Leyao Wang, Xutao Mao, Qinwen Ge, Xuhui Zhan, Yuying Zhao, Bo Ni, Ryan A. Rossi, Nesreen K. Ahmed 等 9 位作者
Textual reviews enrich recommender systems with fine-grained preference signals and enhanced explainability. However, in real-world scenarios, users rarely leave reviews, resulting in severe sparsity that undermines the effectiveness of review-aware recommenders under partial observability. A natural remedy is to synthesize the missing reviews to restore the textual signal these recommenders rely on. Yet, conventional imputation techniques, such as matrix completion and LLM-based augmentation, either lose contextualized semantics by embedding texts into vectors or overlook structural dependencies on the user-item graph. To address these shortcomings, we propose TWISTER (ToWards Imputation on Sparsity with Textual Edge Graph Representation), a unified framework for sparse-text recommendation that synthesizes missing reviews by jointly modeling semantic and structural signals. Specifically, we represent user-item interactions as a Textual-Edge Graph (TEG), treating reviews as edge attributes. To capture relational context, we construct line-graph views and employ an LLM as a graph-aware aggregator. For each interaction lacking a textual review, our model aggregates natural-language representations from neighboring interactions to generate a coherent and personalized review. Experiments on multiple datasets show that TWISTER consistently outperforms traditional numeric, graph-based, and LLM baselines, delivering higher-quality imputed reviews and, more importantly, improved downstream recommendation. In summary, TWISTER is a drop-in, structure-aware imputer that recovers the textual signal that review-aware recommenders need when reviews are scarce.
Siqiao Huang, Partha Kaushik, Michael Chen, Hengkai Pan, Kaiwen Geng, Omar Chehab, Fernando Moreno-Pino, Max Simchowitz
Effective world modeling requires compressing salient history information that facilitates future prediction. However, most existing approaches inherit tokenization and conditioning mechanisms from video generation, where objectives are centered around perceptual realism rather than predictive utility. This discrepancy limits the world model's effectiveness, especially in environments dominated by visual nuisances or task-irrelevant background details. To this end, we introduce Compression Forcing (CF), a general framework that aligns history compression with the predictive objective of world modeling. Compression Forcing features Dynamics-Aware Tokenization (DAT), a novel tokenization method that compresses history observations into a sequence ordered by decreasing dynamics saliency. Built on a diffusion backbone, this structure enables Hierarchical History Guidance (HG-H), allowing selective amplification of dynamics-salient information during inference. Extensive experiments across various environments demonstrate improved prediction fidelity, physical realism, and downstream decision-making performance, establishing Compression Forcing as a highly flexible and effective approach for world modeling.
Kaicheng Zhang, Wen Ge, Lei Jiang, Weixin Yang, Jordan Langham-Lopez, Jialin Yu, Lukasz Szpruch, Hao Ni
Although large language model agents are increasingly applied to quantitative-finance workflows, their evaluation remains fragmented across isolated tasks, while the financial relevance of benchmark tasks is often overlooked. Yet financial workflows are inherently multi-stage, spanning interdependent tasks such as forecasting, strategy construction, risk management, and trading. Existing platforms typically focus on a single task, and can therefore overstate agent competence and fail to reveal weaknesses in generalization, real-market interaction, and financially meaningful decision-making. We introduce OpenFinGym, a unified gym environment for quantitative-finance agent development that covers forecasting, market generation, real-time trading, and fraud detection under a single execution and verification interface. OpenFinGym additionally provides an automated task-construction pipeline that turns quantitative finance publications into executable task packages; a containerised runtime with a host-side verifier service that supports scalable agent rollouts and prevents runtime train-test leakage; a paper trading engine with a low-latency data-stream design; deferred-resolution support for long-horizon and event-market forecasts; and integration for SFT and RL post-training.
We propose SatOps-Decision, a method for low-latency decisions in satellite communication operations. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first application of Jev-style general-purpose discriminative decision models to satellite operations, and the accompanying benchmark is the first dedicated to this approach. The learned scorer, a locally adapted Laya encoder with its native decision head, selects among supplied operational answers in a single forward pass. The benchmark combines authored operational contracts, controlled state changes and independently checked labels in an auditable construction. Evaluation prioritizes complete-request latency and raw decision accuracy; all main accuracy comparisons use the same 1,024 held-out questions, separate from training and development. SatOps-Decision's local scorer has a median latency of 90.3 ms per decision, versus 493.9 ms for Qwen3.5-0.8B generation and 388.4 ms for OneJev1.6-0.8B: $5.47\times$ and $4.30\times$ speedups based on median request times in the measured FP32/MPS implementations. Its mean raw accuracy is 85.3%, versus 42.5% for frozen Laya, 40.7% for Qwen generation and 58.6% for OneJev. As cloud accuracy references, original Jev 1.14/1.13 reach 87.4/81.9%.