Jingbo Lin, Zhilu Zhang, Fan Li, Renjing Pei, Wenbo Li, Hang Xu, Hongzhi Zhang, Wangmeng Zuo
Universal image restoration aims to handle diverse degradations within a single model, but a reliable scaling strategy remains underexplored. Increasing backbone depth and width can lead to performance saturation, while degradation-aware specialization depends on accurate degradation estimation and is vulnerable to errors on out-of-distribution and real-world inputs. We propose UniRestorer++, a scalable framework based on multi-granularity degradation modeling. It progressively refines degradation groups and introduces group-specific experts, coupling capacity growth with specialization. Degradation-estimation-based routing selects a root-to-leaf path, while granularity-estimation-based routing chooses a level along that path to balance specialization and robustness. Spatially dense degradation representation maps further enable region-aware routing for spatially non-uniform corruptions. We develop CDD-50, a benchmark covering 50 degradation categories from single to penta-degradation. Experiments show approximately log-linear PSNR trends over the evaluated model-size range and stronger scaling gains on out-of-distribution and real-world data than vanilla MoE scaling. UniRestorer++ achieves state-of-the-art performance across benchmarks and demonstrates zero-shot generalization and few-shot transfer on real-world images. Code: https://github.com/mrluin/UniRestorer_plusplus
Lin Liu, Zhicheng Bao, Lu Zhang, Ziying Song, Wu Yang, Yuzheng Zhuang, Shuai Tao, Wulong Liu 等 10 位作者
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) or World Action (WAM) models have recently demonstrated remarkable performance in robotic manipulation. On LIBERO, SOTA method have achieved nearly 100\% success rates, seemingly suggesting that the models are ready for deployment in real world. However, near perfect performance on existing benchmarks can be misleading: success under ideal conditions does not imply real world robustness. Existing benchmarks primarily evaluate task completion from predefined initial states, while real world interactions inevitably involve failures such as failed grasps, collisions, and unintended object movements. A robot must therefore not only execute tasks successfully, but also recognize and recover from failures to continue the task. Yet this capability remains largely unmeasured, revealing a critical gap between benchmark performance and real world reliability. To address this gap, we introduce LIBERO-Recover Benchmark, a large scale benchmark for failure recovery in robotic manipulation. Built upon LIBERO, we collect real execution failures from SOTA embodied models and construct 1,000+ scenarios across four recovery levels: (1) Action Retry, (2) Action Adaptation, (3) Object State Recovery, and (4) Environmental Recovery. We evaluate four core capabilities: spatial understanding, object structure reasoning, interaction understanding, and topological reasoning. As the first large-scale benchmark for embodied failure recovery, LIBERO-Recover shifts evaluation from \emph{Can the robot succeed?''} to \emph{Can the robot recover after failure?''}, promoting robust and generalizable embodied agents. The project will be avaible in \textcolor{blue}{https://liulin815.github.io/LIBERO-Recovery/}.
Zilu Zhang, Jing Bao, Lifeng Qiao, Sheng Xu, Qiantai Feng, Siqi Sun, Yang Yang
Protein-complex structure prediction with AlphaFold 3 depends on MSA content, depth, and cross-chain pairing. Current pipelines apply uniform recipes, typically maximizing depth and pairing by species, yet even whether cross-chain pairing helps AF3 remains contested. We show that the value of both depth and pairing is strongly target-dependent, so no single recipe is optimal across interfaces. We introduce an autonomous agent that treats a frozen AF3 as a black-box experimental instrument. For each target, the agent formulates biological hypotheses, analyzes and reorganizes the MSA, and iteratively refines sequence selection and pairing using predictor label-free signals alone. On 1{,}015 protein--protein interfaces from three benchmarks released after AF3's training cutoff, the agent improves overall interface DockQ over AF3's default pipeline and fixed MSA recipes on every benchmark, while using on average 60\% fewer MSA sequences than the default. Gains are largest for inter-species heteromers, where species-based pairing is unreliable: mean DockQ increases from 0.465 to 0.612 on FoldBench and from 0.482 to 0.562 on HD439. The improvements arise from both sequence construction and pairing policy, including deliberate non-pairing. These results recast MSA design as a target-specific problem and show that an autonomous agent can adapt it at test time through biological reasoning and self-directed, confidence-guided experimentation.
Planning has been identified as an important factor for improved code generation with Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the interaction between planning capability and coding capability remains largely underexplored, especially when the two capabilities are from different LLMs. In this paper, we conduct the first comprehensive empirical study of planning-coding interaction in LLM-based code generation, where planning and coding are assigned to different LLMs (i.e., planning-coding separation). Specifically, we explore different planner-coder combinations to investigate the effectiveness for coders to utilize planning information from various planners and the impact of further training of coders on planner-coder combinations. Our results demonstrate that almost all planner-coder combinations are as competitive as using the same LLM for planning and coding, and the combination of a stronger planner and a stronger coder typically achieves improved effectiveness. Furthermore, using a large model as the planner paired with a much smaller model as the coder can sometimes be as competitive as using the large model as both the planner and the coder, and further training of the coder can typically boost various planner-coder combinations. These findings provide empirical evidence that planning and coding can be separated to a considerable extent in LLM-based code generation, which may offer a more flexible way to construct code-generation systems.
Yunzhi Zhuge, Xinzhuo Yu, Sitong Gong, Lu Zhang, Pingping Zhang, Huchuan Lu
Multi-task dense prediction seeks a single, coherent representation that supports simultaneously discriminative semantic recognition and regularized geometric/structural inference. For vision foundation models, pretrained semantic invariances conflict with the frequency and smoothness biases of dense objectives; joint fine-tuning and single-route adapters therefore compress competing gradients into one update channel, causing negative transfer and unstable cross-task agreement. We frame this as two-level adaptation: task-generic alignment that preserves priors, and task-aware specialization that resolves late-stage conflicts. Based on this principle, we propose D2MoE , a Mixture of Task Adapters that explicitly factorizes these roles within a frozen DINOv3 backbone. D2MoE introduces Task-Generic Low-Rank Adaptation (TG-LoRA) in attention projections throughout the network to provide a stable, shared adaptation channel, and a Task-Adaptive Mixture of Experts (TA-MoE) injected only at the final attention block of each stage to enact sparse, task-conditioned perturbations of token mixing in a single forward pass. A Semantic Prior Injector further couples multi-level task features with frozen foundation priors to reinforce semantic coherence while preserving boundary and structural fidelity. Experiments across diverse benchmarks substantiate that this structured factorization yields robust multi-task improvements with a small trainable footprint, establishing a principled and scalable route to prior-preserving, foundation-centric multi-task dense perception.
Yansong Bai, Yunzhi Zhuge, Xinzhuo Yu, Lu Zhang, Jin Zhan, Pingping Zhang, Huchuan Lu
Domain generalized semantic segmentation is challenging because it requires accurate dense prediction on unseen domains without any access to target-domain data during training. Existing methods improve transferability through data diversification, invariant learning, or direct use of foundation models, but they often struggle to simultaneously suppress domain-sensitive interference and preserve fine-grained spatial cues. In this work, we propose SIFR, a frequency-aware dual-stream framework that tackles domain shift at both the fusion and decoding stages. SIFR uses spectral modeling as a unified principle to regulate both heterogeneous prior interaction and dense decoder refinement. Instead of directly fusing frozen CLIP and DINOv2 features, SIFR performs spectral-guided invariant fusion to filter out domain-sensitive responses while preserving complementary semantic and structural information. In addition, SIFR incorporates a spectral decoder refinement module that stabilizes multi-scale decoder features through low-frequency statistics-based normalization and adaptive frequency selection, thereby reducing the propagation of residual domain bias in dense prediction. This design enables SIFR to jointly improve domain robustness and segmentation precision under severe distribution shifts. Extensive experiments on multiple DGSS benchmarks, including synthetic-to-real, real-to-real, and adverse-weather settings, demonstrate consistent improvements over previous state-of-the-art methods.
Xutian Li, Bo Xiong, Yifeng Zhu, Runbang Yan, Yanzhen Zou, Lu Zhang, Bing Xie
Retrieving task-relevant code dependencies is critical for repository-level code generation. Existing approaches obtain dependency context through similarity-based retrieval, repository graphs, or LLM-driven exploration. A central challenge is to identify the dispersed dependencies needed to implement a functional requirement, rather than merely retrieve broadly related code. This paper presents FeatLens, a feature-guided dependency retrieval approach for repository-level code generation. FeatLens first builds an offline index linking natural-language feature descriptions to function-level code entities. Given a task requirement and target function location, it selects relevant features and constructs dependency seeds. It then expands the seed graph and applies semantic and structural heuristics to select dependencies for inclusion in the generation context. Experiments on DevEval and EvoCodeBench show that FeatLens achieves the highest dependency recall among the evaluated baselines at each fixed retrieval budget, reaching DR@15 values of 0.527 and 0.529, respectively. On DevEval, the retrieved context supports the highest non-oracle Pass@1 with both DeepSeek-V3.2 and GPT-5-mini. These results are obtained without LLM calls in the online dependency retrieval stage.
Yongqi Shan, Lu Zhang, Jiazuo Yu, Yunzhi Zhuge, Huchuan Lu
Current 3D scene understanding pipelines typically concatenate vast numbers of 3D object tokens with text tokens and feed the resulting sequence to a Large Language Model (LLM). However, existing 3D-LLMs for scene understanding encounter two major limitations: (i) excessive inclusion of task-irrelevant object data, introducing noise that reduces reasoning accuracy and increases hallucinations; and (ii) reliance solely on point cloud data, which inherently lacks the rich semantic information available in complementary 2D modalities, such as color, material properties, texture, and high-level contextual relationships. To address these challenges, we introduce 3D-SceneQ, a 3D LLM that unifies adaptive token pruning with multimodal semantic enrichment, markedly advancing scene understanding, reasoning, and grounding. Specifically, we propose a Query-Guided Adaptive Pruning (QGAP) module that adaptively selects task-relevant objects based on the intended meaning of user instructions, leveraging a learnable latent query to retain critical information while effectively suppressing irrelevant noise. In addition, we introduce a Multi-modal Object-level Feature Enhancement (MOFE) module, which integrates 2D feature embeddings from pre-trained models into 3D representation to enrich object-level semantic information. Evaluations show that 3D-SceneQ outperforms current state-of-the-art methods across multiple benchmarks (e.g., +5.7 CIDEr on Scan2Cap and +17.0 EM@1 on SQA3D), demonstrating its remarkable capabilities in various 3D language reasoning tasks.
When zooming between dual cameras on smartphones, prominent discontinuities in both geometric perspective and color rendition inevitably degrade the visual experience of users. To address this issue, we introduce the dual-camera smooth zoom (DCSZ) task, aiming to synthesize continuous intermediate frames for fluid zooming. However, directly applying existing video frame interpolation (VFI) models to this task is severely hindered by substantial domain gaps and the practical intractability of capturing real-world continuous ground-truth. To this end, we propose a novel data synthesis framework to generate high-fidelity DCSZ training sequences, named ZoomGS v2. It explicitly decouples geometric and color transformations from 3D scene representation modeling, thereby enabling extensive data generation from easily accessible single-camera 3D scenes. Furthermore, we develop ZoomFI, a specialized VFI network tailored to the DCSZ task, which leverages complementary bidirectional warping for comprehensive dual-camera information fusion. Extensive experiments on test datasets captured using two mobile phones demonstrate that training with the constructed DCSZ data significantly improves the performance of various VFI models. Moreover, ZoomFI achieves state-of-the-art results in both quantitative metrics and visual quality. The datasets, code, and pretrained models are available at https://hitjunjief.github.io/DCSZ-v2
Huangming Xu, Fu Zhang Northeastern University, Zhixuan Yang, Lu Zhang, Jingwei Cheng Northeastern University, China
Document-level relation extraction (DocRE) aims to determine which relations hold between a given entity pair within a document. As a multi-label classification task, the most commonly adopted paradigm introduces a learnable threshold to distinguish positive and negative classes for an entity pair. Under this paradigm, existing losses decouple the optimization into independent positive and negative losses, which interact solely with a shared threshold. This leads to two inherent limitations: (i) threshold instability caused by conflicting gradient updates from the decoupled losses; and (ii) optimization bias exacerbated by the severe imbalance between limited positive samples and abundant negative samples inherent in DocRE, which makes the model more likely to predict that no relation exists.To address these issues, we propose the Adaptive-Threshold Global Loss (ATGL). Unlike prior work, ATGL integrates positive, negative, and threshold optimization into a unified logit space and explicitly enforces ranking constraints on their contributions to the objective. Furthermore, ATGL incorporates an imbalance-aware optimization mechanism, thereby effectively addressing the severe class imbalance in DocRE. Our ATGL serves as a general optimization objective that can be readily applied to different DocRE models. Experiments on four datasets show that ATGL outperforms other DocRE losses and achieves state-of-the-art results, while consistently improving the performance of existing DocRE models. Code is available at https://github.com/xhm-code/ATGL.
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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表
Jujia Zhao, Zhaoxin Huan, Zihan Wang, Xiaolu Zhang Ant Group, Jun Zhou Ant Group, Suzan Verberne Universiteit Leiden, Zhaochun Ren Leiden University
Users increasingly rely on Large Language Models (LLMs) for Deep Research, using them to synthesize diverse sources into structured reports that support understanding and action. In this context, the practical reliability of such reports hinges on logical quality: whether the report’s claims and arguments are explicitly supported and can be trusted as a basis for downstream use, rather than merely appearing fluent or informative. However, current evaluation frameworks largely overlook this requirement. To bridge this gap, we introduce ReportLogic, a benchmark that quantifies report-level logical quality through a reader-centric lens of auditability. Specifically, ReportLogic adopts a hierarchical taxonomy that evaluates whether readers can (1) trace an on-topic report structure with a unified analytical arc (Macro-Logic), (2) understand the progression with necessary context (Expositional-Logic), and (3) verify conclusions via explicit claim–support (Structural-Logic). Based on this taxonomy, we construct a human-annotated rubric-guided dataset and train an open-source LogicJudge for scalable evaluation. We further evaluate judge robustness via adversarial attacks, showing that off-the-shelf LLM judges are frequently influenced by superficial cues (e.g., verbosity), and reasoning modes can mask broken support relations. Overall, our results provide actionable guidance for building more robust logic evaluators and improving the logical reliability of LLM-generated reports.
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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表
Fengqi Zhu Renmin University of China, Rongzhen Wang Renmin University of China, Shen Nie, Xiaolu Zhang Ant Group, Chunwei Wu Ant Group, Jun Zhou Ant Group, Yankai Lin Renmin University of China, Ji-Rong Wen Renmin University of China 等 9 位作者
Masked diffusion language models present a promising paradigm for language modeling, yet the systematic theoretical analysis and comprehensive empirical validation of their alignment on general tasks remain relatively underexplored. In this paper, we identify the primary challenge for this problem: the high variance in Evidence Lower Bound (ELBO)-based likelihood estimates required for preference optimization. To address this issue, we propose Variance-Reduced Preference Optimization (VRPO), a framework that formally analyzes the bias and variance of the preference optimization loss and gradient based on Direct Preference Optimization, showing both are governed by a score-estimator variance. Building on this foundation, we introduce multiple unbiased variance reduction strategies, including optimal budget allocation and antithetic sampling, to improve alignment performance. We demonstrate the effectiveness of VRPO by applying it to LLaDA, a large diffusion language model. The resulting model, LLaDA 1.5, consistently outperforms its SFT-only predecessor consistently across various general benchmarks, such as mathematics (GSM8K +4.7), coding (HumanEval +3.0, MBPP +1.8), and alignment (IFEval +4.0, Arena-Hard +4.3). Furthermore, LLaDA 1.5 demonstrates a highly competitive mathematical performance compared to other strong language MDMs and ARMs. Our model is available at https://huggingface.co/GSAI-ML/LLaDA-1.5.
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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表