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版本更新 · v2arXiv:2610.32794

Consommé: Conditioned Token Merging for Split Inference

Man Ngo, Jan S. Rellermeyer

原文摘要

Split inference partitions a Vision Transformer between a resource-constrained edge device and a server. However, transmitting intermediate tokens across the communication channel is costly. Deploying fine-tuned backbones to every endpoint becomes expensive as well. We study token reduction for split inference under a frozen backbone, where only a small adapter is shipped. We observe that the CLS token plays a dual role: it acts as the global summary the receiver needs for classification, and it serves as a signal on which patches to keep. We propose Consommé, a method utilizing both characteristics. There, an information bottleneck compresses the CLS token into a compact latent which is transmitted in place of the full CLS token and conditions a learned patch gate merging patches into exactly $k$ tokens via soft assignment. It reaches any budget in a single step, thus escaping the per-layer cap of bipartite matching (BPM). On DeiT-S/T, it leads all methods at aggressive token budgets and remains operable at shallow splits where BPM cannot operate, while matching fine-tuned methods at gentle budgets at a fraction of their deployment cost.

cs.CV

版本更新 · v2arXiv:2610.24005

PACE: Pareto-Adaptive Compression for Efficient Native MLLMs

Lei Tian, Chunzheng Zhu, Kai Wu, Yifan Zhang, Haihua Yang

原文摘要

Native multimodal large language models (native MLLMs) jointly encode visual and linguistic sequences within a unified autoregressive Transformer, emerging as a promising paradigm for multimodal understanding. Unlike conventional ViT-based MLLMs relying on external vision encoders, ViT-free native MLLMs tokenize pixel patches directly, potentially suffering severe visual token redundancy. A pilot study confirms this: unlike ViT-based models that degrade under compression, ViT-free MLLMs tolerate aggressive compression with near-lossless or even improved performance. Yet existing compression methods target ViT-based settings, leaving native MLLMs, which stand to gain the most, unexplored. To close this gap, we introduce an analysis pipeline centered on token discriminability and cross-dimensional heterogeneous redundancy, revealing that (i) redundancy is distributed independently and heterogeneously along height and width axes, and (ii) early-layer visual tokens are indiscriminable and uniformly redundant. Guided by these findings, we propose PACE (Pareto-Adaptive Compression for Efficient Native MLLMs), the first visual token compression framework tailored for native MLLMs with Multimodal-RoPE. Leveraging dimensional decoupling of positional encoding, PACE decomposes attention into two orthogonal spatial saliency estimates along height and width, gated by a positional attention signal, yielding direction-aware importance with negligible overhead. It further casts token budget allocation as Pareto optimization over performance preservation, inference efficiency, and spatial coverage, jointly identifying optimal compression depths and retention ratios. Experiments show PACE maintains near-lossless performance at only 25%-50% visual token retention, even improving several benchmarks, while delivering over 2x FLOPs reduction.

cs.CV · cs.AI

版本更新 · v3arXiv:2411.04852

Conformalized Credal Regions for Classification with Ambiguous Ground Truth

Michele Caprio, David Stutz, Shuo Li, Arnaud Doucet

原文摘要

An open question in \emph{Imprecise Probabilistic Machine Learning} is how to empirically derive a credal region (i.e., a closed and convex family of probabilities on the output space) from the available data, without any prior knowledge or assumption. In classification problems, credal regions are a tool that is able to provide provable guarantees under realistic assumptions by characterizing the uncertainty about the distribution of the labels. Building on previous work, we show that credal regions can be directly constructed using conformal methods. This allows us to provide a novel extension of classical conformal prediction to problems with ambiguous ground truth, that is, when the exact labels for given inputs are not exactly known. The resulting construction enjoys desirable practical and theoretical properties: (i) conformal coverage guarantees, (ii) smaller prediction sets (compared to classical conformal prediction regions) and (iii) disentanglement of uncertainty sources (epistemic, aleatoric). We empirically verify our findings on both synthetic and real datasets.

stat.ML · cs.LG

新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39747

When the Top Answer Decides: Gender Bias in Decision Models

Yeb Havinga

原文摘要

Decision models are language models built to route, classify and triage: they return option probabilities from one forward pass, and an application acts on the top answer. They are offered off the shelf, trained for the decision format rather than for fairness or any one application, and we found no bias measurement in their cards. We test TypeSafe's closed Jev and five open decision models on gender-swapped yes/no decisions about people (Tamkin et al., 2023), BBQ, StereoSet and the gender-bias studies of Fulgu and Capraro (2024). Five of the six give women significantly more favourable answers than men (+0.05 to +0.10 in log-odds), and a gender swap changes 1-3.5% of top answers (Jev's partly through its call-to-call variation). The makers' recommended confidence gate removes many biased commitments but raises the stereotyped share of those it keeps in ambiguous BBQ gender questions (granite-switch 0.76 to 0.85, pplx 0.81 to 1.00). Probes show gender preferences in the same models: all six rate violence for a greater good as more acceptable against a man than against a woman, and two default to "girl" when forced to guess a child's gender without a cue. Decision-level and probability-level measures differ, so audits should read a model as its application does.

cs.CL · cs.CY

新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39744

PAPERBENCHX: Can AI Reproduce Science Across Disciplines?

Ruoyu Wu, Zengji Tu, Aolong Sun, Tianyi Ma, Junren Li, Xinbo Xu, Li Fu, Ziyan Zhang 等 17 位作者

原文摘要

Before AI can be trusted to discover new science, it should be able to reproduce what science already knows. Reproduction provides a rigorous checkpoint for an AI scientist: the target claim is known, yet recovering it still requires translating an incomplete scientific description into an executable experiment and producing evidence that can be independently verified. Existing research-reproduction benchmarks largely focus on AI and machine learning, where experiments share relatively homogeneous software stacks. Extending this capability across scientific disciplines introduces a different challenge: agents must operate domain-specific scientific software, make physical and numerical choices, diagnose long-running computations, and distinguish valid evidence from merely plausible outputs. We introduce PAPERBENCHX, a benchmark of 93 expert-constructed paper-reproduction tasks spanning 12 research areas across electromagnetics, photonics, chemistry, materials science, biology, and robotics. Each task provides the source paper, a public task specification, and a domain-native scientific environment involving specialized scientific software. Agents must reconstruct a key experiment, execute and diagnose it, and deliver a runnable workflow that supports the target scientific claim. To evaluate scientific validity rather than surface-level agreement, we replay every submission from scratch and score only regenerated evidence against expert-validated criteria. Across 10 frontier agent configurations, the best configuration fully reproduces only 14% tasks under the 90% threshold. Meanwhile, mean rubric scores range from 27.53% to 59.08%, indicating that substantial partial progress rarely translates into complete scientific reproduction. These results reveal a large gap between paper understanding and reliably producing reproducible scientific evidence.

cs.AI

版本更新 · v2arXiv:2606.04310

Latent Anchor-Driven Test Generation for Deep Neural Networks

Bin Duan, Matthew B. Dwyer, Guowei Yang

原文摘要

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are increasingly being deployed in security-critical and safety-sensitive applications, which makes rigorous testing essential to identify and mitigate model weaknesses. Existing DNN testing approaches explore either the input space or a learned latent space. While latent-space generation can better maintain plausibility than direct input-space mutation, current methods still face a trade-off among exploration controllability, failure diversity, and seed-relative semantic drift. To overcome these limitations, we propose Latte, a black-box testing framework that generates semantically proximate, diverse, and fault-revealing test cases by leveraging the latent space. Specifically, Latte encodes each input seed with a pre-trained VQ-VAE and performs a seed-centered, one-step latent mutation along directions defined by anchors sampled from alternative classes, followed by quantization and decoding back to the input space. This explores local neighborhoods around each seed within the learned latent manifold, resulting in a larger number and broader diversity of oracle-triggering prediction discrepancies under the same budget. We evaluated Latte on 5 datasets and 10 DNN models in single-model and multi-model testing scenarios. Across the evaluated datasets and models, Latte improves fault exposure and behavioral diversity under matched testing budgets. Under the single-model setting, it also maintains low seed-relative semantic drift with respect to the source seeds.

cs.LG · cs.SE

新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39742

The Importance of Speech Genre for End-of-Turn Detector Training

Rini Sharon, Kadri Hacioglu, Jeena Prakash, Andreas Stolcke

原文摘要

End-of-turn (EoT) detection has been studied mostly through features, models, and modalities, while the speech genre of the training data has drawn far less attention. We isolate this factor. Using one reproducible annotation pipeline, we build a matched pair of corpora, multi-turn human-human conversational and single-turn human-machine, and train the same streaming ConvLSTM EoT detector on each. Across four test sets the conversational model reaches up to +0.45 higher F1, driven by fewer false alarms on the mid-turn pauses and hesitations that are rare in single-turn corpora. This conversational-training effect is not specific to frame-level decoding. Under a matched complete-or-not test it also appears at the utterance level, across two encoders, but only on conversational test data. Testing only on single-turn speech, as most prior work does, therefore hides the benefit of conversational training data. Against open-source baselines, our 1.8M-parameter model attains the highest F1 on every test set.

eess.AS · cs.AI

版本更新 · v4arXiv:2608.27906

Design the Feedback, Not Just the Reward: Environments for Open-Ended Reinforcement Learning

Rui Jin, Jikai Chen, Chengyue Yu, Yihan Chen, Hao Zhou, Demin Zhu, Kaichen Yang, Dong Wang 等 10 位作者

原文摘要

Reinforcement learning has advanced large language models on tasks with reliable verifiers, where checking an outcome provides a clear basis for reward. Extending this approach to open-ended tasks requires environments that can both evaluate complex, partially successful outputs and turn these judgments into effective learning guidance. We propose a reinforcement learning framework built around a training environment that integrates human domain knowledge with model reasoning. Human domain knowledge, encoded in rubrics, anchors evaluation to task intent, while model reasoning combined with hierarchical rewards distinguishes complex open-ended outputs and links diagnosed failures to likely responsible output regions. Furthermore, these diagnostic attributions guide token-level weights in the GRPO objective, thereby translating the ambiguous notion of success in open-ended tasks into concrete guidance for policy optimization. We instantiate this framework in interactive web application generation, a representative open-ended generation task. The resulting model achieves an average pass rate of 41.25\% on MiniAppBench and 76.19\% on ArtifactsBench. Ablation studies show the contributions of individual components, while additional out-of-distribution evaluations support transferable gains without degrading performance on other evaluated tasks.

cs.AI

新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39735

From the Transformer to a Formal Semantics of Coordinated Transformations

Marco Giunti, Fabrizia Giulia Garavaglia

原文摘要

We develop a formal semantics for a general class of coordinated systems of parameterized transformations, taking the Transformer as a paradigmatic starting point but abstracting from its particular mathematical instantiation. Representational vectors receive both extensional reference and ordered intensional interpretations, while parameter structures acquire relative, second-level interpretations that determine how argument properties are preserved, replaced, or combined. This yields the notion of a transforming concept: a parameterized transformation whose numerical action is coordinated with a corresponding property-level map. We then distinguish the common algebraic-semantic core of these systems from their architecture-specific functional organization, allowing different mathematical instantiations and mechanical realizations of the same abstract system type. The framework is applied to attention heads and residual connections, providing semantic explanations that depend only on the shared algebraic-semantic core and their local functional organization and therefore generalize beyond the standard Transformer. These analyses also reveal the modularity of the framework: complex architectures can be decomposed into simpler semantically coordinated subsystems whose organization may recur across different abstract system types.

cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.LO

版本更新 · v2arXiv:2512.11345

Symmetry-Aware Steering of Equivariant Diffusion Policies: Benefits and Limits

Minwoo Park, Junwoo Chang, Jongeun Choi, Roberto Horowitz

原文摘要

Equivariant diffusion policies (EDPs) combine the expressivity of diffusion models with the generalization and sample efficiency afforded by geometric symmetries. While steering these policies with reinforcement learning (RL) offers a promising fine-tuning mechanism beyond demonstration data, directly applying standard (non-equivariant) RL ignores the symmetries that EDPs are designed to exploit, leading to sample inefficiency and instability. We theoretically establish that the diffusion process of an EDP is equivariant, inducing a group-invariant latent-noise MDP which is well-suited for equivariant diffusion steering. Building on this, we introduce a principled symmetry-aware steering framework and compare standard, equivariant, and approximately equivariant RL strategies across tasks with varying degrees of symmetry. While we identify the practical boundaries of strict equivariance under symmetry breaking, exploiting symmetry during the steering yields substantial benefits---enhancing sample efficiency, preventing value divergence, and achieving strong policy improvements even when EDPs are trained from extremely limited demonstrations.

cs.LG · cs.RO

新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39733

Bank-World: A Benchmark for Evaluating Agents on Banking Workflows

Daniel Rupawalla

原文摘要

Bank-World is a benchmark of 50 banking tasks across two simulated institutions. Completing banking work requires more than producing the right calculation: agents must reconcile records, obtain permission, execute transactions, and keep instructions and status reports consistent as circumstances change. Bank-World tests these requirements through single-turn assignments and multi-turn interactions with simulated employees who supply information, approve actions, and revise instructions. Grading combines executable checks of recorded actions and state with model judgments of task requirements, including whether valid alternative solutions satisfy them. Across 1,600 attempts by four models, we find that correct decisions often fail to become completed work. Agents charge fees twice, distribute the correct total in incorrect amounts among the recipients, and execute payments while approval is pending. Their strengths also differ: Sol leads single-turn completion, Opus has the highest observed multi-turn completion rate, and Grok succeeds across more multi-turn tasks but less consistently. Bank-World makes these differences inspectable through task-level results and worked examples connecting source evidence, agent decisions, and simulated consequences. We retain the task environments, executable graders, and full trajectories privately to reduce contamination and preserve the benchmark for future evaluations.

cs.AI

新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39731

Going deep, reaching further: What can Boltzmann machines efficiently represent?

Tobias Reinhart, Gemma De les Coves

原文摘要

While universal approximation theorems theoretically underpin the representation capabilities of machine learning models, they have two shortcomings: They do not focus on efficient representations and they tend to be insensitive to depth and other heuristically important properties. In this work we show that these two shortcomings are intertwined. We prove that machine learning models which are deeper or have higher-order interactions can efficiently represent a larger set of functions, i.e. have larger efficient reach. It follows that deep Boltzmann machines (DBMs) have maximal efficient reach, restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) sub-maximal, and k-body generalizations of RBMs form a hierarchy between the two, even though all are universal. More generally, (i) we provide a full characterization of machine learning models with maximal efficient reach; (ii) we derive separations between deep and shallow models for three representation tasks; and (iii) we prove that the efficient reach of shallow models constitutes an infinite hierarchy indexed by the interaction order. The proofs draw on different methodologies, namely on (i) a recent characterization of universal spin models; (ii) computational complexity bounds for spin models; and (iii) communication complexity bounds applied to shallow models. This work shows that universal machine learning models can strongly differ in their efficient representation capabilities, and provides a theoretical foundation for heuristic observations.

cs.LG · cond-mat.dis-nn · math-ph

版本更新 · v3arXiv:2603.10726

CacheSolidarity: Preventing Prefix Caching Side Channels in Multi-Tenant LLM Serving Systems

Panagiotis Georgios Pennas, Konstantinos Papaioannou, Marco Guarnieri, Thaleia Dimitra Doudali

原文摘要

Large Language Models (LLMs) rely on optimizations like Automatic Prefix Caching (APC) to accelerate inference. APC works by reusing previously computed states for the beginning part of a request (prefix), when another request starts with the same text. While APC improves throughput, it introduces timing side channels: cache hits are faster than misses, creating observable latency differences. In multi-tenant systems, attackers can exploit these differences to infer sensitive information, e.g., by incrementally reconstructing another user's request by observing hit/miss patterns. Current defenses take a sledgehammer approach: they disable APC and cache sharing, isolating users, and sacrificing efficiency for regular users. This paper presents CacheSolidarity, a system that secures multi-tenant LLM serving systems against APC side channels without sacrificing performance and efficiency. CacheSolidarity monitors cache reuse across users, flags suspicious sharing, and selectively isolates prefixes, restricting their reuse only when necessary. Evaluation shows that CacheSolidarity enables up to 70% higher cache reuse and 30% lower inference latency compared to existing user-isolation defenses. CacheSolidarity's lightweight design demonstrates how LLM serving can be secured without sacrificing performance or incurring unbearable overheads.

cs.CR · cs.DC · cs.LG

版本更新 · v2arXiv:2610.13309

NovaSplat: Model-Free 6D Object Pose Estimation via 3D Gaussian Splatting Onboarding and Refinement

Georgios Floros, Evangelos Sartinas, Orestis Vaggelis, Maria Pateraki

原文摘要

6D pose estimation of novel objects without CAD models remains an open challenge: model-free methods must build the object representation from scratch during onboarding and have long trailed their model-based counterparts. We present NovaSplat, a model-free pipeline that closes this gap. From a short smartphone video captured at onboarding, we train a 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) model that serves both as a template source for detection and coarse pose estimation and as a differentiable backbone for pose refinement. Our refiner optimizes the object-to-camera pose with combined photometric and geometric losses under a continuous rotation parametrization free of gradient singularities. On a household-object benchmark, NovaSplat surpasses all model-based methods. On a challenging industrial benchmark with textureless and specular surfaces, it outperforms all model-free competitors while substantially narrowing the gap to model-based ones. We further introduce NovaSplat-Lite, an inference variant that is $3.1\times$ faster at negligible accuracy cost. Code will be made available at https://github.com/POSE-Lab/novasplat .

cs.CV · cs.RO

新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39728

Grounding Predictive Reliability through Masked Observability

Shang Gao, Bernhard Sick, Franz Götz-Hahn

原文摘要

An uncertainty estimate is meaningful only if its semantics can be tied to observable predictive behavior. Normal-Inverse-Gamma (NIG) evidential regression provides a structured decomposition of predictive variability into data-scale and predictive-mean components, but marginal likelihood does not identify their allocation. We address this semantic ambiguity in masked representation learning. MORSE (Masked Observability for Reliable Structured Encoding) predicts the same hidden target under controlled changes in visible context and uses normalized cross-context variation to ground predictive-mean uncertainty, while a Gaussian objective learns the conditional mean and data scale. The normalized variation plays the role of the NIG factor $1/ν$, which the marginal leaves unidentified; this yields a policy-relative observability variance that measures dependence on visible evidence, distinct from variation induced by resampling the training set. On a Gaussian-process benchmark with a contextual reference built from analytic Bayes conditional means, MORSE has the lowest log-variance error among compared evidential, ensemble, and dropout estimators in all nine tested settings, while the estimator closest to training-set variation perturbs the model rather than its context in every setting, so the two references separate the estimators empirically. MORSE amortizes observability estimation into one forward pass per observation state. On a heteroscedastic pulse benchmark, its predictor's cross-context variance approaches a large-sample reference as training data increase. MORSE also improves low-label transfer on PTB-XL and in-distribution trajectory prediction on IMPTC.

cs.LG

新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39727

Cross-Encoder Anchor Refinement for Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection

Kaisong Ji, Ziyang Xu, Chang Bian, Yu Zhou, Wenyu Liu, Xinggang Wang

原文摘要

Zero-shot anomaly detection aims to transfer anomaly discrimination from auxiliary training domains to unseen categories while localizing subtle defects. A key challenge is to construct discriminative references that combine contextual representations with complementary local evidence. We present Cross-Encoder Anchor Refinement (CEAR), which connects two visual encoding paths for the same image at the anchor stage, before normal and anomalous prototypes are constructed. An independent convolutional encoder pretrained for industrial product recognition builds an image-specific memory shared across selected vision transformer (ViT) layers. Spatial anchors read from ViT patch features query this memory through cross-attention and undergo residual refinement. Image-conditioned normal and anomalous queries then gate anchor aggregation to construct prototypes for anomaly scoring. Across 13 industrial and medical datasets, CEAR achieves the best performance in 57 of 68 evaluations spanning image-level detection and pixel-level localization. Notably, CEAR surpasses all other state-of-the-art methods in 41 of 44 pixel-level comparisons. Across 11 localization datasets, mean gains in pixel-level maximum F1 score and average precision are 4.45 and 3.79 percentage points, respectively. This study shows how cross-encoder interaction at the anchor stage can integrate complementary visual representations for fine-grained anomaly localization across domains.

cs.CV

版本更新 · v3arXiv:2609.11472

BridgeMatch: Conditional Transport Bridges in Matching Matrix Space for 3D Deformable Registration

Qianliang Wu, Yaqing Ding, Guangwei Gao, Weiping Ding, Jin Xie, Jian Yang

原文摘要

Non-rigid point cloud registration depends on accurate correspondences under deformation and partial visibility. Existing coarse-to-fine methods use coarse matches to select regions for fine matching, but incorrect selection can remove valid correspondences before refinement. We introduce \paper, a conditional transport framework that connects coarse correspondence estimation to high-resolution matching. A diffusion model first estimates a coarse matching matrix. We lift the complete estimate to a fine-level source matrix and refine its scores with a geometry-conditioned bridge. We consider two bridge formulations: a deterministic endpoint-parameterized flow and a stochastic paired Brownian bridge with endpoint and noise prediction. At each step, the current matrix provides an alignment for the next prediction. Both models reuse backbone features throughout inference. Experiments on 4DMatch and 4DLoMatch show improved correspondence and non-rigid registration accuracy. The models also transfer to CAPE and DeepDeform without target-domain training. Ablations examine the roles of candidate coverage, source initialization, and refinement budget.

cs.CV

新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39721

WorldProbe: When Video World Models Fall Apart under Long-Horizon Spatial Exploration

Minqi Wang, Jie Peng, Hejun Dong, Ruchang Yao, Puyi Wang, Siyuan Huang, Jihai Zhang, Yafu Li 等 11 位作者

原文摘要

Video world models generate future visual observations from camera or action inputs, with the goal of synthesizing persistent 3D worlds that can be explored across time and space. Existing benchmarks typically evaluate short interactions or rely on camera trajectories fixed before generation. The performance of video world models under long-horizon exploration with extensive camera motion remains under-explored. We introduce WorldProbe, a diagnostic benchmark that uses a goal-conditioned multimodal agent to adapt camera actions online during generation. WorldProbe comprises 164 test cases across four probing families. Across 10 state-of-the-art models, we generate more than 1,600 rollouts totaling approximately 800 minutes, with horizons up to 180 seconds. Our evaluation across four dimensions reveals both the degradation of local measures and the emergence of long-range inconsistencies. We find that recent models sustain visual and content quality for longer, while long-range memory and evolution remain weak. These results expose a gap between locally stable generation and persistent world consistency that is largely missed by existing benchmarks. Code and benchmark resources are available at https://github.com/Untitled-W/WorldProbe.

cs.CV

新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39717

Implicit Bias of (Stochastic) Gradient Descent on Deep Linear Diagonal Networks

Wiebke Bartolomaeus, Holger Rauhut

原文摘要

Modern machine learning models are often overparameterized, i.e., have more parameters than training data. This typically implies that the loss function admits multiple minimizers so that training methods (and their hyperparameter choices) have significant influence on the computed solution. We study this so-called implicit bias phenomenon in the context of training deep linear diagonal networks. Previous work has shown that the gradient flow for learning such networks converges to (almost) sparse solutions when initialized small. For an arbitrary number of layers, we extend this analysis to the practically more realistic (stochastic) gradient descent iterations. Our approach identifies (stochastic) gradient descent as a perturbed (stochastic) mirror gradient descent. This allows us to establish convergence and characterize the limiting solution, relating it to weighted $\ell_1$-minimization. Moreover, we provide sufficient conditions on the step sizes and quantify the influence of the step sizes on the implicit bias.

cs.LG · math.OC

新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39716

Adaptive Federated Optimization Across Smooth and Nonsmooth Regimes

Zimeng Wang, Ali Dadras, Alp Yurtsever

原文摘要

AdaGrad-style methods can simultaneously adapt to both the order and constants of smoothness in centralized optimization. However, existing extensions to federated optimization with heterogeneous client objectives and multiple local steps require the smoothness order to be specified in advance. We address this limitation with AdaFed, a federated method that adapts across several regimes under a single choice of parameters. In the deterministic setting, AdaFed achieves an $O(1/T)$ convergence rate for both smooth nonconvex and smooth convex objectives, and an $O(1/\sqrt{T})$ rate for Lipschitz nonsmooth convex objectives up to logarithmic factors. Under a light-tailed stochastic-gradient noise assumption, these guarantees extend to the stochastic setting with additional logarithmic factors and noise-dependent terms. Experiments across the three problem classes further support our theoretical findings.

math.OC · cs.LG

新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39714

MoLRSI: A Recursive Self-Improving AI agent for Molecular Discovery

Yikun Zhang, Xiwei Cheng, Mingze Yuan, Yu Zhang, Brian Shim, Aarti Krishnan, Daniel Rosen, Kunyang Sun 等 18 位作者

原文摘要

Molecular discovery requires navigating vast combinatorial search spaces while balancing competing biological objectives. AI agents can automate expert-defined molecular design protocols, but automation alone does not address how to optimize workflows for new tasks or improve their development through experience. Here we introduce MoLRSI, an AI agent that combines systematic optimization of workflows and model architectures with persistent cross-task memory to recursively improve its search policy for molecular discovery. Workflow performance, refinement outcomes, and execution feedback guide subsequent searches, allowing the agent to improve both its workflows and its strategy for developing them. We evaluate MoLRSI in two challenging molecular discovery settings that require balancing competing properties. In antibiotic discovery, MoLRSI developed a screening workflow balancing antibacterial activity, cytotoxicity and structural novelty, achieving an experimental hit rate of 15.9%, compared with 8.7% for a previous expert-led workflow using the same training data and screening library. In de novo peptide-MHC binder design, MoLRSI developed workflows that jointly consider target binding and specificity, producing eight experimentally validated hits against MART-1 and SARS-CoV-1 pMHCs with preferential binding over tested off-targets while Claude Science completely failed. These findings demonstrate how experience-guided workflow optimization can address competing discovery objectives while improving the search strategies used in subsequent campaigns.

cs.AI

新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39711

Sandman: Building and Operating Sandboxes for Agentic Reinforcement Learning on Shared Kubernetes

Yiming Yan, Hongyang Wang, Wenbo Chen, Xuan Wang, Jingguo Liu, Xian Li, Chen Qi, Leo Fan 等 15 位作者

原文摘要

Agentic reinforcement learning (RL) often requires repeated tool calls in task-specific environments. A training job may create thousands of these environments in bursts while sharing a cluster with other jobs. We present Sandman, a sandbox service built and operated at Amazon for agent tool execution and evaluation. It serves multiple production agentic RL workloads on shared Kubernetes. A training framework supplies a task image and uses commands and file operations in the returned sandbox. Files and processes persist across calls until the framework releases the environment. Sandman manages creation, readiness and cleanup. Each sandbox is a Kubernetes pod with a small daemon mounted into the unmodified image. In a scale test, Sandman held 11,858 concurrent tiny sandboxes. Four production SWE-bench Verified training campaigns created 3.1 million sandboxes in October 2026. We report the design trade-offs and operational lessons from handling creation bursts, preparing task environments, reclaiming abandoned sandboxes, and running evaluation under controlled conditions. We will open-source Sandman's daemon, provider and pool.

cs.DC · cs.AI · cs.LG

新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39709

Bayes-Consistent Losses for Adaptive Inference in Classification

Shirley Xiaoqi Liu, Florence Regol, Antonios Valkanas, Patrick Rebeschini, Mark Coates

原文摘要

Adaptive inference systems balance accuracy and inference cost by routing inputs to models with varying capabilities. Although jointly training models and routers is empirically more sample-efficient than training them separately, principled losses for joint training remain underexplored. We address this gap in a classification setting by proposing cost-sensitive hinge losses for jointly training classifiers with single-stage or cascade routers. Single-stage routers directly select a model per input, whereas cascade routers sequentially decide at each stage whether to predict with the current model or defer to the next stage, which uses a more accurate but more costly model. For both settings, we prove linear calibration bounds establishing Bayes consistency: minimizing the hinge risk recovers the Bayes-optimal risk under the target cost-sensitive zero-one loss. Moreover, since routers can require more labeled data to train than classifiers, we propose a novel post-training prediction-powered inference (PPI) procedure that uses unlabeled data to refine a trained single-stage router. Experiments on synthetic and real datasets demonstrate that the proposed hinge losses are effective for joint training and that PPI can correct routing errors when labeled data is scarce.

stat.ML · cs.LG

新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39708

AFast Robot Localization Method Based on Monte Carlo Sampling

He Zhaoqing, Hang Li, Xian Pu, Li Wang

原文摘要

Localization is an essential capability of intelligent robots. However, in real-world constrained environments, robots often cannot rely on external localization systems. Therefore, this paper proposes an online particle-filter localization method based on Monte Carlo sampling. The method is applied to the localization of a mobile robot in a maze environment and requires only four range sensors mounted on the front, rear, left, and right sides of the vehicle, without the need for any heading information. Simulation experiments demonstrate that even in a maze where local regions are highly similar, the vehicle can still achieve relatively accurate localization, thereby providing a fast and effective approach for robot localization in complex environments.

cs.RO

新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39704

Confidence Filtering in Video-Based Gait Assessment: Measurement Error versus Selection Shift

David Regev, Eran Beeri Bamani

原文摘要

Video-based gait assessment often keeps only high-confidence pose observations, which can lower measurement error but change the movement assessed. We compared confidence selection with budget-matched random selection in a Parkinson-related cohort (n = 96) and an NF2-related replication cohort (n = 18). In the Parkinson-related cohort, confidence selection produced a small but consistent shift in the observed movement summary (+0.05 SD, 95% CI 0.03 to 0.07), while held-out Mini-BESTest error stayed flat (-0.04 points, -0.13 to 0.05); a policy preserving motion-group proportions reduced the shift, while NF2 showed no shift and its predictor did not beat a constant baseline. Because this shift mixes measurement error with selection shift, we decompose and simulate both on the cohort's window structure. Filtering lowers local error when error depends on confidence, but biases the endpoint once confidence tracks movement more than error. In the Parkinson-related data, confidence was only weakly tied to movement (rho = 0.14). There, filtering is harmless if well-tracked windows are unbiased. If instead systematic error only redistributes within participants, filtering can add up to 0.58 degrees. Unchanged clinical error from such small-cohort predictors therefore cannot show that quality filtering preserves the assessed movement.

cs.CV · q-bio.QM · stat.ME

版本更新 · v2arXiv:2610.02057

Optimizing Effective Training Time for Large-Scale Recommendation Systems

Mingming Ding, Ruilin Chen, Yuzhen Huang, Hang Qi, Menglu Yu, San Tan, Damian Reeves, Boris Sarana 等 32 位作者

原文摘要

Lifecycle overhead silently consumes accelerator capacity across large-scale recommendation training fleets. Our largest recommendation workloads process tens of billions train- ing examples per day on thousands of GPUs. Before this work, only 50-60% of their end-to-end wall time advanced training on new data. We present a fleet-scale study of this lifecycle overhead and a set of optimizations spanning the full training stack. We use Effective Training Time (ETT%) as an operational framework to instrument lost time, localize it to independently owned infrastructure components, and expose work repeated across job restarts. This analysis guides optimizations like communication elimination and pipeline overlap during trainer initialization; dynamic-shape handling, autotuning pruning, and reusable Py- Torch 2 compilation caches; asynchronous checkpointing; stan- dalone model publishing; and reductions in recovery cost. We evaluate the optimizations on representative models and measure their impacts in our training fleet. ETT% improves on every benchmark, by 15.5% on average, and reaches 85% on our largest workload. Fleet-wide ETT% rose from about 80% to above 90% after deployment.

cs.IR

新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39691

Smartphone Indoor Localization Enhanced by Hierarchical Multi-Sensor Context Recognition

Wenhui Feng, Muhan Weng, Jianyu Liu, Xiansheng Yang, Hao Zhang, Liang Wang, Yuan Zhuang

原文摘要

Smartphone indoor localization requires low-cost, robust positioning across scene transitions and phone-use variations. Pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) enables infrastructure-free deployment but accumulates errors from heading drift, structural transitions, and carrying-mode changes. Existing methods often treat contextual cues as a single event stream or local correction signal, limiting their ability to address distinct localization errors. This paper presents a framework enhanced by hierarchical multi-sensor context recognition. A jointly data- and model-driven recognition model predicts environment, scene, and activity probabilities, which are converted into scene-event and action-context segments. Scene-event segments guide scene-constrained PDR correction through corridor heading constraints, landmark attraction, fixed-lag backtracking, and vertical-transition handling. Action-context segments drive action-aware RoNIN-based position compensation for carrying-mode-dependent drift. Experiments on cross-floor and multi-action trajectories against LiDAR-SLAM references show that the proposed framework outperforms PDR and representative learned inertial odometry baselines, demonstrating that hierarchical semantics provide reliable, localization-specific correction cues.

cs.LG · cs.RO

新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39689

AI for Science in Space: Orbital Laboratories, Planetary Fieldwork, and Embodied Autonomy

Zizhe Wang, Jia Deng, Xin Lu, Zehao Jia, Yi Huang, Yao Zhu, Jianing Li

原文摘要

Artificial intelligence for science (AI4S) is extending from interpretation of existing data to the design and execution of experiments. Space offers distinctive scientific opportunities while restricting physical support. Microgravity and extraterrestrial environments expose phenomena that terrestrial experiments cannot fully reproduce; finite samples, constrained resources, and limited opportunities for intervention complicate sustained investigation. This critical review examines orbital laboratories and planetary in situ science across biology, materials, fluid and thermal physics, and adaptive exploration. We distinguish learning from space-derived data, selecting scientific actions, executing them, and preserving experimental validity. Terrestrial self-driving laboratories provide complementary evidence on optimization, dedicated automation, robotic manipulation, and the support needed for unattended operation. The synthesis connects scientific gains already demonstrated by bounded AI systems to gaps in observation, executable actions, and continuity of valid evidence. Space robots can expand the attainable scope of autonomous science when necessary interventions exceed validated instrument capabilities and timely human support is unavailable. Their value must be established against dedicated mechanisms, redundancy, and human-supported operation. We develop a framework connecting sample history, scientific decisions, physical execution, and claim-specific validity. A worked orbital design, a planetary extension, and matched evaluation schemes separate the contributions of sensing, decision policies, and physical actions. The resulting agenda measures autonomy through valid scientific return, task coverage, intervention costs, and evidence integrity across complete campaigns.

cs.RO

新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39687

Transformer-inspired architectures make machine-learned electron densities accurate and transferable enough to bypass self-consistency

Jeheon Woo

原文摘要

We introduce machine learning models that accurately predict the electron density, the central variable of density functional theory. They are built on Transformer-inspired architectures, which require little computation per parameter and can therefore be enlarged at low cost. The proposed models, SwinUNETR-V2 and its attention-free counterpart NeXtUNETR, achieve state-of-the-art accuracy on QM9, with normalized mean absolute errors in the density averaging 0.075% and 0.046%, respectively. The predicted densities are accurate enough to bypass the self-consistent iteration: a single Kohn-Sham step reproduces the self-consistent electronic structure. For NeXtUNETR, the median errors are 0.036 meV in the total energy, 0.65 meV/angstrom in the forces and 1.8 meV in the HOMO-LUMO gap. The forces not only recover the self-consistent minima in geometry optimization but also successfully drive ab initio molecular dynamics. Fine-tuned on small datasets, both networks also transfer accurately to systems containing elements absent from QM9 or larger than its molecules.

physics.chem-ph · cs.LG · physics.comp-ph

新论文 · v1arXiv:2610.39685

Practical Assessment of Agentic Systems in Acoustics

Arne Hildenbrand, Philipp Diel, Zhuo Cao, Hanno Scharr, Stefan Pischinger, Steffen Marburg

原文摘要

In engineering, applications of artificial intelligence have so far been largely limited to surrogate models and optimization tasks. Large language models changed this, as they can write software from a task given in words. Placed inside a harness, a system of components that lets it search for information and execute software, such a model becomes an agent that can take over recurring engineering tasks. This work measures how the model and the elements of the harness shape the performance and behavior of the agent in two common acoustic applications. In the first, the agent detects and locates faults in audio recordings from a vehicle interior with near-perfect accuracy. A benchmark on this task shows that a weak model sets a limit that no harness design can overcome, and that design choices take effect only once the model is capable enough to use them. In the second, a case study on the design of a metamaterial unit cell, the agent reliably finds designs that achieve a specified insertion loss over a given frequency range. The results aim to help the reader understand what each element of an agent contributes and how to design an agent for acoustic tasks.

cs.SD · cs.AI