ExpAlign: Expectation-Guided Vision-Language Alignment for Open-Vocabulary Grounding

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Main Authors:	Hu, Junyi, Bai, Tian, Wu, Fengyi, Li, Wenyan, Peng, Zhenming, Zhang, Yi
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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