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Shaoqi Wang

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CyberNeuro: A Privacy-Preserving Agentic Workbench for Cohort-Scale Neuroimage and Clinical Data Analysis

Despite tremendous success in neuroimaging methodology, making large-scale, high-dimensional datasets ready for AI/ML applications remains a critical operational bottleneck. Conventional workflows require extensive manual effort across metadata curation, pipeline execution, post-processing quality control, and data management, a burden that disproportionately excludes laboratories with limited manpower and computational infrastructure. To address this real-world barrier, there is an urgent need for scalable, cost-effective computational platforms that democratize advanced neuroimaging analytics and accelerate discoveries in mental health and clinical translation. Capitalizing on multi-agent LLM breakthroughs, we introduce CyberNeuro, an agentic workbench with a tailored local LLM-model ('WandaMind') for automated neuroimaging and health-data analysis. Driven by four dedicated agents (Planner, Validator, Dispatcher, and Reporter) communicating via a secure MCP bridge and a pinned execution layer, CyberNeuro enables researchers to execute complex workflows using natural language while maintaining clinical-grade data privacy. On the public NeuroBench suite, CyberNeuro increases held-out domain accuracy from 40% to 69% over the baseline model. Beyond automated metrics, the platform integrates a human-in-the-loop verification panel to ensure rigorous biomedical quality control. Across the same end-to-end 10-batch cohort workflow suite, the local WandaMind configuration completed all tasks with an estimated aggregate token count of about 10.6% using WandaMind and 61.7% using cloud providers of token usage, compared to Neuroclaw, respectively. The platform and its production-ready modules are available at https://wanda-cyberbench.com.

cs.MA

NeuroPilot: An Agent-Driven Smart Pipeline for Processing, Quality Control, and Managing Neuroimages

Transforming raw neuroimage archives into analysis-ready derivatives relies on three brittle stages: data standardization, modality-specific preprocessing, and quality control (QC). While individual neuroimaging tools are well developed, their orchestration requires project-specific scripts, environment-adaptive tuning, and labor-intensive manual QC. To address this, we introduce NeuroPilot, a multi-agent system that digitalizes the expertise of neuroimage processing, QC, and data management into three LLM-invocable skills: dcm2bids-skill, neuroimage-pre-skill, and qc-agent-skill. The LLM-driven agent autonomously orchestrates workflows, generalizing various infrastructure settings into a single configuration to achieve the highest scalability. Demonstrating the system's generalizability, we deployed NeuroPilot across 17 cohorts (>123,000 subjects) spanning infant to aging populations and multiple MRI modalities (structural, diffusion, functional). In practice, after standardizing data via the dcm2bids-skill, the agent dynamically routes datasets to the optimal neuroimage-pre-skill based on available modalities and cohort traits (e.g., dispatching T1w and fMRI data to fMRIPrep, or selecting specialized pipelines for infant cohorts). The qc-agent-skill then drives an evidence-based, semi-automated QC via a 3-D browser dashboard, utilizing a multi-tiered verification system to optimize failed cases and escalate complex issues for supervisor inspection. Quantitatively, our QC agent screened 558 production subjects, validating its automated flags against FreeSurfer's topology-defect metrics. The infant processing pipeline achieved a 100% (201/201) completion rate on QC-validated inputs. Importantly, NeuroPilot compresses the traditional 2--3 month timeline for training staff and processing complete datasets into a single week. NeuroPilot is deployed in https://wanda-cyberbench.com/.

cs.CV

Dynamic Controlled Variables Based Dynamic Self-Optimizing Control

Self-optimizing control is a strategy for selecting controlled variables, where the economic objective guides the selection and design of controlled variables, with the expectation that maintaining the controlled variables at constant values can achieve optimization effects, translating the process optimization problem into a process control problem. Currently, self-optimizing control is widely applied to steady-state optimization problems. However, the development of process systems exhibits a trend towards refinement, highlighting the importance of optimizing dynamic processes such as batch processes and grade transitions. This paper formally introduces the self-optimizing control problem for dynamic optimization, termed the dynamic self-optimizing control problem, extending the original definition of self-optimizing control. A novel concept, "dynamic controlled variables" (DCVs), is proposed, and an implicit control policy is presented based on this concept. The paper theoretically analyzes the advantages and generality of DCVs compared to explicit control strategies and elucidates the relationship between DCVs and traditional controllers. Moreover, this paper puts forth a data-driven approach to designing self-optimizing DCVs, which considers DCV design as a mapping identification problem and employs deep neural networks to parameterize the variables. Three case studies validate the efficacy and superiority of DCVs in approximating multi-valued and discontinuous functions, as well as their application to dynamic optimization problems with non-fixed horizons, which traditional self-optimizing control methods are unable to address.

math.OC

DIRECT: Video Mashup Creation via Hierarchical Multi-Agent Planning and Intent-Guided Editing

Video mashup creation represents a complex video editing paradigm that recomposes existing footage to craft engaging audio-visual experiences, demanding intricate orchestration across semantic, visual, and auditory dimensions and multiple levels. However, existing automated editing frameworks often overlook the cross-level multimodal orchestration to achieve professional-grade fluidity, resulting in disjointed sequences with abrupt visual transitions and musical misalignment. To address this, we formulate video mashup creation as a Multimodal Coherency Satisfaction Problem (MMCSP) and propose the DIRECT framework. Simulating a professional production pipeline, our hierarchical multi-agent framework decomposes the challenge into three cascade levels: the Screenwriter for source-aware global structural anchoring, the Director for instantiating adaptive editing intent and guidance, and the Editor for intent-guided shot sequence editing with fine-grained optimization. We further introduce Mashup-Bench, a comprehensive benchmark with tailored metrics for visual continuity and auditory alignment. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DIRECT significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in both objective metrics and human subjective evaluation. Project page and code: https://github.com/AK-DREAM/DIRECT

cs.CV

Improving Autoformalization Using Direct Dependency Retrieval

The convergence of deep learning and formal mathematics has spurred research in formal verification. Statement autoformalization, a crucial first step in this process, aims to translate informal descriptions into machine-verifiable representations but remains a significant challenge. The core difficulty lies in the fact that existing methods often suffer from a lack of contextual awareness, leading to hallucination of formal definitions and theorems. Furthermore, current retrieval-augmented approaches exhibit poor precision and recall for formal library dependency retrieval, and lack the scalability to effectively leverage ever-growing public datasets. To bridge this gap, we propose a novel retrieval-augmented framework based on DDR (\textit{Direct Dependency Retrieval}) for statement autoformalization. Our DDR method directly generates candidate library dependencies from natural language mathematical descriptions and subsequently verifies their existence within the formal library via an efficient suffix array check. Leveraging this efficient search mechanism, we constructed a dependency retrieval dataset of over 500,000 samples and fine-tuned a high-precision DDR model. Experimental results demonstrate that our DDR model significantly outperforms SOTA methods in both retrieval precision and recall. Consequently, an autoformalizer equipped with DDR shows consistent performance advantages in both single-attempt accuracy and multi-attempt stability compared to models using traditional selection-based RAG methods.

cs.AI

Approximated Orthogonal Projection Unit: Stabilizing Regression Network Training Using Natural Gradient

Neural networks (NN) are extensively studied in cutting-edge soft sensor models due to their feature extraction and function approximation capabilities. Current research into network-based methods primarily focuses on models' offline accuracy. Notably, in industrial soft sensor context, online optimizing stability and interpretability are prioritized, followed by accuracy. This requires a clearer understanding of network's training process. To bridge this gap, we propose a novel NN named the Approximated Orthogonal Projection Unit (AOPU) which has solid mathematical basis and presents superior training stability. AOPU truncates the gradient backpropagation at dual parameters, optimizes the trackable parameters updates, and enhances the robustness of training. We further prove that AOPU attains minimum variance estimation (MVE) in NN, wherein the truncated gradient approximates the natural gradient (NG). Empirical results on two chemical process datasets clearly show that AOPU outperforms other models in achieving stable convergence, marking a significant advancement in soft sensor field.

cs.LG

Memory at Your Service: Fast Memory Allocation for Latency-critical Services

Co-location and memory sharing between latency-critical services, such as key-value store and web search, and best-effort batch jobs is an appealing approach to improving memory utilization in multi-tenant datacenter systems. However, we find that the very diverse goals of job co-location and the GNU/Linux system stack can lead to severe performance degradation of latency-critical services under memory pressure in a multi-tenant system. We address memory pressure for latency-critical services via fast memory allocation and proactive reclamation. We find that memory allocation latency dominates the overall query latency, especially under memory pressure. We analyze the default memory management mechanism provided by GNU/Linux system stack and identify the reasons why it is inefficient for latency-critical services in a multi-tenant system. We present Hermes, a fast memory allocation mechanism in user space that adaptively reserves memory for latency-critical services. It advises Linux OS to proactively reclaim memory of batch jobs. We implement Hermes in GNU C Library. Experimental result shows that Hermes reduces the average and the $99^{th}$ percentile memory allocation latency by up to 54.4% and 62.4% for a micro benchmark, respectively. For two real-world latency-critical services, Hermes reduces both the average and the $99^{th}$ percentile tail query latency by up to 40.3%. Compared to the default Glibc, jemalloc and TCMalloc, Hermes reduces Service Level Objective violation by up to 84.3% under memory pressure.

cs.DC