We define list types, distinguishing proper lists, which end in the empty list, from improper lists, which may end in any value. Both are encoded as recursive types of cons cells, implemented in etylizer. This work found one OTP compiler bug. We propose a one-line sound improvement to Dialyzer's list handling that finds six instances of dead code in the OTP code base. We compare BEAM VM type checkers and catalogue how other languages design lists and cons cells.
Dialectal Arabic speech recognition remains constrained by the scarcity of dialect-resolved transcribed speech despite the abundance of web audio. We introduce GigaSpeech 3, a corpus of 39,000 hours and 10 million weakly transcribed speech segments covering Algerian, Egyptian, Iraqi, Saudi, and Syrian Arabic. Starting from 60 hours of manual transcription per dialect, we train labeling models using speech-recognition-biased self-supervised learning and apply them to dialect-matched web audio. Data selection and four rounds of noisy-student refinement for Saudi and Syrian Arabic yield the final corpus. We validate its utility through dialect-specific and multi-dialect speech recognition training and cross-domain evaluation. On GigaSpeechBench, the final dialect-specific models outperform their labeling models across all five dialects and achieve a macro-average word error rate of 23.86%, a 16.6% relative reduction from the strongest third-party system covering all five dialects, while outperforming the best third-party result on three dialects. A multi-dialect model using self-predicted dialect identities achieves a macro-average word error rate of 25.51% while also supporting Modern Standard Arabic. Across eight conditions from three external corpora, a GigaSpeech 3-trained Zipformer achieves the lowest word error rate among six evaluated models in every condition, while adapting the Qwen3 speech recognizer on GigaSpeech 3 improves performance across all eight conditions. We release the corpus and recipes as a foundation for dialect-aware Arabic speech processing.
Jianhong Wang, Yang Li, Samuel Kaski, Jonathan Lawry
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Open multi-agent systems, where only a subset of agents are controllable, are central to real-world domains such as smart grids, yet lack a principled foundation for reinforcement learning algorithm design. We study this setting through n-agent ad hoc teamwork (NAHT), a recent framework for learning in open multi-agent environments. We propose an axiomatic framework that derives value function learning from the Shapley axioms (Efficiency, Symmetry and Linearity), treating them as structural constraints rather than heuristic design choices. This formulation builds on a novel NAHT decomposition, which characterises the fundamental difference between open and fully controllable multi-agent systems, and establishes a cooperative game-theoretic foundation for learning. We further show that enforcing these axioms on learning individual value functions recovers the Shapley value for Dec-POMDPs, providing a principled bridge between reinforcement learning and classical cooperative game theory. Building on this framework, we introduce Shapley Machines and Banzhaf Machines, two generic algorithmic templates that can be instantiated with standard reinforcement learning methods. When applied to strong base algorithms such as IPPO and POAM, our methods consistently improve learning efficiency and generalisation to unseen agent types and conventions across NAHT benchmark tasks. The code of experiments is published on https://github.com/hsvgbkhgbv/axiomatic-rl-naht.
Adapting step-distilled text-to-image (T2I) models through post-training incurs additional computational costs and affects native few-step generation behavior. This motivates a complementary route beyond style-specific adaptation: drawing on the visual knowledge already encoded in step-distilled T2I models to elicit stylistic capabilities through language. Pursuing this direction requires textual guidance that captures how visual attributes jointly define a style and remain applicable as the depicted content changes. To explore this approach, we introduce StyleForge, a fully automatic, training-free framework that expresses reference styles as reusable rendering instructions. By integrating overall rendering characteristics with local color and lighting behavior, StyleForge organizes visual evidence from reference images into a coherent specification of how the target style should be expressed. The specification is then compiled into textual guidance that can be reused across content prompts, enabling frozen step-distilled T2I models to render different subjects and scenes in the reference style while retaining native few-step generation. Extensive experiments show relative gains of up to 29.47\% in generation quality scores over the strongest baseline, while Pareto analysis indicates that improved stylization is accompanied by strong adherence to the requested content. Code is available at https://github.com/sunshy-1/StyleForge.
Low-quality facial videos suffer from missing fine details, while AI-generated videos may additionally contain implausible teeth and lip movements that do not match the speech. Restoring the mouth region is particularly challenging: enhancing existing details can preserve structural errors, whereas regenerating them risks changing facial identity and articulation. We propose an audio-guided facial video restoration framework that reconstructs unreliable mouth details and aligns lip movements with the speech while preserving facial identity and temporal consistency. Built on a video diffusion transformer, our framework mixes input video latents with noise to retain useful source information while allowing corrupted details to be regenerated. Audio guides lip movements, reference images constrain facial appearance, and previously generated frames promote temporal consistency. We train the model in two stages, first learning visual restoration from degraded images and videos, then learning audio-guided lip correction from degraded dubbed videos. The resulting model supports both restoration with the original audio and visual dubbing with replacement audio. On talking-head restoration benchmarks, our method achieves the lowest LPIPS and DISTS and the best lip synchronization scores among the evaluated restoration baselines. Qualitative results on AI-generated videos further show improvements in facial detail and mouth-region appearance, including clearer tooth boundaries and lip contours.
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models excel at instruction following, yet most remain feed-forward: they condition actions only on the current observation and discard both long-horizon temporal context and the hierarchical structure of VLM representations. We present PRIME W0, a hierarchical conditional flow-matching framework that closes this gap through three synergistic designs: (1)per-layer KV injection from a pretrained VLM into an Adaptive MoE action expert; (2)dynamics-aware conditioning via asynchronous world-model subgoal-image prediction and a DINOv2 historical-frame semantic bridge; and (3)Action Dynamic Manifold (ADM) flow matching with covariance-structured noise that respects robot kinematic coupling. PRIME W0 is trained in four stages---VLM pre-training, DAT/NTP visuomotor pre-training, DiT flow-matching decoder assembly with WM injection, and end-to-end SFT---and achieves state-of-the-art results on LIBERO and real-robot benchmarks, with systematic ablations validating each architectural component.
Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have achieved strong performance on many video understanding tasks, yet remain vulnerable to temporal hallucination in time-sensitive reasoning scenarios such as scene transition understanding and event ordering. Existing solutions either require costly retraining or introduce inefficient multi-pass inference and external supervision at test time. In this work, we show that temporal evidence is already encoded in Video-LLM hidden representations but is not fully exploited during standard inference. Motivated by this observation, we propose Single-Pass Orthogonal Decomposition (SPOD), a training-free framework that recovers suppressed temporal evidence through analytical hidden-state manipulation in a single forward pass. SPOD consists of two components: Frame Distinctiveness Analysis (FDA), which identifies salient frames from middle-layer hidden-state geometry, and Temporal Delta Subspace (TDS), which constructs orthogonal temporal and prior subspaces from weighted inter-frame hidden-state differences. By decomposing final hidden states into temporal, prior, and residual components and rescaling them independently, SPOD enhances dynamic information, suppresses static appearance bias, and preserves complementary information. Experiments on VidHalluc, EventHallusion, and VideoMMMU show that SPOD consistently outperforms strong inference-time baselines across temporal reasoning tasks and model architectures while retaining near-vanilla inference efficiency. These results suggest that improving temporal reasoning in Video-LLMs may depend not only on additional supervision, but also on recovering temporal evidence already present in their internal representations. Our code is available at https://github.com/VioAgnes/SPOD.
Generative recommendation is gaining traction in production, retrieving items by generating their identifiers one token at a time. The generated sequences must identify relevant catalog items, so constrained decoding couples relevance scoring with validity filtering. Because most possible sequences are invalid, scoring before filtering wastes computation on candidates that will be discarded. Our evaluation shows that filtering first can avoid this work with negligible impact on recommendation quality. We present ZeroGR, a filtering-first constrained decoding system for generative recommendation. ZeroGR uses a step-sliced filtering index to reduce GPU memory use by tailoring data representations to each decoding step. Its execution engine adopts shared-slot execution to accelerate data exchange across stages and hybrid projection to adapt computation to workload patterns, thereby reducing execution overhead. During index refreshes, ZeroGR applies layout-guided streaming construction to speed up updates and limit serving interference. Extensive evaluation shows that ZeroGR accelerates the filtering and scoring pipeline by up to $9.9\times$ over representative baselines while reducing GPU index memory use and accelerating index reconstruction.
Ligen Shi, Jun Qiu, Zengyu Pang, Yuhang Zheng, Lina Wu, Di He, Chang Liu
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Implicit neural representations (INRs) commonly employ Fourier features to alleviate spectral bias and represent high-frequency signals. Fourier encodings, however, use the same frequency representation across spatial locations despite the spatially varying frequency content of natural signals. We propose Adaptive Frequency Implicit Neural Representation (AFINR), a spatially adaptive frequency-conditioning framework for Fourier encoded INRs. A sampling compatible Fourier dictionary first defines the explicit frequency support, and a learnable spatial control field then modulates the admitted Fourier components before decoding. The control field is parameterized in the discrete cosine transform (DCT) domain to provide a compact and continuously queryable spatial representation. AFINR can be combined with different coordinate decoders, including ReLU, SIREN, CAFE, and CAFE+. Experiments on Kodak and DIV2K show consistent average improvements across these decoder families. In particular, AFINR-CAFE+ improves CAFE+ by 3.95 dB on Kodak and 3.50 dB on DIV2K. Ablation studies characterize the effects of adaptive-field parameterization, DCT coefficient retention, and frequency-response parameters, while learned spatial responses show position-dependent use of the admitted Fourier components.
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly expected to extract and synthesize structured information from complex real-world documents, yet they typically produce unstructured, hard-to-verify paragraph-style outputs. We introduce AOE (Arranged and Organized Extraction), a bilingual benchmark that evaluates LLMs' ability to distill long-form, multi-document inputs (64k to 1.8M tokens) into structured tables. AOE comprises 12 tasks across four domains (academic, financial, legal, and medical), each grounded in genuine analytical needs, with schema guidance provided to isolate extraction quality from formatting variance. We evaluate 12 frontier LLMs (both open-weight and proprietary) under four generation settings of increasing autonomy: direct full-document input, RAG-based retrieval, offline document-browsing agent, and online web-search agent. Even the best-performing model achieves only 42.7% Cell F1, and retrieval-augmented approaches often degrade rather than improve performance, revealing that structured extraction from long contexts remains a fundamental challenge - an "Area of Effect" (AOE) that impacts all tested systems.
The Hylland--Zeckhauser (HZ) mechanism is a foundational framework for allocating indivisible goods in one-sided matching markets via lotteries supported by competitive prices and equal artificial budgets. We resolve the exact computational complexity of the HZ scheme by proving that computing an exact HZ equilibrium is FIXP-complete, thereby settling a conjecture of Vazirani and Yannakakis. Notably, this hardness persists even when computing the equilibrium allocation alone. We establish our hardness result via a reduction that encodes quadratic fixed-point equations into a reciprocal variational inequality. On the algorithmic side, we present a deterministic polynomial-time approximation algorithm that achieves an additive error of $0.0755211 + δ$ for any $δ> 0$, significantly improving upon the previous $1/e$ guarantee.
Yulong Li, Rong Xia, Yuxuan Zhang, Jianxu Chen, Xiwei Liu, Haochen Xue, Maosheng Li, Yuhang Liu 等 15 位作者
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We introduce DoAtlas-2, a foundation for self-evolving causal biomedical discovery that organizes knowledge around causal mechanisms and advances through external evidence from human populations. DoAtlas-2 integrates 771 research resources covering more than 720,000 participants in 48 countries, from longitudinal clinical phenotypes, medical imaging, and continuous physiological signals to eight molecular layers, together with an evidence network of approximately 4.7 million literature-derived records over 93,566 concepts and 149,383 candidate causal relations. DoAtlas-2 autonomously formulates research questions from evidence gaps and unresolved mechanisms, prespecifies their causal designs, and generates validated analyses. Supporting, challenging, and unresolved results continuously revise mechanistic interpretations, the causal evidence state, and the discovery frontier, so that DoAtlas-2 self-evolves within a closed loop of hypothesis generation, empirical testing, and renewed discovery. DoAtlas-2 has systematically evaluated 2,031 research questions. In the Human Phenotype Project (HPP), it formulated 4,014 candidate pathway questions across vascular, early-glycemic, and hepatic-metabolic systems, and screening of the first 1,079 yielded statistical support for 756. Representative studies identify blood pressure as a convergence node linking adiposity, hepatic, and lipid phenotypes to vascular outcomes, and show that an adiposity-inflammation-blood-pressure pathway is largely attenuated by joint adjustment for body mass index (BMI) and smoking. The discovered vascular network constitutes a completely interpretable predictive foundation, admitting exact attribution of every prediction and closed-form mediation effects. DoAtlas-2 thereby unifies causal mechanism discovery, population-evidence testing, and interpretable prediction within one continuously evolving foundation.
Coarse-to-fine image-to-point-cloud (I2P) registration risks discarding correct but ambiguous patch pairs, while retaining more candidates repeats fine matching over overlapping patches. SparseGraph-I2P aims to improve registration recall by increasing the inlier ratio at the pose solver, using sensor or monocular depth. A Coarse Hypothesis Graph combines appearance with depth-derived first- and second-order compatibility to select a fixed budget of patch pairs. Sparse Fine Matching decodes each queried pixel once and skips pixel--point comparisons covered by an ancestor patch paired with the same point-cloud region. With sensor depth, depth-aware filtering ranks correspondences by SC2 spectral support for a single EPnP solve. With monocular depth, depth or inverse depth is calibrated from correspondence geometry before filtering. SparseGraph-I2P achieves the highest registration recall and lowest latency among the compared methods on RGB-D Scenes V2 and 7-Scenes with sensor depth. With predicted depth, it retains the highest recall on RGB-D Scenes V2 at an additional calibration cost. Code will be released.
Web interfaces are widely used to access network services and manage networked devices. Identifying the vendors and types of devices behind Web interfaces is a critical step in asset inventory, security management, and risk assessment. Device identity cues are dispersed across page text, configuration fields, and management functions, and interpreting them often requires linking related Web objects. Responses and objects require different amounts of semantic analysis, so exhaustively processing all candidate content can introduce unnecessary computation. We present ValQID, which uses a relation graph to combine dispersed device identity cues, evaluates semantic questions efficiently with DSEJEV, and accounts for complementarity among semantic questions when estimating computation value. Based on the current identification state, ValQID weighs each question group's expected identification benefit against its execution cost and adaptively allocates computation to identify device vendors and types. Evaluation on real Web response data shows that ValQID achieves relative gains of up to 47.1% in joint macro-F1 and up to 82.1% in macro-F1 for low-frequency vendors over a state-of-the-art method. DSEJEV speeds up semantic processing by up to 8.58 times compared with general-purpose language models.
Discovering predictive alpha factors from noisy financial data is a fundamental yet challenging problem in quantitative finance. LLM-driven formulaic alpha mining offers an attractive paradigm by combining interpretable symbolic expressions with iterative generation and refinement guided by quantitative feedback. However, existing generation-centric and tree-based search strategies primarily organize factors through generation lineage, leaving structural and statistical relationships across search branches underutilized. Consequently, information remains localized along parent--child trajectories, which can confine exploration to redundant regions. Moreover, effective factor discovery must account for multiple distinct objectives that cannot be adequately captured by a single search criterion. We introduce CosmosAlpha, a graph-based LLM factor-mining framework that represents discovered factors as a multi-relational graph encoding generation lineage, expression-structure similarity, and cross-sectional exposure correlation. A Graph Flow mechanism propagates search utilities across the graph, allowing each factor to be assessed using relational evidence from nearby factors rather than in isolation. Pareto-guided selection jointly considers quality, fertility and diversity, explicitly modeling their trade-offs within a multi-objective search framework. Across CSI 300 and CSI 500, CosmosAlpha-Graph achieves the best mean rank over seven predictive and portfolio metrics and outperforms its controlled CosmosAlpha-MCTS counterpart on every reported metric, showing a consistent advantage for relational graph search in LLM-driven factor mining. The source code is available at https://github.com/wzhmtldswz/CosmosAlpha
Qiang Liu, Felix Koehler, Benjamin Holzschuh, Nils Thuerey
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We introduce Tadpole, a novel foundation model for three-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) that addresses key challenges in transferability, scalability to high dimensionality, and multi-functionality. Tadpole is pre-trained as an autoencoder on synthetic 3D PDE data generated by an efficient online data-generation framework. This enables large-scale, diverse training without storage or I/O overhead, demonstrated by scaling to an equivalent of hundreds of terabytes of training data. By autoencoding single-channel spatial crops, Tadpole learns rich and transferable representations across heterogeneous physical systems with varying numbers of state variables and spatial resolutions. Although pre-trained solely as an autoencoder, Tadpole can be efficiently applied for multiple downstream tasks beyond reconstruction, including dynamics learning and generative modeling. For dynamics learning, we propose a novel parameter-efficient fine-tuning strategy that integrates low-rank adaptation, latent-space transformations, and reintroduced skip connections, achieving accurate temporal modeling with a minimal number of trainable parameters. Tadpole demonstrates strong fine-tuning performance across various downstream tasks, highlighting its versatility and effectiveness as a foundation model for 3D PDE learning. Source code and pre-trained weights of Tadpole are available at https://tum-pbs.github.io/tadpole/.
Autobidding equilibria link advertisers' value multipliers or participation probabilities through aggregate budget and return-on-investment (ROI) constraints. We establish the exact computational complexity of finding these equilibria across several canonical settings: exact equilibrium computation is $\mathsf{FIXP}$-complete for second-price ROI pacing, budget- or ROI-constrained generalized second-price (GSP) sponsored shopping, and second-price throttling. Furthermore, approximating the equilibrium control vector in distance to a true equilibrium is $\mathsf{FIXP}_{a}$-complete when the target accuracy is provided as input.
Zhongkai Xue, Junkai Chen, Mingcong Lei, Rumo Zhang, Yixiao Liu, Zhimin Sun, Shu Wu, Qiang Liu 等 10 位作者
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Unified multimodal models (UMMs) integrate image generation and visual understanding, but are existing single-pathway unlearning methods sufficient to suppress target concepts across both? In this work, we study cross-pathway concept unlearning. Our goal is to prevent a model from both generating images of a target concept and identifying it in input images, while preserving other capabilities. To this end, we introduce UUBench, a diagnostic benchmark covering 30 target concepts and 60 semantically related neighboring concepts. Experiments on representative UMMs show that the evaluated single-pathway methods achieve limited joint forgetting: generation-side editors strongly suppress target generation but yield limited forgetting in visual understanding, while understanding-side baselines struggle to achieve substantial forgetting even in their own pathway. Their direct composition also yields limited joint forgetting. We therefore propose UniForget, achieving joint forgetting rates of 80.0% on BAGEL-7B-MoT and 92.7% on Janus-Pro-7B, outperforming representative baselines. Further analysis reveals trade-offs between joint forgetting and capability preservation.
Haonan Ping, Jianshu Hu, Yimin Wang, Yi Zhu, Pai Liang, Qiyan Jin, Qirui Bao, Ying Qian 等 15 位作者
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Long-horizon dexterous manipulation remains a fundamental challenge for robot learning, requiring the composition of multiple skills, precise bimanual coordination, generalizable visual understanding, and robust skill transitions. Yet existing manipulation benchmarks largely emphasize isolated skills or support only a limited range of end-effectors, making these capabilities difficult to evaluate systematically. We introduce DexArena, a benchmark designed to evaluate learning and generalization in long-horizon bimanual dexterous manipulation. DexArena features 10 long-horizon tasks and 30 stage-level tasks spanning diverse household and industrial scenarios. Each long-horizon task is composed of explicitly defined stages with physically grounded success conditions, enabling reliable evaluation of both intermediate progress and end-to-end task completion. A unified benchmark interface and verified human-teleoperated demonstrations enable testing different policy learning algorithms, with standardized simulation configurations, scene randomization, trajectory replay, and task-level evaluation. Through extensive baseline experiments, we identify substantial challenges in precise manipulation, generalization to scene variation, and skill composition. DexArena establishes a challenging and reproducible benchmark for developing robot learning methods that move toward generalizable long-horizon dexterous behavior.
Huihan Wang, Juncheng Wang, Yuxiang Feng, Wenlong Hou, Guoqi Yu, Chao Xu, Yang Liu, Baigui Sun 等 9 位作者
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Missing modality imputation aims to synthesize unobserved modalities from observed ones. Existing methods treat each modality as living on its own latent manifold, forcing the generator to learn a long, unstructured jump between them. We present SphereFlow, which takes a fundamentally different view: by projecting all modalities into a shared hyperspherical latent space via a frozen self-supervised encoder, cross-modal imputation reduces to short-range geometric transport between nearby points on the sphere. Realizing this idea with flow matching, however, exposes two geometric conflicts: the standard Gaussian noise source is catastrophically mismatched with the unit-norm data manifold, and the linear interpolation path departs the sphere surface into a region where the decoder has no training signal. We resolve both with simple, geometry-aware modifications: replacing the noise source with the observed-modality latent so that the velocity field learns only the cross-modal displacement, and training the decoder with a time-weighted loss that extends its domain to the near-surface region traversed by the flow. We prove that this data-as-source formulation reduces the worst-case off-manifold deviation from a quantity that grows with the latent dimension to a small, dimension-independent bound governed by inter-modality similarity. Experiments on BraTS multi-modal MRI imputation and CT-MRI translation demonstrate state-of-the-art generation fidelity across all settings, while downstream brain tumor segmentation with our imputed data closes roughly eighty percent of the gap to the full-modality oracle. Code is available at https://github.com/WTHH031230/SphereFlow.
Unsafe deserialization turns untrusted data into attacker-controlled execution, and a single vulnerability can admit diverse exploit variants that evade defenses tailored to a known exploit. Existing defenses typically operate at a single enforcement point with limited visibility into the full attack. Combining controls across layers offers complementary protection, but coordinating them to preserve legitimate functionality and adapting them to new variants requires substantial expert effort. We propose JANUS, a red-blue adversarial framework for automated cross-layer defense synthesis. Starting from a known exploit, \sys iteratively refines deployment-specific policies in an isolated offline environment. A black-box attacker probes the current policy for exploit variants using only externally observable feedback. The defender summarizes each verified variant into its security-relevant effects, uses counterfactual replay to separate complementary coverage from redundant enforcement, and jointly selects and scopes controls across layers. Each candidate policy is validated against accumulated exploits and benign workflows. We evaluate JANUS on sixteen vulnerability deployments across six Java and PHP applications against gateway, application, system, and cross-layer defenses. JANUS reduces held-out attack success to 6.2%, compared with 18.8-55.0% for the baselines, fully mitigates 13 of 16 deployments, and preserves 98.4% of benign functionality tests at a 6.9% targeted P95 latency increase.
Wanshu Fan, Zheng Tong, Yang Liu, Jing Qin, Zhongbin Han, Haifan Gong, Congyu Liao, Xiaofeng Liu 等 9 位作者
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Large language models and multimodal foundation models are enabling medical artificial intelligence (AI) systems to move beyond isolated prediction and undertake multistep clinical tasks that require planning, tool use, memory, iterative correction, and coordination among specialized agents. However, the scope of agentic AI in medicine remains unsettled, and current evaluation practices are not yet aligned with the requirements of clinical use. We conducted a scoping review with systematic evidence mapping across five electronic sources, screened 1,649 exportable records, and provisionally included 557 unique studies that met predefined criteria for goal-directed task execution, tool use, interaction with external resources, feedback-based refinement, or multi-agent collaboration. The included studies describe single agents that use external tools, workflows supported by retrieval and external knowledge, multimodal agents, and multi-agent systems applied to medical question answering, image interpretation, electronic health record analysis, drug safety, and clinical trial prediction. The evidence base remains dominated by public benchmarks, simulated settings, retrospective datasets, and small-scale expert evaluation. Process reliability, evidence traceability, uncertainty, safety, workflow impact, and external validity are evaluated less consistently. Clinical translation will depend on clearer definitions, reproducible evaluation, auditable oversight, interoperable system design, and prospective validation in real-world clinical workflows.
A closed path can return to its starting point while analytic continuation reaches another branch. We construct a finite computational calculus in which retained logarithmic branches supply memory, analytic observations select operations, and descent through a covering exposes deeper memory. Three branch coordinates suffice, and every finite observation uses the same cubic power covering. Each program defines a globally real analytic return map whose integer-lattice execution is realized by actual path lifting. Our first theorem simulates every finite-alphabet, finite-control Post--Turing machine, preserving complete configurations, halting, and divergence. Our second theorem identifies the partial numeric functions of the calculus, under fixed primitive-recursive input and output maps, with exactly the partial recursive functions. Deleting descent leaves a Forward language with a syntax-derived finite observation quotient and a primitive-recursive halting predicate. This yields a strict separation within the calculus and identifies access to deeper memory as its decisive additional operation. The constructions and semantic correspondences are formalized in Lean 4 with Mathlib.
LLMs are increasingly adopted to draft long-form investment research memos, but their reliability is judged claim by claim, while readers read each memo as a whole. In this paper, we show that a low claim-level error rate does not necessarily mean that a memo is reliable: even with a refutation rate of just 1-2%, roughly four in ten memos contain at least one claim contradicted by official filings. First, we generate 1,440 memos with four recent LLM-powered agents for 30 companies over 12 quarters, decompose them into 77,272 financial claims, and verify each against the same official source bundle by retrieving evidence, matching it to the claim, and verifying the outcome. Second, we find that only 1.17-1.77% of claims are refuted, yet 36.94-41.11% of memos contain at least one refuted claim, and agents differ in severity: Codex has the lowest memo-level rate; a qualitative review further groups errors into four patterns (time, unit, context, concept).
Liang Lin, Jianguo Zhu, Gang Lei, Allen Wang, Xin Lu
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Can market notices read by a large language model (LLM) improve short-horizon electricity price spike forecasts? We study five regions of Australia's National Electricity Market. A local LLM extracted features once per notice, only notices visible at the forecast origin were used, and a gradient-boosting model produced onset probabilities. In an out-of-sample development back-test (July 2022 to July 2024), notice features did not lower the 60-minute Brier score of a numeric model including the market operator's next-hour forecasts. At 24 hours they did, but rule-based features did so almost equally and attribution to notice content was not established. A locally frozen protocol, not publicly deposited, governed a retrospective single-use holdout from 15 August to 17 October 2026. At 60 minutes, the hypothesis that LLM features lower the numeric model's Brier score was not established (H1; relative Brier skill -0.09%), so the planned comparison with rule-based features was not tested (H2). At 24 hours, the hypothesis that LLM features lower the score against a text-free control was not established (H3; +0.37%, 95% CI [-9.74, 1.39], inconclusive). By the frozen wording rule the non-significant 24-hour improvement comes mainly from recalibration and cannot be attributed to notice content, although post hoc the decomposition could not separate recalibration from resolution. The 24-hour base rate was 1.56% on the holdout against 14.0% in development. With 5 onsets on 3 days and 24-hour positives in 2 of 22 three-day blocks, the holdout neither established nor excluded a 24-hour effect.
Shichang Meng, Linquan Wu, Xuan Ai, Yi Wu, Mingyang Liu, Linqi Song
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Source-free domain adaptation (SFDA) adapts a pretrained model to an unlabeled target domain without accessing source data, enabling the reuse of time-series predictors across sensing systems. Existing methods commonly update the encoder using unlabeled target objectives. Yet changes in users, equipment, and operating conditions also alter the spectral characteristics of input signals, raising a fundamental question: does adaptation require changing the encoder, or can we instead adapt the signal it receives? We propose Source Free Frequency-Prototype Alignment (SF-FPA), which learns a spectral input transformation while freezing the source encoder and classifier parameters. First, a frequency adaptation layer applies amplitude and phase corrections to target signals. Separate branches adjust spectral magnitudes and phase relationships, with circular phase encoding avoiding discontinuities at the angular boundary. Second, confidence-filtered prototype alignment guides target representations toward source class prototypes. Combined with information maximization, this objective propagates gradients through the source predictor to learn spectral corrections that support class discrimination. Extensive experiments on three real-world time series benchmarks demonstrate state-of-the-art average Macro-F1 performance. Component ablations and controlled comparisons with encoder adaptation and a parameter-matched time-domain adapter further support spectral input adaptation as an effective approach to reusing source-trained predictors. The implementation is available at https://github.com/ShichangMeng/SF_FPA.
Long Zhang, Yuhan Chen, Chaoran Zhang, Wanxia Cao, Kun Huang, Pengzhi Gao, Wei Liu, Jian Luan 等 10 位作者
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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) based GUI agents stand to benefit significantly from online reinforcement learning (RL). However, their training is bottlenecked by two fundamental issues: current data synthesis methods for GUI Agents rely on specific environments and struggle to generate diverse data, while existing evaluators either suffer from limited scalability or provide inaccurate and unreliable reward signals. To overcome these challenges, we introduce GSAR (Goal-State-Anchor Reward), a RL reward framework that supports scalable task generation and delivers reliable reward signals for stable and efficient policy optimization. Our approach features self-evolving data synthesis, which produces multiple environments through task execution and generates diverse tasks and goal states. Complementing this, a state-anchor mechanism automatically annotates task-relevant UI elements in successful goal states as reference anchors. During RL training, these reference anchors provide accurate, scalable reward signals that substantially enhance efficiency. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that our framework achieves over 90% accuracy on offline trajectory verification and performs closest to rule-based methods. Furthermore, agents trained using our reward framework exhibit strong performance on both AndroidWorld and our constructed benchmark, establishing a scalable approach for GUI agent training.
Answering geographic queries over Earth observation (EO) archives requires solving a joint retrieval-and-derivation problem under strict spatiotemporal constraints. Existing LLM agents fail to ground observation items or suffer from search-space explosion. We propose OSGR, a two-stage framework that factorizes this search into offline symbolic concept deduction and online Relation-Conditioned Grounding. OSGR leverages an offline Observation-Support Graph to deduce valid target-to-result support paths at the concept level, and applies spatiotemporal compatibility kernels to instantiate grounded observation-item sets. On Earth-Bench and DisasterM3-Reason, OSGR improves GPT-4o accuracy from 49.3\% to 63.7\% while reducing the execution-step ratio from 2.9 to 2.5.
Modern text-to-speech (TTS) systems can synthesize natural and expressive speech, yet a practical speech foundation model must go beyond naturalness to offer stable quality, precise controllability, and a broad set of composable capabilities within a unified framework. We present TTSonic, a unified speech generation model that supports zero-shot TTS, voice cloning, prosody cloning, instruction following, voice conversion, and cloning from noisy reference speech. Rather than relying on separate task-specific models, TTSonic accommodates diverse conditioning signals, including text, natural language instructions, reference speech, and text-described timbre, within the same model framework. Specifically, we develop a semantic--acoustic disentangled speech tokenizer through ASR-supervised semantic learning and reconstruction-guided generative refinement. Serving as the representational foundation of our unified framework, the tokenizer enables the Text-to-Semantic autoregressive model to focus on semantic and prosodic planning, while the acoustic flow-matching model specializes in high-quality speech rendering under diverse acoustic and timbre conditions. Building on this framework, we incorporate CoT-guided instruction-following planning and Text2Timbre voice design to support controllable speech generation. Experiments across zero-shot synthesis, multilingual and cross-lingual TTS, instruction following, voice design, voice conversion, and noisy-reference cloning demonstrate the competitive performance and broad applicability of TTSonic.
Separating touching nuclei requires local boundary detail, while cell type classification requires broader morphological context. These requirements also vary with the surrounding tissue environment. We propose the Tissue-Conditioned Adaptive Cross-Branch Interaction Network (TCINet), a single-stage model with Task-Specific Feature Adapters (TSFA) and Tissue-Conditioned Task-Aware Cross-Branch Interaction (TC-TACBI). TSFA produces branch-specific features at skip connections, and TC-TACBI controls three asymmetric paths among nucleus-presence (NP), horizontal-vertical (HV), and nucleus-type (NT) branches using predicted tissue probabilities. On PanNuke under standard three-fold cross-validation, TCINet achieves multiclass and binary panoptic quality scores of 0.519 and 0.692, respectively. Zero-shot tests on MoNuSeg yield a detection F1 score of 0.876. On PanNuke fold 0, adding TC-TACBI increases mPQ from 0.505 to 0.525. Code is available at https://github.com/celestial1321/TCINet.