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Jiehui Huang

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PertMind: Eliciting Emergent Biological Reasoning in LLM via Reinforcement Learning on Cellular Perturbation Data

Large language models can describe mechanisms, yet scalable post-training still depends on costly, manually curated biological reasoning traces. Here we show that cellular perturbation atlases can instead become reinforcement-learning environments, where measured gene responses provide computable rewards for biological reasoning. We introduce PertMind, which combines trusted-trajectory supervised initialization with gene-, pathway-, and format-level reinforcement signals. Trained only on forward perturbation-response prediction, PertMind improved response inference in unseen cellular contexts while retaining general language capabilities. It also transferred without task-specific post-training to reverse perturbation identification, double-perturbation reasoning, phenotypic-screen prioritization, and biological-process interpretation. PertMind further generated biological profiles that supported competitive gene, cell, and donor representations across multiscale downstream tasks. These results support the hypothesis that reinforcement on experimental endpoints can concentrate reusable biological strategies already accessible to pretrained models. More broadly, perturbation-derived reinforcement learning offers a scalable route for transforming expanding experimental atlases into training environments for general-purpose biological reasoning.

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ReCamDriving: LiDAR-Free Camera-Controlled Video Synthesis for Novel Trajectories

Synthesizing multi-pass videos is important for autonomous driving. While current repair-based methods often struggle with out-of-distribution artifacts, camera-controlled methods often produce 3D-inconsistent results due to sparse LiDAR cues. We propose ReCamDriving, a purely vision-based framework that achieves camera-controlled generation by leveraging dense, structurally complete 3DGS renderings as geometric guidance. Specifically, to prevent the model from overfitting to a trivial repair solution when conditioning on 3DGS renderings, we adopt a two-stage progressive training paradigm: the first stage uses camera poses for coarse control, while the second stage incorporates 3DGS renderings for fine-grained viewpoint and geometric guidance. Furthermore, to align training and inference camera transformation patterns, we propose a 3DGS-based cross-trajectory data curation strategy, enabling consistent lateral-trajectory supervision from single-pass videos. Based on this strategy, we construct the ParaDrive dataset, containing approximately 110K parallel-trajectory video pairs. Extensive experiments demonstrate that ReCamDriving achieves state-of-the-art camera controllability and structural consistency.

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Branch-JEPA: Finite-Support Predictive Distributions for JEPA World Models

Joint-embedding predictive architectures (JEPAs) learn dynamics by predicting future observations in representation space. Yet most JEPA world models return one latent successor, even when hidden intent, partial observation, or stochastic dynamics make several futures plausible. We introduce Branch-JEPA, which replaces this point-valued transition with a context-weighted finite set of latent successors. Every branch is decoded independently, and the complete set is retained at inference. The architecture supports two complementary training regimes: specialization for recovering separated successors and full-set Energy-Score training for distributional fidelity. In a locked five-seed evaluation on the Argoverse~2 official validation split, full-set training improves trajectory Energy Score by $5.8$--$6.5\%$ and probability-weighted trajectory distance by $9.3$--$10.4\%$ over matched-$K{=}6$ assignment and transport objectives, while retaining $5.36$ endpoint-deduplicated effective branches. In a parameter-exact official-validation comparison, latent branching retains $10.3\%$ more effective modes and improves Energy Score, expected ADE, and Brier in all five paired seeds over branching only at the output decoder; every paired 95\% interval excludes zero. In an OGBench graph audit, Branch-JEPA increases teleport verified-route existence to $19.2\%$ versus $3.9\%$ for the MDN. Its raw-support advantage also persists with 29-D state and RGB observations. Together, latent branching preserves more distinct futures, while full-set scoring improves the quality of the resulting predictive distribution.

cs.AI

PhysEditWorld: A Large-Scale Dataset Toward Physics-Editable World Models

Recent game world models can synthesize visually plausible, action-conditioned rollouts. However, their interaction behaviors often remain limited to exploratory or wandering trajectories, and physical dynamics are typically learned as implicit correlations from data rather than as controllable variables. This limitation hinders their applicability to authored game environments, where physical rules are deliberately designed and require explicit manipulation. We introduce PhysEditWorld, a multimodal dataset with physical parameters, with a primary focus on gravity in this initial version. At its core, PhysEditWorld is built upon a replay paradigm implemented with a UE5 replay-and-rendering pipeline. Each scenario records a normalized action trace and replays the same initial state, character controller, action sequence, and camera policy under multiple gravity configurations, enabling controlled and attributable physical variation. PhysEditWorld contains 12 cinematic UE5 scenes, over 100 hours of gameplay interactions, and more than 60 million rendered rollout frames. Each sample provides synchronized multimodal signals, including RGB, depth, normals, audio, action traces, camera trajectory, engine states, semantic annotations, and explicit gravity labels. We further conduct initial utility studies on both generative video models and world understanding models, demonstrating that PhysEditWorld enables improved gravity-faithful dynamics modeling, enhances consistency under physical edits, and provides a scalable foundation for controllable world modeling research.

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UnityShots: Memory-Driven Multi-Shot Audio-Video Generation with Boundary-Aware Gating

Generating a coherent multi-shot video requires structured cross-shot memory. Subject appearance, scene context, and speaker identity must persist across cuts. Existing approaches either train end-to-end over fixed-length sequences and cannot scale, generate shot-by-shot with memory banks that grow linearly, or orchestrate pretrained generators under an LLM planner without a multi-shot-aware backbone. We present UnityShots, a memory-driven multi-shot audio-video generation system built on LTX-2.3, trained on annotated cinematic and music-video shots. The video stream maintains two fixed-size slots, a long-term memory (LTM) slot anchored to the opening shot and a short-term memory (STM) slot holding the immediately preceding tail, both updated at every cut by a boundary-conditioned gate that fuses visual cut probability and beat-tracker signals. The audio stream injects a reference speaker token at every shot to preserve vocal timbre without a sliding audio bank. A discrete cut-type prior, learned through AdaLN, becomes an inference-time control knob over transition strength. We release a benchmark of $200$ multi-cultural multi-shot sequences spanning six ethnic regions and ten or more languages, with per-shot reference identities, reference audio, and per-boundary transition labels. Evaluated across I2V, T2V, and R2V conditioning modes, UnityShots leads open-source baselines on every cross-shot coherence metric and matches the strongest closed-source system on the multi-shot axes.

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Agentic World Modeling: Foundations, Capabilities, Laws, and Beyond

As AI systems move from generating text to accomplishing goals through sustained interaction, the ability to model environment dynamics becomes a central bottleneck. Agents that manipulate objects, navigate software, coordinate with others, or design experiments require predictive environment models, yet the term world model carries different meanings across research communities. We introduce a "levels x laws" taxonomy organized along two axes. The first defines three capability levels: L1 Predictor, which learns one-step local transition operators; L2 Simulator, which composes them into multi-step, action-conditioned rollouts that respect domain laws; and L3 Evolver, which autonomously revises its own model when predictions fail against new evidence. The second identifies four governing-law regimes: physical, digital, social, and scientific. These regimes determine what constraints a world model must satisfy and where it is most likely to fail. Using this framework, we synthesize over 400 works and summarize more than 100 representative systems spanning model-based reinforcement learning, video generation, web and GUI agents, multi-agent social simulation, and AI-driven scientific discovery. We analyze methods, failure modes, and evaluation practices across level-regime pairs, propose decision-centric evaluation principles and a minimal reproducible evaluation package, and outline architectural guidance, open problems, and governance challenges. The resulting roadmap connects previously isolated communities and charts a path from passive next-step prediction toward world models that can simulate, and ultimately reshape, the environments in which agents operate. Code and resources are available at: https://github.com/matrix-agent/awesome-agentic-world-modeling.

cs.AI

Aligning LLMs with Biomedical Knowledge using Balanced Fine-Tuning

Engineering LLMs to accelerate life sciences research requires a robust alignment with biomedical knowledge. We observe that biomedical text exhibits a fundamentally different uncertainty structure from general text: dense low-confidence runs encode epistemic knowledge gaps (dense causal chains, rare entities) rather than the sparse aleatoric stylistic variation typical of general text. Based on this discovery, we propose Balanced Fine-Tuning (BFT), a dual-scale post-training method that combines group-normalized token reweighting with sequence-level reallocation toward knowledge-dense samples exhibiting dense epistemic uncertainty. Across medical evaluation, biological reasoning, sparse-reward RL, and biological representation tasks, BFT provides more consistent gains than SFT and DFT under a shared training setup. When replacing the default closed-source backbones in GeneAgent (GPT-4o) and VCWorld (Gemini-2.5-Flash), the BFT-aligned 70B model delivers stronger performance across biological process reasoning and chemical perturbation prediction. Critically, all BFT variants further improve after subsequent GRPO with sparse rewards, while SFT and DFT degrade, suggesting that epistemic-aware post-training provides a more robust policy initialization. Beyond text generation, BFT-aligned LLMs produce more accurate and professional biomedical profile texts; after encoding these profiles with a text embedding model, the resulting representations support gene-level, cell-level, and perturbation-response tasks, suggesting that BFT-enhanced generation can facilitate biological representation and, in turn, broader biomedical downstream tasks.

cs.LG

From Inpainting to Editing: Unlocking Robust Mask-Free Visual Dubbing via Generative Bootstrapping

Audio-driven visual dubbing aims to synchronize a video's lip movements with new speech but is fundamentally challenged by the lack of ideal training data: paired videos differing only in lip motion. Existing methods circumvent this via mask-based inpainting. However, masking inevitably destroys spatiotemporal context, leading to identity drift and poor robustness (e.g., to occlusions), while also inducing lip-shape leakage that degrades lip sync. To bridge this gap, we propose X-Dub, a novel two-stage generative bootstrapping framework leveraging powerful Diffusion Transformers to unlock mask-free dubbing. Our core insight is to repurpose a mask-based inpainting model exclusively as a dedicated data generator to synthesize scalable, high-fidelity pseudo-paired data, which is subsequently utilized to train and bootstrap a robust, mask-free editing model as the final video dubber. The final dubber is liberated from masking artifacts and leverages the complete video input for high-fidelity inference. We further introduce timestep-adaptive multi-phase learning to disentangle conflicting objectives (structure, lip motion, and texture) across diffusion phases, facilitating stable convergence and advanced editing quality. Additionally, we present X-DubBench, a benchmark for diverse scenarios. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance with superior lip sync, visual quality, and robustness.

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Zo3T: Zero-Shot 3D-Aware Trajectory-Guided Image-to-Video Generation via Test-Time Training

Trajectory-Guided image-to-video (I2V) generation aims to synthesize videos that adhere to user-specified motion instructions. Existing methods typically rely on computationally expensive fine-tuning on scarce annotated datasets. Although some zero-shot methods attempt to trajectory control in the latent space, they may yield unrealistic motion by neglecting 3D perspective and creating a misalignment between the manipulated latents and the network's noise predictions. To address these challenges, we introduce Zo3T, a novel zero-shot test-time-training framework for trajectory-guided generation with three core innovations: First, we incorporate a 3D-Aware Kinematic Projection, leveraging inferring scene depth to derive perspective-correct affine transformations for target regions. Second, we introduce Trajectory-Guided Test-Time LoRA, a mechanism that dynamically injects and optimizes ephemeral LoRA adapters into the denoising network alongside the latent state. Driven by a regional feature consistency loss, this co-adaptation effectively enforces motion constraints while allowing the pre-trained model to locally adapt its internal representations to the manipulated latent, thereby ensuring generative fidelity and on-manifold adherence. Finally, we develop Guidance Field Rectification, which refines the denoising evolutionary path by optimizing the conditional guidance field through a one-step lookahead strategy, ensuring efficient generative progression towards the target trajectory. Zo3T significantly enhances 3D realism and motion accuracy in trajectory-controlled I2V generation, demonstrating superior performance over existing training-based and zero-shot approaches.

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UnityVideo: Unified Multi-Modal Multi-Task Learning for Enhancing World-Aware Video Generation

Recent video generation models demonstrate impressive synthesis capabilities but remain limited by single-modality conditioning, constraining their holistic world understanding. This stems from insufficient cross-modal interaction and limited modal diversity for comprehensive world knowledge representation. To address these limitations, we introduce UnityVideo, a unified framework for world-aware video generation that jointly learns across multiple modalities (segmentation masks, human skeletons, DensePose, optical flow, and depth maps) and training paradigms. Our approach features two core components: (1) dynamic noising to unify heterogeneous training paradigms, and (2) a modality switcher with an in-context learner that enables unified processing via modular parameters and contextual learning. We contribute a large-scale unified dataset with 1.3M samples. Through joint optimization, UnityVideo accelerates convergence and significantly enhances zero-shot generalization to unseen data. We demonstrate that UnityVideo achieves superior video quality, consistency, and improved alignment with physical world constraints. Code and data can be found at: https://github.com/dvlab-research/UnityVideo

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LaVieID: Local Autoregressive Diffusion Transformers for Identity-Preserving Video Creation

In this paper, we present LaVieID, a novel \underline{l}ocal \underline{a}utoregressive \underline{vi}d\underline{e}o diffusion framework designed to tackle the challenging \underline{id}entity-preserving text-to-video task. The key idea of LaVieID is to mitigate the loss of identity information inherent in the stochastic global generation process of diffusion transformers (DiTs) from both spatial and temporal perspectives. Specifically, unlike the global and unstructured modeling of facial latent states in existing DiTs, LaVieID introduces a local router to explicitly represent latent states by weighted combinations of fine-grained local facial structures. This alleviates undesirable feature interference and encourages DiTs to capture distinctive facial characteristics. Furthermore, a temporal autoregressive module is integrated into LaVieID to refine denoised latent tokens before video decoding. This module divides latent tokens temporally into chunks, exploiting their long-range temporal dependencies to predict biases for rectifying tokens, thereby significantly enhancing inter-frame identity consistency. Consequently, LaVieID can generate high-fidelity personalized videos and achieve state-of-the-art performance. Our code and models are available at https://github.com/ssugarwh/LaVieID.

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BridgeIV: Bridging Customized Image and Video Generation through Test-Time Autoregressive Identity Propagation

Both zero-shot and tuning-based customized text-to-image (CT2I) generation have made significant progress for storytelling content creation. In contrast, research on customized text-to-video (CT2V) generation remains relatively limited. Existing zero-shot CT2V methods suffer from poor generalization, while another line of work directly combining tuning-based T2I models with temporal motion modules often leads to the loss of structural and texture information. To bridge this gap, we propose an autoregressive structure and texture propagation module (STPM), which extracts key structural and texture features from the reference subject and injects them autoregressively into each video frame to enhance consistency. Additionally, we introduce a test-time reward optimization (TTRO) method to further refine fine-grained details. Quantitative and qualitative experiments validate the effectiveness of STPM and TTRO, demonstrating improvements of 7.8 and 13.1 in CLIP-I and DINO consistency metrics over the baseline, respectively.

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ComposeAnyone: Controllable Layout-to-Human Generation with Decoupled Multimodal Conditions

Building on the success of diffusion models, significant advancements have been made in multimodal image generation tasks. Among these, human image generation has emerged as a promising technique, offering the potential to revolutionize the fashion design process. However, existing methods often focus solely on text-to-image or image reference-based human generation, which fails to satisfy the increasingly sophisticated demands. To address the limitations of flexibility and precision in human generation, we introduce ComposeAnyone, a controllable layout-to-human generation method with decoupled multimodal conditions. Specifically, our method allows decoupled control of any part in hand-drawn human layouts using text or reference images, seamlessly integrating them during the generation process. The hand-drawn layout, which utilizes color-blocked geometric shapes such as ellipses and rectangles, can be easily drawn, offering a more flexible and accessible way to define spatial layouts. Additionally, we introduce the ComposeHuman dataset, which provides decoupled text and reference image annotations for different components of each human image, enabling broader applications in human image generation tasks. Extensive experiments on multiple datasets demonstrate that ComposeAnyone generates human images with better alignment to given layouts, text descriptions, and reference images, showcasing its multi-task capability and controllability.

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ConsistentID: Portrait Generation with Multimodal Fine-Grained Identity Preserving

Diffusion-based technologies have made significant strides, particularly in personalized and customized facialgeneration. However, existing methods face challenges in achieving high-fidelity and detailed identity (ID)consistency, primarily due to insufficient fine-grained control over facial areas and the lack of a comprehensive strategy for ID preservation by fully considering intricate facial details and the overall face. To address these limitations, we introduce ConsistentID, an innovative method crafted for diverseidentity-preserving portrait generation under fine-grained multimodal facial prompts, utilizing only a single reference image. ConsistentID comprises two key components: a multimodal facial prompt generator that combines facial features, corresponding facial descriptions and the overall facial context to enhance precision in facial details, and an ID-preservation network optimized through the facial attention localization strategy, aimed at preserving ID consistency in facial regions. Together, these components significantly enhance the accuracy of ID preservation by introducing fine-grained multimodal ID information from facial regions. To facilitate training of ConsistentID, we present a fine-grained portrait dataset, FGID, with over 500,000 facial images, offering greater diversity and comprehensiveness than existing public facial datasets. % such as LAION-Face, CelebA, FFHQ, and SFHQ. Experimental results substantiate that our ConsistentID achieves exceptional precision and diversity in personalized facial generation, surpassing existing methods in the MyStyle dataset. Furthermore, while ConsistentID introduces more multimodal ID information, it maintains a fast inference speed during generation.

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Testing the unified bounds of quantum speed limit

Quantum speed limits (QSLs) impose fundamental constraints on the evolution speed of quantum systems. Traditionally, the Mandelstam-Tamm (MT) and Margolus-Levitin (ML) bounds have been widely employed, relying on the standard deviation and mean of energy distribution to define the QSLs. However, these universal bounds only offer loose restrictions on the quantum evolution. Here we introduce the generalized ML bounds, which prove to be more stringent in constraining dynamic evolution, by utilizing moments of energy spectra of arbitrary orders, even noninteger orders. To validate our findings, we conduct experiments in a superconducting circuit, where we have the capability to prepare a wide range of quantum photonic states and rigorously test these bounds by measuring the evolution of the system and its photon statistics using quantum state tomography. While, in general, the MT bound is effective for short-time evolution, we identify specific parameter regimes where either the MT or the generalized ML bounds suffice to constrain the entire evolution. Our findings not only establish new criteria for estimating QSLs but also substantially enhance our comprehension of the dynamic evolution of quantum systems.

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Multimodal Identification of Alzheimer's Disease: A Review

Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurological disorder characterized by cognitive impairment and memory loss. With the increasing aging population, the incidence of AD is continuously rising, making early diagnosis and intervention an urgent need. In recent years, a considerable number of teams have applied computer-aided diagnostic techniques to early classification research of AD. Most studies have utilized imaging modalities such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), and electroencephalogram (EEG). However, there have also been studies that attempted to use other modalities as input features for the models, such as sound, posture, biomarkers, cognitive assessment scores, and their fusion. Experimental results have shown that the combination of multiple modalities often leads to better performance compared to a single modality. Therefore, this paper will focus on different modalities and their fusion, thoroughly elucidate the mechanisms of various modalities, explore which methods should be combined to better harness their utility, analyze and summarize the literature in the field of early classification of AD in recent years, in order to explore more possibilities of modality combinations.

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Wise in Vaccine Allocation

The paper uses machine learning and mathematical modeling to predict future vaccine distribution and solve the problem of allocating vaccines to different types of hospitals. They collected data and analyzed it, finding factors such as nearby residents, transportation, and medical personnel that impact distribution. They used the results to create a model and allocate vaccines to central and community hospitals and health centers in Hangzhou Gongshu District and Harbin Daoli District based on the model. They provide an explanation for the vaccine distribution based on their model and conclusions.

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Robust multi-party semi-quantum private comparison protocols with decoherence-free states against collective noises

Based on decoherence-free states, two multi-party semi-quantum private comparison protocols are proposed to counteract collective noises. One could resist the collective-dephasing noise well, whereas the other could resist the collective-rotation noise. Multiple classical participants could compare their secret information by performing the proposed protocols once. It is manifested that the proposed protocols could resist both external attacks and internal attacks. Besides, the operations of our protocols were simulated on the IBM Quantum Experience.

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