh generation, such as DPO and group relative policy optimization (GRPO). (3) Based on asynchronous ARPO, we propose Mesh-Pro, which additionally introduces a novel diagonal-aware mixed triangular-quadrilateral tokenization for mesh representation and a ray-based reward for geometric integrity. Mesh-Pro achieves state-of-the-art performance on artistic and dense meshes.

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