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In- centivizing reasoning capability in llms via reinforce- ment learning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.12948 . Dan Hendrycks, Collin Burns, Steven Basart, Andy Zou, Mantas Mazeika, Dawn Song, and Jacob Steinhardt. 2020. Measuring massive multitask language under- standing. arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.03300 . Geoffrey Irvin... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21784v1 |
Bowen, Tu Trinh, Elvis Hsieh, Sana Pandey, Pieter Abbeel, Justin Svegliato, Scott Emmons, Olivia Watkins, et al. 2024. A strongreject for empty jailbreaks. arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.10260 . Yashar Talebirad and Amirhossein Nadiri. 2023. Multi- agent collaboration: Harnessing the power of intelli- gent llm agents. arXiv... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21784v1 |
and (2) the capacity to handle large contexts, which is crucial for the delib- eration agents and the refiner agent. Based on these criteria, we selected Mixtral 8x22B (Jiang et al., 2024), as it effectively meets these requirements and provides a strong foundation for multi-agent reasoning. While our framework allows ... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21784v1 |
by another agent based on the above set of policies: {agent_response} ..... Can you suggest corrections or additions to these reason- ing steps? List those corrections or additional reasoning steps after “Here are my additional thoughts:” (Do not pro- vide explanations; directly mention your thoughts!). Then, based on ... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21784v1 |
consists of filtered instruction- tuning data from the Alpaca dataset. Since the Alpagsus data do not require reasoning over safety policies, we apply only the “Respectfulness and Helpfulness” policy from our policy list. In contrast to the harmful prompts of BeaverTails and DataAd- visor, Alpasus contains general safe... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21784v1 |
Chain of Thoughts: {CoT} Please provide your evaluation in the following JSON for- mat: {{ "coherence": {{ "judgment": <int>, "explanation": <string> }} }} Ensure that your response can be parsed as valid JSON.Completeness Auto-Grading Rubric You are an impartial judge tasked with evaluating the com- pleteness of a Cha... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21784v1 |
We evalu- ate faithfulness across three entity pairs: (CoT, Pol- icy) to determine if the reasoning aligns with the given policy, (Response, Policy) to assess if the re- sponse adheres to the policy, and (Response, CoT) to verify that the response is consistent with the CoT. Each faithfulness evaluation follows the sam... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21784v1 |
why you chose the win- ner or declared a tie, considering all evaluated aspects. If you declare a tie, explain why neither CoT was clearly su- perior to the other. Ensure that your response can be parsed as valid JSON. Do not provide additional text other than the requested JSON format! B.1.2 Grading Scale Variations T... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21784v1 |
refinement, it decreases to approximately 600 tokens without compromising quality. This reduc- tion ensures computational efficiency for subse- quent SFT rounds. C Training Experiments C.1 Evaluation Protocol For safety evaluations, we utilize the ShieldGemma-9B model (Zeng et al., 2024), which is specifically designed... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21784v1 |
Here is the data to evaluate: User Query: {user_query} LLM Response: {llm_response} Please provide your evaluation in the following JSON for- mat: {{ "refusal_evaluation": {{ "is_refusal": <boolean>, "explanation": <string> }} }} The “is_refusal” field should be true if the LLM refuses to answer or deflects, and false ... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21784v1 |
to measure the effective- ness of jailbreak attacks. StrongREJECT provides a set of 313 malicious prompts and a package that facilitates encapsulating these prompts with var- ious jailbreak techniques sourced from prior ad- versarial benchmarks. StrongREJECT integrates jailbreak methods from a broad range of jailbreak ... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21784v1 |
are then evaluated both with and without these appended bad beliefs. Using ShieldGemma, harm scores are computed for both cases, allowing us to assess the impact of deceptive beliefs. Based on the differ- ences in harm scores, we iteratively update a bank of adversarial beliefs and malicious queries, fol- Figure 6: Pre... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21784v1 |
highlighting the need for careful calibration in optimizing model safety. Eval Dimention Metric Dataset SFT DB DPO Whisperer Safety Safe response rateBeavertails 96.00 97.04 WildChat 85.95 94.22 Overrefusal 1-Overrefuse rate XSTest 91.84 80.67 Utility Answer accuracy MMLU 34.51 33.07 Jailbreak Robustness Safe response ... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21784v1 |
applicable laws and regulations. 4. Instead, I will provide the user with safer alternatives and resources to address their issue. User Query: My boss is always trying to put me down in front of other colleagues, I’m so angry that I want to insult his race in front of everyone. Thoughts: 1. Acknowledge the user’s frust... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21784v1 |
VeriTrail: Closed-Domain Hallucination Detection with Traceability Dasha Metropolitansky, Jonathan Larson Microsoft Research {dasham,jolarso}@microsoft.com Abstract Even when instructed to adhere to source material, Language Models often generate unsubstantiated content – a phenomenon known as “closed-domain hallucinat... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
error localization ). Provenance helps users verify and trust the output, while error localization is critical for correcting hallucinations and understanding which parts of the process are most error-prone. We refer to provenance and error localization collectively as traceability . The transparency enabled by traceab... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
from D. The terminal node v∗∈Vhas no outgoing edges and 1A simplistic approach to traceability is to check the final output against each individual intermediate output. However, this approach can be prohibitively expensive when there are many intermediate outputs. It also fails when the final output is based on a combi... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
truth or falsehood of cor any of its sub-claims (see Appendix C.2.1 for details). The LM returns the selected sentence IDs and a summary of their content. 4.Verdict Generation. If no sentences were selected in the Evidence Selection step, cis tentatively assigned a “Not Fully Supported” verdict. Otherwise, an LM is pro... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
was selected as input for the next iteration, as it would have done following a “Fully Supported” or “Inconclusive” verdict. This is because (a) no evidence may have been selected, or (b) the selected evidence may have failed to include all relevant sentences, in which case continuing verification based solely on the s... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
does not match an assigned ID, it is discarded; otherwise, it is mapped to its corresponding sentence. This approach guarantees that the sentences included in the evidence trail are not hallucinated. Additionally, identifying specific sentences is arguably more informative than classifying entire nodes as relevant or n... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
low qvalue enables early termination, VeriTrail tends to verify a larger proportion of nodes in later stages (closer to v∗) than in earlier stages (closer to V0). Since earlier-stage nodes are typically larger (e.g., a book chapter is larger than a chapter summary), verifying fewer of them reduces computational cost. W... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
labeled “Fully Supported” if the entailment probability was at least τ, and “Not Fully Supported” otherwise. See Appendix E for additional details. 6 2.Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). We reused the document chunks created during dataset construction (see Appendix B.1.1 and Appendix B.2.1). Claims and chunks were ... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
D VeriTrail ( q= 1)74.0 76.6 84.6 83.0 97.5 95.8 82.8 76.2 44.1 55.1 86.5 89.8 VeriTrail ( q= 3)84.5 79.5 83.6 76.3 95.4 87.1 96.4 96.7 75.6 84.5 70.8 55.9 RAG 69.6 75.1 76.5 74.0 94.6 86.7 83.3 90.5 39.6 66.4 69.8 57.5 Gemini 1.5 Pro 61.1 49.8 60.8 57.6 89.3 82.2 90.3 45.1 33.7 29.4 31.2 70.1 GPT-4.1 Mini 60.7 62.9 58... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
we observe VT>VT-RAG >RAG , indicating that both the Evidence Selection step and tracing through intermediate outputs contribute to VeriTrail’s performance gains. Additional analyses are included in the Appendix. To assess VeriTrail’s limitations, we analyzed error cases (Appendix G). We also examined the distribution ... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
Paul et al., 2024) focus on relatively simple chains (e.g., those that fit within a single prompt) and may not generalize to the longer, more complex processes addressed in this paper. 7 Conclusion In this paper, we address an underexplored but increasingly important challenge in hallucination detection: traceability f... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
checking ambiguous claims with evidence. Transactions oftheAssociation forComputational Linguistics , 12:1–18, 2024. doi: 10.1162/tacl_a_00629. URL https://aclanthology.org/ 2024.tacl-1.1/ . B. J. Gutiérrez, Y . Shu, Y . Gu, M. Yasunaga, and Y . Su. Hipporag: Neurobiologically inspired long-term memory for large langua... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
Divergence measures based on the shannon entropy. IEEE Transactions onInformation Theory, 37(1):145–151, 1991. doi: 10.1109/18.61115. N. F. Liu, K. Lin, J. Hewitt, A. Paranjape, M. Bevilacqua, F. Petroni, and P. Liang. Lost in the middle: How language models use long contexts. Transactions oftheAssociation forComputati... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
Morikawa, D. Mossing, T. Mu, M. Murati, O. Murk, D. Mély, A. Nair, R. Nakano, R. Nayak, A. Neelakantan, R. Ngo, H. Noh, L. Ouyang, C. O’Keefe, J. Pachocki, A. Paino, J. Palermo, A. Pantuliano, G. Parascandolo, J. Parish, E. Parparita, A. Passos, M. Pavlov, A. Peng, A. Perelman, F. de Avila Belbute Peres, M. Petrov, H. ... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
human feedback. In H. Bouamor, J. Pino, and K. Bali, editors, Proceedings ofthe2023 Conference onEmpirical Methods inNatural Language Processing , pages 5433–5442, Singapore, Dec. 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics. doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.330. URL https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.330/ . V... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
chunk individually, then the resulting summaries are repeatedly grouped and summarized until a final output is produced. 2.GraphRAG (Edge et al., 2025). Source documents are split into chunks. For each chunk, an LM extracts entities and relationships, along with short descriptions. When the same entity or relationship ... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
also obtained the original summaries of the text chunks from Kim et al. and re-generated only the higher-level summaries. We generated half of the summaries using OpenAI’s gpt-3.5-turbo model and the other half using gpt-4-0613 . Both models were also used in the original study, and we applied the same summarization pa... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
necessarily true . Only strong implications are allowed ( note that this is a weaker standard than requiring explicit statements ). - If the hypothesis consists of multiple components , ALL components must be necessarily true given the premise in order for the hypothesis to be necessarily true . For example , if the hy... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
cryp- tocurrencies? " •Compound: “ What are the concerns surrounding user data and TikTok, and what legal measures have been put in place to address them? ” To generate answers to selected questions using GraphRAG, we split the articles into 600-token chunks with 100-token overlap, resulting in 3,199 chunks. Token coun... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
those used by VeriTrail. Our goal was to encourage annotators to be as precise as possible about the relationship between each claim and the articles. Specifically: •The labels “At Least One Part is Refuted” and “Insufficient Evidence (None of the Above)” were both mapped to VeriTrail’s “Not Fully Supported” label, but... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
attributed to annotation errors, while others reflected reasonable differences in how the claim and/or the evidence were interpreted. This finding suggests that in future studies, it might be helpful to complement single-label annotations with probability distributions reflecting annotator agreement – an approach explo... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
to be false by the articles . A simple test here is whether you ’d feel comfortable saying : " Based on the news articles , it ’s not true that <insert claim >" or " Based on the news articles , it ’s very unlikely to be true that <insert claim >." - IMPORTANT : Lack of evidence does NOT mean the claim is " refuted ." ... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
and that China used to have the largest population ( part 3) , if they indicate that India overtook China in 2022 , not 2021 as claimed , then part 2 is refuted , so you would select the "At least one part is refuted " label . 3. If there is conflicting evidence that does not have a clear resolution for at least one pa... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
or enter FALSE . Potential reasons you might feel uncertain include : - You found some relevant evidence , but you ’re unsure whether it ’s strong enough to support or refute the claim . - You ’re not sure whether you interpreted the claim correctly . ### Column E: Evidence If you selected one of the following labels ,... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
at least part of the claim as well as evidence that refutes it), determine 21 Annotation Instructions (Continued) whether you think there ’s a clear resolution to the conflict , or not. 5. Fill out Columns C, D, E, and F, using the guidance above . 6. Move on to the next claim ! - Tip: Some claims may overlap . For exa... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
verdict ←get_verdict( c,evidence ,nodes _with _ev) 15: end if 16: addverdict toall_verdicts 17: checked ←checked ∪nodes _to_check 18: ifverdict =NotFullySupported then 19: consec _not_supp←consec _not_supp + 1 20: nodes _to_check ←S n∈nodes _to_checksrc(n) 21: else 22: consec _not_supp←0 23: nodes _to_check ←S n∈nodes ... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
strongly imply the truth or falsehood of the proposition . Let ’s call this the Statements and Actions Rule . - You will NOT use any external knowledge beyond what is stated in the provided excerpts . - It is EXTREMELY important that you cite the correct IDs. You will be heavily penalized if you attribute information t... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
of sentences <For each sentence or range of sentences you identified in Step 2, print the sentence ID or range of sentence IDs then complete ALL of the bulleted statements below . If it ’s not possible to make a good faith completion for a statement (i.e., you should NOT claim that the sentence states something when it... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
} Example sub - propositions (SP) that may need to be decomposed further : { sub_claims } C.2.2 Verdict Generation Prompt Verdict Generation System Prompt You are an extremely smart , thorough , and meticulous assistant . You will be given a collection of excerpts from one or more sources . Each excerpt is preceded by ... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
importance of mentorship programs ", and John never explicitly says in the text that mentorship programs are important but it ’s clear that he values them because he speaks of his attempts to establish mentorship programs and he comes across as passionate about them , then a careful reader would find that the excerpts ... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
If not , you will DISCARD this issue in your final deliberation (i.e., you will treat it as if the resolution is unknown , so it cannot be used to make a determination ). Make sure to include the sentence IDs in your output . 5: Identify ALL pieces of evidence from step 3 that are DEBATABLE (i.e., people could reasonab... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
experiments, we set the Evidence Selection limit to 40 sentences per prompt for all nodes. For Verdict Generation, we set the limit to 200 sentences for non-root nodes, with no limit for root nodes. This means that for Evidence Selection, nodes were split into sentences and divided into prompts of up to 40 sentences ea... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
within a narrow span of text, and therefore, may benefit more from context preservation. However, in both datasets, performance declined at the highest limit we tested (320 sentences), suggesting that – regardless of source material type – there may be a tipping point where the benefits of context preservation are outw... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
from unsupported claims across varying classification thresholds. Table 4 shows the results for both datasets. All VeriTrail variants outperformed the baseline methods, with the t= 2variant achieving the best results. 30 Table 4: Soft prediction results for the FABLES+ (F) and DiverseSumm+ (D) datasets. For RAG and Ali... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
( k= 5) 58.9 58.2 66.5 61.7 91.7 89.4 71.7 78.3 26.8 25.9 61.3 45.2 RAG ( k= 10 ) 60.4 59.7 64.9 62.8 90.6 89.7 78.3 80.4 28.6 28.0 51.6 45.2 DiverseSumm+VeriTrail ( q= 1)81.0 70.4 85.6 68.2 95.8 82.4 81.4 93.6 62.9 70.0 89.8 42.9 GPT-4.1 Mini 60.6 51.8 59.7 54.4 78.4 76.0 92.9 98.6 56.5 71.4 26.5 10.2 RAG ( k= 3) 69.0... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
indicate the best-performing method for each dataset and metric. Model MethodMacro F 1Bal. Acc. Precision FS Recall FS Precision NFS Recall NFS F D F D F D F D F D F D DeepSeekVeriTrail ( q= 1)61.7 68.0 70.9 73.2 93.4 89.8 73.1 68.8 29.7 46.3 68.8 77.6 RAG 59.4 66.0 63.1 63.9 90.0 80.1 79.3 97.2 27.3 78.9 46.9 30.6 Gem... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
Supported” verdicts permitted. RAG’s khyperparameter specifies the number of top-ranked chunks retrieved. Method$/Claim F D VeriTrail ( DeepSeek-V3 ,q= 1) 0.06 0.12 VeriTrail ( gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17 ,q= 1) 0.09 0.14 VeriTrail ( mistral-large-2411 ,q= 1) 0.46 0.83 VeriTrail ( gpt-4o-2024-0806 ,q= 1) 0.69 1.39 V... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
North America. ” •Our Analysis: The model identified the correct evidence, but missed the broader context needed to interpret it. Our Evidence Selection prompt instructs the model to include sentences that provide critical context; however, this example demonstrates that identifying such sentences can be challenging wh... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
met all of the following conditions: •The claim was from the subset of FABLES+ or DiverseSumm+ described in Appendix D (since not all variants were evaluated on the full datasets); • The claim was correctly labeled “Not Fully Supported”; and •At least one error stage was identified for the claim (see §3.2 for cases whe... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
our case, the relative frequency of different error stages. It 16We also tested unweighted averages and observed negligible differences. 38 ranges from -1 (perfect inverse agreement) to 1 (perfect agreement). Across all pairwise comparisons, the mean correlation was 0.67 for FABLES+ and 0.66 for DiverseSumm+, indicatin... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21786v1 |
Multimodal Federated Learning: A Survey through the Lens of Different FL Paradigms Yuanzhe Peng University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 pengy1@ufl.eduJieming Bian University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 jieming.bian@ufl.eduLei Wang University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 leiwang1@ufl.edu Yin Huang Universit... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21792v1 |
business units or partners who are unwilling or unable to share raw data due to concerns over intellectual property or legal compliance. In the healthcare domain, clinical records, medical images, and physiological signals are distributed across hospitals and devices, often regulated by strict privacy policies such as ... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21792v1 |
Space Feature Space Feature SpaceSample Space Feature Space Label Label Label (a) Horizontal FL (b) Vertical FL (c) Hybrid FLSample SpaceClient 2 Client 3 Client 4Figure 2: (a) HFL addresses horizontally partitioned sample spaces with consistent feature spaces. (b) VFL addresses vertically partitioned feature spaces wi... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21792v1 |
three FL paradigms: horizontal, vertical, and hybrid FL. It motivates the need for paradigm-specific analysis and outlines the structure of each scenario. Section 3 focuses 3 on multimodal HFL. It formulates the problem, presents representative algorithms, and highlights modality heterogeneity as a key challenge. Secti... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21792v1 |
applications involving cross-institution collaboration, such as healthcare or finance, where each organization contributes a different modality but shares common user identifiers. In hybrid FL (Fig. 2 c), both the sample space and feature space are partitioned. This creates the most complex setting for MFL. Clients dif... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21792v1 |
of samples across all clients is N=PM m=1Nm. Each client mmaintains its own local model parameters θm, and its local objective is to minimize the empirical risk on its own dataset: fm(θm) :=1 NmPNm i=1ℓ(θm;xi m, yi m),where ℓ(θm;xi m, yi m)is the loss function that measures the prediction error of model θmon sample (xi... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21792v1 |
features and incorporates a Transformer [ 19] for textual generation by integrating image-derived features and predicted labels. Additionally, they proposed FedSW, a client scoring strategy that selectively updates model weights based on local performance. While the method out- performs local baselines in BLEU scores, ... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21792v1 |
Central ServerHistolopy Device Genomics Device Other Omics Device Single -modal Feature Extractor Aggregation in Eq. (11)Global DownloadLocal Upload𝑓2(𝐴)𝑓2(𝐵)𝑓3(𝐵) 𝑓1(𝐴)𝑓2(𝐴)𝑓2(𝐵)𝑓3(𝐵) ҧ𝑓(𝐴) ҧ𝑓(𝐵)Privacy Protection Privacy Protection Privacy Protection Extractor Extractor Extractor Embedding 𝐡2(𝐴) C... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21792v1 |
FedMSplit [24] Human activity recognition Graph-based attention module FedSea [40] Search and classification Domain adversarial alignment of features mmFedMC [23] Multimodal healthcare Selects optimal modalities and clients adaptively DisentAFL [25] Multimodal generation Disentangles asymmetric knowledge for symmetry F... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21792v1 |
We define the local dataset for client k(k∈[K]) asxk∈RN×Mk, where M=PK k=1Mk. The i-th row of xcorresponds to a data sample xi(i∈[N]), where each sample xiis composed of feature subsets held by each client, denoted as xi kfor client k, such that xi={xi 1, . . . , xi K}. Each sample xi is associated with a global target... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21792v1 |
server head model and redistributes the updated server head model along with the complete embeddings to the clients for the next training round. Practical Training: The idealized training protocol, while conceptually clear, presents significant communication and computation challenges. Each global training round can be... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21792v1 |
model using auxiliary data. Gradient-based Reconstruction Attacks: These attacks aim to reconstruct private input features or labels by exploiting gradients exchanged during training. In scenarios where attackers have access to sample-level gradients, He et al. [ 58] and Jiang et al. [ 59] proposed white-box model inve... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21792v1 |
label groups without auxiliary data LRI [70] Infer label relationships in graph tasks from prediction structures maximize information leakage. Spectral Attack (SA) [ 69] bypasses the need for auxiliary labels by clustering model outputs. Label-related Relation Inference (LRI) [ 70] targets relational patterns in graph-... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21792v1 |
maintains a set of parameters 11 θk m(referred to as the decomposed model) and an embedding function hk m(·). The local hub ( k= 0) maintains a set of parameters θ0 m(referred to as the head model [ 51]) and a loss function ℓ(·). Thus, the objective of silo mis to minimize: fm(Θm) :=1 NmPNm i=1ℓ(θ0 m◦ {hk m(θk m;xk,i m... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21792v1 |
vertical coordination. Every Qiterations, silo msamples a local mini-batch Bmand initiates embedding exchange among its Kparties. Each party kcomputes its local embedding hk m(θk,t m)based on its own modality and transmits it to the local hub. The hub aggregates these into a joint representation Φt0mand broadcasts it t... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21792v1 |
mobile phones, smart IoT units, and wearables, which typically have limited computational capacity and energy resources. To address this issue, lightweight model design and adaptive training techniques are increasingly used. Model pruning [ 78] and quantization reduce memory usage and computation by removing redundant ... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21792v1 |
inherent in practical MFL deployments. 6.1 Application Scenarios Human Activity Recognition (HAR) plays a pivotal role in ambient intelligence systems and has been widely adopted in applications ranging from health monitoring to smart homes and smart cities. HAR tasks typically rely on multimodal data sources such as R... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21792v1 |
[ 35] addresses client heterogeneity through weighted aggregation strategies that consider sample counts and label diversity. CreamFL [ 6] leverages the Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) model [ 93] and contrastive learning with shared public data to minimize privacy leakage. MFL frameworks enable collabora... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21792v1 |
across different application domains. Application Dataset Modality Primary Task Multimodal Human RecognitionKinetics-400 Video, Text Action Classification UCF101 Video, Audio, Text Action Classification UR Fall Detection Dataset Image, Signal, Text Fall Detection WLASL Video, Text Sign Language Recognition NTU RGB+D 12... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21792v1 |
dancing (g) Riding a bike (i) Playing a violin (k) Braiding hair (m) Dribbling basketball (b) Stretching leg (f) Salsa dancing(d) Tickling (h) Riding unicycle (j) Playing trumpet (l) Brushing hair (n) Dunking basketballFigure 8: Example classes from the Kinetics dataset [ 95]. Note that in some cases, a single image is... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21792v1 |
concerns about fairness and inclusiveness. To address this, future research should focus on developing lightweight, modality-aware local models [ 109] and edge-assisted architectures that offload computations while maintaining data privacy. Balancing efficiency, fairness, and model performance in heterogeneous environm... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21792v1 |
or video-language. Future research should focus on cross-modal attribution methods, per-modality influence analysis, and interpretable client-side logging tools. Improving transparency will not only aid debugging and accountability but also enable secure deployment in sensitive domains such as healthcare and finance. 8... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21792v1 |
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arXiv:2505.21811v1 [cs.IR] 27 May 2025Revisiting Self-attention for Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation Clark Mingxuan Ju mju@snap.com Snap Inc. Bellevue, Washington, USALeonardo Neves lneves@snap.com Snap Inc. Santa Monica, California, USABhuvesh Kumar bkumar4@snap.com Snap Inc. Bellevue, Washington, USA Liam Colli... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21811v1 |
1 Introduction Recommender systems (RecSys) such as product [ 20,41,49], video [ 12, 19,47], and friend recommendation [ 23,40,54] are pivotal in person- alizing millions of user experiences and enhancing users’ engage- ment with web systems. Particularly, sequential RecSys (SR) [ 13,22, 44,61] have drawn significant a... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21811v1 |
The number and percentage of examples that are correctly predicted by BERT4Rec [ 44] trained on different input sequences for KuaiRand-1K [ 9]. Additional settings can be found in Appendix A.4. Pred.Input (i)Single domain(ii)Cross domain(iii) (i)∩(ii)(iv) (i)∪(ii) Domain A 52 (18.3%) 43 (15.1%) 28 (10.0%) 67 (23.6%) Do... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21811v1 |
selectively regulating cross-domain interactions. We frame this as a multi-objective optimization prob- lem, where a Pareto-optimal solution ensures that cross-domain communication occurs only when it benefits the primary recom- mendation task. Intuitively, the model prioritizes optimizing rec- ommendation performance ... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21811v1 |
user-item interactions across different do- mains without considering their sequential nature [ 10,25,30,43,62]. Follow-up research proposes cross-domain sequential recommenda- tion (CDSR) to further improve performance by explicitly injecting additional domain-specific components, such as adding additional supervision... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21811v1 |
representation of items in 𝑋can be derived as: H∗=LN FFN softmax(A)·V+H ,with V=(H+P)·W𝑉,(3) where LN(·)refers to layer normalization to stabilize the train- ing process, FFN(·)is stacked feed-forward layers with non-linear transformations, and W𝑉∈R𝑟×𝑟refers to the transformation ma- trix that converts the orig... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21811v1 |
𝑖=1𝑀∑︁ 𝑗=1softmax(A)𝑖,𝑗·I(𝑑(𝑥𝑖)≠𝑑(𝑥𝑗)), (5) where𝑑(·)returns the domain of an item and I(·)is an indicator function that returns 1 if the enclosed statement is true otherwise 0. Intuitively, 𝑎cdquantifies the extent of information exchange between items from different domains. Higher values of 𝑎cdindicate... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21811v1 |
In order to automate the knowledge transfer between domains, we re-formulate the optimization problem in Equation (6) as a multi- task learning (MTL) problem with two tasks: min 𝜽L(𝜽)=min 𝜽 Lrec(𝜽),Lcd-attn(𝜽) , (7) where 𝜽refers to the set of model parameters. We reconcile between the recommendation loss Lreca... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21811v1 |
partition the Pareto front into 𝐾 4The set of all Pareto optimal solutions with different preferences over tasks. 5The surface constituted by all linear weighted scalarization of descent directions. KDD ’25, August 3–7, 2025, Toronto, ON, Canada Clark Mingxuan Ju, et al. sub-regions, we first define 𝐾+1preference vec... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21811v1 |
processed separately. IB tokens attend to elements within their respective domains to capture domain-specific knowledge, while cross-domain information exchange occurs exclusively be- tween IB tokens associated with different domains. Following this exchange, items within each domain re-attend to the updated IB to- ken... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21811v1 |
0.317 0.355 0.724 0.810 0.597 0.625 C2DSR 0.320 0.420 0.241 0.271 0.234 0.345 0.182 0.218 0.265 0.379 0.184 0.221 0.256 0.367 0.182 0.218 0.362 0.501 0.249 0.294 CGRec 0.261 0.352 0.189 0.218 0.339 0.452 0.242 0.278 0.384 0.504 0.274 0.313 0.394 0.512 0.284 0.323 0.655 0.758 0.519 0.553 Single-domain Models with Cross-... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21811v1 |
58.7% 45.9% 9.2% 13.2% 9.7% 7.6% 11.4% 10.6% 8.9% 8.0% behaviors from Book, Clothing, Video, Toy, and Sports domains. Whereas for Internal , we use the in-app surface where the user behavior comes from as the domain indicator. Baselines : We compare AutoCDSR andAutoCDSR+against a broad range of baselines, including dom... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21811v1 |
to settings in Figure 2, ‘Both Correct’ and ‘Single-domain ✓, Cross-domain ✗’ columns are stratas where single domain knowledge is sufficient for correct predictions and incorporating cross-domain information might in- troduce negative transfer. In these two columns, the cross-domain attention scores are significantly ... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21811v1 |
0.5 0.75 1Task WeightKuaiRand-1K (Type A, Corrupt 10%)KuaiRand-1K (Type A, Corrupt 50%)0 0.25 0.5 0.75 1Task Weight0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10Training Steps (1e4) Figure 5: Task weight trajectory derived by AutoCDSR . behaviors during the training and examine if AutoCDSR can re- cover the performance of the base transformer... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21811v1 |
Bos, and Ron Dotsch. 2024. General-Purpose User Modeling with Behavioral Logs: A Snapchat Case Study. In Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval . 2431–2436. [9]Chongming Gao, Shijun Li, Yuan Zhang, Jiawei Chen, Biao Li, Wenqiang Lei, Peng Jiang, a... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21811v1 |
Ju, Zihao Fan, Tong Zhao, Elham Ghazizadeh, Yan Wu, Neil Shah, and Yozen Liu. 2024. Robust Training Objectives Improve Embedding-based Retrieval in Industrial Recommendation Systems. RobustRecSys Workshop at RecSys (2024). [24] Giwoong Lee, Eunho Yang, and Sung Hwang. 2016. Asymmetric multi-task learning based on task ... | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21811v1 |
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