CVPR 2026 Papers

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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4,042papers

Counted from the official paper list; may differ slightly from the number the conference announced.

  • Oral
    1383.4%
  • Poster
    3,90496.6%

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WeDetect: Fast Open-Vocabulary Object Detection as Retrieval

Shenghao Fu, Yukun Su, Fengyun Rao, Jing Lyu, Xiaohua Xie, Wei-Shi Zheng

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Open-vocabulary object detection aims to detect arbitrary classes via text prompts. Methods without cross-modal fusion layers (non-fusion) offer faster inference by treating recognition as a retrieval problem, i.e., matching regions to text queries in a shared embedding space. In this work, we fully explore this retrieval philosophy and demonstrate its unique advantages in efficiency and versatility through a model family named WeDetect: (1) State-of-the-art performance. WeDetect is a real-time detector with a dual-tower architecture. We show that, with well-curated data and full training, the non-fusion WeDetect surpasses other fusion models and establishes a strong open-vocabulary foundation. (2) Fast backtrack of historical data. WeDetect-Uni is a universal proposal generator based on WeDetect. We freeze the entire detector and only finetune an objectness prompt to retrieve generic object proposals across categories. Importantly, the proposal embeddings are class-specific and enable a new application, object retrieval, supporting retrieval objects in historical data. (3) Integration with LMMs for referring expression comprehension (REC). We further propose WeDetect-Ref, an LMM-based object classifier to handle complex referring expressions, which retrieves target objects from the proposal list extracted by WeDetect-Uni. It discards next-token prediction and classifies objects in a single forward pass. Together, the WeDetect family unifies detection, proposal generation, object retrieval, and REC under a coherent retrieval framework, achieving state-of-the-art performance across 15 benchmarks with high inference efficiency. We will open-source all models.

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PoseMaster: A Unified 3D Native Framework for Stylized Pose Generation

Hongyu Yan, Kunming Luo, Weiyu Li, Kaiyi Zhang, Yixun Liang, Jingwei Huang, Chunchao Guo, Ping Tan

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Pose stylization, which aims to synthesize stylized content aligning with target poses, serves as a fundamental task across 2D, 3D, and video domains. In the 3D realm, prevailing approaches typically rely on a cascade pipeline: first manipulating the image pose via 2D foundation models and subsequently lifting it into 3D representations. However, this paradigm limits the precision and diversity of the 3d pose stylization. To this end, we propose a novel paradigm for 3D pose stylization that unifies pose stylization and 3D generation within a cohesive framework. This integration minimizes the risk of cumulative errors and enhances the model's efficiency and effectiveness. In addition, diverging from previous works that typically utilize 2D skeleton images as guidance, we directly utilize the 3D skeleton because it can provide a more accurate representation of 3D spatial and topological relationships, which significantly enhances the model's capacity to achieve richer and more precise pose stylization. Moreover, we develop a scalable data engine to construct a large-scale dataset of "Image-Skeleton-Mesh" triplets, enabling the model to jointly learn identity preservation and geometric alignment. Extensive experiments demonstrate that PoseMaster significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in both qualitative and quantitative metrics. Owing to the strict spatial alignment between the generated 3D meshes and the conditioning skeletons, PoseMaster enables the direct creation of animatable assets when coupled with automated skinning models, highlighting its compelling potential for automated character rigging.

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M^3KG-RAG: Multi-hop Multimodal Knowledge Graph-enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Hyeongcheol Park, Jiyoung Seo, Jaewon Mun, Hogun Park, Wonmin Byeon, Sung June Kim, Hyeonsoo Im, JeungSub Lee, Sangpil Kim

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has recently been extended to multimodal settings, connecting multimodal large language models (MLLMs) with vast corpora of external knowledge such as multimodal knowledge graphs (MMKGs). Despite their recent success, multimodal RAG in the audio-visual domain remains challenging due to 1) limited modality coverage and multi-hop connectivity of existing MMKGs, and 2) retrieval based solely on similarity in a shared multimodal embedding space, which fails to filter out off-topic or redundant knowledge. To address these limitations, we propose M^3KG-RAG, a Multi-hop Multimodal Knowledge Graph-enhanced RAG that retrieves query-aligned audio-visual knowledge from MMKGs, improving reasoning depth and answer faithfulness in MLLMs. Specifically, we devise a lightweight multi-agent pipeline to construct multi-hop MMKG (M^3KG), which contains context-enriched triplets of multimodal entities, enabling modality-wise retrieval based on input queries. Furthermore, we introduce GRASP (Grounded Retrieval And Selective Pruning), which ensures precise entity grounding to the query, evaluates answer-supporting relevance, and prunes redundant context to retain only knowledge essential for response generation. Extensive experiments across diverse multimodal benchmarks demonstrate that M^3KG-RAG significantly enhances MLLMs' multimodal reasoning and grounding over existing approaches.

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M4-RAG: A Massive-Scale Multilingual Multi-Cultural Multimodal RAG

David Anugraha, Patrick Amadeus Irawan, Anshul Singh, En-Shiun Annie Lee, Genta Indra Winata

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Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved strong performance in visual question answering (VQA), yet they remain constrained by static training data. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mitigates this limitation by enabling access to up-to-date, culturally grounded, and multilingual information; however, multilingual multimodal RAG remains largely underexplored. We introduce M4-RAG, a massive-scale benchmark spanning 42 languages, 56 regional dialects and registers, and 189 countries, comprising over 80,000 culturally diverse image-question pairs for evaluating retrieval-augmented VQA across languages and modalities. To balance realism with reproducibility, we build a controlled retrieval environment containing millions of carefully curated multilingual documents relevant to the query domains, approximating real-world retrieval conditions while ensuring consistent experimentation. Our systematic evaluation reveals that although RAG consistently benefits smaller VLMs, it fails to scale to larger models and often even degrades their performance, exposing a critical mismatch between model size and current retrieval effectiveness. Our cross-lingual evaluations also reveal significant performance degradation when prompts or retrieved context are provided in non-English languages. The code, datasets, and evaluation protocols for M4-RAG are available as open-source at https://github.com/davidanugraha/M4-RAG.

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One-to-More: High-Fidelity Training-Free Anomaly Generation with Attention Control

Haoxiang Rao, Zhao Wang, Chenyang Si, Yan Lyu, Yuanyi Duan, Fang Zhao, Caifeng Shan

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Industrial anomaly detection (AD) is characterized by an abundance of normal images but a scarcity of anomalous ones. Although numerous few-shot anomaly synthesis methods have been proposed to augment anomalous data for downstream AD tasks, most existing approaches require time-consuming training and struggle to learn distributions that are faithful to real anomalies, thereby restricting the efficacy of AD models trained on such data. To address these limitations, we propose a training-free few-shot anomaly generation method, namely O2MAG, which leverages the self-attention in One reference anomalous image to synthesize More realistic anomalies, supporting effective downstream anomaly detection. Specifically, O2MAG manipulates three parallel diffusion processes via self-attention grafting and incorporates the anomaly mask to mitigate foreground-background query confusion, synthesizing text-guided anomalies that closely adhere to real anomalous distributions. To bridge the semantic gap between the encoded anomaly text prompts and the true anomaly semantics, Anomaly-Guided Optimization is further introduced to align the synthesis process with the target anomalous distribution, steering the generation toward realistic and text-consistent anomalies. Moreover, to mitigate faint anomaly synthesis inside anomaly masks, Dual-Attention Enhancement is adopted during generation to reinforce both self- and cross-attention on masked regions. Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of \method, demonstrating its superior performance over prior state-of-the-art methods on downstream AD tasks.

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Quota-Calibrated Fine-Grained Alignment with Context-Aware Marginals for Text-based Person Retrieval

Dongsheng Li, Xinyuan Guo, Huijie Zhang, Pingting Hao, Qiushi Xia

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The core challenge in Text-based Person Retrieval (TPR) lies in establishing fine-grained, many-to-many semantic alignment between textual words and visual regions. Existing methods predominantly rely on pointwise similarity or attention mechanisms, implicitly assuming matches are independent and balanced. Consequently, under conditions of attribute overlap and substantial background noise, these methods often misallocate matching weights to non-discriminative regions or words, resulting in ambiguous matching outcomes. To address this, we propose QC-Align, a quota-calibrated fine-grained alignment framework guided by context-aware marginals. Specifically, we propose a Context-Aware Marginal Estimator (CAME) that dynamically assigns "matching quotas" to each word and visual region, and subsequently employs a Quota-Calibrated Transport (QCT) objective to explicitly constrain the matching quality each word and region can carry, thereby jointly optimizing the many-to-many correspondence between text and vision under these constraints. Notably, QC-Align is a parameter-free, plug-and-play training regularizer that requires no fine-grained annotations and incurs no inference overhead. Experiments on multiple mainstream person retrieval benchmarks demonstrate that QC-Align consistently improves baseline model performance, with greater gains and better interpretability in few-shot and cross-domain scenarios.

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Intra-class Distribution-guided Generative Hashing with Neighbor Refinement for Cross-modal Retrieval

Hao Sun, Yadong Huo, Qibing Qin, Wenfeng Zhang, Lei Huang

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Recent cross-modal hashing methods have introduced sample generation strategies to enrich training signals. Despite these advances, sample generation-driven hashing still faces two major challenges: (1) Interpolation-based methods adopt deterministic and class-independent generation that restricts synthetic samples to a small region around the original data. Consequently, intra-class diversity is limited, which weakens the model's ability to learn discriminative binary codes. (2) Generation network-based methods, which leverage a complex generative model to produce synthetic samples, leading to extra model complexity. To address these issues, we propose a novel Intra-class Distribution-guided Generative Hashing (IDGH) that adaptively generates synthetic samples directly from estimated intra-class distributions. Specifically, we suggest an Intra-class Distribution Estimation (IDE) scheme to model the characteristic distribution of each class, providing essential support for adaptive sample generation. Meanwhile, by utilizing the distribution information from neighboring classes, we design a Neighbor-guided Distribution Refinement (NDR) mechanism to correct flawed estimations for classes. With refined intra-class distributions, we propose a Distribution-aware Adaptive Generation (DAG) strategy that synthesizes informative training samples by shifting features along diverse directions guided by intra-class distribution patterns. The proposed approach is plug-and-play and can be seamlessly integrated into various objective functions, providing semantically diverse training samples, thus enhancing similarity learning. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that IDGH outperforms existing methods. Code is available at https://github.com/QinLab-WFU/IDGH.

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Unified Vector Floorplan Generation via Markup Representation

Kaede Shiohara, Toshihiko Yamasaki

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Automatic residential floorplan generation has long been a central challenge bridging architecture and computer graphics, aiming to make spatial design more efficient and accessible. While early methods based on constraint satisfaction or combinatorial optimization ensure feasibility, they lack diversity and flexibility. Recent generative models achieve promising results but struggle to generalize across heterogeneous conditional tasks, such as generation from site boundaries, room adjacency graphs, or partial layouts, due to their suboptimal representations. To address this gap, we introduce Floorplan Markup Language (FML), a general representation that encodes floorplan information within a single structured grammar, which casts the entire floorplan generation problem into a next token prediction task. Leveraging FML, we develop a transformer-based generative model, Floorplan Markup Language Model (FMLM), capable of producing high-fidelity and functional floorplans under diverse conditions. Comprehensive experiments on the RPLAN dataset demonstrate that FMLM, despite being a single model, surpasses the previous task-specific state-of-the-art methods.

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Self-Paced and Self-Corrective Masked Prediction for Movie Trailer Generation

Sidan Zhu, Hongteng Xu, Dixin Luo

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As a challenging video editing task, movie trailer generation involves selecting and reorganizing movie shots to create engaging trailers. Currently, most existing automatic trailer generation methods employ a "selection-then-ranking" paradigm (i.e., first selecting key shots and then ranking them), which suffers from inevitable error propagation and limits the quality of the generated trailers. Beyond this paradigm, we propose a new self-paced and self-corrective masked prediction method called SSMP, which achieves state-of-the-art results in automatic trailer generation via bi-directional contextual modeling and progressive self-correction. In particular, SSMP trains a Transformer encoder that takes the movie shot sequences as prompts and generates corresponding trailer shot sequences accordingly. The model is trained via masked prediction, reconstructing each trailer shot sequence from its randomly masked counterpart. The mask ratio is self-paced, allowing the task difficulty to adapt to the model and thereby improving model performance.When generating a movie trailer, the model fills the shot positions with high confidence at each step and re-masks the remaining positions for the next prediction, forming a progressive self-correction mechanism that is analogous to how human editors work. Both quantitative results and user studies demonstrate the superiority of SSMP in comparison to existing automatic movie trailer generation methods. Demo and code are available at: https://github.com/Dixin-Lab/SSMP.

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RAG-TP: A General Framework for Vehicle Trajectory Prediction via Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Ziyi Wang, Yang Zhang, Guijian Tang, Chao Zhang, Shibo Zhang, Xueqiong Li, Shaowu Yang

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Vehicle trajectory prediction is critical for safe and efficient autonomous driving. However, its generalization and scalability are hindered by heavy reliance on real-time, online priors. To break this bottleneck, we introduce RAG-TP, a framework reframing the problem from relying on uncertain online perception to retrieving from a large-scale, structured knowledge base. RAG-TP enhances inference-time predictions by dynamically querying a heterogeneous knowledge base rich with scene topologies and motion patterns, using retrieved historical experiences as priors. We further design a dynamic fusion module based on a novel Retrieval-Driven Mixture-of-Experts (MoE). Unlike conventional parametric designs, this mechanism dynamically treats retrieved knowledge units as experts, weighting and integrating them via cross-attention to generate a dense context for final multi-modal trajectory decoding. By decoupling online inference from offline knowledge, this approach grounds predictions in a vast structured database, mitigating model hallucination, compensating for unreliable priors, and significantly enhancing robustness and domain adaptation. Extensive experiments show RAG-TP achieves excellent performance in map-based and map-free settings, demonstrating highly competitive results against specialized map-free methods while performing on par with state-of-the-art (SOTA) map-based models. It demonstrates significant advantages, particularly in cross-domain and zero-shot generalization. Our work provides a promising technical pathway toward building scalable and robust prediction systems for autonomous driving.

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ReMatch: Boosting Representation through Matching for Multimodal Retrieval

Qianying Liu, Xiao Liang, Zhiqiang Zhang, Yibo Chen, Xu Tang, Zhongfei Qing, Fengfan Zhou, Yao Hu, Paul Henderson

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We present ReMatch, a framework that leverages the generative strength of MLLMs for multimodal retrieval. Previous approaches treated an MLLM as a simple encoder, ignoring its generative nature, and under-utilising its compositional reasoning and world knowledge. We train the embedding MLLM end-to-end with a chat-style generative matching stage. The matching stage uses the same MLLM to autoregressively decide relevance from multi-view inputs, including both raw data and its own projected embeddings for each query and document. It provides instance-wise discrimination supervision that complements a standard contrastive loss, offering stronger gradients on hard negatives and preserving the compositional strengths of the original MLLM. To obtain semantically richer multimodal embeddings, we use multiple learnable tokens to augment each input, generating fine-grained contextual, mutually orthogonal embeddings with low inference cost. Leveraging our established high-performance baseline, we assemble the ideas mentioned above into a powerful training recipe and achieve a new state-of-the-art on the Massive Multimodal Embedding Benchmark(MMEB). Our experiments show particularly strong zero-shot generalization results on five datasets, highlighting the robustness and transferability of ReMatch.

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Red-teaming Retrieval-Augmented Diffusion Models via Poisoning Knowledge Bases

Xinqi LYU, Yihao Liu, Dong Wang, Bin Xiao

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Retrieval-augmented diffusion models (RAG-DMs) have been increasingly deployed across applications, reflecting a broader trend of adopting retrieval-augmented pipelines in AI agent systems and the emerging OpenClaw framework. Despite the success, their trustworthiness remains underexplored. Existing backdoor attacks focus on either manipulating the generation phase or the retrieval phase under the white-box setting, which suffer from knowledge conflicts between retrieved images and user prompts. To bridge this gap, we propose a novel red-teaming approach JOB, which is the first jointly optimized backdoor attack tailored to black-box RAG-DMs. Specifically, JOB poisons the knowledge base with a small number of target class images and learns a trigger through multi-objective optimization, steering retrieval toward poisoned images and aligning the generated outputs with the target class, while preserving benign performance. Experiments show that JOB effectively attacks black-box RAG-DMs, achieving high success rates and outperforming state-of-the-art baselines.

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Progressive Neural Architecture Generation

Caiyang Yu, Chen Huang, Yun Liu, Chenwei Tang, Wei Ju, Jiancheng Lv

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As a representative technique in neural architecture search, neural architecture generation aims to construct high-performance architectures for a given task directly. It is poised to replace the inefficient random exploration components of some search strategies, such as the acquisition strategies in Bayesian optimization. Despite significant research, current architecture generation techniques face problems such as low generation efficiency and insufficient constraints, leading to invalidly generated architectures. To this end, we propose Progressive Neural Architecture Generation (PNAG), which constructs architectures incrementally through coarse-to-fine evolution, enhancing generation efficiency, and incorporates step-wise refinements to ensure the validity of the generated architecture. To achieve this, PNGA involves two modules, multi-scale sub-architecture quantization (MSQ) and step-wise consistency constraint (SCC). Specifically, MSQ constructs sub-architectures using quantization decoding and progressively expands them, transitioning from simple to complex forms. This operation bypasses network inference to enhance efficiency.Complementing MSQ, SCC, implemented through a tailored regularization mechanism, introduces penalties for deviations during sub-architecture generation, guiding the process towards valid target architectures. As such, PNAG establishes a clear generation path, laying the groundwork for generating suitable architectures in downstream tasks. Extensive experiments demonstrate that PNAG not only generates superior architectures for various downstream tasks (+8.43%/+5.07%, on average) but also significantly improves generation efficiency, reducing the architecture generation time by 1300x. Furthermore, PNAG demonstrates strong extensibility by successfully generating Transformer-based architectures.

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MeshRipple: Structured Autoregressive Generation of Artist-Meshes

Junkai Lin, Hang Long, Huipeng Guo, Jielei Zhang, Jiayi Yang, Tianle Guo, Yang Yang, Jianwen Li, Wenxiao Zhang, Matthias Nießner, Wei Yang

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Meshes serve as a primary representation for 3D assets. Autoregressive mesh generators serialize faces into sequences and train on truncated segments with sliding-window inference to cope with memory limits. However, this mismatch breaks long-range geometric dependencies, producing holes and fragmented components. To address this critical limitation, we introduce MeshRipple, which expands a mesh outward from an active generation frontier, akin to a ripple on a surface. MeshRipple rests on three key innovations: a frontier-aware BFS tokenization that aligns the generation order with surface topology; an expansive prediction strategy that maintains coherent, connected surface growth; and a sparse-attention global memory that provides an effectively unbounded receptive field to resolve long-range topological dependencies. This integrated design enables MeshRipple to generate meshes with high surface fidelity and topological completeness, outperforming strong recent baselines.

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MeshMosaic: Scaling Artist Mesh Generation via Local-to-Global Assembly

Rui Xu, Tianyang Xue, Qiujie Dong, Le Wan, Zhe Zhu, Peng Li, Zhiyang Dou, Cheng Lin, Shiqing Xin, Yuan Liu, Wenping Wang, Taku Komura

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Scaling artist-designed meshes to high triangle numbers remains challenging for autoregressive generative models. Existing transformer-based methods suffer from long-sequence bottlenecks and limited quantization resolution, primarily due to the large number of tokens required and constrained quantization granularity. These issues prevent faithful reproduction of fine geometric details and structured density patterns. We introduce MeshMosaic, a novel local-to-global framework for artist mesh generation that scales to over 100K triangles--substantially surpassing prior methods, which typically handle only around 8K faces. MeshMosaic first segments shapes into patches, generating each patch autoregressively and leveraging shared boundary conditions to promote coherence, symmetry, and seamless connectivity between neighboring regions. This strategy enhances scalability to high-resolution meshes by quantizing patches individually, resulting in more symmetrical and organized mesh density and structure. Extensive experiments across multiple public datasets demonstrate that MeshMosaic significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in both geometric fidelity and user preference, supporting superior detail representation and practical mesh generation for real-world applications.

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HOG-Layout: Hierarchical 3D Scene Generation, Optimization and Editing via Vision-Language Models

Haiyan Jiang, Deyu Zhang, Dongdong Weng, Weitao Song, Henry Been-Lirn Duh

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3D layout generation and editing play a crucial role in Embodied AI and immersive VR interaction. However, manual creation requires tedious labor, while data-driven generation often lacks diversity. The emergence of large models introduces new possibilities for 3D scene synthesis. We present HOG-Layout that enables text-driven hierarchical scene generation, optimization and real-time scene editing with large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs). HOG-Layout improves scene semantic consistency and plausibility through retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) technology, incorporates an optimization module to enhance physical consistency, and adopts a hierarchical representation to enhance inference and optimization, achieving real-time editing. Experimental results demonstrate that HOG-Layout produces more reasonable environments compared with existing baselines, while supporting fast and intuitive scene editing.

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SAR2Net: Learning Spatially Anchored Representations for Retrieval-Guided Cross-Stain Alignment

Tianle Shen, Fang Yan, Xiaofan Zhang

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Achieving spatial alignment between whole-slide images (WSIs) across stains is essential for integrating morphology and molecular information, yet it remains challenging due to extreme resolution, tissue fragmentation, and large nonlinear deformations. Conventional registration pipelines depend on global pre-alignment and spatial consistency, which often collapse under such distortions. We present SAR2Net, a framework that learns spatially anchored representations and reformulates cross-stain alignment as a region-level feature retrieval problem. Instead of estimating explicit transformations, SAR2Net learns pointwise representations encoding the relative spatial relationships to tissue landmarks. Given landmarks and arbitrary coordinates, it predicts spatially anchored features that serve as deformation-invariant descriptors of tissue topology. A two-stage retrieval framework then establishes correspondences between slides, even when global alignment is infeasible. Experiments on biopsy-oriented HE-IHC datasets show that SAR2Net achieves robust region-level alignment under severe tissue distortions, outperforming previous methods. Code is available at https://github.com/Shentl/SAR2Net

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EvoGraph-R1: Self-Evolving Multimodal Knowledge Hypergraphs for Agentic Retrieval

Jiashi Lin, Changhong Jiang, Xiangru Lin, Ruifei Zhang, Xinyi Zhu, Jiyao Liu, Cheng Tang, Ye Du, Shujian Gao, Junzhi Ning, Lihao Liu, Ziyan Huang, Tianbin Li, Jin Ye, Junjun He

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Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has emerged as a critical paradigm for grounding Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in external knowledge. Recent GraphRAG methods introduce structured entity-relation graphs to improve retrieval and reasoning. However, they remain limited by treating knowledge graphs as static data structures built offline and queried in a single pass. This static paradigm misaligns with the interactive, iterative nature of knowledge-intensive reasoning, creating three bottlenecks: (i) text-centric fragmentation that impedes cross-modal reasoning, (ii) frozen structures unable to incorporate new evidence or correct errors, and (iii) rigid single-pass retrieval without adaptive refinement. To overcome these limitations, we introduce EvoGraph-R1, a self-evolving GraphRAG framework that reconceptualizes knowledge graphs as dynamic environments shaped through agent interactions.We formulate retrieval as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) where the agent observes the graph state and executes actions to query (GraphRetrieve), expand (WebSearch), refine (GraphEdit), or terminate (Answer) the reasoning. These actions reshape the hypergraph structure and generate feedback signals that guide subsequent evolution.Through this closed loop, the hypergraph evolves by integrating new evidence, correcting errors, and refining structure to support multi-hop reasoning. Experiments on multimodal VQA and text QA benchmarks demonstrate substantial improvements over existing RAG baselines in accuracy, coverage, and traceability, establishing self-evolving knowledge graphs as a fundamental paradigm across modalities.

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MR-RAG: Multimodal Relevance-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Medical Visual Question Answering

Xuze Li, Haozhao Wang, Zhenyu Huang, Zhongxu Wang, Jinghua Zhang, Ruixuan Li

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Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) are emerging as a main paradigm for processing vision-language medical tasks due to their promising achievements. However, existing approaches exhibit two significant limitations in both retrieval and generation stage: First, during the retrieval stage, most methods typically rely on a single similarity signal to estimate document relevance, ignoring the rich information available in multimodal data, which may fail to accurately retrieve matching content. Second, in the generation stage, retrieved documents are integrated directly and uniformly into the input for LVLMs, without taking into account their varying relevance to the question, which may result in the dilution of crucial information and exacerbate the negative impact of irrelevant content. To address these limitations, we propose MR-RAG, a dual-stage RAG enhancement framework by considering multimodal relevance in both retrieval and generation phases. Specifically, a Multimodal Cooperative Retrieval (MCR) module leverages intra- and cross-modal signals for precise document alignment. Subsequently, an Importance-Aware Information Flow Augmentation (IFA) mechanism adjusts attention paths based on fused relevance to refine answer generation. By bridging retrieval and generation via multimodal signals, MR-RAG significantly improves factual accuracy. Experiments on three medical datasets show our method outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, achieving up to a 6.4% accuracy gain.

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Retrieve-to-Restore: Efficient All-in-One Image Restoration with a Retrieval-Based Degradation Bank

Chenxu Wang, Kai Zhang, Jian Yang

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All-in-one image restoration aims to recover clean images from heterogeneous degradations with a single model, but joint training on multiple degradations with a shared backbone often induces cross-task interference and unstable optimization, making it hard to maintain strong performance across all tasks. To address this, we propose Retrieve-to-Restore (R2R), a lightweight framework that decouples degradation adaptation from backbone computation through a retrieval-based degradation bank. Specifically, R2R externalizes degradation knowledge as unified, degradation-specific priors stored in a compact degradation bank. A degradation amalgamator aggregates intra-class features guided by ground truth into task-level clean priors during training, while degradation matching retrieves the most relevant prior at inference to modulate backbone features for restoration. This retrieval-guided design explicitly separates degradation cues from shared reconstruction capacity, enabling stable multi-degradation training and straightforward scaling to additional degradation types. Extensive comparisons on benchmarks with one, three, and five degradations show that R2R achieves PSNR on par with state-of-the-art all-in-one methods while using about 91% fewer MACs.

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