# MambaFusion: Height-Fidelity Dense Global Fusion for Multi-modal 3D Object Detection

Source: [MambaFusion: Height-Fidelity Dense Global Fusion for Multi-modal 3D Object Detection](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa79d51e209131cea7f9c1>)

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Data updated: 2025-10-27T06:56:50.936Z

Authors: Hanshi Wang, Jin Gao, Weiming Hu, Zhipeng Zhang

Published: 2025-07-06T12:29:45.000Z

## Abstract

We present the first work demonstrating that a pure Mamba block can achieve efficient Dense Global Fusion, meanwhile guaranteeing top performance for camera-LiDAR multi-modal 3D object detection. Our motivation stems from the observation that existing fusion strategies are constrained by their inability to simultaneously achieve efficiency, long-range modeling, and retaining complete scene information. Inspired by recent advances in state-space models (SSMs) and linear attention, we leverage their linear complexity and long-range modeling capabilities to address these challenges. However, this is non-trivial since our experiments reveal that simply adopting efficient linear-complexity methods does not necessarily yield improvements and may even degrade performance. We attribute this degradation to the loss of height information during multi-modal alignment, leading to deviations in sequence order. To resolve this, we propose height-fidelity LiDAR encoding that preserves precise height information through voxel compression in continuous space, thereby enhancing camera-LiDAR alignment. Subsequently, we introduce the Hybrid Mamba Block, which leverages the enriched height-informed features to conduct local and global contextual learning. By integrating these components, our method achieves state-of-the-art performance with the top-tire NDS score of 75.0 on the nuScenes validation benchmark, even surpassing methods that utilize high-resolution inputs. Meanwhile, our method maintains efficiency, achieving faster inference speed than most recent state-of-the-art methods.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04369>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.04369.pdf>)
