Multi-Modal Object Re-Identification with Dual Semantic Guidance and Global-Local Mutual ModulationWeixiang Zhou, Xingguo Xu, Yuhao Wang et al.
Multi-modal object Re-Identification (ReID) aims to retrieve target instances by leveraging complementary information across modalities. However, existing methods suffer from two challenges. First, they often fail to exploit well-aligned and reliable semantic priors, making them vulnerable to background clutter and cross-modal misalignment. On the other hand, they typically rely on holistic feature modeling, overlooking the synergy between global and local representations. To overcome these limitations, we propose a robust multi-modal ReID framework with dual semantic guidance and global-local mutual modulation, which mainly consists of three key components, namely the Text-Semantic Injector (TSI), the Masked Global-Local Modulator (MGLM), and the Hierarchical MoE Fusion (HMF). The TSI enhances semantic awareness by integrating clean and coherent textual features into visual tokens. The MGLM enables part-aware cross-modal interaction through joint guidance from soft masks and global context, improving fine-grained feature alignment. Finally, the HMF adaptively aggregates multi-spectral features under local semantic supervision, yielding discriminative and robust representations. Extensive experiments on three multi-modal ReID benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. The code will be made publicly available at https://github.com/zw-absin/DSGM upon acceptance.
Empowering Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation with Hybrid Tokenization and Serial-Parallel DecodingYuxuan Hu, Yuhao Wang, Tianbo Huang et al.
Cross-domain sequential recommendation (CDSR) aims to model users' dynamic interest transitions and sequential patterns across multiple domains. Recently, generative recommendation (GR) has emerged. It first learns semantic identifiers (SIDs) from item semantics and formulates recommendation as autoregressive generation. However, existing methods face two critical issues: (1) they ignore collaborative correlations across domains during tokenization, and (2) they adopt inefficient decoding strategies, such as beam search, during generation, which hinders real-time deployment. To address these limitations, we propose GenCDSR, an effective and efficient generative framework for CDSR. Specifically, we design a cross-domain hybrid tokenization mechanism with a multi-tower architecture to jointly capture cross-domain commonalities and domain-specific distinctions through hierarchical shared-specific and fine-grained codebooks. Furthermore, we develop a cross-domain serial-parallel decoding strategy that leverages the hierarchical SID structure to partially parallelize generation, significantly reducing inference latency while preserving generation consistency. Experiments on three public datasets show that GenCDSR achieves an average accuracy improvement of 1.5 percent and an average inference latency reduction of 85.1 percent compared with state-of-the-art baselines. The implementation code and datasets are available online: https://github.com/Applied-Machine-Learning-Lab/RecSys2026_GenCDSR.