#01Aug 28, 2026
cs.CV
LayerRecall: A State-Conditioned Memory Router for Long-Horizon Consistency in Video Generation
Yixuan Ding, Jiahao Kong, Wei Huang and 2 more
Autoregressive video diffusion enables scalable long-video generation by producing chunks from a bounded recent context. While recency-based caching preserves local continuity, it evicts historical cues needed when subjects, objects, scenes, or attributes reappear. Existing memory mechanisms expose models to nonlocal history, but access alone does not ensure effective use. Our analysis reveals that video DiT layers exhibit distinct preferences for current, recent, and distant context, suggesting that long-range memory requires deciding both what to retrieve and where to use it. We introduce LayerRecall, a current-conditioned, layer-selective memory router that retrieves relevant historical K/V states and injects them only into backbone-specific memory-sensitive layers while preserving local attention elsewhere. To reduce reliance on scarce high-quality long-horizon videos and explicit memory-allocation labels, we further propose Cross-Horizon Prediction Matching (CHPM), which uses a privileged long-context reference to supervise the bounded-memory router in prediction space. Across 100 multi-shot evaluation prompts, LayerRecall achieves the best overall results on MemoBench and MovieBench while matching its backbone on VBench-Long, demonstrating stronger long-range recovery without sacrificing local continuity. Qualitative analyses further reveal memory-guided self-correction, whereby initially mismatched local attributes return to their historical appearance without resetting ongoing motion or scene structure. Additional analyses show cross-backbone portability and negligible inference overhead.
#02Aug 28, 2026
cs.CV
Synth-JDoc: Synthesizing a Japanese Document Image Dataset for OCR with Diverse Layouts and Embedded Images
Keito Sasagawa, Shuhei Kurita, Daisuke Kawahara
The ability of Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) to read text within document images is crucial, as it enables various applications such as Document Visual Question Answering. To enhance the text-reading capabilities of LVLMs, high-quality OCR datasets are essential. This need is particularly critical for Japanese documents, which often feature vertically written text alongside horizontally written text. Current LVLMs demonstrate considerably lower performance on vertically written Japanese text than on horizontally written text, necessitating specialized OCR datasets to bridge this gap. However, manually constructing OCR datasets is expensive and difficult to scale. Alternatively, constructing datasets by extracting text from existing document images using OCR models introduces challenges, such as text recognition errors and the prerequisite of sourcing document images. To address these issues, we construct an OCR dataset by synthesizing document images directly from text. Leveraging HTML and CSS, we generate multi-column documents that incorporate both vertical and horizontal writing styles. Furthermore, to ensure the visual realism of the documents, we embed images generated by text-to-image models within the layout. Additionally, to foster model robustness, we apply noise and degradation filters to the synthesized document images. In our experiments, we compared the performance of models fine-tuned on our synthetic dataset against baselines fine-tuned on synthetic datasets from prior work and those generated by a high-performance text-to-image model. Evaluation results demonstrate that our synthetic dataset is the most effective approach for improving LVLM performance on reading vertically written Japanese text. Our dataset and code are publicly available (https://github.com/llm-jp/synth-jdoc).
#03Aug 28, 2026
cs.CV
Prompt-Guided Interactive Segmentation of Interstitial Lung Disease in Thoracic CT
Vasilis Dedousis, Lubnaa Abdur Rahman, Lorenzo Brigatο and 8 more
Accurate segmentation of interstitial lung disease (ILD) patterns is essential for quantitative disease assessment and longitudinal monitoring. However, existing approaches remain limited by relying on dense annotations and producing static predictions that cannot be refined, motivating interactive approaches. While promptable models show promise in interactive segmentation, their adaptation to ILDs remains largely unexplored. To address this gap, we investigate prompt-guided foundation models for ILD refinement and present, to the best of our knowledge, the first adaptation of MedSAM2 for interactive 3D ILD segmentation on thoracic CT. We investigate three fine-tuning strategies and multiple clinically motivated prompts: bounding-boxes (BBox), point, lasso, and scribble. On a dataset spanning seven ILD patterns and healthy lung tissue, full model fine-tuning performed best, improving the average Dice score by 4.7 percentage points over MedSAM2.While BBox prompts achieve the strongest performance, non-native MedSAM2 interactions such as lasso and scribble prompts also prove effective. Finally, we present and evaluate a proof-of-concept end-to-end workflow in which MedSAM2 is initialized from an automatic segmentation prior and subsequently refined using radiologist prompts. Model weights and plug-ins made available at: https://github.com/AIHNlab/ILD-SemiSegTool.
#04Aug 28, 2026
cs.CV
Post-Training VLMs for Video Mistake Detection
Federico Spurio, Olga Zatsarynna, Lars Doorenbos and 3 more
Human mistakes are inevitable when following instructions, yet they can lead to severe consequences. As such, there has been an increased interest in developing methods for detecting mistakes in videos, with current methods mostly focusing on closed-set protocols. While successful in controlled settings, the closed-set assumption limits their wider applicability, as any changes to the task require collecting new data and re-training models. Instead, we argue that mistake detection methods should learn the general concept of a mistake, rather than overfitting to step-specific details. To reflect this, we introduce the Mistake Detection Video Question Answering (MD-VQA) protocol and accompanying benchmark. MD-VQA tests whether methods can discern if a step was executed correctly with respect to its description, for both seen and unseen actions. To address this important challenge, we propose the first video-language-model post-training technique for mistake detection. Our method uses a tailored reward function to encourage the model to identify discrepancies between an instruction and the corresponding video. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that this approach outperforms zero-shot, supervised fine-tuning, and post-training baselines. Notably, our method generalizes especially well to unseen procedures, for instance, with an improvement of up to 11.6% over the best-performing baseline on EP-VQA, paving the way toward general mistake detection. We release our code and benchmark at https://github.com/FedeSpu/mstk.
#05Aug 28, 2026
cs.CV
Conditional Visual Evidence Utility: State-Dependent Rank Reversals in Frozen Vision-Language Encoders
Yunxuan Fang, Xinhe Wang
Static importance scores compress visual evidence into a single ranking, but the value of remaining evidence can change after one cue has been observed. We study this possibility in controlled compositional visual search, where color, shape, and texture evidence can be independently exposed and their conditional marginal utility measured across acquisition states. In a held-out confirmation on 800 scenes, frozen OpenCLIP and SigLIP exhibit robust state-dependent rank reversals that concentrate in candidate-overlap regimes designed to induce ordering changes. The structure persists across two evidence-accumulation constructions and ten equivalent query wordings, but disappears under query-scene derangement. We also ask whether these reversals matter for decisions. In a post-confirmation exploratory matched-first-action analysis, reranking only after the first acquisition yields positive step-2 utility when decisions are selected under one evidence mode, wording, or backbone and evaluated under another. Together, these results show that evidence importance is state-dependent in this controlled setup and that updating an evidence ordering can retain decision-relevant value across evaluator changes. They motivate evaluating vision-language evidence use conditionally rather than through a single static ranking, while providing a measurable target for future adaptive evidence-selection methods.