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Changshuo Liu

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F$^2$Agent: Financial Fusion of Agentic Intelligence for Multimodal Trading

With increasingly diverse and heterogeneous information sources, effectively leveraging multimodal data is becoming pivotal for high-quality financial trading. Although recent advancements in Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents have enabled the ingestion of multimodal inputs, existing methods fail to capture nuanced cross-modal dependencies and remain vulnerable to market noise, due to limited multimodal modeling, ineffective fusion mechanisms, and inadequate robustness. To address these challenges, we propose F$^2$Agent, a novel multimodal agentic paradigm driven by the Financial Fusion of Agentic Intelligence. F$^2$Agent first deploys a hierarchy of specialized agents to comprehensively extract modality-specific signals. It further introduces a modality-aware adaptive fusion mechanism coupled with noise-robust consistency regularization to dynamically capture fine-grained inter-modality dependencies and generate noise-resilient trading signals. Extensive experiments on six stocks and cryptocurrency assets demonstrate that F$^2$Agent consistently outperforms 16 competitive baselines across multiple trading metrics, with over 20% relative improvement in annualized return on average. Notably, F$^2$Agent delivers returns of 120.48% on GOOG and 148.41% on TSLA, demonstrating its efficacy and robustness in varying market dynamics.

cs.MA

From Schema to Signal: Retrieval-Augmented Modeling for Relational Data Analytics

Relational data stored in RDBMS is foundational to many real-world applications across domains such as e-commerce, finance, and sociality. While deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved strong performance on tabular data with a single table, extending these models to relational databases is challenging due to the normalized multi-table structure and complex inter-table relationships. Existing approaches often rely strictly on schema-defined graphs, which overlook implicit semantic signals embedded in tuple attributes and suffer from rigid connectivity. In this work, we propose Retrieval-Augmented Modeling (RAM), a novel framework that combines graph structure with attribute semantics for relational data analytics. RAM treats tuple attributes as tokens and uses random walks to construct contextual documents, enabling the use of information retrieval techniques to estimate semantic relevance between tuples. Building on these documents, we introduce two retrieval-based augmentations: ATRA, which leverages intra-table relevance for contrastive learning, and ETRA, which links semantically related tuples across tables to enhance graph connectivity. Then, we propose a layer-wise model architecture tailored for relational data, which involves attribute embedding, feature integration, and graph aggregation layers to enable expressive and flexible representation learning. Extensive experiments on five real-world relational databases demonstrate that RAM consistently outperforms existing baselines in diverse prediction tasks, establishing a state-of-the-art for relational data analytics.

cs.DB

DIYHealth Suite: Dataset, Model, and Benchmark for Health Management at Home

Generative AI is reshaping healthcare, yet most existing advances rely on hospital-grade devices, which limits their accessibility and potential for health management outside clinical settings. With the proliferation of portable devices and telemedicine, healthcare is shifting toward home-based Diagnosis-It-Yourself (DIY) care. Despite this promise, several distinctive challenges remain: (i) home-collected data are heterogeneous, exacerbated by the absence of standardized large-scale datasets; (ii) models require adaptation to variable task demands and evolving individual conditions; (iii) the broad spectrum of home care tasks lacks a unified benchmark for systematic evaluation. In this paper, we present DIYHealth Suite, a comprehensive framework designed to address these challenges through a tailored dataset, model, and benchmark. We first curate DIYHealth-900K, a large-scale multimodal dataset capturing diverse real-world home care scenarios. Building on this, we propose DIYHealthGPT, an adaptive foundation model for home-based health management, powered by the novel Hybrid Hyper Low-Rank Adaptation technique. Finally, we establish DIYHealthBench, the first benchmark to evaluate foundation models on home care tasks. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DIYHealthGPT delivers state-of-the-art performance over both general-purpose and medical-specific baselines on 11 home care tasks in both open-QA and closed-QA settings, laying the groundwork for the next generation of personalized health management at home.

cs.CY

Generative AI for Healthcare: Fundamentals, Challenges, and Perspectives

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is taking the world by storm. It promises transformative opportunities for advancing and disrupting existing practices, including healthcare. From large language models (LLMs) for clinical note synthesis and conversational assistance to multimodal systems that integrate medical imaging, electronic health records, and genomic data for decision support, GenAI is transforming the practice of medicine and the delivery of healthcare, such as diagnosis and personalized treatments, with great potential in reducing the cognitive burden on clinicians, thereby improving overall healthcare delivery. However, GenAI deployment in healthcare requires an in-depth understanding of healthcare tasks and what can and cannot be achieved. In this paper, we propose a data-centric paradigm in the design and deployment of GenAI systems for healthcare. Specifically, we reposition the data life cycle by making the medical data ecosystem as the foundational substrate for generative healthcare systems. This ecosystem is designed to sustainably support the integration, representation, and retrieval of diverse medical data and knowledge. With effective and efficient data processing pipelines, such as semantic vector search and contextual querying, it enables GenAI-powered operations for upstream model components and downstream clinical applications. Ultimately, it not only supplies foundation models with high-quality, multimodal data for large-scale pretraining and domain-specific fine-tuning, but also serves as a knowledge retrieval backend to support task-specific inference via the agentic layer. The ecosystem enables the deployment of GenAI for high-quality and effective healthcare delivery.

cs.AI

Learning in Imperfect Environment: Multi-Label Classification with Long-Tailed Distribution and Partial Labels

Conventional multi-label classification (MLC) methods assume that all samples are fully labeled and identically distributed. Unfortunately, this assumption is unrealistic in large-scale MLC data that has long-tailed (LT) distribution and partial labels (PL). To address the problem, we introduce a novel task, Partial labeling and Long-Tailed Multi-Label Classification (PLT-MLC), to jointly consider the above two imperfect learning environments. Not surprisingly, we find that most LT-MLC and PL-MLC approaches fail to solve the PLT-MLC, resulting in significant performance degradation on the two proposed PLT-MLC benchmarks. Therefore, we propose an end-to-end learning framework: \textbf{CO}rrection $\rightarrow$ \textbf{M}odificat\textbf{I}on $\rightarrow$ balan\textbf{C}e, abbreviated as \textbf{\method{}}. Our bootstrapping philosophy is to simultaneously correct the missing labels (Correction) with convinced prediction confidence over a class-aware threshold and to learn from these recall labels during training. We next propose a novel multi-focal modifier loss that simultaneously addresses head-tail imbalance and positive-negative imbalance to adaptively modify the attention to different samples (Modification) under the LT class distribution. In addition, we develop a balanced training strategy by distilling the model's learning effect from head and tail samples, and thus design a balanced classifier (Balance) conditioned on the head and tail learning effect to maintain stable performance for all samples. Our experimental study shows that the proposed \method{} significantly outperforms general MLC, LT-MLC and PL-MLC methods in terms of effectiveness and robustness on our newly created PLT-MLC datasets.

cs.LG

Toward Cohort Intelligence: A Universal Cohort Representation Learning Framework for Electronic Health Record Analysis

Electronic Health Records (EHR) are generated from clinical routine care recording valuable information of broad patient populations, which provide plentiful opportunities for improving patient management and intervention strategies in clinical practice. To exploit the enormous potential of EHR data, a popular EHR data analysis paradigm in machine learning is EHR representation learning, which first leverages the individual patient's EHR data to learn informative representations by a backbone, and supports diverse health-care downstream tasks grounded on the representations. Unfortunately, such a paradigm fails to access the in-depth analysis of patients' relevance, which is generally known as cohort studies in clinical practice. Specifically, patients in the same cohort tend to share similar characteristics, implying their resemblance in medical conditions such as symptoms or diseases. In this paper, we propose a universal COhort Representation lEarning (CORE) framework to augment EHR utilization by leveraging the fine-grained cohort information among patients. In particular, CORE first develops an explicit patient modeling task based on the prior knowledge of patients' diagnosis codes, which measures the latent relevance among patients to adaptively divide the cohorts for each patient. Based on the constructed cohorts, CORE recodes the pre-extracted EHR data representation from intra- and inter-cohort perspectives, yielding augmented EHR data representation learning. CORE is readily applicable to diverse backbone models, serving as a universal plug-in framework to infuse cohort information into healthcare methods for boosted performance. We conduct an extensive experimental evaluation on two real-world datasets, and the experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and generalizability of CORE.

cs.LG

CAusal and collaborative proxy-tasKs lEarning for Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation

Semi-supervised domain adaptation (SSDA) adapts a learner to a new domain by effectively utilizing source domain data and a few labeled target samples. It is a practical yet under-investigated research topic. In this paper, we analyze the SSDA problem from two perspectives that have previously been overlooked, and correspondingly decompose it into two \emph{key subproblems}: \emph{robust domain adaptation (DA) learning} and \emph{maximal cross-domain data utilization}. \textbf{(i)} From a causal theoretical view, a robust DA model should distinguish the invariant ``concept'' (key clue to image label) from the nuisance of confounding factors across domains. To achieve this goal, we propose to generate \emph{concept-invariant samples} to enable the model to classify the samples through causal intervention, yielding improved generalization guarantees; \textbf{(ii)} Based on the robust DA theory, we aim to exploit the maximal utilization of rich source domain data and a few labeled target samples to boost SSDA further. Consequently, we propose a collaboratively debiasing learning framework that utilizes two complementary semi-supervised learning (SSL) classifiers to mutually exchange their unbiased knowledge, which helps unleash the potential of source and target domain training data, thereby producing more convincing pseudo-labels. Such obtained labels facilitate cross-domain feature alignment and duly improve the invariant concept learning. In our experimental study, we show that the proposed model significantly outperforms SOTA methods in terms of effectiveness and generalisability on SSDA datasets.

cs.CV

From Plate to Prevention: A Dietary Nutrient-aided Platform for Health Promotion in Singapore

Singapore has been striving to improve the provision of healthcare services to her people. In this course, the government has taken note of the deficiency in regulating and supervising people's nutrient intake, which is identified as a contributing factor to the development of chronic diseases. Consequently, this issue has garnered significant attention. In this paper, we share our experience in addressing this issue and attaining medical-grade nutrient intake information to benefit Singaporeans in different aspects. To this end, we develop the FoodSG platform to incubate diverse healthcare-oriented applications as a service in Singapore, taking into account their shared requirements. We further identify the profound meaning of localized food datasets and systematically clean and curate a localized Singaporean food dataset FoodSG-233. To overcome the hurdle in recognition performance brought by Singaporean multifarious food dishes, we propose to integrate supervised contrastive learning into our food recognition model FoodSG-SCL for the intrinsic capability to mine hard positive/negative samples and therefore boost the accuracy. Through a comprehensive evaluation, we present performance results of the proposed model and insights on food-related healthcare applications. The FoodSG-233 dataset has been released in https://foodlg.comp.nus.edu.sg/.

cs.LG

Tiling of rectangles with squares via Diophantine approximation

This article shines new light on the classical problem of tiling rectangles with squares efficiently with a novel method. With a twist on the traditional approach of resistor networks, we provide new and improved results on the matter using the theory of Diophantine Approximation, hence overcoming long-established difficulties, such as generalizations to higher-dimensional analogues. The universality of the method is demonstrated through its applications to different tiling problems. These include tiling rectangles with other rectangles, with their respective higher-dimensional counterparts, as well as tiling equilateral triangles, parallelograms, and trapezoids with equilateral triangles.

math.CO

Simple algorithms for optimization on Riemannian manifolds with constraints

We consider optimization problems on manifolds with equality and inequality constraints. A large body of work treats constrained optimization in Euclidean spaces. In this work, we consider extensions of existing algorithms from the Euclidean case to the Riemannian case. Thus, the variable lives on a known smooth manifold and is further constrained. In doing so, we exploit the growing literature on unconstrained Riemannian optimization. For the special case where the manifold is itself described by equality constraints, one could in principle treat the whole problem as a constrained problem in a Euclidean space. The main hypothesis we test here is whether it is sometimes better to exploit the geometry of the constraints, even if only for a subset of them. Specifically, this paper extends an augmented Lagrangian method and smoothed versions of an exact penalty method to the Riemannian case, together with some fundamental convergence results. Numerical experiments indicate some gains in computational efficiency and accuracy in some regimes for minimum balanced cut, non-negative PCA and $k$-means, especially in high dimensions.

math.OC

Packing tree degree sequences

We consider special cases of the two tree degree sequences problem. We show that if two tree degree sequences do not have common leaves then they always have edge-disjoint caterpillar realizations. By using a probabilistic method, we prove that two tree degree sequences always have edge-disjoint realizations if each vertex is a leaf in at least one of the trees. This theorem can be extended to more trees: we show that the edge packing problem is in P for an arbitrary number of tree sequences with the property that each vertex is a non-leaf in at most one of the trees. We also consider the following variant of the degree matrix problem: given two degree sequences $D_1$ and $D_2$ such that $D_2$ is a tree degree sequence, decide if there exists edge-disjoint realizations of $D_1$ and $D_2$ where the realization of $D_2$ is not necessarily a tree. We show that this problem is already $\NP$-complete. Counting, or just estimating the number of distinct realizations of degree sequences is challenging in general. We show that efficient approximations for the number of solutions as well as an almost uniform sampler exist for two tree degree sequences if each vertex is a leaf in at least one of the trees.

math.CO