# Query Rewriting for Complex Object Segmentation in 4D Gaussian Representations

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02664 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.02664/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
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- First posted on arXiv 2 Sep 2026.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Recent 4D Gaussian representation frameworks have demonstrated strong performance in language-guided dynamic scene understanding. However, these methods remain highly sensitive to verbose and narrative-style queries that contain noisy contextual information. In this paper, we investigate the impact of query rewriting for complex object segmentation in 4D Gaussian representations. Inspired by recent findings in retrieval-augmented language models and keyword-guided query reformulation, we propose a training-free reinterpretation strategy that transforms long descriptive queries into concise keyword-grounded forms. Our approach progressively reduces linguistic noise while preserving semantic anchors relevant to object-centric representations. Experiments on HyperNeRF and Neu3D demonstrate that concise rewritten queries significantly improve both temporal localization and spatial segmentation performance. In particular, our method improves average temporal accuracy from 60.92% to 92.21% and average vIoU from 20.08% to 76.94% without any additional fine-tuning. Extensive ablation studies further reveal that shorter, keyword-focused queries consistently yield stable video-feature similarity distributions and better alignment with object-centric Gaussian representations