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Haoxuan Xu

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Hiding Directions, Leaking Structure: Breaking ArrowCloak through Low-Rank Structure

TEE-shielded inference keeps sensitive state in a trusted execution environment (TEE) while offloading linear algebra to an untrusted accelerator. Wang et al., in Game of Arrows (USENIX Security 2025), showed that five widely adopted lightweight defenses preserve vector directions and introduced ArrowMatch to exploit this leakage. They then proposed ArrowCloak, which adds a different multiple of one shared mask direction to each vector and bases its weight-recovery hardness argument on Learning with Errors (LWE). ArrowCloak successfully reduces ArrowMatch to near-black-box levels. In this paper, we revisit ArrowCloak from cryptographic and structural perspectives. Its LWE formulation does not by itself establish standard LWE hardness: the reduction direction, quantized arithmetic, and joint instance distribution do not meet the required conditions. Reusing one mask direction leaves a recoverable rank-one component across the released matrix. We exploit this structure with our proposed attack, an end-to-end, query-free recovery attack. Given a public checkpoint and the obfuscated weights, the attack removes the masking subspace, recovers the hidden one-to-one correspondence, and reconstructs protected weights without transformation secrets, victim queries, or fine-tuning data. Across six model-task pairs spanning classification, segmentation, and diffusion, the attack recovers 99.92%-100% of hidden vector correspondences. Reconstructed classification models achieve 94.39%-99.54% victim agreement and differ by at most 1.59 percentage points in accuracy; the recovered segmentation model achieves 98.35% output agreement. These findings suggest that lightweight protection should address both per-vector geometry and joint structure across released weights.

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Dual-Space Modality Consistency Learning for Universal Cross-Modal Re-Identification

Cross-modal Re-Identification (ReID) aims to retrieve the same identity across heterogeneous imaging modalities and has been widely studied in visible-infrared person ReID and cross-modal ship ReID. Existing methods have achieved promising performance by learning modality consistency in the spatial embedding space, yet often overlook frequency-domain modality discrepancy, particularly in high-frequency representations that are both highly discriminative and modality-sensitive. In addition, most approaches are tailored to specific modality settings, limiting their applicability across diverse cross-modal scenarios. To address these challenges, we propose a Dual-Space Modality Consistency Learning (DSMCL) framework for universal cross-modal ReID. Specifically, DSMCL jointly models spatial feature distribution consistency and frequency-domain discriminative consistency. A Spatial Modality Consistency Learning (SMCL) branch performs Gaussian-based feature alignment, while a Frequency-aware Discriminative Consistency Learning (FDCL) strategy regularizes high-frequency representations through identity-aware cross-modal contrastive learning. By jointly capturing modality-specific characteristics and modality-shared identity cues, DSMCL learns robust representations and establishes a unified framework capable of accommodating diverse heterogeneous modality settings. Moreover, DSMCL is a plug-and-play framework that can be readily integrated into existing cross-modal ReID architectures. Extensive experiments on SYSU-MM01, RegDB, LLCM, HOSS-ReID, and CMShipReID across seventeen evaluation protocols show that DSMCL consistently improves multiple representative baselines.

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Behavioral Skill Reconstruction: Reconstructing Hidden Functionality from LLM Agent Skills

Closed source agent skills may encode proprietary instructions, scripts, constants, and data. Providers may offer their capabilities as services while keeping the underlying packages hidden. Prior work focuses on prompt injection attacks that directly disclose these artifacts, and existing defenses accordingly aim to prevent such leakage. However, preventing file disclosure does not prevent users from recovering the functionality those files implement. This raises a fundamental question: can a user reconstruct a skill's functionality through ordinary use while its files remain hidden? We study behavioral skill reconstruction (BSR), in which an attacker uses valid task requests and observed responses to build a functional clone of a hidden skill. We introduce SkillClone, a black-box attack that clones a target skill by forming an interface hypothesis from its public advertisement, issuing structured benign probes, synthesizing an executable replica, and iteratively repairing it through differential validation against the victim skill. Across 30 skills spanning rules, tables, procedures, and algorithms, SkillClone achieves exact or partial recovery on held-out inputs for several targets. Iterative requerying closes gaps missed by single-round reconstruction. Because SkillClone uses only legitimate interactions, disclosure-focused defenses provide limited coverage, and less detailed skill descriptions offer limited protection. These results show that file secrecy alone does not ensure functional secrecy. Defenses must also limit cumulative information leakage from ordinary use.

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HCSG: Human-Centric Semantic-Geometric Reasoning for Vision-Language Navigation

VLN has achieved remarkable progress by scaling data and model capacity. However, the assumption of a static environment breaks down in real-world indoor scenarios, where robots inevitably encounter dynamic pedestrians. Existing human-aware approaches typically treat humans merely as moving obstacles based on implicit visual cues, lacking the explicit reasoning required to interpret human intentions or maintain social norms. To address this, we propose HCSG, the first human-centric framework for VLN. This framework provides a robust foundation for safe, socially intelligent navigation in dynamic human-robot environments that shifts the paradigm from passive collision avoidance to active human behavior understanding. Specifically, HCSG introduces a unified Human Understanding Module that synergizes two key capabilities: (i) geometric forecasting, which predicts human pose and trajectory to anticipate future motion dynamics; and (ii) semantic interpretation, which leverages a Vision-Language Model (VLM) to generate natural language descriptions of human actions and intentions. These semantic-geometric representations are fused into the agent's topological map for instruction-conditioned planning. Furthermore, a social distance loss is introduced to enforce socially compliant interaction distances. Extensive experiments on the HA-VLNCE benchmark demonstrate that HCSG significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods, achieving a 14% improvement in Success Rate and a 34% reduction in Collision Rate. Our project can be seen at https://haoxuanxu1024.github.io/HCSG/.

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Mask World Model: Predicting What Matters for Robust Robot Policy Learning

World models derived from large-scale video generative pre-training have emerged as a promising paradigm for generalist robot policy learning. However, standard approaches often focus on high-fidelity RGB video prediction, this can result in overfitting to irrelevant factors, such as dynamic backgrounds and illumination changes. These distractions reduce the model's ability to generalize, ultimately leading to unreliable and fragile control policies. To address this, we introduce the Mask World Model (MWM), which leverages video diffusion architectures to predict the evolution of semantic masks instead of pixels. This shift imposes a geometric information bottleneck, forcing the model to capture essential physical dynamics and contact relations while filtering out visual noise. We seamlessly integrate this mask dynamics backbone with a diffusion-based policy head to enable robust end-to-end control. Extensive evaluations demonstrate the superiority of MWM on the LIBERO and RLBench simulation benchmarks, significantly outperforming the state-of-the-art RGB-based world models. Furthermore, real-world experiments and robustness evaluation (via random token pruning) reveal that MWM exhibits superior generalization capabilities and robust resilience to texture information loss.

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Towards Robust Text-to-Image Person Retrieval: Multi-View Reformulation for Semantic Compensation

In text-to-image person retrieval tasks, the diversity of natural language expressions and the implicitness of visual semantics often lead to the problem of Expression Drift, where semantically equivalent texts exhibit significant feature discrepancies in the embedding space due to phrasing variations, thereby degrading the robustness of image-text alignment. This paper proposes a semantic compensation framework (MVR) driven by Large Language Models (LLMs), which enhances cross-modal representation consistency through multi-view semantic reformulation and feature compensation. The core methodology comprises three components: Multi-View Reformulation (MVR): A dual-branch prompting strategy combines key feature guidance (extracting visually critical components via feature similarity) and diversity-aware rewriting to generate semantically equivalent yet distributionally diverse textual variants; Textual Feature Robustness Enhancement: A training-free latent space compensation mechanism suppresses noise interference through multi-view feature mean-pooling and residual connections, effectively capturing "Semantic Echoes"; Visual Semantic Compensation: VLM generates multi-perspective image descriptions, which are further enhanced through shared text reformulation to address visual semantic gaps. Experiments demonstrate that our method can improve the accuracy of the original model well without training and performs SOTA on three text-to-image person retrieval datasets.

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GGD-SLAM: Monocular 3DGS SLAM Powered by Generalizable Motion Model for Dynamic Environments

Visual SLAM algorithms achieve significant improvements through the exploration of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) representations, particularly in generating high-fidelity dense maps. However, they depend on a static environment assumption and experience significant performance degradation in dynamic environments. This paper presents GGD-SLAM, a framework that employs a generalizable motion model to address the challenges of localization and dense mapping in dynamic environments - without predefined semantic annotations or depth input. Specifically, the proposed system employs a First-In-First-Out (FIFO) queue to manage incoming frames, facilitating dynamic semantic feature extraction through a sequential attention mechanism. This is integrated with a dynamic feature enhancer to separate static and dynamic components. Additionally, to minimize dynamic distractors' impact on the static components, we devise a method to fill occluded areas via static information sampling and design a distractor-adaptive Structure Similarity Index Measure (SSIM) loss tailored for dynamic environments, significantly enhancing the system's resilience. Experiments conducted on real-world dynamic datasets demonstrate that the proposed system achieves state-of-the-art performance in camera pose estimation and dense reconstruction in dynamic scenes.

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CMCC-ReID: Cross-Modality Clothing-Change Person Re-Identification

Person Re-Identification (ReID) faces severe challenges from modality discrepancy and clothing variation in long-term surveillance scenario. While existing studies have made significant progress in either Visible-Infrared ReID (VI-ReID) or Clothing-Change ReID (CC-ReID), real-world surveillance system often face both challenges simultaneously. To address this overlooked yet realistic problem, we define a new task, termed Cross-Modality Clothing-Change Re-Identification (CMCC-ReID), which targets pedestrian matching across variations in both modality and clothing. To advance research in this direction, we construct a new benchmark SYSU-CMCC, where each identity is captured in both visible and infrared domains with distinct outfits, reflecting the dual heterogeneity of long-term surveillance. To tackle CMCC-ReID, we propose a Progressive Identity Alignment Network (PIA) that progressively mitigates the issues of clothing variation and modality discrepancy. Specifically, a Dual-Branch Disentangling Learning (DBDL) module separates identity-related cues from clothing-related factors to achieve clothing-agnostic representation, and a Bi-Directional Prototype Learning (BPL) module performs intra-modality and inter-modality contrast in the embedding space to bridge the modality gap while further suppressing clothing interference. Extensive experiments on the SYSU-CMCC dataset demonstrate that PIA establishes a strong baseline for this new task and significantly outperforms existing methods.

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Infrastructure for Valuable, Tradable, and Verifiable Agent Memory

Every API token you spend is your accumulated wealth; once you can prove its value and the effort behind it, you can resell it. As autonomous agents repeatedly call models and tools, they accumulate memories that are your intellectual property. But today these memories remain private and non-transferable, as there is no way to validate their value. We argue that agent memory can serve as an economic commodity in the agent economy, if buyers can verify that it is authentic, effort-backed, and produced in a compatible execution context. To realize this idea, we propose clawgang, which binds memory to verifiable computational provenance, and meowtrade, a market layer for listing, transferring, and governing certified memory artifacts. Together, they transform one-shot API token spending into reusable and tradable assets, enabling timely memory transfer, reducing repeated exploration, and opening a memory trade market.

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P$^{3}$Nav: End-to-End Perception, Prediction and Planning for Vision-and-Language Navigation

In Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN), an agent is required to plan a path to the target specified by the language instruction, using its visual observations. Consequently, prevailing VLN methods primarily focus on building powerful planners through visual-textual alignment. However, these approaches often bypass the imperative of comprehensive scene understanding prior to planning, leaving the agent with insufficient perception or prediction capabilities. Thus, we propose P$^{3}$Nav, a novel end-to-end framework integrating perception, prediction, and planning in a unified pipeline to strengthen the VLN agent's scene understanding and boost navigation success. Specifically, P$^{3}$Nav augments perception by extracting complementary cues from object-level and map-level perspectives. Subsequently, our P$^{3}$Nav predicts waypoints to model the agent's potential future states, endowing the agent with intrinsic awareness of candidate positions during navigation. Conditioned on these future waypoints, P$^{3}$Nav further forecasts semantic map cues, enabling proactive planning and reducing the strict reliance on purely historical context. Integrating these perceptual and predictive cues, a holistic planning module finally carries out the VLN tasks. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our P$^{3}$Nav achieves new state-of-the-art performance on the REVERIE, R2R-CE, and RxR-CE benchmarks.

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BIT: Matching-based Bi-directional Interaction Transformation Network for Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification

Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification (VI-ReID) is a challenging retrieval task due to the substantial modality gap between visible and infrared images. While existing methods attempt to bridge this gap by learning modality-invariant features within a shared embedding space, they often overlook the complex and implicit correlations between modalities. This limitation becomes more severe under distribution shifts, where infrared samples are often far fewer than visible ones. To address these challenges, we propose a novel network termed Bi-directional Interaction Transformation (BIT). Instead of relying on rigid feature alignment, BIT adopts a matching-based strategy that explicitly models the interaction between visible and infrared image pairs. Specifically, BIT employs an encoder-decoder architecture where the encoder extracts preliminary feature representations, and the decoder performs bi-directional feature integration and query aware scoring to enhance cross-modality correspondence. To our best knowledge, BIT is the first to introduce such pairwise matching-driven interaction in VI-ReID. Extensive experiments on several benchmarks demonstrate that our BIT achieves state-of-the-art performance, highlighting its effectiveness in the VI-ReID task.

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Enhancing Vision-Language Navigation with Multimodal Event Knowledge from Real-World Indoor Tour Videos

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) agents often struggle with long-horizon reasoning in unseen environments, particularly when facing ambiguous, coarse-grained instructions. While recent advances use knowledge graph to enhance reasoning, the potential of multimodal event knowledge inspired by human episodic memory remains underexplored. In this work, we propose an event-centric knowledge enhancement strategy for automated process knowledge mining and feature fusion to solve coarse-grained instruction and long-horizon reasoning in VLN task. First, we construct YE-KG, the first large-scale multimodal spatiotemporal knowledge graph, with over 86k nodes and 83k edges, derived from real-world indoor videos. By leveraging multimodal large language models (i.e., LLaVa, GPT4), we extract unstructured video streams into structured semantic-action-effect events to serve as explicit episodic memory. Second, we introduce STE-VLN, which integrates the above graph into VLN models via a Coarse-to-Fine Hierarchical Retrieval mechanism. This allows agents to retrieve causal event sequences and dynamically fuse them with egocentric visual observations. Experiments on REVERIE, R2R, and R2R-CE benchmarks demonstrate the efficiency of our event-centric strategy, outperforming state-of-the-art approaches across diverse action spaces. Our data and code are available on the project website https://sites.google.com/view/y-event-kg/.

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IRPO: Boosting Image Restoration via Post-training GRPO

Post-training has become effective for high-level generation, but its role in low-level vision remains underexplored. Existing image restoration methods often rely on fixed pixel-wise fitting to ground-truth images, which can lead to over-smoothing and weak generalization. We propose IRPO, a GRPO-based post-training framework for deterministic restoration models. IRPO is built around two axes: data formulation and reward modeling. For data formulation, we select the 30% underperforming samples from the pre-training stage, which improves both accuracy and training efficiency. For reward modeling, we combine fidelity-oriented and quality-aware feedback with three components: a General Reward for structural fidelity, an Expert Reward that uses a Vision-Language Model as a coarse visual-quality judge, and a Restoration Reward for task-specific low-level cues. Experiments on six in-domain and five out-of-domain (OOD) benchmarks show that IRPO improves the AdaIR baseline by 0.93 dB on in-domain tasks and 3.43 dB on OOD settings. Our code can be shown in https://github.com/HaoxuanXU1024/IRPO.

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Modality-Transition Representation Learning for Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification

Visible-infrared person re-identification (VI-ReID) technique could associate the pedestrian images across visible and infrared modalities in the practical scenarios of background illumination changes. However, a substantial gap inherently exists between these two modalities. Besides, existing methods primarily rely on intermediate representations to align cross-modal features of the same person. The intermediate feature representations are usually create by generating intermediate images (kind of data enhancement), or fusing intermediate features (more parameters, lack of interpretability), and they do not make good use of the intermediate features. Thus, we propose a novel VI-ReID framework via Modality-Transition Representation Learning (MTRL) with a middle generated image as a transmitter from visible to infrared modals, which are fully aligned with the original visible images and similar to the infrared modality. After that, using a modality-transition contrastive loss and a modality-query regularization loss for training, which could align the cross-modal features more effectively. Notably, our proposed framework does not need any additional parameters, which achieves the same inference speed to the backbone while improving its performance on VI-ReID task. Extensive experimental results illustrate that our model significantly and consistently outperforms existing SOTAs on three typical VI-ReID datasets.

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Wavelet Policy: Imitation Learning in the Scale Domain with World Prior Memory

Conventional visuomotor imitation learning usually predicts future robot actions directly in the time domain. Such formulations often have limited physical scene awareness and weak memory. In this work, we propose Wavelet Policy, a lightweight imitation learning framework that combines World Prior Memory (WPM) with wavelet-based multi-scale action modeling. Our key idea is to encode persistent physical scene structure from static background images into compact memory tokens, which are fused into world-prior tokens and injected into the encoder during forward propagation. Based on this memory-conditioned representation, we further perform wavelet-domain decomposition over horizon-aligned latent action tokens and adopt a Single-Encoder Multiple-Decoder (SE2MD) architecture to model latent components at different temporal scales. The resulting latent subbands are reconstructed through inverse wavelet transform and finally projected into executable action chunks. To facilitate efficient world prior learning, we introduce a world-prior adaptation loss, encouraging the background encoder to retain persistent scene knowledge while remaining lightweight and stable. Extensive experiments on four simulated and six real-world robotic manipulation tasks show that Wavelet Policy consistently outperforms strong baselines. These results demonstrate that combining scale-domain action modeling with world-prior memory provides an effective and efficient solution for embodied manipulation.

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Identity-aware Feature Decoupling Learning for Clothing-change Person Re-identification

Clothing-change person re-identification (CC Re-ID) has attracted increasing attention in recent years due to its application prospect. Most existing works struggle to adequately extract the ID-related information from the original RGB images. In this paper, we propose an Identity-aware Feature Decoupling (IFD) learning framework to mine identity-related features. Particularly, IFD exploits a dual stream architecture that consists of a main stream and an attention stream. The attention stream takes the clothing-masked images as inputs and derives the identity attention weights for effectively transferring the spatial knowledge to the main stream and highlighting the regions with abundant identity-related information. To eliminate the semantic gap between the inputs of two streams, we propose a clothing bias diminishing module specific to the main stream to regularize the features of clothing-relevant regions. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that our framework outperforms other baseline models on several widely-used CC Re-ID datasets.

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Classifying Crime Types using Judgment Documents from Social Media

The task of determining crime types based on criminal behavior facts has become a very important and meaningful task in social science. But the problem facing the field now is that the data samples themselves are unevenly distributed, due to the nature of the crime itself. At the same time, data sets in the judicial field are less publicly available, and it is not practical to produce large data sets for direct training. This article proposes a new training model to solve this problem through NLP processing methods. We first propose a Crime Fact Data Preprocessing Module (CFDPM), which can balance the defects of uneven data set distribution by generating new samples. Then we use a large open source dataset (CAIL-big) as our pretraining dataset and a small dataset collected by ourselves for Fine-tuning, giving it good generalization ability to unfamiliar small datasets. At the same time, we use the improved Bert model with dynamic masking to improve the model. Experiments show that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art results on the present dataset. At the same time, the effectiveness of module CFDPM is proved by experiments. This article provides a valuable methodology contribution for classifying social science texts such as criminal behaviors. Extensive experiments on public benchmarks show that the proposed method achieves new state-of-the-art results.

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Multimodal Sentiment Analysis: A Survey

Multimodal sentiment analysis has become an important research area in the field of artificial intelligence. With the latest advances in deep learning, this technology has reached new heights. It has great potential for both application and research, making it a popular research topic. This review provides an overview of the definition, background, and development of multimodal sentiment analysis. It also covers recent datasets and advanced models, emphasizing the challenges and future prospects of this technology. Finally, it looks ahead to future research directions. It should be noted that this review provides constructive suggestions for promising research directions and building better performing multimodal sentiment analysis models, which can help researchers in this field.

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