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Ming Wang

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CoeusBI: A Comprehensive Interactive Business Intelligence System Powered by LLMs at Baidu [Extended Version]

The advent of Large Language Models has catalyzed the emergence of interactive Business Intelligence (BI) systems. Although commercial BI products increasingly adopt semantic layers paired with natural language interfaces, they predominantly rely on manual configurations to define metrics and dimensions. Real-world deployments face critical challenges: (a) frequent JOIN operations degrade the accuracy of SQL generation; (b) wide schemas exacerbate the challenge of schema linking; and (c) the generation of dialect-specific queries and the accurate support for multi-round dialogues incur high computational costs and yield limited accuracy. We introduce CoeusBI, an industrial-scale interactive BI system that addresses these barriers through a novel Dual-Agent Architecture paired with a Hierarchical Schema Linking module: (1) an offline View Generation Agent that utilizes error-feedback to autonomously convert complex JOIN queries into simple single-view queries, which eliminates the need for manual semantic modeling; (2) a Hierarchical Schema Linking module that leverages vector retrieval over views to handle exceptionally wide schemas efficiently; and (3) a dynamic Routing Agent that evaluates dialogue contexts to route queries, dynamically invoking either the synthesis of new intermediate representations or targeted modifications of existing ones, before compiling the unified representation via a deterministic SQL compiler that is agnostic to dialects. Extensive experiments on both public datasets and production datasets demonstrate that CoeusBI achieves significant improvements in query accuracy, token efficiency, and user satisfaction relative to existing methods. CoeusBI is deployed as a standalone service on the data platform of Baidu and is widely used across multiple business lines supporting thousands of users daily, thereby evidencing strong practicality and scalability.

cs.DB↗

Efficiency Meets Reliability: Enhanced Generalized Interleaved Transform for Random Multiplexing

To meet the demands of 6G wireless systems operating in high-mobility scenarios, this paper presents a design of a random multiplexing (RM) communication system that is both storage-efficient and highly reliable. In principle, RM with cross-domain memory approximate message passing (CD-MAMP) can achieve replica maximum a posteriori (MAP)-optimal performance by constructing a fully dense equivalent channel matrix. However, its practical implementation is hindered by the large storage overhead of conventional interleavers and by performance degradation in severely ill-conditioned channels, which existing related work (focusing on interleaving and transform designs) fails to address simultaneously. To overcome these issues, we develop a storage-efficient and highly reliable system that integrates RM with CD-MAMP, referred to as RM-MAMP. Specifically, we propose a Logistic chaotic mapping interleaver with a quantitative parameter-selection criterion, and a dual-stage high-order permutation polynomial interleaver, both of which achieve nearly identical bit-error-rate (BER) as fully random interleavers while reducing the interleaver storage from O(N) to O(1) and significantly lowering interleaver signaling overhead. We further propose a highly reliable interleaved transform framework, comprising an interleaved phase perturbation transform and a multi-layer interleaved coupled transform, to enhance the incoherence and diversity of the equivalent channel matrix. Simulation results show that the proposed storage-efficient interleavers maintain BER performance comparable to fully random interleavers, while the highly reliable transforms provide over 4 dB gain in severely time-varying channels, confirming the dual benefits of reduced storage overhead and improved robustness for the enhanced RM-MAMP system.

eess.SP↗

GenPT: Beyond Self-Report for Reliable LLM Psychometrics via Generative Projective Testing

Self-report questionnaires remain the prevailing tool for probing the psychological states of persona-conditioned agents (PC-Agents). However, classical instruments inherit two well-known threats: contamination from training corpora and directional bias driven by social-desirability or contextual framing. To overcome these methodological bottlenecks, we ask whether projective paradigms can be adapted into a robust psychometric tool. We introduce \textbf{GenPT} (Generative Projective Testing), which reformulates TAT, Rorschach, and SCT with newly generated stimuli and organizes assessment as a three-stage pipeline to derive standardized psychological indicators and target states. Evaluating PC-Agents induced via CharacterRAG and AnnaAgent profiles, we benchmark GenPT's reliability and validity against classical questionnaires. The results indicate that questionnaires exhibit systematic directional shifts under social-desirability framing, most strongly on suicide ideation. In contrast, GenPT's collected behavioral patterns stay near the symmetric baseline. Furthermore, under a longitudinal counselling context, GenPT-based depression assessment shifts by roughly an order of magnitude more than the questionnaire counterpart when Qwen3 serves as the backbone. Overall, GenPT complements self-report methods in scenarios where contamination resistance, bias asymmetry, and context sensitivity matter. Code and stimuli can be found at https://github.com/sci-m-wang/GenPT.

cs.SI↗

Conditional existence of maximizers for the Tomas-Stein inequality for the sphere

The Tomas-Stein inequality for a compact subset $Γ$ of the sphere $S^d$ states that the mapping $f\mapsto \widehat{fσ}$ is bounded from $L^2(Γ,σ)$ to $L^{2+4/d}(\R^{d+1})$. Then conditional on a strict comparison between the best constants for the sphere and for the Strichartz inequality for the Schrödinger equations, we prove that there exist functions which extremize this inequality, and any extremising sequence has a subsequence which converges to an extremizer. The method is based on the refined Tomas-Stein inequality for the sphere and the profile decompositions. The key ingredient to establish orthogonality in profile decompositions is that we use Tao's sharp bilinear restriction theorem for the paraboloids beyond the Tomas-Stein range. Similar results have been previously established by Frank, Lieb and Sabin \cite{Frank-Lieb-Sabin:2007:maxi-sphere-2d}, where they used the method of the missing mass.

math.CA↗

Translating Signals to Languages for sEMG-Based Activity Recognition

Surface electromyography (sEMG) signal-based activity recognition has attracted increasing research attention in recent years. To develop accurate sEMG signal-based activity recognizers, numerous approaches have been proposed. Some studies focus on designing larger and more expressive model architectures to enhance the representational capacity of sEMG signals, while others aim to enrich model priors through large-scale pretraining, thereby improving recognition performance. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable generalization and reasoning capabilities in natural language processing, whose implicit knowledge, learned from extensive linguistic descriptions of actions, opens new possibilities for interpreting sEMG signals and inferring activity intentions. Motivated by this, we propose LLM-sEMG, a novel framework that leverages LLMs as sEMG activity recognizers. Within this framework, we design a language-oriented mapping mechanism that converts continuous sEMG sequences into sEMG language, integrating several strategies to further facilitate the signal-to-language mapping process. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed framework achieves highly accurate sEMG signal-based activity recognition using large language models.

cs.CV↗

APS: Bias-Controlled Adaptive Prototype Simulation for Population-Scale LLM Agents

LLM-agent simulation offers a flexible computational tool for studying population response trajectories that depend on scenario events, memory, demographics, and evolving social context. However, full multi-round simulation scales linearly with both population size and horizon, requiring every agent to query the LLM at every round. We propose Adaptive Prototype Simulation (APS), a framework that reframes scalable LLM-based simulation as a recurrent oracle-allocation problem. APS retains the designated LLM as the online transition oracle while querying adaptive core prototypes, selected singleton-tail agents, and shadow-audit agents. Prototype responses induce local response surfaces for nearby agents, reducing online LLM calls without replacing the underlying transition model. To control approximation bias, shadow-audit residual correction estimates propagation residuals for aggregate correction and future budget allocation, while tail-protected singleton routing directly queries selected isolated, heterogeneous, or high-curvature regions that are vulnerable to smoothing. Theoretically, we treat APS as an estimator for full-scale high-precision individual social simulation and decompose its errors into prototype-coverage error, shadow-audit residual-correction error, local-propagation bias, and temporal context mismatch. Under the reported protocols, APS gives lower reference-aligned distributional discrepancy than scale-oriented and same-budget baselines while reducing online LLM calls, with ablations and compact robustness checks diagnosing the main bias-control mechanisms. In a 10M-agent, multi-round public-opinion simulation, APS achieves a 381.1-fold reduction over full simulation, with reference-aligned final-round JSD of 0.094 against the corresponding full-LLM reference.

cs.MA↗

A Systematic Analysis of the Impact of Persona Steering on LLM Capabilities

Imbuing Large Language Models (LLMs) with specific personas is prevalent for tailoring interaction styles, yet the impact on underlying cognitive capabilities remains unexplored. We employ the Neuron-based Personality Trait Induction (NPTI) framework to induce Big Five personality traits in LLMs and evaluate performance across six cognitive benchmarks. Our findings reveal that persona induction produces stable, reproducible shifts in cognitive task performance beyond surface-level stylistic changes. These effects exhibit strong task dependence: certain personalities yield consistent gains on instruction-following, while others impair complex reasoning. Effect magnitude varies systematically by trait dimension, with Openness and Extraversion exerting the most robust influence. Furthermore, LLM effects show 73.68% directional consistency with human personality-cognition relationships. Capitalizing on these regularities, we propose Dynamic Persona Routing (DPR), a lightweight query-adaptive strategy that outperforms the best static persona without additional training.

cs.CL↗

Transversal Fault Tolerant Distributed Quantum Computing Operations

Distributed architectures are a route to scalable quantum computing, but the performance of fault-tolerant operations across noisy inter-module links remains poorly characterized. We present circuit-level simulations of two key distributed primitives: transversal non-local CNOT and logical teleportation using surface and bivariate-bicycle codes. We then simulate the use of these distributed primitives in a major subroutine of common quantum algorithms. The results, enabled by our scalable library Transversal Multiple CodeBlock Simulator, demonstrate that on appropriate devices distributed qLDPC transversal operations can outperform surface code lattice surgery and enable efficient parallel computation with lower Bell pair consumption. Notably, we find that the non-local CNOT achieves up to an order of magnitude lower logical error rates than teleportation at the same code distance and noise levels. We further show that code distances of $d \approx 11$ at physical error rate $p \sim 10^{-4}$ and $d \approx 29$ at $p \sim 10^{-3}$, with $p_{\mathrm{ebit}}=10p$, are sufficient to achieve logical error rates below $10^{-12}$, enabling large-scale algorithms. These results provide critical guidance for architecture and code selection in distributed quantum computing.

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AgenticQwen: Training Small Agentic Language Models with Dual Data Flywheels for Industrial-Scale Tool Use

Modern industrial applications increasingly demand language models that act as agents, capable of multi-step reasoning and tool use in real-world settings. These tasks are typically performed under strict cost and latency constraints, making small agentic models highly desirable. In this paper, we introduce the AgenticQwen family of models, trained via multi-round reinforcement learning (RL) on synthetic data and a limited amount of open-source data. Our training framework combines reasoning RL and agentic RL with dual data flywheels that automatically generate increasingly challenging tasks. The reasoning flywheel increases task difficulty by learning from errors, while the agentic flywheel expands linear workflows into multi-branch behavior trees that better reflect the decision complexity of real-world applications. We validate AgenticQwen on public benchmarks and in an industrial agent system. The models achieve strong performance on multiple agentic benchmarks, and in our industrial agent system, close the gap with much larger models on search and data analysis tasks. Model checkpoints and part of the synthetic data: https://huggingface.co/collections/alibaba-pai/agenticqwen. Data synthesis and RL training code: https://github.com/haruhi-sudo/data_synth_and_rl. The data synthesis pipeline is also integrated into EasyDistill: https://github.com/modelscope/easydistill.

cs.CL↗

EcoScratch: Cost-Effective Multimodal Repair for Scratch Using Execution Feedback

Scratch is the most popular programming environment for novices, with over 1.15 billion projects created worldwide. Unlike traditional languages, correctness in Scratch is defined by visible behavior on the stage rather than by code structure alone, so programs that appear correct in the workspace can still fail at runtime due to timing, event ordering, or cross-sprite interactions. Visual execution evidence such as gameplay videos can therefore be essential for diagnosis and repair. However, capturing and processing this evidence inside an automated repair loop introduces substantial overhead. Probing execution, recording stage behavior, rebuilding executable .sb3 projects, and verifying candidate fixes consume time, monetary cost, and resources across an entire repair trajectory rather than a single model call. We present EcoScratch, a repair pipeline that uses lightweight runtime signals to decide whether the next attempt stays text-only or escalates to multimodal prompting. The controller also sets the JSON Patch budget and verification effort, so evidence choice and repair budget are coupled inside the same decision. EcoScratch rebuilds candidate fixes into executable .sb3 projects and records per-trajectory traces, monetary cost, local-runtime energy. We evaluate 12 models on 100 executable Scratch repair projects under four controller settings, yielding 4800 repair trajectories. In this matrix, a selective multimodal policy gives the strongest observed success-cost-energy tradeoff. It reaches the highest generation success (30.3%) while using less average cost and local-runtime energy than the two non-adaptive multimodal baselines under the same bounded trajectory budget; text-only remains the lowest-cost floor. Across the evaluated matrix, multimodal evidence helps most when it is used to control escalation within a bounded trajectory budget rather than applied uniformly.

cs.SE↗

Synthetic or Authentic? Building Mental Patient Simulators from Longitudinal Evidence

Patient simulation is essential for developing and evaluating mental health dialogue systems. As most existing approaches rely on snapshot-style prompts with limited profile information, homogeneous behaviors and incoherent disease progression in multi-turn interactions have become key chellenges. In this work, we propose DEPROFILE, a data-grounded patient simulation framework that constructs unified, multi-source patient profiles by integrating demographic attributes, standardized clinical symptoms, counseling dialogues, and longitudinal life-event histories from real-world data. We further introduce a Chain-of-Change agent to transform noisy longitudinal records into structured, temporally grounded memory representations for simulation. Experiments across multiple large language model (LLM) backbones show that with more comprehensive profile constructed by DEPROFILE, the dialogue realism, behavioral diversity, and event richness have consistently improved and exceed state-of-the-art baselines, highlighting the importance of grounding patient simulation in verifiable longitudinal evidence.

cs.CL↗

DesignBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for MLLM-based Front-end Code Generation

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in automated front-end engineering, e.g., generating UI code from visual designs. However, existing front-end UI code generation benchmarks have the following limitations: (1) While framework-based development becomes predominant in modern front-end programming, current benchmarks fail to incorporate mainstream development frameworks. (2) Existing evaluations focus solely on the UI code generation task, whereas practical UI development involves several iterations, including refining editing, and repairing issues. (3) Current benchmarks employ unidimensional evaluation, lacking investigation into influencing factors like task difficulty, input context variations, and in-depth code-level analysis. To bridge these gaps, we introduce DesignBench, a multi-framework, multi-task evaluation benchmark for assessing MLLMs' capabilities in automated front-end engineering. DesignBench encompasses three widely-used UI frameworks (React, Vue, and Angular) alongside vanilla HTML/CSS, and evaluates on three essential front-end tasks (generation, edit, and repair) in real-world development workflows. DesignBench contains 900 webpage samples spanning over 11 topics, 9 edit types, and 6 issue categories, enabling detailed analysis of MLLM performance across multiple dimensions. Our systematic evaluation reveals critical insights into MLLMs' framework-specific limitations, task-related bottlenecks, and performance variations under different conditions, providing guidance for future research in automated front-end development. Our code and data are available at https://github.com/WebPAI/DesignBench.

cs.SE↗

Coprime Bivariate Bicycle Codes and Their Layouts on Cold Atoms

Quantum computing is deemed to require error correction at scale to mitigate physical noise by reducing it to lower noise levels while operating on encoded logical qubits. Popular quantum error correction schemes include CSS code, of which surface codes provide regular mappings onto 2D planes suitable for contemporary quantum devices together with known transversal logical gates. Recently, qLDPC codes have been proposed as a means to provide denser encoding with the class of bivariate bicycle (BB) codes promising feasible design for devices. This work contributes a novel subclass of BB codes suitable for quantum error correction. This subclass employs {\em coprimes} and the product $xy$ of the two generating variables $x$ and $y$ to construct polynomials, rather than using $x$ and $y$ separately as in vanilla BB codes. In contrast to vanilla BB codes, where parameters remain unknown prior to code discovery, the rate of the proposed code can be determined beforehand by specifying a factor polynomial as an input to the numerical search algorithm. Using this coprime-BB construction, we found a number of surprisingly short to medium-length codes that were previously unknown. We also propose a layout on cold atom arrays tailored for coprime-BB codes. The proposed layout reduces both move time for short to medium-length codes and the number of moves of atoms to perform syndrome extractions. We consider an error model with global laser noise on cold atoms, and simulations show that our proposed layout achieves significant improvements over prior work across the simulated codes.

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Spatial instability analysis and mode transition of a viscoelastic jet in a co-flowing gas stream

Spatial linear instability analysis is employed to investigate the instability of a viscoelastic liquid jet in a co-flowing gas stream. The theoretical model incorporates a non-uniform axial base profile represented by a hyperbolic tangent, capturing the shear layer. The Oldroyd-B model discretized with Chebyshev polynomials is employed, and energy budget analysis is used to interpret underlying mechanisms.At low Weber numbers, the jet evolves axisymmetrically and the instability is governed by interfacial gas-pressure fluctuations; as the Weber number increases, the growing inertia drives a transition of the predominant mode from axisymmetric to helical. At weak elasticity, the instability is also primarily governed by gas-pressure fluctuations. As elasticity increases, the predominant mode transitions from axisymmetric to helical. This transition is accompanied by a migration of disturbance structures from the interface toward the jet interior and an enhanced coupling between velocity perturbation and the basic flow. These trends reveal a new predominant instability mechanism -- the elasticity-enhanced shear-driven instability -- which is distinct from capillary or Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in Newtonian jets. A We-El phase diagram delineates the boundary between predominant modes, and experimental results obtained in a flow-focusing configuration validate the theoretical predictions.

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CaliCausalRank: Calibrated Multi-Objective Ad Ranking with Robust Counterfactual Utility Optimization

Ad ranking systems must simultaneously optimize multiple objectives including click-through rate (CTR), conversion rate (CVR), revenue, and user experience metrics. However, production systems face critical challenges: score scale inconsistency across traffic segments undermines threshold transferability, and position bias in click logs causes offline-online metric discrepancies. We propose CaliCausalRank, a unified framework that integrates training-time scale calibration, constraint-based multi-objective optimization, and robust counterfactual utility estimation. Our approach treats score calibration as a first-class training objective rather than post-hoc processing, employs Lagrangian relaxation for constraint satisfaction, and utilizes variance-reduced counterfactual estimators for reliable offline evaluation. Experiments on the Criteo and Avazu datasets demonstrate that CaliCausalRank achieves 1.1% relative AUC improvement, 31.6% calibration error reduction, and 3.2% utility gain compared to the best baseline (PairRank) while maintaining consistent performance across different traffic segments.

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REPAIR: Robust Editing via Progressive Adaptive Intervention and Reintegration

Post-training for large language models (LLMs) is constrained by the high cost of acquiring new knowledge or correcting errors and by the unintended side effects that frequently arise from retraining. To address these issues, we introduce REPAIR (Robust Editing via Progressive Adaptive Intervention and Reintegration), a lifelong editing framework designed to support precise and low-cost model updates while preserving non-target knowledge. REPAIR mitigates the instability and conflicts of large-scale sequential edits through a closed-loop feedback mechanism coupled with dynamic memory management. Furthermore, by incorporating frequent knowledge fusion and enforcing strong locality guards, REPAIR effectively addresses the shortcomings of traditional distribution-agnostic approaches that often overlook unintended ripple effects. Our experiments demonstrate that REPAIR boosts editing accuracy by 10%-30% across multiple model families and significantly reduces knowledge forgetting. This work introduces a robust framework for developing reliable, scalable, and continually evolving LLMs.

cs.CL↗

Fully Parallelized BP Decoding for Quantum LDPC Codes Can Outperform BP-OSD

This work presents a hardware-efficient and fully parallelizable decoder for quantum LDPC codes that leverages belief propagation (BP) with a speculative post-processing strategy inspired by classical Chase decoding algorithm. By monitoring bit-level oscillation patterns during BP, our method identifies unreliable bits and generates multiple candidate vectors to selectively flip syndromes. Each modified syndrome is then decoded independently using short-depth BP, a process we refer to as BP-SF (syndrome flip). This design eliminates the need for costly Gaussian elimination used in the current BP-OSD approaches. Our implementation achieves logical error rates comparable to or better than BP-OSD while offering significantly lower latency due to its high degree of parallelism for a variety of bivariate bicycle codes. Evaluation on the [[144,12,12]] bivariate bicycle code shows that the proposed decoder reduces average latency to approximately $70\%$ of BP-OSD. When post-processing is parallelized the average latency is reduced by $55\%$ compared to the single process implementation, with the maximum latency reaching as low as $18\%$. These advantages make it particularly well-suited for real-time and resource-constrained quantum error correction systems.

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T-COL: Generating Counterfactual Explanations for General User Preferences on Variable Machine Learning Systems

To address the interpretability challenge in machine learning (ML) systems, counterfactual explanations (CEs) have emerged as a promising solution. CEs are unique as they provide workable suggestions to users, instead of explaining why a certain outcome was predicted. The application of CEs encounters two main challenges: general user preferences and variable ML systems. On one hand, user preferences for specific values can vary depending on the task and scenario. On the other hand, the ML systems for verification may change while the CEs are performed. Thus, user preferences tend to be general rather than specific, and CEs need to be adaptable to variable ML models while maintaining robustness even as these models change. Facing these challenges, we propose general user preferences based on insights from psychology and behavioral science, and add the challenge of non-static ML systems as one preference. Moreover, we introduce a novel method, \uline{T}ree-based \uline{C}onditions \uline{O}ptional \uline{L}inks (T-COL) for generating CEs adaptable to general user preferences. Moreover, we employ T-COL to enhance the robustness of CEs with specific conditions, making CEs robust even when the ML models are replaced. To assess subjectivity preferences, we define LLM-based autonomous agents to simulate users and align them with real users. Experiments show that T-COL outperforms all baselines in adapting to general user preferences.

cs.AI↗