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Jing Yang

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Electrostatic Phenomenology Benchmarks for Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials in Electrochemistry: Beyond the Energy-Force Metric

Accurate treatment of long-range interactions in machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) is essential for electrochemical simulations. However, aggregate energy and force errors alone are insufficient to establish an MLIP's physical accuracy since they do not detect qualitative inconsistencies in the model such as the prediction of image-charge attraction, dielectric screening, or charge transfer. We introduce a benchmark suite EPhEct (Electrostatic Phenomena for Electrochemistry) of focused test cases designed to evaluate MLIPs on electrochemically relevant physical phenomena. The tests probe for image-charge attraction at a metal electrode, the splitting between longitudinal and transverse optical phonons as a probe of ionic and electronic screening, the dipole moment of interfacial water, and Fermi-level pinning during ion discharge. These tests establish a qualitative diagnostic routine complementary to aggregate energy-force metrics.

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Continuous operations on non-Markovian processes

Continuous measurements are central to quantum control and sensing, yet lack a model-independent operational description that can be applied to arbitrary non-Markovian processes without specifying a microscopic measurement model. Existing multi-time frameworks, such as process matrices, allow for an arbitrary sequence of operations to be applied on a general process, but are restricted to interventions at discrete times and cannot represent measurements of finite duration. We introduce a continuous-time extension of multi-time quantum processes based on process and operation functionals, which generalise the Feynman-Vernon influence functional and yield a continuous Born rule that cleanly separates processes from operations. This framework provides a consistent representation of non-Markovian dynamics under continuous monitoring and leads to natural definitions of causality and Markovianity in continuous time, opening the way to formalising quantum causal structures in the continuum. We illustrate the formalism by analysing continuous measurements in a generalised Caldeira-Leggett model, demonstrating its applicability to realistic non-Markovian scenarios.

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EGM-Det: Entropy-Guided Multimodal Adaptive Fusion for UAV RGB-IR Object Detection

Joint use of RGB and infrared (IR) imagery can improve UAV-view object detection, but most existing methods fuse multimodal features with static or fixed weights and therefore overlook spatially varying modality reliability. We propose EGM-Det, an entropy-guided multimodal adaptive fusion framework for RGB-IR object detection. EGM-Det employs a dual-stream architecture to preserve modality-specific representations and introduces an Entropy Offset Gate Fusion module for adaptive multi-scale fusion. The module derives shallow entropy priors from input intensity, local entropy, and cross-modal discrepancy, and uses them to guide local offset alignment and spatial-channel gated fusion. It therefore selectively aggregates reliable RGB and infrared cues instead of uniformly combining heterogeneous features. We further introduce cross-modal distillation to regularize the learned fusion gates and reduce fusion degradation. Each student branch extracts complementary knowledge from the cross-modality teacher branch matched to the main branch, while entropy-adaptive supervision emphasizes uncertain modality decisions. Experiments on DroneVehicle, LLVIP, and VEDAI demonstrate state-of-the-art performance across all three benchmarks; in particular, EGM-Det outperforms prior approaches by more than 10 percentage points on VEDAI.

cs.CV↗

GRACE-DG: A Discontinuous Galerkin Method-Based Code for General Nonlinear Coagulation-Fragmentation Equations

Dust plays a crucial role in protoplanetary disks (PPDs) evolution and planet formation, influencing disk dynamics through gas-dust coupling, regulating disk temperature by dominating continuum opacity, and altering disk ionization fraction by capturing free electrons. In this work, we develop a high-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method-based open-source code GRACE-DG to solve the collision-induced coagulation-fragmentation equations. In particular, we have derived a new conservative formulation for the non-linear fragmentation term, which enables the DG method to capture the mass transfer process. The new solver exhibits good convergence in coupled aggregation and breakage simulations, making it highly suitable for future integration into hydrodynamic codes.

astro-ph.EP↗

P-MUSE: Prompt-MIDI-Optional Model for Unified Instrumental Music Synthesis and Editing

MIDI-to-Music system renders the melody and rhythm of a target MIDI sequence into musical segment while cloning instrument timbre from a prompt recording. Existing systems typically adopt one of two distinct paradigms: conditional generation with prompt audio alone, which remains applicable when aligned prompt MIDI is unavailable, and In-Context Learning with paired prompt audio and MIDI, which exploits cross-modal alignment for stronger control on MIDI following and timbre similarity. We introduce P-MUSE, an instrumental MIDI-to-Music framework that unifies both paradigms via a multi-stage Curriculum-Learning supporting prompt-MIDI-optional inputs. P-MUSE further unifies music generation and local editing through a shared fill-in-the-middle formulation. Grounded in theoretical analysis and empirical study, we propose a phase-aware classifier-free guidance scheduling principle for Transcription-to-Audio systems, alongside a Tail-Drop strategy. Finally, to advance research in this field, we establish the first comprehensive benchmark, covering various prompt modes, generation/editing tasks, and four representative instruments: piano, guitar, bass, and drums. Demos are available at https://p-muse.github.io/.

cs.SD↗

Schrödinger Bridge Mamba for One-Step Speech Enhancement

We present Schrödinger Bridge Mamba (SBM), a novel model for efficient speech enhancement by integrating the Schrödinger Bridge (SB) training paradigm and the Mamba architecture. Experiments of joint denoising and dereverberation tasks demonstrate SBM outperforms strong generative and discriminative methods on multiple metrics with only one step of inference while achieving a competitive real-time factor for streaming feasibility. Ablation studies reveal that the SB paradigm consistently yields improved performance across diverse architectures over conventional mapping. Furthermore, Mamba exhibits a stronger performance under the SB paradigm compared to Multi-Head Self-Attention (MHSA) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) backbones. These findings highlight the synergy between the Mamba architecture and the SB trajectory-based training, providing a high-quality solution for real-world speech enhancement. Demo page: https://sbmse.github.io

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Anysynth:Zero-Shot Instrument Cloning via In-Context Learning and Asymmetric Hierarchical Guidance

Zero-shot instrument cloning aims to render an arbitrary [Target MIDI] sequence with the acoustic identity of an unseen instrument given only a short [Reference Audio, Reference MIDI] pair. Existing methods rely on pre-trained embeddings (e.g., CLAP) that compress the reference audio into a fixed-length vector, discarding fine-grained acoustic cues essential for faithful timbre reconstruction. We present Anysynth, an embedding-free neural synthesizer based on in-context flow matching. By conditioning a Diffusion Transformer (DiT) directly on the uncompressed reference audio and target MIDI, our model allows self-attention to dynamically retrieve acoustic details at generation time. Experiments show that AnySynth outperforms embedding-based and auto-regressive baselines in audio quality, timbre similarity, and melody adherence. Notably, the model exhibits prompt-length scaling: longer reference prompts yield steadily better timbre fidelity, a property absent in embedding-based systems. To optimize controllability, we further propose Asymmetric Hierarchical CFG, which structurally decouples MIDI and reference-timbre guidance based on their natural semantic-acoustic dependency. This asymmetric formulation avoids gradient conflicts and improves both note accuracy and timbre fidelity, pushing the boundary of expressive, zero-shot instrument cloning. Demo audios are available at https://anysynth-demo.github.io/

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Recursive Multi-Agent Trading System: Iterative Optimized Portfolio Strategy Under Geopolitical Uncertainty

Recursive Multi-Agent Trading System (RMATS) integrates four specialized agents -- Sentiment, Report, Analysis, and Risk -- coordinated through a recursive Manager Agent with iterative feedback loops. Experimental evaluation over a 561-trading-day period (January 2023 to March 2025) across a 24-asset multi-class universe demonstrates that RMATS achieves a maximum drawdown of 9.62%, lower than MVO (15.49%) and FinBERT Sentiment (15.28%), and exhibits the lowest event-period drawdown in 3 of 5 geopolitical stress scenarios tested. While RMATS underperforms return-maximizing baselines in a sustained bull market environment, ablation studies confirm the individual contribution of each agent component to downside protection. These results position RMATS as a risk-control-oriented architecture suitable for institutions prioritizing capital preservation under geopolitical uncertainty.

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Large Language Model Enhanced Differentiable Trajectory Planning for IoT-Enabled Autonomous Driving

Autonomous driving planning is a key component of IoT-enabled intelligent transportation systems, requiring vehicles to generate safe, efficient, and executable trajectories in complex urban environments from multi-source contextual information. While imitation learning (IL) has shown promise on large-scale datasets, IL-based planners still suffer from limited coverage of complex long-tail interactions, weak consistency with downstream constrained refinement, and insufficient use of high level scene semantics under real time constraints. To address these issues, this paper proposes a large language model (LLM) enhanced differentiable trajectory planning framework for IoT-enabled autonomous driving. Specifically, we introduce a surrounding agent centric data augmentation strategy to reorganize sur rounding agent trajectories as additional planning supervision, thereby improving the training distribution without collecting additional raw data. We further design a complexity-aware asyn chronous LLM-based semantic enhancement module to extract scene-related high-level semantic features with controlled online overhead. In addition, a differentiable optimization module is incorporated to refine generated trajectories with explicit residual penalties while backpropagating optimization gradients to the upstream planner. Experiments show that the proposed method achieves the best overall scores of 83.63 and 78.29 on the nuPlan closed-loop nonreactive and reactive Hard20 benchmarks, respectively, and CARLA-ROS tests further verify its online deployment and real time closed-loop execution capability.

cs.RO↗

DS-MTNet:Structured Multi-Task EEG Decoding for Human-Machine Collaboration

Current human-machine collaboration (HMC) systems rely on environment-facing sensors to observe visible actions and scene states, but the internal perceptual, intention-related, and state-related processes of operators remain insufficiently integrated into machine perception. Electroencephalography (EEG) provides a non-invasive, time-resolved modality to capture neural activity associated with these processes and can serve as an additional sensing channel in HMC. However, HMC-relevant EEG evidence is often mixed in continuous recordings. Existing EEG decoding methods usually target task-specific classification or aggregate prediction, so multiple HMC-relevant readouts are rarely organized in a unified EEG representation. To address this gap, this paper proposed the Decomposed-Source Multi-Task Network (DS-MTNet), a structured multi-task EEG decoding framework. DS-MTNet integrated three streams, namely EEG waveforms, task-routed source embeddings, and temporal-spectral power features, into reusable slots and used dual gating mechanisms to route task-specific components. The model was tested on a sustained-attention driving EEG dataset with three representative readouts: lane-departure-related epochs for environmental-event processing, steering-response stage for response preparation, and reaction-time-defined alertness state for internal state. DS-MTNet achieved the best mean performance among traditional, single-task deep, and multi-task EEG baselines, with the most robust gains observed for steering-response stage decoding. Ablation and interpretability analyses suggested that DS-MTNet jointly decoded multiple readouts and organized event-related, response-related, and state-related EEG evidence in a unified source-slot representation. These findings provide a computational step toward incorporating operator-related neural evidence into machine perception in HMC.

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STAC: Selective Spatiotemporal Aggregation and Compression for Video Reasoning Segmentation

Video reasoning segmentation demands pixel-accurate object tracking across hundreds of frames under complex natural language queries, producing dense spatiotemporal tokens whose quadratic self-attention cost makes long-video processing prohibitive. Existing methods address this through token compression, yet typically operate on encoder features lacking temporal context, constraining selection before content redundancy can be reliably assessed. Informed compression requires contextual awareness, but acquiring that awareness at full resolution incurs the same quadratic cost compression aims to reduce. State-space models resolve this constraint, as their linear recurrence selectively conditions each token on temporal context at $\mathcal{O}(T)$ cost, producing representations where content redundancy becomes assessable. Building on this, Selective SpatioTemporal Aggregation and Compression (STAC) enriches features via decoupled bidirectional spatial and causal temporal scanning, leveraging recurrence-derived redundancy for hierarchical compression with adaptive thresholds optimised with segmentation objective. STAC achieves 85% token reduction and 1.8$\times$ speedup while surpassing compression-free baselines on reasoning segmentation benchmarks in a zero-shot streaming-compatible setting. Code is available \href{https://github.com/MCG-NKU/nku-video}{here}.

cs.CV↗

GF-DiT: Scheduling Parallelism for Diffusion Transformer Serving

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have become the dominant architecture for image and video generation, creating growing demand for efficient DiT serving. Existing systems assign each request a fixed parallel configuration throughout its lifetime. However, DiT workloads exhibit substantial heterogeneity across requests, execution stages, and system conditions, making static parallelism inefficient and often leading to poor GPU utilization and degraded service quality. This paper argues that DiT serving should treat GPU parallelism as a first-class schedulable resource. We present GF-DiT, a policy-programmable runtime for elastic DiT serving that dynamically adapts the parallelism of running requests according to workload demands and service objectives. GF-DiT introduces an asynchronous execution abstraction that decomposes requests into independently schedulable trajectory tasks and enables online GPU reallocation. To make elastic parallelism practical, GF-DiT further proposes group-free collectives, a lightweight communication abstraction that supports low-overhead online formation and reconfiguration of arbitrary execution groups. We implement GF-DiT in vLLM-Omni and evaluate it on representative image and video diffusion workloads. Compared with fixed-pipeline execution with static parallelism, GF-DiT improves throughput by up to 6.01$\times$, reduces mean latency by up to 95%, lowers SLO violation rates by up to 90%, and reduces communication-group setup overhead from 778 ms to approximately 60 $μ$s. Our code is available at https://github.com/SJTU-Liquid/GF-DiT.

cs.DC↗

HorizonRelight: Relighting Long-horizon Videos Consistently via Diffusion Transformers

Diffusion-based video relighting enables controllable relighting from a single input video, but modern video diffusion backbones are trained on short clips and applied to long-horizon videos through chunked sliding-window inference, often causing temporal discontinuities at chunk boundaries. We address this by reframing long-horizon relighting as \emph{temporally conditioned latent domain translation}. Our framework enforces cross-chunk continuity by propagating target-domain latents across boundaries and makes this behavior learnable using \emph{masked target-domain self-conditioning}, training the model to continue from temporally masked propagated context. We further introduce \emph{warm-start prompting} with a relit prompt anchor from a controllable generative model, which establishes the initial target-domain state and creates a general interface for prompt-based relighting. Experiments on in-the-wild long-horizon videos show markedly improved temporal consistency, with chunk-boundary artifacts largely reduced and unwanted appearance changes across chunks greatly suppressed.

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A Fusion-Aware Two-Stage Framework for Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis in Low-Resource Modern Standard Arabic

Accurate phoneme recognition is pivotal for mispronunciation detection and diagnosis (MDD) in modern standard Arabic (MSA), yet remains constrained by data scarcity and the synthetic-real domain gap. This work proposes a two-stage end-to-end framework. It integrates a pre-trained encoder with causal dilated temporal convolutional networks to preserve fine-grained phonetic variations. A hierarchical two-stage strategy first learns general mappings from native/synthetic corpora, then adapts to scarce real learner data to mitigate domain shift without over-correction. Prediction stability is further enhanced via multi-checkpoint ensemble inference with N-gram rescoring. Evaluated on the QuranMB.v2 test set, our system achieves an F1-score of $0.7201$, a $63.1$\% relative improvement over baseline ($0.4414$). This performance ranks at the top of the IqraEval.2 Challenge, establishing a new state-of-the-art for low-resource MSA in MDD.

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Early Diagnosis of Wasted Computation in Multi-Agent LLM Systems via Failure-Aware Observability

Failure-aware observability diagnoses wasted computation in multi-agent LLM systems before final-answer evaluation can explain what went wrong. We propose a trace-based framework for a three-agent architecture -- orchestrator, search agent, and execution agent -- that converts structured events into online signals for loops, budget pressure, low information gain, and tool instability, then adds offline semantic grounding metrics and selective LLM-as-judge evaluation. On 165 GAIA validation traces under identical caps, 98 runs produce usable final answers and 67 fail or stop without one. Among warned failed runs, 58.1% of tokens are spent after the first warning on average, indicating substantial opportunity for intervention. A 10-task Level-2 pilot uses warnings to diversify search or require evidence, reducing post-warning token fraction from 0.638 in the baseline to 0.304. The results support a layered design: cheap online signals help the orchestrator redirect or halt redundant behavior, while deeper semantic checks identify whether completed answers are grounded enough to trust.

cs.AI↗

Conflict-Aware Federated Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models with Mixture-of-Experts

The continuous scaling of large language models (LLMs) incurs prohibitive computational costs, making Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) a scalable alternative for efficient fine-tuning via sparse activation. While federated learning (FL) emerges as the paradigm for privacy-preserving collaborative optimization, integrating MoE into FL under data heterogeneity may trigger conflicting expert optimizations. Client-specific data distributions force same-indexed experts to optimize under inconsistent or even conflicting feature-label correlations. This mismatch induces destructive interference during aggregation, thus destabilizing the optimization trajectory and degrading model performance. To address this issue, we propose FC-MoE, a federated conflict-aware framework for MoE fine-tuning. It employs an importance aware weighting scheme to prioritize reliable local updates and utilizes gradient consensus projection to suppress conflicting updates, ensuring a stable global optimization path. Moreover, a local knowledge retention mechanism further preserves specialized client expertise by re-anchoring domain-specific residuals. Extensive experiments demonstrate that FC-MoE accelerates convergence and enhances both global and local model performance in non-IID federated environments.

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How Auxiliary Reasoning Unleashes GUI Grounding in VLMs

Graphical user interface (GUI) grounding is a fundamental task for building GUI agents. However, general vision-language models (VLMs) struggle with this task due to a lack of specific optimization. We identify a key gap in this paper: while VLMs exhibit significant latent grounding potential, as demonstrated by their performance measured by Pointing Game, they underperform when tasked with outputting explicit coordinates. To address this discrepancy and bypass the high data and annotation costs of current fine-tuning approaches, we propose three zero-shot auxiliary reasoning methods. By providing explicit spatial cues such as axes, grids and labeled intersections as part of the input image, these methods enable VLMs to better articulate their implicit spatial understanding capabilities. We evaluate these methods on four GUI grounding benchmarks across seven open-source and proprietary VLMs. Experimental results show substantial gains from auxiliary reasoning. Mark-Grid Scaffold boosts Gemini-3.1-Pro from 11.72\% under direct inference to 95.20\% on ScreenSpot-v2, achieves state-of-the-art performance on ScreenSpot, and approaches the strongest fine-tuned methods on ScreenSpot-v2 and UI-I2E-Bench. Our code is available at https://github.com/liweim/AuxiliaryReasoning.

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SwarmSense-DNN: A Trustworthy and Decentralized Neural Framework for Proactive Anomaly Defense in Consumer IoT

The rapid growth of consumer IoT devices has introduced unprecedented challenges in trustworthy anomaly detection against AI-enabled cyber threats, requiring real-time, privacy-preserving, and scalable defense mechanisms. Traditional centralized strategies face critical limitations, including communication bottlenecks, single points of failure, and privacy vulnerabilities when processing distributed consumer data. We propose SwarmSense-DNN, a novel decentralized neural framework employing swarm intelligence for secure, cooperative anomaly detection across distributed IoT environments. The framework integrates autonomous agents with deep neural networks to form a self-organizing defense system that detects evolving anomalies without centralized coordination. It utilizes hierarchical federated learning with graph neural networks and attention mechanisms to capture local and global anomaly behaviors while ensuring data privacy. Extensive experiments demonstrate SwarmSense-DNN's superior performance: it achieves 95.44% average detection accuracy across five benchmark datasets while reducing communication overhead by 67%. The framework maintains robust resilience against adversarial threats through differential privacy safeguards and demonstrates strong fault tolerance under node failures and AI-enabled attacks.

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