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Determined by User Needs: A Salient Object Detection Rationale Beyond Conventional Visual Stimuli

arXiv:2604.03526v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing \textbf{s}alient \textbf{o}bject \textbf{d}etection (SOD) methods adopt a \textbf{passive} visual stimulus-based rationale--objects with the strongest visual stimuli are perceived as the user's primary focus (i.e., salient objects). They ignore the decisive role of users' \textbf{proactive needs} in segmenting salient objects--if a user has a need before seeing an image, the user's salient objects align with their needs, e.g., if a user's need is ``white apple'', when this user sees an image, the user's primary focus is on the ``white apple'' or ``the most white apple-like'' objects in the image. Such an oversight not only \textbf{fails to satisfy users}, but also \textbf{limits the development of downstream tasks}. For instance, in salient object ranking tasks, focusing solely on visual stimuli-based salient objects is insufficient for conducting an analysis of fine-grained relationships between users' viewing order (usually determined by user's needs) and scenes, which may result in wrong ranking results. Clearly, it is essential to detect salient objects based on user needs. Thus, we advocate a \textbf{User} \textbf{S}alient \textbf{O}bject \textbf{D}etection (UserSOD) task, which focuses on \textbf{detecting salient objects align with users' proactive needs when user have needs}. The main challenge for this new task is the lack of datasets for model training and testing.

FileGram: Grounding Agent Personalization in File-System Behavioral Traces

arXiv:2604.04901v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coworking AI agents operating within local file systems are rapidly emerging as a paradigm in human-AI interaction; however, effective personalization remains limited by severe data constraints, as strict privacy barriers and the difficulty of jointly collecting multimodal real-world traces prevent scalable training and evaluation, and existing methods remain interaction-centric while overlooking dense behavioral traces in file-system operations; to address this gap, we propose FileGram, a comprehensive framework that grounds agent memory and personalization in file-system behavioral traces, comprising three core components: (1) FileGramEngine, a scalable persona-driven data engine that simulates realistic workflows and generates fine-grained multimodal action sequences at scale; (2) FileGramBench, a diagnostic benchmark grounded in file-system behavioral traces for evaluating memory systems on profile reconstruction, trace disentanglement, persona drift detection, and multimodal grounding; and (3) FileGramOS, a bottom-up memory architecture that builds user profiles directly from atomic actions and content deltas rather than dialogue summaries, encoding these traces into procedural, semantic, and episodic channels with query-time abstraction; extensive experiments show that FileGramBench remains challenging for state-of-the-art memory systems and that FileGramEngine and FileGramOS are effective, and by open-sourcing the framework, we hope to support future research on personalized memory-centric file-system agents.
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