CARA: Collision-Aware Resolution Adaptation for Multiresolution Hash Encoding Based Image Fitting

Multiresolution hash encodings have recently enabled fast and high-fidelity implicit neural representations by storing multi-scale features in fixed-size hash tables along a geometric resolution schedule. However, the standard design is data-agnostic: different resolution levels receive identical hash-table capacity despite large differences in image frequency content. As a result, some levels experience severe hash collisions while others underutilize parameters, leading to inefficient capacity allocation. To address this issue, we propose Collision-Aware Resolution Adaptation (CARA), a method that assigns per-level resolutions by balancing the effective information load across hash levels. This adaptive allocation reduces capacity bottlenecks and improves parameter efficiency. In addition, we introduce an invertible pixel-shuffle transform that reduces hash load factors by redistributing spatial information, thereby mitigating collision-induced information loss without enlarging the hash tables. To support evaluation on extremely high-resolution data, we also curate, to the best of our knowledge, the first uncompressed wholeslide image dataset for academic research. Experiments on Kodak images, gigapixel natural images, and raw whole-slide images demonstrate that CARA consistently improves the fidelity–parameter trade-off. Our method matches state-of-the-art performance while using only 27.76% of the parameters, and achieves up to 6.11dB PSNR improvement at comparable parameter counts. Code is provided in the supplementary.