@inproceedings{ijcai2026p239, title = {Absorbing Gradient Conflicts: Modeling Semantic Variance via Kent Distributions for Cross-Modal Hashing}, author = {Zhu, Hengjie and Wu, Dayan and Zhang, Zihao and Liu, Xinze and Yu, Jingxuan and Fu, Peng and Lin, Zheng and Wang, Weiping}, 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 = {2145--2153}, year = {2026}, month = {8}, note = {Main Track}, doi = {10.24963/ijcai.2026/239}, url = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/239}, }