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# 1 Introduction Real-world enterprise data, such as financial transactions, supply chain data, e-commerce records, product catalogs, customer interactions, and electronic health records, are predominantly stored in relational databases [8]. These databases typically consist of multiple tables, each dedicated to diffe...
Relational Deep Learning (RDL) is a promising approach for building state-of-the-art predictive models on multi-table relational data by representing it as a heterogeneous temporal graph. However, commonly used Graph Neural Network models suffer from fundamental limitations in capturing complex structural patterns and ...
[ "cs.LG", "cs.AI", "cs.DB" ]
# 1 Introduction The intensive use of chatbots based on Large Language Models (LLMs) has been associated with the promotion of superficial learning habits and a decline in critical thinking skills in their users, particularly students (Gerlich, 2025; Schei et al., 2024). Motivated by this fact, rather than relying on ...
The widespread adoption of chat interfaces based on Large Language Models (LLMs) raises concerns about promoting superficial learning and undermining the development of critical thinking skills. Instead of relying on LLMs purely for retrieving factual information, this work explores their potential to foster deeper rea...
[ "cs.CL", "cs.HC" ]
# 1 Introduction Event-based cameras [4] are being actively explored in traffic monitoring applications due to their unique ability to capture fast-moving objects with low latency, high temporal resolution, and energy efficiency [22]. Unlike conventional frame-based cameras that capture scenes at fixed intervals, even...
Event cameras are gaining traction in traffic monitoring applications due to their low latency, high temporal resolution, and energy efficiency, which makes them well-suited for real-time object detection at traffic intersections. However, the development of robust event-based detection models is hindered by the limite...
[ "cs.CV" ]
# 1 Introduction Generative AI techniques have been proposed for various aspects of coding for tasks ranging from coding assistants [1] to optimisation [2] and vulnerability detection [3] for which promising results are being heeded. Indeed, for many cases traditional types of code verification (be it at compile/devel...
Large Language Models (LLMs) are being used more and more for various coding tasks, including to help coders identify bugs and are a promising avenue to support coders in various tasks including vulnerability detection -- particularly given the flexibility of such generative AI models and tools. Yet for many tasks it m...
[ "cs.SE", "cs.AI", "cs.ET", "cs.LG" ]
# I. INTRODUCTION ously visited locations in unmanned systems, serves as a cornerstone for achieving long-term autonomy in robotics and self-driving platforms [1]. This capability is crucial for autonomous mobile robots to achieve precise and robust positioning in unknown environments [2]. Place recognition also has a...
LiDAR-based place recognition serves as a crucial enabler for long-term autonomy in robotics and autonomous driving systems. Yet, prevailing methodologies relying on handcrafted feature extraction face dual challenges: (1) Inconsistent point cloud density, induced by ego-motion dynamics and environmental disturbances d...
[ "cs.CV" ]
# 1 Introduction # 2 Comparative Analysis of Functional Competences and Failure # Modes 6 2.1 Dimension 1: Semantic Coherence and Verification Challenges . 8 2.1.1 Semantic incoherence in GenAI 10 2.2 Dimension 2: Security Robustness and Risk Profiles 12 2.3 Dimension 3: Epistemic limits 14 2.3.1 Context Integration...
With the rise of generative AI (GenAI), Large Language Models are increasingly employed for code generation, becoming active co-authors alongside human programmers. Focusing specifically on this application domain, this paper articulates distinct ``Architectures of Error'' to ground an epistemic distinction between hum...
[ "cs.AI", "cs.CL", "cs.CY", "cs.SE" ]
# I. INTRODUCTION Promising progress has been made in autonomous driving (AD) in recent years; however, some challenging problems in AD have yet to be solved, especially under dynamic, multimodal environments, such as contextual understanding and interpretability [1]. Commonly adopted AD architectures, whether modular...
We introduce DriveAgent, a novel multi-agent autonomous driving framework that leverages large language model (LLM) reasoning combined with multimodal sensor fusion to enhance situational understanding and decision-making. DriveAgent uniquely integrates diverse sensor modalities-including camera, LiDAR, GPS, and IMU-wi...
[ "cs.RO", "cs.DB" ]
# I. INTRODUCTION Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved great success in solving decision-making tasks, such as gaming AI [1], [2], [3], autonomous driving [4], [5], [6], robotic manipulation [7], [8], [9], etc. The reward function plays a pivotal role in policy learning of RL. As the complexity of the task increas...
Preference-based Reinforcement Learning (PbRL) methods provide a solution to avoid reward engineering by learning reward models based on human preferences. However, poor feedback- and sample- efficiency still remain the problems that hinder the application of PbRL. In this paper, we present a novel efficient query sele...
[ "cs.RO", "cs.AI" ]
# 1. Introduction While the Semantic Web and ontology engineering are still fundamental as common languages to exchange data (mainly related to the ‘Interoperable’ of the FAIR principles [1]), we have seen some different recent trends in networked and shared knowledge, reflecting the difficulties that practitioners ...
Linked Data and labelled property graphs (LPG) are two data management approaches with complementary strengths and weaknesses, making their integration beneficial for sharing datasets and supporting software ecosystems. In this paper, we introduce rdf2pg, an extensible framework for mapping RDF data to semantically equ...
[ "cs.DB", "cs.AI" ]
# I. INTRODUCTION # A. Motivation O tRioGnAspNaIcZeINcaGnrpersovuirdce sainneaffimciuelntitdriemseonusricoenamlacnlagsseimfiecanmechanism for users or application systems to efficiently operate a large set of resources from different dimensions. [1]. The Resource Space Model is a normalized space that classifies reso...
Organizing resources in a multidimensional classification space is an approach to efficiently managing and querying large-scale resources. This paper defines an aggregation query on subspace defined by a range on the partial order on coordinate tree at each dimension, where each point contains resources aggregated alon...
[ "cs.DB", "cs.AI" ]
# 1. Introduction Koopman operator theory provides a framework for nonlinear dynamical system analysis and timeseries forecasting by mapping dynamics to a space of real-valued measurement functions, enabling a linear operator representation. Despite the advantage of linearity, the operator is generally infinite-dimens...
Koopman operator theory provides a framework for nonlinear dynamical system analysis and time-series forecasting by mapping dynamics to a space of real-valued measurement functions, enabling a linear operator representation. Despite the advantage of linearity, the operator is generally infinite-dimensional. Therefore, ...
[ "cs.LG", "cs.AI", "stat.ML" ]
# 1 Introduction Recent years have witnessed a shift from specialized models to large foundation models capable of performing a plethora of tasks, particularly in language [Touvron et al., 2023, OpenAI, 2023, Bai et al., 2023, Qwen et al., 2025, DeepSeek-AI et al., 2025]. This paradigm shift has led to the development...
Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has emerged as a widely adopted parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) technique for foundation models. Recent work has highlighted an inherent asymmetry in the initialization of LoRA's low-rank factors, which has been present since its inception and was presumably derived experimentally. Thi...
[ "stat.ML", "cs.AI", "cs.LG", "cs.NE", "math.ST", "stat.TH" ]
# I. INTRODUCTION Go’s rising popularity in cloud, infrastructure, and blockchain applications raises security concerns due to its unique runtime and concurrency features (goroutines, channels). Reports indicate over $6 6 \%$ of Go modules contain vulnerabilities [4], highlighting the critical need for robust security...
The widespread adoption of the Go programming language in infrastructure backends and blockchain projects has heightened the need for improved security measures. Established techniques such as unit testing, static analysis, and program fuzzing provide foundational protection mechanisms. Although symbolic execution tool...
[ "cs.SE", "cs.CR" ]
# 1 Introduction Industry and academia are increasingly using large language models (LLMs) to solve problems which require semantic understanding. These problems range from unstructured document processing [6, 11], to multi-modal question answering [34, 36, 43], to semantic search and ranking [37]. In order to achieve...
LLMs enable an exciting new class of data processing applications over large collections of unstructured documents. Several new programming frameworks have enabled developers to build these applications by composing them out of semantic operators: a declarative set of AI-powered data transformations with natural langua...
[ "cs.DB", "cs.AI", "H.2.4; I.2.5" ]
# 1 Introduction Generative AI tools (GenAI), as exemplified by a range of generative pretrained transformers (GPTs) that began entering the market in November, 2022 [70], have been broadly heralded as transformational tools for productivity and efficiency [121, 75]creativity [108], and the alleviation of tedium [90]....
Generative AI tools have become more prevalent in engineering workflows, particularly through chatbots and code assistants. As the perceived accuracy of these tools improves, questions arise about whether and how those who work in high-precision domains might maintain vigilance for errors, and what other aspects of usi...
[ "cs.HC", "cs.AI" ]
# 1 Introduction A healthcare conversational system is a dialoguebased framework specifically developed for the medical domain. Its primary purpose is to interact with patients, systematically collect supplementary symptom information, facilitate preliminary diagnostic processes, and provide automated recommendations ...
With the advancement of large language models, many dialogue systems are now capable of providing reasonable and informative responses to patients' medical conditions. However, when patients consult their doctor, they may experience negative emotions due to the severity and urgency of their situation. If the model can ...
[ "cs.CL", "cs.AI" ]
# I. INTRODUCTION Nowadays, the application domains of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have rapidly expanded, penetrating extensively into critical fields such as military, civilian, and commercial sectors [1]. Leveraging their flexibility and adaptability, UAVs have demonstrated significant advantages in diverse task...
This paper presents VisLanding, a monocular 3D perception-based framework for safe UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) landing. Addressing the core challenge of autonomous UAV landing in complex and unknown environments, this study innovatively leverages the depth-normal synergy prediction capabilities of the Metric3D V2 mod...
[ "cs.CV", "cs.RO" ]
# 1. Introduction Foundation models have revolutionized domains such as natural language (Brown, 2020; Touvron et al., 2023), vision (Wang et al., 2023; Yuan et al., 2021), tabular data (Zhang et al., 2023b; Yang et al., 2024), and graphs (Liu et al., 2023; Tang et al., 2024), offering scalable and generalized framewo...
We introduce Griffin, the first foundation model attemptation designed specifically for Relational Databases (RDBs). Unlike previous smaller models focused on single RDB tasks, Griffin unifies the data encoder and task decoder to handle diverse tasks. Additionally, we enhance the architecture by incorporating a cross-a...
[ "cs.LG", "cs.AI", "cs.DB" ]
# 1 Introduction Generalization is a fundamental concept across various branches of science. In the realm of machine learning, the notion of model generalizability serves as a measure of how effectively a model, learned from a limited set of training samples, can extend its performance to unseen data during testing. W...
Describing real-world entities can vary across different sources, posing a challenge when integrating or exchanging data. We study the problem of joinability under syntactic transformations, where two columns are not equi-joinable but can become equi-joinable after some transformations. Discovering those transformation...
[ "cs.DB" ]
# 1 INTRODUCTION Modern database systems increasingly support both relational and graph queries, as reflected in the emerging SQL/PGQ standard. SQL/PGQ is part of the broader GQL initiative [8], which has been under development since 2019 by both academia and industry contributors under the ISO auspices. GQL consists ...
SQL/PGQ is a new standard that integrates graph querying into relational systems, allowing users to freely switch between graph patterns and SQL. Our experiments show performance gaps between these models, as queries written in both formalisms can exhibit varying performance depending on the formalism used, suggesting ...
[ "cs.DB" ]
# 1 Introduction Incorporating non-parametric knowledge into large language models (LLMs) through additional retrieval modules has emerged as a promising approach to enhance both accuracy and the timeliness of information (Borgeaud et al., 2022; Izacard et al., 2023). This issue has led to the rapid development of var...
This paper presents a novel approach for unified retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems using the recent emerging large language model (LLM) agent concept. Specifically, Agent LLM, which utilizes LLM as fundamental controllers, has become a promising approach to enable the interpretability of RAG tasks, especiall...
[ "cs.CL", "cs.AI", "cs.DB", "cs.IR" ]
# 1 Introduction The rapid development of autonomous driving technology has placed increasingly higher demands on the interpretability of decision-making systems. Achieving a "white-box" autonomous driving decision model, where the internal logic of the decision-making process is transparent and comprehensible to huma...
How to construct an interpretable autonomous driving decision-making system has become a focal point in academic research. In this study, we propose a novel approach that leverages large language models (LLMs) to generate executable, rule-based decision systems to address this challenge. Specifically, harnessing the st...
[ "cs.AI" ]
# Introduction Using a more compact CNF encoding can make the entire difference between a combinatorial problem being solvable (even in many CPU years) and it being intractable (Subercaseaux and Heule, 2023; Heule and Scheucher, 2024; Wesley, 2024; Heule and Szeider, 2015; Schidler and Szeider, 2024; Qian et al., 2025...
We show how several graph problems (e.g., vertex-cover, independent-set, $k$-coloring) can be encoded into CNF using only $O(|V|^2 / \lg |V|)$ many clauses, as opposed to the $\Omega(|V|^2)$ constraints used by standard encodings. This somewhat surprising result is a simple consequence of a result of Erd\H{o}s, Chung, ...
[ "cs.LO", "cs.AI", "cs.DS" ]
# 1. Introduction Most NoSQL systems follow a “schema-on-read” approach, allowing data to be stored without a predefined schema. While this schemaless1 nature grants developers the flexibility to handle frequent changes in data structures — common in modern applications — it also introduces a key challenge: building d...
In this paper, we present a static code analysis strategy to extract logical schemas from NoSQL applications. Our solution is based on a model-driven reverse engineering process composed of a chain of platform-independent model transformations. The extracted schema conforms to the \uschema{} unified metamodel, which ca...
[ "cs.DB" ]
# 1. Introduction In statistical learning theory, the probably approximately correct (PAC) framework (Valiant, 1984) is central to understanding binary classification learnability. A key result shows that PAC learnability is fully determined by the VC dimension (Vapnik and Chervonenkis, 1974; Blumer et al., 1989), ele...
We study the task of bandit learning, also known as best-arm identification, under the assumption that the true reward function f belongs to a known, but arbitrary, function class F. We seek a general theory of bandit learnability, akin to the PAC framework for classification. Our investigation is guided by the followi...
[ "cs.LG", "stat.ML" ]
# I. INTRODUCTION 𝐱 = (10!, 11!) 1 P# = XYXY P\$ = XXYY P! = XYYX (10)(11) (10)(11) (10)(11) & 比江 √& 1101 1011 11102 𝑣" = 1101! 𝑣" = 1011! 𝑣" = 1110! A aSpmacuel-tif-ildlinmg csuirovnea dSaFtaC, foir $\mathbf { x }$ otrto i na -wdiaymetno omnapl value, say $v$ that can be represented by a mapping function $T : ...
Space-filling curves (SFC, for short) have been widely applied to index multi-dimensional data, which first maps the data to one dimension, and then a one-dimensional indexing method, e.g., the B-tree indexes the mapped data. Existing SFCs adopt a single mapping scheme for the whole data space. However, a single mappin...
[ "cs.DB" ]
# I. INTRODUCTION Yangliuqing woodblock prints, esteemed as a significant facet of China's intangible cultural heritage (Qian, 2023), are renowned for their intricate textures, vibrant colors, and centuries-old craftsmanship (Liu, 2012). Originating during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) (Zhang, B., & Romainoor, N. H. 20...
Yangliuqing woodblock prints, a cornerstone of China's intangible cultural heritage, are celebrated for their intricate designs and vibrant colors. However, preserving these traditional art forms while fostering innovation presents significant challenges. This study explores the DeepSeek + MidJourney approach to genera...
[ "cs.GR", "cs.CL", "cs.CY" ]
# I. INTRODUCTION The rapid evolution of quantum software frameworks [16] presents a unique challenge for developers maintaining code across versions [10]. This issue is particularly evident in Qiskit, one of the most widely adopted platforms for quantum programming. The recent release of version 2.0 introduced substa...
As quantum software frameworks evolve, developers face increasing challenges in maintaining compatibility with rapidly changing APIs. In this work, we present a novel methodology for refactoring Qiskit code using large language models (LLMs). We begin by extracting a taxonomy of migration scenarios from the different s...
[ "cs.SE", "cs.AI", "cs.ET" ]
# 1 Introduction Many real-world applications require large language models to integrate scattered information and infer logical answers to novel questions. For instance, an AI assistant supporting human resource specialists in determining an employee’s tax rate must combine information about the employee’s marital st...
Merging or routing low-rank adapters (LoRAs) has emerged as a popular solution for enhancing large language models, particularly when data access is restricted by regulatory or domain-specific constraints. This position paper argues that the research community should shift its focus from developing new merging or routi...
[ "cs.CL", "cs.AI" ]
# 1 Introduction Modern database management systems (DBMS) are universal solutions for management of large amount of information, nonetheless, the functionality provided by DBMS in some cases is excessive, resulting in technical requirements that exceed the capabilities of existing hardware platforms. But with the gr...
The article addresses the problem of storing data in extreme environmental conditions with limited computing resources and memory. There is a requirement to create portable, fault-tolerant, modular database management systems (DBMS) that are optimized for use in embedded systems. Existing databases, such as LittleDB, L...
[ "cs.DB", "68P15", "H.2.4" ]
# 1 INTRODUCTION Analyzing human mobility and geolocation data offers a wealth of applications that touch nearly every aspect of modern life [22, 23]. To truly understand human mobility, it is essential to uncover the underlying relationships between places and the activities they attract, as these connections shape w...
Capturing human mobility is essential for modeling how people interact with and move through physical spaces, reflecting social behavior, access to resources, and dynamic spatial patterns. To support scalable and transferable analysis across diverse geographies and contexts, there is a need for a generalizable foundati...
[ "cs.AI" ]
# 1 Introduction Filling out paperwork is a pervasive and tedious task. Although some paper forms have been replaced by fillable rich-text PDFs, many are only available as pure images either in their original format or as scanned physical documents. These forms represent the most challenging task because agents can on...
Completing paperwork is a challenging and time-consuming problem. Form filling is especially challenging in the pure-image domain without access to OCR, typeset PDF text, or a DOM. For computer agents, it requires multiple abilities, including multi-modal understanding, information retrieval, and tool-use. We present a...
[ "cs.AI" ]
# 1 Introduction Some criticisms of the current deep learning (DL) paradigm rightly note that current best models and methods are overfit to the popular datasets [1]. The limitations of testing on large datasets have become apparent. For example, performance on ImageNet has exceeded saturation, where models are progre...
The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC-AGI) presents a formidable challenge for AI systems. Despite the typically low performance on ARC, the deep learning paradigm remains the most effective known strategy for generating skillful (state-of-the-art) neural networks (NN) across varied modalities and tasks in vision, ...
[ "cs.AI", "cs.LG" ]
# 1. Introduction Globally detecting long-lasting changes to the Earth’s surface is critical for informing decisions around tackling looming environmental, climate, and conservation challenges [4, 7, 10, 18]. Monitoring deforestation helps to understand where and why forest loss is happening; tracking urban expansion ...
In the face of pressing environmental issues in the 21st century, monitoring surface changes on Earth is more important than ever. Large-scale remote sensing, such as satellite imagery, is an important tool for this task. However, using supervised methods to detect changes is difficult because of the lack of satellite ...
[ "cs.CV" ]
# 1 Introduction In recent years, the advent of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has accelerated the process of developing new software. However, there are studies [20] showing that users who use AI assistants tend to introduce more bugs and vulnerabilities into their code, compared to those who write code on t...
Interactive Theorem Proving was repeatedly shown to be fruitful combined with Generative Artificial Intelligence. This paper assesses multiple approaches to Rocq generation and illuminates potential avenues for improvement. We highlight the importance of thorough premise selection for generating Rocq proofs and propose...
[ "cs.LG", "cs.AI", "cs.LO", "cs.SE" ]
# 1 Introduction Text-to-image (T2I) latent diffusion models (LDMs) have significantly advanced the field of image generation (59; 66), showcasing remarkable fidelity and enhanced creative control in image editing (7; 10; 15; 28; 31). However, the efficacy of image editing is not uniform, as modifications affecting at...
Adapting text-to-image (T2I) latent diffusion models for video editing has shown strong visual fidelity and controllability, but challenges remain in maintaining causal relationships in video content. Edits affecting causally dependent attributes risk generating unrealistic or misleading outcomes if these relationships...
[ "cs.CV", "cs.AI" ]
# 1 Introduction Large Language Models (LLMs) have dramatically transformed the landscape of information access, enabling systems that transcend traditional ranked retrieval and instead generate comprehensive, report-style answers to complex, multi-faceted queries. These deep research systems, exemplified by recent co...
The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has transformed information access, with current LLMs also powering deep research systems that can generate comprehensive report-style answers, through planned iterative search, retrieval, and reasoning. Still, current deep research systems lack the geo-temporal capabilitie...
[ "cs.CL", "cs.IR" ]
# 1 Introduction Detecting human activities from still images is a challenging problem in computer vision, largely due to the subtle and complex variations inherent in human behaviour. In this work, we address this task using a subset of MSCOCO 2017 validation split introduced by Lin et al. (2015), each labeled as wal...
Recognising human activity in a single photo enables indexing, safety and assistive applications, yet lacks motion cues. Using 285 MSCOCO images labelled as walking, running, sitting, and standing, scratch CNNs scored 41% accuracy. Fine-tuning multimodal CLIP raised this to 76%, demonstrating that contrastive vision-la...
[ "cs.CV", "cs.CL" ]
# 1. Introduction Reward models are a fundamental concept in reinforcement learning and define what an agent optimizes for. For large language models (LLMs), fine-tuning with reward models is a common post-training step to align the model outputs with desired behaviors and objectives. A widely adopted approach is to l...
In aligning large language models (LLMs), reward models have played an important role, but are standardly trained as discriminative models and rely only on labeled human preference data. In this paper, we explore methods that train reward models using both unlabeled and labeled data. Building on the generative models i...
[ "cs.CL", "cs.AI" ]
# I. INTRODUCTION Ego-motion estimation is critical for autonomous navigation [1], using either proprioceptive sensors (e.g., odometers, IMUs) or exteroceptive sensors (e.g., cameras, LiDAR, radar). While proprioceptive sensors offer reliable short-term odometry, they accumulate drift without external correction. In G...
We present a method for estimating ego-velocity in autonomous navigation by integrating high-resolution imaging radar with an inertial measurement unit. The proposed approach addresses the limitations of traditional radar-based ego-motion estimation techniques by employing a neural network to process complex-valued raw...
[ "cs.RO", "cs.AI", "eess.SP" ]
# 1 Introduction Anonymization is widely regarded as a crucial tool for protecting privacy in an era of big data processing. Theoretically, it serves as a means to mitigate risks associated with the misuse of personal data by ensuring that individuals can no longer be identified. In practice, however, anonymization re...
Anonymization is a foundational principle of data privacy regulation, yet its practical application remains riddled with ambiguity and inconsistency. This paper introduces the concept of anonymity-washing -- the misrepresentation of the anonymity level of ``sanitized'' personal data -- as a critical privacy concern. Wh...
[ "cs.CR", "cs.DB" ]
# 1 Introduction In software development, AI-assisted code generators have become vital to increase productivity, maintain consistency, enforce standards, and refine existing codebases. Industry leaders are increasingly adopting LLMs to automate the process of code generation, testing, and project document writing. Si...
As the quality of code generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) improves, their adoption in the software industry for automated code generation continues to grow. Researchers primarily focus on enhancing the functional correctness of the generated code while commonly overlooking its energy efficiency and environmental...
[ "cs.SE", "cs.AI" ]
# 1 Introduction Brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease together with brain tumors are substantial global health issues. Millions of patients are impacted, and medical practitioners face challenges in diagnosing them [2]. Studies have demonstrated that, depending on the patient’s age and the brain region involved...
Accurate diagnosis of brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and brain tumors remains a critical challenge in medical imaging. Conventional methods based on manual MRI analysis are often inefficient and error-prone. To address this, we propose DGG-XNet, a hybrid deep learning model integrating VGG16 and DenseNet12...
[ "cs.CV" ]
# I. INTRODUCTION The rapid digitalization of healthcare has led to the proliferation of electronic health records (EHRs), offering unprecedented opportunities for data-driven medical research and clinical decision-making [19], [41]. However, leveraging this data at scale remains challenging due to stringent privacy r...
The rise of electronic health records (EHRs) has unlocked new opportunities for medical research, but privacy regulations and data heterogeneity remain key barriers to large-scale machine learning. Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative modeling without sharing raw data, yet faces challenges in harmonizing diver...
[ "cs.LG", "cs.SE" ]
# 1 INTRODUCTION With the massive volume of video data in real-world applications, analyzing video content has become increasingly crucial across various domains [2, 7–9, 11, 13, 14]. A common task in video analytics involves identifying a specific short video segment within a longer video. For instance, consider a su...
Current video analytics approaches face a fundamental trade-off between flexibility and efficiency. End-to-end Vision Language Models (VLMs) often struggle with long-context processing and incur high computational costs, while neural-symbolic methods depend heavily on manual labeling and rigid rule design. In this pape...
[ "cs.DB", "cs.AI", "cs.CV", "cs.IR", "cs.MM" ]
# 1 Introduction 9 1.1 Inference-Time Policy Steering 11 1.2 Task and Motion Imitation 12 1.3 Outline 13 # Inference-Time Policy Steering with Diffusion 15 # 2.1 Introduction 15 2.2 Method 17 2.2.1 Specification of User Intent 17 2.2.2 Policy Steering 18 2.3 Experiments 22 2.3.1 Maze2D - Continuous Motion Alignment...
Imitation learning has driven the development of generalist policies capable of autonomously solving multiple tasks. However, when a pretrained policy makes errors during deployment, there are limited mechanisms for users to correct its behavior. While collecting additional data for finetuning can address such issues, ...
[ "cs.RO", "cs.AI", "cs.HC", "cs.LG" ]
# 1 Introduction Latent-space monitors have emerged as a promising approach for detecting harmful behaviour in large language models (LLMs) at runtime. Unlike traditional black-box techniques, latent-space monitors leverage the internal representations of the model, potentially enabling more accurate and robust detect...
Latent-space monitors aim to detect undesirable behaviours in large language models by leveraging internal model representations rather than relying solely on black-box outputs. These methods have shown promise in identifying behaviours such as deception and unsafe completions, but a critical open question remains: can...
[ "cs.LG" ]
# 1 Introduction Recent large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in generation tasks. However, these models often struggle to attribute their outputs accurately through proper citations to source material, particularly in attributed generation tasks such as question answering (QA) (Bohnet ...
Recent large language models (LLMs) achieve impressive performance in source-conditioned text generation but often fail to correctly provide fine-grained attributions for their outputs, undermining verifiability and trust. Moreover, existing attribution methods do not explain how and why models leverage the provided so...
[ "cs.CL", "cs.AI" ]
1 Introduction and Objective . # 2 Relevant Fundamentals and Related Work . 2.1 Relevant Fundamentals . 2 2.1.1 Traditional Supervised Learning 2 2.1.2 FSL. 2 2.1.3 Time Series Classification . 5 2.2 Related Work 7 # 3 Use Case Description and Data Understanding . 9 3.1 Data Source. 9 3.2 Data Understanding 9 3.3 U...
Few-shot learning (FSL) has shown promise in vision but remains largely unexplored for \emph{industrial} time-series data, where annotating every new defect is prohibitively expensive. We present a systematic FSL study on screw-fastening process monitoring, using a 2\,300-sample multivariate torque dataset that covers ...
[ "cs.LG", "cs.AI" ]
# 1. Introduction Privacy relevant laws that have come into effect in the last 6 years include predominantly the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) [1] and the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) [2]. California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) [3] is a recent amendment to CCPA, whereas other countries a...
Free and open source software has gained a lot of momentum in the industry and the research community. The latest advances in privacy legislation, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), have forced the community to pay special attention to users' data ...
[ "cs.SE" ]
# 1 Introduction The iterative process of coding, involving frequent edits and insertions (Bavarian et al., 2022; Fried et al., 2023), establishes Fill-in-the-Middle (FIM) code generation a prevalent task in code completion. Models tackling this must generate the missing code segment conditioned on both the preceding ...
Post-processing is crucial for the automatic evaluation of LLMs in fill-in-the-middle (FIM) code generation due to the frequent presence of extraneous code in raw outputs. This extraneous generation suggests a lack of awareness regarding output boundaries, requiring truncation for effective evaluation. The determinatio...
[ "cs.SE", "cs.CL" ]
# 1 Introduction The integration of Machine Learning (ML) into various domains has revolutionised fields ranging from manufacturing to finance, offering unprecedented capabilities to learn from data and make accurate predictions. In safety- and ethic-critical domains such as healthcare, the ability to not only accurat...
In domains where transparency and trustworthiness are crucial, such as healthcare, rule-based systems are widely used and often preferred over black-box models for decision support systems due to their inherent interpretability. However, as rule-based models grow complex, discerning crucial features, understanding thei...
[ "cs.LG", "cs.AI" ]
# 1 Introduction Bloom filters and other bit vector filters are used widely in database management systems to perform early data reduction [4–7, 16]. Bloom filters provide an efficient way to probabilistically remove rows early, reducing the number of rows participating in further processing and improving query perfor...
Bloom filters are used in query processing to perform early data reduction and improve query performance. The optimal query plan may be different when Bloom filters are used, indicating the need for Bloom filter-aware query optimization. To date, Bloom filter-aware query optimization has only been incorporated in a top...
[ "cs.DB" ]
# I. INTRODUCTION Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong biomedical question-answering (QA) capabilities [1]. However, LLMs can produce factual inaccuracies, lack specific domain knowledge, and lack verifiability [2]. A major concern is hallucination, where LLMs generate factually incorrect responses du...
Biomedical question-answering (QA) systems require effective retrieval and generation components to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and scalability. This study systematically examines a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system for biomedical QA, evaluating retrieval strategies and response time trade-offs. We first ass...
[ "cs.IR", "cs.AI", "cs.DB", "cs.LG" ]
# 1 Introduction Although large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide range of general tasks (Jiang et al., 2023; Chowdhery et al., 2023; Jian et al., 2023; Touvron et al., 2023b), they still fall short in certain tasks or domains, such as reasoning (Tong et al., 2024; Srivastav...
Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods, particularly Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), offer an efficient way to adapt large language models with reduced computational costs. However, their performance is limited by the small number of trainable parameters. Recent work combines LoRA with the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE),...
[ "cs.CL" ]
# 1. Introduction The current literature on temporal data analysis is divided into two main branches: one, mainly considering numerical fluctuations in different dimensions as Multivariate Time Series (MTS) [16,26,19,32], and the other focusing on a characterization as a linear sequence of discrete events, be they dur...
This paper offers a hybrid explainable temporal data processing pipeline, DataFul Explainable MultivariatE coRrelatIonal Temporal Artificial inTElligence (EMeriTAte+DF), bridging numerical-driven temporal data classification with an event-based one through verified artificial intelligence principles, enabling human-exp...
[ "cs.DB", "cs.AI" ]
# Curation and Analysis of MIMICEL – An Event Log for MIMIC-IV Emergency Department Jia Wei1,∗, Chun Ouyang1, Bemali Wickramanayake1, Zhipeng ${ \mathsf { H } } { \mathsf { e } } ^ { 1 }$ , Keshara Perera2, and Catarina Moreira3 1School of Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 4000, Aust...
The global issue of overcrowding in emergency departments (ED) necessitates the analysis of patient flow through ED to enhance efficiency and alleviate overcrowding. However, traditional analytical methods are time-consuming and costly. The healthcare industry is embracing process mining tools to analyse healthcare pro...
[ "cs.DB" ]
# 1 Introduction # CCS Concepts • Software and its engineering $$ Automatic programming; Software maintenance tools; Software evolution. # Keywords Automated Software Engineering, Agentic Systems, AI for Software Development Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in coding, reasoning, and problem solving....
The growth of Large Language Model (LLM) technology has raised expectations for automated coding. However, software engineering is more than coding and is concerned with activities including maintenance and evolution of a project. In this context, the concept of LLM agents has gained traction, which utilize LLMs as rea...
[ "cs.SE", "cs.AI" ]
# 1 Introduction With the technological advancements of the last couple of decades, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) play an important part in automated decisionmaking pipelines [1–3]. Even though these tools are generally created by optimising with respect to their accuracy and performance, ther...
Fairness has been identified as an important aspect of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence solutions for decision making. Recent literature offers a variety of approaches for debiasing, however many of them fall short when the data collection is imbalanced. In this paper, we focus on a particular case, fairnes...
[ "cs.LG", "cs.CY" ]
# 1. Introduction Machine learning (ML) systems are typically designed under the assumption that the training and test sets are sampled from the same statistical distribution. However, this often does not hold in practice. For example, during deployment, test data may include previously unseen classes. In such cases, ...
We present a theory for the construction of out-of-distribution (OOD) detection features for neural networks. We introduce random features for OOD through a novel information-theoretic loss functional consisting of two terms, the first based on the KL divergence separates resulting in-distribution (ID) and OOD feature ...
[ "cs.LG" ]
# 1 Introduction Leading reasoning models on math, science, and coding benchmarks learn to utilize chain-of-thought via reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) [1, 2, 3, 4]. These models are optimized to maximize verifiable rewards by comparing predicted final answers to ground truth. Models trained with...
We study the process through which reasoning models trained with reinforcement learning on verifiable rewards (RLVR) can learn to solve new problems. We find that RLVR drives performance through two main means: (1) by compressing pass@$k$ into pass@1 and (2) via "capability gain" in which models learn to solve new prob...
[ "cs.LG", "cs.AI", "cs.CL" ]
# 1. Introduction Large language models (LLMs) (Achiam et al., 2023; Abdin et al., 2024; Yang et al., 2024) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across diverse tasks such as mathematics (Zhang et al., 2024b;a; Yue et al., 2024), coding (Nam et al., 2024; Chew et al., 2023; Kim et al., 2024a), and reasoning (Hao e...
Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities across tasks such as mathematics, coding, and reasoning, yet their learning ability, which is crucial for adapting to dynamic environments and acquiring new knowledge, remains underexplored. In this work, we address this gap by introducing a framework insp...
[ "cs.CL", "cs.AI" ]
# 1 Introduction DevOps practitioners rely on configuration management tools like Ansible for IT automation tasks. In order to complete these tasks, practitioners use scripts, which are referred to as automation scripts (Parnin et al., 2017). While these scripts save time and manage thousands of servers (ansible, 2022...
LLMs show promise in code generation, yet their effectiveness for IT automation tasks, particularly for tools like Ansible, remains understudied. Existing benchmarks rely primarily on synthetic tasks that fail to capture the needs of practitioners who use IT automation tools, such as Ansible. We present ITAB (IT Automa...
[ "cs.CL", "cs.SE" ]
# I. INTRODUCTION Visual content plays an increasingly important role in our current digital ecosystem. With the proliferation of smartphones, tablets, and other digital devices, the consumption of video content has surged across a wide range of applications, including live streaming, digital broadcasting, video confe...
This paper presents a general-purpose video super-resolution (VSR) method, dubbed VSR-HE, specifically designed to enhance the perceptual quality of compressed content. Targeting scenarios characterized by heavy compression, the method upscales low-resolution videos by a ratio of four, from 180p to 720p or from 270p to...
[ "eess.IV", "cs.CV" ]
# 1 Introduction Large Language Models (LLMs) and agent frameworks are catalyzing a profound transformation in software engineering [63, 38, 51, 25, 28, 19, 65], significantly improving the functional correctness of their code generation and starting to rival human engineers in certain tasks [7, 58, 23]. However, this...
Large Language Models (LLMs) generate functionally correct solutions but often fall short in code efficiency, a critical bottleneck for real-world deployment. In this paper, we introduce a novel test-time iterative optimization framework to address this, employing a closed-loop system where LLMs iteratively refine code...
[ "cs.SE", "cs.AI" ]
# Introduction The development of large language models tailored to the field of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) [1,2] has emerged as a significant research direction. Given the unique and intricate nature of the TCM knowledge system, the construction of intelligent tools specifically designed for this domain can s...
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), as an effective alternative medicine, has been receiving increasing attention. In recent years, the rapid development of large language models (LLMs) tailored for TCM has underscored the need for an objective and comprehensive evaluation framework to assess their performance on real-...
[ "cs.CL", "cs.DB" ]
# 1 Introduction Code-switching (CSW)—the act of alternating between two or more languages within a single discourse (Das et al., 2023; Zhang et al., 2023; Ochieng et al., 2024)—is a common phenomenon in multilingual communities (Bullock and Toribio, 2009; Parekh et al., 2020; Do˘gruöz et al., 2021), and increasingly ...
Code-switching (CSW) is the act of alternating between two or more languages within a single discourse. This phenomenon is widespread in multilingual communities, and increasingly prevalent in online content, where users naturally mix languages in everyday communication. As a result, Large Language Models (LLMs), now c...
[ "cs.CL" ]
# 1 Introduction Code obfuscation involves the transformation of a program into a form intentionally more difficult to understand, targeting both human analysts and automated analysis tools [20]. While the functionality remains identical, the syntax and structure are deliberately altered to obscure the code’s true pur...
Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in software engineering, yet their effectiveness for binary analysis remains unexplored. We present the first comprehensive evaluation of commercial LLMs for assembly code deobfuscation. Testing seven state-of-the-art models against four obfuscation scenarios (bogus contr...
[ "cs.SE", "cs.AI", "cs.CR" ]
# 1 INTRODUCTION The emergence of reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs) has marked a major leap forward, particularly in tasks involving mathematics and programming (Guo et al., 2025; Jaech et al., 2024; Zeng et al., 2024; Yang et al., 2025; Kavukcuoglu, Koray, 2025). To enable such reasoning, LLMs ar...
Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased impressive reasoning abilities in structured tasks like mathematics and programming, largely driven by Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), which uses outcome-based signals that are scalable, effective, and robust against reward hacking. H...
[ "cs.CL", "cs.AI", "cs.LG" ]
# 1 Introduction Modern data-intensive applications continuously generate diverse types of data stored in data lakes [16], encompassing structured data (e.g., tables, graphs), semi-structured data (e.g., JSON, HTML), and unstructured data (e.g., text, images, video). This diversity introduces a critical challenge of d...
The variety of data in data lakes presents significant challenges for data analytics, as data scientists must simultaneously analyze multi-modal data, including structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising capabilities, they still remain inadequate f...
[ "cs.DB", "cs.AI" ]
# 1 INTRODUCTION NL2SQL translates natural language questions into SQL queries, making data analysis accessible to non-technical users and serving as a foundation for intelligent data applications like smart dashboards and visualizations. For instance, a business owner can simply ask, “What were last month’s total sal...
NL2SQL (natural language to SQL) translates natural language questions into SQL queries, thereby making structured data accessible to non-technical users, serving as the foundation for intelligent data applications. State-of-the-art NL2SQL techniques typically perform translation by retrieving database-specific informa...
[ "cs.DB", "cs.CL" ]
# 1. Introduction When browsing through our camera albums, we often find ourselves wishing to view the videos we’ve captured from different camera poses. For instance, seeing footage originally shot from the side as if it were filmed from the front, or transforming a moving shot into one that appears as if taken from ...
We introduce Vid-CamEdit, a novel framework for video camera trajectory editing, enabling the re-synthesis of monocular videos along user-defined camera paths. This task is challenging due to its ill-posed nature and the limited multi-view video data for training. Traditional reconstruction methods struggle with extrem...
[ "cs.CV" ]
# 1 Introduction Graph neural networks (GNNs), and specifically message-passing neural networks [16, 17], have become a dominant approach for representation learning on graph-structured data [31, 37]. Since the expressiveness of standard GNNs within the message-passing framework is limited by their inability to distin...
We propose and study Hierarchical Ego Graph Neural Networks (HEGNNs), an expressive extension of graph neural networks (GNNs) with hierarchical node individualization, inspired by the Individualization-Refinement paradigm for graph isomorphism testing. HEGNNs generalize subgraph-GNNs and form a hierarchy of increasingl...
[ "cs.LG", "cs.AI", "cs.LO", "I.2.6; F.2.0" ]
# 1 Introduction Transformer-based LLMs with long-context capabilities have significantly enhanced real-world applications, including long-document analysis and personalized conversational agents [1, 19, 46]. However, increasing context lengths substantially raises both memory consumption for KV caching and computatio...
Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) cache context as key-value (KV) pairs during inference. As context length grows, KV cache sizes expand, leading to substantial memory overhead and increased attention latency. This paper introduces KVzip, a query-agnostic KV cache eviction method enabling effective reuse o...
[ "cs.DB", "cs.LG" ]
# 1 Introduction Since the advent of large language models (LLMs), there has been ongoing debate about the utility of symbolic representations such as Abstract Meaning Representations (AMRs; Banarescu et al., 2013) in (LLM-based) pipelines and existing NLP tasks. While some studies report limited or negative impact of...
Natural Language Inference (NLI) relies heavily on adequately parsing the semantic content of the premise and hypothesis. In this work, we investigate whether adding semantic information in the form of an Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) helps pretrained language models better generalize in NLI. Our experiments in...
[ "cs.CL" ]
# 1 Introduction Preference optimization (PO) methods such as DPO (Rafailov et al., 2024) have shown success in improving LLMs’ performance in various tasks (Dubois et al., 2024). These methods usually involve a contrastive learning objective that encourages LLMs to generate a preferred response $y ^ { + }$ with highe...
Recent research has attempted to associate preference optimization (PO) performance with the underlying preference datasets. In this work, our observation is that the differences between the preferred response $y^+$ and dispreferred response $y^-$ influence what LLMs can learn, which may not match the desirable differe...
[ "cs.CL" ]
# I. INTRODUCTION Camera and LiDAR are two of the most popular sensors applied in autonomous driving. The camera captures colorful images with dense semantic context, while the LiDAR measures distances of sparse points with intensity that reflect the rough outline of the ambient scene. Their data fusion compensates th...
Cameras and LiDAR are essential sensors for autonomous vehicles. The fusion of camera and LiDAR data addresses the limitations of individual sensors but relies on precise extrinsic calibration. Recently, numerous end-to-end calibration methods have been proposed; however, most predict extrinsic parameters in a single s...
[ "cs.CV" ]
# 1 INTRODUCTION Video data is pervasive in today’s world, playing a critical role in various applications such as autonomous machines [23, 29, 32], education [28], healthcare [82], security and surveillance [51, 92], e-commerce [118, 120], and many others [56, 67]. Recently, VideoLanguage Models (VideoLMs) have demon...
Recently, Video-Language Models (VideoLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, offering significant potential for flexible and powerful video query systems. These models typically rely on Vision Transformers (ViTs), which process video frames individually to extract visual embeddings. However, generating embeddi...
[ "cs.DC", "cs.CV" ]
# I. INTRODUCTION Mosquito-borne diseases continue to be a leading cause of illness and death worldwide, particularly affecting lowand middle-income countries. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 700 million people are affected by mosquito-borne illnesses every year, resulting in over one m...
Mosquito-borne diseases pose a major global health risk, requiring early detection and proactive control of breeding sites to prevent outbreaks. In this paper, we present VisText-Mosquito, a multimodal dataset that integrates visual and textual data to support automated detection, segmentation, and reasoning for mosqui...
[ "cs.CV", "cs.CL" ]
1 INTRODUCTION The penetration of software‑based systems has transformed the ways in which almost every indus‑ try operates. From controlling nuclear power stations to maneuvering spacecraft, complex software systems are used to interface with many critical systems. It is essential to ensure that these soft‑ ware syst...
Software systems have grown as an indispensable commodity used across various industries, and almost all essential services depend on them for effective operation. The software is no longer an independent or stand-alone piece of code written by a developer but rather a collection of packages designed by multiple develo...
[ "cs.SE", "cs.CR" ]
# I. INTRODUCTION LLMs have become a key tool for automated software engineering. They are being used in a variety of contexts, with increasing autonomy [1]. Importantly, they are commonly used for code generation tasks, and their outputs are being integrated into software [2]. These decisions are being made with expe...
This paper investigates the ability of large language models (LLMs) to recognise and solve tasks which have been obfuscated beyond recognition. Focusing on competitive programming and benchmark tasks (LeetCode and MATH), we compare performance across multiple models and obfuscation methods, such as noise and redaction....
[ "cs.LG", "cs.SE" ]
# 1 Introduction Deploying Deep Learning (DL) models in real-time applications is challenging due to their high computational demands, particularly on edge devices such as smartphones and IoT systems (Szegedy et al., 2017; Deng et al., 2020; Krishnamoorthi, 2018). Traditional DL models, while effective, often exceed t...
Model compression is critical for deploying deep learning models on resource-constrained devices. We introduce a novel method enhancing knowledge distillation with integrated gradients (IG) as a data augmentation strategy. Our approach overlays IG maps onto input images during training, providing student models with de...
[ "cs.CV", "cs.AI", "cs.LG", "68T05, 68T07", "I.2.6; I.4.2; I.4.9" ]
# 1 Introduction Along with the digitalization of healthcare and significant advancements in radiology, various multimedia data like videos, images and texts stored in the Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) of hospitals are increasing faster than ever. When facing difficult cases in clinical routines, ...
Performance evaluation for Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) remains a crucial but unsolved problem today especially in the medical domain. Various evaluation metrics have been discussed in the literature to solve this problem. Most of the existing metrics (e.g., precision, recall) are adapted from classification ta...
[ "cs.CV" ]
# 1 Introduction The rise of open-weight foundation models, such as CLIP [42, 22], T5 [43] and the more recent Gemma [56], Llama [16] and DeepSeek [9], has caused a paradigm shift in the field of machine learning. Instead of training a model from scratch as was previously the norm, it is now increasingly common for pr...
Modern deep learning is increasingly characterized by the use of open-weight foundation models that can be fine-tuned on specialized datasets. This has led to a proliferation of expert models and adapters, often shared via platforms like HuggingFace and AdapterHub. To leverage these resources, numerous model upcycling ...
[ "cs.LG", "cs.AI" ]
# 1 Introduction Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) underpins a vast array of phenomena in engineering and the physical sciences, from fluid flow and heat transfer to fracture mechanics and structural deformation. Traditional numerical methods offer rigorous error bounds and adaptable frameworks, but they o...
We present a novel graph-informed transformer operator (GITO) architecture for learning complex partial differential equation systems defined on irregular geometries and non-uniform meshes. GITO consists of two main modules: a hybrid graph transformer (HGT) and a transformer neural operator (TNO). HGT leverages a graph...
[ "cs.LG" ]
# I. INTRODUCTION Cloud-native applications are engineered to fully exploit modern cloud computing environments by adhering to scalability, elasticity, resilience, and continuous delivery principles. Built as collections of loosely coupled microservices, these applications are typically containerized and orchestrated ...
Modern distributed applications increasingly rely on cloud-native platforms to abstract the complexity of deployment and scalability. As the de facto orchestration standard, Kubernetes enables this abstraction, but its declarative configuration model makes the architectural understanding difficult. Developers, operator...
[ "cs.SE", "cs.DC" ]
# 1 Introduction Most research in Data Science focuses on technical resources, overlooking project organization and management. Many Data Science projects fail or fall short of delivering expected value, with 82% of teams lacking a process model or methodology [1]. Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRI...
This study explores the integration of eXtreme Programming (XP) and the Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM) in agile Data Science projects. We conducted a case study at the e-commerce company Elo7 to answer the research question: How can the agility of the XP method be integrated with CRISP-DM in...
[ "cs.SE", "cs.AI", "cs.LG" ]
# 1. INTRODUCTION Let $( \mathsf { X } , \mathcal { X } )$ and $( \mathsf { Y } , \mathsf { y } )$ be measurable spaces, and let $( x _ { 1 } , y _ { 1 } ) , \ldots , ( x _ { n } , y _ { n } ) \in \mathsf X \times \mathsf Y$ represent a training data set drawn from random elements $( X _ { 1 } , Y _ { 1 } ) , \ldots ,...
Most existing literature on supervised machine learning assumes that the training dataset is drawn from an i.i.d. sample. However, many real-world problems exhibit temporal dependence and strong correlations between the marginal distributions of the data-generating process, suggesting that the i.i.d. assumption is ofte...
[ "stat.ML", "cs.LG", "math.PR", "68W40, 68T10, 60J05" ]
# 1. Introduction A key challenge in multi-modal human activity understanding tasks, such as human activity recognition (HAR), human pose estimation (HPE), retrieval, or person reidentification (RE-ID) “in the wild” is obtaining paired sensor data for each individual in a multi-person scene (e.g., IMU with human poses...
Despite LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) being an effective privacy-preserving alternative to RGB cameras to perceive human activities, it remains largely underexplored in the context of multi-modal contrastive pre-training for human activity understanding (e.g., human activity recognition (HAR), retrieval, or perso...
[ "cs.CV" ]
# 1 Introduction LLM-based agentic AI systems combine multi-step reasoning with external tools and memory to solve open-ended tasks such as code generation, web navigation, planning, and transactional services like booking and ordering [Acharya et al., 2025]. By doing so, they extend to complex, real-world problems be...
Agentic AI systems, which build on Large Language Models (LLMs) and interact with tools and memory, have rapidly advanced in capability and scope. Yet, since LLMs have been shown to struggle in multilingual settings, typically resulting in lower performance and reduced safety, agentic systems risk inheriting these limi...
[ "cs.DB", "cs.CL", "cs.CR" ]
# 1 Introduction In recent years, the integration of toolchains [1, 2, 3, 4] and iterative reasoning [5, 6, 7, 8] has significantly enhanced large language models (LLMs) in code-related tasks [9, 10, 11]. These advancements have enabled LLMs to proficiently complete code snippets [12, 13], debug errors [14], and even ...
The ultimate goal of code agents is to solve complex tasks autonomously. Although large language models (LLMs) have made substantial progress in code generation, real-world tasks typically demand full-fledged code repositories rather than simple scripts. Building such repositories from scratch remains a major challenge...
[ "cs.SE", "cs.AI" ]
# 1. Introduction Zeroth-Order Optimization (ZOO) provides powerful tools for optimizing functions where explicit gradients are unavailable or expensive to compute. However, the underlying mechanisms of popular ZOO methods, particularly those employing randomized finite differences, and their connection to other optim...
Zeroth-Order Optimization (ZOO) provides powerful tools for optimizing functions where explicit gradients are unavailable or expensive to compute. However, the underlying mechanisms of popular ZOO methods, particularly those employing randomized finite differences, and their connection to other optimization paradigms l...
[ "cs.LG" ]
# I. INTRODUCTION The safe (i.e., state-constrained) domain of attraction (DOA) of a given dynamical system is the set of state values from which trajectories are guaranteed to converge to an equilibrium point of interest under the system’s dynamics, while satisfying specified state constraints. Such a set provides a ...
Analysis of nonlinear autonomous systems typically involves estimating domains of attraction, which have been a topic of extensive research interest for decades. Despite that, accurately estimating domains of attraction for nonlinear systems remains a challenging task, where existing methods are conservative or limited...
[ "eess.SY", "cs.AI", "cs.SY" ]
# 1 Introduction Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a robust machine learning paradigm to learn expressive representations of graph-structured data through message passing, exhibiting remarkable performance across various AI applications, such as molecular interactions[Huang et al., 2020]. However, most exis...
Federated graph learning is a widely recognized technique that promotes collaborative training of graph neural networks (GNNs) by multi-client graphs.However, existing approaches heavily rely on the communication of model parameters or gradients for federated optimization and fail to adequately address the data heterog...
[ "cs.LG", "cs.AI", "cs.DB", "cs.SI" ]
# 1 INTRODUCTION Relying on natural language in software requirements often leads to ambiguity. In addition, requirements which are not expressed in a formal mathematical notation cannot be guaranteed through formal verification techniques as required to meet standards e.g. [9, 11, 70] in safety critical software. Exp...
This draft is a working document, having a summary of nighty-four (94) papers with additional sections on Traceability of Software Requirements (Section 4), Formal Methods and Its Tools (Section 5), Unifying Theories of Programming (UTP) and Theory of Institutions (Section 6). Please refer to abstract of [7,8]. Key dif...
[ "cs.SE", "cs.AI", "D.2.1; D.2.4; D.2.10; F.4.1; F.4.3" ]
# Introduction to Food Processing As concern grows over the health impacts of processed foods1–3, researchers, policymakers, and consumers alike are asking a critical question: What does it really mean for a food to be processed? The answer is far from simple. While we increasingly rely on epidemiological data to draw...
This chapter explores the evolution, classification, and health implications of food processing, while emphasizing the transformative role of machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and data science in advancing food informatics. It begins with a historical overview and a critical review of traditional classifi...
[ "cs.CL", "cs.AI", "cs.CY", "cs.DB", "cs.LG" ]
# 1 Introduction Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success across a wide range of natural language processing (NLP) tasks (Brown et al. (2020), Chowdhery et al. (2023), Touvron et al. (2023a), Ouyang et al. (2022)), including question answering (Kamalloo et al., 2023), summarization (Liu et al....
Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at many NLP tasks, but struggle with multi-hop reasoning and factual consistency, limiting their effectiveness on knowledge-intensive tasks like complex question answering (QA). Linking Knowledge Graphs (KG) and LLMs has shown promising results, but LLMs generally lack the ability to ...
[ "cs.CL", "cs.IR", "cs.LG" ]
# 1. Introduction In recent years, speech synthesis technologies have achieved remarkable progress, enabling the generation of increasingly more natural and convincing synthetic voices. While these advancements in text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC) systems demonstrate the potential of conversational AI app...
Recent advancements in speech synthesis technologies have led to increasingly advanced spoofing attacks, posing significant challenges for automatic speaker verification systems. While systems based on self-supervised learning (SSL) models, particularly the XLSR-Conformer model, have demonstrated remarkable performance...
[ "cs.SD", "cs.CL", "eess.AS" ]
# 1 Introduction Despite significant advancements in language models (LMs), challenges persist in effectively handling the tail data, such as accommodating the needs of unseen language groups and addressing social biases (Gallegos et al., 2024; Guerreiro et al., 2023). This gap underscores the importance of research e...
In this study, we investigate the potential of language models (LMs) in aiding patients experiencing anomia, a difficulty identifying the names of items. Identifying the intended target item from patient's circumlocution involves the two challenges of term failure and error: (1) The terms relevant to identifying the it...
[ "cs.CL" ]
# 1 Introduction Theory of Mind (ToM), the capability to infer others’ mental states such as beliefs, desires, and intentions, is substantial for narrative comprehension (Premack and Woodruff, 1978; Apperly, 2010), where understanding charaters’ motivations and Book name: King Lear, Character: King Lear, Plot: King L...
A compelling portrayal of characters is essential to the success of narrative writing. For readers, appreciating a character's traits requires the ability to infer their evolving beliefs, desires, and intentions over the course of a complex storyline, a cognitive skill known as Theory-of-Mind (ToM). Performing ToM reas...
[ "cs.CL" ]