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StructAlign: Structured Cross-Modal Alignment for Continual Text-to-Video Retrieval

sigir26-180 · Full research paper · Shaokun Wang, Weili Guan, Jizhou Han, Jianlong Wu, Yupeng Hu, Liqiang Nie
Video and Moment Retrieval · 100%
Abstract

Continual Text-to-Video Retrieval (CTVR) is a challenging multimodal continual learning setting, where models must incrementally learn new semantic categories while maintaining accurate text-video alignment for previously learned ones, thus making it particularly prone to catastrophic forgetting. A key challenge in CTVR is feature drift, which manifests in two forms: intra-modal feature drift caused by continual learning within each modality, and non-cooperative feature drift across modalities that leads to modality misalignment. To mitigate these issues, we propose StructAlign, a structured cross-modal alignment method for CTVR. First, StructAlign introduces a simplex Equiangular Tight Frame (ETF) geometry as a unified geometric prior to mitigate modality misalignment. Building upon this geometric prior, we design a cross-modal ETF alignment loss that aligns text and video features with category-level ETF prototypes, encouraging the learned representations to form an approximate simplex ETF geometry. In addition, to suppress intra-modal feature drift, we design a Cross-modal Relation Preserving loss, which leverages complementary modalities to preserve cross-modal similarity relations, providing stable relational supervision for feature updates. By jointly addressing non-cooperative feature drift across modalities and intra-modal feature drift, StructAlign effectively alleviates catastrophic forgetting in CTVR. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that our method shows competitive advantages over state-of-the-art continual retrieval approaches.

Assigned reviewers

#ReviewerMatchWhy (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy)
1 Linchao Zhu
64
100 Align and Tell: Boosting Text-Video Retrieval With Local Alignment and Fine-Grained Supervision (2023) Video and Moment Retrieval
100 Stitching Segments and Sentences towards Generalization in Video-Text Pre-training (2024) Video and Moment Retrieval
100 DGL: Dynamic Global-Local Prompt Tuning for Text-Video Retrieval (2024) Video and Moment Retrieval
2 Zhe Xu 0009
46
100 Point-Supervised Video Temporal Grounding (2023) Video and Moment Retrieval
100 HiSA: Hierarchically Semantic Associating for Video Temporal Grounding (2022) Video and Moment Retrieval
100 Exploiting Intrinsic Multilateral Logical Rules for Weakly Supervised Natural Language Video Localization (2024) Video and Moment Retrieval

Area chair

Area chairMatch
Xun Yang 0001 50
Area-chair candidates (5)
Xun Yang 0001 assigned 504 papers
Xiaoye Qu 4915 papers
Hongjin Qian 3312 papers
Chenyan Xiong 3315 papers
Kam-Fai Wong 326 papers

Candidates from the panel ranked by match score

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1 Jianfeng Dong 71 3
100 Dual Encoding for Zero-Example Video Retrieval (2019) Video and Moment Retrieval
100 Video Moment Retrieval With Cross-Modal Neural Architecture Search (2022) Video and Moment Retrieval
2 Linchao Zhu assigned 64 3
100 Align and Tell: Boosting Text-Video Retrieval With Local Alignment and Fine-Grained Supervision (2023) Video and Moment Retrieval
100 Stitching Segments and Sentences towards Generalization in Video-Text Pre-training (2024) Video and Moment Retrieval
5 Huaiwen Zhang 47 3
100 Debiased Video-Text Retrieval via Soft Positive Sample Calibration (2023) Video and Moment Retrieval
100 Sequence-Event Semantic Consistent Learning for Text-to-Motion Retrieval (2025) Video and Moment Retrieval
6 Zhe Xu 0009 assigned 46 3
100 Point-Supervised Video Temporal Grounding (2023) Video and Moment Retrieval
100 HiSA: Hierarchically Semantic Associating for Video Temporal Grounding (2022) Video and Moment Retrieval
7 Haokun Wen COI: co-author 41 3
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8 Haiyang Xu 0001 41 3
100 Learning Semantics-Grounded Vocabulary Representation for Video-Text Retrieval (2023) Video and Moment Retrieval
100 Unifying Latent and Lexicon Representations for Effective Video-Text Retrieval (2024) Video and Moment Retrieval
9 Junjie Zhou 0001 39 3
100 MomentSeeker: A Task-Oriented Benchmark For Long-Video Moment Retrieval (2025) Video and Moment Retrieval
46 Video-XL: Extra-Long Vision Language Model for Hour-Scale Video Understanding (2025) Video and Temporal Understanding
10 Jinpeng Wang 0002 37 3
100 Enhancing Partially Relevant Video Retrieval with Hyperbolic Learning (2025) Video and Moment Retrieval
45 Heterogeneous Uncertainty-Guided Composed Image Retrieval with Fine-Grained Probabilistic Learning (2026) Universal Multimodal Embedding and MLLM Retrieval
11 Jian Lang 37 3
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12 Zheng Zhang 0006 COI: co-author 37 3
37 Contrastive Incomplete Cross-Modal Hashing (2024) Cross-Modal Hashing and Quantization
37 Cross-Domain Transfer Hashing for Efficient Cross-Modal Retrieval (2024) Cross-Modal Hashing and Quantization
13 Minghui Fang 0002 36 3
45 Open-Set Cross Modal Generalization via Multimodal Unified Representation (2025) Universal Multimodal Embedding and MLLM Retrieval
45 CART: A Generative Cross-Modal Retrieval Framework With Coarse-To-Fine Semantic Modeling (2025) Universal Multimodal Embedding and MLLM Retrieval
14 Liwei Wang 0009 36 3
46 AIM: Adaptive Inference of Multi-Modal LLMs via Token Merging and Pruning (2025) Video and Temporal Understanding
45 Learning Deep Structure-Preserving Image-Text Embeddings (2016) Universal Multimodal Embedding and MLLM Retrieval
15 Sheng-Chieh Lin 35 3
42 Contextualized Query Embeddings for Conversational Search (2021) Conversational Search and Retrieval
41 Multi-Stage Conversational Passage Retrieval: An Approach to Fusing Term Importance Estimation and Neural Query Rewriting (2021) Conversational Search and Retrieval
16 Meiyu Liang 35 3
45 Dynamic Self-adaptive Multiscale Distillation from Pre-trained Multimodal Large Model for Efficient Cross-modal Retrieval (2025) Universal Multimodal Embedding and MLLM Retrieval
45 Knowledge Graph Enhanced Multimodal Transformer for Image-Text Retrieval (2024) Universal Multimodal Embedding and MLLM Retrieval
17 Navve Wasserman 34 3
40 REAL-MM-RAG: A Real-World Multi-Modal Retrieval Benchmark (2025) Universal Multimodal Embedding and MLLM Retrieval
40 DocReRank: Single-Page Hard Negative Query Generation for Training Multi-Modal RAG Rerankers (2025) Universal Multimodal Embedding and MLLM Retrieval
18 Zihao Yue 34 3
39 OpenMMEgo: Enhancing Egocentric Understanding for LMMs with Open Weights and Data (2025) Video and Temporal Understanding
39 Movie101v2: Improved Movie Narration Benchmark (2025) Video and Temporal Understanding
21 Fengling Li 0001 COI: co-author 33 3
37 Prompt-Driven Bit Extension Hashing for Continual Cross-Modal Retrieval (2026) Cross-Modal Hashing and Quantization
37 PIC-CMH: Efficient Prompt-Infused Continual Cross-Modal Hashing (2026) Cross-Modal Hashing and Quantization
22 Xueguang Ma 33 3
38 PromptReps: Prompting Large Language Models to Generate Dense and Sparse Representations for Zero-Shot Document Retrieval (2024) Text Embedding and Representation Learning
36 R2LLMs: Retrieval and Ranking with LLMs (2025) Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval and Ranking
23 Xiao Wang 0043 33 3
37 Improving zero-shot retrieval using dense external expansion (2022) Query Reformulation and Expansion
34 Neural Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Models for Sparse and Dense Retrieval (2022) Query Reformulation and Expansion
24 Yanzhao Zhang 33 3
45 Towards Text-Image Interleaved Retrieval (2025) Universal Multimodal Embedding and MLLM Retrieval
45 Rethinking Composed Image Retrieval Evaluation: A Fine-Grained Benchmark from Image Editing (2026) Universal Multimodal Embedding and MLLM Retrieval
25 Shengyao Zhuang 33 3
47 Embark on DenseQuest: A System for Selecting the Best Dense Retriever for a Custom Collection (2024) Zero-Shot and Domain Generalization for Retrieval
37 Leveraging LLMs for Unsupervised Dense Retriever Ranking (2024) Query Performance Prediction
26 Huiqiang Jiang 32 3
45 Attentive Mask CLIP (2023) Universal Multimodal Embedding and MLLM Retrieval
45 SeCom: On Memory Construction and Retrieval for Personalized Conversational Agents (2025) Conversational Search and Retrieval
27 Ruqing Zhang 0001 32 3
35 Continual Learning for Generative Retrieval over Dynamic Corpora (2023) Generative Retrieval
35 Generative Retrieval Meets Multi-Graded Relevance (2024) Generative Retrieval
29 Xinyu Ma 0001 31 3
37 Pre-training with Aspect-Content Text Mutual Prediction for Multi-Aspect Dense Retrieval (2023) Sparse and Dense Retrieval Encoders
35 Replication and Exploration of Generative Retrieval over Dynamic Corpora (2025) Generative Retrieval
30 Antonio Mallia 31 3
34 Improved Learned Sparse Retrieval with Corpus-Specific Vocabularies (2024) Learned Sparse Retrieval Efficiency
34 Learning Passage Impacts for Inverted Indexes (2021) Learned Sparse Retrieval Efficiency
31 Xinying Qian 31 3
45 Hyperbolic Multimodal Generative Representation Learning for Generalized Zero-Shot Multimodal Information Extraction (2026) Universal Multimodal Embedding and MLLM Retrieval
45 SMIR: Span-based multi-grained information refinement for joint multimodal entity-relation extraction (2026) Universal Multimodal Embedding and MLLM Retrieval
32 Tingyu Song 31 3
40 Rethinking Composed Image Retrieval Evaluation: A Fine-Grained Benchmark from Image Editing (2026) Universal Multimodal Embedding and MLLM Retrieval
39 VF-Eval: Evaluating Multimodal LLMs for Generating Feedback on AIGC Videos (2025) Video and Temporal Understanding
33 Negar Arabzadeh 30 3
34 Enhanced Retrieval Effectiveness through Selective Query Generation (2024) Query Reformulation and Expansion
34 ReFormeR: Learning and Applying Explicit Query Reformulation Patterns (2026) Query Reformulation and Expansion
34 Jingtao Zhan 30 3
42 Combining Multiple Supervision for Robust Zero-Shot Dense Retrieval (2024) Sparse and Dense Retrieval Encoders
35 Scaling Laws For Dense Retrieval (2024) Sparse and Dense Retrieval Encoders
35 Peitian Zhang 30 3
46 Video-XL: Extra-Long Vision Language Model for Hour-Scale Video Understanding (2025) Video and Temporal Understanding
36 INTERS: Unlocking the Power of Large Language Models in Search with Instruction Tuning (2024) LLM-Based Reranking