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.
Rubric-based reinforcement learning uses fine-grained grader feedback to train large language models on open-ended tasks, but grader randomness can alter GRPO updates in ways that score discrepancies alone cannot characterize. Because GRPO jointly normalizes rewards within each response group and combines the resulting training coefficients with response-level gradients, a scoring discrepancy can shift the coefficients of the entire group and induce policy-dependent update changes. Selective execution further affects the direction-reversal risk of retained updates. To address this, we propose Set-Valued Group Relative Policy Optimization (SetGRPO). It comprises three modules: (a) Joint Reward Set Calibration constructs a joint uncertainty set for the training coefficients; (b) Geometry-Guided Safe Recovery maps candidate coefficients into the current policy's local update geometry and determines the largest safe recovery ratio for each response group; and (c) Selective Risk-Gated Optimization selects a global threshold through independent risk calibration to control the conditional direction-reversal risk of accepted updates while preserving the original GRPO objective. Under exchangeability, SetGRPO provides finite-sample marginal coverage for the joint coefficient set and simultaneous risk control across candidate thresholds. On ten open-ended benchmarks spanning three domains, SetGRPO achieves the highest macro average among all compared training methods on both Qwen3.5 and Llama3.2 model families.