SSR-A: Spatial- and Semantic-Aware Instructions and Curriculum Reinforcement for Advertisement Compliant Rectification

Cao Te, Mengge Xue, Zhenyu Hu, Yuan Chen, Liqun Liu, Peng Shu, Huan Yu, Jie Jiang


Abstract
While advertising is a cornerstone of commercial growth, it is constrained by online violation detection systems that reject non-compliant content at a million-scale daily. Advertisers urgently require automated solutions to rectify these advertisements, especially visual ads, as manual fixing is unscalable. Although recent safety-driven methods can achieve compliance, they typically suffer from over-editing, destroying the original commercial intent and perceptual similarity.To address this, we present SSR-A, a framework tailored for the minimalist rectification of non-compliant image ads.Instead of fine-tuning image editing models directly, SSR-A focuses on translating violation policies into targeted editing instructions.We first introduce a Spatial- and Semantic-Aware Instruction Synthesis Pipeline, where MLLMs synthesize candidate instructions—incorporating spatial grounding and semantic guidance—and select the optimal instruction via multi-dimensional evaluation. Furthermore, we align the model using Curriculum Reinforcement Learning, employing GRPO with multi-faceted rewards to progressively navigate the trade-off between compliance and visual preservation. Extensive experiments and online A/B tests show that SSR-A significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in both compliance and preservation of visual and commercial consistency.
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2026.acl-industry.23
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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Industry Track)
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2026
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San Diego, California, USA
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Yunyao Li, Georg Rehm, Mei Tu
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Cao Te, Mengge Xue, Zhenyu Hu, Yuan Chen, Liqun Liu, Peng Shu, Huan Yu, and Jie Jiang. 2026. SSR-A: Spatial- and Semantic-Aware Instructions and Curriculum Reinforcement for Advertisement Compliant Rectification. In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Industry Track), pages 346–357, San Diego, California, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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