GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
A Pseudo-Label Optimization Method Based on Polar Coordinate Modeling and Prior Constraints
Authors: Yudi Wang; Hailan Shen; Yixiao Fu; Yuqi Li; Zeshi Lu; Zailiang Chen
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and its automatic segmentation are pivotal in assisting physicians with clinical diagnosis. In recent years, with the scarcity of labeled data, significant advancements have been made in semi-supervised segmentation. However, the prediction of many current methods is affected by the presence of false positive regions, which limits their reliability in clinical applications. To tackle this issue, we propose a pseudo-label optimization method based on polar coordinate modeling and prior constraints (PMPC), which refines false positive regions in pseudo-labels by leveraging prior knowledge within the polar coordinate system. Firstly, to improve the efficiency and rationality during polar coordinate modeling, the Adaptive Pole Selection (APS) algorithm is presented to ensure that the pole is located within the foreground region. Secondly, to mitigate false positive regions in pseudo-labels that violate medical anatomical priors, we propose the Prior Knowledge Constraint in Polar Coordinate System (KCP) module to reassign pixel categories in these regions. Finally, the Shape-aware Weighting (SaW) strategy is presented to evaluate the quality of the optimized pseudo-labels based on their shape and then determine their weight in guiding network parameter updates. Experiments on three MRI datasets demonstrate that the proposed method can be effectively integrated with existing pelvic MRI segmentation approaches, significantly reducing false positive rates and further improving segmentation quality.
PATexGS: Perceptual-Adaptive Texture Scheduling for Visual Coherence in Textured Gaussian Splatting
Authors: Yuesong Wang; Dounian Ma; Xiaoyu Chen; Tao Guan
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a mainstream solution for real-time rendering and high-fidelity novel view synthesis. Building on this foundation, methods based on Textured Gaussians further improve the expression ability by incorporating explicit texture mapping into Gaussians. However, their reliance on fixed texture resolution often results in noticeable visual incoherence, triggering artifacts such as aliasing or inconsistent sharpness under different viewpoints.
To address these issues, we propose PATexGS, a perceptual-adaptive texture scheduling framework designed to improve visual coherence for Textured Gaussians. Specifically, we introduce an entropy-guided texture allocation strategy that dynamically adjusts texture resolution based on each Gaussian’s spatial gradient and rendering contribution, constantly preserving details while being memory efficiency. Furthermore, we incorporate a mipmap-inspired hierarchical scheduling mechanism that adaptively schedule texture levels according to view-dependent projection scale, effectively suppressing aliasing and further enhancing perceptual consistency.
Extensive experiments on diverse real-world scenes demonstrate that PATexGS significantly improves visual coherence while maintaining high rendering quality, outperforming existing TexturedGS variants in both perceptual fidelity and storage efficiency.
ASCD: Attention-Steerable Contrastive Decoding for Reducing Hallucination in MLLM
Authors: Yujun Wang; Aniri; Jinhe Bi; Soren Pirk; Yunpu Ma
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) frequently hallucinate by over-committing to spurious visual cues. Prior remedies–Visual and Instruction Contrastive Decoding (VCD, ICD)–mitigate this issue, yet the mechanism remains opaque. We first empirically show that their improvements systematically coincide with redistributions of cross-modal attention. Building on this insight, we propose Attention-Steerable Contrastive Decoding (ASCD), which directly steers the attention scores during decoding. ASCD combines (i) positive steering, which amplifies automatically mined text-centric heads–stable within a model and robust across domains–with (ii) negative steering, which dampens on-the-fly identified critical visual tokens. The method incurs negligible runtime/memory overhead and requires no additional training. Across five MLLM backbones and three decoding schemes, ASCD reduces hallucination on POPE, CHAIR, and MMHal-Bench by up to 38.2% while improving accuracy on standard VQA benchmarks, including MMMU, MM-VET, ScienceQA, TextVQA, and GQA. These results position attention steering as a simple, model-agnostic, and principled route to safer, more faithful multimodal generation.
Topology-Aware Vision Transformers for Enhanced Scene Recognition
Authors: Yunxi Wang; Shuaiyu Liu; Qiling Li; Yazhou Ren; Xiaorong Pu
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Scene recognition (SR) is a fundamental task in computer vision (CV). In recent years, Transformer-based methods have achieved remarkable success in scene recognition tasks. Most existing approaches primarily rely on visual features, while failing to effectively model the structural relationships within scenes, which are crucial for accurate scene recognition. To this end, we propose Topology Attention Network for Scene Recognition (TANSR), an innovative method that leverages topological relationships from graphs to guide scene recognition. Specifically, Graph Attention Mask Generation Network (GAMGN) generates topology-aware masks from graph representations constructed by Graph Generation Module (GGM) and integrates them with patch embeddings by Topology Attention Guidance (TAG), enabling the transformer's attention mechanism to incorporate topological information. Furthermore, we introduce an innovative attention-driven multimodal fusion strategy that integrates graph-derived topological cues with visual patch embeddings, substantially enhancing the transformer’s capability to capture topological information and improving performance in complex scene recognition tasks. We evaluate TANSR on the benchmarks MIT-67, Scene-15 and SUN397, where it achieves consistent state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance, including 98.58% accuracy on MIT-67.
TIME: Temporal-Sensitive Multi-Dimensional Instruction Tuning and Robust Benchmarking for Video-LLMs
Authors: Yunxiao Wang; Meng Liu; Wenqi Liu; Xuemeng Song; Bin Wen; Fan Yang; Tingting Gao; Di Zhang; Guorui Zhou; Liqiang Nie
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Video large language models have achieved remarkable performance in tasks such as video question answering, however, their temporal understanding remains suboptimal. To address this limitation, we curate a dedicated instruction fine-tuning dataset that focuses on enhancing temporal comprehension across five key dimensions.  In order to reduce reliance on costly temporal annotations, we introduce a multi-task prompt fine-tuning approach that seamlessly integrates temporal-sensitive tasks into existing instruction datasets without requiring additional annotations. Furthermore, we develop a novel benchmark for temporal-sensitive video understanding that not only fills the gaps in dimension coverage left by existing benchmarks but also rigorously filters out potential shortcuts, ensuring a more accurate evaluation. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that our approach significantly enhances the temporal understanding of video-LLMs while avoiding reliance on shortcuts.
Personalize Your Gaussian: Consistent 3D Scene Personalization from a Single Image
Authors: Yuxuan Wang; Xuanyu Yi; Qingshan Xu; Yuan Zhou; Long Chen; Hanwang Zhang
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Personalizing 3D scenes from a single reference image enables intuitive user-guided editing, which requires achieving both multi-view consistency across perspectives and referential consistency with the input image. However, these goals are particularly challenging due to the viewpoint bias caused by the limited perspective provided in a single image. Lacking the mechanisms to effectively expand reference information beyond the original view, existing methods of image-conditioned 3DGS personalization often suffer from this viewpoint bias and struggle to produce consistent results. Therefore, in this paper, we present Consistent Personalization for 3D Gaussian Splatting (CP-GS), a framework that progressively propagates the single-view reference appearance to novel perspectives. In particular, CP-GS integrates pre-trained image-to-3D generation and iterative LoRA fine-tuning to extract and extend the reference appearance, and finally produces faithful multi-view guidance images and the personalized 3DGS outputs through a view-consistent generation process guided by geometric cues. Extensive experiments on real-world scenes show that our CP-GS effectively mitigates the viewpoint bias, achieving high-quality image-conditioned 3DGS personalization that significantly outperforms existing methods.
MCGS: Markov Chain Gaussian Splatting for Dynamic Scenes Reconstruction
Authors: Yuzhong Wang; Wenmin Wang; Shixiong Zhang; Xinxing Yu; Zhongheng Chen
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: We present MCGS (Markov Chain Gaussian Splatting), a novel approach for high-fidelity dynamic scene reconstruction via combining Markov chain and 3D Gaussian splatting. Our method addresses the critical challenge of artifact-free temporal consistency in dynamic neural rendering. By integrating a Markov chain-based deformation network with multi-head temporal attention, MCGS effectively captures motion patterns and temporal dependencies, producing more accurate and stable 3D representations over time. The key innovations include: (1) a Markov Deform Network that models state transitions while preserving temporal coherence, (2) a temporal attention mechanism that adaptively weights historical states within a sliding window, and (3) strategic noise injection during training to enhance model robustness and generalization. Experiments on representative dynamic scene datasets demonstrate that MCGS outperforms previous methods in both visual quality and temporal coherence, while maintaining competitive rendering speed and efficiency. These results suggest the practical applicability of our approach to real-world dynamic scene understanding and synthesis.
Verb Mirage: Unveiling and Assessing Verb Concept Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models
Authors: Zehao Wang; Xinpeng Liu; Yudonglin Zhang; Xiaoqian Wu; Zhou Fang; Yifan Fang; Junfu Pu; Cewu Lu; Yong-Lu Li
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have garnered significant attention recently and demonstrate outstanding capabilities in various tasks such as OCR, VQA, captioning, etc. However, hallucination remains a persistent issue. While numerous methods have been proposed to mitigate hallucinations, achieving notable improvements, these methods primarily focus on mitigating hallucinations related to object/noun concepts. Verb concepts, which are crucial for understanding human actions, have been largely overlooked. In this paper, to the best of our knowledge, we are the first to investigate the verb hallucination phenomenon of MLLMs from various perspectives. Our findings reveal that most state-of-the-art MLLMs suffer from severe verb hallucination. To assess the effectiveness of existing mitigation methods for object concept hallucination in relation to verb hallucination, we evaluated these methods and found that they do not effectively address verb hallucination. To address this issue, we propose a baseline method based on fine-tuning with rich verb knowledge, achieving decent superiority. The experiment results demonstrate that our method significantly reduces hallucinations related to verbs.
Minute-Long Videos with Dual Parallelisms
Authors: Zeqing Wang; Bowen Zheng; Xingyi Yang; Zhenxiong Tan; Yuecong Xu; Xinchao Wang
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Diffusion Transformer (DiT)-based video diffusion models generate high-quality videos at scale but incur prohibitive processing latency and memory costs for long videos. To address this, we propose a novel distributed inference strategy, termed DualParal. The core idea is that, instead of generating an entire video on a single GPU, we parallelize computation by partitioning both video frames and model layers across multiple GPUs. However, a naive parallel implementation is not feasible. Because all frames need to share the same noise level, they can't be processed independently. Instead, every step must wait for all others to finish, which cancels out the speed benefits of parallel processing. We overcome this obstacle with a block-wise denoising scheme. Namely, we segment the video into sequential blocks, each with a different noise level. As a result, we process them in a pipeline across the GPUs. Each GPU, holding a subset of the model layers, processes a specific block of frames and passes the results to the next GPU, enabling asynchronous computation and communication. To further optimize performance, we incorporate two key enhancements. Firstly, each GPU uses a feature cache technique to reduce the overhead of smooth transitions by reusing only features involved in cross-frame computation from the prior block, minimizing inter-GPU communication and redundant computation. Secondly, we employ a coordinated noise initialization strategy, ensuring globally consistent temporal dynamics by sharing initial noise patterns across GPUs. Together, these enable fast, artifact-free, and infinitely long video generation. Applied to the latest diffusion transformer video generator, our method efficiently produces 1,025-frame videos with up to 6.54x lower latency and 1.48x lower memory cost on 8xRTX 4090 GPUs.
Difficulty Controlled Diffusion Model for Synthesizing Effective Training Data
Authors: Zerun Wang; Jiafeng Mao; Xueting Wang; Toshihiko Yamasaki
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Generative models have become a powerful tool for synthesizing training data in computer vision tasks. Current approaches solely focus on aligning generated images with the target dataset distribution. As a result, they capture only the common features in the real dataset and mostly generate "easy samples", which are already well learned by models trained on real data. In contrast, those rare "hard samples", with atypical features but crucial for enhancing performance, cannot be effectively generated. Consequently, these approaches must synthesize large volumes of data to yield appreciable performance gains, yet the improvement remains limited. To overcome this limitation, we present a novel method that can learn to control the learning difficulty of samples during generation while also achieving domain alignment. Thus, it can efficiently generate valuable "hard samples" that yield significant performance improvements for target tasks. This is achieved by incorporating learning difficulty as an additional conditioning signal in generative models, together with a designed encoder structure and training–generation strategy. Experimental results across multiple datasets show that our method can achieve higher performance with lower generation cost. Specifically, we obtain the best performance with only 10% additional synthetic data, saving 63.4 GPU hours of generation time compared to the previous SOTA on ImageNet. Moreover, our method provides insightful visualizations of category-specific hard factors, serving as a tool for analyzing datasets.
Breaking Task Boundaries: A Unified Model for 3D Medical Image Fusion and Segmentation Guided by Manifold Perspective
Authors: Zeyu Wang; Jiayu Wang; Haiyu Song
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: 3D medical image fusion (MIF) and segmentation (MIS) are critical and inherently synergistic tasks in medical image analysis. However, fundamentally integrating them remains highly challenging, since effective collaborative paradigms are still scarce and their optimization objectives fundamentally diverge. Moreover, existing continual learning techniques are unable to achieve truly advanced performance for both tasks using a shared weight. To address these challenges, we propose M²-CoFS, a unified model capable of jointly handling both tasks. Our core contribution is a “network-guided network learning” paradigm designed to break the task boundaries. We model the weight spaces of MIF and MIS as high-dimensional manifolds and innovatively use a lightweight neural network to implicitly construct a shared manifold. Interestingly, this network yields a unified weight for both tasks. To ensure the shared manifold retains the intrinsic geometry of both original manifolds, we embed manifold distances into the loss function of this network as a constraint. Additionally, we design a tailored three-stage training paradigm for our core contribution mentioned above. Stage I focuses on independent task optimization for high-quality weights; Stage II aims to reduce parameter-space distance between tasks via our cross-task weight adaptation strategy; Our core innovation serves as stage III. Experimental results show that M²-CoFS consistently outperforms state-of-the-art comparison models on both MlF and MIS.
SigFusion: Unified Signal-Level Self-Supervised Learning Paradigm for Image Fusion
Authors: Zeyu Wang; Jiawei Feng; Jiayu Wang; Pengjie Wang; Haiyu Song
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Image Fusion (IF) aims to integrate complementary features from multiple source images into a single image. However, a key challenge in this field is the lack of large-scale real-world training datasets. Existing models typically rely on either small datasets or synthetic, less realistic datasets. To address this, we propose SigFusion, a unified signal-level self-supervised learning paradigm for various IF tasks.The core idea is to use signal-level Pseudo-Label Generation Networks (PLGN) to automatically synthesize training sets and pseudo labels with real multi-source signal characteristics from vast unlabeled natural images.PLGN includes two critical components: learnable 1D Signal Modulators (SM) and SigFormer. SM learns implicit 1D signal patterns across various source images and embeds them into natural images, reducing the domain gap between synthetic and real datasets. SigFormer integrates Transformer with signal processing methods, establishing an appropriate signal representation space for SM. Its cascaded, multi-level design allows hierarchical feature learning from coarse to fine detail. Moreover, SigFormer can serve as a flexible backbone for IF, as its design adheres to the classic decomposition-reconstruction paradigm. Experimental results demonstrate that SigFusion achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple IF tasks, including medical image fusion, infrared-visible image fusion, multi-focus image fusion, and multi-exposure image fusion.
Fine-Grained Generalization via Structuralizing Concept and Feature Space into Commonality, Specificity and Confounding
Authors: Zhen Wang; Jiaojiao Zhao; Qilong Wang; Yongfeng Dong; Wenlong Yu
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Fine-Grained Domain Generalization (FGDG) presents greater challenges than conventional domain generalization due to the subtle inter-class differences and relatively pronounced intra-class variations inherent in fine-grained recognition tasks. Under domain shifts, the model becomes overly sensitive to fine-grained cues, leading to the suppression of critical features and a significant drop in performance. 
Cognitive studies suggest that humans classify objects by leveraging both common and specific attributes, enabling accurate differentiation between fine-grained categories. However, current deep learning models have yet to incorporate this mechanism effectively. Inspired by this mechanism, we propose Concept-Feature Structuralized Generalization (CFSG). This model explicitly disentangles both the concept and feature spaces into three structured components: common, specific, and confounding segments. 
To mitigate the adverse effects of varying degrees of distribution shift, we introduce an adaptive mechanism that dynamically adjusts the proportions of common, specific, and confounding components. 
In the final prediction, explicit weights are assigned to each pair of components. 
Extensive experiments on three single-source benchmark datasets demonstrate that CFSG achieves an average performance improvement of 9.87% over baseline models and outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods by an average of 3.08%. Additionally, explainability analysis validates that CFSG effectively integrates multi-granularity structured knowledge and confirms that feature structuralization facilitates the emergence of concept structuralization.
SpatioTemporal Difference Network for Video Depth Super-Resolution
Authors: Zhengxue Wang; Yuan Wu; Xiang Li; Zhiqiang Yan; Jian Yang
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Depth super-resolution has achieved impressive performance, and the incorporation of multi-frame information further enhances reconstruction quality. Nevertheless, statistical analyses reveal that video depth super-resolution remains affected by pronounced long-tailed distributions, with the long-tailed effects primarily manifesting in spatial non-smooth regions and temporal variation zones. To address these challenges, we propose a novel SpatioTemporal Difference Network (STDNet) comprising two core branches: a spatial difference branch and a temporal difference branch. In the spatial difference branch, we introduce a spatial difference mechanism to mitigate the long-tailed issues in spatial non-smooth regions. This mechanism dynamically aligns RGB features with learned spatial difference representations, enabling intra-frame RGB-D aggregation for depth calibration. In the temporal difference branch, we further design a temporal difference strategy that preferentially propagates temporal variation information from adjacent RGB and depth frames to the current depth frame, leveraging temporal difference representations to achieve precise motion compensation in temporal long-tailed areas. Extensive experimental results across multiple datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our STDNet, outperforming existing approaches.
DiffusionPose: Markov-Optimized Diffusion Model for Human Pose Estimation
Authors: Zhigang Wang; Zhenguang Liu; Shaojing Fan; Sifan Wu; Yingying Jiao
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Video-based human pose estimation has long been a nontrivial task due to its dynamic nature and challenging detection scenarios such as occlusion and defocus. Inspired by the success of diffusion models, researchers have applied them to video pose estimation, outperforming traditional joint detection methods. However, existing diffusion model-based methods still face challenges like slow convergence and unstable pose generation. To tackle these issues, we propose DiffusionPose, a novel framework for video pose estimation that integrates diffusion models with optimization strategies: (1) We combine the emerging Mamba with Transformers to balance global and local spatio-temporal modeling. (2) We integrate Markov Random Fields into the reverse diffusion process to enhance the denoising of pose heatmaps, particularly addressing the issue of confused generation of occluded joints. (3) We mathematically formulate a Markov objective to supervise the heatmap denoising process, enabling the model to generate anatomically plausible skeletons. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on three large-scale benchmark datasets. Interestingly, it shows surprising robustness in challenging video scenarios, improving the accuracy of the most difficult ankle joint by 16.9% compared to the previous best diffusion model-based method on the Challenging-PoseTrack dataset.