Text-based Person Anomaly Search (TPAS) retrieves a target pedestrian using natural-language descriptions of appearance and normal or anomalous behavior. Unlike conventional text-based person retrieval, TPAS must preserve identity cues while distinguishing fine-grained behaviors. It presents two challenges: same-identity, different-behavior hard negatives cause gradient conflict during granular alignment, while strong appearance cues can obscure weak behavioral evidence during aggregation. We propose GradCO (behavior-aware Gradient-Conflict Offloading), comprising three complementary components. Behavior-Aware Mixture-of-Experts (B-MoE) forms appearance, normal-behavior, and anomalous-behavior streams whose roles are learned from retrieval objectives without expert-specific semantic labels. Conflict Offload Learning (COL) uses pair-conditioned offload anchors in similarity computation to reduce the conflicting-gradient burden on the main text representations. Hierarchical Intent Alignment (HIA) aggregates expert similarities and features using query-conditioned weights. Experiments on five TPAS/TIPR benchmarks show GradCO significantly surpasses SOTA methods and validate our design.
Functional segmentation requires locating small interactive parts, such as knobs, buttons, and sockets, in indoor point clouds and returning confidence-ranked instance masks. A point-wise semantic predictor produces a continuous probability field, whereas the benchmark evaluates a discrete set of scored instances. This creates a substantial field-to-instance gap. We present TopoField, a deterministic decoder built on top of VOLT. TopoField first converts 13 test-time forward passes into a semantic consensus field, then decodes instance candidates from the consensus geometry, and finally ranks the candidates in a class-aware manner. The augmentation stage retains the processed-point identity of every fragment prediction, accumulates probabilities in a common point array, normalizes by coverage count, and fuses the resulting caches. The decoding stage separates high-confidence cores from broader support regions, constructs a symmetric radius-pruned point graph, and uses a multi-source graph-geodesic partition to split support regions that contain multiple seeds. On 561 ground-truth instances across 30 validation scenes, an IoU-0.5-valid candidate exists for 67.2% of instances, and top-1 coverage is 20.0%. These complementary measurements motivate joint attention to candidate construction and ranking. TopoField achieves 28.286% AP, 41.383% AP50, and 47.558% AP25. TopoField achieved second place on the ECCV 2026 SceneFun3D Challenge.
Zixu Li Shandong University, Yupeng Hu, Zhiheng Fu, Zhiwei Chen Shandong University, Yongqi Li Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Liqiang Nie Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) and Shandong University
Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is an important image retrieval paradigm that enables users to retrieve a target image using a multimodal query that consists of a reference image and modification text. Although research on CIR has made significant progress, prevailing setups still rely simple modification texts that typically cover only a limited range of salient changes, which induces two limitations highly relevant to practical applications, namely Insufficient Entity Coverage and Clause-Entity Misalignment. In order to address these issues and bring CIR closer to real-world use, we construct two instruction-rich multi-modification datasets, M-FashionIQ and M-CIRR. In addition, we propose TEMA, the Text-oriented Entity Mapping Architecture, which is the first CIR framework designed for multi-modification while also accommodating simple modifications. Extensive experiments on four benchmark datasets demonstrate that TEMA’s superiority in both original and multi-modification scenarios, while maintaining an optimal balance between retrieval accuracy and computational efficiency. Our codes and constructed multi-modification dataset (M-FashionIQ and M-CIRR) are available at https://github.com/lee-zixu/ACL26-TEMA/
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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表