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Shen Liu

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arXiv2026

HaReCAP: Habitual-action Grounding for Recursive Large Language Model Agents

Long-horizon embodied tasks require LLM agents to iteratively decompose high-level goals, revise plans in response to environmental feedback, and ground leaf-level subgoals into valid executable actions. Recursive context-management methods such as ReCAP improve planning stability through multi-level task decomposition and parent-node refinement, but still repeatedly invoke the LLM at leaf nodes to ground atomic subtasks into exact valid actions. We refer to this final grounding step as last-mile grounding redundancy, which accumulates into substantial LLM-call and token overhead during long-horizon execution. To mitigate this issue, we propose HaReCAP (Habitual-action Grounded ReCAP), a low-intrusion leaf grounding extension for ReCAP. HaReCAP extracts frequent leaf decisions from successful trajectories and compiles them offline into auditable and abstainable one-step leaf-reflex rules. At runtime, it skips the leaf LLM call only when a rule can uniquely determine a legal action in the current valid-action set; otherwise, it falls back to the original ReCAP. This design avoids repeatedly carrying the full recursive context into the LLM for routine leaf action grounding, while preserving the original recursive control flow. We evaluate HaReCAP on Robotouille and ALFWorld with Qwen3.5-27B as the main model. On tasks solved by both ReCAP and HaReCAP, HaReCAP reduces token consumption by 14.67%, 17.93%, and 20.08% on Robotouille synchronous, Robotouille asynchronous, and ALFWorld, respectively. The results show that HaReCAP can serve as a low-intrusion extension to ReCAP-style recursive context-management frameworks, reducing last-mile grounding redundancy across environments and models on commonly successful trajectories.

cs.AI↗

arXiv2026

An interpretable and trustworthy AI framework for large-scale longitudinal structure-pain association studies using data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI)

Purpose: To develop an interpretable and trustworthy AI framework that combines deep learning based MRI Osteoarthritis Knee Score (MOAKS) prediction with interpretable statistical modeling to study structure-pain relationships at scale using data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI). Materials and Methods: We first developed a deep learning framework to predict MOAKS features directly from knee MRIs and incorporated conformal prediction to provide prediction uncertainty quantification. This uncertainty-aware strategy enables explicit filtering of model outputs, retaining only high-confidence MOAKS predictions at the knee level. Second, we applied a longitudinal latent class mixed model (LCMM) to examine associations between key structural abnormalities and four complementary knee pain measurements. Results: Among the three MRI-defined abnormalities (i.e., bone marrow lesions (BML), cartilage loss (CART), and meniscal extrusion (ME)), our framework substantially improved the Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) and some other metrics. For example, MCC increased from 0.69 to 0.91 for BML, from 0.45 to 0.80 for CART, and from 0.59 to 0.89 for ME. Using these high-confidence predictions, we expanded the sample size to 2,175 knees for the LCMM analysis. Two distinct pain trajectories were identified (rapid and stable pain progression). The estimated odds ratios (95% CI) for the rapid progression group were 1.62 (1.12-2.35) for BML, 1.83 (1.24-2.70) for CART loss, and 2.50 (1.75-3.57) for ME. Conclusion: These results highlight the importance of these structural abnormalities as risk factors for pain and functional progression in osteoarthritis.

cs.AI↗

arXiv2025

Beyond Diagnostic Performance: Revealing and Quantifying Ethical Risks in Pathology Foundation Models

Pathology foundation models (PFMs), as large-scale pre-trained models tailored for computational pathology, have significantly advanced a wide range of applications. Their ability to leverage prior knowledge from massive datasets has streamlined the development of intelligent pathology models. However, we identify several critical and interrelated ethical risks that remain underexplored, yet must be addressed to enable the safe translation of PFMs from lab to clinic. These include the potential leakage of patient-sensitive attributes, disparities in model performance across demographic and institutional subgroups, and the reliance on diagnosis-irrelevant features that undermine clinical reliability. In this study, we pioneer the quantitative analysis for ethical risks in PFMs, including privacy leakage, clinical reliability, and group fairness. Specifically, we propose an evaluation framework that systematically measures key dimensions of ethical concern: the degree to which patient-sensitive attributes can be inferred from model representations, the extent of performance disparities across demographic and institutional subgroups, and the influence of diagnostically irrelevant features on model decisions. We further investigate the underlying causes of these ethical risks in PFMs and empirically validate our findings. Then we offer insights into potential directions for mitigating such risks, aiming to inform the development of more ethically robust PFMs. This work provides the first quantitative and systematic evaluation of ethical risks in PFMs. Our findings highlight the urgent need for ethical safeguards in PFMs and offer actionable insights for building more trustworthy and clinically robust PFMs. To facilitate future research and deployment, we will release the assessment framework as an online toolkit to support the development, auditing, and deployment of ethically robust PFMs.

cs.CV↗

arXiv2024

Hotspots and Trends in Magnetoencephalography Research (2013-2022): A Bibliometric Analysis

This study aimed to utilize bibliometric methods to analyze trends in international Magnetoencephalography (MEG) research from 2013 to 2022. Due to the limited volume of domestic literature on MEG, this analysis focuses solely on the global research landscape, providing insights from the past decade as a representative sample. This study utilized bibliometric methods to explore and analyze the progress, hotspots and developmental trends in international MEG research spanning from 1995 to 2022. The results indicated a dynamic and steady growth trend in the overall number of publications in MEG. Ryusuke Kakigi emerged as the most prolific author, while Neuroimage led as the most prolific journal. Current hotspots in MEG research encompass resting state, networks, functional connectivity, phase dynamics, oscillation, and more. Future trends in MEG research are poised to advance across three key aspects: disease treatment and practical applications, experimental foundations and technical advancements, and fundamental and advanced human cognition. In the future, there should be a focus on enhancing cross-integration and utilization of MEG with other instruments to diversify research methodologies in this field

cs.DL↗

arXiv2024

Identifying Research Hotspots and Future Development Trends in Current Psychology: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Past Decade's Publications

By conducting a bibliometric analysis on 4,869 publications in Current Psychology from 2013 to 2022, this paper examined the annual publications and annual citations, as well as the leading institutions, countries, and keywords. CiteSpace, VOSviewer and SCImago Graphica were utilized for visualization analysis. On one hand, this paper analyzed the academic influence of Current Psychology over the past decade. On the other hand, it explored the research hotspots and future development trends within the field of international psychology. The results revealed that the three main research areas covered in the publications of Current Psychology were: the psychological well-being of young people, the negative emotions of adults, and self-awareness and management. The latest research hotspots highlighted in the journal include negative emotions, personality, and mental health. The three main development trends of Current Psychology are: 1) exploring the personality psychology of both adolescents and adults, 2) promoting the interdisciplinary research to study social psychological issues through the use of diversified research methods, and 3) emphasizing the emotional psychology of individuals and their interaction with social reality, from a people-oriented perspective.

cs.DL↗

arXiv2021

Sdft: A PDG-based Summarization for Efficient Dynamic Data Flow Tracking

Dynamic taint analysis (DTA) has been widely used in various security-relevant scenarios that need to track the runtime information flow of programs. Dynamic binary instrumentation (DBI) is a prevalent technique in achieving effective dynamic taint tracking on commodity hardware and systems. However, the significant performance overhead incurred by dynamic taint analysis restricts its usage in production systems. Previous efforts on mitigating the performance penalty fall into two categories, parallelizing taint tracking from program execution and abstracting the tainting logic to a higher granularity. Both approaches have only met with limited success. In this work, we propose Sdft, an efficient approach that combines the precision of DBI-based instruction-level taint tracking and the efficiency of function-level abstract taint propagation. First, we build the library function summaries automatically with reachability analysis on the program dependency graph (PDG) to specify the control- and data dependencies between the input parameters, output parameters, and global variables of the target library. Then we derive the taint rules for the target library functions and develop taint tracking for library function that is tightly integrated into the state-of-the-art DTA framework Libdft. By applying our approach to the core C library functions of glibc, we report an average of 1.58x speed up of the tracking performance compared with Libdft64. We also validate the effectiveness of the hybrid taint tracking and the ability on detecting real-world vulnerabilities.

cs.CR↗

arXiv2021

A Dual-Attention Neural Network for Pun Location and Using Pun-Gloss Pairs for Interpretation

Pun location is to identify the punning word (usually a word or a phrase that makes the text ambiguous) in a given short text, and pun interpretation is to find out two different meanings of the punning word. Most previous studies adopt limited word senses obtained by WSD(Word Sense Disambiguation) technique or pronunciation information in isolation to address pun location. For the task of pun interpretation, related work pays attention to various WSD algorithms. In this paper, a model called DANN (Dual-Attentive Neural Network) is proposed for pun location, effectively integrates word senses and pronunciation with context information to address two kinds of pun at the same time. Furthermore, we treat pun interpretation as a classification task and construct pungloss pairs as processing data to solve this task. Experiments on the two benchmark datasets show that our proposed methods achieve new state-of-the-art results. Our source code is available in the public code repository.

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