@inproceedings{ijcai2026p141,
  title     = {COAL: Counterfactual and Observation-Enhanced Alignment Learning for Discriminative Referring Multi-Object Tracking},
  author    = {Jia, Shukun and Hu, Shiyu and Wang, Yipei and Cheng, Ximeng and Cao, Yichao and Lu, Xiaobo},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on
               Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-26}},
  publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization},
  editor    = {Diego Calvanese},
  pages     = {1261--1269},
  year      = {2026},
  month     = {8},
  note      = {Main Track},
  doi       = {10.24963/ijcai.2026/141},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/141},
}