Team PICT’s submission for SemEval-2026 Task 3 (DimASR) tackles continuous valence and arousal prediction by heavily focusing on variance reduction and avoiding cross-domain negative transfer. We built strictly domain-isolated pipelines for the Laptop and Restaurant datasets using a RoBERTa-Large backbone. Our architecture extracts a rich feature hierarchy using weighted layer pooling, isolates local context with a [CLS]-driven aspect-aware attention module, and maps to the continuous space using a deep residual regression head. Regularized via R-Drop and SWA, our system achieved 3rd place in the Restaurant domain (RMSE: 1.195) and 9th in the Laptop domain (RMSE: 1.326).

This paper presents a system for Task A of the MedGenVidQA 2026 shared task, which requires simultaneously retrieving relevant PubMed documents and medical videos for 60 consumer health topics. The core contribution is a unified multi-stage pipeline that treats video and document retrieval as complementary rather than independent problems.For video retrieval, the system fine-tunes a PubMedBERT bi-encoder on 2,710 MedVidQA training samples using BM25-driven hard negative mining. Video transcripts (833 unique videos) are segmented into overlapping 30-second temporal chunks with a 10-second stride, producing 32,489 indexed chunks. At query time, T5-based query expansion generates enriched queries for BM25 sparse retrieval, while the original query drives FAISS dense retrieval. The two ranked lists are fused via weighted Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF, dense weight 0.75, sparse weight 0.25), and a cross-encoder (MiniLM-L-6-v2) re-ranks the top-200 fused candidates to produce the final top-10 videos. For document retrieval, the NCBI PubMed ESearch API is queried using a progressive keyword fallback chain with exponential backoff, ensuring full topic coverage.The system achieves a MAP of 0.3898, Recall@10 of 0.8449, and NDCG@10 of 0.1079, with complete 60/60 topic coverage across both retrieval modalities. Key limitations include reliance solely on transcript text for video retrieval (no visual or audio features) and dependence on a live API for document retrieval.