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Unlock Pose Diversity: Accurate and Efficient Implicit Keypoint-based Spatiotemporal Diffusion for Audio-driven Talking Portrait

Audio-driven single-image talking portrait generation plays a crucial role in virtual reality, digital human creation, and filmmaking. Existing approaches are generally categorized into keypoint-based and image-based methods. Keypoint-based methods effectively preserve character identity but struggle to capture fine facial details due to the fixed points limitation of the 3D Morphable Model. Moreover, traditional generative networks face challenges in establishing causality between audio and keypoints on limited datasets, resulting in low pose diversity. In contrast, image-based approaches produce high-quality portraits with diverse details using the diffusion network but incur identity distortion and expensive computational costs. In this work, we propose KDTalker, the first framework to combine unsupervised implicit 3D keypoint with a spatiotemporal diffusion model. Leveraging unsupervised implicit 3D keypoints, KDTalker adapts facial information densities, allowing the diffusion process to model diverse head poses and capture fine facial details flexibly. The custom-designed spatiotemporal attention mechanism ensures accurate lip synchronization, producing temporally consistent, high-quality animations while enhancing computational efficiency. Experimental results demonstrate that KDTalker achieves state-of-the-art performance regarding lip synchronization accuracy, head pose diversity, and execution efficiency.Our codes are available at https://github.com/chaolongy/KDTalker.

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AI-Driven Automated Tool for Abdominal CT Body Composition Analysis in Gastrointestinal Cancer Management

The incidence of gastrointestinal cancers remains significantly high, particularly in China, emphasizing the importance of accurate prognostic assessments and effective treatment strategies. Research shows a strong correlation between abdominal muscle and fat tissue composition and patient outcomes. However, existing manual methods for analyzing abdominal tissue composition are time-consuming and costly, limiting clinical research scalability. To address these challenges, we developed an AI-driven tool for automated analysis of abdominal CT scans to effectively identify and segment muscle, subcutaneous fat, and visceral fat. Our tool integrates a multi-view localization model and a high-precision 2D nnUNet-based segmentation model, demonstrating a localization accuracy of 90% and a Dice Score Coefficient of 0.967 for segmentation. Furthermore, it features an interactive interface that allows clinicians to refine the segmentation results, ensuring high-quality outcomes effectively. Our tool offers a standardized method for effectively extracting critical abdominal tissues, potentially enhancing the management and treatment for gastrointestinal cancers. The code is available at https://github.com/NanXinyu/AI-Tool4Abdominal-Seg.git}{https://github.com/NanXinyu/AI-Tool4Abdominal-Seg.git.

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Herald: A Natural Language Annotated Lean 4 Dataset

Verifiable formal languages like Lean have profoundly impacted mathematical reasoning, particularly through the use of large language models (LLMs) for automated reasoning. A significant challenge in training LLMs for these formal languages is the lack of parallel datasets that align natural language with formal language proofs. To address this challenge, this paper introduces a novel framework for translating the Mathlib4 corpus (a unified library of mathematics in formal language Lean 4) into natural language. Building upon this, we employ a dual augmentation strategy that combines tactic-based and informal-based approaches, leveraging the Lean-jixia system, a Lean 4 analyzer. We present the results of this pipeline on Mathlib4 as Herald (Hierarchy and Retrieval-based Translated Lean Dataset). We also propose the Herald Translator, which is fine-tuned on Herald. Herald translator achieves a 93.2% accuracy (Pass@128) on formalizing statements in the miniF2F-test and a 22.5% accuracy on our internal graduate-level textbook dataset, outperforming InternLM2-Math-Plus-7B (74.0% and 7.5%) and TheoremLlama (50.1% and 4.0%). Furthermore, we propose a section-level translation framework for real-world applications. As a direct application of Herald translator, we have successfully translated a template section in the Stack project, marking a notable progress in the automatic formalization of graduate-level mathematical literature. Our model, along with the datasets, are open-sourced to the public.

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GATE: Graph-based Adaptive Tool Evolution Across Diverse Tasks

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great promise in tool-making, yet existing frameworks often struggle to efficiently construct reliable toolsets and are limited to single-task settings. To address these challenges, we propose GATE (Graph-based Adaptive Tool Evolution), an adaptive framework that dynamically constructs and evolves a hierarchical graph of reusable tools across multiple scenarios. We evaluate GATE on open-ended tasks (Minecraft), agent-based tasks (TextCraft, DABench), and code generation tasks (MATH, Date, TabMWP). Our results show that GATE achieves up to 4.3x faster milestone completion in Minecraft compared to the previous SOTA, and provides an average improvement of 9.23% over existing tool-making methods in code generation tasks and 10.03% in agent tasks. GATE demonstrates the power of adaptive evolution, balancing tool quantity, complexity, and functionality while maintaining high efficiency. Code and data are available at \url{https://github.com/ayanami2003/GATE}.

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A Semantic Search Engine for Mathlib4

The interactive theorem prover Lean enables the verification of formal mathematical proofs and is backed by an expanding community. Central to this ecosystem is its mathematical library, mathlib4, which lays the groundwork for the formalization of an expanding range of mathematical theories. However, searching for theorems in mathlib4 can be challenging. To successfully search in mathlib4, users often need to be familiar with its naming conventions or documentation strings. Therefore, creating a semantic search engine that can be used easily by individuals with varying familiarity with mathlib4 is very important. In this paper, we present a semantic search engine (https://leansearch.net/) for mathlib4 that accepts informal queries and finds the relevant theorems. We also establish a benchmark for assessing the performance of various search engines for mathlib4.

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Consistency Diffusion Models for Single-Image 3D Reconstruction with Priors

This paper delves into the study of 3D point cloud reconstruction from a single image. Our objective is to develop the Consistency Diffusion Model, exploring synergistic 2D and 3D priors in the Bayesian framework to ensure superior consistency in the reconstruction process, a challenging yet critical requirement in this field. Specifically, we introduce a pioneering training framework under diffusion models that brings two key innovations. First, we convert 3D structural priors derived from the initial 3D point cloud as a bound term to increase evidence in the variational Bayesian framework, leveraging these robust intrinsic priors to tightly govern the diffusion training process and bolster consistency in reconstruction. Second, we extract and incorporate 2D priors from the single input image, projecting them onto the 3D point cloud to enrich the guidance for diffusion training. Our framework not only sidesteps potential model learning shifts that may arise from directly imposing additional constraints during training but also precisely transposes the 2D priors into the 3D domain. Extensive experimental evaluations reveal that our approach sets new benchmarks in both synthetic and real-world datasets. The code is included with the submission.

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PDEformer: Towards a Foundation Model for One-Dimensional Partial Differential Equations

This paper introduces PDEformer, a neural solver for partial differential equations (PDEs) capable of simultaneously addressing various types of PDEs. We propose to represent the PDE in the form of a computational graph, facilitating the seamless integration of both symbolic and numerical information inherent in a PDE. A graph Transformer and an implicit neural representation (INR) are employed to generate mesh-free predicted solutions. Following pretraining on data exhibiting a certain level of diversity, our model achieves zero-shot accuracies on benchmark datasets that is comparable to those of specifically trained expert models. Additionally, PDEformer demonstrates promising results in the inverse problem of PDE coefficient recovery.

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PDEformer-1: A Foundation Model for One-Dimensional Partial Differential Equations

This paper introduces PDEformer-1, a versatile neural solver capable of simultaneously addressing various partial differential equations (PDEs). With the PDE represented as a computational graph, we facilitate the seamless integration of symbolic and numeric information inherent in a PDE. A graph Transformer and an implicit neural representation (INR) are employed subsequently to generate mesh-free predicted solutions. We generated a dataset with up to three million samples involving diverse one-dimensional PDEs to pretrain our model. Compared with baseline models trained specifically on benchmark datasets, our pretrained model achieves comparable accuracy via zero-shot inference, and the advantage expands after finetuning. For PDEs new or unseen in the pretraining stage, our model can adapt quickly by finetuning on a relatively small set of examples from the target equation. Additionally, PDEformer-1 demonstrates promising results in the inverse problem of PDE scalar coefficient recovery and coefficient field recovery.

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MoColl: Agent-Based Specific and General Model Collaboration for Image Captioning

Image captioning is a critical task at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, with wide-ranging applications across various domains. For complex tasks such as diagnostic report generation, deep learning models require not only domain-specific image-caption datasets but also the incorporation of relevant general knowledge to provide contextual accuracy. Existing approaches exhibit inherent limitations: specialized models excel in capturing domain-specific details but lack generalization, while vision-language models (VLMs) built on large language models (LLMs) leverage general knowledge but struggle with domain-specific adaptation. To address these limitations, this paper proposes a novel agent-enhanced model collaboration framework, which we call MoColl, designed to effectively integrate domain-specific and general knowledge. Specifically, our approach is to decompose complex image captioning tasks into a series of interconnected question-answer subtasks. A trainable visual question answering (VQA) model is employed as a specialized tool to focus on domain-specific visual analysis, answering task-specific questions based on image content. Concurrently, an LLM-based agent with general knowledge formulates these questions and synthesizes the resulting question-answer pairs into coherent captions. Beyond its role in leveraging the VQA model, the agent further guides its training to enhance its domain-specific capabilities. Experimental results on radiology report generation validate the effectiveness of the proposed framework, demonstrating significant improvements in the quality of generated reports.

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Incomplete Data Multi-Source Static Computed Tomography Reconstruction with Diffusion Priors and Implicit Neural Representation

The dose of X-ray radiation and the scanning time are crucial factors in computed tomography (CT) for clinical applications. In this work, we introduce a multi-source static CT imaging system designed to rapidly acquire sparse view and limited angle data in CT imaging, addressing these critical factors. This linear imaging inverse problem is solved by a conditional generation process within the denoising diffusion image reconstruction framework. The noisy volume data sample generated by the reverse time diffusion process is projected onto the affine set to ensure its consistency to the measured data. To enhance the quality of the reconstruction, the 3D phantom's orthogonal space projector is parameterized implicitly by a neural network. Then, a self-supervised learning algorithm is adopted to optimize the implicit neural representation. Through this multistage conditional generation process, we obtain a new approximate posterior sampling strategy for MSCT volume reconstruction. Numerical experiments are implemented with various imaging settings to verify the effectiveness of our methods for incomplete data MSCT volume reconstruction.

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From 2D Images to 3D Model:Weakly Supervised Multi-View Face Reconstruction with Deep Fusion

While weakly supervised multi-view face reconstruction (MVR) is garnering increased attention, one critical issue still remains open: how to effectively interact and fuse multiple image information to reconstruct high-precision 3D models. In this regard, we propose a novel pipeline called Deep Fusion MVR (DF-MVR) to explore the feature correspondences between multi-view images and reconstruct high-precision 3D faces. Specifically, we present a novel multi-view feature fusion backbone that utilizes face masks to align features from multiple encoders and integrates one multi-layer attention mechanism to enhance feature interaction and fusion, resulting in one unified facial representation. Additionally, we develop one concise face mask mechanism that facilitates multi-view feature fusion and facial reconstruction by identifying common areas and guiding the network's focus on critical facial features (e.g., eyes, brows, nose, and mouth). Experiments on Pixel-Face and Bosphorus datasets indicate the superiority of our model. Without 3D annotation, DF-MVR achieves 5.2% and 3.0% RMSE improvement over the existing weakly supervised MVRs respectively on Pixel-Face and Bosphorus dataset. Code will be available publicly at https://github.com/weiguangzhao/DF_MVR.

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Vertical Emission of Blue Light from a Symmetry Breaking Plasmonic Nanocavity-Emitter System Supporting Bound States in the Continuum

The concept of photonic bound states in the continuum (BICs), introduced in structured metallic surface cavities, provides a crucial mechanism for designing plasmonic open-resonant cavities with high quality (high-Q) factors, making significant advances in plasmonic nanophotonics. However, the two major bottlenecks for plasmonic nanocavities: enhancing emission and big beam divergence for quantum emitters, due to the strong intrinsic Ohmic losses of metals. Here, we propose and realize a σh symmetry-breaking plasmonic honeycomb nanocavities (PHC) that support quasi-BIC resonance modes with high-Q factors. Our anodic oxidation-engineered strategy breaks out-of-plane symmetry while preserving in-plane symmetry, enabling the PHC to exhibit collective plasmonic lattice resonances (PLR) couplings and achieve Q-factors exceeding 106. Experimentally, we couple perovskite quantum dots (PQDs) to the PHC, demonstrating effective tuning of their emission properties and beam quality in the blue spectral region, achieving a 32-fold emission enhancement by suppress Ohmic loss and the life time of quantum emitters, simultaneously realize vertical emission in the 2.556 - 2.638 eV region, with a far-field hexagonal beam shape and a full width at half maximum of 12.6 degree under optimal coupling conditions. Furthermore, we demonstrate topological band inversion characterized by Zak phase transitions by continuously tuning the system parameters, confirming that the PHC supports topologically non-trivial q-BIC due to PLR coupling. The PHC presents itself as a promising next-generation, high-brightness nanoscale light source matrix, which can be directly scaled up to cover a wide wavelength range from UV to IR.

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PAM: A Propagation-Based Model for Segmenting Any 3D Objects across Multi-Modal Medical Images

Volumetric segmentation is important in medical imaging, but current methods face challenges like requiring lots of manual annotations and being tailored to specific tasks, which limits their versatility. General segmentation models used for natural images don't perform well with the unique features of medical images. There's a strong need for an adaptable approach that can effectively handle different 3D medical structures and imaging modalities. In this study, we present PAM (Propagating Anything Model), a segmentation approach that uses a 2D prompt, like a bounding box or sketch, to create a complete 3D segmentation of medical image volumes. PAM works by modeling relationships between slices, maintaining information flow across the 3D structure. It combines a CNN-based UNet for processing within slices and a Transformer-based attention module for propagating information between slices, leading to better generalizability across various imaging modalities. PAM significantly outperformed existing models like MedSAM and SegVol, with an average improvement of over 18.1% in dice similarity coefficient (DSC) across 44 medical datasets and various object types. It also showed stable performance despite prompt deviations and different propagation setups, and faster inference speeds compared to other models. PAM's one-view prompt design made it more efficient, reducing interaction time by about 63.6% compared to two-view prompts. Thanks to its focus on structural relationships, PAM handled unseen and complex objects well, showing a unique ability to generalize to new situations. PAM represents an advancement in medical image segmentation, effectively reducing the need for extensive manual work and specialized training. Its adaptability makes it a promising tool for more automated and reliable analysis in clinical settings.

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Jailbreak Instruction-Tuned LLMs via end-of-sentence MLP Re-weighting

In this paper, we investigate the safety mechanisms of instruction fine-tuned large language models (LLMs). We discover that re-weighting MLP neurons can significantly compromise a model's safety, especially for MLPs in end-of-sentence inferences. We hypothesize that LLMs evaluate the harmfulness of prompts during end-of-sentence inferences, and MLP layers plays a critical role in this process. Based on this hypothesis, we develop 2 novel white-box jailbreak methods: a prompt-specific method and a prompt-general method. The prompt-specific method targets individual prompts and optimizes the attack on the fly, while the prompt-general method is pre-trained offline and can generalize to unseen harmful prompts. Our methods demonstrate robust performance across 7 popular open-source LLMs, size ranging from 2B to 72B. Furthermore, our study provides insights into vulnerabilities of instruction-tuned LLM's safety and deepens the understanding of the internal mechanisms of LLMs.

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A Comparative Study of Deep Learning and Iterative Algorithms for Joint Channel Estimation and Signal Detection in OFDM Systems

Joint channel estimation and signal detection (JCESD) is crucial in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, but traditional algorithms perform poorly in low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) scenarios. Deep learning (DL) methods have been investigated, but concerns regarding computational expense and lack of validation in low-SNR settings remain. Hence, the development of a robust and low-complexity model that can deliver excellent performance across a wide range of SNRs is highly desirable. In this paper, we aim to establish a benchmark where traditional algorithms and DL methods are validated on different channel models, Doppler, and SNR settings, particularly focusing on the semi-blind setting. In particular, we propose a new DL model where the backbone network is formed by unrolling the iterative algorithm, and the hyperparameters are estimated by hypernetworks. Additionally, we adapt a lightweight DenseNet to the task of JCESD for comparison. We evaluate different methods in three aspects: generalization in terms of bit error rate (BER), robustness, and complexity. Our results indicate that DL approaches outperform traditional algorithms in the challenging low-SNR setting, while the iterative algorithm performs better in high-SNR settings. Furthermore, the iterative algorithm is more robust in the presence of carrier frequency offset, whereas DL methods excel when signals are corrupted by asymmetric Gaussian noise.

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Demonstration Notebook: Finding the Most Suited In-Context Learning Example from Interactions

Large language models (LLMs) benefit greatly from prompt engineering, with in-context learning standing as a pivital technique. While former approaches have provided various ways to construct the demonstrations used for in-context learning, they often ignore the inherent heterogeneity within datasets, applying the same demonstrations to all reasoning questions. We observed that the effectiveness of demonstrations varies depending on the specific question. This motivates our exploration of using prompt engineering to select appropriate demonstrations. To address the challenge of automatically creating and choosing demonstrations tailored to each question, we propose a novel prompt engineering workflow built around a novel object called the "demonstration notebook." This notebook helps identify the most suitable in-context learning example for a question by gathering and reusing information from the LLM's past interactions. Our experiments show that this approach outperforms all existing methods for automatic demonstration construction and selection (as far as we know), achieving state-of-the-art results on serveral reasoning benchmarks. The method's versatility is further demonstrated by its success in text summarization and prompt compression tasks. Additionally, we contribute a rigorous analysis method to reveal the "demonstrative regime" of a demonstration, providing valuable insights into how demonstrations relate to different question types within a dataset.

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ChatGPT is a Knowledgeable but Inexperienced Solver: An Investigation of Commonsense Problem in Large Language Models

Large language models (LLMs) have made significant progress in NLP. However, their ability to memorize, represent, and leverage commonsense knowledge has been a well-known pain point. In this paper, we specifically focus on ChatGPT, a widely used and easily accessible LLM, and ask the following questions: (1) Can ChatGPT effectively answer commonsense questions? (2) Is ChatGPT aware of the underlying commonsense knowledge for answering a specific question? (3) Is ChatGPT knowledgeable in commonsense? (4) Can ChatGPT effectively leverage commonsense for answering questions? We conduct a series of experiments on 11 datasets to evaluate ChatGPT's commonsense abilities, including answering commonsense questions, identifying necessary knowledge, generating knowledge descriptions, and using knowledge descriptions to answer questions again. Experimental results show that: (1) ChatGPT can achieve good QA accuracies in commonsense tasks, while still struggling with certain domains of datasets. (2) ChatGPT is knowledgeable, and can accurately generate most of the commonsense knowledge using knowledge prompts. (3) Despite its knowledge, ChatGPT is an inexperienced commonsense problem solver, which cannot precisely identify the needed commonsense for answering a specific question. These findings raise the need to explore improved mechanisms for effectively incorporating commonsense into LLMs like ChatGPT, such as better instruction following and commonsense guidance.

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L2SR: Learning to Sample and Reconstruct for Accelerated MRI via Reinforcement Learning

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a widely used medical imaging technique, but its long acquisition time can be a limiting factor in clinical settings. To address this issue, researchers have been exploring ways to reduce the acquisition time while maintaining the reconstruction quality. Previous works have focused on finding either sparse samplers with a fixed reconstructor or finding reconstructors with a fixed sampler. However, these approaches do not fully utilize the potential of joint learning of samplers and reconstructors. In this paper, we propose an alternating training framework for jointly learning a good pair of samplers and reconstructors via deep reinforcement learning (RL). In particular, we consider the process of MRI sampling as a sampling trajectory controlled by a sampler, and introduce a novel sparse-reward Partially Observed Markov Decision Process (POMDP) to formulate the MRI sampling trajectory. Compared to the dense-reward POMDP used in existing works, the proposed sparse-reward POMDP is more computationally efficient and has a provable advantage. Moreover, the proposed framework, called L2SR (Learning to Sample and Reconstruct), overcomes the training mismatch problem that arises in previous methods that use dense-reward POMDP. By alternately updating samplers and reconstructors, L2SR learns a pair of samplers and reconstructors that achieve state-of-the-art reconstruction performances on the fastMRI dataset. Codes are available at \url{https://github.com/yangpuPKU/L2SR-Learning-to-Sample-and-Reconstruct}.

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