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# 1 Introduction Large language model (LLM) capabilities have transformed numerous domains, from creative writing to scientific research. A critical detail of LLM deployment is the sampling method: the algorithm that determines how tokens are sampled during generation. Sampling strategies directly impact the quality a...
Sampling from language models impacts the quality and diversity of outputs, affecting both research and real-world applications. Recently, Nguyen et al. 2024's "Turning Up the Heat: Min-p Sampling for Creative and Coherent LLM Outputs" introduced a new sampler called min-p, claiming it achieves superior quality and div...
[ "cs.CL", "cs.LG" ]
# 1 Introduction Time series forecasting has traditionally relied on historical patterns and temporal dependencies to predict future values. However, in complex real-world applications such as electrical consumption prediction, the incorporation of external factors has proven crucial for improving forecast accuracy [1...
Accurate electrical consumption forecasting is crucial for efficient energy management and resource allocation. While traditional time series forecasting relies on historical patterns and temporal dependencies, incorporating external factors -- such as weather indicators -- has shown significant potential for improving...
[ "cs.LG", "cs.AI" ]
# Introduction Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune disorder that affects approximately 2.8 million individuals worldwide, making it one of the most prevalent neurological diseases among young adults (Sadeghibakhi et al., 2022). It Machine learning (ML), particularly convolutional neural networks (CNNs), h...
Background: Accurate lesion segmentation is critical for multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis, yet current deep learning approaches face robustness challenges. Aim: This study improves MS lesion segmentation by combining data fusion and deep learning techniques. Materials and Methods: We suggested novel radiomic featu...
[ "eess.IV", "cs.CV" ]
# 1 Introduction LLM-based agent systems have seen widespread adoption across diverse domains, such as medicine [32], programming [15, 51], robotics [35, 55], psychology [41], and general-purpose personal assistants [13, 5]. Driven by rapid advancements, agent systems are emerging as a new software paradigm, playing a...
LLM-based agent systems are emerging as a new software paradigm and have been widely adopted across diverse domains such as medicine, robotics, and programming. However, maintaining these systems requires substantial effort, as they are inevitably prone to bugs and continually evolve to meet changing external requireme...
[ "cs.AI", "cs.SE" ]
# 1 Introduction Cloud-native timeseries monitoring systems such as Prometheus [1], VictoriaMetrics [7], and Grafana Mimir [19] are widely used as the cloud telemetry platform, where various metrics such as sensor readings [81], IP network traffic information [12, 24, 25, 29, 59], and cluster CPU and memory utilizatio...
Timeseries monitoring systems such as Prometheus play a crucial role in gaining observability of the underlying system components. These systems collect timeseries metrics from various system components and perform monitoring queries over periodic window-based aggregations (i.e., rule queries). However, despite wide ad...
[ "cs.DB", "cs.NI" ]
# 1 Introduction Recent advances in computational capabilities have sparked a data-centric paradigm shift in deep learning. Moving beyond an exclusive reliance on architectural innovations, the AI community now prioritizes large-scale data utilization, as evidenced by the success of GPT-4 [1] in language processing an...
Recent advances in graph machine learning have shifted to data-centric paradigms, driven by two emerging fields: (1) Federated graph learning (FGL) enables multi-client collaboration but faces challenges from data and task heterogeneity, limiting its practicality; (2) Graph foundation models (GFM) offer strong domain g...
[ "cs.LG", "cs.AI", "cs.DB", "cs.SI" ]
# 1 Introduction Neural View Synthesis (NVS) has emerged as a transformative technology in computer vision and graphics, enabling the generation of photorealistic images from arbitrary camera viewpoints given sparse input views. The field has witnessed remarkable progress with the introduction of Neural Radiance Field...
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a promising approach for novel view synthesis, offering real-time rendering with high visual fidelity. However, its substantial storage requirements present significant challenges for practical applications. While recent state-of-the-art (SOTA) 3DGS methods increasingly incor...
[ "cs.CV" ]
# Introduction Recent advancements in image generation (Cao et al. 2024; Zhang et al. 2023; Xu et al. 2024; Ruiz et al. 2023) and video generation (Bar-Tal et al. 2024; Chen et al. 2025; Kong et al. 2024) have demonstrated remarkable success, enabling a wide range of applications in computer graphics, cultural heritag...
Generating realistic and controllable human motions, particularly those involving rich multi-character interactions, remains a significant challenge due to data scarcity and the complexities of modeling inter-personal dynamics. To address these limitations, we first introduce a new large-scale rich video human motion 2...
[ "cs.CV" ]
# 1 Introduction Program repair, or automatic bug fixing, promises to generate corrective patches for faulty code [Monperrus, 2018]. Recent years have seen dramatic improvements in the quality and complexity of patches thanks to learning based program repair, with the most complex bugs being repaired by frontier LLMs ...
Automatic program repair seeks to generate correct code from buggy programs, with most approaches searching the correct program in a discrete, symbolic space of source code tokens. This symbolic search is fundamentally limited by its inability to directly reason about program behavior. We introduce Gradient-Based Progr...
[ "cs.PL", "cs.LG", "cs.SE" ]
# 1. Introduction Code-switching (CS), the natural and fluid alternation between two or more languages within a single conversation or utterance, is a pervasive linguistic phenomenon worldwide, particularly as multilingualism grows [1]. Despite its widespread nature, research on CS, especially in Automatic Speech Reco...
Code-switching (CS), common in multilingual settings, presents challenges for ASR due to scarce and costly transcribed data caused by linguistic complexity. This study investigates building CS-ASR using synthetic CS data. We propose a phrase-level mixing method to generate synthetic CS data that mimics natural patterns...
[ "cs.CL", "cs.AI", "cs.SD", "eess.AS" ]
# 1. INTRODUCTION Notation-level music transcription is the process of converting musical audio or symbolic data into a written form. This task is both challenging and essential in the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) [1]. Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) seeks to address the limitations of manual transcr...
Music transcription plays a pivotal role in Music Information Retrieval (MIR), particularly for stringed instruments like the guitar, where symbolic music notations such as MIDI lack crucial playability information. This contribution introduces the Fretting-Transformer, an encoderdecoder model that utilizes a T5 transf...
[ "cs.SD", "cs.CL", "cs.MM", "eess.AS" ]
# 1 Introduction The remarkable success of the OpenAI-O1 series models (OpenAI, 2024) and DeepSeek-R1 (DeepSeekAI, 2025) has demonstrated the substantial potential of large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) for complex reasoning tasks, attracting significant research attention. However, the detailed methodologies empl...
We present Ring-lite, a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)-based large language model optimized via reinforcement learning (RL) to achieve efficient and robust reasoning capabilities. Built upon the publicly available Ling-lite model, a 16.8 billion parameter model with 2.75 billion activated parameters, our approach matches the...
[ "cs.CL", "cs.AI" ]
# 1 Introduction Efficient query processing is essential for the performance of modern database management systems, particularly as the complexity and size of data continue to grow. Join operations, which combine records from multiple tables, play a pivotal role in this process; however, traditional join algorithms of...
Join processing is a fundamental operation in database management systems; however, traditional join algorithms often encounter efficiency challenges when dealing with complex queries that produce intermediate results much larger than the final query output. The emergence of worst-case optimal join (WCOJ) algorithms re...
[ "cs.DB" ]
# 1 Introduction In modern healthcare systems, accurate and timely diagnosis stands as a critical component in patient management and treatment [18]. To form a diagnosis, clinicians often engage in clinical decisionmaking through a dynamic, iterative process, called differential diagnosis. This process involves formin...
Clinical decision-making is a dynamic, interactive, and cyclic process where doctors have to repeatedly decide on which clinical action to perform and consider newly uncovered information for diagnosis and treatment. Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to support clinicians in this process, however, most ap...
[ "cs.CL", "cs.AI", "cs.LG" ]
# 1 Introduction Plagiarism is a prevalent challenge in computer science education, facilitated by the ease of duplicating and modifying digital assignments [15, 42, 35]. Although students generally acknowledge plagiarism as academic misconduct, some will engage in it despite the threat of consequences [68]. Therefore...
Plagiarism in programming assignments is a persistent issue in computer science education, increasingly complicated by the emergence of automated obfuscation attacks. While software plagiarism detectors are widely used to identify suspicious similarities at scale and are resilient to simple obfuscation techniques, they...
[ "cs.SE" ]
# 1. Introduction This paper introduces ReaLchords, a generative model tailored for online adaptive musical accompaniment. Emulating the spontaneity of live music jamming, ReaLchords generates chord accompaniments in response to a stream of monophonic melody notes, adapting on-the-fly to the unfolding musical narrativ...
Jamming requires coordination, anticipation, and collaborative creativity between musicians. Current generative models of music produce expressive output but are not able to generate in an \emph{online} manner, meaning simultaneously with other musicians (human or otherwise). We propose ReaLchords, an online generative...
[ "cs.SD", "cs.AI" ]
# 1 Introduction Tropical cyclones (TCs, also known as hurricanes or typhoons) have been the most damaging single form of weatherrelated natural disaster globally in terms of both loss of life and economic damage in recent decades (World Meteorological Organization, 2021). In the United States (U.S.), storm surge has ...
Storm surge is one of the deadliest hazards posed by tropical cyclones (TCs), yet assessing its current and future risk is difficult due to the phenomenon's rarity and physical complexity. Recent advances in artificial intelligence applications to natural hazard modeling suggest a new avenue for addressing this problem...
[ "physics.ao-ph", "cs.LG" ]
# 1 Introduction Counterfactual generation is fundamental to causal reasoning [37, 40, 1], allowing us to explore hypothetical scenarios, such as How would this patient’s disease have progressed if treatment A had been administered instead of treatment B? The ability to answer such causal questions is important across...
Counterfactual image generation aims to simulate realistic visual outcomes under specific causal interventions. Diffusion models have recently emerged as a powerful tool for this task, combining DDIM inversion with conditional generation via classifier-free guidance (CFG). However, standard CFG applies a single global ...
[ "cs.CV", "cs.AI" ]
# 1 Introduction Vision-language models (VLMs) have made notable progress in general-domain tasks, such as crop anomaly detection[1] and intelligent video surveillance[2]. In the medical and healthcare domain, researchers have recently adapted VLMs to support medical visual question answering (VQA), with promising res...
Recent advancements in vision-language systems have improved the accuracy of Radiological Visual Question Answering (VQA) Models. However, some challenges remain across each stage of model development: limited expert-labeled images hinders data procurement at scale; the intricate and nuanced patterns of radiological im...
[ "cs.CV", "cs.AI" ]
# 1 Introduction With the burgeoning development of machine learning (ML) applications, there is an increasing use of sensitive data, including financial transactions, medical records, and personal digital footprints, for training purposes. Numerous studies [39, 42, 53] have highlighted serious privacy risks associate...
Membership inference attacks (MIAs) pose a significant threat to the privacy of machine learning models and are widely used as tools for privacy assessment, auditing, and machine unlearning. While prior MIA research has primarily focused on performance metrics such as AUC, accuracy, and TPR@low FPR - either by developi...
[ "cs.LG" ]
# 1 Introduction Robotic systems are increasingly expected to operate in dynamic, uncertain, and unstructured environments, making self-adaptation a crucial capability. Unlike traditional robots that follow pre-programmed behaviours, self-adaptive robots exploit artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven techniques ...
Self-adaptive robotic systems are designed to operate autonomously in dynamic and uncertain environments, requiring robust mechanisms to monitor, analyse, and adapt their behaviour in real-time. Unlike traditional robotic software, which follows predefined logic, self-adaptive robots leverage artificial intelligence, m...
[ "cs.SE", "cs.RO" ]
# 1 INTRODUCTION Relational operations such as filtering, join, and group-by are the crux of data science tasks such as data analysis [36, 98, 103], data cleaning [19, 23], and feature engineering [25, 31]. They are commonly performed in dataframes—a table-like data structure widely used in data science due to their l...
Mojo is an emerging programming language built on MLIR (Multi-Level Intermediate Representation) and JIT compilation. It enables transparent optimizations with respect to the underlying hardware (e.g., CPUs, GPUs), while allowing users to express their logic using Python-like user-friendly syntax. Mojo has been shown t...
[ "cs.DB" ]
# 1. Introduction Reconstructing high-quality, animatable 3D human avatars from casually captured images is a crucial task in computer graphics, with broad applications like virtual reality and telepresence. A practical solution should support rapid and robust reconstruction from minimal input—ideally using only one o...
Reconstructing an animatable 3D human from casually captured images of an articulated subject without camera or human pose information is a practical yet challenging task due to view misalignment, occlusions, and the absence of structural priors. While optimization-based methods can produce high-fidelity results from m...
[ "cs.CV" ]
# I. Introduction Temporarily static object detection has many applications. Depending on the application, temporarily static objects can be abandoned items such as luggage, illegally parked vehicles, removed objects from the scene, etc. A significant amount of research has been done on the detection of abandoned item...
In general, background subtraction-based methods are used to detect moving objects in visual tracking applications. In this paper, we employed a background subtraction-based scheme to detect the temporarily stationary objects. We proposed two schemes for stationary object detection, and we compare those in terms of det...
[ "cs.CV" ]
# 1 Introduction X-ray computed tomography (XCT) is a critical technique with many applications in medical and industrial imaging. In industrial XCT, reconstructing a 3D object requires solving a large inverse problem using many projections from different angles. The resulting reconstruction can be used for internal i...
Cone-beam X-ray computed tomography (XCT) is an essential imaging technique for generating 3D reconstructions of internal structures, with applications ranging from medical to industrial imaging. Producing high-quality reconstructions typically requires many X-ray measurements; this process can be slow and expensive, e...
[ "eess.IV", "cs.CV" ]
# 1 Introduction SWE-Dev 14000 train + 500 test samples 17 Chatbot LLMs Input Task Generate Code Evaluation 10 Reasoning LLMs Codebase Updated Codebase Testcase 10 Multi-Agent Systems num2words/ num2words/lang_EN.py Convert ordinal to English: test_ordinal Project Requirement Description cl.da.es.fs Ntuom_2yWeoar(ds_...
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong capability in diverse software engineering tasks, e.g. code completion, bug fixing, and document generation. However, feature-driven development (FDD), a highly prevalent real-world task that involves developing new functionalities for large, existing codebases, remains un...
[ "cs.SE", "cs.CL" ]
# 1 INTRODUCTION Life narratives are deeply unique and valuable [10, 35, 82], shaped through an interplay of personal memories that involve achievements, struggles, and moments of reflection. Capturing and expressing these narratives through an autobiography is a powerful way for people to preserve their legacy [5, 15...
Every individual carries a unique and personal life story shaped by their memories and experiences. However, these memories are often scattered and difficult to organize into a coherent narrative, a challenge that defines the task of autobiography writing. Existing conversational writing assistants tend to rely on gene...
[ "cs.HC", "cs.AI", "cs.MA" ]
# I. INTRODUCTION Automatic code generation aims to reduce manual coding and boost productivity [1], with LLMs like GPT-4 [2] making significant advancements. However, ensuring accuracy and correctness remains a challenge. Recently, several approaches have been proposed to enhance LLM-based code generation. These incl...
Automatic code generation has gained significant momentum with the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT-4. Although many studies focus on improving the effectiveness of LLMs for code generation, very limited work tries to understand the generated code's characteristics and leverage that to improve failed ...
[ "cs.SE", "cs.AI" ]
# 1 Introduction Cloud architecture design requires integrating diverse services to fulfill requirements while optimizing system qualities including scalability, security, and cost-efficiency [1, 2]. A central challenge is refining ambiguous requirements into precise specifications [3], requiring architects to identif...
Cloud architecture design is a complex process requiring both technical expertise and architectural knowledge to develop solutions from frequently ambiguous requirements. We present CloudArchitectBuddy, a system-driven cloud architecture design support application with two key mechanisms: (1) structured state managemen...
[ "cs.SE", "cs.HC" ]
# 1 Introduction Simulators have proven to be an indispensable tool for synthesizing policies for robot control. Sim-to-real techniques are now the de facto standard in creating robust and performant policies for real robots [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. Predominantly, these simulators have been used as black-box functions where p...
Contact forces pose a major challenge for gradient-based optimization of robot dynamics as they introduce jumps in the system's velocities. Penalty-based simulators, such as MuJoCo, simplify gradient computation by softening the contact forces. However, realistically simulating hard contacts requires very stiff contact...
[ "cs.RO", "cs.LG", "cs.SY", "eess.SY", "I.2.9; I.2.6; I.6.4; G.1.6" ]
# 1 Introduction The problem of estimating the mean of a random variable from a finite sample of its i.i.d. copies is fundamental in statistics and machine learning. When the random variable has exponentially decaying tails, the sample mean exhibits optimal or near-optimal performance. In particular, for $\varepsilon ...
The Median of Means (MoM) is a mean estimator that has gained popularity in the context of heavy-tailed data. In this work, we analyze its performance in the task of simultaneously estimating the mean of each function in a class $\mathcal{F}$ when the data distribution possesses only the first $p$ moments for $p \in (1...
[ "stat.ML", "cs.LG" ]
# Introduction In the past decade, public repositories (e.g., Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) [1], ArrayExpress [2], European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) [3], Accelerating Medicins Partnership Parkinson’s Disease (AMP-PD) [4], Synapse [5]) have facilitated access to thousands of omics datasets accompanied by clinical ...
The growing volume of omics and clinical data generated for neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) requires new approaches for their curation so they can be ready-to-use in bioinformatics. NeuroEmbed is an approach for the engineering of semantically accurate embedding spaces to represent cohorts and samples. The NeuroEmbed ...
[ "cs.CL" ]
# 1 Introduction Today’s smart IoT devices, such as smart speakers, smart bulbs, and various smart display devices, are commonly connected to home routers or mesh network hubs via WiFi. Beyond their primary role in communication, the WiFi signals between these devices inherently capture rich information about the surr...
WiFi sensing has emerged as a compelling contactless modality for human activity monitoring by capturing fine-grained variations in Channel State Information (CSI). Its ability to operate continuously and non-intrusively while preserving user privacy makes it particularly suitable for health monitoring. However, existi...
[ "eess.SP", "cs.AI", "cs.DB" ]
# 1. Introduction Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in natural language processing, fundamentally reshaping the landscape of artificial intelligence. A burgeoning area of research now focuses on extending these powerful models to the speech modality, leveraging their powerful seman...
This report details the NTU Speechlab system developed for the Interspeech 2025 Multilingual Conversational Speech and Language Model (MLC-SLM) Challenge (Task I), where we achieved 5th place. We present comprehensive analyses of our multilingual automatic speech recognition system, highlighting key advancements in mod...
[ "cs.CL", "eess.AS" ]
# 1 Introduction Literary translation is a complex task that goes beyond simple word-for-word conversion. It demands a deep understanding of cultural nuances and the preservation of the author’s unique voice through creative adaptation for a new audience. Unlike technical translation, which prioritizes precision and c...
Literary translation requires preserving cultural nuances and stylistic elements, which traditional metrics like BLEU and METEOR fail to assess due to their focus on lexical overlap. This oversight neglects the narrative consistency and stylistic fidelity that are crucial for literary works. To address this, we propose...
[ "cs.CL" ]
2. Introduction2 As software engineering data are symbolic by nature, in this chapter, we will present fault localization using symbolic methods. Symbolic methods tend to lend themselves naturally to give explanations, and this is exactly what we are looking for in fault localization. Indeed, we prefer a system with t...
This chapter illustrates the basic concepts of fault localization using a data mining technique. It utilizes the Trityp program to illustrate the general method. Formal concept analysis and association rule are two well-known methods for symbolic data mining. In their original inception, they both consider data in the ...
[ "cs.SE", "cs.AI" ]
# 1 Introduction Sequential resource allocation (SRA) involves distributing limited resources across locations over time, where an agent allocates resources at a sequence of demand nodes while satisfying upper and lower bound constraints. The objective is to allocate resources efficiently while adhering to these const...
Sequential Resource Allocation with situational constraints presents a significant challenge in real-world applications, where resource demands and priorities are context-dependent. This paper introduces a novel framework, SCRL, to address this problem. We formalize situational constraints as logic implications and dev...
[ "cs.AI" ]
# 1 Introduction Diffusion Models (DMs) [1–3] are a state-of-the-art class of generative model, achieving high quality, diverse sampling of complex data distributions. A particularly successful application is in conditional generation of image data, enabling rapid progress in class-conditioned image generation [4–6], ...
The success of diffusion models has driven interest in performing conditional sampling via training-free guidance of the denoising process to solve image restoration and other inverse problems. A popular class of methods, based on Diffusion Posterior Sampling (DPS), attempts to approximate the intractable posterior sco...
[ "stat.ML", "cs.CV", "cs.LG" ]
# 1 INTRODUCTION When photographing an object, we often want both a full overview and fine-grained material details. However, everyday cameras have fixed resolution, forcing a trade-off between coverage and detail. For example, product images typically show a low-detail full view alongside isolated close-ups, which li...
We present UltraZoom, a system for generating gigapixel-resolution images of objects from casually captured inputs, such as handheld phone photos. Given a full-shot image (global, low-detail) and one or more close-ups (local, high-detail), UltraZoom upscales the full image to match the fine detail and scale of the clos...
[ "cs.GR", "cs.CV" ]
# 1 Introduction Li-ion batteries are widely deployed for transportation, grid stabilization, and power tools. These applications require specialized batteries, e.g., with long service life, or performance under extreme conditions. Enhancing the usable lifespan and power density of future batteries will greatly aid in...
Interdisciplinary collaboration in battery science is required for rapid evaluation of better compositions and materials. However, diverging domain vocabulary and non-compatible experimental results slow down cooperation. We critically assess the current state-of-the-art and develop a structured data management and int...
[ "cs.DB", "physics.data-an" ]
# 1. Introduction Code review is essential for improving code quality and detecting defects (Fagan, 2002). Modern Code Review (MCR) is widely used in open-source (Rigby et al., 2008; 2014; Rigby & Bird, 2013) and industrial settings (Sadowski et al., 2018; Shan et al., 2022), typically involving: (A) code submission, ...
The complexity of code reviews has driven efforts to automate review comments, but prior approaches oversimplify this task by treating it as snippet-level code-to-text generation and relying on text similarity metrics like BLEU for evaluation. These methods overlook repository context, real-world merge request evaluati...
[ "cs.SE", "cs.AI", "cs.CL", "cs.LG" ]
# I. INTRODUCTION Public procurement represents a major component of government expenditure, necessitating effective management to ensure fair allocation of public funds and economic stability. However, traditional data storage formats, often tabular or unstructured, limit transparency, accessibility, and analytical d...
Public procurement plays a critical role in government operations, ensuring the efficient allocation of resources and fostering economic growth. However, traditional procurement data is often stored in rigid, tabular formats, limiting its analytical potential and hindering transparency. This research presents a methodo...
[ "cs.DB", "cs.LG" ]
# 1. Introduction This paper proposes a variational inference algorithm based on particle methods to sample from multimodal densitiesMore precisely, we consider the problem of approximating measure of interest $\pi$ , which will be assumed to take the form $$ \pi ( d x ) = \frac { 1 } { Z } \rho ( x ) d x , $$ where...
We propose a novel particle-based variational inference method designed to work with multimodal distributions. Our approach, referred to as Branched Stein Variational Gradient Descent (BSVGD), extends the classical Stein Variational Gradient Descent (SVGD) algorithm by incorporating a random branching mechanism that en...
[ "cs.LG", "stat.CO", "62F15, 65C05, 65C35" ]
# 1 INTRODUCTION In applications that involve dynamic decision-making, such as ad placement and recommendation systems, exploration can be costly and risky. These constraints limit the use of online exploration of actions, thereby motivating the study of offline policy learning methods. Off-policy learning (OPL) addre...
Off-policy learning (OPL) in contextual bandits aims to learn a decision-making policy that maximizes the target rewards by using only historical interaction data collected under previously developed policies. Unfortunately, when rewards are only partially observed, the effectiveness of OPL degrades severely. Well-know...
[ "cs.LG", "62L05, 68T05", "I.2.6; G.3" ]
# 1 Introduction Recent successes in harnessing internet-scale data to train image and language foundation models [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] have spurred an analogous push in robotics. In contrast with earlier methods that focused on achieving expert-level capabilities in narrow, controlled domains, recent efforts in robotics...
Action-labeled data for robotics is scarce and expensive, limiting the generalization of learned policies. In contrast, vast amounts of action-free video data are readily available, but translating these observations into effective policies remains a challenge. We introduce AMPLIFY, a novel framework that leverages lar...
[ "cs.RO", "cs.CV", "cs.LG" ]
# I. INTRODUCTION For verification through model-checking, the complexity of the formal models used is highly critical. A usual approach to address this is through abstraction, and we propose structural abstraction of the environment model. Technically, our approach approximates environment objects via a composition o...
Safety verification of robot applications is extremely challenging due to the complexity of the environment that a robot typically operates in. Formal verification with model-checking provides guarantees but it may often take too long or even fail for complex models of the environment. A usual solution approach is abst...
[ "cs.RO", "cs.SE" ]
# Introduction Parameter-efficient adaptation/fine-tuning [64] plays a central role in the practical deployment of large-scale pre-training models, especially in multi-task learning (MTL) scenarios [73, 57, 11, 58, 40]. Take large language models (LLMs) [75] in natural language processing (NLP) tasks as an example. To...
Adapting large-scale foundation models in multi-task scenarios often suffers from task conflict and oblivion. To mitigate such issues, we propose a novel ''model MoE-ization'' strategy that leads to a conflict- and oblivion-resistant multi-task adaptation method. Given a weight matrix of a pre-trained model, our method...
[ "cs.LG" ]
# 1 INTRODUCTION Cardinality estimation (CardEst), which estimates the result size of an SQL query on a relational database, is a fundamental component Tongyu Liu Renmin University of China ltyzzz@ruc.edu.cn Kai Zeng Huawei Technologies kai.zeng@huawei.com Tao Ye Huawei Technologies yetao1@huawei.com Nan Tang HKUS...
Cardinality estimation is a fundamental component in database systems, crucial for generating efficient execution plans. Despite advancements in learning-based cardinality estimation, existing methods may struggle to simultaneously optimize the key criteria: estimation accuracy, inference time, and storage overhead, li...
[ "cs.DB", "H.2.4; E.5" ]
# 1 Introduction As large language models continue to advance, the design of their evaluations becomes increasingly important, as it shapes the development priorities of the next generation of models and guides the broader trajectory toward artificial general intelligence (Chang et al., 2024). Current benchmarks Part...
As evaluation designs of large language models may shape our trajectory toward artificial general intelligence, comprehensive and forward-looking assessment is essential. Existing benchmarks primarily assess static knowledge, while intelligence also entails the ability to rapidly learn from experience. To this end, we ...
[ "cs.CL" ]
# I. INTRODUCTION MAGE segmentation is a foundational component of visual perception in intelligent transportation systems (ITS), enabling autonomous vehicles to interpret complex driving environments with precision and reliability [1]. By delineating road lanes, detecting obstacles, segmenting pedestrians, and recogn...
The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) with computer vision is profoundly transforming perception tasks like image segmentation. For intelligent transportation systems (ITS), where accurate scene understanding is critical for safety and efficiency, this new paradigm offers unprecedented capabilities. This surv...
[ "cs.CV", "cs.AI" ]
# 1 Introduction Join cardinality estimation is a challenging problem in database query optimization [33, 23], especially when queries include filter conditions on the joining tables [52]. Traditional data synopses such as histograms and samples [9] are built over entire relations before querying. While this maximizes...
Sketches have shown high accuracy in multi-way join cardinality estimation, a critical problem in cost-based query optimization. Accurately estimating the cardinality of a join operation -- analogous to its computational cost -- allows the optimization of query execution costs in relational database systems. However, a...
[ "cs.DB", "cs.LG" ]
# 1 Introduction Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has led to remarkable successes in domains ranging from games to robotics, largely by representing policies as highly parametrized neural networks and optimizing them end-to-end [Lillicrap et al., 2019; Schulman et al., 2017]. However, neural policies often struggle to...
Algorithms for learning programmatic representations for sequential decision-making problems are often evaluated on out-of-distribution (OOD) problems, with the common conclusion that programmatic policies generalize better than neural policies on OOD problems. In this position paper, we argue that commonly used benchm...
[ "cs.LG" ]
# 1. Introduction Dense retrieval retrieves documents by evaluating their similarity scores with user queries (Mitra et al., 2018; Gao & Callan, 2021; Zhao et al., 2024c). It underpins many systems, in particular, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) frameworks (Karpukhin et al., 2020), where retrieval accuracy is pa...
Although Multi-Vector Retrieval (MVR) has achieved the state of the art on many information retrieval (IR) tasks, its performance highly depends on how to decompose queries into smaller pieces, say phrases or tokens. However, optimizing query decomposition for MVR performance is not end-to-end differentiable. Even wors...
[ "cs.IR", "cs.DB" ]
# 1 Introduction Monocular 3D human pose estimation is a fundamental task in computer vision that aims to predict human body poses in 3D space from a single RGB image. It serves as a key enabling technology for a wide range of applications, including motion analysis[1], human-computer interaction[2], [3] and virtual/...
Existing monocular 3D pose estimation methods primarily rely on joint positional features, while overlooking intrinsic directional and angular correlations within the skeleton. As a result, they often produce implausible poses under joint occlusions or rapid motion changes. To address these challenges, we propose the P...
[ "cs.CV", "cs.AI" ]
# 1 Introduction Quantifying the spatial distributions of elastic properties, specifically Young’s modulus and Poisson’s ratio is crucial in numerous applications, including biomedical imaging. Young’s modulus characterizes a material’s local resistance to elastic (reversible) axial deformation, while Poisson’s ratio ...
Accurately estimating spatially heterogeneous elasticity parameters, particularly Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio, from noisy displacement measurements remains significantly challenging in inverse elasticity problems. Existing inverse estimation techniques are often limited by instability, pronounced sensitivity to...
[ "cs.LG" ]
# 1 Introduction Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in automatic code generation, enabling developers to translate natural language descriptions into executable programs (Hong et al., 2023; Liu et al., 2024a). However, as coding tasks grow in complexity, relying on a single LLM inst...
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated effectiveness in code generation tasks. To enable LLMs to address more complex coding challenges, existing research has focused on crafting multi-agent systems with agentic workflows, where complex coding tasks are decomposed into sub-tasks, assigned to specialized agents....
[ "cs.SE", "cs.AI", "cs.CL" ]
# 1 Introduction Large language models (LLMs) have transformed the capabilities of conversational AI, advancing chatbots and overcoming their previous limitations to facilitate more nuanced and contextually aware interactions [21]. In contrast to traditional rule-based chatbots with constrained response patterns, LLM-...
Despite significant advancements in conversational AI, large language model (LLM)-powered chatbots often struggle with personalizing their responses according to individual user characteristics, such as technical expertise, learning style, and communication preferences. This lack of personalization is particularly prob...
[ "cs.AI" ]
# 1 Introduction With its powerful multimodal perception and generalization capabilities, the Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) has become a universal technical paradigm for addressing diverse scenarios and has demonstrated strong generative capabilities in video understanding [31, 48, 29, 1]. However, when appli...
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) struggle with long videos due to fixed context windows and weak long-term dependency modeling. Existing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) methods for videos use static retrieval strategies, leading to inefficiencies for simple queries and information loss for complex tasks. T...
[ "cs.CV" ]
# I. INTRODUCTION Longer undergraduate programming projects like capstones, hackathons, or sprints are often characterized by team collaboration and intense student dedication. Frequently, the client is an external entity, such as a company representative, and in these scenarios, the student team is responsible for st...
This full paper in innovative practice provides an automated tool to summarize individual code contributions in project-based courses with external clients. Real industry projects offer valuable learning opportunities by immersing students in authentic problems defined by external clients. However, the open-ended and h...
[ "cs.SE", "cs.CY" ]
# 1 Introduction Linear contextual bandits (LinCB) provide a simple yet powerful framework for sequential decision-making. At each decision epoch, an agent selects an action from a set of context vectors to maximize cumulative rewards, assumed to be linear functions of the chosen contexts. A special case is the multi-...
In linear contextual bandits, the objective is to select actions that maximize cumulative rewards, modeled as a linear function with unknown parameters. Although Thompson Sampling performs well empirically, it does not achieve optimal regret bounds. This paper proposes a nearly minimax optimal Thompson Sampling for lin...
[ "stat.ML", "cs.LG" ]
# 1 Introduction When developing software, large efforts are spent on quality assurance [2], which is mainly performed by conducting a number of automated and manual tests on the software. Developers use such tests to determine the compliance of the software with domain requirements as well as to determine the quality...
One important step in software development is testing the finished product with actual users. These tests aim, among other goals, at determining unintuitive behavior of the software as it is presented to the end-user. Moreover, they aim to determine inconsistencies in the user-facing interface. They provide valuable fe...
[ "cs.SE" ]
# 1 Introduction Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are integrated hardware-software systems where computation and physical processes are deeply intertwined. Ensuring safety [7] in these systems, in particular for the safety-critical ones is of high importance, as failures can have critical consequences. One of the key stra...
Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are complex systems that integrate physical, computational, and communication subsystems. The heterogeneous nature of these systems makes their safety assurance challenging. In this paper, we propose a novel automated approach for guardrailing cyber-physical systems using property-based te...
[ "cs.SE" ]
# 1 INTRODUCTION Group aggregation, represented in SQL via GROUP BY, is a fundamental operation in analytical query processing, especially decisionsupport workloads [22]. To ensure that database systems continue to scale well with new many-core architectures, it is critical to build highly concurrent group aggregation...
Efficiently computing group aggregations (i.e., GROUP BY) on modern many-core architectures is critical for analytic database systems. Today's engines predominately use a partitioned approach to group aggregation, in which an incoming data stream is partitioned by key values so that every row for a particular key is se...
[ "cs.DB" ]
# 1 Introduction High-dimensional nearest neighbor search is a basic building block in many areas, including image and video processing [16, 21], information retrieval [6, 46], and algorithm design [10, 23]. It is central to modern machine learning, underlying document and media search based on learned embeddings [9, ...
Nearest neighbor search is central in machine learning, information retrieval, and databases. For high-dimensional datasets, graph-based methods such as HNSW, DiskANN, and NSG have become popular thanks to their empirical accuracy and efficiency. These methods construct a directed graph over the dataset and perform bea...
[ "cs.IR", "cs.DB", "cs.DS", "cs.LG" ]
# 1. Introduction Following the emergence of big data and the ever-increasing public availability of datasets, each with tens of thousands of data points, research within the deep learning domain is accelerating [1]. Consequently, there are two key factors that need to be addressed. Firstly, the process by which we pr...
In order to address the scalability challenge within Neural Architecture Search (NAS), we speed up NAS training via dynamic hard example mining within a curriculum learning framework. By utilizing an autoencoder that enforces an image similarity embedding in latent space, we construct an efficient kd-tree structure to ...
[ "cs.CV" ]
# 1 Introduction A query optimizer is a performance-critical component in every database system. It translates declarative user queries into efficient execution plans [3, 45]. There have been numerous efforts to learn query optimizers (LQOs)(e.g., [18, 33, 34, 60]) to reduce the reliance on manual tuning and expert in...
Query optimization is critical in relational databases. Recently, numerous Learned Query Optimizers (LQOs) have been proposed, demonstrating superior performance over traditional hand-crafted query optimizers after short training periods. However, the opacity and instability of machine learning models have limited thei...
[ "cs.DB" ]
# 1 Introduction Diffusion and flow-based generative models have revolutionized generative modeling [25, 70, 45, 62, 14, 8], but they rely on slow iterative sampling. This has led to the development of approaches to accelerate generation. Advanced, higher-order samplers [68, 50, 51, 12, 89, 34, 61] help, but cannot pr...
Diffusion- and flow-based models have emerged as state-of-the-art generative modeling approaches, but they require many sampling steps. Consistency models can distill these models into efficient one-step generators; however, unlike flow- and diffusion-based methods, their performance inevitably degrades when increasing...
[ "cs.CV", "cs.LG" ]
# 1 Introduction Machine learning systems have become increasingly prevalent in decision-making across various domains, including healthcare, finance, and criminal justice. While these systems promise more efficient and data-driven decisions, they also raise significant concerns regarding fairness and equity. As machi...
We address the regression problem under the constraint of demographic parity, a commonly used fairness definition. Recent studies have revealed fair minimax optimal regression algorithms, the most accurate algorithms that adhere to the fairness constraint. However, these analyses are tightly coupled with specific data ...
[ "stat.ML", "cs.LG" ]
# 1 Introduction Large language models (LLMs) have become transformative tools in numerous domains, fundamentally changing the way we approach complex tasks in almost all areas of life [37]. Among their countless applications, the integration of LLMs in customer support has been particularly impactful [20], allowing b...
Following recent advancements in large language models (LLMs), LLM-based chatbots have transformed customer support by automating interactions and providing consistent, scalable service. While LLM-based conversational recommender systems (CRSs) have attracted attention for their ability to enhance the quality of recomm...
[ "cs.AI", "cs.IR" ]
# 1. Introduction Large language models (LLMs) have achieved tremendous success in text processing (OpenAI, 2024), offering new ways to interact with machines. This progress has motivated efforts to extend their capabilities to speech to enable more natural spoken interactions with machines. However, modeling speech p...
The success of large language models in text processing has inspired their adaptation to speech modeling. However, since speech is continuous and complex, it is often discretized for autoregressive modeling. Speech tokens derived from self-supervised models (known as semantic tokens) typically focus on the linguistic a...
[ "cs.CL", "cs.AI", "cs.LG", "cs.SD", "eess.AS" ]
# 1. Introduction Quick adaptation is essential for survival in nature so much so that it can be equated to intelligence (Sternberg, 2019). Despite this, there is no Artificial Intelligence (AI) system to this day whose adaptive abilities are considered anywhere close to those of humans and animals. Large Language Mod...
Adaptation is the holy grail of intelligence, but even the best AI models (like GPT) lack the adaptivity of toddlers. So the question remains: how can machines adapt quickly? Despite a lot of progress on model adaptation to facilitate continual and federated learning, as well as model merging, editing, unlearning, etc....
[ "cs.LG", "cs.AI", "stat.ML" ]
# 1 INTRODUCTION The relational model, proposed over 50 years ago, has been the foundation of most high-performance database systems to date. The object-relational model, i.e., the relational model with abstract data types and related functionality, has generally satisfied the needs of most enterprise applications wit...
Spurred by a number of recent trends, we make the case that the relational database systems should urgently move beyond supporting the basic object-relational model and instead embrace a more abstract data model, specifically, the entity-relationship model. We argue that the current RDBMSs don't inherently support suff...
[ "cs.DB" ]
# 1 Introduction Deploying robots in human-centric settings like households requires balancing robot autonomy with humans’ sense of agency [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. Full teleoperation offers users fine-grained control but imposes a high cognitive load, whereas fully autonomous robots act independently but often misalign the...
Assistive teleoperation, where control is shared between a human and a robot, enables efficient and intuitive human-robot collaboration in diverse and unstructured environments. A central challenge in real-world assistive teleoperation is for the robot to infer a wide range of human intentions from user control inputs ...
[ "cs.RO", "cs.AI" ]
# 1 Introduction In the last decade, the rise of deep learning has introduced prominent breakthroughs and achievements in object detection (OD) Zou et al. [2023], where models are usually trained under a closed-world assumption: test-time categories are the same as the training ones. However, during deployment in the ...
State-of-the-art Object Detection (OD) methods predominantly operate under a closed-world assumption, where test-time categories match those encountered during training. However, detecting and localizing unknown objects is crucial for safety-critical applications in domains such as autonomous driving and medical imagin...
[ "cs.CV" ]
# 1 Introduction With the rapid development of large-scale software systems, effective fault localization (FL) methods have become crucial. Over the years, numerous FL approaches (e.g. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]) have been proposed to identify faulty statements in programs. These approaches typically ...
Test cases are indispensable for conducting effective fault localization (FL). However, test cases in practice are severely class imbalanced, i.e. the number of failing test cases (i.e. minority class) is much less than that of passing ones (i.e. majority class). The severe class imbalance between failing and passing t...
[ "cs.SE" ]
# 1 Introduction The European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), effective December 30, 2025, mandates companies to verify that their products do not originate from recently deforested land (European Commission, 2023). With deforestation contributing $1 5 \%$ to global $\mathrm { C O _ { 2 } }$ emissions (ETC, 202...
The European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) requires companies to prove their products do not contribute to deforestation, creating a critical demand for precise, asset-level environmental impact data. Current databases lack the necessary detail, relying heavily on broad financial metrics and manual data collect...
[ "cs.DB", "cs.AI", "cs.IR", "cs.LG" ]
# 1 INTRODUCTION NL2SQL (natural language to SQL) systems translate natural language questions into SQL queries, allowing users with no technical background to interact with databases and create tools like reports or visualizations. For example, a manager could ask, “How many new customers did we acquire this quarter?...
NL2SQL (natural language to SQL) systems translate natural language into SQL queries, allowing users with no technical background to interact with databases and create tools like reports or visualizations. While recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved NL2SQL accuracy, schema ambi...
[ "cs.DB", "cs.CL" ]
# 1 INTRODUCTION Many problems in software engineering involve optimization, search, or analysis in large, complex spaces [16]. Examples include selecting prioritized test cases for regression testing [56], detecting code clones in large codebases [41], and predicting defect-prone modules using historical data [14]. T...
Quantum computing has demonstrated the potential to solve computationally intensive problems more efficiently than classical methods. Many software engineering tasks, such as test case selection, static analysis, code clone detection, and defect prediction, involve complex optimization, search, or classification, makin...
[ "cs.SE", "quant-ph" ]
# 1 Introduction In recent years, we have witnessed rapid advancements in visual generation and its tremendous application potential. Diffusion models [43, 40, 6, 39, 22] have elevated the quality of visual generation to amazing levels while enabling versatile conditional control. Meanwhile, autoregressive approaches ...
In this work, we reveal the limitations of visual tokenizers and VAEs in preserving fine-grained features, and propose a benchmark to evaluate reconstruction performance for two challenging visual contents: text and face. Visual tokenizers and VAEs have significantly advanced visual generation and multimodal modeling b...
[ "cs.CV", "cs.DB" ]
# 1 Introduction Language models are about uncovering patterns in a sequence so they can guess what comes next. Before any of that happens, we must decide what the pieces of that sequence—the tokens—actually are. That choice is usually frozen in advance by a tokeniser that chops raw text into discrete units long befor...
Tokenization imposes a fixed granularity on the input text, freezing how a language model operates on data and how far in the future it predicts. Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) and similar schemes split text once, build a static vocabulary, and leave the model stuck with that choice. We relax this rigidity by introducing an ...
[ "cs.CL", "cs.AI" ]
# ARTICLE INFORMATION Article title A Structured Bangla Dataset of Disease-Symptom Associations to Improve Diagnostic Accuracy Authors Abdullah Al Shafi1, Rowzatul Zannat2, Abdul Muntakim2,\*, Mahmudul Hasan1 # Affiliations 1Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Khulna University of Engineering & ...
Disease-symptom datasets are significant and in demand for medical research, disease diagnosis, clinical decision-making, and AI-driven health management applications. These datasets help identify symptom patterns associated with specific diseases, thus improving diagnostic accuracy and enabling early detection. The da...
[ "cs.CL" ]
# 1 Introduction external tools (Schick et al., 2023) and employ sophisticated planning and reasoning strategies such as ReAct (Yao et al., 2023) or Reflexion (Shinn et al., 2023) to dynamically adjust in uncertain environments. While the rapid scaling of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to promising results acro...
Benchmarks for Software Engineering (SE) AI agents, most notably SWE-bench, have catalyzed progress in programming capabilities of AI agents. However, they overlook critical developer workflows such as Version Control System (VCS) operations. To address this issue, we present GitGoodBench, a novel benchmark for evaluat...
[ "cs.SE", "cs.AI" ]
# 1 INTRODUCTION Database Management Systems (DBMSs) are large, complex, and fundamental software systems. Unsurprisingly, they are prone to bugs. Various approaches have been proposed to detect logic bugs in them using automated testing [13, 26–28, 30, 32]. They primarily tackle the so-called test-oracle problem by v...
Various automated testing approaches have been proposed for Database Management Systems (DBMSs). Many such approaches generate pairs of equivalent queries to identify bugs that cause DBMSs to compute incorrect results, and have found hundreds of bugs in mature, widely used DBMSs. Most of these approaches are based on m...
[ "cs.SE", "cs.DB" ]
# 1 Introduction Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown intriguing promise in optimizing code efficiency beyond compiler techniques [1–9]. Evaluating the effectiveness of these LM-based code optimizations relies on performance-stressing tests. For example, an optimization from recursion to iteration in Fibonacci numb...
Large Language Models (LLMs) have been increasingly used to optimize code efficiency. Evaluating their effectiveness and further suggesting optimization opportunities often rely on high-quality tests to demonstrate the performance bottlenecks presented in the program. However, existing approaches rely on a limited set ...
[ "cs.SE", "D.2.5" ]
# 1. INTRODUCTION Sampling is a musical technique that “incorporates portions of existing sound recordings into a newly collaged composition” [1]. The samples often undergo significant modification during this creative process: they may be pitch-shifted, time-stretched and heavily processed with audio effects (hencefo...
Automatic sample identification (ASID), the detection and identification of portions of audio recordings that have been reused in new musical works, is an essential but challenging task in the field of audio query-based retrieval. While a related task, audio fingerprinting, has made significant progress in accurately r...
[ "cs.SD", "cs.AI", "cs.IR", "H.5.5; I.2.6" ]
# 1 Introduction Building upon autoregressive (AR) models, large language models (LLMs) [21, 20] have unified and dominated language tasks with promising intelligence in generality and versatility, demonstrating a promising path toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). Recently, MAR series methods [18, 10, 33] ha...
Masked-based autoregressive models have demonstrated promising image generation capability in continuous space. However, their potential for video generation remains under-explored. In this paper, we propose \textbf{VideoMAR}, a concise and efficient decoder-only autoregressive image-to-video model with continuous toke...
[ "cs.CV", "cs.AI" ]
# 1. Introduction The recent development and wider accessibility of large language models (LLMs) have spurred discussions about how these language models can be used in survey research. Potential applications span the entire survey lifecycle, including using LLMs for questionnaire design and pretesting (e.g., Götz et ...
The recent development and wider accessibility of LLMs have spurred discussions about how they can be used in survey research, including classifying open-ended survey responses. Due to their linguistic capacities, it is possible that LLMs are an efficient alternative to time-consuming manual coding and the pre-training...
[ "cs.CL", "cs.AI", "cs.CY" ]
introduction of LITMUS-P therefore represents a necessary step toward evaluating alignment under linguistically natural, semantically invariant, and adversarial perturbations—a crucial requirement for building scalable and trustworthy AI systems. # M.3 Quantifying Stochastic Drift via AQI While large language models ...
Alignment is no longer a luxury, it is a necessity. As large language models (LLMs) enter high-stakes domains like education, healthcare, governance, and law, their behavior must reliably reflect human-aligned values and safety constraints. Yet current evaluations rely heavily on behavioral proxies such as refusal rate...
[ "cs.CL", "cs.AI" ]
# 1. Introduction General-purpose code refers to a set of program instructions written in formal languages such as Python, $\mathrm { C } { + } { + }$ , or Java, and is widely applied across diverse tasks including data processing, network communication, and algorithm implementation [1,2]. Through programming, users t...
Geospatial code generation is emerging as a key direction in the integration of artificial intelligence and geoscientific analysis. However, there remains a lack of standardized tools for automatic evaluation in this domain. To address this gap, we propose AutoGEEval, the first multimodal, unit-level automated evaluati...
[ "cs.SE", "cs.AI", "cs.CG", "cs.CL", "cs.DB" ]
# 1 Introduction The Robot Operating System (ROS) [15] is an increasingly popular framework for developing robotic applications. Its second major version, denoted as ROS 2, was designed to fill the needs of industrial use cases, including support for real-time execution. ROS 2 supports writing applications in differen...
The increasing popularity of the Rust programming language in building robotic applications using the Robot Operating System (ROS 2) raises questions about its real-time execution capabilities, particularly when employing asynchronous programming. Existing real-time scheduling and response-time analysis techniques for ...
[ "cs.SE" ]
# I. INTRODUCTION Accurate breast density classification plays a critical role in assessing breast cancer risk. High breast density has been shown to both obscure tumor detection on mammograms and correlate with an elevated risk of developing breast cancer [10]. As a result, the precise evaluation of breast density is...
Mammographic breast density classification is essential for cancer risk assessment but remains challenging due to subjective interpretation and inter-observer variability. This study compares multimodal and CNN-based methods for automated classification using the BI-RADS system, evaluating BioMedCLIP and ConvNeXt acros...
[ "eess.IV", "cs.LG" ]
# 1 Introduction Large language model (LLM) distillation has become a widely used technique to reduce inference cost while retaining most teacher performance. Early knowledge distillation (KD) methods align student and teacher output logits [1, 2]. Later work shows that matching hidden features [3, 4], attention patte...
While knowledge distillation has become a mature field for compressing large language models (LLMs) into smaller ones by aligning their outputs or internal representations, the distillation of LLM-based agents, which involve planning, memory, and tool use, remains relatively underexplored. Existing agent distillation m...
[ "cs.AI" ]
# 1 Introduction Large Language Models (LLMs) have become an indispensable tool in the knowledge worker’s arsenal, providing a treasure trove of information at one’s fingertips. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) (Lewis et al., 2020) further extends the capabilities of these LLMs by grounding generic dialog using in...
The data landscape is rich with structured data, often of high value to organizations, driving important applications in data analysis and machine learning. Recent progress in representation learning and generative models for such data has led to the development of natural language interfaces to structured data, includ...
[ "cs.IR", "cs.AI", "cs.CL", "cs.DB" ]
# 1 Introduction About one in nine people $( 1 0 . 9 \% )$ age 65 and older in the U.S. have Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) [106]. In 2023, 11.5M caregivers of people living with AD/ADRD provided an estimated 18.4 billion hours, or nearly 31 hours per week, of unpaid help [105]. Caregiving for AD/...
Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) are progressive neurodegenerative conditions that impair memory, thought processes, and functioning. Family caregivers of individuals with AD/ADRD face significant mental health challenges due to long-term caregiving responsibilities. Yet, current support systems ofte...
[ "cs.HC", "cs.AI" ]
# 1. Introduction Research into portrait generation now lets us create realistic 3D images via machine learning from photograph data-sets, with use in visual effects, games, and virtual reality. However, the problem of how to control the generation process to meet desired face attributes remains open. Such attributes ...
We consider the problem of disentangling 3D from large vision-language models, which we show on generative 3D portraits. This allows free-form text control of appearance attributes like age, hair style, and glasses, and 3D geometry control of face expression and camera pose. In this setting, we assume we use a pre-trai...
[ "cs.CV" ]
# 1. Introduction With the continued development of Large Language Models (LLMs) [1], [2], [3], specialized versions tailored for the code domain [4], [5], [6], have demonstrated promising capabilities in code understanding and generation. Notable applications such as Amazon CodeWhisperer and GitHub Copilot have signi...
As Large Language Models (LLMs) evolve in understanding and generating code, accurately evaluating their reliability in analyzing source code vulnerabilities becomes increasingly vital. While studies have examined LLM capabilities in tasks like vulnerability detection and repair, they often overlook the importance of b...
[ "cs.SE", "cs.CL" ]
# 1 Introduction With the rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), their capabilities in assisting with various coding tasks have significantly improved. Tools like GitHub Copilot [Microsoft, 2023, Services, 2023] and models such as OpenAI Codex [Chen et al., 2021a] have enhanced developer productivity by au...
Recent text-to-SQL models have achieved strong performance, but their effectiveness remains largely confined to SQLite due to dataset limitations. However, real-world applications require SQL generation across multiple dialects with varying syntax and specialized features, which remains a challenge for current models. ...
[ "cs.CL", "cs.AI", "cs.DB" ]
# 1 Introduction Effective perception is fundamental to robotic manipulation in unstructured 3D environments. Recent advances in vision-based methods [24, 38, 27, 66] have enabled robots to infer actions directly from visual observations by leveraging powerful foundation models [32, 58, 59, 11], which facilitates the ...
Accurate action inference is critical for vision-based robotic manipulation. Existing approaches typically follow either a Vision-to-Action (V-A) paradigm, predicting actions directly from visual inputs, or a Vision-to-3D-to-Action (V-3D-A) paradigm, leveraging intermediate 3D representations. However, these methods of...
[ "cs.RO", "cs.CV" ]
1. Introduction . 2 1.1. The Emergence of LLM-Based Agentic AI and Multi-Agent Systems.. 2 1.2. The Criticality of Inter-Agent Communication in Complex AI Workflows .. 3 1.3. Introducing the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as an Interoperability Standard .. 3 1.4. Scope and Contributions of this Review: Bridging Design Pa...
This survey investigates how classical software design patterns can enhance the reliability and scalability of communication in Large Language Model (LLM)-driven agentic AI systems, focusing particularly on the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It examines the foundational architectures of LLM-based agents and their evolut...
[ "cs.SE" ]
# 1 Introduction Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated a growing ability to analyze intricate social contexts and provide novel insights into human behavior and moral decision-making (Forbes et al., 2020; Hendrycks et al., 2021; Jiang et al., 2021; Vida et al., 2023). Recent work shows that, when given carefu...
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive moral reasoning abilities. Yet they often diverge when confronted with complex, multi-factor moral dilemmas. To address these discrepancies, we propose a framework that synthesizes multiple LLMs' moral judgments into a collectively formulated moral judgment, realigning...
[ "cs.CL", "cs.AI" ]