The paper proposes identity-conditioned score fusion for open-set person re-identification, a framework that assigns weights tailored to each gallery identity without requiring additional training. By comparing intra-identity consistency with cross-identity impostors, it derives identity-specific profiles that work with query-conditioned adaptation through a parameter-free rule, enhancing the separation between true and false matches while maintaining score calibration. Experiments on three clothes-changing benchmarks show consistent improvements over statistical, rank-based, and learned baselines, achieving up to an 8.8% absolute reduction in the false non-identification rate.
By Manyi Yao, Jurijs Nazarovs, Eunji Chong, Abhishek Sharma, Rohan Sarkar, Yue Guo, Christian R. Shelton, Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury, Debashish Pal
The paper introduces HiDeR, a High Information Density Replay framework for Lifelong Person Re-Identification that replaces discrete sample selection with information compression. It uses a complexity‑aware memory allocation based on intra‑class variance and a metric‑guided condensation objective to preserve essential identity topologies, while a cross‑modality adaptation strategy bridges synthetic and real styles to improve training. Experiments show HiDeR outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods in knowledge retention and generalization, and reduces cumulative replay cost.
By Mingyu Wang, Wei Jiang, Haojie Liu, Zhiyong Li, Weijie Mao
Robust person re-identification often combines complementary cues such as face, gait, and body shape. While adaptive fusion typically targets query quality, model strength also varies across identitie...
MINER is a model-agnostic framework designed to improve clothes-changing person re-identification by suppressing garment bias. It works by contrasting hard examples and adaptively balancing intra- and inter-person variance in the dataset. Experiments demonstrate that MINER achieves state-of-the-art performance on four CC-ReID benchmarks and ranks among the leaders in all three tracks of the open TVRID RGB-Depth ReID challenge.
By Oron Nir, Eliyahu Strugo, Ariel Shamir
arXiv:2606. 02242v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The joint optimization of image-based (I2I) and text-based (T2I) person re-identification (ReID) is hindered by modality discrepancies and conflicting training objectives, leading to suboptimal shared representations.
By Karina Kvanchiani, Timur Mamedov
Clothes-Changing Person Re-Identification (CC-ReID) remains challenging due to drastic appearance shifts across outfits. Most prior works devise biometric signal-extraction heuristics to enhance inter...
HERO is a heterogeneous continual graph learning framework that preserves historical knowledge at both structural and semantic levels while adapting to new tasks. It uses DiSCo to select representative target nodes and reconstruct compact heterogeneous contexts, and applies multi-level knowledge distillation to align task-conditioned predictions with semantic responses. Experiments on four datasets with three HGNN backbones show HERO achieves best or tied-best average performance while maintaining competitive forgetting.
By Guiquan Sun, Xikun Zhang, Jingchao Ni, Dongjin Song
The joint optimization of image-based (I2I) and text-based (T2I) person re-identification (ReID) is hindered by modality discrepancies and conflicting training objectives, leading to suboptimal shared representations. While I2I ReID focuses on identity-level invariance across images of the same person, T2I ReID is driven by instance-specific textual descriptions tied to unique visual traits.
arXiv:2605. 20247v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Catastrophic forgetting remains a major obstacle to continual learning in large language models (LLMs) and vision--language models (VLMs).
By Yang Liu, Toan Nguyen, Flora D. Salim
arXiv:2606. 07500v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continual learning in Large Language Models (LLMs) is hindered by the plasticity-stability dilemma, where acquiring new capabilities often leads to catastrophic forgetting of previous knowledge.
By Fatema Siddika, Md Anwar Hossen, Tanwi Mallick, Ali Jannesari
The paper investigates the conflict between image‑based (I2I) and text‑based (T2I) person re‑identification objectives when trained on a shared vision encoder. It shows that optimizing both simultaneously degrades performance because I2I contracts intra‑identity distances while T2I preserves them. A two‑stage pipeline—first training the encoder for I2I invariance and then freezing it while aligning the text encoder—improves T2I results, suggesting a path toward unified ReID systems.
By Karina Kvanchiani, Timur Mamedov
The paper introduces ReaLMem, a benchmark built from authentic multi‑year personal visual archives with first‑person annotations, designed to evaluate AI systems on factual recall, persona inference, and predictive personalization. It also proposes ChronoProfiler, a temporal‑weighting module that calculates stability scores for user attributes to resolve preference conflicts and enhance personalized decision making. Experiments with multimodal large language models and memory systems show that predictive personalization remains the hardest task, highlight performance gaps, and demonstrate that temporally informed representations significantly improve personalization.
By Wenqi Zhou, Zhuorui Yu, Kaiao Wen, Hao Zheng, Xinyi Zheng, Peiran Wu, Enmin Zhou, Chi-Hao Wu, Junxiao Shen