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Hui Wang

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Self-Calibrating Dense Displacement Fields for Reliable Co-Registration of Large Optical Satellite Imagery

Co-registration underlies nearly every multi-temporal and multi-sensor use of optical satellite imagery, and operational products still carry documented offsets well above the fraction-of-a-pixel scale at which change detection, time series, and data fusion degrade. Real image pairs differ along several axes at once (sensor response, scene content, viewing geometry, resolution, mosaic seams), and the last of these is not a single global motion. Existing tools embed a motion model and constants tuned to their development data; a pair that fits is registered precisely, while one that does not either fails to match or returns a result wrong by tens of pixels with no failure reported. Learned matchers add a GPU requirement and carry no accuracy guarantee outside their training distribution. We present SCDF (self-calibrating displacement fields), a training-free, GPU-free estimator whose motion model is the dense per-pixel displacement field itself, so no scene motion falls outside the model. A single predict--measure--filter loop runs over a resolution pyramid: the accumulated field predicts where each patch of the moving image falls in the reference, RootSIFT matching and a correlation pass measure the displacement there to sub-pixel precision, and filters whose thresholds are all calibrated on the image pair itself decide what survives. One configuration, with no per-dataset tuning, processes full $8192^2$ scenes on a single CPU core. On 584 constructed-ground-truth pairs built from real Sentinel-2, Landsat-8/9, and NAIP imagery, against seven classical baselines and two zero-shot pretrained matchers, SCDF registers every pair with zero failures, reduces the best baseline's real-pair median end-point error from 6.83 to 4.17m, and cuts its 90th percentile from 17.8 to 7.77m.

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Dynamical Barbero--Immirzi field coupled to quintessence: gravitational-wave propagation constraints and next-generation forecasts

We investigate the imprints of a dynamical Barbero--Immirzi (BI) field $γ(x)$ coupled to a quintessence scalar field $ϕ$ on gravitational-wave (GW) propagation. In the framework of Einstein--Cartan--Holst gravity, promoting $γ$ to a dynamical scalar introduces a stress--energy that back-reacts on the metric, modifying the GW friction term. A minimal coupling $\proptoβ\,ϕ^2γ^2$ between the BI field and quintessence leads to a two-parameter extension of the Belgacem--Maggiore parametrization, characterized by $\xBI$ (from the isolated BI field) and $\xcp$ (from the coupling). Using the LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA GWTC-3 dark-siren constraint $Ξ_0=1.2^{+0.7}_{-0.7}$, we obtain the first simultaneous constraints: $|\xBI|\lesssim0.7$ and $|\xcp|\lesssim0.13$ at 90\% credibility. We then forecast the sensitivity of next-generation detectors Einstein Telescope (ET) and Cosmic Explorer (CE), showing that a 10-year observation campaign can improve these bounds by roughly one to two orders of magnitude depending on the parameter---a factor of $\sim\!20$ for $\xBI$ and $\sim\!20$ for $\xcp$---reaching $σ(\xBI)\sim3\times10^{-2}$ and $σ(\xcp)\sim1.2\times10^{-2}$. Translated into microscopic parameters, this corresponds to $γ_{\rm dyn}\lesssim10^{-12}$ and $β\lesssim10^{-3}$, providing a powerful new observational window into the interplay between quantum-gravity phenomenology and dark energy.

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Robust structure from motion for aerial-ground images via detector-free feature matching and multi-view track refinement

Integrated 3D reconstruction from aerial-ground images is essential for generating high-precision urban 3D models, yet severe variations in viewpoint, scale, and rotation make robust feature matching highly challenging. To address these limitations, this study introduces a rotation-robust detector-free matching network coupled with multi-view track refinement for incremental Structure from Motion (ISfM). The proposed workflow features four key modules. First, rotation-aware feature extraction replaces traditional convolutions with an Omnidirectional State Space Block (OSS Block) that selectively scans across eight symmetrical directions to model long-range spatial dependencies and synthesize rotation-invariant feature maps. Second, multi-scale attention transformation utilizes quadtree attention to build a hierarchical token pyramid that isolates high-association token regions and discards irrelevant areas, capturing long-range context with linear computational complexity. Third, bi-directional feature matching executes a symmetric coarse-to-fine matching scheme where coarse alignment computes dual-direction Softmax confidence matrices under mutual nearest neighbor constraints, and fine alignment uses a multi-layer perceptron to regress sub-pixel coordinate offsets. Finally, multi-view track refinement employs an integrated indexing structure to evaluate localized spatial proximity and link disjoint sub-tracks to the highest-confidence anchor point, ensuring stable feature repeatability across the ISfM pipeline. By using real aerial-ground datasets, experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method improves AUC at 5° pose error by 93.9% compared with LoFTR and achieves the highest precision in ISfM reconstruction, with the improved accuracy ranging from 27.6% to 32.7%. The proposed method provides a reliable solution for integrated 3D reconstruction of aerial-ground images.

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Intern-S2-Mobius: Foundation Model with Decoupled Knowledge and Reasoning

We introduce Mobius-v0, an architecture that comprises a globally shared Memory (FFN) that stores knowledge vectors and multiple Reasoners (Self-Attn) that iteratively achieve compositional reasoning. Using hidden states as cache and carrier, reasoners repeatedly query memory for required knowledge-vectors, while the knowledge is transmitted back to reasoning operators. Through this knowledge-reasoning-separation architecture, Mobius achieves better knowledge compression and reasoning efficiency. Built upon Mobius-v0 architecture: 1) Our 7B model trained-from-scratch achieves similar downstream score as a 7B Transformer baseline with 62.6% of baseline's training data. 2) Our Intern-S2-Mobius, continually-pretrained from Qwen3.5-35B, achieves similar downstream score while delivering nearly 4x end-to-end inference speedup.

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Understanding Security and Privacy Perceptions of Content Creators Regarding AI Labels of AI-Generated Content

AI labels, typically implemented via underlying tracing mechanisms such as watermarks and metadata, are crucial for protecting Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content (AIGC) against security threats like disinformation and evasion. However, the perceived devaluation of AI-assisted work discourages creators from disclosing AI use, incentivizing efforts to bypass labeling and compromising downstream traceability. Yet, how AIGC creators perceive the security and privacy (S\&P) implications of these labels, and how their behaviors impact technical resilience remain underexplored. To this end, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 21 AIGC creators and measured images across 6 image generation platforms against 16 self-reported manipulation settings. Our findings reveal that creators conflate binary AI labels with granular traceability, and express strong fears of de-anonymization via platform identifiers. Driven by fears of algorithmic traffic suppression and reputational risks, they defensively removed digital traces. Through empirical tests, we show that targeted modifications like coarse quantization significantly degrade detection. AI detection capabilities are also inconsistent across platforms, and suffer from false positives even for human-authored images. Based on these insights, we advocate for workflow-resilient implicit AI labels that align technical guarantees with creators' incentives.

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Your VLM Already Knows When: Training-Free Temporal Grounding by Asking Yes or No

Multimodal LLMs that recognise events reliably still fail to say when they happen. Prompted for timestamps, strong VLMs reach as little as $3.8\%$ R@0.5 on Charades-STA, and $77$ to $80\%$ of their wrong predictions carry low output entropy: the models are confidently wrong, and entropy-based error detection stays below a random classifier. We show that this failure lives in the task interface, not in perception. Holding the weights fixed, replacing timestamp regression with a coarse-to-fine scan of binary questions, whose first-token probabilities are consumed only as a ranking, raises R@0.5 by $28$ to $50$ points across four frozen backbones. The residual failures decompose into two measurable axes: a perception axis that moves with the backbone, and a geometry axis that is analytically predictable from the ratio of the output-window and event widths. FV-Action, the training-free method built on this analysis, reaches $56.8\%$ R@0.5 on Charades-STA, above the same backbone's native grounding pipeline and the strongest training-free result on this benchmark; it surpasses every TVG-trained model evaluated zero-shot on TACoS, and improves over direct prediction on ActivityNet Captions and QVHighlights, with no temporal supervision at any stage.

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EchoEdit: Stabilizing Inversion-Free Audio Editing via Optimal Transport Geometry

Text-guided audio editing with pretrained generative models is commonly implemented through inversion or noising. This topology induces a structural trade-off, as stronger edits require deeper corruption of the very rhythm, transients, timbre, and long-range form that should remain unchanged. Here, we introduce EchoEdit, a training-free and inversion-free framework for real-audio editing that directly constructs an editing field by differencing the drifts conditioned on the source and target prompts. This construction avoids explicit source inversion, paired edit data, and test-time optimization, but its stochastic source marginals introduce uncertainty drift, where small random deviations accumulate along the editing trajectory and can move the edited latent away from the audio data manifold. To address this limitation, we further propose EchoEdit+, an optimal-transport-regularized extension that stabilizes the direct editing path by minimizing the transportation cost between edited variables and the source-conditioned audio manifold. The resulting OT coupling contracts the stochastic displacement at noisy states, keeps model queries closer to the training distribution, and preserves structural information while allowing semantic change. Experiments on sound-effect and music editing demonstrate that EchoEdit+ improves target-prompt alignment and source preservation over inversion-based baselines and the unregularized direct editor. Code and dataset will be released.

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Boundary layer analysis for the 2D chemotaxis-Navier-Stokes system with logarithmic sensitivity, Part I: Well-posedness

This is the first part of a two-part work concerning the boundary layer convergence for chemotaxis-Navier-Stokes system in a two-dimensional half-space. In this paper, we investigate the chemotacxis-Navier-Stokes system with the logarithmic singularity under Navier-slip boundary conditions. More precisely, we perform an exact asymptotic expansion for the chemotaxis Navier-Stokes system with viscous coefficient $\varepsilon>0$, and obtain partial boundary layer profiles, establishing the well-posedness of the corresponding boundary layer profiles. Specially, we also establish the local well-posedness of solutions to the supercritical chemotaxis Euler equation (with $\varepsilon=0$) by overcoming the difficulty from the disappearance of diffusion terms.

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GAUGE: A Measurement-Grounded Benchmark for Physical Fidelity in Simulation Engines and Video World Models

Physics engines facilitate large-scale training and evaluation for embodied intelligence, while generative video world models are emerging as implicit simulators of future states and interactions. However, existing evaluations of physical fidelity are often conducted in isolation and rely heavily on perceptual similarity or human judgments, providing limited insight into which physical principles or parameters are violated. We introduce GAUGE, a real-world-grounded diagnostic benchmark for jointly evaluating how numerical simulators and generative video world models reproduce or deviate from real-world physics. It comprises 22 controlled task families covering rigid bodies, flexible cables, textiles, and volumetric deformable objects. Grounded in real-world trajectories and paired with calibrated physical metadata, uncertainty annotations, and task-specific observables, these tasks cover fundamental physical processes including collision, friction, momentum transfer, oscillation, self-contact, and deformation across diverse materials and conditions. We benchmark Isaac Sim, Genesis, and Newton on 14 task families using generalized trajectory errors, and evaluate 6 image-to-video models on 5 rigid-body tasks by testing physical-law consistency and the temporal stability of inferred parameters. Our results reveal no uniformly faithful physics engine, with the largest discrepancies arising in impulsive contact, rapid textile motion, and volumetric deformation. We further find that video world models can produce trajectories with the expected equation form while recovering incorrect accelerations, momentum transfer, and oscillation timing. GAUGE lays the groundwork for developing more physically faithful simulators and world models for embodied intelligence.

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Explicit bounds for the graphicality of the prime gap sequence

We establish explicit unconditional results on the graphic properties of the prime gap sequence. Let $p_n$ denote the $n$-th prime number (with $p_0=1$) and $\mathrm{PD}_n = (p_\ell - p_{\ell-1})_{\ell=1}^n$ be the sequence of the first $n$ prime gaps. Building upon the recent work by Erdős et al, which proved the graphic nature of $\mathrm{PD}_n$ for large $n$ unconditionally, and for all $n$ under RH, we provide the first explicit unconditional threshold such that: (1) For all $n \geq \exp\exp(30.32)$, $\mathrm{PD}_n$ is graphic. (2) For all $n \geq \exp\exp(34.33)$, every realization $G_n$ of $\mathrm{PD}_n$ satisfies that $(G_n, p_{n+1}-p_n)$ is DPG-graphic. Our proofs utilize a more refined criterion for when a sequence is graphic, and better estimates for the first moment of large prime gaps proven through an explicit zero-free region and explicit zero-density estimate for the Riemann zeta function.

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TBSG-Net: Temporal Bipartite Scene Graph Network for Fine-Grained Video Moment Retrieval

Recent advances in proposal-free Video Moment Retrieval (VMR) have highlighted the effectiveness of Static Scene Graphs (SSGs). By modeling objects and their relations at the frame level, SSGs enrich retrieval-oriented video representations. However, integrating SSGs into VMR remains constrained by two inherent limitations: (1) Lack of Temporal Dynamics. SSGs fail to model how objects and their relationships evolve over time, leading to the loss of essential temporal dependencies in video representation; and (2) Lack of Explicit Temporal Span Encoding. SSGs do not explicitly encode the duration of relationships, making precise localization challenging. To address these limitations, we propose Temporal Bipartite Scene Graph Network (TBSG-Net)---to the best of our knowledge, the first Dynamic Scene Graph (DSG) based proposal-free VMR model. Specifically, TBSG-Net leverages DSGs to extract event-centric graph representations of the input video, enabling the modeling of object interactions over time and thus addressing limitation (1). These DSGs are then processed by a novel Dynamic Scene Graph Embedding (DSG-E) module to capture both Temporal Span and spatio-temporal information. First, DSG-E utilizes a TBSG Constructor to transform DSGs into TBSGs, explicitly encoding objects, relationships, and time spans to tackle limitation (2). Second, the resultant TBSGs are passed into a hybrid TBSG Encoder that integrates a Transformer variant for global event modeling and a Graph Convolutional Network for detailed relational reasoning, ultimately producing a more comprehensive spatio-temporal representation. Our experiments demonstrate substantial improvements of TBSG-Net over all baselines.

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ASARL: Autonomous Social-Aware Relevance Learning for QQ Search

The rapid growth of online social platforms has transformed communication and information retrieval, giving rise to social search, where queries-titles are typically expressed in informal, community-specific language. While large language models provide strong general-purpose semantic understanding, their effectiveness in social search is constrained by contextual discrepancy, data scarcity, and behavior-driven dynamics. To address these challenges, we propose the Autonomous Social-Aware Relevance Learning (ASARL), a fully automated framework that integrates multi-agent data curation with staged model training. ASARL leverages a collaborative agent system: ReasonAgent generates interpretable relevance labels grounded in social attributes, CriticAgent validates and ensures logical consistency, and GenAgent augments long-tail data through synthetic query-title pairs. Building on the curated dataset, ASARL employs three-stage training: Social Context Training (SCT) to capture social language patterns, Preference-Guided Optimization (PGO) to align model predictions with behavioral signals, and Social Distillation (SD) to transfer these improvements into compact models for efficient deployment. Extensive offline and online experiments on the QQ search platform demonstrate significant improvements in both offline relevance metrics and online user engagement indicators, along with enhanced annotation efficiency. These results validate the effectiveness of combining autonomous, socially grounded data governance with preference-aligned training in practical search systems.

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WildElder: A Chinese Elderly Speech Dataset from the Wild with Fine-Grained Manual Annotations

Elderly speech poses unique challenges for automatic processing due to age-related changes such as slower articulation and vocal tremors. Existing Chinese datasets are mostly recorded in controlled environments, limiting their diversity and real-world applicability. To address this gap, we present WildElder, a Mandarin elderly speech corpus collected from online videos and enriched with fine-grained manual annotations, including transcription, speaker age, gender, and accent strength. Combining the realism of in-the-wild data with expert curation, WildElder enables robust research on automatic speech recognition and speaker profiling. Experimental results reveal both the difficulties of elderly speech recognition and the potential of WildElder as a challenging new benchmark. The dataset and code are available at https://github.com/NKU-HLT/WildElder.

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SoMA: A Real-to-Sim Neural Simulator for Robotic Soft-body Manipulation

Simulating deformable objects under rich interactions remains a fundamental challenge for real-to-sim robot manipulation, with dynamics jointly driven by environmental effects and robot actions. Existing simulators rely on predefined physics or data-driven dynamics without robot-conditioned control, limiting accuracy, stability, and generalization. This paper presents SoMA, a 3D Gaussian Splat simulator for soft-body manipulation. SoMA couples deformable dynamics, environmental forces, and robot joint actions in a unified latent neural space for end-to-end real-to-sim simulation. Modeling interactions over learned Gaussian splats enables controllable, stable long-horizon manipulation and generalization beyond observed trajectories without predefined physical models. SoMA improves resimulation accuracy and generalization on real-world robot manipulation by 20%, enabling stable simulation of complex tasks such as long-horizon cloth folding.

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Map as a Prompt: Learning Multi-Modal Spatial-Signal Foundation Models for Cross-scenario Wireless Localization

Accurate and robust wireless localization is a critical enabler for emerging 5G/6G applications, including autonomous driving, extended reality, and smart manufacturing. Despite its importance, achieving precise localization across diverse environments remains challenging due to the complex nature of wireless signals and their sensitivity to environmental changes. Existing data-driven approaches often suffer from limited generalization capability, requiring extensive labeled data and struggling to adapt to new scenarios. To address these limitations, we propose SigMap, a multimodal foundation model that introduces two key innovations: (1) A cycle-adaptive masking strategy that dynamically adjusts masking patterns based on channel periodicity characteristics to learn robust wireless representations; (2) A novel "map-as-prompt" framework that integrates 3D geographic information through lightweight soft prompts for effective cross-scenario adaptation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our model achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple localization tasks while exhibiting strong zero-shot generalization in unseen environments, significantly outperforming both supervised and self-supervised baselines by considerable margins.

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JW-SSD: A Multimodal Benchmark Dataset for Fine-Grained Sunspot Classification

Accurate sunspot classification is essential for assessing the eruptive potential of solar active regions and forecasting space weather. We present JW-SSD, a high-quality multimodal benchmark dataset for fine-grained magnetic-type classification of sunspots. Constructed from SDO/HMI SHARP 720s data (2010-2023, Solar Cycles 24 and 25), JW-SSD comprises 36,553 co-registered magnetogram-continuum pairs from 2,507 active regions. Unlike conventional three-class schemes, JW-SSD refines the Mount Wilson classification into five physically meaningful categories (α, \b{eta}, \b{eta}-δ, \b{eta}-γ, \b{eta}-γ-δ), enabling finer characterization of magnetic complexity. Rigorous quality control-including central meridian distance restriction, saturation filtering, and sharpness screening-ensures high data validity. The dataset is provided in both FITS and PNG formats, with standard training (29,243) and test (7,310) splits. Benchmark experiments with four representative architectures (U-Net, ResNet-50, EfficientNet-B0, and ViT-Small) yield high accuracy across all models (89.43%-94.78% on the three-class task), confirming that the dataset is reliably learnable across diverse modeling paradigms. JW-SSD has further been employed to train JW-SunSpot, a multimodal large language model that achieves the highest classification accuracy, demonstrating the dataset's broad applicability to both conventional networks and large-language-model-based approaches.

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JW-ASTClaw: A Generalizable Multi-Agent Framework for Autonomous Solar Telescope and Its Implementation within Chinese Meridian Project

We present the first deployment of an end-to-end autonomous control system driven by a large language model (LLM) on an operational solar telescope-the Solar Full-disk Multi-layer Magnetograph (SFMM), named JW-ASTClaw. This system employs a multi-agent framework adopting a decoupled three-layer architecture (perception-decision-execution) interconnected through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which addresses real-time adaptive scheduling under complex environmental conditions while achieving high portability: the perception and decision logic are reused unchanged across instruments, requiring only telescope-specific command interfaces to be adapted. Three perception agents-data-quality-agent, cloud-analyzer-agent, and flare-detector-agent-encode senior observer expertise, including wind jitter detection via limb-ring standard deviation, projected-circle zonal cloud analysis, and multi-band active region identification, as LLM-callable rules, while a central reasoning engine performs multi-source fusion and conflict resolution. The system supports graceful degradation from cloud LLM to local inference and finally to rule-based fallback, designed for remote field stations with unstable connectivity. Cross-season validation on archival data demonstrates 100% cloud detection with zero false positives across 10 distinct observation dates, with active-region counts and positions closely matching the NOAA Solar Region Summary (SRS) reports (102 vs. 100 across 10 separate validation dates). These capabilities significantly improve scientific-intent-driven observation accessibility, enable rapid flare response for space weather monitoring, enhance data usability under adverse conditions, and increase observability during partially cloudy periods.

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Design and Implementation of a Microservice-Architecture Master Control System for AIMS

The mid-infrared solar magnetic field telescope AIMS (An Infrared System for the Accurate Measurement of Solar Magnetic Field) is the first ground-based telescope designed to directly measure solar magnetic fields via Zeeman splitting in the 8-14 um band, overcoming the century-long bottleneck of model-dependent indirect measurements. Its remote high-altitude site, heterogeneous multi-institute components, and complex observation modes comprising Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectropolarimetry and broadband imaging demand a highly autonomous Master Control System (MCS). We present the design and implementation of the AIMS MCS, featuring three key contributions: (1) an L0-L5 telescope automation classification inspired by the SAE J3016 autonomous driving standard, providing well-defined boundaries and a progressive evolution roadmap; (2) a three-layer system framework device control, autonomy support, and central decision-implemented with a microservice software architecture that achieves loose coupling, high cohesion, and continuous integration of heterogeneous components; and (3) a suite of key enabling tech-nologies including automatic pointing/tracking, autofocus via lucky-frame selection combined with power spectral ratio analysis, and environment-adaptive observation integrating auto-exposure, cloud detection, and power/thermal monitoring. The MCS has been validated across three telescopes at progressive automation levels: AIMS itself, the WenQuan Solar Magnetic Field Telescope, and the Solar Full-disk Multi-layer Magnetograph (SFMM). Collectively, these deployments demonstrate the feasibility and stability of the proposed architecture for progressive telescope automation.

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