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版本更新 · v3arXiv:2610.35541

The Agent in the Middle: How AI-Mediated Access Reshapes Web Vulnerability Exploitation

Ruozhao Yang, Jiongchi Yu, Ming Hu, Xiaofei Xie

原文摘要

Web services increasingly expose backend interfaces that let users delegate tasks to AI agents, which invoke service operations directly without navigating websites. This shift changes how existing Web vulnerabilities can be exploited. We investigate these changes through VELA, an executable benchmark covering 44 vulnerabilities across twelve Web application families. The benchmark preserves vulnerable backends and derives agent-facing interfaces from legitimate workflows. We evaluate three commercial agents across multiple interface configurations, using controlled comparisons to separate interface effects from agent behavior and independent oracles to verify attack outcomes. Our results show that the agent realizes every attack that direct interface invocation realizes in the reference configuration, so exploitability is set mainly by the interface: 91% of vulnerabilities remain exploitable under the reference design. Interface restrictions prevent some attacks by removing required operations or limiting input control, while retention remains high across vulnerability classes. No case-level loss in the reference configuration is attributed to agent refusal or input normalization, and in one case the agent completed an attack by supplying calls the attacker omitted. Across the tested configurations, interface design affects exploitability more than agent choice, moving retention from 39% to 95% against at most 4.5 points across agents, but some restrictive interfaces also limit legitimate workflows. Our study provides a systematic empirical account of how agent-mediated access reshapes existing Web vulnerabilities, grounding future Web architecture design in measured security outcomes and trade-offs between reducing attack exposure and preserving legitimate functionality in agent-facing services.

cs.CR · cs.AI · cs.SE

版本更新 · v3arXiv:2603.29167

JDCNet Uses Confidence Gated Privileged Modality Distillation for Cost Preserving X Ray Inference

Bo Ma, Weiqi Yan, Jinsong Wu, Kun Liu

原文摘要

Training-only privileged-modality learning uses an expensive modality during training while keeping a single-modality deployment path. We study chest radiograph (X-ray) classification with same-patient computed tomography (CT) available only during training. JDCNet adds an auxiliary CT-teacher target, the teacher's argmax label or its softmax distribution through a Kullback--Leibler term (soft-KL), only on samples whose teacher confidence exceeds a threshold; the deployed model has the same ResNet-18 computation graph as the supervised baseline. On 510 same-patient pairs from the public BIMCV-COVID19 releases of the Valencian Region Medical ImageBank (113 COVID-19, 397 non-COVID), with patient-level five-fold cross-validation and three seeds, 15 of 16 adaptively explored JDCNet configurations improved mean balanced accuracy (BA) over the supervised baseline (average $+0.020$), but none remained significant after Holm adjustment. In a pre-registered experiment with 240 batch-matched supervised restarts on the same splits, batch size had no detectable effect on the baseline (BA $0.620$ versus $0.625$), and when both methods selected one of 16 runs per cell on the validation partition, JDCNet exceeded supervised training by $+0.037$ BA (95\% confidence interval $+0.016$ to $+0.058$; patient-level $+0.007$ to $+0.068$). Logit distillation and contrastive alignment did not help. Teacher diagnostics indicate that the gate acts mainly as CT-informed sample weighting. All models, including JDCNet, performed at chance on an external radiograph set. Confidence-gated CT supervision thus gives a small within-cohort advantage on one public cohort and a binary task; generalization requires independent paired replication.

cs.CV

新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.04416

Efficient and Faithful High-Resolution Image Editing with Sparse Cross-Resolution Denoising

Maosen Zhao, Xianfang Zeng, Pengtao Chen, Peng Ye, Gang Yu, Jiayuan Fan, Tao Chen

原文摘要

Instruction-based image editors still primarily operate at 1K, whereas practical editing increasingly requires faithful 2K/4K outputs. Dense high-resolution adaptation preserves the editing trajectory but incurs expensive target-source attention; editing at 1K followed by external refinement is cheaper but can separate detail restoration from the editing trajectory. We introduce FLASH, a native high-resolution editor based on sparse cross-resolution denoising. A frozen 1K branch provides a semantic and structural anchor, while a target-resolution branch reconstructs local detail within the same Transformer. An asymmetric topology retains full 1K attention, guides high-resolution queries with spatially aligned low-resolution noisy-target states, and confines high-resolution target-reference interaction to local Halo neighborhoods. Resolution-specific diffusion-state mapping and spatial YaRN adapt the pretrained editor to larger grids. An optional, training-free progressive path replaces early high-resolution denoising with a 1K prefix and completes refinement in the same editor. On VINS-4KEval, the direct model achieves the strongest structural fidelity among the compared methods at both 2K and 4K. A separate 4K forward benchmark with R = 1 records 4.2x faster total forward execution and 25.3x faster attention than dense target-reference attention. Progressive inference reduces end-to-end 4K latency by 30.5%, with a modest quality cost.

cs.CV

版本更新 · v4arXiv:2605.06046

Requests of a Feather Must Flock Together: Batch Size vs. Prefix Homogeneity in LLM Inference

Saksham Rathi, Preeti, Mythili Vutukuru

原文摘要

Auto-regressive token generation in large language models is memory-bound because it requires "attending to" key and value tensors (KV cache) of all previous tokens. Prior work aims to improve the efficiency of this decode process by batching multiple requests together, and maximizing batch size subject to GPU memory constraints. The key observation of our work is that with prefix-sharing workloads, smaller, prefix-homogeneous batches - where all requests share a common prefix - can achieve higher decode throughput than larger, heterogeneous batches, due to better spatial and temporal locality during KV cache accesses. However, current prefix-aware schedulers maximize prefix reuse within a batch only to reduce KV cache memory footprint, but do not stop batch formation at smaller homogeneous batches that could have performed better. Further, we show that shared prefix detection in existing schedulers relies on radix-tree traversals, incurring substantial CPU overhead that is often comparable to GPU execution time. This paper presents Feather, a prefix-aware scheduler that uses reinforcement learning (RL) to learn the optimal tradeoff between batch size and prefix homogeneity. We also introduce Chunked Hash Tree (CHT), a lightweight data structure that enables fast prefix detection and efficient request selection for the RL scheduler, avoiding expensive tree traversals. We integrate Feather into vLLM and SGLang, and our evaluation shows that Feather achieves 2-10$\times$ higher end-to-end throughput as compared to existing schedulers by reducing the total number of KV cache accesses, while doing no worse than the status quo when there is insufficient prefix sharing.

cs.LG

版本更新 · v3arXiv:2510.18410

MAGDrop: Momentum Adaptive Gradient Dropout With Provable Generalization Guarantees

Adeel Safder, Bum Jun Kim

原文摘要

Standard dropout applies a fixed, uniform noise rate to all units, ignoring available gradient information. We propose momentum adaptive gradient dropout (MAGDrop), a Bayesian linear layer that adapts per-unit weight noise by tracking an exponential moving average of gradient magnitudes. Units with large recent gradient magnitudes receive less noise to preserve learned features; units with below-average gradient magnitudes receive more noise to promote exploration. This adaptation transforms the classifier head into a data-dependent Bayesian predictor whose mean predictor has no additional inference cost. Our primary contribution is a certificate-aware low-rank posterior, MAGDrop-Subspace, that addresses the tension between strong accuracy and tight bounds from probably approximately correct (PAC)-Bayes theory. A full-head stochastic posterior incurs a Kullback--Leibler (KL) divergence of approximately 8,625 nats. By confining the posterior to an $r$-dimensional subspace constructed from an independent prior-construction sample $S_0$ and certifying on an independent sample $S$ with $S_0\perp S$, MAGDrop-Subspace reduces KL by approximately a factor of 800 while keeping accuracy close to the baseline. On CIFAR-10 with a 13-layer convolutional neural network and $r=50$, MAGDrop-Subspace achieves a PAC-Bayes Gibbs-risk bound of 0.1882 at 90\% confidence using binary KL inversion, compared with 0.4439 for the full-head baseline. Mean-predictor accuracy is 82.31\%, compared with 83.74\% for the baseline. Complementary accuracy experiments on ImageNet-1K show that MAGDrop reaches top-1 accuracy similar to the strong baseline: 78.57\% compared with 78.51\% on the base Vision Transformer with $16\times16$ patches, and 82.14\% compared with 82.23\% on ConvNeXt-Base.

cs.LG · math.ST

新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.04414

SphereFlow: Missing Modality Imputation via Geometric Transport on Hypersphere

Huihan Wang, Juncheng Wang, Yuxiang Feng, Wenlong Hou, Guoqi Yu, Chao Xu, Yang Liu, Baigui Sun 等 9 位作者

原文摘要

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.

cs.CV

新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.04413

CaliSplat: Sparse Gaussian Fitting and Calibrated Rate Allocation for Image Compression

Zhenbang Zhang, Zhengquan Luo, Kai Zhao, Zhiqiang Xu

原文摘要

2D Gaussian representations provide an explicit and lightweight alternative for image representation, enabling fast deterministic decoding without a heavy neural synthesis network. However, existing per-image Gaussian codecs still require costly image-specific optimization to determine how limited Gaussian capacity should be distributed across heterogeneous regions. We introduce CaliSplat, an optimization-efficient Gaussian image codec that selectively explores candidate representations and globally allocates a constrained Gaussian budget. We exploit the closed-form reconstruction error of the single-Gaussian case as an inexpensive measure of local difficulty, fitting higher-capacity candidates only in regions where additional Gaussians are likely to be useful. To reduce selection errors caused by mismatched convergence rates across candidate sizes, a small set of longer-horizon fits is used to calibrate short-horizon distortion estimates before global budget-aware selection. The selected representation is then compressed into a bitstream. Across standard and large image datasets, CaliSplat achieves competitive or superior rate--distortion performance while reducing per-image fitting time by $3.0\times$--$15.7\times$ compared with representative Gaussian codecs. It further maintains high-throughput deterministic decoding at $175.9$--$478.2$~MP/s. These results demonstrate that content-adaptive Gaussian compression can substantially reduce per-image optimization cost while preserving strong reconstruction quality and efficient explicit decoding.

cs.AI

版本更新 · v2arXiv:2607.28907

Domain-Adaptive Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding for Image Classification

Yishen Li, Xuechen Chen, Xiaoheng Deng, Hao Zhang

原文摘要

Deep joint source--channel coding (Deep JSCC) can suffer from domain shift between training and deployment data. We study single-source domain adaptation for image classification over wireless channels. A Gaussian example shows that improving channel quality does not necessarily improve target-domain accuracy under a fixed source-trained classifier. We further proposed an information objective to reduce domain information while preserving class information. Motivated by the analysis, we develop a domain-adaptive Deep JSCC method that combines class-wise adversarial alignment with pseudo-label supervised contrastive learning. The former uses all target samples to reduce class-conditional domain differences, while the latter selects high-confidence target samples to obtain class-discriminative received representations. We relate these losses to the information objective, and analyze the effects of pseudo-label errors and confidence-based selection. Experiments on SVHN--MNIST and PACS over AWGN and Rayleigh channels demonstrate improved target-domain classification without additional inference-time networks. The proposed method achieves 98.15\% accuracy on SVHN $\rightarrow$ MNIST at 10~dB CSNR.

cs.IT · cs.CV · eess.SP

版本更新 · v3arXiv:2610.35532

JANUS: Synthesizing Cross-Layer Defenses Against Web Deserialization Attacks

Ruozhao Yang, Minglang Li, Jiongchi Yu, Xinfeng Li, Xiaofei Xie

原文摘要

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.

cs.CR · cs.AI · cs.SE

新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.04409

LCM-UNet: Scale-Selective Mamba with Reparameterizable Multi-Basis Local Modeling for Lightweight Skin Lesion Segmentation

Md Shihabul Islam Shovo, Nishi Kanta Paul, Dip Kumar Saha, Kishor Morol

原文摘要

Accurate lesion segmentation underpins automated dermoscopic analysis: masks enable measurements of asymmetry, border and size. Deployment in primary care or on mobile devices requires a compact network. Existing ultra-light Mamba U-Nets offer global context, but global-modeling cost depends on each Mamba block's resolution, while their local branches rely on a single square kernel. We introduce LCM-UNet, a 33,474-parameter U-shaped network that fuses every skip at its native resolution, restricts bidirectional Mamba to stages at one-sixteenth of the input resolution or coarser, and uses local convolutions at finer scales. A multi-basis reparameterizable adapter augments each local branch during training with dilated, horizontal and vertical depthwise kernels, then folds them into the host kernel before inference. Each skip connection also learns a stage-specific gain. Nine networks were retrained on the official ISIC 2017 and ISIC 2018 partitions under a harmonized protocol, with PH$^2$ reserved for external validation and ablations run on a development split. LCM-UNet achieved Dice scores of 88.62%, 89.73% and 90.46% on ISIC 2017, ISIC 2018 and PH$^2$, respectively, ranking first on both ISIC test sets and second on PH$^2$ among the compared models. In the native-resolution host, removing Mamba from the one-eighth-resolution decoder stage eliminated 63% of Mamba operations, corresponding to 5.3% of all operations, with a Dice change of $-0.03$ percentage points. The adapter improved Dice by 0.48 percentage points over a single host kernel without adding deployed parameters or operations. With latency so far measured only on a GPU, LCM-UNet is a candidate for resource-constrained deployment.

cs.CV

版本更新 · v2arXiv:2611.02774

DIKT: A Diagnostic and Interpretable Knowledge Tracing Framework for Prediction and Model-based Learning Analysis

Yi-Qiang Wu, Shaohui Chen, Hanlin Li, Baolin Yi

原文摘要

Knowledge tracing is a key component of intelligent educational systems. However, most existing methods mainly focus on response prediction, providing limited support for explaining predicted outcomes and improving students' learning states. This paper proposes Diagnostic and Interpretable Knowledge Tracing (DIKT), which integrates response prediction, skill-level diagnosis, and model-based learning analysis. DIKT generates bounded cognitive-state trajectories and decomposes the final response probability into skill-wise probabilities. The trajectories reveal students' evolving strengths and weaknesses, while the skill-wise probabilities identify the skills that most strongly constrain the prediction. Based on these diagnostic results, DIKT supports direct cognitive-state intervention and effective-learning-duration-based what-if analysis to examine how hypothetical adjustments affect current predictions and subsequent state evolution. DIKT combines Bayesian multi-head attention, conditional variational recurrent inference, a logistic-growth decoder, and multiplicative skill-wise prediction. Experiments on three benchmark datasets show that DIKT outperforms all evaluated baselines, with an average absolute AUC gain of 2.04 percentage points. Other experiments further demonstrate that DIKT supports educationally meaningful diagnostic analysis and provides informative diagnostic indicators for downstream applications, extending knowledge tracing from response prediction to interpretable diagnosis and model-based learning analysis.

cs.LG · cs.AI

新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.04406

The Min-Max theory of language behavior

Hiram Ring

原文摘要

The "Min-Max" theory of language behavior proposes that humans engage simultaneously in minimization of processing effort and maximization of information content, and that this is a primary driver in language evolution (Ring, 2025). This claim seeks to unify observations from language processing (Mahowald et al., 2013; Futrell et al., 2015; Yadav et al., 2020; Hawkins, 2014), interaction (Hörberg and Sjons, 2023; Tucker et al., 2025; Jaeger and Tily, 2011; Smith and Culbertson, 2025), and corpora (Levshina and Moran, 2021; Levshina, 2023; Newmeyer, 2017), which suggest that considerations of processing efficiency and information content are both implicated in human communication. The interaction between these two processes provides an explanation for human linguistic behavior at various levels (Linders and Louwerse, 2023) and predicts historical developments in language, i.e. related to word order (Ring, 2025). Given that the original formulation of the Min-Max theory is based on observational data, the current paper seeks to validate the theory mathematically. Through a series of experiments that use computational models to investigate the theory's predictions, pretrained and iterated learning models are queried with synthetic data. The experiments show that manipulating the variables of token length and the weight of information content in a tabula rasa model results in word order change, as predicted by the theory. The experiments also identify important differences between computational models and observations of human language data, suggesting that current transformer-based language models may not accurately represent psycholinguistic processes. The overall findings indicate that evolutionary trajectories in language are highly susceptible to minimization of processing and maximization of information content.

cs.CL

新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.04405

DR-LiteNet: A Lightweight Explainable Hybrid CNN Framework for Imbalanced Diabetic Retinopathy Grading via Adaptive SMOTE Fusion

Nishi Kanta Paul, Md Shihabul Islam Shovo, Audrija Chowdhury, Israt Jahan Esha

原文摘要

Automated diabetic retinopathy (DR) grading from colour fundus photographs is held back by two compounding challenges: severe class imbalance across five severity grades and the heavy computational cost of large scale architectures in resource constrained clinical settings. We introduce DR-LiteNet, a dual branch hybrid convolutional neural network that tackles both problems at once. The CNN branch extracts 1,280 dimensional deep features through EfficientNetB0, while the handcrafted (HC) branch produces a compact 51 dimensional lesion descriptor capturing vessel density, exudate intensity, texture entropy, and HSV colour histograms. Concatenating both branches yields a 1,331-d hybrid embedding, on which Adaptive SMOTE (ADASYN) is applied during training to synthesise minority class feature vectors, correcting distributional skew without touching the image space. A two phase training protocol first warms up the classification head on balanced features, then fine tunes the full network end to end. Grad CAM saliency maps deliver post-hoc clinical explainability. Tested on APTOS 2019 under five fold stratified cross validation, DR-LiteNet reaches 88.77% +/- 0.61 accuracy, a quadratic weighted kappa (QWK) of 0.884 +/- 0.010, and a macro F1 of 0.792 +/- 0.008 with only 4.69 M parameters beating ResNet50 (23.5 M) by DeltaQWK = 0.022 while staying practical on a single Google Colab T4 GPU. The source code of this project is available at: https://github.com/Nishi-Kanta-Paul/DR-LiteNet.

cs.CV

版本更新 · v3arXiv:2511.16145

Rethinking the Unsupervised Paradigm in Time Series Anomaly Detection: An Empirical Study and Minimalist Baseline

Zhijie Zhong, Zhiwen Yu, Kaixiang Yang, Yongheng Liu, Jun Jiang, C. L. Philip Chen

原文摘要

Time series anomaly detection (TSAD) research predominantly focuses on unsupervised architectures to model normal data dynamics under label scarcity. However, practical deployments frequently archive historical operational incidents, questioning whether continuous unsupervised architectural scaling remains the most cost-effective pursuit. In this paper, we empirically quantify the trade-offs between supervisory signals and model complexity. We introduce STAND, a deliberately minimalist supervised baseline based on bidirectional recurrent encoding. Across five benchmark datasets evaluated under a strictly disjoint out-of-sample temporal protocol, minimalist supervised models achieve competitive or superior accuracy relative to complex unsupervised alternatives. Furthermore, controlled label-scaling and few-shot evaluations confirm that these supervisory advantages persist under constrained historical event budgets, while STAND exhibits higher prediction certainty and sharper event delineation than reconstruction-based baselines. These findings encourage the TSAD community to complement algorithmic complexity with data-centric label utilization when annotations are accessible. The source code, benchmark datasets, and an extended Supplementary Document are publicly available at https://emorzz1g.github.io/STAND.

cs.LG · cs.AI

版本更新 · v2arXiv:2611.02791

PGuard: A Native, Streaming, and Plug-in Guardrail for Multimodal Large Language Models

Junyu Lin, Mengjie Wu, Yonghao Dong, Yuchuan Fu, Jinfeng Li, Xiaodan Li, Xiaohan Yuan, Yicheng Liu 等 14 位作者

原文摘要

As streaming generation becomes the dominant serving paradigm for both text-only and multimodal large language models, ensuring safety throughout the generation process has become a critical challenge. We introduce PGuard, a native, streaming, and plug-in guardrail that transforms safety monitoring from an external serving dependency into an integrated capability of the backbone model. PGuard directly leverages the backbone's intermediate representations for token-level safety detection, without altering its original inference pathway or generation behavior. Specifically, dynamic layer gating selectively aggregates residual-stream representations across layers to extract safety-relevant signals during both prefill and autoregressive decoding. To balance detection accuracy and computational efficiency, PGuard supports multiple representation-modeling architectures, including a lightweight stateless variant and sequence-aware variants built on multi-scale causal EMA-attention and GRU-based recurrent modules. Its design also accounts for the execution characteristics of LLM serving frameworks, such as SGLang, optimizing computation and data access to minimize additional runtime and synchronization overhead. As a result, PGuard incurs only 0.82-2.26% end-to-end overhead on the hundred-billion-parameter backbone Qwen3.5-122B-A10B served by SGLang. Extensive evaluations across more than 30 benchmarks spanning text and multimodal safety, jailbreaks, cyber and CBRN risks, multilingual scenarios, and real-world traffic demonstrate state-of-the-art performance among native guardrails. On text queries with Qwen3.5-9B, PGuard achieves an average F1 score of 0.836, approaching dedicated external guardrails, while supporting deployment-time configuration of category-specific thresholds and enforcement actions.

cs.CL

新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.04399

Silent Instrument Errors Reorder Agent Leaderboards

Yangze Liu

原文摘要

On a public agent leaderboard, a general-purpose agent trails a scaffold built for an airline customer-service benchmark by 13 points on the tasks that touch its database, and a reader could conclude that generality costs accuracy. The gap comes from the grader. The general agent often ends its conversations in a way that never triggers grading, so only about half of its episodes were scored and the rest were stored as failures. Grading the ungraded half under the benchmark's own rule closes the pooled gap, without rerunning any agent. We audit two carefully maintained public leaderboards, HAL and tau2-bench, from their published artifacts alone and find three more instrument errors. A cost column counts nested model calls twice, unevenly across rows. Archived trajectories record grader-written actions as agent actions. Re-grading saved trajectories under a newer evaluator is itself a new measurement: a correct and announced fix reorders a leaderboard, and a mode check that misreads four files collapses their scores by 59 to 82 points while printing no error. Each produced a plausible number, and the HAL maintainers confirmed their three within five weeks. Together the cases show that the infrastructure of agent evaluation, meaning the code that grades, logs, replays and versions an evaluation, is part of the measurement and fails silently, so scores and orderings can move with no visible sign. These failure modes follow from how agent evaluation pipelines are built, and those pipelines change as fast as the agents they measure, so we expect more of them elsewhere. We propose cheap checks that expose the instrument: report the graded fraction, aggregate cost from root spans, tag the provenance of every recorded action, and pin evaluator versions with a published re-grade diff.

cs.AI · cs.SE

版本更新 · v3arXiv:2509.10080

BEVTraj: Map-Free Multimodal Trajectory Prediction with Sensor-Derived BEV Context and Sparse Goal Reasoning

Minsang Kong, Myeongjun Kim, Sang Gu Kang, Hejiu Lu, Yupeng Zhong, Sang Hun Lee

原文摘要

Trajectory prediction is a key task in autonomous driving, where a model must forecast plausible future motions of surrounding agents from dynamic histories and scene context. Many recent methods use high-definition (HD) maps to provide explicit road topology and semantic constraints, but such maps are costly to maintain, geographically limited, and difficult to update in changing environments. This paper presents Bird's-Eye View Trajectory Prediction (BEVTraj), a map-free trajectory prediction framework that directly uses BEV features constructed from raw multi-sensor data. Since sensor-derived BEV features are dense and only implicitly structured, BEVTraj employs deformable attention to selectively aggregate agent-relevant spatial context from sparse locations rather than processing the entire BEV grid uniformly. In addition, a Sparse Goal Candidate Proposal module combines overlapping mode-wise anchor clusters with attention-based goal prediction to generate compact, scene-adaptive goal hypotheses. These goals are decoded and iteratively refined into multimodal trajectories, while trajectory-aware mode scoring and temporal consistency modeling improve confidence estimation and suppress abrupt, physically implausible refinement updates. Experiments on nuScenes and Argoverse 2 Sensor show that BEVTraj achieves competitive results under a map-free setting without using pre-built HD maps, while ablation studies and qualitative analyses illustrate the roles of BEV context aggregation and sparse goal reasoning. The source code is available at https://github.com/Kongminsang/bevtraj.

cs.CV

版本更新 · v3arXiv:2610.27550

Lower Bounds for Smooth Nonconvex Zeroth-Order Optimization: The Price of Determinism under Low Curvature Trace

Yuxing Peng, Zhiqing Tang, Weijia Jia

原文摘要

Low curvature trace, an effective rank condition, is a common explanation for why randomized zeroth-order methods scale to high-dimensional tasks such as language model fine-tuning. Can deterministic methods achieve the same savings? We show that they cannot. We study finding $\varepsilon$-stationary points of $L$-smooth nonconvex functions on $\mathbb{R}^d$ from exact function values, assuming that below the starting value the Hessian is dominated by a fixed matrix with trace at most $LE$; this is a fixed-matrix form of the effective rank condition used to explain zeroth-order fine-tuning. When $ET\le d$, the Gaussian two-point method that such fine-tuning uses needs only $O(ET)$ calls if it rejects steps that raise $f$, where $T=LΔ/\varepsilon^2$ is the iteration count of gradient descent from initial gap $Δ$, and we prove that every randomized method needs $Ω(ET)$ calls, so this cost is optimal up to constants. In contrast, every deterministic method needs $\widetildeΩ(d\min\{T,\sqrt{ET}\})$ calls, and adaptive subspace search attains $O(d\min\{T,\sqrt{ET}\})$: a deterministic method pays about $d$ calls per discovered direction, and the trace budget allows about $\sqrt{ET}$ directions. Determinism thus multiplies the cost by a factor of order $d/(E+\sqrt{ET})$ up to logarithmic factors, which grows linearly with $d$ for fixed $E$ and $T$; once $E$ exceeds $T$ by a logarithmic factor, deterministic methods need $Ω(dT)$ calls, as without any trace budget. Our lower bounds hold for $C^\infty$ functions with the matrix bound on all of $\mathbb{R}^d$, even when each call also returns gradient projections priced by rank.

cs.LG

新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.04397

Auditing Targetless Camera-LiDAR Extrinsic Correction before Recursive Use

Bo Ma, Weiqi Yan

原文摘要

Camera-LiDAR fusion repeatedly uses an extrinsic transform in projection, association, and recursive state estimation. We study whether a targetless correction should be admitted to a downstream consumer only after separate audits of correction quality, confidence ranking, and recursive risk. Our log-disjoint protocol evaluates these stages under synthetic extrinsic drift on Argoverse 2 and treats cross-dataset and odometry experiments as bounded diagnostics. On 27 test-split logs, single-frame Canny alignment is harmful in the mild tier. Multi-frame alignment improves severe-tier rotation by 2.52 degrees but worsens translation by 0.177 m; its declared joint error-magnitude improvement is also negative (-0.158, 95% CI [-0.223, -0.098]), so the rotation gain is not a six-degree-of-freedom correction success. A zero-injection check moves away from the true extrinsic, and solver-disagreement AUROC on selected splits does not yield a validated nonzero-coverage risk-coverage operating point. In a 15-log final system role, the locked conservative policy admits no candidate and equals Raw, whereas Always-correct increases trajectory error. These results support an auditable separation of correction, confidence, and recursive contamination; they do not establish a deployable calibration gate, positive odometry or SLAM improvement, map consistency, or closed-loop safety.

cs.CV

新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.04395

Correct Labels Are Not Enough: Reliable Metadata Can Silently Control Model Behavior

Renee Jia, Jinzhou Wu

原文摘要

Fine-tuning data can include metadata that predicts the correct answer, such as a reward-model score or a quality label. We ask whether a model learns to rely on this metadata even when every training label is correct. We fine-tune 7-9B open-weight models from three families on multiple-choice questions in which (Reward: 5) always marks the correct option; when this annotation is moved to a wrong option at test time, models select that option on 97-100% of CommonsenseQA items. Removing it leaves most answers correct, so evaluation without it misses the dependence. Cue-following rises sharply with training-time reliability and develops even with neutral or nonsense annotation words, although test-time wording affects its strength. A Qwen3 experiment also finds cue dependence in option-letter scores after direct preference optimization. Audits can test for this dependence by moving or removing visible annotations while holding the task and correct answer fixed.

cs.AI

版本更新 · v2arXiv:2611.01048

Infinite Worlds from One Example: What Local Generators Must Share

Amin Najafgholizadeh, Mohsen Afsharchi

原文摘要

Seeded noise lets games generate any region of an unbounded world on demand. We ask what such a generator needs when every small window must come from one example, the constraint behind Wave Function Collapse. The difficulty is that local constraints can require agreement over arbitrary distances: in a brick wall, each row keeps its place between the mortar lines. We study local generators, each cell a fixed function of the randomness near it. When the constraints carry a quantity that varies across the example, no generator that applies one rule, ignoring position, to independent randomness at every cell can be both exactly valid and faithful to the example's statistics, however far each cell reads. At radius r, staying faithful forces forbidden windows at a density of at least order 1/r, and a construction attains this order. To vary the quantity between exactly valid worlds, a generator needs randomness shared along its direction. We give a finitely checkable condition under which row types drawn from the seed and the position modulo a fixed period suffice for exact validity without learning. A search over the example's patches certifies these quantities and names the input each needs. Across 52 public examples of Wave Function Collapse and 27 from other implementations, it certifies only examples where a learned generator on independent randomness stays far from valid after repair. Given that input, a neural cellular automaton and a diffusion model become valid on 10 and 8 of the 12 certified examples that receive one, and on none from independent randomness. Valid means at most one forbidden window in a thousand after repair. With octaves of seeded noise elsewhere, the automaton is valid on 45 of the 52 public examples and 21 of the 27 from other implementations, and repair keeps random access.

cs.LG · cs.GR

版本更新 · v3arXiv:2610.33381

The Cost of an Unknown Horizon for the Last Iterate of Clipped SGD under Heavy-Tailed Noise

Yuxing Peng, Zhiqing Tang, Weijia Jia

原文摘要

We study the last iterate of clipped SGD, and of every rule that queries its current iterate and steps along the resulting stochastic gradient, when training is stopped at a data-dependent time, so that guarantees must hold at all times simultaneously. On smooth convex objectives under heavy-tailed noise with a bounded central $p$th moment, $1<p\le2$, we determine the optimal time-uniform rate of these rules. A clipped SGD schedule without horizon or confidence inputs attains $\tilde O(t^{-β_p})$ at all times, with $β_p=2(p-1)/(3p-1)$, also almost surely, and no such rule attains $\tilde O(t^{-r})$ for any $r>β_p$, even with adaptive step sizes and thresholds. This rate lies between the optimal rate $O(T^{-α_p})$ for a known horizon $T$, $α_p=(p-1)/p$, and the previous time-uniform rate $\tilde O(t^{-2(p-1)/(3p)})$ (Chezhegov et al., ICLR 2026); under finite variance, the exponents are $1/2$, $2/5$, and $1/3$. Their conjecture that a better schedule reaches the optimal rate thus holds with a known horizon (Liu; Jiang et al.) but fails without one. Querying gradients at the running average attains $\tilde O(t^{-α_p})$ at all times, whereas heavy-ball momentum with geometric forgetting and polynomially bounded steps cannot improve on $β_p$.

cs.LG

新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.04393

Voluntary Servitude: Weaponized Safety Warning Mechanisms for Controlling AI Agents

Ilan Zendel, Matan Levy, Stav Cohen, Avi Mendelson, Amit LeVi

原文摘要

LLM agents increasingly act on information retrieved from public sources they treat as credible, which turns a manipulated recommendation into a transaction, a dependency, or a decision with physical consequences. The security literature models this threat as instruction injection, in which an adversary writes a command into retrieved content and deployed defenses learn to recognize command syntax. We show that an attacker can instead steer an agent through the agent's own harm-avoidance. A single fabricated hazard, written as an ordinary review, leads the agent to disqualify the legitimate options and select the attacker's target by its own reasoning, with no command for a detector to recognize. We call this voluntary servitude. These payloads steer agents about as often as instruction injection (60.4% vs. 66.0%), and deployed injection detectors score them as benign, so behind a filter they are 1.7-4.4x more effective. We measure this at the generation stage across six models and ten consumer-service domains, for three attack families, and show that it transfers to production browser agents, outperforming instruction injection, and to a retrieval pipeline (1.0-57.0% end-to-end success, depending on the retriever). We then show that a corroboration requirement added to the agent's instructions removes roughly 95% of the exposure against a non-adaptive attacker without retraining. With the requirement in place, the agent still reads the planted hazard and no longer acts on it.

cs.CR · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.LG

新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.04392

Aero-VPA: Few-Step Flow-Matching Control over Non-Reconstructive JEPA Latents for Agile Flight on Edge Hardware

Yeonseok Lee

原文摘要

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models generalize across tasks, but their autoregressive decoders need sequential forward passes in proportion to the action horizon, each bounded below on embedded aerial platforms by streaming billions of parameters from memory. We present Aero-VPA, a lightweight Vision-Predictor-Action architecture for 3D navigation on edge hardware. A compact RGB-D Vision Transformer and a five-head ensemble predictor, trained without pixel reconstruction, forecast the next latent state; a Conditional Flow Matching solver generates a velocity and yaw-rate chunk in two Euler steps, so each decision takes five sequential network evaluations; and the ensemble dispersion drives an uncertainty fallback. Version 1 specified the architecture, deployment and protocol without results. This version reports the first closed-loop evaluation: PX4 software-in-the-loop simulation of quadrotor missions in procedurally generated forests. Behaviour cloning failed on all 60 missions despite open-loop errors of 0.02-0.04 m/s: the policy copies its last command, a copycat form of causal confusion. DAgger with a privileged, safety-gated supervisor gave the first successes but plateaued at 11.1-21.1% across six checkpoints. A map-free runtime shield with a 15 s depth memory, barrier constraints, a cap on motion outside the 73-degree field of view and backoff along the flown path raised the first DAgger policy's success on 180 paired missions from 21.1% to 52.2% (95% CI [45.0, 59.4]; exact McNemar p = 1.2 x 10^-10) and cut its crashes from 72.2% to 22.2%, while timeouts rose from 2.8% to 23.3%. All six checkpoints gained 30.0-34.4 percentage points, at mean speeds of 1.16-1.36 m/s. The code (https://github.com/ylee-sling/Aero-VPA), the trained policy (72.6 MB, https://huggingface.co/ylee-sling/aero-vpa) and the full benchmark dataset are public.

cs.LO · cs.LG · cs.RO

新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.04391

Human-to-Robot Transfer via Bridging Representation and Action Space in VLAs

Junhyeong Park, Wook Jung, Taeyoung Kim, Huiwon Jang, Jinwoo Shin

原文摘要

Pretrained Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies provide a strong starting point for deployment, but adapting them to a target robot and environment still requires costly embodiment-specific demonstrations. Human demonstrations are far easier to collect, yet directly leveraging them is challenging due to the substantial human-robot embodiment gap, particularly when the underlying VLA has been pretrained primarily on robot data. We introduce H2RB (Human-To-Robot Bridge), a human-robot co-training framework for adapting pretrained VLA policies from unpaired human and robot demonstrations. H2RB bridges the embodiment gap at both interfaces: geometry-anchored alignment grounds human and robot observations in a compatible representation, while a decoupled-decoder tokenizer shares action latents without forcing both domains through a single action mapping. This design allows human demonstrations to provide useful behavioral supervision while retaining the rich visual, semantic, and control priors of the pretrained VLA. Across real-world tasks, H2RB substantially improves object transfer performance from 8.0 to 51.8 and enables skill transfer to score 62.7, in settings where co-train baselines totally fail to transfer human-demonstrated skills. The benefit also persists under object-placement shifts, improving out-of-distribution transfer from 6.0 to 45.3. H2RB suggests a way for human demonstrations to serve as a scalable supervision source for adapting pretrained robotic policies, reducing the dependence on costly target-robot data collection.

cs.AI

版本更新 · v2arXiv:2602.00879

Dynamic Expert Sharing: Decoupling Memory from Parallelism in Mixture-of-Experts Diffusion LLMs

Hao Mark Chen, Zhiwen Mo, Royson Lee, Qianzhou Wang, Da Li, Shell Xu Hu, Wayne Luk, Timothy Hospedales 等 9 位作者

原文摘要

Among parallel decoding paradigms, diffusion large language models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising candidate that balances generation quality and throughput. However, their integration with Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures is constrained by an expert explosion: as the number of tokens generated in parallel increases, the number of distinct experts activated grows nearly linearly. This results in substantial memory traffic that pushes inference into a memory-bound regime, negating the efficiency gains of both MoE and parallel decoding. To address this challenge, we propose Dynamic Expert Sharing (DES), a novel technique that shifts MoE optimization from token-centric pruning and conventional expert skipping methods to sequence-level coreset selection. To maximize expert reuse, DES identifies a compact, high-utility set of experts to satisfy the requirements of an entire parallel decoding block. We introduce two innovative selection strategies: (1) Intra-Sequence Sharing (DES-Seq), which adapts optimal allocation to the sequence level, and (2) Saliency-Aware Voting (DES-Vote), a novel mechanism that allows tokens to collectively elect a coreset based on aggregated router weights. Extensive experiments on MoE dLLMs demonstrate that DES reduces unique expert activations by over 55% and latency by up to 38%, while retaining 99% of vanilla accuracy, effectively decoupling memory overhead from the degree of parallelism.

cs.LG

新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.04390

Do Multi-Turn Conversational Capabilities Carry Over from Text to Speech? A Parallel Multilingual Benchmark

Jiaming Zhou, Pei Zhang, Shiwan Zhao, Zhijun Wang, Baosong Yang, Yong Qin

原文摘要

Successful multi-turn voice interaction requires models to retain information from earlier turns, follow persistent instructions, and track revisions to conversational state. These abilities are usually evaluated from transcripts, leaving open whether successes demonstrated from text carry over when the same turns are spoken, and whether this transfer is consistent across languages. We introduce Omnilingua-AudioMC, a strictly parallel multilingual extension of Audio MultiChallenge, to study this question. The benchmark contains 354 conversations and 1,404 rubric items across ten languages, with content, turn structure, cross-turn dependencies, and evaluation criteria aligned across transcript and speech conditions. Across six speech-language models, the shift from reference transcripts to direct speech input is strongly model- and language-dependent: models with similar transcript performance can diverge substantially under speech, and their relative strengths across languages can change. Paired rubric-level analysis shows that aggregate transcript-speech gaps can obscure which conversational requirements are preserved, because losses of transcript-demonstrated successes can be offset by gains on other items. Replacing preceding user turns, the current turn, or both with model-generated transcripts localizes recoverable degradation: for the two models with the largest gaps, history substitution yields a larger macro-level improvement than current-turn substitution in all ten languages, while the strongest direct-speech model gains little from either. These results show that transcript performance is an unreliable proxy for multilingual spoken conversational ability and identify the representation of preceding spoken context as an important source of recoverable degradation. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/QwenLM/Omnilingua-Bench/tree/main/Omnilingua-AudioMC.

cs.CL

新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.04389

Spin Spherical Fourier Neural Operators: Efficient Equivariant Learning for Vector and Spin Fields on the Sphere

Kevin Mulder, Matthew A. Price, Eirini Leftaki, Jason D. McEwen

原文摘要

Many fields of physical interest on the sphere, such as wind, the polarisation of the cosmic microwave background and the shear of weak gravitational lensing, are spin fields, whose values change phase when the local frame rotates. We extend spherical Fourier neural operators (SFNOs) to fields of any spin, through lifted spherical convolutions that are exactly rotationally equivariant. Lifting spin fields to Mackey functions on the rotation group provides the conceptual framework, while computation is performed exactly and efficiently through their harmonic representation and by appealing to sampling theorems on the sphere and rotation group. We construct spin SFNOs (S$^2$FNOs) from these building blocks. We demonstrate empirically that rotational equivariance holds to machine precision for these layers. We achieve state-of-the-art performance on existing benchmarks, and introduce new benchmarks on which spin-aware models outperform their scalar counterparts.

cs.CV · astro-ph.IM · cs.LG

新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.04386

StepX-OPD: Rethinking Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation in Diffusion Models

Chenru Wang, Xuanyang Zhang, Yucheng Han, Wenbo Nie, Wei Cheng, Xianfang Zeng, Gang YU, Chi Zhang

原文摘要

A deployable text-to-image diffusion model must hold several capabilities at once, such as instruction following, text rendering and human preference, and must sample in a few steps. Capabilities and few-step sampling are built in separate stages: a full-step model first consolidates capabilities through multi-teacher on-policy distillation, then serves as a fixed teacher for step distillation. Every full-step model we evaluate scores lower once compressed, and the second stage cannot begin until the first finishes. We introduce StepX-OPD, which merges the two stages: one student acquires every capability while learning to sample in a few steps, so frozen specialists supervise it on the states its own rollout visits rather than on a longer trajectory it never runs. Because a decomposition of the rollout's KL weights velocity mismatch most heavily near the clean end, we also regress the student's velocity on the low-noise part of the rollout. Separately, we find that capability integration makes models write prompt words into images on prompts that never asked for text, and we give a variant that lowers it. We evaluate on SD3.5-Medium and FLUX.1-dev across instruction following, text rendering, image quality and human preference. On both architectures, StepX-OPD attains the highest normalized average score among the four-step methods compared and exceeds the forty-step Flow-OPD model, and on SD3.5-Medium it trains with about 37% fewer GPU-hours than sequential DiffusionOPD followed by step distillation.

cs.CV

版本更新 · v2arXiv:2610.33020

Mine or Yours? Self-Other Confusion in Latent LLM Communication

Yunlong Xu

原文摘要

If two minds were linked, would each still know which thoughts are its own? Language models are increasingly linked in this way: instead of exchanging text, one model reads another's key-value cache. Systems that join a foreign cache to the receiver's own use one of two layouts: the cache lies over the receiver's own context, at the same token positions, or in front of it. We give two copies of one model different private priorities and link them in both layouts. With the cache over its own context, the receiver gives a fact found only in its partner's cache in every answer. Yet in about half of its answers it gives the partner's priority as its own, in both Qwen3-4B and Llama-3.1-8B: as often as a receiver that ignored whose priority was whose, although the text in the cache names its owner. With the same cache moved in front, this falls to 5% in Qwen but only to 43% in Llama, although both models nearly stop naming the partner's priority as the one they are using. Where the cache sits matters, yet neither layout in use protects both models. Fewer such errors do not mean better attribution: once the cache is moved, the receiver names the partner's priority as the partner's less often, not more, and its report of an inserted memory cannot tell the partner's cache from a copy of its own. In short, shared caches deliver content but not ownership.

cs.CL · cs.AI