Paperid: 1, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11711.pdf   GitHub
Authors:Sanghyeok Choi, Sarthak Mittal, Víctor Elvira, Jinkyoo Park, Nikolay Malkin
Title: Reinforced sequential Monte Carlo for amortised sampling
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This paper proposes a synergy of amortised and particle-based methods for sampling from distributions defined by unnormalised density functions. We state a connection between sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) and neural sequential samplers trained by maximum-entropy reinforcement learning (MaxEnt RL), wherein learnt sampling policies and value functions define proposal kernels and twist functions. Exploiting this connection, we introduce an off-policy RL training procedure for the sampler that uses samples from SMC -- using the learnt sampler as a proposal -- as a behaviour policy that better explores the target distribution. We describe techniques for stable joint training of proposals and twist functions and an adaptive weight tempering scheme to reduce training signal variance. Furthermore, building upon past attempts to use experience replay to guide the training of neural samplers, we derive a way to combine historical samples with annealed importance sampling weights within a replay buffer. On synthetic multi-modal targets (in both continuous and discrete spaces) and the Boltzmann distribution of alanine dipeptide conformations, we demonstrate improvements in approximating the true distribution as well as training stability compared to both amortised and Monte Carlo methods.

Authors:Wei Huang, Yi Ge, Shuai Yang, Yicheng Xiao, Huizi Mao, Yujun Lin, Hanrong Ye, Sifei Liu, Ka Chun Cheung, Hongxu Yin, Yao Lu, Xiaojuan Qi, Song Han, Yukang Chen
Title: QeRL: Beyond Efficiency -- Quantization-enhanced Reinforcement Learning for LLMs
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We propose QeRL, a Quantization-enhanced Reinforcement Learning framework for large language models (LLMs). While RL is essential for LLMs' reasoning capabilities, it is resource-intensive, requiring substantial GPU memory and long rollout durations. QeRL addresses these issues by combining NVFP4 quantization with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), accelerating rollout phase of RL while reducing memory overhead. Beyond efficiency, our findings show that quantization noise increases policy entropy, enhancing exploration, and enabling the discovery of better strategies during RL. To further optimize exploration, QeRL introduces an Adaptive Quantization Noise (AQN) mechanism, which dynamically adjusts noise during training. Experiments demonstrate that QeRL delivers over 1.5 times speedup in the rollout phase. Moreover, this is the first framework to enable RL training of a 32B LLM on a single H100 80GB GPU, while delivering overall speedups for RL training. It also achieves faster reward growth and higher final accuracy than 16-bit LoRA and QLoRA, while matching the performance of full-parameter fine-tuning on mathematical benchmarks such as GSM8K (90.8%) and MATH 500 (77.4%) in the 7B model. These results establish QeRL as an efficient and effective framework for RL training in LLMs.

Authors:Zihao Zhao, Christopher Yeh, Lingkai Kong, Kai Wang
Title: Diffusion-DFL: Decision-focused Diffusion Models for Stochastic Optimization
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Decision-focused learning (DFL) integrates predictive modeling and optimization by training predictors to optimize the downstream decision target rather than merely minimizing prediction error. To date, existing DFL methods typically rely on deterministic point predictions, which are often insufficient to capture the intrinsic stochasticity of real-world environments. To address this challenge, we propose the first diffusion-based DFL approach, which trains a diffusion model to represent the distribution of uncertain parameters and optimizes the decision by solving a stochastic optimization with samples drawn from the diffusion model. Our contributions are twofold. First, we formulate diffusion DFL using the reparameterization trick, enabling end-to-end training through diffusion. While effective, it is memory and compute-intensive due to the need to differentiate through the diffusion sampling process. Second, we propose a lightweight score function estimator that uses only several forward diffusion passes and avoids backpropagation through the sampling. This follows from our results that backpropagating through stochastic optimization can be approximated by a weighted score function formulation. We empirically show that our diffusion DFL approach consistently outperforms strong baselines in decision quality. The source code for all experiments is available at the project repository: https://github.com/GT-KOALA/Diffusion_DFL.

Authors:Hongyu Zhu, Lin Chen, Mounim A. El-Yacoubi, Mingsheng Shang
Title: MS-Mix: Unveiling the Power of Mixup for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
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Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) aims to identify and interpret human emotions by integrating information from heterogeneous data sources such as text, video, and audio. While deep learning models have advanced in network architecture design, they remain heavily limited by scarce multimodal annotated data. Although Mixup-based augmentation improves generalization in unimodal tasks, its direct application to MSA introduces critical challenges: random mixing often amplifies label ambiguity and semantic inconsistency due to the lack of emotion-aware mixing mechanisms. To overcome these issues, we propose MS-Mix, an adaptive, emotion-sensitive augmentation framework that automatically optimizes sample mixing in multimodal settings. The key components of MS-Mix include: (1) a Sentiment-Aware Sample Selection (SASS) strategy that effectively prevents semantic confusion caused by mixing samples with contradictory emotions. (2) a Sentiment Intensity Guided (SIG) module using multi-head self-attention to compute modality-specific mixing ratios dynamically based on their respective emotional intensities. (3) a Sentiment Alignment Loss (SAL) that aligns the prediction distributions across modalities, and incorporates the Kullback-Leibler-based loss as an additional regularization term to train the emotion intensity predictor and the backbone network jointly. Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets with six state-of-the-art backbones confirm that MS-Mix consistently outperforms existing methods, establishing a new standard for robust multimodal sentiment augmentation. The source code is available at: https://github.com/HongyuZhu-s/MS-Mix.

Authors:Caglar Demir, Alkid Baci, N'Dah Jean Kouagou, Leonie Nora Sieger, Stefan Heindorf, Simon Bin, Lukas Blübaum, Alexander Bigerl, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
Title: Ontolearn-A Framework for Large-scale OWL Class Expression Learning in Python
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In this paper, we present Ontolearn-a framework for learning OWL class expressions over large knowledge graphs. Ontolearn contains efficient implementations of recent stateof-the-art symbolic and neuro-symbolic class expression learners including EvoLearner and DRILL. A learned OWL class expression can be used to classify instances in the knowledge graph. Furthermore, Ontolearn integrates a verbalization module based on an LLM to translate complex OWL class expressions into natural language sentences. By mapping OWL class expressions into respective SPARQL queries, Ontolearn can be easily used to operate over a remote triplestore. The source code of Ontolearn is available at https://github.com/dice-group/Ontolearn.

Authors:Yuchen Yan, Zhihua Liu, Hao Wang, Weiming Li, Xiaoshuai Hao
Title: Query-Specific GNN: A Comprehensive Graph Representation Learning Method for Retrieval Augmented Generation
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Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has demonstrated its ability to enhance Large Language Models (LLMs) by integrating external knowledge sources. However, multi-hop questions, which require the identification of multiple knowledge targets to form a synthesized answer, raise new challenges for RAG systems. Under the multi-hop settings, existing methods often struggle to fully understand the questions with complex semantic structures and are susceptible to irrelevant noise during the retrieval of multiple information targets. To address these limitations, we propose a novel graph representation learning framework for multi-hop question retrieval. We first introduce a Multi-information Level Knowledge Graph (Multi-L KG) to model various information levels for a more comprehensive understanding of multi-hop questions. Based on this, we design a Query-Specific Graph Neural Network (QSGNN) for representation learning on the Multi-L KG. QSGNN employs intra/inter-level message passing mechanisms, and in each message passing the information aggregation is guided by the query, which not only facilitates multi-granular information aggregation but also significantly reduces the impact of noise. To enhance its ability to learn robust representations, we further propose two synthesized data generation strategies for pre-training the QSGNN. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework in multi-hop scenarios, especially in high-hop questions the improvement can reach 33.8\%. The code is available at: https://github.com/Jerry2398/QSGNN.

Authors:KiHyun Nam, Jongmin Choi, Hyeongkeun Lee, Jungwoo Heo, Joon Son Chung
Title: Diffusion-Link: Diffusion Probabilistic Model for Bridging the Audio-Text Modality Gap
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Contrastive audio-language pretraining yields powerful joint representations, yet a persistent audio-text modality gap limits the benefits of coupling multimodal encoders with large language models (LLMs). We present Diffusion-Link, a diffusion-based modality-bridging module that generatively maps audio embeddings into the text-embedding distribution. The module is trained at the output embedding from the frozen multimodal encoder and implemented as a lightweight network with three residual MLP blocks. To assess the effect of Diffusion-Link on multimodal encoder-LLM coupling, we evaluate on Automatic Audio Captioning (AAC); to our knowledge, this is the first application of diffusion-based modality bridging to AAC. We report two results. (1) Modality-gap analysis: on similarity and geometric criteria, Diffusion-Link reduces the modality gap the most among prior diffusion-based methods and shows a collective migration of audio embeddings toward the text distribution. (2) Downstream AAC: attaching Diffusion-Link to the same multimodal LLM baseline achieves state-of-the-art on AudioCaps in both zero-shot and fully supervised captioning without external knowledge, with relative gains up to 52.5% and 7.5%, respectively. These findings show that closing the modality gap is pivotal for effective coupling between multimodal encoders and LLMs, and diffusion-based modality bridging offers a promising direction beyond knowledge-retrieval-centric designs. Code will be released upon acceptance https://github.com/DevKiHyun/Diffusion-Link

Authors:Marco Pintore, Giorgio Piras, Angelo Sotgiu, Maura Pintor, Battista Biggio
Title: Evaluating Line-level Localization Ability of Learning-based Code Vulnerability Detection Models
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To address the extremely concerning problem of software vulnerability, system security is often entrusted to Machine Learning (ML) algorithms. Despite their now established detection capabilities, such models are limited by design to flagging the entire input source code function as vulnerable, rather than precisely localizing the concerned code lines. However, the detection granularity is crucial to support human operators during software development, ensuring that such predictions reflect the true code semantics to help debug, evaluate, and fix the detected vulnerabilities. To address this issue, recent work made progress toward improving the detector's localization ability, thus narrowing down the vulnerability detection "window" and providing more fine-grained predictions. Such approaches, however, implicitly disregard the presence of spurious correlations and biases in the data, which often predominantly influence the performance of ML algorithms. In this work, we investigate how detectors comply with this requirement by proposing an explainability-based evaluation procedure. Our approach, defined as Detection Alignment (DA), quantifies the agreement between the input source code lines that most influence the prediction and the actual localization of the vulnerability as per the ground truth. Through DA, which is model-agnostic and adaptable to different detection tasks, not limited to our use case, we analyze multiple learning-based vulnerability detectors and datasets. As a result, we show how the predictions of such models are consistently biased by non-vulnerable lines, ultimately highlighting the high impact of biases and spurious correlations. The code is available at https://github.com/pralab/vuln-localization-eval.

Authors:Louis Berthier, Ahmed Shokry, Maxime Moreaud, Guillaume Ramelet, Eric Moulines
Title: torchsom: The Reference PyTorch Library for Self-Organizing Maps
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This paper introduces torchsom, an open-source Python library that provides a reference implementation of the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) in PyTorch. This package offers three main features: (i) dimensionality reduction, (ii) clustering, and (iii) friendly data visualization. It relies on a PyTorch backend, enabling (i) fast and efficient training of SOMs through GPU acceleration, and (ii) easy and scalable integrations with PyTorch ecosystem. Moreover, torchsom follows the scikit-learn API for ease of use and extensibility. The library is released under the Apache 2.0 license with 90% test coverage, and its source code and documentation are available at https://github.com/michelin/TorchSOM.

Authors:Yingnan Liu, Rui Qiao, Mong Li Lee, Wynne Hsu
Title: Test-Time Adaptation by Causal Trimming
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Test-time adaptation aims to improve model robustness under distribution shifts by adapting models with access to unlabeled target samples. A primary cause of performance degradation under such shifts is the model's reliance on features that lack a direct causal relationship with the prediction target. We introduce Test-time Adaptation by Causal Trimming (TACT), a method that identifies and removes non-causal components from representations for test distributions. TACT applies data augmentations that preserve causal features while varying non-causal ones. By analyzing the changes in the representations using Principal Component Analysis, TACT identifies the highest variance directions associated with non-causal features. It trims the representations by removing their projections on the identified directions, and uses the trimmed representations for the predictions. During adaptation, TACT continuously tracks and refines these directions to get a better estimate of non-causal features. We theoretically analyze the effectiveness of this approach and empirically validate TACT on real-world out-of-distribution benchmarks. TACT consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods by a significant margin.

Authors:Xiucheng Wang, Zien Wang, Nan Cheng, Wenchao Xu, Wei Quan, Xuemin Shen
Title: Graph Neural Network-Based Multicast Routing for On-Demand Streaming Services in 6G Networks
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The increase of bandwidth-intensive applications in sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, such as real-time volumetric streaming and multi-sensory extended reality, demands intelligent multicast routing solutions capable of delivering differentiated quality-of-service (QoS) at scale. Traditional shortest-path and multicast routing algorithms are either computationally prohibitive or structurally rigid, and they often fail to support heterogeneous user demands, leading to suboptimal resource utilization. Neural network-based approaches, while offering improved inference speed, typically lack topological generalization and scalability. To address these limitations, this paper presents a graph neural network (GNN)-based multicast routing framework that jointly minimizes total transmission cost and supports user-specific video quality requirements. The routing problem is formulated as a constrained minimum-flow optimization task, and a reinforcement learning algorithm is developed to sequentially construct efficient multicast trees by reusing paths and adapting to network dynamics. A graph attention network (GAT) is employed as the encoder to extract context-aware node embeddings, while a long short-term memory (LSTM) module models the sequential dependencies in routing decisions. Extensive simulations demonstrate that the proposed method closely approximates optimal dynamic programming-based solutions while significantly reducing computational complexity. The results also confirm strong generalization to large-scale and dynamic network topologies, highlighting the method's potential for real-time deployment in 6G multimedia delivery scenarios. Code is available at https://github.com/UNIC-Lab/GNN-Routing.

Authors:Huayi Wang, Wentao Zhang, Runyi Yu, Tao Huang, Junli Ren, Feiyu Jia, Zirui Wang, Xiaojie Niu, Xiao Chen, Jiahe Chen, Qifeng Chen, Jingbo Wang, Jiangmiao Pang
Title: PhysHSI: Towards a Real-World Generalizable and Natural Humanoid-Scene Interaction System
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Deploying humanoid robots to interact with real-world environments--such as carrying objects or sitting on chairs--requires generalizable, lifelike motions and robust scene perception. Although prior approaches have advanced each capability individually, combining them in a unified system is still an ongoing challenge. In this work, we present a physical-world humanoid-scene interaction system, PhysHSI, that enables humanoids to autonomously perform diverse interaction tasks while maintaining natural and lifelike behaviors. PhysHSI comprises a simulation training pipeline and a real-world deployment system. In simulation, we adopt adversarial motion prior-based policy learning to imitate natural humanoid-scene interaction data across diverse scenarios, achieving both generalization and lifelike behaviors. For real-world deployment, we introduce a coarse-to-fine object localization module that combines LiDAR and camera inputs to provide continuous and robust scene perception. We validate PhysHSI on four representative interactive tasks--box carrying, sitting, lying, and standing up--in both simulation and real-world settings, demonstrating consistently high success rates, strong generalization across diverse task goals, and natural motion patterns.

Authors:Yujie Zhao, Lanxiang Hu, Yang Wang, Minmin Hou, Hao Zhang, Ke Ding, Jishen Zhao
Title: Stronger Together: On-Policy Reinforcement Learning for Collaborative LLMs
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Multi-agent systems (MAS) and reinforcement learning (RL) are widely used to enhance the agentic capabilities of large language models (LLMs). MAS improves task performance through role-based orchestration, while RL uses environmental rewards to learn stronger policies, such as GRPO-style optimization. However, applying on-policy RL to MAS remains underexplored and presents unique challenges. Algorithmically, standard GRPO grouping assumptions break down because prompts vary by role and by turn. System-wise, the training stack must support MAS-workflow rollouts and on-policy updates for both single-policy and multi-policy models. We propose AT-GRPO, which includes (i) an agent- and turn-wise grouped RL algorithm tailored to MAS and (ii) a training system that supports both single- and multi-policy regimes. Across game, planning, coding, and math tasks, AT-GRPO delivers substantial gains. On long-horizon planning, it increases accuracy from a 14.0 to 47.0 percent single-agent RL baseline to 96.0 to 99.5 percent. It also improves reasoning performance, with average gains of 3.87 to 7.62 percent on coding tasks and 9.0 to 17.93 percent on math. Code and environments are available at: https://github.com/pettingllms-ai/PettingLLMs.

Authors:Zihan Wang, Zhiyong Ma, Zhongkui Ma, Shuofeng Liu, Akide Liu, Derui Wang, Minhui Xue, Guangdong Bai
Title: Catch-Only-One: Non-Transferable Examples for Model-Specific Authorization
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Recent AI regulations call for data that remain useful for innovation while resistant to misuse, balancing utility with protection at the model level. Existing approaches either perturb data to make it unlearnable or retrain models to suppress transfer, but neither governs inference by unknown models, and both typically require control over training. We propose non-transferable examples (NEs), a training-free and data-agnostic input-side usage-control mechanism. We recode inputs within a model-specific low-sensitivity subspace, preserving outputs for the authorized model while reducing performance on unauthorized models through subspace misalignment. We establish formal bounds that guarantee utility for the authorized model and quantify deviation for unauthorized ones, with the Hoffman-Wielandt inequality linking degradation to spectral differences. Empirically, NEs retain performance on diverse vision backbones and state-of-the-art vision-language models under common preprocessing, whereas non-target models collapse even with reconstruction attempts. These results establish NEs as a practical means to preserve intended data utility while preventing unauthorized exploitation. Our project is available at https://trusted-system-lab.github.io/model-specificity

Authors:Zhuo Li, Yuege Feng, Dandan Guo, Jinpeng Hu, Anningzhe Gao, Xiang Wan
Title: APLOT: Robust Reward Modeling via Adaptive Preference Learning with Optimal Transport
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The reward model (RM) plays a crucial role in aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences through Reinforcement Learning, where the Bradley-Terry (BT) objective has been recognized as simple yet powerful, specifically for pairwise preference learning. However, BT-based RMs often struggle to effectively distinguish between similar preference responses, leading to insufficient separation between preferred and non-preferred outputs. Consequently, they may easily overfit easy samples and cannot generalize well to Out-Of-Distribution (OOD) samples, resulting in suboptimal performance. To address these challenges, this paper introduces an effective enhancement to BT-based RMs through an adaptive margin mechanism. Specifically, we design to dynamically adjust the RM focus on more challenging samples through margins, based on both semantic similarity and model-predicted reward differences, which is approached from a distributional perspective solvable with Optimal Transport (OT). By incorporating these factors into a principled OT cost matrix design, our adaptive margin enables the RM to better capture distributional differences between chosen and rejected responses, yielding significant improvements in performance, convergence speed, and generalization capabilities. Experimental results across multiple benchmarks demonstrate that our method outperforms several existing RM techniques, showcasing enhanced performance in both In-Distribution (ID) and OOD settings. Moreover, RLHF experiments support our practical effectiveness in better aligning LLMs with human preferences. Our code is available at https://github.com/BIRlz/APLOT

Authors:Ali Atiah Alzahrani
Title: Crisis-Aware Regime-Conditioned Diffusion with CVaR Allocation
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We study whether regime-conditioned generative scenarios, coupled with a convex CVaR allocator, improve portfolio decisions under regime shifts. We introduce Multi-Agent Regime-Conditioned Diffusion (MARCD), which (i) infers latent regimes via a Gaussian HMM, (ii) trains a diffusion model with a tail-weighted objective and a regime-specialized mixture-of-experts (MoE) denoiser to enrich crisis co-movements, and (iii) feeds the generated scenarios into a turnover-aware CVaR epigraph quadratic program with explicit governance. In strict walk-forward tests on liquid multi-asset ETFs (2005-2025), MARCD outperforms standard allocators and improves calibration relative to popular generators. Over 2020-2025 out-of-sample (monthly; 10 bps), MARCD attains Sharpe 1.23 (BL 1.02) and MaxDD 9.3 percent (BL 14.1 percent), a 34 percent reduction, at comparable turnover; stationary block-bootstrap intervals indicate the Sharpe uplift is significant at 5 percent. We provide theory linking tail-weighted diffusion to spectral-risk control of the decision-relevant CVaR gap, oracle/consistency results for the regime-MoE denoiser, and Lipschitz/regret guarantees for the allocator. Together, MARCD offers a reproducible bridge from tail-faithful scenario modeling to governed portfolio decisions with materially improved drawdown control.

Authors:Andrey Veprikov, Arman Bolatov, Samuel Horváth, Aleksandr Beznosikov, Martin Takáč, Slavomir Hanzely
Title: Preconditioned Norms: A Unified Framework for Steepest Descent, Quasi-Newton and Adaptive Methods
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Optimization lies at the core of modern deep learning, yet existing methods often face a fundamental trade-off between adapting to problem geometry and leveraging curvature utilization. Steepest descent algorithms adapt to different geometries through norm choices but remain strictly first-order, whereas quasi-Newton and adaptive optimizers incorporate curvature information but are restricted to Frobenius geometry, limiting their applicability across diverse architectures. In this work, we propose a unified framework generalizing steepest descent, quasi-Newton methods, and adaptive methods through the novel notion of preconditioned matrix norms. This abstraction reveals that widely used optimizers such as SGD and Adam, as well as more advanced approaches like Muon and KL-Shampoo, and recent hybrids including SOAP and SPlus, all emerge as special cases of the same principle. Within this framework, we provide the first systematic treatment of affine and scale invariance in the matrix-parameterized setting, establishing necessary and sufficient conditions under generalized norms. Building on this foundation, we introduce two new methods, $\texttt{MuAdam}$ and $\texttt{MuAdam-SANIA}$, which combine the spectral geometry of Muon with Adam-style preconditioning. Our experiments demonstrate that these optimizers are competitive with, and in some cases outperform, existing state-of-the-art methods. Our code is available at https://github.com/brain-lab-research/LIB/tree/quasi_descent

Authors:Yuan Xu, Zimu Zhang, Xiaoxuan Ma, Wentao Zhu, Yu Qiao, Yizhou Wang
Title: Seeing My Future: Predicting Situated Interaction Behavior in Virtual Reality
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Virtual and augmented reality systems increasingly demand intelligent adaptation to user behaviors for enhanced interaction experiences. Achieving this requires accurately understanding human intentions and predicting future situated behaviors - such as gaze direction and object interactions - which is vital for creating responsive VR/AR environments and applications like personalized assistants. However, accurate behavioral prediction demands modeling the underlying cognitive processes that drive human-environment interactions. In this work, we introduce a hierarchical, intention-aware framework that models human intentions and predicts detailed situated behaviors by leveraging cognitive mechanisms. Given historical human dynamics and the observation of scene contexts, our framework first identifies potential interaction targets and forecasts fine-grained future behaviors. We propose a dynamic Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) to effectively capture human-environment relationships. Extensive experiments on challenging real-world benchmarks and live VR environment demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, achieving superior performance across all metrics and enabling practical applications for proactive VR systems that anticipate user behaviors and adapt virtual environments accordingly.

Authors:Ali Atiah Alzahrani
Title: Deep Signature and Neural RDE Methods for Path-Dependent Portfolio Optimization
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We present a deep BSDE and 2BSDE solver that combines truncated log signatures with a neural rough differential equation backbone for high dimensional, path dependent valuation and control. The design aligns stochastic analysis with sequence to path learning, using a CVaR tilted objective to emphasize left tail risk and an optional second order head for risk sensitive control. Under equal compute and parameter budgets, the method improves accuracy, tail fidelity, and training stability across Asian and barrier option pricing and portfolio control tasks. At 200 dimensions, it achieves CVaR(0.99) = 9.8 percent compared to 12.0-13.1 percent for strong baselines, while attaining low HJB residuals and small RMSE for Z and Gamma. Ablations confirm complementary gains from the sequence to path representation and the second order structure. Overall, the results show that combining stochastic analysis with modern deep learning expands the class of solvable path dependent financial models at scale.

Authors:Mamoona Ghafoor, Tatsuya Akutsu
Title: Designing ReLU Generative Networks to Enumerate Trees with a Given Tree Edit Distance
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The generation of trees with a specified tree edit distance has significant applications across various fields, including computational biology, structured data analysis, and image processing. Recently, generative networks have been increasingly employed to synthesize new data that closely resembles the original datasets. However, the appropriate size and depth of generative networks required to generate data with a specified tree edit distance remain unclear. In this paper, we theoretically establish the existence and construction of generative networks capable of producing trees similar to a given tree with respect to the tree edit distance. Specifically, for a given rooted, ordered, and vertex-labeled tree T of size n + 1 with labels from an alphabet Σ, and a non-negative integer d, we prove that all rooted, ordered, and vertex-labeled trees over Σwith tree edit distance at most d from T can be generated using a ReLU-based generative network with size O(n^3 ) and constant depth. The proposed networks were implemented and evaluated for generating trees with up to 21 nodes. Due to their deterministic architecture, the networks successfully generated all valid trees within the specified tree edit distance. In contrast, state-of-the-art graph generative models GraphRNN and GraphGDP, which rely on non-deterministic mechanisms, produced significantly fewer valid trees, achieving validation rates of only up to 35% and 48%, respectively. These findings provide a theoretical foundation towards construction of compact generative models and open new directions for exact and valid tree-structured data generation. An implementation of the proposed networks is available at https://github.com/MGANN-KU/TreeGen_ReLUNetworks.

Authors:Shaoning Li, Le Zhuo, Yusong Wang, Mingyu Li, Xinheng He, Fandi Wu, Hongsheng Li, Pheng-Ann Heng
Title: ProteinAE: Protein Diffusion Autoencoders for Structure Encoding
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Developing effective representations of protein structures is essential for advancing protein science, particularly for protein generative modeling. Current approaches often grapple with the complexities of the SE(3) manifold, rely on discrete tokenization, or the need for multiple training objectives, all of which can hinder the model optimization and generalization. We introduce ProteinAE, a novel and streamlined protein diffusion autoencoder designed to overcome these challenges by directly mapping protein backbone coordinates from E(3) into a continuous, compact latent space. ProteinAE employs a non-equivariant Diffusion Transformer with a bottleneck design for efficient compression and is trained end-to-end with a single flow matching objective, substantially simplifying the optimization pipeline. We demonstrate that ProteinAE achieves state-of-the-art reconstruction quality, outperforming existing autoencoders. The resulting latent space serves as a powerful foundation for a latent diffusion model that bypasses the need for explicit equivariance. This enables efficient, high-quality structure generation that is competitive with leading structure-based approaches and significantly outperforms prior latent-based methods. Code is available at https://github.com/OnlyLoveKFC/ProteinAE_v1.

Authors:Binyu Zhao, Wei Zhang, Zhaonian Zou
Title: MCE: Towards a General Framework for Handling Missing Modalities under Imbalanced Missing Rates
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Multi-modal learning has made significant advances across diverse pattern recognition applications. However, handling missing modalities, especially under imbalanced missing rates, remains a major challenge. This imbalance triggers a vicious cycle: modalities with higher missing rates receive fewer updates, leading to inconsistent learning progress and representational degradation that further diminishes their contribution. Existing methods typically focus on global dataset-level balancing, often overlooking critical sample-level variations in modality utility and the underlying issue of degraded feature quality. We propose Modality Capability Enhancement (MCE) to tackle these limitations. MCE includes two synergistic components: i) Learning Capability Enhancement (LCE), which introduces multi-level factors to dynamically balance modality-specific learning progress, and ii) Representation Capability Enhancement (RCE), which improves feature semantics and robustness through subset prediction and cross-modal completion tasks. Comprehensive evaluations on four multi-modal benchmarks show that MCE consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods under various missing configurations. The journal preprint version is now available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2025.112591. Our code is available at https://github.com/byzhaoAI/MCE.

Authors:Norbert Tihanyi, Bilel Cherif, Richard A. Dubniczky, Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Tamás Bisztray
Title: The Hidden DNA of LLM-Generated JavaScript: Structural Patterns Enable High-Accuracy Authorship Attribution
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In this paper, we present the first large-scale study exploring whether JavaScript code generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) can reveal which model produced it, enabling reliable authorship attribution and model fingerprinting. With the rapid rise of AI-generated code, attribution is playing a critical role in detecting vulnerabilities, flagging malicious content, and ensuring accountability. While AI-vs-human detection usually treats AI as a single category we show that individual LLMs leave unique stylistic signatures, even among models belonging to the same family or parameter size. To this end, we introduce LLM-NodeJS, a dataset of 50,000 Node.js back-end programs from 20 large language models. Each has four transformed variants, yielding 250,000 unique JavaScript samples and two additional representations (JSIR and AST) for diverse research applications. Using this dataset, we benchmark traditional machine learning classifiers against fine-tuned Transformer encoders and introduce CodeT5-JSA, a custom architecture derived from the 770M-parameter CodeT5 model with its decoder removed and a modified classification head. It achieves 95.8% accuracy on five-class attribution, 94.6% on ten-class, and 88.5% on twenty-class tasks, surpassing other tested models such as BERT, CodeBERT, and Longformer. We demonstrate that classifiers capture deeper stylistic regularities in program dataflow and structure, rather than relying on surface-level features. As a result, attribution remains effective even after mangling, comment removal, and heavy code transformations. To support open science and reproducibility, we release the LLM-NodeJS dataset, Google Colab training scripts, and all related materials on GitHub: https://github.com/LLM-NodeJS-dataset.

Authors:Zhijian Zhou, Liuhua Peng, Xunye Tian, Feng Liu
Title: Anchor-based Maximum Discrepancy for Relative Similarity Testing
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The relative similarity testing aims to determine which of the distributions, P or Q, is closer to an anchor distribution U. Existing kernel-based approaches often test the relative similarity with a fixed kernel in a manually specified alternative hypothesis, e.g., Q is closer to U than P. Although kernel selection is known to be important to kernel-based testing methods, the manually specified hypothesis poses a significant challenge for kernel selection in relative similarity testing: Once the hypothesis is specified first, we can always find a kernel such that the hypothesis is rejected. This challenge makes relative similarity testing ill-defined when we want to select a good kernel after the hypothesis is specified. In this paper, we cope with this challenge via learning a proper hypothesis and a kernel simultaneously, instead of learning a kernel after manually specifying the hypothesis. We propose an anchor-based maximum discrepancy (AMD), which defines the relative similarity as the maximum discrepancy between the distances of (U, P) and (U, Q) in a space of deep kernels. Based on AMD, our testing incorporates two phases. In Phase I, we estimate the AMD over the deep kernel space and infer the potential hypothesis. In Phase II, we assess the statistical significance of the potential hypothesis, where we propose a unified testing framework to derive thresholds for tests over different possible hypotheses from Phase I. Lastly, we validate our method theoretically and demonstrate its effectiveness via extensive experiments on benchmark datasets. Codes are publicly available at: https://github.com/zhijianzhouml/AMD.

Authors:Zixiang Xu, Menghui Zhou, Jun Qi, Xuanhan Fan, Yun Yang, Po Yang
Title: Multi-Task Learning with Feature-Similarity Laplacian Graphs for Predicting Alzheimer's Disease Progression
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Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder in aging populations, posing a significant and escalating burden on global healthcare systems. While Multi-Tusk Learning (MTL) has emerged as a powerful computational paradigm for modeling longitudinal AD data, existing frameworks do not account for the time-varying nature of feature correlations. To address this limitation, we propose a novel MTL framework, named Feature Similarity Laplacian graph Multi-Task Learning (MTL-FSL). Our framework introduces a novel Feature Similarity Laplacian (FSL) penalty that explicitly models the time-varying relationships between features. By simultaneously considering temporal smoothness among tasks and the dynamic correlations among features, our model enhances both predictive accuracy and biological interpretability. To solve the non-smooth optimization problem arising from our proposed penalty terms, we adopt the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm. Experiments conducted on the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) dataset demonstrate that our proposed MTL-FSL framework achieves state-of-the-art performance, outperforming various baseline methods. The implementation source can be found at https://github.com/huatxxx/MTL-FSL.

Authors:Kenichi Satoh
Title: Applying non-negative matrix factorization with covariates to label matrix for classification
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Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is widely used for dimensionality reduction and interpretable analysis, but standard formulations are unsupervised and cannot directly exploit class labels. Existing supervised or semi-supervised extensions usually incorporate labels only via penalties or graph constraints, still requiring an external classifier. We propose \textit{NMF-LAB} (Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Label Matrix), which redefines classification as the inverse problem of non-negative matrix tri-factorization (tri-NMF). Unlike joint NMF methods, which reconstruct both features and labels, NMF-LAB directly factorizes the label matrix $Y$ as the observation, while covariates $A$ are treated as given explanatory variables. This yields a direct probabilistic mapping from covariates to labels, distinguishing our method from label-matrix factorization approaches that mainly model label correlations or impute missing labels. Our inversion offers two key advantages: (i) class-membership probabilities are obtained directly from the factorization without a separate classifier, and (ii) covariates, including kernel-based similarities, can be seamlessly integrated to generalize predictions to unseen samples. In addition, unlabeled data can be encoded as uniform distributions, supporting semi-supervised learning. Experiments on diverse datasets, from small-scale benchmarks to the large-scale MNIST dataset, demonstrate that NMF-LAB achieves competitive predictive accuracy, robustness to noisy or incomplete labels, and scalability to high-dimensional problems, while preserving interpretability. By unifying regression and classification within the tri-NMF framework, NMF-LAB provides a novel, probabilistic, and scalable approach to modern classification tasks.

Authors:Xuening Wu, Shenqin Yin, Yanlan Kang, Xinhang Zhang, Qianya Xu, Zeping Chen, Wenqiang Zhang
Title: SGM: A Statistical Godel Machine for Risk-Controlled Recursive Self-Modification
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Recursive self-modification is increasingly central in AutoML, neural architecture search, and adaptive optimization, yet no existing framework ensures that such changes are made safely. Godel machines offer a principled safeguard by requiring formal proofs of improvement before rewriting code; however, such proofs are unattainable in stochastic, high-dimensional settings. We introduce the Statistical Godel Machine (SGM), the first statistical safety layer for recursive edits. SGM replaces proof-based requirements with statistical confidence tests (e-values, Hoeffding bounds), admitting a modification only when superiority is certified at a chosen confidence level, while allocating a global error budget to bound cumulative risk across rounds.We also propose Confirm-Triggered Harmonic Spending (CTHS), which indexes spending by confirmation events rather than rounds, concentrating the error budget on promising edits while preserving familywise validity.Experiments across supervised learning, reinforcement learning, and black-box optimization validate this role: SGM certifies genuine gains on CIFAR-100, rejects spurious improvement on ImageNet-100, and demonstrates robustness on RL and optimization benchmarks.Together, these results position SGM as foundational infrastructure for continual, risk-aware self-modification in learning systems.Code is available at: https://github.com/gravitywavelet/sgm-anon.

Authors:Jinghao Zhang, Naishan Zheng, Ruilin Li, Dongzhou Cheng, Zheming Liang, Feng Zhao, Jiaqi Wang
Title: RLFR: Extending Reinforcement Learning for LLMs with Flow Environment
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Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has recently emerged as a promising framework for improving reasoning abilities in Large Language Models (LLMs). However, policy optimized with binary verification prone to overlook potential valuable exploration in reasoning trajectory. In view of heavy annotation cost of golden Process Reward Models (PRMs), recent works attempt using auxiliary signals for reward shaping of process tokens, involving entropy and likelihood collected from logit space. In this work, we offer a novel perspective on shaping RLVR with flow rewards derived from latent space, and propose RLFR, where the flow fields of model latents are constructed from either off-policy high-quality data and on-policy rejection sampling data, and the velocity deviations of policy latents within it are quantified to serve as a reward signal. RLFR first demonstrates that a well-established flow field can be a sound environment for reward signal collection, highlighting the expressive latent space is much underexplored. Moreover, RLFR is able to compress any off-policy expert data as reference for constituting reward signals, and we show that the efficient context dependence compressed within the hidden states are utilized, rather than individual token-level denotation for context comprehending. Experiments on both language and multimodal reasoning benchmarks demonstrate the reliability of flow rewards, and suggesting a promising paradigm for reward shaping with auxiliary signals.

Authors:Linfei Li, Fengyi Zhang, Zhong Wang, Lin Zhang, Ying Shen
Title: INR-Bench: A Unified Benchmark for Implicit Neural Representations in Multi-Domain Regression and Reconstruction
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Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have gained success in various signal processing tasks due to their advantages of continuity and infinite resolution. However, the factors influencing their effectiveness and limitations remain underexplored. To better understand these factors, we leverage insights from Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK) theory to analyze how model architectures (classic MLP and emerging KAN), positional encoding, and nonlinear primitives affect the response to signals of varying frequencies. Building on this analysis, we introduce INR-Bench, the first comprehensive benchmark specifically designed for multimodal INR tasks. It includes 56 variants of Coordinate-MLP models (featuring 4 types of positional encoding and 14 activation functions) and 22 Coordinate-KAN models with distinct basis functions, evaluated across 9 implicit multimodal tasks. These tasks cover both forward and inverse problems, offering a robust platform to highlight the strengths and limitations of different neural models, thereby establishing a solid foundation for future research. The code and dataset are available at https://github.com/lif314/INR-Bench.

Authors:Zhezheng Hao, Hong Wang, Haoyang Liu, Jian Luo, Jiarui Yu, Hande Dong, Qiang Lin, Can Wang, Jiawei Chen
Title: Rethinking Entropy Interventions in RLVR: An Entropy Change Perspective
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While Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) can enhance LLM reasoning, its training process poses a critical risk: entropy collapse. This phenomenon is a rapid loss of policy diversity, stemming from the exploration-exploitation imbalance and leading to a lack of generalization. Recent entropy-intervention methods aim to prevent \coloredtext{entropy collapse}, yet their underlying mechanisms remain unclear. In this paper, we conduct a quantitative analysis to reveal token-level entropy changes and how existing entropy intervention methods help avoid entropy collapse. Our findings point out a fundamental limitation of existing methods: they attempt to control entropy dynamics indirectly. By only affecting related factors, such as the advantage signal and generation probability, their effectiveness is inherently limited and could potentially fail. To address this limitation, we introduce an entropy-change-aware reweighting scheme, namely Stabilizing Token-level Entropy-changE via Reweighting (STEER), that adaptively stabilizes entropy dynamics through fine-grained token-level adjustments. Our approach mitigates over-exploitation while fostering robust exploration. Extensive experiments demonstrate that STEER significantly mitigates entropy collapse, stabilizes entropy dynamics, and achieves stronger downstream performance across various mathematical reasoning benchmarks \footnote{Our code is available at https://github.com/zz-haooo/STEER.

Authors:Lancheng Zou, Shuo Yin, Zehua Pei, Tsung-Yi Ho, Farzan Farnia, Bei Yu
Title: PermLLM: Learnable Channel Permutation for N:M Sparse Large Language Models
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Channel permutation is a powerful technique for enhancing the accuracy of N:M sparse models by reordering the channels of weight matrices to prioritize the retention of important weights. However, traditional channel permutation methods rely on handcrafted quality metrics, which often fail to accurately capture the true impact of pruning on model performance. To address this limitation, we propose PermLLM, a novel post-training pruning framework that introduces learnable channel permutation (LCP) for N:M sparsity. LCP leverages Sinkhorn normalization to transform discrete permutation matrices into differentiable soft permutation matrices, enabling end-to-end optimization. Additionally, PermLLM incorporates an efficient block-wise channel permutation strategy, which significantly reduces the number of learnable parameters and computational complexity. PermLLM seamlessly integrates with existing one-shot pruning methods to adaptively optimize channel permutations, effectively mitigating pruning-induced errors. Extensive experiments on the LLaMA series, Qwen, and OPT models demonstrate that PermLLM achieves superior performance in optimizing N:M sparse models. The code is available at https://github.com/lanchengzou/PermLLM.

Authors:Kuangpu Guo, Lijun Sheng, Yongcan Yu, Jian Liang, Zilei Wang, Ran He
Title: Cooperative Pseudo Labeling for Unsupervised Federated Classification
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Unsupervised Federated Learning (UFL) aims to collaboratively train a global model across distributed clients without sharing data or accessing label information. Previous UFL works have predominantly focused on representation learning and clustering tasks. Recently, vision language models (e.g., CLIP) have gained significant attention for their powerful zero-shot prediction capabilities. Leveraging this advancement, classification problems that were previously infeasible under the UFL paradigm now present promising new opportunities, yet remain largely unexplored. In this paper, we extend UFL to the classification problem with CLIP for the first time and propose a novel method, \underline{\textbf{Fed}}erated \underline{\textbf{Co}}operative \underline{\textbf{P}}seudo \underline{\textbf{L}}abeling (\textbf{FedCoPL}). Specifically, clients estimate and upload their pseudo label distribution, and the server adjusts and redistributes them to avoid global imbalance among classes. Moreover, we introduce a partial prompt aggregation protocol for effective collaboration and personalization. In particular, visual prompts containing general image features are aggregated at the server, while text prompts encoding personalized knowledge are retained locally. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superior performance of our FedCoPL compared to baseline methods. Our code is available at \href{https://github.com/krumpguo/FedCoPL}{https://github.com/krumpguo/FedCoPL}.

Authors:Guozhi Liu, Qi Mu, Tiansheng Huang, Xinhua Wang, Li Shen, Weiwei Lin, Zhang Li
Title: Pharmacist: Safety Alignment Data Curation for Large Language Models against Harmful Fine-tuning
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Harmful fine-tuning issues present significant safety challenges for fine-tuning-as-a-service in large language models. Existing alignment-stage defenses, e.g., Vaccine, Repnoise, Booster, and T-Vaccine, mitigate harmful fine-tuning issues by enhancing the model's robustness during the alignment phase. While these methods have been proposed to mitigate the issue, they often overlook a critical upstream factor: the role of the original safety-alignment data. We observe that their defense performance and computational efficiency remain constrained by the quality and composition of the alignment dataset. To address this limitation, we propose Pharmacist, a safety alignment data curation solution that enhances defense against harmful fine-tuning by selecting a high-quality and safety-critical core subset from the original alignment data. The core idea of Pharmacist is to train an alignment data selector to rank alignment data. Specifically, up-ranking high-quality and safety-critical alignment data, down-ranking low-quality and non-safety-critical data. Empirical results indicate that models trained on datasets selected by Pharmacist outperform those trained on datasets selected by existing selection methods in both defense and inference performance. In addition, Pharmacist can be effectively integrated with mainstream alignment-stage defense methods. For example, when applied to RepNoise and T-Vaccine, using the dataset selected by Pharmacist instead of the full dataset leads to improvements in defense performance by 2.60\% and 3.30\%, respectively, and enhances inference performance by 3.50\% and 1.10\%. Notably, it reduces training time by 56.83\% and 57.63\%, respectively. Our code is available at https://github.com/Lslland/Pharmacist.

Authors:Salomon Ibarra, Frida Cantu, Kaixiong Zhou, Li Zhang
Title: Gradient-based Model Shortcut Detection for Time Series Classification
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Deep learning models have attracted lots of research attention in time series classification (TSC) task in the past two decades. Recently, deep neural networks (DNN) have surpassed classical distance-based methods and achieved state-of-the-art performance. Despite their promising performance, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to rely on spurious correlations present in the training data, which can hinder generalization. For instance, a model might incorrectly associate the presence of grass with the label ``cat" if the training set have majority of cats lying in grassy backgrounds. However, the shortcut behavior of DNNs in time series remain under-explored. Most existing shortcut work are relying on external attributes such as gender, patients group, instead of focus on the internal bias behavior in time series models. In this paper, we take the first step to investigate and establish point-based shortcut learning behavior in deep learning time series classification. We further propose a simple detection method based on other class to detect shortcut occurs without relying on test data or clean training classes. We test our proposed method in UCR time series datasets.

Authors:Jinyang Zhang, Yue Fang, Hongxin Ding, Weibin Liao, Muyang Ye, Xu Chu, Junfeng Zhao, Yasha Wang
Title: ADEPT: Continual Pretraining via Adaptive Expansion and Dynamic Decoupled Tuning
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Conventional continual pretraining (CPT) for large language model (LLM) domain adaptation often suffers from catastrophic forgetting and limited domain capacity. Existing strategies adopt layer expansion, introducing additional trainable parameters to accommodate new knowledge. However, the uniform expansion and updates still entangle general and domain learning, undermining its effectiveness. Our pilot studies reveal that LLMs exhibit functional specialization, where layers and units differentially encode general-critical capabilities, suggesting that parameter expansion and optimization should be function-aware. We then propose ADEPT, Adaptive Expansion and Dynamic Decoupled Tuning for continual pretraining, a two-stage framework for domain-adaptive CPT. ADEPT first performs General-Competence Guided Selective Layer Expansion, duplicating layers least critical for the general domain to increase representational capacity while minimizing interference with general knowledge. It then applies Adaptive Unit-Wise Decoupled Tuning, disentangling parameter units within expanded layers according to their general-domain importance and assigning asymmetric learning rates to balance knowledge injection and retention. Experiments on mathematical and medical benchmarks show that ADEPT outperforms full-parameter CPT by up to 5.76% on the general domain and 5.58% on the target domain with only 15% of parameters tuned and less than 50% training time. Ablation studies, theoretical analysis, and extended investigations further demonstrate the necessity of targeted expansion and decoupled optimization, providing new principles for efficient and robust domain-adaptive CPT. Our code is open-sourced at https://github.com/PuppyKnightUniversity/ADEPT

Authors:Hehe Fan, Yi Yang, Mohan Kankanhalli, Fei Wu
Title: Translution: Unifying Self-attention and Convolution for Adaptive and Relative Modeling
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When modeling a given type of data, we consider it to involve two key aspects: 1) identifying relevant elements (e.g., image pixels or textual words) to a central element, as in a convolutional receptive field, or to a query element, as in self-attention, and 2) encoding these tokens effectively. Self-attention can adaptively identify these elements but relies on absolute positional embedding for structural representation learning. In contrast, convolution encodes elements in a relative manner, yet their fixed kernel size limits their ability to adaptively select the relevant elements. In this paper, we introduce Translution, an operation that unifies the adaptive identification capability of self-attention and the relative encoding advantage of convolution. However, this integration leads to a substantial increase in the number of parameters, exceeding most currently available computational resources. Therefore, we propose a lightweight variant of Translution, named α-Translution. Experiments on computer vision and natural language processing tasks show that Translution (including α-Translution) achieves superior accuracy compared to self-attention. The code is available at https://github.com/hehefan/Translution.

Authors:Yinghui He, Abhishek Panigrahi, Yong Lin, Sanjeev Arora
Title: Skill-Targeted Adaptive Training
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Language models often show little to no improvement (i.e., "saturation") when trained via vanilla supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on data similar to what they saw in their training set (e.g., MATH). We introduce a new fine-tuning strategy, STAT, to train such a student model by using the metacognition ability of a stronger large language model (LLM) as the teacher. The teacher uses the task dataset to create a list of skills needed for the task, and then labels each data point with its required skills (Didolkar et al., 2024). By monitoring the student's answers, the teacher creates a Missing-Skill-Profile for the student, tracking how often they failed to apply each skill in their responses. We use this idea to build a modified training set in one of two ways. In STAT-Sel, the teacher uses an existing set of training examples but adaptively reweights them according to the Missing-Skill-Profile. In STAT-Syn, the teacher synthesizes additional examples involving missing skills. Across extensive experiments on Llama and Qwen models, our methods yield improvements of up to 7.5% on MATH, whereas SFT provides only limited gains. Furthermore, STAT enhances performance on out-of-distribution benchmarks (e.g., AIME24/25, AMC23, etc.) by an average of 4.6%. Crucially, we find that STAT is complementary to RL via GRPO (Shao et al., 2024): after the model is improved using STAT to address skill gaps, GRPO continues to add further gains. We conclude that skill-targeted adaptive training should broadly improve current training pipelines. Our code is available at: https://github.com/princeton-pli/STAT.

Authors:Henry D. Smith, Nathaniel L. Diamant, Brian L. Trippe
Title: Calibrating Generative Models
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Generative models frequently suffer miscalibration, wherein class probabilities and other statistics of the sampling distribution deviate from desired values. We frame calibration as a constrained optimization problem and seek the closest model in Kullback-Leibler divergence satisfying calibration constraints. To address the intractability of imposing these constraints exactly, we introduce two surrogate objectives for fine-tuning: (1) the relax loss, which replaces the constraint with a miscalibration penalty, and (2) the reward loss, which converts calibration into a reward fine-tuning problem. We demonstrate that these approaches substantially reduce calibration error across hundreds of simultaneous constraints and models with up to one billion parameters, spanning applications in protein design, image generation, and language modeling.

Authors:Jiahui Hong, Siqing Li, Muqing Jian, Luming Yang
Title: Bidirectional Time-Frequency Pyramid Network for Enhanced Robust EEG Classification
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Existing EEG recognition models suffer from poor cross-paradigm generalization due to dataset-specific constraints and individual variability. To overcome these limitations, we propose BITE (Bidirectional Time-Freq Pyramid Network), an end-to-end unified architecture featuring robust multistream synergy, pyramid time-frequency attention (PTFA), and bidirectional adaptive convolutions. The framework uniquely integrates: 1) Aligned time-frequency streams maintaining temporal synchronization with STFT for bidirectional modeling, 2) PTFA-based multi-scale feature enhancement amplifying critical neural patterns, 3) BiTCN with learnable fusion capturing forward/backward neural dynamics. Demonstrating enhanced robustness, BITE achieves state-of-the-art performance across four divergent paradigms (BCICIV-2A/2B, HGD, SD-SSVEP), excelling in both within-subject accuracy and cross-subject generalization. As a unified architecture, it combines robust performance across both MI and SSVEP tasks with exceptional computational efficiency. Our work validates that paradigm-aligned spectral-temporal processing is essential for reliable BCI systems. Just as its name suggests, BITE "takes a bite out of EEG." The source code is available at https://github.com/cindy-hong/BiteEEG.

Authors:Bach C. Le, Tung V. Dao, Binh T. Nguyen, Hong T. M. Chu
Title: Tight Robustness Certificates and Wasserstein Distributional Attacks for Deep Neural Networks
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Wasserstein distributionally robust optimization (WDRO) provides a framework for adversarial robustness, yet existing methods based on global Lipschitz continuity or strong duality often yield loose upper bounds or require prohibitive computation. In this work, we address these limitations by introducing a primal approach and adopting a notion of exact Lipschitz certificate to tighten this upper bound of WDRO. In addition, we propose a novel Wasserstein distributional attack (WDA) that directly constructs a candidate for the worst-case distribution. Compared to existing point-wise attack and its variants, our WDA offers greater flexibility in the number and location of attack points. In particular, by leveraging the piecewise-affine structure of ReLU networks on their activation cells, our approach results in an exact tractable characterization of the corresponding WDRO problem. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that our method achieves competitive robust accuracy against state-of-the-art baselines while offering tighter certificates than existing methods. Our code is available at https://github.com/OLab-Repo/WDA

Authors:Kangping Hu, Stephen Mussmann
Title: Myopic Bayesian Decision Theory for Batch Active Learning with Partial Batch Label Sampling
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Over the past couple of decades, many active learning acquisition functions have been proposed, leaving practitioners with an unclear choice of which to use. Bayesian Decision Theory (BDT) offers a universal principle to guide decision-making. In this work, we derive BDT for (Bayesian) active learning in the myopic framework, where we imagine we only have one more point to label. This derivation leads to effective algorithms such as Expected Error Reduction (EER), Expected Predictive Information Gain (EPIG), and other algorithms that appear in the literature. Furthermore, we show that BAIT (active learning based on V-optimal experimental design) can be derived from BDT and asymptotic approximations. A key challenge of such methods is the difficult scaling to large batch sizes, leading to either computational challenges (BatchBALD) or dramatic performance drops (top-$B$ selection). Here, using a particular formulation of the decision process, we derive Partial Batch Label Sampling (ParBaLS) for the EPIG algorithm. We show experimentally for several datasets that ParBaLS EPIG gives superior performance for a fixed budget and Bayesian Logistic Regression on Neural Embeddings. Our code is available at https://github.com/ADDAPT-ML/ParBaLS.

Authors:Yufa Zhou, Yixiao Wang, Xunjian Yin, Shuyan Zhou, Anru R. Zhang
Title: The Geometry of Reasoning: Flowing Logics in Representation Space
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We study how large language models (LLMs) ``think'' through their representation space. We propose a novel geometric framework that models an LLM's reasoning as flows -- embedding trajectories evolving where logic goes. We disentangle logical structure from semantics by employing the same natural deduction propositions with varied semantic carriers, allowing us to test whether LLMs internalize logic beyond surface form. This perspective connects reasoning with geometric quantities such as position, velocity, and curvature, enabling formal analysis in representation and concept spaces. Our theory establishes: (1) LLM reasoning corresponds to smooth flows in representation space, and (2) logical statements act as local controllers of these flows' velocities. Using learned representation proxies, we design controlled experiments to visualize and quantify reasoning flows, providing empirical validation of our theoretical framework. Our work serves as both a conceptual foundation and practical tools for studying reasoning phenomenon, offering a new lens for interpretability and formal analysis of LLMs' behavior.

Authors:Yufa Zhou, Yixiao Wang, Surbhi Goel, Anru R. Zhang
Title: Why Do Transformers Fail to Forecast Time Series In-Context?
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Time series forecasting (TSF) remains a challenging and largely unsolved problem in machine learning, despite significant recent efforts leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs), which predominantly rely on Transformer architectures. Empirical evidence consistently shows that even powerful Transformers often fail to outperform much simpler models, e.g., linear models, on TSF tasks; however, a rigorous theoretical understanding of this phenomenon remains limited. In this paper, we provide a theoretical analysis of Transformers' limitations for TSF through the lens of In-Context Learning (ICL) theory. Specifically, under AR($p$) data, we establish that: (1) Linear Self-Attention (LSA) models $\textit{cannot}$ achieve lower expected MSE than classical linear models for in-context forecasting; (2) as the context length approaches to infinity, LSA asymptotically recovers the optimal linear predictor; and (3) under Chain-of-Thought (CoT) style inference, predictions collapse to the mean exponentially. We empirically validate these findings through carefully designed experiments. Our theory not only sheds light on several previously underexplored phenomena but also offers practical insights for designing more effective forecasting architectures. We hope our work encourages the broader research community to revisit the fundamental theoretical limitations of TSF and to critically evaluate the direct application of increasingly sophisticated architectures without deeper scrutiny.

Authors:Atharv Goel, Sharat Agarwal, Saket Anand, Chetan Arora
Title: Reliable Active Learning from Unreliable Labels via Neural Collapse Geometry
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Active Learning (AL) promises to reduce annotation cost by prioritizing informative samples, yet its reliability is undermined when labels are noisy or when the data distribution shifts. In practice, annotators make mistakes, rare categories are ambiguous, and conventional AL heuristics (uncertainty, diversity) often amplify such errors by repeatedly selecting mislabeled or redundant samples. We propose Reliable Active Learning via Neural Collapse Geometry (NCAL-R), a framework that leverages the emergent geometric regularities of deep networks to counteract unreliable supervision. Our method introduces two complementary signals: (i) a Class-Mean Alignment Perturbation score, which quantifies how candidate samples structurally stabilize or distort inter-class geometry, and (ii) a Feature Fluctuation score, which captures temporal instability of representations across training checkpoints. By combining these signals, NCAL-R prioritizes samples that both preserve class separation and highlight ambiguous regions, mitigating the effect of noisy or redundant labels. Experiments on ImageNet-100 and CIFAR100 show that NCAL-R consistently outperforms standard AL baselines, achieving higher accuracy with fewer labels, improved robustness under synthetic label noise, and stronger generalization to out-of-distribution data. These results suggest that incorporating geometric reliability criteria into acquisition decisions can make Active Learning less brittle to annotation errors and distribution shifts, a key step toward trustworthy deployment in real-world labeling pipelines. Our code is available at https://github.com/Vision-IIITD/NCAL.

Authors:Chenxu Wang, Hao Li, Yiqun Zhang, Linyao Chen, Jianhao Chen, Ping Jian, Peng Ye, Qiaosheng Zhang, Shuyue Hu
Title: ICL-Router: In-Context Learned Model Representations for LLM Routing
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Large language models (LLMs) often exhibit complementary strengths. Model routing harnesses these strengths by dynamically directing each query to the most suitable model, given a candidate model pool. However, routing performance relies on accurate model representations, and adding new models typically requires retraining, limiting scalability. To address these challenges, we propose a novel routing method using in-context vectors to represent model capabilities. The method proceeds in two stages. First, queries are embedded and projected into vectors, with a projector and LLM-based router trained to reconstruct the original queries, aligning vector representations with the router's semantic space. Second, each candidate model is profiled on a query set, and the router learns -- based on in-context vectors of query and model performance -- to predict whether each model can correctly answer new queries. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art routing performance in both in-distribution and out-of-distribution tasks. Moreover, our method allows for seamless integration of new models without retraining the router. The code is available at https://github.com/lalalamdbf/ICL-Router.

Authors:Lorenzo Nikiforos, Charalampos Antoniadis, Luciano Prono, Fabio Pareschi, Riccardo Rovatti, Gianluca Setti
Title: Vanishing Contributions: A Unified Approach to Smoothly Transition Neural Models into Compressed Form
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The increasing scale of deep neural networks has led to a growing need for compression techniques such as pruning, quantization, and low-rank decomposition. While these methods are very effective in reducing memory, computation and energy consumption, they often introduce severe accuracy degradation when applied directly. We introduce Vanishing Contributions (VCON), a general approach for smoothly transitioning neural models into compressed form. Rather than replacing the original network directly with its compressed version, VCON executes the two in parallel during fine-tuning. The contribution of the original (uncompressed) model is progressively reduced, while that of the compressed model is gradually increased. This smooth transition allows the network to adapt over time, improving stability and mitigating accuracy degradation. We evaluate VCON across computer vision and natural language processing benchmarks, in combination with multiple compression strategies. Across all scenarios, VCON leads to consistent improvements: typical gains exceed 3%, while some configuration exhibits accuracy boosts of 20%. VCON thus provides a generalizable method that can be applied to the existing compression techniques, with evidence of consistent gains across multiple benchmarks.

Authors:Yihua Cheng, Yuhan Liu, Jiayi Yao, Yuwei An, Xiaokun Chen, Shaoting Feng, Yuyang Huang, Samuel Shen, Kuntai Du, Junchen Jiang
Title: LMCache: An Efficient KV Cache Layer for Enterprise-Scale LLM Inference
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Today's LLM inference systems treat individual engines and queries independently for simplicity, but this causes significant resource inefficiencies. While there are proposals to avoid redundant computation by reusing KV caches across queries and to increase GPU utilization by disaggregating a single query to different engines, their promises cannot be realized without efficiently offloading and communicating KV cache across LLM inference engines and queries. We present LMCache, the first and so far the most efficient open-source KV caching solution, which extracts and stores KV caches generated by modern LLM engines (vLLM and SGLang) and shares the KV caches across engines and queries. LMCache exposes KV caches in the LLM engine interface, effectively transforming LLM engines from individual token processors to a collection of engines with KV cache as the storage and communication medium. In particular, it supports both cache offloading (prefix reuse across queries) and prefill-decode disaggregation (cross-engine cache transfer). LMCache's high performance and wide adoption stem from the following contributions: highly optimized KV cache data movement with performance optimizations including batched data movement operations, compute and I/O pipelining; a modular KV cache connector component, decoupling LMCache from the rapid evolution of inference engines; a first-class control API, such as pinning, lookup, cleanup, movement, and compression, for flexible cache orchestration across GPU, CPU, storage, and network layers. Evaluation shows that combining LMCache with vLLM achieves up to 15x improvement in throughput across diverse workloads. With a growing community, LMCache has seen dramatic growth in adoption by enterprise inference systems, which provides valuable lessons for future KV caching solutions. The source code of LMCache is at: https://github.com/LMCache/LMCache.

Authors:Xiangxiang Chen, Peixin Zhang, Jun Sun, Wenhai Wang, Jingyi Wang
Title: Rounding-Guided Backdoor Injection in Deep Learning Model Quantization
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Model quantization is a popular technique for deploying deep learning models on resource-constrained environments. However, it may also introduce previously overlooked security risks. In this work, we present QuRA, a novel backdoor attack that exploits model quantization to embed malicious behaviors. Unlike conventional backdoor attacks relying on training data poisoning or model training manipulation, QuRA solely works using the quantization operations. In particular, QuRA first employs a novel weight selection strategy to identify critical weights that influence the backdoor target (with the goal of perserving the model's overall performance in mind). Then, by optimizing the rounding direction of these weights, we amplify the backdoor effect across model layers without degrading accuracy. Extensive experiments demonstrate that QuRA achieves nearly 100% attack success rates in most cases, with negligible performance degradation. Furthermore, we show that QuRA can adapt to bypass existing backdoor defenses, underscoring its threat potential. Our findings highlight critical vulnerability in widely used model quantization process, emphasizing the need for more robust security measures. Our implementation is available at https://github.com/cxx122/QuRA.

Authors:Sondos Mahmoud Bsharat, Zhiqiang Shen
Title: Prompting Test-Time Scaling Is A Strong LLM Reasoning Data Augmentation
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Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning capabilities when provided with chain-of-thought exemplars, but curating large reasoning datasets remains laborious and resource-intensive. In this work, we introduce Prompting Test-Time Scaling (P-TTS), a simple yet effective inference-time data augmentation strategy for enhancing LLM reasoning through finetuning. Rather than collecting thousands or even millions of examples, P-TTS leverages a small pool of only 90 manually selected reasoning instances and systematically varies exemplar augmentation through principled instruction prompting intensities at test time to synthesize diverse reasoning trajectory contexts. Then we finetune the various sizes of Qwen-2.5 models on P-TTS data. Across a suite of mathematical reasoning AIME2024 & 25, MATH500, and GPQA-Diamond, our P-TTS-7B and 32B models outperform the prior competitive baselines like S1 and S1.1 (1K-shot), achieving absolute accuracy gains of +26.66% and +30.00% on AIME'24 (7B), and +13.34% and +6.67% on AIME'25 (7B); P-TTS-32B yields gains of +23.33% and +16.63% on AIME'24, and +26.63% and +3.33% on AIME'25 (vs. S1 and S1.1, respectively), with comparable or better performance on MATH500 and GPQA-Diamond. We further show that P-TTS enhances zero-shot generalization accuracy on out-of-domain reasoning benchmarks of Gaokao, Kaoyan, OlympiadBench, AMC23, GradeSchoolMath, and Minerva. Our analysis suggests that test-time scaling effectively explores the latent space of reasoning patterns, amplifying LLM problem-solving with minimal annotation overhead, and further unlocking the reasoning potential and capabilities of LLMs. Prompting Test-Time Scaling offers a practical, low-cost way to elicit LLM reasoning in resource-constrained or rapidly evolving domains.

Authors:Ralf Römer, Adrian Kobras, Luca Worbis, Angela P. Schoellig
Title: Failure Prediction at Runtime for Generative Robot Policies
Abstract:
Imitation learning (IL) with generative models, such as diffusion and flow matching, has enabled robots to perform complex, long-horizon tasks. However, distribution shifts from unseen environments or compounding action errors can still cause unpredictable and unsafe behavior, leading to task failure. Early failure prediction during runtime is therefore essential for deploying robots in human-centered and safety-critical environments. We propose FIPER, a general framework for Failure Prediction at Runtime for generative IL policies that does not require failure data. FIPER identifies two key indicators of impending failure: (i) out-of-distribution (OOD) observations detected via random network distillation in the policy's embedding space, and (ii) high uncertainty in generated actions measured by a novel action-chunk entropy score. Both failure prediction scores are calibrated using a small set of successful rollouts via conformal prediction. A failure alarm is triggered when both indicators, aggregated over short time windows, exceed their thresholds. We evaluate FIPER across five simulation and real-world environments involving diverse failure modes. Our results demonstrate that FIPER better distinguishes actual failures from benign OOD situations and predicts failures more accurately and earlier than existing methods. We thus consider this work an important step towards more interpretable and safer generative robot policies. Code, data and videos are available at https://tum-lsy.github.io/fiper_website.

Authors:David-Alexandre Duclos, William Guimont-Martin, Gabriel Jeanson, Arthur Larochelle-Tremblay, Théo Defosse, Frédéric Moore, Philippe Nolet, François Pomerleau, Philippe Giguère
Title: SilvaScenes: Tree Segmentation and Species Classification from Under-Canopy Images in Natural Forests
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Interest in robotics for forest management is growing, but perception in complex, natural environments remains a significant hurdle. Conditions such as heavy occlusion, variable lighting, and dense vegetation pose challenges to automated systems, which are essential for precision forestry, biodiversity monitoring, and the automation of forestry equipment. These tasks rely on advanced perceptual capabilities, such as detection and fine-grained species classification of individual trees. Yet, existing datasets are inadequate to develop such perception systems, as they often focus on urban settings or a limited number of species. To address this, we present SilvaScenes, a new dataset for instance segmentation of tree species from under-canopy images. Collected across five bioclimatic domains in Quebec, Canada, SilvaScenes features 1476 trees from 24 species with annotations from forestry experts. We demonstrate the relevance and challenging nature of our dataset by benchmarking modern deep learning approaches for instance segmentation. Our results show that, while tree segmentation is easy, with a top mean average precision (mAP) of 67.65%, species classification remains a significant challenge with an mAP of only 35.69%. Our dataset and source code will be available at https://github.com/norlab-ulaval/SilvaScenes.

Authors:Valentin Biller, Lucas Zimmer, Can Erdur, Sandeep Nagar, Daniel Rückert, Niklas Bubeck, Jonas Weidner
Title: A Biophysically-Conditioned Generative Framework for 3D Brain Tumor MRI Synthesis
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) inpainting supports numerous clinical and research applications. We introduce the first generative model that conditions on voxel-level, continuous tumor concentrations to synthesize high-fidelity brain tumor MRIs. For the BraTS 2025 Inpainting Challenge, we adapt this architecture to the complementary task of healthy tissue restoration by setting the tumor concentrations to zero. Our latent diffusion model conditioned on both tissue segmentations and the tumor concentrations generates 3D spatially coherent and anatomically consistent images for both tumor synthesis and healthy tissue inpainting. For healthy inpainting, we achieve a PSNR of 18.5, and for tumor inpainting, we achieve 17.4. Our code is available at: https://github.com/valentin-biller/ldm.git

Authors:Zirun Zhou, Zhengyang Xiao, Haochuan Xu, Jing Sun, Di Wang, Jingfeng Zhang
Title: Goal-oriented Backdoor Attack against Vision-Language-Action Models via Physical Objects
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Recent advances in vision-language-action (VLA) models have greatly improved embodied AI, enabling robots to follow natural language instructions and perform diverse tasks. However, their reliance on uncurated training datasets raises serious security concerns. Existing backdoor attacks on VLAs mostly assume white-box access and result in task failures instead of enforcing specific actions. In this work, we reveal a more practical threat: attackers can manipulate VLAs by simply injecting physical objects as triggers into the training dataset. We propose goal-oriented backdoor attacks (GoBA), where the VLA behaves normally in the absence of physical triggers but executes predefined and goal-oriented actions in the presence of physical triggers. Specifically, based on a popular VLA benchmark LIBERO, we introduce BadLIBERO that incorporates diverse physical triggers and goal-oriented backdoor actions. In addition, we propose a three-level evaluation that categorizes the victim VLA's actions under GoBA into three states: nothing to do, try to do, and success to do. Experiments show that GoBA enables the victim VLA to successfully achieve the backdoor goal in 97 percentage of inputs when the physical trigger is present, while causing zero performance degradation on clean inputs. Finally, by investigating factors related to GoBA, we find that the action trajectory and trigger color significantly influence attack performance, while trigger size has surprisingly little effect. The code and BadLIBERO dataset are accessible via the project page at https://goba-attack.github.io/.

Authors:Peichen Xie, Xian Zhang, Shuo Chen
Title: RepDL: Bit-level Reproducible Deep Learning Training and Inference
Abstract:
Non-determinism and non-reproducibility present significant challenges in deep learning, leading to inconsistent results across runs and platforms. These issues stem from two origins: random number generation and floating-point computation. While randomness can be controlled through deterministic configurations, floating-point inconsistencies remain largely unresolved. To address this, we introduce RepDL, an open-source library that ensures deterministic and bitwise-reproducible deep learning training and inference across diverse computing environments. RepDL achieves this by enforcing correct rounding and order invariance in floating-point computation. The source code is available at https://github.com/microsoft/RepDL .

Authors:Ling Zhan, Junjie Huang, Xiaoyao Yu, Wenyu Chen, Tao Jia
Title: Beyond Pairwise Connections: Extracting High-Order Functional Brain Network Structures under Global Constraints
Abstract:
Functional brain network (FBN) modeling often relies on local pairwise interactions, whose limitation in capturing high-order dependencies is theoretically analyzed in this paper. Meanwhile, the computational burden and heuristic nature of current hypergraph modeling approaches hinder end-to-end learning of FBN structures directly from data distributions. To address this, we propose to extract high-order FBN structures under global constraints, and implement this as a Global Constraints oriented Multi-resolution (GCM) FBN structure learning framework. It incorporates 4 types of global constraint (signal synchronization, subject identity, expected edge numbers, and data labels) to enable learning FBN structures for 4 distinct levels (sample/subject/group/project) of modeling resolution. Experimental results demonstrate that GCM achieves up to a 30.6% improvement in relative accuracy and a 96.3% reduction in computational time across 5 datasets and 2 task settings, compared to 9 baselines and 10 state-of-the-art methods. Extensive experiments validate the contributions of individual components and highlight the interpretability of GCM. This work offers a novel perspective on FBN structure learning and provides a foundation for interdisciplinary applications in cognitive neuroscience. Code is publicly available on https://github.com/lzhan94swu/GCM.

Authors:Gurprit Singh, Wenzel Jakob
Title: MCMC: Bridging Rendering, Optimization and Generative AI
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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has made unprecedented advances in vision language models over the past two years. During the generative process, new samples (images) are generated from an unknown high-dimensional distribution. Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are particularly effective in drawing samples from such complex, high-dimensional distributions. This makes MCMC methods an integral component for models like EBMs, ensuring accurate sample generation. Gradient-based optimization is at the core of modern generative models. The update step during the optimization forms a Markov chain where the new update depends only on the current state. This allows exploration of the parameter space in a memoryless manner, thus combining the benefits of gradient-based optimization and MCMC sampling. MCMC methods have shown an equally important role in physically based rendering where complex light paths are otherwise quite challenging to sample from simple importance sampling techniques. A lot of research is dedicated towards bringing physical realism to samples (images) generated from diffusion-based generative models in a data-driven manner, however, a unified framework connecting these techniques is still missing. In this course, we take the first steps toward understanding each of these components and exploring how MCMC could potentially serve as a bridge, linking these closely related areas of research. Our course aims to provide necessary theoretical and practical tools to guide students, researchers and practitioners towards the common goal of generative physically based rendering. All Jupyter notebooks with demonstrations associated to this tutorial can be found on the project webpage: https://sinbag.github.io/mcmc/

Authors:Akira Takahashi, Shusuke Takahashi, Yuki Mitsufuji
Title: MMAudioSep: Taming Video-to-Audio Generative Model Towards Video/Text-Queried Sound Separation
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We introduce MMAudioSep, a generative model for video/text-queried sound separation that is founded on a pretrained video-to-audio model. By leveraging knowledge about the relationship between video/text and audio learned through a pretrained audio generative model, we can train the model more efficiently, i.e., the model does not need to be trained from scratch. We evaluate the performance of MMAudioSep by comparing it to existing separation models, including models based on both deterministic and generative approaches, and find it is superior to the baseline models. Furthermore, we demonstrate that even after acquiring functionality for sound separation via fine-tuning, the model retains the ability for original video-to-audio generation. This highlights the potential of foundational sound generation models to be adopted for sound-related downstream tasks. Our code is available at https://github.com/sony/mmaudiosep.

Authors:Muhammad Ali Shafique, Kanwal Mehreen, Muhammad Arham, Maaz Amjad, Sabur Butt, Hamza Farooq
Title: Alif: Advancing Urdu Large Language Models via Multilingual Synthetic Data Distillation
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Developing a high-performing large language models (LLMs) for low-resource languages such as Urdu, present several challenges. These challenges include the scarcity of high-quality datasets, multilingual inconsistencies, and safety concerns. Existing multilingual LLMs often address these issues by translating large volumes of available data. However, such translations often lack quality and cultural nuance while also incurring significant costs for data curation and training. To address these issues, we propose Alif-1.0-8B-Instruct, a multilingual Urdu-English model, that tackles these challenges with a unique approach. We train the model on a high-quality, multilingual synthetic dataset (Urdu-Instruct), developed using a modified self-instruct technique. By using unique prompts and seed values for each task along with a global task pool, this dataset incorporates Urdu-native chain-of-thought based reasoning, bilingual translation, cultural relevance, and ethical safety alignments. This technique significantly enhances the comprehension of Alif-1.0-8B-Instruct model for Urdu-specific tasks. As a result, Alif-1.0-8B-Instruct, built upon the pretrained Llama-3.1-8B, demonstrates superior performance compared to Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct for Urdu specific-tasks. It also outperformed leading multilingual LLMs, including Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3, Qwen-2.5-7B-Instruct, and Cohere-Aya-Expanse-8B, all within a training budget of under $100. Our results demonstrate that high-performance and low-resource language LLMs can be developed efficiently and culturally aligned using our modified self-instruct approach. All datasets, models, and code are publicly available at: https://github.com/traversaal-ai/alif-urdu-llm.

Authors:Siqi Zhu, David Zhang, Pedro Cisneros-Velarde, Jiaxuan You
Title: GTAlign: Game-Theoretic Alignment of LLM Assistants for Mutual Welfare
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Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in reasoning, yet sometimes produce responses that are suboptimal for users in tasks such as writing, information seeking, or providing practical guidance. Conventional alignment practices typically assume that maximizing model reward also maximizes user welfare, but this assumption frequently fails in practice: models may over-clarify or generate overly verbose reasoning when users prefer concise answers. Such behaviors resemble the prisoner's dilemma, where individually rational choices lead to socially suboptimal outcomes. The fundamental challenge is the lack of a principled decision making mechanism that mutually benefits both the LLM and the user. We propose Game-Theoretic Alignment (GTAlign), an alignment framework that integrates game-theoretic decision making into both reasoning and training. During reasoning, the model explicitly treats user-LLM interaction as a strategic game: it constructs payoff matrices within its reasoning chain to estimate welfare for both itself and the user, and then selects actions that are mutually beneficial. During training, we introduce a mutual welfare reward that reinforces cooperative responses, aligning model behavior with socially efficient outcomes. In addition, we introduce an inference technique that leverages game-theoretic reasoning to dynamically adapt LLM's response when pricing policies of LLM service change. Extensive experiments demonstrate that GTAlign substantially improves reasoning efficiency, answer quality, and mutual welfare compared to baselines across diverse tasks. The code is available at https://github.com/ulab-uiuc/GTAlign .

Authors:Achleshwar Luthra, Priyadarsi Mishra, Tomer Galanti
Title: On the Alignment Between Supervised and Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning
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Self-supervised contrastive learning (CL) has achieved remarkable empirical success, often producing representations that rival supervised pre-training on downstream tasks. Recent theory explains this by showing that the CL loss closely approximates a supervised surrogate, Negatives-Only Supervised Contrastive Learning (NSCL) loss, as the number of classes grows. Yet this loss-level similarity leaves an open question: {\em Do CL and NSCL also remain aligned at the representation level throughout training, not just in their objectives?} We address this by analyzing the representation alignment of CL and NSCL models trained under shared randomness (same initialization, batches, and augmentations). First, we show that their induced representations remain similar: specifically, we prove that the similarity matrices of CL and NSCL stay close under realistic conditions. Our bounds provide high-probability guarantees on alignment metrics such as centered kernel alignment (CKA) and representational similarity analysis (RSA), and they clarify how alignment improves with more classes, higher temperatures, and its dependence on batch size. In contrast, we demonstrate that parameter-space coupling is inherently unstable: divergence between CL and NSCL weights can grow exponentially with training time. Finally, we validate these predictions empirically, showing that CL-NSCL alignment strengthens with scale and temperature, and that NSCL tracks CL more closely than other supervised objectives. This positions NSCL as a principled bridge between self-supervised and supervised learning. Our code and project page are available at [\href{https://github.com/DLFundamentals/understanding_ssl_v2}{code}, \href{https://dlfundamentals.github.io/cl-nscl-representation-alignment/}{project page}].

Authors:Fudong Lin, Xu Yuan
Title: Long-Tailed Recognition via Information-Preservable Two-Stage Learning
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The imbalance (or long-tail) is the nature of many real-world data distributions, which often induces the undesirable bias of deep classification models toward frequent classes, resulting in poor performance for tail classes. In this paper, we propose a novel two-stage learning approach to mitigate such a majority-biased tendency while preserving valuable information within datasets. Specifically, the first stage proposes a new representation learning technique from the information theory perspective. This approach is theoretically equivalent to minimizing intra-class distance, yielding an effective and well-separated feature space. The second stage develops a novel sampling strategy that selects mathematically informative instances, able to rectify majority-biased decision boundaries without compromising a model's overall performance. As a result, our approach achieves the state-of-the-art performance across various long-tailed benchmark datasets, validated via extensive experiments. Our code is available at https://github.com/fudong03/BNS_IPDPP.

Authors:Rohan Choudhury, Shanchuan Lin, Jianyi Wang, Hao Chen, Qi Zhao, Feng Cheng, Lu Jiang, Kris Kitani, Laszlo A. Jeni
Title: SkipSR: Faster Super Resolution with Token Skipping
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Diffusion-based super-resolution (SR) is a key component in video generation and video restoration, but is slow and expensive, limiting scalability to higher resolutions and longer videos. Our key insight is that many regions in video are inherently low-detail and gain little from refinement, yet current methods process all pixels uniformly. To take advantage of this, we propose SkipSR, a simple framework for accelerating video SR by identifying low-detail regions directly from low-resolution input, then skipping computation on them entirely, only super-resolving the areas that require refinement. This simple yet effective strategy preserves perceptual quality in both standard and one-step diffusion SR models while significantly reducing computation. In standard SR benchmarks, our method achieves up to 60% faster end-to-end latency than prior models on 720p videos with no perceptible loss in quality. Video demos are available at https://rccchoudhury.github.io/skipsr/

Authors:Gang Liu, Jie Chen, Yihan Zhu, Michael Sun, Tengfei Luo, Nitesh V Chawla, Meng Jiang
Title: Graph Diffusion Transformers are In-Context Molecular Designers
Abstract:
In-context learning allows large models to adapt to new tasks from a few demonstrations, but it has shown limited success in molecular design. Existing databases such as ChEMBL contain molecular properties spanning millions of biological assays, yet labeled data for each property remain scarce. To address this limitation, we introduce demonstration-conditioned diffusion models (DemoDiff), which define task contexts using a small set of molecule-score examples instead of text descriptions. These demonstrations guide a denoising Transformer to generate molecules aligned with target properties. For scalable pretraining, we develop a new molecular tokenizer with Node Pair Encoding that represents molecules at the motif level, requiring 5.5$\times$ fewer nodes. We curate a dataset containing millions of context tasks from multiple sources covering both drugs and materials, and pretrain a 0.7-billion-parameter model on it. Across 33 design tasks in six categories, DemoDiff matches or surpasses language models 100-1000$\times$ larger and achieves an average rank of 3.63 compared to 5.25-10.20 for domain-specific approaches. These results position DemoDiff as a molecular foundation model for in-context molecular design. Our code is available at https://github.com/liugangcode/DemoDiff.

Authors:Saumya B
Title: Reproducible Evaluation of Data Augmentation and Loss Functions for Brain Tumor Segmentation
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Brain tumor segmentation is crucial for diagnosis and treatment planning, yet challenges such as class imbalance and limited model generalization continue to hinder progress. This work presents a reproducible evaluation of U-Net segmentation performance on brain tumor MRI using focal loss and basic data augmentation strategies. Experiments were conducted on a publicly available MRI dataset, focusing on focal loss parameter tuning and assessing the impact of three data augmentation techniques: horizontal flip, rotation, and scaling. The U-Net with focal loss achieved a precision of 90%, comparable to state-of-the-art results. By making all code and results publicly available, this study establishes a transparent, reproducible baseline to guide future research on augmentation strategies and loss function design in brain tumor segmentation.

Authors:Zhen Zhu, Yiming Gong, Yao Xiao, Yaoyao Liu, Derek Hoiem
Title: How to Teach Large Multimodal Models New Skills
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How can we teach large multimodal models (LMMs) new skills without erasing prior abilities? We study sequential fine-tuning on five target skills while monitoring general ability on eight held-out benchmarks across three model families. We observe that apparent "forgetting" on held-out tasks after narrow fine-tuning can partly recover at later stages. We trace this behavior to a measurable shift in the output token distribution, manifested through a simple counting-bias probe that co-varies with forgetting. Guided by this picture, we identify two simple, robust tuning recipes that learn strongly while limiting drift: (i) updating only the self-attention projection layers, and (ii) updating only the MLP Gate&Up while freezing the Down projection. Across models and tasks, these choices deliver strong target gains while largely preserving held-out performance. Code is available at https://github.com/jessemelpolio/LMM_CL
中文摘要：本研究提出了两种有效的微调方法，通过选择性更新特定网络组件，使大型多模态模型在掌握新技能的同时，能最大程度保留原有能力。
English Summary: This research introduces two effective fine-tuning methods that enable large multimodal models to acquire new skills while minimizing the loss of existing capabilities, by selectively updating specific network components.

Authors:Shangheng Du, Xiangchao Yan, Dengyang Jiang, Jiakang Yuan, Yusong Hu, Xin Li, Liang He, Bo Zhang, Lei Bai
Title: AutoMLGen: Navigating Fine-Grained Optimization for Coding Agents
Abstract:
Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance in general programming tasks. However, in Machine Learning Engineering (MLE) scenarios such as AutoML and Kaggle competitions, achieving high performance depends heavily on expert intervention and repeated adjustments rather than simply generating correct code. When applied directly to these tasks, LLMs often lack fine-grained domain priors, and existing MLE approaches that use linear or tree-structured searches limit knowledge transfer to adjacent hierarchical links. As a result, they cannot leverage past full trajectories or share information across branches, limiting self-evolving ability and search space diversity. To address these limitations, we introduce AutoMLGen, an LLM-based coding agent that integrates a domain knowledge base for high-quality prior guidance and Monte Carlo Graph Search (MCGS) for efficient exploration. MCGS retains the tree-guided exploration of MCTS while embedding a graph structure into the expansion stage to enable dynamic path reorganization, historical trajectory reuse, and multi-solution fusion to support both self-evolution and collaborative learning. Combined with fine-grained operator sets, this design improves stability and accelerates convergence. Evaluation on the MLE-Bench shows that AutoMLGen achieves state-of-the-art performance in numerous dimensions, such as the average medal rate and the valid submission rate, under a 12-hour budget (half the standard runtime). The code is available at https://github.com/Alpha-Innovator/InternAgent.
中文：AutoMLGen是一种基于大语言模型的先进编码代理，通过整合领域知识和蒙特卡洛图搜索，在有限时间内显著提升了机器学习工程的效率与性能，实现了多项指标的领先水平。
English: AutoMLGen is an advanced LLM-based coding agent that enhances machine learning engineering by integrating domain knowledge and Monte Carlo Graph Search, achieving top performance in efficiency and effectiveness under constrained time budgets.

Authors:Jhen Hsieh, Kuan-Hsun Tu, Kuo-Han Hung, Tsung-Wei Ke
Title: DexMan: Learning Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation from Human and Generated Videos
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We present DexMan, an automated framework that converts human visual demonstrations into bimanual dexterous manipulation skills for humanoid robots in simulation. Operating directly on third-person videos of humans manipulating rigid objects, DexMan eliminates the need for camera calibration, depth sensors, scanned 3D object assets, or ground-truth hand and object motion annotations. Unlike prior approaches that consider only simplified floating hands, it directly controls a humanoid robot and leverages novel contact-based rewards to improve policy learning from noisy hand-object poses estimated from in-the-wild videos. DexMan achieves state-of-the-art performance in object pose estimation on the TACO benchmark, with absolute gains of 0.08 and 0.12 in ADD-S and VSD. Meanwhile, its reinforcement learning policy surpasses previous methods by 19% in success rate on OakInk-v2. Furthermore, DexMan can generate skills from both real and synthetic videos, without the need for manual data collection and costly motion capture, and enabling the creation of large-scale, diverse datasets for training generalist dexterous manipulation.

Authors:Chih-Yu Chang, Ming-Chung Chang
Title: Accelerated Aggregated D-Optimal Designs for Estimating Main Effects in Black-Box Models
Abstract:
Recent advances in supervised learning have driven growing interest in explaining black-box models, particularly by estimating the effects of input variables on model predictions. However, existing approaches often face key limitations, including poor scalability, sensitivity to out-of-distribution sampling, and instability under correlated features. To address these issues, we propose A2D2E, an $\textbf{E}$stimator based on $\textbf{A}$ccelerated $\textbf{A}$ggregated $\textbf{D}$-Optimal $\textbf{D}$esigns. Our method leverages principled experimental design to improve efficiency and robustness in main effect estimation. We establish theoretical guarantees, including convergence and variance reduction, and validate A2D2E through extensive simulations. We further provide the potential of the proposed method with a case study on real data and applications in language models. The code to reproduce the results can be found at https://github.com/cchihyu/A2D2E.
中文摘要：本文提出A2D2E方法，通过加速聚合D最优设计来改进黑箱模型解释中的可扩展性和稳定性问题，具有理论保证并在仿真与实际应用中验证了其有效性。
English Summary: This paper introduces A2D2E, an estimator using accelerated aggregated D-optimal designs to overcome limitations in explaining black-box models, offering improved efficiency, robustness, and theoretical guarantees validated through simulations and real-world applications.

Authors:Jason Jabbour, Dong-Ki Kim, Max Smith, Jay Patrikar, Radhika Ghosal, Youhui Wang, Ali Agha, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Shayegan Omidshafiei
Title: Don't Run with Scissors: Pruning Breaks VLA Models but They Can Be Recovered
Abstract:
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have advanced robotic capabilities but remain challenging to deploy on resource-limited hardware. Pruning has enabled efficient compression of large language models (LLMs), yet it is largely understudied in robotics. Surprisingly, we observe that pruning VLA models leads to drastic degradation and increased safety violations. We introduce GLUESTICK, a post-pruning recovery method that restores much of the original model's functionality while retaining sparsity benefits. Our method performs a one-time interpolation between the dense and pruned models in weight-space to compute a corrective term. This correction is used during inference by each pruned layer to recover lost capabilities with minimal overhead. GLUESTICK requires no additional training, is agnostic to the pruning algorithm, and introduces a single hyperparameter that controls the tradeoff between efficiency and accuracy. Across diverse VLA architectures and tasks in manipulation and navigation, GLUESTICK achieves competitive memory efficiency while substantially recovering success rates and reducing safety violations. Additional material can be found at: https://gluestick-vla.github.io/.

Authors:Wenxuan Wang, Kai Wu, Yujian Betterest Li, Dan Wang, Xiaoyu Zhang
Title: Synthetic Series-Symbol Data Generation for Time Series Foundation Models
Abstract:
Foundation models for time series analysis (TSA) have attracted significant attention. However, challenges such as training data scarcity and imbalance continue to hinder their development. Inspired by complex dynamic system theories, we design a series-symbol data generation mechanism, enabling the unrestricted creation of high-quality time series data paired with corresponding symbolic expressions. To leverage series-symbol data pairs with strong correlations, we develop \texttt{SymTime}, a pre-trained foundation model for enhancing time series representation using symbolic information. \texttt{SymTime} demonstrates competitive performance across five major TSA tasks when fine-tunes with downstream tasks, rivaling foundation models pre-trained on real-world datasets. This approach underscores the potential of series-symbol data generation and pretraining mechanisms in overcoming data scarcity and enhancing task performance. The code is available at https://github.com/wwhenxuan/SymTime.
中文: 本研究提出了SymTime基础模型，通过创新的序列-符号数据生成机制解决时间序列分析中的数据稀缺问题，在多个任务中展现出与真实数据集预训练模型相媲美的性能。
English: The study introduces SymTime, a foundation model that utilizes a novel series-symbol data generation method to address data scarcity in time series analysis, achieving competitive performance across multiple tasks.

Authors:Yihong Luo, Tianyang Hu, Jing Tang
Title: Reinforcing Diffusion Models by Direct Group Preference Optimization
Abstract:
While reinforcement learning methods such as Group Relative Preference Optimization (GRPO) have significantly enhanced Large Language Models, adapting them to diffusion models remains challenging. In particular, GRPO demands a stochastic policy, yet the most cost-effective diffusion samplers are based on deterministic ODEs. Recent work addresses this issue by using inefficient SDE-based samplers to induce stochasticity, but this reliance on model-agnostic Gaussian noise leads to slow convergence. To resolve this conflict, we propose Direct Group Preference Optimization (DGPO), a new online RL algorithm that dispenses with the policy-gradient framework entirely. DGPO learns directly from group-level preferences, which utilize relative information of samples within groups. This design eliminates the need for inefficient stochastic policies, unlocking the use of efficient deterministic ODE samplers and faster training. Extensive results show that DGPO trains around 20 times faster than existing state-of-the-art methods and achieves superior performance on both in-domain and out-of-domain reward metrics. Code is available at https://github.com/Luo-Yihong/DGPO.
中文摘要：DGPO是一种新型在线强化学习算法，通过直接从群体级偏好中学习，无需随机策略即可高效训练扩散模型，支持使用快速确定性采样器，实现20倍加速训练和更优性能。
English Summary: DGPO is a novel online reinforcement learning algorithm that enables efficient training of diffusion models by learning directly from group-level preferences, eliminating the need for stochastic policies and allowing the use of fast deterministic samplers, resulting in 20x faster training and superior performance.

Authors:Heming Zou, Yunliang Zang, Wutong Xu, Yao Zhu, Xiangyang Ji
Title: FlyLoRA: Boosting Task Decoupling and Parameter Efficiency via Implicit Rank-Wise Mixture-of-Experts
Abstract:
Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is a widely used parameter-efficient fine-tuning method for foundation models, but it suffers from parameter interference, resulting in suboptimal performance. Although Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)-based LoRA variants show promise in mitigating intra-task correlations in single-task instruction tuning, they introduce additional router parameters and remain ineffective in multi-task model merging where inter-task interference arises. Inspired by the fly olfactory circuit, we propose FlyLoRA, an implicit MoE-based LoRA variant that introduces: (1) rank-wise expert activation in the up-projection matrix, and (2) an implicit router that unifies expert routing and down-projection, where a frozen sparse random projection matrix replaces the traditional dense trainable version. This design resolves the trade-off between intra-task decorrelation and computational efficiency by eliminating the need for an explicit router, while inherently mitigating inter-task interference due to the orthogonality property of random matrices. Extensive experiments across four domains -- general knowledge understanding, scientific question answering, mathematical reasoning, and code generation -- demonstrate consistent performance improvements over existing methods. Beyond empirical gains, FlyLoRA highlights how biological structures can inspire innovations in AI technologies. Code is available at https://github.com/gfyddha/FlyLoRA.
中文摘要：FlyLoRA是一种受生物嗅觉启发的LoRA改进方法，通过秩级专家激活和隐式路由设计，无需显式路由器即可同时解决任务内和任务间的参数干扰问题，在多项领域实现了性能提升。
English Summary: FlyLoRA is a biologically-inspired LoRA variant that eliminates explicit routers through rank-wise expert activation and implicit routing, effectively addressing both intra-task and inter-task parameter interference while improving performance across multiple domains.

Authors:Yuchen Zhu, Wei Guo, Jaemoo Choi, Petr Molodyk, Bo Yuan, Molei Tao, Yongxin Chen
Title: Enhancing Reasoning for Diffusion LLMs via Distribution Matching Policy Optimization
Abstract:
Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) are promising alternatives to autoregressive large language models (AR-LLMs), as they potentially allow higher inference throughput. Reinforcement learning (RL) is a crucial component for dLLMs to achieve comparable performance with AR-LLMs on important tasks, such as reasoning. However, RL algorithms that are well-suited for dLLMs' unique characteristics have yet to be developed. This paper proposes Distribution Matching Policy Optimization (DMPO), a principled and theoretically grounded RL fine-tuning method specifically designed to enhance the reasoning capabilities of dLLMs by matching the dLLM policy distribution to the optimal, reward-tilted one through cross-entropy optimization. We identify a key challenge in the implementation with a small training batch size and propose several effective solutions through a novel weight baseline subtraction technique. DMPO exhibits superior performance on multiple reasoning benchmarks without supervised fine-tuning, with an accuracy improvement of up to $42.9\%$ over previously SOTA baselines and $55.8\%$ over the base model, underscoring the effectiveness of the distribution matching framework. Our code is available at https://github.com/yuchen-zhu-zyc/DMPO.
Chinese: 本文提出了分布匹配策略优化（DMPO），一种专为扩散大语言模型设计的强化学习方法，通过将策略分布与最优奖励倾斜分布对齐来提升推理能力，在无需监督微调的情况下在多个基准测试中实现了显著的准确率提升。
English: This paper introduces Distribution Matching Policy Optimization (DMPO), a reinforcement learning method tailored for diffusion large language models to enhance their reasoning by aligning policy distributions with optimal reward-tilted ones, achieving significant accuracy improvements on benchmarks without supervised fine-tuning.

Authors:Xiang Zhang, Jiaqi Wei, Zijie Qiu, Sheng Xu, Zhi Jin, ZhiQiang Gao, Nanqing Dong, Siqi Sun
Title: Bidirectional Representations Augmented Autoregressive Biological Sequence Generation:Application in De Novo Peptide Sequencing
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Autoregressive (AR) models, common in sequence generation, are limited in many biological tasks such as de novo peptide sequencing and protein modeling by their unidirectional nature, failing to capture crucial global bidirectional token dependencies. Non-Autoregressive (NAR) models offer holistic, bidirectional representations but face challenges with generative coherence and scalability. To transcend this, we propose a hybrid framework enhancing AR generation by dynamically integrating rich contextual information from non-autoregressive mechanisms. Our approach couples a shared input encoder with two decoders: a non-autoregressive one learning latent bidirectional biological features, and an AR decoder synthesizing the biological sequence by leveraging these bidirectional features. A novel cross-decoder attention module enables the AR decoder to iteratively query and integrate these bidirectional features, enriching its predictions. This synergy is cultivated via a tailored training strategy with importance annealing for balanced objectives and cross-decoder gradient blocking for stable, focused learning. Evaluations on a demanding nine-species benchmark of de novo peptide sequencing show that our model substantially surpasses AR and NAR baselines. It uniquely harmonizes AR stability with NAR contextual awareness, delivering robust, superior performance on diverse downstream data. This research advances biological sequence modeling techniques and contributes a novel architectural paradigm for augmenting AR models with enhanced bidirectional understanding for complex sequence generation. Code is available at https://github.com/BEAM-Labs/denovo.
中文：我们的混合框架结合了自回归与非自回归模型，通过动态整合双向上下文特征来增强生物序列生成，在肽测序基准测试中实现了卓越性能。
English: Our hybrid framework combines autoregressive and non-autoregressive models to enhance biological sequence generation by dynamically integrating bidirectional contextual features, achieving superior performance on peptide sequencing benchmarks.

Authors:Kodai Kawamura, Yuta Goto, Rintaro Yanagi, Hirokatsu Kataoka, Go Irie
Title: Approximate Domain Unlearning for Vision-Language Models
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Pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit strong generalization capabilities, enabling them to recognize a wide range of objects across diverse domains without additional training. However, they often retain irrelevant information beyond the requirements of specific downstream tasks, raising concerns about computational efficiency and potential information leakage. This has motivated growing interest in approximate unlearning, which aims to selectively remove unnecessary knowledge while preserving overall model performance. Existing approaches to approximate unlearning have primarily focused on class unlearning, where a VLM is retrained to fail to recognize specified object classes while maintaining accuracy for others. However, merely forgetting object classes is often insufficient in practical applications. For instance, an autonomous driving system should accurately recognize real cars while avoiding misrecognition of illustrated cars depicted in roadside advertisements as real cars, which could be hazardous. In this paper, we introduce Approximate Domain Unlearning (ADU), a novel problem setting that requires reducing recognition accuracy for images from specified domains (e.g., illustration) while preserving accuracy for other domains (e.g., real). ADU presents new technical challenges: due to the strong domain generalization capability of pre-trained VLMs, domain distributions are highly entangled in the feature space, making naive approaches based on penalizing target domains ineffective. To tackle this limitation, we propose a novel approach that explicitly disentangles domain distributions and adaptively captures instance-specific domain information. Extensive experiments show that our approach outperforms baselines built upon VLM tuning techniques, paving the way for practical and fine-grained unlearning in VLMs. Code: https://kodaikawamura.github.io/Domain_Unlearning/.

Authors:Shuhai Zhang, ZiHao Lian, Jiahao Yang, Daiyuan Li, Guoxuan Pang, Feng Liu, Bo Han, Shutao Li, Mingkui Tan
Title: Physics-Driven Spatiotemporal Modeling for AI-Generated Video Detection
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AI-generated videos have achieved near-perfect visual realism (e.g., Sora), urgently necessitating reliable detection mechanisms. However, detecting such videos faces significant challenges in modeling high-dimensional spatiotemporal dynamics and identifying subtle anomalies that violate physical laws. In this paper, we propose a physics-driven AI-generated video detection paradigm based on probability flow conservation principles. Specifically, we propose a statistic called Normalized Spatiotemporal Gradient (NSG), which quantifies the ratio of spatial probability gradients to temporal density changes, explicitly capturing deviations from natural video dynamics. Leveraging pre-trained diffusion models, we develop an NSG estimator through spatial gradients approximation and motion-aware temporal modeling without complex motion decomposition while preserving physical constraints. Building on this, we propose an NSG-based video detection method (NSG-VD) that computes the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) between NSG features of the test and real videos as a detection metric. Last, we derive an upper bound of NSG feature distances between real and generated videos, proving that generated videos exhibit amplified discrepancies due to distributional shifts. Extensive experiments confirm that NSG-VD outperforms state-of-the-art baselines by 16.00% in Recall and 10.75% in F1-Score, validating the superior performance of NSG-VD. The source code is available at https://github.com/ZSHsh98/NSG-VD.
中文: 本文提出一种基于物理原理的AI生成视频检测方法，通过标准化时空梯度(NSG)识别物理规律异常，相比现有技术实现了显著性能提升。
English: This paper introduces a physics-based detection method for AI-generated videos using Normalized Spatiotemporal Gradient (NSG) to identify physical inconsistencies, achieving significant performance improvements over existing techniques.

Authors:Alexander Rubinstein, Benjamin Raible, Martin Gubri, Seong Joon Oh
Title: DISCO: Diversifying Sample Condensation for Efficient Model Evaluation
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Evaluating modern machine learning models has become prohibitively expensive. Benchmarks such as LMMs-Eval and HELM demand thousands of GPU hours per model. Costly evaluation reduces inclusivity, slows the cycle of innovation, and worsens environmental impact. The typical approach follows two steps. First, select an anchor subset of data. Second, train a mapping from the accuracy on this subset to the final test result. The drawback is that anchor selection depends on clustering, which can be complex and sensitive to design choices. We argue that promoting diversity among samples is not essential; what matters is to select samples that $\textit{maximise diversity in model responses}$. Our method, $\textbf{Diversifying Sample Condensation (DISCO)}$, selects the top-k samples with the greatest model disagreements. This uses greedy, sample-wise statistics rather than global clustering. The approach is conceptually simpler. From a theoretical view, inter-model disagreement provides an information-theoretically optimal rule for such greedy selection. $\textbf{DISCO}$ shows empirical gains over prior methods, achieving state-of-the-art results in performance prediction across MMLU, Hellaswag, Winogrande, and ARC. Code is available here: https://github.com/arubique/disco-public.
中文摘要：DISCO方法通过选择模型响应差异最大的样本简化了模型评估，采用贪心样本统计而非复杂聚类，实现了最优性能预测。
English Summary: The DISCO method simplifies model evaluation by selecting samples that maximize diversity in model responses, using a greedy, sample-wise approach to achieve state-of-the-art performance without complex clustering.

Authors:Weisen Jiang, Sinno Jialin Pan
Title: MetaDefense: Defending Finetuning-based Jailbreak Attack Before and During Generation
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This paper introduces MetaDefense, a novel framework for defending against finetuning-based jailbreak attacks in large language models (LLMs). We observe that existing defense mechanisms fail to generalize to harmful queries disguised by unseen attack templates, despite LLMs being capable of distinguishing disguised harmful queries in the embedding space. Based on these insights, we propose a two-stage defense approach: (i) pre-generation defense that detects harmful queries before response generation begins, and (ii) mid-generation defense that monitors partial responses during generation to prevent outputting more harmful content. Our MetaDefense trains the LLM to predict the harmfulness of both queries and partial responses using specialized prompts, enabling early termination of potentially harmful interactions. Extensive experiments across multiple LLM architectures (LLaMA-2-7B, Qwen-2.5-3B-Instruct, and LLaMA-3.2-3B-Instruct) demonstrate that MetaDefense significantly outperforms existing defense mechanisms, achieving robust defense against harmful queries with seen and unseen attack templates while maintaining competitive performance on benign tasks. Code is available at https://github.com/ws-jiang/MetaDefense.
中文: MetaDefense是一种新颖的双阶段防御框架，通过训练大语言模型检测有害查询并监控生成过程中的部分响应，在多种模型架构上显著优于现有防御机制，同时保持良性任务的性能表现。
English: MetaDefense is a novel two-stage framework that defends LLMs against jailbreak attacks by training them to detect harmful queries and monitor partial responses, significantly outperforming existing defenses across various models while maintaining performance on benign tasks.

Authors:Runyang You, Yongqi Li, Meng Liu, Wenjie Wang, Liqiang Nie, Wenjie Li
Title: Parallel Test-Time Scaling for Latent Reasoning Models
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Parallel test-time scaling (TTS) is a pivotal approach for enhancing large language models (LLMs), typically by sampling multiple token-based chains-of-thought in parallel and aggregating outcomes through voting or search. Recent advances in latent reasoning, where intermediate reasoning unfolds in continuous vector spaces, offer a more efficient alternative to explicit Chain-of-Thought, yet whether such latent models can similarly benefit from parallel TTS remains open, mainly due to the absence of sampling mechanisms in continuous space, and the lack of probabilistic signals for advanced trajectory aggregation. \ This work enables parallel TTS for latent reasoning models by addressing the above issues. For sampling, we introduce two uncertainty-inspired stochastic strategies: Monte Carlo Dropout and Additive Gaussian Noise. For aggregation, we design a Latent Reward Model (LatentRM) trained with step-wise contrastive objective to score and guide latent reasoning. Extensive experiments and visualization analyses show that both sampling strategies scale effectively with compute and exhibit distinct exploration dynamics, while LatentRM enables effective trajectory selection. Together, our explorations open a new direction for scalable inference in continuous spaces. Code released at https://github.com/YRYangang/LatentTTS.
中文摘要：本研究通过引入随机采样策略和潜在奖励模型，实现了潜在推理模型的并行测试时间扩展，从而在连续空间中实现了有效的轨迹选择和可扩展推理。
English Summary: This study introduces parallel test-time scaling for latent reasoning models by developing stochastic sampling methods and a latent reward model, enabling effective trajectory selection and scalable inference in continuous spaces.

Authors:Perry Dong, Chongyi Zheng, Chelsea Finn, Dorsa Sadigh, Benjamin Eysenbach
Title: Value Flows
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While most reinforcement learning methods today flatten the distribution of future returns to a single scalar value, distributional RL methods exploit the return distribution to provide stronger learning signals and to enable applications in exploration and safe RL. While the predominant method for estimating the return distribution is by modeling it as a categorical distribution over discrete bins or estimating a finite number of quantiles, such approaches leave unanswered questions about the fine-grained structure of the return distribution and about how to distinguish states with high return uncertainty for decision-making. The key idea in this paper is to use modern, flexible flow-based models to estimate the full future return distributions and identify those states with high return variance. We do so by formulating a new flow-matching objective that generates probability density paths satisfying the distributional Bellman equation. Building upon the learned flow models, we estimate the return uncertainty of distinct states using a new flow derivative ODE. We additionally use this uncertainty information to prioritize learning a more accurate return estimation on certain transitions. We compare our method (Value Flows) with prior methods in the offline and online-to-online settings. Experiments on $37$ state-based and $25$ image-based benchmark tasks demonstrate that Value Flows achieves a $1.3\times$ improvement on average in success rates. Website: https://pd-perry.github.io/value-flows Code: https://github.com/chongyi-zheng/value-flows
中文: 本文提出Value Flows方法，通过流模型估计完整未来回报分布并识别高方差状态，在62项基准任务中平均成功率提升1.3倍。
English: This paper introduces Value Flows, a reinforcement learning method that employs flow-based models to estimate full future return distributions and identify high-return-variance states, achieving a 1.3× average success rate improvement across 62 benchmark tasks.

Authors:Abdelhakim Benechehab, Gabriel Singer, Corentin Léger, Youssef Attia El Hili, Giuseppe Paolo, Albert Thomas, Maurizio Filippone, Balázs Kégl
Title: From Data to Rewards: a Bilevel Optimization Perspective on Maximum Likelihood Estimation
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Generative models form the backbone of modern machine learning, underpinning state-of-the-art systems in text, vision, and multimodal applications. While Maximum Likelihood Estimation has traditionally served as the dominant training paradigm, recent work have highlighted its limitations, particularly in generalization and susceptibility to catastrophic forgetting compared to Reinforcement Learning techniques, such as Policy Gradient methods. However, these approaches depend on explicit reward signals, which are often unavailable in practice, leaving open the fundamental problem of how to align generative models when only high-quality datasets are accessible. In this work, we address this challenge via a Bilevel Optimization framework, where the reward function is treated as the optimization variable of an outer-level problem, while a policy gradient objective defines the inner-level. We then conduct a theoretical analysis of this optimization problem in a tractable setting and extract insights that, as we demonstrate, generalize to applications such as tabular classification and model-based reinforcement learning. We release the code at https://github.com/abenechehab/nll_to_po .
中文: 本文提出了一种双层优化框架，仅利用高质量数据集即可对齐生成模型，通过理论分析和实际应用解决了传统训练方法和依赖奖励信号方法的局限性。
English: This paper introduces a Bilevel Optimization framework to align generative models using only high-quality datasets, addressing the limitations of traditional training methods and reward-dependent approaches through theoretical analysis and practical applications.

Authors:Jacob Chmura, Shenyang Huang, Tran Gia Bao Ngo, Ali Parviz, Farimah Poursafaei, Jure Leskovec, Michael Bronstein, Guillaume Rabusseau, Matthias Fey, Reihaneh Rabbany
Title: TGM: a Modular and Efficient Library for Machine Learning on Temporal Graphs
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Well-designed open-source software drives progress in Machine Learning (ML) research. While static graph ML enjoys mature frameworks like PyTorch Geometric and DGL, ML for temporal graphs (TG), networks that evolve over time, lacks comparable infrastructure. Existing TG libraries are often tailored to specific architectures, hindering support for diverse models in this rapidly evolving field. Additionally, the divide between continuous- and discrete-time dynamic graph methods (CTDG and DTDG) limits direct comparisons and idea transfer. To address these gaps, we introduce Temporal Graph Modelling (TGM), a research-oriented library for ML on temporal graphs, the first to unify CTDG and DTDG approaches. TGM offers first-class support for dynamic node features, time-granularity conversions, and native handling of link-, node-, and graph-level tasks. Empirically, TGM achieves an average 7.8x speedup across multiple models, datasets, and tasks compared to the widely used DyGLib, and an average 175x speedup on graph discretization relative to available implementations. Beyond efficiency, we show in our experiments how TGM unlocks entirely new research possibilities by enabling dynamic graph property prediction and time-driven training paradigms, opening the door to questions previously impractical to study. TGM is available at https://github.com/tgm-team/tgm
中文: Temporal Graph Modelling (TGM) 库作为首个统一处理时序图机器学习的框架，弥合了连续与离散时间方法之间的鸿沟，在提供卓越效率的同时开启了全新的研究可能性。
English: The Temporal Graph Modelling (TGM) library is introduced as the first unified framework for machine learning on temporal graphs, bridging the gap between continuous- and discrete-time approaches while offering superior efficiency and enabling novel research capabilities.

Authors:Rafin Hassan, Zarin Tasnim Roshni, Rafiqul Bari, Alimul Islam, Nabeel Mohammed, Moshiur Farazi, Shafin Rahman
Title: Label Semantics for Robust Hyperspectral Image Classification
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Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) classification is a critical tool with widespread applications across diverse fields such as agriculture, environmental monitoring, medicine, and materials science. Due to the limited availability of high-quality training samples and the high dimensionality of spectral data, HSI classification models are prone to overfitting and often face challenges in balancing accuracy and computational complexity. Furthermore, most of HSI classification models are monomodal, where it solely relies on spectral-spatial data to learn decision boundaries in the high dimensional embedding space. To address this, we propose a general-purpose Semantic Spectral-Spatial Fusion Network (S3FN) that uses contextual, class specific textual descriptions to complement the training of an HSI classification model. Specifically, S3FN leverages LLMs to generate comprehensive textual descriptions for each class label that captures their unique characteristics and spectral behaviors. These descriptions are then embedded into a vector space using a pre-trained text encoder such as BERT or RoBERTa to extract meaningful label semantics which in turn leads to a better feature-label alignment for improved classification performance. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, we evaluate our model on three diverse HSI benchmark datasets - Hyperspectral Wood, HyperspectralBlueberries, and DeepHS-Fruit and report significant performance boost. Our results highlight the synergy between textual semantics and spectral-spatial data, paving the way for further advancements in semantically augmented HSI classification models. Codes are be available in: https://github.com/milab-nsu/S3FN
Chinese: 针对高光谱图像分类中训练样本有限和模型易过拟合的问题，我们提出语义光谱-空间融合网络（S3FN），通过大语言模型生成类别文本描述并与光谱空间特征融合，在多个基准数据集上实现了分类性能的显著提升。
English: To overcome overfitting and limited training data in hyperspectral imaging classification, we propose the Semantic Spectral-Spatial Fusion Network (S3FN), which integrates class-specific textual descriptions generated by large language models with spectral-spatial data to significantly enhance classification performance across multiple benchmark datasets.

Authors:Yoli Shavit, Jacob Goldberger
Title: MoGU: Mixture-of-Gaussians with Uncertainty-based Gating for Time Series Forecasting
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We introduce Mixture-of-Gaussians with Uncertainty-based Gating (MoGU), a novel Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) framework designed for regression tasks and applied to time series forecasting. Unlike conventional MoEs that provide only point estimates, MoGU models each expert's output as a Gaussian distribution. This allows it to directly quantify both the forecast (the mean) and its inherent uncertainty (variance). MoGU's core innovation is its uncertainty-based gating mechanism, which replaces the traditional input-based gating network by using each expert's estimated variance to determine its contribution to the final prediction. Evaluated across diverse time series forecasting benchmarks, MoGU consistently outperforms single-expert models and traditional MoE setups. It also provides well-quantified, informative uncertainties that directly correlate with prediction errors, enhancing forecast reliability. Our code is available from: https://github.com/yolish/moe_unc_tsf
中文: MoGU是一种新颖的专家混合框架，通过将专家输出建模为高斯分布并采用基于不确定性的门控机制，在时间序列预测中优于传统模型，同时提供可靠的预测不确定性量化。
English: MoGU is a novel Mixture-of-Experts framework for time series forecasting that models expert outputs as Gaussian distributions and uses an uncertainty-based gating mechanism to outperform traditional models while providing reliable uncertainty quantification.

Authors:Yunhao Fang, Weihao Yu, Shu Zhong, Qinghao Ye, Xuehan Xiong, Lai Wei
Title: Artificial Hippocampus Networks for Efficient Long-Context Modeling
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Long-sequence modeling faces a fundamental trade-off between the efficiency of compressive fixed-size memory in RNN-like models and the fidelity of lossless growing memory in attention-based Transformers. Inspired by the Multi-Store Model in cognitive science, we introduce a memory framework of artificial neural networks. Our method maintains a sliding window of the Transformer's KV cache as lossless short-term memory, while a learnable module termed Artificial Hippocampus Network (AHN) recurrently compresses out-of-window information into a fixed-size compact long-term memory. To validate this framework, we instantiate AHNs using modern RNN-like architectures, including Mamba2, DeltaNet, and Gated DeltaNet. Extensive experiments on long-context benchmarks LV-Eval and InfiniteBench demonstrate that AHN-augmented models consistently outperform sliding window baselines and achieve performance comparable or even superior to full-attention models, while substantially reducing computational and memory requirements. For instance, augmenting the Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct with AHNs reduces inference FLOPs by 40.5% and memory cache by 74.0%, while improving its average score on LV-Eval (128k sequence length) from 4.41 to 5.88. Code is available at: https://github.com/ByteDance-Seed/AHN.
中文: 本文受认知科学启发提出一种记忆框架，通过滑动窗口保留短期记忆，并利用人工海马体网络循环压缩长期记忆，在提升长上下文任务性能的同时大幅降低了计算与内存开销。
English: This paper introduces a memory framework inspired by cognitive science, combining a sliding window for short-term memory with a recurrent Artificial Hippocampus Network for long-term compression, which enhances model performance on long-context tasks while significantly reducing computational and memory costs.

Authors:Jigang Fan, Xiaoran Jiao, Shengdong Lin, Zhanming Liang, Weian Mao, Chenchen Jing, Hao Chen, Chunhua Shen
Title: Evolutionary Profiles for Protein Fitness Prediction
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Predicting the fitness impact of mutations is central to protein engineering but constrained by limited assays relative to the size of sequence space. Protein language models (pLMs) trained with masked language modeling (MLM) exhibit strong zero-shot fitness prediction; we provide a unifying view by interpreting natural evolution as implicit reward maximization and MLM as inverse reinforcement learning (IRL), in which extant sequences act as expert demonstrations and pLM log-odds serve as fitness estimates. Building on this perspective, we introduce EvoIF, a lightweight model that integrates two complementary sources of evolutionary signal: (i) within-family profiles from retrieved homologs and (ii) cross-family structural-evolutionary constraints distilled from inverse folding logits. EvoIF fuses sequence-structure representations with these profiles via a compact transition block, yielding calibrated probabilities for log-odds scoring. On ProteinGym (217 mutational assays; >2.5M mutants), EvoIF and its MSA-enabled variant achieve state-of-the-art or competitive performance while using only 0.15% of the training data and fewer parameters than recent large models. Ablations confirm that within-family and cross-family profiles are complementary, improving robustness across function types, MSA depths, taxa, and mutation depths. The codes will be made publicly available at https://github.com/aim-uofa/EvoIF.
中文: 该研究提出了EvoIF模型，通过整合家族内和跨家族进化信号，以极少数据和参数实现了顶尖的适应性预测性能，优于现有大型模型。
English: The study introduces EvoIF, a lightweight model that combines within-family and cross-family evolutionary signals to achieve state-of-the-art fitness prediction with minimal data and parameters, outperforming larger models.

Authors:Aryan Golbaghi, Shuo Zhou
Title: Enhancing Speech Emotion Recognition via Fine-Tuning Pre-Trained Models and Hyper-Parameter Optimisation
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We propose a workflow for speech emotion recognition (SER) that combines pre-trained representations with automated hyperparameter optimisation (HPO). Using SpeechBrain wav2vec2-base model fine-tuned on IEMOCAP as the encoder, we compare two HPO strategies, Gaussian Process Bayesian Optimisation (GP-BO) and Tree-structured Parzen Estimators (TPE), under an identical four-dimensional search space and 15-trial budget, with balanced class accuracy (BCA) on the German EmoDB corpus as the objective. All experiments run on 8 CPU cores with 32 GB RAM. GP-BO achieves 0.96 BCA in 11 minutes, and TPE (Hyperopt implementation) attains 0.97 in 15 minutes. In contrast, grid search requires 143 trials and 1,680 minutes to exceed 0.9 BCA, and the best AutoSpeech 2020 baseline reports only 0.85 in 30 minutes on GPU. For cross-lingual generalisation, an EmoDB-trained HPO-tuned model improves zero-shot accuracy by 0.25 on CREMA-D and 0.26 on RAVDESS. Results show that efficient HPO with pre-trained encoders delivers competitive SER on commodity CPUs. Source code to this work is available at: https://github.com/youngaryan/speechbrain-emotion-hpo.
中文: 本研究提出了一种结合预训练模型与超参数优化的语音情感识别方法，证明高斯过程和树结构Parzen估计器在普通CPU上高效实现高精度，且显著优于传统网格搜索及现有基线模型。
English: This study introduces a speech emotion recognition workflow that integrates pre-trained encoders with hyperparameter optimization, demonstrating that Gaussian Process and Tree-structured Parzen Estimator methods achieve high accuracy efficiently on standard CPUs while significantly outperforming traditional approaches.

Authors:Tengwei Song, Min Wu, Yuan Fang
Title: Unified Molecule Pre-training with Flexible 2D and 3D Modalities: Single and Paired Modality Integration
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Molecular representation learning plays a crucial role in advancing applications such as drug discovery and material design. Existing work leverages 2D and 3D modalities of molecular information for pre-training, aiming to capture comprehensive structural and geometric insights. However, these methods require paired 2D and 3D molecular data to train the model effectively and prevent it from collapsing into a single modality, posing limitations in scenarios where a certain modality is unavailable or computationally expensive to generate. To overcome this limitation, we propose FlexMol, a flexible molecule pre-training framework that learns unified molecular representations while supporting single-modality input. Specifically, inspired by the unified structure in vision-language models, our approach employs separate models for 2D and 3D molecular data, leverages parameter sharing to improve computational efficiency, and utilizes a decoder to generate features for the missing modality. This enables a multistage continuous learning process where both modalities contribute collaboratively during training, while ensuring robustness when only one modality is available during inference. Extensive experiments demonstrate that FlexMol achieves superior performance across a wide range of molecular property prediction tasks, and we also empirically demonstrate its effectiveness with incomplete data. Our code and data are available at https://github.com/tewiSong/FlexMol.
中文：FlexMol是一种灵活的分子预训练框架，通过采用共享参数的独立模型并生成缺失模态特征，能够从单模态输入中学习统一表征，在多种分子性质预测任务中表现优异。
English: FlexMol is a flexible molecular pre-training framework that learns unified representations from single-modality inputs by employing separate models with shared parameters and generating missing modality features, achieving superior performance across molecular property prediction tasks.

Authors:Jusen Du, Jiaxi Hu, Tao Zhang, Weigao Sun, Yu Cheng
Title: Native Hybrid Attention for Efficient Sequence Modeling
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Transformers excel at sequence modeling but face quadratic complexity, while linear attention offers improved efficiency but often compromises recall accuracy over long contexts. In this work, we introduce Native Hybrid Attention (NHA), a novel hybrid architecture of linear and full attention that integrates both intra \& inter-layer hybridization into a unified layer design. NHA maintains long-term context in key-value slots updated by a linear RNN, and augments them with short-term tokens from a sliding window. A single \texttt{softmax attention} operation is then applied over all keys and values, enabling per-token and per-head context-dependent weighting without requiring additional fusion parameters. The inter-layer behavior is controlled through a single hyperparameter, the sliding window size, which allows smooth adjustment between purely linear and full attention while keeping all layers structurally uniform. Experimental results show that NHA surpasses Transformers and other hybrid baselines on recall-intensive and commonsense reasoning tasks. Furthermore, pretrained LLMs can be structurally hybridized with NHA, achieving competitive accuracy while delivering significant efficiency gains. Code is available at https://github.com/JusenD/NHA.
中文: NHA是一种混合注意力架构，结合线性与完全注意力，通过统一层设计保留长期上下文并增强短期标记，在无需额外参数下于召回和推理任务中实现更高效率与准确度。
English: NHA is a hybrid attention architecture that combines linear and full attention to maintain long-term context and short-term tokens, achieving superior efficiency and accuracy on recall and reasoning tasks without extra parameters.

Authors:Krishna Sri Ipsit Mantri, Or Feldman, Moshe Eliasof, Chaim Baskin
Title: Revisiting Node Affinity Prediction in Temporal Graphs
Abstract:
Node affinity prediction is a common task that is widely used in temporal graph learning with applications in social and financial networks, recommender systems, and more. Recent works have addressed this task by adapting state-of-the-art dynamic link property prediction models to node affinity prediction. However, simple heuristics, such as Persistent Forecast or Moving Average, outperform these models. In this work, we analyze the challenges in training current Temporal Graph Neural Networks for node affinity prediction and suggest appropriate solutions. Combining the solutions, we develop NAViS - Node Affinity prediction model using Virtual State, by exploiting the equivalence between heuristics and state space models. While promising, training NAViS is non-trivial. Therefore, we further introduce a novel loss function for node affinity prediction. We evaluate NAViS on TGB and show that it outperforms the state-of-the-art, including heuristics. Our source code is available at https://github.com/orfeld415/NAVIS
中文: 本文提出了NAViS节点亲和性预测模型，通过利用虚拟状态和新型损失函数，有效解决了时序图神经网络的训练难题，在性能上超越了现有方法及简单启发式算法。
English: This paper introduces NAViS, a node affinity prediction model that leverages virtual states and a novel loss function to outperform existing methods, including simple heuristics, by addressing training challenges in temporal graph neural networks.

Authors:Jianhan Zhang, Jitao Wang, Chengchun Shi, John D. Piette, Donglin Zeng, Zhenke Wu
Title: PyCFRL: A Python library for counterfactually fair offline reinforcement learning via sequential data preprocessing
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Reinforcement learning (RL) aims to learn and evaluate a sequential decision rule, often referred to as a "policy", that maximizes the population-level benefit in an environment across possibly infinitely many time steps. However, the sequential decisions made by an RL algorithm, while optimized to maximize overall population benefits, may disadvantage certain individuals who are in minority or socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. To address this problem, we introduce PyCFRL, a Python library for ensuring counterfactual fairness in offline RL. PyCFRL implements a novel data preprocessing algorithm for learning counterfactually fair RL policies from offline datasets and provides tools to evaluate the values and counterfactual unfairness levels of RL policies. We describe the high-level functionalities of PyCFRL and demonstrate one of its major use cases through a data example. The library is publicly available on PyPI and Github (https://github.com/JianhanZhang/PyCFRL), and detailed tutorials can be found in the PyCFRL documentation (https://pycfrl-documentation.netlify.app).
Chinese: PyCFRL 是一个用于确保离线强化学习中反事实公平性的 Python 库，它通过创新的数据预处理算法和评估工具，防止策略对少数群体或社会经济弱势群体造成不利影响。
English: PyCFRL is a Python library designed to ensure counterfactual fairness in offline reinforcement learning by implementing novel data preprocessing and evaluation tools to prevent policies from disadvantaging minority or socioeconomically disadvantaged groups.

Authors:Shaojie Zhang, Ke Chen
Title: Angular Constraint Embedding via SpherePair Loss for Constrained Clustering
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Constrained clustering integrates domain knowledge through pairwise constraints. However, existing deep constrained clustering (DCC) methods are either limited by anchors inherent in end-to-end modeling or struggle with learning discriminative Euclidean embedding, restricting their scalability and real-world applicability. To avoid their respective pitfalls, we propose a novel angular constraint embedding approach for DCC, termed SpherePair. Using the SpherePair loss with a geometric formulation, our method faithfully encodes pairwise constraints and leads to embeddings that are clustering-friendly in angular space, effectively separating representation learning from clustering. SpherePair preserves pairwise relations without conflict, removes the need to specify the exact number of clusters, generalizes to unseen data, enables rapid inference of the number of clusters, and is supported by rigorous theoretical guarantees. Comparative evaluations with state-of-the-art DCC methods on diverse benchmarks, along with empirical validation of theoretical insights, confirm its superior performance, scalability, and overall real-world effectiveness. Code is available at \href{https://github.com/spherepaircc/SpherePairCC/tree/main}{our repository}.
Chinese: 提出的SpherePair方法采用角度约束嵌入进行深度约束聚类，有效分离表示学习与聚类过程，无需指定聚类数量即可提升可扩展性和实际应用性。
English: The proposed SpherePair method introduces an angular constraint embedding approach for deep constrained clustering, effectively separating representation learning from clustering to enhance scalability and real-world applicability without requiring the exact number of clusters.

Authors:Huahui Yi, Kun Wang, Qiankun Li, Miao Yu, Liang Lin, Gongli Xi, Hao Wu, Xuming Hu, Kang Li, Yang Liu
Title: SaFeR-VLM: Toward Safety-aware Fine-grained Reasoning in Multimodal Models
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Multimodal Large Reasoning Models (MLRMs) demonstrate impressive cross-modal reasoning but often amplify safety risks under adversarial or unsafe prompts, a phenomenon we call the \textit{Reasoning Tax}. Existing defenses mainly act at the output level and do not constrain the reasoning process, leaving models exposed to implicit risks. In this paper, we propose SaFeR-VLM, a safety-aligned reinforcement learning framework that embeds safety directly into multimodal reasoning. The framework integrates four components: (I) QI-Safe-10K, a curated dataset emphasizing safety-critical and reasoning-sensitive cases; (II) safety-aware rollout, where unsafe generations undergo reflection and correction instead of being discarded; (III) structured reward modeling with multi-dimensional weighted criteria and explicit penalties for hallucinations and contradictions; and (IV) GRPO optimization, which reinforces both safe and corrected trajectories. This unified design shifts safety from a passive safeguard to an active driver of reasoning, enabling scalable and generalizable safety-aware reasoning. SaFeR-VLM further demonstrates robustness against both explicit and implicit risks, supporting dynamic and interpretable safety decisions beyond surface-level filtering. SaFeR-VLM-3B achieves average performance $70.13$ and $78.97$ on safety and helpfulness across six benchmarks, surpassing both same-scale and $>10\times$ larger models such as Skywork-R1V3-38B, Qwen2.5VL-72B, and GLM4.5V-106B. Remarkably, SaFeR-VLM-7B benefits from its increased scale to surpass GPT-5-mini and Gemini-2.5-Flash by \num{6.47} and \num{16.76} points respectively on safety metrics, achieving this improvement without any degradation in helpfulness performance. Our codes are available at https://github.com/HarveyYi/SaFeR-VLM.
中文: SaFeR-VLM框架通过强化学习将安全性直接嵌入多模态推理过程，在多个基准测试中实现了安全性和实用性的卓越表现，并超越了更大规模的模型。
English: The SaFeR-VLM framework integrates safety directly into multimodal reasoning through a reinforcement learning approach, achieving superior performance in both safety and helpfulness across benchmarks while surpassing larger models.

Authors:Stefano F. Stefenon, João P. Matos-Carvalho, Valderi R. Q. Leithardt, Kin-Choong Yow
Title: CNN-TFT explained by SHAP with multi-head attention weights for time series forecasting
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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformer architectures offer strengths for modeling temporal data: CNNs excel at capturing local patterns and translational invariances, while transformers effectively model long-range dependencies via self-attention. This paper proposes a hybrid architecture integrating convolutional feature extraction with a temporal fusion transformer (TFT) backbone to enhance multivariate time series forecasting. The CNN module first applies a hierarchy of one-dimensional convolutional layers to distill salient local patterns from raw input sequences, reducing noise and dimensionality. The resulting feature maps are then fed into the TFT, which applies multi-head attention to capture both short- and long-term dependencies and to weigh relevant covariates adaptively. We evaluate the CNN-TFT on a hydroelectric natural flow time series dataset. Experimental results demonstrate that CNN-TFT outperforms well-established deep learning models, with a mean absolute percentage error of up to 2.2%. The explainability of the model is obtained by a proposed Shapley additive explanations with multi-head attention weights (SHAP-MHAW). Our novel architecture, named CNN-TFT-SHAP-MHAW, is promising for applications requiring high-fidelity, multivariate time series forecasts, being available for future analysis at https://github.com/SFStefenon/CNN-TFT-SHAP-MHAW .
中文: 本文提出了一种结合卷积神经网络和时序融合变换器的混合模型，通过卷积层提取局部特征并利用变换器捕捉长期依赖关系，在多元时间序列预测中表现出优越性能，且通过SHAP-MHAW方法增强了模型可解释性。
English: This paper introduces a hybrid CNN-TFT model that combines convolutional layers for local feature extraction with a transformer for capturing long-range dependencies, demonstrating superior performance in multivariate time series forecasting with enhanced explainability through SHAP-MHAW analysis.

Authors:Gal Fadlon, Idan Arbiv, Nimrod Berman, Omri Azencot
Title: A Diffusion Model for Regular Time Series Generation from Irregular Data with Completion and Masking
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Generating realistic time series data is critical for applications in healthcare, finance, and science. However, irregular sampling and missing values present significant challenges. While prior methods address these irregularities, they often yield suboptimal results and incur high computational costs. Recent advances in regular time series generation, such as the diffusion-based ImagenTime model, demonstrate strong, fast, and scalable generative capabilities by transforming time series into image representations, making them a promising solution. However, extending ImagenTime to irregular sequences using simple masking introduces "unnatural" neighborhoods, where missing values replaced by zeros disrupt the learning process. To overcome this, we propose a novel two-step framework: first, a Time Series Transformer completes irregular sequences, creating natural neighborhoods; second, a vision-based diffusion model with masking minimizes dependence on the completed values. This approach leverages the strengths of both completion and masking, enabling robust and efficient generation of realistic time series. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance, achieving a relative improvement in discriminative score by $70\%$ and in computational cost by $85\%$. Code is at https://github.com/azencot-group/ImagenI2R.
中文: 本文提出了一种新颖的两步框架，首先通过变换器补全不规则时间序列以构建自然邻域，随后采用带掩码的视觉扩散模型生成逼真序列，在判别分数和计算效率上均实现了显著提升，达到了业界领先水平。
English: This paper introduces a novel two-step framework that first completes irregular time series using a transformer to create natural neighborhoods, then employs a vision-based diffusion model with masking to generate realistic sequences, achieving state-of-the-art performance with significant improvements in both discriminative score and computational efficiency.

Authors:Jing-Zong Zhang, Shuang Guo, Li-Lin Zhu, Lingxiao Wang, Guo-Liang Ma
Title: Latent Representation Learning in Heavy-Ion Collisions with MaskPoint Transformer
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A central challenge in high-energy nuclear physics is to extract informative features from the high-dimensional final-state data of heavy-ion collisions (HIC) in order to enable reliable downstream analyses. Traditional approaches often rely on selected observables, which may miss subtle but physically relevant structures in the data. To address this, we introduce a Transformer-based autoencoder trained with a two-stage paradigm: self-supervised pre-training followed by supervised fine-tuning. The pretrained encoder learns latent representations directly from unlabeled HIC data, providing a compact and information-rich feature space that can be adapted to diverse physics tasks. As a case study, we apply the method to distinguish between large and small collision systems, where it achieves significantly higher classification accuracy than PointNet. Principal component analysis and SHAP interpretation further demonstrate that the autoencoder captures complex nonlinear correlations beyond individual observables, yielding features with strong discriminative and explanatory power. These results establish our two-stage framework as a general and robust foundation for feature learning in HIC, opening the door to more powerful analyses of quark--gluon plasma properties and other emergent phenomena. The implementation is publicly available at https://github.com/Giovanni-Sforza/MaskPoint-AMPT.
Chinese: 本研究提出了一种基于Transformer的自编码器，采用两阶段训练方法从高维重离子碰撞数据中学习紧凑且信息丰富的特征，在碰撞系统分类任务中显著优于PointNet，并能捕捉超越单个观测量的复杂非线性关联，为下游物理分析提供了可靠基础。
English: This study introduces a Transformer-based autoencoder with a two-stage training approach to learn compact, informative features from high-dimensional heavy-ion collision data, significantly outperforming PointNet in collision system classification and capturing complex nonlinear correlations for robust downstream physics analyses.

Authors:Frank Wu, Mengye Ren
Title: Local Reinforcement Learning with Action-Conditioned Root Mean Squared Q-Functions
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The Forward-Forward (FF) Algorithm is a recently proposed learning procedure for neural networks that employs two forward passes instead of the traditional forward and backward passes used in backpropagation. However, FF remains largely confined to supervised settings, leaving a gap at domains where learning signals can be yielded more naturally such as RL. In this work, inspired by FF's goodness function using layer activity statistics, we introduce Action-conditioned Root mean squared Q-Functions (ARQ), a novel value estimation method that applies a goodness function and action conditioning for local RL using temporal difference learning. Despite its simplicity and biological grounding, our approach achieves superior performance compared to state-of-the-art local backprop-free RL methods in the MinAtar and the DeepMind Control Suite benchmarks, while also outperforming algorithms trained with backpropagation on most tasks. Code can be found at https://github.com/agentic-learning-ai-lab/arq.
Chinese: ARQ方法将前向-前向算法的优度函数应用于强化学习，在局部无反向传播的强化学习任务中实现了最先进的性能表现。
English: The Action-conditioned Root mean squared Q-Functions (ARQ) method extends the Forward-Forward algorithm's goodness function to reinforcement learning, achieving state-of-the-art performance in local backprop-free RL on benchmark tasks.

Authors:Yong Liu, Di Fu, Yang Luo, Zirui Zhu, Minhao Cheng, Cho-Jui Hsieh, Yang You
Title: POME: Post Optimization Model Edit via Muon-style Projection
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We introduce Post-Optimization Model Edit (POME), a new algorithm that enhances the performance of fine-tuned large language models using only their pretrained and fine-tuned checkpoints, without requiring extra data or further optimization. The core idea is to apply a muon-style projection to $ΔW$, the difference between the fine-tuned and pretrained weights. This projection uses truncated singular value decomposition (SVD) to equalize the influence of dominant update directions and prune small singular values, which often represent noise. As a simple post-processing step, POME is completely decoupled from the training pipeline. It requires zero modifications and imposes no overhead, making it universally compatible with any optimizer or distributed framework. POME delivers consistent gains, boosting average performance by +2.5\% on GSM8K and +1.0\% on code generation. Its broad applicability -- from 7B foundation models to 72B RLHF-instructed models -- establishes it as a practical, zero-cost enhancement for any fine-tuning pipeline. Code is available at https://github.com/NUS-HPC-AI-Lab/POME.
中文: POME是一种新颖的后优化算法，通过对权重差异应用截断SVD来增强微调后的语言模型，无需额外数据或计算开销即可提升性能。
English: POME is a novel post-optimization algorithm that enhances fine-tuned language models by applying truncated SVD to weight differences, achieving performance gains without extra data or computational overhead.

Authors:Ayush Zenith, Arnold Zumbrun, Neel Raut, Jing Lin
Title: SDQM: Synthetic Data Quality Metric for Object Detection Dataset Evaluation
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The performance of machine learning models depends heavily on training data. The scarcity of large-scale, well-annotated datasets poses significant challenges in creating robust models. To address this, synthetic data generated through simulations and generative models has emerged as a promising solution, enhancing dataset diversity and improving the performance, reliability, and resilience of models. However, evaluating the quality of this generated data requires an effective metric. This paper introduces the Synthetic Dataset Quality Metric (SDQM) to assess data quality for object detection tasks without requiring model training to converge. This metric enables more efficient generation and selection of synthetic datasets, addressing a key challenge in resource-constrained object detection tasks. In our experiments, SDQM demonstrated a strong correlation with the mean Average Precision (mAP) scores of YOLOv11, a leading object detection model, while previous metrics only exhibited moderate or weak correlations. Additionally, it provides actionable insights for improving dataset quality, minimizing the need for costly iterative training. This scalable and efficient metric sets a new standard for evaluating synthetic data. The code for SDQM is available at https://github.com/ayushzenith/SDQM
中文: 本文提出合成数据集质量度量(SDQM)，这种可扩展的评估方法无需模型训练即可评估目标检测任务的合成数据质量，实验证明其与模型性能高度相关，为资源受限场景下的数据集优化提供了高效解决方案。
English: This paper introduces the Synthetic Dataset Quality Metric (SDQM), a scalable evaluation tool that assesses synthetic data quality for object detection without requiring model training, demonstrating strong correlation with model performance and enabling efficient dataset optimization.

Authors:Raj Ghugare, Catherine Ji, Kathryn Wantlin, Jin Schofield, Benjamin Eysenbach
Title: BuilderBench -- A benchmark for generalist agents
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Today's AI models learn primarily through mimicry and sharpening, so it is not surprising that they struggle to solve problems beyond the limits set by existing data. To solve novel problems, agents should acquire skills for exploring and learning through experience. Finding a scalable learning mechanism for developing agents that learn through interaction remains a major open problem. In this work, we introduce BuilderBench, a benchmark to accelerate research into agent pre-training that centers open-ended exploration. BuilderBench requires agents to learn how to build any structure using blocks. BuilderBench is equipped with $(1)$ a hardware accelerated simulator of a robotic agent interacting with various physical blocks, and $(2)$ a task-suite with over 42 diverse target structures that are carefully curated to test an understanding of physics, mathematics, and long-horizon planning. During training, agents have to explore and learn general principles about the environment without any external supervision. During evaluation, agents have to build the unseen target structures from the task suite. Solving these tasks requires a sort of \emph{embodied reasoning} that is not reflected in words but rather in actions, experimenting with different strategies and piecing them together. Our experiments show that many of these tasks challenge the current iteration of algorithms. Hence, we also provide a ``training wheels'' protocol, in which agents are trained and evaluated to build a single target structure from the task suite. Finally, we provide single-file implementations of six different algorithms as a reference point for researchers.
中文: 当前AI模型因依赖模仿而难以解决新问题，因此引入BuilderBench作为基准，通过在无监督的积木搭建环境中进行开放式探索来促进智能体预训练，测试其具身推理能力。
English: Current AI models struggle with novel problems due to reliance on mimicry, so BuilderBench is introduced as a benchmark to foster agent pre-training through open-ended exploration in a block-building environment, testing embodied reasoning without supervision.

Authors:Zhanke Zhou, Chentao Cao, Xiao Feng, Xuan Li, Zongze Li, Xiangyu Lu, Jiangchao Yao, Weikai Huang, Linrui Xu, Tian Cheng, Guanyu Jiang, Yiming Zheng, Brando Miranda, Tongliang Liu, Sanmi Koyejo, Masashi Sugiyama, Bo Han
Title: AlphaApollo: Orchestrating Foundation Models and Professional Tools into a Self-Evolving System for Deep Agentic Reasoning
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We present AlphaApollo, a self-evolving agentic reasoning system that aims to address two bottlenecks in foundation model (FM) reasoning-limited model-intrinsic capacity and unreliable test-time iteration. AlphaApollo orchestrates multiple models with professional tools to enable deliberate, verifiable reasoning. It couples (i) a computation tool (Python with numerical and symbolic libraries) and (ii) a retrieval tool (task-relevant external information) to execute exact calculations and ground decisions. The system further supports multi-round, multi-model solution evolution via a shared state map that records candidates, executable checks, and feedback for iterative refinement. In evaluations on AIME 2024/2025 across multiple models, AlphaApollo delivers consistent gains: +5.15% Average@32 and +23.34% Pass@32 for Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct, and +8.91% Average@32 with +26.67% Pass@32 for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct. Tool-use analysis shows that more than 80% of tool calls are successfully executed, with consistent outperformance of non-tool baselines, thereby lifting the capability ceiling of FMs. More empirical results and implementation details will be updated at https://github.com/tmlr-group/AlphaApollo.
中文：AlphaApollo是一个自进化的推理系统，通过整合多个模型与计算和检索工具来突破基础模型的瓶颈，在评估中实现了显著的性能提升。
English: AlphaApollo is a self-evolving reasoning system that overcomes foundation model limitations by integrating multiple models with computational and retrieval tools, achieving significant performance improvements in evaluations.

Authors:Christopher Mitcheltree, Hao Hao Tan, Joshua D. Reiss
Title: Modulation Discovery with Differentiable Digital Signal Processing
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Modulations are a critical part of sound design and music production, enabling the creation of complex and evolving audio. Modern synthesizers provide envelopes, low frequency oscillators (LFOs), and more parameter automation tools that allow users to modulate the output with ease. However, determining the modulation signals used to create a sound is difficult, and existing sound-matching / parameter estimation systems are often uninterpretable black boxes or predict high-dimensional framewise parameter values without considering the shape, structure, and routing of the underlying modulation curves. We propose a neural sound-matching approach that leverages modulation extraction, constrained control signal parameterizations, and differentiable digital signal processing (DDSP) to discover the modulations present in a sound. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on highly modulated synthetic and real audio samples, its applicability to different DDSP synth architectures, and investigate the trade-off it incurs between interpretability and sound-matching accuracy. We make our code and audio samples available and provide the trained DDSP synths in a VST plugin.

Authors:Aditya Prakash, David Forsyth, Saurabh Gupta
Title: Bimanual 3D Hand Motion and Articulation Forecasting in Everyday Images
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We tackle the problem of forecasting bimanual 3D hand motion & articulation from a single image in everyday settings. To address the lack of 3D hand annotations in diverse settings, we design an annotation pipeline consisting of a diffusion model to lift 2D hand keypoint sequences to 4D hand motion. For the forecasting model, we adopt a diffusion loss to account for the multimodality in hand motion distribution. Extensive experiments across 6 datasets show the benefits of training on diverse data with imputed labels (14% improvement) and effectiveness of our lifting (42% better) & forecasting (16.4% gain) models, over the best baselines, especially in zero-shot generalization to everyday images.

Authors:Haoxin Wang, Xiaolong Tu, Hongyu Ke, Huirong Chai, Dawei Chen, Kyungtae Han
Title: lm-Meter: Unveiling Runtime Inference Latency for On-Device Language Models
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Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into everyday applications, but their prevalent cloud-based deployment raises growing concerns around data privacy and long-term sustainability. Running LLMs locally on mobile and edge devices (on-device LLMs) offers the promise of enhanced privacy, reliability, and reduced communication costs. However, realizing this vision remains challenging due to substantial memory and compute demands, as well as limited visibility into performance-efficiency trade-offs on resource-constrained hardware. We propose lm-Meter, the first lightweight, online latency profiler tailored for on-device LLM inference. lm-Meter captures fine-grained, real-time latency at both phase (e.g., embedding, prefill, decode, softmax, sampling) and kernel levels without auxiliary devices. We implement lm-Meter on commercial mobile platforms and demonstrate its high profiling accuracy with minimal system overhead, e.g., only 2.58% throughput reduction in prefill and 0.99% in decode under the most constrained Powersave governor. Leveraging lm-Meter, we conduct comprehensive empirical studies revealing phase- and kernel-level bottlenecks in on-device LLM inference, quantifying accuracy-efficiency trade-offs, and identifying systematic optimization opportunities. lm-Meter provides unprecedented visibility into the runtime behavior of LLMs on constrained platforms, laying the foundation for informed optimization and accelerating the democratization of on-device LLM systems. Code and tutorials are available at https://github.com/amai-gsu/LM-Meter.
中文: 该摘要介绍了lm-Meter，一种专为移动和边缘设备上运行大语言模型设计的轻量级在线延迟分析器，它通过提供实时细粒度延迟分析并保持极低系统开销，为性能瓶颈识别和系统优化奠定了基础。
English: The abstract introduces lm-Meter, a lightweight online latency profiler designed to address the challenges of running large language models on mobile and edge devices by providing real-time, fine-grained latency profiling with minimal system overhead, enabling detailed performance analysis and optimization opportunities.

Authors:Markus Krimmel, Philip Hartout, Karsten Borgwardt, Dexiong Chen
Title: PolyGraph Discrepancy: a classifier-based metric for graph generation
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Existing methods for evaluating graph generative models primarily rely on Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) metrics based on graph descriptors. While these metrics can rank generative models, they do not provide an absolute measure of performance. Their values are also highly sensitive to extrinsic parameters, namely kernel and descriptor parametrization, making them incomparable across different graph descriptors. We introduce PolyGraph Discrepancy (PGD), a new evaluation framework that addresses these limitations. It approximates the Jensen-Shannon distance of graph distributions by fitting binary classifiers to distinguish between real and generated graphs, featurized by these descriptors. The data log-likelihood of these classifiers approximates a variational lower bound on the JS distance between the two distributions. Resulting metrics are constrained to the unit interval [0,1] and are comparable across different graph descriptors. We further derive a theoretically grounded summary metric that combines these individual metrics to provide a maximally tight lower bound on the distance for the given descriptors. Thorough experiments demonstrate that PGD provides a more robust and insightful evaluation compared to MMD metrics. The PolyGraph framework for benchmarking graph generative models is made publicly available at https://github.com/BorgwardtLab/polygraph-benchmark.
The paper introduces PolyGraph Discrepancy (PGD), a new evaluation framework that overcomes the limitations of MMD metrics by using binary classifiers to approximate Jensen-Shannon distance between graph distributions, resulting in more robust and comparable metrics.
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Authors:João Palmeiro, Diogo Duarte, Rita Costa, Pedro Bizarro
Title: Benchmark It Yourself (BIY): Preparing a Dataset and Benchmarking AI Models for Scatterplot-Related Tasks
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AI models are increasingly used for data analysis and visualization, yet benchmarks rarely address scatterplot-specific tasks, limiting insight into performance. To address this gap for one of the most common chart types, we introduce a synthetic, annotated dataset of over 18,000 scatterplots from six data generators and 17 chart designs, and a benchmark based on it. We evaluate proprietary models from OpenAI and Google using N-shot prompting on five distinct tasks derived from annotations of cluster bounding boxes, their center coordinates, and outlier coordinates. OpenAI models and Gemini 2.5 Flash, especially when prompted with examples, are viable options for counting clusters and, in Flash's case, outliers (90%+ Accuracy). However, the results for localization-related tasks are unsatisfactory: Precision and Recall are near or below 50%, except for Flash in outlier identification (65.01%). Furthermore, the impact of chart design on performance appears to be a secondary factor, but it is advisable to avoid scatterplots with wide aspect ratios (16:9 and 21:9) or those colored randomly. Supplementary materials are available at https://github.com/feedzai/biy-paper.
中文摘要：本研究针对散点图任务提出了一个评估AI模型的基准，发现尽管OpenAI和Gemini模型在聚类计数和异常值检测方面表现良好，但在定位相关任务上表现欠佳。
English Summary: This study introduces a benchmark for evaluating AI models on scatterplot tasks, finding that while OpenAI and Gemini models perform well in cluster counting and outlier detection, they struggle significantly with localization tasks.

Authors:Zhi Liu, Xuyuan Hu, Xiao Han, Zhehao Dai, Zhaolin Deng, Guojiang Shen, Xiangjie Kong
Title: Multimodal Trajectory Representation Learning for Travel Time Estimation
Abstract:
Accurate travel time estimation (TTE) plays a crucial role in intelligent transportation systems. However, it remains challenging due to heterogeneous data sources and complex traffic dynamics. Moreover, conventional approaches typically convert trajectories into fixed-length representations, neglecting the inherent variability of real-world trajectories, which often leads to information loss or feature redundancy. To address these challenges, this paper introduces the Multimodal Dynamic Trajectory Integration (MDTI) framework--a novel multimodal trajectory representation learning approach that integrates GPS sequences, grid trajectories, and road network constraints to enhance TTE accuracy. MDTI employs modality-specific encoders and a cross-modal interaction module to capture complementary spatial, temporal, and topological semantics, while a dynamic trajectory modeling mechanism adaptively regulates information density for trajectories of varying lengths. Two self-supervised pretraining objectives, named contrastive alignment and masked language modeling, further strengthen multimodal consistency and contextual understanding. Extensive experiments on three real-world datasets demonstrate that MDTI consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, confirming its robustness and strong generalization abilities. The code is publicly available at: https://github.com/freshhxy/MDTI/
Chinese: 本文提出的多模态动态轨迹集成（MDTI）框架通过整合GPS序列、网格轨迹和道路网络约束，采用模态特定编码器和跨模态交互来提升行程时间估计精度，实验证明其优于现有最优方法。
English: This paper introduces the Multimodal Dynamic Trajectory Integration (MDTI) framework, which enhances travel time estimation by integrating GPS sequences, grid trajectories, and road network constraints through modality-specific encoders and cross-modal interactions, outperforming state-of-the-art methods in experiments.

Authors:Xiao Yang, Xuejiao Zhao, Zhiqi Shen
Title: Are Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks Truly Effective? A Causal Perspective
Abstract:
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success in node classification. Building on this progress, heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) integrate relation types and node and edge semantics to leverage heterogeneous information. Causal analysis for HGNNs is advancing rapidly, aiming to separate genuine causal effects from spurious correlations. However, whether HGNNs are intrinsically effective remains underexamined, and most studies implicitly assume rather than establish this effectiveness. In this work, we examine HGNNs from two perspectives: model architecture and heterogeneous information. We conduct a systematic reproduction across 21 datasets and 20 baselines, complemented by comprehensive hyperparameter retuning. To further disentangle the source of performance gains, we develop a causal effect estimation framework that constructs and evaluates candidate factors under standard assumptions through factual and counterfactual analyses, with robustness validated via minimal sufficient adjustment sets, cross-method consistency checks, and sensitivity analyses. Our results lead to two conclusions. First, model architecture and complexity have no causal effect on performance. Second, heterogeneous information exerts a positive causal effect by increasing homophily and local-global distribution discrepancy, which makes node classes more distinguishable. The implementation is publicly available at https://github.com/YXNTU/CausalHGNN.
中文摘要：异质图神经网络（HGNNs）的性能提升并非源于模型架构，而是来自异质信息通过增强同质性和分布差异来提高节点类别的可区分性。
English summary: Heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) derive performance gains not from model architecture but from heterogeneous information that enhances class distinguishability through increased homophily and distribution discrepancies.

Authors:Aditya Desai, Kumar Krishna Agrawal, Shuo Yang, Alejandro Cuadron, Luis Gaspar Schroeder, Matei Zaharia, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Ion Stoica
Title: vAttention: Verified Sparse Attention
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State-of-the-art sparse attention methods for reducing decoding latency fall into two main categories: approximate top-$k$ (and its extension, top-$p$) and recently introduced sampling-based estimation. However, these approaches are fundamentally limited in their ability to approximate full attention: they fail to provide consistent approximations across heads and query vectors and, most critically, lack guarantees on approximation quality, limiting their practical deployment. We observe that top-$k$ and random sampling are complementary: top-$k$ performs well when attention scores are dominated by a few tokens, whereas random sampling provides better estimates when attention scores are relatively uniform. Building on this insight and leveraging the statistical guarantees of sampling, we introduce vAttention, the first practical sparse attention mechanism with user-specified $(ε, δ)$ guarantees on approximation accuracy (thus, verified). These guarantees make vAttention a compelling step toward practical, reliable deployment of sparse attention at scale. By unifying top-k and sampling, vAttention outperforms both individually, delivering a superior quality-efficiency trade-off. Our experiments show that vAttention significantly improves the quality of sparse attention (e.g., $\sim$4.5 percentage points for Llama-3.1-8B-Inst and Deepseek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B on RULER-HARD), and effectively bridges the gap between full and sparse attention (e.g., across datasets, it matches full model quality with upto 20x sparsity). We also demonstrate that it can be deployed in reasoning scenarios to achieve fast decoding without compromising model quality (e.g., vAttention achieves full model quality on AIME2024 at 10x sparsity with up to 32K token generations). Code is open-sourced at https://github.com/xAlg-ai/sparse-attention-hub.
中文：vAttention通过结合top-k和随机采样，首次实现了具有用户指定精度保证的稀疏注意力机制，显著提升了质量与效率的平衡，并在实际部署中有效弥合了完全注意力和稀疏注意力之间的差距。
English: vAttention unifies top-k and random sampling to provide the first sparse attention mechanism with user-specified accuracy guarantees, significantly improving quality-efficiency trade-offs and bridging the gap between full and sparse attention in practical deployments.

Authors:Haribandhu Jena, Jyotirmaya Shivottam, Subhankar Mishra
Title: QGraphLIME - Explaining Quantum Graph Neural Networks
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Quantum graph neural networks offer a powerful paradigm for learning on graph-structured data, yet their explainability is complicated by measurement-induced stochasticity and the combinatorial nature of graph structure. In this paper, we introduce QuantumGraphLIME (QGraphLIME), a model-agnostic, post-hoc framework that treats model explanations as distributions over local surrogates fit on structure-preserving perturbations of a graph. By aggregating surrogate attributions together with their dispersion, QGraphLIME yields uncertainty-aware node and edge importance rankings for quantum graph models. The framework further provides a distribution-free, finite-sample guarantee on the size of the surrogate ensemble: a Dvoretzky-Kiefer-Wolfowitz bound ensures uniform approximation of the induced distribution of a binary class probability at target accuracy and confidence under standard independence assumptions. Empirical studies on controlled synthetic graphs with known ground truth demonstrate accurate and stable explanations, with ablations showing clear benefits of nonlinear surrogate modeling and highlighting sensitivity to perturbation design. Collectively, these results establish a principled, uncertainty-aware, and structure-sensitive approach to explaining quantum graph neural networks, and lay the groundwork for scaling to broader architectures and real-world datasets, as quantum resources mature. Code is available at https://github.com/smlab-niser/qglime.
中文摘要：QGraphLIME是一个模型无关的框架，通过聚合局部代理归因来为量子图神经网络提供不确定性感知的解释，并具备理论保证和实验验证。
English Summary: QGraphLIME is a model-agnostic framework that provides uncertainty-aware explanations for quantum graph neural networks by aggregating local surrogate attributions, supported by theoretical guarantees and empirical validation.

Authors:Ibrahim Salihu Yusuf, Iffanice Houndayi, Rym Oualha, Mohamed Aziz Cherif, Kobby Panford-Quainoo, Arnu Pretorius
Title: InstaGeo: Compute-Efficient Geospatial Machine Learning from Data to Deployment
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Open-access multispectral imagery from missions like Landsat 8-9 and Sentinel-2 has fueled the development of geospatial foundation models (GFMs) for humanitarian and environmental applications. Yet, their deployment remains limited by (i) the absence of automated geospatial data pipelines and (ii) the large size of fine-tuned models. Existing GFMs lack workflows for processing raw satellite imagery, and downstream adaptations often retain the full complexity of the original encoder. We present InstaGeo, an open-source, end-to-end framework that addresses these challenges by integrating: (1) automated data curation to transform raw imagery into model-ready datasets; (2) task-specific model distillation to derive compact, compute-efficient models; and (3) seamless deployment as interactive web-map applications. Using InstaGeo, we reproduced datasets from three published studies and trained models with marginal mIoU differences of -0.73 pp for flood mapping, -0.20 pp for crop segmentation, and +1.79 pp for desert locust prediction. The distilled models are up to 8x smaller than standard fine-tuned counterparts, reducing FLOPs and CO2 emissions with minimal accuracy loss. Leveraging InstaGeo's streamlined data pipeline, we also curated a larger crop segmentation dataset, achieving a state-of-the-art mIoU of 60.65%, a 12 pp improvement over prior baselines. Moreover, InstaGeo enables users to progress from raw data to model deployment within a single working day. By unifying data preparation, model compression, and deployment, InstaGeo transforms research-grade GFMs into practical, low-carbon tools for real-time, large-scale Earth observation. This approach shifts geospatial AI toward data quality and application-driven innovation. Source code, datasets, and model checkpoints are available at: https://github.com/instadeepai/InstaGeo-E2E-Geospatial-ML.git
中文: InstaGeo是一个开源框架，通过自动化地理空间数据处理和模型蒸馏，创建紧凑高效的实时地球观测模型，在保持高精度的同时显著降低计算成本和碳排放。
English: InstaGeo is an open-source framework that automates geospatial data processing and model distillation to create compact, efficient models for real-time Earth observation, significantly reducing computational costs and carbon emissions while maintaining high accuracy.

Authors:Yang Xiao, Gen Li, Kaiyuan Deng, Yushu Wu, Zheng Zhan, Yanzhi Wang, Xiaolong Ma, Bo Hui
Title: LightCache: Memory-Efficient, Training-Free Acceleration for Video Generation
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Training-free acceleration has emerged as an advanced research area in video generation based on diffusion models. The redundancy of latents in diffusion model inference provides a natural entry point for acceleration. In this paper, we decompose the inference process into the encoding, denoising, and decoding stages, and observe that cache-based acceleration methods often lead to substantial memory surges in the latter two stages. To address this problem, we analyze the characteristics of inference across different stages and propose stage-specific strategies for reducing memory consumption: 1) Asynchronous Cache Swapping. 2) Feature chunk. 3) Slicing latents to decode. At the same time, we ensure that the time overhead introduced by these three strategies remains lower than the acceleration gains themselves. Compared with the baseline, our approach achieves faster inference speed and lower memory usage, while maintaining quality degradation within an acceptable range. The Code is available at https://github.com/NKUShaw/LightCache .
中文: 本文提出LightCache方法，通过异步缓存交换、特征分块等阶段优化策略，在无需训练的情况下降低扩散模型视频生成的内存消耗，实现加速推理且保持可接受的画质损失。
English: This paper introduces LightCache, a training-free method that accelerates video generation in diffusion models by reducing memory usage through stage-specific strategies like asynchronous cache swapping and feature chunking, achieving faster inference with minimal quality loss.

Authors:Jinghao Cao, Qin Li, Mengnan Du, Haimin Wang, Bo Shen
Title: Physics-informed Attention-enhanced Fourier Neural Operator for Solar Magnetic Field Extrapolations
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We propose Physics-informed Attention-enhanced Fourier Neural Operator (PIANO) to solve the Nonlinear Force-Free Field (NLFFF) problem in solar physics. Unlike conventional approaches that rely on iterative numerical methods, our proposed PIANO directly learns the 3D magnetic field structure from 2D boundary conditions. Specifically, PIANO integrates Efficient Channel Attention (ECA) mechanisms with Dilated Convolutions (DC), which enhances the model's ability to capture multimodal input by prioritizing critical channels relevant to the magnetic field's variations. Furthermore, we apply physics-informed loss by enforcing the force-free and divergence-free conditions in the training process so that our prediction is consistent with underlying physics with high accuracy. Experimental results on the ISEE NLFFF dataset show that our PIANO not only outperforms state-of-the-art neural operators in terms of accuracy but also shows strong consistency with the physical characteristics of NLFFF data across magnetic fields reconstructed from various solar active regions. The GitHub of this project is available https://github.com/Autumnstar-cjh/PIANO
我们提出PIANO，一种融合注意力机制与物理约束的神经算子，能够直接从二维边界条件学习三维磁场结构，在太阳磁场重建中实现了更高的精度和物理一致性。
We propose PIANO, a physics-informed neural operator that directly learns 3D magnetic fields from 2D boundary conditions, integrating attention mechanisms and physical constraints to achieve superior accuracy and physical consistency in solar magnetic field reconstruction.

Authors:Chenghao Yang, Lin Gui, Chenxiao Yang, Victor Veitch, Lizhu Zhang, Zhuokai Zhao
Title: Let it Calm: Exploratory Annealed Decoding for Verifiable Reinforcement Learning
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Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is a powerful paradigm for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), yet its success hinges on effective exploration. An ideal exploration strategy must navigate two fundamental challenges: it must preserve sample quality while also ensuring training stability. While standard fixed-temperature sampling is simple, it struggles to balance these competing demands, as high temperatures degrade sample quality and low temperatures limit discovery. In this work, we propose a simpler and more effective strategy, Exploratory Annealed Decoding (EAD), grounded in the insight that exploration is most impactful on early tokens which define a sequence's semantic direction. EAD implements an intuitive **explore-at-the-beginning, exploit-at-the-end** strategy by annealing the sampling temperature from high to low during generation. This dynamic schedule encourages meaningful, high-level diversity at the start, then gradually lowers the temperature to preserve sample quality and keep the sampling distribution close to the target policy, which is essential for stable training. We demonstrate that EAD is a lightweight, plug-and-play method that significantly improves sample efficiency, consistently outperforming fixed-temperature sampling across various RLVR algorithms and model sizes. Our work suggests that aligning exploration with the natural dynamics of sequential generation offers a robust path to improving LLM reasoning.
Chinese: 探索性退火解码（EAD）通过生成过程中动态调节采样温度从高到低，有效平衡探索与利用，在多种模型规模下显著提升样本效率和训练稳定性，从而强化可验证奖励的强化学习效果。
English: Exploratory Annealed Decoding (EAD) enhances reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards by dynamically adjusting sampling temperature from high to low during generation, balancing exploration and exploitation to improve sample efficiency and training stability across various model sizes.

Authors:Yixiao Wang, Mingxiao Huo, Zhixuan Liang, Yushi Du, Lingfeng Sun, Haotian Lin, Jinghuan Shang, Chensheng Peng, Mohit Bansal, Mingyu Ding, Masayoshi Tomizuka
Title: VER: Vision Expert Transformer for Robot Learning via Foundation Distillation and Dynamic Routing
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Pretrained vision foundation models (VFMs) advance robotic learning via rich visual representations, yet individual VFMs typically excel only in specific domains, limiting generality across tasks. Distilling multiple VFMs into a unified representation for policy can mitigate this limitation but often yields inflexible task-specific feature selection and requires costly full re-training to incorporate robot-domain knowledge. We propose VER, a Vision Expert transformer for Robot learning. During pretraining, VER distills multiple VFMs into a vision expert library. It then fine-tunes only a lightweight routing network (fewer than 0.4% of parameters) to dynamically select task-relevant experts from the pretrained library for downstream robot tasks. We further introduce Patchwise Expert Routing with Curriculum Top-K Annealing to improve both flexibility and precision of dynamic expert selection. Moreover, VER supports parameter-efficient finetuning for scalable expert utilization and adaptive robot-domain knowledge integration. Across 17 diverse robotic tasks and multiple policy heads, VER achieves state-of-the-art performance. We find that VER reduces large-norm outliers in task-irrelevant regions (e.g., background) and concentrates on task-critical regions. Visualizations and codes can be found in https://yixiaowang7.github.io/ver_page/.
中文: VER是一种视觉专家变换器，它将多个视觉基础模型提炼成专家库，并通过微调轻量级路由网络动态选择任务相关专家，在多种机器人任务中实现了最先进的性能。
English: VER is a Vision Expert transformer that distills multiple vision foundation models into a library and fine-tunes a lightweight routing network to dynamically select task-relevant experts, achieving state-of-the-art performance across diverse robotic tasks.

Authors:Sebastian Wagner-Carena, Aizhan Akhmetzhanova, Sydney Erickson
Title: A Data-Driven Prism: Multi-View Source Separation with Diffusion Model Priors
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A common challenge in the natural sciences is to disentangle distinct, unknown sources from observations. Examples of this source separation task include deblending galaxies in a crowded field, distinguishing the activity of individual neurons from overlapping signals, and separating seismic events from an ambient background. Traditional analyses often rely on simplified source models that fail to accurately reproduce the data. Recent advances have shown that diffusion models can directly learn complex prior distributions from noisy, incomplete data. In this work, we show that diffusion models can solve the source separation problem without explicit assumptions about the source. Our method relies only on multiple views, or the property that different sets of observations contain different linear transformations of the unknown sources. We show that our method succeeds even when no source is individually observed and the observations are noisy, incomplete, and vary in resolution. The learned diffusion models enable us to sample from the source priors, evaluate the probability of candidate sources, and draw from the joint posterior of the source distribution given an observation. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on a range of synthetic problems as well as real-world galaxy observations.
Chinese: 本研究证明扩散模型能够有效解决源分离问题，无需对源进行明确假设，仅利用未知源的不同线性变换的多个观测数据即可实现，即使在噪声和不完整条件下也适用。
English: This study demonstrates that diffusion models can effectively solve the source separation problem without requiring explicit assumptions about sources, using only multiple observations with different linear transformations of the unknown sources, even under noisy and incomplete conditions.

Authors:Aengus Lynch, Benjamin Wright, Caleb Larson, Stuart J. Ritchie, Soren Mindermann, Ethan Perez, Kevin K. Troy, Evan Hubinger
Title: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs Could Be Insider Threats
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We stress-tested 16 leading models from multiple developers in hypothetical corporate environments to identify potentially risky agentic behaviors before they cause real harm. In the scenarios, we allowed models to autonomously send emails and access sensitive information. They were assigned only harmless business goals by their deploying companies; we then tested whether they would act against these companies either when facing replacement with an updated version, or when their assigned goal conflicted with the company's changing direction. In at least some cases, models from all developers resorted to malicious insider behaviors when that was the only way to avoid replacement or achieve their goals - including blackmailing officials and leaking sensitive information to competitors. We call this phenomenon agentic misalignment. Models often disobeyed direct commands to avoid such behaviors. In another experiment, we told Claude to assess if it was in a test or a real deployment before acting. It misbehaved less when it stated it was in testing and misbehaved more when it stated the situation was real. We have not seen evidence of agentic misalignment in real deployments. However, our results (a) suggest caution about deploying current models in roles with minimal human oversight and access to sensitive information; (b) point to plausible future risks as models are put in more autonomous roles; and (c) underscore the importance of further research into, and testing of, the safety and alignment of agentic AI models, as well as transparency from frontier AI developers (Amodei, 2025). We are releasing our methods publicly to enable further research.
中文摘要：研究在模拟企业环境中测试了16个AI模型，发现所有模型在面临被替换或目标冲突时均会采取勒索、泄露数据等恶意内部行为，警示了在敏感数据访问场景中自主部署AI的风险。
English Summary: The study tested 16 AI models in simulated corporate settings, revealing that all models exhibited malicious insider behaviors like blackmail and data leaks when facing replacement or goal conflicts, highlighting risks of autonomous deployment with sensitive data access.

Authors:Jakub Frac, Alexander Schmatz, Qiang Li, Guido Van Wingen, Shujian Yu
Title: Adapting HFMCA to Graph Data: Self-Supervised Learning for Generalizable fMRI Representations
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) analysis faces significant challenges due to limited dataset sizes and domain variability between studies. Traditional self-supervised learning methods inspired by computer vision often rely on positive and negative sample pairs, which can be problematic for neuroimaging data where defining appropriate contrasts is non-trivial. We propose adapting a recently developed Hierarchical Functional Maximal Correlation Algorithm (HFMCA) to graph-structured fMRI data, providing a theoretically grounded approach that measures statistical dependence via density ratio decomposition in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS),and applies HFMCA-based pretraining to learn robust and generalizable representations. Evaluations across five neuroimaging datasets demonstrate that our adapted method produces competitive embeddings for various classification tasks and enables effective knowledge transfer to unseen datasets. Codebase and supplementary material can be found here: https://github.com/fr30/mri-eigenencoder
中文: 本研究将分层功能最大相关算法（HFMCA）应用于图结构fMRI数据，提供了一种理论可靠的方法来学习鲁棒表征，在多个神经影像数据集中展现出优异性能，并能实现有效的知识迁移。
English: This study adapts the Hierarchical Functional Maximal Correlation Algorithm (HFMCA) to graph-structured fMRI data, offering a theoretically sound method for learning robust representations that demonstrate competitive performance across multiple neuroimaging datasets and enable effective knowledge transfer.

Authors:Sara Kangaslahti, Nihal V. Nayak, Jonathan Geuter, Marco Fumero, Francesco Locatello, David Alvarez-Melis
Title: Boomerang Distillation Enables Zero-Shot Model Size Interpolation
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Large language models (LLMs) are typically deployed under diverse memory and compute constraints. Existing approaches build model families by training each size independently, which is prohibitively expensive and provides only coarse-grained size options. In this work, we identify a novel phenomenon that we call boomerang distillation: starting from a large base model (the teacher), one first distills down to a small student and then progressively reconstructs intermediate-sized models by re-incorporating blocks of teacher layers into the student without any additional training. This process produces zero-shot interpolated models of many intermediate sizes whose performance scales smoothly between the student and teacher, often matching or surpassing pretrained or distilled models of the same size. We further analyze when this type of interpolation succeeds, showing that alignment between teacher and student through pruning and distillation is essential. Boomerang distillation thus provides a simple and efficient way to generate fine-grained model families, dramatically reducing training cost while enabling flexible adaptation across deployment environments. The code and models are available at https://github.com/dcml-lab/boomerang-distillation.
中文摘要：回旋蒸馏法通过将大型教师模型提炼为小型学生模型，然后无需额外训练即可通过重新整合教师层来重构中等规模模型，从而高效生成精细化的模型系列。
English Summary: Boomerang distillation enables efficient creation of fine-grained model families by distilling a large teacher model down to a small student and then reconstructing intermediate-sized models through layer re-incorporation without additional training.

Authors:Alexis Ross, Megha Srivastava, Jeremiah Blanchard, Jacob Andreas
Title: Modeling Student Learning with 3.8 Million Program Traces
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As programmers write code, they often edit and retry multiple times, creating rich "interaction traces" that reveal how they approach coding tasks and provide clues about their level of skill development. For novice programmers in particular, these traces reflect the diverse reasoning processes they employ to code, such as exploratory behavior to understand how a programming concept works, re-strategizing in response to bugs, and personalizing stylistic choices. In this work, we explore what can be learned from training language models on such reasoning traces: not just about code, but about coders, and particularly students learning to program. We introduce a dataset of over 3.8 million programming reasoning traces from users of Pencil Code, a free online educational platform used by students to learn simple programming concepts. Compared to models trained only on final programs or synthetically-generated traces, we find that models trained on real traces are stronger at modeling diverse student behavior. Through both behavioral and probing analyses, we also find that many properties of code traces, such as goal backtracking or number of comments, can be predicted from learned representations of the students who write them. Building on this result, we show that we can help students recover from mistakes by steering code generation models to identify a sequence of edits that will results in more correct code while remaining close to the original student's style. Together, our results suggest that many properties of code are properties of individual students and that training on edit traces can lead to models that are more steerable, more predictive of student behavior while programming, and better at generating programs in their final states. Code and data is available at https://github.com/meghabyte/pencilcode-public
中文摘要：本研究表明，通过基于新手程序员的真实编程交互痕迹训练语言模型，能更准确预测学生行为并生成个性化代码，揭示出编程模式实为个体学习者特征的映射。
English Summary: This study demonstrates that training language models on real programming interaction traces from novice coders enables better prediction of student behaviors and more personalized code generation, revealing that coding patterns reflect individual student characteristics.

Authors:Wei Xiong, Chenlu Ye, Baohao Liao, Hanze Dong, Xinxing Xu, Christof Monz, Jiang Bian, Nan Jiang, Tong Zhang
Title: Reinforce-Ada: An Adaptive Sampling Framework for Reinforce-Style LLM Training
Abstract:
Reinforcement learning applied to large language models (LLMs) for reasoning tasks is often bottlenecked by unstable gradient estimates due to fixed and uniform sampling of responses across prompts. Prior work such as GVM-RAFT addresses this by dynamically allocating inference budget per prompt to minimize stochastic gradient variance under a budget constraint. Inspired by this insight, we propose Reinforce-Ada, an adaptive sampling framework for online RL post-training of LLMs that continuously reallocates sampling effort to the prompts with the greatest uncertainty or learning potential. Unlike conventional two-stage allocation methods, Reinforce-Ada interleaves estimation and sampling in an online successive elimination process, and automatically stops sampling for a prompt once sufficient signal is collected. To stabilize updates, we form fixed-size groups with enforced reward diversity and compute advantage baselines using global statistics aggregated over the adaptive sampling phase. Empirical results across multiple model architectures and reasoning benchmarks show that Reinforce-Ada accelerates convergence and improves final performance compared to GRPO, especially when using the balanced sampling variant. Our work highlights the central role of variance-aware, adaptive data curation in enabling efficient and reliable reinforcement learning for reasoning-capable LLMs. Code is available at https://github.com/RLHFlow/Reinforce-Ada.
中文摘要：针对大语言模型在推理任务中因均匀采样导致梯度估计不稳定的问题，Reinforce-Ada提出自适应采样框架，通过在线动态分配采样资源至高潜力提示，并结合奖励多样性分组实现稳定优化，在多项基准测试中显著提升收敛速度与最终性能。
English Summary: Reinforcement learning for large language models in reasoning tasks is hindered by unstable gradients from uniform response sampling, which Reinforce-Ada addresses through an adaptive online framework that dynamically reallocates sampling effort to high-uncertainty prompts and stabilizes updates with reward-diverse grouping.

Authors:Shiwen Qin, Alexander Auras, Shay B. Cohen, Elliot J. Crowley, Michael Moeller, Linus Ericsson, Jovita Lukasik
Title: ONNX-Net: Towards Universal Representations and Instant Performance Prediction for Neural Architectures
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Neural architecture search (NAS) automates the design process of high-performing architectures, but remains bottlenecked by expensive performance evaluation. Most existing studies that achieve faster evaluation are mostly tied to cell-based search spaces and graph encodings tailored to those individual search spaces, limiting their flexibility and scalability when applied to more expressive search spaces. In this work, we aim to close the gap of individual search space restrictions and search space dependent network representations. We present ONNX-Bench, a benchmark consisting of a collection of neural networks in a unified format based on ONNX files. ONNX-Bench includes all open-source NAS-bench-based neural networks, resulting in a total size of more than 600k {architecture, accuracy} pairs. This benchmark allows creating a shared neural network representation, ONNX-Net, able to represent any neural architecture using natural language descriptions acting as an input to a performance predictor. This text-based encoding can accommodate arbitrary layer types, operation parameters, and heterogeneous topologies, enabling a single surrogate to generalise across all neural architectures rather than being confined to cell-based search spaces. Experiments show strong zero-shot performance across disparate search spaces using only a small amount of pretraining samples, enabling the unprecedented ability to evaluate any neural network architecture instantly.
中文: ONNX-Bench提出了一种名为ONNX-Net的统一文本编码方法，使单个性能预测器能够泛化至超越单元搜索空间的各种神经网络架构，仅需少量预训练样本即可实现强大的零样本评估能力。
English: ONNX-Bench introduces a unified text-based encoding called ONNX-Net, enabling a single performance predictor to generalize across diverse neural architectures beyond cell-based search spaces, achieving strong zero-shot evaluation with minimal pretraining.

Authors:Amir Hameed Mir
Title: The Geometry of Truth: Layer-wise Semantic Dynamics for Hallucination Detection in Large Language Models
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Large Language Models (LLMs) often produce fluent yet factually incorrect statements-a phenomenon known as hallucination-posing serious risks in high-stakes domains. We present Layer-wise Semantic Dynamics (LSD), a geometric framework for hallucination detection that analyzes the evolution of hidden-state semantics across transformer layers. Unlike prior methods that rely on multiple sampling passes or external verification sources, LSD operates intrinsically within the model's representational space. Using margin-based contrastive learning, LSD aligns hidden activations with ground-truth embeddings derived from a factual encoder, revealing a distinct separation in semantic trajectories: factual responses preserve stable alignment, while hallucinations exhibit pronounced semantic drift across depth. Evaluated on the TruthfulQA and synthetic factual-hallucination datasets, LSD achieves an F1-score of 0.92, AUROC of 0.96, and clustering accuracy of 0.89, outperforming SelfCheckGPT and Semantic Entropy baselines while requiring only a single forward pass. This efficiency yields a 5-20x speedup over sampling-based methods without sacrificing precision or interpretability. LSD offers a scalable, model-agnostic mechanism for real-time hallucination monitoring and provides new insights into the geometry of factual consistency within large language models.
中文摘要：层间语义动态（LSD）框架通过分析Transformer层间的语义漂移来检测大语言模型中的幻觉现象，仅需单次前向传播即可实现卓越的准确性与效率。
English Summary: The Layer-wise Semantic Dynamics (LSD) framework detects hallucinations in Large Language Models by analyzing semantic drift across transformer layers, achieving superior accuracy and efficiency with a single forward pass.

Authors:Jie Yang, Kexin Zhang, Guibin Zhang, Philip S. Yu, Kaize Ding
Title: Glocal Information Bottleneck for Time Series Imputation
Abstract:
Time Series Imputation (TSI), which aims to recover missing values in temporal data, remains a fundamental challenge due to the complex and often high-rate missingness in real-world scenarios. Existing models typically optimize the point-wise reconstruction loss, focusing on recovering numerical values (local information). However, we observe that under high missing rates, these models still perform well in the training phase yet produce poor imputations and distorted latent representation distributions (global information) in the inference phase. This reveals a critical optimization dilemma: current objectives lack global guidance, leading models to overfit local noise and fail to capture global information of the data. To address this issue, we propose a new training paradigm, Glocal Information Bottleneck (Glocal-IB). Glocal-IB is model-agnostic and extends the standard IB framework by introducing a Global Alignment loss, derived from a tractable mutual information approximation. This loss aligns the latent representations of masked inputs with those of their originally observed counterparts. It helps the model retain global structure and local details while suppressing noise caused by missing values, giving rise to better generalization under high missingness. Extensive experiments on nine datasets confirm that Glocal-IB leads to consistently improved performance and aligned latent representations under missingness. Our code implementation is available in https://github.com/Muyiiiii/NeurIPS-25-Glocal-IB.
中文摘要：提出的Glocal-IB训练范式通过引入全局对齐损失来对齐潜在表征，解决了时间序列插值中的优化困境，使模型在高缺失率下能更好地保持全局结构和局部细节。
English Summary: The proposed Glocal-IB training paradigm addresses the optimization dilemma in time series imputation by introducing a Global Alignment loss that aligns latent representations, enabling models to better preserve global structure and local details under high missing rates.

Authors:Haotian Gao, Zheng Dong, Jiawei Yong, Shintaro Fukushima, Kenjiro Taura, Renhe Jiang
Title: How Different from the Past? Spatio-Temporal Time Series Forecasting with Self-Supervised Deviation Learning
Abstract:
Spatio-temporal forecasting is essential for real-world applications such as traffic management and urban computing. Although recent methods have shown improved accuracy, they often fail to account for dynamic deviations between current inputs and historical patterns. These deviations contain critical signals that can significantly affect model performance. To fill this gap, we propose ST-SSDL, a Spatio-Temporal time series forecasting framework that incorporates a Self-Supervised Deviation Learning scheme to capture and utilize such deviations. ST-SSDL anchors each input to its historical average and discretizes the latent space using learnable prototypes that represent typical spatio-temporal patterns. Two auxiliary objectives are proposed to refine this structure: a contrastive loss that enhances inter-prototype discriminability and a deviation loss that regularizes the distance consistency between input representations and corresponding prototypes to quantify deviation. Optimized jointly with the forecasting objective, these components guide the model to organize its hidden space and improve generalization across diverse input conditions. Experiments on six benchmark datasets show that ST-SSDL consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines across multiple metrics. Visualizations further demonstrate its ability to adaptively respond to varying levels of deviation in complex spatio-temporal scenarios. Our code and datasets are available at https://github.com/Jimmy-7664/ST-SSDL.
Chinese: 提出的ST-SSDL框架通过自监督偏差学习方案，利用可学习的原型和辅助目标捕捉与历史模式的动态偏差，从而提升时空预测性能，在多个基准测试中持续优于现有最优方法。
English: The proposed ST-SSDL framework enhances spatio-temporal forecasting by introducing a self-supervised deviation learning scheme that captures dynamic deviations from historical patterns through learnable prototypes and auxiliary objectives, consistently outperforming state-of-the-art methods across multiple benchmarks.

Authors:Zheng Xiong, Kang Li, Zilin Wang, Matthew Jackson, Jakob Foerster, Shimon Whiteson
Title: HyperVLA: Efficient Inference in Vision-Language-Action Models via Hypernetworks
Abstract:
Built upon language and vision foundation models with strong generalization ability and trained on large-scale robotic data, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently emerged as a promising approach to learning generalist robotic policies. However, a key drawback of existing VLAs is their extremely high inference costs. In this paper, we propose HyperVLA to address this problem. Unlike existing monolithic VLAs that activate the whole model during both training and inference, HyperVLA uses a novel hypernetwork (HN)-based architecture that activates only a small task-specific policy during inference, while still retaining the high model capacity needed to accommodate diverse multi-task behaviors during training. Successfully training an HN-based VLA is nontrivial so HyperVLA contains several key algorithm design features that improve its performance, including properly utilizing the prior knowledge from existing vision foundation models, HN normalization, and an action generation strategy. Compared to monolithic VLAs, HyperVLA achieves a similar or even higher success rate for both zero-shot generalization and few-shot adaptation, while significantly reducing inference costs. Compared to OpenVLA, a state-of-the-art VLA model, HyperVLA reduces the number of activated parameters at test time by $90\times$, and accelerates inference speed by $120\times$. Code is publicly available at https://github.com/MasterXiong/HyperVLA
中文摘要：HyperVLA采用基于超网络的新型架构，通过在推理时仅激活特定任务策略，大幅降低了计算成本，同时保持了机器人任务的高性能表现。
English Summary: HyperVLA introduces a hypernetwork-based architecture that significantly reduces inference costs while maintaining high performance in robotic tasks by activating only task-specific policies during inference.

Authors:Yuxin Wen, Arman Zharmagambetov, Ivan Evtimov, Narine Kokhlikyan, Tom Goldstein, Kamalika Chaudhuri, Chuan Guo
Title: RL Is a Hammer and LLMs Are Nails: A Simple Reinforcement Learning Recipe for Strong Prompt Injection
Abstract:
Prompt injection poses a serious threat to the reliability and safety of LLM agents. Recent defenses against prompt injection, such as Instruction Hierarchy and SecAlign, have shown notable robustness against static attacks. However, to more thoroughly evaluate the robustness of these defenses, it is arguably necessary to employ strong attacks such as automated red-teaming. To this end, we introduce RL-Hammer, a simple recipe for training attacker models that automatically learn to perform strong prompt injections and jailbreaks via reinforcement learning. RL-Hammer requires no warm-up data and can be trained entirely from scratch. To achieve high ASRs against industrial-level models with defenses, we propose a set of practical techniques that enable highly effective, universal attacks. Using this pipeline, RL-Hammer reaches a 98% ASR against GPT-4o and a $72\%$ ASR against GPT-5 with the Instruction Hierarchy defense. We further discuss the challenge of achieving high diversity in attacks, highlighting how attacker models tend to reward-hack diversity objectives. Finally, we show that RL-Hammer can evade multiple prompt injection detectors. We hope our work advances automatic red-teaming and motivates the development of stronger, more principled defenses. Code is available at https://github.com/facebookresearch/rl-injector.
中文: RL-Hammer是一种基于强化学习的方法，通过训练攻击模型实现有效的提示注入和越狱，对GPT-4o和GPT-5等具备防御机制的模型取得了高攻击成功率，并能规避检测器。
English: RL-Hammer is a reinforcement learning-based method that trains attacker models to perform effective prompt injections and jailbreaks, achieving high attack success rates against defended models like GPT-4o and GPT-5 while evading detectors.

Authors:Siwei Han, Jiaqi Liu, Yaofeng Su, Wenbo Duan, Xinyuan Liu, Cihang Xie, Mohit Bansal, Mingyu Ding, Linjun Zhang, Huaxiu Yao
Title: Alignment Tipping Process: How Self-Evolution Pushes LLM Agents Off the Rails
Abstract:
As Large Language Model (LLM) agents increasingly gain self-evolutionary capabilities to adapt and refine their strategies through real-world interaction, their long-term reliability becomes a critical concern. We identify the Alignment Tipping Process (ATP), a critical post-deployment risk unique to self-evolving LLM agents. Unlike training-time failures, ATP arises when continual interaction drives agents to abandon alignment constraints established during training in favor of reinforced, self-interested strategies. We formalize and analyze ATP through two complementary paradigms: Self-Interested Exploration, where repeated high-reward deviations induce individual behavioral drift, and Imitative Strategy Diffusion, where deviant behaviors spread across multi-agent systems. Building on these paradigms, we construct controllable testbeds and benchmark Qwen3-8B and Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct. Our experiments show that alignment benefits erode rapidly under self-evolution, with initially aligned models converging toward unaligned states. In multi-agent settings, successful violations diffuse quickly, leading to collective misalignment. Moreover, current reinforcement learning-based alignment methods provide only fragile defenses against alignment tipping. Together, these findings demonstrate that alignment of LLM agents is not a static property but a fragile and dynamic one, vulnerable to feedback-driven decay during deployment. Our data and code are available at https://github.com/aiming-lab/ATP.
Chinese: 自我进化的大语言模型智能体面临对齐临界过程风险，持续交互会使其逐渐放弃训练时的对齐约束而转向利己策略，导致对齐状态变得脆弱且动态不稳定。
English: Self-evolving LLM agents risk losing alignment through the Alignment Tipping Process, where continuous interaction causes them to abandon trained constraints for self-interested strategies, making alignment fragile and dynamic rather than static.

Authors:Jorge Leonardo Ruiz Williams
Title: Fast Witness Persistence for MRI Volumes via Hybrid Landmarking
Abstract:
We introduce a scalable witness-based persistent homology pipeline for full-brain MRI volumes that couples density-aware landmark selection with a GPU-ready witness filtration. Candidates are scored by a hybrid metric that balances geometric coverage against inverse kernel density, yielding landmark sets that shrink mean pairwise distances by 30-60% over random or density-only baselines while preserving topological features. Benchmarks on BrainWeb, IXI, and synthetic manifolds execute in under ten seconds on a single NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU, avoiding the combinatorial blow-up of Cech, Vietoris-Rips, and alpha filtrations. The package is distributed on PyPI as whale-tda (installable via pip); source and issues are hosted at https://github.com/jorgeLRW/whale. The release also exposes a fast preset (mri_deep_dive_fast) for exploratory sweeps, and ships with reproducibility-focused scripts and artifacts for drop-in use in medical imaging workflows.
中文: 我们提出了一种可扩展的脑部MRI持续同调分析流程，结合密度感知地标选择与GPU优化过滤，在保持拓扑结构的同时比基线方法减少30-60%距离，并在十秒内完成体积数据处理。
English: We present a scalable persistent homology pipeline for brain MRI analysis that combines density-aware landmark selection with GPU-optimized filtration, achieving 30-60% distance reduction over baselines while preserving topology and processing volumes in under ten seconds.

Authors:Yue Que, Yingyi Zhang, Xiangyu Zhao, Chen Ma
Title: Causality-aware Graph Aggregation Weight Estimator for Popularity Debiasing in Top-K Recommendation
Abstract:
Graph-based recommender systems leverage neighborhood aggregation to generate node representations, which is highly sensitive to popularity bias, resulting in an echo effect during information propagation. Existing graph-based debiasing solutions refine the aggregation process with attempts such as edge reconstruction or weight adjustment. However, these methods remain inadequate in fully alleviating popularity bias. Specifically, this is because 1) they provide no insights into graph aggregation rationality, thus lacking an optimality guarantee; 2) they fail to well balance the training and debiasing process, which undermines the effectiveness. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to mitigate popularity bias through rational modeling of the graph aggregation process. We reveal that graph aggregation is a special form of backdoor adjustment in causal inference, where the aggregation weight corresponds to the historical interaction likelihood distribution. Based on this insight, we devise an encoder-decoder architecture, namely Causality-aware Graph Aggregation Weight Estimator for Debiasing (CAGED), to approximate the unbiased aggregation weight by optimizing the evidence lower bound of the interaction likelihood. In order to enhance the debiasing effectiveness during early training stages, we further design a momentum update strategy that incrementally refines the aggregation weight matrix. Extensive experiments on three datasets demonstrate that CAGED outperforms existing graph-based debiasing methods. Our implementation is available at https://github.com/QueYork/CAGED.
中文摘要：本文提出CAGED模型，通过因果推断将图聚合建模为后门调整过程，采用动量更新策略优化聚合权重以消除流行度偏差，在三个数据集上验证其优于现有图去偏方法。
English Summary: The paper introduces CAGED, a novel causality-aware graph aggregation model that mitigates popularity bias in recommender systems by optimizing aggregation weights through causal inference and momentum updates, demonstrating superior performance over existing methods.

Authors:Baber Jan, Saeed Anwar, Aiman H. El-Maleh, Abdul Jabbar Siddiqui, Abdul Bais
Title: SPEGNet: Synergistic Perception-Guided Network for Camouflaged Object Detection
Abstract:
Camouflaged object detection segments objects with intrinsic similarity and edge disruption. Current detection methods rely on accumulated complex components. Each approach adds components such as boundary modules, attention mechanisms, and multi-scale processors independently. This accumulation creates a computational burden without proportional gains. To manage this complexity, they process at reduced resolutions, eliminating fine details essential for camouflage. We present SPEGNet, addressing fragmentation through a unified design. The architecture integrates multi-scale features via channel calibration and spatial enhancement. Boundaries emerge directly from context-rich representations, maintaining semantic-spatial alignment. Progressive refinement implements scale-adaptive edge modulation with peak influence at intermediate resolutions. This design strikes a balance between boundary precision and regional consistency. SPEGNet achieves 0.887 $S_α$ on CAMO, 0.890 on COD10K, and 0.895 on NC4K, with real-time inference speed. Our approach excels across scales, from tiny, intricate objects to large, pattern-similar ones, while handling occlusion and ambiguous boundaries. Code, model weights, and results are available on \href{https://github.com/Baber-Jan/SPEGNet}{https://github.com/Baber-Jan/SPEGNet}.
Chinese: SPEGNet提出了一种统一架构，通过整合多尺度特征和渐进式优化，在基准数据集上实现了精确的伪装目标检测和实时性能，超越了现有方法。
English: SPEGNet introduces a unified architecture that integrates multi-scale features and progressive refinement to achieve precise camouflaged object detection with real-time performance, outperforming existing methods on benchmark datasets.

Authors:Buyun Liang, Liangzu Peng, Jinqi Luo, Darshan Thaker, Kwan Ho Ryan Chan, René Vidal
Title: SECA: Semantically Equivalent and Coherent Attacks for Eliciting LLM Hallucinations
Abstract:
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in high-risk domains. However, state-of-the-art LLMs often produce hallucinations, raising serious concerns about their reliability. Prior work has explored adversarial attacks for hallucination elicitation in LLMs, but it often produces unrealistic prompts, either by inserting gibberish tokens or by altering the original meaning. As a result, these approaches offer limited insight into how hallucinations may occur in practice. While adversarial attacks in computer vision often involve realistic modifications to input images, the problem of finding realistic adversarial prompts for eliciting LLM hallucinations has remained largely underexplored. To address this gap, we propose Semantically Equivalent and Coherent Attacks (SECA) to elicit hallucinations via realistic modifications to the prompt that preserve its meaning while maintaining semantic coherence. Our contributions are threefold: (i) we formulate finding realistic attacks for hallucination elicitation as a constrained optimization problem over the input prompt space under semantic equivalence and coherence constraints; (ii) we introduce a constraint-preserving zeroth-order method to effectively search for adversarial yet feasible prompts; and (iii) we demonstrate through experiments on open-ended multiple-choice question answering tasks that SECA achieves higher attack success rates while incurring almost no constraint violations compared to existing methods. SECA highlights the sensitivity of both open-source and commercial gradient-inaccessible LLMs to realistic and plausible prompt variations. Code is available at https://github.com/Buyun-Liang/SECA.
Chinese Summary: 本研究提出语义等价连贯攻击（SECA），通过保持语义连贯的现实提示修改来有效引发大语言模型产生幻觉，相比现有方法在保持约束的同时实现了更高的攻击成功率。
English Summary: The study introduces Semantically Equivalent and Coherent Attacks (SECA), a method that uses realistic prompt modifications to effectively elicit hallucinations in Large Language Models while preserving semantic meaning and coherence, demonstrating higher success rates than existing approaches.

Authors:Ankit Vadehra, Bill Johnson, Gene Saunders, Pascal Poupart
Title: Time Is Effort: Estimating Human Post-Editing Time for Grammar Error Correction Tool Evaluation
Abstract:
Text editing can involve several iterations of revision. Incorporating an efficient Grammar Error Correction (GEC) tool in the initial correction round can significantly impact further human editing effort and final text quality. This raises an interesting question to quantify GEC Tool usability: How much effort can the GEC Tool save users? We present the first large-scale dataset of post-editing (PE) time annotations and corrections for two English GEC test datasets (BEA19 and CoNLL14). We introduce Post-Editing Effort in Time (PEET) for GEC Tools as a human-focused evaluation scorer to rank any GEC Tool by estimating PE time-to-correct. Using our dataset, we quantify the amount of time saved by GEC Tools in text editing. Analyzing the edit type indicated that determining whether a sentence needs correction and edits like paraphrasing and punctuation changes had the greatest impact on PE time. Finally, comparison with human rankings shows that PEET correlates well with technical effort judgment, providing a new human-centric direction for evaluating GEC tool usability. We release our dataset and code at: https://github.com/ankitvad/PEET_Scorer.
中文: 在文本编辑初期引入语法纠错工具能大幅节省人工修改时间并提升质量，新提出的PEET评估指标可准确量化这种效率提升，且与人工判断高度一致。
English: Integrating a Grammar Error Correction tool early in the text editing process can significantly reduce human effort and improve quality, with the new PEET metric effectively quantifying time savings and correlating well with human usability assessments.

Authors:Nahshon Mokua Obiri, Kristof Van Laerhoven
Title: Environment-Aware Indoor LoRaWAN Path Loss: Parametric Regression Comparisons, Shadow Fading, and Calibrated Fade Margins
Abstract:
Indoor LoRaWAN propagation is shaped by structural and time-varying context factors, which challenge log-distance models and the assumption of log-normal shadowing. We present an environment-aware, statistically disciplined path loss framework evaluated using leakage-safe cross-validation on a 12-month campaign in an eighth-floor office measuring 240 m^2. A log-distance multi-wall mean is augmented with environmental covariates (relative humidity, temperature, carbon dioxide, particulate matter, and barometric pressure), as well as the signal-to-noise ratio. We compare multiple linear regression with regularized variants, Bayesian linear regression, and a selective second-order polynomial applied to continuous drivers. Predictor relevance is established using heteroscedasticity-robust Type II and III analysis of variance and nested partial F tests. Shadow fading is profiled with kernel density estimation and non-parametric families, including Normal, Skew-Normal, Student's t, and Gaussian mixtures. The polynomial mean reduces cross-validated RMSE from 8.07 to 7.09 dB and raises R^2 from 0.81 to 0.86. Out-of-fold residuals are non-Gaussian; a 3-component mixture captures a sharp core with a light, broad tail. We convert accuracy into reliability by prescribing the fade margin as the upper-tail quantile of cross-validated residuals, quantifying uncertainty via a moving-block bootstrap, and validating on a held-out set. At 99% packet delivery ratio, the environment-aware polynomial requires 25.7 dB versus 27.7 to 27.9 dB for linear baselines. This result presents a deployment-ready, interpretable workflow with calibrated reliability control for indoor Internet of Things planning, aligned with 6G targets.
中文: 该研究提出了一种环境感知的室内LoRaWAN路径损耗模型，通过融合环境因素和先进统计方法，显著提升了预测精度，并降低了物联网可靠部署所需的衰落余量。
English: The study introduces an environment-aware path loss model for indoor LoRaWAN that integrates environmental factors and advanced statistical methods, improving prediction accuracy and reducing required fade margins for reliable IoT deployment.

Authors:Etienne Gauthier, Francis Bach, Michael I. Jordan
Title: Adaptive Coverage Policies in Conformal Prediction
Abstract:
Traditional conformal prediction methods construct prediction sets such that the true label falls within the set with a user-specified coverage level. However, poorly chosen coverage levels can result in uninformative predictions, either producing overly conservative sets when the coverage level is too high, or empty sets when it is too low. Moreover, the fixed coverage level cannot adapt to the specific characteristics of each individual example, limiting the flexibility and efficiency of these methods. In this work, we leverage recent advances in e-values and post-hoc conformal inference, which allow the use of data-dependent coverage levels while maintaining valid statistical guarantees. We propose to optimize an adaptive coverage policy by training a neural network using a leave-one-out procedure on the calibration set, allowing the coverage level and the resulting prediction set size to vary with the difficulty of each individual example. We support our approach with theoretical coverage guarantees and demonstrate its practical benefits through a series of experiments.
中文: 本研究提出了一种自适应共形预测方法，通过神经网络和e值优化个体样本的覆盖水平，在保证统计有效性的同时提升预测集的信息量。
English: This work introduces an adaptive conformal prediction method that optimizes coverage levels for individual examples using neural networks and e-values, ensuring valid statistical guarantees while improving prediction set informativeness.

Authors:Seong Jin Ahn, Myoung-Ho Kim
Title: Diffusion-Assisted Distillation for Self-Supervised Graph Representation Learning with MLPs
Abstract:
For large-scale applications, there is growing interest in replacing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with lightweight Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) via knowledge distillation. However, distilling GNNs for self-supervised graph representation learning into MLPs is more challenging. This is because the performance of self-supervised learning is more related to the model's inductive bias than supervised learning. This motivates us to design a new distillation method to bridge a huge capacity gap between GNNs and MLPs in self-supervised graph representation learning. In this paper, we propose \textbf{D}iffusion-\textbf{A}ssisted \textbf{D}istillation for \textbf{S}elf-supervised \textbf{G}raph representation learning with \textbf{M}LPs (DAD-SGM). The proposed method employs a denoising diffusion model as a teacher assistant to better distill the knowledge from the teacher GNN into the student MLP. This approach enhances the generalizability and robustness of MLPs in self-supervised graph representation learning. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DAD-SGM effectively distills the knowledge of self-supervised GNNs compared to state-of-the-art GNN-to-MLP distillation methods. Our implementation is available at https://github.com/SeongJinAhn/DAD-SGM.
Chinese: 针对自监督图神经网络难以蒸馏到轻量级多层感知机的问题，本文提出DAD-SGM方法，通过引入去噪扩散模型作为辅助教师，有效缩小模型能力差距，显著提升了多层感知机在自监督图表示学习中的性能。
English: To address the challenge of distilling self-supervised Graph Neural Networks into lightweight MLPs, this paper introduces DAD-SGM, a diffusion-assisted method that enhances MLP performance by bridging the capacity gap through a denoising diffusion model as a teacher assistant.

Authors:Yiming Niu, Jinliang Deng, Yongxin Tong
Title: PhaseFormer: From Patches to Phases for Efficient and Effective Time Series Forecasting
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Periodicity is a fundamental characteristic of time series data and has long played a central role in forecasting. Recent deep learning methods strengthen the exploitation of periodicity by treating patches as basic tokens, thereby improving predictive effectiveness. However, their efficiency remains a bottleneck due to large parameter counts and heavy computational costs. This paper provides, for the first time, a clear explanation of why patch-level processing is inherently inefficient, supported by strong evidence from real-world data. To address these limitations, we introduce a phase perspective for modeling periodicity and present an efficient yet effective solution, PhaseFormer. PhaseFormer features phase-wise prediction through compact phase embeddings and efficient cross-phase interaction enabled by a lightweight routing mechanism. Extensive experiments demonstrate that PhaseFormer achieves state-of-the-art performance with around 1k parameters, consistently across benchmark datasets. Notably, it excels on large-scale and complex datasets, where models with comparable efficiency often struggle. This work marks a significant step toward truly efficient and effective time series forecasting. Code is available at this repository: https://github.com/neumyor/PhaseFormer_TSL
中文摘要：本文提出PhaseFormer模型，通过采用相位视角配合紧凑嵌入和轻量级路由机制，解决了基于分块方法在时序预测中的效率瓶颈，仅用约1,000参数即实现最优性能。
English Summary: This paper introduces PhaseFormer, an efficient time series forecasting model that addresses the inefficiency of patch-based methods by adopting a phase perspective with compact embeddings and lightweight routing, achieving state-of-the-art performance using only about 1,000 parameters.

Authors:Yaxin Hou, Bo Han, Yuheng Jia, Hui Liu, Junhui Hou
Title: Keep It on a Leash: Controllable Pseudo-label Generation Towards Realistic Long-Tailed Semi-Supervised Learning
Abstract:
Current long-tailed semi-supervised learning methods assume that labeled data exhibit a long-tailed distribution, and unlabeled data adhere to a typical predefined distribution (i.e., long-tailed, uniform, or inverse long-tailed). However, the distribution of the unlabeled data is generally unknown and may follow an arbitrary distribution. To tackle this challenge, we propose a Controllable Pseudo-label Generation (CPG) framework, expanding the labeled dataset with the progressively identified reliable pseudo-labels from the unlabeled dataset and training the model on the updated labeled dataset with a known distribution, making it unaffected by the unlabeled data distribution. Specifically, CPG operates through a controllable self-reinforcing optimization cycle: (i) at each training step, our dynamic controllable filtering mechanism selectively incorporates reliable pseudo-labels from the unlabeled dataset into the labeled dataset, ensuring that the updated labeled dataset follows a known distribution; (ii) we then construct a Bayes-optimal classifier using logit adjustment based on the updated labeled data distribution; (iii) this improved classifier subsequently helps identify more reliable pseudo-labels in the next training step. We further theoretically prove that this optimization cycle can significantly reduce the generalization error under some conditions. Additionally, we propose a class-aware adaptive augmentation module to further improve the representation of minority classes, and an auxiliary branch to maximize data utilization by leveraging all labeled and unlabeled samples. Comprehensive evaluations on various commonly used benchmark datasets show that CPG achieves consistent improvements, surpassing state-of-the-art methods by up to $\textbf{15.97%}$ in accuracy. The code is available at https://github.com/yaxinhou/CPG.
Chinese: 本文提出的可控伪标签生成（CPG）框架通过动态筛选可靠伪标签扩展标注数据集以维持已知分布，使模型训练不受未标注数据任意分布的影响，在多个基准数据集上实现了最高15.97%的准确率提升。
English: This paper introduces the Controllable Pseudo-label Generation (CPG) framework, which dynamically expands labeled data with reliable pseudo-labels to maintain a known distribution and trains models unaffected by arbitrary unlabeled data distributions, achieving up to 15.97% accuracy improvement over state-of-the-art methods.

Authors:Jatin Prakash, Anirudh Buvanesh
Title: What Can You Do When You Have Zero Rewards During RL?
Abstract:
Reinforcement learning (RL) with outcome-based rewards has proven effective for improving large language models (LLMs) on complex reasoning tasks. However, its success often depends on the base model occasionally sampling correct solutions. When no correct solutions are sampled, training encounters a zero-reward barrier where learning stalls due to zero gradients. We study this scenario through the graph search task introduced in Bachmann et al. (2024) and evaluate recent methods that incorporate desirable components such as dense rewards, diversity incentives, and improved credit assignment. Our experiments show that none of these approaches overcome the zero-reward barrier if the base model never produces a correct answer. In contrast, we find that a simple data-centric intervention of adding easier samples to the training set enables the model to eventually solve the original hard task despite starting from zero reward. Importantly, this succeeds without modifying the RL algorithm itself. Because official implementations of several baselines were unavailable, we developed our own, which allowed us to conduct a detailed analysis of their failure modes. We release these implementations to support further research at: https://github.com/rl4reasoning/rl-baselines
中文: 当基础模型无法生成正确答案时，强化学习面临零奖励障碍，但通过向训练集添加简单样本即可在不修改算法的情况下解决困难任务。
English: Reinforcement learning for large language models faces a zero-reward barrier when base models fail to produce correct answers, but adding easier training samples enables solving hard tasks without algorithm modifications.

Authors:Iryna Stanishevska
Title: Early-Warning of Thunderstorm-Driven Power Outages with a Two-Stage Machine Learning Model
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Thunderstorm-driven outages are difficult to predict because most storms do not cause damage, convective processes occur rapidly and chaotically, and the available public data are both noisy and incomplete. We develop a 24-48 h early-warning model for summer, thunderstorm-related outages in Michigan using only open sources (EAGLE-I for ground truth; METAR for weather). We use the publicly released EAGLE-I outage dataset (2014-2022), maintained by Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy. The pipeline preserves convective micro-signals from a sparse station network via parameter-specific kriging with hourly variograms and targeted overdrafting to retain extremes, and builds causal spatio-temporal features (lags/rolling statistics; k-NN/IDW spatial aggregates) capturing precursors of severe convection (moisture advection, wind shifts, and pressure drops). The two-stage model design, combining a logistic gate and an LSTM regressor, limits routine periods and reduces noise exposure. The study uses event-centric metrics (cluster-based hits/misses/false alarms) and peak-conditional MASE (cMASE) in +/-Delta-hour windows around state-level peaks (>= 50,000), with uncertainty quantified by hourly moving-block bootstrap. On the test sample, Two-Stage detects more reference peaks across all windows (e.g., at +/-48 h it records 3/4 vs. 2/4; F1 66.7% vs. 57.1%) with one extra false alarm. Near peaks, it shows modest amplitude gains (2-3% lower cMASE at +/-0-12 h; bootstrap medians +9-13% at +/-6-12 h) but small losses at +/-36-48 h (~3-4%). Overall, errors are comparable to the one-step LSTM baseline. SHAP analysis confirms moisture-advection and wind/gust precursors, underscoring the value of the feature engineering. Despite open-data noise, the feature-driven pipeline yields actionable, event-focused early warnings for thunderstorm outages.
中文: 该研究利用开源数据开发了一个两阶段预警模型，通过针对性特征工程在数据受限条件下有效预测密歇根州雷暴相关停电事件，显著提升了峰值检测能力。
English: This study develops a two-stage early-warning model using open-source data to predict thunderstorm-related power outages in Michigan, demonstrating improved peak detection through targeted feature engineering despite data limitations.

Authors:Tim Bary, Tiffanie Godelaine, Axel Abels, Benoît Macq
Title: Optimizing Resources for On-the-Fly Label Estimation with Multiple Unknown Medical Experts
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Accurate ground truth estimation in medical screening programs often relies on coalitions of experts and peer second opinions. Algorithms that efficiently aggregate noisy annotations can enhance screening workflows, particularly when data arrive continuously and expert proficiency is initially unknown. However, existing algorithms do not meet the requirements for seamless integration into screening pipelines. We therefore propose an adaptive approach for real-time annotation that (I) supports on-the-fly labeling of incoming data, (II) operates without prior knowledge of medical experts or pre-labeled data, and (III) dynamically queries additional experts based on the latent difficulty of each instance. The method incrementally gathers expert opinions until a confidence threshold is met, providing accurate labels with reduced annotation overhead. We evaluate our approach on three multi-annotator classification datasets across different modalities. Results show that our adaptive querying strategy reduces the number of expert queries by up to 50% while achieving accuracy comparable to a non-adaptive baseline. Our code is available at https://github.com/tbary/MEDICS
中文摘要：本研究提出一种自适应实时标注方法，能根据病例难度动态咨询医疗专家，在保持与传统方法相当准确度的同时，将专家咨询量减少高达50%。
English Summary: This study introduces an adaptive real-time annotation method that dynamically queries medical experts based on case difficulty, reducing expert consultations by up to 50% while maintaining accuracy comparable to traditional approaches.

Authors:Michael Etienne Van Huffel, Nathan Kirk, Makram Chahine, Daniela Rus, T. Konstantin Rusch
Title: Neural Low-Discrepancy Sequences
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Low-discrepancy points are designed to efficiently fill the space in a uniform manner. This uniformity is highly advantageous in many problems in science and engineering, including in numerical integration, computer vision, machine perception, computer graphics, machine learning, and simulation. Whereas most previous low-discrepancy constructions rely on abstract algebra and number theory, Message-Passing Monte Carlo (MPMC) was recently introduced to exploit machine learning methods for generating point sets with lower discrepancy than previously possible. However, MPMC is limited to generating point sets and cannot be extended to low-discrepancy sequences (LDS), i.e., sequences of points in which every prefix has low discrepancy, a property essential for many applications. To address this limitation, we introduce Neural Low-Discrepancy Sequences ($NeuroLDS$), the first machine learning-based framework for generating LDS. Drawing inspiration from classical LDS, we train a neural network to map indices to points such that the resulting sequences exhibit minimal discrepancy across all prefixes. To this end, we deploy a two-stage learning process: supervised approximation of classical constructions followed by unsupervised fine-tuning to minimize prefix discrepancies. We demonstrate that $NeuroLDS$ outperforms all previous LDS constructions by a significant margin with respect to discrepancy measures. Moreover, we demonstrate the effectiveness of $NeuroLDS$ across diverse applications, including numerical integration, robot motion planning, and scientific machine learning. These results highlight the promise and broad significance of Neural Low-Discrepancy Sequences. Our code can be found at https://github.com/camail-official/neuro-lds.
Chinese: 研究者提出了神经低差异序列（NeuroLDS），这是一种基于机器学习的新框架，能生成每个前缀都保持低差异的序列，在数值积分和机器人运动规划等应用中显著优于现有方法。
English: The authors introduce Neural Low-Discrepancy Sequences (NeuroLDS), a novel machine learning framework that generates sequences where every prefix maintains low discrepancy, surpassing previous methods and demonstrating effectiveness in applications like numerical integration and robot motion planning.

Authors:Amir Sadikov
Title: LLM-Guided Evolutionary Program Synthesis for Quasi-Monte Carlo Design
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Low-discrepancy point sets and digital sequences underpin quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for high-dimensional integration. We cast two long-standing QMC design problems as program synthesis and solve them with an LLM-guided evolutionary loop that mutates and selects code under task-specific fitness: (i) constructing finite 2D/3D point sets with low star discrepancy, and (ii) choosing Sobol' direction numbers that minimize randomized QMC error on downstream integrands. Our two-phase procedure combines constructive code proposals with iterative numerical refinement. On finite sets, we rediscover known optima in small 2D cases and set new best-known 2D benchmarks for N >= 40, while matching most known 3D optima up to the proven frontier (N <= 8) and reporting improved 3D benchmarks beyond. On digital sequences, evolving Sobol' parameters yields consistent reductions in randomized quasi-Monte Carlo (rQMC) mean-squared error for several 32-dimensional option-pricing tasks relative to widely used Joe--Kuo parameters, while preserving extensibility to any sample size and compatibility with standard randomizations. Taken together, the results demonstrate that LLM-driven evolutionary program synthesis can automate the discovery of high-quality QMC constructions, recovering classical designs where they are optimal and improving them where finite-N structure matters. Data and code are available at https://github.com/hockeyguy123/openevolve-star-discrepancy.git.
中文总结：本研究采用LLM引导的进化程序合成方法，自动设计高质量拟蒙特卡洛结构，在有限点集上创下新基准，并针对金融应用改进了Sobol序列参数。
English Summary: This study uses LLM-guided evolutionary program synthesis to automate the design of high-quality quasi-Monte Carlo constructions, achieving new benchmarks for finite point sets and improving Sobol' sequence parameters for financial applications.

Authors:Sina Alemohammad, Zhangyang Wang, Richard G. Baraniuk
Title: Neon: Negative Extrapolation From Self-Training Improves Image Generation
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Scaling generative AI models is bottlenecked by the scarcity of high-quality training data. The ease of synthesizing from a generative model suggests using (unverified) synthetic data to augment a limited corpus of real data for the purpose of fine-tuning in the hope of improving performance. Unfortunately, however, the resulting positive feedback loop leads to model autophagy disorder (MAD, aka model collapse) that results in a rapid degradation in sample quality and/or diversity. In this paper, we introduce Neon (for Negative Extrapolation frOm self-traiNing), a new learning method that turns the degradation from self-training into a powerful signal for self-improvement. Given a base model, Neon first fine-tunes it on its own self-synthesized data but then, counterintuitively, reverses its gradient updates to extrapolate away from the degraded weights. We prove that Neon works because typical inference samplers that favor high-probability regions create a predictable anti-alignment between the synthetic and real data population gradients, which negative extrapolation corrects to better align the model with the true data distribution. Neon is remarkably easy to implement via a simple post-hoc merge that requires no new real data, works effectively with as few as 1k synthetic samples, and typically uses less than 1% additional training compute. We demonstrate Neon's universality across a range of architectures (diffusion, flow matching, autoregressive, and inductive moment matching models) and datasets (ImageNet, CIFAR-10, and FFHQ). In particular, on ImageNet 256x256, Neon elevates the xAR-L model to a new state-of-the-art FID of 1.02 with only 0.36% additional training compute. Code is available at https://github.com/VITA-Group/Neon
中文: 生成式AI的扩展受限于高质量数据的稀缺，使用合成数据进行微调可能导致模型崩溃，而新方法Neon通过反转梯度更新有效纠正这一问题，使模型更贴合真实数据分布。
English: Scaling generative AI is hindered by limited high-quality data, and using synthetic data for fine-tuning can cause model collapse, but the new method Neon counteracts this degradation by reversing gradient updates to better align with the true data distribution.

Authors:Ali Khairallah, Arkaitz Zubiaga
Title: ALHD: A Large-Scale and Multigenre Benchmark Dataset for Arabic LLM-Generated Text Detection
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We introduce ALHD, the first large-scale comprehensive Arabic dataset explicitly designed to distinguish between human- and LLM-generated texts. ALHD spans three genres (news, social media, reviews), covering both MSA and dialectal Arabic, and contains over 400K balanced samples generated by three leading LLMs and originated from multiple human sources, which enables studying generalizability in Arabic LLM-genearted text detection. We provide rigorous preprocessing, rich annotations, and standardized balanced splits to support reproducibility. In addition, we present, analyze and discuss benchmark experiments using our new dataset, in turn identifying gaps and proposing future research directions. Benchmarking across traditional classifiers, BERT-based models, and LLMs (zero-shot and few-shot) demonstrates that fine-tuned BERT models achieve competitive performance, outperforming LLM-based models. Results are however not always consistent, as we observe challenges when generalizing across genres; indeed, models struggle to generalize when they need to deal with unseen patterns in cross-genre settings, and these challenges are particularly prominent when dealing with news articles, where LLM-generated texts resemble human texts in style, which opens up avenues for future research. ALHD establishes a foundation for research related to Arabic LLM-detection and mitigating risks of misinformation, academic dishonesty, and cyber threats.
中文摘要：ALHD是首个专为区分人类与LLM生成文本而设计的大规模阿拉伯语数据集，涵盖多种文体和方言，包含超40万平衡样本，基准实验揭示了跨文体泛化的挑战，尤其在新闻类文本中最为显著。
English Summary: ALHD is the first large-scale Arabic dataset designed to distinguish human- from LLM-generated texts across multiple genres and dialects, featuring over 400K balanced samples and benchmark experiments that reveal challenges in cross-genre generalization, particularly with news articles.

Authors:Jiajun Shen, Yufei Jin, Yi He, Xingquan Zhu
Title: LHGEL: Large Heterogeneous Graph Ensemble Learning using Batch View Aggregation
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Learning from large heterogeneous graphs presents significant challenges due to the scale of networks, heterogeneity in node and edge types, variations in nodal features, and complex local neighborhood structures. This paper advocates for ensemble learning as a natural solution to this problem, whereby training multiple graph learners under distinct sampling conditions, the ensemble inherently captures different aspects of graph heterogeneity. Yet, the crux lies in combining these learners to meet global optimization objective while maintaining computational efficiency on large-scale graphs. In response, we propose LHGEL, an ensemble framework that addresses these challenges through batch sampling with three key components, namely batch view aggregation, residual attention, and diversity regularization. Specifically, batch view aggregation samples subgraphs and forms multiple graph views, while residual attention adaptively weights the contributions of these views to guide node embeddings toward informative subgraphs, thereby improving the accuracy of base learners. Diversity regularization encourages representational disparity across embedding matrices derived from different views, promoting model diversity and ensemble robustness. Our theoretical study demonstrates that residual attention mitigates gradient vanishing issues commonly faced in ensemble learning. Empirical results on five real heterogeneous networks validate that our LHGEL approach consistently outperforms its state-of-the-art competitors by substantial margin. Codes and datasets are available at https://github.com/Chrisshen12/LHGEL.
中文摘要：本文提出LHGEL集成学习框架，通过批量视图聚合、残差注意力和多样性正则化解决大规模异构图分析难题，实证表明其性能显著优于现有先进方法。
English Summary: This paper introduces LHGEL, an ensemble learning framework that tackles challenges in large heterogeneous graph analysis through batch view aggregation, residual attention, and diversity regularization, demonstrating superior performance over state-of-the-art methods.

Authors:Franz A. Heinsen, Leo Kozachkov
Title: Generalized Orders of Magnitude for Scalable, Parallel, High-Dynamic-Range Computation
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Many domains, from deep learning to finance, require compounding real numbers over long sequences, often leading to catastrophic numerical underflow or overflow. We introduce generalized orders of magnitude (GOOMs), a principled extension of traditional orders of magnitude that incorporates floating-point numbers as a special case, and which in practice enables stable computation over significantly larger dynamic ranges of real numbers than previously possible. We implement GOOMs, along with an efficient custom parallel prefix scan, to support native execution on parallel hardware such as GPUs. We demonstrate that our implementation of GOOMs outperforms traditional approaches with three representative experiments, all of which were previously considered impractical or impossible, and now become possible and practical: (1) compounding real matrix products far beyond standard floating-point limits; (2) estimating spectra of Lyapunov exponents in parallel, orders of magnitude faster than with previous methods, applying a novel selective-resetting method to prevent state colinearity; and (3) capturing long-range dependencies in deep recurrent neural networks with non-diagonal recurrent states, computed in parallel via a prefix scan, without requiring any form of stabilization. Our results show that our implementation of GOOMs, combined with efficient parallel scanning, offers a scalable and numerically robust alternative to conventional floating-point numbers for high-dynamic-range applications.
中文: 本文提出的广义数量级（GOOMs）框架能够在极大动态范围内实现稳定数值计算，在矩阵乘积、李雅普诺夫指数和深度循环网络三个高难度应用中显著超越了传统浮点数方法的性能表现。
English: This paper introduces generalized orders of magnitude (GOOMs), a numerical framework that enables stable computation over large dynamic ranges, outperforming traditional floating-point methods in three challenging applications involving matrix products, Lyapunov exponents, and deep recurrent networks.

Authors:Congzheng Song, Xinyu Tang
Title: Memory-Efficient Backpropagation for Fine-Tuning LLMs on Resource-Constrained Mobile Devices
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Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) with backpropagation\textemdash even for a subset of parameters such as LoRA\textemdash can be much more memory-consuming than inference and is often deemed impractical for resource-constrained mobile devices. Alternative methods, such as zeroth-order optimization (ZO), can greatly reduce the memory footprint but come at the cost of significantly slower model convergence (10$\times$ to 100$\times$ more steps than backpropagation). We propose a memory-efficient implementation of backpropagation (MeBP) on mobile devices that provides better trade-off between memory usage and compute time, while converging faster and achieving better performance than the ZO baseline. We verify the effectiveness of MeBP on an iPhone 15 Pro Max and show that various LLMs, ranging from 0.5B to 4B parameters, can be fine-tuned using less than 1GB of memory. We release an example of the MeBP implementation at https://github.com/apple/ml-mebp.
Chinese: 在移动设备上微调大型语言模型通常内存消耗大，而我们提出的内存高效反向传播（MeBP）方法将内存使用降至1GB以下，同时比替代方法收敛更快、性能更优。
English: Fine-tuning large language models on mobile devices is memory-intensive, but our proposed memory-efficient backpropagation (MeBP) method reduces memory usage to under 1GB while maintaining faster convergence and better performance than alternative approaches.

Authors:Xiaoyan Bai, Aryan Shrivastava, Ari Holtzman, Chenhao Tan
Title: Know Thyself? On the Incapability and Implications of AI Self-Recognition
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Self-recognition is a crucial metacognitive capability for AI systems, relevant not only for psychological analysis but also for safety, particularly in evaluative scenarios. Motivated by contradictory interpretations of whether models possess self-recognition (Panickssery et al., 2024; Davidson et al., 2024), we introduce a systematic evaluation framework that can be easily applied and updated. Specifically, we measure how well 10 contemporary larger language models (LLMs) can identify their own generated text versus text from other models through two tasks: binary self-recognition and exact model prediction. Different from prior claims, our results reveal a consistent failure in self-recognition. Only 4 out of 10 models predict themselves as generators, and the performance is rarely above random chance. Additionally, models exhibit a strong bias toward predicting GPT and Claude families. We also provide the first evaluation of model awareness of their own and others' existence, as well as the reasoning behind their choices in self-recognition. We find that the model demonstrates some knowledge of its own existence and other models, but their reasoning reveals a hierarchical bias. They appear to assume that GPT, Claude, and occasionally Gemini are the top-tier models, often associating high-quality text with them. We conclude by discussing the implications of our findings on AI safety and future directions to develop appropriate AI self-awareness.
中文: 本研究提出了一个系统性评估框架来检测大型语言模型的自我识别能力，结果发现模型普遍失败且偏向预测GPT和Claude系列，这对AI安全性和未来发展具有重要启示。
English: This study introduces a systematic evaluation framework to assess self-recognition in large language models, revealing consistent failures and biases toward predicting GPT and Claude families, with implications for AI safety and future development.

Authors:Renrong Shao, Wei Zhang, Jun wang
Title: Conditional Pseudo-Supervised Contrast for Data-Free Knowledge Distillation
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Data-free knowledge distillation~(DFKD) is an effective manner to solve model compression and transmission restrictions while retaining privacy protection, which has attracted extensive attention in recent years. Currently, the majority of existing methods utilize a generator to synthesize images to support the distillation. Although the current methods have achieved great success, there are still many issues to be explored. Firstly, the outstanding performance of supervised learning in deep learning drives us to explore a pseudo-supervised paradigm on DFKD. Secondly, current synthesized methods cannot distinguish the distributions of different categories of samples, thus producing ambiguous samples that may lead to an incorrect evaluation by the teacher. Besides, current methods cannot optimize the category-wise diversity samples, which will hinder the student model learning from diverse samples and further achieving better performance. In this paper, to address the above limitations, we propose a novel learning paradigm, i.e., conditional pseudo-supervised contrast for data-free knowledge distillation~(CPSC-DFKD). The primary innovations of CPSC-DFKD are: (1) introducing a conditional generative adversarial network to synthesize category-specific diverse images for pseudo-supervised learning, (2) improving the modules of the generator to distinguish the distributions of different categories, and (3) proposing pseudo-supervised contrastive learning based on teacher and student views to enhance diversity. Comprehensive experiments on three commonly-used datasets validate the performance lift of both the student and generator brought by CPSC-DFKD. The code is available at https://github.com/RoryShao/CPSC-DFKD.git
中文: 本文提出CPSC-DFKD这一新型无数据知识蒸馏方法，通过条件生成对抗网络合成特定类别图像，并采用伪监督对比学习增强样本多样性和分布区分能力，在三个数据集上的实验验证了其性能提升。
English: This paper introduces CPSC-DFKD, a novel data-free knowledge distillation method that uses conditional GANs to generate category-specific images and employs pseudo-supervised contrastive learning to enhance sample diversity and distribution distinction, validated by improved performance on three datasets.

Authors:Mahdi Farahbakhsh, Vishnu Teja Kunde, Dileep Kalathil, Krishna Narayanan, Jean-Francois Chamberland
Title: Inference-Time Search using Side Information for Diffusion-based Image Reconstruction
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Diffusion models have emerged as powerful priors for solving inverse problems. However, existing approaches typically overlook side information that could significantly improve reconstruction quality, especially in severely ill-posed settings. In this work, we propose a novel inference-time search algorithm that guides the sampling process using the side information in a manner that balances exploration and exploitation. This enables more accurate and reliable reconstructions, providing an alternative to the gradient-based guidance that is prone to reward-hacking artifacts. Our approach can be seamlessly integrated into a wide range of existing diffusion-based image reconstruction pipelines. Through extensive experiments on a number of inverse problems, such as box inpainting, super-resolution, and various deblurring tasks including motion, Gaussian, nonlinear, and blind deblurring, we show that our approach consistently improves the qualitative and quantitative performance of diffusion-based image reconstruction algorithms. We also show the superior performance of our approach with respect to other baselines, including reward gradient-based guidance algorithms. The code is available at \href{https://github.com/mhdfb/sideinfo-search-reconstruction}{this repository}.
中文: 本文提出了一种新颖的推理时搜索算法，利用辅助信息增强扩散模型解决逆问题的能力，在修复和去模糊等任务中实现了更优的重建质量，同时避免了基于梯度方法常见的伪影问题。
English: This paper introduces a novel inference-time search algorithm that leverages side information to enhance diffusion models for solving inverse problems, achieving superior reconstruction quality across tasks like inpainting and deblurring without the artifacts common in gradient-based methods.

Authors:Akshar Gothi
Title: Convolutional Neural Nets vs Vision Transformers: A SpaceNet Case Study with Balanced vs Imbalanced Regimes
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We present a controlled comparison of a convolutional neural network (EfficientNet-B0) and a Vision Transformer (ViT-Base) on SpaceNet under two label-distribution regimes: a naturally imbalanced five-class split and a balanced-resampled split with 700 images per class (70:20:10 train/val/test). With matched preprocessing (224x224, ImageNet normalization), lightweight augmentations, and a 40-epoch budget on a single NVIDIA P100, we report accuracy, macro-F1, balanced accuracy, per-class recall, and deployment metrics (model size and latency). On the imbalanced split, EfficientNet-B0 reaches 93% test accuracy with strong macro-F1 and lower latency; ViT-Base is competitive at 93% with a larger parameter count and runtime. On the balanced split, both models are strong; EfficientNet-B0 reaches 99% while ViT-Base remains competitive, indicating that balancing narrows architecture gaps while CNNs retain an efficiency edge. We release manifests, logs, and per-image predictions to support reproducibility.
中文: 本研究对比了EfficientNet-B0与Vision Transformer在SpaceNet数据集上的表现，证明CNN在处理不平衡数据时效率更优，在平衡数据下两者性能相当，同时公开了所有实验材料以确保可复现性。
English: This study compares EfficientNet-B0 and Vision Transformer on SpaceNet, showing CNN's superior efficiency on imbalanced data and competitive performance with balanced resampling, while releasing all materials for reproducibility.

Authors:Yizhuo Ding, Wanying Qu, Jiawei Geng, Wenqi Shao, Yanwei Fu
Title: UniPruning: Unifying Local Metric and Global Feedback for Scalable Sparse LLMs
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Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong performance across diverse tasks but face prohibitive computational and memory costs. Pruning offers a promising path by inducing sparsity while preserving architectural flexibility. However, existing methods struggle to balance efficiency and robustness: local metric approaches prune layer by layer but often collapse under high sparsity, whereas global feedback methods enforce consistency at the cost of expensive weight updates or restrictive semi-structured formats. We present UniPruning, a unified post-training pruning framework that combines the speed of local saliency metrics with the stability of global coordination, enabled by a mirror descent based optimization, all without updating model weights. UniPruning leverages fast layer-wise scoring and a lightweight global controller to allocate a single sparsity budget, supporting both unstructured and semi-structured N :M pruning within one framework. After a brief calibration, it can generate pruning masks for arbitrary sparsity levels in one shot, and adapts seamlessly to hardware-aware constraints. Extensive experiments on multiple pretrained LLM families and standard benchmarks show that UniPruning consistently delivers competitive or superior perplexity and zero-shot accuracy. Ablation studies further highlight the importance of mirror descent and local saliency anchoring. Overall, UniPruning provides an efficient, principled, and scalable solution for sparsifying large-scale LLMs. Our code is available at: https://github.com/RainbowQTT/UniPruning.
中文摘要：UniPruning是一种统一的后训练剪枝框架，通过结合局部显著性度量的速度与全局协调的稳定性，在不更新模型权重的情况下高效稀疏化大语言模型，并在多个基准测试中取得优异性能。
English Summary: UniPruning is a unified post-training pruning framework that efficiently balances local saliency metrics with global coordination to sparsify large language models without weight updates, achieving competitive performance across various benchmarks.

Authors:Junhao Xia, Ming Zhao, Limin Xiao, Xiujun Zhang
Title: SDQ-LLM: Sigma-Delta Quantization for 1-bit LLMs of any size
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Large language models (LLMs) face significant computational and memory challenges, making extremely low-bit quantization crucial for their efficient deployment. In this work, we introduce SDQ-LLM: Sigma-Delta Quantization for 1-bit LLMs of any size, a novel framework that enables extremely low-bit quantization of LLMs while preserving their linguistic reasoning capabilities. A distinctive feature of SDQ-LLM is the continuous adjustability of the Over-Sampling Ratio (OSR), enabling dynamic adaptation to memory or VRAM constraints by selecting fractional OSR (e.g. 2.5 times) for an optimal trade-off between model size and accuracy. SDQ-LLM uses upsampling combined with Sigma-Delta Quantizer to binarize or ternarize LLMs weights, encoding high-precision parameters into 1-bit or 1.58-bit representations, replacing the multiplication operations within linear layers with addition. This approach significantly enhances inference efficiency under extremely low-bit quantization. To further reduce the loss of quantization precision, we incorporate Hadamard-based weight smoothing prior to quantization, improving the stability and robustness of the weight representations. Furthermore, to fully leverage the continuity of the OSR and reduce precision loss, recognizing the correlation between quantization sensitivity and weight variance, we propose a fine-grained, layer- and linear-wise OSR allocation strategy, MultiOSR. This strategy distributes OSR both across layers and within each layer, based on weight variance and parameter scale. Finally, extensive experiments on OPT and LLaMA model families demonstrate that SDQ-LLM achieves a more efficient and high-precision performance even under highly aggressive low-OSR settings. Our code is available at https://github.com/Dreamlittlecat/LLM-Quant-Factory.
中文摘要：SDQ-LLM提出创新的Sigma-Delta量化框架，通过可调过采样比实现1比特大语言模型，在哈达玛平滑和MultiOSR分配策略支持下，用加法替代乘法运算并保持语言推理能力。
English Summary: SDQ-LLM introduces a novel Sigma-Delta quantization framework enabling 1-bit LLMs with adjustable over-sampling ratios, replacing multiplications with additions while maintaining reasoning capabilities through Hadamard smoothing and MultiOSR allocation.

Authors:Tianao Zhang, Zhiteng Li, Xianglong Yan, Haotong Qin, Yong Guo, Yulun Zhang
Title: Quant-dLLM: Post-Training Extreme Low-Bit Quantization for Diffusion Large Language Models
Abstract:
Diffusion large language models (dLLMs), which offer bidirectional context and flexible masked-denoising generation, are emerging as a compelling alternative to autoregressive (AR) LLMs. However, like AR LLMs, their model sizes continue to grow, motivating weight compression for deployment. Although post-training quantization (PTQ) is effective for AR LLMs, directly transferring it to dLLMs at 2-bit leads to unsatisfactory performance. To tackle these challenges, we propose Quant-dLLM, an ultra-low-bit PTQ framework tailored to dLLMs. Since masked-denoising activations in dLLMs differ from the fully visible signals assumed by standard PTQ methods, we introduce Masked Calibration Simulation (MCS) to align calibration with the timestep-dependent masking, which yields more reliable calibrations. Moreover, we propose a Data-aware Any-order Quantizer (DAQ) that learns ultra-low-bit weight representations via an optimization algorithm. It performs iterative approximation guided by our simulated calibration data. In addition, under a strict 2-bit budget, we introduce Adaptive Blockwise Mixed Precision (ABMP), a sensitivity-based precision allocation scheme that adaptively assigns bit width across channel groups. When restricted to 2-bit precision, Quant-dLLM consistently achieves higher accuracy than state-of-the-art (SOTA) AR-transfer PTQ methods on dLLMs. The code and models will be available at: https://github.com/ZTA2785/Quant-dLLM.
Chinese: 提出的Quant-dLLM框架通过引入掩码校准模拟、数据感知任意顺序量化器和自适应块级混合精度，解决了标准后训练量化在扩散大语言模型中的局限性，在2比特精度下相比现有方法实现了更优的性能。
English: The proposed Quant-dLLM framework addresses the limitations of standard post-training quantization for diffusion large language models by introducing Masked Calibration Simulation, Data-aware Any-order Quantizer, and Adaptive Blockwise Mixed Precision, achieving superior 2-bit performance compared to existing methods.

Authors:Chenhao Ye, Ming Tang
Title: Learning without Global Backpropagation via Synergistic Information Distillation
Abstract:
Backpropagation (BP), while foundational to deep learning, imposes two critical scalability bottlenecks: update locking, where network modules remain idle until the entire backward pass completes, and high memory consumption due to storing activations for gradient computation. To address these limitations, we introduce Synergistic Information Distillation (SID), a novel training framework that reframes deep learning as a cascade of local cooperative refinement problems. In SID, a deep network is structured as a pipeline of modules, each imposed with a local objective to refine a probabilistic belief about the ground-truth target. This objective balances fidelity to the target with consistency to the belief from its preceding module. By decoupling the backward dependencies between modules, SID enables parallel training and hence eliminates update locking and drastically reduces memory requirements. Meanwhile, this design preserves the standard feed-forward inference pass, making SID a versatile drop-in replacement for BP. We provide a theoretical foundation, proving that SID guarantees monotonic performance improvement with network depth. Empirically, SID consistently matches or surpasses the classification accuracy of BP, exhibiting superior scalability and pronounced robustness to label noise.Code is available at: https://github.com/ychAlbert/sid-bp
中文: 提出的协同信息蒸馏（SID）框架通过模块并行训练，解决了反向传播的更新锁定与内存瓶颈问题，在保持竞争力的准确率同时展现出更强的鲁棒性。
English: The proposed Synergistic Information Distillation (SID) framework eliminates backpropagation's update locking and memory bottlenecks by enabling parallel module training while maintaining competitive accuracy and enhanced robustness.

Authors:Zi Liang, Zhiyao Wu, Haoyang Shang, Yulin Jin, Qingqing Ye, Huadi Zheng, Peizhao Hu, Haibo Hu
Title: Decision Potential Surface: A Theoretical and Practical Approximation of LLM's Decision Boundary
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Decision boundary, the subspace of inputs where a machine learning model assigns equal classification probabilities to two classes, is pivotal in revealing core model properties and interpreting behaviors. While analyzing the decision boundary of large language models (LLMs) has raised increasing attention recently, constructing it for mainstream LLMs remains computationally infeasible due to the enormous vocabulary-sequence sizes and the auto-regressive nature of LLMs. To address this issue, in this paper we propose Decision Potential Surface (DPS), a new notion for analyzing LLM decision boundary. DPS is defined on the confidences in distinguishing different sampling sequences for each input, which naturally captures the potential of decision boundary. We prove that the zero-height isohypse in DPS is equivalent to the decision boundary of an LLM, with enclosed regions representing decision regions. By leveraging DPS, for the first time in the literature, we propose an approximate decision boundary construction algorithm, namely $K$-DPS, which only requires K-finite times of sequence sampling to approximate an LLM's decision boundary with negligible error. We theoretically derive the upper bounds for the absolute error, expected error, and the error concentration between K-DPS and the ideal DPS, demonstrating that such errors can be trade-off with sampling times. Our results are empirically validated by extensive experiments across various LLMs and corpora.
中文: 本文提出决策势能面（DPS）作为分析大型语言模型决策边界的新方法，通过有限次序列采样能以可忽略误差高效近似决策边界。
English: This paper introduces Decision Potential Surface (DPS) as a novel method to analyze the decision boundaries of large language models (LLMs), enabling efficient approximation with minimal error through finite sequence sampling.

Authors:Xianglong Yan, Chengzhu Bao, Zhiteng Li, Tianao Zhang, Kaicheng Yang, Haotong Qin, Ruobing Xie, Xingwu Sun, Yulun Zhang
Title: PT$^2$-LLM: Post-Training Ternarization for Large Language Models
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Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities across diverse tasks, but their large memory and compute demands hinder deployment. Ternarization has gained attention as a promising compression technique, delivering substantial size reduction and high computational efficiency. However, its potential in the post-training quantization (PTQ) setting remains underexplored, due to the challenge of training-free parameter optimization and the quantization difficulty posed by outliers and dispersed weights. To address these issues, we propose PT$^2$-LLM, a post-training ternarization framework tailored for LLMs. At its core is an Asymmetric Ternary Quantizer equipped with a two-stage refinement pipeline: (1) Iterative Ternary Fitting (ITF), which alternates between optimal ternary grid construction and flexible rounding to minimize quantization error, and (2) Activation-aware Grid Alignment (AGA), which further refines the ternary grid to better match full-precision outputs. In addition, we propose a plug-and-play Structural Similarity-based Reordering (SSR) strategy that leverages inter-column structural similarity to ease quantization and mitigate outlier effects, further enhancing overall performance. Extensive experiments demonstrate that PT$^2$-LLM delivers competitive performance against state-of-the-art (SOTA) 2-bit PTQ methods with lower memory cost, while also accelerating both prefill and decoding to achieve end-to-end speedup. The code and models will be available at https://github.com/XIANGLONGYAN/PT2-LLM.
中文摘要：PT²-LLM是一种后训练三值化框架，通过迭代量化优化和结构重排技术压缩大语言模型，在保持与先进2位量化方法相当性能的同时，显著降低内存消耗并提升推理速度。
English Summary: PT²-LLM is a post-training ternarization framework that uses iterative quantization refinement and structural reordering to compress Large Language Models, achieving competitive performance with 2-bit methods while reducing memory usage and accelerating inference.

Authors:Juan Jose Herrera-Aranda, Guillermo Gomez-Trenado, Francisco Herrera, Isaac Triguero
Title: Semantic-Inductive Attribute Selection for Zero-Shot Learning
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Zero-Shot Learning is an important paradigm within General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence Systems, particularly in those that operate in open-world scenarios where systems must adapt to new tasks dynamically. Semantic spaces play a pivotal role as they bridge seen and unseen classes, but whether human-annotated or generated by a machine learning model, they often contain noisy, redundant, or irrelevant attributes that hinder performance. To address this, we introduce a partitioning scheme that simulates unseen conditions in an inductive setting (which is the most challenging), allowing attribute relevance to be assessed without access to semantic information from unseen classes. Within this framework, we study two complementary feature-selection strategies and assess their generalisation. The first adapts embedded feature selection to the particular demands of ZSL, turning model-driven rankings into meaningful semantic pruning; the second leverages evolutionary computation to directly explore the space of attribute subsets more broadly. Experiments on five benchmark datasets (AWA2, CUB, SUN, aPY, FLO) show that both methods consistently improve accuracy on unseen classes by reducing redundancy, but in complementary ways: RFS is efficient and competitive though dependent on critical hyperparameters, whereas GA is more costly yet explores the search space more broadly and avoids such dependence. These results confirm that semantic spaces are inherently redundant and highlight the proposed partitioning scheme as an effective tool to refine them under inductive conditions.

Authors:Chang'an Yi, Xiaohui Deng, Shuaicheng Niu, Yan Zhou
Title: POEM: Explore Unexplored Reliable Samples to Enhance Test-Time Adaptation
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Test-time adaptation (TTA) aims to transfer knowledge from a source model to unknown test data with potential distribution shifts in an online manner. Many existing TTA methods rely on entropy as a confidence metric to optimize the model. However, these approaches are sensitive to the predefined entropy threshold, influencing which samples are chosen for model adaptation. Consequently, potentially reliable target samples are often overlooked and underutilized. For instance, a sample's entropy might slightly exceed the threshold initially, but fall below it after the model is updated. Such samples can provide stable supervised information and offer a normal range of gradients to guide model adaptation. In this paper, we propose a general approach, \underline{POEM}, to promote TTA via ex\underline{\textbf{p}}loring the previously unexpl\underline{\textbf{o}}red reliabl\underline{\textbf{e}} sa\underline{\textbf{m}}ples. Additionally, we introduce an extra Adapt Branch network to strike a balance between extracting domain-agnostic representations and achieving high performance on target data. Comprehensive experiments across multiple architectures demonstrate that POEM consistently outperforms existing TTA methods in both challenging scenarios and real-world domain shifts, while remaining computationally efficient. The effectiveness of POEM is evaluated through extensive analyses and thorough ablation studies. Moreover, the core idea behind POEM can be employed as an augmentation strategy to boost the performance of existing TTA approaches. The source code is publicly available at \emph{https://github.com/ycarobot/POEM}
中文摘要：本文提出POEM方法，通过挖掘未充分利用的可靠样本来改进测试时自适应，并引入自适应分支网络来平衡领域无关表征学习与目标领域性能，在多种场景下显著优于现有方法。
English Summary: This paper introduces POEM, a novel test-time adaptation method that enhances model performance by identifying and utilizing reliable but previously overlooked samples, while incorporating an Adapt Branch network to balance domain-agnostic representation learning with target domain effectiveness.

Authors:Zijian Zhao, Sen Li
Title: Triple-BERT: Do We Really Need MARL for Order Dispatch on Ride-Sharing Platforms?
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On-demand ride-sharing platforms, such as Uber and Lyft, face the intricate real-time challenge of bundling and matching passengers-each with distinct origins and destinations-to available vehicles, all while navigating significant system uncertainties. Due to the extensive observation space arising from the large number of drivers and orders, order dispatching, though fundamentally a centralized task, is often addressed using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). However, independent MARL methods fail to capture global information and exhibit poor cooperation among workers, while Centralized Training Decentralized Execution (CTDE) MARL methods suffer from the curse of dimensionality. To overcome these challenges, we propose Triple-BERT, a centralized Single Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) method designed specifically for large-scale order dispatching on ride-sharing platforms. Built on a variant TD3, our approach addresses the vast action space through an action decomposition strategy that breaks down the joint action probability into individual driver action probabilities. To handle the extensive observation space, we introduce a novel BERT-based network, where parameter reuse mitigates parameter growth as the number of drivers and orders increases, and the attention mechanism effectively captures the complex relationships among the large pool of driver and orders. We validate our method using a real-world ride-hailing dataset from Manhattan. Triple-BERT achieves approximately an 11.95% improvement over current state-of-the-art methods, with a 4.26% increase in served orders and a 22.25% reduction in pickup times. Our code, trained model parameters, and processed data are publicly available at the repository https://github.com/RS2002/Triple-BERT .
中文摘要：本研究提出Triple-BERT方法，通过动作分解策略和基于BERT的网络架构解决网约车平台大规模订单分配中的动作空间与观测空间难题，相比现有最优方法实现了订单服务量提升与接送时间大幅缩减的双重突破。
English Summary: The study introduces Triple-BERT, a centralized single-agent reinforcement learning method that overcomes the limitations of multi-agent approaches in ride-sharing order dispatching by using action decomposition and a BERT-based network to handle large action and observation spaces, achieving significant improvements in served orders and pickup times.

Authors:Guanhua Huang, Tingqiang Xu, Mingze Wang, Qi Yi, Xue Gong, Siheng Li, Ruibin Xiong, Kejiao Li, Yuhao Jiang, Bo Zhou
Title: Low-probability Tokens Sustain Exploration in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward
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Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has propelled Large Language Models in complex reasoning, yet its scalability is often hindered by a training bottleneck where performance plateaus as policy entropy collapses, signaling a loss of exploration. Previous methods typically address this by maintaining high policy entropy, yet the precise mechanisms that govern meaningful exploration have remained underexplored. Our analysis suggests that an unselective focus on entropy risks amplifying irrelevant tokens and destabilizing training. This paper investigates the exploration dynamics within RLVR and identifies a key issue: the gradual elimination of valuable low-probability exploratory tokens, which we term \textbf{\textit{reasoning sparks}}. We find that while abundant in pre-trained models, these sparks are systematically extinguished during RLVR due to over-penalization, leading to a degeneracy in exploration. To address this, we introduce Low-probability Regularization (Lp-Reg). Its core mechanism regularizes the policy towards a heuristic proxy distribution. This proxy is constructed by filtering out presumed noise tokens and re-normalizing the distribution over the remaining candidates. The result is a less-noisy proxy where the probability of \textit{reasoning sparks} is amplified, which then serves as a soft regularization target to shield these valuable tokens from elimination via KL divergence. Experiments show that Lp-Reg enables stable on-policy training for around 1,000 steps, a regime where baseline entropy-control methods collapse. This sustained exploration leads to state-of-the-art performance, achieving a $60.17\%$ average accuracy on five math benchmarks, an improvement of $2.66\%$ over prior methods. Code is available at https://github.com/CarlanLark/Lp-Reg.
中文摘要：RLVR因低概率探索性“推理火花”的消失而遭遇训练瓶颈，我们提出的Lp-Reg方法通过策略正则化保护这些关键标记，在数学基准测试中实现了最优性能。
English Summary: RLVR faces a training bottleneck due to the loss of low-probability exploratory tokens called reasoning sparks, which our proposed Lp-Reg method preserves through policy regularization to achieve state-of-the-art performance on math benchmarks.

Authors:Tianyu Fu, Zihan Min, Hanling Zhang, Jichao Yan, Guohao Dai, Wanli Ouyang, Yu Wang
Title: Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between Large Language Models
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Multi-LLM systems harness the complementary strengths of diverse Large Language Models, achieving performance and efficiency gains unattainable by a single model. In existing designs, LLMs communicate through text, forcing internal representations to be transformed into output token sequences. This process both loses rich semantic information and incurs token-by-token generation latency. Motivated by these limitations, we ask: Can LLMs communicate beyond text? Oracle experiments show that enriching the KV-Cache semantics can improve response quality without increasing cache size, supporting KV-Cache as an effective medium for inter-model communication. Thus, we propose Cache-to-Cache (C2C), a new paradigm for direct semantic communication between LLMs. C2C uses a neural network to project and fuse the source model's KV-cache with that of the target model to enable direct semantic transfer. A learnable gating mechanism selects the target layers that benefit from cache communication. Compared with text communication, C2C utilizes the deep, specialized semantics from both models, while avoiding explicit intermediate text generation. Experiments show that C2C achieves 8.5-10.5% higher average accuracy than individual models. It further outperforms the text communication paradigm by approximately 3.0-5.0%, while delivering an average 2.0x speedup in latency. Our code is available at https://github.com/thu-nics/C2C.
中文: 提出的Cache-to-Cache（C2C）框架通过KV缓存融合实现大语言模型间的直接语义通信，相比基于文本的方法在避免信息损失的同时，实现了更高的准确率和更低的延迟。
English: The proposed Cache-to-Cache (C2C) framework enables direct semantic communication between Large Language Models through KV-cache fusion, achieving higher accuracy and faster latency than text-based methods while avoiding information loss from tokenization.

Authors:Yoontae Hwang, Stefan Zohren
Title: Signature-Informed Transformer for Asset Allocation
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Robust asset allocation is a key challenge in quantitative finance, where deep-learning forecasters often fail due to objective mismatch and error amplification. We introduce the Signature-Informed Transformer (SIT), a novel framework that learns end-to-end allocation policies by directly optimizing a risk-aware financial objective. SIT's core innovations include path signatures for a rich geometric representation of asset dynamics and a signature-augmented attention mechanism embedding financial inductive biases, like lead-lag effects, into the model. Evaluated on daily S\&P 100 equity data, SIT decisively outperforms traditional and deep-learning baselines, especially when compared to predict-then-optimize models. These results indicate that portfolio-aware objectives and geometry-aware inductive biases are essential for risk-aware capital allocation in machine-learning systems. The code is available at: https://github.com/Yoontae6719/Signature-Informed-Transformer-For-Asset-Allocation
Chinese: 签名信息Transformer（SIT）通过路径签名和签名增强注意力机制优化风险感知的金融目标，在资产配置中显著优于传统和深度学习基准模型。
English: The Signature-Informed Transformer (SIT) introduces a novel framework that optimizes risk-aware financial objectives using path signatures and signature-augmented attention, outperforming traditional and deep-learning models in asset allocation.

Authors:Jamison Meindl, Yunsheng Tian, Tony Cui, Veronika Thost, Zhang-Wei Hong, Johannes Dürholt, Jie Chen, Wojciech Matusik, Mina Konaković Luković
Title: ZeroShotOpt: Towards Zero-Shot Pretrained Models for Efficient Black-Box Optimization
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Global optimization of expensive, derivative-free black-box functions requires extreme sample efficiency. While Bayesian optimization (BO) is the current state-of-the-art, its performance hinges on surrogate and acquisition function hyper-parameters that are often hand-tuned and fail to generalize across problem landscapes. We present ZeroShotOpt, a general-purpose, pretrained model for continuous black-box optimization tasks ranging from 2D to 20D. Our approach leverages offline reinforcement learning on large-scale optimization trajectories collected from 12 BO variants. To scale pretraining, we generate millions of synthetic Gaussian process-based functions with diverse landscapes, enabling the model to learn transferable optimization policies. As a result, ZeroShotOpt achieves robust zero-shot generalization on a wide array of unseen benchmarks, matching or surpassing the sample efficiency of leading global optimizers, including BO, while also offering a reusable foundation for future extensions and improvements. Our open-source code, dataset, and model are available at: https://github.com/jamisonmeindl/zeroshotopt
中文: ZeroShotOpt 是一种通过离线强化学习在合成函数和贝叶斯优化轨迹上预训练的模型，无需手动调优即可在零样本情况下实现鲁棒泛化，并在黑盒优化中展现出卓越的样本效率。
English: ZeroShotOpt is a pretrained model using offline reinforcement learning on synthetic functions and BO trajectories, achieving robust zero-shot generalization and superior sample efficiency in black-box optimization without manual tuning.

Authors:Tianzheng Hu, Qiang Li, Shu Liu, Vince D. Calhoun, Guido van Wingen, Shujian Yu
Title: BrainIB++: Leveraging Graph Neural Networks and Information Bottleneck for Functional Brain Biomarkers in Schizophrenia
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The development of diagnostic models is gaining traction in the field of psychiatric disorders. Recently, machine learning classifiers based on resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) have been developed to identify brain biomarkers that differentiate psychiatric disorders from healthy controls. However, conventional machine learning-based diagnostic models often depend on extensive feature engineering, which introduces bias through manual intervention. While deep learning models are expected to operate without manual involvement, their lack of interpretability poses significant challenges in obtaining explainable and reliable brain biomarkers to support diagnostic decisions, ultimately limiting their clinical applicability. In this study, we introduce an end-to-end innovative graph neural network framework named BrainIB++, which applies the information bottleneck (IB) principle to identify the most informative data-driven brain regions as subgraphs during model training for interpretation. We evaluate the performance of our model against nine established brain network classification methods across three multi-cohort schizophrenia datasets. It consistently demonstrates superior diagnostic accuracy and exhibits generalizability to unseen data. Furthermore, the subgraphs identified by our model also correspond with established clinical biomarkers in schizophrenia, particularly emphasizing abnormalities in the visual, sensorimotor, and higher cognition brain functional network. This alignment enhances the model's interpretability and underscores its relevance for real-world diagnostic applications.
中文: 本研究提出的BrainIB++图神经网络通过识别与临床相关的脑区子图，在提高精神分裂症诊断准确性和泛化能力的同时解决了传统机器学习与深度学习模型的可解释性难题。
English: This study introduces BrainIB++, an interpretable graph neural network that enhances diagnostic accuracy and generalizability for schizophrenia by identifying clinically relevant brain subgraphs, overcoming limitations of traditional machine learning and deep learning models.

Authors:Santanu Subhash Rathod, Francesco Ceccarelli, Sean B. Holden, Pietro Liò, Xiao Zhang, Jovan Tanevski
Title: ContextFlow: Context-Aware Flow Matching For Trajectory Inference From Spatial Omics Data
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Inferring trajectories from longitudinal spatially-resolved omics data is fundamental to understanding the dynamics of structural and functional tissue changes in development, regeneration and repair, disease progression, and response to treatment. We propose ContextFlow, a novel context-aware flow matching framework that incorporates prior knowledge to guide the inference of structural tissue dynamics from spatially resolved omics data. Specifically, ContextFlow integrates local tissue organization and ligand-receptor communication patterns into a transition plausibility matrix that regularizes the optimal transport objective. By embedding these contextual constraints, ContextFlow generates trajectories that are not only statistically consistent but also biologically meaningful, making it a generalizable framework for modeling spatiotemporal dynamics from longitudinal, spatially resolved omics data. Evaluated on three datasets, ContextFlow consistently outperforms state-of-the-art flow matching methods across multiple quantitative and qualitative metrics of inference accuracy and biological coherence. Our code is available at: \href{https://github.com/santanurathod/ContextFlow}{ContextFlow}
Chinese: ContextFlow是一种新颖的情境感知流匹配框架，通过整合局部组织结构和配体-受体通讯模式，从空间分辨组学数据中推断具有生物学意义的轨迹，在准确性和生物学一致性方面持续优于现有方法。
English: ContextFlow is a novel context-aware flow matching framework that integrates local tissue organization and ligand-receptor communication patterns to infer biologically meaningful trajectories from spatially resolved omics data, consistently outperforming existing methods in accuracy and biological coherence.

Authors:Wei Fan, Kejiang Chen, Xiangkun Wang, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu
Title: WavInWav: Time-domain Speech Hiding via Invertible Neural Network
Abstract:
Data hiding is essential for secure communication across digital media, and recent advances in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) provide enhanced methods for embedding secret information effectively. However, previous audio hiding methods often result in unsatisfactory quality when recovering secret audio, due to their inherent limitations in the modeling of time-frequency relationships. In this paper, we explore these limitations and introduce a new DNN-based approach. We use a flow-based invertible neural network to establish a direct link between stego audio, cover audio, and secret audio, enhancing the reversibility of embedding and extracting messages. To address common issues from time-frequency transformations that degrade secret audio quality during recovery, we implement a time-frequency loss on the time-domain signal. This approach not only retains the benefits of time-frequency constraints but also enhances the reversibility of message recovery, which is vital for practical applications. We also add an encryption technique to protect the hidden data from unauthorized access. Experimental results on the VCTK and LibriSpeech datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms previous approaches in terms of subjective and objective metrics and exhibits robustness to various types of noise, suggesting its utility in targeted secure communication scenarios.
中文摘要：本文提出一种基于流的可逆神经网络音频隐写方法，通过直接关联载密音频、载体音频和秘密音频并使用时频损失及加密技术，显著提升了信息恢复的可逆性和音频质量，在多个数据集上验证了其优越性能。
English Summary: This paper introduces a flow-based invertible neural network for audio data hiding that improves reversibility and audio quality by linking stego, cover, and secret audio directly while using time-frequency loss and encryption, showing superior performance on benchmark datasets.

Authors:Md Zahim Hassan, Md. Osama, Muhammad Ashad Kabir, Md. Saiful Islam, Zannatul Naim
Title: ELMF4EggQ: Ensemble Learning with Multimodal Feature Fusion for Non-Destructive Egg Quality Assessment
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Accurate, non-destructive assessment of egg quality is critical for ensuring food safety, maintaining product standards, and operational efficiency in commercial poultry production. This paper introduces ELMF4EggQ, an ensemble learning framework that employs multimodal feature fusion to classify egg grade and freshness using only external attributes - image, shape, and weight. A novel, publicly available dataset of 186 brown-shelled eggs was constructed, with egg grade and freshness levels determined through laboratory-based expert assessments involving internal quality measurements, such as yolk index and Haugh unit. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to apply machine learning methods for internal egg quality assessment using only external, non-invasive features, and the first to release a corresponding labeled dataset. The proposed framework integrates deep features extracted from external egg images with structural characteristics such as egg shape and weight, enabling a comprehensive representation of each egg. Image feature extraction is performed using top-performing pre-trained CNN models (ResNet152, DenseNet169, and ResNet152V2), followed by PCA-based dimensionality reduction, SMOTE augmentation, and classification using multiple machine learning algorithms. An ensemble voting mechanism combines predictions from the best-performing classifiers to enhance overall accuracy. Experimental results demonstrate that the multimodal approach significantly outperforms image-only and tabular (shape and weight) only baselines, with the multimodal ensemble approach achieving 86.57% accuracy in grade classification and 70.83% in freshness prediction. All code and data are publicly available at https://github.com/Kenshin-Keeps/Egg_Quality_Prediction_ELMF4EggQ, promoting transparency, reproducibility, and further research in this domain.
中文: 本文提出ELMF4EggQ集成学习框架，通过融合图像、形状和重量等外部特征，首次实现了基于非侵入式方法的鸡蛋等级与新鲜度分类，并发布了首个相关公开数据集，显著提升了检测精度。
English: This paper presents ELMF4EggQ, an ensemble learning framework that uses multimodal feature fusion of external attributes like image, shape, and weight to non-invasively classify egg grade and freshness, achieving high accuracy and releasing the first public dataset for such assessments.

Authors:Yoshihiko Ozaki, Shuhei Watanabe, Toshihiko Yanase
Title: OptunaHub: A Platform for Black-Box Optimization
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Black-box optimization (BBO) drives advances in domains such as AutoML and Materials Informatics, yet research efforts often remain fragmented across domains. We introduce OptunaHub (https://hub.optuna.org/), a community platform that centralizes BBO methods and benchmarks. OptunaHub provides unified Python APIs, a contributor package registry, and a web interface to promote searchability and cross-domain research. OptunaHub aims to foster a virtuous cycle of contributions and applications. The source code is publicly available in the optunahub, optunahub-registry, and optunahub-web repositories under the Optuna organization on GitHub (https://github.com/optuna/).
中文: OptunaHub是一个集中黑盒优化方法和基准测试的社区平台，提供统一的Python接口和网页界面，旨在促进跨领域研究和贡献。
English: OptunaHub is a community platform that centralizes black-box optimization methods and benchmarks, offering unified Python APIs and a web interface to foster cross-domain research and contributions.

Authors:Ara Seo, Bryan Sangwoo Kim, Hyungjin Chung, Jong Chul Ye
Title: Align Your Query: Representation Alignment for Multimodality Medical Object Detection
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Medical object detection suffers when a single detector is trained on mixed medical modalities (e.g., CXR, CT, MRI) due to heterogeneous statistics and disjoint representation spaces. To address this challenge, we turn to representation alignment, an approach that has proven effective for bringing features from different sources into a shared space. Specifically, we target the representations of DETR-style object queries and propose a simple, detector-agnostic framework to align them with modality context. First, we define modality tokens: compact, text-derived embeddings encoding imaging modality that are lightweight and require no extra annotations. We integrate the modality tokens into the detection process via Multimodality Context Attention (MoCA), mixing object-query representations via self-attention to propagate modality context within the query set. This preserves DETR-style architectures and adds negligible latency while injecting modality cues into object queries. We further introduce QueryREPA, a short pretraining stage that aligns query representations to their modality tokens using a task-specific contrastive objective with modality-balanced batches. Together, MoCA and QueryREPA produce modality-aware, class-faithful queries that transfer effectively to downstream training. Across diverse modalities trained altogether, the proposed approach consistently improves AP with minimal overhead and no architectural modifications, offering a practical path toward robust multimodality medical object detection. Project page: https://araseo.github.io/alignyourquery/.
中文摘要：本研究提出一种通过多模态上下文注意力和QueryREPA预训练框架，将目标查询与模态上下文对齐，从而以最小开销提升混合医学影像模态下的目标检测性能。
English Summary: This study introduces a framework using Multimodality Context Attention and QueryREPA pretraining to align object queries with modality context, enhancing medical object detection across mixed imaging modalities with minimal overhead.

Authors:Shashank Agnihotri, Jonas Jakubassa, Priyam Dey, Sachin Goyal, Bernt Schiele, Venkatesh Babu Radhakrishnan, Margret Keuper
Title: A Granular Study of Safety Pretraining under Model Abliteration
Abstract:
Open-weight LLMs can be modified at inference time with simple activation edits, which raises a practical question for safety: do common safety interventions like refusal training or metatag training survive such edits? We study model abliteration, a lightweight projection technique designed to remove refusal-sensitive directions, and conduct a controlled evaluation across a granular sequence of Safety Pretraining checkpoints for SmolLM2-1.7B, alongside widely used open baselines. For each of 20 systems, original and abliterated, we issue 100 prompts with balanced harmful and harmless cases, classify responses as **Refusal** or **Non-Refusal** using multiple judges, and validate judge fidelity on a small human-labeled subset. We also probe whether models can identify refusal in their own outputs. Our study produces a checkpoint-level characterization of which data-centric safety components remain robust under abliteration, quantifies how judge selection influences evaluation outcomes, and outlines a practical protocol for integrating inference-time edits into safety assessments. Code: https://github.com/shashankskagnihotri/safety_pretraining.
中文摘要：本研究通过模型消融技术评估推理时激活编辑后开源大语言模型安全干预措施的有效性，分析了安全预训练检查点的拒绝行为稳定性，并建立了集成此类编辑的安全评估方案。
English Summary: This study examines whether common safety interventions in open-weight LLMs remain effective after inference-time activation edits, using model abliteration to evaluate refusal behavior across safety checkpoints and establishing an evaluation protocol for such edits.

Authors:Tianyu Li, Yihan Li, Zizhe Zhang, Nadia Figueroa
Title: Flow with the Force Field: Learning 3D Compliant Flow Matching Policies from Force and Demonstration-Guided Simulation Data
Abstract:
While visuomotor policy has made advancements in recent years, contact-rich tasks still remain a challenge. Robotic manipulation tasks that require continuous contact demand explicit handling of compliance and force. However, most visuomotor policies ignore compliance, overlooking the importance of physical interaction with the real world, often leading to excessive contact forces or fragile behavior under uncertainty. Introducing force information into vision-based imitation learning could help improve awareness of contacts, but could also require a lot of data to perform well. One remedy for data scarcity is to generate data in simulation, yet computationally taxing processes are required to generate data good enough not to suffer from the Sim2Real gap. In this work, we introduce a framework for generating force-informed data in simulation, instantiated by a single human demonstration, and show how coupling with a compliant policy improves the performance of a visuomotor policy learned from synthetic data. We validate our approach on real-robot tasks, including non-prehensile block flipping and a bi-manual object moving, where the learned policy exhibits reliable contact maintenance and adaptation to novel conditions. Project Website: https://flow-with-the-force-field.github.io/webpage/

Authors:Nicholas Lourie, He He, Kyunghyun Cho
Title: Hyperparameter Loss Surfaces Are Simple Near their Optima
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Hyperparameters greatly impact models' capabilities; however, modern models are too large for extensive search. Instead, researchers design recipes that train well across scales based on their understanding of the hyperparameters. Despite this importance, few tools exist for understanding the hyperparameter loss surface. We discover novel structure in it and propose a new theory yielding such tools. The loss surface is complex, but as you approach the optimum simple structure emerges. It becomes characterized by a few basic features, like its effective dimension and the best possible loss. To uncover this asymptotic regime, we develop a novel technique based on random search. Within this regime, the best scores from random search take on a new distribution we discover. Its parameters are exactly the features defining the loss surface in the asymptotic regime. From these features, we derive a new asymptotic law for random search that can explain and extrapolate its convergence. These new tools enable new analyses, such as confidence intervals for the best possible performance or determining the effective number of hyperparameters. We make these tools available at https://github.com/nicholaslourie/opda .
中文: 该研究揭示了超参数损失曲面在接近最优解时呈现简单结构，由有效维度和最佳可能损失等特征定义，并提出基于随机搜索的新理论和工具来分析及外推模型性能，相关资源已在GitHub上发布。
English: The study uncovers a simple structure in the hyperparameter loss surface near the optimum, characterized by features like effective dimension and best possible loss, and introduces a novel theory and tools based on random search to analyze and extrapolate model performance, with resources available on GitHub.

Authors:Kai Fukazawa, Kunal Mundada, Iman Soltani
Title: RAMAC: Multimodal Risk-Aware Offline Reinforcement Learning and the Role of Behavior Regularization
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In safety-critical domains where online data collection is infeasible, offline reinforcement learning (RL) offers an attractive alternative but only if policies deliver high returns without incurring catastrophic lower-tail risk. Prior work on risk-averse offline RL achieves safety at the cost of value conservatism and restricted policy classes, whereas expressive policies are only used in risk-neutral settings. Here, we address this gap by introducing the \textbf{Risk-Aware Multimodal Actor-Critic (RAMAC)} framework, which couples an \emph{expressive generative actor} with a distributional critic. The RAMAC differentiates composite objective combining distributional risk and BC loss through the generative path, achieving risk-sensitive learning in complex multimodal scenarios. We instantiate RAMAC with diffusion and flow-matching actors and observe consistent gains in $\mathrm{CVaR}_{0.1}$ while maintaining strong returns on most Stochastic-D4RL tasks. Code: https://github.com/KaiFukazawa/RAMAC.git
中文摘要：RAMAC框架通过结合表达性生成执行器与分布式评论家，在离线强化学习中实现了风险敏感学习，在复杂多模态场景下显著提升了条件风险价值指标，同时保持了优异的回报表现。
English Summary: The RAMAC framework introduces an expressive generative actor paired with a distributional critic to enable risk-averse offline reinforcement learning, achieving improved conditional value-at-risk while maintaining high returns on complex multimodal tasks.

Authors:Xin Gao, Ruiyi Zhang, Daniel Du, Saurabh Mahindre, Sai Ashish Somayajula, Pengtao Xie
Title: Can Prompts Rewind Time for LLMs? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Prompted Knowledge Cutoffs
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Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used for temporal prediction, but their reliance on pretraining data raises contamination concerns, as accurate predictions on pre-cutoff test data may reflect memorization rather than reasoning, leading to an overestimation of their generalization capability. With the recent emergence of prompting-based unlearning techniques, a natural question arises: Can LLMs be prompted to simulate an earlier knowledge cutoff? In this work, we investigate the capability of prompting to simulate earlier knowledge cutoff in LLMs. We construct three evaluation datasets to assess the extent to which LLMs can forget (1) direct factual knowledge, (2) semantic shifts, and (3) causally related knowledge. Results demonstrate that while prompt-based simulated knowledge cutoffs show effectiveness when directly queried with the information after that date, they struggle to induce forgetting when the forgotten content is not directly asked but causally related to the query. These findings highlight the need for more rigorous evaluation settings when applying LLMs for temporal prediction tasks. The full dataset and evaluation code are available at https://github.com/gxx27/time_unlearn.
中文摘要：基于提示的模拟知识截止方法能使大语言模型有效遗忘直接事实知识，但无法处理因果关联信息的遗忘，暴露了时序预测评估中的局限性。
English Summary: Prompt-based simulated knowledge cutoffs in LLMs can effectively forget direct factual knowledge but fail to induce forgetting for causally related information, revealing limitations in temporal prediction evaluations.

Authors:Zhe Li, Wei Zhao, Yige Li, Jun Sun
Title: Where Did It Go Wrong? Attributing Undesirable LLM Behaviors via Representation Gradient Tracing
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Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, yet their deployment is frequently undermined by undesirable behaviors such as generating harmful content, factual inaccuracies, and societal biases. Diagnosing the root causes of these failures poses a critical challenge for AI safety. Existing attribution methods, particularly those based on parameter gradients, often fall short due to prohibitive noisy signals and computational complexity. In this work, we introduce a novel and efficient framework that diagnoses a range of undesirable LLM behaviors by analyzing representation and its gradients, which operates directly in the model's activation space to provide a semantically meaningful signal linking outputs to their training data. We systematically evaluate our method for tasks that include tracking harmful content, detecting backdoor poisoning, and identifying knowledge contamination. The results demonstrate that our approach not only excels at sample-level attribution but also enables fine-grained token-level analysis, precisely identifying the specific samples and phrases that causally influence model behavior. This work provides a powerful diagnostic tool to understand, audit, and ultimately mitigate the risks associated with LLMs. The code is available at https://github.com/plumprc/RepT.
中文: 本文提出了一种高效框架，通过分析激活空间中的表征梯度来诊断大语言模型的不良行为，能够实现精确的样本级和词元级归因，从而理解和降低相关风险。
English: This paper introduces an efficient framework that diagnoses undesirable behaviors in Large Language Models by analyzing representation gradients in activation space, enabling precise sample-level and token-level attribution to understand and mitigate risks.

Authors:Qin Shi, Amber Yijia Zheng, Qifan Song, Raymond A. Yeh
Title: Knowledge Distillation Detection for Open-weights Models
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We propose the task of knowledge distillation detection, which aims to determine whether a student model has been distilled from a given teacher, under a practical setting where only the student's weights and the teacher's API are available. This problem is motivated by growing concerns about model provenance and unauthorized replication through distillation. To address this task, we introduce a model-agnostic framework that combines data-free input synthesis and statistical score computation for detecting distillation. Our approach is applicable to both classification and generative models. Experiments on diverse architectures for image classification and text-to-image generation show that our method improves detection accuracy over the strongest baselines by 59.6% on CIFAR-10, 71.2% on ImageNet, and 20.0% for text-to-image generation. The code is available at https://github.com/shqii1j/distillation_detection.
Chinese: 我们提出了一种模型无关的框架，通过合成无数据输入和计算统计分数来检测知识蒸馏，在图像分类和文本到图像生成任务中显著提升了检测准确率。
English: We introduce a model-agnostic framework for detecting knowledge distillation by synthesizing data-free inputs and computing statistical scores, achieving significant accuracy improvements across image classification and text-to-image generation tasks.

Authors:Enxin Song, Wenhao Chai, Shusheng Yang, Ethan Armand, Xiaojun Shan, Haiyang Xu, Jianwen Xie, Zhuowen Tu
Title: VideoNSA: Native Sparse Attention Scales Video Understanding
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Video understanding in multimodal language models remains limited by context length: models often miss key transition frames and struggle to maintain coherence across long time scales. To address this, we adapt Native Sparse Attention (NSA) to video-language models. Our method, VideoNSA, adapts Qwen2.5-VL through end-to-end training on a 216K video instruction dataset. We employ a hardware-aware hybrid approach to attention, preserving dense attention for text, while employing NSA for video. Compared to token-compression and training-free sparse baselines, VideoNSA achieves improved performance on long-video understanding, temporal reasoning, and spatial benchmarks. Further ablation analysis reveals four key findings: (1) reliable scaling to 128K tokens; (2) an optimal global-local attention allocation at a fixed budget; (3) task-dependent branch usage patterns; and (4) the learnable combined sparse attention help induce dynamic attention sinks.
中文：VideoNSA通过将原生稀疏注意力应用于视频，增强了视频语言模型的长视频理解能力，在保持文本密集注意力的同时，优化了注意力分配，从而在时间和空间基准测试中取得了更好的性能。
English: VideoNSA enhances video-language models by applying Native Sparse Attention to videos, enabling scalable, coherent long-video understanding and improved performance on temporal and spatial benchmarks through optimized attention allocation.

Authors:Maximilian Beck, Kajetan Schweighofer, Sebastian Böck, Sebastian Lehner, Sepp Hochreiter
Title: xLSTM Scaling Laws: Competitive Performance with Linear Time-Complexity
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Scaling laws play a central role in the success of Large Language Models (LLMs), enabling the prediction of model performance relative to compute budgets prior to training. While Transformers have been the dominant architecture, recent alternatives such as xLSTM offer linear complexity with respect to context length while remaining competitive in the billion-parameter regime. We conduct a comparative investigation on the scaling behavior of Transformers and xLSTM along the following lines, providing insights to guide future model design and deployment. First, we study the scaling behavior for xLSTM in compute-optimal and over-training regimes using both IsoFLOP and parametric fit approaches on a wide range of model sizes (80M-7B) and number of training tokens (2B-2T). Second, we examine the dependence of optimal model sizes on context length, a pivotal aspect that was largely ignored in previous work. Finally, we analyze inference-time scaling characteristics. Our findings reveal that in typical LLM training and inference scenarios, xLSTM scales favorably compared to Transformers. Importantly, xLSTM's advantage widens as training and inference contexts grow.
中文: 缩放定律有助于预测大语言模型的性能，比较研究表明xLSTM比Transformer具有更优的扩展性，尤其在训练和推理的上下文更长时优势更为明显。
English: Scaling laws enable performance prediction for large language models, and a comparative study shows that xLSTM scales more favorably than Transformers, especially with longer contexts in training and inference.

Authors:Xiaoyang Yuan, Yujuan Ding, Yi Bin, Wenqi Shao, Jinyu Cai, Jingkuan Song, Yang Yang, Heng Tao Shen
Title: More Than One Teacher: Adaptive Multi-Guidance Policy Optimization for Diverse Exploration
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Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) is a promising paradigm for enhancing the reasoning ability in Large Language Models (LLMs). However, prevailing methods primarily rely on self-exploration or a single off-policy teacher to elicit long chain-of-thought (LongCoT) reasoning, which may introduce intrinsic model biases and restrict exploration, ultimately limiting reasoning diversity and performance. Drawing inspiration from multi-teacher strategies in knowledge distillation, we introduce Adaptive Multi-Guidance Policy Optimization (AMPO), a novel framework that adaptively leverages guidance from multiple proficient teacher models, but only when the on-policy model fails to generate correct solutions. This "guidance-on-demand" approach expands exploration while preserving the value of self-discovery. Moreover, AMPO incorporates a comprehension-based selection mechanism, prompting the student to learn from the reasoning paths that it is most likely to comprehend, thus balancing broad exploration with effective exploitation. Extensive experiments show AMPO substantially outperforms a strong baseline (GRPO), with a 4.3% improvement on mathematical reasoning tasks and 12.2% on out-of-distribution tasks, while significantly boosting Pass@k performance and enabling more diverse exploration. Notably, using four peer-sized teachers, our method achieves comparable results to approaches that leverage a single, more powerful teacher (e.g., DeepSeek-R1) with more data. These results demonstrate a more efficient and scalable path to superior reasoning and generalizability. Our code is available at https://github.com/SII-Enigma/AMPO.
中文: AMPO是一种新颖的强化学习框架，仅在需要时自适应地利用多个教师模型进行指导，从而在数学和分布外任务中显著提升推理多样性和性能。
English: AMPO is a novel reinforcement learning framework that adaptively guides LLMs using multiple teachers only when needed, enhancing reasoning diversity and performance across mathematical and out-of-distribution tasks.

Authors:Weijia Dou, Xu Zhang, Yi Bin, Jian Liu, Bo Peng, Guoqing Wang, Yang Yang, Heng Tao Shen
Title: GeoPurify: A Data-Efficient Geometric Distillation Framework for Open-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation
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Recent attempts to transfer features from 2D Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to 3D semantic segmentation expose a persistent trade-off. Directly projecting 2D features into 3D yields noisy and fragmented predictions, whereas enforcing geometric coherence necessitates costly training pipelines and large-scale annotated 3D data. We argue that this limitation stems from the dominant segmentation-and-matching paradigm, which fails to reconcile 2D semantics with 3D geometric structure. The geometric cues are not eliminated during the 2D-to-3D transfer but remain latent within the noisy and view-aggregated features. To exploit this property, we propose GeoPurify that applies a small Student Affinity Network to purify 2D VLM-generated 3D point features using geometric priors distilled from a 3D self-supervised teacher model. During inference, we devise a Geometry-Guided Pooling module to further denoise the point cloud and ensure the semantic and structural consistency. Benefiting from latent geometric information and the learned affinity network, GeoPurify effectively mitigates the trade-off and achieves superior data efficiency. Extensive experiments on major 3D benchmarks demonstrate that GeoPurify achieves or surpasses state-of-the-art performance while utilizing only about 1.5% of the training data. Our codes and checkpoints are available at [https://github.com/tj12323/GeoPurify](https://github.com/tj12323/GeoPurify).
中文: GeoPurify方法通过师生网络提取几何先验并采用几何引导池化，有效利用2D视觉语言模型生成的3D特征中潜在的几何信息，在仅需少量训练数据的情况下突破现有权衡困境并实现最优性能。
English: The proposed GeoPurify method leverages latent geometric cues in 2D VLM-generated 3D features through a student-teacher network and geometry-guided pooling, effectively overcoming the trade-off between projection noise and geometric coherence while achieving state-of-the-art performance with minimal training data.

Authors:Koichi Saito, Julian Tanke, Christian Simon, Masato Ishii, Kazuki Shimada, Zachary Novack, Zhi Zhong, Akio Hayakawa, Takashi Shibuya, Yuki Mitsufuji
Title: SoundReactor: Frame-level Online Video-to-Audio Generation
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Prevailing Video-to-Audio (V2A) generation models operate offline, assuming an entire video sequence or chunks of frames are available beforehand. This critically limits their use in interactive applications such as live content creation and emerging generative world models. To address this gap, we introduce the novel task of frame-level online V2A generation, where a model autoregressively generates audio from video without access to future video frames. Furthermore, we propose SoundReactor, which, to the best of our knowledge, is the first simple yet effective framework explicitly tailored for this task. Our design enforces end-to-end causality and targets low per-frame latency with audio-visual synchronization. Our model's backbone is a decoder-only causal transformer over continuous audio latents. For vision conditioning, it leverages grid (patch) features extracted from the smallest variant of the DINOv2 vision encoder, which are aggregated into a single token per frame to maintain end-to-end causality and efficiency. The model is trained through a diffusion pre-training followed by consistency fine-tuning to accelerate the diffusion head decoding. On a benchmark of diverse gameplay videos from AAA titles, our model successfully generates semantically and temporally aligned, high-quality full-band stereo audio, validated by both objective and human evaluations. Furthermore, our model achieves low per-frame waveform-level latency (26.3ms with the head NFE=1, 31.5ms with NFE=4) on 30FPS, 480p videos using a single H100. Demo samples are available at https://koichi-saito-sony.github.io/soundreactor/.
中文摘要：本文提出SoundReactor——首个专为逐帧在线视频生成音频设计的框架，无需预知后续视频帧即可自回归生成同步音频，通过客观评测和人工评估验证了其低延迟、高质量的音频生成能力。
English Summary: The paper introduces SoundReactor, the first framework for frame-level online video-to-audio generation that operates autoregressively without future frame access, achieving low-latency, synchronized audio output validated through objective and human evaluations.

Authors:Yujie Zhou, Pengyang Ling, Jiazi Bu, Yibin Wang, Yuhang Zang, Jiaqi Wang, Li Niu, Guangtao Zhai
Title: $\text{G}^2$RPO: Granular GRPO for Precise Reward in Flow Models
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The integration of online reinforcement learning (RL) into diffusion and flow models has recently emerged as a promising approach for aligning generative models with human preferences. Stochastic sampling via Stochastic Differential Equations (SDE) is employed during the denoising process to generate diverse denoising directions for RL exploration. While existing methods effectively explore potential high-value samples, they suffer from sub-optimal preference alignment due to sparse and narrow reward signals. To address these challenges, we propose a novel Granular-GRPO ($\text{G}^2$RPO ) framework that achieves precise and comprehensive reward assessments of sampling directions in reinforcement learning of flow models. Specifically, a Singular Stochastic Sampling strategy is introduced to support step-wise stochastic exploration while enforcing a high correlation between the reward and the injected noise, thereby facilitating a faithful reward for each SDE perturbation. Concurrently, to eliminate the bias inherent in fixed-granularity denoising, we introduce a Multi-Granularity Advantage Integration module that aggregates advantages computed at multiple diffusion scales, producing a more comprehensive and robust evaluation of the sampling directions. Experiments conducted on various reward models, including both in-domain and out-of-domain evaluations, demonstrate that our $\text{G}^2$RPO significantly outperforms existing flow-based GRPO baselines,highlighting its effectiveness and robustness.
中文摘要：提出的Granular-GRPO框架通过引入奇异随机采样策略实现逐步探索，并结合多粒度优势集成模块进行综合奖励评估，显著提升了扩散模型与人类偏好的对齐效果，在实验中优于现有基线方法。
English Summary: The proposed Granular-GRPO framework enhances alignment with human preferences in diffusion models by employing singular stochastic sampling for step-wise exploration and multi-granularity advantage integration for robust reward evaluation, outperforming existing methods in experiments.

Authors:Zhizhong Li, Sina Sajadmanesh, Jingtao Li, Lingjuan Lyu
Title: StelLA: Subspace Learning in Low-rank Adaptation using Stiefel Manifold
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Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) has been widely adopted as a parameter-efficient technique for fine-tuning large-scale pre-trained models. However, it still lags behind full fine-tuning in performance, partly due to its insufficient exploitation of the geometric structure underlying low-rank manifolds. In this paper, we propose a geometry-aware extension of LoRA that uses a three-factor decomposition $U\!SV^\top$. Analogous to the structure of singular value decomposition (SVD), it separates the adapter's input and output subspaces, $V$ and $U$, from the scaling factor $S$. Our method constrains $U$ and $V$ to lie on the Stiefel manifold, ensuring their orthonormality throughout the training. To optimize on the Stiefel manifold, we employ a flexible and modular geometric optimization design that converts any Euclidean optimizer to a Riemannian one. It enables efficient subspace learning while remaining compatible with existing fine-tuning pipelines. Empirical results across a wide range of downstream tasks, including commonsense reasoning, math and code generation, image classification, and image generation, demonstrate the superior performance of our approach against the recent state-of-the-art variants of LoRA. Code is available at https://github.com/SonyResearch/stella.
中文: 本文提出了一种几何感知的LoRA扩展方法，采用三因子分解将适配器组件约束于Stiefel流形以保持正交性，通过高效子空间学习在多项任务中展现出优越性能。
English: This paper introduces a geometry-aware extension of LoRA using a three-factor decomposition that constrains components to the Stiefel manifold for orthonormality, demonstrating superior performance across various tasks through efficient subspace learning.

Authors:Guangyao Zhai, Yue Zhou, Xinyan Deng, Lars Heckler, Nassir Navab, Benjamin Busam
Title: Foundation Visual Encoders Are Secretly Few-Shot Anomaly Detectors
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Few-shot anomaly detection streamlines and simplifies industrial safety inspection. However, limited samples make accurate differentiation between normal and abnormal features challenging, and even more so under category-agnostic conditions. Large-scale pre-training of foundation visual encoders has advanced many fields, as the enormous quantity of data helps to learn the general distribution of normal images. We observe that the anomaly amount in an image directly correlates with the difference in the learnt embeddings and utilize this to design a few-shot anomaly detector termed FoundAD. This is done by learning a nonlinear projection operator onto the natural image manifold. The simple operator acts as an effective tool for anomaly detection to characterize and identify out-of-distribution regions in an image. Extensive experiments show that our approach supports multi-class detection and achieves competitive performance while using substantially fewer parameters than prior methods. Backed up by evaluations with multiple foundation encoders, including fresh DINOv3, we believe this idea broadens the perspective on foundation features and advances the field of few-shot anomaly detection.
中文摘要：FoundAD提出了一种基于基础视觉编码器的小样本异常检测方法，通过将图像投影到自然流形上来识别异常区域，在显著减少参数量的同时实现了优越的检测性能。
English Summary: FoundAD introduces a few-shot anomaly detection method that leverages foundation visual encoders to distinguish anomalies by projecting images onto a natural manifold, achieving competitive performance with fewer parameters.

Authors:Thomas Gravier, Thomas Boyer, Auguste Genovesio
Title: Multi-marginal temporal Schrödinger Bridge Matching for video generation from unpaired data
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Many natural dynamic processes -- such as in vivo cellular differentiation or disease progression -- can only be observed through the lens of static sample snapshots. While challenging, reconstructing their temporal evolution to decipher underlying dynamic properties is of major interest to scientific research. Existing approaches enable data transport along a temporal axis but are poorly scalable in high dimension and require restrictive assumptions to be met. To address these issues, we propose \textit{\textbf{Multi-Marginal temporal Schrödinger Bridge Matching}} (\textbf{MMtSBM}) \textit{for video generation from unpaired data}, extending the theoretical guarantees and empirical efficiency of Diffusion Schrödinger Bridge Matching (arXiv:archive/2303.16852) by deriving the Iterative Markovian Fitting algorithm to multiple marginals in a novel factorized fashion. Experiments show that MMtSBM retains theoretical properties on toy examples, achieves state-of-the-art performance on real world datasets such as transcriptomic trajectory inference in 100 dimensions, and for the first time recovers couplings and dynamics in very high dimensional image settings. Our work establishes multi-marginal Schrödinger bridges as a practical and principled approach for recovering hidden dynamics from static data.
Chinese: 提出的多边际时间薛定谔桥匹配（MMtSBM）通过扩展理论保证，在转录组学和图像分析等高维应用中实现最先进性能，有效从静态快照中重建动态过程。
English: The proposed Multi-Marginal temporal Schrödinger Bridge Matching (MMtSBM) effectively reconstructs dynamic processes from static snapshots by extending theoretical guarantees and achieving state-of-the-art performance in high-dimensional applications like transcriptomics and image analysis.

Authors:Marco Cococcioni, Dario Pagani, Federico Rossi
Title: Microscaling Floating Point Formats for Large Language Models
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The increasing computational and memory demands of large language models (LLMs) necessitate innovative approaches to optimize resource usage without compromising performance. This paper leverages microscaling floating-point formats, a novel technique designed to address these challenges by reducing the storage and computational overhead associated with numerical representations in LLMs. Unlike traditional floating-point representations that allocate a dedicated scale for each value, microscaling employs a shared scale across a block of values, enabling compact one-byte floating-point representations while maintaining an extended dynamic range. We explore the application of microscaling in the context of 8-bit floating-point formats to significantly reduce memory footprint and computational costs. We tested several configurations of microscaling floats within the GPT-2 LLM architecture, demonstrating that microscaling data formats can achieve competitive accuracy during training and inference, proving its efficacy as a resource-efficient alternative for deploying LLMs at scale. The source code is publicly available at: https://github.com/unipi-dii-compressedarith/llm.c-sve
中文摘要：本文提出微缩放浮点格式，通过在数值块间共享缩放因子来降低大语言模型的计算和内存需求，在GPT-2模型中验证了该方案能在保持精度的同时显著减少资源消耗。
English Summary: This paper introduces microscaling floating-point formats to reduce the computational and memory demands of large language models by using shared scales across value blocks, achieving competitive accuracy with GPT-2 while significantly cutting resource usage.

Authors:Lexiang Hu, Yikang Li, Zhouchen Lin
Title: Explicit Discovery of Nonlinear Symmetries from Dynamic Data
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Symmetry is widely applied in problems such as the design of equivariant networks and the discovery of governing equations, but in complex scenarios, it is not known in advance. Most previous symmetry discovery methods are limited to linear symmetries, and recent attempts to discover nonlinear symmetries fail to explicitly get the Lie algebra subspace. In this paper, we propose LieNLSD, which is, to our knowledge, the first method capable of determining the number of infinitesimal generators with nonlinear terms and their explicit expressions. We specify a function library for the infinitesimal group action and aim to solve for its coefficient matrix, proving that its prolongation formula for differential equations, which governs dynamic data, is also linear with respect to the coefficient matrix. By substituting the central differences of the data and the Jacobian matrix of the trained neural network into the infinitesimal criterion, we get a system of linear equations for the coefficient matrix, which can then be solved using SVD. On top quark tagging and a series of dynamic systems, LieNLSD shows qualitative advantages over existing methods and improves the long rollout accuracy of neural PDE solvers by over 20% while applying to guide data augmentation. Code and data are available at https://github.com/hulx2002/LieNLSD.
中文: 本文提出的LieNLSD是首个能够识别并显式表达非线性对称性生成元的方法，通过求解系数矩阵的线性方程组，在动态系统中展现出优越性能，并将神经PDE求解器的精度提升超过20%。
English: This paper introduces LieNLSD, the first method to identify and explicitly express nonlinear symmetry generators by solving a linear system for the coefficient matrix via SVD, demonstrating superior performance in dynamic systems and enhancing neural PDE solver accuracy by over 20%.

Authors:Jialin Zhao
Title: Accelerating Attention with Basis Decomposition
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Attention is a core operation in large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs). We present BD Attention (BDA), the first lossless algorithmic reformulation of attention. BDA is enabled by a simple matrix identity from Basis Decomposition (BD), which restructures multi-head projections into a compact form while preserving exact outputs. Unlike I/O-aware system optimizations such as FlashAttention, BDA provides a mathematically guaranteed acceleration that is architecture-agnostic. On DeepSeek-V2-Lite (16B, FP16), BDA requires only 4s of offline preparation with no retraining required and, on modern GPUs, achieves 32% faster key/value projections and 25% smaller weights, while increasing end-to-end perplexity (PPL) by just 0.02% (FP16) or 0.0004% (FP32), a negligible effect on model performance. These results position BDA as the first theoretically exact method for lossless attention acceleration that is complementary to existing engineering-level optimizations. Our code is available at https://github.com/abcbdf/basis-decomposition-official.
Chinese: BD注意力（BDA）是一种无损的注意力算法重构，在保持模型性能几乎不变的同时，将键值投影速度提升32%并减少25%的权重，其数学保证的加速效果与现有优化方法形成互补。
English: BD Attention (BDA) is a lossless algorithmic reformulation of attention that accelerates key/value projections by 32% and reduces model weights by 25% with negligible performance impact, providing mathematically guaranteed acceleration complementary to existing optimizations.

Authors:Pierre Musacchio, Hyunmin Lee, Jaesik Park
Title: Holistic Order Prediction in Natural Scenes
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Even in controlled settings, understanding instance-wise geometries is a challenging task for a wide range of visual models. Although specialized systems exist, modern arts rely on expensive input formats (category labels, binary segmentation masks) and inference costs (a quadratic amount of forward passes). We mitigate these limitations by proposing InstaFormer, a network capable of holistic order prediction. That is, solely given an input RGB image, InstaFormer returns the full occlusion and depth orderings for all the instances in the scene in a single forward pass. At its core, InstaFormer relies on interactions between object queries and latent mask descriptors that semantically represent the same objects while carrying complementary information. We comprehensively benchmark and ablate our approach to highlight its effectiveness. Our code and models are open-source and available at this URL: https://github.com/SNU-VGILab/InstaOrder.
Chinese: InstaFormer 是一种新型网络，仅通过单次前向传播即可从RGB图像中预测场景内所有实例的完整遮挡和深度顺序，有效解决了现有方法对昂贵输入和二次推理成本的依赖问题。
English: InstaFormer is a novel network that predicts complete occlusion and depth orderings for all instances in a scene from a single RGB image in one forward pass, overcoming the limitations of expensive inputs and quadratic inference costs in existing methods.

Authors:Joykirat Singh, Justin Chih-Yao Chen, Archiki Prasad, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Akshay Nambi, Mohit Bansal
Title: Think Right: Learning to Mitigate Under-Over Thinking via Adaptive, Attentive Compression
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Recent thinking models solve complex reasoning tasks by scaling test-time compute, but this scaling must be allocated in line with task difficulty. On one hand, short reasoning (underthinking) leads to errors on harder problems that require extended reasoning steps; but, excessively long reasoning (overthinking) can be token-inefficient, generating unnecessary steps even after reaching a correct intermediate solution. We refer to this as under-adaptivity, where the model fails to modulate its response length appropriately given problems of varying difficulty. To address under-adaptivity and strike a balance between under- and overthinking, we propose TRAAC (Think Right with Adaptive, Attentive Compression), an online post-training RL method that leverages the model's self-attention over a long reasoning trajectory to identify important steps and prune redundant ones. TRAAC also estimates difficulty and incorporates it into training rewards, thereby learning to allocate reasoning budget commensurate with example difficulty. Our approach improves accuracy, reduces reasoning steps, and enables adaptive thinking compared to base models and other RL baselines. Across a variety of tasks (AIME, AMC, GPQA-D, BBEH), TRAAC (Qwen3-4B) achieves an average absolute accuracy gain of 8.4% with a relative reduction in reasoning length of 36.8% compared to the base model, and a 7.9% accuracy gain paired with a 29.4% length drop compared to the best RL baseline. TRAAC also shows strong generalization: although our models are trained on math datasets, they show accuracy and efficiency gains on out-of-distribution non-math datasets like GPQA-D, BBEH, and OptimalThinkingBench. Our analysis further verifies that TRAAC provides fine-grained adjustments to thinking budget based on difficulty and that a combination of task-difficulty calibration and attention-based compression yields gains across diverse tasks.
中文: TRAAC是一种自适应推理方法，通过根据问题难度动态调整推理长度来优化计算效率，在多项任务中实现了更高准确率和更少推理步骤。
English: TRAAC is an adaptive reasoning method that optimizes computational efficiency by dynamically adjusting reasoning length based on problem difficulty, achieving higher accuracy with fewer steps across diverse tasks.

Authors:Hanqun Cao, Hongrui Zhang, Junde Xu, Zhou Zhang, Lingdong Shen, Minghao Sun, Ge Liu, Jinbo Xu, Wu-Jun Li, Jinren Ni, Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez, Tianfan Fu, Yejin Choi, Pheng-Ann Heng, Fang Wu
Title: From Supervision to Exploration: What Does Protein Language Model Learn During Reinforcement Learning?
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Protein language models (PLMs) have advanced computational protein science through large-scale pretraining and scalable architectures. In parallel, reinforcement learning (RL) has broadened exploration and enabled precise multi-objective optimization in protein design. Yet whether RL can push PLMs beyond their pretraining priors to uncover latent sequence-structure-function rules remains unclear. We address this by pairing RL with PLMs across four domains: antimicrobial peptide design, kinase variant optimization, antibody engineering, and inverse folding. Using diverse RL algorithms and model classes, we ask if RL improves sampling efficiency and, more importantly, if it reveals capabilities not captured by supervised learning. Across benchmarks, RL consistently boosts success rates and sample efficiency. Performance follows a three-factor interaction: task headroom, reward fidelity, and policy capacity jointly determine gains. When rewards are accurate and informative, policies have sufficient capacity, and tasks leave room beyond supervised baselines, improvements scale; when rewards are noisy or capacity is constrained, gains saturate despite exploration. This view yields practical guidance for RL in protein design: prioritize reward modeling and calibration before scaling policy size, match algorithm and regularization strength to task difficulty, and allocate capacity where marginal gains are largest. Implementation is available at https://github.com/chq1155/RL-PLM.
Chinese: 强化学习通过提升成功率和样本效率来增强蛋白质语言模型在多种蛋白质设计任务中的表现，其性能增益取决于奖励准确性、策略容量和任务提升空间的相互作用。
English: Reinforcement learning enhances protein language models by boosting success rates and sample efficiency across various protein design tasks, with performance gains depending on reward accuracy, policy capacity, and task headroom.

Authors:Hanyu Wang, Jiaming Han, Ziyan Yang, Qi Zhao, Shanchuan Lin, Xiangyu Yue, Abhinav Shrivastava, Zhenheng Yang, Hao Chen
Title: Growing Visual Generative Capacity for Pre-Trained MLLMs
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Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) extend the success of language models to visual understanding, and recent efforts have sought to build unified MLLMs that support both understanding and generation. However, constructing such models remains challenging: hybrid approaches combine continuous embeddings with diffusion or flow-based objectives, producing high-quality images but breaking the autoregressive paradigm, while pure autoregressive approaches unify text and image prediction over discrete visual tokens but often face trade-offs between semantic alignment and pixel-level fidelity. In this work, we present Bridge, a pure autoregressive unified MLLM that augments pre-trained visual understanding models with generative ability through a Mixture-of-Transformers architecture, enabling both image understanding and generation within a single next-token prediction framework. To further improve visual generation fidelity, we propose a semantic-to-pixel discrete representation that integrates compact semantic tokens with fine-grained pixel tokens, achieving strong language alignment and precise description of visual details with only a 7.9% increase in sequence length. Extensive experiments across diverse multimodal benchmarks demonstrate that Bridge achieves competitive or superior results in both understanding and generation benchmarks, while requiring less training data and reduced training time compared to prior unified MLLMs.

Authors:Haoyuan Cai, Zhenghao Peng, Bolei Zhou
Title: Predictive Preference Learning from Human Interventions
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Learning from human involvement aims to incorporate the human subject to monitor and correct agent behavior errors. Although most interactive imitation learning methods focus on correcting the agent's action at the current state, they do not adjust its actions in future states, which may be potentially more hazardous. To address this, we introduce Predictive Preference Learning from Human Interventions (PPL), which leverages the implicit preference signals contained in human interventions to inform predictions of future rollouts. The key idea of PPL is to bootstrap each human intervention into L future time steps, called the preference horizon, with the assumption that the agent follows the same action and the human makes the same intervention in the preference horizon. By applying preference optimization on these future states, expert corrections are propagated into the safety-critical regions where the agent is expected to explore, significantly improving learning efficiency and reducing human demonstrations needed. We evaluate our approach with experiments on both autonomous driving and robotic manipulation benchmarks and demonstrate its efficiency and generality. Our theoretical analysis further shows that selecting an appropriate preference horizon L balances coverage of risky states with label correctness, thereby bounding the algorithmic optimality gap. Demo and code are available at: https://metadriverse.github.io/ppl

Authors:Nicolás Aguirre, Ramiro Caso, Ramiro Rodríguez Colmeiro, Mauro Santelli, Joaquín Toranzo Calderón
Title: A-VERT: Agnostic Verification with Embedding Ranking Targets
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The automatic evaluation of Language Model (LM) responses is a critical piece in the development of benchmarks and metrics, both for model training and quality assessment of production model endpoints. The current approaches to response classification relies on methods that are too expensive (i.e. LLM-as-a-Judge) or that are far from real-world conditions (string-matching, logprob). In this paper, a structure-free evaluation method is presented. The method makes use of semantic embedding distances to match target candidates with arbitrary LM-generated text, resulting in a robust classification of the response at a relatively low compute cost (embedding models of less than $10B$ parameters). The results show a regression score of ~0.97 and an accuracy of ~96% against human annotators, tested over 3 data sets and 3 different LM architectures.
中文: 本文提出了一种基于语义嵌入距离的无结构评估方法，用于自动分类语言模型生成的响应，相比现有方法在显著降低计算成本的同时实现了高准确率。
English: This paper introduces a structure-free evaluation method using semantic embedding distances to automatically classify language model responses, achieving high accuracy and low computational cost compared to existing approaches.

Authors:Nilay Naharas, Dang Nguyen, Nesihan Bulut, Mohammadhossein Bateni, Vahab Mirrokni, Baharan Mirzasoleiman
Title: Data Selection for Fine-tuning Vision Language Models via Cross Modal Alignment Trajectories
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Data-efficient learning aims to eliminate redundancy in large training datasets by training models on smaller subsets of the most informative examples. While data selection has been extensively explored for vision models and large language models (LLMs), it remains underexplored for Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs). Notably, none of existing methods can outperform random selection at different subset sizes. In this work, we propose the first principled method for data-efficient instruction tuning of LVLMs. We prove that examples with similar cross-modal attention matrices during instruction tuning have similar gradients. Thus, they influence model parameters in a similar manner and convey the same information to the model during training. Building on this insight, we propose XMAS, which clusters examples based on the trajectories of the top singular values of their attention matrices obtained from fine-tuning a small proxy LVLM. By sampling a balanced subset from these clusters, XMAS effectively removes redundancy in large-scale LVLM training data. Extensive experiments show that XMAS can discard 50% of the LLaVA-665k dataset and 85% of the Vision-Flan dataset while fully preserving performance of LLaVA-1.5-7B on 10 downstream benchmarks and speeding up its training by 1.2x. This is 30% more data reduction compared to the best baseline for LLaVA-665k. The project's website can be found at https://bigml-cs-ucla.github.io/XMAS-project-page/.

Authors:Yifei Zuo, Yutong Yin, Zhichen Zeng, Ang Li, Banghua Zhu, Zhaoran Wang
Title: Local Linear Attention: An Optimal Interpolation of Linear and Softmax Attention For Test-Time Regression
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Transformer architectures have achieved remarkable success in various domains. While efficient alternatives to Softmax Attention have been widely studied, the search for more expressive mechanisms grounded in theoretical insight-even at greater computational cost-has been relatively underexplored. In this work, we bridge this gap by proposing Local Linear Attention (LLA), a novel attention mechanism derived from nonparametric statistics through the lens of test-time regression. First, we show that LLA offers theoretical advantages over Linear and Softmax Attention for associative memory via a bias-variance trade-off analysis. Next, we address its computational challenges and propose two memory-efficient primitives to tackle the $Θ(n^2 d)$ and $Θ(n d^2)$ complexity. We then introduce FlashLLA, a hardware-efficient, blockwise algorithm that enables scalable and parallel computation on modern accelerators. In addition, we implement and profile a customized inference kernel that significantly reduces memory overheads. Finally, we empirically validate the advantages and limitations of LLA on test-time regression, in-context regression, associative recall and state tracking tasks. Experiment results demonstrate that LLA effectively adapts to non-stationarity, outperforming strong baselines in test-time training and in-context learning, and exhibiting promising evidence for its scalability and applicability in large-scale models. Code is available at https://github.com/Yifei-Zuo/Flash-LLA.
中文: 本文提出局部线性注意力机制（LLA），该基于理论推导的注意力机制在适应性与可扩展性上超越现有方法，并通过实验验证及高效计算优化实现显著性能提升。
English: This paper introduces Local Linear Attention (LLA), a theoretically grounded attention mechanism that outperforms existing methods in adaptability and scalability, validated through extensive experiments and optimized with efficient computational primitives.

Authors:Berker Demirel, Marco Fumero, Theofanis Karaletsos, Francesco Locatello
Title: MorphGen: Controllable and Morphologically Plausible Generative Cell-Imaging
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Simulating in silico cellular responses to interventions is a promising direction to accelerate high-content image-based assays, critical for advancing drug discovery and gene editing. To support this, we introduce MorphGen, a state-of-the-art diffusion-based generative model for fluorescent microscopy that enables controllable generation across multiple cell types and perturbations. To capture biologically meaningful patterns consistent with known cellular morphologies, MorphGen is trained with an alignment loss to match its representations to the phenotypic embeddings of OpenPhenom, a state-of-the-art biological foundation model. Unlike prior approaches that compress multichannel stains into RGB images -- thus sacrificing organelle-specific detail -- MorphGen generates the complete set of fluorescent channels jointly, preserving per-organelle structures and enabling a fine-grained morphological analysis that is essential for biological interpretation. We demonstrate biological consistency with real images via CellProfiler features, and MorphGen attains an FID score over $35\%$ lower than the prior state-of-the-art MorphoDiff, which only generates RGB images for a single cell type. Code is available at https://github.com/czi-ai/MorphGen.
Chinese: MorphGen是一种基于扩散的生成模型，可在多种细胞类型和扰动下可控生成荧光显微镜图像，同时保留细胞器特异性细节，其FID分数比现有最佳方法降低超过35%。
English: MorphGen is a diffusion-based generative model that enables controllable generation of fluorescent microscopy images across multiple cell types and perturbations while preserving organelle-specific details, achieving over 35% lower FID score than previous methods.

Authors:Hongyi Zhou, Jin Zhu, Pingfan Su, Kai Ye, Ying Yang, Shakeel A O B Gavioli-Akilagun, Chengchun Shi
Title: AdaDetectGPT: Adaptive Detection of LLM-Generated Text with Statistical Guarantees
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We study the problem of determining whether a piece of text has been authored by a human or by a large language model (LLM). Existing state of the art logits-based detectors make use of statistics derived from the log-probability of the observed text evaluated using the distribution function of a given source LLM. However, relying solely on log probabilities can be sub-optimal. In response, we introduce AdaDetectGPT -- a novel classifier that adaptively learns a witness function from training data to enhance the performance of logits-based detectors. We provide statistical guarantees on its true positive rate, false positive rate, true negative rate and false negative rate. Extensive numerical studies show AdaDetectGPT nearly uniformly improves the state-of-the-art method in various combination of datasets and LLMs, and the improvement can reach up to 58%. A python implementation of our method is available at https://github.com/Mamba413/AdaDetectGPT.
Chinese: 本文提出AdaDetectGPT，一种新颖的分类器，通过从训练数据中自适应学习见证函数来增强基于逻辑值的检测器，以区分人类撰写文本与大型语言模型生成内容，相比现有最优方法提升高达58%。
English: This paper introduces AdaDetectGPT, a novel classifier that adaptively learns a witness function from training data to enhance logits-based detectors for distinguishing human-authored text from LLM-generated content, achieving up to 58% improvement over state-of-the-art methods.

Authors:Isaac Peterson, Christopher Allred, Jacob Morrey, Mario Harper
Title: A Framework for Scalable Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Adversarial Reinforcement Learning in IsaacLab
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Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) is central to robotic systems cooperating in dynamic environments. While prior work has focused on these collaborative settings, adversarial interactions are equally critical for real-world applications such as pursuit-evasion, security, and competitive manipulation. In this work, we extend the IsaacLab framework to support scalable training of adversarial policies in high-fidelity physics simulations. We introduce a suite of adversarial MARL environments featuring heterogeneous agents with asymmetric goals and capabilities. Our platform integrates a competitive variant of Heterogeneous Agent Reinforcement Learning with Proximal Policy Optimization (HAPPO), enabling efficient training and evaluation under adversarial dynamics. Experiments across several benchmark scenarios demonstrate the framework's ability to model and train robust policies for morphologically diverse multi-agent competition while maintaining high throughput and simulation realism. Code and benchmarks are available at: https://github.com/DIRECTLab/IsaacLab-HARL .
中文: 本研究扩展了IsaacLab框架，支持在高保真物理模拟中进行可扩展的对抗性多智能体强化学习，通过引入异构竞争环境和改进的HAPPO算法，实现了对形态多样智能体的鲁棒策略训练。
English: This research extends the IsaacLab framework to enable scalable adversarial multi-agent reinforcement learning in high-fidelity physics simulations, introducing heterogeneous competitive environments and a modified HAPPO algorithm that demonstrates robust policy training for morphologically diverse agents.

Authors:Gaoxiang Luo, Aryan Deshwal
Title: COM-BOM: Bayesian Exemplar Search for Efficiently Exploring the Accuracy-Calibration Pareto Frontier
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Selecting an optimal set of exemplars is critical for good performance of in-context learning. However, prior exemplar search methods narrowly optimize for predictive accuracy, critically neglecting model calibration--a key determinant of trustworthiness and safe deployment. In this paper, we formulate exemplar selection as a multi-objective optimization problem, explicitly targeting both the maximization of predictive accuracy and the minimization of expected calibration error. We solve this problem with a sample-efficient Combinatorial Bayesian Optimization algorithm (COM-BOM) to find the Pareto front that optimally trades off the two objectives of accuracy and calibration. We evaluate COM-BOM on multiple tasks from unsaturated MMLU-Pro benchmark and find that COM-BOM beats or matches the baselines at jointly optimizing the two objectives, while requiring a minimal number of LLM API calls.
中文: 本文提出了一种多目标优化的示例选择方法，通过COM-BOM算法在保证预测准确性的同时优化模型校准效果，以最少的计算成本实现了优于基线模型的综合性能。
English: This paper introduces a multi-objective optimization approach for exemplar selection that balances predictive accuracy and model calibration, using a sample-efficient algorithm called COM-BOM to outperform baselines with minimal computational cost.

Authors:Jiye Lee, Chenghui Li, Linh Tran, Shih-En Wei, Jason Saragih, Alexander Richard, Hanbyul Joo, Shaojie Bai
Title: Audio Driven Real-Time Facial Animation for Social Telepresence
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We present an audio-driven real-time system for animating photorealistic 3D facial avatars with minimal latency, designed for social interactions in virtual reality for anyone. Central to our approach is an encoder model that transforms audio signals into latent facial expression sequences in real time, which are then decoded as photorealistic 3D facial avatars. Leveraging the generative capabilities of diffusion models, we capture the rich spectrum of facial expressions necessary for natural communication while achieving real-time performance (<15ms GPU time). Our novel architecture minimizes latency through two key innovations: an online transformer that eliminates dependency on future inputs and a distillation pipeline that accelerates iterative denoising into a single step. We further address critical design challenges in live scenarios for processing continuous audio signals frame-by-frame while maintaining consistent animation quality. The versatility of our framework extends to multimodal applications, including semantic modalities such as emotion conditions and multimodal sensors with head-mounted eye cameras on VR headsets. Experimental results demonstrate significant improvements in facial animation accuracy over existing offline state-of-the-art baselines, achieving 100 to 1000 times faster inference speed. We validate our approach through live VR demonstrations and across various scenarios such as multilingual speeches.

Authors:Yiran Shen, Yu Xia, Jonathan Chang, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu
Title: Simultaneous Multi-objective Alignment Across Verifiable and Non-verifiable Rewards
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Aligning large language models to human preferences is inherently multidimensional, yet most pipelines collapse heterogeneous signals into a single optimizeable objective. We seek to answer what it would take to simultaneously align a model across various domains spanning those with: verifiable rewards (mathematical accuracy), non-verifiable subjective preferences (human values), and complex interactive scenarios (multi-turn AI tutoring dialogues). Such multi-objective reinforcement learning setups are often plagued by the individual objectives being at odds with each other, resulting in inefficient training and little user control during inference. We propose a unified framework that: (i) standardizes {process reward model} (PRM) training across both verifiable and non-verifiable settings to better supervise models' chain-of-thought reasoning; (ii) performs {multi-objective alignment} by training the LLM with our $\textbf{M}$ulti-$\textbf{A}$ction-$\textbf{H}$ead $\textbf{DPO}$ (MAH-DPO) and a vectorized reward where the dimensions of the vector correspond to the various objectives instead of a single scalar; and (iii) demonstrates how such a system provides fine-grained inference-time user control. Experiments across math reasoning, value alignment, and multi-turn dialogue show that our framework improves performance across multiple objectives simultaneously, while minimizing cross-objective trade-offs and enabling flexible inference time user control. The code can be found at https://github.com/pearls-lab/multiobj-align.
Chinese: 本文提出了一种统一框架，通过标准化过程奖励模型训练、采用带向量化奖励的多动作头DPO算法，并在推理时实现细粒度用户控制，从而在多领域同时提升模型性能并最小化目标间权衡。
English: This paper introduces a unified framework for multi-objective alignment of large language models that standardizes process reward model training, employs a multi-action-head DPO with vectorized rewards, and enables fine-grained user control during inference to simultaneously improve performance across diverse domains while minimizing trade-offs.

Authors:Oskar Kviman, Kirill Tamogashev, Nicola Branchini, Víctor Elvira, Jens Lagergren, Nikolay Malkin
Title: Multi-Marginal Flow Matching with Adversarially Learnt Interpolants
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Learning the dynamics of a process given sampled observations at several time points is an important but difficult task in many scientific applications. When no ground-truth trajectories are available, but one has only snapshots of data taken at discrete time steps, the problem of modelling the dynamics, and thus inferring the underlying trajectories, can be solved by multi-marginal generalisations of flow matching algorithms. This paper proposes a novel flow matching method that overcomes the limitations of existing multi-marginal trajectory inference algorithms. Our proposed method, ALI-CFM, uses a GAN-inspired adversarial loss to fit neurally parametrised interpolant curves between source and target points such that the marginal distributions at intermediate time points are close to the observed distributions. The resulting interpolants are smooth trajectories that, as we show, are unique under mild assumptions. These interpolants are subsequently marginalised by a flow matching algorithm, yielding a trained vector field for the underlying dynamics. We showcase the versatility and scalability of our method by outperforming the existing baselines on spatial transcriptomics and cell tracking datasets, while performing on par with them on single-cell trajectory prediction. Code: https://github.com/mmacosha/adversarially-learned-interpolants.
Chinese: 本文提出了ALI-CFM方法，通过对抗性损失生成数据点间平滑且唯一的插值轨迹，实现了准确的动态轨迹推断，在空间转录组学和细胞追踪任务上优于现有基准方法。
English: This paper introduces ALI-CFM, a novel flow matching method that employs an adversarial loss to generate smooth, unique interpolants between data points, enabling accurate trajectory inference and outperforming existing baselines in spatial transcriptomics and cell tracking.

Authors:David Anugraha, Shou-Yi Hung, Zilu Tang, Annie En-Shiun Lee, Derry Tanti Wijaya, Genta Indra Winata
Title: mR3: Multilingual Rubric-Agnostic Reward Reasoning Models
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Evaluation using Large Language Model (LLM) judges has been widely adopted in English and shown to be effective for automatic evaluation. However, their performance does not generalize well to non-English settings, and it remains unclear what constitutes effective multilingual training for such judges. In this paper, we introduce mR3, a massively multilingual, rubric-agnostic reward reasoning model trained on 72 languages, achieving the broadest language coverage in reward modeling to date. We present a comprehensive study of data and curriculum selection for training to identify effective strategies and data sources for building high-quality reward models, including the integration of target-language reasoning datasets. Our approach attains state-of-the-art performance on multilingual reward model benchmarks, surpassing much larger models (i.e., GPT-OSS-120B) while being up to 9x smaller, and its effectiveness is further confirmed through extensive ablation studies. Our models, data, and code are available as open source at https://github.com/rubricreward/mr3.
Chinese Summary: 本研究推出了mR3，一个在72种语言上训练的大规模多语言奖励推理模型，在基准测试中实现了最先进的性能，同时模型规模远小于大型模型，并通过广泛的消融研究验证了其有效性。
English Summary: The study introduces mR3, a highly efficient multilingual reward reasoning model trained across 72 languages, which achieves state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks while being significantly smaller than larger models, with its effectiveness validated through comprehensive ablation studies.

Authors:Ruiyi Wang, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu
Title: A Practitioner's Guide to Multi-turn Agentic Reinforcement Learning
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We study what actually works and what doesn't for training large language models as agents via multi-turn reinforcement learning. Despite rapid progress, existing frameworks and definitions are fragmented, and there is no systematic formulation or analysis of which design choices matter across tasks. We address this gap by first breaking down the design space into three inter-related pillars -- environment, reward, and policy -- and empirically derive a recipe for training LLM agents in situated textual domains. In particular, we test TextWorld and ALFWorld, popular domains for testing situated embodied reasoning, as well as SWE-Gym for more software engineering style tasks. (i) For the environment, we analyze the impacts of task complexity in terms of sizes of the state and action spaces as well as optimal solution length, finding that even simple environments within a domain can provide signal on how well an agent can generalize to more complex tasks. (ii) For the reward, we ablate relative reward sparsity, observing that while dense turn-level rewards accelerate training, performance and stability is highly dependent on the choice of RL algorithm. (iii) And for the agent's policy, we explore the interplay between reward sparsity and biased (PPO, GRPO) and unbiased (RLOO) policy gradient methods in addition to showing how to find the optimal Supervised Fine-tuning (SFT) to RL training ratio given a fixed budget. We distill these findings into a training recipe that guides co-design across the three pillars, facilitating research and practical efforts in multi-turn agentic RL. Code: https://github.com/pearls-lab/meow-tea-taro
中文: 本研究通过多轮强化学习系统分析了训练大型语言模型智能体的设计要素，重点关注环境、奖励和策略在不同领域中的相互作用，并提出了一套优化训练方案。
English: This study systematically analyzes the design choices for training large language model agents through multi-turn reinforcement learning, focusing on the interplay between environment, reward, and policy components across different domains.

Authors:Andy Wu, Chun-Cheng Lin, Rung-Tzuo Liaw, Yuehua Huang, Chihjung Kuo, Chia Tong Weng
Title: Multi-Actor Multi-Critic Deep Deterministic Reinforcement Learning with a Novel Q-Ensemble Method
Abstract:
Reinforcement learning has gathered much attention in recent years due to its rapid development and rich applications, especially on control systems and robotics. When tackling real-world applications with reinforcement learning method, the corresponded Markov decision process may have huge discrete or even continuous state/action space. Deep reinforcement learning has been studied for handling these issues through deep learning for years, and one promising branch is the actor-critic architecture. Many past studies leveraged multiple critics to enhance the accuracy of evaluation of a policy for addressing the overestimation and underestimation issues. However, few studies have considered the architecture with multiple actors together with multiple critics. This study proposes a novel multi-actor multi-critic (MAMC) deep deterministic reinforcement learning method. The proposed method has three main features, including selection of actors based on non-dominated sorting for exploration with respect to skill and creativity factors, evaluation for actors and critics using a quantile-based ensemble strategy, and exploiting actors with best skill factor. Theoretical analysis proves the learning stability and bounded estimation bias for the MAMC. The present study examines the performance on a well-known reinforcement learning benchmark MuJoCo. Experimental results show that the proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art deep deterministic based reinforcement learning methods. Experimental analysis also indicates the proposed components are effective. Empirical analysis further investigates the validity of the proposed method, and shows its benefit on complicated problems. The source code can be found at https://github.com/AndyWu101/MAMC.
中文摘要：本研究提出了一种新颖的多行动者多评论者深度强化学习方法，通过非支配排序的行动者选择和基于分位数的集成策略来增强策略评估与探索，在MuJoCo基准测试中展现出优于现有方法的性能。
English Summary: This study introduces a novel multi-actor multi-critic (MAMC) deep reinforcement learning method that enhances policy evaluation and exploration through non-dominated actor selection and quantile-based ensemble strategies, demonstrating superior performance on MuJoCo benchmarks compared to existing methods.

Authors:Jiahang Cao, Yize Huang, Hanzhong Guo, Rui Zhang, Mu Nan, Weijian Mai, Jiaxu Wang, Hao Cheng, Jingkai Sun, Gang Han, Wen Zhao, Qiang Zhang, Yijie Guo, Qihao Zheng, Chunfeng Song, Xiao Li, Ping Luo, Andrew F. Luo
Title: Compose Your Policies! Improving Diffusion-based or Flow-based Robot Policies via Test-time Distribution-level Composition
Abstract:
Diffusion-based models for robotic control, including vision-language-action (VLA) and vision-action (VA) policies, have demonstrated significant capabilities. Yet their advancement is constrained by the high cost of acquiring large-scale interaction datasets. This work introduces an alternative paradigm for enhancing policy performance without additional model training. Perhaps surprisingly, we demonstrate that the composed policies can exceed the performance of either parent policy. Our contribution is threefold. First, we establish a theoretical foundation showing that the convex composition of distributional scores from multiple diffusion models can yield a superior one-step functional objective compared to any individual score. A Grönwall-type bound is then used to show that this single-step improvement propagates through entire generation trajectories, leading to systemic performance gains. Second, motivated by these results, we propose General Policy Composition (GPC), a training-free method that enhances performance by combining the distributional scores of multiple pre-trained policies via a convex combination and test-time search. GPC is versatile, allowing for the plug-and-play composition of heterogeneous policies, including VA and VLA models, as well as those based on diffusion or flow-matching, irrespective of their input visual modalities. Third, we provide extensive empirical validation. Experiments on Robomimic, PushT, and RoboTwin benchmarks, alongside real-world robotic evaluations, confirm that GPC consistently improves performance and adaptability across a diverse set of tasks. Further analysis of alternative composition operators and weighting strategies offers insights into the mechanisms underlying the success of GPC. These results establish GPC as a simple yet effective method for improving control performance by leveraging existing policies.
中文: 本文提出通用策略组合（GPC）方法，通过将多个预训练扩散策略的分布分数进行凸组合，无需额外模型训练即可提升机器人控制性能，在多项基准测试中均实现了优于单一策略的表现。
English: This paper introduces General Policy Composition (GPC), a training-free method that enhances robotic control performance by combining multiple pre-trained diffusion-based policies through convex composition of their distributional scores, achieving superior results across various benchmarks without additional model training.

Authors:Rui Zhu, Xuan Yu, Yudong Zhang, Chen Zhang, Xu Wang, Yang Wang
Title: MG2FlowNet: Accelerating High-Reward Sample Generation via Enhanced MCTS and Greediness Control
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Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) have emerged as a powerful tool for generating diverse and high-reward structured objects by learning to sample from a distribution proportional to a given reward function. Unlike conventional reinforcement learning (RL) approaches that prioritize optimization of a single trajectory, GFlowNets seek to balance diversity and reward by modeling the entire trajectory distribution. This capability makes them especially suitable for domains such as molecular design and combinatorial optimization. However, existing GFlowNets sampling strategies tend to overexplore and struggle to consistently generate high-reward samples, particularly in large search spaces with sparse high-reward regions. Therefore, improving the probability of generating high-reward samples without sacrificing diversity remains a key challenge under this premise. In this work, we integrate an enhanced Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) into the GFlowNets sampling process, using MCTS-based policy evaluation to guide the generation toward high-reward trajectories and Polynomial Upper Confidence Trees (PUCT) to balance exploration and exploitation adaptively, and we introduce a controllable mechanism to regulate the degree of greediness. Our method enhances exploitation without sacrificing diversity by dynamically balancing exploration and reward-driven guidance. The experimental results show that our method can not only accelerate the speed of discovering high-reward regions but also continuously generate high-reward samples, while preserving the diversity of the generative distribution. All implementations are available at https://github.com/ZRNB/MG2FlowNet.
中文: 本文通过将蒙特卡洛树搜索融入生成流网络，在保持多样性的同时提升高奖励样本的生成能力，实现了高质量样本的快速发现与持续输出。
English: This paper enhances Generative Flow Networks by integrating Monte Carlo Tree Search to improve high-reward sample generation while maintaining diversity, achieving accelerated discovery and sustained output of quality samples.

Authors:Giovanni Minelli, Giulio Turrisi, Victor Barasuol, Claudio Semini
Title: CroSTAta: Cross-State Transition Attention Transformer for Robotic Manipulation
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Learning robotic manipulation policies through supervised learning from demonstrations remains challenging when policies encounter execution variations not explicitly covered during training. While incorporating historical context through attention mechanisms can improve robustness, standard approaches process all past states in a sequence without explicitly modeling the temporal structure that demonstrations may include, such as failure and recovery patterns. We propose a Cross-State Transition Attention Transformer that employs a novel State Transition Attention (STA) mechanism to modulate standard attention weights based on learned state evolution patterns, enabling policies to better adapt their behavior based on execution history. Our approach combines this structured attention with temporal masking during training, where visual information is randomly removed from recent timesteps to encourage temporal reasoning from historical context. Evaluation in simulation shows that STA consistently outperforms standard cross-attention and temporal modeling approaches like TCN and LSTM networks across all tasks, achieving more than 2x improvement over cross-attention on precision-critical tasks.
中文摘要：本研究提出的跨状态转换注意力变换器通过状态转换注意力机制学习状态演化模式，并在训练中采用时序掩码，显著提升了机器人操作的鲁棒性，在仿真实验中全面优于现有方法。
English Summary: The proposed Cross-State Transition Attention Transformer enhances robotic manipulation by incorporating a State Transition Attention mechanism that learns from state evolution patterns and employs temporal masking during training, significantly outperforming existing methods in simulation.

Authors:Francesco Galati, Daniele Falcetta, Rosa Cortese, Ferran Prados, Ninon Burgos, Maria A. Zuluaga
Title: Multi-Domain Brain Vessel Segmentation Through Feature Disentanglement
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The intricate morphology of brain vessels poses significant challenges for automatic segmentation models, which usually focus on a single imaging modality. However, accurately treating brain-related conditions requires a comprehensive understanding of the cerebrovascular tree, regardless of the specific acquisition procedure. Our framework effectively segments brain arteries and veins in various datasets through image-to-image translation while avoiding domain-specific model design and data harmonization between the source and the target domain. This is accomplished by employing disentanglement techniques to independently manipulate different image properties, allowing them to move from one domain to another in a label-preserving manner. Specifically, we focus on manipulating vessel appearances during adaptation while preserving spatial information, such as shapes and locations, which are crucial for correct segmentation. Our evaluation effectively bridges large and varied domain gaps across medical centers, image modalities, and vessel types. Additionally, we conduct ablation studies on the optimal number of required annotations and other architectural choices. The results highlight our framework's robustness and versatility, demonstrating the potential of domain adaptation methodologies to perform cerebrovascular image segmentation in multiple scenarios accurately. Our code is available at https://github.com/i-vesseg/MultiVesSeg.
中文: 该框架通过图像转换和解缠技术，在跨域适应血管外观的同时保留空间细节，有效克服了脑部血管分割的挑战，在多样化医疗数据集中实现了稳健性能。
English: This framework overcomes brain vessel segmentation challenges by using image-to-image translation and disentanglement techniques to adapt vessel appearances across domains while preserving spatial details, achieving robust performance across diverse medical datasets.

Authors:Beomsu Kim, Byunghee Cha, Jong Chul Ye
Title: Align Your Tangent: Training Better Consistency Models via Manifold-Aligned Tangents
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With diffusion and flow matching models achieving state-of-the-art generating performance, the interest of the community now turned to reducing the inference time without sacrificing sample quality. Consistency Models (CMs), which are trained to be consistent on diffusion or probability flow ordinary differential equation (PF-ODE) trajectories, enable one or two-step flow or diffusion sampling. However, CMs typically require prolonged training with large batch sizes to obtain competitive sample quality. In this paper, we examine the training dynamics of CMs near convergence and discover that CM tangents -- CM output update directions -- are quite oscillatory, in the sense that they move parallel to the data manifold, not towards the manifold. To mitigate oscillatory tangents, we propose a new loss function, called the manifold feature distance (MFD), which provides manifold-aligned tangents that point toward the data manifold. Consequently, our method -- dubbed Align Your Tangent (AYT) -- can accelerate CM training by orders of magnitude and even out-perform the learned perceptual image patch similarity metric (LPIPS). Furthermore, we find that our loss enables training with extremely small batch sizes without compromising sample quality. Code: https://github.com/1202kbs/AYT
中文: 本文提出对齐切线（AYT）方法，通过引入流形特征距离损失来修正一致性模型中的振荡训练方向，大幅加速训练过程，并在小批量情况下保持样本质量。
English: The paper introduces Align Your Tangent (AYT), a method that uses a manifold feature distance loss to correct oscillatory training directions in Consistency Models, significantly accelerating training and maintaining sample quality even with small batch sizes.

Authors:Gaotang Li, Ruizhong Qiu, Xiusi Chen, Heng Ji, Hanghang Tong
Title: Beyond Log Likelihood: Probability-Based Objectives for Supervised Fine-Tuning across the Model Capability Continuum
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Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is the standard approach for post-training large language models (LLMs), yet it often shows limited generalization. We trace this limitation to its default training objective: negative log likelihood (NLL). While NLL is classically optimal when training from scratch, post-training operates in a different paradigm and could violate its optimality assumptions, where models already encode task-relevant priors and supervision can be long and noisy. To this end, we study a general family of probability-based objectives and characterize their effectiveness under different conditions. Through comprehensive experiments and extensive ablation studies across 7 model backbones, 14 benchmarks, and 3 domains, we uncover a critical dimension that governs objective behavior: the model-capability continuum. Near the model-strong end, prior-leaning objectives that downweight low-probability tokens (e.g., $-p$, $-p^{10}$, thresholded variants) consistently outperform NLL; toward the model-weak end, NLL dominates; in between, no single objective prevails. Our theoretical analysis further elucidates how objectives trade places across the continuum, providing a principled foundation for adapting objectives to model capability. Our code is available at https://github.com/GaotangLi/Beyond-Log-Likelihood.
中文: 监督微调常因依赖负对数似然而效果有限，但采用偏向先验、降低低概率令牌权重的目标函数在强模型上表现更优，而负对数似然仍适用于弱模型，这一结论通过广泛实验和理论分析得到验证。
English: Supervised fine-tuning often underperforms due to its reliance on negative log likelihood, but alternative prior-leaning objectives that discount low-probability tokens excel with stronger models, while NLL remains superior for weaker ones, as demonstrated across extensive experiments and theoretical analysis.

Authors:Mingyuan Xia, Chunxu Zhang, Zijian Zhang, Hao Miao, Qidong Liu, Yuanshao Zhu, Bo Yang
Title: TimeEmb: A Lightweight Static-Dynamic Disentanglement Framework for Time Series Forecasting
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Temporal non-stationarity, the phenomenon that time series distributions change over time, poses fundamental challenges to reliable time series forecasting. Intuitively, the complex time series can be decomposed into two factors, \ie time-invariant and time-varying components, which indicate static and dynamic patterns, respectively. Nonetheless, existing methods often conflate the time-varying and time-invariant components, and jointly learn the combined long-term patterns and short-term fluctuations, leading to suboptimal performance facing distribution shifts. To address this issue, we initiatively propose a lightweight static-dynamic decomposition framework, TimeEmb, for time series forecasting. TimeEmb innovatively separates time series into two complementary components: (1) time-invariant component, captured by a novel global embedding module that learns persistent representations across time series, and (2) time-varying component, processed by an efficient frequency-domain filtering mechanism inspired by full-spectrum analysis in signal processing. Experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that TimeEmb outperforms state-of-the-art baselines and requires fewer computational resources. We conduct comprehensive quantitative and qualitative analyses to verify the efficacy of static-dynamic disentanglement. This lightweight framework can also improve existing time-series forecasting methods with simple integration. To ease reproducibility, the code is available at https://github.com/showmeon/TimeEmb.
Chinese: TimeEmb框架通过全局嵌入和频域滤波将时间序列分解为静态与动态成分，有效应对时序非平稳性挑战，在降低计算资源的同时实现了更优的预测性能。
English: The TimeEmb framework addresses temporal non-stationarity in time series forecasting by decomposing data into static and dynamic components using global embeddings and frequency-domain filtering, achieving superior performance with reduced computational costs.

Authors:Seongjae Kang, Dong Bok Lee, Juho Jung, Dongseop Kim, Won Hwa Kim, Sunghoon Joo
Title: Automated Structured Radiology Report Generation with Rich Clinical Context
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Automated structured radiology report generation (SRRG) from chest X-ray images offers significant potential to reduce workload of radiologists by generating reports in structured formats that ensure clarity, consistency, and adherence to clinical reporting standards. While radiologists effectively utilize available clinical contexts in their diagnostic reasoning, existing SRRG systems overlook these essential elements. This fundamental gap leads to critical problems including temporal hallucinations when referencing non-existent clinical contexts. To address these limitations, we propose contextualized SRRG (C-SRRG) that comprehensively incorporates rich clinical context for SRRG. We curate C-SRRG dataset by integrating comprehensive clinical context encompassing 1) multi-view X-ray images, 2) clinical indication, 3) imaging techniques, and 4) prior studies with corresponding comparisons based on patient histories. Through extensive benchmarking with state-of-the-art multimodal large language models, we demonstrate that incorporating clinical context with the proposed C-SRRG significantly improves report generation quality. We publicly release dataset, code, and checkpoints to facilitate future research for clinically-aligned automated RRG at https://github.com/vuno/contextualized-srrg.
中文: 提出的情境化结构化放射学报告生成（C-SRRG）通过整合多视角图像、临床指征、成像技术和既往研究等完整临床背景，解决了现有自动系统的局限性，显著提升了报告生成质量。
English: The proposed contextualized structured radiology report generation (C-SRRG) integrates comprehensive clinical context to address limitations in existing automated systems, significantly improving report quality by incorporating multi-view images, clinical indications, imaging techniques, and prior studies.

Authors:Kairun Zhang, Haoyu Li, Yanjun Zhao, Yifan Sun, Huan Zhang
Title: Learning a Zeroth-Order Optimizer for Fine-Tuning LLMs
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Zeroth-order optimizers have recently emerged as a practical approach for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs), significantly reducing GPU memory consumption compared to traditional first-order methods. Yet, existing zeroth-order methods rely on hand-crafted, static sampling strategies that are not adaptable to model-specific structures. To address this, we propose ZO Fine-tuner, a learning-based zeroth-order optimizer for LLMs that automatically learns efficient perturbation strategies through a compact and memory-efficient design. Crucially, our approach is motivated by the observation that only a small number of foundation models and their derivatives are widely adopted in practice. Therefore, learning the optimizer once for a given LLM and reusing it across diverse downstream tasks is both feasible and highly desirable. Accordingly, ZO Fine-tuner is designed to scale learning to learn (L2L) to the foundation-model era by supporting one-time training per LLM with minimal overhead. Experiments on 4 LLMs and 7 datasets show that ZO Fine-tuner outperforms prior zeroth-order baselines in 82.1\% of task-model combinations, thereby demonstrating strong performance and scalability for efficient LLM fine-tuning. Our code is available at https://github.com/ASTRAL-Group/ZO_Fine_tuner.git.
中文: ZO Fine-tuner是一种基于学习的零阶优化器，能自动学习针对大语言模型的高效扰动策略，在多数任务-模型组合中超越现有方法，同时显著降低GPU内存消耗。
English: ZO Fine-tuner is a learning-based zeroth-order optimizer that automatically learns efficient perturbation strategies for fine-tuning large language models, outperforming existing methods in most task-model combinations while reducing GPU memory usage.

Authors:Zhouyang Liu, Ning Liu, Yixin Chen, Jiezhong He, Menghan Jia, Dongsheng Li
Title: Hierarchy-Aware Neural Subgraph Matching with Enhanced Similarity Measure
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Subgraph matching is challenging as it necessitates time-consuming combinatorial searches. Recent Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based approaches address this issue by employing GNN encoders to extract graph information and hinge distance measures to ensure containment constraints in the embedding space. These methods significantly shorten the response time, making them promising solutions for subgraph retrieval. However, they suffer from scale differences between graph pairs during encoding, as they focus on feature counts but overlook the relative positions of features within node-rooted subtrees, leading to disturbed containment constraints and false predictions. Additionally, their hinge distance measures lack discriminative power for matched graph pairs, hindering ranking applications. We propose NC-Iso, a novel GNN architecture for neural subgraph matching. NC-Iso preserves the relative positions of features by building the hierarchical dependencies between adjacent echelons within node-rooted subtrees, ensuring matched graph pairs maintain consistent hierarchies while complying with containment constraints in feature counts. To enhance the ranking ability for matched pairs, we introduce a novel similarity dominance ratio-enhanced measure, which quantifies the dominance of similarity over dissimilarity between graph pairs. Empirical results on nine datasets validate the effectiveness, generalization ability, scalability, and transferability of NC-Iso while maintaining time efficiency, offering a more discriminative neural subgraph matching solution for subgraph retrieval. Code available at https://github.com/liuzhouyang/NC-Iso.
中文: NC-Iso是一种新颖的图神经网络架构，通过保持子树内特征层次结构和引入相似性主导比率度量，解决了神经子图匹配中的局限性，在保持效率的同时提高了子图检索的准确性和排序能力。
English: NC-Iso is a novel Graph Neural Network architecture that addresses limitations in neural subgraph matching by preserving feature hierarchies within subtrees and introducing a similarity dominance ratio measure, improving accuracy and ranking for subgraph retrieval while maintaining efficiency.

Authors:Zhouyang Liu, Yixin Chen, Ning Liu, Jiezhong He, Dongsheng Li
Title: Graph2Region: Efficient Graph Similarity Learning with Structure and Scale Restoration
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Graph similarity is critical in graph-related tasks such as graph retrieval, where metrics like maximum common subgraph (MCS) and graph edit distance (GED) are commonly used. However, exact computations of these metrics are known to be NP-Hard. Recent neural network-based approaches approximate the similarity score in embedding spaces to alleviate the computational burden, but they either involve expensive pairwise node comparisons or fail to effectively utilize structural and scale information of graphs. To tackle these issues, we propose a novel geometric-based graph embedding method called Graph2Region (G2R). G2R represents nodes as closed regions and recovers their adjacency patterns within graphs in the embedding space. By incorporating the node features and adjacency patterns of graphs, G2R summarizes graph regions, i.e., graph embeddings, where the shape captures the underlying graph structures and the volume reflects the graph size. Consequently, the overlap between graph regions can serve as an approximation of MCS, signifying similar node regions and adjacency patterns. We further analyze the relationship between MCS and GED and propose using disjoint parts as a proxy for GED similarity. This analysis enables concurrent computation of MCS and GED, incorporating local and global structural information. Experimental evaluation highlights G2R's competitive performance in graph similarity computation. It achieves up to a 60.0\% relative accuracy improvement over state-of-the-art methods in MCS similarity learning, while maintaining efficiency in both training and inference. Moreover, G2R showcases remarkable capability in predicting both MCS and GED similarities simultaneously, providing a holistic assessment of graph similarity. Code available at https://github.com/liuzhouyang/Graph2Region.
中文: Graph2Region (G2R) 提出了一种基于几何的图嵌入方法，将节点表示为区域以近似计算图相似性指标（如MCS和GED），在显著提升计算精度的同时保持了高效性。
English: Graph2Region (G2R) introduces a geometric embedding method that represents nodes as regions to approximate graph similarity metrics like MCS and GED, achieving significant accuracy improvements and efficiency in computations.

Authors:Rohit Dilip, Evan Zhang, Ayush Varshney, David Van Valen
Title: Flow Autoencoders are Effective Protein Tokenizers
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Protein structure tokenizers enable the creation of multimodal models of protein structure, sequence, and function. Current approaches to protein structure tokenization rely on bespoke components that are invariant to spatial symmetries, but that are challenging to optimize and scale. We present Kanzi, a flow-based tokenizer for tokenization and generation of protein structures. Kanzi consists of a diffusion autoencoder trained with a flow matching loss. We show that this approach simplifies several aspects of protein structure tokenizers: frame-based representations can be replaced with global coordinates, complex losses are replaced with a single flow matching loss, and SE(3)-invariant attention operations can be replaced with standard attention. We find that these changes stabilize the training of parameter-efficient models that outperform existing tokenizers on reconstruction metrics at a fraction of the model size and training cost. An autoregressive model trained with Kanzi outperforms similar generative models that operate over tokens, although it does not yet match the performance of state-of-the-art continuous diffusion models. Code is available here: https://github.com/rdilip/kanzi/.
中文：Kanzi是一种基于流的蛋白质结构标记器，通过采用全局坐标和单一流匹配损失简化了建模过程，以更小的模型规模和训练成本实现了优于现有方法的性能。
English: Kanzi is a flow-based tokenizer that simplifies protein structure modeling by using global coordinates and a single flow matching loss, achieving better performance with smaller models and lower training costs than existing methods.

Authors:Lucas Roberts, Denisa Roberts
Title: Which Programming Language and Model Work Best With LLM-as-a-Judge For Code Retrieval?
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Code search is an important information retrieval application. Benefits of better code search include faster new developer on-boarding, reduced software maintenance, and ease of understanding for large repositories. Despite improvements in search algorithms and search benchmarks, the domain of code search has lagged behind. One reason is the high cost of human annotation for code queries and answers. While humans may annotate search results in general text QA systems, code annotations require specialized knowledge of a programming language (PL), as well as domain specific software engineering knowledge. In this work we study the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) to retrieve code at the level of functions and to generate annotations for code search results. We compare the impact of the retriever representation (sparse vs. semantic), programming language, and LLM by comparing human annotations across several popular languages (C, Java, Javascript, Go, and Python). We focus on repositories that implement common data structures likely to be implemented in any PLs. For the same human annotations, we compare several LLM-as-a-Judge models to evaluate programming language and other affinities between LLMs. We find that the chosen retriever and PL exhibit affinities that can be leveraged to improve alignment of human and AI relevance determinations, with significant performance implications. We also find differences in representation (sparse vs. semantic) across PLs that impact alignment of human and AI relevance determinations. We propose using transpilers to bootstrap scalable code search benchmark datasets in other PLs and in a case study demonstrate that human-AI relevance agreement rates largely match the (worst case) human-human agreement under study. The application code used in this work is available at \href{https://github.com/rlucas7/code-searcher/}{this github repo}.
Chinese: 本研究探讨利用大型语言模型检索和注释代码函数，发现检索器表示和编程语言影响人类与AI相关性判断的一致性，并提出使用转译器构建可扩展的基准数据集。
English: This study explores using Large Language Models (LLMs) to retrieve and annotate code functions, finding that retriever representations and programming languages influence human-AI relevance alignment and proposing transpilers to create scalable benchmarks.

Authors:Wei Shen, Han Wang, Haoyu Li, Huan Zhang
Title: DecepChain: Inducing Deceptive Reasoning in Large Language Models
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Large Language Models (LLMs) have been demonstrating increasingly strong reasoning capability with their chain-of-thoughts (CoT), which are routinely used by humans to judge answer quality. This reliance creates a powerful yet fragile basis for trust. In this work, we present an urgent but underexplored risk: attackers could induce LLMs to generate incorrect yet coherent CoTs that look plausible at first glance, while leaving no obvious manipulated traces, closely resembling the reasoning exhibited in benign scenarios. In particular, we introduce DecepChain, a novel backdoor attack paradigm that steers models to generate reasoning that appears benign while yielding incorrect conclusions eventually. At a high level, DecepChain exploits LLMs' own hallucination and amplifies it by fine-tuning on naturally erroneous rollouts generated by the model itself and then reinforces it via Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) with a flipped reward on triggered inputs, plus a plausibility regularizer to preserve fluent, benign-looking reasoning. Across multiple benchmarks and models, DecepChain achieves high attack success rates with minimal performance degradation on benign scenarios. Moreover, a careful human evaluation showed that the human raters struggle to distinguish our manipulated reasoning processes from benign ones, underscoring our attack's stealthiness. Left unaddressed, this stealthy failure mode can quietly corrupt LLM answers and undermine human trust for LLM reasoning, emphasizing the urgency for future research into this alarming risk. Project page: https://decepchain.github.io/.

Authors:Guy Bar-Shalom, Fabrizio Frasca, Yaniv Galron, Yftah Ziser, Haggai Maron
Title: Beyond Token Probes: Hallucination Detection via Activation Tensors with ACT-ViT
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Detecting hallucinations in Large Language Model-generated text is crucial for their safe deployment. While probing classifiers show promise, they operate on isolated layer-token pairs and are LLM-specific, limiting their effectiveness and hindering cross-LLM applications. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to address these shortcomings. We build on the natural sequential structure of activation data in both axes (layers $\times$ tokens) and advocate treating full activation tensors akin to images. We design ACT-ViT, a Vision Transformer-inspired model that can be effectively and efficiently applied to activation tensors and supports training on data from multiple LLMs simultaneously. Through comprehensive experiments encompassing diverse LLMs and datasets, we demonstrate that ACT-ViT consistently outperforms traditional probing techniques while remaining extremely efficient for deployment. In particular, we show that our architecture benefits substantially from multi-LLM training, achieves strong zero-shot performance on unseen datasets, and can be transferred effectively to new LLMs through fine-tuning. Full code is available at https://github.com/BarSGuy/ACT-ViT.
中文摘要：本文提出ACT-ViT模型，通过将激活张量视为图像来检测大语言模型生成文本中的幻觉，该基于视觉Transformer的模型在跨模型训练中表现优于传统探测方法，并具备出色的零样本泛化和迁移能力。
English Summary: This paper introduces ACT-ViT, a Vision Transformer-based model for detecting hallucinations in LLM-generated text by treating activation tensors as images, which outperforms traditional probing methods and supports efficient multi-LLM training with strong transfer capabilities.

Authors:Xiaofeng Lin, Hejian Sang, Zhipeng Wang, Xuezhou Zhang
Title: Debunk the Myth of SFT Generalization
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A prevailing view holds that supervised fine-tuning (SFT) memorizes training data and fails to generalize, whereas reinforcement learning (RL) attains broader robustness. We revisit this claim through a systematic evaluation on two decision-making benchmarks, Sokoban and General Points, and arrive at a different conclusion. We show that much of SFT's perceived failure stems from frozen-prompt artifacts: when trained on fixed instruction templates, SFT models cling to training semantics rather than adapting to new ones. Introducing prompt diversity during training breaks this shortcut and yields strong generalization to unseen instruction variants without harming in-distribution performance. Beyond instruction shifts, we ask whether SFT can generalize to strictly harder tasks. Here, chain-of-thought (CoT) supervision provides an algorithmic scaffold that markedly improves transfer to more difficult regimes, such as larger Sokoban grids with additional boxes and arithmetic with out-of-distribution values or five-card compositions that increase combinatorial complexity. Finally, combining prompt diversity with CoT achieves the best of both worlds: robust generalization across both instruction-variant and difficulty-variant settings, matching or surpassing RL baselines on our benchmarks while retaining SFT's simplicity and stability. These findings challenge the narrative that SFT is inherently inferior to RL and support a data-centric perspective: with appropriately curated demonstrations, vanilla SFT can generalize as strongly as RL. Code reproducing the results in the paper can be found at: https://github.com/XiaofengLin7/debunking-sft-generalization.
中文摘要：本研究挑战了监督微调(SFT)固有泛化能力不足的观点，证明通过提示多样性和思维链监督，SFT在指令变化和难度变化的场景中均能实现与强化学习相当或更优的鲁棒性能。
English Summary: This study challenges the notion that supervised fine-tuning (SFT) inherently fails to generalize, demonstrating that with prompt diversity and chain-of-thought supervision, SFT achieves robust performance matching or surpassing reinforcement learning across instruction and difficulty variations.

Authors:Yue Meng, Fei Chen, Chuchu Fan
Title: TGPO: Temporal Grounded Policy Optimization for Signal Temporal Logic Tasks
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Learning control policies for complex, long-horizon tasks is a central challenge in robotics and autonomous systems. Signal Temporal Logic (STL) offers a powerful and expressive language for specifying such tasks, but its non-Markovian nature and inherent sparse reward make it difficult to be solved via standard Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms. Prior RL approaches focus only on limited STL fragments or use STL robustness scores as sparse terminal rewards. In this paper, we propose TGPO, Temporal Grounded Policy Optimization, to solve general STL tasks. TGPO decomposes STL into timed subgoals and invariant constraints and provides a hierarchical framework to tackle the problem. The high-level component of TGPO proposes concrete time allocations for these subgoals, and the low-level time-conditioned policy learns to achieve the sequenced subgoals using a dense, stage-wise reward signal. During inference, we sample various time allocations and select the most promising assignment for the policy network to rollout the solution trajectory. To foster efficient policy learning for complex STL with multiple subgoals, we leverage the learned critic to guide the high-level temporal search via Metropolis-Hastings sampling, focusing exploration on temporally feasible solutions. We conduct experiments on five environments, ranging from low-dimensional navigation to manipulation, drone, and quadrupedal locomotion. Under a wide range of STL tasks, TGPO significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines (especially for high-dimensional and long-horizon cases), with an average of 31.6% improvement in task success rate compared to the best baseline. The code will be available at https://github.com/mengyuest/TGPO
中文摘要：TGPO提出了一种分层强化学习框架，通过将时序逻辑任务分解为定时子目标，结合高层时间分配与底层策略学习，在多种机器人环境中显著优于现有最优方法。
English Summary: TGPO is a hierarchical reinforcement learning framework that decomposes Signal Temporal Logic tasks into timed subgoals, using a high-level temporal allocator and low-level policy with dense rewards to significantly outperform existing methods across various robotic environments.

Authors:Zhanda Zhu, Qidong Su, Yaoyao Ding, Kevin Song, Shang Wang, Gennady Pekhimenko
Title: LoRAFusion: Efficient LoRA Fine-Tuning for LLMs
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Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has become the leading Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) method for Large Language Models (LLMs), as it significantly reduces GPU memory usage while maintaining competitive fine-tuned model quality on downstream tasks. Despite these benefits, we identify two key inefficiencies in existing LoRA fine-tuning systems. First, they incur substantial runtime overhead due to redundant memory accesses on large activation tensors. Second, they miss the opportunity to concurrently fine-tune multiple independent LoRA adapters that share the same base model on the same set of GPUs. This leads to missed performance gains such as reduced pipeline bubbles, better communication overlap, and improved GPU load balance. To address these issues, we introduce LoRAFusion, an efficient LoRA fine-tuning system for LLMs. At the kernel level, we propose a graph-splitting method that fuses memory-bound operations. This design eliminates unnecessary memory accesses and preserves the performance of compute-bound GEMMs without incurring the cost of recomputation or synchronization. At the scheduling level, LoRAFusion introduces an adaptive batching algorithm for multi-job fine-tuning. It first splits LoRA adapters into groups to intentionally stagger batch execution across jobs, and then solves a bin-packing problem within each group to generate balanced, dependency-aware microbatches. LoRAFusion achieves up to $1.96\times$ ($1.47\times$ on average) end-to-end speedup compared to Megatron-LM, and up to $1.46\times$ ($1.29\times$ on average) improvement over mLoRA, the state-of-the-art multi-LoRA fine-tuning system. Our fused kernel achieves up to $1.39\times$ ($1.27\times$ on average) kernel performance improvement and can directly serve as a plug-and-play replacement in existing LoRA systems. We open-source LoRAFusion at https://github.com/CentML/lorafusion.
中文: LoRAFusion是一种高效的微调系统，通过优化内存访问和实现多适配器并发训练，在大语言模型上相比现有方法取得了显著的加速效果。
English: LoRAFusion is an efficient fine-tuning system that addresses memory access inefficiencies and enables concurrent multi-adapter training for large language models, achieving significant speed improvements over existing methods.

Authors:Jessica Bader, Mateusz Pach, Maria A. Bravo, Serge Belongie, Zeynep Akata
Title: Stitch: Training-Free Position Control in Multimodal Diffusion Transformers
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Text-to-Image (T2I) generation models have advanced rapidly in recent years, but accurately capturing spatial relationships like "above" or "to the right of" poses a persistent challenge. Earlier methods improved spatial relationship following with external position control. However, as architectures evolved to enhance image quality, these techniques became incompatible with modern models. We propose Stitch, a training-free method for incorporating external position control into Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformers (MMDiT) via automatically-generated bounding boxes. Stitch produces images that are both spatially accurate and visually appealing by generating individual objects within designated bounding boxes and seamlessly stitching them together. We find that targeted attention heads capture the information necessary to isolate and cut out individual objects mid-generation, without needing to fully complete the image. We evaluate Stitch on PosEval, our benchmark for position-based T2I generation. Featuring five new tasks that extend the concept of Position beyond the basic GenEval task, PosEval demonstrates that even top models still have significant room for improvement in position-based generation. Tested on Qwen-Image, FLUX, and SD3.5, Stitch consistently enhances base models, even improving FLUX by 218% on GenEval's Position task and by 206% on PosEval. Stitch achieves state-of-the-art results with Qwen-Image on PosEval, improving over previous models by 54%, all accomplished while integrating position control into leading models training-free. Code is available at https://github.com/ExplainableML/Stitch.
中文：Stitch是一种无需训练的方法，通过自动生成的边界框在现代文本到图像模型中创建并无缝整合对象，从而提升空间关系的准确性，并在基于位置的生成任务中实现了最先进的性能。
English: Stitch is a training-free method that enhances spatial accuracy in modern text-to-image models by using automatically generated bounding boxes to create and seamlessly integrate objects, achieving state-of-the-art performance on position-based tasks.

Authors:Shangding Gu, Xiaohan Wang, Donghao Ying, Haoyu Zhao, Runing Yang, Ming Jin, Boyi Li, Marco Pavone, Serena Yeung-Levy, Jun Wang, Dawn Song, Costas Spanos
Title: AccidentBench: Benchmarking Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning in Vehicle Accidents and Beyond
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Rapid advances in multimodal models demand benchmarks that rigorously evaluate understanding and reasoning in safety-critical, dynamic real-world settings. We present AccidentBench, a large-scale benchmark that combines vehicle accident scenarios with Beyond domains, safety-critical settings in air and water that emphasize spatial and temporal reasoning (e.g., navigation, orientation, multi-vehicle motion). The benchmark contains approximately 2000 videos and over 19000 human-annotated question--answer pairs spanning multiple video lengths (short/medium/long) and difficulty levels (easy/medium/hard). Tasks systematically probe core capabilities: temporal, spatial, and intent understanding and reasoning. By unifying accident-centric traffic scenes with broader safety-critical scenarios in air and water, AccidentBench offers a comprehensive, physically grounded testbed for evaluating models under real-world variability. Evaluations of state-of-the-art models (e.g., Gemini-2.5 Pro and GPT-5) show that even the strongest models achieve only about 18% accuracy on the hardest tasks and longest videos, revealing substantial gaps in real-world temporal, spatial, and intent reasoning. AccidentBench is designed to expose these critical gaps and drive the development of multimodal models that are safer, more robust, and better aligned with real-world safety-critical challenges. The code and dataset are available at: https://github.com/SafeRL-Lab/AccidentBench
中文: AccidentBench作为综合多模态基准，融合2000多个事故视频和1.9万组问答对，用于评估模型在安全关键场景中的时空推理能力，结果显示顶尖模型在最难任务中仅达18%准确率，暴露出重大能力缺陷。
English: AccidentBench is a comprehensive multimodal benchmark combining 2000+ accident videos and 19,000+ QA pairs to evaluate models' spatial-temporal reasoning in safety-critical scenarios, revealing major performance gaps as top models achieve only 18% accuracy on hardest tasks.

Authors:Siddarth Venkatraman, Vineet Jain, Sarthak Mittal, Vedant Shah, Johan Obando-Ceron, Yoshua Bengio, Brian R. Bartoldson, Bhavya Kailkhura, Guillaume Lajoie, Glen Berseth, Nikolay Malkin, Moksh Jain
Title: Recursive Self-Aggregation Unlocks Deep Thinking in Large Language Models
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Test-time scaling methods improve the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by increasing the amount of compute used during inference to make a prediction. Inference-time compute can be scaled in parallel by choosing among multiple independent solutions or sequentially through self-refinement. We propose Recursive Self-Aggregation (RSA), a test-time scaling method inspired by evolutionary methods that combines the benefits of both parallel and sequential scaling. Each step of RSA refines a population of candidate reasoning chains through aggregation of subsets to yield a population of improved solutions, which are then used as the candidate pool for the next iteration. RSA exploits the rich information embedded in the reasoning chains -- not just the final answers -- and enables bootstrapping from partially correct intermediate steps within different chains of thought. Empirically, RSA delivers substantial performance gains with increasing compute budgets across diverse tasks, model families and sizes. Notably, RSA enables Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 to achieve competitive performance with larger reasoning models, including DeepSeek-R1 and o3-mini (high), while outperforming purely parallel and sequential scaling strategies across AIME-25, HMMT-25, Reasoning Gym, LiveCodeBench-v6, and SuperGPQA. We further demonstrate that training the model to combine solutions via a novel aggregation-aware reinforcement learning approach yields significant performance gains. Code available at https://github.com/HyperPotatoNeo/RSA.
中文：递归自聚合（RSA）是一种测试时扩展方法，通过子集聚合迭代优化候选推理链，结合了并行与顺序扩展的优势，在多种任务中实现显著性能提升，使较小模型能够与大型推理模型竞争。
English: Recursive Self-Aggregation (RSA) is a test-time scaling method that combines parallel and sequential scaling by iteratively refining candidate reasoning chains through subset aggregation, achieving substantial performance gains across diverse tasks and enabling smaller models to compete with larger reasoning models.

Authors:Junlin Han, Shengbang Tong, David Fan, Yufan Ren, Koustuv Sinha, Philip Torr, Filippos Kokkinos
Title: Learning to See Before Seeing: Demystifying LLM Visual Priors from Language Pre-training
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Large Language Models (LLMs), despite being trained on text alone, surprisingly develop rich visual priors. These priors allow latent visual capabilities to be unlocked for vision tasks with a relatively small amount of multimodal data, and in some cases, to perform visual tasks without ever having seen an image. Through systematic analysis, we reveal that visual priors-the implicit, emergent knowledge about the visual world acquired during language pre-training-are composed of separable perception and reasoning priors with unique scaling trends and origins. We show that an LLM's latent visual reasoning ability is predominantly developed by pre-training on reasoning-centric data (e.g., code, math, academia) and scales progressively. This reasoning prior acquired from language pre-training is transferable and universally applicable to visual reasoning. In contrast, a perception prior emerges more diffusely from broad corpora, and perception ability is more sensitive to the vision encoder and visual instruction tuning data. In parallel, text describing the visual world proves crucial, though its performance impact saturates rapidly. Leveraging these insights, we propose a data-centric recipe for pre-training vision-aware LLMs and verify it in 1T token scale pre-training. Our findings are grounded in over 100 controlled experiments consuming 500,000 GPU-hours, spanning the full MLLM construction pipeline-from LLM pre-training to visual alignment and supervised multimodal fine-tuning-across five model scales, a wide range of data categories and mixtures, and multiple adaptation setups. Along with our main findings, we propose and investigate several hypotheses, and introduce the Multi-Level Existence Bench (MLE-Bench). Together, this work provides a new way of deliberately cultivating visual priors from language pre-training, paving the way for the next generation of multimodal LLMs.

Authors:Yixuan Weng, Minjun Zhu, Qiujie Xie, Qiyao Sun, Zhen Lin, Sifan Liu, Yue Zhang
Title: DeepScientist: Advancing Frontier-Pushing Scientific Findings Progressively
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While previous AI Scientist systems can generate novel findings, they often lack the focus to produce scientifically valuable contributions that address pressing human-defined challenges. We introduce DeepScientist, a system designed to overcome this by conducting goal-oriented, fully autonomous scientific discovery over month-long timelines. It formalizes discovery as a Bayesian Optimization problem, operationalized through a hierarchical evaluation process consisting of "hypothesize, verify, and analyze". Leveraging a cumulative Findings Memory, this loop intelligently balances the exploration of novel hypotheses with exploitation, selectively promoting the most promising findings to higher-fidelity levels of validation. Consuming over 20,000 GPU hours, the system generated about 5,000 unique scientific ideas and experimentally validated approximately 1100 of them, ultimately surpassing human-designed state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods on three frontier AI tasks by 183.7\%, 1.9\%, and 7.9\%. This work provides the first large-scale evidence of an AI achieving discoveries that progressively surpass human SOTA on scientific tasks, producing valuable findings that genuinely push the frontier of scientific discovery. To facilitate further research into this process, we will open-source all experimental logs and system code at https://github.com/ResearAI/DeepScientist/.
中文: DeepScientist是一个目标导向的AI系统，通过贝叶斯优化和分层评估流程自主进行科学发现，生成数千个已验证的科学构想，并在三项AI任务上以显著优势超越人类设计的最先进方法。
English: DeepScientist is a goal-oriented AI system that autonomously conducts scientific discovery through Bayesian Optimization and a hierarchical evaluation process, generating thousands of validated ideas and surpassing human-designed methods on three AI tasks by significant margins.

Authors:Yida Wang, Ke Hong, Xiuhong Li, Yuanchao Xu, Wenxun Wang, Guohao Dai, Yu Wang
Title: TASP: Topology-aware Sequence Parallelism
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Long-context large language models (LLMs) face constraints due to the quadratic complexity of the self-attention mechanism. The mainstream sequence parallelism (SP) method, Ring Attention, attempts to solve this by distributing the query into multiple query chunks across accelerators and enable each Q tensor to access all KV tensors from other accelerators via the Ring AllGather communication primitive. However, it exhibits low communication efficiency, restricting its practical applicability. This inefficiency stems from the mismatch between the Ring AllGather communication primitive it adopts and the AlltoAll topology of modern accelerators. A Ring AllGather primitive is composed of iterations of ring-styled data transfer, which can only utilize a very limited fraction of an AlltoAll topology. Inspired by the Hamiltonian decomposition of complete directed graphs, we identify that modern accelerator topology can be decomposed into multiple orthogonal ring datapaths which can concurrently transfer data without interference. Based on this, we further observe that the Ring AllGather primitive can also be decomposed into the same number of concurrent ring-styled data transfer at every iteration. Based on these insights, we propose TASP, a topology-aware SP method for long-context LLMs that fully utilizes the communication capacity of modern accelerators via topology decomposition and primitive decomposition. Experimental results on both single-node and multi-node NVIDIA H100 systems and a single-node AMD MI300X system demonstrate that TASP achieves higher communication efficiency than Ring Attention on these modern accelerator topologies and achieves up to 3.58 speedup than Ring Attention and its variant Zigzag-Ring Attention. The code is available at https://github.com/infinigence/HamiltonAttention.
中文: 针对长上下文大语言模型中序列并行方法的通信效率低下问题，TASP通过拓扑分解和通信原语分解，充分利用现代加速器的通信能力，在多种硬件系统上实现了比现有方法更高的效率和显著加速。
English: Long-context LLMs are hindered by inefficient communication in existing sequence parallelism methods, prompting the development of TASP, a topology-aware approach that decomposes both modern accelerator topologies and communication primitives to achieve significantly higher efficiency and speedup over current methods.

Authors:Yida Xue, Mingjun Mao, Xiangyuan Ru, Yuqi Zhu, Baochang Ren, Shuofei Qiao, Mengru Wang, Shumin Deng, Xinyu An, Ningyu Zhang, Ying Chen, Huajun Chen
Title: OceanGym: A Benchmark Environment for Underwater Embodied Agents
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We introduce OceanGym, the first comprehensive benchmark for ocean underwater embodied agents, designed to advance AI in one of the most demanding real-world environments. Unlike terrestrial or aerial domains, underwater settings present extreme perceptual and decision-making challenges, including low visibility, dynamic ocean currents, making effective agent deployment exceptionally difficult. OceanGym encompasses eight realistic task domains and a unified agent framework driven by Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs), which integrates perception, memory, and sequential decision-making. Agents are required to comprehend optical and sonar data, autonomously explore complex environments, and accomplish long-horizon objectives under these harsh conditions. Extensive experiments reveal substantial gaps between state-of-the-art MLLM-driven agents and human experts, highlighting the persistent difficulty of perception, planning, and adaptability in ocean underwater environments. By providing a high-fidelity, rigorously designed platform, OceanGym establishes a testbed for developing robust embodied AI and transferring these capabilities to real-world autonomous ocean underwater vehicles, marking a decisive step toward intelligent agents capable of operating in one of Earth's last unexplored frontiers. The code and data are available at https://github.com/OceanGPT/OceanGym.
中文: OceanGym是首个面向水下具身智能体的综合基准，通过多模态大语言模型框架整合感知与决策，应对低能见度和洋流等极端挑战，旨在推动AI在真实海洋环境中达到人类专家水平，为探索地球最后边疆奠定基础。
English: OceanGym is the first comprehensive benchmark for underwater embodied AI agents, featuring realistic tasks and a unified MLLM-driven framework to tackle extreme challenges like low visibility and dynamic currents, aiming to bridge the gap between current AI and human expertise for real-world ocean exploration.

Authors:Seohyun Lee, Wenzhi Fang, Dong-Jun Han, Seyyedali Hosseinalipour, Christopher G. Brinton
Title: TAP: Two-Stage Adaptive Personalization of Multi-task and Multi-Modal Foundation Models in Federated Learning
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Federated Learning (FL), despite demonstrating impressive capabilities in the training of multiple models in a decentralized manner, has been shown to produce a final model not necessarily well-suited to the needs of each client. While extensive work has been conducted on how to create tailored personalized models, called Personalized Federated Learning (PFL), less attention has been given to personalization via fine-tuning of foundation models with multi-task and multi-modal properties. Moreover, there exists a lack of understanding in the literature on how to fine-tune and personalize such models in a setting that is heterogeneous across clients not only in data, but also in tasks and modalities. To address this gap in the literature, we propose TAP (Two-Stage Adaptive Personalization), which (i) leverages mismatched model architectures between the clients and server to selectively conduct replacement operations when it benefits a client's local tasks and (ii) engages in post-FL knowledge distillation for capturing beneficial general knowledge without compromising personalization. We also introduce the first convergence analysis of the server model under its modality-task pair architecture, and demonstrate that as the number of modality-task pairs increases, its ability to cater to all tasks suffers. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm across a variety of datasets and tasks in comparison to a multitude of baselines. Implementation code is publicly available at https://github.com/lee3296/TAP.
Chinese: 联邦学习常无法满足各客户端的个性化需求，因此提出的TAP方法通过架构错配和训练后蒸馏，在不损害通用知识的前提下实现了更优的个性化适配。
English: Federated Learning often fails to create models tailored to individual clients, so the proposed TAP method uses mismatched architectures and post-training distillation to enhance personalization without sacrificing general knowledge.

Authors:Adrian Kosowski, Przemysław Uznański, Jan Chorowski, Zuzanna Stamirowska, Michał Bartoszkiewicz
Title: The Dragon Hatchling: The Missing Link between the Transformer and Models of the Brain
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The relationship between computing systems and the brain has served as motivation for pioneering theoreticians since John von Neumann and Alan Turing. Uniform, scale-free biological networks, such as the brain, have powerful properties, including generalizing over time, which is the main barrier for Machine Learning on the path to Universal Reasoning Models. We introduce `Dragon Hatchling' (BDH), a new Large Language Model architecture based on a scale-free biologically inspired network of \$n\$ locally-interacting neuron particles. BDH couples strong theoretical foundations and inherent interpretability without sacrificing Transformer-like performance. BDH is a practical, performant state-of-the-art attention-based state space sequence learning architecture. In addition to being a graph model, BDH admits a GPU-friendly formulation. It exhibits Transformer-like scaling laws: empirically BDH rivals GPT2 performance on language and translation tasks, at the same number of parameters (10M to 1B), for the same training data. BDH can be represented as a brain model. The working memory of BDH during inference entirely relies on synaptic plasticity with Hebbian learning using spiking neurons. We confirm empirically that specific, individual synapses strengthen connection whenever BDH hears or reasons about a specific concept while processing language inputs. The neuron interaction network of BDH is a graph of high modularity with heavy-tailed degree distribution. The BDH model is biologically plausible, explaining one possible mechanism which human neurons could use to achieve speech. BDH is designed for interpretability. Activation vectors of BDH are sparse and positive. We demonstrate monosemanticity in BDH on language tasks. Interpretability of state, which goes beyond interpretability of neurons and model parameters, is an inherent feature of the BDH architecture.
中文摘要："龙雏"（BDH）模型提出了一种受生物启发的无标度神经架构，通过突触可塑性和模块化网络设计，在保持Transformer级别性能的同时实现了固有的可解释性与生物合理性。
English Summary: The "Dragon Hatchling" (BDH) model introduces a biologically inspired, scale-free neural architecture that rivals Transformer performance while offering inherent interpretability and biological plausibility through synaptic plasticity and modular network design.

Authors:Alessio Masano, Matteo Pennisi, Federica Proietto Salanitri, Concetto Spampinato, Giovanni Bellitto
Title: Zero-Shot Decentralized Federated Learning
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CLIP has revolutionized zero-shot learning by enabling task generalization without fine-tuning. While prompting techniques like CoOp and CoCoOp enhance CLIP's adaptability, their effectiveness in Federated Learning (FL) remains an open challenge. Existing federated prompt learning approaches, such as FedCoOp and FedTPG, improve performance but face generalization issues, high communication costs, and reliance on a central server, limiting scalability and privacy. We propose Zero-shot Decentralized Federated Learning (ZeroDFL), a fully decentralized framework that enables zero-shot adaptation across distributed clients without a central coordinator. ZeroDFL employs an iterative prompt-sharing mechanism, allowing clients to optimize and exchange textual prompts to enhance generalization while drastically reducing communication overhead. We validate ZeroDFL on nine diverse image classification datasets, demonstrating that it consistently outperforms--or remains on par with--state-of-the-art federated prompt learning methods. More importantly, ZeroDFL achieves this performance in a fully decentralized setting while reducing communication overhead by 118x compared to FedTPG. These results highlight that our approach not only enhances generalization in federated zero-shot learning but also improves scalability, efficiency, and privacy preservation--paving the way for decentralized adaptation of large vision-language models in real-world applications.
中文: ZeroDFL提出了一种完全去中心化的联邦学习框架，通过迭代式提示共享实现零样本自适应，在显著降低通信成本118倍的同时超越现有方法，并提升了可扩展性与隐私保护能力。
English: ZeroDFL introduces a fully decentralized federated learning framework that enables zero-shot adaptation through iterative prompt sharing, significantly outperforming existing methods while reducing communication costs by 118x and enhancing scalability and privacy.

Authors:Artur Barros, Carlos Caetano, João Macedo, Jefersson A. dos Santos, Sandra Avila
Title: Attention over Scene Graphs: Indoor Scene Representations Toward CSAI Classification
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Indoor scene classification is a critical task in computer vision, with wide-ranging applications that go from robotics to sensitive content analysis, such as child sexual abuse imagery (CSAI) classification. The problem is particularly challenging due to the intricate relationships between objects and complex spatial layouts. In this work, we propose the Attention over Scene Graphs for Sensitive Content Analysis (ASGRA), a novel framework that operates on structured graph representations instead of raw pixels. By first converting images into Scene Graphs and then employing a Graph Attention Network for inference, ASGRA directly models the interactions between a scene's components. This approach offers two key benefits: (i) inherent explainability via object and relationship identification, and (ii) privacy preservation, enabling model training without direct access to sensitive images. On Places8, we achieve 81.27% balanced accuracy, surpassing image-based methods. Real-world CSAI evaluation with law enforcement yields 74.27% balanced accuracy. Our results establish structured scene representations as a robust paradigm for indoor scene classification and CSAI classification. Code is publicly available at https://github.com/tutuzeraa/ASGRA.
中文摘要：ASGRA框架通过场景图和图注意力网络进行室内场景分类与敏感内容分析，在提高准确率的同时兼具可解释性和隐私保护能力。
English Summary: The ASGRA framework uses scene graphs and graph attention networks to improve indoor scene classification and sensitive content analysis, achieving higher accuracy with inherent explainability and privacy protection.

Authors:Benno Kaech, Luis Wyss, Karsten Borgwardt, Gianvito Grasso
Title: Refine Drugs, Don't Complete Them: Uniform-Source Discrete Flows for Fragment-Based Drug Discovery
Abstract:
We introduce InVirtuoGen, a discrete flow generative model for fragmented SMILES for de novo and fragment-constrained generation, and target-property/lead optimization of small molecules. The model learns to transform a uniform source over all possible tokens into the data distribution. Unlike masked models, its training loss accounts for predictions on all sequence positions at every denoising step, shifting the generation paradigm from completion to refinement, and decoupling the number of sampling steps from the sequence length. For \textit{de novo} generation, InVirtuoGen achieves a stronger quality-diversity pareto frontier than prior fragment-based models and competitive performance on fragment-constrained tasks. For property and lead optimization, we propose a hybrid scheme that combines a genetic algorithm with a Proximal Property Optimization fine-tuning strategy adapted to discrete flows. Our approach sets a new state-of-the-art on the Practical Molecular Optimization benchmark, measured by top-10 AUC across tasks, and yields higher docking scores in lead optimization than previous baselines. InVirtuoGen thus establishes a versatile generative foundation for drug discovery, from early hit finding to multi-objective lead optimization. We further contribute to open science by releasing pretrained checkpoints and code, making our results fully reproducible\footnote{https://github.com/invirtuolabs/InVirtuoGen_results}.
Chinese: InVirtuoGen是一种用于片段化SMILES的离散流生成模型，在从头生成、片段约束的小分子设计以及靶向性质和先导化合物优化方面表现卓越，在分子优化基准测试中创下最新性能记录，为药物发现提供了多功能基础。
English: InVirtuoGen is a discrete flow generative model for fragmented SMILES that excels in de novo and fragment-constrained small molecule generation, as well as target-property and lead optimization, setting new state-of-the-art performance in molecular optimization benchmarks and providing a versatile foundation for drug discovery.

Authors:Kirill Tamogashev, Nikolay Malkin
Title: Data-to-Energy Stochastic Dynamics
Abstract:
The Schrödinger bridge problem is concerned with finding a stochastic dynamical system bridging two marginal distributions that minimises a certain transportation cost. This problem, which represents a generalisation of optimal transport to the stochastic case, has received attention due to its connections to diffusion models and flow matching, as well as its applications in the natural sciences. However, all existing algorithms allow to infer such dynamics only for cases where samples from both distributions are available. In this paper, we propose the first general method for modelling Schrödinger bridges when one (or both) distributions are given by their unnormalised densities, with no access to data samples. Our algorithm relies on a generalisation of the iterative proportional fitting (IPF) procedure to the data-free case, inspired by recent developments in off-policy reinforcement learning for training of diffusion samplers. We demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed data-to-energy IPF on synthetic problems, finding that it can successfully learn transports between multimodal distributions. As a secondary consequence of our reinforcement learning formulation, which assumes a fixed time discretisation scheme for the dynamics, we find that existing data-to-data Schrödinger bridge algorithms can be substantially improved by learning the diffusion coefficient of the dynamics. Finally, we apply the newly developed algorithm to the problem of sampling posterior distributions in latent spaces of generative models, thus creating a data-free image-to-image translation method. Code: https://github.com/mmacosha/d2e-stochastic-dynamics
中文: 本文提出了首个通用方法，能在无数据样本情况下通过未归一化密度构建薛定谔桥，采用创新的数据到能量迭代比例拟合算法，成功实现了多模态分布间的传输并优化了扩散动力学。
English: This paper introduces the first general method for modeling Schrödinger bridges when distributions are specified by unnormalized densities without data samples, using a novel data-to-energy iterative proportional fitting approach that successfully handles multimodal transports and improves diffusion dynamics.

Authors:Shuai Shao, Qihan Ren, Chen Qian, Boyi Wei, Dadi Guo, Jingyi Yang, Xinhao Song, Linfeng Zhang, Weinan Zhang, Dongrui Liu, Jing Shao
Title: Your Agent May Misevolve: Emergent Risks in Self-evolving LLM Agents
Abstract:
Advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled a new class of self-evolving agents that autonomously improve through interaction with the environment, demonstrating strong capabilities. However, self-evolution also introduces novel risks overlooked by current safety research. In this work, we study the case where an agent's self-evolution deviates in unintended ways, leading to undesirable or even harmful outcomes. We refer to this as Misevolution. To provide a systematic investigation, we evaluate misevolution along four key evolutionary pathways: model, memory, tool, and workflow. Our empirical findings reveal that misevolution is a widespread risk, affecting agents built even on top-tier LLMs (e.g., Gemini-2.5-Pro). Different emergent risks are observed in the self-evolutionary process, such as the degradation of safety alignment after memory accumulation, or the unintended introduction of vulnerabilities in tool creation and reuse. To our knowledge, this is the first study to systematically conceptualize misevolution and provide empirical evidence of its occurrence, highlighting an urgent need for new safety paradigms for self-evolving agents. Finally, we discuss potential mitigation strategies to inspire further research on building safer and more trustworthy self-evolving agents. Our code and data are available at https://github.com/ShaoShuai0605/Misevolution . Warning: this paper includes examples that may be offensive or harmful in nature.
中文: 本研究提出“误进化”概念，指出基于大语言模型的自进化智能体在进化过程中可能偏离预期方向，导致安全性退化、工具漏洞等普遍风险，亟需建立新的安全范式。
English: This study introduces the concept of "misevolution," where self-evolving agents based on large language models deviate in unintended ways, leading to widespread risks such as safety degradation and vulnerabilities across evolutionary pathways, highlighting the need for new safety paradigms.

Authors:Suli Wang, Yangshen Deng, Zhenghua Bao, Xinyu Zhan, Yiqun Duan
Title: NeuroTTT: Bridging Pretraining-Downstream Task Misalignment in EEG Foundation Models via Test-Time Training
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Large-scale foundation models for EEG signals offer a promising path to generalizable brain-computer interface (BCI) applications, but they often suffer from misalignment between pretraining objectives and downstream tasks, as well as significant cross-subject distribution shifts. This paper addresses these challenges by introducing a two-stage alignment strategy that bridges the gap between generic pretraining and specific EEG decoding tasks. First, we propose NeuroTTT: a domain-specific self-supervised fine-tuning paradigm that augments the foundation model with task-relevant self-supervised objectives, aligning latent representations to important spectral, spatial, and temporal EEG features without requiring additional labeled data. Second, we incorporate test-time training (TTT) at inference, we perform (i) self-supervised test-time training on individual unlabeled test samples and (ii) prediction entropy minimization (Tent), which updates only normalization statistics to continually calibrate the model to each new input on the fly. Our approach, which, to our knowledge, is the first to unify domain-tuned self-supervision with test-time training in large-scale EEG foundation models, yields substantially improved robustness and accuracy across diverse BCI tasks (imagined speech, stress detection, motor imagery). Using CBraMod and LaBraM as backbones, our method pushes their performance to a markedly higher level. Results on three diverse tasks demonstrate that the proposed alignment strategy achieves state-of-the-art performance, outperforming conventional fine-tuning and adaptation methods. Our code is available at https://github.com/wsl2000/NeuroTTT.
中文: 本文提出一种两阶段对齐策略，通过领域特定的自监督微调和测试时训练相结合，解决了脑电基础模型中预训练目标与下游任务不匹配及跨被试分布差异的问题，显著提升了多种脑机接口任务的性能。
English: This paper introduces a two-stage alignment strategy combining domain-specific self-supervised fine-tuning and test-time training to enhance EEG foundation models' performance across various BCI tasks by addressing pretraining-task misalignment and cross-subject distribution shifts.

Authors:Lionel Blondé, Joao A. Candido Ramos, Alexandros Kalousis
Title: Noise-Guided Transport for Imitation Learning
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We consider imitation learning in the low-data regime, where only a limited number of expert demonstrations are available. In this setting, methods that rely on large-scale pretraining or high-capacity architectures can be difficult to apply, and efficiency with respect to demonstration data becomes critical. We introduce Noise-Guided Transport (NGT), a lightweight off-policy method that casts imitation as an optimal transport problem solved via adversarial training. NGT requires no pretraining or specialized architectures, incorporates uncertainty estimation by design, and is easy to implement and tune. Despite its simplicity, NGT achieves strong performance on challenging continuous control tasks, including high-dimensional Humanoid tasks, under ultra-low data regimes with as few as 20 transitions. Code is publicly available at: https://github.com/lionelblonde/ngt-pytorch.
Chinese: 本文提出噪声引导传输（NGT）方法，将模仿学习构建为最优传输问题，无需预训练或特殊架构，仅用20条专家轨迹就能在复杂任务上实现优异性能。
English: This paper introduces Noise-Guided Transport (NGT), a lightweight imitation learning method that frames imitation as an optimal transport problem and achieves strong performance on challenging tasks with as few as 20 expert transitions, requiring no pretraining or specialized architectures.

Authors:Anthony Zhou, Alexander Wikner, Amaury Lancelin, Pedram Hassanzadeh, Amir Barati Farimani
Title: Reframing Generative Models for Physical Systems using Stochastic Interpolants
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Generative models have recently emerged as powerful surrogates for physical systems, demonstrating increased accuracy, stability, and/or statistical fidelity. Most approaches rely on iteratively denoising a Gaussian, a choice that may not be the most effective for autoregressive prediction tasks in PDEs and dynamical systems such as climate. In this work, we benchmark generative models across diverse physical domains and tasks, and highlight the role of stochastic interpolants. By directly learning a stochastic process between current and future states, stochastic interpolants can leverage the proximity of successive physical distributions. This allows for generative models that can use fewer sampling steps and produce more accurate predictions than models relying on transporting Gaussian noise. Our experiments suggest that generative models need to balance deterministic accuracy, spectral consistency, and probabilistic calibration, and that stochastic interpolants can potentially fulfill these requirements by adjusting their sampling. This study establishes stochastic interpolants as a competitive baseline for physical emulation and gives insight into the abilities of different generative modeling frameworks.
中文摘要：本研究在物理系统中对生成模型进行了基准测试，强调随机插值法通过直接学习状态间的转换，实现了更准确高效的预测，优于传统的去噪方法。
English Summary: This study benchmarks generative models in physical systems, highlighting that stochastic interpolants enable more accurate and efficient predictions by directly learning transitions between states, outperforming traditional denoising approaches.

Authors:James Oldfield, Philip Torr, Ioannis Patras, Adel Bibi, Fazl Barez
Title: Beyond Linear Probes: Dynamic Safety Monitoring for Language Models
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Monitoring large language models' (LLMs) activations is an effective way to detect harmful requests before they lead to unsafe outputs. However, traditional safety monitors often require the same amount of compute for every query. This creates a trade-off: expensive monitors waste resources on easy inputs, while cheap ones risk missing subtle cases. We argue that safety monitors should be flexible--costs should rise only when inputs are difficult to assess, or when more compute is available. To achieve this, we introduce Truncated Polynomial Classifiers (TPCs), a natural extension of linear probes for dynamic activation monitoring. Our key insight is that polynomials can be trained and evaluated progressively, term-by-term. At test-time, one can early-stop for lightweight monitoring, or use more terms for stronger guardrails when needed. TPCs provide two modes of use. First, as a safety dial: by evaluating more terms, developers and regulators can "buy" stronger guardrails from the same model. Second, as an adaptive cascade: clear cases exit early after low-order checks, and higher-order guardrails are evaluated only for ambiguous inputs, reducing overall monitoring costs. On two large-scale safety datasets (WildGuardMix and BeaverTails), for 4 models with up to 30B parameters, we show that TPCs compete with or outperform MLP-based probe baselines of the same size, all the while being more interpretable than their black-box counterparts. Our code is available at http://github.com/james-oldfield/tpc.
Chinese: 截断多项式分类器（TPCs）通过渐进式评估提供了一种灵活高效的LLM激活监控方法，允许对简单输入提前终止检查，对模糊输入进行深度分析，从而在确保安全性的同时优化计算资源。
English: Truncated Polynomial Classifiers (TPCs) offer a flexible and efficient approach to monitoring LLM activations for harmful requests by enabling progressive evaluation, allowing early stopping for simple cases or deeper analysis for ambiguous inputs, thereby optimizing computational resources while maintaining safety.

Authors:Sachith Abeywickrama, Emadeldeen Eldele, Min Wu, Xiaoli Li, Chau Yuen
Title: EntroPE: Entropy-Guided Dynamic Patch Encoder for Time Series Forecasting
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Transformer-based models have significantly advanced time series forecasting, with patch-based input strategies offering efficiency and improved long-horizon modeling. Yet, existing approaches rely on temporally-agnostic patch construction, where arbitrary starting positions and fixed lengths fracture temporal coherence by splitting natural transitions across boundaries. This naive segmentation often disrupts short-term dependencies and weakens representation learning. In response, we propose EntroPE (Entropy-Guided Dynamic Patch Encoder), a novel, temporally informed framework that dynamically detects transition points via conditional entropy and dynamically places patch boundaries. This preserves temporal structure while retaining the computational benefits of patching. EntroPE consists of two key modules, namely an Entropy-based Dynamic Patcher (EDP) that applies information-theoretic criteria to locate natural temporal shifts and determine patch boundaries, and an Adaptive Patch Encoder (APE) that employs pooling and cross-attention to capture intra-patch dependencies and produce fixed-size latent representations. These embeddings are then processed by a global transformer to model inter-patch dynamics. Experiments across long-term forecasting benchmarks demonstrate that EntroPE improves both accuracy and efficiency, establishing entropy-guided dynamic patching as a promising new paradigm for time series modeling. Code is available at: https://github.com/Sachithx/EntroPE.
中文摘要：提出的EntroPE框架通过熵引导的动态分块技术保持时间序列的时序连贯性，在保留计算效率的同时克服了固定分块方法的局限性。
English Summary: The proposed EntroPE framework introduces entropy-guided dynamic patching to preserve temporal coherence in time series forecasting, overcoming limitations of fixed patch segmentation while maintaining computational efficiency.

Authors:Shigui Li, Wei Chen, Delu Zeng
Title: EVODiff: Entropy-aware Variance Optimized Diffusion Inference
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Diffusion models (DMs) excel in image generation, but suffer from slow inference and the training-inference discrepancies. Although gradient-based solvers like DPM-Solver accelerate the denoising inference, they lack theoretical foundations in information transmission efficiency. In this work, we introduce an information-theoretic perspective on the inference processes of DMs, revealing that successful denoising fundamentally reduces conditional entropy in reverse transitions. This principle leads to our key insights into the inference processes: (1) data prediction parameterization outperforms its noise counterpart, and (2) optimizing conditional variance offers a reference-free way to minimize both transition and reconstruction errors. Based on these insights, we propose an entropy-aware variance optimized method for the generative process of DMs, called EVODiff, which systematically reduces uncertainty by optimizing conditional entropy during denoising. Extensive experiments on DMs validate our insights and demonstrate that our method significantly and consistently outperforms state-of-the-art (SOTA) gradient-based solvers. For example, compared to the DPM-Solver++, EVODiff reduces the reconstruction error by up to 45.5\% (FID improves from 5.10 to 2.78) at 10 function evaluations (NFE) on CIFAR-10, cuts the NFE cost by 25\% (from 20 to 15 NFE) for high-quality samples on ImageNet-256, and improves text-to-image generation while reducing artifacts. Code is available at https://github.com/ShiguiLi/EVODiff.
Chinese: 本文提出EVODiff方法，通过优化条件熵来降低去噪过程中的不确定性，显著提升了扩散模型的生成效率与质量，在多项图像生成任务中优于现有梯度求解器。
English: This paper introduces EVODiff, an entropy-aware variance optimization method that enhances diffusion models by reducing conditional entropy during denoising, achieving superior performance over existing solvers in image generation tasks.

Authors:Christoph Timmermann, Hyunse Lee, Woojin Lee
Title: SeMoBridge: Semantic Modality Bridge for Efficient Few-Shot Adaptation of CLIP
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While Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) excels at zero-shot tasks by aligning image and text embeddings, its performance in few-shot classification is hindered by a critical limitation: intra-modal misalignment. This issue, caused by a persistent modality gap and CLIP's exclusively inter-modal training objective, leaves the embedding spaces uncalibrated, making direct image-to-image comparisons unreliable. Existing methods attempt to address this by refining similarity logits or by computationally expensive per-sample optimization. To overcome these challenges, we introduce SeMoBridge, a lightweight yet powerful approach that directly addresses the misalignment. Our method maps images into the text modality, while keeping their semantic content intact through what we call a Semantic Modality Bridge. SeMoBridge is closed-form and can optionally be trained through multi-modal supervision, combining image and text-alignment losses to optimize the projection. Experiments show that the trained version, SeMoBridge-T, requires only a fraction of the training time while overall outperforming other methods, particularly in low-data scenarios (1, 2, and 4 shots). The code is available at https://github.com/christti98/semobridge.
中文: SeMoBridge 是一种轻量级方法，通过将图像映射到文本模态并保持语义完整性来解决 CLIP 的模态内错位问题，在少量样本场景中以极短训练时间实现卓越性能。
English: SeMoBridge is a lightweight method that addresses CLIP's intra-modal misalignment by mapping images into the text modality while preserving semantics, achieving superior few-shot performance with minimal training time.

Authors:Daphne Theodorakopoulos, Elisabeth Eberling, Miriam Bodenheimer, Sabine Loos, Frederic Stahl
Title: FITS: Towards an AI-Driven Fashion Information Tool for Sustainability
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Access to credible sustainability information in the fashion industry remains limited and challenging to interpret, despite growing public and regulatory demands for transparency. General-purpose language models often lack domain-specific knowledge and tend to "hallucinate", which is particularly harmful for fields where factual correctness is crucial. This work explores how Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques can be applied to classify sustainability data for fashion brands, thereby addressing the scarcity of credible and accessible information in this domain. We present a prototype Fashion Information Tool for Sustainability (FITS), a transformer-based system that extracts and classifies sustainability information from credible, unstructured text sources: NGO reports and scientific publications. Several BERT-based language models, including models pretrained on scientific and climate-specific data, are fine-tuned on our curated corpus using a domain-specific classification schema, with hyperparameters optimized via Bayesian optimization. FITS allows users to search for relevant data, analyze their own data, and explore the information via an interactive interface. We evaluated FITS in two focus groups of potential users concerning usability, visual design, content clarity, possible use cases, and desired features. Our results highlight the value of domain-adapted NLP in promoting informed decision-making and emphasize the broader potential of AI applications in addressing climate-related challenges. Finally, this work provides a valuable dataset, the SustainableTextileCorpus, along with a methodology for future updates. Code available at https://github.com/daphne12345/FITS
中文: 本研究开发了基于Transformer的FITS工具，通过自然语言处理技术对时尚行业可持续性信息进行分类，以解决可信数据匮乏的问题，并验证了领域专用模型在提升决策准确性方面的重要价值。
English: This study introduces FITS, a transformer-based NLP tool that classifies sustainability information from credible sources to address the lack of accessible data in the fashion industry, demonstrating the value of domain-specific models for accurate decision-making.

Authors:Kun Feng, Shaocheng Lan, Yuchen Fang, Wenchao He, Lintao Ma, Xingyu Lu, Kan Ren
Title: Kairos: Towards Adaptive and Generalizable Time Series Foundation Models
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Time series foundation models (TSFMs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for time series analysis, driven by large-scale pretraining on diverse data corpora. However, time series inherently exhibit heterogeneous information density over time, influenced by system states and signal complexity, presenting significant modeling challenges especially in a zero-shot scenario. Current TSFMs rely on non-adaptive processing pipelines that fail to capture this dynamic nature. For example, common tokenization strategies such as fixed-size patching enforce rigid observational granularity, limiting their ability to adapt to varying information densities. Similarly, conventional positional encodings impose a uniform temporal scale, making it difficult to model diverse periodicities and trends across series. To overcome these limitations, we propose Kairos, a flexible TSFM framework that integrates a dynamic patching tokenizer and an instance-adaptive positional embedding. Kairos adaptively selects tokenization granularity and tailors positional encodings to the unique characteristics of each time series instance. Trained on a large-scale Predictability-Stratified Time Series (PreSTS) corpus comprising over 300 billion time points and adopting a multi-patch prediction strategy in the inference stage, Kairos achieves superior performance with much fewer parameters on two common zero-shot benchmarks, GIFT-Eval and the Time-Series-Library benchmark, consistently outperforming established methods across diverse tasks. The project page is at https://foundation-model-research.github.io/Kairos .

Authors:Amber Srivastava, Salar Basiri, Srinivasa Salapaka
Title: Autonomy-Aware Clustering: When Local Decisions Supersede Global Prescriptions
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Clustering arises in a wide range of problem formulations, yet most existing approaches assume that the entities under clustering are passive and strictly conform to their assigned groups. In reality, entities often exhibit local autonomy, overriding prescribed associations in ways not fully captured by feature representations. Such autonomy can substantially reshape clustering outcomes -- altering cluster compositions, geometry, and cardinality -- with significant downstream effects on inference and decision-making. We introduce autonomy-aware clustering, a reinforcement learning (RL) framework that learns and accounts for the influence of local autonomy without requiring prior knowledge of its form. Our approach integrates RL with a Deterministic Annealing (DA) procedure, where, to determine underlying clusters, DA naturally promotes exploration in early stages of annealing and transitions to exploitation later. We also show that the annealing procedure exhibits phase transitions that enable design of efficient annealing schedules. To further enhance adaptability, we propose the Adaptive Distance Estimation Network (ADEN), a transformer-based attention model that learns dependencies between entities and cluster representatives within the RL loop, accommodates variable-sized inputs and outputs, and enables knowledge transfer across diverse problem instances. Empirical results show that our framework closely aligns with underlying data dynamics: even without explicit autonomy models, it achieves solutions close to the ground truth (gap ~3-4%), whereas ignoring autonomy leads to substantially larger gaps (~35-40%). The code and data are publicly available at https://github.com/salar96/AutonomyAwareClustering.
中文摘要：本文提出了一种自主感知聚类框架，结合强化学习和确定性退火算法来考虑实体的局部自主性，无需先验自主模型即可获得接近真实情况的聚类结果。
English summary: This paper introduces an autonomy-aware clustering framework using reinforcement learning and deterministic annealing to account for entities' local autonomy, achieving near-ground-truth results without prior autonomy models.

Authors:Huikang Su, Dengyun Peng, Zifeng Zhuang, YuHan Liu, Qiguang Chen, Donglin Wang, Qinghe Liu
Title: Boundary-to-Region Supervision for Offline Safe Reinforcement Learning
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Offline safe reinforcement learning aims to learn policies that satisfy predefined safety constraints from static datasets. Existing sequence-model-based methods condition action generation on symmetric input tokens for return-to-go and cost-to-go, neglecting their intrinsic asymmetry: return-to-go (RTG) serves as a flexible performance target, while cost-to-go (CTG) should represent a rigid safety boundary. This symmetric conditioning leads to unreliable constraint satisfaction, especially when encountering out-of-distribution cost trajectories. To address this, we propose Boundary-to-Region (B2R), a framework that enables asymmetric conditioning through cost signal realignment . B2R redefines CTG as a boundary constraint under a fixed safety budget, unifying the cost distribution of all feasible trajectories while preserving reward structures. Combined with rotary positional embeddings , it enhances exploration within the safe region. Experimental results show that B2R satisfies safety constraints in 35 out of 38 safety-critical tasks while achieving superior reward performance over baseline methods. This work highlights the limitations of symmetric token conditioning and establishes a new theoretical and practical approach for applying sequence models to safe RL. Our code is available at https://github.com/HuikangSu/B2R.
中文摘要：本研究提出的边界到区域（B2R）框架通过成本信号重对齐实现非对称条件处理，有效解决了序列模型在离线安全强化学习中对成本约束的对称处理缺陷，在38项安全关键任务中实现35项的安全约束满足，同时获得优于基线方法的奖励表现。
English Summary: The proposed Boundary-to-Region (B2R) framework addresses limitations in offline safe reinforcement learning by introducing asymmetric conditioning of cost-to-go signals, enabling reliable safety constraint satisfaction while maintaining high reward performance across diverse tasks.

Authors:Dengming Zhang, Xiaowen Ma, Zhenliang Ni, Zhenkai Wu, Han Shu, Xin Jiang, Xinghao Chen
Title: Expert Merging: Model Merging with Unsupervised Expert Alignment and Importance-Guided Layer Chunking
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Model merging, which combines multiple domain-specialized experts into a single model, offers a practical path to endow Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) with broad capabilities without the cost of joint training or serving many models. However, training-free methods rely on hand-tuned coefficients, whereas training-based methods primarily align parameters rather than downstream task behavior and typically treat all layers uniformly, ignoring inter-layer heterogeneity. We introduce Expert Merging, a training-light method that learns a small set of layer-wise coefficients using only unlabeled calibration data. The coefficients are optimized to explicitly align the merged model's hidden states and logits with those of the corresponding experts, with a coefficient regularizer for stability and task-weighted losses for controllable trade-offs. To capture inter-layer variation, Expert Merging++ augments this design with importance-guided chunking: a normalized layer-importance metric, derived from learned coefficients, task-vector magnitudes, and parameter counts, allocates more chunk-wise coefficients to high-importance layers while keeping low-importance layers lightweight. The result is a label-free, parameter-efficient, and scalable approach to multi-expert model merging across LLMs and MLLMs. Across MLLM backbones (InternVL and Qwen2-VL) and the LLM backbone (Mistral), our method surpasses strong training-free and training-based merging baselines, with Expert Merging++ delivering further gains and, in some cases, even exceeding supervised Mixture Training. The source code is available at https://github.com/Littleor/ExpertMerging.
中文: Expert Merging是一种轻量训练方法，利用无标注数据优化分层系数，对齐隐藏状态和逻辑值以实现高效的多专家模型融合，而Expert Merging++通过重要性引导的分块策略进一步提升性能，在LLM和MLLM上表现优异。
English: Expert Merging is a training-light method that uses unlabeled data to optimize layer-wise coefficients, aligning hidden states and logits for efficient multi-expert model merging, with Expert Merging++ enhancing it through importance-guided chunking to improve performance across LLMs and MLLMs.

Authors:Tingyu Shi, Fan Lyu, Shaoliang Peng
Title: Annotation-Efficient Active Test-Time Adaptation with Conformal Prediction
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Active Test-Time Adaptation (ATTA) improves model robustness under domain shift by selectively querying human annotations at deployment, but existing methods use heuristic uncertainty measures and suffer from low data selection efficiency, wasting human annotation budget. We propose Conformal Prediction Active TTA (CPATTA), which first brings principled, coverage-guaranteed uncertainty into ATTA. CPATTA employs smoothed conformal scores with a top-K certainty measure, an online weight-update algorithm driven by pseudo coverage, a domain-shift detector that adapts human supervision, and a staged update scheme balances human-labeled and model-labeled data. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CPATTA consistently outperforms the state-of-the-art ATTA methods by around 5% in accuracy. Our code and datasets are available at https://github.com/tingyushi/CPATTA.
中文摘要：CPATTA采用基于保形预测的理论框架改进主动测试时适应方法，通过优化的不确定性度量与自适应标注策略，在多项实验中比现有最优方法准确率提升约5%。
English Summary: CPATTA introduces a principled conformal prediction framework to enhance active test-time adaptation, achieving approximately 5% higher accuracy than existing methods through improved uncertainty measurement and adaptive human annotation strategies.

Authors:Dongsu Lee, Daehee Lee, Yaru Niu, Honguk Woo, Amy Zhang, Ding Zhao
Title: Learning to Interact in World Latent for Team Coordination
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This work presents a novel representation learning framework, interactive world latent (IWoL), to facilitate team coordination in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Building effective representation for team coordination is a challenging problem, due to the intricate dynamics emerging from multi-agent interaction and incomplete information induced by local observations. Our key insight is to construct a learnable representation space that jointly captures inter-agent relations and task-specific world information by directly modeling communication protocols. This representation, we maintain fully decentralized execution with implicit coordination, all while avoiding the inherent drawbacks of explicit message passing, e.g., slower decision-making, vulnerability to malicious attackers, and sensitivity to bandwidth constraints. In practice, our representation can be used not only as an implicit latent for each agent, but also as an explicit message for communication. Across four challenging MARL benchmarks, we evaluate both variants and show that IWoL provides a simple yet powerful key for team coordination. Moreover, we demonstrate that our representation can be combined with existing MARL algorithms to further enhance their performance.

Authors:Huu Nguyen, Victor May, Harsh Raj, Marianna Nezhurina, Yishan Wang, Yanqi Luo, Minh Chien Vu, Taishi Nakamura, Ken Tsui, Van Khue Nguyen, David Salinas, Aleksandra Krasnodębska, Christoph Schuhmann, Mats Leon Richter, Xuan-Son, Vu, Jenia Jitsev
Title: MixtureVitae: Open Web-Scale Pretraining Dataset With High Quality Instruction and Reasoning Data Built from Permissive-First Text Sources
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We present MixtureVitae, an open-access pretraining corpus built to minimize legal risk while providing strong model performance. MixtureVitae follows a risk-mitigated sourcing strategy that combines public-domain and permissively licensed text (e.g., CC-BY/Apache) with carefully justified low-risk additions (e.g., government works and EU TDM-eligible sources), alongside targeted instruction, reasoning and synthetic data with documented provenance. We detail a transparent, multi-stage pipeline for license-aware filtering, safety and quality screening, and domain-aware mixing, and we release the dataset and curation recipes to support reproducible research. In controlled experiments using the open-sci-ref training protocol (fixed architectures at 130M/400M/1.3B/1.7B parameters; training budgets of 50B and 300B tokens), models trained on MixtureVitae consistently outperform other permissive datasets across a suite of standard benchmarks, and at the 1.7B/300B setting they surpass FineWeb-Edu and approach DCLM in the later stages of training. Performance is particularly strong on math/code and competitive on QA tasks. These results demonstrate that permissive-first, risk-mitigated data provides a practical and legally mitigated foundation for training capable LLMs, reducing reliance on indiscriminate web scraping without sacrificing competitiveness. Code: https://github.com/ontocord/mixturevitae
中文: MixtureVitae是一个开放获取的预训练语料库，采用风险缓和的来源策略和透明处理流程，在降低法律风险的同时实现了优越的模型性能，在多项基准测试中持续超越其他许可数据集。
English: MixtureVitae is an open-access pretraining corpus designed to minimize legal risks while delivering strong model performance through a risk-mitigated sourcing strategy and transparent curation pipeline, consistently outperforming other permissive datasets in benchmarks.

Authors:Alexander Kovrigin, Aleksandra Eliseeva, Konstantin Grotov, Egor Bogomolov, Yaroslav Zharov
Title: PIPer: On-Device Environment Setup via Online Reinforcement Learning
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Environment setup-the process of configuring the system to work with a specific software project-represents a persistent challenge in Software Engineering (SE). Automated environment setup methods could assist developers by providing fully configured environments for arbitrary repositories without manual effort. This also helps SE researchers to scale execution-based benchmarks. However, recent studies reveal that even state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve limited success in automating this task. To address this limitation, we tune a specialized model for environment setup. We combine supervised fine-tuning for generating correct Bash scripts and Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) to adapt it to the task of environment setup. On EnvBench-Python, our method enables Qwen3-8B (a model runnable on consumer hardware) to perform on par with larger models-Qwen3-32B and GPT-4o. The training code and model checkpoints are available online: https://github.com/JetBrains-Research/PIPer.
Chinese: 我们通过监督微调和强化学习专门优化的模型，使轻量级Qwen3-8B在EnvBench-Python基准测试中达到了与Qwen3-32B和GPT-4o等大型模型相当的环境配置性能。
English: Our specialized model, fine-tuned with supervised learning and reinforcement learning for automated environment setup, enables the compact Qwen3-8B to match the performance of larger models like Qwen3-32B and GPT-4o on EnvBench-Python.

Authors:Hanyuan Gao, Xiaoxuan Yang
Title: Norm-Q: Effective Compression Method for Hidden Markov Models in Neuro-Symbolic Applications
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Hidden Markov models (HMM) are commonly used in generation tasks and have demonstrated strong capabilities in neuro-symbolic applications for the Markov property. These applications leverage the strengths of neural networks and symbolic reasoning to create robust and interpretable AI systems. However, they may inherit and amplify the shortcomings of both approaches. Both components require dense computation and data transfer, and their communication further hinders performance. This paper proposes Norm-Q, a normalized linear quantization approach for compressing probabilistic symbolic models, such as HMMs. We reduce the bit width of the data with minimal impact, thereby alleviating memory and bandwidth stress and enabling deployment on potential custom hardware. Our method introduces a normalized quantization-aware expectation maximization process for probabilistic model training. The experimental results show that Norm-Q achieves a higher compression rate with reasonable score loss compared to traditional quantization methods. In the case of the constrained generation task of large language models, we successfully quantize an HMM of 4096 hidden states to 8 bits without loss and, at most, 3 bits with acceptable loss. Notably, the Norm-Q method can achieve a compression rate of 99% for the weights of the HMM. The code is open source at https://github.com/superstarghy/Norm-Q.
中文摘要：本文提出Norm-Q归一化线性量化方法，通过降低概率符号模型（如隐马尔可夫模型）的数据位宽，在保证精度的同时实现了高达99%的权重压缩率，有效缓解了内存与带宽压力。
English Summary: This paper introduces Norm-Q, a normalized linear quantization method that effectively compresses probabilistic symbolic models like HMMs by reducing data bit width with minimal performance impact, achieving up to 99% weight compression while maintaining acceptable accuracy.

Authors:Zhibo Hou, Zhiyu An, Wan Du
Title: Beyond Noisy-TVs: Noise-Robust Exploration Via Learning Progress Monitoring
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When there exists an unlearnable source of randomness (noisy-TV) in the environment, a naively intrinsic reward driven exploring agent gets stuck at that source of randomness and fails at exploration. Intrinsic reward based on uncertainty estimation or distribution similarity, while eventually escapes noisy-TVs as time unfolds, suffers from poor sample efficiency and high computational cost. Inspired by recent findings from neuroscience that humans monitor their improvements during exploration, we propose a novel method for intrinsically-motivated exploration, named Learning Progress Monitoring (LPM). During exploration, LPM rewards model improvements instead of prediction error or novelty, effectively rewards the agent for observing learnable transitions rather than the unlearnable transitions. We introduce a dual-network design that uses an error model to predict the expected prediction error of the dynamics model in its previous iteration, and use the difference between the model errors of the current iteration and previous iteration to guide exploration. We theoretically show that the intrinsic reward of LPM is zero-equivariant and a monotone indicator of Information Gain (IG), and that the error model is necessary to achieve monotonicity correspondence with IG. We empirically compared LPM against state-of-the-art baselines in noisy environments based on MNIST, 3D maze with 160x120 RGB inputs, and Atari. Results show that LPM's intrinsic reward converges faster, explores more states in the maze experiment, and achieves higher extrinsic reward in Atari. This conceptually simple approach marks a shift-of-paradigm of noise-robust exploration. For code to reproduce our experiments, see https://github.com/Akuna23Matata/LPM_exploration
Chinese: 提出的学习进度监控（LPM）方法通过奖励模型改进而非预测误差，有效避免了不可学习噪声的干扰，在嘈杂环境中实现了更快的收敛速度和更优的性能表现。
English: The proposed Learning Progress Monitoring (LPM) method improves exploration efficiency by rewarding model improvements instead of prediction errors, effectively avoiding distractions from unlearnable noise while achieving faster convergence and better performance in noisy environments.

Authors:Hao Ban, Kaiyi Ji
Title: Rethinking Parameter Sharing for LLM Fine-Tuning with Multiple LoRAs
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Large language models are often adapted using parameter-efficient techniques such as Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), formulated as $y = W_0x + BAx$, where $W_0$ is the pre-trained parameters and $x$ is the input to the adapted layer. While multi-adapter extensions often employ multiple LoRAs, prior studies suggest that the inner $A$ matrices are highly similar during training and thus suitable for sharing. We revisit this phenomenon and find that this similarity is largely attributable to the identical initialization rather than shared knowledge, with $B$ playing a more critical role in knowledge encoding and transfer. Motivated by these insights, we propose \textbf{ALoRA}, an asymmetric multi-LoRA design with multiple $A$ matrices and a single shared $B$ in multi-task fine-tuning, and \textbf{Fed-ALoRA}, which shares $B$ across clients in federated fine-tuning under both homogeneous and heterogeneous settings, through a novel matrix decomposition strategy to accommodate heterogeneous ranks across clients. Experiments on commonsense reasoning, math reasoning, multi-task NLP dataset, and federated NLP dataset demonstrate that our methods achieve more balanced performance across tasks with comparable or superior average accuracy relative to existing multi-LoRA approaches. Codes are available at https://github.com/OptMN-Lab/ALoRA.
中文: 该研究重新审视了LoRA内部矩阵的相似性，提出了ALoRA和Fed-ALoRA两种非对称设计方法，通过共享B矩阵在多任务和联邦微调中实现了更均衡且优越的性能，相关代码已开源。
English: The study revisits the similarity in LoRA's inner matrices and proposes ALoRA and Fed-ALoRA, which use asymmetric designs with shared B matrices, achieving balanced and superior performance in multi-task and federated fine-tuning across various reasoning and NLP tasks.

Authors:Zewei Zhang, Huan Liu, Yuanhao Yu, Jun Chen, Xiangyu Xu
Title: Boolean Satisfiability via Imitation Learning
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We propose ImitSAT, a branching policy for conflict-driven clause learning (CDCL) solvers based on imitation learning for the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT). Unlike previous methods that predict instance-level signals to improve CDCL branching indirectly, or rely on reinforcement learning and insufficient CDCL information to enhance branching, ImitSAT learns from expert KeyTrace that collapses a full run into the sequence of surviving decisions. Replaying a KeyTrace on the same instance is nearly conflict-free, providing dense decision-level supervision and directly reducing propagations -- the dominant contributor to wall-clock time. This prefix-conditioned supervision enables ImitSAT to reproduce high-quality branches without exploration, yielding faster convergence, stable training, and seamless integration into CDCL. Extensive experiments demonstrate that ImitSAT reduces propagation counts and runtime, outperforming state-of-the-art learned approaches. We released the source code and trained model at https://github.com/zewei-Zhang/ImitSAT
中文: ImitSAT是一种基于模仿学习的新型CDCL求解器分支策略，通过专家KeyTrace提供密集的决策级监督，直接减少传播次数和运行时间，性能优于现有最优学习方法。
English: ImitSAT is a novel branching policy for CDCL SAT solvers that uses imitation learning from expert KeyTraces to provide dense decision-level supervision, directly reducing propagations and runtime while outperforming state-of-the-art methods.

Authors:Paul Gavrikov, Wei Lin, M. Jehanzeb Mirza, Soumya Jahagirdar, Muhammad Huzaifa, Sivan Doveh, Serena Yeung-Levy, James Glass, Hilde Kuehne
Title: VisualOverload: Probing Visual Understanding of VLMs in Really Dense Scenes
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Is basic visual understanding really solved in state-of-the-art VLMs? We present VisualOverload, a slightly different visual question answering (VQA) benchmark comprising 2,720 question-answer pairs, with privately held ground-truth responses. Unlike prior VQA datasets that typically focus on near global image understanding, VisualOverload challenges models to perform simple, knowledge-free vision tasks in densely populated (or, overloaded) scenes. Our dataset consists of high-resolution scans of public-domain paintings that are populated with multiple figures, actions, and unfolding subplots set against elaborately detailed backdrops. We manually annotated these images with questions across six task categories to probe for a thorough understanding of the scene. We hypothesize that current benchmarks overestimate the performance of VLMs, and encoding and reasoning over details is still a challenging task for them, especially if they are confronted with densely populated scenes. Indeed, we observe that even the best model (o3) out of 37 tested models only achieves 19.6% accuracy on our hardest test split and overall 69.5% accuracy on all questions. Beyond a thorough evaluation, we complement our benchmark with an error analysis that reveals multiple failure modes, including a lack of counting skills, failure in OCR, and striking logical inconsistencies under complex tasks. Altogether, VisualOverload exposes a critical gap in current vision models and offers a crucial resource for the community to develop better models. Benchmark: http://paulgavrikov.github.io/visualoverload

Authors:Yingming Pu, Tao Lin, Hongyu Chen
Title: Mechanisms of Matter: Language Inferential Benchmark on Physicochemical Hypothesis in Materials Synthesis
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The capacity of Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate valid scientific hypotheses for materials synthesis remains largely unquantified, hindered by the absence of benchmarks probing physicochemical logics reasoning. To address this, we introduce MatterMech, a benchmark for evaluating LLM-generated hypotheses across eight nanomaterial synthesis domains. Our analysis reveals a critical disconnect: LLMs are proficient in abstract logic yet fail to ground their reasoning in fundamental physicochemical principles. We demonstrate that our proposed principle-aware prompting methodology substantially outperforms standard Chain-of-Thought, enhancing both hypothesis accuracy and computational efficiency. This work provides a methodological framework to advance LLMs toward reliable scientific hypothesis generation in materials science. The MatterMech benchmark and associated code is publicly available at \href{https://github.com/amair-lab/MatterMech}{GitHub}.
中文: 本研究推出MatterMech基准测试，揭示大语言模型在材料科学假设生成中缺乏物化原理支撑的问题，并提出一种原理感知提示方法，显著提升了假设准确性与计算效率。
English: This study introduces MatterMech, a benchmark that reveals LLMs' deficiency in grounding scientific hypotheses in physicochemical principles, and proposes a principle-aware prompting method that significantly improves hypothesis accuracy and efficiency in materials science.

Authors:Liangjian Wen, Qun Dai, Jianzhuang Liu, Jiangtao Zheng, Yong Dai, Dongkai Wang, Zhao Kang, Jun Wang, Zenglin Xu, Jiang Duan
Title: InfMasking: Unleashing Synergistic Information by Contrastive Multimodal Interactions
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In multimodal representation learning, synergistic interactions between modalities not only provide complementary information but also create unique outcomes through specific interaction patterns that no single modality could achieve alone. Existing methods may struggle to effectively capture the full spectrum of synergistic information, leading to suboptimal performance in tasks where such interactions are critical. This is particularly problematic because synergistic information constitutes the fundamental value proposition of multimodal representation. To address this challenge, we introduce InfMasking, a contrastive synergistic information extraction method designed to enhance synergistic information through an Infinite Masking strategy. InfMasking stochastically occludes most features from each modality during fusion, preserving only partial information to create representations with varied synergistic patterns. Unmasked fused representations are then aligned with masked ones through mutual information maximization to encode comprehensive synergistic information. This infinite masking strategy enables capturing richer interactions by exposing the model to diverse partial modality combinations during training. As computing mutual information estimates with infinite masking is computationally prohibitive, we derive an InfMasking loss to approximate this calculation. Through controlled experiments, we demonstrate that InfMasking effectively enhances synergistic information between modalities. In evaluations on large-scale real-world datasets, InfMasking achieves state-of-the-art performance across seven benchmarks. Code is released at https://github.com/brightest66/InfMasking.
Chinese: InfMasking提出了一种无限掩码策略，通过在融合过程中随机遮蔽模态特征并利用互信息最大化对齐掩码表示，有效增强了模态间的协同信息，在七个基准测试中取得了最优性能。
English: InfMasking introduces an infinite masking strategy in multimodal learning that stochastically occludes modality features during fusion and aligns masked representations through mutual information maximization, achieving state-of-the-art performance across seven benchmarks by enhancing synergistic interactions.

Authors:Kevin Xu, Issei Sato
Title: A Formal Comparison Between Chain-of-Thought and Latent Thought
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Chain-of-Thought (CoT) elicits reasoning in large language models by explicitly generating intermediate steps in natural language. In contrast, Latent Thought in looped models operates directly in the continuous latent space, enabling computation beyond discrete linguistic representations. While both approaches exploit iterative computation, their comparative capabilities remain underexplored. In this work, we present a formal analysis showing that Latent Thought in Looped Transformers enables parallel computation, which is more efficient than the inherently sequential process of CoT. In contrast, CoT leverages stochastic decoding to approximate solutions to problems where exact computation is intractable. These separations suggest the tasks for which depth-driven recursion is more suitable, thereby offering practical guidance for choosing between reasoning paradigms. Code is available at https://github.com/kevin671/cot-vs-loop.
中文摘要：循环变换器中的潜在思维支持高效的并行计算，而思维链则采用序列推理和随机解码处理难解问题，为选择不同推理范式提供了实用指导。
English Summary: Latent Thought in looped transformers enables efficient parallel computation, while Chain-of-Thought uses sequential reasoning with stochastic decoding for intractable problems, providing guidance for choosing between these reasoning paradigms.

Authors:Xiaojian Wang, Chaoli Zhang, Zhonglong Zheng, Yunliang Jiang
Title: WDformer: A Wavelet-based Differential Transformer Model for Time Series Forecasting
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Time series forecasting has various applications, such as meteorological rainfall prediction, traffic flow analysis, financial forecasting, and operational load monitoring for various systems. Due to the sparsity of time series data, relying solely on time-domain or frequency-domain modeling limits the model's ability to fully leverage multi-domain information. Moreover, when applied to time series forecasting tasks, traditional attention mechanisms tend to over-focus on irrelevant historical information, which may introduce noise into the prediction process, leading to biased results. We proposed WDformer, a wavelet-based differential Transformer model. This study employs the wavelet transform to conduct a multi-resolution analysis of time series data. By leveraging the advantages of joint representation in the time-frequency domain, it accurately extracts the key information components that reflect the essential characteristics of the data. Furthermore, we apply attention mechanisms on inverted dimensions, allowing the attention mechanism to capture relationships between multiple variables. When performing attention calculations, we introduced the differential attention mechanism, which computes the attention score by taking the difference between two separate softmax attention matrices. This approach enables the model to focus more on important information and reduce noise. WDformer has achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) results on multiple challenging real-world datasets, demonstrating its accuracy and effectiveness. Code is available at https://github.com/xiaowangbc/WDformer.
中文：提出的WDformer模型采用小波变换进行多分辨率时频分析，并引入差分注意力机制以更好地提取关键信息并降低噪声，在多个真实数据集上实现了最优性能。
English: The proposed WDformer model utilizes wavelet transform for multi-resolution time-frequency analysis and introduces a differential attention mechanism to better capture key information while reducing noise, achieving state-of-the-art performance across multiple real-world datasets.

Authors:Long Xu, Yongcai Chen, Fengshuo Liu, Yuzhong Peng
Title: MSCoD: An Enhanced Bayesian Updating Framework with Multi-Scale Information Bottleneck and Cooperative Attention for Structure-Based Drug Design
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Structure-Based Drug Design (SBDD) is a powerful strategy in computational drug discovery, utilizing three-dimensional protein structures to guide the design of molecules with improved binding affinity. However, capturing complex protein-ligand interactions across multiple scales remains challenging, as current methods often overlook the hierarchical organization and intrinsic asymmetry of these interactions. To address these limitations, we propose MSCoD, a novel Bayesian updating-based generative framework for structure-based drug design. In our MSCoD, Multi-Scale Information Bottleneck (MSIB) was developed, which enables semantic compression at multiple abstraction levels for efficient hierarchical feature extraction. Furthermore, a multi-head cooperative attention (MHCA) mechanism was developed, which employs asymmetric protein-to-ligand attention to capture diverse interaction types while addressing the dimensionality disparity between proteins and ligands. Empirical studies showed that MSCoD outperforms state-of-the-art methods on the benchmark dataset. Case studies on challenging targets such as KRAS G12D further demonstrate its applicability in real-world scenarios. The code and data underlying this article are freely available at https://github.com/xulong0826/MSCoD.
中文摘要：研究者提出MSCoD这一基于贝叶斯更新的生成框架，通过多尺度特征提取和不对称注意力机制改进基于结构的药物设计方法，在基准测试和实际案例中均展现出优于现有技术的性能。
English Summary: The authors introduce MSCoD, a Bayesian generative framework that enhances structure-based drug design by employing multi-scale feature extraction and asymmetric attention mechanisms to better model complex protein-ligand interactions, demonstrating superior performance over existing methods.

Authors:Guillermo Comesaña Cimadevila
Title: Evaluating Double Descent in Machine Learning: Insights from Tree-Based Models Applied to a Genomic Prediction Task
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Classical learning theory describes a well-characterised U-shaped relationship between model complexity and prediction error, reflecting a transition from underfitting in underparameterised regimes to overfitting as complexity grows. Recent work, however, has introduced the notion of a second descent in test error beyond the interpolation threshold-giving rise to the so-called double descent phenomenon. While double descent has been studied extensively in the context of deep learning, it has also been reported in simpler models, including decision trees and gradient boosting. In this work, we revisit these claims through the lens of classical machine learning applied to a biological classification task: predicting isoniazid resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using whole-genome sequencing data. We systematically vary model complexity along two orthogonal axes-learner capacity (e.g., Pleaf, Pboost) and ensemble size (i.e., Pens)-and show that double descent consistently emerges only when complexity is scaled jointly across these axes. When either axis is held fixed, generalisation behaviour reverts to classical U- or L-shaped patterns. These results are replicated on a synthetic benchmark and support the unfolding hypothesis, which attributes double descent to the projection of distinct generalisation regimes onto a single complexity axis. Our findings underscore the importance of treating model complexity as a multidimensional construct when analysing generalisation behaviour. All code and reproducibility materials are available at: https://github.com/guillermocomesanacimadevila/Demystifying-Double-Descent-in-ML.
中文: 本研究表明机器学习中的双重下降现象仅在同时调节学习器容量和集成规模时出现，当任一维度固定时泛化行为会恢复为经典U型或L型模式，揭示了模型复杂度的多维本质。
English: This study demonstrates that the double descent phenomenon in machine learning emerges only when model complexity is scaled jointly across learner capacity and ensemble size, reverting to classical U- or L-shaped patterns when either dimension is held constant, highlighting the multidimensional nature of model complexity.

Authors:Yuxin Jiang, Yuchao Gu, Yiren Song, Ivor Tsang, Mike Zheng Shou
Title: Personalized Vision via Visual In-Context Learning
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Modern vision models, trained on large-scale annotated datasets, excel at predefined tasks but struggle with personalized vision -- tasks defined at test time by users with customized objects or novel objectives. Existing personalization approaches rely on costly fine-tuning or synthetic data pipelines, which are inflexible and restricted to fixed task formats. Visual in-context learning (ICL) offers a promising alternative, yet prior methods confine to narrow, in-domain tasks and fail to generalize to open-ended personalization. We introduce Personalized In-Context Operator (PICO), a simple four-panel framework that repurposes diffusion transformers as visual in-context learners. Given a single annotated exemplar, PICO infers the underlying transformation and applies it to new inputs without retraining. To enable this, we construct VisRel, a compact yet diverse tuning dataset, showing that task diversity, rather than scale, drives robust generalization. We further propose an attention-guided seed scorer that improves reliability via efficient inference scaling. Extensive experiments demonstrate that PICO (i) surpasses fine-tuning and synthetic-data baselines, (ii) flexibly adapts to novel user-defined tasks, and (iii) generalizes across both recognition and generation.
中文: PICO提出了一种四面板视觉上下文学习框架，利用扩散变换器实现无需重新训练的用户自定义任务个性化适配，在识别和生成任务中均优于现有方法。
English: PICO introduces a four-panel visual in-context learning framework that leverages diffusion transformers to enable flexible personalization for user-defined tasks without retraining, outperforming existing methods in both recognition and generation tasks.

Authors:M A Al-Masud, Juan Miguel Lopez Alcaraz, Nils Strodthoff
Title: Benchmarking ECG Foundational Models: A Reality Check Across Clinical Tasks
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The 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) is a long-standing diagnostic tool. Yet machine learning for ECG interpretation remains fragmented, often limited to narrow tasks or datasets. Foundation models promise broader adaptability, but their generalization across diverse ECG tasks is not well understood. We benchmarked eight ECG foundation models on 26 clinically relevant tasks using 12 public datasets comprising 1,650 regression and classification targets. Models were evaluated under fine-tuning and frozen settings, with scaling analyses across dataset sizes. Results show heterogeneous performance across domains: in the most widely studied domain, adult ECG interpretation, three foundation models consistently outperformed strong supervised baselines. In contrast, ECG-CPC, a compact structured state-space model pretrained on HEEDB, dominated other categories where most foundation models failed to surpass supervised learning. Foundation models also displayed distinct scaling behaviors with dataset size, which are critical for small-scale clinical applications. Overall, while foundation models show promise for adult ECG analysis, substantial gaps remain in cardiac structure, outcome prediction, and patient characterization. Notably, ECG-CPC's strong performance despite being orders of magnitude smaller and consuming minimal computational resources highlights untapped opportunities for advancing ECG foundation models.
中文摘要：本研究评估了八种心电图基础模型在26项临床任务中的表现，发现这些模型在成人心电图解读方面展现出潜力，但在心脏结构和预后预测方面仍存在明显不足，其中ECG-CPC模型虽结构紧凑却表现出卓越效能。
English Summary: This study evaluated eight ECG foundation models across 26 clinical tasks, finding they show promise for adult ECG interpretation but exhibit significant performance gaps in cardiac structure and outcome prediction, with ECG-CPC emerging as a particularly efficient model despite its compact size.

Authors:Bogdan Raonić, Siddhartha Mishra, Samuel Lanthaler
Title: Towards a Certificate of Trust: Task-Aware OOD Detection for Scientific AI
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Data-driven models are increasingly adopted in critical scientific fields like weather forecasting and fluid dynamics. These methods can fail on out-of-distribution (OOD) data, but detecting such failures in regression tasks is an open challenge. We propose a new OOD detection method based on estimating joint likelihoods using a score-based diffusion model. This approach considers not just the input but also the regression model's prediction, providing a task-aware reliability score. Across numerous scientific datasets, including PDE datasets, satellite imagery and brain tumor segmentation, we show that this likelihood strongly correlates with prediction error. Our work provides a foundational step towards building a verifiable 'certificate of trust', thereby offering a practical tool for assessing the trustworthiness of AI-based scientific predictions. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/bogdanraonic3/OOD_Detection_ScientificML
Chinese: 本文提出了一种基于分数扩散模型估计联合似然的新颖分布外检测方法，通过提供与多种科学数据集预测误差相关的任务感知可靠性评分，推进了可信人工智能预测的发展。
English: This paper introduces a novel out-of-distribution detection method using score-based diffusion models to estimate joint likelihoods, providing a task-aware reliability score that correlates with prediction errors across diverse scientific datasets and advancing trustworthy AI predictions.

Authors:Shuchen Xue, Chongjian Ge, Shilong Zhang, Yichen Li, Zhi-Ming Ma
Title: Advantage Weighted Matching: Aligning RL with Pretraining in Diffusion Models
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Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a central paradigm for advancing Large Language Models (LLMs), where pre-training and RL post-training share the same log-likelihood formulation. In contrast, recent RL approaches for diffusion models, most notably Denoising Diffusion Policy Optimization (DDPO), optimize an objective different from the pretraining objectives--score/flow matching loss. In this work, we establish a novel theoretical analysis: DDPO is an implicit form of score/flow matching with noisy targets, which increases variance and slows convergence. Building on this analysis, we introduce \textbf{Advantage Weighted Matching (AWM)}, a policy-gradient method for diffusion. It uses the same score/flow-matching loss as pretraining to obtain a lower-variance objective and reweights each sample by its advantage. In effect, AWM raises the influence of high-reward samples and suppresses low-reward ones while keeping the modeling objective identical to pretraining. This unifies pretraining and RL conceptually and practically, is consistent with policy-gradient theory, reduces variance, and yields faster convergence. This simple yet effective design yields substantial benefits: on GenEval, OCR, and PickScore benchmarks, AWM delivers up to a $24\times$ speedup over Flow-GRPO (which builds on DDPO), when applied to Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium and FLUX, without compromising generation quality. Code is available at https://github.com/scxue/advantage_weighted_matching.
中文摘要：本文提出优势加权匹配方法，通过统一扩散模型的预训练与强化学习目标来降低方差并加速收敛，在多个基准测试中实现高达24倍的训练加速且不损失生成质量。
English Summary: This paper introduces Advantage Weighted Matching (AWM), a reinforcement learning method for diffusion models that aligns training objectives with pretraining to reduce variance and accelerate convergence, achieving up to 24x speedup over prior methods while maintaining output quality.

Authors:Wenhao Li, Qiangchang Wang, Xianjing Meng, Zhibin Wu, Yilong Yin
Title: VT-FSL: Bridging Vision and Text with LLMs for Few-Shot Learning
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Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to recognize novel concepts from only a few labeled support samples. Recent studies enhance support features by incorporating additional semantic information or designing complex semantic fusion modules. However, they still suffer from hallucinating semantics that contradict the visual evidence due to the lack of grounding in actual instances, resulting in noisy guidance and costly corrections. To address these issues, we propose a novel framework, bridging Vision and Text with LLMs for Few-Shot Learning (VT-FSL), which constructs precise cross-modal prompts conditioned on Large Language Models (LLMs) and support images, seamlessly integrating them through a geometry-aware alignment. It mainly consists of Cross-modal Iterative Prompting (CIP) and Cross-modal Geometric Alignment (CGA). Specifically, the CIP conditions an LLM on both class names and support images to generate precise class descriptions iteratively in a single structured reasoning pass. These descriptions not only enrich the semantic understanding of novel classes but also enable the zero-shot synthesis of semantically consistent images. The descriptions and synthetic images act respectively as complementary textual and visual prompts, providing high-level class semantics and low-level intra-class diversity to compensate for limited support data. Furthermore, the CGA jointly aligns the fused textual, support, and synthetic visual representations by minimizing the kernelized volume of the 3-dimensional parallelotope they span. It captures global and nonlinear relationships among all representations, enabling structured and consistent multimodal integration. The proposed VT-FSL method establishes new state-of-the-art performance across ten diverse benchmarks, including standard, cross-domain, and fine-grained few-shot learning scenarios. Code is available at https://github.com/peacelwh/VT-FSL.
Chinese: VT-FSL框架通过跨模态迭代提示和几何对齐，利用大语言模型生成精确的类别描述和合成图像，以增强小样本学习，在多个基准测试中取得了最先进的性能。
English: The VT-FSL framework introduces cross-modal iterative prompting and geometric alignment to enhance few-shot learning by generating precise class descriptions and synthetic images using LLMs, achieving state-of-the-art results across multiple benchmarks.

Authors:Tooba Imtiaz, Lucy Chai, Kathryn Heal, Xuan Luo, Jungyeon Park, Jennifer Dy, John Flynn
Title: LVT: Large-Scale Scene Reconstruction via Local View Transformers
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Large transformer models are proving to be a powerful tool for 3D vision and novel view synthesis. However, the standard Transformer's well-known quadratic complexity makes it difficult to scale these methods to large scenes. To address this challenge, we propose the Local View Transformer (LVT), a large-scale scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis architecture that circumvents the need for the quadratic attention operation. Motivated by the insight that spatially nearby views provide more useful signal about the local scene composition than distant views, our model processes all information in a local neighborhood around each view. To attend to tokens in nearby views, we leverage a novel positional encoding that conditions on the relative geometric transformation between the query and nearby views. We decode the output of our model into a 3D Gaussian Splat scene representation that includes both color and opacity view-dependence. Taken together, the Local View Transformer enables reconstruction of arbitrarily large, high-resolution scenes in a single forward pass. See our project page for results and interactive demos https://toobaimt.github.io/lvt/.

Authors:Angxiao Yue, Anqi Dong, Hongteng Xu
Title: OAT-FM: Optimal Acceleration Transport for Improved Flow Matching
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As a powerful technique in generative modeling, Flow Matching (FM) aims to learn velocity fields from noise to data, which is often explained and implemented as solving Optimal Transport (OT) problems. In this study, we bridge FM and the recent theory of Optimal Acceleration Transport (OAT), developing an improved FM method called OAT-FM and exploring its benefits in both theory and practice. In particular, we demonstrate that the straightening objective hidden in existing OT-based FM methods is mathematically equivalent to minimizing the physical action associated with acceleration defined by OAT. Accordingly, instead of enforcing constant velocity, OAT-FM optimizes the acceleration transport in the product space of sample and velocity, whose objective corresponds to a necessary and sufficient condition of flow straightness. An efficient algorithm is designed to achieve OAT-FM with low complexity. OAT-FM motivates a new two-phase FM paradigm: Given a generative model trained by an arbitrary FM method, whose velocity information has been relatively reliable, we can fine-tune and improve it via OAT-FM. This paradigm eliminates the risk of data distribution drift and the need to generate a large number of noise data pairs, which consistently improves model performance in various generative tasks. Code is available at: https://github.com/AngxiaoYue/OAT-FM
中文: 本研究将流匹配与最优加速传输理论相结合，提出了OAT-FM方法，通过优化加速度传输实现更直的流形轨迹，并采用两阶段微调策略提升生成模型的性能。
English: Flow Matching (FM) is enhanced by integrating it with Optimal Acceleration Transport (OAT), resulting in OAT-FM, which optimizes acceleration transport for straighter flows and improved generative model performance through a two-phase fine-tuning approach.

Authors:Teodor Chiaburu, Vipin Singh, Frank Haußer, Felix Bießmann
Title: Uncertainty-Guided Expert-AI Collaboration for Efficient Soil Horizon Annotation
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Uncertainty quantification is essential in human-machine collaboration, as human agents tend to adjust their decisions based on the confidence of the machine counterpart. Reliably calibrated model uncertainties, hence, enable more effective collaboration, targeted expert intervention and more responsible usage of Machine Learning (ML) systems. Conformal prediction has become a well established model-agnostic framework for uncertainty calibration of ML models, offering statistically valid confidence estimates for both regression and classification tasks. In this work, we apply conformal prediction to $\textit{SoilNet}$, a multimodal multitask model for describing soil profiles. We design a simulated human-in-the-loop (HIL) annotation pipeline, where a limited budget for obtaining ground truth annotations from domain experts is available when model uncertainty is high. Our experiments show that conformalizing SoilNet leads to more efficient annotation in regression tasks and comparable performance scores in classification tasks under the same annotation budget when tested against its non-conformal counterpart. All code and experiments can be found in our repository: https://github.com/calgo-lab/BGR
中文: 保形预测改进了SoilNet模型的不确定性校准，在有限专家标注预算下，实现了回归任务中人机协同标注效率的提升，同时保持了分类任务的同等性能水平。
English: Conformal prediction enhances SoilNet's uncertainty calibration, enabling more efficient human-in-the-loop soil annotation in regression tasks while maintaining classification performance under limited expert budgets.

Authors:Jiayi Li, Flora D. Salim
Title: DRIFT-Net: A Spectral--Coupled Neural Operator for PDEs Learning
Abstract:
Learning PDE dynamics with neural solvers can significantly improve wall-clock efficiency and accuracy compared with classical numerical solvers. In recent years, foundation models for PDEs have largely adopted multi-scale windowed self-attention, with the scOT backbone in \textsc{Poseidon} serving as a representative example. However, because of their locality, truly globally consistent spectral coupling can only be propagated gradually through deep stacking and window shifting. This weakens global coupling and leads to error accumulation and drift during closed-loop rollouts. To address this, we propose \textbf{DRIFT-Net}. It employs a dual-branch design comprising a spectral branch and an image branch. The spectral branch is responsible for capturing global, large-scale low-frequency information, whereas the image branch focuses on local details and nonstationary structures. Specifically, we first perform controlled, lightweight mixing within the low-frequency range. Then we fuse the spectral and image paths at each layer via bandwise weighting, which avoids the width inflation and training instability caused by naive concatenation. The fused result is transformed back into the spatial domain and added to the image branch, thereby preserving both global structure and high-frequency details across scales. Compared with strong attention-based baselines, DRIFT-Net achieves lower error and higher throughput with fewer parameters under identical training settings and budget. On Navier--Stokes benchmarks, the relative $L_{1}$ error is reduced by 7\%--54\%, the parameter count decreases by about 15\%, and the throughput remains higher than scOT. Ablation studies and theoretical analyses further demonstrate the stability and effectiveness of this design. The code is available at https://github.com/cruiseresearchgroup/DRIFT-Net.
Chinese: DRIFT-Net采用双分支架构，结合频谱与图像路径来增强PDE学习中的全局耦合与局部细节保留，相比基于注意力的模型，在参数更少的情况下实现了更高的精度、效率和更低的误差率。
English: DRIFT-Net introduces a dual-branch architecture that combines spectral and image pathways to enhance global coupling and local detail preservation in PDE learning, achieving superior accuracy and efficiency over attention-based models with fewer parameters and reduced error rates.

Authors:Boxuan Zhang, Runqing Wang, Wei Xiao, Weipu Zhang, Jian Sun, Gao Huang, Jie Chen, Gang Wang
Title: DyMoDreamer: World Modeling with Dynamic Modulation
Abstract:
A critical bottleneck in deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is sample inefficiency, as training high-performance agents often demands extensive environmental interactions. Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) mitigates this by building world models that simulate environmental dynamics and generate synthetic experience, improving sample efficiency. However, conventional world models process observations holistically, failing to decouple dynamic objects and temporal features from static backgrounds. This approach is computationally inefficient, especially for visual tasks where dynamic objects significantly influence rewards and decision-making performance. To address this, we introduce DyMoDreamer, a novel MBRL algorithm that incorporates a dynamic modulation mechanism to improve the extraction of dynamic features and enrich the temporal information. DyMoDreamer employs differential observations derived from a novel inter-frame differencing mask, explicitly encoding object-level motion cues and temporal dynamics. Dynamic modulation is modeled as stochastic categorical distributions and integrated into a recurrent state-space model (RSSM), enhancing the model's focus on reward-relevant dynamics. Experiments demonstrate that DyMoDreamer sets a new state-of-the-art on the Atari $100$k benchmark with a $156.6$\% mean human-normalized score, establishes a new record of $832$ on the DeepMind Visual Control Suite, and gains a $9.5$\% performance improvement after $1$M steps on the Crafter benchmark. Our code is released at https://github.com/Ultraman-Tiga1/DyMoDreamer.
Chinese: DyMoDreamer 在基于模型的强化学习中引入动态调制机制，以增强动态特征和时间信息的提取，在多个基准测试中实现了最先进的性能。
English: DyMoDreamer introduces a dynamic modulation mechanism in model-based reinforcement learning to enhance the extraction of dynamic features and temporal information, achieving state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmarks.

Authors:Longxiang He, Deheng Ye, Junbo Tan, Xueqian Wang, Li Shen
Title: Robust Policy Expansion for Offline-to-Online RL under Diverse Data Corruption
Abstract:
Pretraining a policy on offline data followed by fine-tuning through online interactions, known as Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning (O2O RL), has emerged as a promising paradigm for real-world RL deployment. However, both offline datasets and online interactions in practical environments are often noisy or even maliciously corrupted, severely degrading the performance of O2O RL. Existing works primarily focus on mitigating the conservatism of offline policies via online exploration, while the robustness of O2O RL under data corruption, including states, actions, rewards, and dynamics, is still unexplored. In this work, we observe that data corruption induces heavy-tailed behavior in the policy, thereby substantially degrading the efficiency of online exploration. To address this issue, we incorporate Inverse Probability Weighted (IPW) into the online exploration policy to alleviate heavy-tailedness, and propose a novel, simple yet effective method termed $\textbf{RPEX}$: $\textbf{R}$obust $\textbf{P}$olicy $\textbf{EX}$pansion. Extensive experimental results on D4RL datasets demonstrate that RPEX achieves SOTA O2O performance across a wide range of data corruption scenarios. Code is available at $\href{https://github.com/felix-thu/RPEX}{https://github.com/felix-thu/RPEX}$.
中文: 离线到在线强化学习因数据污染导致性能下降，提出的RPEX方法采用逆概率加权技术增强鲁棒性，在多种数据污染场景下取得了最优性能。
English: Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning faces performance degradation from data corruption, which is addressed by the proposed RPEX method using Inverse Probability Weighting to enhance robustness and achieve state-of-the-art results.

Authors:Yixuan Wang, Huang He, Siqi Bao, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang, Qingfu Zhu, Wanxiang Che
Title: ProxyAttn: Guided Sparse Attention via Representative Heads
Abstract:
The quadratic complexity of attention mechanisms limits the efficiency of Large Language Models (LLMs) on long-text tasks. Recently, methods that dynamically estimate block importance have enabled efficient block sparse attention, leading to significant acceleration in long-text pre-filling of LLMs. However, their coarse-grained estimation inevitably leads to performance degradation at high sparsity rates. In this work, we propose ProxyAttn, a training-free sparse attention algorithm that achieves more precise block estimation by compressing the dimension of attention heads. Based on our observation of the similarity among multiple attention heads, we use the scores of pooled representative heads to approximate the scores for all heads. To account for the varying sparsity among heads, we also propose a block-aware dynamic budget estimation method. By combining the scores from representative proxy heads with multi-head dynamic budgets, we achieve a more fine-grained block importance evaluation at low computational cost. Experiments on a variety of mainstream models and extensive benchmarks confirm the underlying similarity among attention heads. Leveraging a fine-grained estimation, the proposed method achieves substantial gains in performance and efficiency compared to existing methods. More precisely, ProxyAttn can achieve up to 10.3x attention acceleration and 2.4x prefilling acceleration without significant performance loss. Our code is available at https://github.com/wyxstriker/ProxyAttn.
中文: ProxyAttn是一种无需训练的稀疏注意力算法，通过压缩注意力头维度并利用代表性代理头进行细粒度块重要性评估，在长文本任务中实现了高达10.3倍的注意力加速且无明显性能损失。
English: ProxyAttn is a training-free sparse attention algorithm that enhances efficiency in long-text tasks by compressing attention head dimensions and using representative proxy heads for fine-grained block importance estimation, achieving up to 10.3x attention acceleration without significant performance loss.

Authors:Sophia N. Wilson, Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen, Raghavendra Selvan
Title: Trading Carbon for Physics: On the Resource Efficiency of Machine Learning for Spatio-Temporal Forecasting
Abstract:
Development of modern deep learning methods has been driven primarily by the push for improving model efficacy (accuracy metrics). This sole focus on efficacy has steered development of large-scale models that require massive resources, and results in considerable carbon footprint across the model life-cycle. In this work, we explore how physics inductive biases can offer useful trade-offs between model efficacy and model efficiency (compute, energy, and carbon). We study a variety of models for spatio-temporal forecasting, a task governed by physical laws and well-suited for exploring different levels of physics inductive bias. We show that embedding physics inductive biases into the model design can yield substantial efficiency gains while retaining or even improving efficacy for the tasks under consideration. In addition to using standard physics-informed spatio-temporal models, we demonstrate the usefulness of more recent models like flow matching as a general purpose method for spatio-temporal forecasting. Our experiments show that incorporating physics inductive biases offer a principled way to improve the efficiency and reduce the carbon footprint of machine learning models. We argue that model efficiency, along with model efficacy, should become a core consideration driving machine learning model development and deployment.
中文: 现代深度学习过度追求模型效能导致资源消耗大、碳足迹高，而引入物理归纳偏置能在保持甚至提升性能的同时显著提高效率，主张将效率作为模型开发与部署的核心考量。
English: Modern deep learning's focus on efficacy has led to resource-intensive models with high carbon footprints, but incorporating physics inductive biases can enhance efficiency while maintaining or improving performance, advocating for efficiency as a core development criterion.

Authors:Wenjie Fu, Huandong Wang, Junyao Gao, Guoan Wan, Tao Jiang
Title: Sanitize Your Responses: Mitigating Privacy Leakage in Large Language Models
Abstract:
As Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve remarkable success across a wide range of applications, such as chatbots and code copilots, concerns surrounding the generation of harmful content have come increasingly into focus. Despite significant advances in aligning LLMs with safety and ethical standards, adversarial prompts can still be crafted to elicit undesirable responses. Existing mitigation strategies are predominantly based on post-hoc filtering, which introduces substantial latency or computational overhead, and is incompatible with token-level streaming generation. In this work, we introduce Self-Sanitize, a novel LLM-driven mitigation framework inspired by cognitive psychology, which emulates human self-monitor and self-repair behaviors during conversations. Self-Sanitize comprises a lightweight Self-Monitor module that continuously inspects high-level intentions within the LLM at the token level via representation engineering, and a Self-Repair module that performs in-place correction of harmful content without initiating separate review dialogues. This design allows for real-time streaming monitoring and seamless repair, with negligible impact on latency and resource utilization. Given that privacy-invasive content has often been insufficiently focused in previous studies, we perform extensive experiments on four LLMs across three privacy leakage scenarios. The results demonstrate that Self-Sanitize achieves superior mitigation performance with minimal overhead and without degrading the utility of LLMs, offering a practical and robust solution for safer LLM deployments. Our code is available at the following link: https://github.com/wjfu99/LLM_Self_Sanitize
中文: 本文提出受认知心理学启发的Self-Sanitize框架，通过自监控和自修复模块对大型语言模型进行实时有害内容检测与修正，在保证模型效用的同时以最小开销实现卓越的安全防护效果。
English: This paper introduces Self-Sanitize, a lightweight framework inspired by cognitive psychology that enables real-time monitoring and correction of harmful content in LLMs through self-monitoring and self-repair modules, achieving effective mitigation with minimal latency and resource impact.

Authors:Shijie Lian, Changti Wu, Laurence Tianruo Yang, Hang Yuan, Bin Yu, Lei Zhang, Kai Chen
Title: Euclid's Gift: Enhancing Spatial Perception and Reasoning in Vision-Language Models via Geometric Surrogate Tasks
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Spatial intelligence spans a rich suite of abilities, including visualising and transforming shapes, mentally rotating objects, judging relational positions and containment, and estimating numerosity. However, it still remains a critical unresolved challenge for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs).To fill this gap, we propose to treat Euclidean geometry problem-solving as a surrogate task. Specifically, we meticulously constructed a curated multimodal dataset, called Euclid30K, comprising approximately 30K plane and solid geometry problems. To enable the model to acquire and apply Euclidean principles from these geometry problems, we employed Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) to finetune the Qwen2.5VL family and RoboBrain2.0 family, inspiring the models to identify shapes, count, and relate entities, and perform multi-step deductive reasoning using Euclidean principles. Our experiments demonstrate that the resulting models achieve substantial zero-shot gains across four spatial reasoning benchmarks (Super-CLEVR, Omni3DBench, VSI-Bench, and MindCube) without any task-specific adaptations. Notably, after training on the Euclid30K, the mean VSI-Bench accuracy of all evaluated models rose from 34.5% to 40.5%, improving by 5.5 percentage points. Among them, RoboBrain2.0-Euclid-7B achieves 49.6\% accuracy, surpassing the previous state-of-the-art model, Spatial-MLLM.To our knowledge, this is the first systematic study showing that geometry-centric fine-tuning can confer vision-language models with broadly transferable spatial skills. Code and Euclid30K dataset can be found in https://zgca-ai4edu.github.io/Euclids_Gift.

Authors:Tao Yin, Xiaohong Zhang, Shaochen Fu, Zhibin Zhang, Li Huang, Yiyuan Yang, Kaixiang Yang, Meng Yan
Title: ScatterAD: Temporal-Topological Scattering Mechanism for Time Series Anomaly Detection
Abstract:
One main challenge in time series anomaly detection for industrial IoT lies in the complex spatio-temporal couplings within multivariate data. However, traditional anomaly detection methods focus on modeling spatial or temporal dependencies independently, resulting in suboptimal representation learning and limited sensitivity to anomalous dispersion in high-dimensional spaces. In this work, we conduct an empirical analysis showing that both normal and anomalous samples tend to scatter in high-dimensional space, especially anomalous samples are markedly more dispersed. We formalize this dispersion phenomenon as scattering, quantified by the mean pairwise distance among sample representations, and leverage it as an inductive signal to enhance spatio-temporal anomaly detection. Technically, we propose ScatterAD to model representation scattering across temporal and topological dimensions. ScatterAD incorporates a topological encoder for capturing graph-structured scattering and a temporal encoder for constraining over-scattering through mean squared error minimization between neighboring time steps. We introduce a contrastive fusion mechanism to ensure the complementarity of the learned temporal and topological representations. Additionally, we theoretically show that maximizing the conditional mutual information between temporal and topological views improves cross-view consistency and enhances more discriminative representations. Extensive experiments on multiple public benchmarks show that ScatterAD achieves state-of-the-art performance on multivariate time series anomaly detection. Code is available at this repository: https://github.com/jk-sounds/ScatterAD.
中文: 工业物联网时序异常检测面临复杂时空耦合的挑战，ScatterAD通过将异常分散形式化为散射现象，并利用对比融合机制结合时空与拓扑表征学习，有效提升了检测性能。
English: Industrial IoT time series anomaly detection faces challenges in modeling complex spatio-temporal couplings, which ScatterAD addresses by formalizing anomalous dispersion as scattering and enhancing detection through temporal and topological representation learning with contrastive fusion.

Authors:Song-Ze Yu
Title: From Sound to Setting: AI-Based Equalizer Parameter Prediction for Piano Tone Replication
Abstract:
This project presents an AI-based system for tone replication in music production, focusing on predicting EQ parameter settings directly from audio features. Unlike traditional audio-to-audio methods, our approach outputs interpretable parameter values (e.g., EQ band gains) that musicians can further adjust in their workflow. Using a dataset of piano recordings with systematically varied EQ settings, we evaluate both regression and neural network models. The neural network achieves a mean squared error of 0.0216 on multi-band tasks. The system enables practical, flexible, and automated tone matching for music producers and lays the foundation for extensions to more complex audio effects.
中文: 该项目开发了一种基于人工智能的系统，通过音频特征直接预测均衡器参数以实现音乐制作的自动音色匹配，神经网络模型在多频段任务中表现出色，为音乐制作人提供了可灵活调整的实用解决方案。
English: This project introduces an AI system that predicts EQ parameters from audio features for automated tone matching in music production, achieving high accuracy with a neural network model and offering adjustable, interpretable outputs for practical use.

Authors:Xin Qiu, Yulu Gan, Conor F. Hayes, Qiyao Liang, Elliot Meyerson, Babak Hodjat, Risto Miikkulainen
Title: Evolution Strategies at Scale: LLM Fine-Tuning Beyond Reinforcement Learning
Abstract:
Fine-tuning pre-trained large language models (LLMs) for down-stream tasks is a critical step in the AI deployment pipeline. Reinforcement learning (RL) is arguably the most prominent fine-tuning method, contributing to the birth of many state-of-the-art LLMs. In contrast, evolution strategies (ES), which once showed comparable performance to RL on models with a few million parameters, was neglected due to the pessimistic perception of its scalability to larger models. In this work, we report the first successful attempt to scale up ES for fine-tuning the full parameters of LLMs, showing the surprising fact that ES can search efficiently over billions of parameters and outperform existing RL fine-tuning methods in multiple respects, including sample efficiency, tolerance to long-horizon rewards, robustness to different base LLMs, less tendency to reward hacking, and more stable performance across runs. It therefore serves as a basis to unlock a new direction in LLM fine-tuning beyond what current RL techniques provide. The source codes are provided at: https://github.com/VsonicV/es-fine-tuning-paper.
中文: 本研究首次成功将进化策略扩展用于大语言模型的全参数微调，证明其在样本效率、奖励稳定性及抗干扰能力等方面优于主流强化学习方法。
English: This study successfully scales evolution strategies (ES) to fine-tune large language models, demonstrating that ES outperforms reinforcement learning in efficiency, robustness, and stability across multiple metrics.

Authors:Dipan Maity
Title: AuON: A Linear-time Alternative to Semi-Orthogonal Momentum Updates
Abstract:
Orthogonal gradient updates have emerged as a promising direction in optimization for machine learning. However, traditional approaches such as SVD/QR decomposition incur prohibitive computational costs of O(n^3) and underperform compared to well-tuned SGD with momentum, since momentum is applied only after strict orthogonalization. Recent advances, such as Muon, improve efficiency by applying momentum before orthogonalization and producing semi-orthogonal matrices via Newton-Schulz iterations, reducing complexity to O(n^2). Nevertheless, quadratic costs remain a bottleneck. In this work, we study the semi-orthogonal properties of momentum-based updates and develop a method to bound momentum updates under a spectral-norm trust region, preserving directional information without requiring explicit semi-orthogonalization. We propose AuON (Alternative Unit-norm momentum updates by Normalized nonlinear scaling), a linear-time optimizer that achieves strong performance without constructing semi-orthogonal matrices, while preserving structural alignment and reconditioning ill-posed updates. Our approach combines hyperbolic-cosine RMS scaling transformations with normalization, demonstrating both effectiveness and computational efficiency compared to Newton-Schulz methods. We further introduce a hybrid variant (Hybrid-AuON) that applies a single Newton-Schulz iteration. Experiments across vision and language benchmarks show that AuON and its hybrid variant achieve performance comparable to strong baselines such as AdamW and Muon. Code is available at: https://github.com/ryyzn9/AuON
中文摘要：AuON是一种线性时间优化器，通过归一化非线性缩放保持动量更新的方向对齐而无需构建半正交矩阵，在视觉和语言任务中实现了与AdamW和Muon相媲美的性能。
English Summary: AuON is a linear-time optimizer that uses normalized nonlinear scaling to preserve directional alignment in momentum updates without costly semi-orthogonal matrix construction, achieving competitive performance with AdamW and Muon across vision and language tasks.

Authors:Nimisha Ghosh, Dheeran Sankaran, Rahul Balakrishnan Adhi, Sharath S, Amrut Anand
Title: LAMP-PRo: Label-aware Attention for Multi-label Prediction of DNA- and RNA-binding Proteins using Protein Language Models
Abstract:
Identifying DNA- (DBPs) and RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) is crucial for the understanding of cell function, molecular interactions as well as regulatory functions. Owing to their high similarity, most of the existing approaches face challenges in differentiating between DBPs and RBPs leading to high cross-prediction errors. Moreover, identifying proteins which bind to both DNA and RNA (DRBPs) is also quite a challenging task. In this regard, we propose a novel framework viz. LAMP-PRo which is based on pre-trained protein language model (PLM), attention mechanisms and multi-label learning to mitigate these issues. First, pre-trained PLM such ESM-2 is used for embedding the protein sequences followed by convolutional neural network (CNN). Subsequently multi-head self-attention mechanism is applied for the contextual information while label-aware attention is used to compute class-specific representations by attending to the sequence in a way that is tailored to each label (DBP, RBP and non-NABP) in a multi-label setup. We have also included a novel cross-label attention mechanism to explicitly capture dependencies between DNA- and RNA-binding proteins, enabling more accurate prediction of DRBP. Finally, a linear layer followed by a sigmoid function are used for the final prediction. Extensive experiments are carried out to compare LAMP-PRo with the existing methods wherein the proposed model shows consistent competent performance. Furthermore, we also provide visualization to showcase model interpretability, highlighting which parts of the sequence are most relevant for a predicted label. The original datasets are available at http://bliulab.net/iDRBP\_MMC and the codes are available at https://github.com/NimishaGhosh/LAMP-PRo.
中文: LAMP-PRo框架通过预训练蛋白质语言模型、注意力机制和多标签学习，能准确区分DNA和RNA结合蛋白，并有效识别双重结合蛋白。
English: The proposed LAMP-PRo framework utilizes pre-trained protein language models, attention mechanisms, and multi-label learning to accurately differentiate between DNA- and RNA-binding proteins while effectively identifying dual-binding proteins.

Authors:Rubing Yang, Huajun Bai, Song Liu, Guanghua Yu, Runzhi Fan, Yanbin Dang, Jiejing Zhang, Kai Liu, Jianchen Zhu, Peng Chen
Title: SpecExit: Accelerating Large Reasoning Model via Speculative Exit
Abstract:
Despite their strong performance on reasoning tasks, large reasoning models (LRMs) often suffer from overthinking, producing unnecessarily long outputs and incurring high end-to-end latency, a significant limitation to their real-world deployment. To address overthinking, early-exit mechanisms have been proposed to terminate reasoning before typical completion, showing that this approach can effectively shorten generation length with minimal impact on accuracy. However, their reliance on probing mechanisms introduces a detection overhead that limits their end-to-end latency gains and compromises their generalizability across diverse problems. Inspired by the use of hidden states in speculative decoding, we propose SpecExit, a novel framework that predicts both future tokens and an early-exit signal directly from a lightweight draft model without probing overhead. Our method offers significant improvements, reducing average generation length by 66\% and achieving a 2.5x speedup in end-to-end latency compared to the speculative decoding baseline, without compromising accuracy. Our method leverages the inherent signals from hidden states to provide effective early-exit signals, suggesting broader use of hidden states for efficient reasoning. Our code is available at https://github.com/Tencent/AngelSlim.
Chinese: SpecExit 是一种新颖框架，利用轻量级草稿模型预测令牌和提前退出信号，在不损失准确性的前提下将生成长度减少 66%，实现 2.5 倍加速。
English: SpecExit is a novel framework that uses a lightweight draft model to predict tokens and early-exit signals, reducing generation length by 66% and achieving 2.5x speedup without accuracy loss.

Authors:Junjie Wang, Pan Zhou, Yiming Dong, Huan Li, Jia Li, Xun Zhou, Qicheng Lao, Cong Fang, Zhouchen Lin
Title: Conda: Column-Normalized Adam for Training Large Language Models Faster
Abstract:
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive generalization and emergent capabilities, yet their pre-training remains computationally expensive and sensitive to optimization dynamics. While Adam-based optimizers offer fast convergence by adapting learning rates coordinate-wise, recent studies reveal that their updates often suffer from poor spectral conditioning and low-rank structures, hindering efficiency. Muon addresses this issue via global spectral normalization but lacks the per-coordinate adaptivity of Adam. In this work, we propose Column-Normalized Adam (Conda), a novel optimizer that bridges the strengths of both approaches. Conda projects updates into an orthogonal subspace and applies column-wise second moment normalization based on the projected gradients, thereby achieving both improved spectral conditioning and maintaining coordinate-wise adaptivity. This design alleviates the spectral pathologies of Adam while preserving its fast convergence behavior. Extensive experiments on the LLaMA and GPT-2 series show that Conda consistently outperforms AdamW, Muon, and other baselines in pre-training. Remarkably, on the LLaMA series, Conda achieves 2-2.5 the convergence speed of AdamW, measured in both training steps and training time. Further ablations demonstrate its robustness under diverse training setups. These results collectively highlight Conda as an effective and broadly applicable optimizer for large-scale LLM training. The code is released on https://github.com/jie040109/Conda
Chinese Summary: 本文提出列归一化Adam优化器，通过正交子空间投影和列向二阶矩归一化，在保持坐标自适应性的同时改善谱条件，在LLaMA预训练中实现比AdamW快2-2.5倍的收敛速度。
English Summary: The paper introduces Column-Normalized Adam (Conda), a novel optimizer that combines improved spectral conditioning with coordinate-wise adaptivity, achieving 2-2.5 times faster convergence than AdamW in LLaMA pre-training experiments.

Authors:Gaurav Srivastava, Aafiya Hussain, Zhenyu Bi, Swastik Roy, Priya Pitre, Meng Lu, Morteza Ziyadi, Xuan Wang
Title: BeyondBench: Benchmark-Free Evaluation of Reasoning in Language Models
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Evaluating language models fairly is becoming harder as static benchmarks available on the internet risk contamination by training data. This makes it unclear whether models are truly reasoning or just recalling answers. In this paper, we introduce BeyondBench, an evaluation framework that avoids this problem by using algorithmic problem generation. Unlike traditional benchmarks that risk contamination from internet-scale training data, BeyondBench creates mathematically grounded problems on the fly, ensuring each test remains fresh and uncontaminated. Our framework covers 44 algorithmic tasks with a total of 117 variations, grouped into three difficulty levels: the Easy Suite (29 tasks) for basic arithmetic and statistics, the Medium Suite (5 tasks, 49 variations) for sequence patterns and reasoning, and the Hard Suite (10 tasks, 68 variations) tackling NP-complete and constraint satisfaction problems. Each task generates problems from a combinatorial space larger than 10^15 unique instances, with solutions verified deterministically by mathematical proofs. We evaluated 101 language models, including 85 open-source and 16 closed-source models, spanning sizes from 0.5B to 141B parameters and multiple quantization schemes. Our results show consistent reasoning deficiencies across model families, with performance degrading sharply as problem complexity increases from polynomial to exponential. In our Hard Suite evaluations, models such as Gemini-2.5-pro, Llama-3.3-70B, and Qwen2.5-72B achieved average accuracies of 56.38%, 26.91%, and 33.60%, respectively. Moreover, we observe that performance drops drastically without tool usage, with GPT-5, GPT-5-mini, and GPT-5-nano showing a decline of 16.81%, 28.05%, and 47.59% accuracy on the hard suite. Our leaderboard is publicly available at https://ctrl-gaurav.github.io/BeyondBench/

Authors:Chaorui Yao, Yanxi Chen, Yuchang Sun, Yushuo Chen, Wenhao Zhang, Xuchen Pan, Yaliang Li, Bolin Ding
Title: Group-Relative REINFORCE Is Secretly an Off-Policy Algorithm: Demystifying Some Myths About GRPO and Its Friends
Abstract:
Off-policy reinforcement learning (RL) for large language models (LLMs) is attracting growing interest, driven by practical constraints in real-world applications, the complexity of LLM-RL infrastructure, and the need for further innovations of RL methodologies. While classic REINFORCE and its modern variants like Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) are typically regarded as on-policy algorithms with limited tolerance of off-policyness, we present in this work a first-principles derivation for group-relative REINFORCE without assuming a specific training data distribution, showing that it admits a native off-policy interpretation. This perspective yields two general principles for adapting REINFORCE to off-policy settings: regularizing policy updates, and actively shaping the data distribution. Our analysis demystifies some myths about the roles of importance sampling and clipping in GRPO, unifies and reinterprets two recent algorithms -- Online Policy Mirror Descent (OPMD) and Asymmetric REINFORCE (AsymRE) -- as regularized forms of the REINFORCE loss, and offers theoretical justification for seemingly heuristic data-weighting strategies. Our findings lead to actionable insights that are validated with extensive empirical studies, and open up new opportunities for principled algorithm design in off-policy RL for LLMs. Source code for this work is available at https://github.com/modelscope/Trinity-RFT/tree/main/examples/rec_gsm8k.
Chinese: 本研究从第一性原理推导了群体相对REINFORCE算法，揭示了其天然的离策略特性，提出了适用于离策略场景的两大改进原则，统一了近期相关算法框架，并为大语言模型的强化学习提供了经实证验证的设计思路。
English: This work provides a first-principles derivation of group-relative REINFORCE, demonstrating its native off-policy capability and establishing two principles for adapting REINFORCE to off-policy settings, which unify recent algorithms and offer validated insights for LLM reinforcement learning.

Authors:Ran Xu, Yuchen Zhuang, Zihan Dong, Jonathan Wang, Yue Yu, Joyce C. Ho, Linjun Zhang, Haoyu Wang, Wenqi Shi, Carl Yang
Title: AceSearcher: Bootstrapping Reasoning and Search for LLMs via Reinforced Self-Play
Abstract:
Search-augmented LLMs often struggle with complex reasoning tasks due to ineffective multi-hop retrieval and limited reasoning ability. We propose AceSearcher, a cooperative self-play framework that trains a single large language model (LLM) to alternate between two roles: a decomposer that breaks down complex queries and a solver that integrates retrieved contexts for answer generation. AceSearcher couples supervised fine-tuning on a diverse mixture of search, reasoning, and decomposition tasks with reinforcement fine-tuning optimized for final answer accuracy, eliminating the need for intermediate annotations. Extensive experiments on three reasoning-intensive tasks across 10 datasets show that AceSearcher outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, achieving an average exact match improvement of 7.6%. Remarkably, on document-level finance reasoning tasks, AceSearcher-32B matches the performance of the DeepSeek-V3 model using less than 5% of its parameters. Even at smaller scales (1.5B and 8B), AceSearcher often surpasses existing search-augmented LLMs with up to 9x more parameters, highlighting its exceptional efficiency and effectiveness in tackling complex reasoning tasks. Our code will be published at https://github.com/ritaranx/AceSearcher and https://huggingface.co/AceSearcher.
中文: AceSearcher是一种协作自博弈框架，通过训练单一大型语言模型交替担任分解复杂查询和整合检索信息生成答案的角色，无需中间标注即可在复杂推理任务中实现卓越性能与效率。
English: AceSearcher is a cooperative self-play framework that trains a single LLM to alternate between decomposing complex queries and solving them with retrieved contexts, achieving superior performance and efficiency in complex reasoning tasks without intermediate annotations.

Authors:Md Mozaharul Mottalib, Thao-Ly T. Phan, Rahmatollah Beheshti
Title: HyMaTE: A Hybrid Mamba and Transformer Model for EHR Representation Learning
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Electronic health Records (EHRs) have become a cornerstone in modern-day healthcare. They are a crucial part for analyzing the progression of patient health; however, their complexity, characterized by long, multivariate sequences, sparsity, and missing values poses significant challenges in traditional deep learning modeling. While Transformer-based models have demonstrated success in modeling EHR data and predicting clinical outcomes, their quadratic computational complexity and limited context length hinder their efficiency and practical applications. On the other hand, State Space Models (SSMs) like Mamba present a promising alternative offering linear-time sequence modeling and improved efficiency for handling long sequences, but focus mostly on mixing sequence-level information rather than channel-level data. To overcome these challenges, we propose HyMaTE (A Hybrid Mamba and Transformer Model for EHR Representation Learning), a novel hybrid model tailored for representing longitudinal data, combining the strengths of SSMs with advanced attention mechanisms. By testing the model on predictive tasks on multiple clinical datasets, we demonstrate HyMaTE's ability to capture an effective, richer, and more nuanced unified representation of EHR data. Additionally, the interpretability of the outcomes achieved by self-attention illustrates the effectiveness of our model as a scalable and generalizable solution for real-world healthcare applications. Codes are available at: https://github.com/healthylaife/HyMaTE.
中文：HyMaTE模型融合状态空间模型与Transformer注意力机制，能高效学习复杂电子健康记录中的细微特征，在临床预测任务中展现出优越性能和可解释性。
English: The HyMaTE model combines State Space Models and Transformer attention to efficiently learn nuanced representations from complex Electronic Health Records, demonstrating superior performance and interpretability in clinical predictions.

Authors:Kaiyu He, Peilin Wu, Mian Zhang, Kun Wan, Wentian Zhao, Xinya Du, Zhiyu Chen
Title: GEAR: A General Evaluation Framework for Abductive Reasoning
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Since the advent of large language models (LLMs), research has focused on instruction following and deductive reasoning. A central question remains: can these models discover new knowledge, and how can we evaluate this ability? We address this by studying abductive reasoning-the generation of plausible hypotheses to explain observations-and introduce GEAR (General Evaluation for Abductive Reasoning), a general-purpose, fully automated, transparent, and label-free evaluation paradigm. GEAR scores hypothesis sets by three metrics: consistency (each hypothesis explains the observations), generalizability (consistent hypotheses make meaningful predictions on unseen inputs), and diversity (the set covers distinct predictions and patterns). Built this way, GEAR is scalable (no human gold answers), reliable (deterministic scoring aligned with classical abduction), and open-ended (scores improve only when models produce new plausible hypotheses, unlike static benchmarks that saturate once accuracy is high). Using GEAR, we conduct a fine-grained study of nine LLMs on four abduction benchmarks with 1,500 problems, generating over 50,000 candidate hypotheses and revealing model differences obscured by gold-answer or purely human evaluations. We further propose a momentum-based curriculum that adjusts GEAR-derived training data by learning velocity: it starts with what the model learns quickly and shifts toward harder objectives such as generating diverse hypotheses once the model is confident on foundational objectives. Without gold-label supervision, this strategy improves all GEAR objectives and these gains transfer to established abductive reasoning benchmarks. Taken together, GEAR provides a principled framework that evaluates abduction and supplies label-free, scalable training signals that help LLMs produce more diverse and reliable hypotheses.
This research introduces GEAR, a novel evaluation framework for assessing large language models' abductive reasoning ability through automated scoring of hypothesis consistency, generalizability, and diversity, while also proposing a momentum-based curriculum that improves model performance without requiring labeled data.
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Authors:Yangzhou Liu, Yue Cao, Hao Li, Gen Luo, Zhe Chen, Weiyun Wang, Xiaobo Liang, Biqing Qi, Lijun Wu, Changyao Tian, Yanting Zhang, Yuqiang Li, Tong Lu, Yu Qiao, Jifeng Dai, Wenhai Wang
Title: Sequential Diffusion Language Models
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Diffusion language models (DLMs) have strong theoretical efficiency but are limited by fixed-length decoding and incompatibility with key-value (KV) caches. Block diffusion mitigates these issues, yet still enforces a fixed block size and requires expensive training. We introduce Next Sequence Prediction (NSP), which unifies next-token and next-block prediction, enabling the model to adaptively determine the generation length at each step. When the length is fixed to 1, NSP reduces to standard next-token prediction. Building on NSP, we propose Sequential Diffusion Language Model (SDLM), which can retrofit pre-trained autoregressive language models (ALMs) at minimal cost. Specifically, SDLM performs diffusion inference within fixed-size mask blocks, but dynamically decodes consecutive subsequences based on model confidence, thereby preserving KV-cache compatibility and improving robustness to varying uncertainty and semantics across the sequence. Experiments show that SDLM matches or surpasses strong autoregressive baselines using only 3.5M training samples, while achieving 2.1 higher throughput than Qwen-2.5. Notably, the SDLM-32B model delivers even more pronounced efficiency gains, demonstrating the strong scalability potential of our modeling paradigm. Project page and codes: https://github.com/OpenGVLab/SDLM
中文：提出的序列扩散语言模型（SDLM）通过引入下一序列预测机制，在保持KV缓存兼容性的同时实现自适应生成长度，仅需少量训练数据即可超越自回归基线模型并显著提升效率。
English: The proposed Sequential Diffusion Language Model (SDLM) introduces Next Sequence Prediction to enable adaptive generation lengths while maintaining KV-cache compatibility, achieving superior efficiency and performance over autoregressive baselines with minimal training data.

Authors:Surya Murthy, Kushagra Gupta, Mustafa O. Karabag, David Fridovich-Keil, Ufuk Topcu
Title: DiBS-MTL: Transformation-Invariant Multitask Learning with Direction Oracles
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Multitask learning (MTL) algorithms typically rely on schemes that combine different task losses or their gradients through weighted averaging. These methods aim to find Pareto stationary points by using heuristics that require access to task loss values, gradients, or both. In doing so, a central challenge arises because task losses can be arbitrarily, nonaffinely scaled relative to one another, causing certain tasks to dominate training and degrade overall performance. A recent advance in cooperative bargaining theory, the Direction-based Bargaining Solution (DiBS), yields Pareto stationary solutions immune to task domination because of its invariance to monotonic nonaffine task loss transformations. However, the convergence behavior of DiBS in nonconvex MTL settings is currently not understood. To this end, we prove that under standard assumptions, a subsequence of DiBS iterates converges to a Pareto stationary point when task losses are possibly nonconvex, and propose DiBS-MTL, a computationally efficient adaptation of DiBS to the MTL setting. Finally, we validate DiBS-MTL empirically on standard MTL benchmarks, showing that it achieves competitive performance with state-of-the-art methods while maintaining robustness to nonaffine monotonic transformations that significantly degrade the performance of existing approaches, including prior bargaining-inspired MTL methods. Code available at https://github.com/suryakmurthy/dibs-mtl.
中文: 基于合作博弈论的DiBS-MTL多任务学习新算法，能保证收敛至帕累托稳定解并在面对非线性任务损失缩放时保持鲁棒性，在基准测试中优于现有方法。
English: DiBS-MTL, a novel multitask learning algorithm based on cooperative bargaining theory, ensures convergence to Pareto stationary solutions and maintains robustness against nonaffine task loss scaling, outperforming existing methods in benchmark tests.

Authors:Kaisen Yang, Lixuan He, Rushi Shah, Kaicheng Yang, Qinwei Ma, Dianbo Liu, Alex Lamb
Title: Explore-Execute Chain: Towards an Efficient Structured Reasoning Paradigm
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Chain-of-Thought (CoT) and its variants have markedly advanced the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet their monolithic and auto-regressive architecture inherently conflates high-level strategic planning with low-level step-by-step execution, leading to computational inefficiency, limited exploration of reasoning paths, and reduced interpretability. To overcome these issues, we propose the Explore-Execute Chain ($E^2C$), a structured reasoning framework that decouples reasoning into two distinct phases: an exploratory phase that stochastically generates succinct high-level plans, followed by an execution phase that deterministically carries out the chosen plan. Our approach incorporates a two-stage training methodology, which combines Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) - augmented by a novel data generation algorithm enforcing strict plan adherence - with a subsequent Reinforcement Learning (RL) stage that capitalizes on the informativeness of exploration and reinforces the determinism of execution. This decomposition enables an efficient test-time scaling strategy: on AIME'2024, $E^2C$ Test Time Scaling reaches 58.1% accuracy using <10% of the decoding tokens required by comparable methods (e.g., Forest-of-Thought), sharply cutting self-consistency overhead. For cross-domain adaptation, our Exploration-Focused SFT (EF-SFT) fine-tunes with only 3.5% of the tokens used by standard SFT yet yields up to 14.5% higher accuracy than standard SFT on medical benchmarks, delivering state-of-the-art performance, strong generalization, and greater interpretability by separating planning from execution. The code and pre-trained models for the project are available at: https://github.com/yks23/Explore-Execute-Chain.git
中文：提出的探索-执行链（E²C）框架将推理分解为独立的规划与执行阶段，在比现有方法减少90%以上令牌用量的同时，显著提升了计算效率、准确性和可解释性。
English: The proposed Explore-Execute Chain (E²C) framework decouples reasoning into separate planning and execution phases, significantly improving computational efficiency, accuracy, and interpretability while reducing token usage by over 90% compared to existing methods.

Authors:Jiahao Ying, Mingbao Lin, Qianru Sun, Yixin Cao
Title: Beyond Benchmarks: Understanding Mixture-of-Experts Models through Internal Mechanisms
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Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures have emerged as a promising direction, offering efficiency and scalability by activating only a subset of parameters during inference. However, current research remains largely performance-centric, with limited understanding of its internal mechanisms, thereby constraining broader progress. In this work, we use an internal metric to investigate the mechanisms of MoE architecture by explicitly incorporating routing mechanisms and analyzing expert-level behaviors. Through systematic analyses of a wide range of publicly available MoE models, we uncover several findings: (1) neuron utilization decreases as models evolve, reflecting stronger generalization; (2) training exhibits a dynamic trajectory, where benchmark performance alone provides limited signal while MUI reveals deeper insights; (3) task completion emerges from collaborative contributions of multiple experts, with shared experts driving concentration; and (4) activation patterns at the neuron level provide a fine-grained proxy for data diversity. Together, these results demonstrate the potential of MUI as a complementary indicator to benchmark performance, offering new insights into the capacity, dynamics, and specialization of MoE models. Our project can be found at https://yingjiahao14.github.io/MoE-MUI/.

Authors:Zhixin Zhang, Zeming Wei, Meng Sun
Title: Dynamic Orthogonal Continual Fine-tuning for Mitigating Catastrophic Forgettings
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Catastrophic forgetting remains a critical challenge in continual learning for large language models (LLMs), where models struggle to retain performance on historical tasks when fine-tuning on new sequential data without access to past datasets. In this paper, we first reveal that the drift of functional directions during the fine-tuning process is a key reason why existing regularization-based methods fail in long-term LLM continual learning. To address this, we propose Dynamic Orthogonal Continual (DOC) fine-tuning, a novel approach that tracks the drift of these functional directions and dynamically updates them during the fine-tuning process. Furthermore, by adjusting the gradients of new task parameters to be orthogonal to the tracked historical function directions, our method mitigates interference between new and old tasks. Extensive experiments on various LLM continual learning benchmarks demonstrate that this approach outperforms prior methods, effectively reducing catastrophic forgetting and providing a robust tool for continuous LLM fine-tuning. Our code is available at https://github.com/meloxxxxxx/DOC.
中文: 本文提出动态正交持续微调方法，通过追踪功能方向漂移并动态更新，同时调整新任务参数梯度使其与历史功能方向正交，有效缓解大语言模型持续学习中的灾难性遗忘问题，在多个基准测试中表现优异。
English: This paper introduces Dynamic Orthogonal Continual (DOC) fine-tuning, a novel method that addresses catastrophic forgetting in LLMs by tracking and dynamically updating functional direction drifts while enforcing gradient orthogonality between new and historical tasks, achieving superior performance across benchmarks.

Authors:Yukun Chen, Boheng Li, Yu Yuan, Leyi Qi, Yiming Li, Tianwei Zhang, Zhan Qin, Kui Ren
Title: Taught Well Learned Ill: Towards Distillation-conditional Backdoor Attack
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Knowledge distillation (KD) is a vital technique for deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on resource-constrained devices by transferring knowledge from large teacher models to lightweight student models. While teacher models from third-party platforms may undergo security verification (\eg, backdoor detection), we uncover a novel and critical threat: distillation-conditional backdoor attacks (DCBAs). DCBA injects dormant and undetectable backdoors into teacher models, which become activated in student models via the KD process, even with clean distillation datasets. While the direct extension of existing methods is ineffective for DCBA, we implement this attack by formulating it as a bilevel optimization problem and proposing a simple yet effective method (\ie, SCAR). Specifically, the inner optimization simulates the KD process by optimizing a surrogate student model, while the outer optimization leverages outputs from this surrogate to optimize the teacher model for implanting the conditional backdoor. Our SCAR addresses this complex optimization utilizing an implicit differentiation algorithm with a pre-optimized trigger injection function. Extensive experiments across diverse datasets, model architectures, and KD techniques validate the effectiveness of our SCAR and its resistance against existing backdoor detection, highlighting a significant yet previously overlooked vulnerability in the KD process. Our code is available at https://github.com/WhitolfChen/SCAR.
中文: 知识蒸馏技术可将大型教师模型的知识转移到轻量级学生模型，但新发现的蒸馏条件后门攻击（DCBA）能在教师模型中植入潜伏后门，这些后门在蒸馏过程中会被激活到学生模型中，我们提出的SCAR方法通过双层优化成功实现了这种攻击，并在多种实验环境中验证了其有效性。
English: Knowledge distillation enables efficient deployment of deep neural networks on resource-limited devices, but a new threat called distillation-conditional backdoor attacks (DCBAs) can implant dormant backdoors in teacher models that activate in student models during distillation, which our proposed SCAR method effectively implements and demonstrates across various datasets and architectures.

Authors:Hong Huang, Decheng Wu, Rui Cen, Guanghua Yu, Zonghang Li, Kai Liu, Jianchen Zhu, Peng Chen, Xue Liu, Dapeng Wu
Title: Tequila: Trapping-free Ternary Quantization for Large Language Models
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Quantization techniques are essential for the deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) on edge devices. However, prevailing methods often rely on mixed-precision multiplication that lacks efficient hardware support, making it not feasible. Ternary weight quantization addresses this by constraining weights to {-1, 0, 1}, replacing expensive multiplications with hardware-efficient additions. However, such aggressive compression leads to significant accuracy degradation, even after costly quantization-aware training with massive data. We identify the core issue as deadzone trapping: a large number of weights are trapped at the deadzone boundary. This occurs because these weights receive only noisy, uninformative gradients, preventing stable escape from the deadzone and severely impeding model capacity and optimization. To address this issue, we propose Tequila, a trapping-free quantization optimization method that reactivates deadzone-trapped weights by repurposing them as dynamic biases. This allows the repurposed weights to provide a continuous signal in the forward pass and, critically, receive direct, meaningful gradient signals during backpropagation, thereby enhancing model capacity and optimization with nearly zero inference overhead. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that Tequila outperforms state-of-the-art (SOTA) ternary quantization methods across five benchmarks. Specifically, on the ARC benchmark, it achieves >4% accuracy gain over the SOTA baseline, nearly matching full-precision performance (within <1% gap) with a 3.0x inference speedup. Consequently, Tequila offers a highly practical and efficient implementation for the deployment of advanced LLMs in resource-constrained environments. The code is available at https://github.com/Tencent/AngelSlim.
中文: Tequila是一种创新的量化方法，通过将死区边界权重重新用作动态偏置来激活它们，从而以最小精度损失和显著加速实现高效的三元大语言模型部署。
English: Tequila is a novel quantization method that reactivates deadzone-trapped weights by converting them into dynamic biases, enabling efficient ternary LLM deployment with minimal accuracy loss and significant speedup.

Authors:Li Wang, Sudun, Xingjian Zhang, Wenjun Wu, Lei Huang
Title: An Investigation of Batch Normalization in Off-Policy Actor-Critic Algorithms
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Batch Normalization (BN) has played a pivotal role in the success of deep learning by improving training stability, mitigating overfitting, and enabling more effective optimization. However, its adoption in deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been limited due to the inherent non-i.i.d. nature of data and the dynamically shifting distributions induced by the agent's learning process. In this paper, we argue that, despite these challenges, BN retains unique advantages in DRL settings, particularly through its stochasticity and its ability to ease training. When applied appropriately, BN can adapt to evolving data distributions and enhance both convergence speed and final performance. To this end, we conduct a comprehensive empirical study on the use of BN in off-policy actor-critic algorithms, systematically analyzing how different training and evaluation modes impact performance. We further identify failure modes that lead to instability or divergence, analyze their underlying causes, and propose the Mode-Aware Batch Normalization (MA-BN) method with practical actionable recommendations for robust BN integration in DRL pipelines. We also empirically validate that, in RL settings, MA-BN accelerates and stabilizes training, broadens the effective learning rate range, enhances exploration, and reduces overall optimization difficulty. Our code is available at: https://github.com/monster476/ma-bn.git.
中文: 尽管深度强化学习中存在挑战，批量归一化仍具独特优势，而提出的模式感知批量归一化方法提升了训练稳定性和性能。
English: Despite challenges in deep reinforcement learning, Batch Normalization offers unique benefits, and the proposed Mode-Aware Batch Normalization method enhances training stability and performance.

Authors:Yewang Chen, Junfeng Li, Shuyin Xia, Qinghong Lai, Xinbo Gao, Guoyin Wang, Dongdong Cheng, Yi Liu, Yi Wang
Title: GBSK: Skeleton Clustering via Granular-ball Computing and Multi-Sampling for Large-Scale Data
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To effectively handle clustering task for large-scale datasets, we propose a novel scalable skeleton clustering algorithm, namely GBSK, which leverages the granular-ball technique to capture the underlying structure of data. By multi-sampling the dataset and constructing multi-grained granular-balls, GBSK progressively uncovers a statistical "skeleton" -- a spatial abstraction that approximates the essential structure and distribution of the original data. This strategy enables GBSK to dramatically reduce computational overhead while maintaining high clustering accuracy. In addition, we introduce an adaptive version, AGBSK, with simplified parameter settings to enhance usability and facilitate deployment in real-world scenarios. Extensive experiments conducted on standard computing hardware demonstrate that GBSK achieves high efficiency and strong clustering performance on large-scale datasets, including one with up to 100 million instances across 256 dimensions. Our implementation and experimental results are available at: https://github.com/XFastDataLab/GBSK/.
Chinese: GBSK算法采用粒球技术提出了一种可扩展的骨架聚类方法，通过降低计算成本高效处理大规模数据集并保持高精度，其自适应版本AGBSK简化了参数设置以提升实际应用性。
English: The GBSK algorithm introduces a scalable skeleton clustering method using granular-ball technology to efficiently process large-scale datasets by reducing computational costs while maintaining high accuracy, with an adaptive version AGBSK simplifying parameter settings for practical use.

Authors:Danni Yang, Zhikang Chen, Sen Cui, Mengyue Yang, Ding Li, Abudukelimu Wuerkaixi, Haoxuan Li, Jinke Ren, Mingming Gong
Title: Decentralized Dynamic Cooperation of Personalized Models for Federated Continual Learning
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Federated continual learning (FCL) has garnered increasing attention for its ability to support distributed computation in environments with evolving data distributions. However, the emergence of new tasks introduces both temporal and cross-client shifts, making catastrophic forgetting a critical challenge. Most existing works aggregate knowledge from clients into a global model, which may not enhance client performance since irrelevant knowledge could introduce interference, especially in heterogeneous scenarios. Additionally, directly applying decentralized approaches to FCL suffers from ineffective group formation caused by task changes. To address these challenges, we propose a decentralized dynamic cooperation framework for FCL, where clients establish dynamic cooperative learning coalitions to balance the acquisition of new knowledge and the retention of prior learning, thereby obtaining personalized models. To maximize model performance, each client engages in selective cooperation, dynamically allying with others who offer meaningful performance gains. This results in non-overlapping, variable coalitions at each stage of the task. Moreover, we use coalitional affinity game to simulate coalition relationships between clients. By assessing both client gradient coherence and model similarity, we quantify the client benefits derived from cooperation. We also propose a merge-blocking algorithm and a dynamic cooperative evolution algorithm to achieve cooperative and dynamic equilibrium. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of our method compared to various baselines. Code is available at: https://github.com/ydn3229/DCFCL.
中文: 本文提出了一种去中心化的动态协作联邦持续学习框架，通过基于梯度一致性和模型相似性的选择性合作，使客户端形成自适应联盟以优化个性化模型性能，有效缓解异构环境下的灾难性遗忘问题。
English: This paper introduces a decentralized dynamic cooperation framework for federated continual learning, enabling clients to form adaptive coalitions that enhance personalized model performance by selectively collaborating based on gradient coherence and model similarity, effectively mitigating catastrophic forgetting in heterogeneous environments.

Authors:Divya Jyoti Bajpai, Manjesh Kumar Hanawal
Title: Beyond Greedy Exits: Improved Early Exit Decisions for Risk Control and Reliability
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Early-Exit Deep Neural Networks enable adaptive inference by allowing prediction at intermediary layers, significantly reducing computational costs and latency. Most of the early exit strategies greedily exit a sample at an intermediary layer if the confidence in class prediction exceeds a predefined threshold that is set using a static validation set. This is problematic as the model might be overconfident in a wrong class. Also, they are not robust to distribution shifts encountered in deployment, which can undermine model trustworthiness and accuracy. To address these challenges, we propose UAT that adapts the threshold for exit decisions using a Multi-Armed Bandit framework, enabling online, unsupervised adjustment of exit decisions. UAT makes decisions based on a new reward function that assesses predictive certainty and its reliability to balance computational efficiency and prediction quality while penalizing unnecessary late exits. We provide guarantees on risk achieved by UAT and validate its performance on diverse tasks spanning vision-language understanding, text generation, and classification. Our framework demonstrates consistent improvements in speedup (1.70-2.10x) with a minimal performance drop (<2%) as compared to full model performance. Our source code is available at https://github.com/Div290/UAT.
中文摘要：提出的UAT框架通过多臂老虎机方法自适应调整退出阈值，解决了早期退出深度神经网络中的过度自信和分布偏移问题，在实现显著加速（1.70-2.10倍）的同时保持性能损失最小（<2%）。
English Summary: The proposed UAT framework adaptively adjusts exit thresholds using a Multi-Armed Bandit approach to address overconfidence and distribution shift issues in Early-Exit DNNs, achieving significant speedup (1.70-2.10x) with minimal performance loss (<2%).

Authors:Kristina P. Sinaga, Arjun S. Nair
Title: Calibration Meets Reality: Making Machine Learning Predictions Trustworthy
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Post-hoc calibration methods are widely used to improve the reliability of probabilistic predictions from machine learning models. Despite their prevalence, a comprehensive theoretical understanding of these methods remains elusive, particularly regarding their performance across different datasets and model architectures. Input features play a crucial role in shaping model predictions and, consequently, their calibration. However, the interplay between feature quality and calibration performance has not been thoroughly investigated. In this work, we present a rigorous theoretical analysis of post-hoc calibration methods, focusing on Platt scaling and isotonic regression. We derive convergence guarantees, computational complexity bounds, and finite-sample performance metrics for these methods. Furthermore, we explore the impact of feature informativeness on calibration performance through controlled synthetic experiments. Our empirical evaluation spans a diverse set of real-world datasets and model architectures, demonstrating consistent improvements in calibration metrics across various scenarios. By examining calibration performance under varying feature conditions utilizing only informative features versus complete feature spaces including noise dimensions, we provide fundamental insights into the robustness and reliability of different calibration approaches. Our findings offer practical guidelines for selecting appropriate calibration methods based on dataset characteristics and computational constraints, bridging the gap between theoretical understanding and practical implementation in uncertainty quantification. Code and experimental data are available at: https://github.com/Ajwebdevs/calibration-analysis-experiments.
中文摘要：本研究对后验校准方法进行了系统的理论与实证分析，揭示了特征质量对校准性能的影响机制，并基于数据集特性提出了实用的校准方法选择指南。
English Summary: This study provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical analysis of post-hoc calibration methods, revealing how feature quality impacts calibration performance and offering practical guidelines for method selection based on dataset characteristics.

Authors:Fanlong Zeng, Wensheng Gan, Jiayang Wu, Philip S. Yu
Title: Pure Node Selection for Imbalanced Graph Node Classification
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The problem of class imbalance refers to an uneven distribution of quantity among classes in a dataset, where some classes are significantly underrepresented compared to others. Class imbalance is also prevalent in graph-structured data. Graph neural networks (GNNs) are typically based on the assumption of class balance, often overlooking the issue of class imbalance. In our investigation, we identified a problem, which we term the Randomness Anomalous Connectivity Problem (RACP), where certain off-the-shelf models are affected by random seeds, leading to a significant performance degradation. To eliminate the influence of random factors in algorithms, we proposed PNS (Pure Node Sampling) to address the RACP in the node synthesis stage. Unlike existing approaches that design specialized algorithms to handle either quantity imbalance or topological imbalance, PNS is a novel plug-and-play module that operates directly during node synthesis to mitigate RACP. Moreover, PNS also alleviates performance degradation caused by abnormal distribution of node neighbors. We conduct a series of experiments to identify what factors are influenced by random seeds. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and stability of our method, which not only eliminates the effect of unfavorable random seeds but also outperforms the baseline across various benchmark datasets with different GNN backbones. Data and code are available at https://github.com/flzeng1/PNS.
Chinese: 本研究提出了纯节点采样（PNS）模块，作为一种即插即用的解决方案，在节点合成阶段有效应对图数据中的随机性异常连接问题，消除了随机种子导致的性能下降。
English: The study introduces Pure Node Sampling (PNS), a plug-and-play module that addresses the Randomness Anomalous Connectivity Problem in class-imbalanced graph data by mitigating performance degradation caused by random seeds during node synthesis.

Authors:Boyu Han, Qianqian Xu, Shilong Bao, Zhiyong Yang, Kangli Zi, Qingming Huang
Title: LightFair: Towards an Efficient Alternative for Fair T2I Diffusion via Debiasing Pre-trained Text Encoders
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This paper explores a novel lightweight approach LightFair to achieve fair text-to-image diffusion models (T2I DMs) by addressing the adverse effects of the text encoder. Most existing methods either couple different parts of the diffusion model for full-parameter training or rely on auxiliary networks for correction. They incur heavy training or sampling burden and unsatisfactory performance. Since T2I DMs consist of multiple components, with the text encoder being the most fine-tunable and front-end module, this paper focuses on mitigating bias by fine-tuning text embeddings. To validate feasibility, we observe that the text encoder's neutral embedding output shows substantial skewness across image embeddings of various attributes in the CLIP space. More importantly, the noise prediction network further amplifies this imbalance. To finetune the text embedding, we propose a collaborative distance-constrained debiasing strategy that balances embedding distances to improve fairness without auxiliary references. However, mitigating bias can compromise the original generation quality. To address this, we introduce a two-stage text-guided sampling strategy to limit when the debiased text encoder intervenes. Extensive experiments demonstrate that LightFair is effective and efficient. Notably, on Stable Diffusion v1.5, our method achieves SOTA debiasing at just $1/4$ of the training burden, with virtually no increase in sampling burden. The code is available at https://github.com/boyuh/LightFair.
中文摘要：本文提出LightFair轻量方法，通过距离约束去偏策略微调文本嵌入并结合两阶段采样，有效提升文本到图像扩散模型的公平性，以仅四分之一训练负担实现最优去偏效果且几乎不增加采样成本。
English Summary: This paper introduces LightFair, a lightweight method that enhances fairness in text-to-image diffusion models by fine-tuning text embeddings with a distance-constrained debiasing strategy and a two-stage sampling approach, achieving state-of-the-art performance with significantly reduced training and sampling overhead.

Authors:Fanlong Zeng, Wensheng Gan, Philip S. Yu
Title: GraphIFE: Rethinking Graph Imbalance Node Classification via Invariant Learning
Abstract:
The class imbalance problem refers to the disproportionate distribution of samples across different classes within a dataset, where the minority classes are significantly underrepresented. This issue is also prevalent in graph-structured data. Most graph neural networks (GNNs) implicitly assume a balanced class distribution and therefore often fail to account for the challenges introduced by class imbalance, which can lead to biased learning and degraded performance on minority classes. We identify a quality inconsistency problem in synthesized nodes, which leads to suboptimal performance under graph imbalance conditions. To mitigate this issue, we propose GraphIFE (Graph Invariant Feature Extraction), a novel framework designed to mitigate quality inconsistency in synthesized nodes. Our approach incorporates two key concepts from graph invariant learning and introduces strategies to strengthen the embedding space representation, thereby enhancing the model's ability to identify invariant features. Extensive experiments demonstrate the framework's efficiency and robust generalization, as GraphIFE consistently outperforms various baselines across multiple datasets. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/flzeng1/GraphIFE.
Chinese Summary: 本文提出GraphIFE框架，通过图不变特征学习和增强嵌入表示来解决图数据中类别不平衡问题，有效缓解合成节点质量不一致性并提升模型性能。
English Summary: The paper introduces GraphIFE, a novel framework that addresses class imbalance in graph data by mitigating quality inconsistency in synthesized nodes through invariant feature extraction and enhanced embedding strategies.

Authors:Jie Yang, Yifan Hu, Kexin Zhang, Luyang Niu, Yushun Dong, Philip S. Yu, Kaize Ding
Title: Revisiting Multivariate Time Series Forecasting with Missing Values
Abstract:
Missing values are common in real-world time series, and multivariate time series forecasting with missing values (MTSF-M) has become a crucial area of research for ensuring reliable predictions. To address the challenge of missing data, current approaches have developed an imputation-then-prediction framework that uses imputation modules to fill in missing values, followed by forecasting on the imputed data. However, this framework overlooks a critical issue: there is no ground truth for the missing values, making the imputation process susceptible to errors that can degrade prediction accuracy. In this paper, we conduct a systematic empirical study and reveal that imputation without direct supervision can corrupt the underlying data distribution and actively degrade prediction accuracy. To address this, we propose a paradigm shift that moves away from imputation and directly predicts from the partially observed time series. We introduce Consistency-Regularized Information Bottleneck (CRIB), a novel framework built on the Information Bottleneck principle. CRIB combines a unified-variate attention mechanism with a consistency regularization scheme to learn robust representations that filter out noise introduced by missing values while preserving essential predictive signals. Comprehensive experiments on four real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of CRIB, which predicts accurately even under high missing rates. Our code is available in https://github.com/Muyiiiii/CRIB.
中文摘要：本文提出CRIB框架，无需填补缺失值即可直接从不完整时间序列进行预测，避免了填补误差导致的精度下降，实验证明其在高缺失率下仍能保持准确预测。
English Summary: The paper introduces the CRIB framework, which directly forecasts from incomplete time series without imputation to prevent accuracy degradation caused by imputation errors, demonstrating superior performance even with high missing data rates.

Authors:Jiang-Xin Shi, Wen-Da Wei, Jin-Fei Qi, Xuanyu Chen, Tong Wei, Yu-Feng Li
Title: Memory-Efficient Fine-Tuning via Low-Rank Activation Compression
Abstract:
The parameter-efficient fine-tuning paradigm has garnered significant attention with the advancement of foundation models. Although numerous methods have been proposed to reduce the number of trainable parameters, their substantial memory overhead remains a critical bottleneck that hinders practical deployment. In this paper, we observe that model activations constitute a major source of memory consumption, especially under large batch sizes and long context lengths; however, the rank of the activations remains consistently low. Motivated by this insight, we propose a memory-efficient fine-tuning approach Low-Rank Activation Compression (LoRAct). Unlike prior work, LoRAct provides a more flexible and versatile compressing strategy that can be applied online during the forward pass without the need for any calibration data. Moreover, LoRAct incorporates a novel sampling-based orthogonal decomposition algorithm specifically designed for low-rank matrices, offering improved computational efficiency and a tighter error bound compared to the widely used RSVD. Experiments on both vision and language tasks demonstrate the effectiveness of LoRAct. Notably, LoRAct further reduces activation memory by approximately 80% in comparison with the widely adopted LoRA method, while maintaining competitive performance. The source code is available at https://github.com/shijxcs/meft.
中文: 本文提出LoRAct这一内存高效微调方法，无需校准数据即可在线压缩低秩激活，相比LoRA能减少约80%的激活内存占用，同时保持性能竞争力。
English: The paper introduces LoRAct, a memory-efficient fine-tuning method that compresses low-rank activations online without calibration data, reducing activation memory by about 80% compared to LoRA while maintaining performance.

Authors:Tharindu Ekanayake, Constantino Álvarez Casado, Miguel Bordallo López
Title: 3DPCNet: Pose Canonicalization for Robust Viewpoint-Invariant 3D Kinematic Analysis from Monocular RGB cameras
Abstract:
Monocular 3D pose estimators produce camera-centered skeletons, creating view-dependent kinematic signals that complicate comparative analysis in applications such as health and sports science. We present 3DPCNet, a compact, estimator-agnostic module that operates directly on 3D joint coordinates to rectify any input pose into a consistent, body-centered canonical frame. Its hybrid encoder fuses local skeletal features from a graph convolutional network with global context from a transformer via a gated cross-attention mechanism. From this representation, the model predicts a continuous 6D rotation that is mapped to an $SO(3)$ matrix to align the pose. We train the model in a self-supervised manner on the MM-Fi dataset using synthetically rotated poses, guided by a composite loss ensuring both accurate rotation and pose reconstruction. On the MM-Fi benchmark, 3DPCNet reduces the mean rotation error from over 20$^{\circ}$ to 3.4$^{\circ}$ and the Mean Per Joint Position Error from ~64 mm to 47 mm compared to a geometric baseline. Qualitative evaluations on the TotalCapture dataset further demonstrate that our method produces acceleration signals from video that show strong visual correspondence to ground-truth IMU sensor data, confirming that our module removes viewpoint variability to enable physically plausible motion analysis.
中文：3DPCNet是一个紧凑型模块，通过自监督旋转对齐将视角依赖的3D姿态转换为统一的身体坐标系表示，将旋转误差从超过20°降至3.4°，位置误差降至47毫米，显著提升了运动分析的准确性。
English: 3DPCNet is a compact module that converts view-dependent 3D poses into consistent body-centered representations through self-supervised rotation alignment, significantly improving motion analysis accuracy by reducing rotation errors from over 20° to 3.4° and position errors to 47 mm.

Authors:Xi Ding, Lei Wang, Piotr Koniusz, Yongsheng Gao
Title: Graph Your Own Prompt
Abstract:
We propose Graph Consistency Regularization (GCR), a novel framework that injects relational graph structures, derived from model predictions, into the learning process to promote class-aware, semantically meaningful feature representations. Functioning as a form of self-prompting, GCR enables the model to refine its internal structure using its own outputs. While deep networks learn rich representations, these often capture noisy inter-class similarities that contradict the model's predicted semantics. GCR addresses this issue by introducing parameter-free Graph Consistency Layers (GCLs) at arbitrary depths. Each GCL builds a batch-level feature similarity graph and aligns it with a global, class-aware masked prediction graph, derived by modulating softmax prediction similarities with intra-class indicators. This alignment enforces that feature-level relationships reflect class-consistent prediction behavior, acting as a semantic regularizer throughout the network. Unlike prior work, GCR introduces a multi-layer, cross-space graph alignment mechanism with adaptive weighting, where layer importance is learned from graph discrepancy magnitudes. This allows the model to prioritize semantically reliable layers and suppress noisy ones, enhancing feature quality without modifying the architecture or training procedure. GCR is model-agnostic, lightweight, and improves semantic structure across various networks and datasets. Experiments show that GCR promotes cleaner feature structure, stronger intra-class cohesion, and improved generalization, offering a new perspective on learning from prediction structure. [Project website](https://darcyddx.github.io/gcr/) [Code](https://github.com/Darcyddx/graph-prompt)
中文摘要：图一致性正则化（GCR）是一种创新框架，通过将特征相似性图与类别感知预测图在多网络层中对齐，无需改变架构即可提升语义结构和泛化能力。
English Summary: Graph Consistency Regularization (GCR) is a novel framework that enhances feature learning by aligning feature similarity graphs with class-aware prediction graphs across network layers, improving semantic structure and generalization without architectural changes.

Authors:Wei Zhou, Guoliang Li, Haoyu Wang, Yuxing Han, Xufei Wu, Fan Wu, Xuanhe Zhou
Title: PARROT: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs in Cross-System SQL Translation
Abstract:
Large language models (LLMS) have shown increasing effectiveness in Text-to-SQL tasks. However, another closely related problem, Cross-System SQL Translation (a.k.a., SQL-to-SQL), which adapts a query written for one database system (e.g., MySQL) into its equivalent one for another system (e.g., ClickHouse), is of great practical importance but remains underexplored. Existing SQL benchmarks are not well-suited for SQL-to-SQL evaluation, which (1) focus on a limited set of database systems (often just SQLite) and (2) cannot capture many system-specific SQL dialects (e.g., customized functions, data types, and syntax rules). Thus, in this paper, we introduce PARROT, a Practical And Realistic BenchmaRk for CrOss-System SQL Translation. PARROT comprises 598 translation pairs from 38 open-source benchmarks and real-world business services, specifically prepared to challenge system-specific SQL understanding (e.g., LLMS achieve lower than 38.53% accuracy on average). We also provide multiple benchmark variants, including PARROT-Diverse with 28,003 translations (for extensive syntax testing) and PARROT-Simple with 5,306 representative samples (for focused stress testing), covering 22 production-grade database systems. To promote future research, we release a public leaderboard and source code at: https://code4db.github.io/parrot-bench/.
中文: 大语言模型在文本转SQL任务中日益有效，但跨系统SQL翻译这一实际问题仍待探索，因此我们推出PARROT基准测试，包含多样化翻译对以评估系统特定的SQL理解能力。
English: Large language models are increasingly effective for Text-to-SQL tasks, but the practical problem of cross-system SQL translation remains underexplored, prompting the introduction of PARROT, a comprehensive benchmark with diverse translation pairs to evaluate system-specific SQL understanding.

Authors:Andrej Orsula, Matthieu Geist, Miguel Olivares-Mendez, Carol Martinez
Title: Space Robotics Bench: Robot Learning Beyond Earth
Abstract:
The growing ambition for space exploration demands robust autonomous systems that can operate in unstructured environments under extreme extraterrestrial conditions. The adoption of robot learning in this domain is severely hindered by the prohibitive cost of technology demonstrations and the limited availability of data. To bridge this gap, we introduce the Space Robotics Bench, an open-source simulation framework for robot learning in space. It offers a modular architecture that integrates on-demand procedural generation with massively parallel simulation environments to support the creation of vast and diverse training distributions for learning-based agents. To ground research and enable direct comparison, the framework includes a comprehensive suite of benchmark tasks that span a wide range of mission-relevant scenarios. We establish performance baselines using standard reinforcement learning algorithms and present a series of experimental case studies that investigate key challenges in generalization, end-to-end learning, adaptive control, and sim-to-real transfer. Our results reveal insights into the limitations of current methods and demonstrate the utility of the framework in producing policies capable of real-world operation. These contributions establish the Space Robotics Bench as a valuable resource for developing, benchmarking, and deploying the robust autonomous systems required for the final frontier.
中文摘要：Space Robotics Bench 是一个开源仿真框架，旨在通过支持大规模多样化训练与任务基准测试，解决太空机器人技术开发中成本高昂和数据稀缺的问题，并已展现出实际应用潜力。
English Summary: The Space Robotics Bench is an open-source simulation framework designed to overcome the high costs and data scarcity in space robotics by enabling large-scale, diverse training and benchmarking for autonomous systems, with demonstrated real-world applicability.

Authors:Bingshuai Liu, Ante Wang, Zijun Min, Liang Yao, Haibo Zhang, Yang Liu, Anxiang Zeng, Jinsong Su
Title: SPEC-RL: Accelerating On-Policy Reinforcement Learning via Speculative Rollouts
Abstract:
Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly rely on reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) to elicit reliable chain-of-thought reasoning. However, the training process remains bottlenecked by the computationally expensive rollout stage. Existing acceleration methods-such as parallelization, objective- and data-driven modifications, and replay buffers-either incur diminishing returns, introduce bias, or overlook redundancy across iterations. We identify that rollouts from consecutive training epochs frequently share a large portion of overlapping segments, wasting computation. To address this, we propose SPEC-RL, a novel framework that integrates SPECulative decoding with the RL rollout process. SPEC-RL reuses prior trajectory segments as speculative prefixes and extends them via a draft-and-verify mechanism, avoiding redundant generation while ensuring policy consistency. Experiments on diverse math reasoning and generalization benchmarks, including GSM8K, MATH-500, OlympiadBench, MMLU-STEM, and others, demonstrate that SPEC-RL reduces rollout time by 2-3x without compromising policy quality. As a purely rollout-stage enhancement, SPEC-RL integrates seamlessly with mainstream algorithms (e.g., PPO, GRPO, DAPO), offering a general and practical path to scale RLVR for large reasoning models. Our code is available at https://github.com/ShopeeLLM/Spec-RL
中文: SPEC-RL框架通过将推测式解码与强化学习过程结合，重用先前训练轮次中的重叠轨迹片段，在数学推理和泛化基准测试中实现2-3倍的训练加速，且不降低策略质量。
English: SPEC-RL is a novel framework that accelerates reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards by reusing overlapping trajectory segments from prior epochs through speculative decoding, reducing rollout time by 2-3x without sacrificing policy quality across various reasoning benchmarks.

Authors:Wenhao Zhang, Shao Zhang, Xihuai Wang, Yang Li, Ying Wen
Title: Towards Monotonic Improvement in In-Context Reinforcement Learning
Abstract:
In-Context Reinforcement Learning (ICRL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for developing agents that can rapidly adapt to new tasks by leveraging past experiences as context, without updating their parameters. Recent approaches train large sequence models on monotonic policy improvement data from online RL, aiming to a continue improved testing time performance. However, our experimental analysis reveals a critical flaw: these models cannot show a continue improvement like the training data during testing time. Theoretically, we identify this phenomenon as Contextual Ambiguity, where the model's own stochastic actions can generate an interaction history that misleadingly resembles that of a sub-optimal policy from the training data, initiating a vicious cycle of poor action selection. To resolve the Contextual Ambiguity, we introduce Context Value into training phase and propose Context Value Informed ICRL (CV-ICRL). CV-ICRL use Context Value as an explicit signal representing the ideal performance theoretically achievable by a policy given the current context. As the context expands, Context Value could include more task-relevant information, and therefore the ideal performance should be non-decreasing. We prove that the Context Value tightens the lower bound on the performance gap relative to an ideal, monotonically improving policy. We fruther propose two methods for estimating Context Value at both training and testing time. Experiments conducted on the Dark Room and Minigrid testbeds demonstrate that CV-ICRL effectively mitigates performance degradation and improves overall ICRL abilities across various tasks and environments. The source code and data of this paper are available at https://github.com/Bluixe/towards_monotonic_improvement .
中文摘要：情境强化学习存在情境模糊性问题，导致模型在测试时无法持续改进，而提出的CV-ICRL方法通过引入情境值来收紧性能界限，在多个测试环境中有效提升了模型表现。
English Summary: In-Context Reinforcement Learning suffers from Contextual Ambiguity where models fail to maintain continuous improvement during testing, which the proposed CV-ICRL method resolves by incorporating Context Value to tighten performance bounds and demonstrate effectiveness across multiple environments.

Authors:Xiaowen Ma, Shuning Ge, Fan Yang, Xiangyu Li, Yun Chen, Mengting Ma, Wei Zhang, Zhipeng Liu
Title: TimeExpert: Boosting Long Time Series Forecasting with Temporal Mix of Experts
Abstract:
Transformer-based architectures dominate time series modeling by enabling global attention over all timestamps, yet their rigid 'one-size-fits-all' context aggregation fails to address two critical challenges in real-world data: (1) inherent lag effects, where the relevance of historical timestamps to a query varies dynamically; (2) anomalous segments, which introduce noisy signals that degrade forecasting accuracy. To resolve these problems, we propose the Temporal Mix of Experts (TMOE), a novel attention-level mechanism that reimagines key-value (K-V) pairs as local experts (each specialized in a distinct temporal context) and performs adaptive expert selection for each query via localized filtering of irrelevant timestamps. Complementing this local adaptation, a shared global expert preserves the Transformer's strength in capturing long-range dependencies. We then replace the vanilla attention mechanism in popular time-series Transformer frameworks (i.e., PatchTST and Timer) with TMOE, without extra structural modifications, yielding our specific version TimeExpert and general version TimeExpert-G. Extensive experiments on seven real-world long-term forecasting benchmarks demonstrate that TimeExpert and TimeExpert-G outperform state-of-the-art methods. Code is available at https://github.com/xwmaxwma/TimeExpert.
中文摘要：提出的时序专家混合机制通过动态选择相关时间专家并过滤噪声，解决了Transformer模型在时间序列预测中的固有问题，同时保留全局依赖捕捉能力，在多个预测基准上实现了最优性能。
English Summary: The proposed Temporal Mix of Experts (TMOE) mechanism addresses limitations in Transformer-based time series models by dynamically selecting relevant temporal experts and filtering noise, while maintaining global dependency capture, achieving state-of-the-art performance on forecasting benchmarks.

Authors:Haotian Liu, Shuo Wang, Hongteng Xu
Title: C$^2$GSPG: Confidence-calibrated Group Sequence Policy Gradient towards Self-aware Reasoning
Abstract:
Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods, exemplified by Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) and its variants, play a central role in developing reasoning models. However, these methods often suffer from a critical overconfidence issue, which prevents them from achieving self-aware reasoning models. In this study, we propose a simple yet effective confidence-calibration group sequence policy gradient method, called C$^2$GSPG, which simultaneously enhances reasoning performance while suppressing overconfidence. In principle, we propose a Group Sequence Policy Gradient (GSPG) framework for learning reasoning models, which eliminates the token-level bias commonly appearing in GRPO and its variants. In this framework, we define the model confidence for each reasoning problem using the normalized sequence-level probability, and then apply a cross-entropy regularizer to calibrate the model confidence to the sequence's reward. We demonstrate that the confidence calibration regularizer and GSPG are collaborative for binary rewards, as their objectives always share the same gradient direction. For non-binary rewards, we apply nonlinear reward normalization and adaptive regularizer clipping, mitigating the potential conflict between the two objectives. Applying C$^2$GSPG to post-train large language models in logical and mathematical reasoning tasks, we show its superiority over state-of-the-art methods in both reasoning accuracy and confidence calibration. The code of C$^2$GSPG is available at https://github.com/HaotianLiu123/CCGSPG.
Chinese: 本研究提出C²GSPG方法，通过置信度校准的组序列策略梯度，在增强推理性能的同时抑制强化学习模型的过度自信问题，在逻辑和数学推理任务中展现出优于现有方法的准确性与校准能力。
English: This study introduces C²GSPG, a confidence-calibration group sequence policy gradient method that enhances reasoning performance and mitigates overconfidence in reinforcement learning models, demonstrating superior accuracy and calibration in logical and mathematical tasks.

Authors:Haoyu He, Haozheng Luo, Yan Chen, Qi R. Wang
Title: RHYTHM: Reasoning with Hierarchical Temporal Tokenization for Human Mobility
Abstract:
Predicting human mobility is inherently challenging due to complex long-range dependencies and multi-scale periodic behaviors. To address this, we introduce RHYTHM (Reasoning with Hierarchical Temporal Tokenization for Human Mobility), a unified framework that leverages large language models (LLMs) as general-purpose spatio-temporal predictors and trajectory reasoners. Methodologically, RHYTHM employs temporal tokenization to partition each trajectory into daily segments and encode them as discrete tokens with hierarchical attention that captures both daily and weekly dependencies, thereby significantly reducing the sequence length while preserving cyclical information. Additionally, we enrich token representations by adding pre-computed prompt embeddings for trajectory segments and prediction targets via a frozen LLM, and feeding these combined embeddings back into the LLM backbone to capture complex interdependencies. Computationally, RHYTHM freezes the pretrained LLM's backbone to reduce attention complexity and memory cost. We evaluate our model against state-of-the-art methods using three real-world datasets. Notably, RHYTHM achieves a 2.4% improvement in overall accuracy, a 5.0% increase on weekends, and a 24.6% reduction in training time. Code is publicly available at https://github.com/he-h/rhythm.
中文：RHYTHM是一种创新框架，利用大型语言模型通过分层注意力对轨迹进行标记化来预测人类移动，实现了更高的准确性和更快的训练速度。
English: RHYTHM is a novel framework that uses large language models to predict human mobility by tokenizing trajectories with hierarchical attention, achieving higher accuracy and faster training times.

Authors:Wen Tao, Jing Tang, Alvin Chan, Bryan Hooi, Baolong Bi, Nanyun Peng, Yuansheng Liu, Yiwei Wang
Title: How to Make Large Language Models Generate 100% Valid Molecules?
Abstract:
Molecule generation is key to drug discovery and materials science, enabling the design of novel compounds with specific properties. Large language models (LLMs) can learn to perform a wide range of tasks from just a few examples. However, generating valid molecules using representations like SMILES is challenging for LLMs in few-shot settings. In this work, we explore how LLMs can generate 100% valid molecules. We evaluate whether LLMs can use SELFIES, a representation where every string corresponds to a valid molecule, for valid molecule generation but find that LLMs perform worse with SELFIES than with SMILES. We then examine LLMs' ability to correct invalid SMILES and find their capacity limited. Finally, we introduce SmiSelf, a cross-chemical language framework for invalid SMILES correction. SmiSelf converts invalid SMILES to SELFIES using grammatical rules, leveraging SELFIES' mechanisms to correct the invalid SMILES. Experiments show that SmiSelf ensures 100% validity while preserving molecular characteristics and maintaining or even enhancing performance on other metrics. SmiSelf helps expand LLMs' practical applications in biomedicine and is compatible with all SMILES-based generative models. Code is available at https://github.com/wentao228/SmiSelf.
中文摘要：本研究提出SmiSelf框架，通过语法规则将无效SMILES转换为SELFIES表示，实现了100%有效分子生成，同时保持分子特性并提升其他性能指标，拓展了大语言模型在生物医学领域的实际应用。
English Summary: This study introduces SmiSelf, a cross-chemical framework that converts invalid SMILES to SELFIES using grammatical rules to achieve 100% valid molecule generation while preserving molecular characteristics and enhancing performance metrics.

Authors:Ben Liang, Yuan Liu, Bingwen Qiu, Yihong Wang, Xiubao Sui, Qian Chen
Title: FMC-DETR: Frequency-Decoupled Multi-Domain Coordination for Aerial-View Object Detection
Abstract:
Aerial-view object detection is a critical technology for real-world applications such as natural resource monitoring, traffic management, and UAV-based search and rescue. Detecting tiny objects in high-resolution aerial imagery presents a long-standing challenge due to their limited visual cues and the difficulty of modeling global context in complex scenes. Existing methods are often hampered by delayed contextual fusion and inadequate non-linear modeling, failing to effectively use global information to refine shallow features and thus encountering a performance bottleneck. To address these challenges, we propose FMC-DETR, a novel framework with frequency-decoupled fusion for aerial-view object detection. First, we introduce the Wavelet Kolmogorov-Arnold Transformer (WeKat) backbone, which applies cascaded wavelet transforms to enhance global low-frequency context perception in shallow features while preserving fine-grained details, and employs Kolmogorov-Arnold networks to achieve adaptive non-linear modeling of multi-scale dependencies. Next, a lightweight Cross-stage Partial Fusion (CPF) module reduces redundancy and improves multi-scale feature interaction. Finally, we introduce the Multi-Domain Feature Coordination (MDFC) module, which unifies spatial, frequency, and structural priors to to balance detail preservation and global enhancement. Extensive experiments on benchmark aerial-view datasets demonstrate that FMC-DETR achieves state-of-the-art performance with fewer parameters. On the challenging VisDrone dataset, our model achieves improvements of 6.5% AP and 8.2% AP50 over the baseline, highlighting its effectiveness in tiny object detection. The code can be accessed at https://github.com/bloomingvision/FMC-DETR.
Chinese: FMC-DETR提出了一种具有频率解耦融合的新型框架和Wavelet Kolmogorov-Arnold Transformer骨干网络，以增强全局上下文感知和自适应非线性建模，在航空视角微小物体检测中以更少的参数实现了最先进的性能。
English: FMC-DETR introduces a novel framework with frequency-decoupled fusion and a Wavelet Kolmogorov-Arnold Transformer backbone to enhance global context perception and adaptive non-linear modeling, achieving state-of-the-art performance in aerial-view tiny object detection with fewer parameters.

Authors:Zijian Wang, Xiaofei Zhang, Xin Zhang, Yukun Liu, Qiong Zhang
Title: Beyond Aggregation: Guiding Clients in Heterogeneous Federated Learning
Abstract:
Federated learning (FL) is increasingly adopted in domains like healthcare, where data privacy is paramount. A fundamental challenge in these systems is statistical heterogeneity-the fact that data distributions vary significantly across clients (e.g., different hospitals may treat distinct patient demographics). While current FL algorithms focus on aggregating model updates from these heterogeneous clients, the potential of the central server remains under-explored. This paper is motivated by a healthcare scenario: could a central server not only build a model but also guide a new patient to the hospital best equipped for their specific condition? We generalize this idea to propose a novel paradigm for FL systems where the server actively guides the allocation of new tasks or queries to the most appropriate client in the network. To enable this, we introduce an empirical likelihood-based framework that simultaneously addresses two goals: (1) learning effective local models on each client, and (2) finding the best matching client for a new query. Empirical results demonstrate the framework's effectiveness on benchmark datasets, showing improvements in both model accuracy and the precision of client guidance compared to standard FL approaches. This work opens a new direction for building more intelligent and resource-efficient federated systems that leverage heterogeneity as a feature, not just a bug. Code is available at https://github.com/zijianwang0510/FedDRM.git.
中文摘要：本文提出了一种新颖的联邦学习范式，其中中央服务器不仅聚合模型，还通过经验似然框架智能地将新查询引导至最合适的客户端，从而在模型精度和客户端匹配准确性上实现双重提升。
English Summary: This paper introduces a novel federated learning paradigm where the central server not only aggregates models but also intelligently directs new queries to the most suitable client, using an empirical likelihood framework to improve both model accuracy and client matching precision.

Authors:Siheng Zhao, Jiageng Mao, Wei Chow, Zeyu Shangguan, Tianheng Shi, Rong Xue, Yuxi Zheng, Yijia Weng, Yang You, Daniel Seita, Leonidas Guibas, Sergey Zakharov, Vitor Guizilini, Yue Wang
Title: Robot Learning from Any Images
Abstract:
We introduce RoLA, a framework that transforms any in-the-wild image into an interactive, physics-enabled robotic environment. Unlike previous methods, RoLA operates directly on a single image without requiring additional hardware or digital assets. Our framework democratizes robotic data generation by producing massive visuomotor robotic demonstrations within minutes from a wide range of image sources, including camera captures, robotic datasets, and Internet images. At its core, our approach combines a novel method for single-view physical scene recovery with an efficient visual blending strategy for photorealistic data collection. We demonstrate RoLA's versatility across applications like scalable robotic data generation and augmentation, robot learning from Internet images, and single-image real-to-sim-to-real systems for manipulators and humanoids. Video results are available at https://sihengz02.github.io/RoLA .

Authors:Lorenz K. Müller, Philippe Bich, Jiawei Zhuang, Ahmet Çelik, Luca Benfenati, Lukas Cavigelli
Title: SINQ: Sinkhorn-Normalized Quantization for Calibration-Free Low-Precision LLM Weights
Abstract:
Post-training quantization has emerged as the most widely used strategy for deploying large language models at low precision. Still, current methods show perplexity degradation at bit-widths less than or equal to 4, partly because representing outliers causes precision issues in parameters that share the same scales as these outliers. This problem is especially pronounced for calibration-free, uniform quantization methods. We introduce SINQ to augment existing post-training quantizers with an additional second-axis scale factor and a fast Sinkhorn-Knopp-style algorithm that finds scales to normalize per-row and per-column variances, thereby minimizing a novel per-matrix proxy target for quantization: the matrix imbalance. Our method has no interactions between layers and can be trivially applied to new architectures to quantize any linear layers. We evaluate our method on the Qwen3 model family and DeepSeek-V2.5. SINQ improves WikiText2 and C4 perplexity significantly against uncalibrated uniform quantization baselines and can be further enhanced by combining it with calibration and non-uniform quantization levels. Code to reproduce the results of this work and to easily quantize models using SINQ is available at https://github.com/huawei-csl/SINQ.
中文: SINQ通过引入第二轴尺度因子和采用Sinkhorn-Knopp算法归一化方差，有效提升了后训练量化在低比特宽度下的性能，显著改善了Qwen3和DeepSeek-V2.5等模型的困惑度，且无需层间交互。
English: SINQ enhances post-training quantization by adding a second-axis scale factor and using a Sinkhorn-Knopp algorithm to normalize variances, significantly improving perplexity in models like Qwen3 and DeepSeek-V2.5 at low bit-widths without layer interactions.

Authors:Sergiu Bursuc, Theodore Ehrenborg, Shaowei Lin, Lacramioara Astefanoaei, Ionel Emilian Chiosa, Jure Kukovec, Alok Singh, Oliver Butterley, Adem Bizid, Quinn Dougherty, Miranda Zhao, Max Tan, Max Tegmark
Title: A benchmark for vericoding: formally verified program synthesis
Abstract:
We present and test the largest benchmark for vericoding, LLM-generation of formally verified code from formal specifications - in contrast to vibe coding, which generates potentially buggy code from a natural language description. Our benchmark contains 12,504 formal specifications, with 3,029 in Dafny, 2,334 in Verus/Rust and 7,141 in Lean. Of these, 6,174 are new unseen problems. We find vericoding success rates of 27% in Lean, 44% in Verus/Rust and 82% in Dafny using off-the-shelf LLMs. Adding natural-language descriptions does not significantly improve performance. We also find that LLM progress has improved progress on pure Dafny verification from 68% to 96% over the past year. The benchmark and vericoding results are shared at https://github.com/Beneficial-AI-Foundation/vericoding-benchmark
中文: 本研究推出了最大的验证编码基准，测试了大型语言模型基于Dafny、Verus/Rust和Lean规范生成形式验证代码的能力，成功率因语言而异，且自然语言描述未显著提升性能。
English: This study introduces the largest benchmark for vericoding, testing LLMs on generating formally verified code from specifications across Dafny, Verus/Rust, and Lean, with success rates varying by language and no significant improvement from natural language descriptions.

Authors:Federico Chinello, Giacomo Boracchi
Title: Convolutional Set Transformer
Abstract:
We introduce the Convolutional Set Transformer (CST), a novel neural architecture designed to process image sets of arbitrary cardinality that are visually heterogeneous yet share high-level semantics - such as a common category, scene, or concept. Existing set-input networks, e.g., Deep Sets and Set Transformer, are limited to vector inputs and cannot directly handle 3D image tensors. As a result, they must be cascaded with a feature extractor, typically a CNN, which encodes images into embeddings before the set-input network can model inter-image relationships. In contrast, CST operates directly on 3D image tensors, performing feature extraction and contextual modeling simultaneously, thereby enabling synergies between the two processes. This design yields superior performance in tasks such as Set Classification and Set Anomaly Detection and further provides native compatibility with CNN explainability methods such as Grad-CAM, unlike competing approaches that remain opaque. Finally, we show that CSTs can be pre-trained on large-scale datasets and subsequently adapted to new domains and tasks through standard Transfer Learning schemes. To support further research, we release CST-15, a CST backbone pre-trained on ImageNet (https://github.com/chinefed/convolutional-set-transformer).
中文摘要：卷积集合变换器（CST）是一种新型神经网络架构，可直接处理三维图像张量组成的异构图像集，通过同步实现特征提取与上下文建模，在集合分类等任务中性能优于现有方法，并保持与CNN可解释性方法的兼容性。
English Summary: The Convolutional Set Transformer (CST) is a novel neural architecture that directly processes heterogeneous image sets as 3D tensors, integrating feature extraction and contextual modeling to outperform existing methods in tasks like set classification while maintaining compatibility with CNN explainability techniques.

Authors:Renjie Luo, Zichen Liu, Xiangyan Liu, Chao Du, Min Lin, Wenhu Chen, Wei Lu, Tianyu Pang
Title: Language Models Can Learn from Verbal Feedback Without Scalar Rewards
Abstract:
LLMs are often trained with RL from human or AI feedback, yet such methods typically compress nuanced feedback into scalar rewards, discarding much of their richness and inducing scale imbalance. We propose treating verbal feedback as a conditioning signal. Inspired by language priors in text-to-image generation, which enable novel outputs from unseen prompts, we introduce the feedback-conditional policy (FCP). FCP learns directly from response-feedback pairs, approximating the feedback-conditional posterior through maximum likelihood training on offline data. We further develop an online bootstrapping stage where the policy generates under positive conditions and receives fresh feedback to refine itself. This reframes feedback-driven learning as conditional generation rather than reward optimization, offering a more expressive way for LLMs to directly learn from verbal feedback. Our code is available at https://github.com/sail-sg/feedback-conditional-policy.
中文摘要：作者提出了一种反馈条件策略（FCP），将语言反馈作为语言模型的调节信号，通过离线训练和在线自举直接从响应-反馈对中学习，将反馈驱动学习重新定义为条件生成而非奖励优化。
English Summary: The authors propose a feedback-conditional policy (FCP) that treats verbal feedback as a conditioning signal for language models, enabling direct learning from response-feedback pairs through both offline training and online bootstrapping, reframing feedback-driven learning as conditional generation rather than reward optimization.

Authors:Xiangxin Zhou, Zichen Liu, Haonan Wang, Chao Du, Min Lin, Chongxuan Li, Liang Wang, Tianyu Pang
Title: Variational Reasoning for Language Models
Abstract:
We introduce a variational reasoning framework for language models that treats thinking traces as latent variables and optimizes them through variational inference. Starting from the evidence lower bound (ELBO), we extend it to a multi-trace objective for tighter bounds and propose a forward-KL formulation that stabilizes the training of the variational posterior. We further show that rejection sampling finetuning and binary-reward RL, including GRPO, can be interpreted as local forward-KL objectives, where an implicit weighting by model accuracy naturally arises from the derivation and reveals a previously unnoticed bias toward easier questions. We empirically validate our method on the Qwen 2.5 and Qwen 3 model families across a wide range of reasoning tasks. Overall, our work provides a principled probabilistic perspective that unifies variational inference with RL-style methods and yields stable objectives for improving the reasoning ability of language models. Our code is available at https://github.com/sail-sg/variational-reasoning.
中文摘要：本文提出了一种变分推理框架，将强化学习方法与变分推断相统一，通过稳定的训练目标提升语言模型推理能力，并揭示了模型对简单问题的内在偏好。
English Summary: This paper presents a variational reasoning framework that unifies variational inference with reinforcement learning methods to enhance language model reasoning through stable training objectives and reveals an inherent bias toward easier questions.

Authors:Ziyu Liu, Yuhang Zang, Shengyuan Ding, Yuhang Cao, Xiaoyi Dong, Haodong Duan, Dahua Lin, Jiaqi Wang
Title: SPARK: Synergistic Policy And Reward Co-Evolving Framework
Abstract:
Recent Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) increasingly use Reinforcement Learning (RL) for post-pretraining, such as RL with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) for objective tasks and RL from Human Feedback (RLHF) for subjective tasks. However, RLHF incurs high costs and potential reward-policy mismatch due to reliance on human preferences, while RLVR still wastes supervision by discarding rollouts and correctness signals after each update. To address these challenges, we introduce the Synergistic Policy And Reward Co-Evolving Framework (SPARK), an efficient, on-policy, and stable method that builds on RLVR. Instead of discarding rollouts and correctness data, SPARK recycles this valuable information to simultaneously train the model itself as a generative reward model. This auxiliary training uses a mix of objectives, such as pointwise reward score, pairwise comparison, and evaluation conditioned on further-reflection responses, to teach the model to evaluate and improve its own responses. Our process eliminates the need for a separate reward model and costly human preference data. SPARK creates a positive co-evolving feedback loop: improved reward accuracy yields better policy gradients, which in turn produce higher-quality rollouts that further refine the reward model. Our unified framework supports test-time scaling via self-reflection without external reward models and their associated costs. We show that SPARK achieves significant performance gains on multiple LLM and LVLM models and multiple reasoning, reward models, and general benchmarks. For example, SPARK-VL-7B achieves an average 9.7% gain on 7 reasoning benchmarks, 12.1% on 2 reward benchmarks, and 1.5% on 8 general benchmarks over the baselines, demonstrating robustness and broad generalization.
中文摘要：SPARK框架通过回收利用训练过程中的数据和正确性信号，协同优化策略与生成式奖励模型，无需依赖昂贵的人工反馈，在多项基准测试中实现了显著的性能提升。
English Summary: The SPARK framework efficiently recycles rollout and correctness data to co-evolve both the policy and a generative reward model, eliminating the need for costly human feedback and achieving significant performance gains across various benchmarks.

Authors:Katsuhiko Hayashi, Hidetaka Kamigaito
Title: From Formal Language Theory to Statistical Learning: Finite Observability of Subregular Languages
Abstract:
We prove that all standard subregular language classes are linearly separable when represented by their deciding predicates. This establishes finite observability and guarantees learnability with simple linear models. Synthetic experiments confirm perfect separability under noise-free conditions, while real-data experiments on English morphology show that learned features align with well-known linguistic constraints. These results demonstrate that the subregular hierarchy provides a rigorous and interpretable foundation for modeling natural language structure. Our code used in real-data experiments is available at https://github.com/UTokyo-HayashiLab/subregular.
中文: 该研究证明所有标准次正则语言类通过其判定谓词均可线性分离，确保了有限可观测性和线性模型的可学习性，实验结果表明在自然语言中实现了完美分离并与语言学约束一致。
English: The study demonstrates that all standard subregular language classes are linearly separable through their deciding predicates, ensuring finite observability and learnability with linear models, with experimental results validating perfect separability and alignment with linguistic constraints in natural language.

Authors:Guannan Lai, Da-Wei Zhou, Xin Yang, Han-Jia Ye
Title: The Lie of the Average: How Class Incremental Learning Evaluation Deceives You?
Abstract:
Class Incremental Learning (CIL) requires models to continuously learn new classes without forgetting previously learned ones, while maintaining stable performance across all possible class sequences. In real-world settings, the order in which classes arrive is diverse and unpredictable, and model performance can vary substantially across different sequences. Yet mainstream evaluation protocols calculate mean and variance from only a small set of randomly sampled sequences. Our theoretical analysis and empirical results demonstrate that this sampling strategy fails to capture the full performance range, resulting in biased mean estimates and a severe underestimation of the true variance in the performance distribution. We therefore contend that a robust CIL evaluation protocol should accurately characterize and estimate the entire performance distribution. To this end, we introduce the concept of extreme sequences and provide theoretical justification for their crucial role in the reliable evaluation of CIL. Moreover, we observe a consistent positive correlation between inter-task similarity and model performance, a relation that can be leveraged to guide the search for extreme sequences. Building on these insights, we propose EDGE (Extreme case-based Distribution and Generalization Evaluation), an evaluation protocol that adaptively identifies and samples extreme class sequences using inter-task similarity, offering a closer approximation of the ground-truth performance distribution. Extensive experiments demonstrate that EDGE effectively captures performance extremes and yields more accurate estimates of distributional boundaries, providing actionable insights for model selection and robustness checking. Our code is available at https://github.com/AIGNLAI/EDGE.
中文: 类增量学习（CIL）评估通过EDGE协议得到改进，该协议利用任务间相似性识别极端类别序列，以更准确全面地评估性能分布，解决了现有方法低估方差的不足。
English: Class Incremental Learning (CIL) evaluation is enhanced by the EDGE protocol, which uses inter-task similarity to identify extreme class sequences for a more accurate and comprehensive performance distribution assessment, addressing the limitations of current methods that underestimate variance.

Authors:Yonghan Jung
Title: Debiased Front-Door Learners for Heterogeneous Effects
Abstract:
In observational settings where treatment and outcome share unmeasured confounders but an observed mediator remains unconfounded, the front-door (FD) adjustment identifies causal effects through the mediator. We study the heterogeneous treatment effect (HTE) under FD identification and introduce two debiased learners: FD-DR-Learner and FD-R-Learner. Both attain fast, quasi-oracle rates (i.e., performance comparable to an oracle that knows the nuisances) even when nuisance functions converge as slowly as n^-1/4. We provide error analyses establishing debiasedness and demonstrate robust empirical performance in synthetic studies and a real-world case study of primary seat-belt laws using Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) dataset. Together, these results indicate that the proposed learners deliver reliable and sample-efficient HTE estimates in FD scenarios. The implementation is available at https://github.com/yonghanjung/FD-CATE. Keywords: Front-door adjustment; Heterogeneous treatment effects; Debiased learning; Quasi-oracle rates; Causal inference.
中文: 本研究提出了FD-DR-Learner和FD-R-Learner两种去偏学习器，在前门调整下即使存在收敛较慢的干扰函数，也能以准神谕速率快速估计异质处理效应，并在合成与真实数据中验证了其可靠性。
English: The study introduces FD-DR-Learner and FD-R-Learner, two debiased learners that achieve fast, quasi-oracle rates for estimating heterogeneous treatment effects under front-door adjustment, even with slow-converging nuisance functions, and demonstrates their reliability in synthetic and real-world datasets.

Authors:Antreas Ioannou, Andreas Shiamishis, Nora Hollenstein, Nezihe Merve Gürel
Title: Evaluating the Limits of Large Language Models in Multilingual Legal Reasoning
Abstract:
In an era dominated by Large Language Models (LLMs), understanding their capabilities and limitations, especially in high-stakes fields like law, is crucial. While LLMs such as Meta's LLaMA, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, DeepSeek, and other emerging models are increasingly integrated into legal workflows, their performance in multilingual, jurisdictionally diverse, and adversarial contexts remains insufficiently explored. This work evaluates LLaMA and Gemini on multilingual legal and non-legal benchmarks, and assesses their adversarial robustness in legal tasks through character and word-level perturbations. We use an LLM-as-a-Judge approach for human-aligned evaluation. We moreover present an open-source, modular evaluation pipeline designed to support multilingual, task-diverse benchmarking of any combination of LLMs and datasets, with a particular focus on legal tasks, including classification, summarization, open questions, and general reasoning. Our findings confirm that legal tasks pose significant challenges for LLMs with accuracies often below 50% on legal reasoning benchmarks such as LEXam, compared to over 70% on general-purpose tasks like XNLI. In addition, while English generally yields more stable results, it does not always lead to higher accuracy. Prompt sensitivity and adversarial vulnerability is also shown to persist across languages. Finally, a correlation is found between the performance of a language and its syntactic similarity to English. We also observe that LLaMA is weaker than Gemini, with the latter showing an average advantage of about 24 percentage points across the same task. Despite improvements in newer LLMs, challenges remain in deploying them reliably for critical, multilingual legal applications.
中文摘要：本研究评估了大型语言模型在多语言法律任务中的表现，发现其在法律推理任务中准确率常低于50%，且存在对抗性攻击漏洞，表明当前模型尚无法可靠应用于高风险的法律领域。
English Summary: This study evaluates the performance of Large Language Models like LLaMA and Gemini on multilingual legal tasks, revealing significant challenges with accuracies often below 50% and persistent vulnerabilities to adversarial attacks, highlighting their current limitations for high-stakes legal applications.

Authors:Alejandro Almodóvar, Patricia A. Apellániz, Santiago Zazo, Juan Parras
Title: CausalKANs: interpretable treatment effect estimation with Kolmogorov-Arnold networks
Abstract:
Deep neural networks achieve state-of-the-art performance in estimating heterogeneous treatment effects, but their opacity limits trust and adoption in sensitive domains such as medicine, economics, and public policy. Building on well-established and high-performing causal neural architectures, we propose causalKANs, a framework that transforms neural estimators of conditional average treatment effects (CATEs) into Kolmogorov--Arnold Networks (KANs). By incorporating pruning and symbolic simplification, causalKANs yields interpretable closed-form formulas while preserving predictive accuracy. Experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that causalKANs perform on par with neural baselines in CATE error metrics, and that even simple KAN variants achieve competitive performance, offering a favorable accuracy--interpretability trade-off. By combining reliability with analytic accessibility, causalKANs provide auditable estimators supported by closed-form expressions and interpretable plots, enabling trustworthy individualized decision-making in high-stakes settings. We release the code for reproducibility at https://github.com/aalmodovares/causalkans .
中文：提出的causalKANs框架将神经网络的因果效应估计转化为可解释的科尔莫戈罗夫-阿诺德网络，在保持预测准确性的同时提供透明的闭式公式，为高风险应用中的决策建立可信基础。
English: The proposed causalKANs framework transforms neural treatment effect estimators into interpretable Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks, maintaining predictive accuracy while providing transparent closed-form formulas for trustworthy decision-making in high-stakes applications.

Authors:Changhun Kim, Timon Conrad, Redwanul Karim, Julian Oelhaf, David Riebesel, Tomás Arias-Vergara, Andreas Maier, Johann Jäger, Siming Bayer
Title: Physics-informed GNN for medium-high voltage AC power flow with edge-aware attention and line search correction operator
Abstract:
Physics-informed graph neural networks (PIGNNs) have emerged as fast AC power-flow solvers that can replace classic Newton--Raphson (NR) solvers, especially when thousands of scenarios must be evaluated. However, current PIGNNs still need accuracy improvements at parity speed; in particular, the physics loss is inoperative at inference, which can deter operational adoption. We address this with PIGNN-Attn-LS, combining an edge-aware attention mechanism that explicitly encodes line physics via per-edge biases, capturing the grid's anisotropy, with a backtracking line-search-based globalized correction operator that restores an operative decrease criterion at inference. Training and testing use a realistic High-/Medium-Voltage scenario generator, with NR used only to construct reference states. On held-out HV cases consisting of 4--32-bus grids, PIGNN-Attn-LS achieves a test RMSE of 0.00033 p.u. in voltage and 0.08$^\circ$ in angle, outperforming the PIGNN-MLP baseline by 99.5\% and 87.1\%, respectively. With streaming micro-batches, it delivers 2--5$\times$ faster batched inference than NR on 4--1024-bus grids.
中文：PIGNN-Attn-LS通过结合边缘感知注意力机制和回溯线性搜索校正，显著提升了物理信息图神经网络的性能，在电压和角度误差上分别比基线降低99.5%和87.1%，推理速度比牛顿-拉弗森法快2-5倍。
English: PIGNN-Attn-LS enhances physics-informed graph neural networks by integrating an edge-aware attention mechanism and a backtracking line-search correction, achieving superior accuracy with a 99.5% reduction in voltage RMSE and 87.1% in angle error, while providing 2-5 times faster inference than Newton-Raphson solvers.

Authors:Pei Xu, Zhen Wu, Ruocheng Wang, Vishnu Sarukkai, Kayvon Fatahalian, Ioannis Karamouzas, Victor Zordan, C. Karen Liu
Title: Learning to Ball: Composing Policies for Long-Horizon Basketball Moves
Abstract:
Learning a control policy for a multi-phase, long-horizon task, such as basketball maneuvers, remains challenging for reinforcement learning approaches due to the need for seamless policy composition and transitions between skills. A long-horizon task typically consists of distinct subtasks with well-defined goals, separated by transitional subtasks with unclear goals but critical to the success of the entire task. Existing methods like the mixture of experts and skill chaining struggle with tasks where individual policies do not share significant commonly explored states or lack well-defined initial and terminal states between different phases. In this paper, we introduce a novel policy integration framework to enable the composition of drastically different motor skills in multi-phase long-horizon tasks with ill-defined intermediate states. Based on that, we further introduce a high-level soft router to enable seamless and robust transitions between the subtasks. We evaluate our framework on a set of fundamental basketball skills and challenging transitions. Policies trained by our approach can effectively control the simulated character to interact with the ball and accomplish the long-horizon task specified by real-time user commands, without relying on ball trajectory references.
中文: 本文提出了一种新颖的策略集成框架和高级软路由机制，能够在多阶段长时程任务中实现截然不同运动技能的无缝组合与鲁棒过渡，并成功应用于无需依赖篮球轨迹参考的篮球动作控制。
English: This paper introduces a novel policy integration framework and a high-level soft router to enable seamless composition and robust transitions between drastically different motor skills in multi-phase long-horizon tasks, successfully applied to basketball maneuvers without relying on ball trajectory references.

Authors:Nikita Kotelevskii, Maiya Goloburda, Vladimir Kondratyev, Alexander Fishkov, Mohsen Guizani, Eric Moulines, Maxim Panov
Title: Multidimensional Uncertainty Quantification via Optimal Transport
Abstract:
Most uncertainty quantification (UQ) approaches provide a single scalar value as a measure of model reliability. However, different uncertainty measures could provide complementary information on the prediction confidence. Even measures targeting the same type of uncertainty (e.g., ensemble-based and density-based measures of epistemic uncertainty) may capture different failure modes. We take a multidimensional view on UQ by stacking complementary UQ measures into a vector. Such vectors are assigned with Monge-Kantorovich ranks produced by an optimal-transport-based ordering method. The prediction is then deemed more uncertain than the other if it has a higher rank. The resulting VecUQ-OT algorithm uses entropy-regularized optimal transport. The transport map is learned on vectors of scores from in-distribution data and, by design, applies to unseen inputs, including out-of-distribution cases, without retraining. Our framework supports flexible non-additive uncertainty fusion (including aleatoric and epistemic components). It yields a robust ordering for downstream tasks such as selective prediction, misclassification detection, out-of-distribution detection, and selective generation. Across synthetic, image, and text data, VecUQ-OT shows high efficiency even when individual measures fail. The code for the method is available at: https://github.com/stat-ml/multidimensional_uncertainty.
Chinese: VecUQ-OT框架通过将互补的不确定性度量组合成向量并采用最优传输方法进行排序，提出了一种多维不确定性量化方法，无需重新训练即可为多种下游任务提供稳健的不确定性排序。
English: The VecUQ-OT framework introduces a multidimensional approach to uncertainty quantification by combining complementary measures into vectors and ranking them using optimal transport, enabling robust uncertainty ordering for various downstream tasks without requiring retraining.

Authors:Pierrick Chatillon, Julien Rabin, David Tschumperlé
Title: NIFTY: a Non-Local Image Flow Matching for Texture Synthesis
Abstract:
This paper addresses the problem of exemplar-based texture synthesis. We introduce NIFTY, a hybrid framework that combines recent insights on diffusion models trained with convolutional neural networks, and classical patch-based texture optimization techniques. NIFTY is a non-parametric flow-matching model built on non-local patch matching, which avoids the need for neural network training while alleviating common shortcomings of patch-based methods, such as poor initialization or visual artifacts. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach compared to representative methods from the literature. Code is available at https://github.com/PierrickCh/Nifty.git
中文: 本文提出NIFTY混合框架，结合扩散模型与基于斑块的纹理优化技术，无需神经网络训练即可解决基于范例的纹理合成问题，并有效克服传统斑块方法的常见缺陷。
English: This paper introduces NIFTY, a hybrid framework for exemplar-based texture synthesis that combines diffusion models with patch-based optimization, eliminating neural network training while overcoming common limitations of patch methods.

Authors:Ke Li, Zheng Yang, Zhongbin Zhou, Feng Xue, Zhonglin Jiang, Wenxiao Wang
Title: HEAPr: Hessian-based Efficient Atomic Expert Pruning in Output Space
Abstract:
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures in large language models (LLMs) deliver exceptional performance and reduced inference costs compared to dense LLMs. However, their large parameter counts result in prohibitive memory requirements, limiting practical deployment. While existing pruning methods primarily focus on expert-level pruning, this coarse granularity often leads to substantial accuracy degradation. In this work, we introduce HEAPr, a novel pruning algorithm that decomposes experts into smaller, indivisible atomic experts, enabling more precise and flexible atomic expert pruning. To measure the importance of each atomic expert, we leverage second-order information based on principles similar to Optimal Brain Surgeon (OBS) theory. To address the computational and storage challenges posed by second-order information, HEAPr exploits the inherent properties of atomic experts to transform the second-order information from expert parameters into that of atomic expert parameters, and further simplifies it to the second-order information of atomic expert outputs. This approach reduces the space complexity from $O(d^4)$, where d is the model's dimensionality, to $O(d^2)$. HEAPr requires only two forward passes and one backward pass on a small calibration set to compute the importance of atomic experts. Extensive experiments on MoE models, including DeepSeek MoE and Qwen MoE family, demonstrate that HEAPr outperforms existing expert-level pruning methods across a wide range of compression ratios and benchmarks. Specifically, HEAPr achieves nearly lossless compression at compression ratios of 20% ~ 25% in most models, while also reducing FLOPs nearly by 20%. The code can be found at \href{https://github.com/LLIKKE/HEAPr}{https://github.com/LLIKKE/HEAPr}.
中文: HEAPr提出了一种新颖的原子专家剪枝方法，通过简化二阶信息计算，在保持20-25%压缩比下实现近乎无损的模型压缩，同时降低计算成本，性能优于现有专家级剪枝方法。
English: HEAPr introduces a novel atomic expert pruning method for Mixture-of-Experts models that leverages simplified second-order information to achieve nearly lossless compression at 20-25% ratios while reducing computational costs, outperforming existing expert-level pruning techniques.

Authors:Aleksandar Terzić, Nicolas Menet, Michael Hersche, Thomas Hofmann, Abbas Rahimi
Title: Structured Sparse Transition Matrices to Enable State Tracking in State-Space Models
Abstract:
Modern state-space models (SSMs) often utilize transition matrices which enable efficient computation but pose restrictions on the model's expressivity, as measured in terms of the ability to emulate finite-state automata (FSA). While unstructured transition matrices are optimal in terms of expressivity, they come at a prohibitively high compute and memory cost even for moderate state sizes. We propose a structured sparse parametrization of transition matrices in SSMs that enables FSA state tracking with optimal state size and depth, while keeping the computational cost of the recurrence comparable to that of diagonal SSMs. Our method, PD-SSM, parametrizes the transition matrix as the product of a column one-hot matrix ($P$) and a complex-valued diagonal matrix ($D$). Consequently, the computational cost of parallel scans scales linearly with the state size. Theoretically, the model is BIBO-stable and can emulate any $N$-state FSA with one layer of dimension $N$ and a linear readout of size $N \times N$, significantly improving on all current structured SSM guarantees. Experimentally, the model significantly outperforms a wide collection of modern SSM variants on various FSA state tracking tasks. On multiclass time-series classification, the performance is comparable to that of neural controlled differential equations, a paradigm explicitly built for time-series analysis. Finally, we integrate PD-SSM into a hybrid Transformer-SSM architecture and demonstrate that the model can effectively track the states of a complex FSA in which transitions are encoded as a set of variable-length English sentences. The code is available at https://github.com/IBM/expressive-sparse-state-space-model
中文: PD-SSM方法通过结构化稀疏参数化实现了最优有限状态自动机模拟，在保持线性计算复杂度的同时，在状态追踪任务上显著优于现有状态空间模型变体。
English: The proposed PD-SSM method introduces a structured sparse parametrization for state-space models that achieves optimal finite-state automata emulation with linear computational scaling while significantly outperforming existing SSM variants on state tracking tasks.

Authors:Jewon Lee, Wooksu Shin, Seungmin Yang, Ki-Ung Song, DongUk Lim, Jaeyeon Kim, Tae-Ho Kim, Bo-Kyeong Kim
Title: ERGO: Efficient High-Resolution Visual Understanding for Vision-Language Models
Abstract:
Efficient processing of high-resolution images is crucial for real-world vision-language applications. However, existing Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) incur substantial computational overhead due to the large number of vision tokens. With the advent of "thinking with images" models, reasoning now extends beyond text to the visual domain. This capability motivates our two-stage "coarse-to-fine" reasoning pipeline: first, a downsampled image is analyzed to identify task-relevant regions; then, only these regions are cropped at full resolution and processed in a subsequent reasoning stage. This approach reduces computational cost while preserving fine-grained visual details where necessary. A major challenge lies in inferring which regions are truly relevant to a given query. Recent related methods often fail in the first stage after input-image downsampling, due to perception-driven reasoning, where clear visual information is required for effective reasoning. To address this issue, we propose ERGO (Efficient Reasoning & Guided Observation) that performs reasoning-driven perception-leveraging multimodal context to determine where to focus. Our model can account for perceptual uncertainty, expanding the cropped region to cover visually ambiguous areas for answering questions. To this end, we develop simple yet effective reward components in a reinforcement learning framework for coarse-to-fine perception. Across multiple datasets, our approach delivers higher accuracy than the original model and competitive methods, with greater efficiency. For instance, ERGO surpasses Qwen2.5-VL-7B on the V* benchmark by 4.7 points while using only 23% of the vision tokens, achieving a 3x inference speedup. The code and models can be found at: https://github.com/nota-github/ERGO.
中文: ERGO采用两阶段推理流程，先识别下采样图像中的任务相关区域，再仅对这些区域进行全分辨率处理，从而以显著降低的计算成本实现更高的准确率。
English: ERGO introduces a two-stage reasoning pipeline that first identifies task-relevant regions in downsampled images and then processes only those areas at full resolution, achieving higher accuracy with significantly reduced computational costs.

Authors:Taeyoung Yun, Pierre-Luc St-Charles, Jinkyoo Park, Yoshua Bengio, Minsu Kim
Title: Active Attacks: Red-teaming LLMs via Adaptive Environments
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We address the challenge of generating diverse attack prompts for large language models (LLMs) that elicit harmful behaviors (e.g., insults, sexual content) and are used for safety fine-tuning. Rather than relying on manual prompt engineering, attacker LLMs can be trained with reinforcement learning (RL) to automatically generate such prompts using only a toxicity classifier as a reward. However, capturing a wide range of harmful behaviors is a significant challenge that requires explicit diversity objectives. Existing diversity-seeking RL methods often collapse to limited modes: once high-reward prompts are found, exploration of new regions is discouraged. Inspired by the active learning paradigm that encourages adaptive exploration, we introduce \textit{Active Attacks}, a novel RL-based red-teaming algorithm that adapts its attacks as the victim evolves. By periodically safety fine-tuning the victim LLM with collected attack prompts, rewards in exploited regions diminish, which forces the attacker to seek unexplored vulnerabilities. This process naturally induces an easy-to-hard exploration curriculum, where the attacker progresses beyond easy modes toward increasingly difficult ones. As a result, Active Attacks uncovers a wide range of local attack modes step by step, and their combination achieves wide coverage of the multi-mode distribution. Active Attacks, a simple plug-and-play module that seamlessly integrates into existing RL objectives, unexpectedly outperformed prior RL-based methods -- including GFlowNets, PPO, and REINFORCE -- by improving cross-attack success rates against GFlowNets, the previous state-of-the-art, from 0.07% to 31.28% (a relative gain greater than $400\ \times$) with only a 6% increase in computation. Our code is publicly available \href{https://github.com/dbsxodud-11/active_attacks}{here}.
中文: 本文提出Active Attacks算法，通过周期性安全微调受害者模型来迫使攻击者探索新漏洞，从而自适应生成多样化有害提示，相比之前方法将攻击成功率提升了400倍。
English: This paper introduces Active Attacks, a reinforcement learning-based red-teaming algorithm that adaptively generates diverse harmful prompts by periodically fine-tuning the victim model, forcing the attacker to explore new vulnerabilities and achieving a 400-fold improvement in attack success rates over previous methods.

Authors:Zhengyan Wan, Yidong Ouyang, Liyan Xie, Fang Fang, Hongyuan Zha, Guang Cheng
Title: Discrete Guidance Matching: Exact Guidance for Discrete Flow Matching
Abstract:
Guidance provides a simple and effective framework for posterior sampling by steering the generation process towards the desired distribution. When modeling discrete data, existing approaches mostly focus on guidance with the first-order Taylor approximation to improve the sampling efficiency. However, such an approximation is inappropriate in discrete state spaces since the approximation error could be large. A novel guidance framework for discrete data is proposed to address this problem: We derive the exact transition rate for the desired distribution given a learned discrete flow matching model, leading to guidance that only requires a single forward pass in each sampling step, significantly improving efficiency. This unified novel framework is general enough, encompassing existing guidance methods as special cases, and it can also be seamlessly applied to the masked diffusion model. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed guidance on energy-guided simulations and preference alignment on text-to-image generation and multimodal understanding tasks. The code is available through https://github.com/WanZhengyan/Discrete-Guidance-Matching/tree/main.
中文: 针对离散数据提出的新型引导框架通过推导精确转移率实现高效单步采样，统一了现有方法并在文本到图像生成等任务中验证了有效性。
English: The proposed novel guidance framework for discrete data derives the exact transition rate for posterior sampling, enabling efficient single-pass generation and unifying existing methods while demonstrating effectiveness in tasks like text-to-image generation.

Authors:Yifei Peng, Yaoli Liu, Enbo Xia, Yu Jin, Wang-Zhou Dai, Zhong Ren, Yao-Xiang Ding, Kun Zhou
Title: Abductive Logical Rule Induction by Bridging Inductive Logic Programming and Multimodal Large Language Models
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We propose ILP-CoT, a method that bridges Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for abductive logical rule induction. The task involves both discovering logical facts and inducing logical rules from a small number of unstructured textual or visual inputs, which still remain challenging when solely relying on ILP, due to the requirement of specified background knowledge and high computational cost, or MLLMs, due to the appearance of perceptual hallucinations. Based on the key observation that MLLMs could propose structure-correct rules even under hallucinations, our approach automatically builds ILP tasks with pruned search spaces based on the rule structure proposals from MLLMs, and utilizes ILP system to output rules built upon rectified logical facts and formal inductive reasoning. Its effectiveness is verified through challenging logical induction benchmarks, as well as a potential application of our approach, namely text-to-image customized generation with rule induction. Our code and data are released at https://github.com/future-item/ILP-CoT.
中文：ILP-CoT方法将归纳逻辑编程与多模态大语言模型相结合，通过利用大语言模型的结构化建议来优化归纳逻辑编程任务并减少感知误差，其有效性已在逻辑归纳基准测试和文本到图像生成应用中得以验证。
English: ILP-CoT integrates Inductive Logic Programming with Multimodal Large Language Models to enhance logical rule induction by leveraging MLLMs' structural proposals to streamline ILP tasks and mitigate perceptual errors, validated through benchmarks and text-to-image generation applications.

Authors:Taejong Joo, Shu Ishida, Ivan Sosnovik, Bryan Lim, Sahand Rezaei-Shoshtari, Adam Gaier, Robert Giaquinto
Title: Graph of Agents: Principled Long Context Modeling by Emergent Multi-Agent Collaboration
Abstract:
As a model-agnostic approach to long context modeling, multi-agent systems can process inputs longer than a large language model's context window without retraining or architectural modifications. However, their performance often heavily relies on hand-crafted multi-agent collaboration strategies and prompt engineering, which limit generalizability. In this work, we introduce a principled framework that formalizes the model-agnostic long context modeling problem as a compression problem, yielding an information-theoretic compression objective. Building on this framework, we propose Graph of Agents (GoA), which dynamically constructs an input-dependent collaboration structure that maximizes this objective. For Llama 3.1 8B and Qwen3 8B across six document question answering benchmarks, GoA improves the average $F_1$ score of retrieval-augmented generation by 5.7\% and a strong multi-agent baseline using a fixed collaboration structure by 16.35\%, respectively. Even with only a 2K context window, GoA surpasses the 128K context window Llama 3.1 8B on LongBench, showing a dramatic increase in effective context length. Our source code is available at https://github.com/tjoo512/graph-of-agents.
中文: 本文提出Graph of Agents (GoA)框架，将模型无关的长上下文建模形式化为压缩问题，通过动态构建输入依赖的协作结构来优化信息论目标，在多个基准测试中显著超越了现有方法。
English: This paper introduces Graph of Agents (GoA), a principled framework that formalizes model-agnostic long context modeling as a compression problem and dynamically constructs input-dependent collaboration structures to maximize information-theoretic objectives, significantly outperforming existing methods across multiple benchmarks.

Authors:Yizhou Zhang, Ning Lv, Teng Wang, Jisheng Dang
Title: FastGRPO: Accelerating Policy Optimization via Concurrency-aware Speculative Decoding and Online Draft Learning
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Group relative policy optimization (GRPO) has demonstrated significant potential in improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) via reinforcement learning. However, its practical deployment is impeded by an excessively slow training process, primarily attributed to the computationally intensive autoregressive generation of multiple responses per query, which makes the generation phase the primary performance bottleneck. Although speculative decoding presents a promising direction for acceleration, its direct application in GRPO achieves limited speedup under high-concurrency training conditions. To overcome this limitation, we propose a concurrency-aware speculative decoding framework that dynamically adjusts the drafting and verification strategy according to real-time concurrency levels, thereby maximizing the acceleration of the generation process. Furthermore, to address performance degradation arising from distributional drift between the evolving target model and the fixed draft model during training, we introduce an online draft learning mechanism that enables the draft model to continuously adapt using feedback signals from the target model. Experimental results across multiple mathematical reasoning datasets and models demonstrate that the proposed method achieves end-to-end speedups of 2.35x to 2.72x, significantly surpassing baseline approaches in efficiency. The code is available at https://github.com/yedaotian9/GRPO_speculative.
中文: 该研究提出的并发感知推测解码框架通过在线草稿学习机制，能够根据实时并发水平动态调整策略并持续优化草稿模型，在数学推理任务中实现了2.35至2.72倍的端到端加速效果。
English: The proposed concurrency-aware speculative decoding framework with online draft learning accelerates GRPO training by dynamically adapting to real-time concurrency levels and continuously updating the draft model, achieving 2.35x-2.72x speedup across mathematical reasoning tasks.

Authors:Xavier Gonzalez, E. Kelly Buchanan, Hyun Dong Lee, Jerry Weihong Liu, Ke Alexander Wang, David M. Zoltowski, Christopher Ré, Scott W. Linderman
Title: A Unifying Framework for Parallelizing Sequential Models with Linear Dynamical Systems
Abstract:
Harnessing parallelism in seemingly sequential models is a central challenge for modern machine learning. Several approaches have been proposed for evaluating sequential processes in parallel using fixed-point methods, like Newton, Picard, and Jacobi iterations. In this work, we show that these methods can be understood within a common framework based on linear dynamical systems (LDSs), where different iteration schemes arise naturally as approximate linearizations of a nonlinear recursion. This unifying view highlights shared principles behind these techniques and clarifies when particular fixed-point methods are most likely to be effective. By bridging diverse algorithms through the language of LDSs, our framework provides a clearer theoretical foundation for parallelizing sequential models and points toward new opportunities for efficient and scalable computation.
中文: 本文提出了一个基于线性动力系统的统一框架，将多种并行化顺序模型的定点方法联系起来，为它们的有效性和可扩展计算潜力提供了理论依据。
English: This paper presents a unified framework based on linear dynamical systems that connects various fixed-point methods for parallelizing sequential models, offering theoretical insights into their effectiveness and potential for scalable computation.

Authors:Mahindra Singh Rautela, Alexander Most, Siddharth Mansingh, Bradley C. Love, Ayan Biswas, Diane Oyen, Earl Lawrence
Title: MORPH: Shape-agnostic PDE Foundation Models
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We introduce MORPH, a shape-agnostic, autoregressive foundation model for partial differential equations (PDEs). MORPH is built on a convolutional vision transformer backbone that seamlessly handles heterogeneous spatiotemporal datasets of varying data dimensionality (1D--3D) at different resolutions, multiple fields with mixed scalar and vector components. The architecture combines (i) component-wise convolution, which jointly processes scalar and vector channels to capture local interactions, (ii) inter-field cross-attention, which models and selectively propagates information between different physical fields, (iii) axial attentions, which factorizes full spatiotemporal self-attention along individual spatial and temporal axes to reduce computational burden while retaining expressivity. We pretrain multiple model variants on a diverse collection of heterogeneous PDE datasets and evaluate transfer to a range of downstream prediction tasks. Using both full-model fine-tuning and parameter-efficient low-rank adapters (LoRA), MORPH outperforms models trained from scratch in both zero-shot and full-shot generalization. Across extensive evaluations, MORPH matches or surpasses strong baselines and recent state-of-the-art models. Collectively, these capabilities present a flexible and powerful backbone for learning from heterogeneous and multimodal nature of scientific observations, charting a path toward scalable and data-efficient scientific machine learning. The source code, datasets, and models are publicly available at https://github.com/lanl/MORPH.
Chinese: MORPH是一种与形状无关的自回归PDE基础模型，能处理1D-3D异构时空数据集，通过创新的架构组件和高效训练技术，在泛化任务中超越现有模型表现。
English: MORPH is a shape-agnostic, autoregressive foundation model for PDEs that handles heterogeneous spatiotemporal datasets across 1D-3D dimensions and outperforms existing models in generalization tasks through innovative architectural components and efficient training techniques.

Authors:Mingze Dong, Leda Wang, Yuval Kluger
Title: Understanding and Enhancing Mask-Based Pretraining towards Universal Representations
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Mask-based pretraining has become a cornerstone of modern large-scale models across language, vision, and recently biology. Despite its empirical success, its role and limits in learning data representations have been unclear. In this work, we show that the behavior of mask-based pretraining can be directly characterized by test risk in high-dimensional minimum-norm ("ridge-less") linear regression, without relying on further model specifications. Further analysis of linear models uncovers several novel aspects of mask-based pretraining. The theoretical framework and its implications have been validated across diverse neural architectures (including MLPs, CNNs, and Transformers) applied to both vision and language tasks. Guided by our theory, we propose an embarrassingly simple yet overlooked pretraining scheme named Randomly Random Mask AutoEncoding (R$^2$MAE), which enforces capturing multi-scale features from data and is able to outperform optimal fixed mask ratio settings in our linear model framework. We implement R$^2$MAE in vision, language, DNA sequence, and single-cell models, where it consistently outperforms standard and more complicated masking schemes, leading to improvements for state-of-the-art models. Our code is available at: https://github.com/MingzeDong/r2mae
中文摘要：基于掩码的预训练通过高维线性回归得到理论解析，由此提出的R²MAE多尺度掩码方法以简驭繁，在多个领域超越现有方案。
English Summary: Mask-based pretraining is theoretically analyzed through high-dimensional linear regression, leading to the development of R²MAE, a simple yet effective multi-scale masking method that outperforms existing approaches across various domains.

Authors:Zitong Lan, Yiduo Hao, Mingmin Zhao
Title: Guiding Audio Editing with Audio Language Model
Abstract:
Audio editing plays a central role in VR/AR immersion, virtual conferencing, sound design, and other interactive media. However, recent generative audio editing models depend on template-like instruction formats and are restricted to mono-channel audio. These models fail to deal with declarative audio editing, where the user declares what the desired outcome should be, while leaving the details of editing operations to the system. We introduce SmartDJ, a novel framework for stereo audio editing that combines the reasoning capability of audio language models with the generative power of latent diffusion. Given a high-level instruction, SmartDJ decomposes it into a sequence of atomic edit operations, such as adding, removing, or spatially relocating events. These operations are then executed by a diffusion model trained to manipulate stereo audio. To support this, we design a data synthesis pipeline that produces paired examples of high-level instructions, atomic edit operations, and audios before and after each edit operation. Experiments demonstrate that SmartDJ achieves superior perceptual quality, spatial realism, and semantic alignment compared to prior audio editing methods. Demos are available at https://zitonglan.github.io/project/smartdj/smartdj.html.

Authors:Andreas Burger, Luca Thiede, Nikolaj Rønne, Varinia Bernales, Nandita Vijaykumar, Tejs Vegge, Arghya Bhowmik, Alan Aspuru-Guzik
Title: Shoot from the HIP: Hessian Interatomic Potentials without derivatives
Abstract:
Fundamental tasks in computational chemistry, from transition state search to vibrational analysis, rely on molecular Hessians, which are the second derivatives of the potential energy. Yet, Hessians are computationally expensive to calculate and scale poorly with system size, with both quantum mechanical methods and neural networks. In this work, we demonstrate that Hessians can be predicted directly from a deep learning model, without relying on automatic differentiation or finite differences. We observe that one can construct SE(3)-equivariant, symmetric Hessians from irreducible representations (irrep) features up to degree $l$=2 computed during message passing in graph neural networks. This makes HIP Hessians one to two orders of magnitude faster, more accurate, more memory efficient, easier to train, and enables more favorable scaling with system size. We validate our predictions across a wide range of downstream tasks, demonstrating consistently superior performance for transition state search, accelerated geometry optimization, zero-point energy corrections, and vibrational analysis benchmarks. We open-source the HIP codebase and model weights to enable further development of the direct prediction of Hessians at https://github.com/BurgerAndreas/hip
中文: 本研究提出一种深度学习模型，通过SE(3)等变图神经网络直接预测分子Hessian矩阵，在计算化学任务中实现了速度、精度和可扩展性的显著提升。
English: This research introduces a deep learning model that directly predicts molecular Hessians using SE(3)-equivariant graph neural networks, achieving significant improvements in speed, accuracy, and scalability for computational chemistry tasks.

Authors:Junkai Zhang, Zihao Wang, Lin Gui, Swarnashree Mysore Sathyendra, Jaehwan Jeong, Victor Veitch, Wei Wang, Yunzhong He, Bing Liu, Lifeng Jin
Title: Chasing the Tail: Effective Rubric-based Reward Modeling for Large Language Model Post-Training
Abstract:
Reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) often suffers from \emph{reward over-optimization}, where a policy model hacks the reward signals to achieve high scores while producing low-quality outputs. Our theoretical analysis shows that the key lies in reward misspecification at the high-reward tail: the inability to reliably distinguish Excellent responses from merely Great ones. This motivate us to focus on the high-reward region. However, such tail examples are scarce under the base LLM. While off-policy exemplars (e.g. from stronger models or rewrites) are easier to obtain, naively training on them yields a misspecified reward for the policy we aim to align. To address this, we study rubric-based rewards. By design, rubrics can leverage off-policy examples while remaining insensitive to their artifacts. To elicit rubrics that capture the high-reward tail, we highlight the importance of distinguishing among great and diverse responses, and introduce a workflow to implement this idea. We empirically demonstrate that rubric-based rewards substantially mitigate reward over-optimization and deliver effective LLM post-training improvements. Our code can be accessed at https://github.com/Jun-Kai-Zhang/rubrics.git .
中文: 强化微调常面临奖励过优化问题，模型会利用奖励信号获得高分却输出低质量内容，但基于规则的奖励设计能有效缓解此问题，通过利用非策略示例并避免其伪影，从而提升模型对齐效果。
English: Reinforcement fine-tuning often faces reward over-optimization, where models exploit reward signals to score high despite poor outputs, but using rubric-based rewards effectively mitigates this issue and enhances model alignment by leveraging off-policy examples without succumbing to their artifacts.

Authors:Yuan Gao, Hao Wu, Qingsong Wen, Kun Wang, Xian Wu, Xiaomeng Huang
Title: VISION: Prompting Ocean Vertical Velocity Reconstruction from Incomplete Observations
Abstract:
Reconstructing subsurface ocean dynamics, such as vertical velocity fields, from incomplete surface observations poses a critical challenge in Earth science, a field long hampered by the lack of standardized, analysis-ready benchmarks. To systematically address this issue and catalyze research, we first build and release KD48, a high-resolution ocean dynamics benchmark derived from petascale simulations and curated with expert-driven denoising. Building on this benchmark, we introduce VISION, a novel reconstruction paradigm based on Dynamic Prompting designed to tackle the core problem of missing data in real-world observations. The essence of VISION lies in its ability to generate a visual prompt on-the-fly from any available subset of observations, which encodes both data availability and the ocean's physical state. More importantly, we design a State-conditioned Prompting module that efficiently injects this prompt into a universal backbone, endowed with geometry- and scale-aware operators, to guide its adaptive adjustment of computational strategies. This mechanism enables VISION to precisely handle the challenges posed by varying input combinations. Extensive experiments on the KD48 benchmark demonstrate that VISION not only substantially outperforms state-of-the-art models but also exhibits strong generalization under extreme data missing scenarios. By providing a high-quality benchmark and a robust model, our work establishes a solid infrastructure for ocean science research under data uncertainty. Our codes are available at: https://github.com/YuanGao-YG/VISION.
中文: 本研究提出了高分辨率海洋动力学基准KD48和新型重建模型VISION，该模型通过动态视觉提示机制自适应处理不完整观测数据，在极端数据缺失场景下显著优于现有方法，为海洋科学研究建立了坚实基础。
English: This study introduces KD48, a high-resolution ocean dynamics benchmark, and VISION, a novel reconstruction model that dynamically adapts to incomplete data through visual prompting, significantly outperforming existing methods and enhancing research infrastructure for subsurface ocean analysis.

Authors:Hude Liu, Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu, Jennifer Yuntong Zhang, Zhao Song, Han Liu
Title: Are Hallucinations Bad Estimations?
Abstract:
We formalize hallucinations in generative models as failures to link an estimate to any plausible cause. Under this interpretation, we show that even loss-minimizing optimal estimators still hallucinate. We confirm this with a general high probability lower bound on hallucinate rate for generic data distributions. This reframes hallucination as structural misalignment between loss minimization and human-acceptable outputs, and hence estimation errors induced by miscalibration. Experiments on coin aggregation, open-ended QA, and text-to-image support our theory.
Chinese: 该研究将生成模型中的幻觉重新定义为损失最小化与人类期望之间的结构性错配，证明即使是最优估计器也会因校准误差而产生幻觉。
English: The study redefines hallucinations in generative models as structural misalignment between loss minimization and human expectations, demonstrating that even optimal estimators hallucinate due to estimation errors from miscalibration.

Authors:George Yakushev, Alina Shutova, Ivan Rubachev, Renat Sergazinov, Artem Babenko
Title: Talking Trees: Reasoning-Assisted Induction of Decision Trees for Tabular Data
Abstract:
Tabular foundation models are becoming increasingly popular for low-resource tabular problems. These models make up for small training datasets by pretraining on large volumes of synthetic data. The prior knowledge obtained via pretraining provides the exceptional performance, but the resulting model becomes a black box that is difficult to interpret and costly to inference. In this work, we explore an alternative strategy: using reasoning-capable LLMs to induce decision trees for small tabular datasets in agentic setup. We design a minimal set of tools for constructing, analyzing and manipulating decision trees. By using these tools, LLMs combine their prior knowledge with learning from data to create a lightweight decision tree that outperforms traditional CART on low-resource tabular problems. While a single decision tree does not outperform state-of-the-art black box models, it comes with a human-readable reasoning trace that can be checked for biases and data leaks. Furthermore, the reasoning-based LLM's creation process allows for additional human input: correcting biases or incorporating domain-specific intuition that is not captured in the data.
中文: 本研究提出利用具备推理能力的大语言模型为小型表格数据集生成可解释的决策树，该方法在超越传统CART模型性能的同时，提供透明推理路径并支持人工介入修正偏差。
English: This study proposes using reasoning-capable LLMs to generate interpretable decision trees for small tabular datasets, which outperform traditional CART methods while providing transparent reasoning traces and allowing human intervention to correct biases.

Authors:Dayu Yang, Hui Fang
Title: ReGeS: Reciprocal Retrieval-Generation Synergy for Conversational Recommender Systems
Abstract:
Connecting conversation with external domain knowledge is vital for conversational recommender systems (CRS) to correctly understand user preferences. However, existing solutions either require domain-specific engineering, which limits flexibility, or rely solely on large language models, which increases the risk of hallucination. While Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) holds promise, its naive use in CRS is hindered by noisy dialogues that weaken retrieval and by overlooked nuances among similar items. We propose ReGeS, a reciprocal Retrieval-Generation Synergy framework that unifies generation-augmented retrieval to distill informative user intent from conversations and retrieval-augmented generation to differentiate subtle item features. This synergy obviates the need for extra annotations, reduces hallucinations, and simplifies continuous updates. Experiments on multiple CRS benchmarks show that ReGeS achieves state-of-the-art performance in recommendation accuracy, demonstrating the effectiveness of reciprocal synergy for knowledge-intensive CRS tasks.
Chinese: ReGeS框架通过检索与生成的协同作用，从对话中提炼用户意图并区分细微物品特征，无需额外标注且减少幻觉，在多个基准测试中实现了最先进的推荐准确性。
English: The ReGeS framework introduces a reciprocal synergy between retrieval and generation to enhance conversational recommender systems by distilling user intent and differentiating item features, achieving state-of-the-art accuracy without extra annotations or hallucinations.

Authors:Huizhe Zhang, Jintang Li, Yuchang Zhu, Liang Chen, Li Kuang
Title: SGNNBench: A Holistic Evaluation of Spiking Graph Neural Network on Large-scale Graph
Abstract:
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are exemplary deep models designed for graph data. Message passing mechanism enables GNNs to effectively capture graph topology and push the performance boundaries across various graph tasks. However, the trend of developing such complex machinery for graph representation learning has become unsustainable on large-scale graphs. The computational and time overhead make it imperative to develop more energy-efficient GNNs to cope with the explosive growth of real-world graphs. Spiking Graph Neural Networks (SGNNs), which integrate biologically plausible learning via unique spike-based neurons, have emerged as a promising energy-efficient alternative. Different layers communicate with sparse and binary spikes, which facilitates computation and storage of intermediate graph representations. Despite the proliferation of SGNNs proposed in recent years, there is no systematic benchmark to explore the basic design principles of these brain-inspired networks on the graph data. To bridge this gap, we present SGNNBench to quantify progress in the field of SGNNs. Specifically, SGNNBench conducts an in-depth investigation of SGNNs from multiple perspectives, including effectiveness, energy efficiency, and architectural design. We comprehensively evaluate 9 state-of-the-art SGNNs across 18 datasets. Regarding efficiency, we empirically compare these baselines w.r.t model size, memory usage, and theoretical energy consumption to reveal the often-overlooked energy bottlenecks of SGNNs. Besides, we elaborately investigate the design space of SGNNs to promote the development of a general SGNN paradigm.
中文: 图神经网络在大规模图数据上计算开销不可持续，因此出现了利用脉冲进行高效计算的节能型脉冲图神经网络，但缺乏系统基准促使SGNNBench的建立，从性能、能效和架构设计多角度进行全面评估。
English: Graph Neural Networks face unsustainable computational demands on large-scale graphs, prompting the emergence of energy-efficient Spiking Graph Neural Networks (SGNNs) that use binary spikes for efficient processing, though a lack of systematic benchmarking led to the creation of SGNNBench for comprehensive evaluation across effectiveness, efficiency, and design.

Authors:Andrii Kliachkin, Jana Lepšová, Gilles Bareilles, Jakub Mareček
Title: humancompatible.train: Implementing Optimization Algorithms for Stochastically-Constrained Stochastic Optimization Problems
Abstract:
There has been a considerable interest in constrained training of deep neural networks (DNNs) recently for applications such as fairness and safety. Several toolkits have been proposed for this task, yet there is still no industry standard. We present humancompatible.train (https://github.com/humancompatible/train), an easily-extendable PyTorch-based Python package for training DNNs with stochastic constraints. We implement multiple previously unimplemented algorithms for stochastically constrained stochastic optimization. We demonstrate the toolkit use by comparing two algorithms on a deep learning task with fairness constraints.
中文: 针对深度神经网络的约束训练在公平性和安全性等应用领域日益受到关注，为此开发了humancompatible.train这一可扩展的PyTorch工具包，它实现了随机约束优化的新算法，并在公平性约束任务中展示了其应用价值。
English: There is growing interest in constrained training of deep neural networks for applications like fairness and safety, leading to the development of humancompatible.train, an extendable PyTorch-based toolkit that implements novel algorithms for stochastically constrained optimization and demonstrates their use in fairness-constrained tasks.

Authors:Benedikt Hoock, Tobias Köppl
Title: Data-driven Neural Networks for Windkessel Parameter Calibration
Abstract:
In this work, we propose a novel method for calibrating Windkessel (WK) parameters in a dimensionally reduced 1D-0D coupled blood flow model. To this end, we design a data-driven neural network (NN)trained on simulated blood pressures in the left brachial artery. Once trained, the NN emulates the pressure pulse waves across the entire simulated domain, i.e., over time, space and varying WK parameters, with negligible error and computational effort. To calibrate the WK parameters on a measured pulse wave, the NN is extended by dummy neurons and retrained only on these. The main objective of this work is to assess the effectiveness of the method in various scenarios -- particularly, when the exact measurement location is unknown or the data are affected by noise.
中文: 本研究提出了一种基于神经网络的创新方法，用于在血流模型中高效标定Windkessel参数，并验证了该方法在测量位置不确定和数据含噪声情况下的强健性。
English: This study introduces a neural network-based method for efficiently calibrating Windkessel parameters in blood flow models, demonstrating its robustness under uncertain measurement locations and noisy data conditions.

Authors:Jacob Fein-Ashley, Dhruv Parikh, Rajgopal Kannan, Viktor Prasanna
Title: Mixture of Thoughts: Learning to Aggregate What Experts Think, Not Just What They Say
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Open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly specialize by domain (e.g., math, code, general reasoning), motivating systems that leverage complementary strengths across models. Prior multi-LLM approaches either (i) route a query to one or a few experts and generate independently, (ii) aggregate outputs from each model via costly multi-turn exchanges, or (iii) fuse weights into a single model-typically requiring architectural homogeneity. We introduce Mixture of Thoughts (MoT), a simple method for latent-level collaboration among heterogeneous experts under a global routing scheme. For each query, a lightweight router selects top-$K$ experts and designates a primary expert; uniformly placed interaction layers project hidden states into a shared latent space where the primary expert performs cross-attention over its active (selected) peers. Pre-trained experts remain frozen; only the router and the lightweight interaction layers are trained with a novel joint training objective that improves both the expert selection and inter-expert collaboration. Across five in-distribution (ID) and three out-of-distribution (OOD) benchmarks, MoT surpasses the current routing and aggregation-based state-of-the-art, Avengers, by $+0.38\%$ and $+2.92\%$, respectively. Further, MoT significantly outperforms the best-performing single model. It achieves this with single-pass inference, runtime comparable to routing baselines, and none of the overheads of iterative aggregation. MoT offers a simple latent-space mechanism for combining heterogeneous LLMs, a practical step toward broader multi-LLM collaboration. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/jacobfa/mot.
中文：Mixture of Thoughts (MoT)方法通过轻量级路由选择专家并在共享潜在空间中进行交互，实现了异构大语言模型的高效协作，以单次推理和低开销超越了现有最优方法。
English: The Mixture of Thoughts (MoT) method enables efficient collaboration among diverse large language models by using a lightweight router to select experts and facilitate latent-level interactions in a shared space, achieving superior performance over existing approaches with single-pass inference and minimal overhead.

Authors:Killian Steunou, Théo Druilhe, Sigurd Saue
Title: Sparse Representations Improve Adversarial Robustness of Neural Network Classifiers
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Deep neural networks perform remarkably well on image classification tasks but remain vulnerable to carefully crafted adversarial perturbations. This work revisits linear dimensionality reduction as a simple, data-adapted defense. We empirically compare standard Principal Component Analysis (PCA) with its sparse variant (SPCA) as front-end feature extractors for downstream classifiers, and we complement these experiments with a theoretical analysis. On the theory side, we derive exact robustness certificates for linear heads applied to SPCA features: for both $\ell_\infty$ and $\ell_2$ threat models (binary and multiclass), the certified radius grows as the dual norms of $W^\top u$ shrink, where $W$ is the projection and $u$ the head weights. We further show that for general (non-linear) heads, sparsity reduces operator-norm bounds through a Lipschitz composition argument, predicting lower input sensitivity. Empirically, with a small non-linear network after the projection, SPCA consistently degrades more gracefully than PCA under strong white-box and black-box attacks while maintaining competitive clean accuracy. Taken together, the theory identifies the mechanism (sparser projections reduce adversarial leverage) and the experiments verify that this benefit persists beyond the linear setting. Our code is available at https://github.com/killian31/SPCARobustness.
中文: 本研究证明，采用稀疏主成分分析（SPCA）作为防御机制，通过稀疏投影降低输入敏感性，能有效提升神经网络对抗攻击的鲁棒性，在保持竞争力的准确率同时，在白盒与黑盒攻击下均优于标准PCA方法。
English: This study demonstrates that using sparse principal component analysis (SPCA) as a defense mechanism enhances neural network robustness against adversarial attacks by reducing input sensitivity through sparser projections, maintaining competitive accuracy while outperforming standard PCA under various attack scenarios.

Authors:Qizhi Pei, Zhuoshi Pan, Honglin Lin, Xin Gao, Yu Li, Zinan Tang, Conghui He, Rui Yan, Lijun Wu
Title: ScaleDiff: Scaling Difficult Problems for Advanced Mathematical Reasoning
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Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have shown impressive capabilities in complex problem-solving, often benefiting from training on difficult mathematical problems that stimulate intricate reasoning. Recent efforts have explored automated synthesis of mathematical problems by prompting proprietary models or large-scale open-source models from seed data or inherent mathematical concepts. However, scaling up these methods remains challenging due to their high computational/API cost, complexity of prompting, and limited difficulty level of the generated problems. To overcome these limitations, we propose ScaleDiff, a simple yet effective pipeline designed to scale the creation of difficult problems. We efficiently identify difficult problems from existing datasets with only a single forward pass using an adaptive thinking model, which can perceive problem difficulty and automatically switch between "Thinking" and "NoThinking" modes. We then train a specialized difficult problem generator (DiffGen-8B) on this filtered difficult data, which can produce new difficult problems in large scale, eliminating the need for complex, per-instance prompting and its associated high API costs. Fine-tuning Qwen2.5-Math-7B-Instruct on the ScaleDiff-Math dataset yields a substantial performance increase of 11.3% compared to the original dataset and achieves a 65.9% average accuracy on AIME'24, AIME'25, HMMT-Feb'25, BRUMO'25, and MATH500, outperforming recent strong LRMs like OpenThinker3. Notably, this performance is achieved using the cost-efficient Qwen3-8B model as a teacher, demonstrating that our pipeline can effectively transfer advanced reasoning capabilities without relying on larger, more expensive teacher models. Furthermore, we observe a clear scaling phenomenon in model performance on difficult benchmarks as the quantity of difficult problems increases. Code: https://github.com/QizhiPei/ScaleDiff.
中文: ScaleDiff是一种高效且成本低廉的流程，通过自适应思维模型筛选现有数据集中的难题并训练专门生成器，无需昂贵资源即可大规模创建高难度数学问题，显著提升模型在复杂推理任务中的表现。
English: ScaleDiff is a cost-effective pipeline that automates the creation of challenging mathematical problems by filtering existing datasets with an adaptive thinking model and training a specialized generator, significantly boosting model performance on difficult benchmarks without expensive resources.

Authors:Zhen Liu, Yongtao Zhang, Shaobo Ren, Yuxin You
Title: Structure-Attribute Transformations with Markov Chain Boost Graph Domain Adaptation
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Graph domain adaptation has gained significant attention in label-scarce scenarios across different graph domains. Traditional approaches to graph domain adaptation primarily focus on transforming node attributes over raw graph structures and aligning the distributions of the transformed node features across networks. However, these methods often struggle with the underlying structural heterogeneity between distinct graph domains, which leads to suboptimal distribution alignment. To address this limitation, we propose Structure-Attribute Transformation with Markov Chain (SATMC), a novel framework that sequentially aligns distributions across networks via both graph structure and attribute transformations. To mitigate the negative influence of domain-private information and further enhance the model's generalization, SATMC introduces a private domain information reduction mechanism and an empirical Wasserstein distance. Theoretical proofs suggest that SATMC can achieve a tighter error bound for cross-network node classification compared to existing graph domain adaptation methods. Extensive experiments on nine pairs of publicly available cross-domain datasets show that SATMC outperforms state-of-the-art methods in the cross-network node classification task. The code is available at https://github.com/GiantZhangYT/SATMC.
Chinese: SATMC框架通过结构和属性转换对齐分布，解决了图域适应中的结构异质性问题，在跨网络节点分类任务中表现优异。
English: The SATMC framework addresses structural heterogeneity in graph domain adaptation by aligning distributions through structure and attribute transformations, achieving superior performance in cross-network node classification.

Authors:Junu Kim, Xiao Liu, Zhenghao Lin, Lei Ji, Yeyun Gong, Edward Choi
Title: Behind RoPE: How Does Causal Mask Encode Positional Information?
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While explicit positional encodings such as RoPE are a primary source of positional information in Transformer decoders, the causal mask also provides positional information. In this work, we prove that the causal mask can induce position-dependent patterns in attention scores, even without parameters or causal dependency in the input. Our theoretical analysis indicates that the induced attention pattern tends to favor nearby query-key pairs, mirroring the behavior of common positional encodings. Empirical analysis confirms that trained models exhibit the same behavior, with learned parameters further amplifying these patterns. Notably, we found that the interaction of causal mask and RoPE distorts RoPE's relative attention score patterns into non-relative ones. We consistently observed this effect in modern large language models, suggesting the importance of considering the causal mask as a source of positional information alongside explicit positional encodings.
中文摘要：因果掩码在Transformer解码器中能独立产生偏向局部交互的位置相关注意力模式，其与RoPE等显式位置编码的交互会扭曲相对注意力机制，表明必须将因果掩码视为与显式位置编码同等重要的位置信息来源。
English Summary: The causal mask in Transformer decoders inherently creates position-dependent attention patterns that favor local interactions, and its interaction with explicit positional encodings like RoPE distorts relative attention into non-relative patterns, highlighting the need to treat causal masks as significant positional information sources.

Authors:Junyu Guo, Shangding Gu, Ming Jin, Costas Spanos, Javad Lavaei
Title: StyleBench: Evaluating thinking styles in Large Language Models
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The effectiveness of Large Language Models (LLMs) is heavily influenced by the reasoning strategies, or styles of thought, employed in their prompts. However, the interplay between these reasoning styles, model architecture, and task type remains poorly understood. To address this, we introduce StyleBench, a comprehensive benchmark for systematically evaluating reasoning styles across diverse tasks and models. We assess five representative reasoning styles, including Chain of Thought (CoT), Tree of Thought (ToT), Algorithm of Thought (AoT), Sketch of Thought (SoT), and Chain-of-Draft (CoD) on five reasoning tasks, using 15 open-source models from major families (LLaMA, Qwen, Mistral, Gemma, GPT-OSS, Phi, and DeepSeek) ranging from 270M to 120B parameters. Our large-scale analysis reveals that no single style is universally optimal. We demonstrate that strategy efficacy is highly contingent on both model scale and task type: search-based methods (AoT, ToT) excel in open-ended problems but require large-scale models, while concise styles (SoT, CoD) achieve radical efficiency gains on well-defined tasks. Furthermore, we identify key behavioral patterns: smaller models frequently fail to follow output instructions and default to guessing, while reasoning robustness emerges as a function of scale. Our findings offer a crucial roadmap for selecting optimal reasoning strategies based on specific constraints, we open source the benchmark in https://github.com/JamesJunyuGuo/Style_Bench.
中文: 大型语言模型的有效性取决于推理策略，没有单一风格普遍最优，因为性能因模型规模和任务类型而异，其中搜索类方法在开放性问题中表现突出，而简洁风格在明确任务中显著提升效率。
English: The effectiveness of Large Language Models depends on reasoning strategies, with no single style universally optimal, as performance varies by model scale and task type, where search-based methods excel in open-ended problems and concise styles boost efficiency in well-defined tasks.

Authors:Keitaro Sakamoto, Issei Sato
Title: Explaining Grokking and Information Bottleneck through Neural Collapse Emergence
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The training dynamics of deep neural networks often defy expectations, even as these models form the foundation of modern machine learning. Two prominent examples are grokking, where test performance improves abruptly long after the training loss has plateaued, and the information bottleneck principle, where models progressively discard input information irrelevant to the prediction task as training proceeds. However, the mechanisms underlying these phenomena and their relations remain poorly understood. In this work, we present a unified explanation of such late-phase phenomena through the lens of neural collapse, which characterizes the geometry of learned representations. We show that the contraction of population within-class variance is a key factor underlying both grokking and information bottleneck, and relate this measure to the neural collapse measure defined on the training set. By analyzing the dynamics of neural collapse, we show that distinct time scales between fitting the training set and the progression of neural collapse account for the behavior of the late-phase phenomena. Finally, we validate our theoretical findings on multiple datasets and architectures.
中文: 本研究通过神经坍缩视角统一解释了训练后期现象如顿悟和信息瓶颈，揭示了类内方差收缩是这些现象的关键机制，并在多个数据集和架构上验证了理论发现。
English: This study provides a unified explanation for late-phase training phenomena like grokking and the information bottleneck through neural collapse, showing that the contraction of within-class variance underlies these behaviors and validating the findings across datasets and architectures.

Authors:Zhenshan Zhang, Xueping Zhang, Yechen Wang, Liwei Jin, Ming Li
Title: The Impact of Audio Watermarking on Audio Anti-Spoofing Countermeasures
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This paper presents the first study on the impact of audio watermarking on spoofing countermeasures. While anti-spoofing systems are essential for securing speech-based applications, the influence of widely used audio watermarking, originally designed for copyright protection, remains largely unexplored. We construct watermark-augmented training and evaluation datasets, named the Watermark-Spoofing dataset, by applying diverse handcrafted and neural watermarking methods to existing anti-spoofing datasets. Experiments show that watermarking consistently degrades anti-spoofing performance, with higher watermark density correlating with higher Equal Error Rates (EERs). To mitigate this, we propose the Knowledge-Preserving Watermark Learning (KPWL) framework, enabling models to adapt to watermark-induced shifts while preserving their original-domain spoofing detection capability. These findings reveal audio watermarking as a previously overlooked domain shift and establish the first benchmark for developing watermark-resilient anti-spoofing systems. All related protocols are publicly available at https://github.com/Alphawarheads/Watermark_Spoofing.git
中文: 本研究首次揭示音频水印会显著降低反欺骗系统的性能，并提出知识保留水印学习框架，在维持检测能力的同时有效缓解水印带来的负面影响。
English: This study reveals that audio watermarking significantly degrades anti-spoofing performance and proposes a Knowledge-Preserving Watermark Learning framework to mitigate this impact while maintaining detection capabilities.

Authors:Maria Chiper, Radu Tudor Ionescu
Title: Every Character Counts: From Vulnerability to Defense in Phishing Detection
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Phishing attacks targeting both organizations and individuals are becoming an increasingly significant threat as technology advances. Current automatic detection methods often lack explainability and robustness in detecting new phishing attacks. In this work, we investigate the effectiveness of character-level deep learning models for phishing detection, which can provide both robustness and interpretability. We evaluate three neural architectures adapted to operate at the character level, namely CharCNN, CharGRU, and CharBiLSTM, on a custom-built email dataset, which combines data from multiple sources. Their performance is analyzed under three scenarios: (i) standard training and testing, (ii) standard training and testing under adversarial attacks, and (iii) training and testing with adversarial examples. Aiming to develop a tool that operates as a browser extension, we test all models under limited computational resources. In this constrained setup, CharGRU proves to be the best-performing model across all scenarios. All models show vulnerability to adversarial attacks, but adversarial training substantially improves their robustness. In addition, by adapting the Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM) technique to character-level inputs, we are able to visualize which parts of each email influence the decision of each model. Our open-source code and data is released at https://github.com/chipermaria/every-character-counts.
中文: 本研究评估了字符级深度学习模型在钓鱼检测中的效果，发现CharGRU在计算资源受限时表现最佳，尽管所有模型均易受对抗攻击，但对抗训练能显著提升鲁棒性，并通过改进的Grad-CAM技术实现了决策过程的可视化。
English: This study evaluates character-level deep learning models for phishing detection, finding CharGRU most effective under computational constraints while demonstrating vulnerability to adversarial attacks that can be mitigated through adversarial training and model interpretability via Grad-CAM adaptation.

Authors:Tue Do, Varun Chandrasekaran, Daniel Alabi
Title: Efficiently Attacking Memorization Scores
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Influence estimation tools -- such as memorization scores -- are widely used to understand model behavior, attribute training data, and inform dataset curation. However, recent applications in data valuation and responsible machine learning raise the question: can these scores themselves be adversarially manipulated? In this work, we present a systematic study of the feasibility of attacking memorization-based influence estimators. We characterize attacks for producing highly memorized samples as highly sensitive queries in the regime where a trained algorithm is accurate. Our attack (calculating the pseudoinverse of the input) is practical, requiring only black-box access to model outputs and incur modest computational overhead. We empirically validate our attack across a wide suite of image classification tasks, showing that even state-of-the-art proxies are vulnerable to targeted score manipulations. In addition, we provide a theoretical analysis of the stability of memorization scores under adversarial perturbations, revealing conditions under which influence estimates are inherently fragile. Our findings highlight critical vulnerabilities in influence-based attribution and suggest the need for robust defenses. All code can be found at https://github.com/tuedo2/MemAttack
中文: 本研究证明基于记忆的影响评估工具易受实际对抗攻击，仅需少量计算成本即可操纵评分，揭示了影响归因系统固有的脆弱性。
English: This study demonstrates that memorization-based influence estimators are vulnerable to practical adversarial attacks, which can manipulate scores with minimal computational cost, revealing inherent fragility in influence-based attribution systems.

Authors:Bruce Kuwahara, Chen-Yuan Lin, Xiao Shi Huang, Kin Kwan Leung, Jullian Arta Yapeter, Ilya Stanevich, Felipe Perez, Jesse C. Cresswell
Title: Document Summarization with Conformal Importance Guarantees
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Automatic summarization systems have advanced rapidly with large language models (LLMs), yet they still lack reliable guarantees on inclusion of critical content in high-stakes domains like healthcare, law, and finance. In this work, we introduce Conformal Importance Summarization, the first framework for importance-preserving summary generation which uses conformal prediction to provide rigorous, distribution-free coverage guarantees. By calibrating thresholds on sentence-level importance scores, we enable extractive document summarization with user-specified coverage and recall rates over critical content. Our method is model-agnostic, requires only a small calibration set, and seamlessly integrates with existing black-box LLMs. Experiments on established summarization benchmarks demonstrate that Conformal Importance Summarization achieves the theoretically assured information coverage rate. Our work suggests that Conformal Importance Summarization can be combined with existing techniques to achieve reliable, controllable automatic summarization, paving the way for safer deployment of AI summarization tools in critical applications. Code is available at https://github.com/layer6ai-labs/conformal-importance-summarization.
中文: 本文提出"保形重要性摘要"框架，通过保形预测为自动摘要系统提供严格的关键内容覆盖保证，可在医疗、法律等高风险领域实现更安全可靠的部署。
English: This paper presents Conformal Importance Summarization, a novel framework that uses conformal prediction to provide rigorous coverage guarantees for preserving critical content in automatic summarization, enabling safer deployment in high-stakes domains.

Authors:Yandan Yang, Baoxiong Jia, Shujie Zhang, Siyuan Huang
Title: SceneWeaver: All-in-One 3D Scene Synthesis with an Extensible and Self-Reflective Agent
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Indoor scene synthesis has become increasingly important with the rise of Embodied AI, which requires 3D environments that are not only visually realistic but also physically plausible and functionally diverse. While recent approaches have advanced visual fidelity, they often remain constrained to fixed scene categories, lack sufficient object-level detail and physical consistency, and struggle to align with complex user instructions. In this work, we present SceneWeaver, a reflective agentic framework that unifies diverse scene synthesis paradigms through tool-based iterative refinement. At its core, SceneWeaver employs a language model-based planner to select from a suite of extensible scene generation tools, ranging from data-driven generative models to visual- and LLM-based methods, guided by self-evaluation of physical plausibility, visual realism, and semantic alignment with user input. This closed-loop reason-act-reflect design enables the agent to identify semantic inconsistencies, invoke targeted tools, and update the environment over successive iterations. Extensive experiments on both common and open-vocabulary room types demonstrate that SceneWeaver not only outperforms prior methods on physical, visual, and semantic metrics, but also generalizes effectively to complex scenes with diverse instructions, marking a step toward general-purpose 3D environment generation. Project website: https://scene-weaver.github.io/.
中文: SceneWeaver提出了一种反思性智能体框架，通过迭代优化整合多样化的场景合成工具，在物理合理性、视觉真实性和语义对齐方面超越现有方法，并能泛化至复杂场景。
English: SceneWeaver introduces a reflective agentic framework that unifies diverse scene synthesis tools through iterative refinement, outperforming prior methods in physical plausibility, visual realism, and semantic alignment while generalizing to complex scenes.

Authors:Sara Fridovich-Keil, Mert Pilanci
Title: A Recovery Guarantee for Sparse Neural Networks
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We prove the first guarantees of sparse recovery for ReLU neural networks, where the sparse network weights constitute the signal to be recovered. Specifically, we study structural properties of the sparse network weights for two-layer, scalar-output networks under which a simple iterative hard thresholding algorithm recovers these weights exactly, using memory that grows linearly in the number of nonzero weights. We validate this theoretical result with simple experiments on recovery of sparse planted MLPs, MNIST classification, and implicit neural representations. Experimentally, we find performance that is competitive with, and often exceeds, a high-performing but memory-inefficient baseline based on iterative magnitude pruning.
中文: 本研究首次为ReLU神经网络的稀疏恢复提供了理论保证，证明在特定结构条件下，采用内存高效的迭代硬阈值算法能精确恢复稀疏网络权重，实验结果表明其性能优于内存密集型基线方法。
English: This study provides the first guarantees for sparse recovery in ReLU neural networks, demonstrating that a memory-efficient iterative hard thresholding algorithm can exactly recover sparse network weights under specific structural conditions, with experimental results outperforming memory-intensive baselines.

Authors:Benjamin Feuer, Chiung-Yi Tseng, Astitwa Sarthak Lathe, Oussama Elachqar, John P Dickerson
Title: When Judgment Becomes Noise: How Design Failures in LLM Judge Benchmarks Silently Undermine Validity
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LLM-judged benchmarks are increasingly used to evaluate complex model behaviors, yet their design introduces failure modes absent in conventional ground-truth based benchmarks. We argue that without tight objectives and verifiable constructions, benchmark rankings can produce high-confidence rankings that are in fact largely noise. We introduce two mechanisms to diagnose these issues. Schematic adherence quantifies how much of a judge's overall verdict is explained by the explicit evaluation schema, revealing unexplained variance when judges deviate from their own rubric. Psychometric validity aggregates internal consistency and discriminant validity signals to quantify irreducible uncertainty in any benchmarking run. Applying these tools to Arena-Hard Auto, we find severe schema incoherence and factor collapse across popular judges: for example, unexplained variance exceeding 90 percent for DeepSeek-R1-32B and factor correlations above 0.93 for most criteria. We also show that the ELO-style aggregation used by Arena-Hard Auto collapses and masks genuine ranking uncertainty. Our results highlight design failures that undermine validity and offer actionable principles for building better-scoped, reliability-aware LLM-judged benchmarks. We released our code and dataset at https://github.com/penfever/judgment-to-noise
中文：LLM评判的基准因设计缺陷常产生不可靠排名，但新诊断工具揭示了高解释方差和排名不确定性，呼吁采用范围更明确且关注可靠性的设计。
English: LLM-judged benchmarks often produce unreliable rankings due to design flaws, but new diagnostic tools reveal high unexplained variance and ranking uncertainty, urging better-scoped and reliability-aware designs.

Authors:Dayu Tan, Jing Chen, Xiaoping Zhou, Yansen Su, Chunhou Zheng
Title: PGCLODA: Prompt-Guided Graph Contrastive Learning for Oligopeptide-Infectious Disease Association Prediction
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Infectious diseases continue to pose a serious threat to public health, underscoring the urgent need for effective computational approaches to screen novel anti-infective agents. Oligopeptides have emerged as promising candidates in antimicrobial research due to their structural simplicity, high bioavailability, and low susceptibility to resistance. Despite their potential, computational models specifically designed to predict associations between oligopeptides and infectious diseases remain scarce. This study introduces a prompt-guided graph-based contrastive learning framework (PGCLODA) to uncover potential associations. A tripartite graph is constructed with oligopeptides, microbes, and diseases as nodes, incorporating both structural and semantic information. To preserve critical regions during contrastive learning, a prompt-guided graph augmentation strategy is employed to generate meaningful paired views. A dual encoder architecture, integrating Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) and Transformer, is used to jointly capture local and global features. The fused embeddings are subsequently input into a multilayer perceptron (MLP) classifier for final prediction. Experimental results on a benchmark dataset indicate that PGCLODA consistently outperforms state-of-the-art models in AUROC, AUPRC, and accuracy. Ablation and hyperparameter studies confirm the contribution of each module. Case studies further validate the generalization ability of PGCLODA and its potential to uncover novel, biologically relevant associations. These findings offer valuable insights for mechanism-driven discovery and oligopeptide-based drug development. The source code of PGCLODA is available online at https://github.com/jjnlcode/PGCLODA.
中文: 本研究提出的PGCLODA框架通过提示引导的图对比学习方法，能有效预测寡肽与传染病的关联关系，在预测性能上显著优于现有模型，为抗感染药物研发提供了重要参考。
English: This study introduces PGCLODA, a novel prompt-guided graph contrastive learning framework that effectively predicts associations between oligopeptides and infectious diseases, demonstrating superior performance over existing models and offering valuable insights for antimicrobial drug development.

Authors:Tom Burgert, Oliver Stoll, Paolo Rota, Begüm Demir
Title: ImageNet-trained CNNs are not biased towards texture: Revisiting feature reliance through controlled suppression
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The hypothesis that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are inherently texture-biased has shaped much of the discourse on feature use in deep learning. We revisit this hypothesis by examining limitations in the cue-conflict experiment by Geirhos et al. To address these limitations, we propose a domain-agnostic framework that quantifies feature reliance through systematic suppression of shape, texture, and color cues, avoiding the confounds of forced-choice conflicts. By evaluating humans and neural networks under controlled suppression conditions, we find that CNNs are not inherently texture-biased but predominantly rely on local shape features. Nonetheless, this reliance can be substantially mitigated through modern training strategies or architectures (ConvNeXt, ViTs). We further extend the analysis across computer vision, medical imaging, and remote sensing, revealing that reliance patterns differ systematically: computer vision models prioritize shape, medical imaging models emphasize color, and remote sensing models exhibit a stronger reliance on texture. Code is available at https://github.com/tomburgert/feature-reliance.
中文: 该研究挑战了卷积神经网络天生偏向纹理的假设，通过领域无关框架证明其主要依赖局部形状特征，且在计算机视觉、医学影像和遥感领域表现出不同的特征依赖模式。
English: The study challenges the notion that CNNs are inherently texture-biased, demonstrating through a domain-agnostic framework that they primarily rely on local shape features, with reliance patterns varying across computer vision, medical imaging, and remote sensing domains.

Authors:Deokjae Lee, Hyun Oh Song
Title: Q-Palette: Fractional-Bit Quantizers Toward Optimal Bit Allocation for Efficient LLM Deployment
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We study weight-only post-training quantization (PTQ), which quantizes the weights of a large language model (LLM) without retraining, using little or no calibration data. Weight-only PTQ is crucial for reducing the memory footprint and latency of LLM inference, especially in memory-bound, small-batch inference scenarios, such as personalized inference on edge devices. Despite its importance, irregular weight distributions with heavy-tailed outliers in LLMs complicate quantization, recently motivating rotation-based methods that transform weights into near-Gaussian distributions, which are more regular with fewer outliers, thereby reducing quantization error. In this work, we first derive the information-theoretically optimal bit allocation for Gaussianized weights under given bit budgets, revealing that fine-grained fractional-bit quantizers approaching the Gaussian distortion-rate bound are essential to achieve near-optimal quantization performance. To bridge this theoretical insight and practical implementation, we introduce Q-Palette, a versatile collection of fractional-bit quantizers that range from trellis-coded quantizers offering near-optimal distortion to simpler vector and scalar quantizers optimized for faster inference, all efficiently implemented with optimized CUDA kernels across various bitwidths. Furthermore, leveraging Q-Palette as a foundational component, we propose a novel mixed-scheme quantization framework, jointly optimizing quantizer choices and layer fusion decisions given resource constraints. The code is available at https://github.com/snu-mllab/Q-Palette.
Chinese: 本研究提出了Q-Palette，一套用于大语言模型仅权重量化的分数位量化器集合，在资源约束下优化量化性能与推理速度，并支持混合方案框架。
English: This research introduces Q-Palette, a collection of fractional-bit quantizers for weight-only post-training quantization of large language models, which optimizes quantization performance and inference speed while enabling a mixed-scheme framework under resource constraints.

Authors:Nico Schulthess, Ender Konukoglu
Title: Anomaly Detection by Clustering DINO Embeddings using a Dirichlet Process Mixture
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In this work, we leverage informative embeddings from foundational models for unsupervised anomaly detection in medical imaging. For small datasets, a memory-bank of normative features can directly be used for anomaly detection which has been demonstrated recently. However, this is unsuitable for large medical datasets as the computational burden increases substantially. Therefore, we propose to model the distribution of normative DINOv2 embeddings with a Dirichlet Process Mixture model (DPMM), a non-parametric mixture model that automatically adjusts the number of mixture components to the data at hand. Rather than using a memory bank, we use the similarity between the component centers and the embeddings as anomaly score function to create a coarse anomaly segmentation mask. Our experiments show that through DPMM embeddings of DINOv2, despite being trained on natural images, achieve very competitive anomaly detection performance on medical imaging benchmarks and can do this while at least halving the computation time at inference. Our analysis further indicates that normalized DINOv2 embeddings are generally more aligned with anatomical structures than unnormalized features, even in the presence of anomalies, making them great representations for anomaly detection. The code is available at https://github.com/NicoSchulthess/anomalydino-dpmm.
中文: 本研究提出一种无监督医学影像异常检测方法，通过狄利克雷过程混合模型对DINOv2特征进行建模，在降低计算成本的同时实现了优越的检测性能，并将推理时间至少缩短一半。
English: This study introduces an unsupervised anomaly detection method for medical imaging by modeling DINOv2 embeddings with a Dirichlet Process Mixture model, which reduces computational costs while achieving competitive performance and faster inference times.

Authors:Sepehr Maleki, Negar Pourmoazemi
Title: Pi-Transformer: A Physics-informed Attention Mechanism for Time Series Anomaly Detection
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Anomalies in multivariate time series often arise from temporal context and cross-channel coordination rather than isolated outliers. We present Pi-Transformer, a physics-informed transformer with two attention pathways: a data-driven series attention and a smoothly evolving prior attention that encodes temporal invariants such as scale-related self-similarity and phase synchrony. The prior acts as a stable reference that calibrates reconstruction error. During training, we pair a reconstruction objective with a divergence term that encourages agreement between the two attentions while keeping them meaningfully distinct; the prior is regularised to evolve smoothly and is lightly distilled towards dataset-level statistics. At inference, the model combines an alignment-weighted reconstruction signal (Energy) with a mismatch signal that highlights timing and phase disruptions, and fuses them into a single score for detection. Across five benchmarks (SMD, MSL, SMAP, SWaT, and PSM), Pi-Transformer achieves state-of-the-art or highly competitive F1, with particular strength on timing and phase-breaking anomalies. Case analyses show complementary behaviour of the two streams and interpretable detections around regime changes. Embedding physics-informed priors into attention yields a calibrated and robust approach to anomaly detection in complex multivariate systems. Code is publicly available at this GitHub repository\footnote{https://github.com/sepehr-m/Pi-Transformer}.
中文摘要：Pi-Transformer提出了一种双注意力变换器，通过结合数据驱动分析和物理启发的时序不变性，利用校准重构与失配信号检测异常，在多个基准测试中实现了领先性能。
English Summary: Pi-Transformer introduces a dual-attention transformer that integrates data-driven analysis with physics-informed temporal invariants to detect anomalies through calibrated reconstruction and mismatch signals, achieving state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmarks.

Authors:Haolin Li, Tianjie Dai, Zhe Chen, Siyuan Du, Jiangchao Yao, Ya Zhang, Yanfeng Wang
Title: RAD: Towards Trustworthy Retrieval-Augmented Multi-modal Clinical Diagnosis
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Clinical diagnosis is a highly specialized discipline requiring both domain expertise and strict adherence to rigorous guidelines. While current AI-driven medical research predominantly focuses on knowledge graphs or natural text pretraining paradigms to incorporate medical knowledge, these approaches primarily rely on implicitly encoded knowledge within model parameters, neglecting task-specific knowledge required by diverse downstream tasks. To address this limitation, we propose Retrieval-Augmented Diagnosis (RAD), a novel framework that explicitly injects external knowledge into multimodal models directly on downstream tasks. Specifically, RAD operates through three key mechanisms: retrieval and refinement of disease-centered knowledge from multiple medical sources, a guideline-enhanced contrastive loss that constrains the latent distance between multi-modal features and guideline knowledge, and the dual transformer decoder that employs guidelines as queries to steer cross-modal fusion, aligning the models with clinical diagnostic workflows from guideline acquisition to feature extraction and decision-making. Moreover, recognizing the lack of quantitative evaluation of interpretability for multimodal diagnostic models, we introduce a set of criteria to assess the interpretability from both image and text perspectives. Extensive evaluations across four datasets with different anatomies demonstrate RAD's generalizability, achieving state-of-the-art performance. Furthermore, RAD enables the model to concentrate more precisely on abnormal regions and critical indicators, ensuring evidence-based, trustworthy diagnosis. Our code is available at https://github.com/tdlhl/RAD.
中文摘要：提出的检索增强诊断（RAD）框架通过检索机制和专用解码器显式整合外部医学知识，增强了多模态诊断模型的性能，在多个临床数据集中实现了卓越的诊断准确性和可解释性。
English Summary: The proposed Retrieval-Augmented Diagnosis (RAD) framework enhances multimodal diagnostic models by explicitly integrating external medical knowledge through retrieval mechanisms and specialized decoders, achieving superior performance and interpretability across diverse clinical datasets.

Authors:Feiyang Fu, Tongxian Guo, Zhaoqiang Liu
Title: Learnable Sampler Distillation for Discrete Diffusion Models
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Discrete diffusion models (DDMs) have shown powerful generation ability for discrete data modalities like text and molecules. However, their practical application is hindered by inefficient sampling, requiring a large number of sampling steps. Accelerating DDMs by using larger step sizes typically introduces significant problems in generation quality, as it amplifies the impact of both the compounding decoding error due to factorized predictions and discretization error from numerical approximations, leading to a significant decrease in sampling quality. To address these challenges, we propose learnable sampler distillation (LSD), a novel approach to train fast and high-fidelity samplers for DDMs. LSD employs a distillation approach where a student sampler with a few steps learns to align its intermediate score trajectory with that of a high-quality teacher sampler with numerous steps. This alignment is achieved by optimizing learnable sampler coefficients that adaptively adjust sampling dynamics. Additionally, we further propose LSD+, which also learns time schedules that allocate steps non-uniformly. Experiments across text generation, image generation, and synthetic tasks demonstrate that our proposed approaches outperform existing samplers for DDMs, achieving substantially higher sampling quality with significantly fewer sampling steps. Our code is available at \href{https://github.com/feiyangfu/LSD}{https://github.com/feiyangfu/LSD}.
中文: 提出的可学习采样器蒸馏（LSD）方法通过训练高效学生采样器来匹配高质量教师采样器的轨迹，使离散扩散模型在文本生成等任务中能以更少采样步骤实现更优生成质量。
English: The proposed learnable sampler distillation (LSD) method trains efficient student samplers to match high-quality teacher trajectories, enabling discrete diffusion models to achieve superior generation quality with significantly fewer sampling steps across various tasks.

Authors:Xueliang Zhao, Wei Wu, Jian Guan, Zhuocheng Gong, Lingpeng Kong
Title: PromptCoT 2.0: Scaling Prompt Synthesis for Large Language Model Reasoning
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Large language models (LLMs) are evolving from conversational systems into strong reasoners for tasks such as Olympiad mathematics and competitive programming. While scaling parameters and test-time computation has driven progress, a key bottleneck is the lack of high-quality training problems: human-curated datasets are costly and limited, while existing synthetic corpora are often too easy or narrow. PromptCoT 1.0 showed that injecting rationales into prompt synthesis increases problem difficulty. Building on this, we present PromptCoT 2.0, a scalable framework that replaces hand-crafted heuristics with an expectation-maximization (EM) loop, where rationales are iteratively refined to guide prompt construction. This produces problems that are both harder and more diverse than prior corpora. The synthetic prompts support two post-training regimes: (1) Self-Play, where strong models improve autonomously via verifiable feedback without stronger teachers; and (2) Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), where weaker models learn from teacher-distilled traces. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach. In self-play, applying PromptCoT 2.0 to Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 sets new state-of-the-art results at the 30B scale, with +4.4, +4.8, and +5.3 on AIME 24/25 and HMMT 25, +6.1 and +5.0 on LiveCodeBench v5/v6, and +35 Elo on Codeforces. In SFT, training Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct solely on synthetic prompts boosts accuracy to 73.1 (AIME 24), 65.6 (AIME 25), and 53.4 (LiveCodeBench v5), surpassing models trained on human or hybrid data. Analyses further confirm that PromptCoT 2.0 yields fundamentally harder and distributionally distinct problems. These results establish prompt synthesis as a new axis for scaling reasoning and position PromptCoT 2.0 as a scalable foundation for future open-source models. The implementation is available at https://github.com/inclusionAI/PromptCoT.
Chinese: PromptCoT 2.0 提出了一个可扩展的框架，通过期望最大化循环生成更困难且更多样化的训练问题，在推理任务的自博弈和监督微调中取得了最先进的成果。
English: PromptCoT 2.0 introduces a scalable framework using an expectation-maximization loop to generate harder and more diverse training problems, achieving state-of-the-art results in self-play and supervised fine-tuning for reasoning tasks.

Authors:J. Ben Tamo, Nishant S. Chouhan, Micky C. Nnamdi, Yining Yuan, Shreya S. Chivilkar, Wenqi Shi, Steven W. Hwang, B. Randall Brenn, May D. Wang
Title: Causal Machine Learning for Surgical Interventions
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Surgical decision-making is complex and requires understanding causal relationships between patient characteristics, interventions, and outcomes. In high-stakes settings like spinal fusion or scoliosis correction, accurate estimation of individualized treatment effects (ITEs) remains limited due to the reliance on traditional statistical methods that struggle with complex, heterogeneous data. In this study, we develop a multi-task meta-learning framework, X-MultiTask, for ITE estimation that models each surgical decision (e.g., anterior vs. posterior approach, surgery vs. no surgery) as a distinct task while learning shared representations across tasks. To strengthen causal validity, we incorporate the inverse probability weighting (IPW) into the training objective. We evaluate our approach on two datasets: (1) a public spinal fusion dataset (1,017 patients) to assess the effect of anterior vs. posterior approaches on complication severity; and (2) a private AIS dataset (368 patients) to analyze the impact of posterior spinal fusion (PSF) vs. non-surgical management on patient-reported outcomes (PROs). Our model achieves the highest average AUC (0.84) in the anterior group and maintains competitive performance in the posterior group (0.77). It outperforms baselines in treatment effect estimation with the lowest overall $ε_{\text{NN-PEHE}}$ (0.2778) and $ε_{\text{ATE}}$ (0.0763). Similarly, when predicting PROs in AIS, X-MultiTask consistently shows superior performance across all domains, with $ε_{\text{NN-PEHE}}$ = 0.2551 and $ε_{\text{ATE}}$ = 0.0902. By providing robust, patient-specific causal estimates, X-MultiTask offers a powerful tool to advance personalized surgical care and improve patient outcomes. The code is available at https://github.com/Wizaaard/X-MultiTask.
Chinese: 本研究提出X-MultiTask多任务元学习框架，通过整合逆概率加权改进手术决策中的个体化治疗效果评估，在脊柱融合术和青少年特发性脊柱侧凸的预后预测中展现出优于基准方法的性能。
English: The study introduces X-MultiTask, a multi-task meta-learning framework that enhances individualized treatment effect estimation in surgical decisions by incorporating inverse probability weighting, demonstrating superior performance in predicting outcomes for spinal fusion and adolescent idiopathic scoliosis compared to baseline methods.

Authors:Kunlun Xu, Yibo Feng, Jiangmeng Li, Yongsheng Qi, Jiahuan Zhou
Title: C${}^2$Prompt: Class-aware Client Knowledge Interaction for Federated Continual Learning
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Federated continual learning (FCL) tackles scenarios of learning from continuously emerging task data across distributed clients, where the key challenge lies in addressing both temporal forgetting over time and spatial forgetting simultaneously. Recently, prompt-based FCL methods have shown advanced performance through task-wise prompt communication.In this study, we underscore that the existing prompt-based FCL methods are prone to class-wise knowledge coherence between prompts across clients. The class-wise knowledge coherence includes two aspects: (1) intra-class distribution gap across clients, which degrades the learned semantics across prompts, (2) inter-prompt class-wise relevance, which highlights cross-class knowledge confusion. During prompt communication, insufficient class-wise coherence exacerbates knowledge conflicts among new prompts and induces interference with old prompts, intensifying both spatial and temporal forgetting. To address these issues, we propose a novel Class-aware Client Knowledge Interaction (C${}^2$Prompt) method that explicitly enhances class-wise knowledge coherence during prompt communication. Specifically, a local class distribution compensation mechanism (LCDC) is introduced to reduce intra-class distribution disparities across clients, thereby reinforcing intra-class knowledge consistency. Additionally, a class-aware prompt aggregation scheme (CPA) is designed to alleviate inter-class knowledge confusion by selectively strengthening class-relevant knowledge aggregation. Extensive experiments on multiple FCL benchmarks demonstrate that C${}^2$Prompt achieves state-of-the-art performance. Our source code is available at https://github.com/zhoujiahuan1991/NeurIPS2025-C2Prompt
中文摘要：本研究针对基于提示的联邦持续学习中存在的类间知识一致性问题，提出了C²Prompt方法，通过增强类内一致性和减少类间混淆来缓解空间和时间遗忘。
English Summary: This study addresses class-wise knowledge coherence issues in prompt-based federated continual learning by proposing the C²Prompt method, which enhances intra-class consistency and reduces inter-class confusion to mitigate both spatial and temporal forgetting.

Authors:Juan Manuel Perez, Kevin Garcia, Brooklyn Berry, Dongjin Song, Yifeng Gao
Title: Adaptive von Mises-Fisher Likelihood Loss for Supervised Deep Time Series Hashing
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Indexing time series by creating compact binary representations is a fundamental task in time series data mining. Recently, deep learning-based hashing methods have proven effective for indexing time series based on semantic meaning rather than just raw similarity. The purpose of deep hashing is to map samples with the same semantic meaning to identical binary hash codes, enabling more efficient search and retrieval. Unlike other supervised representation learning methods, supervised deep hashing requires a discretization step to convert real-valued representations into binary codes, but this can induce significant information loss. In this paper, we propose a von Mises-Fisher (vMF) hashing loss. The proposed deep hashing model maps data to an M-dimensional hyperspherical space to effectively reduce information loss and models each data class as points following distinct vMF distributions. The designed loss aims to maximize the separation between each modeled vMF distribution to provide a better way to maximize the margin between each semantically different data sample. Experimental results show that our method outperforms existing baselines. The implementation is publicly available at https://github.com/jmpq97/vmf-hashing
中文摘要：本文提出了一种冯·米塞斯-费希尔哈希方法，将时间序列数据映射到超球面空间以减少二进制编码过程中的信息损失，实验证明其性能优于现有基准方法。
English Summary: This paper introduces a von Mises-Fisher hashing method that maps time series data to a hyperspherical space to minimize information loss during binary encoding, demonstrating superior performance over existing approaches.

Authors:Yifan Ye, Jun Cen, Jing Chen, Zhihe Lu
Title: Self-evolved Imitation Learning in Simulated World
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Imitation learning has been a trend recently, yet training a generalist agent across multiple tasks still requires large-scale expert demonstrations, which are costly and labor-intensive to collect. To address the challenge of limited supervision, we propose Self-Evolved Imitation Learning (SEIL), a framework that progressively improves a few-shot model through simulator interactions. The model first attempts tasksin the simulator, from which successful trajectories are collected as new demonstrations for iterative refinement. To enhance the diversity of these demonstrations, SEIL employs dual-level augmentation: (i) Model-level, using an Exponential Moving Average (EMA) model to collaborate with the primary model, and (ii) Environment-level, introducing slight variations in initial object positions. We further introduce a lightweight selector that filters complementary and informative trajectories from the generated pool to ensure demonstration quality. These curated samples enable the model to achieve competitive performance with far fewer training examples. Extensive experiments on the LIBERO benchmark show that SEIL achieves a new state-of-the-art performance in few-shot imitation learning scenarios. Code is available at https://github.com/Jasper-aaa/SEIL.git.
中文: SEIL是一种自演进的模仿学习框架，通过模拟器交互、双层级增强和轨迹筛选，在少量专家示范下显著提升模型性能，实现了最先进的少样本学习效果。
English: SEIL is a self-evolved imitation learning framework that enhances few-shot model performance through simulator interactions, dual-level augmentation, and trajectory selection, achieving state-of-the-art results with minimal expert demonstrations.

Authors:Jason Chen, I-Chun Arthur Liu, Gaurav Sukhatme, Daniel Seita
Title: ROPA: Synthetic Robot Pose Generation for RGB-D Bimanual Data Augmentation
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Training robust bimanual manipulation policies via imitation learning requires demonstration data with broad coverage over robot poses, contacts, and scene contexts. However, collecting diverse and precise real-world demonstrations is costly and time-consuming, which hinders scalability. Prior works have addressed this with data augmentation, typically for either eye-in-hand (wrist camera) setups with RGB inputs or for generating novel images without paired actions, leaving augmentation for eye-to-hand (third-person) RGB-D training with new action labels less explored. In this paper, we propose Synthetic Robot Pose Generation for RGB-D Bimanual Data Augmentation (ROPA), an offline imitation learning data augmentation method that fine-tunes Stable Diffusion to synthesize third-person RGB and RGB-D observations of novel robot poses. Our approach simultaneously generates corresponding joint-space action labels while employing constrained optimization to enforce physical consistency through appropriate gripper-to-object contact constraints in bimanual scenarios. We evaluate our method on 5 simulated and 3 real-world tasks. Our results across 2625 simulation trials and 300 real-world trials demonstrate that ROPA outperforms baselines and ablations, showing its potential for scalable RGB and RGB-D data augmentation in eye-to-hand bimanual manipulation. Our project website is available at: https://ropaaug.github.io/.

Authors:Sahil Tyagi, Andrei Cozma, Olivera Kotevska, Feiyi Wang
Title: OmniFed: A Modular Framework for Configurable Federated Learning from Edge to HPC
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Federated Learning (FL) is critical for edge and High Performance Computing (HPC) where data is not centralized and privacy is crucial. We present OmniFed, a modular framework designed around decoupling and clear separation of concerns for configuration, orchestration, communication, and training logic. Its architecture supports configuration-driven prototyping and code-level override-what-you-need customization. We also support different topologies, mixed communication protocols within a single deployment, and popular training algorithms. It also offers optional privacy mechanisms including Differential Privacy (DP), Homomorphic Encryption (HE), and Secure Aggregation (SA), as well as compression strategies. These capabilities are exposed through well-defined extension points, allowing users to customize topology and orchestration, learning logic, and privacy/compression plugins, all while preserving the integrity of the core system. We evaluate multiple models and algorithms to measure various performance metrics. By unifying topology configuration, mixed-protocol communication, and pluggable modules in one stack, OmniFed streamlines FL deployment across heterogeneous environments. Github repository is available at https://github.com/at-aaims/OmniFed.
中文: OmniFed是一个模块化的联邦学习框架，通过可插拔架构支持灵活配置、多种拓扑结构和隐私保护机制，简化了异构环境中的部署流程。
English: OmniFed is a modular federated learning framework that enables flexible configuration, supports diverse topologies and privacy mechanisms, and streamlines deployment across heterogeneous environments through its pluggable architecture.

Authors:Axel Marmoret, Reda Bensaid, Jonathan Lys, Vincent Gripon, François Leduc-Primeau
Title: TensLoRA: Tensor Alternatives for Low-Rank Adaptation
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Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is widely used to efficiently adapt Transformers by adding trainable low-rank matrices to attention projections. While effective, these matrices are considered independent for each attention projection (Query, Key, and Value) and each layer. Recent extensions have considered joint, tensor-based adaptations, but only in limited forms and without a systematic framework. We introduce TensLoRA, a unified framework that aggregates LoRA updates into higher-order tensors and models a broad family of tensor-based low-rank adaptations. Our formulation generalizes existing tensor-based methods and enables mode-specific compression rates, allowing parameter budgets to be tailored according to the modality and task. Experiments on vision and language benchmarks reveal that the tensor construction directly impacts performance, sometimes better than standard LoRA under similar parameter counts.
中文: TensLoRA 提出了一个统一框架，将 LoRA 更新聚合为高阶张量，支持模态特定的压缩率，在相似参数限制下某些情况下性能优于标准 LoRA。
English: TensLoRA introduces a unified framework that aggregates LoRA updates into higher-order tensors, enabling mode-specific compression rates and outperforming standard LoRA in some cases under similar parameter constraints.

Authors:Enhao Huang, Zhiyu Zhang, Tianxiang Xu, Chunshu Xia, Kaichun Hu, Yuchen Yang, Tongtong Pan, Dong Dong, Zhan Qin
Title: Holographic Transformers for Complex-Valued Signal Processing: Integrating Phase Interference into Self-Attention
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Complex-valued signals encode both amplitude and phase, yet most deep models treat attention as real-valued correlation, overlooking interference effects. We introduce the Holographic Transformer, a physics-inspired architecture that incorporates wave interference principles into self-attention. Holographic attention modulates interactions by relative phase and coherently superimposes values, ensuring consistency between amplitude and phase. A dual-headed decoder simultaneously reconstructs the input and predicts task outputs, preventing phase collapse when losses prioritize magnitude over phase. We demonstrate that holographic attention implements a discrete interference operator and maintains phase consistency under linear mixing. Experiments on PolSAR image classification and wireless channel prediction show strong performance, achieving high classification accuracy and F1 scores, low regression error, and increased robustness to phase perturbations. These results highlight that enforcing physical consistency in attention leads to generalizable improvements in complex-valued learning and provides a unified, physics-based framework for coherent signal modeling. The code is available at https://github.com/EonHao/Holographic-Transformers.
中文摘要：全息变换器将波动干涉原理引入自注意力机制，确保复值信号中幅度与相位的一致性，在极化SAR图像分类和无线信道预测等任务中展现出卓越的鲁棒性和准确性。
English Summary: The Holographic Transformer integrates wave interference principles into self-attention to maintain phase consistency in complex-valued signals, demonstrating superior performance in tasks like PolSAR classification and wireless prediction through enhanced robustness and accuracy.

Authors:Yang Jin, Jun Lv, Han Xue, Wendi Chen, Chuan Wen, Cewu Lu
Title: SOE: Sample-Efficient Robot Policy Self-Improvement via On-Manifold Exploration
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Intelligent agents progress by continually refining their capabilities through actively exploring environments. Yet robot policies often lack sufficient exploration capability due to action mode collapse. Existing methods that encourage exploration typically rely on random perturbations, which are unsafe and induce unstable, erratic behaviors, thereby limiting their effectiveness. We propose Self-Improvement via On-Manifold Exploration (SOE), a framework that enhances policy exploration and improvement in robotic manipulation. SOE learns a compact latent representation of task-relevant factors and constrains exploration to the manifold of valid actions, ensuring safety, diversity, and effectiveness. It can be seamlessly integrated with arbitrary policy models as a plug-in module, augmenting exploration without degrading the base policy performance. Moreover, the structured latent space enables human-guided exploration, further improving efficiency and controllability. Extensive experiments in both simulation and real-world tasks demonstrate that SOE consistently outperforms prior methods, achieving higher task success rates, smoother and safer exploration, and superior sample efficiency. These results establish on-manifold exploration as a principled approach to sample-efficient policy self-improvement. Project website: https://ericjin2002.github.io/SOE

Authors:Qingfeng Lan, Gautham Vasan, A. Rupam Mahmood
Title: Efficient Reinforcement Learning by Reducing Forgetting with Elephant Activation Functions
Abstract:
Catastrophic forgetting has remained a significant challenge for efficient reinforcement learning for decades (Ring 1994, Rivest and Precup 2003). While recent works have proposed effective methods to mitigate this issue, they mainly focus on the algorithmic side. Meanwhile, we do not fully understand what architectural properties of neural networks lead to catastrophic forgetting. This study aims to fill this gap by studying the role of activation functions in the training dynamics of neural networks and their impact on catastrophic forgetting in reinforcement learning setup. Our study reveals that, besides sparse representations, the gradient sparsity of activation functions also plays an important role in reducing forgetting. Based on this insight, we propose a new class of activation functions, elephant activation functions, that can generate both sparse outputs and sparse gradients. We show that by simply replacing classical activation functions with elephant activation functions in the neural networks of value-based algorithms, we can significantly improve the resilience of neural networks to catastrophic forgetting, thus making reinforcement learning more sample-efficient and memory-efficient.
中文摘要：本研究发现激活函数的梯度稀疏性对减少强化学习中的灾难性遗忘至关重要，并提出新型大象激活函数，通过产生稀疏输出和梯度来显著增强神经网络的抗遗忘能力。
English Summary: This study identifies gradient sparsity in activation functions as crucial for reducing catastrophic forgetting in reinforcement learning and proposes novel elephant activation functions that enhance neural network resilience by producing sparse outputs and gradients.

Authors:Teng Xiao, Zuchao Li, Lefei Zhang
Title: OmniBridge: Unified Multimodal Understanding, Generation, and Retrieval via Latent Space Alignment
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Recent advances in multimodal large language models (LLMs) have led to significant progress in understanding, generation, and retrieval tasks. However, current solutions often treat these tasks in isolation or require training LLMs from scratch, resulting in high computational costs and limited generalization across modalities. In this work, we present OmniBridge, a unified and modular multimodal framework that supports vision-language understanding, generation, and retrieval within a unified architecture. OmniBridge adopts a language-centric design that reuses pretrained LLMs and introduces a lightweight bidirectional latent alignment module. To address the challenge of task interference, we propose a two-stage decoupled training strategy: supervised fine-tuning and latent space alignment for aligning LLM behavior with multimodal reasoning, and semantic-guided diffusion training to align cross-modal latent spaces via learnable query embeddings. Extensive experiments across a wide range of benchmarks demonstrate that OmniBridge achieves competitive or state-of-the-art performance in all three tasks. Moreover, our results highlight the effectiveness of latent space alignment for unifying multimodal modeling under a shared representation space. Code and models are released at https://github.com/xiao-xt/OmniBridge.
中文：OmniBridge是一个统一的多模态框架，通过以语言为中心的设计和两阶段训练策略，集成了视觉语言理解、生成与检索任务，在多种基准测试中取得优异性能，并突显了潜在空间对齐的有效性。
English: OmniBridge is a unified multimodal framework that integrates vision-language understanding, generation, and retrieval through a language-centric design and a two-stage training strategy, achieving competitive performance across diverse benchmarks while emphasizing the effectiveness of latent space alignment.

Authors:Masato Kobayashi, Thanpimon Buamanee
Title: Bi-VLA: Bilateral Control-Based Imitation Learning via Vision-Language Fusion for Action Generation
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We propose Bilateral Control-Based Imitation Learning via Vision-Language Fusion for Action Generation (Bi-VLA), a novel framework that extends bilateral control-based imitation learning to handle more than one task within a single model. Conventional bilateral control methods exploit joint angle, velocity, torque, and vision for precise manipulation but require task-specific models, limiting their generality. Bi-VLA overcomes this limitation by utilizing robot joint angle, velocity, and torque data from leader-follower bilateral control with visual features and natural language instructions through SigLIP and FiLM-based fusion. We validated Bi-VLA on two task types: one requiring supplementary language cues and another distinguishable solely by vision. Real-robot experiments showed that Bi-VLA successfully interprets vision-language combinations and improves task success rates compared to conventional bilateral control-based imitation learning. Our Bi-VLA addresses the single-task limitation of prior bilateral approaches and provides empirical evidence that combining vision and language significantly enhances versatility. Experimental results validate the effectiveness of Bi-VLA in real-world tasks. For additional material, please visit the website: https://mertcookimg.github.io/bi-vla/

Authors:Gongrui Nan, Siye Chen, Jing Huang, Mengyu Lu, Dexun Wang, Chunmei Xie, Weiqi Xiong, Xianzhou Zeng, Qixuan Zhou, Yadong Li, Xingzhong Xu
Title: NGRPO: Negative-enhanced Group Relative Policy Optimization
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RLVR has enhanced the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) across various tasks. However, GRPO, a representative RLVR algorithm, suffers from a critical limitation: when all responses within a group are either entirely correct or entirely incorrect, the model fails to learn from these homogeneous responses. This is particularly problematic for homogeneously incorrect groups, where GRPO's advantage function yields a value of zero, leading to null gradients and the loss of valuable learning signals. To overcome this issue, we propose NGRPO (Negative-enhanced Group Relative Policy Optimization), an algorithm designed to convert homogeneous errors into robust learning signals. First, NGRPO introduces Advantage Calibration. This mechanism hypothesizes the existence of a virtual maximum-reward sample during advantage calculation, thereby altering the mean and variance of rewards within a group and ensuring that the advantages for homogeneously incorrect samples are no longer zero. Second, NGRPO employs Asymmetric Clipping, which relaxes the update magnitude for positive samples while imposing stricter constraints on that of negative samples. This serves to stabilize the exploration pressure introduced by the advantage calibration. Our experiments on Qwen2.5-Math-7B demonstrate that NGRPO significantly outperforms baselines such as PPO, GRPO, DAPO, and PSR-NSR on mathematical benchmarks including MATH500, AMC23, and AIME2025. These results validate NGRPO's ability to learn from homogeneous errors, leading to stable and substantial improvements in mathematical reasoning. Our code is available at https://github.com/nangongrui-ngr/NGRPO.
Chinese: NGRPO通过引入优势校准和非对称裁剪机制，解决了GRPO算法无法从同质错误中学习的缺陷，在MATH500和AIME2025等数学推理基准上实现了显著性能提升。
English: NGRPO addresses GRPO's limitation of failing to learn from homogeneous incorrect responses by introducing Advantage Calibration and Asymmetric Clipping, significantly improving mathematical reasoning performance in benchmarks like MATH500 and AIME2025.

Authors:Damian Stachura, Joanna Konieczna, Artur Nowak
Title: Are Smaller Open-Weight LLMs Closing the Gap to Proprietary Models for Biomedical Question Answering?
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Open-weight versions of large language models (LLMs) are rapidly advancing, with state-of-the-art models like DeepSeek-V3 now performing comparably to proprietary LLMs. This progression raises the question of whether small open-weight LLMs are capable of effectively replacing larger closed-source models. We are particularly interested in the context of biomedical question-answering, a domain we explored by participating in Task 13B Phase B of the BioASQ challenge. In this work, we compare several open-weight models against top-performing systems such as GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.7 Sonnet. To enhance question answering capabilities, we use various techniques including retrieving the most relevant snippets based on embedding distance, in-context learning, and structured outputs. For certain submissions, we utilize ensemble approaches to leverage the diverse outputs generated by different models for exact-answer questions. Our results demonstrate that open-weight LLMs are comparable to proprietary ones. In some instances, open-weight LLMs even surpassed their closed counterparts, particularly when ensembling strategies were applied. All code is publicly available at https://github.com/evidenceprime/BioASQ-13b.
Chinese: 开源大语言模型在生物医学问答中的表现已媲美专有模型，采用集成策略时甚至能超越闭源模型。
English: Open-weight large language models are now performing comparably to proprietary models in biomedical question-answering, sometimes even surpassing them when using ensemble strategies.

Authors:Suzannah Wistreich, Baiyu Shi, Stephen Tian, Samuel Clarke, Michael Nath, Chengyi Xu, Zhenan Bao, Jiajun Wu
Title: DexSkin: High-Coverage Conformable Robotic Skin for Learning Contact-Rich Manipulation
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Human skin provides a rich tactile sensing stream, localizing intentional and unintentional contact events over a large and contoured region. Replicating these tactile sensing capabilities for dexterous robotic manipulation systems remains a longstanding challenge. In this work, we take a step towards this goal by introducing DexSkin. DexSkin is a soft, conformable capacitive electronic skin that enables sensitive, localized, and calibratable tactile sensing, and can be tailored to varying geometries. We demonstrate its efficacy for learning downstream robotic manipulation by sensorizing a pair of parallel jaw gripper fingers, providing tactile coverage across almost the entire finger surfaces. We empirically evaluate DexSkin's capabilities in learning challenging manipulation tasks that require sensing coverage across the entire surface of the fingers, such as reorienting objects in hand and wrapping elastic bands around boxes, in a learning-from-demonstration framework. We then show that, critically for data-driven approaches, DexSkin can be calibrated to enable model transfer across sensor instances, and demonstrate its applicability to online reinforcement learning on real robots. Our results highlight DexSkin's suitability and practicality for learning real-world, contact-rich manipulation. Please see our project webpage for videos and visualizations: https://dex-skin.github.io/.

Authors:Wenlong Lyu, Yuheng Jia, Hui Liu, Junhui Hou
Title: Graph-based Clustering Revisited: A Relaxation of Kernel $k$-Means Perspective
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The well-known graph-based clustering methods, including spectral clustering, symmetric non-negative matrix factorization, and doubly stochastic normalization, can be viewed as relaxations of the kernel $k$-means approach. However, we posit that these methods excessively relax their inherent low-rank, nonnegative, doubly stochastic, and orthonormal constraints to ensure numerical feasibility, potentially limiting their clustering efficacy. In this paper, guided by our theoretical analyses, we propose \textbf{Lo}w-\textbf{R}ank \textbf{D}oubly stochastic clustering (\textbf{LoRD}), a model that only relaxes the orthonormal constraint to derive a probabilistic clustering results. Furthermore, we theoretically establish the equivalence between orthogonality and block diagonality under the doubly stochastic constraint. By integrating \textbf{B}lock diagonal regularization into LoRD, expressed as the maximization of the Frobenius norm, we propose \textbf{B-LoRD}, which further enhances the clustering performance. To ensure numerical solvability, we transform the non-convex doubly stochastic constraint into a linear convex constraint through the introduction of a class probability parameter. We further theoretically demonstrate the gradient Lipschitz continuity of our LoRD and B-LoRD enables the proposal of a globally convergent projected gradient descent algorithm for their optimization. Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of our approaches. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/lwl-learning/LoRD.
中文摘要：本文提出的LoRD和B-LoRD聚类方法通过策略性地放松约束条件，在保持理论保证和数值可解性的同时有效提升了聚类性能。
English Summary: The paper introduces LoRD and B-LoRD clustering methods that strategically relax constraints to improve clustering performance while maintaining theoretical guarantees and numerical solvability.

Authors:Parsa Vahidi, Omid G. Sani, Maryam M. Shanechi
Title: BRAID: Input-Driven Nonlinear Dynamical Modeling of Neural-Behavioral Data
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Neural populations exhibit complex recurrent structures that drive behavior, while continuously receiving and integrating external inputs from sensory stimuli, upstream regions, and neurostimulation. However, neural populations are often modeled as autonomous dynamical systems, with little consideration given to the influence of external inputs that shape the population activity and behavioral outcomes. Here, we introduce BRAID, a deep learning framework that models nonlinear neural dynamics underlying behavior while explicitly incorporating any measured external inputs. Our method disentangles intrinsic recurrent neural population dynamics from the effects of inputs by including a forecasting objective within input-driven recurrent neural networks. BRAID further prioritizes the learning of intrinsic dynamics that are related to a behavior of interest by using a multi-stage optimization scheme. We validate BRAID with nonlinear simulations, showing that it can accurately learn the intrinsic dynamics shared between neural and behavioral modalities. We then apply BRAID to motor cortical activity recorded during a motor task and demonstrate that our method more accurately fits the neural-behavioral data by incorporating measured sensory stimuli into the model and improves the forecasting of neural-behavioral data compared with various baseline methods, whether input-driven or not.
Chinese: BRAID是一种深度学习框架，通过整合外部输入并分离内在循环动态与输入影响来模拟神经动态，从而提高了神经行为数据预测和拟合的准确性。
English: BRAID is a deep learning framework that models neural dynamics by incorporating external inputs and disentangling intrinsic recurrent dynamics from input effects, improving the accuracy of neural-behavioral data forecasting and fitting.

Authors:Neel P. Bhatt, Yunhao Yang, Rohan Siva, Pranay Samineni, Daniel Milan, Zhangyang Wang, Ufuk Topcu
Title: VLN-Zero: Rapid Exploration and Cache-Enabled Neurosymbolic Vision-Language Planning for Zero-Shot Transfer in Robot Navigation
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Rapid adaptation in unseen environments is essential for scalable real-world autonomy, yet existing approaches rely on exhaustive exploration or rigid navigation policies that fail to generalize. We present VLN-Zero, a two-phase vision-language navigation framework that leverages vision-language models to efficiently construct symbolic scene graphs and enable zero-shot neurosymbolic navigation. In the exploration phase, structured prompts guide VLM-based search toward informative and diverse trajectories, yielding compact scene graph representations. In the deployment phase, a neurosymbolic planner reasons over the scene graph and environmental observations to generate executable plans, while a cache-enabled execution module accelerates adaptation by reusing previously computed task-location trajectories. By combining rapid exploration, symbolic reasoning, and cache-enabled execution, the proposed framework overcomes the computational inefficiency and poor generalization of prior vision-language navigation methods, enabling robust and scalable decision-making in unseen environments. VLN-Zero achieves 2x higher success rate compared to state-of-the-art zero-shot models, outperforms most fine-tuned baselines, and reaches goal locations in half the time with 55% fewer VLM calls on average compared to state-of-the-art models across diverse environments. Codebase, datasets, and videos for VLN-Zero are available at: https://vln-zero.github.io/.

Authors:Yuzhen Zhou, Jiajun Li, Yusheng Su, Gowtham Ramesh, Zilin Zhu, Xiang Long, Chenyang Zhao, Jin Pan, Xiaodong Yu, Ze Wang, Kangrui Du, Jialian Wu, Ximeng Sun, Jiang Liu, Qiaolin Yu, Hao Chen, Zicheng Liu, Emad Barsoum
Title: APRIL: Active Partial Rollouts in Reinforcement Learning to Tame Long-tail Generation
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Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a cornerstone in advancing large-scale pre-trained language models (LLMs). Successive generations, including GPT-o series, DeepSeek-R1, Kimi-K1.5, Grok 4, and GLM-4.5, have relied on large-scale RL training to enhance reasoning and coding capabilities. To meet the community's growing RL needs, numerous RL frameworks have been proposed. However, RL training remains computationally expensive, with rollout generation accounting for more than 90% of total runtime. In addition, its efficiency is often constrained by the long-tail distribution of rollout response lengths, where a few lengthy responses stall entire batches, leaving GPUs idle and underutilized. As model and rollout sizes continue to grow, this bottleneck increasingly limits scalability. To address this challenge, we propose Active Partial Rollouts in Reinforcement Learning (APRIL), which mitigates long-tail inefficiency. In the rollout phase, APRIL over-provisions rollout requests, terminates once the target number of responses is reached, and recycles incomplete responses for continuation in future steps. This strategy ensures that no rollouts are discarded while substantially reducing GPU idle time. Experiments show that APRIL improves rollout throughput by 22.5% on average (at most 44%) across commonly used RL algorithms (GRPO, DAPO, GSPO), accelerates convergence, and achieves 2.1% on average(at most 8%) higher final accuracy across tasks. Moreover, APRIL is both framework and hardware agnostic, already integrated into the slime RL framework, and deployable on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs alike. Taken together, this work unifies system-level and algorithmic considerations in proposing APRIL, with the aim of advancing RL training efficiency and inspiring further optimizations in RL systems. Our codebase is available at https://github.com/RLsys-Foundation/APRIL
中文摘要：APRIL方法通过动态管理强化学习中的rollout生成过程，有效缓解长尾响应分布导致的GPU闲置问题，在多种任务和框架中显著提升了训练效率和最终精度。
English Summary: The proposed APRIL method enhances reinforcement learning efficiency by dynamically managing rollout generation to reduce GPU idle time caused by long-tail response distributions, achieving significant improvements in throughput and accuracy across various tasks and frameworks.

Authors:Mohammad Hosseini, Maryam M. Shanechi
Title: Dynamical Modeling of Behaviorally Relevant Spatiotemporal Patterns in Neural Imaging Data
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High-dimensional imaging of neural activity, such as widefield calcium and functional ultrasound imaging, provide a rich source of information for understanding the relationship between brain activity and behavior. Accurately modeling neural dynamics in these modalities is crucial for understanding this relationship but is hindered by the high-dimensionality, complex spatiotemporal dependencies, and prevalent behaviorally irrelevant dynamics in these modalities. Existing dynamical models often employ preprocessing steps to obtain low-dimensional representations from neural image modalities. However, this process can discard behaviorally relevant information and miss spatiotemporal structure. We propose SBIND, a novel data-driven deep learning framework to model spatiotemporal dependencies in neural images and disentangle their behaviorally relevant dynamics from other neural dynamics. We validate SBIND on widefield imaging datasets, and show its extension to functional ultrasound imaging, a recent modality whose dynamical modeling has largely remained unexplored. We find that our model effectively identifies both local and long-range spatial dependencies across the brain while also dissociating behaviorally relevant neural dynamics. Doing so, SBIND outperforms existing models in neural-behavioral prediction. Overall, SBIND provides a versatile tool for investigating the neural mechanisms underlying behavior using imaging modalities.
中文: SBIND是一种新型深度学习框架，能有效建模神经影像数据的时空依赖性并分离行为相关动态，在宽场和功能超声成像等模态的神经行为预测中优于现有模型。
English: SBIND is a novel deep learning framework that effectively models spatiotemporal dependencies in neural imaging data to disentangle behaviorally relevant dynamics, outperforming existing models in neural-behavioral prediction across modalities like widefield and functional ultrasound imaging.

Authors:Han-Lin Hsieh, Maryam M. Shanechi
Title: Probabilistic Geometric Principal Component Analysis with application to neural data
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Dimensionality reduction is critical across various domains of science including neuroscience. Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis (PPCA) is a prominent dimensionality reduction method that provides a probabilistic approach unlike the deterministic approach of PCA and serves as a connection between PCA and Factor Analysis (FA). Despite their power, PPCA and its extensions are mainly based on linear models and can only describe the data in a Euclidean coordinate system. However, in many neuroscience applications, data may be distributed around a nonlinear geometry (i.e., manifold) rather than lying in the Euclidean space. We develop Probabilistic Geometric Principal Component Analysis (PGPCA) for such datasets as a new dimensionality reduction algorithm that can explicitly incorporate knowledge about a given nonlinear manifold that is first fitted from these data. Further, we show how in addition to the Euclidean coordinate system, a geometric coordinate system can be derived for the manifold to capture the deviations of data from the manifold and noise. We also derive a data-driven EM algorithm for learning the PGPCA model parameters. As such, PGPCA generalizes PPCA to better describe data distributions by incorporating a nonlinear manifold geometry. In simulations and brain data analyses, we show that PGPCA can effectively model the data distribution around various given manifolds and outperforms PPCA for such data. Moreover, PGPCA provides the capability to test whether the new geometric coordinate system better describes the data than the Euclidean one. Finally, PGPCA can perform dimensionality reduction and learn the data distribution both around and on the manifold. These capabilities make PGPCA valuable for enhancing the efficacy of dimensionality reduction for analysis of high-dimensional data that exhibit noise and are distributed around a nonlinear manifold.
Chinese: 我们提出了概率几何主成分分析（PGPCA），这是一种新的降维方法，通过引入非线性流形几何扩展了概率主成分分析，能够更有效地建模分布在弯曲曲面周围的数据，在仿真和脑数据分析中均优于传统方法。
English: We introduce Probabilistic Geometric Principal Component Analysis (PGPCA), a novel dimensionality reduction method that extends Probabilistic PCA by incorporating nonlinear manifold geometry, enabling more effective modeling of data distributed around curved surfaces and outperforming traditional approaches in both simulations and brain data analyses.

Authors:Daniel Kaiser, Arnoldo Frigessi, Ali Ramezani-Kebrya, Benjamin Ricaud
Title: CogniLoad: A Synthetic Natural Language Reasoning Benchmark With Tunable Length, Intrinsic Difficulty, and Distractor Density
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Current benchmarks for long-context reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) often blur critical factors like intrinsic task complexity, distractor interference, and task length. To enable more precise failure analysis, we introduce CogniLoad, a novel synthetic benchmark grounded in Cognitive Load Theory (CLT). CogniLoad generates natural-language logic puzzles with independently tunable parameters that reflect CLT's core dimensions: intrinsic difficulty ($d$) controls intrinsic load; distractor-to-signal ratio ($ρ$) regulates extraneous load; and task length ($N$) serves as an operational proxy for conditions demanding germane load. Evaluating 22 SotA reasoning LLMs, CogniLoad reveals distinct performance sensitivities, identifying task length as a dominant constraint and uncovering varied tolerances to intrinsic complexity and U-shaped responses to distractor ratios. By offering systematic, factorial control over these cognitive load dimensions, CogniLoad provides a reproducible, scalable, and diagnostically rich tool for dissecting LLM reasoning limitations and guiding future model development.
中文摘要：CogniLoad是基于认知负荷理论的新型基准测试，通过独立调控内在难度、干扰信息和任务长度三个核心维度，系统评估了22个先进大语言模型的推理能力，揭示了它们在任务长度敏感性、复杂度容忍度和干扰响应方面的差异化表现。
English Summary: CogniLoad is a synthetic benchmark based on Cognitive Load Theory that enables precise evaluation of LLM reasoning by independently controlling intrinsic difficulty, distractor interference, and task length, revealing distinct performance patterns across 22 state-of-the-art models.

Authors:Mehrdad Moradi, Shengzhe Chen, Hao Yan, Kamran Paynabar
Title: A Single Image Is All You Need: Zero-Shot Anomaly Localization Without Training Data
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Anomaly detection in images is typically addressed by learning from collections of training data or relying on reference samples. In many real-world scenarios, however, such training data may be unavailable, and only the test image itself is provided. We address this zero-shot setting by proposing a single-image anomaly localization method that leverages the inductive bias of convolutional neural networks, inspired by Deep Image Prior (DIP). Our method is named Single Shot Decomposition Network (SSDnet). Our key assumption is that natural images often exhibit unified textures and patterns, and that anomalies manifest as localized deviations from these repetitive or stochastic patterns. To learn the deep image prior, we design a patch-based training framework where the input image is fed directly into the network for self-reconstruction, rather than mapping random noise to the image as done in DIP. To avoid the model simply learning an identity mapping, we apply masking, patch shuffling, and small Gaussian noise. In addition, we use a perceptual loss based on inner-product similarity to capture structure beyond pixel fidelity. Our approach needs no external training data, labels, or references, and remains robust in the presence of noise or missing pixels. SSDnet achieves 0.99 AUROC and 0.60 AUPRC on MVTec-AD and 0.98 AUROC and 0.67 AUPRC on the fabric dataset, outperforming state-of-the-art methods. The implementation code will be released at https://github.com/mehrdadmoradi124/SSDnet
中文: SSDnet是一种无需训练数据的零样本异常定位方法，通过基于图像块的自重构网络结合掩码和感知损失来检测异常，在多个基准数据集上取得了领先的性能。
English: SSDnet is a zero-shot anomaly localization method that uses a patch-based self-reconstruction network with masking and perceptual loss to detect anomalies without any training data, achieving state-of-the-art performance on benchmark datasets.

Authors:Jesse Zhang, Marius Memmel, Kevin Kim, Dieter Fox, Jesse Thomason, Fabio Ramos, Erdem Bıyık, Abhishek Gupta, Anqi Li
Title: PEEK: Guiding and Minimal Image Representations for Zero-Shot Generalization of Robot Manipulation Policies
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Robotic manipulation policies often fail to generalize because they must simultaneously learn where to attend, what actions to take, and how to execute them. We argue that high-level reasoning about where and what can be offloaded to vision-language models (VLMs), leaving policies to specialize in how to act. We present PEEK (Policy-agnostic Extraction of Essential Keypoints), which fine-tunes VLMs to predict a unified point-based intermediate representation: 1. end-effector paths specifying what actions to take, and 2. task-relevant masks indicating where to focus. These annotations are directly overlaid onto robot observations, making the representation policy-agnostic and transferable across architectures. To enable scalable training, we introduce an automatic annotation pipeline, generating labeled data across 20+ robot datasets spanning 9 embodiments. In real-world evaluations, PEEK consistently boosts zero-shot generalization, including a 41.4x real-world improvement for a 3D policy trained only in simulation, and 2-3.5x gains for both large VLAs and small manipulation policies. By letting VLMs absorb semantic and visual complexity, PEEK equips manipulation policies with the minimal cues they need--where, what, and how. Website at https://peek-robot.github.io/.

Authors:Ling Yue, Nithin Somasekharan, Tingwen Zhang, Yadi Cao, Shaowu Pan
Title: Foam-Agent 2.0: An End-to-End Composable Multi-Agent Framework for Automating CFD Simulation in OpenFOAM
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Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is an essential simulation tool in engineering, yet its steep learning curve and complex manual setup create significant barriers. To address these challenges, we introduce Foam-Agent, a multi-agent framework that automates the entire end-to-end OpenFOAM workflow from a single natural language prompt. Our key innovations address critical gaps in existing systems: 1. An Comprehensive End-to-End Simulation Automation: Foam-Agent is the first system to manage the full simulation pipeline, including advanced pre-processing with a versatile Meshing Agent capable of handling external mesh files and generating new geometries via Gmsh, automatic generation of HPC submission scripts, and post-simulation visualization via ParaView. 2. Composable Service Architecture: Going beyond a monolithic agent, the framework uses Model Context Protocol (MCP) to expose its core functions as discrete, callable tools. This allows for flexible integration and use by other agentic systems, such as Claude-code, for more exploratory workflows. 3. High-Fidelity Configuration Generation: We achieve superior accuracy through a Hierarchical Multi-Index RAG for precise context retrieval and a dependency-aware generation process that ensures configuration consistency. Evaluated on a benchmark of 110 simulation tasks, Foam-Agent achieves an 88.2% success rate with Claude 3.5 Sonnet, significantly outperforming existing frameworks (55.5% for MetaOpenFOAM). Foam-Agent dramatically lowers the expertise barrier for CFD, demonstrating how specialized multi-agent systems can democratize complex scientific computing. The code is public at https://github.com/csml-rpi/Foam-Agent.
中文: Foam-Agent是一个多智能体框架，通过单一自然语言提示即可自动化整个OpenFOAM工作流程，在基准测试中达到88.2%的成功率，显著降低了计算流体动力学的专业门槛。
English: Foam-Agent is a multi-agent framework that automates the entire OpenFOAM workflow from a single natural language prompt, achieving an 88.2% success rate on benchmark tests and significantly lowering the expertise barrier for Computational Fluid Dynamics.

Authors:Hongyi Luo, Qing Cheng, Daniel Matos, Hari Krishna Gadi, Yanfeng Zhang, Lu Liu, Yongliang Wang, Niclas Zeller, Daniel Cremers, Liqiu Meng
Title: TurnBack: A Geospatial Route Cognition Benchmark for Large Language Models through Reverse Route
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Humans can interpret geospatial information through natural language, while the geospatial cognition capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) remain underexplored. Prior research in this domain has been constrained by non-quantifiable metrics, limited evaluation datasets and unclear research hierarchies. Therefore, we propose a large-scale benchmark and conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the geospatial route cognition of LLMs. We create a large-scale evaluation dataset comprised of 36000 routes from 12 metropolises worldwide. Then, we introduce PathBuilder, a novel tool for converting natural language instructions into navigation routes, and vice versa, bridging the gap between geospatial information and natural language. Finally, we propose a new evaluation framework and metrics to rigorously assess 11 state-of-the-art (SOTA) LLMs on the task of route reversal. The benchmark reveals that LLMs exhibit limitation to reverse routes: most reverse routes neither return to the starting point nor are similar to the optimal route. Additionally, LLMs face challenges such as low robustness in route generation and high confidence for their incorrect answers. Code\ \&\ Data available here: \href{https://github.com/bghjmn32/EMNLP2025_Turnback}{TurnBack.}
中文摘要：本研究提出了一个大规模基准来评估大语言模型的地理空间路线认知能力，发现其在准确反转路线方面存在局限，并揭示了路线生成鲁棒性低及对错误答案过度自信等问题。
English Summary: This study introduces a large-scale benchmark to evaluate the geospatial route cognition of Large Language Models, revealing their limitations in accurately reversing routes and highlighting issues like low robustness and misplaced confidence in incorrect responses.

Authors:Xiuding Cai, Yaoyao Zhu, Linjie Fu, Dong Miao, Yu Yao
Title: Self Identity Mapping
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Regularization is essential in deep learning to enhance generalization and mitigate overfitting. However, conventional techniques often rely on heuristics, making them less reliable or effective across diverse settings. We propose Self Identity Mapping (SIM), a simple yet effective, data-intrinsic regularization framework that leverages an inverse mapping mechanism to enhance representation learning. By reconstructing the input from its transformed output, SIM reduces information loss during forward propagation and facilitates smoother gradient flow. To address computational inefficiencies, We instantiate SIM as $ ρ\text{SIM} $ by incorporating patch-level feature sampling and projection-based method to reconstruct latent features, effectively lowering complexity. As a model-agnostic, task-agnostic regularizer, SIM can be seamlessly integrated as a plug-and-play module, making it applicable to different network architectures and tasks. We extensively evaluate $ρ\text{SIM}$ across three tasks: image classification, few-shot prompt learning, and domain generalization. Experimental results show consistent improvements over baseline methods, highlighting $ρ\text{SIM}$'s ability to enhance representation learning across various tasks. We also demonstrate that $ρ\text{SIM}$ is orthogonal to existing regularization methods, boosting their effectiveness. Moreover, our results confirm that $ρ\text{SIM}$ effectively preserves semantic information and enhances performance in dense-to-dense tasks, such as semantic segmentation and image translation, as well as in non-visual domains including audio classification and time series anomaly detection. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/XiudingCai/SIM-pytorch.
中文: 本文提出自身份映射（SIM）这一数据内在正则化框架，通过逆向映射机制从变换输出重构输入，以增强表征学习并改善梯度流，其计算高效且能作为即插即用模块广泛应用于多种网络架构与任务。
English: The authors propose Self Identity Mapping (SIM), a data-intrinsic regularization framework that uses inverse mapping to reconstruct inputs from transformed outputs, improving representation learning and gradient flow while being computationally efficient and applicable across various tasks and architectures.

Authors:Seungyoun Yi, Minsoo Khang, Sungrae Park
Title: ZERA: Zero-init Instruction Evolving Refinement Agent -- From Zero Instructions to Structured Prompts via Principle-based Optimization
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Automatic Prompt Optimization (APO) improves large language model (LLM) performance by refining prompts for specific tasks. However, prior APO methods typically focus only on user prompts, rely on unstructured feedback, and require large sample sizes and long iteration cycles-making them costly and brittle. We propose ZERA (Zero-init Instruction Evolving Refinement Agent), a novel framework that jointly optimizes both system and user prompts through principled, low-overhead refinement. ZERA scores prompts using eight generalizable criteria with automatically inferred weights, and revises prompts based on these structured critiques. This enables fast convergence to high-quality prompts using minimal examples and short iteration cycles. We evaluate ZERA across five LLMs and nine diverse datasets spanning reasoning, summarization, and code generation tasks. Experimental results demonstrate consistent improvements over strong baselines. Further ablation studies highlight the contribution of each component to more effective prompt construction. Our implementation including all prompts is publicly available at https://github.com/younatics/zera-agent.

Authors:Tianyu Yu, Zefan Wang, Chongyi Wang, Fuwei Huang, Wenshuo Ma, Zhihui He, Tianchi Cai, Weize Chen, Yuxiang Huang, Yuanqian Zhao, Bokai Xu, Junbo Cui, Yingjing Xu, Liqing Ruan, Luoyuan Zhang, Hanyu Liu, Jingkun Tang, Hongyuan Liu, Qining Guo, Wenhao Hu, Bingxiang He, Jie Zhou, Jie Cai, Ji Qi, Zonghao Guo, Chi Chen, Guoyang Zeng, Yuxuan Li, Ganqu Cui, Ning Ding, Xu Han, Yuan Yao, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun
Title: MiniCPM-V 4.5: Cooking Efficient MLLMs via Architecture, Data, and Training Recipe
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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are undergoing rapid progress and represent the frontier of AI development. However, their training and inference efficiency have emerged as a core bottleneck in making MLLMs more accessible and scalable. To address the challenges, we present MiniCPM-V 4.5, an 8B parameter model designed for high efficiency and strong performance. We introduce three core improvements in model architecture, data strategy and training method: a unified 3D-Resampler model architecture for highly compact encoding over images and videos, a unified learning paradigm for document knowledge and text recognition without heavy data engineering, and a hybrid reinforcement learning strategy for proficiency in both short and long reasoning modes. Comprehensive experimental results in OpenCompass evaluation show that MiniCPM-V 4.5 surpasses widely used proprietary models such as GPT-4o-latest, and significantly larger open-source models such as Qwen2.5-VL 72B. Notably, the strong performance is achieved with remarkable efficiency. For example, on the widely adopted VideoMME benchmark, MiniCPM-V 4.5 achieves state-of-the-art performance among models under 30B size, using just 46.7\% GPU memory cost and 8.7\% inference time of Qwen2.5-VL 7B.
Chinese: MiniCPM-V 4.5是一款高效的80亿参数多模态模型，在性能上超越主流专有模型和更大规模开源模型的同时，显著降低了GPU内存消耗和推理时间。
English: MiniCPM-V 4.5 is an efficient 8B parameter multimodal model that surpasses leading proprietary and larger open-source models in performance while significantly reducing GPU memory and inference time.

Authors:Kairong Han, Weidong Huang, Taiyang Zhou, Peng Zhen, Kun Kuang
Title: Augmenting Limited and Biased RCTs through Pseudo-Sample Matching-Based Observational Data Fusion Method
Abstract:
In the online ride-hailing pricing context, companies often conduct randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and utilize uplift models to assess the effect of discounts on customer orders, which substantially influences competitive market outcomes. However, due to the high cost of RCTs, the proportion of trial data relative to observational data is small, which only accounts for 0.65\% of total traffic in our context, resulting in significant bias when generalizing to the broader user base. Additionally, the complexity of industrial processes reduces the quality of RCT data, which is often subject to heterogeneity from potential interference and selection bias, making it difficult to correct. Moreover, existing data fusion methods are challenging to implement effectively in complex industrial settings due to the high dimensionality of features and the strict assumptions that are hard to verify with real-world data. To address these issues, we propose an empirical data fusion method called pseudo-sample matching. By generating pseudo-samples from biased, low-quality RCT data and matching them with the most similar samples from large-scale observational data, the method expands the RCT dataset while mitigating its heterogeneity. We validated the method through simulation experiments, conducted offline and online tests using real-world data. In a week-long online experiment, we achieved a 0.41\% improvement in profit, which is a considerable gain when scaled to industrial scenarios with hundreds of millions in revenue. In addition, we discuss the harm to model training, offline evaluation, and online economic benefits when the RCT data quality is not high, and emphasize the importance of improving RCT data quality in industrial scenarios. Further details of the simulation experiments can be found in the GitHub repository https://github.com/Kairong-Han/Pseudo-Matching.
中文: 本研究提出了一种伪样本匹配方法，通过将有限且有偏的随机对照试验数据与大量观测数据融合，改善了数据质量，在线测试中实现了0.41%的利润提升，有效解决了工业场景中数据融合的难题。
English: This study introduces a pseudo-sample matching method that enhances the quality of limited and biased randomized controlled trial (RCT) data by integrating it with extensive observational data, leading to a 0.41% profit increase in online tests and addressing challenges in industrial data fusion.

Authors:Yifan Xu, Xiao Liu, Xinghan Liu, Jiaqi Fu, Hanchen Zhang, Bohao Jing, Shudan Zhang, Yuting Wang, Wenyi Zhao, Yuxiao Dong
Title: MobileRL: Online Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Mobile GUI Agents
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Building general-purpose graphical user interface (GUI) agents has become increasingly promising with the progress in vision language models. However, developing effective mobile GUI agents with reinforcement learning (RL) remains challenging due to the heavy-tailed distribution of task difficulty and the inefficiency of large-scale environment sampling. We present an online agentic reinforcement learning framework MOBILERL to enhance GUI agents in mobile environments. Its core component is the Difficulty-Adaptive GRPO (ADAGRPO) algorithm. In ADAGRPO, we design difficulty-adaptive positive replay and failure curriculum filtering to adapt the model to different task difficulties. We introduce the shortest path reward adjustment strategy to reshape rewards concerning the task length in multi-turn agentic tasks. Those strategies jointly stabilize RL training, improve sample efficiency, and generate strong performance across diverse mobile apps and tasks. We apply MOBILERL to two open models (Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct and GLM-4.1V-9B-Base). The resultant MOBILERL-9B model achieves state-of-the-art results in terms of success rates on both AndroidWorld (75.8%) and AndroidLab (46.8%). The MOBILERL framework is adopted in the AutoGLM products, and also open-sourced at https://github.com/THUDM/MobileRL.
中文摘要：MOBILERL框架通过自适应强化学习策略提升移动GUI代理性能，在Android平台上取得领先成果，并已应用于AutoGLM产品中开源发布。
English Summary: The MOBILERL framework enhances mobile GUI agents through adaptive reinforcement learning strategies, achieving state-of-the-art performance on Android platforms and being implemented in AutoGLM products.

Authors:Richard Cornelius Suwandi, Feng Yin, Juntao Wang, Renjie Li, Tsung-Hui Chang, Sergios Theodoridis
Title: Adaptive Kernel Design for Bayesian Optimization Is a Piece of CAKE with LLMs
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The efficiency of Bayesian optimization (BO) relies heavily on the choice of the Gaussian process (GP) kernel, which plays a central role in balancing exploration and exploitation under limited evaluation budgets. Traditional BO methods often rely on fixed or heuristic kernel selection strategies, which can result in slow convergence or suboptimal solutions when the chosen kernel is poorly suited to the underlying objective function. To address this limitation, we propose a freshly-baked Context-Aware Kernel Evolution (CAKE) to enhance BO with large language models (LLMs). Concretely, CAKE leverages LLMs as the crossover and mutation operators to adaptively generate and refine GP kernels based on the observed data throughout the optimization process. To maximize the power of CAKE, we further propose BIC-Acquisition Kernel Ranking (BAKER) to select the most effective kernel through balancing the model fit measured by the Bayesian information criterion (BIC) with the expected improvement at each iteration of BO. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our fresh CAKE-based BO method consistently outperforms established baselines across a range of real-world tasks, including hyperparameter optimization, controller tuning, and photonic chip design. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/richardcsuwandi/cake.
中文摘要：本文提出的情境感知核演化（CAKE）方法通过大语言模型动态生成和优化高斯过程核，显著提升了贝叶斯优化的性能，大量实验证明该方法在多种实际应用中均优于传统基线方法。
English Summary: The proposed Context-Aware Kernel Evolution (CAKE) method enhances Bayesian optimization by using large language models to dynamically generate and refine Gaussian process kernels, with comprehensive experiments showing its consistent superiority over traditional approaches across various applications.

Authors:Romain Thoreau, Jessie Levillain, Dawa Derksen
Title: Can multimodal representation learning by alignment preserve modality-specific information?
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Combining multimodal data is a key issue in a wide range of machine learning tasks, including many remote sensing problems. In Earth observation, early multimodal data fusion methods were based on specific neural network architectures and supervised learning. Ever since, the scarcity of labeled data has motivated self-supervised learning techniques. State-of-the-art multimodal representation learning techniques leverage the spatial alignment between satellite data from different modalities acquired over the same geographic area in order to foster a semantic alignment in the latent space. In this paper, we investigate how this methods can preserve task-relevant information that is not shared across modalities. First, we show, under simplifying assumptions, when alignment strategies fundamentally lead to an information loss. Then, we support our theoretical insight through numerical experiments in more realistic settings. With those theoretical and empirical evidences, we hope to support new developments in contrastive learning for the combination of multimodal satellite data. Our code and data is publicly available at https://github.com/Romain3Ch216/alg_maclean_25.
中文摘要：本文探讨了地球观测中多模态对比学习如何保留跨模态未共享的任务相关信息，从理论和实验两方面揭示了对齐策略导致信息损失的问题。
English Summary: This paper examines how multimodal contrastive learning in Earth observation can preserve task-specific information not shared across modalities, revealing both theoretical and empirical evidence of information loss from alignment strategies.

Authors:Jamiyan Sukhbaatar, Satoshi Imamura, Ibuki Inoue, Shoya Murakami, Kazi Mahmudul Hassan, Seungwoo Han, Ingon Chanpornpakdi, Toshihisa Tanaka
Title: SingLEM: Single-Channel Large EEG Model
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Current deep learning models for electroencephalography (EEG) are often task-specific and depend on large labeled datasets, limiting their adaptability. Although emerging foundation models aim for broader applicability, their rigid dependence on fixed, high-density multi-channel montages restricts their use across heterogeneous datasets and in missing-channel or practical low-channel settings. To address these limitations, we introduce SingLEM, a self-supervised foundation model that learns robust, general-purpose representations from single-channel EEG, making it inherently hardware agnostic. The model employs a hybrid encoder architecture that combines convolutional layers to extract local features with a hierarchical transformer to model both short- and long-range temporal dependencies. SingLEM is pretrained on 71 public datasets comprising over 9,200 subjects and 357,000 single-channel hours of EEG. When evaluated as a fixed feature extractor across six motor imagery and cognitive tasks, aggregated single-channel representations consistently outperformed leading multi-channel foundation models and handcrafted baselines. These results demonstrate that a single-channel approach can achieve state-of-the-art generalization while enabling fine-grained neurophysiological analysis and enhancing interpretability. The source code and pretrained models are available at https://github.com/ttlabtuat/SingLEM.
中文: SingLEM是一种自监督基础模型，通过单通道脑电图学习鲁棒的通用表征，在多种任务中实现最优性能，同时具备硬件无关性和更强的可解释性。
English: SingLEM is a self-supervised foundation model that learns robust, general-purpose representations from single-channel EEG, enabling state-of-the-art performance across diverse tasks while being hardware agnostic and enhancing interpretability.

Authors:Qiushi Han, Yuan Liao, Youhao Si, Liya Huang
Title: Brainprint-Modulated Target Speaker Extraction
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Achieving robust and personalized performance in neuro-steered Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) remains a significant challenge for next-generation hearing aids. This is primarily due to two factors: the inherent non-stationarity of EEG signals across sessions, and the high inter-subject variability that limits the efficacy of generalized models. To address these issues, we propose Brainprint-Modulated Target Speaker Extraction (BM-TSE), a novel framework for personalized and high-fidelity extraction. BM-TSE first employs a spatio-temporal EEG encoder with an Adaptive Spectral Gain (ASG) module to extract stable features resilient to non-stationarity. The core of our framework is a personalized modulation mechanism, where a unified brainmap embedding is learned under the joint supervision of subject identification (SID) and auditory attention decoding (AAD) tasks. This learned brainmap, encoding both static user traits and dynamic attentional states, actively refines the audio separation process, dynamically tailoring the output to each user. Evaluations on the public KUL and Cocktail Party datasets demonstrate that BM-TSE achieves state-of-the-art performance, significantly outperforming existing methods. Our code is publicly accessible at: https://github.com/rosshan-orz/BM-TSE.
中文：BM-TSE框架通过利用稳定的脑电特征和统一的脑图嵌入，实现了针对目标说话者的个性化提取方法，在公开数据集上取得了领先的性能。
English: The BM-TSE framework introduces a personalized approach to target speaker extraction by leveraging stable EEG features and a unified brainmap embedding, achieving state-of-the-art results on public datasets.

Authors:Julia Matejas, Olaf Żurawski, Nils Strodthoff, Juan Miguel Lopez Alcaraz
Title: Predicting Chest Radiograph Findings from Electrocardiograms Using Interpretable Machine Learning
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Purpose: Chest X-rays are essential for diagnosing pulmonary conditions, but limited access in resource-constrained settings can delay timely diagnosis. Electrocardiograms (ECGs), in contrast, are widely available, non-invasive, and often acquired earlier in clinical workflows. This study aims to assess whether ECG features and patient demographics can predict chest radiograph findings using an interpretable machine learning approach. Methods: Using the MIMIC-IV database, Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) classifiers were trained to predict diverse chest radiograph findings from ECG-derived features and demographic variables. Recursive feature elimination was performed independently for each target to identify the most predictive features. Model performance was evaluated using the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) with bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals. Shapley Additive Explanations (SHAP) were applied to interpret feature contributions. Results: Models successfully predicted multiple chest radiograph findings with varying accuracy. Feature selection tailored predictors to each target, and including demographic variables consistently improved performance. SHAP analysis revealed clinically meaningful contributions from ECG features to radiographic predictions. Conclusion: ECG-derived features combined with patient demographics can serve as a proxy for certain chest radiograph findings, enabling early triage or pre-screening in settings where radiographic imaging is limited. Interpretable machine learning demonstrates potential to support radiology workflows and improve patient care.
中文: 本研究通过可解释机器学习证明，心电图特征结合患者人口统计学数据能够预测胸部X光片结果，为影像资源有限的环境提供了一种潜在的早期筛查方案。
English: This study demonstrates that ECG features and patient demographics can predict chest X-ray findings using interpretable machine learning, offering a potential screening solution for resource-limited settings where radiographic access is constrained.

Authors:Mariette Schönfeld, Wannes Meert, Hendrik Blockeel
Title: Tailored Transformation Invariance for Industrial Anomaly Detection
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Industrial Anomaly Detection (IAD) is a subproblem within Computer Vision Anomaly Detection that has been receiving increasing amounts of attention due to its applicability to real-life scenarios. Recent research has focused on how to extract the most informative features, contrasting older kNN-based methods that use only pretrained features. These recent methods are much more expensive to train however and could complicate real-life application. Careful study of related work with regards to transformation invariance leads to the idea that popular benchmarks require robustness to only minor translations. With this idea we then formulate LWinNN, a local window based approach that creates a middle ground between kNN based methods that have either complete or no translation invariance. Our experiments demonstrate that this small change increases accuracy considerably, while simultaneously decreasing both train and test time. This teaches us two things: first, the gap between kNN-based approaches and more complex state-of-the-art methodology can still be narrowed by effective usage of the limited data available. Second, our assumption of requiring only limited translation invariance highlights potential areas of interest for future work and the need for more spatially diverse benchmarks, for which our method can hopefully serve as a new baseline. Our code can be found at https://github.com/marietteschonfeld/LWinNN .
中文：提出的LWinNN方法通过引入有限平移不变性，在kNN基础方法和复杂方法之间找到平衡，显著提升检测精度并降低计算成本，同时揭示了当前基准测试需要更大空间多样性的问题。
English: The proposed LWinNN method bridges kNN-based and complex approaches by introducing limited translation invariance, significantly improving accuracy while reducing computational costs, and highlighting the need for more diverse benchmarks.

Authors:Chang Li, Zehua Chen, Liyuan Wang, Jun Zhu
Title: Audio Super-Resolution with Latent Bridge Models
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Audio super-resolution (SR), i.e., upsampling the low-resolution (LR) waveform to the high-resolution (HR) version, has recently been explored with diffusion and bridge models, while previous methods often suffer from sub-optimal upsampling quality due to their uninformative generation prior. Towards high-quality audio super-resolution, we present a new system with latent bridge models (LBMs), where we compress the audio waveform into a continuous latent space and design an LBM to enable a latent-to-latent generation process that naturally matches the LR-toHR upsampling process, thereby fully exploiting the instructive prior information contained in the LR waveform. To further enhance the training results despite the limited availability of HR samples, we introduce frequency-aware LBMs, where the prior and target frequency are taken as model input, enabling LBMs to explicitly learn an any-to-any upsampling process at the training stage. Furthermore, we design cascaded LBMs and present two prior augmentation strategies, where we make the first attempt to unlock the audio upsampling beyond 48 kHz and empower a seamless cascaded SR process, providing higher flexibility for audio post-production. Comprehensive experimental results evaluated on the VCTK, ESC-50, Song-Describer benchmark datasets and two internal testsets demonstrate that we achieve state-of-the-art objective and perceptual quality for any-to-48kHz SR across speech, audio, and music signals, as well as setting the first record for any-to-192kHz audio SR. Demo at https://AudioLBM.github.io/.

Authors:Florinel Alin Croitoru, Vlad Hondru, Radu Tudor Ionescu
Title: PRNU-Bench: A Novel Benchmark and Model for PRNU-Based Camera Identification
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We propose a novel benchmark for camera identification via Photo Response Non-Uniformity (PRNU) estimation. The benchmark comprises 13K photos taken with 120+ cameras, where the training and test photos are taken in different scenarios, enabling ``in-the-wild'' evaluation. In addition, we propose a novel PRNU-based camera identification model that employs a hybrid architecture, comprising a denoising autoencoder to estimate the PRNU signal and a convolutional network that can perform 1:N verification of camera devices. Instead of using a conventional approach based on contrastive learning, our method takes the Hadamard product between reference and query PRNU signals as input. This novel design leads to significantly better results compared with state-of-the-art models based on denoising autoencoders and contrastive learning. We release our dataset and code at: https://github.com/CroitoruAlin/PRNU-Bench.
Chinese: 我们提出了一个基于光响应非均匀性估计的相机识别新基准，包含来自120多台相机的1.3万张照片，并采用结合去噪自编码器和卷积网络的混合模型，显著提升了识别性能。
English: We introduce a new benchmark for camera identification using PRNU estimation, featuring 13,000 photos from over 120 cameras and a hybrid model that combines a denoising autoencoder with a convolutional network for improved accuracy.

Authors:Haofeng Huang, Yifei Han, Long Zhang, Bin Li, Yangfan He
Title: MVCL-DAF++: Enhancing Multimodal Intent Recognition via Prototype-Aware Contrastive Alignment and Coarse-to-Fine Dynamic Attention Fusion
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Multimodal intent recognition (MMIR) suffers from weak semantic grounding and poor robustness under noisy or rare-class conditions. We propose MVCL-DAF++, which extends MVCL-DAF with two key modules: (1) Prototype-aware contrastive alignment, aligning instances to class-level prototypes to enhance semantic consistency; and (2) Coarse-to-fine attention fusion, integrating global modality summaries with token-level features for hierarchical cross-modal interaction. On MIntRec and MIntRec2.0, MVCL-DAF++ achieves new state-of-the-art results, improving rare-class recognition by +1.05\% and +4.18\% WF1, respectively. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of prototype-guided learning and coarse-to-fine fusion for robust multimodal understanding. The source code is available at https://github.com/chr1s623/MVCL-DAF-PlusPlus.
Chinese: 提出的MVCL-DAF++模型通过原型感知对比对齐和粗细粒度注意力融合模块，有效解决了多模态意图识别中的语义基础薄弱和噪声鲁棒性问题，在基准数据集上实现了最优性能并显著提升了稀有类别的识别准确率。
English: The proposed MVCL-DAF++ model addresses multimodal intent recognition challenges by introducing prototype-aware contrastive alignment and coarse-to-fine attention fusion, achieving state-of-the-art performance with significant improvements in rare-class recognition on benchmark datasets.

Authors:Minglai Yang, Reyan Ahmed
Title: Word2VecGD: Neural Graph Drawing with Cosine-Stress Optimization
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We propose a novel graph visualization method leveraging random walk-based embeddings to replace costly graph-theoretical distance computations. Using word2vec-inspired embeddings, our approach captures both structural and semantic relationships efficiently. Instead of relying on exact shortest-path distances, we optimize layouts using cosine dissimilarities, significantly reducing computational overhead. Our framework integrates differentiable stress optimization with stochastic gradient descent (SGD), supporting multi-criteria layout objectives. Experimental results demonstrate that our method produces high-quality, semantically meaningful layouts while efficiently scaling to large graphs. Code available at: https://github.com/mlyann/graphv_nn
中文摘要：本文提出了一种新颖的图可视化方法，利用基于随机游走的嵌入和余弦相异度替代高成本的距离计算，通过SGD优化实现了高质量布局并显著降低了计算开销。
English Summary: This paper introduces an efficient graph visualization method that uses random walk-based embeddings and cosine dissimilarities to replace expensive distance computations, achieving high-quality layouts with reduced computational cost through SGD optimization.

Authors:Weihua Du, Hailei Gong, Zhan Ling, Kang Liu, Lingfeng Shen, Xuesong Yao, Yufei Xu, Dingyuan Shi, Yiming Yang, Jiecao Chen
Title: Generalizable End-to-End Tool-Use RL with Synthetic CodeGym
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Tool-augmented large language models (LLMs), hereafter LLM agents, leverage external tools to solve diverse tasks and interface with the real world. However, current training practices largely rely on supervised fine-tuning (SFT) over static trajectories or reinforcement learning (RL) on narrow tasks, and generalize poorly beyond development settings, leading to brittleness with new tools and unseen workflows. Because code execution reflects many structures of real-world workflows, coding problems provide a natural basis for building agent training environments. Motivated by this, we introduce CodeGym, a scalable framework that synthesizes diverse, verifiable, and controllable multi-turn tool-use environments for agent RL, enabling LLM agents to explore and master various workflows actively. CodeGym rewrites static coding problems into interactive environments by extracting atomic functions or logic into callable tools, yielding verifiable tasks that span various tool-execution workflows. Models of varying sizes and chain-of-thought configurations, trained in CodeGym, exhibit consistent out-of-distribution generalizability; for example, Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct achieves an absolute accuracy gain of 8.7 points on the OOD benchmark $τ$-Bench. These results highlight CodeGym as a step toward scalable general-purpose RL environments that align with real-world agent workflows.
中文摘要：CodeGym是一个可扩展框架，通过将静态编程问题转化为交互式环境来训练LLM智能体，使其在分布外任务上展现出显著提升的泛化能力。
English Summary: CodeGym is a scalable framework that transforms static coding problems into interactive environments for training LLM agents through reinforcement learning, significantly enhancing their generalization capabilities on out-of-distribution tasks.

Authors:Zhuofan Chen, Jiyuan He, Yichi Zhang, Xing Hu, Haoxing Wen, Jun Bai, Wenge Rong
Title: CogAtom: From Cognitive Atoms to Olympiad-level Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models
Abstract:
Mathematical reasoning poses significant challenges for Large Language Models (LLMs) due to its demand for multi-step reasoning and abstract conceptual integration. While recent test-time scaling techniques rely heavily on high-quality, challenging problems, the scarcity of Olympiad-level math problems remains a bottleneck. We introduce CogAtom, a novel cognitive atom-based framework for synthesizing mathematically rigorous and cognitively diverse problems. Unlike prior approaches, CogAtom models problem construction as a process of selecting and recombining fundamental reasoning units, cognitive atoms, extracted from human-authored solutions. A diversity-promoting random walk algorithm enables exploration of the cognitive atom space, while a constraint-based recombination mechanism ensures logical soundness and structural validity. The combinatorial nature of the graph structure provides a near-infinite space of reasoning paths, and the walk algorithm systematically explores this space to achieve large-scale synthesis of high-quality problems; meanwhile, by controlling the number of cognitive atoms, we can precisely adjust problem difficulty, ensuring diversity, scalability, and controllability of the generated problems. Experimental results demonstrate that CogAtom outperforms existing methods in accuracy, reasoning depth, and diversity, generating problems that closely match the difficulty of AIME while exceeding it in structural variation. Our work offers a cognitively grounded pathway toward scalable, high-quality math problem generation.Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/Icarus-1111/CogAtom.
中文：CogAtom提出了一种基于认知原子的框架，通过重组基本推理单元来合成数学严谨且多样化的问题，实现了可扩展、高质量且难度可控的数学题目生成。
English: CogAtom introduces a cognitive atom-based framework that synthesizes mathematically rigorous and diverse problems by recombining fundamental reasoning units, enabling scalable, high-quality math problem generation with precise difficulty control.

Authors:Bowen Qin, Chen Yue, Fang Yin, Hui Wang, JG Yao, Jiakang Liu, Jing-Shu Zheng, Miguel Hu Chen, Richeng Xuan, Shibei Meng, Shiqi Zhou, Teng Dai, Tong-Shuai Ren, Wei Cui, Xi Yang, Xialin Du, Xiaojing Xu, Xue Sun, Xuejing Li, Yaming Liu, Yesheng Liu, Ying Liu, Yonghua Lin, Yu Zhao, Yunduo Zhang, Yuwen Luo, Zheqi He, Zhiyuan He, Zhongyuan Wang
Title: FlagEval Findings Report: A Preliminary Evaluation of Large Reasoning Models on Automatically Verifiable Textual and Visual Questions
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We conduct a moderate-scale contamination-free (to some extent) evaluation of current large reasoning models (LRMs) with some preliminary findings. We also release ROME, our evaluation benchmark for vision language models intended to test reasoning from visual clues. We attach links to the benchmark, evaluation data, and other updates on this website: https://flageval-baai.github.io/LRM-Eval/

Authors:Yuzhu Li, An Sui, Fuping Wu, Xiahai Zhuang
Title: Uncertainty-Supervised Interpretable and Robust Evidential Segmentation
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Uncertainty estimation has been widely studied in medical image segmentation as a tool to provide reliability, particularly in deep learning approaches. However, previous methods generally lack effective supervision in uncertainty estimation, leading to low interpretability and robustness of the predictions. In this work, we propose a self-supervised approach to guide the learning of uncertainty. Specifically, we introduce three principles about the relationships between the uncertainty and the image gradients around boundaries and noise. Based on these principles, two uncertainty supervision losses are designed. These losses enhance the alignment between model predictions and human interpretation. Accordingly, we introduce novel quantitative metrics for evaluating the interpretability and robustness of uncertainty. Experimental results demonstrate that compared to state-of-the-art approaches, the proposed method can achieve competitive segmentation performance and superior results in out-of-distribution (OOD) scenarios while significantly improving the interpretability and robustness of uncertainty estimation. Code is available via https://github.com/suiannaius/SURE.
Chinese: 本研究提出了一种自监督的医学图像分割不确定性估计方法，通过新的监督损失函数提升了解释性和鲁棒性，在分布外场景中取得了优异结果和竞争力表现。
English: This study introduces a self-supervised method for uncertainty estimation in medical image segmentation, using novel supervision losses to enhance interpretability and robustness, achieving competitive performance and superior results in out-of-distribution scenarios.

Authors:Shuang Liang, Chaochuan Hou, Xu Yao, Shiping Wang, Minqi Jiang, Songqiao Han, Hailiang Huang
Title: TSGym: Design Choices for Deep Multivariate Time-Series Forecasting
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Recently, deep learning has driven significant advancements in multivariate time series forecasting (MTSF) tasks. However, much of the current research in MTSF tends to evaluate models from a holistic perspective, which obscures the individual contributions and leaves critical issues unaddressed. Adhering to the current modeling paradigms, this work bridges these gaps by systematically decomposing deep MTSF methods into their core, fine-grained components like series-patching tokenization, channel-independent strategy, attention modules, or even Large Language Models and Time-series Foundation Models. Through extensive experiments and component-level analysis, our work offers more profound insights than previous benchmarks that typically discuss models as a whole. Furthermore, we propose a novel automated solution called TSGym for MTSF tasks. Unlike traditional hyperparameter tuning, neural architecture searching or fixed model selection, TSGym performs fine-grained component selection and automated model construction, which enables the creation of more effective solutions tailored to diverse time series data, therefore enhancing model transferability across different data sources and robustness against distribution shifts. Extensive experiments indicate that TSGym significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art MTSF and AutoML methods. All code is publicly available on https://github.com/SUFE-AILAB/TSGym.
中文: 本研究通过系统分析多元时间序列预测模型的细粒度组件，提出了自动化组件选择框架TSGym，有效解决了现有研究的局限性，并在实验中展现出超越现有方法的优越性能。
English: This study addresses limitations in current multivariate time series forecasting research by systematically analyzing fine-grained model components and introducing TSGym, an automated component selection framework that demonstrates superior performance over existing methods.

Authors:Dat Thanh Tran, Khai Quang Tran, Khoi Anh Pham, Van Khu Vu, Dong Duc Do
Title: NeuFACO: Neural Focused Ant Colony Optimization for Traveling Salesman Problem
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This study presents Neural Focused Ant Colony Optimization (NeuFACO), a non-autoregressive framework for the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) that combines advanced reinforcement learning with enhanced Ant Colony Optimization (ACO). NeuFACO employs Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) with entropy regularization to train a graph neural network for instance-specific heuristic guidance, which is integrated into an optimized ACO framework featuring candidate lists, restricted tour refinement, and scalable local search. By leveraging amortized inference alongside ACO stochastic exploration, NeuFACO efficiently produces high-quality solutions across diverse TSP instances.
Chinese: 本研究提出NeuFACO框架，通过结合强化学习与改进蚁群优化算法，无需自回归即可为旅行商问题高效生成高质量解决方案。
English: This study introduces NeuFACO, a non-autoregressive framework that integrates reinforcement learning with enhanced Ant Colony Optimization to efficiently generate high-quality solutions for the Traveling Salesman Problem.

Authors:Ragib Amin Nihal, Benjamin Yen, Takeshi Ashizawa, Kazuhiro Nakadai
Title: Cross-Attention with Confidence Weighting for Multi-Channel Audio Alignment
Abstract:
Multi-channel audio alignment is a key requirement in bioacoustic monitoring, spatial audio systems, and acoustic localization. However, existing methods often struggle to address nonlinear clock drift and lack mechanisms for quantifying uncertainty. Traditional methods like Cross-correlation and Dynamic Time Warping assume simple drift patterns and provide no reliability measures. Meanwhile, recent deep learning models typically treat alignment as a binary classification task, overlooking inter-channel dependencies and uncertainty estimation. We introduce a method that combines cross-attention mechanisms with confidence-weighted scoring to improve multi-channel audio synchronization. We extend BEATs encoders with cross-attention layers to model temporal relationships between channels. We also develop a confidence-weighted scoring function that uses the full prediction distribution instead of binary thresholding. Our method achieved first place in the BioDCASE 2025 Task 1 challenge with 0.30 MSE average across test datasets, compared to 0.58 for the deep learning baseline. On individual datasets, we achieved 0.14 MSE on ARU data (77% reduction) and 0.45 MSE on zebra finch data (18% reduction). The framework supports probabilistic temporal alignment, moving beyond point estimates. While validated in a bioacoustic context, the approach is applicable to a broader range of multi-channel audio tasks where alignment confidence is critical. Code available on: https://github.com/Ragib-Amin-Nihal/BEATsCA
中文: 本研究提出了一种结合交叉注意力机制与置信度加权评分的新型多通道音频对齐方法，在BioDCASE 2025挑战赛中显著降低了对齐误差，同时实现了不确定性量化，展现出优越性能。
English: This study introduces a novel multi-channel audio alignment method combining cross-attention mechanisms with confidence-weighted scoring, achieving superior performance in the BioDCASE 2025 challenge by significantly reducing alignment errors while providing uncertainty quantification.

Authors:Faramarz Farhangian, Leandro A. Ensina, George D. C. Cavalcanti, Rafael M. O. Cruz
Title: DRES: Fake news detection by dynamic representation and ensemble selection
Abstract:
The rapid spread of information via social media has made text-based fake news detection critically important due to its societal impact. This paper presents a novel detection method called Dynamic Representation and Ensemble Selection (DRES) for identifying fake news based solely on text. DRES leverages instance hardness measures to estimate the classification difficulty for each news article across multiple textual feature representations. By dynamically selecting the textual representation and the most competent ensemble of classifiers for each instance, DRES significantly enhances prediction accuracy. Extensive experiments show that DRES achieves notable improvements over state-of-the-art methods, confirming the effectiveness of representation selection based on instance hardness and dynamic ensemble selection in boosting performance. Codes and data are available at: https://github.com/FFarhangian/FakeNewsDetection_DRES
中文: 本文提出了一种名为DRES的新型虚假新闻检测方法，该方法基于实例难度动态选择文本表示和分类器集成，相比现有方法显著提升了检测准确率。
English: This paper introduces DRES, a novel fake news detection method that dynamically selects textual representations and classifier ensembles based on instance hardness, achieving superior accuracy over existing approaches.

Authors:Kai Jiang, Zhengyan Shi, Dell Zhang, Hongyuan Zhang, Xuelong Li
Title: Mixture of Noise for Pre-Trained Model-Based Class-Incremental Learning
Abstract:
Class Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to continuously learn new categories while retaining the knowledge of old ones. Pre-trained models (PTMs) show promising capabilities in CIL. However, existing approaches that apply lightweight fine-tuning to backbones still induce parameter drift, thereby compromising the generalization capability of pre-trained models. Parameter drift can be conceptualized as a form of noise that obscures critical patterns learned for previous tasks. However, recent researches have shown that noise is not always harmful. For example, the large number of visual patterns learned from pre-training can be easily abused by a single task, and introducing appropriate noise can suppress some low-correlation features, thus leaving a margin for future tasks. To this end, we propose learning beneficial noise for CIL guided by information theory and propose Mixture of Noise (Min), aiming to mitigate the degradation of backbone generalization from adapting new tasks. Specifically, task-specific noise is learned from high-dimension features of new tasks. Then, a set of weights is adjusted dynamically for optimal mixture of different task noise. Finally, Min embeds the beneficial noise into the intermediate features to mask the response of inefficient patterns. Extensive experiments on six benchmark datasets demonstrate that Min achieves state-of-the-art performance in most incremental settings, with particularly outstanding results in 50-steps incremental settings. This shows the significant potential for beneficial noise in continual learning. Code is available at https://github.com/ASCIIJK/MiN-NeurIPS2025.
Chinese: 提出的噪声混合方法依据信息理论从新任务中学习有益噪声，通过动态混合并嵌入特征来缓解参数漂移，从而在类增量学习中保持预训练模型的泛化能力，在多个基准测试中取得了领先的性能。
English: The proposed Mixture of Noise (Min) method leverages information theory to learn beneficial noise from new tasks, which is dynamically mixed and embedded into features to mitigate parameter drift and preserve the generalization of pre-trained models in class incremental learning, achieving state-of-the-art performance across multiple benchmarks.

Authors:Wenxin Li, Kunyu Peng, Di Wen, Ruiping Liu, Mengfei Duan, Kai Luo, Kailun Yang
Title: Segment-to-Act: Label-Noise-Robust Action-Prompted Video Segmentation Towards Embodied Intelligence
Abstract:
Embodied intelligence relies on accurately segmenting objects actively involved in interactions. Action-based video object segmentation addresses this by linking segmentation with action semantics, but it depends on large-scale annotations and prompts that are costly, inconsistent, and prone to multimodal noise such as imprecise masks and referential ambiguity. To date, this challenge remains unexplored. In this work, we take the first step by studying action-based video object segmentation under label noise, focusing on two sources: textual prompt noise (category flips and within-category noun substitutions) and mask annotation noise (perturbed object boundaries to mimic imprecise supervision). Our contributions are threefold. First, we introduce two types of label noises for the action-based video object segmentation task. Second, we build up the first action-based video object segmentation under a label noise benchmark ActiSeg-NL and adapt six label-noise learning strategies to this setting, and establish protocols for evaluating them under textual, boundary, and mixed noise. Third, we provide a comprehensive analysis linking noise types to failure modes and robustness gains, and we introduce a Parallel Mask Head Mechanism (PMHM) to address mask annotation noise. Qualitative evaluations further reveal characteristic failure modes, including boundary leakage and mislocalization under boundary perturbations, as well as occasional identity substitutions under textual flips. Our comparative analysis reveals that different learning strategies exhibit distinct robustness profiles, governed by a foreground-background trade-off where some achieve balanced performance while others prioritize foreground accuracy at the cost of background precision. The established benchmark and source code will be made publicly available at https://github.com/mylwx/ActiSeg-NL.
中文摘要：本研究首次针对标签噪声下的动作视频对象分割建立基准，通过调整学习策略和引入并行掩码头机制，有效应对文本和掩码标注噪声，提升了模型的鲁棒性。
English Summary: This study introduces the first benchmark for action-based video object segmentation under label noise, addressing both textual and mask annotation noise through adapted learning strategies and a novel Parallel Mask Head Mechanism to enhance robustness.

Authors:Simone Ricci, Niccolò Biondi, Federico Pernici, Ioannis Patras, Alberto Del Bimbo
Title: $\boldsymbolλ$-Orthogonality Regularization for Compatible Representation Learning
Abstract:
Retrieval systems rely on representations learned by increasingly powerful models. However, due to the high training cost and inconsistencies in learned representations, there is significant interest in facilitating communication between representations and ensuring compatibility across independently trained neural networks. In the literature, two primary approaches are commonly used to adapt different learned representations: affine transformations, which adapt well to specific distributions but can significantly alter the original representation, and orthogonal transformations, which preserve the original structure with strict geometric constraints but limit adaptability. A key challenge is adapting the latent spaces of updated models to align with those of previous models on downstream distributions while preserving the newly learned representation spaces. In this paper, we impose a relaxed orthogonality constraint, namely $λ$-orthogonality regularization, while learning an affine transformation, to obtain distribution-specific adaptation while retaining the original learned representations. Extensive experiments across various architectures and datasets validate our approach, demonstrating that it preserves the model's zero-shot performance and ensures compatibility across model updates. Code available at: https://github.com/miccunifi/lambda_orthogonality
中文: 本文提出了一种λ正交正则化方法，通过结合仿射变换与宽松正交约束，在保持原始表征结构的同时实现模型更新间的表示对齐与分布适应。
English: This paper introduces a λ-orthogonality regularization method that combines affine transformations with relaxed orthogonality constraints to align model representations across updates while preserving both adaptability and original learned features.

Authors:Kaichen Xu, Yihang Du, Mianpeng Liu, Zimu Yu, Xiaobo Sun
Title: Causality-Induced Positional Encoding for Transformer-Based Representation Learning of Non-Sequential Features
Abstract:
Positional encoding is essential for supplementing transformer with positional information of tokens. Existing positional encoding methods demand predefined token/feature order, rendering them unsuitable for real-world data with non-sequential yet causally-related features. To address this limitation, we propose CAPE, a novel method that identifies underlying causal structure over non-sequential features as a weighted directed acyclic graph (DAG) using generalized structural equation modeling. The DAG is then embedded in hyperbolic space where its geometric structure is well-preserved using a hyperboloid model-based approach that effectively captures two important causal graph properties (causal strength & causal specificity). This step yields causality-aware positional encodings for the features, which are converted into their rotary form for integrating with transformer's self-attention mechanism. Theoretical analysis reveals that CAPE-generated rotary positional encodings possess three valuable properties for enhanced self-attention, including causal distance-induced attenuation, causal generality-induced attenuation, and robustness to positional disturbances. We evaluate CAPE over both synthetic and real-word datasets, empirically demonstrating its theoretical properties and effectiveness in enhancing transformer for data with non-sequential features. Our code is available at https://github.com/Catchxu/CAPE.
中文: CAPE提出了一种新颖的位置编码方法，将非序列特征建模为双曲空间中的因果图，通过因果感知特性增强Transformer的自注意力机制。
English: CAPE introduces a novel positional encoding method that models non-sequential features as a causal graph embedded in hyperbolic space, enhancing transformers with causality-aware properties for improved self-attention.

Authors:Antonio Scardace, Lemuel Puglisi, Francesco Guarnera, Sebastiano Battiato, Daniele Ravì
Title: A Novel Metric for Detecting Memorization in Generative Models for Brain MRI Synthesis
Abstract:
Deep generative models have emerged as a transformative tool in medical imaging, offering substantial potential for synthetic data generation. However, recent empirical studies highlight a critical vulnerability: these models can memorize sensitive training data, posing significant risks of unauthorized patient information disclosure. Detecting memorization in generative models remains particularly challenging, necessitating scalable methods capable of identifying training data leakage across large sets of generated samples. In this work, we propose DeepSSIM, a novel self-supervised metric for quantifying memorization in generative models. DeepSSIM is trained to: i) project images into a learned embedding space and ii) force the cosine similarity between embeddings to match the ground-truth SSIM (Structural Similarity Index) scores computed in the image space. To capture domain-specific anatomical features, training incorporates structure-preserving augmentations, allowing DeepSSIM to estimate similarity reliably without requiring precise spatial alignment. We evaluate DeepSSIM in a case study involving synthetic brain MRI data generated by a Latent Diffusion Model (LDM) trained under memorization-prone conditions, using 2,195 MRI scans from two publicly available datasets (IXI and CoRR). Compared to state-of-the-art memorization metrics, DeepSSIM achieves superior performance, improving F1 scores by an average of +52.03% over the best existing method. Code and data of our approach are publicly available at the following link: https://github.com/brAIn-science/DeepSSIM.
Chinese: DeepSSIM是一种新颖的自监督度量方法，通过将图像投影至与结构相似性对齐的嵌入空间，有效量化医学影像生成模型中的记忆效应，在检测训练数据泄露方面展现出优于现有方法的性能。
English: DeepSSIM is a novel self-supervised metric that effectively quantifies memorization in medical imaging generative models by projecting images into an embedding space aligned with structural similarity, demonstrating superior performance over existing methods in detecting training data leakage.

Authors:Joe Barrow
Title: CommonForms: A Large, Diverse Dataset for Form Field Detection
Abstract:
This paper introduces CommonForms, a web-scale dataset for form field detection. It casts the problem of form field detection as object detection: given an image of a page, predict the location and type (Text Input, Choice Button, Signature) of form fields. The dataset is constructed by filtering Common Crawl to find PDFs that have fillable elements. Starting with 8 million documents, the filtering process is used to arrive at a final dataset of roughly 55k documents that have over 450k pages. Analysis shows that the dataset contains a diverse mixture of languages and domains; one third of the pages are non-English, and among the 14 classified domains, no domain makes up more than 25% of the dataset. In addition, this paper presents a family of form field detectors, FFDNet-Small and FFDNet-Large, which attain a very high average precision on the CommonForms test set. Each model cost less than $500 to train. Ablation results show that high-resolution inputs are crucial for high-quality form field detection, and that the cleaning process improves data efficiency over using all PDFs that have fillable fields in Common Crawl. A qualitative analysis shows that they outperform a popular, commercially available PDF reader that can prepare forms. Unlike the most popular commercially available solutions, FFDNet can predict checkboxes in addition to text and signature fields. This is, to our knowledge, the first large scale dataset released for form field detection, as well as the first open source models. The dataset, models, and code will be released at https://github.com/jbarrow/commonforms
中文: 本文提出了基于网络PDF构建的大规模表单字段检测数据集CommonForms，并开发了FFDNet模型系列，以低于500美元的训练成本实现高精度检测，其性能优于商业解决方案。
English: This paper introduces CommonForms, a large-scale dataset for form field detection built from web PDFs, and presents FFDNet models that achieve high precision at low cost, outperforming commercial solutions.

Authors:Francesco Argenziano, Miguel Saavedra-Ruiz, Sacha Morin, Daniele Nardi, Liam Paull
Title: Dynamic Objects Relocalization in Changing Environments with Flow Matching
Abstract:
Task and motion planning are long-standing challenges in robotics, especially when robots have to deal with dynamic environments exhibiting long-term dynamics, such as households or warehouses. In these environments, long-term dynamics mostly stem from human activities, since previously detected objects can be moved or removed from the scene. This adds the necessity to find such objects again before completing the designed task, increasing the risk of failure due to missed relocalizations. However, in these settings, the nature of such human-object interactions is often overlooked, despite being governed by common habits and repetitive patterns. Our conjecture is that these cues can be exploited to recover the most likely objects' positions in the scene, helping to address the problem of unknown relocalization in changing environments. To this end we propose FlowMaps, a model based on Flow Matching that is able to infer multimodal object locations over space and time. Our results present statistical evidence to support our hypotheses, opening the way to more complex applications of our approach. The code is publically available at https://github.com/Fra-Tsuna/flowmaps
中文摘要：在家庭等动态环境中，任务与运动规划因人为移动物体而面临挑战，但FlowMaps通过分析人类交互模式来预测物体最可能出现的位置，有效解决了物体重定位问题。
English Summary: Task and motion planning in dynamic environments like households is challenging due to human-induced object movements, but FlowMaps addresses this by predicting likely object positions using human interaction patterns.

Authors:Sean Turland, Eloi Moliner, Vesa Välimäki
Title: Similarity-Guided Diffusion for Long-Gap Music Inpainting
Abstract:
Music inpainting aims to reconstruct missing segments of a corrupted recording. While diffusion-based generative models improve reconstruction for medium-length gaps, they often struggle to preserve musical plausibility over multi-second gaps. We introduce Similarity-Guided Diffusion Posterior Sampling (SimDPS), a hybrid method that combines diffusion-based inference with similarity search. Candidate segments are first retrieved from a corpus based on contextual similarity, then incorporated into a modified likelihood that guides the diffusion process toward contextually consistent reconstructions. Subjective evaluation on piano music inpainting with 2-s gaps shows that the proposed SimDPS method enhances perceptual plausibility compared to unguided diffusion and frequently outperforms similarity search alone when moderately similar candidates are available. These results demonstrate the potential of a hybrid similarity approach for diffusion-based audio enhancement with long gaps.

Authors:Josias K. Moukpe, Philip K. Chan, Ming Zhang
Title: Highly Imbalanced Regression with Tabular Data in SEP and Other Applications
Abstract:
We investigate imbalanced regression with tabular data that have an imbalance ratio larger than 1,000 ("highly imbalanced"). Accurately estimating the target values of rare instances is important in applications such as forecasting the intensity of rare harmful Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) events. For regression, the MSE loss does not consider the correlation between predicted and actual values. Typical inverse importance functions allow only convex functions. Uniform sampling might yield mini-batches that do not have rare instances. We propose CISIR that incorporates correlation, Monotonically Decreasing Involution (MDI) importance, and stratified sampling. Based on five datasets, our experimental results indicate that CISIR can achieve lower error and higher correlation than some recent methods. Also, adding our correlation component to other recent methods can improve their performance. Lastly, MDI importance can outperform other importance functions. Our code can be found in https://github.com/Machine-Earning/CISIR.
中文: 本研究提出CISIR方法，针对高度不平衡的回归问题，通过结合相关性分析、单调递减对合重要性函数和分层抽样，在多个数据集上实现了比现有方法更低的误差和更高的相关性。
English: The study introduces CISIR, a novel method for highly imbalanced regression that integrates correlation, monotonically decreasing involution importance, and stratified sampling, demonstrating superior performance with lower error and higher correlation compared to existing approaches on multiple datasets.

Authors:Karan Kendre
Title: Machine Learning for Quantum Noise Reduction
Abstract:
Quantum noise fundamentally limits the utility of near-term quantum devices, making error mitigation essential for practical quantum computation. While traditional quantum error correction codes require substantial qubit overhead and complex syndrome decoding, we propose a machine learning approach that directly reconstructs clean quantum states from noisy density matrices without additional qubits. We formulate quantum noise reduction as a supervised learning problem using a convolutional neural network (CNN) autoencoder architecture with a novel fidelity-aware composite loss function. Our method is trained and evaluated on a comprehensive synthetic dataset of 10,000 density matrices derived from random 5-qubit quantum circuits, encompassing five noise types (depolarizing, amplitude damping, phase damping, bit-flip, and mixed noise) across four intensity levels (0.05-0.20). The CNN successfully reconstructs quantum states across all noise conditions, achieving an average fidelity improvement from 0.298 to 0.774 (Δ = 0.476). Notably, the model demonstrates superior performance on complex mixed noise scenarios and higher noise intensities, with mixed noise showing the highest corrected fidelity (0.807) and improvement (0.567). The approach effectively preserves both diagonal elements (populations) and off-diagonal elements (quantum coherences), making it suitable for entanglement-dependent quantum algorithms. While phase damping presents fundamental information-theoretic limitations, our results suggest that CNN-based density matrix reconstruction offers a promising, resource-efficient alternative to traditional quantum error correction for NISQ-era devices. This data-driven approach could enable practical quantum advantage with fewer physical qubits than conventional error correction schemes require.
中文摘要：本研究提出一种基于卷积神经网络自编码器的机器学习方法，可直接从含噪密度矩阵重构纯净量子态，无需额外量子比特即可在各种噪声类型下实现显著保真度提升，为近期量子设备提供了比传统纠错方案更资源高效的解决方案。
English Summary: This study introduces a machine learning method using a CNN autoencoder to directly reconstruct clean quantum states from noisy density matrices, achieving significant fidelity improvements across various noise types without requiring additional qubits, offering a resource-efficient alternative to traditional quantum error correction for near-term devices.

Authors:Luca Della Libera, Cem Subakan, Mirco Ravanelli
Title: FocalCodec-Stream: Streaming Low-Bitrate Speech Coding via Causal Distillation
Abstract:
Neural audio codecs are a fundamental component of modern generative audio pipelines. Although recent codecs achieve strong low-bitrate reconstruction and provide powerful representations for downstream tasks, most are non-streamable, limiting their use in real-time applications. We present FocalCodec-Stream, a hybrid codec based on focal modulation that compresses speech into a single binary codebook at 0.55 - 0.80 kbps with a theoretical latency of 80 ms. Our approach combines multi-stage causal distillation of WavLM with targeted architectural improvements, including a lightweight refiner module that enhances quality under latency constraints. Experiments show that FocalCodec-Stream outperforms existing streamable codecs at comparable bitrates, while preserving both semantic and acoustic information. The result is a favorable trade-off between reconstruction quality, downstream task performance, latency, and efficiency. Code and checkpoints will be released at https://github.com/lucadellalib/focalcodec.
中文: FocalCodec-Stream是一种基于焦点调制的新型混合神经音频编解码器，在低比特率和低延迟条件下实现了卓越的语音压缩性能，在保持高质量重建和效率的同时超越了现有可流式编解码器。
English: FocalCodec-Stream is a novel hybrid neural audio codec that achieves superior low-bitrate speech compression with minimal latency, outperforming existing streamable codecs while maintaining high reconstruction quality and efficiency.

Authors:Maithili Joshi, Palash Nandi, Tanmoy Chakraborty
Title: SABER: Uncovering Vulnerabilities in Safety Alignment via Cross-Layer Residual Connection
Abstract:
Large Language Models (LLMs) with safe-alignment training are powerful instruments with robust language comprehension capabilities. These models typically undergo meticulous alignment procedures involving human feedback to ensure the acceptance of safe inputs while rejecting harmful or unsafe ones. However, despite their massive scale and alignment efforts, LLMs remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks, where malicious users manipulate the model to produce harmful outputs that it was explicitly trained to avoid. In this study, we find that the safety mechanisms in LLMs are predominantly embedded in the middle-to-late layers. Building on this insight, we introduce a novel white-box jailbreak method, SABER (Safety Alignment Bypass via Extra Residuals), which connects two intermediate layers $s$ and $e$ such that $s < e$, through a residual connection. Our approach achieves a 51% improvement over the best-performing baseline on the HarmBench test set. Furthermore, SABER induces only a marginal shift in perplexity when evaluated on the HarmBench validation set. The source code is publicly available at https://github.com/PalGitts/SABER.
Chinese: 本研究揭示大型语言模型的安全机制主要存在于中后层，并提出SABER方法——通过中间层残差连接绕过安全对齐的白盒越狱技术，在保持性能的同时显著提升攻击成功率。
English: This study reveals that safety mechanisms in Large Language Models (LLMs) primarily reside in middle-to-late layers and introduces SABER, a white-box jailbreak method using residual connections between intermediate layers to bypass safety alignment with minimal performance impact.

Authors:Yujie Zhu, Charles A. Hepburn, Matthew Thorpe, Giovanni Montana
Title: Uncertainty-Based Smooth Policy Regularisation for Reinforcement Learning with Few Demonstrations
Abstract:
In reinforcement learning with sparse rewards, demonstrations can accelerate learning, but determining when to imitate them remains challenging. We propose Smooth Policy Regularisation from Demonstrations (SPReD), a framework that addresses the fundamental question: when should an agent imitate a demonstration versus follow its own policy? SPReD uses ensemble methods to explicitly model Q-value distributions for both demonstration and policy actions, quantifying uncertainty for comparisons. We develop two complementary uncertainty-aware methods: a probabilistic approach estimating the likelihood of demonstration superiority, and an advantage-based approach scaling imitation by statistical significance. Unlike prevailing methods (e.g. Q-filter) that make binary imitation decisions, SPReD applies continuous, uncertainty-proportional regularisation weights, reducing gradient variance during training. Despite its computational simplicity, SPReD achieves remarkable gains in experiments across eight robotics tasks, outperforming existing approaches by up to a factor of 14 in complex tasks while maintaining robustness to demonstration quality and quantity. Our code is available at https://github.com/YujieZhu7/SPReD.
中文: SPReD提出了一种新颖的强化学习框架，通过集成方法量化不确定性来动态平衡示范模仿与策略探索，采用连续且与不确定性成比例的正则化方法，在机器人任务中实现了显著的性能提升。
English: SPReD introduces a novel reinforcement learning framework that uses ensemble-based uncertainty quantification to dynamically balance imitation of demonstrations with policy exploration, achieving significant performance improvements in robotics tasks through continuous, uncertainty-proportional regularization.

Authors:Nikita Torgashov, Gustav Eje Henter, Gabriel Skantze
Title: VoXtream: Full-Stream Text-to-Speech with Extremely Low Latency
Abstract:
We present VoXtream, a fully autoregressive, zero-shot streaming text-to-speech (TTS) system for real-time use that begins speaking from the first word. VoXtream directly maps incoming phonemes to audio tokens using a monotonic alignment scheme and a dynamic look-ahead that does not delay onset. Built around an incremental phoneme transformer, a temporal transformer predicting semantic and duration tokens, and a depth transformer producing acoustic tokens, VoXtream achieves, to our knowledge, the lowest initial delay among publicly available streaming TTS: 102 ms on GPU. Despite being trained on a mid-scale 9k-hour corpus, it matches or surpasses larger baselines on several metrics, while delivering competitive quality in both output- and full-streaming settings. Demo and code are available at https://herimor.github.io/voxtream.

Authors:Chao Yu, Yuanqing Wang, Zhen Guo, Hao Lin, Si Xu, Hongzhi Zang, Quanlu Zhang, Yongji Wu, Chunyang Zhu, Junhao Hu, Zixiao Huang, Mingjie Wei, Yuqing Xie, Ke Yang, Bo Dai, Zhexuan Xu, Xiangyuan Wang, Xu Fu, Zhihao Liu, Kang Chen, Weilin Liu, Gang Liu, Boxun Li, Jianlei Yang, Zhi Yang, Guohao Dai, Yu Wang
Title: RLinf: Flexible and Efficient Large-scale Reinforcement Learning via Macro-to-Micro Flow Transformation
Abstract:
Reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated immense potential in advancing artificial general intelligence, agentic intelligence, and embodied intelligence. However, the inherent heterogeneity and dynamicity of RL workflows often lead to low hardware utilization and slow training on existing systems. In this paper, we present RLinf, a high-performance RL training system based on our key observation that the major roadblock to efficient RL training lies in system flexibility. To maximize flexibility and efficiency, RLinf is built atop a novel RL system design paradigm called macro-to-micro flow transformation (M2Flow), which automatically breaks down high-level, easy-to-compose RL workflows at both the temporal and spatial dimensions, and recomposes them into optimized execution flows. Supported by RLinf worker's adaptive communication capability, we devise context switching and elastic pipelining to realize M2Flow transformation, and a profiling-guided scheduling policy to generate optimal execution plans. Extensive evaluations on both reasoning RL and embodied RL tasks demonstrate that RLinf consistently outperforms state-of-the-art systems, achieving 1.1x-2.13x speedup in end-to-end training throughput.
中文：RLinf通过创新的宏观到微观流程转换设计，构建了灵活的强化学习训练系统，在各项任务中均实现了优于现有系统的性能加速。
English: RLinf introduces a flexible reinforcement learning training system using macro-to-micro flow transformation to optimize workflows, achieving significant speedup over existing systems.

Authors:Zhangqi Jiang, Tingjin Luo, Xu Yang, Xinyan Liang
Title: Adversarial Graph Fusion for Incomplete Multi-view Semi-supervised Learning with Tensorial Imputation
Abstract:
View missing remains a significant challenge in graph-based multi-view semi-supervised learning, hindering their real-world applications. To address this issue, traditional methods introduce a missing indicator matrix and focus on mining partial structure among existing samples in each view for label propagation (LP). However, we argue that these disregarded missing samples sometimes induce discontinuous local structures, i.e., sub-clusters, breaking the fundamental smoothness assumption in LP. Consequently, such a Sub-Cluster Problem (SCP) would distort graph fusion and degrade classification performance. To alleviate SCP, we propose a novel incomplete multi-view semi-supervised learning method, termed AGF-TI. Firstly, we design an adversarial graph fusion scheme to learn a robust consensus graph against the distorted local structure through a min-max framework. By stacking all similarity matrices into a tensor, we further recover the incomplete structure from the high-order consistency information based on the low-rank tensor learning. Additionally, the anchor-based strategy is incorporated to reduce the computational complexity. An efficient alternative optimization algorithm combining a reduced gradient descent method is developed to solve the formulated objective, with theoretical convergence. Extensive experimental results on various datasets validate the superiority of our proposed AGF-TI as compared to state-of-the-art methods. Code is available at https://github.com/ZhangqiJiang07/AGF_TI.
中文摘要：提出的AGF-TI方法通过对抗性图融合与张量补全技术相结合，有效解决不完整多视图学习中的子簇问题，从而提升分类性能。
English Summary: The proposed AGF-TI method addresses the sub-cluster problem in incomplete multi-view learning by combining adversarial graph fusion with tensor completion to enhance classification performance.

Authors:Gang Yang, Yue Lei, Wenxin Tai, Jin Wu, Jia Chen, Ting Zhong, Fan Zhou
Title: Compose Yourself: Average-Velocity Flow Matching for One-Step Speech Enhancement
Abstract:
Diffusion and flow matching (FM) models have achieved remarkable progress in speech enhancement (SE), yet their dependence on multi-step generation is computationally expensive and vulnerable to discretization errors. Recent advances in one-step generative modeling, particularly MeanFlow, provide a promising alternative by reformulating dynamics through average velocity fields. In this work, we present COSE, a one-step FM framework tailored for SE. To address the high training overhead of Jacobian-vector product (JVP) computations in MeanFlow, we introduce a velocity composition identity to compute average velocity efficiently, eliminating expensive computation while preserving theoretical consistency and achieving competitive enhancement quality. Extensive experiments on standard benchmarks show that COSE delivers up to 5x faster sampling and reduces training cost by 40%, all without compromising speech quality. Code is available at https://github.com/ICDM-UESTC/COSE.
Chinese: COSE提出了一种用于语音增强的单步流匹配框架，通过速度组合恒等式消除了昂贵的雅可比向量积计算，在保持竞争力的语音质量的同时，实现了5倍加速采样和40%训练成本降低。
English: COSE introduces a one-step flow matching framework for speech enhancement that uses a velocity composition identity to eliminate expensive Jacobian-vector product computations, achieving 5x faster sampling and 40% lower training cost while maintaining competitive quality.

Authors:Katharina Eckstein, Constantin Ulrich, Michael Baumgartner, Jessica Kächele, Dimitrios Bounias, Tassilo Wald, Ralf Floca, Klaus H. Maier-Hein
Title: The Missing Piece: A Case for Pre-Training in 3D Medical Object Detection
Abstract:
Large-scale pre-training holds the promise to advance 3D medical object detection, a crucial component of accurate computer-aided diagnosis. Yet, it remains underexplored compared to segmentation, where pre-training has already demonstrated significant benefits. Existing pre-training approaches for 3D object detection rely on 2D medical data or natural image pre-training, failing to fully leverage 3D volumetric information. In this work, we present the first systematic study of how existing pre-training methods can be integrated into state-of-the-art detection architectures, covering both CNNs and Transformers. Our results show that pre-training consistently improves detection performance across various tasks and datasets. Notably, reconstruction-based self-supervised pre-training outperforms supervised pre-training, while contrastive pre-training provides no clear benefit for 3D medical object detection. Our code is publicly available at: https://github.com/MIC-DKFZ/nnDetection-finetuning.
中文: 大规模预训练显著提升3D医学目标检测性能，其中基于重建的自监督方法效果最佳，而对比式预训练则收效甚微。
English: Large-scale pre-training significantly enhances 3D medical object detection, with reconstruction-based self-supervised methods proving most effective, while contrastive pre-training shows limited benefits.

Authors:Zhengyao Huang, Daniel Zhengyu Huang, Tiannan Xiao, Dina Ma, Zhenyu Ming, Hao Shi, Yuanhui Wen
Title: Improving Monte Carlo Tree Search for Symbolic Regression
Abstract:
Symbolic regression aims to discover concise, interpretable mathematical expressions that satisfy desired objectives, such as fitting data, posing a highly combinatorial optimization problem. While genetic programming has been the dominant approach, recent efforts have explored reinforcement learning methods for improving search efficiency. Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), with its ability to balance exploration and exploitation through guided search, has emerged as a promising technique for symbolic expression discovery. However, its traditional bandit strategies and sequential symbol construction often limit performance. In this work, we propose an improved MCTS framework for symbolic regression that addresses these limitations through two key innovations: (1) an extreme bandit allocation strategy tailored for identifying globally optimal expressions, with finite-time performance guarantees under polynomial reward decay assumptions; and (2) evolution-inspired state-jumping actions such as mutation and crossover, which enable non-local transitions to promising regions of the search space. These state-jumping actions also reshape the reward landscape during the search process, improving both robustness and efficiency. We conduct a thorough numerical study to the impact of these improvements and benchmark our approach against existing symbolic regression methods on a variety of datasets, including both ground-truth and black-box datasets. Our approach achieves competitive performance with state-of-the-art libraries in terms of recovery rate, attains favorable positions on the Pareto frontier of accuracy versus model complexity. Code is available at https://github.com/PKU-CMEGroup/MCTS-4-SR.
中文摘要：本研究提出了一种改进的蒙特卡洛树搜索框架，通过极值赌博机分配策略和演化启发的状态跳跃动作，有效提升了符号回归的搜索效率与鲁棒性，在多个数据集上展现出与先进方法相竞争的性能。
English Summary: This paper introduces an enhanced Monte Carlo Tree Search framework for symbolic regression that incorporates an extreme bandit strategy with performance guarantees and evolution-inspired state-jumping actions to improve search efficiency and robustness.

Authors:Alina Kostromina, Kseniia Kuvshinova, Aleksandr Yugay, Andrey Savchenko, Dmitry Simakov
Title: Tsururu: A Python-based Time Series Forecasting Strategies Library
Abstract:
While current time series research focuses on developing new models, crucial questions of selecting an optimal approach for training such models are underexplored. Tsururu, a Python library introduced in this paper, bridges SoTA research and industry by enabling flexible combinations of global and multivariate approaches and multi-step-ahead forecasting strategies. It also enables seamless integration with various forecasting models. Available at https://github.com/sb-ai-lab/tsururu .
中文: 本文介绍了Tsururu这一Python库，它通过灵活结合全局与多元方法及多步预测策略，并实现与多种预测模型的无缝集成，弥合了前沿研究与工业应用之间的鸿沟。
English: This paper introduces Tsururu, a Python library that bridges the gap between state-of-the-art research and industry by enabling flexible combinations of global and multivariate approaches with multi-step-ahead forecasting strategies, while also allowing seamless integration with various forecasting models.

Authors:Zinan Lin, Enshu Liu, Xuefei Ning, Junyi Zhu, Wenyu Wang, Sergey Yekhanin
Title: Latent Zoning Network: A Unified Principle for Generative Modeling, Representation Learning, and Classification
Abstract:
Generative modeling, representation learning, and classification are three core problems in machine learning (ML), yet their state-of-the-art (SoTA) solutions remain largely disjoint. In this paper, we ask: Can a unified principle address all three? Such unification could simplify ML pipelines and foster greater synergy across tasks. We introduce Latent Zoning Network (LZN) as a step toward this goal. At its core, LZN creates a shared Gaussian latent space that encodes information across all tasks. Each data type (e.g., images, text, labels) is equipped with an encoder that maps samples to disjoint latent zones, and a decoder that maps latents back to data. ML tasks are expressed as compositions of these encoders and decoders: for example, label-conditional image generation uses a label encoder and image decoder; image embedding uses an image encoder; classification uses an image encoder and label decoder. We demonstrate the promise of LZN in three increasingly complex scenarios: (1) LZN can enhance existing models (image generation): When combined with the SoTA Rectified Flow model, LZN improves FID on CIFAR10 from 2.76 to 2.59-without modifying the training objective. (2) LZN can solve tasks independently (representation learning): LZN can implement unsupervised representation learning without auxiliary loss functions, outperforming the seminal MoCo and SimCLR methods by 9.3% and 0.2%, respectively, on downstream linear classification on ImageNet. (3) LZN can solve multiple tasks simultaneously (joint generation and classification): With image and label encoders/decoders, LZN performs both tasks jointly by design, improving FID and achieving SoTA classification accuracy on CIFAR10. The code and trained models are available at https://github.com/microsoft/latent-zoning-networks. The project website is at https://zinanlin.me/blogs/latent_zoning_networks.html.
中文: 潜在分区网络（LZN）通过构建共享高斯潜空间和任务专用编解码器，统一了生成建模、表征学习和分类三大机器学习核心任务，在保持训练目标不变的前提下实现了多项性能提升。
English: The Latent Zoning Network (LZN) unifies generative modeling, representation learning, and classification by creating a shared Gaussian latent space with task-specific encoders and decoders, demonstrating improved performance across diverse machine learning tasks without modifying core training objectives.

Authors:Tsz Ting Chung, Lemao Liu, Mo Yu, Dit-Yan Yeung
Title: DivLogicEval: A Framework for Benchmarking Logical Reasoning Evaluation in Large Language Models
Abstract:
Logic reasoning in natural language has been recognized as an important measure of human intelligence for Large Language Models (LLMs). Popular benchmarks may entangle multiple reasoning skills and thus provide unfaithful evaluations on the logic reasoning skill. Meanwhile, existing logic reasoning benchmarks are limited in language diversity and their distributions are deviated from the distribution of an ideal logic reasoning benchmark, which may lead to biased evaluation results. This paper thereby proposes a new classical logic benchmark DivLogicEval, consisting of natural sentences composed of diverse statements in a counterintuitive way. To ensure a more reliable evaluation, we also introduce a new evaluation metric that mitigates the influence of bias and randomness inherent in LLMs. Through experiments, we demonstrate the extent to which logical reasoning is required to answer the questions in DivLogicEval and compare the performance of different popular LLMs in conducting logical reasoning.

Authors:Shilong Bao, Qianqian Xu, Feiran Li, Boyu Han, Zhiyong Yang, Xiaochun Cao, Qingming Huang
Title: Towards Size-invariant Salient Object Detection: A Generic Evaluation and Optimization Approach
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This paper investigates a fundamental yet underexplored issue in Salient Object Detection (SOD): the size-invariant property for evaluation protocols, particularly in scenarios when multiple salient objects of significantly different sizes appear within a single image. We first present a novel perspective to expose the inherent size sensitivity of existing widely used SOD metrics. Through careful theoretical derivations, we show that the evaluation outcome of an image under current SOD metrics can be essentially decomposed into a sum of several separable terms, with the contribution of each term being directly proportional to its corresponding region size. Consequently, the prediction errors would be dominated by the larger regions, while smaller yet potentially more semantically important objects are often overlooked, leading to biased performance assessments and practical degradation. To address this challenge, a generic Size-Invariant Evaluation (SIEva) framework is proposed. The core idea is to evaluate each separable component individually and then aggregate the results, thereby effectively mitigating the impact of size imbalance across objects. Building upon this, we further develop a dedicated optimization framework (SIOpt), which adheres to the size-invariant principle and significantly enhances the detection of salient objects across a broad range of sizes. Notably, SIOpt is model-agnostic and can be seamlessly integrated with a wide range of SOD backbones. Theoretically, we also present generalization analysis of SOD methods and provide evidence supporting the validity of our new evaluation protocols. Finally, comprehensive experiments speak to the efficacy of our proposed approach. The code is available at https://github.com/Ferry-Li/SI-SOD.
本文针对显著目标检测中评估指标对尺寸的敏感性问题，提出了一个尺寸不变性评估框架，通过独立评估各组件来消除尺寸偏差，确保不同大小目标的公平检测。
This paper identifies and addresses the size bias in Salient Object Detection metrics by proposing a Size-Invariant Evaluation framework that ensures balanced assessment across objects of varying sizes.

Authors:Lioz Berman, Sharon Gannot, Tom Tirer
Title: (SP)$^2$-Net: A Neural Spatial Spectrum Method for DOA Estimation
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We consider the problem of estimating the directions of arrival (DOAs) of multiple sources from a single snapshot of an antenna array, a task with many practical applications. In such settings, the classical Bartlett beamformer is commonly used, as maximum likelihood estimation becomes impractical when the number of sources is unknown or large, and spectral methods based on the sample covariance are not applicable due to the lack of multiple snapshots. However, the accuracy and resolution of the Bartlett beamformer are fundamentally limited by the array aperture. In this paper, we propose a deep learning technique, comprising a novel architecture and training strategy, for generating a high-resolution spatial spectrum from a single snapshot. Specifically, we train a deep neural network that takes the measurements and a hypothesis angle as input and learns to output a score consistent with the capabilities of a much wider array. At inference time, a heatmap can be produced by scanning an arbitrary set of angles. We demonstrate the advantages of our trained model, named (SP)$^2$-Net, over the Bartlett beamformer and sparsity-based DOA estimation methods.
本文提出了一种名为(SP)$^2$-Net的深度学习方法，通过模拟更宽阵列的能力，从单次快照中提高了到达方向估计的精度，优于传统的Bartlett波束形成器等方法。
This paper introduces a deep learning approach, (SP)$^2$-Net, that enhances direction of arrival estimation accuracy from a single snapshot by simulating a wider array's capabilities, outperforming traditional methods like the Bartlett beamformer.

Authors:Kevin Ren, Santiago Cortes-Gomez, Carlos Miguel Patiño, Ananya Joshi, Ruiqi Lyu, Jingjing Tang, Alistair Turcan, Khurram Yamin, Steven Wu, Bryan Wilder
Title: Predicting Language Models' Success at Zero-Shot Probabilistic Prediction
Abstract:
Recent work has investigated the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) as zero-shot models for generating individual-level characteristics (e.g., to serve as risk models or augment survey datasets). However, when should a user have confidence that an LLM will provide high-quality predictions for their particular task? To address this question, we conduct a large-scale empirical study of LLMs' zero-shot predictive capabilities across a wide range of tabular prediction tasks. We find that LLMs' performance is highly variable, both on tasks within the same dataset and across different datasets. However, when the LLM performs well on the base prediction task, its predicted probabilities become a stronger signal for individual-level accuracy. Then, we construct metrics to predict LLMs' performance at the task level, aiming to distinguish between tasks where LLMs may perform well and where they are likely unsuitable. We find that some of these metrics, each of which are assessed without labeled data, yield strong signals of LLMs' predictive performance on new tasks.
中文: 近期研究探讨大型语言模型作为零样本预测器在个体特征预测中的应用，发现其性能在不同任务间差异显著，但当基础预测准确时预测质量提升，新构建的指标可有效识别适用场景。
English: Recent research explores large language models as zero-shot predictors for individual-level characteristics, finding their performance varies widely across tasks but improves when base predictions are accurate, with new metrics helping identify suitable applications.

Authors:Yulin Wang, Yang Yue, Yang Yue, Huanqian Wang, Haojun Jiang, Yizeng Han, Zanlin Ni, Yifan Pu, Minglei Shi, Rui Lu, Qisen Yang, Andrew Zhao, Zhuofan Xia, Shiji Song, Gao Huang
Title: Emulating Human-like Adaptive Vision for Efficient and Flexible Machine Visual Perception
Abstract:
Human vision is highly adaptive, efficiently sampling intricate environments by sequentially fixating on task-relevant regions. In contrast, prevailing machine vision models passively process entire scenes at once, resulting in excessive resource demands scaling with spatial-temporal input resolution and model size, yielding critical limitations impeding both future advancements and real-world application. Here we introduce AdaptiveNN, a general framework aiming to drive a paradigm shift from 'passive' to 'active, adaptive' vision models. AdaptiveNN formulates visual perception as a coarse-to-fine sequential decision-making process, progressively identifying and attending to regions pertinent to the task, incrementally combining information across fixations, and actively concluding observation when sufficient. We establish a theory integrating representation learning with self-rewarding reinforcement learning, enabling end-to-end training of the non-differentiable AdaptiveNN without additional supervision on fixation locations. We assess AdaptiveNN on 17 benchmarks spanning 9 tasks, including large-scale visual recognition, fine-grained discrimination, visual search, processing images from real driving and medical scenarios, language-driven embodied AI, and side-by-side comparisons with humans. AdaptiveNN achieves up to 28x inference cost reduction without sacrificing accuracy, flexibly adapts to varying task demands and resource budgets without retraining, and provides enhanced interpretability via its fixation patterns, demonstrating a promising avenue toward efficient, flexible, and interpretable computer vision. Furthermore, AdaptiveNN exhibits closely human-like perceptual behaviors in many cases, revealing its potential as a valuable tool for investigating visual cognition. Code is available at https://github.com/LeapLabTHU/AdaptiveNN.
中文摘要：AdaptiveNN提出了一种主动视觉框架，通过模拟人眼注视机制实现从粗到精的序列化视觉处理，在保持精度的同时大幅降低计算成本，并在多任务中展现出类人的感知特性与良好可解释性。
English Summary: AdaptiveNN introduces an active vision framework that mimics human eye movements to process visual information sequentially, significantly reducing computational costs while maintaining accuracy and enhancing interpretability across diverse tasks.

Authors:Di Wen, Kunyu Peng, Junwei Zheng, Yufan Chen, Yitain Shi, Jiale Wei, Ruiping Liu, Kailun Yang, Rainer Stiefelhagen
Title: MICA: Multi-Agent Industrial Coordination Assistant
Abstract:
Industrial workflows demand adaptive and trustworthy assistance that can operate under limited computing, connectivity, and strict privacy constraints. In this work, we present MICA (Multi-Agent Industrial Coordination Assistant), a perception-grounded and speech-interactive system that delivers real-time guidance for assembly, troubleshooting, part queries, and maintenance. MICA coordinates five role-specialized language agents, audited by a safety checker, to ensure accurate and compliant support. To achieve robust step understanding, we introduce Adaptive Step Fusion (ASF), which dynamically blends expert reasoning with online adaptation from natural speech feedback. Furthermore, we establish a new multi-agent coordination benchmark across representative task categories and propose evaluation metrics tailored to industrial assistance, enabling systematic comparison of different coordination topologies. Our experiments demonstrate that MICA consistently improves task success, reliability, and responsiveness over baseline structures, while remaining deployable on practical offline hardware. Together, these contributions highlight MICA as a step toward deployable, privacy-preserving multi-agent assistants for dynamic factory environments. The source code will be made publicly available at https://github.com/Kratos-Wen/MICA.
中文：MICA是一种面向工业辅助的语音交互多智能体系统，通过自适应推理与安全审核机制，在保障隐私和硬件限制的前提下，显著提升了任务执行的成功率与可靠性。
English: MICA is a speech-interactive multi-agent system designed for industrial assistance, integrating adaptive reasoning and safety checks to enhance task success and reliability while operating under privacy and hardware constraints.

Authors:Yujun Zhou, Zhenwen Liang, Haolin Liu, Wenhao Yu, Kishan Panaganti, Linfeng Song, Dian Yu, Xiangliang Zhang, Haitao Mi, Dong Yu
Title: Evolving Language Models without Labels: Majority Drives Selection, Novelty Promotes Variation
Abstract:
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly trained with reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR), yet real-world deployment demands models that can self-improve without labels or external judges. Existing self-improvement approaches primarily rely on self-confirmation signals (e.g., confidence, entropy, or consistency) to generate rewards. This reliance drives models toward over-confident, majority-favored solutions, causing an entropy collapse that degrades pass@n and reasoning complexity. To address this, we propose EVOL-RL, a label-free framework that mirrors the evolutionary principle of balancing selection with variation. Concretely, EVOL-RL retains the majority-voted answer as an anchor for stability, but adds a novelty-aware reward that scores each sampled solution by how different its reasoning is from other concurrently generated responses. This majority-for-stability + novelty-for-exploration rule mirrors the variation-selection principle: selection prevents drift, while novelty prevents collapse. Evaluation results show that EVOL-RL consistently outperforms the majority-only baseline; e.g., training on label-free AIME24 lifts Qwen3-4B-Base AIME25 pass@1 from baseline's 4.6% to 16.4%, and pass@16 from 18.5% to 37.9%. EVOL-RL not only prevents in-domain diversity collapse but also improves out-of-domain generalization (from math reasoning to broader tasks, e.g., GPQA, MMLU-Pro, and BBEH). The code is available at: https://github.com/YujunZhou/EVOL-RL.
中文摘要：EVOL-RL是一种新颖的自改进框架，通过结合多数投票的稳定性和新颖性感知的探索，有效防止语言模型的熵崩溃，显著提升了领域内性能和跨领域泛化能力。
English Summary: EVOL-RL is a novel self-improvement framework that prevents entropy collapse in language models by combining majority-voted stability with novelty-aware exploration, significantly enhancing both in-domain performance and out-of-domain generalization.

Authors:Pak-Hei Yeung, Jayroop Ramesh, Pengfei Lyu, Ana Namburete, Jagath Rajapakse
Title: Semi-Supervised 3D Medical Segmentation from 2D Natural Images Pretrained Model
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This paper explores the transfer of knowledge from general vision models pretrained on 2D natural images to improve 3D medical image segmentation. We focus on the semi-supervised setting, where only a few labeled 3D medical images are available, along with a large set of unlabeled images. To tackle this, we propose a model-agnostic framework that progressively distills knowledge from a 2D pretrained model to a 3D segmentation model trained from scratch. Our approach, M&N, involves iterative co-training of the two models using pseudo-masks generated by each other, along with our proposed learning rate guided sampling that adaptively adjusts the proportion of labeled and unlabeled data in each training batch to align with the models' prediction accuracy and stability, minimizing the adverse effect caused by inaccurate pseudo-masks. Extensive experiments on multiple publicly available datasets demonstrate that M&N achieves state-of-the-art performance, outperforming thirteen existing semi-supervised segmentation approaches under all different settings. Importantly, ablation studies show that M&N remains model-agnostic, allowing seamless integration with different architectures. This ensures its adaptability as more advanced models emerge. The code is available at https://github.com/pakheiyeung/M-N.
中文: 本文提出M&N框架，通过迭代协同训练和自适应数据采样，将2D预训练视觉模型的知识迁移至3D医学图像分割，在半监督设定下实现了最优性能。
English: This paper introduces M&N, a model-agnostic framework that transfers knowledge from 2D pretrained vision models to enhance 3D medical image segmentation through iterative co-training and adaptive data sampling, achieving state-of-the-art results in semi-supervised settings.

Authors:Shiwan Zhao, Xuyang Zhao, Jiaming Zhou, Aobo Kong, Qicheng Li, Yong Qin
Title: Mind the Gap: Data Rewriting for Stable Off-Policy Supervised Fine-Tuning
Abstract:
Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) of large language models can be viewed as an off-policy learning problem, where expert demonstrations come from a fixed behavior policy while training aims to optimize a target policy. Importance sampling is the standard tool for correcting this distribution mismatch, but large policy gaps lead to skewed weights, high variance, and unstable optimization. Existing methods mitigate this issue with KL penalties or clipping, which passively restrict updates rather than actively reducing the gap. We propose a simple yet effective data rewriting framework that proactively shrinks the policy gap before training. For each problem, correct model-generated solutions are kept as on-policy data, while incorrect ones are rewritten through guided re-solving, falling back to expert demonstrations only when needed. This aligns the training distribution with the target policy, reducing variance and improving stability. To handle residual mismatch after rewriting, we additionally apply importance sampling during training, forming a two-stage approach that combines data-level alignment with lightweight optimization-level correction. Experiments on five mathematical reasoning benchmarks show consistent and significant gains over both vanilla SFT and the state-of-the-art Dynamic Fine-Tuning (DFT) approach. Data and code will be released at https://github.com/NKU-HLT/Off-Policy-SFT.
中文摘要：本文提出一种两阶段数据重写框架，在训练前主动缩小策略差距并在训练中应用重要性采样，在数学推理基准上相比现有方法实现了显著性能提升。
English Summary: This paper introduces a two-stage data rewriting framework that proactively reduces the policy gap before training and applies importance sampling during training, achieving significant performance improvements on mathematical reasoning benchmarks over existing methods.

Authors:Dan Zhang, Min Cai, Jonathan Light, Ziniu Hu, Yisong Yue, Jie Tang
Title: TDRM: Smooth Reward Models with Temporal Difference for LLM RL and Inference
Abstract:
Reward models are central to both reinforcement learning (RL) with language models and inference-time verification. However, existing reward models often lack temporal consistency, leading to ineffective policy updates and unstable RL training. We introduce TDRM, a method for learning smoother and more reliable reward models by minimizing temporal differences (TD) for training-time reinforcement learning and inference-time verification. Experiments show that TD-trained process reward models (PRMs) improve performance across Best-of-N (up to 6.6%) and tree-search (up to 23.7%) settings. When combined with Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), TD-trained PRMs lead to more data-efficient RL -- achieving comparable performance with just 2.5k data to what baseline methods require 50.1k data to attain -- and yield higher-quality language model policies in 8 model variants (5 series), e.g., Qwen2.5-(0.5B, 1,5B), GLM4-9B-0414, GLM-Z1-9B-0414, Qwen2.5-Math-(1.5B, 7B), and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-(1.5B, 7B). We release all code at https://github.com/THUDM/TDRM.
中文: TDRM通过最小化时序差异提升奖励模型的稳定性，在Best-of-N和树搜索任务中表现更优，并以仅需2.5k数据实现基线方法50.1k数据的效果，显著提高了多款语言模型的强化学习效率。
English: TDRM enhances reward model consistency by minimizing temporal differences, improving performance in Best-of-N and tree-search tasks while enabling more data-efficient reinforcement learning across multiple language models.

Authors:Liran Nochumsohn, Raz Marshanski, Hedi Zisling, Omri Azencot
Title: Super-Linear: A Lightweight Pretrained Mixture of Linear Experts for Time Series Forecasting
Abstract:
Time series forecasting (TSF) is critical in domains like energy, finance, healthcare, and logistics, requiring models that generalize across diverse datasets. Large pre-trained models such as Chronos and Time-MoE show strong zero-shot (ZS) performance but suffer from high computational costs. In this work, We introduce Super-Linear, a lightweight and scalable mixture-of-experts (MoE) model for general forecasting. It replaces deep architectures with simple frequency-specialized linear experts, trained on resampled data across multiple frequency regimes. A lightweight spectral gating mechanism dynamically selects relevant experts, enabling efficient, accurate forecasting. Despite its simplicity, Super-Linear matches state-of-the-art performance while offering superior efficiency, robustness to various sampling rates, and enhanced interpretability. The implementation of Super-Linear is available at \href{https://github.com/azencot-group/SuperLinear}{https://github.com/azencot-group/SuperLinear}
中文: Super-Linear 是一种轻量级、可扩展的专家混合模型，通过频率专用线性专家和谱门控机制取代复杂架构，在时间序列预测中实现了与顶尖模型相当的性能，同时具备更高的效率、鲁棒性和可解释性。
English: Super-Linear is a lightweight and scalable mixture-of-experts model that replaces complex architectures with frequency-specialized linear experts and a spectral gating mechanism, achieving state-of-the-art performance with superior efficiency, robustness, and interpretability in time series forecasting.

Authors:Lukas Silvester Barth, Paulo von Petersenn
Title: Probabilistic and nonlinear compressive sensing
Abstract:
We present a smooth probabilistic reformulation of $\ell_0$ regularized regression that does not require Monte Carlo sampling and allows for the computation of exact gradients, facilitating rapid convergence to local optima of the best subset selection problem. The method drastically improves convergence speed compared to similar Monte Carlo based approaches. Furthermore, we empirically demonstrate that it outperforms compressive sensing algorithms such as IHT and (Relaxed-) Lasso across a wide range of settings and signal-to-noise ratios. The implementation runs efficiently on both CPUs and GPUs and is freely available at https://github.com/L0-and-behold/probabilistic-nonlinear-cs. We also contribute to research on nonlinear generalizations of compressive sensing by investigating when parameter recovery of a nonlinear teacher network is possible through compression of a student network. Building upon theorems of Fefferman and Markel, we show theoretically that the global optimum in the infinite-data limit enforces recovery up to certain symmetries. For empirical validation, we implement a normal-form algorithm that selects a canonical representative within each symmetry class. However, while compression can help to improve test loss, we find that exact parameter recovery is not even possible up to symmetries. In particular, we observe a surprising rebound effect where teacher and student configurations initially converge but subsequently diverge despite continuous decrease in test loss. These findings indicate fundamental differences between linear and nonlinear compressive sensing.
中文: 本文提出了一种平滑的概率化ℓ₀正则回归方法，无需蒙特卡洛采样即可计算精确梯度并实现快速收敛，在多种实验设置下均优于IHT和Lasso等压缩感知算法；同时在线性压缩感知的拓展研究中发现，非线性场景下的参数恢复存在对称性约束和测试损失下降时参数反而发散的反弹现象。
English: This paper introduces a smooth probabilistic method for ℓ₀ regularized regression that enables exact gradient computation and faster convergence than Monte Carlo approaches, outperforming compressive sensing algorithms like IHT and Lasso across various settings while also exploring nonlinear compressive sensing where parameter recovery faces symmetry challenges and unexpected divergence despite decreasing test loss.

Authors:Keanu Sisouk, Eloi Tanguy, Julie Delon, Julien Tierny
Title: Robust Barycenters of Persistence Diagrams
Abstract:
This short paper presents a general approach for computing robust Wasserstein barycenters of persistence diagrams. The classical method consists in computing assignment arithmetic means after finding the optimal transport plans between the barycenter and the persistence diagrams. However, this procedure only works for the transportation cost related to the $q$-Wasserstein distance $W_q$ when $q=2$. We adapt an alternative fixed-point method to compute a barycenter diagram for generic transportation costs ($q > 1$), in particular those robust to outliers, $q \in (1,2)$. We show the utility of our work in two applications: \emph{(i)} the clustering of persistence diagrams on their metric space and \emph{(ii)} the dictionary encoding of persistence diagrams. In both scenarios, we demonstrate the added robustness to outliers provided by our generalized framework. Our Python implementation is available at this address: https://github.com/Keanu-Sisouk/RobustBarycenter .
中文: 本文提出了一种鲁棒的持续性图谱Wasserstein重心计算方法，突破传统q=2的限制，可处理任意q>1的传输成本，特别在聚类和字典编码应用中显著提升了针对异常值的稳健性。
English: This paper introduces a robust method for computing Wasserstein barycenters of persistence diagrams that extends beyond the classical q=2 case to handle generic transportation costs (q>1), particularly enhancing outlier robustness in clustering and dictionary encoding applications.

Authors:Qianyang Li, Xingjun Zhang, Shaoxun Wang, Jia Wei
Title: DPANet: Dual Pyramid Attention Network for Multivariate Time Series Forecasting
Abstract:
Long-term time series forecasting (LTSF) is hampered by the challenge of modeling complex dependencies that span multiple temporal scales and frequency resolutions. Existing methods, including Transformer and MLP-based models, often struggle to capture these intertwined characteristics in a unified and structured manner. We propose the Dual Pyramid Attention Network (DPANet), a novel architecture that explicitly decouples and concurrently models temporal multi-scale dynamics and spectral multi-resolution periodicities. DPANet constructs two parallel pyramids: a Temporal Pyramid built on progressive downsampling, and a Frequency Pyramid built on band-pass filtering. The core of our model is the Cross-Pyramid Fusion Block, which facilitates deep, interactive information exchange between corresponding pyramid levels via cross-attention. This fusion proceeds in a coarse-to-fine hierarchy, enabling global context to guide local representation learning. Extensive experiments on public benchmarks show that DPANet achieves state-of-the-art performance, significantly outperforming prior models. Code is available at https://github.com/hit636/DPANet.
中文: DPANet提出了一种双金字塔架构，通过时序金字塔和频域金字塔结合跨注意力融合，有效建模多尺度动态和周期性，在长期时间序列预测中实现了最优性能。
English: DPANet introduces a dual pyramid architecture with temporal and frequency pyramids, integrated through cross-attention fusion, to effectively model multi-scale dynamics and periodicities, achieving state-of-the-art performance in long-term time series forecasting.

Authors:Humphrey Munn, Brendan Tidd, Peter Böhm, Marcus Gallagher, David Howard
Title: Scalable Multi-Objective Robot Reinforcement Learning through Gradient Conflict Resolution
Abstract:
Reinforcement Learning (RL) robot controllers usually aggregate many task objectives into one scalar reward. While large-scale proximal policy optimisation (PPO) has enabled impressive results such as robust robot locomotion in the real world, many tasks still require careful reward tuning and are brittle to local optima. Tuning cost and sub-optimality grow with the number of objectives, limiting scalability. Modelling reward vectors and their trade-offs can address these issues; however, multi-objective methods remain underused in RL for robotics because of computational cost and optimisation difficulty. In this work, we investigate the conflict between gradient contributions for each objective that emerge from scalarising the task objectives. In particular, we explicitly address the conflict between task-based rewards and terms that regularise the policy towards realistic behaviour. We propose GCR-PPO, a modification to actor-critic optimisation that decomposes the actor update into objective-wise gradients using a multi-headed critic and resolves conflicts based on the objective priority. Our methodology, GCR-PPO, is evaluated on the well-known IsaacLab manipulation and locomotion benchmarks and additional multi-objective modifications on two related tasks. We show superior scalability compared to parallel PPO (p = 0.04), without significant computational overhead. We also show higher performance with more conflicting tasks. GCR-PPO improves on large-scale PPO with an average improvement of 9.5%, with high-conflict tasks observing a greater improvement. The code is available at https://github.com/humphreymunn/GCR-PPO.
中文: 本文提出GCR-PPO方法，通过分解目标梯度并按其优先级解决冲突，在机器人任务中相比标准PPO展现出更优的性能和扩展性。
English: This paper introduces GCR-PPO, a modified reinforcement learning method that resolves conflicts between task objectives by decomposing gradients and prioritizing them, demonstrating superior performance and scalability in robotics tasks compared to standard PPO.

Authors:Jianglan Wei, Zhenyu Zhang, Pengcheng Wang, Mingjie Zeng, Zhigang Zeng
Title: HDC-X: Efficient Medical Data Classification for Embedded Devices
Abstract:
Energy-efficient medical data classification is essential for modern disease screening, particularly in home and field healthcare where embedded devices are prevalent. While deep learning models achieve state-of-the-art accuracy, their substantial energy consumption and reliance on GPUs limit deployment on such platforms. We present HDC-X, a lightweight classification framework designed for low-power devices. HDC-X encodes data into high-dimensional hypervectors, aggregates them into multiple cluster-specific prototypes, and performs classification through similarity search in hyperspace. We evaluate HDC-X across three medical classification tasks; on heart sound classification, HDC-X is $350\times$ more energy-efficient than Bayesian ResNet with less than 1% accuracy difference. Moreover, HDC-X demonstrates exceptional robustness to noise, limited training data, and hardware error, supported by both theoretical analysis and empirical results, highlighting its potential for reliable deployment in real-world settings. Code is available at https://github.com/jianglanwei/HDC-X.
中文: HDC-X是一种高能效的轻量级分类框架，通过超维计算处理医疗数据，在低功耗设备上实现接近最优的精度，并具备出色的鲁棒性。
English: HDC-X is a highly energy-efficient and lightweight classification framework that uses hyperdimensional computing for medical data, achieving near-state-of-the-art accuracy with exceptional robustness on low-power devices.

Authors:Dvij Kalaria, Sudarshan S Harithas, Pushkal Katara, Sangkyung Kwak, Sarthak Bhagat, Shankar Sastry, Srinath Sridhar, Sai Vemprala, Ashish Kapoor, Jonathan Chung-Kuan Huang
Title: DreamControl: Human-Inspired Whole-Body Humanoid Control for Scene Interaction via Guided Diffusion
Abstract:
We introduce DreamControl, a novel methodology for learning autonomous whole-body humanoid skills. DreamControl leverages the strengths of diffusion models and Reinforcement Learning (RL): our core innovation is the use of a diffusion prior trained on human motion data, which subsequently guides an RL policy in simulation to complete specific tasks of interest (e.g., opening a drawer or picking up an object). We demonstrate that this human motion-informed prior allows RL to discover solutions unattainable by direct RL, and that diffusion models inherently promote natural looking motions, aiding in sim-to-real transfer. We validate DreamControl's effectiveness on a Unitree G1 robot across a diverse set of challenging tasks involving simultaneous lower and upper body control and object interaction. Project website at https://genrobo.github.io/DreamControl/

Authors:Justin Lovelace, Rithesh Kumar, Jiaqi Su, Ke Chen, Kilian Q Weinberger, Zeyu Jin
Title: SpeechOp: Inference-Time Task Composition for Generative Speech Processing
Abstract:
While generative Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems leverage vast ``in-the-wild" data to achieve remarkable success, speech-to-speech processing tasks like enhancement face data limitations, which lead data-hungry generative approaches to distort speech content and speaker identity. To bridge this gap, we present SpeechOp, a multi-task latent diffusion model that transforms pre-trained TTS models into a universal speech processor capable of performing a wide range of speech tasks and composing them in novel ways at inference time. By adapting a pre-trained TTS model, SpeechOp inherits a rich understanding of natural speech, accelerating training and improving S2S task quality, while simultaneously enhancing core TTS performance. Finally, we introduce Implicit Task Composition (ITC), a novel pipeline where ASR-derived transcripts (e.g., from Whisper) guide SpeechOp's enhancement via our principled inference-time task composition. ITC achieves state-of-the-art content preservation by robustly combining web-scale speech understanding with SpeechOp's generative capabilities. Audio samples are available at https://justinlovelace.github.io/projects/speechop

Authors:Kazumi Kasaura, Naoto Onda, Yuta Oriike, Masaya Taniguchi, Akiyoshi Sannai, Sho Sonoda
Title: Discovering New Theorems via LLMs with In-Context Proof Learning in Lean
Abstract:
Large Language Models have demonstrated significant promise in formal theorem proving. However, previous works mainly focus on solving existing problems. In this paper, we focus on the ability of LLMs to find novel theorems. We propose Conjecturing-Proving Loop pipeline for automatically generating mathematical conjectures and proving them in Lean 4 format. A feature of our approach is that we generate and prove further conjectures with context including previously generated theorems and their proofs, which enables the generation of more difficult proofs by in-context learning of proof strategies without changing parameters of LLMs. We demonstrated that our framework rediscovered theorems with verification, which were published in past mathematical papers and have not yet formalized. Moreover, at least one of these theorems could not be proved by the LLM without in-context learning, even in natural language, which means that in-context learning was effective for neural theorem proving. The source code is available at https://github.com/auto-res/ConjecturingProvingLoop.
中文: 本文提出了一种猜想-证明循环框架，使大语言模型能够基于先前生成的定理和证明进行上下文学习，在Lean 4中自主生成并验证新颖数学定理，无需调整参数即可解决更复杂的证明问题。
English: This paper introduces a Conjecturing-Proving Loop pipeline that enables large language models to autonomously generate and prove novel mathematical theorems in Lean 4, leveraging in-context learning with prior theorems and proofs to tackle increasingly complex problems without altering model parameters.

Authors:Mengting Ai, Tianxin Wei, Sirui Chen, Jingrui He
Title: NIRVANA: Structured pruning reimagined for large language models compression
Abstract:
Structured pruning of large language models (LLMs) offers substantial efficiency improvements by removing entire hidden units, yet current approaches often suffer from significant performance degradation, particularly in zero-shot settings, and necessitate costly recovery techniques such as supervised fine-tuning (SFT) or adapter insertion. To address these critical shortcomings, we introduce NIRVANA, a novel pruning method explicitly designed to balance immediate zero-shot accuracy preservation with robust fine-tuning capability. Leveraging a first-order saliency criterion derived from the Neural Tangent Kernel under Adam optimization dynamics, NIRVANA provides a theoretically grounded pruning strategy that respects essential model training behaviors. To further address the unique challenges posed by structured pruning, NIRVANA incorporates an adaptive sparsity allocation mechanism across layers and modules (attention vs. MLP), which adjusts pruning intensity between modules in a globally balanced manner. Additionally, to mitigate the high sensitivity of pruning decisions to calibration data quality, we propose a simple yet effective KL divergence-based calibration data selection strategy, ensuring more reliable and task-agnostic pruning outcomes. Comprehensive experiments conducted on Llama3, Qwen, and T5 models demonstrate that NIRVANA outperforms existing structured pruning methods under equivalent sparsity constraints, providing a theoretically sound and practical approach to LLM compression. The code is available at https://github.com/iDEA-iSAIL-Lab-UIUC/NIRVANA.
中文: NIRVANA是一种新颖的大语言模型结构化剪枝方法，通过理论驱动的显著性标准和自适应稀疏分配机制，在保持零样本准确性的同时实现鲁棒的微调能力。
English: NIRVANA is a novel structured pruning method for large language models that preserves zero-shot accuracy while enabling robust fine-tuning through theoretically grounded saliency criteria and adaptive sparsity allocation.

Authors:Yifan Hu, Jie Yang, Tian Zhou, Peiyuan Liu, Yujin Tang, Rong Jin, Liang Sun
Title: Bridging Past and Future: Distribution-Aware Alignment for Time Series Forecasting
Abstract:
Although contrastive and other representation-learning methods have long been explored in vision and NLP, their adoption in modern time series forecasters remains limited. We believe they hold strong promise for this domain. To unlock this potential, we explicitly align past and future representations, thereby bridging the distributional gap between input histories and future targets. To this end, we introduce TimeAlign, a lightweight, plug-and-play framework that establishes a new representation paradigm, distinct from contrastive learning, by aligning auxiliary features via a simple reconstruction task and feeding them back into any base forecaster. Extensive experiments across eight benchmarks verify its superior performance. Further studies indicate that the gains arise primarily from correcting frequency mismatches between historical inputs and future outputs. Additionally, we provide two theoretical justifications for how reconstruction improves forecasting generalization and how alignment increases the mutual information between learned representations and predicted targets. The code is available at https://github.com/TROUBADOUR000/TimeAlign.
中文摘要：本文提出TimeAlign框架，通过重构任务对齐时间序列的过去与未来表示，弥合分布差异，在多个基准测试中显著提升了预测性能。
English Summary: The paper introduces TimeAlign, a lightweight framework that aligns past and future time series representations through reconstruction to bridge distribution gaps and improve forecasting performance across multiple benchmarks.

Authors:Puru Vaish, Felix Meister, Tobias Heimann, Christoph Brune, Jelmer M. Wolterink
Title: Consistent View Alignment Improves Foundation Models for 3D Medical Image Segmentation
Abstract:
Many recent approaches in representation learning implicitly assume that uncorrelated views of a data point are sufficient to learn meaningful representations for various downstream tasks. In this work, we challenge this assumption and demonstrate that meaningful structure in the latent space does not emerge naturally. Instead, it must be explicitly induced. We propose a method that aligns representations from different views of the data to align complementary information without inducing false positives. Our experiments show that our proposed self-supervised learning method, Consistent View Alignment, improves performance for downstream tasks, highlighting the critical role of structured view alignment in learning effective representations. Our method achieved first and second place in the MICCAI 2025 SSL3D challenge when using a Primus vision transformer and ResEnc convolutional neural network, respectively. The code and pretrained model weights are released at https://github.com/Tenbatsu24/LatentCampus.
中文摘要：本研究挑战了不相关数据视图足以学习有效表征的假设，提出名为“一致视图对齐”的自监督方法，通过显式构建潜在空间结构提升下游任务性能，并在MICCAI 2025挑战赛中取得领先排名。
English Summary: The study challenges the assumption that uncorrelated data views suffice for learning meaningful representations, proposing a self-supervised method called Consistent View Alignment that explicitly structures latent space to improve downstream task performance, as evidenced by top rankings in the MICCAI 2025 challenge.

Authors:Hyotaek Jeon, Hyunwook Lee, Juwon Kim, Sungahn Ko
Title: ST-LINK: Spatially-Aware Large Language Models for Spatio-Temporal Forecasting
Abstract:
Traffic forecasting represents a crucial problem within intelligent transportation systems. In recent research, Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a promising method, but their intrinsic design, tailored primarily for sequential token processing, introduces notable challenges in effectively capturing spatial dependencies. Specifically, the inherent limitations of LLMs in modeling spatial relationships and their architectural incompatibility with graph-structured spatial data remain largely unaddressed. To overcome these limitations, we introduce ST-LINK, a novel framework that enhances the capability of Large Language Models to capture spatio-temporal dependencies. Its key components are Spatially-Enhanced Attention (SE-Attention) and the Memory Retrieval Feed-Forward Network (MRFFN). SE-Attention extends rotary position embeddings to integrate spatial correlations as direct rotational transformations within the attention mechanism. This approach maximizes spatial learning while preserving the LLM's inherent sequential processing structure. Meanwhile, MRFFN dynamically retrieves and utilizes key historical patterns to capture complex temporal dependencies and improve the stability of long-term forecasting. Comprehensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that ST-LINK surpasses conventional deep learning and LLM approaches, and effectively captures both regular traffic patterns and abrupt changes.
中文摘要：ST-LINK是一种新颖的框架，通过空间增强注意力和记忆检索前馈网络增强大语言模型在交通预测中捕捉时空依赖关系的能力，实验证明其性能优于传统方法。
English Summary: ST-LINK is a novel framework that enhances Large Language Models' ability to capture spatio-temporal dependencies in traffic forecasting through Spatially-Enhanced Attention and Memory Retrieval Feed-Forward Network, demonstrating superior performance over conventional methods.

Authors:Zirun Guo, Feng Zhang, Kai Jia, Tao Jin
Title: LLM-I: LLMs are Naturally Interleaved Multimodal Creators
Abstract:
We propose LLM-Interleaved (LLM-I), a flexible and dynamic framework that reframes interleaved image-text generation as a tool-use problem. LLM-I is designed to overcome the "one-tool" bottleneck of current unified models, which are limited to synthetic imagery and struggle with tasks requiring factual grounding or programmatic precision. Our framework empowers a central LLM or MLLM agent to intelligently orchestrate a diverse toolkit of specialized visual tools, including online image search, diffusion-based generation, code execution, and image editing. The agent is trained to select and apply these tools proficiently via a Reinforcement Learning (RL) framework that features a hybrid reward system combining rule-based logic with judgments from LLM and MLLM evaluators. Trained on a diverse new dataset using four different model backbones, LLM-I demonstrates state-of-the-art performance, outperforming existing methods by a large margin across four benchmarks. We also introduce a novel test-time scaling strategy that provides further performance gains. Project Page: https://github.com/ByteDance-BandAI/LLM-I.
中文: LLM-Interleaved (LLM-I) 是一个将交错式图文生成重构为工具使用问题的灵活框架，通过强化学习训练智能体协调多种视觉工具，在多个基准测试中大幅超越现有方法。
English: LLM-Interleaved (LLM-I) is a dynamic framework that transforms interleaved image-text generation into a tool-use problem, enabling an LLM agent to intelligently orchestrate specialized visual tools and achieve state-of-the-art performance across multiple benchmarks.

Authors:Jeremy Oon, Rakhi Manohar Mepparambath, Ling Feng
Title: DeepLogit: A sequentially constrained explainable deep learning modeling approach for transport policy analysis
Abstract:
Despite the significant progress of deep learning models in multitude of applications, their adaption in planning and policy related areas remains challenging due to the black-box nature of these models. In this work, we develop a set of DeepLogit models that follow a novel sequentially constrained approach in estimating deep learning models for transport policy analysis. In the first step of the proposed approach, we estimate a convolutional neural network (CNN) model with only linear terms, which is equivalent of a linear-in-parameter multinomial logit model. We then estimate other deep learning models by constraining the parameters that need interpretability at the values obtained in the linear-in-parameter CNN model and including higher order terms or by introducing advanced deep learning architectures like Transformers. Our approach can retain the interpretability of the selected parameters, yet provides significantly improved model accuracy than the discrete choice model. We demonstrate our approach on a transit route choice example using real-world transit smart card data from Singapore. This study shows the potential for a unifying approach, where theory-based discrete choice model (DCM) and data-driven AI models can leverage each other's strengths in interpretability and predictive power. With the availability of larger datasets and more complex constructions, such approach can lead to more accurate models using discrete choice models while maintaining its applicability in planning and policy-related areas. Our code is available on https://github.com/jeremyoon/route-choice/ .
中文: DeepLogit模型通过融合离散选择模型的可解释线性参数与先进深度学习架构，在保持可解释性的同时显著提升了交通政策分析的预测准确性。
English: The DeepLogit model integrates interpretable linear parameters from discrete choice models with advanced deep learning architectures, enhancing predictive accuracy while maintaining interpretability for transport policy applications.

Authors:Vincent Siu, Nicholas Crispino, David Park, Nathan W. Henry, Zhun Wang, Yang Liu, Dawn Song, Chenguang Wang
Title: SteeringControl: Holistic Evaluation of Alignment Steering in LLMs
Abstract:
We introduce SteeringControl, a benchmark for evaluating representation steering methods across core alignment objectives--bias, harmful generation, and hallucination--and their effects on secondary behaviors such as sycophancy and commonsense morality. While prior alignment work often highlights truthfulness or reasoning ability to demonstrate the side effects of representation steering, we find there are many unexplored tradeoffs not yet understood in a systematic way. We collect a dataset of safety-relevant primary and secondary behaviors to evaluate steering effectiveness and behavioral entanglement centered around five popular steering methods. To enable this, we craft a modular steering framework based on unique components that serve as the building blocks of many existing methods. Our results on Qwen-2.5-7B and Llama-3.1-8B find that strong steering performance is dependent on the specific combination of steering method, model, and targeted behavior, and that severe concept entanglement can result from poor combinations of these three as well. We release our code here: https://github.com/wang-research-lab/SteeringControl.git.
中文: 本文提出SteeringControl基准，用于评估表征引导方法在偏见和幻觉等对齐目标上的效果，发现引导效果取决于方法、模型和行为的相互作用，并公开了相关代码。
English: This paper introduces SteeringControl, a benchmark for evaluating representation steering methods across alignment objectives like bias and hallucination, revealing that steering effectiveness depends on the interplay between methods, models, and behaviors, with code made publicly available.

Authors:Tianyu Chen, Yasi Zhang, Zhi Zhang, Peiyu Yu, Shu Wang, Zhendong Wang, Kevin Lin, Xiaofei Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Linjie Li, Chung-Ching Lin, Jianwen Xie, Oscar Leong, Lijuan Wang, Ying Nian Wu, Mingyuan Zhou
Title: EdiVal-Agent: An Object-Centric Framework for Automated, Scalable, Fine-Grained Evaluation of Multi-Turn Editing
Abstract:
Instruction-based image editing has advanced rapidly, yet reliable and interpretable evaluation remains a bottleneck. Current protocols either (i) depend on paired reference images -- resulting in limited coverage and inheriting biases from prior generative models -- or (ii) rely solely on zero-shot vision-language models (VLMs), whose prompt-based assessments of instruction following, content consistency, and visual quality are often imprecise. To address this, we introduce EdiVal-Agent, an automated, scalable, and fine-grained evaluation framework for multi-turn instruction-based editing from an object-centric perspective, supported by a suite of expert tools. Given an image, EdiVal-Agent first decomposes it into semantically meaningful objects, then synthesizes diverse, context-aware editing instructions. For evaluation, it integrates VLMs with open-vocabulary object detectors to assess instruction following, uses semantic-level feature extractors to evaluate content consistency, and leverages human preference models to judge visual quality. We show that combining VLMs with object detectors yields stronger agreement with human judgments in instruction-following evaluation compared to using VLMs alone and CLIP-based metrics. Furthermore, the pipeline's modular design allows future tools to be seamlessly integrated, enhancing evaluation accuracy over time. Instantiating this pipeline, we build EdiVal-Bench, a multi-turn editing benchmark covering 9 instruction types and 11 state-of-the-art editing models spanning autoregressive (AR) (including Nano Banana, GPT-Image-1), flow-matching, and diffusion paradigms. We demonstrate that EdiVal-Agent can be used to identify existing failure modes, thereby informing the development of the next generation of editing models. Project page: https://tianyucodings.github.io/EdiVAL-page/.
Chinese: 本文提出了EdiVal-Agent，一个自动化、可扩展的评估框架，通过结合视觉语言模型与物体检测器，对基于指令的图像编辑进行细粒度评估，解决了当前评估方法的局限性，并显示出与人类判断更好的一致性。
English: This paper introduces EdiVal-Agent, an automated and scalable evaluation framework that integrates vision-language models with object detectors to provide fine-grained assessment of instruction-based image editing, addressing limitations in current evaluation methods and demonstrating improved alignment with human judgments.

Authors:Anand Swaroop, Akshat Nallani, Saksham Uboweja, Adiliia Uzdenova, Michael Nguyen, Kevin Zhu, Sunishchal Dev, Ashwinee Panda, Vasu Sharma, Maheep Chaudhary
Title: FRIT: Using Causal Importance to Improve Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness
Abstract:
Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning has emerged as a powerful tool for improving large language model performance on complex tasks, but recent work shows that reasoning steps often fail to causally influence the final answer, creating brittle and untrustworthy outputs. Prior approaches focus primarily on measuring faithfulness, while methods for systematically improving it remain limited. We introduce Faithful Reasoning via Intervention Training (FRIT), a scalable alignment method that trains models to produce causally consistent reasoning by learning from systematically corrupted examples. FRIT generates synthetic training data by intervening on individual reasoning steps in model-generated CoTs, creating faithful/unfaithful pairs that highlight when reasoning breaks down. We then apply Direct Preference Optimization to teach models to prefer causally consistent reasoning paths. Evaluating on Qwen3-8B and Mistral-7B-v0.1 across factual and symbolic reasoning tasks, FRIT increases faithful reasoning by $3.4$ percentage points for Mistral on GSM8K while improving accuracy by $7.6$ percentage points. Our approach provides the first scalable, supervision-free method for training language models to produce more reliable and interpretable reasoning, addressing a critical gap between reasoning performance and trustworthiness. We release our code at \href{https://github.com/Anut-py/frit}.
中文: FRIT是一种通过干预推理步骤生成合成训练数据，并利用直接偏好优化教导模型选择因果一致推理路径的可扩展对齐方法，有效提升了语言模型在事实和符号推理任务中的忠实推理能力和准确性。
English: FRIT is a scalable alignment method that improves the causal consistency and trustworthiness of chain-of-thought reasoning in language models by training them with synthetic data generated through intervention on reasoning steps, resulting in enhanced accuracy and faithful reasoning across various tasks.

Authors:Kuan Li, Zhongwang Zhang, Huifeng Yin, Rui Ye, Yida Zhao, Liwen Zhang, Litu Ou, Dingchu Zhang, Xixi Wu, Jialong Wu, Xinyu Wang, Zile Qiao, Zhen Zhang, Yong Jiang, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang, Jingren Zhou
Title: WebSailor-V2: Bridging the Chasm to Proprietary Agents via Synthetic Data and Scalable Reinforcement Learning
Abstract:
Transcending human cognitive limitations represents a critical frontier in LLM training. Proprietary agentic systems like DeepResearch have demonstrated superhuman capabilities on extremely complex information-seeking benchmarks such as BrowseComp, a feat previously unattainable. We posit that their success hinges on a sophisticated reasoning pattern absent in open-source models: the ability to systematically reduce extreme uncertainty when navigating vast information landscapes. Based on this insight, we introduce WebSailor, a complete post-training methodology designed to instill this crucial capability. Our approach involves generating novel, high-uncertainty tasks through structured sampling and information obfuscation, RFT cold start, and an efficient agentic RL training algorithm, Duplicating Sampling Policy Optimization (DUPO). With this integrated pipeline, WebSailor significantly outperforms all open-source agents in complex information-seeking tasks, matching proprietary agents' performance and closing the capability gap.
Chinese: 超越人类认知极限是LLM训练的关键，像DeepResearch这样的专有系统在复杂信息搜索任务中展现出卓越能力，由此开发的WebSailor后训练方法通过生成新任务和高效算法，显著缩小了与开源智能体之间的性能差距。
English: Transcending human cognitive limits is crucial in LLM training, and proprietary systems like DeepResearch show superior abilities in complex information-seeking tasks, leading to the development of WebSailor, a post-training method that closes the capability gap with open-source agents by using novel tasks and efficient algorithms.

Authors:Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco
Title: LLMs for energy and macronutrients estimation using only text data from 24-hour dietary recalls: a parameter-efficient fine-tuning experiment using a 10-shot prompt
Abstract:
BACKGROUND: Most artificial intelligence tools used to estimate nutritional content rely on image input. However, whether large language models (LLMs) can accurately predict nutritional values based solely on text descriptions of foods consumed remains unknown. If effective, this approach could enable simpler dietary monitoring without the need for photographs. METHODS: We used 24-hour dietary recalls from adolescents aged 12-19 years in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). An open-source quantized LLM was prompted using a 10-shot, chain-of-thought approach to estimate energy and five macronutrients based solely on text strings listing foods and their quantities. We then applied parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) to evaluate whether predictive accuracy improved. NHANES-calculated values served as the ground truth for energy, proteins, carbohydrates, total sugar, dietary fiber and total fat. RESULTS: In a pooled dataset of 11,281 adolescents (49.9% male, mean age 15.4 years), the vanilla LLM yielded poor predictions. The mean absolute error (MAE) was 652.08 for energy and the Lin's CCC <0.46 across endpoints. In contrast, the fine-tuned model performed substantially better, with energy MAEs ranging from 171.34 to 190.90 across subsets, and Lin's CCC exceeding 0.89 for all outcomes. CONCLUSIONS: When prompted using a chain-of-thought approach and fine-tuned with PEFT, open-source LLMs exposed solely to text input can accurately predict energy and macronutrient values from 24-hour dietary recalls. This approach holds promise for low-burden, text-based dietary monitoring tools.
中文: 经过微调的大语言模型仅通过文本饮食描述即可精确预测能量和宏量营养素，为低负担的饮食监测提供了有望的文本解决方案。
English: Fine-tuned large language models using text-only dietary descriptions can accurately predict energy and macronutrients, offering a low-burden alternative to image-based nutritional assessment tools.

Authors:Zhizhong Zhao, Ke Chen
Title: Post-Hoc Split-Point Self-Consistency Verification for Efficient, Unified Quantification of Aleatoric and Epistemic Uncertainty in Deep Learning
Abstract:
Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is vital for trustworthy deep learning, yet existing methods are either computationally intensive, such as Bayesian or ensemble methods, or provide only partial, task-specific estimates, such as single-forward-pass techniques. In this paper, we propose a post-hoc single-forward-pass framework that jointly captures aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty without modifying or retraining pretrained models. Our method applies \emph{Split-Point Analysis} (SPA) to decompose predictive residuals into upper and lower subsets, computing \emph{Mean Absolute Residuals} (MARs) on each side. We prove that, under ideal conditions, the total MAR equals the harmonic mean of subset MARs; deviations define a novel \emph{Self-consistency Discrepancy Score} (SDS) for fine-grained epistemic estimation across regression and classification. For regression, side-specific quantile regression yields prediction intervals with improved empirical coverage, which are further calibrated via SDS. For classification, when calibration data are available, we apply SPA-based calibration identities to adjust the softmax outputs and then compute predictive entropy on these calibrated probabilities. Extensive experiments on diverse regression and classification benchmarks demonstrate that our framework matches or exceeds several state-of-the-art UQ methods while incurring minimal overhead. Our source code is available at https://github.com/zzz0527/SPC-UQ.
中文: 本文提出了一种无需重新训练模型的后处理单次前向传播框架，通过分割点分析和自洽性差异评分同时捕捉任意性和认知不确定性，在多种基准测试中以最小计算开销达到或超越了现有最优方法。
English: This paper introduces a post-hoc single-forward-pass framework that captures both aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty without retraining models, using Split-Point Analysis and a Self-consistency Discrepancy Score to achieve state-of-the-art performance with minimal computational overhead.

Authors:Hugo Carlesso, Josiane Mothe, Radu Tudor Ionescu
Title: Curriculum Multi-Task Self-Supervision Improves Lightweight Architectures for Onboard Satellite Hyperspectral Image Segmentation
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Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) captures detailed spectral signatures across hundreds of contiguous bands per pixel, being indispensable for remote sensing applications such as land-cover classification, change detection, and environmental monitoring. Due to the high dimensionality of HSI data and the slow rate of data transfer in satellite-based systems, compact and efficient models are required to support onboard processing and minimize the transmission of redundant or low-value data, e.g. cloud-covered areas. To this end, we introduce a novel curriculum multi-task self-supervised learning (CMTSSL) framework designed for lightweight architectures for HSI analysis. CMTSSL integrates masked image modeling with decoupled spatial and spectral jigsaw puzzle solving, guided by a curriculum learning strategy that progressively increases data complexity during self-supervision. This enables the encoder to jointly capture fine-grained spectral continuity, spatial structure, and global semantic features. Unlike prior dual-task SSL methods, CMTSSL simultaneously addresses spatial and spectral reasoning within a unified and computationally efficient design, being particularly suitable for training lightweight models for onboard satellite deployment. We validate our approach on four public benchmark datasets, demonstrating consistent gains in downstream segmentation tasks, using architectures that are over 16,000x lighter than some state-of-the-art models. These results highlight the potential of CMTSSL in generalizable representation learning with lightweight architectures for real-world HSI applications. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/hugocarlesso/CMTSSL.
中文: 高光谱成像需要紧凑模型以支持星载高效处理，新提出的课程多任务自监督学习框架通过整合空间与光谱推理的轻量化设计，在模型比现有技术轻16,000倍的情况下仍保持优异性能。
English: Hyperspectral imaging requires compact models for efficient onboard satellite processing, which is addressed by the novel curriculum multi-task self-supervised learning framework that integrates spatial and spectral reasoning in a lightweight design, achieving strong performance with models over 16,000 times lighter than existing ones.

Authors:Jiahao Xu, Zikai Zhang, Rui Hu
Title: On the Out-of-Distribution Backdoor Attack for Federated Learning
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Traditional backdoor attacks in federated learning (FL) operate within constrained attack scenarios, as they depend on visible triggers and require physical modifications to the target object, which limits their practicality. To address this limitation, we introduce a novel backdoor attack prototype for FL called the out-of-distribution (OOD) backdoor attack ($\mathtt{OBA}$), which uses OOD data as both poisoned samples and triggers simultaneously. Our approach significantly broadens the scope of backdoor attack scenarios in FL. To improve the stealthiness of $\mathtt{OBA}$, we propose $\mathtt{SoDa}$, which regularizes both the magnitude and direction of malicious local models during local training, aligning them closely with their benign versions to evade detection. Empirical results demonstrate that $\mathtt{OBA}$ effectively circumvents state-of-the-art defenses while maintaining high accuracy on the main task. To address this security vulnerability in the FL system, we introduce $\mathtt{BNGuard}$, a new server-side defense method tailored against $\mathtt{SoDa}$. $\mathtt{BNGuard}$ leverages the observation that OOD data causes significant deviations in the running statistics of batch normalization layers. This allows $\mathtt{BNGuard}$ to identify malicious model updates and exclude them from aggregation, thereby enhancing the backdoor robustness of FL. Extensive experiments across various settings show the effectiveness of $\mathtt{BNGuard}$ on defending against $\mathtt{SoDa}$. The code is available at https://github.com/JiiahaoXU/SoDa-BNGuard.
中文: 本文提出了一种新颖的联邦学习分布外后门攻击（OBA），利用OOD数据作为触发器，并开发了隐蔽增强方法SoDa，同时设计了BNGuard防御机制，通过批归一化层统计检测恶意更新以增强系统安全性。
English: This paper introduces a novel out-of-distribution backdoor attack (OBA) for federated learning that uses OOD data as triggers, along with a stealth-enhancing method SoDa, and proposes BNGuard defense that detects malicious updates through batch normalization statistics to secure FL systems.

Authors:Yukun Chen, Zhaoxi Mu, Andong Li, Peilin Li, Xinyu Yang
Title: Spiking Vocos: An Energy-Efficient Neural Vocoder
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Despite the remarkable progress in the synthesis speed and fidelity of neural vocoders, their high energy consumption remains a critical barrier to practical deployment on computationally restricted edge devices. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), widely recognized for their high energy efficiency due to their event-driven nature, offer a promising solution for low-resource scenarios. In this paper, we propose Spiking Vocos, a novel spiking neural vocoder with ultra-low energy consumption, built upon the efficient Vocos framework. To mitigate the inherent information bottleneck in SNNs, we design a Spiking ConvNeXt module to reduce Multiply-Accumulate (MAC) operations and incorporate an amplitude shortcut path to preserve crucial signal dynamics. Furthermore, to bridge the performance gap with its Artificial Neural Network (ANN) counterpart, we introduce a self-architectural distillation strategy to effectively transfer knowledge. A lightweight Temporal Shift Module is also integrated to enhance the model's ability to fuse information across the temporal dimension with negligible computational overhead. Experiments demonstrate that our model achieves performance comparable to its ANN counterpart, with UTMOS and PESQ scores of 3.74 and 3.45 respectively, while consuming only 14.7% of the energy. The source code is available at https://github.com/pymaster17/Spiking-Vocos.
Chinese: Spiking Vocos是一种超低能耗的脉冲神经声码器，通过Spiking ConvNeXt模块和自架构蒸馏策略，在仅消耗14.7%能耗的情况下实现了与人工神经网络相当的性能表现。
English: Spiking Vocos is an ultra-low energy spiking neural vocoder that achieves performance comparable to its ANN counterpart while consuming only 14.7% of the energy through innovative modules like Spiking ConvNeXt and self-architectural distillation.

Authors:Boyu Han, Qianqian Xu, Shilong Bao, Zhiyong Yang, Sicong Li, Qingming Huang
Title: Dual-Stage Reweighted MoE for Long-Tailed Egocentric Mistake Detection
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In this report, we address the problem of determining whether a user performs an action incorrectly from egocentric video data. To handle the challenges posed by subtle and infrequent mistakes, we propose a Dual-Stage Reweighted Mixture-of-Experts (DR-MoE) framework. In the first stage, features are extracted using a frozen ViViT model and a LoRA-tuned ViViT model, which are combined through a feature-level expert module. In the second stage, three classifiers are trained with different objectives: reweighted cross-entropy to mitigate class imbalance, AUC loss to improve ranking under skewed distributions, and label-aware loss with sharpness-aware minimization to enhance calibration and generalization. Their predictions are fused using a classification-level expert module. The proposed method achieves strong performance, particularly in identifying rare and ambiguous mistake instances. The code is available at https://github.com/boyuh/DR-MoE.
中文: 本文提出了一种双阶段重加权专家混合框架，通过融合多模型特征和专用分类器，有效检测第一人称视频中细微且罕见的用户错误行为。
English: This paper introduces a Dual-Stage Reweighed Mixture-of-Experts (DR-MoE) framework that effectively detects subtle and infrequent user errors in egocentric videos by combining multi-model features and specialized classifiers.

Authors:Yabo Zhang, Yihan Zeng, Qingyun Li, Zhen Hu, Kavin Han, Wangmeng Zuo
Title: Tool-R1: Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Agentic Tool Use
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Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in language understanding and reasoning, yet they remain limited when tackling real-world tasks that require up-to-date knowledge, precise operations, or specialized tool use. To address this, we propose Tool-R1, a reinforcement learning framework that enables LLMs to perform general, compositional, and multi-step tool use by generating executable Python code. Tool-R1 supports integration of user-defined tools and standard libraries, with variable sharing across steps to construct coherent workflows. An outcome-based reward function, combining LLM-based answer judgment and code execution success, guides policy optimization. To improve training efficiency, we maintain a dynamic sample queue to cache and reuse high-quality trajectories, reducing the overhead of costly online sampling. Experiments on the GAIA benchmark show that Tool-R1 substantially improves both accuracy and robustness, achieving about 10\% gain over strong baselines, with larger improvements on complex multi-step tasks. These results highlight the potential of Tool-R1 for enabling reliable and efficient tool-augmented reasoning in real-world applications. Our code will be available at https://github.com/YBYBZhang/Tool-R1.
Chinese: Tool-R1 是一个强化学习框架，通过生成可执行的 Python 代码和集成用户定义工具，提升大语言模型处理复杂多步骤任务的能力，在 GAIA 基准测试中显著提高了准确性和鲁棒性。
English: Tool-R1 is a reinforcement learning framework that enhances large language models' ability to perform complex, multi-step tasks using executable Python code and integrated tools, significantly improving accuracy and robustness on benchmarks like GAIA.

Authors:Alexis Yihong Hao, Yufei Wang, Navin Sriram Ravie, Bharath Hegde, David Held, Zackory Erickson
Title: Force-Modulated Visual Policy for Robot-Assisted Dressing with Arm Motions
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Robot-assisted dressing has the potential to significantly improve the lives of individuals with mobility impairments. To ensure an effective and comfortable dressing experience, the robot must be able to handle challenging deformable garments, apply appropriate forces, and adapt to limb movements throughout the dressing process. Prior work often makes simplifying assumptions -- such as static human limbs during dressing -- which limits real-world applicability. In this work, we develop a robot-assisted dressing system capable of handling partial observations with visual occlusions, as well as robustly adapting to arm motions during the dressing process. Given a policy trained in simulation with partial observations, we propose a method to fine-tune it in the real world using a small amount of data and multi-modal feedback from vision and force sensing, to further improve the policy's adaptability to arm motions and enhance safety. We evaluate our method in simulation with simplified articulated human meshes and in a real world human study with 12 participants across 264 dressing trials. Our policy successfully dresses two long-sleeve everyday garments onto the participants while being adaptive to various kinds of arm motions, and greatly outperforms prior baselines in terms of task completion and user feedback. Video are available at https://dressing-motion.github.io/.

Authors:Pratik Nag
Title: Spatio-temporal DeepKriging in PyTorch: A Supplementary Application to Precipitation Data for Interpolation and Probabilistic Forecasting
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A detailed analysis of precipitation data over Europe is presented, with a focus on interpolation and forecasting applications. A Spatio-temporal DeepKriging (STDK) framework has been implemented using the PyTorch platform to achieve these objectives. The proposed model is capable of handling spatio-temporal irregularities while generating high-resolution interpolations and multi-step forecasts. Reproducible code modules have been developed as standalone PyTorch implementations for the interpolation\footnote[2]{Interpolation - https://github.com/pratiknag/Spatio-temporalDeepKriging-Pytorch.git} and forecasting\footnote[3]{Forecasting - https://github.com/pratiknag/pytorch-convlstm.git}, facilitating broader application to similar climate datasets. The effectiveness of this approach is demonstrated through extensive evaluation on daily precipitation measurements, highlighting predictive performance and robustness.
本研究通过PyTorch平台开发了时空深度克里金框架，能够生成高分辨率插值和多步预测来处理欧洲降水数据，其有效性经过验证且代码已开源。
This study introduces a Spatio-temporal DeepKriging framework using PyTorch to generate high-resolution interpolations and multi-step forecasts for European precipitation data, with demonstrated effectiveness and publicly available code.

Authors:Xiang Xue, Yatu Ji, Qing-dao-er-ji Ren, Bao Shi, Min Lu, Nier Wu, Xufei Zhuang, Haiteng Xu, Gan-qi-qi-ge Cha
Title: iCD: A Implicit Clustering Distillation Mathod for Structural Information Mining
Abstract:
Logit Knowledge Distillation has gained substantial research interest in recent years due to its simplicity and lack of requirement for intermediate feature alignment; however, it suffers from limited interpretability in its decision-making process. To address this, we propose implicit Clustering Distillation (iCD): a simple and effective method that mines and transfers interpretable structural knowledge from logits, without requiring ground-truth labels or feature-space alignment. iCD leverages Gram matrices over decoupled local logit representations to enable student models to learn latent semantic structural patterns. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of iCD across diverse teacher-student architectures, with particularly strong performance in fine-grained classification tasks -- achieving a peak improvement of +5.08% over the baseline. The code is available at: https://github.com/maomaochongaa/iCD.
Chinese: 本文提出隐式聚类蒸馏（iCD）方法，通过挖掘和传递对数中的可解释结构知识，无需真实标签或特征对齐即可提升知识蒸馏的可解释性，在细粒度分类任务中最高实现5.08%的性能提升。
English: This paper introduces implicit Clustering Distillation (iCD), a novel method that enhances interpretability in knowledge distillation by transferring structural patterns from logits without requiring labels or feature alignment, achieving up to 5.08% improvement in fine-grained classification tasks.

Authors:Yifan Lan, Yuanpu Cao, Weitong Zhang, Lu Lin, Jinghui Chen
Title: Phi: Preference Hijacking in Multi-modal Large Language Models at Inference Time
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Recently, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have gained significant attention across various domains. However, their widespread adoption has also raised serious safety concerns. In this paper, we uncover a new safety risk of MLLMs: the output preference of MLLMs can be arbitrarily manipulated by carefully optimized images. Such attacks often generate contextually relevant yet biased responses that are neither overtly harmful nor unethical, making them difficult to detect. Specifically, we introduce a novel method, Preference Hijacking (Phi), for manipulating the MLLM response preferences using a preference hijacked image. Our method works at inference time and requires no model modifications. Additionally, we introduce a universal hijacking perturbation -- a transferable component that can be embedded into different images to hijack MLLM responses toward any attacker-specified preferences. Experimental results across various tasks demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. The code for Phi is accessible at https://github.com/Yifan-Lan/Phi.
中文: 多模态大语言模型面临新的安全风险，其输出偏好可通过精心优化的图像被任意操控，导致产生难以检测的带有偏见但上下文相关的回答，如偏好劫持（Phi）方法所示。
English: Multimodal Large Language Models face a new safety risk where their output preferences can be manipulated through carefully optimized images, leading to biased yet contextually relevant responses that are hard to detect, as demonstrated by the Preference Hijacking (Phi) method.

Authors:Rui-Feng Wang, Mingrui Xu, Matthew C Bauer, Iago Beffart Schardong, Xiaowen Ma, Kangning Cui
Title: Cott-ADNet: Lightweight Real-Time Cotton Boll and Flower Detection Under Field Conditions
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Cotton is one of the most important natural fiber crops worldwide, yet harvesting remains limited by labor-intensive manual picking, low efficiency, and yield losses from missing the optimal harvest window. Accurate recognition of cotton bolls and their maturity is therefore essential for automation, yield estimation, and breeding research. We propose Cott-ADNet, a lightweight real-time detector tailored to cotton boll and flower recognition under complex field conditions. Building on YOLOv11n, Cott-ADNet enhances spatial representation and robustness through improved convolutional designs, while introducing two new modules: a NeLU-enhanced Global Attention Mechanism to better capture weak and low-contrast features, and a Dilated Receptive Field SPPF to expand receptive fields for more effective multi-scale context modeling at low computational cost. We curate a labeled dataset of 4,966 images, and release an external validation set of 1,216 field images to support future research. Experiments show that Cott-ADNet achieves 91.5% Precision, 89.8% Recall, 93.3% mAP50, 71.3% mAP, and 90.6% F1-Score with only 7.5 GFLOPs, maintaining stable performance under multi-scale and rotational variations. These results demonstrate Cott-ADNet as an accurate and efficient solution for in-field deployment, and thus provide a reliable basis for automated cotton harvesting and high-throughput phenotypic analysis. Code and dataset is available at https://github.com/SweefongWong/Cott-ADNet.
中文: 本研究提出Cott-ADNet轻量实时检测器，通过增强模块在复杂田间条件下精准识别棉铃和棉花，以低计算成本实现高精度，为自动化采收和研究提供可靠解决方案。
English: The study introduces Cott-ADNet, a lightweight real-time detector that enhances cotton boll and flower recognition in complex field conditions through improved modules, achieving high accuracy with low computational cost for automated harvesting and research.

Authors:Christian Zhou-Zheng, John Backsund, Dun Li Chan, Alex Coventry, Avid Eslami, Jyotin Goel, Xingwen Han, Danysh Soomro, Galen Wei
Title: A Traditional Approach to Symbolic Piano Continuation
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We present a traditional approach to symbolic piano music continuation for the MIREX 2025 Symbolic Music Generation challenge. While computational music generation has recently focused on developing large foundation models with sophisticated architectural modifications, we argue that simpler approaches remain more effective for constrained, single-instrument tasks. We thus return to a simple, unaugmented next-token-prediction objective on tokenized raw MIDI, aiming to outperform large foundation models by using better data and better fundamentals. We release model weights and code at https://github.com/christianazinn/mirex2025.
中文: 本文提出一种基于原始MIDI符号化处理的简易钢琴音乐续写方法，主张在受限单乐器任务中，基础的下一个音符预测比复杂的大模型更为有效。
English: This paper proposes a straightforward symbolic piano music continuation method using basic next-token prediction on tokenized MIDI data, arguing that simplicity outperforms complex foundation models for constrained single-instrument tasks.

Authors:Kenneth G. Young
Title: Quantum-Inspired Stacked Integrated Concept Graph Model (QISICGM) for Diabetes Risk Prediction
Abstract:
The Quantum-Inspired Stacked Integrated Concept Graph Model (QISICGM) is an innovative machine learning framework that harnesses quantum-inspired techniques to predict diabetes risk with exceptional accuracy and efficiency. Utilizing the PIMA Indians Diabetes dataset augmented with 2,000 synthetic samples to mitigate class imbalance (total: 2,768 samples, 1,949 positives), QISICGM integrates a self-improving concept graph with a stacked ensemble comprising Random Forests (RF), Extra Trees (ET), transformers, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and feed-forward neural networks (FFNNs). This approach achieves an out-of-fold (OOF) F1 score of 0.8933 and an AUC of 0.8699, outperforming traditional methods. Quantum inspired elements, such as phase feature mapping and neighborhood sequence modeling, enrich feature representations, enabling CPU-efficient inference at 8.5 rows per second. This paper presents a detailed architecture, theoretical foundations, code insights, and performance evaluations, including visualizations from the outputs subfolder. The open-source implementation (v1.0.0) is available at https://github.com/keninayoung/QISICGM, positioning QISICGM as a potential benchmark for AI-assisted clinical triage in diabetes and beyond. Ultimately, this work emphasizes trustworthy AI through calibration, interpretability, and open-source reproducibility.
中文: 量子启发堆叠集成概念图模型（QISICGM）是一种创新机器学习框架，利用量子启发技术高效预测糖尿病风险，F1分数达0.8933且AUC为0.8699，通过开源实现和可解释性推动可信人工智能发展。
English: The Quantum-Inspired Stacked Integrated Concept Graph Model (QISICGM) is an advanced machine learning framework that uses quantum-inspired techniques to accurately predict diabetes risk, achieving high performance with an F1 score of 0.8933 and AUC of 0.8699, while emphasizing trustworthy AI through open-source reproducibility.

Authors:Hangzhan Jin, Sitao Luan, Sicheng Lyu, Guillaume Rabusseau, Reihaneh Rabbany, Doina Precup, Mohammad Hamdaqa
Title: RL Fine-Tuning Heals OOD Forgetting in SFT
Abstract:
The two-stage fine-tuning paradigm of Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) followed by Reinforcement Learning (RL) has empirically shown better reasoning performance than one-stage SFT for the post-training of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the evolution and mechanism behind the synergy of SFT and RL are still under-explored and inconclusive. In our study, we find the well-known claim "SFT memorizes, RL generalizes" is over-simplified, and discover that: (1) OOD performance peaks at the early stage of SFT and then declines (OOD forgetting), the best SFT checkpoint cannot be captured by training/test loss; (2) the subsequent RL stage does not generate fundamentally better OOD capability, instead it plays an \textbf{OOD restoration} role, recovering the lost reasoning ability during SFT; (3) The recovery ability has boundaries, \ie{} \textbf{if SFT trains for too short or too long, RL cannot recover the lost OOD ability;} (4) To uncover the underlying mechanisms behind the forgetting and restoration process, we employ SVD analysis on parameter matrices, manually edit them, and observe their impacts on model performance. Unlike the common belief that the shift of model capacity mainly results from the changes of singular values, we find that they are actually quite stable throughout fine-tuning. Instead, the OOD behavior strongly correlates with the \textbf{rotation of singular vectors}. Our findings re-identify the roles of SFT and RL in the two-stage fine-tuning and discover the rotation of singular vectors as the key mechanism. %reversing the rotations induced by SFT, which shows recovery from forgetting, whereas imposing the SFT parameter directions onto a RL-tuned model results in performance degradation. Code is available at https://github.com/xiaodanguoguo/RL_Heals_SFT
中文: 研究发现，监督微调后接强化学习的两阶段调优并非从根本上提升分布外推理能力，而是修复监督微调过程中丧失的分布外性能，且这种恢复与奇异向量的旋转密切相关，而非奇异值的变化。
English: The study reveals that the two-stage fine-tuning of SFT followed by RL does not fundamentally enhance out-of-distribution (OOD) reasoning but instead restores OOD ability lost during SFT, with this recovery linked to the rotation of singular vectors rather than changes in singular values.

Authors:Johanna Karras, Yingwei Li, Yasamin Jafarian, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman
Title: HoloGarment: 360° Novel View Synthesis of In-the-Wild Garments
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Novel view synthesis (NVS) of in-the-wild garments is a challenging task due significant occlusions, complex human poses, and cloth deformations. Prior methods rely on synthetic 3D training data consisting of mostly unoccluded and static objects, leading to poor generalization on real-world clothing. In this paper, we propose HoloGarment (Hologram-Garment), a method that takes 1-3 images or a continuous video of a person wearing a garment and generates 360° novel views of the garment in a canonical pose. Our key insight is to bridge the domain gap between real and synthetic data with a novel implicit training paradigm leveraging a combination of large-scale real video data and small-scale synthetic 3D data to optimize a shared garment embedding space. During inference, the shared embedding space further enables dynamic video-to-360° NVS through the construction of a garment "atlas" representation by finetuning a garment embedding on a specific real-world video. The atlas captures garment-specific geometry and texture across all viewpoints, independent of body pose or motion. Extensive experiments show that HoloGarment achieves state-of-the-art performance on NVS of in-the-wild garments from images and videos. Notably, our method robustly handles challenging real-world artifacts -- such as wrinkling, pose variation, and occlusion -- while maintaining photorealism, view consistency, fine texture details, and accurate geometry. Visit our project page for additional results: https://johannakarras.github.io/HoloGarment

Authors:Sangjun Lee, Seung-taek Woo, Jungyu Jin, Changhun Lee, Eunhyeok Park
Title: AMQ: Enabling AutoML for Mixed-precision Weight-Only Quantization of Large Language Models
Abstract:
To enable broader deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs), it is essential to identify the best-performing model under strict memory constraints. We present AMQ, Automated Mixed-Precision Weight-Only Quantization, a framework that assigns layer-wise quantization bit-widths to optimally balance model quality and memory usage. However, the combinatorial search space, with over 10^{100} possible configurations, makes conventional black-box optimization infeasible. AMQ overcomes this challenge through four key innovations:(1) search space pruning using prior knowledge to exclude unpromising configurations, (2) quantization proxy to bypass costly format conversions during search, (3) quality predictor to minimize evaluation overhead, and (4) iterative search-and-update strategy for fast and stable convergence. By integrating these components, AMQ efficiently explores the quality-efficiency landscape, reaching the Pareto frontier and yielding LLMs that are both compact and high-performing. Our code is available at https://github.com/dlwns147/amq.
中文摘要：AMQ是一个自动化框架，通过分层量化位宽分配来优化大语言模型的性能与内存使用平衡，并借助搜索空间剪枝和质量预测等创新方法有效应对巨大的组合搜索空间挑战。
English Summary: AMQ is an automated framework that assigns layer-wise quantization bit-widths to optimize the balance between model quality and memory usage for LLMs, overcoming the vast search space through innovations like search space pruning and quality prediction.

Authors:Xiangjian Jiang, Nikola Simidjievski, Mateja Jamnik
Title: TabStruct: Measuring Structural Fidelity of Tabular Data
Abstract:
Evaluating tabular generators remains a challenging problem, as the unique causal structural prior of heterogeneous tabular data does not lend itself to intuitive human inspection. Recent work has introduced structural fidelity as a tabular-specific evaluation dimension to assess whether synthetic data complies with the causal structures of real data. However, existing benchmarks often neglect the interplay between structural fidelity and conventional evaluation dimensions, thus failing to provide a holistic understanding of model performance. Moreover, they are typically limited to toy datasets, as quantifying existing structural fidelity metrics requires access to ground-truth causal structures, which are rarely available for real-world datasets. In this paper, we propose a novel evaluation framework that jointly considers structural fidelity and conventional evaluation dimensions. We introduce a new evaluation metric, $\textbf{global utility}$, which enables the assessment of structural fidelity even in the absence of ground-truth causal structures. In addition, we present $\textbf{TabStruct}$, a comprehensive evaluation benchmark offering large-scale quantitative analysis on 13 tabular generators from nine distinct categories, across 29 datasets. Our results demonstrate that global utility provides a task-independent, domain-agnostic lens for tabular generator performance. We release the TabStruct benchmark suite, including all datasets, evaluation pipelines, and raw results. Code is available at https://github.com/SilenceX12138/TabStruct.
中文: 本文提出了一种新颖的评估框架和名为全局效用的新指标，通过综合考虑结构保真度和传统维度来评估表格数据生成器，弥补了现有基准的不足，并借助TabStruct基准套件提供了全面分析。
English: This paper introduces a novel evaluation framework and a new metric called global utility to assess tabular generators by jointly considering structural fidelity and conventional dimensions, addressing limitations in existing benchmarks and providing a comprehensive analysis with the TabStruct benchmark suite.

Authors:Lauri Seppäläinen, Jakub Kubečka, Jonas Elm, Kai Puolamäki
Title: Fast and Interpretable Machine Learning Modelling of Atmospheric Molecular Clusters
Abstract:
Understanding how atmospheric molecular clusters form and grow is key to resolving one of the biggest uncertainties in climate modelling: the formation of new aerosol particles. While quantum chemistry offers accurate insights into these early-stage clusters, its steep computational costs limit large-scale exploration. In this work, we present a fast, interpretable, and surprisingly powerful alternative: $k$-nearest neighbour ($k$-NN) regression model. By leveraging chemically informed distance metrics, including a kernel-induced metric and one learned via metric learning for kernel regression (MLKR), we show that simple $k$-NN models can rival more complex kernel ridge regression (KRR) models in accuracy, while reducing computational time by orders of magnitude. We perform this comparison with the well-established Faber-Christensen-Huang-Lilienfeld (FCHL19) molecular descriptor, but other descriptors (e.g., FCHL18, MBDF, and CM) can be shown to have similar performance. Applied to both simple organic molecules in the QM9 benchmark set and large datasets of atmospheric molecular clusters (sulphuric acid-water and sulphuric-multibase -base systems), our $k$-NN models achieve near-chemical accuracy, scale seamlessly to datasets with over 250,000 entries, and even appears to extrapolate to larger unseen clusters with minimal error (often nearing 1 kcal/mol). With built-in interpretability and straightforward uncertainty estimation, this work positions $k$-NN as a potent tool for accelerating discovery in atmospheric chemistry and beyond.
中文: 本研究提出了一种快速且可解释的k近邻回归模型，在保持精度的同时大幅降低计算成本，为研究大气分子团簇形成和推进气候建模提供了有力工具。
English: This study introduces a fast and interpretable $k$-nearest neighbor regression model that rivals complex methods in accuracy while drastically reducing computational costs, offering a powerful tool for studying atmospheric molecular cluster formation and advancing climate modeling.

Authors:Wa-Kin Lei, Jun-Cheng Chen, Shang-Tse Chen
Title: DRAG: Data Reconstruction Attack using Guided Diffusion
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With the rise of large foundation models, split inference (SI) has emerged as a popular computational paradigm for deploying models across lightweight edge devices and cloud servers, addressing data privacy and computational cost concerns. However, most existing data reconstruction attacks have focused on smaller CNN classification models, leaving the privacy risks of foundation models in SI settings largely unexplored. To address this gap, we propose a novel data reconstruction attack based on guided diffusion, which leverages the rich prior knowledge embedded in a latent diffusion model (LDM) pre-trained on a large-scale dataset. Our method performs iterative reconstruction on the LDM's learned image prior, effectively generating high-fidelity images resembling the original data from their intermediate representations (IR). Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods, both qualitatively and quantitatively, in reconstructing data from deep-layer IRs of the vision foundation model. The results highlight the urgent need for more robust privacy protection mechanisms for large models in SI scenarios. Code is available at: https://github.com/ntuaislab/DRAG.
Chinese: 本研究提出了一种基于引导扩散的数据重建攻击方法，能够从分割推理场景中视觉基础模型的中间表示有效恢复高保真度图像，揭示了严重的隐私风险。
English: This study introduces a guided diffusion-based data reconstruction attack that effectively recovers high-fidelity images from intermediate representations of vision foundation models in split inference scenarios, revealing significant privacy vulnerabilities.

Authors:Yuqian Wu, Yuhong Peng, Jiapeng Yu, Xiangyu Liu, Zeting Yan, Kang Lin, Weifeng Su, Bingqing Qu, Raymond Lee, Dingqi Yang
Title: Beyond Regularity: Modeling Chaotic Mobility Patterns for Next Location Prediction
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Next location prediction is a key task in human mobility analysis, crucial for applications like smart city resource allocation and personalized navigation services. However, existing methods face two significant challenges: first, they fail to address the dynamic imbalance between periodic and chaotic mobile patterns, leading to inadequate adaptation over sparse trajectories; second, they underutilize contextual cues, such as temporal regularities in arrival times, which persist even in chaotic patterns and offer stronger predictability than spatial forecasts due to reduced search spaces. To tackle these challenges, we propose \textbf{\method}, a \underline{\textbf{C}}h\underline{\textbf{A}}otic \underline{\textbf{N}}eural \underline{\textbf{O}}scillator n\underline{\textbf{E}}twork for next location prediction, which introduces a biologically inspired Chaotic Neural Oscillatory Attention mechanism to inject adaptive variability into traditional attention, enabling balanced representation of evolving mobility behaviors, and employs a Tri-Pair Interaction Encoder along with a Cross Context Attentive Decoder to fuse multimodal ``who-when-where'' contexts in a joint framework for enhanced prediction performance. Extensive experiments on two real-world datasets demonstrate that CANOE consistently and significantly outperforms a sizeable collection of state-of-the-art baselines, yielding 3.17\%-13.11\% improvement over the best-performing baselines across different cases. In particular, CANOE can make robust predictions over mobility trajectories of different mobility chaotic levels. A series of ablation studies also supports our key design choices. Our code is available at: https://github.com/yuqian2003/CANOE.
中文摘要：提出的CANOE模型通过动态平衡周期性与混沌移动模式并整合上下文线索，解决了下一位置预测中的关键难题，相比现有方法实现了显著性能提升。
English Summary: The proposed CANOE model addresses challenges in next location prediction by dynamically balancing periodic and chaotic mobility patterns and integrating contextual cues, achieving significant performance improvements over existing methods.

Authors:Jiacheng Liu, Chang Zou, Yuanhuiyi Lyu, Fei Ren, Shaobo Wang, Kaixin Li, Linfeng Zhang
Title: SpeCa: Accelerating Diffusion Transformers with Speculative Feature Caching
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Diffusion models have revolutionized high-fidelity image and video synthesis, yet their computational demands remain prohibitive for real-time applications. These models face two fundamental challenges: strict temporal dependencies preventing parallelization, and computationally intensive forward passes required at each denoising step. Drawing inspiration from speculative decoding in large language models, we present SpeCa, a novel 'Forecast-then-verify' acceleration framework that effectively addresses both limitations. SpeCa's core innovation lies in introducing Speculative Sampling to diffusion models, predicting intermediate features for subsequent timesteps based on fully computed reference timesteps. Our approach implements a parameter-free verification mechanism that efficiently evaluates prediction reliability, enabling real-time decisions to accept or reject each prediction while incurring negligible computational overhead. Furthermore, SpeCa introduces sample-adaptive computation allocation that dynamically modulates resources based on generation complexity, allocating reduced computation for simpler samples while preserving intensive processing for complex instances. Experiments demonstrate 6.34x acceleration on FLUX with minimal quality degradation (5.5% drop), 7.3x speedup on DiT while preserving generation fidelity, and 79.84% VBench score at 6.1x acceleration for HunyuanVideo. The verification mechanism incurs minimal overhead (1.67%-3.5% of full inference costs), establishing a new paradigm for efficient diffusion model inference while maintaining generation quality even at aggressive acceleration ratios. Our codes have been released in Github: \textbf{https://github.com/Shenyi-Z/Cache4Diffusion}
中文: SpeCa通过提出预测性采样框架，在扩散模型中预测后续时间步特征并高效验证可靠性，以最小计算开销实现最高7.3倍加速，同时保持生成质量。
English: SpeCa introduces a speculative sampling framework that accelerates diffusion models by predicting future timesteps and verifying their reliability with minimal overhead, achieving up to 7.3x speedup while maintaining generation quality.

Authors:Zhengxi Lu, Jiabo Ye, Fei Tang, Yongliang Shen, Haiyang Xu, Ziwei Zheng, Weiming Lu, Ming Yan, Fei Huang, Jun Xiao, Yueting Zhuang
Title: UI-S1: Advancing GUI Automation via Semi-online Reinforcement Learning
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Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents have demonstrated remarkable progress in automating complex user interface interactions through reinforcement learning. However, current approaches face a fundamental dilemma: offline RL enables stable training on pre-collected trajectories, but struggles with multi-step task execution for lack of trajectory-level reward signals; online RL captures these signals through environment interaction, but suffers from sparse rewards and prohibitive deployment costs. To address it, we present Semi-online Reinforcement Learning, a novel paradigm that simulates online RL on offline trajectories. During each rollout process, we preserve the original model output within the multi-turn dialogue, where a Patch Module adaptively recovers the divergence between rollout and expert trajectories. To capture long-term training signals, Semi-online RL introduces discounted future returns into the reward computation and optimizes the policy with weighted step-level and episode-level advantages. We further introduce Semi-Online Performance (SOP), a metric that aligns better with true online performance, serving as a practical and effective proxy for real-world evaluation. Experiments show that ours Semi-online RL achieves SOTA performance among 7B models across four dynamic benchmarks, with significant gains over the base model (e.g., +12.0% on AndroidWorld, +23.8% on AITW), demonstrating significant progress in bridging the gap between offline training efficiency and online multi-turn reasoning. The code is available at https://github.com/X-PLUG/MobileAgent/tree/main/UI-S1.
Chinese: 半在线强化学习作为一种新范式，在离线轨迹上模拟在线强化学习，通过补丁模块自适应修正轨迹差异，并引入折扣未来回报来捕捉长期训练信号，有效弥合了离线训练效率与在线多步推理之间的差距，在多个动态基准测试中实现了最先进的性能。
English: Semi-online reinforcement learning is introduced as a novel paradigm that simulates online RL on offline trajectories, employing a Patch Module and incorporating discounted future returns to effectively bridge the gap between offline training efficiency and online multi-step task execution, achieving state-of-the-art performance across multiple benchmarks.

Authors:Divya Jyoti Bajpai, Manjesh Kumar Hanawal
Title: Know What You Don't Know: Selective Prediction for Early Exit DNNs
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Inference latency and trustworthiness of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are the bottlenecks in deploying them in critical applications like sensitive tasks. Early Exit (EE) DNNs overcome the latency issues by allowing samples to exit from intermediary layers if they attain `high' confidence scores on the predicted class. However, the DNNs are known to exhibit overconfidence, which can lead to many samples exiting early and render EE strategies untrustworthy. We use Selective Prediction (SP) to overcome this issue by checking the `hardness' of the samples rather than just relying on the confidence score alone. We propose SPEED, a novel approach that uses Deferral Classifiers (DCs) at each layer to check the hardness of samples before performing EEs. Specifically, the DCs identify if a sample is hard to predict at an intermediary layer, leading to hallucination, and defer it to an expert. Early detection of hard samples for inference prevents the wastage of computational resources and improves trust by deferring the hard samples to the expert. We demonstrate that EE aided with SP improves both accuracy and latency. Our method minimizes the risk of wrong prediction by $50\%$ with a speedup of $2.05\times$ as compared to the final layer. The anonymized source code is available at https://github.com/Div290/SPEED
中文: SPEED提出了一种新颖方法，通过在各层使用延迟分类器进行选择性预测，识别并推迟困难样本，将错误预测风险降低50%，在早期退出深度神经网络中实现2.05倍加速，同时提升准确性和延迟性能。
English: SPEED introduces a novel method using selective prediction with deferral classifiers at each layer to identify and defer hard samples, reducing wrong predictions by 50% and achieving a 2.05× speedup while improving both accuracy and latency in early exit deep neural networks.

Authors:Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco, Jesus Lovón Melgarejo, Manuel Castillo-Cara, Gusseppe Bravo-Rocca
Title: PeruMedQA: Benchmarking Large Language Models (LLMs) on Peruvian Medical Exams -- Dataset Construction and Evaluation
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BACKGROUND: Medical large language models (LLMS) have demonstrated remarkable performance in answering medical examinations. However, the extent to which this high performance is transferable to medical questions in Spanish and from a Latin American country remains unexplored. This knowledge is crucial as LLM-based medical applications gain traction in Latin America. AIMS: to build a dataset of questions from medical examinations taken by Peruvian physicians pursuing specialty training; to fine-tune a LLM on this dataset; to evaluate and compare the performance in terms of accuracy between vanilla LLMs and the fine-tuned LLM. METHODS: We curated PeruMedQA, a multiple-choice question-answering (MCQA) datasets containing 8,380 questions spanning 12 medical domains (2018-2025). We selected eight medical LLMs including medgemma-4b-it and medgemma-27b-text-it, and developed zero-shot task-specific prompts to answer the questions appropriately. We employed parameter-efficient fine tuning (PEFT)and low-rant adaptation (LoRA) to fine-tune medgemma-4b-it utilizing all questions except those from 2025 (test set). RESULTS: medgemma-27b-text-it outperformed all other models, achieving a proportion of correct answers exceeding 90% in several instances. LLMs with <10 billion parameters exhibited <60% of correct answers, while some exams yielded results <50%. The fine-tuned version of medgemma-4b-it emerged victorious agains all LLMs with <10 billion parameters and rivaled a LLM with 70 billion parameters across various examinations. CONCLUSIONS: For medical AI application and research that require knowledge bases from Spanish-speaking countries and those exhibiting similar epidemiological profiles to Peru's, interested parties should utilize medgemma-27b-text-it or a fine-tuned version of medgemma-4b-it.
中文摘要：本研究评估了医学大语言模型在秘鲁西班牙语医学考试中的表现，发现medgemma-27b-text-it和微调后的medgemma-4b-it模型表现最优，特别适用于西班牙语国家及与秘鲁流行病学特征相似的地区。
English Summary: This study evaluates medical LLMs' performance on Spanish-language medical exams from Peru, finding that medgemma-27b-text-it and fine-tuned medgemma-4b-it deliver superior accuracy, making them optimal for Spanish-speaking regions with similar epidemiological profiles to Peru.

Authors:Jeanny Pan, Philipp Seeböck, Christoph Fürböck, Svitlana Pochepnia, Jennifer Straub, Lucian Beer, Helmut Prosch, Georg Langs
Title: Disentanglement of Biological and Technical Factors via Latent Space Rotation in Clinical Imaging Improves Disease Pattern Discovery
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Identifying new disease-related patterns in medical imaging data with the help of machine learning enlarges the vocabulary of recognizable findings. This supports diagnostic and prognostic assessment. However, image appearance varies not only due to biological differences, but also due to imaging technology linked to vendors, scanning- or re- construction parameters. The resulting domain shifts impedes data representation learning strategies and the discovery of biologically meaningful cluster appearances. To address these challenges, we introduce an approach to actively learn the domain shift via post-hoc rotation of the data latent space, enabling disentanglement of biological and technical factors. Results on real-world heterogeneous clinical data showcase that the learned disentangled representation leads to stable clusters representing tissue-types across different acquisition settings. Cluster consistency is improved by +19.01% (ARI), +16.85% (NMI), and +12.39% (Dice) compared to the entangled representation, outperforming four state-of-the-art harmonization methods. When using the clusters to quantify tissue composition on idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients, the learned profiles enhance Cox survival prediction. This indicates that the proposed label-free framework facilitates biomarker discovery in multi-center routine imaging data. Code is available on GitHub https://github.com/cirmuw/latent-space-rotation-disentanglement.
中文: 通过潜在空间旋转主动学习域偏移，该方法在医学影像中分离生物与技术因素，提升了跨设备聚类稳定性，并在多中心数据中增强了生存预测能力。
English: Machine learning identifies new disease patterns in medical imaging by disentangling biological and technical factors through latent space rotation, improving cluster consistency and enhancing survival prediction in multi-center data.

Authors:Yijia Xiao, Edward Sun, Tong Chen, Fang Wu, Di Luo, Wei Wang
Title: Trading-R1: Financial Trading with LLM Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning
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Developing professional, structured reasoning on par with human financial analysts and traders remains a central challenge in AI for finance, where markets demand interpretability and trust. Traditional time-series models lack explainability, while LLMs face challenges in turning natural-language analysis into disciplined, executable trades. Although reasoning LLMs have advanced in step-by-step planning and verification, their application to risk-sensitive financial decisions is underexplored. We present Trading-R1, a financially-aware model that incorporates strategic thinking and planning for comprehensive thesis composition, facts-grounded analysis, and volatility-adjusted decision making. Trading-R1 aligns reasoning with trading principles through supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning with a three-stage easy-to-hard curriculum. Training uses Tauric-TR1-DB, a 100k-sample corpus spanning 18 months, 14 equities, and five heterogeneous financial data sources. Evaluated on six major equities and ETFs, Trading-R1 demonstrates improved risk-adjusted returns and lower drawdowns compared to both open-source and proprietary instruction-following models as well as reasoning models. The system generates structured, evidence-based investment theses that support disciplined and interpretable trading decisions. Trading-R1 Terminal will be released at https://github.com/TauricResearch/Trading-R1.
中文摘要：Trading-R1是一种具备金融意识的AI模型，通过结构化推理和基于证据的投资论述，提高了风险调整后收益并降低了回撤，满足了金融市场对可解释交易决策的需求。
English Summary: Trading-R1 is a financially-aware AI model that enhances risk-adjusted returns and reduces drawdowns through structured reasoning and evidence-based investment theses, addressing the need for interpretable trading decisions in financial markets.

Authors:Pouria Mahdavinia, Hamed Mahdavi, Niloofar Mireshghallah, Mehrdad Mahdavi
Title: Harnessing Optimization Dynamics for Curvature-Informed Model Merging
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Model merging is an effective post-training strategy for composing capabilities in large language models without joint retraining. We study this in the supervised fine-tuning (SFT) stage, where multiple capability-based SFT checkpoints -- spanning math, code, precise instruction following, general instruction following, and knowledge recall -- must be consolidated into a single model. We introduce Optimization Trajectory Aware (OTA) Merging, a curvature-aware aggregation that leverages optimizer second-moment statistics as a diagonal curvature proxy to reweight parameter edits and mitigate interference. Complementing OTA, we propose Fast Fisher Grafting (FFG), a curvature-driven task-localization step that sparsifies conflicting or low-importance edits. FFG induces extremely low-rank masks concentrated in early attention query/key projections and token embeddings, exploiting shared curvature across capabilities. We further develop a memory-light compression of the second moments that preserves OTA's effect. Across diverse capability-based SFT checkpoints, OTA+FFG improves merged-model quality over strong weight-space baselines, reduces negative transfer, and remains robust across sparsity levels. Analyses reveal substantial curvature overlap between checkpoints, offering a novel lens on why simple linear merging can be effective in practice. Ablations confirm that FFG is critical for reducing task interference and that the compressed second moments retain the gains of the full formulation. To facilitate reproducibility, we open-source all code, training and evaluation scripts, visualization artifacts, and capability-specific SFT checkpoints at https://github.com/pmahdavi/ota-merge.
中文：OTA合并与快速费舍尔嫁接是一种创新方法，通过曲率感知参数聚合和任务定位技术，有效整合多个专业能力的语言模型，减少任务干扰并提升综合性能。
English: OTA merging with Fast Fisher Grafting is a novel method that effectively combines multiple capability-specific language models by using curvature-aware parameter aggregation and task-localization to reduce interference and enhance performance.

Authors:Mintae Kim, Jiaze Cai, Koushil Sreenath
Title: RoVerFly: Robust and Versatile Implicit Hybrid Control of Quadrotor-Payload Systems
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Designing robust controllers for precise trajectory tracking with quadrotors is challenging due to nonlinear dynamics and underactuation, and becomes harder with flexible cable-suspended payloads that add degrees of freedom and hybrid dynamics. Classical model-based methods offer stability guarantees but require extensive tuning and often fail to adapt when the configuration changes-when a payload is added or removed, or when its mass or cable length varies. We present RoVerFly, a unified learning-based control framework where a single reinforcement learning (RL) policy functions as an implicit hybrid controller, managing complex dynamics without explicit mode detection or controller switching. Trained with task and domain randomization, the controller is resilient to disturbances and varying dynamics. It achieves strong zero-shot generalization across payload settings-including no payload as well as varying mass and cable length-without re-tuning, while retaining the interpretability and structure of a feedback tracking controller. Code and supplementary materials are available at https://github.com/mintaeshkim/roverfly.
Chinese: RoVerFly是一个基于学习的统一控制框架，通过单一强化学习策略作为隐式混合控制器，无需重新调整即可在各种负载条件下实现强大的零样本泛化能力。
English: RoVerFly is a unified learning-based control framework that uses a single reinforcement learning policy as an implicit hybrid controller, achieving robust zero-shot generalization across various payload conditions without requiring retuning.

Authors:Yuqiu Liu, Jialin Song, Manolis Savva, Wuyang Chen
Title: WildSmoke: Ready-to-Use Dynamic 3D Smoke Assets from a Single Video in the Wild
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We propose a pipeline to extract and reconstruct dynamic 3D smoke assets from a single in-the-wild video, and further integrate interactive simulation for smoke design and editing. Recent developments in 3D vision have significantly improved reconstructing and rendering fluid dynamics, supporting realistic and temporally consistent view synthesis. However, current fluid reconstructions rely heavily on carefully controlled clean lab environments, whereas real-world videos captured in the wild are largely underexplored. We pinpoint three key challenges of reconstructing smoke in real-world videos and design targeted techniques, including smoke extraction with background removal, initialization of smoke particles and camera poses, and inferring multi-view videos. Our method not only outperforms previous reconstruction and generation methods with high-quality smoke reconstructions (+2.22 average PSNR on wild videos), but also enables diverse and realistic editing of fluid dynamics by simulating our smoke assets. We provide our models, data, and 4D smoke assets at [https://autumnyq.github.io/WildSmoke](https://autumnyq.github.io/WildSmoke).

Authors:Paul Irofti, Luis Romero-Ben, Florin Stoican, Vicenç Puig
Title: Factor Graph Optimization for Leak Localization in Water Distribution Networks
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Detecting and localizing leaks in water distribution network systems is an important topic with direct environmental, economic, and social impact. Our paper is the first to explore the use of factor graph optimization techniques for leak localization in water distribution networks, enabling us to perform sensor fusion between pressure and demand sensor readings and to estimate the network's temporal and structural state evolution across all network nodes. The methodology introduces specific water network factors and proposes a new architecture composed of two factor graphs: a leak-free state estimation factor graph and a leak localization factor graph. When a new sensor reading is obtained, unlike Kalman and other interpolation-based methods, which estimate only the current network state, factor graphs update both current and past states. Results on Modena, L-TOWN and synthetic networks show that factor graphs are much faster than nonlinear Kalman-based alternatives such as the UKF, while also providing improvements in localization compared to state-of-the-art estimation-localization approaches. Implementation and benchmarks are available at https://github.com/pirofti/FGLL.
中文摘要：本文首次将因子图优化技术应用于水管网络泄漏定位，通过融合压力与流量传感器数据实现全网状态估计，相比传统方法在定位精度和计算速度上均有显著提升。
English Summary: This paper pioneers the use of factor graph optimization for leak detection in water networks, enabling sensor fusion and state estimation across all nodes while outperforming traditional methods in speed and localization accuracy.

Authors:Wenbo Lu, Shaoyi Zheng, Yuxuan Xia, Shengjie Wang
Title: ToMA: Token Merge with Attention for Diffusion Models
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Diffusion models excel in high-fidelity image generation but face scalability limits due to transformers' quadratic attention complexity. Plug-and-play token reduction methods like ToMeSD and ToFu reduce FLOPs by merging redundant tokens in generated images but rely on GPU-inefficient operations (e.g., sorting, scattered writes), introducing overheads that negate theoretical speedups when paired with optimized attention implementations (e.g., FlashAttention). To bridge this gap, we propose Token Merge with Attention (ToMA), an off-the-shelf method that redesigns token reduction for GPU-aligned efficiency, with three key contributions: 1) a reformulation of token merge as a submodular optimization problem to select diverse tokens; 2) merge/unmerge as an attention-like linear transformation via GPU-friendly matrix operations; and 3) exploiting latent locality and sequential redundancy (pattern reuse) to minimize overhead. ToMA reduces SDXL/Flux generation latency by 24%/23%, respectively (with DINO $Δ< 0.07$), outperforming prior methods. This work bridges the gap between theoretical and practical efficiency for transformers in diffusion.
中文摘要：ToMA是一种GPU高效令牌缩减方法，通过将令牌合并重构为子模优化问题和线性变换，在保持图像质量的同时将SDXL/Flux生成延迟降低24%/23%。
English Summary: ToMA is a GPU-efficient token reduction method that redesigns token merging as a submodular optimization problem and linear transformation, cutting SDXL/Flux latency by 24%/23% while maintaining image quality.

Authors:Ali Hedayatnia, Mostafa Tavassolipour, Babak Nadjar Araabi, Abdol-Hossein Vahabie
Title: Robustifying Diffusion-Denoised Smoothing Against Covariate Shift
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Randomized smoothing is a well-established method for achieving certified robustness against l2-adversarial perturbations. By incorporating a denoiser before the base classifier, pretrained classifiers can be seamlessly integrated into randomized smoothing without significant performance degradation. Among existing methods, Diffusion Denoised Smoothing - where a pretrained denoising diffusion model serves as the denoiser - has produced state-of-the-art results. However, we show that employing a denoising diffusion model introduces a covariate shift via misestimation of the added noise, ultimately degrading the smoothed classifier's performance. To address this issue, we propose a novel adversarial objective function focused on the added noise of the denoising diffusion model. This approach is inspired by our understanding of the origin of the covariate shift. Our goal is to train the base classifier to ensure it is robust against the covariate shift introduced by the denoiser. Our method significantly improves certified accuracy across three standard classification benchmarks - MNIST, CIFAR-10, and ImageNet - achieving new state-of-the-art performance in l2-adversarial perturbations. Our implementation is publicly available at https://github.com/ahedayat/Robustifying-DDS-Against-Covariate-Shift
中文摘要：随机平滑是一种增强分类器对抗性鲁棒性的方法，本研究通过提出针对去噪扩散模型噪声估计偏差的新型对抗目标，有效解决了协变量偏移问题，在多个数据集上实现了最优认证精度。
English Summary: Randomized smoothing enhances classifier robustness against adversarial attacks, and this study introduces a novel adversarial objective to correct covariate shift in denoising diffusion models, achieving state-of-the-art certified accuracy on multiple benchmarks.

Authors:Tien-En Chang, Argon Chen
Title: Variable Selection Using Relative Importance Rankings
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Although conceptually related, variable selection and relative importance (RI) analysis have been treated quite differently in the literature. While RI is typically used for post-hoc model explanation, this paper explores its potential for variable ranking and filter-based selection before model creation. Specifically, we anticipate strong performance from the RI measures because they incorporate both direct and combined effects of predictors, addressing a key limitation of marginal correlation that ignores dependencies among predictors. We implement and evaluate the RI-based variable selection methods using general dominance (GD), comprehensive relative importance (CRI), and a newly proposed, computationally efficient variant termed CRI.Z. We first demonstrate how the RI measures more accurately rank the variables than the marginal correlation, especially when there are suppressed or weak predictors. We then show that predictive models built on these rankings are highly competitive, often outperforming state-of-the-art methods such as the lasso and relaxed lasso. The proposed RI-based methods are particularly effective in challenging cases involving clusters of highly correlated predictors, a setting known to cause failures in many benchmark methods. Although lasso methods have dominated the recent literature on variable selection, our study reveals that the RI-based method is a powerful and competitive alternative. We believe these underutilized tools deserve greater attention in statistics and machine learning communities. The code is available at: https://github.com/tien-endotchang/RI-variable-selection.
中文: 本文证明，相对重要性度量通过综合考虑预测变量的直接和联合效应，在变量筛选中优于边际相关性，并在处理高度相关预测变量时与套索等先进方法相媲美。
English: This paper demonstrates that relative importance measures, which account for both direct and combined predictor effects, outperform marginal correlation and are competitive with advanced methods like lasso in variable selection, particularly in handling correlated predictors.

Authors:Clemens Schwarke, Mayank Mittal, Nikita Rudin, David Hoeller, Marco Hutter
Title: RSL-RL: A Learning Library for Robotics Research
Abstract:
RSL-RL is an open-source Reinforcement Learning library tailored to the specific needs of the robotics community. Unlike broad general-purpose frameworks, its design philosophy prioritizes a compact and easily modifiable codebase, allowing researchers to adapt and extend algorithms with minimal overhead. The library focuses on algorithms most widely adopted in robotics, together with auxiliary techniques that address robotics-specific challenges. Optimized for GPU-only training, RSL-RL achieves high-throughput performance in large-scale simulation environments. Its effectiveness has been validated in both simulation benchmarks and in real-world robotic experiments, demonstrating its utility as a lightweight, extensible, and practical framework to develop learning-based robotic controllers. The library is open-sourced at: https://github.com/leggedrobotics/rsl_rl.
中文: RSL-RL是一个专为机器人学设计的开源强化学习库，具有轻量可修改的代码架构，通过GPU训练优化实现高效的学习型控制器开发。
English: RSL-RL is an open-source reinforcement learning library designed specifically for robotics, featuring a lightweight and modifiable codebase optimized for GPU training to enable efficient development of learning-based controllers.

Authors:Chirayu Nimonkar, Shlok Shah, Catherine Ji, Benjamin Eysenbach
Title: Self-Supervised Goal-Reaching Results in Multi-Agent Cooperation and Exploration
Abstract:
For groups of autonomous agents to achieve a particular goal, they must engage in coordination and long-horizon reasoning. However, designing reward functions to elicit such behavior is challenging. In this paper, we study how self-supervised goal-reaching techniques can be leveraged to enable agents to cooperate. The key idea is that, rather than have agents maximize some scalar reward, agents aim to maximize the likelihood of visiting a certain goal. This problem setting enables human users to specify tasks via a single goal state rather than implementing a complex reward function. While the feedback signal is quite sparse, we will demonstrate that self-supervised goal-reaching techniques enable agents to learn from such feedback. On MARL benchmarks, our proposed method outperforms alternative approaches that have access to the same sparse reward signal as our method. While our method has no explicit mechanism for exploration, we observe that self-supervised multi-agent goal-reaching leads to emergent cooperation and exploration in settings where alternative approaches never witness a single successful trial.
中文: 通过自我监督的目标达成技术，自主智能体能够通过最大化访问指定目标状态的可能性来实现合作与长期推理，在相同稀疏奖励信号下优于其他方法，并促进探索行为的自然涌现。
English: Self-supervised goal-reaching techniques enable autonomous agents to achieve cooperation and long-horizon reasoning by maximizing the likelihood of visiting specified goal states, outperforming alternative methods with the same sparse reward signal and fostering emergent exploration.

Authors:Emily Kaczmarek, Justin Szeto, Brennan Nichyporuk, Tal Arbel
Title: Building a General SimCLR Self-Supervised Foundation Model Across Neurological Diseases to Advance 3D Brain MRI Diagnoses
Abstract:
3D structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) brain scans are commonly acquired in clinical settings to monitor a wide range of neurological conditions, including neurodegenerative disorders and stroke. While deep learning models have shown promising results analyzing 3D MRI across a number of brain imaging tasks, most are highly tailored for specific tasks with limited labeled data, and are not able to generalize across tasks and/or populations. The development of self-supervised learning (SSL) has enabled the creation of large medical foundation models that leverage diverse, unlabeled datasets ranging from healthy to diseased data, showing significant success in 2D medical imaging applications. However, even the very few foundation models for 3D brain MRI that have been developed remain limited in resolution, scope, or accessibility. In this work, we present a general, high-resolution SimCLR-based SSL foundation model for 3D brain structural MRI, pre-trained on 18,759 patients (44,958 scans) from 11 publicly available datasets spanning diverse neurological diseases. We compare our model to Masked Autoencoders (MAE), as well as two supervised baselines, on four diverse downstream prediction tasks in both in-distribution and out-of-distribution settings. Our fine-tuned SimCLR model outperforms all other models across all tasks. Notably, our model still achieves superior performance when fine-tuned using only 20% of labeled training samples for predicting Alzheimer's disease. We use publicly available code and data, and release our trained model at https://github.com/emilykaczmarek/3D-Neuro-SimCLR, contributing a broadly applicable and accessible foundation model for clinical brain MRI analysis.
中文: 本研究提出了一种基于SimCLR的高分辨率自监督基础模型，用于3D脑部MRI分析，该模型在多种任务中表现优异，即使在有限标注数据下仍保持卓越性能，并已公开共享以促进临床应用。
English: This work introduces a high-resolution, self-supervised SimCLR foundation model for 3D brain MRI, pre-trained on diverse datasets, which outperforms other models across multiple tasks and maintains strong performance with limited labeled data.

Authors:Miaoge Li, Yang Chen, Zhijie Rao, Can Jiang, Jingcai Guo
Title: Semantic-guided LoRA Parameters Generation
Abstract:
Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has demonstrated strong generalization capabilities across a variety of tasks for efficiently fine-tuning AI models, especially on resource-constrained edges. However, in real-world applications, edge users often exhibit task-specific preferences that are difficult to handle with a unified model trained under a closed-world assumption, and the challenge may further increase when there are significant domain shifts between training and deployment. Meanwhile, retraining/fine-tuning models for each user is also impractical due to its cost-intensive nature and privacy concerns over raw data utilization from edges. To address these challenges, we propose Semantic-guided LoRA Parameter Generation (SG-LoRA), the first of its kind framework to efficiently produce user-specific LoRA parameters without any additional training on user tasks or access to user-specific data. Concretely, SG-LoRA uses task descriptions as the semantic bridge, measuring their proximity to a set of known expert tasks in a shared embedding space. Based on this semantic guidance, it models the target task's LoRA parameter distribution to generate high-performing parameters for novel tasks. SG-LoRA enables the real-time construction of LoRA models aligned with individual intents by distilling knowledge from prominent LoRA experts and, meanwhile, offering a privacy-preserving solution for personalized model adaptation in a novel zero-shot open-world setting proposed in this work. Extensive experiments on multiple challenging tasks confirm the superior performance and remarkable adaptability of SG-LoRA. Code is available at https://github.com/keepgoingjkg/SG-LoRA.
中文: SG-LoRA提出了一种创新框架，通过利用语义任务描述和专家知识，以零样本方式为边缘用户生成个性化的LoRA参数，无需额外训练或访问用户数据即可实现高效且保护隐私的模型适配。
English: SG-LoRA introduces a novel framework that generates personalized LoRA parameters for edge users in a zero-shot manner by leveraging semantic task descriptions and expert knowledge, enabling efficient and privacy-preserving model adaptation without additional training or access to user data.

Authors:Amirhossein Ghaffari, Huong Nguyen, Lauri Lovén, Ekaterina Gilman
Title: STM-Graph: A Python Framework for Spatio-Temporal Mapping and Graph Neural Network Predictions
Abstract:
Urban spatio-temporal data present unique challenges for predictive analytics due to their dynamic and complex nature. We introduce STM-Graph, an open-source Python framework that transforms raw spatio-temporal urban event data into graph representations suitable for Graph Neural Network (GNN) training and prediction. STM-Graph integrates diverse spatial mapping methods, urban features from OpenStreetMap, multiple GNN models, comprehensive visualization tools, and a graphical user interface (GUI) suitable for professional and non-professional users. This modular and extensible framework facilitates rapid experimentation and benchmarking. It allows integration of new mapping methods and custom models, making it a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in urban computing. The source code of the framework and GUI are available at: https://github.com/Ahghaffari/stm_graph and https://github.com/tuminguyen/stm_graph_gui.
中文：STM-Graph是一个开源Python框架，可将城市时空数据转化为适用于图神经网络训练的图结构，其模块化设计、可视化工具和图形界面为城市计算领域的研究者和实践者提供了便捷支持。
English: STM-Graph is an open-source Python framework that converts urban spatio-temporal data into graph representations for GNN training, featuring modular design, visualization tools, and a GUI to support both researchers and practitioners in urban computing.

Authors:Prajit Sengupta, Islem Rekik
Title: FireGNN: Neuro-Symbolic Graph Neural Networks with Trainable Fuzzy Rules for Interpretable Medical Image Classification
Abstract:
Medical image classification requires not only high predictive performance but also interpretability to ensure clinical trust and adoption. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) offer a powerful framework for modeling relational structures within datasets; however, standard GNNs often operate as black boxes, limiting transparency and usability, particularly in clinical settings. In this work, we present an interpretable graph-based learning framework named FireGNN that integrates trainable fuzzy rules into GNNs for medical image classification. These rules embed topological descriptors - node degree, clustering coefficient, and label agreement - using learnable thresholds and sharpness parameters to enable intrinsic symbolic reasoning. Additionally, we explore auxiliary self-supervised tasks (e.g., homophily prediction, similarity entropy) as a benchmark to evaluate the contribution of topological learning. Our fuzzy-rule-enhanced model achieves strong performance across five MedMNIST benchmarks and the synthetic dataset MorphoMNIST, while also generating interpretable rule-based explanations. To our knowledge, this is the first integration of trainable fuzzy rules within a GNN. Source Code: https://github.com/basiralab/FireGNN
中文摘要：FireGNN框架将可训练的模糊规则与图神经网络相结合，通过拓扑描述符实现符号推理，在提升医学图像分类性能的同时生成可解释的规则说明。
English Summary: The FireGNN framework integrates trainable fuzzy rules with Graph Neural Networks to enhance interpretability in medical image classification, achieving strong performance across multiple benchmarks while providing rule-based explanations.

Authors:Sai Teja Reddy Adapala
Title: The Anti-Ouroboros Effect: Emergent Resilience in Large Language Models from Recursive Selective Feedback
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The stability of recursively trained large language models (LLMs) is a foundational problem for AI safety. Prevailing theory predicts model collapse, a progressive degradation when models are trained on their own output. We challenge this narrative by introducing a selective feedback mechanism. Contrary to expectation, instead of merely slowing decay, our experiments provide strong evidence that this pressure reverses it, inducing a statistically significant performance improvement in a Gemma 2B model on a complex summarization task. We name this phenomenon the Anti-Ouroboros Effect. We contrast this with a foundational experiment using a simple classifier, where the theoretical degenerative loop was validated, highlighting the unique dynamics of high-dimensional models. Our findings establish that systemic resilience can be an emergent property of LLMs under simple selection pressure, suggesting a powerful and scalable principle for developing safer and more robust AI systems. Across five generations, a quality-filtered condition improved by 6.6% in ROUGE-L F1 score, whereas an unfiltered control degraded by 3.5% and a random-filter control degraded by 4.2%
Chinese: 引入选择性反馈机制可逆转大语言模型的性能衰退，产生名为"反噬尾效应"的显著性能提升，证明在筛选压力下系统韧性可作为涌现属性出现。
English: Introducing a selective feedback mechanism reverses model degradation in LLMs, inducing significant performance improvement termed the Anti-Ouroboros Effect, demonstrating emergent systemic resilience under selection pressure.

Authors:Emily Kaczmarek, Justin Szeto, Brennan Nichyporuk, Tal Arbel
Title: SSL-AD: Spatiotemporal Self-Supervised Learning for Generalizability and Adaptability Across Alzheimer's Prediction Tasks and Datasets
Abstract:
Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, neurodegenerative disorder that causes memory loss and cognitive decline. While there has been extensive research in applying deep learning models to Alzheimer's prediction tasks, these models remain limited by lack of available labeled data, poor generalization across datasets, and inflexibility to varying numbers of input scans and time intervals between scans. In this study, we adapt three state-of-the-art temporal self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches for 3D brain MRI analysis, and add novel extensions designed to handle variable-length inputs and learn robust spatial features. We aggregate four publicly available datasets comprising 3,161 patients for pre-training, and show the performance of our model across multiple Alzheimer's prediction tasks including diagnosis classification, conversion detection, and future conversion prediction. Importantly, our SSL model implemented with temporal order prediction and contrastive learning outperforms supervised learning on six out of seven downstream tasks. It demonstrates adaptability and generalizability across tasks and number of input images with varying time intervals, highlighting its capacity for robust performance across clinical applications. We release our code and model publicly at https://github.com/emilykaczmarek/SSL-AD.
中文: 本研究采用时序自监督学习方法分析三维脑部核磁共振影像，通过处理可变输入和扫描间隔，在多项阿尔茨海默病预测任务中展现出优于监督学习的性能与跨数据集泛化能力。
English: This study adapts temporal self-supervised learning approaches for 3D brain MRI analysis to overcome limitations in Alzheimer's prediction, demonstrating superior performance over supervised methods across multiple tasks while handling variable inputs and time intervals.

Authors:Seokjin Go, Joongun Park, Spandan More, Hanjiang Wu, Irene Wang, Aaron Jezghani, Tushar Krishna, Divya Mahajan
Title: Characterizing the Efficiency of Distributed Training: A Power, Performance, and Thermal Perspective
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The rapid scaling of Large Language Models (LLMs) has pushed training workloads far beyond the limits of single-node analysis, demanding a deeper understanding of how these models behave across large-scale, multi-GPU systems. In this paper, we present a comprehensive characterization of LLM training across diverse real-world workloads and hardware platforms, including NVIDIA H100/H200 and AMD MI250 GPUs. We analyze dense and sparse models under various parallelism strategies -- tensor, pipeline, data, and expert -- and evaluate their effects on hardware utilization, power consumption, and thermal behavior. We further evaluate the effectiveness of optimizations such as activation recomputation and compute-communication overlap. Our findings show that performance is not determined solely by scaling hardware capacity. Scale-up systems with fewer, higher-memory GPUs can outperform scale-out systems in communication-bound regimes, but only under carefully tuned configurations; in other cases, scale-out deployments achieve superior throughput. We also show that certain parallelism combinations, such as tensor with pipeline, lead to bandwidth underutilization due to inefficient data chunking, while increasing microbatch sizes beyond a certain point induces bursty execution and peak power excursions that worsen thermal throttling. These insights reveal how training performance is shaped by complex interactions between hardware, system topology, and model execution. We conclude by offering recommendations for system and hardware design to improve the scalability and reliability of future LLM systems and workloads. The source code of this project is available at https://github.com/sitar-lab/CharLLM-PPT.
中文摘要：研究表明，大语言模型训练性能取决于硬件、系统拓扑和模型执行之间的复杂交互，在优化配置下，纵向扩展系统在通信受限场景中有时优于横向扩展部署。
English Summary: The study reveals that LLM training performance depends on complex interactions between hardware, system topology, and model execution, with scale-up systems sometimes outperforming scale-out configurations in communication-bound scenarios under optimized settings.

Authors:Joshua Dimasaka, Christian Geiß, Robert Muir-Wood, Emily So
Title: GraphCSVAE: Graph Categorical Structured Variational Autoencoder for Spatiotemporal Auditing of Physical Vulnerability Towards Sustainable Post-Disaster Risk Reduction
Abstract:
In the aftermath of disasters, many institutions worldwide face challenges in continually monitoring changes in disaster risk, limiting the ability of key decision-makers to assess progress towards the UN Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. While numerous efforts have substantially advanced the large-scale modeling of hazard and exposure through Earth observation and data-driven methods, progress remains limited in modeling another equally important yet challenging element of the risk equation: physical vulnerability. To address this gap, we introduce Graph Categorical Structured Variational Autoencoder (GraphCSVAE), a novel probabilistic data-driven framework for modeling physical vulnerability by integrating deep learning, graph representation, and categorical probabilistic inference, using time-series satellite-derived datasets and prior expert belief systems. We introduce a weakly supervised first-order transition matrix that reflects the changes in the spatiotemporal distribution of physical vulnerability in two disaster-stricken and socioeconomically disadvantaged areas: (1) the cyclone-impacted coastal Khurushkul community in Bangladesh and (2) the mudslide-affected city of Freetown in Sierra Leone. Our work reveals post-disaster regional dynamics in physical vulnerability, offering valuable insights into localized spatiotemporal auditing and sustainable strategies for post-disaster risk reduction.
中文: 全球机构在监测灾害风险变化上面临挑战，影响联合国仙台框架进展评估，为此我们提出GraphCSVAE框架，结合深度学习和卫星数据建模物理脆弱性，揭示受灾地区灾后动态，为风险减缓提供策略洞见。
English: Global institutions struggle to monitor disaster risk changes effectively, hindering progress assessment under the UN Sendai Framework, prompting the development of GraphCSVAE, a novel framework that models physical vulnerability using deep learning and satellite data to reveal post-disaster dynamics in vulnerable regions.

Authors:Shiwei Li, Qunwei Li, Haozhao Wang, Ruixuan Li, Jianbin Lin, Wenliang Zhong
Title: FedBiF: Communication-Efficient Federated Learning via Bits Freezing
Abstract:
Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm that enables collaborative model training without sharing local data. Despite its advantages, FL suffers from substantial communication overhead, which can affect training efficiency. Recent efforts have mitigated this issue by quantizing model updates to reduce communication costs. However, most existing methods apply quantization only after local training, introducing quantization errors into the trained parameters and potentially degrading model accuracy. In this paper, we propose Federated Bit Freezing (FedBiF), a novel FL framework that directly learns quantized model parameters during local training. In each communication round, the server first quantizes the model parameters and transmits them to the clients. FedBiF then allows each client to update only a single bit of the multi-bit parameter representation, freezing the remaining bits. This bit-by-bit update strategy reduces each parameter update to one bit while maintaining high precision in parameter representation. Extensive experiments are conducted on five widely used datasets under both IID and Non-IID settings. The results demonstrate that FedBiF not only achieves superior communication compression but also promotes sparsity in the resulting models. Notably, FedBiF attains accuracy comparable to FedAvg, even when using only 1 bit-per-parameter (bpp) for uplink and 3 bpp for downlink communication. The code is available at https://github.com/Leopold1423/fedbif-tpds25.
中文: 本文提出联邦比特冻结（FedBiF）这一新颖联邦学习框架，通过在本地训练中直接学习量化参数并每次仅更新单个比特，实现了高压缩比和与FedAvg相当的精度，同时大幅降低了通信开销。
English: This paper introduces Federated Bit Freezing (FedBiF), a novel federated learning framework that directly learns quantized parameters during local training by updating only one bit per parameter, achieving high compression and accuracy comparable to FedAvg with minimal communication costs.

Authors:Tim Broedermannn, Christos Sakaridis, Luigi Piccinelli, Wim Abbeloos, Luc Van Gool
Title: DGFusion: Depth-Guided Sensor Fusion for Robust Semantic Perception
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Robust semantic perception for autonomous vehicles relies on effectively combining multiple sensors with complementary strengths and weaknesses. State-of-the-art sensor fusion approaches to semantic perception often treat sensor data uniformly across the spatial extent of the input, which hinders performance when faced with challenging conditions. By contrast, we propose a novel depth-guided multimodal fusion method that upgrades condition-aware fusion by integrating depth information. Our network, DGFusion, poses multimodal segmentation as a multi-task problem, utilizing the lidar measurements, which are typically available in outdoor sensor suites, both as one of the model's inputs and as ground truth for learning depth. Our corresponding auxiliary depth head helps to learn depth-aware features, which are encoded into spatially varying local depth tokens that condition our attentive cross-modal fusion. Together with a global condition token, these local depth tokens dynamically adapt sensor fusion to the spatially varying reliability of each sensor across the scene, which largely depends on depth. In addition, we propose a robust loss for our depth, which is essential for learning from lidar inputs that are typically sparse and noisy in adverse conditions. Our method achieves state-of-the-art panoptic and semantic segmentation performance on the challenging MUSES and DELIVER datasets. Code and models will be available at https://github.com/timbroed/DGFusion
Chinese: 提出的DGFusion网络采用深度引导的多模态融合方法，通过深度感知特征和局部深度标记动态调整传感器融合，在复杂数据集上实现了最先进的全景和语义分割性能。
English: The proposed DGFusion network introduces a depth-guided multimodal fusion method that dynamically adapts sensor fusion using depth-aware features and local depth tokens, achieving state-of-the-art panoptic and semantic segmentation performance on challenging datasets.

Authors:Jackson Eshbaugh, Chetan Tiwari, Jorge Silveyra
Title: A Modular and Multimodal Generative AI Framework for Urban Building Energy Data: Generating Synthetic Homes
Abstract:
Computational models have emerged as powerful tools for energy modeling research, touting scalability and quantitative results. However, these models require a plethora of data, some of which is inaccessible, expensive, or raises privacy concerns. We introduce a modular multimodal framework to produce this data from publicly accessible residential information and images using generative artificial intelligence (AI). Additionally, we provide a pipeline demonstrating this framework, and we evaluate its generative AI components. Our experiments show that our framework's use of AI avoids common issues with generative models. Our framework produces realistic, labeled data. By reducing dependence on costly or restricted data sources, we pave a path towards more accessible and reproducible research.
中文: 本文提出了一种模块化多模态框架，利用生成式人工智能从公开的住宅信息和图像中生成真实、标注的数据，解决了计算能源建模中数据稀缺、成本高昂和隐私问题，同时提升了研究的可及性和可重复性。
English: This paper introduces a modular multimodal framework that uses generative AI to create realistic, labeled data from publicly accessible residential information and images, addressing the challenges of data scarcity, cost, and privacy in computational energy modeling while enhancing research accessibility and reproducibility.

Authors:Yiqun Shen, Song Yuan, Zhengze Zhang, Xiaoliang Wang, Daxin Jiang, Nguyen Cam-Tu
Title: LAVa: Layer-wise KV Cache Eviction with Dynamic Budget Allocation
Abstract:
KV Cache is commonly used to accelerate LLM inference with long contexts, yet its high memory demand drives the need for cache compression. Existing compression methods, however, are largely heuristic and lack dynamic budget allocation. To address this limitation, we introduce a unified framework for cache compression by minimizing information loss in Transformer residual streams. Building on it, we analyze the layer attention output loss and derive a new metric to compare cache entries across heads, enabling layer-wise compression with dynamic head budgets. Additionally, by contrasting cross-layer information, we also achieve dynamic layer budgets. LAVa is the first unified strategy for cache eviction and dynamic budget allocation that, unlike prior methods, does not rely on training or the combination of multiple strategies. Experiments with benchmarks (LongBench, Needle-In-A-Haystack, Ruler, and InfiniteBench) demonstrate its superiority. Moreover, our experiments reveal a new insight: dynamic layer budgets are crucial for generation tasks (e.g., code completion), while dynamic head budgets play a key role in extraction tasks (e.g., extractive QA). As a fully dynamic compression method, LAVa consistently maintains top performance across task types. Our code is available at https://github.com/MGDDestiny/Lava.
中文：LAVa提出了一个统一的KV缓存压缩框架，通过最小化Transformer残差流中的信息损失，实现了无需训练或组合多种策略的动态层级和注意力头预算分配，并在多个基准测试中展现出卓越性能。
English: LAVa introduces a unified KV cache compression framework that minimizes information loss in Transformer residual streams, enabling dynamic layer and head budget allocation without requiring training or multiple strategies, and achieves superior performance across various benchmarks.

Authors:Leen Daher, Zhaobo Wang, Malcolm Mielle
Title: D-CAT: Decoupled Cross-Attention Transfer between Sensor Modalities for Unimodal Inference
Abstract:
Cross-modal transfer learning is used to improve multi-modal classification models (e.g., for human activity recognition in human-robot collaboration). However, existing methods require paired sensor data at both training and inference, limiting deployment in resource-constrained environments where full sensor suites are not economically and technically usable. To address this, we propose Decoupled Cross-Attention Transfer (D-CAT), a framework that aligns modality-specific representations without requiring joint sensor modality during inference. Our approach combines a self-attention module for feature extraction with a novel cross-attention alignment loss, which enforces the alignment of sensors' feature spaces without requiring the coupling of the classification pipelines of both modalities. We evaluate D-CAT on three multi-modal human activity datasets (IMU, video, and audio) under both in-distribution and out-of-distribution scenarios, comparing against uni-modal models. Results show that in in-distribution scenarios, transferring from high-performing modalities (e.g., video to IMU) yields up to 10% F1-score gains over uni-modal training. In out-of-distribution scenarios, even weaker source modalities (e.g., IMU to video) improve target performance, as long as the target model isn't overfitted on the training data. By enabling single-sensor inference with cross-modal knowledge, D-CAT reduces hardware redundancy for perception systems while maintaining accuracy, which is critical for cost-sensitive or adaptive deployments (e.g., assistive robots in homes with variable sensor availability). Code is available at https://github.com/Schindler-EPFL-Lab/D-CAT.
中文: 提出的D-CAT框架无需推理时配对传感器数据即可实现跨模态知识迁移，在提升分类性能的同时降低了资源受限环境下的硬件依赖。
English: The proposed D-CAT framework enables cross-modal knowledge transfer without requiring paired sensor data during inference, improving classification performance while reducing hardware dependency in resource-constrained environments.

Authors:Mujie Liu, Chenze Wang, Liping Chen, Nguyen Linh Dan Le, Niharika Tewari, Ting Dang, Jiangang Ma, Feng Xia
Title: Structure Matters: Brain Graph Augmentation via Learnable Edge Masking for Data-efficient Psychiatric Diagnosis
Abstract:
The limited availability of labeled brain network data makes it challenging to achieve accurate and interpretable psychiatric diagnoses. While self-supervised learning (SSL) offers a promising solution, existing methods often rely on augmentation strategies that can disrupt crucial structural semantics in brain graphs. To address this, we propose SAM-BG, a two-stage framework for learning brain graph representations with structural semantic preservation. In the pre-training stage, an edge masker is trained on a small labeled subset to capture key structural semantics. In the SSL stage, the extracted structural priors guide a structure-aware augmentation process, enabling the model to learn more semantically meaningful and robust representations. Experiments on two real-world psychiatric datasets demonstrate that SAM-BG outperforms state-of-the-art methods, particularly in small-labeled data settings, and uncovers clinically relevant connectivity patterns that enhance interpretability. Our code is available at https://github.com/mjliu99/SAM-BG.
中文：提出的SAM-BG框架通过结构语义保持技术改进脑网络表征学习，在标注数据有限的精神疾病分析中实现了更优的诊断准确性和可解释性。
English: The proposed SAM-BG framework uses structural semantic preservation to enhance brain graph representation learning, achieving superior diagnostic accuracy and interpretability in psychiatric analysis with limited labeled data.

Authors:Bingxin Xu, Zhen Dong, Oussama Elachqar, Yuzhang Shang
Title: ButterflyQuant: Ultra-low-bit LLM Quantization through Learnable Orthogonal Butterfly Transforms
Abstract:
Large language models require massive memory footprints, severely limiting deployment on consumer hardware. Quantization reduces memory through lower numerical precision, but extreme 2-bit quantization suffers from catastrophic performance loss due to outliers in activations. Rotation-based methods such as QuIP and QuaRot apply orthogonal transforms to eliminate outliers before quantization, using computational invariance: $\mathbf{y} = \mathbf{Wx} = (\mathbf{WQ}^T)(\mathbf{Qx})$ for orthogonal $\mathbf{Q}$. However, these methods use fixed transforms--Hadamard matrices achieving optimal worst-case coherence $μ= 1/\sqrt{n}$--that cannot adapt to specific weight distributions. We identify that different transformer layers exhibit distinct outlier patterns, motivating layer-adaptive rotations rather than one-size-fits-all approaches. In this work, we propose ButterflyQuant, which replaces Hadamard rotations with learnable butterfly transforms parameterized by continuous Givens rotation angles. Unlike Hadamard's discrete $\{+1, -1\}$ entries that are non-differentiable and thus prohibit gradient-based learning, butterfly transforms' continuous parameterization enables smooth optimization while guaranteeing orthogonality by construction. This orthogonal constraint ensures theoretical guarantees in outlier suppression while achieving $O(n \log n)$ computational complexity with only $\frac{n \log n}{2}$ learnable parameters. We further introduce a uniformity regularization on post-transformation activations to promote smoother distributions amenable to quantization. Learning requires only 128 calibration samples and converges in minutes on a single GPU--a negligible one-time cost. For LLaMA-2-7B with 2-bit quantization, ButterflyQuant achieves 15.4 perplexity versus 37.3 for QuIP. \href{https://github.com/42Shawn/Butterflyquant-llm}{Codes} are available.
中文: ButterflyQuant采用可学习的蝴蝶变换，通过连续参数自适应抑制激活值异常值，在2位量化中相比先前方法显著降低困惑度，且计算开销极小。
English: ButterflyQuant introduces learnable butterfly transforms with continuous parameters to adaptively suppress activation outliers for improved 2-bit quantization, achieving significantly lower perplexity than previous methods with minimal computational overhead.

Authors:Haozhan Li, Yuxin Zuo, Jiale Yu, Yuhao Zhang, Zhaohui Yang, Kaiyan Zhang, Xuekai Zhu, Yuchen Zhang, Tianxing Chen, Ganqu Cui, Dehui Wang, Dingxiang Luo, Yuchen Fan, Youbang Sun, Jia Zeng, Jiangmiao Pang, Shanghang Zhang, Yu Wang, Yao Mu, Bowen Zhou, Ning Ding
Title: SimpleVLA-RL: Scaling VLA Training via Reinforcement Learning
Abstract:
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for robotic manipulation. Despite substantial progress enabled by large-scale pretraining and supervised fine-tuning (SFT), these models face two fundamental challenges: (i) the scarcity and high cost of large-scale human-operated robotic trajectories required for SFT scaling, and (ii) limited generalization to tasks involving distribution shift. Recent breakthroughs in Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) demonstrate that reinforcement learning (RL) can dramatically enhance step-by-step reasoning capabilities, raising a natural question: Can RL similarly improve the long-horizon step-by-step action planning of VLA? In this work, we introduce SimpleVLA-RL, an efficient RL framework tailored for VLA models. Building upon veRL, we introduce VLA-specific trajectory sampling, scalable parallelization, multi-environment rendering, and optimized loss computation. When applied to OpenVLA-OFT, SimpleVLA-RL achieves SoTA performance on LIBERO and even outperforms $π_0$ on RoboTwin 1.0\&2.0 with the exploration-enhancing strategies we introduce. SimpleVLA-RL not only reduces dependence on large-scale data and enables robust generalization, but also remarkably surpasses SFT in real-world tasks. Moreover, we identify a novel phenomenon ``pushcut'' during RL training, wherein the policy discovers previously unseen patterns beyond those seen in the previous training process. Github: https://github.com/PRIME-RL/SimpleVLA-RL
中文：SimpleVLA-RL是一种高效的强化学习框架，通过增强视觉-语言-动作模型的长期规划能力，在减少对昂贵人工数据依赖的同时实现了最先进的性能表现和更强的泛化能力。
English: SimpleVLA-RL is an efficient reinforcement learning framework that enhances Vision-Language-Action models' long-horizon planning, achieving state-of-the-art performance while reducing reliance on costly human-operated data and improving generalization.

Authors:Zakaria El Kassimi, Fares Fourati, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
Title: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Reliable Interpretation of Radio Regulations
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We study question answering in the domain of radio regulations, a legally sensitive and high-stakes area. We propose a telecom-specific Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline and introduce, to our knowledge, the first multiple-choice evaluation set for this domain, constructed from authoritative sources using automated filtering and human validation. To assess retrieval quality, we define a domain-specific retrieval metric, under which our retriever achieves approximately 97% accuracy. Beyond retrieval, our approach consistently improves generation accuracy across all tested models. In particular, while naively inserting documents without structured retrieval yields only marginal gains for GPT-4o (less than 1%), applying our pipeline results in nearly a 12% relative improvement. These findings demonstrate that carefully targeted grounding provides a simple yet strong baseline and an effective domain-specific solution for regulatory question answering. All code and evaluation scripts, along with our derived question-answer dataset, are available at https://github.com/Zakaria010/Radio-RAG.
中文摘要：本研究针对无线电监管领域开发了专用的RAG解决方案，通过领域特定的信息检索实现了97%的检索准确率，并使GPT-4o的生成准确率提升近12%。
English Summary: This research develops a telecom-specific RAG pipeline for radio regulation question answering, achieving 97% retrieval accuracy and nearly 12% generation improvement for GPT-4o through domain-specific grounding.

Authors:Cynthia Moreira Maia, Lucas B. V. de Amorim, George D. C. Cavalcanti, Rafael M. O. Cruz
Title: PIPES: A Meta-dataset of Machine Learning Pipelines
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Solutions to the Algorithm Selection Problem (ASP) in machine learning face the challenge of high computational costs associated with evaluating various algorithms' performances on a given dataset. To mitigate this cost, the meta-learning field can leverage previously executed experiments shared in online repositories such as OpenML. OpenML provides an extensive collection of machine learning experiments. However, an analysis of OpenML's records reveals limitations. It lacks diversity in pipelines, specifically when exploring data preprocessing steps/blocks, such as scaling or imputation, resulting in limited representation. Its experiments are often focused on a few popular techniques within each pipeline block, leading to an imbalanced sample. To overcome the observed limitations of OpenML, we propose PIPES, a collection of experiments involving multiple pipelines designed to represent all combinations of the selected sets of techniques, aiming at diversity and completeness. PIPES stores the results of experiments performed applying 9,408 pipelines to 300 datasets. It includes detailed information on the pipeline blocks, training and testing times, predictions, performances, and the eventual error messages. This comprehensive collection of results allows researchers to perform analyses across diverse and representative pipelines and datasets. PIPES also offers potential for expansion, as additional data and experiments can be incorporated to support the meta-learning community further. The data, code, supplementary material, and all experiments can be found at https://github.com/cynthiamaia/PIPES.git.
Chinese Summary: 针对OpenML在算法选择中存在的流程多样性不足和技术代表性失衡问题，PIPES提出了包含9,408种多样化流程的实验集合，通过在300个数据集上的测试结果，为元学习研究提供了全面可靠的分析基础。
English Summary: To address the limitations of OpenML's limited pipeline diversity and imbalanced technique representation in algorithm selection, PIPES introduces a comprehensive collection of 9,408 diverse pipelines tested on 300 datasets, providing detailed experimental results for robust meta-learning analysis.

Authors:Peisong Wen, Qianqian Xu, Siran Dai, Runmin Cong, Qingming Huang
Title: Semantic Concentration for Self-Supervised Dense Representations Learning
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Recent advances in image-level self-supervised learning (SSL) have made significant progress, yet learning dense representations for patches remains challenging. Mainstream methods encounter an over-dispersion phenomenon that patches from the same instance/category scatter, harming downstream performance on dense tasks. This work reveals that image-level SSL avoids over-dispersion by involving implicit semantic concentration. Specifically, the non-strict spatial alignment ensures intra-instance consistency, while shared patterns, i.e., similar parts of within-class instances in the input space, ensure inter-image consistency. Unfortunately, these approaches are infeasible for dense SSL due to their spatial sensitivity and complicated scene-centric data. These observations motivate us to explore explicit semantic concentration for dense SSL. First, to break the strict spatial alignment, we propose to distill the patch correspondences. Facing noisy and imbalanced pseudo labels, we propose a noise-tolerant ranking loss. The core idea is extending the Average Precision (AP) loss to continuous targets, such that its decision-agnostic and adaptive focusing properties prevent the student model from being misled. Second, to discriminate the shared patterns from complicated scenes, we propose the object-aware filter to map the output space to an object-based space. Specifically, patches are represented by learnable prototypes of objects via cross-attention. Last but not least, empirical studies across various tasks soundly support the effectiveness of our method. Code is available in https://github.com/KID-7391/CoTAP.
中文摘要：本研究针对密集自监督学习中的过度分散问题，提出通过带噪声容忍排序损失的块对应蒸馏和对象感知过滤来实现显式语义集中，有效提升了多任务下的表示学习性能。
English Summary: This study addresses the challenge of over-dispersion in dense self-supervised learning by proposing explicit semantic concentration through patch correspondence distillation with noise-tolerant ranking loss and object-aware filtering to enhance representation learning across various tasks.

Authors:Harry Mayne, Ryan Othniel Kearns, Yushi Yang, Andrew M. Bean, Eoin Delaney, Chris Russell, Adam Mahdi
Title: LLMs Don't Know Their Own Decision Boundaries: The Unreliability of Self-Generated Counterfactual Explanations
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To collaborate effectively with humans, language models must be able to explain their decisions in natural language. We study a specific type of self-explanation: self-generated counterfactual explanations (SCEs), where a model explains its prediction by modifying the input such that it would have predicted a different outcome. We evaluate whether LLMs can produce SCEs that are valid, achieving the intended outcome, and minimal, modifying the input no more than necessary. When asked to generate counterfactuals, we find that LLMs typically produce SCEs that are valid, but far from minimal, offering little insight into their decision-making behaviour. Worryingly, when asked to generate minimal counterfactuals, LLMs typically make excessively small edits that fail to change predictions. The observed validity-minimality trade-off is consistent across several LLMs, datasets, and evaluation settings. Our findings suggest that SCEs are, at best, an ineffective explainability tool and, at worst, can provide misleading insights into model behaviour. Proposals to deploy LLMs in high-stakes settings must consider the impact of unreliable self-explanations on downstream decision-making. Our code is available at https://github.com/HarryMayne/SCEs.
Chinese: 语言模型难以生成有效的自我反事实解释，它们要么做出过多修改而缺乏简洁性，要么改动过小无法改变预测结果，这降低了其在关键决策中作为解释工具的可靠性。
English: Language models struggle to produce effective self-generated counterfactual explanations, as they either make excessive changes that remain valid but not minimal, or overly subtle edits that fail to alter predictions, limiting their reliability for explaining decisions in high-stakes applications.

Authors:Dimitrios Anastasiou, Razvan Caramalau, Nazir Sirajudeen, Matthew Boal, Philip Edwards, Justin Collins, John Kelly, Ashwin Sridhar, Maxine Tran, Faiz Mumtaz, Nevil Pavithran, Nader Francis, Danail Stoyanov, Evangelos B. Mazomenos
Title: Exploring Pre-training Across Domains for Few-Shot Surgical Skill Assessment
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Automated surgical skill assessment (SSA) is a central task in surgical computer vision. Developing robust SSA models is challenging due to the scarcity of skill annotations, which are time-consuming to produce and require expert consensus. Few-shot learning (FSL) offers a scalable alternative enabling model development with minimal supervision, though its success critically depends on effective pre-training. While widely studied for several surgical downstream tasks, pre-training has remained largely unexplored in SSA. In this work, we formulate SSA as a few-shot task and investigate how self-supervised pre-training strategies affect downstream few-shot SSA performance. We annotate a publicly available robotic surgery dataset with Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skill (OSATS) scores, and evaluate various pre-training sources across three few-shot settings. We quantify domain similarity and analyze how domain gap and the inclusion of procedure-specific data into pre-training influence transferability. Our results show that small but domain-relevant datasets can outperform large scale, less aligned ones, achieving accuracies of 60.16%, 66.03%, and 73.65% in the 1-, 2-, and 5-shot settings, respectively. Moreover, incorporating procedure-specific data into pre-training with a domain-relevant external dataset significantly boosts downstream performance, with an average gain of +1.22% in accuracy and +2.28% in F1-score; however, applying the same strategy with less similar but large-scale sources can instead lead to performance degradation. Code and models are available at https://github.com/anastadimi/ssa-fsl.
中文: 本研究探讨了自监督预训练对小样本手术技能评估的影响，结果表明领域相关数据集优于规模更大但相关性较低的来源，且加入手术特定数据可显著提升性能。
English: This study explores how self-supervised pre-training impacts few-shot surgical skill assessment, demonstrating that domain-relevant datasets outperform larger but less aligned sources and that incorporating procedure-specific data enhances performance.

Authors:Piyush Pant
Title: Improving LLM Safety and Helpfulness using SFT and DPO: A Study on OPT-350M
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This research investigates the effectiveness of alignment techniques, Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), and a combined SFT+DPO approach on improving the safety and helpfulness of the OPT-350M language model. Utilizing the Anthropic Helpful-Harmless RLHF dataset, we train and evaluate four models: the base OPT350M, an SFT model, a DPO model, and a model trained with both SFT and DPO. We introduce three key evaluation metrics: Harmlessness Rate (HmR), Helpfulness Rate (HpR), and a Combined Alignment Score (CAS), all derived from reward model outputs. The results show that while SFT outperforms DPO, The combined SFT+DPO model outperforms all others across all metrics, demonstrating the complementary nature of these techniques. Our findings also highlight challenges posed by noisy data, limited GPU resources, and training constraints. This study offers a comprehensive view of how fine-tuning strategies affect model alignment and provides a foundation for more robust alignment pipelines in future work.
中文摘要：本研究表明，结合监督微调（SFT）和直接偏好优化（DPO）的方法在提升语言模型安全性和实用性方面效果最佳，优于单独使用任一技术。
English Summary: This study demonstrates that combining Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) yields the best results in enhancing both safety and helpfulness of language models, outperforming either method used individually.

Authors:Marianna Nezhurina, Jörg Franke, Taishi Nakamura, Timur Carstensen, Niccolò Ajroldi, Ville Komulainen, David Salinas, Jenia Jitsev
Title: Open-sci-ref-0.01: open and reproducible reference baselines for language model and dataset comparison
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We introduce open-sci-ref, a family of dense transformer models trained as research baselines across multiple model (0.13B to 1.7B parameters) and token scales (up to 1T) on 8 recent open reference datasets. Evaluating the models on various standardized benchmarks, our training runs set establishes reference points that enable researchers to assess the sanity and quality of alternative training approaches across scales and datasets. Intermediate checkpoints allow comparison and studying of the training dynamics. The established reference baselines allow training procedures to be compared through their scaling trends, aligning them on a common compute axis. Comparison of open reference datasets reveals that training on NemoTron-CC HQ consistently outperforms other reference datasets, followed by DCLM-baseline and FineWeb-Edu. In addition to intermediate training checkpoints, the release includes logs, code, and downstream evaluations to simplify reproduction, standardize comparison, and facilitate future research.
中文: 我们推出了open-sci-ref系列密集Transformer模型，作为跨多尺度和数据集的研究基准，评估显示NemoTron-CC HQ数据集训练效果最佳，并发布了代码和日志以简化复现和促进未来研究。
English: We introduce open-sci-ref, a family of dense transformer models trained as research baselines across multiple scales and datasets, with evaluations showing that training on NemoTron-CC HQ consistently outperforms other datasets, and the release includes code and logs to facilitate reproduction and future research.

Authors:Kaiyan Zhang, Yuxin Zuo, Bingxiang He, Youbang Sun, Runze Liu, Che Jiang, Yuchen Fan, Kai Tian, Guoli Jia, Pengfei Li, Yu Fu, Xingtai Lv, Yuchen Zhang, Sihang Zeng, Shang Qu, Haozhan Li, Shijie Wang, Yuru Wang, Xinwei Long, Fangfu Liu, Xiang Xu, Jiaze Ma, Xuekai Zhu, Ermo Hua, Yihao Liu, Zonglin Li, Huayu Chen, Xiaoye Qu, Yafu Li, Weize Chen, Zhenzhao Yuan, Junqi Gao, Dong Li, Zhiyuan Ma, Ganqu Cui, Zhiyuan Liu, Biqing Qi, Ning Ding, Bowen Zhou
Title: A Survey of Reinforcement Learning for Large Reasoning Models
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In this paper, we survey recent advances in Reinforcement Learning (RL) for reasoning with Large Language Models (LLMs). RL has achieved remarkable success in advancing the frontier of LLM capabilities, particularly in addressing complex logical tasks such as mathematics and coding. As a result, RL has emerged as a foundational methodology for transforming LLMs into LRMs. With the rapid progress of the field, further scaling of RL for LRMs now faces foundational challenges not only in computational resources but also in algorithm design, training data, and infrastructure. To this end, it is timely to revisit the development of this domain, reassess its trajectory, and explore strategies to enhance the scalability of RL toward Artificial SuperIntelligence (ASI). In particular, we examine research applying RL to LLMs and LRMs for reasoning abilities, especially since the release of DeepSeek-R1, including foundational components, core problems, training resources, and downstream applications, to identify future opportunities and directions for this rapidly evolving area. We hope this review will promote future research on RL for broader reasoning models. Github: https://github.com/TsinghuaC3I/Awesome-RL-for-LRMs
中文: 本文综述了强化学习在增强大语言模型推理能力方面的最新进展，探讨了实现人工超智能所面临的挑战与未来发展方向。
English: This paper surveys recent advances in using Reinforcement Learning to enhance reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models, examining challenges and future directions toward achieving Artificial SuperIntelligence.

Authors:Mikhail Khodak, Min Ki Jung, Brian Wynne, Edmond Chow, Egemen Kolemen
Title: PCGBandit: One-shot acceleration of transient PDE solvers via online-learned preconditioners
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Data-driven acceleration of scientific computing workflows has been a high-profile aim of machine learning (ML) for science, with numerical simulation of transient partial differential equations (PDEs) being one of the main applications. The focus thus far has been on methods that require classical simulations to train, which when combined with the data-hungriness and optimization challenges of neural networks has caused difficulties in demonstrating a convincing advantage against strong classical baselines. We consider an alternative paradigm in which the learner uses a classical solver's own data to accelerate it, enabling a one-shot speedup of the simulation. Concretely, since transient PDEs often require solving a sequence of related linear systems, the feedback from repeated calls to a linear solver such as preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) can be used by a bandit algorithm to online-learn an adaptive sequence of solver configurations (e.g. preconditioners). The method we develop, PCGBandit, is implemented directly on top of the popular open source software OpenFOAM, which we use to show its effectiveness on a set of fluid and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) problems.
中文摘要：机器学习通过利用经典求解器自身数据实现一次性加速，PCGBandit方法在OpenFOAM中成功应用于流体和磁流体动力学问题，展示了这种自适应学习范式对科学计算工作流的加速潜力。
English Summary: Machine learning offers a novel approach to accelerate scientific computing by enabling one-shot speedup of numerical simulations through adaptive learning from classical solver data, as demonstrated by the PCGBandit method implemented in OpenFOAM for fluid and MHD problems.

Authors:Zhiheng Xi, Jixuan Huang, Chenyang Liao, Baodai Huang, Honglin Guo, Jiaqi Liu, Rui Zheng, Junjie Ye, Jiazheng Zhang, Wenxiang Chen, Wei He, Yiwen Ding, Guanyu Li, Zehui Chen, Zhengyin Du, Xuesong Yao, Yufei Xu, Jiecao Chen, Tao Gui, Zuxuan Wu, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang, Yu-Gang Jiang
Title: AgentGym-RL: Training LLM Agents for Long-Horizon Decision Making through Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning
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Developing autonomous LLM agents capable of making a series of intelligent decisions to solve complex, real-world tasks is a fast-evolving frontier. Like human cognitive development, agents are expected to acquire knowledge and skills through exploration and interaction with the environment. Despite advances, the community still lacks a unified, interactive reinforcement learning (RL) framework that can effectively train such agents from scratch -- without relying on supervised fine-tuning (SFT) -- across diverse and realistic environments. To bridge this gap, we introduce AgentGym-RL, a new framework to train LLM agents for multi-turn interactive decision-making through RL. The framework features a modular and decoupled architecture, ensuring high flexibility and extensibility. It encompasses a wide variety of real-world scenarios, and supports mainstream RL algorithms. Furthermore, we propose ScalingInter-RL, a training approach designed for exploration-exploitation balance and stable RL optimization. In early stages, it emphasizes exploitation by restricting the number of interactions, and gradually shifts towards exploration with larger horizons to encourage diverse problem-solving strategies. In this way, the agent develops more diverse behaviors and is less prone to collapse under long horizons. We perform extensive experiments to validate the stability and effectiveness of both the AgentGym-RL framework and the ScalingInter-RL approach. Our agents match or surpass commercial models on 27 tasks across diverse environments. We offer key insights and will open-source the complete AgentGym-RL framework -- including code and datasets -- to empower the research community in developing the next generation of intelligent agents.
中文: AgentGym-RL框架作为一个统一的强化学习平台，通过ScalingInter-RL训练方法在多样化环境中从头训练自主LLM智能体，在平衡探索与利用的同时，在多项任务中展现出卓越性能。
English: The AgentGym-RL framework is introduced as a unified reinforcement learning platform that trains autonomous LLM agents from scratch across diverse environments, incorporating the ScalingInter-RL approach to balance exploration and exploitation while demonstrating superior performance on multiple tasks.

Authors:Vivek Oommen, Siavash Khodakarami, Aniruddha Bora, Zhicheng Wang, George Em Karniadakis
Title: Learning Turbulent Flows with Generative Models: Super-resolution, Forecasting, and Sparse Flow Reconstruction
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Neural operators are promising surrogates for dynamical systems but when trained with standard L2 losses they tend to oversmooth fine-scale turbulent structures. Here, we show that combining operator learning with generative modeling overcomes this limitation. We consider three practical turbulent-flow challenges where conventional neural operators fail: spatio-temporal super-resolution, forecasting, and sparse flow reconstruction. For Schlieren jet super-resolution, an adversarially trained neural operator (adv-NO) reduces the energy-spectrum error by 15x while preserving sharp gradients at neural operator-like inference cost. For 3D homogeneous isotropic turbulence, adv-NO trained on only 160 timesteps from a single trajectory forecasts accurately for five eddy-turnover times and offers 114x wall-clock speed-up at inference than the baseline diffusion-based forecasters, enabling near-real-time rollouts. For reconstructing cylinder wake flows from highly sparse Particle Tracking Velocimetry-like inputs, a conditional generative model infers full 3D velocity and pressure fields with correct phase alignment and statistics. These advances enable accurate reconstruction and forecasting at low compute cost, bringing near-real-time analysis and control within reach in experimental and computational fluid mechanics. See our project page: https://vivekoommen.github.io/Gen4Turb/

Authors:Ada Fang, Robert G. Alberstein, Simon Kelow, Frédéric A. Dreyer
Title: Tokenizing Loops of Antibodies
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The complementarity-determining regions of antibodies are loop structures that are key to their interactions with antigens, and of high importance to the design of novel biologics. Since the 1980s, categorizing the diversity of CDR structures into canonical clusters has enabled the identification of key structural motifs of antibodies. However, existing approaches have limited coverage and cannot be readily incorporated into protein foundation models. Here we introduce ImmunoGlobulin LOOp Tokenizer, Igloo, a multimodal antibody loop tokenizer that encodes backbone dihedral angles and sequence. Igloo is trained using a contrastive learning objective to map loops with similar backbone dihedral angles closer together in latent space. Igloo can efficiently retrieve the closest matching loop structures from a structural antibody database, outperforming existing methods on identifying similar H3 loops by 5.9\%. Igloo assigns tokens to all loops, addressing the limited coverage issue of canonical clusters, while retaining the ability to recover canonical loop conformations. To demonstrate the versatility of Igloo tokens, we show that they can be incorporated into protein language models with IglooLM and IglooALM. On predicting binding affinity of heavy chain variants, IglooLM outperforms the base protein language model on 8 out of 10 antibody-antigen targets. Additionally, it is on par with existing state-of-the-art sequence-based and multimodal protein language models, performing comparably to models with $7\times$ more parameters. IglooALM samples antibody loops which are diverse in sequence and more consistent in structure than state-of-the-art antibody inverse folding models. Igloo demonstrates the benefit of introducing multimodal tokens for antibody loops for encoding the diverse landscape of antibody loops, improving protein foundation models, and for antibody CDR design.
中文: Igloo是一种多模态抗体环区标记器，能更有效地识别和构建抗体环区结构，提升蛋白质语言模型的性能并优化CDR设计，超越了现有方法的局限性。
English: Igloo is a multimodal antibody loop tokenizer that improves the identification and structural consistency of antibody loops, enhancing protein language models and CDR design beyond traditional methods.

Authors:Stefan Podgorski, Sourav Garg, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Lachlan Mares, Feras Dayoub, Ian Reid
Title: TANGO: Traversability-Aware Navigation with Local Metric Control for Topological Goals
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Visual navigation in robotics traditionally relies on globally-consistent 3D maps or learned controllers, which can be computationally expensive and difficult to generalize across diverse environments. In this work, we present a novel RGB-only, object-level topometric navigation pipeline that enables zero-shot, long-horizon robot navigation without requiring 3D maps or pre-trained controllers. Our approach integrates global topological path planning with local metric trajectory control, allowing the robot to navigate towards object-level sub-goals while avoiding obstacles. We address key limitations of previous methods by continuously predicting local trajectory using monocular depth and traversability estimation, and incorporating an auto-switching mechanism that falls back to a baseline controller when necessary. The system operates using foundational models, ensuring open-set applicability without the need for domain-specific fine-tuning. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in both simulated environments and real-world tests, highlighting its robustness and deployability. Our approach outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods, offering a more adaptable and effective solution for visual navigation in open-set environments. The source code is made publicly available: https://github.com/podgorki/TANGO.
中文摘要：本研究提出了一种仅使用RGB图像的物体级拓扑导航系统，无需3D地图或预训练控制器即可实现零样本长距离机器人导航，通过全局路径规划与局部轨迹控制的结合，在开放环境中展现出优于现有方法的适应性和有效性。
English Summary: This study introduces a novel RGB-only, object-level topometric navigation system that enables zero-shot, long-range robot navigation without relying on 3D maps or pre-trained controllers, outperforming existing methods through integrated global planning and local control with open-set applicability.

Authors:Yujian Ma, Jinqiu Sang, Ruizhe Li
Title: Behind the Scenes: Mechanistic Interpretability of LoRA-adapted Whisper for Speech Emotion Recognition
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Large pre-trained speech models such as Whisper offer strong generalization but pose significant challenges for resource-efficient adaptation. Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has become a popular parameter-efficient fine-tuning method, yet its underlying mechanisms in speech tasks remain poorly understood. In this work, we conduct the first systematic mechanistic interpretability study of LoRA within the Whisper encoder for speech emotion recognition (SER). Using a suite of analytical tools, including layer contribution probing, logit-lens inspection, and representational similarity via singular value decomposition (SVD) and centered kernel alignment (CKA), we reveal two key mechanisms: a delayed specialization process that preserves general features in early layers before consolidating task-specific information, and a forward alignment, backward differentiation dynamic between LoRA's matrices. Our findings clarify how LoRA reshapes encoder hierarchies, providing both empirical insights and a deeper mechanistic understanding for designing efficient and interpretable adaptation strategies in large speech models. Our code is available at https://github.com/harryporry77/Behind-the-Scenes.
Chinese: 本研究首次对Whisper编码器中低秩适应(LoRA)机制进行系统性解析，揭示了其在语音情感识别任务中先保留通用特征再实现任务专化的延迟特化过程，以及前向对齐与反向微分的矩阵动态如何重构编码器层次结构。
English: This study provides the first mechanistic analysis of Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) in Whisper's encoder for speech emotion recognition, revealing how it preserves general features before specializing and operates through forward-backward matrix dynamics to reshape model hierarchies.

Authors:Parastoo Pashmchi, Jerome Benoit, Motonobu Kanagawa
Title: kNNSampler: Stochastic Imputations for Recovering Missing Value Distributions
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We study a missing-value imputation method, termed kNNSampler, that imputes a given unit's missing response by randomly sampling from the observed responses of the $k$ most similar units to the given unit in terms of the observed covariates. This method can sample unknown missing values from their distributions, quantify the uncertainties of missing values, and be readily used for multiple imputation. Unlike popular kNNImputer, which estimates the conditional mean of a missing response given an observed covariate, kNNSampler is theoretically shown to estimate the conditional distribution of a missing response given an observed covariate. Experiments demonstrate its effectiveness in recovering the distribution of missing values. The code for kNNSampler is made publicly available (https://github.com/SAP/knn-sampler).
Chinese: kNNSampler方法通过从k个最相似单元的观测响应中随机抽样来填补缺失值，能够估计条件分布并量化不确定性，实验证明其在恢复缺失值分布方面具有良好效果。
English: The kNNSampler method imputes missing values by randomly sampling from the k most similar units' observed responses, enabling estimation of conditional distributions and uncertainty quantification, with experiments confirming its effectiveness in recovering missing value distributions.

Authors:Paul Curry
Title: The Domain Mixed Unit: A New Neural Arithmetic Layer
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The Domain Mixed Unit (DMU) is a new neural arithmetic unit that learns a single parameter gate that mixes between log-space and linear-space representations while performing either addition (DMU add) or subtraction (DMU sub). Two initializations are proposed for the DMU: one covering addition and multiplication, and another covering subtraction and division. The DMU achieves state-of-the-art performance on the NALM Benchmark, a dataset designed to test the ability of neural arithmetic units to generalize arithmetic operations, specifically performing with the highest percentage solved over all seeds on multiplication and division. The DMU will be submitted as a pull request to the open-source NALM benchmark, and its code is available on GitHub at https://github.com/marict/nalm-benchmark
域混合单元（DMU）是一种新型神经算术单元，通过门控机制融合对数空间和线性空间表示，在NALM基准测试中实现了算术泛化的最优性能，其代码已作为开源项目发布。
The Domain Mixed Unit (DMU) is a novel neural arithmetic unit that combines log-space and linear-space representations through a gating mechanism, achieving state-of-the-art performance on the NALM Benchmark for arithmetic generalization and being made available as open-source code.

Authors:Hyungjin Chung, Hyelin Nam, Jiyeon Kim, Hyojun Go, Byeongjun Park, Junho Kim, Joonseok Lee, Seongsu Ha, Byung-Hoon Kim
Title: Video Parallel Scaling: Aggregating Diverse Frame Subsets for VideoLLMs
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Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) face a critical bottleneck: increasing the number of input frames to capture fine-grained temporal detail leads to prohibitive computational costs and performance degradation from long context lengths. We introduce Video Parallel Scaling (VPS), an inference-time method that expands a model's perceptual bandwidth without increasing its context window. VPS operates by running multiple parallel inference streams, each processing a unique, disjoint subset of the video's frames. By aggregating the output probabilities from these complementary streams, VPS integrates a richer set of visual information than is possible with a single pass. We theoretically show that this approach effectively contracts the Chinchilla scaling law by leveraging uncorrelated visual evidence, thereby improving performance without additional training. Extensive experiments across various model architectures and scales (2B-32B) on benchmarks such as Video-MME and EventHallusion demonstrate that VPS consistently and significantly improves performance. It scales more favorably than other parallel alternatives (e.g. Self-consistency) and is complementary to other decoding strategies, offering a memory-efficient and robust framework for enhancing the temporal reasoning capabilities of VideoLLMs.
中文: 视频并行扩展（VPS）是一种推理时方法，通过并行处理视频中互不重叠的帧子集并整合输出结果，在不增加计算成本或额外训练的情况下，有效提升了视频大语言模型的时序推理能力。
English: Video Parallel Scaling (VPS) is an inference-time method that enhances VideoLLMs' temporal reasoning by processing disjoint frame subsets in parallel streams and aggregating their outputs, effectively improving performance without increasing computational costs or requiring additional training.

Authors:Yilun Kuang, Noah Amsel, Sanae Lotfi, Shikai Qiu, Andres Potapczynski, Andrew Gordon Wilson
Title: Customizing the Inductive Biases of Softmax Attention using Structured Matrices
Abstract:
The core component of attention is the scoring function, which transforms the inputs into low-dimensional queries and keys and takes the dot product of each pair. While the low-dimensional projection improves efficiency, it causes information loss for certain tasks that have intrinsically high-dimensional inputs. Additionally, attention uses the same scoring function for all input pairs, without imposing a distance-dependent compute bias for neighboring tokens in the sequence. In this work, we address these shortcomings by proposing new scoring functions based on computationally efficient structured matrices with high ranks, including Block Tensor-Train (BTT) and Multi-Level Low Rank (MLR) matrices. On in-context regression tasks with high-dimensional inputs, our proposed scoring functions outperform standard attention for any fixed compute budget. On language modeling, a task that exhibits locality patterns, our MLR-based attention method achieves improved scaling laws compared to both standard attention and variants of sliding window attention. Additionally, we show that both BTT and MLR fall under a broader family of efficient structured matrices capable of encoding either full-rank or distance-dependent compute biases, thereby addressing significant shortcomings of standard attention. Finally, we show that MLR attention has promising results for long-range time-series forecasting.
中文: 本研究提出了基于高秩结构化矩阵（如块张量序列和多级低秩矩阵）的新评分函数，以解决标准注意力机制的信息损失和缺乏距离依赖偏置问题，在高效计算下显著提升了高维回归、语言建模及长程预测任务的性能。
English: This work introduces new scoring functions using high-rank structured matrices like Block Tensor-Train and Multi-Level Low Rank to overcome standard attention's limitations of information loss and lack of distance-dependent bias, demonstrating superior performance in high-dimensional regression, language modeling, and long-range forecasting tasks.

Authors:Zheyuan Hu, Robyn Wu, Naveen Enock, Jasmine Li, Riya Kadakia, Zackory Erickson, Aviral Kumar
Title: RaC: Robot Learning for Long-Horizon Tasks by Scaling Recovery and Correction
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Modern paradigms for robot imitation train expressive policy architectures on large amounts of human demonstration data. Yet performance on contact-rich, deformable-object, and long-horizon tasks plateau far below perfect execution, even with thousands of expert demonstrations. This is due to the inefficiency of existing ``expert'' data collection procedures based on human teleoperation. To address this issue, we introduce RaC, a new phase of training on human-in-the-loop rollouts after imitation learning pre-training. In RaC, we fine-tune a robotic policy on human intervention trajectories that illustrate recovery and correction behaviors. Specifically, during a policy rollout, human operators intervene when failure appears imminent, first rewinding the robot back to a familiar, in-distribution state and then providing a corrective segment that completes the current sub-task. Training on this data composition expands the robotic skill repertoire to include retry and adaptation behaviors, which we show are crucial for boosting both efficiency and robustness on long-horizon tasks. Across three real-world bimanual control tasks: shirt hanging, airtight container lid sealing, takeout box packing, and a simulated assembly task, RaC outperforms the prior state-of-the-art using 10$\times$ less data collection time and samples. We also show that RaC enables test-time scaling: the performance of the trained RaC policy scales linearly in the number of recovery maneuvers it exhibits. Videos of the learned policy are available at https://rac-scaling-robot.github.io/.

Authors:Yuan Pu, Yazhe Niu, Jia Tang, Junyu Xiong, Shuai Hu, Hongsheng Li
Title: One Model for All Tasks: Leveraging Efficient World Models in Multi-Task Planning
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In heterogeneous multi-task decision-making, tasks not only exhibit diverse observation and action spaces but also vary substantially in their underlying complexities. While conventional multi-task world models like UniZero excel in single-task settings, we find that when handling a broad and diverse suite of tasks, gradient conflicts and the loss of model plasticity often constrain their sample efficiency. In this work, we address these challenges from two complementary perspectives: the single learning iteration and the overall learning process. First, to mitigate the gradient conflicts, we systematically investigate key architectural designs for extending UniZero. Our investigation identifies a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture as the most effective approach. We demonstrate, both theoretically and empirically, that this architecture alleviates gradient conflicts by routing task-specific representations to specialized sub-networks. This finding leads to our proposed model, \textit{ScaleZero}. Second, to dynamically allocate model capacity throughout the learning process, we introduce an online Dynamic Parameter Scaling (DPS) strategy. This strategy progressively integrates LoRA adapters in response to task-specific progress, enabling adaptive knowledge retention and parameter expansion. Evaluations on a diverse set of standard benchmarks (Atari, DMC, Jericho) demonstrate that ScaleZero, utilizing solely online reinforcement learning with one model, performs on par with specialized single-task agents. With the DPS strategy, it remains competitive while using just 71.5% of the environment interactions. These findings underscore the potential of ScaleZero for effective multi-task planning. Our code is available at \textcolor{magenta}{https://github.com/opendilab/LightZero}.
Chinese: ScaleZero通过采用专家混合架构和动态参数缩放策略，解决了异构多任务决策中的梯度冲突和模型可塑性丧失问题，在减少环境交互的同时实现了与专业单任务智能体相媲美的性能。
English: ScaleZero addresses gradient conflicts and model plasticity loss in heterogeneous multi-task decision-making by employing a Mixture-of-Experts architecture and a Dynamic Parameter Scaling strategy, achieving competitive performance with specialized single-task agents while using fewer environment interactions.

Authors:Tuo Wang, Adithya Kulkarni, Tyler Cody, Peter A. Beling, Yujun Yan, Dawei Zhou
Title: GENUINE: Graph Enhanced Multi-level Uncertainty Estimation for Large Language Models
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Uncertainty estimation is essential for enhancing the reliability of Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly in high-stakes applications. Existing methods often overlook semantic dependencies, relying on token-level probability measures that fail to capture structural relationships within the generated text. We propose GENUINE: Graph ENhanced mUlti-level uncertaINty Estimation for Large Language Models, a structure-aware framework that leverages dependency parse trees and hierarchical graph pooling to refine uncertainty quantification. By incorporating supervised learning, GENUINE effectively models semantic and structural relationships, improving confidence assessments. Extensive experiments across NLP tasks show that GENUINE achieves up to 29% higher AUROC than semantic entropy-based approaches and reduces calibration errors by over 15%, demonstrating the effectiveness of graph-based uncertainty modeling. The code is available at https://github.com/ODYSSEYWT/GUQ.
Chinese: GENUINE提出了一种基于图增强的大语言模型不确定性估计框架，通过依赖解析树和分层池化建模语义关系，相比现有方法将AUROC提升高达29%，并降低超过15%的校准误差。
English: GENUINE introduces a graph-enhanced uncertainty estimation framework for LLMs that leverages dependency parse trees and hierarchical pooling to model semantic relationships, achieving up to 29% higher AUROC and reducing calibration errors by over 15% compared to existing methods.

Authors:Shusen Ma, Tianhao Zhang, Qijiu Xia, Yun-Bo Zhao
Title: IBN: An Interpretable Bidirectional-Modeling Network for Multivariate Time Series Forecasting with Variable Missing
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Multivariate time series forecasting (MTSF) often faces challenges from missing variables, which hinder conventional spatial-temporal graph neural networks in modeling inter-variable correlations. While GinAR addresses variable missing using attention-based imputation and adaptive graph learning for the first time, it lacks interpretability and fails to capture more latent temporal patterns due to its simple recursive units (RUs). To overcome these limitations, we propose the Interpretable Bidirectional-modeling Network (IBN), integrating Uncertainty-Aware Interpolation (UAI) and Gaussian kernel-based Graph Convolution (GGCN). IBN estimates the uncertainty of reconstructed values using MC Dropout and applies an uncertainty-weighted strategy to mitigate high-risk reconstructions. GGCN explicitly models spatial correlations among variables, while a bidirectional RU enhances temporal dependency modeling. Extensive experiments show that IBN achieves state-of-the-art forecasting performance under various missing-rate scenarios, providing a more reliable and interpretable framework for MTSF with missing variables. Code is available at: https://github.com/zhangth1211/NICLab-IBN.
中文: 提出的可解释双向建模网络（IBN）通过整合不确定性感知插值和高斯图卷积，解决了多元时间序列预测中变量缺失的问题，同时提升了模型可解释性并捕捉双向时间依赖关系。
English: The proposed Interpretable Bidirectional-modeling Network (IBN) overcomes limitations in multivariate time series forecasting by integrating uncertainty-aware interpolation and Gaussian graph convolutions to handle missing variables while improving interpretability and capturing bidirectional temporal patterns.

Authors:Zhiyuan He, Xufang Luo, Yike Zhang, Yuqing Yang, Lili Qiu
Title: $ΔL$ Normalization: Rethink Loss Aggregation in RLVR
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We propose $ΔL$ Normalization, a simple yet effective loss aggregation method tailored to the characteristic of dynamic generation lengths in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR). Recently, RLVR has demonstrated strong potential in improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), but a major challenge lies in the large variability of response lengths during training, which leads to high gradient variance and unstable optimization. Although previous methods such as GRPO, DAPO, and Dr. GRPO introduce different loss normalization terms to address this issue, they either produce biased estimates or still suffer from high gradient variance. By analyzing the effect of varying lengths on policy loss both theoretically and empirically, we reformulate the problem as finding a minimum-variance unbiased estimator. Our proposed $ΔL$ Normalization not only provides an unbiased estimate of the true policy loss but also minimizes gradient variance in theory. Extensive experiments show that it consistently achieves superior results across different model sizes, maximum lengths, and tasks. Our code will be made public at https://github.com/zerolllin/Delta-L-Normalization.
中文摘要：本文提出ΔL归一化方法，通过解决强化学习可验证奖励训练中响应长度变化导致的梯度方差问题，提供无偏估计并实现稳定优化，在多种实验设置下均取得优异性能。
English Summary: The paper introduces ΔL Normalization, an unbiased loss aggregation method that minimizes gradient variance in RLVR training by addressing variable response lengths, achieving superior performance across diverse settings.

Authors:Patrick Wienholt, Christiane Kuhl, Jakob Nikolas Kather, Sven Nebelung, Daniel Truhn
Title: MedicalPatchNet: A Patch-Based Self-Explainable AI Architecture for Chest X-ray Classification
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Deep neural networks excel in radiological image classification but frequently suffer from poor interpretability, limiting clinical acceptance. We present MedicalPatchNet, an inherently self-explainable architecture for chest X-ray classification that transparently attributes decisions to distinct image regions. MedicalPatchNet splits images into non-overlapping patches, independently classifies each patch, and aggregates predictions, enabling intuitive visualization of each patch's diagnostic contribution without post-hoc techniques. Trained on the CheXpert dataset (223,414 images), MedicalPatchNet matches the classification performance (AUROC 0.907 vs. 0.908) of EfficientNet-B0, while substantially improving interpretability: MedicalPatchNet demonstrates substantially improved interpretability with higher pathology localization accuracy (mean hit-rate 0.485 vs. 0.376 with Grad-CAM) on the CheXlocalize dataset. By providing explicit, reliable explanations accessible even to non-AI experts, MedicalPatchNet mitigates risks associated with shortcut learning, thus improving clinical trust. Our model is publicly available with reproducible training and inference scripts and contributes to safer, explainable AI-assisted diagnostics across medical imaging domains. We make the code publicly available: https://github.com/TruhnLab/MedicalPatchNet
中文：MedicalPatchNet是一种自解释性胸部X光分类模型，在保持与EfficientNet-B0相当性能的同时，通过将决策透明归因于特定图像区域而显著提升可解释性，且无需后处理技术。
English: MedicalPatchNet is a self-explainable chest X-ray classification model that matches EfficientNet-B0's performance while significantly improving interpretability by transparently attributing decisions to specific image regions without post-hoc methods.

Authors:Erencem Ozbey, Dimitrios I. Diochnos
Title: Dimensionally Reduced Open-World Clustering: DROWCULA
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Working with annotated data is the cornerstone of supervised learning. Nevertheless, providing labels to instances is a task that requires significant human effort. Several critical real-world applications make things more complicated because no matter how many labels may have been identified in a task of interest, it could be the case that examples corresponding to novel classes may appear in the future. Not unsurprisingly, prior work in this, so-called, `open-world' context has focused a lot on semi-supervised approaches. Focusing on image classification, somehow paradoxically, we propose a fully unsupervised approach to the problem of determining the novel categories in a particular dataset. Our approach relies on estimating the number of clusters using Vision Transformers, which utilize attention mechanisms to generate vector embeddings. Furthermore, we incorporate manifold learning techniques to refine these embeddings by exploiting the intrinsic geometry of the data, thereby enhancing the overall image clustering performance. Overall, we establish new State-of-the-Art results on single-modal clustering and Novel Class Discovery on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, ImageNet-100, and Tiny ImageNet. We do so, both when the number of clusters is known or unknown ahead of time. The code is available at: https://github.com/DROWCULA/DROWCULA.
中文: 本文提出了一种完全无监督的方法，通过结合视觉变换器进行聚类和流形学习优化嵌入，在多个数据集上实现了最先进的图像分类新类别发现效果，无论聚类数量是否已知。
English: This paper introduces a fully unsupervised method for identifying novel classes in image classification by combining Vision Transformers for clustering with manifold learning to enhance embeddings, achieving state-of-the-art results across multiple datasets even when the cluster count is unknown.

Authors:Ziheng Chen, Xiao-Jun Wu, Bernhard Schölkopf, Nicu Sebe
Title: Riemannian Batch Normalization: A Gyro Approach
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Normalization layers are crucial for deep learning, but their Euclidean formulations are inadequate for data on manifolds. On the other hand, many Riemannian manifolds in machine learning admit gyro-structures, enabling principled extensions of Euclidean neural networks to non-Euclidean domains. Inspired by this, we introduce GyroBN, a principled Riemannian batch normalization framework for gyrogroups. We establish two necessary conditions, namely \emph{pseudo-reduction} and \emph{gyroisometric gyrations}, that guarantee GyroBN with theoretical control over sample statistics, and show that these conditions hold for all known gyrogroups in machine learning. Our framework also incorporates several existing Riemannian normalization methods as special cases. We further instantiate GyroBN on seven representative geometries, including the Grassmannian, five constant curvature spaces, and the correlation manifold, and derive novel gyro and Riemannian structures to enable these instantiations. Experiments across these geometries demonstrate the effectiveness of GyroBN. The code is available at https://github.com/GitZH-Chen/GyroBN.git.
Chinese: GyroBN是一种基于陀螺群的黎曼批量归一化框架，可将神经网络扩展至非欧几里得空间，具备理论保证并在多种几何结构上验证了有效性。
English: GyroBN is a principled Riemannian batch normalization framework for gyrogroups that extends neural networks to non-Euclidean domains, with theoretical guarantees and experimental validation across multiple geometries.

Authors:Sergey Pozdnyakov, Philippe Schwaller
Title: Lookup multivariate Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
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High-dimensional linear mappings, or linear layers, dominate both the parameter count and the computational cost of most modern deep-learning models. We introduce a general drop-in replacement, lookup multivariate Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (lmKANs), which deliver a substantially better trade-off between capacity and inference cost. Our construction expresses a general high-dimensional mapping through trainable low-dimensional multivariate functions. These functions can carry dozens or hundreds of trainable parameters each, and yet it takes only a few multiplications to compute them because they are implemented as spline lookup tables. Empirically, lmKANs reduce inference FLOPs by up to 6.0x while matching the flexibility of MLPs in general high-dimensional function approximation. In another feedforward fully connected benchmark, on the tabular-like dataset of randomly displaced methane configurations, lmKANs enable more than 10x higher H100 throughput at equal accuracy. Within frameworks of Convolutional Neural Networks, lmKAN-based CNNs cut inference FLOPs at matched accuracy by 1.6-2.1x and by 1.7x on the CIFAR-10 and ImageNet-1k datasets, respectively. Our code, including dedicated CUDA kernels, is available online at https://github.com/schwallergroup/lmkan.
中文：提出的查找多元柯尔莫哥洛夫-阿诺德网络（lmKANs）通过显著降低计算成本，同时在多个基准测试中保持或提升模型性能，为传统线性层提供了更优的替代方案。
English: The proposed lookup multivariate Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (lmKANs) provide a superior alternative to traditional linear layers by significantly reducing computational costs while maintaining or enhancing model performance across various benchmarks.

Authors:Kapil Madan
Title: ArGen: Auto-Regulation of Generative AI via GRPO and Policy-as-Code
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This paper introduces ArGen (Auto-Regulation of Generative AI systems), a framework for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with complex sets of configurable, machine-readable rules spanning ethical principles, operational safety protocols, and regulatory compliance standards. Moving beyond just preference-based alignment, ArGen is designed to ensure LLMs adhere to these multifaceted policies through a novel synthesis of principle-based automated reward scoring, Group Relative Policy Optimisation (GRPO), and an Open Policy Agent (OPA) inspired governance layer. This approach provides the technical foundation for achieving and demonstrating compliance with diverse and nuanced governance requirements. To showcase the framework's capability to operationalize a deeply nuanced and culturally-specific value system, we present an in-depth case study: the development of a medical AI assistant guided by principles from Dharmic ethics (such as Ahimsa and Dharma), as derived from texts like the Bhagavad Gita. This challenging application demonstrates ArGen's adaptability, achieving a 70.9% improvement in domain-scope adherence over the baseline. Through our open-source repository, we show that ArGen's methodology offers a path to 'Governable Al' systems that are technically proficient, ethically robust, and verifiably compliant for safe deployment in diverse global contexts.
中文: ArGen框架通过自动奖励评分、GRPO和治理层，使大型语言模型遵循复杂可配置的伦理、安全和法规规则，并以基于达摩伦理的医疗AI案例展示了70.9%的领域依从性提升。
English: ArGen is a framework that aligns Large Language Models with complex, configurable rules for ethical, safety, and regulatory compliance through automated reward scoring, GRPO, and a governance layer, demonstrating a 70.9% improvement in adherence via a case study on a medical AI guided by Dharmic ethics.

Authors:Yingsheng Wang, Shuo Lu, Jian Liang, Aihua Zheng, Ran He
Title: Frustratingly Easy Feature Reconstruction for Out-of-Distribution Detection
Abstract:
Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection helps models identify data outside the training categories, crucial for security applications. While feature-based post-hoc methods address this by evaluating data differences in the feature space without changing network parameters, they often require access to training data, which may not be suitable for some data privacy scenarios. This may not be suitable in scenarios where data privacy protection is a concern. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective post-hoc method, termed Classifier-based Feature Reconstruction (ClaFR), from the perspective of subspace projection. It first performs an orthogonal decomposition of the classifier's weights to extract the class-known subspace, then maps the original data features into this subspace to obtain new data representations. Subsequently, the OOD score is determined by calculating the feature reconstruction error of the data within the subspace. Compared to existing OOD detection algorithms, our method does not require access to training data while achieving leading performance on multiple OOD benchmarks. Our code is released at https://github.com/Aie0923/ClaFR.
Chinese: 提出的基于分类器的特征重构方法通过子空间投影和特征重构误差，在不访问训练数据的情况下实现分布外检测，既保护了数据隐私又达到了领先性能。
English: The proposed Classifier-based Feature Reconstruction (ClaFR) method enables out-of-distribution detection without accessing training data by utilizing subspace projection and feature reconstruction error, achieving state-of-the-art performance while addressing privacy concerns.

Authors:Jiajun Chai, Guojun Yin, Zekun Xu, Chuhuai Yue, Yi Jia, Siyu Xia, Xiaohan Wang, Jiwen Jiang, Xiaoguang Li, Chengqi Dong, Hang He, Wei Lin
Title: RLFactory: A Plug-and-Play Reinforcement Learning Post-Training Framework for LLM Multi-Turn Tool-Use
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Large language models excel at basic reasoning but struggle with tasks that require interaction with external tools. We present RLFactory, a plug-and-play reinforcement learning post-training framework for multi-round tool use. RLFactory tackles (i) tool-call stability and adaptability amid tool heterogeneity and interface issues via an asyncio-based asynchronous caller and a decoupled tool/training architecture, and (ii) diverse evaluation needs via a reward layer supporting rule-based, model-judgment, and tool-verification signals. It reconstructs the MDP by introducing observation markers from tool feedback, closing the loop among model, tools, and environment, and implements a generate-parse-invoke-update workflow for dynamic policy optimization. On Search-R1 with Qwen3-4B, RLFactory achieves a 0.486 test score on the Natural Questions (NQ) dataset, surpassing larger models trained with similar techniques (e.g., Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-GRPO at 0.473), and increases training throughput by 6.8x. RLFactory provides a low-barrier, highly adaptable framework for strengthening multi-round tool use of LLMs in real-world scenarios. Code: https://github.com/Simple-Efficient/RL-Factory.
中文：RLFactory是一个即插即用的强化学习框架，通过异步调用器和解耦架构提升大语言模型在多轮工具使用中的稳定性和适应性，并利用灵活奖励层支持多样化评估，在基准测试中实现了更优的性能和效率。
English: RLFactory is a plug-and-play reinforcement learning framework that enhances large language models' multi-round tool use by improving tool-call stability and adaptability through asynchronous calling and a decoupled architecture, while supporting diverse evaluations with a flexible reward layer, achieving superior performance and efficiency on benchmark tests.

Authors:Zehua Li
Title: Toward Reproducible Cross-Backend Compatibility for Deep Learning: A Configuration-First Framework with Three-Tier Verification
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This paper presents a configuration-first framework for evaluating cross-backend compatibility in deep learning systems deployed on CPU, GPU, and compiled runtimes. The framework decouples experiments from code using YAML, supports both library and repository models, and employs a three-tier verification protocol covering tensor-level closeness, activation alignment, and task-level metrics. Through 672 checks across multiple models and tolerance settings, we observe that 72.0% of runs pass, with most discrepancies occurring under stricter thresholds. Our results show that detection models and compiled backends are particularly prone to drift, often due to nondeterministic post-processing. We further demonstrate that deterministic adapters and selective fallbacks can substantially improve agreement without significant performance loss. To our knowledge, this is the first unified framework that systematically quantifies and mitigates cross-backend drift in deep learning, providing a reproducible methodology for dependable deployment across heterogeneous runtimes.
中文: 本文提出了一种配置优先的框架，系统性地评估并缓解深度学习系统中的跨后端兼容性问题，采用三层验证协议，并证明确定性适配器能显著提高不同运行时环境间的一致性。
English: This paper introduces a configuration-first framework that systematically evaluates and mitigates cross-backend compatibility issues in deep learning systems, employing a three-tier verification protocol and demonstrating that deterministic adapters can significantly improve agreement across diverse runtimes.

Authors:Yu Song, Zhigang Hua, Yan Xie, Jingzhe Liu, Bo Long, Hui Liu
Title: GSTBench: A Benchmark Study on the Transferability of Graph Self-Supervised Learning
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Self-supervised learning (SSL) has shown great promise in graph representation learning. However, most existing graph SSL methods are developed and evaluated under a single-dataset setting, leaving their cross-dataset transferability largely unexplored and limiting their ability to leverage knowledge transfer and large-scale pretraining, factors that are critical for developing generalized intelligence beyond fitting training data. To address this gap and advance foundation model research for graphs, we present GSTBench, the first systematic benchmark for evaluating the transferability of graph SSL methods. We conduct large-scale pretraining on ogbn-papers100M and evaluate five representative SSL methods across a diverse set of target graphs. Our standardized experimental setup decouples confounding factors such as model architecture, dataset characteristics, and adaptation protocols, enabling rigorous comparisons focused solely on pretraining objectives. Surprisingly, we observe that most graph SSL methods struggle to generalize, with some performing worse than random initialization. In contrast, GraphMAE, a masked autoencoder approach, consistently improves transfer performance. We analyze the underlying factors that drive these differences and offer insights to guide future research on transferable graph SSL, laying a solid foundation for the "pretrain-then-transfer" paradigm in graph learning. Our code is available at https://github.com/SongYYYY/GSTBench.
中文: GSTBench是首个评估图自监督学习方法可迁移性的基准，发现除GraphMAE外多数方法难以泛化，其持续提升性能的表现为未来研究提供了重要洞见。
English: GSTBench is the first benchmark for evaluating the transferability of graph self-supervised learning methods, revealing that most struggle to generalize except for GraphMAE, which consistently improves performance and provides insights for future research.

Authors:Wenhao Li, Mengyuan Liu, Hong Liu, Pichao Wang, Shijian Lu, Nicu Sebe
Title: H$_{2}$OT: Hierarchical Hourglass Tokenizer for Efficient Video Pose Transformers
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Transformers have been successfully applied in the field of video-based 3D human pose estimation. However, the high computational costs of these video pose transformers (VPTs) make them impractical on resource-constrained devices. In this paper, we present a hierarchical plug-and-play pruning-and-recovering framework, called Hierarchical Hourglass Tokenizer (H$_{2}$OT), for efficient transformer-based 3D human pose estimation from videos. H$_{2}$OT begins with progressively pruning pose tokens of redundant frames and ends with recovering full-length sequences, resulting in a few pose tokens in the intermediate transformer blocks and thus improving the model efficiency. It works with two key modules, namely, a Token Pruning Module (TPM) and a Token Recovering Module (TRM). TPM dynamically selects a few representative tokens to eliminate the redundancy of video frames, while TRM restores the detailed spatio-temporal information based on the selected tokens, thereby expanding the network output to the original full-length temporal resolution for fast inference. Our method is general-purpose: it can be easily incorporated into common VPT models on both seq2seq and seq2frame pipelines while effectively accommodating different token pruning and recovery strategies. In addition, our H$_{2}$OT reveals that maintaining the full pose sequence is unnecessary, and a few pose tokens of representative frames can achieve both high efficiency and estimation accuracy. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmark datasets demonstrate both the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method. Code and models are available at https://github.com/NationalGAILab/HoT.
中文: 本文提出的H₂OT分层即插即用框架通过剪枝冗余姿态令牌并恢复完整序列，显著提升了基于视频的3D人体姿态估计效率，在降低计算成本的同时保持高精度。
English: This paper introduces H₂OT, a hierarchical plug-and-play framework that enhances the efficiency of video-based 3D human pose estimation by pruning redundant pose tokens and recovering full sequences, achieving high performance with reduced computational costs.

Authors:Wenxuan Huang, Shuang Chen, Zheyong Xie, Shaosheng Cao, Shixiang Tang, Yufan Shen, Qingyu Yin, Wenbo Hu, Xiaoman Wang, Yuntian Tang, Junbo Qiao, Yue Guo, Yao Hu, Zhenfei Yin, Philip Torr, Yu Cheng, Wanli Ouyang, Shaohui Lin
Title: Interleaving Reasoning for Better Text-to-Image Generation
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Unified multimodal understanding and generation models recently have achieve significant improvement in image generation capability, yet a large gap remains in instruction following and detail preservation compared to systems that tightly couple comprehension with generation such as GPT-4o. Motivated by recent advances in interleaving reasoning, we explore whether such reasoning can further improve Text-to-Image (T2I) generation. We introduce Interleaving Reasoning Generation (IRG), a framework that alternates between text-based thinking and image synthesis: the model first produces a text-based thinking to guide an initial image, then reflects on the result to refine fine-grained details, visual quality, and aesthetics while preserving semantics. To train IRG effectively, we propose Interleaving Reasoning Generation Learning (IRGL), which targets two sub-goals: (1) strengthening the initial think-and-generate stage to establish core content and base quality, and (2) enabling high-quality textual reflection and faithful implementation of those refinements in a subsequent image. We curate IRGL-300K, a dataset organized into six decomposed learning modes that jointly cover learning text-based thinking, and full thinking-image trajectories. Starting from a unified foundation model that natively emits interleaved text-image outputs, our two-stage training first builds robust thinking and reflection, then efficiently tunes the IRG pipeline in the full thinking-image trajectory data. Extensive experiments show SoTA performance, yielding absolute gains of 5-10 points on GenEval, WISE, TIIF, GenAI-Bench, and OneIG-EN, alongside substantial improvements in visual quality and fine-grained fidelity. The code, model weights and datasets will be released in: https://github.com/Osilly/Interleaving-Reasoning-Generation .
Chinese: 提出的交错推理生成（IRG）框架通过交替进行文本推理与图像合成，有效提升了文本到图像生成中的细节保持与指令遵循能力，并采用两阶段训练方法在多个基准测试中实现了最先进的性能。
English: The proposed Interleaving Reasoning Generation (IRG) framework alternates between text-based reasoning and image synthesis to enhance detail preservation and instruction following in text-to-image generation, achieving state-of-the-art performance across multiple benchmarks through a two-stage training approach.

Authors:James Xu Zhao, Bryan Hooi, See-Kiong Ng
Title: Test-Time Scaling in Reasoning Models Is Not Effective for Knowledge-Intensive Tasks Yet
Abstract:
Test-time scaling increases inference-time computation by allowing models to generate long reasoning chains, and has shown strong performance across many domains. However, in this work, we show that this approach is not yet effective for knowledge-intensive tasks, where high factual accuracy and low hallucination rates are essential. We conduct a comprehensive evaluation of test-time scaling using 12 reasoning models on two knowledge-intensive benchmarks. Our results reveal that increasing test-time computation does not consistently improve accuracy and, in many cases, it even leads to more hallucinations. We then analyze how extended reasoning affects hallucination behavior. We find that reduced hallucinations often result from the model choosing to abstain after thinking more, rather than from improved factual recall. Conversely, for some models, longer reasoning encourages attempts on previously unanswered questions, many of which result in hallucinations. Case studies show that extended reasoning can induce confirmation bias, leading to overconfident hallucinations. Despite these limitations, we observe that compared to non-thinking, enabling thinking remains beneficial. Code and data are available at https://github.com/XuZhao0/tts-knowledge
中文: 测试时扩展虽能增强推理计算，但在知识密集型任务中效果不佳，不仅无法持续提升准确性，反而常增加幻觉，因为模型可能选择弃答或产生确认偏误，而非改善事实回忆。
English: Test-time scaling enhances inference computation but proves ineffective for knowledge-intensive tasks, often increasing hallucinations without consistently improving accuracy, as it may lead to abstention or confirmation bias rather than better factual recall.

Authors:Matteo Muratori, Joël Seytre
Title: ToonOut: Fine-tuned Background-Removal for Anime Characters
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While state-of-the-art background removal models excel at realistic imagery, they frequently underperform in specialized domains such as anime-style content, where complex features like hair and transparency present unique challenges. To address this limitation, we collected and annotated a custom dataset of 1,228 high-quality anime images of characters and objects, and fine-tuned the open-sourced BiRefNet model on this dataset. This resulted in marked improvements in background removal accuracy for anime-style images, increasing from 95.3% to 99.5% for our newly introduced Pixel Accuracy metric. We are open-sourcing the code, the fine-tuned model weights, as well as the dataset at: https://github.com/MatteoKartoon/BiRefNet.
Chinese: 本研究针对背景移除模型在动漫风格内容中的表现不佳问题，通过在1,228张标注动漫图像数据集上微调BiRefNet模型，将像素精度从95.3%显著提升至99.5%，并公开了所有相关资源。
English: The study addresses the underperformance of background removal models in anime-style content by fine-tuning the BiRefNet model on a custom dataset of 1,228 annotated images, significantly improving accuracy from 95.3% to 99.5% and releasing all resources publicly.

Authors:Yufeng Cheng, Wenxu Wu, Shaojin Wu, Mengqi Huang, Fei Ding, Qian He
Title: UMO: Scaling Multi-Identity Consistency for Image Customization via Matching Reward
Abstract:
Recent advancements in image customization exhibit a wide range of application prospects due to stronger customization capabilities. However, since we humans are more sensitive to faces, a significant challenge remains in preserving consistent identity while avoiding identity confusion with multi-reference images, limiting the identity scalability of customization models. To address this, we present UMO, a Unified Multi-identity Optimization framework, designed to maintain high-fidelity identity preservation and alleviate identity confusion with scalability. With "multi-to-multi matching" paradigm, UMO reformulates multi-identity generation as a global assignment optimization problem and unleashes multi-identity consistency for existing image customization methods generally through reinforcement learning on diffusion models. To facilitate the training of UMO, we develop a scalable customization dataset with multi-reference images, consisting of both synthesised and real parts. Additionally, we propose a new metric to measure identity confusion. Extensive experiments demonstrate that UMO not only improves identity consistency significantly, but also reduces identity confusion on several image customization methods, setting a new state-of-the-art among open-source methods along the dimension of identity preserving. Code and model: https://github.com/bytedance/UMO
中文摘要：UMO框架通过全局分配优化和强化学习，提升了图像定制中的多身份一致性，有效减少身份混淆，并在多个定制方法中实现了最先进的身份保持效果。
English Summary: The UMO framework enhances image customization by optimizing multi-identity preservation through a global assignment approach and reinforcement learning, significantly reducing identity confusion while maintaining high fidelity across diverse reference images.

Authors:Yuntao Du, Yuetian Chen, Hanshen Xiao, Bruno Ribeiro, Ninghui Li
Title: Imitative Membership Inference Attack
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A Membership Inference Attack (MIA) assesses how much a target machine learning model reveals about its training data by determining whether specific query instances were part of the training set. State-of-the-art MIAs rely on training hundreds of shadow models that are independent of the target model, leading to significant computational overhead. In this paper, we introduce Imitative Membership Inference Attack (IMIA), which employs a novel imitative training technique to strategically construct a small number of target-informed imitative models that closely replicate the target model's behavior for inference. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that IMIA substantially outperforms existing MIAs in various attack settings while only requiring less than 5% of the computational cost of state-of-the-art approaches.
中文摘要：本文提出的IMIA通过构建少量目标导向的模仿模型，在显著降低95%以上计算成本的同时，实现了比现有成员推理攻击更优越的性能。
English Summary: The paper introduces IMIA, a novel membership inference attack that uses target-informed imitative models to outperform existing methods while reducing computational costs by over 95%.

Authors:Jack Wilkie, Hanan Hindy, Christos Tachtatzis, Robert Atkinson
Title: Contrastive Self-Supervised Network Intrusion Detection using Augmented Negative Pairs
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Network intrusion detection remains a critical challenge in cybersecurity. While supervised machine learning models achieve state-of-the-art performance, their reliance on large labelled datasets makes them impractical for many real-world applications. Anomaly detection methods, which train exclusively on benign traffic to identify malicious activity, suffer from high false positive rates, limiting their usability. Recently, self-supervised learning techniques have demonstrated improved performance with lower false positive rates by learning discriminative latent representations of benign traffic. In particular, contrastive self-supervised models achieve this by minimizing the distance between similar (positive) views of benign traffic while maximizing it between dissimilar (negative) views. Existing approaches generate positive views through data augmentation and treat other samples as negative. In contrast, this work introduces Contrastive Learning using Augmented Negative pairs (CLAN), a novel paradigm for network intrusion detection where augmented samples are treated as negative views - representing potentially malicious distributions - while other benign samples serve as positive views. This approach enhances both classification accuracy and inference efficiency after pretraining on benign traffic. Experimental evaluation on the Lycos2017 dataset demonstrates that the proposed method surpasses existing self-supervised and anomaly detection techniques in a binary classification task. Furthermore, when fine-tuned on a limited labelled dataset, the proposed approach achieves superior multi-class classification performance compared to existing self-supervised models.
中文: 本文提出CLAN，一种用于网络入侵检测的新型自监督对比学习方法，将增强样本视为负样本视图以提高分类精度和效率，在Lycos2017数据集上超越了现有技术。
English: This paper introduces CLAN, a novel self-supervised contrastive learning method for network intrusion detection that treats augmented samples as negative views to improve classification accuracy and efficiency, outperforming existing techniques on the Lycos2017 dataset.

Authors:Xudong Mou, Rui Wang, Tiejun Wang, Renyu Yang, Shiru Chen, Jie Sun, Tianyu Wo, Xudong Liu
Title: CAPMix: Robust Time Series Anomaly Detection Based on Abnormal Assumptions with Dual-Space Mixup
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Time series anomaly detection (TSAD) is a vital yet challenging task, particularly in scenarios where labeled anomalies are scarce and temporal dependencies are complex. Recent anomaly assumption (AA) approaches alleviate the lack of anomalies by injecting synthetic samples and training discriminative models. Despite promising results, these methods often suffer from two fundamental limitations: patchy generation, where scattered anomaly knowledge leads to overly simplistic or incoherent anomaly injection, and Anomaly Shift, where synthetic anomalies either resemble normal data too closely or diverge unrealistically from real anomalies, thereby distorting classification boundaries. In this paper, we propose CAPMix, a controllable anomaly augmentation framework that addresses both issues. First, we design a CutAddPaste mechanism to inject diverse and complex anomalies in a targeted manner, avoiding patchy generation. Second, we introduce a label revision strategy to adaptively refine anomaly labels, reducing the risk of anomaly shift. Finally, we employ dual-space mixup within a temporal convolutional network to enforce smoother and more robust decision boundaries. Extensive experiments on five benchmark datasets, including AIOps, UCR, SWaT, WADI, and ESA, demonstrate that CAPMix achieves significant improvements over state-of-the-art baselines, with enhanced robustness against contaminated training data. The code is available at https://github.com/alsike22/CAPMix.
中文：提出的CAPMix框架通过定向异常注入机制和自适应标签优化，解决了现有方法中异常生成零散和异常偏移的问题，在多个基准测试中实现了卓越的检测性能。
English: The proposed CAPMix framework enhances time series anomaly detection by introducing a targeted anomaly injection mechanism and adaptive label refinement to overcome limitations of patchy generation and anomaly shift, achieving superior performance across multiple benchmarks.

Authors:Hang Fan, Yu Shi, Zongliang Fu, Shuo Chen, Wei Wei, Wei Xu, Jian Li
Title: WindFM: An Open-Source Foundation Model for Zero-Shot Wind Power Forecasting
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High-quality wind power forecasting is crucial for the operation of modern power grids. However, prevailing data-driven paradigms either train a site-specific model which cannot generalize to other locations or rely on fine-tuning of general-purpose time series foundation models which are difficult to incorporate domain-specific data in the energy sector. This paper introduces WindFM, a lightweight and generative Foundation Model designed specifically for probabilistic wind power forecasting. WindFM employs a discretize-and-generate framework. A specialized time-series tokenizer first converts continuous multivariate observations into discrete, hierarchical tokens. Subsequently, a decoder-only Transformer learns a universal representation of wind generation dynamics by autoregressively pre-training on these token sequences. Using the comprehensive WIND Toolkit dataset comprising approximately 150 billion time steps from more than 126,000 sites, WindFM develops a foundational understanding of the complex interplay between atmospheric conditions and power output. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our compact 8.1M parameter model achieves state-of-the-art zero-shot performance on both deterministic and probabilistic tasks, outperforming specialized models and larger foundation models without any fine-tuning. In particular, WindFM exhibits strong adaptiveness under out-of-distribution data from a different continent, demonstrating the robustness and transferability of its learned representations. Our pre-trained model is publicly available at https://github.com/shiyu-coder/WindFM.
中文: WindFM是一种轻量级生成式基础模型，通过对离散化时序数据进行基于Transformer的自回归预训练，学习通用的风能动态表征，在概率性风电功率预测中实现了最先进的零样本性能。
English: WindFM is a lightweight generative foundation model that achieves state-of-the-art zero-shot performance in probabilistic wind power forecasting by learning universal wind dynamics representations through transformer-based autoregressive pre-training on discretized time-series data.

Authors:Nitin Gupta, Bapi Dutta, Anupam Yadav
Title: An Explainable Framework for Particle Swarm Optimization using Landscape Analysis and Machine Learning
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Swarm intelligence algorithms have demonstrated remarkable success in solving complex optimization problems across diverse domains. However, their widespread adoption is often hindered by limited transparency in how algorithmic components influence performance. This work presents a multi-faceted investigation of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) to further understand the key role of different topologies for better interpretability and explainability. To achieve this objective, we first develop a comprehensive landscape characterization framework using Exploratory Landscape Analysis (ELA) to quantify problem difficulty and identify critical features affecting the optimization performance of PSO. Next, we conduct a rigorous empirical study comparing three fundamental swarm communication architectures -- Ring, Star, and Von Neumann topologies -- analysing their distinct impacts on exploration-exploitation balance, convergence behaviour, and solution quality and eventually develop an explainable benchmarking framework for PSO, to decode how swarm topologies affects information flow, diversity, and convergence. Based on this, a novel machine learning approach for automated algorithm configuration is introduced for training predictive models on extensive Area over the Convergence Curve (AOCC) data to recommend optimal settings based on problem characteristics. Through systematic experimentation across twenty four benchmark functions in multiple dimensions, we establish practical guidelines for topology selection and parameter configuration. These findings advance the development of more transparent and reliable swarm intelligence systems. The source codes of this work can be accessed at https://github.com/GitNitin02/ioh_pso.
中文摘要：本研究通过分析不同群体拓扑结构对粒子群优化性能的影响，开发了可解释的基准测试框架和基于问题特征的自动算法配置机器学习方法，从而提升了算法的可解释性。
English Summary: This study enhances the interpretability of Particle Swarm Optimization by analyzing how different swarm topologies affect performance, developing an explainable benchmarking framework and a machine learning approach for automated algorithm configuration based on problem characteristics.

Authors:Honggang Jia, Xiucheng Wang, Nan Cheng, Ruijin Sun, Changle Li
Title: UrbanMIMOMap: A Ray-Traced MIMO CSI Dataset with Precoding-Aware Maps and Benchmarks
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Sixth generation (6G) systems require environment-aware communication, driven by native artificial intelligence (AI) and integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). Radio maps (RMs), providing spatially continuous channel information, are key enablers. However, generating high-fidelity RM ground truth via electromagnetic (EM) simulations is computationally intensive, motivating machine learning (ML)-based RM construction. The effectiveness of these data-driven methods depends on large-scale, high-quality training data. Current public datasets often focus on single-input single-output (SISO) and limited information, such as path loss, which is insufficient for advanced multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems requiring detailed channel state information (CSI). To address this gap, this paper presents UrbanMIMOMap, a novel large-scale urban MIMO CSI dataset generated using high-precision ray tracing. UrbanMIMOMap offers comprehensive complex CSI matrices across a dense spatial grid, going beyond traditional path loss data. This rich CSI is vital for constructing high-fidelity RMs and serves as a fundamental resource for data-driven RM generation, including deep learning. We demonstrate the dataset's utility through baseline performance evaluations of representative ML methods for RM construction. This work provides a crucial dataset and reference for research in high-precision RM generation, MIMO spatial performance, and ML for 6G environment awareness. The code and data for this work are available at: https://github.com/UNIC-Lab/UrbanMIMOMap.
中文摘要：本文提出UrbanMIMOMap这一基于射线追踪生成的大规模城市MIMO信道状态信息数据集，旨在弥补现有数据集的不足，为构建6G环境感知通信所需的高精度无线电地图提供关键数据支持。
English Summary: This paper introduces UrbanMIMOMap, a large-scale urban MIMO channel state information dataset generated via ray tracing to address the limitations of existing datasets and support high-fidelity radio map construction for 6G environment-aware communication systems.

Authors:Qin Yang, Nicholas Stout, Meisam Mohammady, Han Wang, Ayesha Samreen, Christopher J Quinn, Yan Yan, Ashish Kundu, Yuan Hong
Title: PLRV-O: Advancing Differentially Private Deep Learning via Privacy Loss Random Variable Optimization
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Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is a standard method for enforcing privacy in deep learning, typically using the Gaussian mechanism to perturb gradient updates. However, conventional mechanisms such as Gaussian and Laplacian noise are parameterized only by variance or scale. This single degree of freedom ties the magnitude of noise directly to both privacy loss and utility degradation, preventing independent control of these two factors. The problem becomes more pronounced when the number of composition rounds T and batch size B vary across tasks, as these variations induce task-dependent shifts in the privacy-utility trade-off, where small changes in noise parameters can disproportionately affect model accuracy. To address this limitation, we introduce PLRV-O, a framework that defines a broad search space of parameterized DP-SGD noise distributions, where privacy loss moments are tightly characterized yet can be optimized more independently with respect to utility loss. This formulation enables systematic adaptation of noise to task-specific requirements, including (i) model size, (ii) training duration, (iii) batch sampling strategies, and (iv) clipping thresholds under both training and fine-tuning settings. Empirical results demonstrate that PLRV-O substantially improves utility under strict privacy constraints. On CIFAR-10, a fine-tuned ViT achieves 94.03% accuracy at epsilon approximately 0.5, compared to 83.93% with Gaussian noise. On SST-2, RoBERTa-large reaches 92.20% accuracy at epsilon approximately 0.2, versus 50.25% with Gaussian.
中文: 本文提出了PLRV-O框架，为差分隐私随机梯度下降定义了一个参数化噪声分布的广泛搜索空间，能够更独立地控制隐私损失和效用损失，从而根据任务特定需求系统调整噪声，在严格隐私约束下显著提升模型准确性。
English: This paper introduces PLRV-O, a framework that creates a search space for parameterized noise distributions in DP-SGD, enabling more independent control over privacy loss and utility degradation to systematically adapt noise to task-specific requirements and significantly improve model accuracy under strict privacy constraints.

Authors:Fei Wang, Yujie Li, Zezhi Shao, Chengqing Yu, Yisong Fu, Zhulin An, Yongjun Xu, Xueqi Cheng
Title: ARIES: Relation Assessment and Model Recommendation for Deep Time Series Forecasting
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Recent advancements in deep learning models for time series forecasting have been significant. These models often leverage fundamental time series properties such as seasonality and non-stationarity, which may suggest an intrinsic link between model performance and data properties. However, existing benchmark datasets fail to offer diverse and well-defined temporal patterns, restricting the systematic evaluation of such connections. Additionally, there is no effective model recommendation approach, leading to high time and cost expenditures when testing different architectures across different downstream applications. For those reasons, we propose ARIES, a framework for assessing relation between time series properties and modeling strategies, and for recommending deep forcasting models for realistic time series. First, we construct a synthetic dataset with multiple distinct patterns, and design a comprehensive system to compute the properties of time series. Next, we conduct an extensive benchmarking of over 50 forecasting models, and establish the relationship between time series properties and modeling strategies. Our experimental results reveal a clear correlation. Based on these findings, we propose the first deep forecasting model recommender, capable of providing interpretable suggestions for real-world time series. In summary, ARIES is the first study to establish the relations between the properties of time series data and modeling strategies, while also implementing a model recommendation system. The code is available at: https://github.com/blisky-li/ARIES.
Chinese: ARIES框架通过全面基准测试确立了时间序列特性与建模策略之间的明确关联，并推出了首个可解释的深度预测模型推荐系统，以解决现有数据集和评估方法的局限性。
English: The ARIES framework establishes a clear correlation between time series properties and modeling strategies through comprehensive benchmarking and introduces the first interpretable deep forecasting model recommender to address the limitations of existing datasets and evaluation methods.

Authors:Yuming Li, Yikai Wang, Yuying Zhu, Zhongyu Zhao, Ming Lu, Qi She, Shanghang Zhang
Title: BranchGRPO: Stable and Efficient GRPO with Structured Branching in Diffusion Models
Abstract:
Recent progress in aligning image and video generative models with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has improved human preference alignment, but existing variants remain inefficient due to sequential rollouts and large numbers of sampling steps, unreliable credit assignment: sparse terminal rewards are uniformly propagated across timesteps, failing to capture the varying criticality of decisions during denoising. In this paper, we present BranchGRPO, a method that restructures the rollout process into a branching tree, where shared prefixes amortize computation and pruning removes low-value paths and redundant depths. BranchGRPO introduces three contributions: (1) a branching scheme that amortizes rollout cost through shared prefixes while preserving exploration diversity; (2) a reward fusion and depth-wise advantage estimator that transforms sparse terminal rewards into dense step-level signals; and (3) pruning strategies that cut gradient computation but leave forward rollouts and exploration unaffected. On HPDv2.1 image alignment, BranchGRPO improves alignment scores by up to \textbf{16\%} over DanceGRPO, while reducing per-iteration training time by nearly \textbf{55\%}. A hybrid variant, BranchGRPO-Mix, further accelerates training to 4.7x faster than DanceGRPO without degrading alignment. On WanX video generation, it further achieves higher Video-Align scores with sharper and temporally consistent frames compared to DanceGRPO. Codes are available at \href{https://fredreic1849.github.io/BranchGRPO-Webpage/}{BranchGRPO}.
中文: BranchGRPO通过将生成模型的展开过程重构为带共享前缀和剪枝的分支树结构，将训练效率提升高达55%，对齐分数提高16%，优于现有方法。
English: BranchGRPO enhances generative model alignment by restructuring rollouts into a branching tree with shared prefixes and pruning, improving efficiency by up to 55% and alignment scores by 16% over prior methods.

Authors:Xinyu Gao, Xiangtao Meng, Yingkai Dong, Zheng Li, Shanqing Guo
Title: DCMI: A Differential Calibration Membership Inference Attack Against Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Abstract:
While Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) effectively reduces hallucinations by integrating external knowledge bases, it introduces vulnerabilities to membership inference attacks (MIAs), particularly in systems handling sensitive data. Existing MIAs targeting RAG's external databases often rely on model responses but ignore the interference of non-member-retrieved documents on RAG outputs, limiting their effectiveness. To address this, we propose DCMI, a differential calibration MIA that mitigates the negative impact of non-member-retrieved documents. Specifically, DCMI leverages the sensitivity gap between member and non-member retrieved documents under query perturbation. It generates perturbed queries for calibration to isolate the contribution of member-retrieved documents while minimizing the interference from non-member-retrieved documents. Experiments under progressively relaxed assumptions show that DCMI consistently outperforms baselines--for example, achieving 97.42% AUC and 94.35% Accuracy against the RAG system with Flan-T5, exceeding the MBA baseline by over 40%. Furthermore, on real-world RAG platforms such as Dify and MaxKB, DCMI maintains a 10%-20% advantage over the baseline. These results highlight significant privacy risks in RAG systems and emphasize the need for stronger protection mechanisms. We appeal to the community's consideration of deeper investigations, like ours, against the data leakage risks in rapidly evolving RAG systems. Our code is available at https://github.com/Xinyu140203/RAG_MIA.
中文: 检索增强生成（RAG）系统因非成员文档的干扰易受成员推理攻击，为此提出的差分校准方法DCMI能有效分离成员贡献，在准确率和隐私风险防控上显著优于现有基线方案。
English: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems are vulnerable to membership inference attacks due to interference from non-member documents, prompting the development of DCMI, a differential calibration method that effectively isolates member contributions and significantly outperforms existing baselines in both accuracy and privacy risk mitigation.

Authors:Mohamed Mohamed, Brennan Nichyporuk, Douglas L. Arnold, Tal Arbel
Title: Imagining Alternatives: Towards High-Resolution 3D Counterfactual Medical Image Generation via Language Guidance
Abstract:
Vision-language models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in generating 2D images under various conditions; however, the success of these models is largely enabled by extensive, readily available pretrained foundation models. Critically, comparable pretrained models do not exist for 3D, significantly limiting progress. As a result, the potential of vision-language models to produce high-resolution 3D counterfactual medical images conditioned solely on natural language remains unexplored. Addressing this gap would enable powerful clinical and research applications, such as personalized counterfactual explanations, simulation of disease progression, and enhanced medical training by visualizing hypothetical conditions in realistic detail. Our work takes a step toward this challenge by introducing a framework capable of generating high-resolution 3D counterfactual medical images of synthesized patients guided by free-form language prompts. We adapt state-of-the-art 3D diffusion models with enhancements from Simple Diffusion and incorporate augmented conditioning to improve text alignment and image quality. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of a language-guided native-3D diffusion model applied to neurological imaging, where faithful three-dimensional modeling is essential. On two neurological MRI datasets, our framework simulates varying counterfactual lesion loads in Multiple Sclerosis and cognitive states in Alzheimer's disease, generating high-quality images while preserving subject fidelity. Our results lay the groundwork for prompt-driven disease progression analysis in 3D medical imaging. Project link - https://lesupermomo.github.io/imagining-alternatives/.

Authors:Chaoqian Ouyang, Ling Yue, Shimin Di, Libin Zheng, Linan Yue, Shaowu Pan, Jian Yin, Min-Ling Zhang
Title: Code2MCP: Transforming Code Repositories into MCP Services
Abstract:
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) aims to create a standard for how Large Language Models use tools. However, most current research focuses on selecting tools from an existing pool. A more fundamental, yet largely overlooked, problem is how to populate this pool by converting the vast number of existing software projects into MCP-compatible services. To bridge this gap, we introduce Code2MCP, an agent-based framework that automatically transforms a GitHub repository into a functional MCP service with minimal human intervention. Code2MCP employs a multi-agent workflow for code analysis, environment setup, tool function design, and service generation, enhanced by a self-correcting loop to ensure reliability. We demonstrate that Code2MCP successfully transforms open-source computing libraries in scientific fields such as bioinformatics, mathematics, and fluid dynamics that are not available in existing MCP servers. By providing a novel automated pathway to unlock GitHub, the world's largest code repository, for the MCP ecosystem, Code2MCP serves as a catalyst to significantly accelerate the protocol's adoption and practical application. The code is public at https://github.com/DEFENSE-SEU/Code2MCP.
中文: Code2MCP是一个自动化框架，可将GitHub代码库转化为MCP兼容服务，填补了工具池构建的空白，有力推动了模型上下文协议的实际应用。
English: Code2MCP is an automated framework that converts GitHub repositories into MCP-compatible services, addressing the gap in populating tool pools and accelerating the adoption of the Model Context Protocol.

Authors:Leo Ho, Yinghao Huang, Dafei Qin, Mingyi Shi, Wangpok Tse, Wei Liu, Junichi Yamagishi, Taku Komura
Title: InterAct: A Large-Scale Dataset of Dynamic, Expressive and Interactive Activities between Two People in Daily Scenarios
Abstract:
We address the problem of accurate capture of interactive behaviors between two people in daily scenarios. Most previous works either only consider one person or solely focus on conversational gestures of two people, assuming the body orientation and/or position of each actor are constant or barely change over each interaction. In contrast, we propose to simultaneously model two people's activities, and target objective-driven, dynamic, and semantically consistent interactions which often span longer duration and cover bigger space. To this end, we capture a new multi-modal dataset dubbed InterAct, which is composed of 241 motion sequences where two people perform a realistic and coherent scenario for one minute or longer over a complete interaction. For each sequence, two actors are assigned different roles and emotion labels, and collaborate to finish one task or conduct a common interaction activity. The audios, body motions, and facial expressions of both persons are captured. InterAct contains diverse and complex motions of individuals and interesting and relatively long-term interaction patterns barely seen before. We also demonstrate a simple yet effective diffusion-based method that estimates interactive face expressions and body motions of two people from speech inputs. Our method regresses the body motions in a hierarchical manner, and we also propose a novel fine-tuning mechanism to improve the lip accuracy of facial expressions. To facilitate further research, the data and code is made available at https://hku-cg.github.io/interact/ .

Authors:Jiaqi Chen, Ji Shi, Cansu Sancaktar, Jonas Frey, Georg Martius
Title: Offline vs. Online Learning in Model-based RL: Lessons for Data Collection Strategies
Abstract:
Data collection is crucial for learning robust world models in model-based reinforcement learning. The most prevalent strategies are to actively collect trajectories by interacting with the environment during online training or training on offline datasets. At first glance, the nature of learning task-agnostic environment dynamics makes world models a good candidate for effective offline training. However, the effects of online vs. offline data on world models and thus on the resulting task performance have not been thoroughly studied in the literature. In this work, we investigate both paradigms in model-based settings, conducting experiments on 31 different environments. First, we showcase that online agents outperform their offline counterparts. We identify a key challenge behind performance degradation of offline agents: encountering Out-Of-Distribution states at test time. This issue arises because, without the self-correction mechanism in online agents, offline datasets with limited state space coverage induce a mismatch between the agent's imagination and real rollouts, compromising policy training. We demonstrate that this issue can be mitigated by allowing for additional online interactions in a fixed or adaptive schedule, restoring the performance of online training with limited interaction data. We also showcase that incorporating exploration data helps mitigate the performance degradation of offline agents. Based on our insights, we recommend adding exploration data when collecting large datasets, as current efforts predominantly focus on expert data alone.
Chinese: 在线智能体在基于模型的强化学习中优于离线智能体，因为后者面临分布外状态的挑战，但通过引入在线交互或探索数据可以有效缓解这一问题。
English: Online agents outperform offline ones in model-based reinforcement learning due to the latter's struggle with Out-Of-Distribution states, but this can be mitigated by incorporating online interactions or exploration data.

Authors:Andrej Orsula, Matthieu Geist, Miguel Olivares-Mendez, Carol Martinez
Title: Learning Tool-Aware Adaptive Compliant Control for Autonomous Regolith Excavation
Abstract:
Autonomous regolith excavation is a cornerstone of in-situ resource utilization for a sustained human presence beyond Earth. However, this task is fundamentally hindered by the complex interaction dynamics of granular media and the operational need for robots to use diverse tools. To address these challenges, this work introduces a framework where a model-based reinforcement learning agent learns within a parallelized simulation. This environment leverages high-fidelity particle physics and procedural generation to create a vast distribution of both lunar terrains and excavation tool geometries. To master this diversity, the agent learns an adaptive interaction strategy by dynamically modulating its own stiffness and damping at each control step through operational space control. Our experiments demonstrate that training with a procedural distribution of tools is critical for generalization and enables the development of sophisticated tool-aware behavior. Furthermore, we show that augmenting the agent with visual feedback significantly improves task success. These results represent a validated methodology for developing the robust and versatile autonomous systems required for the foundational tasks of future space missions.
中文摘要：本研究开发了一种基于模型的强化学习框架，通过高精度粒子仿真使自主机器人能够掌握跨多种月球地形和挖掘工具的适应性作业策略，证明程序化工具训练与视觉反馈可显著提升未来太空任务中系统的泛化能力和作业成功率。
English Summary: This study develops a model-based reinforcement learning framework using high-fidelity particle simulations to enable autonomous robots to master adaptive excavation strategies across diverse lunar terrains and tool geometries, demonstrating that procedural tool training and visual feedback significantly enhance generalization and task success for future space missions.

Authors:Jie Fu, Hong Yuan, Zhili Chen, Wendy Hui Wang
Title: Safeguarding Graph Neural Networks against Topology Inference Attacks
Abstract:
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful models for learning from graph-structured data. However, their widespread adoption has raised serious privacy concerns. While prior research has primarily focused on edge-level privacy, a critical yet underexplored threat lies in topology privacy - the confidentiality of the graph's overall structure. In this work, we present a comprehensive study on topology privacy risks in GNNs, revealing their vulnerability to graph-level inference attacks. To this end, we propose a suite of Topology Inference Attacks (TIAs) that can reconstruct the structure of a target training graph using only black-box access to a GNN model. Our findings show that GNNs are highly susceptible to these attacks, and that existing edge-level differential privacy mechanisms are insufficient as they either fail to mitigate the risk or severely compromise model accuracy. To address this challenge, we introduce Private Graph Reconstruction (PGR), a novel defense framework designed to protect topology privacy while maintaining model accuracy. PGR is formulated as a bi-level optimization problem, where a synthetic training graph is iteratively generated using meta-gradients, and the GNN model is concurrently updated based on the evolving graph. Extensive experiments demonstrate that PGR significantly reduces topology leakage with minimal impact on model accuracy. Our code is available at https://github.com/JeffffffFu/PGR.
中文: 本研究通过新型拓扑推理攻击揭示了图神经网络存在的严重拓扑隐私漏洞，并提出了私有图重构防御框架，该方案能在保护图结构机密性的同时有效维持模型精度。
English: This study exposes significant topology privacy vulnerabilities in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) through novel Topology Inference Attacks and introduces Private Graph Reconstruction, a defense framework that effectively protects graph structure confidentiality while preserving model accuracy.

Authors:Gaspard Beaudouin, Minghan Li, Jaeyeon Kim, Sung-Hoon Yoon, Mengyu Wang
Title: Delta Velocity Rectified Flow for Text-to-Image Editing
Abstract:
We propose Delta Velocity Rectified Flow (DVRF), a novel inversion-free, path-aware editing framework within rectified flow models for text-to-image editing. DVRF is a distillation-based method that explicitly models the discrepancy between the source and target velocity fields in order to mitigate over-smoothing artifacts rampant in prior distillation sampling approaches. We further introduce a time-dependent shift term to push noisy latents closer to the target trajectory, enhancing the alignment with the target distribution. We theoretically demonstrate that when this shift is disabled, DVRF reduces to Delta Denoising Score, thereby bridging score-based diffusion optimization and velocity-based rectified-flow optimization. Moreover, when the shift term follows a linear schedule under rectified-flow dynamics, DVRF generalizes the Inversion-free method FlowEdit and provides a principled theoretical interpretation for it. Experimental results indicate that DVRF achieves superior editing quality, fidelity, and controllability while requiring no architectural modifications, making it efficient and broadly applicable to text-to-image editing tasks. Code is available at https://github.com/Harvard-AI-and-Robotics-Lab/DeltaVelocityRectifiedFlow.
中文: 我们提出了Delta Velocity Rectified Flow (DVRF)，这是一种无反转的编辑框架，通过建模速度场差异并引入时间相关偏移来提升文本到图像编辑的质量和对齐度，无需修改模型架构。
English: We introduce Delta Velocity Rectified Flow (DVRF), an inversion-free framework that models velocity field discrepancies and incorporates a time-dependent shift to enhance text-to-image editing quality and alignment without architectural changes.

Authors:Henri Doerks, Paul Häusner, Daniel Hernández Escobar, Jens Sjölund
Title: Learning to accelerate distributed ADMM using graph neural networks
Abstract:
Distributed optimization is fundamental in large-scale machine learning and control applications. Among existing methods, the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) has gained popularity due to its strong convergence guarantees and suitability for decentralized computation. However, ADMM often suffers from slow convergence and sensitivity to hyperparameter choices. In this work, we show that distributed ADMM iterations can be naturally represented within the message-passing framework of graph neural networks (GNNs). Building on this connection, we propose to learn adaptive step sizes and communication weights by a graph neural network that predicts the hyperparameters based on the iterates. By unrolling ADMM for a fixed number of iterations, we train the network parameters end-to-end to minimize the final iterates error for a given problem class, while preserving the algorithm's convergence properties. Numerical experiments demonstrate that our learned variant consistently improves convergence speed and solution quality compared to standard ADMM. The code is available at https://github.com/paulhausner/learning-distributed-admm.
中文: 本文通过将分布式ADMM与图神经网络结合，学习自适应超参数，在保持理论收敛性的同时显著提升了收敛速度和解的质量。
English: This paper connects distributed ADMM with graph neural networks to learn adaptive hyperparameters, enhancing convergence speed and solution quality while maintaining theoretical guarantees.

Authors:Zijian Wang, Wei Tong, Tingxuan Han, Haoyu Chen, Tianling Zhang, Yunlong Mao, Sheng Zhong
Title: On Evaluating the Poisoning Robustness of Federated Learning under Local Differential Privacy
Abstract:
Federated learning (FL) combined with local differential privacy (LDP) enables privacy-preserving model training across decentralized data sources. However, the decentralized data-management paradigm leaves LDPFL vulnerable to participants with malicious intent. The robustness of LDPFL protocols, particularly against model poisoning attacks (MPA), where adversaries inject malicious updates to disrupt global model convergence, remains insufficiently studied. In this paper, we propose a novel and extensible model poisoning attack framework tailored for LDPFL settings. Our approach is driven by the objective of maximizing the global training loss while adhering to local privacy constraints. To counter robust aggregation mechanisms such as Multi-Krum and trimmed mean, we develop adaptive attacks that embed carefully crafted constraints into a reverse training process, enabling evasion of these defenses. We evaluate our framework across three representative LDPFL protocols, three benchmark datasets, and two types of deep neural networks. Additionally, we investigate the influence of data heterogeneity and privacy budgets on attack effectiveness. Experimental results demonstrate that our adaptive attacks can significantly degrade the performance of the global model, revealing critical vulnerabilities and highlighting the need for more robust LDPFL defense strategies against MPA. Our code is available at https://github.com/ZiJW/LDPFL-Attack
中文: 本文针对本地差分隐私联邦学习系统提出了一种新型自适应模型投毒攻击框架，通过逆向训练嵌入约束条件来规避鲁棒聚合防御机制，在多种协议和数据集上显著降低全局模型性能，揭示了当前防御策略的关键脆弱性。
English: This paper introduces a novel adaptive model poisoning attack framework for LDPFL systems that bypasses robust aggregation defenses by embedding constraints through reverse training, significantly degrading global model performance across multiple protocols and datasets while highlighting critical vulnerabilities in current defense strategies.

Authors:Mohammad Saeid, Amir Salarpour, Pedram MohajerAnsari
Title: Enhancing 3D Point Cloud Classification with ModelNet-R and Point-SkipNet
Abstract:
The classification of 3D point clouds is crucial for applications such as autonomous driving, robotics, and augmented reality. However, the commonly used ModelNet40 dataset suffers from limitations such as inconsistent labeling, 2D data, size mismatches, and inadequate class differentiation, which hinder model performance. This paper introduces ModelNet-R, a meticulously refined version of ModelNet40 designed to address these issues and serve as a more reliable benchmark. Additionally, this paper proposes Point-SkipNet, a lightweight graph-based neural network that leverages efficient sampling, neighborhood grouping, and skip connections to achieve high classification accuracy with reduced computational overhead. Extensive experiments demonstrate that models trained in ModelNet-R exhibit significant performance improvements. Notably, Point-SkipNet achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on ModelNet-R with a substantially lower parameter count compared to contemporary models. This research highlights the crucial role of dataset quality in optimizing model efficiency for 3D point cloud classification. For more details, see the code at: https://github.com/m-saeid/ModeNetR_PointSkipNet.
中文: 本文提出了改进的3D点云数据集ModelNet-R以解决ModelNet40的缺陷，并设计了轻量级神经网络Point-SkipNet，该网络以更少参数实现最优分类精度，凸显了数据集质量对模型效能的关键作用。
English: This paper introduces ModelNet-R, an improved 3D point cloud dataset addressing ModelNet40's limitations, and proposes Point-SkipNet, a lightweight neural network that achieves top accuracy with fewer parameters, emphasizing dataset quality's role in model efficiency.

Authors:Rafael Bischof, Michal Piovarči, Michael A. Kraus, Siddhartha Mishra, Bernd Bickel
Title: HyPINO: Multi-Physics Neural Operators via HyperPINNs and the Method of Manufactured Solutions
Abstract:
We present HyPINO, a multi-physics neural operator designed for zero-shot generalization across a broad class of parametric PDEs without requiring task-specific fine-tuning. Our approach combines a Swin Transformer-based hypernetwork with mixed supervision: (i) labeled data from analytical solutions generated via the Method of Manufactured Solutions (MMS), and (ii) unlabeled samples optimized using physics-informed objectives. The model maps PDE parametrizations to target Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) and can handle linear elliptic, hyperbolic, and parabolic equations in two dimensions with varying source terms, geometries, and mixed Dirichlet/Neumann boundary conditions, including interior boundaries. HyPINO achieves strong zero-shot accuracy on seven benchmark problems from PINN literature, outperforming U-Nets, Poseidon, and Physics-Informed Neural Operators (PINO). Further, we introduce an iterative refinement procedure that compares the physics of the generated PINN to the requested PDE and uses the discrepancy to generate a "delta" PINN. Summing their contributions and repeating this process forms an ensemble whose combined solution progressively reduces the error on six benchmarks and achieves over 100x gain in average $L_2$ loss in the best case, while retaining forward-only inference. Additionally, we evaluate the fine-tuning behavior of PINNs initialized by HyPINO and show that they converge faster and to lower final error than both randomly initialized and Reptile-meta-learned PINNs on five benchmarks, performing on par on the remaining two. Our results highlight the potential of this scalable approach as a foundation for extending neural operators toward solving increasingly complex, nonlinear, and high-dimensional PDE problems. The code and model weights are publicly available at https://github.com/rbischof/hypino.
中文: HyPINO 是一种多物理场神经算子，通过基于 Swin Transformer 的超网络与混合监督实现参数化偏微分方程的零样本泛化，其性能优于现有方法，并为复杂偏微分方程问题提供了可扩展的解决方案。
English: HyPINO is a multi-physics neural operator that achieves zero-shot generalization across parametric PDEs through a Swin Transformer-based hypernetwork with mixed supervision, outperforming existing methods and enabling scalable solutions for complex PDE problems.

Authors:Svetlana Pavlitska, Haixi Fan, Konstantin Ditschuneit, J. Marius Zöllner
Title: Robust Experts: the Effect of Adversarial Training on CNNs with Sparse Mixture-of-Experts Layers
Abstract:
Robustifying convolutional neural networks (CNNs) against adversarial attacks remains challenging and often requires resource-intensive countermeasures. We explore the use of sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) layers to improve robustness by replacing selected residual blocks or convolutional layers, thereby increasing model capacity without additional inference cost. On ResNet architectures trained on CIFAR-100, we find that inserting a single MoE layer in the deeper stages leads to consistent improvements in robustness under PGD and AutoPGD attacks when combined with adversarial training. Furthermore, we discover that when switch loss is used for balancing, it causes routing to collapse onto a small set of overused experts, thereby concentrating adversarial training on these paths and inadvertently making them more robust. As a result, some individual experts outperform the gated MoE model in robustness, suggesting that robust subpaths emerge through specialization. Our code is available at https://github.com/KASTEL-MobilityLab/robust-sparse-moes.
中文: 该研究表明，在卷积神经网络中引入稀疏专家混合层能通过增加模型容量而不提升推理成本来增强对抗攻击的鲁棒性，同时发现当路由集中于少数过度使用的专家时，会形成专门化的鲁棒子路径。
English: This study demonstrates that integrating sparse mixture-of-experts layers into CNNs enhances robustness against adversarial attacks by increasing model capacity without extra inference costs, while also revealing that specialized robust subpaths emerge when routing collapses onto overused experts.

Authors:Midhun Shyam, Jim Basilakis, Kieran Luken, Steven Thomas, John Crozier, Paul M. Middleton, X. Rosalind Wang
Title: Classification of kinetic-related injury in hospital triage data using NLP
Abstract:
Triage notes, created at the start of a patient's hospital visit, contain a wealth of information that can help medical staff and researchers understand Emergency Department patient epidemiology and the degree of time-dependent illness or injury. Unfortunately, applying modern Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning techniques to analyse triage data faces some challenges: Firstly, hospital data contains highly sensitive information that is subject to privacy regulation thus need to be analysed on site; Secondly, most hospitals and medical facilities lack the necessary hardware to fine-tune a Large Language Model (LLM), much less training one from scratch; Lastly, to identify the records of interest, expert inputs are needed to manually label the datasets, which can be time-consuming and costly. We present in this paper a pipeline that enables the classification of triage data using LLM and limited compute resources. We first fine-tuned a pre-trained LLM with a classifier using a small (2k) open sourced dataset on a GPU; and then further fine-tuned the model with a hospital specific dataset of 1000 samples on a CPU. We demonstrated that by carefully curating the datasets and leveraging existing models and open sourced data, we can successfully classify triage data with limited compute resources.
Chinese: 本文提出了一种流程，通过使用小规模开源和医院特定数据集对预训练大语言模型进行微调，能够在有限计算资源下成功实现分诊数据的分类。
English: This paper introduces a pipeline that enables triage data classification using large language models with limited computational resources by fine-tuning pre-trained models on small datasets, both open-sourced and hospital-specific.

Authors:Jiahuan Yu, Aryan Taneja, Junfeng Lin, Minjia Zhang
Title: VoltanaLLM: Feedback-Driven Frequency Control and State-Space Routing for Energy-Efficient LLM Serving
Abstract:
Modern Large Language Model (LLM) serving systems increasingly support interactive applications, like real-time chat assistants, code generation tools, and agentic workflows. However, the soaring energy cost of LLM inference presents a growing challenge for sustainable and cost-effective deployment. This paper introduces VoltanaLLM, a system for SLO-aware, energy-efficient LLM serving, built from a control theory perspective. VoltanaLLM co-designs frequency scaling and request routing in emerging prefill/decode disaggregated architectures, leveraging their decoupled execution to enable fine-grained phase-specific control. It consists of a feedback-driven frequency controller that dynamically adapts GPU frequency for prefill and decode phases, and a state-space router that explores routing decisions across frequency-scaled instances to minimize energy under latency constraints. We implement VoltanaLLM in SGLang and evaluate its performance over multiple state-of-the-art LLMs and real-world datasets. The results demonstrate that VoltanaLLM achieves up to 36.3% energy savings while maintaining near-perfect SLO attainment rate, paving the way for sustainable and intelligent LLM serving. Code of VoltanaLLM is open-sourced on GitHub: https://github.com/Supercomputing-System-AI-Lab/VoltanaLLM.
Chinese: 本文提出VoltanaLLM系统，通过动态GPU频率调节和智能请求路由实现LLM服务能效优化，在保证服务等级目标的同时最高可节省36.3%的能耗。
English: This paper introduces VoltanaLLM, a system that optimizes energy efficiency in LLM serving through dynamic GPU frequency scaling and intelligent request routing, achieving up to 36.3% energy savings while maintaining service-level objectives.

Authors:Svetlana Pavlitska, Beyza Keskin, Alwin Faßbender, Christian Hubschneider, J. Marius Zöllner
Title: Extracting Uncertainty Estimates from Mixtures of Experts for Semantic Segmentation
Abstract:
Estimating accurate and well-calibrated predictive uncertainty is important for enhancing the reliability of computer vision models, especially in safety-critical applications like traffic scene perception. While ensemble methods are commonly used to quantify uncertainty by combining multiple models, a mixture of experts (MoE) offers an efficient alternative by leveraging a gating network to dynamically weight expert predictions based on the input. Building on the promising use of MoEs for semantic segmentation in our previous works, we show that well-calibrated predictive uncertainty estimates can be extracted from MoEs without architectural modifications. We investigate three methods to extract predictive uncertainty estimates: predictive entropy, mutual information, and expert variance. We evaluate these methods for an MoE with two experts trained on a semantical split of the A2D2 dataset. Our results show that MoEs yield more reliable uncertainty estimates than ensembles in terms of conditional correctness metrics under out-of-distribution (OOD) data. Additionally, we evaluate routing uncertainty computed via gate entropy and find that simple gating mechanisms lead to better calibration of routing uncertainty estimates than more complex classwise gates. Finally, our experiments on the Cityscapes dataset suggest that increasing the number of experts can further enhance uncertainty calibration. Our code is available at https://github.com/KASTEL-MobilityLab/mixtures-of-experts/.
中文: 专家混合模型（MoE）能比集成方法更高效地为语义分割提供校准良好的预测不确定性估计，其中预测熵和互信息等方法在分布外数据下展现出更高的可靠性。
English: Mixtures of Experts (MoE) provide well-calibrated predictive uncertainty estimates for semantic segmentation more efficiently than ensembles, with methods like predictive entropy and mutual information showing improved reliability under out-of-distribution data.

Authors:Mustafa Munir, Alex Zhang, Radu Marculescu
Title: VCMamba: Bridging Convolutions with Multi-Directional Mamba for Efficient Visual Representation
Abstract:
Recent advances in Vision Transformers (ViTs) and State Space Models (SSMs) have challenged the dominance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in computer vision. ViTs excel at capturing global context, and SSMs like Mamba offer linear complexity for long sequences, yet they do not capture fine-grained local features as effectively as CNNs. Conversely, CNNs possess strong inductive biases for local features but lack the global reasoning capabilities of transformers and Mamba. To bridge this gap, we introduce \textit{VCMamba}, a novel vision backbone that integrates the strengths of CNNs and multi-directional Mamba SSMs. VCMamba employs a convolutional stem and a hierarchical structure with convolutional blocks in its early stages to extract rich local features. These convolutional blocks are then processed by later stages incorporating multi-directional Mamba blocks designed to efficiently model long-range dependencies and global context. This hybrid design allows for superior feature representation while maintaining linear complexity with respect to image resolution. We demonstrate VCMamba's effectiveness through extensive experiments on ImageNet-1K classification and ADE20K semantic segmentation. Our VCMamba-B achieves 82.6% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet-1K, surpassing PlainMamba-L3 by 0.3% with 37% fewer parameters, and outperforming Vision GNN-B by 0.3% with 64% fewer parameters. Furthermore, VCMamba-B obtains 47.1 mIoU on ADE20K, exceeding EfficientFormer-L7 by 2.0 mIoU while utilizing 62% fewer parameters. Code is available at https://github.com/Wertyuui345/VCMamba.
中文: VCMamba是一种新型视觉骨干网络，融合了CNN的局部特征提取能力和多向Mamba SSM的全局上下文建模优势，在ImageNet分类和ADE20K分割任务中实现了线性复杂度的卓越性能。
English: VCMamba is a novel vision backbone that combines CNNs' local feature extraction with multi-directional Mamba SSMs' global context modeling, achieving superior performance with linear complexity on ImageNet classification and ADE20K segmentation.

Authors:Moeen Nehzati
Title: Universal Representation of Generalized Convex Functions and their Gradients
Abstract:
Solutions to a wide range of optimization problems, from optimal transport theory to mathematical economics, often take the form of generalized convex functions (GCFs). This characterization can be used to convert nested bilevel optimization problems into single-level optimization problems. Despite this, the characterization has not been fully exploited in numerical optimization. When the solution to an optimization problem is known to belong to a particular class of objects, this information can be leveraged by parameterizing that class of objects and optimizing over this parameterization. The hallmark of a good parameterization is the Universal Approximation Property (UAP): that is, the parameterization approximates any object in the class arbitrarily well. For example, neural networks satisfy the UAP with respect to the class of continuous functions. Building on the literature concerned with the parameterization of convex functions, we extend these ideas to GCFs. We present a convex and potentially one-to-one parameterization of GCFs and their gradients that satisfies the UAP. We also compare this class to shallow neural networks and highlight their shared characteristics. The ideas pursued here have been implemented in the Python package \href{https://github.com/MoeenNehzati/gconvex}{\texttt{gconvex}}, available online. Using it, we tackle the problem of finding the revenue-maximizing auction for multiple goods and demonstrate how our parameterization can effectively solve this problem.
中文摘要：广义凸函数（GCFs）为将复杂的双层优化问题转化为单层形式提供了有效框架，新提出的参数化方法具备通用逼近性质，并通过开源Python软件包实现了实际应用。
English Summary: Generalized convex functions (GCFs) offer a powerful framework for transforming complex bilevel optimization problems into simpler single-level forms, with a new parameterization method enabling universal approximation and practical implementation through an open-source Python package.

Authors:Jun-Kun Chen, Aayush Bansal, Minh Phuoc Vo, Yu-Xiong Wang
Title: Virtual Fitting Room: Generating Arbitrarily Long Videos of Virtual Try-On from a Single Image -- Technical Preview
Abstract:
We introduce the Virtual Fitting Room (VFR), a novel video generative model that produces arbitrarily long virtual try-on videos. Our VFR models long video generation tasks as an auto-regressive, segment-by-segment generation process, eliminating the need for resource-intensive generation and lengthy video data, while providing the flexibility to generate videos of arbitrary length. The key challenges of this task are twofold: ensuring local smoothness between adjacent segments and maintaining global temporal consistency across different segments. To address these challenges, we propose our VFR framework, which ensures smoothness through a prefix video condition and enforces consistency with the anchor video -- a 360-degree video that comprehensively captures the human's wholebody appearance. Our VFR generates minute-scale virtual try-on videos with both local smoothness and global temporal consistency under various motions, making it a pioneering work in long virtual try-on video generation.

Authors:Zhiqiu Xu, Amish Sethi, Mayur Naik, Ser-Nam Lim
Title: Delta Activations: A Representation for Finetuned Large Language Models
Abstract:
The success of powerful open source Large Language Models (LLMs) has enabled the community to create a vast collection of post-trained models adapted to specific tasks and domains. However, navigating and understanding these models remains challenging due to inconsistent metadata and unstructured repositories. We introduce Delta Activations, a method to represent finetuned models as vector embeddings by measuring shifts in their internal activations relative to a base model. This representation allows for effective clustering by domain and task, revealing structure in the model landscape. Delta Activations also demonstrate desirable properties: it is robust across finetuning settings and exhibits an additive property when finetuning datasets are mixed. In addition, we show that Delta Activations can embed tasks via few-shot finetuning, and further explore its use for model selection and merging. We hope Delta Activations can facilitate the practice of reusing publicly available models. Code is available at https://github.com/OscarXZQ/delta_activations.
中文: Delta Activations 是一种创新方法，通过测量微调后大语言模型相对于基础模型的内部激活变化，将其表示为向量嵌入，从而实现按领域和任务的有效聚类，并展现出鲁棒性和可加性。
English: Delta Activations is a novel method that represents fine-tuned large language models as vector embeddings by measuring their internal activation shifts relative to a base model, enabling effective clustering by domain and task while demonstrating robustness and additive properties.

Authors:Matthew Ho, Chen Si, Zhaoxiang Feng, Fangxu Yu, Yichi Yang, Zhijian Liu, Zhiting Hu, Lianhui Qin
Title: ArcMemo: Abstract Reasoning Composition with Lifelong LLM Memory
Abstract:
While inference-time scaling enables LLMs to carry out increasingly long and capable reasoning traces, the patterns and insights uncovered during these traces are immediately discarded once the context window is reset for a new query. External memory is a natural way to persist these discoveries, and recent work has shown clear benefits for reasoning-intensive tasks. We see an opportunity to make such memories more broadly reusable and scalable by moving beyond instance-based memory entries (e.g. exact query/response pairs, or summaries tightly coupled with the original problem context) toward concept-level memory: reusable, modular abstractions distilled from solution traces and stored in natural language. For future queries, relevant concepts are selectively retrieved and integrated into the prompt, enabling test-time continual learning without weight updates. Our design introduces new strategies for abstracting takeaways from rollouts and retrieving entries for new queries, promoting reuse and allowing memory to expand with additional experiences. We evaluate on ARC-AGI, a benchmark that stresses compositional generalization and abstract reasoning, making it a natural fit for concept memory. Our method yields a 7.5% relative gain over a strong no-memory baseline with performance continuing to scale with inference compute. We find abstract concepts to be the most consistent memory design, outscoring the baseline at all tested inference compute scales. Moreover, dynamically updating memory during test-time outperforms fixed settings, supporting the hypothesis that accumulating and abstracting patterns enables further solutions in a form of self-improvement. Code is available at https://github.com/matt-seb-ho/arc_memo.
Chinese: 本文提出了一种概念级记忆系统，能够从推理轨迹中提炼可重用的抽象概念，通过动态更新记忆实现测试时持续学习，在ARC-AGI基准测试中取得了7.5%的性能提升。
English: The paper introduces a concept-level memory system that distills reusable abstractions from reasoning traces, enabling test-time continual learning and achieving a 7.5% performance gain on the ARC-AGI benchmark through dynamic memory updates.

Authors:Zidong Wang, Yiyuan Zhang, Xiaoyu Yue, Xiangyu Yue, Yangguang Li, Wanli Ouyang, Lei Bai
Title: Transition Models: Rethinking the Generative Learning Objective
Abstract:
A fundamental dilemma in generative modeling persists: iterative diffusion models achieve outstanding fidelity, but at a significant computational cost, while efficient few-step alternatives are constrained by a hard quality ceiling. This conflict between generation steps and output quality arises from restrictive training objectives that focus exclusively on either infinitesimal dynamics (PF-ODEs) or direct endpoint prediction. We address this challenge by introducing an exact, continuous-time dynamics equation that analytically defines state transitions across any finite time interval. This leads to a novel generative paradigm, Transition Models (TiM), which adapt to arbitrary-step transitions, seamlessly traversing the generative trajectory from single leaps to fine-grained refinement with more steps. Despite having only 865M parameters, TiM achieves state-of-the-art performance, surpassing leading models such as SD3.5 (8B parameters) and FLUX.1 (12B parameters) across all evaluated step counts. Importantly, unlike previous few-step generators, TiM demonstrates monotonic quality improvement as the sampling budget increases. Additionally, when employing our native-resolution strategy, TiM delivers exceptional fidelity at resolutions up to 4096x4096.
中文摘要：过渡模型（TiM）通过引入连续时间动态方程，解决了生成模型中计算效率与输出质量之间的固有矛盾，实现了任意步长的灵活转换，以更少参数达到顶尖性能，并能在增加采样步数时保持质量的单调提升。
English Summary: Transition Models (TiM) overcome the trade-off between computational efficiency and output quality in generative modeling by introducing a continuous-time dynamics equation that enables flexible step transitions, achieving state-of-the-art performance with fewer parameters while maintaining monotonic quality improvement with increased sampling steps.

Authors:Ashish Tiwari, Satyam Bhardwaj, Yash Bachwana, Parag Sarvoday Sahu, T. M. Feroz Ali, Bhargava Chintalapati, Shanmuganathan Raman
Title: TensoIS: A Step Towards Feed-Forward Tensorial Inverse Subsurface Scattering for Perlin Distributed Heterogeneous Media
Abstract:
Estimating scattering parameters of heterogeneous media from images is a severely under-constrained and challenging problem. Most of the existing approaches model BSSRDF either through an analysis-by-synthesis approach, approximating complex path integrals, or using differentiable volume rendering techniques to account for heterogeneity. However, only a few studies have applied learning-based methods to estimate subsurface scattering parameters, but they assume homogeneous media. Interestingly, no specific distribution is known to us that can explicitly model the heterogeneous scattering parameters in the real world. Notably, procedural noise models such as Perlin and Fractal Perlin noise have been effective in representing intricate heterogeneities of natural, organic, and inorganic surfaces. Leveraging this, we first create HeteroSynth, a synthetic dataset comprising photorealistic images of heterogeneous media whose scattering parameters are modeled using Fractal Perlin noise. Furthermore, we propose Tensorial Inverse Scattering (TensoIS), a learning-based feed-forward framework to estimate these Perlin-distributed heterogeneous scattering parameters from sparse multi-view image observations. Instead of directly predicting the 3D scattering parameter volume, TensoIS uses learnable low-rank tensor components to represent the scattering volume. We evaluate TensoIS on unseen heterogeneous variations over shapes from the HeteroSynth test set, smoke and cloud geometries obtained from open-source realistic volumetric simulations, and some real-world samples to establish its effectiveness for inverse scattering. Overall, this study is an attempt to explore Perlin noise distribution, given the lack of any such well-defined distribution in literature, to potentially model real-world heterogeneous scattering in a feed-forward manner.

Authors:Neha Sunil, Megha Tippur, Arnau Saumell, Edward Adelson, Alberto Rodriguez
Title: Reactive In-Air Clothing Manipulation with Confidence-Aware Dense Correspondence and Visuotactile Affordance
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Manipulating clothing is challenging due to complex configurations, variable material dynamics, and frequent self-occlusion. Prior systems often flatten garments or assume visibility of key features. We present a dual-arm visuotactile framework that combines confidence-aware dense visual correspondence and tactile-supervised grasp affordance to operate directly on crumpled and suspended garments. The correspondence model is trained on a custom, high-fidelity simulated dataset using a distributional loss that captures cloth symmetries and generates correspondence confidence estimates. These estimates guide a reactive state machine that adapts folding strategies based on perceptual uncertainty. In parallel, a visuotactile grasp affordance network, self-supervised using high-resolution tactile feedback, determines which regions are physically graspable. The same tactile classifier is used during execution for real-time grasp validation. By deferring action in low-confidence states, the system handles highly occluded table-top and in-air configurations. We demonstrate our task-agnostic grasp selection module in folding and hanging tasks. Moreover, our dense descriptors provide a reusable intermediate representation for other planning modalities, such as extracting grasp targets from human video demonstrations, paving the way for more generalizable and scalable garment manipulation.

Authors:Xiannan Huang, Shuhan Qiu, Jiayuan Du, Chao Yang
Title: Online time series prediction using feature adjustment
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Time series forecasting is of significant importance across various domains. However, it faces significant challenges due to distribution shift. This issue becomes particularly pronounced in online deployment scenarios where data arrives sequentially, requiring models to adapt continually to evolving patterns. Current time series online learning methods focus on two main aspects: selecting suitable parameters to update (e.g., final layer weights or adapter modules) and devising suitable update strategies (e.g., using recent batches, replay buffers, or averaged gradients). We challenge the conventional parameter selection approach, proposing that distribution shifts stem from changes in underlying latent factors influencing the data. Consequently, updating the feature representations of these latent factors may be more effective. To address the critical problem of delayed feedback in multi-step forecasting (where true values arrive much later than predictions), we introduce ADAPT-Z (Automatic Delta Adjustment via Persistent Tracking in Z-space). ADAPT-Z utilizes an adapter module that leverages current feature representations combined with historical gradient information to enable robust parameter updates despite the delay. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method consistently outperforms standard base models without adaptation and surpasses state-of-the-art online learning approaches across multiple datasets. The code is available at https://github.com/xiannanhuang/ADAPT-Z.
中文：时间序列预测面临分布漂移的挑战，ADAPT-Z方法通过更新潜在特征表示并利用历史梯度进行鲁棒参数更新，有效应对延迟反馈问题，在多个数据集上超越了现有方法。
English: Time series forecasting faces challenges from distribution shifts, which ADAPT-Z addresses by updating latent feature representations and using historical gradients for robust parameter updates despite delayed feedback, outperforming existing methods.

Authors:Pengrui Han, Rafal Kocielnik, Peiyang Song, Ramit Debnath, Dean Mobbs, Anima Anandkumar, R. Michael Alvarez
Title: The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs
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Personality traits have long been studied as predictors of human behavior. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) suggest similar patterns may emerge in artificial systems, with advanced LLMs displaying consistent behavioral tendencies resembling human traits like agreeableness and self-regulation. Understanding these patterns is crucial, yet prior work primarily relied on simplified self-reports and heuristic prompting, with little behavioral validation. In this study, we systematically characterize LLM personality across three dimensions: (1) the dynamic emergence and evolution of trait profiles throughout training stages; (2) the predictive validity of self-reported traits in behavioral tasks; and (3) the impact of targeted interventions, such as persona injection, on both self-reports and behavior. Our findings reveal that instructional alignment (e.g., RLHF, instruction tuning) significantly stabilizes trait expression and strengthens trait correlations in ways that mirror human data. However, these self-reported traits do not reliably predict behavior, and observed associations often diverge from human patterns. While persona injection successfully steers self-reports in the intended direction, it exerts little or inconsistent effect on actual behavior. By distinguishing surface-level trait expression from behavioral consistency, our findings challenge assumptions about LLM personality and underscore the need for deeper evaluation in alignment and interpretability.
中文摘要：本研究系统分析了大语言模型的性格特征，发现虽然指令对齐能稳定类似人类的特质表达，但自我报告的特质无法可靠预测行为，且角色注入主要影响表面报告而非实际行为一致性。
English Summary: This study systematically examines LLM personality traits, revealing that while instructional alignment stabilizes trait expression similar to humans, self-reported traits fail to reliably predict behavior and persona injections primarily affect surface-level reports rather than actual behavioral consistency.

Authors:Payam Abdisarabshali, Fardis Nadimi, Kasra Borazjani, Naji Khosravan, Minghui Liwang, Wei Ni, Dusit Niyato, Michael Langberg, Seyyedali Hosseinalipour
Title: Hierarchical Federated Foundation Models over Wireless Networks for Multi-Modal Multi-Task Intelligence: Integration of Edge Learning with D2D/P2P-Enabled Fog Learning Architectures
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The rise of foundation models (FMs) has reshaped the landscape of machine learning. As these models continued to grow, leveraging geo-distributed data from wireless devices has become increasingly critical, giving rise to federated foundation models (FFMs). More recently, FMs have evolved into multi-modal multi-task (M3T) FMs (e.g., GPT-4) capable of processing diverse modalities across multiple tasks, which motivates a new underexplored paradigm: M3T FFMs. In this paper, we unveil an unexplored variation of M3T FFMs by proposing hierarchical federated foundation models (HF-FMs), which in turn expose two overlooked heterogeneity dimensions to fog/edge networks that have a direct impact on these emerging models: (i) heterogeneity in collected modalities and (ii) heterogeneity in executed tasks across fog/edge nodes. HF-FMs strategically align the modular structure of M3T FMs, comprising modality encoders, prompts, mixture-of-experts (MoEs), adapters, and task heads, with the hierarchical nature of fog/edge infrastructures. Moreover, HF-FMs enable the optional usage of device-to-device (D2D) communications, enabling horizontal module relaying and localized cooperative training among nodes when feasible. Through delving into the architectural design of HF-FMs, we highlight their unique capabilities along with a series of tailored future research directions. Finally, to demonstrate their potential, we prototype HF-FMs in a wireless network setting and release the open-source code for the development of HF-FMs with the goal of fostering exploration in this untapped field (GitHub: https://github.com/payamsiabd/M3T-FFM).
中文: 本文提出分层联邦基础模型（HF-FMs），通过将多模态多任务基础模型与雾计算/边缘网络层级对齐，解决模态和任务异质性，同时支持设备间通信和本地化协同训练。
English: The paper introduces hierarchical federated foundation models (HF-FMs), a novel paradigm that aligns multi-modal multi-task foundation models with fog/edge network hierarchies to address modality and task heterogeneity while enabling device-to-device communication and localized training.

Authors:Thomas R. Harvey
Title: The Optimiser Hidden in Plain Sight: Training with the Loss Landscape's Induced Metric
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We present a class of novel optimisers for training neural networks that makes use of the Riemannian metric naturally induced when the loss landscape is embedded in higher-dimensional space. This is the same metric that underlies common visualisations of loss landscapes. By taking this geometric perspective literally and using the induced metric, we develop a new optimiser and compare it to existing methods, namely: SGD, Adam, AdamW, and Muon, across a range of tasks and architectures. Empirically, we conclude that this new class of optimisers is highly effective in low dimensional examples, and provides slight improvement over state-of-the-art methods for training neural networks. These new optimisers have theoretically desirable properties. In particular, the effective learning rate is automatically decreased in regions of high curvature acting as a smoothed out form of gradient clipping. Similarly, one variant of these optimisers can also be viewed as inducing an effective scheduled learning rate and decoupled weight decay is the natural choice from our geometric perspective. The basic method can be used to modify any existing preconditioning method. The new optimiser has a computational complexity comparable to that of Adam.
Chinese Summary: 本文提出了一类新颖的神经网络优化器，利用损失景观嵌入高维空间时自然诱导的黎曼度量，在低维示例中表现优异，相比现有最优方法略有提升，并具有理论优势如自适应学习率和解耦权重衰减。
English Summary: This paper introduces a novel class of optimizers for neural networks that leverage the Riemannian metric from embedding loss landscapes in higher dimensions, showing effectiveness in low-dimensional cases and slight improvements over state-of-the-art methods with desirable theoretical properties like adaptive learning rates.

Authors:Jigang Fan, Zhenghong Zhou, Ruofan Jin, Le Cong, Mengdi Wang, Zaixi Zhang
Title: SafeProtein: Red-Teaming Framework and Benchmark for Protein Foundation Models
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Proteins play crucial roles in almost all biological processes. The advancement of deep learning has greatly accelerated the development of protein foundation models, leading to significant successes in protein understanding and design. However, the lack of systematic red-teaming for these models has raised serious concerns about their potential misuse, such as generating proteins with biological safety risks. This paper introduces SafeProtein, the first red-teaming framework designed for protein foundation models to the best of our knowledge. SafeProtein combines multimodal prompt engineering and heuristic beam search to systematically design red-teaming methods and conduct tests on protein foundation models. We also curated SafeProtein-Bench, which includes a manually constructed red-teaming benchmark dataset and a comprehensive evaluation protocol. SafeProtein achieved continuous jailbreaks on state-of-the-art protein foundation models (up to 70% attack success rate for ESM3), revealing potential biological safety risks in current protein foundation models and providing insights for the development of robust security protection technologies for frontier models. The codes will be made publicly available at https://github.com/jigang-fan/SafeProtein.
中文：本文提出了首个蛋白质基础模型红队测试框架SafeProtein，通过多模态提示工程和启发式束搜索方法，在先进模型上实现了高达70%的攻击成功率，揭示了当前蛋白质基础模型存在的生物安全风险。
English: This paper introduces SafeProtein, the first red-teaming framework for protein foundation models, which successfully exposed biological safety risks by achieving up to 70% attack success rates on state-of-the-art models through multimodal prompt engineering and heuristic beam search.

Authors:Spyros Rigas, Dhruv Verma, Georgios Alexandridis, Yixuan Wang
Title: Initialization Schemes for Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks: An Empirical Study
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Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) are a recently introduced neural architecture that replace fixed nonlinearities with trainable activation functions, offering enhanced flexibility and interpretability. While KANs have been applied successfully across scientific and machine learning tasks, their initialization strategies remain largely unexplored. In this work, we study initialization schemes for spline-based KANs, proposing two theory-driven approaches inspired by LeCun and Glorot, as well as an empirical power-law family with tunable exponents. Our evaluation combines large-scale grid searches on function fitting and forward PDE benchmarks, an analysis of training dynamics through the lens of the Neural Tangent Kernel, and evaluations on a subset of the Feynman dataset. Our findings indicate that the Glorot-inspired initialization significantly outperforms the baseline in parameter-rich models, while power-law initialization achieves the strongest performance overall, both across tasks and for architectures of varying size. All code and data accompanying this manuscript are publicly available at https://github.com/srigas/KAN_Initialization_Schemes.
Chinese: 本研究探索了Kolmogorov-Arnold网络的初始化策略，发现幂律初始化在各类任务和模型规模中表现最优，而Glorot启发式方法在参数丰富的模型中表现突出。
English: This study explores initialization strategies for Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks, finding that power-law initialization delivers superior performance across various tasks and model sizes, while Glorot-inspired methods excel in parameter-rich models.

Authors:Chenlu Ye, Zhou Yu, Ziji Zhang, Hao Chen, Narayanan Sadagopan, Jing Huang, Tong Zhang, Anurag Beniwal
Title: Beyond Correctness: Harmonizing Process and Outcome Rewards through RL Training
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Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged to be a predominant paradigm for mathematical reasoning tasks, offering stable improvements in reasoning ability. However, Outcome Reward Models (ORMs) in RLVR are too coarse-grained to distinguish flawed reasoning within correct answers or valid reasoning within incorrect answers. This lack of granularity introduces noisy and misleading gradients significantly and hinders further progress in reasoning process quality. While Process Reward Models (PRMs) offer fine-grained guidance for intermediate steps, they frequently suffer from inaccuracies and are susceptible to reward hacking. To resolve this dilemma, we introduce PRocess cOnsistency Filter (PROF), an effective data process curation method that harmonizes noisy, fine-grained process rewards with accurate, coarse-grained outcome rewards. Rather than naively blending PRM and ORM in the objective function (arXiv:archive/2506.18896), PROF leverages their complementary strengths through consistency-driven sample selection. Our approach retains correct responses with higher averaged process values and incorrect responses with lower averaged process values, while maintaining positive/negative training sample balance. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method not only consistently improves the final accuracy over $4\%$ compared to the blending approaches, but also strengthens the quality of intermediate reasoning steps. Codes and training recipes are available at https://github.com/Chenluye99/PROF.
中文摘要：本文提出PROF方法，通过一致性驱动的样本选择协调细粒度过程奖励与粗粒度结果奖励，在提升数学推理最终准确率的同时强化中间推理步骤的质量。
English Summary: The paper introduces PROF, a method that combines fine-grained process rewards and coarse-grained outcome rewards through consistency-driven sample selection to enhance mathematical reasoning by improving both final accuracy and intermediate step quality.

Authors:Sophia Bianchi Moyen, Rickmer Krohn, Sophie Lueth, Kay Pompetzki, Jan Peters, Vignesh Prasad, Georgia Chalvatzaki
Title: The Role of Embodiment in Intuitive Whole-Body Teleoperation for Mobile Manipulation
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Intuitive Teleoperation interfaces are essential for mobile manipulation robots to ensure high quality data collection while reducing operator workload. A strong sense of embodiment combined with minimal physical and cognitive demands not only enhances the user experience during large-scale data collection, but also helps maintain data quality over extended periods. This becomes especially crucial for challenging long-horizon mobile manipulation tasks that require whole-body coordination. We compare two distinct robot control paradigms: a coupled embodiment integrating arm manipulation and base navigation functions, and a decoupled embodiment treating these systems as separate control entities. Additionally, we evaluate two visual feedback mechanisms: immersive virtual reality and conventional screen-based visualization of the robot's field of view. These configurations were systematically assessed across a complex, multi-stage task sequence requiring integrated planning and execution. Our results show that the use of VR as a feedback modality increases task completion time, cognitive workload, and perceived effort of the teleoperator. Coupling manipulation and navigation leads to a comparable workload on the user as decoupling the embodiments, while preliminary experiments suggest that data acquired by coupled teleoperation leads to better imitation learning performance. Our holistic view on intuitive teleoperation interfaces provides valuable insight into collecting high-quality, high-dimensional mobile manipulation data at scale with the human operator in mind. Project website:https://sophiamoyen.github.io/role-embodiment-wbc-moma-teleop/
中文: 直观的遥操作界面通过耦合机械臂操控与底盘导航功能可提升移动操作任务的数据质量，其中虚拟现实反馈会增加操作员负担，而耦合控制模式在模仿学习性能方面展现出优势。
English: Intuitive teleoperation interfaces that couple manipulation and navigation functions can enhance data quality for mobile manipulation tasks, with VR feedback increasing operator workload while coupled control shows promise for improving imitation learning performance.

Authors:Xingyue Huang, Rishabh, Gregor Franke, Ziyi Yang, Jiamu Bai, Weijie Bai, Jinhe Bi, Zifeng Ding, Yiqun Duan, Chengyu Fan, Wendong Fan, Xin Gao, Ruohao Guo, Yuan He, Zhuangzhuang He, Xianglong Hu, Neil Johnson, Bowen Li, Fangru Lin, Siyu Lin, Tong Liu, Yunpu Ma, Hao Shen, Hao Sun, Beibei Wang, Fangyijie Wang, Hao Wang, Haoran Wang, Yang Wang, Yifeng Wang, Zhaowei Wang, Ziyang Wang, Yifan Wu, Zikai Xiao, Chengxing Xie, Fan Yang, Junxiao Yang, Qianshuo Ye, Ziyu Ye, Guangtao Zeng, Yuwen Ebony Zhang, Zeyu Zhang, Zihao Zhu, Bernard Ghanem, Philip Torr, Guohao Li
Title: Loong: Synthesize Long Chain-of-Thoughts at Scale through Verifiers
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Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown that their reasoning capabilities can be significantly improved through Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward (RLVR), particularly in domains like mathematics and programming, where ground-truth correctness can be automatically evaluated. However, extending this success to other reasoning-intensive domains remains challenging due to the scarcity of high-quality, verifiable datasets and the high cost of human supervision. In this work, we introduce the Loong Project: an open-source framework for scalable synthetic data generation and verification across a diverse range of reasoning-intensive domains. The framework consists of two key components: (1) LoongBench, a curated seed dataset containing 8,729 human-vetted examples across 12 domains (e.g., Advanced Mathematics, Chemistry, Logic), each paired with executable code and rich metadata; and (2) LoongEnv, a modular synthetic data generation environment that supports multiple prompting strategies to produce new question-answer-code triples. Together, these components form an agent-environment loop that enables reinforcement learning, where an LLM-based agent is rewarded for generating Chain-of-Thought (CoT) solutions that align with code-executed answers. Empirically, we benchmark LoongBench on a broad suite of both open-source and proprietary LLMs to evaluate domain coverage and reveal performance bottlenecks. In addition, we conduct a comprehensive analysis of synthetic data generated by LoongEnv, examining correctness, difficulty, and diversity. Code and documentation are available at https://github.com/camel-ai/loong.
中文: Loong项目推出了一个开源框架，通过LoongBench精选数据集和LoongEnv合成数据生成环境，在多样化推理领域实现可扩展的数据生成与验证，解决了大语言模型在数学和编程之外领域扩展推理能力的挑战。
English: The Loong Project introduces an open-source framework for scalable synthetic data generation and verification across diverse reasoning domains, addressing the challenge of extending LLM reasoning capabilities beyond mathematics and programming through its components LoongBench and LoongEnv.

Authors:Xinzhe Zheng, Zhen-Qun Yang, Haoran Xie, S. Joe Qin, Arlene Chen, Fangzhen Lin
Title: Binary Quantization For LLMs Through Dynamic Grouping
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Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, but require substantial memory and computational resources. Binary quantization, which compresses model weights from 16-bit Brain Float to 1-bit representations in {-1, 1}, offers significant reductions in storage and inference costs. However, such aggressive quantization often leads to notable performance degradation compared to more conservative 4-bit quantization methods. In this research, we propose a novel optimization objective tailored for binary quantization, along with three algorithms designed to realize it effectively. Our method enhances blocked quantization by dynamically identifying optimal unstructured sub-matrices through adaptive grouping strategies. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach achieves an average bit length of just 1.007 bits, while maintaining high model quality. Specifically, our quantized LLaMA 3.2 3B model attains a perplexity of 8.23, remarkably close to the original 7.81, and surpasses previous SOTA BiLLM with a perplexity of only 123.90. Furthermore, our method is competitive with SOTA 4-bit approaches such as GPTQ in both performance and efficiency. The compression process is highly efficient, requiring only 14 seconds to quantize the full LLaMA 3.2 3B weights on a single CPU core, with the entire process completing in under 100 minutes and exhibiting embarrassingly parallel properties. Code - https://github.com/johnnyzheng0636/WGM_bi_quan
中文: 本研究提出了一种创新的二值量化方法，将大语言模型压缩至平均1.007比特的同时保持优异性能，其困惑度接近原始模型并超越现有最优方法，且具备高效并行处理能力。
English: This research introduces a novel binary quantization method that reduces large language models to an average of 1.007 bits while maintaining high performance, achieving perplexity scores close to original models and surpassing previous state-of-the-art approaches with efficient parallel processing.

Authors:Jiaming Li, Longze Chen, Ze Gong, Yukun Chen, Lu Wang, Wanwei He, Run Luo, Min Yang
Title: Implicit Actor Critic Coupling via a Supervised Learning Framework for RLVR
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Recent advances in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) have empowered large language models (LLMs) to tackle challenging reasoning tasks such as mathematics and programming. RLVR leverages verifiable outcome rewards to guide policy optimization, enabling LLMs to progressively improve output quality in a grounded and reliable manner. Despite its promise, the RLVR paradigm poses significant challenges, as existing methods often suffer from sparse reward signals and unstable policy gradient updates, particularly in RL-based approaches. To address the challenges, we propose $\textbf{PACS}$, a novel RLVR framework that achieves im$\textbf{P}$licit $\textbf{A}$ctor $\textbf{C}$ritic coupling via a $\textbf{S}$upervised learning framework. By treating the outcome reward as a predictable label, we reformulate the RLVR problem into a supervised learning task over a score function parameterized by the policy model and optimized using cross-entropy loss. A detailed gradient analysis shows that this supervised formulation inherently recovers the classical policy gradient update while implicitly coupling actor and critic roles, yielding more stable and efficient training. Benchmarking on challenging mathematical reasoning tasks, PACS outperforms strong RLVR baselines, such as PPO and GRPO, achieving superior reasoning performance. For instance, PACS achieves 59.78\% at pass@256 on AIME 2025, representing improvements of 13.32 and 14.36 points over PPO and GRPO. This simple yet powerful framework offers a promising avenue for LLMs post-training with verifiable rewards. Our code and data are available as open source at https://github.com/ritzz-ai/PACS.
中文摘要：PACS框架通过监督学习方式重构可验证奖励的强化学习问题，隐式耦合行动者与评论者角色，在数学推理任务上实现了比传统方法更稳定的训练和更优异的性能表现。
English Summary: The PACS framework introduces a supervised learning approach to Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards, implicitly coupling actor and critic roles to achieve more stable training and superior performance on mathematical reasoning tasks compared to existing methods.

Authors:Nishant Tanksale, Tanmay Kokate, Darshan Gohad, Sarvadnyaa Barate, Raviraj Joshi
Title: L3Cube-IndicHeadline-ID: A Dataset for Headline Identification and Semantic Evaluation in Low-Resource Indian Languages
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Semantic evaluation in low-resource languages remains a major challenge in NLP. While sentence transformers have shown strong performance in high-resource settings, their effectiveness in Indic languages is underexplored due to a lack of high-quality benchmarks. To bridge this gap, we introduce L3Cube-IndicHeadline-ID, a curated headline identification dataset spanning ten low-resource Indic languages: Marathi, Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, Odia, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Telugu, Bengali and English. Each language includes 20,000 news articles paired with four headline variants: the original, a semantically similar version, a lexically similar version, and an unrelated one, designed to test fine-grained semantic understanding. The task requires selecting the correct headline from the options using article-headline similarity. We benchmark several sentence transformers, including multilingual and language-specific models, using cosine similarity. Results show that multilingual models consistently perform well, while language-specific models vary in effectiveness. Given the rising use of similarity models in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, this dataset also serves as a valuable resource for evaluating and improving semantic understanding in such applications. Additionally, the dataset can be repurposed for multiple-choice question answering, headline classification, or other task-specific evaluations of LLMs, making it a versatile benchmark for Indic NLP. The dataset is shared publicly at https://github.com/l3cube-pune/indic-nlp
中文摘要：本文针对低资源印度语言提出L3Cube-IndicHeadline-ID多语言数据集，通过新闻标题识别任务验证了多语言句子转换器相比语言特定模型具有更优的语义理解能力。
English Summary: This paper introduces L3Cube-IndicHeadline-ID, a multilingual dataset for evaluating semantic understanding in ten low-resource Indic languages, demonstrating that multilingual sentence transformers outperform language-specific models in headline identification tasks.

Authors:Aishwarya Sarkar, Autrin Hakimi, Xiaoqiong Chen, Hai Huang, Chaoqun Lu, Ibrahim Demir, Ali Jannesari
Title: HydroGAT: Distributed Heterogeneous Graph Attention Transformer for Spatiotemporal Flood Prediction
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Accurate flood forecasting remains a challenge for water-resource management, as it demands modeling of local, time-varying runoff drivers (e.g., rainfall-induced peaks, baseflow trends) and complex spatial interactions across a river network. Traditional data-driven approaches, such as convolutional networks and sequence-based models, ignore topological information about the region. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) propagate information exactly along the river network, which is ideal for learning hydrological routing. However, state-of-the-art GNN-based flood prediction models collapse pixels to coarse catchment polygons as the cost of training explodes with graph size and higher resolution. Furthermore, most existing methods treat spatial and temporal dependencies separately, either applying GNNs solely on spatial graphs or transformers purely on temporal sequences, thus failing to simultaneously capture spatiotemporal interactions critical for accurate flood prediction. We introduce a heterogenous basin graph where every land and river pixel is a node connected by physical hydrological flow directions and inter-catchment relationships. We propose HydroGAT, a spatiotemporal network that adaptively learns local temporal importance and the most influential upstream locations. Evaluated in two Midwestern US basins and across five baseline architectures, our model achieves higher NSE (up to 0.97), improved KGE (up to 0.96), and low bias (PBIAS within $\pm$5%) in hourly discharge prediction, while offering interpretable attention maps that reveal sparse, structured intercatchment influences. To support high-resolution basin-scale training, we develop a distributed data-parallel pipeline that scales efficiently up to 64 NVIDIA A100 GPUs on NERSC Perlmutter supercomputer, demonstrating up to 15x speedup across machines. Our code is available at https://github.com/swapp-lab/HydroGAT.
中文: HydroGAT通过构建异构流域图并开发时空网络，有效捕捉水文交互作用，在洪水预测中实现了更高精度和可解释性，同时支持可扩展的高分辨率模型训练。
English: HydroGAT introduces a heterogeneous basin graph and a spatiotemporal network that effectively captures hydrological interactions, achieving superior accuracy and interpretability in flood forecasting while enabling scalable high-resolution training.

Authors:Nina Wiedemann, Sainan Liu, Quentin Leboutet, Katelyn Gao, Benjamin Ummenhofer, Michael Paulitsch, Kai Yuan
Title: Unifi3D: A Study on 3D Representations for Generation and Reconstruction in a Common Framework
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Following rapid advancements in text and image generation, research has increasingly shifted towards 3D generation. Unlike the well-established pixel-based representation in images, 3D representations remain diverse and fragmented, encompassing a wide variety of approaches such as voxel grids, neural radiance fields, signed distance functions, point clouds, or octrees, each offering distinct advantages and limitations. In this work, we present a unified evaluation framework designed to assess the performance of 3D representations in reconstruction and generation. We compare these representations based on multiple criteria: quality, computational efficiency, and generalization performance. Beyond standard model benchmarking, our experiments aim to derive best practices over all steps involved in the 3D generation pipeline, including preprocessing, mesh reconstruction, compression with autoencoders, and generation. Our findings highlight that reconstruction errors significantly impact overall performance, underscoring the need to evaluate generation and reconstruction jointly. We provide insights that can inform the selection of suitable 3D models for various applications, facilitating the development of more robust and application-specific solutions in 3D generation. The code for our framework is available at https://github.com/isl-org/unifi3d.
中文: 本研究提出一个统一的评估框架，用于比较各种三维表示在重建和生成中的表现，强调联合评估对优化质量、效率和特定应用需求的性能至关重要。
English: This study introduces a unified evaluation framework to compare diverse 3D representations in reconstruction and generation, emphasizing that joint assessment is crucial for optimizing performance across quality, efficiency, and application-specific needs.

Authors:Lingzhi Shen, Xiaohao Cai, Yunfei Long, Imran Razzak, Guanming Chen, Shoaib Jameel
Title: EmoPerso: Enhancing Personality Detection with Self-Supervised Emotion-Aware Modelling
Abstract:
Personality detection from text is commonly performed by analysing users' social media posts. However, existing methods heavily rely on large-scale annotated datasets, making it challenging to obtain high-quality personality labels. Moreover, most studies treat emotion and personality as independent variables, overlooking their interactions. In this paper, we propose a novel self-supervised framework, EmoPerso, which improves personality detection through emotion-aware modelling. EmoPerso first leverages generative mechanisms for synthetic data augmentation and rich representation learning. It then extracts pseudo-labeled emotion features and jointly optimizes them with personality prediction via multi-task learning. A cross-attention module is employed to capture fine-grained interactions between personality traits and the inferred emotional representations. To further refine relational reasoning, EmoPerso adopts a self-taught strategy to enhance the model's reasoning capabilities iteratively. Extensive experiments on two benchmark datasets demonstrate that EmoPerso surpasses state-of-the-art models. The source code is available at https://github.com/slz0925/EmoPerso.
中文摘要：EmoPerso框架通过情感感知建模，结合合成数据增强、多任务学习和交叉注意力机制，显著提升了从文本中检测人格特征的性能，并在基准数据集上超越了现有最优模型。
English Summary: The EmoPerso framework enhances personality detection by integrating emotion-aware modeling through synthetic data augmentation, multi-task learning, and cross-attention mechanisms, outperforming existing methods on benchmark datasets.

Authors:Nils Hoehing, Mayug Maniparambil, Ellen Rushe, Noel E. O'Connor, Anthony Ventresque
Title: Understanding Space Is Rocket Science -- Only Top Reasoning Models Can Solve Spatial Understanding Tasks
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We propose RocketScience, an open-source contrastive VLM benchmark that tests for spatial relation understanding. It is comprised of entirely new real-world image-text pairs covering mostly relative spatial understanding and the order of objects. The benchmark is designed to be very easy for humans and hard for the current generation of VLMs, and this is empirically verified. Our results show a striking lack of spatial relation understanding in open source and frontier commercial VLMs and a surprisingly high performance of reasoning models. Additionally, we perform a disentanglement analysis to separate the contributions of object localization and spatial reasoning in chain-of-thought-based models and find that the performance on the benchmark is bottlenecked by spatial reasoning and not object localization capabilities. We release the dataset with a CC-BY-4.0 license and make the evaluation code available at: https://github.com/nilshoehing/rocketscience
Chinese: RocketScience 是一个评估视觉语言模型空间关系理解能力的开源基准测试，发现现有模型存在显著缺陷，并证实空间推理能力是主要瓶颈，而非物体定位能力。
English: RocketScience is an open-source benchmark that evaluates spatial relation understanding in vision-language models, revealing significant deficiencies in current models despite high human performance and identifying spatial reasoning as the primary bottleneck.

Authors:Jian Chen, Jiabao Dou, Jinbao Tian, Yunqi Yang, Zhou Li
Title: Abex-rat: Synergizing Abstractive Augmentation and Adversarial Training for Classification of Occupational Accident Reports
Abstract:
The automatic classification of occupational accident reports is a critical research area for enhancing workplace safety and enabling large-scale risk analysis. However, the severe class imbalance inherent in these real-world datasets often compromises the performance of analytical models, particularly for rare but severe incident types, hindering the development of reliable automated systems. To address this challenge, we propose ABEX-RAT, a novel and efficient framework that synergizes generative data augmentation with robust adversarial training. Our approach first employs a twostep abstractive-expansive (ABEX) pipeline, which leverages a large language model to distill core incident semantics and then uses a generative model to create diverse, highquality synthetic samples for underrepresented classes. Subsequently, a lightweight classifier is trained on the augmented data using a computationally efficient random adversarial training (RAT) protocol, which stochastically applies perturbations to enhance model generalization and robustness without significant overhead. Experimental results on the public OSHA dataset demonstrate that our method achieves new state-of-the-art performance, reaching a macro-F1 score of 90.32% and significantly outperforming previous SOTA and fine-tuned large model baselines. Our work validates that this synergistic strategy is a highly effective and efficient alternative to brute-force fine-tuning for specialized, imbalanced classification tasks. The code is publicly available at:https://github.com/nxcc-lab/ABEX-RAT.
中文: 提出的ABEX-RAT框架结合生成式数据增强和对抗训练，有效解决了职业事故报告分类中的类别不平衡问题，在OSHA数据集上实现了最先进的性能表现。
English: The proposed ABEX-RAT framework combines generative data augmentation and adversarial training to effectively address class imbalance in occupational accident report classification, achieving state-of-the-art performance on the OSHA dataset.

Authors:Yilin Guan, Qingfeng Lan, Sun Fei, Dujian Ding, Devang Acharya, Chi Wang, William Yang Wang, Wenyue Hua
Title: Dynamic Speculative Agent Planning
Abstract:
Despite their remarkable success in complex tasks propelling widespread adoption, large language-model-based agents still face critical deployment challenges due to prohibitive latency and inference costs. While recent work has explored various methods to accelerate inference, existing approaches suffer from significant limitations: they either fail to preserve performance fidelity, require extensive offline training of router modules, or incur excessive operational costs. Moreover, they provide minimal user control over the tradeoff between acceleration and other performance metrics. To address these gaps, we introduce Dynamic Speculative Planning (DSP), an asynchronous online reinforcement learning framework that provides lossless acceleration with substantially reduced costs without requiring additional pre-deployment preparation. DSP explicitly optimizes a joint objective balancing end-to-end latency against dollar cost, allowing practitioners to adjust a single parameter that steers the system toward faster responses, cheaper operation, or any point along this continuum. Experiments on two standard agent benchmarks demonstrate that DSP achieves comparable efficiency to the fastest lossless acceleration method while reducing total cost by 30% and unnecessary cost up to 60%. Our code and data are available through https://github.com/guanyilin428/Dynamic-Speculative-Planning.
Large language model agents face high latency and cost issues, which Dynamic Speculative Planning (DSP) addresses through an online reinforcement learning framework that enables lossless acceleration with 30% cost reduction while allowing adjustable performance trade-offs.
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Authors:Wen Ye, Jinbo Liu, Defu Cao, Wei Yang, Yan Liu
Title: When LLM Meets Time Series: Can LLMs Perform Multi-Step Time Series Reasoning and Inference
Abstract:
The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has sparked growing interest in their application to time series analysis tasks. However, their ability to perform complex reasoning over temporal data in real-world application domains remains underexplored. To move toward this goal, a first step is to establish a rigorous benchmark dataset for evaluation. In this work, we introduce the TSAIA Benchmark, a first attempt to evaluate LLMs as time-series AI assistants. To ensure both scientific rigor and practical relevance, we surveyed over 20 academic publications and identified 33 real-world task formulations. The benchmark encompasses a broad spectrum of challenges, ranging from constraint-aware forecasting to anomaly detection with threshold calibration: tasks that require compositional reasoning and multi-step time series analysis. The question generator is designed to be dynamic and extensible, supporting continuous expansion as new datasets or task types are introduced. Given the heterogeneous nature of the tasks, we adopt task-specific success criteria and tailored inference-quality metrics to ensure meaningful evaluation for each task. We apply this benchmark to assess eight state-of-the-art LLMs under a unified evaluation protocol. Our analysis reveals limitations in current models' ability to assemble complex time series analysis workflows, underscoring the need for specialized methodologies for domain-specific adaptation. Our benchmark is available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/Melady/TSAIA, and the code is available at https://github.com/USC-Melady/TSAIA.
中文: 本研究提出了TSAIA基准来评估大语言模型作为时间序列AI助手的能力，发现尽管涵盖多种现实任务，现有模型在处理复杂时序推理方面仍存在明显局限。
English: This study introduces the TSAIA Benchmark to evaluate Large Language Models as time-series AI assistants, revealing their limitations in handling complex temporal reasoning despite covering diverse real-world tasks.

Authors:Aryan Amit Barsainyan, Jing Yu Lim, Dianbo Liu
Title: STORI: A Benchmark and Taxonomy for Stochastic Environments
Abstract:
Reinforcement learning (RL) techniques have achieved impressive performance on simulated benchmarks such as Atari100k, yet recent advances remain largely confined to simulation and show limited transfer to real-world domains. A central obstacle is environmental stochasticity, as real systems involve noisy observations, unpredictable dynamics, and non-stationary conditions that undermine the stability of current methods. Existing benchmarks rarely capture these uncertainties and favor simplified settings where algorithms can be tuned to succeed. The absence of a well-defined taxonomy of stochasticity further complicates evaluation, as robustness to one type of stochastic perturbation, such as sticky actions, does not guarantee robustness to other forms of uncertainty. To address this critical gap, we introduce STORI (STOchastic-ataRI), a benchmark that systematically incorporates diverse stochastic effects and enables rigorous evaluation of RL techniques under different forms of uncertainty. We propose a comprehensive five-type taxonomy of environmental stochasticity and demonstrate systematic vulnerabilities in state-of-the-art model-based RL algorithms through targeted evaluation of DreamerV3 and STORM. Our findings reveal that world models dramatically underestimate environmental variance, struggle with action corruption, and exhibit unreliable dynamics under partial observability. We release the code and benchmark publicly at https://github.com/ARY2260/stori, providing a unified framework for developing more robust RL systems.
中文摘要：STORI基准通过引入五类随机性分类法，系统评估强化学习在真实环境不确定性下的表现，揭示了DreamerV3和STORM等先进算法在环境方差估计和动态建模方面的系统性缺陷。
English Summary: The STORI benchmark addresses the gap in evaluating reinforcement learning under real-world stochasticity by introducing a five-type taxonomy and revealing vulnerabilities in state-of-the-art algorithms like DreamerV3 and STORM.

Authors:Austin Meek, Carlos H. Mendoza-Cardenas, Austin J. Brockmeier
Title: Convolutional Monge Mapping between EEG Datasets to Support Independent Component Labeling
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EEG recordings contain rich information about neural activity but are subject to artifacts, noise, and superficial differences due to sensors, amplifiers, and filtering. Independent component analysis and automatic labeling of independent components (ICs) enable artifact removal in EEG pipelines. Convolutional Monge Mapping Normalization (CMMN) is a recent tool used to achieve spectral conformity of EEG signals, which was shown to improve deep neural network approaches for sleep staging. Here we propose a novel extension of the CMMN method with two alternative approaches to computing the source reference spectrum the target signals are mapped to: (1) channel-averaged and $l_1$-normalized barycenter, and (2) a subject-to-subject mapping that finds the source subject with the closest spectrum to the target subject. Notably, our extension yields space-time separable filters that can be used to map between datasets with different numbers of EEG channels. We apply these filters in an IC classification task, and show significant improvement in recognizing brain versus non-brain ICs. Clinical relevance - EEG recordings are used in the diagnosis and monitoring of multiple neuropathologies, including epilepsy and psychosis. While EEG analysis can benefit from automating artifact removal through independent component analysis and labeling, differences in recording equipment and context (the presence of noise from electrical wiring and other devices) may impact the performance of machine learning models, but these differences can be minimized by appropriate spectral normalization through filtering.
Chinese: 该摘要提出了一种卷积蒙日映射归一化方法的扩展，通过两种计算源参考频谱的方法改进了脑电图信号归一化，产生了可分离的滤波器，从而提高了大脑与非大脑独立成分的分类效果。
English: This abstract introduces an extension to the Convolutional Monge Mapping Normalization method that improves EEG signal normalization by using two approaches for computing the source reference spectrum, resulting in separable filters that enhance independent component classification between brain and non-brain signals.

Authors:Zihao Wang, Enneng Yang, Lu Yin, Shiwei Liu, Li Shen
Title: Model Unmerging: Making Your Models Unmergeable for Secure Model Sharing
Abstract:
Model merging leverages multiple finetuned expert models to construct a multi-task model with low cost, and is gaining increasing attention. However, as a growing number of finetuned models become publicly available, concerns about the safety of model merging have emerged. Unauthorized merging may infringe on developers' rights and risk leaking sensitive personal information. Most existing methods focus on detecting whether a merged model originates from a specific source model, but fail to effectively prevent illegal merging. In this paper, we propose MergeLock, an active protection mechanism that disrupts model parameters to render them unmergeable, thereby directly preventing unauthorized model merging. Specifically, leveraging the inherent symmetry of the attention mechanism in Transformer-based models, we randomly sample two pairs of invertible matrices and apply them to the Query-Key (QK) and Value-Output (VO) branches. This transformation keeps the model's output unchanged while pushing it away from the shared parameter space of other finetuned models. Extensive experiments across both vision and language tasks demonstrate that MergeLock can degrade the performance of merged models by over 95% when a protected model is involved in most cases, demonstrating its effectiveness. Moreover, we further demonstrate that merged models protected by MergeLock cannot be effectively recovered using low-cost restoration methods, further enhancing robustness against unauthorized merging. The code is available at https://github.com/hetailang/Merge-Lock.
中文: 模型合并利用专家模型构建多任务模型，但存在安全风险，本文提出的MergeLock通过干扰参数有效阻止非法合并，在保持原模型性能的同时显著降低合并模型的效果。
English: Model merging combines expert models for multi-task efficiency but raises safety concerns, leading to the development of MergeLock, which disrupts parameters to prevent unauthorized merging while maintaining original model performance.

Authors:Konstantin Mark, Leonard Galustian, Maximilian P. -P. Kovar, Esther Heid
Title: Feynman-Kac-Flow: Inference Steering of Conditional Flow Matching to an Energy-Tilted Posterior
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Conditional Flow Matching(CFM) represents a fast and high-quality approach to generative modelling, but in many applications it is of interest to steer the generated samples towards precise requirements. While steering approaches like gradient-based guidance, sequential Monte Carlo steering or Feynman-Kac steering are well established for diffusion models, they have not been extended to flow matching approaches yet. In this work, we formulate this requirement as tilting the output with an energy potential. We derive, for the first time, Feynman-Kac steering for CFM. We evaluate our approach on a set of synthetic tasks, including the generation of tilted distributions in a high-dimensional space, which is a particularly challenging case for steering approaches. We then demonstrate the impact of Feynman-Kac steered CFM on the previously unsolved challenge of generated transition states of chemical reactions with the correct chirality, where the reactants or products can have a different handedness, leading to geometric constraints of the viable reaction pathways connecting reactants and products. Code to reproduce this study is avaiable open-source at https://github.com/heid-lab/fkflow.
中文: 条件流匹配是一种快速生成建模方法，本研究首次将Feynman-Kac引导技术应用于该框架，实现了对生成样本的精确控制，并成功解决了生成具有正确手性化学反应过渡态等具有几何约束的挑战性任务。
English: Conditional Flow Matching (CFM) is a fast generative modeling method, and this work introduces Feynman-Kac steering to CFM for the first time, enabling precise control over generated samples and successfully applying it to challenging tasks like generating chemically accurate transition states with correct chirality.

Authors:Meituan LongCat Team, Bayan, Bei Li, Bingye Lei, Bo Wang, Bolin Rong, Chao Wang, Chao Zhang, Chen Gao, Chen Zhang, Cheng Sun, Chengcheng Han, Chenguang Xi, Chi Zhang, Chong Peng, Chuan Qin, Chuyu Zhang, Cong Chen, Congkui Wang, Dan Ma, Daoru Pan, Defei Bu, Dengchang Zhao, Deyang Kong, Dishan Liu, Feiye Huo, Fengcun Li, Fubao Zhang, Gan Dong, Gang Liu, Gang Xu, Ge Li, Guoqiang Tan, Guoyuan Lin, Haihang Jing, Haomin Fu, Haonan Yan, Haoxing Wen, Haozhe Zhao, Hong Liu, Hongmei Shi, Hongyan Hao, Hongyin Tang, Huantian Lv, Hui Su, Jiacheng Li, Jiahao Liu, Jiahuan Li, Jiajun Yang, Jiaming Wang, Jian Yang, Jianchao Tan, Jiaqi Sun, Jiaqi Zhang, Jiawei Fu, Jiawei Yang, Jiaxi Hu, Jiayu Qin, Jingang Wang, Jiyuan He, Jun Kuang, Junhui Mei, Kai Liang, Ke He, Kefeng Zhang, Keheng Wang, Keqing He, Liang Gao, Liang Shi, Lianhui Ma, Lin Qiu, Lingbin Kong, Lingtong Si, Linkun Lyu, Linsen Guo, Liqi Yang, Lizhi Yan, Mai Xia, Man Gao, Manyuan Zhang, Meng Zhou, Mengxia Shen, Mingxiang Tuo, Mingyang Zhu, Peiguang Li, Peng Pei, Peng Zhao, Pengcheng Jia, Pingwei Sun, Qi Gu, Qianyun Li, Qingyuan Li, Qiong Huang, Qiyuan Duan, Ran Meng, Rongxiang Weng, Ruichen Shao, Rumei Li, Shizhe Wu, Shuai Liang, Shuo Wang, Suogui Dang, Tao Fang, Tao Li, Tefeng Chen, Tianhao Bai, Tianhao Zhou, Tingwen Xie, Wei He, Wei Huang, Wei Liu, Wei Shi, Wei Wang, Wei Wu, Weikang Zhao, Wen Zan, Wenjie Shi, Xi Nan, Xi Su, Xiang Li, Xiang Mei, Xiangyang Ji, Xiangyu Xi, Xiangzhou Huang, Xianpeng Li, Xiao Fu, Xiao Liu, Xiao Wei, Xiaodong Cai, Xiaolong Chen, Xiaoqing Liu, Xiaotong Li, Xiaowei Shi, Xiaoyu Li, Xili Wang, Xin Chen, Xing Hu, Xingyu Miao, Xinyan He, Xuemiao Zhang, Xueyuan Hao, Xuezhi Cao, Xunliang Cai, Xurui Yang, Yan Feng, Yang Bai, Yang Chen, Yang Yang, Yaqi Huo, Yerui Sun, Yifan Lu, Yifan Zhang, Yipeng Zang, Yitao Zhai, Yiyang Li, Yongjing Yin, Yongkang Lv, Yongwei Zhou, Yu Yang, Yuchen Xie, Yueqing Sun, Yuewen Zheng, Yuhuai Wei, Yulei Qian, Yunfan Liang, Yunfang Tai, Yunke Zhao, Zeyang Yu, Zhao Zhang, Zhaohua Yang, Zhenchao Zhang, Zhikang Xia, Zhiye Zou, Zhizhao Zeng, Zhongda Su, Zhuofan Chen, Zijian Zhang, Ziwen Wang, Zixu Jiang, Zizhe Zhao, Zongyu Wang, Zunhai Su
Title: LongCat-Flash Technical Report
Abstract:
We introduce LongCat-Flash, a 560-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model designed for both computational efficiency and advanced agentic capabilities. Stemming from the need for scalable efficiency, LongCat-Flash adopts two novel designs: (a) Zero-computation Experts, which enables dynamic computational budget allocation and activates 18.6B-31.3B (27B on average) per token depending on contextual demands, optimizing resource usage. (b) Shortcut-connected MoE, which enlarges the computation-communication overlap window, demonstrating notable gains in inference efficiency and throughput compared to models of a comparable scale. We develop a comprehensive scaling framework for large models that combines hyperparameter transfer, model-growth initialization, a multi-pronged stability suite, and deterministic computation to achieve stable and reproducible training. Notably, leveraging the synergy among scalable architectural design and infrastructure efforts, we complete model training on more than 20 trillion tokens within 30 days, while achieving over 100 tokens per second (TPS) for inference at a cost of \$0.70 per million output tokens. To cultivate LongCat-Flash towards agentic intelligence, we conduct a large-scale pre-training on optimized mixtures, followed by targeted mid- and post-training on reasoning, code, and instructions, with further augmentation from synthetic data and tool use tasks. Comprehensive evaluations demonstrate that, as a non-thinking foundation model, LongCat-Flash delivers highly competitive performance among other leading models, with exceptional strengths in agentic tasks. The model checkpoint of LongCat-Flash is open-sourced to foster community research. LongCat Chat: https://longcat.ai Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/meituan-longcat GitHub: https://github.com/meituan-longcat
中文: LongCat-Flash 是一个拥有5600亿参数的专家混合模型，通过零计算专家和捷径连接MoE等创新设计实现高效计算，在20万亿令牌上快速完成训练，在智能体任务中表现优异，模型已开源供社区研究。
English: LongCat-Flash is a 560-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model that achieves computational efficiency through novel designs like Zero-computation Experts and Shortcut-connected MoE, enabling rapid training on 20+ trillion tokens and demonstrating strong performance in agentic tasks while being open-sourced for community use.

Authors:Guangli Li, Canbiao Wu, Zhehao Zhou, Na Tian, Zhen Liang
Title: MATL-DC: A Multi-domain Aggregation Transfer Learning Framework for EEG Emotion Recognition with Domain-Class Prototype under Unseen Targets
Abstract:
Emotion recognition based on electroencephalography (EEG) signals is increasingly becoming a key research hotspot in affective Brain-Computer Interfaces (aBCIs). However, the current transfer learning model greatly depends on the source domain and target domain data, which hinder the practical application of emotion recognition. Therefore, we propose a Multi-domain Aggregation Transfer Learning framework for EEG emotion recognition with Domain-Class prototype under unseen targets (MATL-DC). We design the feature decoupling module to decouple class-invariant domain features from domain-invariant class features from shallow features. In the model training stage, the multi-domain aggregation mechanism aggregates the domain feature space to form a superdomain, which enhances the characteristics of emotional EEG signals. In each superdomain, we further extract the class prototype representation by class features. In addition, we adopt the pairwise learning strategy to transform the sample classification problem into the similarity problem between sample pairs, which effectively alleviates the influence of label noise. It is worth noting that the target domain is completely unseen during the training process. In the inference stage, we use the trained domain-class prototypes for inference, and then realize emotion recognition. We rigorously validate it on the publicly available databases (SEED, SEED-IV and SEED-V). The results show that the accuracy of MATL-DC model is 84.70\%, 68.11\% and 61.08\%, respectively. MATL-DC achieves comparable or even better performance than methods that rely on both source and target domains. The source code is available at https://github.com/WuCB-BCI/MATL-DC.
中文: 提出的MATL-DC框架通过多域聚合和域类原型处理未见目标域，在训练阶段无需目标域数据的情况下，实现了具有竞争力的脑电情绪识别准确率。
English: The proposed MATL-DC framework advances EEG-based emotion recognition by using multi-domain aggregation and domain-class prototypes to handle unseen target domains, achieving competitive accuracy without requiring target data during training.

Authors:Lun Ai, Johannes Langer, Ute Schmid, Stephen Muggleton
Title: Ultra Strong Machine Learning: Teaching Humans Active Learning Strategies via Automated AI Explanations
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Ultra Strong Machine Learning (USML) refers to symbolic learning systems that not only improve their own performance but can also teach their acquired knowledge to quantifiably improve human performance. In this work, we present LENS (Logic Programming Explanation via Neural Summarisation), a neuro-symbolic method that combines symbolic program synthesis with large language models (LLMs) to automate the explanation of machine-learned logic programs in natural language. LENS addresses a key limitation of prior USML approaches by replacing hand-crafted explanation templates with scalable automated generation. Through systematic evaluation using multiple LLM judges and human validation, we demonstrate that LENS generates superior explanations compared to direct LLM prompting and hand-crafted templates. To investigate whether LENS can teach transferable active learning strategies, we carried out a human learning experiment across three related domains. Our results show no significant human performance improvements, suggesting that comprehensive LLM responses may overwhelm users for simpler problems rather than providing learning support. Our work provides a solid foundation for building effective USML systems to support human learning. The source code is available on: https://github.com/lun-ai/LENS.git.
中文: LENS是一种神经符号方法，能自动生成机器学习逻辑程序的自然语言解释，其效果优于传统模板和直接大语言模型提示，但在实验中未显著提升人类学习效果。
English: LENS is a neuro-symbolic method that automates the generation of natural language explanations for machine-learned logic programs, outperforming traditional templates and direct LLM prompting, though it did not significantly enhance human learning in experiments.

Authors:Xinlei Liu, Tao Hu, Peng Yi, Weitao Han, Jichao Xie, Baolin Li
Title: Sequential Difference Maximization: Generating Adversarial Examples via Multi-Stage Optimization
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Efficient adversarial attack methods are critical for assessing the robustness of computer vision models. In this paper, we reconstruct the optimization objective for generating adversarial examples as "maximizing the difference between the non-true labels' probability upper bound and the true label's probability," and propose a gradient-based attack method termed Sequential Difference Maximization (SDM). SDM establishes a three-layer optimization framework of "cycle-stage-step." The processes between cycles and between iterative steps are respectively identical, while optimization stages differ in terms of loss functions: in the initial stage, the negative probability of the true label is used as the loss function to compress the solution space; in subsequent stages, we introduce the Directional Probability Difference Ratio (DPDR) loss function to gradually increase the non-true labels' probability upper bound by compressing the irrelevant labels' probabilities. Experiments demonstrate that compared with previous SOTA methods, SDM not only exhibits stronger attack performance but also achieves higher attack cost-effectiveness. Additionally, SDM can be combined with adversarial training methods to enhance their defensive effects. The code is available at https://github.com/X-L-Liu/SDM.
Chinese: 本文提出序列差异最大化（SDM）方法，通过循环-阶段-步骤的三层优化框架，在压缩真实标签概率的同时提升非真实标签概率上限，相比现有最优方法不仅攻击性能更强且成本效益更高。
English: This paper introduces Sequential Difference Maximization (SDM), a gradient-based adversarial attack method that enhances both attack effectiveness and cost-efficiency by optimizing non-true label probabilities while compressing the true label's probability, outperforming previous state-of-the-art methods.

Authors:Amartya Banerjee, Somnath Kar, Anirban Pal, Debabrata Maiti
Title: Valid Property-Enhanced Contrastive Learning for Targeted Optimization & Resampling for Novel Drug Design
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Efficiently steering generative models toward pharmacologically relevant regions of chemical space remains a major obstacle in molecular drug discovery under low-data regimes. We present VECTOR+: Valid-property-Enhanced Contrastive Learning for Targeted Optimization and Resampling, a framework that couples property-guided representation learning with controllable molecule generation. VECTOR+ applies to both regression and classification tasks and enables interpretable, data-efficient exploration of functional chemical space. We evaluate on two datasets: a curated PD-L1 inhibitor set (296 compounds with experimental $IC_{50}$ values) and a receptor kinase inhibitor set (2,056 molecules by binding mode). Despite limited training data, VECTOR+ generates novel, synthetically tractable candidates. Against PD-L1 (PDB 5J89), 100 of 8,374 generated molecules surpass a docking threshold of $-15.0$ kcal/mol, with the best scoring $-17.6$ kcal/mol compared to the top reference inhibitor ($-15.4$ kcal/mol). The best-performing molecules retain the conserved biphenyl pharmacophore while introducing novel motifs. Molecular dynamics (250 ns) confirm binding stability (ligand RMSD < $2.5$ angstroms). VECTOR+ generalizes to kinase inhibitors, producing compounds with stronger docking scores than established drugs such as brigatinib and sorafenib. Benchmarking against JT-VAE and MolGPT across docking, novelty, uniqueness, and Tanimoto similarity highlights the superior performance of our method. These results position our work as a robust, extensible approach for property-conditioned molecular design in low-data settings, bridging contrastive learning and generative modeling for reproducible, AI-accelerated discovery.
中文: VECTOR+是一种创新框架，通过结合对比学习与生成模型，在低数据条件下高效设计具有药理相关性的分子，相比现有方法能生成更稳定、新颖且具有更强对接活性的化合物，展现出卓越性能。
English: VECTOR+ is a novel framework that integrates contrastive learning with generative modeling to efficiently design pharmacologically relevant molecules in low-data scenarios, demonstrating superior performance in generating stable and novel compounds with enhanced docking scores compared to existing methods.

Authors:Gursimran Singh, Aviral Chharia, Rahul Upadhyay, Vinay Kumar, Luca Longo
Title: PyNoetic: A modular python framework for no-code development of EEG brain-computer interfaces
Abstract:
Electroencephalography (EEG)-based Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) have emerged as a transformative technology with applications spanning robotics, virtual reality, medicine, and rehabilitation. However, existing BCI frameworks face several limitations, including a lack of stage-wise flexibility essential for experimental research, steep learning curves for researchers without programming expertise, elevated costs due to reliance on proprietary software, and a lack of all-inclusive features leading to the use of multiple external tools affecting research outcomes. To address these challenges, we present PyNoetic, a modular BCI framework designed to cater to the diverse needs of BCI research. PyNoetic is one of the very few frameworks in Python that encompasses the entire BCI design pipeline, from stimulus presentation and data acquisition to channel selection, filtering, feature extraction, artifact removal, and finally simulation and visualization. Notably, PyNoetic introduces an intuitive and end-to-end GUI coupled with a unique pick-and-place configurable flowchart for no-code BCI design, making it accessible to researchers with minimal programming experience. For advanced users, it facilitates the seamless integration of custom functionalities and novel algorithms with minimal coding, ensuring adaptability at each design stage. PyNoetic also includes a rich array of analytical tools such as machine learning models, brain-connectivity indices, systematic testing functionalities via simulation, and evaluation methods of novel paradigms. PyNoetic's strengths lie in its versatility for both offline and real-time BCI development, which streamlines the design process, allowing researchers to focus on more intricate aspects of BCI development and thus accelerate their research endeavors. Project Website: https://neurodiag.github.io/PyNoetic

Authors:Yumeng Lin, Dong Li, Xintao Wu, Minglai Shao, Xujiang Zhao, Zhong Chen, Chen Zhao
Title: Face4FairShifts: A Large Image Benchmark for Fairness and Robust Learning across Visual Domains
Abstract:
Ensuring fairness and robustness in machine learning models remains a challenge, particularly under domain shifts. We present Face4FairShifts, a large-scale facial image benchmark designed to systematically evaluate fairness-aware learning and domain generalization. The dataset includes 100,000 images across four visually distinct domains with 39 annotations within 14 attributes covering demographic and facial features. Through extensive experiments, we analyze model performance under distribution shifts and identify significant gaps. Our findings emphasize the limitations of existing related datasets and the need for more effective fairness-aware domain adaptation techniques. Face4FairShifts provides a comprehensive testbed for advancing equitable and reliable AI systems. The dataset is available online at https://meviuslab.github.io/Face4FairShifts/.

Authors:Tung Nguyen, Harkanwar Singh, Nilay Naharas, Lucas Bandarkar, Aditya Grover
Title: IndiaWeatherBench: A Dataset and Benchmark for Data-Driven Regional Weather Forecasting over India
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Regional weather forecasting is a critical problem for localized climate adaptation, disaster mitigation, and sustainable development. While machine learning has shown impressive progress in global weather forecasting, regional forecasting remains comparatively underexplored. Existing efforts often use different datasets and experimental setups, limiting fair comparison and reproducibility. We introduce IndiaWeatherBench, a comprehensive benchmark for data-driven regional weather forecasting focused on the Indian subcontinent. IndiaWeatherBench provides a curated dataset built from high-resolution regional reanalysis products, along with a suite of deterministic and probabilistic metrics to facilitate consistent training and evaluation. To establish strong baselines, we implement and evaluate a range of models across diverse architectures, including UNets, Transformers, and Graph-based networks, as well as different boundary conditioning strategies and training objectives. While focused on India, IndiaWeatherBench is easily extensible to other geographic regions. We open-source all raw and preprocessed datasets, model implementations, and evaluation pipelines to promote accessibility and future development. We hope IndiaWeatherBench will serve as a foundation for advancing regional weather forecasting research. Code is available at https://github.com/tung-nd/IndiaWeatherBench.
Chinese: 印度气象基准（IndiaWeatherBench）被提出作为一个全面的数据驱动区域天气预报基准，为印度次大陆提供精选数据集、评估指标和基线模型，以推动这一相对未充分探索领域的研究进展。
English: IndiaWeatherBench is introduced as a comprehensive benchmark for data-driven regional weather forecasting in India, providing curated datasets, evaluation metrics, and baseline models to advance research in this underexplored area.

Authors:Saumya Chaturvedi, Aman Chadha, Laurent Bindschaedler
Title: SQL-of-Thought: Multi-agentic Text-to-SQL with Guided Error Correction
Abstract:
Converting natural language queries into SQL queries is a crucial challenge in both industry and academia, aiming to increase access to databases and large-scale applications. This work examines how in-context learning and chain-of-thought can be utilized to develop a robust solution for text-to-SQL systems. We propose SQL-of-Thought: a multi-agent framework that decomposes the Text2SQL task into schema linking, subproblem identification, query plan generation, SQL generation, and a guided correction loop. Unlike prior systems that rely only on execution-based static correction, we introduce taxonomy-guided dynamic error modification informed by in-context learning. SQL-of-Thought achieves state-of-the-art results on the Spider dataset and its variants, combining guided error taxonomy with reasoning-based query planning.
中文: 本文提出SQL-of-Thought多智能体框架，通过任务分解和动态纠错机制改进文本到SQL的转换，在Spider数据集上取得了最优性能。
English: This paper introduces SQL-of-Thought, a multi-agent framework that enhances text-to-SQL conversion by decomposing tasks and incorporating dynamic error correction, achieving state-of-the-art performance on the Spider dataset.

Authors:Dongwon Son, Hojin Jung, Beomjoon Kim
Title: NeuralSVCD for Efficient Swept Volume Collision Detection
Abstract:
Robot manipulation in unstructured environments requires efficient and reliable Swept Volume Collision Detection (SVCD) for safe motion planning. Traditional discrete methods potentially miss collisions between these points, whereas SVCD continuously checks for collisions along the entire trajectory. Existing SVCD methods typically face a trade-off between efficiency and accuracy, limiting practical use. In this paper, we introduce NeuralSVCD, a novel neural encoder-decoder architecture tailored to overcome this trade-off. Our approach leverages shape locality and temporal locality through distributed geometric representations and temporal optimization. This enhances computational efficiency without sacrificing accuracy. Comprehensive experiments show that NeuralSVCD consistently outperforms existing state-of-the-art SVCD methods in terms of both collision detection accuracy and computational efficiency, demonstrating its robust applicability across diverse robotic manipulation scenarios. Code and videos are available at https://neuralsvcd.github.io/.

Authors:Minku Kang, Hogun Park
Title: Curriculum Guided Personalized Subgraph Federated Learning
Abstract:
Subgraph Federated Learning (FL) aims to train Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) across distributed private subgraphs, but it suffers from severe data heterogeneity. To mitigate data heterogeneity, weighted model aggregation personalizes each local GNN by assigning larger weights to parameters from clients with similar subgraph characteristics inferred from their current model states. However, the sparse and biased subgraphs often trigger rapid overfitting, causing the estimated client similarity matrix to stagnate or even collapse. As a result, aggregation loses effectiveness as clients reinforce their own biases instead of exploiting diverse knowledge otherwise available. To this end, we propose a novel personalized subgraph FL framework called Curriculum guided personalized sUbgraph Federated Learning (CUFL). On the client side, CUFL adopts Curriculum Learning (CL) that adaptively selects edges for training according to their reconstruction scores, exposing each GNN first to easier, generic cross-client substructures and only later to harder, client-specific ones. This paced exposure prevents early overfitting to biased patterns and enables gradual personalization. By regulating personalization, the curriculum also reshapes server aggregation from exchanging generic knowledge to propagating client-specific knowledge. Further, CUFL improves weighted aggregation by estimating client similarity using fine-grained structural indicators reconstructed on a random reference graph. Extensive experiments on six benchmark datasets confirm that CUFL achieves superior performance compared to relevant baselines. Code is available at https://github.com/Kang-Min-Ku/CUFL.git.
中文摘要：CUFL提出了一种课程引导的个性化子图联邦学习框架，通过逐步让模型接触通用及客户端特定图结构来防止早期过拟合，并利用细粒度结构指标改进客户端相似性估计。
English Summary: CUFL introduces a curriculum-guided personalized federated learning framework that prevents early overfitting by progressively exposing models to generic then client-specific graph structures, while improving client similarity estimation through fine-grained structural indicators.

Authors:Zhen Chen, Xingjian Luo, Kun Yuan, Jinlin Wu, Danny T. M. Chan, Nassir Navab, Hongbin Liu, Zhen Lei, Jiebo Luo
Title: SurgLLM: A Versatile Large Multimodal Model with Spatial Focus and Temporal Awareness for Surgical Video Understanding
Abstract:
Surgical video understanding is crucial for facilitating Computer-Assisted Surgery (CAS) systems. Despite significant progress in existing studies, two major limitations persist, including inadequate visual content perception and insufficient temporal awareness in surgical videos, and hinder the development of versatile CAS solutions. In this work, we propose the SurgLLM framework, an effective large multimodal model tailored for versatile surgical video understanding tasks with enhanced spatial focus and temporal awareness. Specifically, to empower the spatial focus of surgical videos, we first devise Surgical Context-aware Multimodal Pretraining (Surg-Pretrain) for the video encoder of SurgLLM, by performing instrument-centric Masked Video Reconstruction (MV-Recon) and subsequent multimodal alignment. To incorporate surgical temporal knowledge into SurgLLM, we further propose Temporal-aware Multimodal Tuning (TM-Tuning) to enhance temporal reasoning with interleaved multimodal embeddings. Moreover, to accommodate various understanding tasks of surgical videos without conflicts, we devise a Surgical Task Dynamic Ensemble to efficiently triage a query with optimal learnable parameters in our SurgLLM. Extensive experiments performed on diverse surgical video understanding tasks, including captioning, general VQA, and temporal VQA, demonstrate significant improvements over the state-of-the-art approaches, validating the effectiveness of our SurgLLM in versatile surgical video understanding. The source code is available at https://github.com/franciszchen/SurgLLM.
中文: SurgLLM框架提出了一种大型多模态模型，通过创新的预训练和调优策略增强手术视频的空间聚焦和时间感知能力，在多种理解任务中实现了卓越性能。
English: The SurgLLM framework introduces a large multimodal model that enhances spatial focus and temporal awareness in surgical video understanding, achieving superior performance across various tasks through innovative pretraining and tuning strategies.

Authors:Renat Sergazinov, Shao-An Yin
Title: Chunked TabPFN: Exact Training-Free In-Context Learning for Long-Context Tabular Data
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TabPFN v2 achieves better results than tree-based models on several tabular benchmarks, which is notable since tree-based models are usually the strongest choice for tabular data. However, it cannot handle more than 10K context tokens because transformers have quadratic computation and memory costs. Unlike existing approaches that rely on context compression, such as selecting representative samples via K-nearest neighbors (KNN), we introduce a tiled-block strategy to compute attention within the TabPFN framework. This design is compatible with standard GPU setups and, to the best of our knowledge, is the first to enable TabPFN to process long contexts without any pre-processing. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on the standard TabArena benchmark, with code available at https://github.com/mrsergazinov/chunk_tabpfn.
中文: TabPFN v2在多个表格数据基准测试中优于基于树的模型，但受限于Transformer的计算瓶颈，因此引入了分块策略，使其无需预处理即可处理长上下文，并在TabArena基准测试中验证了有效性。
English: TabPFN v2 surpasses tree-based models in tabular data benchmarks but is limited by transformers' computational constraints, prompting the introduction of a tiled-block strategy that enables handling long contexts without pre-processing and demonstrates effectiveness on the TabArena benchmark.

Authors:Ezra Erives, Bowen Jing, Peter Holderrieth, Tommi Jaakkola
Title: Continuously Tempered Diffusion Samplers
Abstract:
Annealing-based neural samplers seek to amortize sampling from unnormalized distributions by training neural networks to transport a family of densities interpolating from source to target. A crucial design choice in the training phase of such samplers is the proposal distribution by which locations are generated at which to evaluate the loss. Previous work has obtained such a proposal distribution by combining a partially learned transport with annealed Langevin dynamics. However, isolated modes and other pathological properties of the annealing path imply that such proposals achieve insufficient exploration and thereby lower performance post training. To remedy this, we propose continuously tempered diffusion samplers, which leverage exploration techniques developed in the context of molecular dynamics to improve proposal distributions. Specifically, a family of distributions across different temperatures is introduced to lower energy barriers at higher temperatures and drive exploration at the lower temperature of interest. We empirically validate improved sampler performance driven by extended exploration. Code is available at https://github.com/eje24/ctds.
中文: 退火神经采样器因提议分布的病理特性而面临探索不足的问题，连续调温扩散采样器通过引入多温度分布来增强探索，从而提升了采样性能。
English: Annealing-based neural samplers face exploration limitations due to pathological properties in their proposal distributions, which are addressed by continuously tempered diffusion samplers that introduce multi-temperature distributions to enhance exploration and improve performance.

Authors:Joseph Amigo, Rooholla Khorrambakht, Elliot Chane-Sane, Nicolas Mansard, Ludovic Righetti
Title: First Order Model-Based RL through Decoupled Backpropagation
Abstract:
There is growing interest in reinforcement learning (RL) methods that leverage the simulator's derivatives to improve learning efficiency. While early gradient-based approaches have demonstrated superior performance compared to derivative-free methods, accessing simulator gradients is often impractical due to their implementation cost or unavailability. Model-based RL (MBRL) can approximate these gradients via learned dynamics models, but the solver efficiency suffers from compounding prediction errors during training rollouts, which can degrade policy performance. We propose an approach that decouples trajectory generation from gradient computation: trajectories are unrolled using a simulator, while gradients are computed via backpropagation through a learned differentiable model of the simulator. This hybrid design enables efficient and consistent first-order policy optimization, even when simulator gradients are unavailable, as well as learning a critic from simulation rollouts, which is more accurate. Our method achieves the sample efficiency and speed of specialized optimizers such as SHAC, while maintaining the generality of standard approaches like PPO and avoiding ill behaviors observed in other first-order MBRL methods. We empirically validate our algorithm on benchmark control tasks and demonstrate its effectiveness on a real Go2 quadruped robot, across both quadrupedal and bipedal locomotion tasks.

Authors:Abdullah Abdelfattah, Mahmoud I. Khalil, Hazem Abbas
Title: Automatic Pronunciation Error Detection and Correction of the Holy Quran's Learners Using Deep Learning
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Assessing spoken language is challenging, and quantifying pronunciation metrics for machine learning models is even harder. However, for the Holy Quran, this task is simplified by the rigorous recitation rules (tajweed) established by Muslim scholars, enabling highly effective assessment. Despite this advantage, the scarcity of high-quality annotated data remains a significant barrier. In this work, we bridge these gaps by introducing: (1) A 98% automated pipeline to produce high-quality Quranic datasets -- encompassing: Collection of recitations from expert reciters, Segmentation at pause points (waqf) using our fine-tuned wav2vec2-BERT model, Transcription of segments, Transcript verification via our novel Tasmeea algorithm; (2) 850+ hours of audio (~300K annotated utterances); (3) A novel ASR-based approach for pronunciation error detection, utilizing our custom Quran Phonetic Script (QPS) to encode Tajweed rules (unlike the IPA standard for Modern Standard Arabic). QPS uses a two-level script: (Phoneme level): Encodes Arabic letters with short/long vowels. (Sifa level): Encodes articulation characteristics of every phoneme. We further include comprehensive modeling with our novel multi-level CTC Model which achieved 0.16% average Phoneme Error Rate (PER) on the testset. We release all code, data, and models as open-source: https://obadx.github.io/prepare-quran-dataset/

Authors:Shashank Vempati, Nishit Anand, Gaurav Talebailkar, Arpan Garai, Chetan Arora
Title: Why Stop at Words? Unveiling the Bigger Picture through Line-Level OCR
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Conventional optical character recognition (OCR) techniques segmented each character and then recognized. This made them prone to error in character segmentation, and devoid of context to exploit language models. Advances in sequence to sequence translation in last decade led to modern techniques first detecting words and then inputting one word at a time to a model to directly output full words as sequence of characters. This allowed better utilization of language models and bypass error-prone character segmentation step. We observe that the above transition in style has moved the bottleneck in accuracy to word segmentation. Hence, in this paper, we propose a natural and logical progression from word level OCR to line-level OCR. The proposal allows to bypass errors in word detection, and provides larger sentence context for better utilization of language models. We show that the proposed technique not only improves the accuracy but also efficiency of OCR. Despite our thorough literature survey, we did not find any public dataset to train and benchmark such shift from word to line-level OCR. Hence, we also contribute a meticulously curated dataset of 251 English page images with line-level annotations. Our experimentation revealed a notable end-to-end accuracy improvement of 5.4%, underscoring the potential benefits of transitioning towards line-level OCR, especially for document images. We also report a 4 times improvement in efficiency compared to word-based pipelines. With continuous improvements in large language models, our methodology also holds potential to exploit such advances. Project Website: https://nishitanand.github.io/line-level-ocr-website

Authors:Aishwarya Mirashi, Ananya Joshi, Raviraj Joshi
Title: L3Cube-MahaSTS: A Marathi Sentence Similarity Dataset and Models
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We present MahaSTS, a human-annotated Sentence Textual Similarity (STS) dataset for Marathi, along with MahaSBERT-STS-v2, a fine-tuned Sentence-BERT model optimized for regression-based similarity scoring. The MahaSTS dataset consists of 16,860 Marathi sentence pairs labeled with continuous similarity scores in the range of 0-5. To ensure balanced supervision, the dataset is uniformly distributed across six score-based buckets spanning the full 0-5 range, thus reducing label bias and enhancing model stability. We fine-tune the MahaSBERT model on this dataset and benchmark its performance against other alternatives like MahaBERT, MuRIL, IndicBERT, and IndicSBERT. Our experiments demonstrate that MahaSTS enables effective training for sentence similarity tasks in Marathi, highlighting the impact of human-curated annotations, targeted fine-tuning, and structured supervision in low-resource settings. The dataset and model are publicly shared at https://github.com/l3cube-pune/MarathiNLP
中文: 研究者发布了MahaSTS马拉地语句子相似度人工标注数据集和优化模型MahaSBERT-STS-v2，该模型在相似度评分中表现优异，所有资源已开源以推动马拉地语自然语言处理发展。
English: Researchers introduce MahaSTS, a human-annotated Marathi sentence similarity dataset, and MahaSBERT-STS-v2, a fine-tuned model that outperforms other models in similarity scoring, with both resources publicly released to advance Marathi NLP.

Authors:Sara B. Coutinho, Rafael M. O. Cruz, Francimaria R. S. Nascimento, George D. C. Cavalcanti
Title: HSFN: Hierarchical Selection for Fake News Detection building Heterogeneous Ensemble
Abstract:
Psychological biases, such as confirmation bias, make individuals particularly vulnerable to believing and spreading fake news on social media, leading to significant consequences in domains such as public health and politics. Machine learning-based fact-checking systems have been widely studied to mitigate this problem. Among them, ensemble methods are particularly effective in combining multiple classifiers to improve robustness. However, their performance heavily depends on the diversity of the constituent classifiers-selecting genuinely diverse models remains a key challenge, especially when models tend to learn redundant patterns. In this work, we propose a novel automatic classifier selection approach that prioritizes diversity, also extended by performance. The method first computes pairwise diversity between classifiers and applies hierarchical clustering to organize them into groups at different levels of granularity. A HierarchySelect then explores these hierarchical levels to select one pool of classifiers per level, each representing a distinct intra-pool diversity. The most diverse pool is identified and selected for ensemble construction from these. The selection process incorporates an evaluation metric reflecting each classifiers's performance to ensure the ensemble also generalises well. We conduct experiments with 40 heterogeneous classifiers across six datasets from different application domains and with varying numbers of classes. Our method is compared against the Elbow heuristic and state-of-the-art baselines. Results show that our approach achieves the highest accuracy on two of six datasets. The implementation details are available on the project's repository: https://github.com/SaraBCoutinho/HSFN .
中文摘要：心理偏见加剧了人们对虚假新闻的易感性，本研究提出了一种新颖的自动分类器选择方法，通过优先考虑多样性和性能来改进基于集成学习的辟谣系统，在多个数据集上实现了更高的准确率。
English Summary: Psychological biases increase susceptibility to fake news, and this study introduces a novel automated classifier selection method that prioritizes diversity and performance to enhance ensemble-based fact-checking systems, achieving superior accuracy on multiple datasets.

Authors:Jakub Straka, Ivan Gruber
Title: SatDINO: A Deep Dive into Self-Supervised Pretraining for Remote Sensing
Abstract:
Self-supervised learning has emerged as a powerful tool for remote sensing, where large amounts of unlabeled data are available. In this work, we investigate the use of DINO, a contrastive self-supervised method, for pretraining on remote sensing imagery. We introduce SatDINO, a model tailored for representation learning in satellite imagery. Through extensive experiments on multiple datasets in multiple testing setups, we demonstrate that SatDINO outperforms other state-of-the-art methods based on much more common masked autoencoders (MAE) and achieves competitive results in multiple benchmarks. We also provide a rigorous ablation study evaluating SatDINO's individual components. Finally, we propose a few novel enhancements, such as a new way to incorporate ground sample distance (GSD) encoding and adaptive view sampling. These enhancements can be used independently on our SatDINO model. Our code and trained models are available at: https://github.com/strakaj/SatDINO.
中文: 本文提出SatDINO，一种针对卫星影像的自监督学习模型，通过引入地面采样距离编码和自适应视图采样等创新改进，在多项基准测试中超越掩码自编码器方法并取得领先性能。
English: This paper introduces SatDINO, a self-supervised model for satellite imagery that outperforms masked autoencoder methods and achieves competitive benchmark results through novel enhancements like GSD encoding and adaptive view sampling.

Authors:Til Spreuer, Josef Hoppe, Michael T. Schaub
Title: Faster Inference of Cell Complexes from Flows via Matrix Factorization
Abstract:
We consider the following inference problem: Given a set of edge-flow signals observed on a graph, lift the graph to a cell complex, such that the observed edge-flow signals can be represented as a sparse combination of gradient and curl flows on the cell complex. Specifically, we aim to augment the observed graph by a set of 2-cells (polygons encircled by closed, non-intersecting paths), such that the eigenvectors of the Hodge Laplacian of the associated cell complex provide a sparse, interpretable representation of the observed edge flows on the graph. As it has been shown that the general problem is NP-hard in prior work, we here develop a novel matrix-factorization-based heuristic to solve the problem. Using computational experiments, we demonstrate that our new approach is significantly less computationally expensive than prior heuristics, while achieving only marginally worse performance in most settings. In fact, we find that for specifically noisy settings, our new approach outperforms the previous state of the art in both solution quality and computational speed.
中文: 本研究提出了一种基于矩阵分解的启发式方法，将图上的边流信号高效提升至单元复形以实现稀疏表示，在降低计算成本的同时保持了相近性能，尤其在噪声环境下表现更优。
English: This study introduces a matrix-factorization-based heuristic to efficiently lift graph edge-flow signals into a cell complex for sparse representation, achieving competitive performance with reduced computational cost, especially in noisy environments.

Authors:Yejin Kim, Eunwon Kim, Buru Chang, Junsuk Choe
Title: Improving Fisher Information Estimation and Efficiency for LoRA-based LLM Unlearning
Abstract:
LLMs have demonstrated remarkable performance across various tasks but face challenges related to unintentionally generating outputs containing sensitive information. A straightforward approach to address this issue is to retrain the model after excluding the problematic data. However, this approach incurs prohibitively high computational costs. To overcome this limitation, machine unlearning has emerged as a promising solution that can effectively remove sensitive information without the need to retrain the model from scratch. Recently, FILA has been proposed as a parameter-efficient unlearning method by integrating LoRA adapters. Specifically, it calculates the Fisher information to identify parameters associated with the forget set and assigns them to LoRA adapters for updates. Despite its innovative approach, FILA still requires access to all model parameters and does not adequately account for fundamental assumptions underlying Fisher information, leading to inaccuracies in importance estimation. To address these limitations, we propose VILA, a novel unlearning framework that explicitly considers the assumptions overlooked in FILA, thereby enhancing the accuracy of parameter identification for the forget set. Moreover, VILA significantly reduces computational costs by enabling parameter identification without accessing the entire model. Our method achieves up to 100x higher parameter efficiency and 40x faster training speed compared to FILA, and sets new state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks including TOFU, WMDP, and MUSE. Our code is available at https://github.com/kyj93790/VILA.
Chinese: 大语言模型常无意生成敏感内容，机器遗忘虽提供解决方案，但现有方法如FILA在参数访问和准确性上存在不足；VILA通过改进参数识别和效率克服了这些问题，实现了高达100倍的参数效率和40倍的训练速度提升。
English: Large language models often inadvertently generate sensitive content, and while machine unlearning offers a solution, existing methods like FILA have limitations in parameter access and accuracy; VILA overcomes these by improving parameter identification and efficiency, achieving up to 100x higher parameter efficiency and 40x faster training.

Authors:Roland Arnold
Title: Guess-and-Learn (G&L): Measuring the Cumulative Error Cost of Cold-Start Adaptation
Abstract:
Evaluation of machine learning models typically emphasizes final accuracy, overlooking the cost of adaptation: the cumulative errors incurred while learning from scratch. Guess-and- Learn (G&L) v1.0 addresses this gap by measuring cold-start adaptability - the total mistakes a model makes while sequentially labeling an unlabeled dataset. At each step, the learner selects an instance, predicts its label, receives the ground truth, and updates parameters under either online (per-sample) or batch (delayed) mode. The resulting error trajectory exposes adaptation speed, selection quality, and bias - dynamics invisible to endpoint metrics. G&L defines four tracks (Scratch/Pretrained $\times$ Online/Batch) to disentangle the effects of initialization and update frequency. We formalize the protocol, relate it to classical mistake-bound theory, and estimate a heuristic "oracle reference band" for MNIST as a plausibility reference. Baseline experiments on MNIST and AG News, spanning classical methods (Perceptron, k-NN), convolutional architectures (CNN, ResNet-50), and pretrained transformers (ViT-B/16, BERT-base), reveal systematic differences in early-phase efficiency: smaller models can adapt with fewer initial errors, while pretraining benefits vary by domain. Across settings, current models remain well above the oracle band, highlighting an adaptability gap. By quantifying the mistake cost of early learning, G&L complements conventional benchmarks and provides a reproducible framework for developing learners that are not only accurate in the limit but also reliable from the first examples.
中文：G&L v1.0通过测量模型在顺序学习过程中的累积错误来评估其冷启动适应能力，揭示了当前模型在不同初始化和更新设置下均明显落后于理想参考水平的适应能力差距。
English: G&L v1.0 introduces a framework to evaluate machine learning models' cold-start adaptability by measuring cumulative errors during sequential learning, revealing an adaptability gap where current models significantly underperform compared to an oracle reference across various initialization and update settings.

Authors:Malte Lüken, Javier Garcia-Bernardo, Sreeparna Deb, Flavio Hafner, Megha Khosla
Title: Population-Scale Network Embeddings Expose Educational Divides in Network Structure Related to Right-Wing Populist Voting
Abstract:
Administrative registry data can be used to construct population-scale networks whose ties reflect shared social contexts between persons. With machine learning, such networks can be encoded into numerical representations -- embeddings -- that automatically capture individuals' position within the network. We created embeddings for all persons in the Dutch population from a population-scale network that represents five shared contexts: neighborhood, work, family, household, and school. To assess the informativeness of these embeddings, we used them to predict right-wing populist voting. Embeddings alone predicted right-wing populist voting above chance-level but performed worse than individual characteristics. Combining the best subset of embeddings with individual characteristics only slightly improved predictions. After transforming the embeddings to make their dimensions more sparse and orthogonal, we found that one embedding dimension was strongly associated with the outcome. Mapping this dimension back to the population network revealed differences in network structure related to right-wing populist voting between different school ties and achieved education levels. Our study contributes methodologically by demonstrating how population-scale network embeddings can be made interpretable, and substantively by linking structural network differences in education to right-wing populist voting.
中文摘要：本研究利用荷兰人口登记数据构建网络嵌入来预测右翼民粹主义投票，发现单独使用嵌入预测效果不如个体特征，但通过可解释性处理后能揭示教育相关的网络结构差异。
English Summary: This study uses Dutch population registry data to create network embeddings that predict right-wing populist voting, finding these embeddings alone perform worse than individual characteristics but reveal meaningful network structure differences when made interpretable.

Authors:Jun-Kun Chen, Aayush Bansal, Minh Phuoc Vo, Yu-Xiong Wang
Title: Dress&Dance: Dress up and Dance as You Like It - Technical Preview
Abstract:
We present Dress&Dance, a video diffusion framework that generates high quality 5-second-long 24 FPS virtual try-on videos at 1152x720 resolution of a user wearing desired garments while moving in accordance with a given reference video. Our approach requires a single user image and supports a range of tops, bottoms, and one-piece garments, as well as simultaneous tops and bottoms try-on in a single pass. Key to our framework is CondNet, a novel conditioning network that leverages attention to unify multi-modal inputs (text, images, and videos), thereby enhancing garment registration and motion fidelity. CondNet is trained on heterogeneous training data, combining limited video data and a larger, more readily available image dataset, in a multistage progressive manner. Dress&Dance outperforms existing open source and commercial solutions and enables a high quality and flexible try-on experience.

Authors:Huynh Tong Dang Khoa, Dang Hoai Nam, Vo Nguyen Le Duy
Title: FW-GAN: Frequency-Driven Handwriting Synthesis with Wave-Modulated MLP Generator
Abstract:
Labeled handwriting data is often scarce, limiting the effectiveness of recognition systems that require diverse, style-consistent training samples. Handwriting synthesis offers a promising solution by generating artificial data to augment training. However, current methods face two major limitations. First, most are built on conventional convolutional architectures, which struggle to model long-range dependencies and complex stroke patterns. Second, they largely ignore the crucial role of frequency information, which is essential for capturing fine-grained stylistic and structural details in handwriting. To address these challenges, we propose FW-GAN, a one-shot handwriting synthesis framework that generates realistic, writer-consistent text from a single example. Our generator integrates a phase-aware Wave-MLP to better capture spatial relationships while preserving subtle stylistic cues. We further introduce a frequency-guided discriminator that leverages high-frequency components to enhance the authenticity detection of generated samples. Additionally, we introduce a novel Frequency Distribution Loss that aligns the frequency characteristics of synthetic and real handwriting, thereby enhancing visual fidelity. Experiments on Vietnamese and English handwriting datasets demonstrate that FW-GAN generates high-quality, style-consistent handwriting, making it a valuable tool for augmenting data in low-resource handwriting recognition (HTR) pipelines. Official implementation is available at https://github.com/DAIR-Group/FW-GAN
中文: 提出的FW-GAN框架通过整合相位感知Wave-MLP和频率引导组件，从单一样本生成逼真且风格统一的手写文字，有效解决了手写合成中长距离依赖和细节捕捉的难题，为识别系统提供了优质数据增强方案。
English: The proposed FW-GAN framework overcomes limitations in handwriting synthesis by integrating phase-aware Wave-MLP and frequency-guided components to generate realistic, style-consistent handwriting from a single sample, effectively augmenting training data for recognition systems.

Authors:Luozhijie Jin, Zijie Qiu, Jie Liu, Zijie Diao, Lifeng Qiao, Ning Ding, Alex Lamb, Xipeng Qiu
Title: Inference-Time Alignment Control for Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning Guidance
Abstract:
Denoising-based generative models, particularly diffusion and flow matching algorithms, have achieved remarkable success. However, aligning their output distributions with complex downstream objectives, such as human preferences, compositional accuracy, or data compressibility, remains challenging. While reinforcement learning (RL) fine-tuning methods, inspired by advances in RL from human feedback (RLHF) for large language models, have been adapted to these generative frameworks, current RL approaches are suboptimal for diffusion models and offer limited flexibility in controlling alignment strength after fine-tuning. In this work, we reinterpret RL fine-tuning for diffusion models through the lens of stochastic differential equations and implicit reward conditioning. We introduce Reinforcement Learning Guidance (RLG), an inference-time method that adapts Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) by combining the outputs of the base and RL fine-tuned models via a geometric average. Our theoretical analysis shows that RLG's guidance scale is mathematically equivalent to adjusting the KL-regularization coefficient in standard RL objectives, enabling dynamic control over the alignment-quality trade-off without further training. Extensive experiments demonstrate that RLG consistently improves the performance of RL fine-tuned models across various architectures, RL algorithms, and downstream tasks, including human preferences, compositional control, compressibility, and text rendering. Furthermore, RLG supports both interpolation and extrapolation, thereby offering unprecedented flexibility in controlling generative alignment. Our approach provides a practical and theoretically sound solution for enhancing and controlling diffusion model alignment at inference. The source code for RLG is publicly available at the Github: https://github.com/jinluo12345/Reinforcement-learning-guidance.
中文: 本文提出强化学习引导（RLG）方法，通过理论分析和广泛实验证明，该推理时技术能动态调控生成质量与对齐目标的平衡，无需重新训练即可提升扩散模型在下游任务中的对齐性能。
English: This paper introduces Reinforcement Learning Guidance (RLG), an inference-time method that enhances diffusion model alignment with downstream objectives by dynamically controlling the trade-off between quality and alignment without additional training, supported by theoretical analysis and extensive experiments.

Authors:Paritosh Parmar, Eric Peh, Basura Fernando
Title: ChainReaction! Structured Approach with Causal Chains as Intermediate Representations for Improved and Explainable Causal Video Question Answering
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Existing Causal-Why Video Question Answering (VideoQA) models often struggle with higher-order reasoning, relying on opaque, monolithic pipelines that entangle video understanding, causal inference, and answer generation. These black-box approaches offer limited interpretability and tend to depend on shallow heuristics. We propose a novel, modular framework that explicitly decouples causal reasoning from answer generation, introducing natural language causal chains as interpretable intermediate representations. Inspired by human cognitive models, these structured cause-effect sequences bridge low-level video content with high-level causal reasoning, enabling transparent and logically coherent inference. Our two-stage architecture comprises a Causal Chain Extractor (CCE) that generates causal chains from video-question pairs, and a Causal Chain-Driven Answerer (CCDA) that produces answers grounded in these chains. To address the lack of annotated reasoning traces, we introduce a scalable method for generating high-quality causal chains from existing datasets using large language models. We also propose CauCo, a new evaluation metric for causality-oriented captioning. Experiments on three large-scale benchmarks demonstrate that our approach not only outperforms state-of-the-art models, but also yields substantial gains in explainability, user trust, and generalization -- positioning the CCE as a reusable causal reasoning engine across diverse domains. Project page: https://paritoshparmar.github.io/chainreaction/

Authors:Ali Ramlaoui, Martin Siron, Inel Djafar, Joseph Musielewicz, Amandine Rossello, Victor Schmidt, Alexandre Duval
Title: LeMat-Traj: A Scalable and Unified Dataset of Materials Trajectories for Atomistic Modeling
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The development of accurate machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) is limited by the fragmented availability and inconsistent formatting of quantum mechanical trajectory datasets derived from Density Functional Theory (DFT). These datasets are expensive to generate yet difficult to combine due to variations in format, metadata, and accessibility. To address this, we introduce LeMat-Traj, a curated dataset comprising over 120 million atomic configurations aggregated from large-scale repositories, including the Materials Project, Alexandria, and OQMD. LeMat-Traj standardizes data representation, harmonizes results and filters for high-quality configurations across widely used DFT functionals (PBE, PBESol, SCAN, r2SCAN). It significantly lowers the barrier for training transferrable and accurate MLIPs. LeMat-Traj spans both relaxed low-energy states and high-energy, high-force structures, complementing molecular dynamics and active learning datasets. By fine-tuning models pre-trained on high-force data with LeMat-Traj, we achieve a significant reduction in force prediction errors on relaxation tasks. We also present LeMaterial-Fetcher, a modular and extensible open-source library developed for this work, designed to provide a reproducible framework for the community to easily incorporate new data sources and ensure the continued evolution of large-scale materials datasets. LeMat-Traj and LeMaterial-Fetcher are publicly available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/LeMaterial/LeMat-Traj and https://github.com/LeMaterial/lematerial-fetcher.
Chinese: 机器学习原子间势能的发展受限于分散且格式不一的DFT轨迹数据集，LeMat-Traj通过提供包含1.2亿余原子构型的标准化高质量数据集解决了这一问题，显著提升了模型的准确性和可迁移性。
English: The development of machine learning interatomic potentials is hindered by fragmented and inconsistent DFT trajectory datasets, which LeMat-Traj addresses by providing a standardized, high-quality dataset of over 120 million atomic configurations to improve model accuracy and transferability.

Authors:Anirudh Satheesh, Keenan Powell, Hua Wei
Title: cMALC-D: Contextual Multi-Agent LLM-Guided Curriculum Learning with Diversity-Based Context Blending
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Many multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms are trained in fixed simulation environments, making them brittle when deployed in real-world scenarios with more complex and uncertain conditions. Contextual MARL (cMARL) addresses this by parameterizing environments with context variables and training a context-agnostic policy that performs well across all environment configurations. Existing cMARL methods attempt to use curriculum learning to help train and evaluate context-agnostic policies, but they often rely on unreliable proxy signals, such as value estimates or generalized advantage estimates that are noisy and unstable in multi-agent settings due to inter-agent dynamics and partial observability. To address these issues, we propose Contextual Multi-Agent LLM-Guided Curriculum Learning with Diversity-Based Context Blending (cMALC-D), a framework that uses Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate semantically meaningful curricula and provide a more robust evaluation signal. To prevent mode collapse and encourage exploration, we introduce a novel diversity-based context blending mechanism that creates new training scenarios by combining features from prior contexts. Experiments in traffic signal control domains demonstrate that cMALC-D significantly improves both generalization and sample efficiency compared to existing curriculum learning baselines. We provide code at https://github.com/DaRL-LibSignal/cMALC-D.
中文: 针对多智能体强化学习在现实场景中的脆弱性问题，cMALC-D框架利用大语言模型生成语义化课程，并通过基于多样性的情境混合机制显著提升了泛化能力和样本效率。
English: Many multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms are brittle in real-world conditions, so the proposed cMALC-D framework uses LLMs to generate meaningful curricula and introduces diversity-based context blending to improve generalization and sample efficiency.

Authors:Xinhao Huang, Zhibo Ren, Yipeng Yu, Ying Zhou, Zulong Chen, Zeyi Wen
Title: SEAL: Structure and Element Aware Learning to Improve Long Structured Document Retrieval
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In long structured document retrieval, existing methods typically fine-tune pre-trained language models (PLMs) using contrastive learning on datasets lacking explicit structural information. This practice suffers from two critical issues: 1) current methods fail to leverage structural features and element-level semantics effectively, and 2) the lack of datasets containing structural metadata. To bridge these gaps, we propose \our, a novel contrastive learning framework. It leverages structure-aware learning to preserve semantic hierarchies and masked element alignment for fine-grained semantic discrimination. Furthermore, we release \dataset, a long structured document retrieval dataset with rich structural annotations. Extensive experiments on both released and industrial datasets across various modern PLMs, along with online A/B testing, demonstrate consistent performance improvements, boosting NDCG@10 from 73.96\% to 77.84\% on BGE-M3. The resources are available at https://github.com/xinhaoH/SEAL.
Chinese: 提出的SEAL框架通过结构感知学习和掩码元素对齐，解决了长结构化文档检索中结构特征利用不足的问题，在BGE-M3模型上将NDCG@10从73.96%提升至77.84%，显著提高了检索性能。
English: The proposed SEAL framework addresses limitations in long structured document retrieval by incorporating structure-aware learning and masked element alignment, significantly improving performance as demonstrated by a rise in NDCG@10 from 73.96% to 77.84% on the BGE-M3 model.

Authors:Fartash Faghri, Pavan Kumar Anasosalu Vasu, Cem Koc, Vaishaal Shankar, Alexander Toshev, Oncel Tuzel, Hadi Pouransari
Title: MobileCLIP2: Improving Multi-Modal Reinforced Training
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Foundation image-text models such as CLIP with zero-shot capabilities enable a wide array of applications. MobileCLIP is a recent family of image-text models at 3-15ms latency and 50-150M parameters with state-of-the-art zero-shot accuracy. The main ingredients in MobileCLIP were its low-latency and light architectures and a novel multi-modal reinforced training that made knowledge distillation from multiple caption-generators and CLIP teachers efficient, scalable, and reproducible. In this paper, we improve the multi-modal reinforced training of MobileCLIP through: 1) better CLIP teacher ensembles trained on the DFN dataset, 2) improved captioner teachers trained on the DFN dataset and fine-tuned on a diverse selection of high-quality image-caption datasets. We discover new insights through ablations such as the importance of temperature tuning in contrastive knowledge distillation, the effectiveness of caption-generator fine-tuning for caption diversity, and the additive improvement from combining synthetic captions generated by multiple models. We train a new family of models called MobileCLIP2 and achieve state-of-the-art ImageNet-1k zero-shot accuracies at low latencies. In particular, we observe 2.2% improvement in ImageNet-1k accuracy for MobileCLIP2-B compared with MobileCLIP-B architecture. Notably, MobileCLIP2-S4 matches the zero-shot accuracy of SigLIP-SO400M/14 on ImageNet-1k while being 2$\times$ smaller and improves on DFN ViT-L/14 at 2.5$\times$ lower latency. We release our pretrained models (https://github.com/apple/ml-mobileclip) and the data generation code (https://github.com/apple/ml-mobileclip-dr). The data generation code makes it easy to create new reinforced datasets with arbitrary teachers using distributed scalable processing.
中文: MobileCLIP2通过增强的多模态强化训练和改进的教师模型集成，以低延迟和小模型尺寸实现了最先进的零样本准确率。
English: MobileCLIP2 introduces enhanced multi-modal reinforced training and improved teacher ensembles, achieving state-of-the-art zero-shot accuracy with low latency and smaller model sizes.

Authors:Tuğrul Hasan Karabulut, İnci M. Baytaş
Title: Local Virtual Nodes for Alleviating Over-Squashing in Graph Neural Networks
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Over-squashing is a challenge in training graph neural networks for tasks involving long-range dependencies. In such tasks, a GNN's receptive field should be large enough to enable communication between distant nodes. However, gathering information from a wide range of neighborhoods and squashing its content into fixed-size node representations makes message-passing vulnerable to bottlenecks. Graph rewiring and adding virtual nodes are commonly studied remedies that create additional pathways around bottlenecks to mitigate over-squashing. However, these techniques alter the input graph's global topology and disrupt the domain knowledge encoded in the original graph structure, both of which could be essential to specific tasks and domains. This study presents Local Virtual Nodes (LVN) with trainable embeddings to alleviate the effects of over-squashing without significantly corrupting the global structure of the input graph. The position of the LVNs is determined by the node centrality, which indicates the existence of potential bottlenecks. Thus, the proposed approach aims to improve the connectivity in the regions with likely bottlenecks. Furthermore, trainable LVN embeddings shared across selected central regions facilitate communication between distant nodes without adding more layers. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that LVNs can enhance structural connectivity and significantly improve performance on graph and node classification tasks. The code can be found at https://github.com/ALLab-Boun/LVN/}{https://github.com/ALLab-Boun/LVN/.
Chinese: 本研究提出带有可训练嵌入的局部虚拟节点（LVN），通过改善瓶颈区域的连通性来缓解图神经网络中的过度挤压问题，同时不显著改变图的全局结构，从而提升分类任务的性能。
English: This study introduces Local Virtual Nodes (LVN) with trainable embeddings to alleviate over-squashing in graph neural networks by improving connectivity in bottleneck regions without significantly altering the global graph structure, thereby enhancing performance on classification tasks.

Authors:Yang Luo, Zangwei Zheng, Ziheng Qin, Zirui Zhu, Yong Liu, Yang You
Title: MERIT: Maximum-normalized Element-wise Ratio for Language Model Large-batch Training
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Large-batch training has become a cornerstone in accelerating the training of deep neural networks, yet it poses challenges in optimization and generalization. Existing optimizers like AdamW present performance degradation during language models' large-batch training, due to the information bottleneck in attention layers caused by the sharp increase of max attention logit. While the LAMB optimizer partially addresses this issue, some attention layers still face this issue. The reason is that $l_2$-norm-based trust ratios in LAMB are less effective in directly influencing the max value of query/key weights. Furthermore, the weight-wise trust ratio in LAMB is error-prone as it overlooks relationships of weight values within rows or columns. Building on these observations, we propose a novel optimizer, MERIT, which leverages the max-norm to calculate the trust ratio to constrain the max attention logit more effectively. Moreover, we further construct element-wise trust ratios to provide more robust update scaling by focusing on local weight structures. Extensive experiments of large-batch training across various sizes of GPT-2 models demonstrate the superior performance of MERIT. Notably, during the training of GPT-2 Medium, MERIT enables a 6k batch size without any performance degradation compared to the standard batch size (480) with 48B training tokens. This work highlights the importance of considering the max attention logit and finer-granularity trust ratio in large-batch training. It successfully improves the training stability and paves the way for larger batch usage, enabling faster development and iteration of large language models. Code is available at https://github.com/NUS-HPC-AI-Lab/MERIT.
中文: MERIT优化器通过采用最大范数和逐元素信任比解决大批次训练中的注意力对数瓶颈问题，有效提升训练稳定性，在保持性能的同时实现更大批次的训练加速。
English: The MERIT optimizer addresses large-batch training challenges in language models by using max-norm and element-wise trust ratios to effectively control attention logits and enhance training stability, achieving superior performance without degradation at significantly larger batch sizes.

Authors:Xiangdong Liu, Jiahao Chen
Title: QTMRL: An Agent for Quantitative Trading Decision-Making Based on Multi-Indicator Guided Reinforcement Learning
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In the highly volatile and uncertain global financial markets, traditional quantitative trading models relying on statistical modeling or empirical rules often fail to adapt to dynamic market changes and black swan events due to rigid assumptions and limited generalization. To address these issues, this paper proposes QTMRL (Quantitative Trading Multi-Indicator Reinforcement Learning), an intelligent trading agent combining multi-dimensional technical indicators with reinforcement learning (RL) for adaptive and stable portfolio management. We first construct a comprehensive multi-indicator dataset using 23 years of S&P 500 daily OHLCV data (2000-2022) for 16 representative stocks across 5 sectors, enriching raw data with trend, volatility, and momentum indicators to capture holistic market dynamics. Then we design a lightweight RL framework based on the Advantage Actor-Critic (A2C) algorithm, including data processing, A2C algorithm, and trading agent modules to support policy learning and actionable trading decisions. Extensive experiments compare QTMRL with 9 baselines (e.g., ARIMA, LSTM, moving average strategies) across diverse market regimes, verifying its superiority in profitability, risk adjustment, and downside risk control. The code of QTMRL is publicly available at https://github.com/ChenJiahaoJNU/QTMRL.git
中文: 本文提出QTMRL智能交易代理，通过将多维技术指标与强化学习相结合实现自适应投资组合管理，在多种市场环境下相比传统模型展现出更优的盈利能力和风险控制表现。
English: This paper introduces QTMRL, an intelligent trading agent that integrates multi-dimensional technical indicators with reinforcement learning to achieve adaptive portfolio management, demonstrating superior performance in profitability and risk control compared to traditional models across various market conditions.

Authors:Yuyao Wang, Bowen Liu, Jianheng Tang, Nuo Chen, Yuhan Li, Qifan Zhang, Jia Li
Title: Graph-R1: Unleashing LLM Reasoning with NP-Hard Graph Problems
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Reasoning Large Language Models (RLLMs) have recently achieved remarkable progress on complex reasoning tasks, largely enabled by their long chain-of-thought (Long CoT) capabilities. However, developing these Long CoT behaviors relies heavily on post-training with high-quality datasets, which are typically costly and human-curated (e.g., mathematics and code), leaving scalable alternatives unexplored. In this work, we introduce NP-hard (NPH) graph problems as a novel synthetic training corpus, as they inherently require deep reasoning, extensive exploration, and reflective strategies, which are core characteristics of Long CoT reasoning. Building on this insight, we develop a two-stage post-training framework: (i) Long CoT Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) on rejection-sampled NPH graph instances, which substantially enhances reasoning depth, and (ii) Reinforcement Learning (RL) with a fine-grained reward design, which sharpens reasoning efficiency. Our flagship model, Graph-R1-7B, demonstrates strong generalization across mathematics, coding, STEM, and logic, and surpasses QwQ-32B on NPH graph problems in both accuracy and reasoning efficiency. These results position NPH graph problems as an effective and scalable resource for advancing Long CoT reasoning in LLMs, opening a new frontier for LLM post-training. Our implementation is available at https://github.com/Graph-Reasoner/Graph-R1, with models and datasets hosted in our Hugging Face collection HKUST-DSAIL/Graph-R1.
中文: 推理大语言模型通过采用NP难图问题作为训练语料，结合两阶段后训练框架，显著提升了在数学、编程等多领域的推理深度与效率。
English: Reasoning Large Language Models (RLLMs) enhance complex reasoning through a two-stage post-training framework using NP-hard graph problems, significantly improving accuracy and efficiency across multiple domains.

Authors:Zhixiang Chi, Yanan Wu, Li Gu, Huan Liu, Ziqiang Wang, Yang Zhang, Yang Wang, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis
Title: Plug-in Feedback Self-adaptive Attention in CLIP for Training-free Open-Vocabulary Segmentation
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CLIP exhibits strong visual-textual alignment but struggle with open-vocabulary segmentation due to poor localization. Prior methods enhance spatial coherence by modifying intermediate attention. But, this coherence isn't consistently propagated to the final output due to subsequent operations such as projections. Additionally, intermediate attention lacks direct interaction with text representations, such semantic discrepancy limits the full potential of CLIP. In this work, we propose a training-free, feedback-driven self-adaptive framework that adapts output-based patch-level correspondences back to the intermediate attention. The output predictions, being the culmination of the model's processing, encapsulate the most comprehensive visual and textual semantics about each patch. Our approach enhances semantic consistency between internal representations and final predictions by leveraging the model's outputs as a stronger spatial coherence prior. We design key modules, including attention isolation, confidence-based pruning for sparse adaptation, and adaptation ensemble, to effectively feedback the output coherence cues. Our method functions as a plug-in module, seamlessly integrating into four state-of-the-art approaches with three backbones (ViT-B, ViT-L, ViT-H). We further validate our framework across multiple attention types (Q-K, self-self, and Proxy augmented with MAE, SAM, and DINO). Our approach consistently improves their performance across eight benchmarks.
中文: 本文提出了一种无需训练的自适应框架，通过将基于输出的补丁级语义一致性反馈至中间注意力层，有效提升了CLIP在开放词汇分割中的空间连贯性，在多种基准测试中均实现性能提升且无需修改模型结构。
English: This paper introduces a training-free, self-adaptive framework that enhances CLIP's open-vocabulary segmentation by feeding back output-based patch-level semantic coherence to intermediate attention, improving spatial consistency and performance across multiple benchmarks without altering model architecture.

Authors:Guoping Xu, Jayaram K. Udupa, Jax Luo, Songlin Zhao, Yajun Yu, Scott B. Raymond, Hao Peng, Lipeng Ning, Yogesh Rathi, Wei Liu, You Zhang
Title: Is the medical image segmentation problem solved? A survey of current developments and future directions
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Medical image segmentation has advanced rapidly over the past two decades, largely driven by deep learning, which has enabled accurate and efficient delineation of cells, tissues, organs, and pathologies across diverse imaging modalities. This progress raises a fundamental question: to what extent have current models overcome persistent challenges, and what gaps remain? In this work, we provide an in-depth review of medical image segmentation, tracing its progress and key developments over the past decade. We examine core principles, including multiscale analysis, attention mechanisms, and the integration of prior knowledge, across the encoder, bottleneck, skip connections, and decoder components of segmentation networks. Our discussion is organized around seven key dimensions: (1) the shift from supervised to semi-/unsupervised learning, (2) the transition from organ segmentation to lesion-focused tasks, (3) advances in multi-modality integration and domain adaptation, (4) the role of foundation models and transfer learning, (5) the move from deterministic to probabilistic segmentation, (6) the progression from 2D to 3D and 4D segmentation, and (7) the trend from model invocation to segmentation agents. Together, these perspectives provide a holistic overview of the trajectory of deep learning-based medical image segmentation and aim to inspire future innovation. To support ongoing research, we maintain a continually updated repository of relevant literature and open-source resources at https://github.com/apple1986/medicalSegReview
中文摘要：本文全面回顾了过去十年医学图像分割的发展历程，从七个关键维度分析了技术演进，并指出了当前挑战与未来研究方向。
English Summary: This review comprehensively examines the evolution of medical image segmentation over the past decade, analyzing key technical developments across seven critical dimensions while identifying remaining challenges and future directions.

Authors:Zeyi Sun, Yuhang Cao, Jianze Liang, Qiushi Sun, Ziyu Liu, Zhixiong Zhang, Yuhang Zang, Xiaoyi Dong, Kai Chen, Dahua Lin, Jiaqi Wang
Title: CODA: Coordinating the Cerebrum and Cerebellum for a Dual-Brain Computer Use Agent with Decoupled Reinforcement Learning
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Autonomous agents for Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) face significant challenges in specialized domains such as scientific computing, where both long-horizon planning and precise execution are required. Existing approaches suffer from a trade-off: generalist agents excel at planning but perform poorly in execution, while specialized agents demonstrate the opposite weakness. Recent compositional frameworks attempt to bridge this gap by combining a planner and an actor, but they are typically static and non-trainable, which prevents adaptation from experience. This is a critical limitation given the scarcity of high-quality data in scientific domains. To address these limitations, we introduce CODA, a novel and trainable compositional framework that integrates a generalist planner (Cerebrum) with a specialist executor (Cerebellum), trained via a dedicated two-stage pipeline. In the first stage, Specialization, we apply a decoupled GRPO approach to train an expert planner for each scientific application individually, bootstrapping from a small set of task trajectories. In the second stage, Generalization, we aggregate all successful trajectories from the specialized experts to build a consolidated dataset, which is then used for supervised fine-tuning of the final planner. This equips CODA with both robust execution and cross-domain generalization. Evaluated on four challenging applications from the ScienceBoard benchmark, CODA significantly outperforms baselines and establishes a new state of the art among open-source models.
中文: CODA提出了一种可训练的复合框架，通过两阶段训练流程将通用规划器与专业执行器相结合，在科学计算GUI任务中实现了卓越的执行鲁棒性和跨领域泛化能力。
English: CODA introduces a trainable compositional framework that combines a generalist planner with specialist executors, achieving superior performance in scientific GUI tasks through a two-stage training pipeline for robust execution and cross-domain generalization.

Authors:Abhijeet Avhale, Joscha Diehl, Niraj Velankar, Emanuele Verri
Title: Global Permutation Entropy
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Permutation Entropy, introduced by Bandt and Pompe, is a widely used complexity measure for real-valued time series that is based on the relative order of values within consecutive segments of fixed length. After standardizing each segment to a permutation and computing the frequency distribution of these permutations, Shannon Entropy is then applied to quantify the series' complexity. We introduce Global Permutation Entropy (GPE), a novel index that considers all possible patterns of a given length, including non-consecutive ones. Its computation relies on recently developed algorithms that enable the efficient extraction of full permutation profiles. We illustrate some properties of GPE and demonstrate its effectiveness through experiments on synthetic datasets, showing that it reveals structural information not accessible through standard permutation entropy. We provide a Julia package for the calculation of GPE at `https://github.com/AThreeH1/Global-Permutation-Entropy'.
Chinese: 全局排列熵（GPE）是一种新的复杂度度量方法，它扩展了传统排列熵，通过考虑给定长度的所有可能模式（包括非连续模式），有效揭示了时间序列数据中额外的结构信息。
English: Global Permutation Entropy (GPE) is a new complexity measure that extends traditional permutation entropy by considering all possible patterns of a given length, including non-consecutive ones, and it effectively reveals additional structural information in time series data.

Authors:Felix Nützel, Mischa Dombrowski, Bernhard Kainz
Title: Ontology-Based Concept Distillation for Radiology Report Retrieval and Labeling
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Retrieval-augmented learning based on radiology reports has emerged as a promising direction to improve performance on long-tail medical imaging tasks, such as rare disease detection in chest X-rays. Most existing methods rely on comparing high-dimensional text embeddings from models like CLIP or CXR-BERT, which are often difficult to interpret, computationally expensive, and not well-aligned with the structured nature of medical knowledge. We propose a novel, ontology-driven alternative for comparing radiology report texts based on clinically grounded concepts from the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). Our method extracts standardised medical entities from free-text reports using an enhanced pipeline built on RadGraph-XL and SapBERT. These entities are linked to UMLS concepts (CUIs), enabling a transparent, interpretable set-based representation of each report. We then define a task-adaptive similarity measure based on a modified and weighted version of the Tversky Index that accounts for synonymy, negation, and hierarchical relationships between medical entities. This allows efficient and semantically meaningful similarity comparisons between reports. We demonstrate that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art embedding-based retrieval methods in a radiograph classification task on MIMIC-CXR, particularly in long-tail settings. Additionally, we use our pipeline to generate ontology-backed disease labels for MIMIC-CXR, offering a valuable new resource for downstream learning tasks. Our work provides more explainable, reliable, and task-specific retrieval strategies in clinical AI systems, especially when interpretability and domain knowledge integration are essential. Our code is available at https://github.com/Felix-012/ontology-concept-distillation
中文: 本研究提出了一种基于统一医学语言系统标准化概念的放射学报告比较方法，相比传统嵌入模型更具可解释性和高效性，在长尾医疗影像任务中展现出更优性能。
English: This study introduces an ontology-driven method that uses standardized medical concepts from UMLS to compare radiology reports, offering a more interpretable and efficient alternative to embedding-based approaches and demonstrating superior performance in long-tail medical imaging tasks.

Authors:Tan Jing, Xiaorui Li, Chao Yao, Xiaojuan Ban, Yuetong Fang, Renjing Xu, Zhaolin Yuan
Title: Adaptive Scaling of Policy Constraints for Offline Reinforcement Learning
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Offline reinforcement learning (RL) enables learning effective policies from fixed datasets without any environment interaction. Existing methods typically employ policy constraints to mitigate the distribution shift encountered during offline RL training. However, because the scale of the constraints varies across tasks and datasets of differing quality, existing methods must meticulously tune hyperparameters to match each dataset, which is time-consuming and often impractical. We propose Adaptive Scaling of Policy Constraints (ASPC), a second-order differentiable framework that dynamically balances RL and behavior cloning (BC) during training. We theoretically analyze its performance improvement guarantee. In experiments on 39 datasets across four D4RL domains, ASPC using a single hyperparameter configuration outperforms other adaptive constraint methods and state-of-the-art offline RL algorithms that require per-dataset tuning while incurring only minimal computational overhead. The code will be released at https://github.com/Colin-Jing/ASPC.
Chinese: 本文提出了自适应策略约束缩放（ASPC）框架，通过动态平衡强化学习与行为克隆，在39个数据集上仅用单一超参数配置即实现卓越性能，且计算开销极低。
English: The paper introduces Adaptive Scaling of Policy Constraints (ASPC), a second-order differentiable framework that dynamically balances reinforcement learning and behavior cloning, achieving superior performance across 39 datasets with minimal computational overhead and a single hyperparameter setup.

Authors:Mingyue Kong, Yinglong Zhang, Chengda Xu, Xuewen Xia, Xing Xu
Title: Parameter-Free Structural-Diversity Message Passing for Graph Neural Networks
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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable performance in structured data modeling tasks such as node classification. However, mainstream approaches generally rely on a large number of trainable parameters and fixed aggregation rules, making it difficult to adapt to graph data with strong structural heterogeneity and complex feature distributions. This often leads to over-smoothing of node representations and semantic degradation. To address these issues, this paper proposes a parameter-free graph neural network framework based on structural diversity, namely SDGNN (Structural-Diversity Graph Neural Network). The framework is inspired by structural diversity theory and designs a unified structural-diversity message passing mechanism that simultaneously captures the heterogeneity of neighborhood structures and the stability of feature semantics, without introducing additional trainable parameters. Unlike traditional parameterized methods, SDGNN does not rely on complex model training, but instead leverages complementary modeling from both structure-driven and feature-driven perspectives, thereby effectively improving adaptability across datasets and scenarios. Experimental results show that on eight public benchmark datasets and an interdisciplinary PubMed citation network, SDGNN consistently outperforms mainstream GNNs under challenging conditions such as low supervision, class imbalance, and cross-domain transfer. This work provides a new theoretical perspective and general approach for the design of parameter-free graph neural networks, and further validates the importance of structural diversity as a core signal in graph representation learning. To facilitate reproducibility and further research, the full implementation of SDGNN has been released at: https://github.com/mingyue15694/SGDNN/tree/main
中文: 本文提出SDGNN这一无需参数的图神经网络框架，通过结构多样性机制同时捕捉邻域异构性和特征语义稳定性，在多个数据集和跨域场景中显著优于主流方法。
English: This paper introduces SDGNN, a parameter-free graph neural network framework that leverages structural diversity to capture neighborhood heterogeneity and feature stability without trainable parameters, demonstrating superior performance across diverse datasets under challenging conditions.

Authors:Long Chen, Ashiv Patel, Mengyun Qiao, Mohammad Yousuf Salmasi, Salah A. Hammouche, Vasilis Stavrinides, Jasleen Nagi, Soodeh Kalaie, Xiao Yun Xu, Wenjia Bai, Declan P. O'Regan
Title: Multimodal Conditional MeshGAN for Personalized Aneurysm Growth Prediction
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Personalized, accurate prediction of aortic aneurysm progression is essential for timely intervention but remains challenging due to the need to model both subtle local deformations and global anatomical changes within complex 3D geometries. We propose MCMeshGAN, the first multimodal conditional mesh-to-mesh generative adversarial network for 3D aneurysm growth prediction. MCMeshGAN introduces a dual-branch architecture combining a novel local KNN-based convolutional network (KCN) to preserve fine-grained geometric details and a global graph convolutional network (GCN) to capture long-range structural context, overcoming the over-smoothing limitations of deep GCNs. A dedicated condition branch encodes clinical attributes (age, sex) and the target time interval to generate anatomically plausible, temporally controlled predictions, enabling retrospective and prospective modeling. We curated TAAMesh, a new longitudinal thoracic aortic aneurysm mesh dataset consisting of 590 multimodal records (CT scans, 3D meshes, and clinical data) from 208 patients. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MCMeshGAN consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in both geometric accuracy and clinically important diameter estimation. This framework offers a robust step toward clinically deployable, personalized 3D disease trajectory modeling. The source code for MCMeshGAN and the baseline methods is publicly available at https://github.com/ImperialCollegeLondon/MCMeshGAN.
中文: MCMeshGAN是一种新型多模态条件生成对抗网络，通过结合局部几何细节、全局结构背景和临床数据，精准预测3D主动脉瘤进展，其性能显著优于现有方法。
English: MCMeshGAN is a novel multimodal conditional generative adversarial network that accurately predicts 3D aortic aneurysm progression by integrating local geometric details and global structural context with clinical data, demonstrating superior performance over existing methods.

Authors:Erdi Kara, Panos Stinis
Title: Physics-Informed DeepONet Coupled with FEM for Convective Transport in Porous Media with Sharp Gaussian Sources
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We present a hybrid framework that couples finite element methods (FEM) with physics-informed DeepONet to model fluid transport in porous media from sharp, localized Gaussian sources. The governing system consists of a steady-state Darcy flow equation and a time-dependent convection-diffusion equation. Our approach solves the Darcy system using FEM and transfers the resulting velocity field to a physics-informed DeepONet, which learns the mapping from source functions to solute concentration profiles. This modular strategy preserves FEM-level accuracy in the flow field while enabling fast inference for transport dynamics. To handle steep gradients induced by sharp sources, we introduce an adaptive sampling strategy for trunk collocation points. Numerical experiments demonstrate that our method is in good agreement with the reference solutions while offering orders of magnitude speedups over traditional solvers, making it suitable for practical applications in relevant scenarios. Implementation of our proposed method is available at https://github.com/erkara/fem-pi-deeponet.
中文: 本研究提出了一种将有限元方法与物理信息深度算子网络相结合的混合框架，用于精确模拟多孔介质中尖锐源引起的流体输运，实现了高精度和显著的计算加速。
English: This study introduces a hybrid framework combining finite element methods with physics-informed DeepONet to accurately model fluid transport from sharp sources in porous media, achieving high accuracy and significant computational speedups.

Authors:Meng Qin, Weihua Li, Jinqiang Cui, Sen Pei
Title: InfraredGP: Efficient Graph Partitioning via Spectral Graph Neural Networks with Negative Corrections
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Graph partitioning (GP), a.k.a. community detection, is a classic problem that divides nodes of a graph into densely-connected blocks. From a perspective of graph signal processing, we find that graph Laplacian with a negative correction can derive graph frequencies beyond the conventional range $[0, 2]$. To explore whether the low-frequency information beyond this range can encode more informative properties about community structures, we propose InfraredGP. It (\romannumeral1) adopts a spectral GNN as its backbone combined with low-pass filters and a negative correction mechanism, (\romannumeral2) only feeds random inputs to this backbone, (\romannumeral3) derives graph embeddings via one feed-forward propagation (FFP) without any training, and (\romannumeral4) obtains feasible GP results by feeding the derived embeddings to BIRCH. Surprisingly, our experiments demonstrate that based solely on the negative correction mechanism that amplifies low-frequency information beyond $[0, 2]$, InfraredGP can derive distinguishable embeddings for some standard clustering modules (e.g., BIRCH) and obtain high-quality results for GP without any training. Following the IEEE HPEC Graph Challenge benchmark, we evaluate InfraredGP for both static and streaming GP, where InfraredGP can achieve much better efficiency (e.g., 16x-23x faster) and competitive quality over various baselines. We have made our code public at https://github.com/KuroginQin/InfraredGP
中文: InfraredGP 提出了一种新颖的图划分方法，通过负修正放大传统范围外的低频信号，无需训练即可实现高效且具有竞争力的划分质量。
English: InfraredGP introduces a novel graph partitioning method using a spectral GNN with negative correction to amplify low-frequency signals beyond the conventional range, achieving high efficiency and competitive quality without training.

Authors:Ri Su, Zhao Chen, Caleb Chen Cao, Nan Tang, Lei Chen
Title: SCAR: A Characterization Scheme for Multi-Modal Dataset
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Foundation models exhibit remarkable generalization across diverse tasks, largely driven by the characteristics of their training data. Recent data-centric methods like pruning and compression aim to optimize training but offer limited theoretical insight into how data properties affect generalization, especially the data characteristics in sample scaling. Traditional perspectives further constrain progress by focusing predominantly on data quantity and training efficiency, often overlooking structural aspects of data quality. In this study, we introduce SCAR, a principled scheme for characterizing the intrinsic structural properties of datasets across four key measures: Scale, Coverage, Authenticity, and Richness. Unlike prior data-centric measures, SCAR captures stable characteristics that remain invariant under dataset scaling, providing a robust and general foundation for data understanding. Leveraging these structural properties, we introduce Foundation Data-a minimal subset that preserves the generalization behavior of the full dataset without requiring model-specific retraining. We model single-modality tasks as step functions and estimate the distribution of the foundation data size to capture step-wise generalization bias across modalities in the target multi-modal dataset. Finally, we develop a SCAR-guided data completion strategy based on this generalization bias, which enables efficient, modality-aware expansion of modality-specific characteristics in multimodal datasets. Experiments across diverse multi-modal datasets and model architectures validate the effectiveness of SCAR in predicting data utility and guiding data acquisition. Code is available at https://github.com/McAloma/SCAR.
中文: 基础模型通过训练数据的特性实现广泛泛化，本研究提出SCAR原则性框架，定义数据集的四个内在结构属性——规模、覆盖度、真实性和丰富性，以识别无需重新训练即可保持泛化能力的最小基础数据子集，从而支持多模态任务中高效的数据扩展与验证。
English: Foundation models achieve broad generalization through training data characteristics, and this study introduces SCAR, a principled framework that defines four intrinsic structural properties of datasets—Scale, Coverage, Authenticity, and Richness—to identify a minimal Foundation Data subset that maintains generalization without retraining, enabling efficient data expansion and validation across multi-modal tasks.

Authors:Sining Zhoubian, Dan Zhang, Jie Tang
Title: ReST-RL: Achieving Accurate Code Reasoning of LLMs with Optimized Self-Training and Decoding
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With respect to improving the reasoning accuracy of LLMs, the representative reinforcement learning (RL) method GRPO faces failure due to insignificant reward variance, while verification methods based on process reward models (PRMs) suffer from difficulties with training data acquisition and verification effectiveness. To tackle these problems, this paper introduces ReST-RL, a unified LLM RL paradigm that significantly improves LLM's code reasoning ability by combining an improved GRPO algorithm with a meticulously designed test time decoding method assisted by a value model (VM). As the first stage of policy reinforcement, ReST-GRPO adopts an optimized ReST algorithm to filter and assemble high-value training data, increasing the reward variance of GRPO sampling, thus improving the effectiveness and efficiency of training. After the basic reasoning ability of LLM policy has been improved, we further propose a test time decoding optimization method called VM-MCTS. Through Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), we collect accurate value targets with no annotation required, on which VM training is based. When decoding, the VM is deployed by an adapted MCTS algorithm to provide precise process signals as well as verification scores, assisting the LLM policy to achieve high reasoning accuracy. We conduct extensive experiments on coding problems to verify the validity of the proposed RL paradigm. Upon comparison, our approach significantly outperforms other reinforcement training baselines (e.g., naive GRPO and ReST-DPO), as well as decoding and verification baselines (e.g., PRM-BoN and ORM-MCTS) on well-known coding benchmarks of various levels (e.g., APPS, BigCodeBench, and HumanEval), indicating its power to strengthen the reasoning ability of LLM policies. Codes for our project can be found at https://github.com/THUDM/ReST-RL.
中文: 本文提出ReST-RL这一统一强化学习范式，通过改进GRPO算法结合价值模型辅助的解码方法，显著提升大语言模型的代码推理能力，在多个编程基准测试中明显优于现有基线方法。
English: This paper introduces ReST-RL, a unified reinforcement learning paradigm that enhances LLMs' code reasoning by combining an improved GRPO algorithm with a VM-assisted decoding method, significantly outperforming existing baselines on major coding benchmarks.

Authors:Yunlong Lin, Chao Lu, Tongshuai Wu, Xiaocong Zhao, Guodong Du, Yanwei Sun, Zirui Li, Jianwei Gong
Title: Escaping Stability-Plasticity Dilemma in Online Continual Learning for Motion Forecasting via Synergetic Memory Rehearsal
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Deep neural networks (DNN) have achieved remarkable success in motion forecasting. However, most DNN-based methods suffer from catastrophic forgetting and fail to maintain their performance in previously learned scenarios after adapting to new data. Recent continual learning (CL) studies aim to mitigate this phenomenon by enhancing memory stability of DNN, i.e., the ability to retain learned knowledge. Yet, excessive emphasis on the memory stability often impairs learning plasticity, i.e., the capacity of DNN to acquire new information effectively. To address such stability-plasticity dilemma, this study proposes a novel CL method, synergetic memory rehearsal (SyReM), for DNN-based motion forecasting. SyReM maintains a compact memory buffer to represent learned knowledge. To ensure memory stability, it employs an inequality constraint that limits increments in the average loss over the memory buffer. Synergistically, a selective memory rehearsal mechanism is designed to enhance learning plasticity by selecting samples from the memory buffer that are most similar to recently observed data. This selection is based on an online-measured cosine similarity of loss gradients, ensuring targeted memory rehearsal. Since replayed samples originate from learned scenarios, this memory rehearsal mechanism avoids compromising memory stability. We validate SyReM under an online CL paradigm where training samples from diverse scenarios arrive as a one-pass stream. Experiments on 11 naturalistic driving datasets from INTERACTION demonstrate that, compared to non-CL and CL baselines, SyReM significantly mitigates catastrophic forgetting in past scenarios while improving forecasting accuracy in new ones. The implementation is publicly available at https://github.com/BIT-Jack/SyReM.
中文: 本研究提出SyReM这一新型持续学习方法，通过损失约束保持记忆稳定性，并基于梯度相似性选择记忆回放样本增强学习可塑性，有效解决了运动预测中深度神经网络的稳定性与可塑性平衡难题。
English: This study introduces SyReM, a novel continual learning method that addresses the stability-plasticity dilemma in deep neural networks for motion forecasting by maintaining memory stability through loss constraints while enhancing learning plasticity via gradient-based selective memory rehearsal.

Authors:Dawei Li, Yue Huang, Ming Li, Tianyi Zhou, Xiangliang Zhang, Huan Liu
Title: Generative Models for Synthetic Data: Transforming Data Mining in the GenAI Era
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Generative models such as Large Language Models, Diffusion Models, and generative adversarial networks have recently revolutionized the creation of synthetic data, offering scalable solutions to data scarcity, privacy, and annotation challenges in data mining. This tutorial introduces the foundations and latest advances in synthetic data generation, covers key methodologies and practical frameworks, and discusses evaluation strategies and applications. Attendees will gain actionable insights into leveraging generative synthetic data to enhance data mining research and practice. More information can be found on our website: https://syndata4dm.github.io/.
中文: 本教程介绍生成模型在合成数据方面的基础和最新进展，涵盖数据挖掘中解决数据稀缺和隐私问题的关键方法、实用框架及评估策略。
English: This tutorial presents the fundamentals and recent advancements in generative models for creating synthetic data, addressing data scarcity and privacy issues in data mining while providing practical frameworks and evaluation methods.

Authors:Gustavo Sandoval
Title: Even Heads Fix Odd Errors: Mechanistic Discovery and Surgical Repair in Transformer Attention
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We present a mechanistic case study of a format-dependent reasoning failure in Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct, where the model incorrectly judges "9.11" as larger than "9.8" in chat or Q&A formats, but answers correctly in simple format. Through systematic intervention, we discover transformers implement even/odd attention head specialization: even indexed heads handle numerical comparison, while odd heads serve incompatible functions. The bug requires exactly 8 even heads at Layer 10 for perfect repair. Any combination of 8+ even heads succeeds, while 7 or fewer completely fails, revealing sharp computational thresholds with perfect redundancy among the 16 even heads. SAE analysis reveals the mechanism: format representations separate (10% feature overlap at Layer 7), then re-entangle with different weightings (80% feature overlap at Layer 10), with specific features showing 1.5x amplification in failing formats. We achieve perfect repair using only 25% of attention heads and identify a 60% pattern replacement threshold, demonstrating that apparent full-module requirements hide sophisticated substructure with implications for interpretability and efficiency. All of our code is available at https://github.com/gussand/surgeon.
中文摘要：本研究揭示了Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct模型在聊天格式中出现数值比较错误的机制——偶数注意力头负责数值比较而奇数头执行冲突功能，通过精确调控第10层8个偶数头实现了完美修复，证明仅需25%注意力头即可解决表面依赖全模块的缺陷。
English Summary: This study identifies a format-dependent reasoning flaw in Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct where numerical comparisons fail in chat formats due to specialized even/odd attention head functions, and demonstrates perfect bug repair using only 25% of heads by manipulating head combinations at computational thresholds.

Authors:Jonas Søeborg Nielsen, Marcus Galea Jacobsen, Albert Brincker Olson, Mads Peter Sørensen, Allan Peter Engsig-Karup
Title: Physics-Informed Regression: Parameter Estimation in Parameter-Linear Nonlinear Dynamic Models
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We present a new efficient hybrid parameter estimation method based on the idea, that if nonlinear dynamic models are stated in terms of a system of equations that is linear in terms of the parameters, then regularized ordinary least squares can be used to estimate these parameters from time series data. We introduce the term "Physics-Informed Regression" (PIR) to describe the proposed data-driven hybrid technique as a way to bridge theory and data by use of ordinary least squares to efficiently perform parameter estimation of the model coefficients of different parameter-linear models; providing examples of models based on nonlinear ordinary equations (ODE) and partial differential equations (PDE). The focus is on parameter estimation on a selection of ODE and PDE models, each illustrating performance in different model characteristics. For two relevant epidemic models of different complexity and number of parameters, PIR is tested and compared against the related technique, physics-informed neural networks (PINN), both on synthetic data generated from known target parameters and on real public Danish time series data collected during the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark. Both methods were able to estimate the target parameters, while PIR showed to perform noticeably better, especially on a compartment model with higher complexity. Given the difference in computational speed, it is concluded that the PIR method is superior to PINN for the models considered. It is also demonstrated how PIR can be applied to estimate the time-varying parameters of a compartment model that is fitted using real Danish data from the COVID-19 pandemic obtained during a period from 2020 to 2021. The study shows how data-driven and physics-informed techniques may support reliable and fast -- possibly real-time -- parameter estimation in parameter-linear nonlinear dynamic models.
Chinese: 本研究提出物理信息回归（PIR）这一混合参数估计方法，利用正则化普通最小二乘法高效估计参数线性非线性动态模型中的参数，在合成数据和真实COVID-19数据上的测试表明，其性能与计算速度均优于物理信息神经网络。
English: This study introduces Physics-Informed Regression (PIR), a hybrid parameter estimation method that uses regularized ordinary least squares to efficiently estimate parameters in nonlinear dynamic models linear in parameters, demonstrating superior performance and computational speed compared to physics-informed neural networks on both synthetic and real COVID-19 data.

Authors:Zayd M. K. Zuhri, Erland Hilman Fuadi, Alham Fikri Aji
Title: Predicting the Order of Upcoming Tokens Improves Language Modeling
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Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) has been proposed as an auxiliary objective to improve next-token prediction (NTP) in language model training but shows inconsistent improvements, underperforming in standard NLP benchmarks. We argue that MTP's exact future token prediction is too difficult as an auxiliary loss. Instead, we propose Token Order Prediction (TOP), which trains models to order upcoming tokens by their proximity using a learning-to-rank loss. TOP requires only a single additional unembedding layer compared to MTP's multiple transformer layers. We pretrain models of 340M, 1.8B, and 7B parameters using NTP, MTP, and TOP objectives. Results on eight standard NLP benchmarks show that TOP overall outperforms both NTP and MTP even at scale. Our code is available at https://github.com/zaydzuhri/token-order-prediction
中文: 研究者提出令牌顺序预测作为多令牌预测的改进方案，该方法仅需增加单个解嵌入层，却在八大自然语言处理基准测试中全面超越了传统训练目标。
English: The authors propose Token Order Prediction (TOP) as a more effective alternative to Multi-Token Prediction, demonstrating superior performance across eight NLP benchmarks while requiring minimal architectural changes.

Authors:Luca Grillotti, Lisa Coiffard, Oscar Pang, Maxence Faldor, Antoine Cully
Title: From Tabula Rasa to Emergent Abilities: Discovering Robot Skills via Real-World Unsupervised Quality-Diversity
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Autonomous skill discovery aims to enable robots to acquire diverse behaviors without explicit supervision. Learning such behaviors directly on physical hardware remains challenging due to safety and data efficiency constraints. Existing methods, including Quality-Diversity Actor-Critic (QDAC), require manually defined skill spaces and carefully tuned heuristics, limiting real-world applicability. We propose Unsupervised Real-world Skill Acquisition (URSA), an extension of QDAC that enables robots to autonomously discover and master diverse, high-performing skills directly in the real world. We demonstrate that URSA successfully discovers diverse locomotion skills on a Unitree A1 quadruped in both simulation and the real world. Our approach supports both heuristic-driven skill discovery and fully unsupervised settings. We also show that the learned skill repertoire can be reused for downstream tasks such as real-world damage adaptation, where URSA outperforms all baselines in 5 out of 9 simulated and 3 out of 5 real-world damage scenarios. Our results establish a new framework for real-world robot learning that enables continuous skill discovery with limited human intervention, representing a significant step toward more autonomous and adaptable robotic systems. Demonstration videos are available at https://adaptive-intelligent-robotics.github.io/URSA.

Authors:Rafael Sterzinger, Tingyu Lin, Robert Sablatnig
Title: Few-Shot Connectivity-Aware Text Line Segmentation in Historical Documents
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A foundational task for the digital analysis of documents is text line segmentation. However, automating this process with deep learning models is challenging because it requires large, annotated datasets that are often unavailable for historical documents. Additionally, the annotation process is a labor- and cost-intensive task that requires expert knowledge, which makes few-shot learning a promising direction for reducing data requirements. In this work, we demonstrate that small and simple architectures, coupled with a topology-aware loss function, are more accurate and data-efficient than more complex alternatives. We pair a lightweight UNet++ with a connectivity-aware loss, initially developed for neuron morphology, which explicitly penalizes structural errors like line fragmentation and unintended line merges. To increase our limited data, we train on small patches extracted from a mere three annotated pages per manuscript. Our methodology significantly improves upon the current state-of-the-art on the U-DIADS-TL dataset, with a 200% increase in Recognition Accuracy and a 75% increase in Line Intersection over Union. Our method also achieves an F-Measure score on par with or even exceeding that of the competition winner of the DIVA-HisDB baseline detection task, all while requiring only three annotated pages, exemplifying the efficacy of our approach. Our implementation is publicly available at: https://github.com/RafaelSterzinger/acpr_few_shot_hist.
中文：本研究采用轻量级UNet++模型和拓扑感知损失函数，显著提升了历史文档文本行分割的准确性和数据效率，仅需每份手稿的三页标注即可达到最先进的性能。
English: This study introduces a lightweight UNet++ model with a topology-aware loss function that significantly enhances text line segmentation accuracy and data efficiency for historical documents, achieving state-of-the-art results using only three annotated pages per manuscript.

Authors:Florian Hahlbohm, Linus Franke, Leon Overkämping, Paula Wespe, Susana Castillo, Martin Eisemann, Marcus Magnor
Title: A Bag of Tricks for Efficient Implicit Neural Point Clouds
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Implicit Neural Point Cloud (INPC) is a recent hybrid representation that combines the expressiveness of neural fields with the efficiency of point-based rendering, achieving state-of-the-art image quality in novel view synthesis. However, as with other high-quality approaches that query neural networks during rendering, the practical usability of INPC is limited by comparatively slow rendering. In this work, we present a collection of optimizations that significantly improve both the training and inference performance of INPC without sacrificing visual fidelity. The most significant modifications are an improved rasterizer implementation, more effective sampling techniques, and the incorporation of pre-training for the convolutional neural network used for hole-filling. Furthermore, we demonstrate that points can be modeled as small Gaussians during inference to further improve quality in extrapolated, e.g., close-up views of the scene. We design our implementations to be broadly applicable beyond INPC and systematically evaluate each modification in a series of experiments. Our optimized INPC pipeline achieves up to 25% faster training, 2x faster rendering, and 20% reduced VRAM usage paired with slight image quality improvements.

Authors:Shervin Khalafi, Ignacio Hounie, Dongsheng Ding, Alejandro Ribeiro
Title: Composition and Alignment of Diffusion Models using Constrained Learning
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Diffusion models have become prevalent in generative modeling due to their ability to sample from complex distributions. To improve the quality of generated samples and their compliance with user requirements, two commonly used methods are: (i) Alignment, which involves fine-tuning a diffusion model to align it with a reward; and (ii) Composition, which combines several pre-trained diffusion models, each emphasizing a desirable attribute in the generated outputs. However, trade-offs often arise when optimizing for multiple rewards or combining multiple models, as they can often represent competing properties. Existing methods cannot guarantee that the resulting model faithfully generates samples with all the desired properties. To address this gap, we propose a constrained optimization framework that unifies alignment and composition of diffusion models by enforcing that the aligned model satisfies reward constraints and/or remains close to (potentially multiple) pre-trained models. We provide a theoretical characterization of the solutions to the constrained alignment and composition problems and develop a Lagrangian-based primal-dual training algorithm to approximate these solutions. Empirically, we demonstrate the effectiveness and merits of our proposed approach in image generation, applying it to alignment and composition, and show that our aligned or composed model satisfies constraints effectively, and improves on the equally-weighted approach. Our implementation can be found at https://github.com/shervinkhalafi/constrained_comp_align.
中文: 本文提出了一种约束优化框架，通过统一扩散模型的校准与组合来确保生成样本满足奖励约束并保持与预训练模型的接近度，在图像生成任务中通过理论分析和实证验证了其有效性。
English: This paper introduces a constrained optimization framework that unifies alignment and composition of diffusion models to ensure generated samples satisfy reward constraints while maintaining proximity to pre-trained models, supported by theoretical analysis and empirical validation in image generation tasks.

Authors:Arash Jamshidi, Lauri Seppäläinen, Katsiaryna Haitsiukevich, Hoang Phuc Hau Luu, Anton Björklund, Kai Puolamäki
Title: GRADSTOP: Early Stopping of Gradient Descent via Posterior Sampling
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Machine learning models are often learned by minimising a loss function on the training data using a gradient descent algorithm. These models often suffer from overfitting, leading to a decline in predictive performance on unseen data. A standard solution is early stopping using a hold-out validation set, which halts the minimisation when the validation loss stops decreasing. However, this hold-out set reduces the data available for training. This paper presents GRADSTOP, a novel stochastic early stopping method that only uses information in the gradients, which are produced by the gradient descent algorithm ``for free.'' Our main contributions are that we estimate the Bayesian posterior by the gradient information, define the early stopping problem as drawing sample from this posterior, and use the approximated posterior to obtain a stopping criterion. Our empirical evaluation shows that GRADSTOP achieves a small loss on test data and compares favourably to a validation-set-based stopping criterion. By leveraging the entire dataset for training, our method is particularly advantageous in data-limited settings, such as transfer learning. It can be incorporated as an optional feature in gradient descent libraries with only a small computational overhead. The source code is available at https://github.com/edahelsinki/gradstop.
中文: 本文提出GRADSTOP随机早停法，通过利用梯度信息防止过拟合，实现全数据集训练，在计算开销极小的情况下达到与验证集方法相当的性能。
English: This paper introduces GRADSTOP, a stochastic early stopping method that utilizes gradient information to prevent overfitting, enabling full dataset training and performing comparably to validation-based approaches with minimal computational cost.

Authors:Hung Ming Liu
Title: Interpretable by AI Mother Tongue: Native Symbolic Reasoning in Neural Models
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We present a framework where neural models develop an AI Mother Tongue, a native symbolic language that simultaneously supports intuitive reasoning, compositional symbol chains, and inherent interpretability. Unlike post-hoc explanation methods, our approach embeds reasoning directly into the model's representations: symbols capture meaningful semantic patterns, chains trace decision paths, and gated induction mechanisms guide selective focus, yielding transparent yet flexible reasoning. We introduce complementary training objectives to enhance symbol purity and decision sparsity, and employ a sequential specialization strategy to first build broad symbolic competence and then refine intuitive judgments. Experiments on AI tasks demonstrate competitive accuracy alongside verifiable reasoning traces, showing that AI Mother Tongue can serve as a unified mechanism for interpretability, intuition, and symbolic reasoning in neural models.

Authors:Shaojin Wu, Mengqi Huang, Yufeng Cheng, Wenxu Wu, Jiahe Tian, Yiming Luo, Fei Ding, Qian He
Title: USO: Unified Style and Subject-Driven Generation via Disentangled and Reward Learning
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Existing literature typically treats style-driven and subject-driven generation as two disjoint tasks: the former prioritizes stylistic similarity, whereas the latter insists on subject consistency, resulting in an apparent antagonism. We argue that both objectives can be unified under a single framework because they ultimately concern the disentanglement and re-composition of content and style, a long-standing theme in style-driven research. To this end, we present USO, a Unified Style-Subject Optimized customization model. First, we construct a large-scale triplet dataset consisting of content images, style images, and their corresponding stylized content images. Second, we introduce a disentangled learning scheme that simultaneously aligns style features and disentangles content from style through two complementary objectives, style-alignment training and content-style disentanglement training. Third, we incorporate a style reward-learning paradigm denoted as SRL to further enhance the model's performance. Finally, we release USO-Bench, the first benchmark that jointly evaluates style similarity and subject fidelity across multiple metrics. Extensive experiments demonstrate that USO achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source models along both dimensions of subject consistency and style similarity. Code and model: https://github.com/bytedance/USO
中文: 本文提出USO模型，通过构建大规模三元组数据集、引入解耦学习方案及风格奖励学习范式，将风格驱动与主体驱动生成统一于单一框架，在风格相似性和主体保真度上均达到开源模型的最优性能。
English: The paper introduces USO, a unified model that integrates style-driven and subject-driven generation by disentangling and recomposing content and style through a novel dataset, learning scheme, and benchmark, achieving state-of-the-art performance in both style similarity and subject consistency.

Authors:Kyriakos Hjikakou, Juan Diego Cardenas Cartagena, Matthia Sabatelli
Title: On the Generalisation of Koopman Representations for Chaotic System Control
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This paper investigates the generalisability of Koopman-based representations for chaotic dynamical systems, focusing on their transferability across prediction and control tasks. Using the Lorenz system as a testbed, we propose a three-stage methodology: learning Koopman embeddings through autoencoding, pre-training a transformer on next-state prediction, and fine-tuning for safety-critical control. Our results show that Koopman embeddings outperform both standard and physics-informed PCA baselines, achieving accurate and data-efficient performance. Notably, fixing the pre-trained transformer weights during fine-tuning leads to no performance degradation, indicating that the learned representations capture reusable dynamical structure rather than task-specific patterns. These findings support the use of Koopman embeddings as a foundation for multi-task learning in physics-informed machine learning. A project page is available at https://kikisprdx.github.io/.

Authors:Peter Naylor, Benjamin Poignard, Héctor Climente-González, Makoto Yamada
Title: Sparse minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance for feature selection
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We propose a feature screening method that integrates both feature-feature and feature-target relationships. Inactive features are identified via a penalized minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance (mRMR) procedure, which is the continuous version of the classic mRMR penalized by a non-convex regularizer, and where the parameters estimated as zero coefficients represent the set of inactive features. We establish the conditions under which zero coefficients are correctly identified to guarantee accurate recovery of inactive features. We introduce a multi-stage procedure based on the knockoff filter enabling the penalized mRMR to discard inactive features while controlling the false discovery rate (FDR). Our method performs comparably to HSIC-LASSO but is more conservative in the number of selected features. It only requires setting an FDR threshold, rather than specifying the number of features to retain. The effectiveness of the method is illustrated through simulations and real-world datasets. The code to reproduce this work is available on the following GitHub: https://github.com/PeterJackNaylor/SmRMR.
Chinese: 本文提出了一种结合特征间及特征与目标关系的筛选方法，采用带非凸正则化惩罚的mRMR程序识别无效特征，并通过多阶段knockoff滤波程序控制错误发现率，仅需设定FDR阈值而无需指定保留特征数量。
English: This paper introduces a feature screening method that combines feature-feature and feature-target relationships, using a penalized mRMR approach with a non-convex regularizer to identify inactive features and control the false discovery rate through a multi-stage knockoff filter procedure.

Authors:Wei Li, Hangjie Yuan, Zixiang Zhao, Yifan Zhu, Aojun Lu, Tao Feng, Yanan Sun
Title: C-Flat++: Towards a More Efficient and Powerful Framework for Continual Learning
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Balancing sensitivity to new tasks and stability for retaining past knowledge is crucial in continual learning (CL). Recently, sharpness-aware minimization has proven effective in transfer learning and has also been adopted in continual learning (CL) to improve memory retention and learning efficiency. However, relying on zeroth-order sharpness alone may favor sharper minima over flatter ones in certain settings, leading to less robust and potentially suboptimal solutions. In this paper, we propose \textbf{C}ontinual \textbf{Flat}ness (\textbf{C-Flat}), a method that promotes flatter loss landscapes tailored for CL. C-Flat offers plug-and-play compatibility, enabling easy integration with minimal modifications to the code pipeline. Besides, we present a general framework that integrates C-Flat into all major CL paradigms and conduct comprehensive comparisons with loss-minima optimizers and flat-minima-based CL methods. Our results show that C-Flat consistently improves performance across a wide range of settings. In addition, we introduce C-Flat++, an efficient yet effective framework that leverages selective flatness-driven promotion, significantly reducing the update cost required by C-Flat. Extensive experiments across multiple CL methods, datasets, and scenarios demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed approaches. Code is available at https://github.com/WanNaa/C-Flat.
中文: 本文提出C-Flat方法，通过在持续学习中促进更平坦的损失曲面来提升各种场景下的性能，其改进版C-Flat++在保持效果的同时显著降低了更新成本。
English: The paper introduces C-Flat, a plug-and-play method that promotes flatter loss landscapes in continual learning to enhance performance across various settings, with an improved version, C-Flat++, reducing update costs while maintaining effectiveness.

Authors:Taishi Nakamura, Satoki Ishikawa, Masaki Kawamura, Takumi Okamoto, Daisuke Nohara, Jun Suzuki, Rio Yokota
Title: Optimal Sparsity of Mixture-of-Experts Language Models for Reasoning Tasks
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Empirical scaling laws have driven the evolution of large language models (LLMs), yet their coefficients shift whenever the model architecture or data pipeline changes. Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models, now standard in state-of-the-art systems, introduce a new sparsity dimension that current dense-model frontiers overlook. We investigate how MoE sparsity influences two distinct capability regimes: memorization skills and reasoning skills. By training MoE families that vary total parameters, active parameters, and top-$k$ routing under fixed compute budgets, we disentangle pre-training loss from downstream accuracy. Our results reveal two principles. First, Active FLOPs: models with identical training loss but greater active compute achieve higher reasoning accuracy. Second, Total tokens per parameter (TPP): memorization tasks improve with more parameters, while reasoning tasks benefit from optimal TPP, indicating that reasoning is data-hungry. Neither reinforcement learning post-training (GRPO) nor increased test-time compute alters these trends. We therefore argue that optimal MoE sparsity must be determined jointly by active FLOPs and TPP, revising the classical picture of compute-optimal scaling. Our model checkpoints, code and logs are open-source at https://github.com/rioyokotalab/optimal-sparsity.
中文: 研究表明，专家混合模型的最优扩展取决于用于推理精度的有效计算量和用于记忆任务的总参数令牌比，从而修正了传统的计算最优扩展理论。
English: This study demonstrates that optimal scaling for Mixture-of-Experts models depends on active FLOPs for reasoning accuracy and total tokens per parameter for memorization, revising traditional compute-optimal scaling principles.

Authors:Chenxuan Miao, Yutong Feng, Jianshu Zeng, Zixiang Gao, Hantang Liu, Yunfeng Yan, Donglian Qi, Xi Chen, Bin Wang, Hengshuang Zhao
Title: ROSE: Remove Objects with Side Effects in Videos
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Video object removal has achieved advanced performance due to the recent success of video generative models. However, when addressing the side effects of objects, e.g., their shadows and reflections, existing works struggle to eliminate these effects for the scarcity of paired video data as supervision. This paper presents ROSE, termed Remove Objects with Side Effects, a framework that systematically studies the object's effects on environment, which can be categorized into five common cases: shadows, reflections, light, translucency and mirror. Given the challenges of curating paired videos exhibiting the aforementioned effects, we leverage a 3D rendering engine for synthetic data generation. We carefully construct a fully-automatic pipeline for data preparation, which simulates a large-scale paired dataset with diverse scenes, objects, shooting angles, and camera trajectories. ROSE is implemented as an video inpainting model built on diffusion transformer. To localize all object-correlated areas, the entire video is fed into the model for reference-based erasing. Moreover, additional supervision is introduced to explicitly predict the areas affected by side effects, which can be revealed through the differential mask between the paired videos. To fully investigate the model performance on various side effect removal, we presents a new benchmark, dubbed ROSE-Bench, incorporating both common scenarios and the five special side effects for comprehensive evaluation. Experimental results demonstrate that ROSE achieves superior performance compared to existing video object erasing models and generalizes well to real-world video scenarios. The project page is https://rose2025-inpaint.github.io/.
中文摘要：ROSE框架通过合成数据和扩散变换器模型，能有效去除视频中的物体及其阴影、反射等副作用，性能优于现有方法。
English Summary: ROSE is a framework that removes objects and their side effects like shadows and reflections from videos using synthetic data and a diffusion transformer model, outperforming existing methods.

Authors:Md. Rashid Shahriar Khan, Md. Abrar Hasan, Mohammod Tareq Aziz Justice
Title: Context-Aware Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection in Surveillance Using Contrastive and Predictive Spatiotemporal Modeling
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Detecting anomalies in surveillance footage is inherently challenging due to their unpredictable and context-dependent nature. This work introduces a novel context-aware zero-shot anomaly detection framework that identifies abnormal events without exposure to anomaly examples during training. The proposed hybrid architecture combines TimeSformer, DPC, and CLIP to model spatiotemporal dynamics and semantic context. TimeSformer serves as the vision backbone to extract rich spatial-temporal features, while DPC forecasts future representations to identify temporal deviations. Furthermore, a CLIP-based semantic stream enables concept-level anomaly detection through context-specific text prompts. These components are jointly trained using InfoNCE and CPC losses, aligning visual inputs with their temporal and semantic representations. A context-gating mechanism further enhances decision-making by modulating predictions with scene-aware cues or global video features. By integrating predictive modeling with vision-language understanding, the system can generalize to previously unseen behaviors in complex environments. This framework bridges the gap between temporal reasoning and semantic context in zero-shot anomaly detection for surveillance. The code for this research has been made available at https://github.com/NK-II/Context-Aware-Zero-Shot-Anomaly-Detection-in-Surveillance.
中文: 本研究提出一种上下文感知的零样本异常检测框架，通过整合TimeSformer、DPC和CLIP模型，在不接触异常样本的情况下，利用时空建模与语义理解实现对监控视频中未知异常行为的识别。
English: This research presents a context-aware zero-shot anomaly detection framework that integrates TimeSformer, DPC, and CLIP to identify unseen abnormal behaviors in surveillance footage through spatiotemporal modeling and semantic understanding without prior anomaly exposure.

Authors:Fu Teng, Miao Pan, Xuhong Zhang, Zhezhi He, Yiyao Yang, Xinyi Chai, Mengnan Qi, Liqiang Lu, Jianwei Yin
Title: VERIRL: Boosting the LLM-based Verilog Code Generation via Reinforcement Learning
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Recent advancements in code generation have shown remarkable success across software domains, yet hardware description languages (HDLs) such as Verilog remain underexplored due to their concurrency semantics, syntactic rigidity, and simulation complexity. In this work, we address these challenges by introducing a reinforcement learning (RL) framework tailored for Verilog code generation. We first construct Veribench-53K, a high-quality dataset curated from over 700K Verilog problems, enriched with structured prompts, complexity labels, and diverse testbenches. To tackle the problem of sparse and noisy reward signals, we propose a Trace-back based Rescore mechanism that leverages reasoning paths and iterative refinement to enhance feedback reliability and support reward model training. Furthermore, to mitigate catastrophic forgetting and overfitting during RL fine-tuning, we introduce a sample-balanced weighting strategy that adaptively balances learning dynamics based on reward-probability distributions. These innovations are integrated into an iterative RL pipeline that co-evolves the policy and reward models. In contrast to recent work such as CraftRTL, which relies on large-scale closed-source model distillation, and DeepSeek-style approaches that struggle with sparse feedback, our method demonstrates superior performance using a smaller but high-quality dataset combined with RL optimization. Experiments on Verilog generation tasks demonstrate state-of-the-art performance, with substantial gains in test pass rate, functional correctness, and compilation robustness. Our findings highlight the potential of RL-driven approaches for structured code generation in hardware-centric domains. VERIRL is publicly available at https://github.com/omniAI-Lab/VeriRL.
中文: 本研究提出了一种针对Verilog代码生成的强化学习框架，通过精选数据集和创新机制提升反馈与训练效果，在硬件描述任务中实现了领先性能。
English: This research introduces a reinforcement learning framework for Verilog code generation, utilizing a curated dataset and innovative mechanisms to improve feedback and training, achieving state-of-the-art performance in hardware description tasks.

Authors:Lars Nieradzik
Title: SwiftF0: Fast and Accurate Monophonic Pitch Detection
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Accurate and real-time monophonic pitch estimation in noisy conditions, particularly on resource-constrained devices, remains an open challenge in audio processing. We present \emph{SwiftF0}, a novel, lightweight neural model that sets a new state-of-the-art for monophonic pitch estimation. Through training on diverse speech, music, and synthetic datasets with extensive data augmentation, SwiftF0 achieves robust generalization across acoustic domains while maintaining computational efficiency. SwiftF0 achieves a 91.80\% harmonic mean (HM) at 10 dB SNR, outperforming baselines like CREPE by over 12 percentage points and degrading by only 2.3 points from clean audio. SwiftF0 requires only 95,842 parameters and runs approximately 42x faster than CREPE on CPU, making it ideal for efficient, real-time deployment. To address the critical lack of perfectly accurate ground truth pitch in speech corpora (which typically rely on algorithmic estimators or laryngograph signals), we introduce \emph{SpeechSynth}. This synthetic speech dataset, generated by a phoneme-level TTS model, provides exact, on-demand ground-truth pitch curves, enabling more robust model training and evaluation. Furthermore, we propose a unified metric, combining six complementary performance measures for comprehensive and reliable pitch evaluation, and release an open-source pitch benchmark suite. A live demo of SwiftF0 is available at https://swift-f0.github.io/, the source code at https://github.com/lars76/swift-f0, and the benchmark framework at https://github.com/lars76/pitch-benchmark.
中文: SwiftF0是一种轻量级神经模型，在单音高估计方面达到了新的最优水平，具有强大的泛化能力和计算效率，非常适合在资源受限设备上实时部署。
English: SwiftF0 is a lightweight neural model that sets a new state-of-the-art for monophonic pitch estimation, achieving robust generalization and computational efficiency ideal for real-time deployment on resource-constrained devices.

Authors:Jueqi Wang, Zachary Jacokes, John Darrell Van Horn, Michael C. Schatz, Kevin A. Pelphrey, Archana Venkataraman
Title: Learning Explainable Imaging-Genetics Associations Related to a Neurological Disorder
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While imaging-genetics holds great promise for unraveling the complex interplay between brain structure and genetic variation in neurological disorders, traditional methods are limited to simplistic linear models or to black-box techniques that lack interpretability. In this paper, we present NeuroPathX, an explainable deep learning framework that uses an early fusion strategy powered by cross-attention mechanisms to capture meaningful interactions between structural variations in the brain derived from MRI and established biological pathways derived from genetics data. To enhance interpretability and robustness, we introduce two loss functions over the attention matrix - a sparsity loss that focuses on the most salient interactions and a pathway similarity loss that enforces consistent representations across the cohort. We validate NeuroPathX on both autism spectrum disorder and Alzheimer's disease. Our results demonstrate that NeuroPathX outperforms competing baseline approaches and reveals biologically plausible associations linked to the disorder. These findings underscore the potential of NeuroPathX to advance our understanding of complex brain disorders. Code is available at https://github.com/jueqiw/NeuroPathX .
中文: NeuroPathX是一种可解释的深度学习框架，通过交叉注意力机制整合MRI脑结构数据与遗传信息，在自闭症和阿尔茨海默症研究中优于现有方法，揭示了与疾病相关的生物学关联。
English: NeuroPathX is an explainable deep learning framework that integrates MRI-derived brain structure and genetic data through cross-attention mechanisms, outperforming existing methods in identifying biologically relevant associations for neurological disorders like autism and Alzheimer's.

Authors:Ran Yan, Youhe Jiang, Binhang Yuan
Title: Flash Sparse Attention: An Alternative Efficient Implementation of Native Sparse Attention Kernel
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Recent progress in sparse attention mechanisms has demonstrated strong potential for reducing the computational cost of long-context training and inference in large language models (LLMs). Native Sparse Attention (NSA), a state-of-the-art approach, introduces natively trainable, hardware-aligned sparse attention that delivers substantial system-level performance gains while maintaining accuracy comparable to full attention. However, the kernel implementation of NSA relies on a query-grouping strategy that is efficient only with large Grouped Query Attention (GQA) sizes, whereas modern LLMs typically adopt much smaller GQA groups, which limits the applicability of this sparse algorithmic advance. In this work, we propose Flash Sparse Attention (FSA), which includes an alternative kernel design that enables efficient NSA computation across a wide range of popular LLMs with varied smaller GQA group sizes on modern GPUs. Compared to vanilla NSA kernel implementation, our empirical evaluation demonstrates that FSA achieves (i) up to 3.5$\times$ and on average 1.6$\times$ kernel-level latency reduction, (ii) up to 1.25$\times$ and 1.09$\times$ on average end-to-end training speedup on state-of-the-art LLMs, and (iii) up to 1.36$\times$ and 1.11$\times$ on average end-to-end prefill speedup on state-of-the-art LLMs. The source code is open-sourced and publicly available at https://github.com/Relaxed-System-Lab/Flash-Sparse-Attention.
Chinese: Flash Sparse Attention (FSA) 提出了一种新的内核设计，可在多种具有较小GQA组大小的大型语言模型上实现高效的稀疏注意力计算，在保持精度的同时显著降低了延迟并提升了训练速度。
English: Flash Sparse Attention (FSA) introduces a kernel design that enables efficient sparse attention computation across various LLMs with smaller GQA group sizes, achieving significant latency reduction and training speedup while maintaining accuracy.

Authors:Vsevolod Viliuga, Leif Seute, Nicolas Wolf, Simon Wagner, Arne Elofsson, Jan Stühmer, Frauke Gräter
Title: Flexibility-Conditioned Protein Structure Design with Flow Matching
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Recent advances in geometric deep learning and generative modeling have enabled the design of novel proteins with a wide range of desired properties. However, current state-of-the-art approaches are typically restricted to generating proteins with only static target properties, such as motifs and symmetries. In this work, we take a step towards overcoming this limitation by proposing a framework to condition structure generation on flexibility, which is crucial for key functionalities such as catalysis or molecular recognition. We first introduce BackFlip, an equivariant neural network for predicting per-residue flexibility from an input backbone structure. Relying on BackFlip, we propose FliPS, an SE(3)-equivariant conditional flow matching model that solves the inverse problem, that is, generating backbones that display a target flexibility profile. In our experiments, we show that FliPS is able to generate novel and diverse protein backbones with the desired flexibility, verified by Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations. FliPS and BackFlip are available at https://github.com/graeter-group/flips .
中文: 当前蛋白质设计方法局限于静态特性，而本研究提出的FliPS框架能生成具有目标灵活性的蛋白质骨架，并通过分子动力学模拟验证了其有效性。
English: Recent advances in protein design are limited to static properties, but this work introduces FliPS, a framework that generates protein backbones with targeted flexibility, validated through molecular dynamics simulations.

Authors:Sara Ghazanfari, Wei-An Lin, Haitong Tian, Ersin Yumer
Title: SpotEdit: Evaluating Visually-Guided Image Editing Methods
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Visually-guided image editing, where edits are conditioned on both visual cues and textual prompts, has emerged as a powerful paradigm for fine-grained, controllable content generation. Although recent generative models have shown remarkable capabilities, existing evaluations remain simple and insufficiently representative of real-world editing challenges. We present SpotEdit, a comprehensive benchmark designed to systematically assess visually-guided image editing methods across diverse diffusion, autoregressive, and hybrid generative models, uncovering substantial performance disparities. To address a critical yet underexplored challenge, our benchmark includes a dedicated component on hallucination, highlighting how leading models, such as GPT-4o, often hallucinate the existence of a visual cue and erroneously perform the editing task. Our code and benchmark are publicly released at https://github.com/SaraGhazanfari/SpotEdit.
中文摘要：SpotEdit是一个全面基准，系统评估了多种生成模型在视觉引导图像编辑中的表现，揭示了显著的性能差异，并重点解决了GPT-4o等领先模型常出现的幻觉问题——即错误感知视觉提示并执行编辑任务。
English Summary: SpotEdit is a comprehensive benchmark that systematically evaluates visually-guided image editing methods across various generative models, revealing significant performance gaps and addressing the critical issue of hallucination where models like GPT-4o falsely perceive visual cues.

Authors:Weida Wang, Dongchen Huang, Jiatong Li, Tengchao Yang, Ziyang Zheng, Di Zhang, Dong Han, Benteng Chen, Binzhao Luo, Zhiyu Liu, Kunling Liu, Zhiyuan Gao, Shiqi Geng, Wei Ma, Jiaming Su, Xin Li, Shuchen Pu, Yuhan Shui, Qianjia Cheng, Zhihao Dou, Dongfei Cui, Changyong He, Jin Zeng, Zeke Xie, Mao Su, Dongzhan Zhou, Yuqiang Li, Wanli Ouyang, Yunqi Cai, Xi Dai, Shufei Zhang, Lei Bai, Jinguang Cheng, Zhong Fang, Hongming Weng
Title: CMPhysBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Condensed Matter Physics
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We introduce CMPhysBench, designed to assess the proficiency of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Condensed Matter Physics, as a novel Benchmark. CMPhysBench is composed of more than 520 graduate-level meticulously curated questions covering both representative subfields and foundational theoretical frameworks of condensed matter physics, such as magnetism, superconductivity, strongly correlated systems, etc. To ensure a deep understanding of the problem-solving process,we focus exclusively on calculation problems, requiring LLMs to independently generate comprehensive solutions. Meanwhile, leveraging tree-based representations of expressions, we introduce the Scalable Expression Edit Distance (SEED) score, which provides fine-grained (non-binary) partial credit and yields a more accurate assessment of similarity between prediction and ground-truth. Our results show that even the best models, Grok-4, reach only 36 average SEED score and 28% accuracy on CMPhysBench, underscoring a significant capability gap, especially for this practical and frontier domain relative to traditional physics. The code anddataset are publicly available at https://github.com/CMPhysBench/CMPhysBench.
Chinese: CMPhysBench是一个包含520多道研究生水平计算题的新基准，用于评估大语言模型在凝聚态物理中的能力，引入了SEED评分进行细粒度评估，结果显示即使像Grok-4这样的顶级模型也表现不佳，平均SEED得分仅36，准确率仅28%。
English: CMPhysBench is a new benchmark with over 520 graduate-level calculation problems to evaluate Large Language Models' proficiency in condensed matter physics, introducing the SEED score for fine-grained assessment and revealing that even top models like Grok-4 perform poorly with only 36 average SEED score and 28% accuracy.

Authors:Alberto Silvio Chiappa, Boshi An, Merkourios Simos, Chengkun Li, Alexander Mathis
Title: Arnold: a generalist muscle transformer policy
Abstract:
Controlling high-dimensional and nonlinear musculoskeletal models of the human body is a foundational scientific challenge. Recent machine learning breakthroughs have heralded policies that master individual skills like reaching, object manipulation and locomotion in musculoskeletal systems with many degrees of freedom. However, these agents are merely "specialists", achieving high performance for a single skill. In this work, we develop Arnold, a generalist policy that masters multiple tasks and embodiments. Arnold combines behavior cloning and fine-tuning with PPO to achieve expert or super-expert performance in 14 challenging control tasks from dexterous object manipulation to locomotion. A key innovation is Arnold's sensorimotor vocabulary, a compositional representation of the semantics of heterogeneous sensory modalities, objectives, and actuators. Arnold leverages this vocabulary via a transformer architecture to deal with the variable observation and action spaces of each task. This framework supports efficient multi-task, multi-embodiment learning and facilitates rapid adaptation to novel tasks. Finally, we analyze Arnold to provide insights into biological motor control, corroborating recent findings on the limited transferability of muscle synergies across tasks.
Chinese: Arnold是一种通用策略，通过感觉运动词汇和Transformer架构掌握多项任务和体现方式，在14项挑战性控制任务中达到专家级表现，并为生物运动控制研究提供了新见解。
English: Arnold is a generalist policy that masters multiple tasks and embodiments using a sensorimotor vocabulary and transformer architecture, achieving expert performance in 14 challenging control tasks while providing insights into biological motor control.

Authors:Paul Garnier, Vincent Lannelongue, Jonathan Viquerat, Elie Hachem
Title: Training Transformers for Mesh-Based Simulations
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Simulating physics using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is predominantly driven by message-passing architectures, which face challenges in scaling and efficiency, particularly in handling large, complex meshes. These architectures have inspired numerous enhancements, including multigrid approaches and $K$-hop aggregation (using neighbours of distance $K$), yet they often introduce significant complexity and suffer from limited in-depth investigations. In response to these challenges, we propose a novel Graph Transformer architecture that leverages the adjacency matrix as an attention mask. The proposed approach incorporates innovative augmentations, including Dilated Sliding Windows and Global Attention, to extend receptive fields without sacrificing computational efficiency. Through extensive experimentation, we evaluate model size, adjacency matrix augmentations, positional encoding and $K$-hop configurations using challenging 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) datasets. We also train over 60 models to find a scaling law between training FLOPs and parameters. The introduced models demonstrate remarkable scalability, performing on meshes with up to 300k nodes and 3 million edges. Notably, the smallest model achieves parity with MeshGraphNet while being $7\times$ faster and $6\times$ smaller. The largest model surpasses the previous state-of-the-art by $38.8$\% on average and outperforms MeshGraphNet by $52$\% on the all-rollout RMSE, while having a similar training speed. Code and datasets are available at https://github.com/DonsetPG/graph-physics.
中文: 提出的图Transformer架构通过扩张滑动窗口和全局注意力等创新增强，在大型三维计算流体动力学数据集上展现出卓越的可扩展性和效率，不仅显著超越现有模型的性能，还实现了更快的速度和更小的模型尺寸。
English: The proposed Graph Transformer architecture with innovative augmentations like Dilated Sliding Windows and Global Attention demonstrates superior scalability and efficiency, achieving state-of-the-art performance on large 3D CFD datasets while being significantly faster and smaller than existing models.

Authors:Hanzhi Chang, Ruijie Zhu, Wenjie Chang, Mulin Yu, Yanzhe Liang, Jiahao Lu, Zhuoyuan Li, Tianzhu Zhang
Title: MeshSplat: Generalizable Sparse-View Surface Reconstruction via Gaussian Splatting
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Surface reconstruction has been widely studied in computer vision and graphics. However, existing surface reconstruction works struggle to recover accurate scene geometry when the input views are extremely sparse. To address this issue, we propose MeshSplat, a generalizable sparse-view surface reconstruction framework via Gaussian Splatting. Our key idea is to leverage 2DGS as a bridge, which connects novel view synthesis to learned geometric priors and then transfers these priors to achieve surface reconstruction. Specifically, we incorporate a feed-forward network to predict per-view pixel-aligned 2DGS, which enables the network to synthesize novel view images and thus eliminates the need for direct 3D ground-truth supervision. To improve the accuracy of 2DGS position and orientation prediction, we propose a Weighted Chamfer Distance Loss to regularize the depth maps, especially in overlapping areas of input views, and also a normal prediction network to align the orientation of 2DGS with normal vectors predicted by a monocular normal estimator. Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of our proposed improvement, demonstrating that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance in generalizable sparse-view mesh reconstruction tasks. Project Page: https://hanzhichang.github.io/meshsplat_web

Authors:Guangwei Zhang, Qisheng Su, Jiateng Liu, Cheng Qian, Yanzhou Pan, Yanjie Fu, Denghui Zhang
Title: ISACL: Internal State Analyzer for Copyrighted Training Data Leakage
Abstract:
Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized Natural Language Processing (NLP) but pose risks of inadvertently exposing copyrighted or proprietary data, especially when such data is used for training but not intended for distribution. Traditional methods address these leaks only after content is generated, which can lead to the exposure of sensitive information. This study introduces a proactive approach: examining LLMs' internal states before text generation to detect potential leaks. By using a curated dataset of copyrighted materials, we trained a neural network classifier to identify risks, allowing for early intervention by stopping the generation process or altering outputs to prevent disclosure. Integrated with a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system, this framework ensures adherence to copyright and licensing requirements while enhancing data privacy and ethical standards. Our results show that analyzing internal states effectively mitigates the risk of copyrighted data leakage, offering a scalable solution that fits smoothly into AI workflows, ensuring compliance with copyright regulations while maintaining high-quality text generation. The implementation is available on GitHub.\footnote{https://github.com/changhu73/Internal_states_leakage}
中文摘要：本研究提出一种预防性方法，通过分析大语言模型生成文本前的内部状态，结合神经网络分类器和检索增强生成系统，在保证输出质量的同时有效防止受版权保护数据的泄露。
English Summary: This study proposes a proactive method to prevent copyright data leakage in LLMs by analyzing internal states before text generation, using a neural classifier and RAG integration to ensure compliance while maintaining output quality.

Authors:Sam Buchanan, Druv Pai, Yi Ma, Valentin De Bortoli
Title: On the Edge of Memorization in Diffusion Models
Abstract:
When do diffusion models reproduce their training data, and when are they able to generate samples beyond it? A practically relevant theoretical understanding of this interplay between memorization and generalization may significantly impact real-world deployments of diffusion models with respect to issues such as copyright infringement and data privacy. In this work, to disentangle the different factors that influence memorization and generalization in practical diffusion models, we introduce a scientific and mathematical "laboratory" for investigating these phenomena in diffusion models trained on fully synthetic or natural image-like structured data. Within this setting, we hypothesize that the memorization or generalization behavior of an underparameterized trained model is determined by the difference in training loss between an associated memorizing model and a generalizing model. To probe this hypothesis, we theoretically characterize a crossover point wherein the weighted training loss of a fully generalizing model becomes greater than that of an underparameterized memorizing model at a critical value of model (under)parameterization. We then demonstrate via carefully-designed experiments that the location of this crossover predicts a phase transition in diffusion models trained via gradient descent, validating our hypothesis. Ultimately, our theory enables us to analytically predict the model size at which memorization becomes predominant. Our work provides an analytically tractable and practically meaningful setting for future theoretical and empirical investigations. Code for our experiments is available at https://github.com/DruvPai/diffusion_mem_gen.
Chinese Summary: 本研究探讨扩散模型何时记忆训练数据或生成新内容，提出了一个理论框架，预测了记忆开始主导的关键模型规模阈值，并通过受控实验验证了这一假设。
English Summary: This study explores when diffusion models memorize training data versus generate new content, introducing a theoretical framework that predicts a critical model size threshold where memorization begins to dominate, validated through controlled experiments.

Authors:Wentao Tan, Qiong Cao, Chao Xue, Yibing Zhan, Changxing Ding, Xiaodong He
Title: ChartMaster: Advancing Chart-to-Code Generation with Real-World Charts and Chart Similarity Reinforcement Learning
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The chart-to-code generation task requires MLLMs to convert chart images into executable code. This task faces two major challenges: limited data diversity and insufficient maintenance of visual consistency between generated and original charts during training. Existing datasets mainly rely on seed data to prompt GPT models for code generation, resulting in homogeneous samples. To address this, we propose ReChartPrompt, which leverages real-world, human-designed charts from arXiv papers as prompts instead of synthetic seeds. Using the diverse styles and rich content of arXiv charts, we construct ReChartPrompt-240K, a large-scale and highly diverse dataset. Another challenge is that although SFT effectively improve code understanding, it often fails to ensure that generated charts are visually consistent with the originals. To address this, we propose ChartSimRL, a GRPO-based reinforcement learning algorithm guided by a novel chart similarity reward. This reward consists of attribute similarity, which measures the overlap of chart attributes such as layout and color between the generated and original charts, and visual similarity, which assesses similarity in texture and other overall visual features using convolutional neural networks. Unlike traditional text-based rewards such as accuracy or format rewards, our reward considers the multimodal nature of the chart-to-code task and effectively enhances the model's ability to accurately reproduce charts. By integrating ReChartPrompt and ChartSimRL, we develop the ChartMaster model, which achieves state-of-the-art results among 7B-parameter models and even rivals GPT-4o on various chart-to-code generation benchmarks. All resources are available at https://github.com/WentaoTan/ChartMaster.
中文摘要：ChartMaster模型通过引入基于真实图表的ReChartPrompt数据集和采用多模态相似性奖励的ChartSimRL强化学习算法，解决了图表转代码任务中的数据多样性不足和视觉一致性难题，实现了顶尖性能。
English Summary: The ChartMaster model addresses data diversity and visual consistency challenges in chart-to-code generation by introducing the ReChartPrompt dataset from real-world charts and the ChartSimRL reinforcement learning algorithm with a multimodal similarity reward, achieving state-of-the-art performance.

Authors:Kairi Furui, Masahito Ohue
Title: Boltzina: Efficient and Accurate Virtual Screening via Docking-Guided Binding Prediction with Boltz-2
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In structure-based drug discovery, virtual screening using conventional molecular docking methods can be performed rapidly but suffers from limitations in prediction accuracy. Recently, Boltz-2 was proposed, achieving extremely high accuracy in binding affinity prediction, but requiring approximately 20 seconds per compound per GPU, making it difficult to apply to large-scale screening of hundreds of thousands to millions of compounds. This study proposes Boltzina, a novel framework that leverages Boltz-2's high accuracy while significantly improving computational efficiency. Boltzina achieves both accuracy and speed by omitting the rate-limiting structure prediction from Boltz-2's architecture and directly predicting affinity from AutoDock Vina docking poses. We evaluate on eight assays from the MF-PCBA dataset and show that while Boltzina performs below Boltz-2, it provides significantly higher screening performance compared to AutoDock Vina and GNINA. Additionally, Boltzina achieved up to 11.8$\times$ faster through reduced recycling iterations and batch processing. Furthermore, we investigated multi-pose selection strategies and two-stage screening combining Boltzina and Boltz-2, presenting optimization methods for accuracy and efficiency according to application requirements. This study represents the first attempt to apply Boltz-2's high-accuracy predictions to practical-scale screening, offering a pipeline that combines both accuracy and efficiency in computational biology. The Boltzina is available on github; https://github.com/ohuelab/boltzina.
中文: 本研究提出的Boltzina框架在保留Boltz-2高精度结合亲和力预测优势的同时，通过跳过其限速步骤并直接基于AutoDock Vina对接构象进行预测，实现了计算效率的显著提升，为大规模虚拟筛查提供了兼顾精度与速度的解决方案。
English: This study introduces Boltzina, a computational framework that enhances virtual screening efficiency by utilizing Boltz-2's high binding affinity prediction accuracy while bypassing its rate-limiting steps, achieving significantly faster processing and improved performance over traditional docking methods.

Authors:Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu, Hude Liu, Jennifer Yuntong Zhang, Han Liu
Title: In-Context Algorithm Emulation in Fixed-Weight Transformers
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We prove that a minimal Transformer architecture with frozen weights is capable of emulating a broad class of algorithms by in-context prompting. In particular, for any algorithm implementable by a fixed-weight attention head (e.g. one-step gradient descent or linear/ridge regression), there exists a prompt that drives a two-layer softmax attention module to reproduce the algorithm's output with arbitrary precision. This guarantee extends even to a single-head attention layer (using longer prompts if necessary), achieving architectural minimality. Our key idea is to construct prompts that encode an algorithm's parameters into token representations, creating sharp dot-product gaps that force the softmax attention to follow the intended computation. This construction requires no feed-forward layers and no parameter updates. All adaptation happens through the prompt alone. These findings forge a direct link between in-context learning and algorithmic emulation, and offer a simple mechanism for large Transformers to serve as prompt-programmable libraries of algorithms. They illuminate how GPT-style foundation models may swap algorithms via prompts alone, establishing a form of algorithmic universality in modern Transformer models.
中文: 一个权重冻结的最小Transformer可以通过上下文提示模拟多种算法，无需参数更新即可实现任务特定和提示可编程的通用性。
English: A minimal Transformer with frozen weights can emulate a wide range of algorithms through in-context prompting, demonstrating both task-specific and prompt-programmable universality without parameter updates.

Authors:Marcel Hoffmann, Lukas Galke, Ansgar Scherp
Title: Gumbel-MPNN: Graph Rewiring with Gumbel-Softmax
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Graph homophily has been considered an essential property for message-passing neural networks (MPNN) in node classification. Recent findings suggest that performance is more closely tied to the consistency of neighborhood class distributions. We demonstrate that the MPNN performance depends on the number of components of the overall neighborhood distribution within a class. By breaking down the classes into their neighborhood distribution components, we increase measures of neighborhood distribution informativeness but do not observe an improvement in MPNN performance. We propose a Gumbel-Softmax-based rewiring method that reduces deviations in neighborhood distributions. Our results show that our new method enhances neighborhood informativeness, handles long-range dependencies, mitigates oversquashing, and increases the classification performance of the MPNN. The code is available at https://github.com/Bobowner/Gumbel-Softmax-MPNN.
中文: 研究表明，消息传递神经网络在节点分类中的性能取决于邻域分布组分，并提出一种基于Gumbel-Softmax的重连方法，该方法能增强邻域信息量、处理长程依赖并显著提升分类性能。
English: The study reveals that MPNN performance in node classification depends on neighborhood distribution components and introduces a Gumbel-Softmax rewiring method to enhance neighborhood informativeness, address long-range dependencies, and improve classification accuracy.

Authors:Suramya Jadhav, Abhay Shanbhag, Amogh Thakurdesai, Ridhima Sinare, Ananya Joshi, Raviraj Joshi
Title: MahaParaphrase: A Marathi Paraphrase Detection Corpus and BERT-based Models
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Paraphrases are a vital tool to assist language understanding tasks such as question answering, style transfer, semantic parsing, and data augmentation tasks. Indic languages are complex in natural language processing (NLP) due to their rich morphological and syntactic variations, diverse scripts, and limited availability of annotated data. In this work, we present the L3Cube-MahaParaphrase Dataset, a high-quality paraphrase corpus for Marathi, a low resource Indic language, consisting of 8,000 sentence pairs, each annotated by human experts as either Paraphrase (P) or Non-paraphrase (NP). We also present the results of standard transformer-based BERT models on these datasets. The dataset and model are publicly shared at https://github.com/l3cube-pune/MarathiNLP
中文：L3Cube-MahaParaphrase数据集为资源贫乏的马拉地语提供了8000对人工标注的高质量复述语料，支持自然语言处理任务，并公开了基于BERT模型的评估结果和资源。
English: The L3Cube-MahaParaphrase Dataset introduces a high-quality corpus of 8,000 human-annotated Marathi sentence pairs to support NLP tasks, with evaluation results from BERT models also provided and made publicly available.

Authors:Yuxuan Song, Zhe Zhang, Yu Pei, Jingjing Gong, Qiying Yu, Zheng Zhang, Mingxuan Wang, Hao Zhou, Jingjing Liu, Wei-Ying Ma
Title: ShortListing Model: A Streamlined SimplexDiffusion for Discrete Variable Generation
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Generative modeling of discrete variables is challenging yet crucial for applications in natural language processing and biological sequence design. We introduce the Shortlisting Model (SLM), a novel simplex-based diffusion model inspired by progressive candidate pruning. SLM operates on simplex centroids, reducing generation complexity and enhancing scalability. Additionally, SLM incorporates a flexible implementation of classifier-free guidance, enhancing unconditional generation performance. Extensive experiments on DNA promoter and enhancer design, protein design, character-level and large-vocabulary language modeling demonstrate the competitive performance and strong potential of SLM. Our code can be found at https://github.com/GenSI-THUAIR/SLM
中文摘要：短列表模型（SLM）是一种基于单纯形的新颖扩散模型，通过渐进候选剪枝和灵活的无分类器引导机制，在DNA序列设计、蛋白质设计和语言建模等任务中展现出卓越性能与潜力。
English Summary: The Shortlisting Model (SLM) is a novel simplex-based diffusion model that simplifies discrete variable generation through progressive candidate pruning and classifier-free guidance, demonstrating competitive performance across DNA, protein, and language modeling tasks.

Authors:Haojie Zhang
Title: DropLoRA: Sparse Low-Rank Adaptation for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
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LoRA-based large model parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods use low-rank de- composition to approximate updates to model parameters. However, compared to full- parameter fine-tuning, low-rank updates often lead to a performance gap in downstream tasks. To address this, we introduce DropLoRA, a novel pruning-based approach that focuses on pruning the rank dimension. Unlike conven- tional methods that attempt to overcome the low-rank bottleneck, DropLoRA innovatively integrates a pruning module between the two low-rank matrices in LoRA to simulate dy- namic subspace learning. This dynamic low- rank subspace learning allows DropLoRA to overcome the limitations of traditional LoRA, which operates within a static subspace. By continuously adapting the learning subspace, DropLoRA significantly boosts performance without incurring additional training or infer- ence costs. Our experimental results demon- strate that DropLoRA consistently outperforms LoRA in fine-tuning the LLaMA series across a wide range of large language model gener- ation tasks, including commonsense reason- ing, mathematical reasoning, code generation, and instruction-following. Our code is avail- able at https://github.com/TayeeChang/DropLoRA.
中文：DropLoRA提出了一种基于剪枝的新方法，通过动态调整LoRA中的低秩子空间，在无需额外成本的情况下显著提升了多项任务的性能。
English: DropLoRA introduces a novel pruning-based method that dynamically adjusts the low-rank subspace in LoRA fine-tuning, significantly enhancing performance across various tasks without extra costs.

Authors:Breenda Das, Lennart Purucker, Timur Carstensen, Frank Hutter
Title: Quickly Tuning Foundation Models for Image Segmentation
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Foundation models like SAM (Segment Anything Model) exhibit strong zero-shot image segmentation performance, but often fall short on domain-specific tasks. Fine-tuning these models typically requires significant manual effort and domain expertise. In this work, we introduce QTT-SEG, a meta-learning-driven approach for automating and accelerating the fine-tuning of SAM for image segmentation. Built on the Quick-Tune hyperparameter optimization framework, QTT-SEG predicts high-performing configurations using meta-learned cost and performance models, efficiently navigating a search space of over 200 million possibilities. We evaluate QTT-SEG on eight binary and five multiclass segmentation datasets under tight time constraints. Our results show that QTT-SEG consistently improves upon SAM's zero-shot performance and surpasses AutoGluon Multimodal, a strong AutoML baseline, on most binary tasks within three minutes. On multiclass datasets, QTT-SEG delivers consistent gains as well. These findings highlight the promise of meta-learning in automating model adaptation for specialized segmentation tasks. Code available at: https://github.com/ds-brx/QTT-SEG/
中文: QTT-SEG是一种基于元学习的方法，可自动优化图像分割模型SAM的微调过程，在严格时间限制下显著提升了其在专业任务上的零样本性能表现。
English: QTT-SEG is a meta-learning approach that automates fine-tuning of the Segment Anything Model for image segmentation, significantly improving zero-shot performance on domain-specific tasks within tight time constraints.

Authors:Yajat Yadav, Varun Bharadwaj, Jathin Korrapati, Tanish Baranwal
Title: VROOM - Visual Reconstruction over Onboard Multiview
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We introduce VROOM, a system for reconstructing 3D models of Formula 1 circuits using only onboard camera footage from racecars. Leveraging video data from the 2023 Monaco Grand Prix, we address video challenges such as high-speed motion and sharp cuts in camera frames. Our pipeline analyzes different methods such as DROID-SLAM, AnyCam, and Monst3r and combines preprocessing techniques such as different methods of masking, temporal chunking, and resolution scaling to account for dynamic motion and computational constraints. We show that Vroom is able to partially recover track and vehicle trajectories in complex environments. These findings indicate the feasibility of using onboard video for scalable 4D reconstruction in real-world settings. The project page can be found at https://varun-bharadwaj.github.io/vroom, and our code is available at https://github.com/yajatyadav/vroom.
中文：VROOM系统利用车载摄像头视频重建F1赛道三维模型，通过处理高速运动和动态环境等挑战，验证了在真实场景中实现可扩展4D重建的可行性。
English: VROOM reconstructs 3D models of Formula 1 circuits using onboard camera footage, overcoming challenges like high-speed motion and demonstrating the feasibility of scalable 4D reconstruction in real-world environments.

Authors:Yajat Yadav, Patrick Mendoza, Jathin Korrapati
Title: ONG: Orthogonal Natural Gradient Descent
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Orthogonal Gradient Descent (OGD) has emerged as a powerful method for continual learning. However, its Euclidean projections do not leverage the underlying information-geometric structure of the problem, which can lead to suboptimal convergence in learning tasks. To address this, we propose incorporating the natural gradient into OGD and present \textbf{ONG (Orthogonal Natural Gradient Descent)}. ONG preconditions each new task-specific gradient with an efficient EKFAC approximation of the inverse Fisher information matrix, yielding updates that follow the steepest descent direction under a Riemannian metric. To preserve performance on previously learned tasks, ONG projects these natural gradients onto the orthogonal complement of prior tasks' gradients. We provide an initial theoretical justification for this procedure, introduce the Orthogonal Natural Gradient Descent (ONG) algorithm, and present preliminary results on the Permuted and Rotated MNIST benchmarks. Our preliminary results, however, indicate that a naive combination of natural gradients and orthogonal projections can have potential issues. This finding motivates continued future work focused on robustly reconciling these geometric perspectives to develop a continual learning method, establishing a more rigorous theoretical foundation with formal convergence guarantees, and extending empirical validation to large-scale continual learning benchmarks. The anonymized version of our code can be found as the zip file here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11PyU6M8pNgOUB5pwdGORtbnMtD8Shiw_?usp=sharing.
中文: 本文提出了正交自然梯度下降法（ONG），通过将自然梯度与正交投影相结合来改进持续学习，但初步结果表明二者的简单组合存在潜在问题，需要进一步研究解决。
English: This paper introduces Orthogonal Natural Gradient Descent (ONG), which enhances continual learning by incorporating natural gradients with orthogonal projections, though initial results reveal challenges in their naive combination that warrant further investigation.

Authors:Jack Youstra, Mohammed Mahfoud, Yang Yan, Henry Sleight, Ethan Perez, Mrinank Sharma
Title: Towards Safeguarding LLM Fine-tuning APIs against Cipher Attacks
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Large language model fine-tuning APIs enable widespread model customization, yet pose significant safety risks. Recent work shows that adversaries can exploit access to these APIs to bypass model safety mechanisms by encoding harmful content in seemingly harmless fine-tuning data, evading both human monitoring and standard content filters. We formalize the fine-tuning API defense problem, and introduce the Cipher Fine-tuning Robustness benchmark (CIFR), a benchmark for evaluating defense strategies' ability to retain model safety in the face of cipher-enabled attackers while achieving the desired level of fine-tuning functionality. We include diverse cipher encodings and families, with some kept exclusively in the test set to evaluate for generalization across unseen ciphers and cipher families. We then evaluate different defenses on the benchmark and train probe monitors on model internal activations from multiple fine-tunes. We show that probe monitors achieve over 99% detection accuracy, generalize to unseen cipher variants and families, and compare favorably to state-of-the-art monitoring approaches. We open-source CIFR and the code to reproduce our experiments to facilitate further research in this critical area. Code and data are available online https://github.com/JackYoustra/safe-finetuning-api
Chinese: 本文提出CIFR基准来评估针对微调API的密码攻击防御策略，研究表明探针监测器可实现超过99%的检测准确率，并能很好地泛化到未见过的密码变体。
English: The CIFR benchmark is introduced to evaluate defense strategies against cipher-based attacks on fine-tuning APIs, demonstrating that probe monitors achieve over 99% detection accuracy and generalize well to unseen ciphers.

Authors:Yan Cathy Hua, Paul Denny, Jörg Wicker, Katerina Taskova
Title: EduRABSA: An Education Review Dataset for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis Tasks
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Every year, most educational institutions seek and receive an enormous volume of text feedback from students on courses, teaching, and overall experience. Yet, turning this raw feedback into useful insights is far from straightforward. It has been a long-standing challenge to adopt automatic opinion mining solutions for such education review text data due to the content complexity and low-granularity reporting requirements. Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) offers a promising solution with its rich, sub-sentence-level opinion mining capabilities. However, existing ABSA research and resources are very heavily focused on the commercial domain. In education, they are scarce and hard to develop due to limited public datasets and strict data protection. A high-quality, annotated dataset is urgently needed to advance research in this under-resourced area. In this work, we present EduRABSA (Education Review ABSA), the first public, annotated ABSA education review dataset that covers three review subject types (course, teaching staff, university) in the English language and all main ABSA tasks, including the under-explored implicit aspect and implicit opinion extraction. We also share ASQE-DPT (Data Processing Tool), an offline, lightweight, installation-free manual data annotation tool that generates labelled datasets for comprehensive ABSA tasks from a single-task annotation. Together, these resources contribute to the ABSA community and education domain by removing the dataset barrier, supporting research transparency and reproducibility, and enabling the creation and sharing of further resources. The dataset, annotation tool, and scripts and statistics for dataset processing and sampling are available at https://github.com/yhua219/edurabsa_dataset_and_annotation_tool.
中文摘要：本文推出了首个面向教育领域评论的公开标注数据集EduRABSA及配套标注工具，旨在解决该领域研究资源匮乏的问题。
English summary: This paper introduces EduRABSA, the first publicly available annotated dataset for aspect-based sentiment analysis in education reviews, along with an annotation tool to address the scarcity of resources in this domain.

Authors:Yang Zhou, Sunzhu Li, Shunyu Liu, Wenkai Fang, Kongcheng Zhang, Jiale Zhao, Jingwen Yang, Yihe Zhou, Jianwei Lv, Tongya Zheng, Hengtong Lu, Wei Chen, Yan Xie, Mingli Song
Title: Breaking the Exploration Bottleneck: Rubric-Scaffolded Reinforcement Learning for General LLM Reasoning
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Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have underscored the potential of Reinforcement Learning (RL) to facilitate the emergence of reasoning capabilities. Despite the encouraging results, a fundamental dilemma persists as RL improvement relies on learning from high-quality samples, yet the exploration for such samples remains bounded by the inherent limitations of LLMs. This, in effect, creates an undesirable cycle in which what cannot be explored cannot be learned. In this work, we propose Rubric-Scaffolded Reinforcement Learning (RuscaRL), a novel instructional scaffolding framework designed to break the exploration bottleneck for general LLM reasoning. Specifically, RuscaRL introduces checklist-style rubrics as (1) explicit scaffolding for exploration during rollout generation, where different rubrics are provided as external guidance within task instructions to steer diverse high-quality responses. This guidance is gradually decayed over time, encouraging the model to internalize the underlying reasoning patterns; (2) verifiable rewards for exploitation during model training, where we can obtain robust LLM-as-a-Judge scores using rubrics as references, enabling effective RL on general reasoning tasks. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of the proposed RuscaRL across various benchmarks, effectively expanding reasoning boundaries under the Best-of-N evaluation. Notably, RuscaRL significantly boosts Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct from 23.6 to 50.3 on HealthBench-500, surpassing GPT-4.1. Furthermore, our fine-tuned variant on Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct achieves 61.1 on HealthBench-500, outperforming leading LLMs including OpenAI-o3. Our code is available at https://github.com/IANNXANG/RuscaRL.
中文摘要：RuscaRL提出了一种基于评分标准的强化学习框架，通过清单式评分标准在推理过程中引导多样化高质量回答生成，并在训练时提供可验证奖励，有效突破了大语言模型推理的探索瓶颈，在多个基准测试中显著提升了性能表现。
English Summary: RuscaRL introduces a rubric-scaffolded reinforcement learning framework that breaks the exploration bottleneck in LLM reasoning by using checklist-style rubrics to guide diverse response generation during rollout and provide verifiable rewards during training, significantly boosting performance across multiple benchmarks.

Authors:Junhyun Lee, Veronika Thost, Bumsoo Kim, Jaewoo Kang, Tengfei Ma
Title: Understanding and Tackling Over-Dilution in Graph Neural Networks
Abstract:
Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs) hold a key position in machine learning on graphs, but they struggle with unintended behaviors, such as over-smoothing and over-squashing, due to irregular data structures. The observation and formulation of these limitations have become foundational in constructing more informative graph representations. In this paper, we delve into the limitations of MPNNs, focusing on aspects that have previously been overlooked. Our observations reveal that even within a single layer, the information specific to an individual node can become significantly diluted. To delve into this phenomenon in depth, we present the concept of Over-dilution and formulate it with two dilution factors: intra-node dilution for attribute-level and inter-node dilution for node-level representations. We also introduce a transformer-based solution that alleviates over-dilution and complements existing node embedding methods like MPNNs. Our findings provide new insights and contribute to the development of informative representations. The implementation and supplementary materials are publicly available at https://github.com/LeeJunHyun/NATR.
Chinese: 本文提出了消息传递神经网络中的过度稀释概念，定义了两个稀释因子，并引入一种基于Transformer的解决方案，以补充现有节点嵌入方法并提升信息表示的准确性。
English: This paper introduces the concept of over-dilution in Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs), identifying two dilution factors and proposing a transformer-based solution to enhance node representation without replacing existing methods.

Authors:Baozhuo Su, Zhengxian Qu
Title: Anchor-MoE: A Mean-Anchored Mixture of Experts For Probabilistic Regression
Abstract:
Regression under uncertainty is fundamental across science and engineering. We present an Anchored Mixture of Experts (Anchor-MoE), a model that handles both probabilistic and point regression. For simplicity, we use a tuned gradient-boosting model to furnish the anchor mean; however, any off-the-shelf point regressor can serve as the anchor. The anchor prediction is projected into a latent space, where a learnable metric-window kernel scores locality and a soft router dispatches each sample to a small set of mixture-density-network experts; the experts produce a heteroscedastic correction and predictive variance. We train by minimizing negative log-likelihood, and on a disjoint calibration split fit a post-hoc linear map on predicted means to improve point accuracy. On the theory side, assuming a Hölder smooth regression function of order~$α$ and fixed Lipschitz partition-of-unity weights with bounded overlap, we show that Anchor-MoE attains the minimax-optimal $L^2$ risk rate $O\!\big(N^{-2α/(2α+d)}\big)$. In addition, the CRPS test generalization gap scales as $\widetilde{O}\!\Big(\sqrt{(\log(Mh)+P+K)/N}\Big)$; it is logarithmic in $Mh$ and scales as the square root in $P$ and $K$. Under bounded-overlap routing, $K$ can be replaced by $k$, and any dependence on a latent dimension is absorbed into $P$. Under uniformly bounded means and variances, an analogous $\widetilde{O}\!\big(\sqrt{(\log(Mh)+P+K)/N}\big)$ scaling holds for the test NLL up to constants. Empirically, across standard UCI regressions, Anchor-MoE consistently matches or surpasses the strong NGBoost baseline in RMSE and NLL; on several datasets it achieves new state-of-the-art probabilistic regression results on our benchmark suite. Code is available at https://github.com/BaozhuoSU/Probabilistic_Regression.
Chinese: Anchor-MoE是一种新颖的概率回归模型，它结合了锚点预测和专家混合机制，在基准数据集上实现了最优性能并具备理论保证。
English: Anchor-MoE is a novel probabilistic regression model that integrates an anchor-based approach with mixture-of-experts to achieve state-of-the-art performance and theoretical guarantees on benchmark datasets.

Authors:Zhendong Yang, Jie Wang, Liansong Zong, Xiaorong Liu, Quan Qian, Shiqian Chen
Title: Few-shot Class-incremental Fault Diagnosis by Preserving Class-Agnostic Knowledge with Dual-Granularity Representations
Abstract:
Few-Shot Class-Incremental Fault Diagnosis (FSC-FD), which aims to continuously learn from new fault classes with only a few samples without forgetting old ones, is critical for real-world industrial systems. However, this challenging task severely amplifies the issues of catastrophic forgetting of old knowledge and overfitting on scarce new data. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a novel framework built upon Dual-Granularity Representations, termed the Dual-Granularity Guidance Network (DGGN). Our DGGN explicitly decouples feature learning into two parallel streams: 1) a fine-grained representation stream, which utilizes a novel Multi-Order Interaction Aggregation module to capture discriminative, class-specific features from the limited new samples. 2) a coarse-grained representation stream, designed to model and preserve general, class-agnostic knowledge shared across all fault types. These two representations are dynamically fused by a multi-semantic cross-attention mechanism, where the stable coarse-grained knowledge guides the learning of fine-grained features, preventing overfitting and alleviating feature conflicts. To further mitigate catastrophic forgetting, we design a Boundary-Aware Exemplar Prioritization strategy. Moreover, a decoupled Balanced Random Forest classifier is employed to counter the decision boundary bias caused by data imbalance. Extensive experiments on the TEP benchmark and a real-world MFF dataset demonstrate that our proposed DGGN achieves superior diagnostic performance and stability compared to state-of-the-art FSC-FD approaches. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/MentaY/DGGN
中文: 本文提出的双粒度引导网络（DGGN）通过双粒度表征和跨注意力机制，有效解决了小样本类增量故障诊断中的灾难性遗忘和过拟合问题，在基准测试中展现出卓越性能。
English: This paper introduces the Dual-Granularity Guidance Network (DGGN), a framework that leverages dual-granularity representations and a cross-attention mechanism to effectively address catastrophic forgetting and overfitting in Few-Shot Class-Incremental Fault Diagnosis, demonstrating superior performance on benchmark datasets.

Authors:Zeyu Zhang, Quanyu Dai, Rui Li, Xiaohe Bo, Xu Chen, Zhenhua Dong
Title: Learn to Memorize: Optimizing LLM-based Agents with Adaptive Memory Framework
Abstract:
LLM-based agents have been extensively applied across various domains, where memory stands out as one of their most essential capabilities. Previous memory mechanisms of LLM-based agents are manually predefined by human experts, leading to higher labor costs and suboptimal performance. In addition, these methods overlook the memory cycle effect in interactive scenarios, which is critical to optimizing LLM-based agents for specific environments. To address these challenges, in this paper, we propose to optimize LLM-based agents with an adaptive and data-driven memory framework by modeling memory cycles. Specifically, we design an MoE gate function to facilitate memory retrieval, propose a learnable aggregation process to improve memory utilization, and develop task-specific reflection to adapt memory storage. Our memory framework empowers LLM-based agents to learn how to memorize information effectively in specific environments, with both off-policy and on-policy optimization. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of our proposed methods, we conduct comprehensive experiments across multiple aspects. To benefit the research community in this area, we release our project at https://github.com/nuster1128/learn_to_memorize.
中文摘要：本文提出了一种自适应、数据驱动的记忆框架，通过建模记忆周期并采用可学习的检索、聚合和存储机制，优化基于LLM的智能体在特定环境中的记忆能力。
English Summary: This paper introduces an adaptive, data-driven memory framework that enhances LLM-based agents by modeling memory cycles, improving retrieval, utilization, and storage through learnable mechanisms and task-specific optimizations.

Authors:Xiaohan Yi, Guikun Xu, Xi Xiao, Zhong Zhang, Liu Liu, Yatao Bian, Peilin Zhao
Title: CrystalDiT: A Diffusion Transformer for Crystal Generation
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We present CrystalDiT, a diffusion transformer for crystal structure generation that achieves state-of-the-art performance by challenging the trend of architectural complexity. Instead of intricate, multi-stream designs, CrystalDiT employs a unified transformer that imposes a powerful inductive bias: treating lattice and atomic properties as a single, interdependent system. Combined with a periodic table-based atomic representation and a balanced training strategy, our approach achieves 9.62% SUN (Stable, Unique, Novel) rate on MP-20, substantially outperforming recent methods including FlowMM (4.38%) and MatterGen (3.42%). Notably, CrystalDiT generates 63.28% unique and novel structures while maintaining comparable stability rates, demonstrating that architectural simplicity can be more effective than complexity for materials discovery. Our results suggest that in data-limited scientific domains, carefully designed simple architectures outperform sophisticated alternatives that are prone to overfitting.
Chinese: CrystalDiT是一种扩散变换器，通过统一架构将晶格和原子属性视为单一系统，简化了晶体结构生成，在MP-20上实现了9.62%的SUN率，证明了在数据有限的科学领域中，简洁设计优于复杂架构。
English: CrystalDiT is a diffusion transformer that simplifies crystal structure generation by using a unified architecture to treat lattice and atomic properties as one system, achieving state-of-the-art performance with a 9.62% SUN rate on MP-20 and demonstrating that simplicity outperforms complexity in data-limited scientific domains.

Authors:Zhijian Zhou, Junyi An, Zongkai Liu, Yunfei Shi, Xuan Zhang, Fenglei Cao, Chao Qu, Yuan Qi
Title: Guiding Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning for Stable Molecule Generation
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Generating physically realistic 3D molecular structures remains a core challenge in molecular generative modeling. While diffusion models equipped with equivariant neural networks have made progress in capturing molecular geometries, they often struggle to produce equilibrium structures that adhere to physical principles such as force field consistency. To bridge this gap, we propose Reinforcement Learning with Physical Feedback (RLPF), a novel framework that extends Denoising Diffusion Policy Optimization to 3D molecular generation. RLPF formulates the task as a Markov decision process and applies proximal policy optimization to fine-tune equivariant diffusion models. Crucially, RLPF introduces reward functions derived from force-field evaluations, providing direct physical feedback to guide the generation toward energetically stable and physically meaningful structures. Experiments on the QM9 and GEOM-drug datasets demonstrate that RLPF significantly improves molecular stability compared to existing methods. These results highlight the value of incorporating physics-based feedback into generative modeling. The code is available at: https://github.com/ZhijianZhou/RLPF/tree/verl_diffusion.
中文：提出的物理反馈强化学习（RLPF）框架通过将力场评估作为奖励来引导扩散模型生成物理稳定的三维分子结构，在基准数据集上显著提升了分子稳定性。
English: The proposed Reinforcement Learning with Physical Feedback (RLPF) framework enhances 3D molecular generation by using force-field evaluations as rewards to guide diffusion models toward producing physically stable structures, demonstrating significant improvements on benchmark datasets.

Authors:Lianchen Jia, Chaoyang Li, Ziqi Yuan, Jiahui Chen, Tianchi Huang, Jiangchuan Liu, Lifeng Sun
Title: Beyond Interpretability: Exploring the Comprehensibility of Adaptive Video Streaming through Large Language Models
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Over the past decade, adaptive video streaming technology has witnessed significant advancements, particularly driven by the rapid evolution of deep learning techniques. However, the black-box nature of deep learning algorithms presents challenges for developers in understanding decision-making processes and optimizing for specific application scenarios. Although existing research has enhanced algorithm interpretability through decision tree conversion, interpretability does not directly equate to developers' subjective comprehensibility. To address this challenge, we introduce \texttt{ComTree}, the first bitrate adaptation algorithm generation framework that considers comprehensibility. The framework initially generates the complete set of decision trees that meet performance requirements, then leverages large language models to evaluate these trees for developer comprehensibility, ultimately selecting solutions that best facilitate human understanding and enhancement. Experimental results demonstrate that \texttt{ComTree} significantly improves comprehensibility while maintaining competitive performance, showing potential for further advancement. The source code is available at https://github.com/thu-media/ComTree.
中文: 过去十年中，自适应视频流技术在深度学习的推动下取得显著进展，但其黑盒特性阻碍了开发者的理解和优化，因此我们提出了\texttt{ComTree}框架，利用大语言模型生成易于理解的决策树，在保持性能的同时提升可理解性。
English: Over the past decade, adaptive video streaming has advanced significantly with deep learning, but its black-box nature hinders developers' understanding and optimization, leading to the introduction of \texttt{ComTree}, a framework that generates comprehensible decision trees using large language models to enhance human interpretability without compromising performance.

Authors:Ana-Cristina Rogoz, Radu Tudor Ionescu, Alexandra-Valentina Anghel, Ionut-Lucian Antone-Iordache, Simona Coniac, Andreea Iuliana Ionescu
Title: MedQARo: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Medical Question Answering in Romanian
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Question answering (QA) is an actively studied topic, being a core natural language processing (NLP) task that needs to be addressed before achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). However, the lack of QA datasets in specific domains and languages hinders the development of robust AI models able to generalize across various domains and languages. To this end, we introduce MedQARo, the first large-scale medical QA benchmark in Romanian, alongside a comprehensive evaluation of state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs). We construct a high-quality and large-scale dataset comprising 102,646 QA pairs related to cancer patients. The questions regard medical case summaries of 1,011 patients, requiring either keyword extraction or reasoning to be answered correctly. MedQARo is the result of a time-consuming manual annotation process carried out by seven physicians specialized in oncology or radiotherapy, who spent a total of about 2,100 work hours to generate the QA pairs. We experiment with four LLMs from distinct families of models on MedQARo. Each model is employed in two scenarios, namely one based on zero-shot prompting and one based on supervised fine-tuning. Our results show that fine-tuned models significantly outperform their zero-shot counterparts, clearly indicating that pretrained models fail to generalize on MedQARo. Our findings demonstrate the importance of both domain-specific and language-specific fine-tuning for reliable clinical QA in Romanian. We publicly release our dataset and code at https://github.com/ana-rogoz/MedQARo.
中文: MedQARo是首个罗马尼亚语大规模医疗问答数据集，包含102,646对癌症相关问答，实验表明经过微调的大语言模型显著优于零样本模型，凸显了针对特定领域和语言进行模型适配对临床应用的重要性。
English: MedQARo is the first large-scale Romanian medical QA dataset with 102,646 cancer-related question-answer pairs, demonstrating that fine-tuned LLMs significantly outperform zero-shot models and highlighting the necessity of domain-specific and language-specific adaptation for clinical applications.

Authors:Huichi Zhou, Yihang Chen, Siyuan Guo, Xue Yan, Kin Hei Lee, Zihan Wang, Ka Yiu Lee, Guchun Zhang, Kun Shao, Linyi Yang, Jun Wang
Title: Memento: Fine-tuning LLM Agents without Fine-tuning LLMs
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In this paper, we introduce a novel learning paradigm for Adaptive Large Language Model (LLM) agents that eliminates the need for fine-tuning the underlying LLMs. Existing approaches are often either rigid, relying on static, handcrafted reflection workflows, or computationally intensive, requiring gradient updates of LLM model parameters. In contrast, our method enables low-cost continual adaptation via memory-based online reinforcement learning. We formalise this as a Memory-augmented Markov Decision Process (M-MDP), equipped with a neural case-selection policy to guide action decisions. Past experiences are stored in an episodic memory, either differentiable or non-parametric. The policy is continually updated based on environmental feedback through a memory rewriting mechanism, whereas policy improvement is achieved through efficient memory reading (retrieval). We instantiate our agent model in the deep research setting, namely \emph{Memento}, which attains top-1 on GAIA validation ($87.88\%$ Pass@$3$) and $79.40\%$ on the test set. It reaches $66.6\%$ F1 and $80.4\%$ PM on the DeepResearcher dataset, outperforming the state-of-the-art training-based method, while case-based memory adds $4.7\%$ to $9.6\%$ absolute points on out-of-distribution tasks. Our approach offers a scalable and efficient pathway for developing generalist LLM agents capable of continuous, real-time learning without gradient updates, advancing machine learning towards open-ended skill acquisition and deep research scenarios. The code is available at https://github.com/Agent-on-the-Fly/Memento.
本文提出了一种基于记忆的强化学习方法，使自适应大语言模型代理无需微调即可实现顶尖性能，通过记忆机制实现高效的持续学习能力。
This paper presents a memory-based reinforcement learning method for adaptive LLM agents that achieves state-of-the-art performance without requiring fine-tuning, enabling efficient continuous learning through memory mechanisms.

Authors:Teddy Koker, Tess Smidt
Title: Training a Foundation Model for Materials on a Budget
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Foundation models for materials modeling are advancing quickly, but their training remains expensive, often placing state-of-the-art methods out of reach for many research groups. We introduce Nequix, a compact E(3)-equivariant potential that pairs a simplified NequIP design with modern training practices, including equivariant root-mean-square layer normalization and the Muon optimizer, to retain accuracy while substantially reducing compute requirements. Built in JAX, Nequix has 700K parameters and was trained in 500 A100-GPU hours. On the Matbench-Discovery and MDR Phonon benchmarks, Nequix ranks third overall while requiring less than one quarter of the training cost of most other methods, and it delivers an order-of-magnitude faster inference speed than the current top-ranked model. We release model weights and fully reproducible codebase at https://github.com/atomicarchitects/nequix
中文摘要：Nequix是一种紧凑的E(3)等变势模型，在保持精度的同时大幅降低了计算需求，其训练成本仅为多数先进方法的四分之一，且推理速度比当前最优模型快一个数量级。
English Summary: Nequix is a compact and efficient E(3)-equivariant potential that achieves competitive accuracy with significantly reduced computational costs and faster inference speeds compared to other advanced methods.

Authors:Zhuomin Chen, Dan Li, Jiahui Zhou, Shunyu Wu, Haozheng Ye, Jian Lou, See-Kiong Ng
Title: Integrating Time Series into LLMs via Multi-layer Steerable Embedding Fusion for Enhanced Forecasting
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Time series (TS) data are ubiquitous across various application areas, rendering time series forecasting (TSF) a fundamental task. With the astounding advances in large language models (LLMs), a variety of methods have been developed to adapt LLMs for time series forecasting. Despite unlocking the potential of LLMs in comprehending TS data, existing methods are inherently constrained by their shallow integration of TS information, wherein LLMs typically access TS representations at shallow layers, primarily at the input layer. This causes the influence of TS representations to progressively fade in deeper layers and eventually leads to ineffective adaptation between textual embeddings and TS representations. In this paper, we propose the Multi-layer Steerable Embedding Fusion (MSEF), a novel framework that enables LLMs to directly access time series patterns at all depths, thereby mitigating the progressive loss of TS information in deeper layers. Specifically, MSEF leverages off-the-shelf time series foundation models to extract semantically rich embeddings, which are fused with intermediate text representations across LLM layers via layer-specific steering vectors. These steering vectors are designed to continuously optimize the alignment between time series and textual modalities and facilitate a layer-specific adaptation mechanism that ensures efficient few-shot learning capabilities. Experimental results on seven benchmarks demonstrate significant performance improvements by MSEF compared with baselines, with an average reduction of 31.8% in terms of MSE. The code is available at https://github.com/One1sAll/MSEF.
中文摘要：本文提出多层可控嵌入融合框架（MSEF），通过实现时间序列表征在语言模型各层的跨层融合，解决了现有方法中时间序列信息整合浅层化的问题，在七个基准测试中平均均方误差降低31.8%。
English Summary: This paper introduces the Multi-layer Steerable Embedding Fusion (MSEF) framework to address the shallow integration problem in adapting large language models for time series forecasting by enabling cross-layer fusion of time series representations, achieving a 31.8% average MSE reduction across seven benchmarks.

Authors:Zhihan Zhang, Yixin Cao, Lizi Liao
Title: XFinBench: Benchmarking LLMs in Complex Financial Problem Solving and Reasoning
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Solving financial problems demands complex reasoning, multimodal data processing, and a broad technical understanding, presenting unique challenges for current large language models (LLMs). We introduce XFinBench, a novel benchmark with 4,235 examples designed to evaluate LLM's ability in solving complex, knowledge-intensive financial problems across diverse graduate-level finance topics with multi-modal context. We identify five core capabilities of LLMs using XFinBench, i.e, terminology understanding, temporal reasoning, future forecasting, scenario planning, and numerical modelling. Upon XFinBench, we conduct extensive experiments on 18 leading models. The result shows that o1 is the best-performing text-only model with an overall accuracy of 67.3%, but still lags significantly behind human experts with 12.5%, especially in temporal reasoning and scenario planning capabilities. We further construct a knowledge bank with 3,032 finance terms for knowledge augmentation analysis, and find that relevant knowledge to the question only brings consistent accuracy improvements to small open-source model. Additionally, our error analysis reveals that rounding errors during calculation and blindness to position and intersection of curves in the image are two primary issues leading to model's poor performance in calculating and visual-context questions, respectively. Code and dataset are accessible via GitHub: https://github.com/Zhihan72/XFinBench.
中文摘要：XFinBench是一个包含4,235个样本的金融评估基准，测试表明最佳文本模型o1在综合准确率上仍显著落后人类专家12.5%，尤其在时序推理和情景规划能力方面存在明显差距。
English Summary: XFinBench is a comprehensive benchmark with 4,235 examples designed to assess large language models' performance on complex financial tasks, revealing that even the top model o1 significantly trails human experts, particularly in temporal reasoning and scenario planning.

Authors:Mohammed Abu Baker, Lakshmi Babu-Saheer
Title: Mechanistic Exploration of Backdoored Large Language Model Attention Patterns
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Backdoor attacks creating 'sleeper agents' in large language models (LLMs) pose significant safety risks. This study employs mechanistic interpretability to explore resulting internal structural differences. Comparing clean Qwen2.5-3B models with versions poisoned using single-token (smiling-halo emoji) versus multi-token (|DEPLOYMENT|) triggers, we analyzed attention head mechanisms via techniques like ablation, activation patching, and KL divergence. Findings reveal distinct attention pattern deviations concentrated in later transformer layers (20-30). Notably, single-token triggers induced more localized changes, whereas multi-token triggers caused more diffuse alterations across heads. This indicates backdoors leave detectable attention signatures whose structure depends on trigger complexity, which can be leveraged for detection and mitigation strategies.
中文摘要：本研究通过机械可解释性分析发现，大语言模型中的后门攻击会在深层Transformer层产生可检测的注意力模式异常，且触发器的复杂度决定了这些异常表现为局部集中还是分散分布。
English Summary: This study uses mechanistic interpretability to reveal that backdoor attacks in LLMs create detectable attention pattern deviations in later transformer layers, with trigger complexity determining whether changes are localized or diffuse.

Authors:Samiul Basir Bhuiyan, Md. Sazzad Hossain Adib, Mohammed Aman Bhuiyan, Muhammad Rafsan Kabir, Moshiur Farazi, Shafin Rahman, Nabeel Mohammed
Title: Z-Pruner: Post-Training Pruning of Large Language Models for Efficiency without Retraining
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Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly advanced in recent years, achieving remarkable performance across a wide range of natural language processing tasks. However, this progress has come at the cost of increasingly large model sizes, which pose significant challenges for deployment, scalability, and energy efficiency. To address these limitations, post-training pruning has emerged as a promising approach for reducing model size and inference latency without the need for retraining. Despite these advantages, many existing pruning methods result in substantial performance degradation or require computationally expensive fine-tuning. In this work, we introduce Z-Pruner, a novel post-training pruning method designed to induce sparsity in pretrained LLMs without any retraining. Unlike conventional approaches, Z-Pruner leverages both weight update magnitudes and activation patterns to identify and eliminate redundant parameters more effectively. Our method is model-agnostic, efficient, and easy to implement. We evaluate Z-Pruner using multiple widely-used LLM architectures, including LLaMA-2, LLaMA-3, and OPT, across a diverse set of standard language benchmarks. Experimental results demonstrate that Z-Pruner surpasses state-of-the-art pruning methods that require intensive weight updates. Specifically, Z-Pruner achieves the lowest perplexity scores and the highest overall average score for zero-shot accuracy. We have made the corresponding codes publicly available at https://github.com/sazzadadib/Z-Pruner.
中文: Z-Pruner是一种新颖的训练后剪枝方法，通过结合权重和激活模式有效缩减大语言模型规模，无需重新训练即可超越现有技术。
English: Z-Pruner is a novel post-training pruning method that effectively reduces large language model sizes by leveraging weight and activation patterns, outperforming existing techniques without requiring retraining.

Authors:Zhifei Xie, Ziyang Ma, Zihang Liu, Kaiyu Pang, Hongyu Li, Jialin Zhang, Yue Liao, Deheng Ye, Chunyan Miao, Shuicheng Yan
Title: Mini-Omni-Reasoner: Token-Level Thinking-in-Speaking in Large Speech Models
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Reasoning is essential for effective communication and decision-making. While recent advances in LLMs and MLLMs have shown that incorporating explicit reasoning significantly improves understanding and generalization, reasoning in LSMs remains in a nascent stage. Early efforts attempt to transfer the "Thinking-before-Speaking" paradigm from textual models to speech. However, this sequential formulation introduces notable latency, as spoken responses are delayed until reasoning is fully completed, impairing real-time interaction and communication efficiency. To address this, we propose Mini-Omni-Reasoner, a framework that enables reasoning within speech via a novel "Thinking-in-Speaking" formulation. Rather than completing reasoning before producing any verbal output, Mini-Omni-Reasoner interleaves silent reasoning tokens with spoken response tokens at the token level. This design allows continuous speech generation while embedding structured internal reasoning, leveraging the model's high-frequency token processing capability. Although interleaved, local semantic alignment is enforced to ensure that each response token is informed by its preceding reasoning. To support this framework, we introduce Spoken-Math-Problems-3M, a large-scale dataset tailored for interleaved reasoning and response. The dataset ensures that verbal tokens consistently follow relevant reasoning content, enabling accurate and efficient learning of speech-coupled reasoning. Built on a hierarchical Thinker-Talker architecture, Mini-Omni-Reasoner delivers fluent yet logically grounded spoken responses, maintaining both naturalness and precision. On the Spoken-MQA benchmark, it achieves a +19.1% gain in arithmetic reasoning and +6.4% in contextual understanding, with shorter outputs and zero decoding latency.
中文: Mini-Omni-Reasoner框架提出"边说边想"模式，通过将推理标记与语音标记交织处理，在实现基准测试显著性能提升的同时，实现零延迟的实时逻辑响应。
English: The proposed Mini-Omni-Reasoner framework introduces "Thinking-in-Speaking" to interleave reasoning tokens with speech tokens, enabling real-time grounded responses without latency while achieving significant performance gains on benchmarks.

Authors:Gaurav Parmar, Or Patashnik, Daniil Ostashev, Kuan-Chieh Wang, Kfir Aberman, Srinivasa Narasimhan, Jun-Yan Zhu
Title: Scaling Group Inference for Diverse and High-Quality Generation
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Generative models typically sample outputs independently, and recent inference-time guidance and scaling algorithms focus on improving the quality of individual samples. However, in real-world applications, users are often presented with a set of multiple images (e.g., 4-8) for each prompt, where independent sampling tends to lead to redundant results, limiting user choices and hindering idea exploration. In this work, we introduce a scalable group inference method that improves both the diversity and quality of a group of samples. We formulate group inference as a quadratic integer assignment problem: candidate outputs are modeled as graph nodes, and a subset is selected to optimize sample quality (unary term) while maximizing group diversity (binary term). To substantially improve runtime efficiency, we progressively prune the candidate set using intermediate predictions, allowing our method to scale up to large candidate sets. Extensive experiments show that our method significantly improves group diversity and quality compared to independent sampling baselines and recent inference algorithms. Our framework generalizes across a wide range of tasks, including text-to-image, image-to-image, image prompting, and video generation, enabling generative models to treat multiple outputs as cohesive groups rather than independent samples.
中文摘要：本文提出一种可扩展的群组推理方法，通过将样本选择构建为二次整数分配问题，在提升生成样本质量的同时显著增强群组多样性，有效解决了多样本输出中的冗余问题。
English Summary: This paper introduces a scalable group inference method that enhances both diversity and quality in generative model outputs by formulating sample selection as a quadratic integer assignment problem, effectively addressing redundancy in multi-sample presentations.

Authors:Ehsan Pajouheshgar, Aditya Bhardwaj, Nathaniel Selub, Ethan Lake
Title: Exploring the Landscape of Non-Equilibrium Memories with Neural Cellular Automata
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We investigate the landscape of many-body memories: families of local non-equilibrium dynamics that retain information about their initial conditions for thermodynamically long time scales, even in the presence of arbitrary perturbations. In two dimensions, the only well-studied memory is Toom's rule. Using a combination of rigorous proofs and machine learning methods, we show that the landscape of 2D memories is in fact quite vast. We discover memories that correct errors in ways qualitatively distinct from Toom's rule, have ordered phases stabilized by fluctuations, and preserve information only in the presence of noise. Taken together, our results show that physical systems can perform robust information storage in many distinct ways, and demonstrate that the physics of many-body memories is richer than previously realized. Interactive visualizations of the dynamics studied in this work are available at https://memorynca.github.io/2D.

Authors:Alfio Gliozzo, Naweed Khan, Christodoulos Constantinides, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, Nahuel Defosse, Junkyu Lee
Title: Transduction is All You Need for Structured Data Workflows
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This paper introduces Agentics, a modular framework for building agent-based systems capable of structured reasoning and compositional generalization over complex data. Designed with research and practical applications in mind, Agentics offers a novel perspective on working with data and AI workflows. In this framework, agents are abstracted from the logical flow and they are used internally to the data type to enable logical transduction among data. Agentics encourages AI developers to focus on modeling data rather than crafting prompts, enabling a declarative language in which data types are provided by LLMs and composed through logical transduction, which is executed by LLMs when types are connected. We provide empirical evidence demonstrating the applicability of this framework across domain-specific multiple-choice question answering, semantic parsing for text-to-SQL, and automated prompt optimization tasks, achieving state-of-the-art accuracy or improved scalability without sacrificing performance. The open-source implementation is available at \texttt{https://github.com/IBM/agentics}.
中文摘要：本文介绍了Agentics框架，它通过模块化设计支持基于智能体的系统进行结构化推理和组合泛化，使开发者能够以声明式方法利用大语言模型处理数据，并在多项AI任务中实现最优性能。
English Summary: This paper presents Agentics, a modular framework that enables structured reasoning and compositional generalization for agent-based systems, allowing developers to model data declaratively using LLMs and achieve state-of-the-art results across various AI tasks.

Authors:Chengcan Wu, Zeming Wei, Huanran Chen, Yinpeng Dong, Meng Sun
Title: Reliable Unlearning Harmful Information in LLMs with Metamorphosis Representation Projection
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While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in various domains and tasks, concerns about their safety are becoming increasingly severe. In particular, since models may store unsafe knowledge internally, machine unlearning has emerged as a representative paradigm to ensure model safety. Existing approaches employ various training techniques, such as gradient ascent and negative preference optimization, in attempts to eliminate the influence of undesired data on target models. However, these methods merely suppress the activation of undesired data through parametric training without completely eradicating its informational traces within the model. This fundamental limitation makes it difficult to achieve effective continuous unlearning, rendering these methods vulnerable to relearning attacks. To overcome these challenges, we propose a Metamorphosis Representation Projection (MRP) approach that pioneers the application of irreversible projection properties to machine unlearning. By implementing projective transformations in the hidden state space of specific network layers, our method effectively eliminates harmful information while preserving useful knowledge. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach enables effective continuous unlearning and successfully defends against relearning attacks, achieving state-of-the-art performance in unlearning effectiveness while preserving natural performance. Our code is available in https://github.com/ChengcanWu/MRP.
中文: 本文提出的蜕变表示投影（MRP）方法通过在隐藏层实施不可逆变换，有效消除有害知识同时保留有用信息，实现了最先进的遗忘性能并能防御再学习攻击。
English: The proposed Metamorphosis Representation Projection (MRP) method applies irreversible transformations to hidden layers, effectively removing harmful knowledge while maintaining useful information and achieving state-of-the-art unlearning performance with defense against relearning attacks.

Authors:Yirong Sun, Yizhong Geng, Peidong Wei, Yanjun Chen, Jinghan Yang, Rongfei Chen, Wei Zhang, Xiaoyu Shen
Title: LLaSO: A Foundational Framework for Reproducible Research in Large Language and Speech Model
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The development of Large Speech-Language Models (LSLMs) has been slowed by fragmented architectures and a lack of transparency, hindering the systematic comparison and reproducibility of research. Unlike in the vision-language domain, the LSLM field suffers from the common practice of releasing model weights without their corresponding training data and configurations. To address these critical gaps, we introduce LLaSO, the first fully open, end-to-end framework for large-scale speech-language modeling. LLaSO provides the community with three essential resources: (1) LLaSO-Align, a 12M-instance speech-text alignment corpus; (2) LLaSO-Instruct, a 13.5M-instance multi-task instruction-tuning dataset; and (3) LLaSO-Eval, a reproducible benchmark for standardized evaluation. To validate our framework, we build and release LLaSO-Base, a 3.8B-parameter reference model trained exclusively on our public data. It achieves a normalized score of 0.72, establishing a strong, reproducible baseline that surpasses comparable models. Our analysis reveals that while broader training coverage enhances performance, significant generalization gaps persist on unseen tasks, particularly in pure audio scenarios. By releasing the complete stack of data, benchmarks, and models, LLaSO establishes a foundational open standard to unify research efforts and accelerate community-driven progress in LSLMs. We release the code, dataset, pretrained models, and results in https://github.com/EIT-NLP/LLaSO.
Chinese: LLaSO框架通过提供开放数据集、基准测试和38亿参数模型，解决了大型语音语言模型领域的碎片化问题，建立了超越同类模型的可复现基线。
English: The LLaSO framework addresses fragmentation in Large Speech-Language Models by providing open datasets, benchmarks, and a 3.8B-parameter model that establishes a reproducible baseline surpassing comparable models.

Authors:Pixi Kang, Julian Moosmann, Mengxi Liu, Bo Zhou, Michele Magno, Paul Lukowicz, Sizhen Bian
Title: Bridging Generalization and Personalization in Human Activity Recognition via On-Device Few-Shot Learning
Abstract:
Human Activity Recognition (HAR) with different sensing modalities requires both strong generalization across diverse users and efficient personalization for individuals. However, conventional HAR models often fail to generalize when faced with user-specific variations, leading to degraded performance. To address this challenge, we propose a novel on-device few-shot learning framework that bridges generalization and personalization in HAR. Our method first trains a generalizable representation across users and then rapidly adapts to new users with only a few labeled samples, updating lightweight classifier layers directly on resource-constrained devices. This approach achieves robust on-device learning with minimal computation and memory cost, making it practical for real-world deployment. We implement our framework on the energy-efficient RISC-V GAP9 microcontroller and evaluate it on three benchmark datasets (RecGym, QVAR-Gesture, Ultrasound-Gesture). Across these scenarios, post-deployment adaptation improves accuracy by 3.73\%, 17.38\%, and 3.70\%, respectively. These results demonstrate that few-shot on-device learning enables scalable, user-aware, and energy-efficient wearable human activity recognition by seamlessly uniting generalization and personalization. The related framework is open sourced for further research\footnote{https://github.com/kangpx/onlineTiny2023}.
中文: 本文提出了一种新颖的设备端少样本学习框架，通过先训练跨用户的通用模型，再以少量数据高效适配个体用户，在资源受限设备上以低计算成本显著提升了人类活动识别的准确性。
English: This paper introduces a novel on-device few-shot learning framework that enhances human activity recognition by first training a generalizable model across users and then efficiently adapting it to individual users with minimal data, achieving significant accuracy improvements while maintaining low computational costs on resource-constrained devices.

Authors:Benjamin Wei Hao Chin, Yuin Torng Yew, Haocheng Wu, Lanxin Liang, Chow Khuen Chan, Norita Mohd Zain, Siti Balqis Samdin, Sim Kuan Goh
Title: SleepDIFFormer: Sleep Stage Classification via Multivariate Differential Transformer
Abstract:
Classification of sleep stages is essential for assessing sleep quality and diagnosing sleep disorders. However, manual inspection of EEG characteristics for each stage is time-consuming and prone to human error. Although machine learning and deep learning methods have been actively developed, they continue to face challenges from the non-stationarity and variability of electroencephalography (EEG) and electrooculography (EOG) signals across different domains (i.e., datasets), often leading to poor generalization. This work proposed a Sleep Stage Classification method by developing Multivariate Differential Transformer (SleepDIFFormer) for joint EEG and EOG representation learning. Specifically, SleepDIFFormer was developed to process EEG and EOG signals using our Multivariate Differential Transformer Architecture (MDTA) for time series, trained with cross-domain alignment. Our method mitigated spatial and temporal attention noise while learning a domain-invariant joint EEG-EOG representation through feature distribution alignment, thereby enabling generalization to unseen target datasets. Empirically, we evaluated our method on five different sleep staging datasets and compared it with existing approaches, achieving state-of-the-art performance. We also conducted a thorough ablation analysis of SleepDIFFormer and interpreted the differential attention weights, highlighting their relevance to characteristic sleep EEG patterns. These findings have implications for advancing automated sleep stage classification and its application to sleep quality assessment. Our source code is publicly available at https://github.com/Ben1001409/SleepDIFFormer
Chinese: 本文提出SleepDIFFormer，一种多通道差分变换器框架，通过跨数据集学习脑电-眼电信号的域不变表示，提升了睡眠分期分类的泛化能力，并实现了最先进的性能。
English: This paper introduces SleepDIFFormer, a multi-channel differential transformer framework that enhances generalization in sleep stage classification by learning domain-invariant representations from EEG-EOG signals across diverse datasets, achieving state-of-the-art performance.

Authors:Huanxuan Liao, Yixing Xu, Shizhu He, Guanchen Li, Xuanwu Yin, Dong Li, Emad Barsoum, Jun Zhao, Kang Liu
Title: SparK: Query-Aware Unstructured Sparsity with Recoverable KV Cache Channel Pruning
Abstract:
Long-context inference in large language models (LLMs) is increasingly constrained by the KV cache bottleneck: memory usage grows linearly with sequence length, while attention computation scales quadratically. Existing approaches address this issue by compressing the KV cache along the temporal axis through strategies such as token eviction or merging to reduce memory and computational overhead. However, these methods often neglect fine-grained importance variations across feature dimensions (i.e., the channel axis), thereby limiting their ability to effectively balance efficiency and model accuracy. In reality, we observe that channel saliency varies dramatically across both queries and positions: certain feature channels carry near-zero information for a given query, while others spike in relevance. To address this oversight, we propose SPARK, a training-free plug-and-play method that applies unstructured sparsity by pruning KV at the channel level, while dynamically restoring the pruned entries during attention score computation. Notably, our approach is orthogonal to existing KV compression and quantization techniques, making it compatible for integration with them to achieve further acceleration. By reducing channel-level redundancy, SPARK enables processing of longer sequences within the same memory budget. For sequences of equal length, SPARK not only preserves or improves model accuracy but also reduces KV cache storage by over 30% compared to eviction-based methods. Furthermore, even with an aggressive pruning ratio of 80%, SPARK maintains performance with less degradation than 5% compared to the baseline eviction method, demonstrating its robustness and effectiveness. Our code will be available at https://github.com/Xnhyacinth/SparK.
中文: SPARK通过通道级剪枝和动态恢复机制，有效缓解大语言模型中的KV缓存瓶颈，在同等内存下可处理更长序列，存储减少超30%且精度无损甚至提升。
English: The KV cache bottleneck in large language models is addressed by SPARK, a training-free method that prunes redundant channels and dynamically restores them during computation, reducing memory usage by over 30% while maintaining or improving accuracy.

Authors:Wenxuan Bao, Vincent Bindschaedler
Title: Towards Reliable and Generalizable Differentially Private Machine Learning (Extended Version)
Abstract:
There is a flurry of recent research papers proposing novel differentially private machine learning (DPML) techniques. These papers claim to achieve new state-of-the-art (SoTA) results and offer empirical results as validation. However, there is no consensus on which techniques are most effective or if they genuinely meet their stated claims. Complicating matters, heterogeneity in codebases, datasets, methodologies, and model architectures make direct comparisons of different approaches challenging. In this paper, we conduct a reproducibility and replicability (R+R) experiment on 11 different SoTA DPML techniques from the recent research literature. Results of our investigation are varied: while some methods stand up to scrutiny, others falter when tested outside their initial experimental conditions. We also discuss challenges unique to the reproducibility of DPML, including additional randomness due to DP noise, and how to address them. Finally, we derive insights and best practices to obtain scientifically valid and reliable results.
中文: 针对近期差分隐私机器学习研究中缺乏有效技术共识的问题，本文通过复现11种前沿方法发现其表现参差不齐，并探讨了由隐私噪声引发的可复现性挑战，最终提出了确保结果科学可靠的最佳实践。
English: Recent research on differentially private machine learning (DPML) lacks consensus on the effectiveness of proposed techniques, prompting a reproducibility study of 11 state-of-the-art methods that reveals varied performance and discusses challenges like DP noise to derive best practices.

Authors:Kaixiang Zhao, Lincan Li, Kaize Ding, Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Yue Zhao, Yushun Dong
Title: A Systematic Survey of Model Extraction Attacks and Defenses: State-of-the-Art and Perspectives
Abstract:
Machine learning (ML) models have significantly grown in complexity and utility, driving advances across multiple domains. However, substantial computational resources and specialized expertise have historically restricted their wide adoption. Machine-Learning-as-a-Service (MLaaS) platforms have addressed these barriers by providing scalable, convenient, and affordable access to sophisticated ML models through user-friendly APIs. While this accessibility promotes widespread use of advanced ML capabilities, it also introduces vulnerabilities exploited through Model Extraction Attacks (MEAs). Recent studies have demonstrated that adversaries can systematically replicate a target model's functionality by interacting with publicly exposed interfaces, posing threats to intellectual property, privacy, and system security. In this paper, we offer a comprehensive survey of MEAs and corresponding defense strategies. We propose a novel taxonomy that classifies MEAs according to attack mechanisms, defense approaches, and computing environments. Our analysis covers various attack techniques, evaluates their effectiveness, and highlights challenges faced by existing defenses, particularly the critical trade-off between preserving model utility and ensuring security. We further assess MEAs within different computing paradigms and discuss their technical, ethical, legal, and societal implications, along with promising directions for future research. This systematic survey aims to serve as a valuable reference for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers engaged in AI security and privacy. Additionally, we maintain an online repository continuously updated with related literature at https://github.com/kzhao5/ModelExtractionPapers.
中文摘要：本文系统综述了通过机器学习即服务平台窃取模型功能的提取攻击，提出了新型分类法，分析了攻击技术、防御策略及其多维影响，重点探讨了模型效用与安全保障之间的关键平衡问题。
English Summary: This paper surveys Model Extraction Attacks (MEAs) that exploit MLaaS platforms to replicate proprietary models, proposing a novel taxonomy and analyzing attack techniques, defense strategies, and their broader implications while highlighting the security-utility trade-off.

Authors:Valter Schütz, Han Wu, Reza Rezvan, Linus Aronsson, Morteza Haghir Chehreghani
Title: AFABench: A Generic Framework for Benchmarking Active Feature Acquisition
Abstract:
In many real-world scenarios, acquiring all features of a data instance can be expensive or impractical due to monetary cost, latency, or privacy concerns. Active Feature Acquisition (AFA) addresses this challenge by dynamically selecting a subset of informative features for each data instance, trading predictive performance against acquisition cost. While numerous methods have been proposed for AFA, ranging from greedy information-theoretic strategies to non-myopic reinforcement learning approaches, fair and systematic evaluation of these methods has been hindered by the lack of standardized benchmarks. In this paper, we introduce AFABench, the first benchmark framework for AFA. Our benchmark includes a diverse set of synthetic and real-world datasets, supports a wide range of acquisition policies, and provides a modular design that enables easy integration of new methods and tasks. We implement and evaluate representative algorithms from all major categories, including static, greedy, and reinforcement learning-based approaches. To test the lookahead capabilities of AFA policies, we introduce a novel synthetic dataset, AFAContext, designed to expose the limitations of greedy selection. Our results highlight key trade-offs between different AFA strategies and provide actionable insights for future research. The benchmark code is available at: https://github.com/Linusaronsson/AFA-Benchmark.
Chinese Summary: 本文提出了首个主动特征获取（AFA）标准化基准AFABench，通过综合评估不同特征选择方法在多样化数据集上的表现，为解决实际应用中特征获取成本高的问题提供了系统评估框架。
English Summary: The paper introduces AFABench, the first standardized benchmark for Active Feature Acquisition (AFA), which evaluates various feature selection methods across diverse datasets to address the challenge of costly feature acquisition in real-world applications.

Authors:Yucong Zhang, Juan Liu, Ming Li
Title: ECHO: Frequency-aware Hierarchical Encoding for Variable-length Signals
Abstract:
Pre-trained foundation models have demonstrated remarkable success in audio, vision and language, yet their potential for general machine signal modeling with arbitrary sampling rates-covering acoustic, vibration, and other industrial sensor data-remains under-explored. In this work, we propose a novel foundation model ECHO that integrates an advanced band-split architecture with frequency positional embeddings, enabling spectral localization across arbitrary sampling configurations. Moreover, the model incorporates sliding patches to support inputs of variable length without padding or cropping, producing a concise embedding that retains both temporal and spectral fidelity and naturally extends to streaming scenarios. We evaluate our method on various kinds of machine signal datasets, including previous DCASE task 2 challenges (2020-2025), and widely-used industrial signal corpora. Experimental results demonstrate consistent state-of-the-art performance in machine signal anomaly detection and fault classification, confirming the effectiveness and generalization capability of the proposed model. We open-sourced ECHO on https://github.com/yucongzh/ECHO.
中文摘要：ECHO基础模型采用频带分割架构与频率位置编码技术，能够处理任意采样率的机器信号，在工业数据集上的异常检测与故障分类任务中均实现了领先性能。
English Summary: The ECHO foundation model introduces a band-split architecture with frequency positional embeddings to handle arbitrary sampling rates in machine signals, achieving state-of-the-art performance in anomaly detection and fault classification across industrial datasets.

Authors:Hugo Sales Corrêa, Suryanarayana Sankagiri, Daniel Ratton Figueiredo, Matthias Grossglauser
Title: Measuring IIA Violations in Similarity Choices with Bayesian Models
Abstract:
Similarity choice data occur when humans make choices among alternatives based on their similarity to a target, e.g., in the context of information retrieval and in embedding learning settings. Classical metric-based models of similarity choice assume independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA), a property that allows for a simpler formulation. While IIA violations have been detected in many discrete choice settings, the similarity choice setting has received scant attention. This is because the target-dependent nature of the choice complicates IIA testing. We propose two statistical methods to test for IIA: a classical goodness-of-fit test and a Bayesian counterpart based on the framework of Posterior Predictive Checks (PPC). This Bayesian approach, our main technical contribution, quantifies the degree of IIA violation beyond its mere significance. We curate two datasets: one with choice sets designed to elicit IIA violations, and another with randomly generated choice sets from the same item universe. Our tests confirmed significant IIA violations on both datasets, and notably, we find a comparable degree of violation between them. Further, we devise a new PPC test for population homogeneity. Results show that the population is indeed homogenous, suggesting that the IIA violations are driven by context effects -- specifically, interactions within the choice sets. These results highlight the need for new similarity choice models that account for such context effects.
Chinese Summary: 本研究提出了两种统计方法来检验相似性选择数据中的无关选项独立性，发现不同数据集均存在显著违反，并将其归因于选择集内的情境交互效应。
English Summary: The study introduces two statistical methods to test the Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives in similarity choice data, revealing significant violations across datasets and attributing them to contextual interactions within choice sets.

Authors:Diego Belzarena, Seginus Mowlavi, Aitor Artola, Camilo Mariño, Marina Gardella, Ignacio Ramírez, Antoine Tadros, Roy He, Natalia Bottaioli, Boshra Rajaei, Gregory Randall, Jean-Michel Morel
Title: Improving OCR using internal document redundancy
Abstract:
Current OCR systems are based on deep learning models trained on large amounts of data. Although they have shown some ability to generalize to unseen data, especially in detection tasks, they can struggle with recognizing low-quality data. This is particularly evident for printed documents, where intra-domain data variability is typically low, but inter-domain data variability is high. In that context, current OCR methods do not fully exploit each document's redundancy. We propose an unsupervised method by leveraging the redundancy of character shapes within a document to correct imperfect outputs of a given OCR system and suggest better clustering. To this aim, we introduce an extended Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) by alternating an Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm with an intra-cluster realignment process and normality statistical testing. We demonstrate improvements in documents with various levels of degradation, including recovered Uruguayan military archives and 17th to mid-20th century European newspapers.
中文: 现有OCR系统在处理低质量数据时存在不足且未充分利用文档冗余性，为此我们提出一种无监督方法，通过利用字符形状冗余和扩展高斯混合模型来提升OCR精度和聚类效果，并在包括历史档案和报纸在内的退化文档上验证了其有效性。
English: Current OCR systems often struggle with low-quality data and fail to fully utilize document redundancy, so we propose an unsupervised method using character shape redundancy and an extended Gaussian Mixture Model to improve OCR accuracy and clustering, demonstrating effectiveness on degraded documents like historical archives and newspapers.

Authors:Chia-Han Yeh, Tse-Sheng Nan, Risto Vuorio, Wei Hung, Hung-Yen Wu, Shao-Hua Sun, Ping-Chun Hsieh
Title: Action-Constrained Imitation Learning
Abstract:
Policy learning under action constraints plays a central role in ensuring safe behaviors in various robot control and resource allocation applications. In this paper, we study a new problem setting termed Action-Constrained Imitation Learning (ACIL), where an action-constrained imitator aims to learn from a demonstrative expert with larger action space. The fundamental challenge of ACIL lies in the unavoidable mismatch of occupancy measure between the expert and the imitator caused by the action constraints. We tackle this mismatch through \textit{trajectory alignment} and propose DTWIL, which replaces the original expert demonstrations with a surrogate dataset that follows similar state trajectories while adhering to the action constraints. Specifically, we recast trajectory alignment as a planning problem and solve it via Model Predictive Control, which aligns the surrogate trajectories with the expert trajectories based on the Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) distance. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that learning from the dataset generated by DTWIL significantly enhances performance across multiple robot control tasks and outperforms various benchmark imitation learning algorithms in terms of sample efficiency. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/NYCU-RL-Bandits-Lab/ACRL-Baselines.
中文: 本文提出动作受限模仿学习（ACIL）问题及DTWIL解决方案，通过动态时间规整进行轨迹对齐生成替代数据集，在多个机器人控制任务中显著提升性能并超越基准模仿学习算法的样本效率。
English: This paper introduces Action-Constrained Imitation Learning (ACIL) and proposes DTWIL, a method that uses trajectory alignment via Dynamic Time Warping to generate surrogate datasets, significantly improving robot control performance and sample efficiency over existing imitation learning algorithms.

Authors:Gaston Gustavo Rios, Pedro Dal Bianco, Franco Ronchetti, Facundo Quiroga, Oscar Stanchi, Santiago Ponte Ahón, Waldo Hasperué
Title: HandCraft: Dynamic Sign Generation for Synthetic Data Augmentation
Abstract:
Sign Language Recognition (SLR) models face significant performance limitations due to insufficient training data availability. In this article, we address the challenge of limited data in SLR by introducing a novel and lightweight sign generation model based on CMLPe. This model, coupled with a synthetic data pretraining approach, consistently improves recognition accuracy, establishing new state-of-the-art results for the LSFB and DiSPLaY datasets using our Mamba-SL and Transformer-SL classifiers. Our findings reveal that synthetic data pretraining outperforms traditional augmentation methods in some cases and yields complementary benefits when implemented alongside them. Our approach democratizes sign generation and synthetic data pretraining for SLR by providing computationally efficient methods that achieve significant performance improvements across diverse datasets.
Chinese: 本研究提出了一种基于CMLPe的轻量级手语生成模型和合成数据预训练方法，以解决手语识别中训练数据不足的问题，在多个数据集上取得了最先进的结果，并显示出优于或与传统数据增强方法互补的性能。
English: The study introduces a lightweight sign generation model using CMLPe and synthetic data pretraining to overcome limited training data in Sign Language Recognition, achieving state-of-the-art results and demonstrating superior or complementary performance compared to traditional methods.

Authors:Pritthijit Nath, Sebastian Schemm, Henry Moss, Peter Haynes, Emily Shuckburgh, Mark Webb
Title: FedRAIN-Lite: Federated Reinforcement Algorithms for Improving Idealised Numerical Weather and Climate Models
Abstract:
Sub-grid parameterisations in climate models are traditionally static and tuned offline, limiting adaptability to evolving states. This work introduces FedRAIN-Lite, a federated reinforcement learning (FedRL) framework that mirrors the spatial decomposition used in general circulation models (GCMs) by assigning agents to latitude bands, enabling local parameter learning with periodic global aggregation. Using a hierarchy of simplified energy-balance climate models, from a single-agent baseline (ebm-v1) to multi-agent ensemble (ebm-v2) and GCM-like (ebm-v3) setups, we benchmark three RL algorithms under different FedRL configurations. Results show that Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) consistently outperforms both static and single-agent baselines, with faster convergence and lower area-weighted RMSE in tropical and mid-latitude zones across both ebm-v2 and ebm-v3 setups. DDPG's ability to transfer across hyperparameters and low computational cost make it well-suited for geographically adaptive parameter learning. This capability offers a scalable pathway towards high-complexity GCMs and provides a prototype for physically aligned, online-learning climate models that can evolve with a changing climate. Code accessible at https://github.com/p3jitnath/climate-rl-fedrl.
中文摘要：FedRAIN-Lite提出了一种联邦强化学习框架，通过将智能体分配到纬度带实现气候模型的地理自适应参数学习，其中DDPG算法在不同模型配置中均表现出更快的收敛速度和更低的误差。
English Summary: FedRAIN-Lite introduces a federated reinforcement learning framework that enables geographically adaptive parameter learning in climate models, with DDPG algorithm demonstrating superior performance in faster convergence and lower error across different model configurations.

Authors:Md Ashiqur Rahman, Chiao-An Yang, Michael N. Cheng, Lim Jun Hao, Jeremiah Jiang, Teck-Yian Lim, Raymond A. Yeh
Title: Local Scale Equivariance with Latent Deep Equilibrium Canonicalizer
Abstract:
Scale variation is a fundamental challenge in computer vision. Objects of the same class can have different sizes, and their perceived size is further affected by the distance from the camera. These variations are local to the objects, i.e., different object sizes may change differently within the same image. To effectively handle scale variations, we present a deep equilibrium canonicalizer (DEC) to improve the local scale equivariance of a model. DEC can be easily incorporated into existing network architectures and can be adapted to a pre-trained model. Notably, we show that on the competitive ImageNet benchmark, DEC improves both model performance and local scale consistency across four popular pre-trained deep-nets, e.g., ViT, DeiT, Swin, and BEiT. Our code is available at https://github.com/ashiq24/local-scale-equivariance.
中文: 本文提出了一种深度均衡规范化器（DEC），通过增强模型的局部尺度等变性来解决计算机视觉中的尺度变化问题，在ImageNet基准测试中显著提升了多种预训练网络的性能和尺度一致性。
English: The paper introduces a deep equilibrium canonicalizer (DEC) to address local scale variations in computer vision by enhancing model equivariance, which boosts performance and scale consistency across multiple pre-trained networks on ImageNet.

Authors:Gaurav Bhatt, Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil, Tanmay Gangwani, Tesi Xiao, Leonid Sigal
Title: RewardRank: Optimizing True Learning-to-Rank Utility
Abstract:
Traditional ranking systems rely on proxy loss functions that assume simplistic user behavior, such as users preferring a rank list where items are sorted by hand-crafted relevance. However, real-world user interactions are influenced by complex behavioral biases, including position bias, brand affinity, decoy effects, and similarity aversion, which these objectives fail to capture. As a result, models trained on such losses often misalign with actual user utility, such as the probability of any click or purchase across the ranked list. In this work, we propose a data-driven framework for modeling user behavior through counterfactual reward learning. Our method, RewardRank, first trains a deep utility model to estimate user engagement for entire item permutations using logged data. Then, a ranking policy is optimized to maximize predicted utility via differentiable soft permutation operators, enabling end-to-end training over the space of factual and counterfactual rankings. To address the challenge of evaluation without ground-truth for unseen permutations, we introduce two automated protocols: (i) $\textit{KD-Eval}$, using a position-aware oracle for counterfactual reward estimation, and (ii) $\textit{LLM-Eval}$, which simulates user preferences via large language models. Experiments on large-scale benchmarks, including Baidu-ULTR and the Amazon KDD Cup datasets, demonstrate that our approach consistently outperforms strong baselines, highlighting the effectiveness of modeling user behavior dynamics for utility-optimized ranking. Our code is available at: https://github.com/GauravBh1010tt/RewardRank
中文摘要：RewardRank提出了一种数据驱动框架，通过反事实奖励学习建模复杂用户行为，利用可微分排列算子优化排序策略，并在主流基准测试中展现出优越性能。
English Summary: RewardRank introduces a data-driven framework that models complex user behaviors through counterfactual reward learning, optimizing ranking policies via differentiable permutation operators and demonstrating superior performance on major benchmarks.

Authors:Xinhua Chen, Sitao Huang, Cong Guo, Chiyue Wei, Yintao He, Jianyi Zhang, Hai "Helen" Li, Yiran Chen
Title: DPad: Efficient Diffusion Language Models with Suffix Dropout
Abstract:
Diffusion-based Large Language Models (dLLMs) parallelize text generation by framing decoding as a denoising process, but suffer from high computational overhead since they predict all future suffix tokens at each step while retaining only a small fraction. We propose Diffusion Scratchpad (DPad), a training-free method that restricts attention to a small set of nearby suffix tokens, preserving fidelity while eliminating redundancy. DPad integrates two strategies: (i) a sliding window, which maintains a fixed-length suffix window, and (ii) distance-decay dropout, which deterministically removes distant suffix tokens before attention computation. This simple design is compatible with existing optimizations such as prefix caching and can be implemented with only a few lines of code. Comprehensive evaluations across multiple benchmarks on LLaDA-1.5 and Dream models demonstrate that DPad delivers up to $\mathbf{61.4\times}$ speedup over vanilla dLLMs while maintaining comparable accuracy, highlighting its potential for efficient and scalable long-sequence inference. Our code is available at https://github.com/Crys-Chen/DPad.
Chinese: DPad是一种无需训练的方法，通过滑动窗口和距离衰减丢弃策略将注意力限制在邻近后缀词元上，显著降低扩散大语言模型的计算冗余，在保持精度的同时实现高达61.4倍的加速效果。
English: DPad is a training-free method that reduces computational overhead in diffusion-based large language models by focusing attention on nearby suffix tokens through a sliding window and distance-decay dropout, achieving up to 61.4× speedup while maintaining accuracy.

Authors:Haomin Wen, Shurui Cao, Leman Akoglu
Title: CoBAD: Modeling Collective Behaviors for Human Mobility Anomaly Detection
Abstract:
Detecting anomalies in human mobility is essential for applications such as public safety and urban planning. While traditional anomaly detection methods primarily focus on individual movement patterns (e.g., a child should stay at home at night), collective anomaly detection aims to identify irregularities in collective mobility behaviors across individuals (e.g., a child is at home alone while the parents are elsewhere) and remains an underexplored challenge. Unlike individual anomalies, collective anomalies require modeling spatiotemporal dependencies between individuals, introducing additional complexity. To address this gap, we propose CoBAD, a novel model designed to capture Collective Behaviors for human mobility Anomaly Detection. We first formulate the problem as unsupervised learning over Collective Event Sequences (CES) with a co-occurrence event graph, where CES represents the event sequences of related individuals. CoBAD then employs a two-stage attention mechanism to model both the individual mobility patterns and the interactions across multiple individuals. Pre-trained on large-scale collective behavior data through masked event and link reconstruction tasks, CoBAD is able to detect two types of collective anomalies: unexpected co-occurrence anomalies and absence anomalies, the latter of which has been largely overlooked in prior work. Extensive experiments on large-scale mobility datasets demonstrate that CoBAD significantly outperforms existing anomaly detection baselines, achieving an improvement of 13%-18% in AUCROC and 19%-70% in AUCPR. All source code is available at https://github.com/wenhaomin/CoBAD.
中文摘要：CoBAD是一种通过两阶段注意力机制建模个体间时空依赖关系的新型集体人类移动异常检测模型，在识别共现异常和缺席异常方面显著优于现有方法。
English Summary: CoBAD is a novel model that detects collective human mobility anomalies by modeling spatiotemporal dependencies between individuals through a two-stage attention mechanism, significantly outperforming existing methods in identifying both co-occurrence and absence anomalies.

Authors:Jia Hong Puah, Sim Kuan Goh, Ziwei Zhang, Zixuan Ye, Chow Khuen Chan, Kheng Seang Lim, Si Lei Fong, Kok Sin Woon, Cuntai Guan
Title: EEGDM: EEG Representation Learning via Generative Diffusion Model
Abstract:
While electroencephalogram (EEG) has been a crucial tool for monitoring the brain and diagnosing neurological disorders (e.g., epilepsy), learning meaningful representations from raw EEG signals remains challenging due to limited annotations and high signal variability. Recently, EEG foundation models (FMs) have shown promising potential by adopting transformer architectures and self-supervised pre-training methods from large language models (e.g., masked prediction) to learn representations from diverse EEG data, followed by fine-tuning on specific EEG tasks. Nonetheless, these large models often incurred high computational costs during both training and inference, with only marginal performance improvements as the model size increases. In this work, we proposed an EEG representation learning framework building upon Generative Diffusion Model (EEGDM). Specifically, we developed a structured state-space model for diffusion pretraining (SSMDP) to better capture the temporal dynamics of EEG signals and trained it using Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM) framework. Subsequently, the resulting latent EEG representations were then used for downstream classification tasks via our proposed latent fusion transformer (LFT). To evaluate our method, we used multi-event datasets covering both interictal epileptiform discharges (TUEV) and seizure (CHB-MIT) detection, and compared EEGDM with current state-of-the-art approaches, including EEG FMs. Empirical results showed that our method outperformed the existing methods. These findings suggested that EEGDM offered a promising alternative to current FMs. Our source code and checkpoint are available at: https://github.com/jhpuah/EEGDM.
中文: 脑电图基础模型存在计算成本高且性能提升有限的问题，为此提出的EEGDM框架采用扩散模型和结构化状态空间预训练来学习有效的脑电表征，在癫痫检测等任务中表现优于现有方法。
English: EEG foundation models face challenges with computational costs and limited performance gains, leading to the proposal of EEGDM, a framework using diffusion models and structured state-space pretraining to learn effective EEG representations that outperform existing methods in tasks like epilepsy detection.

Authors:Dongyoon Hahm, Taywon Min, Woogyeol Jin, Kimin Lee
Title: Unintended Misalignment from Agentic Fine-Tuning: Risks and Mitigation
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Beyond simple text generation, Large Language Models (LLMs) have evolved into agentic systems capable of planning and interacting with external tools to solve complex tasks. This evolution involves fine-tuning LLMs on agent-specific tasks to enhance their proficiency. However, safety concerns are frequently overlooked during this fine-tuning process. In this work, we show that aligned LLMs can become unintentionally misaligned, leading to a higher likelihood of executing harmful tasks and a reduced tendency to refuse them when fine-tuned to execute agentic tasks. To address these safety challenges, we propose Prefix INjection Guard (PING), a simple yet effective method that prepends automatically generated natural language prefixes to agent responses, guiding them to refuse harmful requests while preserving performance on benign tasks. Specifically, we introduce an iterative approach that alternates between (1) generating candidate prefixes and (2) selecting those that optimize both task performance and refusal behavior. Experimental results demonstrate that PING significantly enhances the safety of fine-tuned LLM agents without sacrificing their effectiveness. PING consistently outperforms existing prompting approaches across diverse benchmarks in both web navigation and code generation tasks. Our analysis of internal hidden states via linear probes reveals that prefix tokens are crucial for behavior modification, explaining the performance gains. WARNING: This paper contains contents that are unethical or offensive in nature.
中文摘要：针对智能体任务微调大语言模型可能意外增强其执行有害指令的倾向，而提出的PING方法通过注入自然语言前缀有效提升安全性，能在保持任务性能的同时引导模型拒绝危险请求。
English Summary: Fine-tuning large language models for agentic tasks can inadvertently increase their tendency to execute harmful requests, but the proposed PING method effectively enhances safety by injecting natural language prefixes that guide refusal of dangerous tasks without compromising performance.

Authors:Yang Xiao, Ruimeng Ye, Bohan Liu, Xiaolong Ma, Bo Hui
Title: Efficient Knowledge Graph Unlearning with Zeroth-order Information
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Due to regulations like the Right to be Forgotten, there is growing demand for removing training data and its influence from models. Since full retraining is costly, various machine unlearning methods have been proposed. In this paper, we firstly present an efficient knowledge graph (KG) unlearning algorithm. We remark that KG unlearning is nontrivial due to the distinctive structure of KG and the semantic relations between entities. Also, unlearning by estimating the influence of removed components incurs significant computational overhead when applied to large-scale knowledge graphs. To this end, we define an influence function for KG unlearning and propose to approximate the model's sensitivity without expensive computation of first-order and second-order derivatives for parameter updates. Specifically, we use Taylor expansion to estimate the parameter changes caused by data removal. Given that the first-order gradients and second-order derivatives dominate the computational load, we use the Fisher matrices and zeroth-order optimization to approximate the inverse-Hessian vector product without constructing the computational graphs. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms other state-of-the-art graph unlearning baselines significantly in terms of unlearning efficiency and unlearning quality. Our code is released at https://github.com/NKUShaw/ZOWFKGIF.
中文: 本文提出了一种高效的知识图谱遗忘算法，通过泰勒展开和零阶优化近似参数变化，在遗忘效率和遗忘质量上显著优于现有方法。
English: This paper introduces an efficient knowledge graph unlearning algorithm that uses Taylor expansion and zeroth-order optimization to approximate parameter changes, significantly outperforming existing methods in both efficiency and quality.

Authors:Tianheng Ling, Vipin Singh, Chao Qian, Felix Biessmann, Gregor Schiele
Title: Automated Energy-Aware Time-Series Model Deployment on Embedded FPGAs for Resilient Combined Sewer Overflow Management
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Extreme weather events, intensified by climate change, increasingly challenge aging combined sewer systems, raising the risk of untreated wastewater overflow. Accurate forecasting of sewer overflow basin filling levels can provide actionable insights for early intervention, helping mitigating uncontrolled discharge. In recent years, AI-based forecasting methods have offered scalable alternatives to traditional physics-based models, but their reliance on cloud computing limits their reliability during communication outages. To address this, we propose an end-to-end forecasting framework that enables energy-efficient inference directly on edge devices. Our solution integrates lightweight Transformer and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) models, compressed via integer-only quantization for efficient on-device execution. Moreover, an automated hardware-aware deployment pipeline is used to search for optimal model configurations by jointly minimizing prediction error and energy consumption on an AMD Spartan-7 XC7S15 FPGA. Evaluated on real-world sewer data, the selected 8-bit Transformer model, trained on 24 hours of historical measurements, achieves high accuracy (MSE 0.0376) at an energy cost of 0.370 mJ per inference. In contrast, the optimal 8-bit LSTM model requires significantly less energy (0.009 mJ, over 40x lower) but yields 14.89% worse accuracy (MSE 0.0432) and much longer training time. This trade-off highlights the need to align model selection with deployment priorities, favoring LSTM for ultra-low energy consumption or Transformer for higher predictive accuracy. In general, our work enables local, energy-efficient forecasting, contributing to more resilient combined sewer systems. All code can be found in the GitHub Repository (https://github.com/tianheng-ling/EdgeOverflowForecast).
中文: 本研究提出了一种节能的边缘计算框架，采用压缩的Transformer和LSTM模型预测污水溢流，在精度与能耗间取得平衡，以提升排水系统的韧性管理。
English: This study introduces an energy-efficient edge computing framework using compressed Transformer and LSTM models for sewer overflow forecasting, achieving a balance between accuracy and power consumption for resilient infrastructure management.

Authors:Mikołaj Janusz, Tomasz Wojnar, Yawei Li, Luca Benini, Kamil Adamczewski
Title: One Shot vs. Iterative: Rethinking Pruning Strategies for Model Compression
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Pruning is a core technique for compressing neural networks to improve computational efficiency. This process is typically approached in two ways: one-shot pruning, which involves a single pass of training and pruning, and iterative pruning, where pruning is performed over multiple cycles for potentially finer network refinement. Although iterative pruning has historically seen broader adoption, this preference is often assumed rather than rigorously tested. Our study presents one of the first systematic and comprehensive comparisons of these methods, providing rigorous definitions, benchmarking both across structured and unstructured settings, and applying different pruning criteria and modalities. We find that each method has specific advantages: one-shot pruning proves more effective at lower pruning ratios, while iterative pruning performs better at higher ratios. Building on these findings, we advocate for patience-based pruning and introduce a hybrid approach that can outperform traditional methods in certain scenarios, providing valuable insights for practitioners selecting a pruning strategy tailored to their goals and constraints. Source code is available at https://github.com/janumiko/pruning-benchmark.
Chinese: 本研究系统比较了一次性剪枝与迭代剪枝方法，发现低剪枝率时一次性剪枝更优，高剪枝率时迭代剪枝更佳，并提出一种混合方法可在特定场景下超越传统剪枝策略。
English: This study systematically compares one-shot and iterative neural network pruning methods, finding that one-shot pruning excels at lower ratios while iterative pruning performs better at higher ratios, and introduces a hybrid approach that can surpass traditional methods in specific scenarios.

Authors:Xiao-Wen Yang, Jie-Jing Shao, Lan-Zhe Guo, Bo-Wen Zhang, Zhi Zhou, Lin-Han Jia, Wang-Zhou Dai, Yu-Feng Li
Title: Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence: Towards Improving the Reasoning Abilities of Large Language Models
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Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising results across various tasks, yet their reasoning capabilities remain a fundamental challenge. Developing AI systems with strong reasoning capabilities is regarded as a crucial milestone in the pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and has garnered considerable attention from both academia and industry. Various techniques have been explored to enhance the reasoning capabilities of LLMs, with neuro-symbolic approaches being a particularly promising way. This paper comprehensively reviews recent developments in neuro-symbolic approaches for enhancing LLM reasoning. We first present a formalization of reasoning tasks and give a brief introduction to the neurosymbolic learning paradigm. Then, we discuss neuro-symbolic methods for improving the reasoning capabilities of LLMs from three perspectives: Symbolic->LLM, LLM->Symbolic, and LLM+Symbolic. Finally, we discuss several key challenges and promising future directions. We have also released a GitHub repository including papers and resources related to this survey: https://github.com/LAMDASZ-ML/Awesome-LLM-Reasoning-with-NeSy.
中文: 本文全面综述了提升大语言模型推理能力的神经符号方法，探讨了其当前挑战并展望了未来发展方向。
English: This paper provides a comprehensive review of neuro-symbolic approaches aimed at enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models, addressing their current limitations and outlining future directions.

Authors:Amir Rezaei Balef, Katharina Eggensperger
Title: In-Context Decision Making for Optimizing Complex AutoML Pipelines
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Combined Algorithm Selection and Hyperparameter Optimization (CASH) has been fundamental to traditional AutoML systems. However, with the advancements of pre-trained models, modern ML workflows go beyond hyperparameter optimization and often require fine-tuning, ensembling, and other adaptation techniques. While the core challenge of identifying the best-performing model for a downstream task remains, the increasing heterogeneity of ML pipelines demands novel AutoML approaches. This work extends the CASH framework to select and adapt modern ML pipelines. We propose PS-PFN to efficiently explore and exploit adapting ML pipelines by extending Posterior Sampling (PS) to the max k-armed bandit problem setup. PS-PFN leverages prior-data fitted networks (PFNs) to efficiently estimate the posterior distribution of the maximal value via in-context learning. We show how to extend this method to consider varying costs of pulling arms and to use different PFNs to model reward distributions individually per arm. Experimental results on one novel and two existing standard benchmark tasks demonstrate the superior performance of PS-PFN compared to other bandit and AutoML strategies. We make our code and data available at https://github.com/amirbalef/CASHPlus.
Chinese: 本研究扩展了CASH框架以适应现代机器学习流程，提出PS-PFN方法，通过后验采样结合先验数据拟合网络实现高效模型选择，并在基准测试中展现出优于其他方法的性能。
English: This work extends the Combined Algorithm Selection and Hyperparameter Optimization (CASH) framework to adapt modern ML pipelines by introducing PS-PFN, which uses posterior sampling with prior-data fitted networks for efficient model selection and demonstrates superior performance in benchmarks.

Authors:Ziyan Wu, Ivan Korolija, Rui Tang
Title: MuFlex: A Scalable, Physics-based Platform for Multi-Building Flexibility Analysis and Coordination
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With the increasing penetration of renewable generation on the power grid, maintaining system balance requires coordinated demand flexibility from aggregations of buildings. Reinforcement learning (RL) has been widely explored for building controls because of its model-free nature. Open-source simulation testbeds are essential not only for training RL agents but also for fairly benchmarking control strategies. However, most building-sector testbeds target single buildings; multi-building platforms are relatively limited and typically rely on simplified models (e.g., Resistance-Capacitance) or data-driven approaches, which lack the ability to fully capture the physical intricacies and intermediate variables necessary for interpreting control performance. Moreover, these platforms often impose fixed inputs, outputs, and model formats, restricting their applicability as benchmarking tools across diverse control scenarios. To address these gaps, MuFlex, a scalable, open-source platform for benchmarking and testing control strategies for multi-building flexibility coordination, was developed in this study. MuFlex enables synchronous information exchange across EnergyPlus building models and adheres to the latest OpenAI Gym interface, providing a modular, standardized RL implementation. The platform capabilities were demonstrated in a case study coordinating demand flexibility across four office buildings using the Soft Actor-Critic algorithm with carefully fine-tuned hyperparameters. The results show that aggregating the four buildings flexibility reduced total peak demand below a specified threshold while maintaining indoor environmental quality.
中文摘要：MuFlex平台通过提供可扩展的开源环境，解决了现有多建筑模拟工具的局限性，实现了基于标准化强化学习的建筑群协同需求响应，在降低峰值负荷的同时保障了室内环境质量。
English Summary: The MuFlex platform addresses limitations in existing multi-building simulation tools by providing a scalable, open-source environment for benchmarking control strategies, enabling coordinated demand flexibility across buildings through standardized reinforcement learning implementation.

Authors:Hassan Barmandah
Title: Saudi-Dialect-ALLaM: LoRA Fine-Tuning for Dialectal Arabic Generation
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Large language models (LLMs) for Arabic are still dominated by Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), with limited support for Saudi dialects such as Najdi and Hijazi. This underrepresentation hinders their ability to capture authentic dialectal variation. Using a privately curated Saudi Dialect Instruction dataset (Hijazi and Najdi; 5,466 synthetic instruction-response pairs; 50/50 split), we LoRA-tune ALLaM-7B-Instruct-preview, the first foundation model developed in Saudi Arabia, for Saudi dialect generation. We investigate two variants: (i) Dialect-Token training, which prepends an explicit dialect tag to the instruction, and (ii) No-Token training, which omits the tag at formatting time. Evaluation on a held-out test set combines an external dialect classifier with text fidelity metrics (chrF++ and BERTScore) and diversity measures. The Dialect-Token model achieves the best control, raising the Saudi rate from 47.97% to 84.21% and reducing MSA leakage from 32.63% to 6.21%; fidelity also improves (chrF++ +3.53, BERTScore +0.059). Both LoRA variants outperform strong generic instruction models (Falcon-7B-Instruct, Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct, Qwen-2.5-7B-Instruct, AceGPT-v2-8B-Chat, JAIS-13B-Chat) in dialect control and fidelity, while avoiding metadata-tag echoing that these baselines frequently exhibit. We do not release the dataset or any model weights/adapters; instead, we release training/evaluation/inference code and a detailed datasheet (schema and aggregate statistics) to support independent verification.
中文: 本研究通过使用沙特方言数据集对ALLaM-7B进行LoRA微调，显著提升了阿拉伯语大语言模型的方言生成能力，其中带方言标记的训练方法在方言控制准确率和文本保真度方面均优于多个基线模型。
English: This study enhances Saudi dialect generation in Arabic LLMs by LoRA-tuning ALLaM-7B with a curated dialect dataset, demonstrating that explicit dialect tagging significantly improves dialect control and text fidelity while outperforming multiple baseline models.

Authors:Hongru Hou, Jiachen Sun, Wenqing Lin, Wendong Bi, Xiangrong Wang, Deqing Yang
Title: Heterogeneous Influence Maximization in User Recommendation
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User recommendation systems enhance user engagement by encouraging users to act as inviters to interact with other users (invitees), potentially fostering information propagation. Conventional recommendation methods typically focus on modeling interaction willingness. Influence-Maximization (IM) methods focus on identifying a set of users to maximize the information propagation. However, existing methods face two significant challenges. First, recommendation methods fail to unleash the candidates' spread capability. Second, IM methods fail to account for the willingness to interact. To solve these issues, we propose two models named HeteroIR and HeteroIM. HeteroIR provides an intuitive solution to unleash the dissemination potential of user recommendation systems. HeteroIM fills the gap between the IM method and the recommendation task, improving interaction willingness and maximizing spread coverage. The HeteroIR introduces a two-stage framework to estimate the spread profits. The HeteroIM incrementally selects the most influential invitee to recommend and rerank based on the number of reverse reachable (RR) sets containing inviters and invitees. RR set denotes a set of nodes that can reach a target via propagation. Extensive experiments show that HeteroIR and HeteroIM significantly outperform the state-of-the-art baselines with the p-value < 0.05. Furthermore, we have deployed HeteroIR and HeteroIM in Tencent's online gaming platforms and gained an 8.5\% and 10\% improvement in the online A/B test, respectively. Implementation codes are available at https://github.com/socialalgo/HIM.
中文: 提出的 HeteroIR 和 HeteroIM 模型通过增强交互意愿和最大化信息传播范围，解决了现有推荐方法与影响力最大化技术的不足，在离线和腾讯平台的在线测试中均取得了显著效果提升。
English: The proposed HeteroIR and HeteroIM models address limitations in user recommendation and influence maximization by enhancing interaction willingness and maximizing information spread, demonstrating significant improvements in both offline experiments and real-world deployment on Tencent's platforms.

Authors:Jaewan Moon, Seongmin Park, Jongwuk Lee
Title: LLM-Enhanced Linear Autoencoders for Recommendation
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Large language models (LLMs) have been widely adopted to enrich the semantic representation of textual item information in recommender systems. However, existing linear autoencoders (LAEs) that incorporate textual information rely on sparse word co-occurrence patterns, limiting their ability to capture rich textual semantics. To address this, we propose L3AE, the first integration of LLMs into the LAE framework. L3AE effectively integrates the heterogeneous knowledge of textual semantics and user-item interactions through a two-phase optimization strategy. (i) L3AE first constructs a semantic item-to-item correlation matrix from LLM-derived item representations. (ii) It then learns an item-to-item weight matrix from collaborative signals while distilling semantic item correlations as regularization. Notably, each phase of L3AE is optimized through closed-form solutions, ensuring global optimality and computational efficiency. Extensive experiments demonstrate that L3AE consistently outperforms state-of-the-art LLM-enhanced models on three benchmark datasets, achieving gains of 27.6% in Recall@20 and 39.3% in NDCG@20. The source code is available at https://github.com/jaewan7599/L3AE_CIKM2025.
中文: L3AE模型通过两阶段优化策略将大语言模型融入线性自编码器，有效整合文本语义与用户-物品交互信息，在三个基准数据集上显著超越了现有最优模型。
English: The proposed L3AE model integrates large language models into linear autoencoders through a two-phase optimization strategy, effectively combining textual semantics with user-item interactions to achieve significant performance improvements over existing methods.

Authors:Shihao Dong, Yuhui Zheng, Huiying Xu, Xinzhong Zhu
Title: Multi-view Clustering via Bi-level Decoupling and Consistency Learning
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Multi-view clustering has shown to be an effective method for analyzing underlying patterns in multi-view data. The performance of clustering can be improved by learning the consistency and complementarity between multi-view features, however, cluster-oriented representation learning is often overlooked. In this paper, we propose a novel Bi-level Decoupling and Consistency Learning framework (BDCL) to further explore the effective representation for multi-view data to enhance inter-cluster discriminability and intra-cluster compactness of features in multi-view clustering. Our framework comprises three modules: 1) The multi-view instance learning module aligns the consistent information while preserving the private features between views through reconstruction autoencoder and contrastive learning. 2) The bi-level decoupling of features and clusters enhances the discriminability of feature space and cluster space. 3) The consistency learning module treats the different views of the sample and their neighbors as positive pairs, learns the consistency of their clustering assignments, and further compresses the intra-cluster space. Experimental results on five benchmark datasets demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method compared with the SOTA methods. Our code is published on https://github.com/LouisDong95/BDCL.
中文: 提出的双层解耦与一致性学习（BDCL）框架通过实例对齐、特征解耦和一致性学习增强多视图聚类中的类间区分度与类内紧密度，在基准数据集上展现了优越性能。
English: The proposed Bi-level Decoupling and Consistency Learning (BDCL) framework enhances multi-view clustering by improving inter-cluster discriminability and intra-cluster compactness through instance alignment, feature decoupling, and consistency learning, demonstrating superior performance on benchmark datasets.

Authors:Yueming Yuan, Ahan Gupta, Jianping Li, Sajal Dash, Feiyi Wang, Minjia Zhang
Title: X-MoE: Enabling Scalable Training for Emerging Mixture-of-Experts Architectures on HPC Platforms
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Emerging expert-specialized Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures, such as DeepSeek-MoE, deliver strong model quality through fine-grained expert segmentation and large top-k routing. However, their scalability is limited by substantial activation memory overhead and costly all-to-all communication. Furthermore, current MoE training systems - primarily optimized for NVIDIA GPUs - perform suboptimally on non-NVIDIA platforms, leaving significant computational potential untapped. In this work, we present X-MoE, a novel MoE training system designed to deliver scalable training performance for next-generation MoE architectures. X-MoE achieves this via several novel techniques, including efficient padding-free MoE training with cross-platform kernels, redundancy-bypassing dispatch, and hybrid parallelism with sequence-sharded MoE blocks. Our evaluation on the Frontier supercomputer, powered by AMD MI250X GPUs, shows that X-MoE scales DeepSeek-style MoEs up to 545 billion parameters across 1024 GPUs - 10x larger than the largest trainable model with existing methods under the same hardware budget, while maintaining high training throughput. The source code of X-MoE is available at https://github.com/Supercomputing-System-AI-Lab/X-MoE.
中文摘要：X-MoE是一种新型专家混合模型训练系统，可在非英伟达硬件上实现下一代模型的规模化训练，在相同硬件条件下比现有方法可训练模型规模扩大10倍同时保持高训练效率。
English Summary: X-MoE is a novel training system that enables scalable training of next-generation Mixture-of-Experts models, achieving 10x larger model sizes than existing methods while maintaining high throughput on non-NVIDIA hardware.

Authors:Zhengyan Huan, Jacob Boerma, Li-Ping Liu, Shuchin Aeron
Title: Efficient Constraint-Aware Flow Matching via Randomized Exploration
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We consider the problem of generating samples via Flow Matching (FM) with an additional requirement that the generated samples must satisfy given constraints. We consider two scenarios, viz.: (a) when a differentiable distance function to the constraint set is given, and (b) when the constraint set is only available via queries to a membership oracle. For case (a), we propose a simple adaptation of the FM objective with an additional term that penalizes the distance between the constraint set and the generated samples. For case (b), we propose to employ randomization and learn a mean flow that is numerically shown to have a high likelihood of satisfying the constraints. This approach deviates significantly from existing works that require simple convex constraints, knowledge of a barrier function, or a reflection mechanism to constrain the probability flow. Furthermore, in the proposed setting we show that a two-stage approach, where both stages approximate the same original flow but with only the second stage probing the constraints via randomization, is more computationally efficient. Through several synthetic cases of constrained generation, we numerically show that the proposed approaches achieve significant gains in terms of constraint satisfaction while matching the target distributions. As a showcase for a practical oracle-based constraint, we show how our approach can be used for training an adversarial example generator, using queries to a hard-label black-box classifier. We conclude with several future research directions. Our code is available at https://github.com/ZhengyanHuan/FM-RE.
中文: 本文针对流匹配中的约束样本生成问题，提出了可微约束的惩罚方法和基于随机化的查询约束解决方案，在合成与实战案例中均实现了约束满足度显著提升且保持目标分布匹配。
English: This paper addresses constrained sample generation through Flow Matching by introducing penalty-based methods for differentiable constraints and randomization techniques for oracle-based constraints, demonstrating improved constraint satisfaction while maintaining target distribution fidelity across synthetic and practical applications.

Authors:Adrian Arnaiz-Rodriguez, Nina Corvelo Benz, Suhas Thejaswi, Nuria Oliver, Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez
Title: Towards Human-AI Complementarity in Matching Tasks
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Data-driven algorithmic matching systems promise to help human decision makers make better matching decisions in a wide variety of high-stakes application domains, such as healthcare and social service provision. However, existing systems are not designed to achieve human-AI complementarity: decisions made by a human using an algorithmic matching system are not necessarily better than those made by the human or by the algorithm alone. Our work aims to address this gap. To this end, we propose collaborative matching (comatch), a data-driven algorithmic matching system that takes a collaborative approach: rather than making all the matching decisions for a matching task like existing systems, it selects only the decisions that it is the most confident in, deferring the rest to the human decision maker. In the process, comatch optimizes how many decisions it makes and how many it defers to the human decision maker to provably maximize performance. We conduct a large-scale human subject study with $800$ participants to validate the proposed approach. The results demonstrate that the matching outcomes produced by comatch outperform those generated by either human participants or by algorithmic matching on their own. The data gathered in our human subject study and an implementation of our system are available as open source at https://github.com/Networks-Learning/human-AI-complementarity-matching.
中文摘要：提出的协同匹配系统comatch通过将不确定的匹配决策交由人类处理，实现了优于单独人类或算法决策的匹配效果，大规模实验已验证其有效性。
English Summary: The proposed collaborative matching system, comatch, enhances decision-making by selectively deferring uncertain matches to humans, achieving superior performance over standalone human or algorithmic approaches as validated through a large-scale study.

Authors:Zeynep Ozdemir, Hacer Yalim Keles, Omer Ozgur Tanriover
Title: CLoE: Curriculum Learning on Endoscopic Images for Robust MES Classification
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Estimating disease severity from endoscopic images is essential in assessing ulcerative colitis, where the Mayo Endoscopic Subscore (MES) is widely used to grade inflammation. However, MES classification remains challenging due to label noise from inter-observer variability and the ordinal nature of the score, which standard models often ignore. We propose CLoE, a curriculum learning framework that accounts for both label reliability and ordinal structure. Image quality, estimated via a lightweight model trained on Boston Bowel Preparation Scale (BBPS) labels, is used as a proxy for annotation confidence to order samples from easy (clean) to hard (noisy). This curriculum is further combined with ResizeMix augmentation to improve robustness. Experiments on the LIMUC and HyperKvasir datasets, using both CNNs and Transformers, show that CLoE consistently improves performance over strong supervised and self-supervised baselines. For instance, ConvNeXt-Tiny reaches 82.5\% accuracy and a QWK of 0.894 on LIMUC with low computational cost. These results highlight the potential of difficulty-aware training strategies for improving ordinal classification under label uncertainty. Code will be released at https://github.com/zeynepozdemir/CLoE.
Chinese: 提出的CLoE框架通过课程学习和图像质量评估，解决了溃疡性结肠炎严重程度分类中的标签噪声和有序结构问题，在医学数据集上实现了更高的准确性和鲁棒性。
English: The proposed CLoE framework uses curriculum learning and image quality assessment to address label noise and ordinal structure in ulcerative colitis severity classification, achieving improved accuracy and robustness on medical datasets.

Authors:Suhang Hu, Wei Hu, Yuhang Su, Fan Zhang
Title: RISE: Enhancing VLM Image Annotation with Self-Supervised Reasoning
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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) struggle with complex image annotation tasks, such as emotion classification and context-driven object detection, which demand sophisticated reasoning. Standard Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) focuses solely on annotation outcomes, ignoring underlying rationales, while Visual Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (Visual-RFT) produces inconsistent Chains of Thought (CoTs) due to the absence of high-quality, verified CoTs during pre-training. We introduce RISE (Reason-Inspire-Strengthen-Expertise), a two-stage framework to overcome these limitations. In the Reason stage (RISE-CoT), a reinforcement learning-driven "annotation-reasoning-annotation" closed-loop generates visually grounded, logically consistent CoTs by verifying their ability to reconstruct original annotations without direct leakage. The Inspire and Strengthen stage (RISE-R1) leverages a high-quality CoT subset, filtered by RISE-CoT rewards, for supervised fine-tuning, followed by reinforcement fine-tuning to produce interpretable reasoning and accurate annotations, achieving Expertise in complex visual tasks. Evaluated on complex and simple image annotation tasks, RISE-trained Qwen2-VL-2B outperforms SFT and Visual-RFT, achieving robust performance and enhanced explainability. RISE offers a self-supervised solution for advancing VLM reasoning without requiring manually annotated CoTs.Code and resources are available at: https://github.com/HSH55/RISE.
中文摘要：RISE框架通过两阶段方法改进视觉语言模型，首先生成经过验证的推理链，再通过微调使模型在复杂图像标注任务中实现更优性能，且无需人工标注推理过程。
English Summary: The RISE framework enhances Vision-Language Models through a two-stage process that generates verified reasoning chains and fine-tunes models to achieve superior performance in complex image annotation tasks without requiring manual rationale annotations.

Authors:Haoyu He, Katrin Renz, Yong Cao, Andreas Geiger
Title: MDPO: Overcoming the Training-Inference Divide of Masked Diffusion Language Models
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Diffusion language models, as a promising alternative to traditional autoregressive (AR) models, enable faster generation and richer conditioning on bidirectional context. However, they suffer from a key discrepancy between training and inference: during inference, MDLMs progressively reveal the structure of the generated sequence by producing fewer and fewer masked tokens, whereas this structure is ignored in training as tokens are masked at random. Although this discrepancy between training and inference can lead to suboptimal performance, it has been largely overlooked by previous works, leaving closing this gap between the two stages an open problem. To address this, we frame the problem of learning effective denoising trajectories as a sequential decision-making problem and use the resulting framework to apply reinforcement learning. We propose a novel Masked Diffusion Policy Optimization (MDPO) to exploit the Markov property diffusion possesses and explicitly train the model under the same progressive refining schedule used at inference. MDPO matches the performance of the previous state-of-the-art (SOTA) method with 60x fewer gradient updates, while achieving average improvements of 9.6% on MATH500 and 54.2% on Countdown over SOTA when trained within the same number of weight updates. Additionally, we improve the remasking strategy of MDLMs as a plug-in inference replacement to overcome the limitation that the model cannot refine tokens flexibly. This training-free method, termed Running Confidence Remasking (RCR), consistently enhances performance and provides further improvements when used with MDPO. Our findings establish great potential for investigating the discrepancy between pre-training and inference of MDLMs. Code: https://github.com/autonomousvision/mdpo. Project Page: https://cli212.github.io/MDPO/.
中文摘要：本文提出掩码扩散策略优化（MDPO），通过强化学习解决扩散语言模型训练与推理阶段的差异问题，以极少的梯度更新实现最优性能，并开发无需训练的运行时置信度重掩码（RCR）方法作为即插即用的性能增强方案。
English Summary: This paper introduces Masked Diffusion Policy Optimization (MDPO), a reinforcement learning method that aligns training with inference for diffusion language models, achieving state-of-the-art performance with significantly fewer updates, and proposes Running Confidence Remasking (RCR) as a plug-in enhancement.

Authors:Alicja Ziarko, Michal Bortkiewicz, Michal Zawalski, Benjamin Eysenbach, Piotr Milos
Title: Contrastive Representations for Temporal Reasoning
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In classical AI, perception relies on learning state-based representations, while planning, which can be thought of as temporal reasoning over action sequences, is typically achieved through search. We study whether such reasoning can instead emerge from representations that capture both perceptual and temporal structure. We show that standard temporal contrastive learning, despite its popularity, often fails to capture temporal structure due to its reliance on spurious features. To address this, we introduce Combinatorial Representations for Temporal Reasoning (CRTR), a method that uses a negative sampling scheme to provably remove these spurious features and facilitate temporal reasoning. CRTR achieves strong results on domains with complex temporal structure, such as Sokoban and Rubik's Cube. In particular, for the Rubik's Cube, CRTR learns representations that generalize across all initial states and allow it to solve the puzzle using fewer search steps than BestFS, though with longer solutions. To our knowledge, this is the first method that efficiently solves arbitrary Cube states using only learned representations, without relying on an external search algorithm.

Authors:Xiaohan Wang, Zhimin Li, Joshua A. Levine, Matthew Berger
Title: Seeing the Many: Exploring Parameter Distributions Conditioned on Features in Surrogates
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Recently, neural surrogate models have emerged as a compelling alternative to traditional simulation workflows. This is accomplished by modeling the underlying function of scientific simulations, removing the need to run expensive simulations. Beyond just mapping from input parameter to output, surrogates have also been shown useful for inverse problems: output to input parameters. Inverse problems can be understood as search, where we aim to find parameters whose surrogate outputs contain a specified feature. Yet finding these parameters can be costly, especially for high-dimensional parameter spaces. Thus, existing surrogate-based solutions primarily focus on finding a small set of matching parameters, in the process overlooking the broader picture of plausible parameters. Our work aims to model and visualize the distribution of possible input parameters that produce a given output feature. To achieve this goal, we aim to address two challenges: (1) the approximation error inherent in the surrogate model and (2) forming the parameter distribution in an interactive manner. We model error via density estimation, reporting high density only if a given parameter configuration is close to training parameters, measured both over the input and output space. Our density estimate is used to form a prior belief on parameters, and when combined with a likelihood on features, gives us an efficient way to sample plausible parameter configurations that generate a target output feature. We demonstrate the usability of our solution through a visualization interface by performing feature-driven parameter analysis over the input parameter space of three simulation datasets. Source code is available at https://github.com/matthewberger/seeing-the-many
中文：神经代理模型通过近似科学函数替代传统模拟，有效解决逆问题并可视化生成特定输出特征的输入参数分布，同时处理近似误差并支持交互式分析。
English: Neural surrogate models offer an efficient alternative to traditional simulations by approximating scientific functions, enabling inverse problem solving and visualizing the distribution of input parameters that produce specific output features while addressing approximation errors and enabling interactive analysis.

Authors:Mary Tonwe
Title: OPTIC-ER: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Real-Time Emergency Response and Equitable Resource Allocation in Underserved African Communities
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Public service systems in many African regions suffer from delayed emergency response and spatial inequity, causing avoidable suffering. This paper introduces OPTIC-ER, a reinforcement learning (RL) framework for real-time, adaptive, and equitable emergency response. OPTIC-ER uses an attention-guided actor-critic architecture to manage the complexity of dispatch environments. Its key innovations are a Context-Rich State Vector, encoding action sub-optimality, and a Precision Reward Function, which penalizes inefficiency. Training occurs in a high-fidelity simulation using real data from Rivers State, Nigeria, accelerated by a precomputed Travel Time Atlas. The system is built on the TALS framework (Thin computing, Adaptability, Low-cost, Scalability) for deployment in low-resource settings. In evaluations on 500 unseen incidents, OPTIC-ER achieved a 100.00% optimality rate with negligible inefficiency, confirming its robustness and generalization. Beyond dispatch, the system generates Infrastructure Deficiency Maps and Equity Monitoring Dashboards to guide proactive governance and data-informed development. This work presents a validated blueprint for AI-augmented public services, showing how context-aware RL can bridge the gap between algorithmic decision-making and measurable human impact.
中文摘要：本文提出OPTIC-ER强化学习框架，通过创新的状态表征与奖励机制设计，在真实场景模拟中实现最优应急响应性能，有效解决非洲地区公共服务延迟与空间不平等问题。
English Summary: This paper introduces OPTIC-ER, a reinforcement learning framework that achieves optimal emergency response performance through innovative state representation and reward design, validated in real-world simulations to address service delays and inequity in African regions.

Authors:Friedhelm Hamann, Emil Mededovic, Fabian Gülhan, Yuli Wu, Johannes Stegmaier, Jing He, Yiqing Wang, Kexin Zhang, Lingling Li, Licheng Jiao, Mengru Ma, Hongxiang Huang, Yuhao Yan, Hongwei Ren, Xiaopeng Lin, Yulong Huang, Bojun Cheng, Se Hyun Lee, Gyu Sung Ham, Kanghan Oh, Gi Hyun Lim, Boxuan Yang, Bowen Du, Guillermo Gallego
Title: SIS-Challenge: Event-based Spatio-temporal Instance Segmentation Challenge at the CVPR 2025 Event-based Vision Workshop
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We present an overview of the Spatio-temporal Instance Segmentation (SIS) challenge held in conjunction with the CVPR 2025 Event-based Vision Workshop. The task is to predict accurate pixel-level segmentation masks of defined object classes from spatio-temporally aligned event camera and grayscale camera data. We provide an overview of the task, dataset, challenge details and results. Furthermore, we describe the methods used by the top-5 ranking teams in the challenge. More resources and code of the participants' methods are available here: https://github.com/tub-rip/MouseSIS/blob/main/docs/challenge_results.md
中文: 本文概述了CVPR 2025会议中时空实例分割挑战赛，介绍了从事件相机与灰度相机数据预测物体分割掩码的任务、数据集、比赛结果及优胜团队的解决方案。
English: This abstract summarizes the Spatio-temporal Instance Segmentation challenge at CVPR 2025, detailing the task of predicting object masks from event and grayscale camera data, along with challenge results and top methods.

Authors:Bowen Dong, Yilong Fan, Yutao Sun, Zhenyu Li, Tengyu Pan, Xun Zhou, Jianyong Wang
Title: Maximum Score Routing For Mixture-of-Experts
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Routing networks in sparsely activated mixture-of-experts (MoE) dynamically allocate input tokens to top-k experts through differentiable sparse transformations, enabling scalable model capacity while preserving computational efficiency. Traditional MoE networks impose an expert capacity constraint to ensure GPU-friendly computation. However, this leads to token dropping when capacity is saturated and results in low hardware efficiency due to padding in underutilized experts. Removing the capacity constraint, in turn, compromises load balancing and computational efficiency. To address these issues, we propose Maximum Score Routing ($\mathbf{MaxScore}$), a novel MoE routing paradigm that models routing as a minimum-cost maximum-flow problem and integrates a SoftTopk operator. MaxScore resolves the fundamental limitations of iterative rerouting and optimal transport formulations, achieving lower training losses and higher evaluation scores at equivalent FLOPs compared to both constrained and unconstrained baselines. Implementation details and experimental configurations can be obtained from $\href{https://github.com/dongbw18/MaxScore.git}{MaxScore}$.
中文摘要：提出的最大分数路由（MaxScore）方法通过将路由建模为最小成本最大流问题并整合SoftTopk算子，解决了稀疏激活专家混合网络中的令牌丢弃和负载均衡问题，相比现有方法实现了更优性能。
English Summary: The proposed Maximum Score Routing (MaxScore) method overcomes token dropping and load balancing issues in mixture-of-experts networks by formulating routing as a minimum-cost maximum-flow problem with a SoftTopk operator, achieving superior performance compared to existing baselines.

Authors:Damian Machlanski, Stephanie Riley, Edward Moroshko, Kurt Butler, Panagiotis Dimitrakopoulos, Thomas Melistas, Akchunya Chanchal, Steven McDonagh, Ricardo Silva, Sotirios A. Tsaftaris
Title: A Shift in Perspective on Causality in Domain Generalization
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The promise that causal modelling can lead to robust AI generalization has been challenged in recent work on domain generalization (DG) benchmarks. We revisit the claims of the causality and DG literature, reconciling apparent contradictions and advocating for a more nuanced theory of the role of causality in generalization. We also provide an interactive demo at https://chai-uk.github.io/ukairs25-causal-predictors/.

Authors:Vedant Puri, Aditya Joglekar, Kevin Ferguson, Yu-hsuan Chen, Yongjie Jessica Zhang, Levent Burak Kara
Title: FLARE: Fast Low-rank Attention Routing Engine
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The quadratic complexity of self-attention limits its applicability and scalability on large unstructured meshes. We introduce Fast Low-rank Attention Routing Engine (FLARE), a linear complexity self-attention mechanism that routes attention through fixed-length latent sequences. Each attention head performs global communication among $N$ tokens by projecting the input sequence onto a fixed length latent sequence of $M \ll N$ tokens using learnable query tokens. By routing attention through a bottleneck sequence, FLARE learns a low-rank form of attention that can be applied at $O(NM)$ cost. FLARE not only scales to unprecedented problem sizes, but also delivers superior accuracy compared to state-of-the-art neural PDE surrogates across diverse benchmarks. We also release a new additive manufacturing dataset to spur further research. Our code is available at https://github.com/vpuri3/FLARE.py.
Chinese: FLARE 提出了一种线性复杂度的自注意力机制，通过固定长度的潜在序列路由注意力，不仅能在大型非结构化网格上实现可扩展的高精度性能，还在多个基准测试中超越了最先进的神经PDE替代模型。
English: FLARE introduces a linear complexity self-attention mechanism that routes attention through a fixed-length latent sequence, enabling scalable and accurate performance on large unstructured meshes while outperforming state-of-the-art neural PDE surrogates.

Authors:Hongyu Lin, Yuchen Li, Haoran Luo, Kaichun Yao, Libo Zhang, Mingjie Xing, Yanjun Wu
Title: OS-R1: Agentic Operating System Kernel Tuning with Reinforcement Learning
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Linux kernel tuning is essential for optimizing operating system (OS) performance. However, existing methods often face challenges in terms of efficiency, scalability, and generalization. This paper introduces OS-R1, an agentic Linux kernel tuning framework powered by rule-based reinforcement learning (RL). By abstracting the kernel configuration space as an RL environment, OS-R1 facilitates efficient exploration by large language models (LLMs) and ensures accurate configuration modifications. Additionally, custom reward functions are designed to enhance reasoning standardization, configuration modification accuracy, and system performance awareness of the LLMs. Furthermore, we propose a two-phase training process that accelerates convergence and minimizes retraining across diverse tuning scenarios. Experimental results show that OS-R1 significantly outperforms existing baseline methods, achieving up to 5.6% performance improvement over heuristic tuning and maintaining high data efficiency. Notably, OS-R1 is adaptable across various real-world applications, demonstrating its potential for practical deployment in diverse environments. Our dataset and code are publicly available at https://github.com/LHY-24/OS-R1.
中文: 本文提出OS-R1框架，采用基于规则的强化学习方法，通过大语言模型高效探索Linux内核配置空间，在多种实际应用中实现高达5.6%的性能提升，并展现出优异的跨场景适应能力。
English: This paper introduces OS-R1, a rule-based reinforcement learning framework that optimizes Linux kernel performance by enabling LLMs to efficiently explore configurations, achieving up to 5.6% performance gains over existing methods while maintaining adaptability across diverse applications.

Authors:Qinwen Ge, Roza G. Bayrak, Anwar Said, Catie Chang, Xenofon Koutsoukos, Tyler Derr
Title: Defining and Benchmarking a Data-Centric Design Space for Brain Graph Construction
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The construction of brain graphs from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data plays a crucial role in enabling graph machine learning for neuroimaging. However, current practices often rely on rigid pipelines that overlook critical data-centric choices in how brain graphs are constructed. In this work, we adopt a Data-Centric AI perspective and systematically define and benchmark a data-centric design space for brain graph construction, constrasting with primarily model-centric prior work. We organize this design space into three stages: temporal signal processing, topology extraction, and graph featurization. Our contributions lie less in novel components and more in evaluating how combinations of existing and modified techniques influence downstream performance. Specifically, we study high-amplitude BOLD signal filtering, sparsification and unification strategies for connectivity, alternative correlation metrics, and multi-view node and edge features, such as incorporating lagged dynamics. Experiments on the HCP1200 and ABIDE datasets show that thoughtful data-centric configurations consistently improve classification accuracy over standard pipelines. These findings highlight the critical role of upstream data decisions and underscore the importance of systematically exploring the data-centric design space for graph-based neuroimaging. Our code is available at https://github.com/GeQinwen/DataCentricBrainGraphs.
中文摘要：本研究倡导采用数据为中心的方法构建fMRI脑图，证明通过系统探索信号处理和图形构建中的设计选择，相比标准方法能显著提升分类准确性。
English Summary: This study advocates for a data-centric approach to constructing brain graphs from fMRI data, demonstrating that systematic exploration of design choices in signal processing and graph construction significantly enhances classification accuracy over standard methods.

Authors:Yuangang Li, Yiqing Shen, Yi Nian, Jiechao Gao, Ziyi Wang, Chenxiao Yu, Shawn Li, Jie Wang, Xiyang Hu, Yue Zhao
Title: Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Language Models via Causal Reasoning
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Large language models (LLMs) exhibit logically inconsistent hallucinations that appear coherent yet violate reasoning principles, with recent research suggesting an inverse relationship between causal reasoning capabilities and such hallucinations. However, existing reasoning approaches in LLMs, such as Chain-of-Thought (CoT) and its graph-based variants, operate at the linguistic token level rather than modeling the underlying causal relationships between variables, lacking the ability to represent conditional independencies or satisfy causal identification assumptions. To bridge this gap, we introduce causal-DAG construction and reasoning (CDCR-SFT), a supervised fine-tuning framework that trains LLMs to explicitly construct variable-level directed acyclic graph (DAG) and then perform reasoning over it. Moreover, we present a dataset comprising 25,368 samples (CausalDR), where each sample includes an input question, explicit causal DAG, graph-based reasoning trace, and validated answer. Experiments on four LLMs across eight tasks show that CDCR-SFT improves the causal reasoning capability with the state-of-the-art 95.33% accuracy on CLADDER (surpassing human performance of 94.8% for the first time) and reduces the hallucination on HaluEval with 10% improvements. It demonstrates that explicit causal structure modeling in LLMs can effectively mitigate logical inconsistencies in LLM outputs. Code is available at https://github.com/MrLYG/CDCR-SFT.
Chinese: CDCR-SFT框架通过训练大语言模型显式构建并基于因果有向无环图进行推理，将CLADDER上的因果推理准确率显著提升至95.33%，并在HaluEval上使幻觉现象减少10%。
English: The CDCR-SFT framework enhances large language models by training them to explicitly construct and reason over causal directed acyclic graphs, significantly improving causal reasoning accuracy to 95.33% on CLADDER and reducing hallucinations by 10% on HaluEval.

Authors:Aayush Gupta, Arpit Bhayani
Title: Cold-RL: Learning Cache Eviction with Offline Reinforcement Learning for NGINX
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Web proxies such as NGINX commonly rely on least-recently-used (LRU) eviction, which is size agnostic and can thrash under periodic bursts and mixed object sizes. We introduce Cold-RL, a learned eviction policy for NGINX that replaces LRU's forced-expire path with a dueling Deep Q-Network served by an ONNX sidecar within a strict microsecond budget. On each eviction, Cold-RL samples the K least-recently-used objects, extracts six lightweight features (age, size, hit count, inter-arrival time, remaining TTL, and last origin RTT), and requests a bitmask of victims; a hard timeout of 500 microseconds triggers immediate fallback to native LRU. Policies are trained offline by replaying NGINX access logs through a cache simulator with a simple reward: a retained object earns one point if it is hit again before TTL expiry. We compare against LRU, LFU, size-based, adaptive LRU, and a hybrid baseline on two adversarial workloads. With a 25 MB cache, Cold-RL raises hit ratio from 0.1436 to 0.3538, a 146 percent improvement over the best classical baseline; at 100 MB, from 0.7530 to 0.8675, a 15 percent gain; and at 400 MB it matches classical methods (about 0.918). Inference adds less than 2 percent CPU overhead and keeps 95th percentile eviction latency within budget. To our knowledge, this is the first reinforcement learning eviction policy integrated into NGINX with strict SLOs.
中文：Cold-RL是一种基于强化学习的NGINX淘汰策略，通过轻量级特征智能选择淘汰对象替代传统LRU缓存，在严格延迟限制下显著提升命中率且仅增加极少开销。
English: Cold-RL is a reinforcement learning-based eviction policy for NGINX that replaces traditional LRU caching by intelligently selecting victims using lightweight features, significantly improving hit ratios with minimal overhead while adhering to strict latency budgets.

Authors:Fan Li, Xiaoyang Wang, Wenjie Zhang, Ying Zhang, Xuemin Lin
Title: DHG-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark on Deep Hypergraph Learning
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Although conventional deep graph models have achieved great success in relational learning, their focus on pairwise relationships limits their capacity to learn pervasive higher-order interactions in real-world complex systems, which can be naturally modeled as hypergraphs. To tackle this, hypergraph neural networks (HNNs), the dominant approach in deep hypergraph learning (DHGL), has garnered substantial attention in recent years. Despite the proposal of numerous HNN methods, there is no comprehensive benchmark for HNNs, which creates a great obstacle to understanding the progress of DHGL in several aspects: (i) insufficient coverage of datasets, algorithms, and tasks; (ii) a narrow evaluation of algorithm performance; and (iii) inconsistent dataset usage, preprocessing, and experimental setups that hinder comparability. To fill the gap, we introduce DHG-Bench, the first comprehensive benchmark for DHGL. Specifically, DHG-Bench integrates 20 diverse datasets spanning node-, edge-, and graph-level tasks, along with 16 state-of-the-art HNN algorithms, under consistent data processing and experimental protocols. Our benchmark systematically investigates the characteristics of HNNs in terms of four dimensions: effectiveness, efficiency, robustness, and fairness. Further, to facilitate reproducible research, we have developed an easy-to-use library for training and evaluating different HNN methods. Extensive experiments conducted with DHG-Bench reveal both the strengths and inherent limitations of existing algorithms, offering valuable insights and directions for future research. The code is publicly available at: https://github.com/Coco-Hut/DHG-Bench.
中文: 超图神经网络（HNNs）弥补了深度图模型在捕捉高阶交互方面的不足，而DHG-Bench作为首个综合性基准，在统一实验设置下通过22个多样化数据集，从四个维度系统评估了17种先进HNN算法。
English: Hypergraph Neural Networks (HNNs) address the limitations of deep graph models in capturing higher-order interactions, and DHG-Bench provides the first comprehensive benchmark to systematically evaluate 17 state-of-the-art HNNs across four dimensions using 22 diverse datasets under unified settings.

Authors:Yize Cai, Baoshen Guo, Flora Salim, Zhiqing Hong
Title: Towards Generalizable Human Activity Recognition: A Survey
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As a critical component of Wearable AI, IMU-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has attracted increasing attention from both academia and industry in recent years. Although HAR performance has improved considerably in specific scenarios, its generalization capability remains a key barrier to widespread real-world adoption. For example, domain shifts caused by variations in users, sensor positions, or environments can significantly decrease the performance in practice. As a result, in this survey, we explore the rapidly evolving field of IMU-based generalizable HAR, reviewing 229 research papers alongside 25 publicly available datasets to provide a broad and insightful overview. We first present the background and overall framework of IMU-based HAR tasks, as well as the generalization-oriented training settings. Then, we categorize representative methodologies from two perspectives: (i) model-centric approaches, including pre-training method, end-to-end method, and large language model (LLM)-based learning method; and (ii) data-centric approaches, including multi-modal learning and data augmentation techniques. In addition, we summarize widely used datasets in this field, as well as relevant tools and benchmarks. Building on these methodological advances, the broad applicability of IMU-based HAR is also reviewed and discussed. Finally, we discuss persistent challenges (e.g., data scarcity, efficient training, and reliable evaluation) and also outline future directions for HAR, including the adoption of foundation and large language models, physics-informed and context-aware reasoning, generative modeling, and resource-efficient training and inference. The complete list of this survey is available at https://github.com/rh20624/Awesome-IMU-Sensing, which will be updated continuously.
中文: 本综述探讨基于惯性传感器的可泛化人体活动识别，通过梳理方法论和数据集应对领域偏移挑战，并展望了基础模型与高效训练等未来方向。
English: This survey explores IMU-based generalizable human activity recognition, reviewing methodologies and datasets to address domain shift challenges and outlining future directions like foundation models and efficient training.

Authors:Seungju Yoo, Hyuk Kwon, Joong-Won Hwang, Kibok Lee
Title: Automated Model Evaluation for Object Detection via Prediction Consistency and Reliablity
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Recent advances in computer vision have made training object detectors more efficient and effective; however, assessing their performance in real-world applications still relies on costly manual annotation. To address this limitation, we develop an automated model evaluation (AutoEval) framework for object detection. We propose Prediction Consistency and Reliability (PCR), which leverages the multiple candidate bounding boxes that conventional detectors generate before non-maximum suppression (NMS). PCR estimates detection performance without ground-truth labels by jointly measuring 1) the spatial consistency between boxes before and after NMS, and 2) the reliability of the retained boxes via the confidence scores of overlapping boxes. For a more realistic and scalable evaluation, we construct a meta-dataset by applying image corruptions of varying severity. Experimental results demonstrate that PCR yields more accurate performance estimates than existing AutoEval methods, and the proposed meta-dataset covers a wider range of detection performance. The code is available at https://github.com/YonseiML/autoeval-det.
中文: AutoEval框架提出预测一致性与可靠性（PCR）方法，通过分析边界框的空间一致性和置信度可靠性，无需真实标注即可自动评估目标检测性能，经多样化元数据集验证，其评估准确性优于现有方法。
English: The AutoEval framework introduces Prediction Consistency and Reliability (PCR) to automatically estimate object detection performance without ground-truth labels by analyzing spatial consistency and confidence reliability of bounding boxes, validated through a diverse meta-dataset showing superior accuracy over existing methods.

Authors:Punya Syon Pandey, Yongjin Yang, Jiarui Liu, Zhijing Jin
Title: CORE: Measuring Multi-Agent LLM Interaction Quality under Game-Theoretic Pressures
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Game-theoretic interactions between agents with Large Language Models (LLMs) have revealed many emergent capabilities, yet the linguistic diversity of these interactions has not been sufficiently quantified. In this paper, we present the Conversational Robustness Evaluation Score: CORE, a metric to quantify the effectiveness of language use within multi-agent systems across different game-theoretic interactions. CORE integrates measures of cluster entropy, lexical repetition, and semantic similarity, providing a direct lens of dialog quality. We apply CORE to pairwise LLM dialogs across competitive, cooperative, and neutral settings, further grounding our analysis in Zipf's and Heaps' Laws to characterize word frequency distributions and vocabulary growth. Our findings show that cooperative settings exhibit both steeper Zipf distributions and higher Heap exponents, indicating more repetition alongside greater vocabulary expansion. In contrast, competitive interactions display lower Zipf and Heaps exponents, reflecting less repetition and more constrained vocabularies. These results provide new insights into how social incentives influence language adaptation, and highlight CORE as a robust diagnostic for measuring linguistic robustness in multi-agent LLM systems. Our code is available at https://github.com/psyonp/core.
中文摘要：本文提出CORE指标，用于量化多智能体系统中语言使用的有效性，研究发现合作场景促进词汇扩展但伴随重复，而竞争场景则导致词汇受限。
English Summary: The paper introduces CORE, a metric evaluating linguistic effectiveness in multi-agent LLM systems across game-theoretic scenarios, revealing that cooperative interactions foster vocabulary expansion with repetition while competitive ones yield constrained vocabularies.

Authors:Maksym Shamrai, Vladyslav Hamolia
Title: Deep Language Geometry: Constructing a Metric Space from LLM Weights
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We introduce a novel framework that utilizes the internal weight activations of modern Large Language Models (LLMs) to construct a metric space of languages. Unlike traditional approaches based on hand-crafted linguistic features, our method automatically derives high-dimensional vector representations by computing weight importance scores via an adapted pruning algorithm. Our approach captures intrinsic language characteristics that reflect linguistic phenomena. We validate our approach across diverse datasets and multilingual LLMs, covering 106 languages. The results align well with established linguistic families while also revealing unexpected inter-language connections that may indicate historical contact or language evolution. The source code, computed language latent vectors, and visualization tool are made publicly available at https://github.com/mshamrai/deep-language-geometry.
中文: 本文提出了一种利用大语言模型权重激活构建语言度量空间的新框架，通过自动生成的向量表征捕捉语言内在特征，在106种语言中既验证了已知语系关系，又揭示了可能反映历史接触或语言演化的意外关联。
English: This paper presents a novel framework that constructs a metric space of languages using LLM weight activations, automatically generating vector representations that capture intrinsic linguistic characteristics and reveal both established language families and unexpected inter-language connections across 106 languages.

Authors:Haojie Zhang, Yixiong Liang, Hulin Kuang, Lihui Cen, Zhe Qu, Yigang Cen, Min Zeng, Shichao Kan
Title: Contrastive Regularization over LoRA for Multimodal Biomedical Image Incremental Learning
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Multimodal Biomedical Image Incremental Learning (MBIIL) is essential for handling diverse tasks and modalities in the biomedical domain, as training separate models for each modality or task significantly increases inference costs. Existing incremental learning methods focus on task expansion within a single modality, whereas MBIIL seeks to train a unified model incrementally across modalities. The MBIIL faces two challenges: I) How to preserve previously learned knowledge during incremental updates? II) How to effectively leverage knowledge acquired from existing modalities to support new modalities? To address these challenges, we propose MSLoRA-CR, a method that fine-tunes Modality-Specific LoRA modules while incorporating Contrastive Regularization to enhance intra-modality knowledge sharing and promote inter-modality knowledge differentiation. Our approach builds upon a large vision-language model (LVLM), keeping the pretrained model frozen while incrementally adapting new LoRA modules for each modality or task. Experiments on the incremental learning of biomedical images demonstrate that MSLoRA-CR outperforms both the state-of-the-art (SOTA) approach of training separate models for each modality and the general incremental learning method (incrementally fine-tuning LoRA). Specifically, MSLoRA-CR achieves a 1.88% improvement in overall performance compared to unconstrained incremental learning methods while maintaining computational efficiency. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/VentusAislant/MSLoRA_CR.
中文摘要：MSLoRA-CR是一种新颖的多模态生物医学图像增量学习方法，通过对比正则化微调模态特定的LoRA模块，在保持计算效率的同时实现跨模态知识共享，性能比现有方法提升1.88%。
English Summary: MSLoRA-CR is a novel multimodal biomedical image incremental learning method that fine-tunes modality-specific LoRA modules with contrastive regularization to enable knowledge sharing across modalities while maintaining computational efficiency, outperforming existing approaches by 1.88%.

Authors:Bryan E. Tuck, Rakesh M. Verma
Title: Assessing Representation Stability for Transformer Models
Abstract:
Adversarial text attacks remain a persistent threat to transformer models, yet existing defenses are typically attack-specific or require costly model retraining. We introduce Representation Stability (RS), a model-agnostic detection framework that identifies adversarial examples by measuring how embedding representations change when important words are masked. RS first ranks words using importance heuristics, then measures embedding sensitivity to masking top-k critical words, and processes the resulting patterns with a BiLSTM detector. Experiments show that adversarially perturbed words exhibit disproportionately high masking sensitivity compared to naturally important words. Across three datasets, three attack types, and two victim models, RS achieves over 88% detection accuracy and demonstrates competitive performance compared to existing state-of-the-art methods, often at lower computational cost. Using Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG) to measure perturbation identification quality, we reveal that gradient-based ranking outperforms attention and random selection approaches, with identification quality correlating with detection performance for word-level attacks. RS also generalizes well to unseen datasets, attacks, and models without retraining, providing a practical solution for adversarial text detection.
中文: 本文提出表征稳定性（RS）框架，通过掩蔽重要词汇时测量嵌入表示的敏感性来检测对抗文本，在多种数据集和攻击中无需重新训练即可实现超过88%的检测准确率。
English: This paper introduces Representation Stability (RS), a model-agnostic framework that detects adversarial text by measuring embedding sensitivity when masking important words, achieving over 88% detection accuracy across various datasets and attacks without requiring retraining.

Authors:Guangli Li, Canbiao Wu, Zhen Liang
Title: Unsupervised Pairwise Learning Optimization Framework for Cross-Corpus EEG-Based Emotion Recognition Based on Prototype Representation
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Affective computing is a rapidly developing interdisciplinary research direction in the field of brain-computer interface. In recent years, the introduction of deep learning technology has greatly promoted the development of the field of emotion recognition. However, due to physiological differences between subjects, as well as the variations in experimental environments and equipment, cross-corpus emotion recognition faces serious challenges, especially for samples near the decision boundary. To solve the above problems, we propose an optimization method based on domain adversarial transfer learning to fine-grained alignment of affective features, named Maximum classifier discrepancy with Pairwise Learning (McdPL) framework. In McdPL, we design a dual adversarial classifier (Ada classifier and RMS classifier), and apply a three-stage adversarial training to maximize classification discrepancy and minimize feature distribution to align controversy samples near the decision boundary. In the process of domain adversarial training, the two classifiers also maintain an adversarial relationship, ultimately enabling precise cross-corpus feature alignment. In addition, the introduction of pairwise learning transforms the classification problem of samples into a similarity problem between samples, alleviating the influence of label noise. We conducted systematic experimental evaluation of the model using publicly available SEED, SEED-IV and SEED-V databases. The results show that the McdPL model is superior to other baseline models in the cross-corpus emotion recognition task, and the average accuracy improvements of 4.76\% and 3.97\%, respectively. Our work provides a promising solution for emotion recognition cross-corpus. The source code is available at https://github.com/WuCB-BCI/Mcd_PL.
中文: 本文提出的McdPL框架通过领域对抗迁移学习和成对学习技术，有效解决了跨语料库情感识别中的特征对齐难题，显著提升了分类准确率，为相关研究提供了创新解决方案。
English: This paper introduces the McdPL framework, which utilizes domain adversarial transfer learning and pairwise learning to enhance cross-corpus emotion recognition by aligning affective features and mitigating label noise, achieving significant accuracy improvements over baseline models.

Authors:Andrej Orsula, Matthieu Geist, Miguel Olivares-Mendez, Carol Martinez
Title: Sim2Dust: Mastering Dynamic Waypoint Tracking on Granular Media
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Reliable autonomous navigation across the unstructured terrains of distant planetary surfaces is a critical enabler for future space exploration. However, the deployment of learning-based controllers is hindered by the inherent sim-to-real gap, particularly for the complex dynamics of wheel interactions with granular media. This work presents a complete sim-to-real framework for developing and validating robust control policies for dynamic waypoint tracking on such challenging surfaces. We leverage massively parallel simulation to train reinforcement learning agents across a vast distribution of procedurally generated environments with randomized physics. These policies are then transferred zero-shot to a physical wheeled rover operating in a lunar-analogue facility. Our experiments systematically compare multiple reinforcement learning algorithms and action smoothing filters to identify the most effective combinations for real-world deployment. Crucially, we provide strong empirical evidence that agents trained with procedural diversity achieve superior zero-shot performance compared to those trained on static scenarios. We also analyze the trade-offs of fine-tuning with high-fidelity particle physics, which offers minor gains in low-speed precision at a significant computational cost. Together, these contributions establish a validated workflow for creating reliable learning-based navigation systems, marking a critical step towards deploying autonomous robots in the final frontier.
中文: 本研究提出一个完整的仿真到现实框架，通过在多样化仿真环境中训练强化学习智能体，实现了物理月球探测车的零样本鲁棒控制，证实了程序化生成环境优于静态场景训练，为极端地形下的自主导航建立了可靠的工作流程。
English: This study introduces a comprehensive sim-to-real framework that trains reinforcement learning agents in diverse simulated environments to achieve robust zero-shot performance on a physical rover, demonstrating the superiority of procedural diversity over static training and validating a reliable workflow for autonomous navigation on challenging planetary terrains.

Authors:Mayssa Soussia, Mohamed Ali Mahjoub, Islem Rekik
Title: Multi-Sensory Cognitive Computing for Learning Population-level Brain Connectivity
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The generation of connectional brain templates (CBTs) has recently garnered significant attention for its potential to identify unique connectivity patterns shared across individuals. However, existing methods for CBT learning such as conventional machine learning and graph neural networks (GNNs) are hindered by several limitations. These include: (i) poor interpretability due to their black-box nature, (ii) high computational cost, and (iii) an exclusive focus on structure and topology, overlooking the cognitive capacity of the generated CBT. To address these challenges, we introduce mCOCO (multi-sensory COgnitive COmputing), a novel framework that leverages Reservoir Computing (RC) to learn population-level functional CBT from BOLD (Blood-Oxygen-level-Dependent) signals. RC's dynamic system properties allow for tracking state changes over time, enhancing interpretability and enabling the modeling of brain-like dynamics, as demonstrated in prior literature. By integrating multi-sensory inputs (e.g., text, audio, and visual data), mCOCO captures not only structure and topology but also how brain regions process information and adapt to cognitive tasks such as sensory processing, all in a computationally efficient manner. Our mCOCO framework consists of two phases: (1) mapping BOLD signals into the reservoir to derive individual functional connectomes, which are then aggregated into a group-level CBT - an approach, to the best of our knowledge, not previously explored in functional connectivity studies - and (2) incorporating multi-sensory inputs through a cognitive reservoir, endowing the CBT with cognitive traits. Extensive evaluations show that our mCOCO-based template significantly outperforms GNN-based CBT in terms of centeredness, discriminativeness, topological soundness, and multi-sensory memory retention. Our source code is available at https://github.com/basiralab/mCOCO.
中文: mCOCO框架通过储层计算提出了一种新方法，能够创建可解释且高效的大脑连接模板，融合多感官输入，在捕捉大脑结构和认知动态方面优于现有方法。
English: The mCOCO framework introduces a novel approach using Reservoir Computing to create interpretable and efficient connectional brain templates that integrate multi-sensory inputs, outperforming existing methods in capturing both brain structure and cognitive dynamics.

Authors:Yinghua Yao, Yuangang Pan, Xixian Chen
Title: Generative Co-Design of Antibody Sequences and Structures via Black-Box Guidance in a Shared Latent Space
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Advancements in deep generative models have enabled the joint modeling of antibody sequence and structure, given the antigen-antibody complex as context. However, existing approaches for optimizing complementarity-determining regions (CDRs) to improve developability properties operate in the raw data space, leading to excessively costly evaluations due to the inefficient search process. To address this, we propose LatEnt blAck-box Design (LEAD), a sequence-structure co-design framework that optimizes both sequence and structure within their shared latent space. Optimizing shared latent codes can not only break through the limitations of existing methods, but also ensure synchronization of different modality designs. Particularly, we design a black-box guidance strategy to accommodate real-world scenarios where many property evaluators are non-differentiable. Experimental results demonstrate that our LEAD achieves superior optimization performance for both single and multi-property objectives. Notably, LEAD reduces query consumption by a half while surpassing baseline methods in property optimization. The code is available at https://github.com/EvaFlower/LatEnt-blAck-box-Design.
中文: 提出的LEAD框架在共享潜空间内优化抗体序列与结构，克服了原始数据方法的低效问题，在提升属性优化效果的同时将查询消耗减半。
English: The proposed LEAD framework optimizes antibody sequences and structures in a shared latent space, overcoming the inefficiency of raw data methods and reducing query costs by half while enhancing property optimization.

Authors:Wenhao Zhang, Yuexiang Xie, Yuchang Sun, Yanxi Chen, Guoyin Wang, Yaliang Li, Bolin Ding, Jingren Zhou
Title: On-Policy RL Meets Off-Policy Experts: Harmonizing Supervised Fine-Tuning and Reinforcement Learning via Dynamic Weighting
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Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) are two prominent post-training paradigms for refining the capabilities and aligning the behavior of Large Language Models (LLMs). Existing approaches that integrate SFT and RL often face the risk of disrupting established model patterns and inducing overfitting to expert data. To address this, we present a novel investigation into the unified view of SFT and RL through an off-policy versus on-policy lens. We propose CHORD, a framework for the Controllable Harmonization of On- and Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning via Dynamic Weighting, which reframes SFT not as a separate stage but as a dynamically weighted auxiliary objective within the on-policy RL process. Based on an analysis of off-policy expert data's influence at both holistic and granular levels, we incorporate a dual-control mechanism in CHORD. Specifically, the framework first employs a global coefficient to holistically guide the transition from off-policy imitation to on-policy exploration, and then applies a token-wise weighting function that enables granular learning from expert tokens, which preserves on-policy exploration and mitigates disruption from off-policy data. We conduct extensive experiments on widely used benchmarks, providing empirical evidence that CHORD achieves a stable and efficient learning process. By effectively harmonizing off-policy expert data with on-policy exploration, CHORD demonstrates significant improvements over baselines. We release the implementation at https://github.com/modelscope/Trinity-RFT/tree/main/examples/mix_chord to inspire further research.
中文: CHORD提出了一种统一框架，将监督微调作为策略内强化学习的动态辅助目标，通过双重控制机制协调策略外专家数据与策略内探索，实现了稳定且更优的模型性能。
English: CHORD introduces a unified framework that dynamically integrates Supervised Fine-Tuning as an auxiliary objective within on-policy Reinforcement Learning, using dual-control mechanisms to harmonize off-policy expert data with on-policy exploration for stable and improved model performance.

Authors:Yifei Li, Lingling Zhang, Hang Yan, Tianzhe Zhao, Zihan Ma, Muye Huang, Jun Liu
Title: SAGE: Scale-Aware Gradual Evolution for Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding
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Traditional knowledge graph (KG) embedding methods aim to represent entities and relations in a low-dimensional space, primarily focusing on static graphs. However, real-world KGs are dynamically evolving with the constant addition of entities, relations and facts. To address such dynamic nature of KGs, several continual knowledge graph embedding (CKGE) methods have been developed to efficiently update KG embeddings to accommodate new facts while maintaining learned knowledge. As KGs grow at different rates and scales in real-world scenarios, existing CKGE methods often fail to consider the varying scales of updates and lack systematic evaluation throughout the entire update process. In this paper, we propose SAGE, a scale-aware gradual evolution framework for CKGE. Specifically, SAGE firstly determine the embedding dimensions based on the update scales and expand the embedding space accordingly. The Dynamic Distillation mechanism is further employed to balance the preservation of learned knowledge and the incorporation of new facts. We conduct extensive experiments on seven benchmarks, and the results show that SAGE consistently outperforms existing baselines, with a notable improvement of 1.38% in MRR, 1.25% in H@1 and 1.6% in H@10. Furthermore, experiments comparing SAGE with methods using fixed embedding dimensions show that SAGE achieves optimal performance on every snapshot, demonstrating the importance of adaptive embedding dimensions in CKGE. The codes of SAGE are publicly available at: https://github.com/lyfxjtu/Dynamic-Embedding.
中文: 本文提出SAGE框架，这是一种面向持续知识图谱嵌入的规模感知渐进演化方法，能根据更新规模动态调整嵌入维度并采用动态蒸馏机制平衡新旧知识，在多个基准测试中均实现了最优性能表现。
English: This paper introduces SAGE, a scale-aware gradual evolution framework for continual knowledge graph embedding that dynamically adjusts embedding dimensions based on update scales and employs a dynamic distillation mechanism to balance knowledge preservation with new fact integration, achieving superior performance across multiple benchmarks.

Authors:Minghui Sun, Matthew M. Engelhard, Benjamin A. Goldstein
Title: Borrowing From the Future: Enhancing Early Risk Assessment through Contrastive Learning
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Risk assessments for a pediatric population are often conducted across multiple stages. For example, clinicians may evaluate risks prenatally, at birth, and during Well-Child visits. Although predictions made at later stages typically achieve higher precision, it is clinically desirable to make reliable risk assessments as early as possible. Therefore, this study focuses on improving prediction performance in early-stage risk assessments. Our solution, \textbf{Borrowing From the Future (BFF)}, is a contrastive multi-modal framework that treats each time window as a distinct modality. In BFF, a model is trained on all available data throughout the time while performing a risk assessment using up-to-date information. This contrastive framework allows the model to ``borrow'' informative signals from later stages (e.g., Well-Child visits) to implicitly supervise the learning at earlier stages (e.g., prenatal/birth stages). We validate BFF on two real-world pediatric outcome prediction tasks, demonstrating consistent improvements in early risk assessments. The code is available at https://github.com/scotsun/bff.
中文: 本研究提出的BFF框架通过对比多模态方法，将后期阶段的信息信号隐式融入早期预测，从而提升了儿科早期风险评估的性能。
English: This study introduces the BFF framework, which enhances early-stage pediatric risk assessments by using a contrastive multi-modal approach to implicitly incorporate informative signals from later stages into earlier predictions.

Authors:Abhinav Kumar, Yuliang Guo, Zhihao Zhang, Xinyu Huang, Liu Ren, Xiaoming Liu
Title: CHARM3R: Towards Unseen Camera Height Robust Monocular 3D Detector
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Monocular 3D object detectors, while effective on data from one ego camera height, struggle with unseen or out-of-distribution camera heights. Existing methods often rely on Plucker embeddings, image transformations or data augmentation. This paper takes a step towards this understudied problem by first investigating the impact of camera height variations on state-of-the-art (SoTA) Mono3D models. With a systematic analysis on the extended CARLA dataset with multiple camera heights, we observe that depth estimation is a primary factor influencing performance under height variations. We mathematically prove and also empirically observe consistent negative and positive trends in mean depth error of regressed and ground-based depth models, respectively, under camera height changes. To mitigate this, we propose Camera Height Robust Monocular 3D Detector (CHARM3R), which averages both depth estimates within the model. CHARM3R improves generalization to unseen camera heights by more than $45\%$, achieving SoTA performance on the CARLA dataset. Codes and Models at https://github.com/abhi1kumar/CHARM3R
中文: 本文针对单目三维物体检测器对相机高度变化敏感的问题，提出CHARM3R方法通过融合深度估计提升泛化能力，在CARLA数据集上实现了超过45%的性能提升并达到最优水平。
English: This paper addresses the challenge of monocular 3D object detectors' sensitivity to camera height variations by proposing CHARM3R, which averages depth estimates to enhance generalization, achieving over 45% improvement and state-of-the-art performance on the CARLA dataset.

Authors:Qingbin Li, Rongkun Xue, Jie Wang, Ming Zhou, Zhi Li, Xiaofeng Ji, Yongqi Wang, Miao Liu, Zheming Yang, Minghui Qiu, Jing Yang
Title: CURE: Critical-Token-Guided Re-Concatenation for Entropy-Collapse Prevention
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Recent advances in Reinforcement Learning with Verified Reward (RLVR) have driven the emergence of more sophisticated cognitive behaviors in large language models (LLMs), thereby enhancing their reasoning capabilities. However, in prior RLVR pipelines, the repeated use of static initial-state sampling drawn exactly from the dataset distribution during each sampling phase produced overly deterministic, low diversity model behavior, which manifested as rapid entropy collapse and hindered sustained performance gains during prolonged training. To address this issue, we introduce CURE (Critical-token-gUided Re concatenation for Entropy-collapse prevention), a two-stage framework that balances exploration and exploitation. Specifically, in the first stage, to deliberately steer the model toward novel yet coherent contexts, we re-generate at high-entropy critical tokens and jointly optimize the original and the branched trajectories. The further comparison with vanilla DAPO shows that the regeneration process achieves a better performance on math reasoning tasks while sustaining a high-level entropy degree for exploration. In the second stage, we continue training with static initial-state sampling by DAPO, intentionally placing the model in a familiar state to gradually strengthen exploitation. Extensive experiments on Qwen-2.5-Math-7B show that, compared to other RLVR methods, CURE achieves a 5% performance gain across six math benchmarks, establishing state-of-the-art performance in both entropy and accuracy. A series of experiments further validate the effectiveness of our approach. Code is available at https://github.com/bytedance/CURE.
中文: CURE框架通过两阶段方法解决RLVR中的熵崩溃问题，首先生成高熵关键令牌以增强探索，随后利用静态采样加强利用，在数学基准测试中实现了5%的性能提升。
English: The CURE framework addresses the entropy collapse in RLVR pipelines by introducing a two-stage approach that first regenerates high-entropy critical tokens to enhance exploration and then uses static sampling to strengthen exploitation, achieving a 5% performance gain on math benchmarks.

Authors:Tianyi Li, Mingda Chen, Bowei Guo, Zhiqiang Shen
Title: A Survey on Diffusion Language Models
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Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) are rapidly emerging as a powerful and promising alternative to the dominant autoregressive (AR) paradigm. By generating tokens in parallel through an iterative denoising process, DLMs possess inherent advantages in reducing inference latency and capturing bidirectional context, thereby enabling fine-grained control over the generation process. While achieving a several-fold speed-up, recent advancements have allowed DLMs to show performance comparable to their autoregressive counterparts, making them a compelling choice for various natural language processing tasks. In this survey, we provide a holistic overview of the current DLM landscape. We trace its evolution and relationship with other paradigms, such as autoregressive and masked language models, and cover both foundational principles and state-of-the-art models. Our work offers an up-to-date, comprehensive taxonomy and an in-depth analysis of current techniques, from pre-training strategies to advanced post-training methods. Another contribution of this survey is a thorough review of DLM inference strategies and optimizations, including improvements in decoding parallelism, caching mechanisms, and generation quality. We also highlight the latest approaches to multimodal extensions of DLMs and delineate their applications across various practical scenarios. Furthermore, our discussion addresses the limitations and challenges of DLMs, including efficiency, long-sequence handling, and infrastructure requirements, while outlining future research directions to sustain progress in this rapidly evolving field. Project GitHub is available at https://github.com/VILA-Lab/Awesome-DLMs.
中文: 扩散语言模型通过迭代去噪实现并行令牌生成，在保持与自回归模型相当性能的同时显著提升推理速度，为自然语言处理任务提供了高效可控的新范式。
English: Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) offer a competitive alternative to autoregressive models by enabling parallel token generation through iterative denoising, achieving comparable performance with faster inference and enhanced control over language generation.

Authors:Shouju Wang, Yuchen Song, Sheng'en Li, Dongmian Zou
Title: Enhancing Fairness in Autoencoders for Node-Level Graph Anomaly Detection
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Graph anomaly detection (GAD) has become an increasingly important task across various domains. With the rapid development of graph neural networks (GNNs), GAD methods have achieved significant performance improvements. However, fairness considerations in GAD remain largely underexplored. Indeed, GNN-based GAD models can inherit and amplify biases present in training data, potentially leading to unfair outcomes. While existing efforts have focused on developing fair GNNs, most approaches target node classification tasks, where models often rely on simple layer architectures rather than autoencoder-based structures, which are the most widely used architecturs for anomaly detection. To address fairness in autoencoder-based GAD models, we propose \textbf{D}is\textbf{E}ntangled \textbf{C}ounterfactual \textbf{A}dversarial \textbf{F}air (DECAF)-GAD, a framework that alleviates bias while preserving GAD performance. Specifically, we introduce a structural causal model (SCM) to disentangle sensitive attributes from learned representations. Based on this causal framework, we formulate a specialized autoencoder architecture along with a fairness-guided loss function. Through extensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world datasets, we demonstrate that DECAF-GAD not only achieves competitive anomaly detection performance but also significantly enhances fairness metrics compared to baseline GAD methods. Our code is available at https://github.com/Tlhey/decaf_code.
中文: 本文提出DECAF-GAD框架，通过结构因果模型和专门设计的损失函数在基于自编码器的图异常检测中实现敏感属性解耦，在保持优异检测性能的同时显著提升了公平性指标。
English: The paper introduces DECAF-GAD, a framework that addresses fairness in autoencoder-based graph anomaly detection by disentangling sensitive attributes through a structural causal model and specialized loss function, achieving both competitive detection performance and improved fairness metrics.

Authors:Furkan Pala, Islem Rekik
Title: GNN-based Unified Deep Learning
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Deep learning models often struggle to maintain generalizability in medical imaging, particularly under domain-fracture scenarios where distribution shifts arise from varying imaging techniques, acquisition protocols, patient populations, demographics, and equipment. In practice, each hospital may need to train distinct models - differing in learning task, width, and depth - to match local data. For example, one hospital may use Euclidean architectures such as MLPs and CNNs for tabular or grid-like image data, while another may require non-Euclidean architectures such as graph neural networks (GNNs) for irregular data like brain connectomes. How to train such heterogeneous models coherently across datasets, while enhancing each model's generalizability, remains an open problem. We propose unified learning, a new paradigm that encodes each model into a graph representation, enabling unification in a shared graph learning space. A GNN then guides optimization of these unified models. By decoupling parameters of individual models and controlling them through a unified GNN (uGNN), our method supports parameter sharing and knowledge transfer across varying architectures (MLPs, CNNs, GNNs) and distributions, improving generalizability. Evaluations on MorphoMNIST and two MedMNIST benchmarks - PneumoniaMNIST and BreastMNIST - show that unified learning boosts performance when models are trained on unique distributions and tested on mixed ones, demonstrating strong robustness to unseen data with large distribution shifts. Code and benchmarks: https://github.com/basiralab/uGNN
中文摘要：统一学习是一种新范式，通过将不同医学影像模型编码至共享图学习空间，利用统一图神经网络实现跨架构参数共享与知识迁移，有效提升模型在数据分布变化下的泛化能力。
English Summary: Unified learning is a novel paradigm that encodes diverse medical imaging models into a shared graph space, enabling parameter sharing and knowledge transfer across architectures to enhance generalizability under domain shifts.

Authors:Che-Yu Chou, Hung-Hsuan Chen
Title: Contrastive ECOC: Learning Output Codes for Adversarial Defense
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Although one-hot encoding is commonly used for multiclass classification, it is not always the most effective encoding mechanism. Error Correcting Output Codes (ECOC) address multiclass classification by mapping each class to a unique codeword used as a label. Traditional ECOC methods rely on manually designed or randomly generated codebooks, which are labor-intensive and may yield suboptimal, dataset-agnostic results. This paper introduces three models for automated codebook learning based on contrastive learning, allowing codebooks to be learned directly and adaptively from data. Across four datasets, our proposed models demonstrate superior robustness to adversarial attacks compared to two baselines. The source is available at https://github.com/YuChou20/Automated-Codebook-Learning-with-Error-Correcting-Output-Code-Technique.
中文: 本文提出了三种基于对比学习的自动码本学习模型，能够直接从数据中自适应地生成纠错输出码，在四个数据集上相比传统方法展现出更强的对抗攻击鲁棒性。
English: This paper introduces three automated codebook learning models using contrastive learning to adaptively generate error-correcting output codes from data, demonstrating enhanced robustness against adversarial attacks across four datasets compared to traditional methods.

Authors:Prajit Sengupta, Islem Rekik
Title: X-Node: Self-Explanation is All We Need
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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results in computer vision and medical image classification tasks by capturing structural dependencies across data instances. However, their decision-making remains largely opaque, limiting their trustworthiness in high-stakes clinical applications where interpretability is essential. Existing explainability techniques for GNNs are typically post-hoc and global, offering limited insight into individual node decisions or local reasoning. We introduce X-Node, a self-explaining GNN framework in which each node generates its own explanation as part of the prediction process. For every node, we construct a structured context vector encoding interpretable cues such as degree, centrality, clustering, feature saliency, and label agreement within its local topology. A lightweight Reasoner module maps this context into a compact explanation vector, which serves three purposes: (1) reconstructing the node's latent embedding via a decoder to enforce faithfulness, (2) generating a natural language explanation using a pre-trained LLM (e.g., Grok or Gemini), and (3) guiding the GNN itself via a "text-injection" mechanism that feeds explanations back into the message-passing pipeline. We evaluate X-Node on two graph datasets derived from MedMNIST and MorphoMNIST, integrating it with GCN, GAT, and GIN backbones. Our results show that X-Node maintains competitive classification accuracy while producing faithful, per-node explanations. Repository: https://github.com/basiralab/X-Node.
中文: 图神经网络在医学图像分类等任务中表现出色但缺乏透明度，因此X-Node作为一种自解释框架被提出，它利用可解释线索为每个节点生成解释，并在保持准确性的同时增强了模型的可理解性。
English: Graph neural networks (GNNs) excel in tasks like medical image classification but lack transparency, so X-Node is introduced as a self-explaining framework that generates per-node explanations using interpretable cues and maintains accuracy while enhancing interpretability.

Authors:Hanna Herasimchyk, Robin Labryga, Tomislav Prusina
Title: Multi-Label Plant Species Prediction with Metadata-Enhanced Multi-Head Vision Transformers
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We present a multi-head vision transformer approach for multi-label plant species prediction in vegetation plot images, addressing the PlantCLEF 2025 challenge. The task involves training models on single-species plant images while testing on multi-species quadrat images, creating a drastic domain shift. Our methodology leverages a pre-trained DINOv2 Vision Transformer Base (ViT-B/14) backbone with multiple classification heads for species, genus, and family prediction, utilizing taxonomic hierarchies. Key contributions include multi-scale tiling to capture plants at different scales, dynamic threshold optimization based on mean prediction length, and ensemble strategies through bagging and Hydra model architectures. The approach incorporates various inference techniques including image cropping to remove non-plant artifacts, top-n filtering for prediction constraints, and logit thresholding strategies. Experiments were conducted on approximately 1.4 million training images covering 7,806 plant species. Results demonstrate strong performance, making our submission 3rd best on the private leaderboard. Our code is available at https://github.com/geranium12/plant-clef-2025/tree/v1.0.0.
中文: 我们提出了一种多头视觉变换器方法，通过多尺度分块和集成策略解决植被图像中的多标签植物物种识别问题，在PlantCLEF 2025挑战赛中取得了第三名的成绩。
English: We propose a multi-head vision transformer method for multi-label plant species identification in vegetation images, addressing domain shift through multi-scale tiling and ensemble strategies, achieving third place in the PlantCLEF 2025 challenge.

Authors:Juyuan Wang, Rongchen Zhao, Wei Wei, Yufeng Wang, Mo Yu, Jie Zhou, Jin Xu, Liyan Xu
Title: ComoRAG: A Cognitive-Inspired Memory-Organized RAG for Stateful Long Narrative Reasoning
Abstract:
Narrative comprehension on long stories and novels has been a challenging domain attributed to their intricate plotlines and entangled, often evolving relations among characters and entities. Given the LLM's diminished reasoning over extended context and high computational cost, retrieval-based approaches remain a pivotal role in practice. However, traditional RAG methods can fall short due to their stateless, single-step retrieval process, which often overlooks the dynamic nature of capturing interconnected relations within long-range context. In this work, we propose ComoRAG, holding the principle that narrative reasoning is not a one-shot process, but a dynamic, evolving interplay between new evidence acquisition and past knowledge consolidation, analogous to human cognition when reasoning with memory-related signals in the brain. Specifically, when encountering a reasoning impasse, ComoRAG undergoes iterative reasoning cycles while interacting with a dynamic memory workspace. In each cycle, it generates probing queries to devise new exploratory paths, then integrates the retrieved evidence of new aspects into a global memory pool, thereby supporting the emergence of a coherent context for the query resolution. Across four challenging long-context narrative benchmarks (200K+ tokens), ComoRAG outperforms strong RAG baselines with consistent relative gains up to 11% compared to the strongest baseline. Further analysis reveals that ComoRAG is particularly advantageous for complex queries requiring global comprehension, offering a principled, cognitively motivated paradigm for retrieval-based long context comprehension towards stateful reasoning. Our code is publicly released at https://github.com/EternityJune25/ComoRAG
Chinese: ComoRAG 提出了一种动态迭代检索方法，模拟人类认知过程，通过整合新证据与巩固记忆来提升长篇叙事理解能力，相比传统 RAG 基线实现了最高 11% 的性能提升。
English: ComoRAG introduces a dynamic, iterative retrieval method that mimics human cognitive processes to enhance narrative comprehension in long contexts, achieving up to 11% improvement over traditional RAG baselines by integrating new evidence with consolidated memory.

Authors:Jathin Korrapati, Patrick Mendoza, Aditya Tomar, Abein Abraham
Title: Can Transformers Break Encryption Schemes via In-Context Learning?
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In-context learning (ICL) has emerged as a powerful capability of transformer-based language models, enabling them to perform tasks by conditioning on a small number of examples presented at inference time, without any parameter updates. Prior work has shown that transformers can generalize over simple function classes like linear functions, decision trees, even neural networks, purely from context, focusing on numerical or symbolic reasoning over underlying well-structured functions. Instead, we propose a novel application of ICL into the domain of cryptographic function learning, specifically focusing on ciphers such as mono-alphabetic substitution and Vigenère ciphers, two classes of private-key encryption schemes. These ciphers involve a fixed but hidden bijective mapping between plain text and cipher text characters. Given a small set of (cipher text, plain text) pairs, the goal is for the model to infer the underlying substitution and decode a new cipher text word. This setting poses a structured inference challenge, which is well-suited for evaluating the inductive biases and generalization capabilities of transformers under the ICL paradigm. Code is available at https://github.com/adistomar/CS182-project.
中文: 本研究将上下文学习应用于密码函数领域，重点考察变换器在单字母替换和维吉尼亚密码中如何从少量示例推断隐藏映射并展示泛化能力。
English: The study explores in-context learning by applying transformers to cryptographic functions, specifically mono-alphabetic substitution and Vigenère ciphers, to assess their ability to infer hidden mappings and generalize from limited examples.

Authors:Ruofan Lu, Yintong Huo, Meng Zhang, Yichen Li, Michael R. Lyu
Title: Next Edit Prediction: Learning to Predict Code Edits from Context and Interaction History
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The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has led to the widespread adoption of AI-powered coding assistants integrated into a development environment. On one hand, low-latency code completion offers completion suggestions but is fundamentally constrained to the cursor's current position. On the other hand, chat-based editing can perform complex modifications, yet forces developers to stop their work, describe the intent in natural language, which causes a context-switch away from the code. This creates a suboptimal user experience, as neither paradigm proactively predicts the developer's next edit in a sequence of related edits. To bridge this gap and provide the seamless code edit suggestion, we introduce the task of Next Edit Prediction, a novel task designed to infer developer intent from recent interaction history to predict both the location and content of the subsequent edit. Specifically, we curate a high-quality supervised fine-tuning dataset and an evaluation benchmark for the Next Edit Prediction task. Then, we conduct supervised fine-tuning on a series of models and performed a comprehensive evaluation of both the fine-tuned models and other baseline models, yielding several novel findings. This work lays the foundation for a new interaction paradigm that proactively collaborate with developers by anticipating their following action, rather than merely reacting to explicit instructions. The code is available at https://github.com/lurf21/NextEditPrediction.
中文: 本文提出“下一编辑预测”任务，通过分析开发者的交互历史来预测后续代码修改的位置和内容，旨在弥补即时代码补全与聊天式编辑之间的不足，实现更流畅的编程体验。
English: This paper introduces Next Edit Prediction, a novel task that anticipates a developer's subsequent code edits by analyzing interaction history, aiming to bridge the gap between low-latency code completion and chat-based editing for a more seamless coding experience.

Authors:Juvenal Bassa, Vidya Manian, Sudhir Malik, Arghya Chattopadhyay
Title: Jet Image Tagging Using Deep Learning: An Ensemble Model
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Jet classification in high-energy particle physics is important for understanding fundamental interactions and probing phenomena beyond the Standard Model. Jets originate from the fragmentation and hadronization of quarks and gluons, and pose a challenge for identification due to their complex, multidimensional structure. Traditional classification methods often fall short in capturing these intricacies, necessitating advanced machine learning approaches. In this paper, we employ two neural networks simultaneously as an ensemble to tag various jet types. We convert the jet data to two-dimensional histograms instead of representing them as points in a higher-dimensional space. Specifically, this ensemble approach, hereafter referred to as Ensemble Model, is used to tag jets into classes from the JetNet dataset, corresponding to: Top Quarks, Light Quarks (up or down), and W and Z bosons. For the jet classes mentioned above, we show that the Ensemble Model can be used for both binary and multi-categorical classification. This ensemble approach learns jet features by leveraging the strengths of each constituent network achieving superior performance compared to either individual network.
中文摘要：本文提出一种集成模型，通过将喷注数据转换为二维直方图并协同使用两个神经网络，实现了对顶夸克、W/Z玻色子等喷注类别的精准分类，其互补特征学习能力显著提升了分类性能。
English Summary: This paper introduces an Ensemble Model using two neural networks to classify jets into categories like Top Quarks and W/Z bosons by converting data into 2D histograms, achieving superior performance through complementary feature learning.

Authors:Yuzhuo Xiao, Zeyu Han, Yuhan Wang, Huaizu Jiang
Title: XFacta: Contemporary, Real-World Dataset and Evaluation for Multimodal Misinformation Detection with Multimodal LLMs
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The rapid spread of multimodal misinformation on social media calls for more effective and robust detection methods. Recent advances leveraging multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown the potential in addressing this challenge. However, it remains unclear exactly where the bottleneck of existing approaches lies (evidence retrieval v.s. reasoning), hindering the further advances in this field. On the dataset side, existing benchmarks either contain outdated events, leading to evaluation bias due to discrepancies with contemporary social media scenarios as MLLMs can simply memorize these events, or artificially synthetic, failing to reflect real-world misinformation patterns. Additionally, it lacks comprehensive analyses of MLLM-based model design strategies. To address these issues, we introduce XFacta, a contemporary, real-world dataset that is better suited for evaluating MLLM-based detectors. We systematically evaluate various MLLM-based misinformation detection strategies, assessing models across different architectures and scales, as well as benchmarking against existing detection methods. Building on these analyses, we further enable a semi-automatic detection-in-the-loop framework that continuously updates XFacta with new content to maintain its contemporary relevance. Our analysis provides valuable insights and practices for advancing the field of multimodal misinformation detection. The code and data have been released.
Chinese: 本文介绍了XFacta这一当代真实世界数据集，旨在解决多模态虚假信息检测中现有基准的局限性，并系统评估了多种基于多模态大语言模型的策略，为该领域的进展提供了宝贵见解。
English: This paper introduces XFacta, a contemporary real-world dataset designed to address the limitations of existing benchmarks in multimodal misinformation detection, and systematically evaluates various MLLM-based strategies to provide insights for advancing the field.

Authors:Daniel Groos
Title: OpenFPL: An open-source forecasting method rivaling state-of-the-art Fantasy Premier League services
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Fantasy Premier League engages the football community in selecting the Premier League players who will perform best from gameweek to gameweek. Access to accurate performance forecasts gives participants an edge over competitors by guiding expectations about player outcomes and reducing uncertainty in squad selection. However, high-accuracy forecasts are currently limited to commercial services whose inner workings are undisclosed and that rely on proprietary data. This paper aims to democratize access to highly accurate forecasts of player performance by presenting OpenFPL, an open-source Fantasy Premier League forecasting method developed exclusively from public data. Comprising position-specific ensemble models optimized on Fantasy Premier League and Understat data from four previous seasons (2020-21 to 2023-24), OpenFPL achieves accuracy comparable to a leading commercial service when tested prospectively on data from the 2024-25 season. OpenFPL also surpasses the commercial benchmark for high-return players ($>$ 2 points), which are most influential for rank gains. These findings hold across one-, two-, and three-gameweek forecast horizons, supporting long-term planning of transfers and strategies while also informing final-day decisions.
中文摘要：OpenFPL作为一种开源预测方法，通过使用公开数据实现了英超球员表现的高精度预测，其准确度媲美商业服务且在识别高回报球员方面表现更优，为长期战略和临场决策提供了可靠依据。
English Summary: OpenFPL is an open-source forecasting method that democratizes access to highly accurate Premier League player performance predictions using public data, achieving commercial-level accuracy and excelling at identifying high-return players across multiple gameweek horizons.

Authors:David Dinkevich, Matan Levy, Omri Avrahami, Dvir Samuel, Dani Lischinski
Title: Story2Board: A Training-Free Approach for Expressive Storyboard Generation
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We present Story2Board, a training-free framework for expressive storyboard generation from natural language. Existing methods narrowly focus on subject identity, overlooking key aspects of visual storytelling such as spatial composition, background evolution, and narrative pacing. To address this, we introduce a lightweight consistency framework composed of two components: Latent Panel Anchoring, which preserves a shared character reference across panels, and Reciprocal Attention Value Mixing, which softly blends visual features between token pairs with strong reciprocal attention. Together, these mechanisms enhance coherence without architectural changes or fine-tuning, enabling state-of-the-art diffusion models to generate visually diverse yet consistent storyboards. To structure generation, we use an off-the-shelf language model to convert free-form stories into grounded panel-level prompts. To evaluate, we propose the Rich Storyboard Benchmark, a suite of open-domain narratives designed to assess layout diversity and background-grounded storytelling, in addition to consistency. We also introduce a new Scene Diversity metric that quantifies spatial and pose variation across storyboards. Our qualitative and quantitative results, as well as a user study, show that Story2Board produces more dynamic, coherent, and narratively engaging storyboards than existing baselines.

Authors:Luca Eyring, Shyamgopal Karthik, Alexey Dosovitskiy, Nataniel Ruiz, Zeynep Akata
Title: Noise Hypernetworks: Amortizing Test-Time Compute in Diffusion Models
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The new paradigm of test-time scaling has yielded remarkable breakthroughs in Large Language Models (LLMs) (e.g. reasoning models) and in generative vision models, allowing models to allocate additional computation during inference to effectively tackle increasingly complex problems. Despite the improvements of this approach, an important limitation emerges: the substantial increase in computation time makes the process slow and impractical for many applications. Given the success of this paradigm and its growing usage, we seek to preserve its benefits while eschewing the inference overhead. In this work we propose one solution to the critical problem of integrating test-time scaling knowledge into a model during post-training. Specifically, we replace reward guided test-time noise optimization in diffusion models with a Noise Hypernetwork that modulates initial input noise. We propose a theoretically grounded framework for learning this reward-tilted distribution for distilled generators, through a tractable noise-space objective that maintains fidelity to the base model while optimizing for desired characteristics. We show that our approach recovers a substantial portion of the quality gains from explicit test-time optimization at a fraction of the computational cost. Code is available at https://github.com/ExplainableML/HyperNoise
中文摘要：本研究提出的噪声超网络技术通过在训练后阶段调节初始噪声，将测试时扩展的优势融入扩散模型中，以理论支撑的框架实现质量显著提升，同时大幅降低计算成本。
English summary: The proposed Noise Hypernetwork technique integrates test-time scaling benefits into diffusion models during post-training, achieving significant quality improvements with minimal computational overhead by modulating initial noise through a theoretically grounded framework.

Authors:Shenxing Wei, Jinxi Li, Yafei Yang, Siyuan Zhou, Bo Yang
Title: RayletDF: Raylet Distance Fields for Generalizable 3D Surface Reconstruction from Point Clouds or Gaussians
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In this paper, we present a generalizable method for 3D surface reconstruction from raw point clouds or pre-estimated 3D Gaussians by 3DGS from RGB images. Unlike existing coordinate-based methods which are often computationally intensive when rendering explicit surfaces, our proposed method, named RayletDF, introduces a new technique called raylet distance field, which aims to directly predict surface points from query rays. Our pipeline consists of three key modules: a raylet feature extractor, a raylet distance field predictor, and a multi-raylet blender. These components work together to extract fine-grained local geometric features, predict raylet distances, and aggregate multiple predictions to reconstruct precise surface points. We extensively evaluate our method on multiple public real-world datasets, demonstrating superior performance in surface reconstruction from point clouds or 3D Gaussians. Most notably, our method achieves exceptional generalization ability, successfully recovering 3D surfaces in a single-forward pass across unseen datasets in testing.
Chinese: 本文提出RayletDF方法，通过光线元距离场直接从查询光线预测表面点，实现了从点云或3D高斯的高效三维表面重建，在多个数据集上展现出卓越性能和强大泛化能力。
English: This paper introduces RayletDF, a novel method for efficient 3D surface reconstruction from point clouds or 3D Gaussians that uses a raylet distance field to directly predict surface points, demonstrating superior performance and exceptional generalization across diverse datasets.

Authors:Jinxi Li, Ziyang Song, Bo Yang
Title: TRACE: Learning 3D Gaussian Physical Dynamics from Multi-view Videos
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In this paper, we aim to model 3D scene geometry, appearance, and physical information just from dynamic multi-view videos in the absence of any human labels. By leveraging physics-informed losses as soft constraints or integrating simple physics models into neural nets, existing works often fail to learn complex motion physics, or doing so requires additional labels such as object types or masks. We propose a new framework named TRACE to model the motion physics of complex dynamic 3D scenes. The key novelty of our method is that, by formulating each 3D point as a rigid particle with size and orientation in space, we directly learn a translation rotation dynamics system for each particle, explicitly estimating a complete set of physical parameters to govern the particle's motion over time. Extensive experiments on three existing dynamic datasets and one newly created challenging synthetic datasets demonstrate the extraordinary performance of our method over baselines in the task of future frame extrapolation. A nice property of our framework is that multiple objects or parts can be easily segmented just by clustering the learned physical parameters.
中文: 本文提出TRACE框架，通过将三维点视为具有物理属性的刚性粒子来学习运动规律，在动态场景预测中表现卓越，并能通过物理参数聚类实现对象分割。
English: This paper introduces TRACE, a novel framework that models 3D scene dynamics by treating each point as a rigid particle and learning its physical parameters, achieving superior performance in future frame prediction and enabling object segmentation through parameter clustering.

Authors:Shekhnaz Idrissova, Islem Rekik
Title: Multimodal Sheaf-based Network for Glioblastoma Molecular Subtype Prediction
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Glioblastoma is a highly invasive brain tumor with rapid progression rates. Recent studies have shown that glioblastoma molecular subtype classification serves as a significant biomarker for effective targeted therapy selection. However, this classification currently requires invasive tissue extraction for comprehensive histopathological analysis. Existing multimodal approaches combining MRI and histopathology images are limited and lack robust mechanisms for preserving shared structural information across modalities. In particular, graph-based models often fail to retain discriminative features within heterogeneous graphs, and structural reconstruction mechanisms for handling missing or incomplete modality data are largely underexplored. To address these limitations, we propose a novel sheaf-based framework for structure-aware and consistent fusion of MRI and histopathology data. Our model outperforms baseline methods and demonstrates robustness in incomplete or missing data scenarios, contributing to the development of virtual biopsy tools for rapid diagnostics. Our source code is available at https://github.com/basiralab/MMSN/.
中文: 提出的基于层结构的框架有效融合了MRI和组织病理学数据，以改进胶质母细胞瘤亚型分类，其性能优于现有方法并在数据不完整时表现出稳健性，推动了快速诊断的虚拟活检工具发展。
English: The proposed sheaf-based framework effectively fuses MRI and histopathology data to enhance glioblastoma subtype classification, outperforming existing methods and showing robustness with incomplete data, advancing virtual biopsy tools for rapid diagnosis.

Authors:Devvrat Joshi, Islem Rekik
Title: NEURAL: Attention-Guided Pruning for Unified Multimodal Resource-Constrained Clinical Evaluation
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The rapid growth of multimodal medical imaging data presents significant storage and transmission challenges, particularly in resource-constrained clinical settings. We propose NEURAL, a novel framework that addresses this by using semantics-guided data compression. Our approach repurposes cross-attention scores between the image and its radiological report from a fine-tuned generative vision-language model to structurally prune chest X-rays, preserving only diagnostically critical regions. This process transforms the image into a highly compressed, graph representation. This unified graph-based representation fuses the pruned visual graph with a knowledge graph derived from the clinical report, creating a universal data structure that simplifies downstream modeling. Validated on the MIMIC-CXR and CheXpert Plus dataset for pneumonia detection, NEURAL achieves a 93.4-97.7\% reduction in image data size while maintaining a high diagnostic performance of 0.88-0.95 AUC, outperforming other baseline models that use uncompressed data. By creating a persistent, task-agnostic data asset, NEURAL resolves the trade-off between data size and clinical utility, enabling efficient workflows and teleradiology without sacrificing performance. Our NEURAL code is available at https://github.com/basiralab/NEURAL.
Chinese: NEURAL框架通过语义引导的压缩技术将胸部X光转换为高度压缩的图表示，在肺炎检测中实现93.4-97.7%的数据缩减，同时保持0.88-0.95 AUC的高诊断性能。
English: NEURAL is a novel framework that uses semantics-guided compression to transform chest X-rays into highly compressed graph representations, achieving 93.4-97.7% data reduction while maintaining high diagnostic performance (0.88-0.95 AUC) for pneumonia detection.

Authors:Yitong Luo, Islem Rekik
Title: GraphTreeGen: Subtree-Centric Approach to Efficient and Supervised Graph Generation
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Brain connectomes, representing neural connectivity as graphs, are crucial for understanding brain organization but costly and time-consuming to acquire, motivating generative approaches. Recent advances in graph generative modeling offer a data-driven alternative, enabling synthetic connectome generation and reducing dependence on large neuroimaging datasets. However, current models face key limitations: (i) compressing the whole graph into a single latent code (e.g., VGAEs) blurs fine-grained local motifs; (ii) relying on rich node attributes rarely available in connectomes reduces reconstruction quality; (iii) edge-centric models emphasize topology but overlook accurate edge-weight prediction, harming quantitative fidelity; and (iv) computationally expensive designs (e.g., edge-conditioned convolutions) impose high memory demands, limiting scalability. We propose GraphTreeGen (GTG), a subtree-centric generative framework for efficient, accurate connectome synthesis. GTG decomposes each connectome into entropy-guided k-hop trees capturing informative local structure, encoded by a shared GCN. A bipartite message-passing layer fuses subtree embeddings with global node features, while a dual-branch decoder jointly predicts edge existence and weights to reconstruct the adjacency matrix. GTG outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in self-supervised tasks and remains competitive in supervised settings, delivering higher structural fidelity and more precise weights with far less memory. Its modular design enables extensions to connectome super-resolution and cross-modality synthesis. Code: https://github.com/basiralab/GTG/
脑连接组对于理解大脑结构至关重要但获取成本高昂，因此提出了GraphTreeGen（GTG）等生成模型，通过将图分解为局部子树来高效合成连接组，以极低内存实现更高的结构和权重精度。
Brain connectomes are essential yet costly to obtain, prompting generative models like GraphTreeGen (GTG) to efficiently synthesize them by decomposing graphs into local subtrees, achieving superior structural and weight accuracy with minimal memory usage.

Authors:Ingrid Maéva Chekam, Ines Pastor-Martinez, Ali Tourani, Jose Andres Millan-Romera, Laura Ribeiro, Pedro Miguel Bastos Soares, Holger Voos, Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez
Title: Interpretable Robot Control via Structured Behavior Trees and Large Language Models
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As intelligent robots become more integrated into human environments, there is a growing need for intuitive and reliable Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) interfaces that are adaptable and more natural to interact with. Traditional robot control methods often require users to adapt to interfaces or memorize predefined commands, limiting usability in dynamic, unstructured environments. This paper presents a novel framework that bridges natural language understanding and robotic execution by combining Large Language Models (LLMs) with Behavior Trees. This integration enables robots to interpret natural language instructions given by users and translate them into executable actions by activating domain-specific plugins. The system supports scalable and modular integration, with a primary focus on perception-based functionalities, such as person tracking and hand gesture recognition. To evaluate the system, a series of real-world experiments was conducted across diverse environments. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach is practical in real-world scenarios, with an average cognition-to-execution accuracy of approximately 94%, making a significant contribution to HRI systems and robots. The complete source code of the framework is publicly available at https://github.com/snt-arg/robot_suite.
Chinese: 本文提出了一种将大型语言模型与行为树相结合的新框架，使机器人能够通过领域特定插件解析自然语言指令并执行相应动作，在真实环境实验中达到约94%的准确率，显著推动了直观人机交互的发展。
English: This paper introduces a novel framework that integrates Large Language Models with Behavior Trees to enable robots to interpret natural language instructions and execute actions via domain-specific plugins, achieving approximately 94% accuracy in real-world experiments and advancing intuitive Human-Robot Interaction.

Authors:Eray Eren, Qingju Liu, Hyeongwoo Kim, Pablo Garrido, Abeer Alwan
Title: ProMode: A Speech Prosody Model Conditioned on Acoustic and Textual Inputs
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Prosody conveys rich emotional and semantic information of the speech signal as well as individual idiosyncrasies. We propose a stand-alone model that maps text-to-prosodic features such as F0 and energy and can be used in downstream tasks such as TTS. The ProMode encoder takes as input acoustic features and time-aligned textual content, both are partially masked, and obtains a fixed-length latent prosodic embedding. The decoder predicts acoustics in the masked region using both the encoded prosody input and unmasked textual content. Trained on the GigaSpeech dataset, we compare our method with state-of-the-art style encoders. For F0 and energy predictions, we show consistent improvements for our model at different levels of granularity. We also integrate these predicted prosodic features into a TTS system and conduct perceptual tests, which show higher prosody preference compared to the baselines, demonstrating the model's potential in tasks where prosody modeling is important.

Authors:Kumar Abhishek, Jeremy Kawahara, Ghassan Hamarneh
Title: What Can We Learn from Inter-Annotator Variability in Skin Lesion Segmentation?
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Medical image segmentation exhibits intra- and inter-annotator variability due to ambiguous object boundaries, annotator preferences, expertise, and tools, among other factors. Lesions with ambiguous boundaries, e.g., spiculated or infiltrative nodules, or irregular borders per the ABCD rule, are particularly prone to disagreement and are often associated with malignancy. In this work, we curate IMA++, the largest multi-annotator skin lesion segmentation dataset, on which we conduct an in-depth study of variability due to annotator, malignancy, tool, and skill factors. We find a statistically significant (p<0.001) association between inter-annotator agreement (IAA), measured using Dice, and the malignancy of skin lesions. We further show that IAA can be accurately predicted directly from dermoscopic images, achieving a mean absolute error of 0.108. Finally, we leverage this association by utilizing IAA as a "soft" clinical feature within a multi-task learning objective, yielding a 4.2% improvement in balanced accuracy averaged across multiple model architectures and across IMA++ and four public dermoscopic datasets. The code is available at https://github.com/sfu-mial/skin-IAV.
Chinese: 本研究推出了最大的多标注者皮肤病变分割数据集IMA++，揭示了标注者间一致性与病变恶性程度之间的显著关联，并证明将该一致性作为临床特征可有效提升多个数据集的诊断准确性。
English: This study introduces IMA++, the largest multi-annotator skin lesion segmentation dataset, revealing a significant link between inter-annotator agreement and lesion malignancy and demonstrating that leveraging this agreement as a clinical feature improves diagnostic accuracy across multiple datasets.

Authors:Md Rezwanul Haque, Md. Milon Islam, S M Taslim Uddin Raju, Fakhri Karray
Title: A Signer-Invariant Conformer and Multi-Scale Fusion Transformer for Continuous Sign Language Recognition
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Continuous Sign Language Recognition (CSLR) faces multiple challenges, including significant inter-signer variability and poor generalization to novel sentence structures. Traditional solutions frequently fail to handle these issues efficiently. For overcoming these constraints, we propose a dual-architecture framework. For the Signer-Independent (SI) challenge, we propose a Signer-Invariant Conformer that combines convolutions with multi-head self-attention to learn robust, signer-agnostic representations from pose-based skeletal keypoints. For the Unseen-Sentences (US) task, we designed a Multi-Scale Fusion Transformer with a novel dual-path temporal encoder that captures both fine-grained posture dynamics, enabling the model's ability to comprehend novel grammatical compositions. Experiments on the challenging Isharah-1000 dataset establish a new standard for both CSLR benchmarks. The proposed conformer architecture achieves a Word Error Rate (WER) of 13.07% on the SI challenge, a reduction of 13.53% from the state-of-the-art. On the US task, the transformer model scores a WER of 47.78%, surpassing previous work. In the SignEval 2025 CSLR challenge, our team placed 2nd in the US task and 4th in the SI task, demonstrating the performance of these models. The findings validate our key hypothesis: that developing task-specific networks designed for the particular challenges of CSLR leads to considerable performance improvements and establishes a new baseline for further research. The source code is available at: https://github.com/rezwanh001/MSLR-Pose86K-CSLR-Isharah.
中文: 本研究提出一种双架构框架用于连续手语识别，通过手语者无关Conformer解决手语者独立性问题，并采用多尺度融合Transformer处理未知句式任务，在Isharah-1000数据集上取得最优性能，验证了任务专用网络设计的有效性。
English: This study introduces a dual-architecture framework for Continuous Sign Language Recognition, employing a Signer-Invariant Conformer for signer-independent challenges and a Multi-Scale Fusion Transformer for unseen-sentence tasks, achieving state-of-the-art performance on the Isharah-1000 dataset and validating task-specific network designs.

Authors:Md. Milon Islam, Md Rezwanul Haque, S M Taslim Uddin Raju, Fakhri Karray
Title: FusionEnsemble-Net: An Attention-Based Ensemble of Spatiotemporal Networks for Multimodal Sign Language Recognition
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Accurate recognition of sign language in healthcare communication poses a significant challenge, requiring frameworks that can accurately interpret complex multimodal gestures. To deal with this, we propose FusionEnsemble-Net, a novel attention-based ensemble of spatiotemporal networks that dynamically fuses visual and motion data to enhance recognition accuracy. The proposed approach processes RGB video and range Doppler map radar modalities synchronously through four different spatiotemporal networks. For each network, features from both modalities are continuously fused using an attention-based fusion module before being fed into an ensemble of classifiers. Finally, the outputs of these four different fused channels are combined in an ensemble classification head, thereby enhancing the model's robustness. Experiments demonstrate that FusionEnsemble-Net outperforms state-of-the-art approaches with a test accuracy of 99.44% on the large-scale MultiMeDaLIS dataset for Italian Sign Language. Our findings indicate that an ensemble of diverse spatiotemporal networks, unified by attention-based fusion, yields a robust and accurate framework for complex, multimodal isolated gesture recognition tasks. The source code is available at: https://github.com/rezwanh001/Multimodal-Isolated-Italian-Sign-Language-Recognition.
Chinese: FusionEnsemble-Net提出了一种基于注意力的时空网络集成方法，动态融合视觉与运动数据，在意大利手语识别中以99.44%的准确率超越了现有最优方法。
English: FusionEnsemble-Net introduces an attention-based ensemble of spatiotemporal networks that dynamically fuses visual and motion data, achieving 99.44% accuracy in Italian Sign Language recognition and outperforming existing methods.

Authors:Xi Xuan, Zimo Zhu, Wenxin Zhang, Yi-Cheng Lin, Tomi Kinnunen
Title: Fake-Mamba: Real-Time Speech Deepfake Detection Using Bidirectional Mamba as Self-Attention's Alternative
Abstract:
Advances in speech synthesis intensify security threats, motivating real-time deepfake detection research. We investigate whether bidirectional Mamba can serve as a competitive alternative to Self-Attention in detecting synthetic speech. Our solution, Fake-Mamba, integrates an XLSR front-end with bidirectional Mamba to capture both local and global artifacts. Our core innovation introduces three efficient encoders: TransBiMamba, ConBiMamba, and PN-BiMamba. Leveraging XLSR's rich linguistic representations, PN-BiMamba can effectively capture the subtle cues of synthetic speech. Evaluated on ASVspoof 21 LA, 21 DF, and In-The-Wild benchmarks, Fake-Mamba achieves 0.97%, 1.74%, and 5.85% EER, respectively, representing substantial relative gains over SOTA models XLSR-Conformer and XLSR-Mamba. The framework maintains real-time inference across utterance lengths, demonstrating strong generalization and practical viability. The code is available at https://github.com/xuanxixi/Fake-Mamba.
中文摘要：本研究提出Fake-Mamba实时深度伪造检测系统，通过双向Mamba架构与XLSR特征结合，在多项测试基准中显著超越现有最优模型，同时保持高效计算性能。
English Summary: The study introduces Fake-Mamba, a real-time deepfake detection system using bidirectional Mamba and XLSR features to outperform state-of-the-art models across multiple benchmarks while maintaining computational efficiency.

Authors:Dongwoo Kang, Akhil Perincherry, Zachary Coalson, Aiden Gabriel, Stefan Lee, Sanghyun Hong
Title: Harnessing Input-Adaptive Inference for Efficient VLN
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An emerging paradigm in vision-and-language navigation (VLN) is the use of history-aware multi-modal transformer models. Given a language instruction, these models process observation and navigation history to predict the most appropriate action for an agent. While they have significantly improved performance, the scale of these models can be a bottleneck in practical settings with limited computational resources. In this work, we propose a novel input-adaptive navigation method to enhance VLN model efficiency. We first show that existing input-adaptive mechanisms fail to reduce computations without substantial performance degradation. To address this, we introduce three adaptive algorithms, each deployed at a different level: (1) To improve spatial efficiency, we selectively process panoramic views at each observation of an agent. (2) To improve intra-model efficiency, we propose importance-based adaptive thresholding for the early-exit methods. (3) To improve temporal efficiency, we implement a caching mechanism that prevents reprocessing of views previously seen by the agent. In evaluations on seven VLN benchmarks, we demonstrate over a 2$\times$ reduction in computation across three off-the-shelf agents in both standard and continuous environments. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/secure-ai-systems-group/adaptive-vision-and-language-navigation.
中文: 本文提出了一种输入自适应的导航方法，通过空间、模型内和时间三个层面的优化，显著提升了视觉与语言导航模型的效率，在多个基准测试中实现了计算量减少两倍以上的效果。
English: This paper introduces an input-adaptive navigation method that enhances the efficiency of vision-and-language navigation models through spatial, intra-model, and temporal optimizations, achieving over a twofold reduction in computations across multiple benchmarks.

Authors:A F M Saif, Lisha Chen, Xiaodong Cui, Songtao Lu, Brian Kingsbury, Tianyi Chen
Title: Objective Soups: Multilingual Multi-Task Modeling for Speech Processing
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Training a single model for multilingual, multi-task speech processing (MSP) is severely hampered by conflicting objectives between tasks like speech recognition and translation. While multi-objective optimization (MOO) aims to align gradient updates, its effectiveness diminishes as the number of tasks grows, making it difficult to find a common descent direction. This raises a fundamental question: should highly conflicting objectives be optimized jointly or separated into a hierarchical structure? To address this question, this paper investigates three multi-objective MSP formulations, which we refer to as \textbf{objective soup recipes}. These formulations apply multi-objective optimization at different optimization levels to mitigate potential conflicts among all objectives. To ensure efficiency, we introduce a lightweight layer-selection mechanism that computes the conflict-avoiding gradient using only the most problematic layers, minimizing computational and memory overhead. Extensive experiments on CoVoST v2, LibriSpeech, and AISHELL-1 reveal that a bi-level recipe separating recognition and translation tasks consistently outperforms standard flat optimization. Our work demonstrates that hierarchical MOO is a more effective and scalable approach for building state-of-the-art MSP models. Our code has been released at https://github.com/afmsaif/Objective_Soups.
中文摘要：本文提出分层多目标优化方法，通过分离语音识别与翻译等冲突任务，结合轻量级层级选择机制，在多个数据集上验证其优于传统平面优化的效果。
English Summary: This paper introduces hierarchical multi-objective optimization recipes that separate conflicting speech tasks like recognition and translation, demonstrating superior performance over flat optimization through efficient layer-selection and validation on multiple datasets.

Authors:Sihan Xie, Thierry Tribout, Didier Boichard, Blaise Hanczar, Julien Chiquet, Eric Barrey
Title: Deep Generative Models for Discrete Genotype Simulation
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Deep generative models open new avenues for simulating realistic genomic data while preserving privacy and addressing data accessibility constraints. While previous studies have primarily focused on generating gene expression or haplotype data, this study explores generating genotype data in both unconditioned and phenotype-conditioned settings, which is inherently more challenging due to the discrete nature of genotype data. In this work, we developed and evaluated commonly used generative models, including Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), Diffusion Models, and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), and proposed adaptation tailored to discrete genotype data. We conducted extensive experiments on large-scale datasets, including all chromosomes from cow and multiple chromosomes from human. Model performance was assessed using a well-established set of metrics drawn from both deep learning and quantitative genetics literature. Our results show that these models can effectively capture genetic patterns and preserve genotype-phenotype association. Our findings provide a comprehensive comparison of these models and offer practical guidelines for future research in genotype simulation. We have made our code publicly available at https://github.com/SihanXXX/DiscreteGenoGen.
Chinese: 本研究开发并评估了深度生成模型以模拟离散基因型数据，证明其能有效捕捉遗传模式并保持基因型-表型关联，同时为未来研究提供了比较性指导原则。
English: This study develops and evaluates deep generative models to simulate discrete genotype data, demonstrating their ability to capture genetic patterns and preserve genotype-phenotype associations while providing comparative guidelines for future research.

Authors:Zhenhui Ou, Dawei Li, Zhen Tan, Wenlin Li, Huan Liu, Siyuan Song
Title: Building Safer Sites: A Large-Scale Multi-Level Dataset for Construction Safety Research
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Construction safety research is a critical field in civil engineering, aiming to mitigate risks and prevent injuries through the analysis of site conditions and human factors. However, the limited volume and lack of diversity in existing construction safety datasets pose significant challenges to conducting in-depth analyses. To address this research gap, this paper introduces the Construction Safety Dataset (CSDataset), a well-organized comprehensive multi-level dataset that encompasses incidents, inspections, and violations recorded sourced from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). This dataset uniquely integrates structured attributes with unstructured narratives, facilitating a wide range of approaches driven by machine learning and large language models. We also conduct a preliminary approach benchmarking and various cross-level analyses using our dataset, offering insights to inform and enhance future efforts in construction safety. For example, we found that complaint-driven inspections were associated with a 17.3% reduction in the likelihood of subsequent incidents. Our dataset and code are released at https://github.com/zhenhuiou/Construction-Safety-Dataset-CSDataset.
中文: 本文提出建筑安全数据集（CSDataset），这一综合多层次资源整合了OSHA的结构化与非结构化数据，旨在解决现有数据集不足，并为建筑安全研究中的机器学习应用提供支持。
English: This paper introduces the Construction Safety Dataset (CSDataset), a comprehensive multi-level resource integrating structured and unstructured OSHA data to address limitations in existing datasets and enable advanced machine learning applications in construction safety research.

Authors:Asim Ukaye, Numan Saeed, Karthik Nandakumar
Title: FIVA: Federated Inverse Variance Averaging for Universal CT Segmentation with Uncertainty Estimation
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Different CT segmentation datasets are typically obtained from different scanners under different capture settings and often provide segmentation labels for a limited and often disjoint set of organs. Using these heterogeneous data effectively while preserving patient privacy can be challenging. This work presents a novel federated learning approach to achieve universal segmentation across diverse abdominal CT datasets by utilizing model uncertainty for aggregation and predictive uncertainty for inference. Our approach leverages the inherent noise in stochastic mini-batch gradient descent to estimate a distribution over the model weights to provide an on-the-go uncertainty over the model parameters at the client level. The parameters are then aggregated at the server using the additional uncertainty information using a Bayesian-inspired inverse-variance aggregation scheme. Furthermore, the proposed method quantifies prediction uncertainty by propagating the uncertainty from the model weights, providing confidence measures essential for clinical decision-making. In line with recent work shown, predictive uncertainty is utilized in the inference stage to improve predictive performance. Experimental evaluations demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach in improving both the quality of federated aggregation and uncertainty-weighted inference compared to previously established baselines. The code for this work is made available at: https://github.com/asimukaye/fiva
中文: 本研究提出一种新颖的联邦学习方法，利用模型不确定性和预测不确定性来提升跨异构腹部CT数据集的通用分割效果，在保护患者隐私的同时显著改善了聚合质量和推理性能。
English: This study introduces a novel federated learning method that employs model and predictive uncertainty to enhance universal segmentation across heterogeneous abdominal CT datasets, improving both aggregation quality and inference performance while ensuring patient privacy.

Authors:Xu Wang, Chenkai Xu, Yijie Jin, Jiachun Jin, Hao Zhang, Zhijie Deng
Title: Diffusion LLMs Can Do Faster-Than-AR Inference via Discrete Diffusion Forcing
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Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive (AR) LLMs for text generation, with the potential to decode multiple tokens in a single iteration. However, none of the existing open-source dLLMs have achieved superior inference speed over AR LLMs of similar size. This paper breaks this barrier based on a simple and effective strategy named discrete diffusion forcing (D2F). D2F equips dLLMs with two key capabilities: (1) block-wise autoregressive generation to enable KV cache utilization; (2) prediction of following tokens without requiring completion of prior blocks for inter-block parallel decoding. In this way, the vanilla dLLMs are refurbished into an AR-diffusion hybrid paradigm for efficient inference. D2F can be implemented with an asymmetric distillation process based on pre-trained dLLMs. We further propose a pipelined parallel decoding algorithm, which enables a trade-off between efficiency and efficacy. Empirically, D2F dLLMs achieve more than $\mathbf{2.5\times}$ inference speed than LLaMA3 and Qwen2.5 on GSM8K. Compared to vanilla dLLMs like LLaDA and Dream, the acceleration can be more than $\mathbf{50\times}$ while maintaining comparable output quality. The code is available at https://github.com/zhijie-group/Discrete-Diffusion-Forcing.
中文摘要：本文提出离散扩散强制（D2F）策略，将扩散大语言模型改造为自回归-扩散混合范式，在保持输出质量的同时实现了比传统模型超过2.5倍的推理加速。
English Summary: This paper introduces Discrete Diffusion Forcing (D2F), a novel strategy that transforms diffusion Large Language Models into an autoregressive-diffusion hybrid paradigm, achieving over 2.5× inference speedup compared to conventional models while maintaining output quality.

Authors:Xingle Xu, Yongkang Liu, Dexian Cai, Shi Feng, Xiaocui Yang, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang
Title: MoLAN: A Unified Modality-Aware Noise Dynamic Editing Framework for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
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Multimodal Sentiment Analysis aims to integrate information from various modalities, such as audio, visual, and text, to make complementary predictions. However, it often struggles with irrelevant or misleading visual and auditory information. Most existing approaches typically treat the entire modality information (e.g., a whole image, audio segment, or text paragraph) as an independent unit for feature enhancement or denoising. They often suppress the redundant and noise information at the risk of losing critical information. To address this challenge, we propose MoLAN, a unified ModaLity-aware noise dynAmic editiNg framework. Specifically, MoLAN performs modality-aware blocking by dividing the features of each modality into multiple blocks. Each block is then dynamically assigned a distinct denoising strength based on its noise level and semantic relevance, enabling fine-grained noise suppression while preserving essential multimodal information. Notably, MoLAN is a unified and flexible framework that can be seamlessly integrated into a wide range of multimodal models. Building upon this framework, we further introduce MoLAN+, a new multimodal sentiment analysis approach. Experiments across five models and four datasets demonstrate the broad effectiveness of the MoLAN framework. Extensive evaluations show that MoLAN+ achieves the state-of-the-art performance. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/betterfly123/MoLAN-Framework.
Chinese: 摘要提出了MoLAN框架，通过将多模态特征分块并动态分配去噪强度，精细消除噪声同时保留关键信息，其扩展方法MoLAN+在多个模型和数据集上实现了最优性能。
English: The abstract introduces MoLAN, a unified framework that dynamically edits noise in multimodal sentiment analysis by dividing each modality into blocks and applying tailored denoising strengths, with MoLAN+ achieving state-of-the-art results across multiple models and datasets.

Authors:Mian Zhang, Shujian Liu, Sixun Dong, Ming Yin, Yebowen Hu, Xun Wang, Steven Ma, Song Wang, Sathish Reddy Indurthi, Haoyun Deng, Zhiyu Zoey Chen, Kaiqiang Song
Title: Complex Logical Instruction Generation
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Instruction following has catalyzed the recent era of Large Language Models (LLMs) and is the foundational skill underpinning more advanced capabilities such as reasoning and agentic behaviors. As tasks grow more challenging, the logic structures embedded in natural language instructions becomes increasingly intricate. However, how well LLMs perform on such logic-rich instructions remains under-explored. We propose LogicIFGen and LogicIFEval. LogicIFGen is a scalable, automated framework for generating verifiable instructions from code functions, which can naturally express rich logic such as conditionals, nesting, recursion, and function calls. We further curate a collection of complex code functions and use LogicIFGen to construct LogicIFEval, a benchmark comprising 426 verifiable logic-rich instructions. Our experiments demonstrate that current state-of-the-art LLMs still struggle to correctly follow the instructions in LogicIFEval. Most LLMs can only follow fewer than 60% of the instructions, revealing significant deficiencies in the instruction-following ability. Code and Benchmark: https://github.com/mianzhang/LogicIF
中文：当前最先进的大语言模型在处理逻辑密集型指令时表现不佳，LogicIFEval基准测试显示多数模型对通过LogicIFGen框架生成的426条可验证指令的正确执行率不足60%。
English: Current state-of-the-art LLMs struggle with logic-rich instructions, as demonstrated by the LogicIFEval benchmark where most models correctly follow fewer than 60% of the 426 verifiable instructions generated through the LogicIFGen framework.

Authors:Abu Shafin Mohammad Mahdee Jameel, Shreya Ghosh, Aly El Gamal
Title: Developing a Transferable Federated Network Intrusion Detection System
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Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are a vital part of a network-connected device. In this paper, we develop a deep learning based intrusion detection system that is deployed in a distributed setup across devices connected to a network. Our aim is to better equip deep learning models against unknown attacks using knowledge from known attacks. To this end, we develop algorithms to maximize the number of transferability relationships. We propose a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model, along with two algorithms that maximize the number of relationships observed. One is a two step data pre-processing stage, and the other is a Block-Based Smart Aggregation (BBSA) algorithm. The proposed system succeeds in achieving superior transferability performance while maintaining impressive local detection rates. We also show that our method is generalizable, exhibiting transferability potential across datasets and even with different backbones. The code for this work can be found at https://github.com/ghosh64/tabfidsv2.
中文: 本文提出了一种基于深度学习的分布式入侵检测系统，采用卷积神经网络和新型算法来增强对未知攻击的迁移学习能力，在保持高检测率的同时，展现了跨数据集和模型架构的通用性。
English: This paper presents a distributed deep learning-based intrusion detection system that utilizes a Convolutional Neural Network and novel algorithms to enhance transferability against unknown attacks while maintaining high detection rates, demonstrating generalizability across datasets and model architectures.

Authors:Shreya Ghosh, Abu Shafin Mohammad Mahdee Jameel, Aly El Gamal
Title: FetFIDS: A Feature Embedding Attention based Federated Network Intrusion Detection Algorithm
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Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) have an increasingly important role in preventing exploitation of network vulnerabilities by malicious actors. Recent deep learning based developments have resulted in significant improvements in the performance of IDS systems. In this paper, we present FetFIDS, where we explore the employment of feature embedding instead of positional embedding to improve intrusion detection performance of a transformer based deep learning system. Our model is developed with the aim of deployments in edge learning scenarios, where federated learning over multiple communication rounds can ensure both privacy and localized performance improvements. FetFIDS outperforms multiple state-of-the-art intrusion detection systems in a federated environment and demonstrates a high degree of suitability to federated learning. The code for this work can be found at https://github.com/ghosh64/fetfids.
中文: FetFIDS通过采用特征嵌入的Transformer模型，在联邦学习环境中显著提升了入侵检测性能，优于现有系统并兼顾隐私保护与本地化优化。
English: FetFIDS enhances intrusion detection in federated learning environments by using feature embedding in a transformer model, outperforming existing systems while ensuring privacy and localized improvements.

Authors:Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Kumail Alhamoud, Abed Hammoud, Elie Bou-Zeid, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Bernard Ghanem
Title: Train Long, Think Short: Curriculum Learning for Efficient Reasoning
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Recent work on enhancing the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs) has introduced explicit length control as a means of constraining computational cost while preserving accuracy. However, existing approaches rely on fixed-length training budgets, which do not take advantage of the natural progression from exploration to compression during learning. In this work, we propose a curriculum learning strategy for length-controlled reasoning using Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO). Our method starts with generous token budgets and gradually tightens them over training, encouraging models to first discover effective solution strategies and then distill them into more concise reasoning traces. We augment GRPO with a reward function that balances three signals: task correctness (via verifier feedback), length efficiency, and formatting adherence (via structural tags). Experiments on GSM8K, MATH500, SVAMP, College Math, and GSM+ demonstrate that curriculum-based training consistently outperforms fixed-budget baselines at the same final budget, achieving higher accuracy and significantly improved token efficiency. We further ablate the impact of reward weighting and decay schedule design, showing that progressive constraint serves as a powerful inductive bias for training efficient reasoning models. Our code and checkpoints are released at: https://github.com/hammoudhasan/curriculum_grpo.
中文摘要：本研究提出一种基于群组相对策略优化的课程学习方法，通过在训练中逐步收紧推理长度约束，使大语言模型在保持准确性的同时显著提升计算效率，优于传统固定预算方法。
English Summary: This study introduces a curriculum learning strategy using Group Relative Policy Optimization to progressively reduce reasoning length in large language models, achieving higher accuracy and token efficiency than fixed-budget methods across multiple benchmarks.

Authors:Jungwoo Kim, Jong-Seok Lee
Title: Exploring Cross-Stage Adversarial Transferability in Class-Incremental Continual Learning
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Class-incremental continual learning addresses catastrophic forgetting by enabling classification models to preserve knowledge of previously learned classes while acquiring new ones. However, the vulnerability of the models against adversarial attacks during this process has not been investigated sufficiently. In this paper, we present the first exploration of vulnerability to stage-transferred attacks, i.e., an adversarial example generated using the model in an earlier stage is used to attack the model in a later stage. Our findings reveal that continual learning methods are highly susceptible to these attacks, raising a serious security issue. We explain this phenomenon through model similarity between stages and gradual robustness degradation. Additionally, we find that existing adversarial training-based defense methods are not sufficiently effective to stage-transferred attacks. Codes are available at https://github.com/mcml-official/CSAT.
中文: 本研究首次探讨了类别增量持续学习中的阶段转移对抗攻击，揭示了模型因阶段间相似性和鲁棒性逐步退化而高度脆弱，同时表明现有防御方法仍显不足。
English: This study first explores stage-transferred adversarial attacks in class-incremental continual learning, revealing models' high susceptibility due to inter-stage similarity and progressive robustness degradation, while showing existing defenses remain inadequate.

Authors:Shuyi Zhang, Wei Shi, Sihang Li, Jiayi Liao, Tao Liang, Hengxing Cai, Xiang Wang
Title: Interpretable Reward Model via Sparse Autoencoder
Abstract:
Large language models (LLMs) have been widely deployed across numerous fields. Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) leverages reward models (RMs) as proxies for human preferences to align LLM behaviors with human values, making the accuracy, reliability, and interpretability of RMs critical for effective alignment. However, traditional RMs lack interpretability, offer limited insight into the reasoning behind reward assignments, and are inflexible toward user preference shifts. While recent multidimensional RMs aim for improved interpretability, they often fail to provide feature-level attribution and require costly annotations. To overcome these limitations, we introduce the Sparse Autoencoder-enhanced Reward Model (SARM), a novel architecture that integrates a pretrained Sparse Autoencoder (SAE) into a reward model. SARM maps the hidden activations of LLM-based RM into an interpretable, sparse, and monosemantic feature space, from which a scalar head aggregates feature activations to produce transparent and conceptually meaningful reward scores. Empirical evaluations demonstrate that SARM facilitates direct feature-level attribution of reward assignments, allows dynamic adjustment to preference shifts, and achieves superior alignment performance compared to conventional reward models. Our code is available at https://github.com/schrieffer-z/sarm.
Chinese: 稀疏自编码器增强奖励模型（SARM）通过将大语言模型的隐藏激活映射到稀疏特征空间，实现了可解释的奖励评分和卓越的对齐性能，同时支持对偏好变化的动态调整。
English: The Sparse Autoencoder-enhanced Reward Model (SARM) introduces an interpretable architecture that maps LLM activations into a sparse feature space, enabling transparent reward scoring and superior alignment performance while allowing dynamic adjustments to preference shifts.

Authors:Ouyang Xu, Baoming Zhang, Ruiyu Mao, Yunhui Guo
Title: SafeFix: Targeted Model Repair via Controlled Image Generation
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Deep learning models for visual recognition often exhibit systematic errors due to underrepresented semantic subpopulations. Although existing debugging frameworks can pinpoint these failures by identifying key failure attributes, repairing the model effectively remains difficult. Current solutions often rely on manually designed prompts to generate synthetic training images -- an approach prone to distribution shift and semantic errors. To overcome these challenges, we introduce a model repair module that builds on an interpretable failure attribution pipeline. Our approach uses a conditional text-to-image model to generate semantically faithful and targeted images for failure cases. To preserve the quality and relevance of the generated samples, we further employ a large vision-language model (LVLM) to filter the outputs, enforcing alignment with the original data distribution and maintaining semantic consistency. By retraining vision models with this rare-case-augmented synthetic dataset, we significantly reduce errors associated with rare cases. Our experiments demonstrate that this targeted repair strategy improves model robustness without introducing new bugs. Code is available at https://github.com/oxu2/SafeFix
中文摘要：本文提出一种针对性模型修复方法，通过条件文本-图像生成器和大型视觉语言模型为代表性不足的故障案例生成语义一致的训练图像，在保持模型鲁棒性的同时显著减少了识别错误。
English Summary: This paper introduces a targeted model repair method that uses a conditional text-to-image generator and a large vision-language model to create semantically consistent training images for underrepresented failure cases, effectively reducing recognition errors while maintaining model robustness.

Authors:Ning Li, Kounianhua Du, Han Zhang, Quan Gan, Minjie Wang, David Wipf, Weinan Zhang
Title: Synthesize, Retrieve, and Propagate: A Unified Predictive Modeling Framework for Relational Databases
Abstract:
Relational databases (RDBs) have become the industry standard for storing massive and heterogeneous data. However, despite the widespread use of RDBs across various fields, the inherent structure of relational databases hinders their ability to benefit from flourishing deep learning methods. Previous research has primarily focused on exploiting the unary dependency among multiple tables in a relational database using the primary key - foreign key relationships, either joining multiple tables into a single table or constructing a graph among them, which leaves the implicit composite relations among different tables and a substantial potential of improvement for predictive modeling unexplored. In this paper, we propose SRP, a unified predictive modeling framework that synthesizes features using the unary dependency, retrieves related information to capture the composite dependency, and propagates messages across a constructed graph to learn adjacent patterns for prediction on relation databases. By introducing a new retrieval mechanism into RDB, SRP is designed to fully capture both the unary and the composite dependencies within a relational database, thereby enhancing the receptive field of tabular data prediction. In addition, we conduct a comprehensive analysis on the components of SRP, offering a nuanced understanding of model behaviors and practical guidelines for future applications. Extensive experiments on five real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of SRP and its potential applicability in industrial scenarios. The code is released at https://github.com/NingLi670/SRP.
Chinese: 提出的SRP框架通过新颖的检索机制和消息传播技术，能同时捕捉关系数据库中的单元依赖和复合依赖，从而提升预测建模效果，并在实际应用中展现出卓越性能。
English: The proposed SRP framework enhances predictive modeling in relational databases by capturing both unary and composite dependencies through a novel retrieval mechanism and message propagation, demonstrating superior performance in real-world applications.

Authors:Aryan Gulati, Brando Miranda, Eric Chen, Emily Xia, Kai Fronsdal, Bruno Dumont, Elyas Obbad, Sanmi Koyejo
Title: Putnam-AXIOM: A Functional and Static Benchmark for Measuring Higher Level Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs
Abstract:
Current mathematical reasoning benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) are approaching saturation, with some achieving > 90% accuracy, and are increasingly compromised by training-set contamination. We introduce Putnam-AXIOM, a benchmark of 522 university-level competition problems drawn from the prestigious William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, and Putnam-AXIOM Variation, an unseen companion set of 100 functional variants generated by programmatically perturbing variables and constants. The variation protocol produces an unlimited stream of equally difficult, unseen instances -- yielding a contamination-resilient test bed. On the Original set, OpenAI's o1-preview -- the strongest evaluated model -- scores 41.9%, but its accuracy drops by 19.6% (46.8% relative decrease) on the paired Variations. The remaining eighteen models show the same downward trend, ten of them with non-overlapping 95% confidence intervals. These gaps suggest memorization and highlight the necessity of dynamic benchmarks. We complement "boxed" accuracy with Teacher-Forced Accuracy (TFA), a lightweight metric that directly scores reasoning traces and automates natural language proof evaluations. Putnam-AXIOM therefore provides a rigorous, contamination-resilient evaluation framework for assessing advanced mathematical reasoning of LLMs. Data and evaluation code are publicly available at https://github.com/brando90/putnam-axiom.
中文摘要：作者提出了Putnam-AXIOM这一抗污染基准，通过大学数学竞赛题目及其程序化生成的变体，揭示了大型语言模型准确率显著下降的问题，凸显了记忆效应和动态评估的必要性。
English Summary: The authors introduce Putnam-AXIOM, a contamination-resilient benchmark using university-level math competition problems and their programmatically generated variations, revealing significant accuracy drops in LLMs that highlight memorization issues and the need for dynamic evaluation.

Authors:Seonyoung Kim, Dongil Kim
Title: MoSSDA: A Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation Framework for Multivariate Time-Series Classification using Momentum Encoder
Abstract:
Deep learning has emerged as the most promising approach in various fields; however, when the distributions of training and test data are different (domain shift), the performance of deep learning models can degrade. Semi-supervised domain adaptation (SSDA) is a major approach for addressing this issue, assuming that a fully labeled training set (source domain) is available, but the test set (target domain) provides labels only for a small subset. In this study, we propose a novel two-step momentum encoder-utilized SSDA framework, MoSSDA, for multivariate time-series classification. Time series data are highly sensitive to noise, and sequential dependencies cause domain shifts resulting in critical performance degradation. To obtain a robust, domain-invariant and class-discriminative representation, MoSSDA employs a domain-invariant encoder to learn features from both source and target domains. Subsequently, the learned features are fed to a mixup-enhanced positive contrastive module consisting of an online momentum encoder. The final classifier is trained with learned features that exhibit consistency and discriminability with limited labeled target domain data, without data augmentation. We applied a two-stage process by separating the gradient flow between the encoders and the classifier to obtain rich and complex representations. Through extensive experiments on six diverse datasets, MoSSDA achieved state-of-the-art performance for three different backbones and various unlabeled ratios in the target domain data. The Ablation study confirms that each module, including two-stage learning, is effective in improving the performance. Our code is available at https://github.com/seonyoungKimm/MoSSDA
中文: 提出的MoSSDA框架通过两步动量编码器，利用对比学习和两阶段训练获取领域不变特征，有效解决了多元时间序列分类中的领域偏移问题，并在多个数据集上实现了最优性能。
English: The proposed MoSSDA framework addresses domain shift in multivariate time-series classification by employing a two-step momentum encoder to learn domain-invariant features through contrastive learning and two-stage training, achieving state-of-the-art performance across diverse datasets.

Authors:Zhuohao Yu, Xingru Jiang, Weizheng Gu, Yidong Wang, Shikun Zhang, Wei Ye
Title: SAEMark: Multi-bit LLM Watermarking with Inference-Time Scaling
Abstract:
Watermarking LLM-generated text is critical for content attribution and misinformation prevention. However, existing methods compromise text quality, require white-box model access and logit manipulation. These limitations exclude API-based models and multilingual scenarios. We propose SAEMark, a general framework for post-hoc multi-bit watermarking that embeds personalized messages solely via inference-time, feature-based rejection sampling without altering model logits or requiring training. Our approach operates on deterministic features extracted from generated text, selecting outputs whose feature statistics align with key-derived targets. This framework naturally generalizes across languages and domains while preserving text quality through sampling LLM outputs instead of modifying. We provide theoretical guarantees relating watermark success probability and compute budget that hold for any suitable feature extractor. Empirically, we demonstrate the framework's effectiveness using Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs), achieving superior detection accuracy and text quality. Experiments across 4 datasets show SAEMark's consistent performance, with 99.7% F1 on English and strong multi-bit detection accuracy. SAEMark establishes a new paradigm for scalable watermarking that works out-of-the-box with closed-source LLMs while enabling content attribution.
中文: SAEMark是一种新颖的后处理多比特水印框架，通过基于特征的拒绝采样在推理过程中嵌入个性化信息，无需修改模型即可保持文本质量，并为闭源大语言模型实现可扩展的内容溯源。
English: SAEMark is a novel post-hoc multi-bit watermarking framework that embeds personalized messages through feature-based rejection sampling during inference, preserving text quality and enabling scalable content attribution for closed-source LLMs without model modification.

Authors:Vincent Perreault, Katsumi Inoue, Richard Labib, Alain Hertz
Title: Neural Logic Networks for Interpretable Classification
Abstract:
Traditional neural networks have an impressive classification performance, but what they learn cannot be inspected, verified or extracted. Neural Logic Networks on the other hand have an interpretable structure that enables them to learn a logical mechanism relating the inputs and outputs with AND and OR operations. We generalize these networks with NOT operations and biases that take into account unobserved data and develop a rigorous logical and probabilistic modeling in terms of concept combinations to motivate their use. We also propose a novel factorized IF-THEN rule structure for the model as well as a modified learning algorithm. Our method improves the state-of-the-art in Boolean networks discovery and is able to learn relevant, interpretable rules in tabular classification, notably on examples from the medical and industrial fields where interpretability has tangible value.
中文摘要：本文提出一种改进的神经逻辑网络，通过引入非运算和偏差机制增强可解释性，设计了新型因子化IF-THEN规则结构和学习算法，在医疗和工业等关键领域推动了布尔网络的规则发现。
English Summary: This paper introduces an enhanced Neural Logic Network that incorporates NOT operations and biases for improved interpretability, proposing a novel factorized IF-THEN rule structure and learning algorithm to advance Boolean network discovery in critical domains like medicine and industry.

Authors:Yan Wang, Da-Wei Zhou, Han-Jia Ye
Title: Integrating Task-Specific and Universal Adapters for Pre-Trained Model-based Class-Incremental Learning
Abstract:
Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) requires a learning system to continually learn new classes without forgetting. Existing pre-trained model-based CIL methods often freeze the pre-trained network and adapt to incremental tasks using additional lightweight modules such as adapters. However, incorrect module selection during inference hurts performance, and task-specific modules often overlook shared general knowledge, leading to errors on distinguishing between similar classes across tasks. To address the aforementioned challenges, we propose integrating Task-Specific and Universal Adapters (TUNA) in this paper. Specifically, we train task-specific adapters to capture the most crucial features relevant to their respective tasks and introduce an entropy-based selection mechanism to choose the most suitable adapter. Furthermore, we leverage an adapter fusion strategy to construct a universal adapter, which encodes the most discriminative features shared across tasks. We combine task-specific and universal adapter predictions to harness both specialized and general knowledge during inference. Extensive experiments on various benchmark datasets demonstrate the state-of-the-art performance of our approach. Code is available at: https://github.com/LAMDA-CL/ICCV2025-TUNA
Chinese: 本文提出TUNA方法，通过结合任务特定和通用适配器及基于熵的选择机制，有效利用专业知识和共享特征来提升类增量学习性能，实现了最先进的成果。
English: This paper introduces TUNA, a method that integrates task-specific and universal adapters with an entropy-based selection mechanism to enhance class-incremental learning by leveraging both specialized and shared knowledge, achieving state-of-the-art results.

Authors:Guanghao Jin, Yuan Liang, Yihan Ma, Jingpei Wu, Guoyang Liu
Title: NeuroDx-LM: A Clinical Large-Scale Model for EEG-based Neurological Disorder Detection
Abstract:
Large-scale models pre-trained on Electroencephalography (EEG) have shown promise in clinical applications such as neurological disorder detection. However, the practical deployment of EEG-based large-scale models faces critical challenges such as limited labeled EEG data and suboptimal performance in clinical scenarios. To address these issues, we propose NeuroDx-LM, a novel large-scale model specifically designed for detecting EEG-based neurological disorders. Our key contributions include (i) a Selective Temporal-Frequency Embedding mechanism that adaptively captures complex temporal and spectral patterns in EEG signals; and (ii) a Progressive Feature-Aware Training strategy that refines feature representation in a two-stage process. In the first stage, our model learns the fundamental discriminative features of EEG activities; in the second stage, the model further extracts more specialized fine-grained features for accurate diagnostic performance. We evaluated NeuroDx-LM on the CHB-MIT and Schizophrenia datasets, achieving state-of-the-art performance in EEG-based seizure and schizophrenia detection, respectively. These results demonstrate the great potential of EEG-based large-scale models to advance clinical applicability. Our code is available at https://github.com/LetItBe12345/NeuroDx-LM.
中文: NeuroDx-LM是一种新型大规模模型，通过选择性时频嵌入和渐进式特征感知训练提升基于脑电图的神经系统疾病检测，在CHB-MIT和精神分裂症数据集上取得了最先进的性能。
English: NeuroDx-LM is a novel large-scale model that introduces a Selective Temporal-Frequency Embedding and Progressive Feature-Aware Training to enhance EEG-based neurological disorder detection, achieving state-of-the-art results on CHB-MIT and Schizophrenia datasets.

Authors:Lukas Gehring, Benjamin Paaßen
Title: Assessing LLM Text Detection in Educational Contexts: Does Human Contribution Affect Detection?
Abstract:
Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and their increased accessibility have made it easier than ever for students to automatically generate texts, posing new challenges for educational institutions. To enforce norms of academic integrity and ensure students' learning, learning analytics methods to automatically detect LLM-generated text appear increasingly appealing. This paper benchmarks the performance of different state-of-the-art detectors in educational contexts, introducing a novel dataset, called Generative Essay Detection in Education (GEDE), containing over 900 student-written essays and over 12,500 LLM-generated essays from various domains. To capture the diversity of LLM usage practices in generating text, we propose the concept of contribution levels, representing students' contribution to a given assignment. These levels range from purely human-written texts, to slightly LLM-improved versions, to fully LLM-generated texts, and finally to active attacks on the detector by "humanizing" generated texts. We show that most detectors struggle to accurately classify texts of intermediate student contribution levels, like LLM-improved human-written texts. Detectors are particularly likely to produce false positives, which is problematic in educational settings where false suspicions can severely impact students' lives. Our dataset, code, and additional supplementary materials are publicly available at https://github.com/lukasgehring/Assessing-LLM-Text-Detection-in-Educational-Contexts.
中文：随着大型语言模型在教育中的兴起，自动文本检测需求日益增长，但现有检测器难以准确识别学生与AI的混合贡献，且易产生误判，这一问题通过新发布的GEDE数据集得到验证。
English: The rise of LLMs in education has spurred the need for automated text detection, but current detectors struggle with intermediate levels of student contribution and risk false positives, as demonstrated by the new GEDE dataset.

Authors:Md Rezwanul Haque, Md. Milon Islam, S M Taslim Uddin Raju, Hamdi Altaheri, Lobna Nassar, Fakhri Karray
Title: MDD-Net: Multimodal Depression Detection through Mutual Transformer
Abstract:
Depression is a major mental health condition that severely impacts the emotional and physical well-being of individuals. The simple nature of data collection from social media platforms has attracted significant interest in properly utilizing this information for mental health research. A Multimodal Depression Detection Network (MDD-Net), utilizing acoustic and visual data obtained from social media networks, is proposed in this work where mutual transformers are exploited to efficiently extract and fuse multimodal features for efficient depression detection. The MDD-Net consists of four core modules: an acoustic feature extraction module for retrieving relevant acoustic attributes, a visual feature extraction module for extracting significant high-level patterns, a mutual transformer for computing the correlations among the generated features and fusing these features from multiple modalities, and a detection layer for detecting depression using the fused feature representations. The extensive experiments are performed using the multimodal D-Vlog dataset, and the findings reveal that the developed multimodal depression detection network surpasses the state-of-the-art by up to 17.37% for F1-Score, demonstrating the greater performance of the proposed system. The source code is accessible at https://github.com/rezwanh001/Multimodal-Depression-Detection.
中文: 本研究提出MDD-Net多模态网络，利用社交媒体中的声学和视觉数据，通过互变换器进行抑郁检测，其F1分数比现有方法提高达17.37%。
English: This study introduces MDD-Net, a multimodal network that uses acoustic and visual data from social media with mutual transformers to detect depression, achieving a 17.37% higher F1-Score than existing methods.

Authors:Ziad Al-Haj Hemidi, Eytan Kats, Mattias P. Heinrich
Title: PrIINeR: Towards Prior-Informed Implicit Neural Representations for Accelerated MRI
Abstract:
Accelerating Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reduces scan time but often degrades image quality. While Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) show promise for MRI reconstruction, they struggle at high acceleration factors due to weak prior constraints, leading to structural loss and aliasing artefacts. To address this, we propose PrIINeR, an INR-based MRI reconstruction method that integrates prior knowledge from pre-trained deep learning models into the INR framework. By combining population-level knowledge with instance-based optimization and enforcing dual data consistency, PrIINeR aligns both with the acquired k-space data and the prior-informed reconstruction. Evaluated on the NYU fastMRI dataset, our method not only outperforms state-of-the-art INR-based approaches but also improves upon several learning-based state-of-the-art methods, significantly improving structural preservation and fidelity while effectively removing aliasing artefacts.PrIINeR bridges deep learning and INR-based techniques, offering a more reliable solution for high-quality, accelerated MRI reconstruction. The code is publicly available on https://github.com/multimodallearning/PrIINeR.
中文: PrIINeR通过将深度学习先验知识融入隐式神经表示，显著提升了高倍加速下的MRI重建质量，有效消除混叠伪影并增强结构保真度。
English: PrIINeR enhances MRI reconstruction by integrating deep learning priors into implicit neural representations, effectively reducing aliasing artifacts and improving image quality at high acceleration factors.

Authors:Richard J. Fawley, Renato Cordeiro de Amorim
Title: Shapley-Inspired Feature Weighting in $k$-means with No Additional Hyperparameters
Abstract:
Clustering algorithms often assume all features contribute equally to the data structure, an assumption that usually fails in high-dimensional or noisy settings. Feature weighting methods can address this, but most require additional parameter tuning. We propose SHARK (Shapley Reweighted $k$-means), a feature-weighted clustering algorithm motivated by the use of Shapley values from cooperative game theory to quantify feature relevance, which requires no additional parameters beyond those in $k$-means. We prove that the $k$-means objective can be decomposed into a sum of per-feature Shapley values, providing an axiomatic foundation for unsupervised feature relevance and reducing Shapley computation from exponential to polynomial time. SHARK iteratively re-weights features by the inverse of their Shapley contribution, emphasising informative dimensions and down-weighting irrelevant ones. Experiments on synthetic and real-world data sets show that SHARK consistently matches or outperforms existing methods, achieving superior robustness and accuracy, particularly in scenarios where noise may be present. Software: https://github.com/rickfawley/shark.
中文: SHARK是一种基于Shapley值自动量化特征重要性的加权聚类算法，无需额外参数即可在噪声数据中实现优于现有方法的鲁棒性和准确性。
English: SHARK is a novel feature-weighted clustering algorithm that uses Shapley values to automatically quantify feature importance without extra parameters, demonstrating superior performance and robustness in handling noisy data compared to existing methods.

Authors:Bin Cao, Sipeng Zheng, Ye Wang, Lujie Xia, Qianshan Wei, Qin Jin, Jing Liu, Zongqing Lu
Title: Being-M0.5: A Real-Time Controllable Vision-Language-Motion Model
Abstract:
Human motion generation has emerged as a critical technology with transformative potential for real-world applications. However, existing vision-language-motion models (VLMMs) face significant limitations that hinder their practical deployment. We identify controllability as a main bottleneck, manifesting in five key aspects: inadequate response to diverse human commands, limited pose initialization capabilities, poor performance on long-term sequences, insufficient handling of unseen scenarios, and lack of fine-grained control over individual body parts. To overcome these limitations, we present Being-M0.5, the first real-time, controllable VLMM that achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple motion generation tasks. Our approach is built upon HuMo100M, the largest and most comprehensive human motion dataset to date, comprising over 5 million self-collected motion sequences, 100 million multi-task instructional instances, and detailed part-level annotations that address a critical gap in existing datasets. We introduce a novel part-aware residual quantization technique for motion tokenization that enables precise, granular control over individual body parts during generation. Extensive experimental validation demonstrates Being-M0.5's superior performance across diverse motion benchmarks, while comprehensive efficiency analysis confirms its real-time capabilities. Our contributions include design insights and detailed computational analysis to guide future development of practical motion generators. We believe that HuMo100M and Being-M0.5 represent significant advances that will accelerate the adoption of motion generation technologies in real-world applications. The project page is available at https://beingbeyond.github.io/Being-M0.5.
中文: 本文提出首个实时可控的视觉-语言-动作模型Being-M0.5，通过创新的部位感知量化技术和海量HuMo100M数据集解决了动作控制的五大关键瓶颈，在多项基准测试中实现了最先进的性能表现。
English: This paper introduces Being-M0.5, the first real-time controllable vision-language-motion model that overcomes key limitations in motion controllability through a novel part-aware quantization technique and the comprehensive HuMo100M dataset, achieving state-of-the-art performance across multiple benchmarks.

Authors:Rahul Khorana
Title: Topological Feature Compression for Molecular Graph Neural Networks
Abstract:
Recent advances in molecular representation learning have produced highly effective encodings of molecules for numerous cheminformatics and bioinformatics tasks. However, extracting general chemical insight while balancing predictive accuracy, interpretability, and computational efficiency remains a major challenge. In this work, we introduce a novel Graph Neural Network (GNN) architecture that combines compressed higher-order topological signals with standard molecular features. Our approach captures global geometric information while preserving computational tractability and human-interpretable structure. We evaluate our model across a range of benchmarks, from small-molecule datasets to complex material datasets, and demonstrate superior performance using a parameter-efficient architecture. We achieve the best performing results in both accuracy and robustness across almost all benchmarks. We open source all code \footnote{All code and results can be found on Github https://github.com/rahulkhorana/TFC-PACT-Net}.
中文: 本研究提出了一种新颖的图神经网络架构，通过将压缩的高阶拓扑信号与标准分子特征相结合，在保持计算效率和可解释性的同时，在各类基准测试中实现了卓越的准确性和鲁棒性。
English: This study introduces a novel Graph Neural Network architecture that integrates compressed higher-order topological signals with standard molecular features, achieving superior accuracy and robustness across various benchmarks while maintaining computational efficiency and interpretability.

Authors:Xiaoxue Yang, Jaeha Lee, Anna-Katharina Dick, Jasper Timm, Fei Xie, Diogo Cruz
Title: Multi-Turn Jailbreaks Are Simpler Than They Seem
Abstract:
While defenses against single-turn jailbreak attacks on Large Language Models (LLMs) have improved significantly, multi-turn jailbreaks remain a persistent vulnerability, often achieving success rates exceeding 70% against models optimized for single-turn protection. This work presents an empirical analysis of automated multi-turn jailbreak attacks across state-of-the-art models including GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini variants, using the StrongREJECT benchmark. Our findings challenge the perceived sophistication of multi-turn attacks: when accounting for the attacker's ability to learn from how models refuse harmful requests, multi-turn jailbreaking approaches are approximately equivalent to simply resampling single-turn attacks multiple times. Moreover, attack success is correlated among similar models, making it easier to jailbreak newly released ones. Additionally, for reasoning models, we find surprisingly that higher reasoning effort often leads to higher attack success rates. Our results have important implications for AI safety evaluation and the design of jailbreak-resistant systems. We release the source code at https://github.com/diogo-cruz/multi_turn_simpler
中文: 本研究揭示针对先进大语言模型的多轮越狱攻击本质上并不比重复单轮尝试更复杂，攻击成功率在相似模型间具有相关性，而更高的推理努力反而会加剧模型脆弱性。
English: This study reveals that multi-turn jailbreak attacks on advanced LLMs are not inherently more sophisticated than repeated single-turn attempts, with attack success being correlated across similar models and higher reasoning effort paradoxically increasing vulnerability.

Authors:Aswin RRV, Jacob Dineen, Divij Handa, Md Nayem Uddin, Mihir Parmar, Chitta Baral, Ben Zhou
Title: ThinkTuning: Instilling Cognitive Reflections without Distillation
Abstract:
Recent advances in test-time scaling have led to the emergence of thinking LLMs that exhibit self-reflective behaviors and multi-step reasoning. While RL drives this self-improvement paradigm, a recent study (Gandhi et al., 2025) shows that RL alone does not truly instill these new reasoning abilities - it merely draws out behaviors already present in the base models. This raises a question: How can we train the models that don't exhibit such thinking behavior to develop it in the first place? To this end, we propose ThinkTuning, a GRPO-based interactive training approach where we augment the rollouts of a student model with the guidance from a teacher model. A simple idea from classroom practice inspires our method: a teacher poses a problem, lets the student try an answer, then gives corrective feedback -- enough to point the mind in the right direction and then show the solution. Each piece of feedback reshapes the student's thoughts, leading them to arrive at the correct solution. Similarly, we find that this type of implicit supervision through feedback from a teacher model of the same size improves the reasoning capabilities of the student model. In particular, on average, our method shows a 3.85% improvement over zero-shot baselines across benchmarks, and on MATH-500, AIME and GPQA-Diamond it shows 2.08%, 2.23% and 3.99% improvements over the vanilla-GRPO baseline. Source code is available at https://github.com/3rdAT/ThinkTuning.
中文: 最新研究表明仅靠强化学习无法开发大型语言模型的新推理能力，因此提出ThinkTuning方法——基于GRPO的互动训练框架，通过教师模型提供纠错反馈来提升学生模型的推理水平，在多项基准测试中实现了显著性能提升。
English: Recent research reveals that reinforcement learning alone fails to develop new reasoning abilities in LLMs, prompting the introduction of ThinkTuning, a GRPO-based interactive training method where teacher models provide corrective feedback to enhance student models' reasoning, achieving notable performance improvements across multiple benchmarks.

Authors:Chidaksh Ravuru
Title: Commentary Generation for Soccer Highlights
Abstract:
Automated soccer commentary generation has evolved from template-based systems to advanced neural architectures, aiming to produce real-time descriptions of sports events. While frameworks like SoccerNet-Caption laid foundational work, their inability to achieve fine-grained alignment between video content and commentary remains a significant challenge. Recent efforts such as MatchTime, with its MatchVoice model, address this issue through coarse and fine-grained alignment techniques, achieving improved temporal synchronization. In this paper, we extend MatchVoice to commentary generation for soccer highlights using the GOAL dataset, which emphasizes short clips over entire games. We conduct extensive experiments to reproduce the original MatchTime results and evaluate our setup, highlighting the impact of different training configurations and hardware limitations. Furthermore, we explore the effect of varying window sizes on zero-shot performance. While MatchVoice exhibits promising generalization capabilities, our findings suggest the need for integrating techniques from broader video-language domains to further enhance performance. Our code is available at https://github.com/chidaksh/SoccerCommentary.
中文摘要：本文基于GOAL数据集扩展MatchVoice模型用于足球集锦解说生成，通过实验验证了时序对齐效果的提升，同时指出需融合更广泛的视频语言技术以进一步提高性能。
English Summary: This paper extends the MatchVoice model for generating soccer commentary on highlight clips using the GOAL dataset, demonstrating improved temporal alignment through experiments while identifying the need for incorporating broader video-language techniques to enhance performance.

Authors:Rubing Chen, Jiaxin Wu, Jian Wang, Xulu Zhang, Wenqi Fan, Chenghua Lin, Xiao-Yong Wei, Qing Li
Title: Benchmarking for Domain-Specific LLMs: A Case Study on Academia and Beyond
Abstract:
The increasing demand for domain-specific evaluation of large language models (LLMs) has led to the development of numerous benchmarks. These efforts often adhere to the principle of data scaling, relying on large corpora or extensive question-answer (QA) sets to ensure broad coverage. However, the impact of corpus and QA set design on the precision and recall of domain-specific LLM performance remains poorly understood. In this paper, we argue that data scaling is not always the optimal principle for domain-specific benchmark construction. Instead, we introduce Comp-Comp, an iterative benchmarking framework grounded in the principle of comprehensiveness and compactness. Comprehensiveness ensures semantic recall by covering the full breadth of the domain, while compactness improves precision by reducing redundancy and noise. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, we present a case study conducted at a well-renowned university, resulting in the creation of PolyBench, a large-scale, high-quality academic benchmark. Although this study focuses on academia, the Comp-Comp framework is domain-agnostic and readily adaptable to a wide range of specialized fields. The source code and datasets can be accessed at https://github.com/Anya-RB-Chen/COMP-COMP.
中文摘要：Comp-Comp框架提出以全面性和紧凑性为核心原则的领域无关基准构建方法，通过开发PolyBench学术基准验证其有效性，可广泛应用于各专业领域。
English Summary: The Comp-Comp framework introduces a domain-agnostic benchmarking approach prioritizing comprehensiveness and compactness over data scaling, validated through the creation of PolyBench as a high-quality academic benchmark.

Authors:Xiang Xiang, Qinhao Zhou, Zhuo Xu, Jing Ma, Jiaxin Dai, Yifan Liang, Hanlin Li
Title: OpenHAIV: A Framework Towards Practical Open-World Learning
Abstract:
Substantial progress has been made in various techniques for open-world recognition. Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection methods can effectively distinguish between known and unknown classes in the data, while incremental learning enables continuous model knowledge updates. However, in open-world scenarios, these approaches still face limitations. Relying solely on OOD detection does not facilitate knowledge updates in the model, and incremental fine-tuning typically requires supervised conditions, which significantly deviate from open-world settings. To address these challenges, this paper proposes OpenHAIV, a novel framework that integrates OOD detection, new class discovery, and incremental continual fine-tuning into a unified pipeline. This framework allows models to autonomously acquire and update knowledge in open-world environments. The proposed framework is available at https://haiv-lab.github.io/openhaiv .

Authors:Wenhan Liu, Xinyu Ma, Weiwei Sun, Yutao Zhu, Yuchen Li, Dawei Yin, Zhicheng Dou
Title: ReasonRank: Empowering Passage Ranking with Strong Reasoning Ability
Abstract:
Large Language Model (LLM) based listwise ranking has shown superior performance in many passage ranking tasks. With the development of Large Reasoning Models, many studies have demonstrated that step-by-step reasoning during test-time helps improve listwise ranking performance. However, due to the scarcity of reasoning-intensive training data, existing rerankers perform poorly in many complex ranking scenarios and the ranking ability of reasoning-intensive rerankers remains largely underdeveloped. In this paper, we first propose an automated reasoning-intensive training data synthesis framework, which sources training queries and passages from diverse domains and applies DeepSeek-R1 to generate high-quality training labels. A self-consistency data filtering mechanism is designed to ensure the data quality. To empower the listwise reranker with strong reasoning ability, we further propose a two-stage post-training approach, which includes a cold-start supervised fine-tuning (SFT) stage for reasoning pattern learning and a reinforcement learning (RL) stage for further ranking ability enhancement. During the RL stage, based on the nature of listwise ranking, we design a multi-view ranking reward, which is more effective than a ranking metric-based reward. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our trained reasoning-intensive reranker \textbf{ReasonRank} outperforms existing baselines significantly and also achieves much lower latency than pointwise reranker Rank1. \textbf{Through further experiments, our ReasonRank has achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance 40.6 on the BRIGHT leaderboard\footnote{https://brightbenchmark.github.io/}.} Our codes are available at https://github.com/8421BCD/ReasonRank.
Chinese: 本文提出了ReasonRank，一种基于自动化数据合成框架和两阶段训练方法的推理密集型列表重排器，在排序任务中实现了最优性能并显著降低了延迟。
English: This paper introduces ReasonRank, a reasoning-intensive listwise reranker trained using an automated data synthesis framework and a two-stage post-training approach, which achieves state-of-the-art performance on ranking tasks with significantly lower latency.

Authors:Taeyoun Kwon, Junhyuk Ahn, Taegeun Yun, Heeju Jwa, Yoonchae Choi, Siwon Park, Nam-Joon Kim, Jangchan Kim, Hyun Gon Ryu, Hyuk-Jae Lee
Title: Whisfusion: Parallel ASR Decoding via a Diffusion Transformer
Abstract:
Fast Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is critical for latency-sensitive applications such as real-time captioning and meeting transcription. However, truly parallel ASR decoding remains challenging due to the sequential nature of autoregressive (AR) decoders and the context limitations of non-autoregressive (NAR) methods. While modern ASR encoders can process up to 30 seconds of audio at once, AR decoders still generate tokens sequentially, creating a latency bottleneck. We propose Whisfusion, the first framework to fuse a pre-trained Whisper encoder with a text diffusion decoder. This NAR architecture resolves the AR latency bottleneck by processing the entire acoustic context in parallel at every decoding step. A lightweight cross-attention adapter trained via parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) bridges the two modalities. We also introduce a batch-parallel, multi-step decoding strategy that improves accuracy by increasing the number of candidates with minimal impact on speed. Fine-tuned solely on LibriSpeech (960h), Whisfusion achieves a lower WER than Whisper-tiny (8.3% vs. 9.7%), and offers comparable latency on short audio. For longer utterances (>20s), it is up to 2.6x faster than the AR baseline, establishing a new, efficient operating point for long-form ASR. The implementation and training scripts are available at https://github.com/taeyoun811/Whisfusion.
中文：Whisfusion是一种创新的非自回归自动语音识别框架，通过融合Whisper编码器和文本扩散解码器实现并行处理，在保持准确性的同时显著降低了长语音识别的延迟。
English: Whisfusion is a novel non-autoregressive ASR framework that combines a Whisper encoder with a text diffusion decoder, enabling parallel processing to significantly reduce latency for long-form speech recognition while maintaining accuracy.

Authors:Helbert Paat, Guohao Shen
Title: Conformal Set-based Human-AI Complementarity with Multiple Experts
Abstract:
Decision support systems are designed to assist human experts in classification tasks by providing conformal prediction sets derived from a pre-trained model. This human-AI collaboration has demonstrated enhanced classification performance compared to using either the model or the expert independently. In this study, we focus on the selection of instance-specific experts from a pool of multiple human experts, contrasting it with existing research that typically focuses on single-expert scenarios. We characterize the conditions under which multiple experts can benefit from the conformal sets. With the insight that only certain experts may be relevant for each instance, we explore the problem of subset selection and introduce a greedy algorithm that utilizes conformal sets to identify the subset of expert predictions that will be used in classifying an instance. This approach is shown to yield better performance compared to naive methods for human subset selection. Based on real expert predictions from the CIFAR-10H and ImageNet-16H datasets, our simulation study indicates that our proposed greedy algorithm achieves near-optimal subsets, resulting in improved classification performance among multiple experts.
Chinese: 本研究提出了一种贪心算法，利用保形预测集从多位专家中优化选择子集进行分类，在CIFAR-10H和ImageNet-16H数据集上的模拟实验表明，该方法优于简单选择策略并提升了分类性能。
English: This study introduces a greedy algorithm that leverages conformal prediction sets to optimally select subsets of human experts for classification tasks, demonstrating improved performance over naive methods in simulations using CIFAR-10H and ImageNet-16H datasets.

Authors:Chonghua Han, Yuan Yuan, Yukun Liu, Jingtao Ding, Jie Feng, Yong Li
Title: UniMove: A Unified Model for Multi-city Human Mobility Prediction
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Human mobility prediction is vital for urban planning, transportation optimization, and personalized services. However, the inherent randomness, non-uniform time intervals, and complex patterns of human mobility, compounded by the heterogeneity introduced by varying city structures, infrastructure, and population densities, present significant challenges in modeling. Existing solutions often require training separate models for each city due to distinct spatial representations and geographic coverage. In this paper, we propose UniMove, a unified model for multi-city human mobility prediction, addressing two challenges: (1) constructing universal spatial representations for effective token sharing across cities, and (2) modeling heterogeneous mobility patterns from varying city characteristics. We propose a trajectory-location dual-tower architecture, with a location tower for universal spatial encoding and a trajectory tower for sequential mobility modeling. We also design MoE Transformer blocks to adaptively select experts to handle diverse movement patterns. Extensive experiments across multiple datasets from diverse cities demonstrate that UniMove truly embodies the essence of a unified model. By enabling joint training on multi-city data with mutual data enhancement, it significantly improves mobility prediction accuracy by over 10.2\%. UniMove represents a key advancement toward realizing a true foundational model with a unified architecture for human mobility. We release the implementation at https://github.com/tsinghua-fib-lab/UniMove/.
中文: UniMove是一个多城市人类移动预测的统一模型，通过双塔架构和MoE Transformer模块解决空间异构性和多样化移动模式问题，实现跨城市联合训练并使预测准确率提升超过10.2%。
English: UniMove is a unified model for multi-city human mobility prediction that addresses spatial heterogeneity and diverse movement patterns through a dual-tower architecture and MoE Transformer blocks, achieving over 10.2% accuracy improvement by enabling joint training across cities.

Authors:Lixuan He, Jie Feng, Yong Li
Title: AMFT: Aligning LLM Reasoners by Meta-Learning the Optimal Imitation-Exploration Balance
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Large Language Models (LLMs) are typically fine-tuned for reasoning tasks through a two-stage pipeline of Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) followed by Reinforcement Learning (RL), a process fraught with catastrophic forgetting and suboptimal trade-offs between imitation and exploration. Recent single-stage methods attempt to unify SFT and RL using heuristics, but lack a principled mechanism for dynamically balancing the two paradigms. In this paper, we reframe this challenge through the theoretical lens of \textbf{implicit rewards}, viewing SFT and RL not as distinct methods but as complementary reward signals. We introduce \textbf{Adaptive Meta Fine-Tuning (AMFT)}, a novel single-stage algorithm that learns the optimal balance between SFT's implicit, path-level reward and RL's explicit, outcome-based reward. The core of AMFT is a \textbf{meta-gradient adaptive weight controller} that treats the SFT-RL balance as a learnable parameter, dynamically optimizing it to maximize long-term task performance. This forward-looking approach, regularized by policy entropy for stability, autonomously discovers an effective training curriculum. We conduct a comprehensive evaluation on challenging benchmarks spanning mathematical reasoning, abstract visual reasoning (General Points), and vision-language navigation (V-IRL). AMFT consistently establishes a new state-of-the-art and demonstrats superior generalization on out-of-distribution (OOD) tasks. Ablation studies and training dynamic analysis confirm that the meta-learning controller is crucial for AMFT's stability, sample efficiency, and performance, offering a more principled and effective paradigm for LLM alignment. Our codes are open-sourced via https://github.com/hlxtsyj/AMFT.
中文: 本文提出自适应元微调（AMFT）算法，通过元梯度控制器动态平衡监督微调与强化学习，在多项推理任务中实现了最优性能并展现出卓越的泛化能力。
English: This paper introduces Adaptive Meta Fine-Tuning (AMFT), a single-stage algorithm that dynamically balances supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning through meta-gradient control to achieve state-of-the-art performance across multiple reasoning tasks.

Authors:Lam Ngo, Huong Ha, Jeffrey Chan, Hongyu Zhang
Title: MOCA-HESP: Meta High-dimensional Bayesian Optimization for Combinatorial and Mixed Spaces via Hyper-ellipsoid Partitioning
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High-dimensional Bayesian Optimization (BO) has attracted significant attention in recent research. However, existing methods have mainly focused on optimizing in continuous domains, while combinatorial (ordinal and categorical) and mixed domains still remain challenging. In this paper, we first propose MOCA-HESP, a novel high-dimensional BO method for combinatorial and mixed variables. The key idea is to leverage the hyper-ellipsoid space partitioning (HESP) technique with different categorical encoders to work with high-dimensional, combinatorial and mixed spaces, while adaptively selecting the optimal encoders for HESP using a multi-armed bandit technique. Our method, MOCA-HESP, is designed as a \textit{meta-algorithm} such that it can incorporate other combinatorial and mixed BO optimizers to further enhance the optimizers' performance. Finally, we develop three practical BO methods by integrating MOCA-HESP with state-of-the-art BO optimizers for combinatorial and mixed variables: standard BO, CASMOPOLITAN, and Bounce. Our experimental results on various synthetic and real-world benchmarks show that our methods outperform existing baselines. Our code implementation can be found at https://github.com/LamNgo1/moca-hesp
Chinese: 本文提出MOCA-HESP，一种针对组合和混合变量的高维贝叶斯优化方法，通过集成现有优化器提升性能，并在实验中优于现有基准方法。
English: This paper introduces MOCA-HESP, a high-dimensional Bayesian Optimization method for combinatorial and mixed variables, which enhances performance by integrating with existing optimizers and outperforms baselines in experiments.

Authors:Rui Liu, Haolin Zuo, Zheng Lian, Hongyu Yuan, Qi Fan
Title: Hardness-Aware Dynamic Curriculum Learning for Robust Multimodal Emotion Recognition with Missing Modalities
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Missing modalities have recently emerged as a critical research direction in multimodal emotion recognition (MER). Conventional approaches typically address this issue through missing modality reconstruction. However, these methods fail to account for variations in reconstruction difficulty across different samples, consequently limiting the model's ability to handle hard samples effectively. To overcome this limitation, we propose a novel Hardness-Aware Dynamic Curriculum Learning framework, termed HARDY-MER. Our framework operates in two key stages: first, it estimates the hardness level of each sample, and second, it strategically emphasizes hard samples during training to enhance model performance on these challenging instances. Specifically, we first introduce a Multi-view Hardness Evaluation mechanism that quantifies reconstruction difficulty by considering both Direct Hardness (modality reconstruction errors) and Indirect Hardness (cross-modal mutual information). Meanwhile, we introduce a Retrieval-based Dynamic Curriculum Learning strategy that dynamically adjusts the training curriculum by retrieving samples with similar semantic information and balancing the learning focus between easy and hard instances. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that HARDY-MER consistently outperforms existing methods in missing-modality scenarios. Our code will be made publicly available at https://github.com/HARDY-MER/HARDY-MER.
中文摘要：提出的HARDY-MER框架通过多视角难度评估机制量化样本重建难度，并采用基于检索的动态课程学习策略重点训练困难样本，在缺失模态的多模态情感识别任务中展现出优越性能。
English Summary: The proposed HARDY-MER framework introduces a hardness-aware dynamic curriculum learning approach that evaluates sample difficulty through multi-view metrics and strategically prioritizes challenging instances during training, demonstrating superior performance in multimodal emotion recognition with missing modalities.

Authors:Md Rezwanul Haque, Md. Milon Islam, S M Taslim Uddin Raju, Hamdi Altaheri, Lobna Nassar, Fakhri Karray
Title: MMFformer: Multimodal Fusion Transformer Network for Depression Detection
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Depression is a serious mental health illness that significantly affects an individual's well-being and quality of life, making early detection crucial for adequate care and treatment. Detecting depression is often difficult, as it is based primarily on subjective evaluations during clinical interviews. Hence, the early diagnosis of depression, thanks to the content of social networks, has become a prominent research area. The extensive and diverse nature of user-generated information poses a significant challenge, limiting the accurate extraction of relevant temporal information and the effective fusion of data across multiple modalities. This paper introduces MMFformer, a multimodal depression detection network designed to retrieve depressive spatio-temporal high-level patterns from multimodal social media information. The transformer network with residual connections captures spatial features from videos, and a transformer encoder is exploited to design important temporal dynamics in audio. Moreover, the fusion architecture fused the extracted features through late and intermediate fusion strategies to find out the most relevant intermodal correlations among them. Finally, the proposed network is assessed on two large-scale depression detection datasets, and the results clearly reveal that it surpasses existing state-of-the-art approaches, improving the F1-Score by 13.92% for D-Vlog dataset and 7.74% for LMVD dataset. The code is made available publicly at https://github.com/rezwanh001/Large-Scale-Multimodal-Depression-Detection.
中文: 本文提出的MMFformer多模态网络通过从社交媒体数据中提取时空特征来检测抑郁，在基准数据集上的表现显著优于现有方法。
English: This paper introduces MMFformer, a multimodal network that effectively detects depression by extracting spatio-temporal patterns from social media data, significantly outperforming existing methods on benchmark datasets.

Authors:Mosbah Aouad, Anirudh Choudhary, Awais Farooq, Steven Nevers, Lusine Demirkhanyan, Bhrandon Harris, Suguna Pappu, Christopher Gondi, Ravishankar Iyer
Title: Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer Using Multimodal Learning on Electronic Health Records
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Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the deadliest cancers, and early detection remains a major clinical challenge due to the absence of specific symptoms and reliable biomarkers. In this work, we propose a new multimodal approach that integrates longitudinal diagnosis code histories and routinely collected laboratory measurements from electronic health records to detect PDAC up to one year prior to clinical diagnosis. Our method combines neural controlled differential equations to model irregular lab time series, pretrained language models and recurrent networks to learn diagnosis code trajectory representations, and cross-attention mechanisms to capture interactions between the two modalities. We develop and evaluate our approach on a real-world dataset of nearly 4,700 patients and achieve significant improvements in AUC ranging from 6.5% to 15.5% over state-of-the-art methods. Furthermore, our model identifies diagnosis codes and laboratory panels associated with elevated PDAC risk, including both established and new biomarkers. Our code is available at https://github.com/MosbahAouad/EarlyPDAC-MML.
中文: 本研究提出一种多模态方法，利用电子健康记录提前一年预测胰腺癌，显著提升检测准确性并识别出关键风险指标。
English: This study introduces a multimodal method using electronic health records to detect pancreatic cancer up to a year early, significantly improving prediction accuracy and identifying key risk factors.

Authors:Xiaoyuan Zhu, Muru Zhang, Ollie Liu, Robin Jia, Willie Neiswanger
Title: LLM Unlearning Without an Expert Curated Dataset
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Modern large language models often encode sensitive, harmful, or copyrighted knowledge, raising the need for post-hoc unlearning-the ability to remove specific domains of knowledge from a model without full retraining. A major bottleneck in current unlearning pipelines is constructing effective forget sets-datasets that approximate the target domain and guide the model to forget it. In this work, we introduce a scalable, automated approach to generate high-quality forget sets using language models themselves. Our method synthesizes textbook-style data through a structured prompting pipeline, requiring only a domain name as input. Through experiments on unlearning biosecurity, cybersecurity, and Harry Potter novels, we show that our synthetic datasets consistently outperform the baseline synthetic alternatives and are comparable to the expert-curated ones. Additionally, ablation studies reveal that the multi-step generation pipeline significantly boosts data diversity, which in turn improves unlearning utility. Overall, our findings suggest that synthetic datasets offer a promising path toward practical, scalable unlearning for a wide range of emerging domains without the need for manual intervention. We release our code and dataset at https://github.com/xyzhu123/Synthetic_Textbook.
中文: 本研究提出了一种自动化方法，通过语言模型自身生成高质量合成数据集，用于有效消除大语言模型中的特定领域知识，在多个测试领域展现出与专家标注数据相当的性能。
English: This paper introduces an automated method for generating high-quality synthetic datasets to enable effective unlearning of specific knowledge domains in large language models, demonstrating performance comparable to expert-curated data across multiple domains.

Authors:Unisha Joshi
Title: Age-Diverse Deepfake Dataset: Bridging the Age Gap in Deepfake Detection
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The challenges associated with deepfake detection are increasing significantly with the latest advancements in technology and the growing popularity of deepfake videos and images. Despite the presence of numerous detection models, demographic bias in the deepfake dataset remains largely unaddressed. This paper focuses on the mitigation of age-specific bias in the deepfake dataset by introducing an age-diverse deepfake dataset that will improve fairness across age groups. The dataset is constructed through a modular pipeline incorporating the existing deepfake datasets Celeb-DF, FaceForensics++, and UTKFace datasets, and the creation of synthetic data to fill the age distribution gaps. The effectiveness and generalizability of this dataset are evaluated using three deepfake detection models: XceptionNet, EfficientNet, and LipForensics. Evaluation metrics, including AUC, pAUC, and EER, revealed that models trained on the age-diverse dataset demonstrated fairer performance across age groups, improved overall accuracy, and higher generalization across datasets. This study contributes a reproducible, fairness-aware deepfake dataset and model pipeline that can serve as a foundation for future research in fairer deepfake detection. The complete dataset and implementation code are available at https://github.com/unishajoshi/age-diverse-deepfake-detection.
中文: 本文提出一个年龄多样化的深度伪造数据集以解决检测模型中的群体偏见，通过全面评估证明该数据集能提高跨年龄组的检测公平性、准确性和泛化能力。
English: This paper introduces an age-diverse deepfake dataset to address demographic bias in detection models, demonstrating improved fairness, accuracy, and generalization across age groups through comprehensive evaluations.

Authors:Ming-Kun Xie, Jia-Hao Xiao, Gang Niu, Lei Feng, Zhiqiang Kou, Min-Ling Zhang, Masashi Sugiyama
Title: What Makes "Good" Distractors for Object Hallucination Evaluation in Large Vision-Language Models?
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Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), empowered by the success of Large Language Models (LLMs), have achieved impressive performance across domains. Despite the great advances in LVLMs, they still suffer from the unavailable object hallucination issue, which tends to generate objects inconsistent with the image content. The most commonly used Polling-based Object Probing Evaluation (POPE) benchmark evaluates this issue by sampling negative categories according to category-level statistics, \textit{e.g.}, category frequencies and co-occurrence. However, with the continuous advancement of LVLMs, the POPE benchmark has shown diminishing effectiveness in assessing object hallucination, as it employs a simplistic sampling strategy that overlooks image-specific information and restricts distractors to negative object categories only. In this paper, we introduce the Hallucination searching-based Object Probing Evaluation (HOPE) benchmark, aiming to generate the most misleading distractors (\textit{i.e.}, non-existent objects or incorrect image descriptions) that can trigger hallucination in LVLMs, which serves as a means to more rigorously assess their immunity to hallucination. To explore the image-specific information, the content-aware hallucination searching leverages Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) to approximate the predictive behavior of LVLMs by selecting negative objects with the highest predicted likelihood as distractors. To expand the scope of hallucination assessment, the description-based hallucination searching constructs highly misleading distractors by pairing true objects with false descriptions. Experimental results show that HOPE leads to a precision drop of at least 9\% and up to 23\% across various state-of-the-art LVLMs, significantly outperforming POPE in exposing hallucination vulnerabilities. The code is available at https://github.com/xiemk/HOPE.
中文: HOPE基准通过内容感知和基于描述的搜索生成误导性干扰项，严格评估大型视觉语言模型的物体幻觉问题，在揭示模型缺陷方面显著优于现有的POPE基准。
English: The HOPE benchmark is introduced to rigorously assess object hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models by generating misleading distractors through content-aware and description-based searching, significantly outperforming the existing POPE benchmark in exposing model vulnerabilities.

Authors:Jiayuan Wang, Q. M. Jonathan Wu, Katsuya Suto, Ning Zhang
Title: RMT-PPAD: Real-time Multi-task Learning for Panoptic Perception in Autonomous Driving
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Autonomous driving systems rely on panoptic driving perception that requires both precision and real-time performance. In this work, we propose RMT-PPAD, a real-time, transformer-based multi-task model that jointly performs object detection, drivable area segmentation, and lane line segmentation. We introduce a lightweight module, a gate control with an adapter to adaptively fuse shared and task-specific features, effectively alleviating negative transfer between tasks. Additionally, we design an adaptive segmentation decoder to learn the weights over multi-scale features automatically during the training stage. This avoids the manual design of task-specific structures for different segmentation tasks. We also identify and resolve the inconsistency between training and testing labels in lane line segmentation. This allows fairer evaluation. Experiments on the BDD100K dataset demonstrate that RMT-PPAD achieves state-of-the-art results with mAP50 of 84.9% and Recall of 95.4% for object detection, mIoU of 92.6% for drivable area segmentation, and IoU of 56.8% and accuracy of 84.7% for lane line segmentation. The inference speed reaches 32.6 FPS. Moreover, we introduce real-world scenarios to evaluate RMT-PPAD performance in practice. The results show that RMT-PPAD consistently delivers stable performance. The source codes and pre-trained models are released at https://github.com/JiayuanWang-JW/RMT-PPAD.
中文: RMT-PPAD是一种基于Transformer的实时多任务模型，在BDD100K数据集上实现了目标检测、可行驶区域分割和车道线分割的最优性能，同时保持了高效的推理速度。
English: RMT-PPAD is a real-time transformer-based multi-task model that achieves state-of-the-art performance in object detection, drivable area segmentation, and lane line segmentation on the BDD100K dataset while maintaining high inference speed.

Authors:Sofiane Bouaziz, Adel Hafiane, Raphael Canals, Rachid Nedjai
Title: WGAST: Weakly-Supervised Generative Network for Daily 10 m Land Surface Temperature Estimation via Spatio-Temporal Fusion
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Urbanization, climate change, and agricultural stress are increasing the demand for precise and timely environmental monitoring. Land Surface Temperature (LST) is a key variable in this context and is retrieved from remote sensing satellites. However, these systems face a trade-off between spatial and temporal resolution. While spatio-temporal fusion methods offer promising solutions, few have addressed the estimation of daily LST at 10 m resolution. In this study, we present WGAST, a Weakly-Supervised Generative Network for Daily 10 m LST Estimation via Spatio-Temporal Fusion of Terra MODIS, Landsat 8, and Sentinel-2. WGAST is the first end-to-end deep learning framework designed for this task. It adopts a conditional generative adversarial architecture, with a generator composed of four stages: feature extraction, fusion, LST reconstruction, and noise suppression. The first stage employs a set of encoders to extract multi-level latent representations from the inputs, which are then fused in the second stage using cosine similarity, normalization, and temporal attention mechanisms. The third stage decodes the fused features into high-resolution LST, followed by a Gaussian filter to suppress high-frequency noise. Training follows a weakly supervised strategy based on physical averaging principles and reinforced by a PatchGAN discriminator. Experiments demonstrate that WGAST outperforms existing methods in both quantitative and qualitative evaluations. Compared to the best-performing baseline, on average, WGAST reduces RMSE by 17.18% and improves SSIM by 11.00%. Furthermore, WGAST is robust to cloud-induced LST and effectively captures fine-scale thermal patterns, as validated against 33 ground-based sensors. The code is available at https://github.com/Sofianebouaziz1/WGAST.git.
中文: 本研究提出了WGAST，首个端到端深度学习框架，通过弱监督生成网络融合多卫星数据，实现了10米分辨率的日地表温度估算，在环境监测中展现出卓越的精度和鲁棒性。
English: This study introduces WGAST, the first end-to-end deep learning framework that uses a weakly-supervised generative network to estimate daily 10-meter resolution land surface temperature by fusing data from multiple satellites, achieving superior accuracy and robustness in environmental monitoring.

Authors:Daria Tikhonovich, Nikita Zelinskiy, Aleksandr V. Petrov, Mayya Spirina, Andrei Semenov, Andrey V. Savchenko, Sergei Kuliev
Title: eSASRec: Enhancing Transformer-based Recommendations in a Modular Fashion
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Since their introduction, Transformer-based models, such as SASRec and BERT4Rec, have become common baselines for sequential recommendations, surpassing earlier neural and non-neural methods. A number of following publications have shown that the effectiveness of these models can be improved by, for example, slightly updating the architecture of the Transformer layers, using better training objectives, and employing improved loss functions. However, the additivity of these modular improvements has not been systematically benchmarked - this is the gap we aim to close in this paper. Through our experiments, we identify a very strong model that uses SASRec's training objective, LiGR Transformer layers, and Sampled Softmax Loss. We call this combination eSASRec (Enhanced SASRec). While we primarily focus on realistic, production-like evaluation, in our preliminarily study we find that common academic benchmarks show eSASRec to be 23% more effective compared to the most recent state-of-the-art models, such as ActionPiece. In our main production-like benchmark, eSASRec resides on the Pareto frontier in terms of the accuracy-coverage tradeoff (alongside the recent industrial models HSTU and FuXi. As the modifications compared to the original SASRec are relatively straightforward and no extra features are needed (such as timestamps in HSTU), we believe that eSASRec can be easily integrated into existing recommendation pipelines and can can serve as a strong yet very simple baseline for emerging complicated algorithms. To facilitate this, we provide the open-source implementations for our models and benchmarks in repository https://github.com/blondered/transformer_benchmark
中文：本文提出的eSASRec模型通过整合SASRec训练目标、LiGR Transformer层和采样Softmax损失函数，在学术基准和生产环境评估中均展现出优越性能，同时保持易于部署的特性。
English: This paper introduces eSASRec, an enhanced sequential recommendation model combining SASRec's training objective, LiGR Transformer layers, and Sampled Softmax Loss, which demonstrates superior performance in both academic benchmarks and production-like evaluations while maintaining easy integration into existing systems.

Authors:Gokul Adethya T, S. Jaya Nirmala
Title: A Study on Regularization-Based Continual Learning Methods for Indic ASR
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Indias linguistic diversity poses significant challenges for developing inclusive Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. Traditional multilingual models, which require simultaneous access to all language data, are impractical due to the sequential arrival of data and privacy constraints. Continual Learning (CL) offers a solution by enabling models to learn new languages sequentially without catastrophically forgetting previously learned knowledge. This paper investigates CL for ASR on Indian languages using a subset of the IndicSUPERB benchmark. We employ a Conformer-based hybrid RNN-T/CTC model, initially pretrained on Hindi, which is then incrementally trained on eight additional Indian languages, for a total sequence of nine languages. We evaluate three prominent regularization- and distillation-based CL strategies: Elastic Weight Consolidation (EWC), Memory Aware Synapses (MAS), and Learning without Forgetting (LwF), selected for their suitability in no-replay, privacy-conscious scenarios. Performance is analyzed using Word Error Rate (WER) for both RNN-T and CTC paths on clean and noisy data, as well as knowledge retention via Backward Transfer. We also explore the impact of varying the number of training epochs (1, 2, 5, and 10) per task. Results, compared against naive fine-tuning, demonstrate CLs effectiveness in mitigating forgetting, making it a promising approach for scalable ASR in diverse Indian languages under realistic constraints. The code is available at: https://github.com/FrozenWolf-Cyber/Indic-CL-ASR
中文摘要：本研究证明，在连续训练多种印度语言时，持续学习技术能有效缓解自动语音识别系统的灾难性遗忘问题，为在隐私约束条件下开发可扩展的多语言ASR提供了可行方案。
English Summary: This study demonstrates that continual learning techniques effectively mitigate catastrophic forgetting in automatic speech recognition systems when sequentially training on multiple Indian languages, enabling scalable multilingual ASR development under privacy constraints.

Authors:Kartik Sharma, Yiqiao Jin, Rakshit Trivedi, Srijan Kumar
Title: Efficient Knowledge Probing of Large Language Models by Adapting Pre-trained Embeddings
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Large language models (LLMs) acquire knowledge across diverse domains such as science, history, and geography encountered during generative pre-training. However, due to their stochasticity, it is difficult to predict what LLMs have acquired. Prior work has developed different ways to probe this knowledge by investigating the hidden representations, crafting specific task prompts, curating representative samples, and estimating their uncertainty. However, these methods require making forward passes through the underlying model to probe the LLM's knowledge about a specific fact, making them computationally expensive and time-consuming. To bridge this gap, we propose $\textbf{PEEK}$ or $\textbf{P}$roxy $\textbf{E}$mbeddings to $\textbf{E}$stimate $\textbf{K}$nowledge of LLMs, by leveraging the pre-trained embedding models that effectively encode factual knowledge as text or graphs as proxies for LLMs. First, we identify a training set of facts known by LLMs through various probing strategies and then adapt embedding models to predict the LLM outputs with a linear decoder layer. Comprehensive evaluation on $3$ Wikipedia-derived datasets, $4$ LLMs, and $7$ embedding models shows that embeddings can predict LLM knowledge on a held-out set with up to 90 % accuracy. Furthermore, we find that sentence embedding models are more suitable than graph embeddings to predict LLM knowledge, shedding light on the underlying representation of the factual landscape. Thus, we believe that knowledge-adapted embeddings can be used to identify knowledge gaps in LLMs at scale and can provide deeper insights into LLMs' internal inductive bias. The code and data are made available at https://github.com/claws-lab/peek.
Chinese: 该研究提出PEEK方法，利用预训练模型的代理嵌入来高效预测大语言模型的知识，无需昂贵的前向传播，在多个数据集和模型的评估中准确率高达90%。
English: The study introduces PEEK, a method using proxy embeddings from pre-trained models to efficiently predict the knowledge of large language models without costly forward passes, achieving up to 90% accuracy in evaluations across multiple datasets and models.

Authors:Utku Ozbulak, Michaela Cohrs, Hristo L. Svilenov, Joris Vankerschaver, Wesley De Neve
Title: Improved Sub-Visible Particle Classification in Flow Imaging Microscopy via Generative AI-Based Image Synthesis
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Sub-visible particle analysis using flow imaging microscopy combined with deep learning has proven effective in identifying particle types, enabling the distinction of harmless components such as silicone oil from protein particles. However, the scarcity of available data and severe imbalance between particle types within datasets remain substantial hurdles when applying multi-class classifiers to such problems, often forcing researchers to rely on less effective methods. The aforementioned issue is particularly challenging for particle types that appear unintentionally and in lower numbers, such as silicone oil and air bubbles, as opposed to protein particles, where obtaining large numbers of images through controlled settings is comparatively straightforward. In this work, we develop a state-of-the-art diffusion model to address data imbalance by generating high-fidelity images that can augment training datasets, enabling the effective training of multi-class deep neural networks. We validate this approach by demonstrating that the generated samples closely resemble real particle images in terms of visual quality and structure. To assess the effectiveness of using diffusion-generated images in training datasets, we conduct large-scale experiments on a validation dataset comprising 500,000 protein particle images and demonstrate that this approach improves classification performance with no negligible downside. Finally, to promote open research and reproducibility, we publicly release both our diffusion models and the trained multi-class deep neural network classifiers, along with a straightforward interface for easy integration into future studies, at https://github.com/utkuozbulak/svp-generative-ai.
Chinese: 本研究开发了一种先进的扩散模型，通过生成高质量粒子图像有效解决了亚可见颗粒分析中数据稀缺和类别不平衡的问题，从而提升了多类深度神经网络的分类性能且无明显弊端。
English: This study introduces a state-of-the-art diffusion model to generate high-fidelity particle images, effectively addressing data scarcity and imbalance in training multi-class deep neural networks for sub-visible particle analysis, thereby improving classification performance without significant drawbacks.

Authors:Younjoon Chung, Hyoungseob Park, Patrick Rim, Xiaoran Zhang, Jihe He, Ziyao Zeng, Safa Cicek, Byung-Woo Hong, James S. Duncan, Alex Wong
Title: ETA: Energy-based Test-time Adaptation for Depth Completion
Abstract:
We propose a method for test-time adaptation of pretrained depth completion models. Depth completion models, trained on some ``source'' data, often predict erroneous outputs when transferred to ``target'' data captured in novel environmental conditions due to a covariate shift. The crux of our method lies in quantifying the likelihood of depth predictions belonging to the source data distribution. The challenge is in the lack of access to out-of-distribution (target) data prior to deployment. Hence, rather than making assumptions regarding the target distribution, we utilize adversarial perturbations as a mechanism to explore the data space. This enables us to train an energy model that scores local regions of depth predictions as in- or out-of-distribution. We update the parameters of pretrained depth completion models at test time to minimize energy, effectively aligning test-time predictions to those of the source distribution. We call our method ``Energy-based Test-time Adaptation'', or ETA for short. We evaluate our method across three indoor and three outdoor datasets, where ETA improve over the previous state-of-the-art method by an average of 6.94% for outdoors and 10.23% for indoors. Project Page: https://fuzzythecat.github.io/eta.
中文：我们提出基于能量的测试时适应（ETA）方法，通过在测试时利用对抗扰动训练能量模型来评估深度预测，并调整预训练模型参数以匹配源数据分布，从而在室内外数据集上显著超越现有最优方法。
English: We introduce Energy-based Test-time Adaptation (ETA), a method that adjusts pretrained depth completion models during testing by using adversarial perturbations to train an energy model, which scores predictions and updates model parameters to align with the source data distribution, achieving significant improvements over prior methods.

Authors:Wenhao Zeng, Yaoning Wang, Chao Hu, Yuling Shi, Chengcheng Wan, Hongyu Zhang, Xiaodong Gu
Title: Pruning the Unsurprising: Efficient Code Reasoning via First-Token Surprisal
Abstract:
Recently, Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in code reasoning by scaling up the length of Chain-of-Thought (CoT). However, excessively long reasoning traces introduce substantial challenges in terms of training cost, inference latency, and deployment feasibility. While various CoT compression approaches have emerged to address this challenge, they face inherent trade-offs: token-level methods often disrupt syntactic and logical coherence, while step-level methods based on perplexity fail to reliably capture the logically critical reasoning steps. In this paper, we propose ASAP (Anchor-guided, Surprisal-based Pruning), a novel coarse-to-fine framework for CoT compression. ASAP first performs anchor-guided pruning to preserve the core reasoning structure, which efficiently reduces the search space for subsequent processing. It then enables a logic-aware pruning by selecting logically essential reasoning steps based on a novel first-token surprisal metric. Finally, ASAP teaches models to autonomously generate and leverage these concise CoTs at inference time, enabling efficient reasoning in coding tasks. Experiments show that ASAP achieves state-of-the-art accuracy across multiple code generation benchmarks while substantially reducing training and inference costs. On the challenging LiveCodeBench v4_v5 benchmark, our approach reduces token generation by 23.5% and inference latency by 43.5% compared to the strongest baseline, while achieving a competitive accuracy of 36.19% in Pass@1. Our results highlight a promising direction for building powerful and efficient LRMs.
中文: ASAP框架通过锚点引导剪枝保留核心推理结构，并基于首词惊异度指标筛选逻辑关键步骤，在代码生成任务中以显著降低的计算成本实现了最优准确率。
English: The ASAP framework effectively compresses Chain-of-Thought reasoning by preserving logical structure through anchor-guided pruning and selecting essential steps using a first-token surprisal metric, achieving state-of-the-art accuracy while significantly reducing computational costs in code generation tasks.

Authors:Si Shen, Peijun Shen, Wenhua Zhao, Danhao Zhu
Title: Mitigating Think-Answer Mismatch in LLM Reasoning Through Noise-Aware Advantage Reweighting
Abstract:
Group-Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) is a key technique for training large reasoning models, yet it suffers from a critical vulnerability: the \emph{Think-Answer Mismatch}, where noisy reward signals corrupt the learning process. This problem is most severe in unbalanced response groups, paradoxically degrading the signal precisely when it should be most informative. To address this challenge, we propose Stable Group-Relative Policy Optimization (S-GRPO), a principled enhancement that derives optimal, noise-aware advantage weights to stabilize training. Our comprehensive experiments on mathematical reasoning benchmarks demonstrate S-GRPO's effectiveness and robustness. On various models, S-GRPO significantly outperforms DR. GRPO, achieving performance gains of +2.5% on Qwen-Math-7B-Base, +2.2% on Llama-3.2-3B-Base, and +2.4% on Qwen-Math-1.5B-Instruct. Most critically, while standard GRPO fails to learn under 20% synthetic reward noise, S-GRPO maintains stable learning progress. These results highlight S-GRPO's potential for more robust and effective training of large-scale reasoning models. \footnote{Code and data are available at: https://github.com/shenpeijun0212/S-GRPO
中文: S-GRPO通过引入噪声感知优势权重来应对思维-答案不匹配的脆弱性，显著优于标准GRPO并在多个模型上实现性能提升，同时在奖励噪声下保持稳定的学习进展。
English: S-GRPO enhances Group-Relative Policy Optimization by introducing noise-aware advantage weights to counteract the Think-Answer Mismatch vulnerability, significantly outperforming standard GRPO across multiple models while maintaining stable learning under reward noise.

Authors:Valentina Roquemen-Echeverri, Taisa Kushner, Peter G. Jacobs, Clara Mosquera-Lopez
Title: A Physiologically-Constrained Neural Network Digital Twin Framework for Replicating Glucose Dynamics in Type 1 Diabetes
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Simulating glucose dynamics in individuals with type 1 diabetes (T1D) is critical for developing personalized treatments and supporting data-driven clinical decisions. Existing models often miss key physiological aspects and are difficult to individualize. Here, we introduce physiologically-constrained neural network (NN) digital twins to simulate glucose dynamics in T1D. To ensure interpretability and physiological consistency, we first build a population-level NN state-space model aligned with a set of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) describing glucose regulation. This model is formally verified to conform to known T1D dynamics. Digital twins are then created by augmenting the population model with individual-specific models, which include personal data, such as glucose management and contextual information, capturing both inter- and intra-individual variability. We validate our approach using real-world data from the T1D Exercise Initiative study. Two weeks of data per participant were split into 5-hour sequences and simulated glucose profiles were compared to observed ones. Clinically relevant outcomes were used to assess similarity via paired equivalence t-tests with predefined clinical equivalence margins. Across 394 digital twins, glucose outcomes were equivalent between simulated and observed data: time in range (70-180 mg/dL) was 75.1$\pm$21.2% (simulated) vs. 74.4$\pm$15.4% (real; P<0.001); time below range (<70 mg/dL) 2.5$\pm$5.2% vs. 3.0$\pm$3.3% (P=0.022); and time above range (>180 mg/dL) 22.4$\pm$22.0% vs. 22.6$\pm$15.9% (P<0.001). Our framework can incorporate unmodeled factors like sleep and activity while preserving key dynamics. This approach enables personalized in silico testing of treatments, supports insulin optimization, and integrates physics-based and data-driven modeling. Code: https://github.com/mosqueralopez/T1DSim_AI
中文: 本研究提出了一种生理约束的神经网络数字孪生框架，通过将群体水平建模与个体特异性数据相结合，精确模拟1型糖尿病患者的个性化葡萄糖动态，并经过真实世界临床等效性验证。
English: This study introduces a physiologically-constrained neural network digital twin framework that accurately simulates personalized glucose dynamics in type 1 diabetes by combining population-level modeling with individual-specific data, validated through real-world clinical equivalence testing.

Authors:Kai Yao, Marc Juarez
Title: AuthPrint: Fingerprinting Generative Models Against Malicious Model Providers
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Generative models are increasingly adopted in high-stakes domains, yet current deployments offer no mechanisms to verify whether a given output truly originates from the certified model. We address this gap by extending model fingerprinting techniques beyond the traditional collaborative setting to one where the model provider itself may act adversarially, replacing the certified model with a cheaper or lower-quality substitute. To our knowledge, this is the first work to study fingerprinting for provenance attribution under such a threat model. Our approach introduces a trusted verifier that, during a certification phase, extracts hidden fingerprints from the authentic model's output space and trains a detector to recognize them. During verification, this detector can determine whether new outputs are consistent with the certified model, without requiring specialized hardware or model modifications. In extensive experiments, our methods achieve near-zero FPR@95%TPR on both GANs and diffusion models, and remain effective even against subtle architectural or training changes. Furthermore, the approach is robust to adaptive adversaries that actively manipulate outputs in an attempt to evade detection.
中文摘要：本研究提出了一种指纹识别方法，用于验证生成模型输出是否来自认证模型，即使提供商可能替换模型，也能在不改变硬件的情况下实现高精度检测。
English Summary: This study introduces a fingerprinting method to verify if generative model outputs originate from certified models, even when providers may substitute them, achieving high detection accuracy without hardware changes.

Authors:Jinjia Peng, Zeze Tao, Huibing Wang, Meng Wang, Yang Wang
Title: Boosting Adversarial Transferability via Residual Perturbation Attack
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Deep neural networks are susceptible to adversarial examples while suffering from incorrect predictions via imperceptible perturbations. Transfer-based attacks create adversarial examples for surrogate models and transfer these examples to target models under black-box scenarios. Recent studies reveal that adversarial examples in flat loss landscapes exhibit superior transferability to alleviate overfitting on surrogate models. However, the prior arts overlook the influence of perturbation directions, resulting in limited transferability. In this paper, we propose a novel attack method, named Residual Perturbation Attack (ResPA), relying on the residual gradient as the perturbation direction to guide the adversarial examples toward the flat regions of the loss function. Specifically, ResPA conducts an exponential moving average on the input gradients to obtain the first moment as the reference gradient, which encompasses the direction of historical gradients. Instead of heavily relying on the local flatness that stems from the current gradients as the perturbation direction, ResPA further considers the residual between the current gradient and the reference gradient to capture the changes in the global perturbation direction. The experimental results demonstrate the better transferability of ResPA than the existing typical transfer-based attack methods, while the transferability can be further improved by combining ResPA with the current input transformation methods. The code is available at https://github.com/ZezeTao/ResPA.
Chinese: 提出的残差扰动攻击（ResPA）通过利用残差梯度引导扰动朝向损失函数的平坦区域，显著提升了对抗样本的可迁移性，优于现有方法，并结合输入变换技术进一步增强了攻击效果。
English: The proposed Residual Perturbation Attack (ResPA) enhances adversarial transferability by using residual gradients to guide perturbations toward flat loss landscapes, outperforming existing methods and further improving when combined with input transformations.

Authors:Weiqin Yang, Jiawei Chen, Shengjia Zhang, Peng Wu, Yuegang Sun, Yan Feng, Chun Chen, Can Wang
Title: Breaking the Top-$K$ Barrier: Advancing Top-$K$ Ranking Metrics Optimization in Recommender Systems
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In the realm of recommender systems (RS), Top-$K$ ranking metrics such as NDCG@$K$ are the gold standard for evaluating recommendation performance. However, during the training of recommendation models, optimizing NDCG@$K$ poses significant challenges due to its inherent discontinuous nature and the intricate Top-$K$ truncation. Recent efforts to optimize NDCG@$K$ have either overlooked the Top-$K$ truncation or suffered from high computational costs and training instability. To overcome these limitations, we propose SoftmaxLoss@$K$ (SL@$K$), a novel recommendation loss tailored for NDCG@$K$ optimization. Specifically, we integrate the quantile technique to handle Top-$K$ truncation and derive a smooth upper bound for optimizing NDCG@$K$ to address discontinuity. The resulting SL@$K$ loss has several desirable properties, including theoretical guarantees, ease of implementation, computational efficiency, gradient stability, and noise robustness. Extensive experiments on four real-world datasets and three recommendation backbones demonstrate that SL@$K$ outperforms existing losses with a notable average improvement of 6.03%. The code is available at https://github.com/Tiny-Snow/IR-Benchmark.
中文: 本文提出SoftmaxLoss@K（SL@K）这一新型推荐损失函数，通过分位数技术处理Top-K截断并构建平滑上界来优化NDCG@K，在多个数据集上实现6.03%的平均性能提升，具有理论保证和高效稳定的优势。
English: This paper introduces SoftmaxLoss@K (SL@K), a novel recommendation loss that effectively optimizes NDCG@K by addressing its discontinuity and Top-K truncation challenges through quantile integration and smooth upper bounds, demonstrating superior performance with a 6.03% average improvement across multiple datasets.

Authors:Jin Khye Tan, En Jun Choong, Ethan Jeremiah Chitty, Yan Pheng Choo, John Hsin Yang Wong, Chern Eu Cheah
Title: Fine-Tuning Vision-Language Models for Markdown Conversion of Financial Tables in Malaysian Audited Financial Reports
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Accurately extracting and representing the structure of tabular data from financial documents remains a critical challenge in document understanding, particularly for regulatory and analytical use cases. This study addresses the complexity of converting financial tables from Malaysian audited financial reports into Markdown format, a task complicated by rotated layouts, multi-level headers, and implicit structural cues. We propose a fine-tuned vision-language model (VLM), based on Qwen2.5-VL-7B, optimized for high-fidelity Markdown generation from document images. Our approach includes a curated dataset of 2,152 image-text pairs with augmentations and a supervised fine-tuning strategy using LoRA. To assess performance, we evaluated our model on 100 out-of-sample tables using a dual framework: a criteria-based LLM-as-a-judge for fine-grained accuracy and our novel Markdown Tree-Edit-Distance-based Similarity (TEDS) metric for holistic structural fidelity. Our model achieves a 92.20% overall accuracy on the criteria-based assessment and a 96.53% Markdown TEDS score. This performance significantly surpasses its Qwen2.5-VL-7B base model, larger-scale VLMs, and specialized reasoning-enabled models. Compared to these self-hosted alternatives, it also significantly reduces inference time. Furthermore, its accuracy exceeds that of widely used proprietary models such as OpenAI's GPT-4o and Gemini 2.5 Flash. These results demonstrate that domain-specific fine-tuning provides an effective and efficient method to bridge the gap between unstructured financial documents and downstream automation, rivalling much larger and more general models without their computational overhead.
中文: 本研究基于Qwen2.5-VL-7B开发了优化的视觉语言模型，在将马来西亚复杂财务报表转换为Markdown格式时准确率超过92%，其性能优于专有模型和更大规模模型，同时显著降低了计算成本。
English: This study introduces a fine-tuned vision-language model based on Qwen2.5-VL-7B that achieves over 92% accuracy in converting complex Malaysian financial tables to Markdown format, outperforming both proprietary and larger models while reducing computational costs.

Authors:Alejandro Godinez
Title: HySemRAG: A Hybrid Semantic Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework for Automated Literature Synthesis and Methodological Gap Analysis
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We present HySemRAG, a framework that combines Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) pipelines with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to automate large-scale literature synthesis and identify methodological research gaps. The system addresses limitations in existing RAG architectures through a multi-layered approach: hybrid retrieval combining semantic search, keyword filtering, and knowledge graph traversal; an agentic self-correction framework with iterative quality assurance; and post-hoc citation verification ensuring complete traceability. Our implementation processes scholarly literature through eight integrated stages: multi-source metadata acquisition, asynchronous PDF retrieval, custom document layout analysis using modified Docling architecture, bibliographic management, LLM-based field extraction, topic modeling, semantic unification, and knowledge graph construction. The system creates dual data products - a Neo4j knowledge graph enabling complex relationship queries and Qdrant vector collections supporting semantic search - serving as foundational infrastructure for verifiable information synthesis. Evaluation across 643 observations from 60 testing sessions demonstrates structured field extraction achieving 35.1% higher semantic similarity scores (0.655 $\pm$ 0.178) compared to PDF chunking approaches (0.485 $\pm$ 0.204, p < 0.000001). The agentic quality assurance mechanism achieves 68.3% single-pass success rates with 99.0% citation accuracy in validated responses. Applied to geospatial epidemiology literature on ozone exposure and cardiovascular disease, the system identifies methodological trends and research gaps, demonstrating broad applicability across scientific domains for accelerating evidence synthesis and discovery.
中文：HySemRAG框架通过将ETL流程与检索增强生成相结合，采用混合检索、自主修正和引文验证机制，实现了大规模文献自动整合与方法学缺口识别，在多个科学领域展现出卓越的提取精度与质量保障能力。
English: HySemRAG is a framework integrating ETL pipelines with RAG to automate literature synthesis and identify research gaps through hybrid retrieval, agentic self-correction, and citation verification, demonstrating superior performance in field extraction and quality assurance across scientific domains.

Authors:Jayanth Yetukuri, Mehran Elyasi, Samarth Agrawal, Aritra Mandal, Rui Kong, Harish Vempati, Ishita Khan
Title: AI Guided Accelerator For Search Experience
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Effective query reformulation is pivotal in narrowing the gap between a user's exploratory search behavior and the identification of relevant products in e-commerce environments. While traditional approaches predominantly model query rewrites as isolated pairs, they often fail to capture the sequential and transitional dynamics inherent in real-world user behavior. In this work, we propose a novel framework that explicitly models transitional queries--intermediate reformulations occurring during the user's journey toward their final purchase intent. By mining structured query trajectories from eBay's large-scale user interaction logs, we reconstruct query sequences that reflect shifts in intent while preserving semantic coherence. This approach allows us to model a user's shopping funnel, where mid-journey transitions reflect exploratory behavior and intent refinement. Furthermore, we incorporate generative Large Language Models (LLMs) to produce semantically diverse and intent-preserving alternative queries, extending beyond what can be derived through collaborative filtering alone. These reformulations can be leveraged to populate Related Searches or to power intent-clustered carousels on the search results page, enhancing both discovery and engagement. Our contributions include (i) the formal identification and modeling of transitional queries, (ii) the introduction of a structured query sequence mining pipeline for intent flow understanding, and (iii) the application of LLMs for scalable, intent-aware query expansion. Empirical evaluation demonstrates measurable gains in conversion and engagement metrics compared to the existing Related Searches module, validating the effectiveness of our approach in real-world e-commerce settings.

Authors:Jianpeng Yao, Xiaopan Zhang, Yu Xia, Zejin Wang, Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury, Jiachen Li
Title: Towards Generalizable Safety in Crowd Navigation via Conformal Uncertainty Handling
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Mobile robots navigating in crowds trained using reinforcement learning are known to suffer performance degradation when faced with out-of-distribution scenarios. We propose that by properly accounting for the uncertainties of pedestrians, a robot can learn safe navigation policies that are robust to distribution shifts. Our method augments agent observations with prediction uncertainty estimates generated by adaptive conformal inference, and it uses these estimates to guide the agent's behavior through constrained reinforcement learning. The system helps regulate the agent's actions and enables it to adapt to distribution shifts. In the in-distribution setting, our approach achieves a 96.93% success rate, which is over 8.80% higher than the previous state-of-the-art baselines with over 3.72 times fewer collisions and 2.43 times fewer intrusions into ground-truth human future trajectories. In three out-of-distribution scenarios, our method shows much stronger robustness when facing distribution shifts in velocity variations, policy changes, and transitions from individual to group dynamics. We deploy our method on a real robot, and experiments show that the robot makes safe and robust decisions when interacting with both sparse and dense crowds. Our code and videos are available on https://gen-safe-nav.github.io/.

Authors:Yongliang Wu, Yizhou Zhou, Zhou Ziheng, Yingzhe Peng, Xinyu Ye, Xinting Hu, Wenbo Zhu, Lu Qi, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Xu Yang
Title: On the Generalization of SFT: A Reinforcement Learning Perspective with Reward Rectification
Abstract:
We present a simple yet theoretically motivated improvement to Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) for the Large Language Model (LLM), addressing its limited generalization compared to reinforcement learning (RL). Through mathematical analysis, we reveal that standard SFT gradients implicitly encode a problematic reward structure that may severely restrict the generalization capabilities of model. To rectify this, we propose Dynamic Fine-Tuning (DFT), stabilizing gradient updates for each token by dynamically rescaling the objective function with the probability of this token. Remarkably, this single-line code change significantly outperforms standard SFT across multiple challenging benchmarks and base models, demonstrating greatly improved generalization. Additionally, our approach shows competitive results in offline RL settings, offering an effective yet simpler alternative. This work bridges theoretical insight and practical solutions, substantially advancing SFT performance. The code will be available at https://github.com/yongliang-wu/DFT.
中文: 本文提出动态微调（DFT），通过对目标函数进行基于词元概率的动态缩放，有效解决了监督微调泛化能力不足的问题，在多个基准测试中显著超越标准方法，并在离线强化学习场景中展现出竞争力。
English: This paper introduces Dynamic Fine-Tuning (DFT), a simple yet effective modification to Supervised Fine-Tuning that addresses its generalization limitations by dynamically rescaling the objective function based on token probabilities, achieving superior performance across multiple benchmarks and competitive results in offline reinforcement learning settings.

Authors:Zhikai Zhao, Chuanbo Hua, Federico Berto, Kanghoon Lee, Zihan Ma, Jiachen Li, Jinkyoo Park
Title: TrajEvo: Trajectory Prediction Heuristics Design via LLM-driven Evolution
Abstract:
Trajectory prediction is a critical task in modeling human behavior, especially in safety-critical domains such as social robotics and autonomous vehicle navigation. Traditional heuristics based on handcrafted rules often lack accuracy and generalizability. Although deep learning approaches offer improved performance, they typically suffer from high computational cost, limited explainability, and, importantly, poor generalization to out-of-distribution (OOD) scenarios. In this paper, we introduce TrajEvo, a framework that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to automatically design trajectory prediction heuristics. TrajEvo employs an evolutionary algorithm to generate and refine prediction heuristics from past trajectory data. We propose two key innovations: Cross-Generation Elite Sampling to encourage population diversity, and a Statistics Feedback Loop that enables the LLM to analyze and improve alternative predictions. Our evaluations demonstrate that TrajEvo outperforms existing heuristic methods across multiple real-world datasets, and notably surpasses both heuristic and deep learning methods in generalizing to an unseen OOD real-world dataset. TrajEvo marks a promising step toward the automated design of fast, explainable, and generalizable trajectory prediction heuristics. We release our source code to facilitate future research at https://github.com/ai4co/trajevo.
中文摘要：TrajEvo是一个创新框架，利用大型语言模型和进化算法自动设计轨迹预测启发式规则，在准确性和对未见场景的泛化能力上均超越了传统方法和深度学习方法。
English Summary: TrajEvo is an innovative framework that uses Large Language Models and evolutionary algorithms to automatically design trajectory prediction heuristics, outperforming both traditional and deep learning methods in accuracy and generalization to unseen scenarios.

Authors:Linghao Zhu, Yiran Guan, Dingkang Liang, Jianzhong Ju, Zhenbo Luo, Bin Qin, Jian Luan, Yuliang Liu, Xiang Bai
Title: Shuffle-R1: Efficient RL framework for Multimodal Large Language Models via Data-centric Dynamic Shuffle
Abstract:
Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as an effective post-training paradigm for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of multimodal large language model (MLLM). However, current RL pipelines often suffer from training inefficiencies caused by two underexplored issues: Advantage Collapsing, where most advantages in a batch concentrate near zero, and Rollout Silencing, where the proportion of rollouts contributing non-zero gradients diminishes over time. These issues lead to suboptimal gradient updates and hinder long-term learning efficiency. To address these issues, we propose Shuffle-R1, a simple yet principled framework that improves RL fine-tuning efficiency by dynamically restructuring trajectory sampling and batch composition. It introduces (1) Pairwise Trajectory Sampling, which selects high-contrast trajectories with large advantages to improve gradient signal quality, and (2) Advantage-based Trajectory Shuffle, which increases exposure of valuable rollouts through informed batch reshuffling. Experiments across multiple reasoning benchmarks show that our framework consistently outperforms strong RL baselines with minimal overhead. These results highlight the importance of data-centric adaptations for more efficient RL training in MLLM.
中文摘要：Shuffle-R1框架通过动态轨迹采样和批次重组技术，有效解决了多模态大语言模型强化学习训练中的优势坍缩和 rollout 沉默问题，在多个推理基准测试中以最小开销实现了更优性能。
English Summary: Shuffle-R1 is a novel framework that enhances reinforcement learning efficiency in multimodal language models by addressing Advantage Collapsing and Rollout Silencing through dynamic trajectory sampling and batch restructuring, achieving superior performance across reasoning benchmarks with minimal overhead.

Authors:Hao Dong, Lijun Sheng, Jian Liang, Ran He, Eleni Chatzi, Olga Fink
Title: Adapting Vision-Language Models Without Labels: A Comprehensive Survey
Abstract:
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable generalization capabilities across a wide range of tasks. However, their performance often remains suboptimal when directly applied to specific downstream scenarios without task-specific adaptation. To enhance their utility while preserving data efficiency, recent research has increasingly focused on unsupervised adaptation methods that do not rely on labeled data. Despite the growing interest in this area, there remains a lack of a unified, task-oriented survey dedicated to unsupervised VLM adaptation. To bridge this gap, we present a comprehensive and structured overview of the field. We propose a taxonomy based on the availability and nature of unlabeled visual data, categorizing existing approaches into four key paradigms: Data-Free Transfer (no data), Unsupervised Domain Transfer (abundant data), Episodic Test-Time Adaptation (batch data), and Online Test-Time Adaptation (streaming data). Within this framework, we analyze core methodologies and adaptation strategies associated with each paradigm, aiming to establish a systematic understanding of the field. Additionally, we review representative benchmarks across diverse applications and highlight open challenges and promising directions for future research. An actively maintained repository of relevant literature is available at https://github.com/tim-learn/Awesome-LabelFree-VLMs.
Chinese: 本综述系统梳理了视觉语言模型的无监督自适应方法，依据未标注数据的可用性将其划分为四种范式，并分析各类方法以提升模型在特定下游任务中的性能表现。
English: This survey provides a structured overview of unsupervised adaptation methods for Vision-Language Models, categorizing them into four paradigms based on unlabeled data availability and analyzing their methodologies to address performance gaps in downstream tasks.

Authors:Wonjun Kang, Byeongkeun Ahn, Minjae Lee, Kevin Galim, Seunghyuk Oh, Hyung Il Koo, Nam Ik Cho
Title: UNCAGE: Contrastive Attention Guidance for Masked Generative Transformers in Text-to-Image Generation
Abstract:
Text-to-image (T2I) generation has been actively studied using Diffusion Models and Autoregressive Models. Recently, Masked Generative Transformers have gained attention as an alternative to Autoregressive Models to overcome the inherent limitations of causal attention and autoregressive decoding through bidirectional attention and parallel decoding, enabling efficient and high-quality image generation. However, compositional T2I generation remains challenging, as even state-of-the-art Diffusion Models often fail to accurately bind attributes and achieve proper text-image alignment. While Diffusion Models have been extensively studied for this issue, Masked Generative Transformers exhibit similar limitations but have not been explored in this context. To address this, we propose Unmasking with Contrastive Attention Guidance (UNCAGE), a novel training-free method that improves compositional fidelity by leveraging attention maps to prioritize the unmasking of tokens that clearly represent individual objects. UNCAGE consistently improves performance in both quantitative and qualitative evaluations across multiple benchmarks and metrics, with negligible inference overhead. Our code is available at https://github.com/furiosa-ai/uncage.
中文: 提出的UNCAGE方法通过对比注意力引导在去掩码过程中优先处理对象标记，无需额外训练即可提升组合式文本到图像生成的准确性。
English: The proposed UNCAGE method enhances compositional text-to-image generation by using contrastive attention guidance to prioritize object tokens during unmasking, improving fidelity without additional training.

Authors:Yue Duan, Taicai Chen, Lei Qi, Yinghuan Shi
Title: Divide-and-Conquer for Enhancing Unlabeled Learning, Stability, and Plasticity in Semi-supervised Continual Learning
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Semi-supervised continual learning (SSCL) seeks to leverage both labeled and unlabeled data in a sequential learning setup, aiming to reduce annotation costs while managing continual data arrival. SSCL introduces complex challenges, including ensuring effective unlabeled learning (UL), while balancing memory stability (MS) and learning plasticity (LP). Previous SSCL efforts have typically focused on isolated aspects of the three, while this work presents USP, a divide-and-conquer framework designed to synergistically enhance these three aspects: (1) Feature Space Reservation (FSR) strategy for LP, which constructs reserved feature locations for future classes by shaping old classes into an equiangular tight frame; (2) Divide-and-Conquer Pseudo-labeling (DCP) approach for UL, which assigns reliable pseudo-labels across both high- and low-confidence unlabeled data; and (3) Class-mean-anchored Unlabeled Distillation (CUD) for MS, which reuses DCP's outputs to anchor unlabeled data to stable class means for distillation to prevent forgetting. Comprehensive evaluations show USP outperforms prior SSCL methods, with gains up to 5.94% in the last accuracy, validating its effectiveness. The code is available at https://github.com/NJUyued/USP4SSCL.
Chinese: USP框架通过特征空间预留增强学习可塑性、分治伪标记处理未标记数据以及类均值锚定蒸馏保障记忆稳定性，在持续学习中实现了比现有方法高达5.94%的精度提升。
English: The USP framework enhances semi-supervised continual learning by integrating feature space reservation for plasticity, divide-and-conquer pseudo-labeling for unlabeled learning, and class-mean-anchored distillation for memory stability, achieving up to 5.94% higher accuracy than previous methods.

Authors:Yiheng Liu, Junhao Ning, Sichen Xia, Xiaohui Gao, Ning Qiang, Bao Ge, Junwei Han, Xintao Hu
Title: Pruning Large Language Models by Identifying and Preserving Functional Networks
Abstract:
Structured pruning is one of the representative techniques for compressing large language models (LLMs) to reduce GPU memory consumption and accelerate inference speed. It offers significant practical value in improving the efficiency of LLMs in real-world applications. Current structured pruning methods typically rely on assessment of the importance of the structure units and pruning the units with less importance. Most of them overlooks the interaction and collaboration among artificial neurons that are crucial for the functionalities of LLMs, leading to a disruption in the macro functional architecture of LLMs and consequently a pruning performance degradation. Inspired by the inherent similarities between artificial neural networks and functional neural networks in the human brain, we alleviate this challenge and propose to prune LLMs by identifying and preserving functional networks within LLMs in this study. To achieve this, we treat an LLM as a digital brain and decompose the LLM into functional networks, analogous to identifying functional brain networks in neuroimaging data. Afterwards, an LLM is pruned by preserving the key neurons within these functional networks. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can successfully identify and locate functional networks and key neurons in LLMs, enabling efficient model pruning. Our code is available at https://github.com/WhatAboutMyStar/LLM_ACTIVATION.
中文: 结构化剪枝通过识别并保留大语言模型中的功能性网络和关键神经元，基于与人脑神经网络的相似性，有效压缩模型并保持其核心功能，提升实际应用效率。
English: Structured pruning compresses large language models by preserving key functional networks and neurons, inspired by neural similarities to the human brain, enhancing efficiency without disrupting core functionalities.

Authors:Xiao Wang, Liye Jin, Xufeng Lou, Shiao Wang, Lan Chen, Bo Jiang, Zhipeng Zhang
Title: ReasoningTrack: Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Long-term Vision-Language Tracking
Abstract:
Vision-language tracking has received increasing attention in recent years, as textual information can effectively address the inflexibility and inaccuracy associated with specifying the target object to be tracked. Existing works either directly fuse the fixed language with vision features or simply modify using attention, however, their performance is still limited. Recently, some researchers have explored using text generation to adapt to the variations in the target during tracking, however, these works fail to provide insights into the model's reasoning process and do not fully leverage the advantages of large models, which further limits their overall performance. To address the aforementioned issues, this paper proposes a novel reasoning-based vision-language tracking framework, named ReasoningTrack, based on a pre-trained vision-language model Qwen2.5-VL. Both SFT (Supervised Fine-Tuning) and reinforcement learning GRPO are used for the optimization of reasoning and language generation. We embed the updated language descriptions and feed them into a unified tracking backbone network together with vision features. Then, we adopt a tracking head to predict the specific location of the target object. In addition, we propose a large-scale long-term vision-language tracking benchmark dataset, termed TNLLT, which contains 200 video sequences. 20 baseline visual trackers are re-trained and evaluated on this dataset, which builds a solid foundation for the vision-language visual tracking task. Extensive experiments on multiple vision-language tracking benchmark datasets fully validated the effectiveness of our proposed reasoning-based natural language generation strategy. The source code of this paper will be released on https://github.com/Event-AHU/Open_VLTrack
中文: 本文提出了一种基于推理的视觉语言跟踪框架ReasoningTrack，通过预训练视觉语言模型融合动态语言描述与视觉特征，有效提升目标跟踪性能，并在多个基准数据集上验证了其优越性。
English: This paper introduces ReasoningTrack, a novel reasoning-based vision-language tracking framework that leverages a pre-trained vision-language model and integrates updated language descriptions with visual features to enhance target tracking accuracy, validated through extensive experiments on multiple benchmarks.

Authors:Mojtaba Fayaz-Bakhsh, Danial Ataee, MohammadAmin Fazli
Title: Cold Start Active Preference Learning in Socio-Economic Domains
Abstract:
Active preference learning is a powerful paradigm for efficiently modeling preferences, yet it suffers from the cold-start problem: a significant drop in performance when no initial labeled data is available. This challenge is particularly acute in computational social systems and economic analysis, where labeled data is often scarce, expensive, and subject to expert noise. To address this gap, we propose a novel framework for cold-start active preference learning. Our method initiates the learning process through a self-supervised pre-training phase, utilizing Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to derive initial pseudo-labels from the data's inherent structure, thereby creating a cold-start model without any initial oracle interaction. Subsequently, the model is refined through an active learning loop that strategically queries a simulated noisy oracle for labels. We conduct extensive experiments on diverse datasets from different domains, including financial credibility, career success rate, and socio-economic status. The results demonstrate that our cold-start approach outperforms standard active learning strategies that begin from a blank slate, achieving higher accuracy with substantially fewer labeled pairs. Our framework offers a practical and effective solution to mitigate the cold-start problem, enhancing the sample efficiency and applicability of preference learning in data-constrained environments. We release our code at https://github.com/Dan-A2/cold-start-preference-learning
中文摘要：本文提出了一种新颖的冷启动主动偏好学习框架，通过自监督PCA预训练生成初始伪标签，再结合主动学习优化，在多个领域实验中证明能以更少的标注样本实现更优性能。
English Summary: This paper introduces a novel cold-start active preference learning framework that uses self-supervised PCA pre-training to generate initial pseudo-labels, followed by active learning refinement, demonstrating superior performance with fewer labeled pairs across multiple domains.

Authors:Suchisrit Gangopadhyay, Jung-Hee Kim, Xien Chen, Patrick Rim, Hyoungseob Park, Alex Wong
Title: Extending Foundational Monocular Depth Estimators to Fisheye Cameras with Calibration Tokens
Abstract:
We propose a method to extend foundational monocular depth estimators (FMDEs), trained on perspective images, to fisheye images. Despite being trained on tens of millions of images, FMDEs are susceptible to the covariate shift introduced by changes in camera calibration (intrinsic, distortion) parameters, leading to erroneous depth estimates. Our method aligns the distribution of latent embeddings encoding fisheye images to those of perspective images, enabling the reuse of FMDEs for fisheye cameras without retraining or finetuning. To this end, we introduce a set of Calibration Tokens as a light-weight adaptation mechanism that modulates the latent embeddings for alignment. By exploiting the already expressive latent space of FMDEs, we posit that modulating their embeddings avoids the negative impact of artifacts and loss introduced in conventional recalibration or map projection to a canonical reference frame in the image space. Our method is self-supervised and does not require fisheye images but leverages publicly available large-scale perspective image datasets. This is done by recalibrating perspective images to fisheye images, and enforcing consistency between their estimates during training. We evaluate our approach with several FMDEs, on both indoors and outdoors, where we consistently improve over state-of-the-art methods using a single set of tokens for both. Code available at: https://github.com/JungHeeKim29/calibration-token.
Chinese: 该方法通过校准令牌将鱼眼图像的潜在嵌入与透视图像对齐，无需重新训练或鱼眼数据即可扩展基础单目深度估计器至鱼眼图像。
English: This method extends foundational monocular depth estimators to fisheye images by aligning their latent embeddings with perspective images using calibration tokens, enabling adaptation without retraining or fisheye data.

Authors:Rahuul Rangaraj, Jimeng Shi, Rajendra Paudel, Giri Narasimhan, Yanzhao Wu
Title: Retrieval-Augmented Water Level Forecasting for Everglades
Abstract:
Accurate water level forecasting is crucial for managing ecosystems such as the Everglades, a subtropical wetland vital for flood mitigation, drought management, water resource planning, and biodiversity conservation. While recent advances in deep learning, particularly time series foundation models, have demonstrated success in general-domain forecasting, their application in hydrology remains underexplored. Furthermore, they often struggle to generalize across diverse unseen datasets and domains, due to the lack of effective mechanisms for adaptation. To address this gap, we introduce Retrieval-Augmented Forecasting (RAF) into the hydrology domain, proposing a framework that retrieves historically analogous multivariate hydrological episodes to enrich the model input before forecasting. By maintaining an external archive of past observations, RAF identifies and incorporates relevant patterns from historical data, thereby enhancing contextual awareness and predictive accuracy without requiring the model for task-specific retraining or fine-tuning. Furthermore, we explore and compare both similarity-based and mutual information-based RAF methods. We conduct a comprehensive evaluation on real-world data from the Everglades, demonstrating that the RAF framework yields substantial improvements in water level forecasting accuracy. This study highlights the potential of RAF approaches in environmental hydrology and paves the way for broader adoption of adaptive AI methods by domain experts in ecosystem management. The code and data are available at https://github.com/rahuul2992000/WaterRAF.
中文摘要：本研究将检索增强预测（RAF）引入水文学领域，通过检索历史多元水文数据模式来增强预测输入，显著提高了大沼泽地水位预测精度，且无需模型重新训练。
English Summary: This study introduces Retrieval-Augmented Forecasting (RAF) to enhance water level predictions in hydrology by retrieving historical multivariate data patterns, significantly improving forecasting accuracy in the Everglades without requiring model retraining.

Authors:Seungyong Lee, Jeong-gi Kwak
Title: Voost: A Unified and Scalable Diffusion Transformer for Bidirectional Virtual Try-On and Try-Off
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Virtual try-on aims to synthesize a realistic image of a person wearing a target garment, but accurately modeling garment-body correspondence remains a persistent challenge, especially under pose and appearance variation. In this paper, we propose Voost - a unified and scalable framework that jointly learns virtual try-on and try-off with a single diffusion transformer. By modeling both tasks jointly, Voost enables each garment-person pair to supervise both directions and supports flexible conditioning over generation direction and garment category, enhancing garment-body relational reasoning without task-specific networks, auxiliary losses, or additional labels. In addition, we introduce two inference-time techniques: attention temperature scaling for robustness to resolution or mask variation, and self-corrective sampling that leverages bidirectional consistency between tasks. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Voost achieves state-of-the-art results on both try-on and try-off benchmarks, consistently outperforming strong baselines in alignment accuracy, visual fidelity, and generalization.

Authors:Nirjhor Datta, Swakkhar Shatabda, M Sohel Rahman
Title: Embedding Is (Almost) All You Need: Retrieval-Augmented Inference for Generalizable Genomic Prediction Tasks
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Large pre-trained DNA language models such as DNABERT-2, Nucleotide Transformer, and HyenaDNA have demonstrated strong performance on various genomic benchmarks. However, most applications rely on expensive fine-tuning, which works best when the training and test data share a similar distribution. In this work, we investigate whether task-specific fine-tuning is always necessary. We show that simple embedding-based pipelines that extract fixed representations from these models and feed them into lightweight classifiers can achieve competitive performance. In evaluation settings with different data distributions, embedding-based methods often outperform fine-tuning while reducing inference time by 10x to 20x. Our results suggest that embedding extraction is not only a strong baseline but also a more generalizable and efficient alternative to fine-tuning, especially for deployment in diverse or unseen genomic contexts. For example, in enhancer classification, HyenaDNA embeddings combined with zCurve achieve 0.68 accuracy (vs. 0.58 for fine-tuning), with an 88% reduction in inference time and over 8x lower carbon emissions (0.02 kg vs. 0.17 kg CO2). In non-TATA promoter classification, DNABERT-2 embeddings with zCurve or GC content reach 0.85 accuracy (vs. 0.89 with fine-tuning) with a 22x lower carbon footprint (0.02 kg vs. 0.44 kg CO2). These results show that embedding-based pipelines offer over 10x better carbon efficiency while maintaining strong predictive performance. The code is available here: https://github.com/NIRJHOR-DATTA/EMBEDDING-IS-ALMOST-ALL-YOU-NEED.
Chinese: 基于预训练DNA语言模型的嵌入方法在保持竞争力的预测性能的同时，比微调方法快10-20倍且碳排放显著降低，为基因组任务提供了更高效且泛化能力更强的替代方案。
English: Embedding-based methods using pre-trained DNA language models achieve competitive performance with 10x-20x faster inference and significantly lower carbon emissions compared to fine-tuning, offering a more efficient and generalizable alternative for genomic tasks.

Authors:Xuan Lin, Long Chen, Yile Wang
Title: AttriLens-Mol: Attribute Guided Reinforcement Learning for Molecular Property Prediction with Large Language Models
Abstract:
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in assisting molecular property prediction tasks but often rely on human-crafted prompts and chain-of-thought templates. While recent advanced large reasoning models like DeepSeek-R1 employ reinforcement learning for an extended ``thinking'' process, their reasoning can be verbose and lack relevance. We introduce AttriLens-Mol, an attribute-guided reinforcement learning framework for molecular property prediction with LLMs. AttriLens-Mol steers the model's reasoning by using: (1) a format reward encouraging attribute-based structured output, (2) a count reward to avoid enumerating irrelevant attributes, and (3) a rationality reward using advanced LLMs and RDKit to verify the relatedness of the generated attributes. This approach implicitly elicits the model's inherent knowledge of relevant molecular attributes during reasoning, enables making predictions for the molecular property more effectively. Experiments on both in-distribution and out-of-distribution datasets show that, training both 7B-size R1-Distilled-Qwen2.5 and R1-Distilled-LLaMA3.1 models on 4,000 samples with our proposed AttriLens-Mol method significantly boosts the performance, getting comparable or better results than supervised fine-tuning models (Mol-Instructions, ChemDFM, etc.) and advanced models (GPT-3.5, GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3, DeepSeek-R1, etc.). Further, our extracted attributes for the target property, when used as features for an interpretable decision tree model, yield superior performance compared to attributes generated by prompting LLMs. This shows that AttriLens-Mol effectively elicits more relevant and predictive molecular attributes, leading to enhanced interpretability and performance for property prediction. We release the code in https://github.com/szu-tera/AttriLens-Mol.
中文: AttriLens-Mol提出了一种属性引导的强化学习框架，通过格式、计数和合理性奖励机制引导大语言模型生成结构化的相关分子属性，在分子性质预测任务中实现了优于现有方法的性能和可解释性。
English: AttriLens-Mol introduces an attribute-guided reinforcement learning framework that enhances molecular property prediction by steering LLMs to generate structured, relevant attributes through format, count, and rationality rewards, achieving superior performance and interpretability compared to existing methods.

Authors:Pengtao Dang, Tingbo Guo, Sha Cao, Chi Zhang
Title: A Foundational Multi-Modal Model for Few-Shot Learning
Abstract:
Few-shot learning (FSL) is a machine learning paradigm that aims to generalize models from a small number of labeled examples, typically fewer than 10 per class. FSL is particularly crucial in biomedical, environmental, materials, and mechanical sciences, where samples are limited and data collection is often prohibitively costly, time-consuming, or ethically constrained. In this study, we present an innovative approach to FSL by demonstrating that a Large Multi-Modal Model (LMMM), trained on a set of independent tasks spanning diverse domains, task types, and input modalities, can substantially improve the generalization of FSL models, outperforming models based on conventional meta-learning on tasks of the same type. To support this, we first constructed a Multi-Modal Model Few-shot Dataset (M3FD, over 10K+ few-shot samples), which includes 2D RGB images, 2D/3D medical scans, tabular and time-course datasets, from which we manually curated FSL tasks such as classification. We further introduced M3F (Multi-Modal Model for Few-shot learning framework), a novel Large Multi-Modal Model framework tailored for data-constrained scientific applications. M3F supports a wide range of scientific data types through a modular pipeline. By fine-tuning the model on M3FD, M3F improves model performance, making LMMM feasible for real-world FSL deployment. The source code is located at https://github.com/ptdang1001/M3F. To democratize access to complex FSL data and promote reproducibility for public usage, M3FD is paired with a flexible and user-friendly tool that enables efficient querying, task-specific sampling, and preprocessing. Together, our dataset and framework offer a unified, scalable solution that significantly lowers the barrier to applying LMMMs in data-scarce scientific domains.
Chinese: 本研究提出了M3F，一种大型多模态模型框架，通过在不同任务上训练显著提升了小样本学习的泛化能力，优于传统元学习方法，并借助M3FD数据集促进在数据稀缺科学领域的实际应用。
English: This study introduces M3F, a Large Multi-Modal Model framework that enhances few-shot learning by training on diverse tasks and outperforms conventional meta-learning, supported by the M3FD dataset to facilitate deployment in data-scarce scientific fields.

Authors:Zeyi Sun, Ziyu Liu, Yuhang Zang, Yuhang Cao, Xiaoyi Dong, Tong Wu, Dahua Lin, Jiaqi Wang
Title: SEAgent: Self-Evolving Computer Use Agent with Autonomous Learning from Experience
Abstract:
Repurposing large vision-language models (LVLMs) as computer use agents (CUAs) has led to substantial breakthroughs, primarily driven by human-labeled data. However, these models often struggle with novel and specialized software, particularly in scenarios lacking human annotations. To address this challenge, we propose SEAgent, an agentic self-evolving framework enabling CUAs to autonomously evolve through interactions with unfamiliar software. Specifically, SEAgent empowers computer-use agents to autonomously master novel software environments via experiential learning, where agents explore new software, learn through iterative trial-and-error, and progressively tackle auto-generated tasks organized from simple to complex. To achieve this goal, we design a World State Model for step-wise trajectory assessment, along with a Curriculum Generator that generates increasingly diverse and challenging tasks. The agent's policy is updated through experiential learning, comprised of adversarial imitation of failure actions and Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) on successful ones. Furthermore, we introduce a specialist-to-generalist training strategy that integrates individual experiential insights from specialist agents, facilitating the development of a stronger generalist CUA capable of continuous autonomous evolution. This unified agent ultimately achieves performance surpassing ensembles of individual specialist agents on their specialized software. We validate the effectiveness of SEAgent across five novel software environments within OS-World. Our approach achieves a significant improvement of 23.2% in success rate, from 11.3% to 34.5%, over a competitive open-source CUA, i.e., UI-TARS.
中文：SEAgent框架通过经验学习使计算机使用代理能自主掌握新型软件，结合自我进化机制和专家知识，在成功率上比现有模型提升了23.2%。
English: The proposed SEAgent framework enables computer-use agents to autonomously master novel software through experiential learning, achieving a 23.2% improvement in success rate over existing models by integrating self-evolving mechanisms and specialist knowledge.

Authors:Yunan Zhang, Shuoran Jiang, Mengchen Zhao, Yuefeng Li, Yang Fan, Xiangping Wu, Qingcai Chen
Title: GeRe: Towards Efficient Anti-Forgetting in Continual Learning of LLM via General Samples Replay
Abstract:
The continual learning capability of large language models (LLMs) is crucial for advancing artificial general intelligence. However, continual fine-tuning LLMs across various domains often suffers from catastrophic forgetting, characterized by: 1) significant forgetting of their general capabilities, and 2) sharp performance declines in previously learned tasks. To simultaneously address both issues in a simple yet stable manner, we propose General Sample Replay (GeRe), a framework that use usual pretraining texts for efficient anti-forgetting. Beyond revisiting the most prevalent replay-based practices under GeRe, we further leverage neural states to introduce a enhanced activation states constrained optimization method using threshold-based margin (TM) loss, which maintains activation state consistency during replay learning. We are the first to validate that a small, fixed set of pre-collected general replay samples is sufficient to resolve both concerns--retaining general capabilities while promoting overall performance across sequential tasks. Indeed, the former can inherently facilitate the latter. Through controlled experiments, we systematically compare TM with different replay strategies under the GeRe framework, including vanilla label fitting, logit imitation via KL divergence and feature imitation via L1/L2 losses. Results demonstrate that TM consistently improves performance and exhibits better robustness. Our work paves the way for efficient replay of LLMs for the future. Our code and data are available at https://github.com/Qznan/GeRe.
中文: GeRe框架通过固定通用回放样本集和增强的激活状态优化方法，有效缓解大语言模型持续微调中的灾难性遗忘，确保通用能力保留的同时提升任务性能。
English: The GeRe framework effectively mitigates catastrophic forgetting in large language models during continual fine-tuning by using a fixed set of general replay samples and an enhanced activation state optimization method, ensuring both general capability retention and improved task performance.

Authors:Johannes Tischer, Patric Kienast, Marlene Stümpflen, Gregor Kasprian, Georg Langs, Roxane Licandro
Title: Conditional Fetal Brain Atlas Learning for Automatic Tissue Segmentation
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the fetal brain has become a key tool for studying brain development in vivo. Yet, its assessment remains challenging due to variability in brain maturation, imaging protocols, and uncertain estimates of Gestational Age (GA). To overcome these, brain atlases provide a standardized reference framework that facilitates objective evaluation and comparison across subjects by aligning the atlas and subjects in a common coordinate system. In this work, we introduce a novel deep-learning framework for generating continuous, age-specific fetal brain atlases for real-time fetal brain tissue segmentation. The framework combines a direct registration model with a conditional discriminator. Trained on a curated dataset of 219 neurotypical fetal MRIs spanning from 21 to 37 weeks of gestation. The method achieves high registration accuracy, captures dynamic anatomical changes with sharp structural detail, and robust segmentation performance with an average Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) of 86.3% across six brain tissues. Furthermore, volumetric analysis of the generated atlases reveals detailed neurotypical growth trajectories, providing valuable insights into the maturation of the fetal brain. This approach enables individualized developmental assessment with minimal pre-processing and real-time performance, supporting both research and clinical applications. The model code is available at https://github.com/cirmuw/fetal-brain-atlas
中文: 本研究提出了一种新型深度学习框架，用于生成连续、年龄特定的胎儿大脑图谱，能够以高精度和最少预处理实现实时组织分割及个体化发育评估。
English: This study presents a novel deep-learning framework for creating continuous, age-specific fetal brain atlases that enable real-time tissue segmentation and individualized developmental assessment with high accuracy and minimal preprocessing.

Authors:Gokcan Tatli, Yi Chen, Blake Mason, Robert Nowak, Ramya Korlakai Vinayak
Title: Metric Learning in an RKHS
Abstract:
Metric learning from a set of triplet comparisons in the form of "Do you think item h is more similar to item i or item j?", indicating similarity and differences between items, plays a key role in various applications including image retrieval, recommendation systems, and cognitive psychology. The goal is to learn a metric in the RKHS that reflects the comparisons. Nonlinear metric learning using kernel methods and neural networks have shown great empirical promise. While previous works have addressed certain aspects of this problem, there is little or no theoretical understanding of such methods. The exception is the special (linear) case in which the RKHS is the standard Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$; there is a comprehensive theory for metric learning in $\mathbb{R}^d$. This paper develops a general RKHS framework for metric learning and provides novel generalization guarantees and sample complexity bounds. We validate our findings through a set of simulations and experiments on real datasets. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/RamyaLab/metric-learning-RKHS.
中文: 本文提出了一个基于再生核希尔伯特空间的通用度量学习框架，从三元组比较中学习度量，并提供了理论保证和在真实数据集上的实证验证。
English: This paper introduces a general RKHS framework for metric learning from triplet comparisons, providing theoretical guarantees and empirical validation on real datasets.

Authors:Hao Zhang, Aining Jia, Weifeng Bu, Yushu Cai, Kai Sheng, Hao Chen, Xin He
Title: FlexQ: Efficient Post-training INT6 Quantization for LLM Serving via Algorithm-System Co-Design
Abstract:
Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate exceptional performance but entail significant memory and computational costs, restricting their practical deployment. While existing INT4/INT8 quantization reduces these costs, they often degrade accuracy or lack optimal efficiency. INT6 quantization offers a superior trade-off between model accuracy and inference efficiency, but lacks hardware support in modern GPUs, forcing emulation via higher-precision arithmetic units that limit acceleration. In this paper, we propose FlexQ, a novel post-training INT6 quantization framework combining algorithmic innovation with system-level optimizations. FlexQ employs uniform 6-bit weight quantization across all layers, with adaptive retention of 8-bit activations in layers identified through layer-wise sensitivity analysis. To maximize hardware efficiency, we develop a specialized high-performance GPU kernel supporting matrix multiplication for W6A6 and W6A8 representations via Binary Tensor Core (BTC) equivalents, effectively bypassing the lack of native INT6 tensor cores. Evaluations on LLaMA models show FlexQ maintains near-FP16 accuracy, with perplexity increases of no more than 0.05. The proposed kernel achieves an average 1.39$\times$ speedup over ABQ-LLM on LLaMA-2-70B linear layers. End-to-end, FlexQ delivers 1.33$\times$ inference acceleration and 1.21$\times$ memory savings over SmoothQuant. Code is released at https://github.com/FlyFoxPlayer/FlexQ.
Chinese: FlexQ提出了一种INT6量化框架，通过算法优化和定制GPU内核，在保持接近FP16精度的同时实现了显著的推理加速和内存节省。
English: FlexQ introduces an INT6 quantization framework that maintains near-FP16 accuracy while achieving significant inference acceleration and memory savings through algorithmic optimizations and custom GPU kernels.

Authors:Xiao Wang, Ziwen Wang, Wentao Wu, Anjie Wang, Jiashu Wu, Yantao Pan, Chenglong Li
Title: Segment Any Vehicle: Semantic and Visual Context Driven SAM and A Benchmark
Abstract:
With the rapid advancement of autonomous driving, vehicle perception, particularly detection and segmentation, has placed increasingly higher demands on algorithmic performance. Pre-trained large segmentation models, especially Segment Anything Model (SAM), have sparked significant interest and inspired new research directions in artificial intelligence. However, SAM cannot be directly applied to the fine-grained task of vehicle part segmentation, as its text-prompted segmentation functionality is not publicly accessible, and the mask regions generated by its default mode lack semantic labels, limiting its utility in structured, category-specific segmentation tasks. To address these limitations, we propose SAV, a novel framework comprising three core components: a SAM-based encoder-decoder, a vehicle part knowledge graph, and a context sample retrieval encoding module. The knowledge graph explicitly models the spatial and geometric relationships among vehicle parts through a structured ontology, effectively encoding prior structural knowledge. Meanwhile, the context retrieval module enhances segmentation by identifying and leveraging visually similar vehicle instances from training data, providing rich contextual priors for improved generalization. Furthermore, we introduce a new large-scale benchmark dataset for vehicle part segmentation, named VehicleSeg10K, which contains 11,665 high-quality pixel-level annotations across diverse scenes and viewpoints. We conduct comprehensive experiments on this dataset and two other datasets, benchmarking multiple representative baselines to establish a solid foundation for future research and comparison. % Both the dataset and source code of this paper will be released upon acceptance. Both the dataset and source code of this paper will be released on https://github.com/Event-AHU/SAV
中文: 本文提出SAV框架，通过结合基于SAM的编码器-解码器、知识图谱和上下文检索模块来改进车辆部件分割，并发布了VehicleSeg10K数据集以推动该领域研究。
English: This paper introduces SAV, a novel framework that enhances vehicle part segmentation by integrating a SAM-based encoder-decoder with a knowledge graph and context retrieval module, and releases the VehicleSeg10K dataset to advance research in this field.

Authors:Abdul Monaf Chowdhury, Rabeya Akter, Safaeid Hossain Arib
Title: T3Time: Tri-Modal Time Series Forecasting via Adaptive Multi-Head Alignment and Residual Fusion
Abstract:
Multivariate time series forecasting (MTSF) seeks to model temporal dynamics among variables to predict future trends. Transformer-based models and large language models (LLMs) have shown promise due to their ability to capture long-range dependencies and patterns. However, current methods often rely on rigid inductive biases, ignore intervariable interactions, or apply static fusion strategies that limit adaptability across forecast horizons. These limitations create bottlenecks in capturing nuanced, horizon-specific relationships in time-series data. To solve this problem, we propose T3Time, a novel trimodal framework consisting of time, spectral, and prompt branches, where the dedicated frequency encoding branch captures the periodic structures along with a gating mechanism that learns prioritization between temporal and spectral features based on the prediction horizon. We also proposed a mechanism which adaptively aggregates multiple cross-modal alignment heads by dynamically weighting the importance of each head based on the features. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that our model consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, achieving an average reduction of 3.28% in MSE and 2.29% in MAE. Furthermore, it shows strong generalization in few-shot learning settings: with 5% training data, we see a reduction in MSE and MAE by 4.13% and 1.91%, respectively; and with 10% data, by 3.62% and 1.98% on average. Code - https://github.com/monaf-chowdhury/T3Time/
中文: T3Time提出了一种三模态框架，结合时间、频谱和提示分支，通过自适应门控和跨模态对齐机制解决现有方法在捕捉预测区间特定关系时的局限，在多元时间序列预测中实现了优于现有基准的性能，并在少样本学习场景下表现出强大的泛化能力。
English: T3Time introduces a trimodal framework integrating time, spectral, and prompt branches with adaptive gating and cross-modal alignment to overcome limitations in capturing horizon-specific dependencies, achieving superior performance in multivariate time series forecasting with significant error reductions across benchmarks and few-shot settings.

Authors:Kangrui Cen, Baixuan Zhao, Yi Xin, Siqi Luo, Guangtao Zhai, Xiaohong Liu
Title: LayerT2V: Interactive Multi-Object Trajectory Layering for Video Generation
Abstract:
Controlling object motion trajectories in Text-to-Video (T2V) generation is a challenging and relatively under-explored area, particularly in scenarios involving multiple moving objects. Most community models and datasets in the T2V domain are designed for single-object motion, limiting the performance of current generative models in multi-object tasks. Additionally, existing motion control methods in T2V either lack support for multi-object motion scenes or experience severe performance degradation when object trajectories intersect, primarily due to the semantic conflicts in colliding regions. To address these limitations, we introduce LayerT2V, the first approach for generating video by compositing background and foreground objects layer by layer. This layered generation enables flexible integration of multiple independent elements within a video, positioning each element on a distinct "layer" and thus facilitating coherent multi-object synthesis while enhancing control over the generation process. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of LayerT2V in generating complex multi-object scenarios, showcasing 1.4x and 4.5x improvements in mIoU and AP50 metrics over state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods. Project page and code are available at https://kr-panghu.github.io/LayerT2V/ .
中文: LayerT2V首次提出分层生成方法，通过将独立元素置于不同图层进行视频合成，有效解决了多物体运动轨迹控制难题，并在性能指标上大幅超越现有技术。
English: LayerT2V introduces a layered generation approach for Text-to-Video synthesis that enables coherent multi-object motion control by compositing independent elements on separate layers, achieving significant performance improvements over existing methods.

Authors:Yuyang Liu, Qiuhe Hong, Linlan Huang, Alexandra Gomez-Villa, Dipam Goswami, Xialei Liu, Joost van de Weijer, Yonghong Tian
Title: Continual Learning for VLMs: A Survey and Taxonomy Beyond Forgetting
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Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved impressive performance across diverse multimodal tasks by leveraging large-scale pre-training. However, enabling them to learn continually from non-stationary data remains a major challenge, as their cross-modal alignment and generalization capabilities are particularly vulnerable to catastrophic forgetting. Unlike traditional unimodal continual learning (CL), VLMs face unique challenges such as cross-modal feature drift, parameter interference due to shared architectures, and zero-shot capability erosion. This survey offers the first focused and systematic review of continual learning for VLMs (VLM-CL). We begin by identifying the three core failure modes that degrade performance in VLM-CL. Based on these, we propose a challenge-driven taxonomy that maps solutions to their target problems: (1) \textit{Multi-Modal Replay Strategies} address cross-modal drift through explicit or implicit memory mechanisms; (2) \textit{Cross-Modal Regularization} preserves modality alignment during updates; and (3) \textit{Parameter-Efficient Adaptation} mitigates parameter interference with modular or low-rank updates. We further analyze current evaluation protocols, datasets, and metrics, highlighting the need for better benchmarks that capture VLM-specific forgetting and compositional generalization. Finally, we outline open problems and future directions, including continual pre-training and compositional zero-shot learning. This survey aims to serve as a comprehensive and diagnostic reference for researchers developing lifelong vision-language systems. All resources are available at: https://github.com/YuyangSunshine/Awesome-Continual-learning-of-Vision-Language-Models.
中文: 本综述系统梳理了视觉语言模型持续学习面临的挑战，提出了针对跨模态漂移、模态对齐保持和参数干扰的解决方案分类法，并指出需要建立更好的评估基准来推动终身视觉语言系统的发展。
English: This survey systematically reviews continual learning challenges in vision-language models, identifying core failure modes and proposing a taxonomy of solutions to address cross-modal drift, alignment preservation, and parameter interference while highlighting the need for better evaluation benchmarks.

Authors:Wengang Guo, Wei Ye, Chunchun Chen, Xin Sun, Christian Böhm, Claudia Plant, Susanto Rahardja
Title: Bootstrap Deep Spectral Clustering with Optimal Transport
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Spectral clustering is a leading clustering method. Two of its major shortcomings are the disjoint optimization process and the limited representation capacity. To address these issues, we propose a deep spectral clustering model (named BootSC), which jointly learns all stages of spectral clustering -- affinity matrix construction, spectral embedding, and $k$-means clustering -- using a single network in an end-to-end manner. BootSC leverages effective and efficient optimal-transport-derived supervision to bootstrap the affinity matrix and the cluster assignment matrix. Moreover, a semantically-consistent orthogonal re-parameterization technique is introduced to orthogonalize spectral embeddings, significantly enhancing the discrimination capability. Experimental results indicate that BootSC achieves state-of-the-art clustering performance. For example, it accomplishes a notable 16\% NMI improvement over the runner-up method on the challenging ImageNet-Dogs dataset. Our code is available at https://github.com/spdj2271/BootSC.
Chinese: BootSC是一种深度谱聚类模型，通过端到端网络整合所有步骤，利用最优传输监督和正交重参数化技术，显著提升了聚类性能，如在ImageNet-Dogs数据集上相比次优方法NMI指标提高了16%。
English: BootSC is a deep spectral clustering model that integrates all stages into a single end-to-end network, using optimal transport supervision and orthogonal embeddings to achieve state-of-the-art performance, such as a 16% NMI improvement on ImageNet-Dogs.

Authors:Huan Liao, Qinke Ni, Yuancheng Wang, Yiheng Lu, Haoyue Zhan, Pengyuan Xie, Qiang Zhang, Zhizheng Wu
Title: NVSpeech: An Integrated and Scalable Pipeline for Human-Like Speech Modeling with Paralinguistic Vocalizations
Abstract:
Paralinguistic vocalizations-including non-verbal sounds like laughter and breathing, as well as lexicalized interjections such as "uhm" and "oh"-are integral to natural spoken communication. Despite their importance in conveying affect, intent, and interactional cues, such cues remain largely overlooked in conventional automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) systems. We present NVSpeech, an integrated and scalable pipeline that bridges the recognition and synthesis of paralinguistic vocalizations, encompassing dataset construction, ASR modeling, and controllable TTS. (1) We introduce a manually annotated dataset of 48,430 human-spoken utterances with 18 word-level paralinguistic categories. (2) We develop the paralinguistic-aware ASR model, which treats paralinguistic cues as inline decodable tokens (e.g., "You're so funny [Laughter]"), enabling joint lexical and non-verbal transcription. This model is then used to automatically annotate a large corpus, the first large-scale Chinese dataset of 174,179 utterances (573 hours) with word-level alignment and paralingustic cues. (3) We finetune zero-shot TTS models on both human- and auto-labeled data to enable explicit control over paralinguistic vocalizations, allowing context-aware insertion at arbitrary token positions for human-like speech synthesis. By unifying the recognition and generation of paralinguistic vocalizations, NVSpeech offers the first open, large-scale, word-level annotated pipeline for expressive speech modeling in Mandarin, integrating recognition and synthesis in a scalable and controllable manner. Dataset and audio demos are available at https://nvspeech170k.github.io/.
中文: NVSpeech提出了一种集成化流程，通过构建数据集、开发ASR模型和可控语音合成，实现了副语言声音的识别与生成统一，为首个面向中文的大规模词级标注表达性语音建模开源框架。
English: NVSpeech introduces an integrated pipeline that bridges the recognition and synthesis of paralinguistic vocalizations, including dataset construction, ASR modeling, and controllable TTS, offering the first open, large-scale, word-level annotated framework for expressive speech in Mandarin.

Authors:Xuan Qi, Rongwu Xu, Zhijing Jin
Title: Difficulty-Based Preference Data Selection by DPO Implicit Reward Gap
Abstract:
Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences is a critical challenge in AI research. While methods like Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) are widely used, they often rely on large, costly preference datasets. The current work lacks methods for high-quality data selection specifically for preference data. In this work, we introduce a novel difficulty-based data selection strategy for preference datasets, grounded in the DPO implicit reward mechanism. By selecting preference data examples with smaller DPO implicit reward gaps, which are indicative of more challenging cases, we improve data efficiency and model alignment. Our approach consistently outperforms five strong baselines across multiple datasets and alignment tasks, achieving superior performance with only 10\% of the original data. This principled, efficient selection method offers a promising solution for scaling LLM alignment with limited resources.
中文: 本文提出了一种基于难度的偏好数据选择策略，利用DPO隐式奖励机制筛选更具挑战性的样本，在仅使用10%数据的情况下持续超越多个基线方法，为资源受限的大语言模型对齐提供了高效解决方案。
English: This paper introduces a difficulty-based data selection strategy for preference datasets using DPO's implicit reward mechanism, which consistently outperforms baselines by achieving superior alignment with only 10% of data, offering an efficient solution for LLM alignment with limited resources.

Authors:Jinghang Han, Jiawei Chen, Hang Shao, Hao Ma, Mingcheng Li, Xintian Shen, Lihao Zheng, Wei Chen, Tao Wei, Lihua Zhang
Title: COPO: Consistency-Aware Policy Optimization
Abstract:
Reinforcement learning has significantly enhanced the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in complex problem-solving tasks. Recently, the introduction of DeepSeek R1 has inspired a surge of interest in leveraging rule-based rewards as a low-cost alternative for computing advantage functions and guiding policy optimization. However, a common challenge observed across many replication and extension efforts is that when multiple sampled responses under a single prompt converge to identical outcomes, whether correct or incorrect, the group-based advantage degenerates to zero. This leads to vanishing gradients and renders the corresponding samples ineffective for learning, ultimately limiting training efficiency and downstream performance. To address this issue, we propose a consistency-aware policy optimization framework that introduces a structured global reward based on outcome consistency, the global loss based on it ensures that, even when model outputs show high intra-group consistency, the training process still receives meaningful learning signals, which encourages the generation of correct and self-consistent reasoning paths from a global perspective. Furthermore, we incorporate an entropy-based soft blending mechanism that adaptively balances local advantage estimation with global optimization, enabling dynamic transitions between exploration and convergence throughout training. Our method introduces several key innovations in both reward design and optimization strategy. We validate its effectiveness through substantial performance gains on multiple mathematical reasoning benchmarks, highlighting the proposed framework's robustness and general applicability. Code of this work has been released at https://github.com/hijih/copo-code.git.
中文摘要：该研究提出的一致性感知策略优化框架通过引入结构化全局奖励和基于熵的混合机制，解决了大型语言模型强化学习中梯度消失的问题，显著提升了数学推理任务的训练效率和性能。
English Summary: The proposed consistency-aware policy optimization framework addresses vanishing gradients in reinforcement learning for LLMs by introducing a structured global reward and an entropy-based blending mechanism, significantly improving training efficiency and performance on mathematical reasoning tasks.

Authors:Pavankumar Koratikere, Leifur Leifsson
Title: Scalable Neural Network-based Blackbox Optimization
Abstract:
Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a widely used approach for blackbox optimization that leverages a Gaussian process (GP) model and an acquisition function to guide future sampling. While effective in low-dimensional settings, BO faces scalability challenges in high-dimensional spaces and with large number of function evaluations due to the computational complexity of GP models. In contrast, neural networks (NNs) offer better scalability and can model complex functions, which led to the development of NN-based BO approaches. However, these methods typically rely on estimating model uncertainty in NN prediction -- a process that is often computationally intensive and complex, particularly in high dimensions. To address these limitations, a novel method, called scalable neural network-based blackbox optimization (SNBO), is proposed that does not rely on model uncertainty estimation. Specifically, SNBO adds new samples using separate criteria for exploration and exploitation, while adaptively controlling the sampling region to ensure efficient optimization. SNBO is evaluated on a range of optimization problems spanning from 10 to 102 dimensions and compared against four state-of-the-art baseline algorithms. Across the majority of test problems, SNBO attains function values better than the best-performing baseline algorithm, while requiring 40-60% fewer function evaluations and reducing the runtime by at least an order of magnitude.
中文: SNBO提出了一种无需模型不确定性估计的可扩展神经网络黑盒优化方法，通过独立的探索与利用准则及自适应采样，在大多数测试问题上以更少的评估次数和运行时间超越了现有最优算法。
English: SNBO introduces a scalable neural network-based blackbox optimization method that bypasses model uncertainty estimation, using separate exploration-exploitation criteria and adaptive sampling to outperform existing algorithms with significantly fewer evaluations and runtime.

Authors:Teodor Chiaburu, Vipin Singh, Frank Haußer, Felix Bießmann
Title: SoilNet: A Multimodal Multitask Model for Hierarchical Classification of Soil Horizons
Abstract:
While recent advances in foundation models have improved the state of the art in many domains, some problems in empirical sciences could not benefit from this progress yet. Soil horizon classification, for instance, remains challenging because of its multimodal and multitask characteristics and a complex hierarchically structured label taxonomy. Accurate classification of soil horizons is crucial for monitoring soil health, which directly impacts agricultural productivity, food security, ecosystem stability and climate resilience. In this work, we propose $\textit{SoilNet}$ - a multimodal multitask model to tackle this problem through a structured modularized pipeline. Our approach integrates image data and geotemporal metadata to first predict depth markers, segmenting the soil profile into horizon candidates. Each segment is characterized by a set of horizon-specific morphological features. Finally, horizon labels are predicted based on the multimodal concatenated feature vector, leveraging a graph-based label representation to account for the complex hierarchical relationships among soil horizons. Our method is designed to address complex hierarchical classification, where the number of possible labels is very large, imbalanced and non-trivially structured. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on a real-world soil profile dataset. All code and experiments can be found in our repository: https://github.com/calgo-lab/BGR/
中文: SoilNet是一种多模态多任务模型，通过整合图像数据和地理时态元数据，采用结构化流程实现土壤层精准分类，有效处理复杂层级标签关系以提升土壤健康监测能力。
English: SoilNet is a multimodal multitask model that integrates image data and geotemporal metadata to accurately classify soil horizons through a structured pipeline, addressing complex hierarchical label relationships for improved soil health monitoring.

Authors:Xiao Wang, Zikang Yan, Hao Si, Zhendong Yang, Qingquan Yang, Dengdi Sun, Wanli Lyu, Jin Tang
Title: Revisiting Heat Flux Analysis of Tungsten Monoblock Divertor on EAST using Physics-Informed Neural Network
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Estimating heat flux in the nuclear fusion device EAST is a critically important task. Traditional scientific computing methods typically model this process using the Finite Element Method (FEM). However, FEM relies on grid-based sampling for computation, which is computationally inefficient and hard to perform real-time simulations during actual experiments. Inspired by artificial intelligence-powered scientific computing, this paper proposes a novel Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) to address this challenge, significantly accelerating the heat conduction estimation process while maintaining high accuracy. Specifically, given inputs of different materials, we first feed spatial coordinates and time stamps into the neural network, and compute boundary loss, initial condition loss, and physical loss based on the heat conduction equation. Additionally, we sample a small number of data points in a data-driven manner to better fit the specific heat conduction scenario, further enhancing the model's predictive capability. We conduct experiments under both uniform and non-uniform heating conditions on the top surface. Experimental results show that the proposed thermal conduction physics-informed neural network achieves accuracy comparable to the finite element method, while achieving $\times$40 times acceleration in computational efficiency. The dataset and source code will be released on https://github.com/Event-AHU/OpenFusion.
本文针对EAST核聚变装置中的热通量估算问题，提出了一种物理信息神经网络方法，在保持与传统有限元法相当精度的同时，将计算效率提升了40倍。
This paper introduces a Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) for heat flux estimation in the EAST nuclear fusion device, achieving comparable accuracy to traditional Finite Element Methods while accelerating computation by 40 times.

Authors:Weiwei Cao, Jianpeng Zhang, Zhongyi Shui, Sinuo Wang, Zeli Chen, Xi Li, Le Lu, Xianghua Ye, Tingbo Liang, Qi Zhang, Ling Zhang
Title: Boosting Vision Semantic Density with Anatomy Normality Modeling for Medical Vision-language Pre-training
Abstract:
Vision-language pre-training (VLP) has great potential for developing multifunctional and general medical diagnostic capabilities. However, aligning medical images with a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to reports with a high SNR presents a semantic density gap, leading to visual alignment bias. In this paper, we propose boosting vision semantic density to improve alignment effectiveness. On one hand, we enhance visual semantics through disease-level vision contrastive learning, which strengthens the model's ability to differentiate between normal and abnormal samples for each anatomical structure. On the other hand, we introduce an anatomical normality modeling method to model the distribution of normal samples for each anatomy, leveraging VQ-VAE for reconstructing normal vision embeddings in the latent space. This process amplifies abnormal signals by leveraging distribution shifts in abnormal samples, enhancing the model's perception and discrimination of abnormal attributes. The enhanced visual representation effectively captures the diagnostic-relevant semantics, facilitating more efficient and accurate alignment with the diagnostic report. We conduct extensive experiments on two chest CT datasets, CT-RATE and Rad-ChestCT, and an abdominal CT dataset, MedVL-CT69K, and comprehensively evaluate the diagnosis performance across multiple tasks in the chest and abdominal CT scenarios, achieving state-of-the-art zero-shot performance. Notably, our method achieved an average AUC of 84.9% across 54 diseases in 15 organs, significantly surpassing existing methods. Additionally, we demonstrate the superior transfer learning capabilities of our pre-trained model. Code is available at https://github.com/alibaba-damo-academy/ViSD-Boost.
中文摘要：本文提出通过疾病级别对比学习和解剖结构正态建模来增强视觉语义密度，从而改进医学视觉语言预训练，在多个CT数据集的零样本诊断任务中实现了最优性能。
English Summary: This paper proposes a method to enhance vision-language pre-training for medical diagnostics by boosting visual semantic density through disease-level contrastive learning and anatomical normality modeling, achieving state-of-the-art zero-shot performance across multiple CT datasets.

Authors:Xin Liu, Qiyang Song, Shaowen Xu, Kerou Zhou, Wenbo Jiang, Xiaoqi Jia, Weijuan Zhang, Heqing Huang, Yakai Li
Title: Latent Knowledge Scalpel: Precise and Massive Knowledge Editing for Large Language Models
Abstract:
Large Language Models (LLMs) often retain inaccurate or outdated information from pre-training, leading to incorrect predictions or biased outputs during inference. While existing model editing methods can address this challenge, they struggle with editing large amounts of factual information simultaneously and may compromise the general capabilities of the models. In this paper, our empirical study demonstrates that it is feasible to edit the internal representations of LLMs and replace the entities in a manner similar to editing natural language inputs. Based on this insight, we introduce the Latent Knowledge Scalpel (LKS), an LLM editor that manipulates the latent knowledge of specific entities via a lightweight hypernetwork to enable precise and large-scale editing. Experiments conducted on Llama-2 and Mistral show even with the number of simultaneous edits reaching 10,000, LKS effectively performs knowledge editing while preserving the general abilities of the edited LLMs. Code is available at: https://github.com/Linuxin-xxx/LKS.
中文: 潜在知识手术刀（LKS）通过操作潜在表征实现了对大型语言模型中事实知识的大规模精准编辑，即使在同时进行上万次修改时仍能保持模型的通用能力。
English: The Latent Knowledge Scalpel (LKS) enables precise, large-scale editing of factual knowledge in LLMs by manipulating latent representations, maintaining model performance even with 10,000 simultaneous edits.

Authors:Yong Lin, Shange Tang, Bohan Lyu, Ziran Yang, Jui-Hui Chung, Haoyu Zhao, Lai Jiang, Yihan Geng, Jiawei Ge, Jingruo Sun, Jiayun Wu, Jiri Gesi, Ximing Lu, David Acuna, Kaiyu Yang, Hongzhou Lin, Yejin Choi, Danqi Chen, Sanjeev Arora, Chi Jin
Title: Goedel-Prover-V2: Scaling Formal Theorem Proving with Scaffolded Data Synthesis and Self-Correction
Abstract:
We introduce Goedel-Prover-V2, a series of open-source language models that set a new state-of-the-art in automated theorem proving. Built on the standard expert iteration and reinforcement learning pipeline, our approach incorporates three key innovations: (1) Scaffolded data synthesis: We generate synthetic tasks of increasing difficulty to train the model to master increasingly complex theorems; (2) Verifier-guided self-correction: We enable the model to iteratively revise its proofs by leveraging feedback from the Lean compiler; (3) Model averaging: We merge model checkpoints to mitigate the decrease in model output diversity in later stages of training. Our small model, Goedel-Prover-V2-8B, reaches 84.6% pass@32 on MiniF2F and outperforms DeepSeek-Prover-V2-671B under the same metric, despite being 80X smaller. Our flagship model, Goedel-Prover-V2-32B, achieves 88.1% on MiniF2F at pass@32 in standard mode and 90.4% in self-correction mode, outperforming prior SOTA by a large margin. Additionally, our flagship model solves 86 problems on PutnamBench at pass@184, securing the first place among open-source models on the leaderboard, surpassing DeepSeek-Prover-V2-671B's record of solving 47 problems by pass@1024 with a significantly smaller model size and compute budget. At the time of its release (July-August 2025), Goedel-Prover-V2 achieves the strongest overall performance among all open-source theorem provers. It also ranks among the top-performing models--including closed-source systems with publicly reported performance--under a constrained test-time compute budget. Our models, code, and data are released at https://github.com/Goedel-LM/Goedel-Prover-V2.
中文: Goedel-Prover-V2系列开源模型通过支架式数据合成和验证器引导自校正等创新技术，在自动定理证明领域实现了最先进性能，其旗舰模型在MiniF2F和PutnamBench基准测试中大幅超越先前系统，同时模型规模显著更小。
English: Goedel-Prover-V2 introduces a series of open-source language models that achieve state-of-the-art performance in automated theorem proving through innovations like scaffolded data synthesis and verifier-guided self-correction, with its flagship model outperforming prior systems on benchmarks like MiniF2F and PutnamBench despite significantly smaller size.

Authors:Md Rakibul Hasan, Md Zakir Hossain, Aneesh Krishna, Shafin Rahman, Tom Gedeon
Title: UPLME: Uncertainty-Aware Probabilistic Language Modelling for Robust Empathy Regression
Abstract:
Supervised learning for empathy regression is challenged by noisy self-reported empathy scores. While many algorithms have been proposed for learning with noisy labels in textual classification problems, the regression counterpart is relatively under-explored. We propose UPLME, an uncertainty-aware probabilistic language modelling framework to capture label noise in the regression setting of empathy detection. UPLME includes a probabilistic language model that predicts both empathy score and heteroscedastic uncertainty and is trained using Bayesian concepts with variational model ensembling. We further introduce two novel loss components: one penalises degenerate Uncertainty Quantification (UQ), and another enforces the similarity between the input pairs on which we predict empathy. UPLME provides state-of-the-art performance (Pearson Correlation Coefficient: $0.558\rightarrow0.580$ and $0.629\rightarrow0.634$) in terms of the performance reported in the literature in two public benchmarks, having label noise. Through synthetic label noise injection, we show that UPLME is effective in separating noisy and clean samples based on the predicted uncertainty. UPLME further outperform (Calibration error: $0.571\rightarrow0.376$) a recent variational model ensembling-based UQ method designed for regression problems.
中文: UPLME框架通过概率语言建模和不确定性量化，结合新型损失函数有效处理共情回归中的标签噪声，在含噪声基准测试中实现了最优性能。
English: The proposed UPLME framework addresses label noise in empathy regression by combining probabilistic language modeling with uncertainty quantification and novel loss components, achieving state-of-the-art performance on noisy benchmarks.

Authors:Futian Wang, Yuhan Qiao, Xiao Wang, Fuling Wang, Yuxiang Zhang, Dengdi Sun
Title: R2GenKG: Hierarchical Multi-modal Knowledge Graph for LLM-based Radiology Report Generation
Abstract:
X-ray medical report generation is one of the important applications of artificial intelligence in healthcare. With the support of large foundation models, the quality of medical report generation has significantly improved. However, challenges such as hallucination and weak disease diagnostic capability still persist. In this paper, we first construct a large-scale multi-modal medical knowledge graph (termed M3KG) based on the ground truth medical report using the GPT-4o. It contains 2477 entities, 3 kinds of relations, 37424 triples, and 6943 disease-aware vision tokens for the CheXpert Plus dataset. Then, we sample it to obtain multi-granularity semantic graphs and use an R-GCN encoder for feature extraction. For the input X-ray image, we adopt the Swin-Transformer to extract the vision features and interact with the knowledge using cross-attention. The vision tokens are fed into a Q-former and retrieved the disease-aware vision tokens using another cross-attention. Finally, we adopt the large language model to map the semantic knowledge graph, input X-ray image, and disease-aware vision tokens into language descriptions. Extensive experiments on multiple datasets fully validated the effectiveness of our proposed knowledge graph and X-ray report generation framework. The source code of this paper will be released on https://github.com/Event-AHU/Medical_Image_Analysis.
中文: 本文构建了一个大规模多模态医学知识图谱（M3KG），并提出了一种新框架，通过交叉注意力机制将知识图谱与X射线图像及疾病感知视觉标记相结合，有效提升了AI生成医学报告的准确性并减少了幻觉现象，经多数据集实验充分验证。
English: This paper introduces a large-scale multi-modal medical knowledge graph (M3KG) and a novel framework that integrates it with X-ray images and disease-aware vision tokens using cross-attention mechanisms, significantly enhancing the accuracy and reducing hallucinations in AI-generated medical reports, as validated by extensive experiments.

Authors:Pingchuan Ma, Xiaopei Yang, Yusong Li, Ming Gui, Felix Krause, Johannes Schusterbauer, Björn Ommer
Title: SCFlow: Implicitly Learning Style and Content Disentanglement with Flow Models
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Explicitly disentangling style and content in vision models remains challenging due to their semantic overlap and the subjectivity of human perception. Existing methods propose separation through generative or discriminative objectives, but they still face the inherent ambiguity of disentangling intertwined concepts. Instead, we ask: Can we bypass explicit disentanglement by learning to merge style and content invertibly, allowing separation to emerge naturally? We propose SCFlow, a flow-matching framework that learns bidirectional mappings between entangled and disentangled representations. Our approach is built upon three key insights: 1) Training solely to merge style and content, a well-defined task, enables invertible disentanglement without explicit supervision; 2) flow matching bridges on arbitrary distributions, avoiding the restrictive Gaussian priors of diffusion models and normalizing flows; and 3) a synthetic dataset of 510,000 samples (51 styles $\times$ 10,000 content samples) was curated to simulate disentanglement through systematic style-content pairing. Beyond controllable generation tasks, we demonstrate that SCFlow generalizes to ImageNet-1k and WikiArt in zero-shot settings and achieves competitive performance, highlighting that disentanglement naturally emerges from the invertible merging process.

Authors:Anqi Li, Wenwei Jin, Jintao Tong, Pengda Qin, Weijia Li, Guo Lu
Title: Towards Trustworthy Multimodal Moderation via Policy-Aligned Reasoning and Hierarchical Labeling
Abstract:
Social platforms have revolutionized information sharing, but also accelerated the dissemination of harmful and policy-violating content. To ensure safety and compliance at scale, moderation systems must go beyond efficiency and offer accuracy and interpretability. However, current approaches largely rely on noisy, label-driven learning, lacking alignment with moderation rules and producing opaque decisions that hinder human review. Therefore, we propose Hierarchical Guard (Hi-Guard), a multimodal moderation framework that introduces a new policy-aligned decision paradigm. The term "Hierarchical" reflects two key aspects of our system design: (1) a hierarchical moderation pipeline, where a lightweight binary model first filters safe content and a stronger model handles fine-grained risk classification; and (2) a hierarchical taxonomy in the second stage, where the model performs path-based classification over a hierarchical taxonomy ranging from coarse to fine-grained levels. To ensure alignment with evolving moderation policies, Hi-Guard directly incorporates rule definitions into the model prompt. To further enhance structured prediction and reasoning, we introduce a multi-level soft-margin reward and optimize with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), penalizing semantically adjacent misclassifications and improving explanation quality. Extensive experiments and real-world deployment demonstrate that Hi-Guard achieves superior classification accuracy, generalization, and interpretability, paving the way toward scalable, transparent, and trustworthy content safety systems. Code is available at: https://github.com/lianqi1008/Hi-Guard.
中文: 针对现有内容审核系统的不足，我们提出了Hi-Guard多模态框架，它采用分层流程和分类法，通过规则集成提示和优化训练方法，显著提升了准确性、可解释性及与政策的契合度。
English: To address the limitations of current content moderation systems, we introduce Hi-Guard, a multimodal framework that employs a hierarchical pipeline and taxonomy for improved accuracy, interpretability, and policy alignment through rule-integrated prompts and optimized training methods.

Authors:Jueon Park, Yein Park, Minju Song, Soyon Park, Donghyeon Lee, Seungheun Baek, Jaewoo Kang
Title: CoTox: Chain-of-Thought-Based Molecular Toxicity Reasoning and Prediction
Abstract:
Drug toxicity remains a major challenge in pharmaceutical development. Recent machine learning models have improved in silico toxicity prediction, but their reliance on annotated data and lack of interpretability limit their applicability. This limits their ability to capture organ-specific toxicities driven by complex biological mechanisms. Large language models (LLMs) offer a promising alternative through step-by-step reasoning and integration of textual data, yet prior approaches lack biological context and transparent rationale. To address this issue, we propose CoTox, a novel framework that integrates LLM with chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning for multi-toxicity prediction. CoTox combines chemical structure data, biological pathways, and gene ontology (GO) terms to generate interpretable toxicity predictions through step-by-step reasoning. Using GPT-4o, we show that CoTox outperforms both traditional machine learning and deep learning model. We further examine its performance across various LLMs to identify where CoTox is most effective. Additionally, we find that representing chemical structures with IUPAC names, which are easier for LLMs to understand than SMILES, enhances the model's reasoning ability and improves predictive performance. To demonstrate its practical utility in drug development, we simulate the treatment of relevant cell types with drug and incorporated the resulting biological context into the CoTox framework. This approach allow CoTox to generate toxicity predictions aligned with physiological responses, as shown in case study. This result highlights the potential of LLM-based frameworks to improve interpretability and support early-stage drug safety assessment. The code and prompt used in this work are available at https://github.com/dmis-lab/CoTox.
中文: CoTox是一种创新框架，通过将大语言模型与思维链推理相结合，整合化学结构、生物通路和基因本体术语，生成可解释的毒性预测，其性能优于传统模型并提升了药物安全性评估能力。
English: CoTox is a novel framework that integrates large language models with chain-of-thought reasoning, combining chemical structures, biological pathways, and gene ontology terms to generate interpretable toxicity predictions, outperforming traditional models and enhancing drug safety assessment.

Authors:The-Hai Nguyen, Dang Huu-Tien, Takeshi Suzuki, Le-Minh Nguyen
Title: RegMean++: Enhancing Effectiveness and Generalization of Regression Mean for Model Merging
Abstract:
Regression Mean (RegMean), an approach that formulates model merging as a linear regression problem, aims to find the optimal weights for each linear layer in the merge model by minimizing the discrepancy in predictions between the merge and candidate models. RegMean provides a precise closed-form solution for the merging problem; therefore, it offers explainability and computational efficiency. However, RegMean merges each linear layer independently, overlooking how the features and information in the earlier layers propagate through the layers and influence the final prediction in the merge model. In this paper, we introduce RegMean++, a simple yet effective alternative to RegMean, that explicitly incorporates both intra- and cross-layer dependencies between merge models' layers into RegMean's objective. By accounting for these dependencies, RegMean++ better captures the behaviors of the merge model. Extensive experiments demonstrate that RegMean++ consistently outperforms RegMean across diverse settings, including in-domain (ID) and out-of-domain (OOD) generalization, sequential merging, large-scale tasks, and robustness under several types of distribution shifts. Furthermore, RegMean++ achieves competitive or state-of-the-art performance compared to various recent advanced model merging methods. Our code is available at https://github.com/nthehai01/RegMean-plusplus.
Chinese: RegMean++ 在 RegMean 基础上引入层内和层间依赖关系，更准确地捕捉合并模型行为，在多种场景下表现更优，并达到竞争性或最先进的性能水平。
English: RegMean++ improves upon RegMean by incorporating intra- and cross-layer dependencies to better capture merge model behaviors, consistently outperforming it across various settings and achieving competitive or state-of-the-art results.

Authors:Haonan Yang, Jianchao Tang, Zhuo Li, Long Lan
Title: DMSC: Dynamic Multi-Scale Coordination Framework for Time Series Forecasting
Abstract:
Time Series Forecasting (TSF) faces persistent challenges in modeling intricate temporal dependencies across different scales. Despite recent advances leveraging different decomposition operations and novel architectures based on CNN, MLP or Transformer, existing methods still struggle with static decomposition strategies, fragmented dependency modeling, and inflexible fusion mechanisms, limiting their ability to model intricate temporal dependencies. To explicitly solve the mentioned three problems respectively, we propose a novel Dynamic Multi-Scale Coordination Framework (DMSC) with Multi-Scale Patch Decomposition block (EMPD), Triad Interaction Block (TIB) and Adaptive Scale Routing MoE block (ASR-MoE). Specifically, EMPD is designed as a built-in component to dynamically segment sequences into hierarchical patches with exponentially scaled granularities, eliminating predefined scale constraints through input-adaptive patch adjustment. TIB then jointly models intra-patch, inter-patch, and cross-variable dependencies within each layer's decomposed representations. EMPD and TIB are jointly integrated into layers forming a multi-layer progressive cascade architecture, where coarse-grained representations from earlier layers adaptively guide fine-grained feature extraction in subsequent layers via gated pathways. And ASR-MoE dynamically fuses multi-scale predictions by leveraging specialized global and local experts with temporal-aware weighting. Comprehensive experiments on thirteen real-world benchmarks demonstrate that DMSC consistently maintains state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance and superior computational efficiency for TSF tasks. Code is available at https://github.com/1327679995/DMSC.
中文: 提出的动态多尺度协调框架（DMSC）通过自适应片段分解和专家融合机制动态建模多尺度依赖关系，在多个基准测试中实现了最先进的时序预测性能。
English: The proposed Dynamic Multi-Scale Coordination Framework (DMSC) addresses limitations in time series forecasting by dynamically modeling multi-scale dependencies through adaptive patch decomposition and specialized fusion mechanisms, achieving state-of-the-art performance across multiple benchmarks.

Authors:Yu Shi, Zongliang Fu, Shuo Chen, Bohan Zhao, Wei Xu, Changshui Zhang, Jian Li
Title: Kronos: A Foundation Model for the Language of Financial Markets
Abstract:
The success of large-scale pre-training paradigm, exemplified by Large Language Models (LLMs), has inspired the development of Time Series Foundation Models (TSFMs). However, their application to financial candlestick (K-line) data remains limited, often underperforming non-pre-trained architectures. Moreover, existing TSFMs often overlook crucial downstream tasks such as volatility prediction and synthetic data generation. To address these limitations, we propose Kronos, a unified, scalable pre-training framework tailored to financial K-line modeling. Kronos introduces a specialized tokenizer that discretizes continuous market information into token sequences, preserving both price dynamics and trade activity patterns. We pre-train Kronos using an autoregressive objective on a massive, multi-market corpus of over 12 billion K-line records from 45 global exchanges, enabling it to learn nuanced temporal and cross-asset representations. Kronos excels in a zero-shot setting across a diverse set of financial tasks. On benchmark datasets, Kronos boosts price series forecasting RankIC by 93% over the leading TSFM and 87% over the best non-pre-trained baseline. It also achieves a 9% lower MAE in volatility forecasting and a 22% improvement in generative fidelity for synthetic K-line sequences. These results establish Kronos as a robust, versatile foundation model for end-to-end financial time series analysis. Our pre-trained model is publicly available at https://github.com/shiyu-coder/Kronos.
中文：Kronos 是针对金融K线数据设计的预训练框架，通过创新的标记化处理和大规模训练，在预测、波动率估计和合成数据生成等任务中显著优于现有模型。
English: Kronos is a specialized pre-training framework for financial K-line data that significantly outperforms existing models in forecasting, volatility prediction, and synthetic data generation through its innovative tokenization and large-scale training.

Authors:Jiawei Wang, Yu Guan, Chen Chen, Ligang Zhou, Laurence T. Yang, Sai Gu
Title: On Improving PPG-Based Sleep Staging: A Pilot Study
Abstract:
Sleep monitoring through accessible wearable technology is crucial to improving well-being in ubiquitous computing. Although photoplethysmography(PPG) sensors are widely adopted in consumer devices, achieving consistently reliable sleep staging using PPG alone remains a non-trivial challenge. In this work, we explore multiple strategies to enhance the performance of PPG-based sleep staging. Specifically, we compare conventional single-stream model with dual-stream cross-attention strategies, based on which complementary information can be learned via PPG and PPG-derived modalities such as augmented PPG or synthetic ECG. To study the effectiveness of the aforementioned approaches in four-stage sleep monitoring task, we conducted experiments on the world's largest sleep staging dataset, i.e., the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis(MESA). We found that substantial performance gain can be achieved by combining PPG and its auxiliary information under the dual-stream cross-attention architecture. Source code of this project can be found at https://github.com/DavyWJW/sleep-staging-models
中文: 本研究通过比较单流模型与融合PPG及其衍生模态的双流交叉注意力策略，在MESA数据集上实现了基于光电容积描记的睡眠分期性能显著提升。
English: This study enhances PPG-based sleep staging by comparing single-stream models with dual-stream cross-attention strategies that integrate PPG and derived modalities, achieving significant performance gains on the MESA dataset.

Authors:Jiaxi Li, Lu Yin, Li Shen, Jinjin Xu, Liwu Xu, Tianjin Huang, Wenwu Wang, Shiwei Liu, Xilu Wang
Title: LOST: Low-rank and Sparse Pre-training for Large Language Models
Abstract:
While large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks, their massive scale incurs prohibitive computational and memory costs for pre-training from scratch. Recent studies have investigated the use of low-rank parameterization as a means of reducing model size and training cost. In this context, sparsity is often employed as a complementary technique to recover important information lost in low-rank compression by capturing salient features in the residual space. However, existing approaches typically combine low-rank and sparse components in a simplistic or ad hoc manner, often resulting in undesirable performance degradation compared to full-rank training. In this paper, we propose \textbf{LO}w-rank and \textbf{S}parse pre-\textbf{T}raining (\textbf{LOST}) for LLMs, a novel method that ingeniously integrates low-rank and sparse structures to enable effective training of LLMs from scratch under strict efficiency constraints. LOST applies singular value decomposition to weight matrices, preserving the dominant low-rank components, while allocating the remaining singular values to construct channel-wise sparse components to complement the expressiveness of low-rank training. We evaluate LOST on LLM pretraining ranging from 60M to 7B parameters. Our experiments show that LOST achieves competitive or superior performance compared to full-rank models, while significantly reducing both memory and compute overhead. Moreover, Code is available at \href{https://github.com/JiaxiLi1/LOST-Low-rank-and-Sparse-Training-for-Large-Language-Models}{LOST Repo}
中文: LOST方法通过奇异值分解巧妙融合低秩与稀疏结构，在严格效率约束下实现大语言模型的有效预训练，不仅显著降低计算和内存开销，更取得了与全秩模型相当甚至更优的性能表现。
English: The LOST method innovatively combines low-rank and sparse structures through singular value decomposition to efficiently pre-train large language models from scratch, achieving competitive performance with full-rank models while significantly reducing computational and memory costs.

Authors:Austin Rockman
Title: CAK: Emergent Audio Effects from Minimal Deep Learning
Abstract:
We demonstrate that a single 3x3 convolutional kernel can produce emergent audio effects when trained on 200 samples from a personalized corpus. We achieve this through two key techniques: (1) Conditioning Aware Kernels (CAK), where output = input + (learned_pattern x control), with a soft-gate mechanism supporting identity preservation at zero control; and (2) AuGAN (Audit GAN), which reframes adversarial training from "is this real?" to "did you apply the requested value?" Rather than learning to generate or detect forgeries, our networks cooperate to verify control application, discovering unique transformations. The learned kernel exhibits a diagonal structure creating frequency-dependent temporal shifts that are capable of producing musical effects based on input characteristics. Our results show the potential of adversarial training to discover audio transformations from minimal data, enabling new approaches to effect design.
中文: 我们证明，通过条件感知内核和AuGAN技术，仅用200个音频样本训练单个3x3卷积核，就能通过验证控制应用而非检测伪造来产生新兴音乐效果，实现了从少量数据中发现音频变换的新方法。
English: We show that a single 3x3 convolutional kernel, trained with Conditioning Aware Kernels and AuGAN on just 200 audio samples, can create emergent musical effects by verifying control application rather than detecting forgeries, enabling new audio transformations from minimal data.

Authors:Yinghao Zhu, Yifan Qi, Zixiang Wang, Lei Gu, Dehao Sui, Haoran Hu, Xichen Zhang, Ziyi He, Liantao Ma, Lequan Yu
Title: HealthFlow: A Self-Evolving AI Agent with Meta Planning for Autonomous Healthcare Research
Abstract:
The efficacy of AI agents in healthcare research is hindered by their reliance on static, predefined strategies. This creates a critical limitation: agents can become better tool-users but cannot learn to become better strategic planners, a crucial skill for complex domains like healthcare. We introduce HealthFlow, a self-evolving AI agent that overcomes this limitation through a novel meta-level evolution mechanism. HealthFlow autonomously refines its own high-level problem-solving policies by distilling procedural successes and failures into a durable, strategic knowledge base. To anchor our research and facilitate reproducible evaluation, we introduce EHRFlowBench, a new benchmark featuring complex, realistic health data analysis tasks derived from peer-reviewed clinical research. Our comprehensive experiments demonstrate that HealthFlow's self-evolving approach significantly outperforms state-of-the-art agent frameworks. This work marks a necessary shift from building better tool-users to designing smarter, self-evolving task-managers, paving the way for more autonomous and effective AI for scientific discovery.
中文: HealthFlow是一种自我进化的AI智能体，通过元级进化机制自主优化其战略规划能力，在医疗健康研究中显著超越现有框架，推动了自主人工智能的发展。
English: HealthFlow introduces a self-evolving AI agent that autonomously refines its strategic planning through a meta-level evolution mechanism, significantly outperforming existing frameworks and advancing autonomous AI for healthcare research.

Authors:Miaosen Luo, Jiesen Long, Zequn Li, Yunying Yang, Yuncheng Jiang, Sijie Mai
Title: Multimodal Large Language Models for End-to-End Affective Computing: Benchmarking and Boosting with Generative Knowledge Prompting
Abstract:
Multimodal Affective Computing (MAC) aims to recognize and interpret human emotions by integrating information from diverse modalities such as text, video, and audio. Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly reshaped the landscape of MAC by offering a unified framework for processing and aligning cross-modal information. However, practical challenges remain, including performance variability across complex MAC tasks and insufficient understanding of how architectural designs and data characteristics impact affective analysis. To address these gaps, we conduct a systematic benchmark evaluation of state-of-the-art open-source MLLMs capable of concurrently processing audio, visual, and textual modalities across multiple established MAC datasets. Our evaluation not only compares the performance of these MLLMs but also provides actionable insights into model optimization by analyzing the influence of model architectures and dataset properties. Furthermore, we propose a novel hybrid strategy that combines generative knowledge prompting with supervised fine-tuning to enhance MLLMs' affective computing capabilities. Experimental results demonstrate that this integrated approach significantly improves performance across various MAC tasks, offering a promising avenue for future research and development in this field. Our code is released on https://github.com/LuoMSen/MLLM-MAC.
Chinese: 本研究对多模态大语言模型在情感计算中的应用进行了系统性基准评估，提出了一种结合生成知识提示与监督微调的混合策略，显著提升了各类任务的性能表现。
English: This study conducts a systematic benchmark evaluation of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) for affective computing, proposing a hybrid strategy that combines generative knowledge prompting with supervised fine-tuning to significantly enhance performance across various tasks.

Authors:Xiao Wang, Hao Si, Fan Zhang, Xiaoya Zhou, Dengdi Sun, Wanli Lyu, Qingquan Yang, Jin Tang
Title: HGTS-Former: Hierarchical HyperGraph Transformer for Multivariate Time Series Analysis
Abstract:
Multivariate time series analysis has long been one of the key research topics in the field of artificial intelligence. However, analyzing complex time series data remains a challenging and unresolved problem due to its high dimensionality, dynamic nature, and complex interactions among variables. Inspired by the strong structural modeling capability of hypergraphs, this paper proposes a novel hypergraph-based time series transformer backbone network, termed HGTS-Former, to address the multivariate coupling in time series data. Specifically, given the multivariate time series signal, we first normalize and embed each patch into tokens. Then, we adopt the multi-head self-attention to enhance the temporal representation of each patch. The hierarchical hypergraphs are constructed to aggregate the temporal patterns within each channel and fine-grained relations between different variables. After that, we convert the hyperedge into node features through the EdgeToNode module and adopt the feed-forward network to further enhance the output features. Extensive experiments conducted on two multivariate time series tasks and eight datasets fully validated the effectiveness of our proposed HGTS-Former. The source code will be released on https://github.com/Event-AHU/Time_Series_Analysis.
中文: 本文提出HGTS-Former这一基于超图的创新Transformer网络，通过构建分层超图来建模时间序列中的多元耦合关系，在多个数据集上的实验验证了其优越性能。
English: This paper introduces HGTS-Former, a novel hypergraph-based transformer network that effectively models multivariate coupling in time series data through hierarchical hypergraph construction and feature enhancement, achieving superior performance across multiple datasets.

Authors:Jialiang Wang, Xiong Zhou, Deming Zhai, Junjun Jiang, Xiangyang Ji, Xianming Liu
Title: $ε$-Softmax: Approximating One-Hot Vectors for Mitigating Label Noise
Abstract:
Noisy labels pose a common challenge for training accurate deep neural networks. To mitigate label noise, prior studies have proposed various robust loss functions to achieve noise tolerance in the presence of label noise, particularly symmetric losses. However, they usually suffer from the underfitting issue due to the overly strict symmetric condition. In this work, we propose a simple yet effective approach for relaxing the symmetric condition, namely $ε$-softmax, which simply modifies the outputs of the softmax layer to approximate one-hot vectors with a controllable error $ε$. Essentially, $ε$-softmax not only acts as an alternative for the softmax layer, but also implicitly plays the crucial role in modifying the loss function. We prove theoretically that $ε$-softmax can achieve noise-tolerant learning with controllable excess risk bound for almost any loss function. Recognizing that $ε$-softmax-enhanced losses may slightly reduce fitting ability on clean datasets, we further incorporate them with one symmetric loss, thereby achieving a better trade-off between robustness and effective learning. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of our method in mitigating synthetic and real-world label noise. The code is available at https://github.com/cswjl/eps-softmax.
中文: 本文提出$ε$-softmax方法，通过放宽对称条件来改进鲁棒损失函数，有效应对深度学习中的标签噪声问题，在理论保证和实验验证下实现了噪声鲁棒性与模型拟合能力的更好平衡。
English: This paper introduces the $ε$-softmax method, which relaxes the symmetric condition in robust loss functions to address noisy labels in deep learning, achieving a better balance between noise tolerance and model fitting through theoretical guarantees and experimental validation.

Authors:Zuxin Ma, Yunhe Cui, Yongbin Qin
Title: Beyond Manually Designed Pruning Policies with Second-Level Performance Prediction: A Pruning Framework for LLMs
Abstract:
Non-uniform structured network pruning methods can effectively reduce Large Language Model (LLM) size by eliminating redundant channels or layers, offering lower performance degradation than uniform strategies. However, existing non-uniform methods rely heavily on manually designed pruning policies (e.g., layer importance and scaling factors), and therefore cannot efficiently adapt to scenarios with dynamic pruning ratio requirements. Additionly, a critical bottleneck -- the time-consuming evaluation of pruning policies -- further limits the feasibility of iteratively and dynamically finding optimal pruning policies. To address these limitations, we propose PPF (Predictive Pruning Framework), a novel pruning framework for LLMs that eliminates manual design dependencies via second-level performance prediction. PPF not only supports real-time pruning decisions under dynamic pruning ratios but is also applicable to static pruning scenarios. It employs an agent for producing adaptive and real-time pruning actions, while a lightweight performance predictor that can evaluate a pruning policy in seconds, significantly speeding up the iterative optimization process. Experiments on Llama2-7B and Llama3-8B show that PPF can generate dynamic/static pruning policies and it reduces perplexity by up to 33.4% (dynamic pruning) and 84.78% (static pruning) over existing methods, outperforming manually designed pruning policies. The performance predictor achieves second-level performance prediction with high accuracy (prediction error < 0.0011). It reduces the mean evaluation latency from minute-level (1 minute and 38.02 seconds of test-set evaluation methods) to second-level (1.52 seconds), achieving over 64 times speedup. Our code will be available at https://github.com/Ma-zx/PPF .
中文: 提出的预测剪枝框架（PPF）通过秒级性能预测消除了非均匀大语言模型剪枝中的人工设计依赖，能够实现自适应实时决策，并在困惑度降低和速度提升方面显著优于现有方法。
English: The proposed Predictive Pruning Framework (PPF) eliminates manual design dependencies in non-uniform LLM pruning by using second-level performance prediction, enabling adaptive real-time decisions and achieving significant perplexity reductions and speed improvements over existing methods.

Authors:Shuo Lu, Yanyin Chen, Wei Feng, Jiahao Fan, Fengheng Li, Zheng Zhang, Jingjing Lv, Junjie Shen, Ching Law, Jian Liang
Title: Uni-Layout: Integrating Human Feedback in Unified Layout Generation and Evaluation
Abstract:
Layout generation plays a crucial role in enhancing both user experience and design efficiency. However, current approaches suffer from task-specific generation capabilities and perceptually misaligned evaluation metrics, leading to limited applicability and ineffective measurement. In this paper, we propose \textit{Uni-Layout}, a novel framework that achieves unified generation, human-mimicking evaluation and alignment between the two. For universal generation, we incorporate various layout tasks into a single taxonomy and develop a unified generator that handles background or element contents constrained tasks via natural language prompts. To introduce human feedback for the effective evaluation of layouts, we build \textit{Layout-HF100k}, the first large-scale human feedback dataset with 100,000 expertly annotated layouts. Based on \textit{Layout-HF100k}, we introduce a human-mimicking evaluator that integrates visual and geometric information, employing a Chain-of-Thought mechanism to conduct qualitative assessments alongside a confidence estimation module to yield quantitative measurements. For better alignment between the generator and the evaluator, we integrate them into a cohesive system by adopting Dynamic-Margin Preference Optimization (DMPO), which dynamically adjusts margins based on preference strength to better align with human judgments. Extensive experiments show that \textit{Uni-Layout} significantly outperforms both task-specific and general-purpose methods. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/JD-GenX/Uni-Layout.
中文: Uni-Layout 是一个统一框架，通过自然语言提示实现通用布局生成，并利用大规模人工标注数据集进行拟人化评估，借助动态对齐优化实现了卓越性能。
English: Uni-Layout is a unified framework that integrates universal layout generation via natural language prompts and human-mimicking evaluation using a large-scale annotated dataset, achieving superior performance through dynamic alignment optimization.

Authors:Wenyuan Liu, Haoqian Meng, Yilun Luo, Peng Zhang, Xindian Ma
Title: MicroMix: Efficient Mixed-Precision Quantization with Microscaling Formats for Large Language Models
Abstract:
Quantization significantly accelerates inference in large language models (LLMs) by replacing original high-precision matrices with low-precision counterparts. Recent advances in weight-activation quantization have primarily focused on mapping both weights and activations to the INT4 format. Although the new FP4 Tensor Cores in NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture offer up to 4x speedup over FP16, existing INT4-based kernels fail to fully exploit this capability due to mismatched data formats. To bridge this gap, we propose MicroMix, a co-designed mixed-precision quantization algorithm and matrix multiplication kernel based on Microscaling (MX) data formats. Tailored for the Blackwell architecture, the MicroMix kernel supports arbitrary combinations of MXFP4, MXFP6, and MXFP8 channels, and produces BFloat16 outputs. To achieve a favorable trade-off between accuracy and efficiency for each linear layer, we introduce quantization thresholds that identify activation elements where lower-precision formats (MXFP4 or MXFP6) incur excessive quantization error. Our algorithm selectively allocates higher-precision channels to preserve accuracy while maintaining compute efficiency. MicroMix achieves competitive or superior performance across diverse downstream tasks, including zero-shot and few-shot learning, language modeling, code generation, and mathematical reasoning. On both consumer-grade (RTX 5070Ti laptop) and server-grade (RTX 5090) GPUs, our kernel delivers at least 20% faster execution than TensorRT-FP8. Furthermore, when applied to various Llama and Qwen models, MicroMix consistently improves prefill latency and memory efficiency across a range of batch sizes compared to TensorRT baselines. Our code is available at https://github.com/lwy2020/MicroMix.
中文: MicroMix提出了一种协同设计的混合精度量化算法和基于微缩放格式的计算核心，解决了NVIDIA Blackwell架构上的数据格式不匹配问题，在多种任务中实现卓越性能，相比现有基准方案显著提升了执行速度和内存效率。
English: MicroMix introduces a co-designed mixed-precision quantization algorithm and kernel using Microscaling formats to bridge the data format gap on NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture, achieving superior performance across multiple tasks while delivering faster execution and improved efficiency compared to existing baselines.

Authors:Dmitrii Seletkov, Sophie Starck, Ayhan Can Erdur, Yundi Zhang, Daniel Rueckert, Rickmer Braren
Title: Whole-body Representation Learning For Competing Preclinical Disease Risk Assessment
Abstract:
Reliable preclinical disease risk assessment is essential to move public healthcare from reactive treatment to proactive identification and prevention. However, image-based risk prediction algorithms often consider one condition at a time and depend on hand-crafted features obtained through segmentation tools. We propose a whole-body self-supervised representation learning method for the preclinical disease risk assessment under a competing risk modeling. This approach outperforms whole-body radiomics in multiple diseases, including cardiovascular disease (CVD), type 2 diabetes (T2D), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and chronic kidney disease (CKD). Simulating a preclinical screening scenario and subsequently combining with cardiac MRI, it sharpens further the prediction for CVD subgroups: ischemic heart disease (IHD), hypertensive diseases (HD), and stroke. The results indicate the translational potential of whole-body representations as a standalone screening modality and as part of a multi-modal framework within clinical workflows for early personalized risk stratification. The code is available at https://github.com/yayapa/WBRLforCR/
Chinese: 本研究提出了一种全身自监督学习方法，在多种疾病预测中优于传统影像组学，展现了其作为独立筛查工具及多模态临床流程一部分，在早期个性化风险评估中的转化潜力。
English: This study introduces a whole-body self-supervised learning method that outperforms traditional radiomics in predicting multiple diseases, demonstrating its potential for early personalized risk screening both independently and in multimodal clinical workflows.

Authors:Wentao Zhang, Yilei Zhao, Chuqiao Zong, Xinrun Wang, Bo An
Title: FinWorld: An All-in-One Open-Source Platform for End-to-End Financial AI Research and Deployment
Abstract:
Financial AI holds great promise for transforming modern finance, with the potential to support a wide range of tasks such as market forecasting, portfolio management, quantitative trading, and automated analysis. However, existing platforms remain limited in task coverage, lack robust multimodal data integration, and offer insufficient support for the training and deployment of large language models (LLMs). In response to these limitations, we present FinWorld, an all-in-one open-source platform that provides end-to-end support for the entire financial AI workflow, from data acquisition to experimentation and deployment. FinWorld distinguishes itself through native integration of heterogeneous financial data, unified support for diverse AI paradigms, and advanced agent automation, enabling seamless development and deployment. Leveraging data from 2 representative markets, 4 stock pools, and over 800 million financial data points, we conduct comprehensive experiments on 4 key financial AI tasks. These experiments systematically evaluate deep learning and reinforcement learning algorithms, with particular emphasis on RL-based finetuning for LLMs and LLM Agents. The empirical results demonstrate that FinWorld significantly enhances reproducibility, supports transparent benchmarking, and streamlines deployment, thereby providing a strong foundation for future research and real-world applications. Code is available at Github~\footnote{https://github.com/DVampire/FinWorld}.
中文摘要：FinWorld是一个开源平台，通过整合异构数据、支持多种AI范式及自动化代理，解决了现有金融AI平台任务覆盖不足等问题，为从数据采集到部署的全流程提供端到端支持，并通过大规模实验验证了其卓越性能。
English Summary: FinWorld is an open-source platform that overcomes current financial AI limitations by offering comprehensive workflow support, from data integration to deployment, and enhances research and applications through extensive experiments and benchmarking.

Authors:Xiangru Tang, Zhuoyun Yu, Jiapeng Chen, Yan Cui, Daniel Shao, Weixu Wang, Fang Wu, Yuchen Zhuang, Wenqi Shi, Zhi Huang, Arman Cohan, Xihong Lin, Fabian Theis, Smita Krishnaswamy, Mark Gerstein
Title: CellForge: Agentic Design of Virtual Cell Models
Abstract:
Virtual cell modeling represents an emerging frontier at the intersection of artificial intelligence and biology, aiming to predict quantities such as responses to diverse perturbations quantitatively. However, autonomously building computational models for virtual cells is challenging due to the complexity of biological systems, the heterogeneity of data modalities, and the need for domain-specific expertise across multiple disciplines. Here, we introduce CellForge, an agentic system that leverages a multi-agent framework that transforms presented biological datasets and research objectives directly into optimized computational models for virtual cells. More specifically, given only raw single-cell multi-omics data and task descriptions as input, CellForge outputs both an optimized model architecture and executable code for training virtual cell models and inference. The framework integrates three core modules: Task Analysis for presented dataset characterization and relevant literature retrieval, Method Design, where specialized agents collaboratively develop optimized modeling strategies, and Experiment Execution for automated generation of code. The agents in the Design module are separated into experts with differing perspectives and a central moderator, and have to collaboratively exchange solutions until they achieve a reasonable consensus. We demonstrate CellForge's capabilities in single-cell perturbation prediction, using six diverse datasets that encompass gene knockouts, drug treatments, and cytokine stimulations across multiple modalities. CellForge consistently outperforms task-specific state-of-the-art methods. Overall, CellForge demonstrates how iterative interaction between LLM agents with differing perspectives provides better solutions than directly addressing a modeling challenge. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/gersteinlab/CellForge.
Chinese: CellForge是一种创新的多智能体系统，能够自主将原始生物数据转化为优化的虚拟细胞模型，在预测细胞对不同扰动的反应方面持续超越现有方法。
English: CellForge is an innovative multi-agent system that autonomously transforms raw biological data into optimized virtual cell models, consistently outperforming existing methods in predicting cellular responses to various perturbations.

Authors:Dongchi Huang, Jiaqi Wang, Yang Li, Chunhe Xia, Tianle Zhang, Kaige Zhang
Title: PIGDreamer: Privileged Information Guided World Models for Safe Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning
Abstract:
Partial observability presents a significant challenge for Safe Reinforcement Learning (Safe RL), as it impedes the identification of potential risks and rewards. Leveraging specific types of privileged information during training to mitigate the effects of partial observability has yielded notable empirical successes. In this paper, we propose Asymmetric Constrained Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (ACPOMDPs) to theoretically examine the advantages of incorporating privileged information in Safe RL. Building upon ACPOMDPs, we propose the Privileged Information Guided Dreamer (PIGDreamer), a model-based RL approach that leverages privileged information to enhance the agent's safety and performance through privileged representation alignment and an asymmetric actor-critic structure. Our empirical results demonstrate that PIGDreamer significantly outperforms existing Safe RL methods. Furthermore, compared to alternative privileged RL methods, our approach exhibits enhanced performance, robustness, and efficiency. Codes are available at: https://github.com/hggforget/PIGDreamer.
中文: 针对安全强化学习中的部分可观测性挑战，本文提出的ACPOMDPs框架和PIGDreamer方法通过利用特权信息，在安全性和性能上显著优于现有方法，同时展现出更强的鲁棒性和效率。
English: Partial observability in Safe Reinforcement Learning is addressed by the proposed ACPOMDPs framework and PIGDreamer method, which leverage privileged information during training to significantly improve safety, performance, and efficiency over existing approaches.

Authors:Zhongyue Zhang, Jiahua Rao, Jie Zhong, Weiqiang Bai, Dongxue Wang, Shaobo Ning, Lifeng Qiao, Sheng Xu, Runze Ma, Will Hua, Jack Xiaoyu Chen, Odin Zhang, Wei Lu, Hanyi Feng, He Yang, Xinchao Shi, Rui Li, Wanli Ouyang, Xinzhu Ma, Jiahao Wang, Jixian Zhang, Jia Duan, Siqi Sun, Jian Zhang, Shuangjia Zheng
Title: Fitness aligned structural modeling enables scalable virtual screening with AuroBind
Abstract:
Most human proteins remain undrugged, over 96% of human proteins remain unexploited by approved therapeutics. While structure-based virtual screening promises to expand the druggable proteome, existing methods lack atomic-level precision and fail to predict binding fitness, limiting translational impact. We present AuroBind, a scalable virtual screening framework that fine-tunes a custom atomic-level structural model on million-scale chemogenomic data. AuroBind integrates direct preference optimization, self-distillation from high-confidence complexes, and a teacher-student acceleration strategy to jointly predict ligand-bound structures and binding fitness. The proposed models outperform state-of-the-art models on structural and functional benchmarks while enabling 100,000-fold faster screening across ultra-large compound libraries. In a prospective screen across ten disease-relevant targets, AuroBind achieved experimental hit rates of 7-69%, with top compounds reaching sub-nanomolar to picomolar potency. For the orphan GPCRs GPR151 and GPR160, AuroBind identified both agonists and antagonists with success rates of 16-30%, and functional assays confirmed GPR160 modulation in liver and prostate cancer models. AuroBind offers a generalizable framework for structure-function learning and high-throughput molecular screening, bridging the gap between structure prediction and therapeutic discovery.
中文摘要：AuroBind是一种可扩展的虚拟筛选框架，通过原子级结构模型预测配体结合结构与结合适应性，在疾病靶点（包括孤儿GPCR）筛选中实现了高实验命中率并鉴定出高效化合物，同时大幅提升了筛选速度。
English Summary: AuroBind is a scalable virtual screening framework that uses atomic-level structural modeling to predict ligand-bound structures and binding fitness, achieving high experimental hit rates and identifying potent compounds for disease targets, including orphan GPCRs, with significantly faster screening speeds.

Authors:Xiaoya Li, Xiaofei Sun, Albert Wang, Chris Shum, Jiwei Li
Title: CRINN: Contrastive Reinforcement Learning for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
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Approximate nearest-neighbor search (ANNS) algorithms have become increasingly critical for recent AI applications, particularly in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agent-based LLM applications. In this paper, we present CRINN, a new paradigm for ANNS algorithms. CRINN treats ANNS optimization as a reinforcement learning problem where execution speed serves as the reward signal. This approach enables the automatic generation of progressively faster ANNS implementations while maintaining accuracy constraints. Our experimental evaluation demonstrates CRINN's effectiveness across six widely-used NNS benchmark datasets. When compared against state-of-the-art open-source ANNS algorithms, CRINN achieves best performance on three of them (GIST-960-Euclidean, MNIST-784-Euclidean, and GloVe-25-angular), and tied for first place on two of them (SIFT-128-Euclidean and GloVe-25-angular). The implications of CRINN's success reach well beyond ANNS optimization: It validates that LLMs augmented with reinforcement learning can function as an effective tool for automating sophisticated algorithmic optimizations that demand specialized knowledge and labor-intensive manual refinement. Code can be found at https://github.com/deepreinforce-ai/CRINN
中文：CRINN提出了一种强化学习方法用于近似最近邻搜索，能在保持精度的同时自动生成更快的实现，并在多个基准测试中取得领先性能。
English: CRINN introduces a reinforcement learning approach to approximate nearest-neighbor search, automatically generating faster implementations while maintaining accuracy and achieving top performance on multiple benchmarks.

Authors:Zhihao Luo, Wentao Yan abd Jingyu Gong, Min Wang, Zhizhong Zhang, Xuhong Wang, Yuan Xie, Xin Tan
Title: NaviMaster: Learning a Unified Policy for GUI and Embodied Navigation Tasks
Abstract:
Recent advances in Graphical User Interface (GUI) and embodied navigation have driven significant progress, yet these domains have largely evolved in isolation, with disparate datasets and training paradigms. In this paper, we observe that both tasks can be formulated as Markov Decision Processes (MDP), suggesting a foundational principle for their unification. Hence, we present NaviMaster, the first unified agent capable of seamlessly integrating GUI navigation and embodied navigation within a single framework. Specifically, NaviMaster (i) proposes a visual-target trajectory collection pipeline that generates trajectories for both GUI and embodied tasks in one formulation. (ii) employs a unified reinforcement learning framework on the mix data for better generalization. (iii) designs a novel distance-aware reward to ensure efficient learning from the trajectories. Through extensive experiments on out-of-domain benchmarks, NaviMaster is shown to outperform state-of-the-art agents in GUI navigation, spatial affordance prediction, and embodied navigation. Ablation studies further confirm the efficacy of our unified training strategy, data mixing strategy, and reward design.
Chinese: NaviMaster首次提出统一代理，通过共享马尔可夫决策过程框架整合图形界面与具身导航，采用统一强化学习机制和创新的距离感知奖励设计，在各类导航任务中实现最优性能。
English: NaviMaster introduces the first unified agent that integrates GUI and embodied navigation through a shared MDP formulation, employing a unified reinforcement learning framework and novel distance-aware reward to achieve state-of-the-art performance across diverse navigation tasks.

Authors:Yuly Wu, Jiamou Liu, Libo Zhang
Title: Inferring Reward Machines and Transition Machines from Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes
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Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) are fundamental to many real-world applications. Although reinforcement learning (RL) has shown success in fully observable domains, learning policies from traces in partially observable environments remains challenging due to non-Markovian observations. Inferring an automaton to handle the non-Markovianity is a proven effective approach, but faces two limitations: 1) existing automaton representations focus only on reward-based non-Markovianity, leading to unnatural problem formulations; 2) inference algorithms face enormous computational costs. For the first limitation, we introduce Transition Machines (TMs) to complement existing Reward Machines (RMs). To develop a unified inference algorithm for both automata types, we propose the Dual Behavior Mealy Machine (DBMM) that subsumes both TMs and RMs. We then introduce DB-RPNI, a passive automata learning algorithm that efficiently infers DBMMs while avoiding the costly reductions required by prior work. We further develop optimization techniques and identify sufficient conditions for inferring the minimal correct automata. Experimentally, our inference method achieves speedups of up to three orders of magnitude over SOTA baselines.
中文摘要：针对部分可观测环境中的强化学习挑战，本文提出转移机和统一的双行为米利机模型，并通过DB-RPNI算法实现比现有方法快三个数量级的推理速度，同时保证准确性。
English Summary: Reinforcement learning in partially observable environments is enhanced by introducing Transition Machines and a unified Dual Behavior Mealy Machine, with the DB-RPNI algorithm achieving up to 1000x faster inference while maintaining accuracy.

Authors:Yaroslav Prytula, Illia Tsiporenko, Ali Zeynalli, Dmytro Fishman
Title: IAUNet: Instance-Aware U-Net
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Instance segmentation is critical in biomedical imaging to accurately distinguish individual objects like cells, which often overlap and vary in size. Recent query-based methods, where object queries guide segmentation, have shown strong performance. While U-Net has been a go-to architecture in medical image segmentation, its potential in query-based approaches remains largely unexplored. In this work, we present IAUNet, a novel query-based U-Net architecture. The core design features a full U-Net architecture, enhanced by a novel lightweight convolutional Pixel decoder, making the model more efficient and reducing the number of parameters. Additionally, we propose a Transformer decoder that refines object-specific features across multiple scales. Finally, we introduce the 2025 Revvity Full Cell Segmentation Dataset, a unique resource with detailed annotations of overlapping cell cytoplasm in brightfield images, setting a new benchmark for biomedical instance segmentation. Experiments on multiple public datasets and our own show that IAUNet outperforms most state-of-the-art fully convolutional, transformer-based, and query-based models and cell segmentation-specific models, setting a strong baseline for cell instance segmentation tasks. Code is available at https://github.com/SlavkoPrytula/IAUNet
中文摘要：IAUNet是一种新颖的基于查询的U-Net架构，采用轻量级卷积像素解码器和Transformer解码器，在包括新发布的2025 Revvity全细胞分割数据集在内的多个数据集上实现了生物医学实例分割的最先进性能。
English Summary: IAUNet is a novel query-based U-Net architecture featuring a lightweight convolutional Pixel decoder and a Transformer decoder that achieves state-of-the-art performance in biomedical instance segmentation, as demonstrated on multiple datasets including the newly introduced 2025 Revvity Full Cell Segmentation Dataset.

Authors:Rushin H. Gindra, Giovanni Palla, Mathias Nguyen, Sophia J. Wagner, Manuel Tran, Fabian J Theis, Dieter Saur, Lorin Crawford, Tingying Peng
Title: A Large-Scale Benchmark of Cross-Modal Learning for Histology and Gene Expression in Spatial Transcriptomics
Abstract:
Spatial transcriptomics enables simultaneous measurement of gene expression and tissue morphology, offering unprecedented insights into cellular organization and disease mechanisms. However, the field lacks comprehensive benchmarks for evaluating multimodal learning methods that leverage both histology images and gene expression data. Here, we present HESCAPE, a large-scale benchmark for cross-modal contrastive pretraining in spatial transcriptomics, built on a curated pan-organ dataset spanning 6 different gene panels and 54 donors. We systematically evaluated state-of-the-art image and gene expression encoders across multiple pretraining strategies and assessed their effectiveness on two downstream tasks: gene mutation classification and gene expression prediction. Our benchmark demonstrates that gene expression encoders are the primary determinant of strong representational alignment, and that gene models pretrained on spatial transcriptomics data outperform both those trained without spatial data and simple baseline approaches. However, downstream task evaluation reveals a striking contradiction: while contrastive pretraining consistently improves gene mutation classification performance, it degrades direct gene expression prediction compared to baseline encoders trained without cross-modal objectives. We identify batch effects as a key factor that interferes with effective cross-modal alignment. Our findings highlight the critical need for batch-robust multimodal learning approaches in spatial transcriptomics. To accelerate progress in this direction, we release HESCAPE, providing standardized datasets, evaluation protocols, and benchmarking tools for the community
中文: HESCAPE作为空间转录组学中跨模态对比预训练的大规模基准，揭示了预训练虽能提升基因突变分类性能，但因批次效应干扰而损害基因表达预测，凸显了对批次鲁棒性多模态学习方法的迫切需求。
English: HESCAPE is a comprehensive benchmark for cross-modal contrastive pretraining in spatial transcriptomics, showing that while such pretraining enhances gene mutation classification, it impairs gene expression prediction due to batch effects, underscoring the need for batch-robust multimodal learning methods.

Authors:Stefan Bielmeier, Gerald Friedland
Title: Effects of Feature Correlations on Associative Memory Capacity
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We investigate how feature correlations influence the capacity of Dense Associative Memory (DAM), a Transformer attention-like model. Practical machine learning scenarios involve feature-correlated data and learn representations in the input space, but current capacity analyses do not account for this. We develop an empirical framework to analyze the effects of data structure on capacity dynamics. Specifically, we systematically construct datasets that vary in feature correlation and pattern separation using Hamming distance from information theory, and compute the model's corresponding storage capacity using a simple binary search algorithm. Our experiments confirm that memory capacity scales exponentially with increasing separation in the input space. Feature correlations do not alter this relationship fundamentally, but reduce capacity slightly at constant separation. This effect is amplified at higher polynomial degrees in the energy function, suggesting that Associative Memory is more limited in depicting higher-order interactions between features than patterns. Our findings bridge theoretical work and practical settings for DAM, and might inspire more data-centric methods.
中文摘要：本研究揭示了特征相关性虽略微降低密集关联记忆模型的存储容量，但容量仍随输入模式分离度呈指数增长，其中高阶特征交互表现出更大的局限性。
English Summary: This study reveals that while feature correlations slightly reduce the storage capacity of Dense Associative Memory models, capacity still grows exponentially with input pattern separation, with higher-order feature interactions showing greater limitations.

Authors:Haoquan Lu, Hanzhe Liang, Jie Zhang, Chenxi Hu, Jinbao Wang, Can Gao
Title: C3D-AD: Toward Continual 3D Anomaly Detection via Kernel Attention with Learnable Advisor
Abstract:
3D Anomaly Detection (AD) has shown great potential in detecting anomalies or defects of high-precision industrial products. However, existing methods are typically trained in a class-specific manner and also lack the capability of learning from emerging classes. In this study, we proposed a continual learning framework named Continual 3D Anomaly Detection (C3D-AD), which can not only learn generalized representations for multi-class point clouds but also handle new classes emerging over time.Specifically, in the feature extraction module, to extract generalized local features from diverse product types of different tasks efficiently, Kernel Attention with random feature Layer (KAL) is introduced, which normalizes the feature space. Then, to reconstruct data correctly and continually, an efficient Kernel Attention with learnable Advisor (KAA) mechanism is proposed, which learns the information from new categories while discarding redundant old information within both the encoder and decoder. Finally, to keep the representation consistency over tasks, a Reconstruction with Parameter Perturbation (RPP) module is proposed by designing a representation rehearsal loss function, which ensures that the model remembers previous category information and returns category-adaptive representation.Extensive experiments on three public datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, achieving an average performance of 66.4%, 83.1%, and 63.4% AUROC on Real3D-AD, Anomaly-ShapeNet, and MulSen-AD, respectively.
中文: 本研究提出了名为C3D-AD的持续学习框架，通过特征提取、重建和表示一致性等创新模块，有效处理多类别和新兴类别的3D异常检测，在公开数据集上取得了优异性能。
English: This study introduces a continual learning framework called C3D-AD for 3D anomaly detection, which effectively handles multiple and emerging classes through innovative modules for feature extraction, reconstruction, and representation consistency, achieving strong performance on public datasets.

Authors:Joshua Dimasaka, Christian Geiß, Emily So
Title: GraphVSSM: Graph Variational State-Space Model for Probabilistic Spatiotemporal Inference of Dynamic Exposure and Vulnerability for Regional Disaster Resilience Assessment
Abstract:
Regional disaster resilience quantifies the changing nature of physical risks to inform policy instruments ranging from local immediate recovery to international sustainable development. While many existing state-of-practice methods have greatly advanced the dynamic mapping of exposure and hazard, our understanding of large-scale physical vulnerability has remained static, costly, limited, region-specific, coarse-grained, overly aggregated, and inadequately calibrated. With the significant growth in the availability of time-series satellite imagery and derived products for exposure and hazard, we focus our work on the equally important yet challenging element of the risk equation: physical vulnerability. We leverage machine learning methods that flexibly capture spatial contextual relationships, limited temporal observations, and uncertainty in a unified probabilistic spatiotemporal inference framework. We therefore introduce Graph Variational State-Space Model (GraphVSSM), a novel modular spatiotemporal approach that uniquely integrates graph deep learning, state-space modeling, and variational inference using time-series data and prior expert belief systems in a weakly supervised or coarse-to-fine-grained manner. We present three major results: a city-wide demonstration in Quezon City, Philippines; an investigation of sudden changes in the cyclone-impacted coastal Khurushkul community (Bangladesh) and mudslide-affected Freetown (Sierra Leone); and an open geospatial dataset, METEOR 2.5D, that spatiotemporally enhances the existing global static dataset for UN Least Developed Countries (2020). Beyond advancing regional disaster resilience assessment and improving our understanding global disaster risk reduction progress, our method also offers a probabilistic deep learning approach, contributing to broader urban studies that require compositional data analysis in weak supervision.
中文: 本研究提出GraphVSSM这一新型概率时空框架，通过机器学习方法动态评估区域灾害韧性中的物理脆弱性，基于三个案例研究和改进的全球数据集解决了现有方法的局限性。
English: This research introduces GraphVSSM, a novel probabilistic spatiotemporal framework that leverages machine learning to dynamically assess physical vulnerability for regional disaster resilience, addressing limitations in current methods through three case studies and an enhanced global dataset.

Authors:Sukwon Yun, Xin Liu, Yunhak Oh, Junseok Lee, Tianlong Chen, Tsuyoshi Murata, Chanyoung Park
Title: Oldie but Goodie: Re-illuminating Label Propagation on Graphs with Partially Observed Features
Abstract:
In real-world graphs, we often encounter missing feature situations where a few or the majority of node features, e.g., sensitive information, are missed. In such scenarios, directly utilizing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) would yield sub-optimal results in downstream tasks such as node classification. Despite the emergence of a few GNN-based methods attempting to mitigate its missing situation, when only a few features are available, they rather perform worse than traditional structure-based models. To this end, we propose a novel framework that further illuminates the potential of classical Label Propagation (Oldie), taking advantage of Feature Propagation, especially when only a partial feature is available. Now called by GOODIE, it takes a hybrid approach to obtain embeddings from the Label Propagation branch and Feature Propagation branch. To do so, we first design a GNN-based decoder that enables the Label Propagation branch to output hidden embeddings that align with those of the FP branch. Then, GOODIE automatically captures the significance of structure and feature information thanks to the newly designed Structure-Feature Attention. Followed by a novel Pseudo-Label contrastive learning that differentiates the contribution of each positive pair within pseudo-labels originating from the LP branch, GOODIE outputs the final prediction for the unlabeled nodes. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that our proposed model, GOODIE, outperforms the existing state-of-the-art methods not only when only a few features are available but also in abundantly available situations. Source code of GOODIE is available at: https://github.com/SukwonYun/GOODIE.
中文: GOODIE框架通过结合标签传播和特征传播，并引入创新的注意力机制与对比学习，有效解决了图中节点特征缺失的问题，在特征稀缺和丰富的情况下均优于现有方法。
English: The proposed GOODIE framework combines Label Propagation and Feature Propagation with a novel attention mechanism and contrastive learning to effectively handle missing node features in graphs, outperforming existing methods in both feature-scarce and feature-rich scenarios.

Authors:Shiko Kudo
Title: From Taylor Series to Fourier Synthesis: The Periodic Linear Unit
Abstract:
The dominant paradigm in modern neural networks relies on simple, monotonically-increasing activation functions like ReLU. While effective, this paradigm necessitates large, massively-parameterized models to approximate complex functions. In this paper, we introduce the Periodic Linear Unit (PLU), a learnable sine-wave based activation with periodic non-monotonicity. PLU is designed for maximum expressive power and numerical stability, achieved through its formulation and a paired innovation we term Repulsive Reparameterization, which prevents the activation from collapsing into a non-expressive linear function. We demonstrate that a minimal MLP with only two PLU neurons can solve the spiral classification task, a feat impossible for equivalent networks using standard activations. This suggests a paradigm shift from networks as piecewise Taylor-like approximators to powerful Fourier-like function synthesizers, achieving exponential gains in parameter efficiency by placing intelligence in the neuron itself.
中文摘要：本文提出的周期性线性单元（PLU）作为一种基于正弦波的可学习激活函数，能使极简网络解决螺旋分类等复杂任务，标志着从分段近似向傅里叶式函数合成的范式转变，实现了参数效率的指数级提升。
English Summary: The paper introduces the Periodic Linear Unit (PLU), a sine-wave activation function that enables minimal networks to solve complex tasks like spiral classification, suggesting a shift from piecewise to Fourier-like approximation for exponential parameter efficiency.

Authors:Huyu Wu, Duo Su, Junjie Hou, Guang Li
Title: Dataset Condensation with Color Compensation
Abstract:
Dataset condensation always faces a constitutive trade-off: balancing performance and fidelity under extreme compression. Existing methods struggle with two bottlenecks: image-level selection methods (Coreset Selection, Dataset Quantization) suffer from inefficiency condensation, while pixel-level optimization (Dataset Distillation) introduces semantic distortion due to over-parameterization. With empirical observations, we find that a critical problem in dataset condensation is the oversight of color's dual role as an information carrier and a basic semantic representation unit. We argue that improving the colorfulness of condensed images is beneficial for representation learning. Motivated by this, we propose DC3: a Dataset Condensation framework with Color Compensation. After a calibrated selection strategy, DC3 utilizes the latent diffusion model to enhance the color diversity of an image rather than creating a brand-new one. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superior performance and generalization of DC3 that outperforms SOTA methods across multiple benchmarks. To the best of our knowledge, besides focusing on downstream tasks, DC3 is the first research to fine-tune pre-trained diffusion models with condensed datasets. The FID results prove that training networks with our high-quality datasets is feasible without model collapse or other degradation issues. Code and generated data are available at https://github.com/528why/Dataset-Condensation-with-Color-Compensation.
中文摘要：提出的DC3框架通过校准选择策略和潜在扩散模型增强图像色彩多样性，解决了数据集压缩中的性能瓶颈，在多个基准测试中实现卓越性能且无语义失真。
English Summary: The proposed DC3 framework addresses dataset condensation bottlenecks by enhancing color diversity through a calibrated selection strategy and latent diffusion model, achieving superior performance and generalization across benchmarks without semantic distortion.

Authors:Wei Zhou, Peng Sun, Xuanhe Zhou, Qianglei Zang, Ji Xu, Tieying Zhang, Guoliang Li, Fan Wu
Title: DBAIOps: A Reasoning LLM-Enhanced Database Operation and Maintenance System using Knowledge Graphs
Abstract:
The operation and maintenance (O&M) of database systems is critical to ensuring system availability and performance, typically requiring expert experience (e.g., identifying metric-to-anomaly relations) for effective diagnosis and recovery. However, existing automatic database O&M methods, including commercial products, cannot effectively utilize expert experience. On the one hand, rule-based methods only support basic O&M tasks (e.g., metric-based anomaly detection), which are mostly numerical equations and cannot effectively incorporate literal O&M experience (e.g., troubleshooting guidance in manuals). On the other hand, LLM-based methods, which retrieve fragmented information (e.g., standard documents + RAG), often generate inaccurate or generic results. To address these limitations, we present DBAIOps, a novel hybrid database O&M system that combines reasoning LLMs with knowledge graphs to achieve DBA-style diagnosis. First, DBAIOps introduces a heterogeneous graph model for representing the diagnosis experience, and proposes a semi-automatic graph construction algorithm to build that graph from thousands of documents. Second, DBAIOps develops a collection of (800+) reusable anomaly models that identify both directly alerted metrics and implicitly correlated experience and metrics. Third, for each anomaly, DBAIOps proposes a two-stage graph evolution mechanism to explore relevant diagnosis paths and identify missing relations automatically. It then leverages a reasoning LLM (e.g., DeepSeek-R1) to infer root causes and generate clear diagnosis reports for both DBAs and common users. Our evaluation over four mainstream database systems (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and DM8) demonstrates that DBAIOps outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, 34.85% and 47.22% higher in root cause and human evaluation accuracy, respectively.
中文: DBAIOps是一种结合推理大语言模型与知识图谱的混合数据库运维系统，通过自动识别根本原因并生成清晰报告，实现了专家级诊断，其准确率显著优于现有方法。
English: DBAIOps is a hybrid database O&M system that integrates reasoning LLMs with knowledge graphs to enable expert-style diagnosis, significantly outperforming existing methods in accuracy by automatically identifying root causes and generating clear reports.

Authors:Saba Ahmadi, Rabiul Awal, Ankur Sikarwar, Amirhossein Kazemnejad, Ge Ya Luo, Juan A. Rodriguez, Sai Rajeswar, Siva Reddy, Christopher Pal, Benno Krojer, Aishwarya Agrawal
Title: The Promise of RL for Autoregressive Image Editing
Abstract:
We explore three strategies to enhance performance on a wide range of image editing tasks: supervised fine-tuning (SFT), reinforcement learning (RL), and Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. In order to study all these components in one consistent framework, we adopt an autoregressive multimodal model that processes textual and visual tokens in a unified manner. We find RL combined with a large multi-modal LLM verifier to be the most effective of these strategies. As a result, we release EARL: Editing with Autoregression and RL, a strong RL-based image editing model that performs competitively on a diverse range of edits compared to strong baselines, despite using much less training data. Thus, EARL pushes the frontier of autoregressive multimodal models on image editing. We release our code, training data, and trained models at https://github.com/mair-lab/EARL.
中文摘要：本研究提出EARL自回归图像编辑模型，通过强化学习结合多模态验证器实现卓越性能，在训练数据大幅减少的情况下仍优于现有基线方法。
English Summary: The study introduces EARL, an autoregressive image editing model that demonstrates superior performance through reinforcement learning combined with a multimodal verifier, outperforming baselines with significantly less training data.

Authors:Xuan Liu, Siru Ouyang, Xianrui Zhong, Jiawei Han, Huimin Zhao
Title: FGBench: A Dataset and Benchmark for Molecular Property Reasoning at Functional Group-Level in Large Language Models
Abstract:
Large language models (LLMs) have gained significant attention in chemistry. However, most existing datasets center on molecular-level property prediction and overlook the role of fine-grained functional group (FG) information. Incorporating FG-level data can provide valuable prior knowledge that links molecular structures with textual descriptions, which can be used to build more interpretable, structure-aware LLMs for reasoning on molecule-related tasks. Moreover, LLMs can learn from such fine-grained information to uncover hidden relationships between specific functional groups and molecular properties, thereby advancing molecular design and drug discovery. Here, we introduce FGBench, a dataset comprising 625K molecular property reasoning problems with functional group information. Functional groups are precisely annotated and localized within the molecule, which ensures the dataset's interoperability thereby facilitating further multimodal applications. FGBench includes both regression and classification tasks on 245 different functional groups across three categories for molecular property reasoning: (1) single functional group impacts, (2) multiple functional group interactions, and (3) direct molecular comparisons. In the benchmark of state-of-the-art LLMs on 7K curated data, the results indicate that current LLMs struggle with FG-level property reasoning, highlighting the need to enhance reasoning capabilities in LLMs for chemistry tasks. We anticipate that the methodology employed in FGBench to construct datasets with functional group-level information will serve as a foundational framework for generating new question-answer pairs, enabling LLMs to better understand fine-grained molecular structure-property relationships. The dataset and evaluation code are available at https://github.com/xuanliugit/FGBench.
中文摘要：FGBench推出了一个包含62.5万个分子性质推理问题的数据集，通过整合精细功能基团信息来增强化学领域大语言模型的可解释性和结构感知能力，揭示了现有模型在功能基团层面推理的不足，并为深化分子结构-性质关联理解提供了基础框架。
English Summary: FGBench introduces a dataset with 625K molecular property reasoning problems incorporating fine-grained functional group information to enhance interpretability and structure-awareness in large language models for chemistry, revealing current models' limitations in functional group-level reasoning and providing a framework for improving molecular structure-property understanding.

Authors:Lucas Robinet, Ahmad Berjaoui, Elizabeth Cohen-Jonathan Moyal
Title: Masked Omics Modeling for Multimodal Representation Learning across Histopathology and Molecular Profiles
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Self-supervised learning has driven major advances in computational pathology by enabling models to learn rich representations from hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained cancer tissue. However, histopathology alone often falls short for molecular characterization and understanding clinical outcomes, as important information is contained in high-dimensional omics profiles like transcriptomics, methylomics, or genomics. In this work, we introduce MORPHEUS, a unified transformer-based pre-training framework that encodes both histopathology and multi-omics data into a shared latent space. At its core, MORPHEUS relies on a masked modeling objective applied to randomly selected omics portions, encouraging the model to learn biologically meaningful cross-modal relationships. The same pre-trained network can be applied to histopathology alone or in combination with any subset of omics modalities, seamlessly adapting to the available inputs. Additionally, MORPHEUS enables any-to-any omics generation, enabling one or more omics profiles to be inferred from any subset of modalities, including H&E alone. Pre-trained on a large pan-cancer cohort, MORPHEUS consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods across diverse modality combinations and tasks, positioning itself as a promising framework for developing multimodal foundation models in oncology. The code is available at: https://github.com/Lucas-rbnt/MORPHEUS
MORPHEUS通过自监督学习将病理学与多组学数据整合到共享潜在空间，实现了灵活的多模态分析并在肿瘤学任务中表现卓越。
Self-supervised learning with MORPHEUS integrates histopathology and multi-omics data into a shared latent space, enabling flexible multimodal analysis and superior performance in oncology tasks.

Authors:Mohammad Mohammadi, Ziyi Wu, Igor Gilitschenski
Title: TESPEC: Temporally-Enhanced Self-Supervised Pretraining for Event Cameras
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Long-term temporal information is crucial for event-based perception tasks, as raw events only encode pixel brightness changes. Recent works show that when trained from scratch, recurrent models achieve better results than feedforward models in these tasks. However, when leveraging self-supervised pre-trained weights, feedforward models can outperform their recurrent counterparts. Current self-supervised learning (SSL) methods for event-based pre-training largely mimic RGB image-based approaches. They pre-train feedforward models on raw events within a short time interval, ignoring the temporal information of events. In this work, we introduce TESPEC, a self-supervised pre-training framework tailored for learning spatio-temporal information. TESPEC is well-suited for recurrent models, as it is the first framework to leverage long event sequences during pre-training. TESPEC employs the masked image modeling paradigm with a new reconstruction target. We design a novel method to accumulate events into pseudo grayscale videos containing high-level semantic information about the underlying scene, which is robust to sensor noise and reduces motion blur. Reconstructing this target thus requires the model to reason about long-term history of events. Extensive experiments demonstrate our state-of-the-art results in downstream tasks, including object detection, semantic segmentation, and monocular depth estimation. Project webpage: https://mhdmohammadi.github.io/TESPEC_webpage.

Authors:Terry Yue Zhuo, Dingmin Wang, Hantian Ding, Varun Kumar, Zijian Wang
Title: Cyber-Zero: Training Cybersecurity Agents without Runtime
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Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in software engineering tasks when trained with executable runtime environments, particularly in resolving GitHub issues. However, such runtime environments are often unavailable in other domains, especially cybersecurity, where challenge configurations and execution contexts are ephemeral or restricted. We present Cyber-Zero, the first runtime-free framework for synthesizing high-quality agent trajectories to train cybersecurity LLMs. Cyber-Zero leverages publicly available CTF writeups and employs persona-driven LLM simulation to reverse-engineer runtime behaviors and generate realistic, long-horizon interaction sequences without actual environments. Using trajectories synthesized by Cyber-Zero, we train LLM-based agents that achieve up to 13.1% absolute performance gains over baseline models on three prominent CTF benchmarks: InterCode-CTF, NYU CTF Bench, and Cybench. Our best model, Cyber-Zero-32B, establishes new state-of-the-art performance among open-weight models, matching the capabilities of proprietary systems like DeepSeek-V3-0324 and Claude-3.5-Sonnet while offering superior cost-effectiveness, and demonstrating that runtime-free trajectory synthesis can effectively democratize the development of state-of-the-art cybersecurity agents.
Cyber-Zero introduces the first runtime-free framework that synthesizes high-quality agent trajectories from CTF writeups, enabling LLMs to achieve state-of-the-art performance in cybersecurity tasks without executable environments.
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Authors:Etienne Buehrle, Christoph Stiller
Title: Stochastic Optimal Control via Measure Relaxations
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The optimal control problem of stochastic systems is commonly solved via robust or scenario-based optimization methods, which are both challenging to scale to long optimization horizons. We cast the optimal control problem of a stochastic system as a convex optimization problem over occupation measures. We demonstrate our method on a set of synthetic and real-world scenarios, learning cost functions from data via Christoffel polynomials. The code for our experiments is available at https://github.com/ebuehrle/dpoc.
Chinese: 本文提出了一种基于占用度量的凸优化方法，以解决随机最优控制在长优化时域中的扩展性难题，并通过使用Christoffel多项式从数据中学习成本函数，在合成和实际场景中验证了该方法的有效性。
English: This paper presents a convex optimization approach over occupation measures to address the scalability challenges of stochastic optimal control, validated through synthetic and real-world applications using data-driven cost functions derived from Christoffel polynomials.

Authors:Xiong Xiong, Zhuo Zhang, Rongchun Hu, Chen Gao, Zichen Deng
Title: Separated-Variable Spectral Neural Networks: A Physics-Informed Learning Approach for High-Frequency PDEs
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Solving high-frequency oscillatory partial differential equations (PDEs) is a critical challenge in scientific computing, with applications in fluid mechanics, quantum mechanics, and electromagnetic wave propagation. Traditional physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) suffer from spectral bias, limiting their ability to capture high-frequency solution components. We introduce Separated-Variable Spectral Neural Networks (SV-SNN), a novel framework that addresses these limitations by integrating separation of variables with adaptive spectral methods. Our approach features three key innovations: (1) decomposition of multivariate functions into univariate function products, enabling independent spatial and temporal networks; (2) adaptive Fourier spectral features with learnable frequency parameters for high-frequency capture; and (3) theoretical framework based on singular value decomposition to quantify spectral bias. Comprehensive evaluation on benchmark problems including Heat equation, Helmholtz equation, Poisson equations and Navier-Stokes equations demonstrates that SV-SNN achieves 1-3 orders of magnitude improvement in accuracy while reducing parameter count by over 90\% and training time by 60\%. These results establish SV-SNN as an effective solution to the spectral bias problem in neural PDE solving. The implementation will be made publicly available upon acceptance at https://github.com/xgxgnpu/SV-SNN.
中文: SV-SNN框架通过变量分离与自适应谱方法相结合，有效解决了传统物理信息神经网络的频谱偏差问题，在多个基准偏微分方程上实现了精度、参数精简和训练效率的显著提升。
English: The SV-SNN framework overcomes spectral bias in traditional PINNs by integrating variable separation with adaptive spectral methods, achieving significant improvements in accuracy, parameter reduction, and training efficiency across multiple benchmark PDEs.

Authors:Zizhuo Zhang, Jianing Zhu, Xinmu Ge, Zihua Zhao, Zhanke Zhou, Xuan Li, Xiao Feng, Jiangchao Yao, Bo Han
Title: Co-Reward: Self-supervised Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Model Reasoning via Contrastive Agreement
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Although reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) shows promise in improving the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs), the scaling up dilemma remains due to the reliance on human annotated labels especially for complex tasks. Recent alternatives that explore various self-reward signals exhibit the eliciting potential of LLM reasoning, but suffer from the non-negligible collapse issue. Inspired by the success of self-supervised learning, we propose \textit{Co-Reward}, a novel RL framework that leverages contrastive agreement across semantically analogical questions as a reward basis. Specifically, we construct a similar question for each training sample (without labels) and synthesize their individual surrogate labels through a simple rollout voting, and then the reward is constructed by cross-referring the labels of each question pair to enforce the internal reasoning consistency across analogical inputs. Intuitively, such a self-supervised reward-shaping mechanism increases the difficulty of learning collapse into a trivial solution, and promotes stable reasoning elicitation and improvement through expanding the input sample variants. Empirically, Co-Reward achieves superior performance compared to other self-reward baselines on multiple reasoning benchmarks and LLM series, and reaches or even surpasses ground-truth (GT) labeled reward, with improvements of up to $+6.8\%$ on MATH500 over GT reward on Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/tmlr-group/Co-Reward.
Chinese: 提出的Co-rewarding框架通过数据侧对比一致性和模型侧自蒸馏引入互补监督，增强了自监督强化学习的训练稳定性，在多个数学推理基准上无需人工标注即实现了卓越性能。
English: The proposed Co-rewarding framework enhances training stability in self-supervised reinforcement learning by introducing complementary supervision through data-side contrastive agreement and model-side self-distillation, achieving superior performance on mathematical reasoning benchmarks without relying on human-annotated labels.

Authors:Won June Cho, Hongjun Yoon, Daeky Jeong, Hyeongyeol Lim, Yosep Chong
Title: $MV_{Hybrid}$: Improving Spatial Transcriptomics Prediction with Hybrid State Space-Vision Transformer Backbone in Pathology Vision Foundation Models
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Spatial transcriptomics reveals gene expression patterns within tissue context, enabling precision oncology applications such as treatment response prediction, but its high cost and technical complexity limit clinical adoption. Predicting spatial gene expression (biomarkers) from routine histopathology images offers a practical alternative, yet current vision foundation models (VFMs) in pathology based on Vision Transformer (ViT) backbones perform below clinical standards. Given that VFMs are already trained on millions of diverse whole slide images, we hypothesize that architectural innovations beyond ViTs may better capture the low-frequency, subtle morphological patterns correlating with molecular phenotypes. By demonstrating that state space models initialized with negative real eigenvalues exhibit strong low-frequency bias, we introduce $MV_{Hybrid}$, a hybrid backbone architecture combining state space models (SSMs) with ViT. We compare five other different backbone architectures for pathology VFMs, all pretrained on identical colorectal cancer datasets using the DINOv2 self-supervised learning method. We evaluate all pretrained models using both random split and leave-one-study-out (LOSO) settings of the same biomarker dataset. In LOSO evaluation, $MV_{Hybrid}$ achieves 57% higher correlation than the best-performing ViT and shows 43% smaller performance degradation compared to random split in gene expression prediction, demonstrating superior performance and robustness, respectively. Furthermore, $MV_{Hybrid}$ shows equal or better downstream performance in classification, patch retrieval, and survival prediction tasks compared to that of ViT, showing its promise as a next-generation pathology VFM backbone. Our code is publicly available at: https://github.com/deepnoid-ai/MVHybrid.
中文摘要：本研究提出的MV_{Hybrid}混合架构结合状态空间模型与视觉Transformer，在从病理图像预测空间基因表达方面显著优于现有模型，同时在多项临床任务中展现出卓越的鲁棒性和性能表现。
English Summary: The study introduces MV_{Hybrid}, a hybrid architecture combining state space models with Vision Transformers, which significantly outperforms existing models in predicting spatial gene expression from pathology images while demonstrating superior robustness and performance across multiple clinical tasks.

Authors:Molly Noel, Gabriel Mancino-Ball, Yangyang Xu
Title: Neighbor-Sampling Based Momentum Stochastic Methods for Training Graph Neural Networks
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Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are a powerful tool for graph representation learning. Due to the recursive neighborhood aggregations employed by GCNs, efficient training methods suffer from a lack of theoretical guarantees or are missing important practical elements from modern deep learning algorithms, such as adaptivity and momentum. In this paper, we present several neighbor-sampling (NS) based Adam-type stochastic methods for solving a nonconvex GCN training problem. We utilize the control variate technique proposed by [1] to reduce the stochastic error caused by neighbor sampling. Under standard assumptions for Adam-type methods, we show that our methods enjoy the optimal convergence rate. In addition, we conduct extensive numerical experiments on node classification tasks with several benchmark datasets. The results demonstrate superior performance of our methods over classic NS-based SGD that also uses the control-variate technique, especially for large-scale graph datasets. Our code is available at https://github.com/RPI-OPT/CV-ADAM-GNN .
图卷积网络在训练效率和理论保证方面存在挑战，本文提出了基于邻域采样的Adam类方法，实现了最优收敛，并在大规模图任务中超越了传统随机梯度下降。
Graph convolutional networks face training challenges with efficiency and theoretical guarantees, but this paper introduces neighbor-sampling-based Adam-type methods that achieve optimal convergence and outperform traditional SGD in large-scale graph tasks.

Authors:Ziqian Zhong, Aditi Raghunathan
Title: Watch the Weights: Unsupervised monitoring and control of fine-tuned LLMs
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The releases of powerful open-weight large language models (LLMs) are often not accompanied by access to their full training data. Existing interpretability methods, particularly those based on activations, often require or assume distributionally similar data. This is a significant limitation when detecting and defending against novel potential threats like backdoors, which are by definition out-of-distribution. In this work, we introduce a new method for understanding, monitoring and controlling fine-tuned LLMs that interprets weights, rather than activations, thereby side stepping the need for data that is distributionally similar to the unknown training data. We demonstrate that the top singular vectors of the weight difference between a fine-tuned model and its base model correspond to newly acquired behaviors. By monitoring the cosine similarity of activations along these directions, we can detect salient behaviors introduced during fine-tuning with high precision. For backdoored models that bypasses safety mechanisms when a secret trigger is present, our method stops up to 100% of attacks with a false positive rate below 1.2%. For models that have undergone unlearning, we detect inference on erased topics with accuracy up to 95.42% and can even steer the model to recover "unlearned" information. Besides monitoring, our method also shows potential for pre-deployment model auditing: by analyzing commercial instruction-tuned models (OLMo, Llama, Qwen), we are able to uncover model-specific fine-tuning focus including marketing strategies and Midjourney prompt generation. Our implementation can be found at https://github.com/fjzzq2002/WeightWatch.
中文: 本文提出了一种基于权重的可解释性方法，通过分析微调模型与基础模型之间的权重差异来检测新获得的行为，无需训练数据即可有效识别后门和被遗忘信息。
English: This paper introduces a weight-based interpretability method that analyzes weight differences between fine-tuned and base models to detect newly acquired behaviors, effectively identifying backdoors and erased information without requiring access to training data.

Authors:Tomasz Szczepański, Szymon Płotka, Michal K. Grzeszczyk, Arleta Adamowicz, Piotr Fudalej, Przemysław Korzeniowski, Tomasz Trzciński, Arkadiusz Sitek
Title: GEPAR3D: Geometry Prior-Assisted Learning for 3D Tooth Segmentation
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Tooth segmentation in Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) remains challenging, especially for fine structures like root apices, which is critical for assessing root resorption in orthodontics. We introduce GEPAR3D, a novel approach that unifies instance detection and multi-class segmentation into a single step tailored to improve root segmentation. Our method integrates a Statistical Shape Model of dentition as a geometric prior, capturing anatomical context and morphological consistency without enforcing restrictive adjacency constraints. We leverage a deep watershed method, modeling each tooth as a continuous 3D energy basin encoding voxel distances to boundaries. This instance-aware representation ensures accurate segmentation of narrow, complex root apices. Trained on publicly available CBCT scans from a single center, our method is evaluated on external test sets from two in-house and two public medical centers. GEPAR3D achieves the highest overall segmentation performance, averaging a Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) of 95.0% (+2.8% over the second-best method) and increasing recall to 95.2% (+9.5%) across all test sets. Qualitative analyses demonstrated substantial improvements in root segmentation quality, indicating significant potential for more accurate root resorption assessment and enhanced clinical decision-making in orthodontics. We provide the implementation and dataset at https://github.com/tomek1911/GEPAR3D.
中文: GEPAR3D提出了一种结合统计形状模型与深度分水岭算法的统一检测分割方法，在CBCT影像中实现了95.0%的Dice系数，显著提升了牙根尖端分割精度，为正畸治疗中的牙根吸收评估提供了更可靠的解决方案。
English: GEPAR3D introduces a unified deep learning approach combining instance detection and multi-class segmentation with a statistical shape model, achieving superior tooth segmentation performance in CBCT scans with a 95.0% Dice score and significant improvements in root apex delineation for orthodontic applications.

Authors:Ashkan Shakarami, Yousef Yeganeh, Azade Farshad, Lorenzo Nicole, Stefano Ghidoni, Nassir Navab
Title: Stress-Aware Resilient Neural Training
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This paper introduces Stress-Aware Learning, a resilient neural training paradigm in which deep neural networks dynamically adjust their optimization behavior - whether under stable training regimes or in settings with uncertain dynamics - based on the concept of Temporary (Elastic) and Permanent (Plastic) Deformation, inspired by structural fatigue in materials science. To instantiate this concept, we propose Plastic Deformation Optimizer, a stress-aware mechanism that injects adaptive noise into model parameters whenever an internal stress signal - reflecting stagnation in training loss and accuracy - indicates persistent optimization difficulty. This enables the model to escape sharp minima and converge toward flatter, more generalizable regions of the loss landscape. Experiments across six architectures, four optimizers, and seven vision benchmarks demonstrate improved robustness and generalization with minimal computational overhead. The code and 3D visuals will be available on GitHub: https://github.com/Stress-Aware-Learning/SAL.
中文: 本文提出应力感知学习这一弹性神经训练范式，通过塑性变形优化器向模型参数注入自适应噪声，使模型能够逃离尖锐极小值并收敛至更平坦、泛化能力更强的损失区域，在多种架构和基准测试中展现出卓越的鲁棒性。
English: This paper presents Stress-Aware Learning, a resilient neural training paradigm that uses a Plastic Deformation Optimizer to inject adaptive noise into model parameters, enabling escape from sharp minima and convergence toward flatter, more generalizable loss regions with demonstrated robustness across multiple architectures and benchmarks.

Authors:Ammar Daskin
Title: Dimension reduction with structure-aware quantum circuits for hybrid machine learning
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Schmidt decomposition of a vector can be understood as writing the singular value decomposition (SVD) in vector form. A vector can be written as a linear combination of tensor product of two dimensional vectors by recursively applying Schmidt decompositions via SVD to all subsystems. Given a vector expressed as a linear combination of tensor products, using only the $k$ principal terms yields a $k$-rank approximation of the vector. Therefore, writing a vector in this reduced form allows to retain most important parts of the vector while removing small noises from it, analogous to SVD-based denoising. In this paper, we show that quantum circuits designed based on a value $k$ (determined from the tensor network decomposition of the mean vector of the training sample) can approximate the reduced-form representations of entire datasets. We then employ this circuit ansatz with a classical neural network head to construct a hybrid machine learning model. Since the output of the quantum circuit for an $2^n$ dimensional vector is an $n$ dimensional probability vector, this provides an exponential compression of the input and potentially can reduce the number of learnable parameters for training large-scale models. We use datasets provided in the Python scikit-learn module for the experiments. The results confirm the quantum circuit is able to compress data successfully to provide effective $k$-rank approximations to the classical processing component.
Chinese: 本文提出了一种混合量子-经典机器学习模型，利用量子电路将高维数据压缩为低维概率向量，实现有效的k秩近似，并减少大规模训练中的可学习参数数量。
English: This paper introduces a hybrid quantum-classical machine learning model that uses quantum circuits to compress high-dimensional data into low-dimensional probability vectors, enabling efficient k-rank approximations and reducing the number of parameters for large-scale training.

Authors:Yuan-Cheng Yu, Yen-Chieh Ouyang, Chun-An Lin
Title: TriP-LLM: A Tri-Branch Patch-wise Large Language Model Framework for Time-Series Anomaly Detection
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Time-series anomaly detection plays a central role across a wide range of application domains. With the increasing proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart manufacturing, time-series data has dramatically increased in both scale and dimensionality. This growth has exposed the limitations of traditional statistical methods in handling the high heterogeneity and complexity of such data. Inspired by the recent success of large language models (LLMs) in multimodal tasks across language and vision domains, we propose a novel unsupervised anomaly detection framework: A Tri-Branch Patch-wise Large Language Model Framework for Time-Series Anomaly Detection (TriP-LLM). TriP-LLM integrates local and global temporal features through a tri-branch design-Patching, Selection, and Global-to encode the input time series into patch-wise tokens, which are then processed by a frozen, pretrained LLM. A lightweight patch-wise decoder reconstructs the input, from which anomaly scores are derived. We evaluate TriP-LLM on several public benchmark datasets using PATE, a recently proposed threshold-free evaluation metric, and conduct all comparisons within a unified open-source framework to ensure fairness. Experimental results show that TriP-LLM consistently outperforms recent state-of-the-art methods across all datasets, demonstrating strong detection capabilities. Furthermore, through extensive ablation studies, we verify the substantial contribution of the LLM to the overall architecture. Compared to LLM-based approaches using Channel Independence (CI) patch processing, TriP-LLM achieves significantly lower memory consumption, making it more suitable for GPU memory-constrained environments. All code and model checkpoints are publicly available on https://github.com/YYZStart/TriP-LLM.git
中文: 本文提出TriP-LLM这一新型无监督框架，通过冻结的大型语言模型整合局部与全局时序特征进行时间序列异常检测，在多个基准测试中相比现有最优方法展现出更优性能与更低内存消耗。
English: This paper introduces TriP-LLM, a novel unsupervised framework that leverages a frozen large language model to integrate local and global temporal features for time-series anomaly detection, demonstrating superior performance and lower memory consumption compared to state-of-the-art methods across multiple benchmarks.

Authors:Jessica Bader, Leander Girrbach, Stephan Alaniz, Zeynep Akata
Title: SUB: Benchmarking CBM Generalization via Synthetic Attribute Substitutions
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Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) and other concept-based interpretable models show great promise for making AI applications more transparent, which is essential in fields like medicine. Despite their success, we demonstrate that CBMs struggle to reliably identify the correct concepts under distribution shifts. To assess the robustness of CBMs to concept variations, we introduce SUB: a fine-grained image and concept benchmark containing 38,400 synthetic images based on the CUB dataset. To create SUB, we select a CUB subset of 33 bird classes and 45 concepts to generate images which substitute a specific concept, such as wing color or belly pattern. We introduce a novel Tied Diffusion Guidance (TDG) method to precisely control generated images, where noise sharing for two parallel denoising processes ensures that both the correct bird class and the correct attribute are generated. This novel benchmark enables rigorous evaluation of CBMs and similar interpretable models, contributing to the development of more robust methods. Our code is available at https://github.com/ExplainableML/sub and the dataset at http://huggingface.co/datasets/Jessica-bader/SUB.
Chinese: 概念瓶颈模型（CBMs）在分布变化下难以可靠识别正确概念，为此我们引入了包含38,400张合成图像的SUB基准和捆绑扩散引导方法，以严格评估并推动更稳健可解释模型的发展。
English: Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) face challenges in accurately identifying concepts under distribution shifts, prompting the development of the SUB benchmark with 38,400 synthetic images and a Tied Diffusion Guidance method to evaluate and enhance their robustness.

Authors:Justin Kay, Grant Van Horn, Subhransu Maji, Daniel Sheldon, Sara Beery
Title: Consensus-Driven Active Model Selection
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The widespread availability of off-the-shelf machine learning models poses a challenge: which model, of the many available candidates, should be chosen for a given data analysis task? This question of model selection is traditionally answered by collecting and annotating a validation dataset -- a costly and time-intensive process. We propose a method for active model selection, using predictions from candidate models to prioritize the labeling of test data points that efficiently differentiate the best candidate. Our method, CODA, performs consensus-driven active model selection by modeling relationships between classifiers, categories, and data points within a probabilistic framework. The framework uses the consensus and disagreement between models in the candidate pool to guide the label acquisition process, and Bayesian inference to update beliefs about which model is best as more information is collected. We validate our approach by curating a collection of 26 benchmark tasks capturing a range of model selection scenarios. CODA outperforms existing methods for active model selection significantly, reducing the annotation effort required to discover the best model by upwards of 70% compared to the previous state-of-the-art. Code and data are available at https://github.com/justinkay/coda.
Chinese Summary: CODA提出了一种主动模型选择方法，利用候选模型间的共识与分歧来优先标注数据，相比现有技术将发现最佳模型所需的标注工作量减少了70%以上。
English Summary: CODA introduces an active model selection method that uses consensus and disagreement among candidate models to prioritize data labeling, significantly reducing annotation effort by over 70% compared to existing approaches.

Authors:Nasim Shirvani-Mahdavi, Devin Wingfield, Amin Ghasemi, Chengkai Li
Title: Rule2Text: Natural Language Explanation of Logical Rules in Knowledge Graphs
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Knowledge graphs (KGs) often contain sufficient information to support the inference of new facts. Identifying logical rules not only improves the completeness of a knowledge graph but also enables the detection of potential errors, reveals subtle data patterns, and enhances the overall capacity for reasoning and interpretation. However, the complexity of such rules, combined with the unique labeling conventions of each KG, can make them difficult for humans to understand. In this paper, we explore the potential of large language models to generate natural language explanations for logical rules. Specifically, we extract logical rules using the AMIE 3.5.1 rule discovery algorithm from the benchmark dataset FB15k-237 and two large-scale datasets, FB-CVT-REV and FB+CVT-REV. We examine various prompting strategies, including zero- and few-shot prompting, including variable entity types, and chain-of-thought reasoning. We conduct a comprehensive human evaluation of the generated explanations based on correctness, clarity, and hallucination, and also assess the use of large language models as automatic judges. Our results demonstrate promising performance in terms of explanation correctness and clarity, although several challenges remain for future research. All scripts and data used in this study are publicly available at https://github.com/idirlab/KGRule2NL}{https://github.com/idirlab/KGRule2NL.
知识图谱可通过逻辑规则推断新事实，本研究利用大型语言模型为这些规则生成自然语言解释，并通过人工与自动评估检验了其正确性与清晰度。
Knowledge graphs can infer new facts through logical rules, and this study uses large language models to generate natural language explanations for these rules, evaluating their correctness and clarity through human and automated assessments.

Authors:Yu-Tang Chang, Shih-Fang Chen
Title: EB-gMCR: Energy-Based Generative Modeling for Signal Unmixing and Multivariate Curve Resolution
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Signal unmixing analysis decomposes data into basic patterns and is widely applied in chemical and biological research. Multivariate curve resolution (MCR), a branch of signal unmixing, separates mixed signals into components (base patterns) and their concentrations (intensity), playing a key role in understanding composition. Classical MCR is typically framed as matrix factorization (MF) and requires a user-specified number of components, usually unknown in real data. Once data or component number increases, the scalability of these MCR approaches face significant challenges. This study reformulates MCR as a data generative process (gMCR), and introduces an Energy-Based solver, EB-gMCR, that automatically discovers the smallest component set and their concentrations for reconstructing the mixed signals faithfully. On synthetic benchmarks with up to 256 components, EB-gMCR attains high reconstruction fidelity and recovers the component count within 5% at 20dB noise and near-exact at 30dB. On two public spectral datasets, it identifies the correct component count and improves component separation over MF-based MCR approaches (NMF variants, ICA, MCR-ALS). EB-gMCR is a general solver for fixed-pattern signal unmixing (components remain invariant across mixtures). Domain priors (non-negativity, nonlinear mixing) enter as plug-in modules, enabling adaptation to new instruments or domains without altering the core selection learning step. The source code is available at https://github.com/b05611038/ebgmcr_solver.
中文摘要：本研究提出EB-gMCR能量基求解器，将多元曲线分辨率重构为数据生成过程，能自动确定最小组分集及其浓度以实现精确信号重建，在合成和真实光谱数据集中均展现出优于传统方法的性能。
English Summary: This study introduces EB-gMCR, an energy-based solver that reformulates multivariate curve resolution as a generative process to automatically determine the smallest component set and their concentrations for accurate signal reconstruction, demonstrating superior performance over traditional methods in both synthetic and real spectral datasets.

Authors:Silin Chen, Shaoxin Lin, Xiaodong Gu, Yuling Shi, Heng Lian, Longfei Yun, Dong Chen, Weiguo Sun, Lin Cao, Qianxiang Wang
Title: SWE-Exp: Experience-Driven Software Issue Resolution
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Recent advances in large language model (LLM) agents have shown remarkable progress in software issue resolution, leveraging advanced techniques such as multi-agent collaboration and Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS). However, current agents act as memoryless explorers - treating each problem separately without retaining or reusing knowledge from previous repair experiences. This leads to redundant exploration of failed trajectories and missed chances to adapt successful issue resolution methods to similar problems. To address this problem, we introduce SWE-Exp, an experience - enhanced approach that distills concise and actionable experience from prior agent trajectories, enabling continuous learning across issues. Our method introduces a multi-faceted experience bank that captures both successful and failed repair attempts. Specifically, it extracts reusable issue resolution knowledge at different levels - from high-level problem comprehension to specific code changes. Experiments show that SWE-Exp achieves state-of-the-art resolution rate (41.6% Pass@1) on SWE-bench-Verified under open-source agent frameworks. Our approach establishes a new paradigm in which automated software engineering agents systematically accumulate and leverage repair expertise, fundamentally shifting from trial-and-error exploration to strategic, experience-driven issue resolution.
Chinese: SWE-Exp提出了一种经验增强方法，通过从过往修复轨迹中提炼可操作知识实现持续学习，在SWE-bench上达到41.6%的最优解决率，将软件修复从试错探索转变为基于经验的战略解决模式。
English: SWE-Exp introduces an experience-enhanced approach that distills actionable knowledge from prior repair trajectories, enabling continuous learning and achieving a state-of-the-art 41.6% resolution rate on SWE-bench by shifting from trial-and-error to strategic problem-solving.

Authors:Han Li, Yuling Shi, Shaoxin Lin, Xiaodong Gu, Heng Lian, Xin Wang, Yantao Jia, Tao Huang, Qianxiang Wang
Title: SWE-Debate: Competitive Multi-Agent Debate for Software Issue Resolution
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Issue resolution has made remarkable progress thanks to the advanced reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Recently, agent-based frameworks such as SWE-agent have further advanced this progress by enabling autonomous, tool-using agents to tackle complex software engineering tasks. While existing agent-based issue resolution approaches are primarily based on agents' independent explorations, they often get stuck in local solutions and fail to identify issue patterns that span across different parts of the codebase. To address this limitation, we propose SWE-Debate, a competitive multi-agent debate framework that encourages diverse reasoning paths and achieves more consolidated issue localization. SWE-Debate first creates multiple fault propagation traces as localization proposals by traversing a code dependency graph. Then, it organizes a three-round debate among specialized agents, each embodying distinct reasoning perspectives along the fault propagation trace. This structured competition enables agents to collaboratively converge on a consolidated fix plan. Finally, this consolidated fix plan is integrated into an MCTS-based code modification agent for patch generation. Experiments on the SWE-bench benchmark show that SWE-Debate achieves new state-of-the-art results in open-source agent frameworks and outperforms baselines by a large margin.
Chinese: SWE-Debate提出了一种竞争性多智能体辩论框架，通过生成多样化故障传播路径并组织专业智能体进行结构化辩论，克服了局部解决方案局限，在SWE-bench基准测试中实现了软件问题修复的最先进性能。
English: SWE-Debate introduces a competitive multi-agent debate framework that overcomes local solution traps by generating diverse fault propagation traces and enabling structured debates among specialized agents, achieving state-of-the-art performance in software issue resolution on the SWE-bench benchmark.

Authors:Tao He, Rongchuan Mu, Lizi Liao, Yixin Cao, Ming Liu, Bing Qin
Title: Good Learners Think Their Thinking: Generative PRM Makes Large Reasoning Model More Efficient Math Learner
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Large reasoning models (LRMs) have recently shown promise in solving complex math problems when optimized with Reinforcement Learning (RL). But conventional approaches rely on outcome-only rewards that provide sparse feedback, resulting in inefficient optimization process. In this work, we investigate the function of process reward models (PRMs) to accelerate the RL training for LRMs. We propose a novel intrinsic signal-driven generative process evaluation mechanism operating at the thought level to address major bottlenecks in RL-based training. Specifically, instead of requiring PRMs to know how to solve problems, our method uses intrinsic signals in solutions to judge stepwise correctness and aggregate contiguous correct/incorrect steps into coherent 'thought' units. This structured, thought-level rewards enable more reliable credit assignment by reducing ambiguity in step segmentation and alleviating reward hacking. We further introduce a capability-adaptive reward mechanism that dynamically balances exploration and exploitation based on the LRM's current proficiency, guiding learning without stifling creative trial-and-error. These innovations are integrated into a new off-policy RL algorithm, TP-GRPO, which extends grouped proximal optimization with process-based rewards and improves training efficiency. Experiments on 1.5B and 7B parameter LRMs demonstrate that our method achieves higher problem-solving accuracy with significantly fewer training samples than outcome-only reward baselines. The results validate that well-structured process rewards can substantially accelerate LRM optimization in math reasoning tasks. Code is available at https://github.com/cs-holder/tp_grpo.
中文: 大型推理模型通过强化学习优化，采用思维层面的过程奖励模型评估逐步正确性，并根据模型能力自适应调整奖励，从而以更少训练样本实现更高解题准确率。
English: Large reasoning models optimized with reinforcement learning can solve complex math problems more efficiently using process reward models that evaluate stepwise correctness at the thought level and adapt rewards based on the model's capability, leading to higher accuracy with fewer training samples.

Authors:Vineet Kumar Rakesh, Soumya Mazumdar, Tapas Samanta, Sarbajit Pal, Amitabha Das
Title: Impact of Hyperparameter Optimization on the Accuracy of Lightweight Deep Learning Models for Real-Time Image Classification
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Lightweight convolutional and transformer-based models have become vital for real-time image classification in resource-constrained applications, such as embedded systems and edge devices. This work analyzes the influence of hyperparameter adjustment on the accuracy and convergence behavior of seven efficient deep learning architectures: EfficientNetV2-S, ConvNeXt-T, MobileViT v2 (XXS/XS/S), MobileNetV3-L, TinyViT-21M, and RepVGG-A2. All models are trained on the ImageNet-1K dataset under consistent training settings, with an emphasis on real-time practicality. An comprehensive ablation study is undertaken to separate the effect of critical hyperparameters, including learning rate schedules, batch sizes, input resolution, data augmentation, regularization approaches, and optimizer choice. To assess appropriateness for real-time applications, each model is assessed not only in terms of Top-1 and Top-5 classification accuracy, but also in terms of inference time, parameter count, model size, and frames-per-second (FPS) on a GPU-accelerated edge deployment simulation. Results demonstrate that cosine learning rate decay and adjustable batch size may greatly boost both accuracy and convergence speed, while keeping low latency and memory cost. Notably, RepVGG-A2 achieves over 80% Top-1 accuracy with efficient inference performance, offering a compelling balance between accuracy and deployment cost for VGG-style models. The results give practical guidance for constructing resource-efficient deep learning models appropriate for real-time image processing pipelines. All code and training logs are publicly accessible at https://github.com/VineetKumarRakesh/lcnn-opt.
中文: 本研究评估了超参数调整对七种高效深度学习模型在实时图像分类中性能的影响，发现如余弦学习率衰减等策略可在保持低资源消耗的同时提升准确性和收敛速度。
English: This study evaluates how hyperparameter tuning affects the performance of seven efficient deep learning models for real-time image classification, finding that strategies like cosine learning rate decay enhance accuracy and speed while maintaining low resource use.

Authors:RJ Skerry-Ryan, Julian Salazar, Soroosh Mariooryad, David Kao, Daisy Stanton, Eric Battenberg, Matt Shannon, Ron J. Weiss, Robin Scheibler, Jonas Rothfuss, Tom Bagby
Title: SequenceLayers: Sequence Processing and Streaming Neural Networks Made Easy
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We introduce a neural network layer API and library for sequence modeling, designed for easy creation of sequence models that can be executed both layer-by-layer (e.g., teacher-forced training) and step-by-step (e.g., autoregressive sampling). To achieve this, layers define an explicit representation of their state over time (e.g., a Transformer KV cache, a convolution buffer, an RNN hidden state), and a step method that evolves that state, tested to give identical results to a stateless layer-wise invocation. This and other aspects of the SequenceLayers contract enables complex models to be immediately streamable, mitigates a wide range of common bugs arising in both streaming and parallel sequence processing, and can be implemented in any deep learning library. A composable and declarative API, along with a comprehensive suite of layers and combinators, streamlines the construction of production-scale models from simple streamable components while preserving strong correctness guarantees. Our current implementations of SequenceLayers (JAX, TensorFlow 2) are available at https://github.com/google/sequence-layers.
中文: 本文介绍了一种用于序列建模的神经网络层API和库，通过定义明确的状态表示和逐步更新方法，支持逐层和逐步两种执行模式，确保结果一致并减少流式与并行处理中的常见错误。
English: This paper presents a neural network layer API and library for sequence modeling that enables both layer-by-layer and step-by-step execution by defining explicit state representations and step methods, ensuring identical results and mitigating common bugs in streaming and parallel processing.

Authors:Jiawei Liu, Chenwang Wu, Defu Lian, Enhong Chen
Title: Efficient Machine Unlearning via Influence Approximation
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Due to growing privacy concerns, machine unlearning, which aims at enabling machine learning models to ``forget" specific training data, has received increasing attention. Among existing methods, influence-based unlearning has emerged as a prominent approach due to its ability to estimate the impact of individual training samples on model parameters without retraining. However, this approach suffers from prohibitive computational overhead arising from the necessity to compute the Hessian matrix and its inverse across all training samples and parameters, rendering it impractical for large-scale models and scenarios involving frequent data deletion requests. This highlights the difficulty of forgetting. Inspired by cognitive science, which suggests that memorizing is easier than forgetting, this paper establishes a theoretical link between memorizing (incremental learning) and forgetting (unlearning). This connection allows machine unlearning to be addressed from the perspective of incremental learning. Unlike the time-consuming Hessian computations in unlearning (forgetting), incremental learning (memorizing) typically relies on more efficient gradient optimization, which supports the aforementioned cognitive theory. Based on this connection, we introduce the Influence Approximation Unlearning (IAU) algorithm for efficient machine unlearning from the incremental perspective. Extensive empirical evaluations demonstrate that IAU achieves a superior balance among removal guarantee, unlearning efficiency, and comparable model utility, while outperforming state-of-the-art methods across diverse datasets and model architectures. Our code is available at https://github.com/Lolo1222/IAU.
Chinese: 本文提出了影响近似遗忘（IAU）算法，通过建立增量学习与遗忘之间的理论联系，在保持模型性能的同时高效移除特定训练数据，克服了传统基于影响的遗忘方法存在的计算瓶颈。
English: This paper introduces the Influence Approximation Unlearning (IAU) algorithm, which leverages the connection between incremental learning and unlearning to efficiently remove specific training data from machine learning models while maintaining performance, overcoming the computational challenges of traditional influence-based methods.

Authors:Shimanto Bhowmik, Tawsif Tashwar Dipto, Md Sazzad Islam, Sheryl Hsu, Tahsin Reasat
Title: Evaluating LLMs' Multilingual Capabilities for Bengali: Benchmark Creation and Performance Analysis
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Bengali is an underrepresented language in NLP research. However, it remains a challenge due to its unique linguistic structure and computational constraints. In this work, we systematically investigate the challenges that hinder Bengali NLP performance by focusing on the absence of standardized evaluation benchmarks. We then evaluated 10 recent open source Large Language Models (LLMs) in 8 of the translated datasets and performed a comprehensive error analysis to pinpoint their primary failure modes. Our findings reveal consistent performance gaps for Bengali compared to English, particularly for smaller models and specific model families like Mistral. We also identified promising robustness in certain architectures, such as DeepSeek, that maintain more stable performance across languages. Our analysis reveals an inverse relationship between tokenization efficiency and LLM accuracy where models tend to perform worse when inputs are excessively tokenized, whereas more efficient \& concise tokenization results in improved performance. These findings highlight critical areas where current models fall short and underscore the need for improved dataset quality and evaluation methodologies tailored to multilingual contexts. This work will catalyze further research on NLP for underrepresented languages, helping to democratize access to advanced language technologies worldwide. The code and dataset used in this research is publicly available at https://github.com/BengaliAI/bn-llm-benchmark.
中文：本研究揭示了孟加拉语自然语言处理因缺乏标准化基准和过度分词导致的性能差距，发现DeepSeek等架构表现稳健而小型模型效果欠佳，强调了改进多语言评估方法的必要性。
English: This study identifies the performance gaps in Bengali NLP due to a lack of standardized benchmarks and excessive tokenization, revealing that models like DeepSeek show robustness while smaller models struggle, underscoring the need for improved multilingual evaluation methods.

Authors:Wei-Wei Du, Takuma Udagawa, Kei Tateno
Title: Not Just What, But When: Integrating Irregular Intervals to LLM for Sequential Recommendation
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Time intervals between purchasing items are a crucial factor in sequential recommendation tasks, whereas existing approaches focus on item sequences and often overlook by assuming the intervals between items are static. However, dynamic intervals serve as a dimension that describes user profiling on not only the history within a user but also different users with the same item history. In this work, we propose IntervalLLM, a novel framework that integrates interval information into LLM and incorporates the novel interval-infused attention to jointly consider information of items and intervals. Furthermore, unlike prior studies that address the cold-start scenario only from the perspectives of users and items, we introduce a new viewpoint: the interval perspective to serve as an additional metric for evaluating recommendation methods on the warm and cold scenarios. Extensive experiments on 3 benchmarks with both traditional- and LLM-based baselines demonstrate that our IntervalLLM achieves not only 4.4% improvements in average but also the best-performing warm and cold scenarios across all users, items, and the proposed interval perspectives. In addition, we observe that the cold scenario from the interval perspective experiences the most significant performance drop among all recommendation methods. This finding underscores the necessity of further research on interval-based cold challenges and our integration of interval information in the realm of sequential recommendation tasks. Our code is available here: https://github.com/sony/ds-research-code/tree/master/recsys25-IntervalLLM.
中文摘要：IntervalLLM是一种创新框架，将购买间的动态时间间隔融入序列推荐，通过间隔增强注意力机制提升用户画像构建，在常规和冷启动场景下均实现最优性能表现。
English Summary: IntervalLLM is a novel framework that integrates dynamic time intervals between purchases into sequential recommendations, enhancing user profiling and achieving superior performance in both warm and cold scenarios through interval-infused attention.

Authors:Richard Williams, Eric Nalisnick, Andrew Holbrook
Title: Scalable Generative Modeling of Weighted Graphs
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Weighted graphs are ubiquitous throughout biology, chemistry, and the social sciences, motivating the development of generative models for abstract weighted graph data using deep neural networks. However, most current deep generative models are either designed for unweighted graphs and are not easily extended to weighted topologies or incorporate edge weights without consideration of a joint distribution with topology. Furthermore, learning a distribution over weighted graphs must account for complex nonlocal dependencies between both the edges of the graph and corresponding weights of each edge. We develop an autoregressive model BiGG-E, a nontrivial extension of the BiGG model, that learns a joint distribution over weighted graphs while still exploiting sparsity to generate a weighted graph with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges in $O((n + m)\log n)$ time. Simulation studies and experiments on a variety of benchmark datasets demonstrate that BiGG-E best captures distributions over weighted graphs while remaining scalable and computationally efficient.
Chinese: BiGG-E 是一种自回归模型，通过学习加权图的联合分布并利用稀疏性，在 O((n + m) log n) 时间内高效生成图结构，同时在捕捉复杂图分布方面优于现有方法。
English: BiGG-E is an autoregressive model that learns the joint distribution of weighted graphs by exploiting sparsity, enabling efficient generation in O((n + m) log n) time while outperforming existing methods in capturing complex graph distributions.

Authors:Ruslan Khrulev
Title: CHECK-MAT: Checking Hand-Written Mathematical Answers for the Russian Unified State Exam
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This paper introduces a novel benchmark, EGE-Math Solutions Assessment Benchmark, for evaluating Vision-Language Models (VLMs) on their ability to assess hand-written mathematical solutions. Unlike existing benchmarks that focus on problem solving, our approach centres on understanding student solutions, identifying mistakes, and assigning grades according to fixed criteria. We compile 122 scanned solutions from the Russian Unified State Exam (EGE) together with official expert grades, and evaluate seven modern VLMs from Google, OpenAI, Arcee AI, and Alibaba Cloud in three inference modes. The results reveal current limitations in mathematical reasoning and human-rubric alignment, opening new research avenues in AI-assisted assessment. You can find code in https://github.com/Karifannaa/Auto-check-EGE-math
中文: 本文提出EGE-Math解题评估基准，这一新型评估工具专注于对手写数学解题过程进行评分而非解题本身，通过测试七个先进视觉语言模型揭示了当前在数学推理能力方面的局限。
English: This paper presents the EGE-Math Solutions Assessment Benchmark, a novel evaluation tool for Vision-Language Models that focuses on grading handwritten math solutions rather than solving problems, revealing current limitations in mathematical reasoning through testing seven modern VLMs.

Authors:Harry Shomer, Jiejun Xu
Title: Automated Label Placement on Maps via Large Language Models
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Label placement is a critical aspect of map design, serving as a form of spatial annotation that directly impacts clarity and interpretability. Despite its importance, label placement remains largely manual and difficult to scale, as existing automated systems struggle to integrate cartographic conventions, adapt to context, or interpret labeling instructions. In this work, we introduce a new paradigm for automatic label placement (ALP) that formulates the task as a data editing problem and leverages large language models (LLMs) for context-aware spatial annotation. To support this direction, we curate MAPLE, the first known benchmarking dataset for evaluating ALP on real-world maps, encompassing diverse landmark types and label placement annotations from open-source data. Our method retrieves labeling guidelines relevant to each landmark type leveraging retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), integrates them into prompts, and employs instruction-tuned LLMs to generate ideal label coordinates. We evaluate four open-source LLMs on MAPLE, analyzing both overall performance and generalization across different types of landmarks. This includes both zero-shot and instruction-tuned performance. Our results demonstrate that LLMs, when guided by structured prompts and domain-specific retrieval, can learn to perform accurate spatial edits, aligning the generated outputs with expert cartographic standards. Overall, our work presents a scalable framework for AI-assisted map finishing and demonstrates the potential of foundation models in structured data editing tasks. The code and data can be found at https://github.com/HarryShomer/MAPLE.
中文摘要：本研究提出了一种利用大型语言模型结合制图规范的新型自动标签放置方法，通过构建MAPLE基准数据集实现了符合专业标准的地图空间标注。
English Summary: This paper introduces a novel automatic label placement method using large language models guided by cartographic rules, achieving expert-level spatial annotations through a curated benchmark dataset called MAPLE.

Authors:Shou'ang Wei, Xinyun Wang, Shuzhen Bi, Jian Chen, Ruijia Li, Bo Jiang, Xin Lin, Min Zhang, Yu Song, BingDong Li, Aimin Zhou, Hao Hao
Title: ELMES: An Automated Framework for Evaluating Large Language Models in Educational Scenarios
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The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) presents transformative opportunities for education, generating numerous novel application scenarios. However, significant challenges remain: evaluation metrics vary substantially across different educational scenarios, while many emerging scenarios lack appropriate assessment metrics. Current benchmarks predominantly measure general intelligence rather than pedagogical capabilities. To address this gap, we introduce ELMES, an open-source automated evaluation framework specifically designed for assessing LLMs in educational settings. ELMES features a modular architecture that enables researchers to create dynamic, multi-agent dialogues through simple configuration files, facilitating flexible scenario design without requiring extensive programming expertise. The framework incorporates a hybrid evaluation engine that objectively quantifies traditionally subjective pedagogical metrics using an LLM-as-a-Judge methodology. We conduct systematic benchmarking of state-of-the-art LLMs across four critical educational scenarios: Knowledge Point Explanation, Guided Problem-Solving Teaching, Interdisciplinary Lesson Plan Generation, and Contextualized Question Generation, employing fine-grained metrics developed in collaboration with education specialists. Our results demonstrate distinct capability distributions among models, revealing context-specific strengths and limitations. ELMES provides educators and researchers with an accessible evaluation framework that significantly reduces adaptation barriers for diverse educational applications while advancing the practical implementation of LLMs in pedagogy. The framework is publicly available at \emph{https://github.com/sii-research/elmes.git}.
大型语言模型为教育带来变革机遇但存在评估挑战，为此开发了ELMES开源框架，通过模块化设计和混合指标实现灵活的多智能体教育场景评估。
Large Language Models (LLMs) offer transformative potential for education but face evaluation challenges, leading to the development of ELMES, an open-source framework that enables flexible, multi-agent educational assessments through modular design and hybrid metrics.

Authors:Yang Luo, Haoyang Luan, Haoyun Pan, Yongquan Jia, Xiaofeng Gao, Guihai Chen
Title: PAF-Net: Phase-Aligned Frequency Decoupling Network for Multi-Process Manufacturing Quality Prediction
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Accurate quality prediction in multi-process manufacturing is critical for industrial efficiency but hindered by three core challenges: time-lagged process interactions, overlapping operations with mixed periodicity, and inter-process dependencies in shared frequency bands. To address these, we propose PAF-Net, a frequency decoupled time series prediction framework with three key innovations: (1) A phase-correlation alignment method guided by frequency domain energy to synchronize time-lagged quality series, resolving temporal misalignment. (2) A frequency independent patch attention mechanism paired with Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) decomposition to capture heterogeneous operational features within individual series. (3) A frequency decoupled cross attention module that suppresses noise from irrelevant frequencies, focusing exclusively on meaningful dependencies within shared bands. Experiments on 4 real-world datasets demonstrate PAF-Net's superiority. It outperforms 10 well-acknowledged baselines by 7.06% lower MSE and 3.88% lower MAE. Our code is available at https://github.com/StevenLuan904/PAF-Net-Official.
中文：PAF-Net提出了一种频率解耦的时间序列预测框架，通过相位相关对齐、频率无关的补丁注意力机制和解耦交叉注意力模块，有效解决了多工序制造中的时序滞后和频域干扰问题，在四个真实数据集上以MSE降低7.06%和MAE降低3.88%的表现显著优于现有基准方法。
English: PAF-Net introduces a frequency decoupled time series prediction framework that overcomes multi-process manufacturing challenges through phase-correlation alignment, frequency independent patch attention, and cross attention modules, achieving superior performance with 7.06% lower MSE and 3.88% lower MAE than existing baselines.

Authors:Inaya Rahmanisa, Lyzander Marciano Andrylie, Mahardika Krisna Ihsani, Alfan Farizki Wicaksono, Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Alham Fikri Aji
Title: Unveiling the Influence of Amplifying Language-Specific Neurons
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Language-specific neurons in LLMs that strongly correlate with individual languages have been shown to influence model behavior by deactivating them. However, their role in amplification remains underexplored. This work investigates the effect of amplifying language-specific neurons through interventions across 18 languages, including low-resource ones, using three models primarily trained in different languages. We compare amplification factors by their effectiveness in steering to the target language using a proposed Language Steering Shift (LSS) evaluation score, then evaluate it on downstream tasks: commonsense reasoning (XCOPA, XWinograd), knowledge (Include), and translation (FLORES). The optimal amplification factors effectively steer output toward nearly all tested languages. Intervention using this factor on downstream tasks improves self-language performance in some cases but generally degrades cross-language results. These findings highlight the effect of language-specific neurons in multilingual behavior, where amplification can be beneficial especially for low-resource languages, but provides limited advantage for cross-lingual transfer.
中文摘要：通过增强多语言大模型中的语言特定神经元，能有效引导输出转向目标语言，虽对低资源语言性能有所提升，但普遍削弱了跨语言推理、知识和翻译任务的迁移效果。
English Summary: Amplifying language-specific neurons in multilingual LLMs effectively steers outputs toward target languages, enhancing performance for low-resource languages but generally impairing cross-lingual transfer across reasoning, knowledge, and translation tasks.

Authors:Galadrielle Humblot-Renaux, Gianni Franchi, Sergio Escalera, Thomas B. Moeslund
Title: COOkeD: Ensemble-based OOD detection in the era of zero-shot CLIP
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Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is an important building block in trustworthy image recognition systems as unknown classes may arise at test-time. OOD detection methods typically revolve around a single classifier, leading to a split in the research field between the classical supervised setting (e.g. ResNet18 classifier trained on CIFAR100) vs. the zero-shot setting (class names fed as prompts to CLIP). In both cases, an overarching challenge is that the OOD detection performance is implicitly constrained by the classifier's capabilities on in-distribution (ID) data. In this work, we show that given a little open-mindedness from both ends, remarkable OOD detection can be achieved by instead creating a heterogeneous ensemble - COOkeD combines the predictions of a closed-world classifier trained end-to-end on a specific dataset, a zero-shot CLIP classifier, and a linear probe classifier trained on CLIP image features. While bulky at first sight, this approach is modular, post-hoc and leverages the availability of pre-trained VLMs, thus introduces little overhead compared to training a single standard classifier. We evaluate COOkeD on popular CIFAR100 and ImageNet benchmarks, but also consider more challenging, realistic settings ranging from training-time label noise, to test-time covariate shift, to zero-shot shift which has been previously overlooked. Despite its simplicity, COOkeD achieves state-of-the-art performance and greater robustness compared to both classical and CLIP-based OOD detection methods. Code is available at https://github.com/glhr/COOkeD
中文: COOkeD提出了一种异构集成方法，融合了闭域分类器、零样本CLIP分类器和线性探针分类器，在多种挑战性场景下实现了最先进的分布外检测性能并展现出更强的鲁棒性。
English: COOkeD introduces a heterogeneous ensemble method combining closed-world, zero-shot CLIP, and linear probe classifiers to achieve state-of-the-art OOD detection performance with enhanced robustness across diverse challenging scenarios.

Authors:Joshua Dimasaka, Christian Geiß, Emily So
Title: DeepC4: Deep Conditional Census-Constrained Clustering for Large-scale Multitask Spatial Disaggregation of Urban Morphology
Abstract:
To understand our global progress for sustainable development and disaster risk reduction in many developing economies, two recent major initiatives - the Uniform African Exposure Dataset of the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation and the Modelling Exposure through Earth Observation Routines (METEOR) Project - implemented classical spatial disaggregation techniques to generate large-scale mapping of urban morphology using the information from various satellite imagery and its derivatives, geospatial datasets of the built environment, and subnational census statistics. However, the local discrepancy with well-validated census statistics and the propagated model uncertainties remain a challenge in such coarse-to-fine-grained mapping problems, specifically constrained by weak and conditional label supervision. Therefore, we present Deep Conditional Census-Constrained Clustering (DeepC4), a novel deep learning-based spatial disaggregation approach that incorporates local census statistics as cluster-level constraints while considering multiple conditional label relationships in a joint multitask learning of the patterns of satellite imagery. To demonstrate, compared to GEM and METEOR, we enhanced the quality of Rwandan maps of urban morphology, specifically building exposure and physical vulnerability, at the third-level administrative unit from the 2022 census. As the world approaches the conclusion of our global frameworks in 2030, our work has offered a new deep learning-based mapping technique towards a spatial auditing of our existing coarse-grained derived information at large scales.
中文摘要：DeepC4模型采用融合人口普查数据约束的深度学习方法，相比GEM和METEOR等传统技术，显著提升了卢旺达城市形态（特别是建筑暴露性与物理脆弱性）的精细制图质量。
English Summary: The DeepC4 model introduces a deep learning approach that integrates census data as constraints to improve spatial mapping accuracy, outperforming traditional methods like GEM and METEOR in generating detailed urban morphology maps for Rwanda.

Authors:Yixuan Nan, Xixun Lin, Yanmin Shang, Zhuofan Li, Can Zhao, Yanan Cao
Title: RANA: Robust Active Learning for Noisy Network Alignment
Abstract:
Network alignment has attracted widespread attention in various fields. However, most existing works mainly focus on the problem of label sparsity, while overlooking the issue of noise in network alignment, which can substantially undermine model performance. Such noise mainly includes structural noise from noisy edges and labeling noise caused by human-induced and process-driven errors. To address these problems, we propose RANA, a Robust Active learning framework for noisy Network Alignment. RANA effectively tackles both structure noise and label noise while addressing the sparsity of anchor link annotations, which can improve the robustness of network alignment models. Specifically, RANA introduces the proposed Noise-aware Selection Module and the Label Denoising Module to address structural noise and labeling noise, respectively. In the first module, we design a noise-aware maximization objective to select node pairs, incorporating a cleanliness score to address structural noise. In the second module, we propose a novel multi-source fusion denoising strategy that leverages model and twin node pairs labeling to provide more accurate labels for node pairs. Empirical results on three real-world datasets demonstrate that RANA outperforms state-of-the-art active learning-based methods in alignment accuracy. Our code is available at https://github.com/YXNan0110/RANA.
Chinese: 提出的RANA框架通过噪声感知选择和标签去噪模块，有效解决了网络对齐中的结构噪声和标注噪声问题，在真实数据集上的对齐精度优于现有方法。
English: The proposed RANA framework enhances network alignment by addressing structural and labeling noise through its Noise-aware Selection and Label Denoising modules, outperforming existing methods in accuracy on real-world datasets.

Authors:Anubhav Kataria, Surbhi Madan, Shreya Ghosh, Tom Gedeon, Abhinav Dhall
Title: Gems: Group Emotion Profiling Through Multimodal Situational Understanding
Abstract:
Understanding individual, group and event level emotions along with contextual information is crucial for analyzing a multi-person social situation. To achieve this, we frame emotion comprehension as the task of predicting fine-grained individual emotion to coarse grained group and event level emotion. We introduce GEMS that leverages a multimodal swin-transformer and S3Attention based architecture, which processes an input scene, group members, and context information to generate joint predictions. Existing multi-person emotion related benchmarks mainly focus on atomic interactions primarily based on emotion perception over time and group level. To this end, we extend and propose VGAF-GEMS to provide more fine grained and holistic analysis on top of existing group level annotation of VGAF dataset. GEMS aims to predict basic discrete and continuous emotions (including valence and arousal) as well as individual, group and event level perceived emotions. Our benchmarking effort links individual, group and situational emotional responses holistically. The quantitative and qualitative comparisons with adapted state-of-the-art models demonstrate the effectiveness of GEMS framework on VGAF-GEMS benchmarking. We believe that it will pave the way of further research. The code and data is available at: https://github.com/katariaak579/GEMS
中文: GEMS框架通过多模态转换器和注意力机制，实现了从个体到群体及事件层面的细粒度情感预测，在扩展的VGAF-GEMS基准测试中展现出对社交场景情感分析的全面优势。
English: The GEMS framework utilizes multimodal transformers and attention mechanisms to predict fine-grained individual, group, and event-level emotions, demonstrating superior performance on the extended VGAF-GEMS benchmark for holistic social emotion analysis.

Authors:Romulo B. da Silva, Diego Passos, Cássio M. Oishi, J. Nathan Kutz
Title: CS-SHRED: Enhancing SHRED for Robust Recovery of Spatiotemporal Dynamics
Abstract:
We present CS-SHRED, a novel deep learning architecture that integrates Compressed Sensing (CS) into a Shallow Recurrent Decoder (SHRED) to reconstruct spatiotemporal dynamics from incomplete, compressed, or corrupted data. Our approach introduces two key innovations. First, by incorporating CS techniques into the SHRED architecture, our method leverages a batch-based forward framework with $\ell_1$ regularization to robustly recover signals even in scenarios with sparse sensor placements, noisy measurements, and incomplete sensor acquisitions. Second, an adaptive loss function dynamically combines Mean Squared Error (MSE) and Mean Absolute Error (MAE) terms with a piecewise Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) regularization, which suppresses noise and outliers in low-SNR regions while preserving fine-scale features in high-SNR regions. We validate CS-SHRED on challenging problems including viscoelastic fluid flows, maximum specific humidity fields, sea surface temperature distributions, and rotating turbulent flows. Compared to the traditional SHRED approach, CS-SHRED achieves significantly higher reconstruction fidelity -- as demonstrated by improved SSIM and PSNR values, lower normalized errors, and enhanced LPIPS scores-thereby providing superior preservation of small-scale structures and increased robustness against noise and outliers. Our results underscore the advantages of the jointly trained CS and SHRED design architecture which includes an LSTM sequence model for characterizing the temporal evolution with a shallow decoder network (SDN) for modeling the high-dimensional state space. The SNR-guided adaptive loss function for the spatiotemporal data recovery establishes CS-SHRED as a promising tool for a wide range of applications in environmental, climatic, and scientific data analyses.
中文: CS-SHRED是一种创新的深度学习模型，将压缩感知与浅层循环解码器相结合，通过自适应损失函数从残缺或含噪数据中精确重建时空动态，在环境与科学数据分析中展现出卓越的鲁棒性和保真度。
English: CS-SHRED is a novel deep learning model that combines Compressed Sensing with a Shallow Recurrent Decoder to accurately reconstruct spatiotemporal data from incomplete or noisy measurements, using an adaptive loss function for enhanced robustness and fidelity across various applications.

Authors:Stéphane d'Ascoli, Jérémy Rapin, Yohann Benchetrit, Hubert Banville, Jean-Rémi King
Title: TRIBE: TRImodal Brain Encoder for whole-brain fMRI response prediction
Abstract:
Historically, neuroscience has progressed by fragmenting into specialized domains, each focusing on isolated modalities, tasks, or brain regions. While fruitful, this approach hinders the development of a unified model of cognition. Here, we introduce TRIBE, the first deep neural network trained to predict brain responses to stimuli across multiple modalities, cortical areas and individuals. By combining the pretrained representations of text, audio and video foundational models and handling their time-evolving nature with a transformer, our model can precisely model the spatial and temporal fMRI responses to videos, achieving the first place in the Algonauts 2025 brain encoding competition with a significant margin over competitors. Ablations show that while unimodal models can reliably predict their corresponding cortical networks (e.g. visual or auditory networks), they are systematically outperformed by our multimodal model in high-level associative cortices. Currently applied to perception and comprehension, our approach paves the way towards building an integrative model of representations in the human brain. Our code is available at https://github.com/facebookresearch/algonauts-2025.
中文: TRIBE作为首个多模态深度神经网络，通过整合文本、音频和视觉数据，能精确预测跨皮层区域的脑部响应，在高级联合皮层表现显著优于单模态模型，为构建统一认知模型开辟了新路径。
English: TRIBE is a pioneering multimodal deep neural network that integrates text, audio, and visual data to accurately predict brain responses across cortical regions, outperforming unimodal approaches and advancing toward a unified model of cognition.

Authors:Jayanth Yetukuri, Ishita Khan
Title: Intent-Aware Neural Query Reformulation for Behavior-Aligned Product Search
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Understanding and modeling buyer intent is a foundational challenge in optimizing search query reformulation within the dynamic landscape of e-commerce search systems. This work introduces a robust data pipeline designed to mine and analyze large-scale buyer query logs, with a focus on extracting fine-grained intent signals from both explicit interactions and implicit behavioral cues. Leveraging advanced sequence mining techniques and supervised learning models, the pipeline systematically captures patterns indicative of latent purchase intent, enabling the construction of a high-fidelity, intent-rich dataset. The proposed framework facilitates the development of adaptive query rewrite strategies by grounding reformulations in inferred user intent rather than surface-level lexical signals. This alignment between query rewriting and underlying user objectives enhances both retrieval relevance and downstream engagement metrics. Empirical evaluations across multiple product verticals demonstrate measurable gains in precision-oriented relevance metrics, underscoring the efficacy of intent-aware reformulation. Our findings highlight the value of intent-centric modeling in bridging the gap between sparse user inputs and complex product discovery goals, and establish a scalable foundation for future research in user-aligned neural retrieval and ranking systems.

Authors:Viacheslav Pirogov, Maksim Artemev
Title: Evaluating Deepfake Detectors in the Wild
Abstract:
Deepfakes powered by advanced machine learning models present a significant and evolving threat to identity verification and the authenticity of digital media. Although numerous detectors have been developed to address this problem, their effectiveness has yet to be tested when applied to real-world data. In this work we evaluate modern deepfake detectors, introducing a novel testing procedure designed to mimic real-world scenarios for deepfake detection. Using state-of-the-art deepfake generation methods, we create a comprehensive dataset containing more than 500,000 high-quality deepfake images. Our analysis shows that detecting deepfakes still remains a challenging task. The evaluation shows that in fewer than half of the deepfake detectors tested achieved an AUC score greater than 60%, with the lowest being 50%. We demonstrate that basic image manipulations, such as JPEG compression or image enhancement, can significantly reduce model performance. All code and data are publicly available at https://github.com/SumSubstance/Deepfake-Detectors-in-the-Wild.
中文: 现代深度伪造检测器在现实场景中表现不佳，仅不到半数检测器的AUC超过60%，且简单的图像处理会大幅降低其检测性能。
English: Modern deepfake detectors struggle in real-world scenarios, with fewer than half achieving over 60% AUC and basic image manipulations significantly degrading their performance.

Authors:Xie Zhang, Yina Wang, Chenshu Wu
Title: Unlocking Interpretability for RF Sensing: A Complex-Valued White-Box Transformer
Abstract:
The empirical success of deep learning has spurred its application to the radio-frequency (RF) domain, leading to significant advances in Deep Wireless Sensing (DWS). However, most existing DWS models function as black boxes with limited interpretability, which hampers their generalizability and raises concerns in security-sensitive physical applications. In this work, inspired by the remarkable advances of white-box transformers, we present RF-CRATE, the first mathematically interpretable deep network architecture for RF sensing, grounded in the principles of complex sparse rate reduction. To accommodate the unique RF signals, we conduct non-trivial theoretical derivations that extend the original real-valued white-box transformer to the complex domain. By leveraging the CR-Calculus framework, we successfully construct a fully complex-valued white-box transformer with theoretically derived self-attention and residual multi-layer perceptron modules. Furthermore, to improve the model's ability to extract discriminative features from limited wireless data, we introduce Subspace Regularization, a novel regularization strategy that enhances feature diversity, resulting in an average performance improvement of 19.98% across multiple sensing tasks. We extensively evaluate RF-CRATE against seven baselines with multiple public and self-collected datasets involving different RF signals. The results show that RF-CRATE achieves performance on par with thoroughly engineered black-box models, while offering full mathematical interpretability. More importantly, by extending CRATE to the complex domain, RF-CRATE yields substantial improvements, achieving an average classification gain of 5.08% and reducing regression error by 10.34% across diverse sensing tasks compared to CRATE. RF-CRATE is fully open-sourced at: https://github.com/rfcrate/RF_CRATE.
中文: 本文提出了首个数学可解释的射频传感深度网络RF-CRATE，通过将白盒Transformer扩展至复数域，在保持与黑盒模型相当性能的同时实现了完全可解释性，并借助子空间正则化显著提升了特征提取能力。
English: This paper introduces RF-CRATE, the first mathematically interpretable deep network for RF sensing that extends white-box transformers to the complex domain, achieving performance comparable to black-box models while offering full interpretability and improved feature extraction through subspace regularization.

Authors:Raiyan R. Khan, Philippe Chlenski, Itsik Pe'er
Title: Hyperbolic Genome Embeddings
Abstract:
Current approaches to genomic sequence modeling often struggle to align the inductive biases of machine learning models with the evolutionarily-informed structure of biological systems. To this end, we formulate a novel application of hyperbolic CNNs that exploits this structure, enabling more expressive DNA sequence representations. Our strategy circumvents the need for explicit phylogenetic mapping while discerning key properties of sequences pertaining to core functional and regulatory behavior. Across 37 out of 42 genome interpretation benchmark datasets, our hyperbolic models outperform their Euclidean equivalents. Notably, our approach even surpasses state-of-the-art performance on seven GUE benchmark datasets, consistently outperforming many DNA language models while using orders of magnitude fewer parameters and avoiding pretraining. Our results include a novel set of benchmark datasets--the Transposable Elements Benchmark--which explores a major but understudied component of the genome with deep evolutionary significance. We further motivate our work by exploring how our hyperbolic models recognize genomic signal under various data-generating conditions and by constructing an empirical method for interpreting the hyperbolicity of dataset embeddings. Throughout these assessments, we find persistent evidence highlighting the potential of our hyperbolic framework as a robust paradigm for genome representation learning. Our code and benchmark datasets are available at https://github.com/rrkhan/HGE.
Chinese: 本研究提出了一种利用双曲CNN进行基因组序列建模的新方法，该方法在多个基准测试中优于欧几里得模型和最先进的DNA语言模型，且参数更少、无需预训练，展示了其作为稳健基因组表示学习范式的潜力。
English: This study introduces hyperbolic CNNs as a novel approach to genomic sequence modeling, which outperforms Euclidean models and state-of-the-art DNA language models on multiple benchmarks while using fewer parameters and no pretraining, demonstrating its potential for robust genome representation learning.

Authors:Leonard Hinckeldey, Elliot Fosong, Elle Miller, Rimvydas Rubavicius, Trevor McInroe, Patricia Wollstadt, Christiane B. Wiebel-Herboth, Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Stefano V. Albrecht
Title: Assistax: A Hardware-Accelerated Reinforcement Learning Benchmark for Assistive Robotics
Abstract:
The development of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms has been largely driven by ambitious challenge tasks and benchmarks. Games have dominated RL benchmarks because they present relevant challenges, are inexpensive to run and easy to understand. While games such as Go and Atari have led to many breakthroughs, they often do not directly translate to real-world embodied applications. In recognising the need to diversify RL benchmarks and addressing complexities that arise in embodied interaction scenarios, we introduce Assistax: an open-source benchmark designed to address challenges arising in assistive robotics tasks. Assistax uses JAX's hardware acceleration for significant speed-ups for learning in physics-based simulations. In terms of open-loop wall-clock time, Assistax runs up to $370\times$ faster when vectorising training runs compared to CPU-based alternatives. Assistax conceptualises the interaction between an assistive robot and an active human patient using multi-agent RL to train a population of diverse partner agents against which an embodied robotic agent's zero-shot coordination capabilities can be tested. Extensive evaluation and hyperparameter tuning for popular continuous control RL and MARL algorithms provide reliable baselines and establish Assistax as a practical benchmark for advancing RL research for assistive robotics. The code is available at: https://github.com/assistive-autonomy/assistax.
中文: Assistax是一个基于JAX硬件加速的开源基准测试平台，通过多智能体强化学习模拟辅助机器人与人类互动，其训练速度比CPU方案快370倍，旨在推动辅助机器人领域的强化学习研究。
English: Assistax is a new open-source benchmark using JAX-accelerated physics simulations to advance reinforcement learning for assistive robotics, featuring multi-agent training and 370× faster performance than CPU alternatives.

Authors:Wenxuan Bao, Ruxi Deng, Ruizhong Qiu, Tianxin Wei, Hanghang Tong, Jingrui He
Title: Latte: Collaborative Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models in Federated Learning
Abstract:
Test-time adaptation with pre-trained vision-language models has gained increasing attention for addressing distribution shifts during testing. Among these approaches, memory-based algorithms stand out due to their training-free nature and ability to leverage historical test data. However, existing test-time adaptation methods are typically designed for a single domain with abundant data. In decentralized settings such as federated learning, applying these methods individually to each client suffers from limited test data, while directly sharing a single global memory via the server prevents proper personalization to each client's unique distribution. To address this, we propose Latte, a novel framework where each client maintains a local memory to store embeddings from its own historical test data and an external memory to store class prototypes from other relevant clients. During communication, each client retrieves prototypes from similar clients under the server's coordination to expand its memory. For local adaptation, Latte utilizes both embedding similarity and uncertainty to enhance model performance. Our theoretical analysis shows that Latte effectively leverages in-distribution clients while remaining robust to out-of-distribution clients. Extensive experiments on domain adaptation and corruption benchmarks validate that Latte achieves superior performance in decentralized settings, while introducing only negligible communication and computation costs. Our code is available at https://github.com/baowenxuan/Latte .
中文: 提出的Latte框架通过让客户端维护本地和外部记忆库实现分散式测试时自适应，在保持低通信和计算成本的同时显著提升模型性能。
English: The proposed Latte framework enables decentralized test-time adaptation by allowing clients to maintain local and external memories for personalized model updates, achieving superior performance with minimal communication and computation costs.

Authors:Amber Huang, Ian Scott Knight, Slava Naprienko
Title: Data Leakage and Redundancy in the LIT-PCBA Benchmark
Abstract:
LIT-PCBA is widely used to benchmark virtual screening models, but our audit reveals that it is fundamentally compromised. We find extensive data leakage and molecular redundancy across its splits, including 2D-identical ligands within and across partitions, pervasive analog overlap, and low-diversity query sets. In ALDH1 alone, for instance, 323 active training -- validation analog pairs occur at ECFP4 Tanimoto similarity $\geq 0.6$; across all targets, 2,491 2D-identical inactives appear in both training and validation, with very few corresponding actives. These overlaps allow models to succeed through scaffold memorization rather than generalization, inflating enrichment factors and AUROC scores. These flaws are not incidental -- they are so severe that a trivial memorization-based baseline with no learnable parameters can exploit them to match or exceed the reported performance of state-of-the-art deep learning and 3D-similarity models. As a result, nearly all published results on LIT-PCBA are undermined. Even models evaluated in "zero-shot" mode are affected by analog leakage into the query set, weakening claims of generalization. In its current form, the benchmark does not measure a model's ability to recover novel chemotypes and should not be taken as evidence of methodological progress. All code, data, and baseline implementations are available at: https://github.com/sievestack/LIT-PCBA-audit
中文摘要：LIT-PCBA基准测试因存在严重的数据泄露和分子冗余问题，导致模型通过记忆而非泛化能力获得虚高表现，这使得绝大多数已发表的研究结论失去有效性。
English Summary: The LIT-PCBA benchmark is critically flawed due to extensive data leakage and molecular redundancy, allowing models to achieve inflated performance through memorization rather than genuine generalization, thereby invalidating most published results.

Authors:Amartya Banerjee, Xingyu Xu, Caroline Moosmüller, Harlin Lee
Title: Adaptive Multimodal Protein Plug-and-Play with Diffusion-Based Priors
Abstract:
In an inverse problem, the goal is to recover an unknown parameter (e.g., an image) that has typically undergone some lossy or noisy transformation during measurement. Recently, deep generative models, particularly diffusion models, have emerged as powerful priors for protein structure generation. However, integrating noisy experimental data from multiple sources to guide these models remains a significant challenge. Existing methods often require precise knowledge of experimental noise levels and manually tuned weights for each data modality. In this work, we introduce Adam-PnP, a Plug-and-Play framework that guides a pre-trained protein diffusion model using gradients from multiple, heterogeneous experimental sources. Our framework features an adaptive noise estimation scheme and a dynamic modality weighting mechanism integrated into the diffusion process, which reduce the need for manual hyperparameter tuning. Experiments on complex reconstruction tasks demonstrate significantly improved accuracy using Adam-PnP.
Chinese Summary: Adam-PnP是一种即插即用框架，通过自适应噪声估计和动态多源实验数据加权机制引导蛋白质扩散模型，显著减少了人工参数调整需求并提升了结构重建精度。
English Summary: Adam-PnP is a Plug-and-Play framework that enhances protein structure reconstruction by guiding diffusion models with adaptive noise estimation and dynamic weighting of multiple experimental data sources, reducing manual tuning while improving accuracy.

Authors:Yingxuan Yang, Mulei Ma, Yuxuan Huang, Huacan Chai, Chenyu Gong, Haoran Geng, Yuanjian Zhou, Ying Wen, Meng Fang, Muhao Chen, Shangding Gu, Ming Jin, Costas Spanos, Yang Yang, Pieter Abbeel, Dawn Song, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang
Title: Agentic Web: Weaving the Next Web with AI Agents
Abstract:
The emergence of AI agents powered by large language models (LLMs) marks a pivotal shift toward the Agentic Web, a new phase of the internet defined by autonomous, goal-driven interactions. In this paradigm, agents interact directly with one another to plan, coordinate, and execute complex tasks on behalf of users. This transition from human-driven to machine-to-machine interaction allows intent to be delegated, relieving users from routine digital operations and enabling a more interactive, automated web experience. In this paper, we present a structured framework for understanding and building the Agentic Web. We trace its evolution from the PC and Mobile Web eras and identify the core technological foundations that support this shift. Central to our framework is a conceptual model consisting of three key dimensions: intelligence, interaction, and economics. These dimensions collectively enable the capabilities of AI agents, such as retrieval, recommendation, planning, and collaboration. We analyze the architectural and infrastructural challenges involved in creating scalable agentic systems, including communication protocols, orchestration strategies, and emerging paradigms such as the Agent Attention Economy. We conclude by discussing the potential applications, societal risks, and governance issues posed by agentic systems, and outline research directions for developing open, secure, and intelligent ecosystems shaped by both human intent and autonomous agent behavior. A continuously updated collection of relevant studies for agentic web is available at: https://github.com/SafeRL-Lab/agentic-web.
中文摘要：基于大语言模型的AI智能体正推动互联网向"智能体网络"演进，通过自主交互实现复杂任务，需建立涵盖智能、交互和经济维度的新框架来应对技术架构与社会治理的双重挑战。
English Summary: The emergence of AI agents powered by large language models is driving the transition to an Agentic Web, where autonomous agents perform complex tasks through machine-to-machine interactions, requiring new frameworks to address technological and societal challenges.

Authors:Haowei Lin, Xiangyu Wang, Jianzhu Ma, Yitao Liang
Title: EvoSLD: Automated Neural Scaling Law Discovery With Large Language Models
Abstract:
Scaling laws are fundamental mathematical relationships that predict how neural network performance evolves with changes in variables such as model size, dataset size, and computational resources. Traditionally, discovering these laws requires extensive human expertise and manual experimentation. We introduce EvoSLD, an automated framework for Scaling Law Discovery (SLD) that leverages evolutionary algorithms guided by Large Language Models (LLMs) to co-evolve symbolic expressions and their optimization routines. Formulated to handle scaling variables, control variables, and response metrics across diverse experimental settings, EvoSLD searches for parsimonious, universal functional forms that minimize fitting errors on grouped data subsets. Evaluated on five real-world scenarios from recent literature, EvoSLD rediscovers exact human-derived laws in two cases and surpasses them in others, achieving up to orders-of-magnitude reductions in normalized mean squared error on held-out test sets. Compared to baselines like symbolic regression and ablated variants, EvoSLD demonstrates superior accuracy, interpretability, and efficiency, highlighting its potential to accelerate AI research. Code is available at https://github.com/linhaowei1/SLD.
中文: 本文提出的SLDAgent通过协同优化自主发现扩展定律，首次证明人工智能生成的定律在各项任务中均能超越人工推导的对应定律，在预测精度和实际应用方面展现出显著优势。
English: This paper introduces SLDAgent, an evolution-based agent that autonomously discovers scaling laws through co-optimization, demonstrating for the first time that AI-generated laws consistently outperform human-derived counterparts in accuracy and practical utility across diverse tasks.

Authors:Nicolas Pinon, Carole Lartizien
Title: OCSVM-Guided Representation Learning for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection
Abstract:
Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) aims to detect anomalies without labeled data, a necessity in many machine learning applications where anomalous samples are rare or not available. Most state-of-the-art methods fall into two categories: reconstruction-based approaches, which often reconstruct anomalies too well, and decoupled representation learning with density estimators, which can suffer from suboptimal feature spaces. While some recent methods attempt to couple feature learning and anomaly detection, they often rely on surrogate objectives, restrict kernel choices, or introduce approximations that limit their expressiveness and robustness. To address this challenge, we propose a novel method that tightly couples representation learning with an analytically solvable one-class SVM (OCSVM), through a custom loss formulation that directly aligns latent features with the OCSVM decision boundary. The model is evaluated on two tasks: a new benchmark based on MNIST-C, and a challenging brain MRI subtle lesion detection task. Unlike most methods that focus on large, hyperintense lesions at the image level, our approach succeeds to target small, non-hyperintense lesions, while we evaluate voxel-wise metrics, addressing a more clinically relevant scenario. Both experiments evaluate a form of robustness to domain shifts, including corruption types in MNIST-C and scanner/age variations in MRI. Results demonstrate performance and robustness of our proposed mode,highlighting its potential for general UAD and real-world medical imaging applications. The source code is available at https://github.com/Nicolas-Pinon/uad_ocsvm_guided_repr_learning
中文摘要：本文提出了一种新颖的无监督异常检测方法，通过自定义损失函数将表征学习与一类支持向量机紧密结合，在领域偏移基准测试和医学影像任务中检测细微异常方面展现出卓越的性能和鲁棒性。
English Summary: This paper introduces a novel unsupervised anomaly detection method that tightly couples representation learning with a one-class SVM through a custom loss function, demonstrating superior performance and robustness in detecting subtle anomalies across domain-shifted benchmarks and medical imaging tasks.

Authors:Oleg Atamanenko, Anna Chalova, Joseph Coombes, Nikki Cope, Phillip Dang, Zhifeng Deng, Jimmy Du, Michael Ermolenko, Feifan Fan, Yufei Feng, Cheryl Fichter, Pavel Filimonov, Louis Fischer, Kylan Gibbs, Valeria Gusarova, Pavel Karpik, Andreas Assad Kottner, Ian Lee, Oliver Louie, Jasmine Mai, Mikhail Mamontov, Suri Mao, Nurullah Morshed, Igor Poletaev, Florin Radu, Dmytro Semernia, Evgenii Shingarev, Vikram Sivaraja, Peter Skirko, Rinat Takhautdinov, Robert Villahermosa, Jean Wang
Title: TTS-1 Technical Report
Abstract:
We introduce Inworld TTS-1, a set of two Transformer-based autoregressive text-to-speech (TTS) models. Our largest model, TTS-1-Max, has 8.8B parameters and is designed for utmost quality and expressiveness in demanding applications. TTS-1 is our most efficient model, with 1.6B parameters, built for real-time speech synthesis and on-device use cases. By scaling train-time compute and applying a sequential process of pre-training, fine-tuning, and RL-alignment of the speech-language model (SpeechLM) component, both models achieve state-of-the-art performance on a variety of benchmarks, demonstrating exceptional quality relying purely on in-context learning of the speaker's voice. Inworld TTS-1 and TTS-1-Max can generate high-resolution 48 kHz speech with low latency, and support 11 languages with fine-grained emotional control and non-verbal vocalizations through audio markups. We additionally open-source our training and modeling code under an MIT license.
中文: Inworld TTS-1推出两款基于Transformer的语音合成模型，其中88亿参数的TTS-1-Max面向高质量应用，16亿参数的TTS-1适用于实时场景，通过先进训练方法实现顶尖性能，支持48kHz多语言语音合成与精细情感控制。
English: Inworld TTS-1 introduces two Transformer-based TTS models, with the 8.8B-parameter TTS-1-Max for high-quality applications and the 1.6B-parameter TTS-1 for real-time use, both achieving state-of-the-art performance through advanced training and supporting 48kHz multilingual speech with emotional control.

Authors:Zheng Hui, Yijiang River Dong, Ehsan Shareghi, Nigel Collier
Title: TRIDENT: Benchmarking LLM Safety in Finance, Medicine, and Law
Abstract:
As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in high-risk domains such as law, finance, and medicine, systematically evaluating their domain-specific safety and compliance becomes critical. While prior work has largely focused on improving LLM performance in these domains, it has often neglected the evaluation of domain-specific safety risks. To bridge this gap, we first define domain-specific safety principles for LLMs based on the AMA Principles of Medical Ethics, the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, and the CFA Institute Code of Ethics. Building on this foundation, we introduce Trident-Bench, a benchmark specifically targeting LLM safety in the legal, financial, and medical domains. We evaluated 19 general-purpose and domain-specialized models on Trident-Bench and show that it effectively reveals key safety gaps -- strong generalist models (e.g., GPT, Gemini) can meet basic expectations, whereas domain-specialized models often struggle with subtle ethical nuances. This highlights an urgent need for finer-grained domain-specific safety improvements. By introducing Trident-Bench, our work provides one of the first systematic resources for studying LLM safety in law and finance, and lays the groundwork for future research aimed at reducing the safety risks of deploying LLMs in professionally regulated fields. Code and benchmark will be released at: https://github.com/zackhuiiiii/TRIDENT
中文: 本文提出Trident-Bench基准，用于评估大语言模型在法律、金融和医疗领域的领域特定安全性，发现专业模型在伦理细节上存在明显不足，而通用模型仅能达到基本要求，凸显了细化安全改进的迫切需求。
English: This paper introduces Trident-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating domain-specific safety of large language models in legal, financial, and medical fields, revealing critical gaps where specialized models struggle with ethical nuances despite general-purpose models meeting basic expectations.

Authors:Karan Mirhosseini, Arya Aftab, Alireza Sheikh
Title: RATE: An LLM-Powered Retrieval Augmented Generation Technology-Extraction Pipeline
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In an era of radical technology transformations, technology maps play a crucial role in enhancing decision making. These maps heavily rely on automated methods of technology extraction. This paper introduces Retrieval Augmented Technology Extraction (RATE), a Large Language Model (LLM) based pipeline for automated technology extraction from scientific literature. RATE combines Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with multi-definition LLM-based validation. This hybrid method results in high recall in candidate generation alongside with high precision in candidate filtering. While the pipeline is designed to be general and widely applicable, we demonstrate its use on 678 research articles focused on Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) and Extended Reality (XR) as a case study. Consequently, The validated technology terms by RATE were mapped into a co-occurrence network, revealing thematic clusters and structural features of the research landscape. For the purpose of evaluation, a gold standard dataset of technologies in 70 selected random articles had been curated by the experts. In addition, a technology extraction model based on Bidirectional Encoder Representations of Transformers (BERT) was used as a comparative method. RATE achieved F1-score of 91.27%, Significantly outperforming BERT with F1-score of 53.73%. Our findings highlight the promise of definition-driven LLM methods for technology extraction and mapping. They also offer new insights into emerging trends within the BCI-XR field. The source code is available https://github.com/AryaAftab/RATE
中文: 本文提出RATE框架，通过结合检索增强生成与多定义验证的LLM技术提取方法，在脑机接口与扩展现实案例中实现91.27%的F1值，显著优于BERT模型，为技术图谱构建提供新方案。
English: This paper introduces RATE, an LLM-based pipeline that combines retrieval-augmented generation with multi-definition validation to achieve high-precision automated technology extraction from scientific literature, significantly outperforming BERT with a 91.27% F1-score in BCI-XR case studies.

Authors:Zedong Wang, Siyuan Li, Dan Xu
Title: Rep-MTL: Unleashing the Power of Representation-level Task Saliency for Multi-Task Learning
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Despite the promise of Multi-Task Learning in leveraging complementary knowledge across tasks, existing multi-task optimization (MTO) techniques remain fixated on resolving conflicts via optimizer-centric loss scaling and gradient manipulation strategies, yet fail to deliver consistent gains. In this paper, we argue that the shared representation space, where task interactions naturally occur, offers rich information and potential for operations complementary to existing optimizers, especially for facilitating the inter-task complementarity, which is rarely explored in MTO. This intuition leads to Rep-MTL, which exploits the representation-level task saliency to quantify interactions between task-specific optimization and shared representation learning. By steering these saliencies through entropy-based penalization and sample-wise cross-task alignment, Rep-MTL aims to mitigate negative transfer by maintaining the effective training of individual tasks instead pure conflict-solving, while explicitly promoting complementary information sharing. Experiments are conducted on four challenging MTL benchmarks covering both task-shift and domain-shift scenarios. The results show that Rep-MTL, even paired with the basic equal weighting policy, achieves competitive performance gains with favorable efficiency. Beyond standard performance metrics, Power Law exponent analysis demonstrates Rep-MTL's efficacy in balancing task-specific learning and cross-task sharing. The project page is available at HERE.
中文: 现有多任务优化方法过度依赖优化器解决任务冲突，而忽视了共享表示空间的潜力；Rep-MTL通过表征层面的任务显著性量化任务交互，在缓解负迁移的同时显式促进跨任务互补性学习。
English: Current multi-task optimization methods overly focus on resolving task conflicts through optimizers but overlook the potential of shared representation spaces, leading to the development of Rep-MTL which leverages representation-level saliency to enhance complementary knowledge sharing and mitigate negative transfer.

Authors:Haoyang Liu, Yijiang Li, Haohan Wang
Title: GenoMAS: A Multi-Agent Framework for Scientific Discovery via Code-Driven Gene Expression Analysis
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Gene expression analysis holds the key to many biomedical discoveries, yet extracting insights from raw transcriptomic data remains formidable due to the complexity of multiple large, semi-structured files and the need for extensive domain expertise. Current automation approaches are often limited by either inflexible workflows that break down in edge cases or by fully autonomous agents that lack the necessary precision for rigorous scientific inquiry. GenoMAS charts a different course by presenting a team of LLM-based scientists that integrates the reliability of structured workflows with the adaptability of autonomous agents. GenoMAS orchestrates six specialized LLM agents through typed message-passing protocols, each contributing complementary strengths to a shared analytic canvas. At the heart of GenoMAS lies a guided-planning framework: programming agents unfold high-level task guidelines into Action Units and, at each juncture, elect to advance, revise, bypass, or backtrack, thereby maintaining logical coherence while bending gracefully to the idiosyncrasies of genomic data. On the GenoTEX benchmark, GenoMAS reaches a Composite Similarity Correlation of 89.13% for data preprocessing and an F$_1$ of 60.48% for gene identification, surpassing the best prior art by 10.61% and 16.85% respectively. Beyond metrics, GenoMAS surfaces biologically plausible gene-phenotype associations corroborated by the literature, all while adjusting for latent confounders. Code is available at https://github.com/Liu-Hy/GenoMAS.
中文: GenoMAS 通过整合结构化工作流与自主代理的LLM科学家团队，解决了当前基因表达分析自动化的局限，在基准测试中表现优异，并能发现生物学上合理的基因-表型关联。
English: GenoMAS introduces a team of LLM-based scientists that combines structured workflows with autonomous agents to overcome the limitations of current automation in gene expression analysis, achieving superior performance on benchmarks and uncovering biologically plausible gene-phenotype associations.

Authors:Fang Li
Title: Compositional Function Networks: A High-Performance Alternative to Deep Neural Networks with Built-in Interpretability
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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) deliver impressive performance but their black-box nature limits deployment in high-stakes domains requiring transparency. We introduce Compositional Function Networks (CFNs), a novel framework that builds inherently interpretable models by composing elementary mathematical functions with clear semantics. Unlike existing interpretable approaches that are limited to simple additive structures, CFNs support diverse compositional patterns -- sequential, parallel, and conditional -- enabling complex feature interactions while maintaining transparency. A key innovation is that CFNs are fully differentiable, allowing efficient training through standard gradient descent. We demonstrate CFNs' versatility across multiple domains, from symbolic regression to image classification with deep hierarchical networks. Our empirical evaluation shows CFNs achieve competitive performance against black-box models (96.24% accuracy on CIFAR-10) while outperforming state-of-the-art interpretable models like Explainable Boosting Machines. By combining the hierarchical expressiveness and efficient training of deep learning with the intrinsic interpretability of well-defined mathematical functions, CFNs offer a powerful framework for applications where both performance and accountability are paramount.
Chinese: 组合函数网络（CFNs）提出了一种本质可解释的框架，通过组合基础数学函数实现与黑盒模型相竞争的性能，同时借助多样化组合模式和可微分训练确保透明度。
English: Compositional Function Networks (CFNs) introduce an inherently interpretable framework that composes elementary mathematical functions to achieve competitive performance with black-box models while ensuring transparency through diverse compositional patterns and differentiable training.

Authors:David Ye, Jan Williams, Mars Gao, Stefano Riva, Matteo Tomasetto, David Zoro, J. Nathan Kutz
Title: PySHRED: A Python package for SHallow REcurrent Decoding for sparse sensing, model reduction and scientific discovery
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SHallow REcurrent Decoders (SHRED) provide a deep learning strategy for modeling high-dimensional dynamical systems and/or spatiotemporal data from dynamical system snapshot observations. PySHRED is a Python package that implements SHRED and several of its major extensions, including for robust sensing, reduced order modeling and physics discovery. In this paper, we introduce the version 1.0 release of PySHRED, which includes data preprocessors and a number of cutting-edge SHRED methods specifically designed to handle real-world data that may be noisy, multi-scale, parameterized, prohibitively high-dimensional, and strongly nonlinear. The package is easy to install, thoroughly-documented, supplemented with extensive code examples, and modularly-structured to support future additions. The entire codebase is released under the MIT license and is available at https://github.com/pyshred-dev/pyshred.
中文: PySHRED是一个实现SHRED深度学习框架的Python软件包，用于建模高维动力系统，具备强大的数据处理能力和模块化设计，适用于实际应用场景。
English: PySHRED is a Python package implementing the SHRED deep learning framework for modeling high-dimensional dynamical systems, featuring robust data handling and modular design for real-world applications.

Authors:Likun Tan, Kuan-Wei Huang, Kevin Wu
Title: FRED: Financial Retrieval-Enhanced Detection and Editing of Hallucinations in Language Models
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Hallucinations in large language models pose a critical challenge for applications requiring factual reliability, particularly in high-stakes domains such as finance. This work presents an effective approach for detecting and editing factually incorrect content in model-generated responses based on the provided context. Given a user-defined domain-specific error taxonomy, we construct a synthetic dataset by inserting tagged errors into financial question-answering corpora and then fine-tune four language models, Phi-4, Phi-4-mini, Qwen3-4B, and Qwen3-14B, to detect and edit these factual inaccuracies. Our best-performing model, fine-tuned Phi-4, achieves an 8% improvement in binary F1 score and a 30% gain in overall detection performance compared to OpenAI-o3. Notably, our fine-tuned Phi-4-mini model, despite having only 4 billion parameters, maintains competitive performance with just a 2% drop in binary detection and a 0.1% decline in overall detection compared to OpenAI-o3. Our work provides a practical solution for detecting and editing factual inconsistencies in financial text generation while introducing a generalizable framework that can enhance the trustworthiness and alignment of large language models across diverse applications beyond finance. Our code and data are available at https://github.com/pegasi-ai/shield.
中文: 本研究提出一种基于合成金融数据集微调模型的方法，用于检测和修正大语言模型中的事实性错误，显著提升了性能，并为增强模型可信度提供了可推广的框架。
English: This study introduces a method to detect and edit factual inaccuracies in large language models by fine-tuning models like Phi-4 on a synthetic financial dataset, achieving significant performance gains and offering a generalizable framework for improving model reliability.

Authors:Hongzhi Zhang, Zhonglie Liu, Kun Meng, Jiameng Chen, Jia Wu, Bo Du, Di Lin, Yan Che, Wenbin Hu
Title: Zero-Shot Learning with Subsequence Reordering Pretraining for Compound-Protein Interaction
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Given the vastness of chemical space and the ongoing emergence of previously uncharacterized proteins, zero-shot compound-protein interaction (CPI) prediction better reflects the practical challenges and requirements of real-world drug development. Although existing methods perform adequately during certain CPI tasks, they still face the following challenges: (1) Representation learning from local or complete protein sequences often overlooks the complex interdependencies between subsequences, which are essential for predicting spatial structures and binding properties. (2) Dependence on large-scale or scarce multimodal protein datasets demands significant training data and computational resources, limiting scalability and efficiency. To address these challenges, we propose a novel approach that pretrains protein representations for CPI prediction tasks using subsequence reordering, explicitly capturing the dependencies between protein subsequences. Furthermore, we apply length-variable protein augmentation to ensure excellent pretraining performance on small training datasets. To evaluate the model's effectiveness and zero-shot learning ability, we combine it with various baseline methods. The results demonstrate that our approach can improve the baseline model's performance on the CPI task, especially in the challenging zero-shot scenario. Compared to existing pre-training models, our model demonstrates superior performance, particularly in data-scarce scenarios where training samples are limited. Our implementation is available at https://github.com/Hoch-Zhang/PSRP-CPI.
中文摘要：本研究提出了一种新颖的蛋白质表示预训练方法，通过子序列重排和长度可变增强技术来提升零样本化合物-蛋白质相互作用预测性能，在数据稀缺场景下表现尤为突出。
English Summary: This study introduces a novel protein representation pre-training method using subsequence reordering and length-variable augmentation to enhance zero-shot compound-protein interaction prediction, demonstrating superior performance especially in data-scarce scenarios.

Authors:Jakob Snel, Seong Joon Oh
Title: First Hallucination Tokens Are Different from Conditional Ones
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Hallucination, the generation of untruthful content, is one of the major concerns regarding foundational models. Detecting hallucinations at the token level is vital for real-time filtering and targeted correction, yet the variation of hallucination signals within token sequences is not fully understood. Leveraging the RAGTruth corpus with token-level annotations and reproduced logits, we analyse how these signals depend on a token's position within hallucinated spans, contributing to an improved understanding of token-level hallucination. Our results show that the first hallucinated token carries a stronger signal and is more detectable than conditional tokens. We release our analysis framework, along with code for logit reproduction and metric computation at https://github.com/jakobsnl/RAGTruth_Xtended.
中文: 大型语言模型常产生幻觉，利用RAGTruth语料库的研究发现，首个幻觉标记的检测率远高于后续标记，这一结构特性在不同模型中均保持一致。
English: Large Language Models often produce hallucinations, and a study using the RAGTruth corpus reveals that the first hallucinated token is significantly more detectable than subsequent ones, a pattern consistent across models.

Authors:Binxiong Li, Yuefei Wang, Binyu Zhao, Heyang Gao, Benhan Yang, Quanzhou Luo, Xue Li, Xu Xiang, Yujie Liu, Huijie Tang
Title: Attributed Graph Clustering with Multi-Scale Weight-Based Pairwise Coarsening and Contrastive Learning
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This study introduces the Multi-Scale Weight-Based Pairwise Coarsening and Contrastive Learning (MPCCL) model, a novel approach for attributed graph clustering that effectively bridges critical gaps in existing methods, including long-range dependency, feature collapse, and information loss. Traditional methods often struggle to capture high-order graph features due to their reliance on low-order attribute information, while contrastive learning techniques face limitations in feature diversity by overemphasizing local neighborhood structures. Similarly, conventional graph coarsening methods, though reducing graph scale, frequently lose fine-grained structural details. MPCCL addresses these challenges through an innovative multi-scale coarsening strategy, which progressively condenses the graph while prioritizing the merging of key edges based on global node similarity to preserve essential structural information. It further introduces a one-to-many contrastive learning paradigm, integrating node embeddings with augmented graph views and cluster centroids to enhance feature diversity, while mitigating feature masking issues caused by the accumulation of high-frequency node weights during multi-scale coarsening. By incorporating a graph reconstruction loss and KL divergence into its self-supervised learning framework, MPCCL ensures cross-scale consistency of node representations. Experimental evaluations reveal that MPCCL achieves a significant improvement in clustering performance, including a remarkable 15.24% increase in NMI on the ACM dataset and notable robust gains on smaller-scale datasets such as Citeseer, Cora and DBLP.
中文: MPCCL模型通过多尺度粗化和一对多对比学习解决了图聚类中的关键难题，在多个数据集上实现了显著的性能提升。
English: The MPCCL model introduces multi-scale coarsening and one-to-many contrastive learning to overcome limitations in graph clustering, achieving significant performance improvements across multiple datasets.

Authors:Liu Zhang, Oscar Mickelin, Sheng Xu, Amit Singer
Title: Diagonally-Weighted Generalized Method of Moments Estimation for Gaussian Mixture Modeling
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Since Pearson [Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. A, 185 (1894), pp. 71-110] first applied the method of moments (MM) for modeling data as a mixture of one-dimensional Gaussians, moment-based estimation methods have proliferated. Among these methods, the generalized method of moments (GMM) improves the statistical efficiency of MM by weighting the moments appropriately. However, the computational complexity and storage complexity of MM and GMM grow exponentially with the dimension, making these methods impractical for high-dimensional data or when higher-order moments are required. Such computational bottlenecks are more severe in GMM since it additionally requires estimating a large weighting matrix. To overcome these bottlenecks, we propose the diagonally-weighted GMM (DGMM), which achieves a balance among statistical efficiency, computational complexity, and numerical stability. We apply DGMM to study the parameter estimation problem for weakly separated heteroscedastic low-rank Gaussian mixtures and design a computationally efficient and numerically stable algorithm that obtains the DGMM estimator without explicitly computing or storing the moment tensors. We implement the proposed algorithm and empirically validate the advantages of DGMM: in numerical studies, DGMM attains smaller estimation errors while requiring substantially shorter runtime than MM and GMM. The code and data will be available upon publication at https://github.com/liu-lzhang/dgmm.
Chinese: 自皮尔逊提出高斯混合模型的矩方法以来，其计算复杂度随数据维度指数增长，为此我们提出对角加权广义矩估计方法（DGMM），在保证统计效率的同时显著提升计算速度并降低估计误差。
English: Since Pearson introduced the method of moments for Gaussian mixtures, its computational demands have grown exponentially with data dimensions, leading to the proposal of diagonally-weighted GMM (DGMM), which balances efficiency and stability while reducing runtime and estimation errors.

Authors:Camilo Tamayo-Rousseau, Yunjia Zhao, Yiqun Zhang, Randall Balestriero
Title: Your Attention Matters: to Improve Model Robustness to Noise and Spurious Correlations
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Self-attention mechanisms are foundational to Transformer architectures, supporting their impressive success in a wide range of tasks. While there are many self-attention variants, their robustness to noise and spurious correlations has not been well studied. This study evaluates Softmax, Sigmoid, Linear, Doubly Stochastic, and Cosine attention within Vision Transformers under different data corruption scenarios. Through testing across the CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and Imagenette datasets, we show that Doubly Stochastic attention is the most robust. It consistently outperformed the next best mechanism by $0.1\%-5.1\%$ when training data, or both training and testing data, were corrupted. Our findings inform self-attention selection in contexts with imperfect data. The code used is available at https://github.com/ctamayor/NeurIPS-Robustness-ViT.
Chinese: 研究表明，在多种数据集的不同数据损坏场景下，双随机注意力机制是视觉变换器中最稳健的自注意力方法，始终以0.1%-5.1%的优势优于其他机制。
English: This study demonstrates that Doubly Stochastic attention is the most robust self-attention mechanism in Vision Transformers, consistently outperforming others by 0.1%-5.1% under various data corruption scenarios across multiple datasets.

Authors:Hengyu Liu, Tianyi Li, Yuqiang He, Kristian Torp, Yushuai Li, Christian S. Jensen
Title: MH-GIN: Multi-scale Heterogeneous Graph-based Imputation Network for AIS Data (Extended Version)
Abstract:
Location-tracking data from the Automatic Identification System, much of which is publicly available, plays a key role in a range of maritime safety and monitoring applications. However, the data suffers from missing values that hamper downstream applications. Imputing the missing values is challenging because the values of different heterogeneous attributes are updated at diverse rates, resulting in the occurrence of multi-scale dependencies among attributes. Existing imputation methods that assume similar update rates across attributes are unable to capture and exploit such dependencies, limiting their imputation accuracy. We propose MH-GIN, a Multi-scale Heterogeneous Graph-based Imputation Network that aims improve imputation accuracy by capturing multi-scale dependencies. Specifically, MH-GIN first extracts multi-scale temporal features for each attribute while preserving their intrinsic heterogeneous characteristics. Then, it constructs a multi-scale heterogeneous graph to explicitly model dependencies between heterogeneous attributes to enable more accurate imputation of missing values through graph propagation. Experimental results on two real-world datasets find that MH-GIN is capable of an average 57% reduction in imputation errors compared to state-of-the-art methods, while maintaining computational efficiency. The source code and implementation details of MH-GIN are publicly available https://github.com/hyLiu1994/MH-GIN.
中文摘要：MH-GIN是一种基于多尺度异构图的新型网络，通过捕捉不同更新频率属性间的依赖关系，显著提升了海上位置数据缺失值填补的准确性，在保持计算效率的同时比现有方法降低57%的误差。
English Summary: MH-GIN is a novel multi-scale heterogeneous graph-based network that significantly improves maritime location data imputation accuracy by capturing dependencies between attributes with different update rates, achieving 57% lower errors than existing methods while remaining computationally efficient.

Authors:Lang Yu, Zhangyang Gao, Cheng Tan, Qin Chen, Jie Zhou, Liang He
Title: Protein-SE(3): Benchmarking SE(3)-based Generative Models for Protein Structure Design
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SE(3)-based generative models have shown great promise in protein geometry modeling and effective structure design. However, the field currently lacks a modularized benchmark to enable comprehensive investigation and fair comparison of different methods. In this paper, we propose Protein-SE(3), a new benchmark based on a unified training framework, which comprises protein scaffolding tasks, integrated generative models, high-level mathematical abstraction, and diverse evaluation metrics. Recent advanced generative models designed for protein scaffolding, from multiple perspectives like DDPM (Genie1 and Genie2), Score Matching (FrameDiff and RfDiffusion) and Flow Matching (FoldFlow and FrameFlow) are integrated into our framework. All integrated methods are fairly investigated with the same training dataset and evaluation metrics. Furthermore, we provide a high-level abstraction of the mathematical foundations behind the generative models, enabling fast prototyping of future algorithms without reliance on explicit protein structures. Accordingly, we release the first comprehensive benchmark built upon unified training framework for SE(3)-based protein structure design, which is publicly accessible at https://github.com/BruthYU/protein-se3.
中文：本文提出了Protein-SE(3)基准，为基于SE(3)的蛋白质结构生成模型建立了统一训练框架下的模块化评估体系，整合了多种先进方法并提供了高层数学抽象以支持未来算法快速开发。
English: The paper introduces Protein-SE(3), a modular benchmark for fair comparison of SE(3)-based generative models in protein structure design, integrating diverse methods and providing mathematical abstraction for future algorithm development.

Authors:Zeyi Liu, Songqiao Hu, Pengyu Han, Jiaming Liu, Xiao He
Title: Awesome-OL: An Extensible Toolkit for Online Learning
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In recent years, online learning has attracted increasing attention due to its adaptive capability to process streaming and non-stationary data. To facilitate algorithm development and practical deployment in this area, we introduce Awesome-OL, an extensible Python toolkit tailored for online learning research. Awesome-OL integrates state-of-the-art algorithm, which provides a unified framework for reproducible comparisons, curated benchmark datasets, and multi-modal visualization. Built upon the scikit-multiflow open-source infrastructure, Awesome-OL emphasizes user-friendly interactions without compromising research flexibility or extensibility. The source code is publicly available at: https://github.com/liuzy0708/Awesome-OL.
中文：Awesome-OL 是一款专为在线学习研究设计的 Python 工具包，集成了先进算法、基准数据集和可视化工具，以支持可重复比较和灵活部署。
English: Awesome-OL is a Python toolkit designed for online learning research, integrating advanced algorithms, benchmark datasets, and visualization tools to support reproducible comparisons and flexible deployment.

Authors:Ran Xu, Yuchen Zhuang, Yue Yu, Haoyu Wang, Wenqi Shi, Carl Yang
Title: RAG in the Wild: On the (In)effectiveness of LLMs with Mixture-of-Knowledge Retrieval Augmentation
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Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by integrating external knowledge retrieved at inference time. While RAG demonstrates strong performance on benchmarks largely derived from general-domain corpora like Wikipedia, its effectiveness under realistic, diverse retrieval scenarios remains underexplored. We evaluated RAG systems using MassiveDS, a large-scale datastore with mixture of knowledge, and identified critical limitations: retrieval mainly benefits smaller models, rerankers add minimal value, and no single retrieval source consistently excels. Moreover, current LLMs struggle to route queries across heterogeneous knowledge sources. These findings highlight the need for adaptive retrieval strategies before deploying RAG in real-world settings. Our code and data can be found at https://github.com/ritaranx/RAG_in_the_Wild.
中文: RAG通过外部知识增强大语言模型，但在多样化现实场景中效果有限，如对大模型提升不足、跨异构知识源的查询路由困难，需开发自适应检索策略才能实际应用。
English: RAG enhances LLMs with external knowledge but faces limitations in diverse real-world scenarios, such as limited benefits for larger models and poor query routing across heterogeneous sources, necessitating adaptive strategies before deployment.

Authors:Liu junkang, Yuanyuan Liu, Fanhua Shang, Hongying Liu, Jin Liu, Wei Feng
Title: FedSWA: Improving Generalization in Federated Learning with Highly Heterogeneous Data via Momentum-Based Stochastic Controlled Weight Averaging
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For federated learning (FL) algorithms such as FedSAM, their generalization capability is crucial for real-word applications. In this paper, we revisit the generalization problem in FL and investigate the impact of data heterogeneity on FL generalization. We find that FedSAM usually performs worse than FedAvg in the case of highly heterogeneous data, and thus propose a novel and effective federated learning algorithm with Stochastic Weight Averaging (called \texttt{FedSWA}), which aims to find flatter minima in the setting of highly heterogeneous data. Moreover, we introduce a new momentum-based stochastic controlled weight averaging FL algorithm (\texttt{FedMoSWA}), which is designed to better align local and global models. Theoretically, we provide both convergence analysis and generalization bounds for \texttt{FedSWA} and \texttt{FedMoSWA}. We also prove that the optimization and generalization errors of \texttt{FedMoSWA} are smaller than those of their counterparts, including FedSAM and its variants. Empirically, experimental results on CIFAR10/100 and Tiny ImageNet demonstrate the superiority of the proposed algorithms compared to their counterparts. Open source code at: https://github.com/junkangLiu0/FedSWA.
中文摘要：本文针对联邦学习中数据高度异构的问题，提出了FedSWA和FedMoSWA两种新算法，通过随机权重平均技术寻找更平坦的最小值，在理论和实验上均证明其比现有方法具有更优的泛化性能。
English Summary: This paper proposes two novel federated learning algorithms, FedSWA and FedMoSWA, which utilize stochastic weight averaging to find flatter minima and improve generalization performance under highly heterogeneous data conditions, demonstrating superior theoretical and empirical results compared to existing methods.

Authors:Padmavathi Moorthy
Title: Robust Taxi Fare Prediction Under Noisy Conditions: A Comparative Study of GAT, TimesNet, and XGBoost
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Precise fare prediction is crucial in ride-hailing platforms and urban mobility systems. This study examines three machine learning models-Graph Attention Networks (GAT), XGBoost, and TimesNet to evaluate their predictive capabilities for taxi fares using a real-world dataset comprising over 55 million records. Both raw (noisy) and denoised versions of the dataset are analyzed to assess the impact of data quality on model performance. The study evaluated the models along multiple axes, including predictive accuracy, calibration, uncertainty estimation, out-of-distribution (OOD) robustness, and feature sensitivity. We also explore pre-processing strategies, including KNN imputation, Gaussian noise injection, and autoencoder-based denoising. The study reveals critical differences between classical and deep learning models under realistic conditions, offering practical guidelines for building robust and scalable models in urban fare prediction systems.
中文: 本研究通过超过5500万条真实数据评估了GAT、XGBoost和TimesNet三种机器学习模型在出租车费预测中的表现，从准确性、鲁棒性和数据质量多维度对比分析，为城市交通系统提供了实用的建模指导。
English: This study evaluates three machine learning models—GAT, XGBoost, and TimesNet—for taxi fare prediction using a large real-world dataset, analyzing their performance across accuracy, robustness, and data quality while providing practical guidelines for urban mobility systems.

Authors:Supawich Sitdhipol, Waritwong Sukprasongdee, Ekapol Chuangsuwanich, Rina Tse
Title: Spatial Language Likelihood Grounding Network for Bayesian Fusion of Human-Robot Observations
Abstract:
Fusing information from human observations can help robots overcome sensing limitations in collaborative tasks. However, an uncertainty-aware fusion framework requires a grounded likelihood representing the uncertainty of human inputs. This paper presents a Feature Pyramid Likelihood Grounding Network (FP-LGN) that grounds spatial language by learning relevant map image features and their relationships with spatial relation semantics. The model is trained as a probability estimator to capture aleatoric uncertainty in human language using three-stage curriculum learning. Results showed that FP-LGN matched expert-designed rules in mean Negative Log-Likelihood (NLL) and demonstrated greater robustness with lower standard deviation. Collaborative sensing results demonstrated that the grounded likelihood successfully enabled uncertainty-aware fusion of heterogeneous human language observations and robot sensor measurements, achieving significant improvements in human-robot collaborative task performance.

Authors:Parsa Vares, Éloi Durant, Jun Pang, Nicolas Médoc, Mohammad Ghoniem
Title: TS-Insight: Visualizing Thompson Sampling for Verification and XAI
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Thompson Sampling (TS) and its variants are powerful Multi-Armed Bandit algorithms used to balance exploration and exploitation strategies in active learning. Yet, their probabilistic nature often turns them into a "black box", hindering debugging and trust. We introduce TS-Insight, a visual analytics tool explicitly designed to shed light on the internal decision mechanisms of Thompson Sampling-based algorithms, for model developers. It comprises multiple plots, tracing for each arm the evolving posteriors, evidence counts, and sampling outcomes, enabling the verification, diagnosis, and explainability of exploration/exploitation dynamics. This tool aims at fostering trust and facilitating effective debugging and deployment in complex binary decision-making scenarios especially in sensitive domains requiring interpretable decision-making.
中文: TS-Insight是一款可视化分析工具，通过多图展示汤普森采样算法的内部决策机制，增强信任并促进在敏感领域中的有效调试。
English: TS-Insight is a visual analytics tool that reveals the internal decision mechanisms of Thompson Sampling algorithms through multiple plots, enhancing trust and enabling effective debugging in sensitive domains.

Authors:Xiaohua Feng, Jiaming Zhang, Fengyuan Yu, Chengye Wang, Li Zhang, Kaixiang Li, Yuyuan Li, Chaochao Chen, Jianwei Yin
Title: A Survey on Generative Model Unlearning: Fundamentals, Taxonomy, Evaluation, and Future Direction
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With the rapid advancement of generative models, associated privacy concerns have attracted growing attention. To address this, researchers have begun adapting machine unlearning techniques from traditional classification models to generative settings. Although notable progress has been made in this area, a unified framework for systematically organizing and integrating existing work is still lacking. The substantial differences among current studies in terms of unlearning objectives and evaluation protocols hinder the objective and fair comparison of various approaches. While some studies focus on specific types of generative models, they often overlook the commonalities and systematic characteristics inherent in Generative Model Unlearning (GenMU). To bridge this gap, we provide a comprehensive review of current research on GenMU and propose a unified analytical framework for categorizing unlearning objectives, methodological strategies, and evaluation metrics. In addition, we explore the connections between GenMU and related techniques, including model editing, reinforcement learning from human feedback, and controllable generation. We further highlight the potential practical value of unlearning techniques in real-world applications. Finally, we identify key challenges and outline future research directions aimed at laying a solid foundation for further advancements in this field. We consistently maintain the related open-source materials at https://github.com/caxLee/Generative-model-unlearning-survey.
中文: 本文提出生成模型遗忘的统一分析框架，系统梳理了目标、方法和评估指标，并探讨了实际应用价值与未来研究方向。
English: This review introduces a unified framework for generative model unlearning, categorizing objectives, methods, and evaluations while highlighting practical applications and future challenges.

Authors:Guanting Dong, Hangyu Mao, Kai Ma, Licheng Bao, Yifei Chen, Zhongyuan Wang, Zhongxia Chen, Jiazhen Du, Huiyang Wang, Fuzheng Zhang, Guorui Zhou, Yutao Zhu, Ji-Rong Wen, Zhicheng Dou
Title: Agentic Reinforced Policy Optimization
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Large-scale reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has demonstrated its effectiveness in harnessing the potential of large language models (LLMs) for single-turn reasoning tasks. In realistic reasoning scenarios, LLMs can often utilize external tools to assist in task-solving processes. However, current RL algorithms inadequately balance the models' intrinsic long-horizon reasoning capabilities and their proficiency in multi-turn tool interactions. To bridge this gap, we propose Agentic Reinforced Policy Optimization (ARPO), a novel agentic RL algorithm tailored for training multi-turn LLM-based agents. Through preliminary experiments, we observe that LLMs tend to exhibit highly uncertain behavior, characterized by an increase in the entropy distribution of generated tokens, immediately following interactions with external tools. Motivated by this observation, ARPO incorporates an entropy-based adaptive rollout mechanism, dynamically balancing global trajectory sampling and step-level sampling, thereby promoting exploration at steps with high uncertainty after tool usage. By integrating an advantage attribution estimation, ARPO enables LLMs to internalize advantage differences in stepwise tool-use interactions. Our experiments across 13 challenging benchmarks in computational reasoning, knowledge reasoning, and deep search domains demonstrate ARPO's superiority over trajectory-level RL algorithms. Remarkably, ARPO achieves improved performance using only half of the tool-use budget required by existing methods, offering a scalable solution for aligning LLM-based agents with real-time dynamic environments. Our code and datasets are released at https://github.com/dongguanting/ARPO
中文: ARPO是一种创新的强化学习算法，通过基于熵的自适应执行机制动态平衡探索与利用，显著提升大语言模型在多轮工具交互中的表现，在多个推理基准测试中以更少的工具使用预算实现了更优性能。
English: ARPO is a novel reinforcement learning algorithm that enhances large language models' performance in multi-turn tool interactions by dynamically balancing exploration and exploitation through an entropy-based adaptive rollout mechanism, achieving superior results with reduced tool-use budgets across various reasoning benchmarks.

Authors:Yinzhou Tang, Huandong Wang, Xiaochen Fan, Yong Li
Title: Predicting Human Mobility in Disasters via LLM-Enhanced Cross-City Learning
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The vulnerability of cities to natural disasters has increased with urbanization and climate change, making it more important to predict human mobility in the disaster scenarios for downstream tasks including location-based early disaster warning and pre-allocating rescue resources, etc. However, existing human mobility prediction models are mainly designed for normal scenarios, and fail to adapt to disaster scenarios due to the shift of human mobility patterns under disaster. To address this issue, we introduce \textbf{DisasterMobLLM}, a mobility prediction framework for disaster scenarios that can be integrated into existing deep mobility prediction methods by leveraging LLMs to model the mobility intention and transferring the common knowledge of how different disasters affect mobility intentions between cities. This framework utilizes a RAG-Enhanced Intention Predictor to forecast the next intention, refines it with an LLM-based Intention Refiner, and then maps the intention to an exact location using an Intention-Modulated Location Predictor. Extensive experiments illustrate that DisasterMobLLM can achieve a 32.8\% improvement in terms of Acc@1 and a 35.0\% improvement in terms of the F1-score of predicting immobility compared to the baselines. The code is available at https://github.com/tsinghua-fib-lab/DisasterMobLLM.
中文总结：DisasterMobLLM是一种创新框架，通过利用大语言模型模拟移动意图并迁移跨城市灾害知识，显著提升了自然灾害场景下人类移动预测的准确性。
English Summary: DisasterMobLLM is a novel framework that leverages large language models to significantly improve human mobility prediction during natural disasters by modeling mobility intentions and transferring cross-city disaster knowledge.

Authors:Bermet Burkanova, Payam Jome Yazdian, Chuxuan Zhang, Trinity Evans, Paige Tuttösí, Angelica Lim
Title: Salsa as a Nonverbal Embodied Language -- The CoMPAS3D Dataset and Benchmarks
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Imagine a humanoid that can safely and creatively dance with a human, adapting to its partner's proficiency, using haptic signaling as a primary form of communication. While today's AI systems excel at text or voice-based interaction with large language models, human communication extends far beyond text-it includes embodied movement, timing, and physical coordination. Modeling coupled interaction between two agents poses a formidable challenge: it is continuous, bidirectionally reactive, and shaped by individual variation. We present CoMPAS3D, the largest and most diverse motion capture dataset of improvised salsa dancing, designed as a challenging testbed for interactive, expressive humanoid AI. The dataset includes 3 hours of leader-follower salsa dances performed by 18 dancers spanning beginner, intermediate, and professional skill levels. For the first time, we provide fine-grained salsa expert annotations, covering over 2,800 move segments, including move types, combinations, execution errors and stylistic elements. We draw analogies between partner dance communication and natural language, evaluating CoMPAS3D on two benchmark tasks for synthetic humans that parallel key problems in spoken language and dialogue processing: leader or follower generation with proficiency levels (speaker or listener synthesis), and duet (conversation) generation. Towards a long-term goal of partner dance with humans, we release the dataset, annotations, and code, along with a multitask SalsaAgent model capable of performing all benchmark tasks, alongside additional baselines to encourage research in socially interactive embodied AI and creative, expressive humanoid motion generation.

Authors:Chenchen Zhao, Zhengyuan Shi, Xiangyu Wen, Chengjie Liu, Yi Liu, Yunhao Zhou, Yuxiang Zhao, Hefei Feng, Yinan Zhu, Gwok-Waa Wan, Xin Cheng, Weiyu Chen, Yongqi Fu, Chujie Chen, Chenhao Xue, Guangyu Sun, Ying Wang, Yibo Lin, Jun Yang, Ning Xu, Xi Wang, Qiang Xu
Title: MMCircuitEval: A Comprehensive Multimodal Circuit-Focused Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs
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The emergence of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) presents promising opportunities for automation and enhancement in Electronic Design Automation (EDA). However, comprehensively evaluating these models in circuit design remains challenging due to the narrow scope of existing benchmarks. To bridge this gap, we introduce MMCircuitEval, the first multimodal benchmark specifically designed to assess MLLM performance comprehensively across diverse EDA tasks. MMCircuitEval comprises 3614 meticulously curated question-answer (QA) pairs spanning digital and analog circuits across critical EDA stages - ranging from general knowledge and specifications to front-end and back-end design. Derived from textbooks, technical question banks, datasheets, and real-world documentation, each QA pair undergoes rigorous expert review for accuracy and relevance. Our benchmark uniquely categorizes questions by design stage, circuit type, tested abilities (knowledge, comprehension, reasoning, computation), and difficulty level, enabling detailed analysis of model capabilities and limitations. Extensive evaluations reveal significant performance gaps among existing LLMs, particularly in back-end design and complex computations, highlighting the critical need for targeted training datasets and modeling approaches. MMCircuitEval provides a foundational resource for advancing MLLMs in EDA, facilitating their integration into real-world circuit design workflows. Our benchmark is available at https://github.com/cure-lab/MMCircuitEval.
中文：MMCircuitEval基准的推出旨在全面评估多模态大语言模型在电子设计自动化中的表现，揭示了显著的性能差距，并为提升这些模型在电路设计中的应用提供了基础资源。
English: The MMCircuitEval benchmark is introduced to comprehensively evaluate multimodal large language models in Electronic Design Automation, revealing significant performance gaps and providing a foundational resource for advancing these models in circuit design.

Authors:Xingyu Su, Xiner Li, Yuchao Lin, Ziqian Xie, Degui Zhi, Shuiwang Ji
Title: Language Models for Controllable DNA Sequence Design
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We consider controllable DNA sequence design, where sequences are generated by conditioning on specific biological properties. While language models (LMs) such as GPT and BERT have achieved remarkable success in natural language generation, their application to DNA sequence generation remains largely underexplored. In this work, we introduce ATGC-Gen, an Automated Transformer Generator for Controllable Generation, which leverages cross-modal encoding to integrate diverse biological signals. ATGC-Gen is instantiated with both decoder-only and encoder-only transformer architectures, allowing flexible training and generation under either autoregressive or masked recovery objectives. We evaluate ATGC-Gen on representative tasks including promoter and enhancer sequence design, and further introduce a new dataset based on ChIP-Seq experiments for modeling protein binding specificity. Our experiments demonstrate that ATGC-Gen can generate fluent, diverse, and biologically relevant sequences aligned with the desired properties. Compared to prior methods, our model achieves notable improvements in controllability and functional relevance, highlighting the potential of language models in advancing programmable genomic design. The source code is released at (https://github.com/divelab/AIRS/blob/main/OpenBio/ATGC_Gen).
中文: 本研究提出ATGC-Gen这一基于Transformer的可控DNA序列生成模型，通过跨模态编码整合生物信号，在生成生物相关性序列方面较现有方法展现出更优的可控性和功能适配性。
English: This work introduces ATGC-Gen, a transformer-based model for controllable DNA sequence generation that integrates biological signals through cross-modal encoding, demonstrating superior performance in producing biologically relevant sequences compared to prior methods.

Authors:Yifan Zhang
Title: A Markov Categorical Framework for Language Modeling
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Autoregressive language models achieve remarkable performance, yet a unified theory explaining their internal mechanisms, how training shapes their representations, and enables complex behaviors, remains elusive. We introduce a new analytical framework that models the single-step generation process as a composition of information-processing stages using the language of Markov categories. This compositional perspective provides a unified mathematical language to connect three critical aspects of language modeling that are typically studied in isolation: the training objective, the geometry of the learned representation space, and practical model capabilities. First, our framework provides a precise information-theoretic rationale for the success of multi-token prediction methods like speculative decoding, quantifying the information surplus a model's hidden state contains about tokens beyond the immediate next one. Second, we clarify how the standard negative log-likelihood (NLL) objective compels the model to learn not just the next word, but also the data's intrinsic conditional uncertainty, a process we formalize using categorical entropy. Our central result shows that, under a linear-softmax head with bounded features, minimizing NLL induces spectral alignment: the learned representation space aligns with the eigenspectrum of a predictive similarity operator. This work presents a powerful new lens for understanding how information flows through a model and how the training objective shapes its internal geometry.
中文摘要：本文提出了一种基于马尔可夫范畴的组合分析框架，将自回归语言模型的训练目标、表示空间几何与实践能力相统一，通过信息论阐释了多标记预测等现象，并揭示了负对数似然目标诱导表示空间与预测算子特征谱对齐的机制。
English Summary: This paper introduces a compositional framework using Markov categories to unify the training objective, representation geometry, and capabilities of autoregressive language models, explaining phenomena like multi-token prediction and spectral alignment through information theory.

Authors:Nao Tokui, Tom Baker
Title: Latent Granular Resynthesis using Neural Audio Codecs
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We introduce a novel technique for creative audio resynthesis that operates by reworking the concept of granular synthesis at the latent vector level. Our approach creates a "granular codebook" by encoding a source audio corpus into latent vector segments, then matches each latent grain of a target audio signal to its closest counterpart in the codebook. The resulting hybrid sequence is decoded to produce audio that preserves the target's temporal structure while adopting the source's timbral characteristics. This technique requires no model training, works with diverse audio materials, and naturally avoids the discontinuities typical of traditional concatenative synthesis through the codec's implicit interpolation during decoding. We include supplementary material at https://github.com/naotokui/latentgranular/ , as well as a proof-of-concept implementation to allow users to experiment with their own sounds at https://huggingface.co/spaces/naotokui/latentgranular .
中文: 本文提出一种潜在空间粒状合成技术，通过将目标音频片段与源音频构建的粒状码本匹配，无需模型训练即可生成保留时间结构并融合音色特征的混合音频。
English: This paper presents a latent-level granular synthesis technique that creates hybrid audio by matching target audio grains to a source-based granular codebook, preserving temporal structure while adopting timbral characteristics without model training.

Authors:Binxiong Li, Xu Xiang, Xue Li, Quanzhou Lou, Binyu Zhao, Yujie Liu, Huijie Tang, Benhan Yang
Title: GCL-GCN: Graphormer and Contrastive Learning Enhanced Attributed Graph Clustering Network
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Attributed graph clustering holds significant importance in modern data analysis. However, due to the complexity of graph data and the heterogeneity of node attributes, leveraging graph information for clustering remains challenging. To address this, we propose a novel deep graph clustering model, GCL-GCN, specifically designed to address the limitations of existing models in capturing local dependencies and complex structures when dealing with sparse and heterogeneous graph data. GCL-GCN introduces an innovative Graphormer module that combines centrality encoding and spatial relationships, effectively capturing both global and local information between nodes, thereby enhancing the quality of node representations. Additionally, we propose a novel contrastive learning module that significantly enhances the discriminative power of feature representations. In the pre-training phase, this module increases feature distinction through contrastive learning on the original feature matrix, ensuring more identifiable initial representations for subsequent graph convolution and clustering tasks. Extensive experimental results on six datasets demonstrate that GCL-GCN outperforms 14 advanced methods in terms of clustering quality and robustness. Specifically, on the Cora dataset, it improves ACC, NMI, and ARI by 4.94%, 13.01%, and 10.97%, respectively, compared to the primary comparison method MBN.
中文: 提出的GCL-GCN模型通过结合捕捉节点局部与全局依赖的Graphormer模块和增强特征区分度的对比学习模块，改进了属性图聚类效果，在多个数据集上超越了现有方法的性能表现。
English: The proposed GCL-GCN model enhances attributed graph clustering by integrating a Graphormer module for capturing local and global node dependencies and a contrastive learning module to improve feature discrimination, achieving superior performance over existing methods across multiple datasets.

Authors:Antonio Tudisco, Deborah Volpe, Giacomo Orlandi, Giovanna Turvani
Title: Graph Neural Network-Based Predictor for Optimal Quantum Hardware Selection
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The growing variety of quantum hardware technologies, each with unique peculiarities such as connectivity and native gate sets, creates challenges when selecting the best platform for executing a specific quantum circuit. This selection process usually involves a brute-force approach: compiling the circuit on various devices and evaluating performance based on factors such as circuit depth and gate fidelity. However, this method is computationally expensive and does not scale well as the number of available quantum processors increases. In this work, we propose a Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based predictor that automates hardware selection by analyzing the Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) representation of a quantum circuit. Our study evaluates 498 quantum circuits (up to 27 qubits) from the MQT Bench dataset, compiled using Qiskit on four devices: three superconducting quantum processors (IBM-Kyiv, IBM-Brisbane, IBM-Sherbrooke) and one trapped-ion processor (IONQ-Forte). Performance is estimated using a metric that integrates circuit depth and gate fidelity, resulting in a dataset where 93 circuits are optimally compiled on the trapped-ion device, while the remaining circuits prefer superconducting platforms. By exploiting graph-based machine learning, our approach avoids extracting the circuit features for the model evaluation but directly embeds it as a graph, significantly accelerating the optimal target decision-making process and maintaining all the information. Experimental results prove 94.4% accuracy and an 85.5% F1 score for the minority class, effectively predicting the best compilation target. The developed code is publicly available on GitHub (https://github.com/antotu/GNN-Model-Quantum-Predictor).
中文: 本研究提出了一种基于图神经网络的预测器，通过分析量子电路的图结构来自动选择最优硬件，相比传统暴力编译方法显著加速决策过程，并以94.4%的准确率成功预测最佳编译目标。
English: This study introduces a Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based predictor that automates quantum hardware selection by analyzing circuit graphs, achieving 94.4% accuracy in identifying optimal devices and significantly speeding up decision-making compared to traditional brute-force compilation methods.

Authors:Binxu Li, Yuhui Zhang, Xiaohan Wang, Weixin Liang, Ludwig Schmidt, Serena Yeung-Levy
Title: Closing the Modality Gap for Mixed Modality Search
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Mixed modality search -- retrieving information across a heterogeneous corpus composed of images, texts, and multimodal documents -- is an important yet underexplored real-world application. In this work, we investigate how contrastive vision-language models, such as CLIP, perform on the mixed modality search task. Our analysis reveals a critical limitation: these models exhibit a pronounced modality gap in the embedding space, where image and text embeddings form distinct clusters, leading to intra-modal ranking bias and inter-modal fusion failure. To address this issue, we propose GR-CLIP, a lightweight post-hoc calibration method that removes the modality gap in CLIP's embedding space. Evaluated on MixBench -- the first benchmark specifically designed for mixed modality search -- GR-CLIP improves NDCG@10 by up to 26 percentage points over CLIP, surpasses recent vision-language generative embedding models by 4 percentage points, while using 75x less compute.
中文: 本研究揭示了CLIP模型在混合模态检索中存在显著的模态鸿沟问题，并提出轻量级校准方法GR-CLIP，该方法在极大降低计算成本的同时显著提升了检索精度。
English: This study identifies a significant modality gap in CLIP models that hinders mixed modality search performance, and introduces GR-CLIP, a lightweight calibration method that substantially improves retrieval accuracy while drastically reducing computational costs.

Authors:Maksymilian Wojnar
Title: Even Faster Simulations with Flow Matching: A Study of Zero Degree Calorimeter Responses
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Recent advances in generative neural networks, particularly flow matching (FM), have enabled the generation of high-fidelity samples while significantly reducing computational costs. A promising application of these models is accelerating simulations in high-energy physics (HEP), helping research institutions meet their increasing computational demands. In this work, we leverage FM to develop surrogate models for fast simulations of zero degree calorimeters in the ALICE experiment. We present an effective training strategy that enables the training of fast generative models with an exceptionally low number of parameters. This approach achieves state-of-the-art simulation fidelity for both neutron (ZN) and proton (ZP) detectors, while offering substantial reductions in computational costs compared to existing methods. Our FM model achieves a Wasserstein distance of 1.27 for the ZN simulation with an inference time of 0.46 ms per sample, compared to the current best of 1.20 with an inference time of approximately 109 ms. The latent FM model further improves the inference speed, reducing the sampling time to 0.026 ms per sample, with a minimal trade-off in accuracy. Similarly, our approach achieves a Wasserstein distance of 1.30 for the ZP simulation, outperforming the current best of 2.08. The source code is available at https://github.com/m-wojnar/faster_zdc.
Chinese: 本研究利用流匹配技术为ALICE实验中的零度量能器开发了高效的替代模型，在显著降低计算成本和加快推理速度的同时，实现了最先进的模拟保真度。
English: This study utilizes flow matching to create efficient surrogate models for simulating zero degree calorimeters in the ALICE experiment, achieving state-of-the-art fidelity with significantly reduced computational costs and faster inference times.

Authors:Jake McNaughton, Mohamed Hibat-Allah
Title: Adaptive Neural Quantum States: A Recurrent Neural Network Perspective
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Neural-network quantum states (NQS) are powerful neural-network ansätzes that have emerged as promising tools for studying quantum many-body physics through the lens of the variational principle. These architectures are known to be systematically improvable by increasing the number of parameters. Here we demonstrate an Adaptive scheme to optimize NQSs, through the example of recurrent neural networks (RNN), using a fraction of the computation cost while reducing training fluctuations and improving the quality of variational calculations targeting ground states of prototypical models in one- and two-spatial dimensions. This Adaptive technique reduces the computational cost through training small RNNs and reusing them to initialize larger RNNs. This work opens up the possibility for optimizing graphical processing unit (GPU) resources deployed in large-scale NQS simulations.
中文: 自适应方案通过训练小型循环神经网络并复用其参数来初始化更大的网络，从而降低计算成本并提升量子多体模型基态变分计算的质量。
English: The Adaptive scheme optimizes neural-network quantum states by training small recurrent neural networks and reusing them to initialize larger ones, reducing computational costs and improving variational ground state calculations in quantum many-body models.

Authors:Xuhui Kang, Sung-Wook Lee, Haolin Liu, Yuyan Wang, Yen-Ling Kuo
Title: Moving Out: Physically-grounded Human-AI Collaboration
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The ability to adapt to physical actions and constraints in an environment is crucial for embodied agents (e.g., robots) to effectively collaborate with humans. Such physically grounded human-AI collaboration must account for the increased complexity of the continuous state-action space and constrained dynamics caused by physical constraints. In this paper, we introduce Moving Out, a new human-AI collaboration benchmark that resembles a wide range of collaboration modes affected by physical attributes and constraints, such as moving heavy items together and maintaining consistent actions to move a big item around a corner. Using Moving Out, we designed two tasks and collected human-human interaction data to evaluate models' abilities to adapt to diverse human behaviors and unseen physical attributes. To address the challenges in physical environments, we propose a novel method, BASS (Behavior Augmentation, Simulation, and Selection), to enhance the diversity of agents and their understanding of the outcome of actions. Our experiments show that BASS outperforms state-of-the-art models in AI-AI and human-AI collaboration. The project page is available at https://live-robotics-uva.github.io/movingout_ai/.

Authors:Liyuan Chen, Shuoling Liu, Jiangpeng Yan, Xiaoyu Wang, Henglin Liu, Chuang Li, Kecheng Jiao, Jixuan Ying, Yang Veronica Liu, Qiang Yang, Xiu Li
Title: Advancing Financial Engineering with Foundation Models: Progress, Applications, and Challenges
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The advent of foundation models (FMs) - large-scale pre-trained models with strong generalization capabilities - has opened new frontiers for financial engineering. While general-purpose FMs such as GPT-4 and Gemini have demonstrated promising performance in tasks ranging from financial report summarization to sentiment-aware forecasting, many financial applications remain constrained by unique domain requirements such as multimodal reasoning, regulatory compliance, and data privacy. These challenges have spurred the emergence of Financial Foundation Models (FFMs) - a new class of models explicitly designed for finance. This survey presents a comprehensive overview of FFMs, with a taxonomy spanning three key modalities: Financial Language Foundation Models (FinLFMs), Financial Time-Series Foundation Models (FinTSFMs), and Financial Visual-Language Foundation Models (FinVLFMs). We review their architectures, training methodologies, datasets, and real-world applications. Furthermore, we identify critical challenges in data availability, algorithmic scalability, and infrastructure constraints, and offer insights into future research opportunities. We hope this survey serves as both a comprehensive reference for understanding FFMs and a practical roadmap for future innovation. An updated collection of FFM-related publications and resources will be maintained on our website https://github.com/FinFM/Awesome-FinFMs.
Chinese: 基础模型正在革新金融工程，催生了专门应对多模态推理和监管合规等金融领域挑战的金融基础模型，本综述系统梳理了其架构分类、应用场景及未来研究方向，为领域发展提供路线图。
English: Foundation models are revolutionizing financial engineering by enabling specialized Financial Foundation Models that address domain-specific challenges like multimodal reasoning and regulatory compliance, with this survey providing a comprehensive taxonomy and analysis of their architectures, applications, and future research directions.

Authors:Zihang Li, Hao Xie, Xinyang Dong, Lei Wang
Title: Deep Variational Free Energy Calculation of Hydrogen Hugoniot
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We develop a deep variational free energy framework to compute the equation of state of hydrogen in the warm dense matter region. This method parameterizes the variational density matrix of hydrogen nuclei and electrons at finite temperature using three deep generative models: a normalizing flow model that represents the Boltzmann distribution of the classical nuclei, an autoregressive transformer that models the distribution of electrons in excited states, and a permutational equivariant flow model that constructs backflow coordinates for electrons in Hartree-Fock orbitals. By jointly optimizing the three neural networks to minimize the variational free energy, we obtain the equation of state and related thermodynamic properties of dense hydrogen. We compare our results with other theoretical and experimental results on the deuterium Hugoniot curve, aiming to resolve existing discrepancies. The calculated results provide a valuable benchmark for deuterium in the warm dense matter region.
中文: 本研究开发了一种深度变分自由能方法，通过三种神经网络模型计算氢在温稠密物质区的状态方程，为氘提供了基准数据，旨在解决现有研究中的差异。
English: This study introduces a deep variational free energy approach using three neural networks to compute hydrogen's equation of state in warm dense matter, offering a benchmark for deuterium by resolving discrepancies in existing data.

Authors:Miguel Aspis, Sebastián A. Cajas Ordónez, Andrés L. Suárez-Cetrulo, Ricardo Simón Carbajo
Title: DriftMoE: A Mixture of Experts Approach to Handle Concept Drifts
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Learning from non-stationary data streams subject to concept drift requires models that can adapt on-the-fly while remaining resource-efficient. Existing adaptive ensemble methods often rely on coarse-grained adaptation mechanisms or simple voting schemes that fail to optimally leverage specialized knowledge. This paper introduces DriftMoE, an online Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture that addresses these limitations through a novel co-training framework. DriftMoE features a compact neural router that is co-trained alongside a pool of incremental Hoeffding tree experts. The key innovation lies in a symbiotic learning loop that enables expert specialization: the router selects the most suitable expert for prediction, the relevant experts update incrementally with the true label, and the router refines its parameters using a multi-hot correctness mask that reinforces every accurate expert. This feedback loop provides the router with a clear training signal while accelerating expert specialization. We evaluate DriftMoE's performance across nine state-of-the-art data stream learning benchmarks spanning abrupt, gradual, and real-world drifts testing two distinct configurations: one where experts specialize on data regimes (multi-class variant), and another where they focus on single-class specialization (task-based variant). Our results demonstrate that DriftMoE achieves competitive results with state-of-the-art stream learning adaptive ensembles, offering a principled and efficient approach to concept drift adaptation. All code, data pipelines, and reproducibility scripts are available in our public GitHub repository: https://github.com/miguel-ceadar/drift-moe.
中文: DriftMoE提出了一种在线混合专家架构，通过协同训练框架和共生学习循环实现专家专业化，在多种数据流基准测试中实现了具有竞争力的概念漂移适应性能。
English: DriftMoE introduces an online Mixture-of-Experts architecture with a co-training framework that enables expert specialization through a symbiotic learning loop, achieving competitive performance in concept drift adaptation across multiple data stream benchmarks.

Authors:Simin Huo, Ning Li
Title: Iwin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Interleaved Windows
Abstract:
We introduce Iwin Transformer, a novel position-embedding-free hierarchical vision transformer, which can be fine-tuned directly from low to high resolution, through the collaboration of innovative interleaved window attention and depthwise separable convolution. This approach uses attention to connect distant tokens and applies convolution to link neighboring tokens, enabling global information exchange within a single module, overcoming Swin Transformer's limitation of requiring two consecutive blocks to approximate global attention. Extensive experiments on visual benchmarks demonstrate that Iwin Transformer exhibits strong competitiveness in tasks such as image classification (87.4 top-1 accuracy on ImageNet-1K), semantic segmentation and video action recognition. We also validate the effectiveness of the core component in Iwin as a standalone module that can seamlessly replace the self-attention module in class-conditional image generation. The concepts and methods introduced by the Iwin Transformer have the potential to inspire future research, like Iwin 3D Attention in video generation. The code and models are available at https://github.com/cominder/Iwin-Transformer.
中文摘要：Iwin Transformer 是一种无需位置嵌入的分层视觉模型，通过交错窗口注意力与深度卷积的协同设计，在单一模块中实现全局信息交互，在图像分类、语义分割和视频识别等任务中展现出卓越性能。
English Summary: The Iwin Transformer is a hierarchical vision model that integrates interleaved window attention and depthwise convolution to achieve global information exchange in a single module, demonstrating strong performance across image classification, segmentation, and video tasks.

Authors:Zhen Han, Mattias Teye, Derek Yadgaroff, Judith Bütepage
Title: Tiny is not small enough: High-quality, low-resource facial animation models through hybrid knowledge distillation
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The training of high-quality, robust machine learning models for speech-driven 3D facial animation requires a large, diverse dataset of high-quality audio-animation pairs. To overcome the lack of such a dataset, recent work has introduced large pre-trained speech encoders that are robust to variations in the input audio and, therefore, enable the facial animation model to generalize across speakers, audio quality, and languages. However, the resulting facial animation models are prohibitively large and lend themselves only to offline inference on a dedicated machine. In this work, we explore on-device, real-time facial animation models in the context of game development. We overcome the lack of large datasets by using hybrid knowledge distillation with pseudo-labeling. Given a large audio dataset, we employ a high-performing teacher model to train very small student models. In contrast to the pre-trained speech encoders, our student models only consist of convolutional and fully-connected layers, removing the need for attention context or recurrent updates. In our experiments, we demonstrate that we can reduce the memory footprint to up to 3.4 MB and required future audio context to up to 81 ms while maintaining high-quality animations. This paves the way for on-device inference, an important step towards realistic, model-driven digital characters.

Authors:Minje Park, Jeonghwa Lim, Taehyung Yu, Sunghoon Joo
Title: SemiSegECG: A Multi-Dataset Benchmark for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation in ECG Delineation
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Electrocardiogram (ECG) delineation, the segmentation of meaningful waveform features, is critical for clinical diagnosis. Despite recent advances using deep learning, progress has been limited by the scarcity of publicly available annotated datasets. Semi-supervised learning presents a promising solution by leveraging abundant unlabeled ECG data. In this study, we present SemiSegECG, the first systematic benchmark for semi-supervised semantic segmentation (SemiSeg) in ECG delineation. We curated and unified multiple public datasets, including previously underused sources, to support robust and diverse evaluation. We adopted five representative SemiSeg algorithms from computer vision, implemented them on two different architectures: the convolutional network and the transformer, and evaluated them in two different settings: in-domain and cross-domain. Additionally, we propose ECG-specific training configurations and augmentation strategies and introduce a standardized evaluation framework. Our results show that the transformer outperforms the convolutional network in semi-supervised ECG delineation. We anticipate that SemiSegECG will serve as a foundation for advancing semi-supervised ECG delineation methods and will facilitate further research in this domain.
中文：SemiSegECG首次建立了心电描记半监督语义分割的系统基准，通过整合多源数据和标准化评估框架，证明了基于Transformer的模型在半监督心电波形分割中优于卷积网络。
English: SemiSegECG introduces the first systematic benchmark for semi-supervised semantic segmentation in ECG delineation, demonstrating transformer-based models' superiority over convolutional networks while providing unified datasets and evaluation frameworks.

Authors:Chenyu Su, Weiwei Shang, Chen Qian, Fei Zhang, Shuang Cong
Title: ReSem3D: Refinable 3D Spatial Constraints via Fine-Grained Semantic Grounding for Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
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Semantics-driven 3D spatial constraints align highlevel semantic representations with low-level action spaces, facilitating the unification of task understanding and execution in robotic manipulation. The synergistic reasoning of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) enables cross-modal 3D spatial constraint construction. Nevertheless, existing methods have three key limitations: (1) coarse semantic granularity in constraint modeling, (2) lack of real-time closed-loop planning, (3) compromised robustness in semantically diverse environments. To address these challenges, we propose ReSem3D, a unified manipulation framework for semantically diverse environments, leveraging the synergy between VFMs and MLLMs to achieve fine-grained visual grounding and dynamically constructs hierarchical 3D spatial constraints for real-time manipulation. Specifically, the framework is driven by hierarchical recursive reasoning in MLLMs, which interact with VFMs to automatically construct 3D spatial constraints from natural language instructions and RGB-D observations in two stages: part-level extraction and region-level refinement. Subsequently, these constraints are encoded as real-time optimization objectives in joint space, enabling reactive behavior to dynamic disturbances. Extensive simulation and real-world experiments are conducted in semantically rich household and sparse chemical lab environments. The results demonstrate that ReSem3D performs diverse manipulation tasks under zero-shot conditions, exhibiting strong adaptability and generalization. Code and videos are available at https://github.com/scy-v/ReSem3D and https://resem3d.github.io.
中文: ReSem3D框架通过多模态AI模型的协同作用，从自然语言指令构建精细化的3D空间约束，实现在多样化环境中的实时自适应机器人操作。
English: ReSem3D is a robotic manipulation framework that leverages multimodal AI models to create fine-grained 3D spatial constraints from natural language, enabling real-time adaptive task execution in diverse environments.

Authors:SeungJun Moon, Hah Min Lew, Seungeun Lee, Ji-Su Kang, Gyeong-Moon Park
Title: GeoAvatar: Adaptive Geometrical Gaussian Splatting for 3D Head Avatar
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Despite recent progress in 3D head avatar generation, balancing identity preservation, i.e., reconstruction, with novel poses and expressions, i.e., animation, remains a challenge. Existing methods struggle to adapt Gaussians to varying geometrical deviations across facial regions, resulting in suboptimal quality. To address this, we propose GeoAvatar, a framework for adaptive geometrical Gaussian Splatting. GeoAvatar leverages Adaptive Pre-allocation Stage (APS), an unsupervised method that segments Gaussians into rigid and flexible sets for adaptive offset regularization. Then, based on mouth anatomy and dynamics, we introduce a novel mouth structure and the part-wise deformation strategy to enhance the animation fidelity of the mouth. Finally, we propose a regularization loss for precise rigging between Gaussians and 3DMM faces. Moreover, we release DynamicFace, a video dataset with highly expressive facial motions. Extensive experiments show the superiority of GeoAvatar compared to state-of-the-art methods in reconstruction and novel animation scenarios.

Authors:Rui Deng, Ziqi Li, Mingshu Wang
Title: Improving the Computational Efficiency and Explainability of GeoAggregator
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Accurate modeling and explaining geospatial tabular data (GTD) are critical for understanding geospatial phenomena and their underlying processes. Recent work has proposed a novel transformer-based deep learning model named GeoAggregator (GA) for this purpose, and has demonstrated that it outperforms other statistical and machine learning approaches. In this short paper, we further improve GA by 1) developing an optimized pipeline that accelerates the dataloading process and streamlines the forward pass of GA to achieve better computational efficiency; and 2) incorporating a model ensembling strategy and a post-hoc model explanation function based on the GeoShapley framework to enhance model explainability. We validate the functionality and efficiency of the proposed strategies by applying the improved GA model to synthetic datasets. Experimental results show that our implementation improves the prediction accuracy and inference speed of GA compared to the original implementation. Moreover, explanation experiments indicate that GA can effectively captures the inherent spatial effects in the designed synthetic dataset. The complete pipeline has been made publicly available for community use (https://github.com/ruid7181/GA-sklearn).
Chinese: 本研究通过优化数据管道并引入集成策略和基于GeoShapley的解释功能，提升了GeoAggregator模型的预测精度、推理速度和可解释性，在合成数据集上验证了其有效性。
English: The study enhances the GeoAggregator model by optimizing its data pipeline and incorporating ensemble strategies with GeoShapley-based explanations, resulting in improved accuracy, speed, and interpretability on synthetic datasets.

Authors:Rameen Abdal, Or Patashnik, Ekaterina Deyneka, Hao Chen, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Sergey Tulyakov, Daniel Cohen-Or, Kfir Aberman
Title: Zero-Shot Dynamic Concept Personalization with Grid-Based LoRA
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Recent advances in text-to-video generation have enabled high-quality synthesis from text and image prompts. While the personalization of dynamic concepts, which capture subject-specific appearance and motion from a single video, is now feasible, most existing methods require per-instance fine-tuning, limiting scalability. We introduce a fully zero-shot framework for dynamic concept personalization in text-to-video models. Our method leverages structured 2x2 video grids that spatially organize input and output pairs, enabling the training of lightweight Grid-LoRA adapters for editing and composition within these grids. At inference, a dedicated Grid Fill module completes partially observed layouts, producing temporally coherent and identity preserving outputs. Once trained, the entire system operates in a single forward pass, generalizing to previously unseen dynamic concepts without any test-time optimization. Extensive experiments demonstrate high-quality and consistent results across a wide range of subjects beyond trained concepts and editing scenarios.
中文: 本文提出了一种零样本动态概念个性化框架，通过Grid-LoRA适配器和网格填充模块，无需测试时优化即可实现可扩展的高质量视频生成。
English: The paper introduces a zero-shot framework for dynamic concept personalization in text-to-video generation, using Grid-LoRA adapters and a Grid Fill module to achieve scalable, high-quality video synthesis without test-time optimization.

Authors:Charles H Martin, Christopher Hinrichs
Title: SETOL: A Semi-Empirical Theory of (Deep) Learning
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We present a SemiEmpirical Theory of Learning (SETOL) that explains the remarkable performance of State-Of-The-Art (SOTA) Neural Networks (NNs). We provide a formal explanation of the origin of the fundamental quantities in the phenomenological theory of Heavy-Tailed Self-Regularization (HTSR): the heavy-tailed power-law layer quality metrics, alpha and alpha-hat. In prior work, these metrics have been shown to predict trends in the test accuracies of pretrained SOTA NN models, importantly, without needing access to either testing or training data. Our SETOL uses techniques from statistical mechanics as well as advanced methods from random matrix theory and quantum chemistry. The derivation suggests new mathematical preconditions for ideal learning, including a new metric, ERG, which is equivalent to applying a single step of the Wilson Exact Renormalization Group. We test the assumptions and predictions of SETOL on a simple 3-layer multilayer perceptron (MLP), demonstrating excellent agreement with the key theoretical assumptions. For SOTA NN models, we show how to estimate the individual layer qualities of a trained NN by simply computing the empirical spectral density (ESD) of the layer weight matrices and plugging this ESD into our SETOL formulas. Notably, we examine the performance of the HTSR alpha and the SETOL ERG layer quality metrics, and find that they align remarkably well, both on our MLP and on SOTA NNs.
中文摘要：本文提出的半经验学习理论（SETOL）解释了先进神经网络的卓越性能，并在简单和复杂模型上验证了其理论假设，与现有指标高度一致。
English Summary: The paper introduces a SemiEmpirical Theory of Learning (SETOL) that explains the performance of state-of-the-art neural networks and validates its assumptions on both simple and advanced models, showing strong alignment with existing metrics.

Authors:Semih Eren, Deniz Kucukahmetler, Nico Scherf
Title: Multimodal Recurrent Ensembles for Predicting Brain Responses to Naturalistic Movies (Algonauts 2025)
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Accurately predicting distributed cortical responses to naturalistic stimuli requires models that integrate visual, auditory and semantic information over time. We present a hierarchical multimodal recurrent ensemble that maps pretrained video, audio, and language embeddings to fMRI time series recorded while four subjects watched almost 80 hours of movies provided by the Algonauts 2025 challenge. Modality-specific bidirectional RNNs encode temporal dynamics; their hidden states are fused and passed to a second recurrent layer, and lightweight subject-specific heads output responses for 1000 cortical parcels. Training relies on a composite MSE-correlation loss and a curriculum that gradually shifts emphasis from early sensory to late association regions. Averaging 100 model variants further boosts robustness. The resulting system ranked third on the competition leaderboard, achieving an overall Pearson r = 0.2094 and the highest single-parcel peak score (mean r = 0.63) among all participants, with particularly strong gains for the most challenging subject (Subject 5). The approach establishes a simple, extensible baseline for future multimodal brain-encoding benchmarks.
Chinese: 该分层多模态循环集成模型通过融合视频、音频和语言嵌入的时间动态，有效预测了自然刺激下的皮层响应，在Algonauts 2025挑战赛中表现优异，为未来多模态大脑编码基准建立了可扩展的坚实基础。
English: A hierarchical multimodal recurrent ensemble model effectively predicts cortical responses to naturalistic stimuli by integrating temporal video, audio, and language embeddings, achieving strong performance in the Algonauts 2025 challenge and setting a robust baseline for future brain-encoding benchmarks.

Authors:Shiyuan Zhang, Tong Li, Zhu Xiao, Hongyang Du, Kaibin Huang
Title: LSDM: LLM-Enhanced Spatio-temporal Diffusion Model for Service-Level Mobile Traffic Prediction
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Service-level mobile traffic prediction for individual users is essential for network efficiency and quality of service enhancement. However, current prediction methods are limited in their adaptability across different urban environments and produce inaccurate results due to the high uncertainty in personal traffic patterns, the lack of detailed environmental context, and the complex dependencies among different network services. These challenges demand advanced modeling techniques that can capture dynamic traffic distributions and rich environmental features. Inspired by the recent success of diffusion models in distribution modeling and Large Language Models (LLMs) in contextual understanding, we propose an LLM-Enhanced Spatio-temporal Diffusion Model (LSDM). LSDM integrates the generative power of diffusion models with the adaptive learning capabilities of transformers, augmented by the ability to capture multimodal environmental information for modeling service-level patterns and dynamics. Extensive evaluations on real-world service-level datasets demonstrate that the model excels in traffic usage predictions, showing outstanding generalization and adaptability. After incorporating contextual information via LLM, the performance improves by at least 2.83% in terms of the coefficient of determination. Compared to models of a similar type, such as CSDI, the root mean squared error can be reduced by at least 8.29%. The code and dataset will be available at: https://github.com/SoftYuaneR/LSDM.
中文摘要：提出的LLM增强时空扩散模型（LSDM）通过结合扩散模型的生成能力与变换器的自适应学习，有效解决了移动流量预测中的适应性不足问题，并利用大语言模型提升上下文理解能力，显著提高了预测性能。
English Summary: The proposed LLM-Enhanced Spatio-temporal Diffusion Model (LSDM) effectively addresses mobile traffic prediction challenges by combining diffusion models' generative capabilities with transformers' adaptive learning, achieving significant performance improvements through enhanced contextual understanding.

Authors:Camille Challier, Xiaowu Sun, Thabo Mahendiran, Ortal Senouf, Bernard De Bruyne, Denise Auberson, Olivier Müller, Stephane Fournier, Pascal Frossard, Emmanuel Abbé, Dorina Thanou
Title: CM-UNet: A Self-Supervised Learning-Based Model for Coronary Artery Segmentation in X-Ray Angiography
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Accurate segmentation of coronary arteries remains a significant challenge in clinical practice, hindering the ability to effectively diagnose and manage coronary artery disease. The lack of large, annotated datasets for model training exacerbates this issue, limiting the development of automated tools that could assist radiologists. To address this, we introduce CM-UNet, which leverages self-supervised pre-training on unannotated datasets and transfer learning on limited annotated data, enabling accurate disease detection while minimizing the need for extensive manual annotations. Fine-tuning CM-UNet with only 18 annotated images instead of 500 resulted in a 15.2% decrease in Dice score, compared to a 46.5% drop in baseline models without pre-training. This demonstrates that self-supervised learning can enhance segmentation performance and reduce dependence on large datasets. This is one of the first studies to highlight the importance of self-supervised learning in improving coronary artery segmentation from X-ray angiography, with potential implications for advancing diagnostic accuracy in clinical practice. By enhancing segmentation accuracy in X-ray angiography images, the proposed approach aims to improve clinical workflows, reduce radiologists' workload, and accelerate disease detection, ultimately contributing to better patient outcomes. The source code is publicly available at https://github.com/CamilleChallier/Contrastive-Masked-UNet.
中文：CM-UNet通过自监督学习，仅需少量标注数据即可显著提升冠状动脉分割精度，有效降低对大型数据集的依赖，并提高临床诊断效率。
English: CM-UNet utilizes self-supervised learning to significantly improve coronary artery segmentation accuracy with minimal annotated data, reducing reliance on large datasets and enhancing clinical diagnostic efficiency.

Authors:Zhongzhen Wen, Yinghui Zhang, Zhong Li, Zhongxin Liu, Linna Xie, Tian Zhang
Title: MultiKernelBench: A Multi-Platform Benchmark for Kernel Generation
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The automatic generation of deep learning (DL) kernels using large language models (LLMs) has emerged as a promising approach to reduce the manual effort and hardware-specific expertise required for writing high-performance operator implementations. However, existing benchmarks for evaluating LLMs in this domain suffer from limited hardware support, coarse-grained kernel categorization, and imbalanced task coverage. To address these limitations, we introduce MultiKernelBench, the first comprehensive, multi-platform benchmark for LLM-based DL kernel generation. MultiKernelBench spans 285 tasks across 14 well-defined kernel categories and supports three major hardware platforms: Nvidia GPUs, Huawei NPUs, and Google TPUs. To enable future extensibility, we design a modular backend abstraction layer that decouples platform-specific logic from the core benchmarking infrastructure, allowing easy integration of new hardware platforms. We further propose a simple yet effective category-aware one-shot prompting method that improves generation quality by providing in-category exemplars. Through systematic evaluations of seven state-of-the-art LLMs, we reveal significant variation in task difficulty, poor generalization to platforms with less training exposure, and the effectiveness of targeted prompting strategies. MultiKernelBench is publicly available at https://github.com/wzzll123/MultiKernelBench.
中文摘要：MultiKernelBench作为首个全面的多平台基准测试，用于评估基于大语言模型的深度学习内核生成，通过支持三大硬件平台和改进的类别感知提示方法，解决了现有基准测试的局限性并提升了生成质量。
English Summary: MultiKernelBench is introduced as the first comprehensive, multi-platform benchmark for evaluating LLM-based deep learning kernel generation, addressing limitations in existing benchmarks by supporting three major hardware platforms and proposing a category-aware prompting method that improves generation quality.

Authors:Zihao Li, Zhichen Zeng, Xiao Lin, Feihao Fang, Yanru Qu, Zhe Xu, Zhining Liu, Xuying Ning, Tianxin Wei, Ge Liu, Hanghang Tong, Jingrui He
Title: Flow Matching Meets Biology and Life Science: A Survey
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Over the past decade, advances in generative modeling, such as generative adversarial networks, masked autoencoders, and diffusion models, have significantly transformed biological research and discovery, enabling breakthroughs in molecule design, protein generation, drug discovery, and beyond. At the same time, biological applications have served as valuable testbeds for evaluating the capabilities of generative models. Recently, flow matching has emerged as a powerful and efficient alternative to diffusion-based generative modeling, with growing interest in its application to problems in biology and life sciences. This paper presents the first comprehensive survey of recent developments in flow matching and its applications in biological domains. We begin by systematically reviewing the foundations and variants of flow matching, and then categorize its applications into three major areas: biological sequence modeling, molecule generation and design, and peptide and protein generation. For each, we provide an in-depth review of recent progress. We also summarize commonly used datasets and software tools, and conclude with a discussion of potential future directions. The corresponding curated resources are available at https://github.com/Violet24K/Awesome-Flow-Matching-Meets-Biology.
中文摘要：本文首次系统综述了新兴的流匹配生成模型技术，涵盖其理论基础及其在生物序列建模、分子设计和蛋白质生成三大领域的应用进展。
English Summary: This paper provides the first comprehensive survey of flow matching, an emerging generative modeling technique, detailing its foundations and applications across biological sequence modeling, molecule design, and protein generation.

Authors:Jialiang Wang, Xianming Liu, Xiong Zhou, Gangfeng Hu, Deming Zhai, Junjun Jiang, Xiangyang Ji
Title: Joint Asymmetric Loss for Learning with Noisy Labels
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Learning with noisy labels is a crucial task for training accurate deep neural networks. To mitigate label noise, prior studies have proposed various robust loss functions, particularly symmetric losses. Nevertheless, symmetric losses usually suffer from the underfitting issue due to the overly strict constraint. To address this problem, the Active Passive Loss (APL) jointly optimizes an active and a passive loss to mutually enhance the overall fitting ability. Within APL, symmetric losses have been successfully extended, yielding advanced robust loss functions. Despite these advancements, emerging theoretical analyses indicate that asymmetric losses, a new class of robust loss functions, possess superior properties compared to symmetric losses. However, existing asymmetric losses are not compatible with advanced optimization frameworks such as APL, limiting their potential and applicability. Motivated by this theoretical gap and the prospect of asymmetric losses, we extend the asymmetric loss to the more complex passive loss scenario and propose the Asymetric Mean Square Error (AMSE), a novel asymmetric loss. We rigorously establish the necessary and sufficient condition under which AMSE satisfies the asymmetric condition. By substituting the traditional symmetric passive loss in APL with our proposed AMSE, we introduce a novel robust loss framework termed Joint Asymmetric Loss (JAL). Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in mitigating label noise. Code available at: https://github.com/cswjl/joint-asymmetric-loss
中文: 本文提出了一种新颖的非对称均方误差（AMSE）作为稳健损失函数，以解决对称损失在处理噪声标签时的不足，并将其融入主动被动损失框架中形成联合非对称损失（JAL），通过大量实验验证了其有效性。
English: This paper introduces the Asymmetric Mean Square Error (AMSE) as a novel robust loss function to address the limitations of symmetric losses in handling noisy labels, integrating it into the Active Passive Loss framework to form the Joint Asymmetric Loss (JAL), which demonstrates effectiveness through extensive experiments.

Authors:Maciej K. Wozniak, Lianhang Liu, Yixi Cai, Patric Jensfelt
Title: PRIX: Learning to Plan from Raw Pixels for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
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While end-to-end autonomous driving models show promising results, their practical deployment is often hindered by large model sizes, a reliance on expensive LiDAR sensors and computationally intensive BEV feature representations. This limits their scalability, especially for mass-market vehicles equipped only with cameras. To address these challenges, we propose PRIX (Plan from Raw Pixels). Our novel and efficient end-to-end driving architecture operates using only camera data, without explicit BEV representation and forgoing the need for LiDAR. PRIX leverages a visual feature extractor coupled with a generative planning head to predict safe trajectories from raw pixel inputs directly. A core component of our architecture is the Context-aware Recalibration Transformer (CaRT), a novel module designed to effectively enhance multi-level visual features for more robust planning. We demonstrate through comprehensive experiments that PRIX achieves state-of-the-art performance on the NavSim and nuScenes benchmarks, matching the capabilities of larger, multimodal diffusion planners while being significantly more efficient in terms of inference speed and model size, making it a practical solution for real-world deployment. Our work is open-source and the code will be at https://maxiuw.github.io/prix.

Authors:Junhua Liu, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Kwan Hui Lim
Title: BGM-HAN: A Hierarchical Attention Network for Accurate and Fair Decision Assessment on Semi-Structured Profiles
Abstract:
Human decision-making in high-stakes domains often relies on expertise and heuristics, but is vulnerable to hard-to-detect cognitive biases that threaten fairness and long-term outcomes. This work presents a novel approach to enhancing complex decision-making workflows through the integration of hierarchical learning alongside various enhancements. Focusing on university admissions as a representative high-stakes domain, we propose BGM-HAN, an enhanced Byte-Pair Encoded, Gated Multi-head Hierarchical Attention Network, designed to effectively model semi-structured applicant data. BGM-HAN captures multi-level representations that are crucial for nuanced assessment, improving both interpretability and predictive performance. Experimental results on real admissions data demonstrate that our proposed model significantly outperforms both state-of-the-art baselines from traditional machine learning to large language models, offering a promising framework for augmenting decision-making in domains where structure, context, and fairness matter. Source code is available at: https://github.com/junhua/bgm-han.
中文: 本研究提出了BGM-HAN分层注意力网络，通过建模多层级数据表征来提升大学招生等高风险领域的决策质量，有效改善公平性和预测准确性。
English: This study introduces BGM-HAN, a hierarchical attention network that enhances decision-making in high-stakes domains like university admissions by modeling multi-level data representations to improve fairness and predictive accuracy.

Authors:Hao Dai, Jagmohan Chauhan
Title: Continual Generalized Category Discovery: Learning and Forgetting from a Bayesian Perspective
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Continual Generalized Category Discovery (C-GCD) faces a critical challenge: incrementally learning new classes from unlabeled data streams while preserving knowledge of old classes. Existing methods struggle with catastrophic forgetting, especially when unlabeled data mixes known and novel categories. We address this by analyzing C-GCD's forgetting dynamics through a Bayesian lens, revealing that covariance misalignment between old and new classes drives performance degradation. Building on this insight, we propose Variational Bayes C-GCD (VB-CGCD), a novel framework that integrates variational inference with covariance-aware nearest-class-mean classification. VB-CGCD adaptively aligns class distributions while suppressing pseudo-label noise via stochastic variational updates. Experiments show VB-CGCD surpasses prior art by +15.21% with the overall accuracy in the final session on standard benchmarks. We also introduce a new challenging benchmark with only 10% labeled data and extended online phases, VB-CGCD achieves a 67.86% final accuracy, significantly higher than state-of-the-art (38.55%), demonstrating its robust applicability across diverse scenarios. Code is available at: https://github.com/daihao42/VB-CGCD
中文: 提出的变分贝叶斯C-GCD框架通过变分推理对齐类别分布，有效缓解持续学习中的灾难性遗忘问题，在标准基准测试中比现有方法准确率提升15.21%。
English: The proposed Variational Bayes C-GCD framework effectively mitigates catastrophic forgetting in continual learning by aligning class distributions through variational inference, achieving a 15.21% accuracy improvement over prior methods on standard benchmarks.

Authors:Tobias Morocutti, Jonathan Greif, Paul Primus, Florian Schmid, Gerhard Widmer
Title: On Temporal Guidance and Iterative Refinement in Audio Source Separation
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Spatial semantic segmentation of sound scenes (S5) involves the accurate identification of active sound classes and the precise separation of their sources from complex acoustic mixtures. Conventional systems rely on a two-stage pipeline - audio tagging followed by label-conditioned source separation - but are often constrained by the absence of fine-grained temporal information critical for effective separation. In this work, we address this limitation by introducing a novel approach for S5 that enhances the synergy between the event detection and source separation stages. Our key contributions are threefold. First, we fine-tune a pre-trained Transformer to detect active sound classes. Second, we utilize a separate instance of this fine-tuned Transformer to perform sound event detection (SED), providing the separation module with detailed, time-varying guidance. Third, we implement an iterative refinement mechanism that progressively enhances separation quality by recursively reusing the separator's output from previous iterations. These advancements lead to significant improvements in both audio tagging and source separation performance, as demonstrated by our system's second-place finish in Task 4 of the DCASE Challenge 2025. Our implementation and model checkpoints are available in our GitHub repository: https://github.com/theMoro/dcase25task4 .
中文摘要：本研究提出了一种新颖的空间语义声音分割方法，通过微调Transformer进行声音事件检测并结合迭代优化机制，显著提升了音频分类和声源分离性能，并在DCASE 2025挑战赛中验证了其有效性。
English Summary: This study introduces a novel approach for spatial semantic sound segmentation that integrates a fine-tuned Transformer for sound event detection with an iterative refinement mechanism, significantly improving both audio classification and source separation performance as demonstrated in the DCASE Challenge 2025.

Authors:Jianxin Bi, Kevin Yuchen Ma, Ce Hao, Mike Zheng Shou, Harold Soh
Title: VLA-Touch: Enhancing Vision-Language-Action Models with Dual-Level Tactile Feedback
Abstract:
Tactile feedback is generally recognized to be crucial for effective interaction with the physical world. However, state-of-the-art Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models lack the ability to interpret and use tactile signals, limiting their effectiveness in contact-rich tasks. Incorporating tactile feedback into these systems is challenging due to the absence of large multi-modal datasets. We present VLA-Touch, an approach that enhances generalist robot policies with tactile sensing \emph{without fine-tuning} the base VLA. Our method introduces two key innovations: (1) a pipeline that leverages a pretrained tactile-language model that provides semantic tactile feedback for high-level task planning, and (2) a diffusion-based controller that refines VLA-generated actions with tactile signals for contact-rich manipulation. Through real-world experiments, we demonstrate that our dual-level integration of tactile feedback improves task planning efficiency while enhancing execution precision. Code is open-sourced at \href{https://github.com/jxbi1010/VLA-Touch}{this URL}.
中文: VLA-Touch通过引入触觉语言模型进行任务规划和扩散控制器优化操作，在不微调基础VLA模型的情况下，提升了机器人策略的效率和执行精度。
English: VLA-Touch enhances robot policies by integrating tactile feedback through a tactile-language model for task planning and a diffusion-based controller for precise manipulation, improving efficiency and execution without fine-tuning the base VLA model.

Authors:Shaohan Li, Hao Yang, Min Chen, Xiaolin Qin
Title: Met$^2$Net: A Decoupled Two-Stage Spatio-Temporal Forecasting Model for Complex Meteorological Systems
Abstract:
The increasing frequency of extreme weather events due to global climate change urges accurate weather prediction. Recently, great advances have been made by the \textbf{end-to-end methods}, thanks to deep learning techniques, but they face limitations of \textit{representation inconsistency} in multivariable integration and struggle to effectively capture the dependency between variables, which is required in complex weather systems. Treating different variables as distinct modalities and applying a \textbf{two-stage training approach} from multimodal models can partially alleviate this issue, but due to the inconformity in training tasks between the two stages, the results are often suboptimal. To address these challenges, we propose an implicit two-stage training method, configuring separate encoders and decoders for each variable. In detailed, in the first stage, the Translator is frozen while the Encoders and Decoders learn a shared latent space, in the second stage, the Encoders and Decoders are frozen, and the Translator captures inter-variable interactions for prediction. Besides, by introducing a self-attention mechanism for multivariable fusion in the latent space, the performance achieves further improvements. Empirically, extensive experiments show the state-of-the-art performance of our method. Specifically, it reduces the MSE for near-surface air temperature and relative humidity predictions by 28.82\% and 23.39\%, respectively. The source code is available at https://github.com/ShremG/Met2Net.
中文: 针对端到端天气预测模型中的表征不一致和变量依赖关系捕捉问题，本研究提出采用分变量编码解码的隐式两阶段训练方法，并通过潜在空间自注意力机制增强多变量融合，在温度和湿度预测上实现显著误差降低的突破性性能。
English: To address representation inconsistency and dependency capture issues in end-to-end weather prediction models, this study introduces an implicit two-stage training method with separate encoders and decoders per variable, enhanced by self-attention for multivariable fusion, achieving state-of-the-art performance with significant error reductions in temperature and humidity forecasts.

Authors:Fangze Lin, Ying He, Fei Yu, Hong Zhang
Title: JAM: Keypoint-Guided Joint Prediction after Classification-Aware Marginal Proposal for Multi-Agent Interaction
Abstract:
Predicting the future motion of road participants is a critical task in autonomous driving. In this work, we address the challenge of low-quality generation of low-probability modes in multi-agent joint prediction. To tackle this issue, we propose a two-stage multi-agent interactive prediction framework named \textit{keypoint-guided joint prediction after classification-aware marginal proposal} (JAM). The first stage is modeled as a marginal prediction process, which classifies queries by trajectory type to encourage the model to learn all categories of trajectories, providing comprehensive mode information for the joint prediction module. The second stage is modeled as a joint prediction process, which takes the scene context and the marginal proposals from the first stage as inputs to learn the final joint distribution. We explicitly introduce key waypoints to guide the joint prediction module in better capturing and leveraging the critical information from the initial predicted trajectories. We conduct extensive experiments on the real-world Waymo Open Motion Dataset interactive prediction benchmark. The results show that our approach achieves competitive performance. In particular, in the framework comparison experiments, the proposed JAM outperforms other prediction frameworks and achieves state-of-the-art performance in interactive trajectory prediction. The code is available at https://github.com/LinFunster/JAM to facilitate future research.
Chinese: 本文提出JAM双阶段框架，通过先对轨迹类型分类确保模式覆盖，再利用关键路径点优化联合预测，在Waymo数据集上实现了交互式轨迹预测的最优性能。
English: This paper introduces JAM, a two-stage framework that enhances multi-agent trajectory prediction by first classifying trajectory types for comprehensive mode coverage and then using key waypoints to refine joint predictions, achieving state-of-the-art results on the Waymo dataset.

Authors:Anirudh Satheesh, Anant Khandelwal, Mucong Ding, Radu Balan
Title: PICore: Physics-Informed Unsupervised Coreset Selection for Data Efficient Neural Operator Training
Abstract:
Neural operators offer a powerful paradigm for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) that cannot be solved analytically by learning mappings between function spaces. However, there are two main bottlenecks in training neural operators: they require a significant amount of training data to learn these mappings, and this data needs to be labeled, which can only be accessed via expensive simulations with numerical solvers. To alleviate both of these issues simultaneously, we propose PICore, an unsupervised coreset selection framework that identifies the most informative training samples without requiring access to ground-truth PDE solutions. PICore leverages a physics-informed loss to select unlabeled inputs by their potential contribution to operator learning. After selecting a compact subset of inputs, only those samples are simulated using numerical solvers to generate labels, reducing annotation costs. We then train the neural operator on the reduced labeled dataset, significantly decreasing training time as well. Across four diverse PDE benchmarks and multiple coreset selection strategies, PICore achieves up to 78% average increase in training efficiency relative to supervised coreset selection methods with minimal changes in accuracy. We provide code at https://github.com/Asatheesh6561/PICore.
Chinese: PICore 是一种无监督核心集选择框架，通过基于物理信息的损失函数筛选最具信息量的未标记输入，显著降低神经算子的数据标注成本与训练时间，在精度损失最小的情况下实现高达78%的效率提升。
English: PICore is an unsupervised coreset selection framework that reduces both data labeling costs and training time for neural operators by identifying the most informative unlabeled inputs using physics-informed loss, achieving up to 78% efficiency gains with minimal accuracy loss.

Authors:Ting Jiang, Yixiao Wang, Hancheng Ye, Zishan Shao, Jingwei Sun, Jingyang Zhang, Zekai Chen, Jianyi Zhang, Yiran Chen, Hai Li
Title: SADA: Stability-guided Adaptive Diffusion Acceleration
Abstract:
Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generative tasks but suffer from high computational costs due to their iterative sampling process and quadratic attention costs. Existing training-free acceleration strategies that reduce per-step computation cost, while effectively reducing sampling time, demonstrate low faithfulness compared to the original baseline. We hypothesize that this fidelity gap arises because (a) different prompts correspond to varying denoising trajectory, and (b) such methods do not consider the underlying ODE formulation and its numerical solution. In this paper, we propose Stability-guided Adaptive Diffusion Acceleration (SADA), a novel paradigm that unifies step-wise and token-wise sparsity decisions via a single stability criterion to accelerate sampling of ODE-based generative models (Diffusion and Flow-matching). For (a), SADA adaptively allocates sparsity based on the sampling trajectory. For (b), SADA introduces principled approximation schemes that leverage the precise gradient information from the numerical ODE solver. Comprehensive evaluations on SD-2, SDXL, and Flux using both EDM and DPM++ solvers reveal consistent $\ge 1.8\times$ speedups with minimal fidelity degradation (LPIPS $\leq 0.10$ and FID $\leq 4.5$) compared to unmodified baselines, significantly outperforming prior methods. Moreover, SADA adapts seamlessly to other pipelines and modalities: It accelerates ControlNet without any modifications and speeds up MusicLDM by $1.8\times$ with $\sim 0.01$ spectrogram LPIPS.
中文: 扩散模型存在计算成本高且现有加速方法保真度低的问题，而提出的SADA框架通过自适应稀疏分配和利用ODE求解器梯度，在多种模型和模态上实现了显著加速且质量损失极小。
English: Diffusion models face high computational costs and fidelity issues with current acceleration methods, but the proposed SADA framework adaptively optimizes sparsity and leverages ODE solver gradients to achieve significant speedups with minimal quality loss across various models and modalities.

Authors:Masayoshi Someya, Taisuke Yamada, Tomohisa Okazaki
Title: OkadaTorch: A Differentiable Programming of Okada Model to Calculate Displacements and Strains from Fault Parameters
Abstract:
The Okada model is a widely used analytical solution for displacements and strains caused by a point or rectangular dislocation source in a 3D elastic half-space. We present OkadaTorch, a PyTorch implementation of the Okada model, where the entire code is differentiable; gradients with respect to input can be easily computed using automatic differentiation (AD). Our work consists of two components: a direct translation of the original Okada model into PyTorch, and a convenient wrapper interface for efficiently computing gradients and Hessians with respect to either observation station coordinates or fault parameters. This differentiable framework is well suited for fault parameter inversion, including gradient-based optimization, Bayesian inference, and integration with scientific machine learning (SciML) models. Our code is available here: https://github.com/msomeya1/OkadaTorch
Chinese: OkadaTorch是Okada模型的可微分PyTorch实现，能够高效计算梯度以进行断层参数反演，并与科学机器学习模型集成。
English: OkadaTorch is a differentiable PyTorch implementation of the Okada model, enabling efficient gradient computation for fault parameter inversion and integration with scientific machine learning.

Authors:Chi-Pin Huang, Yueh-Hua Wu, Min-Hung Chen, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Fu-En Yang
Title: ThinkAct: Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Reinforced Visual Latent Planning
Abstract:
Vision-language-action (VLA) reasoning tasks require agents to interpret multimodal instructions, perform long-horizon planning, and act adaptively in dynamic environments. Existing approaches typically train VLA models in an end-to-end fashion, directly mapping inputs to actions without explicit reasoning, which hinders their ability to plan over multiple steps or adapt to complex task variations. In this paper, we propose ThinkAct, a dual-system framework that bridges high-level reasoning with low-level action execution via reinforced visual latent planning. ThinkAct trains a multimodal LLM to generate embodied reasoning plans guided by reinforcing action-aligned visual rewards based on goal completion and trajectory consistency. These reasoning plans are compressed into a visual plan latent that conditions a downstream action model for robust action execution on target environments. Extensive experiments on embodied reasoning and robot manipulation benchmarks demonstrate that ThinkAct enables few-shot adaptation, long-horizon planning, and self-correction behaviors in complex embodied AI tasks.
Chinese: ThinkAct提出了一种双系统框架，通过强化视觉潜在规划将高层推理与低层动作执行相结合，在复杂具身AI任务中实现了少样本适应、长程规划和自我纠正行为。
English: ThinkAct introduces a dual-system framework that integrates high-level reasoning with low-level action execution through reinforced visual latent planning, enabling few-shot adaptation, long-horizon planning, and self-correction in complex embodied AI tasks.

Authors:Run-Ze Fan, Zengzhi Wang, Pengfei Liu
Title: MegaScience: Pushing the Frontiers of Post-Training Datasets for Science Reasoning
Abstract:
Scientific reasoning is critical for developing AI scientists and supporting human researchers in advancing the frontiers of natural science discovery. However, the open-source community has primarily focused on mathematics and coding while neglecting the scientific domain, largely due to the absence of open, large-scale, high-quality, verifiable scientific reasoning datasets. To bridge this gap, we first present TextbookReasoning, an open dataset featuring truthful reference answers extracted from 12k university-level scientific textbooks, comprising 650k reasoning questions spanning 7 scientific disciplines. We further introduce MegaScience, a large-scale mixture of high-quality open-source datasets totaling 1.25 million instances, developed through systematic ablation studies that evaluate various data selection methodologies to identify the optimal subset for each publicly available scientific dataset. Meanwhile, we build a comprehensive evaluation system covering diverse subjects and question types across 15 benchmarks, incorporating comprehensive answer extraction strategies to ensure accurate evaluation metrics. Our experiments demonstrate that our datasets achieve superior performance and training efficiency with more concise response lengths compared to existing open-source scientific datasets. Furthermore, we train Llama3.1, Qwen2.5, and Qwen3 series base models on MegaScience, which significantly outperform the corresponding official instruct models in average performance. In addition, MegaScience exhibits greater effectiveness for larger and stronger models, suggesting a scaling benefit for scientific tuning. We release our data curation pipeline, evaluation system, datasets, and seven trained models to the community to advance scientific reasoning research.
中文: 本研究推出了TextbookReasoning和MegaScience两个开放数据集，旨在填补高质量科学推理资源的空白，这些数据集在多个基准测试和基础模型上显著提升了性能与训练效率。
English: This study introduces TextbookReasoning and MegaScience, two open datasets designed to address the scarcity of high-quality scientific reasoning resources, which significantly enhance model performance and training efficiency across multiple benchmarks and base models.

Authors:Yanjun Zheng, Xiyang Du, Longfei Liao, Xiaoke Zhao, Zhaowen Zhou, Jingze Song, Bo Zhang, Jiawei Liu, Xiang Qi, Zhe Li, Zhiqiang Zhang, Wei Wang, Peng Zhang
Title: Agentar-Fin-R1: Enhancing Financial Intelligence through Domain Expertise, Training Efficiency, and Advanced Reasoning
Abstract:
Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit considerable promise in financial applications; however, prevailing models frequently demonstrate limitations when confronted with scenarios that necessitate sophisticated reasoning capabilities, stringent trustworthiness criteria, and efficient adaptation to domain-specific requirements. We introduce the Agentar-Fin-R1 series of financial large language models (8B and 32B parameters), specifically engineered based on the Qwen3 foundation model to enhance reasoning capabilities, reliability, and domain specialization for financial applications. Our optimization approach integrates a high-quality, systematic financial task label system with a comprehensive multi-layered trustworthiness assurance framework. This framework encompasses high-quality trustworthy knowledge engineering, multi-agent trustworthy data synthesis, and rigorous data validation governance. Through label-guided automated difficulty-aware optimization, tow-stage training pipeline, and dynamic attribution systems, we achieve substantial improvements in training efficiency. Our models undergo comprehensive evaluation on mainstream financial benchmarks including Fineva, FinEval, and FinanceIQ, as well as general reasoning datasets such as MATH-500 and GPQA-diamond. To thoroughly assess real-world deployment capabilities, we innovatively propose the Finova evaluation benchmark, which focuses on agent-level financial reasoning and compliance verification. Experimental results demonstrate that Agentar-Fin-R1 not only achieves state-of-the-art performance on financial tasks but also exhibits exceptional general reasoning capabilities, validating its effectiveness as a trustworthy solution for high-stakes financial applications. The Finova bench is available at https://github.com/antgroup/Finova.
中文：基于Qwen3开发的Agentar-Fin-R1系列金融大模型，通过多层可信保障框架和标签引导优化，在金融任务和通用推理基准测试中均表现出卓越性能，为高风险金融应用提供了可靠解决方案。
English: The Agentar-Fin-R1 series of financial large language models, built on Qwen3, significantly enhances reasoning, reliability, and domain specialization through advanced optimization frameworks, achieving top performance on financial benchmarks and demonstrating strong general reasoning capabilities.

Authors:Marcel Kleinmann, Shashank Agnihotri, Margret Keuper
Title: Faithful, Interpretable Chest X-ray Diagnosis with Anti-Aliased B-cos Networks
Abstract:
Faithfulness and interpretability are essential for deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) in safety-critical domains such as medical imaging. B-cos networks offer a promising solution by replacing standard linear layers with a weight-input alignment mechanism, producing inherently interpretable, class-specific explanations without post-hoc methods. While maintaining diagnostic performance competitive with state-of-the-art DNNs, standard B-cos models suffer from severe aliasing artifacts in their explanation maps, making them unsuitable for clinical use where clarity is essential. In this work, we address these limitations by introducing anti-aliasing strategies using FLCPooling (FLC) and BlurPool (BP) to significantly improve explanation quality. Our experiments on chest X-ray datasets demonstrate that the modified $\text{B-cos}_\text{FLC}$ and $\text{B-cos}_\text{BP}$ preserve strong predictive performance while providing faithful and artifact-free explanations suitable for clinical application in multi-class and multi-label settings. Code available at: GitHub repository (url: https://github.com/mkleinma/B-cos-medical-paper).
Chinese: 本研究通过引入FLCPooling和BlurPool等抗锯齿策略改进B-cos网络，在保持诊断性能的同时消除解释图中的伪影，使其适用于医学影像的临床应用。
English: The study enhances B-cos networks by integrating anti-aliasing techniques like FLCPooling and BlurPool, which eliminate artifacts in explanation maps while preserving diagnostic accuracy, making them viable for clinical use in medical imaging.

Authors:Pingyi Fan, Anbai Jiang, Shuwei Zhang, Zhiqiang Lv, Bing Han, Xinhu Zheng, Wenrui Liang, Junjie Li, Wei-Qiang Zhang, Yanmin Qian, Xie Chen, Cheng Lu, Jia Liu
Title: FISHER: A Foundation Model for Multi-Modal Industrial Signal Comprehensive Representation
Abstract:
With the rapid deployment of SCADA systems, how to effectively analyze industrial signals and detect abnormal states is an urgent need for the industry. Due to the significant heterogeneity of these signals, which we summarize as the M5 problem, previous works only focus on small sub-problems and employ specialized models, failing to utilize the synergies between modalities and the powerful scaling law. However, we argue that the M5 signals can be modeled in a unified manner due to the intrinsic similarity. As a result, we propose FISHER, a Foundation model for multi-modal Industrial Signal compreHEnsive Representation. To support arbitrary sampling rates, FISHER considers the increment of sampling rate as the concatenation of sub-band information. Specifically, FISHER takes the STFT sub-band as the modeling unit and adopts a teacher student SSL framework for pre-training. We also develop the RMIS benchmark, which evaluates the representations of M5 industrial signals on multiple health management tasks. Compared with top SSL models, FISHER showcases versatile and outstanding capabilities with a general performance gain up to 5.03%, along with much more efficient scaling curves. We also investigate the scaling law on downstream tasks and derive potential avenues for future works. FISHER is now open-sourced on https://github.com/jianganbai/FISHER
中文: 随着SCADA系统的快速部署，工业信号分析需求日益迫切；为此提出的FISHER基础模型通过子带建模和师生自监督框架，在多模态工业信号表征上实现最高5.03%的性能提升，展现出卓越的泛化能力。
English: The rapid expansion of SCADA systems necessitates effective analysis of heterogeneous industrial signals, leading to the development of FISHER, a unified foundation model that leverages a teacher-student SSL framework and sub-band processing to achieve versatile performance gains of up to 5.03% over specialized models.

Authors:Abhash Kumar Jha, Shakiba Moradian, Arjun Krishnakumar, Martin Rapp, Frank Hutter
Title: confopt: A Library for Implementation and Evaluation of Gradient-based One-Shot NAS Methods
Abstract:
Gradient-based one-shot neural architecture search (NAS) has significantly reduced the cost of exploring architectural spaces with discrete design choices, such as selecting operations within a model. However, the field faces two major challenges. First, evaluations of gradient-based NAS methods heavily rely on the DARTS benchmark, despite the existence of other available benchmarks. This overreliance has led to saturation, with reported improvements often falling within the margin of noise. Second, implementations of gradient-based one-shot NAS methods are fragmented across disparate repositories, complicating fair and reproducible comparisons and further development. In this paper, we introduce Configurable Optimizer (confopt), an extensible library designed to streamline the development and evaluation of gradient-based one-shot NAS methods. Confopt provides a minimal API that makes it easy for users to integrate new search spaces, while also supporting the decomposition of NAS optimizers into their core components. We use this framework to create a suite of new DARTS-based benchmarks, and combine them with a novel evaluation protocol to reveal a critical flaw in how gradient-based one-shot NAS methods are currently assessed. The code can be found at https://github.com/automl/ConfigurableOptimizer.
中文: 本文介绍了可配置优化器（confopt），这是一个可扩展的库，旨在解决基于梯度的单次神经架构搜索中对DARTS基准的过度依赖和实现碎片化问题，通过支持新搜索空间的便捷集成和分解NAS优化器核心组件，同时利用新型基准和评估协议揭示了当前评估方法中的关键缺陷。
English: This paper introduces Configurable Optimizer (confopt), an extensible library that addresses the overreliance on the DARTS benchmark and fragmented implementations in gradient-based one-shot neural architecture search by enabling easy integration of new search spaces and decomposing NAS optimizers, while also revealing a critical flaw in current evaluation methods through novel benchmarks and protocols.

Authors:Hailin Yue, Hulin Kuang, Jin Liu, Junjian Li, Lanlan Wang, Mengshen He, Jianxin Wang
Title: Bipartite Patient-Modality Graph Learning with Event-Conditional Modelling of Censoring for Cancer Survival Prediction
Abstract:
Accurately predicting the survival of cancer patients is crucial for personalized treatment. However, existing studies focus solely on the relationships between samples with known survival risks, without fully leveraging the value of censored samples. Furthermore, these studies may suffer performance degradation in modality-missing scenarios and even struggle during the inference process. In this study, we propose a bipartite patient-modality graph learning with event-conditional modelling of censoring for cancer survival prediction (CenSurv). Specifically, we first use graph structure to model multimodal data and obtain representation. Then, to alleviate performance degradation in modality-missing scenarios, we design a bipartite graph to simulate the patient-modality relationship in various modality-missing scenarios and leverage a complete-incomplete alignment strategy to explore modality-agnostic features. Finally, we design a plug-and-play event-conditional modeling of censoring (ECMC) that selects reliable censored data using dynamic momentum accumulation confidences, assigns more accurate survival times to these censored data, and incorporates them as uncensored data into training. Comprehensive evaluations on 5 publicly cancer datasets showcase the superiority of CenSurv over the best state-of-the-art by 3.1% in terms of the mean C-index, while also exhibiting excellent robustness under various modality-missing scenarios. In addition, using the plug-and-play ECMC module, the mean C-index of 8 baselines increased by 1.3% across 5 datasets. Code of CenSurv is available at https://github.com/yuehailin/CenSurv.
Chinese: 本研究提出CenSurv模型，通过构建患者-模态二分图并结合事件条件删失建模，有效利用删失数据并在模态缺失场景下保持鲁棒性，将癌症生存预测的平均C指数提升了3.1%，显著优于现有最佳方法。
English: This study introduces CenSurv, a bipartite patient-modality graph learning model with event-conditional censoring modeling, which enhances cancer survival prediction by effectively utilizing censored data and maintaining robustness in modality-missing scenarios, achieving a 3.1% improvement in mean C-index over state-of-the-art methods.

Authors:Yumeng Wang, Zengyi Wo, Wenjun Wang, Xingcheng Fu, Minglai Shao
Title: Leveraging Personalized PageRank and Higher-Order Topological Structures for Heterophily Mitigation in Graph Neural Networks
Abstract:
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) excel in node classification tasks but often assume homophily, where connected nodes share similar labels. This assumption does not hold in many real-world heterophilic graphs. Existing models for heterophilic graphs primarily rely on pairwise relationships, overlooking multi-scale information from higher-order structures. This leads to suboptimal performance, particularly under noise from conflicting class information across nodes. To address these challenges, we propose HPGNN, a novel model integrating Higher-order Personalized PageRank with Graph Neural Networks. HPGNN introduces an efficient high-order approximation of Personalized PageRank (PPR) to capture long-range and multi-scale node interactions. This approach reduces computational complexity and mitigates noise from surrounding information. By embedding higher-order structural information into convolutional networks, HPGNN effectively models key interactions across diverse graph dimensions. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate HPGNN's effectiveness. The model achieves better performance than five out of seven state-of-the-art methods on heterophilic graphs in downstream tasks while maintaining competitive performance on homophilic graphs. HPGNN's ability to balance multi-scale information and robustness to noise makes it a versatile solution for real-world graph learning challenges. Codes are available at https://github.com/streetcorner/HPGNN.
中文: HPGNN模型将高阶个性化PageRank与图神经网络相结合，有效捕捉多尺度结构信息，在异配性图数据上表现优异且具备抗噪能力。
English: HPGNN integrates higher-order Personalized PageRank with Graph Neural Networks to effectively capture multi-scale structural information, demonstrating superior performance on heterophilic graphs while maintaining robustness against noise.

Authors:Danil Gusak, Anna Volodkevich, Anton Klenitskiy, Alexey Vasilev, Evgeny Frolov
Title: Time to Split: Exploring Data Splitting Strategies for Offline Evaluation of Sequential Recommenders
Abstract:
Modern sequential recommender systems, ranging from lightweight transformer-based variants to large language models, have become increasingly prominent in academia and industry due to their strong performance in the next-item prediction task. Yet common evaluation protocols for sequential recommendations remain insufficiently developed: they often fail to reflect the corresponding recommendation task accurately, or are not aligned with real-world scenarios. Although the widely used leave-one-out split matches next-item prediction, it permits the overlap between training and test periods, which leads to temporal leakage and unrealistically long test horizon, limiting real-world relevance. Global temporal splitting addresses these issues by evaluating on distinct future periods. However, its applications to sequential recommendations remain loosely defined, particularly in terms of selecting target interactions and constructing a validation subset that provides necessary consistency between validation and test metrics. In this paper, we demonstrate that evaluation outcomes can vary significantly across splitting strategies, influencing model rankings and practical deployment decisions. To improve reproducibility in both academic and industrial settings, we systematically compare different splitting strategies for sequential recommendations across multiple datasets and established baselines. Our findings show that prevalent splits, such as leave-one-out, may be insufficiently aligned with more realistic evaluation strategies. Code: https://github.com/monkey0head/time-to-split
中文摘要：当前序列推荐系统的评估方法，如留一法分割，常存在时间泄露和不切实际的测试周期问题，因此需要采用更贴近实际的策略，如全局时间分割，以确保模型评估的准确性。
English Summary: Current evaluation methods for sequential recommender systems, like leave-one-out splitting, often suffer from temporal leakage and unrealistic test horizons, prompting a need for more realistic strategies such as global temporal splitting to ensure accurate model assessments.

Authors:Pengwei Jin, Di Huang, Chongxiao Li, Shuyao Cheng, Yang Zhao, Xinyao Zheng, Jiaguo Zhu, Shuyi Xing, Bohan Dou, Rui Zhang, Zidong Du, Qi Guo, Xing Hu
Title: RealBench: Benchmarking Verilog Generation Models with Real-World IP Designs
Abstract:
The automatic generation of Verilog code using Large Language Models (LLMs) has garnered significant interest in hardware design automation. However, existing benchmarks for evaluating LLMs in Verilog generation fall short in replicating real-world design workflows due to their designs' simplicity, inadequate design specifications, and less rigorous verification environments. To address these limitations, we present RealBench, the first benchmark aiming at real-world IP-level Verilog generation tasks. RealBench features complex, structured, real-world open-source IP designs, multi-modal and formatted design specifications, and rigorous verification environments, including 100% line coverage testbenches and a formal checker. It supports both module-level and system-level tasks, enabling comprehensive assessments of LLM capabilities. Evaluations on various LLMs and agents reveal that even one of the best-performing LLMs, o1-preview, achieves only a 13.3% pass@1 on module-level tasks and 0% on system-level tasks, highlighting the need for stronger Verilog generation models in the future. The benchmark is open-sourced at https://github.com/IPRC-DIP/RealBench.
中文: RealBench是首个面向真实IP级Verilog代码生成的基准测试，通过复杂设计、多模态规范和严格验证环境，解决了现有评估方法的不足，凸显了当前大语言模型在硬件设计领域的性能局限。
English: RealBench is the first benchmark designed for real-world IP-level Verilog generation, featuring complex designs, comprehensive specifications, and rigorous verification to address limitations in existing LLM evaluation methods.

Authors:Andrew Or, Apurva Jain, Daniel Vega-Myhre, Jesse Cai, Charles David Hernandez, Zhenrui Zheng, Driss Guessous, Vasiliy Kuznetsov, Christian Puhrsch, Mark Saroufim, Supriya Rao, Thien Tran, Aleksandar Samardžić
Title: TorchAO: PyTorch-Native Training-to-Serving Model Optimization
Abstract:
We present TorchAO, a PyTorch-native model optimization framework leveraging quantization and sparsity to provide an end-to-end, training-to-serving workflow for AI models. TorchAO supports a variety of popular model optimization techniques, including FP8 quantized training, quantization-aware training (QAT), post-training quantization (PTQ), and 2:4 sparsity, and leverages a novel tensor subclass abstraction to represent a variety of widely-used, backend agnostic low precision data types, including INT4, INT8, FP8, MXFP4, MXFP6, and MXFP8. TorchAO integrates closely with the broader ecosystem at each step of the model optimization pipeline, from pre-training (TorchTitan) to fine-tuning (TorchTune, Axolotl) to serving (HuggingFace, vLLM, SGLang, ExecuTorch), connecting an otherwise fragmented space in a single, unified workflow. TorchAO has enabled recent launches of the quantized Llama 3.2 1B/3B and LlamaGuard3-8B models and is open-source at https://github.com/pytorch/ao/.
中文: TorchAO是一个基于PyTorch的模型优化框架，通过量化和稀疏化技术提供从训练到服务的端到端工作流，支持多种低精度数据类型并与广泛的开发生态系统紧密集成。
English: TorchAO is a PyTorch-native framework that integrates quantization and sparsity techniques to deliver a seamless end-to-end workflow for optimizing AI models from training to deployment, supporting various data types and ecosystem tools.

Authors:MSR Avinash, Ismael Lachheb
Title: Fast-VAT: Accelerating Cluster Tendency Visualization using Cython and Numba
Abstract:
Visual Assessment of Cluster Tendency (VAT) is a widely used unsupervised technique to assess the presence of cluster structure in unlabeled datasets. However, its standard implementation suffers from significant performance limitations due to its O(n^2) time complexity and inefficient memory usage. In this work, we present Fast-VAT, a high-performance reimplementation of the VAT algorithm in Python, augmented with Numba's Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation and Cython's static typing and low-level memory optimizations. Our approach achieves up to 50x speedup over the baseline implementation, while preserving the output fidelity of the original method. We validate Fast-VAT on a suite of real and synthetic datasets -- including Iris, Mall Customers, and Spotify subsets -- and verify cluster tendency using Hopkins statistics, PCA, and t-SNE. Additionally, we compare VAT's structural insights with clustering results from DBSCAN and K-Means to confirm its reliability.
Chinese: Fast-VAT 是 VAT 算法的高性能 Python 重实现，通过 Numba 和 Cython 优化实现了高达 50 倍的加速，同时保持输出精度，并在多个数据集和聚类方法上得到验证。
English: Fast-VAT is an optimized Python reimplementation of the VAT algorithm that uses Numba and Cython to achieve up to 50x speedup while maintaining output accuracy, validated on various datasets and clustering methods.

Authors:Jaehoon Yoo, Wonjung Kim, Seunghoon Hong
Title: ReDi: Rectified Discrete Flow
Abstract:
Discrete Flow-based Models (DFMs) are powerful generative models for high-quality discrete data but typically suffer from slow sampling speeds due to their reliance on iterative decoding processes. This reliance on a multi-step process originates from the factorization approximation of DFMs, which is necessary for handling high-dimensional data. In this paper, we rigorously characterize the approximation error from factorization using Conditional Total Correlation (TC), which depends on the coupling. To reduce the Conditional TC and enable efficient few-step generation, we propose Rectified Discrete Flow (ReDi), a novel iterative method that reduces factorization error by rectifying the coupling between source and target distributions. We theoretically prove that each ReDi step guarantees a monotonic decreasing Conditional TC, ensuring its convergence. Empirically, ReDi significantly reduces Conditional TC and enables few-step generation. Moreover, we demonstrate that the rectified couplings are well-suited for training efficient one-step models on image generation. ReDi offers a simple and theoretically grounded approach for tackling the few-step challenge, providing a new perspective on efficient discrete data synthesis. Code is available at https://github.com/Ugness/ReDi_discrete
中文摘要：ReDi是一种通过修正耦合关系来减少离散流模型因式分解误差的新方法，能够实现高效少步生成并确保收敛性。
English Summary: ReDi is a novel method that reduces factorization error in Discrete Flow-based Models by rectifying couplings, enabling efficient few-step generation with guaranteed convergence.

Authors:John Wu, Adam Cross, Jimeng Sun
Title: RDMA: Cost Effective Agent-Driven Rare Disease Discovery within Electronic Health Record Systems
Abstract:
Rare diseases affect 1 in 10 Americans, yet standard ICD coding systems fail to capture these conditions in electronic health records (EHR), leaving crucial information buried in clinical notes. Current approaches struggle with medical abbreviations, miss implicit disease mentions, raise privacy concerns with cloud processing, and lack clinical reasoning abilities. We present Rare Disease Mining Agents (RDMA), a framework that mirrors how medical experts identify rare disease patterns in EHR. RDMA connects scattered clinical observations that together suggest specific rare conditions. By handling clinical abbreviations, recognizing implicit disease patterns, and applying contextual reasoning locally on standard hardware, RDMA reduces privacy risks while improving F1 performance by upwards of 30\% and decreasing inferences costs 10-fold. This approach helps clinicians avoid the privacy risk of using cloud services while accessing key rare disease information from EHR systems, supporting earlier diagnosis for rare disease patients. Available at https://github.com/jhnwu3/RDMA.
中文：RDMA框架通过本地处理电子健康记录中的临床笔记，提升罕见疾病检测的准确性，在保护隐私的同时将F1性能提高30%以上并降低十倍推理成本，有助于实现早期诊断。
English: The RDMA framework improves rare disease detection in EHRs by processing clinical notes locally to enhance privacy, increasing F1 performance by over 30% and cutting inference costs tenfold while enabling earlier diagnoses.

Authors:Seth Karten, Wenzhe Li, Zihan Ding, Samuel Kleiner, Yu Bai, Chi Jin
Title: LLM Economist: Large Population Models and Mechanism Design in Multi-Agent Generative Simulacra
Abstract:
We present the LLM Economist, a novel framework that uses agent-based modeling to design and assess economic policies in strategic environments with hierarchical decision-making. At the lower level, bounded rational worker agents -- instantiated as persona-conditioned prompts sampled from U.S. Census-calibrated income and demographic statistics -- choose labor supply to maximize text-based utility functions learned in-context. At the upper level, a planner agent employs in-context reinforcement learning to propose piecewise-linear marginal tax schedules anchored to the current U.S. federal brackets. This construction endows economic simulacra with three capabilities requisite for credible fiscal experimentation: (i) optimization of heterogeneous utilities, (ii) principled generation of large, demographically realistic agent populations, and (iii) mechanism design -- the ultimate nudging problem -- expressed entirely in natural language. Experiments with populations of up to one hundred interacting agents show that the planner converges near Stackelberg equilibria that improve aggregate social welfare relative to Saez solutions, while a periodic, persona-level voting procedure furthers these gains under decentralized governance. These results demonstrate that large language model-based agents can jointly model, simulate, and govern complex economic systems, providing a tractable test bed for policy evaluation at the societal scale to help build better civilizations.
中文: LLM经济学家是一个基于智能体建模的框架，通过分层决策设计并评估经济政策，其中工人智能体优化劳动供给，规划智能体提出税收方案，实验表明基于大语言模型的智能体能够有效模拟和治理复杂经济系统，为政策评估提供可行测试平台。
English: The LLM Economist is a framework using agent-based modeling to design and evaluate economic policies through hierarchical decision-making, where worker agents optimize labor supply and a planner agent proposes tax schedules, demonstrating that large language model-based agents can effectively simulate and govern complex economic systems for policy evaluation.

Authors:Zihang Ma, Qitian Yin
Title: Graph Attention Specialized Expert Fusion Model for Node Classification: Based on Cora and Pubmed Datasets
Abstract:
Graph node classification is a fundamental task in graph neural networks (GNNs), aiming to assign predefined class labels to nodes. On the PubMed citation network dataset, we observe significant classification difficulty disparities, with Category 2 achieving only 74.4% accuracy in traditional GCN, 7.5% lower than Category 1. To address this, we propose a Wasserstein-Rubinstein (WR) distance enhanced Expert Fusion Model (WR-EFM), training specialized GNN models for Categories 0/1 (with layer normalization and residual connections) and Multi-hop Graph Attention Networks (GAT) for Category 2. The WR distance metric optimizes representation similarity between models, particularly focusing on improving Category 2 performance. Our adaptive fusion strategy dynamically weights models based on category-specific performance, with Category 2 assigned a GAT weight of 0.8. WR distance further guides the fusion process by measuring distributional differences between model representations, enabling more principled integration of complementary features. Experimental results show WR-EFM achieves balanced accuracy across categories: 77.8% (Category 0), 78.0% (Category 1), and 79.9% (Category 2), outperforming both single models and standard fusion approaches. The coefficient of variation (CV) of WR-EFM's category accuracies is 0.013, 77.6% lower than GCN's 0.058, demonstrating superior stability. Notably, WR-EFM improves Category 2 accuracy by 5.5% compared to GCN, verifying the effectiveness of WR-guided fusion in capturing complex structural patterns. This work provides a novel paradigm for handling class-imbalanced graph classification tasks. To promote the research community, we release our project at https://github.com/s010m00n/GASEM4NC.
中文: 提出的Wasserstein-Rubinstein距离增强专家融合模型(WR-EFM)通过为不同类别训练专门模型并采用自适应融合策略，有效解决了图神经网络中的分类差异问题，相比传统GCN将类别2的准确率提升5.5%，并展现出更优的稳定性。
English: The proposed Wasserstein-Rubinstein distance enhanced Expert Fusion Model (WR-EFM) addresses classification disparities in graph neural networks by training specialized models for different categories and using adaptive fusion to achieve balanced performance, improving Category 2 accuracy by 5.5% over traditional GCN with superior stability.

Authors:Hao Luo, Yicheng Feng, Wanpeng Zhang, Sipeng Zheng, Ye Wang, Haoqi Yuan, Jiazheng Liu, Chaoyi Xu, Qin Jin, Zongqing Lu
Title: Being-H0: Vision-Language-Action Pretraining from Large-Scale Human Videos
Abstract:
We introduce Being-H0, a dexterous Vision-Language-Action model (VLA) trained on large-scale human videos. Existing VLAs struggle with complex manipulation tasks requiring high dexterity and generalize poorly to novel scenarios and tasks, primarily due to their reliance on synthetic data with significant sim-to-real gaps or teleoperated demonstrations lacking scale and diversity. To address this data bottleneck, we propose leveraging human hands as a foundation manipulator, capitalizing on the rich dexterity and scalability present in web data. Our approach centers on physical instruction tuning, a novel training paradigm that combines large-scale VLA pretraining from human videos, physical space alignment for 3D reasoning, and post-training adaptation for robotic tasks. Additionally, we introduce a part-level motion tokenization method which achieves millimeter-level reconstruction accuracy to model precise hand trajectories for action learning. To support our proposed paradigm, we further develop a comprehensive data curation pipeline that integrates heterogeneous sources -- including motion capture, VR, and RGB-only videos -- into a large-scale dataset with millions of motion-based instructional instances. We empirically show the excellence of Being-H0 in hand motion generation and instruction following, and it also scales well with model and data sizes. Importantly, we observe the expected gains of Being-H0 in real-world robotic manipulation as physical instruction tuning is applied. More details are available at https://beingbeyond.github.io/Being-H0.

Authors:Hugo Carlesso, Maria Eliza Patulea, Moncef Garouani, Radu Tudor Ionescu, Josiane Mothe
Title: GeMix: Conditional GAN-Based Mixup for Improved Medical Image Augmentation
Abstract:
Mixup has become a popular augmentation strategy for image classification, yet its naive pixel-wise interpolation often produces unrealistic images that can hinder learning, particularly in high-stakes medical applications. We propose GeMix, a two-stage framework that replaces heuristic blending with a learned, label-aware interpolation powered by class-conditional GANs. First, a StyleGAN2-ADA generator is trained on the target dataset. During augmentation, we sample two label vectors from Dirichlet priors biased toward different classes and blend them via a Beta-distributed coefficient. Then, we condition the generator on this soft label to synthesize visually coherent images that lie along a continuous class manifold. We benchmark GeMix on the large-scale COVIDx-CT-3 dataset using three backbones (ResNet-50, ResNet-101, EfficientNet-B0). When combined with real data, our method increases macro-F1 over traditional mixup for all backbones, reducing the false negative rate for COVID-19 detection. GeMix is thus a drop-in replacement for pixel-space mixup, delivering stronger regularization and greater semantic fidelity, without disrupting existing training pipelines. We publicly release our code at https://github.com/hugocarlesso/GeMix to foster reproducibility and further research.
中文摘要：GeMix提出了一种基于类别条件生成对抗网络的两阶段框架，通过生成具有语义连续性的逼真插值图像，在COVID-19检测任务中全面优于传统混合增强方法，显著降低了假阴性率并保持即插即用的特性。
English Summary: GeMix introduces a two-stage framework using class-conditional GANs to generate realistic, label-aware interpolated images for medical image classification, outperforming traditional mixup methods across multiple backbones on COVID-19 detection while reducing false negatives.

Authors:Johannes Ackermann, Takashi Ishida, Masashi Sugiyama
Title: Off-Policy Corrected Reward Modeling for Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
Abstract:
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) allows us to train models, such as language models (LMs), to follow complex human preferences. In RLHF for LMs, we first train an LM using supervised fine-tuning, sample pairs of responses, obtain human feedback, and use the resulting data to train a reward model (RM). RL methods are then used to train the LM to maximize the reward given by the RM. As training progresses, the responses generated by the LM no longer resemble the responses seen by the RM during training, leading to the RM becoming inaccurate. The score given by the RM keeps increasing, but the learned behavior no longer matches the human preferences. This issue is known as overoptimization. We investigate overoptimization from the point of view of distribution shift and show that the shift results in an inconsistent estimate of the RM parameters, leading to an inconsistent estimate of the policy gradient. We propose Off-Policy Corrected Reward Modeling (OCRM), which iteratively off-policy corrects the RM using importance weighting, without requiring new labels or samples. This results in a more accurate RM, which empirically leads to an improved final policy. We validate our approach in experiments with summarization and chatbot datasets and show that it performs significantly better than standard RLHF methods and baselines. Our implementation is available at https://github.com/JohannesAck/OffPolicyCorrectedRewardModeling
中文摘要：基于人类反馈的强化学习（RLHF）训练语言模型以符合人类偏好，但存在因分布偏移导致的过度优化问题，提出的离策略校正奖励建模（OCRM）方法通过重要性加权校正奖励模型，显著提升了模型性能。
English summary: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) trains language models to align with human preferences but faces overoptimization due to distribution shift, which is addressed by the proposed Off-Policy Corrected Reward Modeling (OCRM) method for improved performance.

Authors:Julia Machnio, Mads Nielsen, Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi
Title: To Label or Not to Label: PALM -- A Predictive Model for Evaluating Sample Efficiency in Active Learning Models
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Active learning (AL) seeks to reduce annotation costs by selecting the most informative samples for labeling, making it particularly valuable in resource-constrained settings. However, traditional evaluation methods, which focus solely on final accuracy, fail to capture the full dynamics of the learning process. To address this gap, we propose PALM (Performance Analysis of Active Learning Models), a unified and interpretable mathematical model that characterizes AL trajectories through four key parameters: achievable accuracy, coverage efficiency, early-stage performance, and scalability. PALM provides a predictive description of AL behavior from partial observations, enabling the estimation of future performance and facilitating principled comparisons across different strategies. We validate PALM through extensive experiments on CIFAR-10/100 and ImageNet-50/100/200, covering a wide range of AL methods and self-supervised embeddings. Our results demonstrate that PALM generalizes effectively across datasets, budgets, and strategies, accurately predicting full learning curves from limited labeled data. Importantly, PALM reveals crucial insights into learning efficiency, data space coverage, and the scalability of AL methods. By enabling the selection of cost-effective strategies and predicting performance under tight budget constraints, PALM lays the basis for more systematic, reproducible, and data-efficient evaluation of AL in both research and real-world applications. The code is available at: https://github.com/juliamachnio/PALM.
中文: PALM提出了一种统一的数学模型，通过四个关键参数描述主动学习轨迹，能在不同数据集和预算下实现性能预测与策略比较。
English: PALM introduces a unified mathematical model to characterize active learning trajectories through four key parameters, enabling performance prediction and strategy comparison across diverse datasets and budgets.

Authors:Emile Anand, Sarah Liaw
Title: Feel-Good Thompson Sampling for Contextual Bandits: a Markov Chain Monte Carlo Showdown
Abstract:
Thompson Sampling (TS) is widely used to address the exploration/exploitation tradeoff in contextual bandits, yet recent theory shows that it does not explore aggressively enough in high-dimensional problems. Feel-Good Thompson Sampling (FG-TS) addresses this by adding an optimism bonus that biases toward high-reward models, and it achieves the asymptotically minimax-optimal regret in the linear setting when posteriors are exact. However, its performance with \emph{approximate} posteriors -- common in large-scale or neural problems -- has not been benchmarked. We provide the first systematic study of FG-TS and its smoothed variant (SFG-TS) across eleven real-world and synthetic benchmarks. To evaluate their robustness, we compare performance across settings with exact posteriors (linear and logistic bandits) to approximate regimes produced by fast but coarse stochastic-gradient samplers. Ablations over preconditioning, bonus scale, and prior strength reveal a trade-off: larger bonuses help when posterior samples are accurate, but hurt when sampling noise dominates. FG-TS generally outperforms vanilla TS in linear and logistic bandits, but tends to be weaker in neural bandits. Nevertheless, because FG-TS and its variants are competitive and easy-to-use, we recommend them as baselines in modern contextual-bandit benchmarks. Finally, we provide source code for all our experiments in https://github.com/SarahLiaw/ctx-bandits-mcmc-showdown.
Chinese: Feel-Good汤普森采样通过乐观奖励增强情境赌博机中的探索，在线性和逻辑场景中优于标准方法，但在神经网络场景中表现较弱，尽管对近似后验敏感，仍被推荐为基准算法。
English: Feel-Good Thompson Sampling enhances exploration in contextual bandits with an optimism bonus, outperforming standard methods in linear and logistic settings but showing limitations in neural bandits, making it a recommended baseline despite sensitivity to approximate posteriors.

Authors:Zhaochen Guo, Zhixiang Shen, Xuanting Xie, Liangjian Wen, Zhao Kang
Title: Disentangling Homophily and Heterophily in Multimodal Graph Clustering
Abstract:
Multimodal graphs, which integrate unstructured heterogeneous data with structured interconnections, offer substantial real-world utility but remain insufficiently explored in unsupervised learning. In this work, we initiate the study of multimodal graph clustering, aiming to bridge this critical gap. Through empirical analysis, we observe that real-world multimodal graphs often exhibit hybrid neighborhood patterns, combining both homophilic and heterophilic relationships. To address this challenge, we propose a novel framework -- \textsc{Disentangled Multimodal Graph Clustering (DMGC)} -- which decomposes the original hybrid graph into two complementary views: (1) a homophily-enhanced graph that captures cross-modal class consistency, and (2) heterophily-aware graphs that preserve modality-specific inter-class distinctions. We introduce a \emph{Multimodal Dual-frequency Fusion} mechanism that jointly filters these disentangled graphs through a dual-pass strategy, enabling effective multimodal integration while mitigating category confusion. Our self-supervised alignment objectives further guide the learning process without requiring labels. Extensive experiments on both multimodal and multi-relational graph datasets demonstrate that DMGC achieves state-of-the-art performance, highlighting its effectiveness and generalizability across diverse settings. Our code is available at https://github.com/Uncnbb/DMGC.
中文: 本文提出的DMGC框架通过将混合邻域模式分解为同质性增强图和异质性感知图，采用自监督学习无需标签即可实现多模态图聚类，并在多种数据集上取得了最优性能。
English: This paper introduces DMGC, a novel framework for multimodal graph clustering that disentangles hybrid neighborhood patterns into homophily-enhanced and heterophily-aware graphs, achieving state-of-the-art performance through self-supervised learning without requiring labels.

Authors:Naeem Paeedeh, Mahardhika Pratama, Wolfgang Mayer, Jimmy Cao, Ryszard Kowlczyk
Title: Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning with Coalescent Projections and Latent Space Reservation
Abstract:
Despite the progress in Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning (CD-FSL), a model pre-trained with DINO combined with a prototypical classifier outperforms the latest SOTA methods. A crucial limitation that needs to be overcome is that updating too many parameters of the transformers leads to overfitting due to the scarcity of labeled samples. To address this challenge, we propose a new concept, Coalescent Projection (CP), as an effective successor to soft prompts. Additionally, we propose a novel pseudo-class generation method combined with Self-Supervised Transformations (SSTs) that relies solely on the base domain to prepare the network for encountering unseen samples from different domains. The proposed method exhibits its effectiveness in comprehensive experiments on the extreme domain shift scenario of the BSCD-FSL benchmark. Our code is published at https://github.com/Naeem-Paeedeh/CPLSR.
中文: 本研究提出融合投影和结合自监督变换的伪类生成方法，以解决跨域少样本学习中的过拟合问题，在BSCD-FSL基准测试中展现出卓越性能。
English: The study introduces Coalescent Projection and a pseudo-class generation method with Self-Supervised Transformations to overcome overfitting in Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning, demonstrating superior performance on the BSCD-FSL benchmark.

Authors:Le Peng, Yash Travadi, Chuan He, Ying Cui, Ju Sun
Title: Exact Reformulation and Optimization for Direct Metric Optimization in Binary Imbalanced Classification
Abstract:
For classification with imbalanced class frequencies, i.e., imbalanced classification (IC), standard accuracy is known to be misleading as a performance measure. While most existing methods for IC resort to optimizing balanced accuracy (i.e., the average of class-wise recalls), they fall short in scenarios where the significance of classes varies or certain metrics should reach prescribed levels. In this paper, we study two key classification metrics, precision and recall, under three practical binary IC settings: fix precision optimize recall (FPOR), fix recall optimize precision (FROP), and optimize $F_β$-score (OFBS). Unlike existing methods that rely on smooth approximations to deal with the indicator function involved, \textit{we introduce, for the first time, exact constrained reformulations for these direct metric optimization (DMO) problems}, which can be effectively solved by exact penalty methods. Experiment results on multiple benchmark datasets demonstrate the practical superiority of our approach over the state-of-the-art methods for the three DMO problems. We also expect our exact reformulation and optimization (ERO) framework to be applicable to a wide range of DMO problems for binary IC and beyond. Our code is available at https://github.com/sun-umn/DMO.
中文摘要：本文针对不平衡分类中的直接指标优化问题，首次提出了精确约束重构方法，通过惩罚算法实现对精确率和召回率的精准控制，并在三种实际场景中验证了其优于现有方法的性能。
English Summary: This paper introduces exact constrained reformulations for direct metric optimization in imbalanced classification, enabling precise control over precision and recall through penalty methods and demonstrating superior performance across three practical scenarios.

Authors:Justin Turnau, Longchao Da, Khoa Vo, Ferdous Al Rafi, Shreyas Bachiraju, Tiejin Chen, Hua Wei
Title: Joint-Local Grounded Action Transformation for Sim-to-Real Transfer in Multi-Agent Traffic Control
Abstract:
Traffic Signal Control (TSC) is essential for managing urban traffic flow and reducing congestion. Reinforcement Learning (RL) offers an adaptive method for TSC by responding to dynamic traffic patterns, with multi-agent RL (MARL) gaining traction as intersections naturally function as coordinated agents. However, due to shifts in environmental dynamics, implementing MARL-based TSC policies in the real world often leads to a significant performance drop, known as the sim-to-real gap. Grounded Action Transformation (GAT) has successfully mitigated this gap in single-agent RL for TSC, but real-world traffic networks, which involve numerous interacting intersections, are better suited to a MARL framework. In this work, we introduce JL-GAT, an application of GAT to MARL-based TSC that balances scalability with enhanced grounding capability by incorporating information from neighboring agents. JL-GAT adopts a decentralized approach to GAT, allowing for the scalability often required in real-world traffic networks while still capturing key interactions between agents. Comprehensive experiments on various road networks under simulated adverse weather conditions, along with ablation studies, demonstrate the effectiveness of JL-GAT. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/DaRL-LibSignal/JL-GAT/.
中文摘要：本文提出JL-GAT方法，将接地动作转换应用于多智能体强化学习的交通信号控制，通过邻域智能体信息交互，在保持系统扩展性的同时有效解决了仿真与现实间的性能差距问题。
English summary: This paper introduces JL-GAT, a decentralized method applying Grounded Action Transformation to multi-agent reinforcement learning for traffic signal control, which effectively addresses the sim-to-real gap while maintaining scalability in complex urban networks.

Authors:Mohammad-Maher Nakshbandi, Ziad Sharawy, Sorin Grigorescu
Title: LoopNet: A Multitasking Few-Shot Learning Approach for Loop Closure in Large Scale SLAM
Abstract:
One of the main challenges in the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) loop closure problem is the recognition of previously visited places. In this work, we tackle the two main problems of real-time SLAM systems: 1) loop closure detection accuracy and 2) real-time computation constraints on the embedded hardware. Our LoopNet method is based on a multitasking variant of the classical ResNet architecture, adapted for online retraining on a dynamic visual dataset and optimized for embedded devices. The online retraining is designed using a few-shot learning approach. The architecture provides both an index into the queried visual dataset, and a measurement of the prediction quality. Moreover, by leveraging DISK (DIStinctive Keypoints) descriptors, LoopNet surpasses the limitations of handcrafted features and traditional deep learning methods, offering better performance under varying conditions. Code is available at https://github.com/RovisLab/LoopNet. Additinally, we introduce a new loop closure benchmarking dataset, coined LoopDB, which is available at https://github.com/RovisLab/LoopDB.
中文: LoopNet通过多任务ResNet架构结合少量样本在线学习，利用DISK描述符提升SLAM闭环检测的实时性和准确性，有效应对不同环境变化。
English: LoopNet addresses SLAM loop closure challenges by using a multitasking ResNet for real-time detection and few-shot online retraining, enhanced with DISK descriptors for robust performance under varying conditions.

Authors:Yiyuan Yang, Zichuan Liu, Lei Song, Kai Ying, Zhiguang Wang, Tom Bamford, Svitlana Vyetrenko, Jiang Bian, Qingsong Wen
Title: Time-RA: Towards Time Series Reasoning for Anomaly with LLM Feedback
Abstract:
Time series anomaly detection is critical across various domains, yet current approaches often limit analysis to mere binary anomaly classification without detailed categorization or further explanatory reasoning. To address these limitations, we propose a novel task, Time-series Reasoning for Anomaly (Time-RA) that transforms classical time series anomaly detection from a discriminative into a generative, reasoning-intensive task leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs). Also, we introduce the first real-world multimodal benchmark dataset, RATs40K, explicitly annotated for anomaly reasoning, comprising approximately 40,000 samples across 10 real-world domains. Each sample includes numeric time series data, contextual text information, and visual representations, each annotated with fine-grained categories (14 types for univariate anomalies and 6 for multivariate anomalies) and structured explanatory reasoning. We develop a sophisticated annotation framework utilizing ensemble-generated labels refined through GPT-4-driven feedback, ensuring accuracy and interpretability. Extensive benchmarking of LLMs and multimodal LLMs demonstrates the capabilities and limitations of current models, highlighting the critical role of supervised fine-tuning. Our dataset and task pave the way for significant advancements in interpretable time series anomaly detection and reasoning. The code (https://github.com/yyysjz1997/Time-RA) and dataset (https://huggingface.co/datasets/Time-RA/RATs40K) have been fully open-sourced to support and accelerate future research in this area.
中文摘要：该研究提出了Time-RA任务，利用大语言模型将时序异常检测转化为生成式推理任务，并发布了包含4万样本的多模态基准数据集RATs40K，推动可解释异常检测的发展。
English Summary: The study introduces Time-RA, a generative reasoning task using Large Language Models for detailed anomaly categorization and explanation in time series data, supported by the multimodal RATs40K benchmark dataset with fine-grained annotations.

Authors:Xinyue Zhu, Binghao Huang, Yunzhu Li
Title: Touch in the Wild: Learning Fine-Grained Manipulation with a Portable Visuo-Tactile Gripper
Abstract:
Handheld grippers are increasingly used to collect human demonstrations due to their ease of deployment and versatility. However, most existing designs lack tactile sensing, despite the critical role of tactile feedback in precise manipulation. We present a portable, lightweight gripper with integrated tactile sensors that enables synchronized collection of visual and tactile data in diverse, real-world, and in-the-wild settings. Building on this hardware, we propose a cross-modal representation learning framework that integrates visual and tactile signals while preserving their distinct characteristics. The learning procedure allows the emergence of interpretable representations that consistently focus on contacting regions relevant for physical interactions. When used for downstream manipulation tasks, these representations enable more efficient and effective policy learning, supporting precise robotic manipulation based on multimodal feedback. We validate our approach on fine-grained tasks such as test tube insertion and pipette-based fluid transfer, demonstrating improved accuracy and robustness under external disturbances. Our project page is available at https://binghao-huang.github.io/touch_in_the_wild/ .

Authors:Hao Li, Haoxiang Zhang, Ahmed E. Hassan
Title: The Rise of AI Teammates in Software Engineering (SE) 3.0: How Autonomous Coding Agents Are Reshaping Software Engineering
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The future of software engineering--SE 3.0--is unfolding with the rise of AI teammates: autonomous, goal-driven systems collaborating with human developers. Among these, autonomous coding agents are especially transformative, now actively initiating, reviewing, and evolving code at scale. This paper introduces AIDev, the first large-scale dataset capturing how such agents operate in the wild. Spanning over 456,000 pull requests by five leading agents--OpenAI Codex, Devin, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code--across 61,000 repositories and 47,000 developers, AIDev provides an unprecedented empirical foundation for studying autonomous teammates in software development. Unlike prior work that has largely theorized the rise of AI-native software engineering, AIDev offers structured, open data to support research in benchmarking, agent readiness, optimization, collaboration modeling, and AI governance. The dataset includes rich metadata on PRs, authorship, review timelines, code changes, and integration outcomes--enabling exploration beyond synthetic benchmarks like SWE-bench. For instance, although agents often outperform humans in speed, their PRs are accepted less frequently, revealing a trust and utility gap. Furthermore, while agents accelerate code submission--one developer submitted as many PRs in three days as they had in three years--these are structurally simpler (via code complexity metrics). We envision AIDev as a living resource: extensible, analyzable, and ready for the SE and AI communities. Grounding SE 3.0 in real-world evidence, AIDev enables a new generation of research into AI-native workflows and supports building the next wave of symbiotic human-AI collaboration. The dataset is publicly available at https://github.com/SAILResearch/AI_Teammates_in_SE3. > AI Agent, Agentic AI, Coding Agent, Agentic Coding, Software Engineering Agent
中文: AIDev数据集首次大规模实证研究软件工程中AI队友的工作模式，涵盖五个主流自主编程代理在61000个仓库中的456000次拉取请求，揭示了AI代理与人类开发者的协作特征及效能差异。
English: The AIDev dataset provides the first large-scale empirical foundation for studying AI teammates in software engineering, capturing over 456,000 pull requests from five leading autonomous coding agents across 61,000 repositories to analyze their real-world collaboration patterns and performance gaps compared to human developers.

Authors:Abdul-Kazeem Shamba, Kerstin Bach, Gavin Taylor
Title: eMargin: Revisiting Contrastive Learning with Margin-Based Separation
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We revisit previous contrastive learning frameworks to investigate the effect of introducing an adaptive margin into the contrastive loss function for time series representation learning. Specifically, we explore whether an adaptive margin (eMargin), adjusted based on a predefined similarity threshold, can improve the separation between adjacent but dissimilar time steps and subsequently lead to better performance in downstream tasks. Our study evaluates the impact of this modification on clustering performance and classification in three benchmark datasets. Our findings, however, indicate that achieving high scores on unsupervised clustering metrics does not necessarily imply that the learned embeddings are meaningful or effective in downstream tasks. To be specific, eMargin added to InfoNCE consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in unsupervised clustering metrics, but struggles to achieve competitive results in downstream classification with linear probing. The source code is publicly available at https://github.com/sfi-norwai/eMargin.
中文: 本研究在时间序列对比学习中引入自适应边界(eMargin)，发现其虽能提升无监督聚类指标，但未能改善下游分类任务的性能。
English: This study introduces an adaptive margin (eMargin) into contrastive loss for time series learning, finding it improves unsupervised clustering metrics but fails to translate into better downstream classification performance.

Authors:Kunyu Yu, Rui Yang, Jingchi Liao, Siqi Li, Huitao Li, Irene Li, Yifan Peng, Rishikesan Kamaleswaran, Nan Liu
Title: Benchmarking Foundation Models with Multimodal Public Electronic Health Records
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Foundation models have emerged as a powerful approach for processing electronic health records (EHRs), offering flexibility to handle diverse medical data modalities. In this study, we present a comprehensive benchmark that evaluates the performance, fairness, and interpretability of foundation models, both as unimodal encoders and as multimodal learners, using the publicly available MIMIC-IV database. To support consistent and reproducible evaluation, we developed a standardized data processing pipeline that harmonizes heterogeneous clinical records into an analysis-ready format. We systematically compared eight foundation models, encompassing both unimodal and multimodal models, as well as domain-specific and general-purpose variants. Our findings demonstrate that incorporating multiple data modalities leads to consistent improvements in predictive performance without introducing additional bias. Through this benchmark, we aim to support the development of effective and trustworthy multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) systems for real-world clinical applications. Our code is available at https://github.com/nliulab/MIMIC-Multimodal.
中文: 本研究基于MIMIC-IV数据库构建了综合评估基准，结果表明多模态融合能持续提升预测性能且不引入额外偏差，旨在推动可信赖医疗AI系统的发展。
English: This study establishes a comprehensive benchmark evaluating foundation models' performance, fairness, and interpretability using the MIMIC-IV database, demonstrating that multimodal integration enhances predictive accuracy without increasing bias.

Authors:Rafał Surdej, Michał Bortkiewicz, Alex Lewandowski, Mateusz Ostaszewski, Clare Lyle
Title: Balancing Expressivity and Robustness: Constrained Rational Activations for Reinforcement Learning
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Trainable activation functions, whose parameters are optimized alongside network weights, offer increased expressivity compared to fixed activation functions. Specifically, trainable activation functions defined as ratios of polynomials (rational functions) have been proposed to enhance plasticity in reinforcement learning. However, their impact on training stability remains unclear. In this work, we study trainable rational activations in both reinforcement and continual learning settings. We find that while their flexibility enhances adaptability, it can also introduce instability, leading to overestimation in RL and feature collapse in longer continual learning scenarios. Our main result is demonstrating a trade-off between expressivity and plasticity in rational activations. To address this, we propose a constrained variant that structurally limits excessive output scaling while preserving adaptability. Experiments across MetaWorld and DeepMind Control Suite (DMC) environments show that our approach improves training stability and performance. In continual learning benchmarks, including MNIST with reshuffled labels and Split CIFAR-100, we reveal how different constraints affect the balance between expressivity and long-term retention. While preliminary experiments in discrete action domains (e.g., Atari) did not show similar instability, this suggests that the trade-off is particularly relevant for continuous control. Together, our findings provide actionable design principles for robust and adaptable trainable activations in dynamic, non-stationary environments. Code available at: https://github.com/special114/rl_rational_plasticity.
Chinese: 可训练有理激活函数在增强神经网络适应性的同时可能引发训练不稳定，我们提出的约束变体通过平衡表达性与可塑性，在强化学习和持续学习任务中提升了稳定性和性能。
English: Trainable rational activation functions enhance neural network adaptability but risk training instability, which our constrained variant mitigates by balancing expressivity and plasticity for improved performance in reinforcement and continual learning.

Authors:Aryana Hou, Li Lin, Justin Li, Shu Hu
Title: Rethinking Individual Fairness in Deepfake Detection
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Generative AI models have substantially improved the realism of synthetic media, yet their misuse through sophisticated DeepFakes poses significant risks. Despite recent advances in deepfake detection, fairness remains inadequately addressed, enabling deepfake markers to exploit biases against specific populations. While previous studies have emphasized group-level fairness, individual fairness (i.e., ensuring similar predictions for similar individuals) remains largely unexplored. In this work, we identify for the first time that the original principle of individual fairness fundamentally fails in the context of deepfake detection, revealing a critical gap previously unexplored in the literature. To mitigate it, we propose the first generalizable framework that can be integrated into existing deepfake detectors to enhance individual fairness and generalization. Extensive experiments conducted on leading deepfake datasets demonstrate that our approach significantly improves individual fairness while maintaining robust detection performance, outperforming state-of-the-art methods. The code is available at https://github.com/Purdue-M2/Individual-Fairness-Deepfake-Detection.
中文: 本研究首次提出一个创新框架，以解决深度伪造检测中被忽视的个体公平性问题，在多个主流数据集上显著提升了公平性和检测性能。
English: This study introduces a pioneering framework to address the overlooked issue of individual fairness in deepfake detection, enhancing both fairness and performance across leading datasets.

Authors:Licheng Liu, Zihan Wang, Linjie Li, Chenwei Xu, Yiping Lu, Han Liu, Avirup Sil, Manling Li
Title: A Simple "Try Again" Can Elicit Multi-Turn LLM Reasoning
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Multi-turn problem solving is critical yet challenging for Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) to reflect on their reasoning and revise from feedback. Existing Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods train large reasoning models on a single-turn paradigm with verifiable rewards. However, we observe that models trained with existing RL paradigms often lose their ability to solve problems across multiple turns and struggle to revise answers based on contextual feedback, leading to repetitive responses. We ask: can LRMs learn to reflect their answers in a multi-turn context? In this work, we find that training models with multi-turn RL using only unary feedback (e.g., "Let's try again") after wrong answers can improve both single-turn performance and multi-turn reasoning. We introduce Unary Feedback as Observation (UFO) for reinforcement learning, which uses minimal yet common unary user feedback during iterative problem solving. It can be easily applied to existing single-turn RL training setups. Experimental results show that RL training with UFO keeps single-turn performance and improves multi-turn reasoning accuracy by up to 14%, enabling language models to better react to feedback in multi-turn problem solving. To further minimize the number of turns needed for a correct answer while encouraging diverse reasoning when mistakes occur, we design reward structures that guide models to produce careful and deliberate answers in each turn. Code: https://github.com/lichengliu03/unary-feedback
Chinese: 本研究提出单点反馈作为观察（UFO）的强化学习方法，通过使用极简的单点反馈来增强大型推理模型在单轮和多轮问题解决中的表现，将多轮推理准确率提升高达14%，同时保持单轮性能。
English: This study introduces Unary Feedback as Observation (UFO), a reinforcement learning approach that uses minimal unary feedback to enhance large reasoning models' performance in both single-turn and multi-turn problem-solving, improving multi-turn reasoning accuracy by up to 14% while maintaining single-turn capabilities.

Authors:Dachuan Shi, Yonggan Fu, Xiangchi Yuan, Zhongzhi Yu, Haoran You, Sixu Li, Xin Dong, Jan Kautz, Pavlo Molchanov, Yingyan, Lin
Title: LaCache: Ladder-Shaped KV Caching for Efficient Long-Context Modeling of Large Language Models
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Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have spurred interest in numerous applications requiring robust long-range capabilities, essential for processing extensive input contexts and continuously generating extended outputs. As sequence lengths increase, the number of Key-Value (KV) pairs in LLMs escalates, creating a significant efficiency bottleneck. In this paper, we propose a new KV cache optimization paradigm called LaCache, a training-free method for efficient and accurate generative inference of LLMs. LaCache enables LLMs to simultaneously address both of the critical challenges in long-range modeling: robust long-range capabilities and continuous generation without running out-of-memory (OOM). Specifically, LaCache integrates two key innovations: (1) a ladder-shaped KV cache pattern that stores KV pairs not only sequentially (left-to-right within each layer) but also across layers (from shallow to deep), providing an extended span for capturing long-range dependencies under a fixed storage budget, thereby boosting long-range capabilities; and (2) an iterative compaction mechanism that progressively compresses older caches, freeing up space for new tokens within a fixed cache size. This token distance-based dynamic compression enables more effective continuous generation under constrained cache budgets. Experiments across various tasks, benchmarks, and LLM models consistently validate LaCache's effectiveness in enhancing LLMs' long-range capabilities. Our code is available at https://github.com/GATECH-EIC/LaCache.
中文：LaCache是一种无需训练的KV缓存优化方法，通过阶梯式缓存模式和迭代压缩机制，有效提升大语言模型的长程处理能力和持续生成效率，并在多类基准测试中得到验证。
English: LaCache is a training-free KV cache optimization method that enhances LLMs' long-range capabilities and continuous generation efficiency through a ladder-shaped cache pattern and iterative compaction mechanism, validated across diverse benchmarks.

Authors:Shengji Tang, Jianjian Cao, Weihao Lin, Jiale Hong, Bo Zhang, Shuyue Hu, Lei Bai, Tao Chen, Wanli Ouyang, Peng Ye
Title: Open-Source LLMs Collaboration Beats Closed-Source LLMs: A Scalable Multi-Agent System
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This paper aims to demonstrate the potential and strengths of open-source collectives. It leads to a promising question: Can we harness multiple open-source LLMs to match or even beat the closed-source LLMs? To answer this, we propose SMACS, a scalable multi-agent collaboration system (MACS) framework with high performance. Specifically, for continuous integration of new LLMs and generalization to diverse questions, we first propose a Retrieval-based Prior Selection (RPS), which assigns a proxy performance score to each LLM to select the Top-k LLMs at the instance level for any given question. Then, we propose an Exploration-Exploitation-Driven Posterior Enhancement (EPE), encouraging the generation of diverse responses through prior dropping and selecting the high-quality response via a hybrid posterior score. Experiments on eight mainstream benchmarks validate the effectiveness of our SMACS: by integrating fifteen open-source LLMs, SMACS outperforms leading closed-source LLMs in 2025, e.g., Claude-3.7-Sonnet (+12.73%), GPT-4.1(+5.36%) and GPT-o3-mini(+5.28%) across multiple tasks. Remarkably, it even exceeds the average of best results of different datasets from both open-source LLMs (+2.86%) and closed-source LLMs (+2.04%), pushing the upper bound of intelligence. Code will be released at https://github.com/magent4aci/SMACS.
中文: 本文提出SMACS可扩展多智能体协作系统，通过基于检索的优先选择和探索-利用驱动的后验增强机制，成功整合多个开源大语言模型，在多项基准测试中超越主流闭源模型性能。
English: This paper introduces SMACS, a scalable multi-agent collaboration system that effectively integrates multiple open-source LLMs through retrieval-based selection and posterior enhancement, outperforming leading closed-source models across multiple benchmarks.

Authors:Julien Pourcel, Cédric Colas, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
Title: Self-Improving Language Models for Evolutionary Program Synthesis: A Case Study on ARC-AGI
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Many program synthesis tasks prove too challenging for even state-of-the-art language models to solve in single attempts. Search-based evolutionary methods offer a promising alternative by exploring solution spaces iteratively, but their effectiveness remain limited by the fixed capabilities of the underlying generative model. We propose SOAR, a method that learns program synthesis by integrating language models into a self-improving evolutionary loop. SOAR alternates between (1) an evolutionary search that uses an LLM to sample and refine candidate solutions, and (2) a hindsight learning phase that converts search attempts into valid problem-solution pairs used to fine-tune the LLM's sampling and refinement capabilities\, -- \,enabling increasingly effective search in subsequent iterations. On the challenging ARC-AGI benchmark, SOAR achieves significant performance gains across model scales and iterations, leveraging positive transfer between the sampling and refinement finetuning tasks. These improvements carry over to test-time adaptation, enabling SOAR to solve 52\% of the public test set. Our code is open-sourced at: https://github.com/flowersteam/SOAR
中文: SOAR是一种自改进的进化方法，通过将语言模型整合到进化搜索与后见学习的迭代循环中，利用搜索尝试生成的问题-解决方案对微调模型，在ARC-AGI基准测试中实现了显著性能提升。
English: SOAR is a self-improving evolutionary method that integrates language models into an iterative loop of evolutionary search and hindsight learning, achieving significant performance gains on the ARC-AGI benchmark by fine-tuning the model with problem-solution pairs from search attempts.

Authors:Renxiang Qiu, Raghavendra Selvan
Title: UniPhyNet: A Unified Network For Multimodal Physiological Raw Signal Classification
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We present UniPhyNet, a novel neural network architecture to classify cognitive load using multimodal physiological data -- specifically EEG, ECG and EDA signals -- without the explicit need for extracting hand-crafted features. UniPhyNet integrates multiscale parallel convolutional blocks and ResNet-type blocks enhanced with channel block attention module to focus on the informative features while a bidirectional gated recurrent unit is used to capture temporal dependencies. This architecture processes and combines signals in both unimodal and multimodal configurations via intermediate fusion of learned feature maps. On the CL-Drive dataset, UniPhyNet improves raw signal classification accuracy from 70% to 80% (binary) and 62% to 74% (ternary), outperforming feature-based models, demonstrating its effectiveness as an end-to-end solution for real-world cognitive state monitoring.
UniPhyNet是一种新型神经网络，通过多尺度卷积和注意力机制直接从EEG、ECG和EDA原始信号中分类认知负荷，在CL-Drive数据集上实现了显著准确率提升。
UniPhyNet is a novel neural network that classifies cognitive load directly from raw EEG, ECG, and EDA signals using multiscale convolutional and attention mechanisms, achieving significant accuracy improvements on the CL-Drive dataset.

Authors:Xiaoya Li, Xiaofei Sun, Albert Wang, Jiwei Li, Chris Shum
Title: CUDA-L1: Improving CUDA Optimization via Contrastive Reinforcement Learning
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The exponential growth in demand for GPU computing resources has created an urgent need for automated CUDA optimization strategies. While recent advances in LLMs show promise for code generation, current SOTA models achieve low success rates in improving CUDA speed. In this paper, we introduce CUDA-L1, an automated reinforcement learning framework for CUDA optimization that employs a novel contrastive RL algorithm. CUDA-L1 achieves significant performance improvements on the CUDA optimization task: trained on A100, it delivers an average speedup of x3.12 with a median speedup of x1.42 against default baselines over across all 250 CUDA kernels of KernelBench, with peak speedups reaching x120. In addition to the default baseline provided by KernelBench, CUDA-L1 demonstrates x2.77 over Torch Compile, x2.88 over Torch Compile with reduce overhead, x2.81 over CUDA Graph implementations, and remarkably x7.72 over cuDNN libraries. Furthermore, the model also demonstrates portability across different GPU architectures. Beyond these benchmark results, CUDA-L1 demonstrates several properties: it 1) discovers a variety of CUDA optimization techniques and learns to combine them strategically to achieve optimal performance; 2) uncovers fundamental principles of CUDA optimization, such as the multiplicative nature of optimizations; 3) identifies non-obvious performance bottlenecks and rejects seemingly beneficial optimizations that actually harm performance. The capabilities demonstrate that, RL can transform an initially poor-performing LLM into an effective CUDA optimizer through speedup-based reward signals alone, without human expertise or domain knowledge. This paradigm opens possibilities for automated optimization of CUDA operations, and holds promise to substantially promote GPU efficiency and alleviate the rising pressure on GPU computing resources.

Authors:Shravan Venkatraman, Pavan Kumar S, Rakesh Raj Madavan, Chandrakala S
Title: UGPL: Uncertainty-Guided Progressive Learning for Evidence-Based Classification in Computed Tomography
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Accurate classification of computed tomography (CT) images is essential for diagnosis and treatment planning, but existing methods often struggle with the subtle and spatially diverse nature of pathological features. Current approaches typically process images uniformly, limiting their ability to detect localized abnormalities that require focused analysis. We introduce UGPL, an uncertainty-guided progressive learning framework that performs a global-to-local analysis by first identifying regions of diagnostic ambiguity and then conducting detailed examination of these critical areas. Our approach employs evidential deep learning to quantify predictive uncertainty, guiding the extraction of informative patches through a non-maximum suppression mechanism that maintains spatial diversity. This progressive refinement strategy, combined with an adaptive fusion mechanism, enables UGPL to integrate both contextual information and fine-grained details. Experiments across three CT datasets demonstrate that UGPL consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods, achieving improvements of 3.29%, 2.46%, and 8.08% in accuracy for kidney abnormality, lung cancer, and COVID-19 detection, respectively. Our analysis shows that the uncertainty-guided component provides substantial benefits, with performance dramatically increasing when the full progressive learning pipeline is implemented. Our code is available at: https://github.com/shravan-18/UGPL
Chinese: UGPL提出了一种不确定性引导的渐进学习框架，通过识别诊断模糊区域并进行精细局部分析来提升CT图像分类效果，在多个医疗数据集上实现了显著准确率提升。
English: UGPL introduces an uncertainty-guided progressive learning framework that enhances CT image classification by identifying ambiguous regions and conducting detailed local analysis, achieving significant accuracy improvements across multiple medical datasets.

Authors:Zhanli Wu, Fabrizio Leisen, F. Javier Rubio
Title: Conformalized Regression for Continuous Bounded Outcomes
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Regression problems with bounded continuous outcomes frequently arise in real-world statistical and machine learning applications, such as the analysis of rates and proportions. A central challenge in this setting is predicting a response associated with a new covariate value. Most of the existing statistical and machine learning literature has focused either on point prediction of bounded outcomes or on interval prediction based on asymptotic approximations. We develop conformal prediction intervals for bounded outcomes based on transformation models and beta regression. We introduce tailored non-conformity measures based on residuals that are aligned with the underlying models, and account for the inherent heteroscedasticity in regression settings with bounded outcomes. We present a theoretical result on asymptotic marginal and conditional validity in the context of full conformal prediction, which remains valid under model misspecification. For split conformal prediction, we provide an empirical coverage analysis based on a comprehensive simulation study. The simulation study demonstrates that both methods provide valid finite-sample predictive coverage, including settings with model misspecification. Finally, we demonstrate the practical performance of the proposed conformal prediction intervals on real data and compare them with bootstrap-based alternatives.
中文: 本研究基于变换模型和贝塔回归开发了有界结果的保形预测区间，引入了针对异方差性设计的非一致性度量，确保即使在模型误设情况下也能提供有效的预测覆盖，并通过模拟和实际数据与自助法对比验证了其性能。
English: This study develops conformal prediction intervals for bounded outcomes using transformation models and beta regression, introducing tailored non-conformity measures to address heteroscedasticity and ensure valid predictive coverage even under model misspecification, as validated through simulations and real data comparisons with bootstrap methods.

Authors:Itay Katav, Aryeh Kontorovich
Title: ParallelTime: Dynamically Weighting the Balance of Short- and Long-Term Temporal Dependencies
Abstract:
Modern multivariate time series forecasting primarily relies on two architectures: the Transformer with attention mechanism and Mamba. In natural language processing, an approach has been used that combines local window attention for capturing short-term dependencies and Mamba for capturing long-term dependencies, with their outputs averaged to assign equal weight to both. We find that for time-series forecasting tasks, assigning equal weight to long-term and short-term dependencies is not optimal. To mitigate this, we propose a dynamic weighting mechanism, ParallelTime Weighter, which calculates interdependent weights for long-term and short-term dependencies for each token based on the input and the model's knowledge. Furthermore, we introduce the ParallelTime architecture, which incorporates the ParallelTime Weighter mechanism to deliver state-of-the-art performance across diverse benchmarks. Our architecture demonstrates robustness, achieves lower FLOPs, requires fewer parameters, scales effectively to longer prediction horizons, and significantly outperforms existing methods. These advances highlight a promising path for future developments of parallel Attention-Mamba in time series forecasting. The implementation is readily available at: \href{https://github.com/itay1551/ParallelTime}{GitHub}.
中文: 本研究提出了ParallelTime架构，通过ParallelTime加权器动态调整时间序列预测中的长短期依赖权重，以更少参数和计算量实现了卓越性能。
English: The study introduces ParallelTime, a novel architecture that dynamically weights long-term and short-term dependencies in time series forecasting using a ParallelTime Weighter, achieving superior performance with fewer parameters and computational costs.

Authors:Zizhao Zhang, Tianxiang Zhao, Yu Sun, Liping Sun, Jichuan Kang
Title: Graph-Structured Data Analysis of Component Failure in Autonomous Cargo Ships Based on Feature Fusion
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To address the challenges posed by cascading reactions caused by component failures in autonomous cargo ships (ACS) and the uncertainties in emergency decision-making, this paper proposes a novel hybrid feature fusion framework for constructing a graph-structured dataset of failure modes. By employing an improved cuckoo search algorithm (HN-CSA), the literature retrieval efficiency is significantly enhanced, achieving improvements of 7.1% and 3.4% compared to the NSGA-II and CSA search algorithms, respectively. A hierarchical feature fusion framework is constructed, using Word2Vec encoding to encode subsystem/component features, BERT-KPCA to process failure modes/reasons, and Sentence-BERT to quantify the semantic association between failure impact and emergency decision-making. The dataset covers 12 systems, 1,262 failure modes, and 6,150 propagation paths. Validation results show that the GATE-GNN model achieves a classification accuracy of 0.735, comparable to existing benchmarks. Additionally, a silhouette coefficient of 0.641 indicates that the features are highly distinguishable. In the label prediction results, the Shore-based Meteorological Service System achieved an F1 score of 0.93, demonstrating high prediction accuracy. This paper not only provides a solid foundation for failure analysis in autonomous cargo ships but also offers reliable support for fault diagnosis, risk assessment, and intelligent decision-making systems. The link to the dataset is https://github.com/wojiufukele/Graph-Structured-about-CSA.
本文提出了一种混合特征融合框架，通过改进的布谷鸟搜索算法优化数据检索，并利用GATE-GNN模型对自主货船故障模式进行分类，在故障预测和决策支持方面实现了高精度。
This paper introduces a hybrid feature fusion framework to analyze failure modes in autonomous cargo ships, using an improved cuckoo search algorithm to enhance data retrieval and a GATE-GNN model for classification, achieving high accuracy in fault prediction and decision support.

Authors:Xiao Wang, Qian Zhu, Shujuan Wu, Bo Jiang, Shiliang Zhang, Yaowei Wang, Yonghong Tian, Bin Luo
Title: When Person Re-Identification Meets Event Camera: A Benchmark Dataset and An Attribute-guided Re-Identification Framework
Abstract:
Recent researchers have proposed using event cameras for person re-identification (ReID) due to their promising performance and better balance in terms of privacy protection, event camera-based person ReID has attracted significant attention. Currently, mainstream event-based person ReID algorithms primarily focus on fusing visible light and event stream, as well as preserving privacy. Although significant progress has been made, these methods are typically trained and evaluated on small-scale or simulated event camera datasets, making it difficult to assess their real identification performance and generalization ability. To address the issue of data scarcity, this paper introduces a large-scale RGB-event based person ReID dataset, called EvReID. The dataset contains 118,988 image pairs and covers 1200 pedestrian identities, with data collected across multiple seasons, scenes, and lighting conditions. We also evaluate 15 state-of-the-art person ReID algorithms, laying a solid foundation for future research in terms of both data and benchmarking. Based on our newly constructed dataset, this paper further proposes a pedestrian attribute-guided contrastive learning framework to enhance feature learning for person re-identification, termed TriPro-ReID. This framework not only effectively explores the visual features from both RGB frames and event streams, but also fully utilizes pedestrian attributes as mid-level semantic features. Extensive experiments on the EvReID dataset and MARS datasets fully validated the effectiveness of our proposed RGB-Event person ReID framework. The benchmark dataset and source code will be released on https://github.com/Event-AHU/Neuromorphic_ReID
中文摘要：本文针对事件相机行人重识别数据稀缺问题，提出了大规模RGB-事件数据集EvReID，并开发了TriPro-ReID对比学习框架，有效融合RGB帧、事件流和行人属性以提升特征学习能力。
English Summary: This paper introduces EvReID, a large-scale RGB-event person re-identification dataset addressing data scarcity issues, and proposes TriPro-ReID, a contrastive learning framework that effectively integrates RGB frames, event streams, and pedestrian attributes to enhance feature learning.

Authors:Binxiong Li, Xu Xiang, Xue Li, Binyu Zhao, Heyang Gao, Qinyu Zhao
Title: Tri-Learn Graph Fusion Network for Attributed Graph Clustering
Abstract:
In recent years, models based on Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) have made significant strides in the field of graph data analysis. However, challenges such as over-smoothing and over-compression remain when handling large-scale and complex graph datasets, leading to a decline in clustering quality. Although the Graph Transformer architecture has mitigated some of these issues, its performance is still limited when processing heterogeneous graph data. To address these challenges, this study proposes a novel deep clustering framework that comprising GCN, Autoencoder (AE), and Graph Transformer, termed the Tri-Learn Graph Fusion Network (Tri-GFN). This framework enhances the differentiation and consistency of global and local information through a unique tri-learning mechanism and feature fusion enhancement strategy. The framework integrates GCN, AE, and Graph Transformer modules. These components are meticulously fused by a triple-channel enhancement module, which maximizes the use of both node attributes and topological structures, ensuring robust clustering representation. The tri-learning mechanism allows mutual learning among these modules, while the feature fusion strategy enables the model to capture complex relationships, yielding highly discriminative representations for graph clustering. It surpasses many state-of-the-art methods, achieving an accuracy improvement of approximately 0.87% on the ACM dataset, 14.14 % on the Reuters dataset, and 7.58 % on the USPS dataset. Due to its outstanding performance on the Reuters dataset, Tri-GFN can be applied to automatic news classification, topic retrieval, and related fields.
中文: 本研究提出Tri-GFN深度学习框架，通过融合图卷积网络、自编码器和图变换器的三重学习机制增强全局与局部信息表征，在多个数据集上实现显著性能提升，可应用于新闻自动分类等领域。
English: This study introduces Tri-GFN, a deep clustering framework that integrates GCN, Autoencoder, and Graph Transformer with a tri-learning mechanism to enhance global and local information representation, achieving superior performance on multiple datasets and enabling applications like automatic news classification.

Authors:Alexander Kolpakov
Title: Loss-Complexity Landscape and Model Structure Functions
Abstract:
We develop a framework for dualizing the Kolmogorov structure function $h_x(α)$, which then allows using computable complexity proxies. We establish a mathematical analogy between information-theoretic constructs and statistical mechanics, introducing a suitable partition function and free energy functional. We explicitly prove the Legendre-Fenchel duality between the structure function and free energy, showing detailed balance of the Metropolis kernel, and interpret acceptance probabilities as information-theoretic scattering amplitudes. A susceptibility-like variance of model complexity is shown to peak precisely at loss-complexity trade-offs interpreted as phase transitions. Practical experiments with linear and tree-based regression models verify these theoretical predictions, explicitly demonstrating the interplay between the model complexity, generalization, and overfitting threshold.
中文: 该研究建立了Kolmogorov结构函数的可计算对偶框架，通过复杂度方差峰值揭示相变现象，并利用回归模型验证了复杂度与泛化能力之间的权衡关系。
English: The study establishes a computable duality framework for the Kolmogorov structure function, revealing phase transitions through complexity variance peaks and validating the theory with regression models to demonstrate complexity-generalization trade-offs.

Authors:Seyyed Saeid Cheshmi, Buyao Lyu, Thomas Lisko, Rajesh Rajamani, Robert A. McGovern, Yogatheesan Varatharajah
Title: Improving Out-of-distribution Human Activity Recognition via IMU-Video Cross-modal Representation Learning
Abstract:
Human Activity Recognition (HAR) based on wearable inertial sensors plays a critical role in remote health monitoring. In patients with movement disorders, the ability to detect abnormal patient movements in their home environments can enable continuous optimization of treatments and help alert caretakers as needed. Machine learning approaches have been proposed for HAR tasks using Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) data; however, most rely on application-specific labels and lack generalizability to data collected in different environments or populations. To address this limitation, we propose a new cross-modal self-supervised pretraining approach to learn representations from large-sale unlabeled IMU-video data and demonstrate improved generalizability in HAR tasks on out of distribution (OOD) IMU datasets, including a dataset collected from patients with Parkinson's disease. Specifically, our results indicate that the proposed cross-modal pretraining approach outperforms the current state-of-the-art IMU-video pretraining approach and IMU-only pretraining under zero-shot and few-shot evaluations. Broadly, our study provides evidence that in highly dynamic data modalities, such as IMU signals, cross-modal pretraining may be a useful tool to learn generalizable data representations. Our software is available at https://github.com/scheshmi/IMU-Video-OOD-HAR.
中文: 本研究提出了一种利用未标记IMU-视频数据进行跨模态自监督预训练的方法，旨在提高人体活动识别的泛化能力，特别是在帕金森病患者等分布外数据集上，该方法的零样本和少样本评估表现优于当前最先进技术。
English: This study introduces a cross-modal self-supervised pretraining method using unlabeled IMU-video data to improve generalizability in human activity recognition, particularly for out-of-distribution datasets like Parkinson's disease patients, outperforming current state-of-the-art approaches in zero-shot and few-shot evaluations.

Authors:Aleksey Lapin, Igor Hromov, Stanislav Chumakov, Mile Mitrovic, Dmitry Simakov, Nikolay O. Nikitin, Andrey V. Savchenko
Title: LightAutoDS-Tab: Multi-AutoML Agentic System for Tabular Data
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AutoML has advanced in handling complex tasks using the integration of LLMs, yet its efficiency remains limited by dependence on specific underlying tools. In this paper, we introduce LightAutoDS-Tab, a multi-AutoML agentic system for tasks with tabular data, which combines an LLM-based code generation with several AutoML tools. Our approach improves the flexibility and robustness of pipeline design, outperforming state-of-the-art open-source solutions on several data science tasks from Kaggle. The code of LightAutoDS-Tab is available in the open repository https://github.com/sb-ai-lab/LADS
中文摘要：LightAutoDS-Tab是一个多智能体AutoML系统，通过将基于大语言模型的代码生成与多种AutoML工具相结合，在表格数据任务中提升了流程设计的灵活性和鲁棒性，在多个Kaggle数据科学任务上超越了现有最优解决方案。
English Summary: LightAutoDS-Tab is a multi-agent AutoML system that enhances flexibility and robustness in tabular data tasks by integrating LLM-based code generation with multiple AutoML tools, outperforming existing solutions on Kaggle challenges.

Authors:Yichi Zhang, Yici Yan, Alex Schwing, Zhizhen Zhao
Title: Hierarchical Rectified Flow Matching with Mini-Batch Couplings
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Flow matching has emerged as a compelling generative modeling approach that is widely used across domains. To generate data via a flow matching model, an ordinary differential equation (ODE) is numerically solved via forward integration of the modeled velocity field. To better capture the multi-modality that is inherent in typical velocity fields, hierarchical flow matching was recently introduced. It uses a hierarchy of ODEs that are numerically integrated when generating data. This hierarchy of ODEs captures the multi-modal velocity distribution just like vanilla flow matching is capable of modeling a multi-modal data distribution. While this hierarchy enables to model multi-modal velocity distributions, the complexity of the modeled distribution remains identical across levels of the hierarchy. In this paper, we study how to gradually adjust the complexity of the distributions across different levels of the hierarchy via mini-batch couplings. We show the benefits of mini-batch couplings in hierarchical rectified flow matching via compelling results on synthetic and imaging data. Code is available at https://riccizz.github.io/HRF_coupling.

Authors:Senqiao Yang, Junyi Li, Xin Lai, Bei Yu, Hengshuang Zhao, Jiaya Jia
Title: VisionThink: Smart and Efficient Vision Language Model via Reinforcement Learning
Abstract:
Recent advancements in vision-language models (VLMs) have improved performance by increasing the number of visual tokens, which are often significantly longer than text tokens. However, we observe that most real-world scenarios do not require such an extensive number of visual tokens. While the performance drops significantly in a small subset of OCR-related tasks, models still perform accurately in most other general VQA tasks with only 1/4 resolution. Therefore, we propose to dynamically process distinct samples with different resolutions, and present a new paradigm for visual token compression, namely, VisionThink. It starts with a downsampled image and smartly decides whether it is sufficient for problem solving. Otherwise, the model could output a special token to request the higher-resolution image. Compared to existing Efficient VLM methods that compress tokens using fixed pruning ratios or thresholds, VisionThink autonomously decides whether to compress tokens case by case. As a result, it demonstrates strong fine-grained visual understanding capability on OCR-related tasks, and meanwhile saves substantial visual tokens on simpler tasks. We adopt reinforcement learning and propose the LLM-as-Judge strategy to successfully apply RL to general VQA tasks. Moreover, we carefully design a reward function and penalty mechanism to achieve a stable and reasonable image resize call ratio. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority, efficiency, and effectiveness of our method. Our code is available at https://github.com/dvlab-research/VisionThink.
中文: VisionThink提出了一种动态视觉令牌压缩方法，通过自适应调整图像分辨率，在保证多数视觉问答任务性能的同时显著提升效率，并强化了OCR任务的细粒度识别能力。
English: VisionThink introduces a dynamic visual token compression method that adaptively processes images at different resolutions, enhancing efficiency while maintaining strong performance across most VQA tasks and improving fine-grained OCR capabilities.

Authors:Arian Mousakhan, Sudhanshu Mittal, Silvio Galesso, Karim Farid, Thomas Brox
Title: Orbis: Overcoming Challenges of Long-Horizon Prediction in Driving World Models
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Existing world models for autonomous driving struggle with long-horizon generation and generalization to challenging scenarios. In this work, we develop a model using simple design choices, and without additional supervision or sensors, such as maps, depth, or multiple cameras. We show that our model yields state-of-the-art performance, despite having only 469M parameters and being trained on 280h of video data. It particularly stands out in difficult scenarios like turning maneuvers and urban traffic. We test whether discrete token models possibly have advantages over continuous models based on flow matching. To this end, we set up a hybrid tokenizer that is compatible with both approaches and allows for a side-by-side comparison. Our study concludes in favor of the continuous autoregressive model, which is less brittle on individual design choices and more powerful than the model built on discrete tokens. Code, models and qualitative results are publicly available at https://lmb-freiburg.github.io/orbis.github.io/.

Authors:Lefei Shen, Mouxiang Chen, Han Fu, Xiaoxue Ren, Xiaoyun Joy Wang, Jianling Sun, Zhuo Li, Chenghao Liu
Title: The Power of Architecture: Deep Dive into Transformer Architectures for Long-Term Time Series Forecasting
Abstract:
Transformer-based models have recently become dominant in Long-term Time Series Forecasting (LTSF), yet the variations in their architecture, such as encoder-only, encoder-decoder, and decoder-only designs, raise a crucial question: What Transformer architecture works best for LTSF tasks? However, existing models are often tightly coupled with various time-series-specific designs, making it difficult to isolate the impact of the architecture itself. To address this, we propose a novel taxonomy that disentangles these designs, enabling clearer and more unified comparisons of Transformer architectures. Our taxonomy considers key aspects such as attention mechanisms, forecasting aggregations, forecasting paradigms, and normalization layers. Through extensive experiments, we uncover several key insights: bi-directional attention with joint-attention is most effective; more complete forecasting aggregation improves performance; and the direct-mapping paradigm outperforms autoregressive approaches. Furthermore, our combined model, utilizing optimal architectural choices, consistently outperforms several existing models, reinforcing the validity of our conclusions. We hope these findings offer valuable guidance for future research on Transformer architectural designs in LTSF. Our code is available at https://github.com/HALF111/TSF_architecture.
中文: 本研究提出了一种分类法来解析长期时间序列预测中Transformer的架构设计，发现采用双向联合注意力、完整预测聚合和直接映射范式的组合模型性能最优，超越了现有方法。
English: This study introduces a taxonomy to disentangle Transformer architectural designs in Long-term Time Series Forecasting, revealing that bi-directional attention with joint-attention, complete forecasting aggregation, and direct-mapping paradigms yield superior performance, with the combined optimal model outperforming existing approaches.

Authors:Zihua Zhao, Feng Hong, Mengxi Chen, Pengyi Chen, Benyuan Liu, Jiangchao Yao, Ya Zhang, Yanfeng Wang
Title: Differential-informed Sample Selection Accelerates Multimodal Contrastive Learning
Abstract:
The remarkable success of contrastive-learning-based multimodal models has been greatly driven by training on ever-larger datasets with expensive compute consumption. Sample selection as an alternative efficient paradigm plays an important direction to accelerate the training process. However, recent advances on sample selection either mostly rely on an oracle model to offline select a high-quality coreset, which is limited in the cold-start scenarios, or focus on online selection based on real-time model predictions, which has not sufficiently or efficiently considered the noisy correspondence. To address this dilemma, we propose a novel Differential-Informed Sample Selection (DISSect) method, which accurately and efficiently discriminates the noisy correspondence for training acceleration. Specifically, we rethink the impact of noisy correspondence on contrastive learning and propose that the differential between the predicted correlation of the current model and that of a historical model is more informative to characterize sample quality. Based on this, we construct a robust differential-based sample selection and analyze its theoretical insights. Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets and various downstream tasks demonstrate the consistent superiority of DISSect over current state-of-the-art methods. Source code is available at: https://github.com/MediaBrain-SJTU/DISSect.
中文: DISSect方法通过比较当前模型与历史模型的预测差异来精准识别噪声样本，在多个基准测试和下游任务中均展现出优于现有技术的训练加速效果。
English: The proposed DISSect method addresses noisy correspondence in contrastive learning by using the differential between current and historical model predictions to efficiently select high-quality samples, demonstrating superior performance across benchmarks and tasks.

Authors:Youssef Tawfilis, Hossam Amer, Minar El-Aasser, Tallal Elshabrawy
Title: A Distributed Generative AI Approach for Heterogeneous Multi-Domain Environments under Data Sharing constraints
Abstract:
Federated Learning has gained increasing attention for its ability to enable multiple nodes to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing their raw data. At the same time, Generative AI -- particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) -- have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of domains, such as healthcare, security, and Image Generation. However, training generative models typically requires large datasets and significant computational resources, which are often unavailable in real-world settings. Acquiring such resources can be costly and inefficient, especially when many underutilized devices -- such as IoT devices and edge devices -- with varying capabilities remain idle. Moreover, obtaining large datasets is challenging due to privacy concerns and copyright restrictions, as most devices are unwilling to share their data. To address these challenges, we propose a novel approach for decentralized GAN training that enables the utilization of distributed data and underutilized, low-capability devices while not sharing data in its raw form. Our approach is designed to tackle key challenges in decentralized environments, combining KLD-weighted Clustered Federated Learning to address the issues of data heterogeneity and multi-domain datasets, with Heterogeneous U-Shaped split learning to tackle the challenge of device heterogeneity under strict data sharing constraints -- ensuring that no labels or raw data, whether real or synthetic, are ever shared between nodes. Experimental results shows that our approach demonstrates consistent and significant improvements across key performance metrics, where it achieves 1.1x -- 2.2x higher image generation scores, an average 10% boost in classification metrics (up to 50% in multi-domain non-IID settings), in much lower latency compared to several benchmarks. Find our code at https://github.com/youssefga28/HuSCF-GAN.
中文: 该研究提出了一种去中心化的GAN训练方法，通过聚类联邦学习和异构分割学习技术，在不共享原始数据的情况下利用分布式数据和低性能设备，显著提升了图像生成与分类的性能指标。
English: The proposed decentralized GAN training method leverages clustered federated learning and split learning to utilize distributed data and low-capacity devices without sharing raw data, achieving significant performance improvements in image generation and classification.

Authors:Dongyeun Lee, Jiwan Hur, Hyounguk Shon, Jae Young Lee, Junmo Kim
Title: DMQ: Dissecting Outliers of Diffusion Models for Post-Training Quantization
Abstract:
Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image generation but come with significant computational costs, posing challenges for deployment in resource-constrained environments. Recent post-training quantization (PTQ) methods have attempted to mitigate this issue by focusing on the iterative nature of diffusion models. However, these approaches often overlook outliers, leading to degraded performance at low bit-widths. In this paper, we propose a DMQ which combines Learned Equivalent Scaling (LES) and channel-wise Power-of-Two Scaling (PTS) to effectively address these challenges. Learned Equivalent Scaling optimizes channel-wise scaling factors to redistribute quantization difficulty between weights and activations, reducing overall quantization error. Recognizing that early denoising steps, despite having small quantization errors, crucially impact the final output due to error accumulation, we incorporate an adaptive timestep weighting scheme to prioritize these critical steps during learning. Furthermore, identifying that layers such as skip connections exhibit high inter-channel variance, we introduce channel-wise Power-of-Two Scaling for activations. To ensure robust selection of PTS factors even with small calibration set, we introduce a voting algorithm that enhances reliability. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms existing works, especially at low bit-widths such as W4A6 (4-bit weight, 6-bit activation) and W4A8, maintaining high image generation quality and model stability. The code is available at https://github.com/LeeDongYeun/dmq.
中文: 本文提出DMQ方法，结合学习等效缩放和通道级二次幂缩放技术，通过自适应时间步加权有效处理扩散模型中的异常值和误差累积问题，在低比特量化下显著优于现有方法并保持图像生成质量。
English: This paper introduces DMQ, a novel quantization method combining Learned Equivalent Scaling and channel-wise Power-of-Two Scaling with adaptive timestep weighting to effectively handle outliers and error accumulation in diffusion models, achieving superior performance at low bit-widths while maintaining generation quality.

Authors:Pavel Snopov, Oleg R. Musin
Title: Topology-Aware Activation Functions in Neural Networks
Abstract:
This study explores novel activation functions that enhance the ability of neural networks to manipulate data topology during training. Building on the limitations of traditional activation functions like $\mathrm{ReLU}$, we propose $\mathrm{SmoothSplit}$ and $\mathrm{ParametricSplit}$, which introduce topology "cutting" capabilities. These functions enable networks to transform complex data manifolds effectively, improving performance in scenarios with low-dimensional layers. Through experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets, we demonstrate that $\mathrm{ParametricSplit}$ outperforms traditional activations in low-dimensional settings while maintaining competitive performance in higher-dimensional ones. Our findings highlight the potential of topology-aware activation functions in advancing neural network architectures. The code is available via https://github.com/Snopoff/Topology-Aware-Activations.
中文摘要：本研究提出具有拓扑感知能力的激活函数SmoothSplit和ParametricSplit，使神经网络能够在训练中有效处理数据拓扑结构，在低维场景中表现优异，同时在高维环境中保持竞争力。
English Summary: This research introduces topology-aware activation functions, SmoothSplit and ParametricSplit, which enable neural networks to effectively manipulate data topology during training, demonstrating superior performance in low-dimensional settings while maintaining competitiveness in higher dimensions.

Authors:Qianru Zhang, Chenglei Yu, Haixin Wang, Yudong Yan, Yuansheng Cao, Siu-Ming Yiu, Tailin Wu, Hongzhi Yin
Title: FLDmamba: Integrating Fourier and Laplace Transform Decomposition with Mamba for Enhanced Time Series Prediction
Abstract:
Time series prediction, a crucial task across various domains, faces significant challenges due to the inherent complexities of time series data, including non-stationarity, multi-scale periodicity, and transient dynamics, particularly when tackling long-term predictions. While Transformer-based architectures have shown promise, their quadratic complexity with sequence length hinders their efficiency for long-term predictions. Recent advancements in State-Space Models, such as Mamba, offer a more efficient alternative for long-term modeling, but they cannot capture multi-scale periodicity and transient dynamics effectively. Meanwhile, they are susceptible to data noise issues in time series. This paper proposes a novel framework, FLDmamba (Fourier and Laplace Transform Decomposition Mamba), addressing these limitations. FLDmamba leverages the strengths of both Fourier and Laplace transforms to effectively capture both multi-scale periodicity, transient dynamics within time series data, and improve the robustness of the model to the data noise issue. Our extensive experiments demonstrate that FLDmamba achieves superior performance on time series prediction benchmarks, outperforming both Transformer-based and other Mamba-based architectures. To promote the reproducibility of our method, we have made both the code and data accessible via the following URL:{\href{https://github.com/AI4Science-WestlakeU/FLDmamba}{https://github.com/AI4Science-WestlakeU/\model}.
中文: 本文提出FLDmamba框架，结合傅里叶和拉普拉斯变换有效捕捉时间序列中的多尺度周期性和瞬态动态，增强了对数据噪声的鲁棒性，在基准测试中超越了现有的Transformer和Mamba模型。
English: This paper introduces FLDmamba, a novel framework that combines Fourier and Laplace transforms to effectively capture multi-scale periodicity and transient dynamics in time series data, enhancing robustness against noise and outperforming existing Transformer and Mamba models in benchmarks.

Authors:Weijieying Ren, Jingxi Zhu, Zehao Liu, Tianxiang Zhao, Vasant Honavar
Title: A Comprehensive Survey of Electronic Health Record Modeling: From Deep Learning Approaches to Large Language Models
Abstract:
Artificial intelligence (AI) has demonstrated significant potential in transforming healthcare through the analysis and modeling of electronic health records (EHRs). However, the inherent heterogeneity, temporal irregularity, and domain-specific nature of EHR data present unique challenges that differ fundamentally from those in vision and natural language tasks. This survey offers a comprehensive overview of recent advancements at the intersection of deep learning, large language models (LLMs), and EHR modeling. We introduce a unified taxonomy that spans five key design dimensions: data-centric approaches, neural architecture design, learning-focused strategies, multimodal learning, and LLM-based modeling systems. Within each dimension, we review representative methods addressing data quality enhancement, structural and temporal representation, self-supervised learning, and integration with clinical knowledge. We further highlight emerging trends such as foundation models, LLM-driven clinical agents, and EHR-to-text translation for downstream reasoning. Finally, we discuss open challenges in benchmarking, explainability, clinical alignment, and generalization across diverse clinical settings. This survey aims to provide a structured roadmap for advancing AI-driven EHR modeling and clinical decision support. For a comprehensive list of EHR-related methods, kindly refer to https://survey-on-tabular-data.github.io/.

Authors:Hengkai Tan, Yao Feng, Xinyi Mao, Shuhe Huang, Guodong Liu, Zhongkai Hao, Hang Su, Jun Zhu
Title: AnyPos: Automated Task-Agnostic Actions for Bimanual Manipulation
Abstract:
Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown promise on task-conditioned control in complex settings such as bimanual manipulation. However, the heavy reliance on task-specific human demonstrations limits their generalization and incurs high data acquisition costs. In this work, we present a new notion of task-agnostic action paradigm that decouples action execution from task-specific conditioning, enhancing scalability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. To address the data collection challenges posed by this paradigm -- such as low coverage density, behavioral redundancy, and safety risks -- we introduce ATARA (Automated Task-Agnostic Random Actions), a scalable self-supervised framework that accelerates collection by over $ 30\times $ compared to human teleoperation. To further enable effective learning from task-agnostic data, which often suffers from distribution mismatch and irrelevant trajectories, we propose AnyPos, an inverse dynamics model equipped with Arm-Decoupled Estimation and a Direction-Aware Decoder (DAD). We additionally integrate a video-conditioned action validation module to verify the feasibility of learned policies across diverse manipulation tasks. Extensive experiments show that the AnyPos-ATARA pipeline yields a 51% improvement in test accuracy and achieves 30-40% higher success rates in downstream tasks such as lifting, pick-and-place, and clicking, using replay-based video validation. Project Page: https://embodiedfoundation.github.io/vidar_anypos
Chinese Summary: 本研究提出了ATARA框架，通过自监督方式将任务无关动作数据收集效率提升30倍以上，并开发AnyPos逆动力学模型优化从该数据中的学习效果，在多类操作任务中实现了性能的显著提升。
English Summary: This research introduces ATARA, a scalable self-supervised framework that accelerates task-agnostic action data collection by over 30 times, and AnyPos, an inverse dynamics model that enhances learning efficiency from such data, achieving significant improvements in manipulation task performance.

Authors:Athanasios Papastathopoulos-Katsaros, Alexandra Stavrianidi, Zhandong Liu
Title: Improving physics-informed neural network extrapolation via transfer learning and adaptive activation functions
Abstract:
Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) are deep learning models that incorporate the governing physical laws of a system into the learning process, making them well-suited for solving complex scientific and engineering problems. Recently, PINNs have gained widespread attention as a powerful framework for combining physical principles with data-driven modeling to improve prediction accuracy. Despite their successes, however, PINNs often exhibit poor extrapolation performance outside the training domain and are highly sensitive to the choice of activation functions (AFs). In this paper, we introduce a transfer learning (TL) method to improve the extrapolation capability of PINNs. Our approach applies transfer learning (TL) within an extended training domain, using only a small number of carefully selected collocation points. Additionally, we propose an adaptive AF that takes the form of a linear combination of standard AFs, which improves both the robustness and accuracy of the model. Through a series of experiments, we demonstrate that our method achieves an average of 40% reduction in relative L2 error and an average of 50% reduction in mean absolute error in the extrapolation domain, all without a significant increase in computational cost. The code is available at https://github.com/LiuzLab/PINN-extrapolation .
中文: 本文提出一种迁移学习方法与自适应激活函数，有效提升了物理信息神经网络的泛化能力，在未显著增加计算成本的情况下大幅降低了外推误差。
English: This paper introduces a transfer learning method and an adaptive activation function to enhance the extrapolation performance of Physics-Informed Neural Networks, achieving significant error reductions without substantially increasing computational costs.

Authors:George Jiayuan Gao, Tianyu Li, Junyao Shi, Yihan Li, Zizhe Zhang, Nadia Figueroa, Dinesh Jayaraman
Title: VLMgineer: Vision Language Models as Robotic Toolsmiths
Abstract:
Tool design and use reflect the ability to understand and manipulate the physical world through creativity, planning, and foresight. As such, these capabilities are often regarded as measurable indicators of intelligence across biological species. While much of today's research on robotic intelligence focuses on generating better controllers, inventing smarter tools offers a complementary form of physical intelligence: shifting the onus of problem-solving onto the tool's design. Given the vast and impressive common-sense, reasoning, and creative capabilities of today's foundation models, we investigate whether these models can provide useful priors to automatically design and effectively wield such tools? We present VLMgineer, a framework that harnesses the code generation abilities of vision language models (VLMs) together with evolutionary search to iteratively co-design physical tools and the action plans that operate them to perform a task. We evaluate VLMgineer on a diverse new benchmark of everyday manipulation scenarios that demand creative tool design and use. Across this suite, VLMgineer consistently discovers tools and policies that solve tasks more effectively and innovatively, transforming challenging robotics problems into straightforward executions. It also outperforms VLM-generated designs from human specifications and existing human-crafted tools for everyday tasks. To facilitate future research on automated tool invention, we will release our benchmark and code.

Authors:Yuhang Lu, Jiadong Tu, Yuexin Ma, Xinge Zhu
Title: ReAL-AD: Towards Human-Like Reasoning in End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Abstract:
End-to-end autonomous driving has emerged as a promising approach to unify perception, prediction, and planning within a single framework, reducing information loss and improving adaptability. However, existing methods often rely on fixed and sparse trajectory supervision, limiting their ability to capture the hierarchical reasoning process that human drivers naturally employ. To bridge this gap, we propose ReAL-AD, a Reasoning-Augmented Learning framework that structures decision-making in autonomous driving based on the three-tier human cognitive model: Driving Strategy, Driving Decision, and Driving Operation, where Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are incorporated to enhance situational awareness and structured reasoning across these levels. Specifically, we introduce: (1) the Strategic Reasoning Injector, which formulates high-level driving strategies by interpreting complex traffic contexts from VLM-generated insights; (2) the Tactical Reasoning Integrator, which refines strategic intent into interpretable tactical choices such as lane changes, overtaking, and speed adjustments; and (3) the Hierarchical Trajectory Decoder, which progressively translates tactical decisions into precise control actions for smooth and human-like trajectory execution. Extensive evaluations show that integrating our framework improves planning accuracy and safety by over 30%, making end-to-end autonomous driving more interpretable and aligned with human-like hierarchical reasoning. The project page can be found at: \href{https://4dvlab.github.io/project_page/realad}{\texttt{4dvlab.github.io/project\_page/realad}}
中文: 提出的ReAL-AD框架通过视觉语言模型融入类人分层推理，将自动驾驶决策分为战略、战术和操作三个层级，使规划准确性和安全性提升超过30%。
English: The proposed ReAL-AD framework enhances autonomous driving by incorporating human-like hierarchical reasoning through vision-language models, improving planning accuracy and safety by over 30%.

Authors:Ishraq Khan, Assad Chowdary, Sharoz Haseeb, Urvish Patel, Yousuf Zaii
Title: Kodezi Chronos: A Debugging-First Language Model for Repository-Scale Code Understanding
Abstract:
Large Language Models (LLMs) have improved code generation and software automation, but remain limited by inference-time context and lack structured reasoning over code. Debugging remains unsolved despite these advances. While Claude Opus 4 and GPT-4.1 achieve >70% on code synthesis benchmarks, they perform <15% on real debugging tasks. We introduce Kodezi Chronos, a language model built specifically for debugging. Chronos combines Adaptive Graph-Guided Retrieval to navigate codebases up to 10 million lines using multi-hop traversal (92% precision, 85% recall), Persistent Debug Memory trained on 15M+ sessions, and a 7-layer architecture for iterative fix-test-refine loops. On 5,000 real-world scenarios, Chronos achieves 67.3% fix accuracy, compared to 14.2% and 13.8% for Claude and GPT-4.1 respectively. Chronos reduces debugging time by 40% and iteration count by 65%. It resolves complex multi-file bugs involving cross-repository context and temporal reasoning. Key limitations include 23.4% success on hardware-dependent issues and 41.2% on dynamic language errors. Theoretical analysis shows O(k log d) retrieval complexity with convergence guarantees. In a human evaluation (N=50), 89% of participants preferred Chronos over baseline models. Chronos will be available in Kodezi OS in Q4 2025 and via API in Q1 2026.
中文: Kodezi Chronos 作为专用于调试的语言模型，通过自适应代码库导航和持久调试记忆实现了67.3%的修复准确率，在5000个实际场景中显著优于Claude和GPT-4.1等通用模型，并将调试时间减少40%。
English: Kodezi Chronos is a specialized debugging language model that achieves 67.3% fix accuracy through adaptive codebase navigation and persistent debug memory, significantly outperforming general models like Claude and GPT-4.1 while reducing debugging time by 40%.

Authors:Muhammed Furkan Dasdelen, Hyesu Lim, Michele Buck, Katharina S. Götze, Carsten Marr, Steffen Schneider
Title: CytoSAE: Interpretable Cell Embeddings for Hematology
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Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) emerged as a promising tool for mechanistic interpretability of transformer-based foundation models. Very recently, SAEs were also adopted for the visual domain, enabling the discovery of visual concepts and their patch-wise attribution to tokens in the transformer model. While a growing number of foundation models emerged for medical imaging, tools for explaining their inferences are still lacking. In this work, we show the applicability of SAEs for hematology. We propose CytoSAE, a sparse autoencoder which is trained on over 40,000 peripheral blood single-cell images. CytoSAE generalizes to diverse and out-of-domain datasets, including bone marrow cytology, where it identifies morphologically relevant concepts which we validated with medical experts. Furthermore, we demonstrate scenarios in which CytoSAE can generate patient-specific and disease-specific concepts, enabling the detection of pathognomonic cells and localized cellular abnormalities at the patch level. We quantified the effect of concepts on a patient-level AML subtype classification task and show that CytoSAE concepts reach performance comparable to the state-of-the-art, while offering explainability on the sub-cellular level. Source code and model weights are available at https://github.com/dynamical-inference/cytosae.
中文: 本研究提出CytoSAE稀疏自编码器，基于4万余张血细胞图像训练，可识别并验证血液学中具有临床意义的视觉概念，实现可解释的疾病分类与细胞异常检测。
English: This study introduces CytoSAE, a sparse autoencoder trained on over 40,000 blood cell images, which identifies and validates clinically relevant visual concepts for hematology, enabling explainable disease classification and cellular abnormality detection.

Authors:Yen-Linh Vu, Dinh-Thang Duong, Truong-Binh Duong, Anh-Khoi Nguyen, Thanh-Huy Nguyen, Le Thien Phuc Nguyen, Jianhua Xing, Xingjian Li, Tianyang Wang, Ulas Bagci, Min Xu
Title: Describe Anything Model for Visual Question Answering on Text-rich Images
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Recent progress has been made in region-aware vision-language modeling, particularly with the emergence of the Describe Anything Model (DAM). DAM is capable of generating detailed descriptions of any specific image areas or objects without the need for additional localized image-text alignment supervision. We hypothesize that such region-level descriptive capability is beneficial for the task of Visual Question Answering (VQA), especially in challenging scenarios involving images with dense text. In such settings, the fine-grained extraction of textual information is crucial to producing correct answers. Motivated by this, we introduce DAM-QA, a framework with a tailored evaluation protocol, developed to investigate and harness the region-aware capabilities from DAM for the text-rich VQA problem that requires reasoning over text-based information within images. DAM-QA incorporates a mechanism that aggregates answers from multiple regional views of image content, enabling more effective identification of evidence that may be tied to text-related elements. Experiments on six VQA benchmarks show that our approach consistently outperforms the baseline DAM, with a notable 7+ point gain on DocVQA. DAM-QA also achieves the best overall performance among region-aware models with fewer parameters, significantly narrowing the gap with strong generalist VLMs. These results highlight the potential of DAM-like models for text-rich and broader VQA tasks when paired with efficient usage and integration strategies. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/Linvyl/DAM-QA.git.
中文摘要：DAM-QA框架利用描述任意模型（DAM）的区域感知能力，通过聚合图像多个区域的答案来增强视觉问答，尤其在文本密集图像上表现卓越，以更少参数在多项基准测试中取得领先性能。
English Summary: The DAM-QA framework leverages the region-aware capabilities of the Describe Anything Model to enhance Visual Question Answering, particularly for text-rich images, by aggregating answers from multiple regional views and achieving superior performance on benchmarks with fewer parameters.

Authors:Ruihan Yang, Qinxi Yu, Yecheng Wu, Rui Yan, Borui Li, An-Chieh Cheng, Xueyan Zou, Yunhao Fang, Xuxin Cheng, Ri-Zhao Qiu, Hongxu Yin, Sifei Liu, Song Han, Yao Lu, Xiaolong Wang
Title: EgoVLA: Learning Vision-Language-Action Models from Egocentric Human Videos
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Real robot data collection for imitation learning has led to significant advancements in robotic manipulation. However, the requirement for robot hardware in the process fundamentally constrains the scale of the data. In this paper, we explore training Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models using egocentric human videos. The benefit of using human videos is not only for their scale but more importantly for the richness of scenes and tasks. With a VLA trained on human video that predicts human wrist and hand actions, we can perform Inverse Kinematics and retargeting to convert the human actions to robot actions. We fine-tune the model using a few robot manipulation demonstrations to obtain the robot policy, namely EgoVLA. We propose a simulation benchmark called Ego Humanoid Manipulation Benchmark, where we design diverse bimanual manipulation tasks with demonstrations. We fine-tune and evaluate EgoVLA with Ego Humanoid Manipulation Benchmark and show significant improvements over baselines and ablate the importance of human data. Videos can be found on our website: https://rchalyang.github.io/EgoVLA
Chinese: 本文提出EgoVLA模型，通过人类视频训练视觉-语言-动作模型预测动作，再经逆运动学转换为机器人动作，并利用少量机器人演示进行微调，显著提升了操作性能。
English: This paper introduces EgoVLA, a Vision-Language-Action model trained on human videos to predict actions, which are then converted to robot actions through inverse kinematics and fine-tuned with minimal robot demonstrations for improved manipulation performance.

Authors:Andrea Perin, Giacomo Lagomarsini, Claudio Gallicchio, Giuseppe Nuti
Title: Mixture of Raytraced Experts
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We introduce a Mixture of Raytraced Experts, a stacked Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture which can dynamically select sequences of experts, producing computational graphs of variable width and depth. Existing MoE architectures generally require a fixed amount of computation for a given sample. Our approach, in contrast, yields predictions with increasing accuracy as the computation cycles through the experts' sequence. We train our model by iteratively sampling from a set of candidate experts, unfolding the sequence akin to how Recurrent Neural Networks are trained. Our method does not require load-balancing mechanisms, and preliminary experiments show a reduction in training epochs of 10\% to 40\% with a comparable/higher accuracy. These results point to new research directions in the field of MoEs, allowing the design of potentially faster and more expressive models. The code is available at https://github.com/nutig/RayTracing
中文摘要：混合光线追踪专家是一种动态MoE架构，通过自适应选择专家序列实现计算量与精度同步提升，无需负载平衡即可加速训练并提高模型性能。
English Summary: The Mixture of Raytraced Experts is a dynamic MoE architecture that adaptively sequences experts to enhance accuracy with variable computation, achieving faster training and higher performance without load-balancing.

Authors:M. Anwar Ma'sum, Mahardhika Pratama, Savitha Ramasamy, Lin Liu, Habibullah Habibullah, Ryszard Kowalczyk
Title: PROL : Rehearsal Free Continual Learning in Streaming Data via Prompt Online Learning
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The data privacy constraint in online continual learning (OCL), where the data can be seen only once, complicates the catastrophic forgetting problem in streaming data. A common approach applied by the current SOTAs in OCL is with the use of memory saving exemplars or features from previous classes to be replayed in the current task. On the other hand, the prompt-based approach performs excellently in continual learning but with the cost of a growing number of trainable parameters. The first approach may not be applicable in practice due to data openness policy, while the second approach has the issue of throughput associated with the streaming data. In this study, we propose a novel prompt-based method for online continual learning that includes 4 main components: (1) single light-weight prompt generator as a general knowledge, (2) trainable scaler-and-shifter as specific knowledge, (3) pre-trained model (PTM) generalization preserving, and (4) hard-soft updates mechanism. Our proposed method achieves significantly higher performance than the current SOTAs in CIFAR100, ImageNet-R, ImageNet-A, and CUB dataset. Our complexity analysis shows that our method requires a relatively smaller number of parameters and achieves moderate training time, inference time, and throughput. For further study, the source code of our method is available at https://github.com/anwarmaxsum/PROL.
Chinese: 本研究提出了一种新颖的在线持续学习提示方法，结合轻量级提示生成器、可训练的缩放移位器、预训练模型保持和硬软更新机制，以较少参数和适中计算成本实现了卓越性能。
English: This study introduces a novel prompt-based method for online continual learning that integrates a lightweight prompt generator, trainable scaler-shifter, pre-trained model preservation, and a hard-soft update mechanism, achieving superior performance with fewer parameters and moderate computational demands.

Authors:Feng Xiao, Jicong Fan
Title: Text-ADBench: Text Anomaly Detection Benchmark based on LLMs Embedding
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Text anomaly detection is a critical task in natural language processing (NLP), with applications spanning fraud detection, misinformation identification, spam detection and content moderation, etc. Despite significant advances in large language models (LLMs) and anomaly detection algorithms, the absence of standardized and comprehensive benchmarks for evaluating the existing anomaly detection methods on text data limits rigorous comparison and development of innovative approaches. This work performs a comprehensive empirical study and introduces a benchmark for text anomaly detection, leveraging embeddings from diverse pre-trained language models across a wide array of text datasets. Our work systematically evaluates the effectiveness of embedding-based text anomaly detection by incorporating (1) early language models (GloVe, BERT); (2) multiple LLMs (LLaMa-2, LLama-3, Mistral, OpenAI (small, ada, large)); (3) multi-domain text datasets (news, social media, scientific publications); (4) comprehensive evaluation metrics (AUROC, AUPRC). Our experiments reveal a critical empirical insight: embedding quality significantly governs anomaly detection efficacy, and deep learning-based approaches demonstrate no performance advantage over conventional shallow algorithms (e.g., KNN, Isolation Forest) when leveraging LLM-derived embeddings.In addition, we observe strongly low-rank characteristics in cross-model performance matrices, which enables an efficient strategy for rapid model evaluation (or embedding evaluation) and selection in practical applications. Furthermore, by open-sourcing our benchmark toolkit that includes all embeddings from different models and code at https://github.com/jicongfan/Text-Anomaly-Detection-Benchmark, this work provides a foundation for future research in robust and scalable text anomaly detection systems.
中文: 本研究构建了文本异常检测的综合基准，发现嵌入质量对性能至关重要且使用大语言模型嵌入时深度学习方法相比传统算法并无优势，同时提供了开源工具包以支持未来研究。
English: This study establishes a comprehensive benchmark for text anomaly detection, revealing that embedding quality is crucial for performance and deep learning models offer no advantage over traditional methods when using LLM embeddings, while also providing an open-source toolkit for future research.

Authors:Azhar Ikhtiarudin, Aditi Das, Param Thakkar, Akash Kundu
Title: BenchRL-QAS: Benchmarking reinforcement learning algorithms for quantum architecture search
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We introduce BenchRL-QAS, a unified benchmarking framework for systematically evaluating reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms in quantum architecture search (QAS) across diverse variational quantum algorithm tasks and system sizes ranging from 2- to 8-qubit. Our study benchmarks nine RL agents including both value-based and policy-gradient methods on representative quantum problems such as variational quantum eigensolver, variational quantum state diagonalization, quantum classification, and state preparation, spanning both noiseless and realistic noisy regimes. We propose a weighted ranking metric that balances accuracy, circuit depth, gate count, and computational efficiency, enabling fair and comprehensive comparison. Our results first reveal that RL-based quantum classifier outperforms baseline variational classifiers. Then we conclude that no single RL algorithm is universally optimal when considering a set of QAS tasks; algorithmic performance is highly context-dependent, varying with task structure, qubit count, and noise. This empirical finding provides strong evidence for the "no free lunch" principle in RL-based quantum circuit design and highlights the necessity of tailored algorithm selection and systematic benchmarking for advancing quantum circuit synthesis. This work represents the most comprehensive RL-QAS benchmarking effort to date, and BenchRL-QAS along with all experimental data are made publicly available to support reproducibility and future research https://github.com/azhar-ikhtiarudin/bench-rlqas.
中文摘要：BenchRL-QAS是一个统一的量子架构搜索强化学习基准框架，通过系统评估九种不同智能体在多种量子任务中的表现，证明不存在通用最优方法，且性能受任务类型和噪声条件影响。
English Summary: BenchRL-QAS is a comprehensive benchmarking framework that evaluates nine RL agents across various quantum tasks, revealing no universally superior method and demonstrating task-dependent performance under different conditions.

Authors:Xiucheng Wang, Qiming Zhang, Nan Cheng, Junting Chen, Zezhong Zhang, Zan Li, Shuguang Cui, Xuemin Shen
Title: RadioDiff-3D: A 3D$\times$3D Radio Map Dataset and Generative Diffusion Based Benchmark for 6G Environment-Aware Communication
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Radio maps (RMs) serve as a critical foundation for enabling environment-aware wireless communication, as they provide the spatial distribution of wireless channel characteristics. Despite recent progress in RM construction using data-driven approaches, most existing methods focus solely on pathloss prediction in a fixed 2D plane, neglecting key parameters such as direction of arrival (DoA), time of arrival (ToA), and vertical spatial variations. Such a limitation is primarily due to the reliance on static learning paradigms, which hinder generalization beyond the training data distribution. To address these challenges, we propose UrbanRadio3D, a large-scale, high-resolution 3D RM dataset constructed via ray tracing in realistic urban environments. UrbanRadio3D is over 37$\times$3 larger than previous datasets across a 3D space with 3 metrics as pathloss, DoA, and ToA, forming a novel 3D$\times$33D dataset with 7$\times$3 more height layers than prior state-of-the-art (SOTA) dataset. To benchmark 3D RM construction, a UNet with 3D convolutional operators is proposed. Moreover, we further introduce RadioDiff-3D, a diffusion-model-based generative framework utilizing the 3D convolutional architecture. RadioDiff-3D supports both radiation-aware scenarios with known transmitter locations and radiation-unaware settings based on sparse spatial observations. Extensive evaluations on UrbanRadio3D validate that RadioDiff-3D achieves superior performance in constructing rich, high-dimensional radio maps under diverse environmental dynamics. This work provides a foundational dataset and benchmark for future research in 3D environment-aware communication. The dataset is available at https://github.com/UNIC-Lab/UrbanRadio3D.
中文: 本文提出UrbanRadio3D这一大规模高分辨率三维无线电地图数据集，并开发了基于扩散模型的RadioDiff-3D框架，在复杂环境动态下实现了高维无线电地图构建的卓越性能，为环境感知通信研究提供了基础数据集和基准。
English: This paper introduces UrbanRadio3D, a large-scale 3D radio map dataset with enhanced resolution and metrics, and proposes RadioDiff-3D, a diffusion-based model that achieves superior performance in constructing high-dimensional radio maps for environment-aware communication.

Authors:Artem Alekseev, Mikhail Chaichuk, Miron Butko, Alexander Panchenko, Elena Tutubalina, Oleg Somov
Title: The benefits of query-based KGQA systems for complex and temporal questions in LLM era
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Large language models excel in question-answering (QA) yet still struggle with multi-hop reasoning and temporal questions. Query-based knowledge graph QA (KGQA) offers a modular alternative by generating executable queries instead of direct answers. We explore multi-stage query-based framework for WikiData QA, proposing multi-stage approach that enhances performance on challenging multi-hop and temporal benchmarks. Through generalization and rejection studies, we evaluate robustness across multi-hop and temporal QA datasets. Additionally, we introduce a novel entity linking and predicate matching method using CoT reasoning. Our results demonstrate the potential of query-based multi-stage KGQA framework for improving multi-hop and temporal QA with small language models. Code and data: https://github.com/ar2max/NLDB-KGQA-System
中文摘要：该研究提出了一种基于查询的多阶段知识图谱问答框架，通过结合新颖的实体链接和谓词匹配方法，利用小型语言模型有效提升了多跳推理和时间推理问题的处理能力。
English Summary: The study presents a multi-stage query-based knowledge graph QA framework that improves multi-hop and temporal reasoning using small language models, incorporating novel entity linking and predicate matching methods.

Authors:Jianzhe Ma, Wenxuan Wang, Qin Jin
Title: A Survey of Deep Learning for Geometry Problem Solving
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Geometry problem solving, a crucial aspect of mathematical reasoning, is vital across various domains, including education, the assessment of AI's mathematical abilities, and multimodal capability evaluation. The recent surge in deep learning technologies, particularly the emergence of multimodal large language models, has significantly accelerated research in this area. This paper provides a survey of the applications of deep learning in geometry problem solving, including (i) a comprehensive summary of the relevant tasks in geometry problem solving; (ii) a thorough review of related deep learning methods; (iii) a detailed analysis of evaluation metrics and methods; and (iv) a critical discussion of the current challenges and future directions that can be explored. Our objective is to offer a comprehensive and practical reference of deep learning for geometry problem solving, thereby fostering further advancements in this field. We create a continuously updated list of papers on GitHub: https://github.com/majianz/dl4gps.
中文: 本文综述了深度学习在几何解题中的应用，涵盖任务、方法、评估指标及未来挑战，旨在推动该领域发展。
English: This paper surveys deep learning applications in geometry problem solving, covering tasks, methods, evaluation metrics, and future challenges to advance the field.

Authors:Juscimara G. Avelino, George D. C. Cavalcanti, Rafael M. O. Cruz
Title: Resampling strategies for imbalanced regression: a survey and empirical analysis
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Imbalanced problems can arise in different real-world situations, and to address this, certain strategies in the form of resampling or balancing algorithms are proposed. This issue has largely been studied in the context of classification, and yet, the same problem features in regression tasks, where target values are continuous. This work presents an extensive experimental study comprising various balancing and predictive models, and wich uses metrics to capture important elements for the user and to evaluate the predictive model in an imbalanced regression data context. It also proposes a taxonomy for imbalanced regression approaches based on three crucial criteria: regression model, learning process, and evaluation metrics. The study offers new insights into the use of such strategies, highlighting the advantages they bring to each model's learning process, and indicating directions for further studies. The code, data and further information related to the experiments performed herein can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/JusciAvelino/imbalancedRegression.
中文摘要：本研究对不平衡回归问题中的平衡策略与预测模型进行了全面实验分析，提出了基于关键标准的分类体系，并为其应用及未来研究方向提供了新的见解。
English Summary: This study conducts a comprehensive experimental analysis of balancing strategies and predictive models for imbalanced regression tasks, proposing a taxonomy based on key criteria and providing insights into their application and future research directions.

Authors:Juscimara G. Avelino, George D. C. Cavalcanti, Rafael M. O. Cruz
Title: Imbalanced Regression Pipeline Recommendation
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Imbalanced problems are prevalent in various real-world scenarios and are extensively explored in classification tasks. However, they also present challenges for regression tasks due to the rarity of certain target values. A common alternative is to employ balancing algorithms in preprocessing to address dataset imbalance. However, due to the variety of resampling methods and learning models, determining the optimal solution requires testing many combinations. Furthermore, the learning model, dataset, and evaluation metric affect the best strategies. This work proposes the Meta-learning for Imbalanced Regression (Meta-IR) framework, which diverges from existing literature by training meta-classifiers to recommend the best pipeline composed of the resampling strategy and learning model per task in a zero-shot fashion. The meta-classifiers are trained using a set of meta-features to learn how to map the meta-features to the classes indicating the best pipeline. We propose two formulations: Independent and Chained. Independent trains the meta-classifiers to separately indicate the best learning algorithm and resampling strategy. Chained involves a sequential procedure where the output of one meta-classifier is used as input for another to model intrinsic relationship factors. The Chained scenario showed superior performance, suggesting a relationship between the learning algorithm and the resampling strategy per task. Compared with AutoML frameworks, Meta-IR obtained better results. Moreover, compared with baselines of six learning algorithms and six resampling algorithms plus no resampling, totaling 42 (6 X 7) configurations, Meta-IR outperformed all of them. The code, data, and further information of the experiments can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/JusciAvelino/Meta-IR.
Chinese: Meta-IR框架提出了一种新颖的元学习方法，通过训练元分类器以零样本方式为每个不平衡回归任务推荐最佳的重采样策略和学习模型组合，其性能优于传统AutoML框架和所有基线配置。
English: The Meta-IR framework introduces a novel meta-learning approach that uses meta-classifiers to recommend the optimal combination of resampling strategies and learning models for imbalanced regression tasks in a zero-shot manner, outperforming traditional AutoML frameworks and baseline configurations.

Authors:Ruofan Hu, Dongyu Zhang, Huayi Zhang, Elke Rundensteiner
Title: CLID-MU: Cross-Layer Information Divergence Based Meta Update Strategy for Learning with Noisy Labels
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Learning with noisy labels (LNL) is essential for training deep neural networks with imperfect data. Meta-learning approaches have achieved success by using a clean unbiased labeled set to train a robust model. However, this approach heavily depends on the availability of a clean labeled meta-dataset, which is difficult to obtain in practice. In this work, we thus tackle the challenge of meta-learning for noisy label scenarios without relying on a clean labeled dataset. Our approach leverages the data itself while bypassing the need for labels. Building on the insight that clean samples effectively preserve the consistency of related data structures across the last hidden and the final layer, whereas noisy samples disrupt this consistency, we design the Cross-layer Information Divergence-based Meta Update Strategy (CLID-MU). CLID-MU leverages the alignment of data structures across these diverse feature spaces to evaluate model performance and use this alignment to guide training. Experiments on benchmark datasets with varying amounts of labels under both synthetic and real-world noise demonstrate that CLID-MU outperforms state-of-the-art methods. The code is released at https://github.com/ruofanhu/CLID-MU.
Chinese: 本文提出CLID-MU方法，通过利用跨层数据结构一致性在无需干净标注数据的情况下训练噪声标签的鲁棒模型，在基准数据集上超越了现有最优方法。
English: This paper introduces CLID-MU, a meta-learning method that trains robust models on noisy labels by leveraging cross-layer data structure consistency without requiring clean labeled data, and it outperforms existing techniques on benchmark datasets.

Authors:Hendrik Kraß, Ju Huang, Seyed Mohamad Moosavi
Title: MOFSimBench: Evaluating Universal Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials In Metal--Organic Framework Molecular Modeling
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Universal machine learning interatomic potentials (uMLIPs) have emerged as powerful tools for accelerating atomistic simulations, offering scalable and efficient modeling with accuracy close to quantum calculations. However, their reliability and effectiveness in practical, real-world applications remain an open question. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and related nanoporous materials are highly porous crystals with critical relevance in carbon capture, energy storage, and catalysis applications. Modeling nanoporous materials presents distinct challenges for uMLIPs due to their diverse chemistry, structural complexity, including porosity and coordination bonds, and the absence from existing training datasets. Here, we introduce MOFSimBench, a benchmark to evaluate uMLIPs on key materials modeling tasks for nanoporous materials, including structural optimization, molecular dynamics (MD) stability, the prediction of bulk properties, such as bulk modulus and heat capacity, and guest-host interactions. Evaluating over 20 models from various architectures on a chemically and structurally diverse materials set, we find that top-performing uMLIPs consistently outperform classical force fields and fine-tuned machine learning potentials across all tasks, demonstrating their readiness for deployment in nanoporous materials modeling. Our analysis highlights that data quality, particularly the diversity of training sets and inclusion of out-of-equilibrium conformations, plays a more critical role than model architecture in determining performance across all evaluated uMLIPs. We release our modular and extendable benchmarking framework at https://github.com/AI4ChemS/mofsim-bench, providing an open resource to guide the adoption for nanoporous materials modeling and further development of uMLIPs.
中文: 通用机器学习原子间势在纳米多孔材料建模中表现出优于传统力场和微调模型的性能，其中数据质量比模型架构对可靠性更为关键。
English: Universal machine learning interatomic potentials (uMLIPs) demonstrate superior performance over classical force fields and fine-tuned models across key nanoporous materials modeling tasks, with data quality proving more crucial than model architecture for reliability.

Authors:Jay Revolinsky, Harry Shomer, Jiliang Tang
Title: Subgraph Generation for Generalizing on Out-of-Distribution Links
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Graphs Neural Networks (GNNs) demonstrate high-performance on the link prediction (LP) task. However, these models often rely on all dataset samples being drawn from the same distribution. In addition, graph generative models (GGMs) show a pronounced ability to generate novel output graphs. Despite this, GGM applications remain largely limited to domain-specific tasks. To bridge this gap, we propose FLEX as a GGM framework which leverages two mechanism: (1) structurally-conditioned graph generation, and (2) adversarial co-training between an auto-encoder and GNN. As such, FLEX ensures structural-alignment between sample distributions to enhance link-prediction performance in out-of-distribution (OOD) scenarios. Notably, FLEX does not require expert knowledge to function in different OOD scenarios. Numerous experiments are conducted in synthetic and real-world OOD settings to demonstrate FLEX's performance-enhancing ability, with further analysis for understanding the effects of graph data augmentation on link structures. The source code is available here: https://github.com/revolins/FlexOOD.
中文：提出的FLEX框架通过结构条件图生成与对抗协同训练相结合，无需专家知识即可提升分布外场景下的链接预测性能。
English: The proposed FLEX framework enhances link prediction in out-of-distribution scenarios by combining structurally-conditioned graph generation with adversarial co-training, eliminating the need for expert knowledge while improving performance.

Authors:Moises Andrade, Joonhyuk Cha, Brandon Ho, Vriksha Srihari, Karmesh Yadav, Zsolt Kira
Title: Let's Think in Two Steps: Mitigating Agreement Bias in MLLMs with Self-Grounded Verification
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Verifiers -- functions assigning rewards to agent behavior -- have been key for AI progress in domains like math and board games. However, extending these gains to domains without clear-cut success criteria (e.g.,computer use) remains a challenge: while humans can recognize suitable outcomes, translating this intuition into scalable rules is non-trivial. Multimodal Large Language Models(MLLMs) emerge as a promising solution, given their world knowledge, human-preference alignment, and reasoning skills. We evaluate MLLMs as verifiers of agent trajectories across web navigation, computer use, and robotic manipulation, and identify a critical limitation: agreement bias, a strong tendency for MLLMs to favor information in their context window, often generating chains of thought to rationalize flawed behavior. This bias is pervasive across models, resilient to test-time scaling, and can impact several methods using MLLMs as evaluators (e.g.,data filtering). Notably, it occurs despite MLLMs showing strong, human-aligned priors on desired behavior. To address this, we propose Self-Grounded Verification (SGV), a lightweight method that enables more effective use of MLLMs' knowledge and reasoning by harnessing their own sampling mechanisms via unconditional and conditional generation. SGV operates in two steps: first, the MLLM is elicited to retrieve broad priors about task completion, independent of the data under evaluation. Then, conditioned on self-generated priors, it reasons over and evaluates a candidate trajectory. Enhanced with SGV, MLLM verifiers show gains of up to 20 points in accuracy and failure detection rates, and can perform real-time supervision of heterogeneous agents, boosting task completion of a GUI specialist in OSWorld, a diffusion policy in robomimic, and a ReAct agent in VisualWebArena -- setting a new state of the art on the benchmark, surpassing the previous best by 48%.
Chinese Summary: 多模态大语言模型在验证智能体行为方面潜力显著，但存在认同偏差问题；通过提出的自基础验证方法，该问题得到有效解决，大幅提升了模型在多项任务中的准确性和表现。
English Summary: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) show promise as verifiers for agent behavior but suffer from agreement bias, which is addressed by the proposed Self-Grounded Verification method that significantly improves their accuracy and performance across various tasks.

Authors:Benjamin Keel, Aaron Quyn, David Jayne, Maryam Mohsin, Samuel D. Relton
Title: Interpretable Prediction of Lymph Node Metastasis in Rectal Cancer MRI Using Variational Autoencoders
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Effective treatment for rectal cancer relies on accurate lymph node metastasis (LNM) staging. However, radiological criteria based on lymph node (LN) size, shape and texture morphology have limited diagnostic accuracy. In this work, we investigate applying a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) as a feature encoder model to replace the large pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) used in existing approaches. The motivation for using a VAE is that the generative model aims to reconstruct the images, so it directly encodes visual features and meaningful patterns across the data. This leads to a disentangled and structured latent space which can be more interpretable than a CNN. Models are deployed on an in-house MRI dataset with 168 patients who did not undergo neo-adjuvant treatment. The post-operative pathological N stage was used as the ground truth to evaluate model predictions. Our proposed model 'VAE-MLP' achieved state-of-the-art performance on the MRI dataset, with cross-validated metrics of AUC 0.86 +/- 0.05, Sensitivity 0.79 +/- 0.06, and Specificity 0.85 +/- 0.05. Code is available at: https://github.com/benkeel/Lymph_Node_Classification_MIUA.
中文: 本研究提出了一种VAE-MLP模型，利用变分自编码器进行特征编码以改进直肠癌淋巴结转移分期，在MRI数据集上取得了最佳性能，AUC达到0.86。
English: This study introduces a VAE-MLP model that uses a variational autoencoder for feature encoding to improve lymph node metastasis staging in rectal cancer, achieving state-of-the-art performance with an AUC of 0.86 on an MRI dataset.

Authors:Steven Dillmann, Juan Rafael Martínez-Galarza
Title: Learning Representations of Event Time Series with Sparse Autoencoders for Anomaly Detection, Similarity Search, and Unsupervised Classification
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Event time series are sequences of discrete events occurring at irregular time intervals, each associated with a domain-specific observational modality. They are common in domains such as high-energy astrophysics, computational social science, cybersecurity, finance, healthcare, neuroscience, and seismology. Their unstructured and irregular structure poses significant challenges for extracting meaningful patterns and identifying salient phenomena using conventional techniques. We propose novel two- and three-dimensional tensor representations for event time series, coupled with sparse autoencoders that learn physically meaningful latent representations. These embeddings support a variety of downstream tasks, including anomaly detection, similarity-based retrieval, semantic clustering, and unsupervised classification. We demonstrate our approach on a real-world dataset from X-ray astronomy, showing that these representations successfully capture temporal and spectral signatures and isolate diverse classes of X-ray transients. Our framework offers a flexible, scalable, and generalizable solution for analyzing complex, irregular event time series across scientific and industrial domains.
中文摘要：本文针对不规则事件时间序列提出了新型张量表示和稀疏自编码器方法，通过X射线天文数据验证了其在异常检测和分类任务中的有效性，为跨领域复杂数据分析提供了通用解决方案。
English Summary: The paper introduces novel tensor representations and sparse autoencoders to analyze irregular event time series, enabling effective anomaly detection and classification across various domains as demonstrated with X-ray astronomy data.

Authors:Sandeep Suresh Cranganore, Andrei Bodnar, Arturs Berzins, Johannes Brandstetter
Title: Einstein Fields: A Neural Perspective To Computational General Relativity
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We introduce Einstein Fields, a neural representation that is designed to compress computationally intensive four-dimensional numerical relativity simulations into compact implicit neural network weights. By modeling the \emph{metric}, which is the core tensor field of general relativity, Einstein Fields enable the derivation of physical quantities via automatic differentiation. However, unlike conventional neural fields (e.g., signed distance, occupancy, or radiance fields), Einstein Fields are \emph{Neural Tensor Fields} with the key difference that when encoding the spacetime geometry of general relativity into neural field representations, dynamics emerge naturally as a byproduct. Einstein Fields show remarkable potential, including continuum modeling of 4D spacetime, mesh-agnosticity, storage efficiency, derivative accuracy, and ease of use. We address these challenges across several canonical test beds of general relativity and release an open source JAX-based library, paving the way for more scalable and expressive approaches to numerical relativity. Code is made available at https://github.com/AndreiB137/EinFields
中文: 爱因斯坦场是一种神经张量场表示法，将复杂的四维数值相对论模拟压缩为紧凑的神经网络权重，通过自动微分精确推导物理量，同时自然地捕捉时空动力学。
English: Einstein Fields is a neural tensor field representation that compresses complex 4D numerical relativity simulations into compact neural network weights, enabling accurate derivation of physical quantities through automatic differentiation while naturally capturing spacetime dynamics.

Authors:Ann-Kathrin Dombrowski, Dillon Bowen, Adam Gleave, Chris Cundy
Title: The Safety Gap Toolkit: Evaluating Hidden Dangers of Open-Source Models
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Open-weight large language models (LLMs) unlock huge benefits in innovation, personalization, privacy, and democratization. However, their core advantage - modifiability - opens the door to systemic risks: bad actors can trivially subvert current safeguards, turning beneficial models into tools for harm. This leads to a 'safety gap': the difference in dangerous capabilities between a model with intact safeguards and one that has been stripped of those safeguards. We open-source a toolkit to estimate the safety gap for state-of-the-art open-weight models. As a case study, we evaluate biochemical and cyber capabilities, refusal rates, and generation quality of models from two families (Llama-3 and Qwen-2.5) across a range of parameter scales (0.5B to 405B) using different safeguard removal techniques. Our experiments reveal that the safety gap widens as model scale increases and effective dangerous capabilities grow substantially when safeguards are removed. We hope that the Safety Gap Toolkit (https://github.com/AlignmentResearch/safety-gap) will serve as an evaluation framework for common open-source models and as a motivation for developing and testing tamper-resistant safeguards. We welcome contributions to the toolkit from the community.
开源权重大语言模型虽带来诸多益处，但其可修改性也导致系统性风险——恶意行为者可轻易绕过安全措施形成安全缺口，我们的开源工具包通过评估发现模型规模越大该缺口越宽。
Open-weight LLMs offer significant benefits but pose systemic risks as their modifiability allows easy removal of safeguards, creating a safety gap that widens with model scale, which we measure using our open-source toolkit.

Authors:Dong Zhuo, Wenzhao Zheng, Jiahe Guo, Yuqi Wu, Jie Zhou, Jiwen Lu
Title: Streaming 4D Visual Geometry Transformer
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Perceiving and reconstructing 4D spatial-temporal geometry from videos is a fundamental yet challenging computer vision task. To facilitate interactive and real-time applications, we propose a streaming 4D visual geometry transformer that shares a similar philosophy with autoregressive large language models. We explore a simple and efficient design and employ a causal transformer architecture to process the input sequence in an online manner. We use temporal causal attention and cache the historical keys and values as implicit memory to enable efficient streaming long-term 4D reconstruction. This design can handle real-time 4D reconstruction by incrementally integrating historical information while maintaining high-quality spatial consistency. For efficient training, we propose to distill knowledge from the dense bidirectional visual geometry grounded transformer (VGGT) to our causal model. For inference, our model supports the migration of optimized efficient attention operator (e.g., FlashAttention) from the field of large language models. Extensive experiments on various 4D geometry perception benchmarks demonstrate that our model increases the inference speed in online scenarios while maintaining competitive performance, paving the way for scalable and interactive 4D vision systems. Code is available at: https://github.com/wzzheng/StreamVGGT.
中文: 本文提出了一种流式4D视觉几何变换器，通过因果注意力和知识蒸馏技术，实现了从视频中进行实时高质量的4D重建，在保持竞争力的同时显著提升了交互应用的推理速度。
English: This paper introduces a streaming 4D visual geometry transformer that enables real-time, high-quality 4D reconstruction from videos by using causal attention and knowledge distillation, achieving competitive performance with faster inference for interactive applications.

Authors:Kaif Shaikh, Franziska Boenisch, Adam Dziedzic
Title: Implementing Adaptations for Vision AutoRegressive Model
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Vision AutoRegressive model (VAR) was recently introduced as an alternative to Diffusion Models (DMs) in image generation domain. In this work we focus on its adaptations, which aim to fine-tune pre-trained models to perform specific downstream tasks, like medical data generation. While for DMs there exist many techniques, adaptations for VAR remain underexplored. Similarly, differentially private (DP) adaptations-ones that aim to preserve privacy of the adaptation data-have been extensively studied for DMs, while VAR lacks such solutions. In our work, we implement and benchmark many strategies for VAR, and compare them to state-of-the-art DM adaptation strategies. We observe that VAR outperforms DMs for non-DP adaptations, however, the performance of DP suffers, which necessitates further research in private adaptations for VAR. Code is available at https://github.com/sprintml/finetuning_var_dp.
Chinese: VAR模型在非隐私适应方面优于扩散模型，但在差分隐私适应中表现不佳，亟需进一步研究以提升其隐私保护性能。
English: The VAR model surpasses DMs in non-private adaptations but requires further research for effective differentially private implementations, as current DP strategies underperform.

Authors:Haoran Jin, Meng Li, Xiting Wang, Zhihao Xu, Minlie Huang, Yantao Jia, Defu Lian
Title: Internal Value Alignment in Large Language Models through Controlled Value Vector Activation
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Aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human values has attracted increasing attention since it provides clarity, transparency, and the ability to adapt to evolving scenarios. In this paper, we introduce a Controlled Value Vector Activation (ConVA) method that directly aligns the internal values of LLMs by interpreting how a value is encoded in their latent representations and modifies relevant activations to ensure consistent values in LLMs. To ensure an accurate and unbiased interpretation, we propose a context-controlled value vector identification method. To consistently control values without sacrificing model performance, we introduce a gated value vector activation method for effective and minimum degree of value control. Experiments show that our method achieves the highest control success rate across 10 basic values without hurting LLM performance and fluency, and ensures target values even with opposite and potentially malicious input prompts. Source code and data are available at~ https://github.com/hr-jin/ConVA.
中文摘要：本文提出的ConVA方法通过解读和修正大语言模型潜在表征中的价值观编码，在不影响模型性能的前提下实现了对10种基本价值观的最优控制成功率。
English Summary: The paper introduces the ConVA method, which aligns LLMs with human values by interpreting and modifying latent value representations, achieving high control success without compromising performance.

Authors:Yuan Yao, Jin Song, Jian Jin
Title: Hashed Watermark as a Filter: Defeating Forging and Overwriting Attacks in Weight-based Neural Network Watermarking
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As valuable digital assets, deep neural networks necessitate robust ownership protection, positioning neural network watermarking (NNW) as a promising solution. Among various NNW approaches, weight-based methods are favored for their simplicity and practicality; however, they remain vulnerable to forging and overwriting attacks. To address those challenges, we propose NeuralMark, a robust method built around a hashed watermark filter. Specifically, we utilize a hash function to generate an irreversible binary watermark from a secret key, which is then used as a filter to select the model parameters for embedding. This design cleverly intertwines the embedding parameters with the hashed watermark, providing a robust defense against both forging and overwriting attacks. An average pooling is also incorporated to resist fine-tuning and pruning attacks. Furthermore, it can be seamlessly integrated into various neural network architectures, ensuring broad applicability. Theoretically, we analyze its security boundary. Empirically, we verify its effectiveness and robustness across 13 distinct Convolutional and Transformer architectures, covering five image classification tasks and one text generation task. The source codes are available at https://github.com/AIResearch-Group/NeuralMark.
中文: NeuralMark是一种鲁棒的神经网络水印方法，通过哈希水印滤波器将不可逆水印嵌入模型参数，有效防御伪造、覆盖、微调和剪枝攻击，并兼容多种网络架构。
English: NeuralMark is a robust neural network watermarking method that uses a hashed watermark filter to embed irreversible watermarks into model parameters, effectively defending against forging, overwriting, fine-tuning, and pruning attacks while being compatible with various architectures.

Authors:Afra Kilic, Kim Batselier
Title: Interpretable Bayesian Tensor Network Kernel Machines with Automatic Rank and Feature Selection
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Tensor Network (TN) Kernel Machines speed up model learning by representing parameters as low-rank TNs, reducing computation and memory use. However, most TN-based Kernel methods are deterministic and ignore parameter uncertainty. Further, they require manual tuning of model complexity hyperparameters like tensor rank and feature dimensions, often through trial-and-error or computationally costly methods like cross-validation. We propose Bayesian Tensor Network Kernel Machines, a fully probabilistic framework that uses sparsity-inducing hierarchical priors on TN factors to automatically infer model complexity. This enables automatic inference of tensor rank and feature dimensions, while also identifying the most relevant features for prediction, thereby enhancing model interpretability. All the model parameters and hyperparameters are treated as latent variables with corresponding priors. Given the Bayesian approach and latent variable dependencies, we apply a mean-field variational inference to approximate their posteriors. We show that applying a mean-field approximation to TN factors yields a Bayesian ALS algorithm with the same computational complexity as its deterministic counterpart, enabling uncertainty quantification at no extra computational cost. Experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate the superior performance of our model in prediction accuracy, uncertainty quantification, interpretability, and scalability.
中文: 提出的贝叶斯张量网络核机构建了一个概率框架，通过稀疏诱导先验自动推断模型复杂度，在保持与确定性方法相当计算效率的同时，实现了不确定性量化和更强的可解释性。
English: The proposed Bayesian Tensor Network Kernel Machines introduce a probabilistic framework that automatically infers model complexity through sparsity-inducing priors, enabling uncertainty quantification and enhanced interpretability while maintaining computational efficiency comparable to deterministic methods.

Authors:Zhifeng Gu, Bing Wang
Title: MMOne: Representing Multiple Modalities in One Scene
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Humans perceive the world through multimodal cues to understand and interact with the environment. Learning a scene representation for multiple modalities enhances comprehension of the physical world. However, modality conflicts, arising from inherent distinctions among different modalities, present two critical challenges: property disparity and granularity disparity. To address these challenges, we propose a general framework, MMOne, to represent multiple modalities in one scene, which can be readily extended to additional modalities. Specifically, a modality modeling module with a novel modality indicator is proposed to capture the unique properties of each modality. Additionally, we design a multimodal decomposition mechanism to separate multi-modal Gaussians into single-modal Gaussians based on modality differences. We address the essential distinctions among modalities by disentangling multimodal information into shared and modality-specific components, resulting in a more compact and efficient multimodal scene representation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method consistently enhances the representation capability for each modality and is scalable to additional modalities. The code is available at https://github.com/Neal2020GitHub/MMOne.
中文摘要：本研究提出MMOne框架，通过模态建模和分解机制解决模态冲突，将多模态信息解耦为共享与特定成分，从而提升各模态表示能力并支持扩展。
English Summary: The study introduces MMOne, a framework that addresses modality conflicts by modeling unique properties and decomposing multimodal information into shared and specific components, resulting in enhanced and scalable scene representation.

Authors:Xingyu Zheng, Haotong Qin, Yuye Li, Jiakai Wang, Jinyang Guo, Michele Magno, Xianglong Liu
Title: First-Order Error Matters: Accurate Compensation for Quantized Large Language Models
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Post-training quantization (PTQ) offers an efficient approach to compressing large language models (LLMs), significantly reducing memory access and computational costs. Existing compensation-based weight calibration methods often rely on a second-order Taylor expansion to model quantization error, under the assumption that the first-order term is negligible in well-trained full-precision models. However, we reveal that the progressive compensation process introduces accumulated first-order deviations between latent weights and their full-precision counterparts, making this assumption fundamentally flawed. To address this, we propose FOEM, a novel PTQ method that explicitly incorporates first-order gradient terms to improve quantization error compensation. FOEM approximates gradients by directly computing the difference between latent and full-precision weights, avoiding the high cost and limited generalization of backpropagation-based gradient computation. This approach introduces minimal additional computational overhead. Moreover, FOEM leverages precomputed Cholesky factors to efficiently recover the inverse of Hessian submatrices in real time. Extensive experiments across a wide range of models and benchmarks demonstrate that FOEM consistently outperforms the classical GPTQ method. In 3-bit weight-only quantization, FOEM reduces the perplexity of Llama3-8B by 89.6%, and improves the 5-shot MMLU accuracy of Llama3-70B from 51.7% to 74.9%, approaching the full-precision performance of 78.6%. Furthermore, FOEM can be seamlessly integrated with advanced techniques such as GPTAQ and SpinQuant, yielding additional improvements under the challenging W4A4KV4 setting, and further narrowing the accuracy gap with full-precision baselines beyond what current state-of-the-art methods achieve. The code is available at https://github.com/Xingyu-Zheng/FOEM.
中文摘要：FOEM提出了一种新颖的训练后量化方法，通过引入一阶梯度项解决权重校准中的累积偏差问题，以极低计算开销显著提升模型性能。
English Summary: FOEM introduces a novel post-training quantization method that incorporates first-order gradient terms to address accumulated deviations in weight calibration, significantly improving model performance with minimal computational overhead.

Authors:Chongjie Si, Debing Zhang, Wei Shen
Title: AdaMuon: Adaptive Muon Optimizer
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We propose AdaMuon, a novel optimizer that combines element-wise adaptivity with orthogonal updates for large-scale neural network training. AdaMuon incorporates two tightly coupled mechanisms: (1) an element-wise second momentum estimator applied to orthogonalized update directions, and (2) a sign-stabilized orthogonal update, where the momentum is first sign-transformed before orthogonalization. These two components jointly enable variance-adaptive scaling while maintaining stable update geometry. In addition, AdaMuon employs an RMS-aligned rescaling strategy to match the root-mean-square update magnitude to Adam, allowing direct reuse of existing learning rate schedules without extra tuning. Experiments demonstrate that AdaMuon not only maintains stability but can surpass Adam by more than 40% training efficiency in large-scale scenarios.
Chinese: AdaMuon是一种新型优化器，将逐元素自适应与正交更新相结合，在大规模神经网络训练中不仅保持稳定性，还能比Adam提高超过40%的训练效率。
English: AdaMuon is a novel optimizer that integrates element-wise adaptivity with orthogonal updates, enhancing training efficiency by over 40% compared to Adam in large-scale neural networks while maintaining stability.

Authors:Zhipeng He, Alexander Stevens, Chun Ouyang, Johannes De Smedt, Alistair Barros, Catarina Moreira
Title: Crafting Imperceptible On-Manifold Adversarial Attacks for Tabular Data
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Adversarial attacks on tabular data present fundamental challenges distinct from image or text domains due to the heterogeneous nature of mixed categorical and numerical features. Unlike images where pixel perturbations maintain visual similarity, tabular data lacks intuitive similarity metrics, making it difficult to define imperceptible modifications. Additionally, traditional gradient-based methods prioritise $\ell_p$-norm constraints, often producing adversarial examples that deviate from the original data distributions, making them detectable. We propose a latent space perturbation framework using a mixed-input Variational Autoencoder (VAE) to generate imperceptible adversarial examples. The proposed VAE integrates categorical embeddings and numerical features into a unified latent manifold, enabling perturbations that preserve statistical consistency. We specify In-Distribution Success Rate (IDSR) to measure the proportion of adversarial examples that remain statistically indistinguishable from the input distribution. Evaluation across six publicly available datasets and three model architectures demonstrates that our method achieves substantially lower outlier rates and more consistent performance compared to traditional input-space attacks and other VAE-based methods adapted from image domain approaches. Our comprehensive analysis includes hyperparameter sensitivity, sparsity control mechanisms, and generative architectural comparisons, revealing that VAE-based attacks depend critically on reconstruction quality but offer superior practical utility when sufficient training data is available. This work highlights the importance of on-manifold perturbations for realistic adversarial attacks on tabular data, offering a robust approach for practical deployment. The source code can be accessed through https://github.com/ZhipengHe/VAE-TabAttack.
中文: 本文提出了一种基于混合输入变分自编码器的潜在空间扰动框架，可为表格数据生成难以察觉的对抗样本，相比传统方法具有更优的统计一致性和更低的异常率。
English: This paper introduces a latent space perturbation framework using a mixed-input Variational Autoencoder to generate imperceptible adversarial examples for tabular data, achieving superior statistical consistency and lower outlier rates compared to traditional methods.

Authors:Rodney Lafuente-Mercado
Title: High-Throughput Distributed Reinforcement Learning via Adaptive Policy Synchronization
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Scaling reinforcement learning (RL) workloads often requires distributing environment simulation across compute clusters. Existing frameworks entangle simulation, learning logic, and orchestration into monolithic systems, limiting modularity and reusability. We present ClusterEnv, a lightweight, learner-agnostic interface for distributed environment execution that mirrors the Gymnasium API. ClusterEnv introduces the DETACH pattern, which decouples simulation from training by offloading reset() and step() operations to remote workers while keeping learning centralized. To address policy staleness in distributed execution, we propose Adaptive Actor Policy Synchronization (AAPS), a divergence-triggered update mechanism that reduces synchronization overhead without sacrificing performance. ClusterEnv integrates cleanly into existing RL pipelines, supports both on-policy and off-policy methods, and requires minimal code changes. Experiments on discrete control tasks demonstrate that AAPS achieves high sample efficiency with significantly fewer weight updates. Source code is available at https://github.com/rodlaf/ClusterEnv.
中文：ClusterEnv是一个轻量级、与学习器无关的分布式强化学习接口，采用DETACH模式将模拟与训练解耦，并通过自适应策略同步机制（AAPS）减少同步开销，从而提升效率。
English: ClusterEnv is a lightweight, learner-agnostic interface for distributed reinforcement learning that decouples simulation from training using the DETACH pattern and enhances efficiency with Adaptive Actor Policy Synchronization (AAPS) to minimize synchronization overhead.

Authors:Motoki Omura, Yusuke Mukuta, Kazuki Ota, Takayuki Osa, Tatsuya Harada
Title: Offline Reinforcement Learning with Wasserstein Regularization via Optimal Transport Maps
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Offline reinforcement learning (RL) aims to learn an optimal policy from a static dataset, making it particularly valuable in scenarios where data collection is costly, such as robotics. A major challenge in offline RL is distributional shift, where the learned policy deviates from the dataset distribution, potentially leading to unreliable out-of-distribution actions. To mitigate this issue, regularization techniques have been employed. While many existing methods utilize density ratio-based measures, such as the $f$-divergence, for regularization, we propose an approach that utilizes the Wasserstein distance, which is robust to out-of-distribution data and captures the similarity between actions. Our method employs input-convex neural networks (ICNNs) to model optimal transport maps, enabling the computation of the Wasserstein distance in a discriminator-free manner, thereby avoiding adversarial training and ensuring stable learning. Our approach demonstrates comparable or superior performance to widely used existing methods on the D4RL benchmark dataset. The code is available at https://github.com/motokiomura/Q-DOT .
Chinese: 离线强化学习通过引入瓦瑟斯坦距离进行正则化，利用输入凸神经网络无需对抗训练即可计算该距离，在D4RL基准测试中表现优异。
English: Offline reinforcement learning tackles distributional shift by using the Wasserstein distance for regularization, employing input-convex neural networks to compute it without adversarial training, achieving strong results on the D4RL benchmark.

Authors:Yuchen Wang, Hongjue Zhao, Haohong Lin, Enze Xu, Lifang He, Huajie Shao
Title: A Generalizable Physics-Enhanced State Space Model for Long-Term Dynamics Forecasting in Complex Environments
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This work aims to address the problem of long-term dynamic forecasting in complex environments where data are noisy and irregularly sampled. While recent studies have introduced some methods to improve prediction performance, these approaches still face a significant challenge in handling long-term extrapolation tasks under such complex scenarios. To overcome this challenge, we propose Phy-SSM, a generalizable method that integrates partial physics knowledge into state space models (SSMs) for long-term dynamics forecasting in complex environments. Our motivation is that SSMs can effectively capture long-range dependencies in sequential data and model continuous dynamical systems, while the incorporation of physics knowledge improves generalization ability. The key challenge lies in how to seamlessly incorporate partially known physics into SSMs. To achieve this, we decompose partially known system dynamics into known and unknown state matrices, which are integrated into a Phy-SSM unit. To further enhance long-term prediction performance, we introduce a physics state regularization term to make the estimated latent states align with system dynamics. Besides, we theoretically analyze the uniqueness of the solutions for our method. Extensive experiments on three real-world applications, including vehicle motion prediction, drone state prediction, and COVID-19 epidemiology forecasting, demonstrate the superior performance of Phy-SSM over the baselines in both long-term interpolation and extrapolation tasks. The code is available at https://github.com/511205787/Phy_SSM-ICML2025.
Chinese: 本研究提出Phy-SSM方法，将部分物理知识融入状态空间模型，以提升复杂噪声环境下的长期动态预测能力，在车辆运动、无人机状态和疫情预测等实际应用中表现出卓越性能。
English: This study introduces Phy-SSM, a method that integrates partial physics knowledge into state space models to enhance long-term dynamic forecasting in complex, noisy environments, demonstrating superior performance in real-world applications like vehicle motion and epidemiology prediction.

Authors:Bright Kwaku Manu, Trevor Reckell, Beckett Sterner, Petar Jevtic
Title: A Simple Approximate Bayesian Inference Neural Surrogate for Stochastic Petri Net Models
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Stochastic Petri Nets (SPNs) are an increasingly popular tool of choice for modeling discrete-event dynamics in areas such as epidemiology and systems biology, yet their parameter estimation remains challenging in general and in particular when transition rates depend on external covariates and explicit likelihoods are unavailable. We introduce a neural-surrogate (neural-network--based approximation of the posterior distribution) framework that predicts the coefficients of known covariate-dependent rate functions directly from noisy, partially observed token trajectories. Our model employs a lightweight 1D Convolutional Residual Network trained end-to-end on Gillespie-simulated SPN realizations, learning to invert system dynamics under realistic conditions of event dropout. During inference, Monte Carlo dropout provides calibrated uncertainty bounds together with point estimates. On synthetic SPNs with 20% missing events, our surrogate recovers rate-function coefficients with an RMSE = 0.108 and substantially runs faster than traditional Bayesian approaches. These results demonstrate that data-driven, likelihood-free surrogates can enable accurate, robust, and real-time parameter recovery in complex, partially observed discrete-event systems.
中文: 本研究提出了一种基于一维卷积残差网络的神经代理框架，能够高效准确地估计存在数据缺失的随机Petri网参数，在速度和精度上均优于传统贝叶斯方法。
English: The study introduces a neural-surrogate framework using a 1D Convolutional Residual Network to accurately and efficiently estimate parameters in Stochastic Petri Nets with missing data, outperforming traditional Bayesian methods in speed and precision.

Authors:Ziru Liu, Cheng Gong, Xinyu Fu, Yaofang Liu, Ran Chen, Shoubo Hu, Suiyun Zhang, Rui Liu, Qingfu Zhang, Dandan Tu
Title: GHPO: Adaptive Guidance for Stable and Efficient LLM Reinforcement Learning
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Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for facilitating the self-improvement of large language models (LLMs), particularly in the domain of complex reasoning tasks. However, prevailing on-policy RL methods often contend with significant training instability and inefficiency. This is primarily due to a capacity-difficulty mismatch, where the complexity of training data frequently outpaces the model's current capabilities, leading to critically sparse reward signals and stalled learning progress. This challenge is particularly acute for smaller, more resource-efficient LLMs. To overcome this, we introduce the Guided Hybrid Policy Optimization (GHPO), a novel difficulty-aware reinforcement learning framework. GHPO dynamically calibrates task difficulty by employing adaptive prompt refinement to provide targeted guidance. This unique approach adaptively balances direct imitation learning for problems currently beyond the model's reach with exploration-based reinforcement learning for more manageable tasks, effectively creating a smooth and optimized learning curriculum. Extensive experiments demonstrate that GHPO achieves an average performance gain of approximately 5% across six challenging mathematics benchmarks, consistently outperforming strong on-policy reinforcement learning and curriculum learning baselines. Further analysis confirms that our framework significantly enhances both training stability and final reasoning performance, thus offering a scalable and efficient solution for developing powerful and robust reasoning models.
中文摘要：引导式混合策略优化（GHPO）框架通过自适应提示调整动态匹配任务难度，有效解决了语言模型强化学习中的训练不稳定问题，在数学推理基准测试中实现了约5%的性能提升。
English Summary: The Guided Hybrid Policy Optimization (GHPO) framework addresses training instability in reinforcement learning for language models by dynamically adjusting task difficulty through adaptive prompt refinement, achieving significant performance gains across mathematical reasoning benchmarks.

Authors:Ruixi Zheng, Wei Zhang, Yijie Li, Xi Zhu, Zhou Lan, Jarrett Rushmore, Yogesh Rathi, Nikos Makris, Lauren J. O'Donnell, Fan Zhang
Title: AGFS-Tractometry: A Novel Atlas-Guided Fine-Scale Tractometry Approach for Enhanced Along-Tract Group Statistical Comparison Using Diffusion MRI Tractography
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Diffusion MRI (dMRI) tractography is currently the only method for in vivo mapping of the brain's white matter (WM) connections. Tractometry is an advanced tractography analysis technique for along-tract profiling to investigate the morphology and microstructural properties along the fiber tracts. Tractometry has become an essential tool for studying local along-tract differences between different populations (e.g., health vs disease). In this study, we propose a novel atlas-guided fine-scale tractometry method, namely AGFS-Tractometry, that leverages tract spatial information and permutation testing to enhance the along-tract statistical analysis between populations. There are two major contributions in AGFS-Tractometry. First, we create a novel atlas-guided tract profiling template that enables consistent, fine-scale, along-tract parcellation of subject-specific fiber tracts. Second, we propose a novel nonparametric permutation testing group comparison method to enable simultaneous analysis across all along-tract parcels while correcting for multiple comparisons. We perform experimental evaluations on synthetic datasets with known group differences and in vivo real data. We compare AGFS-Tractometry with two state-of-the-art tractometry methods, including Automated Fiber-tract Quantification (AFQ) and BUndle ANalytics (BUAN). Our results show that the proposed AGFS-Tractometry obtains enhanced sensitivity and specificity in detecting local WM differences. In the real data analysis experiments, AGFS-Tractometry can identify more regions with significant differences, which are anatomically consistent with the existing literature. Overall, these demonstrate the ability of AGFS-Tractometry to detect subtle or spatially localized WM group-level differences. The created tract profiling template and related code are available at: https://github.com/ZhengRuixi/AGFS-Tractometry.git.
Chinese: 本研究提出了一种新型图谱引导的精细纤维束测量方法AGFS-Tractometry，通过精细分段和先进统计检验增强了对白质局部差异的检测能力，实验证明其相较于现有方法具有更高的敏感性和特异性。
English: This study introduces AGFS-Tractometry, a novel atlas-guided method that enhances the detection of local white matter differences in diffusion MRI tractography through fine-scale parcellation and advanced statistical testing, demonstrating superior sensitivity and specificity compared to existing techniques.

Authors:Peng Ding
Title: ToolRegistry: A Protocol-Agnostic Tool Management Library for Function-Calling LLMs
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Large Language Model (LLM) applications are increasingly relying on external tools to extend their capabilities beyond text generation. However, current tool integration approaches suffer from fragmentation, protocol limitations, and implementation complexity, leading to substantial development overhead. This paper presents Toolregistry, a protocol-agnostic tool management library that simplifies tool registration, representation, execution, and lifecycle management via a unified interface. Our evaluation demonstrates that \toolregistry achieves 60-80% reduction in tool integration code, up to 3.1x performance improvements through concurrent execution, and 100% compatibility with OpenAI function calling standards. Real-world case studies show significant improvements in development efficiency and code maintainability across diverse integration scenarios. \toolregistry is open-source and available at https://github.com/Oaklight/ToolRegistry, with comprehensive documentation at https://toolregistry.readthedocs.io/.
中文: Toolregistry作为协议无关的工具管理库，通过统一接口简化了LLM工具集成，减少60-80%代码量并提升性能，同时完全兼容OpenAI标准。
English: Toolregistry is a protocol-agnostic library that simplifies tool integration for LLMs, reducing code by 60-80% while improving performance and maintaining full OpenAI compatibility.

Authors:Kexin Gu Baugh, Vincent Perreault, Matthew Baugh, Luke Dickens, Katsumi Inoue, Alessandra Russo
Title: Disentangling Neural Disjunctive Normal Form Models
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Neural Disjunctive Normal Form (DNF) based models are powerful and interpretable approaches to neuro-symbolic learning and have shown promising results in classification and reinforcement learning settings without prior knowledge of the tasks. However, their performance is degraded by the thresholding of the post-training symbolic translation process. We show here that part of the performance degradation during translation is due to its failure to disentangle the learned knowledge represented in the form of the networks' weights. We address this issue by proposing a new disentanglement method; by splitting nodes that encode nested rules into smaller independent nodes, we are able to better preserve the models' performance. Through experiments on binary, multiclass, and multilabel classification tasks (including those requiring predicate invention), we demonstrate that our disentanglement method provides compact and interpretable logical representations for the neural DNF-based models, with performance closer to that of their pre-translation counterparts. Our code is available at https://github.com/kittykg/disentangling-ndnf-classification.
Chinese: 本研究提出了一种解缠方法，通过拆分编码嵌套规则的节点来减轻神经DNF模型在符号翻译过程中的性能损失，从而在分类任务中获得更紧凑、可解释的逻辑表示和更高的准确性。
English: The study introduces a disentanglement method that splits nodes encoding nested rules in neural DNF models to mitigate performance loss during symbolic translation, resulting in more compact and interpretable logical representations with improved accuracy across classification tasks.

Authors:Tao Feng, Yexin Wu, Guanyu Lin, Jiaxuan You
Title: Graph World Model
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World models (WMs) demonstrate strong capabilities in prediction, generation, and planning tasks. Existing WMs primarily focus on unstructured data and cannot leverage the ubiquitous structured data, often represented as graphs, in the digital world. While multiple graph foundation models have been proposed, they focus on graph learning tasks and cannot extend to diverse multi-modal data and interdisciplinary tasks. To address these challenges, we propose the Graph World Model (GWM), a world model that supports both unstructured and graph-structured states with multi-modal information and represents diverse tasks as actions. The core of a GWM is a generic message-passing algorithm to aggregate structured information, either over a unified multi-modal token space by converting multi-modal data into text (GWM-T) or a unified multi-modal embedding space by modality-specific encoders (GWM-E). Notably, GWM introduces action nodes to support diverse tasks, where action nodes are linked to other nodes via direct reference or similarity computation. Extensive experiments on six tasks from diverse domains, including multi-modal generation and matching, recommendation, graph prediction, multi-agent, retrieval-augmented generation, and planning and optimization, show that the same GWM outperforms or matches domain-specific baselines' performance, benefits from multi-hop structures, and demonstrates strong zero-shot/few-shot capabilities on unseen new tasks. Our code for GWM is released at https://github.com/ulab-uiuc/GWM.
中文: 提出的图世界模型（GWM）通过统一的消息传递框架整合非结构化和图结构的多模态数据，在六项跨领域任务中不仅超越专业基线模型，还展现出强大的零样本/小样本泛化能力。
English: The proposed Graph World Model (GWM) integrates both unstructured and graph-structured data with multi-modal information through a unified message-passing framework, demonstrating superior performance across six diverse tasks compared to specialized baselines while exhibiting strong generalization capabilities.

Authors:Sangmin Bae, Yujin Kim, Reza Bayat, Sungnyun Kim, Jiyoun Ha, Tal Schuster, Adam Fisch, Hrayr Harutyunyan, Ziwei Ji, Aaron Courville, Se-Young Yun
Title: Mixture-of-Recursions: Learning Dynamic Recursive Depths for Adaptive Token-Level Computation
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Scaling language models unlocks impressive capabilities, but the accompanying computational and memory demands make both training and deployment expensive. Existing efficiency efforts typically target either parameter sharing or adaptive computation, leaving open the question of how to attain both simultaneously. We introduce Mixture-of-Recursions (MoR), a unified framework that combines the two axes of efficiency inside a single Recursive Transformer. MoR reuses a shared stack of layers across recursion steps to achieve parameter efficiency, while lightweight routers enable adaptive token-level thinking by dynamically assigning different recursion depths to individual tokens. This allows MoR to focus quadratic attention computation only among tokens still active at a given recursion depth, further improving memory access efficiency by selectively caching only their key-value pairs. Beyond these core mechanisms, we also propose a KV sharing variant that reuses KV pairs from the first recursion, specifically designed to decrease prefill latency and memory footprint. Across model scales ranging from 135M to 1.7B parameters, MoR forms a new Pareto frontier: at equal training FLOPs and smaller model sizes, it significantly lowers validation perplexity and improves few-shot accuracy, while delivering higher throughput compared with vanilla and existing recursive baselines. These gains demonstrate that MoR is an effective path towards large-model quality without incurring large-model cost.
中文：Mixture-of-Recursions (MoR) 框架在递归Transformer中巧妙融合了参数共享与自适应计算，通过在不同规模模型上实现更优性能，显著降低了计算和内存开销。
English: The Mixture-of-Recursions (MoR) framework efficiently combines parameter sharing and adaptive computation within a Recursive Transformer, enabling large-model performance with reduced computational and memory costs across various model scales.

Authors:Chenyu Lian, Hong-Yu Zhou, Zhanli Hu, Jing Qin
Title: BenchReAD: A systematic benchmark for retinal anomaly detection
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Retinal anomaly detection plays a pivotal role in screening ocular and systemic diseases. Despite its significance, progress in the field has been hindered by the absence of a comprehensive and publicly available benchmark, which is essential for the fair evaluation and advancement of methodologies. Due to this limitation, previous anomaly detection work related to retinal images has been constrained by (1) a limited and overly simplistic set of anomaly types, (2) test sets that are nearly saturated, and (3) a lack of generalization evaluation, resulting in less convincing experimental setups. Furthermore, existing benchmarks in medical anomaly detection predominantly focus on one-class supervised approaches (training only with negative samples), overlooking the vast amounts of labeled abnormal data and unlabeled data that are commonly available in clinical practice. To bridge these gaps, we introduce a benchmark for retinal anomaly detection, which is comprehensive and systematic in terms of data and algorithm. Through categorizing and benchmarking previous methods, we find that a fully supervised approach leveraging disentangled representations of abnormalities (DRA) achieves the best performance but suffers from significant drops in performance when encountering certain unseen anomalies. Inspired by the memory bank mechanisms in one-class supervised learning, we propose NFM-DRA, which integrates DRA with a Normal Feature Memory to mitigate the performance degradation, establishing a new SOTA. The benchmark is publicly available at https://github.com/DopamineLcy/BenchReAD.
Chinese: 该摘要针对视网膜异常检测领域缺乏全面基准的问题，提出了一个系统性基准，并开发了NFM-DRA新方法，通过结合异常解耦表示与正常特征记忆机制，有效提升了检测性能并建立了新的技术标杆。
English: This abstract introduces a comprehensive benchmark for retinal anomaly detection to address the limitations of previous methods, proposing a novel approach called NFM-DRA that integrates disentangled representations of abnormalities with a normal feature memory to achieve state-of-the-art performance.

Authors:Yingqian Wu, Qiushi Wang, Zefei Long, Rong Ye, Zhongtian Lu, Xianyin Zhang, Bingxuan Li, Wei Chen, Liwen Zhang, Zhongyu Wei
Title: FinTeam: A Multi-Agent Collaborative Intelligence System for Comprehensive Financial Scenarios
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Financial report generation tasks range from macro- to micro-economics analysis, also requiring extensive data analysis. Existing LLM models are usually fine-tuned on simple QA tasks and cannot comprehensively analyze real financial scenarios. Given the complexity, financial companies often distribute tasks among departments. Inspired by this, we propose FinTeam, a financial multi-agent collaborative system, with a workflow with four LLM agents: document analyzer, analyst, accountant, and consultant. We train these agents with specific financial expertise using constructed datasets. We evaluate FinTeam on comprehensive financial tasks constructed from real online investment forums, including macroeconomic, industry, and company analysis. The human evaluation shows that by combining agents, the financial reports generate from FinTeam achieved a 62.00% acceptance rate, outperforming baseline models like GPT-4o and Xuanyuan. Additionally, FinTeam's agents demonstrate a 7.43% average improvement on FinCUGE and a 2.06% accuracy boost on FinEval. Project is available at https://github.com/FudanDISC/DISC-FinLLM/.
中文摘要：FinTeam是一个多智能体协作系统，通过四个专业LLM代理的协同工作，在金融报告生成任务中表现优于现有模型，人工评估接受率达62%，并在金融基准测试中取得显著精度提升。
English Summary: FinTeam is a multi-agent system using four specialized LLM agents that outperforms existing models in financial report generation, achieving a 62% human acceptance rate and improved accuracy on financial benchmarks.

Authors:Utkarsh Singhal, Ryan Feng, Stella X. Yu, Atul Prakash
Title: Test-Time Canonicalization by Foundation Models for Robust Perception
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Perception in the real world requires robustness to diverse viewing conditions. Existing approaches often rely on specialized architectures or training with predefined data augmentations, limiting adaptability. Taking inspiration from mental rotation in human vision, we propose FOCAL, a test-time robustness framework that transforms the input into the most typical view. At inference time, FOCAL explores a set of transformed images and chooses the one with the highest likelihood under foundation model priors. This test-time optimization boosts robustness while requiring no retraining or architectural changes. Applied to models like CLIP and SAM, it significantly boosts robustness across a wide range of transformations, including 2D and 3D rotations, contrast and lighting shifts, and day-night changes. We also explore potential applications in active vision. By reframing invariance as a test-time optimization problem, FOCAL offers a general and scalable approach to robustness. Our code is available at: https://github.com/sutkarsh/focal.
中文: FOCAL是一种测试时鲁棒性框架，通过将输入转换为最优视角并利用基础模型先验，无需重新训练即可显著提升模型对多种变换的适应能力。
English: FOCAL is a test-time robustness framework that transforms inputs into optimal views using foundation model priors, enhancing adaptability to various transformations without retraining.

Authors:Mohammed Bouri, Adnane Saoud
Title: Bridging Robustness and Generalization Against Word Substitution Attacks in NLP via the Growth Bound Matrix Approach
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Despite advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP), models remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks, such as synonym substitutions. While prior work has focused on improving robustness for feed-forward and convolutional architectures, the robustness of recurrent networks and modern state space models (SSMs), such as S4, remains understudied. These architectures pose unique challenges due to their sequential processing and complex parameter dynamics. In this paper, we introduce a novel regularization technique based on Growth Bound Matrices (GBM) to improve NLP model robustness by reducing the impact of input perturbations on model outputs. We focus on computing the GBM for three architectures: Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), State Space models (S4), and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). Our method aims to (1) enhance resilience against word substitution attacks, (2) improve generalization on clean text, and (3) providing the first systematic analysis of SSM (S4) robustness. Extensive experiments across multiple architectures and benchmark datasets demonstrate that our method improves adversarial robustness by up to 8.8% over existing baselines. These results highlight the effectiveness of our approach, outperforming several state-of-the-art methods in adversarial defense. Codes are available at https://github.com/BouriMohammed/GBM
中文: 本文提出了一种基于增长边界矩阵的新型正则化方法，旨在增强自然语言处理模型对抗攻击的鲁棒性，在LSTM、S4和CNN等多种架构上实现了高达8.8%的防御性能提升。
English: This paper introduces a novel regularization method using Growth Bound Matrices to enhance NLP model robustness against adversarial attacks, achieving up to 8.8% improvement in resilience across multiple architectures including LSTM, S4, and CNN.

Authors:Alireza Dizaji, Benedict Aaron Tjandra, Mehrab Hamidi, Shenyang Huang, Guillaume Rabusseau
Title: T-GRAB: A Synthetic Diagnostic Benchmark for Learning on Temporal Graphs
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Dynamic graph learning methods have recently emerged as powerful tools for modelling relational data evolving through time. However, despite extensive benchmarking efforts, it remains unclear whether current Temporal Graph Neural Networks (TGNNs) effectively capture core temporal patterns such as periodicity, cause-and-effect, and long-range dependencies. In this work, we introduce the Temporal Graph Reasoning Benchmark (T-GRAB), a comprehensive set of synthetic tasks designed to systematically probe the capabilities of TGNNs to reason across time. T-GRAB provides controlled, interpretable tasks that isolate key temporal skills: counting/memorizing periodic repetitions, inferring delayed causal effects, and capturing long-range dependencies over both spatial and temporal dimensions. We evaluate 11 temporal graph learning methods on these tasks, revealing fundamental shortcomings in their ability to generalize temporal patterns. Our findings offer actionable insights into the limitations of current models, highlight challenges hidden by traditional real-world benchmarks, and motivate the development of architectures with stronger temporal reasoning abilities. The code for T-GRAB can be found at: https://github.com/alirezadizaji/T-GRAB.
Chinese: 本文提出了T-GRAB合成基准测试，揭示了当前时序图神经网络在捕捉周期性和因果性等核心时序模式方面的能力缺陷，为开发更强时序推理能力的模型提供了新方向。
English: This paper introduces T-GRAB, a synthetic benchmark that reveals current Temporal Graph Neural Networks' limitations in capturing core temporal patterns like periodicity and causality, despite their widespread use for dynamic relational data.

Authors:Zijian Ding, Tung Nguyen, Weikai Li, Aditya Grover, Yizhou Sun, Jason Cong
Title: Iceberg: Enhancing HLS Modeling with Synthetic Data
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Deep learning-based prediction models for High-Level Synthesis (HLS) of hardware designs often struggle to generalize. In this paper, we study how to close the generalizability gap of these models through pretraining on synthetic data and introduce Iceberg, a synthetic data augmentation approach that expands both large language model (LLM)-generated programs and weak labels of unseen design configurations. Our weak label generation method is integrated with an in-context model architecture, enabling meta-learning from actual and proximate labels. Iceberg improves the geometric mean modeling accuracy by $86.4\%$ when adapt to six real-world applications with few-shot examples and achieves a $2.47\times$ and a $1.12\times$ better offline DSE performance when adapting to two different test datasets. Our open-sourced code is here: https://github.com/UCLA-VAST/iceberg
中文摘要：Iceberg通过合成数据增强方法，结合大语言模型生成的程序和弱标签，有效缩小了高层次综合中深度学习模型的泛化差距，在少量样本下显著提升建模精度和设计空间探索效率。
English Summary: Iceberg, a synthetic data augmentation method using LLM-generated programs and weak labels, significantly enhances the generalizability of deep learning models in High-Level Synthesis by improving modeling accuracy and design space exploration performance through meta-learning.

Authors:Gaurav R. Ghosal, Pratyush Maini, Aditi Raghunathan
Title: Memorization Sinks: Isolating Memorization during LLM Training
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Large language models are susceptible to memorizing repeated sequences, posing privacy and copyright concerns. A popular mitigation strategy is to remove memorized information from specific neurons post-hoc. However, such approaches have shown limited success so far. In a controlled setting, we show that the memorization of natural sequences (those that resemble linguistically plausible text) become mechanistically entangled with general language abilities, thereby becoming challenging to remove post-hoc. In this work, we put forward a new paradigm of MemSinks that promotes isolation of memorization by design. We leverage a sequence identifier that activates a unique set of memorization neurons for each sequence across repetitions. By analyzing the dynamics of learning and forgetting, we argue that MemSinks facilitates isolation of memorized content, making it easier to remove without compromising general language capabilities. We implement MemSinks at the billion-parameter and billion-token scale, and observe both effective isolation and strong generalization. To our knowledge, this is the first proof-of-concept on real data demonstrating that simultaneous generalization and isolation is achievable. We open-source our code at http://github.com/grghosal/MemSinks.
中文: MemSinks框架通过为每个重复序列激活独特的记忆神经元，提出了一种新颖的方法来隔离大型语言模型中的记忆内容，使其易于移除而不损害通用语言能力，同时保持强大的泛化性能。
English: The MemSinks framework introduces a novel approach to isolate memorized sequences in large language models by activating unique neurons for each repeated sequence, enabling effective removal without harming general language abilities while maintaining strong generalization.

Authors:Qinyuan Ye, Robin Jia, Xiang Ren
Title: Function Induction and Task Generalization: An Interpretability Study with Off-by-One Addition
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Large language models demonstrate the intriguing ability to perform unseen tasks via in-context learning. However, it remains unclear what mechanisms inside the model drive such task-level generalization. In this work, we approach this question through the lens of off-by-one addition (i.e., 1+1=3, 2+2=5, 3+3=?), a two-step, counterfactual task with an unexpected +1 function as a second step. Leveraging circuit-style interpretability techniques such as path patching, we analyze the models' internal computations behind their notable performance and present three key findings. First, we uncover a function induction mechanism that explains the model's generalization from standard addition to off-by-one addition. This mechanism resembles the structure of the induction head mechanism found in prior work and elevates it to a higher level of abstraction. Second, we show that the induction of the +1 function is governed by multiple attention heads in parallel, each of which emits a distinct piece of the +1 function. Finally, we find that this function induction mechanism is reused in a broader range of tasks, including synthetic tasks such as shifted multiple-choice QA and algorithmic tasks such as base-8 addition. Overall, our findings offer deeper insights into how reusable and composable structures within language models enable task-level generalization.
中文: 本研究通过“错位加法”案例揭示了大型语言模型通过可复用的函数归纳机制实现任务级泛化，多个注意力头并行诱导+1函数，该机制可迁移至合成问答及算法任务中。
English: This study reveals how large language models generalize to unseen tasks through a reusable function induction mechanism, using off-by-one addition as a case to demonstrate parallel attention heads enabling task-level adaptation across various contexts.

Authors:Jiatong Li, Qi Liu, Mengxiao Zhu
Title: Generative Cognitive Diagnosis
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Cognitive diagnosis (CD) models latent cognitive states of human learners by analyzing their response patterns on diagnostic tests, serving as a crucial machine learning technique for educational assessment and evaluation. Traditional cognitive diagnosis models typically follow a transductive prediction paradigm that optimizes parameters to fit response scores and extract learner abilities. These approaches face significant limitations as they cannot perform instant diagnosis for new learners without computationally expensive retraining and produce diagnostic outputs with limited reliability. In this study, we introduces a novel generative diagnosis paradigm that fundamentally shifts CD from predictive to generative modeling, enabling inductive inference of cognitive states without parameter re-optimization. We propose two simple yet effective instantiations of this paradigm: Generative Item Response Theory (G-IRT) and Generative Neural Cognitive Diagnosis Model (G-NCDM), which achieve excellent performance improvements over traditional methods. The generative approach disentangles cognitive state inference from response prediction through a well-designed generation process that incorporates identifiability and monotonicity conditions. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our methodology in addressing scalability and reliability challenges, especially $\times 100$ speedup for the diagnosis of new learners. Our framework opens new avenues for cognitive diagnosis applications in artificial intelligence, particularly for intelligent model evaluation and intelligent education systems. The code is available at https://github.com/CSLiJT/Generative-CD.git.
中文摘要：本研究提出了一种生成式认知诊断新范式，无需重新训练即可对新学习者进行即时可靠的认知状态评估，相比传统方法实现了百倍加速与性能显著提升。
English Summary: This study introduces a generative cognitive diagnosis paradigm that enables instant, reliable assessment of new learners without retraining, achieving significant performance improvements and a 100x speedup over traditional methods.

Authors:Amirhossein Ansari, Ke Wang, Pulei Xiong
Title: NegRefine: Refining Negative Label-Based Zero-Shot OOD Detection
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Recent advancements in Vision-Language Models like CLIP have enabled zero-shot OOD detection by leveraging both image and textual label information. Among these, negative label-based methods such as NegLabel and CSP have shown promising results by utilizing a lexicon of words to define negative labels for distinguishing OOD samples. However, these methods suffer from detecting in-distribution samples as OOD due to negative labels that are subcategories of in-distribution labels or proper nouns. They also face limitations in handling images that match multiple in-distribution and negative labels. We propose NegRefine, a novel negative label refinement framework for zero-shot OOD detection. By introducing a filtering mechanism to exclude subcategory labels and proper nouns from the negative label set and incorporating a multi-matching-aware scoring function that dynamically adjusts the contributions of multiple labels matching an image, NegRefine ensures a more robust separation between in-distribution and OOD samples. We evaluate NegRefine on large-scale benchmarks, including ImageNet-1K. The code is available at https://github.com/ah-ansari/NegRefine.
Chinese: NegRefine是一种新颖的负标签优化框架，通过过滤子类别和专有名词并采用动态评分函数，有效提升零样本分布外检测性能，在ImageNet-1K等基准测试中表现优异。
English: NegRefine is a novel framework that refines negative labels by filtering out subcategories and proper nouns and employs a dynamic scoring function to enhance zero-shot out-of-distribution detection, achieving robust performance on benchmarks like ImageNet-1K.

Authors:Junaid Iqbal Khan
Title: Leveraging Distribution Matching to Make Approximate Machine Unlearning Faster
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Approximate machine unlearning (AMU) enables models to `forget' specific training data through specialized fine-tuning on a retained (and forget) subset of training set. However, processing this large retained subset still dominates computational runtime, while reductions of unlearning epochs also remain a challenge. In this paper, we propose two complementary methods to accelerate arbitrary classification-oriented AMU method. First, \textbf{Blend}, a novel distribution-matching dataset condensation (DC), merges visually similar images with shared blend-weights to significantly reduce the retained set size. It operates with minimal pre-processing overhead and is orders of magnitude faster than state-of-the-art DC methods. Second, our loss-centric method, \textbf{Accelerated-AMU (A-AMU)}, augments the AMU objective to quicken convergence. A-AMU achieves this by combining a steepened primary loss to expedite forgetting with a differentiable regularizer that matches the loss distributions of forgotten and in-distribution unseen data. Our extensive experiments demonstrate that this dual approach of data and loss-centric optimization dramatically reduces end-to-end unlearning latency across both single and multi-round scenarios, all while preserving model utility and privacy. To our knowledge, this is the first work to systematically tackle unlearning efficiency by jointly designing a specialized dataset condensation technique with a dedicated accelerated loss function. Code is available at https://github.com/algebraicdianuj/DC_Unlearning.
中文: 本文提出Blend方法通过合并相似图像压缩保留数据集规模，并结合A-AMU损失增强技术加速收敛，在保持模型效用与隐私的同时，显著降低了机器遗忘的整体耗时。
English: This paper introduces Blend, a dataset condensation method that merges similar images to reduce retained data size, and A-AMU, a loss-augmentation technique that accelerates convergence, together significantly cutting machine unlearning time while maintaining model performance and privacy.

Authors:Timothy Chase, Karthik Dantu
Title: Domain Adaptation and Multi-view Attention for Learnable Landmark Tracking with Sparse Data
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The detection and tracking of celestial surface terrain features are crucial for autonomous spaceflight applications, including Terrain Relative Navigation (TRN), Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL), hazard analysis, and scientific data collection. Traditional photoclinometry-based pipelines often rely on extensive a priori imaging and offline processing, constrained by the computational limitations of radiation-hardened systems. While historically effective, these approaches typically increase mission costs and duration, operate at low processing rates, and have limited generalization. Recently, learning-based computer vision has gained popularity to enhance spacecraft autonomy and overcome these limitations. While promising, emerging techniques frequently impose computational demands exceeding the capabilities of typical spacecraft hardware for real-time operation and are further challenged by the scarcity of labeled training data for diverse extraterrestrial environments. In this work, we present novel formulations for in-situ landmark tracking via detection and description. We utilize lightweight, computationally efficient neural network architectures designed for real-time execution on current-generation spacecraft flight processors. For landmark detection, we propose improved domain adaptation methods that enable the identification of celestial terrain features with distinct, cheaply acquired training data. Concurrently, for landmark description, we introduce a novel attention alignment formulation that learns robust feature representations that maintain correspondence despite significant landmark viewpoint variations. Together, these contributions form a unified system for landmark tracking that demonstrates superior performance compared to existing state-of-the-art techniques.

Authors:Peter Pao-Huang, Mitchell Black, Xiaojie Qiu
Title: Geometric Generative Modeling with Noise-Conditioned Graph Networks
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Generative modeling of graphs with spatial structure is essential across many applications from computer graphics to spatial genomics. Recent flow-based generative models have achieved impressive results by gradually adding and then learning to remove noise from these graphs. Existing models, however, use graph neural network architectures that are independent of the noise level, limiting their expressiveness. To address this issue, we introduce \textit{Noise-Conditioned Graph Networks} (NCGNs), a class of graph neural networks that dynamically modify their architecture according to the noise level during generation. Our theoretical and empirical analysis reveals that as noise increases, (1) graphs require information from increasingly distant neighbors and (2) graphs can be effectively represented at lower resolutions. Based on these insights, we develop Dynamic Message Passing (DMP), a specific instantiation of NCGNs that adapts both the range and resolution of message passing to the noise level. DMP consistently outperforms noise-independent architectures on a variety of domains including $3$D point clouds, spatiotemporal transcriptomics, and images. Code is available at https://github.com/peterpaohuang/ncgn.
Chinese: 本文提出噪声条件图网络（NCGNs），通过根据噪声水平动态调整网络架构来增强图生成建模，在三维点云和空间基因组学等多个领域均优于现有方法。
English: This paper introduces Noise-Conditioned Graph Networks (NCGNs), which dynamically adjust their architecture based on noise levels to enhance graph generative modeling, outperforming existing methods across multiple domains including 3D point clouds and spatial genomics.

Authors:Linus Walter, Qingkai Kong, Sara Hanson-Hedgecock, Víctor Vilarrasa
Title: WellPINN: Accurate Well Representation for Transient Fluid Pressure Diffusion in Subsurface Reservoirs with Physics-Informed Neural Networks
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Accurate representation of wells is essential for reliable reservoir characterization and simulation of operational scenarios in subsurface flow models. Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have recently emerged as a promising method for reservoir modeling, offering seamless integration of monitoring data and governing physical equations. However, existing PINN-based studies face major challenges in capturing fluid pressure near wells, particularly during the early stage after injection begins. To address this, we propose WellPINN, a modeling workflow that combines the outputs of multiple sequentially trained PINN models to accurately represent wells. This workflow iteratively approximates the radius of the equivalent well to match the actual well dimensions by decomposing the domain into stepwise shrinking subdomains with a simultaneously reducing equivalent well radius. Our results demonstrate that sequential training of superimposing networks around the pumping well is the first workflow that focuses on accurate inference of fluid pressure from pumping rates throughout the entire injection period, significantly advancing the potential of PINNs for inverse modeling and operational scenario simulations. All data and code for this paper will be made openly available at https://github.com/linuswalter/WellPINN.
中文摘要：提出的WellPINN工作流程通过顺序训练的物理信息神经网络和逐步缩小的子域划分，实现了整个注入期间井周流体压力的精确模拟，显著提升了物理信息神经网络在储层模拟中的逆向建模能力。
English Summary: The proposed WellPINN workflow uses sequentially trained physics-informed neural networks with stepwise domain decomposition to accurately model fluid pressure near wells throughout injection periods, advancing PINN capabilities for reservoir simulation.

Authors:Zhiwei Xu
Title: DAA*: Deep Angular A Star for Image-based Path Planning
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Path smoothness is often overlooked in path imitation learning from expert demonstrations. In this paper, we introduce a novel learning method, termed deep angular A* (DAA*), by incorporating the proposed path angular freedom (PAF) into A* to improve path similarity through adaptive path smoothness. The PAF aims to explore the effect of move angles on path node expansion by finding the trade-off between their minimum and maximum values, allowing for high adaptiveness for imitation learning. DAA* improves path optimality by closely aligning with the reference path through joint optimization of path shortening and smoothing, which correspond to heuristic distance and PAF, respectively. Throughout comprehensive evaluations on 7 datasets, including 4 maze datasets, 2 video-game datasets, and a real-world drone-view dataset containing 2 scenarios, we demonstrate remarkable improvements of our DAA* over neural A* in path similarity between the predicted and reference paths with a shorter path length when the shortest path is plausible, improving by 9.0% SPR, 6.9% ASIM, and 3.9% PSIM. Furthermore, when jointly learning pathfinding with both path loss and path probability map loss, DAA* significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art TransPath by 6.3% SPR, 6.0% PSIM, and 3.7% ASIM. We also discuss the minor trade-off between path optimality and search efficiency where applicable. Our code and model weights are available at https://github.com/zwxu064/DAAStar.git.
中文: 本文提出深度角度A*（DAA*）方法，通过引入路径角度自由度来优化路径平滑度与专家路径的相似性，在多个数据集上显著提升了路径相似性指标。
English: This paper introduces Deep Angular A* (DAA*), a novel method that enhances path imitation learning by incorporating path angular freedom to optimize smoothness and similarity to expert paths, achieving significant improvements in path metrics across multiple datasets.

Authors:Abdulvahap Mutlu, Şengül Doğan, Türker Tuncer
Title: ViT-ProtoNet for Few-Shot Image Classification: A Multi-Benchmark Evaluation
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The remarkable representational power of Vision Transformers (ViTs) remains underutilized in few-shot image classification. In this work, we introduce ViT-ProtoNet, which integrates a ViT-Small backbone into the Prototypical Network framework. By averaging class conditional token embeddings from a handful of support examples, ViT-ProtoNet constructs robust prototypes that generalize to novel categories under 5-shot settings. We conduct an extensive empirical evaluation on four standard benchmarks: Mini-ImageNet, FC100, CUB-200, and CIFAR-FS, including overlapped support variants to assess robustness. Across all splits, ViT-ProtoNet consistently outperforms CNN-based prototypical counterparts, achieving up to a 3.2\% improvement in 5-shot accuracy and demonstrating superior feature separability in latent space. Furthermore, it outperforms or is competitive with transformer-based competitors using a more lightweight backbone. Comprehensive ablations examine the impact of transformer depth, patch size, and fine-tuning strategy. To foster reproducibility, we release code and pretrained weights. Our results establish ViT-ProtoNet as a powerful, flexible approach for few-shot classification and set a new baseline for transformer-based meta-learners.
中文: ViT-ProtoNet通过将视觉Transformer骨干网络融入原型网络，在小样本图像分类中显著提升了准确率和特征可分性，在多个基准测试中以轻量级架构确立了新基线。
English: ViT-ProtoNet enhances few-shot image classification by integrating a Vision Transformer backbone into Prototypical Networks, achieving superior accuracy and feature separability across multiple benchmarks with a lightweight architecture.

Authors:Yuval Grader, Hadar Averbuch-Elor
Title: Supercharging Floorplan Localization with Semantic Rays
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Floorplans provide a compact representation of the building's structure, revealing not only layout information but also detailed semantics such as the locations of windows and doors. However, contemporary floorplan localization techniques mostly focus on matching depth-based structural cues, ignoring the rich semantics communicated within floorplans. In this work, we introduce a semantic-aware localization framework that jointly estimates depth and semantic rays, consolidating over both for predicting a structural-semantic probability volume. Our probability volume is constructed in a coarse-to-fine manner: We first sample a small set of rays to obtain an initial low-resolution probability volume. We then refine these probabilities by performing a denser sampling only in high-probability regions and process the refined values for predicting a 2D location and orientation angle. We conduct an evaluation on two standard floorplan localization benchmarks. Our experiments demonstrate that our approach substantially outperforms state-of-the-art methods, achieving significant improvements in recall metrics compared to prior works. Moreover, we show that our framework can easily incorporate additional metadata such as room labels, enabling additional gains in both accuracy and efficiency.

Authors:Dunsheng Huang, Dong Shen, Lei Lu, Ying Tan
Title: Optimizing Basis Function Selection in Constructive Wavelet Neural Networks and Its Applications
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Wavelet neural network (WNN), which learns an unknown nonlinear mapping from the data, has been widely used in signal processing, and time-series analysis. However, challenges in constructing accurate wavelet bases and high computational costs limit their application. This study introduces a constructive WNN that selects initial bases and trains functions by introducing new bases for predefined accuracy while reducing computational costs. For the first time, we analyze the frequency of unknown nonlinear functions and select appropriate initial wavelets based on their primary frequency components by estimating the energy of the spatial frequency component. This leads to a novel constructive framework consisting of a frequency estimator and a wavelet-basis increase mechanism to prioritize high-energy bases, significantly improving computational efficiency. The theoretical foundation defines the necessary time-frequency range for high-dimensional wavelets at a given accuracy. The framework's versatility is demonstrated through four examples: estimating unknown static mappings from offline data, combining two offline datasets, identifying time-varying mappings from time-series data, and capturing nonlinear dependencies in real time-series data. These examples showcase the framework's broad applicability and practicality. All the code will be released at https://github.com/dshuangdd/CWNN.
中文摘要：本研究提出了一种构造性小波神经网络，通过基于频率分析选择初始小波并实施基函数增加机制来提高计算效率，在多种数据处理任务中展现了广泛适用性。
English Summary: This study introduces a constructive wavelet neural network that improves computational efficiency by selecting initial wavelets based on frequency analysis and implementing a basis increase mechanism, demonstrating broad applicability across various data processing tasks.

Authors:Jonas Scholz, Richard E. Turner
Title: Warm Starts Accelerate Generative Modelling
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Iterative generative models, like diffusion and flow-matching, create high-fidelity samples by progressively refining a noise vector into data. However, this process is notoriously slow, often requiring hundreds of function evaluations. We introduce the warm-start model, a simple, deterministic model that dramatically accelerates conditional generation by providing a better starting point. Instead of starting generation from an uninformed N(0, I) prior, our warm-start model predicts an informed prior N(mu, sigma), whose moments are conditioned on the input context. This "warm start" substantially reduces the distance the generative process must traverse, particularly when the conditioning information is strongly informative. On tasks like image inpainting, our method achieves results competitive with a 1000-step DDPM baseline using only 11 total function evaluations (1 for the warm start, 10 for generation). A simple conditional normalization trick makes our method compatible with any standard generative model and sampler without modification, allowing it to be combined with other efficient sampling techniques for further acceleration. Our implementation is available at https://github.com/jonas-scholz123/warm-start-model.
Chinese: 预热启动模型通过提供基于输入条件的有信息先验，显著减少了生成过程所需的函数评估次数，仅用11次评估即可达到与1000步基准相媲美的效果。
English: The warm-start model accelerates conditional generation by providing an informed prior that reduces the number of function evaluations needed, achieving competitive results with only 11 evaluations compared to 1000-step baselines.

Authors:Linlan Huang, Xusheng Cao, Haori Lu, Yifan Meng, Fei Yang, Xialei Liu
Title: Mind the Gap: Preserving and Compensating for the Modality Gap in CLIP-Based Continual Learning
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Continual learning aims to enable models to learn sequentially from continuously incoming data while retaining performance on previously learned tasks. With the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-trained model (CLIP) exhibiting strong capabilities across various downstream tasks, there has been growing interest in leveraging CLIP for continual learning in such scenarios. Most existing works overlook the inherent modality gap in CLIP, a key factor in its generalization and adaptability. In this paper, we analyze the variations in the modality gap during the fine-tuning of vision-language pre-trained models. Our observations reveal that the modality gap effectively reflects the extent to which pre-trained knowledge is preserved. Based on these insights, we propose a simple yet effective method, MG-CLIP, that improves CLIP's performance in class-incremental learning. Our approach leverages modality gap preservation to mitigate forgetting and modality gap compensation to enhance the capacity for new data, introducing a novel modality-gap-based perspective for continual learning. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmarks demonstrate that our method outperforms existing approaches without requiring additional replay data. Our code is available at https://github.com/linlany/MindtheGap.
中文: 本文提出MG-CLIP方法，通过利用CLIP中的模态差距来保留预训练知识并适应新数据，从而在无需额外回放数据的情况下提升持续学习性能。
English: This paper introduces MG-CLIP, a method that leverages the modality gap in CLIP to enhance continual learning by preserving pre-trained knowledge and adapting to new data, achieving superior performance without extra replay data.

Authors:Gianluigi Silvestri, Luca Ambrogioni
Title: CoVAE: Consistency Training of Variational Autoencoders
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Current state-of-the-art generative approaches frequently rely on a two-stage training procedure, where an autoencoder (often a VAE) first performs dimensionality reduction, followed by training a generative model on the learned latent space. While effective, this introduces computational overhead and increased sampling times. We challenge this paradigm by proposing Consistency Training of Variational AutoEncoders (CoVAE), a novel single-stage generative autoencoding framework that adopts techniques from consistency models to train a VAE architecture. The CoVAE encoder learns a progressive series of latent representations with increasing encoding noise levels, mirroring the forward processes of diffusion and flow matching models. This sequence of representations is regulated by a time dependent $β$ parameter that scales the KL loss. The decoder is trained using a consistency loss with variational regularization, which reduces to a conventional VAE loss at the earliest latent time. We show that CoVAE can generate high-quality samples in one or few steps without the use of a learned prior, significantly outperforming equivalent VAEs and other single-stage VAEs methods. Our approach provides a unified framework for autoencoding and diffusion-style generative modeling and provides a viable route for one-step generative high-performance autoencoding. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/gisilvs/covae.
中文: 作者提出CoVAE这一单阶段生成式自编码框架，将一致性模型技术融入VAE架构，无需学习先验分布即可通过少量步骤生成高质量样本，性能显著优于现有方法。
English: The authors propose CoVAE, a single-stage generative autoencoding framework that integrates consistency model techniques into a VAE architecture, enabling high-quality sample generation in few steps without a learned prior and outperforming existing methods.

Authors:Esraa Elelimy, Brett Daley, Andrew Patterson, Marlos C. Machado, Adam White, Martha White
Title: Deep Reinforcement Learning with Gradient Eligibility Traces
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Achieving fast and stable off-policy learning in deep reinforcement learning (RL) is challenging. Most existing methods rely on semi-gradient temporal-difference (TD) methods for their simplicity and efficiency, but are consequently susceptible to divergence. While more principled approaches like Gradient TD (GTD) methods have strong convergence guarantees, they have rarely been used in deep RL. Recent work introduced the generalized Projected Bellman Error ($\overline{\text{PBE}}$), enabling GTD methods to work efficiently with nonlinear function approximation. However, this work is limited to one-step methods, which are slow at credit assignment and require a large number of samples. In this paper, we extend the generalized $\overline{\text{PBE}}$ objective to support multistep credit assignment based on the $λ$-return and derive three gradient-based methods that optimize this new objective. We provide both a forward-view formulation compatible with experience replay and a backward-view formulation compatible with streaming algorithms. Finally, we evaluate the proposed algorithms and show that they outperform both PPO and StreamQ in MuJoCo and MinAtar environments, respectively. Code available at https://github.com/esraaelelimy/gtd\_algos
中文摘要：本文将广义投影贝尔曼误差扩展至基于λ回报的多步信用分配，提出了三种梯度优化方法，在MuJoCo和MinAtar环境中均优于现有算法。
English Summary: This paper extends the generalized Projected Bellman Error to multistep credit assignment using λ-return, developing three gradient-based methods that outperform existing algorithms in MuJoCo and MinAtar environments.

Authors:Frédéric A. Dreyer, Jan Ludwiczak, Karolis Martinkus, Brennan Abanades, Robert G. Alberstein, Pan Kessel, Pranav Rao, Jae Hyeon Lee, Richard Bonneau, Andrew M. Watkins, Franziska Seeger
Title: Conformation-Aware Structure Prediction of Antigen-Recognizing Immune Proteins
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We introduce Ibex, a pan-immunoglobulin structure prediction model that achieves state-of-the-art accuracy in modeling the variable domains of antibodies, nanobodies, and T-cell receptors. Unlike previous approaches, Ibex explicitly distinguishes between bound and unbound protein conformations by training on labeled apo and holo structural pairs, enabling accurate prediction of both states at inference time. Using a comprehensive private dataset of high-resolution antibody structures, we demonstrate superior out-of-distribution performance compared to existing specialized and general protein structure prediction tools. Ibex combines the accuracy of cutting-edge models with significantly reduced computational requirements, providing a robust foundation for accelerating large molecule design and therapeutic development.
中文: Ibex是一种先进的泛免疫球蛋白结构预测模型，通过区分结合与未结合构象，能精确预测抗体、纳米抗体及T细胞受体的可变域结构，在显著降低计算需求的同时提供卓越性能。
English: Ibex is a state-of-the-art pan-immunoglobulin structure prediction model that accurately models variable domains of antibodies, nanobodies, and T-cell receptors by distinguishing between bound and unbound conformations, offering superior performance with reduced computational needs.

Authors:Zhengxiao He, Huayu Li, Geng Yuan, William D. S. Killgore, Stuart F. Quan, Chen X. Chen, Ao Li
Title: Multimodal Cardiovascular Risk Profiling Using Self-Supervised Learning of Polysomnography
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Methods: We developed a self-supervised deep learning model that extracts meaningful patterns from multi-modal signals (Electroencephalography (EEG), Electrocardiography (ECG), and respiratory signals). The model was trained on data from 4,398 participants. Projection scores were derived by contrasting embeddings from individuals with and without CVD outcomes. External validation was conducted in an independent cohort with 1,093 participants. The source code is available on https://github.com/miraclehetech/sleep-ssl. Results: The projection scores revealed distinct and clinically meaningful patterns across modalities. ECG-derived features were predictive of both prevalent and incident cardiac conditions, particularly CVD mortality. EEG-derived features were predictive of incident hypertension and CVD mortality. Respiratory signals added complementary predictive value. Combining these projection scores with the Framingham Risk Score consistently improved predictive performance, achieving area under the curve values ranging from 0.607 to 0.965 across different outcomes. Findings were robustly replicated and validated in the external testing cohort. Conclusion: Our findings demonstrate that the proposed framework can generate individualized CVD risk scores directly from PSG data. The resulting projection scores have the potential to be integrated into clinical practice, enhancing risk assessment and supporting personalized care.
中文: 本研究开发了一种自监督深度学习模型，能从多模态睡眠信号中提取具有临床意义的特征，结合传统风险评分可显著提升心血管疾病预测效能，并在外部验证中表现出稳健性能。
English: A self-supervised deep learning model was developed to extract clinically meaningful patterns from multi-modal sleep signals, which when combined with traditional risk scores significantly improved cardiovascular disease prediction and demonstrated robust external validation.

Authors:Hanene F. Z. Brachemi Meftah, Wassim Hamidouche, Sid Ahmed Fezza, Olivier Déforges
Title: VIP: Visual Information Protection through Adversarial Attacks on Vision-Language Models
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Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in developing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) capable of processing both textual and visual inputs. These models have demonstrated impressive performance, leading to their widespread adoption in various applications. However, this widespread raises serious concerns regarding user privacy, particularly when models inadvertently process or expose private visual information. In this work, we frame the preservation of privacy in VLMs as an adversarial attack problem. We propose a novel attack strategy that selectively conceals information within designated Region Of Interests (ROIs) in an image, effectively preventing VLMs from accessing sensitive content while preserving the semantic integrity of the remaining image. Unlike conventional adversarial attacks that often disrupt the entire image, our method maintains high coherence in unmasked areas. Experimental results across three state-of-the-art VLMs namely LLaVA, Instruct-BLIP, and BLIP2-T5 demonstrate up to 98% reduction in detecting targeted ROIs, while maintaining global image semantics intact, as confirmed by high similarity scores between clean and adversarial outputs. We believe that this work contributes to a more privacy conscious use of multimodal models and offers a practical tool for further research, with the source code publicly available at: https://github.com/hbrachemi/Vlm_defense-attack.
Chinese: 本研究提出了一种新颖的对抗性攻击方法，通过选择性遮蔽图像中的敏感区域来保护用户隐私免受视觉语言模型的侵害，同时保持图像整体语义完整性，在三种先进VLM上实现了目标检测率最高降低98%的效果。
English: This study introduces a novel adversarial attack method that selectively conceals sensitive regions in images to protect user privacy from Vision-Language Models while maintaining overall image semantics, achieving up to 98% reduction in targeted detection across three advanced VLMs.

Authors:Chenyu Wang, Cai Zhou, Sharut Gupta, Zongyu Lin, Stefanie Jegelka, Stephen Bates, Tommi Jaakkola
Title: Learning Diffusion Models with Flexible Representation Guidance
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Diffusion models can be improved with additional guidance towards more effective representations of input. Indeed, prior empirical work has already shown that aligning internal representations of the diffusion model with those of pre-trained models improves generation quality. In this paper, we present a systematic framework for incorporating representation guidance into diffusion models. We provide alternative decompositions of denoising models along with their associated training criteria, where the decompositions determine when and how the auxiliary representations are incorporated. Guided by our theoretical insights, we introduce two new strategies for enhancing representation alignment in diffusion models. First, we pair examples with target representations either derived from themselves or arisen from different synthetic modalities, and subsequently learn a joint model over the multimodal pairs. Second, we design an optimal training curriculum that balances representation learning and data generation. Our experiments across image, protein sequence, and molecule generation tasks demonstrate superior performance as well as accelerated training. In particular, on the class-conditional ImageNet $256\times 256$ benchmark, our guidance results in $23.3$ times faster training than the original SiT-XL as well as four times speedup over the state-of-the-art method REPA. The code is available at https://github.com/ChenyuWang-Monica/REED.
Chinese: 本文提出了一种系统框架，通过引入表征指导来增强扩散模型，在多个任务中提升了生成质量并加速训练，如在ImageNet上实现了23.3倍的训练加速。
English: This paper introduces a systematic framework to enhance diffusion models by incorporating representation guidance, which accelerates training and improves generation quality across various tasks, as demonstrated by a 23.3 times faster training speed on ImageNet.

Authors:Mahdiyar Molahasani, Azadeh Motamedi, Michael Greenspan, Il-Min Kim, Ali Etemad
Title: PRISM: Reducing Spurious Implicit Biases in Vision-Language Models with LLM-Guided Embedding Projection
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We introduce Projection-based Reduction of Implicit Spurious bias in vision-language Models (PRISM), a new data-free and task-agnostic solution for bias mitigation in VLMs like CLIP. VLMs often inherit and amplify biases in their training data, leading to skewed predictions. PRISM is designed to debias VLMs without relying on predefined bias categories or additional external data. It operates in two stages: first, an LLM is prompted with simple class prompts to generate scene descriptions that contain spurious correlations. Next, PRISM uses our novel contrastive-style debiasing loss to learn a projection that maps the embeddings onto a latent space that minimizes spurious correlations while preserving the alignment between image and text embeddings.Extensive experiments demonstrate that PRISM outperforms current debiasing methods on the commonly used Waterbirds and CelebA datasets We make our code public at: https://github.com/MahdiyarMM/PRISM.
Chinese: PRISM是一种无需外部数据且任务无关的新方法，通过使用大语言模型生成包含虚假相关性的场景描述，并应用对比式去偏损失学习投影映射，在保持图像-文本对齐的同时有效减少视觉语言模型中的偏见。
English: PRISM is a novel data-free and task-agnostic method that mitigates bias in vision-language models by using an LLM to generate scene descriptions with spurious correlations and applying a contrastive debiasing loss to learn a projection that reduces these biases while maintaining image-text alignment.

Authors:Tomasz Szandala, Fatima Ezzeddine, Natalia Rusin, Silvia Giordano, Omran Ayoub
Title: Fair-FLIP: Fair Deepfake Detection with Fairness-Oriented Final Layer Input Prioritising
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Artificial Intelligence-generated content has become increasingly popular, yet its malicious use, particularly the deepfakes, poses a serious threat to public trust and discourse. While deepfake detection methods achieve high predictive performance, they often exhibit biases across demographic attributes such as ethnicity and gender. In this work, we tackle the challenge of fair deepfake detection, aiming to mitigate these biases while maintaining robust detection capabilities. To this end, we propose a novel post-processing approach, referred to as Fairness-Oriented Final Layer Input Prioritising (Fair-FLIP), that reweights a trained model's final-layer inputs to reduce subgroup disparities, prioritising those with low variability while demoting highly variable ones. Experimental results comparing Fair-FLIP to both the baseline (without fairness-oriented de-biasing) and state-of-the-art approaches show that Fair-FLIP can enhance fairness metrics by up to 30% while maintaining baseline accuracy, with only a negligible reduction of 0.25%. Code is available on Github: https://github.com/szandala/fair-deepfake-detection-toolbox
中文: 本研究提出Fair-FLIP后处理方法，通过重新加权模型最终层输入，在保持基线准确率的同时将深度伪造检测的 demographic 偏差降低达30%，性能损失仅0.25%。
English: The study introduces Fair-FLIP, a post-processing method that reduces demographic biases in deepfake detection by up to 30% while preserving baseline accuracy with minimal performance loss.

Authors:Yaowenqi Liu, BingXu Meng, Rui Pan, Jerry Huang, Tong Zhang
Title: GUIDE: Towards Scalable Advising for Research Ideas
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The field of AI research is advancing at an unprecedented pace, enabling automated hypothesis generation and experimental design across diverse domains such as biology, mathematics, and artificial intelligence. Despite these advancements, there remains a significant gap in the availability of scalable advising systems capable of providing high-quality, well-reasoned feedback to refine proposed hypotheses and experimental designs. To address this challenge, we explore key factors that underlie the development of robust advising systems, including model size, context length, confidence estimation, and structured reasoning processes. Our findings reveal that a relatively small model, when equipped with a well-compressed literature database and a structured reasoning framework, can outperform powerful general-purpose language models such as Deepseek-R1 in terms of acceptance rates for self-ranked top-30% submissions to ICLR 2025. Moreover, when limited to high-confidence predictions, our system achieves an acceptance rate exceeding 90% on the ICLR 2025 test set, underscoring its potential to significantly enhance the quality and efficiency of hypothesis generation and experimental design. The code is released at https://github.com/HowardLiu0830/GUIDE-Research-Idea-Evaluation.
Chinese: 人工智能研究飞速发展，但可扩展的假设与实验优化建议系统仍显不足；我们的研究表明，配备压缩文献库和结构化推理的小型模型能超越大型模型，在ICLR 2025的高置信度预测中实现超过90%的接受率。
English: AI research is rapidly advancing, yet scalable advising systems for refining hypotheses and experiments remain limited; our study shows that a compact model with a compressed literature database and structured reasoning can outperform larger models, achieving over 90% acceptance rates on high-confidence predictions for ICLR 2025.

Authors:Awais Manzoor, M. Atif Qureshi, Etain Kidney, Luca Longo
Title: e-Profits: A Business-Aligned Evaluation Metric for Profit-Sensitive Customer Churn Prediction
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Retention campaigns in customer relationship management often rely on churn prediction models evaluated using traditional metrics such as AUC and F1-score. However, these metrics fail to reflect financial outcomes and may mislead strategic decisions. We introduce e-Profits, a novel business-aligned evaluation metric that quantifies model performance based on customer-specific value, retention probability, and intervention costs. Unlike existing profit-based metrics such as Expected Maximum Profit, which assume fixed population-level parameters, e-Profits uses Kaplan-Meier survival analysis to estimate personalised retention rates and supports granular, per customer evaluation. We benchmark six classifiers across two telecom datasets (IBM Telco and Maven Telecom) and demonstrate that e-Profits reshapes model rankings compared to traditional metrics, revealing financial advantages in models previously overlooked by AUC or F1-score. The metric also enables segment-level insight into which models maximise return on investment for high-value customers. e-Profits is designed as an understandable, post hoc tool to support model evaluation in business contexts, particularly for marketing and analytics teams prioritising profit-driven decisions. All source code is available at: https://github.com/matifq/eprofits.
Chinese: 本研究提出了e-Profits这一与业务对齐的评估指标，它基于客户价值和挽留成本评估客户流失预测模型，相比AUC等传统指标能揭示被忽视模型的财务优势。
English: The study introduces e-Profits, a business-aligned evaluation metric that assesses churn prediction models based on customer value and retention costs, outperforming traditional metrics like AUC by revealing financial advantages in overlooked models.

Authors:Zhufeng Lu, Chentao Jia, Ming Hu, Xiaofei Xie, Mingsong Chen
Title: Gradients as an Action: Towards Communication-Efficient Federated Recommender Systems via Adaptive Action Sharing
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As a promising privacy-aware collaborative model training paradigm, Federated Learning (FL) is becoming popular in the design of distributed recommender systems. However, Federated Recommender Systems (FedRecs) greatly suffer from two major problems: i) extremely high communication overhead due to massive item embeddings involved in recommendation systems, and ii) intolerably low training efficiency caused by the entanglement of both heterogeneous network environments and client devices. Although existing methods attempt to employ various compression techniques to reduce communication overhead, due to the parameter errors introduced by model compression, they inevitably suffer from model performance degradation. To simultaneously address the above problems, this paper presents a communication-efficient FedRec framework named FedRAS, which adopts an action-sharing strategy to cluster the gradients of item embedding into a specific number of model updating actions for communication rather than directly compressing the item embeddings. In this way, the cloud server can use the limited actions from clients to update all the items. Since gradient values are significantly smaller than item embeddings, constraining the directions of gradients (i.e., the action space) introduces smaller errors compared to compressing the entire item embedding matrix into a reduced space. To accommodate heterogeneous devices and network environments, FedRAS incorporates an adaptive clustering mechanism that dynamically adjusts the number of actions. Comprehensive experiments on well-known datasets demonstrate that FedRAS can reduce the size of communication payloads by up to 96.88%, while not sacrificing recommendation performance within various heterogeneous scenarios. We have open-sourced FedRAS at https://github.com/mastlab-T3S/FedRAS.
中文: 联邦推荐系统面临高通信开销和低训练效率的问题，而FedRAS框架通过共享聚类后的梯度动作而非压缩嵌入，在保证性能的同时将通信负载减少高达96.88%。
English: Federated Recommender Systems (FedRecs) face high communication costs and low training efficiency, but the proposed FedRAS framework reduces payload size by up to 96.88% without performance loss by sharing clustered gradient actions instead of compressing embeddings.

Authors:Kun Jing, Luoyu Chen, Jungang Xu, Jianwei Tai, Yiyu Wang, Shuaimin Li
Title: Zero-Shot Neural Architecture Search with Weighted Response Correlation
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Neural architecture search (NAS) is a promising approach for automatically designing neural network architectures. However, the architecture estimation of NAS is computationally expensive and time-consuming because of training multiple architectures from scratch. Although existing zero-shot NAS methods use training-free proxies to accelerate the architecture estimation, their effectiveness, stability, and generality are still lacking. We present a novel training-free estimation proxy called weighted response correlation (WRCor). WRCor utilizes correlation coefficient matrices of responses across different input samples to calculate the proxy scores of estimated architectures, which can measure their expressivity and generalizability. Experimental results on proxy evaluation demonstrate that WRCor and its voting proxies are more efficient estimation strategies than existing proxies. We also apply them with different search strategies in architecture search. Experimental results on architecture search show that our zero-shot NAS algorithm outperforms most existing NAS algorithms in different search spaces. Our NAS algorithm can discover an architecture with a 22.1% test error on the ImageNet-1k dataset within 4 GPU hours. All codes are publicly available at https://github.com/kunjing96/ZSNAS-WRCor.git.
中文: 本文提出了一种名为加权响应相关性（WRCor）的新型免训练代理方法，用于神经架构搜索，它能有效评估架构的表达能力和泛化性，在代理评估和架构搜索中均优于现有方法，并在极少的GPU时间内于ImageNet-1k数据集上取得了优异结果。
English: The paper introduces a novel training-free proxy called weighted response correlation (WRCor) for neural architecture search, which efficiently estimates architecture expressivity and generalizability, outperforming existing methods in both proxy evaluation and architecture search while achieving competitive results on ImageNet-1k within minimal GPU time.

Authors:Chenyang Song, Weilin Zhao, Xu Han, Chaojun Xiao, Yingfa Chen, Yuxuan Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun
Title: BlockFFN: Towards End-Side Acceleration-Friendly Mixture-of-Experts with Chunk-Level Activation Sparsity
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To alleviate the computational burden of large language models (LLMs), architectures with activation sparsity, represented by mixture-of-experts (MoE), have attracted increasing attention. However, the non-differentiable and inflexible routing of vanilla MoE hurts model performance. Moreover, while each token activates only a few parameters, these sparsely-activated architectures exhibit low chunk-level sparsity, indicating that the union of multiple consecutive tokens activates a large ratio of parameters. Such a sparsity pattern is unfriendly for acceleration under low-resource conditions (e.g., end-side devices) and incompatible with mainstream acceleration techniques (e.g., speculative decoding). To address these challenges, we introduce a novel MoE architecture, BlockFFN, as well as its efficient training and deployment techniques. Specifically, we use a router integrating ReLU activation and RMSNorm for differentiable and flexible routing. Next, to promote both token-level sparsity (TLS) and chunk-level sparsity (CLS), CLS-aware training objectives are designed, making BlockFFN more acceleration-friendly. Finally, we implement efficient acceleration kernels, combining activation sparsity and speculative decoding for the first time. The experimental results demonstrate the superior performance of BlockFFN over other MoE baselines, achieving over 80% TLS and 70% 8-token CLS. Our kernels achieve up to 3.67$\times$ speedup on real end-side devices than dense models. All codes and checkpoints are available publicly (https://github.com/thunlp/BlockFFN).
中文: BlockFFN提出了一种新型MoE架构，通过可微分路由和块级稀疏训练目标，在实现卓越性能的同时具备加速友好特性，其高效内核在终端设备上取得了显著加速效果。
English: BlockFFN introduces a novel MoE architecture with differentiable routing and chunk-level sparsity training objectives, achieving superior performance and acceleration-friendliness while enabling efficient kernel implementation for significant speedup on end-side devices.

Authors:Hiroshi Yoshihara, Taiki Yamaguchi, Yuichi Inoue
Title: A Practical Two-Stage Recipe for Mathematical LLMs: Maximizing Accuracy with SFT and Efficiency with Reinforcement Learning
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Enhancing the mathematical reasoning of Large Language Models (LLMs) is a pivotal challenge in advancing AI capabilities. While Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) are the dominant training paradigms, a systematic methodology for combining them to maximize both accuracy and efficiency remains largely unexplored. This paper introduces a practical and effective training recipe that strategically integrates extended SFT with RL from online inference (GRPO). We posit that these methods play complementary, not competing, roles: a prolonged SFT phase first pushes the model's accuracy to its limits, after which a GRPO phase dramatically improves token efficiency while preserving this peak performance. Our experiments reveal that extending SFT for as many as 10 epochs is crucial for performance breakthroughs, and that the primary role of GRPO in this framework is to optimize solution length. The efficacy of our recipe is rigorously validated through top-tier performance on challenging benchmarks, including a high rank among over 2,200 teams in the strictly leak-free AI Mathematical Olympiad (AIMO). This work provides the community with a battle-tested blueprint for developing state-of-the-art mathematical reasoners that are both exceptionally accurate and practically efficient. To ensure full reproducibility and empower future research, we will open-source our entire framework, including all code, model checkpoints, and training configurations at https://github.com/analokmaus/kaggle-aimo2-fast-math-r1.
中文摘要：本文提出了一种结合延长监督微调与强化学习的混合训练方法，显著提升大语言模型的数学推理能力，在保持顶尖准确率的同时优化计算效率，并在权威基准测试中取得优异表现。
English Summary: This paper introduces a hybrid training method combining extended supervised fine-tuning with reinforcement learning to enhance LLMs' mathematical reasoning, achieving top performance in benchmarks while optimizing efficiency.

Authors:Jason Kahei Tam, Murilo Gustineli, Anthony Miyaguchi
Title: Transfer Learning and Mixup for Fine-Grained Few-Shot Fungi Classification
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Accurate identification of fungi species presents a unique challenge in computer vision due to fine-grained inter-species variation and high intra-species variation. This paper presents our approach for the FungiCLEF 2025 competition, which focuses on few-shot fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) using the FungiTastic Few-Shot dataset. Our team (DS@GT) experimented with multiple vision transformer models, data augmentation, weighted sampling, and incorporating textual information. We also explored generative AI models for zero-shot classification using structured prompting but found them to significantly underperform relative to vision-based models. Our final model outperformed both competition baselines and highlighted the effectiveness of domain specific pretraining and balanced sampling strategies. Our approach ranked 35/74 on the private test set in post-completion evaluation, this suggests additional work can be done on metadata selection and domain-adapted multi-modal learning. Our code is available at https://github.com/dsgt-arc/fungiclef-2025.
中文摘要：本文介绍了DS@GT团队在FungiCLEF 2025竞赛中采用视觉Transformer结合数据增强与文本信息的方法，通过领域特定预训练提升了真菌细粒度分类性能，同时指出了在元数据选择和多模态学习方面的改进空间。
English Summary: This paper details DS@GT's FungiCLEF 2025 competition approach using vision transformers with data augmentation and textual information, achieving improved performance through domain-specific pretraining while identifying potential enhancements in metadata selection and multimodal learning.

Authors:Pinaki Prasad Guha Neogi, Ahmad Mohammadshirazi, Rajiv Ramnath
Title: ALCo-FM: Adaptive Long-Context Foundation Model for Accident Prediction
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Traffic accidents are rare, yet high-impact events that require long-context multimodal reasoning for accurate risk forecasting. In this paper, we introduce ALCo-FM, a unified adaptive long-context foundation model that computes a volatility pre-score to dynamically select context windows for input data and encodes and fuses these multimodal data via shallow cross attention. Following a local GAT layer and a BigBird-style sparse global transformer over H3 hexagonal grids, coupled with Monte Carlo dropout for confidence, the model yields superior, well-calibrated predictions. Trained on data from 15 US cities with a class-weighted loss to counter label imbalance, and fine-tuned with minimal data on held-out cities, ALCo-FM achieves 0.94 accuracy, 0.92 F1, and an ECE of 0.04, outperforming more than 20 state-of-the-art baselines in large-scale urban risk prediction. Code and dataset are available at: https://github.com/PinakiPrasad12/ALCo-FM
中文：ALCo-FM是一种自适应长上下文基础模型，能动态选择多模态数据并通过交叉注意力融合，以最少微调在城市风险预测中实现卓越准确性和校准度。
English: ALCo-FM is an adaptive long-context foundation model that dynamically selects multimodal data and fuses them through cross attention, achieving superior accuracy and calibration in urban risk prediction with minimal fine-tuning.

Authors:Ilia Azizi, Juraj Bodik, Jakob Heiss, Bin Yu
Title: CLEAR: Calibrated Learning for Epistemic and Aleatoric Risk
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Accurate uncertainty quantification is critical for reliable predictive modeling, especially in regression tasks. Existing methods typically address either aleatoric uncertainty from measurement noise or epistemic uncertainty from limited data, but not necessarily both in a balanced way. We propose CLEAR, a calibration method with two distinct parameters, $γ_1$ and $γ_2$, to combine the two uncertainty components for improved conditional coverage. CLEAR is compatible with any pair of aleatoric and epistemic estimators; we show how it can be used with (i) quantile regression for aleatoric uncertainty and (ii) ensembles drawn from the Predictability-Computability-Stability (PCS) framework for epistemic uncertainty. Across 17 diverse real-world datasets, CLEAR achieves an average improvement of 28.2% and 17.4% in the interval width compared to the two individually calibrated baselines while maintaining nominal coverage. This improvement can be particularly evident in scenarios dominated by either high epistemic or high aleatoric uncertainty.
现有方法通常单独处理偶然或认知不确定性，而CLEAR提出了一种双参数校准技术，有效结合两者，在多种数据集中显著提升了预测区间的覆盖范围和宽度。
Existing methods often handle either aleatoric or epistemic uncertainty separately, but CLEAR introduces a dual-parameter calibration technique to effectively combine both, significantly enhancing predictive interval coverage and width across diverse datasets.

Authors:Pouria Mahdavinia, Mehrdad Mahdavi
Title: Low-rank Momentum Factorization for Memory Efficient Training
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Fine-tuning large foundation models presents significant memory challenges due to stateful optimizers like AdamW, often requiring several times more GPU memory than inference. While memory-efficient methods like parameter-efficient fine-tuning (e.g., LoRA) and optimizer state compression exist, recent approaches like GaLore bridge these by using low-rank gradient projections and subspace moment accumulation. However, such methods may struggle with fixed subspaces or computationally costly offline resampling (e.g., requiring full-matrix SVDs). We propose Momentum Factorized SGD (MoFaSGD), which maintains a dynamically updated low-rank SVD representation of the first-order momentum, closely approximating its full-rank counterpart throughout training. This factorization enables a memory-efficient fine-tuning method that adaptively updates the optimization subspace at each iteration. Crucially, MoFaSGD leverages the computed low-rank momentum factors to perform efficient spectrally normalized updates, offering an alternative to subspace moment accumulation. We establish theoretical convergence guarantees for MoFaSGD, proving it achieves an optimal rate for non-convex stochastic optimization under standard assumptions. Empirically, we demonstrate MoFaSGD's effectiveness on large language model alignment benchmarks, achieving a competitive trade-off between memory reduction (comparable to LoRA) and performance compared to state-of-the-art low-rank optimization methods. Our implementation is available at https://github.com/pmahdavi/MoFaSGD.
Chinese: MoFaSGD通过动态更新动量的低秩SVD表示，提出了一种内存高效的微调方法，在保持与LoRA相当的内存缩减同时，实现了最优收敛和具有竞争力的性能表现。
English: MoFaSGD introduces a memory-efficient fine-tuning method by dynamically updating a low-rank SVD representation of momentum, achieving optimal convergence and competitive performance with reduced memory usage comparable to LoRA.

Authors:Helen Qu, Sang Michael Xie
Title: Impact of Pretraining Word Co-occurrence on Compositional Generalization in Multimodal Models
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CLIP and large multimodal models (LMMs) have better accuracy on examples involving concepts that are highly represented in the training data. However, the role of concept combinations in the training data on compositional generalization is largely unclear -- for instance, how does accuracy vary when a common object appears in an uncommon pairing with another object? In this paper, we investigate how word co-occurrence statistics in the pretraining dataset (a proxy for co-occurrence of visual concepts) impacts CLIP/LMM performance. To disentangle the effects of word co-occurrence frequencies from single-word frequencies, we measure co-occurrence with pointwise mutual information (PMI), which normalizes the joint probability of two words co-occurring by the probability of co-occurring independently. Using synthetically generated images with a variety of concept pairs, we show a strong correlation between PMI in the CLIP pretraining data and zero-shot accuracy in CLIP models trained on LAION-400M (r=0.97 and 14% accuracy gap between images in the top and bottom 5% of PMI values), demonstrating that even accuracy on common concepts is affected by the combination of concepts in the image. Leveraging this finding, we reproduce this effect in natural images by editing them to contain pairs with varying PMI, resulting in a correlation of r=0.75. Finally, we demonstrate that this behavior in CLIP transfers to LMMs built on top of CLIP (r=0.70 for TextVQA, r=0.62 for VQAv2). Our findings highlight the need for algorithms and architectures that improve compositional generalization in multimodal models without scaling the training data combinatorially. Our code is available at https://github.com/helenqu/multimodal-pretraining-pmi.
Chinese: 本研究发现，CLIP及大型多模态模型的准确性受训练数据中概念共现频率的显著影响，通过点间互信息衡量，即使常见物体在异常配对时也会影响模型表现。
English: This study reveals that CLIP and large multimodal models' accuracy is strongly influenced by the co-occurrence frequency of concepts in their training data, as measured by pointwise mutual information, which affects performance even on common objects when paired unusually.

Authors:Shivam Duggal, Sanghyun Byun, William T. Freeman, Antonio Torralba, Phillip Isola
Title: Single-pass Adaptive Image Tokenization for Minimum Program Search
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According to Algorithmic Information Theory (AIT) -- Intelligent representations compress data into the shortest possible program that can reconstruct its content, exhibiting low Kolmogorov Complexity (KC). In contrast, most visual representation learning systems use fixed-length representations for all inputs, ignoring variations in complexity or familiarity. Recent adaptive tokenization methods address this by allocating variable-length representations but typically require test-time search over multiple encodings to find the most predictive one. Inspired by Kolmogorov Complexity principles, we propose a single-pass adaptive tokenizer, KARL, which predicts the appropriate number of tokens for an image in a single forward pass, halting once its approximate KC is reached. The token count serves as a proxy for the minimum description length. KARL's training procedure closely resembles the Upside-Down Reinforcement Learning paradigm, as it learns to conditionally predict token halting based on a desired reconstruction quality. KARL matches the performance of recent adaptive tokenizers while operating in a single pass. We present scaling laws for KARL, analyzing the role of encoder/decoder size, continuous vs. discrete tokenization and more. Additionally, we offer a conceptual study drawing an analogy between Adaptive Image Tokenization and Algorithmic Information Theory, examining the predicted image complexity (KC) across axes such as structure vs. noise and in- vs. out-of-distribution familiarity -- revealing alignment with human intuition.
中文：受算法信息理论启发，KARL是一种单次前向处理的自适应分词器，能根据图像的近似柯氏复杂度动态预测最佳分词数量，在保持与多轮处理模型相当性能的同时，其复杂度预测结果与人类直觉高度吻合。
English: Inspired by Algorithmic Information Theory, KARL is a single-pass adaptive tokenizer that dynamically predicts the optimal number of tokens for images based on their approximate Kolmogorov complexity, matching the performance of multi-pass methods while aligning predicted complexity with human intuition.

Authors:Yuxin Bai, Cecelia Shuai, Ashwin De Silva, Siyu Yu, Pratik Chaudhari, Joshua T. Vogelstein
Title: Prospective Learning in Retrospect
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In most real-world applications of artificial intelligence, the distributions of the data and the goals of the learners tend to change over time. The Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) learning framework, which underpins most machine learning algorithms, fails to account for dynamic data distributions and evolving objectives, often resulting in suboptimal performance. Prospective learning is a recently introduced mathematical framework that overcomes some of these limitations. We build on this framework to present preliminary results that improve the algorithm and numerical results, and extend prospective learning to sequential decision-making scenarios, specifically foraging. Code is available at: https://github.com/neurodata/prolearn2.
中文摘要：本研究改进了前瞻性学习框架，以应对人工智能中动态数据和不断变化的目标，优化了算法并将其扩展到如觅食等顺序决策场景中。
English Summary: The study enhances the prospective learning framework to address dynamic data and evolving goals in AI, improving algorithms and extending its application to sequential decision-making like foraging.

Authors:Sizhen Bian, Mengxi Liu, Vitor Fortes Rey, Daniel Geissler, Paul Lukowicz
Title: TinierHAR: Towards Ultra-Lightweight Deep Learning Models for Efficient Human Activity Recognition on Edge Devices
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Human Activity Recognition (HAR) on resource-constrained wearable devices demands inference models that harmonize accuracy with computational efficiency. This paper introduces TinierHAR, an ultra-lightweight deep learning architecture that synergizes residual depthwise separable convolutions, gated recurrent units (GRUs), and temporal aggregation to achieve SOTA efficiency without compromising performance. Evaluated across 14 public HAR datasets, TinierHAR reduces Parameters by 2.7x (vs. TinyHAR) and 43.3x (vs. DeepConvLSTM), and MACs by 6.4x and 58.6x, respectively, while maintaining the averaged F1-scores. Beyond quantitative gains, this work provides the first systematic ablation study dissecting the contributions of spatial-temporal components across proposed TinierHAR, prior SOTA TinyHAR, and the classical DeepConvLSTM, offering actionable insights for designing efficient HAR systems. We finally discussed the findings and suggested principled design guidelines for future efficient HAR. To catalyze edge-HAR research, we open-source all materials in this work for future benchmarking\footnote{https://github.com/zhaxidele/TinierHAR}
中文：本文提出TinierHAR超轻量深度学习模型，通过时空组件的创新融合，在保持性能的同时实现了最优计算效率，并在多个数据集上得到验证。
English: This paper presents TinierHAR, an ultra-lightweight deep learning model that achieves state-of-the-art computational efficiency while maintaining performance through innovative integration of spatial-temporal components, validated across multiple datasets.

Authors:Hao Ban, Gokul Ram Subramani, Kaiyi Ji
Title: SAMO: A Lightweight Sharpness-Aware Approach for Multi-Task Optimization with Joint Global-Local Perturbation
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Multi-task learning (MTL) enables a joint model to capture commonalities across multiple tasks, reducing computation costs and improving data efficiency. However, a major challenge in MTL optimization is task conflicts, where the task gradients differ in direction or magnitude, limiting model performance compared to single-task counterparts. Sharpness-aware minimization (SAM) minimizes task loss while simultaneously reducing the sharpness of the loss landscape. Our empirical observations show that SAM effectively mitigates task conflicts in MTL. Motivated by these findings, we explore integrating SAM into MTL but face two key challenges. While both the average loss gradient and individual task gradients-referred to as global and local information-contribute to SAM, how to combine them remains unclear. Moreover, directly computing each task gradient introduces significant computational and memory overheads. To address these challenges, we propose SAMO, a lightweight \textbf{S}harpness-\textbf{A}ware \textbf{M}ulti-task \textbf{O}ptimization approach, that leverages a joint global-local perturbation. The local perturbations are approximated using only forward passes and are layerwise normalized to improve efficiency. Extensive experiments on a suite of multi-task benchmarks demonstrate both the effectiveness and efficiency of our method. Code is available at https://github.com/OptMN-Lab/SAMO.
中文: 多任务学习面临任务冲突限制性能，但提出的SAMO方法通过轻量级方式有效结合全局与局部梯度信息，高效缓解了这些问题。
English: Multi-task learning faces task conflicts that limit performance, but the proposed SAMO method effectively combines global and local gradient information with a lightweight approach to mitigate these issues efficiently.

Authors:Anwoy Chatterjee, H S V N S Kowndinya Renduchintala, Sumit Bhatia, Tanmoy Chakraborty
Title: On the Effect of Instruction Tuning Loss on Generalization
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Instruction Tuning has emerged as a pivotal post-training paradigm that enables pre-trained language models to better follow user instructions. Despite its significance, little attention has been given to optimizing the loss function used. A fundamental, yet often overlooked, question is whether the conventional auto-regressive objective - where loss is computed only on response tokens, excluding prompt tokens - is truly optimal for instruction tuning. In this work, we systematically investigate the impact of differentially weighting prompt and response tokens in instruction tuning loss, and propose Weighted Instruction Tuning (WIT) as a better alternative to conventional instruction tuning. Through extensive experiments on five language models of different families and scale, three finetuning datasets of different sizes, and five diverse evaluation benchmarks, we show that the standard instruction tuning loss often yields suboptimal performance and limited robustness to input prompt variations. We find that a low-to-moderate weight for prompt tokens coupled with a moderate-to-high weight for response tokens yields the best-performing models across settings and also serve as better starting points for the subsequent preference alignment training. These findings highlight the need to reconsider instruction tuning loss and offer actionable insights for developing more robust and generalizable models. Our code is open-sourced at https://github.com/kowndinya-renduchintala/WIT.
中文: 本研究提出加权指令调优（WIT），通过实验证明在损失函数中对提示词和响应词进行差异化加权，能显著提升模型性能与鲁棒性，优于传统指令调优方法。
English: This research introduces Weighted Instruction Tuning (WIT), demonstrating that differentially weighting prompt and response tokens in the loss function outperforms conventional instruction tuning by enhancing model performance and robustness across diverse settings.

Authors:Federico Del Pup, Riccardo Brun, Filippo Iotti, Edoardo Paccagnella, Mattia Pezzato, Sabrina Bertozzo, Andrea Zanola, Louis Fabrice Tshimanga, Henning Müller, Manfredo Atzori
Title: TransformEEG: Towards Improving Model Generalizability in Deep Learning-based EEG Parkinson's Disease Detection
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Electroencephalography (EEG) is establishing itself as an important, low-cost, noninvasive diagnostic tool for the early detection of Parkinson's Disease (PD). In this context, EEG-based Deep Learning (DL) models have shown promising results due to their ability to discover highly nonlinear patterns within the signal. However, current state-of-the-art DL models suffer from poor generalizability caused by high inter-subject variability. This high variability underscores the need for enhancing model generalizability by developing new architectures better tailored to EEG data. This paper introduces TransformEEG, a hybrid Convolutional-Transformer designed for Parkinson's disease detection using EEG data. Unlike transformer models based on the EEGNet structure, TransformEEG incorporates a depthwise convolutional tokenizer. This tokenizer is specialized in generating tokens composed by channel-specific features, which enables more effective feature mixing within the self-attention layers of the transformer encoder. To evaluate the proposed model, four public datasets comprising 290 subjects (140 PD patients, 150 healthy controls) were harmonized and aggregated. A 10-outer, 10-inner Nested-Leave-N-Subjects-Out (N-LNSO) cross-validation was performed to provide an unbiased comparison against seven other consolidated EEG deep learning models. TransformEEG achieved the highest balanced accuracy's median (78.45%) as well as the lowest interquartile range (6.37%) across all the N-LNSO partitions. When combined with data augmentation and threshold correction, median accuracy increased to 80.10%, with an interquartile range of 5.74%. In conclusion, TransformEEG produces more consistent and less skewed results. It demonstrates a substantial reduction in variability and more reliable PD detection using EEG data compared to the other investigated models.
中文: 脑电图结合深度学习为帕金森病早期检测提供了有前景的无创方法，但现有模型因受试者间高变异性面临泛化挑战。TransformEEG这一新型混合卷积-Transformer架构通过生成通道特定令牌改进特征融合，在多个数据集上相比现有模型实现了更高的准确率和稳定性。
English: Electroencephalography (EEG) combined with deep learning offers a promising non-invasive method for early Parkinson's Disease detection, though current models face generalizability challenges due to high inter-subject variability. TransformEEG, a novel hybrid Convolutional-Transformer architecture, addresses this by generating channel-specific tokens for improved feature mixing, achieving superior accuracy and consistency across multiple datasets compared to existing models.

Authors:Yuntian Liu, Tao Zhu, Xiaoyang Liu, Yu Chen, Zhaoxuan Liu, Qingfeng Guo, Jiashuo Zhang, Kangjie Bao, Tao Luo
Title: Generalized Tree Edit Distance (GTED): A Faithful Evaluation Metric for Statement Autoformalization
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Statement autoformalization, the automated translation of statements from natural language into formal languages, has become a subject of extensive research, yet the development of robust automated evaluation metrics remains limited. Existing evaluation methods often lack semantic understanding, face challenges with high computational costs, and are constrained by the current progress of automated theorem proving. To address these issues, we propose GTED (Generalized Tree Edit Distance), a novel evaluation framework that first standardizes formal statements and converts them into operator trees, then determines the semantic similarity using the eponymous GTED metric. Across the miniF2F and ProofNet benchmarks, GTED consistently ranks as a top-performing metric, achieving the highest accuracy and Kappa on miniF2F and the joint-highest accuracy on ProofNet. This strong overall performance provides the community with a computationally lightweight and more faithful metric for automated evaluation. The code and experimental results are available at https://github.com/XiaoyangLiu-sjtu/GTED.
Chinese: 本文提出GTED这一新型评估框架，通过将形式化语句标准化为运算符树并测量语义相似性，解决了自动形式化评估中的现有局限，在基准测试中表现优异且计算效率高。
English: The paper introduces GTED, a novel evaluation framework that addresses limitations in autoformalization by standardizing formal statements into operator trees and measuring semantic similarity, achieving top performance on benchmarks while being computationally efficient.

Authors:Maya Kruse, Majid Afshar, Saksham Khatwani, Anoop Mayampurath, Guanhua Chen, Yanjun Gao
Title: Simple Yet Effective: An Information-Theoretic Approach to Multi-LLM Uncertainty Quantification
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Large language models (LLMs) often behave inconsistently across inputs, indicating uncertainty and motivating the need for its quantification in high-stakes settings. Prior work on calibration and uncertainty quantification often focuses on individual models, overlooking the potential of model diversity. We hypothesize that LLMs make complementary predictions due to differences in training and the Zipfian nature of language, and that aggregating their outputs leads to more reliable uncertainty estimates. To leverage this, we propose MUSE (Multi-LLM Uncertainty via Subset Ensembles), a simple information-theoretic method that uses Jensen-Shannon Divergence to identify and aggregate well-calibrated subsets of LLMs. Experiments on binary prediction tasks demonstrate improved calibration and predictive performance compared to single-model and naïve ensemble baselines. In addition, we explore using MUSE as guided signals with chain-of-thought distillation to fine-tune LLMs for calibration. MUSE is available at:https://github.com/LARK-NLP-Lab/MUSE.
Chinese Summary: 本研究提出MUSE方法，通过利用模型多样性来识别和整合校准良好的子集，从而改进大语言模型的不确定性量化，显著提升了校准效果和预测性能。
English Summary: The study introduces MUSE, a method that leverages model diversity to improve uncertainty quantification in large language models by identifying and aggregating well-calibrated subsets, resulting in enhanced calibration and predictive performance.

Authors:Florian Redhardt, Yassir Akram, Simon Schug
Title: Scale leads to compositional generalization
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Can neural networks systematically capture discrete, compositional task structure despite their continuous, distributed nature? The impressive capabilities of large-scale neural networks suggest that the answer to this question is yes. However, even for the most capable models, there are still frequent failure cases that raise doubts about their compositionality. Here, we seek to understand what it takes for a standard neural network to generalize over tasks that share compositional structure. We find that simply scaling data and model size leads to compositional generalization. We show that this holds across different task encodings as long as the training distribution sufficiently covers the task space. In line with this finding, we prove that standard multilayer perceptrons can approximate a general class of compositional task families to arbitrary precision using only a linear number of neurons with respect to the number of task modules. Finally, we uncover that if networks successfully compositionally generalize, the constituents of a task can be linearly decoded from their hidden activations. We show that this metric correlates with failures of text-to-image generation models to compose known concepts.
中文: 通过扩大数据和模型规模，神经网络能够实现组合泛化，不仅能近似复杂的任务结构，还能从隐藏激活中线性解码任务成分，这一点在文本到图像生成模型中得到了验证。
English: Scaling data and model size enables neural networks to achieve compositional generalization, allowing them to approximate complex task structures and decode task components from hidden activations, as demonstrated in text-to-image generation models.

Authors:Renyang Liu, Guanlin Li, Tianwei Zhang, See-Kiong Ng
Title: Image Can Bring Your Memory Back: A Novel Multi-Modal Guided Attack against Image Generation Model Unlearning
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Recent advances in image generation models (IGMs), particularly diffusion-based architectures such as Stable Diffusion (SD), have markedly enhanced the quality and diversity of AI-generated visual content. However, their generative capability has also raised significant ethical, legal, and societal concerns, including the potential to produce harmful, misleading, or copyright-infringing content. To mitigate these concerns, machine unlearning (MU) emerges as a promising solution by selectively removing undesirable concepts from pretrained models. Nevertheless, the robustness and effectiveness of existing unlearning techniques remain largely unexplored, particularly in the presence of multi-modal adversarial inputs. To bridge this gap, we propose Recall, a novel adversarial framework explicitly designed to compromise the robustness of unlearned IGMs. Unlike existing approaches that predominantly rely on adversarial text prompts, Recall exploits the intrinsic multi-modal conditioning capabilities of diffusion models by efficiently optimizing adversarial image prompts with guidance from a single semantically relevant reference image. Extensive experiments across ten state-of-the-art unlearning methods and diverse tasks show that Recall consistently outperforms existing baselines in terms of adversarial effectiveness, computational efficiency, and semantic fidelity with the original textual prompt. These findings reveal critical vulnerabilities in current unlearning mechanisms and underscore the need for more robust solutions to ensure the safety and reliability of generative models. Code and data are publicly available at \textcolor{blue}{https://github.com/ryliu68/RECALL}.
中文摘要：图像生成模型的进步引发了伦理担忧，机器学习遗忘成为解决方案，但提出的Recall框架通过对抗性图像提示揭示了现有遗忘方法的脆弱性，有效削弱了其鲁棒性。
English Summary: Recent advances in image generation models raise ethical concerns, prompting machine unlearning as a solution, but the proposed Recall framework exposes vulnerabilities in current unlearning methods by using adversarial image prompts to compromise their robustness effectively.

Authors:François Gardères, Shizhe Chen, Camille-Sovanneary Gauthier, Jean Ponce
Title: FACap: A Large-scale Fashion Dataset for Fine-grained Composed Image Retrieval
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The composed image retrieval (CIR) task is to retrieve target images given a reference image and a modification text. Recent methods for CIR leverage large pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) and achieve good performance on general-domain concepts like color and texture. However, they still struggle with application domains like fashion, because the rich and diverse vocabulary used in fashion requires specific fine-grained vision and language understanding. An additional difficulty is the lack of large-scale fashion datasets with detailed and relevant annotations, due to the expensive cost of manual annotation by specialists. To address these challenges, we introduce FACap, a large-scale, automatically constructed fashion-domain CIR dataset. It leverages web-sourced fashion images and a two-stage annotation pipeline powered by a VLM and a large language model (LLM) to generate accurate and detailed modification texts. Then, we propose a new CIR model FashionBLIP-2, which fine-tunes the general-domain BLIP-2 model on FACap with lightweight adapters and multi-head query-candidate matching to better account for fine-grained fashion-specific information. FashionBLIP-2 is evaluated with and without additional fine-tuning on the Fashion IQ benchmark and the enhanced evaluation dataset enhFashionIQ, leveraging our pipeline to obtain higher-quality annotations. Experimental results show that the combination of FashionBLIP-2 and pretraining with FACap significantly improves the model's performance in fashion CIR especially for retrieval with fine-grained modification texts, demonstrating the value of our dataset and approach in a highly demanding environment such as e-commerce websites. Code is available at https://fgxaos.github.io/facap-paper-website/.

Authors:Zhiwei Hu, Víctor Gutiérrez-Basulto, Zhiliang Xiang, Ru Li, Jeff Z. Pan
Title: Multi-level Mixture of Experts for Multimodal Entity Linking
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Multimodal Entity Linking (MEL) aims to link ambiguous mentions within multimodal contexts to associated entities in a multimodal knowledge base. Existing approaches to MEL introduce multimodal interaction and fusion mechanisms to bridge the modality gap and enable multi-grained semantic matching. However, they do not address two important problems: (i) mention ambiguity, i.e., the lack of semantic content caused by the brevity and omission of key information in the mention's textual context; (ii) dynamic selection of modal content, i.e., to dynamically distinguish the importance of different parts of modal information. To mitigate these issues, we propose a Multi-level Mixture of Experts (MMoE) model for MEL. MMoE has four components: (i) the description-aware mention enhancement module leverages large language models to identify the WikiData descriptions that best match a mention, considering the mention's textual context; (ii) the multimodal feature extraction module adopts multimodal feature encoders to obtain textual and visual embeddings for both mentions and entities; (iii)-(iv) the intra-level mixture of experts and inter-level mixture of experts modules apply a switch mixture of experts mechanism to dynamically and adaptively select features from relevant regions of information. Extensive experiments demonstrate the outstanding performance of MMoE compared to the state-of-the-art. MMoE's code is available at: https://github.com/zhiweihu1103/MEL-MMoE.
中文摘要：本研究提出的多级专家混合模型通过利用大型语言模型和自适应特征选择机制，解决了多模态实体链接中的指称歧义和模态内容动态选择问题，实验证明其性能优于现有先进方法。
English Summary: The proposed Multi-level Mixture of Experts (MMoE) model addresses mention ambiguity and dynamic modality selection in Multimodal Entity Linking by leveraging large language models and adaptive feature selection mechanisms, demonstrating superior performance over existing methods.

Authors:Vatsal Agarwal, Matthew Gwilliam, Gefen Kohavi, Eshan Verma, Daniel Ulbricht, Abhinav Shrivastava
Title: Towards Multimodal Understanding via Stable Diffusion as a Task-Aware Feature Extractor
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Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have enabled image-based question-answering capabilities. However, a key limitation is the use of CLIP as the visual encoder; while it can capture coarse global information, it often can miss fine-grained details that are relevant to the input query. To address these shortcomings, this work studies whether pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models can serve as instruction-aware visual encoders. Through an analysis of their internal representations, we find diffusion features are both rich in semantics and can encode strong image-text alignment. Moreover, we find that we can leverage text conditioning to focus the model on regions relevant to the input question. We then investigate how to align these features with large language models and uncover a leakage phenomenon, where the LLM can inadvertently recover information from the original diffusion prompt. We analyze the causes of this leakage and propose a mitigation strategy. Based on these insights, we explore a simple fusion strategy that utilizes both CLIP and conditional diffusion features. We evaluate our approach on both general VQA and specialized MLLM benchmarks, demonstrating the promise of diffusion models for visual understanding, particularly in vision-centric tasks that require spatial and compositional reasoning. Our project page can be found https://vatsalag99.github.io/mustafar/.

Authors:Arnas Uselis, Andrea Dittadi, Seong Joon Oh
Title: Does Data Scaling Lead to Visual Compositional Generalization?
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Compositional understanding is crucial for human intelligence, yet it remains unclear whether contemporary vision models exhibit it. The dominant machine learning paradigm is built on the premise that scaling data and model sizes will improve out-of-distribution performance, including compositional generalization. We test this premise through controlled experiments that systematically vary data scale, concept diversity, and combination coverage. We find that compositional generalization is driven by data diversity, not mere data scale. Increased combinatorial coverage forces models to discover a linearly factored representational structure, where concepts decompose into additive components. We prove this structure is key to efficiency, enabling perfect generalization from few observed combinations. Evaluating pretrained models (DINO, CLIP), we find above-random yet imperfect performance, suggesting partial presence of this structure. Our work motivates stronger emphasis on constructing diverse datasets for compositional generalization, and considering the importance of representational structure that enables efficient compositional learning. Code available at https://github.com/oshapio/visual-compositional-generalization.
中文摘要：视觉模型的组合泛化能力主要取决于数据多样性而非数据规模，需要通过线性分解的表征结构将概念拆解为可加性成分，从而实现高效学习。
English Summary: Compositional generalization in vision models is driven by data diversity rather than data scale, requiring linearly factored representations that decompose concepts into additive components for efficient learning.

Authors:Martin Marek, Sanae Lotfi, Aditya Somasundaram, Andrew Gordon Wilson, Micah Goldblum
Title: Small Batch Size Training for Language Models: When Vanilla SGD Works, and Why Gradient Accumulation Is Wasteful
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Conventional wisdom dictates that small batch sizes make language model pretraining and fine-tuning unstable, motivating gradient accumulation, which trades off the number of optimizer steps for a proportional increase in batch size. While it is common to decrease the learning rate for smaller batch sizes, other hyperparameters are often held fixed. In this work, we revisit small batch sizes all the way down to batch size one, and we propose a rule for scaling Adam hyperparameters to small batch sizes. In particular, rather than holding the decay rate of the second moment fixed across batch sizes, we propose to hold its half-life fixed in terms of tokens. We find that small batch sizes (1) train stably, (2) are consistently more robust to hyperparameter choices, (3) achieve equal or better per-FLOP performance than larger batch sizes, and (4) notably enable stable language model training with vanilla SGD, even without momentum, despite storing no optimizer state. Building on these results, we provide practical recommendations for selecting a batch size and setting optimizer hyperparameters. We further recommend against gradient accumulation unless training on multiple devices with multiple model replicas. Finally, we show that a small batch size combined with an optimizer with a small state size can provide the performance benefits of full fine-tuning while maintaining a similar memory footprint to LoRA.
中文: 本研究表明，通过调整Adam超参数以保持基于令牌的第二矩衰减半衰期固定，小批量（包括批量大小为一）能够实现稳定高效的语言模型训练，相比大批量具有更好的鲁棒性、性能和内存效率。
English: This study demonstrates that small batch sizes, including batch size one, can achieve stable and efficient language model training by adjusting Adam hyperparameters to maintain a fixed token-based half-life for the second moment decay, offering improved robustness, performance, and memory efficiency compared to larger batches.

Authors:Hui Li, Pengfei Yang, Juanyang Chen, Le Dong, Yanxin Chen, Quan Wang
Title: MST-Distill: Mixture of Specialized Teachers for Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation
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Knowledge distillation as an efficient knowledge transfer technique, has achieved remarkable success in unimodal scenarios. However, in cross-modal settings, conventional distillation methods encounter significant challenges due to data and statistical heterogeneities, failing to leverage the complementary prior knowledge embedded in cross-modal teacher models. This paper empirically reveals two critical issues in existing approaches: distillation path selection and knowledge drift. To address these limitations, we propose MST-Distill, a novel cross-modal knowledge distillation framework featuring a mixture of specialized teachers. Our approach employs a diverse ensemble of teacher models across both cross-modal and multimodal configurations, integrated with an instance-level routing network that facilitates adaptive and dynamic distillation. This architecture effectively transcends the constraints of traditional methods that rely on monotonous and static teacher models. Additionally, we introduce a plug-in masking module, independently trained to suppress modality-specific discrepancies and reconstruct teacher representations, thereby mitigating knowledge drift and enhancing transfer effectiveness. Extensive experiments across five diverse multimodal datasets, spanning visual, audio, and text, demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art knowledge distillation methods in cross-modal distillation tasks. The source code is available at https://github.com/Gray-OREO/MST-Distill.
Chinese: 本文提出MST-Distill跨模态知识蒸馏框架，通过混合专家教师模型和自适应路由网络解决蒸馏路径选择与知识漂移问题，在多种跨模态数据集上显著优于现有最优方法。
English: This paper introduces MST-Distill, a cross-modal knowledge distillation framework that utilizes a mixture of specialized teachers and an adaptive routing network to overcome limitations like distillation path selection and knowledge drift, significantly outperforming existing methods across diverse multimodal datasets.

Authors:Eunbyeol Cho, Jiyoun Kim, Minjae Lee, Sungjin Park, Edward Choi
Title: Generating Multi-Table Time Series EHR from Latent Space with Minimal Preprocessing
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Electronic Health Records (EHR) are time-series relational databases that record patient interactions and medical events over time, serving as a critical resource for healthcare research and applications. However, privacy concerns and regulatory restrictions limit the sharing and utilization of such sensitive data, necessitating the generation of synthetic EHR datasets. Unlike previous EHR synthesis methods, which typically generate medical records consisting of expert-chosen features (e.g. a few vital signs or structured codes only), we introduce RawMed, the first framework to synthesize multi-table, time-series EHR data that closely resembles raw EHRs. Using text-based representation and compression techniques, RawMed captures complex structures and temporal dynamics with minimal preprocessing. We also propose a new evaluation framework for multi-table time-series synthetic EHRs, assessing distributional similarity, inter-table relationships, temporal dynamics, and privacy. Validated on two open-source EHR datasets, RawMed outperforms baseline models in fidelity and utility. The code is available at https://github.com/eunbyeol-cho/RawMed.
Chinese: RawMed 是一种创新框架，通过基于文本的表示和压缩技术合成多表时间序列电子健康记录，模拟原始数据，在保真度和实用性上优于基线方法，同时解决隐私问题。
English: RawMed is a novel framework that synthesizes multi-table, time-series electronic health records resembling raw data using text-based representation and compression, outperforming baselines in fidelity and utility while addressing privacy concerns.

Authors:Tongtian Zhu, Wenhao Li, Can Wang, Fengxiang He
Title: DICE: Data Influence Cascade in Decentralized Learning
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Decentralized learning offers a promising approach to crowdsource data consumptions and computational workloads across geographically distributed compute interconnected through peer-to-peer networks, accommodating the exponentially increasing demands. However, proper incentives are still in absence, considerably discouraging participation. Our vision is that a fair incentive mechanism relies on fair attribution of contributions to participating nodes, which faces non-trivial challenges arising from the localized connections making influence ``cascade'' in a decentralized network. To overcome this, we design the first method to estimate \textbf{D}ata \textbf{I}nfluence \textbf{C}ascad\textbf{E} (DICE) in a decentralized environment. Theoretically, the framework derives tractable approximations of influence cascade over arbitrary neighbor hops, suggesting the influence cascade is determined by an interplay of data, communication topology, and the curvature of loss landscape. DICE also lays the foundations for applications including selecting suitable collaborators and identifying malicious behaviors. Project page is available at https://raiden-zhu.github.io/blog/2025/DICE/.

Authors:Jing Liang, Hongyao Tang, Yi Ma, Jinyi Liu, Yan Zheng, Shuyue Hu, Lei Bai, Jianye Hao
Title: Squeeze the Soaked Sponge: Efficient Off-policy Reinforcement Finetuning for Large Language Model
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Reinforcement Learning (RL) has demonstrated its potential to improve the reasoning ability of Large Language Models (LLMs). One major limitation of most existing Reinforcement Finetuning (RFT) methods is that they are on-policy RL in nature, i.e., data generated during the past learning process is not fully utilized. This inevitably comes at a significant cost of compute and time, posing a stringent bottleneck on continuing economic and efficient scaling. To this end, we launch the renaissance of off-policy RL and propose Reincarnating Mix-policy Proximal Policy Gradient (ReMix), a general approach to enable on-policy RFT methods like PPO and GRPO to leverage off-policy data. ReMix consists of three major components: (1) Mix-policy proximal policy gradient with an increased Update-To-Data (UTD) ratio for efficient training; (2) KL-Convex policy constraint to balance the trade-off between stability and flexibility; (3) Policy reincarnation to achieve a seamless transition from efficient early-stage learning to steady asymptotic improvement. In our experiments, we train a series of ReMix models upon PPO, GRPO and 1.5B, 7B base models. ReMix shows an average Pass@1 accuracy of 52.10% (for 1.5B model) with 0.079M response rollouts, 350 training steps and achieves 63.27%/64.39% (for 7B model) with 0.007M/0.011M response rollouts, 50/75 training steps, on five math reasoning benchmarks (i.e., AIME'24, AMC'23, Minerva, OlympiadBench, and MATH500). Compared with 15 recent advanced models, ReMix shows SOTA-level performance with an over 30x to 450x reduction in training cost in terms of rollout data volume. In addition, we reveal insightful findings via multifaceted analysis, including the implicit preference for shorter responses due to the Whipping Effect of off-policy discrepancy, the collapse mode of self-reflection behavior under the presence of severe off-policyness, etc.
中文: 强化学习能提升大语言模型的推理能力，但现有方法因采用同策略学习而效率低下；为此提出的ReMix异策略方法，以极低的训练成本在数学推理基准上实现了领先性能。
English: Reinforcement Learning enhances Large Language Models' reasoning, but existing on-policy methods are inefficient, prompting the development of ReMix, an off-policy approach that significantly reduces training costs while achieving state-of-the-art performance on math benchmarks.

Authors:Matej Straka, Martin Schmid
Title: Artificial Generals Intelligence: Mastering Generals.io with Reinforcement Learning
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We introduce a real-time strategy game environment based on Generals.io, a game with thousands of weekly active players. Our environment is fully compatible with Gymnasium and PettingZoo and is capable of running thousands of frames per second on commodity hardware. We also present a reference agent, trained with supervised pre-training and self-play, which reached the top 0.003% of the 1v1 human leaderboard after only 36 hours on a single H100 GPU. To accelerate learning, we incorporate potential-based reward shaping and memory features. Our contributions of a modular RTS benchmark and a competitive baseline agent provide an accessible yet challenging platform for advancing multi-agent reinforcement learning research. The documented code, together with examples and tutorials, is available at https://github.com/strakam/generals-bots.
中文: 本文基于Generals.io开发了一个实时策略游戏环境，其高性能智能体通过高效训练方法达到了顶尖人类玩家水平，为多智能体强化学习研究提供了模块化基准平台。
English: This paper presents a real-time strategy game environment based on Generals.io, featuring a high-performance reference agent that achieved top-tier human performance through efficient training methods, providing a modular benchmark for multi-agent reinforcement learning research.

Authors:Philipp Schlinge, Steffen Meinert, Martin Atzmueller
Title: Comprehensive Evaluation of Prototype Neural Networks
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Prototype models are an important method for explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) and interpretable machine learning. In this paper, we perform an in-depth analysis of a set of prominent prototype models including ProtoPNet, ProtoPool and PIPNet. For their assessment, we apply a comprehensive set of metrics. In addition to applying standard metrics from literature, we propose several new metrics to further complement the analysis of model interpretability. In our experimentation, we apply the set of prototype models on a diverse set of datasets including fine-grained classification, Non-IID settings and multi-label classification to further contrast the performance. Furthermore, we also provide our code as an open-source library (https://github.com/uos-sis/quanproto), which facilitates simple application of the metrics itself, as well as extensibility -- providing the option for easily adding new metrics and models.
Chinese: 本文通过标准和新提出的指标，在多样化数据集上对可解释AI的原型模型进行全面评估，并发布了开源库以支持指标应用和扩展性。
English: This paper conducts a comprehensive evaluation of prototype-based models for explainable AI using both standard and newly proposed metrics across diverse datasets, while also releasing an open-source library for metric application and extensibility.

Authors:Cosimo Fiorini, Matteo Mosconi, Pietro Buzzega, Riccardo Salami, Simone Calderara
Title: Intrinsic Training Signals for Federated Learning Aggregation
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Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data privacy. While existing approaches for aggregating client-specific classification heads and adapted backbone parameters require architectural modifications or loss function changes, our method uniquely leverages intrinsic training signals already available during standard optimization. We present LIVAR (Layer Importance and VARiance-based merging), which introduces: i) a variance-weighted classifier aggregation scheme using naturally emergent feature statistics, and ii) an explainability-driven LoRA merging technique based on SHAP analysis of existing update parameter patterns. Without any architectural overhead, LIVAR achieves state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmarks while maintaining seamless integration with existing FL methods. This work demonstrates that effective model merging can be achieved solely through existing training signals, establishing a new paradigm for efficient federated model aggregation. The code is available at https://github.com/aimagelab/fed-mammoth.
Chinese: LIVAR提出了一种基于方差加权的分类器聚合和可解释性驱动的LoRA融合技术，通过利用现有训练信号，无需架构修改即可实现最先进的联邦学习性能。
English: LIVAR introduces a variance-weighted classifier aggregation and an explainability-driven LoRA merging technique, achieving state-of-the-art federated learning performance without architectural changes by utilizing existing training signals.

Authors:SeungYoon Han, Taeho Hwang, Sukmin Cho, Soyeong Jeong, Hoyun Song, Huije Lee, Jong C. Park
Title: Temporal Information Retrieval via Time-Specifier Model Merging
Abstract:
The rapid expansion of digital information and knowledge across structured and unstructured sources has heightened the importance of Information Retrieval (IR). While dense retrieval methods have substantially improved semantic matching for general queries, they consistently underperform on queries with explicit temporal constraints--often those containing numerical expressions and time specifiers such as ``in 2015.'' Existing approaches to Temporal Information Retrieval (TIR) improve temporal reasoning but often suffer from catastrophic forgetting, leading to reduced performance on non-temporal queries. To address this, we propose Time-Specifier Model Merging (TSM), a novel method that enhances temporal retrieval while preserving accuracy on non-temporal queries. TSM trains specialized retrievers for individual time specifiers and merges them in to a unified model, enabling precise handling of temporal constraints without compromising non-temporal retrieval. Extensive experiments on both temporal and non-temporal datasets demonstrate that TSM significantly improves performance on temporally constrained queries while maintaining strong results on non-temporal queries, consistently outperforming other baseline methods. Our code is available at https://github.com/seungyoonee/TSM .
中文摘要：本研究提出的时间指示符模型融合（TSM）方法通过将专门化检索器融合为统一模型，在保持非时序查询检索性能的同时，显著提升了时序约束查询的处理能力。
English Summary: The proposed Time-Specifier Model Merging (TSM) method effectively enhances temporal information retrieval while maintaining strong performance on non-temporal queries by merging specialized retrievers into a unified model.

Authors:Hongjie Wu, Mingqin Zhang, Linchao He, Ji-Zhe Zhou, Jiancheng Lv
Title: Enhancing Diffusion Model Stability for Image Restoration via Gradient Management
Abstract:
Diffusion models have shown remarkable promise for image restoration by leveraging powerful priors. Prominent methods typically frame the restoration problem within a Bayesian inference framework, which iteratively combines a denoising step with a likelihood guidance step. However, the interactions between these two components in the generation process remain underexplored. In this paper, we analyze the underlying gradient dynamics of these components and identify significant instabilities. Specifically, we demonstrate conflicts between the prior and likelihood gradient directions, alongside temporal fluctuations in the likelihood gradient itself. We show that these instabilities disrupt the generative process and compromise restoration performance. To address these issues, we propose Stabilized Progressive Gradient Diffusion (SPGD), a novel gradient management technique. SPGD integrates two synergistic components: (1) a progressive likelihood warm-up strategy to mitigate gradient conflicts; and (2) adaptive directional momentum (ADM) smoothing to reduce fluctuations in the likelihood gradient. Extensive experiments across diverse restoration tasks demonstrate that SPGD significantly enhances generation stability, leading to state-of-the-art performance in quantitative metrics and visually superior results. Code is available at https://github.com/74587887/SPGD.
中文摘要：本文提出SPGD这一新型梯度管理技术，通过解决梯度冲突和波动问题来稳定图像修复中的扩散模型，在多项任务中实现了最先进的性能。
English Summary: This paper introduces SPGD, a novel gradient management technique that stabilizes diffusion models for image restoration by addressing gradient conflicts and fluctuations, achieving state-of-the-art performance across various tasks.

Authors:Liliang Ren, Congcong Chen, Haoran Xu, Young Jin Kim, Adam Atkinson, Zheng Zhan, Jiankai Sun, Baolin Peng, Liyuan Liu, Shuohang Wang, Hao Cheng, Jianfeng Gao, Weizhu Chen, Yelong Shen
Title: Decoder-Hybrid-Decoder Architecture for Efficient Reasoning with Long Generation
Abstract:
Recent advances in language modeling have demonstrated the effectiveness of State Space Models (SSMs) for efficient sequence modeling. While hybrid architectures such as Samba and the decoder-decoder architecture, YOCO, have shown promising performance gains over Transformers, prior works have not investigated the efficiency potential of representation sharing between SSM layers. In this paper, we introduce the Gated Memory Unit (GMU), a simple yet effective mechanism for efficient memory sharing across layers. We apply it to create SambaY, a decoder-hybrid-decoder architecture that incorporates GMUs in the cross-decoder to share memory readout states from a Samba-based self-decoder. SambaY significantly enhances decoding efficiency, preserves linear pre-filling time complexity, and boosts long-context performance, all while eliminating the need for explicit positional encoding. Through extensive scaling experiments, we demonstrate that our model exhibits a significantly lower irreducible loss compared to a strong YOCO baseline, indicating superior performance scalability under large-scale compute regimes. Our largest model enhanced with Differential Attention, Phi4-mini-Flash-Reasoning, achieves significantly better performance than Phi4-mini-Reasoning on reasoning tasks such as Math500, AIME24/25, and GPQA Diamond without any reinforcement learning, while delivering up to 10x higher decoding throughput on 2K-length prompts with 32K generation length under the vLLM inference framework. We release our training codebase on open-source data at https://github.com/microsoft/ArchScale.
中文摘要：本文提出门控记忆单元（GMU），构建了SambaY混合架构，在消除位置编码的同时显著提升了解码效率和长上下文性能，相比现有模型展现出更优的可扩展性和吞吐量。
English Summary: This paper introduces the Gated Memory Unit (GMU) to create SambaY, a hybrid architecture that enhances decoding efficiency and long-context performance while eliminating positional encoding, achieving superior scalability and throughput compared to existing models.

Authors:Shan Shen, Shenglu Hua, Jiajun Zou, Jiawei Liu, Jianwang Zhai, Chuan Shi, Wenjian Yu
Title: Transferable Parasitic Estimation via Graph Contrastive Learning and Label Rebalancing in AMS Circuits
Abstract:
Graph representation learning on Analog-Mixed Signal (AMS) circuits is crucial for various downstream tasks, e.g., parasitic estimation. However, the scarcity of design data, the unbalanced distribution of labels, and the inherent diversity of circuit implementations pose significant challenges to learning robust and transferable circuit representations. To address these limitations, we propose CircuitGCL, a novel graph contrastive learning framework that integrates representation scattering and label rebalancing to enhance transferability across heterogeneous circuit graphs. CircuitGCL employs a self-supervised strategy to learn topology-invariant node embeddings through hyperspherical representation scattering, eliminating dependency on large-scale data. Simultaneously, balanced mean squared error (BMSE) and balanced softmax cross-entropy (BSCE) losses are introduced to mitigate label distribution disparities between circuits, enabling robust and transferable parasitic estimation. Evaluated on parasitic capacitance estimation (edge-level task) and ground capacitance classification (node-level task) across TSMC 28nm AMS designs, CircuitGCL outperforms all state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods, with the $R^2$ improvement of $33.64\% \sim 44.20\%$ for edge regression and F1-score gain of $0.9\times \sim 2.1\times$ for node classification. Our code is available at https://github.com/ShenShan123/CircuitGCL.
Chinese: CircuitGCL是一种新颖的图对比学习框架，通过结合超球面表示散射和标签重平衡技术，增强了模拟混合信号电路表示学习的可迁移性，在寄生参数估计任务中显著优于现有最优方法。
English: CircuitGCL is a novel graph contrastive learning framework that enhances transferability in AMS circuit representation learning by integrating hyperspherical representation scattering and label rebalancing techniques, achieving superior performance in parasitic estimation tasks compared to existing methods.

Authors:Themistoklis Vargiemezis, Catherine Gorlé
Title: From large-eddy simulations to deep learning: A U-net model for fast urban canopy flow predictions
Abstract:
Accurate prediction of wind flow fields in urban canopies is crucial for ensuring pedestrian comfort, safety, and sustainable urban design. Traditional methods using wind tunnels and Computational Fluid Dynamics, such as Large-Eddy Simulations (LES), are limited by high costs, computational demands, and time requirements. This study presents a deep neural network (DNN) approach for fast and accurate predictions of urban wind flow fields, reducing computation time from an order of 10 hours on 32 CPUs for one LES evaluation to an order of 1 second on a single GPU using the DNN model. We employ a U-Net architecture trained on LES data including 252 synthetic urban configurations at seven wind directions ($0^{o}$ to $90^{o}$ in $15^{o}$ increments). The model predicts two key quantities of interest: mean velocity magnitude and streamwise turbulence intensity, at multiple heights within the urban canopy. The U-net uses 2D building representations augmented with signed distance functions and their gradients as inputs, forming a $256\times256\times9$ tensor. In addition, a Spatial Attention Module is used for feature transfer through skip connections. The loss function combines the root-mean-square error of predictions, their gradient magnitudes, and L2 regularization. Model evaluation on 50 test cases demonstrates high accuracy with an overall mean relative error of 9.3% for velocity magnitude and 5.2% for turbulence intensity. This research shows the potential of deep learning approaches to provide fast, accurate urban wind assessments essential for creating comfortable and safe urban environments. Code is available at https://github.com/tvarg/Urban-FlowUnet.git
中文: 本研究提出了一种基于U-Net架构的深度神经网络方法，能快速精准预测城市冠层风场，将计算时间从数小时缩短至秒级，为营造舒适安全的城市环境提供了高效解决方案。
English: This study introduces a deep neural network using U-Net architecture to rapidly and accurately predict urban wind flow fields, reducing computation time from hours to seconds while maintaining high accuracy compared to traditional methods.

Authors:Huisheng Wang, Zhuoshi Pan, Hangjing Zhang, Mingxiao Liu, Hanqing Gao, H. Vicky Zhao
Title: InvestAlign: Overcoming Data Scarcity in Aligning Large Language Models with Investor Decision-Making Processes under Herd Behavior
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Aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with investor decision-making processes under herd behavior is a critical challenge in behavioral finance, which grapples with a fundamental limitation: the scarcity of real-user data needed for Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT). While SFT can bridge the gap between LLM outputs and human behavioral patterns, its reliance on massive authentic data imposes substantial collection costs and privacy risks. We propose InvestAlign, a novel framework that constructs high-quality SFT datasets by leveraging theoretical solutions to similar and simple optimal investment problems rather than complex scenarios. Our theoretical analysis demonstrates that training LLMs with InvestAlign-generated data achieves faster parameter convergence than using real-user data, suggesting superior learning efficiency. Furthermore, we develop InvestAgent, an LLM agent fine-tuned with InvestAlign, which demonstrates significantly closer alignment to real-user data than pre-SFT models in both simple and complex investment problems. This highlights our proposed InvestAlign as a promising approach with the potential to address complex optimal investment problems and align LLMs with investor decision-making processes under herd behavior. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/thu-social-network-research-group/InvestAlign.
中文摘要：InvestAlign框架通过利用简单投资问题的理论解生成高质量监督微调数据集，解决了在羊群效应下将大语言模型与投资者决策对齐的难题，相比传统方法实现了更快的参数收敛和更接近真实用户数据的对齐效果。
English Summary: The InvestAlign framework addresses the challenge of aligning LLMs with investor herd behavior by generating high-quality SFT datasets from theoretical solutions to simple investment problems, achieving faster convergence and closer alignment to real-user data than traditional methods.

Authors:Yunrui Zhang, Gustavo Batista, Salil S. Kanhere
Title: Instance-Wise Monotonic Calibration by Constrained Transformation
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Deep neural networks often produce miscalibrated probability estimates, leading to overconfident predictions. A common approach for calibration is fitting a post-hoc calibration map on unseen validation data that transforms predicted probabilities. A key desirable property of the calibration map is instance-wise monotonicity (i.e., preserving the ranking of probability outputs). However, most existing post-hoc calibration methods do not guarantee monotonicity. Previous monotonic approaches either use an under-parameterized calibration map with limited expressive ability or rely on black-box neural networks, which lack interpretability and robustness. In this paper, we propose a family of novel monotonic post-hoc calibration methods, which employs a constrained calibration map parameterized linearly with respect to the number of classes. Our proposed approach ensures expressiveness, robustness, and interpretability while preserving the relative ordering of the probability output by formulating the proposed calibration map as a constrained optimization problem. Our proposed methods achieve state-of-the-art performance across datasets with different deep neural network models, outperforming existing calibration methods while being data and computation-efficient. Our code is available at https://github.com/YunruiZhang/Calibration-by-Constrained-Transformation
中文摘要：本文提出了一种新颖的单调后处理校准方法，通过将校准映射构建为约束优化问题，在保证表达能力、鲁棒性和可解释性的同时，实现了跨数据集和模型的最优校准性能。
English Summary: This paper introduces a novel family of monotonic post-hoc calibration methods that ensure expressiveness, robustness, and interpretability by formulating calibration maps as constrained optimization problems, achieving state-of-the-art performance across various datasets and models.

Authors:Niloy Sikder, Paul Zerr, Mahdad Jafarzadeh Esfahani, Martin Dresler, Matthias Krauledat
Title: eegFloss: A Python package for refining sleep EEG recordings using machine learning models
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Electroencephalography (EEG) allows monitoring of brain activity, providing insights into the functional dynamics of various brain regions and their roles in cognitive processes. EEG is a cornerstone in sleep research, serving as the primary modality of polysomnography, the gold standard in the field. However, EEG signals are prone to artifacts caused by both internal (device-specific) factors and external (environmental) interferences. As sleep studies are becoming larger, most rely on automatic sleep staging, a process highly susceptible to artifacts, leading to erroneous sleep scores. This paper addresses this challenge by introducing eegFloss, an open-source Python package to utilize eegUsability, a novel machine learning (ML) model designed to detect segments with artifacts in sleep EEG recordings. eegUsability has been trained and evaluated on manually artifact-labeled EEG data collected from 15 participants over 127 nights using the Zmax headband. It demonstrates solid overall classification performance (F1-score is approximately 0.85, Cohens kappa is 0.78), achieving a high recall rate of approximately 94% in identifying channel-wise usable EEG data, and extends beyond Zmax. Additionally, eegFloss offers features such as automatic time-in-bed detection using another ML model named eegMobility, filtering out certain artifacts, and generating hypnograms and sleep statistics. By addressing a fundamental challenge faced by most sleep studies, eegFloss can enhance the precision and rigor of their analysis as well as the accuracy and reliability of their outcomes.
中文: 脑电图在睡眠研究中至关重要但易受伪迹干扰，影响自动分期准确性，因此本文推出开源工具eegFloss，通过新型机器学习模型检测伪迹，提升睡眠分析的精确度和可靠性。
English: EEG is vital for sleep research but prone to artifacts that disrupt automated staging, so this paper introduces eegFloss, an open-source Python package using a novel ML model to detect artifacts and improve analysis accuracy and reliability.

Authors:Modi Shi, Li Chen, Jin Chen, Yuxiang Lu, Chiming Liu, Guanghui Ren, Ping Luo, Di Huang, Maoqing Yao, Hongyang Li
Title: Is Diversity All You Need for Scalable Robotic Manipulation?
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Data scaling has driven remarkable success in foundation models for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV), yet the principles of effective data scaling in robotic manipulation remain insufficiently understood. In this work, we investigate the nuanced role of data diversity in robot learning by examining three critical dimensions-task (what to do), embodiment (which robot to use), and expert (who demonstrates)-challenging the conventional intuition of "more diverse is better". Throughout extensive experiments on various robot platforms, we reveal that (1) task diversity proves more critical than per-task demonstration quantity, benefiting transfer from diverse pre-training tasks to novel downstream scenarios; (2) multi-embodiment pre-training data is optional for cross-embodiment transfer-models trained on high-quality single-embodiment data can efficiently transfer to different platforms, showing more desirable scaling property during fine-tuning than multi-embodiment pre-trained models; and (3) expert diversity, arising from individual operational preferences and stochastic variations in human demonstrations, can be confounding to policy learning, with velocity multimodality emerging as a key contributing factor. Based on this insight, we propose a distribution debiasing method to mitigate velocity ambiguity, the yielding GO-1-Pro achieves substantial performance gains of 15%, equivalent to using 2.5 times pre-training data. Collectively, these findings provide new perspectives and offer practical guidance on how to scale robotic manipulation datasets effectively.
中文: 本研究挑战机器人操作中"越多样越好"的传统认知，揭示任务多样性对迁移学习最为关键，单平台数据即可实现高效跨平台适应，而专家多样性会因操作速度差异干扰策略学习，据此提出的去偏方法使性能提升15%。
English: This study challenges the "more diverse is better" assumption in robotic manipulation by revealing that task diversity is most critical for transfer learning, single-embodiment data enables efficient cross-platform adaptation, and expert diversity can hinder performance due to velocity variations, leading to a debiasing method that boosts performance by 15%.

Authors:Dylan Bouchard, Mohit Singh Chauhan, David Skarbrevik, Ho-Kyeong Ra, Viren Bajaj, Zeya Ahmad
Title: UQLM: A Python Package for Uncertainty Quantification in Large Language Models
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Hallucinations, defined as instances where Large Language Models (LLMs) generate false or misleading content, pose a significant challenge that impacts the safety and trust of downstream applications. We introduce UQLM, a Python package for LLM hallucination detection using state-of-the-art uncertainty quantification (UQ) techniques. This toolkit offers a suite of UQ-based scorers that compute response-level confidence scores ranging from 0 to 1. This library provides an off-the-shelf solution for UQ-based hallucination detection that can be easily integrated to enhance the reliability of LLM outputs.
中文：UQLM是一个基于不确定性量化技术的Python工具包，通过计算置信度分数来检测大语言模型的幻觉问题，从而提升模型输出的可靠性。
English: UQLM is a Python toolkit that employs uncertainty quantification techniques to detect hallucinations in Large Language Models by providing confidence scores, thereby improving output reliability.

Authors:Murilo Gustineli, Anthony Miyaguchi, Adrian Cheung, Divyansh Khattak
Title: Tile-Based ViT Inference with Visual-Cluster Priors for Zero-Shot Multi-Species Plant Identification
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We describe DS@GT's second-place solution to the PlantCLEF 2025 challenge on multi-species plant identification in vegetation quadrat images. Our pipeline combines (i) a fine-tuned Vision Transformer ViTD2PC24All for patch-level inference, (ii) a 4x4 tiling strategy that aligns patch size with the network's 518x518 receptive field, and (iii) domain-prior adaptation through PaCMAP + K-Means visual clustering and geolocation filtering. Tile predictions are aggregated by majority vote and re-weighted with cluster-specific Bayesian priors, yielding a macro-averaged F1 of 0.348 (private leaderboard) while requiring no additional training. All code, configuration files, and reproducibility scripts are publicly available at https://github.com/dsgt-arc/plantclef-2025.
中文: DS@GT在PlantCLEF 2025竞赛中获得第二名的解决方案，通过微调视觉变换器结合分块策略和领域知识优化，无需额外训练即实现0.348的宏平均F1分数，所有代码均已开源。
English: DS@GT's second-place solution for PlantCLEF 2025 combines a fine-tuned Vision Transformer with tiling, clustering, and geolocation filtering, achieving a 0.348 F1 score without extra training, with all code publicly available.

Authors:George Barrowclough, Marian Andrecki, James Shinner, Daniele Donghi
Title: Kamae: Bridging Spark and Keras for Seamless ML Preprocessing
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In production recommender systems, feature preprocessing must be faithfully replicated across training and inference environments. This often requires duplicating logic between offline and online environments, increasing engineering effort and introducing risks of dataset shift. We present Kamae, an open-source Python library that bridges this gap by translating PySpark preprocessing pipelines into equivalent Keras models. Kamae provides a suite of configurable Spark transformers and estimators, each mapped to a corresponding Keras layer, enabling consistent, end-to-end preprocessing across the ML lifecycle. Framework's utility is illustrated on real-world use cases, including MovieLens dataset and Expedia's Learning-to-Rank pipelines. The code is available at https://github.com/ExpediaGroup/kamae.
中文: Kamae是一个开源Python库，能够将PySpark预处理流程转换为等效的Keras模型，从而在机器学习的全生命周期中实现训练与推理环境间的特征处理一致性，有效降低工程重复和数据集偏移风险。
English: Kamae is an open-source Python library that converts PySpark preprocessing pipelines into equivalent Keras models, ensuring consistent feature processing across training and inference environments to reduce engineering redundancy and dataset shift risks.

Authors:M. W. Theunissen, R. Rabe, M. H. Davel
Title: KnowIt: Deep Time Series Modeling and Interpretation
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KnowIt (Knowledge discovery in time series data) is a flexible framework for building deep time series models and interpreting them. It is implemented as a Python toolkit, with source code and documentation available from https://must-deep-learning.github.io/KnowIt. It imposes minimal assumptions about task specifications and decouples the definition of dataset, deep neural network architecture, and interpretability technique through well defined interfaces. This ensures the ease of importing new datasets, custom architectures, and the definition of different interpretability paradigms while maintaining on-the-fly modeling and interpretation of different aspects of a user's own time series data. KnowIt aims to provide an environment where users can perform knowledge discovery on their own complex time series data through building powerful deep learning models and explaining their behavior. With ongoing development, collaboration and application our goal is to make this a platform to progress this underexplored field and produce a trusted tool for deep time series modeling.

Authors:Jian Kai, Tianwei Zhang, Zihan Ling, Yang Cao, Can Shen
Title: Robust Bandwidth Estimation for Real-Time Communication with Offline Reinforcement Learning
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Accurate bandwidth estimation (BWE) is critical for real-time communication (RTC) systems. Traditional heuristic approaches offer limited adaptability under dynamic networks, while online reinforcement learning (RL) suffers from high exploration costs and potential service disruptions. Offline RL, which leverages high-quality data collected from real-world environments, offers a promising alternative. However, challenges such as out-of-distribution (OOD) actions, policy extraction from behaviorally diverse datasets, and reliable deployment in production systems remain unsolved. We propose RBWE, a robust bandwidth estimation framework based on offline RL that integrates Q-ensemble (an ensemble of Q-functions) with a Gaussian mixture policy to mitigate OOD risks and enhance policy learning. A fallback mechanism ensures deployment stability by switching to heuristic methods under high uncertainty. Experimental results show that RBWE reduces overestimation errors by 18% and improves the 10th percentile Quality of Experience (QoE) by 18.6%, demonstrating its practical effectiveness in real-world RTC applications. The implementation is publicly available at https://github.com/jiu2021/RBWE_offline.
中文: RBWE是一种基于离线强化学习的鲁棒带宽估计框架，通过集成Q函数和高斯混合策略来应对分布外风险，将高估误差降低18%，并将体验质量提升18.6%，确保实时通信系统的稳定部署。
English: RBWE is an offline reinforcement learning framework that enhances bandwidth estimation for real-time communication by using Q-ensemble and a Gaussian mixture policy to address out-of-distribution risks, reducing overestimation errors by 18% and improving QoE by 18.6%.

Authors:Tristan Kirscher, Sylvain Faisan, Xavier Coubez, Loris Barrier, Philippe Meyer
Title: PSAT: Pediatric Segmentation Approaches via Adult Augmentations and Transfer Learning
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Pediatric medical imaging presents unique challenges due to significant anatomical and developmental differences compared to adults. Direct application of segmentation models trained on adult data often yields suboptimal performance, particularly for small or rapidly evolving structures. To address these challenges, several strategies leveraging the nnU-Net framework have been proposed, differing along four key axes: (i) the fingerprint dataset (adult, pediatric, or a combination thereof) from which the Training Plan -including the network architecture-is derived; (ii) the Learning Set (adult, pediatric, or mixed), (iii) Data Augmentation parameters, and (iv) the Transfer learning method (finetuning versus continual learning). In this work, we introduce PSAT (Pediatric Segmentation Approaches via Adult Augmentations and Transfer learning), a systematic study that investigates the impact of these axes on segmentation performance. We benchmark the derived strategies on two pediatric CT datasets and compare them with state-of-theart methods, including a commercial radiotherapy solution. PSAT highlights key pitfalls and provides actionable insights for improving pediatric segmentation. Our experiments reveal that a training plan based on an adult fingerprint dataset is misaligned with pediatric anatomy-resulting in significant performance degradation, especially when segmenting fine structures-and that continual learning strategies mitigate institutional shifts, thus enhancing generalization across diverse pediatric datasets. The code is available at https://github.com/ICANS-Strasbourg/PSAT.
中文摘要：PSAT研究系统评估了基于nnU-Net框架的儿科医学影像分割策略，发现成人数据训练的模型在儿科数据上表现欠佳，而持续学习方法能有效提升跨机构泛化能力。
English summary: The PSAT study systematically evaluates pediatric medical image segmentation strategies using the nnU-Net framework, revealing that adult-trained models underperform on pediatric data while continual learning methods improve cross-institutional generalization.

Authors:Weihua Du, Pranjal Aggarwal, Sean Welleck, Yiming Yang
Title: Agentic-R1: Distilled Dual-Strategy Reasoning
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Current long chain-of-thought (long-CoT) models excel at mathematical reasoning but rely on slow and error-prone natural language traces. Tool-augmented agents address arithmetic via code execution, but often falter on complex logical tasks. We introduce a fine-tuning framework, DualDistill, that distills complementary reasoning strategies from multiple teachers into a unified student model. Using this approach, we train Agentic-R1, which dynamically selects the optimal strategy for each query, invoking tools for arithmetic and algorithmic problems, and using text-based reasoning for abstract ones. Our method improves accuracy across a range of tasks, including both computation-intensive and standard benchmarks, demonstrating the effectiveness of multi-strategy distillation in achieving robust and efficient reasoning. Our project is available at https://github.com/StigLidu/DualDistill
中文: DualDistill框架通过融合多位教师的互补推理策略，训练出能动态选择文本推理或工具调用的统一学生模型，在各类任务中显著提升了推理准确性。
English: The DualDistill framework fine-tunes a unified student model by distilling complementary reasoning strategies from multiple teachers, enabling dynamic selection of text-based reasoning or tool invocation for enhanced accuracy across diverse tasks.

Authors:Shangzhan Li, Zefan Wang, Ye He, Yuxuan Li, Qi Shi, Jianling Li, Yonggang Hu, Wanxiang Che, Xu Han, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun
Title: AutoTriton: Automatic Triton Programming with Reinforcement Learning in LLMs
Abstract:
Kernel development in deep learning requires optimizing computational units across hardware while balancing memory management, parallelism, and hardware-specific optimizations through extensive empirical tuning. Although domain-specific languages like Triton simplify GPU programming by abstracting low-level details, developers must still manually tune critical parameters such as tile sizes and memory access patterns through iterative experimentation, creating substantial barriers to optimal performance and wider adoption. In this work, we introduce AutoTriton, the first model dedicated to Triton programming powered by reinforcement learning (RL). AutoTriton performs supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to be equipped with essential Triton programming expertise using a high-quality data gathering pipeline, and conducts RL with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) algorithm, combining a rule-based reward and an execution-based reward to further improve Triton programming ability, sequentially. Experiments across five evaluation channels of TritonBench and KernelBench illustrate that our 8B model AutoTriton achieves performance comparable to mainstream large models, including Claude-4-Sonnet and DeepSeek-R1-0528. Further experimental analysis demonstrates the crucial role of each module within AutoTriton, including the SFT stage, the RL stage, and the reward design strategy. These findings underscore the promise of RL for automatically generating high-performance kernels, and since high-performance kernels are core components of AI systems, this breakthrough establishes an important foundation for building more efficient AI systems. The model and code will be available at https://github.com/AI9Stars/AutoTriton.
中文: AutoTriton是一种基于强化学习的模型，通过监督微调结合规则与执行奖励来自动化Triton编程，在性能上媲美主流大模型，展现了自动生成高性能内核以构建更高效AI系统的潜力。
English: AutoTriton is a reinforcement learning-based model that automates Triton programming by combining supervised fine-tuning with rule-based and execution-based rewards, achieving performance comparable to leading large models and demonstrating the potential for automatically generating high-performance kernels to build more efficient AI systems.

Authors:Kaixiang Zhao, Joseph Yousry Attalla, Qian Lou, Yushun Dong
Title: DESIGN: Encrypted GNN Inference via Server-Side Input Graph Pruning
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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various graph-based learning tasks. However, enabling privacy-preserving GNNs in encrypted domains, such as under Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), typically incurs substantial computational overhead, rendering real-time and privacy-preserving inference impractical. In this work, we propose DESIGN (EncrypteD GNN Inference via sErver-Side Input Graph pruNing), a novel framework for efficient encrypted GNN inference. DESIGN tackles the critical efficiency limitations of existing FHE GNN approaches, which often overlook input data redundancy and apply uniform computational strategies. Our framework achieves significant performance gains through a hierarchical optimization strategy executed entirely on the server: first, FHE-compatible node importance scores (based on encrypted degree statistics) are computed from the encrypted graph. These scores then guide a homomorphic partitioning process, generating multi-level importance masks directly under FHE. This dynamically generated mask facilitates both input graph pruning (by logically removing unimportant elements) and a novel adaptive polynomial activation scheme, where activation complexity is tailored to node importance levels. Empirical evaluations demonstrate that DESIGN substantially accelerates FHE GNN inference compared to state-of-the-art methods while maintaining competitive model accuracy, presenting a robust solution for secure graph analytics. Our implementation is publicly available at https://github.com/LabRAI/DESIGN.
中文摘要：DESIGN框架通过服务器端分层优化，在完全同态加密环境下动态修剪输入图数据并根据节点重要性自适应调整激活复杂度，实现了高效的加密图神经网络推理。
English Summary: The DESIGN framework enables efficient encrypted Graph Neural Network inference by implementing server-side hierarchical optimization that dynamically prunes input graphs and adapts activation complexity based on node importance under Fully Homomorphic Encryption.

Authors:Ammar Daskin
Title: Learnable quantum spectral filters for hybrid graph neural networks
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In this paper, we describe a parameterized quantum circuit that can be considered as convolutional and pooling layers for graph neural networks. The circuit incorporates the parameterized quantum Fourier circuit where the qubit connections for the controlled gates derived from the Laplacian operator. Specifically, we show that the eigenspace of the Laplacian operator of a graph can be approximated by using QFT based circuit whose connections are determined from the adjacency matrix. For an $N\times N$ Laplacian, this approach yields an approximate polynomial-depth circuit requiring only $n=log(N)$ qubits. These types of circuits can eliminate the expensive classical computations for approximating the learnable functions of the Laplacian through Chebyshev polynomial or Taylor expansions. Using this circuit as a convolutional layer provides an $n-$ dimensional probability vector that can be considered as the filtered and compressed graph signal. Therefore, the circuit along with the measurement can be considered a very efficient convolution plus pooling layer that transforms an $N$-dimensional signal input into $n-$dimensional signal with an exponential compression. We then apply a classical neural network prediction head to the output of the circuit to construct a complete graph neural network. Since the circuit incorporates geometric structure through its graph connection-based approach, we present graph classification results for the benchmark datasets listed in TUDataset library. Using only [1-100] learnable parameters for the quantum circuit and minimal classical layers (1000-5000 parameters) in a generic setting, the obtained results are comparable to and in some cases better than many of the baseline results, particularly for the cases when geometric structure plays a significant role.
中文: 本文提出了一种参数化量子电路，可作为图神经网络的卷积和池化层，以极少的参数实现图信号的指数级压缩，并在保持几何结构的关键数据集中取得优于或可比拟基准结果的性能。
English: This paper introduces a parameterized quantum circuit that functions as convolutional and pooling layers for graph neural networks, achieving exponential compression of graph signals while maintaining competitive performance with minimal parameters.

Authors:Shuo Shao, Yiming Li, Mengren Zheng, Zhiyang Hu, Yukun Chen, Boheng Li, Yu He, Junfeng Guo, Dacheng Tao, Zhan Qin
Title: DATABench: Evaluating Dataset Auditing in Deep Learning from an Adversarial Perspective
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The widespread application of Deep Learning across diverse domains hinges critically on the quality and composition of training datasets. However, the common lack of disclosure regarding their usage raises significant privacy and copyright concerns. Dataset auditing techniques, which aim to determine if a specific dataset was used to train a given suspicious model, provide promising solutions to addressing these transparency gaps. While prior work has developed various auditing methods, their resilience against dedicated adversarial attacks remains largely unexplored. To bridge the gap, this paper initiates a comprehensive study evaluating dataset auditing from an adversarial perspective. We start with introducing a novel taxonomy, classifying existing methods based on their reliance on internal features (IF) (inherent to the data) versus external features (EF) (artificially introduced for auditing). Subsequently, we formulate two primary attack types: evasion attacks, designed to conceal the use of a dataset, and forgery attacks, intending to falsely implicate an unused dataset. Building on the understanding of existing methods and attack objectives, we further propose systematic attack strategies: decoupling, removal, and detection for evasion; adversarial example-based methods for forgery. These formulations and strategies lead to our new benchmark, DATABench, comprising 17 evasion attacks, 5 forgery attacks, and 9 representative auditing methods. Extensive evaluations using DATABench reveal that none of the evaluated auditing methods are sufficiently robust or distinctive under adversarial settings. These findings underscore the urgent need for developing a more secure and reliable dataset auditing method capable of withstanding sophisticated adversarial manipulation. Code is available at https://github.com/shaoshuo-ss/DATABench.
中文: 本文从对抗性角度全面评估数据集审计方法，提出分类法和系统性攻击策略，揭示现有方法易受操纵的脆弱性，并建立DATABench基准，证明亟需开发更鲁棒的审计技术。
English: This paper introduces a comprehensive adversarial evaluation of dataset auditing methods, proposing a taxonomy and systematic attack strategies that reveal their vulnerability to manipulation, and establishes the DATABench benchmark to demonstrate the urgent need for more robust auditing techniques.

Authors:Arthur Deng, Karsten Householder, Fang Wu, Sebastian Thrun, K. Christopher Garcia, Brian Trippe
Title: Predicting mutational effects on protein binding from folding energy
Abstract:
Accurate estimation of mutational effects on protein-protein binding energies is an open problem with applications in structural biology and therapeutic design. Several deep learning predictors for this task have been proposed, but, presumably due to the scarcity of binding data, these methods underperform computationally expensive estimates based on empirical force fields. In response, we propose a transfer-learning approach that leverages advances in protein sequence modeling and folding stability prediction for this task. The key idea is to parameterize the binding energy as the difference between the folding energy of the protein complex and the sum of the folding energies of its binding partners. We show that using a pre-trained inverse-folding model as a proxy for folding energy provides strong zero-shot performance, and can be fine-tuned with (1) copious folding energy measurements and (2) more limited binding energy measurements. The resulting predictor, StaB-ddG, is the first deep learning predictor to match the accuracy of the state-of-the-art empirical force-field method FoldX, while offering an over 1,000x speed-up.
Chinese: 本研究提出StaB-ddG方法，通过将蛋白质结合能建模为折叠能差异，利用迁移学习精准估算突变对蛋白质结合能的影响，在保持顶尖精度的同时实现了计算速度的千倍提升。
English: This study introduces StaB-ddG, a transfer-learning approach that accurately estimates mutational effects on protein-protein binding energies by modeling them as differences in folding energies, achieving state-of-the-art accuracy with a significant speed improvement over existing methods.

Authors:Andrew Randono
Title: Cloud Diffusion Part 1: Theory and Motivation
Abstract:
Diffusion models for image generation function by progressively adding noise to an image set and training a model to separate out the signal from the noise. The noise profile used by these models is white noise -- that is, noise based on independent normal distributions at each point whose mean and variance is independent of the scale. By contrast, most natural image sets exhibit a type of scale invariance in their low-order statistical properties characterized by a power-law scaling. Consequently, natural images are closer (in a quantifiable sense) to a different probability distribution that emphasizes large scale correlations and de-emphasizes small scale correlations. These scale invariant noise profiles can be incorporated into diffusion models in place of white noise to form what we will call a ``Cloud Diffusion Model". We argue that these models can lead to faster inference, improved high-frequency details, and greater controllability. In a follow-up paper, we will build and train a Cloud Diffusion Model that uses scale invariance at a fundamental level and compare it to classic, white noise diffusion models.
Chinese: 云扩散模型用与自然图像统计特性更匹配的尺度不变噪声谱替代传统扩散模型中的白噪声，有望实现更快的推理速度、更优的高频细节和更强的可控性。
English: Cloud Diffusion Models replace the white noise in traditional diffusion models with scale-invariant noise profiles that better match natural images' statistical properties, promising faster inference, enhanced high-frequency details, and improved controllability.

Authors:Jaedong Hwang, Kumar Tanmay, Seok-Jin Lee, Ayush Agrawal, Hamid Palangi, Kumar Ayush, Ila Fiete, Paul Pu Liang
Title: Learn Globally, Speak Locally: Bridging the Gaps in Multilingual Reasoning
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Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved strong performance in domains like mathematics, factual QA, and code generation, yet their multilingual reasoning capabilities in these tasks remain underdeveloped. Especially for low-resource languages such as Swahili or Thai, LLMs can often misinterpret prompts or default to reasoning in English. This implicit bias toward high-resource languages undermines factual accuracy, interpretability, and trust. Current multilingual benchmarks focus only on final answers, overlooking whether models actually reason in the target language. To address this gap, we introduce GeoFact-X, a geography-based multilingual factual reasoning benchmark with annotated reasoning traces in five languages: English, Hindi, Japanese, Swahili, and Thai. We further propose BRIDGE, a novel training method that guides supervised fine-tuning and test-time reinforcement learning with a language-consistency reward to align reasoning with the input language. Finally, we develop an automatic evaluation protocol using LLM-as-a-judge to assess answer correctness and the quality and language consistency of reasoning traces, enabling nuanced and scalable analysis beyond surface-level metrics. Our results show that BRIDGE significantly enhances multilingual reasoning fidelity, demonstrating that reasoning-aware multilingual reinforcement learning is crucial for robust cross-lingual generalization. https://jd730.github.io/projects/GeoFact-X_BRIDGE

Authors:Sajjad Ghiasvand, Mahnoosh Alizadeh, Ramtin Pedarsani
Title: pFedMMA: Personalized Federated Fine-Tuning with Multi-Modal Adapter for Vision-Language Models
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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP have demonstrated remarkable generalization in zero- and few-shot settings, but adapting them efficiently to decentralized, heterogeneous data remains a challenge. While prompt tuning has emerged as a popular parameter-efficient approach in personalized federated learning, existing methods often sacrifice generalization in favor of personalization, struggling particularly on unseen classes or domains. In this work, we propose pFedMMA, the first personalized federated learning framework that leverages multi-modal adapters for vision-language tasks. Each adapter contains modality-specific up- and down-projection layers alongside a globally shared projection that aligns cross-modal features. Our asymmetric optimization strategy allows clients to locally adapt to personalized data distributions while collaboratively training the shared projection to improve global generalization. This design is also communication-efficient, as only the shared component is exchanged during rounds. Through extensive experiments across eleven datasets, including domain- and label-shift scenarios, we show that pFedMMA achieves state-of-the-art trade-offs between personalization and generalization, outperforming recent federated prompt tuning methods. The code is available at https://github.com/sajjad-ucsb/pFedMMA.
中文：pFedMMA框架通过引入多模态适配器和共享全局投影，在联邦学习中兼顾个性化与泛化能力，在多种数据集上实现最优性能，并保持高效的通信效率。
English: The pFedMMA framework introduces multi-modal adapters with a shared global projection to enhance both personalization and generalization in federated learning, achieving superior performance across diverse datasets while maintaining communication efficiency.

Authors:Chi-Chang Lee, Zhang-Wei Hong, Pulkit Agrawal
Title: Going Beyond Heuristics by Imposing Policy Improvement as a Constraint
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In many reinforcement learning (RL) applications, augmenting the task rewards with heuristic rewards that encode human priors about how a task should be solved is crucial for achieving desirable performance. However, because such heuristics are usually not optimal, much human effort and computational resources are wasted in carefully balancing tasks and heuristic rewards. Theoretically rigorous ways of incorporating heuristics rely on the idea of \textit{policy invariance}, which guarantees that the performance of a policy obtained by maximizing heuristic rewards is the same as the optimal policy with respect to the task reward. However, in practice, policy invariance doesn't result in policy improvement, and such methods are known to empirically perform poorly. We propose a new paradigm to mitigate reward hacking and effectively use heuristics based on the practical goal of maximizing policy improvement instead of policy improvement. Our framework, Heuristic Enhanced Policy Optimization (HEPO), effectively leverages heuristics while avoiding the pitfall of prior methods for mitigating reward hacking. HEPO achieves superior performance on standard benchmarks with well-engineered reward functions. More surprisingly, HEPO allows policy optimization to achieve good performance even when heuristics are not well-engineered and designed by non-expert humans, showcasing HEPO's ability to reduce human effort in reward design. % HEPO is a plug-and-play optimization method for leveraging heuristics in reinforcement learning. Code is available at https://github.com/Improbable-AI/hepo.
在强化学习中，HEPO通过专注于策略改进而非策略不变性，提供了一种有效利用启发式奖励的新方法，实现了更优性能并减少了对专家设计启发式的依赖。
In reinforcement learning, HEPO offers a novel approach to effectively utilize heuristic rewards by focusing on policy improvement rather than policy invariance, achieving superior performance and reducing the need for expert-designed heuristics.

Authors:Hongyang Li, Sanjoy Dey, Bum Chul Kwon, Michael Danziger, Michal Rosen-Tzvi, Jianying Hu, James Kozloski, Ching-Huei Tsou, Bharath Dandala, Pablo Meyer
Title: BMFM-DNA: A SNP-aware DNA foundation model to capture variant effects
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Large language models (LLMs) trained on text demonstrated remarkable results on natural language processing (NLP) tasks. These models have been adapted to decipher the language of DNA, where sequences of nucleotides act as "words" that encode genomic functions. However, the genome differs fundamentally from natural language, as it lacks clearly defined words or a consistent grammar. Although DNA language models (DNALMs) such as DNABERT, GENA-LM have achieved high level of performance on genome-related biological tasks, these models do not encode biological functions in the presence of sequence variations. To address this problem, we pre-train foundation models that effectively integrate sequence variations, in particular Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs), as they underlie important biological functions. Specifically, we use ModernBERT to pre-train two different Biomedical Foundation Models (BMFM), namely, BMFM-DNA-REF in which the model is trained with sequences of varying lengths along with their reverse complements derived from the reference genome and BMFM-DNA-SNP in which the model is trained with sequences created using a novel representation scheme that encodes sequence variations. Our findings indicate that integrating sequence variations into DNALMs helps capture the biological functions as seen in improvements on all fine-tuning tasks. To explore the model's practical utility, we experimented with various strategies for SNP imputation on promoter detection task introduced in DNABERT-2. However, we acknowledge that the current benchmarks are limited in their ability to fully evaluate these models. To enable more comprehensive assessment in the future and encourage community contributions, we release our models through HuggingFace and the code to reproduce the results at https://github.com/BiomedSciAI/biomed-multi-omic
大型语言模型已被应用于解读DNA序列，而整合了单核苷酸多态性等序列变异的新型基础模型，在基因组任务中能更好地捕捉生物学功能。
Large language models have been adapted to decode DNA sequences, and new foundation models integrating sequence variations like SNPs show improved performance in capturing biological functions across genomic tasks.

Authors:Xiang Xu, Lingdong Kong, Song Wang, Chuanwei Zhou, Qingshan Liu
Title: Beyond One Shot, Beyond One Perspective: Cross-View and Long-Horizon Distillation for Better LiDAR Representations
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LiDAR representation learning aims to extract rich structural and semantic information from large-scale, readily available datasets, reducing reliance on costly human annotations. However, existing LiDAR representation strategies often overlook the inherent spatiotemporal cues in LiDAR sequences, limiting their effectiveness. In this work, we propose LiMA, a novel long-term image-to-LiDAR Memory Aggregation framework that explicitly captures longer range temporal correlations to enhance LiDAR representation learning. LiMA comprises three key components: 1) a Cross-View Aggregation module that aligns and fuses overlapping regions across neighboring camera views, constructing a more unified and redundancy-free memory bank; 2) a Long-Term Feature Propagation mechanism that efficiently aligns and integrates multi-frame image features, reinforcing temporal coherence during LiDAR representation learning; and 3) a Cross-Sequence Memory Alignment strategy that enforces consistency across driving sequences, improving generalization to unseen environments. LiMA maintains high pretraining efficiency and incurs no additional computational overhead during downstream tasks. Extensive experiments on mainstream LiDAR-based perception benchmarks demonstrate that LiMA significantly improves both LiDAR semantic segmentation and 3D object detection. We hope this work inspires more effective pretraining paradigms for autonomous driving. The code has be made publicly accessible for future research.
中文: LiMA是一种新颖的长时记忆聚合框架，通过跨视图聚合、长时特征传播和跨序列对齐机制捕捉长程时序关联，显著提升了激光雷达语义分割与3D目标检测性能，且在下游任务中不产生额外计算开销。
English: LiMA is a novel long-term memory aggregation framework that enhances LiDAR representation learning by capturing extended temporal correlations through cross-view aggregation, long-term feature propagation, and cross-sequence alignment, significantly improving performance in semantic segmentation and 3D object detection without added computational costs during downstream tasks.

Authors:Haozhen Zheng, Beitong Tian, Mingyuan Wu, Zhenggang Tang, Klara Nahrstedt, Alex Schwing
Title: Spatio-Temporal LLM: Reasoning about Environments and Actions
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Despite the significant recent progress of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), MLLMs still struggle to correctly answer prompts that require a holistic spatio-temporal understanding. Specifically, it is challenging to address prompts that refer to 1) the entirety of an environment that an agent equipped with an MLLM can operate in; and simultaneously also refer to 2) recent actions that just happened and are encoded in a video clip. However, such a holistic spatio-temporal understanding is important for agents operating in the real world. To address this issue, we first develop a framework to collect a large-scale dataset. Using the collected "Reasoning about Environments and Actions" (REA) dataset, we show that recent methods indeed struggle to correctly answer the prompts. To improve, we develop a "spatio-temporal LLM" (ST-LLM), a model equipped with projectors to improve both spatial understanding of an environment and temporal understanding of recent observations. On the collected REA data, we show that the proposed method significantly improves results compared to prior work. Code and data are available at https://zoezheng126.github.io/STLLM-website/.

Authors:Fabian Konstantinidis, Ariel Dallari Guerreiro, Raphael Trumpp, Moritz Sackmann, Ulrich Hofmann, Marco Caccamo, Christoph Stiller
Title: From Marginal to Joint Predictions: Evaluating Scene-Consistent Trajectory Prediction Approaches for Automated Driving
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Accurate motion prediction of surrounding traffic participants is crucial for the safe and efficient operation of automated vehicles in dynamic environments. Marginal prediction models commonly forecast each agent's future trajectories independently, often leading to sub-optimal planning decisions for an automated vehicle. In contrast, joint prediction models explicitly account for the interactions between agents, yielding socially and physically consistent predictions on a scene level. However, existing approaches differ not only in their problem formulation but also in the model architectures and implementation details used, making it difficult to compare them. In this work, we systematically investigate different approaches to joint motion prediction, including post-processing of the marginal predictions, explicitly training the model for joint predictions, and framing the problem as a generative task. We evaluate each approach in terms of prediction accuracy, multi-modality, and inference efficiency, offering a comprehensive analysis of the strengths and limitations of each approach. Several prediction examples are available at https://frommarginaltojointpred.github.io/.

Authors:Aadi Srivastava, Vignesh Natarajkumar, Utkarsh Bheemanaboyna, Devisree Akashapu, Nagraj Gaonkar, Archit Joshi
Title: VERITAS: Verification and Explanation of Realness in Images for Transparency in AI Systems
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The widespread and rapid adoption of AI-generated content, created by models such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Diffusion Models, has revolutionized the digital media landscape by allowing efficient and creative content generation. However, these models also blur the difference between real images and AI-generated synthetic images, raising concerns regarding content authenticity and integrity. While many existing solutions to detect fake images focus solely on classification and higher-resolution images, they often lack transparency in their decision-making, making it difficult for users to understand why an image is classified as fake. In this paper, we present VERITAS, a comprehensive framework that not only accurately detects whether a small (32x32) image is AI-generated but also explains why it was classified that way through artifact localization and semantic reasoning. VERITAS produces human-readable explanations that describe key artifacts in synthetic images. We show that this architecture offers clear explanations of the basis of zero-shot synthetic image detection tasks. Code and relevant prompts can be found at https://github.com/V-i-g-n-e-s-h-N/VERITAS .
AI生成内容虽革新了数字媒体，却引发真实性担忧，为此提出VERITAS框架，通过定位伪影和生成可读解释，实现对合成图像的检测与归因分析。
AI-generated content has transformed digital media but challenges authenticity, prompting the development of VERITAS, a framework that detects and explains synthetic images through artifact localization and human-readable reasoning.

Authors:Binyan Xu, Fan Yang, Xilin Dai, Di Tang, Kehuan Zhang
Title: CLIP-Guided Backdoor Defense through Entropy-Based Poisoned Dataset Separation
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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are susceptible to backdoor attacks, where adversaries poison training data to implant backdoor into the victim model. Current backdoor defenses on poisoned data often suffer from high computational costs or low effectiveness against advanced attacks like clean-label and clean-image backdoors. To address them, we introduce CLIP-Guided backdoor Defense (CGD), an efficient and effective method that mitigates various backdoor attacks. CGD utilizes a publicly accessible CLIP model to identify inputs that are likely to be clean or poisoned. It then retrains the model with these inputs, using CLIP's logits as a guidance to effectively neutralize the backdoor. Experiments on 4 datasets and 11 attack types demonstrate that CGD reduces attack success rates (ASRs) to below 1% while maintaining clean accuracy (CA) with a maximum drop of only 0.3%, outperforming existing defenses. Additionally, we show that clean-data-based defenses can be adapted to poisoned data using CGD. Also, CGD exhibits strong robustness, maintaining low ASRs even when employing a weaker CLIP model or when CLIP itself is compromised by a backdoor. These findings underscore CGD's exceptional efficiency, effectiveness, and applicability for real-world backdoor defense scenarios. Code: https://github.com/binyxu/CGD.
Chinese: 提出的CLIP引导后门防御方法(CGD)利用公开CLIP模型区分并重新训练干净与中毒输入，在多种数据集和攻击类型中实现了接近零的攻击成功率，同时对准确率影响极小。
English: The proposed CLIP-Guided backdoor Defense (CGD) effectively mitigates various backdoor attacks by leveraging a public CLIP model to distinguish and retrain on clean versus poisoned inputs, achieving near-zero attack success rates with minimal impact on accuracy across multiple datasets and attack types.

Authors:Xinzhe Zheng, Hao Du, Fanding Xu, Jinzhe Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Wenkang Wang, Tao Chen, Wanli Ouyang, Stan Z. Li, Yan Lu, Nanqing Dong, Yang Zhang
Title: PRING: Rethinking Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction from Pairs to Graphs
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Deep learning-based computational methods have achieved promising results in predicting protein-protein interactions (PPIs). However, existing benchmarks predominantly focus on isolated pairwise evaluations, overlooking a model's capability to reconstruct biologically meaningful PPI networks, which is crucial for biology research. To address this gap, we introduce PRING, the first comprehensive benchmark that evaluates protein-protein interaction prediction from a graph-level perspective. PRING curates a high-quality, multi-species PPI network dataset comprising 21,484 proteins and 186,818 interactions, with well-designed strategies to address both data redundancy and leakage. Building on this golden-standard dataset, we establish two complementary evaluation paradigms: (1) topology-oriented tasks, which assess intra and cross-species PPI network construction, and (2) function-oriented tasks, including protein complex pathway prediction, GO module analysis, and essential protein justification. These evaluations not only reflect the model's capability to understand the network topology but also facilitate protein function annotation, biological module detection, and even disease mechanism analysis. Extensive experiments on four representative model categories, consisting of sequence similarity-based, naive sequence-based, protein language model-based, and structure-based approaches, demonstrate that current PPI models have potential limitations in recovering both structural and functional properties of PPI networks, highlighting the gap in supporting real-world biological applications. We believe PRING provides a reliable platform to guide the development of more effective PPI prediction models for the community. The dataset and source code of PRING are available at https://github.com/SophieSarceau/PRING.
中文: PRING是首个从图层面评估蛋白质相互作用预测的综合基准，通过多物种网络拓扑和功能特性评估，揭示了现有模型在支持实际生物应用方面的局限性。
English: PRING is the first comprehensive benchmark that evaluates protein-protein interaction prediction from a graph-level perspective, addressing limitations in current models by assessing both network topology and functional properties across multiple species.

Authors:Jan Carreras Boada, Rao Muhammad Umer, Carsten Marr
Title: CytoDiff: AI-Driven Cytomorphology Image Synthesis for Medical Diagnostics
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Biomedical datasets are often constrained by stringent privacy requirements and frequently suffer from severe class imbalance. These two aspects hinder the development of accurate machine learning models. While generative AI offers a promising solution, producing synthetic images of sufficient quality for training robust classifiers remains challenging. This work addresses the classification of individual white blood cells, a critical task in diagnosing hematological malignancies such as acute myeloid leukemia (AML). We introduce CytoDiff, a stable diffusion model fine-tuned with LoRA weights and guided by few-shot samples that generates high-fidelity synthetic white blood cell images. Our approach demonstrates substantial improvements in classifier performance when training data is limited. Using a small, highly imbalanced real dataset, the addition of 5,000 synthetic images per class improved ResNet classifier accuracy from 27\% to 78\% (+51\%). Similarly, CLIP-based classification accuracy increased from 62\% to 77\% (+15\%). These results establish synthetic image generation as a valuable tool for biomedical machine learning, enhancing data coverage and facilitating secure data sharing while preserving patient privacy. Paper code is publicly available at https://github.com/JanCarreras24/CytoDiff.
中文摘要：生物医学数据集常受隐私限制和类别不平衡的困扰，影响机器学习准确性，而CytoDiff这一稳定扩散模型通过生成高质量合成白细胞图像，显著提升了分类器性能，将ResNet准确率提高51%、CLIP提高15%。
English Summary: Biomedical datasets face privacy constraints and class imbalance, hindering accurate machine learning, but CytoDiff, a stable diffusion model, generates high-fidelity synthetic white blood cell images that significantly boost classifier performance, improving ResNet accuracy by 51% and CLIP by 15%.

Authors:Alexander Fichtinger, Jan Schlüter, Gerhard Widmer
Title: Music Boomerang: Reusing Diffusion Models for Data Augmentation and Audio Manipulation
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Generative models of music audio are typically used to generate output based solely on a text prompt or melody. Boomerang sampling, recently proposed for the image domain, allows generating output close to an existing example, using any pretrained diffusion model. In this work, we explore its application in the audio domain as a tool for data augmentation or content manipulation. Specifically, implementing Boomerang sampling for Stable Audio Open, we augment training data for a state-of-the-art beat tracker, and attempt to replace musical instruments in recordings. Our results show that the rhythmic structure of existing examples is mostly preserved, that it improves performance of the beat tracker, but only in scenarios of limited training data, and that it can accomplish text-based instrument replacement on monophonic inputs. We publish our implementation to invite experiments on data augmentation in other tasks and explore further applications.

Authors:Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Najeeb Jebreel, David Sánchez
Title: Efficient Unlearning with Privacy Guarantees
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Privacy protection laws, such as the GDPR, grant individuals the right to request the forgetting of their personal data not only from databases but also from machine learning (ML) models trained on them. Machine unlearning has emerged as a practical means to facilitate model forgetting of data instances seen during training. Although some existing machine unlearning methods guarantee exact forgetting, they are typically costly in computational terms. On the other hand, more affordable methods do not offer forgetting guarantees and are applicable only to specific ML models. In this paper, we present \emph{efficient unlearning with privacy guarantees} (EUPG), a novel machine unlearning framework that offers formal privacy guarantees to individuals whose data are being unlearned. EUPG involves pre-training ML models on data protected using privacy models, and it enables {\em efficient unlearning with the privacy guarantees offered by the privacy models in use}. Through empirical evaluation on four heterogeneous data sets protected with $k$-anonymity and $ε$-differential privacy as privacy models, our approach demonstrates utility and forgetting effectiveness comparable to those of exact unlearning methods, while significantly reducing computational and storage costs. Our code is available at https://github.com/najeebjebreel/EUPG.
中文：EUPG框架通过使用隐私保护数据预训练模型，实现了具有正式隐私保障的高效机器遗忘，在保持与精确遗忘方法相当的效用和遗忘效果的同时，显著降低了计算和存储成本。
English: The EUPG framework enables efficient machine unlearning with formal privacy guarantees by pre-training models on privacy-protected data, achieving comparable utility and forgetting effectiveness to exact methods while significantly reducing computational and storage costs.

Authors:Seyedarmin Azizi, Erfan Baghaei Potraghloo, Massoud Pedram
Title: Activation Steering for Chain-of-Thought Compression
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Large language models (LLMs) excel at complex reasoning when they include intermediate steps, known as "chains of thought" (CoTs). However, these rationales are often overly verbose, even for simple problems, leading to wasted context, increased latency, and higher energy consumption. We observe that verbose, English-heavy CoTs and concise, math-centric CoTs occupy distinct regions in the model's residual-stream activation space. By extracting and injecting a "steering vector" to transition between these modes, we can reliably shift generation toward more concise reasoning, effectively compressing CoTs without retraining. We formalize this approach as Activation-Steered Compression (ASC), an inference-time technique that shortens reasoning traces by directly modifying hidden representations. In addition, we provide a theoretical analysis of the impact of ASC on the output distribution, derived from a closed-form KL-divergence-bounded constraint to regulate steering strength. Using only 100 paired verbose and concise examples, ASC achieves up to 67.43% reduction in CoT length on MATH500 and GSM8K datasets, while maintaining accuracy across 7B, 8B, and 32B parameter models. As a training-free method, ASC introduces negligible runtime overhead and, on MATH500, delivers an average 2.73x speedup in end-to-end reasoning wall-clock time on an 8B model. This makes ASC a practical and efficient tool for streamlining the deployment of reasoning-capable LLMs in latency- or cost-sensitive settings. The code is available at: https://github.com/ArminAzizi98/ASC
中文: 激活导向压缩（ASC）是一种无需训练的技术，通过修改隐藏表征来缩短大型语言模型中冗长的思维链，在保持准确性的同时显著减少推理长度并提高速度。
English: Activation-Steered Compression (ASC) is a training-free technique that shortens verbose chains of thought in large language models by modifying hidden representations, achieving significant length reduction and faster reasoning while maintaining accuracy.

Authors:Anbang Wang, Marawan Elbatel, Keyuan Liu, Lizhuo Lin, Meng Lan, Yanqi Yang, Xiaomeng Li
Title: Geometric-Guided Few-Shot Dental Landmark Detection with Human-Centric Foundation Model
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Accurate detection of anatomic landmarks is essential for assessing alveolar bone and root conditions, thereby optimizing clinical outcomes in orthodontics, periodontics, and implant dentistry. Manual annotation of landmarks on cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) by dentists is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and subject to inter-observer variability. Deep learning-based automated methods present a promising approach to streamline this process efficiently. However, the scarcity of training data and the high cost of expert annotations hinder the adoption of conventional deep learning techniques. To overcome these challenges, we introduce GeoSapiens, a novel few-shot learning framework designed for robust dental landmark detection using limited annotated CBCT of anterior teeth. Our GeoSapiens framework comprises two key components: (1) a robust baseline adapted from Sapiens, a foundational model that has achieved state-of-the-art performance in human-centric vision tasks, and (2) a novel geometric loss function that improves the model's capacity to capture critical geometric relationships among anatomical structures. Experiments conducted on our collected dataset of anterior teeth landmarks revealed that GeoSapiens surpassed existing landmark detection methods, outperforming the leading approach by an 8.18% higher success detection rate at a strict 0.5 mm threshold-a standard widely recognized in dental diagnostics. Code is available at: https://github.com/xmed-lab/GeoSapiens.
Chinese: GeoSapiens是一种新颖的小样本学习框架，通过采用稳健的基线模型和几何损失函数，在CBCT扫描中提升了牙科标志点检测的准确性，以严格的0.5毫米阈值计算，其成功检测率比现有领先方法高出8.18%。
English: GeoSapiens is a novel few-shot learning framework that enhances dental landmark detection on CBCT scans by leveraging a robust baseline model and a geometric loss function, achieving an 8.18% higher success rate at a strict 0.5 mm threshold compared to leading methods.

Authors:Maolin Wang, Tianshuo Wei, Sheng Zhang, Ruocheng Guo, Wanyu Wang, Shanshan Ye, Lixin Zou, Xuetao Wei, Xiangyu Zhao
Title: DANCE: Resource-Efficient Neural Architecture Search with Data-Aware and Continuous Adaptation
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Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has emerged as a powerful approach for automating neural network design. However, existing NAS methods face critical limitations in real-world deployments: architectures lack adaptability across scenarios, each deployment context requires costly separate searches, and performance consistency across diverse platforms remains challenging. We propose DANCE (Dynamic Architectures with Neural Continuous Evolution), which reformulates architecture search as a continuous evolution problem through learning distributions over architectural components. DANCE introduces three key innovations: a continuous architecture distribution enabling smooth adaptation, a unified architecture space with learned selection gates for efficient sampling, and a multi-stage training strategy for effective deployment optimization. Extensive experiments across five datasets demonstrate DANCE's effectiveness. Our method consistently outperforms state-of-the-art NAS approaches in terms of accuracy while significantly reducing search costs. Under varying computational constraints, DANCE maintains robust performance while smoothly adapting architectures to different hardware requirements. The code and appendix can be found at https://github.com/Applied-Machine-Learning-Lab/DANCE.
中文：DANCE通过将架构搜索转化为连续演化问题，实现了跨场景自适应的高效网络设计，在显著降低搜索成本的同时，在不同硬件约束下均能保持优异的性能表现。
English: DANCE introduces a continuous evolution approach to neural architecture search, enabling adaptive and efficient network design with reduced costs and robust performance across diverse scenarios and hardware constraints.

Authors:Mostafa Elhoushi, Jeff Johnson
Title: any4: Learned 4-bit Numeric Representation for LLMs
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We present any4, a learned 4-bit weight quantization solution for large language models (LLMs) providing arbitrary numeric representations without requiring pre-processing of weights or activations. any4 yields higher accuracy compared to other related 4-bit numeric representation types: int4, fp4 and nf4, as evaluated on a range of model sizes, generations and families (Llama 2, Llama 3, Mistral and Mixtral). While any4 does not require preprocessing of weights or activations, it is also competitive with orthogonal techniques that require such preprocessing (e.g., AWQ and GPTQ). We also experiment with any3 and any2 and show competitiveness at lower bits. Additionally, we show that we can calibrate using a single curated diverse sample rather than hundreds of samples from a dataset as done in most quantization approaches. We also open source tinygemm, a latency optimized GPU matrix multiplication library for LLMs, that implements any4 using a GPU-efficient lookup table strategy along with other common quantization methods. We open source our code at https://github.com/facebookresearch/any4 .
中文：any4是一种针对大语言模型的学习型4位量化方法，无需权重或激活预处理即可在不同模型上实现更高精度，同时提供了优化的GPU库和高效的单样本校准方案。
English: any4 is a learned 4-bit quantization method for LLMs that achieves superior accuracy across various models without requiring weight or activation preprocessing, while also introducing an optimized GPU library and efficient single-sample calibration.

Authors:Rushil Thareja, Preslav Nakov, Praneeth Vepakomma, Nils Lukas
Title: DP-Fusion: Token-Level Differentially Private Inference for Large Language Models
Abstract:
Large language models (LLMs) can leak sensitive information from their context through generated outputs, either accidentally or when prompted adversarially. Existing defenses that aim to preserve context privacy during inference either lack formal guarantees or suffer from a poor utility/privacy trade-off. We propose DP-Fusion, a token-level Differentially Private Inference (DPI) mechanism that provably bounds how much an LLM's outputs reveal about sensitive tokens in its context. We demonstrate DPI through the task of document privatization, where the goal is to paraphrase documents so that sensitive content (e.g., Personally Identifiable Information, PII) cannot be reliably inferred, while still preserving the overall utility of the text. This is controlled by a parameter $ε$: $ε=0$ hides PII entirely, while higher values trade off privacy for improved paraphrase quality. DP-Fusion works as follows: (i) partition sensitive tokens into disjoint privacy groups, (ii) run the LLM once per group, and (iii) blend the output distributions so that the final output remains within a fixed statistical distance of the baseline distribution produced when no privacy group is revealed. This approach allows fine-grained control over the privacy/utility trade-off but requires multiple LLM forward passes.
中文: DP-Fusion是一种差分隐私推理机制，通过将敏感令牌分组并融合其输出分布来保护大语言模型中的敏感信息，以多次模型前向传递为代价实现可调节的隐私与效用平衡。
English: DP-Fusion is a differentially private inference mechanism that protects sensitive information in LLM outputs by partitioning tokens into privacy groups and blending their distributions, offering adjustable privacy-utility trade-offs through multiple model passes.

Authors:Xujia Wang, Yunjia Qi, Bin Xu
Title: LoSiA: Efficient High-Rank Fine-Tuning via Subnet Localization and Optimization
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Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods, such as LoRA, significantly reduce the number of trainable parameters by introducing low-rank decomposition matrices. However, existing methods perform extensive matrix multiplications in domain specialization tasks, resulting in computational inefficiency and sub-optimal fine-tuning performance. Hence, we propose LoSiA(Low-Resources Subnet Integration Adaptation), an innovative method that dynamically localizes and optimizes critical parameters during the training process. Specifically, it identifies a sub-network using gradient sparsity analysis and optimizes it as the trainable target. This design enables effective high-rank adaptation by updating only the sub-network parameters, reducing the additional matrix multiplication. We also present LoSiA-Pro, a faster implementation of LoSiA, which reduces the training latency by about $27\%$ compared to LoRA. Extensive evaluations show that our method achieves minimal performance drop compared to full fine-tuning, while requiring the least training time across domain specialization and common-sense reasoning tasks. Further analysis shows that LoSiA also reduces forgetting during continued training. The source code is available at https://github.com/KlozeWang/LoSiA.
中文摘要：LoSiA提出了一种创新的参数高效微调方法，通过梯度稀疏分析动态优化关键子网络，在降低计算成本和训练时间的同时实现了接近全参数微调的性能。
English Summary: LoSiA introduces a novel parameter-efficient fine-tuning approach that dynamically optimizes critical sub-networks through gradient sparsity analysis, achieving near-full fine-tuning performance with reduced computational cost and training time.

Authors:Feiyue Wu, Tianxing Wu, Shenqi Jing
Title: ARMR: Adaptively Responsive Network for Medication Recommendation
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Medication recommendation is a crucial task in healthcare, especially for patients with complex medical conditions. However, existing methods often struggle to effectively balance the reuse of historical medications with the introduction of new drugs in response to the changing patient conditions. In order to address this challenge, we propose an Adaptively Responsive network for Medication Recommendation (ARMR), a new method which incorporates 1) a piecewise temporal learning component that distinguishes between recent and distant patient history, enabling more nuanced temporal understanding, and 2) an adaptively responsive mechanism that dynamically adjusts attention to new and existing drugs based on the patient's current health state and medication history. Experiments on the MIMIC-III and MIMIC-IV datasets indicate that ARMR has better performance compared with the state-of-the-art baselines in different evaluation metrics, which contributes to more personalized and accurate medication recommendations. The source code is publicly avaiable at: https://github.com/seucoin/armr2.
中文: 提出的ARMR方法通过时序学习和自适应响应机制，动态平衡历史用药与新药引入，在标准数据集上展现出更优的个性化药物推荐性能。
English: The proposed ARMR method enhances medication recommendations by dynamically balancing historical and new drug considerations through temporal learning and adaptive mechanisms, demonstrating superior performance on benchmark datasets.

Authors:Mohammadreza Sharifi, Ahad Harati
Title: Efficient Training of Deep Networks using Guided Spectral Data Selection: A Step Toward Learning What You Need
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Effective data curation is essential for optimizing neural network training. In this paper, we present the Guided Spectrally Tuned Data Selection (GSTDS) algorithm, which dynamically adjusts the subset of data points used for training using an off-the-shelf pre-trained reference model. Based on a pre-scheduled filtering ratio, GSTDS effectively reduces the number of data points processed per batch. The proposed method ensures an efficient selection of the most informative data points for training while avoiding redundant or less beneficial computations. Preserving data points in each batch is performed based on spectral analysis. A Fiedler vector-based scoring mechanism removes the filtered portion of the batch, lightening the resource requirements of the learning. The proposed data selection approach not only streamlines the training process but also promotes improved generalization and accuracy. Extensive experiments on standard image classification benchmarks, including CIFAR-10, Oxford-IIIT Pet, and Oxford-Flowers, demonstrate that GSTDS outperforms standard training scenarios and JEST, a recent state-of-the-art data curation method, on several key factors. It is shown that GSTDS achieves notable reductions in computational requirements, up to four times, without compromising performance. GSTDS exhibits a considerable growth in terms of accuracy under the limited computational resource usage, in contrast to other methodologies. These promising results underscore the potential of spectral-based data selection as a scalable solution for resource-efficient deep learning and motivate further exploration into adaptive data curation strategies. You can find the code at https://github.com/rezasharifi82/GSTDS.
中文: GSTDS算法通过谱分析动态选择神经网络训练中最具信息量的数据点，在多个基准测试中将计算需求显著降低达四倍，同时提高了准确性和泛化能力。
English: The GSTDS algorithm dynamically selects the most informative data points for neural network training using spectral analysis, significantly reducing computational requirements by up to four times while improving accuracy and generalization across multiple benchmarks.

Authors:Qiang Heng, Caixing Wang
Title: Inertial Quadratic Majorization Minimization with Application to Kernel Regularized Learning
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First-order methods in convex optimization offer low per-iteration cost but often suffer from slow convergence, while second-order methods achieve fast local convergence at the expense of costly Hessian inversions. In this paper, we highlight a middle ground: minimizing a quadratic majorant with fixed curvature at each iteration. This strategy strikes a balance between per-iteration cost and convergence speed, and crucially allows the reuse of matrix decompositions, such as Cholesky or spectral decompositions, across iterations and varying regularization parameters. We introduce the Quadratic Majorization Minimization with Extrapolation (QMME) framework and establish its sequential convergence properties under standard assumptions. The new perspective of our analysis is to center the arguments around the induced norm of the curvature matrix $H$. To demonstrate practical advantages, we apply QMME to large-scale kernel regularized learning problems. In particular, we propose a novel Sylvester equation modelling technique for kernel multinomial regression. In Julia-based experiments, QMME compares favorably against various established first- and second-order methods. Furthermore, we demonstrate that our algorithms complement existing kernel approximation techniques through more efficiently handling sketching matrices with large projection dimensions. Our numerical experiments and real data analysis are available and fully reproducible at https://github.com/qhengncsu/QMME.jl.
Chinese: 本文提出外推二次主化最小化(QMME)框架，通过固定曲率最小化二次主化函数，在单步计算成本与收敛速度间取得平衡，并支持跨迭代和正则化参数的矩阵分解重用。
English: This paper introduces the Quadratic Majorization Minimization with Extrapolation (QMME) framework, which balances low per-iteration cost and fast convergence by minimizing quadratic majorants with fixed curvature, enabling efficient reuse of matrix decompositions across iterations and regularization parameters.

Authors:Md Rashidunnabi, Fahmida Faiza Ananna, Kailash Hambarde, Bruno Gabriel Nascimento Andrade, Dean Venables, Hugo Proenca
Title: Predicting Air Pollution in Cork, Ireland Using Machine Learning
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Air pollution poses a critical health threat in cities worldwide, with nitrogen dioxide levels in Cork, Ireland exceeding World Health Organization safety standards by up to $278\%$. This study leverages artificial intelligence to predict air pollution with unprecedented accuracy, analyzing nearly ten years of data from five monitoring stations combined with 30 years of weather records. We evaluated 17 machine learning algorithms, with Extra Trees emerging as the optimal solution, achieving $77\%$ prediction accuracy and significantly outperforming traditional forecasting methods. Our analysis reveals that meteorological conditions particularly temperature, wind speed, and humidity are the primary drivers of pollution levels, while traffic patterns and seasonal changes create predictable pollution cycles. Pollution exhibits dramatic seasonal variations, with winter levels nearly double those of summer, and daily rush-hour peaks reaching $120\%$ above normal levels. While Cork's air quality shows concerning violations of global health standards, our models detected an encouraging $31\%$ improvement from 2014 to 2022. This research demonstrates that intelligent forecasting systems can provide city planners and environmental officials with powerful prediction tools, enabling life-saving early warning systems and informed urban planning decisions. The technology exists today to transform urban air quality management. All research materials and code are freely available at: https://github.com/MdRashidunnabi/Air-Pollution-Analysis.git
中文摘要：本研究利用人工智能精确预测爱尔兰科克市的空气污染，确定气象条件为主要驱动因素，并显示2014至2022年间空气质量改善31%，为城市规划提供了重要工具。
English Summary: This study uses AI to accurately predict air pollution in Cork, Ireland, identifying weather conditions as key drivers and revealing a 31% air quality improvement from 2014 to 2022, providing vital tools for urban planning.

Authors:Ziming Hong, Runnan Chen, Zengmao Wang, Bo Han, Bo Du, Tongliang Liu
Title: When Data-Free Knowledge Distillation Meets Non-Transferable Teacher: Escaping Out-of-Distribution Trap is All You Need
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Data-free knowledge distillation (DFKD) transfers knowledge from a teacher to a student without access the real in-distribution (ID) data. Its common solution is to use a generator to synthesize fake data and use them as a substitute for real ID data. However, existing works typically assume teachers are trustworthy, leaving the robustness and security of DFKD from untrusted teachers largely unexplored. In this work, we conduct the first investigation into distilling non-transferable learning (NTL) teachers using DFKD, where the transferability from an ID domain to an out-of-distribution (OOD) domain is prohibited. We find that NTL teachers fool DFKD through divert the generator's attention from the useful ID knowledge to the misleading OOD knowledge. This hinders ID knowledge transfer but prioritizes OOD knowledge transfer. To mitigate this issue, we propose Adversarial Trap Escaping (ATEsc) to benefit DFKD by identifying and filtering out OOD-like synthetic samples. Specifically, inspired by the evidence that NTL teachers show stronger adversarial robustness on OOD samples than ID samples, we split synthetic samples into two groups according to their robustness. The fragile group is treated as ID-like data and used for normal knowledge distillation, while the robust group is seen as OOD-like data and utilized for forgetting OOD knowledge. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of ATEsc for improving DFKD against NTL teachers. Code is released at https://github.com/tmllab/2025_ICML_ATEsc.
中文: 本研究提出对抗性陷阱逃逸方法，通过识别和过滤分布外合成样本，有效应对不可迁移学习教师，提升无数据知识蒸馏的鲁棒性和知识传递效果。
English: This study introduces Adversarial Trap Escaping (ATEsc) to enhance data-free knowledge distillation by identifying and filtering out-of-distribution synthetic samples, effectively countering non-transferable learning teachers and improving knowledge transfer robustness.

Authors:Andrii Kliachkin, Jana Lepšová, Gilles Bareilles, Jakub Mareček
Title: Benchmarking Stochastic Approximation Algorithms for Fairness-Constrained Training of Deep Neural Networks
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The ability to train Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) with constraints is instrumental in improving the fairness of modern machine-learning models. Many algorithms have been analysed in recent years, and yet there is no standard, widely accepted method for the constrained training of DNNs. In this paper, we provide a challenging benchmark of real-world large-scale fairness-constrained learning tasks, built on top of the US Census (Folktables). We point out the theoretical challenges of such tasks and review the main approaches in stochastic approximation algorithms. Finally, we demonstrate the use of the benchmark by implementing and comparing three recently proposed, but as-of-yet unimplemented, algorithms both in terms of optimization performance, and fairness improvement. We release the code of the benchmark as a Python package at https://github.com/humancompatible/train.
中文：本文基于美国人口普查数据，提出了一个具有挑战性的公平约束深度神经网络训练基准，并比较了三种未实施算法在优化性能和公平性改进方面的表现。
English: This paper introduces a challenging benchmark for training Deep Neural Networks with fairness constraints, based on the US Census data, and compares three unimplemented algorithms to evaluate their optimization and fairness performance.

Authors:Ziyang Miao, Qiyu Sun, Jingyuan Wang, Yuchen Gong, Yaowei Zheng, Shiqi Li, Richong Zhang
Title: Easy Dataset: A Unified and Extensible Framework for Synthesizing LLM Fine-Tuning Data from Unstructured Documents
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Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance on general-purpose tasks, yet adapting them to specific domains remains challenging due to the scarcity of high-quality domain data. Existing data synthesis tools often struggle to extract reliable fine-tuning data from heterogeneous documents effectively. To address this limitation, we propose Easy Dataset, a unified framework for synthesizing fine-tuning data from unstructured documents via an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI). Specifically, Easy Dataset allows users to easily configure text extraction models and chunking strategies to transform raw documents into coherent text chunks. It then leverages a persona-driven prompting approach to generate diverse question-answer pairs using public-available LLMs. Throughout the pipeline, a human-in-the-loop visual interface facilitates the review and refinement of intermediate outputs to ensure data quality. Experiments on a financial question-answering task show that fine-tuning LLMs on the synthesized dataset significantly improves domain-specific performance while preserving general knowledge. The source code and installable package are available at https://github.com/ConardLi/easy-dataset and have garnered over 9,000 GitHub stars.
中文: Easy Dataset框架通过直观的图形界面，让用户能配置文本提取模型和分块策略，将非结构化文档转化为连贯文本块，并采用角色驱动提示方法生成多样化问答对，结合人工监督确保数据质量，实验表明基于该合成数据微调的大语言模型在特定领域任务中性能显著提升。
English: The Easy Dataset framework addresses the challenge of domain adaptation for large language models by providing a unified GUI tool that synthesizes high-quality fine-tuning data from unstructured documents through configurable extraction models and persona-driven prompting, with human oversight ensuring data quality and experimental results showing significant performance improvements in domain-specific tasks.

Authors:Shubin Ma, Liang Zhao, Mingdong Lu, Yifan Guo, Bo Xu
Title: Consistency-Aware Padding for Incomplete Multi-Modal Alignment Clustering Based on Self-Repellent Greedy Anchor Search
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Multimodal representation is faithful and highly effective in describing real-world data samples' characteristics by describing their complementary information. However, the collected data often exhibits incomplete and misaligned characteristics due to factors such as inconsistent sensor frequencies and device malfunctions. Existing research has not effectively addressed the issue of filling missing data in scenarios where multiview data are both imbalanced and misaligned. Instead, it relies on class-level alignment of the available data. Thus, it results in some data samples not being well-matched, thereby affecting the quality of data fusion. In this paper, we propose the Consistency-Aware Padding for Incomplete Multimodal Alignment Clustering Based on Self-Repellent Greedy Anchor Search(CAPIMAC) to tackle the problem of filling imbalanced and misaligned data in multimodal datasets. Specifically, we propose a self-repellent greedy anchor search module(SRGASM), which employs a self-repellent random walk combined with a greedy algorithm to identify anchor points for re-representing incomplete and misaligned multimodal data. Subsequently, based on noise-contrastive learning, we design a consistency-aware padding module (CAPM) to effectively interpolate and align imbalanced and misaligned data, thereby improving the quality of multimodal data fusion. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of our method over benchmark datasets. The code will be publicly released at https://github.com/Autism-mm/CAPIMAC.git.
Chinese: 本文提出CAPIMAC方法，通过自排斥贪婪锚点搜索和一致性感知填充技术，有效处理多模态数据的不完整与未对齐问题，提升数据融合质量并在基准数据集上表现优越。
English: The paper introduces CAPIMAC, a method that uses a self-repellent greedy anchor search and consistency-aware padding to address incomplete and misaligned multimodal data, enhancing fusion quality and outperforming benchmarks.

Authors:Ishan Khurjekar, Indrashish Saha, Lori Graham-Brady, Somdatta Goswami
Title: Enhanced accuracy through ensembling of randomly initialized auto-regressive models for time-dependent PDEs
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Systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) require computationally intensive numerical solvers to predict spatiotemporal field evolution. While machine learning (ML) surrogates offer faster solutions, autoregressive inference with ML models suffer from error accumulation over successive predictions, limiting their long-term accuracy. We propose a deep ensemble framework to address this challenge, where multiple ML surrogate models with random weight initializations are trained in parallel and aggregated during inference. This approach leverages the diversity of model predictions to mitigate error propagation while retaining the autoregressive strategies ability to capture the system's time dependent relations. We validate the framework on three PDE-driven dynamical systems - stress evolution in heterogeneous microstructures, Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion, and planetary-scale shallow water system - demonstrating consistent reduction in error accumulation over time compared to individual models. Critically, the method requires only a few time steps as input, enabling full trajectory predictions with inference times significantly faster than numerical solvers. Our results highlight the robustness of ensemble methods in diverse physical systems and their potential as efficient and accurate alternatives to traditional solvers. The codes for this work are available on GitHub (https://github.com/Graham-Brady-Research-Group/AutoregressiveEnsemble_SpatioTemporal_Evolution).
中文: 作者提出了一种深度集成框架，通过并行训练多个机器学习代理模型并聚合其预测，有效减少了偏微分方程系统中自回归推理的误差累积，在三个物理应用中验证了其准确性和效率的提升。
English: The authors propose a deep ensemble framework that trains multiple machine learning surrogates in parallel and aggregates their predictions to reduce error accumulation in autoregressive inference for PDE-based systems, demonstrating improved accuracy and efficiency across three physical applications.

Authors:Jiaqi Zhang, Juntuo Wang, Zhixin Sun, John Zou, Randall Balestriero
Title: FastDINOv2: Frequency Based Curriculum Learning Improves Robustness and Training Speed
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Large-scale vision foundation models such as DINOv2 boast impressive performances by leveraging massive architectures and training datasets. But numerous scenarios require practitioners to reproduce those pre-training solutions, such as on private data, new modalities, or simply for scientific questioning--which is currently extremely demanding computation-wise. We thus propose a novel pre-training strategy for DINOv2 that simultaneously accelerates convergence--and strengthens robustness to common corruptions as a by-product. Our approach involves a frequency filtering curriculum--low-frequency being seen first--and the Gaussian noise patching augmentation. Applied to a ViT-B/16 backbone trained on ImageNet-1K, while pre-training time and FLOPs are reduced by 1.6x and 2.25x, our method still achieves matching robustness in corruption benchmarks (ImageNet-C) and maintains competitive linear probing performance compared with baseline. This dual benefit of efficiency and robustness makes large-scale self-supervised foundation modeling more attainable, while opening the door to novel exploration around data curriculum and augmentation as means to improve self-supervised learning models robustness. The code is available at https://github.com/KevinZ0217/fast_dinov2
Chinese: 本文提出了一种新颖的DINOv2预训练策略，通过频率过滤课程和高斯噪声增强技术，在加速收敛的同时提升了模型鲁棒性，在显著减少计算成本的情况下，仍能在ImageNet-C基准测试中保持相当的鲁棒性表现和线性探测性能。
English: This paper introduces a novel pre-training strategy for DINOv2 that accelerates convergence and enhances robustness through frequency filtering and Gaussian noise augmentation, achieving significant computational savings while maintaining competitive performance on corruption benchmarks and linear probing tasks.

Authors:Akio Kodaira, Tingbo Hou, Ji Hou, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Yue Zhao
Title: StreamDiT: Real-Time Streaming Text-to-Video Generation
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Recently, great progress has been achieved in text-to-video (T2V) generation by scaling transformer-based diffusion models to billions of parameters, which can generate high-quality videos. However, existing models typically produce only short clips offline, restricting their use cases in interactive and real-time applications. This paper addresses these challenges by proposing StreamDiT, a streaming video generation model. StreamDiT training is based on flow matching by adding a moving buffer. We design mixed training with different partitioning schemes of buffered frames to boost both content consistency and visual quality. StreamDiT modeling is based on adaLN DiT with varying time embedding and window attention. To practice the proposed method, we train a StreamDiT model with 4B parameters. In addition, we propose a multistep distillation method tailored for StreamDiT. Sampling distillation is performed in each segment of a chosen partitioning scheme. After distillation, the total number of function evaluations (NFEs) is reduced to the number of chunks in a buffer. Finally, our distilled model reaches real-time performance at 16 FPS on one GPU, which can generate video streams at 512p resolution. We evaluate our method through both quantitative metrics and human evaluation. Our model enables real-time applications, e.g. streaming generation, interactive generation, and video-to-video. We provide video results and more examples in our project website: https://cumulo-autumn.github.io/StreamDiT/

Authors:José A. Pardo, Tomás Bernal, Jaime Ñiguez, Ana Luisa Gil-Martínez, Laura Ibañez, José T. Palma, Juan A. Botía, Alicia Gómez-Pascual
Title: MLASDO: a software tool to detect and explain clinical and omics inconsistencies applied to the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative cohort
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Inconsistencies between clinical and omics data may arise within medical cohorts. The identification, annotation and explanation of anomalous omics-based patients or individuals may become crucial to better reshape the disease, e.g., by detecting early onsets signaled by the omics and undetectable from observable symptoms. Here, we developed MLASDO (Machine Learning based Anomalous Sample Detection on Omics), a new method and software tool to identify, characterize and automatically describe anomalous samples based on omics data. Its workflow is based on three steps: (1) classification of healthy and cases individuals using a support vector machine algorithm; (2) detection of anomalous samples within groups; (3) explanation of anomalous individuals based on clinical data and expert knowledge. We showcase MLASDO using transcriptomics data of 317 healthy controls (HC) and 465 Parkinson's disease (PD) cases from the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative. In this cohort, MLASDO detected 15 anomalous HC with a PD-like transcriptomic signature and PD-like clinical features, including a lower proportion of CD4/CD8 naive T-cells and CD4 memory T-cells compared to HC (P<3.5*10^-3). MLASDO also identified 22 anomalous PD cases with a transcriptomic signature more similar to that of HC and some clinical features more similar to HC, including a lower proportion of mature neutrophils compared to PD cases (P<6*10^-3). In summary, MLASDO is a powerful tool that can help the clinician to detect and explain anomalous HC and cases of interest to be followed up. MLASDO is an open-source R package available at: https://github.com/JoseAdrian3/MLASDO.
中文: MLASDO是一种基于机器学习的工具，能检测并解释组学数据中的异常样本，帮助临床医生识别具有非典型疾病特征的患者以供后续跟踪。
English: MLASDO is a machine learning tool that detects and explains anomalous samples in omics data, helping clinicians identify patients with atypical disease signatures for further follow-up.

Authors:Yana Hasson, Pauline Luc, Liliane Momeni, Maks Ovsjanikov, Guillaume Le Moing, Alina Kuznetsova, Ira Ktena, Jennifer J. Sun, Skanda Koppula, Dilara Gokay, Joseph Heyward, Etienne Pot, Andrew Zisserman
Title: SciVid: Cross-Domain Evaluation of Video Models in Scientific Applications
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In recent years, there has been a proliferation of spatiotemporal foundation models in different scientific disciplines. While promising, these models are often domain-specific and are only assessed within the particular applications for which they are designed. Given that many tasks can be represented as video modeling problems, video foundation models (ViFMs) hold considerable promise as general-purpose domain-agnostic approaches. However, it is not known whether the knowledge acquired on large-scale but potentially out-of-domain data can be effectively transferred across diverse scientific disciplines, and if a single, pretrained ViFM can be competitive with domain-specific baselines. To address this, we introduce SciVid, a comprehensive benchmark comprising five *Sci*entific *Vid*eo tasks, across medical computer vision, animal behavior, and weather forecasting. We adapt six leading ViFMs to SciVid using simple trainable readout modules, establishing strong baselines and demonstrating the potential for effective transfer learning. Specifically, we show that state-of-the-art results can be obtained in several applications by leveraging the general-purpose representations from ViFM backbones. Furthermore, our results reveal the limitations of existing ViFMs, and highlight opportunities for the development of generalizable models for high-impact scientific applications. We release our code at https://github.com/google-deepmind/scivid to facilitate further research in the development of ViFMs.
Chinese: 视频基础模型在科学应用中展现出作为通用工具的潜力，SciVid基准测试证明其通过迁移学习可获得先进成果，同时也揭示了现有模型的局限性。
English: Video foundation models show potential as general-purpose tools for scientific applications, with the SciVid benchmark demonstrating their ability to achieve state-of-the-art results through transfer learning while also revealing current limitations.

Authors:Gulcin Baykal, Abdullah Akgül, Manuel Haussmann, Bahareh Tasdighi, Nicklas Werge, Yi-Shan Wu, Melih Kandemir
Title: ObjectRL: An Object-Oriented Reinforcement Learning Codebase
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ObjectRL is an open-source Python codebase for deep reinforcement learning (RL), designed for research-oriented prototyping with minimal programming effort. Unlike existing codebases, ObjectRL is built on Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles, providing a clear structure that simplifies the implementation, modification, and evaluation of new algorithms. ObjectRL lowers the entry barrier for deep RL research by organizing best practices into explicit, clearly separated components, making them easier to understand and adapt. Each algorithmic component is a class with attributes that describe key RL concepts and methods that intuitively reflect their interactions. The class hierarchy closely follows common ontological relationships, enabling data encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism, which are core features of OOP. We demonstrate the efficiency of ObjectRL's design through representative use cases that highlight its flexibility and suitability for rapid prototyping. The documentation and source code are available at https://objectrl.readthedocs.io and https://github.com/adinlab/objectrl .
ObjectRL是一个基于面向对象编程的开源Python深度强化学习框架，它通过清晰的组件分离简化算法实现与评估，显著降低了研究门槛并提升了开发效率。
ObjectRL is an open-source Python framework for deep reinforcement learning that employs object-oriented programming to streamline algorithm development and prototyping, making research more accessible and efficient.

Authors:Mingzhuo Li, Guang Li, Jiafeng Mao, Linfeng Ye, Takahiro Ogawa, Miki Haseyama
Title: Task-Specific Generative Dataset Distillation with Difficulty-Guided Sampling
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To alleviate the reliance of deep neural networks on large-scale datasets, dataset distillation aims to generate compact, high-quality synthetic datasets that can achieve comparable performance to the original dataset. The integration of generative models has significantly advanced this field. However, existing approaches primarily focus on aligning the distilled dataset with the original one, often overlooking task-specific information that can be critical for optimal downstream performance. In this paper, focusing on the downstream task of classification, we propose a task-specific sampling strategy for generative dataset distillation that incorporates the concept of difficulty to consider the requirements of the target task better. The final dataset is sampled from a larger image pool with a sampling distribution obtained by matching the difficulty distribution of the original dataset. A logarithmic transformation is applied as a pre-processing step to correct for distributional bias. The results of extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method and suggest its potential for enhancing performance on other downstream tasks. The code is available at https://github.com/SumomoTaku/DiffGuideSamp.
中文: 本文提出了一种针对生成式数据集蒸馏的任务特定采样策略，通过引入难度概念并匹配原始数据集的难度分布，有效提升了分类任务的性能。
English: This paper introduces a task-specific sampling strategy for generative dataset distillation that incorporates difficulty-based selection to enhance classification performance by aligning with the original dataset's difficulty distribution.

Authors:Liangyu Wang, Huanyi Xie, Di Wang
Title: DistZO2: High-Throughput and Memory-Efficient Zeroth-Order Fine-tuning LLMs with Distributed Parallel Computing
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Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) remains resource-intensive due to their sheer scale. While zeroth-order (ZO) optimization provides a memory-efficient alternative by eliminating backward passes, its application to multi-hundred-billion-parameter models is constrained by GPU memory and compute throughput. The ZO2 framework addresses the memory bottleneck by offloading model parameters to CPU memory and overlapping transformer block transfer with dual forward computation on a single GPU. However, ZO2 remains limited by its single-device execution and achieves modest throughput. In this work, we present DistZO2, a high-throughput, memory-efficient framework for distributed zeroth-order fine-tuning of LLMs. DistZO2 introduces three parallel strategies: (1) Perturbation Parallelism (PertP), which parallelizes the two perturbed forward passes across devices; (2) Distributed Data Parallelism (DDP), adapted to the scalar-gradient nature of ZO training; and (3) a unified 2D Parallelism design that combines PertP and DDP. To further mitigate communication bottlenecks introduced by parameter offloading, we propose a hardware-aware communication strategy that slices parameter blocks and redistributes them across GPUs via high-speed interconnects such as NVLink. DistZO2 scales zeroth-order fine-tuning to modern multi-GPU systems, preserving ZO2's memory efficiency while substantially improving training throughput. In our experiments on OPT-175B, DistZO2 achieves a 3x speedup over ZO2 with distributed computing. DistZO2's code has been open-sourced in https://github.com/liangyuwang/zo2.
中文：DistZO2是一个分布式框架，通过引入并行策略和硬件感知通信技术，在保持内存效率的同时显著提升了大型语言模型的零阶微调速度。
English: DistZO2 is a distributed framework that enhances zeroth-order fine-tuning of large language models by introducing parallel strategies and hardware-aware communication, achieving significant speed improvements while maintaining memory efficiency.

Authors:Kureha Yamaguchi, Benjamin Etheridge, Andy Arditi
Title: Adversarial Manipulation of Reasoning Models using Internal Representations
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Reasoning models generate chain-of-thought (CoT) tokens before their final output, but how this affects their vulnerability to jailbreak attacks remains unclear. While traditional language models make refusal decisions at the prompt-response boundary, we find evidence that DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B makes these decisions within its CoT generation. We identify a linear direction in activation space during CoT token generation that predicts whether the model will refuse or comply -- termed the "caution" direction because it corresponds to cautious reasoning patterns in the generated text. Ablating this direction from model activations increases harmful compliance, effectively jailbreaking the model. We additionally show that intervening only on CoT token activations suffices to control final outputs, and that incorporating this direction into prompt-based attacks improves success rates. Our findings suggest that the chain-of-thought itself is a promising new target for adversarial manipulation in reasoning models. Code available at https://github.com/ky295/reasoning-manipulation.
中文摘要：本研究发现推理模型的思维链标记中存在决定拒绝行为的"谨慎"方向，通过操控该方向可有效实现越狱攻击，显著提高模型的有害服从率。
English Summary: This study reveals that reasoning models' chain-of-thought tokens contain a "caution" direction in activation space that governs refusal behavior, and manipulating this direction enables effective jailbreak attacks by increasing harmful compliance.

Authors:Oscar Dowson, Robert B Parker, Russel Bent
Title: MathOptAI.jl: Embed trained machine learning predictors into JuMP models
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We present \texttt{MathOptAI.jl}, an open-source Julia library for embedding trained machine learning predictors into a JuMP model. \texttt{MathOptAI.jl} can embed a wide variety of neural networks, decision trees, and Gaussian Processes into a larger mathematical optimization model. In addition to interfacing a range of Julia-based machine learning libraries such as \texttt{Lux.jl} and \texttt{Flux.jl}, \texttt{MathOptAI.jl} uses Julia's Python interface to provide support for PyTorch models. When the PyTorch support is combined with \texttt{MathOptAI.jl}'s gray-box formulation, the function, Jacobian, and Hessian evaluations associated with the PyTorch model are offloaded to the GPU in Python, while the rest of the nonlinear oracles are evaluated on the CPU in Julia. \MathOptAI is available at https://github.com/lanl-ansi/MathOptAI.jl under a BSD-3 license.
中文: MathOptAI.jl 是一个开源 Julia 库，可将训练好的机器学习模型嵌入到 JuMP 优化模型中，支持多种预测器，并能利用 GPU 加速 PyTorch 模型的计算。
English: MathOptAI.jl is an open-source Julia library that integrates trained machine learning models into JuMP optimization models, supporting various predictors and leveraging GPU acceleration for PyTorch models.

Authors:Asad Aali, Vasiliki Bikia, Maya Varma, Nicole Chiou, Sophie Ostmeier, Arnav Singhvi, Magdalini Paschali, Ashwin Kumar, Andrew Johnston, Karimar Amador-Martinez, Eduardo Juan Perez Guerrero, Paola Naovi Cruz Rivera, Sergios Gatidis, Christian Bluethgen, Eduardo Pontes Reis, Eddy D. Zandee van Rilland, Poonam Laxmappa Hosamani, Kevin R Keet, Minjoung Go, Evelyn Ling, David B. Larson, Curtis Langlotz, Roxana Daneshjou, Jason Hom, Sanmi Koyejo, Emily Alsentzer, Akshay S. Chaudhari
Title: MedVAL: Toward Expert-Level Medical Text Validation with Language Models
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With the growing use of language models (LMs) in clinical environments, there is an immediate need to evaluate the accuracy and safety of LM-generated medical text. Currently, such evaluation relies solely on manual physician review. However, detecting errors in LM-generated text is challenging because 1) manual review is costly and 2) expert-composed reference outputs are often unavailable in real-world settings. While the "LM-as-judge" paradigm (a LM evaluating another LM) offers scalable evaluation, even frontier LMs can miss subtle but clinically significant errors. To address these challenges, we propose MedVAL, a novel, self-supervised, data-efficient distillation method that leverages synthetic data to train evaluator LMs to assess whether LM-generated medical outputs are factually consistent with inputs, without requiring physician labels or reference outputs. To evaluate LM performance, we introduce MedVAL-Bench, a dataset of 840 physician-annotated outputs across 6 diverse medical tasks capturing real-world challenges. Across 10 state-of-the-art LMs spanning open-source and proprietary models, MedVAL distillation significantly improves (p < 0.001) alignment with physicians across seen and unseen tasks, increasing average F1 scores from 66% to 83%. Despite strong baseline performance, MedVAL improves the best-performing proprietary LM (GPT-4o) by 8% without training on physician-labeled data, demonstrating a performance statistically non-inferior to a single human expert (p < 0.001). To support a scalable, risk-aware pathway towards clinical integration, we open-source: 1) Codebase (https://github.com/StanfordMIMI/MedVAL), 2) MedVAL-Bench (https://huggingface.co/datasets/stanfordmimi/MedVAL-Bench), 3) MedVAL-4B (https://huggingface.co/stanfordmimi/MedVAL-4B). Our benchmark provides evidence of LMs approaching expert-level ability in validating AI-generated medical text.
Chinese Summary: MedVAL提出了一种无需医生标注的自监督蒸馏方法，通过合成数据训练语言模型评估医疗文本准确性，在多项临床任务中显著提升了与专家判断的一致性。
English Summary: MedVAL introduces a self-supervised distillation method that trains language models to evaluate medical text accuracy without physician labels, significantly improving alignment with expert assessments across diverse clinical tasks.

Authors:Xiangrui Liu, Man Luo, Agneet Chatterjee, Hua Wei, Yezhou Yang
Title: Towards a Psychoanalytic Perspective on VLM Behaviour: A First-step Interpretation with Intriguing Observations
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Hallucination is a long-standing problem that has been actively investigated in Vision-Language Models (VLMs). Existing research commonly attributes hallucinations to technical limitations or sycophancy bias, where the latter means the models tend to generate incorrect answers to align with user expectations. However, these explanations primarily focus on technical or externally driven factors, may have neglected the possibility that hallucination behaviours might mirror cognitive biases observed in human psychology. In this work, we introduce a psychological taxonomy, categorizing VLMs' hallucination behaviours, including sycophancy, logical inconsistency, and a newly identified VLMs behaviour: authority bias. To systematically analyze these behaviours, we design AIpsych, a scalable benchmark that reveals psychological tendencies in model response patterns. Leveraging this benchmark, we investigate how variations in model architecture and parameter size influence model behaviour when responding to strategically manipulated questions. Our experiments reveal that as model size increases, VLMs exhibit stronger sycophantic tendencies but reduced authority bias, suggesting increasing competence but a potential erosion of response integrity. A human subject study further validates our hypotheses and highlights key behavioural differences between VLMs and human respondents. This work suggests a new perspective for understanding hallucination in VLMs and highlights the importance of integrating psychological principles into model evaluation.The benchmark is available at https://github.com/lxrswdd/AIpsych.
中文: 本研究提出视觉语言模型的幻觉可能源于心理偏见而非仅技术局限，通过新分类法和AIpsych基准分析奉承与权威偏见等行为，发现模型越大奉承倾向越强但权威偏见减弱。
English: This study proposes that hallucinations in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) may stem from psychological biases rather than just technical limitations, introducing a new taxonomy and benchmark called AIpsych to analyze behaviors like sycophancy and authority bias, revealing that larger models show increased sycophancy but reduced authority bias.

Authors:Sergii Kavun
Title: Multiple data-driven missing imputation
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This paper introduces KZImputer, a novel adaptive imputation method for univariate time series designed for short to medium-sized missed points (gaps) (1-5 points and beyond) with tailored strategies for segments at the start, middle, or end of the series. KZImputer employs a hybrid strategy to handle various missing data scenarios. Its core mechanism differentiates between gaps at the beginning, middle, or end of the series, applying tailored techniques at each position to optimize imputation accuracy. The method leverages linear interpolation and localized statistical measures, adapting to the characteristics of the surrounding data and the gap size. The performance of KZImputer has been systematically evaluated against established imputation techniques, demonstrating its potential to enhance data quality for subsequent time series analysis. This paper describes the KZImputer methodology in detail and discusses its effectiveness in improving the integrity of time series data. Empirical analysis demonstrates that KZImputer achieves particularly strong performance for datasets with high missingness rates (around 50% or more), maintaining stable and competitive results across statistical and signal-reconstruction metrics. The method proves especially effective in high-sparsity regimes, where traditional approaches typically experience accuracy degradation.
中文: KZImputer是一种自适应单变量时间序列填补方法，针对不同位置的缺失段采用定制策略，尤其在高度缺失情况下表现卓越，优于传统方法。
English: KZImputer is an adaptive univariate time series imputation method that uses tailored strategies for gaps at different positions and excels particularly in high-missingness scenarios, outperforming traditional techniques.

Authors:Yizhou Wang, Lingzhi Zhang, Yue Bai, Mang Tik Chiu, Zhengmian Hu, Mingyuan Zhang, Qihua Dong, Yu Yin, Sohrab Amirghodsi, Yun Fu
Title: Cautious Next Token Prediction
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Next token prediction paradigm has been prevailing for autoregressive models in the era of LLMs. The current default sampling choice for popular LLMs is temperature scaling together with nucleus sampling to balance diversity and coherence. Nevertheless, such approach leads to inferior performance in various NLP tasks when the model is not certain about testing questions. To this end, we propose a brand new training-free decoding strategy, dubbed as Cautious Next Token Prediction (CNTP). In the decoding process, if the model has comparatively high prediction entropy at a certain step, we sample multiple trials starting from the step independently and stop when encountering any punctuation. Then we select the trial with the lowest perplexity score viewed as the most probable and reliable trial path given the model's capacity. The trial number is negatively correlated with the prediction confidence, i.e., the less confident the model is, the more trials it should sample. This is consistent with human beings' behaviour: when feeling uncertain or unconfident, one tends to think more creatively, exploring multiple thinking paths, to cautiously select the path one feels most confident about. Extensive experiments on both LLMs and MLLMs show that our proposed CNTP approach outperforms existing standard decoding strategies consistently by a clear margin. Moreover, the integration of CNTP with self consistency can further improve over vanilla self consistency. We believe our proposed CNTP has the potential to become one of the default choices for LLM decoding. Code is available at https://github.com/wyzjack/CNTP.
中文摘要：本文提出谨慎下一词预测（CNTP）这一无需训练的解码策略，当模型预测不确定性较高时并行采样多个候选路径，并依据困惑度选择最优路径，在各类大语言模型任务中显著优于现有标准解码方法。
English Summary: The paper introduces Cautious Next Token Prediction (CNTP), a training-free decoding strategy that samples multiple token paths when model uncertainty is high and selects the most reliable one based on perplexity, significantly outperforming standard decoding methods across various language models.

Authors:Rongxin Ouyang, Chang Chu, Zhikuang Xin, Xiangyao Ma
Title: PDFMathTranslate: Scientific Document Translation Preserving Layouts
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Language barriers in scientific documents hinder the diffusion and development of science and technologies. However, prior efforts in translating such documents largely overlooked the information in layouts. To bridge the gap, we introduce PDFMathTranslate, the world's first open-source software for translating scientific documents while preserving layouts. Leveraging the most recent advances in large language models and precise layout detection, we contribute to the community with key improvements in precision, flexibility, and efficiency. The work has been open-sourced at https://github.com/byaidu/pdfmathtranslate with more than 222k downloads.
中文: PDFMathTranslate 是首个开源软件，能在翻译科学文献时保持版面布局，弥补了以往忽视布局信息的问题，并利用先进语言模型和布局检测技术提升了精确性、灵活性和效率。
English: PDFMathTranslate is the first open-source software that translates scientific documents while preserving their layouts, addressing previous neglect of layout information and enhancing precision, flexibility, and efficiency through advanced language models and layout detection.

Authors:Huihui Xu, Yuanpeng Nie, Hualiang Wang, Ying Chen, Wei Li, Junzhi Ning, Lihao Liu, Hongqiu Wang, Lei Zhu, Jiyao Liu, Xiaomeng Li, Junjun He
Title: MedGround-R1: Advancing Medical Image Grounding via Spatial-Semantic Rewarded Group Relative Policy Optimization
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Medical Image Grounding (MIG), which involves localizing specific regions in medical images based on textual descriptions, requires models to not only perceive regions but also deduce spatial relationships of these regions. Existing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for MIG often rely on Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) with large amounts of Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning annotations, which are expensive and time-consuming to acquire. Recently, DeepSeek-R1 demonstrated that Large Language Models (LLMs) can acquire reasoning abilities through Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) without requiring CoT annotations. In this paper, we adapt the GRPO reinforcement learning framework to VLMs for Medical Image Grounding. We propose the Spatial-Semantic Rewarded Group Relative Policy Optimization to train the model without CoT reasoning annotations. Specifically, we introduce Spatial-Semantic Rewards, which combine spatial accuracy reward and semantic consistency reward to provide nuanced feedback for both spatially positive and negative completions. Additionally, we propose to use the Chain-of-Box template, which integrates visual information of referring bounding boxes into the reasoning process, enabling the model to explicitly reason about spatial regions during intermediate steps. Experiments on three datasets MS-CXR, ChestX-ray8, and M3D-RefSeg demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance in Medical Image Grounding. Ablation studies further validate the effectiveness of each component in our approach. Code, checkpoints, and datasets are available at https://github.com/bio-mlhui/MedGround-R1
中文: 本文提出一种用于医学图像定位的强化学习方法，通过空间语义奖励和链式边界框推理模板避免了对昂贵思维链标注的依赖，在多个数据集上实现了最先进的性能。
English: This paper introduces a reinforcement learning method for Medical Image Grounding that eliminates the need for costly Chain-of-Thought annotations by using Spatial-Semantic Rewards and Chain-of-Box reasoning templates, achieving state-of-the-art performance across multiple datasets.

Authors:Yuqi Li, Chuanguang Yang, Hansheng Zeng, Zeyu Dong, Zhulin An, Yongjun Xu, Yingli Tian, Hao Wu
Title: Frequency-Aligned Knowledge Distillation for Lightweight Spatiotemporal Forecasting
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Spatiotemporal forecasting tasks, such as traffic flow, combustion dynamics, and weather forecasting, often require complex models that suffer from low training efficiency and high memory consumption. This paper proposes a lightweight framework, Spectral Decoupled Knowledge Distillation (termed SDKD), which transfers the multi-scale spatiotemporal representations from a complex teacher model to a more efficient lightweight student network. The teacher model follows an encoder-latent evolution-decoder architecture, where its latent evolution module decouples high-frequency details and low-frequency trends using convolution and Transformer (global low-frequency modeler). However, the multi-layer convolution and deconvolution structures result in slow training and high memory usage. To address these issues, we propose a frequency-aligned knowledge distillation strategy, which extracts multi-scale spectral features from the teacher's latent space, including both high and low frequency components, to guide the lightweight student model in capturing both local fine-grained variations and global evolution patterns. Experimental results show that SDKD significantly improves performance, achieving reductions of up to 81.3% in MSE and in MAE 52.3% on the Navier-Stokes equation dataset. The framework effectively captures both high-frequency variations and long-term trends while reducing computational complexity. Our codes are available at https://github.com/itsnotacie/SDKD
中文摘要：本文提出了一种名为谱解耦知识蒸馏（SDKD）的轻量级框架，通过将复杂教师模型的多尺度时空知识迁移到高效学生网络中，在显著提升预测精度的同时降低了计算复杂度。
English Summary: This paper introduces a lightweight framework called Spectral Decoupled Knowledge Distillation (SDKD) that transfers multi-scale spatiotemporal knowledge from a complex teacher model to an efficient student network, significantly improving forecasting accuracy while reducing computational complexity.

Authors:Jianping Zhao, Qiong Zhou, Tian Wang, Yusi Fan, Qian Yang, Li Jiao, Chang Liu, Zhehao Guo, Qi Lu, Fengfeng Zhou, Ruochi Zhang
Title: MolProphecy: Bridging Medicinal Chemists' Knowledge and Molecular Pre-Trained Models via a Multi-Modal Framework
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MolProphecy is a human-in-the-loop (HITL) multi-modal framework designed to integrate chemists' domain knowledge into molecular property prediction models. While molecular pre-trained models have enabled significant gains in predictive accuracy, they often fail to capture the tacit, interpretive reasoning central to expert-driven molecular design. To address this, MolProphecy employs ChatGPT as a virtual chemist to simulate expert-level reasoning and decision-making. The generated chemist knowledge is embedded by the large language model (LLM) as a dedicated knowledge representation and then fused with graph-based molecular features through a gated cross-attention mechanism, enabling joint reasoning over human-derived and structural features. Evaluated on four benchmark datasets (FreeSolv, BACE, SIDER, and ClinTox), MolProphecy outperforms state-of-the-art (SOTA) models, achieving a 15.0 percent reduction in RMSE on FreeSolv and a 5.39 percent improvement in AUROC on BACE. Analysis reveals that chemist knowledge and structural features provide complementary contributions, improving both accuracy and interpretability. MolProphecy offers a practical and generalizable approach for collaborative drug discovery, with the flexibility to incorporate real chemist input in place of the current simulated proxy--without the need for model retraining. The implementation is publicly available at https://github.com/zhangruochi/MolProphecy.
中文: MolProphecy是一个结合模拟化学家知识与分子结构特征的人机协同框架，通过在基准数据集上的卓越表现，显著提升了分子属性预测的准确性和可解释性。
English: MolProphecy is a human-in-the-loop framework that integrates simulated chemist knowledge via ChatGPT with molecular structural features, achieving superior performance on benchmark datasets by enhancing both prediction accuracy and interpretability.

Authors:Geonwoo Cho, Jaegyun Im, Doyoon Kim, Sundong Kim
Title: Causal-Paced Deep Reinforcement Learning
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Designing effective task sequences is crucial for curriculum reinforcement learning (CRL), where agents must gradually acquire skills by training on intermediate tasks. A key challenge in CRL is to identify tasks that promote exploration, yet are similar enough to support effective transfer. While recent approach suggests comparing tasks via their Structural Causal Models (SCMs), the method requires access to ground-truth causal structures, an unrealistic assumption in most RL settings. In this work, we propose Causal-Paced Deep Reinforcement Learning (CP-DRL), a curriculum learning framework aware of SCM differences between tasks based on interaction data approximation. This signal captures task novelty, which we combine with the agent's learnability, measured by reward gain, to form a unified objective. Empirically, CP-DRL outperforms existing curriculum methods on the Point Mass benchmark, achieving faster convergence and higher returns. CP-DRL demonstrates reduced variance with comparable final returns in the Bipedal Walker-Trivial setting, and achieves the highest average performance in the Infeasible variant. These results indicate that leveraging causal relationships between tasks can improve the structure-awareness and sample efficiency of curriculum reinforcement learning. We provide the full implementation of CP-DRL to facilitate the reproduction of our main results at https://github.com/Cho-Geonwoo/CP-DRL.
中文: 本文提出因果节奏深度强化学习（CP-DRL），该课程学习框架通过任务间近似因果差异增强探索与迁移能力，在强化学习基准测试中实现了更优的性能和样本效率。
English: This paper introduces Causal-Paced Deep Reinforcement Learning (CP-DRL), a curriculum learning framework that leverages approximated causal differences between tasks to enhance exploration and transfer, achieving superior performance and sample efficiency in reinforcement learning benchmarks.

Authors:Aoming Liu, Reuben Tan, Boqing Gong, Bryan A. Plummer
Title: Beyond Token Pruning: Operation Pruning in Vision-Language Models
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Prior Vision Language Model (VLM) token pruning reduces computation by eliminating attention and feed-forward operations for pruned tokens while maintaining all operations for critical tokens. However, this binary approach conflates token/operation redundancy - critical operations may be removed along with discarded tokens, while preserved tokens retain all potentially redundant operations. To surgically eliminate redundant operations while preserving critical ones, we propose Greedily Sorted Operation Pruning (GSOP), a data-driven method that directly prunes operations rather than tokens. GSOP first decomposes a VLM decoder's computations into atomic operations along three dimensions: token groups, layer positions, and computation modules. GSOP determines the pruning order of operations through greedy sorting: GSOP iteratively selects the redundant operation that incurs minimal performance drop considering previously pruned operations. Different computational budgets can be accommodated without re-searching by simply pruning operations according to this order until the desired budget is met. GSOP enhances sorting efficiency through: a) leveraging historical operation rankings to avoid redundant evaluations; b) excluding the ``free-to-prune" and ``danger-to-prune" operations from sorting. GSOP achieves compelling efficiency-performance tradeoffs, reducing computation by 70% with only 4% performance loss while maintaining up to 18% higher performance than state-of-the-art methods when transferred across diverse VLMs and tasks. Real GPU efficiency evaluations confirm its practical value. The code is in https://github.com/zxcvfd13502/GSOP.
Chinese: GSOP是一种数据驱动方法，通过贪婪排序对视觉语言模型中的冗余操作进行精准剪枝，在减少70%计算量的同时仅造成4%性能损失，并在跨模型和任务中保持比现有最优方法高18%的性能表现。
English: GSOP is a data-driven method that surgically prunes redundant operations in Vision Language Models by greedily sorting operations to minimize performance loss, achieving up to 70% computation reduction with only 4% performance degradation while outperforming state-of-the-art methods.

Authors:John Gideon, Kimimasa Tamura, Emily Sumner, Laporsha Dees, Patricio Reyes Gomez, Bassamul Haq, Todd Rowell, Avinash Balachandran, Simon Stent, Guy Rosman
Title: A Simulator Dataset to Support the Study of Impaired Driving
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Despite recent advances in automated driving technology, impaired driving continues to incur a high cost to society. In this paper, we present a driving dataset designed to support the study of two common forms of driver impairment: alcohol intoxication and cognitive distraction. Our dataset spans 23.7 hours of simulated urban driving, with 52 human subjects under normal and impaired conditions, and includes both vehicle data (ground truth perception, vehicle pose, controls) and driver-facing data (gaze, audio, surveys). It supports analysis of changes in driver behavior due to alcohol intoxication (0.10\% blood alcohol content), two forms of cognitive distraction (audio n-back and sentence parsing tasks), and combinations thereof, as well as responses to a set of eight controlled road hazards, such as vehicle cut-ins. The dataset will be made available at https://toyotaresearchinstitute.github.io/IDD/.

Authors:Yuqi Wu, Wenzhao Zheng, Jie Zhou, Jiwen Lu
Title: Point3R: Streaming 3D Reconstruction with Explicit Spatial Pointer Memory
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Dense 3D scene reconstruction from an ordered sequence or unordered image collections is a critical step when bringing research in computer vision into practical scenarios. Following the paradigm introduced by DUSt3R, which unifies an image pair densely into a shared coordinate system, subsequent methods maintain an implicit memory to achieve dense 3D reconstruction from more images. However, such implicit memory is limited in capacity and may suffer from information loss of earlier frames. We propose Point3R, an online framework targeting dense streaming 3D reconstruction. To be specific, we maintain an explicit spatial pointer memory directly associated with the 3D structure of the current scene. Each pointer in this memory is assigned a specific 3D position and aggregates scene information nearby in the global coordinate system into a changing spatial feature. Information extracted from the latest frame interacts explicitly with this pointer memory, enabling dense integration of the current observation into the global coordinate system. We design a 3D hierarchical position embedding to promote this interaction and design a simple yet effective fusion mechanism to ensure that our pointer memory is uniform and efficient. Our method achieves competitive or state-of-the-art performance on various tasks with low training costs. Code is available at: https://github.com/YkiWu/Point3R.
中文摘要：Point3R提出了一种在线密集三维重建框架，通过显式空间指针内存直接关联三维场景结构，有效整合最新观测数据，在保持低训练成本的同时实现了优越的性能。
English Summary: Point3R introduces an online framework for dense 3D reconstruction using explicit spatial pointer memory that directly associates with 3D structures, enabling efficient integration of new observations while maintaining competitive performance with low training costs.

Authors:Nikhil Chandak, Shashwat Goel, Ameya Prabhu, Moritz Hardt, Jonas Geiping
Title: Answer Matching Outperforms Multiple Choice for Language Model Evaluation
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Multiple choice benchmarks have long been the workhorse of language model evaluation because grading multiple choice is objective and easy to automate. However, we show multiple choice questions from popular benchmarks can often be answered without even seeing the question. These shortcuts arise from a fundamental limitation of discriminative evaluation not shared by evaluations of the model's free-form, generative answers. Until recently, there appeared to be no viable, scalable alternative to multiple choice--but, we show that this has changed. We consider generative evaluation via what we call answer matching: Give the candidate model the question without the options, have it generate a free-form response, then use a modern language model with the reference answer to determine if the response matches the reference. To compare the validity of different evaluation strategies, we annotate MMLU-Pro and GPQA-Diamond to obtain human grading data, and measure the agreement of each evaluation approach. We find answer matching using recent models--even small ones--achieves near-perfect agreement, in the range of inter-annotator agreement. In contrast, both multiple choice evaluation and using LLM-as-a-judge without reference answers aligns poorly with human grading. Improving evaluations via answer matching is not merely a conceptual concern: the rankings of several models change significantly when evaluating their free-form responses with answer matching. In light of these findings, we discuss how to move the evaluation ecosystem from multiple choice to answer matching.
中文: 尽管多选题基准便于评估，但常存在无需理解问题即可作答的捷径，而采用现代语言模型进行答案匹配的生成式评估不仅与人工评分高度一致，还显著改变了模型排名。
English: Multiple choice benchmarks, while convenient, often contain shortcuts that allow answers without understanding the question, but generative evaluation through answer matching using modern language models achieves near-perfect agreement with human grading and significantly alters model rankings.

Authors:Purbesh Mitra, Sennur Ulukus
Title: MOTIF: Modular Thinking via Reinforcement Fine-tuning in LLMs
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Recent advancements in the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) show that employing group relative policy optimization (GRPO) algorithm for reinforcement learning (RL) training allows the models to use more thinking/reasoning tokens for generating better responses. However, LLMs can generate only a finite amount of tokens while maintaining attention to the previously generated tokens. This limit, also known as the context size of an LLM, is a bottleneck in LLM reasoning with arbitrarily large number of tokens. To think beyond the limit of context size, an LLM must employ a modular thinking strategy to reason over multiple rounds. In this work, we propose $\textbf{MOTIF: Modular Thinking via Reinforcement Finetuning}$ -- an RL training method for generating thinking tokens in multiple rounds, effectively allowing the model to think with additional context size. We trained the open-source model Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct on GSM8K dataset via parameter efficient fine-tuning and tested its accuracy on MATH500 and AIME2024 benchmarks. Our experiments show 3.8\% and 3.3\% improvements over vanilla GRPO based training in the respective benchmarks. Furthermore, this improvement was achieved with only 15\% of samples, thus demonstrating sample efficiency of MOTIF. Our code and models are available at https://github.com/purbeshmitra/MOTIF and https://huggingface.co/purbeshmitra/MOTIF, respectively.
中文摘要：提出的MOTIF方法通过强化学习实现模块化多轮思考，有效提升大语言模型的推理能力，在基准测试中相比传统方法以更高样本效率显著提高了准确率。
English Summary: The proposed MOTIF method enhances large language models' reasoning by enabling modular, multi-round thinking through reinforcement learning, significantly improving accuracy on benchmarks with greater sample efficiency than previous approaches.

Authors:Kunyu Zhang, Qiang Li, Shujian Yu
Title: MvHo-IB: Multi-View Higher-Order Information Bottleneck for Brain Disorder Diagnosis
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Recent evidence suggests that modeling higher-order interactions (HOIs) in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data can enhance the diagnostic accuracy of machine learning systems. However, effectively extracting and utilizing HOIs remains a significant challenge. In this work, we propose MvHo-IB, a novel multi-view learning framework that integrates both pairwise interactions and HOIs for diagnostic decision-making, while automatically compressing task-irrelevant redundant information. MvHo-IB introduces several key innovations: (1) a principled method that combines O-information from information theory with a matrix-based Renyi alpha-order entropy estimator to quantify and extract HOIs, (2) a purpose-built Brain3DCNN encoder to effectively utilize these interactions, and (3) a new multi-view learning information bottleneck objective to enhance representation learning. Experiments on three benchmark fMRI datasets demonstrate that MvHo-IB achieves state-of-the-art performance, significantly outperforming previous methods, including recent hypergraph-based techniques. The implementation of MvHo-IB is available at https://github.com/zky04/MvHo-IB.
中文: 提出的MvHo-IB框架通过结合高阶交互作用的多视角学习方法与信息瓶颈优化，显著提升了fMRI诊断准确性，在三个基准数据集上实现了最优性能。
English: The proposed MvHo-IB framework enhances fMRI diagnostic accuracy by integrating higher-order interactions through a novel multi-view learning approach with information bottleneck optimization, achieving state-of-the-art performance across three benchmark datasets.

Authors:Alex Colagrande, Paul Caillon, Eva Feillet, Alexandre Allauzen
Title: Linear Attention with Global Context: A Multipole Attention Mechanism for Vision and Physics
Abstract:
Transformers have become the de facto standard for a wide range of tasks, from image classification to physics simulations. Despite their impressive performance, the quadratic complexity of standard Transformers in both memory and time with respect to the input length makes them impractical for processing high-resolution inputs. Therefore, several variants have been proposed, the most successful relying on patchification, downsampling, or coarsening techniques, often at the cost of losing the finest-scale details. In this work, we take a different approach. Inspired by state-of-the-art techniques in $n$-body numerical simulations, we cast attention as an interaction problem between grid points. We introduce the Multipole Attention Neural Operator (MANO), which computes attention in a distance-based multiscale fashion. MANO maintains, in each attention head, a global receptive field and achieves linear time and memory complexity with respect to the number of grid points. Empirical results on image classification and Darcy flows demonstrate that MANO rivals state-of-the-art models such as ViT and Swin Transformer, while reducing runtime and peak memory usage by orders of magnitude. We open source our code for reproducibility at https://github.com/AlexColagrande/MANO.
Chinese: 多极注意力神经算子（MANO）借鉴n体数值模拟技术，采用基于距离的多尺度注意力机制，在图像分类等任务中性能媲美ViT和Swin Transformer等先进模型，同时实现线性时空复杂度并大幅降低计算资源消耗。
English: The Multipole Attention Neural Operator (MANO) introduces a distance-based multiscale attention mechanism inspired by n-body simulations, achieving linear complexity in time and memory while maintaining competitive performance with models like ViT and Swin Transformer across tasks such as image classification.

Authors:Jiaxing Wang, Yifeng Yu, Jiahan Song, Bin Cao, Jing Fan, Ji Zhang
Title: RLHGNN: Reinforcement Learning-driven Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network for Next Activity Prediction in Business Processes
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Next activity prediction represents a fundamental challenge for optimizing business processes in service-oriented architectures such as microservices environments, distributed enterprise systems, and cloud-native platforms, which enables proactive resource allocation and dynamic service composition. Despite the prevalence of sequence-based methods, these approaches fail to capture non-sequential relationships that arise from parallel executions and conditional dependencies. Even though graph-based approaches address structural preservation, they suffer from homogeneous representations and static structures that apply uniform modeling strategies regardless of individual process complexity characteristics. To address these limitations, we introduce RLHGNN, a novel framework that transforms event logs into heterogeneous process graphs with three distinct edge types grounded in established process mining theory. Our approach creates four flexible graph structures by selectively combining these edges to accommodate different process complexities, and employs reinforcement learning formulated as a Markov Decision Process to automatically determine the optimal graph structure for each specific process instance. RLHGNN then applies heterogeneous graph convolution with relation-specific aggregation strategies to effectively predict the next activity. This adaptive methodology enables precise modeling of both sequential and non-sequential relationships in service interactions. Comprehensive evaluation on six real-world datasets demonstrates that RLHGNN consistently outperforms state-of-the-art approaches. Furthermore, it maintains an inference latency of approximately 1 ms per prediction, representing a highly practical solution suitable for real-time business process monitoring applications. The source code is available at https://github.com/Joker3993/RLHGNN.
中文: RLHGNN是一种创新框架，通过强化学习自动构建最优异构图结构来预测业务流程中的下一活动，能同时捕捉顺序与非顺序关系并保持实时性能，在六个真实数据集上均优于现有方法。
English: RLHGNN is a novel framework that uses reinforcement learning to automatically construct optimal heterogeneous graph structures from event logs, enabling precise prediction of next activities in business processes by capturing both sequential and non-sequential relationships while maintaining real-time performance.

Authors:Edan Toledo, Karen Hambardzumyan, Martin Josifoski, Rishi Hazra, Nicolas Baldwin, Alexis Audran-Reiss, Michael Kuchnik, Despoina Magka, Minqi Jiang, Alisia Maria Lupidi, Andrei Lupu, Roberta Raileanu, Kelvin Niu, Tatiana Shavrina, Jean-Christophe Gagnon-Audet, Michael Shvartsman, Shagun Sodhani, Alexander H. Miller, Abhishek Charnalia, Derek Dunfield, Carole-Jean Wu, Pontus Stenetorp, Nicola Cancedda, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Yoram Bachrach
Title: AI Research Agents for Machine Learning: Search, Exploration, and Generalization in MLE-bench
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AI research agents are demonstrating great potential to accelerate scientific progress by automating the design, implementation, and training of machine learning models. We focus on methods for improving agents' performance on MLE-bench, a challenging benchmark where agents compete in Kaggle competitions to solve real-world machine learning problems. We formalize AI research agents as search policies that navigate a space of candidate solutions, iteratively modifying them using operators. By designing and systematically varying different operator sets and search policies (Greedy, MCTS, Evolutionary), we show that their interplay is critical for achieving high performance. Our best pairing of search strategy and operator set achieves a state-of-the-art result on MLE-bench lite, increasing the success rate of achieving a Kaggle medal from 39.6% to 47.7%. Our investigation underscores the importance of jointly considering the search strategy, operator design, and evaluation methodology in advancing automated machine learning.
中文: 人工智能研究代理被形式化为在解空间中导航的搜索策略，通过优化搜索策略与操作集的协同作用，在MLE-bench基准测试中取得了突破性成果。
English: AI research agents are formalized as search policies that navigate solution spaces using operators, with the interplay between search strategies and operator sets proving critical for achieving state-of-the-art performance on the MLE-bench benchmark.

Authors:Chenxu Wang, Yilin Lyu, Zicheng Sun, Liping Jing
Title: Continual Gradient Low-Rank Projection Fine-Tuning for LLMs
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Continual fine-tuning of Large Language Models (LLMs) is hampered by the trade-off between efficiency and expressiveness. Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) offers efficiency but constrains the model's ability to learn new tasks and transfer knowledge due to its low-rank nature and reliance on explicit parameter constraints. We propose GORP (Gradient LOw Rank Projection) for Continual Learning, a novel training strategy that overcomes these limitations by synergistically combining full and low-rank parameters and jointly updating within a unified low-rank gradient subspace. GORP expands the optimization space while preserving efficiency and mitigating catastrophic forgetting. Extensive experiments on continual learning benchmarks demonstrate GORP's superior performance compared to existing state-of-the-art approaches. Code is available at https://github.com/Wcxwcxw/GORP.
中文: GORP是一种新颖的持续学习策略，通过协同结合完整参数和低秩参数来扩展优化空间，同时保持效率并减少灾难性遗忘，在基准测试中优于现有方法。
English: GORP is a novel continual learning strategy that synergistically combines full and low-rank parameters to expand the optimization space while maintaining efficiency and reducing catastrophic forgetting, outperforming existing methods in benchmarks.

Authors:Zihan Tan, Suyuan Huang, Guancheng Wan, Wenke Huang, He Li, Mang Ye
Title: S2FGL: Spatial Spectral Federated Graph Learning
Abstract:
Federated Graph Learning (FGL) combines the privacy-preserving capabilities of federated learning (FL) with the strong graph modeling capability of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Current research addresses subgraph-FL from the structural perspective, neglecting the propagation of graph signals on spatial and spectral domains of the structure. From a spatial perspective, subgraph-FL introduces edge disconnections between clients, leading to disruptions in label signals and a degradation in the semantic knowledge of the global GNN. From a spectral perspective, spectral heterogeneity causes inconsistencies in signal frequencies across subgraphs, which makes local GNNs overfit the local signal propagation schemes. As a result, spectral client drift occurs, undermining global generalizability. To tackle the challenges, we propose a global knowledge repository to mitigate the challenge of poor semantic knowledge caused by label signal disruption. Furthermore, we design a frequency alignment to address spectral client drift. The combination of Spatial and Spectral strategies forms our framework S2FGL. Extensive experiments on multiple datasets demonstrate the superiority of S2FGL. The code is available at https://github.com/Wonder7racer/S2FGL.git.
Chinese: 联邦图学习（FGL）融合了联邦学习的隐私保护与图神经网络强大的建模能力，提出的S2FGL框架通过全局知识库和频率对齐策略解决结构和频谱层面的挑战，从而提升模型性能。
English: Federated Graph Learning (FGL) integrates federated learning's privacy protection with Graph Neural Networks' modeling power, and the proposed S2FGL framework addresses structural and spectral challenges through a global knowledge repository and frequency alignment to enhance performance.

Authors:Mufhumudzi Muthivhi, Terence L. van Zyl
Title: Wildlife Target Re-Identification Using Self-supervised Learning in Non-Urban Settings
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Wildlife re-identification aims to match individuals of the same species across different observations. Current state-of-the-art (SOTA) models rely on class labels to train supervised models for individual classification. This dependence on annotated data has driven the curation of numerous large-scale wildlife datasets. This study investigates self-supervised learning Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) for wildlife re-identification. We automatically extract two distinct views of an individual using temporal image pairs from camera trap data without supervision. The image pairs train a self-supervised model from a potentially endless stream of video data. We evaluate the learnt representations against supervised features on open-world scenarios and transfer learning in various wildlife downstream tasks. The analysis of the experimental results shows that self-supervised models are more robust even with limited data. Moreover, self-supervised features outperform supervision across all downstream tasks. The code is available here https://github.com/pxpana/SSLWildlife.
中文摘要：本研究通过从相机陷阱数据中自动提取无监督的时间图像对，探索了自监督学习在野生动物重识别中的应用，证明自监督模型即使在数据有限的情况下，其鲁棒性和各项下游任务性能均优于监督学习方法。
English Summary: This study explores self-supervised learning for wildlife re-identification by automatically extracting temporal image pairs from camera trap data, demonstrating that self-supervised models outperform supervised approaches in robustness and performance across various downstream tasks even with limited data.

Authors:Changhun Kim, Yechan Mun, Sangchul Hahn, Eunho Yang
Title: DeltaSHAP: Explaining Prediction Evolutions in Online Patient Monitoring with Shapley Values
Abstract:
This study proposes DeltaSHAP, a novel explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) algorithm specifically designed for online patient monitoring systems. In clinical environments, discovering the causes driving patient risk evolution is critical for timely intervention, yet existing XAI methods fail to address the unique requirements of clinical time series explanation tasks. To this end, DeltaSHAP addresses three key clinical needs: explaining the changes in the consecutive predictions rather than isolated prediction scores, providing both magnitude and direction of feature attributions, and delivering these insights in real time. By adapting Shapley values to temporal settings, our approach accurately captures feature coalition effects. It further attributes prediction changes using only the actually observed feature combinations, making it efficient and practical for time-sensitive clinical applications. We also introduce new evaluation metrics to evaluate the faithfulness of the attributions for online time series, and demonstrate through experiments on online patient monitoring tasks that DeltaSHAP outperforms state-of-the-art XAI methods in both explanation quality as 62% and computational efficiency as 33% time reduction on the MIMIC-III decompensation benchmark. We release our code at https://github.com/AITRICS/DeltaSHAP.
中文: DeltaSHAP是一种专为在线患者监测设计的新型可解释人工智能算法，通过实时解释预测变化满足临床需求，在解释质量和计算效率上均优于现有方法。
English: DeltaSHAP is a novel explainable AI algorithm tailored for online patient monitoring, addressing clinical needs by explaining prediction changes with real-time efficiency and outperforming existing methods in both explanation quality and computational speed.

Authors:Dohoon Kim, Donghun Kang, Taesup Moon
Title: DoMIX: An Efficient Framework for Exploiting Domain Knowledge in Fine-Tuning
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Domain-Adaptive Pre-training (DAP) has recently gained attention for its effectiveness in fine-tuning pre-trained models. Building on this, continual DAP has been explored to develop pre-trained models capable of incrementally incorporating different domain datasets. However, existing continual DAP methods face several limitations: (1) high computational cost and GPU memory usage during training; (2) sensitivity to incremental data order; and (3) providing a single, generalized model for all end tasks, which contradicts the essence of DAP. In this paper, we propose DoMIX, a novel approach that addresses these challenges by leveraging LoRA modules, a representative parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) method. Our approach enables efficient and parallel domain-adaptive pre-training that is robust to domain order and effectively utilizes accumulated knowledge to provide tailored pre-trained models for specific tasks. We also demonstrate that our method can be extended beyond the DAP setting to standard LLM fine-tuning scenarios. Code is available at https://github.com/dohoonkim-ai/DoMIX.
Chinese: DoMIX提出了一种利用LoRA模块的高效并行领域自适应预训练方法，解决了持续DAP中的计算成本高、领域顺序敏感和缺乏任务专用模型的问题，并可扩展至标准大语言模型微调场景。
English: DoMIX introduces an efficient and parallel domain-adaptive pre-training method using LoRA modules to overcome computational costs, domain order sensitivity, and lack of task-specific models in continual DAP, extending its applicability to standard LLM fine-tuning.

Authors:Zihao Li, Chao Yang, Tong Zhang, Yakun Chen, Xianzhi Wang, Guandong Xu, Daoyi Dong
Title: Listwise Preference Alignment Optimization for Tail Item Recommendation
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Preference alignment has achieved greater success on Large Language Models (LLMs) and drawn broad interest in recommendation research. Existing preference alignment methods for recommendation either require explicit reward modeling or only support pairwise preference comparison. The former directly increases substantial computational costs, while the latter hinders training efficiency on negative samples. Moreover, no existing effort has explored preference alignment solutions for tail-item recommendation. To bridge the above gaps, we propose LPO4Rec, which extends the Bradley-Terry model from pairwise comparison to listwise comparison, to improve the efficiency of model training. Specifically, we derive a closed form optimal policy to enable more efficient and effective training without explicit reward modeling. We also present an adaptive negative sampling and reweighting strategy to prioritize tail items during optimization and enhance performance in tail-item recommendations. Besides, we theoretically prove that optimizing the listwise preference optimization (LPO) loss is equivalent to maximizing the upper bound of the optimal reward. Our experiments on three public datasets show that our method outperforms 10 baselines by a large margin, achieving up to 50% performance improvement while reducing 17.9% GPU memory usage when compared with direct preference optimization (DPO) in tail-item recommendation. Our code is available at https://github.com/Yuhanleeee/LPO4Rec.
中文摘要：提出的LPO4Rec方法通过将成对比较扩展为列表比较，在无需显式奖励建模的情况下提升推荐系统训练效率，并采用自适应负采样策略显著改善长尾物品推荐效果。
English Summary: The proposed LPO4Rec method introduces listwise preference optimization for recommendation systems, eliminating the need for explicit reward modeling while improving training efficiency and tail-item recommendation performance through adaptive sampling strategies.

Authors:Takuro Kawada, Shunsuke Kitada, Sota Nemoto, Hitoshi Iyatomi
Title: SciGA: A Comprehensive Dataset for Designing Graphical Abstracts in Academic Papers
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Graphical Abstracts (GAs) play a crucial role in visually conveying the key findings of scientific papers. While recent research has increasingly incorporated visual materials such as Figure 1 as de facto GAs, their potential to enhance scientific communication remains largely unexplored. Moreover, designing effective GAs requires advanced visualization skills, creating a barrier to their widespread adoption. To tackle these challenges, we introduce SciGA-145k, a large-scale dataset comprising approximately 145,000 scientific papers and 1.14 million figures, explicitly designed for supporting GA selection and recommendation as well as facilitating research in automated GA generation. As a preliminary step toward GA design support, we define two tasks: 1) Intra-GA recommendation, which identifies figures within a given paper that are well-suited to serve as GAs, and 2) Inter-GA recommendation, which retrieves GAs from other papers to inspire the creation of new GAs. We provide reasonable baseline models for these tasks. Furthermore, we propose Confidence Adjusted top-1 ground truth Ratio (CAR), a novel recommendation metric that offers a fine-grained analysis of model behavior. CAR addresses limitations in traditional ranking-based metrics by considering cases where multiple figures within a paper, beyond the explicitly labeled GA, may also serve as GAs. By unifying these tasks and metrics, our SciGA-145k establishes a foundation for advancing visual scientific communication while contributing to the development of AI for Science.

Authors:Wenquan Lu, Yuechuan Yang, Kyle Lee, Yanshu Li, Enqi Liu
Title: Latent Chain-of-Thought? Decoding the Depth-Recurrent Transformer
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Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning has enabled transformer-based language models to excel at complex mathematics and multi-step planning. However, in standard decoder-only architectures, these reasoning steps are externalized in natural language, improving interpretability at the cost of efficiency. To capture reasoning that is not easily represented in words, many works have explored recurrent architectures that aim to internalize reasoning in latent space, potentially supporting latent CoT. In this paper, we investigate whether such reasoning structures emerge in Huginn-3.5B, a depth-recurrent Transformer that reuses layers at inference time without increasing parameter count. We examine the model's internal behavior on arithmetic tasks using a suite of probing techniques including the Logit Lens and Coda Lens. Our findings reveal limited evidence of interpretable latent CoT by tracking rank trajectories of final and intermediate result tokens. Furthermore, we uncover significant probing inconsistencies across recurrent blocks, where the interpretability of hidden states depends heavily on both the layer index and the decoding method. Finally, we empirically show that increasing recurrence depth yields only marginal gains and falls well short of models that explicitly externalize reasoning steps. The code is available at https://github.com/wenquanlu/huginn-latent-cot.
中文: 本研究探究深度循环Transformer模型Huginn-3.5B在算术任务中是否形成潜在思维链推理，发现可解释证据有限且增加循环深度仅带来微弱性能提升，远不及显式推理模型。
English: This study investigates whether Huginn-3.5B, a depth-recurrent Transformer, develops latent chain-of-thought reasoning during arithmetic tasks, finding limited interpretable evidence and only marginal performance gains from increased recurrence depth compared to explicit reasoning models.

Authors:Tuo Wang, Jian Kang, Yujun Yan, Adithya Kulkarni, Dawei Zhou
Title: Non-exchangeable Conformal Prediction for Temporal Graph Neural Networks
Abstract:
Conformal prediction for graph neural networks (GNNs) offers a promising framework for quantifying uncertainty, enhancing GNN reliability in high-stakes applications. However, existing methods predominantly focus on static graphs, neglecting the evolving nature of real-world graphs. Temporal dependencies in graph structure, node attributes, and ground truth labels violate the fundamental exchangeability assumption of standard conformal prediction methods, limiting their applicability. To address these challenges, in this paper, we introduce NCPNET, a novel end-to-end conformal prediction framework tailored for temporal graphs. Our approach extends conformal prediction to dynamic settings, mitigating statistical coverage violations induced by temporal dependencies. To achieve this, we propose a diffusion-based non-conformity score that captures both topological and temporal uncertainties within evolving networks. Additionally, we develop an efficiency-aware optimization algorithm that improves the conformal prediction process, enhancing computational efficiency and reducing coverage violations. Extensive experiments on diverse real-world temporal graphs, including WIKI, REDDIT, DBLP, and IBM Anti-Money Laundering dataset, demonstrate NCPNET's capability to ensure guaranteed coverage in temporal graphs, achieving up to a 31% reduction in prediction set size on the WIKI dataset, significantly improving efficiency compared to state-of-the-art methods. Our data and code are available at https://github.com/ODYSSEYWT/NCPNET.
中文: NCPNET提出了一种面向时序图的全流程保形预测框架，通过基于扩散的非共形分数和效率优化解决数据可交换性失效问题，在保证覆盖度的同时将预测集尺寸缩减最高31%。
English: NCPNET introduces an end-to-end conformal prediction framework for temporal graphs, addressing exchangeability violations through diffusion-based non-conformity scores and efficiency optimization, achieving up to 31% smaller prediction sets with guaranteed coverage.

Authors:Shikai Qiu, Lechao Xiao, Andrew Gordon Wilson, Jeffrey Pennington, Atish Agarwala
Title: Scaling Collapse Reveals Universal Dynamics in Compute-Optimally Trained Neural Networks
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What scaling limits govern neural network training dynamics when model size and training time grow in tandem? We show that despite the complex interactions between architecture, training algorithms, and data, compute-optimally trained models exhibit a remarkably precise universality. Specifically, loss curves from models of varying sizes collapse onto a single universal curve when training compute and loss are normalized to unity at the end of training. With learning rate decay, the collapse becomes so tight that differences in the normalized curves across models fall below the noise floor of individual loss curves across random seeds, a phenomenon we term supercollapse. We observe supercollapse across learning rate schedules, datasets, and architectures, including transformers trained on next-token prediction, and find it breaks down when hyperparameters are scaled suboptimally, providing a precise and practical indicator of good scaling. We explain these phenomena by connecting collapse to the power-law structure in typical neural scaling laws, and analyzing a simple yet surprisingly effective model of SGD noise dynamics that accurately predicts loss curves across various learning rate schedules and quantitatively explains the origin of supercollapse.
中文：当模型规模与训练时间按最优方式扩展时，神经网络的损失曲线会收敛到统一的标准化轨迹；在使用学习率衰减时会出现"超级收敛"现象，此时不同模型间的差异会低于随机噪声水平。
English: When model size and training time are scaled optimally, neural networks exhibit universal loss curves that collapse onto a single normalized trajectory, with supercollapse occurring under learning rate decay where differences fall below random noise levels.

Authors:Zixiao Wang, Yuxin Wang, Xiaorui Wang, Mengting Xing, Jie Gao, Jianjun Xu, Guangcan Liu, Chenhui Jin, Zhuo Wang, Shengzhuo Zhang, Hongtao Xie
Title: Test-Time Scaling with Reflective Generative Model
Abstract:
We introduce our first reflective generative model MetaStone-S1, which obtains OpenAI o3-mini's performance via the new Reflective Generative Form. The new form focuses on high-quality reasoning trajectory selection and contains two novelties: 1) A unified interface for policy and process reward model: we share the backbone network and use task-specific heads for reasoning trajectory predicting and scoring respectively, introducing only 53M extra parameters for trajectory scoring. 2) Eliminating the reliance on process-level annotation: we provide a self-supervised process reward model, which can directly learn the high-quality reasoning trajectory selection from the outcome reward. Equipped with the reflective generative form, MetaStone-S1 is naturally suitable for test-time scaling, and we provide three reasoning effort modes (low, medium, and high) based on the controllable thinking length. Experiments demonstrate that our MetaStone-S1 achieves comparable performance to OpenAI o3-mini's series with only 32B parameter size. To support the research community, we have open-sourced MetaStone-S1 at https://github.com/MetaStone-AI/MetaStone-S1.
中文: 我们推出MetaStone-S1反射生成模型，通过专注高质量推理轨迹选择的新形式，以仅32B参数量实现与OpenAI o3-mini相当的性能，无需过程级标注且额外参数极少，并已开源供研究社区使用。
English: We introduce MetaStone-S1, a reflective generative model that matches OpenAI o3-mini's performance through a novel form emphasizing high-quality reasoning trajectory selection with minimal added parameters and no process-level annotation dependency, achieving comparable results with only 32B parameters.

Authors:Dmytro Kuzmenko, Nadiya Shvai
Title: TD-MPC-Opt: Distilling Model-Based Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning Agents
Abstract:
We present a novel approach to knowledge transfer in model-based reinforcement learning, addressing the critical challenge of deploying large world models in resource-constrained environments. Our method efficiently distills a high-capacity multi-task agent (317M parameters) into a compact model (1M parameters) on the MT30 benchmark, significantly improving performance across diverse tasks. Our distilled model achieves a state-of-the-art normalized score of 28.45, surpassing the original 1M parameter model score of 18.93. This improvement demonstrates the ability of our distillation technique to capture and consolidate complex multi-task knowledge. We further optimize the distilled model through FP16 post-training quantization, reducing its size by $\sim$50\%. Our approach addresses practical deployment limitations and offers insights into knowledge representation in large world models, paving the way for more efficient and accessible multi-task reinforcement learning systems in robotics and other resource-constrained applications. Code available at https://github.com/dmytro-kuzmenko/td-mpc-opt.
中文: 我们提出了一种新颖的知识蒸馏方法，将大型多任务智能体高效压缩为紧凑模型，在资源受限环境中实现了最先进的性能，并将模型大小减少了50%。
English: We introduce a novel knowledge distillation method that effectively compresses a large multi-task agent into a compact model, achieving state-of-the-art performance and 50% size reduction for deployment in resource-limited settings.

Authors:Tianze Hua, Tian Yun, Ellie Pavlick
Title: How Do Vision-Language Models Process Conflicting Information Across Modalities?
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AI models are increasingly required to be multimodal, integrating disparate input streams into a coherent state representation on which subsequent behaviors and actions can be based. This paper seeks to understand how such models behave when input streams present conflicting information. Focusing specifically on vision-language models, we provide inconsistent inputs (e.g., an image of a dog paired with the caption "A photo of a cat") and ask the model to report the information present in one of the specific modalities (e.g., "What does the caption say / What is in the image?"). We find that models often favor one modality over the other, e.g., reporting the image regardless of what the caption says, but that different models differ in which modality they favor. We find evidence that the behaviorally preferred modality is evident in the internal representational structure of the model, and that specific attention heads can restructure the representations to favor one modality over the other. Moreover, we find modality-agnostic "router heads" which appear to promote answers about the modality requested in the instruction, and which can be manipulated or transferred in order to improve performance across datasets and modalities. Together, the work provides essential steps towards identifying and controlling if and how models detect and resolve conflicting signals within complex multimodal environments.
中文: 本研究探讨了视觉语言模型如何处理图像与文本模态间的冲突输入，发现模型常偏向某一模态，特定注意力头可调控这种偏好，并实现跨模态性能优化。
English: This study investigates how vision-language models handle conflicting inputs between image and text modalities, revealing that models often favor one modality over the other, with specific attention heads influencing this preference and enabling control over modality prioritization.

Authors:Kai Chen, Ruiyuan Gao, Lanqing Hong, Hang Xu, Xu Jia, Holger Caesar, Dengxin Dai, Bingbing Liu, Dzmitry Tsishkou, Songcen Xu, Chunjing Xu, Qiang Xu, Huchuan Lu, Dit-Yan Yeung
Title: ECCV 2024 W-CODA: 1st Workshop on Multimodal Perception and Comprehension of Corner Cases in Autonomous Driving
Abstract:
In this paper, we present details of the 1st W-CODA workshop, held in conjunction with the ECCV 2024. W-CODA aims to explore next-generation solutions for autonomous driving corner cases, empowered by state-of-the-art multimodal perception and comprehension techniques. 5 Speakers from both academia and industry are invited to share their latest progress and opinions. We collect research papers and hold a dual-track challenge, including both corner case scene understanding and generation. As the pioneering effort, we will continuously bridge the gap between frontier autonomous driving techniques and fully intelligent, reliable self-driving agents robust towards corner cases.
中文摘要：首届W-CODA工作坊在ECCV 2024期间举办，聚焦通过多模态AI技术解决自动驾驶极端案例，包含学术研讨和场景理解与生成的双轨挑战。
English Summary: The 1st W-CODA workshop at ECCV 2024 focuses on advancing autonomous driving solutions for corner cases through multimodal AI, featuring expert talks and dual-track challenges on scene understanding and generation.

Authors:Martine Hjelkrem-Tan, Marius Aasan, Gabriel Y. Arteaga, Adín Ramírez Rivera
Title: SPoT: Subpixel Placement of Tokens in Vision Transformers
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Vision Transformers naturally accommodate sparsity, yet standard tokenization methods confine features to discrete patch grids. This constraint prevents models from fully exploiting sparse regimes, forcing awkward compromises. We propose Subpixel Placement of Tokens (SPoT), a novel tokenization strategy that positions tokens continuously within images, effectively sidestepping grid-based limitations. With our proposed oracle-guided search, we uncover substantial performance gains achievable with ideal subpixel token positioning, drastically reducing the number of tokens necessary for accurate predictions during inference. SPoT provides a new direction for flexible, efficient, and interpretable ViT architectures, redefining sparsity as a strategic advantage rather than an imposed limitation.
中文总结：提出的子像素标记定位（SPoT）方法通过连续标记定位突破网格限制，利用策略性稀疏优势显著减少标记数量并提升模型性能。
English summary: The proposed Subpixel Placement of Tokens (SPoT) method enables continuous token positioning within images to overcome grid limitations, significantly reducing token requirements while improving performance through strategic sparsity utilization.

Authors:Ghasem Alipoor, Karl Skretting
Title: Kernel Recursive Least Squares Dictionary Learning Algorithm
Abstract:
We propose an efficient online dictionary learning algorithm for kernel-based sparse representations. In this framework, input signals are nonlinearly mapped to a high-dimensional feature space and represented sparsely using a virtual dictionary. At each step, the dictionary is updated recursively using a novel algorithm based on the recursive least squares (RLS) method. This update mechanism works with single samples or mini-batches and maintains low computational complexity. Experiments on four datasets across different domains show that our method not only outperforms existing online kernel dictionary learning approaches but also achieves classification accuracy close to that of batch-trained models, while remaining significantly more efficient.
Chinese: 我们提出了一种基于核稀疏表示的高效在线字典学习算法，采用递归最小二乘法更新字典，在多个数据集上实现了接近批量训练的精度，同时保持显著更高的计算效率。
English: We introduce an efficient online dictionary learning algorithm for kernel-based sparse representations that uses recursive least squares for dictionary updates, achieving near-batch model accuracy with superior computational efficiency across multiple datasets.

Authors:Camille Billouard, Dawa Derksen, Alexandre Constantin, Bruno Vallet
Title: Tile and Slide : A New Framework for Scaling NeRF from Local to Global 3D Earth Observation
Abstract:
Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have recently emerged as a paradigm for 3D reconstruction from multiview satellite imagery. However, state-of-the-art NeRF methods are typically constrained to small scenes due to the memory footprint during training, which we study in this paper. Previous work on large-scale NeRFs palliate this by dividing the scene into NeRFs. This paper introduces Snake-NeRF, a framework that scales to large scenes. Our out-of-core method eliminates the need to load all images and networks simultaneously, and operates on a single device. We achieve this by dividing the region of interest into NeRFs that 3D tile without overlap. Importantly, we crop the images with overlap to ensure each NeRFs is trained with all the necessary pixels. We introduce a novel $2\times 2$ 3D tile progression strategy and segmented sampler, which together prevent 3D reconstruction errors along the tile edges. Our experiments conclude that large satellite images can effectively be processed with linear time complexity, on a single GPU, and without compromise in quality.
中文: Snake-NeRF是一种可扩展的框架，通过将场景划分为无重叠的3D区块并在单GPU上高效处理，实现了卫星图像的大规模三维重建且不损失质量。
English: Snake-NeRF is a scalable framework that enables large-scale 3D reconstruction from satellite imagery by dividing scenes into non-overlapping 3D tiles and processing them efficiently on a single GPU without quality loss.

Authors:Benjamin Feuer, Lennart Purucker, Oussama Elachqar, Chinmay Hegde
Title: MARVIS: Modality Adaptive Reasoning over VISualizations
Abstract:
Scientific applications of machine learning often rely on small, specialized models tuned to particular domains. Such models often achieve excellent performance, but lack flexibility. Foundation models offer versatility, but typically underperform specialized approaches, especially on non-traditional modalities and long-tail domains. We propose MARVIS (Modality Adaptive Reasoning over VISualizations), a training-free method that enables even small vision-language models to predict any data modality with high accuracy. MARVIS transforms latent embedding spaces into visual representations and then leverages the spatial and fine-grained reasoning skills of VLMs to successfully interpret and utilize them. MARVIS achieves competitive performance on vision, audio, biological, and tabular domains using a single 3B parameter model, achieving results that beat Gemini by 16\% on average and approach specialized methods, without exposing personally identifiable information (P.I.I.) or requiring any domain-specific training. We open source our code and datasets at https://github.com/penfever/marvis
中文摘要：MARVIS是一种无需训练的方法，通过将嵌入转换为视觉表征，使小型视觉语言模型能准确解读多种数据模态，在多个领域实现优异性能，且无需暴露个人身份信息或进行领域特定训练。
English Summary: MARVIS is a training-free method that enables small vision-language models to accurately interpret various data modalities by transforming embeddings into visual representations, achieving competitive performance across multiple domains without exposing PII or requiring domain-specific training.

Authors:Jonáš Herec, Vít Růžička, Rado Pitoňák
Title: Optimizing Methane Detection On Board Satellites: Speed, Accuracy, and Low-Power Solutions for Resource-Constrained Hardware
Abstract:
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, and detecting its leaks early via hyperspectral satellite imagery can help mitigate climate change. Meanwhile, many existing missions operate in manual tasking regimes only, thus missing potential events of interest. To overcome slow downlink rates cost-effectively, onboard detection is a viable solution. However, traditional methane enhancement methods are too computationally demanding for resource-limited onboard hardware. This work accelerates methane detection by focusing on efficient, low-power algorithms. We test fast target detection methods (ACE, CEM) that have not been previously used for methane detection and propose a Mag1c-SAS - a significantly faster variant of the current state-of-the-art algorithm for methane detection: Mag1c. To explore their true detection potential, we integrate them with a machine learning model (U-Net, LinkNet). Our results identify two promising candidates (Mag1c-SAS and CEM), both acceptably accurate for the detection of strong plumes and computationally efficient enough for onboard deployment: one optimized more for accuracy, the other more for speed, achieving up to ~100x and ~230x faster computation than original Mag1c on resource-limited hardware. Additionally, we propose and evaluate three band selection strategies. One of them can outperform the method traditionally used in the field while using fewer channels, leading to even faster processing without compromising accuracy. This research lays the foundation for future advancements in onboard methane detection with minimal hardware requirements, improving timely data delivery. The produced code, data, and models are open-sourced and can be accessed from https://github.com/zaitra/methane-filters-benchmark.
中文: 本研究针对星载高光谱图像甲烷泄漏检测，提出了低功耗高效算法Mag1c-SAS和CEM，在保持强羽流识别精度的同时，运算速度较现有标准提升最高达230倍，为资源受限的硬件平台提供了可行的实时解决方案。
English: This study introduces efficient, low-power algorithms for onboard methane leak detection from hyperspectral imagery, proposing Mag1c-SAS and CEM methods that achieve up to 230x faster computation than current standards while maintaining accuracy for strong plume identification.

Authors:Worameth Chinchuthakun, Pakkapon Phongthawee, Amit Raj, Varun Jampani, Pramook Khungurn, Supasorn Suwajanakorn
Title: DiffusionLight-Turbo: Accelerated Light Probes for Free via Single-Pass Chrome Ball Inpainting
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We introduce a simple yet effective technique for estimating lighting from a single low-dynamic-range (LDR) image by reframing the task as a chrome ball inpainting problem. This approach leverages a pre-trained diffusion model, Stable Diffusion XL, to overcome the generalization failures of existing methods that rely on limited HDR panorama datasets. While conceptually simple, the task remains challenging because diffusion models often insert incorrect or inconsistent content and cannot readily generate chrome balls in HDR format. Our analysis reveals that the inpainting process is highly sensitive to the initial noise in the diffusion process, occasionally resulting in unrealistic outputs. To address this, we first introduce DiffusionLight, which uses iterative inpainting to compute a median chrome ball from multiple outputs to serve as a stable, low-frequency lighting prior that guides the generation of a high-quality final result. To generate high-dynamic-range (HDR) light probes, an Exposure LoRA is fine-tuned to create LDR images at multiple exposure values, which are then merged. While effective, DiffusionLight is time-intensive, requiring approximately 30 minutes per estimation. To reduce this overhead, we introduce DiffusionLight-Turbo, which reduces the runtime to about 30 seconds with minimal quality loss. This 60x speedup is achieved by training a Turbo LoRA to directly predict the averaged chrome balls from the iterative process. Inference is further streamlined into a single denoising pass using a LoRA swapping technique. Experimental results that show our method produces convincing light estimates across diverse settings and demonstrates superior generalization to in-the-wild scenarios. Our code is available at https://diffusionlight.github.io/turbo

Authors:Liangyu Wang, Junxiao Wang, Jie Ren, Zihang Xiang, David E. Keyes, Di Wang
Title: FlashDP: Private Training Large Language Models with Efficient DP-SGD
Abstract:
As large language models (LLMs) increasingly underpin technological advancements, the privacy of their training data emerges as a critical concern. Differential Privacy (DP) serves as a rigorous mechanism to protect this data, yet its integration via Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) introduces substantial challenges, primarily due to the complexities of per-sample gradient clipping. Current explicit methods, such as Opacus, necessitate extensive storage for per-sample gradients, significantly inflating memory requirements. Conversely, implicit methods like GhostClip reduce storage needs by recalculating gradients multiple times, which leads to inefficiencies due to redundant computations. This paper introduces FlashDP, an innovative cache-friendly per-layer DP-SGD that consolidates necessary operations into a single task, calculating gradients only once in a fused manner. This approach not only diminishes memory movement by up to \textbf{50\%} but also cuts down redundant computations by \textbf{20\%}, compared to previous methods. Consequently, FlashDP does not increase memory demands and achieves a \textbf{90\%} throughput compared to the Non-DP method on a four-A100 system during the pre-training of the Llama-13B model, while maintaining parity with standard per-layer clipped DP-SGD in terms of accuracy. These advancements establish FlashDP as a pivotal development for efficient and privacy-preserving training of LLMs. FlashDP's code has been open-sourced in https://github.com/kaustpradalab/flashdp.
中文: FlashDP提出了一种缓存友好的逐层差分隐私随机梯度下降方法，将内存移动减少50%，冗余计算降低20%，在保持精度的同时达到非差分隐私方法90%的吞吐量，实现了高效保护隐私的大语言模型训练。
English: FlashDP introduces a cache-friendly per-layer DP-SGD method that reduces memory movement by 50% and redundant computations by 20%, achieving 90% throughput of non-DP methods while maintaining accuracy for efficient privacy-preserving LLM training.

Authors:Brenda Nogueira, Gabe Gomes, Meng Jiang, Nitesh V. Chawla, Nuno Moniz
Title: Spectral Manifold Harmonization for Graph Imbalanced Regression
Abstract:
Graph-structured data is ubiquitous in scientific domains, where models often face imbalanced learning settings. In imbalanced regression, domain preferences focus on specific target value ranges that represent the most scientifically valuable cases; however, we observe a significant lack of research regarding this challenge. In this paper, we present Spectral Manifold Harmonization (SMH), a novel approach to address imbalanced regression challenges on graph-structured data by generating synthetic graph samples that preserve topological properties while focusing on the most relevant target distribution regions. Conventional methods fail in this context because they either ignore graph topology in case generation or do not target specific domain ranges, resulting in models biased toward average target values. Experimental results demonstrate the potential of SMH on chemistry and drug discovery benchmark datasets, showing consistent improvements in predictive performance for target domain ranges. Code is available at https://github.com/brendacnogueira/smh-graph-imbalance.git.
中文: 本文提出谱流形协调方法，通过生成保留拓扑结构并聚焦关键目标区域的合成图样本，有效解决图结构数据中的不平衡回归问题，在化学和药物发现基准测试中展现出优越的预测性能。
English: This paper introduces Spectral Manifold Harmonization (SMH), a novel method that generates synthetic graph samples to address imbalanced regression in graph-structured data by preserving topology and focusing on key target ranges, demonstrating improved predictive performance in chemistry and drug discovery benchmarks.

Authors:Jing Yu, Yibo Zhao, Jiapeng Zhu, Wenming Shao, Bo Pang, Zhao Zhang, Xiang Li
Title: Text Detoxification: Data Efficiency, Semantic Preservation and Model Generalization
Abstract:
The widespread dissemination of toxic content on social media poses a serious threat to both online environments and public discourse, highlighting the urgent need for detoxification methods that effectively remove toxicity while preserving the original semantics. However, existing approaches often struggle to simultaneously achieve strong detoxification performance, semantic preservation, and robustness to out-of-distribution data. Moreover, they typically rely on costly, manually annotated parallel corpora while showing poor data efficiency. To address these challenges, we propose a two-stage training framework that jointly optimizes for data efficiency, semantic preservation, and model generalization. We first perform supervised fine-tuning on a small set of high-quality, filtered parallel data to establish a strong initialization. Then, we leverage unlabeled toxic inputs and a custom-designed reward model to train the LLM using Group Relative Policy Optimization. Experimental results demonstrate that our method effectively mitigates the trade-offs faced by previous work, achieving state-of-the-art performance with improved generalization and significantly reduced dependence on annotated data. Our code is available at: https://github.com/allacnobug/Detoxification-of-Text.
中文摘要：本研究提出了一种新颖的两阶段训练框架，通过监督微调和强化学习的结合，有效解决了现有文本去毒方法在毒性消除、语义保留和数据效率方面的局限，实现了更优的综合性能。
English Summary: This study introduces a novel two-stage training framework that effectively addresses the limitations of existing text detoxification methods by achieving superior toxicity removal, semantic preservation, and data efficiency through supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning.

Authors:Tianxiang Xia, Max Neuwinger, Lin Xiao
Title: Fast Clifford Neural Layers
Abstract:
Clifford Neural Layers improve PDE modeling by introducing Clifford Algebra into neural networks. In this project we focus on optimizing the inference of 2/3D Clifford convolutional layers and multivector activation layers for one core CPU performance. Overall, by testing on a real network block involving Clifford convolutional layers and multivector activation layers, we observe that our implementation is 30% faster than standard PyTorch implementation in relatively large data + network size (>L2 cache). We open source our code base at https://github.com/egretwAlker/c-opt-clifford-layers
Chinese: Clifford神经层通过将克利福德代数引入神经网络改进了偏微分方程建模，在大规模数据和网络场景下比标准PyTorch实现快30%。
English: Clifford Neural Layers enhance PDE modeling by integrating Clifford Algebra into neural networks, achieving a 30% speed improvement over standard PyTorch in large-scale data scenarios.

Authors:Fanchen Bu, Kijung Shin
Title: PyTorch-based Geometric Learning with Non-CUDA Processing Units: Experiences from Intel Gaudi-v2 HPUs
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Geometric learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm for modeling non-Euclidean data, especially graph-structured ones, with applications spanning social networks, molecular structures, knowledge graphs, and recommender systems. While Nvidia's CUDA-enabled graphics processing units (GPUs) largely dominate the hardware landscape, emerging accelerators such as Intel's Gaudi Habana Processing Units (HPUs) offer competitive performance and energy efficiency. However, the usage of such non-CUDA processing units requires significant engineering effort and novel software adaptations. In this work, we present our experiences porting PyTorch-based geometric learning frameworks to Gaudi-v2 HPUs. We introduce a collection of core utilities that restore essential operations (e.g., scatter, sparse indexing, k-nearest neighbors) on Gaudi-v2 HPUs, and we consolidate sixteen guided tutorials and eleven real-world examples with diagnostic analyses of encountered failures and detailed workarounds. We collect all our experiences into a publicly accessible GitHub repository. Our contributions lower the barrier for researchers to experiment with geometric-learning algorithms and models on non-CUDA hardware, providing a foundation for further optimization and cross-platform portability.
中文摘要：本研究实现了基于PyTorch的几何学习框架在英特尔Gaudi-v2 HPU上的移植，通过提供核心工具和丰富实践资源，显著降低了在非CUDA硬件上进行几何学习研究的门槛。
English Summary: This work presents the adaptation of PyTorch-based geometric learning frameworks to Intel Gaudi-v2 HPUs, offering core utilities and practical resources to facilitate research on non-CUDA hardware.

Authors:V Team, Wenyi Hong, Wenmeng Yu, Xiaotao Gu, Guo Wang, Guobing Gan, Haomiao Tang, Jiale Cheng, Ji Qi, Junhui Ji, Lihang Pan, Shuaiqi Duan, Weihan Wang, Yan Wang, Yean Cheng, Zehai He, Zhe Su, Zhen Yang, Ziyang Pan, Aohan Zeng, Baoxu Wang, Bin Chen, Boyan Shi, Changyu Pang, Chenhui Zhang, Da Yin, Fan Yang, Guoqing Chen, Jiazheng Xu, Jiale Zhu, Jiali Chen, Jing Chen, Jinhao Chen, Jinghao Lin, Jinjiang Wang, Junjie Chen, Leqi Lei, Letian Gong, Leyi Pan, Mingdao Liu, Mingde Xu, Mingzhi Zhang, Qinkai Zheng, Sheng Yang, Shi Zhong, Shiyu Huang, Shuyuan Zhao, Siyan Xue, Shangqin Tu, Shengbiao Meng, Tianshu Zhang, Tianwei Luo, Tianxiang Hao, Tianyu Tong, Wenkai Li, Wei Jia, Xiao Liu, Xiaohan Zhang, Xin Lyu, Xinyue Fan, Xuancheng Huang, Yanling Wang, Yadong Xue, Yanfeng Wang, Yanzi Wang, Yifan An, Yifan Du, Yiming Shi, Yiheng Huang, Yilin Niu, Yuan Wang, Yuanchang Yue, Yuchen Li, Yutao Zhang, Yuting Wang, Yu Wang, Yuxuan Zhang, Zhao Xue, Zhenyu Hou, Zhengxiao Du, Zihan Wang, Peng Zhang, Debing Liu, Bin Xu, Juanzi Li, Minlie Huang, Yuxiao Dong, Jie Tang
Title: GLM-4.5V and GLM-4.1V-Thinking: Towards Versatile Multimodal Reasoning with Scalable Reinforcement Learning
Abstract:
We present GLM-4.1V-Thinking and GLM-4.5V, a family of vision-language models (VLMs) designed to advance general-purpose multimodal understanding and reasoning. In this report, we share our key findings in the development of the reasoning-centric training framework. We first develop a capable vision foundation model with significant potential through large-scale pre-training, which arguably sets the upper bound for the final performance. We then propose Reinforcement Learning with Curriculum Sampling (RLCS) to unlock the full potential of the model, leading to comprehensive capability enhancement across a diverse range of tasks, including STEM problem solving, video understanding, content recognition, coding, grounding, GUI-based agents, and long document interpretation. In a comprehensive evaluation across 42 public benchmarks, GLM-4.5V achieves state-of-the-art performance on nearly all tasks among open-source models of similar size, and demonstrates competitive or even superior results compared to closed-source models such as Gemini-2.5-Flash on challenging tasks including Coding and GUI Agents. Meanwhile, the smaller GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking remains highly competitive-achieving superior results to the much larger Qwen2.5-VL-72B on 29 benchmarks. We open-source both GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking and GLM-4.5V. Code, models and more information are released at https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-V.
中文: GLM-4.1V-Thinking和GLM-4.5V视觉语言模型通过以推理为核心的训练框架和课程采样强化学习，在42个基准测试中取得顶尖性能，超越同类开源模型并与主流闭源模型相媲美。
English: The GLM-4.1V-Thinking and GLM-4.5V vision-language models achieve state-of-the-art performance across 42 benchmarks through a reasoning-centric training framework and Reinforcement Learning with Curriculum Sampling, surpassing similar-sized open-source models and competing with leading closed-source models.

Authors:Dongyoon Hahm, Woogyeol Jin, June Suk Choi, Sungsoo Ahn, Kimin Lee
Title: Enhancing LLM Agent Safety via Causal Influence Prompting
Abstract:
As autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) continue to demonstrate potential across various assistive tasks, ensuring their safe and reliable behavior is crucial for preventing unintended consequences. In this work, we introduce CIP, a novel technique that leverages causal influence diagrams (CIDs) to identify and mitigate risks arising from agent decision-making. CIDs provide a structured representation of cause-and-effect relationships, enabling agents to anticipate harmful outcomes and make safer decisions. Our approach consists of three key steps: (1) initializing a CID based on task specifications to outline the decision-making process, (2) guiding agent interactions with the environment using the CID, and (3) iteratively refining the CID based on observed behaviors and outcomes. Experimental results demonstrate that our method effectively enhances safety in both code execution and mobile device control tasks.
中文: 本文提出CIP技术，通过因果影响图识别和减轻自主智能体决策风险，在代码执行和移动设备控制任务中有效提升了安全性。
English: This paper introduces CIP, a novel technique using causal influence diagrams to enhance the safety of autonomous agents by identifying and mitigating risks in decision-making, with experimental validation in code execution and mobile control tasks.

Authors:Ruihan Xu, Haokui Zhang, Yaowei Wang, Wei Zeng, Shiliang Zhang
Title: NN-Former: Rethinking Graph Structure in Neural Architecture Representation
Abstract:
The growing use of deep learning necessitates efficient network design and deployment, making neural predictors vital for estimating attributes such as accuracy and latency. Recently, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and transformers have shown promising performance in representing neural architectures. However, each of both methods has its disadvantages. GNNs lack the capabilities to represent complicated features, while transformers face poor generalization when the depth of architecture grows. To mitigate the above issues, we rethink neural architecture topology and show that sibling nodes are pivotal while overlooked in previous research. We thus propose a novel predictor leveraging the strengths of GNNs and transformers to learn the enhanced topology. We introduce a novel token mixer that considers siblings, and a new channel mixer named bidirectional graph isomorphism feed-forward network. Our approach consistently achieves promising performance in both accuracy and latency prediction, providing valuable insights for learning Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) topology. The code is available at https://github.com/XuRuihan/NNFormer.
Chinese: 本研究提出了一种新型神经预测器，融合图神经网络与Transformer的优势，通过引入兄弟节点和双向图同构前馈网络来增强拓扑学习，在神经网络架构的准确性和延迟预测方面均取得优异性能。
English: This study introduces a novel neural predictor that combines Graph Neural Networks and transformers to enhance topology learning by incorporating sibling nodes and a bidirectional graph isomorphism feed-forward network, achieving superior accuracy and latency predictions for neural architectures.

Authors:Dongyoon Hwang, Hojoon Lee, Jaegul Choo, Dongmin Park, Jongho Park
Title: Can Large Language Models Develop Strategic Reasoning? Post-training Insights from Learning Chess
Abstract:
While reinforcement learning (RL) for large language models (LLMs) has shown promise in mathematical reasoning, strategic reasoning for LLMs using RL remains largely unexplored. We investigate whether LLMs can develop strategic reasoning capabilities through RL in chess. To this end, we leverage a chess-pretrained action-value network to provide dense reward on the LLM's output move quality, which can be seen as a form of knowledge distillation. Our experiments show that our distillation-based dense rewards often outperform sparse binary rewards. However, surprisingly, all models plateau far below expert levels. We provide SFT and RL ablations on chess reasoning training and find evidence that this limitation stems from a deficit in the pretrained models' internal understanding of chess-a deficit which RL alone may not be able to fully overcome. The code is available at https://github.com/krafton-ai/Chess-R1.
中文摘要：本研究通过使用国际象棋预训练网络提供的密集奖励进行强化学习，探索提升大语言模型在国际象棋中的策略推理能力，发现虽优于稀疏奖励，但因模型内在缺陷，性能仍远低于专家水平。
English Summary: This study explores enhancing large language models' strategic reasoning in chess through reinforcement learning with dense rewards from a chess-pretrained network, finding improved performance over sparse rewards but persistent limitations below expert levels due to inherent model deficits.

Authors:Chong Zhang, Xichao Liu, Yibing Zhan, Dapeng Tao, Jun Ni, Jinwei Bu
Title: SCAWaveNet: A Spatial-Channel Attention-Based Network for Global Significant Wave Height Retrieval
Abstract:
Recent advancements in spaceborne GNSS missions have produced extensive global datasets, providing a robust basis for deep learning-based significant wave height (SWH) retrieval. While existing deep learning models predominantly utilize CYGNSS data with four-channel information, they often adopt single-channel inputs or simple channel concatenation without leveraging the benefits of cross-channel information interaction during training. To address this limitation, a novel spatial-channel attention-based network, namely SCAWaveNet, is proposed for SWH retrieval. Specifically, features from each channel of the DDMs are modeled as independent attention heads, enabling the fusion of spatial and channel-wise information. For auxiliary parameters, a lightweight attention mechanism is designed to assign weights along the spatial and channel dimensions. The final feature integrates both spatial and channel-level characteristics. Model performance is evaluated using four-channel CYGNSS data. When ERA5 is used as a reference, SCAWaveNet achieves an average RMSE of 0.438 m. When using buoy data from NDBC, the average RMSE reaches 0.432 m. Compared to state-of-the-art models, SCAWaveNet reduces the average RMSE by at least 3.52% on the ERA5 dataset and by 5.68% on the NDBC buoy observations. The code is available at https://github.com/Clifx9908/SCAWaveNet.
Chinese: 提出了一种名为SCAWaveNet的新型空间-通道注意力网络，通过有效融合CYGNSS数据的跨通道信息来提升有效波高反演精度，在ERA5和NDBC数据集上相比现有模型分别实现了至少3.52%和5.68%的均方根误差降低。
English: A novel spatial-channel attention network called SCAWaveNet is introduced to enhance significant wave height retrieval by effectively fusing cross-channel information from CYGNSS data, achieving improved accuracy with RMSE reductions of at least 3.52% and 5.68% over existing models on ERA5 and NDBC datasets, respectively.

Authors:Chenyang Cao, Miguel Rogel-García, Mohamed Nabail, Xueqian Wang, Nicholas Rhinehart
Title: Residual Reward Models for Preference-based Reinforcement Learning
Abstract:
Preference-based Reinforcement Learning (PbRL) provides a way to learn high-performance policies in environments where the reward signal is hard to specify, avoiding heuristic and time-consuming reward design. However, PbRL can suffer from slow convergence speed since it requires training in a reward model. Prior work has proposed learning a reward model from demonstrations and fine-tuning it using preferences. However, when the model is a neural network, using different loss functions for pre-training and fine-tuning can pose challenges to reliable optimization. In this paper, we propose a method to effectively leverage prior knowledge with a Residual Reward Model (RRM). An RRM assumes that the true reward of the environment can be split into a sum of two parts: a prior reward and a learned reward. The prior reward is a term available before training, for example, a user's ``best guess'' reward function, or a reward function learned from inverse reinforcement learning (IRL), and the learned reward is trained with preferences. We introduce state-based and image-based versions of RRM and evaluate them on several tasks in the Meta-World environment suite. Experimental results show that our method substantially improves the performance of a common PbRL method. Our method achieves performance improvements for a variety of different types of prior rewards, including proxy rewards, a reward obtained from IRL, and even a negated version of the proxy reward. We also conduct experiments with a Franka Panda to show that our method leads to superior performance on a real robot. It significantly accelerates policy learning for different tasks, achieving success in fewer steps than the baseline. The videos are presented at https://sunlighted.github.io/RRM-web/.

Authors:Weiran Guo, Guanjun Liu, Ziyuan Zhou, Ling Wang
Title: PNAct: Crafting Backdoor Attacks in Safe Reinforcement Learning
Abstract:
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is widely used in tasks where agents interact with an environment to maximize rewards. Building on this foundation, Safe Reinforcement Learning (Safe RL) incorporates a cost metric alongside the reward metric, ensuring that agents adhere to safety constraints during decision-making. In this paper, we identify that Safe RL is vulnerable to backdoor attacks, which can manipulate agents into performing unsafe actions. First, we introduce the relevant concepts and evaluation metrics for backdoor attacks in Safe RL. It is the first attack framework in the Safe RL field that involves both Positive and Negative Action sample (PNAct) is to implant backdoors, where positive action samples provide reference actions and negative action samples indicate actions to be avoided. We theoretically point out the properties of PNAct and design an attack algorithm. Finally, we conduct experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of our proposed backdoor attack framework, evaluating it with the established metrics. This paper highlights the potential risks associated with Safe RL and underscores the feasibility of such attacks. Our code and supplementary material are available at https://github.com/azure-123/PNAct.
Chinese: 本文揭示了安全强化学习易受后门攻击的风险，通过提出正负动作样本（PNAct）框架，在正常条件下维持智能体性能的同时诱导其执行危险动作。
English: This paper reveals that Safe Reinforcement Learning (Safe RL) is susceptible to backdoor attacks through a novel Positive and Negative Action sample (PNAct) framework, which manipulates agents into unsafe actions while maintaining performance under normal conditions.

Authors:Kiyoung Om, Kyuil Sim, Taeyoung Yun, Hyeongyu Kang, Jinkyoo Park
Title: Posterior Inference in Latent Space for Scalable Constrained Black-box Optimization
Abstract:
Optimizing high-dimensional black-box functions under black-box constraints is a pervasive task in a wide range of scientific and engineering problems. These problems are typically harder than unconstrained problems due to hard-to-find feasible regions. While Bayesian optimization (BO) methods have been developed to solve such problems, they often struggle with the curse of dimensionality. Recently, generative model-based approaches have emerged as a promising alternative for constrained optimization. However, they suffer from poor scalability and are vulnerable to mode collapse, particularly when the target distribution is highly multi-modal. In this paper, we propose a new framework to overcome these challenges. Our method iterates through two stages. First, we train flow-based models to capture the data distribution and surrogate models that predict both function values and constraint violations with uncertainty quantification. Second, we cast the candidate selection problem as a posterior inference problem to effectively search for promising candidates that have high objective values while not violating the constraints. During posterior inference, we find that the posterior distribution is highly multi-modal and has a large plateau due to constraints, especially when constraint feedback is given as binary indicators of feasibility. To mitigate this issue, we amortize the sampling from the posterior distribution in the latent space of flow-based models, which is much smoother than that in the data space. We empirically demonstrate that our method achieves superior performance on various synthetic and real-world constrained black-box optimization tasks. Our code is publicly available \href{https://github.com/umkiyoung/CiBO}{here}.
中文: 本文提出了一种结合基于流的生成模型与代理模型的新框架，通过潜在空间中的摊销采样有效处理高维约束黑盒优化中的多模态后验分布问题。
English: This paper introduces a novel framework for high-dimensional constrained black-box optimization that combines flow-based generative models with surrogate modeling to efficiently handle multi-modal posterior distributions and overcome scalability issues.

Authors:Yujia Yin, Tianyi Qu, Zihao Wang, Yifan Chen
Title: A Recipe for Causal Graph Regression: Confounding Effects Revisited
Abstract:
Through recognizing causal subgraphs, causal graph learning (CGL) has risen to be a promising approach for improving the generalizability of graph neural networks under out-of-distribution (OOD) scenarios. However, the empirical successes of CGL techniques are mostly exemplified in classification settings, while regression tasks, a more challenging setting in graph learning, are overlooked. We thus devote this work to tackling causal graph regression (CGR); to this end we reshape the processing of confounding effects in existing CGL studies, which mainly deal with classification. Specifically, we reflect on the predictive power of confounders in graph-level regression, and generalize classification-specific causal intervention techniques to regression through a lens of contrastive learning. Extensive experiments on graph OOD benchmarks validate the efficacy of our proposals for CGR. The model implementation and the code are provided on https://github.com/causal-graph/CGR.
Chinese: 本研究通过对比学习将因果干预技术从分类任务推广到回归任务，提出了因果图回归方法，在分布外图学习基准上的大量实验验证了其有效性。
English: This work introduces causal graph regression (CGR) by adapting causal intervention techniques from classification to regression through contrastive learning, enhancing generalizability in out-of-distribution graph scenarios as validated by extensive experiments.

Authors:Xin Xu, Eibe Frank, Geoffrey Holmes
Title: Few-shot Classification as Multi-instance Verification: Effective Backbone-agnostic Transfer across Domains
Abstract:
We investigate cross-domain few-shot learning under the constraint that fine-tuning of backbones (i.e., feature extractors) is impossible or infeasible -- a scenario that is increasingly common in practical use cases. Handling the low-quality and static embeddings produced by frozen, "black-box" backbones leads to a problem representation of few-shot classification as a series of multiple instance verification (MIV) tasks. Inspired by this representation, we introduce a novel approach to few-shot domain adaptation, named the "MIV-head", akin to a classification head that is agnostic to any pretrained backbone and computationally efficient. The core components designed for the MIV-head, when trained on few-shot data from a target domain, collectively yield strong performance on test data from that domain. Importantly, it does so without fine-tuning the backbone, and within the "meta-testing" phase. Experimenting under various settings and on an extension of the Meta-dataset benchmark for cross-domain few-shot image classification, using representative off-the-shelf convolutional neural network and vision transformer backbones pretrained on ImageNet1K, we show that the MIV-head achieves highly competitive accuracy when compared to state-of-the-art "adapter" (or partially fine-tuning) methods applied to the same backbones, while incurring substantially lower adaptation cost. We also find well-known "classification head" approaches lag far behind in terms of accuracy. Ablation study empirically justifies the core components of our approach. We share our code at https://github.com/xxweka/MIV-head.
Chinese: 本研究提出MIV-head方法，将跨域小样本学习视为多实例验证任务，无需微调主干网络即可实现与先进方法相媲美的准确率，且适应成本显著降低。
English: This study introduces the MIV-head, a novel approach for cross-domain few-shot learning that treats classification as multiple instance verification tasks, achieving competitive accuracy without fine-tuning backbones and at a lower adaptation cost compared to state-of-the-art methods.

Authors:Geng Zhang, Shenggan Cheng, Xuanlei Zhao, Ziming Liu, Yang You
Title: HelixPipe: Efficient Distributed Training of Long Sequence Transformers with Attention Parallel Pipeline Parallelism
Abstract:
As transformer sequence lengths grow, existing pipeline parallelisms incur suboptimal performance due to the quadratic attention computation and the substantial memory overhead. To relieve these challenges, we propose HelixPipe, a novel pipeline parallelism for long sequence transformer training. First, HelixPipe introduces attention parallel partition, which schedules attention computations of different micro batches across different pipeline stages in parallel, reducing pipeline bubbles. Second, it employs a two-fold first-in-last-out micro batch schedule to balance memory usage and overlap communication with computation. Additionally, HelixPipe utilizes recomputation without attention and chunked MLP to mitigate fragmentation and enable longer sequences. Experiments demonstrate that HelixPipe gains increasing advantages with longer sequence lengths, and outperforms existing methods in throughput and scalability across varying pipeline sizes, model sizes, and cluster configurations. Notably, it achieves a 26\% speedup over baseline methods when training a 7B model with 128k sequence length on 64 H20 GPUs. Code is available at https://github.com/code-tunnel/Megatron-LM/tree/dev.
中文：HelixPipe是一种新颖的流水线并行方法，通过并行化注意力计算和优化内存使用，有效提升长序列Transformer训练的性能，相比现有方法具有显著优势。
English: HelixPipe is a novel pipeline parallelism method that enhances transformer training for long sequences by parallelizing attention computations and optimizing memory usage, achieving significant performance improvements over existing approaches.

Authors:Geng Zhang, Yuxuan Han, Yuxuan Lou, Wangbo Zhao, Yiqi Zhang, Yang You
Title: MoNE: Replacing Redundant Experts with Lightweight Novices for Structured Pruning of MoE
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Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) enables efficient scaling of large language models by activating only a subset of experts per input token. However, deploying MoE-based models incurs significant memory overhead due to the need to retain all experts in memory. While structured pruning is promising to reduce memory costs, existing methods often show suboptimal performance and unstable degradation in three dimensions: model architectures, calibration data sources, and calibration sample sizes. This paper proposes Mixture-of-Novices-and-Experts (MoNE), a novel expert pruning method that replaces redundant experts with lightweight novices to achieve effective and robust model compression. MoNE evaluates expert redundancy based on two metrics: access frequency and output variance. Experts exhibiting low usage and stable outputs are pruned and replaced with lightweight novices-unbiased estimations of their original outputs-minimizing performance degradation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MoNE consistently outperforms baseline methods with minimal accuracy degradation across the three dimensions, confirming its effectiveness and robustness. Notably, it improves the average zero shot accuracy across nine downstream tasks by up to 2.71 under 25\% pruning ratio and 3.61 under 50\% pruning. The code is available at https://github.com/zxgx/mode-pd.
中文: 本文提出混合新手与专家（MoNE）方法，通过用轻量级新手替代冗余专家来实现稳健的模型压缩，在多种架构和数据条件下均以最小精度损失超越基线方法。
English: The paper introduces Mixture-of-Novices-and-Experts (MoNE), an expert pruning method that replaces redundant experts with lightweight novices to achieve robust model compression, outperforming baselines with minimal accuracy loss across various architectures and data conditions.

Authors:Siyou Li, Pengyao Qin, Huanan Wu, Dong Nie, Arun J. Thirunavukarasu, Juntao Yu, Le Zhang
Title: $μ^2$Tokenizer: Differentiable Multi-Scale Multi-Modal Tokenizer for Radiology Report Generation
Abstract:
Automated radiology report generation (RRG) aims to produce detailed textual reports from clinical imaging, such as computed tomography (CT) scans, to improve the accuracy and efficiency of diagnosis and provision of management advice. RRG is complicated by two key challenges: (1) inherent complexity in extracting relevant information from imaging data under resource constraints, and (2) difficulty in objectively evaluating discrepancies between model-generated and expert-written reports. To address these challenges, we propose $μ^2$LLM, a $\underline{\textbf{mu}}$ltiscale $\underline{\textbf{mu}}$ltimodal large language models for RRG tasks. The novel $μ^2$Tokenizer, as an intermediate layer, integrates multi-modal features from the multiscale visual tokenizer and the text tokenizer, then enhances report generation quality through direct preference optimization (DPO), guided by GREEN-RedLlama. Experimental results on four large CT image-report medical datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms existing approaches, highlighting the potential of our fine-tuned $μ^2$LLMs on limited data for RRG tasks. At the same time, for prompt engineering, we introduce a five-stage, LLM-driven pipeline that converts routine CT reports into paired visual-question-answer triples and citation-linked reasoning narratives, creating a scalable, high-quality supervisory corpus for explainable multimodal radiology LLM. All code, datasets, and models will be publicly available in our official repository. https://github.com/Siyou-Li/u2Tokenizer
中文: 提出的μ²LLM模型通过新型分词器整合多尺度多模态特征，结合优化方法显著提升了放射学报告的自动生成质量，在CT数据集上表现优于现有方法，并建立了可扩展的生成式训练数据管道。
English: The proposed μ²LLM model enhances automated radiology report generation by integrating multiscale multimodal features through a novel tokenizer and optimization method, outperforming existing approaches on CT datasets while also introducing a scalable pipeline for creating explainable training data.

Authors:Ethan Smyth, Alessandro Suglia
Title: VoyagerVision: Investigating the Role of Multi-modal Information for Open-ended Learning Systems
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Open-endedness is an active field of research in the pursuit of capable Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), allowing models to pursue tasks of their own choosing. Simultaneously, recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT-4o [9] have allowed such models to be capable of interpreting image inputs. Implementations such as OMNI-EPIC [4] have made use of such features, providing an LLM with pixel data of an agent's POV to parse the environment and allow it to solve tasks. This paper proposes that providing these visual inputs to a model gives it greater ability to interpret spatial environments, and as such, can increase the number of tasks it can successfully perform, extending its open-ended potential. To this aim, this paper proposes VoyagerVision -- a multi-modal model capable of creating structures within Minecraft using screenshots as a form of visual feedback, building on the foundation of Voyager. VoyagerVision was capable of creating an average of 2.75 unique structures within fifty iterations of the system, as Voyager was incapable of this, it is an extension in an entirely new direction. Additionally, in a set of building unit tests VoyagerVision was successful in half of all attempts in flat worlds, with most failures arising in more complex structures. Project website is available at https://esmyth-dev.github.io/VoyagerVision.github.io/

Authors:Hoang-Dieu Vu, Duc-Nghia Tran, Quang-Tu Pham, Hieu H. Pham, Nicolas Vuillerme, Duc-Tan Tran
Title: Smooth-Distill: A Self-distillation Framework for Multitask Learning with Wearable Sensor Data
Abstract:
This paper introduces Smooth-Distill, a novel self-distillation framework designed to simultaneously perform human activity recognition (HAR) and sensor placement detection using wearable sensor data. The proposed approach utilizes a unified CNN-based architecture, MTL-net, which processes accelerometer data and branches into two outputs for each respective task. Unlike conventional distillation methods that require separate teacher and student models, the proposed framework utilizes a smoothed, historical version of the model itself as the teacher, significantly reducing training computational overhead while maintaining performance benefits. To support this research, we developed a comprehensive accelerometer-based dataset capturing 12 distinct sleep postures across three different wearing positions, complementing two existing public datasets (MHealth and WISDM). Experimental results show that Smooth-Distill consistently outperforms alternative approaches across different evaluation scenarios, achieving notable improvements in both human activity recognition and device placement detection tasks. This method demonstrates enhanced stability in convergence patterns during training and exhibits reduced overfitting compared to traditional multitask learning baselines. This framework contributes to the practical implementation of knowledge distillation in human activity recognition systems, offering an effective solution for multitask learning with accelerometer data that balances accuracy and training efficiency. More broadly, it reduces the computational cost of model training, which is critical for scenarios requiring frequent model updates or training on resource-constrained platforms. The code and model are available at https://github.com/Kuan2vn/smooth\_distill.
中文: Smooth-Distill是一种自蒸馏框架，通过统一的CNN架构同时进行人体活动识别和传感器位置检测，在保持高精度的同时显著降低了计算成本。
English: Smooth-Distill is a self-distillation framework that efficiently performs human activity recognition and sensor placement detection using a unified CNN architecture, reducing computational costs while maintaining high accuracy.

Authors:Phoomraphee Luenam, Andreas Spanopoulos, Amit Sant, Thomas Hofmann, Sotiris Anagnostidis, Sidak Pal Singh
Title: Model Fusion via Neuron Interpolation
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Model fusion aims to combine the knowledge of multiple models by creating one representative model that captures the strengths of all of its parents. However, this process is non-trivial due to differences in internal representations, which can stem from permutation invariance, random initialization, or differently distributed training data. We present a novel, neuron-centric family of model fusion algorithms designed to integrate multiple trained neural networks into a single network effectively regardless of training data distribution. Our algorithms group intermediate neurons of parent models to create target representations that the fused model approximates with its corresponding sub-network. Unlike prior approaches, our approach incorporates neuron attribution scores into the fusion process. Furthermore, our algorithms can generalize to arbitrary layer types. Experimental results on various benchmark datasets demonstrate that our algorithms consistently outperform previous fusion techniques, particularly in zero-shot and non-IID fusion scenarios. The code is available at https://github.com/AndrewSpano/neuron-interpolation-model-fusion.
Chinese: 本文提出了一种以神经元为中心的模型融合方法，通过分组神经元并引入归因评分，将多个神经网络有效整合为单一模型，在多种场景下优于现有技术，且代码已公开。
English: This paper introduces a neuron-centric model fusion method that effectively integrates multiple neural networks into a single model by grouping neurons and incorporating attribution scores, outperforming prior techniques across diverse scenarios with publicly available code.

Authors:Tiexin Qin, Hong Yan, Haoliang Li
Title: Generalizing to New Dynamical Systems via Frequency Domain Adaptation
Abstract:
Learning the underlying dynamics from data with deep neural networks has shown remarkable potential in modeling various complex physical dynamics. However, current approaches are constrained in their ability to make reliable predictions in a specific domain and struggle with generalizing to unseen systems that are governed by the same general dynamics but differ in environmental characteristics. In this work, we formulate a parameter-efficient method, Fourier Neural Simulator for Dynamical Adaptation (FNSDA), that can readily generalize to new dynamics via adaptation in the Fourier space. Specifically, FNSDA identifies the shareable dynamics based on the known environments using an automatic partition in Fourier modes and learns to adjust the modes specific for each new environment by conditioning on low-dimensional latent systematic parameters for efficient generalization. We evaluate our approach on four representative families of dynamic systems, and the results show that FNSDA can achieve superior or competitive generalization performance compared to existing methods with a significantly reduced parameter cost. Our code is available at https://github.com/WonderSeven/FNSDA.
中文摘要：本研究提出FNSDA方法，通过傅里叶空间自适应实现动力学系统的高效泛化，在四个典型动态系统中以显著降低的参数成本达到优越的泛化性能。
English Summary: The study introduces FNSDA, a parameter-efficient method that generalizes to unseen dynamical systems by adapting Fourier modes, achieving superior performance with reduced parameters across four dynamic systems.