Zhiheng Qian, Junhao Du, Jing Peng, Hanqi Li, Kunyang Peng, Feng Xue, Shuai Wang, Kai Yu
Written transcripts of the same speech can differ in ways that are not uniquely determined by the speech signal. We formulate evaluation-side transcript canonicalization (ETC), which maps multiple surface forms to a single canonical form when their differences are not determined by speech. To our knowledge, ETC-Bench is the first and most comprehensive multilingual benchmark for evaluation-side transcript canonicalization, covering 181 phenomenon types across 12 languages. Each instance is a minimal pair that shares a sentence context and differs only in a target span exhibiting one phenomenon. To evaluate both canonicalization success and semantic preservation, we propose Semantic-preserving Exact-match Normalization Accuracy (SENA), which combines exact agreement between independently canonicalized pair members with a pair-relative BERTScore constraint against information loss. We further introduce the Taxonomy-guided Agent Canonicalization Skill (TACS), which provides LLM agents with phenomenon descriptions and explicit canonicalization contracts. Experiments with five baseline configurations and three TACS-based agents show that the agents outperform the baseline systems on shared languages. ETC-Bench provides a systematic testbed for evaluation-side transcript canonicalization across languages.
Lei Huang, Chuan Qiu, Kuan-Jui Su, Anqi Liu, Yun Gong, Weiqiang Lin, Lindong Jiang, Chen Zhao 等 16 位作者
Genotype imputation enables dense variant coverage for genome-wide association and risk-prediction studies, yet conventional reference-panel methods remain limited by ancestry bias and reduced rare-variant accuracy. We present Genotype Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (GenoBERT), a transformer-based, reference-free framework that tokenizes phased genotypes and uses a self-attention mechanism to capture both short- and long-range linkage disequilibrium (LD) dependencies. Benchmarking on two independent datasets including the Louisiana Osteoporosis Study (LOS) and the 1000 Genomes Project (1KGP) across ancestry groups and multiple genotype missingness levels (5-50%) shows that GenoBERT achieves the highest overall accuracy compared to four baseline methods (Beagle5.4, SCDA, BiU-Net, and STICI). At practical sparsity levels (up to 25% missing), GenoBERT attains high overall imputation accuracy ($r^2 approx 0.98$) across datasets, and maintains robust performance ($r^2 > 0.90$) even at 50% missingness. Experimental results across different ancestries confirm consistent gains across datasets, with resilience to small sample sizes and weak LD. A 128-SNP (single-nucleotide polymorphism) context window (approximately 100 Kb) is validated through LD-decay analyses as sufficient to capture local correlation structures. By eliminating reference-panel dependence while preserving high accuracy, GenoBERT provides a scalable and robust solution for genotype imputation and a foundation for downstream genomic modeling.
Local-to-Global theorems are a cornerstone of many of recent developments in theoretical computer science from coding theory and PCPs all the way to analyzing mixing time of Markov chains. Building on trickledown theorems on simplicial complexes, several techniques have been established to obtain tighter local-to-global theorems to analyze the spectral gap of the Glauber dynamics, namely matrix trickledown, ${\mathcal C}$-Lorentzian polynomials and more recently Bochner type inequalities. In this paper, we adopt non-local local-to-global/Bochner type inequalities on "cones", corresponding to the local neighborhood of a given vertex, to show that the Glauber dynamics mixes in polynomial time to sample proper colorings of maximum degree $Δ$ graphs as long as $q\geq 1.7408Δ$.
Chi Ruan, Tianqi Li, Xin He, Xue Geng, Ming-Ming Cheng, Yun Liu
Camouflaged object detection (COD) depends on weak texture and boundary cues that can be destroyed by aggressive post-training quantization (PTQ). Existing PTQ methods mainly optimize quantizers or reconstruct network blocks, while using a single precision-allocation domain throughout hierarchical backbones. Instead, we introduce AxisQ, a depth-adaptive bit-allocation framework motivated by the observation that the useful allocation axis changes with feature depth. Under a fixed per-layer average activation-bit budget, AxisQ allocates precision in the channel domain for shallow features and in the local-frequency domain for deep features, using COD-aware sensitivity to better preserve subtle foreground regions and ambiguous boundaries. We also formulate a boundary-aware Hessian approximation for reconstruction by incorporating boundary-weighted gradient and error statistics. Experiments across multiple COD models and diverse benchmarks demonstrate improved accuracy over the strongest baselines at low bit widths, with relative weighted F-measure gains of 12.7% for CFRN and 33.3% for CamoFormer-P on CAMO under W2A2 quantization. These results support adapting the allocation domain to feature depth as a transferable quantization strategy for hierarchical COD models.
Zhiheng Qian, Junhao Du, Jing Peng, Hanqi Li, Kunyang Peng, Feng Xue, Lu Chen, Shuai Wang 等 9 位作者
Multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) has achieved rapid progress with large-scale pretrained models and multilingual speech corpora. Previous studies have proved the pivotal role of data sampling in multilingual ASR performance. However, existing sampling strategies largely rely on time-consuming manual, heuristic-based designs. To address this, we propose a linguistic-aware agentic data sampling framework that introduces a data sampling LLM agent into the multilingual ASR training loop. The agent is driven by a linguistically grounded rubric that analyzes ASR errors from phonological, morphological, and syntactic perspectives, and uses the resulting feedback together with training statistics, budget constraints, and algorithm profiles to select domain-level, sample-level, and token-level sampling strategies. This design turns evaluation results into adaptive data-selection decisions rather than treating WER/CER as final endpoints only. We conduct experiments on twelve Common Voice languages using Whisper-medium as the ASR backbone. The results show that our method achieves performance better than full-data training while using less training data and lower computational resources, and substantially accelerates training convergence compared to conventional sampling strategies.
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models remain brittle in long-horizon, contact-rich manipulation because success-only imitation provides little supervision for execution drift, while failed rollouts are often discarded. We introduce RePO-VLA, a recovery-driven policy optimization framework that assigns distinct roles to success, recovery, and failure trajectories. RePO-VLA first applies Recovery-Aware Initialization (RAI), slicing each corrective suffix into a new episode so corrective actions depend on the current adverse state rather than the preceding failure. It then learns a Progress-Aware Semantic Value Function (PAS-VF), aligning spatiotemporal trajectory features with instructions and successful references. The resulting labels salvage useful failure prefixes via reliability decay, while low-value labels mark drift and terminal breakdowns, teaching differences among nominal, failed, and corrective actions. The data engine turns adverse states into planner-generated or human-collected corrective rollouts, teaching recovery to the success manifold. Value-Conditioned Refinement (VCR) trains the policy to prefer high-progress actions. At deployment, a fixed high-value token biases actions toward the learned success manifold without online failure detectors or heuristic retries. We introduce the Failure-Recovery Benchmark (FRBench), with standardized error injection and recovery-focused evaluation. Across simulated and real-world bimanual tasks, RePO-VLA improves robustness, raising adversarial success from 20% to 75% on average and up to 80% in scaled real-world trials. Code and video results are available at https://1018weijia.github.io/RePO-VLA-Web/.
Zhengping Jiang, William Jurayj, Liaoyaqi Wang, Chunsheng Zuo, Anqi Liu, Benjamin Van Durme
Sparse outcome rewards make it difficult for long-horizon language-model agents to assign credit to earlier actions. Learned critics provide value estimates for intermediate states, but these estimates can be inaccurate, while estimating intermediate values with repetitive continuation samples from points within a trajectory incurs substantial costs. To mitigate these issues, we introduce FOCUS, an RL method that uses selective branching to help the critic network learn its value estimator. The rollout controller facilitates active learning for the critic by sampling continuations from states that are expected to most reduce the critic's estimation error. These refined value estimates then score the segment between consecutive states with a TD($λ$) advantage, while the sampled evidence supplies training targets for the critic. FOCUS supports long-horizon agentic reinforcement learning through a modular context-management interface that decouples context management from rollout allocation. Our experiments show that using compaction-induced segment boundaries for value estimation and credit assignment, FOCUS outperforms GRPO and VinePPO with matched per-step generation budgets on legal reasoning, deep search, and code localization benchmarks, improving held-out accuracy at Qwen3.5-9B scale by 7.2 points over the strongest baseline on BrowseComp-Plus (55.4 vs. 48.2) and by 4.1 points on DeonticBench (56.5 vs. 52.4).
We introduce Gemma 3, a multimodal addition to the Gemma family of lightweight open models, ranging in scale from 1 to 27 billion parameters. This version introduces vision understanding abilities, a wider coverage of languages and longer context - at least 128K tokens. We also change the architecture of the model to reduce the KV-cache memory that tends to explode with long context. This is achieved by increasing the ratio of local to global attention layers, and keeping the span on local attention short. The Gemma 3 models are trained with distillation and achieve superior performance to Gemma 2 for both pre-trained and instruction finetuned versions. In particular, our novel post-training recipe significantly improves the math, chat, instruction-following and multilingual abilities, making Gemma3-4B-IT competitive with Gemma2-27B-IT and Gemma3-27B-IT comparable to Gemini-1.5-Pro across benchmarks. We release all our models to the community.
Gemini Team, Petko Georgiev, Ving Ian Lei, Ryan Burnell, Libin Bai, Anmol Gulati, Garrett Tanzer, Damien Vincent 等 1137 位作者
In this report, we introduce the Gemini 1.5 family of models, representing the next generation of highly compute-efficient multimodal models capable of recalling and reasoning over fine-grained information from millions of tokens of context, including multiple long documents and hours of video and audio. The family includes two new models: (1) an updated Gemini 1.5 Pro, which exceeds the February version on the great majority of capabilities and benchmarks; (2) Gemini 1.5 Flash, a more lightweight variant designed for efficiency with minimal regression in quality. Gemini 1.5 models achieve near-perfect recall on long-context retrieval tasks across modalities, improve the state-of-the-art in long-document QA, long-video QA and long-context ASR, and match or surpass Gemini 1.0 Ultra's state-of-the-art performance across a broad set of benchmarks. Studying the limits of Gemini 1.5's long-context ability, we find continued improvement in next-token prediction and near-perfect retrieval (>99%) up to at least 10M tokens, a generational leap over existing models such as Claude 3.0 (200k) and GPT-4 Turbo (128k). Finally, we highlight real-world use cases, such as Gemini 1.5 collaborating with professionals on completing their tasks achieving 26 to 75% time savings across 10 different job categories, as well as surprising new capabilities of large language models at the frontier; when given a grammar manual for Kalamang, a language with fewer than 200 speakers worldwide, the model learns to translate English to Kalamang at a similar level to a person who learned from the same content.