cs.CVSep 30, 2026

MeshOctave generates meshes via cascading resolution transitions

Authors: Junkai Lin, Tianhao Zhao, Hang Long, Huipeng Guo, Jielei Zhang, Youjia Zhang, Jiale Xu, Wenbing Li, +5 more

Organizations: Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Meshy AI · Independent Researcher · Technical University of Munich

Abstract

Generating compact, artist-style meshes with explicit topology typically relies on autoregressive models which incur prohibitive sequential per-token costs, or continuous flow models that depend on heuristic connectivity decoders. Next-scale generation paradigms offer a compelling alternative by enabling parallel intra-scale token prediction and coarse-to-fine refinement from global structure to local topology; yet, existing methods derive hierarchical scales via progressive mesh simplification and invert them sequentially. This eliminates intra-scale parallelism and scales generation steps linearly with face count. In this paper, we propose MeshOctave, which instead defines scale through dyadic spatial grid resolutions, framing coarsening as a deterministic collapse that merges vertices sharing a voxel cell and inherits connectivity. Its inverse operation, split-and-rewire, determines which octant sub-vertices are instantiated for each coarse face and resolves local connectivity using discrete structural tokens. These per-face operations require no serialization, each scale transition is modeled as an unordered set that adds one bit of coordinate precision, naturally supporting dynamic-length meshes and adaptive resolution refinement. We construct a scale-conditioned masked-uniform discrete diffusion model to learn split-and-rewire operation from resolution collapse hierarchies. MeshOctave outperforms strong baselines in geometric fidelity and topological validity by a non-trivial margin, while supporting adaptive resolution refinement and extending naturally to mesh subdivision tasks.

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