GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
Improving the Convergence Rate of Ray Search Optimization for Query-Efficient Hard-Label Attacks
Authors: Xinjie Xu; Shuyu Cheng; Dongwei Xu; Qi Xuan; Chen Ma
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: In hard-label black-box adversarial attacks, where only the top-1 predicted label is accessible, the prohibitive query complexity poses a major obstacle to practical deployment. In this paper, we focus on optimizing a representative class of attacks that search for the optimal ray direction yielding the minimum ℓ₂-norm perturbation required to move a benign image into the adversarial region. Inspired by Nesterov's Accelerated Gradient (NAG), we propose a momentum-based algorithm, ARS-OPT, which proactively estimates the gradient with respect to a future ray direction inferred from accumulated momentum. We provide a theoretical analysis of its convergence behavior, showing that ARS-OPT enables more accurate directional updates and achieves faster, more stable optimization. To further accelerate convergence, we incorporate surrogate-model priors into ARS-OPT's gradient estimation, resulting in PARS-OPT with enhanced performance. The superiority of our approach is supported by theoretical guarantees under standard assumptions. Extensive experiments on ImageNet and CIFAR-10 demonstrate that our method surpasses 13 state-of-the-art approaches in query efficiency.
PMGS: Reconstruction of Projectile Motion Across Large Spatiotemporal Spans via 3D Gaussian Splatting
Authors: Yijun Xu; Jingrui Zhang; Yuhan Chen; Dingwen Wang; Lei Yu; Chu He
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Modeling complex rigid motion across large spatiotemporal spans remains an unresolved challenge in dynamic reconstruction. Existing paradigms are mainly confined to short-term, small-scale deformation and offer limited consideration for physical consistency. This study proposes PMGS, focusing on reconstructing Projectile Motion via 3D Gaussian Splatting. The workflow comprises two stages: 1) Target Modeling: achieving object-centralized reconstruction through dynamic scene decomposition and an improved point density control; 2) Motion Recovery: restoring full motion sequences by learning per-frame SE(3) poses. We introduce an acceleration consistency constraint to bridge Newtonian mechanics and pose estimation, and design a dynamic simulated annealing strategy that adaptively schedules learning rates based on motion states. Futhermore, we devise a Kalman fusion scheme to optimize error accumulation from multi-source observations to mitigate disturbances. Experiments show PMGS’s superior performance in reconstructing high-speed nonlinear rigid motion compared to mainstream dynamic methods.
Dynamic Gaussian Scene Reconstruction from Unsynchronized Videos
Authors: Zhixin Xu; Hengyu Zhou; Yuan Liu; Wenhan Xue; Hao Pan; Wenping Wang; Bin Wang
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Multi-view video reconstruction plays a vital role in computer vision, enabling applications in film production, virtual reality, and motion analysis. While recent advances such as 3D Gaussian Splatting have demonstrated impressive capabilities in dynamic scene reconstruction, they typically rely on the assumption that input video streams are temporally synchronized. However, in real-world scenarios, this assumption often fails due to factors like camera trigger delays, frame rate discrepancies, or independent recording setups, leading to temporal misalignment across views and reduced reconstruction quality. To address this challenge, a novel temporal alignment strategy is proposed for high-quality 4DGS reconstruction from unsynchronized multi-view videos. Our method features a coarse-to-fine alignment module that estimates and compensates for each camera's time shift. The method first determines a coarse, frame-level offset and then refines it to achieve sub-frame accuracy. This strategy can be integrated as a plug-and-play module into existing 4DGS frameworks, enhancing their robustness when handling asynchronous data. Experiments show that this approach effectively processes temporally misaligned videos and significantly enhances baseline methods.
TSPE-GS: Probabilistic Depth Extraction for Semi-Transparent Surface Reconstruction via 3D Gaussian Splatting
Authors: Zhiyuan Xu; Min Nan; Yuhang Guo; Tong Wei
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting-based geometry reconstruction is regarded as an excellent paradigm due to its favorable trade-off between speed and reconstruction quality. However, such 3D Gaussian-based reconstruction pipelines often face challenges when reconstructing semi-transparent surfaces, hindering their broader application in real-world scenes. The primary reason is the assumption in mainstream methods that each pixel corresponds to one specific depth—an assumption that fails under semi-transparent conditions where multiple surfaces are visible, leading to depth ambiguity and ineffective recovery of geometric structures. To address these challenges, we propose TSPE-GS (Transparent Surface Probabilistic Extraction for Gaussian Splatting), a novel probabilistic depth extraction approach that uniformly samples transmittance to model the multi-modal distribution of opacity and depth per pixel, replacing the previous single-peak distribution that caused depth confusion across surfaces. By progressively fusing truncated signed distance functions, TSPE-GS separately reconstructs distinct external and internal surfaces in a unified framework. Our method can be easily generalized to other Gaussian-based reconstruction pipelines, effectively extracting semi-transparent surfaces without requiring additional training overhead. Extensive experiments on both public and self-collected semi-transparent datasets, as well as opaque object datasets, demonstrate that TSPE-GS significantly enhances reconstruction accuracy for semi-transparent surfaces while maintaining reconstruction quality in opaque scenes.
Target-Balanced Score Distillation
Authors: Zhou Xu; Qi Wang; Yuxiao Yang; Luyuan Zhang; Zhang Liang; Yang Li
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) enables 3D asset generation by distilling priors from pretrained 2D text-to-image diffusion models, but vanilla SDS suffers from over-saturation and over-smoothing. To mitigate this issue, recent variants have incorporated negative prompts. However, these methods face a critical trade-off: limited texture optimization, or significant texture gains with shape distortion. In this work, we first conduct a systematic analysis and reveal that this trade-off is fundamentally governed by the utilization of the negative prompts, where Target Negative Prompts (TNP) that embed target information in the negative prompts dramatically enhancing texture realism and fidelity but inducing shape distortions. Informed by this key insight, we introduce the Target-Balanced Score Distillation (TBSD). It formulates generation as a multi-objective optimization problem and introduces an adaptive strategy that effectively resolves the aforementioned trade-off. Extensive experiments demonstrate that TBSD significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods, yielding 3D assets with high-fidelity textures and geometrically accurate shape.
VideoSeg-R1:Reasoning Video Object Segmentation via Reinforcement Learning
Authors: Zishan Xu; Yifu Guo; Yuquan Lu; Fengyu Yang; Junxin Li; Lihua Cai
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Traditional video reasoning segmentation methods rely on supervised fine-tuning, which limits generalization to out-of-distribution scenarios and lacks explicit reasoning. To address this, we propose VideoSeg-R1, the first framework to introduce reinforcement learning into video reasoning segmentation. It adopts a decoupled architecture that formulates the task as joint referring image segmentation and video mask propagation. It comprises three stages: (1) A hierarchical text-guided frame sampler to emulate human attention; (2) A reasoning model that produces spatial cues along with explicit reasoning chains; and (3) A segmentation-propagation stage using SAM2 and XMem. A task difficulty-aware mechanism adaptively controls reasoning length for better efficiency and accuracy. Extensive evaluations on multiple benchmarks demonstrate that VideoSeg-R1 achieves state-of-the-art performance in complex video reasoning and segmentation tasks.
LinProVSR: Linguistics-Knowledge Guided Progressive Disambiguation Network for Visual Speech Recognition
Authors: Feng Xue; Baochao Zhu; Wei Jia; Shujie Li; Yu Li; Jinrui Zhang; Shengeng Tang; Dan Guo
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Visual Speech Recognition (VSR), commonly known as lipreading,  enables the recognition of spoken text by analyzing lip visual features. Due to the subtlety of lip movements, its recognition is much harder than other motion recognition tasks. Existing VSR models face the challenge of viseme ambiguity when processing phonemes with similar pronunciations—multiple phonemes share similar viseme features, leading to a notable drop in lipreading accuracy. To address this issue, this study proposes a Linguistics-Knowledge Guided Progressive Disambiguation Network for Visual Speech Recognition(LinProVSR) framework. First, an ambiguous sample set is constructed based on linguistic knowledge to provide supervisory signals for the model's training. Then, a Progressive Contrastive Disambiguation Network (PCDN) is designed, which progressively  enhances the model's ability to capture the subtle viseme differences corresponding to similar phonemes through viseme-phoneme contrastive disambiguation in the encoding stage and text contrastive disambiguation in the decoding stage. Furthermore, we pioneer the Ambiguous Word Error Rate (AWER) metric specifically for evaluating recognition of phonetically ambiguous text,  and verify the effectiveness of the proposed method on multiple public datasets, achieving a significant breakthrough especially in distinguishing visually similar phonemes.
Dual-View Inference Attack: Machine Unlearning Amplifies Privacy Exposure
Authors: Lulu Xue; Shengshan Hu; Linqiang Qian; Peijin Guo; Yechao Zhang; Minghui Li; Yanjun Zhang; Dayong Ye; Leo Yu Zhang
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Machine unlearning is a newly popularized technique for removing specific training data from a trained model, enabling it to comply with data deletion requests. While it protects the rights of users requesting unlearning, it also introduces new privacy risks. Prior works have primarily focused on the privacy of data that has been unlearned, while the risks to retained data remain largely unexplored. 
To address this gap, we focus on the privacy risks of retained data and, for the first time, reveal the vulnerabilities introduced by machine unlearning under the dual-view setting, where an adversary can query both the original and the unlearned models. From an information-theoretic perspective, we introduce the concept of privacy knowledge gain and demonstrate that the dual-view setting allows adversaries to obtain more information than querying either model alone, thereby amplifying privacy leakage.  To effectively demonstrate this threat, we propose DVIA, a Dual-View Inference Attack, which extracts membership information on retained data using black-box queries to both models. DVIA eliminates the need to train an attack model and employs a lightweight likelihood ratio inference module for efficient inference. Experiments across different datasets and model architectures validate the effectiveness of DVIA and highlight the privacy risks inherent in the dual-view setting.
SpaCRD: Multimodal Deep Fusion of Histology and Spatial Transcriptomics for Cancer Region Detection
Authors: Shuailin Xue; Jun Wan; Lihua Zhang; Wenwen Min
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Accurate detection of cancer tissue regions (CTR) enables deeper analysis of the tumor microenvironment and offers crucial insights into treatment response. Traditional CTR detection methods, which typically rely on the rich cellular morphology in histology images, are susceptible to a high rate of false positives due to morphological similarities across different tissue regions. The groundbreaking advances in spatial transcriptomics (ST) provide detailed cellular phenotypes and spatial localization information, offering new opportunities for more accurate cancer region detection. However, current methods are unable to effectively integrate histology images with ST data, especially in the context of cross-sample and cross-platform/batch settings for accomplishing the CTR detection. To address this challenge, we propose SpaCRD, a transfer learning-based method that deeply integrates histology images and ST data to enable reliable CTR detection across diverse samples, platforms, and batches. Once trained on source data, SpaCRD can be readily generalized to accurately detect cancerous regions across samples from different platforms and batches. The core of SpaCRD is a category-regularized variational reconstruction-guided bidirectional cross-attention fusion network, which enables the model to adaptively capture latent co-expression patterns between histological features and gene expression from multiple perspectives. Extensive benchmark analysis on 23 matched histology-ST datasets spanning various disease types, platforms, and batches demonstrates that SpaCRD consistently outperforms existing eight state-of-the-art methods in CTR detection.
UVLM: Benchmarking Video Language Model for Underwater World Understanding
Authors: Xizhe Xue; Yang Zhou; Dawei Yan; Lijie Tao; Junjie Li; Ying Li; Haokui Zhang; Rong Xiao
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Recently, video-language models (VidLMs) have gained widespread attention and adoption. However, existing works primarily focus on terrestrial scenarios, overlooking the highly demanding application needs of underwater observation. To overcome this gap, we introduce UVLM, an under water observation benchmark which is build through a collaborative approach combining human expertise and AI models. To ensure data quality, we have conducted in-depth considerations from multiple perspectives. First, to address the unique challenges of underwater environments, we selected videos that represent typical underwater challenges including light variations, water turbidity, and diverse viewing angles to construct the dataset. Second, to ensure data diversity, the dataset covers a wide range of frame rates, resolutions, 419 classes of marine animals, and various static plants and terrains. Next, for task diversity, we adopted a structured design where observation targets are categorized into two major classes: biological and environmental. Each category includes content observation and change/action observation, totaling 20 subtask types. Finally, we designed several challenging evaluation metrics to enable quantitative comparison and analysis of different methods. Experiments on two representative VidLMs demonstrate that fine-tuning VidLMs on UVLM significantly improves underwater world understanding while also showing potential for slight improvements on existing in-air VidLM benchmarks.
Diff-NAT: Better Naturalistic and Aggressive Adversarial Attacks via Class-Optimized Diffusion for Object Detection
Authors: Qinglong Yan; Tong Zou; Xunpeng Yi; Xinyu Xiang; Xuying Wu; Hao Zhang; Jiayi Ma
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Recent advances in naturalistic physical adversarial patch generation show great promise in protecting personal privacy against detector-based malicious surveillance while remaining inconspicuous to human observers. In this work, we present the first systematic categorization and in-depth re-examination of existing methods into three representative paradigms, revealing a pervasive imbalance: enforcing naturalness constraints inherently restricts the adversarial search space, thus limiting attack performance. To address this challenge, we propose a novel paradigm based on class-optimized diffusion, termed Diff-NAT. Diff-NAT leverages pretrained diffusion models as powerful natural image priors and introduces a unified iterative framework that jointly optimizes two complementary components: semantic-level textual prompts and instance-level latent codes. Specifically, prompt optimization enables broad traversal across inter-class semantic regions, while latent refinement allows for fine-grained manipulation within class objectives. This dual-level optimization facilitates progressive navigation toward adversarial distributions embedded within the natural semantic manifold. Extensive experiments in both digital and physical settings demonstrate that Diff-NAT outperforms existing SOTA approaches in terms of both visual realism and aggressiveness.
Start Small, Think Big: Curriculum-based Relative Policy Optimization for Visual Grounding
Authors: Qingyang Yan; Guangyao Chen; Yixiong Zou
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has recently shown significant promise across various NLP and computer vision tasks by explicitly generating intermediate reasoning steps. However, we find that reinforcement learning (RL)-based fine-tuned CoT reasoning can paradoxically degrade performance in Visual Grounding tasks, particularly as CoT outputs become lengthy or complex. Additionally, our analysis reveals that increased dataset size does not always enhance performance due to varying data complexities. Motivated by these findings, we propose Curriculum-based Relative Policy Optimization (CuRPO), a novel training strategy that leverages CoT length and generalized Intersection over Union (gIoU) rewards as complexity indicators to progressively structure training data from simpler to more challenging examples. Extensive experiments on RefCOCO, RefCOCO+, RefCOCOg, and LISA datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. CuRPO consistently outperforms existing methods, including Visual-RFT, reaching a peak improvement of up to 15.49 mAP on RefCOCO. Moreover, CuRPO exhibits exceptional efficiency and robustness, delivering strong localization performance even in few-shot learning scenarios, particularly benefiting tasks characterized by ambiguous and intricate textual descriptions.
Backtrace Mamba: Reviving Critical Temporal Contexts via Hierarchical Memory Compression for Online Action Detection
Authors: Su Yan; Jiahua Li; Kun Wei; Cheng Deng
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Online Action Detection (OAD) requires real-time prediction of ongoing actions without access to future frames, posing challenges in balancing computational efficiency and long-term dependencies modeling.Existing methods either suffer from slow training and limited temporal receptive fields, or face high computational costs and delayed inference, lacking the capability to tackle extra-long video inputs.
Thus, we present a novel Mamba-based OAD framework (MOAD) that efficiently and effectively performs OAD.The hierarchical memory mechanism is introduced to intelligently store high-value scene and action frames based on motion-aware similarity metrics, preserving essential historical knowledge in an online manner.
To further reduce storage space, we design a memory quantization method to compress the stored historical features.
Additionally, the temporal soft pruning strategy built upon the memory bank is proposed to dynamically remove redundant features, reducing temporal redundancy while maintaining temporal coherence.
Sufficient experiments on four challenging benchmarks prove our method significantly outperforms existing methods.
OmniEvent: Unified Event Representation Learning
Authors: Weiqi Yan; Chenlu Lin; Youbiao Wang; Zhipeng Cai; Xiuhong Lin; Yangyang Shi; Weiquan Liu; Yu Zang
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Event cameras have gained increasing popularity in computer vision due to their ultra-high dynamic range and temporal resolution. However, event networks heavily rely on task-specific designs due to the unstructured data distribution and spatial-temporal (S-T) inhomogeneity, making it hard to reuse existing architectures for new tasks. We propose OmniEvent, an innovative unified event representation learning framework that achieves SOTA performance across diverse tasks, fully removing the need for task-specific designs. Unlike previous methods that treat event data as 3D point clouds with manually tuned S-T scaling weights, OmniEvent proposes a decouple-enhance-fuse paradigm, where the local feature aggregation and enhancement are done independently on the spatial and temporal domains to avoid inhomogeneity issues. Space-filling curves are applied to enable large receptive fields while improving memory and compute efficiency. The features from individual domains are then fused by attention to learn S-T interactions. The output of OmniEvent is a grid-shaped tensor, which enables standard vision models to process event data without architectural changes. With a unified framework and similar hyperparameters, OmniEvent outperforms (task-specific) SOTA by up to 68.2% across 3 representative tasks and 10 datasets (Fig. 1).
MedReasoner: Reinforcement Learning Drives Reasoning Grounding from Clinical Thought to Pixel-Level Precision
Authors: Zhonghao Yan; Muxi Diao; Yuxuan Yang; Ruoyan Jing; Jiayuan  Xu; Kaizhou Zhang; Lele Yang; Yanxi Liu; Kongming Liang; Zhanyu Ma
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Accurately grounding regions of interest (ROIs) is critical for diagnosis and treatment planning in medical imaging. While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) combine visual perception with natural language, current medical-grounding pipelines still rely on supervised fine-tuning with explicit spatial hints, making them ill-equipped to handle the implicit queries common in clinical practice. This work makes three core contributions. We first define Unified Medical Reasoning Grounding (UMRG), a novel vision–language task that demands clinical reasoning and pixel-level grounding. Second, we release U-MRG-14K, a dataset of 14K samples featuring pixel-level masks alongside implicit clinical queries and reasoning traces, spanning 10 modalities, 15 super-categories, and 108 specific categories. Finally, we introduce MedReasoner, a modular framework that distinctly separates reasoning from segmentation: an MLLM reasoner is optimized with reinforcement learning, while a frozen segmentation expert converts spatial prompts into masks, with alignment achieved through format and accuracy rewards. MedReasoner achieves state-of-the-art performance on U-MRG-14K and demonstrates strong generalization to unseen clinical queries, underscoring the significant promise of reinforcement learning for interpretable medical grounding.
Binary-Gaussian: Compact and Progressive Representation for 3D Gaussian Segmentation
Authors: An Yang; Chenyu Liu; Jun Du; Jianqing Gao; Jia Pan; Jinshui Hu; Baocai Yin; Bing Yin; Cong Liu
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) has emerged as an efficient 3D representation and a promising foundation for semantic tasks like segmentation. However, existing 3D-GS-based segmentation methods typically rely on high-dimensional category features, which introduce substantial memory overhead. Moreover, fine-grained segmentation remains challenging due to label space congestion and the lack of stable multi-granularity control mechanisms. To address these limitations, we propose a coarse-to-fine binary encoding scheme for per-Gaussian category representation, which compresses each feature into a single integer via the binary-to-decimal mapping, drastically reducing memory usage. We further design a progressive training strategy that decomposes panoptic segmentation into a series of independent sub-tasks, reducing inter-class conflicts and thereby enhancing fine-grained segmentation capability. Additionally, we fine-tune opacity during segmentation training to address the incompatibility between photometric rendering and semantic segmentation, which often leads to foreground-background confusion. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmarks demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art segmentation performance while significantly reducing memory consumption and accelerating inference.