Linear Recurrent Unit with Semantic Modulation for Image Super-Resolution
This repository contains the pre-trained weights for LSM, presented in the paper Linear Recurrent Unit with Semantic Modulation for Image Super-Resolution.
- GitHub Repository: https://github.com/MingyuChoi-run/LSM
- Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19901
Abstract
Linear recurrent unit (LRU), designed with a principled formulation for stable linear recurrence, has demonstrated promising accuracy and robustness on long-range dependency tasks. However, its static parameterization and single-scan method limits its applicability to 2D vision tasks. In this study, we propose a LRU-based restoration network with a semantic modulating unit (SMU) to achieve a harmonious balance between performance and efficiency in single-image super-resolution. The SMU plays three key roles: LRU modulation, spatial categorization, and feature enhancement through learned prototype. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method quantitatively and qualitatively surpasses recent state-of-the-art methods. Notably, our approach achieves superior performance while maintaining computational complexity on par with existing efficient methods.

Citation
@InProceedings{Choi_2026_CVPR,
author = {Choi, Mingyu and Han, Woo Kyoung and Im, Sunghoon and Jin, Kyong Hwan},
title = {Linear Recurrent Unit with Semantic Modulation for Image Super-Resolution},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Findings},
month = {June},
year = {2026},
pages = {4950-4960}
}
Acknowledgements
This code is built on BasicSR.