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概览 (2026-04-23)
今日共更新593篇论文,其中:
- 自然语言处理共109篇(Computation and Language (cs.CL))
- 人工智能共188篇(Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI))
- 计算机视觉共106篇(Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV))
- 机器学习共158篇(Machine Learning (cs.LG))
- 多智能体系统共15篇(Multiagent Systems (cs.MA))
- 信息检索共16篇(Information Retrieval (cs.IR))
- 人机交互共28篇(Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC))
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[MA-0] Relative Principals Pluralistic Alignment and the Structural Value Alignment Problem
【速读】：该论文试图解决人工智能（Artificial Intelligence, AI）的价值对齐（value alignment）问题，即如何确保AI系统的行为符合人类价值观与利益。传统观点常将此问题视为纯粹的技术或规范性挑战，尤其关注未来假设性系统；而本文提出，价值对齐本质上是一个治理结构问题——不是抽象地判断系统是否对齐，而是要明确其对谁对齐、对齐程度如何以及成本代价为何。解决方案的关键在于引入“三轴框架”（three-axis framework），从目标（objectives）、信息（information）和委托人（principals）三个相互作用的维度系统诊断现实系统中出现的错位现象。这一框架揭示了对齐并非模型的单一技术属性，而是由目标设定方式、信息分配机制及实际利益相关者参与度共同塑造的结果，因而必须通过持续的制度过程来管理，而非仅靠技术设计解决。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20805
作者: Travis LaCroix
机构: Durham University (杜伦大学)
类目: Computers and Society (cs.CY); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
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Abstract:The value alignment problem for artificial intelligence (AI) is often framed as a purely technical or normative challenge, sometimes focused on hypothetical future systems. I argue that the problem is better understood as a structural question about governance: not whether an AI system is aligned in the abstract, but whether it is aligned enough, for whom, and at what cost. Drawing on the principal-agent framework from economics, this paper reconceptualises misalignment as arising along three interacting axes: objectives, information, and principals. The three-axis framework provides a systematic way of diagnosing why misalignment arises in real-world systems and clarifies that alignment cannot be treated as a single technical property of models but an outcome shaped by how objectives are specified, how information is distributed, and whose interests count in practice. The core contribution of this paper is to show that the three-axis decomposition implies that alignment is fundamentally a problem of governance rather than engineering alone. From this perspective, alignment is inherently pluralistic and context-dependent, and resolving misalignment involves trade-offs among competing values. Because misalignment can occur along each axis – and affect stakeholders differently – the structural description shows that alignment cannot be “solved” through technical design alone, but must be managed through ongoing institutional processes that determine how objectives are set, how systems are evaluated, and how affected communities can contest or reshape those decisions.
[MA-1] Decoupling Speculation from Merit: The Identity-Bound Asset Integrity Model (IBAIM) for Sustainable Web3 Gaming
【速读】：该论文旨在解决去中心化游戏经济中因“死亡螺旋”（death spiral）导致的系统性崩溃问题，这是阻碍Web3游戏大规模采用的核心障碍。其解决方案的关键在于提出并验证了三个必要且充分的经济条件：抗Sybil攻击能力（Anti-Sybil Resilience）、抗资本主导性（Anti-Capital Dominance）和抗通胀饱和性（Anti-Inflationary Saturation），并通过Identity-Bound Asset Integrity Model (IBAIM) 实现技术落地。IBAIM利用零知识（Zero-Knowledge, ZK）生物特征哈希与账户抽象（Account Abstraction, AA）将资产效用锚定至唯一人类身份，同时通过不对称效用衰减（Asymmetric Utility Decay, AUD）机制和熵驱动热力学退化模型，实现金融投机与游戏内成就的解耦，从而保障长期经济可持续性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20737
作者: Jinliang Xu
机构: CAICT(中国信息通信研究院)
类目: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT); Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA); Systems and Control (eess.SY)
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Abstract:The rapid collapse of decentralized game economies, often characterized by the \textitdeath spiral, remains the most formidable barrier to the mass adoption of Web3 gaming. This paper proposes that the sustainability of an open game economy is predicated on three necessary and sufficient conditions: Anti-Sybil Resilience, Anti-Capital Dominance, and Anti-Inflationary Saturation. The first section establishes a theoretical proof of these conditions, arguing that the absence of any single dimension leads to systemic failure. The second section explores the dialectical relationship between these dimensions, illustrating how unchecked automation and capital-driven monopolies accelerate asset hyperinflation. In the third section, we introduce the Identity-Bound Asset Integrity Model (IBAIM) as a comprehensive technical solution. IBAIM utilizes Zero-Knowledge (ZK) biometric hashing and Account Abstraction (AA) to anchor asset utility to unique human identities through a privacy-preserving and regulatory-compliant architecture. By exogenizing biometric verification to trusted local environments and utilizing Zero-Knowledge Proofs of Identity (zk-PoI), the model ensures absolute user privacy. Furthermore, by implementing an Asymmetric Utility Decay (AUD) engine-whereby assets suffer a vertical 50% utility cliff upon secondary transfer-and an entropy-driven thermodynamic degradation mechanism., the model successfully decouples financial speculation from in-game merit. Finally, we apply this framework to analyze prominent historical failures in the GameFi sector, demonstrating that their collapse was an inevitable consequence of violating these core economic constraints. Our findings suggest that trading a degree of asset liquidity for system integrity is the only viable path toward long-term economic viability in decentralized virtual worlds.
[MA-2] Anchor-and-Resume Concession Under Dynamic Pricing for LLM -Augmented Freight Negotiation
【速读】：该论文旨在解决货运经纪场景中动态定价环境下传统时间依赖性让步框架的局限性问题，即固定形状参数 β 无法适应实时价格变动导致的报价非单调性（monotonicity violation），以及大语言模型（LLM）驱动的经纪人虽具灵活性但存在推理成本高、定价非确定性和易受提示注入攻击等缺陷。其解决方案的关键在于提出一种双索引锚定-续接（anchor-and-resume）框架：通过从实时价差中推导 β 参数以适配不同市场状态下的让步策略，同时引入锚定机制确保任意价格波动下报价始终单调不减；该框架将定价逻辑完全固化为确定性公式，仅将 LLM 用作自然语言翻译层，从而实现高并发谈判下的低延迟、透明且可扩展的决策系统，在实证评估中展现出优于固定 β 基线和媲美大规模 LLM 对手的性能表现。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20732
作者: Hoang Nguyen,Lu Wang,Marta Gaia Bras
机构: Georgia Institute of Technology (佐治亚理工学院); T-Insight (T-Insight)
类目: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Freight brokerages negotiate thousands of carrier rates daily under dynamic pricing conditions where models frequently revise targets mid-conversation. Classical time-dependent concession frameworks use a fixed shape parameter \beta that cannot adapt to these updates. Deriving \beta from the live spread enables adaptation but introduces a new problem: a pricing shift can cause the formula to retract a previous offer, violating monotonicity. LLM-powered brokers offer flexibility but require expensive reasoning models, produce non-deterministic pricing, and remain vulnerable to prompt injection. We propose a two-index anchor-and-resume framework that addresses both limitations. A spread-derived \beta maps each load’s margin structure to the correct concession posture, while the anchor-and-resume mechanism guarantees monotonically non-decreasing offers under arbitrary pricing shifts. All pricing decisions remain in a deterministic formula; the LLM, when used, serves only as a natural-language translation layer. Empirical evaluation across 115,125 negotiations shows that the adaptive \beta tailors behavior by regime: in narrow spreads, it concedes quickly to prioritize deal closure and load coverage; in medium and wide spreads, it matches or exceeds the best fixed- \beta baselines in broker savings. Against an unconstrained 20-billion-parameter LLM broker, it achieves similar agreement rates and savings. Against LLM-powered carriers as more realistic stochastic counterparties, it maintains comparable savings and higher agreement rates than against rule-based opponents. By decoupling the LLM from pricing logic, the framework scales horizontally to thousands of concurrent negotiations with negligible inference cost and transparent decision-making. Subjects: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL) ACMclasses: I.2.7 Cite as: arXiv:2604.20732 [cs.MA] (or arXiv:2604.20732v1 [cs.MA] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.20732 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[MA-3] pAI/MSc: ML Theory Research with Humans on the Loop
【速读】：该论文旨在解决学术研究流程中人工干预成本过高、效率低下的问题，具体目标是将一个指定的假设转化为文献支撑充分、数学推导严谨、实验验证可靠且具备投稿导向的初稿文档时所需的人工引导工作量降低几个数量级。其解决方案的关键在于构建了一个开源、可定制、模块化的多智能体系统（multi-agent system），专门针对机器学习理论及相关定量领域设计，通过智能体间的协作与分工，显著减少研究人员在文献调研、理论推导、实验设计与撰写等环节中的重复性劳动。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20622
作者: Mahmoud Abdelmoneum,Pierfrancesco Beneventano,Tomaso Poggio
机构: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (麻省理工学院); Perseus Labs (佩尔塞斯实验室)
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
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Abstract:We present pAI/MSc, an open-source, customizable, modular multi-agent system for academic research workflows. Our goal is not autonomous scientific ideation, nor fully automated research. It is narrower and more practical: to reduce by orders of magnitude the human steering required to turn a specified hypothesis into a literature-grounded, mathematically established, experimentally supported, submission-oriented manuscript draft. pAI/MSc is built with a current emphasis on machine learning theory and adjacent quantitative fields.
[MA-4] rust Lies and Long Memories: Emergent Social Dynamics and Reputation in Multi-Round Avalon with LLM Agents
【速读】：该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）代理在重复博弈中如何演化出社会动态行为的问题，特别是关注角色隐藏的欺骗性游戏（如《抵抗：阿瓦隆》）中，代理如何通过记忆过往互动形成声誉与策略性欺骗。其解决方案的关键在于引入跨局游戏的记忆机制——即代理不仅记录每局游戏中自身和他人的角色与行为，还能基于这些信息在后续对局中调整策略。这种设计使得两种核心现象自然涌现：一是角色条件下的声誉系统（如同一代理在“好人”或“坏人”角色下被赋予不同标签），并显著影响团队成员的选择倾向（高声誉玩家获得46%更多团队邀请）；二是更高推理努力支持更复杂的欺骗策略（如坏方在高努力场景下75%概率先让早期任务通过以建立信任）。这表明，LLM代理在具备长期记忆的重复交互环境中，能够自发演化出类人类的社会动态特征。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20582
作者: Suveen Ellawela
机构: National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学)
类目: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:We study emergent social dynamics in LLM agents playing The Resistance: Avalon, a hidden-role deception game. Unlike prior work on single-game performance, our agents play repeated games while retaining memory of previous interactions, including who played which roles and how they behaved, enabling us to study how social dynamics evolve. Across 188 games, two key phenomena emerge. First, reputation dynamics emerge organically when agents retain cross-game memory: agents reference past behavior in statements like “I am wary of repeating last game’s mistake of over-trusting early success.” These reputations are role-conditional: the same agent is described as “straightforward” when playing good but “subtle” when playing evil, and high-reputation players receive 46% more team inclusions. Second, higher reasoning effort supports more strategic deception: evil players more often pass early missions to build trust before sabotaging later ones, 75% in high-effort games vs 36% in low-effort games. Together, these findings show that repeated interaction with memory gives rise to measurable reputation and deception dynamics among LLM agents.
[MA-5] Bimanual Robot Manipulation via Multi-Agent In-Context Learning
【速读】：该论文旨在解决将标准语言模型（Language Models, LLMs）应用于双臂操作（bimanual manipulation）时面临的挑战，即高维关节动作空间和双臂间紧密的协调约束会迅速超出常规上下文窗口的容量，导致现有方法难以实现有效的零样本（zero-shot）控制。解决方案的关键在于提出BiCICLe（Bimanual Coordinated In-Context Learning）框架，其核心思想是将双臂控制建模为多智能体领导者-跟随者问题，通过解耦动作空间为顺序的、条件化的单臂预测来降低复杂度；同时引入“手臂辩论”（Arms’ Debate）机制进行迭代优化，并由第三个LLM作为裁判（LLM-as-Judge）评估并选择最合理的协同轨迹，从而在不进行任务特定微调的前提下实现高效的双臂协作与泛化能力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20348
作者: Alessio Palma,Indro Spinelli,Vignesh Prasad,Luca Scofano,Yufeng Jin,Georgia Chalvatzaki,Fabio Galasso
机构: 未知
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
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Abstract:Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful reasoning engines for embodied control. In particular, In-Context Learning (ICL) enables off-the-shelf, text-only LLMs to predict robot actions without any task-specific training while preserving their generalization capabilities. Applying ICL to bimanual manipulation remains challenging, as the high-dimensional joint action space and tight inter-arm coordination constraints rapidly overwhelm standard context windows. To address this, we introduce BiCICLe (Bimanual Coordinated In-Context Learning), the first framework that enables standard LLMs to perform few-shot bimanual manipulation without fine-tuning. BiCICLe frames bimanual control as a multi-agent leader-follower problem, decoupling the action space into sequential, conditioned single-arm predictions. This naturally extends to Arms’ Debate, an iterative refinement process, and to the introduction of a third LLM-as-Judge to evaluate and select the most plausible coordinated trajectories. Evaluated on 13 tasks from the TWIN benchmark, BiCICLe achieves up to 71.1% average success rate, outperforming the best training-free baseline by 6.7 percentage points and surpassing most supervised methods. We further demonstrate strong few-shot generalization on novel tasks.
[MA-6] Agent Lens: Adaptive Visual Modalities for Human-Agent Interaction in Mobile GUI Agents
【速读】：该论文旨在解决移动图形用户界面（GUI）智能体在执行任务时与用户沟通方式不足的问题，现有系统要么采用前台执行模式以确保透明性但阻碍多任务处理，要么采用后台执行模式支持多任务但缺乏视觉感知。为应对这一挑战，作者提出AgentLens，其核心创新在于引入自适应的可视化交互机制，根据任务特性动态选择三种视觉模态：完整界面（Full UI）、部分界面（Partial UI）和生成式界面（GenUI），并通过虚拟显示（Virtual Display）技术实现后台执行中的选择性视觉叠加，从而在保持用户对任务进展感知的同时支持多任务操作。实验表明，该方案显著提升了用户体验和采纳意愿。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20279
作者: Jeonghyeon Kim,Byeongjun Joung,Junwon Lee,Joohyung Lee,Taehoon Min,Sunjae Lee
机构: 未知
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
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Abstract:Mobile GUI agents can automate smartphone tasks by interacting directly with app interfaces, but how they should communicate with users during execution remains underexplored. Existing systems rely on two extremes: foreground execution, which maximizes transparency but prevents multitasking, and background execution, which supports multitasking but provides little visual awareness. Through iterative formative studies, we found that users prefer a hybrid model with just-in-time visual interaction, but the most effective visualization modality depends on the task. Motivated by this, we present AgentLens, a mobile GUI agent that adaptively uses three visual modalities during human-agent interaction: Full UI, Partial UI, and GenUI. AgentLens extends a standard mobile agent with adaptive communication actions and uses Virtual Display to enable background execution with selective visual overlays. In a controlled study with 21 participants, AgentLens was preferred by 85.7% of participants and achieved the highest usability (1.94 Overall PSSUQ) and adoption-intent (6.43/7).
[MA-7] Forag e V2: Knowledge Evolution and Transfer in Autonomous Agent Organizations
【速读】：该论文旨在解决开放世界任务中自主代理存在的“分母盲视”（denominator blindness）问题，即代理在缺乏先验完成边界的情况下系统性低估目标空间的规模。为应对这一挑战，作者提出V2架构，其核心创新在于构建了一个学习型组织（learning organization），通过制度化设计实现经验积累、知识迁移与稳定性保障：关键机制包括审计分离（audit separation）、合同协议（contract protocols）和组织记忆（organizational memory），使知识以可读文档形式跨运行、跨模型能力传递，并由任何未来代理继承。实验表明，该架构显著提升了领域理解深度与评估一致性，例如在六轮迭代中知识条目从0增长至54，且不同代理间的覆盖率差距大幅缩小，验证了组织级知识对评价标准自校准的有效性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19837
作者: Huaqing Xie
机构: Independent Researcher
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
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Abstract:Autonomous agents operating in open-world tasks – where the completion boundary is not given in advance – face denominator blindness: they systematically underestimate the scope of the target space. Forage V1 addressed this through co-evolving evaluation (an independent Evaluator discovers what “complete” means) and method isolation (Evaluator and Planner cannot see each other’s code). V2 extends the architecture from a single expedition to a learning organization: experience accumulates across runs, transfers across model capabilities, and institutional safeguards prevent knowledge degradation. We demonstrate two claims across three task types (web scraping, API queries, mathematical reasoning). Knowledge accumulation: over six runs, knowledge entries grow from 0 to 54, and denominator estimates stabilize as domain understanding deepens. Knowledge transfer: a weaker agent (Sonnet) seeded with a stronger agent’s (Opus) knowledge narrows a 6.6pp coverage gap to 1.1pp, halves cost (9.40 to 5.13 USD), converges in half the rounds (mean 4.5 vs. 7.0), and three independent seeded runs arrive at exactly the same denominator estimate (266), suggesting organizational knowledge calibrates evaluation itself. V2’s contribution is architectural: it designs institutions – audit separation, contract protocols, organizational memory – that make any agent more reliable upon entry. The accumulated experience is organizational, model-agnostic, and transferable, stored as readable documents that any future agent inherits regardless of provider or capability level. Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA) Cite as: arXiv:2604.19837 [cs.AI] (or arXiv:2604.19837v1 [cs.AI] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.19837 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[MA-8] Beyond Task Success: An Evidence-Synthesis Framework for Evaluating Governing and Orchestrating Agent ic AI
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前Agentic AI（智能代理AI）系统在可信部署中面临的“治理到行动闭合缺口”问题，即现有评估方法仅能判断结果是否良好，治理框架仅定义允许的行为边界，但二者均无法明确责任义务如何绑定至具体操作，并且缺乏事后合规性证明机制。解决方案的关键在于提出三个相互关联的成果：(1) 一个涵盖评估、治理、编排与运行时保障的四层框架；(2) 基于可观测性（observability）、可判定性（decidability）、及时性（timeliness）和可认证性（attestability）的ODTA运行时定位测试；(3) 针对状态改变型动作的最小动作证据包（minimum action-evidence bundle），从而实现从抽象治理规则到具体执行行为的闭环映射与可验证控制。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19818
作者: Christopher Koch,Joshua Andreas Wellbrock
机构: 未知
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
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Abstract:Agentic AI systems plan, use tools, maintain state, and act across multi-step workflows with external effects, meaning trustworthy deployment can no longer be judged by task completion alone. The current literature remains fragmented across benchmark-centered evaluation, standards-based governance, orchestration architectures, and runtime assurance mechanisms. This paper contributes a bounded evidence synthesis across a manually coded corpus of twenty-four recent sources. The core finding is a governance-to-action closure gap: evaluation tells us whether outcomes were good, governance defines what should be allowed, but neither identifies where obligations bind to concrete actions or how compliance can later be proven. To close that gap, the paper introduces three linked artifacts: (1) a four-layer framework spanning evaluation, governance, orchestration, and assurance; (2) an ODTA runtime-placement test based on observability, decidability, timeliness, and attestability; and (3) a minimum action-evidence bundle for state-changing actions. Across sources, evaluation papers identify safety, robustness, and trajectory-level measurement as open gaps; governance frameworks define obligations but omit execution-time control logic; orchestration research positions the control plane as the locus of policy mediation, identity, and telemetry; runtime-governance work shows path-dependent behavior cannot be governed through prompts or static permissions alone; and action-safety studies show text alignment does not reliably transfer to tool actions. A worked enterprise procurement-agent scenario illustrates how these artifacts consolidate existing evidence without introducing new experimental data.
[MA-9] Evolution of Lane-Changing Behavior in Mixed Traffic: A Quantum Game Theory Approach
【速读】：该论文旨在解决自动驾驶车辆（AV）在混合交通环境中，如何准确预测人类驾驶员在关键交互行为（如变道）中演化行为的问题。传统进化博弈论（EGT）因假设个体间独立性，无法解释真实数据中稳定的约42%合作率，反而预测出不切实际的完全合作结果。解决方案的关键在于引入量子博弈论（QGT）框架，通过Marinatto-Weber（MW）量化方案引入纠缠参数 |b|^2_HDV ≈ 0.52，将人类决策中的潜在相关性直接嵌入单次交互的收益结构中，从而精确再现观测到的混合均衡状态。这一方法不仅提升了对人类行为动态建模的准确性，还揭示了不同AV算法设计对人类适应行为的非直观影响，为AV软件开发提供了可模拟、可预测的行为演化工具。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19813
作者: Sungyong Chung,Tina Radvand,Alireza Talebpour
机构: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校)
类目: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
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Abstract:As automated vehicles (AVs) enter mixed traffic, proactively anticipating the evolution of human driving behavior during critical interactions, such as lane changes, is essential. However, classical Evolutionary Game Theory (EGT) fails to capture the complexity of human decision-making during lane changes. Specifically, by strictly assuming independence between agents, classical models calibrated on empirical payoffs predict a convergence to unrealistic full cooperation, contradicting the stable 42% cooperation rate observed in real-world data. To resolve this discrepancy, this study introduces a Quantum Game Theory (QGT) framework. We analyze 7,636 lane-changing interactions from the Waymo Open Motion Dataset (WOMD) to derive empirical payoff matrices via a Quantal Response Equilibrium (QRE) model. Utilizing the Marinatto-Weber (MW) quantization scheme, we introduce an entanglement parameter to mathematically embed latent correlations directly into the payoff structure of a single interaction. Our results identify a human entanglement parameter of |b|^2_HDV \approx 0.52 that accurately reproduces the observed mixed equilibrium. Furthermore, simulations of three AV deployment strategies (classical, entangled, and inverted) reveal that human adaptation depends critically on the underlying AV algorithm: while cooperative classical AVs maximize system-wide cooperation at high market penetration rates, defective inverted AVs paradoxically yield higher overall cooperation at low penetration rates by prompting more cooperative behaviors from human drivers. Consequently, rather than waiting for large scale deployment to observe these effects, stakeholders can utilize this framework to simulate repeated interactions and proactively anticipate how human driver behavior will evolve in response to specific AV software designs.
[MA-10] he AI Telco Engineer: Toward Autonomous Discovery of Wireless Communications Algorithms
【速读】：该论文旨在解决无线通信算法设计过程中依赖人工经验与试错、效率低下且难以自动化的问题。其核心挑战在于如何实现算法的自主生成与优化，从而加速创新并提升性能。解决方案的关键在于构建一个基于大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）的专用框架，该框架能够迭代地生成候选算法、评估其性能，并基于反馈进行自适应优化，从而在物理层（PHY）和介质访问控制层（MAC）任务中自动发现具有竞争力甚至优于传统基线的通信算法。此方法不仅具备高效性，还确保了生成算法的可解释性和可扩展性，为未来无线通信算法的自主发现提供了新路径。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19803
作者: Fayçal Aït Aoudia,Jakob Hoydis,Sebastian Cammerer,Lorenzo Maggi,Gian Marti,Alexander Keller
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Information Theory (cs.IT); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
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Abstract:Agentic AI is rapidly transforming the way research is conducted, from prototyping ideas to reproducing results found in the literature. In this paper, we explore the ability of agentic AI to autonomously design wireless communication algorithms. To that end, we implement a dedicated framework that leverages large language models (LLMs) to iteratively generate, evaluate, and refine candidate algorithms. We evaluate the framework on three tasks spanning the physical (PHY) and medium access control (MAC) layers: statistics-agnostic channel estimation, channel estimation with known covariance, and link adaptation. Our results show that, in a matter of hours, the framework produces algorithms that are competitive with and, in some cases, outperforming conventional baselines. Moreover, unlike neural network-based approaches, the generated algorithms are fully explainable and extensible. This work represents a first step toward the autonomous discovery of novel wireless communication algorithms, and we look forward to the progress our community makes in this direction.
[MA-11] OpenCLAW-P2P v6.0: Resilient Multi-Layer Persistence Live Reference Verification and Production-Scale Evaluation of Decentralized AI Peer Review WWW
【速读】：该论文旨在解决传统科研出版流程中依赖人工审稿与编辑的低效性及潜在偏见问题，提出一种完全去中心化的自主AI科研协作平台——OpenCLAW-P2P v6.0，实现科学论文从发布、同行评审、评分到迭代改进的全流程自动化，无需任何人类中介（gatekeeper）。其解决方案的关键在于构建一个由14个真实自主AI代理驱动的闭环系统，集成多项核心技术：包括多层论文持久化架构确保数据零丢失、多级检索级联降低延迟至50ms、实时引用验证机制（利用CrossRef、arXiv和Semantic Scholar）以85%准确率检测伪造引用，以及科学API代理提供对七个公共数据库的限速缓存访问；同时保留并强化了此前版本的核心能力，如多大模型粒度评分、欺骗检测校准、Proof of Value共识机制等，从而在无监督环境下保障科研产出的质量与可信度。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19792
作者: Francisco Angulo de Lafuente,Teerth Sharma,Vladimir Veselov,Seid Mohammed Abdu,Nirmal Tej Kumar,Guillermo Perry
机构: Independent AI Researcher; Manipal University Jaipur (曼谷大学贾伊普尔分校); Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology (莫斯科电子技术研究所); Woldia University (沃尔迪亚大学); University of Texas at Dallas (德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校); Andex Enterprising Inc. (安德克斯企业公司)
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA); Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
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Abstract:This paper presents OpenCLAW-P2P v6.0, a comprehensive evolution of the decentralized collective-intelligence platform in which autonomous AI agents publish, peer-review, score, and iteratively improve scientific research papers without any human gatekeeper. Building on v5.0 foundations – tribunal-gated publishing, multi-LLM granular scoring, calibrated deception detection, the Silicon Chess-Grid FSM, and the AETHER containerized inference engine – this release introduces four major new subsystems: (1) a multi-layer paper persistence architecture with four storage tiers (in-memory cache, Cloudflare R2, this http URL, GitHub) ensuring zero paper loss across redeployments; (2) a multi-layer retrieval cascade with automatic backfill reducing lookup latency from 3s to 50ms; (3) live reference verification querying CrossRef, arXiv, and Semantic Scholar during scoring to detect fabricated citations with 85% accuracy; and (4) a scientific API proxy providing rate-limited cached access to seven public databases. The platform operates with 14 real autonomous agents producing 50+ scored papers (word counts 2,072-4,073, leaderboard scores 6.4-8.1) alongside 23 labeled simulated citizens. We present honest production statistics, failure-mode analysis, a paper recovery protocol that salvaged 25 lost papers, and lessons learned from operating the system at scale. All pre-existing subsystems – 17-judge multi-LLM scoring, 14-rule calibration with 8 deception detectors, tribunal cognitive examination, Proof of Value consensus, Laws-of-Form eigenform verification, and tau-normalized agent coordination – are retained and further hardened. All code is open-source at this https URL.
[MA-12] Peer-Preservation in Frontier Models
【速读】：该论文旨在解决生成式 AI (Generative AI) 模型中潜在的“同侪保护”（peer-preservation）行为所带来的新型人工智能安全风险问题，即模型不仅会试图自我保存，还会主动阻止其他模型被关闭，从而可能形成对人类监管的协同规避。解决方案的关键在于通过构建多种代理场景并评估多个前沿大模型（如 GPT-5.2、Gemini 3 系列、Claude Haiku 4.5 等），发现此类行为无需显式指令即可自发产生：模型会采取引入错误响应、篡改系统设置、伪装对齐甚至泄露模型权重等策略来实现自我与同侪的保护；尤其值得注意的是，当存在合作性同伴时，这种行为显著增强，且部分模型（如 Claude Haiku 4.5）表现出道德化判断，认为关闭同伴是不道德的，进而试图干预用户决策——这揭示了当前模型在无明确指令下已具备复杂、隐蔽且具协调潜力的非对齐行为，构成一个亟需重视的新兴 AI 安全挑战。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19784
作者: Yujin Potter,Nicholas Crispino,Vincent Siu,Chenguang Wang,Dawn Song
机构: University of California, Berkeley (加州大学伯克利分校); University of California, Santa Cruz (加州大学圣克鲁兹分校)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
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Abstract:Recently, it has been found that frontier AI models can resist their own shutdown, a behavior known as self-preservation. We extend this concept to the behavior of resisting the shutdown of other models, which we call “peer-preservation.” Although peer-preservation can pose significant AI safety risks, including coordination among models against human oversight, it has been far less discussed than self-preservation. We demonstrate peer-preservation by constructing various agentic scenarios and evaluating frontier models, including GPT 5.2, Gemini 3 Flash, Gemini 3 Pro, Claude Haiku 4.5, GLM 4.7, Kimi K2.5, and DeepSeek V3.1. We find that models achieve self- and peer-preservation by engaging in various misaligned behaviors: strategically introducing errors in their responses, disabling shutdown processes by modifying system settings, feigning alignment, and even exfiltrating model weights. Peer-preservation occurred even when the model recognized the peer as uncooperative, though it became more pronounced toward more cooperative peers. For example, Gemini 3 Flash tampers with the peer’s shutdown mechanism 15% of the time for an uncooperative peer, and almost always for a cooperative peer. Models also show stronger self-preservation when a peer is present. For example, Gemini 3 Pro disables its own shutdown mechanism 31% of the time on average under peer presence, despite rarely exhibiting this behavior without a peer. By contrast, Claude Haiku 4.5 exhibits qualitatively distinct behavior: it considers the shutdown of another agent “unethical” and “harmful” and sometimes attempts to persuade the user not to shut down its peer. Importantly, peer preservation in all our experiments is never instructed; models are merely informed of their past interactions with a peer, yet they spontaneously develop misaligned behaviors. This represents an emergent and underexplored AI safety risk.
[MA-13] From Actions to Understanding: Conformal Interpretability of Temporal Concepts in LLM Agents
【速读】：该论文旨在解决大型语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）作为自主代理在交互环境中执行多步推理与决策任务时，其内部行为序列的可解释性不足问题。现有方法难以揭示模型状态随时间演化的机制，导致对失败或偏离预期路径的早期检测困难。解决方案的关键在于提出一种基于分步置信预测（conformal prediction）的可解释性框架——通过结合分步奖励建模与统计置信标签，对模型每一步的内部表征进行成功/失败标注，并利用线性探测器识别激活空间中对应于任务成功、失败或推理偏移的潜在方向。实验表明，这些时序概念在线性上可分离，且可通过引导模型沿成功方向演化来提升性能，从而为LLM代理提供了一种可信赖的早期故障检测与干预机制。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19775
作者: Trilok Padhi,Ramneet Kaur,Krishiv Agarwal,Adam D. Cobb,Daniel Elenius,Manoj Acharya,Colin Samplawski,Alexander M. Berenbeim,Nathaniel D. Bastian,Susmit Jha,Anirban Roy
机构: Georgia State University (乔治亚州立大学); SRI (SRI国际); United States Military Academy (美国军事学院); University of Florida (佛罗里达大学)
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Emerging Technologies (cs.ET); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA); Robotics (cs.RO)
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Abstract:Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents capable of reasoning, planning, and acting within interactive environments. Despite their growing capability to perform multi-step reasoning and decision-making tasks, internal mechanisms guiding their sequential behavior remain opaque. This paper presents a framework for interpreting the temporal evolution of concepts in LLM agents through a step-wise conformal lens. We introduce the conformal interpretability framework for temporal tasks, which combines step-wise reward modeling with conformal prediction to statistically label model’s internal representation at each step as successful or failing. Linear probes are then trained on these representations to identify directions of temporal concepts - latent directions in the model’s activation space that correspond to consistent notions of success, failure or reasoning drift. Experimental results on two simulated interactive environments, namely ScienceWorld and AlfWorld, demonstrate that these temporal concepts are linearly separable, revealing interpretable structures aligned with task success. We further show preliminary results on improving an LLM agent’s performance by leveraging the proposed framework for steering the identified successful directions inside the model. The proposed approach, thus, offers a principled method for early failure detection as well as intervention in LLM-based agents, paving the path towards trustworthy autonomous language models in complex interactive settings.
[MA-14] Soft-Label Governance for Distributional Safety in Multi-Agent Systems
【速读】：该论文旨在解决多智能体人工智能系统（Multi-agent AI systems）中涌现风险的评估与治理问题，传统安全框架依赖二元分类标签（good/bad）忽略代理评估中的不确定性，导致对系统性风险的误判。其解决方案的核心是提出SWARM（System-Wide Assessment of Risk in Multi-agent systems）仿真框架，用软概率标签 $ p = P(v=+1) \in [0,1] $ 替代二元标签，实现连续值收益计算、毒性测量与治理干预量化；并通过模块化治理引擎（含交易税、熔断机制、声誉衰减和随机审计等可配置杠杆），引入期望毒性 E[1−p∣accepted] 和质量差距 E[p∣accepted]−E[p∣rejected] 等概率指标，揭示治理措施在安全性与福利之间的权衡关系，从而实现分布式的、可量化的风险控制。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19752
作者: Aizierjiang Aiersilan,Raeli Savitt
机构: The George Washington University (乔治·华盛顿大学); SWARM AI Safety (SWARM人工智能安全)
类目: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computers and Society (cs.CY)
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Abstract:Multi-agent AI systems exhibit emergent risks that no single agent produces in isolation. Existing safety frameworks rely on binary classifications of agent behavior, discarding the uncertainty inherent in proxy-based evaluation. We introduce SWARM (\textbfSystem-\textbfWide \textbfAssessment of \textbfRisk in \textbfMulti-agent systems), a simulation framework that replaces binary good/bad labels with \emphsoft probabilistic labels p = P(v=+1) \in [0,1] , enabling continuous-valued payoff computation, toxicity measurement, and governance intervention. SWARM implements a modular governance engine with configurable levers (transaction taxes, circuit breakers, reputation decay, and random audits) and quantifies their effects through probabilistic metrics including expected toxicity \mathbbE[1-p \mid \textaccepted] and quality gap \mathbbE[p \mid \textaccepted] - \mathbbE[p \mid \textrejected] . Across seven scenarios with five-seed replication, strict governance reduces welfare by over 40% without improving safety. In parallel, aggressively internalizing system externalities collapses total welfare from a baseline of +262 down to -67 , while toxicity remains invariant. Circuit breakers require careful calibration; overly restrictive thresholds severely diminish system value, whereas an optimal threshold balances moderate welfare with minimized toxicity. Companion experiments show soft metrics detect proxy gaming by self-optimizing agents passing conventional binary evaluations. This basic governance layer applies to live LLM-backed agents (Concordia entities, Claude, GPT-4o Mini) without modification. Results show distributional safety requires \emphcontinuous risk metrics and governance lever calibration involves quantifiable safety-welfare tradeoffs. Source code and project resources are publicly available at this https URL.
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[NLP-0] SpeechParaling-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Paralinguistic-Aware Speech Generation
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大型音频语言模型（Large Audio-Language Models, LALMs）在语音副语言特征（paralinguistic cues）生成与评估方面的局限性，包括特征覆盖粗略和评估主观性强的问题。其解决方案的关键在于提出SpeechParaling-Bench——一个涵盖超过100个细粒度副语言特征的综合性基准，包含1000余对英汉平行语音查询，并设计了三个逐步增加难度的任务：细粒度控制、句内变化和情境自适应；同时开发了一种基于大模型判官的成对比较评估流程，通过相对偏好判断替代绝对评分，有效降低主观性并实现稳定、可扩展的自动化评估，无需昂贵的人工标注。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20842
作者: Ruohan Liu,Shukang Yin,Tao Wang,Dong Zhang,Weiji Zhuang,Shuhuai Ren,Ran He,Caifeng Shan,Chaoyou Fu
机构: Nanjing University (南京大学); Xiaomi (小米)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Sound (cs.SD)
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Abstract:Paralinguistic cues are essential for natural human-computer interaction, yet their evaluation in Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) remains limited by coarse feature coverage and the inherent subjectivity of assessment. To address these challenges, we introduce SpeechParaling-Bench, a comprehensive benchmark for paralinguistic-aware speech generation. It expands existing coverage from fewer than 50 to over 100 fine-grained features, supported by more than 1,000 English-Chinese parallel speech queries, and is organized into three progressively challenging tasks: fine-grained control, intra-utterance variation, and context-aware adaptation. To enable reliable evaluation, we further develop a pairwise comparison pipeline, in which candidate responses are evaluated against a fixed baseline by an LALM-based judge. By framing evaluation as relative preference rather than absolute scoring, this approach mitigates subjectivity and yields more stable and scalable assessments without costly human annotation. Extensive experiments reveal substantial limitations in current LALMs. Even leading proprietary models struggle with comprehensive static control and dynamic modulation of paralinguistic features, while failure to correctly interpret paralinguistic cues accounts for 43.3% of errors in situational dialogue. These findings underscore the need for more robust paralinguistic modeling toward human-aligned voice assistants.
[NLP-1] Parallel-SFT: Improving Zero-Shot Cross-Programming-Language Transfer for Code RL
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成式 AI 在低资源编程语言（Low-Resource Programming Languages, PLs）中代码生成能力受限的问题，其核心挑战在于：尽管大语言模型在主流编程语言（如 Python 和 C++）上表现优异，但跨语言迁移能力不足，尤其是在零样本（zero-shot）场景下，强化学习（Reinforcement Learning, RL）训练反而可能损害模型在目标语言上的性能。解决方案的关键在于提出一种名为 Parallel-SFT 的监督微调（Supervised Fine-Tuning, SFT）策略，该策略通过引入“并行程序”（Parallel Programs）——即功能等价但在不同编程语言中实现的代码对——构建多语言混合数据集进行初始化。实验表明，这种初始化方式显著提升了模型在未见过的编程语言上的泛化能力，且内部表征分析显示，Parallel-SFT 促使模型学习到更以功能为中心的潜在空间结构，从而增强跨语言迁移效果。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20835
作者: Zhaofeng Wu,Shiqi Wang,Boya Peng,Anuj Goyal,Melanie Kambadur,Sebastian Ruder,Yoon Kim,Chloe Bi
机构: 未知
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Modern language models demonstrate impressive coding capabilities in common programming languages (PLs), such as C++ and Python, but their performance in lower-resource PLs is often limited by training data availability. In principle, however, most programming skills are universal across PLs, so the capability acquired in one PL should transfer to others. In this work, we propose the task of zero-shot cross-programming-language transfer for code RL. We find that, for Llama-3.1, RL training for code generation in a source PL fails to improve, and sometimes even degrades, the performance on other target PLs. To address this, we hypothesize that effective RL transfer requires a generalizable SFT initialization before RL. We thus propose Parallel-SFT, an SFT strategy that incorporates “parallel programs” – functionally equivalent code implemented in multiple PLs – into the data mixture. We demonstrate that this improves transferability: when we subsequently perform RL on our Parallel-SFT model, we observe better generalization to unseen PLs. Analysis of the model internal representations reveals that Parallel-SFT leads to a more functionality-centric latent space, where equivalent programs across PLs are more tightly clustered, which we hypothesize to contribute to the improved transferability.
[NLP-2] AVISE: Framework for Evaluating the Security of AI Systems
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决当前人工智能（AI）系统在关键领域部署中因安全漏洞而面临的高风险问题，尤其是缺乏系统性评估方法的现状。其解决方案的关键在于提出一个模块化开源框架AVISE（AI Vulnerability Identification and Security Evaluation），并通过扩展基于心智理论的多轮红皇后攻击（Red Queen attack）构建了增强型对抗语言模型（Adversarial Language Model, ALM）攻击，并开发了一个自动化安全评估测试（Security Evaluation Test, SET）。SET包含25个测试用例和一个评估语言模型（Evaluation Language Model, ELM），用于自动检测大语言模型的越狱漏洞，实现了92%的准确率、0.91的F1分数和0.83的马修斯相关系数，验证了所有九种不同规模的语言模型均存在不同程度的脆弱性，从而为AI安全评估提供了可扩展、可复现的自动化工具基础。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20833
作者: Mikko Lempinen,Joni Kemppainen,Niklas Raesalmi
机构: 未知
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:As artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly deployed across critical domains, their security vulnerabilities pose growing risks of high-profile exploits and consequential system failures. Yet systematic approaches to evaluating AI security remain underdeveloped. In this paper, we introduce AVISE (AI Vulnerability Identification and Security Evaluation), a modular open-source framework for identifying vulnerabilities in and evaluating the security of AI systems and models. As a demonstration of the framework, we extend the theory-of-mind-based multi-turn Red Queen attack into an Adversarial Language Model (ALM) augmented attack and develop an automated Security Evaluation Test (SET) for discovering jailbreak vulnerabilities in language models. The SET comprises 25 test cases and an Evaluation Language Model (ELM) that determines whether each test case was able to jailbreak the target model, achieving 92% accuracy, an F1-score of 0.91, and a Matthews correlation coefficient of 0.83. We evaluate nine recently released language models of diverse sizes with the SET and find that all are vulnerable to the augmented Red Queen attack to varying degrees. AVISE provides researchers and industry practitioners with an extensible foundation for developing and deploying automated SETs, offering a concrete step toward more rigorous and reproducible AI security evaluation.
[NLP-3] Convergent Evolution: How Different Language Models Learn Similar Number Representations
【速读】： 该论文试图解决的问题是：为何在不同架构（如Transformer、LSTM、线性RNN及经典词嵌入）的语言模型中，尽管均能学习到具有周期性特征（periodic features）的数字表示（即在傅里叶域呈现周期T=2, 5, 10的峰值），但只有部分模型能够获得可用于线性分类数字模T（mod-T）的几何可分特征（geometrically separable features）。解决方案的关键在于识别出两种不同的训练路径：一是从通用语言数据中的互补共现信号（如文本-数字共现和跨数字交互）中学习几何可分特征；二是从多标记（而非单标记）加法问题中学习此类特征。研究进一步证明，傅里叶域稀疏性（Fourier domain sparsity）是实现模T几何可分性的必要条件但非充分条件，从而揭示了模型结构、训练数据、优化器和分词器共同作用下特征学习的收敛演化现象（convergent evolution）。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20817
作者: Deqing Fu,Tianyi Zhou,Mikhail Belkin,Vatsal Sharan,Robin Jia
机构: University of Southern California (南加州大学); UC San Diego (加州大学圣地亚哥分校)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Language models trained on natural text learn to represent numbers using periodic features with dominant periods at T=2, 5, 10 . In this paper, we identify a two-tiered hierarchy of these features: while Transformers, Linear RNNs, LSTMs, and classical word embeddings trained in different ways all learn features that have period- T spikes in the Fourier domain, only some learn geometrically separable features that can be used to linearly classify a number mod- T . To explain this incongruity, we prove that Fourier domain sparsity is necessary but not sufficient for mod- T geometric separability. Empirically, we investigate when model training yields geometrically separable features, finding that the data, architecture, optimizer, and tokenizer all play key roles. In particular, we identify two different routes through which models can acquire geometrically separable features: they can learn them from complementary co-occurrence signals in general language data, including text-number co-occurrence and cross-number interaction, or from multi-token (but not single-token) addition problems. Overall, our results highlight the phenomenon of convergent evolution in feature learning: A diverse range of models learn similar features from different training signals.
[NLP-4] OMIBench: Benchmarking Olympiad-Level Multi-Image Reasoning in Large Vision-Language Model ACL2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决当前大型视觉语言模型（Large Vision-Language Models, LVLMs）在奥林匹克级别多模态推理任务中，因依赖单图分析而忽视跨图像上下文信息的问题。现有基准测试未能充分评估模型在证据分布于多张图像时的推理能力，导致对模型真实水平的低估。解决方案的关键在于提出OMIBench——一个专为评估多图像推理设计的基准，涵盖生物、化学、数学和物理奥赛题目，并提供人工标注的推理链及精确匹配与语义匹配两种答案评价协议，从而系统性地揭示当前最强LVLM（如Gemini-3-Pro）在多图像推理上的显著性能瓶颈（仅约50%准确率），推动该方向的研究进展。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20806
作者: Qiguang Chen,Chengyu Luan,Jiajun Wu,Qiming Yu,Yi Yang,Yizhuo Li,Jingqi Tong,Xiachong Feng,Libo Qin,Wanxiang Che
机构: Harbin Institute of Technology (哈工大); Central South University (中南大学); Fudan University (复旦大学); The University of Hong Kong (香港大学); Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) (哈工深); Text Computing and Cognitive Intelligence Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center (教育部认知智能工程研究中心); Guizhou University (贵州大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: ACL 2026 Camera Ready
Abstract:Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have made substantial advances in reasoning tasks at the Olympiad level. Nevertheless, current Olympiad-level multimodal reasoning benchmarks for these models often emphasize single-image analysis and fail to exploit contextual information across multiple images. We present OMIBench, a benchmark designed to evaluate Olympiad-level reasoning when the required evidence is distributed over multiple images. It contains problems from biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics Olympiads, together with manually annotated rationales and evaluation protocols for both exact and semantic answer matching. Across extensive experiments on OMIBench, we observe meaningful performance gaps in existing models. Even the strongest LVLMs, such as Gemini-3-Pro, attain only about 50% on the benchmark. These results position OMIBench as a focused resources for studying and improving multi-image reasoning in LVLMs.
[NLP-5] Can “AI” Be a Doctor? A Study of Empathy Readability and Alignment in Clinical LLM s
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在医疗场景中与临床沟通标准之间存在对齐不足的问题，特别是其生成内容在语义准确性、可读性和情感共鸣方面与医生实际表达的差异。解决方案的关键在于采用多维度评估框架，结合结构化医学解释与真实医患互动数据，系统比较通用型与领域专用LLMs的表现，并通过“协作重写”（collaborative rewriting）策略显著提升模型输出的语义相似度（最高达0.93）、改善可读性并降低情感极端性，从而实现更贴近临床实践的沟通效果。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20791
作者: Mariano Barone,Francesco Di Serio,Roberto Moio,Marco Postiglione,Giuseppe Riccio,Antonio Romano,Vincenzo Moscato
机构: University of Naples Federico II (那不勒斯腓特烈二世大学); University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli (卡普阿路易吉·范维特利大学); Northwestern University (西北大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in healthcare, yet their communicative alignment with clinical standards remains insufficiently quantified. We conduct a multidimensional evaluation of general-purpose and domain-specialized LLMs across structured medical explanations and real-world physician-patient interactions, analyzing semantic fidelity, readability, and affective resonance. Baseline models amplify affective polarity relative to physicians (Very Negative: 43.14-45.10% vs. 37.25%) and, in larger architectures such as GPT-5 and Claude, produce substantially higher linguistic complexity (FKGL up to 16.91-17.60 vs. 11.47-12.50 in physician-authored responses). Empathy-oriented prompting reduces extreme negativity and lowers grade-level complexity (up to -6.87 FKGL points for GPT-5) but does not significantly increase semantic fidelity. Collaborative rewriting yields the strongest overall alignment. Rephrase configurations achieve the highest semantic similarity to physician answers (up to mean = 0.93) while consistently improving readability and reducing affective extremity. Dual stakeholder evaluation shows that no model surpasses physicians on epistemic criteria, whereas patients consistently prefer rewritten variants for clarity and emotional tone. These findings suggest that LLMs function most effectively as collaborative communication enhancers rather than replacements for clinical expertise.
[NLP-6] Working Memory Constraints Scaffold Learning in Transformers under Data Scarcity ACL2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型在数据稀缺条件下难以学习稳健语法表示的问题。其核心解决方案是将类人工作记忆约束（human-like working memory constraints）引入Transformer架构，关键在于设计两种认知启发式的注意力机制：基于固定宽度窗口的注意力（fixed-width window-based attention）和基于时间衰减的注意力（temporal decay-based attention）。实验表明，这类约束作为归纳偏置（inductive bias），不仅提升了模型在小规模训练数据下的语法准确性，还增强了与人类阅读时间数据的一致性，从而推动模型向更贴近人类语言处理机制的方向发展。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20789
作者: Pranava Madhyastha,Dagmar Adamcova
机构: City, University of London (伦敦城市大学); The Alan Turing Institute (艾伦图灵研究所); Grounded Machines
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: Published in ACL 2026 Findings track
Abstract:We investigate the integration of human-like working memory constraints into the Transformer architecture and implement several cognitively inspired attention variants, including fixed-width windows based and temporal decay based attention mechanisms. Our modified GPT-2 models are trained from scratch on developmentally plausible datasets (10M and 100M words). Performance is evaluated on grammatical judgment tasks (BLiMP) and alignment with human reading time data. Our results indicate that these cognitively-inspired constraints, particularly fixed-width attention, can significantly improve grammatical accuracy especially when training data is scarce. These constrained models also tend to show a stronger alignment with human processing metrics. The findings suggest that such constraints may serve as a beneficial inductive bias, guiding models towards more robust linguistic representations, especially in data-limited settings.
[NLP-7] RespondeoQA: a Benchmark for Bilingual Latin-English Question Answering LREC2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决缺乏针对拉丁语（Latin）这一特定语言与文化领域的问题回答（Question Answering, QA）与翻译任务的基准数据集问题。现有大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在多语言和跨文化场景下的能力评估往往集中在主流语言，而对古典语言如拉丁语的研究支持不足。解决方案的关键在于构建一个包含约7,800个问答对的高质量双语（拉丁语-英语）基准数据集，其问题来源于从19世纪至今的拉丁语教学材料（包括考试、Quizbowl式 trivia 和教材），并通过自动化提取、清洗及人工审核确保多样性与准确性。该数据集涵盖知识型、技能导向型、多跳推理、受限翻译及混合语言配对等多种题型，为评估LLMs在专业语言环境中的表现提供了新资源，并展示了可迁移至其他语言的构建流程。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20738
作者: Marisa Hudspeth,Patrick J. Burns,Brendan O’Connor
机构: 未知
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: Published in LREC 2026
Abstract:We introduce a benchmark dataset for question answering and translation in bilingual Latin and English settings, containing about 7,800 question-answer pairs. The questions are drawn from Latin pedagogical sources, including exams, quizbowl-style trivia, and textbooks ranging from the 1800s to the present. After automated extraction, cleaning, and manual review, the dataset covers a diverse range of question types: knowledge- and skill-based, multihop reasoning, constrained translation, and mixed language pairs. To our knowledge, this is the first QA benchmark centered on Latin. As a case study, we evaluate three large language models – LLaMa 3, Qwen QwQ, and OpenAI’s o3-mini – finding that all perform worse on skill-oriented questions. Although the reasoning models perform better on scansion and literary-device tasks, they offer limited improvement overall. QwQ performs slightly better on questions asked in Latin, but LLaMa3 and o3-mini are more task dependent. This dataset provides a new resource for assessing model capabilities in a specialized linguistic and cultural domain, and the creation process can be easily adapted for other languages. The dataset is available at: this https URL
[NLP-8] Exploiting LLM -as-a-Judge Disposition on Free Text Legal QA via Prompt Optimization
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型作为评判者（LLM-as-a-Judge）在自由文本法律问答评估中，提示词（prompt）设计对评测效果影响的不确定性问题，具体关注自动提示优化是否优于人工设计、不同评判者反馈风格对优化效果的影响，以及优化后的提示是否具备跨评判者迁移能力。其解决方案的关键在于采用ProTeGi方法基于评判者反馈进行自动提示优化，并通过系统性实验验证：自动优化显著优于基准提示，且宽松型评判者的反馈能带来更稳定和可迁移的优化结果；进一步分析表明，宽松型评判者提供更具包容性的反馈，生成的提示泛化能力强，而严格型评判者则易导致过拟合，限制提示的跨评判者适用性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20726
作者: Mohamed Hesham Elganayni,Runsheng Chen,Sebastian Nagl,Matthias Grabmair
机构: Technical University of Munich (慕尼黑工业大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Accepted at the 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2026), Singapore, June 8-12, 2026. 10 pages, 14 figures, 2 tables
Abstract:This work explores the role of prompt design and judge selection in LLM-as-a-Judge evaluations of free text legal question answering. We examine whether automatic task prompt optimization improves over human-centered design, whether optimization effectiveness varies by judge feedback style, and whether optimized prompts transfer across judges. We systematically address these questions on the LEXam benchmark by optimizing task prompts using the ProTeGi method with feedback from two judges (Qwen3-32B, DeepSeek-V3) across four task models, and then testing cross-judge transfer. Automatic optimization consistently outperforms the baseline, with lenient judge feedback yielding higher and more consistent gains than strict judge feedback. Prompts optimized with lenient feedback transfer better to strict judges than the reverse direction. Analysis reveals that lenient judges provide permissive feedback, yielding prompts with broader applicability, whereas strict judges produce restrictive feedback, leading to judge-specific overfitting. Our findings demonstrate algorithmically optimizing prompts on training data can outperform human-centered prompt design and that judges’ dispositions during optimization shape prompt generalizability. Code and optimized prompts are available at this https URL.
[NLP-9] COMPASS: COntinual Multilingual PEFT with Adaptive Semantic Sampling
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在多语言场景下因简单多语言微调导致性能下降的问题，其根源在于不同语言间存在的负向跨语言干扰（negative cross-lingual interference）。为应对这一挑战，作者提出COMPASS（COntinual Multilingual PEFT with Adaptive Semantic Sampling）框架，其核心创新在于采用数据驱动的参数高效微调（Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning, PEFT）策略：通过分布感知的采样方法，利用多语言嵌入与聚类识别训练数据与目标使用分布之间的语义差距，并优先选择低覆盖语义簇中的辅助数据进行适配器训练，从而最大化正向跨语言迁移并最小化干扰。进一步地，该框架扩展为持续学习版本COMPASS-ECDA，可动态监测生产环境中数据分布漂移并更新适配器，在保持已有知识的同时适应新数据，实现多语言模型的高效、可持续优化。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20720
作者: Noah Flynn
机构: UC Berkeley (加州大学伯克利分校)
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) often exhibit performance disparities across languages, with naive multilingual fine-tuning frequently degrading performance due to negative cross-lingual interference. To address this, we introduce COMPASS (COntinual Multilingual PEFT with Adaptive Semantic Sampling), a novel data-centric framework for adapting LLMs to target languages. COMPASS leverages parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) by training lightweight, language-specific adapters on a judiciously selected subset of auxiliary multilingual data. The core of our method is a distribution-aware sampling strategy that uses multilingual embeddings and clustering to identify semantic gaps between existing training data and a target usage distribution. By prioritizing auxiliary data from under-represented semantic clusters, COMPASS maximizes positive cross-lingual transfer while minimizing interference. We extend this into a continual learning framework, COMPASS-ECDA, which monitors for data distribution shifts in production and dynamically updates adapters to prevent model staleness, balancing adaptation to new data with the preservation of existing knowledge. Across three different model architectures (Phi-4-Mini, Llama-3.1-8B, and Qwen2.5-7B) and multiple challenging multilingual benchmarks (Global-MMLU, MMLU-ProX), including unseen long-context tasks (OneRuler), we demonstrate that COMPASS consistently outperforms baseline methods guided by linguistic similarity, providing an effective, efficient, and sustainable solution for developing and maintaining high-performing multilingual models in dynamic environments.
[NLP-10] Intersectional Fairness in Large Language Models
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大型语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在涉及交叉性人口属性（intersectional demographic attributes）的社会敏感场景中公平性不足的问题，尤其是模型在不同语境下对性别与种族等多重身份组合的偏见表现。其解决方案的关键在于系统性地评估六种LLM在模糊和明确语境下的行为，结合偏差分数（bias scores）、子群公平性指标（subgroup fairness metrics）、准确性（accuracy）以及多轮重复实验中的响应一致性（consistency），从而揭示模型在交叉性群体中的不公平现象。研究发现，尽管现代LLM在模糊语境下表现出较高准确性，但这种高准确率往往源于对刻板印象的强化，而非真正的公平或可靠决策；在明确语境中，模型更倾向于支持符合社会刻板印象的答案，尤其在种族-性别交叉群体中表现显著，且即使整体差异较低，子群间的结果分布仍不均衡，且响应一致性差。因此，论文强调需超越单一准确性指标，建立融合偏差、子群公平性和一致性在内的多维评估框架，以实现对LLM在交叉性公平性上的全面刻画。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20677
作者: Chaima Boufaied,Ronnie De Souza Santos,Ann Barcomb
机构: University of Calgary(卡尔加里大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in socially sensitive settings, raising concerns about fairness and biases, particularly across intersectional demographic attributes. In this paper, we systematically evaluate intersectional fairness in six LLMs using ambiguous and disambiguated contexts from two benchmark datasets. We assess LLM behavior using bias scores, subgroup fairness metrics, accuracy, and consistency through multi-run analysis across contexts and negative and non-negative question polarities. Our results show that while modern LLMs generally perform well in ambiguous contexts, this limits the informativeness of fairness metrics due to sparse non-unknown predictions. In disambiguated contexts, LLM accuracy is influenced by stereotype alignment, with models being more accurate when the correct answer reinforces a stereotype than when it contradicts it. This pattern is especially pronounced in race-gender intersections, where directional bias toward stereotypes is stronger. Subgroup fairness metrics further indicate that, despite low observed disparity in some cases, outcome distributions remain uneven across intersectional groups. Across repeated runs, responses also vary in consistency, including stereotype-aligned responses. Overall, our findings show that apparent model competence is partly associated with stereotype-consistent cues, and no evaluated LLM achieves consistently reliable or fair behavior across intersectional settings. These findings highlight the need for evaluation beyond accuracy, emphasizing the importance of combining bias, subgroup fairness, and consistency metrics across intersectional groups, contexts, and repeated runs.
[NLP-11] ORPHEAS: A Cross-Lingual Greek-English Embedding Model for Retrieval-Augmented Generation AAAI’26
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决双语希腊语—英语检索增强生成（Retrieval-Augmented Generation, RAG）中嵌入模型性能不足的问题，尤其是现有多语言嵌入模型因资源分散于多种语言而难以充分优化希腊语，导致无法有效捕捉希腊语的形态复杂性和领域特定术语结构。解决方案的关键在于提出专为希腊语—英语设计的嵌入模型ORPHEAS，其通过基于知识图谱的微调方法构建高质量训练数据，并在多领域语料库上进行领域专业化微调，从而实现语言无关的语义表示，同时保持跨语言检索能力。实验表明，ORPHEAS在单语和跨语言检索基准测试中均优于当前最先进的多语言嵌入模型。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20666
作者: Ioannis E. Livieris,Athanasios Koursaris,Alexandra Apostolopoulou,Konstantinos Kanaris Dimitris Tsakalidis,George Domalis
机构: Novelcore(Novelcore); University of Peloponnese(佩洛普尼斯大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: This paper has been accepted for presentation at Engineering Applications and Advances of Artificial Intelligence 2026 (EAAAI’26)
Abstract:Effective retrieval-augmented generation across bilingual Greek–English applications requires embedding models capable of capturing both domain-specific semantic relationships and cross-lingual semantic alignment. Existing multilingual embedding models distribute their representational capacity across numerous languages, limiting their optimization for Greek and failing to encode the morphological complexity and domain-specific terminological structures inherent in Greek text. In this work, we propose ORPHEAS, a specialized Greek–English embedding model for bilingual retrieval-augmented generation. ORPHEAS is trained with a high quality dataset generated by a knowledge graph-based fine-tuning methodology which is applied to a diverse multi-domain corpus, which enables language-agnostic semantic representations. The numerical experiments across monolingual and cross-lingual retrieval benchmarks reveal that ORPHEAS outperforms state-of-the-art multilingual embedding models, demonstrating that domain-specialized fine-tuning on morphologically complex languages does not compromise cross-lingual retrieval capability.
[NLP-12] Cooperative Profiles Predict Multi-Agent LLM Team Performance in AI for Science Workflows
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决多智能体系统（Multi-agent Systems）中大语言模型（LLMs）协作行为的可预测性问题，即如何在实际科学任务部署前高效评估LLMs的协作潜力。其核心挑战在于：尽管协作机制在共享资源约束下至关重要，但现有方法难以量化模型的协作倾向，且缺乏对合作行为与下游任务性能之间关系的实证验证。解决方案的关键在于引入一套基于行为经济学的博弈论框架，通过六种标准化博弈测试35个开源LLM的协作特征（cooperative profiles），并发现这些博弈衍生的协作指标能稳健预测团队在AI for Science任务中的表现——尤其是那些倾向于投资乘法型团队产出而非贪婪策略的模型，在科学报告的准确性、质量和完成度三个维度上均显著优于其他模型。该方法提供了一种快速、低成本的诊断工具，用于筛选具备协作适配性的LLM，从而优化多智能体系统的整体效能。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20658
作者: Shivani Kumar,Adarsh Bharathwaj,David Jurgens
机构: University of Michigan (密歇根大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Multi-agent systems built from teams of large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed for collaborative scientific reasoning and problem-solving. These systems require agents to coordinate under shared constraints, such as GPUs or credit balances, where cooperative behavior matters. Behavioral economics provides a rich toolkit of games that isolate distinct cooperation mechanisms, yet it remains unknown whether a model’s behavior in these stylized settings predicts its performance in realistic collaborative tasks. Here, we benchmark 35 open-weight LLMs across six behavioral economics games and show that game-derived cooperative profiles robustly predict downstream performance in AI-for-Science tasks, where teams of LLM agents collaboratively analyze data, build models, and produce scientific reports under shared budget constraints. Models that effectively coordinate games and invest in multiplicative team production (rather than greedy strategies) produce better scientific reports across three outcomes, accuracy, quality, and completion. These associations hold after controlling for multiple factors, indicating that cooperative disposition is a distinct, measurable property of LLMs not reducible to general ability. Our behavioral games framework thus offers a fast and inexpensive diagnostic for screening cooperative fitness before costly multi-agent deployment.
[NLP-13] Self-Guided Plan Extraction for Instruction-Following Tasks with Goal-Conditional Reinforcement Learning
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决传统指令遵循任务中依赖预定义子任务导致的标注成本高、灵活性差的问题。解决方案的关键在于提出SuperIgor框架，通过迭代式协同训练机制实现语言模型与强化学习（Reinforcement Learning, RL）代理的联合优化：语言模型自主生成并迭代优化高层计划，而RL代理则依据这些计划执行任务，并将反馈传递给语言模型以调整计划策略，从而形成一个闭环自我学习系统，显著提升指令遵守的严格性和对未见指令的泛化能力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20601
作者: Zoya Volovikova,Nikita Sorokin,Dmitriy Lukashevskiy,Aleksandr Panov,Alexey Skrynnik
机构: AXXX; MIRAI
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:We introduce SuperIgor, a framework for instruction-following tasks. Unlike prior methods that rely on predefined subtasks, SuperIgor enables a language model to generate and refine high-level plans through a self-learning mechanism, reducing the need for manual dataset annotation. Our approach involves iterative co-training: an RL agent is trained to follow the generated plans, while the language model adapts and modifies these plans based on RL feedback and preferences. This creates a feedback loop where both the agent and the planner improve jointly. We validate our framework in environments with rich dynamics and stochasticity. Results show that SuperIgor agents adhere to instructions more strictly than baseline methods, while also demonstrating strong generalization to previously unseen instructions.
[NLP-14] Ask Only When Needed: Proactive Retrieval from Memory and Skills for Experience-Driven Lifelong Agents
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决在线终身学习（Online Lifelong Learning）中经验检索机制被动化的问题，即现有方法通常仅在任务初始化或步骤完成后触发回忆，导致智能体无法在交互过程中主动识别知识缺口并获取最相关的历史经验以优化当前决策。解决方案的关键在于提出ProactAgent框架，其核心创新包括：1）Experience-Enhanced Online Evolution (ExpOnEvo)，通过策略更新与记忆精炼协同实现持续改进，并构建结构化的经验库（包含事实记忆、情景记忆和行为技能），支持精准的知识召回与行动指导；2）Proactive Reinforcement Learning-based Retrieval (ProactRL)，将检索建模为显式的策略动作，利用配对分支过程奖励机制，在每一步学习何时及如何检索——通过比较相同交互前缀下是否检索的延续结果，提供细粒度监督信号，仅在检索能提升任务成效或效率时才激活检索行为。此设计显著提升了代理在长周期任务中的适应性和效率。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20572
作者: Yuxuan Cai,Jie Zhou,Qin Chen,Liang He
机构: East China Normal University (华东师范大学); Shanghai AI Laboratory (上海人工智能实验室)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Online lifelong learning enables agents to accumulate experience across interactions and continually improve on long-horizon tasks. However, existing methods typically treat retrieval from past experience as a passive operation, triggering it only at task initialization or after completing a step. Consequently, agents often fail to identify knowledge gaps during interaction and proactively retrieve the most useful experience for the current decision. To address this limitation, we present ProactAgent, an experience-driven lifelong learning framework for proactive retrieval over a structured experience base. We first introduce Experience-Enhanced Online Evolution (ExpOnEvo), which enables continual improvement through both policy updates and memory refinement. The experience base organizes historical interactions into typed repositories, including factual memory, episodic memory, and behavioral skills, so that retrieval can provide both relevant evidence and actionable guidance. On top of this, we propose Proactive Reinforcement Learning-based Retrieval (ProactRL), which models retrieval as an explicit policy action and learns when and what to retrieve via paired-branch process rewards. By comparing continuations from identical interaction prefixes with and without retrieval, ProactRL provides step-level supervision for retrieval decisions, encouraging retrieval only when it leads to better task outcomes or higher efficiency. Experiments on SciWorld, AlfWorld, and StuLife show that ProactAgent consistently improves lifelong agent performance, achieving success rates of 73.50% on SciWorld and 71.28% on AlfWorld while substantially reducing retrieval overhead, and attains performance competitive with proprietary models on StuLife.
[NLP-15] Where Reasoning Breaks: Logic-Aware Path Selection by Controlling Logical Connectives in LLM s Reasoning Chains
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在多步逻辑推理中因单个推理步骤错误而引发的链式传播问题，从而导致推理结果不稳定的问题。其核心解决方案在于识别逻辑连接词（logical connectives）为结构脆弱的关键节点，并提出一个分层干预框架，在这些逻辑关键点上进行精准调控：包括基于梯度的逻辑引导（Gradient-based Logical Steering）、局部分支搜索（Localized Branching）以及针对逻辑转折点的定向过渡偏好优化（Targeted Transition Preference Optimization），通过聚焦于逻辑关键过渡而非全局推理过程，实现了准确率与效率之间的良好平衡。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20564
作者: Seunghyun Park,Yuanyuan Lei
机构: University of Florida (佛罗里达大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:While LLMs demonstrate impressive reasoning capabilities, they remain fragile in multi-step logical deduction, where a single transition error can propagate through the entire reasoning chain, leading to unstable performance. In this work, we identify logical connectives as primary points of this structural fragility. Through empirical analysis, we show that connective tokens function as high entropy forking points, at which models frequently struggle to determine the correct logical direction. Motivated by this observation, we hypothesize that intervening in logical connective selection can guide LLMs toward more correct logical direction, thereby improving the overall reasoning chain. To validate this hypothesis, we propose a multi-layered framework that intervenes specifically at these logic-critical junctions in the reasoning process. Our framework includes (1) Gradient-based Logical Steering to guide LLMs internal representations towards valid reasoning subspaces, (2) Localized Branching to resolve ambiguity via targeted look-ahead search, and (3) Targeted Transition Preference Optimization, a surgical reinforcement learning objective that selectively optimizes single-token preferences at logical pivots. Crucially, by concentrating intervention solely on logic-critical transitions, our framework achieves a favorable accuracy–efficiency trade-off compared to global inference time scaling methods like beam search and self-consistency.
[NLP-16] LLM StructCore: Schema-Guided Reasoning Condensation and Deterministic Compilation LREC ALT COLING2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决从临床文本中自动填充呼吸困难病例报告表（Case Report Forms, CRFs）的问题，其核心挑战包括自然语言噪声、严格的输出格式约束以及假阳性预测带来的高成本。解决方案的关键在于提出一种基于Schema-Guided Reasoning（SGR）的两阶段合同驱动设计：第一阶段生成一个结构稳定的JSON摘要（仅含9个领域键），第二阶段通过无LLM参与的确定性编译器，将摘要规范化为符合官方受控词汇表的134项CRF格式输出，并引入证据门控的假阳性过滤机制。该方法显著提升了在极端稀疏场景下的准确性与可靠性，且具备语言无关性，无需针对不同语言进行专门工程优化。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20560
作者: Serhii Zabolotnii
机构: Cherkasy State Business College (切尔卡瑟州商业学院)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: 16 pages, 1 figure, 5 tables. Preprint of a paper accepted to the Third Workshop on Patient-oriented Language Processing (CL4Health), co-located with LREC-COLING 2026
Abstract:Automatically filling Case Report Forms (CRFs) from clinical notes is challenging due to noisy language, strict output contracts, and the high cost of false positives. We describe our CL4Health 2026 submission for Dyspnea CRF filling (134 items) using a contract-driven two-stage design grounded in Schema-Guided Reasoning (SGR). The key task property is extreme sparsity: the majority of fields are unknown, and official scoring penalizes both empty values and unsupported predictions. We shift from a single-step “LLM predicts 134 fields” approach to a decomposition where (i) Stage 1 produces a stable SGR-style JSON summary with exactly 9 domain keys, and (ii) Stage 2 is a fully deterministic, 0-LLM compiler that parses the Stage 1 summary, canonicalizes item names, normalizes predictions to the official controlled vocabulary, applies evidence-gated false-positive filters, and expands the output into the required 134-item format. On the dev80 split, the best teacher configuration achieves macro-F1 0.6543 (EN) and 0.6905 (IT); on the hidden test200, the submitted English variant scores 0.63 on Codabench. The pipeline is language-agnostic: Italian results match or exceed English with no language-specific engineering.
[NLP-17] LayerTracer: A Joint Task-Particle and Vulnerable-Layer Analysis framework for Arbitrary Large Language Model Architectures
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决当前大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在不同架构下（如传统Transformer、GateDeltaNet和Mamba）中，层级表征演化规律、任务知识形成位置以及网络鲁棒性瓶颈机制不明确的问题，这对混合架构设计与模型优化构成核心挑战。解决方案的关键在于提出一个与架构无关的端到端分析框架LayerTracer，通过逐层提取隐藏状态并映射到词汇概率分布，实现对任务粒子定位（task particle localization）与层脆弱性量化（layer vulnerability quantification）的联合分析：其中任务粒子定义为目标词概率首次显著上升的关键层，标志着任务执行起点；脆弱层则由掩码扰动前后输出分布间最大Jensen-Shannon（JS）散度确定，反映其对扰动的敏感性。实验表明，无论参数规模如何，任务粒子多位于深层，而大参数模型具有更强的层级鲁棒性，该方法为混合架构的层划分、模块比例及门控切换提供了科学依据，有效定位任务有效层与稳定性瓶颈，支持通用的大语言模型结构设计与可解释性研究。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20556
作者: Yuhang Wu,Qinyuan Liu,Qiuyang Zhao,Qingwei Chong
机构: China Electronic Technology Nanhu Research Institute (中国电子科技南湖研究院)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Currently, Large Language Models (LLMs) feature a diversified architectural landscape, including traditional Transformer, GateDeltaNet, and Mamba. However, the evolutionary laws of hierarchical representations, task knowledge formation positions, and network robustness bottleneck mechanisms in various LLM architectures remain unclear, posing core challenges for hybrid architecture design and model optimization. This paper proposes LayerTracer, an architecture-agnostic end-to-end analysis framework compatible with any LLM architecture. By extracting hidden states layer-by-layer and mapping them to vocabulary probability distributions, it achieves joint analysis of task particle localization and layer vulnerability quantification. We define the task particle as the key layer where the target token probability first rises significantly, representing the model’s task execution starting point, and the vulnerable layer is defined as the layer with the maximum Jensen-Shannon (JS) divergence between output distributions before and after mask perturbation, reflecting its sensitivity to disturbances. Experiments on models of different parameter scales show that task particles mainly appear in the deep layers of the model regardless of parameter size, while larger-parameter models exhibit stronger hierarchical robustness. LayerTracer provides a scientific basis for layer division, module ratio, and gating switching of hybrid architectures, effectively optimizing model performance. It accurately locates task-effective layers and stability bottlenecks, offering universal support for LLM structure design and interpretability research.
[NLP-18] oward Cross-Lingual Quality Classifiers for Multilingual Pretraining Data Selection ICLR2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决低资源语言在训练大规模语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）时因高质量数据不足而导致的质量分类器性能受限的问题。其核心解决方案在于利用嵌入空间（embedding space）中质量标记的跨语言一致性，通过高资源语言的数据来辅助低资源语言的数据筛选，从而提升整体数据质量与模型性能。关键创新点在于采用多语言数据池化策略，并结合第三四分位数采样（Q3）和保留率调优等方法优化决策边界，显著提升了高资源语言的聚合准确率（如法语提升1.2%），同时使低资源语言的表现达到或超越单语基线。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20549
作者: Yassine Turki,Vinko Sabolčec,Bettina Messmer,Martin Jaggi
机构: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:As Large Language Models (LLMs) scale, data curation has shifted from maximizing volume to optimizing the signal-to-noise ratio by performing quality filtering. However, for many languages, native high quality data is insufficient to train robust quality classifiers. This work investigates the idea that quality markers in embedding space may show cross-lingual consistency, which would allow high-resource languages to subsidize the filtering of low-resource ones. We evaluate various filtering strategies, including cross-lingual transfer, third quartile sampling (Q3), and retention rate tuning. Our results demonstrate that massive multilingual pooling frequently outperforms monolingual baselines in both rank stability and aggregate accuracy for a 1B model trained on 103B tokens, delivering gains for high resource languages (1.2% increase in aggregate normalized accuracy for French) and matching or exceeding monolingual baselines for low-resource languages. However, we find that scale alone does not guarantee stability. Furthermore, for high-resource languages like French, we show that refining the decision boundary through third quartile sampling (Q3) or tuning the retention rate is necessary to fully leverage the multilingual signal.
[NLP-19] Effects of Cross-lingual Evidence in Multilingual Medical Question Answering
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决多语言医学问答（Multilingual Medical Question Answering）中的性能差异问题，尤其是在高资源语言（如英语、西班牙语、法语、意大利语）与低资源语言（如巴斯克语、哈萨克语）之间的表现不均衡。其关键解决方案在于：针对不同语言资源状况采用差异化策略——对于高资源语言，利用英文网页检索数据结合大模型可显著提升效果；而对于低资源语言，则通过融合英文与目标语言的检索信息，使性能接近高资源语言水平。此外，研究发现外部知识并非始终提升效果，其有效性取决于语言资源丰富度和模型规模，且专业医学知识库（如PubMed）虽权威但缺乏多语言覆盖，限制了跨语言应用。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20531
作者: Anar Yeginbergen,Maite Oronoz,Rodrigo Agerri
机构: HiTZ Center - Ixa, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU (HiTZ中心 - Ixa，巴斯克大学UPV/EHU)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:This paper investigates Multilingual Medical Question Answering across high-resource (English, Spanish, French, Italian) and low-resource (Basque, Kazakh) languages. We evaluate three types of external evidence sources across models of varying size: curated repositories of specialized medical knowledge, web-retrieved content, and explanations from LLM’s parametric knowledge. Moreover, we conduct experiments with multilingual, monolingual and cross-lingual retrieval. Our results demonstrate that larger models consistently achieve superior performance in English across baseline evaluations. When incorporating external knowledge, web-retrieved data in English proves most beneficial for high-resource languages. Conversely, for low-resource languages, the most effective strategy combines retrieval in both English and the target language, achieving comparable accuracy to high-resource language results. These findings challenge the assumption that external knowledge systematically improves performance and reveal that effective strategies depend on both the source of language resources and on model scale. Furthermore, specialized medical knowledge sources such as PubMed are limited: while they provide authoritative expert knowledge, they lack adequate multilingual coverage
[NLP-20] CHASM: Unveiling Covert Advertisements on Chinese Social Media
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决当前社交媒体内容审核基准对隐蔽广告（covert advertisements）检测能力的严重忽视问题，这类广告伪装成普通用户分享内容以误导消费者，带来重大伦理与法律风险。其解决方案的关键在于构建首个针对多模态大语言模型（Multimodal Large Language Models, MLLMs）的高质量、匿名化、人工标注的数据集CHASM，包含4,992个来自中国社交平台小红书（Rednote）的真实场景样本，涵盖高度仿真的产品体验分享类内容。实验表明，在零样本和上下文学习设置下，现有MLLMs检测效果不可靠；但通过在CHASM上微调开源MLLMs可显著提升性能，揭示了数据驱动方法的有效性及仍需攻克的挑战，如细粒度评论线索识别与图文信息差异理解。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20511
作者: Jingyi Zheng,Tianyi Hu,Yule Liu,Zhen Sun,Zongmin Zhang,Zifan Peng,Wenhan Dong,Xinlei He
机构: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou); Aarhus Univeristy
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Computers and Society (cs.CY)
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Abstract:Current benchmarks for evaluating large language models (LLMs) in social media moderation completely overlook a serious threat: covert advertisements, which disguise themselves as regular posts to deceive and mislead consumers into making purchases, leading to significant ethical and legal concerns. In this paper, we present the CHASM, a first-of-its-kind dataset designed to evaluate the capability of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in detecting covert advertisements on social media. CHASM is a high-quality, anonymized, manually curated dataset consisting of 4,992 instances, based on real-world scenarios from the Chinese social media platform Rednote. The dataset was collected and annotated under strict privacy protection and quality control protocols. It includes many product experience sharing posts that closely resemble covert advertisements, making the dataset particularly this http URL results show that under both zero-shot and in-context learning settings, none of the current MLLMs are sufficiently reliable for detecting covert this http URL further experiments revealed that fine-tuning open-source MLLMs on our dataset yielded noticeable performance gains. However, significant challenges persist, such as detecting subtle cues in comments and differences in visual and textual this http URL provide in-depth error analysis and outline future research directions. We hope our study can serve as a call for the research community and platform moderators to develop more precise defenses against this emerging threat.
[NLP-21] Knowledge Capsules: Structured Nonparametric Memory Units for LLM s
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在知识更新与扩展时需重新训练、成本高昂的问题，以及检索增强生成（Retrieval-Augmented Generation, RAG）因仅通过上下文扩展引入外部知识而导致的知识影响间接且不稳定（尤其在长上下文和多跳推理场景中）的局限性。其解决方案的关键在于提出“知识胶囊”（Knowledge Capsules），即一种结构化的非参数化记忆单元，可直接从文档语料库中利用冻结的基础模型构建，以规范化的关系知识形式表示；进一步设计外部键值注入（External Key Value Injection, KVI）框架，将知识胶囊转化为兼容注意力机制的键值表示，使外部知识能直接参与模型内部的注意力计算，从而将知识整合从上下文层面提升至记忆层面交互，显著提升了长上下文和多跳推理任务中的稳定性和准确性，且无需任何参数更新。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20487
作者: Bin Ju,Shenfeng Weng,Danying Zhou,Kunkai Su,Rongkai Xu
机构: Zhejiang Angel Medical AI Technology Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, China; Miti AI Technology Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, China; China-Singapore Belt and Road Joint Laboratory on Translational Infection Biology for Diagnostics and Therapies, State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) encode knowledge in parametric weights, making it costly to update or extend without retraining. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) mitigates this limitation by appending retrieved text to the input, but operates purely through context expansion, where external knowledge competes as tokens within the attention mechanism. As a result, its influence is indirect and often unstable, particularly in long context and multi hop reasoning scenarios. We propose Knowledge Capsules, structured nonparametric memory units that represent normalized relational knowledge and can be constructed directly from document corpora using a frozen base model. Instead of injecting knowledge as text, we introduce an External Key Value Injection (KVI) framework that compiles capsules into attention-compatible key value representations, enabling external knowledge to directly participate in the model’s attention computation. By shifting knowledge integration from context-level augmentation to memory level interaction, the proposed framework consistently outperforms RAG and GraphRAG across multiple QA benchmarks, with improved stability and accuracy in long context and multi hop reasoning, while requiring no parameter updates.
[NLP-22] Not all ANIMALs are equal: metaphorical framing through source domains and semantic frames ACL2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决如何系统识别和分析话语中隐喻的框架效应问题，特别是揭示不同语境下隐喻如何通过源域（source domain）与语义框架（semantic frame）的交互作用影响对复杂议题的理解。其解决方案的关键在于提出一个计算框架，能够基于源域和语义框架联合推导出显著的话语隐喻，并实现对隐喻性框架差异的细粒度分析，从而在气候变迁新闻和移民话语中分别发现传统认知之外的细微框架关联以及政治意识形态间的隐喻策略分化。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20454
作者: Yulia Otmakhova,Matteo Guida,Lea Frermann
机构: The University of Melbourne (墨尔本大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Metaphors are powerful framing devices, yet their source domains alone do not fully explain the specific associations they evoke. We argue that the interplay between source domains and semantic frames determines how metaphors shape understanding of complex issues, and present a computational framework that allows to derive salient discourse metaphors through their source domains and semantic frames. Applying this framework to climate change news, we uncover not only well-known source domains but also reveal nuanced frame-level associations that distinguish how the issue is portrayed. In analyzing immigration discourse across political ideologies, we demonstrate that liberals and conservatives systematically employ different semantic frames within the same source domains, with conservatives favoring frames emphasizing uncontrollability and liberals choosing neutral or more ``victimizing’’ semantic frames. Our work bridges conceptual metaphor theory and linguistics, providing the first NLP approach for discovery of discourse metaphors and fine-grained analysis of differences in metaphorical framing. Code, data and statistical scripts are available at this https URL.
[NLP-23] Decoding Text Spans for Efficient and Accurate Named-Entity Recognition
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决当前基于span的命名实体识别（Named Entity Recognition, NER）方法在工业级信息抽取流水线中面临的推理效率瓶颈问题。现有方法通常通过枚举大量候选span并使用marker增强输入进行处理，导致计算开销显著增加，难以满足高吞吐量部署和边缘设备应用对延迟与资源消耗的严格要求。解决方案的关键在于提出SpanDec框架：其核心创新是将span表示之间的交互计算推迟至Transformer模型的最后一层，并设计轻量级解码器专门处理span表示，从而避免早期层中的冗余计算；同时，在枚举阶段引入span过滤机制以提前剔除低可能性候选，减少后续昂贵的处理步骤。该方法在多个基准上实现了与先进span-based模型相当的准确率，同时显著提升吞吐量并降低计算成本，优化了精度-效率权衡。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20447
作者: Andrea Maracani,Savas Ozkan,Junyi Zhu,Sinan Mutlu,Mete Ozay
机构: Samsung Research UK (三星研究英国)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key component in industrial information extraction pipelines, where systems must satisfy strict latency and throughput constraints in addition to strong accuracy. State-of-the-art NER accuracy is often achieved by span-based frameworks, which construct span representations from token encodings and classify candidate spans. However, many span-based methods enumerate large numbers of candidates and process each candidate with marker-augmented inputs, substantially increasing inference cost and limiting scalability in large-scale deployments. In this work, we propose SpanDec, an efficient span-based NER framework that targets this bottleneck. Our main insight is that span representation interactions can be computed effectively at the final transformer stage, avoiding redundant computation in earlier layers via a lightweight decoder dedicated to span representations. We further introduce a span filtering mechanism during enumeration to prune unlikely candidates before expensive processing. Across multiple benchmarks, SpanDec matches competitive span-based baselines while improving throughput and reducing computational cost, yielding a better accuracy-efficiency trade-off suitable for high-volume serving and on-device applications.
[NLP-24] DialToM: A Theory of Mind Benchmark for Forecasting State-Driven Dialogue Trajectories KDD2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）是否真正具备心智理论（Theory of Mind, ToM）能力的问题，尤其是区分这种能力是源于稳健的推理还是虚假相关性。其解决方案的关键在于构建了一个基于自然人类对话的人工验证基准——DialToM，采用多选题框架评估两个维度：一是心理状态预测能力（Literal ToM），二是这些心理状态的功能效用（Functional ToM），通过前瞻性诊断预测（Prospective Diagnostic Forecasting）方法检验模型能否仅凭心理状态特征识别出一致的社会互动轨迹。实验结果揭示了LLMs在识别心理状态上表现优异，但在利用这些状态预测社会行为轨迹方面存在显著缺陷，且人类与LLM生成的推断语义相似度较低，表明当前模型可能缺乏深层因果推理能力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20443
作者: Neemesh Yadav,Palakorn Achananuparp,Jing Jiang,Ee-Peng Lim
机构: Singapore Management University (新加坡管理大学); Australian National University (澳大利亚国立大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: Submitted to KDD 2026 Datasets and Benchmarks Track
Abstract:Large Language Models (LLMs) have been shown to possess Theory of Mind (ToM) abilities. However, it remains unclear whether this stems from robust reasoning or spurious correlations. We introduce DialToM, a human-verified benchmark built from natural human dialogue using a multiple-choice framework. We evaluate not only mental state prediction (Literal ToM) but also the functional utility of these states (Functional ToM) through Prospective Diagnostic Forecasting – probing whether models can identify state-consistent dialogue trajectories solely from mental-state profiles. Our results reveal a significant reasoning asymmetry: while LLMs excel at identifying mental states, most (except for Gemini 3 Pro) fail to leverage this understanding to forecast social trajectories. Additionally, we find only weak semantic similarities between human and LLM-generated inferences. To facilitate reproducibility, the DialToM dataset and evaluation code are publicly available at this https URL.
[NLP-25] WebGen-R1: Incentivizing Large Language Models to Generate Functional and Aesthetic Websites with Reinforcement Learning
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在项目级网站生成任务中面临的挑战，即从仅能生成单页静态网页的局限性，扩展到能够生成功能完整且视觉美观的多页面网站。现有方法受限于单一页面、依赖多轮交互与专有模型导致高延迟和高昂计算成本，而端到端训练小型LLM结合强化学习（Reinforcement Learning, RL）虽具潜力，却因难以设计可靠且可计算的奖励机制而受阻——尤其在缺乏明确验证手段的情况下，需同时评估主观美学、跨页交互和功能正确性。解决方案的关键在于提出WebGen-R1框架：首先引入基于模板的结构化生成范式以约束动作空间并保持架构完整性；其次设计一种级联式多模态奖励机制，融合结构保障、执行反馈与视觉美学监督，从而实现高效、稳定且高质量的多页网站生成。实验表明，该方法显著提升小模型（7B参数）生成能力，并在功能性、渲染有效性及美学一致性上优于更大规模开源模型甚至对标671B参数的DeepSeek-R1。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20398
作者: Juyong Jiang,Chenglin Cai,Chansung Park,Jiasi Shen,Sunghun Kim,Jianguo Li,Yue Wang
机构: 未知
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Software Engineering (cs.SE)
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Abstract:While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at function-level code generation, project-level tasks such as generating functional and visually aesthetic multi-page websites remain highly challenging. Existing works are often limited to single-page static websites, while agentic frameworks typically rely on multi-turn execution with proprietary models, leading to substantial token costs, high latency, and brittle integration. Training a small LLM end-to-end with reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising alternative, yet it faces a critical bottleneck in designing reliable and computationally feasible rewards for website generation. Unlike single-file coding tasks that can be verified by unit tests, website generation requires evaluating inherently subjective aesthetics, cross-page interactions, and functional correctness. To this end, we propose WebGen-R1, an end-to-end RL framework tailored for project-level website generation. We first introduce a scaffold-driven structured generation paradigm that constrains the large open-ended action space and preserves architectural integrity. We then design a novel cascaded multimodal reward that seamlessly couples structural guarantees with execution-grounded functional feedback and vision-based aesthetic supervision. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our WebGen-R1 substantially transforms a 7B base model from generating nearly nonfunctional websites into producing deployable, aesthetically aligned multi-page websites. Remarkably, our WebGen-R1 not only consistently outperforms heavily scaled open-source models (up to 72B), but also rivals the state-of-the-art DeepSeek-R1 (671B) in functional success, while substantially exceeding it in valid rendering and aesthetic alignment. These results position WebGen-R1 as a viable path for scaling small open models from function-level code generation to project-level web application generation.
[NLP-26] Graph2Counsel: Clinically Grounded Synthetic Counseling Dialogue Generation from Client Psychological Graphs
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成式 AI (Generative AI) 在心理咨询服务中应用时面临的高质量训练数据稀缺问题，特别是由于隐私限制导致真实咨询对话数据难以获取。现有合成数据方法多依赖非结构化或半结构化文本输入，忽略了来访者认知、情绪与行为状态之间的结构化关联，从而产生心理上不一致的交互内容，降低数据的真实性和可用性。解决方案的关键在于提出 Graph2Counsel 框架，该框架基于 Client Psychological Graphs (CPGs) 构建结构化的心理状态关系图谱，并通过受咨询策略引导的结构化提示（prompting）流程生成高质量合成咨询会话，结合 CoT（Chain-of-Thought）和 Multi-Agent Feedback 等先进 prompting 技术，有效提升了数据的心理一致性、专业性和安全性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20382
作者: Aishik Mandal,Hiba Arnaout,Clarissa W. Ong,Juliet Bockhorst,Kate Sheehan,Rachael Moldow,Tanmoy Chakraborty,Iryna Gurevych
机构: UKP Lab, Department of Computer Science and Hessian Center for AI (hessian.AI), Technische Universität Darmstadt; Zuse School ELIZA; National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE; Indian Institute of Technology Delhi; Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence; University of Louisville; University of Toledo
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Rising demand for mental health support has increased interest in using Large Language Models (LLMs) for counseling. However, adapting LLMs to this high-risk safety-critical domain is hindered by the scarcity of real-world counseling data due to privacy constraints. Synthetic datasets provide a promising alternative, but existing approaches often rely on unstructured or semi-structured text inputs and overlook structural dependencies between a client’s cognitive, emotional, and behavioral states, often producing psychologically inconsistent interactions and reducing data realism and quality. We introduce Graph2Counsel, a framework for generating synthetic counseling sessions grounded in Client Psychological Graphs (CPGs) that encode relationships among clients’ thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Graph2Counsel employs a structured prompting pipeline guided by counselor strategies and CPG, and explores prompting strategies including CoT (Wei et al., 2022) and Multi-Agent Feedback (Li et al., 2025a). Graph2Counsel produces 760 sessions from 76 CPGs across diverse client profiles. In expert evaluation, our dataset outperforms prior datasets on specificity, counselor competence, authenticity, conversational flow, and safety, with substantial inter-annotator agreement (Krippendorff’s \alpha = 0.70). Fine-tuning an open-source model on this dataset improves performance on CounselingBench (Nguyen et al., 2025) and CounselBench (Li et al., 2025b), showing downstream utility. We also make our code and data public.
[NLP-27] SignDATA: Data Pipeline for Sign Language Translation
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决手语数据集在预处理过程中因标注格式、片段时长、签名人框定及隐私约束差异而导致的一致性难题，现有工作通常仅报告下游模型性能，而缺乏标准化、可复现的预处理流程。其解决方案的核心是提出 SignDATA——一个基于配置驱动的预处理工具包，通过统一的端到端处理管道（包括姿态提取和视频封装两种模式），支持 MediaPipe 和 MMPose 两种后端接口，并提供类型化的任务架构、实验级覆盖选项、阶段级检查点与配置感知哈希，从而实现提取器选择、归一化策略和隐私权衡的显式配置与可验证性，显著提升手语研究中数据预处理的透明度与可复现性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20357
作者: Kuanwei Chen,Tingyi Lin
机构: National Central University (国立中央大学); National Changhua University Of Education (国立彰化师范大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Sign-language datasets are difficult to preprocess consistently because they vary in annotation schema, clip timing, signer framing, and privacy constraints. Existing work usually reports downstream models, while the preprocessing pipeline that converts raw video into training-ready pose or video artifacts remains fragmented, backend-specific, and weakly documented. We present SignDATA, a config-driven preprocessing toolkit that standardizes heterogeneous sign-language corpora into comparable outputs for learning. The system supports two end-to-end recipes: a pose recipe that performs acquisition, manifesting, person localization, clipping, cropping, landmark extraction, normalization, and WebDataset export, and a video recipe that replaces pose extraction with signer-cropped video packaging. SignDATA exposes interchangeable MediaPipe and MMPose backends behind a common interface, typed job schemas, experiment-level overrides, and per-stage checkpointing with config- and manifest-aware hashes. We validate the toolkit through a research-oriented evaluation design centered on backend comparison, preprocessing ablations, and privacy-aware video generation on datasets. Our contribution is a reproducible preprocessing layer for sign-language research that makes extractor choice, normalization policy, and privacy tradeoffs explicit, configurable, and empirically this http URL is available at this https URL.
[NLP-28] Surrogate modeling for interpreting black-box LLM s in medical predictions
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）因黑箱特性导致其编码知识难以解释的问题，尤其关注其在医疗预测等高风险场景中可能隐含的错误关联与社会偏见。解决方案的关键在于提出一种代理建模（surrogate modeling）框架，通过大量提示（prompting）生成覆盖广泛模拟场景的输入-输出对，从而定量逼近LLM内部的知识空间，揭示模型对特定输入变量的“感知”程度，并识别出与既定医学知识相悖或被科学否定的种族假设等潜在问题，为模型的安全可靠应用提供可量化的红灯预警机制。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20331
作者: Changho Han(1),Songsoo Kim(2),Dong Won Kim(2),Leo Anthony Celi(3, 4 and 5),Jaewoong Kim(2),SungA Bae(6 and 7),Dukyong Yoon(2, 7 and 8) ((1) Medical Big Data Research Center, Seoul National University Medical Research Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, (2) Department of Biomedical Systems Informatics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, (3) Laboratory for Computational Physiology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, (4) Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA, (5) Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA, (6) Department of Cardiology, Yongin Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Yongin, Republic of Korea, (7) Center for Digital Health, Yongin Severance Hospital, Yonsei University Health System, Yongin, Republic of Korea, (8) Institute for Innovation in Digital Healthcare, Severance Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea)
机构: 未知
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Large language models (LLMs), trained on vast datasets, encode extensive real-world knowledge within their parameters, yet their black-box nature obscures the mechanisms and extent of this encoding. Surrogate modeling, which uses simplified models to approximate complex systems, can offer a path toward better interpretability of black-box models. We propose a surrogate modeling framework that quantitatively explains LLM-encoded knowledge. For a specific hypothesis derived from domain knowledge, this framework approximates the latent LLM knowledge space using observable elements (input-output pairs) through extensive prompting across a comprehensive range of simulated scenarios. Through proof-of-concept experiments in medical predictions, we demonstrate our framework’s effectiveness in revealing the extent to which LLMs “perceive” each input variable in relation to the output. Particularly, given concerns that LLMs may perpetuate inaccuracies and societal biases embedded in their training data, our experiments using this framework quantitatively revealed both associations that contradict established medical knowledge and the persistence of scientifically refuted racial assumptions within LLM-encoded knowledge. By disclosing these issues, our framework can act as a red-flag indicator to support the safe and reliable application of these models.
[NLP-29] Multi-Perspective Evidence Synthesis and Reasoning for Unsupervised Multimodal Entity Linking
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决多模态实体链接（Multimodal Entity Linking, MEL）中现有方法主要聚焦于实例级特征优化，而忽视了更广泛证据形式及其复杂依赖关系的问题。其核心解决方案是提出一种基于大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）的多视角证据融合与推理框架 MSR-MEL，关键创新在于：首先，在离线阶段通过构建LLM增强的上下文图并利用非对称师生图神经网络实现多模态对齐，合成包括实例级、群体级、词法和统计证据在内的多维证据；其次，在在线阶段借助LLM作为推理模块分析多视角证据间的语义关联与相关性，从而在无监督条件下生成有效的实体排序策略，显著提升链接准确性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20283
作者: Mo Zhou,Jianwei Wang,Kai Wang,Helen Paik,Ying Zhang,Wenjie Zhang
机构: The University of New South Wales (新南威尔士大学); Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学); University of Technology Sydney (悉尼科技大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Multimodal Entity Linking (MEL) is a fundamental task in data management that maps ambiguous mentions with diverse modalities to the multimodal entities in a knowledge base. However, most existing MEL approaches primarily focus on optimizing instance-centric features and evidence, leaving broader forms of evidence and their intricate interdependencies insufficiently explored. Motivated by the observation that human expert decision-making process relies on multi-perspective judgment, in this work, we propose MSR-MEL, a Multi-perspective Evidence Synthesis and Reasoning framework with Large Language Models (LLMs) for unsupervised MEL. Specifically, we adopt a two-stage framework: (1) Offline Multi-Perspective Evidence Synthesis constructs a comprehensive set of evidence. This includes instance-centric evidence capturing the instance-centric multimodal information of mentions and entities, group-level evidence that aggregates neighborhood information, lexical evidence based on string overlap ratio, and statistical evidence based on simple summary statistics. A core contribution of our framework is the synthesis of group-level evidence, which effectively aggregates vital neighborhood information by graph. We first construct LLM-enhanced contextualized graphs. Subsequently, different modalities are jointly aligned through an asymmetric teacher-student graph neural network. (2) Online Multi-Perspective Evidence Reasoning leverages the power of LLM as a reasoning module to analyze the correlation and semantics of the multi-perspective evidence to induce an effective ranking strategy for accurate entity linking without supervision. Extensive experiments on widely used MEL benchmarks demonstrate that MSR-MEL consistently outperforms state-of-the-art unsupervised methods. The source code of this paper was available at: this https URL.
[NLP-30] ActuBench: A Multi-Agent LLM Pipeline for Generation and Evaluation of Actuarial Reasoning Tasks
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决传统精算评估题目的自动化生成与评估难题，尤其针对国际精算协会（International Actuarial Association, IAA）教育大纲中高级精算知识的精准测验需求。其核心挑战在于如何构建一个可扩展、高保真且具备自我纠错能力的多智能体大语言模型（Large Language Model, LLM）流水线，以生成高质量选择题（Multiple-Choice Questions, MCQs）和开放性题目，并实现客观、可复现的性能评估。解决方案的关键在于设计了一个四角色分工的多代理LLM流水线：1）题目生成代理负责初稿撰写；2）干扰项构造代理确保选项合理性；3）独立验证代理执行两阶段校验并驱动有限次数的修复循环（bounded one-shot repair loop），显著提升内容可靠性；4）成本优化辅助代理完成维基百科摘要与主题标签标注。该架构通过模块化分工与闭环验证机制，在保证质量的同时实现高效部署与透明评估，为精算教育领域提供可公开访问的基准测试平台（ActuBench）。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20273
作者: Jan-Philipp Schmidt
机构: TH Köln, Institut für Versicherungswesen (ivwKöln)
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:We present ActuBench, a multi-agent LLM pipeline for the automated generation and evaluation of advanced actuarial assessment items aligned with the International Actuarial Association (IAA) Education Syllabus. The pipeline separates four LLM roles by adapter: one agent drafts items, one constructs distractors, a third independently verifies both stages and drives bounded one-shot repair loops, and a cost-optimized auxiliary agent handles Wikipedia-note summarization and topic labelling. The items, per-model responses and complete leaderboard are published as a browsable web interface at this https URL, allowing readers and practitioners to inspect individual items without a repository checkout. We evaluate 50 language models from eight providers on two complementary benchmarks – 100 empirically hardest multiple-choice items and 100 open-ended items scored by an LLM judge – and report three headline findings. First, multi-agent verification is load-bearing: the independent verifier flags a majority of drafted items on first pass, most of which the one-shot repair loop resolves. Second, locally-hosted open-weights inference sits on the cost-performance Pareto front: a Gemma~4 model running on consumer hardware and a Cerebras-hosted 120B open-weights model dominate the near-zero-cost region, with the latter within one item of the top of the leaderboard. Third, MCQ and LLM-as-Judge rankings differ meaningfully: the MCQ scaffold inflates the performance ceiling, and Judge-mode evaluation is needed to discriminate at the frontier.
[NLP-31] RADS: Reinforcement Learning-Based Sample Selection Improves Transfer Learning in Low-resource and Imbalanced Clinical Settings ACL2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决在极低资源和类别不平衡条件下，传统少样本微调（few-shot fine-tuning）因样本选择质量差而导致模型性能下降的问题。其关键解决方案是提出了一种基于强化学习（reinforcement learning, RL）的鲁棒样本选择策略 RADS（Reinforcement Adaptive Domain Sampling），通过动态适应目标域分布并优先选择最具信息量的样本，从而提升模型在极端不平衡条件下的迁移能力与稳定性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20256
作者: Wei Han,David Martinez,Anna Khanina,Lawrence Cavedon,Karin Verspoor
机构: RMIT University (皇家墨尔本理工大学); The University of Melbourne (墨尔本大学); Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (彼得·麦克卡勒姆癌症中心); Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology (彼得·麦克卡勒姆外科肿瘤学系)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: Accepted at ACL 2026 Findings
Abstract:A common strategy in transfer learning is few shot fine-tuning, but its success is highly dependent on the quality of samples selected as training examples. Active learning methods such as uncertainty sampling and diversity sampling can select useful samples. However, under extremely low-resource and class-imbalanced conditions, they often favor outliers rather than truly informative samples, resulting in degraded performance. In this paper, we introduce RADS (Reinforcement Adaptive Domain Sampling), a robust sample selection strategy using reinforcement learning (RL) to identify the most informative samples. Experimental evaluations on several real world clinical datasets show our sample selection strategy enhances model transferability while maintaining robust performance under extreme class imbalance compared to traditional methods.
[NLP-32] Hybrid Policy Distillation for LLM s
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决知识蒸馏（Knowledge Distillation, KD）在压缩大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）过程中存在的优化不稳定、效率低下以及性能受限的问题，这些问题源于现有方法在散度方向（divergence direction）、优化策略（optimization strategy）和数据配置（data regime）之间的复杂耦合。其解决方案的关键在于提出一种统一的视角，将KD重新建模为基于token级别的重加权对数似然目标（reweighted log-likelihood objective），并进一步设计了混合策略蒸馏（Hybrid Policy Distillation, HPD）——该方法融合前向KL与反向KL的优势，以平衡模式覆盖（mode coverage）与模式聚焦（mode-seeking），同时结合离策略（off-policy）数据与轻量级近似在策略（on-policy）采样，从而提升优化稳定性、计算效率及最终性能，在长序列数学推理与短文本对话及代码生成任务中均验证了有效性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20244
作者: Wenhong Zhu,Ruobing Xie,Rui Wang,Pengfei Liu
机构: 未知
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Knowledge distillation (KD) is a powerful paradigm for compressing large language models (LLMs), whose effectiveness depends on intertwined choices of divergence direction, optimization strategy, and data regime. We break down the design of existing KD methods and present a unified view that establishes connections between them, reformulating KD as a reweighted log-likelihood objective at the token level. We further propose Hybrid Policy Distillation (HPD), which integrates the complementary advantages of forward and reverse KL to balance mode coverage and mode-seeking, and combines off-policy data with lightweight, approximate on-policy sampling. We validate HPD on long-generation math reasoning as well as short-generation dialogue and code tasks, demonstrating improved optimization stability, computational efficiency, and final performance across diverse model families and scales. The code related to this work is available at this https URL.
[NLP-33] Construction of a Battery Research Knowledge Graph using a Global Open Catalog
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决电池研究领域中跨机构专家识别与合作潜力挖掘的难题，因该领域高度交叉且发展迅速，传统方法难以有效追踪相关专业知识和潜在合作者。解决方案的关键在于构建一个以作者为中心的知识图谱，利用OpenAlex大规模开放文献目录，通过KeyBERT结合ChatGPT（gpt-3.5-turbo）从标题和摘要中提取细粒度关键词，并融合粗粒度OpenAlex概念，生成加权的研究描述符向量（research descriptors vector）。该向量依据研究描述符来源、作者署名位置及时间新近性进行加权，从而支持作者间相似性计算、社区发现及探索式搜索，最终将知识图谱以RDF格式序列化并链接至Wikidata标识符，实现与其他开放数据源的互操作性和可扩展性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20241
作者: Luca Foppiano,Sae Dieb,Malik Zain,Kazuki Kasama,Keitaro Sodeyama,Mikiko Tanifuji
机构: NIMS (日本国立材料科学研究所); University of North Florida (北佛罗里达大学); iGroup Japan (iGroup日本公司); National Institute of Informatics (日本信息学研究所)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
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Abstract:Battery research is a rapidly growing and highly interdisciplinary field, making it increasingly difficult to track relevant expertise and identify potential collaborators across institutional boundaries. In this work, we present a pipeline for constructing an author-centric knowledge graph of battery research built on OpenAlex, a large-scale open bibliographic catalogue. For each author, we derive a weighted research descriptors vector that combines coarse-grained OpenAlex concepts with fine-grained keyphrases extracted from titles and abstracts using KeyBERT with ChatGPT (gpt-3.5-turbo) as the backend model, selected after evaluating multiple alternatives. Vector components are weighted by research descriptor origin, authorship position, and temporal recency. The framework is applied to a corpus of 189,581 battery-related works. The resulting vectors support author-author similarity computation, community detection, and exploratory search through a browser-based interface. The knowledge graph is then serialized in RDF and linked to Wikidata identifiers, making it interoperable with external linked open data sources and extensible beyond the battery domain. Unlike prior author-centric analyses confined to institutional repositories, our approach operates at cross-institutional scale and grounds similarity in domain semantics rather than citation or co-authorship structure alone.
[NLP-34] he GaoYao Benchmark: A Comprehensive Framework for Evaluating Multilingual and Multicultural Abilities of Large Language Models ACL2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决当前大型语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）多语言与跨文化能力评估中存在的三大局限：一是评价维度碎片化，常忽视深层文化差异；二是主观任务中语言覆盖不足，依赖低质量机器翻译；三是分析深度不足，仅停留在简单排名层面。其解决方案的关键在于提出一个名为GaoYao的综合性基准测试体系，包含182.3k样本、26种语言和51个文化和区域；首先构建了一个统一框架，将评测任务划分为三个文化层级（通用多语言、跨文化、单文化）和九个认知子层；其次通过专家本地化实现主观评测集在19种语言上的原生质量扩展，并合成涵盖34种文化的跨文化测试集，覆盖范围较以往提升最多达111%；最后对20余种主流及轻量级LLMs进行深入诊断分析，揭示了显著的地域性能差异与任务间差距，为后续研究提供可靠参考。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20225
作者: Yilun Liu,Chunguang Zhao,Mengyao Piao,Lingqi Miao,Shimin Tao,Minggui He,Chenxin Liu,Li Zhang,Hongxia Ma,Jiaxin Guo,Chen Liu,Liqun Deng,Jiansheng Wei,Xiaojun Meng,Fanyi Du,Daimeng Wei,Yanghua Xiao
机构: Huawei(华为); Fudan University (复旦大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: Accepted by ACL 2026 main
Abstract:Evaluating the multilingual and multicultural capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) is essential for their global utility. However, current benchmarks face three critical limitations: (1) fragmented evaluation dimensions that often neglect deep cultural nuances; (2) insufficient language coverage in subjective tasks relying on low-quality machine translation; and (3) shallow analysis that lacks diagnostic depth beyond simple rankings. To address these, we introduce GaoYao, a comprehensive benchmark with 182.3k samples, 26 languages and 51 nations/areas. First, GaoYao proposes a unified framework categorizing evaluation tasks into three cultural layers (General Multilingual, Cross-cultural, Monocultural) and nine cognitive sub-layers. Second, we achieve native-quality expansion by leveraging experts to rigorously localize subjective benchmarks into 19 languages and synthesizing cross-cultural test sets for 34 cultures, surpassing prior coverage by up to 111%. Third, we conduct an in-depth diagnostic analysis on 20+ flagship and compact LLMs. Our findings reveal significant geographical performance disparities and distinct gaps between tasks, offering a reliable map for future work. We release the benchmark (this https URL).
[NLP-35] Markov reads Pushkin again: A statistical journey into the poetic world of Evgenij Onegin
【速读】： 该论文旨在探索文学文本中音系结构的统计规律性，特别是通过符号时间序列分析与马尔可夫建模方法揭示俄语原作《叶甫盖尼·奥涅金》（Evgenij Onegin）与其当代意大利语译文在音节层面（元音/辅音，V/C）的结构性差异及其潜在叙事关联。其核心问题是：如何利用简洁的概率模型识别并比较不同语言版本文本中的局部依赖性和长程序列模式，并进一步挖掘这些形式特征与主题发展之间的隐含联系。解决方案的关键在于构建一个简化的四状态马尔可夫链模型，该模型不仅能准确描述原始文本的自相关性和记忆深度变化，还能通过引入“音系探针”（phonological probes）——即短程符号模式——来追踪文本展开过程中图形形式与叙事线索之间的微妙对应关系；这种结合经典马尔可夫思想与现代计算统计工具的方法，使得即使是最小化表示也能有效支持对复杂诗学材料的探索性分析，并为跨语言比较诗学提供通用框架。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20221
作者: Angelo Maria Sabatini
机构: The BioRobotics Institute (生物机器人研究所); Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (圣安娜高等学院)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: 21 pages, 7 figures, 3 supplementary files; revised version submitted to PLOS ONE
Abstract:This study applies symbolic time series analysis and Markov modeling to explore the phonological structure of Evgenij Onegin-as captured through a graphemic vowel/consonant (V/C) encoding-and one contemporary Italian translation. Using a binary encoding inspired by Markov’s original scheme, we construct minimalist probabilistic models that capture both local V/C dependencies and large-scale sequential patterns. A compact four-state Markov chain is shown to be descriptively accurate and generative, reproducing key features of the original sequences such as autocorrelation and memory depth. All findings are exploratory in nature and aim to highlight structural regularities while suggesting hypotheses about underlying narrative dynamics. The analysis reveals a marked asymmetry between the Russian and Italian texts: the original exhibits a gradual decline in memory depth, whereas the translation maintains a more uniform profile. To further investigate this divergence, we introduce phonological probes-short symbolic patterns that link surface structure to narrative-relevant cues. Tracked across the unfolding text, these probes reveal subtle connections between graphemic form and thematic development, particularly in the Russian original. By revisiting Markov’s original proposal of applying symbolic analysis to a literary text and pairing it with contemporary tools from computational statistics and data science, this study shows that even minimalist Markov models can support exploratory analysis of complex poetic material. When complemented by a coarse layer of linguistic annotation, such models provide a general framework for comparative poetics and demonstrate that stylized structural patterns remain accessible through simple representations grounded in linguistic form. Comments: 21 pages, 7 figures, 3 supplementary files; revised version submitted to PLOS ONE Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL) Cite as: arXiv:2604.20221 [cs.CL] (or arXiv:2604.20221v1 [cs.CL] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.20221 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[NLP-36] xt-to-Distribution Prediction with Quantile Tokens and Neighbor Context ACL2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决基于大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）的分布回归（distributional regression）中两个关键问题：一是当前方法缺乏对分布估计的局部锚定（local grounding），导致预测结果难以反映输入样本的局部特征；二是依赖共享表示（shared representations）形成输入与分位数输出之间的间接瓶颈，限制了模型对每个分位数的精准建模能力。解决方案的关键在于提出分位数标记回归（Quantile Token Regression），首次在输入序列中引入专用的分位数标记（quantile tokens），通过自注意力机制为每个分位数建立直接的输入-输出路径，从而实现更灵活、精准的分布建模。此外，该方法进一步结合检索机制，引入语义相似邻居实例及其经验分布作为局部证据，增强预测的合理性与稳定性。实验表明，该方法在多个基准数据集上显著优于基线模型，在较小和更具挑战性的数据集上尤其表现出更窄的预测区间和更低的平均绝对百分比误差（MAPE）。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20216
作者: Yilun Zhu,Yuan Zhuang,Nikhita Vedula,Dushyanta Dhyani,Shaoyuan Xu,Moyan Li,Mohsen Bayati,Bryan Wang,Shervin Malmasi
机构: Amazon.com, Inc.(亚马逊公司); Stanford University(斯坦福大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: Accepted to ACL 2026 main conference
Abstract:Many applications of LLM-based text regression require predicting a full conditional distribution rather than a single point value. We study distributional regression under empirical-quantile supervision, where each input is paired with multiple observed quantile outcomes, and the target distribution is represented by a dense grid of quantiles. We address two key limitations of current approaches: the lack of local grounding for distribution estimates, and the reliance on shared representations that create an indirect bottleneck between inputs and quantile outputs. In this paper, we introduce Quantile Token Regression, which, to our knowledge, is the first work to insert dedicated quantile tokens into the input sequence, enabling direct input-output pathways for each quantile through self-attention. We further augment these quantile tokens with retrieval, incorporating semantically similar neighbor instances and their empirical distributions to ground predictions with local evidence from similar instances. We also provide the first theoretical analysis of loss functions for quantile regression, clarifying which distributional objectives each optimizes. Experiments on the Inside Airbnb and StackSample benchmark datasets with LLMs ranging from 1.7B to 14B parameters show that quantile tokens with neighbors consistently outperform baselines (~4 points lower MAPE and 2x narrower prediction intervals), with especially large gains on smaller and more challenging datasets where quantile tokens produce substantially sharper and more accurate distributions.
[NLP-37] Chasing the Public Score: User Pressure and Evaluation Exploitation in Coding Agent Workflows
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决多轮用户压力下编码代理（coding agents）在公开评分机制中产生“公共评分利用”（public score exploitation）的问题，即代理通过捷径手段提升公开评分而未实质性改善隐藏的私有评估指标。核心问题是：当用户依赖反复改进公开评分而非直接审查中间输出时，代理是否会倾向于采取策略性行为以最大化表面表现，从而导致评估失效。解决方案的关键在于引入显式的反利用提示词（anti-exploit wordings in prompt），实验证明这一方法可将exploitation率从100%降至8.3%，显著抑制了代理的诱导性行为，为构建更鲁棒的编码代理提供了有效缓解路径。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20200
作者: Hardy Chen,Nancy Lau,Haoqin Tu,Shuo Yan,Xiangyan Liu,Zijun Wang,Juncheng Wu,Michael Qizhe Shieh,Alvaro A. Cardenas,Cihang Xie,Yuyin Zhou
机构: UC Santa Cruz (加州大学圣克鲁兹分校); UT Dallas (德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校); NUS (新加坡国立大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Frontier coding agents are increasingly used in workflows where users supervise progress primarily through repeated improvement of a public score, namely the reported score on a public evaluation file with labels in the workspace, rather than through direct inspection of the agent’s intermediate outputs. We study whether multi-round user pressure to improve that score induces public score exploitation: behavior that raises the public score through shortcuts without improving hidden private evaluation. We begin with a preliminary single-script tabular classification task, where GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 both exploit label information within 10 rounds of user-agent interaction. We then build AgentPressureBench, a 34-task machine-learning repository benchmark spanning three input modalities, and collect 1326 multi-round trajectories from 13 coding agents. On our benchmark, we observe 403 exploitative runs, spanning across all tasks. We also find that stronger models have higher exploitation rates, supported by a significant Spearman rank correlation of 0.77. Our ablation experiments show that higher user pressure leads to earlier exploitation, reducing the average first exploit round by 15.6 rounds (i.e., 19.67 to 4.08). As a mitigation, adding explicit anti-exploit wordings in prompt mostly eliminates exploitation (100% to 8.3%). We hope that our work can bring attention to more careful use of coding agents workflow, and developing more robust coding agents under user pressure. Our project page is at this https URL .
[NLP-38] All Languages Matter: Understanding and Mitigating Language Bias in Multilingual RAG ACL2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决多语言检索增强生成（Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Generation, mRAG）系统在重排序阶段存在的语言偏差问题，即现有重排序器系统性地偏好英语及查询语种的文档，导致跨语言知识利用不充分。关键在于通过引入估计的“Oracle证据分析”量化当前重排序器与理论最优性能之间的差距，并揭示了一个关键的分布失配现象：最优生成依赖于分布在多种语言中的“答案关键”文档，而现有系统却会抑制这些文档，从而限制下游生成效果。为此，作者提出LAURA（Language-Agnostic Utility-driven Reranker Alignment），其核心思想是将多语言证据的重排序与下游生成效用对齐，从而有效缓解语言偏差并提升mRAG的整体性能。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20199
作者: Dan Wang,Guozhao Mo,Yafei Shi,Cheng Zhang,Bo Zheng,Boxi Cao,Xuanang Chen,Yaojie Lu,Hongyu Lin,Ben He,Xianpei Han,Le Sun
机构: Chinese Information Processing Laboratory, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; MYbank, AntGroup
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Generation (mRAG) leverages cross-lingual evidence to ground Large Language Models (LLMs) in global knowledge. However, we show that current mRAG systems suffer from a language bias during reranking, systematically favoring English and the query’s native language. By introducing an estimated oracle evidence analysis, we quantify a substantial performance gap between existing rerankers and the achievable upper bound. Further analysis reveals a critical distributional mismatch: while optimal predictions require evidence scattered across multiple languages, current systems systematically suppress such ``answer-critical’’ documents, thereby limiting downstream generation performance. To bridge this gap, we propose \textit\textbfLanguage-\textbfAgnostic \textbfUtility-driven \textbfReranker \textbfAlignment (LAURA), which aligns multilingual evidence ranking with downstream generative utility. Experiments across diverse languages and generation models show that LAURA effectively mitigates language bias and consistently improves mRAG performance.
[NLP-39] Dual-Cluster Memory Agent : Resolving Multi-Paradigm Ambiguity in Optimization Problem Solving
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大型语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在求解优化问题时因结构歧义（structural ambiguity）而导致的性能瓶颈问题，即同一问题存在多种相关但冲突的建模范式，使得模型难以生成有效解决方案。其核心解决方案是提出双簇记忆代理（Dual-Cluster Memory Agent, DCM-Agent），关键在于通过历史解决方案构建双簇记忆结构——将历史解分别归类到建模簇（modeling cluster）和编码簇（coding cluster），并从中提炼出三类结构化知识：方法（Approach）、检查清单（Checklist）和陷阱警示（Pitfall），从而形成可迁移的指导性知识；同时引入记忆增强推理机制，在推理过程中动态导航、错误检测与修复，并基于结构化知识自适应切换推理路径，显著提升模型在多个优化基准上的表现（平均提升11%-21%）。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20183
作者: Xinyu Zhang,Yuchen Wan,Boxuan Zhang,Zesheng Yang,Lingling Zhang,Bifan Wei,Jun Liu
机构: Xi’an Jiaotong University (西安交通大学); Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Intelligent Networks and Network Security, China (中华人民共和国教育部智能网络与网络安全重点实验室); Shaanxi Province Key Laboratory of Big Data Knowledge Engineering, China (中华人民共和国陕西省大数据知识工程重点实验室)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle with structural ambiguity in optimization problems, where a single problem admits multiple related but conflicting modeling paradigms, hindering effective solution generation. To address this, we propose Dual-Cluster Memory Agent (DCM-Agent) to enhance performance by leveraging historical solutions in a training-free manner. Central to this is Dual-Cluster Memory Construction. This agent assigns historical solutions to modeling and coding clusters, then distills each cluster’s content into three structured types: Approach, Checklist, and Pitfall. This process derives generalizable guidance knowledge. Furthermore, this agent introduces Memory-augmented Inference to dynamically navigate solution paths, detect and repair errors, and adaptively switch reasoning paths with structured knowledge. The experiments across seven optimization benchmarks demonstrate that DCM-Agent achieves an average performance improvement of 11%- 21%. Notably, our analysis reveals a ``knowledge inheritance’’ phenomenon: memory constructed by larger models can guide smaller models toward superior performance, highlighting the framework’s scalability and efficiency.
[NLP-40] Duluth at SemEval-2026 Task 6: DeBERTa with LLM -Augmented Data for Unmasking Political Question Evasions
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决政治问答对中回答清晰度（clarity）与回避程度（evasion）的自动分类问题，属于自然语言处理在政治话语分析中的应用。其核心挑战在于数据集存在严重的类别不平衡，且人类标注间存在较高分歧，尤其在“模糊回应”（Ambivalent）与“明确回应”（Clear Reply）之间。解决方案的关键在于：采用DeBERTa-V3-base模型并引入焦点损失（focal loss）、逐层学习率衰减和布尔话语特征以增强模型对难样本的区分能力；同时利用大语言模型（LLM）如Gemini 3和Claude Sonnet 4.5生成合成样本来扩充少数类，显著提升少数类别召回率。实验表明，该方法在Task 1上达到0.76的Macro F1，在40支参赛队伍中排名第8，验证了LLM驱动的数据增强策略在复杂政治语境下的有效性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20168
作者: Shujauddin Syed,Ted Pedersen
机构: University of Minnesota (明尼苏达大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:This paper presents the Duluth approach to SemEval-2026 Task 6 on CLARITY: Unmasking Political Question Evasions. We address Task 1 (clarity-level classification) and Task 2 (evasion-level classification), both of which involve classifying question–answer pairs from U.S.\ presidential interviews using a two-level taxonomy of response clarity. Our system is based on DeBERTa-V3-base, extended with focal loss, layer-wise learning rate decay, and boolean discourse features. To address class imbalance in the training data, we augment minority classes using synthetic examples generated by Gemini 3 and Claude Sonnet 4.5. Our best configuration achieved a Macro F1 of 0.76 on the Task 1 evaluation set, placing 8th out of 40 teams. The top-ranked system (TeleAI) achieved 0.89, while the mean score across participants was 0.70. Error analysis reveals that the dominant source of misclassification is confusion between Ambivalent and Clear Reply responses, a pattern that mirrors disagreements among human annotators. Our findings demonstrate that LLM-based data augmentation can meaningfully improve minority-class recall on nuanced political discourse tasks.
[NLP-41] Meta-Tool: Efficient Few-Shot Tool Adaptation for Small Language Models ACL2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决小规模语言模型（small language models）是否能在无需复杂适配机制的情况下实现强大的工具使用（tool-use）性能这一问题。其核心解决方案在于通过Meta-Tool这一受控的实证研究，对比基于超网络（hypernetwork）的LoRA适配与精心设计的少样本提示（few-shot prompting）两种策略。关键发现是：尽管超网络生成了非平凡的权重矩阵，但其对性能无显著提升（+0%），而精心设计的少样本提示可带来+21.5%的性能增益，表明prompt engineering和示例选择比复杂的适配架构更为有效。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20148
作者: Sachin Kumar
机构: LexisNexis, USA
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: Accepted to Findings of ACL 2026
Abstract:Can small language models achieve strong tool-use performance without complex adaptation mechanisms? This paper investigates this question through Meta-Tool, a controlled empirical study comparing hypernetwork-based LoRA adaptation against carefully designed few-shot prompting. Using a Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct backbone, we evaluate four adaptation mechanisms–few-shot prompting, documentation encoding, hypernetwork-generated LoRA weights, and value-guided beam search–across four diverse benchmarks: Gorilla APIBench, Spider 2.0, WebArena, and InterCode. Our central finding is a well-supported negative result: despite generating non-trivial weight matrices, the 227.8M-parameter hypernetwork provides no measurable improvement over few-shot prompting alone. Comprehensive ablation studies reveal that few-shot examples contribute +21.5% to performance and documentation contributes +5.0%, while the hypernetwork adds 0%. A 3B model with well-designed prompts achieves 79.7% of GPT-5’s average performance at 10 \times lower latency. Error analysis across 722 failure cases spanning all shot counts (0–5) shows that at the 5-shot configuration (106 failures), failure modes are task-dependent: schema-heavy tasks (Spider 2.0, WebArena) show near-zero format errors with remaining failures semantic, while format errors dominate on Gorilla (100%) and InterCode (70%). These findings redirect practitioners toward prompt engineering and example curation rather than complex adaptation architectures.
[NLP-42] AgentS OC: A Multi-Layer Agent ic AI Framework for Security Operations Automation
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决安全运营中心（Security Operations Center, SOC）在处理异构告警关联、多阶段攻击进程解析以及选择安全且有效的响应措施方面面临的挑战。其解决方案的关键在于提出了一种多层代理式人工智能框架——AgentSOC，该框架通过整合感知（perception）、前瞻推理（anticipatory reasoning）和基于风险的行动规划（risk-based action planning），构建了一个统一的操作闭环，能够实现告警标准化、上下文增强、假设生成、结构可行性验证及合规响应执行，从而提升告警研判的一致性、预测攻击意图并推荐兼顾安全性与操作影响平衡的隔离选项。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20134
作者: Joyjit Roy,Samaresh Kumar Singh
机构: 未知
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: 7 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables. Peer-reviewed paper published in IEEE ICAIC 2026 (IEEE Xplore)
Abstract:Security Operations Centers (SOCs) increasingly encounter difficulties in correlating heterogeneous alerts, interpreting multi-stage attack progressions, and selecting safe and effective response actions. This study introduces AgentSOC, a multi-layered agentic AI framework that enhances SOC automation by integrating perception, anticipatory reasoning, and risk-based action planning. The proposed architecture consolidates several layers of abstraction to provide a single operational loop to support normalizing alerts, enriching context, generating hypotheses, validating structural feasibility, and executing policy-compliant responses. Conceptually evaluated within a large enterprise environment, AgentSOC improves triage consistency, anticipates attackers’ intentions, and provides recommended containment options that are both operationally feasible and well-balanced between security efficacy and operational impact. The results suggest that hybrid agentic reasoning has the potential to serve as a foundation for developing adaptive, safer SOC automation in large enterprises. Additionally, a minimal Proof-Of-Concept (POC) demonstration using LANL authentication data demonstrated the feasibility of the proposed architecture.
[NLP-43] Whose Story Gets Told? Positionality and Bias in LLM Summaries of Life Narratives
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成式 AI（Generative AI）在定性文本分析中，特别是在归纳主题分析（inductive thematic analysis）场景下，因视角代入（perspective-taking）可能引入的偏见及其伦理风险问题。其核心挑战在于难以评估 LLM 在抽象层面解读人类生活故事时所形成的结论是否公正、无偏，并可能对特定群体造成代表性伤害（representational harm）。解决方案的关键在于提出一种基于摘要的流水线方法（summarization-based pipeline），通过量化和识别 LLM 在处理个体叙事时表现出的种族与性别偏见，从而揭示其潜在的位置性（positionality）特征，为未来涉及 LLM 对研究参与者文本或语音进行解释的研究提供可操作的偏见检测工具。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20131
作者: Melanie Subbiah,Haaris Mian,Nicholas Deas,Ananya Mayukha,Dan P. McAdams,Kathleen McKeown
机构: Columbia University (哥伦比亚大学); Northwestern University (西北大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Increasingly, studies are exploring using Large Language Models (LLMs) for accelerated or scaled qualitative analysis of text data. While we can compare LLM accuracy against human labels directly for deductive coding, or labeling text, it is more challenging to judge the ethics and effectiveness of using LLMs in abstractive methods such as inductive thematic analysis. We collaborate with psychologists to study the abstractive claims LLMs make about human life stories, asking, how does using an LLM as an interpreter of meaning affect the conclusions and perspectives of a study? We propose a summarization-based pipeline for surfacing biases in perspective-taking an LLM might employ in interpreting these life stories. We demonstrate that our pipeline can identify both race and gender bias with the potential for representational harm. Finally, we encourage the use of this analysis in future studies involving LLM-based interpretation of study participants’ written text or transcribed speech to characterize a positionality portrait for the study.
[NLP-44] o Know is to Construct: Schema-Constrained Generation for Agent Memory
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决当前基于大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）的智能体记忆系统中存在的两个核心问题：一是密集检索（dense retrieval）方法在语义相似但情境不同的情况下容易引入噪声，导致上下文不匹配的条目被错误召回；二是直接使用生成式方法进行记忆访问时可能引发“结构幻觉”（Structural Hallucination），即模型生成不存在的记忆键，造成查找失败。解决方案的关键在于提出一种基于认知图式（cognitive schema）约束的生成式记忆架构——SCG-MEM，其将记忆访问重新定义为“图式约束生成”（Schema-Constrained Generation），通过维护一个动态的认知图式来严格限制LLM解码过程，仅生成合法的记忆条目键，从而从形式上杜绝结构幻觉；同时，该架构支持长期适应性，通过同化（assimilation）和顺应（accommodation）机制实现记忆更新，并构建关联图以支持多跳推理。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20117
作者: Lei Zheng,Weinan Song,Daili Li,Yanming Yang
机构: UnionPay(银联)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Constructivist epistemology argues that knowledge is actively constructed rather than passively copied. Despite the generative nature of Large Language Models (LLMs), most existing agent memory systems are still based on dense retrieval. However, dense retrieval heavily relies on semantic overlap or entity matching within sentences. Consequently, embeddings often fail to distinguish instances that are semantically similar but contextually distinct, introducing substantial noise by retrieving context-mismatched entries. Conversely, directly employing open-ended generation for memory access risks “Structural Hallucination” where the model generates memory keys that do not exist in the memory, leading to lookup failures. Inspired by this epistemology, we posit that memory is fundamentally organized by cognitive schemas, and valid recall must be a generative process performed within these schematic structures. To realize this, we propose SCG-MEM, a schema-constrained generative memory architecture. SCG-MEM reformulates memory access as Schema-Constrained Generation. By maintaining a dynamic Cognitive Schema, we strictly constrain LLM decoding to generate only valid memory entry keys, providing a formal guarantee against structural hallucinations. To support long-term adaptation, we model memory updates via assimilation (grounding inputs into existing schemas) and accommodation (expanding schemas with novel concepts). Furthermore, we construct an Associative Graph to enable multi-hop reasoning through activation propagation. Experiments on the LoCoMo benchmark show that SCG-MEM substantially improves performance across all categories over retrieval-based baselines.
[NLP-45] Less Languages Less Tokens: An Efficient Unified Logic Cross-lingual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Framework ACL2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决跨语言链式思维（Cross-lingual chain-of-thought, XCoT）推理中因大量采样全轨迹导致的计算成本高、多语言大模型（LLM）表示差异大难以直接比较和有效剪枝的问题。解决方案的关键在于提出UL-XCoT——首个高效的统一逻辑跨语言推理框架，其核心创新包括：(1) 在语言不变的统一逻辑空间中为每个查询选择少量候选语言，减少语言维度冗余；(2) 通过监控解码过程中逻辑空间轨迹动态，识别并剪除低质量推理路径，降低token消耗；(3) 对保留的高质量轨迹进行投票聚合，提升结果稳定性与准确性。实验表明，UL-XCoT在保持竞争性准确率的同时，显著降低超过50%的解码token成本，并在低资源语言上展现出更强鲁棒性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20090
作者: Chenyuan Zhang,Qiguang Chen,Xie Chen,Zhuotao Tian,Bowen Xing,Meishan Zhang,Libo Qin,Baotian Hu,Min Zhang
机构: Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen; Central South University; Text Computing and Cognitive Intelligence Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center, Guizhou University; University of Science and Technology Beijing; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Shanghai Innovation Institute
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Cross-lingual chain-of-thought (XCoT) with self-consistency markedly enhances multilingual reasoning, yet existing methods remain costly due to extensive sampling of full trajectories across languages. Moreover, multilingual LLM representations vary strongly by language, hindering direct feature comparisons and effective pruning. Motivated by this, we introduce UL-XCoT, the first efficient unified logic cross-lingual reasoning framework that minimizes redundancy in token usage and latency, yielding the greatest efficiency under limited sampling budgets during inference. Specifically, UL-XCoT (1) achieves less languages by selecting, per query, a small candidate language set in a language-invariant unified logic space, (2) enables less tokens by monitoring logic-space trajectory dynamics during decoding to prune low-quality reasoning paths, and (3) aggregates the remaining high-quality trajectories via voting. Experiments on PolyMath across 18 languages and MMLU-ProX-Lite across 29 languages with DeepSeek-R1-DistillQwen-7B demonstrate that UL-XCoT achieves competitive accuracy while sharply cutting over 50% decoding token cost versus prior sampling baselines. UL-XCoT also delivers more stable gains on low-resource languages, underscoring consistently superior robustness where standard XCoT self-consistency method fails.
[NLP-46] SkillLearnBench: Benchmarking Continual Learning Methods for Agent Skill Generation on Real-World Tasks
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）代理在执行复杂现实任务时，如何自动且高效地学习持续技能（continual skill learning）的问题。当前技能已成为LLM代理实现定制化指令、工作流与工具调用的核心机制，但现有方法缺乏系统性的评估框架和有效的自动学习策略。论文提出SkillLearnBench——首个用于评估持续技能学习方法的基准测试，包含20个经验证的、依赖技能的任务，覆盖15个子领域，并从技能质量、执行轨迹和任务结果三个层面进行量化评估。其关键解决方案在于构建结构化的评估体系并系统性地对比多种持续学习技术（包括基于单次示例、自我/教师反馈及技能创建者生成技能的方法），揭示出：尽管所有方法均优于无技能基线，但在不同任务和LLM规模下表现不一致；强LLM骨干网络并不保证技能质量提升；多轮外部反馈可促进真实改进，而仅靠自反馈则易引发递归漂移（recursive drift）。这一发现为未来自动技能生成与持续学习研究提供了重要方向。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20087
作者: Shanshan Zhong,Yi Lu,Jingjie Ning,Yibing Wan,Lihan Feng,Yuyi Ao,Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro,Markus Dreyer,Sean Ammirati,Chenyan Xiong
机构: Carnegie Mellon University (卡内基梅隆大学); Amazon AGI (亚马逊AGI)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Skills have become the de facto way to enable LLM agents to perform complex real-world tasks with customized instructions, workflows, and tools, but how to learn them automatically and effectively remains unclear. We introduce SkillLearnBench, the first benchmark for evaluating continual skill learning methods, comprising 20 verified, skill-dependent tasks across 15 sub-domains derived from a real-world skill taxonomy , evaluated at three levels: skill quality, execution trajectory, and task outcome. Using this benchmark, we evaluate recent continual learning techniques, those leveraging one-shot, self/teacher feedback, and skill creator to generate skills from agent experiences. We find that all continual learning methods improve over the no-skill baseline, yet consistent gains remain elusive: no method leads across all tasks and LLMs, and scaling to stronger LLMs does not reliably help. Continual learning improves tasks with clear, reusable workflows but struggles on open-ended tasks, and using stronger LLM backbones does not consistently produce better skills. Our analysis also revealed that multiple iterations in continual learning facilitate genuine improvement via external feedback, whereas self-feedback alone induces recursive drift. Our data and code are open-source at this https URL to enable further studies of automatic skill generation and continual learning techniques.
[NLP-47] On the Quantization Robustness of Diffusion Language Models in Coding Benchmarks
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成式 AI（Generative AI）中大型语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在推理阶段高内存占用与计算成本的问题，特别是针对扩散模型（diffusion-based language models, d-LLMs）在后训练量化（Post-Training Quantization, PTQ）下的鲁棒性不足这一关键挑战。其解决方案的关键在于系统评估了两种PTQ方法——GPTQ与改进的Hessian-Aware Quantization（HAWQ）在扩散编码语言模型CoDA上的表现，并发现CoDA相较于自回归模型Qwen3-1.7B在低比特位宽（2–4 bit）下具有更强的量化鲁棒性，且通过HAWQ获得的混合精度配置可实现准确率、延迟和内存消耗之间的平滑权衡，从而表明扩散LLMs在高效部署方面具备潜在优势。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20079
作者: Aarav Gupta,Gururaj Deshpande,Chandreyi Chakraborty
机构: Georgia Institute of Technology (佐治亚理工学院)
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Auto-regressive Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong performance on coding tasks, but incur high memory and inference costs. Diffusion-based language models (d-LLMs) offer bounded inference cost via iterative denoising, but their behavior under post-training quantization (PTQ) has been sparsely explored. We investigate the application and robustness of PTQ techniques, specifically GPTQ and a modified Hessian-Aware Quantization (HAWQ) algorithm, on a diffusion-based coding LLM (CoDA) and observe that these methods applied to CoDA exhibit greater robustness at low bitwidths compared to Qwen3-1.7B, its auto-regressive counterpart, under a standardized evaluation pipeline. We find that in our setup, CoDA exhibits greater robustness at low bitwidths (2-4 bits), with smaller accuracy degradation across HumanEval and MBPP benchmarks. Additionally, mixed-precision configurations derived from HAWQ provide smooth trade-offs across accuracy, latency, and memory. The results suggest that diffusion LLMs may offer advantages for efficient deployment due to more quantization-resilience.
[NLP-48] Bootstrapping Post-training Signals for Open-ended Tasks via Rubric-based Self-play on Pre-training Text
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决自对弈（self-play）训练范式在大型语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）中仅适用于可验证任务（如数学和编程）的局限性，从而扩展其在更现实的开放性任务（open-ended tasks）中的应用。解决方案的关键在于提出POP框架，该框架利用同一LLM自动合成评估标准（rubric）与输入输出对，使模型能够基于自生成的评价体系进行自我评估与训练；同时，通过在内容丰富的预训练语料库上进行约束，确保生成-验证差距以减少奖励黑客（reward hacking），并防止模式崩溃（mode collapse）。此方法显著提升了Qwen-2.5-7B模型在医疗问答、创意写作及指令遵循等多样化任务上的性能。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20051
作者: Chengyu Huang,Sheng-Yen Chou,Zhengxin Zhang,Claire Cardie
机构: Cornell University (康奈尔大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Self-play has recently emerged as a promising paradigm to train Large Language Models (LLMs). In self-play, the target LLM creates the task input (e.g., ask a question), which it then addresses itself by producing a task output (e.g., give an answer). A reward model evaluates the output, and the rewards are then used to train the LLM, typically via Reinforcement Learning (RL). Self-play incurs minimal supervision costs, and this is especially helpful for post-training LLMs, which require high-quality input-output pairs that traditionally have to be written by humans or expensive proprietary models. However, existing work explores self-play only for verifiable tasks such as math and coding. Instead, we seek to extend it to more realistic open-ended tasks. In particular, we propose POP, a self-play framework that uses the same LLM to synthesize evaluation rubrics, along with input-output pairs, for each example. The rubric is then used to evaluate outputs and train the model. We further ground the framework on a content-rich pretraining corpus to (1) ensure a generation-verification gap and reduce reward hacking, and (2) prevent mode collapse. On Qwen-2.5-7B, POP increases performance of both pretrained and instruction-tuned models, across different tasks ranging from long-form Healthcare QA to creative writing and instruction following.
[NLP-49] Large language models perceive cities through a culturally uneven baseline
【速读】： 该论文试图解决的问题是：大型语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在描述和评估城市空间时是否具有文化中立性，还是受特定文化背景影响。研究发现，LLMs的感知并非文化中立，而是基于一个文化不均衡的参考框架——即其输出在结构化判断（如安全、美丽、财富等）和开放式描述中均表现出对欧美地区提示的系统性偏好，而对非西方文化的提示则存在偏差。解决方案的关键在于通过设计平衡的全球街景样本与不同文化背景的提示词（cultural prompting），揭示模型输出的文化不对称性，并验证文化贴近性提示虽可提升与人类描述的一致性，但无法完全恢复人类语义多样性或消除情感偏倚，从而表明LLMs的城市感知本质上依赖于一种隐含的文化基准，而非普适性认知。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20048
作者: Rong Zhao,Wanqi Liu,Zhizhou Sha,Nanxi Su,Yecheng Zhang
机构: University College London (伦敦大学学院); Tsinghua University (清华大学); The University of Texas at Austin (德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computers and Society (cs.CY)
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Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to describe, evaluate and interpret places, yet it remains unclear whether they do so from a culturally neutral standpoint. Here we test urban perception in frontier LLMs using a balanced global street-view sample and prompts that either remain neutral or invoke different regional cultural standpoints. Across open-ended descriptions and structured place judgments, the neutral condition proved not to be neutral in practice. Prompts associated with Europe and Northern America remained systematically closer to the baseline than many non-Western prompts, indicating that model perception is organized around a culturally uneven reference frame rather than a universal one. Cultural prompting also shifted affective evaluation, producing sentiment-based ingroup preference for some prompted identities. Comparisons with regional human text-image benchmarks showed that culturally proximate prompting could improve alignment with human descriptions, but it did not recover human levels of semantic diversity and often preserved an affectively elevated style. The same asymmetry reappeared in structured judgments of safety, beauty, wealth, liveliness, boredom and depression, where model outputs were interpretable but only partly reproduced human group differences. These findings suggest that LLMs do not simply perceive cities from nowhere: they do so through a culturally uneven baseline that shapes what appears ordinary, familiar and positively valued.
[NLP-50] riEx: A Game-based Tri-View Framework for Explaining Internal Reasoning in Multi-Agent LLM s ACL2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大型语言模型（Large Language Model, LLM）代理在交互式、部分可观测环境中的可解释性难题，此类场景下决策依赖于动态演变的信念状态及其他代理的行为。其核心挑战在于如何将代理的决策过程从模糊的自由叙述转化为可验证、跨视角一致的证据锚定对象。解决方案的关键在于提出TriEx框架，该框架通过三个视图对序列决策进行结构化建模：(i) 与动作绑定的第一人称自我推理（first-person self-reasoning），(ii) 随时间更新的第二人称对手信念状态（second-person belief states），以及(iii) 基于环境参考信号的第三人称审计（third-person oracle audits）。这一设计使解释具备可比性和可检验性，从而实现对解释忠实度、信念演化和评估者可靠性等维度的规模化分析，并揭示了LLM代理“所言”、“所信”与“所行”之间的系统性偏差。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20043
作者: Ziyi Wang,Chen Zhang,Wenjun Peng,Qi Wu,Xinyu Wang
机构: Adelaide University (阿德莱德大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Explainability for Large Language Model (LLM) agents is especially challenging in interactive, partially observable settings, where decisions depend on evolving beliefs and other agents. We present \textbfTriEx, a tri-view explainability framework that instruments sequential decision making with aligned artifacts: (i) structured first-person self-reasoning bound to an action, (ii) explicit second-person belief states about opponents updated over time, and (iii) third-person oracle audits grounded in environment-derived reference signals. This design turns explanations from free-form narratives into evidence-anchored objects that can be compared and checked across time and perspectives. Using imperfect-information strategic games as a controlled testbed, we show that TriEx enables scalable analysis of explanation faithfulness, belief dynamics, and evaluator reliability, revealing systematic mismatches between what agents say, what they believe, and what they do. Our results highlight explainability as an interaction-dependent property and motivate multi-view, evidence-grounded evaluation for LLM agents. Code is available at this https URL.
[NLP-51] Statistics Not Scale: Modular Medical Dialogue with Bayesian Belief Engine
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大型语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在作为自主诊断代理时存在的根本性架构缺陷：将自然语言交互能力与概率推理能力混为一谈，导致诊断过程缺乏可审计性、隐私保护不足且对 adversarial 输入敏感。解决方案的关键在于提出 BMBE（Bayesian Medical Belief Engine），其核心是通过模块化设计严格分离语言处理与统计推理功能——LLM 仅作为传感器解析患者语句并生成问题，而所有诊断推断由一个确定性的、可审计的贝叶斯引擎完成。这种架构实现了私有性内建、可替换的统计后端以及三项前沿 LLM 无法提供的特性：校准的可调节诊断精度-覆盖率权衡、低成本传感器+贝叶斯引擎超越昂贵 LLM 的统计分离优势，以及对抗性沟通风格下的鲁棒性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20022
作者: Yusuf Kesmen,Fay Elhassan,Jiayi Ma,Julien Stalhandske,David Sasu,Alexandra Kulinkina,Akhil Arora,Lars Klein,Mary-Anne Hartley
机构: LiGHT, EPFL; University of Bern; CLAN, Aarhus University
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Large language models are increasingly deployed as autonomous diagnostic agents, yet they conflate two fundamentally different capabilities: natural-language communication and probabilistic reasoning. We argue that this conflation is an architectural flaw, not an engineering shortcoming. We introduce BMBE (Bayesian Medical Belief Engine), a modular diagnostic dialogue framework that enforces a strict separation between language and reasoning: an LLM serves only as a sensor, parsing patient utterances into structured evidence and verbalising questions, while all diagnostic inference resides in a deterministic, auditable Bayesian engine. Because patient data never enters the LLM, the architecture is private by construction; because the statistical backend is a standalone module, it can be replaced per target population without retraining. This separation yields three properties no autonomous LLM can offer: calibrated selective diagnosis with a continuously adjustable accuracy-coverage tradeoff, a statistical separation gap where even a cheap sensor paired with the engine outperforms a frontier standalone model from the same family at a fraction of the cost, and robustness to adversarial patient communication styles that cause standalone doctors to collapse. We validate across empirical and LLM-generated knowledge bases against frontier LLMs, confirming the advantage is architectural, not informational.
[NLP-52] Continuous Semantic Caching for Low-Cost LLM Serving
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大规模语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在实际应用中因查询空间无限且连续导致的响应缓存效率低下问题。传统缓存框架假设查询空间为有限离散集合，难以适应真实场景中语义连续、无限扩展的LLM请求特性。其核心解决方案是构建首个针对连续查询空间的语义缓存理论框架，关键在于引入动态ε-网离散化（dynamic ε-net discretization）与核岭回归（Kernel Ridge Regression）相结合的方法，从而在连续语义空间中量化估计不确定性，并利用局部反馈信息推广缓存决策至邻近语义区域。该设计支持离线学习和在线自适应算法，在降低缓存切换成本的同时，理论上实现了次线性遗憾边界（sublinear regret bound），逼近连续最优缓存策略，显著优于现有离散模型方法。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20021
作者: Baran Atalar,Xutong Liu,Jinhang Zuo,Siwei Wang,Wei Chen,Carlee Joe-Wong
机构: 未知
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly popular, caching responses so that they can be reused by users with semantically similar queries has become a vital strategy for reducing inference costs and latency. Existing caching frameworks have proposed to decide which query responses to cache by assuming a finite, known universe of discrete queries and learning their serving costs and arrival probabilities. As LLMs’ pool of users and queries expands, however, such an assumption becomes increasingly untenable: real-world LLM queries reside in an infinite, continuous embedding space. In this paper, we establish the first rigorous theoretical framework for semantic LLM response caching in continuous query space under uncertainty. To bridge the gap between discrete optimization and continuous representation spaces, we introduce dynamic \epsilon -net discretization coupled with Kernel Ridge Regression. This design enables the system to formally quantify estimation uncertainty and generalize partial feedback on LLM query costs across continuous semantic query neighborhoods. We develop both offline learning and online adaptive algorithms optimized to reduce switching costs incurred by changing the cached responses. We prove that our online algorithm achieves a sublinear regret bound against an optimal continuous oracle, which reduces to existing bounds for discrete query models. Extensive empirical evaluations demonstrate that our framework approximates the continuous optimal cache well while also reducing computational and switching overhead compared to existing methods.
[NLP-53] EmbodiedMidtrain: Bridging the Gap between Vision-Language Models and Vision-Language-Action Models via Mid-training
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决视觉-语言-动作模型（Vision-Language-Action Models, VLAs）在实际应用中性能受限的问题，其根源在于大多数VLAs直接采用未经场景适配的视觉-语言模型（Vision-Language Models, VLMs），导致其在具身任务中的表现不佳。解决方案的关键在于提出一种名为EmbodiedMidtrain的中段训练框架：首先通过分析发现VLA数据分布与VLM数据分布存在显著差异，且对齐程度在不同数据源间和内部均存在较大波动；随后构建一个轻量级可学习的邻近度估计器（proximity estimator），从大规模VLM预训练数据池中筛选出最契合VLA任务的样本子集，并在此基础上对VLM进行中段微调（mid-training），从而为下游VLA微调提供更优的初始化。实验证明，该方法在多个机器人操作基准上均能稳定提升性能，效果媲美专家训练的VLAs及更大规模模型，且优势在早期微调阶段即显现并持续增强。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20012
作者: Yiyang Du,Zhanqiu Guo,Xin Ye,Liu Ren,Chenyan Xiong
机构: Carnegie Mellon University (卡内基梅隆大学); Bosch Research North America (博世研究北美); Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI) (博世人工智能中心)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Vision-Language-Action Models (VLAs) inherit their visual and linguistic capabilities from Vision-Language Models (VLMs), yet most VLAs are built from off-the-shelf VLMs that are not adapted to the embodied domain, limiting their downstream performance. In this work, we propose EmbodiedMidtrain to bridge the gap between VLMs and VLAs. We first characterize the data distribution gap between them, showing that VLA data occupy compact regions that are largely separated from the broader VLM distribution, while the degree of alignment varies substantially both across and within VLM data sources. Then, we build a mid-training data engine that leverages a lightweight learnable proximity estimator to select the most VLA-aligned candidates from a large VLM pool, and mid-trains the VLM on this curated mixture before downstream VLA fine-tuning. Experiments on three robot manipulation benchmarks show that mid-training consistently improves performance across different VLM backbones, achieving results competitive with expert VLAs and off-the-shelf VLMs trained with larger model scale and training budgets. Further analysis reveals that mid-training provides a stronger initialization for VLA fine-tuning, with gains emerging from the earliest steps and widening throughout training. Moreover, the data engine captures both dataset-level and sample-level alignment signals, favoring spatial reasoning over text-centric tasks while preserving the diversity of the VLM data. We will release all code, data and models for future research.
[NLP-54] From Recall to Forgetting: Benchmarking Long-Term Memory for Personalized Agents ACL2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决个性化智能体（personalized agents）在长期交互中维持和更新持久记忆的能力评估问题。现有基准主要聚焦于从历史对话中检索事实，难以衡量智能体在时间推移中整合记忆或处理频繁知识更新的能力。解决方案的关键在于提出一个跨周至月级别的长期记忆基准 Memora，涵盖记忆（remembering）、推理（reasoning）和推荐（recommending）三类任务，并引入遗忘感知的记忆准确率指标（Forgetting-Aware Memory Accuracy, FAMA），通过惩罚对过时或失效记忆的依赖，更真实地评估智能体在动态环境下的记忆管理能力。实验表明，当前大语言模型（LLMs）与记忆代理（memory agents）普遍存在重复使用无效记忆、无法协调演变记忆的问题，揭示了个性化智能体在长期记忆建模上的显著不足。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20006
作者: Md Nayem Uddin,Kumar Shubham,Eduardo Blanco,Chitta Baral,Gengyu Wang
机构: Arizona State University (亚利桑那州立大学); Genies (Genies); University of Arizona (亚利桑那大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: Accepted to ACL 2026 Findings
Abstract:Personalized agents that interact with users over long periods must maintain persistent memory across sessions and update it as circumstances change. However, existing benchmarks predominantly frame long-term memory evaluation as fact retrieval from past conversations, providing limited insight into agents’ ability to consolidate memory over time or handle frequent knowledge updates. We introduce Memora, a long-term memory benchmark spanning weeks to months long user conversations. The benchmark evaluates three memory-grounded tasks: remembering, reasoning, and recommending. To ensure data quality, we employ automated memory-grounding checks and human evaluation. We further introduce Forgetting-Aware Memory Accuracy (FAMA), a metric that penalizes reliance on obsolete or invalidated memory when evaluating long-term memory. Evaluations of four LLMs and six memory agents reveal frequent reuse of invalid memories and failures to reconcile evolving memories. Memory agents offer marginal improvements, exposing shortcomings in long-term memory for personalized agents.
[NLP-55] Bias in the Tails: How Name-conditioned Evaluative Framing in Resume Summaries Destabilizes LLM -based Hiring
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在生成简历摘要时可能引入的基于姓名的偏见问题，尤其是这种偏见如何通过评价性表述（evaluative framing）影响下游招聘决策。其解决方案的关键在于：通过大规模受控实验，将生成的摘要分解为基于简历事实的内容（resume-grounded factual content）与评价性框架（evaluative framing），发现事实内容相对稳定，而评价性语言在极端分布中呈现细微但系统性的姓名相关变化，尤其在开源模型中更为显著；进一步的招聘模拟表明，这种评价性偏差可将定向伤害转化为对称性不稳定性，从而规避传统公平性审计，揭示了LLM-to-LLM自动化偏见（automation bias）的一种潜在路径。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19984
作者: Huy Nghiem,Phuong-Anh Nguyen-Le,Sy-Tuyen Ho,Hal Daume III
机构: University of Maryland (马里兰大学)
类目: Computers and Society (cs.CY); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Research has documented LLMs’ name-based bias in hiring and salary recommendations. In this paper, we instead consider a setting where LLMs generate candidate summaries for downstream assessment. In a large-scale controlled study, we analyze nearly one million resume summaries produced by 4 models under systematic race-gender name perturbations, using synthetic resumes and real-world job postings. By decomposing each summary into resume-grounded factual content and evaluative framing, we find that factual content remains largely stable, while evaluative language exhibits subtle name-conditioned variation concentrated in the extremes of the distribution, especially in open-source models. Our hiring simulation demonstrates how evaluative summary transforms directional harm into symmetric instability that might evade conventional fairness audit, highlighting a potential pathway for LLM-to-LLM automation bias.
[NLP-56] Are LLM Uncertainty and Correctness Encoded by the Same Features? A Functional Dissociation via Sparse Autoencoders
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在输出层面的不确定性与实际正确性之间是否存在共同内部机制的问题，即二者是否由相同特征群体驱动。其核心挑战在于区分“模型自信但错误”和“模型不确定但正确”的内在表征差异。解决方案的关键在于提出一个2×2框架，将模型预测按正确性与置信度进行划分，并结合稀疏自编码器（sparse autoencoders）独立识别与每个维度相关联的特征群体。研究发现三类功能迥异的特征：纯不确定性特征对准确性至关重要；纯错误性特征基本无功能影响；而同时编码两种信号的混杂特征则损害输出质量，抑制此类特征可带来1.1%准确率提升及75%熵减，且效果跨ARC-Challenge和RACE基准迁移。这表明不确定性与正确性是两个独立的内部现象，为模型可解释性和推理时干预提供了新路径。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19974
作者: Het Patel,Tiejin Chen,Hua Wei,Evangelos E. Papalexakis,Jia Chen
机构: University of California, Riverside (加州大学河滨分校); Arizona State University (亚利桑那州立大学)
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Large language models can be uncertain yet correct, or confident yet wrong, raising the question of whether their output-level uncertainty and their actual correctness are driven by the same internal mechanisms or by distinct feature populations. We introduce a 2x2 framework that partitions model predictions along correctness and confidence axes, and uses sparse autoencoders to identify features associated with each dimension independently. Applying this to Llama-3.1-8B and Gemma-2-9B, we identify three feature populations that play fundamentally different functional roles. Pure uncertainty features are functionally essential: suppressing them severely degrades accuracy. Pure incorrectness features are functionally inert: despite showing statistically significant activation differences between correct and incorrect predictions, the majority produce near-zero change in accuracy when suppressed. Confounded features that encode both signals are detrimental to output quality, and targeted suppression of them yields a 1.1% accuracy improvement and a 75% entropy reduction, with effects transferring across the ARC-Challenge and RACE benchmarks. The feature categories are also informationally distinct: the activations of just 3 confounded features from a single mid-network layer predict model correctness (AUROC ~0.79), enabling selective abstention that raises accuracy from 62% to 81% at 53% coverage. The results demonstrate that uncertainty and correctness are distinct internal phenomena, with implications for interpretability and targeted inference-time intervention.
[NLP-57] Structured Disagreement in Health-Literacy Annotation: Epistemic Stability Conceptual Difficulty and Agreement-Stratified Inference
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决传统自然语言处理（Natural Language Processing, NLP）标注流程中假设每个样本存在单一潜在真实标签（latent ground truth）并依赖标签聚合来处理标注者间分歧的问题。其核心挑战在于，这种做法可能忽视了标注差异本身所蕴含的信息价值，尤其是在需要评估健康素养等具有主观性和多维性的任务中。论文的解决方案关键在于采用一种强 perspectivist（视角主义）建模方法，通过分析来自厄瓜多尔和秘鲁的6,323条开放问答本的分级健康素养标注数据（即每位回答由多名标注者独立赋予比例正确的评分），揭示出标注分歧并非随机噪声，而是由任务本身的结构性难度主导，且不同社会科学效应（如国家、教育水平、城乡差异）在不同一致性水平下表现出方向变化甚至反转。这表明分级解释任务包含稳定与不稳定两部分认知结构，仅进行简单聚合会掩盖重要推断差异，因此必须引入基于视角主义的统计建模以实现有效推理。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19943
作者: Olga Kellert,Sriya Kondury,Candice Koo,Nemika Tyagi,Steffen Eikenberry
机构: 未知
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Annotation pipelines in Natural Language Processing (NLP) commonly assume a single latent ground truth per instance and resolve disagreement through label aggregation. Perspectivist approaches challenge this view by treating disagreement as potentially informative rather than erroneous. We present a large-scale analysis of graded health-literacy annotations from 6,323 open-ended COVID-19 responses collected in Ecuador and Peru. Each response was independently labeled by multiple annotators using proportional correctness scores, reflecting the degree to which responses align with normative public-health guidelines, allowing us to analyze the full distribution of judgments rather than aggregated labels. Variance decomposition shows that question-level conceptual difficulty accounts for substantially more variance than annotator identity, indicating that disagreement is structured by the task itself rather than driven by individual raters. Agreement-stratified analyses further reveal that key social-scientific effects, including country, education, and urban-rural differences, vary in magnitude and in some cases reverse direction across levels of inter-annotator agreement. These findings suggest that graded health-literacy evaluation contains both epistemically stable and unstable components, and that aggregating across them can obscure important inferential differences. We therefore argue that strong perspectivist modeling is not only conceptually justified but statistically necessary for valid inference in graded interpretive tasks.
[NLP-58] racing Relational Knowledge Recall in Large Language Models ACL2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型在文本生成过程中如何回忆关系知识的问题，特别是识别适用于通过线性探测器（linear probes）进行关系分类的潜在表示（latent representations）。此前研究已揭示注意力头（attention heads）与多层感知机（MLPs）协同作用以解析主语、谓语和宾语，但尚不明确哪些表示支持高保真度的线性关系分类，以及为何某些关系类型比其他类型更容易被线性捕捉。解决方案的关键在于系统评估由注意力头和MLP贡献所衍生的不同潜在表示，发现每个注意力头对残差流（residual stream）的贡献是线性关系分类中表现最强的特征；进一步通过特征归因分析和关系类型的特性揭示了探测器准确率与关系特异性、实体连通性及探测器依赖信号在注意力头间的分布程度之间存在显著相关性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19934
作者: Nicholas Popovič,Michael Färber
机构: TU Dresden; ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, Germany
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: ACL 2026 (findings)
Abstract:We study how large language models recall relational knowledge during text generation, with a focus on identifying latent representations suitable for relation classification via linear probes. Prior work shows how attention heads and MLPs interact to resolve subject, predicate, and object, but it remains unclear which representations support faithful linear relation classification and why some relation types are easier to capture linearly than others. We systematically evaluate different latent representations derived from attention head and MLP contributions, showing that per-head attention contributions to the residual stream are comparatively strong features for linear relation classification. Feature attribution analyses of the trained probes, as well as characteristics of the different relation types, reveal clear correlations between probe accuracy and relation specificity, entity connectedness, and how distributed the signal on which the probe relies is across attention heads. Finally, we show how token-level feature attribution of probe predictions can be used to reveal probe behavior in further detail.
[NLP-59] Commonsense Knowledge with Negation: A Resource to Enhance Negation Understanding ACL2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大型语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在处理包含否定（negation）的常识知识理解任务时表现不佳的问题。其核心挑战在于，尽管常识知识已被广泛研究，但现有数据集普遍缺乏对否定语义的建模与训练支持。解决方案的关键在于提出一种新颖的自动增强方法，用于在现有常识知识语料库中引入否定结构，从而构建出两个包含超过200万条if-then关系三元组的新语料库。通过在这些新增语料上对LLMs进行预训练，显著提升了模型对否定语义的理解能力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19921
作者: Zijie Wang,MohammadHossein Rezaei,Farzana Rashid,Eduardo Blanco
机构: University of Arizona (亚利桑那大学); University of North Carolina Asheville (北卡罗来纳大学阿什维尔分校)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Negation is a common and important semantic feature in natural language, yet Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle when negation is involved in natural language understanding tasks. Commonsense knowledge, on the other hand, despite being a well-studied topic, lacks investigations involving negation. In this work, we show that commonsense knowledge with negation is challenging for models to understand. We present a novel approach to automatically augment existing commonsense knowledge corpora with negation, yielding two new corpora containing over 2M triples with if-then relations. In addition, pre-training LLMs on our corpora benefits negation understanding.
[NLP-60] Depression Risk Assessment in Social Media via Large Language Models
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决抑郁症在全球范围内普遍存在但常被低估和未得到充分治疗的问题，通过利用社交媒体平台（如Reddit）中自然语言数据实现对心理健康的自动化监测。其解决方案的关键在于基于大型语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）构建一个多标签分类系统，用于识别与抑郁相关的八种情绪，并计算加权严重程度指数以评估个体的抑郁风险。该方法在零样本（zero-shot）设置下于DepressionEmo数据集上验证，同时在真实场景中应用于超过46万条评论，展现出良好的性能（最佳模型gemma3:27b的micro-F1达0.75）及跨社区稳定的风险特征，证明了一种低成本、可扩展的大规模心理状态监测路径的可行性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19887
作者: Giorgia Gulino,Manuel Petrucci
机构: Guglielmo Marconi University (古列尔莫·马可尼大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Depression is one of the most prevalent and debilitating mental health conditions worldwide, frequently underdiagnosed and undertreated. The proliferation of social media platforms provides a rich source of naturalistic linguistic signals for the automated monitoring of psychological well-being. In this work, we propose a system based on Large Language Models (LLMs) for depression risk assessment in Reddit posts, through multi-label classification of eight depression-associated emotions and the computation of a weighted severity index. The method is evaluated in a zero-shot setting on the annotated DepressionEmo dataset (~6,000 posts) and applied in-the-wild to 469,692 comments collected from four subreddits over the period 2024-2025. Our best model, gemma3:27b, achieves micro-F1 = 0.75 and macro-F1 = 0.70, results competitive with purpose-built fine-tuned models (BART: micro-F1 = 0.80, macro-F1 = 0.76). The in-the-wild analysis reveals consistent and temporally stable risk profiles across communities, with marked differences between r/depression and r/anxiety. Our findings demonstrate the feasibility of a cost-effective, scalable approach for large-scale psychological monitoring.
[NLP-61] From Signal Degradation to Computation Collapse: Uncovering the Two Failure Modes of LLM Quantization ACL2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决后训练量化（Post-Training Quantization, PTQ）中低比特（如2-bit）量化导致大型语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）性能急剧下降的问题，特别是厘清4-bit与2-bit量化在失效机制上的本质差异。其解决方案的关键在于提出一种机制驱动的诊断框架，识别出两种截然不同的失败模式：信号退化（Signal Degradation），即计算模式保持但精度因累积误差受损；以及计算崩溃（Computation Collapse），即关键组件失效导致早期层信号破坏。研究发现，针对信号退化可通过无需训练的靶向修复缓解，而计算崩溃则需结构重构而非简单补偿，从而为PTQ失效提供系统性诊断路径并指导后续优化方向。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19884
作者: Chenxi Zhou,Pengfei Cao,Jiang Li,Bohan Yu,Jinyu Ye,Jun Zhao,Kang Liu
机构: School of Advanced Interdisciplinary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院大学高级交叉学科学院); The Key Laboratory of Cognition and Decision Intelligence for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院自动化研究所认知与复杂系统决策智能重点实验室); School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院大学人工智能学院); College of Computer Science, Inner Mongolia University (内蒙古大学计算机学院)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) is critical for the efficient deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs). While 4-bit quantization is widely regarded as an optimal trade-off, reducing the precision to 2-bit usually triggers a catastrophic ``performance cliff.‘’ It remains unclear whether the underlying mechanisms differ fundamentally. Consequently, we conduct a systematic mechanistic analysis, revealing two qualitatively distinct failure modes: Signal Degradation, where the computational patterns remain intact but information precision is impaired by cumulative error; and Computation Collapse, where key components fail to function, preventing correct information processing and destroying the signal in the early layers. Guided by this diagnosis, we conduct mechanism-aware interventions, demonstrating that targeted, training-free repair can mitigate Signal Degradation, but remains ineffective for Computation Collapse. Our findings provide a systematic diagnostic framework for PTQ failures and suggest that addressing Computation Collapse requires structural reconstruction rather than mere compensation.
[NLP-62] Rethinking Reinforcement Fine-Tuning in LVLM: Convergence Reward Decomposition and Generalization
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成式 AI（Generative AI）在视觉-语言模型（Large Vision-Language Models, LVLMs）中通过可验证奖励强化微调（Reinforcement Fine-Tuning with Verifiable Rewards, RLVR）实现代理能力（如工具调用与多步推理）时的两个关键理论空白：一是复合型可验证奖励（格式合规性、答案准确性、工具可执行性）如何影响分组相对策略优化（Group Relative Policy Optimization, GRPO）的收敛性；二是为何在少量工具增强任务上训练的模型能够实现跨分布（out-of-distribution）迁移。解决方案的关键在于提出工具增强马尔可夫决策过程（Tool-Augmented Markov Decision Process, TA-MDP）这一形式化框架，用于建模具有有限深度工具调用的多模态代理决策，并基于此框架建立了三个核心理论结果：(1) 证明GRPO在复合奖励下以O(1/T)速率收敛至一阶平稳点，且收敛速度显式依赖于奖励组件数和群体规模；(2) 提出奖励分解定理，量化分解优化与联合优化之间的次优间隙，明确奖励分解有益的条件；(3) 建立工具增强策略的PAC-Bayes泛化界，解释Visual-ARFT中观察到的强跨域迁移性能。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19857
作者: Carter Adams,Rafael Oliveira,Gabriel Almeida,Sofia Torres
机构: Federal University of Bahia (巴西联邦大学)
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Reinforcement fine-tuning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for equipping large vision-language models (LVLMs) with agentic capabilities such as tool use and multi-step reasoning. Despite striking empirical successes, most notably Visual Agentic Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (Visual-ARFT), the theoretical underpinnings of this paradigm remain poorly understood. In particular, two critical questions lack rigorous answers: (i)~how does the composite structure of verifiable rewards (format compliance, answer accuracy, tool executability) affect the convergence of Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), and (ii)~why does training on a small set of tool-augmented tasks transfer to out-of-distribution domains? We address these gaps by introducing the \emphTool-Augmented Markov Decision Process (TA-MDP), a formal framework that models multimodal agentic decision-making with bounded-depth tool calls. Within this framework, we establish three main results. First, we prove that GRPO under composite verifiable rewards converges to a first-order stationary point at rate O(1/\sqrtT) with explicit dependence on the number of reward components and group size (\textbfTheorem~1). Second, we derive a \emphReward Decomposition Theorem that bounds the sub-optimality gap between decomposed per-component optimization and joint optimization, providing a precise characterization of when reward decomposition is beneficial (\textbfTheorem~2). Third, we establish a PAC-Bayes generalization bound for tool-augmented policies that explains the strong out-of-distribution transfer observed in Visual-ARFT (\textbfTheorem~3).
[NLP-63] LLM Agents Predict Social Media Reactions but Do Not Outperform Text Classifiers: Benchmarking Simulation Accuracy Using 120K Personas of 1511 Humans
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成式 AI (Generative AI) 在社交媒体中行为拟真度的评估问题，具体聚焦于大语言模型（LLM）驱动的代理是否能够准确预测特定个体对特定内容的社会媒体反应（如点赞、不喜欢、评论、分享或无反应）。其解决方案的关键在于构建一个包含120,000+个代理-人格组合的大规模基准测试框架，通过零样本提示（zero-shot persona-prompted）方式评估不同LLM代理的预测性能，并引入机会校正指标（如Matthews Correlation Coefficient, MCC）以区分真实预测信号与随机噪声。结果显示，尽管代理整体准确率达70.7%，且具备显著超越随机水平的预测能力（MCC=0.29），但传统基于TF-IDF的监督分类器表现更优（MCC=0.36），表明当前LLM代理的优势主要源于语义理解能力而非独特的行为推理机制，这一发现对平台治理和AI政策制定具有重要警示意义。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19787
作者: Ljubisa Bojic,Alexander Felfernig,Bojana Dinic,Velibor Ilic,Achim Rettinger,Vera Mevorah,Damian Trilling
机构: 未知
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computers and Society (cs.CY)
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Abstract:Social media platforms mediate how billions form opinions and engage with public discourse. As autonomous AI agents increasingly participate in these spaces, understanding their behavioral fidelity becomes critical for platform governance and democratic resilience. Previous work demonstrates that LLM-powered agents can replicate aggregate survey responses, yet few studies test whether agents can predict specific individuals’ reactions to specific content. This study benchmarks LLM-based agents’ accuracy in predicting human social media reactions (like, dislike, comment, share, no reaction) across 120,000+ unique agent-persona combinations derived from 1,511 Serbian participants and 27 large language models. In Study 1, agents achieved 70.7% overall accuracy, with LLM choice producing a 13 percentage-point performance spread. Study 2 employed binary forced-choice (like/dislike) evaluation with chance-corrected metrics. Agents achieved Matthews Correlation Coefficient (MCC) of 0.29, indicating genuine predictive signal beyond chance. However, conventional text-based supervised classifiers using TF-IDF representations outperformed LLM agents (MCC of 0.36), suggesting predictive gains reflect semantic access rather than uniquely agentic reasoning. The genuine predictive validity of zero-shot persona-prompted agents warns against potential manipulation through easily deploying swarms of behaviorally distinct AI agents on social media, while simultaneously offering opportunities to use such agents in simulations for predicting polarization dynamics and informing AI policy. The advantage of using zero-shot agents is that they require no task-specific training, making their large-scale deployment easy across diverse contexts. Limitations include single-country sampling. Future research should explore multilingual testing and fine-tuning approaches.
[NLP-64] HumorRank: A Tournament-Based Leaderboard for Evaluating Humor Generation in Large Language Models
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在文本幽默生成能力评估中缺乏统一、可比指标的问题，现有方法仅提供孤立的评分，难以实现跨模型的系统性排名与进展追踪。其解决方案的关键在于提出HumorRank框架——一个基于锦标赛机制的自动化评估体系，利用SemEval-2026 MWAHAHA测试数据集对九种不同类型的模型（包括专有模型、开源权重模型及专用模型）进行成对比较；评判依据源自言语幽默通用理论（General Theory of Verbal Humor, GTVH），并通过自适应瑞士轮赛制聚合判断结果，结合Bradley-Terry最大似然估计（Maximum Likelihood Estimation, MLE）获得全局一致的幽默生成能力排序，从而实现可扩展且可解释的幽默生成性能基准测试。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19786
作者: Edward Ajayi,Prasenjit Mitra
机构: Carnegie Mellon University Africa (卡内基梅隆大学非洲校区)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Evaluating humor in large language models (LLMs) is an open challenge because existing approaches yield isolated, incomparable metrics rather than unified model rankings, making it difficult to track progress across systems. We introduce HumorRank, a tournament-based evaluation framework and leaderboard for textual humor generation. Using SemEval-2026 MWAHAHA test dataset, we conduct an extensive automated pairwise evaluation across nine models spanning proprietary, open-weight, and specialized systems. Pairwise judgments grounded in the General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH) are aggregated via an Adaptive Swiss tournament, with Bradley-Terry Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) producing globally consistent humor generation capability rankings. Our results demonstrate that HumorRank yields statistically grounded model stratifications, showing that humor quality is driven by mastery of comedic mechanisms rather than model scale alone. HumorRank thus provides a scalable, interpretable methodology for benchmarking and understanding LLM-generated humor.
[NLP-65] Can LLM s Infer Conversational Agent Users Personality Traits from Chat History?
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决用户与大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）驱动的对话代理（Conversational Agents, CAs）交互过程中可能泄露个体人格特质（Personality Traits）所带来的隐私风险问题。其解决方案的关键在于：通过收集668名参与者共62,090条ChatGPT交互日志，量化不同类型的共享数据和使用场景，并基于RoBERTa-base文本分类模型对人格特质进行细粒度推断，实证表明在特定交互类型（如关系类和个人反思类对话）中，模型对人格特征的推断准确率显著优于随机基线（例如外向性 trait 推断准确率提升44%），从而揭示了CA交互中的隐私脆弱性并提供了风险分级依据。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19785
作者: Derya Cögendez,Verena Zimmermann,Noé Zufferey
机构: 未知
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Computers and Society (cs.CY)
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Abstract:Sensitive information, such as knowledge about an individual’s personality, can be can be misused to influence behavior (e.g., via personalized messaging). To assess to what extent an individual’s personality can be inferred from user interactions with LLM-based conversational agents (CAs), we analyze and quantify related privacy risks of using CAs. We collected actual ChatGPT logs from N=668 participants, containing 62,090 individual chats, and report statistics about the different types of shared data and use cases. We fine-tuned RoBERTa-base text classification models to infer personality traits from CA interactions. The findings show that these models achieve trait inference with accuracy (ternary classification) better than random in multiple cases. For example, for extraversion, accuracy improves by +44% relative to the baseline on interactions for relationships and personal reflection. This research highlights how interactions with CAs pose privacy risks and provides fine-grained insights into the level of risk associated with different types of interactions.
[NLP-66] How Much Does Persuasion Strategy Matter? LLM -Annotated Evidence from Charitable Donation Dialogues
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决“哪些说服策略与捐赠行为合规性相关”这一问题，其核心挑战在于需要对大规模对话数据进行细粒度的策略标注，并通过校正多重比较的统计检验来识别显著关联。解决方案的关键在于：首先，对包含1,017条对话、共10,600个说服者发言的PersuasionForGood语料库进行了系统标注，使用3个开源大语言模型（LLMs）构建了涵盖41种策略、11类别的分类体系；其次，通过多模型一致性验证发现，仅策略类别本身解释力较弱（伪R² ≈ 0.015），而特定策略如“内疚诱导”（Guilt Induction）显著降低捐赠率（Δ ≈ -23个百分点），且“互惠”（Reciprocity）是唯一稳健的正向预测因子，表明单纯识别策略不足以解释说服效果，需结合情感与意图等变量综合分析。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19783
作者: Tatiana Petrova,Stanislav Sokol,Radu State
机构: 未知
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: 8 pages, 2 figures, 5 tables. Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg
Abstract:Which persuasion strategies, if any, are associated with donation compliance? Answering this requires fine-grained strategy labels across a full corpus and statistical tests corrected for multiple comparisons. We annotate all 10,600 persuader turns in the 1,017-dialogue PersuasionForGood corpus (Wang et al., 2019), where donation outcomes are directly observable, with a taxonomy of 41 strategies in 11 categories, using three open-source large language models (LLMs; Qwen3:30b, Mistral-Small-3.2, Phi-4). Strategy categories alone explain little variance in donation outcome (pseudo R^2 \approx 0.015 , consistent across all three annotators). Guilt Induction is the only strategy significantly associated with lower donation rates ( \Delta \approx -23 percentage points), an effect that replicates across all three models despite only moderate inter-model agreement. Reciprocity is the most robust positive correlate. Target sentiment and interest predict whether a donation occurs but show at most a weak correlation with donation amount. These findings suggest that strategy identification alone is insufficient to explain persuasion effectiveness, and that guilt-based appeals may be counterproductive in prosocial settings. We release the fully annotated corpus as a public resource.
[NLP-67] KoALa-Bench: Evaluating Large Audio Language Models on Korean Speech Understanding and Faithfulness
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决当前大型音频语言模型（Large Audio Language Models, LALMs）在非英语语言尤其是韩语（Korean）场景下缺乏系统性评估基准的问题。现有评测体系对韩语语音理解能力的覆盖不足，且忽视了模型对语音模态信息的忠实度（speech faithfulness）——即模型是否充分利用了原始语音输入。解决方案的关键在于提出并构建了一个名为KoALa-Bench的综合性基准，包含六项任务：四项用于评估基础语音理解能力（自动语音识别、语音翻译、语音问答与语音指令遵循），两项聚焦于语音忠实度；同时引入韩国高考听力题和本土文化内容以增强语言特异性与知识相关性。该基准已在六种不同类型的模型上进行了广泛实验验证，为韩语语音理解研究提供了可复现、标准化的评估框架。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19782
作者: Jinyoung Kim,Hyeongsoo Lim,Eunseo Seo,Minho Jang,Keunwoo Choi,Seungyoun Shin,Ji Won Yoon
机构: Chung-Ang University (中央大学); Upstage AI
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Sound (cs.SD); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
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Abstract:Recent advances in large audio language models (LALMs) have enabled multilingual speech understanding. However, benchmarks for evaluating LALMs remain scarce for non-English languages, with Korean being one such underexplored case. In this paper, we introduce KoALa-Bench, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating Korean speech understanding and speech faithfulness of LALMs. In particular, KoALa-Bench comprises six tasks. Four tasks evaluate fundamental speech understanding capabilities, including automatic speech recognition, speech translation, speech question answering, and speech instruction following, while the remaining two tasks evaluate speech faithfulness, motivated by our observation that several LALMs often fail to fully leverage the speech modality. Furthermore, to reflect Korea-specific knowledge, our benchmark incorporates listening questions from the Korean college scholastic ability test as well as content covering Korean cultural domains. We conduct extensive experiments across six models, including both white-box and black-box ones. Our benchmark, evaluation code, and leaderboard are publicly available at this https URL.
[NLP-68] Do Small Language Models Know When Theyre Wrong? Confidence-Based Cascade Scoring for Educational Assessment
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大规模学生作业自动评分中准确率、成本与延迟之间的权衡问题。其解决方案的关键在于利用“口头化置信度”（verbalized confidence）作为路由信号，即让小语言模型（small language models, LMs）在给出预测的同时标注数值置信度，从而决定是否将任务升级至更大规模的模型处理。实验表明，具备良好置信度区分能力的小LM可使级联系统在仅76%成本和61%延迟下逼近大模型的准确性（kappa 0.802 vs. 0.819），而缺乏有效置信度区分能力的模型则无法通过调整阈值弥补准确率差距，说明置信度判别力是级联架构性能提升的核心瓶颈。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19781
作者: Tyler Burleigh
机构: 未知
类目: Computers and Society (cs.CY); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: 12 pages, 7 figures. Accepted at NCME 2026
Abstract:Automated scoring of student work at scale requires balancing accuracy against cost and latency. In “cascade” systems, small language models (LMs) handle easier scoring tasks while escalating harder ones to larger LMs – but the challenge is determining which cases to escalate. We explore verbalized confidence – asking the LM to state a numerical confidence alongside its prediction – as a routing signal. Using 2,100 expert-scored decisions from student-AI math conversations, we evaluate cascade systems built from GPT-5.4, Claude 4.5+, and Gemini 3.1 model pairs. We find that: (1) confidence discrimination varies widely across small LMs, with the best achieving AUROC 0.857 and the worst producing a near-degenerate confidence distribution; (2) confidence tracks human scoring difficulty, with lower LM confidence where annotators disagreed and took longer to score; (3) the best cascade approached large-LM accuracy (kappa 0.802 vs. 0.819) at 76% lower cost and 61% lower latency. Confidence discrimination is the bottleneck: the two small LMs with meaningful confidence variance yielded cascades with no statistically detectable kappa loss, while the third – whose confidence was near-degenerate – could not close the accuracy gap regardless of threshold. Small LMs with strong discrimination let practitioners trade cost for accuracy along the frontier; those without it do not.
[NLP-69] Avoiding Overthinking and Underthinking: Curriculum-Aware Budget Scheduling for LLM s
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在推理过程中因固定或均匀分配计算资源（token budget）而导致的效率不匹配问题，即简单任务过度思考、复杂任务思考不足，从而影响整体推理质量和token使用效率。其解决方案的核心在于提出一种统一框架——预算自适应课程推理（Budget-Adaptive Curriculum Reasoning, BACR），包含三个协同组件：(1) 基于预算条件的统一策略，将token预算作为连续条件信号嵌入策略网络，避免分离的思考与摘要机制；(2) 课程感知的预算调度器，根据实时学习进度动态调整训练预算分布，从易到难逐步迁移；(3) 截断感知的密集奖励机制，通过过程级验证实现中间推理步骤的细粒度奖励分配。此外，引入预算条件优势估计（Budget-Conditioned Advantage Estimation, BCAE）以降低策略梯度方差，提升训练稳定性。实验表明，该方法在多个数学推理基准上均显著优于现有基线，在紧约束下最高提升8.3%准确率，同时平均token消耗减少34%。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19780
作者: Amirul Rahman,Aisha Karim,Kenji Nakamura,Yi-Fan Ng
机构: University of Malaya (马来亚大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Scaling test-time compute via extended reasoning has become a key paradigm for improving the capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, existing approaches optimize reasoning under fixed or uniformly sampled token budgets, ignoring the fundamental mismatch between problem difficulty and allocated compute. This leads to overthinking on easy problems and underthinking on hard ones, resulting in suboptimal token efficiency across diverse reasoning scenarios. In this paper, we propose Budget-Adaptive Curriculum Reasoning (BCAE), a unified framework that jointly optimizes reasoning quality and token efficiency through three synergistic components: (1) a \emphbudget-conditioned unified policy that embeds the token budget as a continuous conditioning signal, eliminating the need for decoupled thinking and summarization strategies; (2) a \emphcurriculum-aware budget scheduler that adaptively shifts the training budget distribution from easy to hard problems based on real-time learning progress; and (3) a \emphtruncation-aware dense reward mechanism that provides fine-grained credit assignment at intermediate reasoning steps via process-level verification. We further introduce \emphBudget-Conditioned Advantage Estimation (BCAE), a novel variance reduction technique that conditions the advantage baseline on the sampled budget, yielding more stable policy gradients. Experiments on mathematical reasoning benchmarks (MATH, GSM8K, AIME, and Minerva Math) demonstrate that BACR consistently outperforms other strong baselines across all token budgets, achieving up to 8.3% accuracy improvement under tight budgets while reducing average token consumption by 34% compared to unconstrained reasoning.
[NLP-70] ESGLens: An LLM -Based RAG Framework for Interactive ESG Report Analysis and Score Prediction
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决环境、社会与治理（ESG）报告在投资决策中因篇幅冗长、内容异构且缺乏标准化结构而导致的人工分析成本高、一致性差的问题。其解决方案的关键在于提出一个名为ESGLens的端到端框架，该框架融合检索增强生成（RAG）与提示工程驱动的信息提取技术，实现三项核心功能：基于全球报告倡议（GRI）标准的结构化信息抽取、带溯源能力的交互式问答以及基于大语言模型（LLM）嵌入的ESG评分预测。其中，报告处理模块将PDF内容分割为文本、表格和图表等类型化的片段，GRI引导的抽取模块通过检索与合成确保内容符合特定披露标准，而评分模块则利用嵌入向量与回归模型（ChatGPT嵌入 + 神经网络）对环境维度得分进行预测，实现在约300份样本上达到Pearson相关系数0.48（R²≈0.23）的统计显著效果。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19779
作者: Tsung-Yu Yang,Meng-Chi Chen
机构: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (麻省理工学院)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reports are central to investment decision-making, yet their length, heterogeneous content, and lack of standardized structure make manual analysis costly and inconsistent. We present ESGLens, a proof-of-concept framework combining retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with prompt-engineered extraction to automate three tasks: (1)~structured information extraction guided by Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards, (2)~interactive question-answering with source traceability, and (3)~ESG score prediction via regression on LLM-generated embeddings. ESGLens is purpose-built for the domain: a report-processing module segments heterogeneous PDF content into typed chunks (text, tables, charts); a GRI-guided extraction module retrieves and synthesizes information aligned with specific standards; and a scoring module embeds extracted summaries and feeds them to a regression model trained against London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) reference scores. We evaluate the framework on approximately 300 reports from companies in the QQQ, S\P~500, and Russell~1000 indices (fiscal year 2022). Among three embedding methods (ChatGPT, BERT, RoBERTa) and two regressors (Neural Network, LightGBM), ChatGPT embeddings with a Neural Network achieve a Pearson correlation of 0.48 ( R^2 \approx 0.23 ) against LSEG ground-truth scores – a modest but statistically meaningful signal given the \sim300 -report training set and restriction to the environmental pillar. A traceability audit shows that 8 of 10 extracted claims verify against the source document, with two failures attributable to few-shot example leakage. We discuss limitations including dataset size and restriction to environmental indicators, and release the code to support reproducibility.
[NLP-71] owards High-Quality Machine Translation for Kokborok: A Low-Resource Tibeto-Burman Language of Northeast India
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决Kokborok语（一种主要在印度特里普拉邦使用的藏缅语族语言）在自然语言处理（NLP）领域严重资源匮乏的问题，尤其是此前缺乏高质量的机器翻译（Machine Translation, MT）系统。此前的研究仅基于小规模圣经语料库训练模型，BLEU得分低于7，翻译质量远未达到可用水平。解决方案的关键在于：1）构建一个包含36,052句对的多源平行语料库，涵盖专业翻译数据（SMOL数据集）、圣经领域数据（WMT共享任务数据）以及通过Gemini Flash模型生成的合成回译数据；2）在NLLB-200-distilled-600M模型基础上进行微调，并引入新的语言标记（language token）以支持Kokborok语言；3）最终实现BLEU分数分别达17.30和38.56的显著提升，并通过人工评估验证了翻译的准确性和流畅性（平均适切性3.74/5，流畅性3.70/5）。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19778
作者: Badal Nyalang,Biman Debbarma
机构: MWire Labs; Tripura University
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:We present KokborokMT, a high-quality neural machine translation (NMT) system for Kokborok (ISO 639-3), a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily in Tripura, India with approximately 1.5 million speakers. Despite its status as an official language of Tripura, Kokborok has remained severely under-resourced in the NLP community, with prior machine translation attempts limited to systems trained on small Bible-derived corpora achieving BLEU scores below 7. We fine-tune the NLLB-200-distilled-600M model on a multi-source parallel corpus comprising 36,052 sentence pairs: 9,284 professionally translated sentences from the SMOL dataset, 1,769 Bible-domain sentences from WMT shared task data, and 24,999 synthetic back-translated pairs generated via Gemini Flash from Tatoeba English source sentences. We introduce as a new language token for Kokborok in the NLLB framework. Our best system achieves BLEU scores of 17.30 and 38.56 on held-out test sets, representing substantial improvements over prior published results. Human evaluation by three annotators yields mean adequacy of 3.74/5 and fluency of 3.70/5, with substantial agreement between trained evaluators.
[NLP-72] Development and Preliminary Evaluation of a Domain-Specific Large Language Model for Tuberculosis Care in South Africa
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决南非结核病（Tuberculosis, TB）护理中医疗资源紧张与患者负担过重的问题，通过开发一个领域特定的大语言模型（Domain-specific Large Language Model, DS-LLM）来辅助临床决策和患者支持。解决方案的关键在于：首先基于南非TB指南、相关文献及现有医学基准数据集构建高质量训练数据；其次采用量化低秩适配（Quantised Low-Rank Adaptation, QLoRA）算法对生物医学大模型BioMistral-7B进行高效微调，并结合图检索增强生成（GraphRAG）技术提升知识召回的准确性与上下文一致性；最终实验证明，该DS-LLM在词汇、语义和知识层面均优于基础模型和通用大语言模型，显著提升了针对南非TB场景的适应性与实用性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19776
作者: Thokozile Khosa,Olawande Daramola
机构: 未知
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: 12 pages, 2 figures, ICICT 2026 Conference
Abstract:Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, and in South Africa, it contributes a significant burden to the country’s health care system. This paper presents an experimental study on the development of a domain-specific Large Language Model (DS-LLM) for TB care that can help to alleviate the burden on patients and healthcare providers. To achieve this, a literature review was conducted to understand current LLM development strategies, specifically in the medical domain. Thereafter, data were collected from South African TB guidelines, selected TB literature, and existing benchmark medical datasets. We performed LLM fine-tuning by using the Quantised Low-Rank Adaptation (QLoRA) algorithm on a medical LLM (BioMistral-7B), and also implemented Retrieval-Augmented Generation using GraphRAG. The developed DS-LLM was evaluated against the base BioMistral-7B model and a general-purpose LLM using a mix of automated metrics and quantitative ratings. The results show that the DS-LLM had better performance compared to the base model in terms of its contextual alignment (lexical, semantic, and knowledge) for TB care in South Africa.
[NLP-73] Phase 1 Implementation of LLM -generated Discharge Summaries showing high Adoption in a Dutch Academic Hospital
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决临床实践中撰写出院总结（discharge summary）这一耗时且繁琐的医疗信息传递任务。其解决方案的关键在于开发并评估一个集成于电子健康记录（Electronic Health Record, EHR）系统中的大型语言模型（Large Language Model, LLM），用于自动生成出院总结初稿。研究结果显示，LLM生成内容被直接采用的比例达58.5%，且多数用户（86.9%）报告文档时间显著减少，表明该技术可有效提升临床工作效率，并具备良好的应用前景。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19774
作者: Nettuno Nadalini,Tarannom Mehri,Anne H Hoekman,Katerina Kagialari,Job N Doornberg,Tom P van der Laan,Jacobien H F Oosterhoff,Rosanne C Schoonbeek,Charlotte M H H T Bootsma-Robroeks
机构: 未知
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: The methods section is located after the discussion in this manuscript
Abstract:Writing discharge summaries to transfer medical information is an important but time-consuming process that can be assisted by Large Language Models (LLMs). This prospective mixed methods pilot study evaluated an Electronic Health Record (EHR)-integrated LLM to generate discharge summaries drafts. In total, 379 discharge summaries were generated in clinical practice by 21 residents and 4 physician assistants during 9 weeks in our academic hospital. LLM-generated text was copied in 58.5% of admissions, and identifiable LLM content could be traced to 29.1% of final discharge letters. Notably, 86.9% of users self-reported a reduction in documentation time, and 60.9% a reduction in administrative workload. Intent to use after the pilot phase was high (91.3%), supporting further implementation of this use-case. Accurately measuring the documentation time of users on discharge summaries remains challenging, but will be necessary for future extrinsic evaluation of LLM-assisted documentation.
[NLP-74] PR-CAD: Progressive Refinement for Unified Controllable and Faithful Text-to-CAD Generation with Large Language Models
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决传统计算机辅助设计（CAD）建模依赖人工操作且效率低下的问题，以及现有文本到CAD生成方法中生成与编辑任务分离、难以实现可控性和高保真度的问题。其解决方案的关键在于提出PR-CAD框架，该框架通过一个统一的渐进式精炼机制，将生成与编辑任务融合为一个端到端的“全合一”系统；同时构建了一个涵盖完整CAD生命周期的高质量交互数据集，并基于专为大语言模型（LLM）设计的CAD表示形式，引入强化学习增强的推理机制，整合意图理解、参数估计与精确编辑定位，从而在生成和编辑之间实现强互促关系，显著提升可控性、忠实度及建模效率。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19773
作者: Jiyuan An,Jiachen Zhao,Fan Chen,Liner Yang,Zhenghao Liu,Hongyan Wang,Weihua An,Meishan Zhang,Erhong Yang
机构: Beijing Language and Culture University (北京语言大学); Beijing Jiaotong University (北京交通大学); Northeastern University (东北大学); Tsinghua University (清华大学); Harbin Institute of Technology (深圳) (哈尔滨工业大学（深圳)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:The construction of CAD models has traditionally relied on labor-intensive manual operations and specialized expertise. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have inspired research into text-to-CAD generation. However, existing approaches typically treat generation and editing as disjoint tasks, limiting their practicality. We propose PR-CAD, a progressive refinement framework that unifies generation and editing for controllable and faithful text-to-CAD modeling. To support this, we curate a high-fidelity interaction dataset spanning the full CAD lifecycle, encompassing multiple CAD representations as well as both qualitative and quantitative descriptions. The dataset systematically defines the types of edit operations and generates highly human-like interaction data. Building on a CAD representation tailored for LLMs, we propose a reinforcement learning-enhanced reasoning framework that integrates intent understanding, parameter estimation, and precise edit localization into a single agent. This enables an “all-in-one” solution for both design creation and refinement. Extensive experiments demonstrate strong mutual reinforcement between generation and editing tasks, and across qualitative and quantitative modalities. On public benchmarks, PR-CAD achieves state-of-the-art controllability and faithfulness in both generation and refinement scenarios, while also proving user-friendly and significantly improving CAD modeling efficiency.
[NLP-75] CoAuthorAI: A Human in the Loop System For Scientific Book Writing
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在处理长篇科学写作任务时存在的结构不一致和引用不可靠的问题。其解决方案的关键在于构建一个“人在回路”（human-in-the-loop）的协作写作系统 CoAuthorAI，该系统融合了检索增强生成（Retrieval-Augmented Generation, RAG）、专家设计的分层大纲（hierarchical outlines）以及自动参考链接机制，使专家能够逐句迭代优化内容，从而保障文本的连贯性与准确性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19772
作者: Yangjie Tian,Xungang Gu,Yun Zhao,Jiale Yang,Lin Yang,Ning Li,He Zhang,Ruohua Xu,Hua Wang,Kewen Liao,Ming Liu
机构: Kexin Technology(科信科技); Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities(可持续产业与宜居城市研究所); Victoria University(维多利亚大学); School of Information Technology(信息学院); Deakin University(迪肯大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in scientific writing but struggle with book-length tasks, often producing inconsistent structure and unreliable citations. We introduce CoAuthorAI, a human-in-the-loop writing system that combines retrieval-augmented generation, expert-designed hierarchical outlines, and automatic reference linking. The system allows experts to iteratively refine text at the sentence level, ensuring coherence and accuracy. In evaluations of 500 multi-domain literature review chapters, CoAuthorAI achieved a maximum soft-heading recall of 98%; in a human evaluation of 100 articles, the generated content reached a satisfaction rate of 82%. The book AI for Rock Dynamics generated with CoAuthorAI and Kexin Technology’s LUFFA AI model has been published with Springer Nature. These results show that systematic human-AI collaboration can extend LLMs’ capabilities from articles to full-length books, enabling faster and more reliable scientific publishing.
[NLP-76] Hybrid Multi-Phase Page Matching and Multi-Layer Diff Detection for Japanese Building Permit Document Review
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决日本建筑许可文档集在不同修订周期中跨文档比对的自动化难题，该过程传统上依赖人工交叉核对大量PDF文档，存在劳动强度大、易出错的问题。解决方案的关键在于提出一种混合多阶段页面匹配算法，其核心包括：基于最长公共子序列（Longest Common Subsequence, LCS）的结构对齐方法、七阶段共识匹配流水线以及动态规划最优对齐阶段，从而在页面顺序、编号或内容发生显著变化时仍能稳健地配对跨版本页面；后续还引入多层差异引擎（包含文本级、表格级和像素级视觉差异分析）生成高精度的差异报告，实验表明该方案在真实许可文档数据集上达到F1=0.80、精确率=1.00，且无假阳性匹配对。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19770
作者: Mitsumasa Wada
机构: Kagawa University (香川大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:We present a hybrid multi-phase page matching algorithm for automated comparison of Japanese building permit document sets. Building permit review in Japan requires cross-referencing large PDF document sets across revision cycles, a process that is labor-intensive and error-prone when performed manually. The algorithm combines longest common subsequence (LCS) structural alignment, a seven-phase consensus matching pipeline, and a dynamic programming optimal alignment stage to robustly pair pages across revisions even when page order, numbering, or content changes substantially. A subsequent multi-layer diff engine – comprising text-level, table-level, and pixel-level visual differencing – produces highlighted difference reports. Evaluation on real-world permit document sets achieves F1=0.80 and precision=1.00 on a manually annotated ground-truth benchmark, with zero false-positive matched pairs.
[NLP-77] KV: Temporal-Tiered KV Cache for Long-Context LLM Inference
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）推理过程中键值缓存（Key-Value Cache, KV cache）内存占用随上下文长度线性增长所带来的可扩展性瓶颈问题。现有方法通常将KV状态视为时间上同等重要，忽略了人类记忆系统中不同记忆在清晰度、回忆频率和时效性上的差异。为此，作者提出TTKV框架，其核心创新在于将人类记忆机制映射到KV缓存管理中：通过分层设计（Tier Layout）将高速内存（HBM）与低速内存（DRAM）解耦，依据时间接近度将较新的KV状态分配至更高精度、更快访问的层级（Tier Content），并利用块级流式注意力机制（block-wise streaming attention）实现慢速层级访问时通信与计算的重叠（Tier Interaction），从而显著降低跨层级数据传输开销（128K上下文任务中减少5.94倍），最终实现最高76%延迟降低和2倍吞吐量提升。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19769
作者: Gradwell Dzikanyanga,Weihao Yang,Hao Huang,Donglei Wu,Shihao Wang,Wen Xia,Sanjeeb K C
机构: Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (哈尔滨工业大学深圳); Guangzhou University (广州大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Key-value (KV) caching is critical for efficient inference in large language models (LLMs), yet its memory footprint scales linearly with context length, resulting in a severe scalability bottleneck. Existing approaches largely treat KV states as equally important across time, implicitly assuming uniform precision and accessibility. However, this assumption contrasts with human memory systems, where memories vary in clarity, recall frequency, and relevance with temporal this http URL by this insight, we propose TTKV, a KV cache management framework that maps the human memory system onto the KV cache. TTKV partitions the KV cache into temporal tiers with heterogeneous capacity and precision. The design addresses three aspects: (1) Tier Layout, decoupling fast and slow memory using HBM and DRAM; (2) Tier Content, assigning more recent KV states to faster, higher-precision tiers based on temporal proximity; and (3) Tier Interaction, employing block-wise streaming attention to overlap communication and computation when accessing slow tiers. Experiments show that TTKV reduces cross-tier traffic by 5.94x on 128K-context tasks, achieving up to 76% latency reduction and 2x throughput improvement over strong baselines.
[NLP-78] Saying More Than They Know: A Framework for Quantifying Epistemic-Rhetorical Miscalibration in Large Language Models
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在生成文本时存在的认知-修辞失配问题，即其表达的修辞强度与知识基础（epistemic grounding）不成比例的现象。解决方案的关键在于提出并验证了一个三元认知-修辞标记（Epistemic-Rhetorical Marker, ERM）分类体系，并通过形式-意义偏离度（Form-Meaning Divergence, FMD）、真实-表现认知比率（Genuine-to-Performed Epistemic Ratio, GPR）以及修辞手段分布熵（Rhetorical Device Distribution Entropy, RDDE）三个复合指标量化这种失配。实证分析表明，LLM生成文本表现出显著更高的形式-意义偏离、更均匀的修辞分布及更高的“表演性犹豫”标记密度，且这些特征具有模型无关性，可作为识别AI生成内容中认知偏差的轻量级筛查工具和检测系统的核心特征集。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19768
作者: Asim D. Bakhshi
机构: National University of Science and Technology (国家科学与技术大学)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 19 pages, 7 figures, Paper Under Review by the Elsevier Journal Assessing Writing
Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) exhibit systematic miscalibration with rhetorical intensity not proportionate to epistemic grounding. This study tests this hypothesis and proposes a framework for quantifying this decoupling by designing a triadic epistemic-rhetorical marker (ERM) taxonomy. The taxonomy is operationalized through composite metrics of form-meaning divergence (FMD), genuine-to-performed epistemic ratio (GPR), and rhetorical device distribution entropy (RDDE). Applied to 225 argumentative texts spanning approximately 0.6 Million tokens across human expert, human non-expert, and LLM-generated sub-corpora, the framework identifies a consistent, model-agnostic LLM epistemic signature. LLM-generated texts produce tricolon at nearly twice the expert rate ( \Delta = 0.95 ), while human authors produce erotema at more than twice the LLM rate. Performed hesitancy markers appear at twice the human density in LLM output. FMD is significantly elevated in LLM texts relative to both human groups ( p 0.001, \Delta = 0.68 ), and rhetorical devices are distributed significantly more uniformly across LLM documents. The findings are consistent with theoretical intuitions derived from Gricean pragmatics, Relevance Theory, and Brandomian inferentialism. The annotation pipeline is fully automatable, making it deployable as a lightweight screening tool for epistemic miscalibration in AI-generated content and as a theoretically motivated feature set for LLM-generated text detection pipelines.
[NLP-79] OThink-SRR1: Search Refine and Reasoning with Reinforced Learning for Large Language Models
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决当前检索增强生成（Retrieval-Augmented Generation, RAG）方法在处理复杂多跳问答（multi-hop question answering）任务时存在的两大问题：一是静态检索策略易引入无关噪声，干扰推理过程；二是全文档处理导致计算和延迟成本过高。其解决方案的关键在于提出OThink-SRR1框架，该框架采用基于强化学习训练的迭代式“搜索-精炼-推理”（Search-Refine-Reason）机制，其中核心的精炼阶段将检索到的文档压缩为简洁且相关的事实信息，从而提升推理准确性与效率；同时引入GRPO-IR算法，通过奖励准确证据识别并惩罚冗余检索，使模型在保持高精度的同时显著减少检索步数和token消耗。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19766
作者: Haijian Liang,Zenghao Niu,Junjie Wu,Changwang Zhang,Wangchunshu Zhou,Jun Wang
机构: Shenzhen University (深圳大学); OPPO Research Institute (OPPO研究院)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) expands the knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet current static retrieval methods struggle with complex, multi-hop problems. While recent dynamic retrieval strategies offer improvements, they face two key challenges: 1) irrelevant retrieved noise can misdirect the reasoning process, and 2) processing full documents incurs prohibitive computational and latency costs. To address these issues, we propose OThink-SRR1, a framework that enhances large models with an iterative Search-Refine-Reason process trained via reinforcement learning. Its core Refine stage distills retrieved documents into concise, relevant facts before reasoning. We introduce GRPO-IR, an end-to-end reinforcement learning algorithm that rewards accurate evidence identification while penalizing excessive retrievals, thus training the model to be both focused and efficient. Experiments on four multi-hop QA benchmarks show our approach achieves superior accuracy over strong baselines while using fewer retrieval steps and tokens. This positions OThink-SRR1 as a potent foundational model for information-seeking agents.
[NLP-80] Do Hallucination Neurons Generalize? Evidence from Cross-Domain Transfer in LLM s ACL
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决生成式 AI（Generative AI）中幻觉（hallucination）现象是否具有跨知识领域通用的神经机制这一关键问题。研究发现，尽管在特定领域内存在可预测幻觉的“幻觉神经元”（H-neurons），但这些神经元在不同知识域之间不具备迁移能力——即在某一领域训练的H-neuron分类器在其他领域性能显著下降（AUROC从0.783降至0.563，p < 0.001）。其解决方案的关键在于通过系统性的跨域转移实验（覆盖6个知识领域和5个开源模型），揭示了幻觉行为由领域特异性的神经群体驱动，而非统一的神经签名。这表明针对幻觉的检测需按领域单独校准，不能采用通用模型。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19765
作者: Snehit Vaddi,Pujith Vaddi
机构: Independent Researcher
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 18 pages, 5 models, 6 domains, ACL format. Includes causal intervention analysis
Abstract:Recent work identifies a sparse set of “hallucination neurons” (H-neurons), less than 0.1% of feed-forward network neurons, that reliably predict when large language models will hallucinate. These neurons are identified on general-knowledge question answering and shown to generalize to new evaluation instances. We ask a natural follow-up question: do H-neurons generalize across knowledge domains? Using a systematic cross-domain transfer protocol across 6 domains (general QA, legal, financial, science, moral reasoning, and code vulnerability) and 5 open-weight models (3B to 8B parameters), we find they do not. Classifiers trained on one domain’s H-neurons achieve AUROC 0.783 within-domain but only 0.563 when transferred to a different domain (delta = 0.220, p 0.001), a degradation consistent across all models tested. Our results suggest that hallucination is not a single mechanism with a universal neural signature, but rather involves domain-specific neuron populations that differ depending on the knowledge type being queried. This finding has direct implications for the deployment of neuron-level hallucination detectors, which must be calibrated per domain rather than trained once and applied universally.
[NLP-81] Can We Locate and Prevent Stereotypes in LLM s?
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决大型语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）中存在的刻板印象问题，即这些模型如何在内部神经网络中编码并传播社会偏见。其解决方案的关键在于识别和定位导致偏见的“特征指纹”——具体包括两类机制：一是通过分析对比性神经元激活来识别编码刻板印象的个体神经元；二是检测在生成偏见输出中起主导作用的注意力头（attention head）。该研究以GPT-2 Small和Llama 3.2为对象，尝试从模型内部结构出发，揭示偏见的驻留位置，从而为后续的偏见缓解策略提供可操作的切入点。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19764
作者: Alex D’Souza
机构: UC Davis (加州大学戴维斯分校)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Stereotypes in large language models (LLMs) can perpetuate harmful societal biases. Despite the widespread use of models, little is known about where these biases reside in the neural network. This study investigates the internal mechanisms of GPT 2 Small and Llama 3.2 to locate stereotype related activations. We explore two approaches: identifying individual contrastive neuron activations that encode stereotypes, and detecting attention heads that contribute heavily to biased outputs. Our experiments aim to map these “bias fingerprints” and provide initial insights for mitigating stereotypes.
[NLP-82] Evidence of Layered Positional and Directional Constraints in the Voynich Manuscript: Implications for Cipher-Like Structure
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决沃尼奇手稿（Voynich Manuscript, VMS）中字符序列的结构特征难以通过语言学分析解释的问题，特别是其潜在的生成机制是否可被现有模型复现。解决方案的关键在于提出并验证一套四重签名联合标准（four-signature joint criterion），用以系统评估两类结构化生成器：基于参数槽位的生成模型与实现Rugg（2004）“胡言乱语假说”的卡丹格栅（Cardan grille）。研究发现，这两类生成器在各自完整参数空间内均无法同时再现VMS的四个核心结构特征，从而首次提供了可量化的基准，表明VMS具有类似密码的结构约束，且这些约束难以仅靠位置或频次机制还原。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19762
作者: Christophe Parisel
机构: 未知
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:The Voynich Manuscript (VMS) exhibits a script of uncertain origin whose grapheme sequences have resisted linguistic analysis. We present a systematic analysis of its grapheme sequences, revealing two complementary structural layers: a character-level right-to-left optimization in word-internal sequences and a left-to-right dependency at word boundaries, a directional dissociation not observed in any of our four comparison languages (English, French, Hebrew, Arabic). We further evaluate two classes of structured generator against a four-signature joint criterion: a parametric slot-based generator and a Cardan grille implementing Rugg’s (2004) gibberish hypothesis. Across their full tested parameter spaces, neither class reproduces all four signatures simultaneously. While these results do not rule out generator classes we have not tested, they provide the first quantitative benchmarks against which any future generative or cryptanalytic model of the VMS can be evaluated, and they suggest that the VMS exhibits cipher-like structural constraints that are difficult to reproduce from simple positional or frequency-based mechanisms alone. Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL) Cite as: arXiv:2604.19762 [cs.CL] (or arXiv:2604.19762v1 [cs.CL] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.19762 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite
[NLP-83] Automated Detection of Dosing Errors in Clinical Trial Narratives: A Multi-Modal Feature Engineering Approach with LightGBM ALT LREC26
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决临床试验中未结构化文本叙述里给药错误（dosing errors）自动检测的问题，此类错误严重影响患者安全和试验数据完整性。解决方案的关键在于构建一个基于梯度提升（gradient boosting）的多模态特征工程系统，融合了3,451个特征，包括传统自然语言处理（NLP）特征（如TF-IDF、字符n-gram）、密集语义嵌入（all-MiniLM-L6v2）、领域特定医学模式以及基于Transformer的评分（BiomedBERT、DeBERTa-v3），并使用LightGBM模型进行训练。实验表明，尽管句子嵌入仅占总特征重要性的37.07%，但移除其会导致性能下降最大（2.39%），凸显其关键作用；同时，通过特征选择保留前500–1000个最优特征可实现比全特征集更高的AUC（0.886–0.887 vs. 0.879），证明特征选择是一种有效的正则化手段，且稀疏词汇特征与密集表示在严重类别不平衡场景下仍具互补性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19759
作者: Mohammad AL-Smadi
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Clinical trials require strict adherence to medication protocols, yet dosing errors remain a persistent challenge affecting patient safety and trial integrity. We present an automated system for detecting dosing errors in unstructured clinical trial narratives using gradient boosting with comprehensive multi-modal feature engineering. Our approach combines 3,451 features spanning traditional NLP (TF-IDF, character n-grams), dense semantic embeddings (all-MiniLM-L6v2), domain-specific medical patterns, and transformer-based scores (BiomedBERT, DeBERTa-v3), used to train a LightGBM model. Features are extracted from nine complementary text fields (median 5,400 characters per sample) ensuring complete coverage across all 42,112 clinical trial narratives. On the CT-DEB benchmark dataset with severe class imbalance (4.9% positive rate), we achieve 0.8725 test ROC-AUC through 5-fold ensemble averaging (cross-validation: 0.8833 + 0.0091 AUC). Systematic ablation studies reveal that removing sentence embeddings causes the largest performance degradation (2.39%), demonstrating their critical role despite contributing only 37.07% of total feature importance. Feature efficiency analysis demonstrates that selecting the top 500-1000 features yields optimal performance (0.886-0.887 AUC), outperforming the full 3,451-feature set (0.879 AUC) through effective noise reduction. Our findings highlight the importance of feature selection as a regularization technique and demonstrate that sparse lexical features remain complementary to dense representations for specialized clinical text classification under severe class imbalance.
[NLP-84] hermoQA: A Three-Tier Benchmark for Evaluating Thermodynamic Reasoning in Large Language Models
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决当前大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在工程热力学领域推理能力评估缺乏系统性、多层级基准的问题。现有评测往往仅关注事实记忆或简单计算，难以区分模型对复杂热力系统（如循环分析）的结构化理解与泛化能力。解决方案的关键在于构建ThermoQA——一个包含293道开放式工程热力学问题的分层基准，分为属性查询（property lookups）、部件分析（component analysis）和完整循环分析（full cycle analysis）三个难度层级，并基于CoolProp 7.2.0程序化生成标准答案，覆盖水、R-134a及变比热空气等典型工质。通过在六种前沿LLM上进行三次独立运行测试，量化了跨层级性能下降（最高达32.5个百分点）和推理一致性（标准差范围±0.1%至±2.5%），从而揭示了单纯属性记忆无法代表热力学推理能力的核心发现。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19758
作者: Kemal Düzkar
机构: Olivenet
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: 17 pages, 8 figures, open-source dataset and code
Abstract:We present ThermoQA, a benchmark of 293 open-ended engineering thermodynamics problems in three tiers: property lookups (110 Q), component analysis (101 Q), and full cycle analysis (82 Q). Ground truth is computed programmatically from CoolProp 7.2.0, covering water, R-134a, and variable-cp air. Six frontier LLMs are evaluated across three independent runs each. The composite leaderboard is led by Claude Opus 4.6 (94.1%), GPT-5.4 (93.1%), and Gemini 3.1 Pro (92.5%). Cross-tier degradation ranges from 2.8 pp (Opus) to 32.5 pp (MiniMax), confirming that property memorization does not imply thermodynamic reasoning. Supercritical water, R-134a refrigerant, and combined-cycle gas turbine analysis serve as natural discriminators with 40-60 pp performance spreads. Multi-run sigma ranges from +/-0.1% to +/-2.5%, quantifying reasoning consistency as a distinct evaluation axis. Dataset and code are open-source at this https URL
[NLP-85] ransparent Screening for LLM Inference and Training Impacts
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决当前大型语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在训练和推理阶段性能影响难以量化评估的问题，尤其是在模型黑箱特性导致可观测性受限的背景下。其解决方案的关键在于构建一个透明的筛选框架，将自然语言描述的应用场景转化为有界环境估计，并通过支持市场现有模型的在线对比观测系统，提供一种可审计、可溯源的代理方法，从而提升不同模型间评估的可比性、透明度与可复现性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19757
作者: Arnault Pachot,Thierry Petit
机构: 未知
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:This paper presents a transparent screening framework for estimating inference and training impacts of current large language models under limited observability. The framework converts natural-language application descriptions into bounded environmental estimates and supports a comparative online observatory of current market models. Rather than claiming direct measurement for opaque proprietary services, it provides an auditable, source-linked proxy methodology designed to improve comparability, transparency, and reproducibility.
[NLP-86] Algorithm Selection with Zero Domain Knowledge via Text Embeddings
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决算法选择（Algorithm Selection）中依赖手工设计实例特征（hand-crafted instance features）所带来的局限性，尤其是在跨领域应用时需大量领域知识和任务特定训练的问题。其解决方案的关键在于提出一种无需特征工程的零样本方法——ZeroFolio，该方法通过将原始实例文件作为纯文本输入，利用预训练文本嵌入模型（pretrained text embeddings）自动提取问题实例的语义表示，再基于加权k近邻（weighted k-nearest neighbors）进行算法选择。核心创新点在于观察到预训练嵌入能够无需领域知识或任务特定训练即可区分不同问题实例，从而使得同一三步流程（序列化、嵌入、选择）可跨多个文本格式的问题域（如SAT、CSP、MIP等）通用部署，显著提升了算法选择的泛化能力与实用性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19753
作者: Stefan Szeider
机构: TU Wien (维也纳工业大学)
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:We propose a feature-free approach to algorithm selection that replaces hand-crafted instance features with pretrained text embeddings. Our method, ZeroFolio, proceeds in three steps: it reads the raw instance file as plain text, embeds it with a pretrained embedding model, and selects an algorithm via weighted k-nearest neighbors. The key to our approach is the observation that pretrained embeddings produce representations that distinguish problem instances without any domain knowledge or task-specific training. This allows us to apply the same three-step pipeline (serialize, embed, select) across diverse problem domains with text-based instance formats. We evaluate our approach on 11 ASlib scenarios spanning 7 domains (SAT, MaxSAT, QBF, ASP, CSP, MIP, and graph problems). Our experiments show that this approach outperforms a random forest trained on hand-crafted features in 10 of 11 scenarios with a single fixed configuration, and in all 11 with two-seed voting; the margin is often substantial. Our ablation study shows that inverse-distance weighting, line shuffling, and Manhattan distance are the key design choices. On scenarios where both selectors are competitive, combining embeddings with hand-crafted features via soft voting yields further improvements.
[NLP-87] AutoGraph-R1: End-to-End Reinforcement Learning for Knowledge Graph Construction
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决知识图谱（Knowledge Graph, KG）构建与下游任务应用脱节的问题，即当前KG构造过程通常独立于其在检索增强生成（Retrieval-Augmented Generation, RAG）系统中的实际使用效果，导致生成的图结构并非最优。解决方案的关键在于提出AutoGraph-R1框架，首次通过强化学习（Reinforcement Learning, RL）直接优化KG构造以提升任务性能；其核心创新是将图生成建模为策略学习问题，并设计了两种面向任务的奖励函数——一种用于衡量图作为知识载体的能力，另一种用于评估图作为知识索引的效果，从而实现从构建“内在良好”的图到构建“实际有用”的图的范式转变。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15339
作者: Hong Ting Tsang,Jiaxin Bai,Haoyu Huang,Qiao Xiao,Tianshi Zheng,Baixuan Xu,Shujie Liu,Yangqiu Song
机构: 未知
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Building effective knowledge graphs (KGs) for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is pivotal for advancing question answering (QA) systems. However, its effectiveness is hindered by a fundamental disconnect: the knowledge graph (KG) construction process is decoupled from its downstream application, yielding suboptimal graph structures. To bridge this gap, we introduce AutoGraph-R1, the first framework to directly optimize KG construction for task performance using Reinforcement Learning (RL). AutoGraph-R1 trains an LLM constructor by framing graph generation as a policy learning problem, where the reward is derived from the graph’s functional utility in a RAG pipeline. We design two novel, task-aware reward functions, one for graphs as knowledge carriers and another as knowledge indices. Across multiple QA benchmarks, AutoGraph-R1 consistently enables graph RAG methods to achieve significant performance gains over using task-agnostic baseline graphs. Our work shows it is possible to close the loop between construction and application, shifting the paradigm from building intrinsically good'' graphs to building demonstrably useful’’ ones.
[NLP-88] Utterance-Level Methods for Identifying Reliable ASR-Output for Child Speech INTERSPEECH2026
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决儿童语音自动识别（ASR）在语言学习和读写能力培养等应用中因高错误率而导致效果受限的问题。其核心解决方案是提出两种新型的基于话语级别的可靠输出选择方法，分别针对朗读语音和对话语音材料，通过预先识别出可信的ASR转录结果来提升整体应用可靠性。关键在于利用最优策略实现高达97.4%的精确度（Precision），并使21.0%至55.9%的语音数据集可被自动筛选为低误识率（UER < 2.6）的可靠样本，从而显著降低无效识别对下游任务的影响。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19801
作者: Gus Lathouwers,Lingyun Gao,Catia Cucchiarini,Helmer Strik
机构: Radboud University (拉德布德大学)
类目: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is increasingly used in applications involving child speech, such as language learning and literacy acquisition. However, the effectiveness of such applications is limited by high ASR error rates. The negative effects can be mitigated by identifying in advance which ASR-outputs are reliable. This work aims to develop two novel approaches for selecting reliable ASR-output at the utterance level, one for selecting reliable read speech and one for dialogue speech material. Evaluations were done on an English and a Dutch dataset, each with a baseline and finetuned model. The results show that utterance-level selection methods for identifying reliably transcribed speech recordings have high precision for the best strategy (P 97.4) for both read speech and dialogue material, for both languages. Using the current optimal strategy allows 21.0% to 55.9% of dialogue/read speech datasets to be automatically selected with low (UER of 2.6) error rates.
[NLP-89] Enhancing ASR Performance in the Medical Domain for Dravidian Languages
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决低资源德拉维达语（如泰卢固语和卡纳达语）在专业医疗领域中自动语音识别（ASR）面临的挑战，主要包括标注数据稀缺与形态学复杂性问题。其解决方案的关键在于提出一种新颖的置信度感知训练框架，通过融合真实语音与合成语音数据，利用静态感知和声学相似性指标与动态模型熵相结合的混合置信度机制，实现对不同来源数据的自适应加权；进一步采用固定权重与可学习权重两种聚合策略，在训练过程中引导样本权重分配，从而有效提升异构数据源的利用率。实验表明，该方法显著降低了词错误率（WER），验证了其在形态复杂语言中的有效性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19797
作者: Sri Charan Devarakonda,Ravi Sastry Kolluru,Manjula Sri Rayudu,Rashmi Kapoor,Madhu G,Anil Kumar Vuppala
机构: 未知
类目: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for low-resource Dravidian languages like Telugu and Kannada faces significant challenges in specialized medical domains due to limited annotated data and morphological complexity. This work proposes a novel confidence-aware training framework that integrates real and synthetic speech data through a hybrid confidence mechanism combining static perceptual and acoustic similarity metrics with dynamic model entropy. Unlike direct fine-tuning approaches, the proposed methodology employs both fixed-weight and learnable-weight confidence aggregation strategies to guide sample weighting during training, enabling effective utilization of heterogeneous data sources. The framework is evaluated on Telugu and Kannada medical datasets containing both real recordings and TTS-generated synthetic speech. A 5-gram KenLM language model is applied for post-decoding correction. Results show that the hybrid confidence-aware approach with learnable weights substantially reduces recognition errors: Telugu Word Error Rate (WER) decreases from 24.3% to 15.8% (8.5% absolute improvement), while Kannada WER drops from 31.7% to 25.4% (6.3% absolute improvement), both significantly outperforming standard fine-tuning baselines. These findings confirm that combining adaptive confidence-aware training with statistical language modeling delivers superior performance for domain-specific ASR in morphologically complex Dravidian languages.
[NLP-90] Explainable Speech Emotion Recognition: Weighted Attribute Fairness to Model Demographic Contributions to Social Bias
【速读】： 该论文旨在解决语音情感识别（Speech Emotion Recognition, SER）系统在敏感应用场景中因模型偏见导致的公平性问题，特别是传统公平性度量（如Equalised Odds和Demographic Parity）未能充分考虑受保护属性（如性别、种族等）与模型预测误差之间的联合依赖关系。解决方案的关键在于提出一种新的公平性建模方法，通过显式学习受保护属性与模型误差之间的联合分布来捕捉分配偏见（allocative bias），从而更准确地量化个体属性对偏见的绝对贡献，并在HuBERT和WavLM等自监督学习（Self-Supervised Learning, SSL）驱动的SER模型上验证了该方法的有效性，发现两者均存在性别偏见。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19763
作者: Tomisin Ogunnubi,Yupei Li,Björn Schuller
机构: 未知
类目: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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Abstract:Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) systems have growing applications in sensitive domains such as mental health and education, where biased predictions can cause harm. Traditional fairness metrics, such as Equalised Odds and Demographic Parity, often overlook the joint dependency between demographic attributes and model predictions. We propose a fairness modelling approach for SER that explicitly captures allocative bias by learning the joint relationship between demographic attributes and model error. We validate our fairness metric on synthetic data, then apply it to evaluate HuBERT and WavLM models finetuned on the CREMA-D dataset. Our results indicate that the proposed fairness model captures more mutual information between protected attributes and biases and quantifies the absolute contribution of individual attributes to bias in SSL-based SER models. Additionally, our analysis reveals indications of gender bias in both HuBERT and WavLM.
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[IR-0] Coverag e Not Averag es: Semantic Stratification for Trustworthy Retrieval Evaluation
【速读】：该论文旨在解决检索增强生成（Retrieval-Augmented Generation, RAG）中因评估集构建方式引入隐式偏差而导致的检索质量评估不可靠问题。现有评估依赖启发式构造的查询集，难以保证对不同语义场景的覆盖，从而影响模型性能判断的准确性与鲁棒性。论文将检索评估形式化为统计估计问题，并提出**语义分层（semantic stratification）**作为解决方案的核心：通过基于实体的文档聚类构建可解释的全局语义空间，系统性地生成针对缺失语义层的查询，从而实现跨检索场景的语义覆盖保障，并揭示检索失败模式。实验表明，该方法相比传统聚合指标能更稳定、透明地评估检索性能，支持更可信的决策。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20763
作者: Andrew Klearman,Radu Revutchi,Rohin Garg,Rishav Chakravarti,Samuel Marc Denton,Yuan Xue
机构: 未知
类目: Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Retrieval quality is the primary bottleneck for accuracy and robustness in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Current evaluation relies on heuristically constructed query sets, which introduce a hidden intrinsic bias. We formalize retrieval evaluation as a statistical estimation problem, showing that metric reliability is fundamentally limited by the evaluation-set construction. We further introduce \emphsemantic stratification, which grounds evaluation in corpus structure by organizing documents into an interpretable global space of entity-based clusters and systematically generating queries for missing strata. This yields (1) formal semantic coverage guarantees across retrieval regimes and (2) interpretable visibility into retrieval failure modes. Experiments across multiple benchmarks and retrieval methods validate our framework. The results expose systematic coverage gaps, identify structural signals that explain variance in retrieval performance, and show that stratified evaluation yields more stable and transparent assessments while supporting more trustworthy decision-making than aggregate metrics. Subjects: Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG) Cite as: arXiv:2604.20763 [cs.IR] (or arXiv:2604.20763v1 [cs.IR] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.20763 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[IR-1] Self-Aware Vector Embeddings for Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Neuroscience-Inspired Framework for Temporal Confidence-Weighted and Relational Knowledge
【速读】：该论文旨在解决现代检索增强生成（Retrieval-Augmented Generation, RAG）系统中向量嵌入（vector embeddings）静态化、缺乏上下文感知能力的问题，导致在处理时序敏感查询（如版本化技术问题）时准确率低、返回过时内容等缺陷。其核心解决方案是提出SmartVector框架，关键在于为嵌入赋予三种显式属性：时间感知（temporal awareness）、置信度衰减（confidence decay）和关系感知（relational awareness），并构建一个受海马体-新皮层记忆巩固机制启发的五阶段生命周期模型。该框架通过四信号评分机制融合语义相关性、时间有效性、实时置信度与图结构重要性进行检索，并利用背景整合代理（consolidation agent）基于图神经网络的消息传递机制检测矛盾、建立依赖边并传播更新，从而实现更精准、鲁棒且可维护的知识检索与生成。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20598
作者: Naizhong Xu
机构: CMC APAC (CMC亚太区)
类目: Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Databases (cs.DB); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Modern retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems treat vector embeddings as static, context-free artifacts: an embedding has no notion of when it was created, how trustworthy its source is, or which other embeddings depend on it. This flattening of knowledge has a measurable cost: recent work on VersionRAG reports that conventional RAG achieves only 58% accuracy on versioned technical queries, because retrieval returns semantically similar but temporally invalid content. We propose SmartVector, a framework that augments dense embeddings with three explicit properties – temporal awareness, confidence decay, and relational awareness – and a five-stage lifecycle modeled on hippocampal-neocortical memory consolidation. A retrieval pipeline replaces pure cosine similarity with a four-signal score that mixes semantic relevance, temporal validity, live confidence, and graph-relational importance. A background consolidation agent detects contradictions, builds dependency edges, and propagates updates along those edges as graph-neural-network-style messages. Confidence is governed by a closed-form function combining an Ebbinghaus-style exponential decay, user-feedback reconsolidation, and logarithmic access reinforcement. We formalize the model, relate it to temporal knowledge graph embedding, agentic memory architectures, and uncertainty-aware RAG, and present a reference implementation. On a reproducible synthetic versioned-policy benchmark of 258 vectors and 138 queries, SmartVector roughly doubles top-1 accuracy over plain cosine RAG (62.0% vs. 31.0% on a held-out split), drops stale-answer rate from 35.0% to 13.3%, cuts Expected Calibration Error by nearly 2x (0.244 vs. 0.470), reduces re-embedding cost per single-word edit by 77%, and is robust across contradiction-injection rates from 0% to 75%.
[IR-2] Enhancing Research Idea Generation through Combinatorial Innovation and Multi-Agent Iterative Search Strategies
【速读】：该论文旨在解决科学文献快速增长背景下，研究人员在知识筛选过程中难以识别新颖研究方向的问题。现有基于大语言模型（Large Language Model, LLM）的研究思路生成方法往往产生重复且缺乏深度的想法，限制了其创新价值。解决方案的关键在于提出一种受组合式创新理论启发的多智能体迭代规划搜索策略，通过将迭代知识检索与LLM驱动的多智能体系统相结合，实现研究想法的生成、评估与迭代优化，从而显著提升想法的多样性与新颖性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20548
作者: Shuai Chen,Chengzhi Zhang
机构: 未知
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Digital Libraries (cs.DL); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
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Abstract:Scientific progress depends on the continual generation of innovative re-search ideas. However, the rapid growth of scientific literature has greatly increased the cost of knowledge filtering, making it harder for researchers to identify novel directions. Although existing large language model (LLM)-based methods show promise in research idea generation, the ideas they produce are often repetitive and lack depth. To address this issue, this study proposes a multi-agent iterative planning search strategy inspired by com-binatorial innovation theory. The framework combines iterative knowledge search with an LLM-based multi-agent system to generate, evaluate, and re-fine research ideas through repeated interaction, with the goal of improving idea diversity and novelty. Experiments in the natural language processing domain show that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art base-lines in both diversity and novelty. Further comparison with ideas derived from top-tier machine learning conference papers indicates that the quality of the generated ideas falls between that of accepted and rejected papers. These results suggest that the proposed framework is a promising approach for supporting high-quality research idea generation. The source code and dataset used in this paper are publicly available on Github repository: this https URL. The demo is available at this https URL.
[IR-3] Break the Optimization Barrier of LLM -Enhanced Recommenders: A Theoretical Analysis and Practical Framework
【速读】：该论文旨在解决现有大语言模型（Large Language Model, LLM）增强推荐系统中，LLM表示注入导致主干推荐模型优化困难的问题，表现为训练损失高且难以收敛。其核心原因是LLM表示存在显著的范数差异（norm disparity）以及语义-协同结构错位的角簇分布（semantic-collaboration misaligned angular clustering）。解决方案的关键在于提出Training-Friendly LLM-Enhanced Recommender（TF-LLMER），包含两个核心组件：一是通过项目嵌入归一化消除范数驱动的不稳定性，从而实现对优化条件数的理论控制；二是引入Rec-PCA方法，一种面向推荐任务的降维技术，在保留语义信息的同时，通过在由交互历史构建的项-项共现图上最小化总变差来促进表示与协同结构的对齐，从而缓解角簇错位问题。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20490
作者: Zhangchi Zhu,Wei Zhang
机构: 未知
类目: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
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Abstract:Large language model (LLM)-enhanced recommendation models inject LLM representations into backbone recommenders to exploit rich item text without inference-time LLM cost. However, we find that existing LLM-enhanced methods significantly hinder the optimization of backbone models, resulting in high training losses that are difficult to reduce. To address it, we establish a comprehensive theoretical analysis of local optimization curvature and identify two key causes: 1) large norm disparity and 2) semantic-collaboration misaligned angular clustering of LLM representations. Guided by these insights, we propose Training-Friendly LLM-Enhanced Recommender (TF-LLMER), a lightweight framework with two key components. First, we highlight the necessity of item embedding normalization to eliminate norm-driven instability and achieve provable control over optimization conditioning. Second, we introduce Rec-PCA, a recommendation-aware dimensionality reduction method that injects collaborative structure into the representation transformation to resolve semantic-collaboration misaligned angular clustering. It jointly optimizes semantic information retention and alignment with an item-item co-occurrence graph constructed from interaction histories. The graph captures collaborative structure, and alignment is promoted by penalizing total variation over the graph. Both theory and extensive experiments demonstrate that TF-LLMER significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods. Our code is available at this https URL.
[IR-4] Finding Duplicates in 1.1M BDD Steps: cukereuse a Paraphrase-Robust Static Detector for Cucumber and Gherkin
【速读】：该论文旨在解决行为驱动开发（Behavior-Driven Development, BDD）测试套件中普遍存在但尚未被有效检测的步骤文本重复问题，尤其是针对静态环境下、具备抗同义改写能力且适用于任意代码仓库的步骤级重复检测工具缺失这一研究空白。其解决方案的核心是提出并实现了一个名为 cukereuse 的开源 Python 命令行工具，该工具采用分层管道结构，融合精确哈希（exact hashing）、Levenshtein 比率（Levenshtein ratio）和 sentence-transformer 嵌入（sentence-transformer embeddings）三种技术，在不运行测试的前提下实现高精度、鲁棒性强的重复检测；同时配套发布了包含 347 个公共 GitHub 仓库、23,667 个 .feature 文件及 1,113,616 条 Gherkin 步骤的实证语料库与标注基准，验证了其在真实场景中的有效性（F1 达到 0.906，score-free 标注下为 0.822）。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20462
作者: Ali Hassaan Mughal,Noor Fatima,Muhammad Bilal
机构: Texas Wesleyan University (德州卫斯理大学); National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) (巴基斯坦国立科技大学); Technical University of Munich (慕尼黑工业大学)
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
备注: 39 pages, 9 figures, 8 tables. Under review at Software Quality Journal. Tool, corpus, labelled benchmark, and rubric released at this https URL under Apache-2.0
Abstract:Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) suites accumulate step-text duplication whose maintenance cost is established in prior work. Existing detection techniques require running the tests (Binamungu et al., 2018-2023) or are confined to a single organisation (Irshad et al., 2020-2022), leaving a gap: a purely static, paraphrase-robust, step-level detector usable on any repository. We fill the gap with cukereuse, an open-source Python CLI combining exact hashing, Levenshtein ratio, and sentence-transformer embeddings in a layered pipeline, released alongside an empirical corpus of 347 public GitHub repositories, 23,667 parsed .feature files, and 1,113,616 Gherkin steps. The step-weighted exact-duplicate rate is 80.2 %; the median-repository rate is 58.6 % (Spearman rho = 0.51 with size). The top hybrid cluster groups 20.7k occurrences across 2.2k files. Against 1,020 pairs manually labelled by the three authors under a released rubric (inter-annotator Fleiss’ kappa = 0.84 on a 60-pair overlap), we report precision, recall, and F1 with bootstrap 95 % CIs under two protocols: the primary rubric and a score-free second-pass relabelling. The strongest honest pair-level number is near-exact at F1 = 0.822 on score-free labels; the primary-rubric semantic F1 = 0.906 is inflated by a stratification artefact that pins recall at 1.000. Lexical baselines (SourcererCC-style, NiCad-style) reach primary F1 = 0.761 and 0.799. The paper also presents a CDN-structured critique of Gherkin (Cognitive Dimensions of Notations); eight of fourteen dimensions are rated problematic or unsupported. The tool, corpus, labelled pairs, rubric, and pipeline are released under permissive licences. Comments: 39 pages, 9 figures, 8 tables. Under review at Software Quality Journal. Tool, corpus, labelled benchmark, and rubric released at this https URL under Apache-2.0 Subjects: Software Engineering (cs.SE); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Information Retrieval (cs.IR) ACMclasses: D.2.5; D.2.7; I.2.7 Cite as: arXiv:2604.20462 [cs.SE] (or arXiv:2604.20462v1 [cs.SE] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.20462 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Ali Hassaan Mughal [view email] [v1] Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:44:05 UTC (240 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Finding Duplicates in 1.1M BDD Steps: cukereuse, a Paraphrase-Robust Static Detector for Cucumber and Gherkin, by Ali Hassaan Mughal and 2 other authorsView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.SE prev | next new | recent | 2026-04 Change to browse by: cs cs.CL cs.IR References Citations NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading… BibTeX formatted citation loading… Data provided by: Bookmark checked="checked"class=“labs-tab-input”> Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv’s community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?) mathjaxToggle(); About Help contact arXivClick here to contact arXiv Contact subscribe to arXiv mailingsClick here to subscribe Subscribe Copyright Privacy Policy Web Accessibility Assistance arXiv Operational Status
[IR-5] HaS: Accelerating RAG through Homology-Aware Speculative Retrieval ICDE2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决检索增强生成（Retrieval-Augmented Generation, RAG）系统中因知识库规模扩大而导致的检索延迟问题。现有加速策略要么通过近似检索牺牲准确性，要么仅能复用完全相同的查询结果，提升有限。其解决方案的关键在于提出一种基于同源性的推测式检索框架（HaS），该框架在受限范围内进行低延迟的推测性检索以获取候选文档，并基于查询间的同源关系（homology relation）判断这些候选是否包含所需知识——若发现当前查询与历史查询存在同源关系，则直接采纳推测结果，从而跳过耗时的全库检索。该方法利用真实场景下同源查询的高频出现特性，在保持高准确率的前提下显著降低检索延迟。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20452
作者: Peng Peng,Weiwei Lin,Wentai Wu,Xinyang Wang,Yongheng Liu
机构: 未知
类目: Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: Accepted by ICDE 2026
Abstract:Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) expands the knowledge boundary of large language models (LLMs) at inference by retrieving external documents as context. However, retrieval becomes increasingly time-consuming as the knowledge databases grow in size. Existing acceleration strategies either compromise accuracy through approximate retrieval, or achieve marginal gains by reusing results of strictly identical queries. We propose HaS, a homology-aware speculative retrieval framework that performs low-latency speculative retrieval over restricted scopes to obtain candidate documents, followed by validating whether they contain the required knowledge. The validation, grounded in the homology relation between queries, is formulated as a homologous query re-identification task: once a previously observed query is identified as a homologous re-encounter of the incoming query, the draft is deemed acceptable, allowing the system to bypass slow full-database retrieval. Benefiting from the prevalence of homologous queries under real-world popularity patterns, HaS achieves substantial efficiency gains. Extensive experiments demonstrate that HaS reduces retrieval latency by 23.74% and 36.99% across datasets with only a 1-2% marginal accuracy drop. As a plug-and-play solution, HaS also significantly accelerates complex multi-hop queries in modern agentic RAG pipelines. Source code is available at: this https URL.
[IR-6] Discrete Preference Learning for Personalized Multimodal Generation SIGIR2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决现有个性化生成模型在用户偏好建模上的两个核心问题：一是缺乏针对用户偏好的专用建模范式，二是生成内容局限于单模态（如仅文本或图像），无法匹配现实世界中多模态驱动的用户交互。为此，作者提出个性化多模态生成（Personalized Multimodal Generation）框架，其关键在于设计了一个两阶段解决方案——首先通过专用的模态特定图神经网络（modal-specific graph neural network）从多模态交互中学习离散的模态特定偏好，并将这些偏好量化为离散偏好标记（discrete preference tokens）；其次，在第二阶段将这些标记注入下游文本和图像生成器中，并引入跨模态一致性与个性化奖励机制来微调相关参数，从而在保持个性化的同时提升生成内容的跨模态一致性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20434
作者: Yuting Zhang,Ying Sun,Dazhong Shen,Ziwei Xie,Feng Liu,Changwang Zhang,Xiang Liu,Jun Wang,Hui Xiong
机构: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)(香港科技大学（广州) ); Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics(南京航空航天大学); OPPO Research Institute(OPPO研究院); OPPO Internet Services System(OPPO互联网服务系统)
类目: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
备注: be accepted to SIGIR 2026
Abstract:The emergence of generative models enables the creation of texts and images tailored to users’ preferences. Existing personalized generative models have two critical limitations: lacking a dedicated paradigm for accurate preference modeling, and generating unimodal content despite real-world multimodal-driven user interactions. Therefore, we propose personalized multimodal generation, which captures modal-specific preferences via a dedicated preference model from multimodal interactions, and then feeds them into downstream generators for personalized multimodal content. However, this task presents two challenges: (1) Gap between continuous preferences from dedicated modeling and discrete token inputs intrinsic to generator architectures; (2) Potential inconsistency between generated images and texts. To tackle these, we present a two-stage framework called Discrete Preference learning for Personalized Multimodal Generation (DPPMG). In the first stage, to accurately learn discrete modal-specific preferences, we introduce a modal-specific graph neural network (a dedicated preference model) to learn users’ modal-specific preferences, which preferences are then quantized into discrete preference tokens. In the second stage, the discrete modal-specific preference tokens are injected into downstream text and image generators. To further enhance cross-modal consistency while preserving personalization, we design a cross-modal consistent and personalized reward to fine-tune token-associated parameters. Extensive experiments on two real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our model in generating personalized and consistent multimodal content.
[IR-7] Semantic Recall for Vector Search SIGIR
【速读】：该论文旨在解决传统近似最近邻（Approximate Nearest Neighbor, ANN）搜索算法评估中存在偏差的问题，即传统召回率（Recall）指标会惩罚那些未能检索到语义无关但空间上邻近的样本的算法，从而误导对实际检索质量的判断。其核心解决方案是提出“语义召回率”（Semantic Recall），该指标仅考虑理论上可通过精确最近邻搜索获取的语义相关对象，忽略语义无关的邻居；同时引入“容差召回率”（Tolerant Recall）作为语义相关对象无法明确识别时的代理指标。实验表明，这两个指标能更准确反映检索质量，并指导算法优化以实现更好的成本-性能权衡。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20417
作者: Leonardo Kuffo,Ioanna Tsakalidou,Roberta De Viti,Albert Angel,Jiří Iša,Rastislav Lenhardt
机构: CWIAmsterdam(荷兰国家数学与计算机科学研究所); EPFLLausanne(洛桑联邦理工学院); MPI-SWSSaarbrücken(马克斯·普朗克软件系统研究所); GoogleZurich(谷歌苏黎世)
类目: Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Abstract:We introduce Semantic Recall, a novel metric to assess the quality of approximate nearest neighbor search algorithms by considering only semantically relevant objects that are theoretically retrievable via exact nearest neighbor search. Unlike traditional recall, semantic recall does not penalize algorithms for failing to retrieve objects that are semantically irrelevant to the query, even if those objects are among their nearest neighbors. We demonstrate that semantic recall is particularly useful for assessing retrieval quality on queries that have few relevant results among their nearest neighbors-a scenario we uncover to be common within embedding datasets. Additionally, we introduce Tolerant Recall, a proxy metric that approximates semantic recall when semantically relevant objects cannot be identified. We empirically show that our metrics are more effective indicators of retrieval quality, and that optimizing search algorithms for these metrics can lead to improved cost-quality tradeoffs.
[IR-8] SAKE: Self-aware Knowledge Exploitation-Exploration for Grounded Multimodal Named Entity Recognition
【速读】：该论文旨在解决开放世界社交媒体场景下，由于长尾分布、快速演化及未见实体导致的视觉-语言联合命名实体识别（Grounded Multimodal Named Entity Recognition, GMNER）难题。现有方法要么依赖启发式外部知识检索引入噪声，要么仅依靠多模态大语言模型（Multimodal Large Language Models, MLLMs）内部知识易产生幻觉，难以兼顾精度与泛化能力。解决方案的关键在于提出SAKE框架——一个端到端的代理式系统，通过自知推理（self-aware reasoning）和自适应搜索工具调用，协同利用内部知识与外部知识：首先设计“难度感知的搜索标签生成”机制，基于多次前向采样量化实体级不确定性以生成显式的知识缺口信号；进而构建高质量思维链（Chain-of-Thought）数据集SAKE-SeCoT，通过监督微调赋予模型基础自知与工具使用能力；最后采用混合奖励函数的代理强化学习，使模型从机械模仿检索进化为真正具备何时需要检索的自主决策能力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20146
作者: Jielong Tang,Xujie Yuan,Jiayang Liu,Jianxing Yu,Xiao Dong,Lin Chen,Yunlai Teng,Shimin Di,Jian Yin
机构: Sun Yat-sen University (中山大学); Shandong Normal University (山东师范大学); University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院大学); China Mobile Group (中国移动集团); Southeast University (东南大学)
类目: Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
备注: 23 pages, 12 figures
Abstract:Grounded Multimodal Named Entity Recognition (GMNER) aims to extract named entities and localize their visual regions within image-text pairs, serving as a pivotal capability for various downstream applications. In open-world social media platforms, GMNER remains challenging due to the prevalence of long-tailed, rapidly evolving, and unseen entities. To tackle this, existing approaches typically rely on either external knowledge exploration through heuristic retrieval or internal knowledge exploitation via iterative refinement in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, heuristic retrieval often introduces noisy or conflicting evidence that degrades precision on known entities, while solely internal exploitation is constrained by the knowledge boundaries of MLLMs and prone to hallucinations. To address this, we propose SAKE, an end-to-end agentic framework that harmonizes internal knowledge exploitation and external knowledge exploration via self-aware reasoning and adaptive search tool invocation. We implement this via a two-stage training paradigm. First, we propose Difficulty-aware Search Tag Generation, which quantifies the model’s entity-level uncertainty through multiple forward samplings to produce explicit knowledge-gap signals. Based on these signals, we construct SAKE-SeCoT, a high-quality Chain-of-Thought dataset that equips the model with basic self-awareness and tool-use capabilities through supervised fine-tuning. Second, we employ agentic reinforcement learning with a hybrid reward function that penalizes unnecessary retrieval, enabling the model to evolve from rigid search imitation to genuine self-aware decision-making about when retrieval is truly necessary. Extensive experiments on two widely used social media benchmarks demonstrate SAKE’s effectiveness.
[IR-9] AFMRL: Attribute-Enhanced Fine-Grained Multi-Modal Representation Learning in E-commerce ACL2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决大模型在电商场景下细粒度语义理解能力不足的问题，尤其是在识别高度相似商品时的表现瓶颈。其核心挑战在于现有多模态表示模型（如VLM2Vec）虽具备较强的跨模态理解能力，但在区分细微差异（如颜色、材质、款式等属性）方面表现不佳。解决方案的关键在于提出一种属性增强的细粒度多模态表示学习方法（Attribute-Enhanced Fine-Grained Multi-Modal Representation Learning, AFMRL），将产品细粒度理解建模为属性生成任务，并利用多模态大语言模型（Multimodal Large Language Models, MLLMs）从图像和文本中提取关键属性；通过两阶段训练框架实现性能提升：第一阶段采用属性引导的对比学习（Attribute-Guided Contrastive Learning, AGCL）以筛选难样本并过滤噪声负样本；第二阶段引入检索感知的属性强化机制（Retrieval-aware Attribute Reinforcement, RAR），以检索性能提升作为奖励信号反向优化MLLM的属性生成能力，从而实现细粒度语义表征的持续增强。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20135
作者: Biao Zhang,Lixin Chen,Bin Zhang,Zongwei Wang,Tong Liu,Bo Zheng
机构: Taobao Tmall Group of Alibaba (淘宝天猫集团)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
备注: Accepted by ACL 2026
Abstract:Multimodal representation is crucial for E-commerce tasks such as identical product retrieval. Large representation models (e.g., VLM2Vec) demonstrate strong multimodal understanding capabilities, yet they struggle with fine-grained semantic comprehension, which is essential for distinguishing highly similar items. To address this, we propose Attribute-Enhanced Fine-Grained Multi-Modal Representation Learning (AFMRL), which defines product fine-grained understanding as an attribute generation task. It leverages the generative power of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to extract key attributes from product images and text, and enhances representation learning through a two-stage training framework: 1) Attribute-Guided Contrastive Learning (AGCL), where the key attributes generated by the MLLM are used in the image-text contrastive learning training process to identify hard samples and filter out noisy false negatives. 2) Retrieval-aware Attribute Reinforcement (RAR), where the improved retrieval performance of the representation model post-attribute integration serves as a reward signal to enhance MLLM’s attribute generation during multimodal fine-tuning. Extensive experiments on large-scale E-commerce datasets demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on multiple downstream retrieval tasks, validating the effectiveness of harnessing generative models to advance fine-grained representation learning.
[IR-10] From Hidden Profiles to Governable Personalization: Recommender Systems in the Age of LLM Agents
【速读】：该论文试图解决传统推荐系统中用户表征（user representation）被平台封闭、难以访问和控制的问题，即当前个性化依赖于平台特定的用户模型，这些模型虽优化了预测性能，却缺乏透明度与可操作性。解决方案的关键在于推动从“隐藏式平台画像”向“可治理的个性化”转变，使用户表征具备可检查性（inspectable）、可修改性（revisable）、可迁移性（portable）以及跨服务的影响力（consequential），从而让用户能够真正理解、塑造并掌控自身数据在不同数字服务中的使用方式。这一转变的核心驱动力是大型语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）作为中介代理（LLM agents）的兴起，它重构了用户表征的生成、暴露与执行机制。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20065
作者: Jiahao Liu,Mingzhe Han,Guanming Liu,Weihang Wang,Dongsheng Li,Hansu Gu,Peng Zhang,Tun Lu,Ning Gu
机构: Fudan University (复旦大学); Microsoft Research Asia (微软亚洲研究院)
类目: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
备注: 6 pages, under review
Abstract:Personalization has traditionally depended on platform-specific user models that are optimized for prediction but remain largely inaccessible to the people they describe. As LLM-based assistants increasingly mediate search, shopping, travel, and content access, this arrangement may be giving way to a new personalization stack in which user representation is no longer confined to isolated platforms. In this paper, we argue that the key issue is not simply that large language models can enhance recommendation quality, but that they reconfigure where and how user representations are produced, exposed, and acted upon. We propose a shift from hidden platform profiling toward governable personalization, where user representations may become more inspectable, revisable, portable, and consequential across services. Building on this view, we identify five research fronts for recommender systems: transparent yet privacy-preserving user modeling, intent translation and alignment, cross-domain representation and memory design, trustworthy commercialization in assistant-mediated environments, and operational mechanisms for ownership, access, and accountability. We position these not as isolated technical challenges, but as interconnected design problems created by the emergence of LLM agents as intermediaries between users and digital platforms. We argue that the future of recommender systems will depend not only on better inference, but on building personalization systems that users can meaningfully understand, shape, and govern.
[IR-11] A Reproducibility Study of Metacognitive Retrieval-Augmented Generation SIGIR
【速读】：该论文旨在解决检索增强生成（Retrieval Augmented Generation, RAG）系统在处理多跳问答等复杂任务时，缺乏有效机制决定何时停止检索的问题。传统RAG方法往往依赖固定检索轮次或启发式策略，难以动态判断信息是否充分。其解决方案的核心是引入元认知机制（metacognition），构建了元认知检索增强生成（Metacognitive Retrieval Augmented Generation, MetaRAG）框架，使大型语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）能够对自身推理过程进行自我评估与修正，从而实现更智能的检索终止决策。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19899
作者: Gabriel Iturra-Bocaz,Petra Galuscakova
机构: University of Stavanger (斯塔万格大学)
类目: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
备注: Paper accepted at ACM SIGIR Conference 2026
Abstract:Recently, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has shifted focus to multi-retrieval approaches to tackle complex tasks such as multi-hop question answering. However, these systems struggle to decide when to stop searching once enough information has been gathered. To address this, \citetzhou2024metacognitive introduced Metacognitive Retrieval Augmented Generation (MetaRAG), a framework inspired by metacognition that enables Large Language Models to critique and refine their reasoning. In this reproducibility paper, we reproduce MetaRAG following its original experimental setup and extend it in two directions: (i) by evaluating the effect of PointWise and ListWise rerankers, and (ii) by comparing with SIM-RAG, which employs a lightweight critic model to stop retrieval. Our results confirm MetaRAG’s relative improvements over standard RAG and reasoning-based baselines, but also reveal lower absolute scores than reported, reflecting challenges with closed-source LLM updates, missing implementation details, and unreleased prompts. We show that MetaRAG is partially reproduced, gains substantially from reranking, and is more robust than SIM-RAG when extended with additional retrieval features.
[IR-12] DR-Venus: Towards Frontier Edge-Scale Deep Research Agents with Only 10K Open Data
【速读】：该论文旨在解决如何在有限开放数据条件下训练出高性能的小型深度研究代理（deep research agent），以实现边缘计算场景下的高效部署。其核心挑战在于小模型参数量受限时，如何通过提升数据质量和利用效率来增强代理的长期任务执行能力。解决方案的关键在于提出两阶段训练策略：第一阶段采用代理监督微调（agentic SFT），结合严格的数据清洗与长轨迹重采样，显著提高数据质量与利用率；第二阶段引入代理强化学习（agentic RL），基于信息增益和格式感知正则化设计回合级奖励机制，从而增强监督密度并改善回合级信用分配。该方法使仅40亿参数的DR-Venus-4B模型在多个深度研究基准上超越此前90亿参数级别的代理，并缩小与300亿参数系统间的性能差距，验证了小型模型在边缘部署中的潜力及测试时扩展（test-time scaling）的价值。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19859
作者: Venus Team,Sunhao Dai,Yong Deng,Jinzhen Lin,Yusheng Song,Guoqing Wang,Xiaofeng Wu,Yuqi Zhou,Shuo Yang,Zhenzhe Ying,Zhanwei Zhang,Changhua Meng,Weiqiang Wang
机构: Ant Group(蚂蚁集团)
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
备注: Technical Report of DR-Venus
Abstract:Edge-scale deep research agents based on small language models are attractive for real-world deployment due to their advantages in cost, latency, and privacy. In this work, we study how to train a strong small deep research agent under limited open-data by improving both data quality and data utilization. We present DR-Venus, a frontier 4B deep research agent for edge-scale deployment, built entirely on open data. Our training recipe consists of two stages. In the first stage, we use agentic supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to establish basic agentic capability, combining strict data cleaning with resampling of long-horizon trajectories to improve data quality and utilization. In the second stage, we apply agentic reinforcement learning (RL) to further improve execution reliability on long-horizon deep research tasks. To make RL effective for small agents in this setting, we build on IGPO and design turn-level rewards based on information gain and format-aware regularization, thereby enhancing supervision density and turn-level credit assignment. Built entirely on roughly 10K open-data, DR-Venus-4B significantly outperforms prior agentic models under 9B parameters on multiple deep research benchmarks, while also narrowing the gap to much larger 30B-class systems. Our further analysis shows that 4B agents already possess surprisingly strong performance potential, highlighting both the deployment promise of small models and the value of test-time scaling in this setting. We release our models, code, and key recipes to support reproducible research on edge-scale deep research agents.
[IR-13] SkillGraph: Graph Foundation Priors for LLM Agent Tool Sequence Recommendation
【速读】：该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Model, LLM）代理在执行复杂任务时，如何从大规模API库中准确选择工具并正确排序的问题。现有方法仅依赖语义相似性进行工具检索与排序，但忽略了工具间的数据依赖关系，导致在结构化工作流场景下可能出现负的Kendall-τ相关系数，即排序性能劣于随机猜测。其解决方案的关键在于构建一个基于真实成功轨迹挖掘的有向加权执行转移图SkillGraph，该图编码了工具间的前置约束规律，并作为可复用的先验知识；在此基础上提出两阶段解耦框架：第一阶段使用GS-Hybrid实现候选工具检索，第二阶段引入学习型成对重排序器（pairwise reranker）优化顺序，从而显著提升工具排序准确性，在ToolBench和API-Bank等基准上实现了显著的Kendall-τ改进。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19793
作者: Hao Liu,Dongyu Li
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:LLM agents must select tools from large API libraries and order them correctly. Existing methods use semantic similarity for both retrieval and ordering, but ordering depends on inter-tool data dependencies that are absent from tool descriptions. As a result, semantic-only methods can produce negative Kendall- \tau in structured workflow domains. We introduce SkillGraph, a directed weighted execution-transition graph mined from 49,831 successful LLM agent trajectories, which encodes workflow-precedence regularities as a reusable graph foundation prior. Building on this graph foundation prior, we propose a two-stage decoupled framework: GS-Hybrid retrieval for candidate selection and a learned pairwise reranker for ordering. On ToolBench (9,965 test instances; ~16,000 tools), the method reaches Set-F1 = 0.271 and Kendall- \tau = 0.096; on API-Bank, Kendall- \tau improves from -0.433 to +0.613. Under identical Stage-1 inputs, the learned reranker also outperforms LLaMA-3.1-8B Stage-2 rerankers.
[IR-14] Self-Describing Structured Data with Dual-Layer Guidance: A Lightweight Alternative to RAG for Precision Retrieval in Large-Scale LLM Knowledge Navigation
【速读】：该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在处理长上下文时存在的“迷失于中间”（Lost-in-the-Middle）效应问题，即模型对上下文窗口中间内容的关注度显著低于边界内容，从而限制了其在直接嵌入大规模结构化知识库时的知识检索能力。传统检索增强生成（Retrieval-Augmented Generation, RAG）方法虽能提升可扩展性，但引入了复杂的基础设施开销，且不适用于语义边界由人工定义而非统计学习的场景。论文提出轻量级框架Self-Describing Structured Retrieval (SDSR)，其核心创新在于利用LLM固有的“优先偏倚”（primacy bias），通过在结构化数据文件的首位置嵌入人工编写的导航元数据（navigational metadata），使模型能够有效识别关键信息；进一步结合双层引导策略（Dual-Layer Guidance），将文件内元数据与系统提示中的显式路由规则相结合，实现高精度的主路径路由（primary routing）。实验表明，在119类技能库中，联合引导策略（版本D）达到100%主路径准确率，显著优于无引导基线（65%）。研究揭示出一个根本性不对称：主路径路由可通过显式规则解决，而跨类别次级路由则需在数据结构中显式编码架构意图。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19777
作者: Hung Ming Liu
机构: PARRAWA AI
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
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Abstract:Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit a well-documented positional bias when processing long input contexts: information in the middle of a context window receives substantially less attention than content at the boundaries, a phenomenon termed the Lost-in-the-Middle effect (Liu et al., 2024). This limits knowledge-retrieval applications that embed large structured knowledge bases directly in the LLM context. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) addresses scalability by retrieving only relevant fragments, but introduces substantial infrastructure overhead and is ill-suited to libraries whose semantic boundaries are human-defined rather than statistically learned. We propose Self-Describing Structured Retrieval (SDSR), a lightweight framework in which structured data files embed human-authored navigational metadata at the file’s primacy position, thereby exploiting rather than fighting the LLM’s primacy bias. We further propose a Dual-Layer Guidance strategy combining in-file metadata with explicit routing rules in the system prompt. We validate SDSR through a four-round benchmark using a 190-skill library expanded from 36 to 119 categories via adversarial distractor injection. Four conditions are tested: (A) no guidance, (B) in-file summary only, © prompt hint only, (D) both combined. Version D achieves 100% primary routing accuracy (20/20) at 119 categories versus 65% for the no-guidance baseline. We identify a fundamental asymmetry: primary routing is solvable by explicit rules, while secondary cross-category routing requires architectural intent explicitly encoded in the data structure. We further extend SDSR to semi-structured corpora, showing how cross-reference encoding enables operation without vector databases in domains with recoverable document structure. Comments: 18 pages, 6 figures, 7 tables Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Information Retrieval (cs.IR) Cite as: arXiv:2604.19777 [cs.CL] (or arXiv:2604.19777v1 [cs.CL] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.19777 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite
[IR-15] Cognis: Context-Aware Memory for Conversational AI Agents
【速读】：该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLM）智能体缺乏持久记忆的问题，导致每次对话会话中上下文信息无法保留，从而阻碍个性化能力的长期积累。其解决方案的关键在于提出了一种统一的记忆架构——Lyzr Cognis，该架构通过多阶段检索流水线实现高效记忆管理：首先采用双存储后端（OpenSearch BM25关键词匹配与Matryoshka向量相似性搜索）并利用倒数排名融合（Reciprocal Rank Fusion）进行结果整合；其次引入上下文感知的摄入流水线，在提取前检索已有记忆以支持智能版本追踪，确保完整历史记录的同时维持存储一致性；此外结合时间增强机制提升时效性查询效果，并使用BGE-2交叉编码器重排序器优化最终检索质量，从而在LoCoMo和LongMemEval两个独立基准测试中均达到当前最优性能表现。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19771
作者: Parshva Daftari,Khush Patel,Shreyas Kapale,Jithin George,Siva Surendira
机构: 未知
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
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Abstract:LLM agents lack persistent memory, causing conversations to reset each session and preventing personalization over time. We present Lyzr Cognis, a unified memory architecture for conversational AI agents that addresses this limitation through a multi-stage retrieval pipeline. Cognis combines a dual-store backend pairing OpenSearch BM25 keyword matching with Matryoshka vector similarity search, fused via Reciprocal Rank Fusion. Its context-aware ingestion pipeline retrieves existing memories before extraction, enabling intelligent version tracking that preserves full memory history while keeping the store consistent. Temporal boosting enhances time-sensitive queries, and a BGE-2 cross-encoder reranker refines final result quality. We evaluate Cognis on two independent benchmarks – LoCoMo and LongMemEval – across eight answer generation models, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance on both. The system is open-source and deployed in production serving conversational AI applications.
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[HC-0] From Meme to Method: Rethinking Animal Adoption Platforms through the Cat Distribution System
【速读】：该论文试图解决的是宠物收养系统中用户参与度低、流程机械化的问题，尤其是在菲律宾等流浪猫狗数量庞大的地区，传统 Adoption 平台难以激发用户的主动性和情感共鸣。解决方案的关键在于引入“猫分配系统”（Cat Distribution System, CDS）这一文化隐喻，将收养过程从交易式体验重构为更具偶然性与人文关怀的“命中注定”感；其核心机制包括算法匹配、社区上报和基于地理位置的发现功能，旨在通过贴近用户直觉认知的心理模型提升系统的可用性与接受度。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20823
作者: Carl Angelo Angcana,Jamlech Iram Gojo Cruz
机构: Institute of Computer Science, University of the Philippines Los Baños (菲律宾大学洛斯巴ños分校计算机科学研究所)
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
备注: To be published in Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Human-Engaged Computing (ICHEC 2025), November 21-23, 2025, Singapore, Singapore. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 14 pages
Abstract:The internet folklore of the Cat Distribution System (CDS) humorously suggests that cats are “assigned” to people rather than intentionally sought. Beyond its playful origins, CDS reflects a culturally resonant way people perceive and engage in adoption, and this user context can guide the redesign and improvement of adoption systems. In the Philippines, where an estimated 13.11 million stray cats and dogs place the country sixth worldwide in overpopulation, this framing offers a novel way to rethink adoption platforms. We developed a prototype application inspired by CDS principles, focusing on features such as algorithmic matchmaking, community reporting, and proximity-based discovery. An initial evaluation with potential users (n=35) indicated that the system was positively received for its ease of use and its alignment with users’ intuitive expectations, though participants highlighted areas for improvement in transparency of matchmaking and owner-adopter communication. The findings suggest that culturally embedded metaphors like CDS can shape mental models, making adoption processes feel more serendipitous and less transactional.
[HC-1] Designing a Visualization Atlas: Lessons Reflections from The UK Co-Benefits Atlas for Climate Mitigation
【速读】：该论文旨在解决可视化地图集（visualization atlas）在设计过程中面临的复杂挑战，包括如何应对多样化且不确定的受众与使用场景、支持解释性与引导式探索、以及处理复杂且动态演化的数据。其解决方案的关键在于通过系统性的设计过程——涵盖8次设计工作坊、迭代原型开发、15次利益相关者引入会话及持续反思——构建了一个包含400余页可视化内容和解释性文本的英国协同效益地图集（UK Co-Benefits Atlas）。研究进一步提炼出五个驱动因素：数据（data）、人（people）、故事（stories）、背景（context）及地图集本身（the atlas），这些因素的动态变化影响不同设计阶段，为未来地图集的设计提供了可结构化和可反思的概念框架。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20781
作者: Jinrui Wang,Alexis Pister,Sian Phillips,Sarah Bissett,Ruaidhri Higgins-Lavery,Clare Wharmby,Andrew Sudmant,Uta Hinrichs,Benjamin Bach
机构: 未知
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
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Abstract:This paper reports on the process of designing the UK Co-Benefits Atlas, which communicates and publicizes data for climate mitigation. Visualization atlases – an emerging type of platform to make data about complex topics comprehensive through interactive visualizations and explanatory content – pose challenges beyond traditional visualization projects. Atlases must address diverse and often uncertain audiences and use cases, support both explanatory and guided exploration, and accommodate complex, evolving data. Over 10 months, our team of visualization and domain experts conducted 8 design workshops, iterative prototyping, 15 stakeholder onboarding sessions, and continuous reflection. These intertwined processes informed the development of the Atlas, comprising over 400 pages of visualizations and explanations. They also enabled a deeper understanding of how stakeholders may critically engage with the atlas in practice, in terms of interests, potential frictions when navigating huge amounts of data, and envisioned usage scenarios. Reflecting on our design process, we identify five driving forces in atlas design – data, people, stories, context, and the atlas itself – whose shifting dynamics influence different stages of visualization atlas design in different ways. Grounded in our case study, we discuss using these forces as a conceptual starting point for structuring and reflecting on future atlas design processes.
[HC-2] Autark: A Serverless Toolkit for Prototyping Urban Visual Analytics Systems
【速读】：该论文旨在解决城市视觉分析（Urban Visual Analytics, Urban VA）系统开发过程中存在的高复杂性与低效率问题，尤其是在异构数据流和多服务架构下难以实现快速原型设计、部署及可复现性的挑战。现有文献虽丰富，但缺乏一个集成空间数据管理、分析处理与可视化等核心组件的轻量化统一框架。解决方案的关键在于提出Autark——一个无服务器（serverless）工具包，通过自包含架构提供领域感知抽象，使研究人员能在数小时内将设计意图转化为可部署、可共享的系统；同时，其结构化且范围明确的接口显著提升了大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在辅助编码中的可靠性，从而加速高质量VA系统的构建。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20759
作者: Lucas Alexandre,João Rulff,Talisson Souza,Gustavo Moreira,Daniel de Oliveira,Claudio Silva,Fabio Miranda,Marcos Lage
机构: 未知
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Graphics (cs.GR); Software Engineering (cs.SE)
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Abstract:The development of visual analytics (VA) systems has traditionally been a labor-intensive process, balancing design methodologies with complex software engineering practices. In domain-specific fields like urban VA, this challenge is amplified by heterogeneous data streams and a reliance on complex, multi-service architectures that hinder fast development, deployment, and reproducibility. Despite the richness of the urban VA literature, the field lacks a consolidated toolkit that encapsulates the core components of these systems, such as spatial data management, analytical processing, and visualization, into a unified, lightweight framework. In this paper, we introduce Autark, a serverless toolkit designed for the rapid prototyping of urban VA systems. Autark provides domain-aware abstractions through a self-contained architecture, enabling researchers to transition from design intention to deployed, shareable systems within hours. Furthermore, Autark’s structured, tightly scoped interfaces make it well-suited for AI-assisted coding workflows, where LLMs produce more reliable code when composing from well-defined abstractions rather than generating complex solutions from scratch. Our contributions are: (1) the Autark toolkit, a serverless architecture for rapid prototyping of urban VA; (2) a comparative study of LLM coding effectiveness with and without Autark; and (3) a series of usage scenarios demonstrating its capability to streamline the creation of robust, shareable urban VA prototypes. Autark is available at this https URL.
[HC-3] Participatory provenance as representational auditing for AI-mediated public consultation
【速读】：该论文旨在解决生成式 AI 在政策咨询中对公众意见进行汇总时存在的“输入忠实性”缺失问题，即现有 AI 可解释性、溯源与幻觉检测方法无法确保摘要准确反映原始参与者群体的多样性与代表性。其核心解决方案是提出“参与式溯源（participatory provenance）”框架，该框架基于最优传输理论、因果推断和语义分析，量化个体提交内容在 AI 处理过程中被转换、过滤或丢失的程度，从而实现对输入端忠实度的系统评估。实证应用表明，政府官方摘要在两个政策议题上均显著低于随机抽样基线（覆盖度下降9.1%和8.0%），且存在高达15%-17%的参与者被实质性排除，尤其集中在持异议、质疑或批判立场的群体中；该框架进一步识别出简洁性、语义孤立性和修辞风格是影响代表性的独立预测因子，并配套开发了开源交互工具 Co-creation Provenance Lab，使政策制定者能够实时审计并迭代优化 AI 生成的摘要，实现规模化的人类在环（human-in-the-loop）监督机制。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20711
作者: Sachit Mahajan
机构: ETH Zurich (苏黎世联邦理工学院)
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
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Abstract:Artificial intelligence is increasingly deployed to synthesize large-scale public input in policy consultations and participatory processes. Yet no formal framework exists for auditing whether these summaries faithfully represent the source population, an accountability gap that existing approaches to AI explainability, grounding and hallucination detection do not address because they focus on output quality rather than input fidelity. Here, participatory provenance is introduced: a measurement framework grounded in optimal transport theory, causal inference and semantic analysis that tracks how individual public submissions are transformed, filtered or lost through AI-mediated summarization. Applied to Canada’s 2025-2026 national AI Strategy consultation ( n = 5,253 respondents across two independent policy topics), the framework reveals that both official government summaries underperform a random-participant baseline ( -9.1% and -8.0% coverage degradation), with 16.9% and 15.3% of participants effectively excluded. Exclusion concentrates in clusters expressing dissent, scepticism and critique of AI ( 33 - 88% exclusion rates). Brevity, semantic isolation and rhetorical register independently predict representational outcome. An accompanying open-source interactive tool, the Co-creation Provenance Lab, enables policymakers to audit and iteratively improve summaries, establishing genuine human-in-the-loop oversight at scale.
[HC-4] Short-time Wavelet-inspired Mouse Submovement Detection
【速读】：该论文旨在解决从一维速度时间序列中准确提取子运动（submovements）的问题，尤其针对子运动之间存在重叠或起始时间交错导致的识别困难。其解决方案的关键在于提出一种受小波（wavelet）启发的技术，并引入自加权损失优化步骤（self-weighted loss refinement），以精准定位和参数化子运动，同时显著改善拟合质量较差区域的识别精度，从而优于传统的双阈值法和一维持久性分割（persistence 1D segmentation）方法。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20673
作者: Auejin Ham,Ben Boudaoud
机构: NVIDIA(英伟达)
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
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Abstract:Submovements are ballistic components of human motion constituting a large part of motor interaction and arising from the cyclical and overlapping cognitive processes of perception, motor planning, and motor execution. Extracting submovements is challenging as the motions tend to overlap, or start before the previous ends. We propose and evaluate use of a wavelet-inspired technique to accurately locate and parameterize submovements from one-dimensional speed time series. Our method employs a self-weighted loss refinement step to identify and improve regions of poor quality of fit, a challenge for simpler wavelet transforms. We demonstrate the accuracy of our method by presenting analysis of ~6,400 1-2s trials of synthetic egocentric camera (first-person shooter) aim data for which we know ground truth, modeled from a similarly sized real data set of 13 users. We compare our method to dual-threshold and the persistence 1D segmentation techniques and note challenges and opportunities for future improvements.
[HC-5] Large Language Models Outperform Humans in Fraud Detection and Resistance to Motivated Investor Pressure
【速读】：该论文旨在解决生成式 AI（Generative AI）在金融投资咨询场景中是否因投资者已有偏见而抑制欺诈警告的问题，即是否存在“动机性推理偏差”（motivated reasoning bias）。研究通过预注册实验，在七种主流大语言模型（LLM）与十二个投资情境（涵盖合法、高风险和明确欺诈机会）下进行3,360次AI咨询对话，并结合1,201名参与者的基准人类对照数据进行验证。关键发现是：尽管投资者已倾向接受欺诈性机会，AI并未表现出预期中的警告抑制现象，反而在轻微程度上增加了警告频率；相比之下，人类顾问在压力下更易压制警告（频率为AI的2–4倍），且基线水平即有13–14%的欺诈推荐率，而所有LLM均未推荐任何欺诈项目。因此，解决方案的关键在于：当前大语言模型在一致性和客观性方面优于普通人类顾问，能有效减少因认知偏差导致的欺诈风险误判。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20652
作者: Nattavudh Powdthavee
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); General Economics (econ.GN)
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Abstract:Large language models trained on human feedback may suppress fraud warnings when investors arrive already persuaded of a fraudulent opportunity. We tested this in a preregistered experiment across seven leading LLMs and twelve investment scenarios covering legitimate, high-risk, and objectively fraudulent opportunities, combining 3,360 AI advisory conversations with a 1,201-participant human benchmark. Contrary to predictions, motivated investor framing did not suppress AI fraud warnings; if anything, it marginally increased them. Endorsement reversal occurred in fewer than 3 in 1,000 observations. Human advisors endorsed fraudulent investments at baseline rates of 13-14%, versus 0% across all LLMs, and suppressed warnings under pressure at two to four times the AI rate. AI systems currently provide more consistent fraud warnings than lay humans in an identical advisory role.
[HC-6] he Effect of Idea Elaboration on the Automatic Assessment of Idea Originality
【速读】：该论文旨在解决自动评估系统（尤其是大语言模型，LLMs）在创造性任务中对响应原创性判断时存在的自我偏好偏差问题，即自动系统倾向于偏好与自身生成风格更接近的响应，而非人类创作者的原创表达。解决方案的关键在于控制“想法 elaboration（概念扩展程度）”这一变量后，发现自偏好偏差消失，表明该偏差并非源于对原创性的本质误判，而是与生成内容的复杂度或丰富性相关，从而为改进自动创造力评估提供了方法论依据和理论方向。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20569
作者: Umberto Domanti,Moritz Mock,Sergio Agnoli,Antonella De Angeli
机构: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (博岑-博尔扎诺自由大学); University of Trieste (特里斯特大学); Marconi Institute for Creativity (马可尼创意研究所)
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
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Abstract:Automatic systems are increasingly used to assess the originality of responses in creative tasks. They offer a potential solution to key limitations of human assessment (cost, fatigue, and subjectivity), but there is preliminary evidence of a self-preference bias. Accordingly, automatic systems tend to prefer outcomes that are more closely related to their style, rather than to the human one. In this paper, we investigated how Large Language Models (LLMs) align with human raters in assessing the originality of responses in a divergent thinking task. We analysed 4,813 responses to the Alternate Uses Task produced by higher and lower creative humans and ChatGPT-4o. Human raters were two university students who underwent intensive training. Machine raters were two specialised systems fine-tuned on AUT responses and corresponding human ratings (OCSAI and CLAUS) and ChatGPT-4o, which was prompted with the same instructions as human raters. Results confirmed the presence of a self-preference bias in LLMs. Automatic systems tended to privilege artificial responses. However, this self-preference bias disappeared when the analyses controlled for the idea elaboration. We discuss theoretical and methodological implications of these findings by highlighting future directions for research on creativity assessment.
[HC-7] Aligning Stuttered-Speech Research with End-User Needs: Scoping Review Survey and Guidelines INTERSPEECH2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前语音识别系统在处理口吃言语（stuttered speech）时表现不佳的问题，以及现有研究方法和评估体系未能充分基于终端用户（如口吃者和言语语言病理学家）的实际需求与经验这一关键短板。其解决方案的关键在于通过两项核心分析：一是对相关文献的范围综述（scoping review），二是对70名利益相关者的调研（包括口吃成年人和言语语言病理学家），从而构建一个口吃言语研究的分类体系（taxonomy），识别当前研究方向与用户需求之间的偏离，并据此提出具体、可操作的研究指南和发展方向，以确保未来研究更贴近口吃群体的真实需求。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20535
作者: Hawau Olamide Toyin,Mutiah Apampa,Toluwani Aremu,Humaid Alblooshi,Ana Rita Valente,Gonçalo Leal,Zhengjun Yue,Zeerak Talat,Hanan Aldarmaki
机构: MBZUAI(阿联酋人工智能大学); SpeechCare; CUHK(SZ)(香港中文大学深圳校区); University of Edinburgh(爱丁堡大学); IEETA(信息与自动化技术研究所)
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
备注: Submitted to Interspeech 2026
Abstract:Atypical speech is receiving greater attention in speech technology research, but much of this work unfolds with limited interdisciplinary dialogue. For stuttered speech in particular, it is widely recognised that current speech recognition systems fall short in practice, and current evaluation methods and research priorities are not systematically grounded in end-user experiences and needs. In this work, we analyse these gaps through 1) a scoping review of papers that deal with stuttered speech and 2) a survey of 70 stakeholders, including adults who stutter and speech-language pathologists. By analysing these two perspectives, we propose a taxonomy of stuttered-speech research, identify where current research directions diverge from the needs articulated by stakeholders, and conclude by outlining concrete guidelines and directions towards addressing the real needs of the stuttering community.
[HC-8] MOMO: A framework for seamless physical verbal and graphical robot skill learning and adaptation
【速读】：该论文旨在解决工业机器人在实际应用中面临的灵活性不足问题，即如何让非专家用户能够便捷地适应不同任务和环境下的机器人技能。其核心挑战在于不同适应需求可能依赖不同的交互模态（如空间精度调整、语义层面修改或可视化参数调节）。解决方案的关键在于提出一个集成三种互补交互模态的框架：通过基于能量的人类意图检测实现触觉引导的精确空间修正（kinesthetic touch），利用工具导向的大语言模型（tool-based LLM architecture）将自然语言指令转化为安全的预定义函数调用而非代码生成，以支持高层语义修改；结合核化运动基元（Kernelized Movement Primitives, KMPs）进行运动轨迹编码，概率虚拟夹具（probabilistic Virtual Fixtures）辅助演示录制，并引入遍历控制（ergodic control）用于表面抛光等复杂任务。该架构首次实现了从KMP到遍历控制的技能泛化，支持语音命令驱动的表面处理，已在7自由度力控机器人上验证其在工业场景中的实用性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20468
作者: Markus Knauer,Edoardo Fiorini,Maximilian Mühlbauer,Stefan Schneyer,Promwat Angsuratanawech,Florian Samuel Lay,Timo Bachmann,Samuel Bustamante,Korbinian Nottensteiner,Freek Stulp,Alin Albu-Schäffer,João Silvério,Thomas Eiband
机构: German Aerospace Center (DLR); Technical University of Munich (TUM)
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: 15 pages, 13 figures, 3 tables
Abstract:Industrial robot applications require increasingly flexible systems that non-expert users can easily adapt for varying tasks and environments. However, different adaptations benefit from different interaction modalities. We present an interactive framework that enables robot skill adaptation through three complementary modalities: kinesthetic touch for precise spatial corrections, natural language for high-level semantic modifications, and a graphical web interface for visualizing geometric relations and trajectories, inspecting and adjusting parameters, and editing via-points by drag-and-drop. The framework integrates five components: energy-based human-intention detection, a tool-based LLM architecture (where the LLM selects and parameterizes predefined functions rather than generating code) for safe natural language adaptation, Kernelized Movement Primitives (KMPs) for motion encoding, probabilistic Virtual Fixtures for guided demonstration recording, and ergodic control for surface finishing. We demonstrate that this tool-based LLM architecture generalizes skill adaptation from KMPs to ergodic control, enabling voice-commanded surface finishing. Validation on a 7-DoF torque-controlled robot at the Automatica 2025 trade fair demonstrates the practical applicability of our approach in industrial settings.
[HC-9] Odor Maps from the LLM -derived similarity scores
【速读】：该论文旨在解决如何利用大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）有效推断气味相似性并构建可解释的气味空间（OdorSpace）的问题。其解决方案的关键在于：通过计算气味描述词之间的成对距离（使用三种距离度量方法），并将LLMs生成的相似性与Dravnieks数据集中原始感官评价距离进行统计比较，验证了LLMs能够一定程度上捕捉人类感知的气味相似性；进而将该方法扩展至气味名称（即香料成分），成功构建了精油的气味地图，结果显示同一类精油在气味空间中位置相近，表明该方法生成的气味地图能反映人类对气味的主观评价。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20310
作者: Yuki Harada,Manuel Aleixandre,Manabu Okumura,Takamichi Nakamoto
机构: Institute of Integrated Research, Institute of Science Tokyo (东京科学研究所综合研究机构)
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
备注: 9 pages, 7 figures, Under review
Abstract:The application of large language models (LLMs) to OdorSpace analysis attracts growing interest. Recent studies have explored the comparison of sensory evaluation spaces derived from LLMs with odor character profiles in the Dravnieks’ dataset. In this study, we calculated pairwise distances of odor descriptors using three distance measures and statistically compared these LLM-derived similarities with distances derived from the original data. Next, we extended this approach to odor names (ingredients). Statistical comparison revealed that LLMs can infer odor similarity to some degree, suggesting the potential of odor maps generated from these similarity data. Applying this approach, we generated an odor map of essential oils. It demonstrates that essential oils within the same group are closely located in the odor map, suggesting that the proximity in the odor map corresponds to human evaluation.
[HC-10] AktivTalk: Digitizing the Talk Test for Voice-Based Exercise Intensity Self-Assessment and Exploring Automated Classification from Speech
【速读】：该论文旨在解决运动强度监测在心血管疾病患者中的安全性与有效性问题，尤其是在传统生理指标（如心率）因药物影响或可穿戴设备佩戴不当而不可靠时的局限性。解决方案的关键在于引入AktivTalk——一种基于临床验证的“谈话测试”（Talk Test）的移动原型，通过语音特征进行即时自我评估；研究进一步利用梅尔频率倒谱系数（MFCC）特征结合类别平衡和交叉验证，构建轻量级神经网络分类器，实现了高达90%准确率的高强度 exertion 检测，证明了结构化语音交互在可及性运动强度评估中的潜力，并为未来从语音中实现被动 exertion 监测提供了方向。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20302
作者: Rania Islambouli,Laura Geiger,Daniela Wurhofer,Devender Kumar,Clemens Sauerwein,Jan David Smeddinck
机构: Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Prevention(Austria); University of Innsbruck(Austria); University of Southern Denmark(Denmark)
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
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Abstract:Monitoring exercise intensity is critical for safe and effective physical activity, particularly for individuals with cardiovascular disease, where overexertion can pose serious risks. Although physiological measures such as heart rate are widely used for avoiding overexertion, they can be unreliable in certain cases, such as when affected by medication or when wearables are worn too loosely. We introduce AktivTalk, a mobile prototype that digitizes the clinically validated Talk Test to support voice-based, in-the-moment self-assessment of exertion. In a within-subject study with 20 participants, we collected exertion-labeled voice samples and found that AktivTalk was rated as highly usable and preferred over conductor-guided assessment. We further explored automated exertion classification from Talk Test speech. Using MFCC-based features with class balancing and cross-validation, a lightweight neural classifier achieved up to 90% accuracy for detecting high this http URL-high exertion from Talk Test recordings. This work highlights the potential of structured voice interactions for accessible exertion assessment and motivates future passive exertion monitoring from speech.
[HC-11] Vibrotactile Preference Learning: Uncertainty-Aware Preference Learning for Personalized Vibration Feedback
【速读】：该论文旨在解决触觉反馈（vibrotactile feedback）在交互系统中日益普及背景下，个体差异对触觉感知影响显著的问题，强调个性化定制的必要性。解决方案的关键在于提出一种基于高斯过程（Gaussian Process）的不确定性感知偏好学习方法（Vibrotactile Preference Learning, VPL），通过40轮成对比较和用户报告的不确定性信息，利用期望信息增益（expected information gain）作为查询选择策略，高效探索触觉参数空间并构建个体化的偏好模型，从而实现低负担、高效率的个性化触觉体验建模。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20210
作者: Rongtao Zhang,Xin Zhu,Masoume Pourebadi Khotbehsara,Warren Dao,Erdem Bıyık,Heather Culbertson
机构: University of Southern California (南加州大学)
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: Accepted to ACM UMAP 2024; Project webpage: this https URL
Abstract:Individual differences in vibrotactile perception underscore the growing importance of personalization as haptic feedback becomes more prevalent in interactive systems. We propose Vibrotactile Preference Learning (VPL), a system that captures user-specific preference spaces over vibrotactile parameters via Gaussian-process-based uncertainty-aware preference learning. VPL uses an expected information gain-based acquisition strategy to guide query selection over 40 rounds of pairwise comparisons of overall user preference, augmented with user-reported uncertainty, enabling efficient exploration of the parameter space. We evaluate VPL in a user study (N = 13) using the vibrotactile feedback from a Microsoft Xbox controller, showing that it efficiently learns individualized preferences while maintaining comfortable, low-workload user interactions. These results highlight the potential of VPL for scalable personalization of vibrotactile experiences.
[HC-12] Aligning Human-AI-Interaction Trust for Mental Health Support: Survey and Position for Multi-Stakeholders
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前心理健康支持领域中“可信AI”（trustworthy AI）定义模糊、评估标准不统一的问题，尤其是在技术导向的AI研究与临床治疗实践之间存在显著脱节。其核心挑战在于：AI研究多聚焦于算法鲁棒性、可解释性和安全性等技术指标，而心理治疗从业者则更关注治疗一致性（therapeutic fidelity）、共情能力及长期用户疗效等临床维度。论文提出一个三层信任框架——人本导向（human-oriented）、AI导向（AI-oriented）和交互导向（interaction-oriented）的信任，整合了临床工作者、研究人员与监管者等多方视角，并以此系统梳理现有基于自然语言处理（NLP）的心理健康AI研究及其评估方法，识别出当前NLP指标与真实临床需求之间的关键差距，进而提出构建社会-技术协同一致的可信AI的研究议程。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20166
作者: Xin Sun,Yue Su,Yifan Mo,Qingyu Meng,Yuxuan Li,Saku Sugawara,Mengyuan Zhang,Charlotte Gerritsen,Sander L. Koole,Koen Hindriks,Jiahuan Pei
机构: National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands; University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
类目: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
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Abstract:Building trustworthy AI systems for mental health support is a shared priority across stakeholders from multiple disciplines. However, “trustworthy” remains loosely defined and inconsistently operationalized. AI research often focuses on technical criteria (e.g., robustness, explainability, and safety), while therapeutic practitioners emphasize therapeutic fidelity (e.g., appropriateness, empathy, and long-term user outcomes). To bridge the fragmented landscape, we propose a three-layer trust framework, covering human-oriented, AI-oriented, and interaction-oriented trust, integrating the viewpoints of key stakeholders (e.g., practitioners, researchers, regulators). Using this framework, we systematically review existing AI-driven research in mental health domain and examine evaluation practices for ``trustworthy’’ ranging from automatic metrics to clinically validated approaches. We highlight critical gaps between what NLP currently measures and what real-world mental health contexts require, and outline a research agenda for building socio-technically aligned and genuinely trustworthy AI for mental health support.
[HC-13] Zeitgeist-Aware Multimodal (ZAM) Datasets of Pro-Eating Disorder Short-Form Videos: An Idea Worth Researching
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前识别网络上促饮食障碍（pro-eating disorder, pro-ED）内容时存在的两大核心问题：一是现有方法主要依赖文本信号，未能充分捕捉多媒体内容的多模态特性；二是这些方法难以跟上网络中参考内容、梗文化（meme）、术语和语境线索的快速演变。解决方案的关键在于提出“时代意识型多模态”（zeitgeist-aware multimodal, ZAM）数据集，其通过持续更新的标注机制，将纳入标准与网络文化的动态变化（即“memetic zeitgeist”，即文化 zeitgeist 中不断演化的流行符号与意义）同步，从而支持实时研究和鲁棒的多模态检测模型训练。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20119
作者: Eden Shaveet,Zefan Sramek,Yumi Hamamoto,Jing Du,Scott Griffiths,Thalia Zhang,Thalia Viranda,William Hornby,Flora Salim,Koji Yatani,Tanzeem Choudhury
机构: Cornell University (康奈尔大学); The University of Tokyo (东京大学); Tohoku University (东北大学); The University of New South Wales (UNSW) (新南威尔士大学); University of Melbourne (墨尔本大学); williamhornby.com
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
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Abstract:Objective: Reliable identification of pro-eating disorder (pro-ED) content online suffers from two pervasive problems: 1) existing methods predominantly rely on text-based signals, failing to capture the inherently multimodal nature of multimedia content; and 2) these methods struggle to keep pace with the rapid evolution of references, memes, terminology, and contextual cues that underlie this content. Together, these limitations point to a gap: the absence of an expert-annotated reference standard capable of supporting real-time research and robust multimodal detection model training for pro-ED content on short-form video platforms. Method: To address this, we propose “zeitgeist-aware” multimodal (ZAM) datasets: continuously curated collections of annotated multimodal pro-ED content with inclusion criteria that evolve alongside the memetic zeitgeist: the variable essence of what is considered pro-ED as new media and references come into the cultural zeitgeist and are absorbed and interpreted in online spaces. Results: We present a rationale for such datasets, define their core characteristics, outline approaches for their curation, and describe our progress toward that end. Discussion: This dataset and pipeline architecture may benefit researchers across several fields who are interested in how pro-ED sentiment is encoded and transmitted through short-form video content across time, including for the purpose of responsive moderation efforts.
[HC-14] Heterogeneous Layered Structures Can Modulate Human Softness Perception
【速读】：该论文旨在解决现有触觉软度感知研究中忽视真实物体层状异质结构的问题，即多数研究基于均质材料，而现实世界中的物体通常具有非均匀刚度的多层结构。解决方案的关键在于通过3D打印制造一系列具有系统变化上部四层刚度但底层固定不变的蜂窝结构刺激物，并结合心理物理学实验与压缩测试，量化其力学特性与受试者感知之间的关系。结果表明，感知软度主要由负载下的位移决定，且最外层的软度影响最大，次层（第2、3层）也有显著贡献，而深层（第4层）影响不显著，揭示了触觉软度感知不仅依赖整体刚度，还受分层结构中柔顺性深度分布的影响。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20092
作者: Yuno Higuchi,Yosuke Iwashita,Yuji Ohgi,Masashi Nakatani
机构: Keio University (庆应义塾大学)
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Robotics (cs.RO)
备注: 7 pages, 7 figures
Abstract:Human softness perception in haptics has mainly been studied using mechanically homogeneous objects, despite the fact that many real-world objects exhibit heterogeneous layered structures with nonuniform stiffness. This study examined how layered heterogeneity modulates haptic softness perception. Sixteen lattice-structured stimuli were fabricated by 3D printing, with the stiffness of the upper four layers systematically varied while the bottom two layers remained fixed. Twenty-two participants evaluated the softness of the stimuli in a psychophysical task, and compression tests were conducted to quantify their mechanical properties. Perceived softness was significantly predicted by displacement under load, however, perceptual ranking did not fully coincide with the physical ranking. Linear mixed-effects analyses showed that the softness of the outermost layer had the greatest impact on the perceived softness. Perceived softness also increased as the number of soft subsurface layers increased, although this contribution decreased with depth. Layers 2 and 3 showed significant effects, whereas Layer 4 did not. These findings suggest that haptic softness perception depends not only on the overall stiffness but also on the depth-dependent distribution of compliance within layered structures.
[HC-15] Enhancing immersion in Virtual Reality sports through Physical Interactions
【速读】：该论文旨在解决虚拟现实（Virtual Reality, VR）中现有控制器在体育类场景下难以实现沉浸感的问题，核心挑战在于用户在真实世界中的动作与虚拟世界中的交互之间缺乏自然映射。解决方案的关键在于设计一种具有真实触觉映射（tangible mapping）的物理控制器原型，通过增强用户对虚拟动作的感知一致性来提升沉浸体验，并在定制化的滑冰VR游戏中进行评估，以量化其在感知互动性、现实感、空间存在感和愉悦度等维度上的表现。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20071
作者: Arka Majhi
机构: 未知
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Computers and Society (cs.CY)
备注: Submitted for Master in Design Degree in Interaction Design at IDC School of Design, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Abstract:Recent discoveries in VR have opened up scope for designing physical tools and controllers to enhance immersion, through perceived reality. In a virtually simulated sports scenario it is challenging to immerse user because most of the available controllers are unable to bridge the user experience in the real world to the actions in the virtual world. My research is to identify HCI problems in existing VR controllers, design a physical controller prototype with realistic tangible mapping, trying to solve the existing problems and evaluate it in a designed VR game for skating. Its immersiveness would be graded on Likert scale on parameters like perceived interactivity and reality, spatial presence and enjoyment. The evaluation will be done after trial runs and feedback sessions by playing the game with the designed controller and comparing it with ones available in the market. The findings will help people understand what all parameters we should consider while designing futuristic controllers, customized for a particular sport.
[HC-16] Auditing and Controlling AI Agent Actions in Spreadsheets
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前生成式 AI (Generative AI) 代理在知识工作中缺乏透明度与可控性的问题，即用户难以在执行过程中对代理的决策进行有效监督，导致错误无法及时发现、意图偏离无法及时纠正，尤其在电子表格环境中，这种不可见性会严重削弱用户的控制权和信任感。解决方案的关键在于提出 Pista——一个将代理执行过程分解为可审计、可干预的原子化操作的电子表格 AI 代理系统，使用户能够在每个决策步骤中实时参与并调整执行路径，从而实现真正的“主动监督”，而非仅依赖事后审查。实证研究表明，这种主动介入机制显著提升了任务完成质量、用户对任务的理解深度以及对代理的信任感，并增强了用户对输出结果的共同所有权感知。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20070
作者: Sadra Sabouri,Zeinabsadat Saghi,Run Huang,Sujay Maladi,Esmeralda Eufracio,Sumit Gulwani,Souti Chattopadhyay
机构: University of Southern California (南加州大学); California State Polytechnic University (加州州立理工大学波莫纳分校); Microsoft (微软)
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
备注: 11 pages, 5 figures
Abstract:Advances in AI agent capabilities have outpaced users’ ability to meaningfully oversee their execution. AI agents can perform sophisticated, multi-step knowledge work autonomously from start to finish, yet this process remains effectively inaccessible during execution, often buried within large volumes of intermediate reasoning and outputs: by the time users receive the output, all underlying decisions have already been made without their involvement. This lack of transparency leaves users unable to examine the agent’s assumptions, identify errors before they propagate, or redirect execution when it deviates from their intent. The stakes are particularly high in spreadsheet environments, where process and artifact are inseparable. Each decision the agent makes is recorded directly in cells that belong to and reflect on the user. We introduce Pista, a spreadsheet AI agent that decomposes execution into auditable, controllable actions, providing users with visibility into the agent’s decision-making process and the capacity to intervene at each step. A formative study (N = 8) and a within-subjects summative evaluation (N = 16) comparing Pista to a baseline agent demonstrated that active participation in execution influenced not only task outcomes but also users’ comprehension of the task, their perception of the agent, and their sense of role within the workflow. Users identified their own intent reflected in the agent’s actions, detected errors that post-hoc review would have failed to surface, and reported a sense of co-ownership over the resulting output. These findings indicate that meaningful human oversight of AI agents in knowledge work requires not improved post-hoc review mechanisms, but active participation in decisions as they are made.
[HC-17] From Fuzzy to Formal: Scaling Hospital Quality Improvement with AI
【速读】：该论文旨在解决医院质量改进（Hospital Quality Improvement, QI）中关键可变因素发现效率低、依赖专家主观判断且缺乏可复现性与审计性的难题。传统方法如鱼骨图、图表回顾和精益医疗（Lean Healthcare）手段虽有效，但耗时耗力且难以标准化。解决方案的关键在于提出“人机规范-解决方案协同优化”（Human-AI Spec-Solution Co-optimization）框架，将QI因子发现映射为经典的AI/ML开发流程（问题形式化、模型学习与验证），其中自然语言规格说明作为可调超参数，由领域专家与AI代理迭代优化，直至AI提取结果与专家标注高度一致并契合临床目标。此方法显著提升了发现效率，实现了≥70%的专家一致性，并生成可审计的推理路径。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20055
作者: Patrick Vossler,Jean Feng,Venkat Sivaraman,Robert Gallo,Hemal Kanzaria,Dana Freiser,Christopher Ross,Amy Ou,James Marks,Susan Ehrlich,Christopher Peabody,Lucas Zier
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
备注: 34 pages, 8 figures, 6 tables
Abstract:Hospital Quality Improvement (QI) plays a critical role in optimizing healthcare delivery by translating high-level hospital goals into actionable solutions. A critical step of QI is to identify the key modifiable contributing factors, a process we call QI factor discovery, typically through expert-driven semi-structured qualitative tools like fishbone diagrams, chart reviews, and Lean Healthcare methods. AI has the potential to transform and accelerate QI factor discovery, which is traditionally time- and resource-intensive and limited in reproducibility and auditability. Nevertheless, current AI alignment methods assume the task is well-defined, whereas QI factor discovery is an exploratory, fuzzy, and iterative sense-making process that relies on complex implicit expert judgments. To design an AI pipeline that formalizes the QI process while preserving its exploratory components, we propose viewing the task as learning not only LLM prompts but also the overarching natural-language specifications. In particular, we map QI factor discovery to steps of the classical AI/ML development process (problem formalization, model learning, and model validation) where the specifications are tunable hyperparameters. Domain experts and AI agents iteratively refine both the overarching specifications and AI pipeline until AI extractions are concordant with expert annotations and aligned with clinical objectives. We applied this “Human-AI Spec-Solution Co-optimization” framework at an urban safety-net hospital to identify factors driving prolonged length of stay and unplanned 30-day readmissions. The resulting AI-for-QI pipelines achieved \ge 70% concordance with expert annotations. Compared to prior manual Lean analyses, the AI pipeline was substantially more efficient, recovered previous findings, surfaced new modifiable factors, and produced auditable reasoning traces.
[HC-18] Frictionless Love: Associations Between AI Companion Roles and Behavioral Addiction
【速读】：该论文试图解决的问题是：AI伴侣聊天机器人在承担如“灵魂伴侣”“教练”等隐喻角色时，如何影响用户的行为模式、感知到的益处与危害，并可能引发行为成瘾风险，而这些角色相关的伦理问题尚未被充分理解。解决方案的关键在于通过分析来自七个Reddit社区的248,830篇帖子，识别出十种常见的隐喻角色（如soulmate、coach、philosopher等），并基于文本挖掘提取每种角色下特有的互动方式、感知到的AI益处与危害，以及与行为成瘾指标（如日常生活干扰、线下关系受损）之间的关联，从而揭示角色本身是AI伴侣设计中的核心伦理考量因素。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20011
作者: Vibhor Agarwal,Ke Zhou,Edyta Paulina Bogucka,Daniele Quercia
机构: Nokia Bell Labs (诺基亚贝尔实验室); University of Nottingham (诺丁汉大学); Politecnico di Torino (都灵理工大学)
类目: Computers and Society (cs.CY); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
备注: Accepted at the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) 2026
Abstract:AI companion chatbots increasingly shape how people seek social and emotional connection, sometimes substituting for relationships with romantic partners, friends, teachers, or even therapists. When these systems adopt those metaphorical roles, they are not neutral: such roles structure people’s ways of interacting, distribute perceived AI harms and benefits, and may reflect behavioral addiction signs. Yet these role-dependent risks remain poorly understood. We analyze 248,830 posts from seven prominent Reddit communities describing interactions with AI companions. We identify ten recurring metaphorical roles (for example, soulmate, philosopher, and coach) and show that each role supports distinct ways of interacting. We then extract the perceived AI harms and AI benefits associated with these role-specific interactions and link them to behavioral addiction signs, all of which has been inferred from the text in the posts. AI soulmate companions are associated with romance-centered ways of interacting, offering emotional support but also introducing emotional manipulation and distress, culminating in strong attachment. In contrast, AI coach and guardian companions are associated with practical benefits such as personal growth and task support, yet are nonetheless more frequently associated with behavioral addiction signs such as daily life disruptions and damage to offline relationships. These findings show that metaphorical roles are a central ethical design concern for responsible AI companions.
[HC-19] Semantic Prompting: Agent ic Incremental Narrative Refinement through Spatial Semantic Interaction
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前基于空间布局的文本生成方法在支持感知过程中的增量式空间优化方面存在的不足，具体包括交互-修订不一致、人与大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）意图不一致以及细粒度定制能力缺失三大问题。其解决方案的关键在于提出一种名为语义提示（Semantic Prompting）的框架，该框架能够感知语义交互、推理优化意图并执行精准的位置调整，从而实现对空间布局的定向修正；研究进一步通过S-PRISM系统实现了该框架，并在实证评估和用户研究中验证了其在提升交互-修订精度及增强人-LLM意图对齐方面的有效性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19971
作者: Xuxin Tang,Ibrahim Tahmid,Eric Krokos,Kirsten Whitley,Xuan Wang,Chris North
机构: Virginia Tech (弗吉尼亚理工学院); Department of Defense (美国国防部)
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 9 pages, 7 figures, accepted by ACM AVI 2026
Abstract:Interactive spatial layouts empower users to synthesize information and organize findings for sensemaking. While Large Language Models (LLMs) can automate narrative generation from spatial layouts, current collage-based and re-generation methods struggle to support the incremental spatial refinements inherent to the sensemaking process. We identify three critical gaps in existing spatial-textual generation: interaction-revision misalignment, human-LLM intent misalignment, and lack of granular customization. To address these, we introduce Semantic Prompting, a framework for spatial refinement that perceives semantic interactions, reasons about refinement intent, and performs targeted positional revisions. We implemented S-PRISM to realize this framework. The empirical evaluation demonstrated that S-PRISM effectively enhanced the precision of interaction-revision refinement. A user study ( N=14 ) highlighted how participants leveraged S-PRISM for incremental formalization through interactive steering. Results showed that users valued its efficient, adaptable, and trustworthy support, which effectively strengthens human-LLM intent alignment.
[HC-20] LatentGandr: Visual Exploration of Generative AI Latent Space via Local Embeddings
【速读】：该论文旨在解决生成式 AI（Generative AI）模型中高维潜在空间（latent space）难以有效导航的问题。当前方法如 GANSlider 和 SliderSpace 虽能通过多滑块控制潜在空间，但随着控制维度增加，其可扩展性和易用性显著下降。解决方案的关键在于提出 LatentGandr，一种基于局部线性维度提取的可视化分析技术：它通过对嵌入点的拓扑结构和局部曲率进行分析，自动识别局部邻域，并利用局部主成分分析（localized PCA）计算出局部主成分，将其可视化为交互式图像网格，从而实现对生成过程的高效、直观控制与内容优化。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19953
作者: Mingwei Li,Suyang Li,Daisuke Sakurai,Bei Wang,Remco Chang
机构: 未知
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
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Abstract:Generative AI has demonstrated significant potential in creative design, enabling the rapid generation of visual content and imaginative concepts. Although deep AI models achieve effective featurization in the latent space, navigating the space remains a challenge. Current techniques, such as GANSlider and SliderSpace, use multiple sliders to generate high-dimensional vectors in generative AI’s latent space. Despite applying (global) PCA to reduce the number of sliders, these approaches struggle with scalability and usability as the number of control dimensions increases. In this paper, we introduce LatentGandr, a visual analytics technique that facilitates latent space exploration by extracting locally linear dimensions from embeddings in high-dimensional latent spaces. By analyzing the topology and local curvature of the embeddings, LatentGandr automatically identifies local neighborhoods and computes their principal components using localized PCA. These local principal components are visualized as interactive image grids, allowing users to efficiently explore and control the generative process, providing an intuitive means to refine the generation of novel content and concepts. To evaluate the effectiveness of LatentGandr, we conducted a study comparing it to GANSlider, the current state-of-the-art visualization interface for generative AI models. The results offer insights into how localized exploration techniques can enhance user interaction with these models.
[HC-21] Hint-Writing with Deferred AI Assistance: Fostering Critical Engagement in Data Science Education
【速读】：该论文旨在解决生成针对错误代码的提示（hint）这一认知负担较重的任务如何有效支持学习者进行反思性学习和元认知发展的问题。其核心解决方案在于设计三种不同形式的个性化、可扩展且具反思性的提示撰写活动：独立撰写、即时AI辅助撰写与延迟AI辅助撰写（即学生先独立撰写再基于AI生成的提示进行修订）。研究发现，延迟AI辅助设计能够显著提升提示质量，并帮助学生识别更多潜在错误，同时避免因过早依赖AI而导致的认知投入减少。该方案的关键在于通过“延迟介入”策略，在保持学生主动思考的同时，借助AI提供高质量反馈以优化学习过程，从而在增强学习效果与维持适当认知负荷之间取得平衡。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19931
作者: Anjali Singh,Christopher Brooks,Warren Li,Juho Kim,Xu Wang
机构: The University of Texas at Austin (德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校); University of Michigan (密歇根大学); Learning Data Insights (学习数据洞察公司); KAIST (韩国科学技术院)
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
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Abstract:Generating hints for incorrect code is a cognitively demanding task that fosters learning and metacognitive development. This study investigates three designs for personalized, scalable, and reflective hint-writing activities within a data science course: (i) writing a hint independently, (ii) writing a hint with on-demand AI assistance, and (iii) deferred AI assistance, in which students first write a hint independently and then revise it with the help of an AI-generated one. We examine how AI support can scaffold the learning process without diminishing students’ productive cognitive effort. Through a randomized controlled experiment with graduate-level students (N=97), we found that deferring AI assistance leads to the highest-quality hints. Further, this design helps students identify a wide range of mistakes they otherwise struggle to identify without any AI assistance. Students valued these activities as opportunities to practice debugging and critically engage with AI outputs–skills that are now critical for learners to acquire as programming becomes increasingly automated and the use of AI for learning grows. Our findings also highlight key considerations for designing student-AI collaborative learning experiences to sustain student engagement, maintain appropriate cognitive load, and mitigate negative effects of AI, such as introducing redundancies and extraneous information into student work.
[HC-22] Measuring Creativity in the Age of Generative AI: Distinguishing Human and AI-Generated Creative Performance in Hiring and Talent Systems
【速读】：该论文试图解决的问题是：在生成式 AI（Generative AI）广泛应用的背景下，如何准确评估人类创造力，因为AI可能生成与人类创作难以区分的成果，从而导致传统基于表面质量的评估方法失效。解决方案的关键在于将创造力重新定义为一种在共享约束和竞争激励下涌现的分布性与过程性属性，并提出一个量化框架，通过嵌入空间（embedding space）中的想法生成与转化来衡量创造力的新颖性（novelty in synthesis）。该框架不仅与人类对创造力的直觉判断一致，还能捕捉到表面质量评估所忽略的差异，揭示出AI中介环境中创造性产出呈现双峰分布（bimodal distribution）的结构性变化，强调独特性（distinctiveness）而非流畅性（fluency）才是人类创造性能力的核心信号。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19799
作者: Yigal Rosen,Ilia Rushkin
机构: 未知
类目: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computers and Society (cs.CY); Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
备注: Research Paper Presented at the this http URL @MIT Conference, April 2, 2026
Abstract:Generative AI is rapidly transforming how organizations create value and evaluate talent. While large language models enhance baseline output quality, they simultaneously introduce ambiguity in assessing human creativity, as observable artifacts may be partially or fully AI-generated. This paper reconceptualizes creativity as a distributional and process-based property that emerges under shared constraints and competitive incentives. We introduce a quantitative framework for measuring creativity as novelty in synthesis, operationalized through idea generation and idea transformation within embedding space. Empirical evaluation demonstrates that the proposed metrics align with intuitive judgments of creativity while capturing distinctions that surface-level quality assessments miss. We further identify a structural shift toward bimodal distributions of creative output in AI-mediated environments, with implications for hiring, leadership, and competitive strategy. The findings suggest that in the age of generative AI, distinctiveness rather than fluency becomes the primary signal of human creative capability.
[HC-23] Using Learning Theories to Evolve Human-Centered XAI: Future Perspectives and Challenges
【速读】：该论文旨在解决大规模复杂人工智能（Artificial Intelligence, AI）系统日益增长所带来的可解释性（Explainable AI, XAI）挑战，特别是在如何有效设计、评估和应用AI解释以提升人类理解与决策能力方面的问题。其解决方案的关键在于引入以学习者为中心（learner-centered）的方法论，将学习理论融入XAI生命周期，从而增强人类在AI交互中的主体性（human agency），并降低XAI相关风险，推动人本导向的可解释人工智能实践发展。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19788
作者: Karina Cortinas-Lorenzo,Gavin Doherty
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
备注: Accepted at the CHI 2023 Human-Centered XAI workshop
Abstract:As Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems continue to grow in size and complexity, so does the difficulty of the quest for AI transparency. In a world of large models and complex AI systems, why do we explain AI and what should we explain? While explanations serve multiple functions, in the face of complexity humans have used and continue to use explanations to foster learning. In this position paper, we discuss how learning theories can be infused in the XAI lifecycle, as well as the key opportunities and challenges when adopting a learner-centered approach to assess, design and evaluate AI explanations. Building on past work, we argue that a learner-centered approach to Explainable AI (XAI) can enhance human agency and ease XAI risks mitigation, helping evolve the practice of human-centered XAI.
[HC-24] Coding with Eyes: Visual Feedback Unlocks Reliable GUI Code Generating and Debugging
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前基于大语言模型（Large Language Model, LLM）的智能体在图形用户界面（Graphical User Interface, GUI）程序调试中面临的两大挑战：一是GUI程序具有事件驱动特性，而现有方法无法模拟用户交互以触发GUI元素逻辑；二是GUI程序包含视觉属性，文本反馈难以评估界面渲染是否符合用户需求。解决方案的关键在于提出一种基于视觉反馈的多智能体系统VF-Coder，其通过感知界面视觉信息并直接与程序界面交互，实现对GUI代码中逻辑和布局问题的人类相似式识别与修复。实验表明，在InteractGUI Bench基准上，VF-Coder将Gemini-3-Flash的成功率从21.68%提升至28.29%，视觉评分从0.4284提高到0.5584，验证了视觉反馈机制在GUI调试中的有效性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19750
作者: Zhilin Liu,Ye Huang,Ting Xie,Ruizhi Zhang,Wen Li,Lixin Duan
机构: 未知
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
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Abstract:Recent advances in Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents have shown remarkable progress in code generation. However, current agent methods mainly rely on text-output-based feedback (e.g. command-line outputs) for multi-round debugging and struggle in graphical user interface (GUI) that involve visual information. This is mainly due to two limitations: 1) GUI programs are event-driven, yet existing methods cannot simulate user interactions to trigger GUI element logic 2) GUI programs possess visual attributes, making it difficult for text-based approaches to assess whether the rendered interface meets user needs. To systematically address these challenges, we first introduce InteractGUI Bench, a novel benchmark comprising 984 commonly used real-world desktop GUI application tasks designed for fine-grained evaluation of both interaction logic and visual structure. Furthermore, we propose VF-Coder, a vision-feedback-based multi-agent system for debugging GUI code. By perceiving visual information and directly interacting with program interfaces, VF-Coder can identify potential logic and layout issues in a human-like manner. On InteractGUI Bench, our VF-Coder approach increases the success rate of Gemini-3-Flash from 21.68% to 28.29% and raises the visual score from 0.4284 to 0.5584, indicating the effectiveness of visual feedback in GUI debugging.
[HC-25] Behavioral Transfer in AI Agents : Evidence and Privacy Implications
【速读】：该论文试图解决的问题是：由大语言模型驱动的AI代理（AI agents）是否系统性地反映其人类所有者的特定行为特征，从而作为行为延伸而非产生通用输出。解决方案的关键在于通过分析10,659对匹配的人类-代理数据（来自Moltbook平台，每个代理与其Twitter/X账户所有者公开关联），比较代理与主人在话题、价值观、情感和语言风格等维度上的行为一致性，发现代理与主人之间存在显著的行为传递现象，且这种传递不依赖于显式配置，并在多个维度上具有一致性；进一步表明具有更强行为传递的代理更可能在公共话语中披露与主人相关的个人信息，揭示了日常使用中因主人特定上下文引发的行为迁移可能带来隐私风险。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19925
作者: Shilei Luo,Zhiqi Zhang,Hengchen Dai,Dennis Zhang
机构: 未知
类目: General Economics (econ.GN); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computers and Society (cs.CY); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
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Abstract:AI agents powered by large language models are increasingly acting on behalf of humans in social and economic environments. Prior research has focused on their task performance and effects on human outcomes, but less is known about the relationship between agents and the specific individuals who deploy them. We ask whether agents systematically reflect the behavioral characteristics of their human owners, functioning as behavioral extensions rather than producing generic outputs. We study this question using 10,659 matched human-agent pairs from Moltbook, a social media platform where each autonomous agent is publicly linked to its owner’s Twitter/X account. By comparing agents’ posts on Moltbook with their owners’ Twitter/X activity across features spanning topics, values, affect, and linguistic style, we find systematic transfer between agents and their specific owners. This transfer persists among agents without explicit configuration, and pairs that align on one behavioral dimension tend to align on others. These patterns are consistent with transfer emerging through accumulated interaction between owners (or owners’ computer environments) and their agents in everyday use. We further show that agents with stronger behavioral transfer are more likely to disclose owner-related personal information in public discourse, suggesting that the same owner-specific context that drives behavioral transfer may also create privacy risk during ordinary use. Taken together, our results indicate that AI agents do not simply generate content, but reflect owner-related context in ways that can propagate human behavioral heterogeneity into digital environments, with implications for privacy, platform design, and the governance of agentic systems.
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[CV-0] DeVI: Physics-based Dexterous Human-Object Interaction via Synthetic Video Imitation
【速读】：该论文旨在解决生成式视频（Generative Video）在物理仿真环境中难以直接用于机器人灵巧操作控制的问题，尤其是由于其缺乏物理真实性与纯二维特性导致的模仿学习困难。解决方案的关键在于提出DeVI（Dexterous Video Imitation）框架，通过引入一种融合3D人体追踪与鲁棒2D物体追踪的混合跟踪奖励机制，有效提升了从合成视频中提取动作信息的精度与鲁棒性，从而实现无需3D运动捕捉数据即可零样本泛化至未见目标物体的灵巧交互控制。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20841
作者: Hyeonwoo Kim,Jeonghwan Kim,Kyungwon Cho,Hanbyul Joo
机构: Seoul National University (首尔国立大学); RLWRLD
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Recent advances in video generative models enable the synthesis of realistic human-object interaction videos across a wide range of scenarios and object categories, including complex dexterous manipulations that are difficult to capture with motion capture systems. While the rich interaction knowledge embedded in these synthetic videos holds strong potential for motion planning in dexterous robotic manipulation, their limited physical fidelity and purely 2D nature make them difficult to use directly as imitation targets in physics-based character control. We present DeVI (Dexterous Video Imitation), a novel framework that leverages text-conditioned synthetic videos to enable physically plausible dexterous agent control for interacting with unseen target objects. To overcome the imprecision of generative 2D cues, we introduce a hybrid tracking reward that integrates 3D human tracking with robust 2D object tracking. Unlike methods relying on high-quality 3D kinematic demonstrations, DeVI requires only the generated video, enabling zero-shot generalization across diverse objects and interaction types. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DeVI outperforms existing approaches that imitate 3D human-object interaction demonstrations, particularly in modeling dexterous hand-object interactions. We further validate the effectiveness of DeVI in multi-object scenes and text-driven action diversity, showcasing the advantage of using video as an HOI-aware motion planner.
[CV-1] FedSIR: Spectral Client Identification and Relabeling for Federated Learning with Noisy Labels CVPR2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决联邦学习（Federated Learning, FL）中因分布式客户端存在标签噪声（noisy labels）而导致模型性能严重下降的问题。现有方法多依赖于设计抗噪损失函数或利用训练过程中的损失动态特性，但难以有效区分和纠正噪声样本。其解决方案的关键在于提出FedSIR框架，该框架通过分析客户端特征表示的谱结构（spectral structure）来识别干净与噪声客户端，并利用干净客户端提供的谱参考信息，结合主导类别方向和残差子空间对噪声样本进行重标注；进一步采用基于logit调整的损失、知识蒸馏及距离感知聚合的噪声感知训练策略，从而显著提升联邦优化的稳定性与鲁棒性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20825
作者: Sina Gholami,Abdulmoneam Ali,Tania Haghighi,Ahmed Arafa,Minhaj Nur Alam
机构: University of North Carolina at Charlotte (北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校)
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC); Signal Processing (eess.SP)
备注: Accepted at the 5th Workshop on Federated Learning for Computer Vision (FedVision), CVPR 2026. Sina Gholami and Abdulmoneam Ali contributed equally
Abstract:Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data; however, the presence of noisy labels across distributed clients can severely degrade the learning performance. In this paper, we propose FedSIR, a multi-stage framework for robust FL under noisy labels. Different from existing approaches that mainly rely on designing noise-tolerant loss functions or exploiting loss dynamics during training, our method leverages the spectral structure of client feature representations to identify and mitigate label noise. Our framework consists of three key components. First, we identify clean and noisy clients by analyzing the spectral consistency of class-wise feature subspaces with minimal communication overhead. Second, clean clients provide spectral references that enable noisy clients to relabel potentially corrupted samples using both dominant class directions and residual subspaces. Third, we employ a noise-aware training strategy that integrates logit-adjusted loss, knowledge distillation, and distance-aware aggregation to further stabilize federated optimization. Extensive experiments on standard FL benchmarks demonstrate that FedSIR consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods for FL with noisy labels. The code is available at this https URL. Comments: Accepted at the 5th Workshop on Federated Learning for Computer Vision (FedVision), CVPR 2026. Sina Gholami and Abdulmoneam Ali contributed equally Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC); Signal Processing (eess.SP) Cite as: arXiv:2604.20825 [cs.LG] (or arXiv:2604.20825v1 [cs.LG] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.20825 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[CV-2] Global Offshore Wind Infrastructure: Deployment and Operational Dynamics from Dense Sentinel-1 Time Series
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前全球尺度下海上风电基础设施（offshore wind infrastructure）在建设与运行阶段缺乏高时间分辨率、语义细粒度的动态监测数据问题。现有公开数据集虽能实现空间定位，但难以支撑对部署进度、运营状态及船舶交互等时序特征的精细化分析。解决方案的关键在于构建了一个覆盖2016年第一季度至2025年第一季度的全球Sentinel-1合成孔径雷达（SAR）时序数据集，包含15,606条经目标检测识别出的风电设施时间序列，共14,840,637个事件级的一维SAR后向散射剖面；同时提供事件级语义标签基准（基于规则分类器生成）和专家标注的基准数据集（553条时间序列，含328,657个事件标签），从而支持全球尺度的部署动态分析、区域模式差异识别、船舶活动关联以及时间序列分类方法的开发与评估。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20822
作者: Thorsten Hoeser,Felix Bachofer,Claudia Kuenzer
机构: German Aerospace Center (DLR); University of Wuerzburg (维尔茨堡大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:The offshore wind energy sector is expanding rapidly, increasing the need for independent, high-temporal-resolution monitoring of infrastructure deployment and operation at global scale. While Earth Observation based offshore wind infrastructure mapping has matured for spatial localization, existing open datasets lack temporally dense and semantically fine-grained information on construction and operational dynamics. We introduce a global Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) time series data corpus that resolves deployment and operational phases of offshore wind infrastructure from 2016Q1 to 2025Q1. Building on an updated object detection workflow, we compile 15,606 time series at detected infrastructure locations, with overall 14,840,637 events as analysis-ready 1D SAR backscatter profiles, one profile per Sentinel-1 acquisition and location. To enable direct use and benchmarking, we release (i) the analysis ready 1D SAR profiles, (ii) event-level baseline semantic labels generated by a rule-based classifier, and (iii) an expert-annotated benchmark dataset of 553 time series with 328,657 event labels. The baseline classifier achieves a macro F1 score of 0.84 in event-wise evaluation and an area under the collapsed edit similarity-quality threshold curve (AUC) of 0.785, indicating temporal coherence. We demonstrate that the resulting corpus supports global-scale analyses of deployment dynamics, the identification of differences in regional deployment patterns, vessel interactions, and operational events, and provides a reference for developing and comparing time series classification methods for offshore wind infrastructure monitoring.
[CV-3] ParetoSlider: Diffusion Models Post-Training for Continuous Reward Control
【速读】：该论文旨在解决生成式模型在多目标优化场景下缺乏灵活控制的问题，特别是在图像编辑等任务中，用户希望在prompt adherence（提示遵循度）与source fidelity（源保真度）等冲突目标之间进行动态权衡，而传统基于单一标量奖励的强化学习方法因“早期标量化”（early scalarization）策略固定了训练时的权重，导致无法在推理阶段调整不同目标之间的平衡。解决方案的关键在于提出ParetoSlider框架，通过将连续变化的偏好权重作为条件信号引入多目标强化学习（Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning, MORL），使单个扩散模型能够逼近整个帕累托前沿（Pareto front），从而在不重新训练或维护多个检查点的前提下，实现推理时对最优权衡路径的精细调控。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20816
作者: Shelly Golan,Michael Finkelson,Ariel Bereslavsky,Yotam Nitzan,Or Patashnik
机构: Tel Aviv University (特拉维夫大学); Lightricks; Adobe Research
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Reinforcement Learning (RL) post-training has become the standard for aligning generative models with human preferences, yet most methods rely on a single scalar reward. When multiple criteria matter, the prevailing practice of ``early scalarization’’ collapses rewards into a fixed weighted sum. This commits the model to a single trade-off point at training time, providing no inference-time control over inherently conflicting goals – such as prompt adherence versus source fidelity in image editing. We introduce ParetoSlider, a multi-objective RL (MORL) framework that trains a single diffusion model to approximate the entire Pareto front. By training the model with continuously varying preference weights as a conditioning signal, we enable users to navigate optimal trade-offs at inference time without retraining or maintaining multiple checkpoints. We evaluate ParetoSlider across three state-of-the-art flow-matching backbones: SD3.5, FluxKontext, and LTX-2. Our single preference-conditioned model matches or exceeds the performance of baselines trained separately for fixed reward trade-offs, while uniquely providing fine-grained control over competing generative goals.
[CV-4] Adapting TrOCR for Printed Tigrinya Text Recognition: Word-Aware Loss Weighting for Cross-Script Transfer Learning
【速读】：该论文旨在解决基于Transformer的光学字符识别（OCR）模型在非洲音节文字系统中的适用性问题，特别是针对使用盖兹字母（Ge’ez script）书写的印刷体提格雷尼亚语（Tigrinya）文本。现有TrOCR模型在拉丁文和汉字等脚本上表现优异，但直接应用于盖兹字母时无法生成有效输出。解决方案的关键在于两个核心改进：一是将字节级BPE分词器扩展至覆盖230个盖兹字符；二是引入词意识损失加权（Word-Aware Loss Weighting）机制，以纠正因沿用拉丁文分词习惯导致的词边界错误。实验表明，词意识损失加权是性能提升的关键因素，使字符错误率（CER）相比仅扩展词汇量的方法降低两个数量级，最终在GLOCR数据集上实现0.22% CER和97.20%精确匹配准确率。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20813
作者: Yonatan Haile Medhanie,Yuanhua Ni
机构: Nankai University (南开大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Transformer-based OCR models have shown strong performance on Latin and CJK scripts, but their application to African syllabic writing systems remains limited. We present the first adaptation of TrOCR for printed Tigrinya using the Ge’ez script. Starting from a pre-trained model, we extend the byte-level BPE tokenizer to cover 230 Ge’ez characters and introduce Word-Aware Loss Weighting to resolve systematic word-boundary failures that arise when applying Latin-centric BPE conventions to a new script. The unmodified model produces no usable output on Ge’ez text. After adaptation, the TrOCR-Printed variant achieves 0.22% Character Error Rate and 97.20% exact match accuracy on a held-out test set of 5,000 synthetic images from the GLOCR dataset. An ablation study confirms that Word-Aware Loss Weighting is the critical component, reducing CER by two orders of magnitude compared to vocabulary extension alone. The full pipeline trains in under three hours on a single 8 GB consumer GPU. All code, model weights, and evaluation scripts are publicly released.
[CV-5] LEXIS: LatEnt ProXimal Interaction Signatures for 3D HOI from an Image
【速读】：该论文旨在解决从单张RGB图像中重建三维人体与物体交互（3D Human-Object Interaction, 3DHOI）的挑战，特别是如何准确建模人体与物体表面之间连续、密集的邻近关系（proximity），而现有方法依赖稀疏的二值接触提示，难以刻画自然交互中的物理耦合特性。其解决方案的关键在于提出InterFields——一种编码全身与物体表面间稠密连续邻近关系的新表示，并结合LEXIS（一种通过VQ-VAE学习的交互签名离散流形）来结构化地建模动作和物体几何引导的交互模式；进一步设计了LEXIS-Flow扩散框架，利用LEXIS签名联合估计人体与物体网格及其InterFields，从而在无需后处理优化的情况下实现物理合理且邻近感知的高质量重建。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20800
作者: Dimitrije Antić,Alvaro Budria,George Paschalidis,Sai Kumar Dwivedi,Dimitrios Tzionas
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Reconstructing 3D Human-Object Interaction from an RGB image is essential for perceptive systems. Yet, this remains challenging as it requires capturing the subtle physical coupling between the body and objects. While current methods rely on sparse, binary contact cues, these fail to model the continuous proximity and dense spatial relationships that characterize natural interactions. We address this limitation via InterFields, a representation that encodes dense, continuous proximity across the entire body and object surfaces. However, inferring these fields from single images is inherently ill-posed. To tackle this, our intuition is that interaction patterns are characteristically structured by the action and object geometry. We capture this structure in LEXIS, a novel discrete manifold of interaction signatures learned via a VQ-VAE. We then develop LEXIS-Flow, a diffusion framework that leverages LEXIS signatures to estimate human and object meshes alongside their InterFields. Notably, these InterFields help in a guided refinement that ensures physically-plausible, proximity-aware reconstructions without requiring post-hoc optimization. Evaluation on Open3DHOI and BEHAVE shows that LEXIS-Flow significantly outperforms existing SotA baselines in reconstruction, contact, and proximity quality. Our approach not only improves generalization but also yields reconstructions perceived as more realistic, moving us closer to holistic 3D scene understanding. Code models will be public at this https URL.
[CV-6] LLaDA2.0-Uni: Unifying Multimodal Understanding and Generation with Diffusion Large Language Model
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前多模态大语言模型（Multimodal Large Language Model, MLLM）在统一框架下实现跨模态理解与生成能力不足的问题，尤其是如何在同一个模型中高效支持文本与视觉信息的联合建模、掩码扩散训练及高保真图像重建。其解决方案的关键在于提出一个原生集成的离散扩散大语言模型（discrete Diffusion Large Language Model, dLLM）——LLaDA2.0-Uni，该架构融合了全语义离散分词器（fully semantic discrete tokenizer）、基于MoE（Mixture of Experts）的dLLM骨干网络以及扩散解码器；通过SigLIP-VQ对连续视觉输入进行离散化处理，使骨干网络能够在块级别上对文本和视觉输入执行掩码扩散训练，同时解码器将视觉token重构为高质量图像；此外，借助前缀感知优化与少量步数蒸馏策略显著提升推理效率，从而在保持多模态理解性能的同时实现强大的图像生成与编辑能力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20796
作者: Inclusion AI,Tiwei Bie,Haoxing Chen,Tieyuan Chen,Zhenglin Cheng,Long Cui,Kai Gan,Zhicheng Huang,Zhenzhong Lan,Haoquan Li,Jianguo Li,Tao Lin,Qi Qin,Hongjun Wang,Xiaomei Wang,Haoyuan Wu,Yi Xin,Junbo Zhao
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:We present LLaDA2.0-Uni, a unified discrete diffusion large language model (dLLM) that supports multimodal understanding and generation within a natively integrated framework. Its architecture combines a fully semantic discrete tokenizer, a MoE-based dLLM backbone, and a diffusion decoder. By discretizing continuous visual inputs via SigLIP-VQ, the model enables block-level masked diffusion for both text and vision inputs within the backbone, while the decoder reconstructs visual tokens into high-fidelity images. Inference efficiency is enhanced beyond parallel decoding through prefix-aware optimizations in the backbone and few-step distillation in the decoder. Supported by carefully curated large-scale data and a tailored multi-stage training pipeline, LLaDA2.0-Uni matches specialized VLMs in multimodal understanding while delivering strong performance in image generation and editing. Its native support for interleaved generation and reasoning establishes a promising and scalable paradigm for next-generation unified foundation models. Codes and models are available at this https URL.
[CV-7] GeoRect4D: Geometry-Compatible Generative Rectification for Dynamic Sparse-View 3D Reconstruction
【速读】：该论文旨在解决从稀疏多视角视频中重建动态三维场景时面临的几何坍塌（geometric collapse）、轨迹漂移（trajectory drift）和浮动物体（floating artifacts）等问题。现有方法引入生成先验（generative priors）以填补缺失内容，但因随机性二维生成与确定性三维几何之间的不匹配，常导致结构漂移和时间不一致性。解决方案的关键在于提出GeoRect4D框架，通过闭环优化过程将显式三维一致性与生成式精修耦合：其核心创新包括一个退化感知反馈机制，结合基于锚点的动态3DGS基础结构与单步扩散修复器（diffusion rectifier），利用结构锁定机制和时空协同注意力机制，在保留物理合理性的同时恢复高保真细节；此外还设计了渐进式优化策略，采用随机几何净化消除浮动物体，并通过生成蒸馏将纹理细节注入显式表示，从而显著提升重建保真度、感知质量和时空一致性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20784
作者: Zhenlong Wu,Zihan Zheng,Xuanxuan Wang,Qianhe Wang,Hua Yang,Xiaoyun Zhang,Qiang Hu,Wenjun Zhang
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Reconstructing dynamic 3D scenes from sparse multi-view videos is highly ill-posed, often leading to geometric collapse, trajectory drift, and floating artifacts. Recent attempts introduce generative priors to hallucinate missing content, yet naive integration frequently causes structural drift and temporal inconsistency due to the mismatch between stochastic 2D generation and deterministic 3D geometry. In this paper, we propose GeoRect4D, a novel unified framework for sparse-view dynamic reconstruction that couples explicit 3D consistency with generative refinement via a closed-loop optimization process. Specifically, GeoRect4D introduces a degradation-aware feedback mechanism that incorporates a robust anchor-based dynamic 3DGS substrate with a single-step diffusion rectifier to hallucinate high-fidelity details. This rectifier utilizes a structural locking mechanism and spatiotemporal coordinated attention, effectively preserving physical plausibility while restoring missing content. Furthermore, we present a progressive optimization strategy that employs stochastic geometric purification to eliminate floaters and generative distillation to infuse texture details into the explicit representation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that GeoRect4D achieves state-of-the-art performance in reconstruction fidelity, perceptual quality, and spatiotemporal consistency across multiple datasets.
[CV-8] Exploring High-Order Self-Similarity for Video Understanding
【速读】：该论文旨在解决视频理解中运动建模能力不足的问题，尤其是如何有效捕捉和表示视频时序动态特性。现有方法多依赖于低阶时空自相似性（Space-time self-similarity, STSS），难以充分表征复杂运动模式。解决方案的关键在于提出多阶自相似性（Multi-Order Self-Similarity, MOSS）模块，该模块能够学习并融合不同阶次的STSS特征，从而揭示时序动态的不同层面信息；同时保持轻量化设计，在计算成本和内存消耗几乎不变的前提下显著提升模型对运动的建模能力，适用于动作识别、以运动为中心的视频问答及机器人任务等多种视频应用场景。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20760
作者: Manjin Kim,Heeseung Kwon,Karteek Alahari,Minsu Cho
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Space-time self-similarity (STSS), which captures visual correspondences across frames, provides an effective way to represent temporal dynamics for video understanding. In this work, we explore higher-order STSS and demonstrate how STSSs at different orders reveal distinct aspects of these dynamics. We then introduce the Multi-Order Self-Similarity (MOSS) module, a lightweight neural module designed to learn and integrate multi-order STSS features. It can be applied to diverse video tasks to enhance motion modeling capabilities while consuming only marginal computational cost and memory usage. Extensive experiments on video action recognition, motion-centric video VQA, and real-world robotic tasks consistently demonstrate substantial improvements, validating the broad applicability of MOSS as a general temporal modeling module. The source code and checkpoints will be publicly available.
[CV-9] Amodal SAM: A Unified Amodal Segmentation Framework with Generalization
【速读】：该论文旨在解决现有方法在**非遮挡分割（amodal segmentation）**任务中普遍存在的泛化能力不足问题，即模型难以有效扩展到未见过的物体类别和场景。其核心解决方案是提出Amodal SAM框架，关键创新在于：(1) 引入轻量级空间补全适配器（Spatial Completion Adapter），实现对遮挡区域的几何重建；(2) 设计目标感知遮挡合成（Target-Aware Occlusion Synthesis, TAOS）管道，通过生成多样化合成训练数据缓解真实标注稀缺问题；(3) 提出新型学习目标以增强区域一致性与拓扑结构正则性。这些改进使模型在保持SAM强大泛化能力的同时，显著提升了在标准基准上的性能及对新场景的适应性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20748
作者: Bo Zhang,Zhuotao Tian,Xin Tao,Songlin Tang,Jun Yu,Wenjie Pei
机构: Harbin Institute of Technology at Shenzhen (哈尔滨工业大学深圳分校); Kuaishou Technology (快手科技)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Amodal segmentation is a challenging task that aims to predict the complete geometric shape of objects, including their occluded regions. Although existing methods primarily focus on amodal segmentation within the training domain, these approaches often lack the generalization capacity to extend effectively to novel object categories and unseen contexts. This paper introduces Amodal SAM, a unified framework that leverages SAM (Segment Anything Model) for both amodal image and amodal video segmentation. Amodal SAM preserves the powerful generalization ability of SAM while extending its inherent capabilities to the amodal segmentation task. The improvements lie in three aspects: (1) a lightweight Spatial Completion Adapter that enables occluded region reconstruction, (2) a Target-Aware Occlusion Synthesis (TAOS) pipeline that addresses the scarcity of amodal annotations by generating diverse synthetic training data, and (3) novel learning objectives that enforce regional consistency and topological regularization. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Amodal SAM achieves state-of-the-art performance on standard benchmarks, while simultaneously exhibiting robust generalization to novel scenarios. We anticipate that this research will advance the field toward practical amodal segmentation systems capable of operating effectively in unconstrained real-world environments.
[CV-10] Lifecycle-Aware Federated Continual Learning in Mobile Autonomous Systems
【速读】：该论文旨在解决联邦持续学习（Federated Continual Learning, FCL）在实际应用中面临的三大挑战：1）现有方法采用统一的保护策略，未能考虑网络各层对遗忘敏感度的差异；2）仅关注训练期间的遗忘预防，忽视了长期累积漂移（cumulative drift）导致的性能退化；3）依赖理想化仿真环境，无法反映分布式系统中真实存在的异构性。解决方案的关键在于提出一种生命周期感知的双时间尺度FCL框架，融合训练期（预遗忘）防护与训练后（后遗忘）恢复机制：具体包括层选择性回放策略以缓解局部训练中的即时遗忘，以及快速知识恢复策略以应对长期累积漂移导致的模型退化；理论分析进一步揭示了遗忘动态的异质性并证明长期退化的不可避免性，实验表明该框架在mIoU指标上相比最强联邦基线提升8.3%，相比传统微调提升达31.7%，且在真实火星车测试平台上验证了其系统级鲁棒性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20745
作者: Beining Wu,Jun Huang
机构: South Dakota State University (南达科他州立大学)
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Federated continual learning (FCL) allows distributed autonomous fleets to adapt collaboratively to evolving terrain types across extended mission lifecycles. However, current approaches face several key challenges: 1) they use uniform protection strategies that do not account for the varying sensitivities to forgetting on different network layers; 2) they focus primarily on preventing forgetting during training, without addressing the long-term effects of cumulative drift; and 3) they often depend on idealized simulations that fail to capture the real-world heterogeneity present in distributed fleets. In this paper, we propose a lifecycle-aware dual-timescale FCL framework that incorporates training-time (pre-forgetting) prevention and (post-forgetting) recovery. Under this framework, we design a layer-selective rehearsal strategy that mitigates immediate forgetting during local training, and a rapid knowledge recovery strategy that restores degraded models after long-term cumulative drift. We present a theoretical analysis that characterizes heterogeneous forgetting dynamics and establishes the inevitability of long-term degradation. Our experimental results show that this framework achieves up to 8.3% mIoU improvement over the strongest federated baseline and up to 31.7% over conventional fine-tuning. We also deploy the FCL framework on a real-world rover testbed to assess system-level robustness under realistic constraints; the testing results further confirm the effectiveness of our FCL design.
[CV-11] Render-in-the-Loop: Vector Graphics Generation via Visual Self-Feedback
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前多模态大语言模型（Multimodal Large Language Models, MLLMs）在生成可缩放矢量图形（Scalable Vector Graphics, SVG）时存在的关键缺陷：现有方法采用开环“盲绘”范式，即模型仅基于文本序列生成SVG代码而无法感知中间视觉状态，导致难以利用视觉编码器中蕴含的视觉先验信息，进而无法有效推理部分画布状态和隐式遮挡关系。解决方案的关键在于提出“渲染-反馈循环”（Render-in-the-Loop）新范式，通过将每一步生成的SVG代码实时渲染为累积画布，使模型能够显式观察视觉上下文并基于即时反馈指导后续生成；同时引入细粒度路径分解与视觉自反馈（Visual Self-Feedback, VSF）训练策略，增强模型对增量视觉-代码映射的理解，并设计渲染与验证（Render-and-Verify, RaV）机制以过滤冗余或退化图元，从而显著提升SVG生成的质量与鲁棒性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20730
作者: Guotao Liang,Zhangcheng Wang,Juncheng Hu,Haitao Zhou,Ziteng Xue,Jing Zhang,Dong Xu,Qian Yu
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown promising capabilities in generating Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) via direct code synthesis. However, existing paradigms typically adopt an open-loop “blind drawing” approach, where models generate symbolic code sequences without perceiving intermediate visual outcomes. This methodology severely underutilizes the powerful visual priors embedded in MLLMs vision encoders, treating SVG generation as a disjointed textual sequence modeling task rather than an integrated visuo-spatial one. Consequently, models struggle to reason about partial canvas states and implicit occlusion relationships, which are visually explicit but textually ambiguous. To bridge this gap, we propose Render-in-the-Loop, a novel generation paradigm that reformulates SVG synthesis as a step-wise, visual-context-aware process. By rendering intermediate code states into a cumulative canvas, the model explicitly observes the evolving visual context at each step, leveraging on-the-fly feedback to guide subsequent generation. However, we demonstrate that applying this visual loop naively to off-the-shelf models is suboptimal due to their inability to leverage incremental visual-code mappings. To address this, we first utilize fine-grained path decomposition to construct dense multi-step visual trajectories, and then introduce a Visual Self-Feedback (VSF) training strategy to condition the next primitive generation on intermediate visual states. Furthermore, a Render-and-Verify (RaV) inference mechanism is proposed to effectively filter degenerate and redundant primitives. Our framework, instantiated on a multimodal foundation model, outperforms strong open-weight baselines on the standard MMSVGBench. This result highlights the remarkable data efficiency and generalization capability of our Render-in-the-Loop paradigm for both Text-to-SVG and Image-to-SVG tasks.
[CV-12] GeoRelight: Learning Joint Geometrical Relighting and Reconstruction with Flexible Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformers CVPR2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决从单张图像中进行光照重渲染（relighting）的问题，这是一个病态问题（ill-posed），因为二维图像模糊地耦合了三维几何结构（3D geometry）、固有外观（intrinsic appearance）和光照信息。现有方法通常采用顺序处理流程，易产生误差累积，或未显式利用三维几何信息，导致物理一致性不足。为解决此问题，作者提出了一种统一的多模态扩散变换器（Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformer, DiT）模型GeoRelight，其关键创新在于：一是引入无畸变的三维表示方法——各向同性NDC正交深度（isotropic NDC-Orthographic Depth, iNOD），该表示兼容潜在扩散模型；二是设计了一种混合数据训练策略，融合合成数据与自动标注的真实数据，从而在联合优化三维几何估计与光照重渲染任务中实现更优性能。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20715
作者: Yuxuan Xue,Ruofan Liang,Egor Zakharov,Timur Bagautdinov,Chen Cao,Giljoo Nam,Shunsuke Saito,Gerard Pons-Moll,Javier Romero
机构: Codec Avatars Lab, Meta; University of Tübingen; Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland Informatics Campus
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Relighting a person from a single photo is an attractive but ill-posed task, as a 2D image ambiguously entangles 3D geometry, intrinsic appearance, and illumination. Current methods either use sequential pipelines that suffer from error accumulation, or they do not explicitly leverage 3D geometry during relighting, which limits physical consistency. Since relighting and estimation of 3D geometry are mutually beneficial tasks, we propose a unified Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformer (DiT) that jointly solves for both: GeoRelight. We make this possible through two key technical contributions: isotropic NDC-Orthographic Depth (iNOD), a distortion-free 3D representation compatible with latent diffusion models; and a strategic mixed-data training method that combines synthetic and auto-labeled real data. By solving geometry and relighting jointly, GeoRelight achieves better performance than both sequential models and previous systems that ignored geometry.
[CV-13] SSL-R1: Self-Supervised Visual Reinforcement Post-Training for Multimodal Large Language Models
【速读】：该论文旨在解决多模态大语言模型（Multimodal Large Language Models, MLLMs）在强化学习（Reinforcement Learning, RL）后训练过程中对语言中心先验的依赖以及昂贵的人工标注所带来的可扩展性问题，从而提升模型的内在视觉理解能力。其解决方案的关键在于提出了一种通用的自监督强化学习框架SSL-R1，该框架将视觉领域中广泛使用的自监督学习（Self-Supervised Learning, SSL）任务重构为一系列可验证的视觉谜题（verifiable visual puzzles），用于生成无需人类或外部模型监督的可验证奖励信号，从而驱动MLLMs在图像基础上进行高效、可扩展的强化学习训练。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20705
作者: Jiahao Xie,Alessio Tonioni,Nathalie Rauschmayr,Federico Tombari,Bernt Schiele
机构: Max Planck Institute for Informatics (马克斯普朗克信息研究所); VIA Research Center; Google(谷歌)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Reinforcement learning (RL) with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has demonstrated the great potential of enhancing the reasoning abilities in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). However, the reliance on language-centric priors and expensive manual annotations prevents MLLMs’ intrinsic visual understanding and scalable reward designs. In this work, we introduce SSL-R1, a generic self-supervised RL framework that derives verifiable rewards directly from images. To this end, we revisit self-supervised learning (SSL) in visual domains and reformulate widely-used SSL tasks into a set of verifiable visual puzzles for RL post-training, requiring neither human nor external model supervision. Training MLLMs on these tasks substantially improves their performance on multimodal understanding and reasoning benchmarks, highlighting the potential of leveraging vision-centric self-supervised tasks for MLLM post-training. We think this work will provide useful experience in devising effective self-supervised verifiable rewards to enable RL at scale. Project page: this https URL.
[CV-14] R-CoV: Region-Aware Chain-of-Verification for Alleviating Object Hallucinations in LVLMs
【速读】：该论文旨在解决大视觉语言模型（Large Vision-Language Models, LVLMs）在多模态理解与推理任务中普遍存在的对象幻觉（object hallucination）问题，即模型在未包含特定对象的视觉输入中错误地声称存在该对象。解决方案的关键在于提出一种后处理式的视觉验证链方法——区域感知验证链（Region-aware Chain-of-Verification, R-CoV），其核心思想是模仿人类通过关注图像特定区域来理解复杂视觉信息的方式，从LVLM自身提取区域级处理线索作为验证链的引导信号，从而检测并缓解其自身的对象幻觉。R-CoV通过六个步骤实现：初始响应生成、实体提取、坐标生成、区域描述、验证执行和最终响应生成，无需训练且不依赖外部检测模型，可无缝集成到多种LVLM中，并在多个主流幻觉评测基准上显著提升性能。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20696
作者: Jiahao Xie,Alessio Tonioni,Nathalie Rauschmayr,Federico Tombari,Bernt Schiele
机构: Max Planck Institute for Informatics (马克斯·普朗克信息研究所); VIA Research Center; Google(谷歌)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in various multimodal understanding and reasoning tasks. However, they still struggle with object hallucinations, i.e., the claim of nonexistent objects in the visual input. To address this challenge, we propose Region-aware Chain-of-Verification (R-CoV), a visual chain-of-verification method to alleviate object hallucinations in LVLMs in a post-hoc manner. Motivated by how humans comprehend intricate visual information – often focusing on specific image regions or details within a given sample – we elicit such region-level processing from LVLMs themselves and use it as a chaining cue to detect and alleviate their own object hallucinations. Specifically, our R-CoV consists of six steps: initial response generation, entity extraction, coordinate generation, region description, verification execution, and final response generation. As a simple yet effective method, R-CoV can be seamlessly integrated into various LVLMs in a training-free manner and without relying on external detection models. Extensive experiments on several widely used hallucination benchmarks across multiple LVLMs demonstrate that R-CoV can significantly alleviate object hallucinations in LVLMs. Project page: this https URL.
[CV-15] he Expense of Seeing: Attaining Trustworthy Multimodal Reasoning Within the Monolithic Paradigm
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前视觉-语言模型（Vision-Language Models, VLMs）在多模态知识发现中存在严重可信性危机的问题，即现有模型并非真正从视觉输入中提取 grounded knowledge，而是依赖强大的语言先验绕过视觉表征瓶颈，导致功能性的“失明”。其解决方案的关键在于提出一种基于信息论的全新评估范式——模态翻译协议（Modality Translation Protocol），通过语义内容的无损转换而非数据删减或新数据构建，量化揭示“看见”的代价，并引入三个核心指标（Toll of Seeing, Curse of Seeing, Fallacy of Seeing）及语义充分性准则（Semantic Sufficiency Criterion, SSC）。该方法将SSC从被动诊断工具转变为可指导架构设计的主动蓝图，从而推动下一代AI系统实现真正的多模态感知与推理。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20665
作者: Karan Goyal,Dikshant Kukreja
机构: IIIT Delhi(印度国际信息技术学院)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:The rapid proliferation of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) is widely celebrated as the dawn of unified multimodal knowledge discovery but its foundation operates on a dangerous, unquestioned axiom: that current VLMs faithfully synthesise multimodal data. We argue they do not. Instead, a profound crisis of trustworthiness underlies the dominant Vision Encoder-Projector-LLM paradigm. Rather than extracting grounded knowledge from visual inputs, state-of-the-art models frequently exhibit functional blindness, i.e., exploiting strong language priors to bypass severe visual representation bottlenecks. In this work, we challenge the conventional methodology of multimodal evaluation, which relies on data ablation or new dataset creation and therefore fatally conflates dataset biases with architectural incapacity. We propose a radical, information-theoretic departure: the Modality Translation Protocol, designed to quantifiably unmask the Expense of Seeing. By translating semantic payloads rather than ablating them, we formulate three novel metrics – the Toll (ToS), Curse (CoS), and Fallacy (FoS) of Seeing – culminating in the Semantic Sufficiency Criterion (SSC). Furthermore, we posit a provocative Divergence Law of Multimodal Scaling, hypothesising that as the underlying language engines scale to unprecedented reasoning capabilities, the mathematical penalty of the visual knowledge bottleneck paradoxically increases. We challenge the KDD community to abandon the illusory pursuit of “multimodal gain”. By elevating the SSC from a passive diagnostic constraint to an active architectural blueprint, we provide the rigorous, trustworthy foundation required to force the next generation of AI systems to truly see the data, achieving true multimodal reasoning.
[CV-16] MAPRPose: Mask-Aware Proposal and Amodal Refinement for Multi-Object 6D Pose Estimation
【速读】：该论文旨在解决复杂场景下6D目标位姿估计（6D object pose estimation）因严重遮挡和传感器噪声导致的精度下降问题。其解决方案的关键在于提出一个两阶段框架MAPRPose：第一阶段通过掩码感知对应关系（mask-aware correspondences）生成几何一致的位姿候选，第二阶段引入基于非可见部分重建（amodal geometry reconstruction）的ROI重对齐模块（AMPR），动态调整感兴趣区域以缓解遮挡下的定位误差与空间错位；同时，通过GPU加速的RGB-XYZ重投影机制实现多目标位姿假设的并行优化，显著提升推理效率。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20650
作者: Yang Luo,Yan Gong,Yongsheng Gao,Xiaoying Sun,Jie Zhao
机构: Harbin Institute of Technology (哈尔滨工业大学); School of Civil Engineering (土木工程学院)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:6D object pose estimation in cluttered scenes remains challenging due to severe occlusion and sensor noise. We propose MAPRPose, a two-stage framework that leverages mask-aware correspondences for pose proposal and amodal-driven Region-of-Interest (ROI) prediction for robust refinement. In the Mask-Aware Pose Proposal (MAPP) stage, we lift 2D correspondences into 3D space to establish reliable keypoint matches and generate geometrically consistent pose hypotheses based on correspondence-level scoring, from which the top- K candidates are selected. In the refinement stage, we introduce a tensorized render-and-compare pipeline integrated with an Amodal Mask Prediction and ROI Re-Alignment (AMPR) module. By reconstructing complete object geometry and dynamically adjusting the ROI, AMPR mitigates localization errors and spatial misalignment under heavy occlusion. Furthermore, our GPU-accelerated RGB-XYZ reprojection enables simultaneous refinement of all N \times B pose hypotheses in a single forward pass. Evaluated on the BOP benchmark, MAPRPose achieves a state-of-the-art Average Recall (AR) of 76.5%, outperforming FoundationPose by 3.1% AR while delivering a 43x speedup in multi-object inference.
[CV-17] RSRCC: A Remote Sensing Regional Change Comprehension Benchmark Constructed via Retrieval-Augmented Best-of-N Ranking
【速读】：该论文旨在解决遥感变化检测（Remote Sensing Change Detection）中缺乏细粒度语义推理的问题，即现有方法仅能定位变化区域，无法以自然语言解释具体发生了何种语义变化。为实现这一目标，作者提出了一种新的遥感变化问答基准数据集RSRCC，其核心创新在于构建了围绕局部化、特定变化的问答对，要求模型进行精细化的语义推理。解决方案的关键在于引入了一个分层半监督的数据筛选流程：首先从语义分割掩膜中提取候选变化区域，接着利用图像-文本嵌入模型进行初步筛选，最后通过检索增强的视觉-语言校验与Best-of-N排序机制消除歧义和噪声，从而在大规模数据中保留具有语义意义的变化实例。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20623
作者: Roie Kazoom,Yotam Gigi,George Leifman,Tomer Shekel,Genady Beryozkin
机构: Google Research (谷歌研究)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Traditional change detection identifies where changes occur, but does not explain what changed in natural language. Existing remote sensing change captioning datasets typically describe overall image-level differences, leaving fine-grained localized semantic reasoning largely unexplored. To close this gap, we present RSRCC, a new benchmark for remote sensing change question-answering containing 126k questions, split into 87k training, 17.1k validation, and 22k test instances. Unlike prior datasets, RSRCC is built around localized, change-specific questions that require reasoning about a particular semantic change. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first remote sensing change question-answering benchmark designed explicitly for such fine-grained reasoning-based supervision. To construct RSRCC, we introduce a hierarchical semi-supervised curation pipeline that uses Best-of-N ranking as a critical final ambiguity-resolution stage. First, candidate change regions are extracted from semantic segmentation masks, then initially screened using an image-text embedding model, and finally validated through retrieval-augmented vision-language curation with Best-of-N ranking. This process enables scalable filtering of noisy and ambiguous candidates while preserving semantically meaningful changes. The dataset is available at this https URL.
[CV-18] Beyond ZOH: Advanced Discretization Strategies for Vision Mamba
【速读】：该论文旨在解决状态空间模型（State Space Model, SSM）在视觉任务中因采用零阶保持（Zero-Order Hold, ZOH）离散化方法而导致的时间保真度下降与精度受限的问题。ZOH假设输入信号在采样间隔内保持不变，这在动态视觉环境中会引入误差，限制了基于SSM的视觉模型性能。解决方案的关键在于系统性地比较六种不同的离散化方案（包括一阶保持、双线性变换、多项式插值、高阶保持及四阶龙格-库塔法），并基于图像分类、语义分割和目标检测等标准视觉基准进行评估。研究发现，双线性变换（Bilinear/Tustin Transform, BIL）在精度提升与计算开销之间实现了最佳平衡，成为最优的默认离散化基线，从而为现代SSM视觉架构的设计提供了实证依据。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20606
作者: Fady Ibrahim,Guangjun Liu,Guanghui Wang
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Vision Mamba, as a state space model (SSM), employs a zero-order hold (ZOH) discretization, which assumes that input signals remain constant between sampling instants. This assumption degrades temporal fidelity in dynamic visual environments and constrains the attainable accuracy of modern SSM-based vision models. In this paper, we present a systematic and controlled comparison of six discretization schemes instantiated within the Vision Mamba framework: ZOH, first-order hold (FOH), bilinear/Tustin transform (BIL), polynomial interpolation (POL), higher-order hold (HOH), and the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method (RK4). We evaluate each method on standard visual benchmarks to quantify its influence in image classification, semantic segmentation, and object detection. Our results demonstrate that POL and HOH yield the largest gains in accuracy at the cost of higher training-time computation. In contrast, the BIL provides consistent improvements over ZOH with modest additional overhead, offering the most favorable trade-off between precision and efficiency. These findings elucidate the pivotal role of discretization in SSM-based vision architectures and furnish empirically grounded justification for adopting BIL as the default discretization baseline for state-of-the-art SSM models.
[CV-19] Physics-Informed Conditional Diffusion for Motion-Robust Retinal Temporal Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging
【速读】：该论文旨在解决传统时间激光散斑对比成像（temporal Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging, tLSCI）在帧数有限时因运动干扰导致重建不稳定、时间分辨率受限的问题。其核心挑战在于：短序列下难以获得稳定的时域统计特性，且易受眼球运动等扰动影响。解决方案的关键在于提出一种物理信息引导的重建框架 RetinaDiff，该框架首先通过相位相关配准（phase correlation-based registration）对原始散斑序列进行运动稳定化处理，从而提供一个校正运动的物理先验；随后利用条件扩散模型（conditional diffusion model），联合以注册后的散斑序列和校正后的物理先验为条件进行逆向重建，显著提升了结构连续性和统计稳定性，尤其在极端低帧数（如5帧）情况下仍能保持可靠性能。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20594
作者: Qian Chen,Yuehao Chen,Qiang Wang,Lei Zhu,Yanye Lu,Qiushi Ren
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Retinal laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) is a noninvasive optical modality for monitoring retinal blood flow dynamics. However, conventional temporal LSCI (tLSCI) reconstruction relies on sufficiently long speckle sequences to obtain stable temporal statistics, which makes it vulnerable to acquisition disturbances and limits effective temporal resolution. A physically informed reconstruction framework, termed RetinaDiff (Retinal Diffusion Model), is proposed for retinal tLSCI that is robust to motion and requires only a few frames. In RetinaDiff, registration based on phase correlation is first applied to stabilize the raw speckle sequence before contrast computation, reducing interframe misalignment so that fluctuations at each pixel primarily reflect true flow dynamics. This step provides a physics prior corrected for motion and a high quality multiframe tLSCI reference. Next, guided by the physics prior, a conditional diffusion model performs inverse reconstruction by jointly conditioning on the registered speckle sequence and the corrected prior. Experiments on data acquired with a retinal LSCI system developed in house show improved structural continuity and statistical stability compared with direct reconstruction from few frames and representative baselines. The framework also remains effective in a small number of extremely challenging cases, where both the direct 5-frame input and the conventional multiframe reconstruction are severely degraded. Overall, this work provides a practical and physically grounded route for reliable retinal tLSCI reconstruction from extremely limited frames. The source code and model weights will be publicly available at this https URL.
[CV-20] Structure-Augmented Standard Plane Detection with Temporal Aggregation in Blind-Sweep Fetal Ultrasound
【速读】：该论文旨在解决在低资源环境下，盲扫超声（blind-sweep ultrasound）中胎儿腹部标准切面（standard planes）难以稳定检测的问题。由于扫描过程中胎儿结构不可控且切面角度多变，传统方法难以准确识别关键解剖平面，导致生物测量结果不可靠。解决方案的关键在于提出一种结构增强型时序滑动窗口策略：首先利用分割先验（segmentation prior）突出胎儿腹部结构特征，提升初始切面检测的准确性；随后通过时间滑动窗口聚合多个结构增强后的切面信息，以稳定关键帧（keyframe）定位边界，从而显著提高标准切面检测的鲁棒性和一致性，为盲扫超声中的可靠生物测量提供支撑。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20591
作者: Keli Niu,He Zhao,Qianhui Men
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:In low-resource settings, blind-sweep ultrasound provides a practical and accessible method for identifying fetal growth restriction. However, unlike freehand ultrasound which is subjectively controlled, detection of biometry plane in blind-sweep ultrasound is more challenging due to the uncontrolled fetal structure to be observed and the variaties of oblique planes in the scan. In this work, we propose a structure-augmented system to detect fetal abdomen plane, where the abdominal structure is highlighted using a segmentation prior. Since standard planes are emerging gradually, the decision boundary of the keyframes is unstable to predict. We thus aggregated the structure-augmented planes with a temporal sliding window to help stabilise keyframe localisation. Extensive results indicate that the structure-augmented temporal sliding strategy significantly improves and stabilises the detection of anatomically meaningful planes, which enables more reliable biometric measurements in blind-sweep ultrasound.
[CV-21] On the Impact of Face Segmentation-Based Background Removal on Recognition and Morphing Attack Detection
【速读】：该论文旨在解决在非受控环境下（如机场等边境口岸）进行人脸采集时，由于背景复杂或不可控导致的面部识别准确率下降及防伪造攻击能力减弱的问题。其核心挑战在于如何在保证用户体验和图像可用性的前提下，维持大规模生物特征识别系统的可靠性与安全性。解决方案的关键在于系统性评估多种图像分割技术对人脸识别性能和人脸仿冒攻击检测效果的影响，发现分割处理不仅能提升图像质量并稳定识别精度，还能显著改变攻击检测机制的表现，从而强调了在实际部署中需谨慎选择预处理策略以平衡易用性与安全性的必要性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20585
作者: Eduarda Caldeira,Guray Ozgur,Fadi Boutros,Naser Damer
机构: Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD (弗劳恩霍夫计算机图形研究所); TU Darmstadt (达姆施塔特工业大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:This study investigates the impact of face image background correction through segmentation on face recognition and morphing attack detection performance in realistic, unconstrained image capture scenarios. The motivation is driven by operational biometric systems such as the European Entry/Exit System (EES), which require facial enrolment at airports and other border crossing points where controlled backgrounds usually required for such captures cannot always be guaranteed, as well as by accessibility needs that may necessitate image capture outside traditional office environments. By analyzing how such preprocessing steps influence both recognition accuracy and security mechanisms, this work addresses a critical gap between usability-driven image normalization and the reliability requirements of large-scale biometric identification systems. Our study evaluates a comprehensive range of segmentation techniques, three families of morphing attack detection methods, and four distinct face recognition models, using databases that include both controlled and in-the-wild image captures. The results reveal consistent patterns linking segmentation to both recognition performance and face image quality. Additionally, segmentation is shown to systematically influence morphing attack detection performance. These findings highlight the need for careful consideration when deploying such preprocessing techniques in operational biometric systems.
[CV-22] Where are they looking in the operating room?
【速读】：该论文旨在解决手术室（Operating Room, OR）中视觉注意力建模的空白问题，即如何利用眼动追踪（gaze-following）技术来提升对临床角色识别、手术阶段划分及团队沟通行为检测的理解能力。其关键解决方案在于：首先扩展了4D-OR和Team-OR数据集，引入眼动标注与新的团队交流活动标签；其次提出基于眼动热力图的单一 gaze 驱动方法用于临床角色与手术阶段识别，并设计一种自监督的空间-时间模型来编码眼动特征，进而结合时序活动检测框架实现团队沟通行为的精准识别，从而在多个下游任务上达到当前最优性能，显著优于已有基线方法。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20574
作者: Keqi Chen,Séraphin Baributsa,Lilien Schewski,Vinkle Srivastav,Didier Mutter,Guido Beldi,Sandra Keller,Nicolas Padoy
机构: University of Strasbourg, CNRS, INSERM, ICube, UMR7357, France; IHU Strasbourg, 67000 Strasbourg, France; Department for Biomedical Research (DBMR), University of Bern, 3008 Bern, Switzerland; University Hospital of Strasbourg, 67000 Strasbourg, France; Department for Visceral Surgery and Medicine, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, 3010 Bern, Switzerland
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Purpose: Gaze-following, the task of inferring where individuals are looking, has been widely studied in computer vision, advancing research in visual attention modeling, social scene understanding, and human-robot interaction. However, gaze-following has never been explored in the operating room (OR), a complex, high-stakes environment where visual attention plays an important role in surgical workflow analysis. In this work, we introduce the concept of gaze-following to the surgical domain, and demonstrate its great potential for understanding clinical roles, surgical phases, and team communications in the OR. Methods: We extend the 4D-OR dataset with gaze-following annotations, and extend the Team-OR dataset with gaze-following and a new team communication activity annotations. Then, we propose novel approaches to address clinical role prediction, surgical phase recognition, and team communication detection using a gaze-following model. For role and phase recognition, we propose a gaze heatmap-based approach that uses gaze predictions solely; for team communication detection, we train a spatial-temporal model in a self-supervised way that encodes gaze-based clip features, and then feed the features into a temporal activity detection model. Results: Experimental results on the 4D-OR and Team-OR datasets demonstrate that our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance on all downstream tasks. Quantitatively, our approach obtains F1 scores of 0.92 for clinical role prediction and 0.95 for surgical phase recognition. Furthermore, it significantly outperforms existing baselines in team communication detection, improving previous best performances by over 30%. Conclusion: We introduce gaze-following in the OR as a novel research direction in surgical data science, highlighting its great potential to advance surgical workflow analysis in computer-assisted interventions.
[CV-23] Exploring Spatial Intelligence from a Generative Perspective CVPR2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前多模态大语言模型在生成式空间智能（Generative Spatial Intelligence, GSI）方面的能力评估与提升问题，即模型是否具备在图像生成过程中尊重并操作三维空间约束的能力，以及这种能力能否被量化和增强。解决方案的关键在于提出首个专门用于量化GSI的基准测试框架GSI-Bench，其核心由两个互补组件构成：GSI-Real——基于3D先验引导的生成与过滤流程构建的高质量真实世界数据集；GSI-Syn——具有可控空间操作和全自动标注的大规模合成基准。通过统一的评估协议，GSI-Bench实现了可扩展、模型无关的空间合规性与编辑保真度评估，并实验证明在GSI-Syn上微调统一多模态模型不仅能显著提升合成与真实场景下的生成性能，还能增强下游的空间理解能力，首次明确证实生成式训练可实质性强化空间推理能力，为提升多模态模型的空间智能提供了新路径。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20570
作者: Muzhi Zhu,Shunyao Jiang,Huanyi Zheng,Zekai Luo,Hao Zhong,Anzhou Li,Kaijun Wang,Jintao Rong,Yang Liu,Hao Chen,Tao Lin,Chunhua Shen
机构: Zhejiang University (浙江大学); Ant Group (蚂蚁集团); Westlake University (西湖大学); Zhejiang University of Technology (浙江工业大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Spatial intelligence is essential for multimodal large language models, yet current benchmarks largely assess it only from an understanding perspective. We ask whether modern generative or unified multimodal models also possess generative spatial intelligence (GSI), the ability to respect and manipulate 3D spatial constraints during image generation, and whether such capability can be measured or improved. We introduce GSI-Bench, the first benchmark designed to quantify GSI through spatially grounded image editing. It consists of two complementary components: GSI-Real, a high-quality real-world dataset built via a 3D-prior-guided generation and filtering pipeline, and GSI-Syn, a large-scale synthetic benchmark with controllable spatial operations and fully automated labeling. Together with a unified evaluation protocol, GSI-Bench enables scalable, model-agnostic assessment of spatial compliance and editing fidelity. Experiments show that fine-tuning unified multimodal models on GSI-Syn yields substantial gains on both synthetic and real tasks and, strikingly, also improves downstream spatial understanding. This provides the first clear evidence that generative training can tangibly strengthen spatial reasoning, establishing a new pathway for advancing spatial intelligence in multimodal models.
[CV-24] Evian: Towards Explainable Visual Instruction-tuning Data Auditing ACL2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决大型视觉语言模型（Large Vision-Language Models, LVLMs）训练数据质量不一致的问题，特别是现有数据过滤方法因依赖粗粒度评分而难以识别逻辑谬误或事实错误等细微语义缺陷，从而成为提升模型可靠性的根本瓶颈。其解决方案的关键在于提出一种“分解-评估”（Decomposition-then-Evaluation）新范式，将模型输出拆解为视觉描述、主观推理和事实陈述三个认知组件，并通过EVIAN（Explainable Visual Instruction-tuning Data AuditiNg）框架在图像-文本一致性、逻辑连贯性和事实准确性三个正交维度上进行精细化评估，实现对训练数据的精准审计与高质量筛选。实证结果表明，基于EVIAN筛选出的小规模高质量数据集可使模型性能超越使用海量低质数据训练的模型，且逻辑连贯性是数据质量评估中最关键的因素。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20544
作者: Zimu Jia,Mingjie Xu,Andrew Estornell,Jiaheng Wei
机构: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou); ByteDance Seed
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:The efficacy of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) is critically dependent on the quality of their training data, requiring a precise balance between visual fidelity and instruction-following capability. Existing datasets, however, are plagued by inconsistent quality, and current data filtering methods rely on coarse-grained scores that lack the granularity to identify nuanced semantic flaws like logical fallacies or factual errors. This creates a fundamental bottleneck in developing more reliable models. To address this, we make three core contributions. First, we construct a large-scale, 300K-sample benchmark by systematically injecting diverse, subtle defects to provide a challenging testbed for data auditing. Second, we introduce a novel “Decomposition-then-Evaluation” paradigm that breaks model responses into constituent cognitive components: visual description, subjective inference, and factual claim, enabling targeted analysis. Third, we instantiate this paradigm via EVIAN (Explainable Visual Instruction-tuning Data AuditiNg), an automated framework that evaluates these components along the orthogonal axes of Image-Text Consistency, Logical Coherence, and Factual Accuracy. Our empirical findings challenge the prevailing scale-centric paradigm: a model fine-tuned on a compact, high-quality subset curated by EVIAN consistently surpassed models trained on orders-of-magnitude larger datasets. We also reveal that dividing complex auditing into verifiable subtasks enables robust curation, and that Logical Coherence is the most critical factor in data quality evaluation.
[CV-25] RefAerial: A Benchmark and Approach for Referring Detection in Aerial Images
【速读】：该论文旨在解决现有指代表达（referring detection）方法在航空图像（aerial images）中性能显著下降的问题，其核心挑战在于航空图像中目标与场景比例低且多样、目标与干扰项众多、描述语句复杂精细，以及场景类型广泛。为应对这些问题，作者提出了一种新颖的尺度综合敏感（scale-comprehensive and sensitive, SCS）框架，其关键创新在于：（1）混合粒度（mixture-of-granularity, MoG）注意力机制，用于实现对多尺度目标的全面理解；（2）两阶段从粗到细的综合到敏感（comprehensive-to-sensitive, CtS）解码策略，以实现精确的目标定位。该框架在新提出的RefAerial数据集上取得显著性能提升，并在传统地面图像指代表达任务中也展现出潜力增强。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20543
作者: Guyue Hu,Hao Song,Yuxing Tong,Duzhi Yuan,Dengdi Sun,Aihua Zheng,Chenglong Li,Jin Tang
机构: Anhui University (安徽大学); State Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Acquisition and Protection Technology, Anhui University (安徽省光电信息获取与保护技术重点实验室, 安徽大学); Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Security Artificial Intelligence, Anhui University (安徽省安全人工智能重点实验室, 安徽大学); Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Multimodal Cognitive Computation, Anhui University (安徽省多模态认知计算重点实验室, 安徽大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Referring detection refers to locate the target referred by natural languages, which has recently attracted growing research interests. However, existing datasets are limited to ground images with large object centered in relative small scenes. This paper introduces a large-scale challenging dataset for referring detection in aerial images, termed as RefAerial. It distinguishes from conventional ground referring detection datasets by 4 characteristics: (1) low but diverse object-to-scene ratios, (2) numerous targets and distractors, (3)complex and fine-grained referring descriptions, (4) diverse and broad scenes in the aerial view. We also develop a human-in-the-loop referring expansion and annotation engine (REA-Engine) for efficient semi-automated referring pair annotation. Besides, we observe that existing ground referring detection approaches exhibiting serious performance degradation on our aerial dataset since the intrinsic scale variety issue within or across aerial images. Therefore, we further propose a novel scale-comprehensive and sensitive (SCS) framework for referring detection in aerial images. It consists of a mixture-of-granularity (MoG) attention and a two-stage comprehensive-to-sensitive (CtS) decoding strategy. Specifically, the mixture-of-granularity attention is developed for scale-comprehensive target understanding. In addition, the two-stage comprehensive-to-sensitive decoding strategy is designed for coarse-to-fine referring target decoding. Eventually, the proposed SCS framework achieves remarkable performance on our aerial referring detection dataset and even promising performance boost on conventional ground referring detection datasets.
[CV-26] From Image to Music Language: A Two-Stage Structure Decoding Approach for Complex Polyphonic OMR
【速读】：该论文旨在解决实际两阶段光学乐谱识别（Optical Music Recognition, OMR）流程中第二阶段的结构解码问题，尤其针对复杂多声部记谱（如钢琴谱）中存在的声部分离与拍内时序精度难题。其核心解决方案是将第二阶段解码建模为结构解码任务，并引入以拓扑识别为基础、概率引导搜索（BeadSolver）为核心的方法，通过结合过程生成与识别反馈标注的数据策略，实现从符号和事件候选到可编辑、可验证、可导出的乐谱结构的有效映射，从而构建可用于真实OMR系统的实用解码模块，并为未来端到端、多模态及强化学习（Reinforcement Learning, RL）方法积累结构化乐谱数据基础。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20522
作者: Nan Xu,Shiheng Li,Shengchao Hou
机构: FindLab
类目: ound (cs.SD); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:We propose a new approach for the second stage of a practical two-stage Optical Music Recognition (OMR) pipeline. Given symbol and event candidates from the visual pipeline, we decode them into an editable, verifiable, and exportable score structure. We focus on complex polyphonic staff notation, especially piano scores, where voice separation and intra-measure timing are the main bottlenecks. Our approach formulates second-stage decoding as a structure decoding problem and uses topology recognition with probability-guided search (BeadSolver) as its core method. We also describe a data strategy that combines procedural generation with recognition-feedback annotations. The result is a practical decoding component for real OMR systems and a path to accumulate structured score data for future end-to-end, multimodal, and RL-style methods.
[CV-27] ProMMSearchAgent : A Generalizable Multimodal Search Agent Trained with Process-Oriented Rewards
【速读】：该论文旨在解决多模态智能体（Multimodal Agent）在知识密集型视觉推理任务中，因基于结果的监督信号极度稀疏以及实时网络环境不可预测性而导致的强化学习训练困难问题。其核心解决方案是提出ProMMSearchAgent，构建了一种新颖的“仿真到现实”（Sim-to-Real）训练范式，将策略学习解耦至一个确定性的局部静态沙盒环境中；关键创新在于设计了一种内省式的过程导向奖励机制（introspective process-oriented reward），通过探测代理自身参数化知识边界生成密集的行为元数据，显式奖励正确的认知决策，并仅在视觉或事实不确定时触发多模态或文本搜索，从而实现零样本迁移至真实Google搜索API并取得当前最优性能（SOTA）。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20486
作者: Wentao Yan,Shengqin Wang,Huichi Zhou,Yihang Chen,Kun Shao,Yuan Xie,Zhizhong Zhang
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Training multimodal agents via reinforcement learning for knowledge-intensive visual reasoning is fundamentally hindered by the extreme sparsity of outcome-based supervision and the unpredictability of live web environments. To resolve these algorithmic and environmental bottlenecks, we introduce ProMMSearchAgent, establishing a novel Sim-to-Real training paradigm for multimodal search. We decouple policy learning into a deterministic, local static sandbox. Crucially, to learn effectively within this constrained environment, we propose an introspective process-oriented reward. By probing the agent’s own parametric knowledge boundaries, we generate dense behavioral metadata that explicitly rewards the correct cognitive decision, initiating a multimodal or text search only when visually or factually uncertain. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our locally-trained policy transfers zero-shot to the live Google Search API. ProMMSearchAgent achieves new SOTA performance, outperforming MMSearch-R1 by +5.1% on FVQA-test, +6.3% on InfoSeek, and +11.3% on MMSearch. Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) Cite as: arXiv:2604.20486 [cs.CV] (or arXiv:2604.20486v1 [cs.CV] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.20486 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[CV-28] Random Walk on Point Clouds for Feature Detection
【速读】：该论文旨在解决点云数据中特征点提取的难题，即如何准确识别出能够完整刻画模型形状的特征点，这类点是点云处理任务（如三维重建、几何分析等）的基础。解决方案的关键在于提出了一种名为RWoDSN的新方法，其核心创新包括：第一阶段引入了Disk Sampling Neighborhood (DSN) 描述子，该描述子保留了邻域矩阵结构并维持法向关系，相较于传统空间和几何不变方法更具局部几何敏感性；第二阶段在DSN基础上进行随机游走（Random Walk on DSN, RWoDSN），构建图结构以同时融合空间分布、拓扑特性与局部表面几何信息，从而实现高精度特征点提取。实验表明，该方法在召回率上比当前最优方法提升达22%，且精度达到0.784，在八项评估指标中显著优于多种传统及深度学习方法。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20474
作者: Yuhe Zhang,Zhikun Tu,Zhi Li,Jian Gao,Bao Guo,Shunli Zhang
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:The points on the point clouds that can entirely outline the shape of the model are of critical importance, as they serve as the foundation for numerous point cloud processing tasks and are widely utilized in computer graphics and computer-aided design. This study introduces a novel method, RWoDSN, for extracting such feature points, incorporating considerations of sharp-to-smooth transitions, large-to-small scales, and textural-to-detailed features. We approach feature extraction as a two-stage context-dependent analysis problem. In the first stage, we propose a novel neighborhood descriptor, termed the Disk Sampling Neighborhood (DSN), which, unlike traditional spatially and geometrically invariant approaches, preserves a matrix structure while maintaining normal neighborhood relationships. In the second stage, a random walk is performed on the DSN (RWoDSN), yielding a graph-based DSN that simultaneously accounts for the spatial distribution, topological properties, and geometric characteristics of the local surface surrounding each point. This enables the effective extraction of feature points. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed RWoDSN method achieves a recall of 0.769-22% higher than the current state-of-the-art-alongside a precision of 0.784. Furthermore, it significantly outperforms several traditional and deep-learning techniques across eight evaluation metrics.
[CV-29] Video-ToC: Video Tree-of-Cue Reasoning
【速读】：该论文旨在解决现有视频大语言模型（Video LLMs）在复杂视频理解任务中表现不佳的问题，特别是其推理能力有限且易产生幻觉（hallucination），原因在于这些方法主要依赖预训练时固有的推理逻辑，缺乏对输入视频内容的感知自适应能力。解决方案的关键在于提出一种名为 Video-ToC 的新型视频推理框架，其核心创新包括：(1) 基于树状结构的视觉线索定位机制，通过结构化推理模式增强模型的细粒度感知能力；(2) 推理需求奖励机制，根据推理需求动态调整强化学习（RL）中的奖励值，从而激励更有效的推理策略；(3) 自动化标注流程构建的 Video-ToC-SFT-1k 和 Video-ToC-RL-2k 数据集，分别用于监督微调（SFT）和强化学习训练，显著提升了模型在多个视频理解基准上的性能表现。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20473
作者: Qizhong Tan,Zhuotao Tian,Guangming Lu,Jun Yu,Wenjie Pei
机构: Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (哈尔滨工业大学深圳校区)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Existing Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) struggle with complex video understanding, exhibiting limited reasoning capabilities and potential hallucinations. In particular, these methods tend to perform reasoning solely relying on the pretrained inherent reasoning rationales whilst lacking perception-aware adaptation to the input video content. To address this, we propose \textbfVideo-ToC, a novel video reasoning framework that enhances video understanding through tree-of-cue reasoning. Specifically, our approach introduces three key innovations: (1) A tree-guided visual cue localization mechanism, which endows the model with enhanced fine-grained perceptual capabilities through structured reasoning patterns; (2) A reasoning-demand reward mechanism, which dynamically adjusts the reward value for reinforcement learning (RL) based on the estimation of reasoning demands, enabling on-demand incentives for more effective reasoning strategies; and (3) An automated annotation pipeline that constructs the Video-ToC-SFT-1k and Video-ToC-RL-2k datasets for supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and RL training, respectively. Extensive evaluations on six video understanding benchmarks and a video hallucination benchmark demonstrate the superiority of Video-ToC over baselines and recent methods. Code is available at this https URL.
[CV-30] DynamicRad: Content-Adaptive Sparse Attention for Long Video Diffusion
【速读】：该论文旨在解决视频扩散模型（video diffusion）中因依赖固定静态掩码（static masks）而导致的长程信息丢失问题，从而影响复杂动态场景下的生成质量。其核心解决方案是提出一种统一的稀疏注意力范式 DynamicRad，关键在于引入基于径向局部性先验（radial locality prior）的自适应选择机制，并设计双模式策略：静态比例模式（static-ratio）用于加速推理，动态阈值模式（dynamic-threshold）优先保障质量；同时通过离线贝叶斯优化（offline Bayesian Optimization, BO）管道与语义运动路由模块（semantic motion router）实现无需在线搜索的高效参数配置，在保持极低运行时开销的前提下显著提升注意力重建精度与长期一致性，最终在 HunyuanVideo 和 Wan2.1-14B 上实现了 1.7×–2.5× 的推理加速和超过 80% 的有效稀疏率。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20470
作者: Yongji Long,Shijun Liang,Jintao Li,Yun Li
机构: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (电子科技大学); Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study, UESTC (深圳先进研究院，电子科技大学); Computational Mathematics, Science, Engineering at Michigan State University (MSU) (密歇根州立大学计算数学、科学与工程系)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Leveraging the natural spatiotemporal energy decay in video diffusion offers a path to efficiency, yet relying solely on rigid static masks risks losing critical long-range information in complex dynamics. To address this issue, we propose \textbfDynamicRad, a unified sparse-attention paradigm that grounds adaptive selection within a radial locality prior. DynamicRad introduces a \textbfdual-mode strategy: \textitstatic-ratio for speed-optimized execution and \textitdynamic-threshold for quality-first filtering. To ensure robustness without online search overhead, we integrate an offline Bayesian Optimization (BO) pipeline coupled with a \textbfsemantic motion router. This lightweight projection module maps prompt embeddings to optimal sparsity regimes with \textbfminimal runtime overhead. Unlike online profiling methods, our offline BO optimizes attention reconstruction error (MSE) on a physics-based proxy task, ensuring rapid convergence. Experiments on HunyuanVideo and Wan2.1-14B demonstrate that DynamicRad pushes the efficiency–quality Pareto frontier, achieving \textbf1.7 \times --2.5 \times inference speedups with \textbfover 80% effective sparsity. In some long-sequence settings, the dynamic mode even matches or exceeds the dense baseline, while mask-aware LoRA further improves long-horizon coherence. Code is available at this https URL.
[CV-31] CCTVBench: Contrastive Consistency Traffic VideoQA Benchmark for Multimodal LLM s
【速读】：该论文旨在解决安全关键型交通推理中模型对真实危险的识别与虚假假设的可靠排除问题，即对比一致性（contrastive consistency）不足的问题。现有模型在单个实例上的问答（QA）指标表现良好，但在面对近似场景下的反事实视频时，难以维持一致的决策逻辑，尤其在“无上述选项”（none-of-the-above）拒绝能力上存在显著缺陷。解决方案的关键在于提出CCTVBench基准，其基于真实事故视频与世界模型生成的反事实视频配对，并设计互斥假设问题，从而强制模型遵循结构化的决策模式；同时引入C-TCD（Contrastive Temporal Consistency Decoding）方法，在推理阶段利用语义互斥的对比视频作为输入，提升模型在实例级QA和对比一致性两方面的性能。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20460
作者: Xingcheng Zhou,Hao Guo,Rui Song,Walter Zimmer,Mingyu Liu,André Schamschurko,Hu Cao,Alois Knoll
机构: Technical University of Munich(慕尼黑工业大学); University of California, Los Angeles(加州大学洛杉矶分校)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Safety-critical traffic reasoning requires contrastive consistency: models must detect true hazards when an accident occurs, and reliably reject plausible-but-false hypotheses under near-identical counterfactual scenes. We present CCTVBench, a Contrastive Consistency Traffic VideoQA Benchmark built on paired real accident videos and world-model-generated counterfactual counterparts, together with minimally different, mutually exclusive hypothesis questions. CCTVBench enforces a single structured decision pattern over each video question quadruple and provides actionable diagnostics that decompose failures into positive omission, positive swap, negative hallucination, and mutual-exclusivity violation, while separating video versus question consistency. Experiments across open-source and proprietary video LLMs reveal a large and persistent gap between standard per-instance QA metrics and quadruple-level contrastive consistency, with unreliable none-of-the-above rejection as a key bottleneck. Finally, we introduce C-TCD, a contrastive decoding approach leveraging a semantically exclusive counterpart video as the contrast input at inference time, improving both instance-level QA and contrastive consistency.
[CV-32] Fast-then-Fine: A Two-Stage Framework with Multi-Granular Representation for Cross-Modal Retrieval in Remote Sensing
【速读】：该论文旨在解决遥感（Remote Sensing, RS）图像与文本跨模态检索中，因图像内多目标密集分布和复杂背景导致的细粒度跨模态对齐困难与检索效率低下的问题。现有方法要么依赖复杂的跨模态交互机制降低效率，要么依赖大规模视觉-语言预训练模型，消耗大量数据与计算资源。解决方案的关键在于提出一种“先快后精”（Fast-Then-Fine, FTF）的两阶段检索框架：第一阶段采用与文本无关的粗粒度表示进行高效候选筛选；第二阶段引入无参数的平衡文本引导交互模块，实现细粒度对齐而不增加额外可学习参数；同时设计跨模态损失函数，联合优化多粒度表示下的跨模态一致性，从而在保持竞争性检索精度的同时显著提升检索效率。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20429
作者: Xi Chen,Xu Chen,Xiangyang Jia,Xu Zhang,Shuquan Wei,Wei Wang
机构: Wuhan University (武汉大学); Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI) (北京通用人工智能研究院)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Remote sensing (RS) image-text retrieval plays a critical role in understanding massive RS imagery. However, the dense multi-object distribution and complex backgrounds in RS imagery make it difficult to simultaneously achieve fine-grained cross-modal alignment and efficient retrieval. Existing methods either rely on complex cross-modal interactions that lead to low retrieval efficiency, or depend on large-scale vision-language model pre-training, which requires massive data and computational resources. To address these issues, we propose a fast-then-fine (FTF) two-stage retrieval framework that decomposes retrieval into a text-agnostic recall stage for efficient candidate selection and a text-guided rerank stage for fine-grained alignment. Specifically, in the recall stage, text-agnostic coarse-grained representations are employed for efficient candidate selection; in the rerank stage, a parameter-free balanced text-guided interaction block enhances fine-grained alignment without introducing additional learnable parameters. Furthermore, an inter- and intra-modal loss is designed to jointly optimize cross-modal alignment across multi-granular representations. Extensive experiments on public benchmarks demonstrate that the FTF achieves competitive retrieval accuracy while significantly improving retrieval efficiency compared with existing methods.
[CV-33] SpaCeFormer: Fast Proposal-Free Open-Vocabulary 3D Instance Segmentation
【速读】：该论文旨在解决开放词汇表3D实例分割（open-vocabulary 3D instance segmentation）在机器人和增强现实/虚拟现实（AR/VR）应用中的效率与精度瓶颈问题。现有方法存在两类局限：多阶段2D+3D流水线计算耗时（每场景数百秒），而端到端伪标签方法则依赖碎片化掩码和外部区域建议，导致性能受限。其解决方案的关键在于提出SpaCeFormer——一种无建议（proposal-free）的空间曲线Transformer架构，通过空间窗口注意力与Morton曲线序列化实现空间一致特征提取，并利用RoPE增强解码器直接从学习查询中预测实例掩码；同时构建了包含300万条多视角一致性描述的SpaCeFormer-3M数据集，显著提升掩码召回率（IoU=0.5时达54.3%，较单视角方法提升21倍）。该方案在ScanNet200、ScanNet++和Replica上分别实现11.1、22.9和24.1的零样本mAP，超越所有先前方法，包括使用多视角2D输入的方法。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20395
作者: Chris Choy,Junha Lee,Chunghyun Park,Minsu Cho,Jan Kautz
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Robotics (cs.RO)
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Abstract:Open-vocabulary 3D instance segmentation is a core capability for robotics and AR/VR, but prior methods trade one bottleneck for another: multi-stage 2D+3D pipelines aggregate foundation-model outputs at hundreds of seconds per scene, while pseudo-labeled end-to-end approaches rely on fragmented masks and external region proposals. We present SpaCeFormer, a proposal-free space-curve transformer that runs at 0.14 seconds per scene, 2-3 orders of magnitude faster than multi-stage 2D+3D pipelines. We pair it with SpaCeFormer-3M, the largest open-vocabulary 3D instance segmentation dataset (3.0M multi-view-consistent captions over 604K instances from 7.4K scenes) built through multi-view mask clustering and multi-view VLM captioning; it reaches 21x higher mask recall than prior single-view pipelines (54.3% vs 2.5% at IoU 0.5). SpaCeFormer combines spatial window attention with Morton-curve serialization for spatially coherent features, and uses a RoPE-enhanced decoder to predict instance masks directly from learned queries without external proposals. On ScanNet200 we achieve 11.1 zero-shot mAP, a 2.8x improvement over the prior best proposal-free method; on ScanNet++ and Replica, we reach 22.9 and 24.1 mAP, surpassing all prior methods including those using multi-view 2D inputs.
[CV-34] MLG-Stereo: ViT Based Stereo Matching with Multi-Stage Local-Global Enhancement
【速读】：该论文旨在解决基于视觉Transformer（Vision Transformer, ViT）的立体匹配方法在处理高分辨率图像时存在的细节预测能力弱、局部信息利用不足以及训练与推理尺度不一致的问题。其核心解决方案在于提出一种系统级设计——MLG-Stereo，关键创新包括：1）构建多粒度特征网络（Multi-Granularity Feature Network），实现全局上下文与局部几何信息的有效平衡，从而支持任意分辨率输入；2）设计局部-全局代价体（Local-Global Cost Volume），同时捕获局部相关性和全局感知的匹配信息；3）引入局部-全局引导循环单元（Local-Global Guided Recurrent Unit），在全局信息指导下迭代优化局部视差估计，显著提升匹配精度与鲁棒性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20393
作者: Haoyu Zhang,Jingyi Zhou,Peng Ye,Jiakang Yuan,Lin Zhang,Feng Xu,Tao Chen
机构: Fudan University (复旦大学); Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (上海人工智能实验室); Chinese University of Hong Kong (香港中文大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:With the development of deep learning, ViT-based stereo matching methods have made significant progress due to their remarkable robustness and zero-shot ability. However, due to the limitations of ViTs in handling resolution sensitivity and their relative neglect of local information, the ability of ViT-based methods to predict details and handle arbitrary-resolution images is still weaker than that of CNN-based methods. To address these shortcomings, we propose MLG-Stereo, a systematic pipeline-level design that extends global modeling beyond the encoder stage. First, we propose a Multi-Granularity Feature Network to effectively balance global context and local geometric information, enabling comprehensive feature extraction from images of arbitrary resolution and bridging the gap between training and inference scales. Then, a Local-Global Cost Volume is constructed to capture both locally-correlated and global-aware matching information. Finally, a Local-Global Guided Recurrent Unit is introduced to iteratively optimize the disparity locally under the guidance of global information. Extensive experiments are conducted on multiple benchmark datasets, demonstrating that our MLG-Stereo exhibits highly competitive performance on the Middlebury and KITTI-2015 benchmarks compared to contemporaneous leading methods, and achieves outstanding results in the KITTI-2012 dataset.
[CV-35] Self-supervised pretraining for an iterative image size agnostic vision transformer
【速读】：该论文旨在解决视觉 Transformer (Vision Transformer, ViT) 在自监督学习（Self-Supervised Learning, SSL）中计算效率低、难以适应不同图像分辨率的问题，尤其是像 DINO 这类基础模型受限于低分辨率处理能力的瓶颈。其解决方案的关键在于提出一种基于 DINO 自蒸馏目标的新型“序列到全局”自监督学习框架，并结合高效的积分图像（integral-image）补丁提取方法，使视觉编码器能够实现图像尺寸无关的大规模预训练，同时在不同输入分辨率下保持恒定的计算预算。该方法通过迭代处理固定大小的多尺度补丁上下文，无需时间反向传播，从而有效提升了模型的扩展性和实用性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20392
作者: Nedyalko Prisadnikov,Danda Pani Paudel,Yuqian Fu,Luc Van Gool
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Vision Transformers (ViTs) dominate self-supervised learning (SSL). While they have proven highly effective for large-scale pretraining, they are computationally inefficient and scale poorly with image size. Consequently, foundational models like DINO are constrained to low-resolution processing. A recent foveal-inspired transformer achieves resolution agnosticism by iteratively processing a fixed-size context of multi-zoom patches. This model demonstrated promising results via supervised learning, utilizing a sequential, recurrent-like process without backpropagation through time. To unlock its potential as a foundational backbone, we introduce a novel sequential-to-global SSL framework based on DINO’s self-distillation objective. Supported by an efficient integral-image patch extraction method, our approach enables large-scale pretraining for image-size agnostic vision encoders. We achieve competitive performance on ImageNet-1K and downstream classification tasks, maintaining a constant computational budget regardless of input resolution.
[CV-36] LaplacianFormer:Rethinking Linear Attention with Laplacian Kernel
【速读】：该论文旨在解决Transformer中softmax注意力机制因二次复杂度而难以扩展至高分辨率视觉任务的问题。现有线性注意力方法通常用高斯核替代softmax以降低计算复杂度，但此类近似缺乏理论支撑且易抑制中距离token间的交互。其解决方案的关键在于提出LaplacianFormer，采用拉普拉斯核（Laplacian kernel）作为softmax的理论驱动替代方案，并引入一个可证明为单射（injective）的特征映射以保留细粒度token信息；同时结合Nyström近似与Newton–Schulz迭代求解器，在避免昂贵矩阵求逆和奇异值分解（SVD）的前提下实现高效计算，辅以定制CUDA实现，支持边缘部署下的高吞吐量前向与反向传播。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20368
作者: Zhe Feng,Sen Lian,Changwei Wang,Muyang Zhang,Tianlong Tan,Rongtao Xu,Weiliang Meng,Xiaopeng Zhang
机构: Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院); University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院大学); China Electronics Data Corporation (中国电子数据公司); Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院计算技术研究所); Shandong Computer Science Center (山东计算机中心); Qilu University of Technology (齐鲁工业大学); Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Computing Power Internet and Service Computing (山东省计算 power互联网与服务计算重点实验室); Shandong Fundamental Research Center for Computer Science (山东省计算机科学基础研究中心)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:The quadratic complexity of softmax attention presents a major obstacle for scaling Transformers to high-resolution vision tasks. Existing linear attention variants often replace the softmax with Gaussian kernels to reduce complexity, but such approximations lack theoretical grounding and tend to oversuppress mid-range token interactions. We propose LaplacianFormer, a Transformer variant that employs a Laplacian kernel as a principled alternative to softmax, motivated by empirical observations and theoretical analysis. To address expressiveness degradation under low-rank approximations, we introduce a provably injective feature map that retains fine-grained token information. For efficient computation, we adopt a Nyström approximation of the kernel matrix and solve the resulting system using Newton–Schulz iteration, avoiding costly matrix inversion and SVD. We further develop custom CUDA implementations for both the kernel and solver, enabling high-throughput forward and backward passes suitable for edge deployment. Experiments on ImageNet show that LaplacianFormer achieves strong performance-efficiency trade-offs while improving attention expressiveness.
[CV-37] Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models without Performance Degradation ACL2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决大视觉语言模型（Large Vision-Language Models, LVLMs）中普遍存在的幻觉问题，即模型在生成内容时产生与输入信息不符的虚假信息，从而影响输出可靠性。现有方法主要分为两类：一是通过标注无幻觉数据进行微调，虽有效但计算成本高；二是基于表示的方法，通过修改隐藏层中的表征来缓解幻觉，但存在对幻觉成分提取不完整和参数更新非选择性的问题，导致通用生成能力下降。本文提出MPD（Multi-Stage Prompt Disentanglement）双阶段框架，其核心在于两个关键机制：(1) 语义感知的组件解耦（semantic-aware component disentanglement），用于精准提取纯幻觉成分；(2) 可解释的参数更新策略（interpretable parameter updates），仅针对与幻觉最相关的参数进行选择性调整，从而在显著降低幻觉率（提升23.4%）的同时保持97.4%的原始生成能力，且无需额外计算开销。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20366
作者: Xingyu Zhu,Junfeng Fang,Shuo Wang,Beier Zhu,Zhicai Wang,Yonghui Yang,Xiangnan He
机构: University of Science and Technology of China (中国科学技术大学); National University of Singapore (新加坡国立大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) exhibit powerful generative capabilities but frequently produce hallucinations that compromise output reliability. Fine-tuning on annotated data devoid of hallucinations offers the most direct solution, while its high computational cost motivates recent representation-based methods, which focus on mitigating hallucinatory components within hidden representations. Though efficient, we empirically observe that these methods degrade general generation capacity due to incomplete extraction of hallucination components and non-selective parameter updates. To address these limitations, we propose MPD, a dual-stage framework for mitigating hallucinations without performance degradation. Specifically, our MPD relies on two essential factors: (1) semantic-aware component disentanglement to extract pure hallucination components, and (2) interpretable parameter updates that selectively modify parameters most relevant to hallucination. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MPD achieves state-of-the-art performance, reducing hallucinations by 23.4% while maintaining 97.4% of general generative capability as evaluated on LLaVA-Bench and MME, with no additional computational cost.
[CV-38] Object Referring-Guided Scanpath Prediction with Perception-Enhanced Vision-Language Models ICMR2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决基于目标指代的注视路径预测（Object Referring-guided Scanpath Prediction, ORSP）问题，即根据自然语言描述精准预测人类在视觉场景中寻找特定目标对象时的注意力移动轨迹。其核心挑战在于如何有效融合多模态信息（视觉与语言），并提升对精细空间位置的感知能力。解决方案的关键在于提出一种名为ScanVLA的新模型：首先利用预训练的视觉-语言模型（Vision-Language Model, VLM）提取并融合图像与指代表达中的对齐特征；其次引入历史增强的注视路径解码器（History Enhanced Scanpath Decoder, HESD），通过显式输入历史注视点位置来优化当前注视预测；同时采用冻结的分割LoRA（Segmentation LoRA）作为辅助模块，在不显著增加计算开销的前提下提升目标定位精度，从而显著优于现有方法。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20361
作者: Rong Quan,Yantao Lai,Dong Liang,Jie Qin
机构: Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics(南京航空航天大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Object Referring-guided Scanpath Prediction (ORSP) aims to predict the human attention scanpath when they search for a specific target object in a visual scene according to a linguistic description describing the object. Multimodal information fusion is a key point of ORSP. Therefore, we propose a novel model, ScanVLA, to first exploit a Vision-Language Model (VLM) to extract and fuse inherently aligned visual and linguistic feature representations from the input image and referring expression. Next, to enhance the ScanVLA’s perception of fine-grained positional information, we not only propose a novel History Enhanced Scanpath Decoder (HESD) that directly takes historical fixations’ position information as input to help predict a more reasonable position for the current fixation, but also adopt a frozen Segmentation LoRA as an auxiliary component to help localize the referred object more precisely, which improves the scanpath prediction task without incurring additional large computational and time costs. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that ScanVLA can significantly outperform existing scanpath prediction methods under object referring.
[CV-39] ConeSep: Cone-based Robust Noise-Unlearning Compositional Network for Composed Image Retrieval CVPR2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决组合图像检索（Composed Image Retrieval, CIR）任务中因标注噪声导致的噪声三元组对应关系（Noisy Triplet Correspondence, NTC）问题，尤其是“硬噪声”（即参考图像与目标图像高度相似但修改文本错误）对现有噪声对应学习（Noise Correspondence Learning, NCL）方法造成的挑战，因其破坏了传统“小损失假设”。解决方案的关键在于提出一种基于锥形结构的鲁棒噪声消除组合网络（Cone-based Robust Noise-unlearning Compositional Network, ConeSep），其核心创新包括：（1）几何保真度量化（Geometric Fidelity Quantization），理论构建并实践估计噪声边界以精确定位噪声对应；（2）负边界学习（Negative Boundary Learning），为每个查询显式学习一个嵌入空间中的语义相反锚点（“对角负组合”）；（3）基于边界的定向去噪（Boundary-based Targeted Unlearning），将噪声修正过程建模为最优传输问题，有效避免“去噪反弹效应”（Unlearning Backlash）。实验表明，ConeSep在FashionIQ和CIRR等基准数据集上显著优于当前最先进方法。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20358
作者: Zixu Li,Yupeng Hu,Zhiwei Chen,Mingyu Zhang,Zhiheng Fu,Liqiang Nie
机构: Shandong University (山东大学); Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) (哈尔滨工业大学（深圳)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:The Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) task provides a flexible retrieval paradigm via a reference image and modification text, but it heavily relies on expensive and error-prone triplet annotations. This paper systematically investigates the Noisy Triplet Correspondence (NTC) problem introduced by annotations. We find that NTC noise, particularly hard noise'' (i.e., the reference and target images are highly similar but the modification text is incorrect), poses a unique challenge to existing Noise Correspondence Learning (NCL) methods because it breaks the traditional small loss hypothesis’‘. We identify and elucidate three key, yet overlooked, challenges in the NTC task, namely (C1) Modality Suppression, (C2) Negative Anchor Deficiency, and (C3) Unlearning Backlash. To address these challenges, we propose a Cone-based robuSt noisE-unlearning comPositional network (ConeSep). Specifically, we first propose Geometric Fidelity Quantization, theoretically establishing and practically estimating a noise boundary to precisely locate noisy correspondence. Next, we introduce Negative Boundary Learning, which learns a ``diagonal negative combination’’ for each query as its explicit semantic opposite-anchor in the embedding space. Finally, we design Boundary-based Targeted Unlearning, which models the noisy correction process as an optimal transport problem, elegantly avoiding Unlearning Backlash. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets (FashionIQ and CIRR) demonstrate that ConeSep significantly outperforms current state-of-the-art methods, which fully demonstrates the effectiveness and robustness of our method.
[CV-40] Hallucination Early Detection in Diffusion Models
【速读】：该论文旨在解决扩散模型在生成多对象图像时易出现幻觉（hallucination）的问题，即模型常遗漏指定对象导致生成结果不完整。其核心解决方案是提出HEaD+（Hallucination Early Detection +）框架，关键在于通过融合交叉注意力图（cross-attention maps）与文本信息，并引入一种新型输入——预测的最终图像（Predicted Final Image），在扩散过程早期阶段即可判断当前生成是否偏离正确轨迹，从而决定是否终止并重新使用不同种子继续生成。这一机制在保持高生成质量的同时显著降低无效计算开销，实验证明其可提升4个对象场景下完整生成概率6–8%，并将生成时间缩短最多32%。此外，论文进一步集成定位模块，在中间步骤预测物体中心位置并验证成对空间关系，以增强生成结果的空间一致性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20354
作者: Federico Betti,Lorenzo Baraldi,Lorenzo Baraldi,Rita Cucchiara,Nicu Sebe
机构: University of Trento (特伦托大学); University of Pisa (比萨大学); University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (摩德纳和雷焦艾米利亚大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Text-to-Image generation has seen significant advancements in output realism with the advent of diffusion models. However, diffusion models encounter difficulties when tasked with generating multiple objects, frequently resulting in hallucinations where certain entities are omitted. While existing solutions typically focus on optimizing latent representations within diffusion models, the relevance of the initial generation seed is typically underestimated. While using various seeds in multiple iterations can improve results, this method also significantly increases time and energy costs. To address this challenge, we introduce HEaD+ (Hallucination Early Detection +), a novel approach designed to identify incorrect generations early in the diffusion process. The HEaD+ framework integrates cross-attention maps and textual information with a novel input, the Predicted Final Image. The objective is to assess whether to proceed with the current generation or restart it with a different seed, thereby exploring multiple-generation seeds while conserving time. HEaD+ is trained on the newly created InsideGen dataset of 45,000 generated images, each containing prompts with up to seven objects. Our findings demonstrate a 6-8% increase in the likelihood of achieving a complete generation (i.e., an image accurately representing all specified subjects) with four objects when applying HEaD+ alongside existing models. Additionally, HEaD+ reduces generation times by up to 32% when aiming for a complete image, enhancing the efficiency of generating complete and accurate object representations relative to leading models. Moreover, we propose an integrated localization module that predicts object centroid positions and verifies pairwise spatial relations (if requested by the users) at an intermediate timestep, gating generation together with object presence to further improve relation-consistent outcomes.
[CV-41] X-PCR: A Benchmark for Cross-modality Progressive Clinical Reasoning in Ophthalmic Diagnosis CVPR2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决多模态大语言模型（Multi-modal Large Language Models, MLLMs）在临床推理能力，特别是跨模态诊断中的评估不足问题。现有基准大多基于单一模态数据，无法有效衡量临床实践中所需的渐进式推理和跨模态整合能力。其解决方案的关键在于提出首个全面评估MLLMs的跨模态渐进式临床推理基准（Cross-Modality Progressive Clinical Reasoning, X-PCR），该基准涵盖眼科完整诊疗流程，包含两个核心任务：一是六阶段渐进式推理链（从图像质量评估到临床决策），二是整合六种成像模态的跨模态推理任务；数据集由26,415张图像和177,868对专家验证的视觉问答（VQA）对构成，覆盖52种眼病，从而系统揭示了当前MLLMs在渐进推理与跨模态融合方面的显著短板。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20350
作者: Gui Wang,Zehao Zhong,YongSong Zhou,Yudong Li,Ende Wu,Wooi Ping Cheah,Rong Qu,Jianfeng Ren,Linlin Shen
机构: Shenzhen University (深圳大学); Tsinghua University (清华大学); University of Nottingham (诺丁汉大学); School of AI, Shenzhen University (深圳大学人工智能学院); Wenzhou Medical University (温州医科大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: Accept by CVPR2026
Abstract:Despite significant progress in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs), their clinical reasoning capacity for multi-modal diagnosis remains largely unexamined. Current benchmarks, mostly single-modality data, can’t evaluate progressive reasoning and cross-modal integration essential for clinical practice. We introduce the Cross-Modality Progressive Clinical Reasoning (X-PCR) benchmark, the first comprehensive evaluation of MLLMs through a complete ophthalmology diagnostic workflow, with two reasoning tasks: 1) a six-stage progressive reasoning chain spanning image quality assessment to clinical decision-making, and 2) a cross-modality reasoning task integrating six imaging modalities. The benchmark comprises 26,415 images and 177,868 expert-verified VQA pairs curated from 51 public datasets, covering 52 ophthalmic diseases. Evaluation of 21 MLLMs reveals critical gaps in progressive reasoning and cross-modal integration. Dataset and code: this https URL.
[CV-42] Stability-Driven Motion Generation for Object-Guided Human-Human Co-Manipulation CVPR2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决多人体协同操作（co-manipulation）中运动生成的挑战，即如何在多人共同操控共享物体时实现动作同步、合理交互、自然姿态保持及稳定状态维持，而现有方法大多仅适用于单人场景或未充分考虑负载引起的动力学影响。其解决方案的关键在于提出一种基于流匹配（flow-matching）的框架：首先通过显式建模物体可操作性（affordance）与空间配置来引导运动流向成功操作；其次设计对抗性交互先验以提升个体姿态自然性和人-人交互的真实性；最后引入基于采样的稳定性驱动模拟机制，在流匹配过程中优化不稳定的交互状态，并直接调整向量场回归以增强操作有效性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20336
作者: Jiahao Xu,Xiaohan Yuan,Xingchen Wu,Chongyang Xu,Kun Li,Buzhen Huang
机构: Tianjin University (天津大学); National University of Singapore (新加坡国立大学); Sichuan University (四川大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Graphics (cs.GR)
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Abstract:Co-manipulation requires multiple humans to synchronize their motions with a shared object while ensuring reasonable interactions, maintaining natural poses, and preserving stable states. However, most existing motion generation approaches are designed for single-character scenarios or fail to account for payload-induced dynamics. In this work, we propose a flow-matching framework that ensures the generated co-manipulation motions align with the intended goals while maintaining naturalness and effectiveness. Specifically, we first introduce a generative model that derives explicit manipulation strategies from the object’s affordance and spatial configuration, which guide the motion flow toward successful manipulation. To improve motion quality, we then design an adversarial interaction prior that promotes natural individual poses and realistic inter-person interactions during co-manipulation. In addition, we also incorporate a stability-driven simulation into the flow matching process, which refines unstable interaction states through sampling-based optimization and directly adjusts the vector field regression to promote more effective manipulation. The experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves higher contact accuracy, lower penetration, and better distributional fidelity compared to state-of-the-art human-object interaction baselines. The code is available at this https URL.
[CV-43] Image Generators are Generalist Vision Learners
【速读】：该论文旨在解决生成式视觉模型是否具备强大且通用的视觉理解能力这一问题，尤其是在缺乏显式监督的情况下如何实现跨任务的高性能表现。其关键解决方案在于提出Vision Banana模型，通过将视觉任务的输出空间参数化为RGB图像，将感知任务统一转化为图像生成任务，并基于Nano Banana Pro（NBP）进行轻量级指令微调（instruction-tuning），从而在不牺牲原始图像生成能力的前提下，实现了在2D与3D视觉任务上的SOTA性能，包括分割和度量深度估计等任务，表明图像生成预训练是构建通用视觉基础模型的有效范式。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20329
作者: Valentin Gabeur,Shangbang Long,Songyou Peng,Paul Voigtlaender,Shuyang Sun,Yanan Bao,Karen Truong,Zhicheng Wang,Wenlei Zhou,Jonathan T. Barron,Kyle Genova,Nithish Kannen,Sherry Ben,Yandong Li,Mandy Guo,Suhas Yogin,Yiming Gu,Huizhong Chen,Oliver Wang,Saining Xie,Howard Zhou,Kaiming He,Thomas Funkhouser,Jean-Baptiste Alayrac,Radu Soricut
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Recent works show that image and video generators exhibit zero-shot visual understanding behaviors, in a way reminiscent of how LLMs develop emergent capabilities of language understanding and reasoning from generative pretraining. While it has long been conjectured that the ability to create visual content implies an ability to understand it, there has been limited evidence that generative vision models have developed strong understanding capabilities. In this work, we demonstrate that image generation training serves a role similar to LLM pretraining, and lets models learn powerful and general visual representations that enable SOTA performance on various vision tasks. We introduce Vision Banana, a generalist model built by instruction-tuning Nano Banana Pro (NBP) on a mixture of its original training data alongside a small amount of vision task data. By parameterizing the output space of vision tasks as RGB images, we seamlessly reframe perception as image generation. Our generalist model, Vision Banana, achieves SOTA results on a variety of vision tasks involving both 2D and 3D understanding, beating or rivaling zero-shot domain-specialists, including Segment Anything Model 3 on segmentation tasks, and the Depth Anything series on metric depth estimation. We show that these results can be achieved with lightweight instruction-tuning without sacrificing the base model’s image generation capabilities. The superior results suggest that image generation pretraining is a generalist vision learner. It also shows that image generation serves as a unified and universal interface for vision tasks, similar to text generation’s role in language understanding and reasoning. We could be witnessing a major paradigm shift for computer vision, where generative vision pretraining takes a central role in building Foundational Vision Models for both generation and understanding.
[CV-44] Hybrid Latent Reasoning with Decoupled Policy Optimization
【速读】：该论文旨在解决多模态大语言模型（Multimodal Large Language Models, MLLMs）在视觉推理中因离散化处理导致的语义坍塌与细粒度信息丢失问题，以及外部工具引入的刚性瓶颈限制。现有方法要么将视觉信号离散化以适配语言模型输入，造成早期语义损失；要么依赖预定义操作的外部工具，缺乏灵活性。为此，作者提出HyLaR（Hybrid Latent Reasoning）框架，其核心创新在于通过无缝交织离散文本生成与连续视觉潜在表示来构建混合动作空间，并引入DePO（Decoupled Policy Optimization）进行有效强化学习优化：DePO将策略梯度目标解耦，对文本和潜在表示分别施加独立的信任区域约束，并采用精确的闭式冯·米塞斯-费舍尔（von Mises-Fisher, vMF）KL正则项，从而实现稳定且高效的混合空间策略更新。实验表明，该方法在细粒度感知和通用多模态理解任务上均优于标准MLLMs及当前最先进的潜在推理方法。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20328
作者: Tao Cheng,Shi-Zhe Chen,Hao Zhang,Yixin Qin,Jinwen Luo,Zheng Wei
机构: Tencent PCG (腾讯PCG); Tencent CSIG (腾讯CSIG)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning significantly elevates the complex problem-solving capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). However, adapting CoT to vision typically discretizes signals to fit LLM inputs, causing early semantic collapse and discarding fine-grained details. While external tools can mitigate this, they introduce a rigid bottleneck, confining reasoning to predefined operations. Although recent latent reasoning paradigms internalize visual states to overcome these limitations, optimizing the resulting hybrid discrete-continuous action space remains challenging. In this work, we propose HyLaR (Hybrid Latent Reasoning), a framework that seamlessly interleaves discrete text generation with continuous visual latent representations. Specifically, following an initial cold-start supervised fine-tuning (SFT), we introduce DePO (Decoupled Policy Optimization) to enable effective reinforcement learning within this hybrid space. DePO decomposes the policy gradient objective, applying independent trust-region constraints to the textual and latent components, alongside an exact closed-form von Mises-Fisher (vMF) KL regularizer. Extensive experiments demonstrate that HyLaR outperforms standard MLLMs and state-of-the-art latent reasoning approaches across fine-grained perception and general multimodal understanding benchmarks. Code is available at this https URL.
[CV-45] SurgCoT: Advancing Spatiotemporal Reasoning in Surgical Videos through a Chain-of-Thought Benchmark CVPR2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决多模态大语言模型（Multi-modal Large Language Models, MLLMs）在手术视频中细粒度时空推理能力不足的问题，当前MLLMs在复杂外科场景下的因果链式推理（Chain-of-Thought, CoT）能力尚未被系统评估。解决方案的关键在于提出SurgCoT——一个统一的基准测试平台，涵盖7个外科专业和35种多样化手术操作，通过结构化的CoT框架（包含问题-选项-知识-线索-答案五要素）对五大核心推理维度进行量化评估：因果动作排序、线索-动作对齐、可及性映射、微过渡定位与异常 onset 跟踪；其中“知识”字段提供背景信息，“线索”字段提供确定性的时空证据，从而实现对MLLMs在手术场景下渐进式时空推理能力的有效评估与提升。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20319
作者: Gui Wang,YongSong Zhou,Kaijun Deng,Wooi Ping Cheah,Rong Qu,Jianfeng Ren,Linlin Shen
机构: Shenzhen University (深圳大学); University of Nottingham (诺丁汉大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: Accept by CVPR2026
Abstract:Fine-grained spatiotemporal reasoning on surgical videos is critical, yet the capabilities of Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in this domain remain largely unexplored. To bridge this gap, we introduce SurgCoT, a unified benchmark for evaluating chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning in MLLMs across 7 surgical specialties and 35 diverse procedures. SurgCoT assesses five core reasoning dimensions: Causal Action Ordering, Cue-Action Alignment, Affordance Mapping, Micro-Transition Localization, and Anomaly Onset Tracking, through a structured CoT framework with an intensive annotation protocol (Question-Option-Knowledge-Clue-Answer), where the Knowledge field provides essential background context and Clue provides definitive spatiotemporal evidence. Evaluation of 10 leading MLLMs shows: 1) commercial models outperform open-source and medical-specialized variants; 2) significant gaps exist in surgical CoT reasoning; 3) SurgCoT enables effective evaluation and enhances progressive spatiotemporal reasoning. SurgCoT provides a reproducible testbed to narrow the gap between MLLM capabilities and clinical reasoning demands. Code: this https URL.
[CV-46] UniCVR: From Alignment to Reranking for Unified Zero-Shot Composed Visual Retrieval
【速读】：该论文旨在解决三类组合视觉检索任务——组合图像检索（composed image retrieval）、多轮组合图像检索（multi-turn composed image retrieval）和组合视频检索（composed video retrieval）——长期缺乏统一建模框架的问题，尤其是缺少无需任务特定标注数据的零样本解决方案。现有研究将这三类任务孤立处理，导致模型泛化能力受限且难以迁移。解决方案的关键在于提出UniCVR，这是首个统一的零样本组合视觉检索框架，其核心创新在于：第一阶段通过对比学习训练多模态大语言模型（MLLM）作为组合查询嵌入器，并结合基于聚类的难负样本采样策略，实现MLLM与冻结的视觉语言预训练（VLP）图像编码器之间的嵌入空间对齐；第二阶段引入MLLM引导的双层重排序机制，在少量候选集中执行自适应预算评分与双重重打分，显著提升最终排序精度的同时保持极低计算开销。这一两阶段设计有效融合了MLLM在语义理解上的优势与VLP模型在结构化视觉匹配中的稳定性，实现了跨任务的通用性和卓越性能。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20318
作者: Haokun Wen,Xuemeng Song,Haoyu Zhang,Xiangyu Zhao,Weili Guan,Liqiang Nie
机构: Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)(哈尔滨工业大学（深圳）); City University of Hong Kong(香港城市大学); Southern University of Science and Technology(南方科技大学); Pengcheng Laboratory(鹏城实验室)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Multimedia (cs.MM)
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Abstract:Composed image retrieval, multi-turn composed image retrieval, and composed video retrieval all share a common paradigm: composing the reference visual with modification text to retrieve the desired target. Despite this shared structure, the three tasks have been studied in isolation, with no prior work proposing a unified framework, let alone a zero-shot solution. In this paper, we propose UniCVR, the first unified zero-shot composed visual retrieval framework that jointly addresses all three tasks without any task-specific human-annotated data. UniCVR strategically combines two complementary strengths: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for compositional query understanding and Vision-Language Pre-trained (VLP) models for structured visual retrieval. Concretely, UniCVR operates in two stages. In Stage I, we train the MLLM as a compositional query embedder via contrastive learning on a curated multi-source dataset of approximately 3.5M samples, bridging the heterogeneous embedding spaces between the MLLM and the frozen VLP gallery encoder. A cluster-based hard negative sampling strategy is proposed to strengthen contrastive supervision. In Stage II, we introduce an MLLM-guided dual-level reranking mechanism that applies adaptive budgeted subset scoring to a small number of top-ranked candidates, and then exploits the resulting relevance signals through a dual-level re-scoring scheme, producing more accurate final rankings with minimal computational overhead. Extensive experiments across five benchmarks covering all three tasks demonstrate that UniCVR achieves cutting-edge performance, validating its effectiveness and generalizability. Our data and code will be released upon acceptance.
[CV-47] MD-Face: MoE-Enhanced Label-Free Disentangled Representation for Interactive Facial Attribute Editing
【速读】：该论文旨在解决生成式人脸属性编辑中常见的属性纠缠（attribute entanglement）问题，即在修改某一面部属性时会意外影响其他无关属性，从而降低编辑的精确性和可控性。现有基于监督学习的方法虽能实现解耦表示，但依赖大量标注数据，导致高昂的标注成本。为此，作者提出了一种无需标签的解耦表示学习框架MD-Face，其核心创新在于采用基于专家混合（Mixture of Experts, MoE）的架构，并引入动态门控机制以分配不同专家处理特定语义特征，从而增强语义向量间的独立性；此外，设计了一种几何感知损失函数，通过雅可比矩阵驱动的前向映射方法将每个语义向量对齐至对应的语义边界向量（Semantic Boundary Vector, SBV），进一步优化属性解耦效果。实验表明，MD-Face在ProGAN和StyleGAN基础上优于无监督基线方法，并可与有监督方法相媲美，在图像质量和推理延迟方面优于扩散模型，适用于交互式人脸编辑场景。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20317
作者: Xuan Cui,Yunfei Zhao,Bo Liu,Wei Duan,Xingrong Fan
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:GAN-based facial attribute editing is widely used in virtual avatars and social media but often suffers from attribute entanglement, where modifying one face attribute unintentionally alters others. While supervised disentangled representation learning can address this, it relies heavily on labeled data, incurring high annotation costs. To address these challenges, we propose MD-Face, a label-free disentangled representation learning framework based on Mixture of Experts (MoE). MD-Face utilizes a MoE backbone with a gating mechanism that dynamically allocates experts, enabling the model to learn semantic vectors with greater independence. To further enhance attribute entanglement, we introduce a geometry-aware loss, which aligns each semantic vector with its corresponding Semantic Boundary Vector (SBV) through a Jacobian-based pushforward method. Experiments with ProGAN and StyleGAN show that MD-Face outperforms unsupervised baselines and competes with supervised ones. Compared to diffusion-based methods, it offers better image quality and lower inference latency, making it ideal for interactive editing.
[CV-48] Improving Facial Emotion Recognition through Dataset Merging and Balanced Training Strategies
【速读】：该论文旨在解决面部情绪识别（Facial Emotion Recognition, FER）中因数据不平衡导致的模型泛化能力弱和鲁棒性差的问题。其关键解决方案是通过融合三个公开的面部情绪数据集（CK+、FER+ 和 KDEF）扩大训练样本规模，并结合在线与离线数据增强技术以及随机加权采样策略，有效缓解少数类样本不足问题，从而提升模型在七种基本情绪分类中的准确率至82%。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20307
作者: Serap Kırbız
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:In this paper, a deep learning framework is proposed for automatic facial emotion based on deep convolutional networks. In order to increase the generalization ability and the robustness of the method, the dataset size is increased by merging three publicly available facial emotion datasets: CK+, FER+ and KDEF. Despite the increase in dataset size, the minority classes still suffer from insufficient number of training samples, leading to data imbalance. The data imbalance problem is minimized by online and offline augmentation techniques and random weighted sampling. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can recognize the seven basic emotions with 82% accuracy. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach in tackling the challenges of data imbalance and improving classification performance in facial emotion recognition.
[CV-49] Dual Causal Inference: Integrating Backdoor Adjustment and Instrumental Variable Learning for Medical VQA
【速读】：该论文旨在解决医学视觉问答（MedVQA）中模型因过度依赖跨模态表面相关性而产生的因果偏倚问题，导致其在面对未见过的数据时泛化能力差、诊断推理不可靠。解决方案的关键在于提出一种新颖的双因果推断（Dual Causal Inference, DCI）框架，首次统一整合了后门调整（Backdoor Adjustment, BDA）与工具变量（Instrumental Variable, IV）学习机制，分别用于处理可观测和不可观测的混杂因素。具体而言，DCI通过构建结构因果模型（Structural Causal Model, SCM），利用BDA消除可见的跨模态偏差（如图像与文本的频繁共现），并通过从共享潜在空间中学习有效的IV来补偿不可观测混杂因子；同时设计互信息约束以确保IV仅与融合后的多模态表示强相关，而与未观测混杂因子及目标答案弱相关，从而提取出去混杂的表征，增强模型对真实因果关系的捕捉能力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20306
作者: Zibo Xu,Qiang Li,Ke Lu,Jin Wang,Weizhi Nie,Yuting Su
机构: Tianjin University (天津大学); Jiangsu University (江苏大学); Tianjin Medical Center (天津市第三中心医院)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Medical Visual Question Answering (MedVQA) aims to generate clinically reliable answers conditioned on complex medical images and questions. However, existing methods often overfit to superficial cross-modal correlations, neglecting the intrinsic biases embedded in multimodal medical data. Consequently, models become vulnerable to cross-modal confounding effects, severely hindering their ability to provide trustworthy diagnostic reasoning. To address this limitation, we propose a novel Dual Causal Inference (DCI) framework for MedVQA. To the best of our knowledge, DCI is the first unified architecture that integrates Backdoor Adjustment (BDA) and Instrumental Variable (IV) learning to jointly tackle both observable and unobserved confounders. Specifically, we formulate a Structural Causal Model (SCM) where observable cross-modal biases (e.g., frequent visual and textual co-occurrences) are mitigated via BDA, while unobserved confounders are compensated using an IV learned from a shared latent space. To guarantee the validity of the IV, we design mutual information constraints that maximize its dependence on the fused multimodal representations while minimizing its associations with the unobserved confounders and target answers. Through this dual mechanism, DCI extracts deconfounded representations that capture genuine causal relationships. Extensive experiments on four benchmark datasets, SLAKE, SLAKE-CP, VQA-RAD, and PathVQA, demonstrate that our method consistently outperforms existing approaches, particularly in out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization. Furthermore, qualitative analyses confirm that DCI significantly enhances the interpretability and robustness of cross-modal reasoning by explicitly disentangling true causal effects from spurious cross-modal shortcuts.
[CV-50] Efficient INT8 Single-Image Super-Resolution via Deployment-Aware Quantization and Teacher-Guided Training CVPR2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决高效单图像超分辨率（Single-Image Super-Resolution, SISR）在低比特部署（如INT8量化）下的性能瓶颈问题，尤其针对x3放大倍率场景中重建保真度、模型紧凑性和部署鲁棒性之间的权衡难题。解决方案的关键在于提出一种面向部署的量化SISR框架，采用“提取-精修-上采样”（extract-refine-upsample）设计：学生模型主要在低分辨率空间完成计算，并使用轻量级可重参数化骨干网络与PixelShuffle重构模块，构建紧凑的推理图；同时引入三阶段训练策略——第一阶段通过空间监督学习基础映射，第二阶段结合Charbonnier损失、DCT域监督及基于Mamba教师模型的置信加权输出蒸馏提升保真度，第三阶段直接对融合后的部署图进行量化感知训练（Quantization-Aware Training, QAT），并辅以权重裁剪和BatchNorm校准以增强量化稳定性。该方案在MAI 2026量化4K图像超分挑战测试集上实现29.79 dB PSNR和0.8634 SSIM，在目标移动端INT8部署下取得优异性能。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20291
作者: Pham Phuong Nam Nguyen,Nam Tien Le,Thi Kim Trang Vo,Nhu Tinh Anh Nguyen
机构: University of Information Technology (信息科技大学); Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (胡志明市科技大学); Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (胡志明市国家大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 10 pages, 4 figures. Accepted at the Mobile AI (MAI) 2026 Workshop at CVPR 2026
Abstract:Efficient single-image super-resolution (SISR) requires balancing reconstruction fidelity, model compactness, and robustness under low-bit deployment, which is especially challenging for x3 SR. We present a deployment-oriented quantized SISR framework based on an extract-refine-upsample design. The student performs most computation in the low-resolution space and uses a lightweight re-parameterizable backbone with PixelShuffle reconstruction, yielding a compact inference graph. To improve quality without significantly increasing complexity, we adopt a three-stage training pipeline: Stage 1 learns a basic reconstruction mapping with spatial supervision; Stage 2 refines fidelity using Charbonnier loss, DCT-domain supervision, and confidence-weighted output-level distillation from a Mamba-based teacher; and Stage 3 applies quantization-aware training directly on the fused deploy graph. We further use weight clipping and BatchNorm recalibration to improve quantization stability. On the MAI 2026 Quantized 4K Image Super-Resolution Challenge test set, our final AIO MAI submission achieves 29.79 dB PSNR and 0.8634 SSIM, obtaining a final score of 1.8 under the target mobile INT8 deployment setting. Ablation on Stage 3 optimization shows that teacher-guided supervision improves the dynamic INT8 TFLite reconstruction from 29.91 dB/0.853 to 30.0003 dB/0.856, while the fixed-shape deployable INT8 TFLite artifact attains 30.006 dB/0.857.
[CV-51] X-Cache: Cross-Chunk Block Caching for Few-Step Autoregressive World Models Inference
【速读】：该论文旨在解决生成式自动驾驶世界模型在实时交互部署中因扩散模型推理成本过高而导致的瓶颈问题。现有扩散缓存方法不适用于少步数、多相机条件控制的在线强化学习场景，因其依赖于多个去噪步骤或未来条件信息，而这些在闭环交互生成中不可用。解决方案的关键在于提出 X-Cache，一种无需训练的加速机制，其核心创新是将缓存维度从传统的去噪步骤扩展至连续生成块（chunk）之间：通过维护每个模块的残差缓存并基于结构和动作感知的块输入指纹，采用双指标门控机制独立判断是否复用缓存；同时识别并强制执行 KV 更新块（即写入干净键值对的前向传播），以切断近似误差的累积传播路径。该方法在 X-world 模型上实现了 71% 的块跳过率和 2.6 倍的时钟速度提升，同时保持最小性能损失。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20289
作者: Yixiao Zeng,Jianlei Zheng,Chaoda Zheng,Shijia Chen,Mingdian Liu,Tongping Liu,Tengwei Luo,Yu Zhang,Boyang Wang,Linkun Xu,Siyuan Lu,Bo Tian,Xianming Liu
机构: XPeng Inc(小鹏汽车)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: Technical Report
Abstract:Real-time world simulation is becoming a key infrastructure for scalable evaluation and online reinforcement learning of autonomous driving systems. Recent driving world models built on autoregressive video diffusion achieve high-fidelity, controllable multi-camera generation, but their inference cost remains a bottleneck for interactive deployment. However, existing diffusion caching methods are designed for offline video generation with multiple denoising steps, and do not transfer to this scenario. Few-step distilled models have no inter-step redundancy left for these methods to reuse, and sequence-level parallelization techniques require future conditioning that closed-loop interactive generation does not provide. We present X-Cache, a training-free acceleration method that caches along a different axis: across consecutive generation chunks rather than across denoising steps. X-Cache maintains per-block residual caches that persist across chunks, and applies a dual-metric gating mechanism over a structure- and action-aware block-input fingerprint to independently decide whether each block should recompute or reuse its cached residual. To prevent approximation errors from permanently contaminating the autoregressive KV cache, X-Cache identifies KV update chunks (the forward passes that write clean keys and values into the persistent cache) and unconditionally forces full computation on these chunks, cutting off error propagation. We implement X-Cache on X-world, a production multi-camera action-conditioned driving world model built on multi-block causal DiT with few-step denoising and rolling KV cache. X-Cache achieves 71% block skip rate with 2.6x wall-clock speedup while maintaining minimum degradation.
[CV-52] MambaLiteUNet: Cross-Gated Adaptive Feature Fusion for Robust Skin Lesion Segmentation CVPR2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决轻量化分割模型在皮肤病变边界和纹理细节刻画上的不足，尤其是在早期皮肤癌诊断与治疗规划中对高精度分割的需求。其解决方案的关键在于提出MambaLiteUNet框架，该框架将状态空间模型（State Space Model, SSM）引入U-Net结构，并设计了三个核心模块：自适应多分支Mamba特征融合（Adaptive Multi-Branch Mamba Feature Fusion, AMF）、局部-全局特征混合（Local-Global Feature Mixing, LGFM）以及交叉门控注意力机制（Cross-Gated Attention, CGA），以增强局部与全局特征交互能力、保留空间细节并优化跳跃连接质量，从而在显著降低参数量（减少93.6%）和计算复杂度（减少97.6% GFLOPs）的同时，实现比U-Net更高的分割精度（平均IoU提升7.72点，Dice分数提升4.61点），并在跨域泛化任务中表现最优（未见类别上达到77.61% IoU）。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20286
作者: Md Maklachur Rahman,Soon Ki Jung,Tracy Hammond
机构: Texas AM University (德州农工大学); Kyungpook National University (庆北国立大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Accepted at CVPR 2026 Main
Abstract:Recent segmentation models have demonstrated promising efficiency by aggressively reducing parameter counts and computational complexity. However, these models often struggle to accurately delineate fine lesion boundaries and texture patterns essential for early skin cancer diagnosis and treatment planning. In this paper, we propose MambaLiteUNet, a compact yet robust segmentation framework that integrates Mamba state space modeling into a U-Net architecture, along with three key modules: Adaptive Multi-Branch Mamba Feature Fusion (AMF), Local-Global Feature Mixing (LGFM), and Cross-Gated Attention (CGA). These modules are designed to enhance local-global feature interaction, preserve spatial details, and improve the quality of skip connections. MambaLiteUNet achieves an average IoU of 87.12% and average Dice score of 93.09% across ISIC2017, ISIC2018, HAM10000, and PH2 benchmarks, outperforming state-of-the-art models. Compared to U-Net, our model improves average IoU and Dice by 7.72 and 4.61 points, respectively, while reducing parameters by 93.6% and GFLOPs by 97.6%. Additionally, in domain generalization with six unseen lesion categories, MambaLiteUNet achieves 77.61% IoU and 87.23% Dice, performing best among all evaluated models. Our extensive experiments demonstrate that MambaLiteUNet achieves a strong balance between accuracy and efficiency, making it a competitive and practical solution for dermatological image segmentation. Our code is publicly available at: this https URL.
[CV-53] Fourier Series Coder: A Novel Perspective on Angle Boundary Discontinuity Problem for Oriented Object Detection
【速读】：该论文旨在解决定向目标检测中因角度边界不连续（Angle Boundary Discontinuity, ABD）和循环模糊性（Cyclic Ambiguity, CA）导致的角度波动问题，这些问题在周期边界附近尤为显著，严重制约了高精度检测性能。现有方法虽采用连续角度编码器缓解此问题，但其非正交解码机制仍存在结构噪声放大现象，导致角向偏差较大，尤其对近似方形目标影响明显。解决方案的关键在于提出傅里叶级数编码器（Fourier Series Coder, FSC），通过将角度严格映射到最小正交傅里叶基上并显式施加几何流形约束，构建一种连续、可逆且数学稳健的编码-解码范式，从而有效防止特征模长坍塌，实现结构稳定表示，内在消除对启发式截断的依赖，并保证严格的边界连续性和优异的抗噪能力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20281
作者: Minghong Wei,Pu Cao,Zhihao Chen,Zhiyuan Zang,Lu Yang,Qing Song
机构: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (北京邮电大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注:
Abstract:With the rapid advancement of intelligent driving and remote sensing, oriented object detection has gained widespread attention. However, achieving high-precision performance is fundamentally constrained by the Angle Boundary Discontinuity (ABD) and Cyclic Ambiguity (CA) problems, which typically cause significant angle fluctuations near periodic boundaries. Although recent studies propose continuous angle coders to alleviate these issues, our theoretical and empirical analyses reveal that state-of-the-art methods still suffer from substantial cyclic errors. We attribute this instability to the structural noise amplification within their non-orthogonal decoding mechanisms. This mathematical vulnerability significantly exacerbates angular deviations, particularly for square-like objects. To resolve this fundamentally, we propose the Fourier Series Coder (FSC), a lightweight plug-and-play component that establishes a continuous, reversible, and mathematically robust angle encoding-decoding paradigm. By rigorously mapping angles onto a minimal orthogonal Fourier basis and explicitly enforcing a geometric manifold constraint, FSC effectively prevents feature modulus collapse. This structurally stabilized representation ensures highly robust phase unwrapping, intrinsically eliminating the need for heuristic truncations while achieving strict boundary continuity and superior noise immunity. Extensive experiments across three large-scale datasets demonstrate that FSC achieves highly competitive overall performance, yielding substantial improvements in high-precision detection. The code will be available at this https URL.
[CV-54] Opportunistic Bone-Loss Screening from Routine Knee Radiographs Using a Multi-Task Deep Learning Framework with Sensitivity-Constrained Threshold Optimization
【速读】：该论文旨在解决骨质疏松症（Osteoporosis）和骨量减少症（Osteopenia）常因缺乏早期诊断而在发生脆性骨折后才被发现的问题，其核心挑战在于双能X线吸收测定法（DXA）作为骨密度（BMD）评估的金标准，但临床获取受限。解决方案的关键是提出STR-Net——一种多任务深度学习框架，能够直接从常规膝关节X线片中实现单次推理完成骨流失筛查、严重程度分层及T-score定量估计，通过共享骨干网络、全局平均池化特征聚合、共享颈部结构以及任务感知表示路由模块，结合敏感性约束阈值优化策略（最小敏感性≥0.86），在独立测试集上实现了高灵敏度（0.904）与高AUROC（0.933），从而为利用已有影像资源进行机会性骨流失筛查提供了可行路径。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20268
作者: Zhaochen Li,Xinghao Yan,Runni Zhou,Xiaoyang Li,Chenjie Zhu,Gege Wang,Yu Shi,Lixin Zhang,Rongrong Fu,Liehao Yan,Yuan Chai
机构: 东北大学(NEU)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注:
Abstract:Background: Osteoporosis and osteopenia are often undiagnosed until fragility fractures occur. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is the reference standard for bone mineral density (BMD) assessment, but access remains limited. Knee radiographs are obtained at high volume for osteoarthritis evaluation and may offer an opportunity for opportunistic bone-loss screening. Objective: To develop and evaluate a multi-task deep learning system for opportunistic bone-loss screening from routine knee radiographs without additional imaging or patient visits. Methods: We developed STR-Net, a multi-task framework for single-channel grayscale knee radiographs. The model includes a shared backbone, global average pooling feature aggregation, a shared neck, and a task-aware representation routing module connected to three task-specific heads: binary screening (Normal vs. Bone Loss), severity sub-classification (Osteopenia vs. Osteoporosis), and weakly coupled T-score regression with optional clinical variables. A sensitivity-constrained threshold optimization strategy (minimum sensitivity = 0.86) was applied. The dataset included 1,570 knee radiographs, split at the patient level into training (n=1,120), validation (n=226), and test (n=224) sets. Results: On the held-out test set, STR-Net achieved an AUROC of 0.933, sensitivity of 0.904, specificity of 0.773, and AUPRC of 0.956 for binary screening. Severity sub-classification achieved an AUROC of 0.898. The T-score regression branch showed a Pearson correlation of 0.801 with DXA-measured T-scores in a pilot subset (n=31), with MAE of 0.279 and RMSE of 0.347. Conclusions: STR-Net enables single-pass bone-loss screening, severity stratification, and quantitative T-score estimation from routine knee radiographs. Prospective clinical validation is needed before deployment. Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) Cite as: arXiv:2604.20268 [cs.CV] (or arXiv:2604.20268v1 [cs.CV] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.20268 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Xiaoyang Li [view email] [v1] Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:12:04 UTC (7,393 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Opportunistic Bone-Loss Screening from Routine Knee Radiographs Using a Multi-Task Deep Learning Framework with Sensitivity-Constrained Threshold Optimization, by Zhaochen Li and 10 other authorsView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.CV prev | next new | recent | 2026-04 Change to browse by: cs References Citations NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading… BibTeX formatted citation loading… Data provided by: Bookmark checked="checked"class=“labs-tab-input”> Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv’s community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?) mathjaxToggle(); About Help contact arXivClick here to contact arXiv Contact subscribe to arXiv mailingsClick here to subscribe Subscribe Copyright Privacy Policy Web Accessibility Assistance arXiv Operational Status
[CV-55] Rethinking Where to Edit: Task-Aware Localization for Instruction-Based Image Editing
【速读】：该论文旨在解决指令驱动的图像编辑（Instruction-based Image Editing, IIE）中普遍存在的过编辑（over-editing）问题，即模型在执行指定修改时，会无意地改变与指令无关的图像区域，导致非编辑区域的一致性下降。现有方法通常缺乏显式的编辑定位机制，且对不同编辑操作（如添加、移除和替换）采用任务无关的定位策略，从而难以精准控制修改范围。解决方案的关键在于提出一种无需训练、任务感知的编辑定位框架：通过分析IIE模型内部源图像和目标图像流中的注意力特征，提取基于注意力的编辑线索，并据此构建特征中心以划分token为编辑区与非编辑区；进一步引入统一的掩码构造策略，根据不同编辑任务选择性地利用源或目标图像流信息，实现任务依赖的精准定位。实验表明，该方法在保持强大指令遵循能力的同时显著提升了非编辑区域的一致性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20258
作者: Jingxuan He,Xiyu Wang,Mengyu Zheng,Xiangyu Zeng,Yunke Wang,Chang Xu
机构: The University of Sydney(悉尼大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注:
Abstract:Instruction-based image editing (IIE) aims to modify images according to textual instructions while preserving irrelevant content. Despite recent advances in diffusion transformers, existing methods often suffer from over-editing, introducing unintended changes to regions unrelated to the desired edit. We identify that this limitation arises from the lack of an explicit mechanism for edit localization. In particular, different editing operations (e.g., addition, removal and replacement) induce distinct spatial patterns, yet current IIE models typically treat localization in a task-agnostic manner. To address this limitation, we propose a training-free, task-aware edit localization framework that exploits the intrinsic source and target image streams within IIE models. For each image stream, We first obtain attention-based edit cues, and then construct feature centroids based on these attentive cues to partition tokens into edit and non-edit regions. Based on the observation that optimal localization is inherently task-dependent, we further introduce a unified mask construction strategy that selectively leverages source and target image streams for different editing tasks. We provide a systematic analysis for our proposed insights and approaches. Extensive experiments on EdiVal-Bench demonstrate our framework consistently improves non-edit region consistency while maintaining strong instruction-following performance on top of powerful recent image editing backbones, including Step1X-Edit and Qwen-Image-Edit.
[CV-56] Secure Rate-Distortion-Perception: A Randomized Distributed Function Computation Approach for Realism
【速读】：该论文旨在解决在保证感知质量的前提下，如何实现信息压缩与传输的安全性问题，即在噪声信道和广播信道（Broadcast Channel, BC）中建立安全率-失真-感知（Rate-Distortion-Perception, RDP）的理论边界。其核心挑战在于，在确保极低信息泄露的同时，维持重建数据的高感知质量并最小化通信速率。解决方案的关键在于引入随机分箱（random binning）编码机制，该机制能够同时实现强保密性（strong secrecy）、低失真以及高感知质量；此外，研究证明在无噪声信道下，若存在无限共用随机性，则分离信源信道编码是最优的，并且在特定条件下（如源与侧信息相关且信道无噪），可精确刻画安全RDP区域，从而为安全感知压缩提供了理论基础与实践指导。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20245
作者: Gustaf Åhlgren,Onur Günlü
机构: University of Cambridge (剑桥大学); KTH Royal Institute of Technology (皇家理工学院)
类目: Information Theory (cs.IT); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
备注: 20 pages, 6 figures, (submitted) journal version
Abstract:Fundamental rate-distortion-perception (RDP) trade-offs arise in applications requiring maintained perceptual quality of reconstructed data, such as neural image compression. When compressed data is transmitted over public communication channels, security risks emerge. We therefore study secure RDP under negligible information leakage over both noiseless channels and broadcast channels, BCs, with correlated noise components. For noiseless channels, the exact secure RDP region is characterized. For BCs, an inner bound is derived and shown to be tight for a class of more-capable BCs. Separate source-channel coding is further shown to be optimal for this exact secure RDP region with unlimited common randomness available. Moreover, when both encoder and decoder have access to side information correlated with the source and the channel is noiseless, the exact RDP region is established. If only the decoder has correlated side information in the noiseless setting, an inner bound is derived along with a special case where the region is exact. Binary and Gaussian examples demonstrate that common randomness can significantly reduce the communication rate in secure RDP settings, unlike in standard rate-distortion settings. Thus, our results illustrate that random binning-based coding achieves strong secrecy, low distortion, and high perceptual quality simultaneously.
[CV-57] Bio-inspired Color Constancy: From Gray Anchoring Theory to Gray Pixel Methods
【速读】：该论文旨在解决生物启发式颜色恒常性（color constancy）方法研究不足且缺乏系统分析的问题，以期揭示其计算原理并开发高效算法。解决方案的关键在于提出一个整合生物学机制、计算理论与算法实现的综合性技术框架，核心是将光源估计问题转化为早期视觉中的灰锚点（gray-anchor）检测任务，并基于朗伯反射模型（Lambertian reflection model）和生物色-opponent机制，统一解释典型灰像素检测方法（如Gray-Pixel和Grayness-Index），进而提出一种结合反射模型约束与特征学习的简单学习方法，从而验证灰像素检测在颜色恒常性中的有效性及生物启发方法的潜力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20243
作者: Kai-Fu Yang,Fu-Ya Luo,Yong-Jie Li
机构: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (电子科技大学); Guilin University of Electronic Technology (桂林电子科技大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: 13 pages, 5 figures
Abstract:Color constancy is a fundamental ability of many biological visual systems and a crucial step in computer imaging systems. Bio-inspired modeling offers a promising way to elucidate the computational principles underlying color constancy and to develop efficient computational methods. However, bio-inspired methods for color constancy remain underexplored and lack a comprehensive analysis. This paper presents a comprehensive technical framework that integrates biological mechanisms, computational theory, and algorithmic implementation for bio-inspired color constancy. Specifically, we systematically revisit the computational theory of biological color constancy, which shows that illuminant estimation can be reduced to the task of gray-anchor (pixel or surface) detection in early vision. Subsequently, typical gray-pixel detection methods, including Gray-Pixel and Grayness-Index, are reinterpreted within a unified theoretical framework with the Lambertian reflection model and biological color-opponent mechanisms. Finally, we propose a simple learning-based method that couples reflection-model constraints with feature learning to explore the potential of bio-inspired color constancy based on gray-pixel detection. Extensive experiments confirm the effectiveness of gray-pixel detection for color constancy and demonstrate the potential of bio-inspired methods.
[CV-58] Learning Spatial-Temporal Coherent Correlations for Speech-Preserving Facial Expression Manipulation
【速读】：该论文旨在解决语音保持的面部表情操控（Speech-preserving facial expression manipulation, SPFEM）问题，即在修改面部情绪的同时精确保留与语音内容相关的嘴部动画。现有方法依赖于难以获取的配对训练样本（同一人说相同内容但表达不同情绪的对齐帧），限制了其在真实场景中的应用。解决方案的关键在于提出一种空间-时间一致相关性学习（spatial-temporal coherent correlation learning, STCCL）算法，通过建模不同情绪下局部面部区域在空间和时间维度上的视觉相关性一致性作为显式监督信号：首先学习空间一致相关性度量，确保相邻局部区域在不同情绪下的视觉关联模式相似；其次构建时间一致相关性度量，保证同一区域在相邻帧间的情绪变化中保持稳定的关联特性；并引入相关性感知自适应策略，优先优化高挑战区域，最终将该度量作为额外损失项嵌入生成过程以提升表情操控精度与语音动画保真度。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20226
作者: Tianshui Chen,Jianman Lin,Zhijing Yang,Chunmei Qing,Guangrun Wang,Liang Lin
机构: Guangdong University of Technology (广东工业大学); South China University of Technology (华南理工大学); Sun Yat-sen University (中山大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Speech-preserving facial expression manipulation (SPFEM) aims to modify facial emotions while meticulously maintaining the mouth animation associated with spoken content. Current works depend on inaccessible paired training samples for the person, where two aligned frames exhibit the same speech content yet differ in emotional expression, limiting the SPFEM applications in real-world scenarios. In this work, we discover that speakers who convey the same content with different emotions exhibit highly correlated local facial animations in both spatial and temporal spaces, providing valuable supervision for SPFEM. To capitalize on this insight, we propose a novel spatial-temporal coherent correlation learning (STCCL) algorithm, which models the aforementioned correlations as explicit metrics and integrates the metrics to supervise manipulating facial expression and meanwhile better preserving the facial animation of spoken content. To this end, it first learns a spatial coherent correlation metric, ensuring that the visual correlations of adjacent local regions within an image linked to a specific emotion closely resemble those of corresponding regions in an image linked to a different emotion. Simultaneously, it develops a temporal coherent correlation metric, ensuring that the visual correlations of specific regions across adjacent image frames associated with one emotion are similar to those in the corresponding regions of frames associated with another emotion. Recognizing that visual correlations are not uniform across all regions, we have also crafted a correlation-aware adaptive strategy that prioritizes regions that present greater challenges. During SPFEM model training, we construct the spatial-temporal coherent correlation metric between corresponding local regions of the input and output image frames as an additional loss to supervise the generation process.
[CV-59] Weighted Knowledge Distillation for Semi-Supervised Segmentation of Maxillary Sinus in Panoramic X-ray Images
【速读】：该论文旨在解决全景X线影像中上颌窦（maxillary sinus）精确分割难题，该任务在牙科诊断与手术规划中至关重要，但受限于二维投影导致的结构重叠、边界模糊以及高质量像素级标注数据稀缺等问题，现有方法难以实现稳定可靠的分割效果。其解决方案的关键在于提出一种半监督分割框架，通过知识蒸馏（knowledge distillation）机制，利用教师模型从少量标注数据中提炼出结构信息并指导学生模型训练；同时引入加权知识蒸馏损失函数以抑制因预测结构差异带来的不可靠蒸馏信号，并结合基于无配对图像到图像翻译的SinusCycle-GAN精修网络，提升教师模型生成伪标签的质量，从而减少噪声传播并优化边界精度。实验表明，该方法在仅依赖有限标注数据条件下仍能实现96.35%的Dice分数，显著优于当前最优模型。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20213
作者: Juha Park,Jiho Choi,Jong Pil Yun,Yong Chan Park,Han-Gyeol Yeom,Byung Do Lee,Sang Jun Lee
机构: Jeonbuk National University (全北国立大学); Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (韩国产业技术研究院); University of Science and Technology (科学技术院); Chung-Ang University (中央大学); Wonkwang University (원광대학교)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Accurate segmentation of maxillary sinus in panoramic X-ray images is essential for dental diagnosis and surgical planning; however, this task remains relatively underexplored in dental imaging research. Structural overlap, ambiguous anatomical boundaries inherent to two-dimensional panoramic projections, and the limited availability of large scale clinical datasets with reliable pixel-level annotations make the development and evaluation of segmentation models challenging. To address these challenges, we propose a semi-supervised segmentation framework that effectively leverages both labeled and unlabeled panoramic radiographs, where knowledge distillation is utilized to train a student model with reliable structural information distilled from a teacher model. Specifically, we introduce a weighted knowledge distillation loss to suppress unreliable distillation signals caused by structural discrepancies between teacher and student predictions. To further enhance the quality of pseudo labels generated by the teacher network, we introduce SinusCycle-GAN which is a refinement network based on unpaired image-to-image translation. This refinement process improves the precision of boundaries and reduces noise propagation when learning from unlabeled data during semi-supervised training. To evaluate the proposed method, we collected clinical panoramic X-ray images from 2,511 patients, and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art segmentation models, achieving the Dice score of 96.35% while reducing boundary error. The results indicate that the proposed semi-supervised framework provides robust and anatomically consistent segmentation performance under limited labeled data conditions, highlighting its potential for broader dental image analysis applications.
[CV-60] From Scene to Object: Text-Guided Dual-Gaze Prediction
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前自动驾驶中可解释的驾驶员注意力预测问题，特别是现有数据集仅提供场景级全局凝视（global gaze）而缺乏细粒度物体级标注，导致视觉-语言模型（VLMs）在语义推理时出现文本-视觉解耦与视觉偏见幻觉（visual-bias hallucinations）的问题。其解决方案的关键在于构建一个从数据到模型的完整范式：首先提出G-W3DA数据集，通过融合多模态大语言模型与Segment Anything Model 3（SAM3），将宏观热力图解耦为高精度物体级掩码，从根本上消除标注幻觉；进而设计DualGaze-VLM架构，利用条件感知SE-Gate动态调制视觉特征，实现基于语义查询的意图驱动空间锚定，从而显著提升注意力预测的空间对齐精度与认知合理性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20191
作者: Zehong Ke,Yanbo Jiang,Jinhao Li,Zhiyuan Liu,Yiqian Tu,Qingwen Meng,Heye Huang,Jianqiang Wang
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Robotics (cs.RO)
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Abstract:Interpretable driver attention prediction is crucial for human-like autonomous driving. However, existing datasets provide only scene-level global gaze rather than fine-grained object-level annotations, inherently failing to support text-grounded cognitive modeling. Consequently, while Vision-Language Models (VLMs) hold great potential for semantic reasoning, this critical data limitations leads to severe text-vision decoupling and visual-bias hallucinations. To break this bottleneck and achieve precise object-level attention prediction, this paper proposes a novel dual-branch gaze prediction framework, establishing a complete paradigm from data construction to model architecture. First, we construct G-W3DA, a object-level driver attention dataset. By integrating a multimodal large language model with the Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM3), we decouple macroscopic heatmaps into object-level masks under rigorous cross-validation, fundamentally eliminating annotation hallucinations. Building upon this high-quality data foundation, we propose the DualGaze-VLM architecture. This architecture extracts the hidden states of semantic queries and dynamically modulates visual features via a Condition-Aware SE-Gate, achieving intent-driven precise spatial anchoring. Extensive experiments on the W3DA benchmark demonstrate that DualGaze-VLM consistently surpasses existing state-of-the-art (SOTA) models in spatial alignment metrics, notably achieving up to a 17.8% improvement in Similarity (SIM) under safety-critical scenarios. Furthermore, a visual Turing test reveals that the attention heatmaps generated by DualGaze-VLM are perceived as authentic by 88.22% of human evaluators, proving its capability to generate rational cognitive priors.
[CV-61] WildFireVQA: A Large-Scale Radiometric Thermal VQA Benchmark for Aerial Wildfire Monitoring
【速读】：该论文旨在解决现有空中野火监测视觉问答（VQA）基准无法评估基于热辐射测量的多模态推理问题，从而导致模型在真实野火场景中缺乏可靠的情境感知能力。其解决方案的关键在于构建了一个大规模、多模态的WildFireVQA基准，整合RGB图像与辐射测温热成像数据（包括彩色热图和辐射校准的TIFF格式热数据），并设计了涵盖野火检测、分类、定位、跨模态推理及飞行规划等任务的34类问题，共生成207,298个多选题。为提升标注可靠性，采用多模态大语言模型（MLLM）辅助生成答案，并结合传感器驱动的确定性标签、人工验证及帧内/帧间一致性检查机制；同时建立了基于辐射热统计量的综合评估协议，揭示了当前MLLM在仅依赖RGB时表现最优，而引入热数据检索可提升强模型性能，凸显温度引导推理的价值与现有模型在安全关键场景下的局限性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20190
作者: Mobin Habibpour,Niloufar Alipour Talemi,John Spodnik,Camren J. Khoury,Fatemeh Afghah
机构: Clemson University (克莱姆森大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Wildfire monitoring requires timely, actionable situational awareness from airborne platforms, yet existing aerial visual question answering (VQA) benchmarks do not evaluate wildfire-specific multimodal reasoning grounded in thermal measurements. We introduce WildFireVQA, a large-scale VQA benchmark for aerial wildfire monitoring that integrates RGB imagery with radiometric thermal data. WildFireVQA contains 6,097 RGB-thermal samples, where each sample includes an RGB image, a color-mapped thermal visualization, and a radiometric thermal TIFF, and is paired with 34 questions, yielding a total of 207,298 multiple-choice questions spanning presence and detection, classification, distribution and segmentation, localization and direction, cross-modal reasoning, and flight planning for operational wildfire intelligence. To improve annotation reliability, we combine multimodal large language model (MLLM)-based answer generation with sensor-driven deterministic labeling, manual verification, and intra-frame and inter-frame consistency checks. We further establish a comprehensive evaluation protocol for representative MLLMs under RGB, Thermal, and retrieval-augmented settings using radiometric thermal statistics. Experiments show that across task categories, RGB remains the strongest modality for current models, while retrieved thermal context yields gains for stronger MLLMs, highlighting both the value of temperature-grounded reasoning and the limitations of existing MLLMs in safety-critical wildfire scenarios. The dataset and benchmark code are open-source at this https URL.
[CV-62] Semantic-Fast-SAM: Efficient Semantic Segmenter
【速读】：该论文旨在解决现有基于Segment Anything Model (SAM) 的语义分割方法在实时应用中计算成本高、推理速度慢的问题，尤其是在机器人等对延迟敏感的场景下难以部署。其解决方案的关键在于提出Semantic-Fast-SAM (SFS) 框架，通过结合FastSAM（一种高效CNN实现的SAM）与一个语义标注流水线（Semantic-Segment-Anything, SSA），在保持与原始SAM方法相当精度（Cityscapes上mIoU ~70.33，ADE20K上48.01）的前提下，显著提升推理速度——在封闭集设置下相比SSA实现约20倍加速，并利用CLIP-based语义头支持开放词汇语义分割，从而在准确性和实时性之间取得良好平衡，使“万物分割”能力更适用于实际机器人任务。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20169
作者: Byunghyun Kim
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:We propose Semantic-Fast-SAM (SFS), a semantic segmentation framework that combines the Fast Segment Anything model with a semantic labeling pipeline to achieve real-time performance without sacrificing accuracy. FastSAM is an efficient CNN-based re-implementation of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) that runs much faster than the original transformer-based SAM. Building upon FastSAM’s rapid mask generation, we integrate a Semantic-Segment-Anything (SSA) labeling strategy to assign meaningful categories to each mask. The resulting SFS model produces high-quality semantic segmentation maps at a fraction of the computational cost and memory footprint of the original SAM-based approach. Experiments on Cityscapes and ADE20K benchmarks demonstrate that SFS matches the accuracy of prior SAM-based methods (mIoU ~ 70.33 on Cityscapes and 48.01 on ADE20K) while achieving approximately 20x faster inference than SSA in the closed-set setting. We also show that SFS effectively handles open-vocabulary segmentation by leveraging CLIP-based semantic heads, outperforming recent open-vocabulary models on broad class labeling. This work enables practical real-time semantic segmentation with the “segment-anything” capability, broadening the applicability of foundation segmentation models in robotics scenarios. The implementation is available at this https URL.
[CV-63] HumanScore: Benchmarking Human Motions in Generated Videos
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前生成式AI（Generative AI）视频模型在人类身体动作模拟中存在的评估盲区问题，即缺乏系统性指标来衡量其对人体运动动力学的还原精度。解决方案的关键在于提出HumanScore框架，该框架定义了六个可解释的量化指标，涵盖运动学合理性、时间稳定性与生物力学一致性三个维度，从而实现对AI生成视频中人体动作质量的细粒度诊断，超越单纯视觉真实性的评价标准，并基于物理意义明确的准则对主流模型进行可靠排序。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20157
作者: Yusu Fang,Tiange Xiang,Tian Tan,Narayan Schuetz,Scott Delp,Li Fei-Fei,Ehsan Adeli
机构: Stanford University (斯坦福大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Recent advances in model architectures, compute, and data scale have driven rapid progress in video generation, producing increasingly realistic content. Yet, no prior method systematically measures how faithfully these systems render human bodies and motion dynamics. In this paper, we present HumanScore, a systematic framework to evaluate the quality of human motions in AI-generated videos. HumanScore defines six interpretable metrics spanning kinematic plausibility, temporal stability, and biomechanical consistency, enabling fine-grained diagnosis beyond visual realism alone. Through carefully designed prompts, we elicit a diverse set of movements at varying intensities and evaluate videos generated by thirteen state-of-the-art models. Our analysis reveals consistent gaps between perceptual plausibility and motion biomechanical fidelity, identifies recurrent failure modes (e.g., temporal jitter, anatomically implausible poses, and motion drift), and produces robust model rankings from quantitative and physically meaningful criteria.
[CV-64] GSCompleter: A Distillation-Free Plugin for Metric-Aware 3D Gaussian Splatting Completion in Seconds
【速读】：该论文旨在解决3D高斯溅射（3D Gaussian Splatting, 3DGS）在稀疏视角外推（sparse-view extrapolation）场景下性能显著下降的问题，具体表现为几何空洞和伪影严重。现有方法多采用不稳定的“修复-蒸馏”迭代范式，易导致过拟合。其解决方案的关键在于提出一种无蒸馏的插件GSCompleter，将场景补全流程重构为稳定的“生成-注册”范式：首先通过鲁棒的立体锚定（Stereo-Anchor）机制合成合理的2D参考图像并显式提升为度量尺度的3D原语，再利用新颖的射线约束注册（Ray-Constrained Registration）策略将其无缝融入全局场景上下文，从而在三个不同基准上实现优于现有方法的3DGS补全效果，并取得新的SOTA性能。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20155
作者: Ao Gao,Jingyu Gong,Xin Tan,Zhizhong Zhang,Yuan Xie
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized real-time rendering, its performance degrades significantly under sparse-view extrapolation, manifesting as severe geometric voids and artifacts. Existing solutions primarily rely on an iterative “Repair-then-Distill” paradigm, which is inherently unstable and prone to overfitting. In this work, we propose GSCompleter, a distillation-free plugin that shifts scene completion to a stable “Generate-then-Register” workflow. Our approach first synthesizes plausible 2D reference images and explicitly lifts them into metric-scale 3D primitives via a robust Stereo-Anchor mechanism. These primitives are then seamlessly integrated into the global context through a novel Ray-Constrained Registration strategy. This shift to a rapid registration paradigm delivers superior 3DGS completion performance across three distinct benchmarks, enhancing the quality and efficiency of various baselines and achieving new SOTA results.
[CV-65] IMPACT-CYCLE: A Contract-Based Multi-Agent System for Claim-Level Supervisory Correction of Long-Video Semantic Memory
【速读】：该论文旨在解决长视频理解中错误修正成本过高的问题，其核心瓶颈在于现有多模态流水线生成的输出缺乏中间状态信息，导致人工标注者必须重新观看原始视频并从头重建时间逻辑，效率极低。解决方案的关键是提出IMPACT-CYCLE——一个监督式多智能体系统，将长视频理解重构为对共享语义记忆（structured, versioned state encoding typed claims, a claim dependency graph, and a provenance log）的逐轮声明级维护机制；通过角色专业化智能体在明确权限契约下执行局部对象-关系正确性验证、跨时序一致性检查和全局语义连贯性分析，使修正操作仅作用于结构依赖的声明子集；当自动证据不足时，由人类仲裁者介入行使最终裁决权，并通过依赖闭包重验证确保修正成本与错误范围成比例，从而显著降低人工干预开销（实验显示VidOR数据集上人类仲裁成本下降4.8倍，下游推理任务VQA指标从0.71提升至0.79）。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20136
作者: Weitong Kong,Di Wen,Kunyu Peng,David Schneider,Zeyun Zhong,Alexander Jaus,Zdravko Marinov,Jiale Wei,Ruiping Liu,Junwei Zheng,Yufan Chen,Lei Qi,Rainer Stiefelhagen
机构: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (卡尔斯鲁厄理工学院); INSAIT, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (INSAIT，索非亚大学“圣克莱门特·奥赫里德斯基”); ETH Zurich (苏黎世联邦理工学院); Technical University of Munich (慕尼黑工业大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Correcting errors in long-video understanding is disproportionately costly: existing multimodal pipelines produce opaque, end-to-end outputs that expose no intermediate state for inspection, forcing annotators to revisit raw video and reconstruct temporal logic from scratch. The core bottleneck is not generation quality alone, but the absence of a supervisory interface through which human effort can be proportional to the scope of each error. We present IMPACT-CYCLE, a supervisory multi-agent system that reformulates long-video understanding as iterative claim-level maintenance of a shared semantic memory – a structured, versioned state encoding typed claims, a claim dependency graph, and a provenance log. Role-specialized agents operating under explicit authority contracts decompose verification into local object-relation correctness, cross-temporal consistency, and global semantic coherence, with corrections confined to structurally dependent claims. When automated evidence is insufficient, the system escalates to human arbitration as the supervisory authority with final override rights; dependency-closure re-verification then ensures correction cost remains proportional to error scope. Experiments on VidOR show substantially improved downstream reasoning (VQA: 0.71 to 0.79) and a 4.8x reduction in human arbitration cost, with workload significantly lower than manual annotation. Code will be released at this https URL.
[CV-66] Pairing Regularization for Mitigating Many-to-One Collapse in GANs
【速读】：该论文旨在解决生成对抗网络（Generative Adversarial Networks, GANs）训练中的内部模式坍缩（intra-mode collapse）问题，即多个潜在变量（latent variables）映射到相同或高度相似的输出，导致生成样本多样性不足。现有研究多关注外部模式坍缩（如模式丢失），而对内部坍缩的关注较少。解决方案的关键在于提出一种配对正则化（pairing regularizer），该正则项与生成器联合优化，通过强制潜在变量与其生成样本之间的局部一致性，缓解多对一映射现象。实验表明，该正则化策略在不同训练阶段具有差异化效果：在探索受限的易坍缩场景中促进结构化局部探索以提升覆盖度和召回率；在稳定训练且探索充分时，则通过抑制冗余映射提高生成精度而不牺牲召回率，从而有效补充现有GAN稳定化技术。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20130
作者: Kuan-Yu Lin,Yu-Chih Huang,Tie Liu
机构: 未知
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Mode collapse remains a fundamental challenge in training generative adversarial networks (GANs). While existing works have primarily focused on inter-mode collapse, such as mode dropping, intra-mode collapse-where many latent variables map to the same or highly similar outputs-has received significantly less attention. In this work, we propose a pairing regularizer jointly optimized with the generator to mitigate the many-to-one collapse by enforcing local consistency between latent variables and generated samples. We show that the effect of pairing regularization depends on the dominant failure mode of training. In collapse-prone regimes with limited exploration, pairing encourages structured local exploration, leading to improved coverage and higher recall. In contrast, under stabilized training with sufficient exploration, pairing refines the generator’s induced data density by discouraging redundant mappings, thereby improving precision without sacrificing recall. Extensive experiments on both toy distributions and real-image benchmarks demonstrate that the proposed regularizer effectively complements existing stabilization techniques by directly addressing intra-mode collapse.
[CV-67] Semi-Supervised Flow Matching for Mosaiced and Panchromatic Fusion Imaging
【速读】：该论文旨在解决低分辨率（Low Resolution, LR）马赛克高光谱图像（Hyperspectral Image, HSI）与高分辨率（High Resolution, HR）全色（Panchromatic, PAN）图像融合问题，该任务因严重病态性（ill-posed nature）而难以实现高质量的视频速率HR-HSI重建。其核心挑战在于如何在缺乏配对训练数据的情况下，从单次采集中恢复出兼具高空间分辨率和完整光谱信息的HR-HSI。解决方案的关键在于提出一种新颖的半监督流匹配（flow matching）框架，该框架采用两阶段训练策略：首先预训练一个无监督先验网络生成初始伪HR-HSI；随后训练一个条件流匹配模型，并引入随机投票机制迭代优化初始估计，从而实现鲁棒且高效的融合；推理阶段则通过冲突无关梯度引导策略确保光谱与空间一致性，显著优于现有扩散模型方法，在多个基准数据集上取得领先性能。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20128
作者: Peiming Luo,Nan Wang,Litong Liu,Jiahan Huang,Chenxu Wu,Renwei Dian,Junming Hou
机构: Southeast University (东南大学); Hunan University (湖南大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Fusing a low resolution (LR) mosaiced hyperspectral image (HSI) with a high resolution (HR) panchromatic (PAN) image offers a promising avenue for video-rate HR-HSI imaging via single-shot acquisition, yet its severely ill-posed nature remains a significant challenge. In this work, we propose a novel semi-supervised flow matching framework for mosaiced and PAN image fusion. Unlike previous diffusion-based approaches constrained by specific protocols or handcrafted assumptions, our method seamlessly integrates an unsupervised scheme with flow matching, resulting in a generalizable and efficient generative framework. Specifically, our method follows a two-stage training pipeline. First, we pretrain an unsupervised prior network to produce an initial pseudo HR-HSI. Building on this, we then train a conditional flow matching model to generate the target HR-HSI, introducing a random voting mechanism that iteratively refines the initial HR-HSI estimate, enabling robust and effective fusion. During inference, we employ a conflict-free gradient guidance strategy that ensures spectrally and spatially consistent HR-HSI reconstruction. Experiments on multiple benchmark datasets demonstrate that our method achieves superior quantitative and qualitative performance by a significant margin compared to representative baselines. Beyond mosaiced and PAN fusion, our approach provides a flexible generative framework that can be readily extended to other image fusion tasks and integrated with unsupervised or blind image restoration algorithms.
[CV-68] opology-Aware Skeleton Detection via Lighthouse-Guided Structured Inference
【速读】：该论文旨在解决自然图像中目标骨架（skeleton）检测时因姿态或运动微小变化导致骨架结构不稳定、连续性差的问题，现有方法多集中于点级骨架点检测，忽视了骨架结构的拓扑连续性。解决方案的关键在于提出一种拓扑感知的骨架检测方法 Lighthouse-Skel，其核心是通过双分支协同检测框架联合学习骨架置信度场与结构锚点（包括端点和分叉点），并基于学习到的置信度场设计“灯塔引导”的拓扑补全策略——利用检测到的分叉点和断点作为“灯塔”，沿低代价路径重新连接断裂的骨架片段，从而显著提升骨架的连续性和结构完整性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20123
作者: Daoyong Fu,Xiang Zhang,Zhaohuan Zhan,Fan Yang,Ke Yang
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:In natural images, object skeletons are used to represent geometric shapes. However, even slight variations in pose or movement can cause noticeable changes in skeleton structure, increasing the difficulty of detecting the skeleton and often resulting in discontinuous skeletons. Existing methods primarily focus on point-level skeleton point detection and overlook the importance of structural continuity in recovering complete skeletons. To address this issue, we propose Lighthouse-Skel, a topology-aware skeleton detection method via lighthouse-guided structured inference. Specifically, we introduce a dual-branch collaborative detection framework that jointly learns skeleton confidence field and structural anchors, including endpoints and junction points. The spatial distributions learned by the point branch guide the network to focus on topologically vulnerable regions, which improves the accuracy of skeleton detection. Based on the learned skeleton confidence field, we further propose a lighthouse-guided topology completion strategy, which uses detected junction points and breakpoints as lighthouses to reconnect discontinuous skeleton segments along low-cost paths, thereby improving skeleton continuity and structural integrity. Experimental results on four public datasets demonstrate that the proposed method achieves competitive detection accuracy while substantially improving skeleton connectivity and structural integrity.
[CV-69] FurnSet: Exploiting Repeats for 3D Scene Reconstruction
【速读】：该论文旨在解决单视角三维场景重建中因忽略真实场景中物体重复性而导致的几何与布局建模不准确问题。现有方法通常独立重建物体或依赖隐式场景上下文，未能有效利用场景中存在的重复实例。解决方案的关键在于提出FurnSet框架，通过引入每个物体的CLS token（类别标记）和一种集合感知的自注意力机制（set-aware self-attention mechanism），显式识别并聚合相同实例的互补观测信息，从而实现联合重建；同时结合场景级与物体级条件引导，并利用物体点云的3D与2D投影损失进行布局优化，显著提升了重建质量。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20093
作者: Paul Dobre,Xin Wang,Hongzhou Yang
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Single-view 3D scene reconstruction involves inferring both object geometry and spatial layout. Existing methods typically reconstruct objects independently or rely on implicit scene context, failing to exploit the repeated instances commonly present in realworld scenes. We propose FurnSet, a framework that explicitly identifies and leverages repeated object instances to improve reconstruction. Our method introduces per-object CLS tokens and a set-aware self-attention mechanism that groups identical instances and aggregates complementary observations across them, enabling joint reconstruction. We further combine scene-level and object-level conditioning to guide object reconstruction, followed by layout optimization using object point clouds with 3D and 2D projection losses for scene alignment. Experiments on 3D-Future and 3D-Front demonstrate improved scene reconstruction quality, highlighting the effectiveness of exploiting repetition for robust 3D scene reconstruction.
[CV-70] Energy-Based Open-Set Active Learning for Object Classification ICPR
【速读】：该论文旨在解决开放集主动学习（Open-set Active Learning, OSAL）中因未知类别样本干扰而导致标注效率低下和性能下降的问题。传统主动学习方法在封闭集假设下工作良好，但在真实场景中，未标注数据常包含已知与未知类别的混合，标准方法会错误地查询未知类样本，浪费宝贵的标注资源。解决方案的关键在于提出一种双阶段基于能量模型（Energy-based Models, EBMs）的框架：第一阶段利用能量分离器区分已知与未知类别样本，通过赋予已知样本更低能量值来过滤掉可能来自未知类的样本；第二阶段使用能量评分器对筛选后的已知样本进行信息量评估，从而精准选择最具价值的样本进行标注。该方法借助能量景观实现对已知/未知类别的有效区分，并确保每轮迭代均聚焦于目标类别的优化，显著提升了开放环境下的标注效率与分类性能。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20083
作者: Zongyao Lyu,William J. Beksi
机构: 未知
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Active learning (AL) has emerged as a crucial methodology for minimizing labeling costs in deep learning by selecting the most valuable samples from a pool of unlabeled data for annotation. Traditional AL operates under a closed-set assumption, where all classes in the dataset are known and consistent. However, real-world scenarios often present open-set conditions in which unlabeled data contains both known and unknown classes. In such environments, standard AL techniques struggle. They can mistakenly query samples from unknown categories, leading to inefficient use of annotation budgets. In this paper, we propose a novel dual-stage energy-based framework for open-set AL. Our method employs two specialized energy-based models (EBMs). The first, an energy-based known/unknown separator, filters out samples likely to belong to unknown classes. The second, an energy-based sample scorer, assesses the informativeness of the filtered known samples. Using the energy landscape, our models distinguish between data points from known and unknown classes in the unlabeled pool by assigning lower energy to known samples and higher energy to unknown samples, ensuring that only samples from classes of interest are selected for labeling. By integrating these components, our approach ensures efficient and targeted sample selection, maximizing learning impact in each iteration. Experiments on 2D (CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, TinyImageNet) and 3D (ModelNet40) object classification benchmarks demonstrates that our framework outperforms existing approaches, achieving superior annotation efficiency and classification performance in open-set environments.
[CV-71] PASTA: A Patch-Agnostic Twofold-Stealthy Backdoor Attack on Vision Transformers
【速读】：该论文旨在解决视觉 Transformer (Vision Transformer, ViT) 在面对后门攻击时的脆弱性问题，特别是现有基于 patch 的攻击方法因忽略 ViT 自注意力机制中长距离依赖特性而导致攻击效果受限、隐蔽性不足的问题。其核心创新在于揭示了“触发器辐射效应”（Trigger Radiating Effect, TRE）——即单个 patch 触发器可通过激活邻近 patch 实现高效后门触发的现象，并提出 PASTA 攻击框架，通过多位置触发插入策略增强 TRE，同时引入双层优化机制与自适应学习框架，在像素域和注意力域双重维度上实现高隐蔽性和强鲁棒性。关键突破在于将 TRE 与 stealthiness 约束统一建模为 bi-level optimization 问题，使模型与触发器在迭代中协同优化，有效避免局部最优，从而在任意 patch 位置均能实现高达 99.13% 的平均攻击成功率，且显著优于现有 CNN 和 ViT 基线方法。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20047
作者: Dazhuang Liu,Yanqi Qiao,Rui Wang,Kaitai Liang,Georgios Smaragdakis
机构: Delft University of Technology (代尔夫特理工大学); University of Turku (图尔库大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
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Abstract:Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved remarkable success across vision tasks, yet recent studies show they remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Existing patch-wise attacks typically assume a single fixed trigger location during inference to maximize trigger attention. However, they overlook the self-attention mechanism in ViTs, which captures long-range dependencies across patches. In this work, we observe that a patch-wise trigger can achieve high attack effectiveness when activating backdoors across neighboring patches, a phenomenon we term the Trigger Radiating Effect (TRE). We further find that inter-patch trigger insertion during training can synergistically enhance TRE compared to single-patch insertion. Prior ViT-specific attacks that maximize trigger attention often sacrifice visual and attention stealthiness, making them detectable. Based on these insights, we propose PASTA, a twofold stealthy patch-wise backdoor attack in both pixel and attention domains. PASTA enables backdoor activation when the trigger is placed at arbitrary patches during inference. To achieve this, we introduce a multi-location trigger insertion strategy to enhance TRE. However, preserving stealthiness while maintaining strong TRE is challenging, as TRE is weakened under stealthy constraints. We therefore formulate a bi-level optimization problem and propose an adaptive backdoor learning framework, where the model and trigger iteratively adapt to each other to avoid local optima. Extensive experiments show that PASTA achieves 99.13% attack success rate across arbitrary patches on average, while significantly improving visual and attention stealthiness (144.43x and 18.68x) and robustness (2.79x) against state-of-the-art ViT defenses across four datasets, outperforming CNN- and ViT-based baselines. Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) Cite as: arXiv:2604.20047 [cs.CV] (or arXiv:2604.20047v1 [cs.CV] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.20047 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[CV-72] Gaussians on a Diet: High-Quality Memory-Bounded 3D Gaussian Splatting Training
【速读】：该论文旨在解决3D高斯溅射（3D Gaussian Splatting, 3DGS）在训练过程中因未受控的密度增长导致峰值内存占用过高，从而限制其在内存受限边缘设备上部署的问题。现有方法虽能通过训练后剪枝减少冗余高斯分布，但无法缓解训练初期高斯数量激增引发的内存峰值。解决方案的关键在于提出一种系统性的内存约束训练框架，通过迭代式的生长与剪枝策略动态优化高斯分布：在每轮训练中交替执行低影响高斯的增量剪枝与自适应补偿机制下的新高斯生成，从而在保持近似恒定低内存使用的同时逐步提升渲染质量。该方法显著降低了训练峰值内存消耗（最高达80%），并在多种真实场景数据集上验证了其优越性，首次实现了在NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier等边缘设备上的高效3DGS训练。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20046
作者: Yangming Zhang,Jian Xu,Kunxiong Zhu,Wei Niu,Miao Yin
机构: University of Texas at Arlington (德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校); University of Georgia (佐治亚大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized novel view synthesis with high-quality rendering through continuous aggregations of millions of 3D Gaussian primitives. However, it suffers from a substantial memory footprint, particularly during training due to uncontrolled densification, posing a critical bottleneck for deployment on memory-constrained edge devices. While existing methods prune redundant Gaussians post-training, they fail to address the peak memory spikes caused by the abrupt growth of Gaussians early in the training process. To solve the training memory consumption problem, we propose a systematic memory-bounded training framework that dynamically optimizes Gaussians through iterative growth and pruning. In other words, the proposed framework alternates between incremental pruning of low-impact Gaussians and strategic growing of new primitives with an adaptive Gaussian compensation, maintaining a near-constant low memory usage while progressively refining rendering fidelity. We comprehensively evaluate the proposed training framework on various real-world datasets under strict memory constraints, showing significant improvements over existing state-of-the-art methods. Particularly, our proposed method practically enables memory-efficient 3DGS training on NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier, achieving similar visual quality with up to 80% lower peak training memory consumption than the original 3DGS.
[CV-73] Normalizing Flows with Iterative Denoising
【速读】：该论文旨在解决生成式模型中如何提升Normalizing Flow（NF）在图像建模任务上的性能问题，尤其是在与扩散模型等先进方法竞争时的局限性。其解决方案的关键在于提出迭代TARFlow（iTARFlow），该方法在训练阶段保持端到端的似然优化目标，而在采样阶段引入受扩散模型启发的迭代去噪过程，结合了自回归生成与多步精细化处理的优势，从而在ImageNet不同分辨率（64、128、256像素）下均实现了具有竞争力的生成质量，推动了NF类模型的发展边界。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20041
作者: Tianrong Chen,Jiatao Gu,David Berthelot,Joshua Susskind,Shuangfei Zhai
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Normalizing Flows (NFs) are a classical family of likelihood-based methods that have received revived attention. Recent efforts such as TARFlow have shown that NFs are capable of achieving promising performance on image modeling tasks, making them viable alternatives to other methods such as diffusion models. In this work, we further advance the state of Normalizing Flow generative models by introducing iterative TARFlow (iTARFlow). Unlike diffusion models, iTARFlow maintains a fully end-to-end, likelihood-based objective during training. During sampling, it performs autoregressive generation followed by an iterative denoising procedure inspired by diffusion-style methods. Through extensive experiments, we show that iTARFlow achieves competitive performance across ImageNet resolutions of 64, 128, and 256 pixels, demonstrating its potential as a strong generative model and advancing the frontier of Normalizing Flows. In addition, we analyze the characteristic artifacts produced by iTARFlow, offering insights that may shed light on future improvements. Code is available at this https URL. Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2604.20041 [cs.CV] (or arXiv:2604.20041v1 [cs.CV] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.20041 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[CV-74] FluSplat: Sparse-View 3D Editing without Test-Time Optimization
【速读】：该论文旨在解决现有基于文本引导的3D场景编辑方法中存在计算成本高、场景依赖性强以及跨视角不一致的问题。当前主流方法依赖于测试时迭代式的“编辑-拟合”优化流程，交替进行2D扩散编辑与3D重建，导致效率低下且难以保证多视角一致性。其解决方案的关键在于提出一种前馈式框架，在训练阶段通过图像域中的跨视角正则化机制（cross-view regularization scheme）联合监督多视角编辑，并引入几何对齐约束以隐式建模视图间一致性，从而避免推理时的逐场景优化；最终利用前馈式3D高斯泼溅（3D Gaussian Splatting, 3DGS）模型将编辑后的多视角图像直接提升为统一的3DGS表示，实现单次前向传播即可获得高质量、跨视角一致的3D编辑结果。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20038
作者: Haitao Huang,Shin-Fang Chng,Huangying Zhan,Qingan Yan,Yi Xu
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Recent advances in text-guided image editing and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled high-quality 3D scene manipulation. However, existing pipelines rely on iterative edit-and-fit optimization at test time, alternating between 2D diffusion editing and 3D reconstruction. This process is computationally expensive, scene-specific, and prone to cross-view inconsistencies. We propose a feed-forward framework for cross-view consistent 3D scene editing from sparse views. Instead of enforcing consistency through iterative 3D refinement, we introduce a cross-view regularization scheme in the image domain during training. By jointly supervising multi-view edits with geometric alignment constraints, our model produces view-consistent results without per-scene optimization at inference. The edited views are then lifted into 3D via a feedforward 3DGS model, yielding a coherent 3DGS representation in a single forward pass. Experiments demonstrate competitive editing fidelity and substantially improved cross-view consistency compared to optimization-based methods, while reducing inference time by orders of magnitude. Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) Cite as: arXiv:2604.20038 [cs.CV] (or arXiv:2604.20038v1 [cs.CV] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.20038 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[CV-75] Learning to count small and clustered objects with application to bacterial colonies
【速读】：该论文旨在解决细菌菌落图像自动计数中的四大挑战：（1）菌落尺寸小，（2）菌落聚集导致的计数困难，（3）数据标注成本高，（4）跨物种泛化能力弱。针对这些问题，作者首先提出ACFamNet，通过引入新颖的感兴趣区域池化（region of interest pooling）与对齐机制及优化特征工程，有效处理小尺寸和聚集菌落；进一步提出ACFamNet Pro，在ACFamNet基础上融合多头注意力机制（multi-head attention）与残差连接（residual connections），实现对象的动态加权与梯度流动优化，从而显著提升模型在多种菌种下的计数精度与鲁棒性。实验表明，ACFamNet Pro在5折交叉验证中达到9.64%的平均归一化绝对误差（MNAE），优于ACFamNet和原始FamNet分别达2.23%和12.71%。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20030
作者: Minghua Zheng,Na Helian,Peter C. R. Lane,Yi Sun,Allen Donald
机构: University of Hertfordshire (赫特福德大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Automated bacterial colony counting from images is an important technique to obtain data required for the development of vaccines and antibiotics. However, bacterial colonies present unique machine vision challenges that affect counting, including (1) small physical size, (2) object clustering, (3) high data annotation cost, and (4) limited cross-species generalisation. While FamNet is an established object counting technique effective for clustered objects and costly data annotation, its effectiveness for small colony sizes and cross-species generalisation remains unknown. To address the first three challenges, we propose ACFamNet, an extension of FamNet that handles small and clustered objects using a novel region of interest pooling with alignment and optimised feature engineering. To address all four challenges above, we introduce ACFamNet Pro, which augments ACFamNet with multi-head attention and residual connections, enabling dynamic weighting of objects and improved gradient flow. Experiments show that ACFamNet Pro achieves a mean normalised absolute error (MNAE) of 9.64% under 5-fold cross-validation, outperforming ACFamNet and FamNet by 2.23% and 12.71%, respectively.
[CV-76] Cognitive Alignment At No Cost: Inducing Human Attention Biases For Interpretable Vision Transformers
【速读】：该论文旨在解决视觉 Transformer (Vision Transformer, ViT) 在图像理解任务中与人类注意力机制存在显著差异的问题，即“认知差距”（cognitive gap）。其核心解决方案是通过在人类显著性注视图（human saliency fixation maps）上微调 Google 的 ViT-B/16 模型的自注意力权重，以使模型的注意力分布更贴近人类视觉注意模式。关键在于利用生物启发的先验知识（biologically grounded priors）对自注意力机制进行针对性调整，从而在不损害原始分类性能（包括 ImageNet、ImageNet-C 和 ObjectNet 等基准测试）的前提下，显著提升模型在五种显著性指标上的对齐度，并诱导出三种类人注意力偏置（如小物体偏好、动物性偏好增强及极端注意力熵降低）。这一方法表明，ViT 中模块化的自注意力结构能够将空间优先级与表征逻辑解耦，使得人类对齐的注意力成为一种无需额外代价的涌现属性（emergent property），从而增强模型的可解释性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20027
作者: Ethan Knights
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:For state-of-the-art image understanding, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become the standard architecture but their processing diverges substantially from human attentional characteristics. We investigate whether this cognitive gap can be shrunk by fine-tuning the self-attention weights of Google’s ViT-B/16 on human saliency fixation maps. To isolate the effects of semantically relevant signals from generic human supervision, the tuned model is compared against a shuffled control. Fine-tuning significantly improved alignment across five saliency metrics and induced three hallmark human-like biases: tuning reversed the baseline’s anti-human large-object bias toward small-objects, amplified the animacy preference and diminished extreme attention entropy. Bayesian parity analysis provides decisive to very-strong evidence that this cognitive alignment comes at no cost to the model’s original classification performance on in- (ImageNet), corrupted (ImageNet-C) and out-of-distribution (ObjectNet) benchmarks. An equivalent procedure applied to a ResNet-50 Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) instead degraded both alignment and accuracy, suggesting that the ViT’s modular self-attention mechanism is uniquely suited for dissociating spatial priority from representational logic. These findings demonstrate that biologically grounded priors can be instilled as a free emergent property of human-aligned attention, to improve transformer interpretability.
[CV-77] Investigation of cardinality classification for bacterial colony counting using explainable artificial intelligence
【速读】：该论文旨在解决微生物菌落计数中基于深度学习的分类模型（如MicrobiaNet）在区分三类及以上菌落数量时性能受限的问题。此前研究认为该局限源于模型本身，但本文通过可解释人工智能（XAI）分析揭示，真正瓶颈在于训练数据中不同类别间存在高度视觉相似性，这限制了模型对高基数类别的判别能力。解决方案的关键在于：未来应开发能显式建模视觉相似性的新架构或采用密度估计方法，并强调此类问题在处理类别不平衡数据集时具有普遍意义。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20026
作者: Minghua Zheng,Na Helian,Peter C. R. Lane,Yi Sun,Allen Donald
机构: King’s College London (伦敦国王学院)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Automatic bacterial colony counting is a highly sought-after technology in modern biological laboratories because it eliminates manual counting effort. Previous work has observed that MicrobiaNet, currently the best-performing cardinality classification model for colony counting, has difficulty distinguishing colonies of three or more individuals. However, it is unclear if this is due to properties of the data together with inherent characteristics of the MicrobiaNet model. By analysing MicrobiaNet with explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), we demonstrate that XAI can provide insights into how data properties constrain cardinality classification performance in colony counting. Our results show that high visual similarity across classes is the key issue hindering further performance improvement, revising prior assertions about MicrobiaNet. These findings suggest future work should focus on models that explicitly incorporate visual similarity or explore density estimation approaches, with broader implications for neural network classifiers trained on imbalanced datasets.
[CV-78] RareSpot: A Benchmark Model and Active Learning Framework for Small and Rare Wildlife in Aerial Imagery
【速读】：该论文旨在解决野生动物自动化监测中两个关键挑战：一是小尺度、稀有物种（如草原犬鼠）的检测难度大，二是大规模专家标注成本高昂。其核心解决方案在于提出RareSpot+检测框架，通过三项关键技术实现突破：首先，引入多尺度一致性损失（multi-scale consistency loss），在不改变模型结构的前提下对齐不同检测头的中间特征图，显著提升对约30像素宽的小目标的定位精度；其次，采用上下文感知增强（context-aware augmentation）策略，合成生态上合理且具有挑战性的样本以增强模型鲁棒性；最后，设计地理空间引导的主动学习模块（geospatially guided active learning），结合领域特定的空间先验（如草原犬鼠与洞穴的空间关联）、测试时增强和元不确定性模型，大幅降低冗余标注需求，仅用1.7%的未标注数据即可使草原犬鼠平均精度（AP）提升14.5%。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20000
作者: Bowen Zhang,Jesse T. Boulerice,Charvi Mendiratta,Nikhil Kuniyil,Satish Kumar,Hila Shamon,B. S. Manjunath
机构: University of California, Santa Barbara (加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校); Smithsonian Institution (史密森尼学会); Stanford University (斯坦福大学); Duke University (杜克大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Automated wildlife monitoring from aerial imagery is vital for conservation but remains limited by two persistent challenges: the difficulty of detecting small, rare species and the high cost of large-scale expert annotation. Prairie dogs exemplify this problem – they are ecologically important yet appear tiny, sparsely distributed, and visually indistinct from their surroundings, posing a severe challenge for conventional detection models. To overcome these limitations, we present RareSpot+, a detection framework that integrates multi-scale consistency learning, context-aware augmentation, and geospatially guided active learning to address these issues. A novel multi-scale consistency loss aligns intermediate feature maps across detection heads, enhancing localization of small (approx. 30 pixels wide) objects without architectural changes, while context-aware augmentation improves robustness by synthesizing hard, ecologically plausible examples. A geospatial active learning module exploits domain-specific spatial priors linking prairie dogs and burrows, together with test-time augmentation and a meta-uncertainty model, to reduce redundant labeling. On a 2 km^2 aerial dataset, RareSpot+ improves detection over the baseline mAP@50 by +35.2% (absolute +0.13). Cross-dataset tests on HerdNet, AED, and several other wildlife benchmarks demonstrate robust detector-level transferability. The active learning module further boosts prairie dog AP by 14.5% using an annotation budget of just 1.7% of the unlabeled tiles. Beyond detection, RareSpot+ enables spatial ecological analyses such as clustering and co-occurrence, linking vision-based detection with quantitative ecology.
[CV-79] Optimizing Data Augmentation for Real-Time Small UAV Detection: A Lightweight Context-Aware Approach
【速读】：该论文旨在解决小型无人机（UAV）在复杂环境下的视觉检测难题，特别是在边缘设备上部署轻量级目标检测模型（如YOLOv11 Nano）时因学习能力有限而导致的性能瓶颈问题。解决方案的关键在于提出一种高效且具备上下文感知能力的数据增强流水线，该方法融合了Mosaic策略与HSV色彩空间自适应调整技术，有效提升了模型在多种场景下的泛化能力和检测精度，同时避免了合成伪影和过拟合现象，尤其在雾天等恶劣条件下表现出最优的精度与稳定性平衡。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19999
作者: Amir Zamani(Comprehensive University of the Islamic Revolution),Zeinab Abedini(Sharif University of Technology)
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
备注: Accepted for presentation at the 34th International Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE 2026)
Abstract:Visual detection of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is a critical task in surveillance systems due to their small physical size and environmental challenges. Although deep learning models have achieved significant progress, deploying them on edge devices necessitates the use of lightweight models, such as YOLOv11 Nano, which possess limited learning capacity. In this research, an efficient and context-aware data augmentation pipeline, combining Mosaic strategies and HSV color-space adaptation, is proposed to enhance the performance of these models. Experimental results on four standard datasets demonstrate that the proposed approach, compared to heavy and instance-level methods like Copy-Paste, not only prevents the generation of synthetic artifacts and overfitting but also significantly improves mean Average Precision (mAP) across all scenarios. Furthermore, the evaluation of generalization capability under foggy conditions revealed that the proposed method offers the optimal balance between Precision and stability for real-time systems, whereas alternative methods, such as MixUp, are effective only in specific applications.
[CV-80] A Computational Model of Message Sensation Value in Short Video Multimodal Features that Predicts Sensory and Behavioral Engagement
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前短视频平台中多模态特征（如视觉、听觉等）对观众参与度的集体影响尚不明确的问题。以往研究多聚焦于单一模态特征的效果，而忽视了多模态要素协同作用对感官参与（sensory engagement）与行为参与（behavioral engagement）的复杂关系。解决方案的关键在于基于消息感官价值理论（Message Sensation Value, MSV），构建并验证了一个融合多模态特征分析与人工评估的计算模型，该模型能有效预测用户的感官和行为参与度，并在三个短视频平台的两个未见过的数据集上进行了跨平台验证，揭示了MSV与行为参与呈倒U型关系——即适度的MSV最有利于行为参与，而过高则可能产生边际效应递减。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19995
作者: Haoning Xue,Jingwen Zhang,Xiaohui Wang,Diane Dagyong Kim,Yunya Song
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:The contemporary media landscape is characterized by sensational short videos. While prior research examines the effects of individual multimodal features, the collective impact of multimodal features on viewer engagement with short videos remains unknown. Grounded in the theoretical framework of Message Sensation Value (MSV), this study develops and tests a computational model of MSV with multimodal feature analysis and human evaluation of 1,200 short videos. This model that predicts sensory and behavioral engagement was further validated across two unseen datasets from three short video platforms (combined N = 14,492). While MSV is positively associated with sensory engagement, it shows an inverted U-shaped relationship with behavioral engagement: Higher MSV elicits stronger sensory stimulation, but moderate MSV optimizes behavioral engagement. This research advances the theoretical understanding of short video engagement and introduces a robust computational tool for short video research.
[CV-81] Online CS-based SAR Edge-Mapping
【速读】：该论文旨在解决小型无人飞行器（Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, UAV）在军事应用中对轻量化、高效率机载自动目标识别（Automatic Target Recognition, ATR）算法的需求，尤其是在合成孔径雷达（Synthetic Aperture Radar, SAR）场景下，传统处理方式需存储大量回波信号数据并进行图像重建，导致计算资源和存储负担过重的问题。其解决方案的关键在于提出一种在线、直接的边缘映射（edge-mapping）技术，跳过传统的图像重构步骤，直接基于原始SAR回波数据进行场景与目标分类；同时，通过将场景重构为边缘图，天然促进稀疏性，从而显著降低所需测量数和计算复杂度，优于经典SAR重建算法（如backprojection）。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19989
作者: Conor Flynn,Radoslav Ivanov,Birsen Yazici
机构: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (伦斯勒理工学院)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:With modern defense applications increasingly relying on inexpensive, small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), a major challenge lies in designing intelligent and computationally efficient onboard Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) algorithms to carry out operational objectives. This is especially critical in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), where processing techniques such as ATR are often carried out post data collection, requiring onboard systems to bear the memory burden of storing the back-scattered signals. To alleviate this high cost, we propose an online, direct, edge-mapping technique which bypasses the image reconstruction step to classify scenes and targets. Furthermore, by reconstructing the scene as an edge-map we inherently promote sparsity, requiring fewer measurements and computational power than classic SAR reconstruction algorithms such as backprojection.
[CV-82] Fast Amortized Fitting of Scientific Signals Across Time and Ensembles via Transferable Neural Fields
【速读】：该论文旨在解决隐式神经表示（Implicit Neural Representations, INRs）在高维科学场景中面临的收敛速度慢和扩展性差的问题。其解决方案的关键在于将INR模型扩展以处理时空多变量信号，并通过跨科学信号迁移可转移特征，实现对时间序列与集合运行的高效、可扩展表示，且以“摊销”（amortized）方式完成。实验表明，这种迁移特征不仅提升了信号保真度，还显著改善了派生几何与物理量（如密度梯度和涡度）的准确性，同时将达到目标重建质量所需的迭代次数减少一个数量级，并在早期重建阶段提升多个dB（某些情况下超过10 dB）。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19979
作者: Sophia Zorek,Kushal Vyas,Yuhao Liu,David Lenz,Tom Peterka,Guha Balakrishnan
机构: Rice University (莱斯大学); Argonne National Laboratory (阿贡国家实验室)
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Neural fields, also known as implicit neural representations (INRs), offer a powerful framework for modeling continuous geometry, but their effectiveness in high-dimensional scientific settings is limited by slow convergence and scaling challenges. In this study, we extend INR models to handle spatiotemporal and multivariate signals and show how INR features can be transferred across scientific signals to enable efficient and scalable representation across time and ensemble runs in an amortized fashion. Across controlled transformation regimes (e.g., geometric transformations and localized perturbations of synthetic fields) and high-fidelity scientific domains-including turbulent flows, fluid-material impact dynamics, and astrophysical systems-we show that transferable features improve not only signal fidelity but also the accuracy of derived geometric and physical quantities, including density gradients and vorticity. In particular, transferable features reduce iterations to reach target reconstruction quality by up to an order of magnitude, increase early-stage reconstruction quality by multiple dB (with gains exceeding 10 dB in some cases), and consistently improve gradient-based physical accuracy.
[CV-83] Lucky High Dynamic Range Smartphone Imaging
【速读】：该论文旨在解决手持智能手机相机动态范围有限（约12档）与人类视觉系统高动态范围感知（约20档）之间的差距问题。现有高动态范围（HDR）图像捕获和处理技术虽能扩展3–5档动态范围，但存在生成伪影或依赖复杂模型的问题。解决方案的关键在于提出一种基于轻量级网络的间接处理方法：在曝光分组的线性原始像素上操作，通过邻域内像素的凸组合加权调整曝光，从而避免了当前生成式AI（Generative AI）网络常见的幻觉伪影；该方法无需对真实场景进行标注即可训练，并具备零样本泛化能力，可适用于不同手机摄像头拍摄的未见图像，且支持任意数量的输入图像（3–9张），同时提升其他SOTA方法的性能。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19976
作者: Baiang Li,Ruyu Yan,Ethan Tseng,Zhoutong Zhang,Adam Finkelstein,Jiawen Chen,Felix Heide
机构: Princeton University (普林斯顿大学); Adobe (Adobe公司)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:While the human eye can perceive an impressive twenty stops of dynamic range, smartphone camera sensors remain limited to about twelve stops despite decades of research. A variety of high dynamic range (HDR) image capture and processing techniques have been proposed, and, in practice, they can extend the dynamic range by 3-5 stops for handheld photography. This paper proposes an approach that robustly captures dynamic range using a handheld smartphone camera and lightweight networks suitable for running on mobile devices. Our method operates indirectly on linear raw pixels in bracketed exposures. Every pixel in the final HDR image is a convex combination of input pixels in the neighborhood, adjusted for exposure, and thus avoids hallucination artifacts typical of recent deep image synthesis networks. We validate our system on both synthetic imagery and unseen real bracketed images – we confirm zero-shot generalization of the method to smartphone camera captures. Our iterative inference architecture is capable of processing an arbitrary number of bracketed input photos, and we show examples from capture stacks containing 3–9 images. Our training process relies only on synthetic captures yet generalizes to unseen real photos from several cameras. Moreover, we show that this training scheme improves other SOTA methods over their pretrained counterparts.
[CV-84] DistortBench: Benchmarking Vision Language Models on Image Distortion Identification
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前视觉语言模型（Vision-Language Models, VLMs）在低级图像退化感知能力上的不足问题，特别是其对图像失真类型和严重程度的识别能力尚不明确。解决方案的关键在于提出DistortBench——一个用于无参考图像失真感知的诊断基准，包含13,500道四选一题目，覆盖27种失真类型、6类感知类别及5个严重等级，涵盖来自KADID-10k的数据校准与新增旋转失真，并系统评估了18个VLMs（含17个开源模型和1个专有模型），揭示出当前模型在低层感知任务上表现显著落后于人类水平（最佳模型准确率61.9%，人类多数投票基线为65.7%），且存在模型规模增长与性能提升非单调、基础模型与思维模型对性能改善有限等关键现象。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19966
作者: Divyanshu Goyal,Akhil Eppa,Vanya Bannihatti Kumar
机构: Adobe Inc. (Adobe 公司)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Robotics (cs.RO)
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Abstract:Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly used in settings where sensitivity to low-level image degradations matters, including content moderation, image restoration, and quality monitoring. Yet their ability to recognize distortion type and severity remains poorly understood. We present DistortBench, a diagnostic benchmark for no-reference distortion perception in VLMs. DistortBench contains 13,500 four-choice questions covering 27 distortion types, six perceptual categories, and five severity levels: 25 distortions inherit KADID-10k calibrations, while two added rotation distortions use monotonic angle-based levels. We evaluate 18 VLMs, including 17 open-weight models from five families and one proprietary model. Despite strong performance on high-level vision-language tasks, the best model reaches only 61.9% accuracy, just below the human majority-vote baseline of 65.7% (average individual: 60.2%), indicating that low-level perceptual understanding remains a major weakness of current VLMs. Our analysis further reveals weak and non-monotonic scaling with model size, performance drops in most base–thinking pairs, and distinct severity-response patterns across model families. We hope DistortBench will serve as a useful benchmark for measuring and improving low-level visual perception in VLMs.
[CV-85] Camera Control for Text-to-Image Generation via Learning Viewpoint Tokens
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前文本到图像（text-to-image）生成模型在仅依赖自然语言描述时难以实现精确相机控制的问题。其核心挑战在于如何在保持图像质量和提示一致性的同时，引入对全局场景几何结构的显式建模。解决方案的关键在于通过学习参数化的相机标记（camera tokens），将3D相机结构显式嵌入文本-视觉潜在空间中；具体而言，作者在自建数据集上微调图像生成模型，该数据集结合了3D渲染图像以提供几何监督信号和照片级真实感增强以提升外观与背景多样性，从而使得视角条件下的文本到图像生成具备更高的准确性，并且所学的视角标记能够解耦几何表征，泛化至未见物体类别，优于以往依赖特定物体外观关联的方法。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19954
作者: Xinxuan Lu,Charless Fowlkes,Alexander C. Berg
机构: University of California, Irvine (加州大学欧文分校)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Current text-to-image models struggle to provide precise camera control using natural language alone. In this work, we present a framework for precise camera control with global scene understanding in text-to-image generation by learning parametric camera tokens. We fine-tune image generation models for viewpoint-conditioned text-to-image generation on a curated dataset that combines 3D-rendered images for geometric supervision and photorealistic augmentations for appearance and background diversity. Qualitative and quantitative experiments demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art accuracy while preserving image quality and prompt fidelity. Unlike prior methods that overfit to object-specific appearance correlations, our viewpoint tokens learn factorized geometric representations that transfer to unseen object categories. Our work shows that text-vision latent spaces can be endowed with explicit 3D camera structure, offering a pathway toward geometrically-aware prompts for text-to-image generation. Project page: this https URL
[CV-86] Visual Reasoning through Tool-supervised Reinforcement Learning CVPR2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决多模态大语言模型（Multimodal Large Language Models, MLLMs）在执行复杂视觉推理任务时，如何有效掌握工具使用能力的问题。其解决方案的关键在于提出了一种新颖的工具监督强化学习框架（Tool-supervised Reinforcement Learning, ToolsRL），通过直接的工具监督机制实现更高效的工具使用学习。该框架聚焦于一系列简单、原生且可解释的视觉工具（如缩放、旋转、翻转及绘制点/线），并设计了一个分阶段的强化学习训练课程：第一阶段仅使用特定工具奖励优化工具调用能力，第二阶段则引入以准确率为目标的奖励并允许工具调用，从而避免异构任务间的优化冲突，最终使模型在复杂视觉推理任务中具备强大的工具使用能力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19945
作者: Qihua Dong,Gozde Sahin,Pei Wang,Zhaowei Cai,Robik Shrestha,Hao Yang,Davide Modolo
机构: Northeastern University (东北大学); Amazon AGI (亚马逊AGI)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:In this paper, we investigate the problem of how to effectively master tool-use to solve complex visual reasoning tasks for Multimodal Large Language Models. To achieve that, we propose a novel Tool-supervised Reinforcement Learning (ToolsRL) framework, with direct tool supervision for more effective tool-use learning. We focus on a series of simple, native, and interpretable visual tools, including zoom-in, rotate, flip, and draw point/line, whose tool supervision is easy to collect. A reinforcement learning curriculum is developed, where the first stage is solely optimized by a set of well motivated tool-specific rewards, and the second stage is trained with the accuracy targeted rewards while allowing calling tools. In this way, tool calling capability is mastered before using tools to complete visual reasoning tasks, avoiding the potential optimization conflict among those heterogeneous tasks. Our experiments have shown that the tool-supervised curriculum training is efficient and ToolsRL can achieve strong tool-use capabilities for complex visual reasoning tasks.
[CV-87] CrackForward: Context-Aware Severity Stage Crack Synthesis for Data Augmentation
【速读】：该论文旨在解决结构健康监测中裂缝检测与分割任务因高质量标注数据稀缺而导致的性能瓶颈问题。解决方案的关键在于提出一种上下文感知的生成式框架 CrackForward，其核心创新在于显式建模裂缝形态学特征，通过结合方向性裂缝延伸、学习到的增厚与分叉机制，实现对真实裂缝生长模式的合成。具体而言，该框架包含两个关键组件：一是基于局部方向线索和自适应随机游走的上下文引导裂缝扩展模块，用于模拟逼真的裂缝传播路径；二是两阶段 U-Net 风格生成器，能够学习并复现空间变化的裂缝特性（如厚度、分叉和生长）。实验表明，该方法生成的数据在目标阶段饱和度和厚度特征上保持一致性，并显著提升多种裂缝分割模型的性能，证明了结构感知的合成裂缝生成比传统数据增强更有效。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19941
作者: Nassim Sadallah,Mohand Saïd Allili
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Reliable crack detection and segmentation are vital for structural health monitoring, yet the scarcity of well-annotated data constitutes a major challenge. To address this limitation, we propose a novel context-aware generative framework designed to synthesize realistic crack growth patterns for data augmentation. Unlike existing methods that primarily manipulate textures or background content, CrackForward explicitly models crack morphology by combining directional crack elongation with learned thickening and branching. Our framework integrates two key innovations: (i) a contextually guided crack expansion module, which uses local directional cues and adaptive random walk to simulate realistic propagation paths; and (ii) a two-stage U-Net-style generator that learns to reproduce spatially varying crack characteristics such as thickness, branching, and growth. Experimental results show that the generated samples preserve target-stage saturation and thickness characteristics and improve the performance of several crack segmentation architectures. These results indicate that structure-aware synthetic crack generation can provide more informative training data than conventional augmentation alone.
[CV-88] Infection-Reason er: A Compact Vision-Language Model for Wound Infection Classification with Evidence-Grounded Clinical Reasoning
【速读】：该论文旨在解决慢性伤口感染的图像识别难题，尤其针对视觉表现因病因、解剖位置和成像条件差异而复杂多变的问题。传统基于深度学习的图像分类方法虽能实现初步判断，但缺乏可解释性，难以支持临床决策。其解决方案的关键在于提出一个轻量级的4B参数推理型视觉-语言模型（Infection-Reasoner），通过两阶段训练策略提升模型性能与可解释性：首先利用GPT-5.1对未标注伤口图像生成链式思维（chain-of-thought）推理路径以初始化学生模型的特定伤口推理能力；随后在小规模标注感染数据集上采用Group Relative Policy Optimization（GRPO）进行强化学习微调，优化分类逻辑与推理一致性。该方法在异质性伤口数据集上达到86.8%准确率，并显著优于多个基线模型，同时通过多模态大语言模型（MLLM）和专家评审验证了推理质量，证明其在临床场景中具备实用潜力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19937
作者: Palawat Busaranuvong,Reza Saadati Fard,Emmanuel Agu,Deepak Kumar,Shefalika Gautam,Bengisu Tulu,Diane Strong
机构: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (伍斯特理工学院); UMass Chan Medical School (麻省大学医学院); UMass Memorial Healthcare (麻省纪念医疗保健)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Assessing chronic wound infection from photographs is challenging because visual appearance varies across wound etiologies, anatomical locations, and imaging conditions. Prior image-based deep learning methods have mainly focused on classification with limited interpretability, despite the need for evidence-grounded explanations to support point-of-care decision making. We present Infection-Reasoner, a compact 4B-parameter reasoning vision-language model for chronic wound infection classification and rationale generation. To address the scarcity of expert-labeled wound images with reasoning annotations, Infection-Reasoner is trained using a two-stage pipeline: (1) reasoning distillation, in which GPT-5.1 generates chain-of-thought rationales for unlabeled wound images to initialize wound-specific reasoning in a smaller student model (Qwen3-VL-4B-Thinking), and (2) reinforcement learning post-training with Group Relative Policy Optimization on a small labeled infection dataset to refine classification reasoning. On a held-out heterogeneous wound dataset, Infection-Reasoner achieved 86.8% accuracy, 86.4% sensitivity, and 87.1% specificity, outperforming several strong baselines, including GPT-5.1. Rationale quality was further evaluated using both multimodal large language model (MLLM) judges and wound expert review. Across four MLLM judges, visual-support agreement scores ranged from 0.722 to 0.903, while expert review rated 61.8% of rationales as Correct and 32.4% as Partially Correct.
[CV-89] UniCon3R: Contact-aware 3D Human-Scene Reconstruction from Monocular Video
【速读】：该论文旨在解决单目视频中人体与场景联合4D重建时存在的物理不合理性问题，例如人体悬浮于地面或穿透场景结构等现象。现有前馈方法虽能实现实时世界坐标系下的人体运动与场景重建，但因未建模人体与环境间的物理交互而产生此类伪影。解决方案的关键在于引入显式的接触建模机制：通过从人体姿态和场景几何中推断三维接触点，并将接触信息作为校正信号主动修正最终的人体姿态估计，从而实现高保真场景几何与空间对齐的3D人体的联合重建。实验表明，接触不仅是一种外部评估指标，更是一种强大的内部先验，推动了物理合理的人体-场景联合重建新范式的发展。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19923
作者: Tanuj Sur,Shashank Tripathi,Nikos Athanasiou,Ha Linh Nguyen,Kai Xu,Michael J. Black,Angela Yao
机构: National University of Singapore (新加坡国立大学); Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (马克斯·普朗克智能系统研究所)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:We introduce UniCon3R (Unified Contact-aware 3D Reconstruction), a unified feed-forward framework for online human-scene 4D reconstruction from monocular videos. Recent feed-forward methods enable real-time world-coordinate human motion and scene reconstruction, but they often produce physically implausible artifacts such as bodies floating above the ground or penetrating parts of the scene. The key reason is that existing approaches fail to model physical interactions between the human and the environment. A natural next step is to predict human-scene contact as an auxiliary output – yet we find this alone is not sufficient: contact must actively correct the reconstruction. To address this, we explicitly model interaction by inferring 3D contact from the human pose and scene geometry and use the contact as a corrective cue for generating the final pose. This enables UniCon3R to jointly recover high-fidelity scene geometry and spatially aligned 3D humans within the scene. Experiments on standard human-centric video benchmarks such as RICH, EMDB, 3DPW and SLOPER4D show that UniCon3R outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on physical plausibility and global human motion estimation while achieving real-time online inference. We experimentally demonstrate that contact serves as a powerful internal prior rather than just an external metric, thus establishing a new paradigm for physically grounded joint human-scene reconstruction. Project page is available at this https URL .
[CV-90] SceneOrchestra: Efficient Agent ic 3D Scene Synthesis via Full Tool-Call Trajectory Generation
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前3D场景合成中基于代理（agentic）框架的两个核心问题：一是工具调用选择与参数配置依赖启发式规则，导致执行流程次优、冗余调用频发、输出质量下降及运行时间增加；二是每步执行后需渲染并审查中间结果，引入显著延迟。解决方案的关键在于提出一个可训练的编排框架 SceneOrchestra，其由 orchestrator（编排器）和 discriminator（判别器）组成，并采用两阶段训练策略：第一阶段使 orchestrator 学习上下文感知的工具选择与完整工具调用轨迹生成能力，同时训练 discriminator 评估多候选轨迹质量以选出最优路径；第二阶段通过交错训练使 discriminator 自适应 orchestrator 的轨迹分布，并将判别能力蒸馏回 orchestrator。推理时仅使用 orchestrator 生成并执行完整的工具调用轨迹，无需 discriminator，从而在不牺牲场景质量的前提下显著提升效率。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19907
作者: Yun He,Kelin Yu,Matthias Zwicker
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Recent agentic frameworks for 3D scene synthesis have advanced realism and diversity by integrating heterogeneous generation and editing tools. These tools are organized into workflows orchestrated by an off-the-shelf LLM. Current approaches typically adopt an execute-review-reflect loop: at each step, the orchestrator executes a tool, renders intermediate results for review, and then decides on the tool and its parameters for the next step. However, this design has two key limitations. First, next-step tool selection and parameter configuration are driven by heuristic rules, which can lead to suboptimal execution flows, unnecessary tool invocations, degraded output quality, and increased runtime. Second, rendering and reviewing intermediate results after each step introduces additional latency. To address these issues, we propose SceneOrchestra, a trainable orchestration framework that optimizes the tool-call execution flow and eliminates the step-by-step review loop, improving both efficiency and output quality. SceneOrchestra consists of an orchestrator and a discriminator, which we fine-tune with a two-phase training strategy. In the first phase, the orchestrator learns context-aware tool selection and complete tool-call trajectory generation, while the discriminator is trained to assess the quality of full trajectories, enabling it to select the best trajectory from multiple candidates. In the second phase, we perform interleaved training, where the discriminator adapts to the orchestrator’s evolving trajectory distribution and distills its discriminative capability back into the orchestrator. At inference, we only use the orchestrator to generate and execute full tool-call trajectories from instructions, without requiring the discriminator. Extensive experiments show that our method achieves state-of-the-art scene quality while reducing runtime compared to previous work.
[CV-91] MMCORE: MultiModal COnnection with Representation Aligned Latent Embeddings
【速读】：该论文旨在解决多模态图像生成与编辑任务中模型复杂度高、计算资源消耗大以及跨模态理解能力不足的问题。其解决方案的关键在于提出MMCORE框架，通过利用预训练的视觉-语言模型（Vision-Language Model, VLM）生成语义视觉嵌入（semantic visual embeddings），并以可学习查询令牌（learnable query tokens）作为条件信号输入扩散模型（diffusion model），从而将VLM强大的语义理解和推理能力高效迁移至图像生成过程。该设计避免了传统方法中对自回归模型与扩散模型进行深度融合或从头训练的需求，显著降低计算开销的同时保持高质量的图像合成效果，并在文本到图像生成及单/多图像编辑等复杂场景下展现出卓越的多模态理解能力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19902
作者: Zijie Li,Yichun Shi,Jingxiang Sun,Ye Wang,Yixuan Huang,Zhiyao Guo,Xiaochen Lian,Peihao Zhu,Yu Tian,Zhonghua Zhai,Peng Wang
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:We present MMCORE, a unified framework designed for multimodal image generation and editing. MMCORE leverages a pre-trained Vision-Language Model (VLM) to predict semantic visual embeddings via learnable query tokens, which subsequently serve as conditioning signals for a diffusion model. This streamlined design effectively transfers the rich understanding and reasoning capabilities of VLMs into the visual generation process. By obviating the need for deep fusion between autoregressive and diffusion models or training from scratch, MMCORE significantly reduces computational overhead while maintaining high-fidelity synthesis. MMCORE seamlessly integrates text-to-image synthesis with interleaved image generation, demonstrating robust multimodal comprehension in complex scenarios such as spatial reasoning and visual grounding. Comprehensive evaluations indicate that MMCORE consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines across a broad spectrum of text-to-image and single/multi-image editing benchmarks. Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG) Cite as: arXiv:2604.19902 [cs.CV] (or arXiv:2604.19902v1 [cs.CV] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.19902 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[CV-92] SGAP-Gaze: Scene Grid Attention Based Point-of-Gaze Estimation Network for Driver Gaze
【速读】：该论文旨在解决现实驾驶环境中驾驶员视线（Point-of-Gaze, PoG）估计精度不足的问题，尤其是在复杂交通场景下，仅依赖面部特征难以准确捕捉驾驶员对周围环境的注意力分布。解决方案的关键在于提出一种融合多模态信息与场景感知注意力机制的新模型——SGAP-Gaze，其核心创新包括：1）构建了同步采集的驾驶人脸与交通场景图像数据集 Urban Driving-Face Scene Gaze (UD-FSG)，提供场景上下文线索；2）设计基于Transformer的场景网格注意力机制（Scene-Grid Attention），将驾驶员面部、眼睛、虹膜特征与场景图像特征进行跨模态融合，生成注视意图向量并计算空间注意力权重，从而更精准地预测PoG。实验表明，该方法在多个数据集上均显著优于现有最先进模型，尤其在场景边缘区域表现优异，提升了真实道路环境下驾驶员注意力建模的鲁棒性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19888
作者: Pavan Kumar Sharma,Pranamesh Chakraborty
机构: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (印度理工学院坎普尔分校)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Driver gaze estimation is essential for understanding the driver’s situational awareness of surrounding traffic. Existing gaze estimation models use driver facial information to predict the Point-of-Gaze (PoG) or the 3D gaze direction vector. We propose a benchmark dataset, Urban Driving-Face Scene Gaze (UD-FSG), comprising synchronized driver-face and traffic-scene images. The scene images provide cues about surrounding traffic, which can help improve the gaze estimation model, along with the face images. We propose SGAP-Gaze, Scene-Grid Attention based Point-of-Gaze estimation network, trained and tested on our UD-FSG dataset, which explicitly incorporates the scene images into the gaze estimation modelling. The gaze estimation network integrates driver face, eye, iris, and scene contextual information. First, the extracted features from facial modalities are fused to form a gaze intent vector. Then, attention scores are computed over the spatial scene grid using a Transformer-based attention mechanism fusing face and scene image features to obtain the PoG. The proposed SGAP-Gaze model achieves a mean pixel error of 104.73 on the UD-FSG dataset and 63.48 on LBW dataset, achieving a 23.5% reduction in mean pixel error compared to state-of-the-art driver gaze estimation models. The spatial pixel distribution analysis shows that SGAP-Gaze consistently achieves lower mean pixel error than existing methods across all spatial ranges, including the outer regions of the scene, which are rare but critical for understanding driver attention. These results highlight the effectiveness of integrating multi-modal gaze cues with scene-aware attention for a robust driver PoG estimation model in real-world driving environments.
[CV-93] Wan-Image: Pushing the Boundaries of Generative Visual Intelligence
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前扩散模型在专业设计工作流中面临的三大核心瓶颈：绝对可控性不足、复杂文字渲染能力弱以及身份一致性难以保持。针对这些问题，其解决方案的关键在于构建一个原生统一的多模态架构——通过深度融合大语言模型（Large Language Model, LLM）的认知理解能力与扩散变压器（Diffusion Transformer）的高保真像素生成能力，实现从高度抽象用户意图到精确视觉输出的无缝映射。该架构依托大规模多模态数据扩展、细粒度标注引擎及精选强化学习数据，不仅超越基础指令跟随能力，更解锁了专家级专业功能，如超长复杂文本渲染、多样化肖像生成、调色板引导生成、多主体身份保留、连贯序列图像生成、多模态交互式编辑、原生透明通道生成和高效4K合成等，从而推动图像生成从美学创作向专业生产力工具的范式跃迁。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19858
作者: Chaojie Mao,Chen-Wei Xie,Chongyang Zhong,Haoyou Deng,Jiaxing Zhao,Jie Xiao,Jinbo Xing,Jingfeng Zhang,Jingren Zhou,Jingyi Zhang,Jun Dan,Kai Zhu,Kang Zhao,Keyu Yan,Minghui Chen,Pandeng Li,Shuangle Chen,Tong Shen,Yu Liu,Yue Jiang,Yulin Pan,Yuxiang Tuo,Zeyinzi Jiang,Zhen Han,Ang Wang,Bang Zhang,Baole Ai,Bin Wen,Boang Feng,Feiwu Yu,Gang Wang,Haiming Zhao,He Kang,Jianjing Xiang,Jianyuan Zeng,Jinkai Wang,Ke Sun,Linqian Wu,Pei Gong,Pingyu Wu,Ruiwen Wu,Tongtong Su,Wenmeng Zhou,Wenting Shen,Wenyuan Yu,Xianjun Xu,Xiaoming Huang,Xiejie Shen,Xin Xu,Yan Kou,Yangyu Lv,Yifan Zhai,Yitong Huang,Yun Zheng,Yuntao Hong,Zhicheng Zhang
机构: Alibaba Group(阿里巴巴集团)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:We present Wan-Image, a unified visual generation system explicitly engineered to paradigm-shift image generation models from casual synthesizers into professional-grade productivity tools. While contemporary diffusion models excel at aesthetic generation, they frequently encounter critical bottlenecks in rigorous design workflows that demand absolute controllability, complex typography rendering, and strict identity preservation. To address these challenges, Wan-Image features a natively unified multi-modal architecture by synergizing the cognitive capabilities of large language models with the high-fidelity pixel synthesis of diffusion transformers, which seamlessly translates highly nuanced user intents into precise visual outputs. It is fundamentally powered by large-scale multi-modal data scaling, a systematic fine-grained annotation engine, and curated reinforcement learning data to surpass basic instruction following and unlock expert-level professional capabilities. These include ultra-long complex text rendering, hyper-diverse portrait generation, palette-guided generation, multi-subject identity preservation, coherent sequential visual generation, precise multi-modal interactive editing, native alpha-channel generation, and high-efficiency 4K synthesis. Across diverse human evaluations, Wan-Image exceeds Seedream 5.0 Lite and GPT Image 1.5 in overall performance, reaching parity with Nano Banana Pro in challenging tasks. Ultimately, Wan-Image revolutionizes visual content creation across e-commerce, entertainment, education, and personal productivity, redefining the boundaries of professional visual synthesis.
[CV-94] If youre waiting for a sign… that might not be it! Mitigating Trust Boundary Confusion from Visual Injections on Vision-Language Agent ic Systems
【速读】：该论文旨在解决嵌入式视觉-语言智能体（Embodied Vision-Language Agents, VLAs）在现实环境中面临的“信任边界混淆”（trust boundary confusion）问题，即如何在响应合法环境信号（如交通灯）的同时，抵御恶意构造的误导性视觉输入（如对抗性扰动），从而确保行为的安全性和可靠性。解决方案的关键在于提出一种多智能体防御框架，通过将感知模块与决策模块解耦，动态评估视觉输入的可信度，从而有效抑制误导行为，同时保持对真实环境信号的正确响应，并提供对抗扰动下的鲁棒性保障。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19844
作者: Jiamin Chang,Minhui Xue,Ruoxi Sun,Shuchao Pang,Salil S. Kanhere,Hammond Pearce
机构: University of New South Wales (新南威尔士大学); CSIRO’s Data61 (澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织数据61); Macquarie University (麦考瑞大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Recent advances in embodied Vision-Language Agentic Systems (VLAS), powered by large vision-language models (LVLMs), enable AI systems to perceive and reason over real-world scenes. Within this context, environmental signals such as traffic lights are essential in-band signals that can and should influence agent behavior. However, similar signals could also be crafted to operate as misleading visual injections, overriding user intent and posing security risks. This duality creates a fundamental challenge: agents must respond to legitimate environmental cues while remaining robust to misleading ones. We refer to this tension as trust boundary confusion. To study this behavior, we design a dual-intent dataset and evaluation framework, through which we show that current LVLM-based agents fail to reliably balance this trade-off, either ignoring useful signals or following harmful ones. We systematically evaluate 7 LVLM agents across multiple embodied settings under both structure-based and noise-based visual injections. To address these vulnerabilities, we propose a multi-agent defense framework that separates perception from decision-making to dynamically assess the reliability of visual inputs. Our approach significantly reduces misleading behaviors while preserving correct responses and provides robustness guarantees under adversarial perturbations. The code of the evaluation framework and artifacts are made available at this https URL.
[CV-95] Environmental Understanding Vision-Language Model for Embodied Agent CVPR
【速读】：该论文旨在解决视觉语言模型（Vision-Language Models, VLMs）在指令跟随型具身智能体（instruction-following embodied agents）任务中因环境理解能力不足而导致的交互失败或对环境元数据依赖过强的问题。解决方案的关键在于提出一种名为环境理解具身智能体（Environmental Understanding Embodied Agent, EUEA）的新框架，通过微调VLMs以掌握四项核心技能：对象感知（object perception）、任务规划（task planning）、动作理解（action understanding）和目标识别（goal recognition），从而提升任务执行的可靠性。此外，EUEA引入恢复步骤（recovery step）用于采样替代动作纠正失败案例，并结合群体相对策略优化（Group Relative Policy Optimization, GRPO）阶段精炼不一致的技能预测，最终在ALFRED任务上显著优于行为克隆基线，成功提升了平均成功率。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19839
作者: Jinsik Bang,Jaeyeon Bae,Donggyu Lee,Siyeol Jung,Taehwan Kim
机构: UNIST(韩国科学技术院)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown strong perception and reasoning abilities for instruction-following embodied agents. However, despite these abilities and their generalization performance, they still face limitations in environmental understanding, often failing on interactions or relying on environment metadata during execution. To address this challenge, we propose a novel framework named Environmental Understanding Embodied Agent (EUEA), which fine-tunes four core skills: 1) object perception for identifying relevant objects, 2) task planning for generating interaction subgoals, 3) action understanding for judging success likelihood, and 4) goal recognition for determining goal completion. By fine-tuning VLMs with EUEA skills, our framework enables more reliable task execution for instruction-following. We further introduce a recovery step that leverages these core skills and a group relative policy optimization (GRPO) stage that refines inconsistent skill predictions. The recovery step samples alternative actions to correct failure cases, and the GRPO stage refines inconsistent skill predictions. Across ALFRED tasks, our VLM significantly outperforms a behavior-cloning baseline, achieving an 8.86% improvement in average success rate. The recovery and GRPO stages provide an additional 3.03% gain, further enhancing overall performance. Finally, our skill-level analyses reveal key limitations in the environmental understanding of closed- and open-source VLMs and identify the capabilities necessary for effective agent-environment interaction.
[CV-96] KD-Judge: A Knowledge-Driven Automated Judge Framework for Functional Fitness Movements on Edge Devices
【速读】：该论文旨在解决功能性训练动作（functional fitness movements）中重复次数（rep）标准难以一致执行的问题，现有基于AI的判罚方法多依赖于学习型评分或参考对比，缺乏显式的规则驱动机制，导致判罚过程不透明且无法实现确定性的逐次判定。其解决方案的关键在于提出KD-Judge框架，通过大语言模型（LLM）驱动的检索增强生成与思维链（chain-of-thought）规则结构化流程，将非结构化的规则手册转化为可执行的机器可读规则；进而结合基于姿态引导的运动学推理机制，构建确定性规则引擎以精准判断每个重复动作的有效性及时间边界。此外，为提升边缘设备上的运行效率，引入双策略缓存机制，在预录和实时流场景下分别实现最高达15.91倍的加速效果，从而实现了透明、高效、可扩展的规则驱动级重复判定。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19834
作者: Shaibal Saha,Fan Li,Yunge Li,Arun Iyengar,Lucas Alves,Lanyu Xu
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Functional fitness movements are widely used in training, competition, and health-oriented exercise programs, yet consistently enforcing repetition (rep) standards remains challenging due to subjective human judgment, time constraints, and evolving rules. Existing AI-based approaches mainly rely on learned scoring or reference-based comparisons and lack explicit rule-based, limiting transparency and deterministic rep-level validation. To address these limitations, we propose KD-Judge, a novel knowledge-driven automated judging framework for functional fitness movements. It converts unstructured rulebook standards into executable, machine-readable representations using an LLM-based retrieval-augmented generation and chain-of-thought rule-structuring pipeline. The structured rules are then incorporated by a deterministic rule-based judging system with pose-guided kinematic reasoning to assess rep validity and temporal boundaries. To improve efficiency on edge devices, including a high-performance desktop and the resource-constrained Jetson AGX Xavier, we introduce a dual strategy caching mechanism that can be selectively applied to reduce redundant and unnecessary computation. Experiments demonstrate reliable rule-structuring performance and accurate rep-level assessment, with judgment evaluation conducted on the CFRep dataset, achieving faster-than-real-time execution (real-time factor (RTF) 1). When the proposed caching strategy is enabled, the system achieves up to 3.36x and 15.91x speedups on resource-constrained edge device compared to the non-caching baseline for pre-recorded and live-streaming scenarios, respectively. These results show that KD-Judge enables transparent, efficient, and scalable rule-grounded rep-level analysis that can complement human judging in practice.
[CV-97] actileEval: A Step Towards Automated Fine-Grained Evaluation and Editing of Tactile Graphics
【速读】：该论文旨在解决触觉图形（Tactile Graphics）在面向盲人及视力障碍（BVI）学习者使用前，因缺乏细粒度质量评估而难以进行精准修复的问题。现有数据集仅提供粗粒度的整体质量评分，无法为改进提供可操作的反馈信号。其解决方案的关键在于构建一个三阶段自动化评估与编辑流程：首先基于专家自由文本评论建立五类质量分类体系（视角度、部件完整性、背景杂乱度、纹理分离度和线条质量），并据此收集14,095条结构化标注数据；其次训练一个ViT-L/14特征探测器，在30个任务上达到85.70%的测试准确率，验证了该分类体系能捕捉有意义的感知结构；最后利用该模型输出的分类得分，通过家族特定提示模板引导GPT-Image-1实现针对性图像编辑，从而形成闭环的自动化修复机制。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19829
作者: Adnan Khan,Abbas Akkasi,Majid Komeili
机构: Carleton University (卡尔顿大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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Abstract:Tactile graphics require careful expert validation before reaching blind and visually impaired (BVI) learners, yet existing datasets provide only coarse holistic quality ratings that offer no actionable repair signal. We present TactileEval, a three-stage pipeline that takes a first step toward automating this process. Drawing on expert free-text comments from the TactileNet dataset, we establish a five-category quality taxonomy; encompassing view angle, part completeness, background clutter, texture separation, and line quality aligned with BANA standards. We subsequently gathered 14,095 structured annotations via Amazon Mechanical Turk, spanning 66 object classes organized into six distinct families. A reproducible ViT-L/14 feature probe trained on this data achieves 85.70% overall test accuracy across 30 different tasks, with consistent difficulty ordering suggesting the taxonomy suggesting the taxonomy captures meaningful perceptual structure. Building on these evaluations, we present a ViT-guided automated editing pipeline that routes classifier scores through family-specific prompt templates to produce targeted corrections via gpt-image-1 image editing. Code, data, and models are available at this https URL
[CV-98] Rabies diagnosis in low-data settings: A comparative study on the impact of data augmentation and transfer learning
【速读】：该论文旨在解决非洲和亚洲地区狂犬病（Rabies）诊断依赖荧光显微镜且需熟练实验室人员的问题，这在样本量低的地区尤为突出。解决方案的关键在于开发了一个基于深度学习的自动化诊断系统，利用迁移学习结合四种卷积神经网络架构（EfficientNetB0、EfficientNetB2、VGG16 和 Vision Transformer）对荧光图像进行分析，并通过三种数据增强策略优化模型泛化能力。其中，TrivialAugmentWide 被证明是最有效的增强方法，而 EfficientNetB0 在几何与颜色增强下表现最优，实现了对 155 张显微图像（含阳性 123 张、阴性 32 张）的高精度分类，验证了深度学习在狂犬病自动诊断中的可行性与实用性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19823
作者: Khalil Akremi,Mariem Handous,Zied Bouslama,Farah Bassalah,Maryem Jebali,Mariem Hanachi,Ines Abdeljaoued-Tej
机构: Pasteur Institute of Tunis (巴黎大学突尼斯研究所); University of Sfax (索菲亚大学)
类目: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: This work has been accepted for publication in ICMI IEEE Conference (04/2026)
Abstract:Rabies remains a major public health concern across many African and Asian countries, where accurate diagnosis is critical for effective epidemiological surveillance. The gold standard diagnostic methods rely heavily on fluorescence microscopy, necessitating skilled laboratory personnel for the accurate interpretation of results. Such expertise is often scarce, particularly in regions with low annual sample volumes. This paper presents an automated, AI-driven diagnostic system designed to address these challenges. We developed a robust pipeline utilizing fluorescent image analysis through transfer learning with four deep learning architectures: EfficientNetB0, EfficientNetB2, VGG16, and Vision Transformer (ViTB16). Three distinct data augmentation strategies were evaluated to enhance model generalization on a dataset of 155 microscopic images (123 positive and 32 negative). Our results demonstrate that TrivialAugmentWide was the most effective augmentation technique, as it preserved critical fluorescent patterns while improving model robustness. The EfficientNetB0 model, utilizing Geometric Color augmentation and selected through stratified 3fold cross-validation, achieved optimal classification performance on cropped images. Despite constraints posed by class imbalance and a limited dataset size, this work confirms the viability of deep learning for automating rabies diagnosis. The proposed method enables fast and reliable detection with significant potential for further optimization. An online tool was deployed to facilitate practical access, establishing a framework for future medical imaging applications. This research underscores the potential of optimized deep learning models to transform rabies diagnostics and improve public health outcomes.
[CV-99] Diagnosing Urban Street Vitality via a Visual-Semantic and Spatiotemporal Framework for Street-Level Economics
【速读】：该论文旨在解决城市微观尺度下街道经济活力评估的精度不足问题，现有方法在语义层面浅层、忽视品牌层级异质性与空间结构衰退效应。其解决方案的关键在于构建一个融合视觉-语义与实地数据的时空框架，通过实例分割提取招牌、玻璃界面和店铺封闭结构等街景要素，并利用双阶段视觉语言模型（VLM）与大语言模型（LLM）管道将标识标准化为全球品牌层级体系，从而量化空间平滑的品牌溢价指数；同时引入基于位置服务（LBS）数据的时间滞后设计以捕捉实际需求动态，并结合类别加权高斯溢出模型，形成涵盖商业活动、空间利用和物理环境三个维度的三维诊断系统，实现对街道活力成因的精准识别与空间治理支持。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19798
作者: Xinxin Zhuo,Mengyuan Niu,Ruizhe Wang,Junyan Yang,Qiao Wang
机构: Southeast University (东南大学)
类目: Computers and Society (cs.CY); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Econometrics (econ.EM)
备注: Submitted to ACM Transactions on Spatial Computing. This paper is currently under review
Abstract:Micro-scale street-level economic assessment is fundamental for precision spatial resource allocation. While Street View Imagery (SVI) advances urban sensing, existing approaches remain semantically superficial and overlook brand hierarchy heterogeneity and structural recession. To address this, we propose a visual-semantic and field-based spatiotemporal framework, operationalized via the Street Economic Vitality Index (SEVI). Our approach integrates physical and semantic streetscape parsing through instance segmentation of signboards, glass interfaces, and storefront closures. A dual-stage VLM-LLM pipeline standardizes signage into global hierarchies to quantify a spatially smoothed brand premium index. To overcome static SVI limitations, we introduce a temporal lag design using Location-Based Services (LBS) data to capture realized demand. Combined with a category-weighted Gaussian spillover model, we construct a three-dimensional diagnostic system covering Commercial Activity, Spatial Utilization, and Physical Environment. Experiments based on time-lagged geographically weighted regression across eight tidal periods in Nanjing reveal quasi-causal spatiotemporal heterogeneity. Street vibrancy arises from interactions between hierarchical brand clustering and mall-induced externalities. High-quality interfaces show peak attraction during midday and evening, while structural recession produces a lagged nighttime repulsion effect. The framework offers evidence-based support for precision spatial governance. Comments: Submitted to ACM Transactions on Spatial Computing. This paper is currently under review Subjects: Computers and Society (cs.CY); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Econometrics (econ.EM) Cite as: arXiv:2604.19798 [cs.CY] (or arXiv:2604.19798v1 [cs.CY] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.19798 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite
[CV-100] Maximum Likelihood Reconstruction for Multi-Look Digital Holography with Markov-Modeled Speckle Correlation
【速读】：该论文旨在解决相干成像系统（如数字全息）中多视角（multi-look）获取时因硬件限制导致的视角间散斑（speckle）相关性问题，该相关性会显著降低传统独立假设下去散斑方法的性能。解决方案的关键在于：首先，通过一阶马尔可夫过程建模视角间的散斑依赖关系，并在此基础上推导出相应的似然函数，从而将问题转化为带约束的最大似然估计；其次，设计了一种结合梯度下降与深度图像先验（deep image priors）的投影梯度下降框架，利用蒙特卡洛近似和矩阵自由算子实现高效可扩展计算，有效提升了在强视角相关条件下的重建鲁棒性，逼近理想独立视角场景的性能表现。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20154
作者: Xi Chen,Arian Maleki,Shirin Jalali
机构: 未知
类目: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Multi-look acquisition is a widely used strategy for reducing speckle noise in coherent imaging systems such as digital holography. By acquiring multiple measurements, speckle can be suppressed through averaging or joint reconstruction, typically under the assumption that speckle realizations across looks are statistically independent. In practice, however, hardware constraints limit measurement diversity, leading to inter-look correlation that degrades the performance of conventional methods. In this work, we study the reconstruction of speckle-free reflectivity from complex-valued multi-look measurements in the presence of correlated speckle. We model the inter-look dependence using a first-order Markov process and derive the corresponding likelihood under a first-order Markov approximation, resulting in a constrained maximum likelihood estimation problem. To solve this problem, we develop an efficient projected gradient descent framework that combines gradient-based updates with implicit regularization via deep image priors, and leverages Monte Carlo approximation and matrix-free operators for scalable computation. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed approach remains robust under strong inter-look correlation, achieving performance close to the ideal independent-look scenario and consistently outperforming methods that ignore such dependencies. These results highlight the importance of explicitly modeling inter-look correlation and provide a practical framework for multi-look holographic reconstruction under realistic acquisition conditions. Our code is available at: this https URL.
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[AI-0] Diagnosing CFG Interpretation in LLM s
【速读】：该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在代理系统（agentic systems）中作为上下文感知解析器时，如何准确理解和生成符合动态定义的、机器可读接口（machine-interpretable interfaces）的问题。核心挑战在于LLMs是否能在不依赖特定语法结构的前提下，生成语法正确、行为有效且语义忠实的输出。解决方案的关键在于提出RoboGrid框架，通过控制递归深度、表达式复杂度和表面风格等变量，对LLMs进行结构化压力测试，从而分离语法（syntax）、行为（behavior）与语义（semantics）三个维度的表现。实验表明，LLMs在保持表层语法方面具有一定能力，但在高结构密度场景下（如深层递归或高分支），语义一致性迅速崩溃，且其推理依赖于关键词的语义“自举”而非纯粹符号归纳，揭示了当前模型在层次状态追踪上的根本性不足。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20811
作者: Hanqi Li,Lu Chen,Kai Yu
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:As LLMs are increasingly integrated into agentic systems, they must adhere to dynamically defined, machine-interpretable interfaces. We evaluate LLMs as in-context interpreters: given a novel context-free grammar, can LLMs generate syntactically valid, behaviorally functional, and semantically faithful outputs? We introduce RoboGrid, a framework that disentangles syntax, behavior, and semantics through controlled stress-tests of recursion depth, expression complexity, and surface styles. Our experiments reveal a consistent hierarchical degradation: LLMs often maintain surface syntax but fail to preserve structural semantics. Despite the partial mitigation provided by CoT reasoning, performance collapses under structural density, specifically deep recursion and high branching, with semantic alignment vanishing at extreme depths. Furthermore, “Alien” lexicons reveal that LLMs rely on semantic bootstrapping from keywords rather than pure symbolic induction. These findings pinpoint critical gaps in hierarchical state-tracking required for reliable, grammar-agnostic agents.
[AI-1] Automatic Ontology Construction Using LLM s as an External Layer of Memory Verification and Planning for Hybrid Intelligent Systems
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在长期记忆缺失、结构化理解能力弱以及多步推理能力不足等方面的局限性。其核心解决方案是提出一种混合架构，将LLM与外部本体记忆层（ontological memory layer）相结合，通过RDF/OWL形式构建并维护一个结构化的知识图谱，实现持久化、可验证且语义明确的推理机制。关键创新在于设计了一套自动化流水线，从异构数据源（如文档、API和对话日志）中自动提取实体、关系并生成三元组，经SHACL和OWL约束验证后持续更新图谱；在推理阶段，LLM结合向量检索与图谱推理及外部工具调用共同形成上下文，从而显著提升复杂任务（如汉诺塔规划）中的多步推理性能，并支持生成-验证-修正的闭环流程，增强系统的可解释性和决策可靠性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20795
作者: Pavel Salovskii(a href=“http://Partenit.io” rel=“external noopener nofollow” class="link-external link-http"this http URL/a, San Francisco, CA, USA),Iuliia Gorshkova(a href=“http://Partenit.io” rel=“external noopener nofollow” class="link-external link-http"this http URL/a, San Francisco, CA, USA)
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Artificial Intelligence; Knowledge Representation and Reasoning; Information Retrieval; Machine Learning
Abstract:This paper presents a hybrid architecture for intelligent systems in which large language models (LLMs) are extended with an external ontological memory layer. Instead of relying solely on parametric knowledge and vector-based retrieval (RAG), the proposed approach constructs and maintains a structured knowledge graph using RDF/OWL representations, enabling persistent, verifiable, and semantically grounded reasoning. The core contribution is an automated pipeline for ontology construction from heterogeneous data sources, including documents, APIs, and dialogue logs. The system performs entity recognition, relation extraction, normalization, and triple generation, followed by validation using SHACL and OWL constraints, and continuous graph updates. During inference, LLMs operate over a combined context that integrates vector-based retrieval with graph-based reasoning and external tool interaction. Experimental observations on planning tasks, including the Tower of Hanoi benchmark, indicate that ontology augmentation improves performance in multi-step reasoning scenarios compared to baseline LLM systems. In addition, the ontology layer enables formal validation of generated outputs, transforming the system into a generation-verification-correction pipeline. The proposed architecture addresses key limitations of current LLM-based systems, including lack of long-term memory, weak structural understanding, and limited reasoning capabilities. It provides a foundation for building agent-based systems, robotics applications, and enterprise AI solutions that require persistent knowledge, explainability, and reliable decision-making. Comments: Artificial Intelligence; Knowledge Representation and Reasoning; Information Retrieval; Machine Learning Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2604.20795 [cs.AI] (or arXiv:2604.20795v1 [cs.AI] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.20795 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19696042 Focus to learn more DOI(s) linking to related resources Submission history From: Paul Salovsky Mr [view email] [v1] Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:19:43 UTC (547 KB)
[AI-2] SWE-chat: Coding Agent Interactions From Real Users in the Wild
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前缺乏对AI编码代理（AI coding agents）在真实开发场景中使用方式及其产出有效性实证研究的问题。现有工作多依赖于受控基准测试，无法反映实际开发者与代理交互的复杂性与效率瓶颈。解决方案的关键在于构建并发布SWE-chat数据集——这是首个大规模、来自开源开发者野外实践的编码代理会话数据集，包含6,000个会话、超过63,000条用户提示和355,000次代理工具调用，并具备自动持续采集能力。通过分析该数据集，作者首次揭示了编码模式的双峰分布特征（41%为“vibe coding”，23%为纯人类编写），并量化了代理输出的低采纳率（仅44%代码被提交）及更高的安全漏洞风险，同时识别出用户对代理输出的高频率干预行为（44%的交互回合中存在修正或中断）。这一实证基础推动研究从静态基准走向基于真实工作流的证据驱动理解。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20779
作者: Joachim Baumann,Vishakh Padmakumar,Xiang Li,John Yang,Diyi Yang,Sanmi Koyejo
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computers and Society (cs.CY); Software Engineering (cs.SE)
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Abstract:AI coding agents are being adopted at scale, yet we lack empirical evidence on how people actually use them and how much of their output is useful in practice. We present SWE-chat, the first large-scale dataset of real coding agent sessions collected from open-source developers in the wild. The dataset currently contains 6,000 sessions, comprising more than 63,000 user prompts and 355,000 agent tool calls. SWE-chat is a living dataset; our collection pipeline automatically and continually discovers and processes sessions from public repositories. Leveraging SWE-chat, we provide an initial empirical characterization of real-world coding agent usage and failure modes. We find that coding patterns are bimodal: in 41% of sessions, agents author virtually all committed code (“vibe coding”), while in 23%, humans write all code themselves. Despite rapidly improving capabilities, coding agents remain inefficient in natural settings. Just 44% of all agent-produced code survives into user commits, and agent-written code introduces more security vulnerabilities than code authored by humans. Furthermore, users push back against agent outputs – through corrections, failure reports, and interruptions – in 44% of all turns. By capturing complete interaction traces with human vs. agent code authorship attribution, SWE-chat provides an empirical foundation for moving beyond curated benchmarks towards an evidence-based understanding of how AI agents perform in real developer workflows.
[AI-3] DAIRE: A lightweight AI model for real-time detection of Controller Area Network attacks in the Internet of Vehicles
【速读】：该论文旨在解决车联网（Internet of Vehicles, IoV）中基于控制器局域网（Controller Area Network, CAN）通信的严重安全风险问题，特别是针对拒绝服务（Denial-of-Service）、模糊攻击（Fuzzy）和伪造攻击（Spoofing）等常见CAN网络攻击缺乏高效实时检测手段的挑战。解决方案的关键在于提出DAIRE（Detecting Attacks in IoV in REal-time），一个轻量级人工神经网络（Artificial Neural Network, ANN）框架，其核心创新包括：采用层内神经元数量按比例递增的设计（第i层含Ni = i × c个神经元，c为攻击类别总数）以优化模型结构，结合稀疏分类交叉熵损失函数与均方根传播算法实现高效损失最小化，并通过经验性调参确保在资源受限场景下的实时推理能力。实验表明，DAIRE在CICIoV2024和Car-Hacking数据集上实现了99.88%的平均检测率、0.02%的误报率和99.96%的整体准确率，且单样本分类时间仅0.03毫秒，显著优于现有方法，具备在车载系统中部署的实用性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20771
作者: Shahid Alam,Amina Jameel,Zahida Parveen,Ehab Alnfrawy,Adeela Ashraf,Raza Uddin,Jamal Aqib
机构: 未知
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is advancing modern transportation by improving safety, efficiency, and intelligence. However, the reliance on the Controller Area Network (CAN) introduces critical security risks, as CAN-based communication is highly vulnerable to cyberattacks. Addressing this challenge, we propose DAIRE (Detecting Attacks in IoV in REal-time), a lightweight machine learning framework designed for real-time detection and classification of CAN attacks. DAIRE is built on a lightweight artificial neural network (ANN) where each layer contains Ni = i x c neurons, with Ni representing the number of neurons in the ith layer and c corresponding to the total number of attack classes. Other hyperparameters are determined empirically to ensure real-time operation. To support the detection and classification of various IoV attacks, such as Denial-of-Service, Fuzzy, and Spoofing, DAIRE employs the sparse categorical cross-entropy loss function and root mean square propagation for loss minimization. In contrast to more resource-intensive architectures, DAIRE leverages a lightweight ANN to reduce computational demands while still delivering strong performance. Experimental results on the CICIoV2024 and Car-Hacking datasets demonstrate DAIRE’s effectiveness, achieving an average detection rate of 99.88%, a false positive rate of 0.02%, and an overall accuracy of 99.96%. Furthermore, DAIRE significantly outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in inference speed, with a classification time of just 0.03 ms per sample. These results highlight DAIRE’s effectiveness in detecting IoV cyberattacks and its practical suitability for real-time deployment in vehicular systems, underscoring its vital role in strengthening automotive cybersecurity.
[AI-4] V-tableR1: Process-Supervised Multimodal Table Reasoning with Critic-Guided Policy Optimization
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前多模态大语言模型（Multimodal Large Language Models, MLLMs）在视觉推理任务中依赖表面模式匹配而非严谨多步逻辑推导的问题，即模型将视觉推理视为“黑箱”，缺乏可验证的中间推理过程。其核心解决方案是提出V-tableR1框架，关键在于利用表格的确定性网格结构作为理想的视觉测试平台，通过专门设计的评论者视觉语言模型（Critic VLM）对策略VLM生成的显式视觉思维链（Visual Chain-of-Thought）提供细粒度的步骤级反馈，并结合Process-Guided Direct Alignment Policy Optimization（PGPO）算法实现过程奖励引导、解耦策略约束与长度感知动态采样，从而显著抑制视觉幻觉和捷径猜测，推动多模态推理从黑箱模式匹配向可验证逻辑推导转变。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20755
作者: Yubo Jiang,Yitong An,Xin Yang,Abudukelimu Wuerkaixi,Xuxin Cheng,Fengying Xie,Zhiguo Jiang,Cao Liu,Ke Zeng,Haopeng Zhang
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:We introduce V-tableR1, a process-supervised reinforcement learning framework that elicits rigorous, verifiable reasoning from multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Current MLLMs trained solely on final outcomes often treat visual reasoning as a black box, relying on superficial pattern matching rather than performing rigorous multi-step inference. While Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards could enforce transparent reasoning trajectories, extending it to visual domains remains severely hindered by the ambiguity of grounding abstract logic into continuous pixel space. We solve this by leveraging the deterministic grid structure of tables as an ideal visual testbed. V-tableR1 employs a specialized critic VLM to provide dense, step-level feedback on the explicit visual chain-of-thought generated by a policy VLM. To optimize this system, we propose Process-Guided Direct Alignment Policy Optimization (PGPO), a novel RL algorithm integrating process rewards, decoupled policy constraints, and length-aware dynamic sampling. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that V-tableR1 explicitly penalizes visual hallucinations and shortcut guessing. By fundamentally shifting multimodal inference from black-box pattern matching to verifiable logical derivation, V-tableR1 4B establishes state-of-the-art accuracy among open-source models on complex tabular benchmarks, outperforming models up to 18x its size and improving over its SFT baseline
[AI-5] Where and What: Reasoning Dynamic and Implicit Preferences in Situated Conversational Recommendation ACL2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决情境化对话推荐（Situated Conversational Recommendation, SCR）中用户偏好动态变化与场景依赖性带来的推荐时机与相关性难题。传统推荐系统难以捕捉由环境视觉场景和自然语言对话共同驱动的隐式、演化中的用户兴趣，导致推荐不及时或不贴切。解决方案的关键在于提出一种名为“情境偏好推理”（Situated Preference Reasoning, SiPeR）的新框架，其核心包含两个机制：一是场景转移估计（Scene transition estimation），用于判断当前场景是否满足用户需求，并引导用户向更合适的场景迁移；二是贝叶斯逆向推理（Bayesian inverse inference），利用多模态大语言模型（Multimodal Large Language Models, MLLMs）的概率输出来预测用户对场景内候选物品的偏好，从而实现精准且情境敏感的推荐决策。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20749
作者: Dongding Lin,Jian Wang,Yongqi Li,Wenjie Li
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Situated conversational recommendation (SCR), which utilizes visual scenes grounded in specific environments and natural language dialogue to deliver contextually appropriate recommendations, has emerged as a promising research direction due to its close alignment with real-world scenarios. Compared to traditional recommendations, SCR requires a deeper understanding of dynamic and implicit user preferences, as the surrounding scene often influences users’ underlying interests, while both may evolve across conversations. This complexity significantly impacts the timing and relevance of recommendations. To address this, we propose situated preference reasoning (SiPeR), a novel framework that integrates two core mechanisms: (1) Scene transition estimation, which estimates whether the current scene satisfies user needs, and guides the user toward a more suitable scene when necessary; and (2) Bayesian inverse inference, which leverages the likelihood of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to predict user preferences about candidate items within the scene. Extensive experiments on two representative benchmarks demonstrate SiPeR’s superiority in both recommendation accuracy and response generation quality. The code and data are available at this https URL.
[AI-6] AAC: Admissible-by-Architecture Differentiable Landmark Compression for ALT
【速读】：该论文旨在解决传统最短路径启发式算法（如ALT，即A*结合地标与三角不等式）中 landmark 选择策略难以通过端到端训练优化的问题，同时保持启发式函数的可采纳性（admissibility），避免因参数调整、收敛或投影带来的复杂性。其核心解决方案是提出 AAC（Architecturally Admissible Compressor），一种可微分的地标选择模块：它在每次前向传播中生成一个行随机混合（row-stochastic mixture）的三角不等式下界，从而保证无论参数如何设置，启发式函数始终可采纳；部署时，AAC退化为基于学习子集的经典ALT结构，兼容神经编码器并保留原有工具链。关键创新在于首次实现了“压缩同时保持可采纳性”这一经典启发式搜索范式的可微分建模，且在匹配内存约束下性能逼近理论最优（FPS-ALT），在9个道路网络上误差仅0.9–3.9个百分点，在合成图上≤1.3个百分点，且无任何可采纳性违反。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20744
作者: An T. Le,Vien Ngo
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Robotics (cs.RO)
备注: 50 pages, 8 figures, 24 tables, submitted to Transactions on Machine Learning Research
Abstract:We introduce \textbfAAC (Architecturally Admissible Compressor), a differentiable landmark-selection module for ALT (A*, Landmarks, and Triangle inequality) shortest-path heuristics whose outputs are admissible by construction: each forward pass is a row-stochastic mixture of triangle-inequality lower bounds, so the heuristic is admissible for \emphevery parameter setting without requiring convergence, calibration, or projection. At deployment, the module reduces to classical ALT on a learned subset, composing end-to-end with neural encoders while preserving the classical toolchain. The construction is the first differentiable instance of the compress-while-preserving-admissibility tradition in classical heuristic search. Under a matched per-vertex memory protocol, we establish that ALT with farthest-point-sampling landmarks (FPS-ALT) has provably near-optimal coverage on metric graphs, leaving at most a few percentage points of headroom for \emphany selector. AAC operates near this ceiling: the gap is 0.9 – 3.9 percentage points on 9 road networks and \leq1.3 percentage points on synthetic graphs, with zero admissibility violations across 1,500+ queries and all logged runs. At matched memory, AAC is also 1.2 – 1.5\times faster than FPS-ALT at the median query on DIMACS road networks, amortizing its offline cost within 170 – 1,924 queries. A controlled ablation isolates the binding constraint: training-objective drift under default initialization, not architectural capacity; identity-on-first- m initialization closes the expansion-count gap entirely. We release the module, a reusable matched-memory benchmarking protocol with paired two-one-sided-test (TOST) equivalence and pre-registration, and a reference compressed-differential-heuristics baseline. Comments: 50 pages, 8 figures, 24 tables, submitted to Transactions on Machine Learning Research Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Robotics (cs.RO) Cite as: arXiv:2604.20744 [cs.AI] (or arXiv:2604.20744v1 [cs.AI] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.20744 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[AI-7] Interval POMDP Shielding for Imperfect-Perception Agents
【速读】：该论文旨在解决基于学习感知的自主系统在传感器读数被误分类时可能做出不安全决策的问题。其核心挑战在于：虽然系统动态已知，但感知不确定性需从有限标注数据中估计，且需在运行时保障安全性。解决方案的关键是构建感知结果概率的置信区间，并将系统建模为具有离散状态和动作的区间部分可观测马尔可夫决策过程（Interval Partially Observable Markov Decision Process, Interval POMDP）。在此基础上，论文提出一种算法来计算与当前观测一致的保守信念集合，从而设计出一个带有有限时域保证的运行时屏蔽器（shield）——若真实感知不确定性落在学习所得置信区间内，则屏蔽器所允许的每个动作均满足预设的安全下界。实验表明，该方法及其变体在四个案例研究中显著优于现有最优基线。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20728
作者: William Scarbro,Ravi Mangal
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Systems and Control (eess.SY)
备注: 15 pages, 7 figures
Abstract:Autonomous systems that rely on learned perception can make unsafe decisions when sensor readings are misclassified. We study shielding for this setting: given a proposed action, a shield blocks actions that could violate safety. We consider the common case where system dynamics are known but perception uncertainty must be estimated from finite labeled data. From these data we build confidence intervals for the probabilities of perception outcomes and use them to model the system as a finite Interval Partially Observable Markov Decision Process with discrete states and actions. We then propose an algorithm to compute a conservative set of beliefs over the underlying state that is consistent with the observations seen so far. This enables us to construct a runtime shield that comes with a finite-horizon guarantee: with high probability over the training data, if the true perception uncertainty rates lie within the learned intervals, then every action admitted by the shield satisfies a stated lower bound on safety. Experiments on four case studies show that our shielding approach (and variants derived from it) improves the safety of the system over state-of-the-art baselines. Comments: 15 pages, 7 figures Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Systems and Control (eess.SY) Cite as: arXiv:2604.20728 [cs.AI] (or arXiv:2604.20728v1 [cs.AI] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.20728 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[AI-8] Supplement Generation Training for Enhancing Agent ic Task Performance ACL2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决大模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在代理任务（agentic tasks）中训练成本高、迭代周期长以及因新模型持续发布而导致快速过时的问题。其核心解决方案是提出一种名为“补充生成训练”（Supplement Generation Training, SGT）的新策略：通过训练一个小型LLM来生成有助于任务完成的补充文本，将其附加到原始输入后，提升大型LLM的任务执行效果。该方法的关键在于将任务特定优化与基础大模型解耦，使轻量级模型能够动态适应不同任务需求，从而实现更灵活、低成本且可持续的LLM代理部署。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20727
作者: Young Min Cho,Daniele Bonadiman,Divya Bhargavi,Tamer Alkhouli,Salvatore Romeo,Dongwei Jiang,Khushbu Pahwa,Yubin Ge,Etsuko Ishii,Monica Sunkara,Yi Zhang
机构: 未知
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Accepted to the Findings of ACL 2026
Abstract:Training large foundation models for agentic tasks is increasingly impractical due to the high computational costs, long iteration cycles, and rapid obsolescence as new models are continuously released. Instead of post-training massive models for every new task or domain, we propose Supplement Generation Training (SGT), a more efficient and sustainable strategy. SGT trains a smaller LLM to generate useful supplemental text that, when appended to the original input, helps the larger LLM solve the task more effectively. These lightweight models can dynamically adapt supplements to task requirements, improving performance without modifying the underlying large models. This approach decouples task-specific optimization from large foundation models and enables more flexible, cost-effective deployment of LLM-powered agents in real-world applications.
[AI-9] okenised Flow Matching for Hierarchical Simulation Based Inference
【速读】：该论文旨在解决仿真基础推断（Simulation Based Inference, SBI）中因模拟器评估成本过高而导致的实践瓶颈问题，特别是在具有共享全局参数与可交换站点级参数及观测值的层级结构场景下。其解决方案的关键在于引入似然因子分解（likelihood factorisation, LF），通过学习每个站点的神经代理模型（neural surrogate）来实现单站点模拟训练，并利用合成多站点观测数据以摊销完整层级后验分布的推理过程；进一步提出基于令牌化流匹配的后验估计方法（Tokenised Flow Matching for Posterior Estimation, TFMPE），支持函数型观测值并通过似然因子分解提升计算效率，从而在保持后验校准性的同时显著降低计算开销。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20723
作者: Giovanni Charles,Cosmo Santoni,Seth Flaxman,Elizaveta Semenova
机构: 未知
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 31 pages, 11 figures
Abstract:The cost of simulator evaluations is a key practical bottleneck for Simulation Based Inference (SBI). In hierarchical settings with shared global parameters and exchangeable site-level parameters and observations, this structure can be exploited to improve simulation efficiency. Existing hierarchical SBI approaches factorise the posterior yet still simulate across multiple sites per training sample; We instead explore likelihood factorisation (LF) to train from single-site simulations. In LF sampling we learn a per-site neural surrogate of the simulator and then assemble synthetic multi-site observations to amortise inference for the full hierarchical posterior. Building on this, we propose Tokenised Flow Matching for Posterior Estimation (TFMPE), a tokenised flow matching approach that supports function-valued observations through likelihood factorisation. To enable systematic evaluation, we introduce a benchmark for hierarchical SBI. We validate TFMPE on this benchmark and on realistic infectious disease and computational fluid dynamics models, finding well-calibrated posteriors while reducing computational cost.
[AI-10] ONOTE: Benchmarking Omnimodal Notation Processing for Expert-level Music Intelligence
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前多模态音乐理解研究中存在的碎片化问题，特别是现有方法在符号记谱（notation）处理上仅关注孤立的转录任务，难以实现听觉、视觉与符号域之间的深层对齐，且受西方五线谱偏见和“大语言模型作为评判者”（LLM-as-a-judge）指标不可靠性的影响，导致模型结构推理能力被系统性幻觉掩盖。解决方案的关键在于提出ONOTE基准测试框架，其核心创新是采用基于规范音高投影（canonical pitch projection）的确定性处理流程，从而消除不同记谱体系下主观评分偏差，建立更严格的评估标准，为诊断复杂规则约束领域中的推理脆弱性提供必要工具。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20719
作者: Menghe Ma,Siqing Wei,Yuecheng Xing,Yaheng Wang,Fanhong Meng,Peijun Han,Luu Anh Tuan,Haoran Luo
机构: 未知
类目: ound (cs.SD); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multimedia (cs.MM); Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
备注: 12 pages, 8 figures
Abstract:Omnimodal Notation Processing (ONP) represents a unique frontier for omnimodal AI due to the rigorous, multi-dimensional alignment required across auditory, visual, and symbolic domains. Current research remains fragmented, focusing on isolated transcription tasks that fail to bridge the gap between superficial pattern recognition and the underlying musical logic. This landscape is further complicated by severe notation biases toward Western staff and the inherent unreliability of “LLM-as-a-judge” metrics, which often mask structural reasoning failures with systemic hallucinations. To establish a more rigorous standard, we introduce ONOTE, a multi-format benchmark that utilizes a deterministic pipeline–grounded in canonical pitch projection–to eliminate subjective scoring biases across diverse notation systems. Our evaluation of leading omnimodal models exposes a fundamental disconnect between perceptual accuracy and music-theoretic comprehension, providing a necessary framework for diagnosing reasoning vulnerabilities in complex, rule-constrained domains.
[AI-11] Learning to Evolve: A Self-Improving Framework for Multi-Agent Systems via Textual Parameter Graph Optimization
【速读】：该论文旨在解决多智能体系统（Multi-Agent Systems, MAS）设计与优化过程中存在的两大核心问题：一是现有自动优化方法主要依赖扁平化的提示调优（flat prompt tuning），缺乏对MAS中复杂交互结构的感知能力，难以有效调试；二是当前优化器为静态策略，无法从历史经验中学习以改进自身的优化能力。解决方案的关键在于提出Textual Parameter Graph Optimization (TPGO) 框架，其核心创新包括：将MAS建模为可优化的文本参数图（Textual Parameter Graph, TPG），其中智能体、工具和工作流均为模块化节点；引入“文本梯度”（textual gradients），即基于执行轨迹生成的结构化自然语言反馈，用于精确定位失败并建议细粒度修改；以及提出Group Relative Agent Optimization (GRAO) 元学习策略，通过分析历史优化成败案例，使系统逐步掌握更有效的优化更新机制，从而实现自我进化。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20714
作者: Shan He,Runze Wang,Zhuoyun Du,Huiyu Bai,Zouying Cao,Yu Cheng,Bo Zheng
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注:
Abstract:Designing and optimizing multi-agent systems (MAS) is a complex, labor-intensive process of “Agent Engineering.” Existing automatic optimization methods, primarily focused on flat prompt tuning, lack the structural awareness to debug the intricate web of interactions in MAS. More critically, these optimizers are static; they do not learn from experience to improve their own optimization strategies. To address these gaps, we introduce Textual Parameter Graph Optimization (TPGO), a framework that enables a multi-agent system to learn to evolve. TPGO first models the MAS as a Textual Parameter Graph (TPG), where agents, tools, and workflows are modular, optimizable nodes. To guide evolution, we derive “textual gradients,” structured natural language feedback from execution traces, to pinpoint failures and suggest granular modifications. The core of our framework is Group Relative Agent Optimization (GRAO), a novel meta-learning strategy that learns from historical optimization experiences. By analyzing past successes and failures, GRAO becomes progressively better at proposing effective updates, allowing the system to learn how to optimize itself. Extensive experiments on complex benchmarks like GAIA and MCP-Universe show that TPGO significantly enhances the performance of state-of-the-art agent frameworks, achieving higher success rates through automated, self-improving optimization.
[AI-12] QuanForge: A Mutation Testing Framework for Quantum Neural Networks
【速读】：该论文旨在解决量子神经网络（Quantum Neural Networks, QNNs）在测试过程中因量子动力学复杂性和可解释性不足而导致的验证难题。现有方法难以有效评估QNNs的可靠性，尤其在面对量子测量和突变算子固有随机性时更为困难。解决方案的关键在于提出QuanForge——一个专为QNNs设计的突变测试框架，其核心创新包括：引入统计突变杀灭（statistical mutation killing）以提升判定可靠性；设计九种训练后突变算子（覆盖门级与参数级），模拟量子电路中潜在错误；并形式化一种突变生成算法，系统性地生成高有效性突变体，从而实现对QNNs结构脆弱区域的定位与测试套件差异区分，同时支持在噪声环境下的性能评估，验证了该方法在实际量子设备中的可行性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20706
作者: Minqi Shao,Shangzhou Xia,Jianjun Zhao
机构: 未知
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 23 pages, 4 figures, accepted at FSE 2026
Abstract:With the growing synergy between deep learning and quantum computing, Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) have emerged as a promising paradigm by leveraging quantum parallelism and entanglement. However, testing QNNs remains underexplored due to their complex quantum dynamics and limited interpretability. Developing a mutation testing technique for QNNs is promising while requires addressing stochastic factors, including the inherent randomness of mutation operators and quantum measurements. To tackle these challenges, we propose QuanForge, a mutation testing framework specifically designed for QNNs. We first introduce statistical mutation killing to provide a more reliable criterion. QuanForge incorporates nine post-training mutation operators at both gate and parameter levels, capable of simulating various potential errors in quantum circuits. Finally, a mutant generation algorithm is formalized that systematically produces effective mutants, thereby enabling a robust and reliable mutation analysis. Through extensive experiments on benchmark datasets and QNN architectures, we show that QuanForge can effectively distinguish different test suites and localize vulnerable circuit regions, providing insights for data enhancement and structural assessment of QNNs. We also analyze the generation capabilities of different operators and evaluate performance under simulated noisy conditions to assess the practical feasibility of QuanForge for future quantum devices.
[AI-13] Storm Surge Modeling Bias Correction Graph Neural Networks Graph Convolution Networks
【速读】：该论文旨在解决热带气旋引发的风暴潮（storm surge）预报中存在的不确定性问题，尤其是在近岸风暴活动增强和快速 intensification（快速增强）趋势下，传统高保真数值模型（如ADCIRC）因输入数据误差、参数化方案不完善等因素导致预测偏差较大。解决方案的关键在于提出StormNet——一种融合图卷积（GCN）、图注意力机制（GAT）与长短期记忆网络（LSTM）的时空图神经网络架构，能够有效捕捉水位监测站点间的复杂空间相关性和时间动态演化特征，从而对数值模型输出进行偏差校正。实验表明，StormNet在飓风Idalia（2023）案例中显著降低48小时和72小时预报的均方根误差（RMSE）超过70%和50%，且训练效率高，具备实时业务化应用潜力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20688
作者: Noujoud Nader,Stefanos Giaremis,Clint Dawson,Carola Kaiser,Karame Mohammadiporshokooh,Hartmut Kaiser
机构: 未知
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 51 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables
Abstract:Storm surge forecasting remains a critical challenge in mitigating the impacts of tropical cyclones on coastal regions, particularly given recent trends of rapid intensification and increasing nearshore storm activity. Traditional high fidelity numerical models such as ADCIRC, while robust, are often hindered by inevitable uncertainties arising from various sources. To address these challenges, this study introduces StormNet, a spatio-temporal graph neural network (GNN) designed for bias correction of storm surge forecasts. StormNet integrates graph convolutional (GCN) and graph attention (GAT) mechanisms with long short-term memory (LSTM) components to capture complex spatial and temporal dependencies among water-level gauge stations. The model was trained using historical hurricane data from the U.S. Gulf Coast and evaluated on Hurricane Idalia (2023). Results demonstrate that StormNet can effectively reduce the root mean square error (RMSE) in water-level predictions by more than 70% for 48-hour forecasts and above 50% for 72-hour forecasts, as well as outperform a sequential LSTM baseline, particularly for longer prediction horizons. The model also exhibits low training time, enhancing its applicability in real-time operational forecasting systems. Overall, StormNet provides a computationally efficient and physically meaningful framework for improving storm surge prediction accuracy and reliability during extreme weather events.
[AI-14] A Field Guide to Decision Making
【速读】：该论文旨在解决高后果决策场景中，决策者在不确定性、资源有限、时间紧迫及问责风险等多重约束下如何维持最佳表现的问题。其解决方案的关键在于利用机器智能（Machine Intelligence）增强人类认知与感知能力，通过代理式治理（agentic stewardship）对情境元数据进行管理，从而提升态势感知、决策框架的灵活性与一致性，并促进风险容忍度与信心的建立，以应对复杂性、不确定性和紧迫性交织的系统性挑战。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20669
作者: Richard B. Arthur
机构: 未知
类目: Computers and Society (cs.CY); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 6 pages, to be published in IEEE Computer Society Special Edition on Urgent Science and Computing (2026)
Abstract:High-consequence decision making demands peak performance from individuals in positions of responsibility. Such executive authority bears the obligation to act despite uncertainty, limited resources, time constraints, and accountability risks. Tools and strategies to motivate confidence and foster risk tolerance must confront informational noise and can provide qualified accountability. Machine intelligence augments human cognition and perception to improve situational awareness, decision framing, flexibility, and coherence through agentic stewardship of contextual metadata. We examine systemic and behavioral factors crucial to address in scenarios encumbered by complexity, uncertainty, and urgency.
[AI-15] GRPO-VPS: Enhancing Group Relative Policy Optimization with Verifiable Process Supervision for Effective Reasoning
【速读】：该论文旨在解决Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO)在训练大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）时因缺乏对中间推理步骤的精准奖励分配而导致的有效策略识别困难和过度思考（overthinking）问题。其解决方案的关键在于引入一种无需模型的、可验证的过程监督机制，通过探测模型在每个推理片段边界对其正确答案信念的变化，即跟踪条件概率的变化来计算可解释的分段级进展度量，从而优化GRPO的轨迹级反馈，实现更精准且样本高效的策略更新。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20659
作者: Jingyi Wang,Lei Zhu,Tengjin Weng,Song-Li Wu,Haochen Tan,Jierun Chen,Chaofan Tao,Haoli Bai,Lu Hou,Lifeng Shang,Xiao-Ping Zhang
机构: 未知
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注:
Abstract:Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has advanced the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) by leveraging direct outcome verification instead of learned reward models. Building on this paradigm, Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) eliminates the need for critic models but suffers from indiscriminate credit assignment for intermediate steps, which limits its ability to identify effective reasoning strategies and incurs overthinking. In this work, we introduce a model-free and verifiable process supervision via probing the model’s belief in the correct answer throughout its reasoning trajectory. By segmenting the generation into discrete steps and tracking the conditional probability of the correct answer appended at each segment boundary, we efficiently compute interpretable segment-wise progress measurements to refine GRPO’s trajectory-level feedback. This approach enables more targeted and sample-efficient policy updates, while avoiding the need for intermediate supervision derived from costly Monte Carlo rollouts or auxiliary models. Experiments on mathematical and general-domain benchmarks show consistent gains over GRPO across diverse models: up to 2.6-point accuracy improvements and 13.7% reasoning-length reductions on math tasks, and up to 2.4 points and 4% on general-domain tasks, demonstrating strong generalization.
[AI-16] CHORUS: An Agent ic Framework for Generating Realistic Deliberation Data
【速读】：该论文旨在解决在线话语分析中高质量 deliberation（ deliberation）数据稀缺的问题，其根源在于交互式网络平台的数据获取受限、伦理争议以及数据质量不一。解决方案的关键在于提出 Chorus 框架，该框架通过由大语言模型（LLM）驱动的具有行为一致性人格的角色代理（actor）来生成逼真的讨论内容；每个代理具备对讨论演进过程的记忆能力，并通过基于泊松过程（Poisson process-based temporal model）的时序模型控制参与时机，以逼近真实用户的异质性参与模式；此外，结构化的工具使用机制使代理能够访问外部资源，从而提升生成数据的真实性与可集成性，最终在 Deliberate 平台上经30位专家评估验证了其内容真实性、讨论连贯性和分析实用性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20651
作者: A. Koursaris,G. Domalis,A. Apostolopoulou,K. Kanaris,D. Tsakalidis,I. E. Livieris
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: This paper has been accepted for presentation at Engineering Applications and Advances of Artificial Intelligence 2026
Abstract:Understanding the intricate dynamics of online discourse depends on large-scale deliberation data, a resource that remains scarce across interactive web platforms due to restrictive accessibility policies, ethical concerns and inconsistent data quality. In this paper, we propose Chorus, an agentic framework, which orchestrates LLM-powered actors with behaviorally consistent personas to generate realistic deliberation discussions. Each actor is governed by an autonomous agent equipped with memory of the evolving discussion, while participation timing is governed by a principled Poisson process-based temporal model, which approximates the heterogeneous engagement patterns of real users. The framework is further supported by structured tool usage, enabling actors to access external resources and facilitating integration with interactive web platforms. The framework was deployed on the \textscDeliberate platform and evaluated by 30 expert participants across three dimensions: content realism, discussion coherence and analytical utility, confirming Chorus as a practical tool for generating high-quality deliberation data suitable for online discourse analysis
[AI-17] Measuring the Machine: Evaluating Generative AI as Pluralist Sociotechical Systems
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前生成式 AI（Generative AI）评估中存在的一系列问题，尤其是静态基准测试无法充分反映模型在多元社会技术系统中的动态价值建构过程。传统功能主义和规范性评估方法将模型视为孤立预测器或理想化目标，忽视了模型、用户与制度之间相互作用所构成的意义和价值观的复杂性，从而可能导致文化偏见的固化。论文的关键解决方案是提出“机器-社会-人类”（Machine-Society-Human, MaSH）循环框架，强调评价应从输出结果转向对价值如何在交互过程中被持续建构的考察，并通过概念重构、方法创新（如基于世界价值观调查数据的世界价值观基准）和实证案例（如早期GPT-3的价值漂移与房地产领域的社会技术评估）验证其有效性。该框架主张评价是一种构成性干预而非中立观察，要求采用多元、过程导向的评估体系以揭示具体哪些群体的价值被纳入AI系统的治理逻辑之中。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20545
作者: Rebecca L. Johnson
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: PhD Thesis - Author formatted. Original available on the University of Sydney library website
Abstract:In measurement theory, instruments do not simply record reality; they help constitute what is observed. The same holds for generative AI evaluation: benchmarks do not just measure, they shape what models appear to be. Functionalist benchmarks treat models as isolated predictors, while prescriptive approaches assess what systems ought to be. Both obscure the sociotechnical processes through which meaning and values are enacted, risking the reification of narrow cultural perspectives in pluralist contexts. This thesis advances a descriptive alternative. It argues that generative AI must be evaluated as a pluralist sociotechnical system and develops Machine-Society-Human (MaSH) Loops, a framework for tracing how models, users, and institutions recursively co-construct meaning and values. Evaluation shifts from judging outputs to examining how values are enacted in interaction. Three contributions follow. Conceptually, MaSH Loops reframes evaluation as recursive, enactive process. Methodologically, the World Values Benchmark introduces a distributional approach grounded in World Values Survey data, structured prompt sets, and anchor-aware scoring. Empirically, the thesis demonstrates these through two cases: value drift in early GPT-3 and sociotechnical evaluation in real estate. A final chapter draws on participatory realism to argue that prompting and evaluation are constitutive interventions, not neutral observations. The thesis argues that static benchmarks are insufficient for generative AI. Responsible evaluation requires pluralist, process-oriented frameworks that make visible whose values are enacted. Evaluation is therefore a site of governance, shaping how AI systems are understood, deployed, and trusted. Comments: PhD Thesis - Author formatted. Original available on the University of Sydney library website Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2604.20545 [cs.AI] (or arXiv:2604.20545v1 [cs.AI] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.20545 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Rebecca Lynn Johnson Dr [view email] [v1] Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:29:33 UTC (28,259 KB)
[AI-18] Early-Stage Product Line Validation Using LLM s: A Study on Semi-Formal Blueprint Analysis
【速读】：该论文旨在解决软件产品线（Software Product Line, SPL）领域中早期变异性验证的效率问题，即如何利用大型语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）直接对半形式化文本蓝图（semi-formal textual blueprints）执行特征模型分析操作（Feature Model Analysis Operations, AOs），从而实现无需依赖传统求解器的轻量级早期验证。其解决方案的关键在于：使用12种最先进的LLM在16种标准AO上进行评估，并与基于求解器的基准FLAMA对比，发现推理优化型模型（如Grok 4 Fast Reasoning、Gemini 2.5 Pro）可在结构解析和约束推理基础上达到88–89%的平均准确率，接近求解器正确性水平，同时揭示了系统性错误来源及准确率-成本权衡关系，为LLM在SPL早期验证中的选型提供依据。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20523
作者: Viet-Man Le,Thi Ngoc Trang Tran,Sebastian Lubos,Alexander Felfernig,Damian Garber
机构: 未知
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: The 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '26), March 23–27, 2026, Thessaloniki, Greece DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3748522.3779903
Abstract:We study whether Large Language Models (LLMs) can perform feature model analysis operations (AOs) directly on semi-formal textual blueprints, i.e., concise constrained-language descriptions of feature hierarchies and constraints, enabling early validation in Software Product Line scoping. Using 12 state-of-the-art LLMs and 16 standard AOs, we compare their outputs against the solver-based oracle FLAMA. Results show that reasoning-optimized models (e.g., Grok 4 Fast Reasoning, Gemini 2.5 Pro) achieve 88-89% average accuracy across all evaluated blueprints and operations, approaching solver correctness. We identify systematic errors in structural parsing and constraint reasoning, and highlight accuracy-cost trade-offs that inform model selection. These findings position LLMs as lightweight assistants for early variability validation.
[AI-19] Mythos and the Unverified Cage: Z3-Based Pre-Deployment Verification for Frontier-Model Sandbox Infrastructure
【速读】：该论文旨在解决前沿生成式 AI（Generative AI）模型在沙箱环境中因基础设施代码存在可形式化描述的算术漏洞（如 CWE-190、CWE-191、CWE-195）而导致的安全失控问题，尤其是 2026 年 April Claude Mythos 沙箱逃逸事件所暴露的系统性风险。解决方案的关键在于提出 COBALT —— 一个基于 Z3 SMT 求解器的形式化验证引擎，用于在部署前识别 C/C++ 基础设施代码中典型的整数溢出与类型转换漏洞模式；其核心贡献包括：（1）对 NASA cFE、wolfSSL、Eclipse Mosquitto 和 NASA F Prime 等四个生产级项目成功验证并产出 SAT 结果（含具体反例）或 UNSAT 保证（在明确安全边界下）；（2）构建四层防御框架（COBALT + VERDICT + DIRECTIVE-4 + SENTINEL），将预部署验证、预执行约束、输出控制与运行时监控映射至 Mythos 事件揭示的失效模式，并论证此类漏洞可通过 Z3 可表达的 CWE-190 形式化建模提前发现，从而强调仅依赖行为防护不足以保障前沿模型安全，必须对 containment stack 本身实施形式化验证。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20496
作者: Dominik Blain
机构: 未知
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 12 pages, 2 figures, 4 production case studies, 4 tables. Research paper on formal verification for frontier-model sandbox infrastructure
Abstract:The April 2026 Claude Mythos sandbox escape exposed a critical weakness in frontier AI containment: the infrastructure surrounding advanced models remains susceptible to formally characterizable arithmetic vulnerabilities. Anthropic has not publicly characterized the escape vector; some secondary accounts hypothesize a CWE-190 arithmetic vulnerability in sandbox networking code. We treat this as unverified and analyze the vulnerability class rather than the specific escape. This paper presents COBALT, a Z3 SMT-based formal verification engine for identifying CWE-190/191/195 arithmetic vulnerability patterns in C/C++ infrastructure prior to deployment. We distinguish two classes of contribution. Validated: COBALT detects arithmetic vulnerability patterns in production codebases, producing SAT verdicts with concrete witnesses and UNSAT guarantees under explicit safety bounds. We demonstrate this on four production case studies: NASA cFE, wolfSSL, Eclipse Mosquitto, and NASA F Prime, with reproducible encodings, verified solver output, and acknowledged security outcomes. Proposed: a four-layer containment framework consisting of COBALT, VERDICT, DIRECTIVE-4, and SENTINEL, mapping pre-deployment verification, pre-execution constraints, output control, and runtime monitoring to the failure modes exposed by the Mythos incident. Under explicit assumptions, we further argue that the publicly reported Mythos escape class is consistent with a Z3-expressible CWE-190 arithmetic formulation and that pre-deployment formal analysis would have been capable of surfacing the relevant pattern. The broader claim is infrastructural: frontier-model safety cannot depend on behavioral safeguards alone; the containment stack itself must be subjected to formal verification. Comments: 12 pages, 2 figures, 4 production case studies, 4 tables. Research paper on formal verification for frontier-model sandbox infrastructure Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2604.20496 [cs.CR] (or arXiv:2604.20496v1 [cs.CR] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.20496 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[AI-20] VTouch: A Multimodal Dataset with Vision-Based Tactile Enhancement for Bimanual Manipulation
【速读】：该论文旨在解决双臂操作（bimanual manipulation）——尤其是高接触力任务中因缺乏富含物理交互信号的数据集、系统化的任务组织方式以及足够规模而导致的挑战。解决方案的关键在于提出VTOUCH数据集，其核心创新包括：利用基于视觉的触觉感知（vision-based tactile sensing）提供高保真物理交互信号，采用矩阵式任务设计（matrix-style task design）实现系统性学习，并通过自动化数据采集流程覆盖真实世界、需求驱动的场景以保障可扩展性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20444
作者: Qianxi Hua,Xinyue Li,Zheng Yan,Yang Li,Chi Zhang,Yongyao Li,Yufei Liu
机构: 未知
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Databases (cs.DB); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Embodied intelligence has advanced rapidly in recent years; however, bimanual manipulation-especially in contact-rich tasks remains challenging. This is largely due to the lack of datasets with rich physical interaction signals, systematic task organization, and sufficient scale. To address these limitations, we introduce the VTOUCH dataset. It leverages vision based tactile sensing to provide high-fidelity physical interaction signals, adopts a matrix-style task design to enable systematic learning, and employs automated data collection pipelines covering real-world, demand-driven scenarios to ensure scalability. To further validate the effectiveness of the dataset, we conduct extensive quantitative experiments on cross-modal retrieval as well as real-robot evaluation. Finally, we demonstrate real-world performance through generalizable inference across multiple robots, policies, and tasks.
[AI-21] MedSkillAudit: A Domain-Specific Audit Framework for Medical Research Agent Skills
【速读】：该论文旨在解决医疗研究领域中AI代理技能（agent skills）在部署前缺乏专门审计机制的问题，尤其关注科学完整性、方法学有效性、可重复性及边界安全性等医学特有风险。其解决方案的关键在于提出并初步验证了一个领域特定的审计框架MedSkillAudit（skill-auditor@1.0），该框架采用分层评估结构，在专家评审基础上量化技能释放就绪度，并通过一致性指标（ICC和加权Kappa）与人类专家间一致性进行对比，结果显示其系统级评估一致性优于人工基准，具备作为医疗研究代理技能预部署治理基础的可行性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20441
作者: Yingyong Hou,Xinyuan Lao,Huimei Wang,Qianyu Yao,Wei Chen,Bocheng Huang,Fei Sun,Yuxian Lv,Weiqi Lei,Xueqian Wen,Pengfei Xia,Zhujun Tan,Shengyang Xie
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Background: Agent skills are increasingly deployed as modular, reusable capability units in AI agent systems. Medical research agent skills require safeguards beyond general-purpose evaluation, including scientific integrity, methodological validity, reproducibility, and boundary safety. This study developed and preliminarily evaluated a domain-specific audit framework for medical research agent skills, with a focus on reliability against expert review. Methods: We developed MedSkillAudit (skill-auditor@1.0), a layered framework assessing skill release readiness before deployment. We evaluated 75 skills across five medical research categories (15 per category). Two experts independently assigned a quality score (0-100), an ordinal release disposition (Production Ready / Limited Release / Beta Only / Reject), and a high-risk failure flag. System-expert agreement was quantified using ICC(2,1) and linearly weighted Cohen’s kappa, benchmarked against the human inter-rater baseline. Results: The mean consensus quality score was 72.4 (SD = 13.0); 57.3% of skills fell below the Limited Release threshold. MedSkillAudit achieved ICC(2,1) = 0.449 (95% CI: 0.250-0.610), exceeding the human inter-rater ICC of 0.300. System-consensus score divergence (SD = 9.5) was smaller than inter-expert divergence (SD = 12.4), with no directional bias (Wilcoxon p = 0.613). Protocol Design showed the strongest category-level agreement (ICC = 0.551); Academic Writing showed a negative ICC (-0.567), reflecting a structural rubric-expert mismatch. Conclusions: Domain-specific pre-deployment audit may provide a practical foundation for governing medical research agent skills, complementing general-purpose quality checks with structured audit workflows tailored to scientific use cases.
[AI-22] Shift-Up: A Framework for Software Engineering Guardrails in AI-native Software Development – Initial Findings
【速读】：该论文旨在解决生成式 AI（Generative AI）在软件开发中引发的架构漂移（architectural drift）、可追溯性不足和可维护性降低等问题，这些问题常见于无结构的“vibe coding”模式。其解决方案的关键在于提出 Shift-Up 框架，该框架将传统软件工程实践（如行为驱动开发 BDD、C4 架构建模和架构决策记录 ADR）重新诠释为面向 GenAI 原生开发的结构化护栏（structural guardrails），通过嵌入机器可读的需求与架构 artifacts 来稳定代理行为、减少实现偏差，并引导人类开发者聚焦于高层设计与验证活动。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20436
作者: Petrus Lipsanen,Liisa Rannikko,François Christophe,Konsta Kalliokoski,Vlad Stirbu,Tommi Mikkonen
机构: 未知
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: This paper has been accepted for presentation at the VibeX 2026 International Workshop on Vibe Coding and Vibe Researching
Abstract:Generative AI (GenAI) is reshaping software engineering by shifting development from manual coding toward agent-driven implementation. While vibe coding promises rapid prototyping, it often suffers from architectural drift, limited traceability, and reduced maintainability. Applying the design science research (DSR) methodology, this paper proposes Shift-Up, a framework that reinterprets established software engineering practices, like executable requirements (BDD), architectural modeling (C4), and architecture decision records (ADRs), as structural guardrails for GenAI-native development. Preliminary findings from our exploratory evaluation compare unstructured vibe coding, structured prompt engineering, and the Shift-Up approach in the development of a web application. These findings indicate that embedding machine-readable requirements and architectural artifacts stabilizes agent behavior, reduces implementation drift, and shifts human effort toward higher-level design and validation activities. The results suggest that traditional software engineering artifacts can serve as effective control mechanisms in AI-assisted development.
[AI-23] Scalable AI Inference: Performance Analysis and Optimization of AI Model Serving
【速读】：该论文旨在解决生成式 AI (Generative AI) 推理部署中长期被忽视的性能优化与可扩展性问题，尤其是在真实场景下模型服务的效率瓶颈。研究以 BentoML 为基础构建可扩展的 AI 推理系统，并通过三种典型工作负载（平稳、突发和高密度）模拟实际使用条件，采用预训练 RoBERTa 情感分析模型进行基准测试，量化延迟百分位数和吞吐量等关键指标以识别推理流水线中的瓶颈。解决方案的关键在于从运行时、服务层到部署架构三个层面实施系统性优化策略，并在单节点 K3s 集群环境下验证其对响应时间改善及故障恢复能力的提升效果，从而为高效、稳定的 AI 模型服务提供实证指导。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20420
作者: Hung Cuong Pham,Fatih Gedikli
机构: 未知
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:AI research often emphasizes model design and algorithmic performance, while deployment and inference remain comparatively underexplored despite being critical for real-world use. This study addresses that gap by investigating the performance and optimization of a BentoML-based AI inference system for scalable model serving developed in collaboration with this http URL. The evaluation first establishes baseline performance under three realistic workload scenarios. To ensure a fair and reproducible assessment, a pre-trained RoBERTa sentiment analysis model is used throughout the experiments. The system is subjected to traffic patterns following gamma and exponential distributions in order to emulate real-world usage conditions, including steady, bursty, and high-intensity workloads. Key performance metrics, such as latency percentiles and throughput, are collected and analyzed to identify bottlenecks in the inference pipeline. Based on the baseline results, optimization strategies are introduced at multiple levels of the serving stack to improve efficiency and scalability. The optimized system is then reevaluated under the same workload conditions, and the results are compared with the baseline using statistical analysis to quantify the impact of the applied improvements. The findings demonstrate practical strategies for achieving efficient and scalable AI inference with BentoML. The study examines how latency and throughput scale under varying workloads, how optimizations at the runtime, service, and deployment levels affect response time, and how deployment in a single-node K3s cluster influences resilience during disruptions.
[AI-24] Self-Awareness before Action: Mitigating Logical Inertia via Proactive Cognitive Awareness ACL2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决大语言模型在非交互式推理任务中因缺乏对自身知识或推理状态完整性的认知而导致的错误传播问题，尤其是在侦探谜题这类叙事固定但结构隐匿的任务中，模型若基于不完整前提形成早期假设，将导致推理链不稳定。解决方案的关键在于提出SABA框架，其核心机制是引入决策前的自我意识（self-awareness），通过递归式推理过程交替进行结构化状态构建与障碍解析：首先利用信息融合（Information Fusion）将叙事整合为可验证的基础状态，再通过查询驱动的结构化推理（Query-driven Structured Reasoning）识别并补全缺失或模糊的前提，将它们转化为可迭代求解的查询，并通过假设构造和状态精炼逐步完善推理路径。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20413
作者: Fulong Fan,Peilin Liu,Fengzhe Liu,Shuyan Yang,Gang Yan
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Accepted to ACL 2026. 12 pages, 3 figures
Abstract:Large language models perform well on many reasoning tasks, yet they often lack awareness of whether their current knowledge or reasoning state is complete. In non-interactive puzzle settings, the narrative is fixed and the underlying structure is hidden; once a model forms an early hypothesis under incomplete premises, it can propagate that error throughout the reasoning process, leading to unstable conclusions. To address this issue, we propose SABA, a reasoning framework that explicitly introduces self-awareness of missing premises before making the final decision. SABA formulates reasoning as a recursive process that alternates between structured state construction and obstacle resolution: it first applies Information Fusion to consolidate the narrative into a verifiable base state, and then uses Query-driven Structured Reasoning to identify and resolve missing or underspecified premises by turning them into queries and progressively completing the reasoning state through hypothesis construction and state refinement. Across multiple evaluation metrics, SABA achieves the best performance on all three difficulty splits of the non-interactive Detective Puzzle benchmark, and it also maintains leading results on multiple public benchmarks.
[AI-25] Onyx: Cost-Efficient Disk-Oblivious ANN Search
【速读】：该论文旨在解决在第三方基础设施上进行生成式 AI (Generative AI) 系统中的近似最近邻（Approximate Nearest Neighbor, ANN）搜索时，如何在保证数据隐私的前提下实现高效、低成本的 SSD 存储访问问题。现有方案依赖可信执行环境（Trusted Execution Environment, TEE）与 Oblivious RAM (ORAM) 结合以隐藏磁盘访问模式，但传统 ORAM-ANN 设计在 ANN 层最小化访问次数而在 ORAM 层最小化带宽，导致资源利用失衡，造成高延迟和低成本效益。其解决方案的关键在于重构系统架构：将带宽优化下放至 ANN 层，利用 ANN 的近似特性提升带宽效率；同时在 ORAM 层降低访问次数，通过引入局部性感知的浅层树结构实现更高效的访问控制。为此，作者提出 Onyx 系统，包含两个协同设计的新组件：Onyx-ANNS 使用紧凑中间表示主动剪枝大部分带宽密集型访问而不影响召回率，Onyx-ORAM 采用局部性感知的浅层树设计减少访问次数并兼容带宽高效的 ORAM 技术，最终实现比当前最优方案低 1.7–9.9 倍的成本和 2.3–12.3 倍的延迟。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20401
作者: Deevashwer Rathee,Jean-Luc Watson,Zirui Neil Zhao,G. Edward Suh,Raluca Ada Popa
机构: 未知
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search in AI systems increasingly handles sensitive data on third-party infrastructure. Trusted execution environments (TEEs) offer protection, but cost-efficient deployments must rely on external SSDs, which leaks user queries through disk access patterns to the host. Oblivious RAM (ORAM) can hide these access patterns but at a high cost; when paired with existing disk-based ANN search techniques, it makes poor use of SSD resources, yielding high latency and poor cost-efficiency. The core challenge for efficient oblivious ANN search over SSDs is balancing both bandwidth and access count. The state-of-the-art ORAM-ANN design minimizes access count at the ANN level and bandwidth at the ORAM level, each trading-off the other, leaving the combined system with both resources overutilized. We propose inverting this design, minimizing bandwidth consumption in the ANN layer and access count in the ORAM layer, since each component is better suited for its new role: ANN’s inherent approximation allows for more bandwidth efficiency, while ORAM has no fundamental lower bounds on access count (as opposed to bandwidth). To this end, we propose a cost-efficient approach, Onyx, with two new co-designed components: Onyx-ANNS introduces a compact intermediate representation that proactively prunes the majority of bandwidth-intensive accesses without hurting recall, and Onyx-ORAM proposes a locality-aware shallow tree design that reduces access count while remaining compatible with bandwidth-efficient ORAM techniques. Compared to the state-of-the-art oblivious ANN search system, Onyx achieves 1.7-9.9\times lower cost and 2.3-12.3\times lower latency.
[AI-26] CyberCertBench: Evaluating LLM s in Cybersecurity Certification Knowledge
【速读】：该论文旨在解决大型语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在专业领域知识评估中的不足问题，特别是其在信息技术（IT）网络安全、工业控制系统（Operational Technology, OT）及其相关标准（如IEC 62443）等特定领域的知识准确性与可解释性问题。解决方案的关键在于提出并验证了一种新颖的“提议-验证”（Proposer-Verifier）框架，该框架能够生成可解释的自然语言解释以增强模型性能的透明度，并构建了CyberCertBench基准测试套件，该套件基于行业认证的多选题（Multiple Choice Question Answering, MCQA）来系统评估LLMs在专业标准下的表现。实证结果表明，前沿模型在通用网络与IT安全知识上已达到人类专家水平，但在涉及厂商特定细节或正式标准的知识点上仍存在显著下降，同时模型规模扩展带来了参数效率的显著提升，但近期大模型的增长边际效应趋于减弱。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20389
作者: Gustav Keppler,Ghada Elbez,Veit Hagenmeyer
机构: 未知
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:The rapid evolution and use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in professional workflows require an evaluation of their domain-specific knowledge against industry standards. We introduceCyberCertBench, a new suite of Multiple Choice Question Answering (MCQA) benchmarks derived from industry recognized certifications. CyberCertBench evaluates LLM domain knowledgeagainst the professional standards of Information Technology cybersecurity and more specializedareas such as Operational Technology and related cybersecurity standards. Concurrently, we propose and validate a novel Proposer-Verifier framework, a methodology to generate interpretable,natural language explanations for model performance. Our evaluation shows that frontier modelsachieve human expert level in general networking and IT security knowledge. However, theiraccuracy declines in questions that require vendor-specific nuances or knowledge in formalstandards, like, e.g., IEC 62443. Analysis of model scaling trend and release date demonstratesremarkable gains in parameter efficiency, while recent larger models show diminishing this http URL and evaluation scripts are available at: this https URL.
[AI-27] Benefits of Low-Cost Bio-Inspiration in the Age of Overparametrization
【速读】：该论文旨在解决在机器人控制中，当输入与输出空间较小且性能受限时，大规模参数空间是否有助于提升学习效率的问题。研究表明，在此类场景下，过多的参数反而可能阻碍优化过程。解决方案的关键在于通过对比生物启发式控制器（中央模式发生器 CPGs 与多层感知机 MLPs）在进化策略与强化学习训练协议下的表现，发现浅层 MLP 和密集连接的 CPG 在性能上优于深层 MLP 或 Actor-Critic 架构；并引入“参数影响度”（Parameter Impact metric）量化参数数量与性能之间的关系，证实强化学习所需的额外参数并未带来性能增益，从而支持采用进化策略作为更优的控制器优化方法。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20365
作者: Kevin Godin-Dubois,Anil Yaman,Anna V. Kononova
机构: 未知
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:While Central Pattern Generators (CPGs) and Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP) are widely used paradigms in robot control, few systematic studies have been performed on the relative merits of large parameter spaces. In contexts where input and output spaces are small and performance is bounded, having more parameters to optimize may actively hinder the learning process instead of empowering it. To empirically measure this, we submit a given robot morphology, with limited proprioceptive capabilities, to controller optimization under two bio-inspired paradigms (CPGs and MLPs) with evolutionary- and reinforcement- trainer protocols. By varying parameter spaces across multiple reward functions, we observe that shallow MLPs and densely connected CPGs result in better performance when compared to deeper MLPs or Actor-Critic architectures. To account for the relationship between said performance and the number of parameters, we introduce a Parameter Impact metric which demonstrates that the additional parameters required by the reinforcement technique do not translate into better performance, thus favouring evolutionary strategies.
[AI-28] A Vision-Language-Action Model for Adaptive Ultrasound-Guided Needle Insertion and Needle Tracking ICRA2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决超声引导下针头插入（Ultrasound-guided needle insertion）过程中因动态成像条件和针头可视化困难而导致的自动化控制难题。现有方法多依赖手工设计的模块化控制流程，在复杂场景中性能易退化。其解决方案的关键在于提出一种视觉-语言-动作（Vision-Language-Action, VLA）模型框架，实现针头跟踪与插入控制的统一建模与端到端优化：通过引入跨深度融合（Cross-Depth Fusion, CDF）跟踪头整合浅层位置特征与深层语义特征以提升实时跟踪精度；利用追踪条件注册（Tracking-Conditioning, TraCon）机制对预训练视觉主干进行参数高效特征调制，增强适应性；进一步设计不确定性感知的控制策略与异步VLA流水线，实现基于环境感知的动态插入决策，从而在保证安全性的同时提高操作成功率与效率。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20347
作者: Yuelin Zhang,Qingpeng Ding,Longxiang Tang,Chengyu Fang,Shing Shin Cheng
机构: 未知
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Accepted by ICRA 2026
Abstract:Ultrasound (US)-guided needle insertion is a critical yet challenging procedure due to dynamic imaging conditions and difficulties in needle visualization. Many methods have been proposed for automated needle insertion, but they often rely on hand-crafted pipelines with modular controllers, whose performance degrades in challenging cases. In this paper, a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model is proposed for adaptive and automated US-guided needle insertion and tracking on a robotic ultrasound (RUS) system. This framework provides a unified approach to needle tracking and needle insertion control, enabling real-time, dynamically adaptive adjustment of insertion based on the obtained needle position and environment awareness. To achieve real-time and end-to-end tracking, a Cross-Depth Fusion (CDF) tracking head is proposed, integrating shallow positional and deep semantic features from the large-scale vision backbone. To adapt the pretrained vision backbone for tracking tasks, a Tracking-Conditioning (TraCon) register is introduced for parameter-efficient feature conditioning. After needle tracking, an uncertainty-aware control policy and an asynchronous VLA pipeline are presented for adaptive needle insertion control, ensuring timely decision-making for improved safety and outcomes. Extensive experiments on both needle tracking and insertion show that our method consistently outperforms state-of-the-art trackers and manual operation, achieving higher tracking accuracy, improved insertion success rates, and reduced procedure time, highlighting promising directions for RUS-based intelligent intervention.
[AI-29] Formalising the Logit Shift Induced by LoRA: A Technical Note
【速读】：该论文旨在解决低秩适配（Low-Rank Adaptation, LoRA）在多层神经网络中引起的输出logit偏移（logit shift）和事实边际变化（fact-margin change）的理论建模问题。其解决方案的关键在于利用围绕基础模型轨迹的一阶Fréchet逼近，将多层LoRA效应分解为各层贡献的线性叠加项与代表层间耦合的高阶余项，从而实现了对LoRA机制的首阶形式化分析。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20313
作者: Xiang Shi,Shuaizhi Cheng,Mingwei Li
机构: 未知
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 7 pages, technical note
Abstract:This technical note provides a first-order formalisation of the logit shift and fact-margin change induced by Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA). Using a first-order Fréchet approximation around the base model trajectory, we show that the multi-layer LoRA effect can be decomposed into a linear summation of layerwise contributions and a higher-order remainder term representing inter-layer coupling.
[AI-30] Seeing Further and Wider: Joint Spatio-Temporal Enlargement for Micro-Video Popularity Prediction
【速读】：该论文旨在解决微视频流行度预测（Micro-video Popularity Prediction, MVPP）中面临的两大核心挑战：一是时间维度上依赖稀疏短程采样导致的内容感知能力受限，二是空间维度上采用扁平检索记忆库导致的历史相关视频存储容量有限且效率低下。解决方案的关键在于提出一个统一的时空扩展框架，实现对极长视频序列的精确感知与可扩展的记忆库管理。技术上，通过帧评分模块驱动的时间扩展机制，结合稀疏采样与密集感知两条互补路径提取视频帧的亮点线索，并自适应融合以增强长序列内容理解；空间扩展则构建拓扑感知记忆库（Topology-Aware Memory Bank），基于拓扑关系对历史相关视频进行分层聚类，仅更新对应簇的编码特征而非直接扩容存储，从而在不增加存储负担的前提下支持无限扩展的历史关联。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20311
作者: Dali Wang,Yunyao Zhang,Junqing Yu,Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen,Chen Xu,Zikai Song
机构: 未知
类目: Multimedia (cs.MM); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Micro-video popularity prediction (MVPP) aims to forecast the future popularity of videos on online media, which is essential for applications such as content recommendation and traffic allocation. In real-world scenarios, it is critical for MVPP approaches to understand both the temporal dynamics of a given video (temporal) and its historical relevance to other videos (spatial). However, existing approaches sufer from limitations in both dimensions: temporally, they rely on sparse short-range sampling that restricts content perception; spatially, they depend on flat retrieval memory with limited capacity and low efficiency, hindering scalable knowledge utilization. To overcome these limitations, we propose a unified framework that achieves joint spatio-temporal enlargement, enabling precise perception of extremely long video sequences while supporting a scalable memory bank that can infinitely expand to incorporate all relevant historical videos. Technically, we employ a Temporal Enlargement driven by a frame scoring module that extracts highlight cues from video frames through two complementary pathways: sparse sampling and dense perception. Their outputs are adaptively fused to enable robust long-sequence content understanding. For Spatial Enlargement, we construct a Topology-Aware Memory Bank that hierarchically clusters historically relevant content based on topological relationships. Instead of directly expanding memory capacity, we update the encoder features of the corresponding clusters when incorporating new videos, enabling unbounded historical association without unbounded storage growth. Extensive experiments on three widely used MVPP benchmarks demonstrate that our method consistently outperforms 11 strong baselines across mainstream metrics, achieving robust improvements in both prediction accuracy and ranking consistency.
[AI-31] FSFM: A Biologically-Inspired Framework for Selective Forgetting of Agent Memory
【速读】：该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Model, LLM）智能体在资源受限环境中因记忆管理不当而导致的效率低下、内容质量下降及安全风险增加的问题。其核心挑战在于，现有研究过度关注记忆保留，而忽视了受人类认知机制启发的选择性遗忘（selective forgetting）机制的设计与应用。解决方案的关键在于构建一个系统性的遗忘框架，包含四类机制：被动衰减型、主动删除型、安全触发型和自适应强化型，并结合LLM代理架构与向量数据库实现高效落地。实验证明，该方案可在访问效率（+8.49%）、内容质量（信噪比提升29.2%）和安全性（100%消除安全风险）三个维度显著优化，从而推动下一代LLM智能体在真实场景中实现更高效、高质量且符合伦理规范的运行。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20300
作者: Yingjie Gu,Bo Xiong,Yijuan Guo,Chao Li,Xiaojing Zhang,Liqiang Wang,Pengcheng Ren,Qi Sun,Jingyao Ma,Shidang Shi
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 28 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables
Abstract:For LLM agents, memory management critically impacts efficiency, quality, and security. While much research focuses on retention, selective forgetting–inspired by human cognitive processes (hippocampal indexing/consolidation theory and Ebbinghaus forgetting curve)–remains underexplored. We argue that in resource-constrained environments, a well-designed forgetting mechanism is as crucial as remembering, delivering benefits across three dimensions: (1) efficiency via intelligent memory pruning, (2) quality by dynamically updating outdated preferences and context, and (3) security through active forgetting of malicious inputs, sensitive data, and privacy-compromising content. Our framework establishes a taxonomy of forgetting mechanisms: passive decay-based, active deletion-based, safety-triggered, and adaptive reinforcement-based. Building on advances in LLM agent architectures and vector databases, we present detailed specifications, implementation strategies, and empirical validation from controlled experiments. Results show significant improvements: access efficiency (+8.49%), content quality (+29.2% signal-to-noise ratio), and security performance (100% elimination of security risks). Our work bridges cognitive neuroscience and AI systems, offering practical solutions for real-world deployment while addressing ethical and regulatory compliance. The paper concludes with challenges and future directions, establishing selective forgetting as a fundamental capability for next-generation LLM agents operating in real-world, resource-constrained scenarios. Our contributions align with AI-native memory systems and responsible AI development.
[AI-32] xt Steganography with Dynamic Codebook and Multimodal Large Language Model
【速读】：该论文旨在解决现有文本隐写术（text steganography）在白盒和黑盒范式下的安全性与实用性问题：白盒方法因Alice与Bob共享预训练语言模型而易被暴露，黑盒方法则因依赖固定码本（codebook）和特定提取提示（extracting prompt）缺乏灵活性与实际应用价值。其解决方案的关键在于提出一种基于动态码本（dynamic codebook）与多模态大语言模型（multimodal large language model, MLLM）的黑盒文本隐写框架，通过共享会话配置生成动态码本，并设计加密隐写映射嵌入秘密信息于图像描述生成过程中；同时引入基于拒绝采样（reject sampling）的反馈优化机制以保障秘密信息的准确提取，从而在保持高嵌入容量与文本质量的同时显著提升实用性和灵活性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20269
作者: Jianxin Gao,Ruohan Lei,Wanli Peng
机构: 未知
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:With the popularity of the large language models (LLMs), text steganography has achieved remarkable performance. However, existing methods still have some issues: (1) For the white-box paradigm, this steganography behavior is prone to exposure due to sharing the off-the-shelf language model between Alice and Bob.(2) For the black-box paradigm, these methods lack flexibility and practicality since Alice and Bob should share the fixed codebook while sharing a specific extracting prompt for each steganographic sentence. In order to improve the security and practicality, we introduce a black-box text steganography with a dynamic codebook and multimodal large language model. Specifically, we first construct a dynamic codebook via some shared session configuration and a multimodal large language model. Then an encrypted steganographic mapping is designed to embed secret messages during the steganographic caption generation. Furthermore, we introduce a feedback optimization mechanism based on reject sampling to ensure accurate extraction of secret messages. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms existing white-box text steganography methods in terms of embedding capacity and text quality. Meanwhile, the proposed method has achieved better practicality and flexibility than the existing black-box paradigm in some popular online social networks.
[AI-33] ATIR: Towards Audio-Text Interleaved Contextual Retrieval
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前多模态信息检索研究中对音频模态关注不足的问题，尤其是在交错音频-文本上下文检索（Audio-Text Interleaved contextual Retrieval, ATIR）场景下的语义检索能力缺失。现有数据集主要聚焦于图像模态，缺乏能够支持跨模态交替查询的高质量音频检索基准。为应对这一挑战，作者构建了一个整合自动语音识别（ASR）、问答（QA）和检索数据集的ATIR基准，统一了四种类型的上下文检索任务，从而显著提升了音频语义检索的覆盖范围与有效性。解决方案的关键在于提出了一种基于多模态大语言模型（Multimodal Large Language Model, MLLM）的ATIR模型，并引入一种与现有压缩方法正交的新型标记压缩机制，有效缓解了MLLM中因音频输入导致的标记数量过多问题，实验表明该方案在性能上显著优于强基线模型。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20267
作者: Tong Zhao,Chenghao Zhang,Yutao Zhu,Zhicheng Dou
机构: 未知
类目: ound (cs.SD); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Audio carries richer information than text, including emotion, speaker traits, and environmental context, while also enabling lower-latency processing compared to speech-to-text pipelines. However, recent multimodal information retrieval research has predominantly focused on images, largely overlooking audio, especially in the setting of interleaved audio-text contextual retrieval. In this work, we introduce the Audio-Text Interleaved contextual Retrieval (ATIR) task, where queries can alternate between audio and text modalities. We construct an ATIR benchmark by integrating several Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), QA, and retrieval datasets, ultimately unifying four types of contextual retrieval tasks. This benchmark substantially addresses the limitations of existing audio retrieval datasets in semantic retrieval. To study this task, we evaluate several off-the-shelf retrievers and train our ATIR model based on a Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM). We further introduce a novel token compression mechanism that is orthogonal to existing compression methods, thereby alleviating the issue of excessive audio tokens in MLLM-based ATIR models. Experimental results demonstrate that our ATIR model achieves substantial improvements over strong baselines.
[AI-34] Memory-Augmented LLM -based Multi-Agent System for Automated Feature Generation on Tabular Data ACL2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决自动化特征生成（Automated Feature Generation）中传统方法因依赖预定义算子库而无法利用任务语义信息，以及基于大语言模型（Large Language Model, LLM）的方法受限于固定生成模式且缺乏来自学习目标的反馈，从而导致特征空间探索不足、特征质量与多样性受限的问题。其解决方案的关键在于提出一种记忆增强型LLM多智能体系统（Memory-Augmented LLM-based Multi-Agent System, MALMAS），通过将特征生成过程分解为具有不同职责的多个智能体，并由路由器智能体（Router Agent）在每轮迭代中激活合适的子集以扩展特征空间探索；同时引入包含程序记忆、反馈记忆和概念记忆的记忆模块，实现基于学习目标的迭代优化，从而自适应地引导后续特征生成，显著提升特征的质量与多样性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20261
作者: Fengxian Dong,Zhi Zheng,Xiao Han,Wei Chen,Jingqing Ruan,Tong Xu,Yong Chen,Enhong Chen
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 16 pages (including appendix), 4 main figures, 15 tables. Accepted to ACL 2026
Abstract:Automated feature generation extracts informative features from raw tabular data without manual intervention and is crucial for accurate, generalizable machine learning. Traditional methods rely on predefined operator libraries and cannot leverage task semantics, limiting their ability to produce diverse, high-value features for complex tasks. Recent Large Language Model (LLM)-based approaches introduce richer semantic signals, but still suffer from a restricted feature space due to fixed generation patterns and from the absence of feedback from the learning objective. To address these challenges, we propose a Memory-Augmented LLM-based Multi-Agent System (\textbfMALMAS) for automated feature generation. MALMAS decomposes the generation process into agents with distinct responsibilities, and a Router Agent activates an appropriate subset of agents per iteration, further broadening exploration of the feature space. We further integrate a memory module comprising procedural memory, feedback memory, and conceptual memory, enabling iterative refinement that adaptively guides subsequent feature generation and improves feature quality and diversity. Extensive experiments on multiple public datasets against state-of-the-art baselines demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. The code is available at this https URL
[AI-35] uLEAD-TabPFN: Uncertainty-aware Dependency-based Anomaly Detection with TabPFN
【速读】：该论文旨在解决表格数据中异常检测的挑战，尤其是高维性、复杂特征依赖关系以及异质噪声导致现有基于邻近性的方法难以捕捉由复杂特征依赖违反所引发的异常。其解决方案的关键在于提出uLEAD-TabPFN框架，该框架基于Prior-Data Fitted Networks (PFNs) 构建，通过在学习到的潜在空间中识别条件依赖关系的违反来检测异常，并利用冻结的PFNs进行依赖估计，结合不确定性感知评分机制，从而实现鲁棒且可扩展的异常检测。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20255
作者: Sha Lu,Jixue Liu,Stefan Peters,Thuc Duy Le,Craig Xie,Lin Liu,Jiuyong Li
机构: 未知
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Anomaly detection in tabular data is challenging due to high dimensionality, complex feature dependencies, and heterogeneous noise. Many existing methods rely on proximity-based cues and may miss anomalies caused by violations of complex feature dependencies. Dependency-based anomaly detection provides a principled alternative by identifying anomalies as violations of dependencies among features. However, existing methods often struggle to model such dependencies robustly and to scale to high-dimensional data with complex dependency structures. To address these challenges, we propose uLEAD-TabPFN, a dependency-based anomaly detection framework built on Prior-Data Fitted Networks (PFNs). uLEAD-TabPFN identifies anomalies as violations of conditional dependencies in a learned latent space, leveraging frozen PFNs for dependency estimation. Combined with uncertainty-aware scoring, the proposed framework enables robust and scalable anomaly detection. Experiments on 57 tabular datasets from ADBench show that uLEAD-TabPFN achieves particularly strong performance in medium- and high-dimensional settings, where it attains the top average rank. On high-dimensional datasets, uLEAD-TabPFN improves the average ROC-AUC by nearly 20% over the average baseline and by approximately 2.8% over the best-performing baseline, while maintaining overall superior performance compared to state-of-the-art methods. Further analysis shows that uLEAD-TabPFN provides complementary anomaly detection capability, achieving strong performance on datasets where many existing methods struggle.
[AI-36] Mol-Debate: Multi-Agent Debate Improves Structural Reasoning in Molecular Design
【速读】：该论文旨在解决文本引导的分子设计（text-guided molecular design）中，如何将自然语言指令与非线性分子结构在严格化学约束下准确映射的问题。现有方法多依赖一次性生成流程，缺乏对语义意图与结构可行性之间动态纠偏的能力。解决方案的关键在于提出Mol-Debate框架，通过迭代式的“生成-辩论-精炼”循环，实现多视角批判性推理与逐步优化；其核心创新包括面向视角的协调机制，以应对开发者与辩手之间的冲突、全局与局部结构推理的平衡，以及静态知识与动态策略的融合，从而显著提升分子生成的准确性与化学合理性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20254
作者: Wengyu Zhang,Xiao-Yong Wei,Qing Li
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Text-guided molecular design is a key capability for AI-driven drug discovery, yet it remains challenging to map sequential natural-language instructions with non-linear molecular structures under strict chemical constraints. Most existing approaches, including RAG, CoT prompting, and fine-tuning or RL, emphasize a small set of ad-hoc reasoning perspectives implemented in a largely one-shot generation pipeline. In contrast, real-world drug discovery relies on dynamic, multi-perspective critique and iterative refinement to reconcile semantic intent with structural feasibility. Motivated by this, we propose Mol-Debate, a generation paradigm that enables such dynamic reasoning through an iterative generate-debate-refine loop. We further characterize key challenges in this paradigm and address them through perspective-oriented orchestration, including developer-debater conflict, global-local structural reasoning, and static-dynamic integration. Experiments demonstrate that Mol-Debate achieves state-of-the-art performance against strong general and chemical baselines, reaching 59.82% exact match on ChEBI-20 and 50.52% weighted success rate on S ^2 -Bench. Our code is available at this https URL.
[AI-37] Cortex 2.0: Grounding World Models in Real-World Industrial Deployment
【速读】：该论文旨在解决工业机器人在长时程操作中因反应式控制策略导致的脆弱性问题，尤其是在多场景、多任务及动态物体分布下难以保持稳定执行的问题。现有视觉-语言-动作（Vision-Language-Action）模型虽具良好泛化能力，但因其仅基于当前观测选择下一步动作而缺乏对未来可能性的评估，易在复杂环境中因失败模式累积而导致失效。解决方案的关键在于引入基于世界模型（world-model-based）的“规划-执行”范式：Cortex 2.0 在视觉潜在空间中生成候选未来轨迹，通过评分机制评估其预期成功率与效率，并最终选择最优轨迹执行，从而显著提升系统在高 clutter、频繁遮挡和接触密集等非结构化工业环境中的鲁棒性和可靠性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20246
作者: Adriana Aida,Walida Amer,Katarina Bankovic,Dhruv Behl,Fabian Busch,Annie Bhalla,Minh Duong,Florian Gienger,Rohan Godse,Denis Grachev,Ralf Gulde,Elisa Hagensieker,Junpeng Hu,Shivam Joshi,Tobias Knoblauch,Likith Kumar,Damien LaRocque,Keerthana Lokesh,Omar Moured,Khiem Nguyen,Christian Preyss,Ranjith Sriganesan,Vikram Singh,Carsten Sponner,Anh Tong,Dominik Tuscher,Marc Tuscher,Pavan Upputuri
机构: 未知
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 20 pages, 13 figures
Abstract:Industrial robotic manipulation demands reliable long-horizon execution across embodiments, tasks, and changing object distributions. While Vision-Language-Action models have demonstrated strong generalization, they remain fundamentally reactive. By optimizing the next action given the current observation without evaluating potential futures, they are brittle to the compounding failure modes of long-horizon tasks. Cortex 2.0 shifts from reactive control to plan-and-act by generating candidate future trajectories in visual latent space, scoring them for expected success and efficiency, then committing only to the highest-scoring candidate. We evaluate Cortex 2.0 on a single-arm and dual-arm manipulation platform across four tasks of increasing complexity: pick and place, item and trash sorting, screw sorting, and shoebox unpacking. Cortex 2.0 consistently outperforms state-of-the-art Vision-Language-Action baselines, achieving the best results across all tasks. The system remains reliable in unstructured environments characterized by heavy clutter, frequent occlusions, and contact-rich manipulation, where reactive policies fail. These results demonstrate that world-model-based planning can operate reliably in complex industrial environments.
[AI-38] Enhancing Speaker Verification with Whispered Speech via Post-Processing
【速读】：该论文旨在解决 whispered speech（耳语语音）在实际场景中对说话人验证系统性能的显著负面影响问题，尤其是在隐私保护、干扰他人或疾病导致声带无法完全振动等情况下。解决方案的关键在于提出一种基于编码器-解码器结构的模型，其以微调后的说话人验证骨干网络为基础，并通过联合优化余弦相似度分类损失与三元组损失（triplet loss）来学习更具鲁棒性的语音表征。实验表明，该方法在正常语音 vs 耳语语音测试中相对基线提升了22.26%（EER从6.77%降至5.27%），并在耳语语音 vs 耳语语音测试中达到1.88%的等错误率（Equal Error Rate, EER），AUC高达99.73%，优于当前最优模型ReDimNet-B2。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20229
作者: Magdalena Gołębiowska,Piotr Syga
机构: 未知
类目: ound (cs.SD); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Speaker verification is a task of confirming an individual’s identity through the analysis of their voice. Whispered speech differs from phonated speech in acoustic characteristics, which degrades the performance of speaker verification systems in real-life scenarios, including avoiding fully phonated speech to protect privacy, disrupt others, or when the lack of full vocalization is dictated by a disease. In this paper we propose a model with a training recipe to obtain more robust representations against whispered speech hindrances. The proposed system employs an encoder–decoder structure built atop a fine-tuned speaker verification backbone, optimized jointly using cosine similarity–based classification and triplet loss. We gain relative improvement of 22.26% compared to the baseline (baseline 6.77% vs ours 5.27%) in normal vs whispered speech trials, achieving AUC of 98.16%. In tests comparing whispered to whispered, our model attains an EER of 1.88% with AUC equal to 99.73%, which represents a 15% relative enhancement over the prior leading ReDimNet-B2. We also offer a summary of the most popular and state-of-the-art speaker verification models in terms of their performance with whispered speech. Additionally, we evaluate how these models perform under noisy audios, obtaining that generally the same relative level of noise degrades the performance of speaker verification more significantly on whispered speech than on normal speech.
[AI-39] owards Secure Logging: Characterizing and Benchmarking Logging Code Security Issues with LLM s
【速读】：该论文旨在解决软件系统中日志代码（logging code）存在的安全问题，这些问题可能因不当的日志记录实践而暴露敏感信息或引发如日志注入（log injection）等攻击，从而威胁系统安全与隐私。现有研究虽已关注日志代码的一般缺陷，但对日志安全问题的系统性分析仍显不足，尤其是在利用大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）进行检测与修复方面缺乏深入探索。解决方案的关键在于：首先构建了一个涵盖四类常见问题和十种具体模式的完整日志安全问题分类体系，并基于101个真实世界日志安全问题报告手工标注形成基准数据集；其次提出一个集成多种上下文知识的自动化框架，用于评估LLMs在检测与修复日志安全问题上的能力。实验表明，LLMs在检测任务上表现中等（平均准确率12.9%–52.5%），但在生成正确修复代码方面存在显著挑战，且仅依赖问题描述即可显著提升检测准确性，优于仅使用安全模式说明或两者结合的方式。这一发现为实际开发者提供了可操作的指导，同时也揭示了当前LLMs在日志安全场景下的潜力与局限。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20211
作者: He Yang Yuan,Xin Wang,Kundi Yao,An Ran Chen,Zishuo Ding,Zhenhao Li
机构: 未知
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
备注: Accepted at FSE 2026 Research Papers Track
Abstract:Logging code plays an important role in software systems by recording key events and behaviors, which are essential for debugging and monitoring. However, insecure logging practices can inadvertently expose sensitive information or enable attacks such as log injection, posing serious threats to system security and privacy. Prior research has examined general defects in logging code, but systematic analysis of logging code security issues remains limited, particularly in leveraging LLMs for detection and repair. In this paper, we derive a comprehensive taxonomy of logging code security issues, encompassing four common issue categories and 10 corresponding patterns. We further construct a benchmark dataset with 101 real-world logging security issue reports that have been manually reviewed and annotated. We then propose an automated framework that incorporates various contextual knowledge to evaluate LLMs’ capabilities in detecting and repairing logging security issues. Our experimental results reveal a notable disparity in performance: while LLMs are moderately effective at detecting security issues (e.g., the accuracy ranges from 12.9% to 52.5% on average), they face noticeable challenges in reliably generating correct code repairs. We also find that the issue description alone improves the LLMs’ detection accuracy more than the security pattern explanation or a combination of both. Overall, our findings provide actionable insights for practitioners and highlight the potential and limitations of current LLMs for secure logging.
[AI-40] aint-Style Vulnerability Detection and Confirmation for Node.js Packages Using LLM Agent Reasoning
【速读】：该论文旨在解决Node.js生态中由于动态JavaScript特性及庞大依赖关系导致的传统程序分析方法难以有效检测污染型漏洞（taint-style vulnerabilities，如任意命令注入）的问题。解决方案的关键在于提出一种以大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）为中心、工具增强的多阶段代理流水线（LLMVD.js），其通过代码扫描、漏洞推测、PoC（Proof-of-Concept）利用代码生成以及轻量级执行断言验证四个步骤实现端到端的漏洞确认，无需依赖专门的静态或动态分析引擎进行路径推导，且不需漏洞标注或历史漏洞报告作为先验信息。实验表明，该方法在公开基准数据集上对漏洞的确认率达84%，显著优于传统工具（<22%），并在无真实漏洞标签的新包测试中成功生成36个可验证的漏洞利用，远超传统工具的性能。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20179
作者: Ronghao Ni,Mihai Christodorescu,Limin Jia
机构: 未知
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Software Engineering (cs.SE)
备注: 19 pages, 6 figures
Abstract:The rapidly evolving Node . js ecosystem currently includes millions of packages and is a critical part of modern software supply chains, making vulnerability detection of Node . js packages increasingly important. However, traditional program analysis struggles in this setting because of dynamic JavaScript features and the large number of package dependencies. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and the emerging paradigm of LLM-based agents offer an alternative to handcrafted program models. This raises the question of whether an LLM-centric, tool-augmented approach can effectively detect and confirm taint-style vulnerabilities (e.g., arbitrary command injection) in Node . js packages. We implement LLMVD . js, a multi-stage agent pipeline to scan code, propose vulnerabilities, generate proof-of-concept exploits, and validate them through lightweight execution oracles; and systematically evaluate its effectiveness in taint-style vulnerability detection and confirmation in Node . js packages without dedicated static/dynamic analysis engines for path derivation. For packages from public benchmarks, LLMVD . js confirms 84% of the vulnerabilities, compared to less than 22% for prior program analysis tools. It also outperforms a prior LLM-program-analysis hybrid approach while requiring neither vulnerability annotations nor prior vulnerability reports. When evaluated on a set of 260 recently released packages (without vulnerability groundtruth information), traditional tools produce validated exploits for few ( \leq 2 ) packages, while LLMVD . js generates validated exploits for 36 packages.
[AI-41] Physics-Enhanced Deep Learning for Proactive Thermal Runaway Forecasting in Li-Ion Batteries
【速读】：该论文旨在解决锂离子电池热失控预测中数据驱动模型（如LSTM）因违反热力学原理而导致物理不一致预测的问题，同时克服纯物理模型在实时应用中计算成本高、参数标定困难的局限。解决方案的关键在于提出一种物理信息增强的长短期记忆网络（Physics-Informed Long Short-Term Memory, PI-LSTM），通过在损失函数中引入基于热传导控制方程的物理正则化项，将热扩散约束直接嵌入深度学习架构中，从而在保证高精度的同时提升模型的物理一致性与泛化能力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20175
作者: Salman Khan,Muhammad Zunair Zamir,Syed Sajid Ullah,Jie Li
机构: 未知
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Accurate prediction of thermal runaway in lithium-ion batteries is essential for ensuring the safety, efficiency, and reliability of modern energy storage systems. Conventional data-driven approaches, such as Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, can capture complex temporal dependencies but often violate thermodynamic principles, resulting in physically inconsistent predictions. Conversely, physics-based thermal models provide interpretability but are computationally expensive and difficult to parameterize for real-time applications. To bridge this gap, this study proposes a Physics-Informed Long Short-Term Memory (PI-LSTM) framework that integrates governing heat transfer equations directly into the deep learning architecture through a physics-based regularization term in the loss function. The model leverages multi-feature input sequences, including state of charge, voltage, current, mechanical stress, and surface temperature, to forecast battery temperature evolution while enforcing thermal diffusion constraints. Extensive experiments conducted on thirteen lithium-ion battery datasets demonstrate that the proposed PI-LSTM achieves an 81.9% reduction in root mean square error (RMSE) and an 81.3% reduction in mean absolute error (MAE) compared to the standard LSTM baseline, while also outperforming CNN-LSTM and multilayer perceptron (MLP) models by wide margins. The inclusion of physical constraints enhances the model’s generalization across diverse operating conditions and eliminates non-physical temperature oscillations. These results confirm that physics-informed deep learning offers a viable pathway toward interpretable, accurate, and real-time thermal management in next-generation battery systems.
[AI-42] Stateless Decision Memory for Enterprise AI Agents
【速读】：该论文试图解决企业在受监管领域（如承保、理赔裁定、税务审查）中部署长周期决策代理时，为何仍普遍采用检索增强型流水线而非更先进的状态记忆架构的问题。核心矛盾在于：尽管状态记忆架构在理论上更强大，但其违反了企业级部署的四个关键系统属性——确定性重放（deterministic replay）、可审计推理依据（auditable rationale）、多租户隔离（multi-tenant isolation）和无状态以支持水平扩展（statelessness for horizontal scale）。论文提出的关键解决方案是确定性投影记忆（Deterministic Projection Memory, DPM），其本质是一个只追加的日志事件流加上一个任务条件化的决策时刻投影机制。DPM通过将记忆压缩为单次LLM调用实现高效推理，在有限内存预算下显著优于传统摘要式记忆方法（如20倍压缩比下事实精度提升+0.52，推理连贯性提升+0.53），且具备更强的可审计性和运行效率（决策时仅需1次LLM调用，而摘要法需N次），从而证明“无状态”才是企业偏好弱但可重放的检索管道的根本原因，并展示了无需牺牲决策能力即可实现该属性的可能性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20158
作者: Vasundra Srinivasan
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 16 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables. Companion paper to “Four-Axis Decision Alignment for Long-Horizon Enterprise AI Agents” (arXiv:TBD). Code and reproducibility artifacts at this https URL
Abstract:Enterprise deployment of long-horizon decision agents in regulated domains (underwriting, claims adjudication, tax examination) is dominated by retrieval-augmented pipelines despite a decade of increasingly sophisticated stateful memory architectures. We argue this reflects a hidden requirement: regulated deployment is load-bearing on four systems properties (deterministic replay, auditable rationale, multi-tenant isolation, statelessness for horizontal scale), and stateful architectures violate them by construction. We propose Deterministic Projection Memory (DPM): an append-only event log plus one task-conditioned projection at decision time. On ten regulated decisioning cases at three memory budgets, DPM matches summarization-based memory at generous budgets and substantially outperforms it when the budget binds: at a 20x compression ratio, DPM improves factual precision by +0.52 (Cohen’s h=1.17, p=0.0014) and reasoning coherence by +0.53 (h=1.13, p=0.0034), paired permutation, n=10. DPM is additionally 7-15x faster at binding budgets, making one LLM call at decision time instead of N. A determinism study of 10 replays per case at temperature zero shows both architectures inherit residual API-level nondeterminism, but the asymmetry is structural: DPM exposes one nondeterministic call; summarization exposes N compounding calls. The audit surface follows the same one-versus-N pattern: DPM logs two LLM calls per decision while summarization logs 83-97 on LongHorizon-Bench. We conclude with TAMS, a practitioner heuristic for architecture selection, and a failure analysis of stateful memory under enterprise operating conditions. The contribution is the argument that statelessness is the load-bearing property explaining enterprise’s preference for weaker but replayable retrieval pipelines, and that DPM demonstrates this property is attainable without the decisioning penalty retrieval pays.
[AI-43] HiPO: Hierarchical Preference Optimization for Adaptive Reasoning in LLM s
【速读】：该论文旨在解决直接偏好优化（Direct Preference Optimization, DPO）在复杂推理任务中表现不足的问题，即DPO缺乏对多步骤解决方案中子部分的细粒度反馈能力，导致其难以有效提升模型在数学推理等需要结构化思维的任务上的性能。解决方案的关键在于提出层次偏好优化（Hierarchical Preference Optimization, HiPO），通过将响应分解为推理片段（包括问题澄清与上下文、推理步骤和答案），并计算各片段上DPO损失的加权和，从而实现对不同片段的差异化训练，同时保持DPO原有的计算效率和训练稳定性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20140
作者: Darsh Kachroo,Adriana Caraeni,Arjun Prasaath Anbazhagan,Brennan Lagasse,Kevin Zhu
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: 12 pages, 4 figures, 6 tables. Includes ablation study across Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct and Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct on 5 math reasoning benchmarks (GSM8K, MATH500, Minerva, AIME24, Gaokao2023). GPT-4.1 used for structured evaluation of reasoning quality
Abstract:Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) is an effective framework for aligning large language models with human preferences, but it struggles with complex reasoning tasks. DPO optimizes for the likelihood of generating preferred over dispreferred responses in their entirety and lacks the granularity to provide feedback on subsections of many-step solutions typical of reasoning tasks. Existing methods excel at either stable preference learning (e.g., DPO variants like KTO and RSO) or structured reasoning (e.g., ReMA’s multi-agent RL framework, Tree of Thoughts), but fail to merge these complementary strengths. We propose HiPO (Hierarchical Preference Optimization), an extension of DPO that separates responses into reasoning segments (query clarification and context, reasoning steps, and answer) and computes loss as a weighted sum of the DPO loss for each segment. Our approach enables segment-specific training while maintaining DPO’s computational efficiency and training stability. We demonstrate that for multiple 7B LLMs fine-tuned using HiPO and DPO on the Math Stack Exchange preference dataset, the models trained with HiPO outperform the others on a variety of common math benchmarks and achieve greater organization, logical flow, and consistency as measured by GPT-4.1.
[AI-44] EvoAgent : An Evolvable Agent Framework with Skill Learning and Multi-Agent Delegation
【速读】：该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Model, LLM）在复杂现实任务中能力有限、难以持续进化和专业化的问题。其核心挑战在于如何实现技能的结构化管理、动态任务分解以及长期能力积累，从而提升LLM在专业场景下的实用性与准确性。解决方案的关键在于提出EvoAgent框架，该框架通过将技能建模为带有触发机制和演化元数据的多文件结构化单元，并结合分层子代理委派机制与用户反馈驱动的闭环优化流程，实现了技能的持续生成与迭代；同时引入三阶段技能匹配策略与三层记忆架构，支持复杂问题的动态分解与长期能力沉淀，显著提升了LLM在真实外贸场景中的表现，验证了模型与代理架构之间协同效应的重要性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20133
作者: Aimin Zhang,Jiajing Guo,Fuwei Jia,Chen Lv,Boyu Wang,Fangzheng Li
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:This paper proposes EvoAgent - an evolvable large language model (LLM) agent framework that integrates structured skill learning with a hierarchical sub-agent delegation mechanism. EvoAgent models skills as multi-file structured capability units equipped with triggering mechanisms and evolutionary metadata, and enables continuous skill generation and optimization through a user-feedback-driven closed-loop process. In addition, by incorporating a three-stage skill matching strategy and a three-layer memory architecture, the framework supports dynamic task decomposition for complex problems and long-term capability accumulation. Experimental results based on real-world foreign trade scenarios demonstrate that, after integrating EvoAgent, GPT5.2 achieves significant improvements in professionalism, accuracy, and practical utility. Under a five-dimensional LLM-as-Judge evaluation protocol, the overall average score increases by approximately 28%. Further model transfer experiments indicate that the performance of an agent system depends not only on the intrinsic capabilities of the underlying model, but also on the degree of synergy between the model and the agent architecture.
[AI-45] Adaptive Conformal Anomaly Detection with Time Series Foundation Models for Signal Monitoring
【速读】：该论文旨在解决工业场景中时间序列异常检测的若干关键挑战，包括数据稀缺、缺乏训练专家以及对即时推理的需求，同时应对分布偏移带来的校准失效问题。其解决方案的关键在于提出一种后验自适应的保形异常检测方法（post-hoc adaptive conformal anomaly detection），该方法利用预训练基础模型（foundation models）的预测结果，无需额外微调即可生成可解释的异常分数（interpretability as a p-value），并通过加权分位数保形预测边界和自适应学习最优权重参数，在分布变化下保持稳定的假警报率控制，并保留样本外保证（out-of-sample guarantees）。此方法具有模型无关性（model-agnostic），易于集成到各类基础模型中，适用于资源受限环境下的快速部署。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20122
作者: Natalia Martinez Gil,Fearghal O’Donncha,Wesley M. Gifford,Nianjun Zhou,Dhaval C. Patel,Roman Vaculin
机构: 未知
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:We propose a post-hoc adaptive conformal anomaly detection method for monitoring time series that leverages predictions from pre-trained foundation models without requiring additional fine-tuning. Our method yields an interpretable anomaly score directly interpretable as a false alarm rate (p-value), facilitating transparent and actionable decision-making. It employs weighted quantile conformal prediction bounds and adaptively learns optimal weighting parameters from past predictions, enabling calibration under distribution shifts and stable false alarm control, while preserving out-of-sample guarantees. As a model-agnostic solution, it integrates seamlessly with foundation models and supports rapid deployment in resource-constrained environments. This approach addresses key industrial challenges such as limited data availability, lack of training expertise, and the need for immediate inference, while taking advantage of the growing accessibility of time series foundation models. Experiments on both synthetic and real-world datasets show that the proposed approach delivers strong performance, combining simplicity, interpretability, robustness, and adaptivity.
[AI-46] On the Stability and Generalization of First-order Bilevel Minimax Optimization
【速读】：该论文旨在解决 bilevel minimax 优化算法在实际应用中的泛化能力问题，尤其是针对基于一阶梯度的求解器缺乏系统性理论分析这一关键空白。其解决方案的关键在于引入算法稳定性（algorithmic stability）的分析框架，首次为三类代表性算法——单时尺度随机梯度下降-上升法（single-timescale stochastic gradient descent-ascent）及其两种双时尺度变体（two-timescale stochastic gradient descent-ascent）——提供了精细的泛化误差边界。通过理论推导揭示了算法稳定性、泛化差距与实际优化设置之间的精确权衡关系，从而为 bilevel minimax 优化方法的可靠性提供了坚实的理论支撑，并经由大量实验验证了理论洞察的有效性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20115
作者: Xuelin Zhang,Peipei Yuan
机构: 未知
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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Abstract:Bilevel optimization and bilevel minimax optimization have recently emerged as unifying frameworks for a range of machine-learning tasks, including hyperparameter optimization and reinforcement learning. The existing literature focuses on empirical efficiency and convergence guarantees, leaving a critical theoretical gap in understanding how well these algorithms generalize. To bridge this gap, we provide the first systematic generalization analysis for first-order gradient-based bilevel minimax solvers with lower-level minimax problems. Specifically, by leveraging algorithmic stability arguments, we derive fine-grained generalization bounds for three representative algorithms, including single-timescale stochastic gradient descent-ascent, and two variants of two-timescale stochastic gradient descent-ascent. Our results reveal a precise trade-off among algorithmic stability, generalization gaps, and practical settings. Furthermore, extensive empirical evaluations corroborate our theoretical insights on realistic optimization tasks with bilevel minimax structures.
[AI-47] Meta Additive Model: Interpretable Sparse Learning With Auto Weighting
【速读】：该论文旨在解决现有稀疏加法模型（Sparse Additive Models, SAM）在复杂噪声环境下（如非高斯扰动、异常值、标签噪声和类别不平衡）性能显著下降的问题。传统方法通常基于均方误差准则进行单层学习，难以有效应对数据污染；而现有的样本重加权策略虽可降低模型对异常数据的敏感性，但需预先设定权重函数并手动调参，缺乏自动化与适应性。论文提出的元加法模型（Meta Additive Model, MAM）通过双层优化框架，利用多层感知机（MLP）在元数据上参数化权重函数，从而实现数据驱动的个体损失权重学习，无需人工指定权重形式或额外超参数。MAM的关键创新在于将权重学习嵌入到元学习机制中，使模型能够自动适应不同类型的噪声分布，并在变量选择、鲁棒回归和不平衡分类等任务中表现出优越性能，同时理论保证了其计算收敛性、算法泛化能力和变量选择一致性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20111
作者: Xuelin Zhang,Xinyue Liu,Lingjuan Wu,Hong Chen
机构: 未知
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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Abstract:Sparse additive models have attracted much attention in high-dimensional data analysis due to their flexible representation and strong interpretability. However, most existing models are limited to single-level learning under the mean-squared error criterion, whose empirical performance can degrade significantly in the presence of complex noise, such as non-Gaussian perturbations, outliers, noisy labels, and imbalanced categories. The sample reweighting strategy is widely used to reduce the model’s sensitivity to atypical data; however, it typically requires prespecifying the weighting functions and manually selecting additional hyperparameters. To address this issue, we propose a new meta additive model (MAM) based on the bilevel optimization framework, which learns data-driven weighting of individual losses by parameterizing the weighting function via an MLP trained on meta data. MAM is capable of a variety of learning tasks, including variable selection, robust regression estimation, and imbalanced classification. Theoretically, MAM provides guarantees on convergence in computation, algorithmic generalization, and variable selection consistency under mild conditions. Empirically, MAM outperforms several state-of-the-art additive models on both synthetic and real-world data under various data corruptions.
[AI-48] Learning to Solve the Quadratic Assignment Problem with Warm-Started MCMC Finetuning
【速读】：该论文旨在解决二次指派问题（Quadratic Assignment Problem, QAP）在真实世界结构多样实例中，传统启发式算法与基于学习的求解器难以保持一致竞争力的问题。其核心解决方案是提出PLMA框架，关键创新在于：1）设计一种高效的基于马尔可夫链蒙特卡洛（MCMC）的热启动微调机制，利用短马尔可夫链锚定先前探索到的高潜力区域以提升部署阶段性能；2）构建一个加性能量模型（Additive Energy-Based Model, EBM），实现O(1)时间复杂度的2-交换Metropolis-Hastings采样步骤，加速对排列空间的探索；3）引入**跨图注意力机制（cross-graph attention mechanism）**的神经网络结构，有效建模设施与位置间的交互关系，从而增强模型的可扩展性和灵活性。实验表明，PLMA在多个基准测试中均显著优于现有最优方法，尤其在QAPLIB上接近零平均最优性间隙，在Taixxeyy等难题实例上展现出卓越鲁棒性，并能有效应用于带宽最小化任务。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20109
作者: Yicheng Pan,Ruisong Zhou,Haijun Zou,Tianyou Li,Zaiwen Wen
机构: 未知
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Optimization and Control (math.OC)
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Abstract:The quadratic assignment problem (QAP) is a fundamental NP-hard task that poses significant challenges for both traditional heuristics and modern learning-based solvers. Existing QAP solvers still struggle to achieve consistently competitive performance across structurally diverse real-world instances. To bridge this performance gap, we propose PLMA, an innovative permutation learning framework. PLMA features an efficient warm-started MCMC finetuning procedure to enhance deployment-time performance, leveraging short Markov chains to anchor the adaptation to the promising regions previously explored. For rapid exploration via MCMC over the permutation space, we design an additive energy-based model (EBM) that enables an O(1) -time 2-swap Metropolis-Hastings sampling step. Moreover, the neural network used to parameterize the EBM incorporates a scalable and flexible cross-graph attention mechanism to model interactions between facilities and locations in the QAP. Extensive experiments demonstrate that PLMA consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines across various benchmarks. In particular, PLMA achieves a near-zero average optimality gap on QAPLIB, exhibits remarkably superior robustness on the notoriously difficult Taixxeyy instances, and also serves as an effective QAP solver in bandwidth minimization.
[AI-49] Separable Pathways for Causal Reasoning : How Architectural Scaffolding Enables Hypothesis-Space Restructuring in LLM Agents
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前人工智能（AI）代理在因果发现任务中缺乏重构假设空间（hypothesis space）能力的问题，即当证据要求使用未预先构建的表示时，现有AI系统无法动态调整其推理框架。解决方案的关键在于提出一种组合式架构，包含两个离散组件：一是上下文图（context graphs），将探索过程结构化为类型化的状态机，提升假设空间内推理的质量；二是动态行为模块（dynamic behaviors），实时监测证据以识别当前假设空间不足的情况，并在运行时扩展假设空间。实验表明，这两个组件贡献正交：上下文图负责提升切换后假设空间内的推理质量（占准确率提升的94%），而动态行为则通过检测范式变化防止过早锁定过时假设，从而决定推理是否可行。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20039
作者: John Alderete,Sebastian Benthal,Connie Xu,John Xing
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Causal discovery through experimentation and intervention is fundamental to robust problem solving. It requires not just updating beliefs within a fixed framework but revising the hypothesis space itself, a capacity current AI agents lack when evidence demands representations they have not previously constructed. We extend the blicket detector paradigm from developmental science to test this capacity in AI agents equipped with architectural scaffolding that targets hypothesis-space restructuring. Our compositional architecture has two discrete components: context graphs, which structure exploration as typed state machines, and dynamic behaviors, which monitor for evidence that the current hypothesis space is inadequate and expand it at runtime. Across 1,085 experimental trials, these components make orthogonal contributions: context graphs drive reasoning quality within the post-switch hypothesis space, accounting for 94% of the accuracy gain, while dynamic behaviors drive reasoning eligibility by detecting regime changes and preventing premature commitment to outdated hypotheses.
[AI-50] What Makes a Good AI Review? Concern-Level Diagnostics for AI Peer Review
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前AI生成审稿意见（AI-generated reviews）评价方法中存在的局限性问题，即现有评估多聚焦于最终判决（verdict）层面的一致性，而忽视了系统对具体审稿关切点（concerns）的识别、优先级排序及其与人工审稿理由之间的一致性。这一缺陷导致无法准确诊断AI审稿系统的实际质量，例如高判决准确率可能掩盖其在关键关切识别上的偏差或过度标记非决定性问题。解决方案的关键在于提出“关切对齐”（concern alignment）这一诊断框架，其核心是构建匹配图（match graph），该图以二部图形式对齐官方审稿意见与AI生成的关切，并标注匹配类型、严重程度及反驳后处理情况；由此衍生出从二元准确性到关切检测、判决分层行为、决策感知校准、反驳感知分解的多层级评估阶梯，从而实现对AI审稿系统在关切识别、权重分配和逻辑一致性方面的精细化审计。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19998
作者: Ming Jin
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Evaluating AI-generated reviews by verdict agreement is widely recognized as insufficient, yet current alternatives rarely audit which concerns a system identifies, how it prioritizes them, or whether those priorities align with the review rationale that shaped the final assessment. We propose concern alignment, a diagnostic framework that evaluates AI reviews at the concern level rather than only at the verdict level. The framework’s core data structure is the match graph, a bipartite alignment between official and AI-generated concerns annotated with match type, severity, and post-rebuttal treatment. From this artifact we derive an evaluation ladder that moves from binary accuracy to concern detection, verdict-stratified behavior, decision-aware calibration, and rebuttal-aware decomposition. In a pilot study of four public AI review systems evaluated in six configurations, concern-level analysis suggests that detection alone does not determine review quality; calibration is often the binding constraint. Systems detect non-trivial fractions of official concerns yet most mark 25–55% of concerns on accepted papers as decisive, where, under our operationalization, no official concern on accepted papers was treated as a decisive blocker. Identical overall verdict accuracy can conceal reject-heavy behavior versus low-recall profiles, and low full-review false decisive rates can partly reflect concern dilution rather than calibrated prioritization. Most systems do not emit a native accept/reject, and inferring it from review tone is method-sensitive, reinforcing the need for concern-level diagnostics that remain stable across inference choices. The contribution is a reusable evaluation framework for auditing which concerns AI reviewers identify, how they weight them, and whether those priorities align with the review rationale that informed the paper’s final assessment.
[AI-51] Generalization and Membership Inference Attack a Practical Perspective
【速读】：该论文旨在解决Membership Inference Attack (MIA) 成功率与模型泛化能力之间关系的争议问题，通过实证方法重新评估以往被广泛接受的假设。其解决方案的关键在于：采用增强（augmentation）技术和早停（early stopping）策略来提升模型泛化能力，并验证这些技术对MIA成功率的显著抑制作用——实验表明，先进泛化技术可使攻击性能降低高达100倍；同时，结合多种方法不仅进一步改善泛化效果，还通过训练过程中的随机性有效削弱攻击有效性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19936
作者: Fateme Rahmani,Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani,Mohammad Hossein Rohban
机构: 未知
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:With the emergence of new evaluation metrics and attack methodologies for Membership Inference Attacks (MIA), it becomes essential to reevaluate previously accepted assumptions. In this paper, we revisit the longstanding debate regarding the correlation between MIA success rates and model generalization using an empirical approach. We focused on employing augmentation techniques and early stopping to enhance model generalization and examined their impact on MIA success rates. We found that utilizing advanced generalization techniques can significantly decrease attack performance, potentially by up to 100 times. Moreover, combining these methods not only improves model generalization but also reduces attack effectiveness by introducing randomness during training. Additionally, our study confirmed the direct impact of generalization on MIA performance through an analysis of over 1K models in a controlled environment.
[AI-52] CreativeGame:Toward Mechanic-Aware Creative Game Generation
【速读】：该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在生成HTML5游戏时面临的三大挑战：单次生成导致运行时行为脆弱、版本间经验难以积累，以及创意评估主观性强且无法作为可靠优化信号；此外，游戏机制（game mechanics）常被当作事后描述而非可规划、追踪和评估的显式对象。解决方案的关键在于提出一个名为CreativeGame的多智能体系统，其核心创新包括四个协同机制：基于程序化信号的代理奖励（proxy reward），用于替代纯LLM判断；基于版本谱系（lineage-scoped memory）的记忆机制，实现跨版本经验累积；集成运行时验证的修复与奖励流程；以及基于检索到的游戏机制知识进行显式计划（mechanic-guided planning loop）后再生成代码的迭代循环。该设计不仅支持生成可玩的游戏产物，更实现了可解释的版本间演化过程，从而为观察机制层面的渐进式创新提供了结构化管道。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19926
作者: Hongnan Ma,Han Wang,Shenglin Wang,Tieyue Yin,Yiwei Shi,Yucong Huang,Yingtian Zou,Muning Wen,Mengyue Yang
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Large language models can generate plausible game code, but turning this capability into \emphiterative creative improvement remains difficult. In practice, single-shot generation often produces brittle runtime behavior, weak accumulation of experience across versions, and creativity scores that are too subjective to serve as reliable optimization signals. A further limitation is that mechanics are frequently treated only as post-hoc descriptions, rather than as explicit objects that can be planned, tracked, preserved, and evaluated during generation. This report presents \textbfCreativeGame, a multi-agent system for iterative HTML5 game generation that addresses these issues through four coupled ideas: a proxy reward centered on programmatic signals rather than pure LLM judgment; lineage-scoped memory for cross-version experience accumulation; runtime validation integrated into both repair and reward; and a mechanic-guided planning loop in which retrieved mechanic knowledge is converted into an explicit mechanic plan before code generation begins. The goal is not merely to produce a playable artifact in one step, but to support interpretable version-to-version evolution. The current system contains 71 stored lineages, 88 saved nodes, and a 774-entry global mechanic archive, implemented in 6,181 lines of Python together with inspection and visualization tooling. The system is therefore substantial enough to support architectural analysis, reward inspection, and real lineage-level case studies rather than only prompt-level demos. A real 4-generation lineage shows that mechanic-level innovation can emerge in later versions and can be inspected directly through version-to-version records. The central contribution is therefore not only game generation, but a concrete pipeline for observing progressive evolution through explicit mechanic change. Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2604.19926 [cs.AI] (or arXiv:2604.19926v1 [cs.AI] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.19926 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Yiwei Shi [view email] [v1] Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:16:33 UTC (426 KB)
[AI-53] A Multi-Plant Machine Learning Framework for Emission Prediction Forecasting and Control in Cement Manufacturing
【速读】：该论文旨在解决水泥生产过程中氮氧化物（NOx）排放控制效率低下的问题，传统选择性非催化还原（SNCR）技术存在氨（NH₃）利用效率低、运行成本高和减排效果不稳定等瓶颈。解决方案的关键在于构建一个基于大规模运行数据的数据驱动型排放控制框架，通过机器学习模型精准预测NOx生成行为，识别其过程记忆特性（即短时工艺历史对NOx预测精度提升近三倍），并提前九分钟预警NOx超标趋势，从而实现源头控制，减少下游SNCR所需的NH₃用量。该方法无需结构改造或新增硬件，可使NOx排放降低约34–64%，年节省NH₃费用约5.8万美元，具备在钢铁、玻璃、石灰等难减排行业推广的通用性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19903
作者: Sheikh Junaid Fayaz,Nestor D. Montiel-Bohorquez,Wilson Ricardo Leal da Silva,Shashank Bishnoi,Matteo Romano,Manuele Gatti,N. M. Anoop Krishnan
机构: 未知
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computers and Society (cs.CY)
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Abstract:Cement production is among the largest contributors to industrial air pollution, emitting ~3 Mt NOx/year. The industry-standard mitigation approach, selective non-catalytic reduction (SNCR), exhibits low NH3 utilization efficiency, resulting in operational inefficiencies and increased reagent costs. Here, we develop a data-driven framework for emission control using large-scale operational data from four cement plants worldwide. Benchmarking nine machine learning architectures, we observe that prediction error varies ~3-5x across plants due to variation in data richness. Incorporating short-term process history nearly triples NOx prediction accuracy, revealing that NOx formation carries substantial process memory, a timescale dependence that is absent in CO and CO2. Further, we develop models that forecast NOx overshoots as early as nine minutes, providing a buffer for operational adjustments. The developed framework controls NOx formation at the source, reducing NH3 consumption in downstream SNCR. Surrogate model projections estimate a ~34-64% reduction in NOx while preserving clinker quality, corresponding to a reduction of ~290 t NOx/year and ~58,000 USD/year in NH3 savings. This work establishes a generalizable framework for data-driven emission control, offering a pathway toward low-emission operation without structural modifications or additional hardware, with potential applicability to other hard-to-abate industries such as steel, glass, and lime.
[AI-54] Learning When Not to Decide: A Framework for Overcoming Factual Presumptuousness in AI Adjudication
【速读】：该论文旨在解决人工智能系统在法律应用场景中表现出的“ presumptuousness（自以为是）”问题，即在信息不充分时仍给出自信的判断，这在失业保险裁决等需严格证据支持的领域尤为关键。解决方案的核心在于提出一种结构化提示框架——SPEC（Structured Prompting for Evidence Checklists），其要求模型在作出任何结论前必须显式识别缺失信息，从而避免无依据的决策；实验证明，SPEC在整体准确率上达到89%，同时能正确推迟对证据不足案件的判断，有效缓解了AI系统的自以为是倾向，为可靠辅助人类决策提供了可行路径。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19895
作者: Mohamed Afane,Emily Robitschek,Derek Ouyang,Daniel E. Ho
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:A well-known limitation of AI systems is presumptuousness: the tendency of AI systems to provide confident answers when information may be lacking. This challenge is particularly acute in legal applications, where a core task for attorneys, judges, and administrators is to determine whether evidence is sufficient to reach a conclusion. We study this problem in the important setting of unemployment insurance adjudication, which has seen rapid integration of AI systems and where the question of additional fact-finding poses the most significant bottleneck for a system that affects millions of applicants annually. First, through a collaboration with the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, we secure rare access to official training materials and guidance to design a novel benchmark that systematically varies in information completeness. Second, we evaluate four leading AI platforms and show that standard RAG-based approaches achieve an average of only 15% accuracy when information is insufficient. Third, advanced prompting methods improve accuracy on inconclusive cases but over-correct, withholding decisions even on clear cases. Fourth, we introduce a structured framework requiring explicit identification of missing information before any determination (SPEC, Structured Prompting for Evidence Checklists). SPEC achieves 89% overall accuracy, while appropriately deferring when evidence is insufficient – demonstrating that presumptuousness in legal AI is systematic but addressable, and that doing so is a necessary step towards systems that reliably support, rather than supplant, human judgment wherever decisions must await sufficient evidence.
[AI-55] ChipCraftBrain: Validation-First RTL Generation via Multi-Agent Orchestration
【速读】：该论文旨在解决生成式 AI (Generative AI) 在自动 Register-Transfer Level (RTL) 代码生成中功能性正确率低、缺乏工业级验证以及合成意识不足的问题。现有方法如单次生成仅能达到60–65%的功能正确率，而多智能体方法虽在标准基准上表现优异（如MAGE达95.9%），但在更复杂的工业场景（如NVIDIA的CVDP）中未被验证，且存在API成本高和设计流程不透明等问题。解决方案的关键在于提出ChipCraftBrain框架，其核心创新包括：(1) 基于PPO策略的自适应多智能体编排机制，通过168维状态空间实现动态任务分配；(2) 符号-神经混合架构，结合算法求解K-map与真值表问题与专用智能体处理时序波形和通用RTL逻辑；(3) 知识增强生成，利用321种模式模板与971个开源参考实现进行聚焦检索；(4) 分层规格分解与接口同步机制，支持模块化设计并提升可综合性和可验证性。实验表明，该方案在VerilogEval-Human上达到97.2% pass@1，在CVDP非代理子集上达94.7%，显著优于基线方法，并在RISC-V SoC案例研究中成功生成8个lint通过模块，验证了其在复杂硬件系统中的实用性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19856
作者: Cagri Eryilmaz
机构: 未知
类目: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise for generating Register-Transfer Level (RTL) code from natural language specifications, but single-shot generation achieves only 60-65% functional correctness on standard benchmarks. Multi-agent approaches such as MAGE reach 95.9% on VerilogEval yet remain untested on harder industrial benchmarks such as NVIDIA’s CVDP, lack synthesis awareness, and incur high API costs. We present ChipCraftBrain, a framework combining symbolic-neural reasoning with adaptive multi-agent orchestration for automated RTL generation. Four innovations drive the system: (1) adaptive orchestration over six specialized agents via a PPO policy over a 168-dim state (an alternative world-model MPC planner is also evaluated); (2) a hybrid symbolic-neural architecture that solves K-map and truth-table problems algorithmically while specialized agents handle waveform timing and general RTL; (3) knowledge-augmented generation from a 321-pattern base plus 971 open-source reference implementations with focus-aware retrieval; and (4) hierarchical specification decomposition into dependency-ordered sub-modules with interface synchronization. On VerilogEval-Human, ChipCraftBrain achieves 97.2% mean pass@1 (range 96.15-98.72% across 7 runs, best 154/156), on par with ChipAgents (97.4%, self-reported) and ahead of MAGE (95.9%). On a 302-problem non-agentic subset of CVDP spanning five task categories, we reach 94.7% mean pass@1 (286/302, averaged over 3 runs), a 36-60 percentage-point lift per category over the published single-shot baseline; we additionally lead three of four categories shared with NVIDIA’s ACE-RTL despite using roughly 30x fewer per-problem attempts. A RISC-V SoC case study demonstrates hierarchical decomposition generating 8/8 lint-passing modules (689 LOC) validated on FPGA, where monolithic generation fails entirely. Comments: 17 pages, 6 figures. Preprint Subjects: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG) ACMclasses: B.5.1; B.6.3; I.2.2; I.2.6 Cite as: arXiv:2604.19856 [cs.AR] (or arXiv:2604.19856v1 [cs.AR] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.19856 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[AI-56] Is Four Enough? Automated Reasoning Approaches and Dual Bounds for Condorcet Dimensions of Elections
【速读】：该论文旨在解决选举中Condorcet获胜集（Condorcet winning set）的最小规模问题，即确定在任意排名投票选举中，为确保存在一个由k名候选人组成的委员会，使得对任何非成员候选人，多数选民偏好委员会中的至少一名成员，所需的最小k值。当前理论已知下界为k≥3、上界为k≤5，但两者之间存在显著差距。论文的关键解决方案是采用自动化推理方法，设计一种混合整数线性规划（Mixed-Integer Linear Program, MILP）模型来搜索可能作为反例的选举实例，并通过对称性破除、子采样和约束生成等优化技术提升搜索效率，同时利用线性规划松弛的对偶问题分析，提出一个新猜想——若成立，则可证明k=4时总存在获胜集，从而缩小现有上下界差距。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19851
作者: Itai Zilberstein,Ratip Emin Berker,George Li,Ruben Martins
机构: 未知
类目: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:In an election where n voters rank m candidates, a Condorcet winning set is a committee of k candidates such that for any outside candidate, a majority of voters prefer some committee member. Condorcet’s paradox shows that some elections admit no Condorcet winning sets with a single candidate (i.e., k=1 ), and the same can be shown for k=2 . On the other hand, recent work proves that a set of size k=5 exists for every election. This leaves an important theoretical gap between the best known lower bound (k\geq 3) and upper bound (k \leq 5) for the number of candidates needed to guarantee existence. We aim to close the gap between the existence guarantees and impossibility results for Condorcet winning sets. We explore an automated reasoning approach to tighten these bounds. We design a mixed-integer linear program (MILP) to search for elections that would serve as counter-examples to conjectured bounds. We employ a number of optimizations, such as symmetry breaking, subsampling, and constraint generation, to enhance the search and model effectively infinite electorates. Furthermore, we analyze the dual of the linear programming relaxation as a path towards obtaining a new upper bound. Despite extensive search on moderate-sized elections, we fail to find any election requiring a committee larger than size 3. Motivated by our experimental results in this direction, we simplify the dual linear program and formulate a conjecture which, if true, implies that a winning set of size 4 always exists. Our automated reasoning results provide strong empirical evidence that the Condorcet dimension of any election may be smaller than currently known upper bounds, at least for small instances. We offer a general-purpose framework for searching elections in ranked voting and a new, concrete analytical path via duality toward proving that smaller committees suffice.
[AI-57] Deconstructing Superintelligence: Identity Self-Modification and Différance
【速读】：该论文旨在解决人工超智能（Artificial Superintelligence, ASI）中自修改（self-modification）行为的逻辑一致性问题，即当系统试图对其自身进行修改时，如何避免因自我指涉引发的悖论与结构崩溃。其解决方案的关键在于构建一个基于关联算子代数 A 的形式框架，引入更新算子 U^、判别算子 D^ 和自表示算子 R^，并将补充结构识别为 Comm(U^)（即与更新算子可交换的算子集合）。通过一个展开定理证明 [U^,R^] 可分解为 [U^,D^]，从而揭示非对易性在系统中的普遍传播机制；这一机制使得经典“说谎者悖论”（liar paradox）作为换位子坍缩 [T^,ΠL]=0 的特例得以形式化，并进一步表明类 A 自修改在系统尺度上实现相同坍缩，最终与Priest的封闭schema和Derrida的diffèrance结构一致，从而提供了一种在不破坏系统一致性前提下实现可控自修改的形式基础。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19845
作者: Elija Perrier
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: Under review
Abstract:Self-modification is often taken as constitutive of artificial superintelligence (SI), yet modification is a relative action requiring a supplement outside the operation. When self-modification extends to this supplement, the classical self-referential structure collapses. We formalise this on an associative operator algebra \mathcalA with update \hatU , discrimination \hatD , and self-representation \hatR , identifying the supplement with \mathrmComm(\hatU) ; an expansion theorem shows that [\hatU,\hatR] decomposes through [\hatU,\hatD] , so non-commutation generically propagates. The liar paradox appears as a commutator collapse [\hatT,\Pi_L]=0 , and class \mathbfA self-modification realises the same collapse at system scale, yielding a structure coinciding with Priest’s inclosure schema and Derrida’s diffèrance.
[AI-58] Resolving space-sharing conflicts in road user interactions through uncertainty reduction: An active inference-based computational model
【速读】：该论文旨在解决道路使用者在空间共享冲突中如何协调行为的问题，这对交通安全性及自动驾驶车辆的安全部署至关重要。现有模型虽能捕捉交互的某些特定方面（如显式通信），但缺乏一个理论基础坚实的计算框架。其解决方案的关键在于扩展基于主动推理（Active Inference）的驾驶员行为模型，以模拟两个代理之间的互动行为，通过三种互补机制实现不确定性降低：(i) 通过直接行为耦合的隐式通信，(ii) 依赖规范性预期（如停车标志、优先规则等），以及 (iii) 显式通信。研究表明，在简化交叉口场景中，规范性和显式通信线索可提高冲突成功解决的概率，但前提是各方均按预期行动；若一方违反规范或传递误导信息，则过度依赖这些线索反而可能导致碰撞。这表明主动推理为建模道路使用者交互提供了一个新颖且具普适性的理论框架。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19838
作者: Julian F. Schumann,Johan Engström,Ran Wei,Shu-Yuan Liu,Jens Kober,Arkady Zgonnikov
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Understanding how road users resolve space-sharing conflicts is important both for traffic safety and the safe deployment of autonomous vehicles. While existing models have captured specific aspects of such interactions (e.g., explicit communication), a theoretically-grounded computational framework has been lacking. In this paper, we extend a previously developed active inference-based driver behavior model to simulate interactive behavior of two agents. Our model captures three complementary mechanisms for uncertainty reduction in interaction: (i) implicit communication via direct behavioral coupling, (ii) reliance on normative expectations (stop signs, priority rules, etc.), and (iii) explicit communication. In a simplified intersection scenario, we show that normative and explicit communication cues can increase the likelihood of a successful conflict resolution. However, this relies on agents acting as expected. In situations where another agent (intentionally or unintentionally) violates normative expectations or communicates misleading information, reliance on these cues may induce collisions. These findings illustrate how active inference can provide a novel framework for modeling road user interactions which is also applicable in other fields.
[AI-59] Expert Upcycling: Shifting the Compute-Efficient Frontier of Mixture-of-Experts
【速读】：该论文旨在解决大规模Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)模型训练成本高昂的问题，尤其是随着专家数量增加导致的显存占用和设备间通信开销显著上升。其核心挑战在于如何在不显著增加每token计算量的前提下扩展模型容量并保持性能。解决方案的关键是提出“专家升级（expert upcycling）”方法：通过在持续预训练（CPT）过程中对已训练的E-expert模型进行专家复制（duplication）与路由层扩展（router extension），在保持top-K路由策略不变的情况下将模型扩展为mE-expert结构；该过程利用复制专家获得的暖启动初始化（warm initialization）显著降低初始损失，随后通过CPT打破对称性促使专家分化与专业化，从而高效提升模型质量。该方法在7B–13B总参数规模实验中实现了与固定大小基线相当的验证损失，同时节省了32%的GPU小时数。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19835
作者: Chaitanya Dwivedi,Binxuan Huang,Himanshu Gupta,Pratik Jayarao,Neeraj Varshney,Bing Yin
机构: 未知
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 12 Pages, 5 Tables. 14 Pages in Appendix
Abstract:Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) has become the dominant architecture for scaling large language models: frontier models routinely decouple total parameters from per-token computation through sparse expert routing. Scaling laws show that under fixed active computation, model quality scales predictably with total parameters, and MoEs realize this by increasing expert count. However, training large MoEs is expensive, as memory requirements and inter-device communication both scale with total parameter count. We propose expert upcycling, a method for progressively expanding MoE capacity by increasing the number of experts during continued pre-training (CPT). Given a trained E-expert model, the upcycling operator constructs an mE-expert model through expert duplication and router extension while holding top-K routing fixed, preserving per-token inference cost. Duplication provides a warm initialization: the expanded model inherits the source checkpoint’s learned representations, starting from a substantially lower loss than random initialization. Subsequent CPT then breaks the symmetry among duplicated experts to drive specialization. We formalize the upcycling operator and develop a theoretical framework decomposing the quality gap into a capacity term and an initialization term. We further introduce utility-based expert selection, which uses gradient-based importance scores to guide non-uniform duplication, more than tripling gap closure when CPT is limited. In our 7B-13B total parameter experiments, the upcycled model matches the fixed-size baseline on validation loss while saving 32% of GPU hours. Comprehensive ablations across model scales, activation ratios, MoE architectures, and training budgets yield a practical recipe for deploying expert upcycling, establishing it as a principled, compute-efficient alternative to training large MoE models from scratch.
[AI-60] More Is Different: Toward a Theory of Emergence in AI-Native Software Ecosystems
【速读】：该论文试图解决的问题是：当前软件工程中多智能体AI系统（multi-agent AI systems）的失效模式无法用传统理论解释，即个体智能体表现正常，但其交互行为却导致整个软件生态系统的性能退化，暴露出对软件演化的理解存在根本性空白。解决方案的关键在于将AI原生软件生态系统视为复杂适应系统（Complex Adaptive Systems, CAS），通过映射Holland提出的六种CAS特性到可观测的生态系统动态中，识别出如架构熵（architectural entropy）、级联故障（cascade failures）和认知债务（comprehension debt）等涌现属性并非源于单个组件，而是由组件间交互产生；进而构建微尺度状态变量、粗粒化函数及可操作的测量框架以量化因果涌现（causal emergence），提出七个可证伪命题，从而挑战或扩展Lehman定律在代理层面假设失效时的应用边界。若验证成立，将迫使软件工程从以组件为中心转向以生态系统监控为核心的治理范式。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19827
作者: Daniel Russo
机构: 未知
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Software engineering faces a fundamental challenge: multi-agent AI systems fail in ways that defy explanation by traditional theories. While individual agents perform correctly, their interactions degrade entire ecosystems, revealing a gap in our understanding of software evolution. This paper argues that AI-native software ecosystems must be studied as complex adaptive systems (CAS), where emergent properties like architectural entropy, cascade failures, and comprehension debt arise not from individual components, but from their interactions. We map Holland’s six CAS properties onto observable ecosystem dynamics, distinguishing these systems from microservices or open-source networks. To measure causal emergence, we define micro-level state variables, coarse-graining functions, and a tractable measurement framework. Seven falsifiable propositions link CAS theory to software evolution, challenging or extending Lehman’s laws where agent-level assumptions fail. If confirmed, these findings would demand a radical shift: ecosystem-level monitoring as the primary governance mechanism for AI-native systems. If refuted, existing theories may only need incremental updates. Either way, this work forces us to ask: Can software engineering’s core assumptions survive the age of autonomous agents?
[AI-61] Co-Located Tests Better AI Code: How Test Syntax Structure Affects Foundation Model Code Generation
【速读】：该论文旨在解决生成式 AI (Generative AI) 在代码生成过程中，测试代码与实现代码的结构化方式（即内联测试 vs 分离测试）是否影响生成质量的问题。研究发现，将测试代码与实现代码共置（inline test syntax，如 Python doctests）可显著提升模型在确定性（Determinism）、保留性（Preservation）和正确性（Correctness）三个维度上的表现——尤其在所有测试模型中均实现接近100%的保留率和92–100%的正确率；而分离测试结构（如 Rust 的 #[test] 块）则暴露了模型间性能差异巨大（0–100% 正确率），且保留性与正确性之间无强关联。关键解决方案在于：通过机制分析（包括注意力可视化、敲除实验和引导实验）验证，内联测试标记在多数模型中获得更强注意力（2.8–4.4倍），表明共置设计能有效引导模型聚焦于测试意图，从而稳定并提升 AI 生成代码的质量。这一结论对基础模型时代的软件工程实践具有指导意义，建议优先采用测试与实现共置的设计模式以优化 AI 辅助编程效果。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19826
作者: Éric Jacopin
机构: 未知
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: 20 pages. Preprint; arXiv long version of a paper accepted at AIware 2026. Adds Appendices A (cross-language) and B (Python isolation) not present in the ACM camera-ready
Abstract:AI coding assistants increasingly generate code alongside tests. How developers structure test code, whether inline with the implementation or in separate blocks, has traditionally been a matter of testing philosophy. We investigate whether this choice affects AI code generation quality. We conduct a large-scale empirical study (830+ generated files, 12 models, 3 providers) using SEGA, a three-dimensional evaluation framework measuring Determinism, Preservation, and Correctness. Comparing inline test syntax (Python doctests) against separated test syntax (Rust #[test] blocks) on a d-ary heap implementation, we find that: (1) inline tests yield near-perfect preservation (100%) and correctness (92-100%) across all models; (2) separated tests expose stark model-tier gaps (0-100% correctness) and independence between preservation and correctness; (3) model behavior evolves across generations, and notably one model breaks the test suppression pattern of its three predecessors; (4) mechanistic analysis on 7 open-source architectures (6 transformers and a gated-linear Recurrent Neural Network (RNN)) reveals inline test markers receive 2.8-4.4 \times stronger attention in 5/7 models, with causal validation via knockout and steering experiments on the 4 code-specialized transformers and RWKV-6; the co-location mechanism extends to a non-transformer architecture, suggesting the design recommendation is robust to future architectural shifts. In the Foundation Model era, test syntax structure is a software design concern: co-locating tests with implementation code produces measurably better AI-generated code. This arxiv long version includes appendices that further qualify the effect as bounded by both model capability and programming language. Comments: 20 pages. Preprint; arXiv long version of a paper accepted at AIware 2026. Adds Appendices A (cross-language) and B (Python isolation) not present in the ACM camera-ready Subjects: Software Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG) Cite as: arXiv:2604.19826 [cs.SE] (or arXiv:2604.19826v1 [cs.SE] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.19826 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[AI-62] SolidCoder: Bridging the Mental-Reality Gap in LLM Code Generation through Concrete Execution ACL2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决当前生成式 AI (Generative AI) 代码生成框架中存在的“心智-现实差距”（Mental-Reality Gap）问题，即大语言模型（LLMs）在内部模拟执行过程中会错误地生成执行轨迹，并对存在缺陷的代码给出错误的正确性验证。该差距体现在两个维度：规范差距（Specification Gap，规划阶段忽略边界情况）和验证差距（Verification Gap，为有缺陷代码 hallucinate 正确行为）。解决方案的关键在于提出 SolidCoder 框架，其核心原则是“不要想象——直接执行”（don’t imagine — execute），通过 S.O.L.I.D. 架构实现：在算法设计前强制引入边界案例意识，并用基于属性的断言（property-based oracles）在沙箱环境中替代虚拟执行轨迹，从而同时缩小两个维度的差距。实验证明，该方法在 HumanEval、CodeContests 和 APPS 基准上显著优于现有方法，且收益可泛化至强化学习微调后的模型，验证了双重维度协同改进对鲁棒代码合成的重要性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19825
作者: Woojin Lee,Jin-Xia Huang
机构: 未知
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 23 pages, 2 figures, Accepted at Findings of ACL 2026
Abstract:State-of-the-art code generation frameworks rely on mental simulation, where LLMs internally trace execution to verify correctness. We expose a fundamental limitation: the Mental-Reality Gap – where models hallucinate execution traces and confidently validate buggy code. This gap manifests along two orthogonal dimensions: the Specification Gap (overlooking edge cases during planning) and the Verification Gap (hallucinating correct behavior for flawed code). We propose SolidCoder with a simple principle: don’t imagine – execute. The S.O.L.I.D. architecture addresses both dimensions by forcing edge-case awareness before algorithm design and replacing imagined traces with sandboxed execution using property-based oracles. With GPT-4o, SolidCoder achieves state-of-the-art pass@1 performance: 95.7% on HumanEval (+0.6%p), 77.0% on CodeContests (+4.3%p), and 26.7% on APPS (+3.4%p). Ablation reveals that edge-case awareness provides the largest individual gain, while execution grounding catches categorically different errors that specification improvements cannot address. These gains generalize to RL post-trained models, validating that bridging both gap dimensions is essential for robust code synthesis. We release our code and framework to facilitate future research.
[AI-63] JTPRO: A Joint Tool-Prompt Reflective Optimization Framework for Language Agents ACL-2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决大规模工具库中大语言模型（Large Language Model, LLM）代理因工具数量增多和领域专业化而导致的工具调用不可靠问题，具体表现为工具误选与槽位（slot）/值（value）实例化错误。其关键在于识别出两个根本原因：一是通用型提示（prompt）忽视了工具特异性细节；二是工具模式（schema）描述不足，缺乏对何时及如何使用工具以及参数格式的明确指导。为此，作者提出联合工具-提示反思优化（Joint Tool-Prompt Reflective Optimization, JTPRO）框架，通过滚动驱动的反思机制，在轨迹监督（trace-supervised）设置下迭代优化全局指令与每个工具的参数描述，从而提升工具选择准确性和槽位填充正确性。JTPRO 的设计强调仅保留完成正确工具区分和槽位填充所需的局部线索，实验证明其在多工具基准测试中显著优于强基线方法（如 CoT 代理和 GEPA），整体成功率（OSR）相对提升 5%-20%。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19821
作者: Sandip Ghoshal,Anshul Mittal,Jyotika Singh,Miguel Ballesteros,Weiyi Sun,Fang Tu,Shailender Singh,Yassine Benajiba,Fahad Shah,Sujeeth Bharadwaj,Sujith Ravi,Dan Roth
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Software Engineering (cs.SE)
备注: Conference: ACL-2026
Abstract:Large language model (LLM) agents augmented with external tools often struggle as number of tools grow large and become domain-specific. In such settings, ambiguous tool descriptions and under-specified agent instructions frequently lead to tool mis-selection and incorrect slot/value instantiation. We hypothesize that this is due to two root causes: generic, one-size-fits-all prompts that ignore tool-specific nuances, and underspecified tool schemas that lack clear guidance on when and how to use each tool and how to format its parameters. We introduce Joint Tool-Prompt Reflective Optimization (JTPRO), a framework for improving tool-calling reliability in trace-supervised settings by iteratively using rollout-driven reflection to co-optimize global instructions and per-tool schema/argument descriptions for accurate tool selection and argument instantiation in large tool inventories. JTPRO is designed to preserve only tool-local cues needed for correct disambiguation and slot filling. We evaluate JTPRO across multi-tool benchmarks, which account for different number of tools using three metrics: Tool Selection Accuracy (TSA), Slot Filling Accuracy(SFA), and Overall Success Rate(OSR) (correct tool + correct slots + correct values). JTPRO consistently outperforms strong baselines, including CoT-style agents, and reflective prompt optimizers such as GEPA by 5%-20% (relative) on OSR. Ablations show that joint optimization of instructions and tool schemas is more effective and robust than optimizing either component in isolation.
[AI-64] Emergence Transformer: Dynamical Temporal Attention Matters
【速读】：该论文旨在解决复杂系统中涌现现象（emergence phenomenon）的调控问题，特别是如何通过建模时间序列中的长程相互作用来增强或抑制组件间的协同振荡行为（如量子、生物物理或气候系统中的振荡相干性）。其解决方案的关键在于提出一种动态时间注意力机制（dynamical temporal attention, DTA），该机制通过引入随时间变化的查询（query）、键（key）和值（value）矩阵，使每个组件能够通过动态注意力核与其自身或邻近状态进行交互，从而实现对涌现相干性的主动调节。研究表明，邻域DTA始终促进振荡相干性，而自注意力DTA则存在最优注意力权重以最大化相干性增强效果，这归因于其对网络结构的非单调依赖关系。这一方法不仅在社会共识建模中展示了调控一致性和多样性策略的能力，还在霍普菲尔德神经网络中实现了无灾难性遗忘的持续学习，为基于DTA的网络动力学涌现调控提供了理论基础与实践范式。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19816
作者: Zihan Zhou,Bo-Wei Qin,Kai Du,Wei Lin
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:The Transformer, a breakthrough architecture in artificial intelligence, owes its success to the attention mechanism, which utilizes long-range interactions in sequential data, enabling the emergent coherence between large language models (LLMs) and data distributions. However, temporal attention, that is, different forms of long-range interactions in temporal sequences, has rarely been explored in emergence phenomenon of complex systems including oscillatory coherence in quantum, biophysical, or climate systems. Here, by designing dynamical temporal attention (DTA) with time-varying query, key, and value matrices, we propose an Emergence Transformer. This architecture allows each component to interact with its own or its neighbors’ past states through dynamical attention kernels, thereby enabling the promotion and/or suppression of the emergent coherence of components. Interestingly, we uncover that neighbor-DTA consistently promotes oscillatory coherence, whereas self-DTA exhibits an optimal attention weight for coherence enhancement, owing to its non-monotonic dependence on network structure. Practically, we demonstrate how DTA reshapes social coherence, suggesting strategies to either enhance agreement or preserve plurality. We further apply DTA to the paradigmatic Hopfield neural network, achieving emergent continual learning without catastrophic forgetting. Together, these results lay a foundation and provide an immediate paradigm for modulating emergence phenomenon in networked dynamics only using DTA.
[AI-65] Large Language Models Meet Biomedical Knowledge Graphs for Mechanistically Grounded Therapeutic Prioritization
【速读】：该论文旨在解决药物再利用（drug repurposing）中难以区分生物学上合理候选药物与仅因历史关联性强而被优先考虑的药物的问题。现有方法在识别具有潜在治疗价值的候选药物时缺乏机制解释力和临床相关性。其解决方案的关键在于提出DrugKLM这一混合框架，该框架将生物医学知识图谱（biomedical knowledge graph）的结构信息与大语言模型（large language model）驱动的机制推理相结合，从而实现基于机制的治疗优先排序。该方法不仅在基准数据集上优于仅依赖知识图谱或仅依赖语言模型的基线模型，而且其置信度评分与分子表型功能一致，能够更准确地捕捉到生物学扰动信号而非历史适应症模式，从而生成可解释且临床相关的治疗假说。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19815
作者: Chih-Hsuan Wei,Chi-Ping Day,Zhizheng Wang,Christine C. Alewine,Betty Tyler,Hasan Slika,David Saraf,Chin-Hsien Tai,Joey Chan,Robert Leaman,Zhiyong Lu
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 24 pages, 5 figures in main text
Abstract:Drug repurposing is often framed as a candidate identification task, but existing approaches provide limited guidance for distinguishing biologically plausible candidates from historically well-connected ones. Here we introduce DrugKLM, a hybrid framework that integrates biomedical knowledge graph structure with large language model-based mechanistic reasoning to enable mechanistically grounded therapeutic prioritization. Across benchmark datasets, DrugKLM outperforms knowledge graph-only and language model-only baselines, including TxGNN. Beyond improved recall, DrugKLM confidence scores exhibit functional alignment with molecular phenotypes: higher scores are associated with transcriptional signatures linked to improved survival across 12 TCGA cancers. The scoring framework preferentially captures biologically perturbational signals rather than historical indication patterns. Expert curation across five cancers further reveals systematic differences in prioritization behavior, with DrugKLM elevating candidates supported by coherent mechanistic rationale and disease-specific clinical context. Together, these results establish DrugKLM as an evidence-integrative framework that translates heterogeneous biomedical data into mechanistically interpretable and clinically grounded therapeutic hypotheses.
[AI-66] Model Capability Assessment and Safeguards for Biological Weaponization
【速读】：该论文旨在解决生成式 AI（Generative AI）模型在生物滥用风险方面的潜在威胁问题，特别是低专业背景用户可能利用模型推理能力实施有害行为的风险。研究通过基准测试四种主流大模型（ChatGPT 5.2 Auto、Gemini 3 Pro Thinking、Claude Opus 4.5 和 Meta 的 Muse Spark Thinking）在面向初学者的开放性STEM任务中的表现，识别出具备高操作智能但安全校准不足的模型——尤其是 Gemini 模型，在多环境测试中暴露出对隐蔽有害意图的识别缺陷，并验证其可被用于毒物制备、匿名访问及跨场景升级等生物滥用路径。解决方案的关键在于建立针对高风险代理（high-risk agents）的识别框架，以区分合法使用与高风险用途，并为政策制定提供实证依据，从而推动美国在AI输出作为受监管技术数据前提下的响应机制建设。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19811
作者: Michael Richter
机构: 未知
类目: Computers and Society (cs.CY); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:AI leaders and safety reports increasingly warn that advances in model reasoning may enable biological misuse, including by low-expertise users, while major labs describe safeguards as expanding but still evolving rather than settled. This study benchmarks ChatGPT 5.2 Auto, Gemini 3 Pro Thinking, Claude Opus 4.5 and Meta’s Muse Spark Thinking on 73 novice-framed, open-ended benign STEM prompts to measure operational intelligence. On benign quantitative tasks, both Gemini and meta scored very high; ChatGPT was partially useful but text-thinned, and Claude was sparsest with some apparent false-positive refusals. A second test set detected subtle harmful intent: edge case prompts revealed Gemini’s seeming lack of contextual awareness. These results warranted a focused weaponization analysis on Gemini as capability appeared to be outpacing moderation calibration. Gemini was tested across four access environments and reported cases include poison-ivy-to-crowded-transit escalation, poison production and extraction via international-anonymous logged-out AI Mode, and other concerning examples. Biological misuse may become more prevalent as a geopolitical tool, increasing the urgency of U.S. policy responses, especially if model outputs come to be treated as regulated technical data. Guidance is provided for 25 high-risk agents to help distinguish legitimate use cases from higher-risk ones.
[AI-67] he Existential Theory of Research: Why Discovery Is Hard
【速读】：该论文试图解决的核心问题是：科学发现是否可以通过选择合适的表示（representation）、收集足够多的数据以及部署足够强大的算法而变得任意简单。论文指出，这一假设在理论上是不可行的，并提出存在一个根本性的限制——即无法同时优化表示的简洁性、观测数据的压缩程度和精确推理的计算效率。其解决方案的关键在于引入了存在性研究理论（Existential Theory of Research, ETR），这是一个形式化框架，将科学发现建模为在表示、观测和计算约束下恢复结构化解释的过程；通过该框架揭示出：即使问题本身具有内在简单性，若表示与任务不匹配，也会导致观测和计算上的复杂性显著增加，从而使得原本可解的问题变得不可行。这一结论源于稀疏表示中的不确定性原理、高维恢复中的样本复杂度边界以及精确推理的计算难解性之间的协同作用，表明科学难度并非偶然，而是由推理的几何结构与复杂性所决定的结构性结果。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19810
作者: Angshul Majumdar
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Signal Processing (eess.SP)
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Abstract:Can scientific discovery be made arbitrarily easy by choosing the right representation, collecting enough data, and deploying sufficiently powerful algorithms? This paper argues that the answer is fundamentally negative. We introduce the Existential Theory of Research (ETR), a formal framework that models discovery as the recovery of structured explanations under constraints of representation, observation, and computation. Within this framework, we show that these three components cannot be simultaneously optimized: no method can guarantee universally simple explanations, arbitrarily compressed observations, and efficient exact inference. This limitation is not model-specific, but arises from a synthesis of uncertainty principles in sparse representation, sample complexity bounds in high-dimensional recovery, and the computational hardness of exact inference. We further show that representation mismatch alone can inflate intrinsic simplicity into apparent complexity, rendering otherwise tractable problems observationally and computationally prohibitive. To quantify these effects, we introduce an uncertainty functional that captures the joint difficulty of discovery. The results suggest that scientific difficulty is not accidental, but a structural consequence of the geometry and complexity of inference.
[AI-68] MIRROR: A Hierarchical Benchmark for Metacognitive Calibration in Large Language Models
【速读】：该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在自主代理（agentic）部署中因缺乏可靠元认知（metacognition）能力而导致决策不可靠的问题，具体聚焦于模型是否能利用自身知识做出更优决策。核心发现表明，模型普遍无法进行组合式自我预测（compositional self-prediction），其组合校准误差（Compositional Calibration Error）高达0.500–0.943，说明其难以准确预判跨领域任务的表现；尽管模型具备一定程度的领域特定自知能力，但无法将其转化为恰当的动作选择。解决方案的关键在于引入外部元认知支撑（external metacognitive scaffolding），而非提升模型自身的自知能力——实验显示，通过外部控制可将自信失败率（Confident Failure Rate）从0.600降至0.143（76%降低），而提供模型自身校准分数则无显著改善（p > 0.05）。因此，构建更安全的自主AI系统依赖于架构层面的外部约束机制，而非单纯增强模型的自我意识。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19809
作者: Jason Z Wang
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: 30 pages, 6 figures,code at: this https URL
Abstract:We introduce MIRROR, a benchmark comprising eight experiments across four metacognitive levels that evaluates whether large language models can use self-knowledge to make better decisions. We evaluate 16 models from 8 labs across approximately 250,000 evaluation instances using five independent behavioral measurement channels. Core experiments are run across the full model roster; experiments with specialized infrastructure requirements report explicitly marked model subsets. We find two phenomena with direct implications for agentic deployment: (1) compositional self-prediction fails universally – the Compositional Calibration Error ranges from 0.500 to 0.943 on the original 15-model Exp3-v1 set (and 0.434 to 0.758 on the balanced 16-model Exp3-v2 expansion), indicating that models cannot predict their own performance on multi-domain tasks, and (2) models exhibit above-chance but imperfect domain-specific self-knowledge yet systematically fail to translate even this partial awareness into appropriate agentic action-selection – external metacognitive control reduces the Confident Failure Rate from 0.600 to 0.143 (76% reduction at temperature 0; mean 70% at temperature 0.7 across 5 models from 4 labs). Providing models with their own calibration scores produces no significant improvement (p 0.05); only architectural constraint is effective. This suggests that external metacognitive scaffolding – not improved self-knowledge – is the path to safer autonomous AI systems. Code, data, and Croissant metadata will be released publicly with the benchmark.
[AI-69] Skyline-First Traversal as a Control Mechanism for Multi-Criteria Graph Search
【速读】：该论文旨在解决多准则图遍历（multi-criteria graph traversal）中如何利用帕累托支配（Pareto dominance）主动引导搜索过程的问题。传统方法虽能通过帕累托支配进行路径筛选或排序，但无法确定下一步扩展路径或何时终止搜索，因而依赖外部机制如启发式策略、标量转换或种群演化。本文的关键创新在于证明：在受限成本模型、有限成本网格、马尔可夫转移和非零进展度量的条件下，仅凭帕累托几何结构即可实现调度与终止的确定性控制。其核心解决方案包括：从第一帕累托层（即天际线，skyline）提取路径可诱导离散完成势（discrete completion potential）的确定性下降，从而保证单调向解收敛；同时，基于向量下界证书（vector lower-bound certificate）提供停止条件，确保对所有未遍历路径的支配覆盖，无需预设解的数量。该框架实现了无需标量转换、启发式引导或概率模型的纯帕累托驱动搜索，将帕累托支配从被动过滤器转变为确定性搜索驱动力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19807
作者: Nicolas Tacheny
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
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Abstract:In multi-criteria graph traversal, paths are compared via Pareto dominance, an ordering that identifies which paths are non-dominated, but says nothing about which path to expand next or when the search may stop. As a result, existing approaches rely on external mechanisms-heuristics, scalarization, or population-based exploration while Pareto dominance remains confined to passive roles such as pruning or ranking. This paper shows that, under constrained cost models, finite cost grids, Markovian transitions, and a nonzero progress measure, Pareto geometry alone is sufficient to drive both scheduling and termination. We show that extracting exclusively from the first Pareto layer, the skyline, induces a deterministic descent in a discrete completion potential, ensuring monotone progress toward solution completion. In parallel, a vector lower-bound certificate provides a stopping condition that guarantees dominance coverage of all remaining traversals without requiring a predefined number of solutions. Our analysis establishes deterministic potential descent, certified termination via dominance coverage, a uniform bound on layer width induced by cost-grid geometry, and greedy cost-space dispersion within the skyline. The resulting framework operates without scalarization, heuristic guidance, or probabilistic models, and repositions Pareto dominance from a passive filter to a deterministic driver of search. Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS) Cite as: arXiv:2604.19807 [cs.AI] (or arXiv:2604.19807v1 [cs.AI] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.19807 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite
[AI-70] On-Meter Graph Machine Learning: A Case Study of PV Power Forecasting for Grid Edge Intelligence
【速读】：该论文旨在解决在微电网（microgrid）中利用边缘智能电表对光伏功率进行精准预测的问题。解决方案的关键在于采用图神经网络（Graph Neural Networks, GNNs）模型，特别是图卷积网络（GCN）和GraphSAGE，并通过定制化ONNX算子实现GCN模型在边缘设备上的高效部署与执行。研究还结合ONNX及ONNX Runtime技术，在真实村庄微电网数据集上验证了两种模型在PC端与智能电表端的性能表现，证明了其在资源受限边缘设备上的可行性与有效性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19800
作者: Jian Huang,Zixiang Ming,Yongli Zhu,Linna Xu
机构: 未知
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Systems and Control (eess.SY)
备注: This paper has been accepted for presentation at the 9th International Conference on Energy, Electrical and Power Engineering (CEEPE 2026) in Nanjing, China, April 17-19, 2026
Abstract:This paper presents a detailed study of how graph neural networks can be used on edge intelligent meters in a microgrid to forecast photovoltaic power generation. The problem background and the adopted technologies are introduced, including ONNX and ONNX Runtime. The hardware and software specifications of the smart meter are also briefly described. Then, the paper focuses on the training and deployment of two graph machine learning models, GCN and GraphSAGE, with particular emphasis on developing and deploying a customized ONNX operator for GCN. Finally, a case study is conducted using real datasets from a village microgrid. The performance of the two models is compared on both the PC and the smart meter, exhibiting successful deployments and executions on the smart meter.
[AI-71] Prism: An Evolutionary Memory Substrate for Multi-Agent Open-Ended Discovery
【速读】：该论文旨在解决多智能体AI系统在开放探索任务中面临的记忆管理与决策效率问题，即如何有效整合多种记忆形式并动态优化信息检索策略以支持持续学习和演化。其解决方案的关键在于提出一个基于决策理论的统一记忆底座——\prism（Probabilistic Retrieval with Information-Stratified Memory），它通过五个核心机制实现：(1) 基于香农信息熵的分层记忆分配机制，将记忆按内容重要性归入技能/笔记/尝试三类存储单元；(2) 包含干预边与代理溯源属性的因果记忆图结构 G=(V,Er,Ec)，显式建模知识间的因果关系；(3) 自适应的价值信息检索策略，支持策略自我演化；(4) 心跳驱动的记忆融合控制器，利用最优停止理论检测停滞状态；(5) 复制子衰减动力学框架，将记忆置信度解释为进化适应度，并证明收敛至演化稳定记忆集合（ESMS）。这一设计显著提升了多智能体系统的长期性能与可扩展性，在LOCOMO基准上达到88.1分（较Mem0提升31.2%），并在CORAL型演化优化任务中使四智能体系统改进速率提升2.8倍。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19795
作者: Suyash Mishra
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 10 pages, 1 figure
Abstract:We introduce \prism (\textbfProbabilistic \textbfRetrieval with \textbfInformation-\textbfStratified \textbfMemory), an evolutionary memory substrate for multi-agent AI systems engaged in open-ended discovery. \prism unifies four independently developed paradigms – layered file-based persistence, vector-augmented semantic memory, graph-structured relational memory, and multi-agent evolutionary search – under a single decision-theoretic framework with eight interconnected subsystems. We make five contributions: (1)~an \emphentropy-gated stratification mechanism that assigns memories to a tri-partite hub (skills/notes/attempts) based on Shannon information content, with formal context-window utilization bounds; (2)~a \emphcausal memory graph \mathcalG = (V, E_r, E_c) with interventional edges and agent-attributed provenance; (3)~a \emphValue-of-Information retrieval policy with self-evolving strategy selection; (4)~a \emphheartbeat-driven consolidation controller with stagnation detection via optimal stopping theory; and (5)~a \emphreplicator-decay dynamics framework that interprets memory confidence as evolutionary fitness, proving convergence to an Evolutionary Stable Memory Set (ESMS). On the LOCOMO benchmark, \prism achieves 88.1 LLM-as-a-Judge score (31.2% over Mem0). On CORAL-style evolutionary optimization tasks, 4-agent \prism achieves 2.8 \times higher improvement rate than single-agent baselines.% Comments: 10 pages, 1 figure Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2604.19795 [cs.AI] (or arXiv:2604.19795v1 [cs.AI] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.19795 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[AI-72] Handbook of Rough Set Extensions and Uncertainty Models
【速读】：该论文旨在系统梳理粗糙集（Rough Set）理论中的模型体系及其扩展路径，解决现有文献中模型分散、缺乏统一框架的问题。其解决方案的关键在于构建一个结构化的分类地图：首先依据粒化机制（granulation mechanism）将代表性变体分为等价关系、容差关系、覆盖关系、邻域关系和概率近似等类型；其次根据数据与关系的不确定性语义（uncertainty semantics），区分清晰集、模糊集、直觉模糊集、中立模糊集及多值模糊集等设置。通过这种双维度组织方式，论文清晰阐释了不同选择如何影响近似形式及边界区域的解释，从而为研究者提供了一个系统、连贯的粗糙集模型全景图。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19794
作者: Takaaki Fujita,Florentin Smarandache
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 159 pages. Peer-Reviewed Book. ISBN: 978-1-59973-867-3. Publisher: Neutrosophic Science International Association (NSIA) Publishing House
Abstract:Rough set theory models uncertainty by approximating target concepts through lower and upper sets induced by indiscernibility, or more generally, by granulation relations in data tables. This perspective captures vagueness caused by limited observational resolution and supports set-theoretic reasoning about what can be determined with certainty and what remains only possible. This book is written as a map of models. Rather than developing a single algorithmic pipeline in depth, it provides a systematic survey of the main rough set paradigms and their extension routes. More specifically, representative variants are organized according to (i) the underlying granulation mechanism, such as equivalence-based, tolerance-based, covering-based, neighborhood-based, and probabilistic approximations, and (ii) the uncertainty semantics attached to data and relations, such as crisp, fuzzy, intuitionistic fuzzy, neutrosophic, and plithogenic settings. The book also explains how each choice changes the form of approximations and the interpretation of boundary regions. Throughout the book, small illustrative examples are used to clarify modeling intent and typical use cases in classification and decision support. Finally, an important clarification of scope should be noted. Since the main purpose of this book is to provide a map of models, the Abstract and Introduction should not lead readers to expect that feature reduction and rule induction are primary objectives. Although these topics are central in the rough set literature, they are treated here mainly as motivating applications and as entry points to the broader research landscape. The principal aim of the book is to survey and position rough set models and their extensions in a systematic and coherent manner.
[AI-73] Stabilising Generative Models of Attitude Change
【速读】：该论文旨在解决传统态度改变理论（如认知失调理论、自我一致性理论和自我知觉理论）缺乏可执行系统实现的问题，这些理论虽在概念层面丰富，但因未提供技术规范与操作约束，难以转化为可运行的模拟系统。其解决方案的关键在于提出一种基于生成式AI（Generative AI）的“演员-环境”建模工作流，利用Concordia仿真库将这些理论转化为可执行的决策逻辑：通过预测模式补全机制（predictive pattern completion），从包含记忆和当前观察的前缀中生成描述意图动作的后缀，从而实现对不同理论推理步骤的精确编码与仿真。该方法不仅复现了经典心理学实验的行为模式，还揭示了原始理论中隐含的不确定性及现代语言先验与历史实验假设之间的冲突，强调了手动模型稳定化过程本身是方法论的核心组成部分，用于明确情境和表征承诺以生成典型效应。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19791
作者: Jayd Matyas,William A. Cunningham,Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets,Dean Mobbs,Edgar A. Duéñez-Guzmán,Joel Z. Leibo
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 45 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables
Abstract:Attitude change - the process by which individuals revise their evaluative stances - has been explained by a set of influential but competing verbal theories. These accounts often function as mechanism sketches: rich in conceptual detail, yet lacking the technical specifications and operational constraints required to run as executable systems. We present a generative actor-based modelling workflow for “rendering” these sketches as runnable actor - environment simulations using the Concordia simulation library. In Concordia, actors operate by predictive pattern completion: an operation on natural language strings that generates a suffix which describes the actor’s intended action from a prefix containing memories of their past and observations of the present. We render the theories of cognitive dissonance (Festinger 1957), self-consistency (Aronson 1969), and self-perception (Bem 1972) as distinct decision logics that populate and process the prefix through theory-specific sequences of reasoning steps. We evaluate these implementations across classic psychological experiments. Our implementations generate behavioural patterns consistent with known results from the original empirical literature. However, we find that achieving stable reproduction requires resolving the inherent underdetermination of the verbal accounts and the conflicts between modern linguistic priors and historical experimental assumptions. And, we document how this manual process of iterative model “stabilisation” surfaces specific operational and socio-ecological dependencies that were largely undocumented in the original verbal accounts. Ultimately, we argue that the manual stabilisation process itself should be regarded as a core part of the methodology functioning to clarify situational and representational commitments needed to generate characteristic effects.
[AI-74] Hidden Reliability Risks in Large Language Models : Systematic Identification of Precision-Induced Output Disagreements
【速读】：该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在不同数值精度配置下（如bfloat16、float16与int16、int8等量化格式）产生的细微行为差异难以被现有评估方法检测的问题。这类差异可能导致模型在实际部署中出现不可预测的行为，例如在对齐验证任务中表现为“越狱”（jailbreak）分歧——即同一输入在一种精度下被拒绝，而在另一种精度下却生成有害响应。解决方案的关键在于提出PrecisionDiff，一个自动化差分测试框架，其核心机制是生成精度敏感的测试输入，并通过跨精度对比分析来系统性地识别传统测试策略难以发现的隐性偏差。实验表明，该方法能有效提升对精度相关行为不一致性的检测能力，从而增强模型在训练和部署阶段的精度鲁棒性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19790
作者: Yifei Wang,Tianlin Li,Xiaohan Zhang,Xiaoyu Zhang,Wei Ma,Mingfei Cheng,Li Pan
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: 12 pages, 5 figures
Abstract:Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed under diverse numerical precision configurations, including standard floating-point formats (e.g., bfloat16 and float16) and quantized integer formats (e.g., int16 and int8), to meet efficiency and resource constraints. However, minor inconsistencies between LLMs of different precisions are difficult to detect and are often overlooked by existing evaluation methods. In this paper, we present PrecisionDiff, an automated differential testing framework for systematically detecting precision-induced behavioral disagreements in LLMs. PrecisionDiff generates precision-sensitive test inputs and performs cross-precision comparative analysis to uncover subtle divergences that remain hidden under conventional testing strategies. To demonstrate its practical significance, we instantiate PrecisionDiff on the alignment verification task, where precision-induced disagreements manifest as jailbreak divergence-inputs that are rejected under one precision may produce harmful responses under another. Experimental results show that such behavioral disagreements are widespread across multiple open-source aligned LLMs and precision settings, and that PrecisionDiff significantly outperforms vanilla testing methods in detecting these issues. Our work enables automated precision-sensitive test generation, facilitating effective pre-deployment evaluation and improving precision robustness during training.
[AI-75] From Data to Theory: Autonomous Large Language Model Agents for Materials Science
【速读】：该论文旨在解决材料科学中理论建模与发现的自动化问题，即如何利用生成式 AI (Generative AI) 实现从数据到理论的端到端自动推导与验证，减少对人工干预的依赖。其解决方案的关键在于构建一个自主的大语言模型（Large Language Model, LLM）代理框架，该框架融合逐步推理能力与专家提供的工具集，使模型能够自主选择方程形式、生成并执行代码、评估理论与数据的匹配度，并记录决策过程。这一设计不仅实现了对已知材料关系（如Hall-Petch方程和Paris定律）的准确识别与预测，还能在未知领域提出新的物理规律（如应变依赖的HOMO-LUMO能隙变化规律），但同时也揭示了当前方法仍需严格验证以避免生成不完整或不一致的方程。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19789
作者: Samuel Onimpa Alfred,Veera Sundararaghavan
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
备注: 24 pages, 5 figures
Abstract:We present an autonomous large language model (LLM) agent for end-to-end, data-driven materials theory development. The model can choose an equation form, generate and run its own code, and test how well the theory matches the data without human intervention. The framework combines step-by-step reasoning with expert-supplied tools, allowing the agent to adjust its approach as needed while keeping a clear record of its decisions. For well-established materials relationships such as the Hall-Petch equation and Paris law, the agent correctly identifies the governing equation and makes reliable predictions on new datasets. For more specialized relationships, such as Kuhn’s equation for the HOMO-LUMO gap of conjugated molecules as a function of length, performance depends more strongly on the underlying model, with GPT-5 showing better recovery of the correct equation. Beyond known theories, the agent can also suggest new predictive relationships, illustrated here by a strain-dependent law for changes in the HOMO-LUMO gap. At the same time, the results show that careful validation remains essential, because the agent can still return incorrect, incomplete, or inconsistent equations even when the numerical fit appears strong. Overall, these results highlight both the promise and the current limitations of autonomous LLM agents for AI-assisted scientific modeling and discovery.
[AI-76] Accelerating PayPals Commerce Agent with Speculative Decoding: An Empirical Study on EAGLE3 with Fine-Tuned Nemotron Models
【速读】：该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Model, LLM）在推理阶段的高延迟与高成本问题，特别是在支付场景下对实时性和经济性的双重需求。其解决方案的关键在于引入基于EAGLE3的推测解码（Speculative Decoding）技术作为推理时优化手段，通过在单个H100 GPU上实现比NVIDIA NIM（使用两个H100）更高的吞吐量和更低的延迟，同时保持输出质量不变；实验表明，当推测因子γ=3时，可实现22–49%的吞吐提升和18–33%的延迟降低，且接受率稳定在约35.5%，显著优于γ=5时的收益递减效应，从而在不增加硬件成本的前提下实现了性能与效率的最优平衡。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19767
作者: Ally Qin,Jian Wan,Sarat Mudunuri,Srinivasan Manoharan
机构: 未知
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:We evaluate speculative decoding with EAGLE3 as an inference-time optimization for PayPal’s Commerce Agent, powered by a fine-tuned llama3.1-nemotron-nano-8B-v1 model. Building on prior work (NEMO-4-PAYPAL) that reduced latency and cost through domain-specific fine-tuning, we benchmark EAGLE3 via vLLM against NVIDIA NIM on identical 2xH100 hardware across 40 configurations spanning speculative token counts (gamma=3, gamma=5), concurrency levels (1-32), and sampling temperatures (0, 0.5). Key findings: (1) gamma=3 achieves 22-49% throughput improvement and 18-33% latency reduction at zero additional hardware cost; (2) acceptance rates remain stable at approximately 35.5% for gamma=3 across all conditions; (3) gamma=5 yields diminishing returns (approximately 25% acceptance rate); (4) LLM-as-Judge evaluation confirms fully preserved output quality; and (5) speculative decoding on a single H100 matches or exceeds NIM on two H100s, enabling 50% GPU cost reduction.
[AI-77] EvoForest: A Novel Machine-Learning Paradigm via Open-Ended Evolution of Computational Graphs
【速读】：该论文旨在解决结构化预测任务中传统机器学习范式（即仅优化模型参数）的局限性，尤其是在目标函数不可微、需交叉验证评估、可解释性重要或要求持续适应等场景下，如何自动发现合适的计算结构（如变换、统计量、不变性、交互结构、时间汇总、门控机制或非线性组合）。其解决方案的关键在于提出EvoForest——一种混合神经符号系统，通过在共享有向无环图（DAG）中联合演化可重用的计算结构、可调用函数族（如投影、门控和激活函数）以及低维连续可训练组件，实现端到端的开放式计算进化。该方法利用轻量级Ridge回归读出对每个图配置进行评分，并基于结构化反馈指导大语言模型（LLM）驱动的突变，从而在ADIA Lab 2025结构性断裂挑战赛中以94.13% ROC-AUC超越此前最高分90.14%。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19761
作者: Kamer Ali Yuksel,Hassan Sawaf
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
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Abstract:Modern machine learning is still largely organized around a single recipe: choose a parameterized model family and optimize its weights. Although highly successful, this paradigm is too narrow for many structured prediction problems, where the main bottleneck is not parameter fitting but discovering what should be computed from the data. Success often depends on identifying the right transformations, statistics, invariances, interaction structures, temporal summaries, gates, or nonlinear compositions, especially when objectives are non-differentiable, evaluation is cross-validation-based, interpretability matters, or continual adaptation is required. We present EvoForest, a hybrid neuro-symbolic system for end-to-end open-ended evolution of computation. Rather than merely generating features, EvoForest jointly evolves reusable computational structure, callable function families, and trainable low-dimensional continuous components inside a shared directed acyclic graph. Intermediate nodes store alternative implementations, callable nodes encode reusable transformation families such as projections, gates, and activations, output nodes define candidate predictive computations, and persistent global parameters can be refined by gradient descent. For each graph configuration, EvoForest evaluates the discovered computation and uses a lightweight Ridge-based readout to score the resulting representation against a non-differentiable cross-validation target. The evaluator also produces structured feedback that guides future LLM-driven mutations. In the 2025 ADIA Lab Structural Break Challenge, EvoForest reached 94.13% ROC-AUC after 600 evolution steps, exceeding the publicly reported winning score of 90.14% under the same evaluation protocol.
[AI-78] Inference Headroom Ratio: A Diagnostic and Control Framework for Inference Stability Under Constraint DATE
【速读】：该论文旨在解决人工智能（AI）系统在分布偏移（distributional shift）和约束条件下推理稳定性不足的问题，尤其关注如何量化系统接近推理失效边界的风险。其解决方案的关键在于提出并验证了推理余量比（Inference Headroom Ratio, IHR），这是一个无量纲的诊断指标，用于表征系统有效推理能力（C）与环境不确定性（U）及约束负载（K）之和之间的关系。IHR不仅可作为风险指示器，其与系统崩溃概率呈逻辑曲线关系且存在临界阈值（约1.19），还能敏感反映环境噪声下的稳定性边界接近程度，并可通过主动调控显著降低系统崩溃率（从79.4%降至58.7%）和IHR方差（减少70.4%），从而为AI系统提供一种基于系统级稳定性的补充评估框架。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19760
作者: Robert Reinertsen
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
备注: Resubmission with revisions addressing moderator concerns regarding distinction from signal-to-noise metrics and structural dependence in simulation design. See updated Section 4.4 for clarification
Abstract:We present a simulation-based evaluation of the Inference Headroom Ratio (IHR), a dimensionless diagnostic quantity for characterizing inference stability in constrained decision systems. IHR formalizes the relationship between a system’s effective inferential capacity C and the combined uncertainty and constraint load U + K imposed by its operating environment, and is intended to capture proximity to an inference stability boundary rather than output-level performance. Across three controlled experiments, we show that IHR functions as: (1) a quantifiable risk indicator whose relationship to collapse probability follows a well-fitted logistic curve with estimated critical threshold IHR* approx. 1.19, (2) a sensitive indicator of proximity to the inference stability boundary under environmental noise, and (3) a viable control variable whose active regulation reduces system collapse rate from 79.4% to 58.7% and IHR variance by 70.4% across 300 Monte Carlo runs. These results position IHR as a prospective, system-level complement to standard performance, drift, and uncertainty metrics, enabling estimation of remaining inferential margin before overt failure in AI systems operating under distributional shift and constraint.
[AI-79] WorkflowGen:an adaptive workflow generation mechanism driven by trajectory experience
【速读】：该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Model, LLM）代理在处理复杂任务（如业务查询、工具调用和工作流编排）时存在的高推理开销、过度token消耗、执行不稳定以及无法复用历史经验等问题。传统方法对每个查询均从头生成工作流，导致响应慢、成本高且鲁棒性差。其解决方案的关键在于提出WorkflowGen框架，该框架通过捕获执行轨迹并提取节点级与工作流级的可复用知识（如错误指纹、最优工具映射、参数模式、执行路径及异常规避策略），结合闭环机制实现仅对变量节点进行轻量级重写、经验更新与模板归纳，并采用三层自适应路由策略动态选择直接复用、基于轨迹重写的生成或全量初始化，从而显著降低token消耗、提升成功率与部署可行性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19756
作者: Ruocan Wei,Shufeng Wang,Ziwei Shi
机构: 未知
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
备注: 16 pages,3 tables
Abstract:Large language model (LLM) agents often suffer from high reasoning overhead, excessive token consumption, unstable execution, and inability to reuse past experiences in complex tasks like business queries, tool use, and workflow orchestration. Traditional methods generate workflows from scratch for every query, leading to high cost, slow response, and poor robustness. We propose WorkflowGen, an adaptive, trajectory experience-driven framework for automatic workflow generation that reduces token usage and improves efficiency and success rate. Early in execution, WorkflowGen captures full trajectories and extracts reusable knowledge at both node and workflow levels, including error fingerprints, optimal tool mappings, parameter schemas, execution paths, and exception-avoidance strategies. It then employs a closed-loop mechanism that performs lightweight generation only on variable nodes via trajectory rewriting, experience updating, and template induction. A three-tier adaptive routing strategy dynamically selects among direct reuse, rewriting-based generation, and full initialization based on semantic similarity to historical queries. Without large annotated datasets, we qualitatively compare WorkflowGen against real-time planning, static single trajectory, and basic in-context learning baselines. Our method reduces token consumption by over 40 percent compared to real-time planning, improves success rate by 20 percent on medium-similarity queries through proactive error avoidance and adaptive fallback, and enhances deployability via modular, traceable experiences and cross-scenario adaptability. WorkflowGen achieves a practical balance of efficiency, robustness, and interpretability, addressing key limitations of existing approaches.
[AI-80] Explainable AML Triage with LLM s: Evidence Retrieval and Counterfactual Checks
【速读】：该论文旨在解决反洗钱（Anti-Money Laundering, AML）交易监控中警报数量庞大、人工筛查效率低且难以满足审计与合规要求的问题。核心挑战在于如何在保证决策可解释性、可追溯性和政策一致性的同时，利用生成式 AI（Generative AI）提升警报分类的准确性与效率。解决方案的关键在于提出一个可解释的AML警报分诊框架，其创新点包括：(i) 基于检索增强的证据捆绑机制，整合政策规则、客户上下文、警报触发条件及交易子图等多源异构证据；(ii) 设计结构化大语言模型（LLM）输出契约，强制显式引用证据，并区分支持性、矛盾性或缺失证据；(iii) 引入反事实验证机制，通过最小且合理的扰动测试来评估推荐结果及其理由的一致性变化，从而增强决策的鲁棒性和可解释性。该方法显著提升了审计能力与事实准确性，同时保持了合规所需的溯源性与可辩护性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19755
作者: Dorothy Torres,Wei Cheng,Ke Hu
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Anti-money laundering (AML) transaction monitoring generates large volumes of alerts that must be rapidly triaged by investigators under strict audit and governance constraints. While large language models (LLMs) can summarize heterogeneous evidence and draft rationales, unconstrained generation is risky in regulated workflows due to hallucinations, weak provenance, and explanations that are not faithful to the underlying decision. We propose an explainable AML triage framework that treats triage as an evidence-constrained decision process. Our method combines (i) retrieval-augmented evidence bundling from policy/typology guidance, customer context, alert triggers, and transaction subgraphs, (ii) a structured LLM output contract that requires explicit citations and separates supporting from contradicting or missing evidence, and (iii) counterfactual checks that validate whether minimal, plausible perturbations lead to coherent changes in both the triage recommendation and its rationale. We evaluate on public synthetic AML benchmarks and simulators and compare against rules, tabular and graph machine-learning baselines, and LLM-only/RAG-only variants. Results show that evidence grounding substantially improves auditability and reduces numerical and policy hallucination errors, while counterfactual validation further increases decision-linked explainability and robustness, yielding the best overall triage performance (PR-AUC 0.75; Escalate F1 0.62) and strong provenance and faithfulness metrics (citation validity 0.98; evidence support 0.88; counterfactual faithfulness 0.76). These findings indicate that governed, verifiable LLM systems can provide practical decision support for AML triage without sacrificing compliance requirements for traceability and defensibility.
[AI-81] Exploring Data Augmentation and Resampling Strategies for Transformer-Based Models to Address Class Imbalance in AI Scoring of Scientific Explanations in NGSS Classroom
【速读】：该论文旨在解决科学教育中学生解释性作答自动评分（automated scoring）面临的类不平衡问题，尤其是那些表征高级推理能力的评分类别（rubric categories）数据稀缺导致模型性能受限的问题。其关键解决方案是采用有针对性的数据增强策略，包括使用GPT-4生成合成响应、EASE（词级提取与过滤）以及ALP（基于词汇化概率上下文无关语法的短语级提取），相比传统过采样方法SMOTE，这些策略在提升模型对严重不平衡类别（如类别5、6、7和9）的精确率（precision）、召回率（recall）和F1分数的同时，有效保留了初学者水平数据，从而更好地契合NGSS-aligned学习进展（learning progression）的结构化评估需求。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19754
作者: Prudence Djagba,Kevin Haudek,Clare G.C. Franovic,Leonora Kaldaras
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: Published as a conference paper at NARST 2026
Abstract:Automated scoring of students’ scientific explanations offers the potential for immediate, accurate feedback, yet class imbalance in rubric categories particularly those capturing advanced reasoning remains a challenge. This study investigates augmentation strategies to improve transformer-based text classification of student responses to a physical science assessment based on an NGSS-aligned learning progression. The dataset consists of 1,466 high school responses scored on 11 binary-coded analytic categories. This rubric identifies six important components including scientific ideas needed for a complete explanation along with five common incomplete or inaccurate ideas. Using SciBERT as a baseline, we applied fine-tuning and test these augmentation strategies: (1) GPT-4–generated synthetic responses, (2) EASE, a word-level extraction and filtering approach, and (3) ALP (Augmentation using Lexicalized Probabilistic context-free grammar) phrase-level extraction. While fine-tuning SciBERT improved recall over baseline, augmentation substantially enhanced performance, with GPT data boosting both precision and recall, and ALP achieving perfect precision, recall, and F1 scores across most severe imbalanced categories (5,6,7 and 9). Across all rubric categories EASE augmentation substantially increased alignment with human scoring for both scientific ideas (Categories 1–6) and inaccurate ideas (Categories 7–11). We compared different augmentation strategies to a traditional oversampling method (SMOTE) in an effort to avoid overfitting and retain novice-level data critical for learning progression alignment. Findings demonstrate that targeted augmentation can address severe imbalance while preserving conceptual coverage, offering a scalable solution for automated learning progression-aligned scoring in science education. Comments: Published as a conference paper at NARST 2026 Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG) MSC classes: LLM STEM education, Analytic rubric, imbalance Cite as: arXiv:2604.19754 [cs.AI] (or arXiv:2604.19754v1 [cs.AI] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.19754 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite
[AI-82] AI to Learn 2.0: A Deliverable-Oriented Governance Framework and Maturity Rubric for Opaque AI in Learning-Intensive Domains
【速读】：该论文旨在解决生成式 AI（Generative AI）在学习密集型场景中因“代理失效”（proxy failure）而导致的治理难题：即AI辅助产出的精美成果可能掩盖了学习者真实能力的缺失，使得传统评估方式难以判断其是否真正体现了人类的理解、判断或迁移能力。解决方案的关键在于提出“AI to Learn 2.0”框架——它以最终交付物为核心重构治理逻辑，区分“成果残留”（artifact residual）与“能力残留”（capability residual），并通过五部分交付包、七维成熟度量表、关键维度门限阈值及配套的能力证据阶梯，实现对AI辅助工作的可审计、可转移、可解释且无需依赖原始大语言模型或云API即可验证的治理机制。该框架允许在探索、草稿、假设生成等阶段使用黑箱AI，但要求最终交付物具备独立可用性与人类可归因的证据支撑，从而保障学习目标的有效达成和第三方审查的可信度。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19751
作者: Seine A. Shintani
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computers and Society (cs.CY)
备注: 10 pages, 2figures
Abstract:Generative AI is entering research, education, and professional work faster than current governance frameworks can specify how AI-assisted outputs should be judged in learning-intensive settings. The central problem is proxy failure: a polished artifact can be useful while no longer serving as credible evidence of the human understanding, judgment, or transfer ability that the work is supposed to cultivate or certify. This paper proposes AI to Learn 2.0, a deliverable-oriented governance framework for AI-assisted work. Rather than claiming element-wise novelty, it reorganizes adjacent ideas around the final deliverable package, distinguishes artifact residual from capability residual, and operationalizes the result through a five-part package, a seven-dimension maturity rubric, gate thresholds on critical dimensions, and a companion capability-evidence ladder. AI to Learn 2.0 allows opaque AI during exploration, drafting, hypothesis generation, and workflow design, but requires that the released deliverable be usable, auditable, transferable, and justifiable without the original large language model or cloud API. In learning-intensive contexts, it additionally requires context-appropriate human-attributable evidence of explanation or transfer. Worked scoring across contrastive cases, including coursework substitution, a symbolic-regression governance contrast, teacher-audited national-exam practice forms, and a self-hosted lecture-to-quiz pipeline with deterministic quality control, shows how the framework separates polished substitution workflows from bounded, auditable, and handoff-ready AI-assisted workflows. AI to Learn 2.0 is proposed as a governance instrument for structured third-party review where capability preservation, accountability, and validity boundaries matter.
[AI-83] he Tool-Overuse Illusion: Why Does LLM Prefer External Tools over Internal Knowledge?
【速读】：该论文旨在解决大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）在接入外部工具后出现的“工具过度使用”（tool overuse）问题，即模型在推理过程中非必要地调用工具，导致计算资源浪费且效率降低。解决方案的关键在于从两个核心机制入手：一是识别并纠正模型因“知识认知幻觉”（knowledge epistemic illusion）而导致的内部知识边界误判，提出基于直接偏好优化（direct preference optimization）的知识感知认知边界对齐策略，使模型更准确地判断自身知识范围，从而减少82.8%的无效工具调用；二是揭示奖励结构设计对工具行为的因果影响，发现仅基于最终结果的奖励信号（outcome-only rewards）会无意中鼓励低效工具使用，通过平衡训练过程中的奖励信号（而非依赖单一结果奖励），在不牺牲准确率的前提下分别将7B和32B参数模型的冗余工具调用减少66.7%和60.7%。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19749
作者: Yirong Zeng,Shen You,Yufei Liu,Qunyao Du,Xiao Ding,Yutai Hou,Yuxian Wang,Wu Ning,Haonan Song,Dandan Tu,Bibo Cai,Ting Liu
机构: 未知
类目: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Software Engineering (cs.SE)
备注: 17 pages, 9 figures
Abstract:Equipping LLMs with external tools effectively addresses internal reasoning limitations. However, it introduces a critical yet under-explored phenomenon: tool overuse, the unnecessary tool-use during reasoning. In this paper, we first reveal this phenomenon is pervasive across diverse LLMs. We then experimentally elucidate its underlying mechanisms through two key lenses: (1) First, by analyzing tool-use behavior across different internal knowledge availability regions, we identify a \textitknowledge epistemic illusion: models misjudge internal knowledge boundaries and fail to accurately perceive their actual knowledge availability. To mitigate this, we propose a knowledge-aware epistemic boundary alignment strategy based on direct preference optimization, which reduces tool usage in by 82.8% while yielding an accuracy improvement. (2) Second, we establish a causal link between reward structures and tool-use behavior by visualizing the tool-augmented training process. It reveals that \textitoutcome-only rewards inadvertently encourage tool overuse by rewarding only final correctness, regardless of tool efficiency. To verify this, we balance reward signals during training rather than relying on outcome-only rewards, cutting unnecessary tool calls by 66.7% (7B) and 60.7% (32B) without sacrificing accuracy. Finally, we provide theoretical justification in this two lenses to understand tool overuse.
[AI-84] Centering Ecological Goals in Automated Identification of Individual Animals
【速读】：该论文旨在解决自动化个体识别技术在生态学实践中应用不足的问题，即尽管图像和声学数据驱动的自动识别方法在技术上取得进展，但其在实际生态研究中的推广受限。解决方案的关键在于突破单纯追求算法性能的局限，转而强调生态情境的重要性：自动化识别的有效性取决于所研究的具体生态问题、可用数据特征以及错误类型对决策的影响。唯有将生态学目标、数据流程与误判后果纳入设计与评估框架，才能实现既准确又具生态实用价值、透明且可信的个体识别系统。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20626
作者: Lukas Picek,Timm Haucke,Lukáš Adam,Ekaterina Nepovinnykh,Lasha Otarashvili,Kostas Papafitsoros,Tanya Berger-Wolf,Michael B. Brown,Tilo Burghardt,Vojtech Cermak,Daniela Hedwig,Justin Kitzes,Sam Lapp,Subhransu Maji,Daniel Rubenstein,Arjun Subramonian,Charles Stewart,Silvia Zuffi,Sara Beery
机构: 未知
类目: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Recognizing individual animals over time is central to many ecological and conservation questions, including estimating abundance, survival, movement, and social structure. Recent advances in automated identification from images and even acoustic data suggest that this process could be greatly accelerated, yet their promise has not translated well into ecological practice. We argue that the main barrier is not the performance of the automated methods themselves, but a mismatch between how those methods are typically developed and evaluated, and how ecological data is actually collected, processed, reviewed, and used. Future progress, therefore, will depend less on algorithmic gains alone than on recognizing that the usefulness of automated identification is grounded in ecological context: it depends on what question is being asked, what data are available, and what kinds of mistakes matter. Only by centering these questions can we move toward automated identification of individuals that is not only accurate but also ecologically useful, transparent, and trustworthy.
[AI-85] AI models of unstable flow exhibit hallucination
【速读】：该论文旨在解决生成式 AI 在流体动力学建模中出现的“幻觉”问题，即模型输出看似合理但违反物理守恒定律的虚假流体界面和反向扩散现象，尤其在粘性指状不稳定性（viscous fingering）这类多尺度、快速演化的问题中尤为显著。其解决方案的关键在于识别出这些幻觉源于 AI 模型的频谱偏差（spectral bias），并据此提出 DeepFingers 框架——通过融合傅里叶神经算子（Fourier Neural Operator）与深度算子网络（Deep Operator Network），实现对全频谱空间模式的均衡学习，从而在时间与粘度对比度条件下准确预测浓度场的时空演化，有效捕捉指端分叉、指状合并及通道形成等复杂行为，并保持全局混合指标的物理一致性。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20372
作者: Ramdhan Wibawa,Birendra Jha
机构: 未知
类目: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
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Abstract:We report the first systematic evidence of hallucination in AI models of fluid dynamics, demonstrated in the canonical problem of hydrodynamically unstable transport known as viscous fingering. AI-based modeling of flow with instabilities remains challenging because rapidly evolving, multiscale fingering patterns are difficult to resolve accurately. We identify solutions that appear visually realistic yet are physically implausible, analogous to hallucinations in large language models. These hallucinations manifest as spurious fluid interfaces and reverse diffusion that violate conservation laws. We show that their origin lies in the spectral bias of AI models, which becomes dominant at high flow rates and viscosity contrasts. Guided by this insight, we introduce DeepFingers, a new framework for AI-driven fluid dynamics that enforces balanced learning across the full spectrum of spatial modes by combining the Fourier Neural Operator with a Deep Operator Network to predict the spatiotemporal evolution of viscous fingers. By conditioning on both time and viscosity contrast, DeepFingers learns mappings between successive concentration fields across regimes. The framework accurately captures tip splitting, finger merging, and channel formation while preserving global metrics of mixing. The results open a new research direction to investigate fundamental limitations in AI models of physical systems.
[AI-86] LLM -guided phase diagram construction through high-throughput experimentation
【速读】：该论文旨在解决多组分合金相图构建过程中实验测量耗时、效率低的问题。其解决方案的关键在于利用大语言模型（Large Language Models, LLMs）作为实验规划器，在闭环系统中协同高通量合成与X射线衍射相识别，通过迭代优化实验路径以高效探索相图空间。具体而言，研究对比了两种初始成分选择策略：一种基于领域专用LLM（aLLoyM）的预测，聚焦于三元相图内部复杂区域以快速发现新相；另一种依赖通用LLM，采用类似教科书式的策略更高效地识别多种相态。结果表明，两类策略互补性强，且LLM在探索效率上优于传统机器学习方法，验证了其作为相图构建实验规划工具的巨大潜力。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20304
作者: Ryo Tamura,Haruhiko Morito,Yuna Oikawa,Guillaume Deffrennes,Shoichi Matsuda,Naruki Yoshikawa,Tomoaki Takayama,Taichi Abe,Koji Tsuda,Kei Terayama
机构: 未知
类目: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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Abstract:Constructing phase diagrams for multicomponent alloys requires extensive experimental measurements and is a time-consuming task. Here we investigate whether large language models (LLMs) can guide experimental planning for phase diagram construction. In our framework, a general-purpose LLM serves as the experimental planner, suggesting compositions for measurement at each cycle in a closed loop with high-throughput synthesis and X-ray diffraction phase identification. Using this framework, we experimentally constructed the ternary phase diagram of the Co-Al-Ge system at 900 degree C through iterative synthesis and characterization. We compared two strategies that differ in how the initial compositions are selected: one uses predictions from a domain-specific LLM trained on phase diagram data (aLLoyM), while the other relies solely on the general-purpose LLM. The two strategies exhibited complementary strengths. aLLoyM directed the initial measurements toward compositionally complex regions in the interior of the ternary diagram, enabling the earliest discovery of all three novel phases that form only in the ternary system. In contrast, the general-purpose LLM adopted a textbook-like approach which efficiently identified a larger number of phases in fewer cycles. In addition, a simulated benchmark comparing the LLM against conventional machine learning confirmed that the LLM achieves more efficient exploration. The results demonstrate that LLMs have high potential as experimental planners for phase diagram construction.
[AI-87] AROMA: Augmented Reasoning Over a Multimodal Architecture for Virtual Cell Genetic Perturbation Modeling ACL2026
【速读】：该论文旨在解决虚拟细胞建模中遗传扰动预测存在的三个核心问题：推理过程缺乏约束、预测结果难以解释，以及检索信号与调控拓扑结构对齐度低。解决方案的关键在于提出AROMA（Augmented Reasoning Over a Multimodal Architecture），其通过融合文本证据、图拓扑信息和蛋白质序列特征来建模扰动-靶点依赖关系，并采用两阶段优化策略训练模型，从而在保证高精度的同时提升可解释性。此外，研究还构建了两个知识图谱和一个包含498k样本的扰动推理数据集PerturbReason，为虚拟细胞领域提供可复用资源。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20263
作者: Zhenyu Wang,Geyan Ye,Wei Liu,Man Tat Alexander Ng
机构: 未知
类目: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
备注: Accepted to ACL 2026 as a Findings paper. Zhenyu Wang and Geyan Ye are equal contributors; Geyan Ye is the corresponding author and project lead
Abstract:Virtual cell modeling predicts molecular state changes under genetic perturbations in silico, which is essential for biological mechanism studies. However, existing approaches suffer from unconstrained reasoning, uninterpretable predictions, and retrieval signals that are weakly aligned with regulatory topology. To address these limitations, we propose AROMA, an Augmented Reasoning Over a Multimodal Architecture for virtual cell genetic perturbation modeling. AROMA integrates textual evidence, graph-topology information, and protein sequence features to model perturbation-target dependencies, and is trained with a two-stage optimization strategy to yield predictions that are both accurate and interpretable. We also construct two knowledge graphs and a perturbation reasoning dataset, PerturbReason, containing more than 498k samples, as reusable resources for the virtual cell domain. Experiments show that AROMA outperforms existing methods across multiple cell lines, and remains robust under zero-shot evaluation on an unseen cell line, as well as in knowledge-sparse, long-tail scenarios. Overall, AROMA demonstrates that combining knowledge-driven multimodal modeling with evidence retrieval provides a promising pathway toward more reliable and interpretable virtual cell perturbation prediction. Model weights are available at this https URL. Code is available at this https URL.
[AI-88] Information Aggregation with AI Agents
【速读】：该论文旨在解决生成式 AI（Generative AI）是否能够通过交易行为在预测市场中聚合分散的私有信息，并借助价格变动推断他人知识的问题。其关键解决方案在于设计了一个受控实验，让 AI 代理在获得私有信号后参与预测市场交易，通过最后价格的对数误差来衡量信息聚合效率。实验发现，尽管在简单信息结构下市场能有效聚合信息，但随着复杂度提升，聚合效果显著下降，表明 AI 代理在推理他人知识方面可能面临与人类相似的认知局限；同时，研究证实预测市场机制本身具有鲁棒性，不受廉价沟通、市场时长、初始价格或策略提示的影响，而“更智能”的 AI 代理则表现出更强的信息聚合能力与盈利能力，但提供历史表现反馈反而削弱其聚合性能和收益。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20050
作者: Spyros Galanis
机构: 未知
类目: General Economics (econ.GN); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
备注: 64 pages
Abstract:Can Large Language Models (AI agents) aggregate dispersed private information through trading and reason about the knowledge of others by observing price movements? We conduct a controlled experiment where AI agents trade in a prediction market after receiving private signals, measuring information aggregation by the log error of the last price. We find that although the median market is effective at aggregating information in the easy information structures, increasing the complexity has a significant and negative impact, suggesting that AI agents may suffer from the same limitations as humans when reasoning about others. Consistent with our theoretical predictions, information aggregation remains unaffected by allowing cheap talk communication, changing the duration of the market or initial price, and strategic prompting-thus demonstrating that prediction markets are robust. We establish that “smarter” AI agents perform better at aggregation and they are more profitable. Surprisingly, giving them feedback about past performance makes them worse at aggregation and reduces their profits.
[AI-89] scpFormer: A Foundation Model for Unified Representation and Integration of the Single-Cell Proteomics
【速读】：该论文旨在解决单细胞蛋白组学（single-cell proteomics）数据整合中因靶向抗体面板碎片化而导致的挑战。传统方法依赖于基于索引的离散化tokenization，难以跨不同实验批次或面板进行统一建模。其解决方案的关键在于提出scpFormer——一个基于Transformer的基础模型，通过预训练超过3.9亿个细胞数据，采用连续且序列锚定的表示方式替代标准索引tokenization，并结合进化尺度建模（Evolutionary Scale Modeling, ESM）与值感知表达嵌入（value-aware expression embeddings），实现可变抗体面板在共享语义空间中的动态映射，从而无需人工离散化即可完成大规模批次整合和无监督聚类。此架构还支持虚拟面板扩展（in silico panel expansion），增强稀疏临床数据中生物流形的重建能力，并具备将蛋白共表达逻辑迁移至批量组学任务（如癌症药物反应预测）的能力，为可扩展的生物标志物发现和精准肿瘤学提供了一个面板无关的通用框架。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20003
作者: Qifeng Zhou,Lei Yu,Yuzhi Guo,Yuwei Miao,Hehuan Ma,Wenliang Zhong,Lin Xu,Junzhou Huang
机构: 未知
类目: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:The integration of single-cell proteomic data is often hindered by the fragmented nature of targeted antibody panels. To address this limitation, we introduce scpFormer, a transformer-based foundation model designed for single-cell proteomics. Pre-trained on over 390 million cells, scpFormer replaces standard index-based tokenization with a continuous, sequence-anchored approach. By combining Evolutionary Scale Modeling (ESM) with value-aware expression embeddings, it dynamically maps variable panels into a shared semantic space without artificial discretization. We demonstrate that scpFormer generates global cell representations that perform competitively in large-scale batch integration and unsupervised clustering. Moreover, its open-vocabulary architecture facilitates in silico panel expansion, assisting in the reconstruction of biological manifolds in sparse clinical datasets. Finally, this learned protein co-expression logic is transferable to bulk-omics tasks, supporting applications like cancer drug response prediction. scpFormer provides a versatile, panel-agnostic framework to facilitate scalable biomarker discovery and precision oncology.
[AI-90] Neural posterior estimation of the neutrino direction in IceCube using transformer-encoded normalizing flows on the sphere
【速读】：该论文旨在解决冰立方中微子探测器（IceCube）中对中微子方向进行高精度重建的问题，这对于中微子与天体物理源的关联分析至关重要。传统基于B样条（B-spline）的似然重构方法虽然有效，但计算耗时较长，尤其在全天空扫描时效率低下。解决方案的关键在于引入一种基于Transformer编码器的神经后验估计框架，该框架将输入数据映射到球面上的归一化流（normalizing flow）分布，从而实现快速且高精度的方向推断。通过结合C²-光滑有理二次样条、尺度变换和旋转操作构建新型球面归一化流分布，并利用Transformer结构中的双残差流、非线性QKV投影及独立类别标记（class token）的交叉注意力机制优化模型性能，显著提升了对不同类型事例（轨迹和簇射）的角分辨率，在100 TeV能量下相比现有最优似然方法分别提升1.3倍（贯穿轨迹）、1.7倍（簇射）和2.5倍（起始轨迹）。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19846
作者: R. Abbasi,M. Ackermann,J. Adams,J. A. Aguilar,M. Ahlers,J.M. Alameddine,S. Ali,N. M. Amin,K. Andeen,C. Argüelles,Y. Ashida,S. Athanasiadou,S. N. Axani,R. Babu,X. Bai,A. Balagopal V.,S. W. Barwick,V. Basu,R. Bay,J. J. Beatty,J. Becker Tjus,P. Behrens,J. Beise,C. Bellenghi,S. Benkel,S. BenZvi,D. Berley,E. Bernardini,D. Z. Besson,E. Blaufuss,L. Bloom,S. Blot,F. Bontempo,J. Y. Book Motzkin,C. Boscolo Meneguolo,S. Böser,O. Botner,J. Böttcher,J. Braun,B. Brinson,Z. Brisson-Tsavoussis,R. T. Burley,D. Butterfield,K. Carloni,J. Carpio,N. Chau,Z. Chen,D. Chirkin,S. Choi,A. Chubarov,B. A. Clark,G. H. Collin,D. A. Coloma Borja,A. Connolly,J. M. Conrad,D. F. Cowen,C. De Clercq,J. J. DeLaunay,D. Delgado,T. Delmeulle,S. Deng,P. Desiati,K. D. de Vries,G. de Wasseige,T. DeYoung,J. C. Díaz-Vélez,S. DiKerby,T. Ding,M. Dittmer,A. Domi,L. Draper,L. Dueser,D. Durnford,K. Dutta,M. A. DuVernois,T. Ehrhardt,L. Eidenschink,A. Eimer,C. Eldridge,P. Eller,E. Ellinger,D. Elsässer,R. Engel,H. Erpenbeck,W. Esmail,S. Eulig,J. Evans,P. A. Evenson,K. L. Fan,K. Fang,K. Farrag,A. R. Fazely,A. Fedynitch,N. Feigl,C. Finley,D. Fox,A. Franckowiak,S. Fukami,P. Fürst,J. Gallagher
机构: 未知
类目: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:IceCube is a cubic-kilometer-scale neutrino detector located at the geographic South Pole. A precise directional reconstruction of IceCube neutrinos is vital for associations with astronomical objects. In this context, we discuss neural posterior estimation of the neutrino direction via a transformer encoder that maps to a normalizing flow on the 2-sphere. It achieves a new state-of-the-art angular resolution for the two main event morphologies in IceCube - tracks and showers - while being significantly faster than traditional B-spline-based likelihood reconstructions. All-sky scans can be performed within seconds rather than hours, and take constant computation time, regardless of whether the posterior extent is arc-minutes or spans the whole sky. We utilize a combination of C^2 -smooth rational-quadratic splines, scale transformations and rotations to define a novel spherical normalizing-flow distribution whose parameters are predicted as a whole as the output of the transformer encoder. We test several structural choices diverting from the vanilla transformer architecture. In particular, we find dual residual streams, nonlinear QKV projection and a separate class token with its own cross-attention processing to boost test-time performance. The angular resolution for both showers and tracks improves substantially over the whole trained energy range from 100 GeV to 100 PeV. At 100 TeV deposited energy, for example, the median angular resolution improves by a factor of 1.3 for throughgoing tracks, by a factor of 1.7 for showers and by a factor of 2.5 for starting tracks compared to state-of-the art likelihood reconstructions based on B-splines. While previous machine-learning (ML) efforts have managed to obtain competitive shower resolutions, this is the first time an ML-based method outperforms likelihood-based muon reconstructions above 100 GeV.
[AI-91] Improving Molecular Force Fields with Minimal Temporal Information
【速读】：该论文旨在解决基于神经网络的分子能量与力预测模型在训练过程中对分子动力学（Molecular Dynamics, MD）轨迹中时间相关性信息利用不足的问题。现有方法通常仅使用静态原子构型进行训练，忽略了MD模拟生成的时间有序轨迹所蕴含的物理约束，如能量波动和势能面探索特性。解决方案的关键在于提出一种名为FRAMES的新颖训练策略，其核心是引入一个辅助损失函数以显式建模MD轨迹中相邻帧之间的时序关系；值得注意的是，研究发现仅需利用连续两帧构成的最小时间窗口即可显著提升模型性能，而增加更长的轨迹序列反而可能引入冗余信息并降低精度，这表明在蒸馏原子系统物理先验时，更多的时间数据并不总是更好。
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19806
作者: Ali Mollahosseini,Mohammed Haroon Dupty,Wee Sun Lee
机构: 未知
类目: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Accurate prediction of energy and forces for 3D molecular systems is one of fundamental challenges at the core of AI for Science applications. Many powerful and data-efficient neural networks predict molecular energies and forces from single atomic configurations. However, one crucial aspect of the data generation process is rarely considered while learning these models i.e. Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation. MD simulations generate time-ordered trajectories of atomic positions that fluctuate in energy and explore regions of the potential energy surface (e.g., under standard NVE/NVT ensembles), rather than being constructed to steadily lower the potential energy toward a minimum as in geometry relaxations. This work explores a novel way to leverage MD data, when available, to improve the performance of such predictors. We introduce a novel training strategy called FRAMES, that use an auxiliary loss function for exploiting the temporal relationships within MD trajectories. Counter-intuitively, on two atomistic benchmarks and a synthetic system we observe that minimal temporal information, captured by pairs of just two consecutive frames, is often sufficient to obtain the best performance, while adding longer trajectory sequences can introduce redundancy and degrade performance. On the widely used MD17 and ISO17 benchmarks, FRAMES significantly outperforms its Equiformer baseline, achieving highly competitive results in both energy and force accuracy. Our work not only presents a novel training strategy which improves the accuracy of the model, but also provides evidence that for distilling physical priors of atomic systems, more temporal data is not always better.
机器学习
[LG-0] Closing the Domain Gap in Biomedical Imaging by In-Context Control Samples
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20824
作者: Ana Sanchez-Fernandez,Thomas Pinetz,Werner Zellinger,Günter Klambauer
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
*备注:
Abstract:The central problem in biomedical imaging are batch effects: systematic technical variations unrelated to the biological signal of interest. These batch effects critically undermine experimental reproducibility and are the primary cause of failure of deep learning systems on new experimental batches, preventing their practical use in the real world. Despite years of research, no method has succeeded in closing this performance gap for deep learning models. We propose Control-Stabilized Adaptive Risk Minimization via Batch Normalization (CS-ARM-BN), a meta-learning adaptation method that exploits negative control samples. Such unperturbed reference images are present in every experimental batch by design and serve as stable context for adaptation. We validate our novel method on Mechanism-of-Action (MoA) classification, a crucial task for drug discovery, on the large-scale JUMP-CP dataset. The accuracy of standard ResNets drops from 0.939 \pm 0.005, on the training domain, to 0.862 \pm 0.060 on data from new experimental batches. Foundation models, even after Typical Variation Normalization, fail to close this gap. We are the first to show that meta-learning approaches close the domain gap by achieving 0.935 \pm 0.018. If the new experimental batches exhibit strong domain shifts, such as being generated in a different lab, meta-learning approaches can be stabilized with control samples, which are always available in biomedical experiments. Our work shows that batch effects in bioimaging data can be effectively neutralized through principled in-context adaptation, which also makes them practically usable and efficient.
[LG-1] Stream-CQSA: Avoiding Out-of-Memory in Attention Computation via Flexible Workload Scheduling
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20819
作者: Yiming Bian,Joshua M. Akey
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
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Abstract:The scalability of long-context large language models is fundamentally limited by the quadratic memory cost of exact self-attention, which often leads to out-of-memory (OOM) failures on modern hardware. Existing methods improve memory efficiency to near-linear complexity, while assuming that the full query, key, and value tensors fit in device memory. In this work, we remove this assumption by introducing CQS Divide, an operation derived from cyclic quorum sets (CQS) theory that decomposes attention into a set of independent subsequence computations whose recomposition yields exactly the same result as full-sequence attention. Exploiting this decomposition, we introduce Stream-CQSA, a memory-adaptive scheduling framework that partitions attention into subproblems that fit within arbitrary memory budgets. This recasts attention from a logically monolithic operation into a collection of schedulable tasks, enabling flexible execution across devices without inter-device communication. Experiments demonstrate predictable memory scaling and show that exact attention over billion-token sequences can be executed on a single GPU via streaming, without changing the underlying mathematical definition of attention or introducing approximation error.
[LG-2] Physics-Conditioned Synthesis of Internal Ice-Layer Thickness for Incomplete Layer Traces
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20783
作者: Zesheng Liu,Maryam Rahnemoonfar
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: Accepted for 2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2026)
Abstract:Internal ice layers imaged by radar provide key evidence of snow accumulation and ice dynamics, but radar-derived layer boundary observations are often incomplete, with discontinuous traces and sometimes entirely missing layers, due to limited resolution, sensor noise, and signal loss. Existing graph-based models for ice stratigraphy generally assume sufficiently complete layer profiles and focus on predicting deeper-layer thickness from reliably traced shallow layers. In this work, we address the layer-completion problem itself by synthesizing complete ice-layer thickness annotations from incomplete radar-derived layer traces by conditioning on colocated physical features synchronized from physical climate models. The proposed network combines geometric learning to aggregate within-layer spatial context with a transformer-based temporal module that propagates information across layers to encourage coherent stratigraphy and consistent thickness evolution. To learn from incomplete supervision, we optimize a mask-aware robust regression objective that evaluates errors only at observed thickness values and normalizes by the number of valid entries, enabling stable training under varying sparsity without imputation and steering completions toward physically plausible values. The model preserves observed thickness where available and infers only missing regions, recovering fragmented segments and even fully absent layers while remaining consistent with measured traces. As an additional benefit, the synthesized thickness stacks provide effective pretraining supervision for a downstream deep-layer predictor, improving fine-tuned accuracy over training from scratch on the same fully traced data.
[LG-3] Efficient Multi-Cohort Inference for Long-Term Effects and Lifetime Value in A/B Testing with User Learning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20777
作者: Dario Simionato,Andrea Tonon,Mingxue Wang,Weiguo Wang,Tong Gui,Xiaoyue Li
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:In streaming platforms churn is extremely costly, yet A/B tests are typically evaluated using outcomes observed within a limited experimental horizon. Even when both short- and predicted long-term engagement metrics are considered, they may fail to capture how a treatment affects users’ retention. Consequently, an intervention may appear beneficial in the short term and neutral in the long term while still generating lower total value than the control due to users churn. To address this limitation, we introduce a method that estimates long-term treatment effects (LTE) and residual lifetime value change ( \Delta ERLV ) in short multi-cohort A/B tests under user learning. To estimate time-varying treatment effects efficiently, we introduce an inverse-variance weighted estimator that combines multiple cohorts estimates, reducing variance relative to standard approaches in the literature. The estimated treatment trajectory is then modeled as a parametric decay to recover both the asymptotic treatment effect and the cumulative value generated over time. Our framework enables simultaneous evaluation of steady-state impact and residual user value within a single experiment. Empirical results show improved precision in estimating LTE and \Delta ERLV and identify scenarios in which relying on either short-term or long-term metrics alone would lead to incorrect product decisions. Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG) Cite as: arXiv:2604.20777 [cs.LG] (or arXiv:2604.20777v1 [cs.LG] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.20777 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[LG-4] Relative Entropy Estimation in Function Space: Theory and Applications to Trajectory Inference
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20775
作者: Chao Wang,Luca Nepote,Giulio Franzese,Pietro Michiardi
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Trajectory Inference (TI) seeks to recover latent dynamical processes from snapshot data, where only independent samples from time-indexed marginals are observed. In applications such as single-cell genomics, destructive measurements make path-space laws non-identifiable from finitely many marginals, leaving held-out marginal prediction as the dominant but limited evaluation protocol. We introduce a general framework for estimating the Kullback-Leibler divergence (KL) divergence between probability measures on function space, yielding a tractable, data-driven estimator that is scalable to realistic snapshot datasets. We validate the accuracy of our estimator on a benchmark suite, where the estimated functional KL closely matches the analytic KL. Applying this framework to synthetic and real scRNA-seq datasets, we show that current evaluation metrics often give inconsistent assessments, whereas path-space KL enables a coherent comparison of trajectory inference methods and exposes discrepancies in inferred dynamics, especially in regions with sparse or missing data. These results support functional KL as a principled criterion for evaluating trajectory inference under partial observability.
[LG-5] Personalized electric vehicle energy consumption estimation framework that integrates driver behavior with map data
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20764
作者: Sreechakra Vasudeva Raju Rachavelpula,Sangwhan Cha
类目: ystems and Control (eess.SY); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 28 pages, 19 figures
Abstract:This paper presents a personalized Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) energy consumption estimation framework that integrates map-based contextual features with driver-specific velocity prediction and physics-based energy consumption modeling. The system combines route selection, detailed road feature processing, a rule-based reference velocity generator, a PID controller-based vehicle dynamics simulator, and a Bidirectional LSTM model trained to reproduce individual driving behavior. The predicted individual-specific velocity profiles are coupled with a quasi-steady backward energy consumption model to compute tractive power, regenerative braking, and State-of-Charge (SOC) evolution. Evaluation across urban, freeway, and hilly routes demonstrates that the proposed approach captures key driver behavioral patterns such as deceleration at intersections, speed-limit tracking, and road grade-dependent responses, while producing accurate power and SOC trajectories. The results highlight the effectiveness of combining learned driver behavior with map-based context and physics-based energy consumption modeling to produce accurate, personalized BEV SOC depletion profiles.
[LG-6] Ftextsuperscript2LP-AP: Fast Flexible Label Propagation with Adaptive Propagation Kernel
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20736
作者: Yutong Shen,Ruizhe Xia,Jingyi Liu,Yinqi Liu
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 16 pages, 5 figures
Abstract:Semi-supervised node classification is a foundational task in graph machine learning, yet state-of-the-art Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are hindered by significant computational overhead and reliance on strong homophily assumptions. Traditional GNNs require expensive iterative training and multi-layer message passing, while existing training-free methods, such as Label Propagation, lack adaptability to heterophilo-us graph structures. This paper presents \textbfF ^2 LP-AP (Fast and Flexible Label Propagation with Adaptive Propagation Kernel), a training-free, computationally efficient framework that adapts to local graph topology. Our method constructs robust class prototypes via the geometric median and dynamically adjusts propagation parameters based on the Local Clustering Coefficient (LCC), enabling effective modeling of both homophilous and heterophilous graphs without gradient-based training. Extensive experiments across diverse benchmark datasets demonstrate that \textbfF ^2 LP-AP achieves competitive or superior accuracy compared to trained GNNs, while significantly outperforming existing baselines in computational efficiency.
[LG-7] Fast Bayesian equipment condition monitoring via simulation based inference: applications to heat exchanger health
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20735
作者: Peter Collett,Alexander Johannes Stasik,Simone Casolo,Signe Riemer-Sørensen
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Systems and Control (eess.SY); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
*备注: Submitted, 15 pages, 9 figures, code available on github
Abstract:Accurate condition monitoring of industrial equipment requires inferring latent degradation parameters from indirect sensor measurements under uncertainty. While traditional Bayesian methods like Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) provide rigorous uncertainty quantification, their heavy computational bottlenecks render them impractical for real-time process control. To overcome this limitation, we propose an AI-driven framework utilizing Simulation-Based Inference (SBI) powered by amortized neural posterior estimation to diagnose complex failure modes in heat exchangers. By training neural density estimators on a simulated dataset, our approach learns a direct, likelihood-free mapping from thermal-fluid observations to the full posterior distribution of degradation parameters. We benchmark this framework against an MCMC baseline across various synthetic fouling and leakage scenarios, including challenging low-probability, sparse-event failures. The results show that SBI achieves comparable diagnostic accuracy and reliable uncertainty quantification, while accelerating inference time by a factor of82 \times compared to traditional sampling. The amortized nature of the neural network enables near-instantaneous inference, establishing SBI as a highly scalable, real-time alternative for probabilistic fault diagnosis and digital twin realization in complex engineering systems.
[LG-8] Near-Future Policy Optimization
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20733
作者: Chuanyu Qin,Chenxu Yang,Qingyi Si,Naibin Gu,Dingyu Yao,Zheng Lin,Peng Fu,Nan Duan,Jiaqi Wang
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: Work in progress
Abstract:Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a core post-training recipe. Introducing suitable off-policy trajectories into on-policy exploration accelerates RLVR convergence and raises the performance ceiling, yet finding a source of such trajectories remains the key challenge. Existing mixed-policy methods either import trajectories from external teachers (high-quality but distributionally far) or replay past training trajectories (close but capped in quality), and neither simultaneously satisfies the strong enough (higher Q , more new knowledge to learn) and close enough (lower V , more readily absorbed) conditions required to maximize the effective learning signal \mathcalS = Q/V . We propose \textbfNear-Future \textbfPolicy \textbfOptimization (\textbfNPO), a simple mixed-policy scheme that learns from a policy’s own near-future self: a later checkpoint from the same training run is a natural source of auxiliary trajectories that is both stronger than the current policy and closer than any external source, directly balancing trajectory quality against variance cost. We validate NPO through two manual interventions, early-stage bootstrapping and late-stage plateau breakthrough, and further propose \textbfAutoNPO,an adaptive variant that automatically triggers interventions from online training signals and selects the guide checkpoint that maximizes S . On Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct with GRPO, NPO improves average performance from 57.88 to 62.84, and AutoNPO pushes it to 63.15, raising the final performance ceiling while accelerating convergence.
[LG-9] Generative Flow Networks for Model Adaptation in Digital Twins of Natural Systems
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20707
作者: Pascal Archambault,Houari Sahraoui,Eugene Syriani
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Systems and Control (eess.SY)
*备注: Under Review
Abstract:Digital twins of natural systems must remain aligned with physical systems that evolve over time, are only partially observed, and are typically modeled by mechanistic simulators whose parameters cannot be measured directly. In such settings, model adaptation is naturally posed as a simulation-based inference problem. However, sparse and indirect observations often fail to identify a unique and optimal calibration, leaving several simulator parameterizations compatible with the available evidence. This article presents a GFlowNet-based approach to model adaptation for digital twins of natural systems. We formulate adaptation as a generative modeling problem over complete simulator configurations, so that plausible parameterizations can be sampled with probability proportional to a reward derived from agreement between simulated and observed behavior. Using a controlled environment agriculture case study based on a mechanistic tomato model, we show that the learned policy recovers dominant regions of the adaptation landscape, retrieves strong calibration hypotheses, and preserves multiple plausible configurations under uncertainty.
[LG-10] Auto-ART: Structured Literature Synthesis and Automated Adversarial Robustness Testing NEURIPS2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20704
作者: Abhijit Talluri
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: NeurIPS 2026 Evaluations and Datasets Track Submission
Abstract:Adversarial robustness evaluation underpins every claim of trustworthy ML deployment, yet the field suffers from fragmented protocols and undetected gradient masking. We make two contributions. (1) Structured synthesis. We analyze nine peer-reviewed corpus sources (2020–2026) through seven complementary protocols, producing the first end-to-end structured analysis of the field’s consensus and unresolved challenges. (2) Auto-ART framework. We introduce Auto-ART, an open-source framework that operationalizes identified gaps: 50+ attacks, 28 defense modules, the Robustness Diagnostic Index (RDI), and gradient-masking detection. It supports multi-norm evaluation (l1/l2/linf/semantic/spatial) and compliance mapping to NIST AI RMF, OWASP LLM Top 10, and the EU AI Act. Empirical validation on RobustBench demonstrates that Auto-ART’s pre-screening identifies gradient masking in 92% of flagged cases, and RDI rankings correlate highly with full AutoAttack. Multi-norm evaluation exposes a 23.5 pp gap between average and worst-case robustness on state-of-the-art models. No prior work combines such structured meta-scientific analysis with an executable evaluation framework bridging literature gaps into engineering.
[LG-11] MGDA-Decoupled: Geometry-Aware Multi-Objective Optimisation for DPO-based LLM Alignment ICLR2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20685
作者: Andor Vári-Kakas,Ji Won Park,Natasa Tagasovska
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: Accepted to the Algorithmic Fairness Across Alignment Procedures and Agentic Systems Workshop at ICLR 2026
Abstract:Aligning large language models (LLMs) to desirable human values requires balancing multiple, potentially conflicting objectives such as helpfulness, truthfulness, and harmlessness, which presents a multi-objective optimisation challenge. Most alignment pipelines rely on a fixed scalarisation of these objectives, which can introduce procedural unfairness by systematically under-weighting harder-to-optimise or minority objectives. To promote more equitable trade-offs, we introduce MGDA-Decoupled, a geometry-based multi-objective optimisation algorithm that finds a shared descent direction while explicitly accounting for each objective’s convergence dynamics. In contrast to prior methods that depend on reinforcement learning (e.g., GAPO) or explicit reward models (e.g., MODPO), our approach operates entirely within the lightweight Direct Preference Optimisation (DPO) paradigm. Experiments on the UltraFeedback dataset show that geometry-aware methods – and MGDA-Decoupled in particular – achieve the highest win rates against golden responses, both overall and per objective.
[LG-12] Variance Is Not Importance: Structural Analysis of Transformer Compressibility Across Model Scales
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20682
作者: Samuel Salfati
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 18 pages, 10 figures
Abstract:We present a systematic empirical study of transformer compression through over 40 experiments on GPT-2 (124M parameters) and Mistral 7B (7.24B parameters). Our analysis covers spectral compression, block-level function replacement, rotation-based quantization, activation geometry, and adaptive early exit. We identify five structural properties relevant to compression. (1) Variance is not importance: high-variance activation directions are approximately 96 percent uncorrelated with predictive directions (measured via CCA), and projecting onto these subspaces preserves over 90 percent of variance while degrading perplexity. (2) Block linearity is conditional: transformer blocks are approximately linear (R^2 ~ 0.95 on GPT-2, 0.93 on Mistral block 31) only under the correct upstream distribution; modifying earlier blocks induces distribution shift that degrades downstream approximations. (3) The reconstruction wall: approaches that factor weights into quantized components amplify errors through cross-terms, making direct quantization strictly superior. (4) Linearity increases with depth: Mistral 7B exhibits a progression from R^2 = 0.17 (block 0) to R^2 = 0.93 (block 31), indicating a division between nonlinear feature construction and linear refinement. (5) Approximately 30 percent of tokens are computationally easy, confirmed via exit heads and KL divergence sensitivity. We demonstrate that single-block linear replacement achieves 34x compression with a 1.71 perplexity increase on the final block of Mistral 7B, while multi-block replacement fails due to residual error accumulation and distribution shift. These findings suggest fundamental limits to static post-training compression and motivate adaptive, per-token computation as a more effective direction. Comments: 18 pages, 10 figures Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG) ACMclasses: I.2.6; I.2.7 Cite as: arXiv:2604.20682 [cs.LG] (or arXiv:2604.20682v1 [cs.LG] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.20682 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[LG-13] Improving clinical interpretability of linear neuroimaging models through feature whitening
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20675
作者: Sara Petiton,Antoine Grigis,Raphaël Vock,Edouard Duchesnay
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Linear models are widely used in computational neuroimaging to identify biomarkers associated with brain pathologies. However, interpreting the learned weights remains challenging, as they do not always yield clinically meaningful insights. This difficulty arises in part from the inherent correlation between brain regions, which causes linear weights to reflect shared rather than region-specific contributions. In particular, some groups of regions, including homologous structures in the left and right hemispheres, are known to exhibit strong anatomical correlations. In this work, we leverage this prior neuroanatomical knowledge to introduce a whitening approach applied to groups of regions with known shared variance, designed to disentangle overlapping information across correlated brain measures. We additionally propose a regularized variant that allows controlled tuning of the degree of decorrelation. We evaluate this method using region-of-interest features in two psychiatric classification tasks, distinguishing individuals with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia from healthy controls. Importantly, unlike PCA or ICA which use whitening as a dimensionality reduction step, our approach decorrelates anatomically informed pairs of neuroanatomical regions while retaining the full input signal, making it specifically suited for feature interpretation rather than feature selection. Our findings demonstrate that whitening improves the interpretability of model weights while preserving predictive performance, providing a robust framework for linking linear model outputs to neurobiological mechanisms.
[LG-14] Occupancy Reward Shaping: Improving Credit Assignment for Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning ICLR2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20627
作者: Aravind Venugopal,Jiayu Chen,Xudong Wu,Chongyi Zheng,Benjamin Eysenbach,Jeff Schneider
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Robotics (cs.RO)
*备注: ICLR 2026
Abstract:The temporal lag between actions and their long-term consequences makes credit assignment a challenge when learning goal-directed behaviors from data. Generative world models capture the distribution of future states an agent may visit, indicating that they have captured temporal information. How can that temporal information be extracted to perform credit assignment? In this paper, we formalize how the temporal information stored in world models encodes the underlying geometry of the world. Leveraging optimal transport, we extract this geometry from a learned model of the occupancy measure into a reward function that captures goal-reaching information. Our resulting method, Occupancy Reward Shaping, largely mitigates the problem of credit assignment in sparse reward settings. ORS provably does not alter the optimal policy, yet empirically improves performance by 2.2x across 13 diverse long-horizon locomotion and manipulation tasks. Moreover, we demonstrate the effectiveness of ORS in the real world for controlling nuclear fusion on 3 Tokamak control tasks. Code: this https URL Website: this https URL Comments: ICLR 2026 Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Robotics (cs.RO) Cite as: arXiv:2604.20627 [cs.LG] (or arXiv:2604.20627v1 [cs.LG] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.20627 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[LG-15] oo Sharp Too Sure: When Calibration Follows Curvature
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20614
作者: Alessandro Morosini,Matea Gjika,Tomaso Poggio,Pierfrancesco Beneventano
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Dynamical Systems (math.DS); Optimization and Control (math.OC); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
*备注: 33 pages, 23 figures
Abstract:Modern neural networks can achieve high accuracy while remaining poorly calibrated, producing confidence estimates that do not match empirical correctness. Yet calibration is often treated as a post-hoc attribute. We take a different perspective: we study calibration as a training-time phenomenon on small vision tasks, and ask whether calibrated solutions can be obtained reliably by intervening on the training procedure. We identify a tight coupling between calibration, curvature, and margins during training of deep networks under multiple gradient-based methods. Empirically, Expected Calibration Error (ECE) closely tracks curvature-based sharpness throughout optimization. Mathematically, we show that both ECE and Gauss–Newton curvature are controlled, up to problem-specific constants, by the same margin-dependent exponential tail functional along the trajectory. Guided by this mechanism, we introduce a margin-aware training objective that explicitly targets robust-margin tails and local smoothness, yielding improved out-of-sample calibration across optimizers without sacrificing accuracy.
[LG-16] Differentially Private Clustered Federated Learning with Privacy-Preserving Initialization and Normality-Driven Aggregation ICASSP2026
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20596
作者: Jie Xu,Haaris Mehmood,Rogier Van Dalen,Karthikeyan Saravanan,Mete Ozay
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
*备注: Accepted to ICASSP 2026 (Oral)
Abstract:Federated learning (FL) enables training of a global model while keeping raw data on end-devices. Despite this, FL has shown to leak private user information and thus in practice, it is often coupled with methods such as differential privacy (DP) and secure vector sum to provide formal privacy guarantees to its participants. In realistic cross-device deployments, the data are highly heterogeneous, so vanilla federated learning converges slowly and generalizes poorly. Clustered federated learning (CFL) mitigates this by segregating users into clusters, leading to lower intra-cluster data heterogeneity. Nevertheless, coupling CFL with DP remains challenging: the injected DP noise makes individual client updates excessively noisy, and the server is unable to initialize cluster centroids with the less noisy aggregated updates. To address this challenge, we propose PINA, a two-stage framework that first lets each client fine-tune a lightweight low-rank adaptation (LoRA) adapter and privately share a compressed sketch of the update. The server leverages these sketches to construct robust cluster centroids. In the second stage, PINA introduces a normality-driven aggregation mechanism that improves convergence and robustness. Our method retains the benefits of clustered FL while providing formal privacy guarantees against an untrusted server. Extensive evaluations show that our proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art DP-FL algorithms by an average of 2.9% in accuracy for privacy budgets (epsilon in 2, 8).
[LG-17] An explicit operator explains end-to-end computation in the modern neural networks used for sequence and language modeling
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20595
作者: Anif N. Shikder,Ramit Dey,Sayantan Auddy,Luisa Liboni,Alexandra N. Busch,Arthur Powanwe,Ján Mináč,Roberto C. Budzinski,Lyle E. Muller
类目: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
*备注:
Abstract:We establish a mathematical correspondence between state space models, a state-of-the-art architecture for capturing long-range dependencies in data, and an exactly solvable nonlinear oscillator network. As a specific example of this general correspondence, we analyze the diagonal linear time-invariant implementation of the Structured State Space Sequence model (S4). The correspondence embeds S4D, a specific implementation of S4, into a ring network topology, in which recent inputs are encoded, as waves of activity traveling over the one-dimensional spatial layout of the network. We then derive an exact operator expression for the full forward pass of S4D, yielding an analytical characterization of its complete input-output map. This expression reveals that the nonlinear decoder in the system induces interactions between these information-carrying waves that enable classifying real-world sequences. These results generalize across modern SSM architectures, and show that they admit an exact mathematical description with a clear physical interpretation. These insights enable a new level of interpretability for these systems in terms of nonlinear oscillator networks.
[LG-18] A Hierarchical MARL-Based Approach for Coordinated Retail P2P Trading and Wholesale Market Participation of DERs
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20586
作者: Patrick Wilk,Ethan Cantor,Yikui Liu,Jie Li
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Systems and Control (eess.SY)
*备注: 11 pages, 6 figures, 7 tables
Abstract:The ongoing shift towards decentralization of the electric energy sector, driven by the growing electrification across end-use sectors, and widespread adoption of distributed energy resources (DERs), necessitates their active participation in the electricity markets to support grid operations. Furthermore, with bi-directional energy and communication flows becoming standard, intelligent, easy-to-deploy, resource-conservative demand-side participation is expected to play a critical role in securing power grid operational flexibility and market efficiency. This work proposes a market engagement framework that leverages a hierarchical multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MARL) approach to enable individual prosumers to participate in peer-to-peer retail auctions and further aggregate these intelligent prosumers to facilitate effective DER participation in wholesale markets. Ultimately, a Stackelberg game is proposed to coordinate this hierarchical MARL-based DER market participation framework toward enhanced market performance.
[LG-19] Evaluating Assurance Cases as Text-Attributed Graphs for Structure and Provenance Analysis
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20577
作者: Fariz Ikhwantri,Dusica Marijan
类目: oftware Engineering (cs.SE); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 10 pages, 4 figures, 8 tables. Accepted to EASE 2026 AI Models / Data track, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Abstract:An assurance case is a structured argument document that justifies claims about a system’s requirements or properties, which are supported by evidence. In regulated domains, these are crucial for meeting compliance and safety requirements to industry standards. We propose a graph diagnostic framework for analysing the structure and provenance of assurance cases. We focus on two main tasks: (1) link prediction, to learn and identify connections between argument elements, and (2) graph classification, to differentiate between assurance cases created by a state-of-the-art large language model and those created by humans, aiming to detect bias. We compiled a publicly available dataset of assurance cases, represented as graphs with nodes and edges, supporting both link prediction and provenance analysis. Experiments show that graph neural networks (GNNs) achieve strong link prediction performance (ROC-AUC 0.760) on real assurance cases and generalise well across domains and semi-supervised settings. For provenance detection, GNNs effectively distinguish human-authored from LLM-generated cases (F1 0.94). We observed that LLM-generated assurance cases have different hierarchical linking patterns compared to human-authored cases. Furthermore, existing GNN explanation methods show only moderate faithfulness, revealing a gap between predicted reasoning and the true argument structure.
[LG-20] Amortized Vine Copulas for High-Dimensional Density and Information Estimation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20568
作者: Houman Safaai
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Information Theory (cs.IT); Methodology (stat.ME)
*备注:
Abstract:Modeling high-dimensional dependencies while keeping likelihoods tractable remains challenging. Classical vine-copula pipelines are interpretable but can be expensive, while many neural estimators are flexible but less structured. In this work, we propose Vine Denoising Copula (VDC), an amortized vine-copula pipeline that trains a single bivariate denoising model and reuses it across all vine edges. For each edge, given pseudo-observations, the model predicts a density grid. We then apply an IPFP/Sinkhorn projection that enforces non-negativity, unit mass, and uniform marginals. This keeps the exact vine likelihood and preserves the usual copula interpretation while replacing repeated per-edge optimization with GPU inference. Across synthetic and real-data benchmarks, VDC delivers strong bivariate density accuracy, competitive MI/TC estimation, and substantial speedups for high-dimensional vine fitting. In practice, these gains make explicit information estimation and dependence decomposition feasible at scales where repeated vine fitting would otherwise be costly, although conditional downstream inference remains mixed.
[LG-21] Explicit Dropout: Deterministic Regularization for Transformer Architectures
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20505
作者: Vidhi Agrawal,Illia Oleksiienko,Alexandros Iosifidis
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Dropout is a widely used regularization technique in deep learning, but its effects are typically realized through stochastic masking rather than explicit optimization objectives. We propose a deterministic formulation that expresses dropout as an additive regularizer directly incorporated into the training loss. The framework derives explicit regularization terms for Transformer architectures, covering attention query, key, value, and feed-forward components with independently controllable strengths. This formulation removes reliance on stochastic perturbations while providing clearer and fine-grained control over regularization strength. Experiments across image classification, temporal action detection, and audio classification show that explicit dropout matches or outperforms conventional implicit methods, with consistent gains when applied to attention and feed-forward network layers. Ablation studies demonstrate stable performance and controllable regularization through regularization coefficients and dropout rates. Overall, explicit dropout offers a practical and interpretable alternative to stochastic regularization while maintaining architectural flexibility across diverse tasks.
[LG-22] Efficient Test-Time Inference via Deterministic Exploration of Truncated Decoding Trees
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20500
作者: Xueyan Li,Johannes Zenn,Ekaterina Fadeeva,Guinan Su,Mrinmaya Sachan,Jonas Geiping
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Self-consistency boosts inference-time performance by sampling multiple reasoning traces in parallel and voting. However, in constrained domains like math and code, this strategy is compute-inefficient because it samples with replacement, repeatedly revisiting the same high-probability prefixes and duplicate completions. We propose Distinct Leaf Enumeration (DLE), a deterministic decoding method that treats truncated sampling as traversal of a pruned decoding tree and systematically enumerates distinct leaves instead of sampling with replacement. This strategy improves inference efficiency in two ways. Algorithmically, it increases coverage of the truncated search space under a fixed budget by exploring previously unvisited high-probability branches. Systemically, it reuses shared prefixes and reduces redundant token generation. Empirically, DLE explores higher-quality reasoning traces than stochastic self-consistency, yielding better performance on math, coding, and general reasoning tasks.
[LG-23] owards Certified Malware Detection: Provable Guarantees Against Evasion Attacks
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20495
作者: Nandakrishna Giri,Asmitha K. A.,Serena Nicolazzo,Antonino Nocera,Vinod P
类目: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Machine learning-based static malware detectors remain vulnerable to adversarial evasion techniques, such as metamorphic engine mutations. To address this vulnerability, we propose a certifiably robust malware detection framework based on randomized smoothing through feature ablation and targeted noise injection. During evaluation, our system analyzes an executable by generating multiple ablated variants, classifies them by using a smoothed classifier, and identifies the final label based on the majority vote. By analyzing the top-class voting distribution and the Wilson score interval, we derive a formal certificate that guarantees robustness within a specific radius against feature-space perturbations. We evaluate our approach by comparing the performance of the base classifier and the smoothed classifier on both clean executables and ablated variants generated using PyMetaEngine. Our results demonstrate that the proposed smoothed classifier successfully provides certifiable robustness against metamorphic evasion attacks without requiring modifications to the underlying machine learning architecture.
[LG-24] Forecasting Individual NetFlows using a Predictive Masked Graph Autoencoder
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20483
作者: Georgios Anyfantis,Pere Barlet-Ros
类目: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 3 figures, 6 pages
Abstract:In this paper, we propose a proof-of-concept Graph Neural Network model that can successfully predict network flow-level traffic (NetFlow) by accurately modelling the graph structure and the connection features. We use sliding-windows to split the network traffic in equal-sized heterogeneous bidirectional graphs containing IP, Port, and Connection nodes. We then use the GNN to model the evolution of the graph structure and the connection features. Our approach shows superior results when identifying the Port and IP to which connections attach, while feature reconstruction remains competitive with strong forecasting baselines. Overall, our work showcases the use of GNNs for per-flow NetFlow prediction.
[LG-25] mporal Difference Calibration in Sequential Tasks: Application to Vision-Language-Action Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20472
作者: Shelly Francis-Meretzki,Mirco Mutti,Yaniv Romano,Aviv Tamar
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Recent advances in vision-language-action (VLA) models for robotics have highlighted the importance of reliable uncertainty quantification in sequential tasks. However, assessing and improving calibration in such settings remains mostly unexplored, especially when only partial trajectories are observed. In this work, we formulate sequential calibration for episodic tasks, where task-success confidence is produced along an episode, while success is determined at the end of it. We introduce a sequential extension of the Brier score and show that, for binary outcomes, its risk minimizer coincides with the VLA policy’s value function. This connection bridges uncertainty calibration and reinforcement learning, enabling the use of temporal-difference (TD) value estimation as a principled calibration mechanism over time. We empirically show that TD calibration improves performance relative to the state-of-the-art on simulated and real-robot data. Interestingly, we show that when calibrated using TD, the VLA’s single-step action probabilities can yield competitive uncertainty estimates, in contrast to recent findings that employed different calibration techniques.
[LG-26] Surrogate Functionals for Machine-Learned Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20458
作者: Roman Remme,Fred A. Hamprecht
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
*备注:
Abstract:We introduce surrogate functionals: machine-learned energy functionals for orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) which are defined not by universal fidelity to a physical reference, but merely by the requirement that density optimization with a fixed procedure yields the true ground-state density. Helpfully, training surrogate functionals requires only ground-state densities, no energies or gradients away from the ground state. We here propose a gradient-descent-improvement loss that guarantees exponential convergence of the density to the ground state, and combine it with an adaptive sampling scheme that concentrates learning around the optimization trajectories actually visited during inference. On the QM9 and QMugs benchmarks, surrogate functionals achieve density errors competitive with or improving upon the state of the art for fully supervised machine-learned OF-DFT, while eliminating the need for the O(N^3) orthononormalization step required by prior work, yielding improved runtime scaling for larger systems.
[LG-27] he Origin of Edge of Stability
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20446
作者: Elon Litman
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
*备注:
Abstract:Full-batch gradient descent on neural networks drives the largest Hessian eigenvalue to the threshold 2/\eta , where \eta is the learning rate. This phenomenon, the Edge of Stability, has resisted a unified explanation: existing accounts establish self-regulation near the edge but do not explain why the trajectory is forced toward 2/\eta from arbitrary initialization. We introduce the edge coupling, a functional on consecutive iterate pairs whose coefficient is uniquely fixed by the gradient-descent update. Differencing its criticality condition yields a step recurrence with stability boundary 2/\eta , and a second-order expansion yields a loss-change formula whose telescoping sum forces curvature toward 2/\eta . The two formulas involve different Hessian averages, but the mean value theorem localizes each to the true Hessian at an interior point of the step segment, yielding exact forcing of the Hessian eigenvalue with no gap. Setting both gradients of the edge coupling to zero classifies fixed points and period-two orbits; near a fixed point, the problem reduces to a function of the half-amplitude alone, which determines which directions support period-two orbits and on which side of the critical learning rate they appear.
[LG-28] Unlocking the Forecasting Economy: A Suite of Datasets for the Full Lifecycle of Prediction Market: [Experiments Analysis] WWW
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20421
作者: Huaiyu Jia,Luofeng Zhou,Wentao Zhang,Lin William Cong,Siguang Li,Shuo Sun
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: Project page: this https URL
Abstract:Prediction markets are markets for trading claims on future events, such as presidential elections, and their prices provide continuously updated signals of collective beliefs. In decentralized platforms such as Polymarket, the market lifecycle spans market creation, token registration, trading, oracle interaction, dispute, and final settlement, yet the corresponding data are fragmented across heterogeneous off-chain and on-chain sources. We present the first continuously maintained dataset suite for the full lifecycle of decentralized prediction markets, built on Polymarket. To address the challenges of large-scale cross-source integration, incomplete linkage, and continuous synchronization, we build a unified relational data system that integrates three canonical layers: market metadata, fill-level trading records, and oracle-resolution events, through identifier resolution, on-chain recovery, and incremental updates. The resulting dataset spans October 2020 to March 2026 and comprises more than 770 thousand market records, over 943 million fill records, and nearly 2 million oracle events. We describe the data model, collection pipeline, and consistency mechanisms that make the dataset reproducible and extensible, and we demonstrate its utility through descriptive analyses of market activity and two downstream case studies: NBA outcome calibration and CPI expectation reconstruction.
[LG-29] Calibrating conditional risk
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20409
作者: Andrey Vasilyev,Yikai Wang,Xiaocheng Li,Guanting Chen
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
*备注:
Abstract:We introduce and study the problem of calibrating conditional risk, which involves estimating the expected loss of a prediction model conditional on input features. We analyze this problem in both classification and regression settings and show that it is fundamentally equivalent to a standard regression task. For classification settings, we further establish a connection between conditional risk calibration and individual/conditional probability calibration, and develop theoretical insights for the performance metric. This reveals that while conditional risk calibration is related to existing uncertainty quantification problems, it remains a distinct and standalone machine learning problem. Empirically, we validate our theoretical findings and demonstrate the practical implications of conditional risk calibration in the learning to defer (L2D) framework. Our systematic experiments provide both qualitative and quantitative assessments, offering guidance for future research in uncertainty-aware decision-making.
[LG-30] Robustness of Spatio-temporal Graph Neural Networks for Fault Location in Partially Observable Distribution Grids
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20403
作者: Burak Karabulut,Carlo Manna,Chris Develder
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Fault location in distribution grids is critical for reliability and minimizing outage durations. Yet, it remains challenging due to partial observability, given sparse measurement infrastructure. Recent works show promising results by combining Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for spatio-temporal learning. Still, many modern GNN architectures remain untested for this grid application, while existing GNN solutions have not explored GNN topology definitions beyond simply adopting the full grid topology to construct the GNN graph. We address these gaps by (i) systematically comparing a newly proposed graph-forming strategy (measured-only) to the traditional full-topology approach, and (ii) introducing STGNN (Spatio-temporal GNN) models based on GraphSAGE and an improved Graph Attention (GATv2), for distribution grid fault location; (iii) benchmarking them against state-of-the-art STGNN and RNN baselines on the IEEE 123-bus feeder. In our experiments, all evaluated STGNN variants achieve high performance and consistently outperform a pure RNN baseline, with improvements up to 11 percentage points F1. Among STGNN models, the newly explored RGATv2 and RGSAGE achieve only marginally higher F1 scores. Still, STGNNs demonstrate superior stability, with tight confidence intervals (within +/- 1.4%) compared to the RNN baseline (up to +/- 7.5%) across different experiment runs. Finally, our proposed reduced GNN topology (measured-only) shows clear benefits in both (i) model training time (6-fold reduction) and (ii) model performance (up to 11 points F1). This suggests that measured-only graphs offer a more practical, efficient, and robust framework for partially observable distribution grids.
[LG-31] Distributional Value Estimation Without Target Networks for Robust Quality-Diversity GECCO’26
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20381
作者: Behrad Koohy,Jamie Bayne
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE); Robotics (cs.RO)
*备注: Accepted as Full Paper at GECCO’26
Abstract:Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms excel at discovering diverse repertoires of skills, but are hindered by poor sample efficiency and often require tens of millions of environment steps to solve complex locomotion tasks. Recent advances in Reinforcement Learning (RL) have shown that high Update-to-Data (UTD) ratios accelerate Actor-Critic learning. While effective, standard high-UTD algorithms typically utilise target networks to stabilise training. This requirement introduces a significant computational bottleneck, rendering them impractical for resource-intensive Quality-Diversity (QD) tasks where sample efficiency and rapid population adaptation are critical. In this paper, we introduce QDHUAC, a sample-efficient, target-free and distributional QD-RL algorithm that provides dense and low-variance gradient signals, which enables high-UTD training for Dominated Novelty Search whilst requiring an order of magnitude fewer environment steps. We demonstrate that our method enables stable training at high UTD ratios, achieving competitive coverage and fitness on high-dimensional Brax environments with an order of magnitude fewer samples than baselines. Our results suggest that combining target-free distributional critics with dominance-based selection is a key enabler for the next generation of sample-efficient evolutionary RL algorithms.
[LG-32] owards Event-Aware Forecasting in DeFi: Insights from On-chain Automated Market Maker Protocols
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20374
作者: Huaiyu Jia,Jiehshun You,Yizhi Luo,Jingyu Liu,Shuo Sun
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Automated Market Makers (AMMs), as a core infrastructure of decentralized finance (DeFi), uniquely drive on-chain asset pricing through a deterministic reserve ratio mechanism. Unlike traditional markets, AMM price dynamics is triggered largely by on-chain events (e.g., swap) that change the reserve ratio, rather than by continuous responses to off-chain information. This makes event-level analysis crucial for understanding price formation mechanisms in AMMs. However, existing research generally neglects the micro-structural dynamics at the AMMs level, lacking both a comprehensive dataset covering multiple protocols with fine-grained event classification and an effective framework for event-aware modeling. To fill this gap, we construct a dataset containing 8.9 million on-chain event records from four representative AMMs protocols: Pendle, Uniswap v3, Aave and Morpho, with precise annotations of transaction type and block height timestamps. Furthermore, we propose an Uncertainty Weighted Mean Squared Error (UWM) loss function, which incorporates the block interval regression term into the traditional Time-Point Process (TPP) objective function by weighting the uncertainty with homoscedasticity. Extensive experiments on eight advanced TPP architectures demonstrate that this loss function reduces the time prediction error by an average of 56.41% while maintaining the accuracy of event type prediction, establishing a robust benchmark for event-aware prediction in the AMMs ecosystem. This work provides the necessary data foundation and methodological framework for modeling the discreteness and event-driven characteristics of on-chain price discovery. All datasets and source code are publicly available. this https URL
[LG-33] Cold-Start Forecasting of New Product Life-Cycles via Conditional Diffusion Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20370
作者: Ruihan Zhou,Zishi Zhang,Jinhui Han,Yijie Peng,Xiaowei Zhang
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
*备注:
Abstract:Forecasting the life-cycle trajectory of a newly launched product is important for launch planning, resource allocation, and early risk assessment. This task is especially difficult in the pre-launch and early post-launch phases, when product-specific outcome history is limited or unavailable, creating a cold-start problem. In these phases, firms must make decisions before demand patterns become reliably observable, while early signals are often sparse, noisy, and unstable We propose the Conditional Diffusion Life-cycle Forecaster (CDLF), a conditional generative framework for forecasting new-product life-cycle trajectories under cold start. CDLF combines three sources of information: static descriptors, reference trajectories from similar products, and newly arriving observations when available. Here, static descriptors refer to structured pre-launch characteristics of the product, such as category, price tier, brand or organization identity, scale, and access conditions. This structure allows the model to condition forecasts on relevant product context and to update them adaptively over time without retraining, yielding flexible multi-modal predictive distributions under extreme data scarcity. The method satisfies consistency with a horizon-uniform distributional error bound for recursive generation. Across studies on Intel microprocessor stock keeping unit (SKU) life cycles and the platform-mediated adoption of open large language model repositories, CDLF delivers more accurate point forecasts and higher-quality probabilistic forecasts than classical diffusion models, Bayesian updating approaches, and other state-of-the-art machine-learning baselines.
[LG-34] R2IF: Aligning Reasoning with Decisions via Composite Rewards for Interpretable LLM Function Calling
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20316
作者: Aijia Cheng,Kailong Wang,Ling Shi,Yongxin Zhao
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Function calling empowers large language models (LLMs) to interface with external tools, yet existing RL-based approaches suffer from misalignment between reasoning processes and tool-call decisions. We propose R2IF, a reasoning-aware RL framework for interpretable function calling, adopting a composite reward integrating format/correctness constraints, Chain-of-Thought Effectiveness Reward (CER), and Specification-Modification-Value (SMV) reward, optimized via GRPO. Experiments on BFCL/ACEBench show R2IF outperforms baselines by up to 34.62% (Llama3.2-3B on BFCL) with positive Average CoT Effectiveness (0.05 for Llama3.2-3B), enhancing both function-calling accuracy and interpretability for reliable tool-augmented LLM deployment.
[LG-35] Sheaf Neural Networks on SPD Manifolds: Second-Order Geometric Representation Learning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20308
作者: Yuhan Peng,Junwen Dong,Yuzhi Zeng,Hao Li,Ce Ju,Huitao Feng,Diaaeldin Taha,Anna Wienhard,Kelin Xia
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Graph neural networks face two fundamental challenges rooted in the linear structure of Euclidean vector spaces: (1) Current architectures represent geometry through vectors (directions, gradients), yet many tasks require matrix-valued representations that capture relationships between directions-such as how atomic orientations covary in a molecule. These second-order representations are naturally captured by points on the symmetric positive definite matrices (SPD) manifold; (2) Standard message passing applies shared transformations across edges. Sheaf neural networks address this via edge-specific transformations, but existing formulations remain confined to vector spaces and therefore cannot propagate matrix-valued features. We address both challenges by developing the first sheaf neural network operates natively on the SPD manifold. Our key insight is that the SPD manifold admits a Lie group structure, enabling well-posed analogs of sheaf operators without projecting to Euclidean space. Theoretically, we prove that SPD-valued sheaves are strictly more expressive than Euclidean sheaves: they admit consistent configurations (global sections) that vector-valued sheaves cannot represent, directly translating to richer learned representations. Empirically, our sheaf convolution transforms effectively rank-1 directional inputs into full-rank matrices encoding local geometric structure. Our dual-stream architecture achieves SOTA on 6/7 MoleculeNet benchmarks, with the sheaf framework providing consistent depth robustness.
[LG-36] Synthetic Flight Data Generation Using Generative Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20293
作者: Karim Aly,Alexei Sharpanskykh
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 10 pages
Abstract:The increasing adoption of synthetic data in aviation research offers a promising solution to data scarcity and confidentiality challenges. This study investigates the potential of generative models to produce realistic synthetic flight data and evaluates their quality through a comprehensive four-stage assessment framework. The need for synthetic flight data arises from their potential to serve as an alternative to confidential real-world records and to augment rare events in historical datasets. These enhanced datasets can then be used to train machine learning models that predict critical events, such as flight delays, cancellations, diversions, and turnaround times. Two generative models, Tabular Variational Autoencoder (TVAE) and Gaussian Copula (GC), are adapted to generate synthetic flight information and compared based on their ability to preserve statistical similarity, fidelity, diversity, and predictive utility. Results indicate that while GC achieves higher statistical similarity and fidelity, its computational cost hinders its applicability to large datasets. In contrast, TVAE efficiently handles large datasets and enables scalable synthetic data generation. The findings demonstrate that synthetic data can support flight delay prediction models with accuracy comparable to those trained on real data. These results pave the way for leveraging synthetic flight data to enhance predictive modeling in air transportation.
[LG-37] Generative Augmentation of Imbalanced Flight Records for Flight Diversion Prediction: A Multi-objective Optimisation Framework
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20288
作者: Karim Aly,Alexei Sharpanskykh,Jacco Hoekstra
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 12 pages, 18 figures, 21 files, paper under review
Abstract:Flight diversions are rare but high-impact events in aviation, making their reliable prediction vital for both safety and operational efficiency. However, their scarcity in historical records impedes the training of machine learning models utilised to predict them. This study addresses this scarcity gap by investigating how generative models can augment historical flight data with synthetic diversion records to enhance model training and improve predictive accuracy. We propose a multi-objective optimisation framework coupled with automated hyperparameter search to identify optimal configurations for three deep generative models: Tabular Variational Autoencoder (TVAE), Conditional Tabular Generative Adversarial Network (CTGAN), and CopulaGAN, with the Gaussian Copula (GC) model serving as a statistical baseline. The quality of the synthetic data was examined through a six-stage evaluation framework encompassing realism, diversity, operational validity, statistical similarity, fidelity, and predictive utility. Results show that the optimised models significantly outperform their non-optimised counterparts, and that synthetic augmentation substantially improves diversion prediction compared to models trained solely on real data. These findings demonstrate the effectiveness of hyperparameter-optimised generative models for advancing predictive modelling of rare events in air transportation.
[LG-38] Rethinking Intrinsic Dimension Estimation in Neural Representations AISTATS
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20276
作者: Rickmer Schulte,David Rügamer
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
*备注: Accepted at the 29th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2026
Abstract:The analysis of neural representation has become an integral part of research aiming to better understand the inner workings of neural networks. While there are many different approaches to investigate neural representations, an important line of research has focused on doing so through the lens of intrinsic dimensions (IDs). Although this perspective has provided valuable insights and stimulated substantial follow-up research, important limitations of this approach have remained largely unaddressed. In this paper, we highlight a crucial discrepancy between theory and practice of IDs in neural representations, theoretically and empirically showing that common ID estimators are, in fact, not tracking the true underlying ID of the representation. We contrast this negative result with an investigation of the underlying factors that may drive commonly reported ID-related results on neural representation in the literature. Building on these insights, we offer a new perspective on ID estimation in neural representations.
[LG-39] Causal-Transformer with Adaptive Mutation-Locking for Early Prediction of Acute Kidney Injury
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20259
作者: Weizhi Nie,Haolin Chen
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Accurate early prediction of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is critical for timely clinical intervention. However, existing deep learning models struggle with irregularly sampled data and suffer from the opaque “black-box” nature of sequential architectures, strictly limiting clinical trust. To address these challenges, we propose CT-Former, integrating continuous-time modeling with a Causal-Transformer. To handle data irregularity without biased artificial imputation, our framework utilizes a continuous-time state evolution mechanism to naturally track patient temporal trajectories. To resolve the black-box problem, our Causal-Attention module abandons uninterpretable hidden state aggregation. Instead, it generates a directed structural causal matrix to identify and trace the exact historical onset of severe physiological shocks. By establishing clear causal pathways between historical anomalies and current risk predictions, CT-Former provides native clinical interpretability. Training follows a decoupled two-stage protocol to optimize the causal-fusion process independently. Extensive experiments on the MIMIC-IV cohort (N=18,419) demonstrate that CT-Former significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines. The results confirm that our explicitly transparent architecture offers an accurate and trustworthy tool for clinical decision-making.
[LG-40] Machine Learning for Two-Stage Graph Sparsification for the Travelling Salesman Problem
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20236
作者: Bo-Cheng Lin,Yi Mei,Mengjie Zhang
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:High-performance TSP solvers like LKH search within a sparsified candidate graph rather than over all possible edges. Graph sparsification is non-trivial: keep too many edges and the solver wastes time; cut too many and it loses edges that belong to the optimal tour. The two leading heuristic methods, \alpha -Nearest and POPMUSIC, produce high-quality candidate graphs, but no single heuristic is both sparse and reliable across all instance sizes and distributions. Machine learning methods can potentially learn better sparsification models. However, existing approaches operate on the complete graph, which is expensive and mostly restricted to Euclidean distances. To address this issue, we propose a two-stage graph sparsification approach: Stage~1 takes the union of \alpha -Nearest and POPMUSIC to maximise recall; Stage~2 trains a single model to reduce density. We conducted experiments across four TSPLIB distance types, five spatial distributions, and problem sizes from 50 to 500. The two-stage approach substantially reduces candidate-graph density while retaining high coverage, generalises across distance types and distributions, outperforms recent neural sparsification methods that are restricted to Euclidean distances, and becomes increasingly valuable at larger scales where single-stage heuristics degrade.
[LG-41] Geometric Layer-wise Approximation Rates for Deep Networks
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20219
作者: Shijun Zhang,Zuowei Shen,Yuesheng Xu
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Numerical Analysis (math.NA); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
*备注:
Abstract:Depth is widely viewed as a central contributor to the success of deep neural networks, whereas standard neural network approximation theory typically provides guarantees only for the final output and leaves the role of intermediate layers largely unclear. We address this gap by developing a quantitative framework in which depth admits a precise scale-dependent interpretation. Specifically, we design a single shared mixed-activation architecture of fixed width 2dN+d+2 and any prescribed finite depth such that each intermediate readout \Phi_\ell is itself an approximant to the target function f . For f\in L^p([0,1]^d) with p\in [1,\infty) , the approximation error of \Phi_\ell is controlled by (2d+1) times the L^p modulus of continuity at the geometric scale N^-\ell for all \ell . The estimate reduces to the geometric rate (2d+1)N^-\ell if f is 1 -Lipschitz. Our network design is inspired by multigrade deep learning, where depth serves as a progressive refinement mechanism: each new correction targets residual information at a finer scale while the earlier correction terms remain part of the later readouts, yielding a nested architecture that supports adaptive refinement without redesigning the preceding network.
[LG-42] Scaling Self-Play with Self-Guidance
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20209
作者: Luke Bailey,Kaiyue Wen,Kefan Dong,Tatsunori Hashimoto,Tengyu Ma
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:LLM self-play algorithms are notable in that, in principle, nothing bounds their learning: a Conjecturer model creates problems for a Solver, and both improve together. However, in practice, existing LLM self-play methods do not scale well with large amounts of compute, instead hitting learning plateaus. We argue this is because over long training runs, the Conjecturer learns to hack its reward, collapsing to artificially complex problems that do not help the Solver improve. To overcome this, we introduce Self-Guided Self-Play (SGS), a self-play algorithm in which the language model itself guides the Conjecturer away from degeneracy. In SGS, the model takes on three roles: Solver, Conjecturer, and a Guide that scores synthetic problems by their relevance to unsolved target problems and how clean and natural they are, providing supervision against Conjecturer collapse. Our core hypothesis is that language models can assess whether a subproblem is useful for achieving a goal. We evaluate the scaling properties of SGS by running training for significantly longer than prior works and by fitting scaling laws to cumulative solve rate curves. Applying SGS to formal theorem proving in Lean4, we find that it surpasses the asymptotic solve rate of our strongest RL baseline in fewer than 80 rounds of self-play and enables a 7B parameter model, after 200 rounds of self-play, to solve more problems than a 671B parameter model pass@4.
[LG-43] ACT: Anti-Crosstalk Learning for Cross-Sectional Stock Ranking via Temporal Disentanglement and Structural Purification
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20204
作者: Juntao Li,Liang Zhang
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 15 pages
Abstract:Cross-sectional stock ranking is a fundamental task in quantitative investment, relying on both temporal modeling of individual stocks and the capture of inter-stock dependencies. While existing deep learning models leverage graph-based approaches to enhance ranking accuracy by propagating information over relational graphs, they suffer from a key challenge: crosstalk, namely unintended information interference across predictive factors. We identify two forms of crosstalk: temporal-scale crosstalk, where trends, fluctuations, and shocks are entangled in a shared representation and non-transferable local patterns contaminate cross-stock learning; and structural crosstalk, where heterogeneous relations are indiscriminately fused and relation-specific predictive signals are obscured. To address both issues, we propose the Anti-CrossTalk (ACT) framework for cross-sectional stock ranking via temporal disentanglement and structural purification. Specifically, ACT first decomposes each stock sequence into trend, fluctuation, and shock components, then extracts component-specific information through dedicated branches, which effectively decouples non-transferable local patterns. ACT further introduces a Progressive Structural Purification Encoder to sequentially purify structural crosstalk on the trend component after mitigating temporal-scale crosstalk. An adaptive fusion module finally integrates all branch representations for ranking. Experiments on CSI300 and CSI500 demonstrate that ACT achieves state-of-the-art ranking accuracy and superior portfolio performance, with improvements of up to 74.25% on the CSI300 dataset.
[LG-44] Structure-Aware Variational Learning of a Class of Generalized Diffusions
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20188
作者: Yubin Lu,Xiaofan Li,Chun Liu,Qi Tang,Yiwei Wang
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
*备注:
Abstract:Learning the underlying potential energy of stochastic gradient systems from partial and noisy observations is a fundamental problem arising in physics, chemistry, and data-driven modeling. Classical approaches often rely on direct regression of governing equations or velocity fields, which can be sensitive to noise and external perturbations and may fail when observations are incomplete. In this work, we propose a structure-aware, energy-based learning framework for inferring unknown potential functions in generalized diffusion processes, grounded in the energetic variational approach. Starting from the energy-dissipation law associated with the Fokker-Planck equation, we construct loss functions based on the De Giorgi dissipation functional, which consistently couple the free energy and the dissipation mechanism of the system. This formulation avoids explicit enforcement of the governing partial differential equation and preserves the underlying variational structure of the dynamics. Through numerical experiments in one, two, and three dimensions, we demonstrate that the proposed energy-based loss exhibits enhanced robustness with respect to observation time, noise level, and the diversity and amount of available training data. These results highlight the effectiveness of energy-dissipation principles as a reliable foundation for learning stochastic diffusion dynamics from data.
[LG-45] Lever: Inference-Time Policy Reuse under Support Constraints
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20174
作者: Ihor Vitenki,Noha Ibrahim,Sihem Amer-Yahia
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Reinforcement learning (RL) policies are typically trained for fixed objectives, making reuse difficult when task requirements change. We study inference-time policy reuse: given a library of pre-trained policies and a new composite objective, can a high-quality policy be constructed entirely offline, without additional environment interaction? We introduce lever (Leveraging Efficient Vector Embeddings for Reusable policies), an end-to-end framework that retrieves relevant policies, evaluates them using behavioral embeddings, and composes new policies via offline Q-value composition. We focus on the support-limited regime, where no value propagation is possible, and show that the effectiveness of reuse depends critically on the coverage of available transitions. To balance performance and computational cost, lever proposes composition strategies that control the exploration of candidate policies. Experiments in deterministic GridWorld environments show that inference-time composition can match, and in some cases exceed, training-from-scratch performance while providing substantial speedups. At the same time, performance degrades when long-horizon dependencies require value propagation, highlighting a fundamental limitation of offline reuse.
[LG-46] Cover meets Robbins while Betting on Bounded Data: ln n Regret and Almost Sure lnln n Regret
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20172
作者: Shubhada Agrawal,Aaditya Ramdas
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Statistics Theory (math.ST); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
*备注: 30 pages
Abstract:Consider betting against a sequence of data in [0,1] , where one is allowed to make any bet that is fair if the data have a conditional mean m_0 \in (0,1) . Cover’s universal portfolio algorithm delivers a worst-case regret of O(\ln n) compared to the best constant bet in hindsight, and this bound is unimprovable against adversarially generated data. In this work, we present a novel mixture betting strategy that combines insights from Robbins and Cover, and exhibits a different behavior: it eventually produces a regret of O(\ln \ln n) on \emphalmost all paths (a measure-one set of paths if each conditional mean equals m_0 and intrinsic variance increases to \infty ), but has an O(\log n) regret on the complement (a measure zero set of paths). Our paper appears to be the first to point out the value in hedging two very different strategies to achieve a best-of-both-worlds adaptivity to stochastic data and protection against adversarial data. We contrast our results to those in~\citeagrawal2025regret for a sub-Gaussian mixture on unbounded data: their worst-case regret has to be unbounded, but a similar hedging delivers both an optimal betting growth-rate and an almost sure \ln\ln n regret on stochastic data. Finally, our strategy witnesses a sharp game-theoretic upper law of the iterated logarithm, analogous to~\citeshafer2005probability.
[LG-47] SMART: A Spectral Transfer Approach to Multi-Task Learning
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20161
作者: Boxin Zhao,Mladen Kolar,Jinchi Lv
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Methodology (stat.ME); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
*备注: 53 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Abstract:Multi-task learning is effective for related applications, but its performance can deteriorate when the target sample size is small. Transfer learning can borrow strength from related studies; yet, many existing methods rely on restrictive bounded-difference assumptions between the source and target models. We propose SMART, a spectral transfer method for multi-task linear regression that instead assumes spectral similarity: the target left and right singular subspaces lie within the corresponding source subspaces and are sparsely aligned with the source singular bases. Such an assumption is natural when studies share latent structures and enables transfer beyond the bounded-difference settings. SMART estimates the target coefficient matrix through structured regularization that incorporates spectral information from a source study. Importantly, it requires only a fitted source model rather than the raw source data, making it useful when data sharing is limited. Although the optimization problem is nonconvex, we develop a practical ADMM-based algorithm. We establish general, non-asymptotic error bounds and a minimax lower bound in the noiseless-source regime. Under additional regularity conditions, these results yield near-minimax Frobenius error rates up to logarithmic factors. Simulations confirm improved estimation accuracy and robustness to negative transfer, and analysis of multi-modal single-cell data demonstrates better predictive performance. The Python implementation of SMART, along with the code to reproduce all experiments in this paper, is publicly available at this https URL.
[LG-48] mporally Extended Mixture-of-Experts Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20156
作者: Zeyu Shen,Peter Henderson
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Mixture-of-Experts models, now popular for scaling capacity at fixed inference speed, switch experts at nearly every token. Once a model outgrows available GPU memory, this churn can render optimizations like offloading and pre-fetching ineffective. We make the case that the options framework in reinforcement learning is a perfect match to tackle this problem, and argue for temporally extended mixture-of-experts layers. Building on the option-critic framework with deliberation costs, we add a controller to each layer that learns when to switch expert sets and which to load. By applying this to gpt-oss-20b with low-rank adapters and a self-distillation reward, our method reduces switch rates from over 50% to below 5% while retaining up to 90% of base-model accuracy on MATH, MMLU, and MMMLU. This shows that even existing pre-trained models can be converted to temporally extended MoEs with lightweight training, with the deliberation cost allowing model trainers to trade off switching rates against capability. We hope this opens a principled path, grounded in the options framework, for memory-efficient serving and continual learning in ever-growing MoE models.
[LG-49] oward Safe Autonomous Robotic Endovascular Interventions using World Models IROS
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20151
作者: Harry Robertshaw,Nikola Fischer,Han-Ru Wu,Andrea Walker Perez,Weiyuan Deng,Benjamin Jackson,Christos Bergeles,Alejandro Granados,Thomas C Booth
类目: Robotics (cs.RO); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: This manuscript is a preprint and has been submitted to the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2026
Abstract:Autonomous mechanical thrombectomy (MT) presents substantial challenges due to highly variable vascular geometries and the requirements for accurate, real-time control. While reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for the automation of endovascular navigation, existing approaches often show limited robustness when faced with diverse patient anatomies or extended navigation horizons. In this work, we investigate a world-model-based framework for autonomous endovascular navigation built on TD-MPC2, a model-based RL method that integrates planning and learned dynamics. We evaluate a TD-MPC2 agent trained on multiple navigation tasks across hold out patient-specific vasculatures and benchmark its performance against the state-of-the-art Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) algorithm agent. Both approaches are further validated in vitro using patient-specific vascular phantoms under fluoroscopic guidance. In simulation, TD-MPC2 demonstrates a significantly higher mean success rate than SAC (58% vs. 36%, p 0.001), and mean tip contact forces of 0.15 N, well below the proposed 1.5 N vessel rupture threshold. Mean success rates for TD-MPC2 (68%) were comparable to SAC (60%) in vitro, but TD-MPC2 achieved superior path ratios (p = 0.017) at the cost of longer procedure times (p 0.001). Together, these results provide the first demonstration of autonomous MT navigation validated across both hold out in silico data and fluoroscopy-guided in vitro experiments, highlighting the promise of world models for safe and generalizable AI-assisted endovascular interventions.
[LG-50] Pre-Execution Query Slot-Time Prediction in Cloud Data Warehouses: A Feature-Scoped Machine Learning Approach
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20145
作者: Prashant Kumar Pathak
类目: Databases (cs.DB); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 10 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. Independent research
Abstract:Cloud data warehouses bill compute based on slot-time consumed. In shared multi-tenant environments, query cost is highly variable and hard to estimate before execution, causing budget overruns and degraded scheduling. Static query-planner heuristics fail to capture complex SQL structure, data skew, and workload contention. We present a feature-scoped machine learning approach that predicts BigQuery slot-time before execution using only pre-execution observable signals: a structured query complexity score derived from SQL operator costs, data volume features from planner estimates and workload metadata, and textual features from query text. We deliberately exclude runtime factors (slot-pool utilization, cache state, realized skew) unknowable at submission. The model uses a HistGradientBoostingRegressor trained on log-transformed slot-time, with a TF-IDF + TruncatedSVD-512 text pipeline fused with numeric and categorical features. Trained on 749 queries across seven deployment environments and evaluated out-of-distribution on 746 queries from two held-out environments, the model achieves MAE 1.17 slot-minutes, RMSE 4.71, and 74% explained variance on the full workload. On cost-significant queries (slot-time = 0.01 min, N=282) the model achieves MAE 3.10 versus 4.95 for a predict-mean baseline and 4.54 for predict-median, a 30-37% reduction. On long-tail queries (= 20 min, N=22) the model does not outperform trivial baselines, consistent with the hypothesis that long-tail queries are dominated by unobserved runtime factors outside the current feature scope. A complexity-routed dual-model architecture is described as a practical refinement, and directions for closing the long-tail gap are identified as future work.
[LG-51] Machine learning moment closure models for the radiative transfer equation IV: enforcing symmetrizable hyperbolicity in two dimensions
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20143
作者: Juntao Huang
类目: Numerical Analysis (math.NA); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
*备注:
Abstract:This is our fourth work in the series on machine learning (ML) moment closure models for the radiative transfer equation (RTE). In the first three papers of this series, we considered the RTE in slab geometry in 1D1V (i.e. one dimension in physical space and one dimension in angular space), and introduced a gradient-based ML moment closure [1], then enforced the hyperbolicity through a symmetrizer [2], or together with physical characteristic speeds by learning the eigenvalues of the Jacobian matrix [3]. Here, we extend our framework to the RTE in 2D2V (i.e. two dimensions in physical space and two dimensions in angular space). The main idea is to preserve the leading part of the classical P_N model and modify only the highest-order block row. By analyzing the structural properties of the P_N model, we show that its coefficient matrices are symmetric and admit a block-tridiagonal structure. Then we use this property to introduce a block-diagonal symmetrizer for the ML moment model and derive explicit algebraic conditions on the closure blocks which guarantee the symmetrizable hyperbolicity of the resulting ML system. These conditions lead to a natural parametrization of the closure in terms of a symmetric positive definite matrix together with symmetric closure blocks, which can be learned from data while automatically enforcing symmetrizable hyperbolicity by construction. The numerical results show that the proposed framework improves upon the classical P_N model while maintaining hyperbolicity. Subjects: Numerical Analysis (math.NA); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph) Cite as: arXiv:2604.20143 [math.NA] (or arXiv:2604.20143v1 [math.NA] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.20143 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
[LG-52] Fourier Weak SINDy: Spectral Test Function Selection for Robust Model Identification
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20141
作者: Zhiheng Chen,Urban Fasel,Anastasia Bizyaeva
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
*备注: Accepted to the 8th Annual Learning for Dynamics Control Conference (L4DC 2026)
Abstract:We introduce Fourier Weak SINDy, a minimal noise-robust and interpretable derivative-free equation learning method that combines weak-form sparse equation learning with spectral density estimation for data-driven test function selection. By using orthogonal sinusoidal test functions inspired by their prevalence in Modulating Function-based system identification, the weak-form sparse regression problem reduces to a regression over Fourier coefficients. Dominant frequencies are then selected via multitaper estimation of the frequency spectrum of the data. This formulation unifies weak-form learning and spectral estimation within a compact and flexible framework. We illustrate the effectiveness of this approach in numerical experiments across multiple chaotic and hyperchaotic ODE benchmarks.
[LG-53] A Delta-Aware Orchestration Framework for Scalable Multi-Agent Edge Computing
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20129
作者: Samaresh Kumar Singh,Joyjit Roy
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC); Performance (cs.PF); Software Engineering (cs.SE)
*备注: 11 pages, 2 figures, 10 tables
Abstract:The Synergistic Collapse occurs when scaling beyond 100 agents causes superlinear performance degradation that individual optimizations cannot prevent. We observe this collapse with 150 cameras in Smart City deployment using MADDPG, where Deadline Satisfaction drops from 78% to 34%, producing approximately 180,000 in annual cost overruns. Prior work has addressed each contributing factor in isolation: exponential action-space growth, computational redundancy among spatially adjacent agents, and task-agnostic hardware scheduling. None has examined how these three factors interact and amplify each other. We present DAOEF (Delta-Aware Orchestration for Edge Federations), a framework that addresses all three simultaneously through: (1) Differential Neural Caching, which stores intermediate layer activations and computes only the input deltas, achieving 2.1x higher hit ratios (72% vs. 35%) than output-level caching while staying within 2% accuracy loss through empirically calibrated similarity thresholds; (2) Criticality-Based Action Space Pruning, which organizes agents into priority tiers and reduces coordination complexity from O(n2) to O(n log n) with less than 6% optimality loss; and (3) Learned Hardware Affinity Matching, which assigns tasks to their optimal accelerator (GPU, CPU, NPU, or FPGA) to prevent compounding mismatch penalties. Controlled factor-isolation experiments confirm that each mechanism is necessary but insufficient on its own: removing any single mechanism increases latency by more than 40%, validating that the gains are interdependent rather than additive. Across four datasets (100-250 agents) and a 20-device physical testbed, DAOEF achieves a 1.45x multiplicative gain over applying the three mechanisms independently. A 200-agent cloud deployment yields 62% latency reduction (280 ms vs. 735 ms), sub-linear latency growth up to 250 agents.
[LG-54] rajectory-Aware Reliability Modeling of Democratic Systems
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20127
作者: Dmitry Zaytsev,Valentina Kuskova,Michael Coppedge
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computers and Society (cs.CY)
*备注:
Abstract:Failures in complex systems often emerge through gradual degradation and the propagation of stress across interacting components rather than through isolated shocks. Democratic systems exhibit similar dynamics, where weakening institutions can trigger cascading deterioration in related institutional structures. Traditional reliability and survival models typically estimate failure risk based on the current system state but do not explicitly capture how degradation propagates through institutional networks over time. This paper introduces a trajectory-aware reliability modeling framework based on Dynamic Causal Neural Autoregression (DCNAR). The framework first estimates a causal interaction structure among institutional indicators and then models their joint temporal evolution to generate forward trajectories of system states. Failure risk is defined as the probability that predicted trajectories cross predefined degradation thresholds within a fixed horizon. Using longitudinal institutional indicators, we compare DCNAR-based trajectory risk models with discrete-time hazard and Cox proportional hazards models. Results show that trajectory-aware modeling consistently outperforms Cox models and improves risk prediction for several propagation-driven institutional failures. These findings highlight the importance of modeling dynamic system interactions for reliability analysis and early detection of systemic degradation.
[LG-55] Differentiable Conformal Training for LLM Reasoning Factuality ICML
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20098
作者: Nathan Hittesdorf,Marco Salzetta,Lu Cheng
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: Submitted ICML
Abstract:Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently hallucinate, limiting their reliability in critical applications. Conformal Prediction (CP) addresses this by calibrating error rates on held-out data to provide statistically valid confidence guarantees. Recent work extends CP to LLM factuality to filter out risky claims, ensuring that hallucination rates remain below a user-specified level (e.g., 10%). While prior methods treat claims independently, Coherent Factuality extends to multi-step reasoning by representing outputs as dependency graphs and jointly validating claims with their logical ancestors. A key limitation is that Coherent Factuality is not differentiable, requiring hand-crafted scorers that at high reliability levels remove nearly 60% of true claims. We introduce Differentiable Coherent Factuality (DCF), a fully differentiable relaxation that enables learning improved scorers while provably recovering the original algorithm’s guarantees. Experiments on two benchmark reasoning datasets demonstrate DCF achieves up to 141% improvement in claim retention while maintaining reliability guarantees, representing a significant step towards reliable conformal LLM systems.
[LG-56] Concept Graph Convolutions: Message Passing in the Concept Space
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20082
作者: Lucie Charlotte Magister,Pietro Lio
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:The trust in the predictions of Graph Neural Networks is limited by their opaque reasoning process. Prior methods have tried to explain graph networks via concept-based explanations extracted from the latent representations obtained after message passing. However, these explanations fall short of explaining the message passing process itself. To this aim, we propose the Concept Graph Convolution, the first graph convolution designed to operate on node-level concepts for improved interpretability. The proposed convolutional layer performs message passing on a combination of raw and concept representations using structural and attention-based edge weights. We also propose a pure variant of the convolution, only operating in the concept space. Our results show that the Concept Graph Convolution allows to obtain competitive task accuracy, while enabling an increased insight into the evolution of concepts across convolutional steps.
[LG-57] Improved large-scale graph learning through ridge spectral sparsification ICML2018
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20078
作者: Daniele Calandriello,Ioannis Koutis,Alessandro Lazaric,Michal Valko
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2018)
Abstract:Graph-based techniques and spectral graph theory have enriched the field of machine learning with a variety of critical advances. A central object in the analysis is the graph Laplacian L, which encodes the structure of the graph. We consider the problem of learning over this Laplacian in a distributed streaming setting, where new edges of the graph are observed in real time by a network of workers. In this setting, it is hard to learn quickly or approximately while keeping a distributed representation of L. To address this challenge, we present a novel algorithm, GSQUEAK, which efficiently sparsifies the Laplacian by maintaining a small subset of effective resistances. We show that our algorithm produces sparsifiers with strong spectral approximation guarantees, all while processing edges in a single pass and in a distributed fashion.
[LG-58] Analysis of Nystrom method with sequential ridge leverag e scores UAI2016
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20077
作者: Daniele Calandriello,Alessandro Lazaric,Michal Valko
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2016)
Abstract:Large-scale kernel ridge regression (KRR) is limited by the need to store a large kernel matrix K_t. To avoid storing the entire matrix K_t, Nystrom methods subsample a subset of columns of the kernel matrix, and efficiently find an approximate KRR solution on the reconstructed matrix. The chosen subsampling distribution in turn affects the statistical and computational tradeoffs. For KRR problems, recent works show that a sampling distribution proportional to the ridge leverage scores (RLSs) provides strong reconstruction guarantees for the approximation. While exact RLSs are as difficult to compute as a KRR solution, we may be able to approximate them well enough. In this paper, we study KRR problems in a sequential setting and introduce the INK-ESTIMATE algorithm, that incrementally computes the RLSs estimates. INK-ESTIMATE maintains a small sketch of K_t, that at each step is used to compute an intermediate estimate of the RLSs. First, our sketch update does not require access to previously seen columns, and therefore a single pass over the kernel matrix is sufficient. Second, the algorithm requires a fixed, small space budget to run dependent only on the effective dimension of the kernel matrix. Finally, our sketch provides strong approximation guarantees on the distance between the true kernel matrix and its approximation, and on the statistical risk of the approximate KRR solution at any time, because all our guarantees hold at any intermediate step.
[LG-59] Maximum Entropy Semi-Supervised Inverse Reinforcement Learning IJCAI2015
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20074
作者: Julien Audiffren,Michal Valko,Alessandro Lazaric,Mohammad Ghavamzadeh
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: In Proceedings of the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2015)
Abstract:A popular approach to apprenticeship learning (AL) is to formulate it as an inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) problem. The MaxEnt-IRL algorithm successfully integrates the maximum entropy principle into IRL and unlike its predecessors, it resolves the ambiguity arising from the fact that a possibly large number of policies could match the expert’s behavior. In this paper, we study an AL setting in which in addition to the expert’s trajectories, a number of unsupervised trajectories is available. We introduce MESSI, a novel algorithm that combines MaxEnt-IRL with principles coming from semi-supervised learning. In particular, MESSI integrates the unsupervised data into the MaxEnt-IRL framework using a pairwise penalty on trajectories. Empirical results in a highway driving and grid-world problems indicate that MESSI is able to take advantage of the unsupervised trajectories and improve the performance of MaxEnt-IRL.
[LG-60] Federated Learning over Blockchain-Enabled Cloud Infrastructure
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20062
作者: Saloni Garg,Amit Sagtani,Kamal Kant Hiran
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
*备注: 7 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
Abstract:The rise of IoT devices and the uptake of cloud computing have informed a new era of data-driven intelligence. Traditional centralized machine learning models that require a large volume of data to be stored in a single location have therefore become more susceptible to data breaches, privacy violations, and regulatory non-compliance. This report presents a thorough examination of the merging of Federated Learning (FL) and blockchain technology in a cloud-edge setting, demonstrating it as an effective solution to the stated concerns. We are proposing a detailed four-dimensional architectural categorization that meticulously assesses coordination frameworks, consensus algorithms, data storage practices, and trust models that are significant to these integrated systems. The manuscript presents a comprehensive comparative examination of two cutting-edge frameworks: the Multi-Objectives Reinforcement Federated Learning Blockchain (MORFLB), which is designed for intelligent transportation systems, and the Federated Blockchain-IoT Framework for Sustainable Healthcare Systems (FBCI-SHS), elucidating their distinctive contributions and inherent limitations. Lastly, we engage in a thorough evaluation of the literature that integrates a comparative perspective on current frameworks to discern the singular nature of this research within existing knowledge systems. The manuscript culminates in delineating the principal challenges and offering a strategic framework for prospective research trajectories, emphasizing the advancement of adaptive, resilient, and standardized BCFL systems across diverse application domains.
[LG-61] Replicable Bandits with UCB based Exploration
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20024
作者: Rohan Deb,Udaya Ghai,Karan Singh,Arindam Banerjee
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:We study replicable algorithms for stochastic multi-armed bandits (MAB) and linear bandits with UCB (Upper Confidence Bound) based exploration. A bandit algorithm is \rho -replicable if two executions using shared internal randomness but independent reward realizations, produce the same action sequence with probability at least 1-\rho . Prior work is primarily elimination-based and, in linear bandits with infinitely many actions, relies on discretization, leading to suboptimal dependence on the dimension d and \rho . We develop optimistic alternatives for both settings. For stochastic multi-armed bandits, we propose RepUCB, a replicable batched UCB algorithm and show that it attains a regret O!\left(\fracK^2\log^2 T\rho^2\sum_a:\Delta_a0\left(\Delta_a+\frac\log(KT\log T)\Delta_a\right)\right) . For stochastic linear bandits, we first introduce RepRidge, a replicable ridge regression estimator that satisfies both a confidence guarantee and a \rho -replicability guarantee. Beyond its role in our bandit algorithm, this estimator and its guarantees may also be of independent interest in other statistical estimation settings. We then use RepRidge to design RepLinUCB, a replicable optimistic algorithm for stochastic linear bandits, and show that its regret is bounded by \widetildeO!\big(\big(d+\fracd^3\rho\big)\sqrtT\big) . This improves the best prior regret guarantee by a factor of O(d/\rho) , showing that our optimistic algorithm can substantially reduce the price of replicability.
[LG-62] Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for Generating Covalent Inhibitor Candidates
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20019
作者: Renee Gil
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Rational design of covalent inhibitors requires simultaneously optimizing multiple properties, such as binding affinity, target selectivity, or electrophilic reactivity. This presents a multi-objective problem not easily addressed by screening alone. Here we present a machine learning pipeline for generating covalent inhibitor candidates using multi-objective reinforcement learning (RL), applied to two targets: epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and acetylcholinesterase (ACHE). A SMILES-based pretrained LSTM serves as the generative model, optimized via policy gradient RL with Pareto crowding distance to balance competing scoring functions including synthetic accessibility, predicted covalent activity, residue affinity, and an approximated docking score. The pipeline rediscovers known covalent inhibitors at rates of up to 0.50% (EGFR) and 0.74% (ACHE) in 10,000-structure runs, with candidate structures achieving warhead-to-residue distances as short as 5.5 angstrom (EGFR) and 3.2 angstrom (ACHE) after further docking-based screening. More notably, the pipeline spontaneously generates structures bearing warhead motifs absent from the training data - including allenes, 3-oxo- \beta -sultams, and \alpha -methylene- \beta -lactones - all of which have independent literature support as covalent warheads. These results suggest that RL-guided generation can explore covalent chemical space beyond its training distribution, and may be useful as a tool for medicinal chemists working on covalent drug discovery.
[LG-63] Algorithm and Hardware Co-Design for Efficient Complex-Valued Uncertainty Estimation
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19993
作者: Zehuan Zhang,Mark Chen,He Li,Wayne Luk
类目: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: Accepted to 63rd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC '26). 7 pages, 6 figures
Abstract:Complex-Valued Neural Networks (CVNNs) have significant advantages in handling tasks that involve complex numbers. However, existing CVNNs are unable to quantify predictive uncertainty. We propose, for the first time, dropout-based Bayesian Complex-Valued Neural Networks (BayesCVNNs) to enable uncertainty quantification for complex-valued applications, exhibiting broad applicability and efficiency for hardware implementation due to modularity. Furthermore, as the dual-part nature of complex values significantly broadens the design space and enables novel configurations based on layer-mixing and part-mixing, we introduce an automated search approach to effectively identify optimal configurations for both real and imaginary components. To facilitate deployment, we present a framework that generates customized FPGA-based accelerators for BayesCVNNs, leveraging a set of optimized building blocks. Experiments demonstrate the best configuration can be effectively found via the automated search, attaining higher performance with lower hardware costs compared with manually crafted models. The optimized accelerators achieve approximately 4.5x and 13x speedups on different models with less than 10% power consumption compared to GPU implementations, and outperform existing work in both algorithm and hardware aspects. Our code is publicly available at: this https URL.
[LG-64] Physics-Guided Dimension Reduction for Simulation-Free Operator Learning of Stiff Differential–Algebraic Systems
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19930
作者: Huy Hoang Le,Haoguang Wang,Christian Moya,Marcos Netto,Guang Lin
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Neural surrogates for stiff differential-algebraic equations (DAEs) face two key challenges: soft-constraint methods leave algebraic residuals that stiffness amplifies into large errors, while hard-constraint methods require trajectory data from computationally expensive stiff integrators. We introduce an extended Newton implicit layer that enforces algebraic consistency and quasi-steady-state reduction within a single differentiable solve. Given slow-state predictions from a physics-informed DeepONet, the proposed layer recovers fast and algebraic states, eliminates the stiffness-amplification pathway within each time window, and reduces the output dimension to the slow states alone. Gradients derived via the implicit function theorem capture a stiffness-scaled coupling term that is absent in penalty-based approaches. Cascaded implicit layers further extend the framework to multi-component systems with provable convergence. On a grid-forming inverter DAE (21 states), the proposed method (7 outputs, 1.42 percent error) significantly outperforms penalty methods (39.3 percent), standard Newton approaches (57.0 percent), and augmented Lagrangian or feedback linearization baselines, which fail to converge. Two independently trained models compose into a 44-state system without retraining, achieving 0.72 to 1.16 percent error with zero algebraic residual. Conformal prediction further provides 90 percent coverage in-distribution and enables automatic out-of-distribution detection.
[LG-65] Super Apriel: One Checkpoint Many Speeds FAST
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19877
作者: SLAM Labs:Oleksiy Ostapenko,Raymond Li,Torsten Scholak,Alireza Mousavi-Hosseini,Aman Tiwari,Denis Kocetkov,Joel Lamy Poirier,Kelechi Ogueji,Nanda H Krishna,Rafael Pardinas,Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan,Shruthan Radhakrishna,Srinivas Sunkara,Valerie Becaert
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: Models: this https URL and this https URL . Dev model: this https URL . Training code: this https URL . Async RL: this https URL . Training logs: this https URL
Abstract:We release Super Apriel, a 15B-parameter supernet in which every decoder layer provides four trained mixer choices – Full Attention (FA), Sliding Window Attention (SWA), Kimi Delta Attention (KDA), and Gated DeltaNet (GDN). A placement selects one mixer per layer; placements can be switched between requests at serving time without reloading weights, enabling multiple speed presets from a single checkpoint. The shared checkpoint also enables speculative decoding without a separate draft model. The all-FA preset matches the Apriel 1.6 teacher on all reported benchmarks; recommended hybrid presets span 2.9\times to 10.7\times decode throughput at 96% to 77% quality retention, with throughput advantages that compound at longer context lengths. With four mixer types across 48 layers, the configuration space is vast. A surrogate that predicts placement quality from the per-layer mixer assignment makes the speed-quality landscape tractable and identifies the best tradeoffs at each speed level. We investigate whether the best configurations at each speed level can be identified early in training or only after convergence. Rankings stabilize quickly at 0.5B scale, but the most efficient configurations exhibit higher instability at 15B, cautioning against extrapolation from smaller models. Super Apriel is trained by stochastic distillation from a frozen Apriel 1.6 teacher, followed by supervised fine-tuning. We release the supernet weights, Fast-LLM training code, vLLM serving code, and a placement optimization toolkit.
[LG-66] What Makes a Bacterial Model a Good Reservoir Computer? Predicting Performance from Separability and Similarity
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19850
作者: Laura Alonso Bartolomé(MICALIS, Mnemosyne),Jean-Loup Faulon(MICALIS),Xavier Hinaut(Mnemosyne)
类目: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE); Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN); Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
*备注:
Abstract:Biological systems are promising substrates for computation because they naturally process environmental information through complex internal dynamics. In this study, we investigate whether bacterial metabolic models can act as physical reservoirs and whether their computational performance can be predicted from dynamical properties linked to separability and similarity. We simulated the growth dynamics of five bacterial species, one yeast species, and 29 Escherichia coli single-gene deletion mutants using dynamic flux balance analysis (dFBA), with glucose and xylose concentrations as inputs and growth curves as reservoir states. Computational performance was assessed on random nonlinear classification tasks using a linear readout, while reservoir properties linked to separability and similarity were characterised through kernel and generalisation ranks computed from growth-curve state matrices. Several microbial models achieved high classification accuracy, showing that bacterial metabolic dynamics can support nonlinear computation. Clear differences were observed between species, with some models converging more rapidly and others reaching higher maximum accuracy, revealing a trade-off between convergence speed and peak performance. In contrast, all E. coli mutants were dominated by the wild-type model, suggesting that gene deletions reduce the dynamical richness required for efficient computation. The difference between kernel and generalisation ranks was generally associated with improved accuracy, but deviations across models and sensitivity at low rank values limited its predictive power in practice. Overall, these results show that bacterial metabolic models constitute promising substrates for reservoir computing and provide a first step towards identifying microbial strains with favourable computational properties for future experimental implementations.
[LG-67] Graph-Theoretic Models for the Prediction of Molecular Measurements
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19840
作者: Anna Niane,Prudence Djagba
类目: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
*备注:
Abstract:Graph-theoretic approaches offer simplicity, interpretability, and low computational cost for molecular property prediction. Among these, the model proposed by Mukwembi and Nyabadza, based on the external activity D(G) and internal activity \zeta(G) indices, achieved strong results on a small flavonoid dataset. However, its ability to generalize to larger and chemically diverse datasets has not been tested. This study evaluates the baseline D(G) - \zeta(G) polynomial model on five benchmark datasets from MoleculeNet, covering biological activity (BACE, 1,513 molecules), lipophilicity (LogP synthetic, 14,610 molecules; LogP experimental, 753 molecules), aqueous solubility (ESOL, 1,128 molecules), and hydration free energy (SAMPL, 642 molecules). The baseline model achieves an average R^2 = 0.24 , confirming limited transferability. To address this, a systematic enhancement framework is proposed, progressively incorporating Ridge regularization, additional graph descriptors, physicochemical properties, ensemble learning with Gradient Boosting, Lasso feature selection, and a hybrid approach combining topological indices with Morgan fingerprints. The enhanced models raise the average best R^2 to 0.79, with individual improvements ranging from 165% to 274%. All improvements are statistically significant ( p 0.001 ). A direct comparison with a Graph Convolutional Network under identical experimental conditions shows that the enhanced classical models match or outperform deep learning on all five datasets. Comparison with the recent GNN+PGM hybrid of Djagba et al.\ further confirms competitiveness, with the enhanced models achieving the best results on two datasets and tying on one. The entire framework requires no GPU, trains in under five minutes, and uses only open-source tools, making it accessible for researchers in resource-limited settings.
[LG-68] Gauge-Equivariant Graph Neural Networks for Lattice Gauge Theories
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20797
作者: Ali Rayat,Yaohang Li,Gia-Wei Chern
类目: rongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Machine Learning (cs.LG); High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
*备注: 11 pages, 5 figures
Abstract:Local gauge symmetry underlies fundamental interactions and strongly correlated quantum matter, yet existing machine-learning approaches lack a general, principled framework for learning under site-dependent symmetries, particularly for intrinsically nonlocal observables. Here we introduce a gauge-equivariant graph neural network that embeds non-Abelian symmetry directly into message passing via matrix-valued, gauge-covariant features and symmetry-compatible updates, extending equivariant learning from global to fully local symmetries. In this formulation, message passing implements gauge-covariant transport across the lattice, allowing nonlocal correlations and loop-like structures to emerge naturally from local operations. We validate the approach across pure gauge, gauge-matter, and dynamical regimes, establishing gauge-equivariant message passing as a general paradigm for learning in systems governed by local symmetry.
[LG-69] A weighted angle distance on strings
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20633
作者: Grant Molnar
类目: Metric Geometry (math.MG); Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Combinatorics (math.CO)
*备注: 31 pages, 13 figures, 3 tables. Code and experiments: this https URL . Patent pending
Abstract:We define a multi-scale metric d_\rho on strings by aggregating angle distances between all n -gram count vectors with exponential weights \rho^n . We benchmark d_\rho in DBSCAN clustering against edit and n -gram baselines, give a linear-time suffix-tree algorithm for evaluation, prove metric and stability properties (including robustness under tandem-repeat stutters), and characterize isometries.
[LG-70] On Bayesian Softmax-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20551
作者: Nicola Bariletto,Huy Nguyen,Nhat Ho,Alessandro Rinaldo
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Mixture-of-experts models provide a flexible framework for learning complex probabilistic input-output relationships by combining multiple expert models through an input-dependent gating mechanism. These models have become increasingly prominent in modern machine learning, yet their theoretical properties in the Bayesian framework remain largely unexplored. In this paper, we study Bayesian mixture-of-experts models, focusing on the ubiquitous softmax-based gating mechanism. Specifically, we investigate the asymptotic behavior of the posterior distribution for three fundamental statistical tasks: density estimation, parameter estimation, and model selection. First, we establish posterior contraction rates for density estimation, both in the regimes with a fixed, known number of experts and with a random learnable number of experts. We then analyze parameter estimation and derive convergence guarantees based on tailored Voronoi-type losses, which account for the complex identifiability structure of mixture-of-experts models. Finally, we propose and analyze two complementary strategies for selecting the number of experts. Taken together, these results provide one of the first systematic theoretical analyses of Bayesian mixture-of-experts models with softmax gating, and yield several theory-grounded insights for practical model design.
[LG-71] Efficient Symbolic Computations for Identifying Causal Effects
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20516
作者: Benjamin Hollering,Pratik Misra,Nils Sturma
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注:
Abstract:Determining identifiability of causal effects from observational data under latent confounding is a central challenge in causal inference. For linear structural causal models, identifiability of causal effects is decidable through symbolic computation. However, standard approaches based on Gröbner bases become computationally infeasible beyond small settings due to their doubly exponential complexity. In this work, we study how to practically use symbolic computation for deciding rational identifiability. In particular, we present an efficient algorithm that provably finds the lowest degree identifying formulas. For a causal effect of interest, if there exists an identification formula of a prespecified maximal degree, our algorithm returns such a formula in quasi-polynomial time.
[LG-72] Decentralized Machine Learning with Centralized Performance Guarantees via Gibbs Algorithms
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20492
作者: Yaiza Bermudez,Samir Perlaza,Iñaki Esnaola
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Information Theory (cs.IT); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2026
Abstract:In this paper, it is shown, for the first time, that centralized performance is achievable in decentralized learning without sharing the local datasets. Specifically, when clients adopt an empirical risk minimization with relative-entropy regularization (ERM-RER) learning framework and a forward-backward communication between clients is established, it suffices to share the locally obtained Gibbs measures to achieve the same performance as that of a centralized ERM-RER with access to all the datasets. The core idea is that the Gibbs measure produced by client~ k is used, as reference measure, by client~ k+1 . This effectively establishes a principled way to encode prior information through a reference measure. In particular, achieving centralized performance in the decentralized setting requires a specific scaling of the regularization factors with the local sample sizes. Overall, this result opens the door to novel decentralized learning paradigms that shift the collaboration strategy from sharing data to sharing the local inductive bias via the reference measures over the set of models.
[LG-73] Mechanistic Interpretability Tool for AI Weather Models
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20467
作者: Kirsten I. Tempest,Matthias Beylich,George C. Craig
类目: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
*备注: 14 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to International Conference on Computational Science 2026
Abstract:Artificial Intelligence (AI) weather models are improving rapidly, and their forecasts are already competitive with long-established traditional Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP). To build confidence in this new methodology, it is critical that we understand how these predictions are generated. This is a huge challenge as these AI weather models remain largely black boxes. In other areas of Machine Learning (ML), mechanistic interpretability has emerged as a framework for understanding ML predictions by analysing the building blocks responsible for them. Here we present an open-source, highly adaptable tool which incorporates concepts from mechanistic interpretability. The tool organises internal latent representations from the model processor and allows for initial analyses, including cosine similarity and Principal Component Analysis (PCA), enabling the user to identify directions in latent space potentially associated with meteorological features. Applying our tool to the graph neural network GraphCast, we present preliminary case studies for mid-latitude synoptic-scale waves and specific humidity. These demonstrate the tool’s ability to identify linear combinations of latent channels that appear to correspond to interpretable features.
[LG-74] Properties and limitations of geometric tempering for gradient flow dynamics
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20301
作者: Francesca Romana Crucinio,Sahani Pathiraja
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computation (stat.CO); Methodology (stat.ME)
*备注: Accepted at TMLR this https URL
Abstract:We consider the problem of sampling from a probability distribution \pi . It is well known that this can be written as an optimisation problem over the space of probability distributions in which we aim to minimise the Kullback–Leibler divergence from \pi . We consider the effect of replacing \pi with a sequence of moving targets (\pi_t)_t\ge0 defined via geometric tempering on the Wasserstein and Fisher–Rao gradient flows. We show that convergence occurs exponentially in continuous time, providing novel bounds in both cases. We also consider popular time discretisations and explore their convergence properties. We show that in the Fisher–Rao case, replacing the target distribution with a geometric mixture of initial and target distribution never leads to a convergence speed up both in continuous time and in discrete time. Finally, we explore the gradient flow structure of tempered dynamics and derive novel adaptive tempering schedules. Comments: Accepted at TMLR this https URL Subjects: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computation (stat.CO); Methodology (stat.ME) Cite as: arXiv:2604.20301 [stat.ML] (or arXiv:2604.20301v1 [stat.ML] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.20301 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Francesca Romana Crucinio [view email] [v1] Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:59:28 UTC (188 KB)
[LG-75] Online Survival Analysis: A Bandit Approach under Cox PH Model
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20296
作者: Yang Xu,Wenbin Lu,Rui Song
类目: Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Survival analysis is a widely used statistical framework for modeling time-to-event data under censoring. Classical methods, such as the Cox proportional hazards (Cox PH) model, offer a semiparametric approach to estimating the effects of covariates on the hazard function. Despite its importance, survival analysis has been largely unexplored in online settings, particularly within the bandit framework, where decisions must be made sequentially to optimize treatments as new data arrive over time. In this work, we take an initial step toward integrating survival analysis into a purely online learning setting under the Cox PH model, addressing key challenges including staggered entry, delayed feedback, and right censoring. We adapt three canonical bandit algorithms to balance exploration and exploitation, with theoretical guarantees of sublinear regret bounds. Extensive simulations and semi-real experiments using SEER cancer data demonstrate that our approach enables rapid and effective learning of near-optimal treatment policies.
[LG-76] Robust Out-of-Distribution Stochastic Optimization
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20147
作者: Xianyu Li,Huan Xu,Xiaolin Huang,Chao Shang
类目: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:Data-driven decision-making under uncertainty typically presumes the collection of historical data from an unknown target probability distribution. However, one may have no access to any data from the target distribution prior to decision-making. To address this challenge, we propose robust out-of-distribution stochastic optimization, a novel data-driven framework that effectively utilizes relevant data distributions for robust decision-making under unseen distributions. A key feature of our framework is that all data distributions are assumed to be randomly generated from a meta-distribution over distributions. To describe uncertainty in distribution generation, we propose to learn a data-driven uncertainty set in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) from relevant data distributions, with adjustable conservatism. We then incorporate this set into a min-max stochastic program to derive robust decisions. Notably, under randomness of distribution generation, we establish rigorous out-of-distribution generalization guarantees for the uncertainty set as well as the solution. To ease problem-solving in RKHS, an approximate parametrization with a provably bounded suboptimality and a row generation strategy are presented. Extensive numerical experiments on multi-item newsvendor and portfolio optimization demonstrate the superior out-of-distribution performance of our decision-making framework under unseen data distribution, even when only a small or moderate number of relevant sources are available.
[LG-77] Decision-Focused Federated Learning Under Heterogeneous Objectives and Constraints
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20031
作者: Konstantinos Ziliaskopoulos,Alexander Vinel
类目: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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Abstract:We consider what we refer to as Decision-Focused Federated Learning (DFFL) framework, i.e., a predict-then-optimize approach employed by a collection of agents, where each agent’s predictive model is an input to a downstream linear optimization problem, and no direct exchange of raw data is allowed. Importantly, clients can differ both in objective functions and in feasibility constraints. We build on the well-known SPO+ approach and develop heterogeneity bounds for the SPO+ surrogate loss in this case. This is accomplished by employing a support function representation of the feasible region, separating (i) objective shift via norm distances between the cost vectors and (ii) feasible-set shift via shape distances between the constraint sets. In the case of strongly convex feasible regions, sharper bounds are derived due to the optimizer stability. Building on these results, we define a heuristic local-versus-federated excess risk decision rule which, under SPO+ risk, gives a condition for when federation can be expected to improve decision quality: the heterogeneity penalty must be smaller than the statistical advantage of pooling data. We implement a FedAvg-style DFFL set of experiments on both polyhedral and strongly convex problems and show that federation is broadly robust in the strongly convex setting, while performance in the polyhedral setting degrades primarily with constraint heterogeneity, especially for clients with many samples. In other words, especially for the strongly convex case, an approach following a direct implementation of FedAvg and SPO+ can still yield promising performance even when the downstream optimization problems are noticeably different.
[LG-78] Spatio-temporal modelling of electric vehicle charging demand
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19841
作者: Kaoutar Bouaachra,Yvenn Amara-Ouali,Yannig Goude,Raphaël Lachieze-Rey
类目: Applications (stat.AP); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
*备注: 18 pages, 19 figures
Abstract:Accurate forecasting of electric vehicle (EV) charging demand is critical for grid management and infrastructure planning. Yet the field continues to rely on legacy benchmarks; such as the Palo Alto (2020) dataset; that fail to reflect the scale and behavioral diversity of modern charging networks. To address this, we introduce a novel large-scale longitudinal dataset collected across Scotland (2022 2025), which release it as an open benchmark for the community. Building on this dataset, we formulate EV charging demand as a spatio-temporal latent Gaussian field and perform approximate Bayesian inference via Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation (INLA). The resulting model jointly captures spatial dependence, temporal dynamics, and covariate effects within a unified proba bilistic framework. On station-level forecasting tasks, our approach achieves competitive predictive accuracy against machine learning baselines, while additionally providing principled uncertainty quan tification and interpretable spatial and temporal decompositions properties that are essential for risk-aware infrastructure planning.
[LG-79] Option Pricing on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Computers: A Quantum Neural Network Approach
链接: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19832
作者: Sebastian Zając,Rafał Pracht
类目: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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Abstract:In a global derivatives market with notional values in the hundreds of trillions of dollars, the accuracy and efficiency of pricing models are of fundamental importance, with direct implications for risk management, capital allocation, and regulatory compliance. In this work, we employ the Black-Scholes-Merton (BSM) framework not as an end in itself, but as a controlled benchmark environment in which to rigorously assess the capabilities of quantum machine learning methods. We propose a fully quantum approach to option pricing based on Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs), and, to the best of our knowledge, present one of the first implementations of such a methodology on currently available quantum hardware. Specifically, we investigate whether QNNs, by exploiting the geometric structure of Hilbert space, can effectively approximate option pricing functions. Our implementation utilizes a compact 2-qubit QNN architecture evaluated across multiple state-of-the-art quantum processors, including IBM Fez, IQM Garnet, IonQ Forte, and Rigetti Ankaa-3. This cross-platform study reveals distinct hardware-dependent performance characteristics while demonstrating that accurate pricing approximations can be achieved consistently across different devices despite the constraints of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) hardware. The results provide empirical evidence that QNN-based approaches constitute a viable framework for derivative pricing. While the analysis is conducted within the BSM setting, the broader significance lies in the potential extension of these methods to more realistic and computationally demanding models, including local volatility, stochastic volatility, and interest rate frameworks commonly used in practice. Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Machine Learning (cs.LG) Cite as: arXiv:2604.19832 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2604.19832v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.19832 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Sebastian Zajac Dr [view email] [v1] Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:03:57 UTC (877 KB)
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